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GEORGE  WASHINGTON. 


GEORGE  WASHINGTON. 


HE  Father  of  our  Country  was  bom  in  West- 
moreland County,  Va.,  February  22,  1732. 
His  parents  were  Augustine  and  Marj'  (Ball) 
Washington.  The  family  to  which  he  belonged 
has  not  been  satisfactorily  traced  in  England. 
His  great-grandfather,  John  Washington,  emi- 
grated to  Virginia  about  1657,  ^^"^  became  a 
prosperous  planter.  He  had  two  sons,  Lawrence 
and  John.  The  former  married  Mildred  Warner, 
and  had  three  children,  John,  Augustine  and 
Mildred.  Augustine,  the  father  of  George,  first 
married  Jane  Butler,  who  bore  him  four  children, 
two  of  whom,  Lawrence  and  Augustine,  reached 
maturity.  Of  six  children  by  his  second  mar- 
riage, George  was  the  eldest,  the  others  being 
Betty,  Samuel,  John  Augustine,  Charles  and 
Mildred. 

Augustine  Washington,  the  father  of  George, 
died  in  1743,  leaving  a  large  landed  property. 
To  his  eldest  son,  Lawrence,  he  bequeathed  an 
estate  on  the  Potomac,  afterwards  known  as  Mt. 
Vernon,  and  to  George  he  left  the  parental  resi- 
dence. George  received  only  such  education  as 
the  neighborhood  schools  afforded,  save  for  a 
short  time  after  he  left  school,  when  he  received 
private  instruction  in  mathematics.  His  spelling 
was  rather  defective.  Remarkable  stories  are 
told  of  his  great  physical  strength  and  develop- 
ment at  an  early  age.  He  was  an  acknowledged 
leader  among  his  companions,  and  was  early 
noted  for  that  nobleness  of  character,  fairness  and 
veracity  which  characterized  his  whole  life. 

When  George  was  fourteen  years  old  he  had  a 
desire  to  go  to  sea,  and  a  midshipman's  warrant 
was  secured  for  him,  but  through  the  opposition 
of  his  mother  the  idea  was  abandoned.     Two 


years  later  he  was  appointed  surveyor  to  the  im- 
mense estate  of  Lord  Fairfax.  In  this  business 
he  spent  three  years  in  a  rough  frontier  life, 
gaining  experience  which  afterwards  proved  very 
essential  to  him.  In  1751,  though  only  nineteen 
years  of  age,  he  was  appointed  Adjutant, with  the 
rank  of  Major,  in  the  Virginia  militia,  then  being 
trained  for  active  service  against  the  French  and 
Indians.  Soon  after  this  he  sailed  to  the  West 
Indies  with  his  brother  Lawrence,  who  went  there 
to  restore  his  health.  They  soon  returned,  and 
in  the  summer  of  1752  Lawrence  died,  leaving  a 
large  fortune  to  an  infant  daughter,  who  did  not 
long  survive  him.  On  her  demise  the  estate  of 
Mt.  Vernon  was  given  to  George. 

Upon  the  arrival  of  Robert  Dinwiddie  as  Lieu- 
tenant-Governor of  Virginia,  in  1752,  the  militia 
was  reorganized,  and  the  province  divided  into 
four  military  districts,  of  which  the  northern  was 
assigned  to  Washington  as  Adjutant-General. 
Shortly  after  this  a  ver>'  perilous  mission,  which 
others  had  refused,  was  assigned  him  and  ac- 
cepted. This  was  to  proceed  tathe  French  post 
near  Lake  Erie,  in  northwestern  Pennsylvania. 
The  distance  to  be  traversed  was  about  six  hun- 
dred miles.  Winter  was  at  hand,  and  the  journey 
was  to  be  made  without  military  escort,  through 
a  territory  occupied  by  Indians.  The  trip  was  a 
perilous  one,  and  several  times  he  nearly  lost  his 
life,  but  he  returned  in  safety  and  furnished  a  full 
and  useful  report  of  .his  expedition.  A  regiment 
of  three  hundred  men  was  raised  in  Virginia  and 
put  in  command  of  Col.  Joshua  Fry,  and  Maj. 
Washington  was  commissioned  Lieutenant-Colo- 
nel. Active  war  was  then  begun  against  the 
French  and  Indians,  in  which  Washington  took 


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GEORGE  WASHINGTON. 


a  most  important  part.  In  the  memorable  event 
of  July  9,  1755,  known  as  "Braddock's  defeat," 
Washington  was  almost  the  only  officer  of  dis- 
tinction who  escaped  from  the  calamities  of  the 
day  with  life  and  honor. 

Having  been  for  five  years  in  the  military  serv- 
ice, and  having  vainly  sought  promotion  in  the 
royal  army,  he  took  advantage  of  the  fall  of  Ft.  Du- 
quesne  and  the  expulsion  of  the  French  from  the 
valley  of  the  Ohio  to  resign  his  commission.  Soon 
after  he  entered  the  I^egislature,  where,  although 
not  a  leader,  he  took  an  active  and  important 
part.  January  17,  1759,  he  married  Mrs.  Martha 
(Dandridge)  Custis,  the  wealthy  widow  of  John 
Parke  Custis. 

When  the  British  Parliament  had  closed  the 
port  of  Boston,  the  cry  went  up  throughout  the 
provinces,  ' '  The  cause  ot  Boston  is  the  cause  of 
us  all!  "  It  was  then,  at  the  suggestion  of  Vir- 
ginia, that  a  congress  of  all  the  colonies  was 
called  to  meet  at  Philadelphia  September  5, 
1774,  to  secure  their  common  liberties,  peaceably 
if  possible.  To  this  congress  Col.  Washington 
was  sent  as  a  delegate.  On  May  10,  1775,  the 
congress  re-assembled,  when  the  hostile  inten- 
tions of  England  were  plainly  apparent.  The 
battles  of  Concord  and  Lexington  had  been  fought, 
and  among  the  first  acts  of  this  congress  was  the 
election  of  a  commander-in-chief  of  the  Colonial 
forces.  This  high  and  responsible  office  was  con- 
ferred upon  Washington,  who  was  still  a  member 
of  the  congress.  He  accepted  it  on  June  19,  but 
upon  the  express  condition  that  he  receive  no  sal- 
ary. He  would  keep  an  exact  account  of  ex- 
penses, and  expect  congress  to  pay  them  and 
nothing  more.  It  is  not  the  object  of  this  sketch 
to  trace  the  military  acts  of  Washington,  to  whom 
the  fortunes  and  liberties  of  the  people  of  this 
country  were  so  long  confided.  The  war  was 
conducted  by  him  under  every  possible  disadvan- 
tage; and  while  his  forces  often  met  with  reverses, 
yet  he  overcame  every  obstacle,  and  after  seven 
years  of  heroic  devotion  and  matchless  skill  he 
gained  liberty  for  the  greatest  nation  of  earth. 
On  December  23,  1783,  Washington,  in  a  parting 
address  of  surpassing  beauty,  resigned  his  com- 
mission as  Commander-in-Chief  of  the  army  to  the 


Continental  Congress  sitting  at  Annapolis.  He 
retired  immediately  to  Mt.  Vernon  and  resumed 
his  occupation  as  a  farmer  and  planter,  shunning 
all  connection  with  public  life. 

In  February,  1789,  Washington  was  unani- 
mously elected  President,  and  at  the  expiration 
of  his  first  term  he  was  unanimously  re-elected. 
At  the  end  of  this  term  many  were  anxious  that  he 
be  re-elected,  but  he  absolutely  refused  a  third 
nomination.  On  March  4,  1797,  at  the  expiration 
of  his  second  term  as  President,  he  returned  to  his 
home,  hoping  to  pass  there  his  few  remaining 
years  free  from  the  annoyances  of  public  life. 
Later  in  the  year,  however,  his  repose  seemed 
likely  to  be  interrupted  by  war  with  France.  At 
the  prospect  of  such  a  war  he  was  again  urged  to 
take  command  of  the  army,  but  he  chose  his  sub- 
ordinate officers  and  left  them  the  charge  of  mat- 
ters in  the  field,  which  he  .superintended  from  his 
home.  In  accepting  the  command,  he  made  the 
reservation  that  he  was  not  to  be  in  the  field  until 
it  was  necessary.  In  the  midst  of  these  prepara- 
tions his  life  was  suddenly  cut  off.  December  12 
he  took  a  severe  cold  from  a  ride  in  the  rain, 
which,  settling  in  his  throat,  produced  inflamma- 
tion, and  terminated  fatally  on  the  night  of  the 
14th.  On  the  1 8th  his  body  was  borne  with  mili- 
tary honors  to  its  final  resting-place,  and  interred 
in  the  family  vault  at  Mt.  Vernon. 

Of  the  character  of  Washington  it  is  impossible 
to  speak  but  in  terms  of  the  highest  respect  and 
admiration.  The  more  we  see  of  the  operations 
of  our  government,  and  the  more  deeply  we  feel 
the  difficulty  of  tmiting  all  opinions  in  a  common 
interest,  the  more  highly  we  must  estimate  the 
force  of  his  talent  and  character,  which  have  been 
able  to  challenge  the  reverence  of  all  parties,- 
and  principles,  and  nations,  and  to  win  a  fame  as 
extended  as  the  limits  of  the  globe,  and  which  we 
cannot  but  believe  will  be  as  lasting  as  the  exist- 
ence of  man. 

In  per,son,  Washington  was  unusually  tall,  erect 
and  well  proportioned,  and  his  muscular  strength 
was  great.  His  features  were  of  a  beausiful  .sym- 
metry. He  commanded  respect  without  any  ap- 
pearance of  haughtiness,  and  was  ever  serious 
without  being  dull. 


JOHN  ADAMS. 


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JOHN  ADAMS. 


(John  ADAMS,  the  second  President  and  the 
I  first  Vice-President  of  the  United  States,  was 
(2/  born  in  Braintree  (now  Quincy)  Mass.,  and 
about  ten  miles  from  Boston,  October  19,  1735. 
His  great-grandfather,  Henry  Adams,  emigrated 
from  England  about  1640,  with  a  family  of  eight 
sons,  and  settled  at  Braintree.  The  parents  of 
John  were  John  and  Susannah  (Boylston) 
Adams.  His  father,  who  was  a  farmer  of  limited 
means,  also  engaged  in  the  business  of  shoe- 
making.  He  gave  his  eldest  son,  John,  a  classical 
education  at  Harvard  College.  John  graduated 
in  1755,  and  at  once  took  charge  of  the  school  at 
Worcester,  Mass.  This  he  found  but  a  "school 
of  affliction,"  from  which  he  endeavored  to  gain 
relief  by  devoting  himself,  in  addition,  to  the 
study  of  law.  For  this  purpose  he  placed  himself 
under  the  tuition  of  the  only  lawyer  in  the  town. 
He  had  thought  seriously  of  the  clerical  profes- 
sion, but  seems  to  have  been  turned  from  this  by 
what  he  termed  "  the  frightful  engines  of  ecclesi- 
astical councils,  of  diabolical  malice,  and  Calvin- 
istic  good  nature, ' '  of  the  operations  of  which  he 
had  been  a  witness  in  his  native  town.  He  was 
well  fitted  for  the  legal  profession,  possessing  a 
clear,  sonorous  voice,  being  ready  and  fluent  of 
speech,  and  having  quick  perceptive  powers.  He 
gradually  gained  a  practice,  and  in  1764  married 
Abigail  Smith,  a  daughter  of  a  minister,  and  a 
lady  of  superior  intelligence.  Shortly  after  his 
marriage,  in  1765,  the  attempt  at  parliamentar>' 
taxation  turned  him  from  law  to  politics.  He 
took  initial  steps  toward  holding  a  town  meeting, 
and  the  resolutions  he  offered  on  the  subject  be- 
came very  popular  throughout  the  province,  and 
were  adopted  word  for  word  by  over  forty  differ- 
ent towns.  He  moved  to  Boston  in  1768,  and 
became  one  of  the  most  courageous  and  promi- 
nent advocates  of  the  popular  cau.se,  and  was 
chosen  a  member  of  the  General  Court  (the  lyCg- 
islature)  in  1770. 

Mr.  Adams  was  chosen  one  of  the  first  dele- 


gates from  Massachusetts  to  the  first  Continent- 
al Congress,  which  met  in  1774.  Here  he  dis- 
tinguished himself  by  his  capacity  for  business 
and  for  debate,  and  advocated  the  movement  for 
independence  against  the  majority  of  the  mem- 
bers. In  May,  1776,  he  moved  and  carried  a  res- 
olution in  Congress  that  the  Colonies  should 
assume  the  duties  of  self-government.  He  was  a 
prominent  member  of  the  committee  of  five  ap- 
pointed June  1 1  to  prepare  a  declaration  of  inde- 
pendence. This  article  was  drawn  by  Jefferson, 
but  on  Adams  devolved  the  task  of  battling  it 
through  Congress  in  a  three-days  debate. 

On  the  day  after  the  Declaration  of  Independ- 
ence was  passed,  while  his  soul  was  yet  warm 
with  the  glow  of  excited  feeling,  he  wrote  a  letter 
to  his  wife,  which,  as  we  read  it  now,  seems  to 
have  been  dictated  by  the  spirit  of  prophecy. 
"Yesterday,"  he  says,  "the  greatest  question 
was  decided  that  ever  was  debated  in  America; 
and  greater,  perhaps,  never  was  or  will  be  de- 
cided among  men.  A  resolution  was  passed 
without  one  dissenting  colony,  'that  these  United 
States  are,  and  of  right  ought  to  be,  freehand  in- 
dependent states.'  The  day  is  passed.  The 
Fourth  of  July,  1776,  will  be  a  memorable  epoch 
in  the  history  of  America.  I  am  apt  to  believe  it 
will  be  celebrated  by  succeeding  generations  as 
the  great  anniversary  festival.  It  ought  to  be 
commemorated  as  the  day  of  deliverance  by 
solemn  acts  of  devotion  to  Almighty  God.  It 
ought  to  be  solemnized  with  pomp,  shows,  games, 
sports,  guns,  bells,  bonfires  aijd  illuminations 
from  one  end  of  the  continent  to  the  other,  from 
this  time  forward  forever.  You  will  think  me 
transported  with  enthusiasm,  but  I  am  not.  I. 
am  well  aware  of  the  toil  and  blood  and  treas- 
ure that  it  will  cost  to  maintain  this  declaration 
and  support  and  defend  these  States;  yet,  through 
all  the  gloom,  I  can  see  the  rays  of  light  and 
glory.  I  can  see  that  the  end  is  worth  more  than 
all  the  means,  and  that  posterity  will  triumph, 


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JOHN  ADAMS. 


although  you  and  I  may  rue,  which  I  hope  we 
shall  not." 

In  November,  1777,  Mr.  Adams  was  appointed 
a  delegate  to  France,  and  to  co-operate  with  Ben- 
jamin Franklin  and  Arthur  Lee,  who  were  then 
in  Paris,  in  the  endeavor  to  obtain  assistance  in 
arms  and  money  from  the  French  government. 
This  was  a  severe  trial  to  his  patriotism,  as  it 
separated  him  from  his  home,  compelled  him  to 
cross  the  ocean  in  winter,  and  exposed  him  to 
great  peril  of  capture  by  the  British  cruisers,  who 
were  seeking  him.  He  left  France  June  17, 
1779.  In  September  of  the  same  year  he  was 
again  chosen  to  go  to  Paris,  and  there  hold  1  im- 
self  in  readiness  to  negotiate  a  treaty  of  peace  and 
of  commerce  with  Great  Britain,  as  soon  as  the 
British  cabinet  might  be  found  willing  to  listen 
to  such  proposals.  He  sailed  for  France  in  No- 
vember, and  from  there  he  went  to  Holland,  where 
he  negotiated  important  loans  and  formed  im- 
portant commercial  treaties. 

Finally,  a  treaty  of  peace  with  England  was 
signed,  January  21,1 783.  The  re-action  from  the 
excitement,  toil  and  anxiety  through  which  Mr. 
Adams  had  passed  threw  him  into  a  fever.  After 
suffering  from  a  continued  fever  and  becoming 
feeble  and  emaciated,  he  was  advised  to  go  to 
England  to  drink  the  waters  of  Bath.  While  in 
England,  still  drooping  and  desponding,  he  re- 
ceived dispatches  from  his  own  government  urg- 
ing the  necessity  of  his  going  to  Amsterdam  to 
negotiate  another  loan.  It  was  winter,  his  health 
was  delicate,  yet  he  immediately  set  out,  and 
through  storm,  on  sea,  on  horseback  and  foot,  he 
made  the  trip. 

February  24,  1785,  Congress  appointed  Mr. 
Adams  envoy  to  the  Court  of  St.  James.  Here 
he  met  face  to  face  the  King  of  England,  who 
had  so  long  regarded  him  as  a  traitor.  As  Eng- 
land did  not  condescend  to  appoint  a  minister  to 
the  United  States,  and  as  Mr.  Adams  felt  that  he 
was  accomplishing  but  little,  he  sought  permis- 
sion to  return  to  his  own  country,  where  he  ar- 
rived in  June,  1788. 

When  Washington  was  first  chosen  President, 
John  Adams,  rendered  illustrious  by  his  signal 
services  at  home  and  abroad,  was  chosen  Vice- 


President.  Again,  at  the  second  election  of  Wash- 
ington as  President,  Adams  was  chosen  Vice- 
President.  In  1796,  Washington  retired  from 
public  life,  and  Mr.  Adams  was  elected  President, 
though  not  without  much  opposition.  Serving 
in  this  office  four  years,  he  was  succeeded  by  Mr. 
Jefferson,  his  opponent  in  politics. 

While  Mr.  Adams  was  Vice-President  the 
great  French  Revolution  shook  the  continent  of 
Europe,  and  it  was  upon  this  point  that  he  was 
at  issue  with  the  majority  of  his  countrymen,  led 
by  Mr.  Jefferson.  Mr.  Adams  felt  no  sympathy 
with  the  French  people  in  their  struggle,  for  he 
had  no  confidence  in  their  power  of  self-govern- 
ment, and  he  utterly  abhorred  the  class  of  atheist 
philosophers  who,  he  claimed,  caused  it.  On  the 
other  hand,  Jefferson's  sympathies  were  strongly 
enlisted  in  behalf  of  the  French  people.  Hence 
originated  the  alienation  between  these  distin- 
tinguished  men,  and  the  two  powerful  parties  were 
thus  soon  organized,  with  Adams  at  the  head  of 
the  one  whose  sympathies  were  with  England, 
and  Jefferson  leading  the  other  in  sympathy  with 
France. 

The  Fourth  of  July,  1826,  which  completed  the 
half-century  since  the  signing  of  the  Declaration 
of  Independence,  arrived,  and  there  were  but 
three  of  the  signers  of  that  immortal  instrument 
left  upon  the  earth  to  hail  its  morning  light. 
And,  as  it  is  well  known,  on  that  day  two  of 
these  finished  their  earthly  pilgrimage,  a  coinci- 
dence so  remarkable  as  to  seem  miraculous.  For 
a  few  days  before  Mr.  Adams  had  been  rapidly 
failing,  and  on  the  morning  of  the  Fourth  he 
found  himself  too  weak  to  rise  from  his  bed.  On 
being  requested  to  name  a  toast  for  the  cus- 
tomary celebration  of  the  day,  he  exclaimed 
"Independence  forever!"  When  the  day  was 
ushered  in  by  the  ringing  of  bells  and  the  firing 
of  cannons,  he  was  asked  by  one  of  his  attend- 
ants if  he  knew  what  day  it  was  ?  He  replied, 
' '  O  yes,  it  is  the  glorious  Fourth  of  July — God 
bless  it — God  bless  you  all!"  In  the  course  of 
the  day  he  said,  "It  is  a  great  and  glorious 
day."  The  last  words  he  uttered  were,  "Jeffer- 
son survives."  But  he  had,  at  one  o'clock, 
resigned  his  spirit  into  the  hands  of  his  God. 


THOMAS  JEFFERSON. 


THOMAS  JEFFERSON. 


"HOMAS  JEFFERSON  was  bom  April  2, 
1743,  at  Shadwell,  Albemarle  County,  Va. 
His  parents  were  Peter  and  Jane  (Ran- 
dolph) Jefferson,  the  former  a  native  of  Wales, 
and  the  latter  born  in  London.  To  them  were 
bom  six  daughters  and  two  sons,  of  whom  Thomas 
was  the  elder.  When  fourteen  years  of  age  his 
father  died.  He  received  a  most  liberal  educa- 
tion, having  been  kept  diligently  at  school  from 
the  time  he  was  five  years  of  age.  In  1 760  he 
entered  William  and  Mary  College.  Williams- 
burg was  then  the  seat  of  the  Colonial  court,  and 
it  was  the  abode  of  fashion  and  splendor.  Young 
Jefferson,  who  was  then  seventeen  years  old,  lived 
somewhat  expensively,  keeping  fine  horses,  and 
going  much  into  gay  society;  yet  he  was  ear- 
nestly devoted  to  his  studies,  and  irreproachable  in 
his  morals.  In  the  second  year  of  his  college 
course,  moved  by  some  unexplained  impulse,  he 
discarded  his  old  companions  and  pursuits,  and 
often  devoted  fifteen  hours  a  day  to  hard  study. 
He  thus  attained  very  high  intellectual  culture, 
and  a  like  excellence  in  philosophy  and  the  lan- 
guages. 

Immediately  upon  leaving  college  he  began  the 
study  of  law.  For  the  short  time  he  continued 
in  the  practice  of  his  profession  he  rose  rapidly, 
and  distinguished  himself  by  his  energy  and 
acuteness  as  a  lawyer.  But  the  times  called  for 
greater  action .  The  policy  of  England  had  awak- 
ened the  spirit  of  resistance  in  the  American  Col- 
onies, and  the  enlarged  views  which  Jefferson  had 
ever  entertained  soon  led  him  into  active  politi- 
cal life.  In  1 769  he  was  chosen  a  member  of  the 
Virginia  House  of  Burgesses.     In  1772. he  mar- 


ried Mrs.  Martha  Skelton,  a  very  beautiful, 
wealthy,  and  highly  accomplished  young  widow. 

In  1775  he  was  sent  to  the  Colonial  Congress, 
where,  though  a  silent  member,  his  abilities  as  a 
writer  and  a  reasoner  soon  become  known,  and  he 
was  placed  upon  a  number  of  important  com- 
mittees, and  was  chairman  of  the  one  appointed 
for  the  drawing  up  of  a  declaration  of  independ- 
ence. This  committee  consisted  of  Thomas  Jef- 
ferson, John  Adams,  Benjamin  Franklin,  Roger 
Sherman  and  Robert  R.  Livingston.  Jefferson, 
as  chairman,  was  appointed  to  draw  up  the  paper. 
Franklin  and  Adams  suggested  a  few  verbal 
changes  before  it  was  submitted  to  Congress.  On 
June  28,  a  few  slight  changes  were  made  in  it  by 
Congress,  and  it  was  passed  and  signed  July  4, 
1776. 

In  1779  Mr.  Jefferson  was  elected  successor  to 
Patrick  Henry  as  Governor  of  Virginia.  At  one 
time  the  British  officer  Tarleton  sent  a  secret 
expedition  to  Monticello  to  capture  the  Governor. 
Scarcely  five  minutes  elapsed  after  the  hurried 
escape  of  Mr.  Jefferson  and  his  family  ere  his 
mansion  was  in  possession  of  the  British  troops. 
His  wife's  health,  never  very  good,  was  much 
injured  by  this  excitement,  and  in  the  summer 
of  1782  she  died. 

Mr.  Jefferson  was  elected  to  Congress  in  1783. 
Two  years  later  he  was  appointed  Minister  Pleni- 
potentiary to  France.  Returning  to  the  United 
States  in  September,  1 789,  he  became  Secretary 
of  State  in  Wa.shington's  cabinet.  This  position 
he  resigned  January  i,  1794.  In  1797,  he  was 
chosen  Vice-President,  and  four  years  later  was 
elected  President  over  Mr.  Adams,  with  Aaron 


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THOMAS  JEFFERSON. 


Burr  as  Vice-President.  In  1804  he  was  re- 
elected with  wonderful  unanimity,  George  Clin- 
ton being  elected  Vice-President. 

The  early  part  of  Mr.  Jefferson's  second  ad- 
ministration was  disturbed  by  an  event  which 
threatened  the  tranquillity  and  peace  of  the  Union; 
this  was  the  conspiracy  of  Aaron  Burr.  Defeated 
in  the  late  election  to  the  Vice-Presidency,  and 
led  on  by  an  unprincipled  ambition,  this  extraor- 
dinary man  formed  the  plan  of  a  military  ex- 
pedition into  the  Spanish  territories  on  our  south- 
western frontier,  for  the  purpose  of  forming  there 
a  new  republic.  This  was  generally  supposed 
to  have  been  a  mere  pretext;  and  although  it  has 
not  been  generally  known  what  his  real  plans 
were,  there  is  no  doubt  that  they  were  of  a  far 
more  dangerous  character. 

In  1809,  at  the  expiration  of  the  second  term 
for  which  Mr.  Jefferson  had  been  elected,  he  de- 
termined to  retire  from  political  life.  For  a  period 
of  nearly  forty  years  he  had  been  continually  be- 
fore the  public,  and  all  that  time  had  been  em- 
ployed in  offices  of  the  greatest  trust  and  respon- 
sibility. Having  thus  devoted  the  best  part  of 
his  life  to  the  service  of  his  country,  he  now  felt 
desirous  of  that  rest  which  his  declining  years  re- 
quired, and  upon  the  organization  of  the  new  ad- 
ministration, in  March,  1809,  he  bade  farewell  for- 
ever to  public  life  and  retired  to  Monticello,  his 
famous  country  home,  which,  next  to  Mt.  Vernon, 
was  the  most  distinguished  residence  in  the  land. 

The  Fourth  of  July,  1826,  being  the  fiftieth  an- 
niversary of  the  Declaration  of  American  Inde- 
pendence, great  preparations  were  made  in  every 
part  of  the  Union  for  its  celebration  as  the  nation's 
jubilee,  and  the  citizens  of  Washington,  to  add  to 
the  solemnity  of  the  occasion,  invited  Mr.  Jeffer- 
son, as  the  framer  and  one  of  the  few  surviving 
signers  of  the  Declaration,  to  participate  in  their 
festivities.  But  an  illness,  which  had  been  of 
several  weeks'  duration  and  had  been  continually 
increasing,  compelled  him  to  decline  the  invita- 
tion. 

On  the  2d  of  July  the  disease  under  which  he 
was  laboring  left  him,  but  in  such  a  reduced 
state  that  his  medical  attendants  entertained  no 
hope  of  his  recovery.     From  this  time  he  was 


perfectly  sensible  that  his  last  hour  was  at  hand. 
On  the  next  day,  which  was  Mondaj%  he  asked 
of  those  around  him  the  day  of  the  month,  and 
on  being  told  it  was  the  3d  of  July,  he  ex- 
pressed the  earnest  wish  that  he  might  be  per- 
mitted to  breathe  the  air  of  the  fiftieth  anniver- 
sary. His  prayer  was  heard — that  day  whose 
dawn  was  hailed  with  such  rapture  through  our 
land  burst  upon  his  eyes,  and  then  they  were 
closed  forever.  And  what  a  noble  consummation 
of  a  noble  life!  To  die  on  that  day — the  birth- 
day of  a  nation — the  day  which  his  own  name 
and  his  own  act  had  rendered  glorious,  to  die 
amidst  the  rejoicings  and  festivities  of  a  whole 
nation,  who  looked  up  to  him  as  the  author,  un- 
der God,  of  their  greatest  blessings,  was  all  that 
was  wanting  to  fill  up  the  record  of  his  life. 

Almost  at  the  same  hour  of  his  death,  the  kin- 
dred spirit  of  the  venerable  Adams,  as  if  to  bear 
him  company,  left  the  scene  of  his  earthly  honors. 
Hand  in  hand  they  had  stood  forth,  the  cham- 
pions of  freedom;  hand  in  hand,  during  the  dark 
and  desperate  struggle  of  the  Revolution,  they 
had  cheered  and  animated  their  desponding  coun- 
trymen; for  half  a  century  they  had  labored  to- 
gether for  the  good  of  the  country,  and  now  hand 
in  hand  they  departed.  In  their  lives  they  had 
been  united  in  the  same  great  cause  of  hberty, 
and  in  their  deaths  they  were  not  divided. 

In  person  Mr.  Jefferson  was  tall  and  thin,  rather 
above  six  feet  in  height,  but  well  formed;  his  eyes 
were  light,  his  hair,  originally  red,  in  after  life  be- 
came white  and  silvery,  his  complexion  was  fair, 
his  forehead  broad,  and  his  whole  countenance 
intelligent  and  thoughtful.  He  possessed  great 
fortitude  of  mind  as  well  as  personal  courage,  and 
his  command  of  temper  was  such  that  his  oldest 
and  most  intimate  friends  never  recollected  to 
have  seen  him  in  a  passion.  His  manners,  though 
dignified,  were  simple  and  unaffected,  and  his 
hospitality  was  so  unbounded  that  all  found  at 
his  house  a  ready  welcome.  In  conversation  he 
was  fluent,  eloquent  and  enthusiastic,  and  his 
language  was  remarkably  pure  and  correct.  He 
was  a  finished  classical  scholar,  and  in  his  writ- 
ings is  discernible  the  care  with  which  he  formed 
his  style  upon  the  best  models  of  antiquity. 


JAMES  MADISON. 


JAMES  MADISON. 


3 AMES  MADISON,  "Father  of  the  Consti- 
tution," and  fourth  Presidentof  the  United 
States,  was  born  March  i6,  1757,  and  died 
at  his  home  in  Virginia  June  28,  1836.  The 
name  of  James  Madison  is  inseparably  connected 
with  most  of  the  important  events  in  that  heroic 
period  of  our  country  during  which  the  founda- 
tions of  this  great  rep'ibhc  were  laid.  He  was 
the  last  of  the  founders  of  the  Constitution  of  the 
United  States  to  be  called  to  his  eternal  reward. 

The  Madison  family  were  among  the  early  emi- 
grants to  the  New  World,  landing  upon  the  shores 
of  the  Chesapeake  but  fifteen  years  after  the  settle- 
ment of  Jamestown.  The  father  of  James  Madison 
was  an  opulent  planter,  residing  upon  a  very  fine 
estate  called  Montpelier,  in  Orange  County,  Va. 
It  was  but  twenty-five  miles  from  the  home  of  Jef- 
ferson at  Monticello,  and  the  closest  personal  and 
political  attachment  existed  between  these  illustri- 
ous men  from  their  early  youth  until  death. 

The  early  education  of  Mr.  Madison  was  con- 
ducted mostly  at  home  under  a  private  tutor.  At 
the  age  of  eighteen  he  was  sent  to  Princeton  Col- 
lege, in  New  Jersej'.  Here  he  applied  himself  to 
study  with  the  most  imprudent  zeal,  allowing  him- 
self for  months  but  three  hours'  sleep  out  of  the 
twenty-four.  His  health  thus  became  so  seriously 
impaired  that  he  never  recovered  any  vigor  of 
constitution.  He  graduated  in  1 77 1 ,  with  a  feeble 
body,  but  with  a  character  of  utmost  purity,  and 
a  mind  highly  disciplined  and  richly  stored  with 
learning,  which  embellished  and  gave  efficiency 
to  his  subsequent  career. 

Returning  to  Virginia,  he  commenced  the  study 
of  law  and  a  course  of  extensive  and  systematic 
reading.  This  educational  course,  the  spirit  of 
the  times  in  which  he  lived,  and  the  society  with 
which  he  associated,  all  combined  to  inspire  him 
with  a  strong  love  of  liberty,  and  to  train  him  for 
his  life-work  as  a  statesman. 

In  the  spring  of  1776,  when  twenty-six  years  of 


age,  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the  Virginia  Con- 
vention to  frame  the  constitution  of  the  State.  The 
next  year  (1777),  he  was  a  candidate  for  the  Gen- 
eral Assembly.  He  refused  to  treat  the  whisky-lov- 
ing voters,  and  consequently  lest  his  election;  but 
those  who  had  witnessed  the  talent,  energy  and 
pubhc  spirit  of  the  modest  young  man  enlisted 
themselves  in  his  behalf,  and  he  was  appointed  to 
the  Executive  Council. 

Both  Patrick  Henry  and  Thomas  Jefferson  were 
Governors  of  Virginia  while  Mr.  Madison  re- 
mained member  of  the  Council,  and  their  apprecia- 
tion of  his  intellectual,  social  and  moral  worth 
contributed  not  a  little  to  his  subsequent  eminence. 
In  the  year  1780  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the 
Continental  Congress.  Here  he  met  the  most  il- 
lustrious men  in  our  land,  and  he  was  immediately 
assigned  to  one  ot  the  most  conspicuous  positions 
among  them.  For  three  years  he  continued  in  Con- 
gress, one  of  its  most  active  and  influential  mem- 
bers. In  1784,  his  term  having  expired,  he  was 
elected  a  member  of  the  Virginia  Legislature. 

No  man  felt  more  deeply  than  Mr.  Madison  the 
utter  inefficiency  of  the  old  confederacy,  with  no 
national  government,  and  no  power  to  form  trea- 
ties which  would  be  binding,  or  to  enforce  law. 
There  was  not  any  State  more  prominent  than 
Virginia  in  the  declaration  that  an  efficient  na- 
tional government  must  be  formed.  In  January, 
1786,  Mr.  Madison  carried  a  resolution  through 
the  General  Assembly  of  Virginia,  inviting  the 
other  States  to  appoint  commissioners  to  meet  in 
convention  at  Annapolis  to  discuss  this  subject. 
Five  States  only  were  represented.  The  conven- 
tion, however,  issued  another  call,  drawn  up  by 
Mr.  Madison,  urging  all  the  States  to  send  their 
delegates  to  Philadelphia  in  May,  1787,  to  draft 
a  Constitution  for  the  United  States,  to  take  the 
place  of  the  Confederate  League.  The  delegates 
met  at  the  time  appointed.  Every  State  but 
Rhode  Island  was  represented.    George  Washing- 


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JAMES  MADISON. 


ton  was  chosen  president  of  the  convention,  and  the 
present  Constitution  of  the  United  States  was  then 
and  there  formed.  There  was,  perhaps,  no  mind 
and  no  pen  more  active  in  framing  this  immortal 
document  than  the  mind  and  the  pen  of  James 
Madison. 

The  Constitution,  adopted  by  a  vote  of  eighty-one 
to  seventy-nine,  was  to  be  presented  to  the  several 
States  for  acceptance.  But  grave  solicitude  was 
felt.  Should  it  be  rejected,  we  should  be  left  but  a 
conglomeration  of  independent  States,  with  but 
little  power  at  home  and  little  respect  abroad.  Mr. 
Madison  was  elected  by  the  convention  to  draw  up 
an  address  to  the  people  of  the  United  States,  ex- 
pounding the  principles  of  the  Constitution,  and 
urging  its  adoption.  There  was  great  opposition 
to  it  at  first,  but  at  length  it  triumphed  over  all, 
and  went  into  efifect  in  1789. 

Mr.  Madison  was  elected  to  the  House  of  Repre- 
sentatives in  the  first  Congress,  and  soon  became 
the  avowed  leader  of  the  Republican  party.  While 
in  New  York  attending  Congress,  he  met  Mrs. 
Todd,  a  young  widow  of  remarkable  power  of  fas- 
cination, whom  he  married.  She  was  in  person 
and  character  queenly,  and  probaby  no  lady  has 
thus  far  occupied  so  prominent  a  position  in  the 
very  peculiar  society  which  has  constituted  our 
republican  court  as  did  Mrs.  Madison. 

Mr.  Madison  served  as  Secretary  of  State  under 
Jefferson,  and  at  the  close  of  his  administration 
was  chosen  President.  At  this  time  the  encroach- 
ments of  England  had  brought  us  to  the  verge  of 
war.  British  orders  in  council  destroyed  our  com- 
merce, and  our  flag  was  exposed  to  constant  insult. 
Mr.  Madison  was  a  man  of  peace.  Scholarly  in 
his  taste,  retiring  in  his  disposition,  war  had  no 
charms  for  him.  But  the  meekest  spirit  can  be 
roused.  It  makes  one's  blood  boil,  even  now,  to 
think  of  an  American  ship  brought  to  upon  the 
ocean  by  the  guns  of  an  English  cruiser.  A 
young  lieutenant  steps  on  board  and  orders  the 
crew  to  be  paraded  before  him.  With  great  non- 
chalance he  selects  any  number  whom  he  may 
please  to  designate  as  British  subjects,  orders  them 
down  the  ship's  side  into  his  boat,  and  places  them 
on  the  gundeck  of  his  man-of-war,  to  fight,  by 
compulsion,  the  battles  of  England.     This  right 


of  search  and  impressment  no  efforts  of  our  Gov- 
ernment could  induce  the  British  cabinet  to  re- 
linquish. 

On  the  i8th  of  June,  1812,  President  Madison 
gave  his  approval  to  an  act  of  Congress  declaring 
war  against  Great  Britain.  Notwithstanding  the 
bitter  hostility  of  the  Federal  party  to  the  war,  the 
country  in  general  approved;  and  Mr.  Madison, 
on  the  4th  of  March,  18 13,  was  re-elected  by  a 
large  majorit}',  and  entered  upon  his  second  term 
of  office.  This  is  hot  the  place  to  describe  the 
various  adventures  of  this  war  on  the  land  and  on 
the  water.  Our  infant  navy  then  laid  the  found- 
ations of  its  renown  in  grappling  with  the  most 
formidable  power  which  ever  swept  the  seas.  The 
contest  commenced  in  earnest  by  the  appearance 
of  a  British  fleet,  early  in  February,  18 13,  in 
Chesapeake  Bay,  declaring  nearly  the  whole  coast 
of  the  United  States  under  blockade. 

The  Emperor  of  Russia  offered  his  services  as 
mediator.  America  accepted;  England  refused. 
A  British  force  of  five  thousand  men  landed  on  the 
banks  of  the  Patuxet  River,  near  its  entrance  into 
Chesapeake  Bay,  and  marched  rapidly,  by  way  of 
Bladensburg,  upon  Washington. 

The  straggling  little  city  of  Washington  was 
thrown  into  consternation.  The  cannon  of  the 
brief  conflict  at  Bladensburg  echoed  through  the 
streets  of  the  metropolis.  The  whole  population 
fled  from  the  city.  The  President,  leaving  Mrs. 
Madison  in  the  White  House,  with  her  carriage 
drawn  up  at  the  door  to  await  his  speedy  return, 
hurried  to  meet  the  ofiicers  in  a  council  of  war. 
He  met  our  troops  utterly  routed,  and  he  could  not 
go  back  without  danger  of  being  captured.  But 
few  hours  elapsed  ere  the  Presidential  Mansion, 
the  Capitol,  and  all  the  public  buildings  in  Wash- 
ington were  in  flames. 

The  war  closed  after  two  years  of  fighting,  and 
on  February  13,.  1815,  the  treaty  of  peace  was 
signed  at  Ghent.  On  the  4th  of  March,  18 17,  his 
second  term  of  office  expired,  and  he  resigned  the 
Presidential  chair  to  his  friend,  James  Monroe. 
He  retired  to  his  beautiful  home  at  Montpelier,  and 
there  passed  the  remainder  of  his  da3'S.  On  June 
28,  1836,  at  the  age  of  eighty-five  years,  he  fell 
asleep  in  death.  Mrs.  Madison  died  July  12,  1849. 


JAMES  MONROE. 


JAMES  MONROE. 


(Tames  MONROE,  the  fifth  President  of  the 
I  United  States,  was  born  in  Westmoreland 
G)  County,  Va.,  April  28,  1758.  His  early  life 
was  passed  at  the  place  of  his  nativity.  His  an- 
cestors had  for  many  years  resided  in  the  province 
in  which  he  was  bom.  When  he  was  seventeen 
years  old,  and  in  process  of  completing  his  educa- 
tion at  William  and  Mary  College,  the  Colonial 
Congress,  assembled  at  Philadelphia  to  deliberate 
upon  the  unjust  and  manifold  oppressions  of  Great 
Britain,  declared  the  separation  of  the  Colonies, 
and  promulgated  the  Declaration  of  Independence. 
Had  he  been  born  ten  years  before,  it  is  highly 
probable  that  he  would  have  been  one  of  the 
signers  of  that  celebrated  instrument.  At  this 
time  he  left  school  and  enlisted  among  the  pa- 
triots. 

He  joined  the  army  when  everything  looked 
hopeless  and  gloomy.  The  number  of  deserters 
increased  from  day  to  day.  The  invading  armies 
came  pouring  in,  and  the  Tories  not  only  favored 
the  cause  of  the  mother  country,  but  disheartened 
the  new  recruits,  who  were  sufficiently  terrified 
at  the  prospect  of  contending  with  an  enemy 
whom  they  had  been  taught  to  deem  invincible. 
To  such  brave  spirits  as  James  Monroe,  who  went 
right  onward  undismayed  through  difficulty  and 
danger,  the  United  States  owe  their  political 
emancipation.  The  young  cadet  joined  the  ranks 
and  espoused  the  cause  of  his  injured  country, 
with  a  firm  determination  to  live  or  die  in  her 
strife  for  liberty.  Firmly,  yet  sadly,  he  shared  in 
the  melancholy  retreat  from  Harlem  Heights 
and  White  Plains,  and  accompanied  the  dispirited 
army  as  it  fled  before  its  foes  through  New  Jersey. 
In  four  months  after  the  Declaration  of  Inde- 
pendence, the  patriots  had  been  beaten  in  seven 
battles.  At  the  battle  of  Trenton  he  led  the  van- 
guard, and  in  the  act  of  charging  upon  the  enemy 
he  received  a  wound  in  the  left  shoulder. 


As  a  reward  for  his  bravery,  Mr.  Monroe  was 
promoted  to  be  captain  of  infantry,  and,  having  re- 
covered from  his  wounds,  he  rejoined  the  army. 
He,  however,  receded  from  the  line  of  promotion 
by  becoming  an  officer  on  the  staff  of  Lord  Ster- 
ling. During  the  campaigns  of  1777  and  1778, 
in  the  actions  of  Brandywine,  Germantown  and 
Monmouth,  he  continued  aide-de-camp;  but  be- 
coming desirous  to  regain  his  position  in  the 
army,  he  exerted  himself  to  collect  a  regiment  for 
the  Virginia  line.  This  scheme  failed,  owing  to 
the  exhausted  condition  of  the  State.  Upon  this 
failure  he  entered  the  office  of  Mr.  Jefferson,  at 
that  period  Governor,  and  pursued  with  consid- 
erable ardor  the  study  of  common  law.  He  did 
not,  however,  entirely  lay  aside  the  knapsack  for 
the  green  bag,  but  on  the  invasion  of  the  enemy 
served  as  a  volunteer  during  the  two  years  of  his 
legal  pursuits. 

In  1782  he  was  elected  from  King  George 
County  a  member  of  the  Legislature  of  Virginia, 
and  by  that  body  he  was  elevated  to  a  seat  in  the 
Executive  Council.  He  was  thus  honored  with 
the  confidence  of  his  fellow-citizens  at  twenty- 
three  years  of  age,  and  having  at  this  early  period 
displayed  some  of  that  ability  and  aptitude  for 
legislation  which  were  afterward  employed  with 
unremitting  energy  for  the  public  good,  he  was 
in  the  succeeding  year  chosen  a  member  of  the 
Congress  of  the  United  States. 

Deeply  as  Mr.  Monroe  felt  the  imperfections  of 
the  old  Confederacy,  he  was  opposed  to  the  new 
Constitution,  thinking,  with  many  others  of  the 
Republican  party,  that  it  gave  too  much  power  to 
the  Central  Government,  and  not  enough  to  the 
individual  States.  Still  he  retained  the  esteem 
of  his  friends  who  were  its  warm  supporters,  and 
who,  notwithstanding  his  opposition,  secured  its 
adoption.  In  1789  he  became  a  member  of  the 
United  States  Senate,  which   office  he  held  for 


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four  years.  Every  month  the  line  of  distinction 
between  the  two  great  parties  which  divided  the 
nation,  the  Federal  and  the  Republican,  was 
growing  more  distinct.  The  differences  which 
now  separated  them  lay  in  the  fact  that  the  Repub- 
lican party  was  in  sympathy  with  France,  and 
also  in  favor  of  such  a  strict  construction  of  the 
Constitution  as  to  give  the  Central  Government  as 
little  power,  and  the  State  Governments  as  much 
power,  as  the  Constitution  would  warrant;  while 
the  Federalists  sympathized  with  England,  and 
were  in  favor  of  a  liberal  construction  of  the  Con- 
stitution, which  would  give  as  much  power  to  the 
Central  Government  as  that  document  could  pos- 
sibly authorize. 

Washington  was  then  President.  England  had 
espoused  the  cause  of  the  Bourbons  against  the 
principles  of  the  French  Revolution.  All  Europe 
was  drawn  into  the  conflict.  We  were  feeble  and 
far  away.  Washington  issued  a  proclamation  of 
neutrality  between  these  contending  powers. 
France  had  helped  us  in  the  struggles  for  our 
liberties.  All  the  despotisms  of  Europe  were  now 
combined  to  prevent  the  French  from  escaping 
from  a  tyranny  a  thousand-fold  worse  than  that 
which  we  had  endured.  Col.  Monroe,  more  mag- 
nanimous than  prudent,  was  anxious  that,  at 
whatever  hazard,  we  should  help  our  old  allies  in 
their  extremity.  It  was  the  impulse  of  a  gener- 
ous and  noble  nature,  and  Washington,  who  could 
appreciate  such  a  character,  showed  his  calm,  se- 
rene, almost  divine,  greatness,  by  appointing  that 
very  James  Monroe  who  was  denouncing  the  pol- 
icy of  the  Government,  as  the  minister  of  that 
Government  to  the  Republic  of  France.  Mr. 
Monroe  was  welcomed  by  the  National  Conven- 
tion in  France  with  the  most  enthusiastic  dem- 
onstration. 

Shortly  after  his  return  to  this  country,  Mr. 
Monroe  was  elected  Governor '  of  Virginia,  and 
held  the  office  for  three  years.  He  was  again 
.sent  to  France  to  co-operate  with  Chancellor  Liv- 
ingston in  obtaining  the  vast  territory  then  known 
as  the  province  of  Louisiana,  which  France  had 
but  shortly  before  obtained  from  Spain.  Their 
united  efforts  were  successful.  For  the  compara- 
tively small  sum  of  fifteen  millions  of  dollars,  the 


entire  territory  of  Orleans  and  district  of  Loui- 
siana were  added  to  the  United  States.  This  was 
probably  the  largest  transfer  of  real  estate  which 
was  ever  made  in  all  the  history  of  the  world. 

From  France  Mr.  Monroe  went  to  England  to 
obtain  from  that  country  some  recognition  of  our 
rights  as  neutrals,  and  to  remonstrate  against 
those  odious  impressments  of  our  seamen.  But 
England  was  unrelenting.  He  again  returned  to 
England  on  the  same  mission,  but  could  receive 
no  redress.  He  returned  to  his  home  and  was 
again  chosen  Governor  of  Virginia.  This  he  soon 
resigned  to  accept  the  position  of  Secretary  of 
State  under  Madison.  While  in  this  office  war 
with  England  was  declared,  the  Secretary  of  War 
resigned,  and  during  these  trying  times  the 
duties  of  the  War  Department  were  also  put  upon 
him.  He  was  truly  the  armor- bearer  of  President 
Madison,  and  the  mo.st  efficient  business  man  in 
his  cabinet.  Upon  the  return  of  peace  he  re- 
signed the  Department  of  War,  but  continued  in 
the  office  of  Secretary  of  State  until  the  expira- 
tion of  Mr.  Madison's  administration.  At  the 
election  held  the  previous  autumn,  Mr.  Monroe 
himself  had  been  chosen  President  with  but  little 
opposition,  and  upon  March  4,  18 17,  he  was  in- 
augurated. Four  years  later  he  was  elected  for 
a  second  term. 

Among  the  important  measures  of  his  Presi- 
dency were  the  cession  of  Florida  to  the  United 
States,  the  Missouri  Compromise,  and  the  famous 
"  Monroe  doctrine."  This  doctrine  was  enun- 
ciated by  him  in  1823,  and  was  as  follows:  ' '  That 
we  should  consider  any  attempt  on  the  part  of 
European  powers  to  extend  their  system  to  any 
portion  of  this  hemisphere  as  dangerous  to  our 
peace  and  safety,"  and  that  "  we  could  not  view 
any  interposition  for  the  purpose  of  oppressing  or 
controlling  American  governments  or  provinces 
in  any  other  light  than  as  a  manifestation  by 
European  powers  of  an  unfriendly  disposition 
toward  the  United  States. ' ' 

At  the  end  of  his  second  term,  Mr.  Monroe  re- 
tired to  his  home  in  Virginia,  where  he  lived  un- 
til 1830,  when  he  went  to  New  York  to  live  with 
his  son-in-law.  In  that  dty  he  died,  on  the  4th 
of  July,  1831. 


JOHN  QUINCY  ADAMS. 


JOHN  QUINCY  ADAMS. 


(TOHN  QUINCY  ADAMS,  the  sixth  President 

I  of  the  United  States,  was  born  in  the  rural 
C/  home  of  his  honored  father,  John  Adams,  in 
Qiiincy,  Mass.,  on  the  nth  of  July,  1767.  His 
mother,  a  woman  of  exalted  worth,  watched  over 
his  childhood  during  the  almost  constant  ab- 
sence of  his  father.  When  but  eight  years  of 
age,  he  stood  with  his  mother  on  an  eminence, 
listening  to  the  booming  of  the  great  battle  on 
Bunker's  Hill,  and  gazing  out  upon  the  smoke 
and  flames  billowing  up  from  the  conflagration  of 
Charlestown. 

When  but  eleven  years  old  he  took  a  tearful 
adieu  of  his  mother,  to  sail  with  his  father  for  Eu- 
rope, through  a  fleet  of  hostile  British  cruisers. 
The  bright,  animated  boy  spent  a  year  and  a-half 
in  Paris,  where  his  father  was  associated  with 
Franklin  and  Lee  as  Minister  Plenipotentiary. 
His  intelligence  attracted  the  notice  of  these  dis- 
tinguished men,  and  he  received  from  them  flat- 
tering marks  of  attention. 

John  Adams  had  scarcely  returned  to  this 
country,  in  1779,  ere  he  was  again  sent  abroad. 
Again  John  Quincy  accompanied  his  father.  At 
Paris  he  applied  himself  to  study  with  great  dil- 
igence for  six  months,  and  then  accompanied  his 
father  to  Holland,  where  he  entered  first  a  school 
in  Amsterdam,  then  the  University  at  Leyden. 
About  a  year  from  this  time,  in  1781,  when  the 
manly  boy  was  but  fourteen  years  of  age,  he  was 
selected  by  Mr.  Dana,  our  Minister  to  the  Rus- 
sian court,  as  his  private  secretary. 

In  this  school  of  incessant  labor  and  of  ennobl- 
ing culture  he  spent  fourteen  months,  and  then 
returned  to  Holland,  through  Sweden,  Denmark, 
Hamburg  and  Bremen.  This  long  journey  he 
took  alone  in  the  winter,  when  in  his  sixteenth 
year.  Again  he  resumed  his  studies,  under  a  pri- 
vate tutor,  at  The  Hague.  Then,  in  the  spring  of 
1782,  he  accompanied  his  father  to  Paris,  travel- 
ing leisurely,  and  forming  acquaintances  with  the 
most  distinguished  men  on  the  continent,  examin- 


ing architectural  remains,  galleries  of  paintings, 
and  all  renowned  works  of  art.  At  Paris  he 
again  became  associated  with  the  most  illustrious 
men  of  all  lands  in  the  contemplation  of  the 
loftiest  temporal  themes  which  can  engross  the 
human  mind.  After  a  short  visit  to  England  he 
returned  to  Paris,  and  consecrated  all  his  energies 
to  study  until  May,  1785,  when  he  returned  to 
America  to  finish  his  education. 

Upon  leaving  Harvard  College  at  the  age  of 
twenty,  he  studied  law  for  three  years.  In  June, 
1794,  being  then  but  twenty-seven  years  of  age, 
he  was  appointed  by  Washington  Resident  Min- 
ister at  the  Netherlands.  Sailing  from  Boston  in 
July,  he  reached  London  in  October,  where  he 
was  immediately  admitted  to  the  deliberations  of 
Messrs.  Jay  &  Pinckney,  assisting  them  in  nego- 
tiating a  commercial  treaty  with  Great  Britain. 
After  thus  spending  a  fortnight  in  London,  he 
proceeded  to  The  Hague. 

In  July,  1 797,  he  left;  The  Hague  to  go  to  Por- 
tugal as  Minister  Plenipotentiary.  On  his  way  to 
Portugal,  upon  arriving  in  London,  he  met  with 
despatches  directing  him  to  the  court  of  Berlin,  but 
requesting  him  to  remain  in  London  until  he 
should  receive  his  instructions.  While  waiting 
he  was  married  to  an  American  lady,  to  whom  he 
had  been  previously  engaged — Miss  Louisa  Cath- 
erine Johnson,  a  daughter  of  Joshua  Johnson, 
American  Consul  in  London,  and  a  lady  en- 
dowed with  that  beauty  and  those  accomplish- 
ments which  eminently  fitted  her  to  move  in  the 
elevated  sphere  for  which  she  was  destined.  He 
reached  Berlin  with  his  wife  in  November,  1797, 
where  he  remained  until  July,  1799,  when,  hav- 
ing fulfilled  all  the  purposes  of  his  mission,  he  so- 
licited his  recall. 

Soon  after  his  return,  in  1802,  he  was  chosen 
to  the  Senate  of  Massachusetts  from  Boston,  and. 
then  was  elected  Senator  of  the  United  States  for 
six  years,  from  the  4th  of  March,  1804.  His  rep- 
utation, his   ability  and   his  experience    placed 


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JOHN  QUINCY  ADAMS. 


him  immediately  among  the  most  prominent  and 
influential  members  of  that  body. 

In  1809,  Madison  succeeded  Jefferson  in  the 
Presidential  chair,  and  he  immediately  nominated 
John  Quincy  Adams  Minister  to  St.  Petersburgh. 
Resigning  his  professorship  in  Harvard  Col- 
lege, he  embarked  at  Boston  in  August,  1809. 

While  in  Russia,  Mr.  Adams  was  an  intense 
student.  He  devoted  his  attention  to  the  lan- 
guage and  history  of  Russia;  to  the  Chinese  trade; 
to  the  European  system  of  weights,  measures  and 
coins;  to  the  climate  and  astronomical  observa- 
tions; while  he  kept  up  a  familiar  acquaintance 
with  the  Greek  and  Latin  classics.  In  all  the 
universities  of  Europe,  a  more  accomplished 
scholar  could  scarcely  be  found.  All  through 
life  the  Bible  constituted  an  important  part  of  his 
studies.  It  was  his  rule  to  read  five  chapters 
every  day. 

On  the  4th  of  March,  1817,  Mr.  Monroe  took 
the  Presidential  chair,  and  immediately  appointed 
Mr.  Adams  Secretary  of  State.  Taking  leave  of 
his  numerous  friends  in  public  and  private  life  in 
Europe,  he  sailed  in  June,  1819,  for  the  United 
States.  On  the  i8th  of  August,  he  again  crossed 
the  threshold  of  his  home  in  Quincy.  During  the 
eight  years  of  Mr.  Monroe's  administration,  Mr. 
Adams  continued  Secretary  of  State. 

Some  time  before  the  close  of  Mr.  Monroe's 
second  term  of  office,  new  candidates  began  to  be 
presented  for  the  Presidency.  The  friends  of  Mr. 
Adams  brought  forward  his  name.  It  was  an 
exciting  campaign,  and  party  spirit  was  never 
more  bitter.  Two  hundred  and  sixty  electoral 
votes  were  cast.  Andrew  Jackson  received  ninety- 
nine;  John  Quincy  Adams  eighty-four;  William 
H.  Crawford  forty-one;  and  Henry  Clay  thirty- 
seven.  As  there  was  no  choice  by  the  people, 
the  question  went  to  the  House  of  Representa- 
tives. Mr.  Clay  gave  the  vote  of  Kentucky  to 
Mr.  Adams,  and  he  was  elected. 

The  friends  of  all  the  disappointed  candidates 
now  combined  in  a  venomous  and  persistent  as- 
sault upon  Mr.  Adams.  There  is  nothing  more 
disgraceful  in  the  past  history  of  our  country  than 
the  abuse  which  was  poured  in  one  uninterrupted 
Stream  upon  this  high-minded,  upright  and  pa- 


triotic man.  There  never  was  an  administration 
more  pure  in  principles,  more  conscientiously  de- 
voted to  the  best  interests  of  the  country,  than 
that  of  John  Quincy  Adams;  and  never,  perhaps, 
was  there  an  administration  more  unscrupulously 
and  outrageously  assailed. 

On  the  4th  of  March,  1829,  Mr.  Adams  retired 
from  the  Presidency,  and  was  succeeded  by  An- 
drew Jackson.  John  C.  Calhoun  was  elected 
Vice-President.  The  slavery  question  now  be- 
gan to  assume  portentous  magnitude.  Mr.  Adams 
returned  to  Quincy  and  to  his  studies,  which  he 
pursued  with  unabated  zeal.  But  he  was  not 
long  permitted  to  remain  in  retirement.  In  No- 
vember, 1830,  he  was  elected  Representative  in 
Congress.  For  seventeen  years,  or  until  his  death, 
he  occupied  the  post  as  Representative,  towering 
above  all  his  peers,  ever  ready  to  do  brave  battle 
for  freedom,  and  winning  the  title  of  '  'the  Old 
Man  Eloquent."  Upon  taking  his  seat  in  the 
House,  he  announced  that  he  should  hold  him- 
self bound  to  no  party.  Probably  there  never 
was  a  member  more  devoted  to  his  duties.  He 
was  usually  the  first  in  his  place  in  the  morning, 
and  the  last  to  leave  his  seat  in  the  evening. 
Not  a  measure  could  be  brought  forward  and  es- 
cape his  scrutiny.  The  battle  which  Mr.  Adams 
fought,  almost  singly,  against  the  pro-slavery 
party  in  the  Government  was  sublime  in  its 
moral  daring  and  heroism.  For  persisting  in 
presenting  petitions  for  the  abolition  of  slavery, 
he  was  threatened  with  indictment  by  the  grand 
jury,  with  expulsion  from  the  House,  with  assas- 
sination; but  no  threats  could  intimidate  him,  and 
his  final  triumph  was  complete. 

On  the  2ist  of  February,  1848,  he  rose  on  the 
floor  of  Congress  with  a  paper  in  his  hand,  to 
address  the  speaker.  Suddenly  he  fell,  again 
stricken  by  paralysis,  and  was  caught  in  the  arms 
of  those  around  him.  For  a  time  he  was  sense- 
less, as  he  was  conveyed  to  the  sofa  in  the  ro- 
tunda. With  reviving  consciousness,  he  opened 
his  eyes,  looked  calmly  around  and  said  "This 
is  the  end  of  earth;"  then  after  a  moment's  pause 
he  added,  "  I  am  content."  These  were  the  last 
words  of  the  grand  ' '  Old  Man  Eloquent. ' ' 


ANDREW  JACKSON. 


ANDREW  JACKSON. 


61  NDREW  JACKSON,  the  seventh  President 
T\  of  the  United  States,  was  born  in  Waxhaw 
II  settlement,  N.  C,  March  15,  1767,  a  few 
days  after  his  father's  death.  His  parents  were 
poor  emigrants  from  Ireland,  and  took  up  their 
abode  in  Waxhaw  settlement,  where  they  lived 
in  deepest  poverty. 

Andrew,  or  Andy,  as  he  was  universally  called, 
grew  up  a  very  rough,  rude,  turbulent  boy.  His 
features  were  coarse,  his  form  ungainly,  and  there 
was  but  very  little  in  his  character  made  visible 
which  was  attractive. 

When  only  thirteen  years  old  he  joined  the 
volunteers  of  Carolina  against  the  British  invasion. 
In  1 78 1,  he  and  his  brother  Robert  were  captured 
and  imprisoned  for  a  time  at  Camden.  A  British 
officer  ordered  him  to  brush  his  mud-spattered 
boots.  "lam  a  prisoner  of  war,  not  your  serv- 
ant," was  the  reply  of  the  dauntless  boy. 

Andrew  supported  himself  in  various  ways,  such 
as  working  at  the  saddler's  trade,  teaching  school, 
and  clerking  in  a  general  store,  until  1784,  when 
he  entered  a  law  office  at  Salisbury,  N.  C.  He, 
however,  gave  more  attention  to  the  wild  amuse- 
ments of  the  times  than  to  his  studies.  In  1788, 
he  was  appointed  solicitor  for  the  Western  District 
of  North  Carolina,  of  which  Tennessee  was  then 
a  part.  This  involved  many  long  journeys  amid 
dangers  of  every  kind,  but  Andrew  Jackson  never 
knew  fear,  and  the  Indians  had  no  desire  to  re- 
peat a  skirmish  with  "Sharp  Knife." 

In  1 79 1,  Mr.  Jackson  was  married  to  a  woman 
who  supposed  herself  divorced  from  her  former 
husband.  Great  was  the  surprise  of  both  parties, 
two  years  later,  to  find  that  the  conditions  of  the 
divorce  had  just  been  definitely  settled  by  the 
first  husband.  The  marriage  ceremony  was  per- 
formed a  second  time,  but  the  occurrence  was 
often  used  by  his  enemies  to  bring  Mr.  Jackson 
into  disfavor. 


In  January,  1796,  the  Territory  of  Tennessee 
then  containing  nearly  eighty  thousand  inhabi- 
tants, the  people  met  in  convention  at  Knoxville 
to  frame  a  constitution.  Five  were  sent  from 
each  of  the  eleven  counties.  Andrew  Jackson 
was  one  of  the  delegates.  The  new  State  was 
entitled  to  but  one  member  in  the  National  House 
of  Representatives.  Andrew  Jackson  was  chosen 
that  member.  Mounting  his  horse,  he  rode  to 
Philadelphia,  where  Congress  then  held  its  ses- 
sions, a  distance  of  about  eight  hundred  miles. 

Jackson  was  an  earnest  advocate  of  the  Demo- 
cratic party,  and  Jefferson  was  his  idol.  He  ad- 
mired Bonaparte,  loved  France,  and  hated  Eng- 
land. As  Mr.  Jackson  took  his  seat,  Gen.  Wash- 
ington, whose  second  term  of  office  was  then 
expiring,  delivered  his  last  speech  to  Congress. 
A  committee  drew  up  a  complimentary  address  in 
reply.  Andrew  Jackson  did  not  approve  of  the 
address,  and  was  one  of  the  twelve  who  voted 
against  it.  He  was  not  willing  to  say  that  Gen. 
Washington's  administration  had  been  "wise, 
firm  and  patriotic. ' ' 

Mr.  Jackson  was  elected  to  the  United  States 
Senate  in  1797,  but  soon  resigned  and  returned 
home.  Soon  after  he  was  chosen  Judge  of  the 
Supreme  Court  of  his  State,  which  position  he 
held  for  six  years. 

When  the  War  of  18 12  with  Great  Britain  com- 
menced, Madison  occupied  the  Presidential  chair. 
Aaron  Burr  sent  word  to  the  President  that  there 
was  an  unknown  man  in  the  West,  Andrew  Jack- 
son, who  would  do  credit  to  a  commission  if  one 
were  conferred  upon  him.  Just  at  that  time  Gen. 
Jackson  offered  his  services  and  those  of  twenty- 
five  hundred  volunteers.  His  offer  was  accepted, 
and  the  troops  were  assembled  at  Nashville. 

As  the  British  were  hourly  expected  to  make 
an  attack  upon  New  Orleans,  where  Gen.  Wil- 
kinson was  in  command,  he  was  ordered  to  de- 


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scend  the  river  with  fifteen  hundred  troops  to  aid 
Wilkinson.  The  expedition  reached  Natchez, 
and  after  a  delay  of  several  weeks  there  without 
accomplishing  anything,  the  men  were  ordered 
back  to  their  homes.  But  the  energy  Gen.  Jack- 
son had  displayed,  and  his  entire  devotion  to  the 
comfort  of  his  soldiers,  won  for  him  golden  opin- 
ions, and  he  became  the  most  popular  man  in  the 
State.  It  was  in  this  expedition  that  his  tough- 
ness gave  him  the  nickname  of   "Old  Hickory." 

Soon  after  this,  while  attempting  to  horsewhip 
Col.  Thomas  Benton  for  a  remark  that  gentleman 
made  about  his  taking  part  as  second  in  a  duel 
in  which  a  younger  brother  of  Benton's  was  en- 
gaged, he  received  two  severe  pistol  wounds. 
While  he  was  lingering  upon  a  bed  of  suifering, 
news  came  that  the  Indians,  who  had  combined 
under  Tecumseh  from  Florida  to  the  Lakes  to  ex- 
terminate the  white  settlers,  were  committing  the 
most  awful  ravages.  Decisive  action  became  nec- 
essary. Gen.  Jackson,  with  his  fractured  bone 
just  beginning  to  heal,  his  arm  in  a  sling,  and 
unable  to  mount  his  horse  without  assistance, 
gave  his  amazing  energies  to  the  raising  of  an 
army  to  rendezvous  at  Fayettesville,  Ala. 

The  Creek  Indians  had  established  a  strong 
fort  on  one  of  the  bends  of  the  Tallapoosa  River, 
near  the  center  of  Alabama,  about  fifty  miles  be- 
low Ft.  Strother.  With  an  army  of  two  thousand 
men.  Gen.  Jackson  traversed  the  pathless  wilder- 
ness in  a  march  of  eleven  days.  He  reached  their 
fort,  called  Tohopeka  or  Horse-shoe,  on  the  27th 
of  March,  18 14.  The  bend  of  the  river  enclosed 
nearly  one  hundred  acres  of  tangled  forest  and 
wild  ravine.  Across  the  narrow  neck  the  Indians 
had  constructed  a  formidable  breastwork  of  logs 
and  brush.  Here  nine  hundred  warriors,  with 
an  ample  supply  of  arms,  were  assembled. 

The  fort  was  stormed.  The  fight  was  utterly 
desperate.  Not  an  Indian  would  accept  quarter. 
When  bleeding  and  dying,  they  would  fight  those 
who  endeavored  to  spare  their  lives.  From  ten 
in  the  morning  until  dark  the  battle  raged.  The 
carnage  was  awful  and  revolting.  Some  threw 
themselves  into  the  river;  but  the  unerring  bul- 
lets struck  their  heads  as  they  swam.  Nearly 
every  one    of  the  nine  hundred  warriors  was 


killed.  A  few,  probably,  in  the  night  swam 
the  river  and  escaped.      This  ended  the  war. 

This  closing  of  the  Creek  War  enabled  us  to 
concentrate  all  our  militia  upon  the  British,  who 
were  the  allies  of  the  Indians.  No  man  of  less 
resolute  will  than  Gen.  Jackson  could  have  con- 
ducted this  Indian  campaign  to  so  successful  an 
issue.  Immediately  he  was  appointed  Major- 
General. 

Late  in  August,  with  an  army  of  two  thousand 
men  on  a  rushing  march.  Gen.  Jackson  went  to 
Mobile.  A  British  fleet  went  from  Pensacola, 
landed  a  force  upon  the  beach,  anchored  near  the 
little  fort,  and  from  both  ship  and  shore  com- 
menced a  furious  assault.  The  battle  was  long 
and  doubtful.  At  length  one  of  the  ships  was 
blown  up  and  the  rest  retired. 

Garrisoning  Mobile,  where  he  had  taken  his 
little  army,  he  moved  his  troops  to  New  Orleans, 
and  the  battle  of  New  Orleans,  which  soon  ensued, 
was  in  reality  a  very  arduous  campaign.  This 
won  for  Gen.  Jackson  an  imperishable  name. 
Here  his  troops,  which  numbered  about  four 
thousand  men,  won  a  signal  victory  over  the 
British  army  of  about  nine  thousand.  His  loss 
was  but  thirteen,  while  the  loss  of  the  British  was 
twenty-six  hundred. 

The  name  of  Gen.  Jackson  soon  began  to  be 
mentioned  in  connection  with  the  Presidencj', 
but  in  1824  he  was  defeated  by  Mr.  Adams. 
He  was,  however,  successful  in  the  election  of 
1828,  and  was  re-elected  for  a  second  term  in 
1832.  In  1829,  just  before  he  assumed  the  reins 
of  government,  he  met  with  the  most  terrible 
affliction  of  his  life  in  the  death  of  his  wife,  whom 
he  had  loved  with  a  devotion  which  has  perhaps 
never  been  surpassed.  From  the  shock  of  her 
death  he  never  recovered. 

His  administration  was  one  of  the  most  mem- 
orable in  the  annals  of  our  country — applauded 
by  one  party,  condemned  by  the  other.  No  man 
had  more  bitter  enemies  or  warmer  friends.  At 
the  expiration  of  his  two  terms  of  office  he  retired 
to  the  Hermitage,  where  he  died  June  8,  1845.  The 
last  years  of  Mr.  Jackson's  life  were  those  of  a  de- 
voted Christian  man. 


MARTIN    VAN    BUREN. 


MARTIN  VAN  BUREN. 


yyiARTIN  VAN  BUREN,  the  eighth  Presi- 

y  dent  of  the  United  States,  was  born  at  Kin- 
(9  derhook,  N.  Y.,  December  5,  1782.  He 
died  at  the  same  place,  July  24,  1862.  His  body 
rests  in  the  cenieterj-  at  Kinderhook.  Above  it  is 
a  plain  granite  shaft,  fifteen  feet  high,  bearing  a 
simple  inscription  about  half-way  up  on  one  face. 
The  lot  is  unfenced,  unbordered  or  unbounded 
by  shrub  or  flower. 

There  is  but  little  in  the  life  of  Martin  Van 
Buren  of  romantic  interest.  He  fought  no  battles, 
engaged  in  no  wild  adventures.  Though  his  life 
was  stormy  in  political  and  intellectual  conflicts, 
and  he  gained  many  signal  victories,  his  days 
passed  uneventful  in  those  incidents  which  give 
zest  to  biography.  His  ancestors,  as  his  name  indi- 
cates, were  of  Dutch  origin,  and  were  among  the 
earliest  emigrants  from  Holland  to  the  banks  of 
the  Hudson.  His  father  was  a  farmer,  residing 
in  the  old  town  of  Kinderhook.  His  mother,  also 
of  Dutch  lineage,  was  a  woman  of  superior  intel- 
ligence and  exemplary  piety. 

He  was  decidedly  a  precocious  boy,  developing 
unusual  activity,  vigor  and  strength  of  mind.  At 
the  age  of  fourteen,  he  had  finished  his  academic 
studies  in  his  native  village,  and  commenced  the 
study  of  law.  As  he  had  not  a  collegiate  educa- 
tion, seven  years  of  study  in  a  law-office  were  re- 
quired of  him  before  he  could  be  admitted  to  the 
Bar.  Inspired  with  a  loft;y  ambition,  and  con- 
scious of  his  powers,  he  pursued  his  studies  with 
indefatigable  industrj\  After  spending  six  years 
in  an  office  in  his  native  village,  he  went  to  the  city 
of  New  York,  and  prosecuted  his  studies  for  the 
seventh  year. 

In  1803,  Mr.  Van  Buren,  then  twenty -one  years 


of  age,  commenced  the  practice  of  law  in  his  na- 
tive village.  The  great  conflict  between  the  Federal 
and  Republican  parties  was  then  at  its  height. 
Mr.  Van  Buren  was  from  the  beginning  a  politi- 
cian. He  had,  perhaps,  imbibed  that  spirit  while 
listening  to  the  many  discussions  which  had  been 
carried  on  in  his  father' s  hotel.  He  was  in  cordial 
sympathy  with  Jefferson,  and  earnestly  and  elo- 
quently espoused  the  cause  of  State  Rights,  though 
at  that  time  the  Federal  part}'  held  the  supremacy 
both  in  his  town  and  State. 

His  success  and  increasing  reputation  led  him 
after  six  years  of  practice  to  remove  to  Hudson, 
the  county  seat  of  his  county.  Here  he  spent 
seven  years,  constantly  gaining  strength  by  con- 
tending in  the  courts  with  some  of  the  ablest  men 
who  have  adorned  the  Bar  of  his  State. 

Just  before  leaving  Kinderhook  for  Hudson,  Mr. 
Van  Buren  married  a  lady  alike  distinguished  for 
beauty  and  accomplishments.  After  twelve  short 
years  she  sank  into  the  grave,  a  victim  of  con- 
sumption, leaving  her  husband  and  four  sons  to 
weep  over  her  loss.  For  twenty-five  years,  Mr. 
Van  Buren  was  an  earnest,  successful,  assiduous 
lawyer.  The  record  of  those  years  is  barren  in 
items  of  public  interest.  In  18 12,  when  thirty 
years  of  age,  he  was  chosen  to  the  State  Senate, 
and  gave  his  strenuous  support  to  Mr.  Madison's 
administration.  In  1815,  he  was  appointed  At- 
torney-General, and  the  next  year  moved  to  Al- 
bany, the  capital  of  the  State. 

While  he  was  acknowledged  as  one  of  the  most 
prominent  leaders  of  the  Democratic  party,  he  had 
the  moral  courage  to  avow  that  true  democracy  did 
not  require  that '  'universal  suffrage' '  which  admits 
the  vile,  the  degraded,  the  ignorant,  to  the  right 


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MARTIN  VAN  BUREN. 


of  governing  the  State.  In  true  consistency  with 
his  democratic  principles,  he  contended  that,  while 
the  path  leading  to  the  privilege  of  voting  should 
be  open  to  every  man  without  distinction,  no  one 
should  be  invested  with  that  sacred  prerogative 
unless  he  were  in  some  degree  qualified  for  it  by 
intelligence,  virtue,  and  some  property  interests  in 
the  welfare  of  the  State. 

In  182 1  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the  United 
States  Senate,  and  in  the  same  year  he  took  a 
seat  in  the  convention  to  revise  the  Constitution  of 
his  native  State.  His  course  in  tills  convention 
secured  the  approval  of  men  of  all  parties.  No 
one  could  doubt  the  singleness  of  his  endeavors  to 
promote  the  interests  of  all  classes  in  the  com- 
munity. In  the  Senate  of  the  United  States,  he 
rose  at  once  to  a  conspicuous  position  as  an  active 
and  useful  legislator. 

In  1827,  John  Quincy  Adams  being  then  in  the 
Presidential  chair,  Mr.  Van  Buren  was  re-elected 
to  the  Senate.  He  had  been  from  the  beginning 
a  determined  opposer  of  the  administration,  adopt- 
ing the  "State  Rights' '  view  in  opposition  to  what 
was  deemed  the  Federal  proclivities  of  Mr.  Adams. 

Soon  after  this,  in  1828,  he  was  chosen  Governor 
of  the  State  of  New  York,  and  accordingly  resigned 
his  seat  in  the  Senate.  Probably  no  one  in  the 
United  States  contributed  so  much  towards  eject- 
ing John  Q.  Adams  from  the  Presidential  chair, 
and  placing  in  it  Andrew  Jackson,  as  did  Martin 
Van  Buren.  Whether  entitled  to  the  reputation 
or  not,  he  certainly  was  regarded  throughout  the 
United  States  as  one  of  the  most  skillful,  sagacious 
and  cunning  of  politicians.  It  was  supposed  that 
no  one  knew  so  well  as  he  how  to  touch  the  secret 
springs  of  action,  how  to  pull  all  the  wires  to 
put  his  machinery  in  motion,  and  how  to  organize 
a  political  army  which  would  secretly  and  stealth- 
ily accomplish  the  most  gigantic  results.  By  these 
powers  it  is  said  that  he  outwitted  Mr.  Adams,  Mr. 
Clay,  and  Mr.  Webster,  and  secured  results  which 
few  then  thought  could  be  accomplished. 

When  Andrew  Jackson  was  elected  President 
he  appointed  Mr.  Van  Buren  Secretary  of  State. 
This  position  he  resigned  in  1831,  and  was  im- 
mediately appointed  Minister  to  England,  where 
he  went  the  same  autumn.     The  Senate,  however. 


when  it  met,  refused  to  ratify  the  nomination,  and 
he  returned  home,  apparently  untroubled.  Later 
he  was  nominated  Vice-President  in  the  place  of 
Calhoun,  at  the  re-election  of  President  Jackson, 
and  with  smiles  for  all  and  frowns  for  none,  he 
took  his  place  at  the  head  of  that  Senate  which  had 
refused  to  confirm  his  nomination  as  ambassador. 

His  rejection  by  the  Senate  roused  all  the  zeal 
of  President  Jackson  in  behalf  of  his  repudiated 
favorite;  and  this,  probably,  more  than  any  other 
cause  secured  his  elevation  to  the  chair  of  the 
Chief  Executive.  On  the  20th  of  May,  1836,  Mr. 
Van  Buren  received  the  Democratic  nomination 
to  succeed  Gen.  Jackson  as  President  of  the  United 
States.  He  was  elected  by  a  handsome  majority, 
to  the  delight  of  the  retiring  President.  '  'Leaving 
New  York  out  of  the  canvass,"  says  Mr.  Parton, 
'  'the  election  of  Mr.  Van  Buren  to  the  Presidency 
was  as  much  the  act  of  Gen.  Jackson  as  though 
the  Constitution  had  conferred  upon  him  the  power 
to  appoint  a  successor. ' ' 

His  administration  was  filled  with  exciting 
events.  The  insurrection  in  Canada,  which 
threatened  to  involve  this  country  in  war  with 
England,  the  agitation  of  the  slavery  question, 
and  finally  the  great  commercial  panic  which 
spread  over  the  country,  all  were  trials  of  his  wis- 
dom. The  financial  distress  was  attributed  to 
the  management  of  the  Democratic  party,  and 
brought  the  President  into  such  disfavor  that  he 
failed  of  re-election,  and  on  the  4th  of  March, 
1 84 1,  he  retired  from  the  presidency. 

With  the  exception  of  being  nominated  for  the 
Presidency  by  the  "Free  Soil"  Democrats  in  1848, 
Mr.  Van  Buren  lived  quietly  upon  his  estate  until 
his  death.  He  had  ever  been  a  prudent  man,  of 
frugal  habits,  and,  living  within  his  income,  had 
now  fortunately  a  competence  for  his  declining 
years.  From  his  fine  estate  at  Lindenwald,  he 
still  exerted  a  powerful  influence  upon  the  politics 
of  the  country.  From  this  time  until  his  death, 
on  the  24th  of  July,  1862,  at  the  age  of  eighty 
years,  he  resided  at  Lindenwald,  a  gentleman  of 
leisure,  of  culture  and  wealth,  enjoying  in  a 
healthy  old  age  probably  far  more  happiness  than 
he  had  before  experienced  amid  the  stormy  scenes 
of  his  active  life. 


WILUAM  HENRY  HARRISON. 


WILLIAM  HENRY  HARRISON. 


WILLIAM  HENRY  HARRISON,  the  ninth 
President  of  the  United  States,  was  born 
at  Berkeley,  Va.,  February  9,  1773.  His 
father,  Benjamin  Harrison,  was  in  comparatively 
opulent  circumstances,  and  was  one  of  the  most 
distinguished  men  of  his  day.  He  was  an  inti- 
mate friend  of  George  Washington,  was  early 
elected  a  member  of  the  Continental  Congress, 
and  was  con.spiG«ous  among  the  patriots  of  Vir- 
ginia in  resisting  the  encroachments  of  the  British 
crown.  In  the  celebrated  Congre.ss  of  1775,  Ben- 
jamin Harrison  and  John  Hancock  were  both 
candidates  for  the  oiBce  of  Speaker. 

Mr.  Harrison  was  subsequently  chosen  Gov- 
ernor of  Virginia,  and  was  twice  re-elected.  His 
son  William  Henrj',  of  course,  enjoyed  in  child- 
hood all  the  advantages  which  wealth  and  intel- 
lectual and  cultivated  society  could  give.  Hav- 
ing received  a  thorough  common-school  educa- 
tion, he  entered  Hampden  Sidney  College,  where 
he  graduated  with  honor  soon  after  the  death  of 
his  father.  He  then  repaired  to  Philadelphia  to 
study  medicine  under  thein.structionsof  Dr.  Rush 
and  the  guardianship  of  Robert  Morris,  both  of 
whom  were,  with  his  father,  signers  of  the  Dec- 
laration of  Independence. 

Upon  the  outbreak  of  the  Indian  troubles,  and 
notwithstanding  the  remon.strances  of  his  friends, 
he  abandoned  his  medical  studies  and  entered  the 
army,  having  obtained  a  commission  as  Ensign 
from  President  Washington.  He  was  then  but 
nineteen  years  old.  From  that  time  he  passed 
gradually  upward  in  rank  until  he  became  aide 
to  Gen.  Waj'ne,  after  whose  death  he  resigned 
his  commission.  He  was  then  appointed  Secre- 
tary of  the  Northwestern  Territory.  This  Terri- 
tory was  then  entitled  to  but  one  member  in  Con- 


gress, and  Harrison  was  chosen  to  fill  that  position , 
In  the  spring  of  1800  the  Northwestern  Terri- 
tory was  divided  by  Congress  into  two  portions. 
The  eastern  portion,  comprising  the  region  now 
embraced  in  the  State  of  Ohio,  was  called  ' '  The 
Territory  northwest  of  the  Ohio. ' '  The  western 
portion,  which  included  what  is  now  called  Indi- 
ana, Illinois  and  Wisconsin,  was  called  "the  Indi- 
ana Territory."  William  Henry  Harrison,  then 
twenty -seven  years  of  age,  was  appointed  by  John 
Adams  Governor  of  the  Indiana  Territory,  and 
immediately  after  also  Governor  of  Upper  Loui- 
siana. He  was  thus  ruler  over  almost  as  exten- 
sive a  realm  as  any  sovereign  upon  the  globe. 
He  was  Superintendent  of  Indian  Affairs,  and 
was  invested  with  powers  nearly  dictatorial  over 
the  then  rapidly  increasing  white  population.  The 
ability  and  fidelity  with  which  he  discharged 
these  responsible  duties  may  be  inferred  from  the 
fact  that  he  was  four  times  appointed  to  this 
office — first  by  John  Adams,  twice  by  Thomas 
Jefferson,  and  afterwards  by  President  Madison. 

When  he  began  his  administration  there  were 
but  three  white  settlements  in  that  almost  bound- 
less region,  now  crowded  with  cities  and  resound- 
ing with  all  the  tumult  of  wealth  and  trafiic. 
One  of  these  .settlements  was  on  the  Ohio,  nearly 
opposite  Louisville;  one  at  Vincennes,  on  the 
Wabash;  and  the  third  was  a  French  settlement. 

The  vast  wilderness  over  which  Gov.  Harrison 
reigned  was  filled  with  many  tribes  of  Indians. 
About  the  year  1806,  two  extraordinary  men, 
twin  brothers  of  the  Shawnee  tribe,  rose  among 
them.  One  of  these  was  called  Tecumseh,  or 
"the  Crouching  Pat.ther;"  the  other  OUiwa- 
checa,  or  ' '  the  Prophet. ' '  Tecumseh  was  not 
only  an  Indian  warrior,  but  a  man  of  great  sagac- 


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WILLIAM  HENRY  HARRISON. 


ity,  far-reaching  foresight  and  indomitable  perse- 
verance in  any  enterprise  in  which  he  might  en- 
gage. His  brother,  the  Prophet,  was  an  orator, 
who  could  sway  the  feelings  of  the  untutored  In- 
dians as  the  gale  tossed  the  tree-tops  beneath 
which  they  dwelt.  With  an  enthusiasm  unsur- 
passed by  Peter  the  Hermit  rousing  Europe  to  the 
crusades,  he  went  from  tribe  to  tribe,  assuming 
that  he  was  specially  sent  by  the  Great  Spirit. 

Gov.  Harrison  made  many  attempts  to  con- 
ciliate the  Indians,  but  at  last  war  came,  and  at 
Tippecanoe  the  Indians  were  routed  with  great 
slaughter.  October  28,  1812,  his  army  began  its 
march.  When  near  the  Prophet's  town,  three 
Indians  of  rank  made  their  appearance  and  in- 
quired why  Gov.  Harrison  was  approaching  them 
in  so  hostile  an  attitude.  After  a  short  confer- 
ence, arrangements  were  made  for  a  meeting  the 
next  day  to  agree  upon  terms  of  peace. 

But  Gov.  Harrison  was  too  well  acquainted 
with  the  Indian  character  to  be  deceived  by  such 
protestations.  Selecting  a  favorable  spot  for  his 
night's  encampment,  he  took  every  precaution 
against  surprise.  His  troops  were  posted  in  a 
hollow  square  and  slept  upon  their  arms.  The 
wakeful  Governor,  between  three  and  four  o'clock 
in  the  morning,  had  risen,  and  was  sitting 
in  conversation  with  his  aides  by  the  embers 
of  a  waning  fire.  It  was  a  chill,  cloudy  morning, 
with  a  drizzling  rain.  In  the  darkness,  the  In- 
dians had  crept  as  near  as  possible,  and  just  then, 
with  a  savage  yell,  rushed,  with  all  the  despera- 
tion which  superstition  and  passion  most  highly 
inflamed  could  give,  upon  the  left  flank  of  the 
little  army.  The  savages  had  been  amply  pro- 
vided with  guns  and  ammunition  by  the  English, 
and  their  war-whoop  was  accompanied  by  a 
shower  of  bullets. 

The  camp-fires  were  instantly  extinguished,  as 
the  light  aided  the  Indians  in  their  aim,  and 
Gen.  Harrison's  troops  stood  as  immovable  as 
the  rocks  around  them  until  day  dawned,  when 
they  made  a  simultaneous  charge  with  the  bayo- 
net and  swept  everything  before  them,  completely 
routing  the  foe. 

Gov.  Harrison  now  had  all  his  energies  tasked 
to  the  utmost.     The  British,  descending  from  the 


Canadas,  were  of  themselves  a  very  formidable 
force,  but  with  their  savage  allies  rushing  like 
wolves  from  the  forest,  burning,  plundering,  scalp- 
ing, torturing,  the  wide  frontier  was  plunged  into 
a  state  of  consternation  which  even  the  most  vivid 
imagination  can  but  faintly  conceive.  Gen.  Hull 
had  made  an  ignominious  surrender  of  his  forces  at 
Detroit.  Under  these  despairing  circumstances, 
Gov.  Harrison  was  appointed  by  President  Madi- 
son Commander-in-Chief  of  the  Northwestern 
Army,  with  orders  to  retake  Detroit  and  to  protect 
the  frontiers.  It  would  be  difficult  to  place  a  man 
in  a  situation  demanding  more  energy,  sagacity 
and  courage,  but  he  was  found  equal  to  the 
position,  and  nobly  and  triumphantly  did  he  meet 
all  the  responsibilities. 

In  1816,  Gen.  Harrison  was  chosen  a  member 
of  the  National  House  of  Representatives,  to  rep- 
resent the  District  of  Ohio.  In  Congress  he  proved 
an  active  member,  and  whenever  he  spoke  it  was 
with  a  force  of  reason  and  power  of  eloquence 
which  arrested  the  attention  of  all  the  members. 

In  18 19,  Harrison  was  elected  to  the  Senate  of 
Ohio,  and  in  1824,  as  one  of  the  Presidential  Elec- 
tors of  that  State,  he  gave  his  vote  for  Henry 
Clay.  The  same  year  he  was  chosen  to  the  Uni- 
ted States  Senate.  In  1 836  his  friends  brought 
him  forward  as  a  candidate  for  the  Presidency 
against  Van  Buren,  but  he  was  defeated.  At  the 
close  of  Mr.  Van  Buren's  term,  he  was  re-nom- 
inated by  his  party,  and  Mr.  Harrison  was  unani- 
mously nominated  by  the  Whigs,  with  John  Tyler 
for  the  Vice-Presidency.  The  contest  was  very 
animated.  Gen.  Jackson  gave  all  his  influence  to 
prevent  Harrison's  election,  but  his  triumph  was 
signal. 

The  cabinet  which  he  formed,  with  Daniel  Web- 
ster at  its  head  as  Secretary  of  State,  was  one  of 
the  most  brilHant  with  which  any  President  had 
ever  been  surrounded.  Never  were  the  prospects 
of  an  administration  more  flattering,  or  the  hopes 
of  the  country  more  sanguine.  In  the  midst  of 
these  bright  and  joyous  prospects,  Gen.  Harrison 
was  seized  by  a  pleurisy-fever,  and  after  a  few 
days  of  violent  sickness  died,  on  the  4th  of  April, 
just  one  month  after  his  inauguration  as  President 
of  the  United  States. 


JOHN  TYLER. 


JOHN  TYLER. 


(f  OHN  TYLER,  the  tenth  President  of  the 
I  United  States,  and  was  born  in  Charles 
(2/  City  County,  Va.,  March  29,  1790.  He  was 
the  favored  child  of  affluence  and  high  social  po- 
sition. At  the  early  age  of  twelve,  John  entered 
William  and  Mary  College,  and  graduated  with 
much  honor  when  but  seventeen  years  old.  After 
graduating,  he  devoted  himself  with  great  assi- 
duity to  the  study  of  law,  partly  with  his  father 
and  partly  with  Edmund  Randolph,  one  of  the 
most  distinguished  lawj'ers  of  Virginia. 

At  nineteen  years  of  age,  he  commenced  the 
practice  of  law.  His  success  was  rapid  and  as- 
tonishing. It  is  said  that  three  months  had  not 
elapsed  ere  there  was  scarcely  a  case  on  the 
docket  of  the  court  in  which  he  was  not  retained. 
When  but  twenty-one  years  of  age,  he  was  almost 
unanimously  elected  to  a  seat  in  the  State  Legis- 
lature. He  connected  himself  with  the  Demo- 
cratic party,  and  warmly  advocated  the  measures 
of  Jefferson  and  Madison.  For  five  successive 
years  he  was  elected  to  the  Legislature,  receiving 
nearly  the  unanimous  vote  of  his  county. 

When  but  twenty-six  years  of  age,  he  was 
elected  a  Member  of  Congress.  Here  he  acted  ear- 
nestly and  ably  with  the  Democratic  party,  oppos- 
ing a  national  bank,  internal  improvements  by 
the  General  Government,  and  a  protective  tariff; 
advocating  a  strict  construction  of  the  Constitu- 
■  tion  and  the  most  careful  vigilance  over  State 
rights.  His  labors  in  Congress  were  so  arduous 
that  before  the  close  of  his  second  term  he  found 
it  necessary  to  resign  and  retire  to  his  estate  in 
Charles  City  County  to  recruit  his  health.  He, 
however,  soon  after  consented  to  take  his  seat  in 
the  State  Legislature,  where  his  influence  was 
powerful  in  promoting  public  works  of  great 
utility.  With  a  reputation  thus  constantly  in- 
creasing, he  was  chosen  by  a  very  large  majority 
of  votes  Governor  of  his  native  State.  His  ad- 
ministration was  a  signally  successful  one,  and  his 
popularitj'  secured  his  re-election. 


John  Randolph,  a  brilliant,  erratic,  half-crazed 
man,  then  represented  Virginia  in  the  Senate  of 
the  United  States.  A  portion  of  the  Democratic 
party  was  displeased  with  Mr.  Randolph's  way- 
ward course,  and  brought  forward  John  Tyler  as 
his  opponent,  considering  him  the  only  man  in 
Virginia  of  sufficient  popularity  to  succeed 
against  the  renowned  orator  of  Roanoke.  Mr. 
Tyler  was  the  victor. 

In  accordance  with  his  professions,  upon  tak- 
ing his  seat  in  the  Senate  he  joined  the  ranks  of 
the  opposition.  He  opposed  the  tariff,  and  spoke 
against  and  voted  against  the  bank  as  unconsti- 
tutional; he  strenuously  opposed  all  restrictions 
upon  slavery,  resisting  all  projects  of  internal  im- 
provements by  the  General  Government,  and 
avowed  his  sympathy  with  Mr.  Calhoun's  view 
of  nullification;  he  declared  that  Gen.  Jackson, 
by  his  opposition  to  the  nullifiers,  had  abandoned 
the  principles  of  the  Democratic  party.  Such 
was  Mr.  Tyler's  record  in  Congress — a  record  in 
perfect  accordance  with  the  principles  which  he 
had  always  avowed. 

Returning  to  Virginia,  he  resumed  the  practice 
of  his  profession.  There  was  a  split  in  the  Demo- 
cratic party.  His  friends  still  regarded  him  as  a 
true  Jeffersonian,  gave  him  a  dinner,  and  show- 
ered compliments  upon  him.  He  had  now  at- 
tained the  age  of  forty-six,  and  his  career  had  been 
very  brilliant.  In  consequence  of  his  devotion  to 
public  business,  his  private  affairs  had  fallen  into 
some  disorder,  and  it  was  not  without  satisfac- 
tion that  he  resumed  the  practice  of  law,  and  de- 
voted himself  to  the  cultivation  of  his  plantation. 
Soon  after  this  he  removed  to  Williamsburg,  for 
the  better  education  of  his  children,  and  he  again 
took  his  seat  in  the  Legislature  of  Virginia. 

By  the  southern  Whigs  he  was  sent  to  the 
national  convention  at  Harrisburg  in  1839  to  nom- 
inate a  President.  The  majority  of  votes  were 
given  to  Gen  Harrison,  a  genuine  Whig,  much 
to  the  disappointment  of  the  South,  which  wished 


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JOHN  TYLER. 


for  Henry  Clay.  To  conciliate  the  southern 
Whigs  and  to  secure  their  vote,  the  convention 
then  nominated  John  Tyler  for  Vice-President. 
It  was  well  known  that  he  was  not  in  sympathy 
with  the  Whig  party  in  the  North;  but  the  Vice- 
President  has  very  little  power  in  the  Govern- 
ment, his  main  and  almost  only  duty  being  to 
preside  over  the  meetings  of  the  Senate.  Thus  it 
happened  that  a  Whig  President  and,  in  reality, 
a  Democratic  Vice-President  were  chosen. 

in  1 84 1,  Mr.  Tyler  was  inaugurated  Vice- 
President  of  the  United  States.  In  one  short 
month  from  that  time.  President  Harrison  died, 
and  Mr.  Tyler  thus  found  himself,  to  his  own 
surprise  and  that  of  the  whole  nation,  an  occu- 
pant of  the  Presidential  chair.  Hastening  from 
Williamsburg  to  Washington,  on  the  6th  of 
April  he  was  inaugurated  to  the  high  and  re- 
sponsible office.  He  was  placed  in  a  position  of 
exceeding  delicacy  and  difficulty.  All  his  long 
life  he  had  been  opposed  to  the  main  principles  of 
the  party  which  had  brought  him  into  power. 
He  had  ever  been  a  consistent,  honest  man,  with 
an  unblemished  record.  Gen.  Harrison  had  se- 
lected a  Whig  cabinet.  Should  he  retain  them, 
and  thus  surround  himself  with  counselors  whose 
views  were  antagonistic  to  his  own  ?  or,  on  the 
other  hand,  should  he  turn  against  the  party 
which  had  elected  him,  and  select  a  cabinet  in 
harmony  with  himself  and  which  would  oppose 
all  those  views  which  the  Whigs  deemed  essen- 
tial to  the  public  welfare  ?  This  was  his  fearful 
dilemma.  He  invited  the  cabinet  which  Presi- 
dent Harrison  had  selected  to  retain  their  seats, 
and  recommended  a  day  of  fasting  and  prayer, 
that  God  would  guide  and  bless  us. 

The  Whigs  carried  through  Congress  a  bill  for 
the  incorporation  of  a  fiscal  bank  of  the  United 
States.  The  President,  after  ten  days'  delay,  re- 
turned it  with  his  veto.  He  suggested,  however, 
that  he  would  approve  of  a  bill  drawn  up  upon 
such  a  plan  as  he  proposed.  Such  a  bill  was  ac- 
cordingly prepared,  and  privately  submitted  to 
him.  He  gave  it  his  approval.  It  was  passed 
without  alteration,  and  he  sent  it  back  with  his 
veto.  Here  commenced  the  open  rupture.  It  is 
said  that  Mr.  Tyler  was  provoked'  to  this  meas- 


ure by  a  published  letter  from  the  Hon.  John  M. 
Botts,  a  distinguished  Virginia  Whig,  who  se- 
verely touched  the  pride  of  the  President. 

The  opposition  now  exultingly  received  the 
President  into  their  arms.  The  party  which 
elected  him  denounced  him  bitterly.  All  the 
members  of  his  cabinet,  excepting  Mr.  Webster, 
resigned.  The  Whigs  of  Congress,  both  the 
Senate  and  the  House,  held  a  meeting  and  issued 
an  address  to  the  people  of  the  United  States, 
proclaiming  that  all  political  alliance  between  the 
Whigs  and  President  Tyler  was  at  an  end. 

Still  the  President  attempted  to  conciliate.  He 
appointed  a  new  cabinet  of  distinguished  Whigs 
and  Conservatives,  carefully  leaving  out  all  strong 
party  men.  Mr.  Webster  soon  found  it  necessary 
to  resign,  forced  out  by  the  pressure  of  his  Whig 
friends.  Thus  the  four  years  of  Mr.  Tyler's  un- 
fortunate administration  passed  sadly  away.  No 
one  was  satisfied.  The  land  was  filled  with  mur- 
murs and  vituperation.  Whigs  and  Democrats 
alike  assailed  him.  More  and  more,  however,  he 
brought  himself  into  sympathy  with  his  old 
friends,  the  Democrats,  until  at  the  close  of  his 
term  he  gave  his  whole  influence  to  the  support 
of  Mr.  Polk,  the  Democratic  candidate  for  his 
successor. 

On  the  4th  of  March,  1845,  President  Tyler  re- 
tired from  the  harassments  of  office,  to  the  regret 
of  neither  party,  and  probably  to  his  own  unspeak- 
able relief  The  remainder  of  his  days  were 
passed  mainly  in  the  retirement  of  his  beautiful 
home — Sherwood  Forest,  Charles  City  County, 
Va.  His  first  wife.  Miss  Letitia  Christian,  died 
in  Washington  in  1842;  and  in  June,  1844, 
he  was  again  married,  at  New  York,  to  Miss  Julia 
Gardiner,  a  young  lady  of  many  personal  and 
intellectual  accomplishments. 

When  the  great  Rebellion  rose,  which  the 
State  Rights  and  nullifying  doctrines  of  John  C. 
Calhoun  had  inaugurated,  President  Tyler  re- 
nounced his  allegiance  to  the  United  States,  and 
joined  the  Confederates.  He  was  chosen  a  mem- 
ber of  their  Congress,  and  while  engaged  in 
active  measures  to  destroy,  by  force  of  arms,  the 
Government  over  which  he  had  once  presided,  he 
was  taken  sick  and  soon  died. 


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JAMES  K.  POLK. 


(Tames  K.  polk,  the  eleventh  President  of 
I  the  United  States,  was  born  in  Mecklenburgh 
(2/  County,  N.  C. ,  November  2,  1795.  His 
parents  were  Samuel  and  Jane  (Knox)  Polk,  the 
former  a  son  of  Col.  Thomas  Polk,  who  located 
at  the  above  place,  as  one  of  the  first  pioneers,  in 
1735.  In  1806,  with  his  wife  and  children,  and 
soon  after  followed  by  most  of  the  members  of  the 
Polk  family,  Samuel  Polk  emigrated  some  two  or 
three  hundred  miles  farther  west,  to  the  rich  val- 
ley of  the  Duck  River.  Here,  in  the  midst  of  the 
wilderness,  in  a  region  which  was  subsequently 
called  MaurA'  County,  they  erected  their  log  huts 
and  established  their  homes.  In  the  hard  toil  of 
a  new  farm  in  the  wilderness,  James  K.  Polk 
spent  the  early  years  of  his  childhood  and  youth. 
His  father,  adding  the  pursuit  of  a  surve3-or  to 
that  of  a  farmer,  gradually  increased  in  wealth, 
until  he  became  one  of  the  leading  men  of  the 
region.  His  mother  was  a  superior  woman,  of 
strong  common  sense  and  earnest  piety. 

Very  early  in  life  James  developed  a  taste  for 
reading,  and  expressed  the  strongest  desire  to  ob- 
tain a  liberal  education.  His  mother's  training 
had  made  him  methodical  in  his  habits,  had  taught 
him  punctuality  and  industry,  and  had  inspired 
him  with  lofty  principles  of  morality.  His  health 
was  frail,  and  his  father,  fearing  that  he  might  not 
be  able  to  endure  a  sedentary  life,  got  a  situation 
for  him  behind  the  counter,  hoping  to  fit  him  for 
commercial  pursuits. 

This  was  to  James  a  bitter  disappointment.  He 
had  no  taste  for  these  duties,  and  his  daily  tasks 
were  irksome  in  the  extreme.  He  remained  in  this 
uncongenial  occupation  but  a  few  weeks,  when, 
at  his  earnest  solicitation,  his  father  removed 
him  and  made  arrangements  for  him  to  pros- 
ecute his  studies.  Soon  after  he  sent  him  to  Mur- 
freesboro  Academy.  With  ardor  which  could 
scarcely  be  surpassed,  he  pressed  forward  in  his 


studies,  and  in  less  than  two  and  a-half  years,  in 
the  autumn  of  18 15,  entered  the  sophomore  class 
in  the  University  of  North  Carolina,  at  Chapel 
Hill.  Here  he  was  one  of  the  most  exemplary  of 
scholars,  punctual  in  ever>'  exercise,  never  allow- 
ing himself  to  be  absent  from  a  recitation  or  a 
religious  sen'ice. 

Mr.  Polk  graduated  in  18 18,  with  the  highest 
honors,  being  deemed  the  best  scholar  of  his  class, 
both  in  mathematics  and  the  classics.  He  was 
then  twenty-three  years  of  age.  His  health  was 
at  this  time  much  impaired  by  the  assiduity  with 
which  he  had  prosecuted  his  studies.  After  a 
short  season  of  relaxation,  he  went  to  Nashville, 
and  entered  the  office  of  Felix  Grundy,  to  study 
law.  Here  Mr.  Polk  renewed  his  acquaintance 
with  Andrew  Jackson,  wha  resided  on  his  planta- 
tion, the  "Hermitage,"  but  a  few  miles  from 
Nashville.  They  had  probably  been  slightly  ac- 
quainted before. 

Mr.  Polk's  father  was  a  Jeffersonian  Republican 
and  James  K.  adhered  to  the  same  political  faith. 
He  was  a  popular  public  speaker,  and  was  con- 
stantly called  upon  to  address  the  meetings  of  his 
party  friends.  His  skill  as  a  speaker  was  such 
that  he  was  popularly  called  the  Napoleon  of  the 
stump.  He  was  a  man  of  unblemished  morals, 
genial  and  courteous  in  his  bearing,  and  with  that 
sympathetic  nature  in  the  joys  and  griefs  of  oth- 
ers which  gave  him  hosts  of  friends.  In  1823, 
he  was  elected  to  the  Legislature  of  Tennessee, 
and  gave  his  .strong  influence  toward  the  election 
of  his  friend,  Mr.  Jackson,  to  the  Presidency  of 
the  United  States. 

Injanuar\',  1824,  Mr.  Polk  married  Miss  Sarah 
Childress,  of  Rutherford  County,  Tenn.  His 
bride  was  altogether  worthy  of  him — a  lady  of 
beauty  and  culture.  In  the  fall  of  1825  Mr.  Polk 
was  chosen  a  member  of  Congress,  and  the  satis- 
faction he  gave  his  constituents  may  be  inferred 


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JAMES  K.  POIvK. 


from  the  fact,  that  for  fourteen  successive  years, 
or  until  1839,  he  was  continued  in  that  oifice.  He 
then  voluntarily  withdrew,  only  that  he  might 
accept  the  Gubernatorial  chair  of  Tennessee.  In 
Congress  he  was  a  laborious  member,  a  frequent 
and  a  popular  speaker.  He  was  always  in  his 
seat,  always  courteous,  and  whenever  he  spoke 
it  was  always  to  the  point,  without  any  ambitious 
rhetorical  display. 

During  five  sessions  of  Congress  Mr.  Polk  was 
Speaker  of  the  House.  Strong  passions  were 
roused  and  stormy  scenes  were  witnessed,  but  he 
performed  his  arduous  duties  to  a  very  general 
satisfaction,  and  a  unanimous  vote  of  thanks  to 
him  was  passed  by  the  House  as  he  withdrew  on 
the  4th  of  March,  1839. 

In  accordance  with  Southern  usage,  Mr.  Polk, 
as  a  candidate  for  Governor,  canvassed  the  State. 
He  was  elected  by  a  large  majority,  and  on  Octo- 
ber 14,  1839,  took  the  oath  of  ofifice  at  Na-shville. 
In  1 841  his  term  of  office  expired,  and  he  was 
again  the  candidate  of  the  Democratic  party,  but 
was  defeated. 

On  the  4tli  of  March,  1845,  Mr.  Polk  was  in- 
augurated President  of  the  United  States.  The 
verdict  of  the  country  in  favor  of  the  annexation 
of  Texas  exerted  its  influence  upon  Congress, 
and  the  last  act  of  the  administration  of  President 
Tyler  was  to  affix  his  signature  to  a  joint  resolu- 
tion of  Congress,  passed  on  the  3d  of  March,  ap- 
proving of  the  annexation  of  Texas  to  the  Union. 
As  Mexico  still  claimed  Texas  as  one  of  her 
provinces,  the  Mexican  Minister,  Almonte,  im- 
mediately demanded  his  passports  and  left  the 
country,  declaring  the  act  of  the  annexation  to  be 
an  act  hostile  to  Mexico. 

In  his  first  message.  President  Polk  urged  that 
Texas  should  immediately,  by  act  of  Congress,  be 
received  into  the  Union  on  the  same  footing  with 
the  other  States.  In  the  mean  time.  Gen.  Taylor 
was  sent  with  an  array  into  Texas  to  hold  the 
country.  He  was  first  sent  to  Nueces,  which  the 
Mexicans  said  was  the  western  boundary  of  Tex- 
as. Then  he  was  sent  nearly  two  hundred  miles 
further  west,  to  the  Rio  Grande,  where  he  erected 
batteries  which  commanded  the  Mexican  city  of 
Matamoras,  which  was  situated  on  the  western 


banks.  The  anticipated  collision  soon  took  place, 
and  war  was  declared  against  Mexico  by  President 
Polk.  The  war  was  pushed  forward  by  his  ad- 
ministration with  great  vigor.  Gen.  Taylor, 
whose  army  was  first  called  one  of  ' '  observation, ' ' 
then  of  "occupation,"  then  of  "invasion,"  was 
sent  forward  to  Monterey.  The  feeble  Mexicans 
in  every  encounter  were  hopeles.sly  slaughtered. 
The  day  of  judgment  alone  can  reveal  the  misery 
which  this  war  caused.  It  was  by  the  ingenuity 
of  Mr.  Polk's  administration  that  the  war  was 
brought  on. 

' '  To  the  victors  belong  the  spoils. ' '  Mexico 
was  prostrate  before  us.  Her  capital  was  in  our 
hands.  We  now  consented  to  peace  upon  the 
condition  that  Mexico  should  surrender  to  us,  in 
addition  to  Texas,  all  of  New  Mexico,  and  all  of 
Upper  and  Lower  California.  This  new  demand 
embraced,  exclusive  of  Texas,  eight  hundred 
thousand  square  miles.  This  was  an  extent  of 
territory  equal  to  nine  States  of  the  size  of  New 
York.  Thus  slavery  was  securing  eighteen  ma- 
jestic States  to  be  added  to  the  Union.  There 
were  some  Americans  who  thought  it  all  right; 
there  were  others  who  thought  it  all  wrong.  In 
the  prosecution  of  this  war  we  expended  twenty 
thousand  lives  and  more  than  $100,000,000.  Of 
this  money  $15,000,000  were  paid  to  Mexico. 

On  the  3d  of  March,  1849,  Mr.  Polk  retired 
from  office,  having  served  one  term.  The  next 
day  was  Sunday.  On  the  5th,  Gen.  Taylor  was 
inaugurated  as  his  successor.  Mr.  Polk  rode  to 
the  Capitol  in  the  same  carriage  with  Gen.  Tay- 
lor, and  the  same  evening,  with  Mrs.  Polk,  he 
commenced  his  return  to  Tennessee.  He  was 
then  but  fifty-four  years  of  age.  He  had  always 
been  strictly  temperate  in  all  his  habits,  and  his 
health  was  good.  With  an  ample  fortune,  a 
choice  library,  a  cultivated  mind,  and  domestic 
ties  of  the  dearest  nature,  it  seemed  as  though 
long  years  of  tranquillity  and  happiness  were  be- 
fore him.  But  the  cholera — that  fearful  scourge 
— was  then  sweeping  up  the  Valley  of  the  Missis- 
sippi, and  he  contracted  the  disease,  dying  on  the 
15th  of  June,  1849,  in  the  fifty-fourth  year  of  his 
age,  greatly  mourned  by  his  countrymen. 


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ZACHARY  TAYLOR. 


ZACHARY  TAYLOR. 


G7ACHARY  TAYLOR,  twelfth  President  of 
A  the  United  States,  was  born  on  the  24th  of 
/^  November,  1784,  in  Orange  County,  Va. 
His  father,  Col.  Taj'lor,  was  a  Virginian  of 
note,  and  a  distinguished  patriot  and  soldier  of 
the  Revolution.  When  Zachary  was  an  infant, 
his  father,  with  his  wife  and  two  children,  emi- 
grated to  Keutuckj',  where  he  settled  in  the  path- 
less wilderness,  a  few  miles  from  Louisville.  In 
this  frontier  home,  away  from  civilization  and  all 
its  refinements,  young  Zachary  could  enjoy  but 
few  social  and  educational  advantages.  When 
six  years  of  age  he  attended  a  common  school, 
and  was  then  regarded  as  a  bright,  active  boy, 
rather  remarkable  for  bluntness  and  decision  of 
character.  He  was  strong,  fearless  and  self-reli- 
ant, and  manifested  a  strong  desire  to  enter  the 
army  to  fight  the  Indians,  who  were  ravaging  the 
frontiers.  There  is  little  to  be  recorded  of  the 
aneventful  years  of  his  childhood  on  his  father's 
large  but  lonely  plantation. 

In  1808,  his  father  succeeded  in  obtaining  for 
him  a  commission  as  Lieutenant  in  the  United 
States  army,  and  he  joined  the  troops  which  were 
stationed  at  New  Orleans  under  Gen.  Wilkinson. 
Soon  after  this  he  married  Miss  Margaret  Smith, 
a  young  lady  from  one  of  the  first  families  of 
Maryland. 

Immediately  after  the  declaration  of  war  with 
England,  in  1812,  Capt.  Taylor  (for  he  had  then 
been  promoted  to  that  rank)  was  put  in  command 
of  Ft.  Harrison,  on  the  Wabash,  about  fifty  miles 
above  Vincennes.  This  fort  had  been  built  in  the 
wilderness  by  Gen.  Harrison,  on  his  march  to 
Tippecanoe.  It  was  one  of  the  first  points  of  at- 
tack by  the  Indians,  led  by  Tecumseh.  Its  garri- 
son consisted  of  a  broken  company  of  infantry, 
numbering  fifty  men,  many  of  whom  were  sick. 

Early  in  the  autumn  .of  181 2,  the  Indians, 
stealthily,  and  in  large  numbers,  moved  upon  the 


fort.  Their  approach  was  first  indicated  by  the 
murder  of  two  soldiers  just  outside  of  the  stockade. 
Capt.  Taylor  made  every  possible  preparation  to 
meet  the  anticipated  assault.  On  the  4th  of  Sep- 
tember, a  band  of  forty  painted  and  plumed  sav- 
ages came  to  the  fort,  waving  a  white  flag,  and 
informed  Capt.  Taylor  that  in  the  morning  their 
chief  would  come  to  have  a  talk  with  him.  It 
was  evident  that  their  object  was  merely  to  ascer- 
tain the  state  of  things  at  the  fort,  and  Capt. 
Taylor,  well  versed  in  the  wiles  of  the  savages, 
kept  them  at  a  distance. 

The  sun  went  down;  the  savages  disappeared; 
the  garrison  slept  upon  their  arms.  One  hour 
before  midnight  the  war-whoop  burst  from  a 
thousand  lips  in  the  forest  around,  followed  by 
the  discharge  of  musketry  and  the  rush  of  the 
foe.  Every  man,  sick  and  well,  sprang  to  his 
post.  Every  man  knew  that  defeat  was  not 
merely  death,  but,  in  the  case  of  capture,  death  by 
the  most  agonizing  and  prolonged  torture.  No 
pen  can  describe,  no  imagination  can  conceive,  the 
scenes  which  ensued.  The  savages  succeeded  in 
setting  fire  to  one  of  the  block-houses.  Until  six 
o'clock  in  the  morning  this  awful  conflict  con- 
tinued, when  the  savages,  baffled  at  every  point 
and  gnashing  their  teeth  with  rage,  retired. 
Capt.  Taylor,  for  this  gallant  defense,  was  pro- 
moted to  the  rank  of  Major  by  brevet. 

Uijtil  the  close  of  the  war,  Maj.  Taylor  was 
placed  in  such  situations  that  he  saw  but  little 
more  of  active  service.  He  was  sent  far  away 
into  the  depths  of  the  wilderness  to  Ft.  Craw- 
ford, on  Fox  River,  which  empties  into  Green 
Bay.  Here  there  was  little  to  be  done  but  to 
wear  away  the  tedious  hours  as  one  best  could. 
There  were  no  books,  no  society,  no  intellectual 
stimulus.  Thus  with  him  the  uneventful  years 
rolled  on.  Gradually  he  rose  to  the  rank  of 
Colonel.     In  the   Black  Hawk  War,  which  re- 


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suited  in  the  capture  of  that  renowned  chieftain, 
Col.  Taylor  took  a  subordinate,  but  a  brave  and 
efficient,  part. 

For  twenty-four  years  Col.  Taylor  was  engaged 
in  the  defense  of  the  frontiers,  in  scenes  so  re- 
mote, and  in  employments  so  obscure,  that  his 
name  was  unknown  beyond  the  limits  of  his  own 
immediate  acquaintance.  In  the  year  1836,  he 
was  sent  to  Florida  to  compel  the  Seminole  Indi- 
ans to  vacate  that  region,  and  retire  beyond  the 
Mississippi,  as  their  chiefs  by  treaty  had  prom- 
ised they  should  do.  The  services  rendered  here 
secured  for  Col.  Taylor  the  high  appreciation  of 
the  Government,  and  as  a  reward  he  was  ele- 
vated to  the  high  rank  of  Brigadier- General  by 
brevet,  and  soon  after,  in  May,  1838,  was  ap- 
pointed to  the  chief  command  of  the  United 
States  troops  in  Florida. 

After  two  years  of  wearisome  employment 
amidst  the  everglades  of  the  Peninsula,  Gen.  Tay- 
lor obtained,  at  his  own  request,  a  change  of 
command,  and  was  stationed  over  the  Department 
of  the  Southwest.  This  field  embraced  L,ouisiana, 
Mississippi,  Alabama  and  Georgia.  Establishing 
his  headquarters  at  Ft.  Jessup,  in  Louisiana,  he 
removed  his  family  to  a  plantation  which  he  pur- 
chased near  Baton  Rouge.  Here  he  remained 
for  five  years,  buried,  as  it  were,  from  the  world, 
but  faithfully  discharging  every  duty  imposed 
upon  him. 

In  1846,  Gen.  Taylor  was  sent  to  guard  the 
land  between  the  Nueces  and  Rio  Grande,  the 
latter  river  being  the  boundary  of  Texas,  which 
was  then  claimed  by  the  United  States.  Soon 
the  war  with  Mexico  was  brought  on,  and  at  Palo 
Alto  and  Resaca  de  la  Palma,  Gen.  Taylor  won 
brilliant  victories  over  the  Mexicans.  The  rank 
of  Major-General  by  brevet  was  then  conferred 
upon  Gen.  Taylor,  and  his  name  was  received 
with  enthusiasm  almost  everywhere  in  the  na- 
tion. Then  came  the  battles  of  Monterey  and 
Buena  Vista,  in  which  he  won  signal  victories 
over  forces  much  larger  than  he  commanded. 

The  tidings  of  the  brilliant  victory  of  Buena 
Vista  spread  the  wildest  enthu.siasm  over  the 
country.  The  name  of  Gen.  Taylor  was  on 
every  one's  lips.     The  Whig  party  decided  to 


take  advantage  of  this  wonderful  popularity  in 
bringing  forward  the  unpolished,  unlettered,  hon- 
est soldier  as  their  candidate  for  the  Presidency. 
Gen.  Taylor  was  astonished  at  the  announce- 
ment, and  for  a  time  would  not  listen  to  it,  de- 
claring that  he  was  not  at  all  qualified  for  such 
an  office.  So  little  interest  had  he  taken  in  poli- 
tics, that  for  forty  years  he  had  not  cast  a  vote. 
It  was  not  without  chagrin  that  several  distin- 
guished statesmen,  who  had  been  long  years  in 
the  public  ser\'ice,  found  their  claims  set  aside  in 
behalf  of  one  whose  name  had  never  been  heard 
of,  save  in  connection  with  Palo  Alto,  Resaca  de 
la  Palma,  Monterey  and  Buena  Vi.sta.  It  is  said 
that  Daniel  Webster,  in  his  haste,  remarked,  "It 
is  a  nomination  not  fit  to  be  made. ' ' 

Gen.  Taylor  was  not  an  eloquent  speaker  nor  a 
fine  writer.  His  friends  took  possession  of  him, 
and  prepared  such  few  communications  as  it  was 
needful  should  be  presented  to  the  public.  The 
popularity  of  the  successful  warrior  swept  the 
land.  He  was  triumphantly  elected  over  two 
opposing  candidates, — Gen.  Cass  and  Ex-Presi- 
dent Martin  Van  Buren.  Though  he  selected  an 
excellent  cabinet,  the  good  old  man  found  himself 
in  a  very  uncongenial  position,  and  was  at  times 
sorely  perplexed  and  harassed.  His  mental  suf- 
ferings were  very  severe,  and  probably  tended  to 
hasten  his  death.  The  pro-slavery  party  was 
pushing  its  claims  with  tireless  energy;  expedi- 
tions were  fitting  out  to  capture  Cuba;  California 
was  pleading  for  admission  to  the  Union,  while 
slavery  .stood  at  the  door  to  bar  her  out.  Gen. 
Taylor  found  the  political  conflicts  in  Washington 
to  be  far  more  trying  to  the  nerves  than  battles 
with  Mexicans  or  Indians. 

In  the  midst  of  all  these  troubles.  Gen.  Taylor, 
after  he  had  occupied  the  Presidential  chair  but 
little  over  a  year,  took  cold,  and  after  a  brief 
sickness  of  but  little  over  five  days,  died,  on  the 
9th  of  July,  1850.  His  last  words  were,  "I  am 
not  afraid  to  die.  I  am  ready.  I  have  endeav- 
ored to  do  my  duty."  He  died  universally  re- 
spected and  beloved.  An  honest,  unpretending 
man,  he  had  been  steadily  growing  in  the  affec- 
tions of  the  people,  and  the  Nation  bitterly  la- 
mented his  death. 


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MILLARD  FILLMORE. 


MILLARD  FILLMORE. 


KA ILLARD  FILLMORE,  thirteenth  President 
y  of  the  United  States,  was  born  at  Summer 
GJ  Hill,  Cayuga  County,  N.  Y.,  on  the  7th  of 
Januar>',  1800.  His  father  was  a  farmer,  and,  ownig 
to  misfortune,  in  humble  circumstances.  Of  his 
mother,  the  daughter  of  Dr.  Abiathar  Millard,  of 
Pittsfield,  Mass.,  it  has  been  said  that  she  pos- 
sessed an  intellect  of  a  high  order,  united  with 
much  personal  loveliness,  sweetness  of  disposi- 
tion, graceful  manners  and  exquisite  sensibilities. 
She  died  in  183L,  having  lived  to  see  her  son  a 
young  man  of  distinguished  promise,  though  she 
was  not  permitted  to  witness  the  high  dignity 
which  he  finally  attained. 

In  consequence  of  the  secluded  home  and  limited 
means  of  his  father,  Millard  enjoyed  but  slender 
advantages  for  education  in  his  early  years.  The 
common  schools,  which  he  occasionally  attended, 
were  very  imperfect  institutions,  and  books  were 
scarce  and  expensive.  There  was  nothing  then 
in  his  character  to  indicate  the  brilliant  career 
upon  which  he  was  about  to  enter.  He  was  a 
plain  farmer's  boy — intelligent,  good-looking, 
kind-hearted.  The  sacred  iuiluences  of  home 
had  taught  him  to  revere  the  Bible,  and  had  laid 
the  foundations  of  an  upright  character.  When 
fourteen  years  of  age,  his  father  sent  him  some 
hundred  miles  from  home  to  the  then  wilds  of 
Livingston  County,  to  learn  the  trade  of  a  clothier. 
Near  the  mill  there  was  a  small  village,  where 
some  enterprising  man  had  commenced  the  col- 
lection of  a  village  library.  This  proved  an  in- 
estimable blessing  to  young  Fillmore.  His  even- 
ings were  spent  in  reading.  Soon  every  leisure 
moment  was  occupied  with  books.  His  thirst  for 
knowledge  became  insatiate, '  and  the  selections 
which  he  made  were  continually  more  elevating 
and  instructive.  He  read  history,  biography, 
oratory,  and  thus  gradually  there  was  enkindled 


in  his  heart  a  desire  to  be  something  more  than  a 
mere  worker  with  his  hands. 

The  young  clothier  had  now  attained  the  age 
of  nineteen  years,  and  was  of  fine  personal  appear- 
ance and  of  gentlemanly  demeanor.  It  so  hap- 
pened that  there  was  a  gentleman  in  the  neigh- 
borhood of  ample  pecuniary  means  and  of  benev- 
olence,— ^Judge  Walter  Wood, — who  was  struck 
with  the  prepossessing  appearance  of  j-oung  Fill- 
more. He  made  his  acquaintance,  and  was  so 
much  impressed  with  his  ability  and  attainments 
that  he  advised  him  to  abandon  his  trade  and  de- 
vote himself  to  the  study  of  the  law.  The  young 
man  replied  that  he  had  no  means  of  his  own, 
no  friends  to  help  him,  and  that  his  previous  edu- 
cation had  been  very  imperfect.  But  Judge  Wood 
had  so  much  confidence  in  him  that  he  kindly 
offered  to  take  him  into  his  own  ofiice,  and  to 
lend  him  such  money  as  he  needed.  Most  grate- 
fully the  generous  offer  was  accepted. 

There  is  in  many  minds  a  strange  delusion 
about  a  collegiate  education.  A  young  man  is 
supposed  to  be  liberally  educated  if  he  has  gradu- 
ated at  some  college.  But  many  a  boy  who  loi- 
ters through  university  halls  and  then  enters  a 
law  office  is  by  no  means  as  well  prepared  to 
prosecute  his  legal  studies  as  was  Millard  Fill- 
more when  he  graduated  at  the  clothing-mill  at 
the  end  of  four  years  of  manual  labor,  during 
which  every  leisure  moment  had  been  devoted  to 
intense  mental  culture. 

In  1823,  when  twent3'-three  3'ears  of  age,  he 
was  admitted  to  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas. 
He  then  went  to  the  village  of  Aurora,  and  com- 
menced the  practice  of  law.  In  this  secluded, 
quiet  region,  his  practice,  of  course,  was  limited, 
and  there  was  no  opportunity  for  a  sudden  rise  in 
fortune  or  in  fame.  Here,  in  1826,  he  married  a 
lady  of  great  moral  worth,  and  one  capable  of 


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adorning  any  station  she  might  be  called  to  fill, — 
Miss  Abigail  Powers. 

His  elevation  of  character,  his  untiring  industry, 
his  legal  acquirements,  and  his  skill  as  an  advo- 
cate, gradually  attracted  attention,  and  he  was 
invited  to  enter  into  partnership,  under  highly  ad- 
vantageous circumstances,  with  an  elder  member 
of  the  Bar  in  Buffalo.  Just  before  removing  to 
Bu£falo,  in  1829,  he  took  his  .seat  in  the  House  of 
Assembly  of  the  State  of  New  York,  as  a  Repre- 
sentative from  Erie  County.  Though  he  had 
never  taken  a  very  active  part  in  politics,  his  vote 
and  sympathies  were  with  the  Whig  party.  The 
State  was  then  Democratic,  and  he  found  himself 
in  a  helpless  minority  in  the  Legiislature;  still  the 
testimony  comes  from  all  parties  that  his  courtesy, 
ability  and  integrity  won,  to  a  very  unusual  de- 
gree, the  respect  of  his  associates. 

In  the  autumn  of  1832,  he  was  elected  to  a 
seat  in  the  United  States  Congress.  He  entered 
that  troubled  arena  in  the  most  tumultuous  hours 
of  our  national  history,  when  the  great  conflict 
respecting  the  national  bank  and  the  removal  of 
the  deposits  was  raging. 

His  term  of  two  years  closed,  and  he  returned 
to  his  profession,  which  he  pursued  with  increas- 
ing reputation  and  success.  After  a  lapse  of  two 
years  he  again  became  a  candidate  for  Congress; 
was  re-elected,  and  took  his  seat  in  1837.  His 
past  experience  as  a  Representative  gave  him 
strength  and  confidence.  The  first  term  of  service 
in  Congress  to  any  man  can  be  but  little  more 
than  an  introduction.  He  was  now  prepared  for 
active  duty.  All  his  energies  were  brought  to 
bear  upon  the  public  good.  Every  measure  re- 
ceived his  impress. 

Mr.  Fillmore  was  now  a  man  of  wide  repute, 
and  his  popularity  filled  the  State.  In  the  year 
1847,  when  he  had  attained  the  age  of  forty- 
seven  years,  he  was  elected  Comptroller  of  the 
State.  His  labors  at  the  Bar,  in  the  Legisla- 
ture, in  Congress  and  as  Comptroller,  had  given 
him  very  considerable  fame.  The  Whigs  were 
casting  about  to  find  suitable  candidates  for  Presi- 
dent and  Vice-President  at  the  approaching  elec- 
tion. Far  away  on  the  waters  of  the  Rio  Grande, 
there  was  a  rough  old  soldier,  who  had  fought 


one  or  two  successful  battles  with  the  Mexicans, 
which  had  caused  his  name  to  be  proclaimed  in 
trumpet-tones  all  over  the  land  as  a  candidate  for 
the  presidency.  But  it  was  necessary  to  associate 
with  him  on  the  same  ticket  some  man  of  repu- 
tation as  a  statesman. 

Under  the  influence  of  these  considerations,  the 
names  of  Zachary  Taylor  and  Millard  Fillmore 
became  the  rallying-cry  of  the  Whigs,  as  their 
candidates  for  President  and  Vice-President.  The 
Whig  ticket  was  signally  triumphant.  On  the 
4th  of  March,  1849,  Gen.  Taylor  was  inaugurated 
President,  and  Millard  Fillmore  Vice-President, 
of  the  United  States. 

On  the  9th  of  July,  1850,  President  Taylor, 
about  one  year  and  four  months  after  his  inaugura- 
tion, was  suddenly  taken  sick  and  died.  By  the 
Constitution,  Vice-President  Fillmore  thus  be- 
came President.  He  appointed  a  very  able  cabi- 
net, of  which  the  illustrious  Daniel  Webster  was 
Secretary  of  State;  nevertheless,  he  had  serious 
difiiculties  to  contend  with,  since  the  opposition 
had  a  majority  in  both  Houses.  He  did  all  in  his 
power  to  conciliate  the  South;  but  the  pro-slavery 
party  in  the  South  felt  the  inadequacy  of  all 
measures  of  transient  conciliation.  The  popula- 
tion of  the  free  States  was  so  rapidly  increasing 
over  that  of  the  slave  States,  that  it  was  inevitable 
that  the  power  of  the  Government  should  soon 
pass  into  the  hands  of  the  free  States.  The  fa- 
mous compromise  measures  were  adopted  under 
Mr.  Fillmore's  administration,  and  the  Japan  ex- 
pedition was  sent  out.  On  the  4th  of  March, 
1853,  he,  having  served  one  term,  retired. 

In  1856,  Mr.  Fillmore  was  nominated  for  the 
Presidency  by  the  "Know-Nothing"  party,  but 
was  beaten  by  Mr.  Buchanan.  After  that  Mr. 
Fillmore  lived  in  retirement.  During  the  terri- 
ble conflict  of  civil  war,  he  was  mostly  .silent.  It 
was  generally  supposed  that  his  sympathies  were 
rather  with  those  who  were  endeavoring  to  over- 
throw our  institutions.  President  Fillmore  kept 
aloof  from  the  conflict,  without  any  cordial  words 
of  cheer  to  one  party  or  the  other.  He  was  thus 
forgotten  by  both.  He  lived  to  a  ripe  old  age, 
and  died  in  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  March  8,  1874. 


FRANKLIN  PIERCE. 


FRANKLIN  PIERCE. 


r"RANKLIN  PIERCE,  the  fourteenth  Presi- 
rft  dent  of  the  United  States,  was  bom  in  Hills- 
I  ^  borough,  N.  H.,  November  23,  1804.  His 
father  was  a  Revolutionary  soldier,  who  with  his 
own  strong  arm  hewed  out  a  home  in  the  wilder- 
ness. He  was  a  man  of  inflexible  integrity,  of 
strong,  though  uncultivated,  mind,  and  was  an  un- 
compromising Democrat.  The  mother  of  Frank- 
lin Pierce  was  all  that  a  son  could  desire — an  in- 
telligent, prudent,  affectionate,  Chri.stian  woman. 

Franklin,  who  was  the  sixth  of  eight  children, 
was  a  remarkably  bright  and  handsome  boy, 
generous,  warm-hearted  and  brave.  He  won 
alike  the  love  of  old  and  young.  The  boys  on 
the  play-ground  loved  him.  His  teachers  loved 
him.  The  neighbors  looked  upon  him  with  pride 
and  affection.  He  was  by  instinct  a  gentleman, 
always  speaking  kind  words,  and  doing  kind 
deeds,  with  a  peculiar,  unstudied  tact  which 
taught  him  what  was  agreeable.  Without  de- 
veloping any  precocity  of  genius,  or  any  unnatural 
devotion  to  books,  he  was  a  good  scholar,  and  in 
body  and  mind  a  finely  developed  boy. 

When  sixteen  years  of  age,  in  the  year  1820, 
he  entered  Bowdoin  College,  at  Brunswick,  Me. 
He  was  one  of  the  most  popular  young  men  in 
the  college.  The  purity  of  his  moral  character, 
the  unvarying  courtesy  of  his  demeanor,  his  rank 
as  a  scholar,  and  genial  nature,  rendered  him  a 
universal  favorite.  There  was  something  pe- 
culiarly winning  in  his  address,  and  it  was  evi- 
dently not  in  the  slightest  degree  studied — it  was 
the  simple  outgushing  of  his  own  magnanimous 
and  loving  nature. 

Upon  graduating,  in  the  year  1824,  Franklin 
Pierce  commenced  the  study  of  law  in  the  office 
of  Judge  Woodbury,  one  of  the  most  distinguished 


lawyers  of  the  State,  and  a  man  of  great  private 
worth.  The  eminent  social  qualities  of  the  young 
lawyer,  his  father's  prominence  as  a  public  man, 
and  the  brilliant  political  career  into  which  Judge 
Woodbury  was  entering,  all  tended  to  entice  Mr. 
Pierce  into  the  fascinating  yet  perilous  path  of 
political  life.  With  all  the  ardor  of  his  nature  he 
espoused  the  cause  of  Gen.  Jackson  for  the  Presi- 
dency. He  commenced  the  practice  of  law  in 
Hillsborough,  and  was  soon  elected  to  represent 
the  town  in  the  State  Legislature.  Here  he 
served  for  four  years.  The  last  two  years  he  was 
chosen  Speaker  of  the  House  by  a  very  large 
vote. 

In  1833,  at  the  age  of  twenty-nine,  he  was 
elected  a  member  of  Congress.  In  1837,  being 
then  but  thirty-three  years  old,  he  was  elected  to 
the  Senate,  taking  his  seat  just  as  Mr.  Van  Buren 
commenced  his  administration.  He  was  the 
youngest  member  in  the  Senate.  In  the  year 
1834,  he  married  Miss  Jane  Means  Appleton,  a 
lady  of  rare  beauty  and  accomplishments,  and  one 
admirably  fitted  to  adorn  every  station  with  which 
her  husband  was  honored.  Of  the  three  sons  who  • 
were  born  to  them,  all  now  sleep  with  their  par- 
ents in  the  grave. 

In  the  year  1838,  Mr.  Pierce,  with  growing 
fame  and  increasing  busine.ss  as  a  lawyer,  took  up 
his  residence  in  Concord,  the  capital  of  New 
Hampshire.  President  Polk,  upon  his  accession 
to  office,  appointed  Mr.  Pierce  Attorney-General 
of  the  United  States;  but  the  offer  was  declined 
in  consequence  of  numerous  professional  engage- 
ments at  home,  and  the  precarious  state  of  Mrs. 
Pierce's  health.  He  also,  about  the  same  time, 
declined  the  nomination  for  Governor  by  the 
Democratic  party.     The  war  with  Mexico  called 


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FRANKLIN  PIERCE. 


Mr.  Pierce  into  the  array.  Receiving  the  appoint- 
ment of  Brigadier- General,  he  embarked  with  a 
portion  of  his  troops  at  Newport,  R  I.,  on  the 
27th  of  May,  1847.  He  took  an  important  part 
in  this  war,  proving  himself  a  brave  and  true  sol- 
dier. 

When  Gen.  Pierce  reached  his  home  in  his  na- 
tive State,  he  was  received  enthusiastically  by  the 
advocates  of  the  Mexican  War,  and  coldly  by  his 
opponents.  He  resumed  the  practice  of  his  pro- 
fession, very  frequently  taking  an  active  part  in 
political  questions,  giving  his  cordial  support  to 
the  pro-slavery  wing  of  the  Democratic  party. 
The  compromise  measures  met  cordially  with  his 
approval,  and  he  strenuously  advocated  the  en- 
forcement of  the  infamous  Fugitive  Slave  lyaw, 
which  so  shocked  the  religious  sensibilities  of  the 
North.  He  thus  became  distinguished  as  a 
' '  Northern  man  with  Southern  principles. ' '  The 
strong  partisans  of  slavery  in  the  South  conse- 
quently regarded  him  as  a  man  whom  they  could 
safely  trust  in  office  to  carry  out  their  plans. 

On  the  12th  of  June,  1852,  the  Democratic  con- 
vention met  in  Baltimore  to  nominate  a  candidate 
for  the  Presidency.  For  four  days  they  contin- 
ued in  session,  and  in  thirty -five  ballotings  no  one 
had  obtained  a  two-thirds  vote.  Not  a  vote  thus 
far  had  been  thrown  for  Gen.  Pierce.  Then  the 
Virginia  delegation  brought  forward  his  name. 
There  were  fourteen  more  ballotings,  during  which 
Gen.  Pierce  constantly  gained  strength,  until,  at 
the  forty-ninth  ballot,  he  received  two  hundred 
and  eighty-two  votes,  and  all  other  candidates 
'  eleven.  Gen.  Winfield  Scott  was  the  Whig  can- 
didate. Gen.  Pierce  was  chosen  with  great  una- 
nimity. Only  four  States — Vermont,  Massachu- 
setts, Kentucky  and  Tennessee — cast  their  elec- 
toral votes  against  him.  Gen.  Franklin  Pierce 
was  therefore  inaugurated  President  of  the  United 
States  on  the  4th  of  March,  1853. 

His  administration  proved  one  of  the  most 
stormy  our  country  had  ever  experienced.  The 
controversy  between  slavery  and  freedom  was 
then  approaching  its  culminating  point.  It  be- 
came evident  that  there  was  to  be  an  irrepressible 
conflict  between  them,  and  that  this  nation 
could  not  long  exist  "  half  slave  and  half  free." 


Pre.sident  Pierce,  during  the  whole  of  his  admin- 
istration, did  everything  he  could  to  conciliate  the 
South;  but  it  was  all  in  vain.  The  conflict  every 
year  grew  more  violent,  and  threats  of  the  disso- 
lution of  the  Union  were  borne  to  the  North  on 
every  Southern  breeze. 

Such  was  the  condition  of  affairs  when  Presi- 
dent Pierce  approached  the  close  of  his  four- 
years  term  of  office.  The  North  had  become 
thoroughly  alienated  from  him.  The  anti-slavery 
sentiment,  goaded  by  great  outrages,  had  been 
rapidly  increasing;  all  the  intellectual  ability  and 
social  worth  of  President  Pierce  were  forgotten  in 
deep  reprehension  of  his  administrative  acts.  The 
slaveholders  of  the  South  also,  unmindful  of  the 
fidelity  with  which  he  had  advocated  those  meas- 
ures of  Government  which  they  approved,  and 
perhaps  feeling  that  he  had  rendered  himself 
so  unpopular  as  no  longer  to  be  able  to  accepta- 
bly serve  them,  ungratefully  dropped  him,  and 
nominated  James  Buchanan  to  succeed  him. 

On  the  4th  of  March,  1857,  President  Pierce  re- 
turned to  his  home  in  Concord.  His  three  chil- 
dren were  all  dead,  his  last  surviving  child  hav- 
ing been  killed  before  his  eyes  in  a  railroad  acci- 
dent; and  his  wife,  one  of  the  most  estimable  and 
accomplished  of  ladies,  was  rapidly  sinking  in 
consumption.  The  hour  of  dreadful  gloom  soon 
came,  and  he  was  left  alone  in  the  world  without 
wife  or  child. 

When  the  terrible  Rebellion  burst  forth  which, 
divided  our  country  into  two  parties,  and  two 
only,  Mr.  Pierce  remained  steadfast  in  the  prin- 
ciples which  he  had  always  cherished,  and  gave 
his  sympathies  to  that  pro-slaverj-  party  with 
which  he  had  ever  been  allied.  He  declined  to 
do  anything,  either  by  voice  or  pen,  to  strengthen 
the  hand  of  the  National  Government.  He  con- 
tinued to  reside  in  Concord  until  the  time  of  his 
death,  which  occurred  in  October,  1869.  He  was 
one  of  the  most  genial  and  social  of  men,  an  hon- 
ored communicant  of  the  Episcopal  Church,  and 
one  of  the  kindest  of  neighbors.  Generous  to  a 
fault,  he  contributed  liberally  toward  the  allevia- 
tion of  suffering  and  want,  and  many  of  his 
towns-people  were  often  gladdened  by  his  material 
bounty. 


JAMES  BUCHANAN. 


JAMES  BUCHANAN. 


(Tames  BUCHANAN,  the  fifteenth  President 
I  of  the  United  States,  was  born  in  a  small 
(2/  frontier  town,  at  the  foot  of  the  eastern  ridge 
of  the  AUeghanies,  in  Franklin  County,  Pa. ,  on 
the  23d  of  April,  1791.  The  place  where  the 
humble  cabin  home  stood  was  called  Stony  Bat- 
ter. His  father  was  a  native  of  the  north  of  Ire- 
land, who  had  emigrated  in  1783,  with  little  prop- 
erty save  his  own  strong  arms.  Five  years  after- 
ward he  married  Elizabeth  Spear,  the  daughter 
of  a  respectable  farmer,  and,  with  his  young  bride, 
plunged  into  the  wilderness,  staked  his  claim, 
reared  his  log  hut,  opened  a  clearing  with  his 
axe,  and  settled  down  there  to  perform  his  obscure 
part  in  the  drama  of  life.  When  James  was  eight 
years  of  age,  his  father  removed  to  the  village  of 
Mercersburg,  where  his  son  was  placed  at  school, 
and  commenced  a  course  of  study  in  English, 
Latin  and  Greek.  His  progress  was  rapid,  and 
at  the  age  of  fourteen  he  entered  Dickinson  Col- 
lege, at  Carlisle.  Here  he  developed  remarkable 
talent,  and  took  his  stand  among  the  first  scholars 
in  the  institution. 

In  the  year  1809,  he  graduated  with  the  high- 
est honors  of  his  class.  He  was  then  eighteen 
years  of  age;  tall  and  graceful,  vigorous  in  health, 
fond  of  athletic  sports,  an  unerring  shot,  and  en- 
livened with  an  exuberant  flow  of  animal  spirits, 
lie  immediately  commenced  the  study  of  law  in 
the  city  of  I<ancaster,  and  was  admitted  to  the 
Bar  in  18 12,  when  he  was  but  twenty-one  years 
of  age. 

In  1820,  he  reluctantly  consented  to  run  as  a 
candidate  for  Congress.  He  was  elected,  and  for 
ten  years  he  remained  a  member  of  the  Lower 
House.     During  the  vacations  of  Congress,  he 


occasionally  tried  some  important  case.  In  1831 
he  retired  altogether  from  the  toils  of  his  profes- 
sion, having  acquired  an  ample  fortune. 

Gen.  Jackson,  upon  his  elevation  to  the  Presi- 
dency, appointed  Mr.  Buchanan  Minister  to  Rus- 
sia. The  duties  of  his  mission  he  performed 
with  ability,  and  gave  satisfaction  to  all  parties. 
Upon  his  return,  in  1833,  he  was  elected  to  a  seat 
in  the  United  States  Senate.  He  there  met  as 
his  associates  Webster,  Clay,  Wright  and  Cal- 
houn. He  advocated  the  measures  proposed  by 
President  Jackson,  of  making  reprisals  against 
France  to  enforce  the  payment  of  our  claims 
against  that  country,  and  defended  the  course  of 
the  President  in  his  unprecedented  and  wholesale 
removal  from  ofiice  of  those  who  were  not  the 
supporters  of  his  administration.  Upon  this 
question  he  was  brought  into  direct  collision  with 
Henry  Clay.  He  also,  with  voice  and  vote,  ad- 
vocated expunging  from  the  journal  of  the  Senate 
the  vote  of  censure  against  Gen.  Jackson  for  re- 
moving the  deposits.  Earnestly  he  opposed  the 
abolition  of  slavery  in  the  District  of  Columbia, 
and  urged  the  prohibition  of  the  circulation  of 
anti-slavery  documents  by  the  United  States 
mails.  As  to  petitions  on  the  subject  of  slavery, 
he  advocated  that  they  should  be  respectfully  re- 
ceived, and  that  the  reply  should  be  returned 
that  Congress  had  no  power  to  legislate  upon  the 
subject.  "  Congress,"  said  he,  "might  as  well 
undertake  to  interfere  with  slavery  under  a  for- 
eign government  as  in  any  of  the  States  where  it 
now  exists. ' ' 

Upon  Mr.  Polk's  accession  to  the  Presidency, 
Mr.  Buchanan  became  Secretary  of  State,  and  as 
such  took  his  share  of  the  responsibility  in  the 


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JAMES  BUCHANAN. 


conduct  of  the  Mexican  War.  Mr.  Polk  assumed 
that  crossing  the  Nueces  by  the  American 
troops  into  the  disputed  territory  was  not  wrong, 
but  for  the  Mexicans  to  cross  the  Rio  Grande 
into  Texas  was  a  declaration  of  war.  No  candid 
man  can  read -with  pleasure  the  account  of  the 
course  our  Government  pursued  in  that  movement. 

Mr.  Buchanan  identified  himself  thoroughly 
with  the  party  devoted  to  the  perpetuation  and 
extension  of  slavery,  and  brought  all  the  energies 
of  his  mind  to  bear  against  the  Wilmot  Proviso. 
He  gave  his  cordial  approval  to  the  compromise 
measures  of  1850,  which  included  the  Fugitive 
Slave  Law.  Mr.  Pierce,  upon  his  election  to  the 
Presidency,  honored  Mr.  Buchanan  with  the  mis- 
sion to  England. 

In  the  year  1856,  a  national  Democratic  Con- 
vention nominated  Mr.  Buchanan  for  the  Presi- 
dency. The  political  conflict  was  one  of  the  most 
severe  in  which  our  country  has  ever  engaged. 
All  the  friends  of  slavery  were  on  one  side;  all 
the  advocates  of  its  restriction  and  final  abolition 
on  the  other.  Mr.  Fremont,  the  candidate  of  the 
enemies  of  slavery,  received  one  hundred  and 
fourteen  electoral  votes.  Mr.  Buchanan  received 
one  hundred  and  seventy-four,  and  was  elected. 
The  popular  vote  stood  1,340,618  for  Fremont, 
1,224,750  for  Buchanan.  On  March  4,  1857, 
the  latter  was  inaugurated. 

Mr.  Buchanan  was  far  advanced  in  life.  Only 
four  years  were  wanting  to  fill  up  his  three-score 
years  and  ten.  His  own  friends,  those  with 
whom  he  had  been  allied  in  political  principles 
and  action  for  years,  were  seeking  the  destruc- 
tion of  the  Government,  that  they  might  rear 
upon  the  ruins  of  our  free  institutions  a  nation 
whose  corner-stone  should  be  human  slavery.  In 
this  emergency,  Mr.  Buchanan  was  hopelessly 
bewildered.  He  could  not,  with  his  long-avowed 
principles,  consistently  oppose  the  State  Rights 
party  in  their  assumptions.  As  President  of  the 
United  States,  bound  by  his  oath  faithfully  to 
administer  the  laws,  he  could  not,  without  per- 
jury of  the  grossest  kind,  unite  with  those  en- 
deavoring to  overthrow  the  Republic.  He  there- 
fore did  nothing. 

The  opponents  of  Mr.  Buchanan's  administra- 


tion nominated  Abraham  Lincoln  as  their  stand- 
ard-bearer in  the  next  Presidential  canvass. 
The  pro-slavery  party  declared  that  if  he  were 
elected  and  the  control  of  the  Government  were 
thus  taken  from  their  hands,  they  would  secede 
from  the  Union,  taking  with  them  as  they  retired 
the  National  Capitol  at  Washington  and  the 
lion's  share  of  the  territory  of  the  United  States. 

As  the  storm  increased  in  violence,  the  slave- 
holders claiming  the  right  to  secede,  and  Mr. 
Buchanan  avowing  that  Congress  had  no  power 
to  prevent  it,  one  of  the  most  pitiable  exhibitions 
of  governmental  imbecility  was  exhibited  that  the 
world  has  ever  seen.  He  declared  that  Congress 
had  no  power  to  enforce  its  laws  in  any  State 
which  had  withdrawn,  or  which  was  attempting 
to  withdraw,  from  the  Union.  This  was  not  the 
doctrine  of  Andrew  Jackson,  wheUj  with  his  hand 
upon  his  sword-hilt,  he  exclaimed:  "The  Union 
must  and  shall  be  preserved!" 

South  Carolina  seceded  in  December,  i86o, 
nearly  three  months  before  the  inauguration  of 
President  Lincoln.  Mr.  Buchanan  looked  on  in 
listless  despair.  The  rebel  flag  was  raised  in 
Charleston;  Ft.  Sumter  was  besieged;  our  forts, 
navy-yards  and  arsenals  were  seized;  our  depots 
of  military  stores  were  plundered,  and  our  cus- 
tom-houses and  post-offices  were  appropriated  by 
the  rebels. 

The  energy  of  the  rebels  and  the  imbecility  of 
our  Executive  were  alike  marvelous.  The  na- 
tion looked  on  in  agony,  waiting  for  the  slow 
weeks  to  glide  away  and  close  the  administration, 
so  terrible  in  its  weakness.  At  length  the  long- 
looked-for  hour  of  deliverance  came,  when  Abra- 
ham Lincoln  was  to  receive  the  scepter. 

The  administration  of  President  Buchanan  was 
certainly  the  most  calamitous  our  country  has  ex- 
perienced. His  best  friends  can  not  recall  it  with 
pleasure.  And  still  more  deplorable  it  is  for  his 
fame,  that  in  that  dreadful  conflict  which  rolled 
its  billows  of  flame  and  blood  over  our  whole 
land,  no  word  came  from  his  lips  to  indicate  his 
wish  that  our  country's  banner  should  triumph 
over  the  flag  of  the  Rebellion.  He  died  at  his 
Wheatland  retreat,  June  i,  1868. 


ABRAHAM  LINCOLN. 


ABRAHAM  LINCOLN. 


Gl  BRAHAM  I^INCOLN,  the  sixteenth  Presi- 
r  I  dent  of  the  United  States,  was  born  in  Hardin 
/I  County,  Ky.,  February  12,  1809.  About 
the  year  1 780,  a  man  by  the  name  of  Abraham 
I/incohi  left  Virginia  with  his  family  and  moved 
into  the  then  wilds  of  Kentucky.  Only  two  years 
after  this  emigration,  and  while  still  a  young  man, 
he  was  working  one  day  in  a  field,  when  an  Indian 
stealthily  approached  and  killed  him.  His  widow 
was  left  in  extreme  poverty  with  five  little  chil- 
dren, three  boys  and  two  girls.  Thomas,  the 
youngest  of  the  boys,  and  the  father  of  President 
Abraham  lyincoln,  was  four  years  of  age  at  his 
father's  death. 

When  twenty -eight  years  old,  Thomas  Lincoln 
built  a  log  cabin,  and  married  Nancy  Hanks,  the 
daughter  of  another  family  of  poor  Kentucky 
emigrants,  who  had  also  come  from  Virginia. 
Their  second  child  was  Abraham  Lincoln,  the  sub- 
ject of  this  sketch.  The  mother  of  Abraham  was 
a  noble  woman,  gentle,  loving,  pensive,  created 
to  adorn  a  palace,  but  doomed  to  toil  and  pine,  and 
die  in  a  hovel.  "  All  that  I  am,  or  hope  to  be," 
exclaimed  the  grateful  son,  "  I  owe  to  my  angel- 
mother."  When  he  was  eight  years  of  age,  his 
father  sold  his  cabin  and  small  farm  and  moved 
to  Indiana,  where  two  years  later  his  mother  died. 

As  the  years  rolled  on,  the  lot  of  this  lowly 
family  was  the  usual  lot  of  humanity.  There 
were  joys  and  griefs,  weddings  and  funerals. 
Abraham's  sister  Sarah,  to  whom  he  was  tenderly 
attached,  was  married  wheft  a  child  of  but  four- 
teen years  of  age,  and  soon  died.  The  family 
was  gradually  scattered,  and  Thomas  Lincoln 
6old  out  his  squatter's  claim  in  1830,  and  emi- 
grated to  Macon  County,  111. 

Abraham  Lincoln  was  then  twenty-one  years 
of  age.  With  vigorous  hands  he  aided  his  father 
in  rearing  another  log  cabin,  and  worked  quite 
diligently  at  this  until  he  saw  the  family  com- 
fortably settled,  and  their  small  lot  of  enclosed 
prairie  planted  with  corn,  wheu  he  announced  to 


his  father  his  intention  to  leave  home,  and  to  go 
out  into  the  world  and  seek  his  fortune.  Little 
did  he  or  his  friends  imagine  how  brilliant  that 
fortune  was  to  be.  He  saw  the  value  of  educa- 
tion and  was  intensely  earnest  to  improve  his 
mind  to  the  utmost  of  his  power.  Religion  he 
revered.  His  morals  were  pure,  and  he  was  un- 
contaminated  by  a  single  vice. 

Young  Abraham  worked  for  a  time  as  a  hired 
laborer  among  the  farmers.  Then  he  went  to 
Springfield,  where  he  was  employed  in  building 
a  large  flat-boat.  In  this  he  took  a  herd  of  swine, 
floated  them  down  the  Sanga'mon  to  Illinois,  and 
thence  by  the  Mississippi  to  New  Orleans.  What- 
ever Abraham  Lincoln  undertook,  he  performed 
so  faithfully  as  to  give  great  satisfaction  to  his 
employers.  In  this  adventure  the  latter  were 
so  well  pleased,  that  upon  his  return  they  placed 
a  store  and  mill  under  his  care. 

In  1832,  at  the  outbreak  of  the  Black  Hawk 
War,  he  enlisted  and  was  chosen  Captain  of  a 
company.  He  returned  to  Sangamon  County, 
and,  although  only  twenty -three  years  of  age,  was 
a  candidate  for  the  Legislature,  but  was  defeated. 
He  soon  after  received  from  Andrew  Jackson  the 
appointment  of  Postmaster  of  New  Salem.  His 
only  post-oflice  was  his  hat.  All  the  letters  he 
received  he  carried  there,  ready  to  deliver  to  those 
he  chanced  to  meet.  He  studied  surveying,  and 
soon  made  this  his  business.  In  1834  he  again 
became  a  candidate  for  the  Legislature  and  was 
elected.  Mr.  Stuart,  of  Springfield,  advised  him 
to  study  law.  He  walked  from  New  Salem  to 
Springfield,  borrowed  of  Mr.  Stuart  a  load  of 
books,  carried  them  back,  and  began  his  legal 
studies.  When  the  Legislature  assembled,  he 
trudged  on  foot  with  his  pack  on  his  back  one 
hundred  miles  to  Vandalia,  then  the  capital.  In 
1836  he  was  re-elected  to  the  Legislature.  Here 
it  was  he  first  met  Stephen  A.  Douglas.  In  1839 
he  removed  to  Springfield  and  began  the  practice 
of  law.     His  success  with  the  jury  was  so  great 


So 


ABRAHAM  LINCOLN. 


that  he  was  soon  engaged  in  almost  every  noted 
case  in  the  circuit. 

In  1854  the  great  discussion  began  between  Mr. 
Lincohi  and  Mr.  Douglas  on  the  slavery  ques- 
tion. In  the  organization  of  the  Republican  party 
in  Illinois,  in  1856,  he  took  an  active  part,  and  at 
once  became  one  of  the  leaders  in  that  party. 
Mr.  Lincoln's  speeches  in  opposition  to  Senator 
Douglas  in  the  contest  in  1858  for  a  seat  in  the 
Senate,  form  a  most  notable  part  of  his  history. 
The  issue  was  on  the  slavery  question,  and  he 
took  the  broad  ground  of  the  Declaration  of  In- 
dependence, that  all  men  are  created  equal.  Mr. 
Lincoln  was  defeated  in  this  contest,  but  won  a 
far  higher  prize. 

The  great  Republican  Convention  met  at  Chi- 
cago on  the  1 6th  of  June,  i860.  The  delegates 
and  strangers  who  crowded  the  city  amounted  to 
twenty-five  thousand.  An  immense  building 
called  ' '  The  Wigwam, ' '  was  reared  to  accommo- 
date the  convention.  There  were  eleven  candi- 
dates for  whom  votes  were  thrown.  William  H. 
Seward,  a  man  whose  fame  as  a  statesman  had 
long  filled  the  land,  was  the  most  prominent.  It 
was  generally  supposed  he  would  be  the  nomi- 
nee. Abraham  Lincoln,  however,  received  the 
nomination  on  the  third  ballot. 

Election  day  came,  and  Mr.  Lincoln  received 
one  hundred  and  eighty  electoral  votes  out  of  two 
hundred  and  three  cast,  and  was,  therefore,  con- 
stitutionally elected  President  of  the  United  States. 
The  tirade  of  abuse  that  was  poured  upon  this 
good  and  merciful  man,  especially  by  the  slave- 
holders, was  greater  than  upon  any  other  man 
ever  elected  to  this  high  position.  In  February, 
1861,  Mr.  Lincoln  started  for  Washington,  stop- 
ping in  all  the  large  cities  on  his  way,  making 
speeches.  The  whole  journey  was  fraught  with 
much  danger.  Many  of  the  Southern  States  had 
already  seceded,  and  several  attempts  at  assassi- 
nation were  afterward  brought  to  light.  A  gang 
in  Baltimore  had  arranged  upon  his  arrival  to 
"get  up  a  row,"  and  in  the  confusion  to  make 
sure  of  his  death  with  revolvers  and  hand-gren- 
ades. A  detective  unravelled  the  plot.  A  secret 
and  special  train  was  provided  to  take  him  from 
Harrisburg,  through  Baltimore,  at  an  unexpected 


hour  of  the  night.  The  tram  started  at  half-past 
ten,  and  to  prevent  any  possible  communication 
on  the  part  of  the  Secessionists  with  their  Con- 
federate gang  in  Baltimore,  as  soon  as  the  train 
had  .started  the  telegraph-wires  were  cut.  Mr. 
Lincoln  reached  Washington  in  safety  and  was 
inaugurated,  although  great  anxiety  was  felt  by 
all  loyal  people. 

In  the  selection  of  his  cabinet  Mr.  Lincoln  gave 
to  Mr.  Seward  the  Department  of  State,  and  to 
other  prominent  opponents  before  the  convention 
he  gave  important  positions;  but  during  no  other 
administration  had  the  duties  devolving  upon  the 
President  been  so  manifold,  and  the  responsibilities 
.so  great,  as  those  which  fell  to  his  lot.  Knowing 
this,  and  feeling  his  own  weakness  and  inability 
to  meet,  and  in  his  own  strength  to  cope  with, 
the  difficulties,  he  learned  early  to  seek  Divine 
wisdom  and  guidance  in  determining  his  plans, 
and  Divine  comfort  in  all  his  trials,  both  personal 
and  national.  Contrary  to  his  own  estimate  of 
himself,  Mr.  Lincoln  was  one  of  the  most  cour- 
ageous of  men.  He  went  directly  into  the  rebel 
capital  just  as  the  retreating  foe  was  leaving,  with 
no  guard  but  a  few  .sailors.  From  the  time  he 
had  left  Springfield,  in  1861,  however,  plans  had 
been  made  for  his  assassination,  and  he  at  last 
fell  a  victim  to  one  of  them.  April  14,  1865,  he, 
with  Gen.  Grant,  was  urgently  invited  to  attend 
Ford's  Theatre.  It  was  announced  that  they 
would  be  present.  Gen.  Grant,  however,  left  the 
city.  President  Lincoln,  feeling,  with  his  char- 
acteristic kindliness  of  heart,  that  it  would  be  a 
disappointment  if  he  should  fail  them,  very  re- 
luctantly consented  to  go.  While  listening  to 
the  play,  an  actor  by  the  name  of  John  Wilkes 
Booth  entered  the  box  where  the  President  and 
family  were  seated,  and  fired  a  bullet  into  his 
brain.  He  died  the  next  morning  at  seven 
o'clock. 

Never  before  in  the  history  of  the  world  was 
a  nation  plunged  into  such  deep  grief  by  the  death 
of  its  ruler.  Strong  men  met  in  the  streets  and 
wept  in  speechless  anguish.  His  was  a  life  which 
will  fitly  become  a  model.  His  name  as  the 
Savior  of  his  country  will  live  with  that  of  Wash- 
ington's, its  Father. 


ANDREW  JOHNSON. 


ANDREW  JOHNSON. 


Gl  NDREW  JOHNSON,  seventeenth  President 
LI  of  the  United  States.  The  early  life  of  An- 
/  I  drew  Johnson  contains  but  the  record  of  pov- 
erty,  destitution  and  friendlessness.  He  was  bom 
December  29,  1808,  in  Raleigh,  N.  C.  His  par- 
ents, belonging  to  the  class  of  "poor  whites" 
of  the  South,  were  in  such  circumstances  that  they 
could  not  confer  even  the  slightest  advantages  of 
education  upon  their  child.  When  Andrew  was 
five  years  of  age,  his  father  accidentally  lost  his 
life,  while  heroically  endeavoring  to  save  a  friend 
from  drowning.  Until  ten  years  of  age,  Andrew 
was  a  ragged  boy  about  the  streets,  supported  by 
the  labor  of  his  mother,  who  obtained  her  living 
with  her  own  hands. 

He  then,  having  never  attended  a  school  one 
day,  and  being  unable  either  to  read  or  write,  was 
apprenticed  to  a  tailor  in  his  native  town.  A  gen- 
tleman was  in  the  habit  of  going  to  the  tailor's 
shop  occasionally,  and  reading  to  the  boys  at 
work  there.  He  often  read  from  the  .speeches  of 
distinguished  British  statesmen.  Andrew,  who 
was  endowed  with  a  mind  of  more  than  ordinary 
ability,  became  much  interested  in  these  .speeches; 
his  ambition  was  roused,  and  he  was  iaspired  with 
a  strong  desire  to  learn  to  read. 

He  accordingly  applied  himself  to  the  alphabet, 
and  with  the  assistance  of  some  of  his  fellow- 
workmen  learned  his  letters.  He  then  called  upon 
the  gentleman  to  borrow  the  book  of  speeches. 
The  owner,  pleased  with  his  zeal,  not  only  gave 
him  the  book,  but  assisted  him  in  learning  to  com- 
bine the  letters  into  words.  Under  such  difficul- 
ties he  pressed  onward  laboriously,  spending  usu- 
ally ten  or  twelve  hours  at  work  in  the  shop,  and 
then  robbing  himself  of  rest  and  recreation  to  de- 
vote such  time  as  he  could  to  reading. 

He  went  to  Tennessee  in  1826,  and  located  at 


Greenville,  where  he  married  a  young  lady  who 
possessed  some  education.  Under  her  instructions 
he  learned  to  write  and  cipher.  He  became 
prominent  in  the  village  debating  society,  and  a 
favorite  with  the  students  of  Greenville  College. 
In  1828,  he  organized  a  working  man's  party, 
which  elected  him  Alderman,  and  in  1830  elected 
him  Mayor,  which  position  he  held  three  years. 

He  now  began  to  take  a  lively  interest  in 
political  affairs,  identifying  himself  with  the  work- 
ing-class, to  which  he  belonged.  In  1835,  he 
was  elected  a  member  of  the  House  of  Represent- 
atives of  Tennessee.  He  was  then  just  twenty- 
seven  years  of  age.  He  became  a  very  active 
member  of  the  Legislature,  gave  his  support  to 
the  Democratic  party,  and  in  1840  "stumped  the 
State,"  advocating  Martin  Van  Buren's  claims  to 
the  Presidency,  in  opposition  to  those  of  Gen. 
Harrison.  In  this  campaign  he  acquired  much 
readiness  as  a  speaker,  and  extended  and  increased 
his  reputation. 

In  1 84 1,  he  was  elected  State  Senator;  in  1843, 
he  was  elected  a  Member  of  Congress,  and  by  suc- 
cessive elections  held  that  important  post  for  ten 
years.  In  1 853,  he  was  elected  Governor  of  Tenn- 
essee, and  was  re-elected  in  1855.  In  all  these 
responsible  positions,  he  discharged  his  duties 
with  distinguished  ability,  and  proved  himself  the 
warm  friend  of  the  working  classes.  In  1857,  Mr. 
Johnson  was  elected  United  States  Senator. 

Years  before,  in  1845,  he  had  warmly  advocated 
the  annexation  of  Texas,  stating,  however,  as  his 
reason,  that  he  thought  this  annexation  would 
probably  prove  '  'to  be  the  gateway  out  of  which 
the  sable  sons  of  Africa  are  to  pass  from  bondage 
to  freedom,  and  become  merged  in  a  population 
congenial  to  themselves."  In  1850,  he  also  sup- 
ported the  compromise  measures,  the  two  essen- 


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ANDREW  JOHNSON. 


tial  features  of  which  were,  that  the  white  people 
of  the  Territories  should  be  permitted  to  decide 
for  themselves  whether  they  would  enslave  the 
colored  people  or  not,  and  that  the  free  States  of 
the  North  should  return  to  the  South  persons  who 
attempted  to  escape  from  slavery. 

Mr.  Johnson  was  never  ashamed  of  his  lowly 
origin:  on  the  contrary,  he  often  took  pride  in 
avowing  that  he  owed  his  distinction  to  his  own 
exertions.  '  'Sir, ' '  said  he  on  the  floor  of  the 
Senate,  "I  do  not  forget  that  I  am  a  mechanic; 
neither  do  I  forget  that  Adam  was  a  tailor  and 
sewed  fig-leaves,  and  that  our  Savior  was  the  son 
of  a  carpenter. ' ' 

In  the  Charleston-Baltimore  convention  of  i860, 
he  was  the  choice  of  the  Tennessee  Democrats  for 
the  Presidency.  In  1861,  when  the  purpose  of 
the  Southern  Democracy  became  apparent,  he  took 
a  decided  stand  in  favor  of  the  Union,  and  held 
that  "slavery  must  be  held  .subordinate  to  the 
Union  at  whatever  cost. ' '  He  returned  to  Tenn- 
essee, and  repeatedly  imperiled  his  own  life  to 
protect  the  Unionists  of  that  State.  Tennessee 
having  seceded  from  the  Union,  President  Lincoln, 
on  March  4,  1862,  appointed  him  Military  Gov- 
ernor of  the  State,  and  he  established  the  most 
stringent  military  rule.  His  numerous  proclama- 
tions attracted  wide  attention.  In  1864,  he  was 
elected  Vice-President  of  the  United  States,  and 
upon  the  death  of  Mr.  Lincoln,  April  15,  1865, 
became  President.  In  a  speech  two  days  later  he 
said,  "The  American  people  must  be  taught,  if 
they  do  not  already  feel,  that  treason  is  a  crime 
and  must  be  punished;  that  the  Government  will 
not  always  bear  with  its  enemies;  that  it  is  strong 
not  only  to  protect,  but  to  punish.  *  *  The 
people  must  understand  that  it  (treason)  is  the 
blackest  of  crimes,  and  will  surely  be  punished. ' ' 
Yet  his  whole  administration,  the  history  of  which 
is  so  well  known,  was  in  utter  inconsistency  with, 
and  in  the  most  violent  opposition  to,  the  princi- 
ples laid  down  in  that  speech. 

In  his  loose  policy  of  reconstruction  and  general 
amnesty,  he  was  opposed  by  Congress,  and  he 
characterized  Congress  as  a  new  rebellion,  and 
lawlessly  defied  it  in  everything  possible  to  the  ut- 
most.    In  the  beginning  of  1868,   on  account  of 


"High  crimes  and  misdemeanors,"  the  principal 
of  which  was  the  removal  of  Secretary  Stanton  in 
violation  of  the  Tenure  of  Office  Act,  articles  of 
impeachment  were  preferred  against  him,  and  the 
trial  began  March  23. 

It  was  very  tedious,  continuing  for  nearl}'  three 
months.  A  test  article  of  the  impeachment  was 
at  length  submitted  to  the  court  for  its  action.  It 
was  certain  that  as  the  court  voted  upon  that  ar- 
ticle so  would  it  vote  upon  all .  Thirty-four  voices 
pronounced  the  President  guilty.  As  a  two-thirds 
vote  was  necessary  to  his  condemnation,  he  was 
pronounced  acquitted,  notwithstanding  the  great 
majority  against  him.  The  change  of  one  vote 
from  the  not  guilty  side  would  have  sustained  the 
impeachment. 

The  President,  for  the  remainder  of  his  term, 
was  but  little  regarded.  He  continued,  though 
impotently,  his  conflict  with  Congress.  His  own 
party  did  not  think  it  expedient  to  renominate 
him  for  the  Presidency.  The  Nation  rallied  with 
enthusiasm,  unparalleled  since  the  days  of  Wash- 
ington, aroinid  the  name  of  Gen.  Grant.  Andrew 
Johnson  was  forgotten.  The  bullet  of  the  assassin 
introduced  him  to  the  President's  chair.  Not- 
withstanding this,  never  was  there  presented  to  a 
man  a  better  opportunity  to  immortalize  his  name, 
and  to  win  the  gratitude  of  a  nation.  He  failed 
utterly.  He  retired  to  his  home  in  Greenville, 
Tenn.,  taking  no  very  active  part  in  politics  until 
1875.  On  January  26,  after  an  exciting  struggle, 
he  was  chosen  by  the  Legislature  of  Tennessee 
United  States  Senator  in  the  Forty-fourth  Congess, 
and  took  his  seat  in  that  body,  at  the  special  ses- 
sion convened  by  President  Grant,  on  the  5th  of 
March.  On  the  27th  of  July,  1875,  the  ex-Presi- 
dent made  a  visit  to  his  daughter's  home,  near 
Carter  Station,  Tenn.  When  he  started  on  his 
journey,  he  was  apparently  in  his  usual  vigorous 
health,  but  on  reaching  the  residence  of  his  child 
the  following  day,  he  was  stricken  with  paralysis, 
which  rendered  him  unconscious.  He  rallied  oc- 
casionally, but  finally  passed  away  at  2  a.  m., 
July  3 1 ,  aged  sixty-seven  years.  His  funeral  was 
held  at  Greenville,  on  the  3d  of  August,  with 
every  demonstration  of  respect. 


ULYSSES  S.  GRANT. 


ULYSSES  S.  GRANT. 


HIvYSSES  S.  GRANT,  the  eighteenth  Presi- 
dent of  the  United  States,  was  born  on  the 
29th  of  April,  1822,  of  Christian  parents,  in 
a  humble  home  at  Point  Pleasant,  on  the  banks 
of  the  Ohio.  Shortly  after,  his  father  moved  to 
Georgetown,  Brown  County,  Ohio.  In  this  re- 
mote frontier  hamlet,  Ulysses  received  a  common- 
school  education.  At  the  age  of  seventeen,  in 
the  year  1839,  he  entered  the  Military  Academy 
at  West  Point.  ;Here  he  was  regarded  as  a  solid, 
sensible  young  man,  of  fair  ability,  and  of  sturdy, 
honest  character.  He  took  respectable  rank  as  a 
scholar.  In  June,  1843,  he  graduated  about  the 
middle  in  his  class,  and  was  sent  as  Lieutenant  of 
Infantry  to  one  of  the  distant  military  posts  in  the 
Missouri  Territory.  Two  years  he  passed  in  these 
dreary  solitudes,  watching  the  vagabond  Indians. 

The  war  with  Mexico  came.  lyieut.  Grant  was 
sent  with  his  regiment  to  Corpus  Christi.  His 
first  battle  was  at  Palo  Alto.  There  was  no 
chance  here  for  the  exhibition  of  either  skill  or 
heroism,  nor  at  Resaca  de  la  Palma,  his  second 
battle.  At  the  battle  of  Monterey,  his  third  en- 
gagement, it  is  said  that  he  performed  a  signal 
service  of  daring  and  skillful  horsemanship. 

At  the  close  of  the  Mexican  War,  Capt.  Grant 
returned  with  his  regiment  to  New  York,  and 
was  again  .sent  to  one  of  the  military  posts  on  the 
frontier.  The  discovery  of  gold  in  California 
causing  an  immense  tide  of  emigration  to  flow  to 
the  Pacific  shores,  Capt.  Grant  was  sent  with  a 
battalion  to  Ft.  Dallas,  in  Oregon,  for  the  protec- 
tion of  the  interests  of  the  immigrants.  But  life 
was  wearisome  in  those  wilds,  and  he  resigned 
his  commission  and  returned  to  the  States.  Hav- 
ing married,  he  entered  upon  the  cultivation  of  a 
small  farm  near  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  but  having  little 


skill  as  a  farmer,  and  finding  his  toil  not  re- 
munerative, he  turned  to  mercantile  life,  entering 
into  the  leather  business,  with  a  younger  brother 
at  Galena,  111.  This  was  in  the  year  i860.  As 
the  tidings  of  the  rebels  firing  on  Ft.  Sumter 
reached  the  ears  of  Capt.  Grant  in  his  counting- 
room,  he  said:  "Uncle  Sam  has  educated  me 
for  the  army;  though  I  have  served  him  through 
one  war,  I  do  not  feel  that  I  have  yet  repaid  the 
debt.  I  am  still  ready  to  discharge  my  obliga- 
tions. I  shall  therefore  buckle  on  my  .sword  and 
see  Uncle  Sam  through  this  war  too. ' ' 

He  went  into  the  streets,  raised  a  company  of 
volunteers,  and  led  them  as  their  Captain  to 
Springfield,  the  capital  of  the  State,  where  their 
services  were  offered  to  Gov.  Yates.  The  Gov- 
ernor, impressed  by  the  zeal  and  straightforward 
executive  ability  of  Capt.  Grant,  gave  him  a  desk 
in  his  office  to  assist  in  the  volunteer  organiza- 
tion that  was  being  formed  in  the  State  In  behalf 
of  the  Government.  On  the  15th  of  June,  1861, 
Capt.  Grant  received  a  commission  as  Colonel  of 
the  Twenty-first  Regiment  of  Illinois  Volunteers. 
His  merits  as  a  West  Point  graduate,  who  had 
served  for  fifteen  years  in  the  regular  army,  were 
such  that  he  was  soon  promoted  to  the  rank  of 
Brigadier-General,  and  was  placed  in  command  at 
Cairo.  The  rebels  raised  their  banner  at  Padu- 
cah,  near  the  mouth  of  the  Tennessee  River. 
Scarcely  had  its  folds  appeared  in  the  breeze  ere 
Gen.  Grant  was  there.  The  rebels  fled,  their 
banner  fell,  and  the  Stars  and  Stripes  were  un- 
furled in  its  stead. 

He  entered  the  service  with  great  determina- 
tion and  immediately  began  active  duty.  This 
was  the  beginning,  and  until  the  surrender  of 
Lee  at  Richmond  he  was  ever  pushing  the  enemy 


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ULYSSES  S.  GRANT. 


with  great  vigor  and  effectiveness.  At  Belmont, 
a  few  days  later,  he  surprised  and  routed  the 
rebels,  then  at  Ft.  Henry  won  another  victory. 
Then  came  the  brilliant  fight  at  Ft.  Donelson. 
The  nation  was  electrified  by  the  victory,  and  the 
brave  leader  of  the  boys  in  blue  was  immediately 
made  a  Major-General,  and  the  military  district 
of  Tennessee  was  assigned  to  him. 

Like  all  great  captains.  Gen.  Grant  knew  well 
how  to  secure  the  results  of  victory.  He  imme- 
diately pushed  on  to  the  enemies'  lines.  Then 
came  the  terrible  battles  of  Pittsburg  Landing, 
Corinth,  and  the  siege  of  Vicksburg,  where  Gen. 
Pemberton  made  an  unconditional  surrender  of 
the  city  with  over  thirty  thousand  men  and  one 
hundred  and  seventy-two  cannon.  The  fall  of 
Vicksburg  was  by  far  the  most  severe  blow  which 
the  rebels  had  thus  far  encountered,  and  opened 
up  the  Mississippi  from  Cairo  to  the  Gulf. 

Gen.  Grant  was  next  Ordered  to  co-operate  with 
Gen.  Banks  in  a  movement  upon  Texas,  and  pro- 
ceeded to  New  Orleans,  where  he  was  thrown 
from  his  horse,  and  received  severe  injuries,  from 
which  he  was  laid  up  for  months.  He  then 
rushed  to  the  aid  of  Gens.  Rosecrans  and  Thomas 
at  Chattanooga,  and  by  a  wonderful  series  of 
strategic  and  technical  measures  put  the  Union 
army  in  fighting  condition.  Then  followed  the 
bloody  battles  at  Chattanooga,  Lookout  Moun- 
tain and  Missionary  Ridge,  in  which  the  rebels 
were  routed  with  great  loss.  This  won  for  him 
unbounded  praise  in  the  North.  On  the  4th  of 
February,  1864,  Congress  revived  the  grade  of 
lieutenant-general,  and  the  rank  was  conferred 
on  Gen.  Grant.  He  repaired  to  Washington  to 
receive  his  credentials  and  enter  upon  the  duties 
of  his  new  office. 

Gen.  Grant  decided  as  soon  as  he  took  charge 
of  the  army  to  concentrate  the  widely-dispersed 
National  troops  for  an  attack  upon  Richmond, 
the  nominal  capital  of  the  rebellion,  and  endeavor 
there  to  destroy  the  rebel  armies  which  would  be 
promptly  assembled  from  all  quarters  for  its  de- 
fense. The  whole  continent  seemed  to  tremble 
under  the  tramp  of  these  majestic  armies,  rushing 
to  the  decisive  battle-field.  Steamers  were  crowd- 
ed with  troops.     Railway  trains  were  burdened 


with  closely -packed  thousands.  His  plans  were 
comprehensive,  and  involved  a  series  of  cam- 
paigns, which  "were  executed  with  remarkable 
energy  and  ability,  and  were  consummated  at  the 
surrender  of  Lee,  April  9,  1865. 

The  war  was  ended.  The  Union  was  saved. 
The  almost  unanimous  voice  of  the  nation  de- 
clared Gen.  Grant  to  be  the  most  prominent  in- 
strument in  its  salvation.  The  eminent  services 
he  had  thus  rendered  the  country  brought  him 
conspicuously  forward  as  the  Republican  candi- 
date for  the  Presidential  chair. 

At  the  Republican  Convention  held  at  Chicago, 
May  21,  1868,  he  was  unanimously  nominated 
for  the  Presidency,  and  at  the  autumn  election 
received  a  majority  of  the  popular  vote,  and  two 
hundred  and  fourteen  out  of  two  hundred  and 
ninety-four   electoral  votes. 

The  National  Convention  of  the  Republican 
party,  which  met  at  Philadelphia  on  the  5th  ot 
June,  1872,  placed  Gen.  Grant  in  nomination  for 
a  second  term  by  a  unanimous  vote.  The  selec- 
tion was  emphatically  indorsed  by  the  people  five 
months  later,  two  hundred  and  ninety-two  elect- 
oral votes  being  cast  for  him. 

Soon  after  the  close  of  his  second  term.  Gen. 
Grant  started  upon  his  famous  trip  around  the 
world.  He  visited  almost  every  country  of  the 
civilized  world,  and  was  everywhere  received 
with  such  ovations  and  demonstrations  of  respect 
and  honor,  private  as  well  as  public  and  oflScial, 
as  were  never  before  bestowed  upon  any  citizen 
of  the  United  States. 

He  was  the  most  prominent  candidate  before 
the  Republican  National  Convention  in  1880  for 
a  renomination  for  President.  He  went  to  New 
York  and  embarked  in  the  brokerage  business 
under  the  firm  name  of  Grant  &  Ward.  The 
latter  proved  a  villain,  wrecked  Grant's  fortune, 
and  for  larceny  was  sent  to  the  penitentiary. 
The  General  was  attacked  with  cancer  in  the 
throat,  but  suffered  in  his  stoic-like  manner,  never 
complaining.  He  was  re-instated  as  General  of 
the  Armj',  and  retired  by  Congress.  The  cancer 
soon  finished  its  deadly  work,  and  July  23,  1885, 
the  nation  went  in  mourning  over  the  death  01 
the  illustrious  General. 


RUTHERFORD  B.  HAYES. 


RUTHERFORD  B.  HAYES. 


RUTHERFORD  B.  HAYES,  the  nineteenth 
President  of  the  United  States,  was  born  in 
Delaware,  Ohio,  October  4,  1822,  almost 
three  months  after  the  death  of  his  father,  Ruther- 
ford Hayes.  His  ancestrj'  on  both  the  paternal  and 
maternal  sides  was  of  the  most  honorable  char- 
acter. It  can  be  traced,  it  is  said,  as  far  back  as 
1280,  when  Hayes  and  Rutherford  were  two 
Scottish  chieftains,  fighting  side  by  sjde  with 
Baliol,  William  Wallace  and  Robert  Bruce.  Both 
families  belonged  to  the  nobility,  owned  extensive 
estates,  and  had  a  large  following.  Misfortune 
overtaking  the  family,  George  Hayes  left  Scotland 
in  1680,  and  settled  in  Windsor,  Conn.  His  son 
George  was  born  in  Windsor,  and  remained  there 
during  his  life.  Daniel  Hayes,  son  of  the  latter, 
married  Sarah  lyee,  and  lived  from  the  time  of 
his  marriage  until  his  death  in  Simsbury,  Conn. 
Ezekiel,  son  of  Daniel,  was  born  in  1724,  and  was 
a  manufacturer  of  scythes  at  Bradford,  Conn. 
Rutherford  Hayes,  son  of  Ezekiel  and  grandfather 
of  President  Hayes,  was  born  in  New  Haven,  in 
August,  1756.  He  was  a  farmer,  blacksmith  and 
tavern-keeper.  He  emigrated  to  Vermont  at  an 
unknown  date,  settling  in  Brattleboro,  where  he 
established  a  hotel.  Here  his  son,  Rutherford 
Hayes,  the  father  of  President  Hayes,  was  born. 
He  was  married,  in  September,  18 13,  to  Sophia 
Birchard,  of  Wilmington,  Vt.,  whose  ancestors 
emigrated  thither  from  Connecticut,  they  having 
been  among  the  wealthiest  and  best  families  of 
Norwich.  Her  ancestry  on  the  male  side  is 
traced  back  to  1635,  to  John  Birchard,  one  of  the 
principal  founders  of  Norwich.  Both  of  her  grand- 
fathers were  soldiers  in  the  Revolutionary  War. 

The  father  of  President  Hayes  was  an  industri- 
ous, frugal,  yet  open-hearted  man.     He  was  of  a 


mechanical  turn  of  mind,  and  could  mend  a  plow, 
knit  a  stocking,  or  do  almost  anything  else  that 
he  chose  to  undertake.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
church,  active  in  all  the  benevolent  enterprises 
of  the  town,  and  conducted  his  business  on  Chris- 
tian principles.  After  the  close  of  the  War  of 
i8i2,  for  reasons  inexplicable  to  his  neighbors,  he 
resolved  to  emigrate  to  Ohio. 

The  journey  from  Vermont  to  Ohio  in  that  day, 
when  there  were  no  canals,  steamers,  or  rail- 
ways, was  a  very  serious  affair.  A  tour  of  in- 
spection was  first  made,  occupying  four  months. 
Mr.  Hayes  decided  to  move  to  Delaware,  where 
the  family  arrived  in  181 7.  He  died  July  22, 
1822,  a  victim  of  malarial  fever,  less  than  three 
months  before  the  birth  of  the  son  of  whom  we 
write.  Mrs.  Hayes,  in  her  sore  bereavement, 
found  the  support  she  so  much  needed  in  her 
brother  Sardis,  who  had  been  a  member  of  the 
household  from  the  day  of  its  departure  from 
Vermont,  and  in  an  orphan  girl,  whom  she  had 
adopted  some  time  before  as  an  act  of  charity. 

Rutherford  was  seven  years  old  before  he  went 
to  school.  His  education,  however,  was  not  neg- 
lected. He  probably  learned  as  much  from  his 
mother  and  sister  as  he  would  have  done  at 
school.  His  sports  were  almost  wholly  within 
doors,  his  playmates  being  his  sister  and  her  asso- 
ciates. These  circumstances  tended,  no  doubt,  to 
foster  that  gentleness  of  disposition  and  that  del- 
icate consideration  for  the  feelings  of  others  which 
were  marked  traits  of  his  character. 

His  uncle,  Sardis  Birchard,  took  the  deepest 
interest  in  his  education;  and  as  the  boy's  health 
had  improved,  and  he  was  making  good  progress 
in  his  studies,  he  proposed  to  send  him  to  college. 
His  preparation  commenced  with  a  tutor  at  home; 


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but  he  was  afterwards  sent  for  one  year  to  a  pro- 
fessor in  the  Wesleyan  University  in  Middletown, 
Conn.  He  entered  Kenyon  College  in  1838,  at 
the  age  of  sixteen,  and  was  graduated  at  the  head 
of  his- class  in  1842. 

Immediately  after  his  graduation  he  began  the 
study  of  law  in  the  office  of  Thomas  Sparrow, 
Esq.,  in  Columbus.  Finding  his  opportunities 
for  study  in  Columbus  somewhat  limited,  he  de- 
termined to  enter  the  Law  School  at  Cambridge, 
Mass.,  where  he  remained  two  years.  « 

In  1845,  after  graduating  at  the  Law  School,  he 
was  admitted  to  the  Bar  at  Marietta,  Ohio,  and 
shortly  afterward  went  into  practice  as  an  at- 
torney-at-law  with  Ralph  P.  Buckland,  of  Fre- 
mont. Here  he  remained  three  years,  acquiring 
but  a  limited  practice,  and  apparently  unambitious 
of  distinction  in  his  profession. 

In  1849  he  moved  to  Cincinnati,  where  his  am- 
bition found  a  new  stimulus.  For  several  years, 
however,  his  progress  was  slow.  Two  events 
occurring  at  this  period  had  a  powerful  influence 
upon  his  subsequent  life.  One  of  these  was  his 
marriage  with  Miss  Lucy  Ware  Webb,  daughter 
of  Dr.  James  Webb,  of  Chillicothe;  the  other  was 
his  introduction  to  the  Cincinnati  Literary  Club, 
a  body  embracing  among  its  members  such  men 
as  Chief  Justice  Salmon  P.  Chase,  Gen.  John 
Pope,  Gov.  Edward  F.  Noyes,  and  many  others 
hardly  less  distinguished  in  after  life.  The  mar- 
riage was  a  fortunate  one  in  every  respect,  as 
everybody  knows.  Not  one  of  all  the  wives  of 
our  Presidents  was  more  universally  admired, 
reverenced  and  beloved  than  was  Mrs.  Hayes,  and 
no  one  did  more  than  she  to  reflect  honor  upon 
American  womanhood.  The  LiteraryClub  brought 
Mr.  Hayes  into  constant  association  with  young 
men  of  high  character  and  noble  aims,  and  lured 
him  to  display  the  qualities  so  long  hidden  by  his 
bashfulness  and  modesty. 

In  1856  he  was  nominated  to  the  ofiice  of  Judge 
of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas,  but  he  declined  to 
accept  the  nomination.  Two  years  later,  the  of- 
fice of  City  Solicitor  becoming  vacant,  the  City 
Council  elected  him  for  the  unexpired  term. 

In  1861,  when  the  Rebellion  broke  out,  he  was 
at  the  zenith  of  his  professional  life.     His  rank  at 


the  Bar  was  among  the  first.  But  the  news  of 
the  attack  on  Ft.  Sumter  found  him  eager  to 
take  up  arms  for  the  defense  of  his  country. 

His  military  record  was  bright  and  illustrious. 
In  October,  1861,  he  was  made  Lieutenant- Colo- 
nel, and  in  August,  1862,  promoted  Colonel  of 
the  Seventy-ninth  Ohio  Regiment,  but  he  refused 
to  leave  his  old  comrades  and  go  among  strangers. 
Subsequently,  however,  he  was  made  Colonel  of 
his  old  regiment.  At  the  battle  of  South  Moun- 
tain he  received  a  wound,  and  while  faint  and 
bleeding  di.splayed  courage  and  fortitude  that 
won  admiration  from  all. 

Col.  Hayes  was  detached  from  his  regiment, 
after  his  recovery,  to  act  as  Brigadier-General, 
and  placed  in  command  of  the  celebrated  Kanawha 
division,  and  for  gallant  and  meritorious  services 
in  the  battles  of  Winchester,  Fisher's  Hill  and 
Cedar  Creek,  he  was  promoted  Brigadier-General. 
He  was  also  breveted  Major-General,  "for  gallant 
and  distinguished  services  during  the  campaigns 
of  1864,  in  West  Virginia."  In  the  course  of  his 
arduous  services,  four  horses  were  shot  from  un- 
der him,  and  he  was  wounded  four  times. 

In  1864,  Gen.  Hayes  was  elected  to  Congress 
from  the  Second  Ohio  District,  which  had  long 
been  Democratic.  He  was  not  present  during  the 
campaign,  and  after  the  election  was  importuned 
to  resign  his  commission  in  the  army;  but  he  fi- 
nally declared,  ' '  I  shall  never  come  to  Washing- 
ton until  I  can  come  by  way  of  Richmond."  He 
was  re-elected  in  1866. 

In  1867,  Gen.  Hayes  was  elected  Governor  of 
Ohio,  over  Hon.  Allen  G.  Thurman,  a  popular 
Democrat,  and  in  1869  was  re-elected  over  George 
H.  Pendleton.  He  was  elected  Governor  for  the 
third  term  in  1875. 

In  1876  he  was  the  standard-bearer  of  the  Re- 
publican party  in  the  Presidential  contest,  and 
after  a  hard,  long  contest  was  chosen  President, 
and  was  inaugurated  Monday,  March  5,  1877. 
He  served  his  full  term,  not,  however,  with  satis- 
faction to  his  party,  but  his  administration  was  an 
average  one.  The  remaining  years  of  his  life 
were  passed  quietly  in  his  Ohio  home,  where  he 
passed  away  January  17,  1893. 


JAMES  A.  GARFIELD. 


JAMES  A.  GARFIELD. 


(f  AMES  A.  GARFIELD,  twentieth  President 
I  of  the  United  States,  was  born  November  19, 
v2/  1 83 1,  ill  the  woods  of  Orange,  Cuyahoga 
County,  Ohio.  His  parents  were  Abram  and 
Eliza  (Ballon)  Garfield,  both  of  New  England 
ancestry,  and  from  families  well  known  in  the 
early  history  of  that  section  of  our  countrj',  but 
who  had  moved  to  the  Western  Reserve,  in  Ohio, 
early  in  its  settlement. 

The  house  in  which  James  A.  was  born  was 
not  unlike  the  houses  of  poor  Ohio  farmers  of 
that  day.  It  was  about  20  x  30  feet,  built  of  logs, 
with  the  spaces-between  the  logs  filled  with  clay. 
His  father  was  a  hard-working  farmer,  and  he 
soon  had  his  fields  cleared,  an  orchard  planted, 
and  a  log  barn  built.  The  household  comprised 
the  father  and  mother  and  their  four  children, 
Mehetabel,  Thomas,  Mary  and  James.  In  May, 
1823,  the  father  died  from  a  cold  contracted  in 
helping  to  put  out  a  forest  fire.  At  this  time 
James  was  about  eighteen  months  old,  and 
Thomas  about  ten  years  old.  No  one,  perhaps, 
can  tell  how  much  James  was  indebted  to  his 
brother's  toil  and  self-sacrifice  during  the  twenty 
years  succeeding  his  father's  death.  He  now 
lives  in  Michigan,  and  the  two  sisters  live  in  Solon, 
Ohio,  near  their  birthplace. 

The  early  educational  advantages  young  Gar- 
field enjoyed  were  very  limited,  yet  he  made  the 
most  of  them.  He  labored  at  farm  work  for 
others,  did  carpenter  work,  chopped  wood,  or  did 
anything  that  would  bring  in  a  few  dollars  to  aid 
his  widowed  mother  in  her  struggles  to  keep  the 
little  family  together.  Nor  was  Gen.  Garfield 
ever  ashamed  of  his  origin,  and  he  never  forgot 
the  friends  of  his  struggling  childhood,  youth  and 
manhood;  neither  did  they  ever  forget  him. 
When  in  the  highest  seats  of  honor,  the  humblest 
friend  of  his  boyhood  was  as  kindly  greeted  as 
ever.  The  poorest  laborer  was  sure  of  the  sym- 
pathy of  one  who  had  known  all  the  bitterness  of 


want  and  the  sweetness  of  bread  earned  by  the 
sweat  of  the  brow.  He  was  ever  the  simple, 
plain,  modest  gentleman. 

The  highest  ambition  of  young  Garfield  until 
he  was  about  sixteen  years  old  was  to  be  cap- 
tain of  a  vessel  on  Lake  Erie.  He  was  anxious 
to  go  aboard  a  vessel,  but  this  his  mother  strongly 
opposed.  She  finally  consented  to  his  going  to 
Cleveland,  with  the  understanding,  however,  that 
he  should  try  to  obtain  some  other  kind  of  em- 
ployment. He  walked  all  the  way  to  Cleveland. 
This  was  his  first  visit  to  the  city.  After  making 
many  applications  for  work,  and  trying  to  get 
aboard  a  lake  vessel  and  not  meeting  with  suc- 
cess, he  engaged  as  a  driver  for  his  cousin,  Amos 
Letcher,  on  the  Ohio  &  Pennsylvania  Canal. 
He  remained  at  this  work  but  a  short  time,  when 
he  went  home,  and  attended  the  seminary  at 
Chester  for  about  three  years.  He  then  entered 
Hiram  and  the  Eclectic  Institute,  teaching  a  few 
terms  of  school  in  the  mean  time,  and  doing  other 
work.  This  school  was  started  by  the  Disciples 
of  Christ  in  1850,  of  which  body  he  was  then  a 
member.  He  became  janitor  and  bell-ringer  in 
order  to  help  pay  his  way.  He  then  became  both 
teacher  and  pupil.  Soon  "  exhausting  Hiram," 
and  needing  a  higher  education,  in  the  fall  of  1854 
he  entered  Williams  College,  from  which  he  grad- 
uated in  1856,  taking  one  of  the  highest  honors  of 
his  class.  He  afterwards  returned  to  Hiram  Col- 
lege as  its  President.  As  above  stated,  he  early 
united  with  the  Christian,  or  Disciples,  Church  at 
Hiram,  and  was  ever  after  a  devoted,  zealous 
member,  often  preaching  in  its  pulpit  and  places 
where  he  happened  to  be. 

Mr.  Garfield  was  united  in  marriage,  Novem- 
ber II,  1858,  with  Miss  Lucretia  Rudolph,  who 
proved  herself  worthy  as  the  wife  of  one  whom 
all  the  world  loved.  To  them  were  born  seven 
children,  five  of  whom  are  still  living,  4onr  boys 
and  one  girl. 


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Mr.  Garfield  made  his  first  political  speeches  in 
1856,  in  Hiram  and  the  neighboring  villages,  and 
three  years  later  he  began  to  speak  at  county 
mass-meetings,  and  became  the  favorite  speaker 
wherever  he  was.  During  this  year  he  was 
elected  to  the  Ohio  Senate.  He  also  began  to 
study  law  at  Cleveland,  and  in  186 1  was  admitted 
to  the  Bar.  The  great  Rebellion  broke  out  in  the 
early  part  of  this  year,  and  Mr.  Garfield  at  once 
resolved  to  fight  as  he  had  talked,  and  enlisted  to 
defend  the  Old  Flag.  He  received  his  commission 
as  Lieutenant- Colonel  of  the  Forty-second  Regi- 
ment of  Ohio  Infantry  August  14,  1861.  He 
was  immediately  put  into  active  service,  and  be- 
fore he  had  ever  seen  a  gun  fired  in  action,  was 
placed  in  command  of  four  regiments  of  infantrj' 
and  eight  companies  of  cavalry,  charged  with  the 
work  of  driving  out  of  his  native  State  the  able 
rebel  officer,  Humphrey  Marshall,  of  Kentucky. 
This  work  was  bravely  and  speedily  accomplished, 
although  against  great  odds,  and  President  Lin- 
coln commissioned  him  Brigadier- General,  Janu- 
ary 10,  1862;  and  "as  he  had  been  the  youngest 
man  in  the  Ohio  Senate  two  years  before,  so  now 
he  was  the  youngest  General  in  the  army."  He 
was  with  Gen.  Buell's  army  at  Shiloh,  in  its 
operations  around  Corinth  and  its  march  through 
Alabama.  He  was  then  detailed  as  a  member  of 
the  general  court  martial  for  the  trial  of  Gen. 
Fitz-John  Porter.  He  was  next  ordered  to  re- 
port to  Gen.  Rosecrans,  and  was  assigned  to  the 
"  Chief  of  Staff'."  The  military  history  of  Gen. 
Garfield  closed  with  his  brilliant  services  at  Chick- 
amauga,  where  he  won  the  rank  of  Major-General. 

Without  an  effort  on  his  part,  Gen.  Garfield 
was  elected  to  Congress  in  the  fall  of  1862,  from 
the  Nineteenth  District  of  Ohio.  This  section  of 
Ohio  had  been  represented  in  Congress  for  sixty 
years  mainly  by  two  men — Elisha  Whittlesey  and 
Joshua  R.  Giddings.  It  was  not  without  a  strug- 
gle that  he  resigned  his  place  in  the  army.  At 
the  time  he  entered  Congress  he  was  the  youngest 
member  in  that  body.  There  he  remained  by 
successive  re-elections  until  he  was  elected  Presi- 
dent, in  1880.  Of  his  labors  in  Congress,  Senator 
Hoar  says:  "Since  the  year  1864  you  cannot 
think  of  a  question  which  has  been  debated  in 


Congress,  or  discussed  before  a  tribunal  of  the 
American  people,  in  regard  to  which  you  will  not 
find,  if  you  wish  instruction,  the  argument  on 
one  side  stated,  in  almost  every  instance  better 
than  by  anybody  else,  in  some  speech  made  in 
the  House  of  Representatives  or  on  the  hustings 
by  Mr.  Garfield." 

Upon  January  14,  1880,  Gen.  Garfield  was  elect- 
ed to  the  United  States  Senate,  and  on  the  8th  of 
June,  of  the  same  year,  was  nominated  as  the 
candidate  of  his  party  for  President  at  the  great 
Chicago  Convention.  He  was  elected  in  the  fol- 
lowing November,  and  on  March  4,  188 1,  was 
inaugurated.  Probably  no  administration  ever 
opened  its  existence  under  brighter  auspices  than 
that  of  President  Garfield,  and  every  day  it  grew 
in  favor  with  the  people.  By  the  ist  of  July 
he  had  completed  all  the  initiatory  and  prelimi- 
nary work  of  his  administration,  and  was  prepar- 
ing to  leave  the  city  to  meet  his  friends  at  Will- 
iams College.  While  on  his  way  and  at  the 
depot,  in  company  with  Secretary  Blaine,  a  man 
stepped  behind  him,  drew  a  revolver,  and  fired 
directly  at  his  back.  The  President  tottered  and 
fell,  and  as  he  did  so  the  assassin  fired  a  second 
shot,  the  bullet  cutting  the  left  coat  sleeve  of  his 
victim,  but  inflicting  no  further  injury.  It  has 
been  very  truthfully  said  that  this  was  ' '  the  shot 
that  was  heard  around  the  world. ' '  Never  before 
in  the  history  of  the  nation  had  anything  occur- 
red which  so  nearly  froze  the  blood  of  the  people 
for  the  moment  as  this  awful  deed.  He  was 
smitten  on  the  brightest,  gladdest  day  of  all  his 
life,  at  the  summit  of  his  power  and  hope.  For 
eighty  days,  all  during  the  hot  months  of  July 
and  August,  he  lingered  and  suffered.  He,  how- 
ever, remained  master  of  himself  till  the  last,  and 
by  his  magnificent  bearing  taught  the  country 
and  the  world  one  of  the  noblest  of  human  les- 
sons— how  to  live  grandly  in  the  very  clutch  of 
death.  Great  in  life,  he  was  surpassingly  great 
in  death.  He  passed  serenelj^  away  September 
19,  1883,  at  Elberon,  N.  J.,  on  the  very  bank  of 
the  ocean,  where  he  had  been  taken  shortly  be- 
fore. The  world  wept  at  his  death,  as  it  rarely 
ever  had  done  on  the  death  of  any  other  great 
and  noble  man. 


CHESTER  A.  ARTHUR. 


CHESTER  A.  ARTHUR. 


E HESTER  A.  ARTHUR,  twenty-first  Presi- 
dent of  the  United  States,  was. born  in  Frank- 
lin County,  Vt.,  on  the  5th  day  of  October, 
1830,  and  was  the  eldest  of  a  family  of  two  sons 
and  five  daughters.  His  father  was  the  Rev.  Dr. 
William  Arthur,  a  Baptist  clergyman,  who  emi- 
grated to  this  country  from  County  Antrim,  Ire- 
land, in  his  eighteenth  year,  and  died  in  1875,  in 
Newtonville,  near  Albany,  after  a  long  and  suc- 
cessful ministry.' 

Young  Arthur  was  educated  at  Union  College, 
Schenectady,  where  he  excelled  in  all  his  studies. 
Alter  his  graduation  he  taught  school  in  Ver- 
mont for  two  years,  and  at  the  expiration  of  that 
time  came  to  New  York,  with  $500  in  his  pocket, 
and  entered  the  office  of  ex -Judge  E.  D.  Culver 
as  a  student.  After  being  admitted  to  the  Bar,  he 
formed  a  partnership  with  his  intimate  friend  and 
room-mate,  Henry  D.  Gardiner,  with  the  inten- 
tion of  practicing  in  the  West,  and  for  three 
months  they  roamed  about  in  the  Western  States 
in  search  of  an  eligible  site,  but  in  the  end  re- 
turned to  New  York,  where  they  hung  out  their 
shingle,  and  entered  upon  a  successful  career  al- 
most from  the  start.  Gen.  Arthur  soon  after  mar- 
ried the  daughter  of  L,ieut.  Herndon,  of  the 
United  States  Navy,  who  was  lost  at  sea.  Con- 
gress voted  a  gold  medal  to  his  widow  in  recog- 
nition of  the  bravery  he  displayed  on  that  occa- 
sion. Mrs.  Arthur  died  shortly  before  Mr. 
Arthur's  nomination  to  the  Vice-Presidency,  leav- 
ing two  children. 

Gen.  Arthur  obtained  considerable  legal  celeb- 
rity in  his  first  great  case,  the  famous  Lemmon 
suit,  brought  to  recover  possession  of  eight  slaves 
who  had  been  declared  free  by  Judge  Paine,  of 
the  Superior  Court  of  New  York  City.     It  was  in 


1852  that  Jonathan  Lemmon,  of  Virginia,  went  to 
New  York  with  his  slaves,  intending  to  ship  them 
to  Texas,  when  they  were  discovered  and  freed. 
The  Judge  decided  that  they  could  not  be  held  by 
the  owner  under  the  Fugitive  Slave  Law.  A  howl 
of  rage  went  up  from  the  South,  and  the  Virginia 
Legislature  authorized  the  Attorney-General  of 
that  State  to  assist  in  an  appeal.  William  M. 
Evarts  and  Chester  A.  Arthur  were  employed  to 
represent  the  people,  and  they  won  their  case, 
which  then  went  to  the  Supreme  Court  of  the 
United  States.  Charles  O' Conor  here  espoused 
the  cause  of  the  slaveholders,  but  he,  too,  was 
beaten  by  Messrs.  Evarts  and  Arthur,  and  a  long 
step  was  taken  toward  the  emancipation  of  the 
black  race. 

Another  great  service  was  rendered  by  Gen. 
Arthur  in  the  same  cause  in  1856.  Lizzie  Jen- 
nings, a  respectable  colored  woman,  was  put  off 
a  Fourth  Avenue  car  with  violence  after  she  had 
paid  her  fare.  Gen.  Arthur  sued  on  her  behalf, 
and  secured  a  verdict  of  $500  damages.  The  next 
day  the  company  issued  an  order  to  admit  colored 
persons  to  ride  on  their  cars,  and  the  other  car 
companies  quickly  followed  their  example.  Be- 
fore that  the  Sixth  Avenue  Company  ran  a  few 
special  cars  for  colored  persons,  and  the  other  lines 
refused  to  let  them  ride  at  all. 

Gen.  Arthur  was  a  delegate  to  the  convention 
at  Saratoga  that  founded  the  Republican  party. 
Previous  to  the  war  he  was  Judge-Advocate  of 
the  Second  Brigade  of  the  State  of  New  York, 
and  Gov.  Morgan,  of  that  State,  appointed  him 
Engineer-in- Chief  of  his  staff.  In  1861,  he  was 
made  Inspector-General,  and  soon  afterward  be- 
came Quartermaster-General.  In  each  of  these 
offices  he  rendered  great  service  to  the  Govern- 


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CHESTER  A.  ARTHUR. 


ment  during  the  war.  At  the  end  of  Gov.  Mor- 
gan's term  he  resumed  the  practice  of  law,  form- 
ing a  partnership  with  Mr.  Ransom,  and  then 
Mr.  Phelps,  the  District  Attorney  of  New  York, 
was  added  to  the  firm.  The  legal  practice  of  this 
well-known  firm  was  very  large  and  lucrative, 
as  each  of  the  gentlemen  composing  it  was  an  able 
lawyer,  and  possessed  a  splendid  local  reputa- 
tion, if  not,  indeed,  one  of  national  extent. 

Mr.  Arthur  always  took  a  leading  part  in  State 
and  city  politics.  He  was  appointed  Collector  of 
the  Port  of  New  York  by  President  Grant,  No- 
vember 21,  1872,  to  succeed  Thomas  Murphy, 
and  he  held  the  ofiice  until  July  20,  1878,  when 
he  was  succeeded  by  Collector  Merritt. 

Mr.  Arthur  was  nominated  on  the  Presidential 
ticket,  with  Gen.  James  A.  Garfield,  at  the 
famous  National  Republican  Convention  held  at 
Chicago  in  June,  1880.  This  was  perhaps  the 
greatest  political  convention  that  ever  aasenibled 
on  the  continent.  It  was  composed  of  the  lead- 
ing politicians  of  the  Republican  party,  all  able 
men,  and  each  stood  firm  and  fought  vigorously 
and  with  signal  tenacity  for  his  respective  can- 
didate that  was  before  the  convention  for  the 
nomination.  Finally  Gen.  Garfield  received  the 
nomination  for  President,  and  Gen.  Arthur  for 
Vice-President.  The  campaign  which  followed 
was  one  of  the  most  animated  known  in  the  his- 
tory of  our  country.  Gen.  Hancock,  the  stand- 
ard-bearer of  the  Democratic  party,  was  a  popular 
man,  and  his  party  made  a  valiant  fight  for  his 
election. 

Finally  the  election  came,  and  the  countr>''s 
choice  was  Garfield  and  Arthur.  They  were  in- 
augurated March  4,  188 1,  as  President  and  Vice- 
President.  A  few  months  only  had  passed  ere 
the  newly-chosen  President  was  the  victim  of  the 
a.ssassin's  bullet.  Then  came  terrible  weeks  of 
suffering — those  moments  of  anxious  suspense, 
when  the  hearts  of  all  civilized  nations  were 
throbbing  in  unison,  longing  for  the  recovery  of 
the  noble,  the  good  President.  The  remarkable 
patience  that  he  manifested  during  those  hours 
and  weeks,  and  even  months,  of  the  most  terrible 
suffering  man  has  ever  been  called  upon  to  en- 
dure, was  seemingly  more  than  human.     It  was 


certainly  godlike.  During  all  this  period  of 
deepest  anxiety  Mr.  Arthur's  every  move  was 
watched,  and,  be  it  said  to  his  credit,  that  his  every 
action  displayed  only  an  earnest  desire  that  the 
suffering  Garfield  might  recover  to  serve  the  re- 
mainder of  the  term  he  had  so  auspiciously  be- 
gun. Not  a  selfish  feeling  was  manifested  in 
deed  or  look  of  this  man,  even  though  the  most 
honored  position  in  the  world  was  at  any  moment 
likely  to  fall  to  him. 

At  last  God  in  his  mercy  relieved  President 
Garfield  from  further  suffering,  and  the  world,  as 
never  before  in  its  history  over  the  death  of  any 
other  man,  wept  at  his  bier.  Then  it  became  the 
duty  of  the  Vice-President  to  assume  the  respon- 
sibilities of  the  high  office,  and  he  took  the  oath 
in  New  York,  September  20,  1881.  The  position 
was  an  embarrassing  one  to  him,  made  doubly  so 
from  the  fact  that  all  eyes  were  on  him,  anxious 
to  know  what  he  would  do,  what  policy  he  would 
pursue,  and  whom  he  would  select  as  advisers. 
The  duties  of  the  office  had  been  greatly  neglected 
during  the  President's  long  illness,  and  many  im- 
portant measures  were  to  be  immediately  decided 
by  him;  and  to  still  further  embarass  him  he  did 
not  fail  to  realize  under  what  circumstances  he 
became  President,  and  knew  the  feelings  of  many 
on  this  point.  Under  these  trying  circumstances, 
President  Arthur  took  the  reins  of  the  Govern- 
ment in  his  own  hands,  and,  as  embarrassing  as 
was  the  condition  of  affairs,  he  happily  surprised 
the  nation,  acting  so  wisely  that  but  few  criticised 
his  administration.  He  served  the  nation  well 
and  faithfully  until  the  close  of  his 'administra- 
tion, March  4,  1885,  and  was  a  popular  candidate 
before  his  party  for  a  second  term.  His  name 
was  ably  presented  before  the  convention  at  Chi- 
cago, and  was  received  with  great  favor,  and 
doubtless  but  for  the  personal  popularity  of  one 
of  the  opposing  candidates,  he  would  have  been 
selected  as  the  standard-bearer  of  his  party  for 
another  campaign.  He  retired  to  private  life,  car- 
rying with  him  the  best  wishes  of  the  American 
people,  whom  he  had  served  in  a  manner  satisfac- 
tory to  them  and  with  credit  to  himself.  One 
year  later  he  was  called  to  his  final  rest. 


STEPHEN  GROVER  CLEVELAND. 


STEPHEN  GROVER  CLEVELAND. 


ITEPHEN  GROVER  CLEVELAND,  the 
twentj'-second  President  of  the  United  States, 
was  born  in  1837,  in  the  obscure  town  of 
Caldwell,  Essex  County,  N.  J.,  and  in  a  little 
two-and-a-lialf-story  white  house,  which  is  still 
standing  to  characteristically  mark  the  humble 
birthplace  of  one  of  America's  great  men,  in 
striking  contrast  with  the  Old  World,  where  all 
men  high  in  office  must  be  high  in  origin  and 
bom  in  the  cradle  of  wealth.  When  the  subject 
of  this  sketch  was  three  years  of  age,  his  father, 
who  was  a  Presbyterian  minister  with  a  large 
family  and  a  small  salary,  moved,  by  way  of  the 
Hudson  River  and  Erie  Canal,  to  Fayetteville,  N. 
Y. ,  in  search  of  an  increased  income  and  a  larger 
field  of  work.  Fayetteville  was  then  the  most 
straggling  of  country  villages,  about  five  miles 
from  Pompey  Hill,  where  Governor  Seymour 
was  born. 

At  the  last-mentioned  place  young  Grover  com- 
menced going  to  .school  in  the  good,  old-fashioned 
way,  and  presumably  distinguished  himself  after 
the  manner  of  all  village  boys — in  doing  the 
things  he  ought  not  to  do.  Such  is  the  dis- 
tinguishing trait  of  all  geniuses  and  independent 
thinkers.  When  he  arrived  at  the  age  of  four- 
teen years,  he  had  outgrown  the  capacity  of  the 
village  school,  and  expressed  a  most  emphatic  de- 
sire to  be  sent  to  an  academy.  To  this  his  fa- 
ther decidedly  objected.  Academies  in  those 
days  cost  money ;  besides,  his  father  wanted  him 
to  become  self-supporting  by  the  quickest  pos- 
sible means,  and  this  at  that  time  in  Fayetteville 
seemed  to  be  a  position  in  a  country  store,  where 
his  father  and  the  large  family  on  his  hands  had 


considerable  influence.  Grover  was  to  be  paid 
$50  for  his  services  the  first  year,  and  if  he  proved 
trustworthy  he  was  to  receive  $100  the  second 
year.  Here  the  lad  commenced  his  career  as 
salesman,  and  in  two  years  he  had  earned  so  good 
a  reputation  for  trustworthiness  that  his  employ- 
ers desired  to  retain  him  for  an  indefinite  length 
of  time. 

But  instead  of  remaining  with  this  firm  in 
Fayetteville,  he  went  with  the  family  in  their  re- 
moval to  Clinton,  where  he  had  an  opportunity 
of  attending  a  High  School.  Here  he  industri- 
ously pursued  his  studies  until  the  family  re- 
moved with  him  to  a  point  on  Black  River  known 
as  the  "Holland  Patent,"  a  village  of  five  or  six 
hundred  people,  fifteen  miles  north  of  Utica,  N.  Y. 
At  this  place  his  father  died,  after  preaching  but 
three  Sundays.  This  event  broke  up  the  family, 
and  Grover  set  out  for  New  York  City  to  accept, 
at  a  small  salar}',  the  position  of  under-teacher 
in  an  asylum  for  the  blind.  He  taught  faithfully 
for  two  years,  and  although  he  obtained  a  good 
reputation  in  this  capacity,  he  concluded  that 
teaching  was  not  his  calling  in  life,  and,  revers- 
ing the  traditional  order,  he  left  the  city  to  seek 
his  fortune,  instead  of  going  to  the  city.  He  first 
thought  of  Cleveland,  Ohio,  as  there  was  some 
charm  in  that  name  for  him;  but  before  proceed- 
ing to  that  place  he  went  to  Buffalo  to  ask  advice 
of  his  uncle,  Lewis  F.  Allan,  a  noted  stock- 
breeder of  that  place.  The  latter  did  not  speak 
enthusiastically.  "What  is  it  you  want  to  do, 
my  boy?"  he  asked.  "Well,  sir,  I  want  to  study 
law,"  was  the  reply  "Good  gracious!"  remarked 
the  old  gentleman;  "  do  you,  indeed?    Whatever 


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STEPHEN  GROVER  CLEVELAND. 


put  that  into  your  head  ?  How  much  money 
have  you  got?"  "Well,  sir,  to  tell  the  truth,  I 
haven't  got  any." 

After  a  long  consultation,  his  uncle  offered  him 
a  place  temporarily  as  assistant  herd-keeper,  at 
$50  a  year,  while  he  could  look  around.  One 
day  soon  afterward  he  boldly  walked  into  the  of- 
fice of  Rogers,  Bowen  &  Rogers,  of  Buffalo,  and 
told  them  what  he  wanted.  A  number  of  young 
men  were  already  engaged  in  the  office,  but  Gro- 
ver's  persistency  won,  and  he  was  finally  per- 
mitted to  come  as  an  office  boy  and  have  the  use 
of  the  law  library,  receiving  as  wages  the  sum  of 
$3  or  $4  a  week.  Out  of  this  he  had  to  pay  for  his 
board  and  washing.  The  walk  to  and  from  his 
uncle's  was  a  long  and  rugged  one;  and  although 
the  first  winter  was  a  memorably  severe  one,  his 
shoes  were  out  of  repair,  and  as  for  his  overcoat  he 
had  none;  yet  he  was,  nevertheless,  prompt  and 
regular.  On  the  first  day  of  his  service  there,  his 
senior  employer  threw  down  a  copy  of  Black- 
stone  before  him,  with  a  bang  that  made  the  dust 
fly,  saying  "That's  where  they  all  begin."  A 
titter  ran  around  the  little  circle  of  clerks  and 
.students,  as  they  thought  that  was  enough  to 
scare  young  Grover  out  of  his  plans;  but  in  due 
time  he  mastered  that  cumbersome  volume. 
Then,  as  ever  afterward,  however,  Mr.  Cleve- 
land exhibited  a  talent  for  executiveness  rather 
than  for  chasing  principles  through  all  their 
metaphysical  possibilities.  '  'Let  us  quit  talking 
and  go  and  do  it, ' '  was  practically  his  motto. 

The  first  public  office  to  which  Mr.  Cleveland 
was  elected  was  that  of  Sheriff  of  Erie  County, 
N.  Y.,  in  which  Buffalo  is  situated;  and  in  such 
capacity  it  fell  to  his  duty  to  inflict  capital  punish- 
ment upon  two  criminals.  In  1881  he  was 
elected  Mayor  of  the  City  of  Buffalo,  on  the 
Democratic  ticket,  with  especial  reference  to  bring- 
ing about  certain  reforms  in  the  administration 
of  the  municipal  affairs  of  that  city.  In  this  of- 
fice, as  well  as  in  that  of  Sheriff,  his  performance 
of  duty  has  generally  been  considered  fair,  with 
possibly  a  few  exceptions,  which  were  ferreted 
out  and  magnified  during  his  Presidential  cam- 
paign. As  a  specimen  of  his  plain  language  in 
a  veto  message,  we  quote  from  one  vetoing  an 


iniquitous  street-cleaning  contract:  "This  is  a 
time  for  plain  speech,  and  my  objection  to  your 
action  shall  be  plainly  stated.  I  regard  it  as  the 
culmination  of  a  most  bare-faced,  impudent  and 
shameless  scheme  to  betray  the  interests  of  the 
people  and  to  worse  than  squander  the  people's 
money."  The  New  York  Su/t  afterward  very 
highly  commended  Mr.  Cleveland's  administra- 
tion as  Mayor  of  Buffalo,  and  thereupon  recom- 
mended him  for  Governor  of  the  Empire  State. 
To  the  latter  office  he  was  elected  in  1882,  and 
his  administration  of  the  affairs  of  State  was 
generally  satisfactory-.  The  mistakes  he  made, 
if  any,  were  made  very  public  throughout  the  na- 
tion after  he  was  nominated  for  President  of  the 
United  States.  For  this  high  office  he  was 
nominated  July  11,  1884,  by  the  National  Demo- 
cratic Convention  at  Chicago,  when  other  com- 
petitors were  Thomas  F.  Bayard,  Roswell  P. 
Flower,  Thomas  A.  Hendricks,  Benjamin  F. 
Butler,  Allen  G.  Thurman,  etc.;  and  he  was 
elected  by  the  people,  by  a  majority  of  about  a 
thousand,  over  the  brilliant  and  long-tried  Re- 
publican statesman,  James  G.  Blaine.  President 
Cleveland  resigned  his  office  as  Governor  of  New 
York  in  January,  1885,  in  order  to  prepare  for 
his  duties  as  the  Chief  Executive  of  the  United 
States,  in  which  capacity  his  term  commenced  at 
noon  on  the  4th  of  March,  1885. 

The  silver  question  precipitated  a  controversy 
between  those  who  were  in  favor  of  the  continu- 
ance of  silver  coinage  and  those  who  were  op- 
posed, Mr.  Cleveland  answering  for  the  latter, 
even  before  his  inauguration. 

On  June  2,  1886,  President  Cleveland  married 
Frances,  daughter  of  his  deceased  friend  and  part- 
ner, Oscar  Folsom,  of  the  Buffalo  Bar.  In  the 
campaign  of  1888,  President  Cleveland  was  re- 
nominated by  his  party,  but  the  Republican  candi- 
date, Gen.  Benjamin  Harrison,  was  victorious. 
In  the  nomination  of  1892  these  two  candidates 
for  the  highest  position  in  the  gift  of  the  people 
were  again  pitted  against  each  other,  and  in  the 
ensuing  election  President  Cleveland  was  victori- 
ous by  an  overwhelming  majority.  Since  the 
close  of  his  second  term,  he  has  resided  in  Prince- 
ton, N.  J. 


BENJAMIN  HARRISON. 


BENJAMIN  HARRISON. 


gENJAMIN  HARRISON,  the  twenty-third 
President,  is  the  descendant  of  one  of  the 
historical  families  of  this  country.  The  first 
known  head  of  the  family  was  Maj .  -Gen.  Harrison, 
one  of  Oliver  Cromwell's  trusted  followers  and 
fighters.  In  the  zenith  of  Cromwell' s  power  it  be- 
came the  duty  of  this  Harrison  to  participate  in 
the  trial  of  Charles  I.,  and  afterward  to  sign  the 
death  warrant  of  the  king.  He  subsequently 
paid  for  this  with  his  life,  being  hung  October  13, 
1660.  His  descendants  came  to  America,  and 
the  next  of  the  family  that  appears  in  history  is 
Benjamin  Harrison,  of  Virginia,  great-grandfa- 
ther of  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  and  after  whom 
he  was  named.  Benjamin  Harrison  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Continental  Congress  during  the  years 
1774,  1775  and  1776,  and  was  one  of  the  original 
signers  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence.  He 
was  three  times  elected  Governor  of  Virginia. 

Gen.  William  Henry  Harrison,  the  son  of  the 
distinguished  patriot  of  the  Revolution,  after  a 
successful  career  as  a  soldier  during  the  War  of 
1 8 12,  and  with  a  clean  record  as  Governor  of  the 
Northwestern  Territory,  was  elected  President  of 
the  United  States  in  1840.  His  career  was  cut 
short  by  death  within  one  month  after  his  in- 
auguration. 

President  Harrison  was  bom  at  North  Bend, 


Hamilton  County,  Ohio,  August  20,  1833.  His 
life  up  to  the  time  of  his  graduation  from  Miami 
University,  at  Oxford,  Ohio,  was  the  uneventfiil 
one  of  a  country  lad  of  a  family  of  small  means. 
His  father  was  able  to  give  him  a  good  education, 
and  nothing  more.  He  became  engaged  while  at 
college  to  the  daughter  of  Dr.  Scott,  Principal  of 
a  female  school  at  Oxford.  After  graduating,  he 
determined  to  enter  upon  the  study  of  law.  He 
went  to  Cincinnati  and  there  read  law  for  two 
years.  At  the  expiration  of  that  time  young  Har- 
rison received  the  only  inheritance  of  his  life — his 
aunt,  dying,  left  him  a  lot  valued  at  $800.  He 
regarded  this  legacy  as  a  fortune,  and  decided  to 
get  married  at  once,  take  this  money  and  go  to 
some  Eastern  town  and  begin  the  practice  of  law. 
He  sold  his  lot,  and,  with  the  money  in  his  pocket, 
he  started  out  with  his  young  wife  to  fight  for  a 
place  in  the  world.  He  decided  to  go  to  Indian- 
apolis, which  was  even  at  that  time  a  town  of 
promise.  He  met  with  slight  encouragement  at 
first,  making  scarcely  anything  the  first  year. 
He  worked  diHgently,  applying  himself  closely  to 
his  calling,  built  up  an  extensive  practice  and 
took  a  leading  rank  in  the  legal  profession. 

In  i860,  Mr.  Harrison  was  nominated  for  the 
position  of  Supreme  Court  Reporter,  and  then  be- 
gan his  experience  as  a  stump  speaker.     He  can- 


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BENJAMIN  HARRISON. 


vassed  the  State  thoroughly,  and  was  elected  by 
a  handsome  majority.  In  1862  he  raised  the 
Seventeenth  Indiana  Infantry,  and  was  chosen  its 
Colonel.  His  regiment  was  composed  of  the  raw- 
est material,  but  Col.  Harrison  employed  all  his 
time  at  first  in  mastering  military  tactics  and  drill- 
ing his  men,  and  when  he  came  to  move  toward 
the  East  with  Sherman,  his  regiment  was  one  of 
the  best  drilled  and  organized  in  the  army.  At 
Resaca  he  especially  distinguished  himself,  and 
for  his  bravery  at  Peachtree  Creek  he  was  made 
a  Brigadier-General,  Gen.  Hooker  speaking  of 
him  in  the  most  complimentarj-  terms. 

During  the  absence  of  Gen.  Harrison  in  the 
field,  the  Supreme  Court  declared  the  of&ce  of 
Supreme  Court  Reporter  vacant,  and  another 
person  was  elected  to  the  position.  From  the 
time  of  leaving  Indiana  with  his  regiment  until 
the  fall  of  1864  he  had  taken  no  leave  of  absence, 
but  having  been  nominated  that  year  for  the  same 
office,  he  got  a  thirty-day  leave  of  absence,  and 
during  that  time  made  a  brilliant  canvass  of  the 
State,  and  was  elected  for  another  term.  He  then 
started  to  rejoin  Sherman,  but  on  the  way  was 
stricken  down  with  scarlet  fever,  and  after  a  most 
trying  attack  made  his  way  to  the  front  in  time  to 
participate  in  the  closing  incidents  of  the  war. 

In  1868  Gen.  Harrison  declined  a  re-election 
as  Reporter,  and  resumed  the  practice  of  law.  In 
1876  he  was  a  candidate  for  Governor.  Although 
defeated,  the  brilliant  campaign  he  made  won  for 
him  a  national  reputation,  and  he  was  much  sought 
after,  especially  in  the  East,  to  make  speeches. 
In  1880,  as  usual,  he  took  an  active  part  in  the 
campaign,  and  was  elected  to  the  United  States 
Senate.  Here  he  served  for  six  years,  and  was 
known  as  one  of  the  ablest  men,  best  lawyers  and 
strongest  debaters  in  that  bod}'.  With  the  ex- 
piration of  his  senatorial  term  he  returned  to  the 
practice  of  his  profession,  becoming  the  head  of 
one  of  the  strongest  firms  in  the  State. 

The  political  campaign  of  1888  was  one  of  the 
most  memorable  in  the  history  of  our  country. 
The  convention  which  assembled  in  Chicago  in 
June  and  named  Mr.  Harrison  as  the  chief  stand- 
ard-bearer of  the  Republican  party  was  great  in 
every  particular,  and  on  this  account,  and  the  at- 


titude it  assumed  upon  the  vital  questions  of  the 
day,  chief  among  which  was  the  tariff,  awoke  a 
deep  interest  in  the  campaign  throughout  the 
nation.  Shortly  after  the  nomination,  delegations 
began  to  visit  Mr.  Harrison  at  Indianapolis,  his 
home.  This  movement  became  popular,  and  from 
all  sections  of  the  country  societies,  clubs  and 
delegations  journeyed  thither  to  pay  their  re- 
spects to  the  distinguished  statesman. 

Mr.  Harrison  .spoke  daily  all  through  the  sum- 
mer and  autumn  to  these  visiting  delegations, 
and  so  varied,  masterly,  and  eloquent  were  his 
speeches  that  "they  at  once  placed  him  in  the  fore- 
most rank  of  American  orators  and  statesmen. 
Elected  by  a  handsome  majority,  he  served  his 
country  faithfully  and  well,  and  in  1892  was  nom- 
inated for  re-election ;  but  the  people  demanded  a 
change  and  he  was  defeated  by  his  predecessor 
in  office,  Grover  Cleveland. 

On  account  of  his  eloquence  as  a  speaker  and 
his  power  as  a  debater,  Gen.  Harrison  was  called 
upon  at  an  early  age  to  take  part  in  the  dis- 
cussion of  the  great  questions  that  then  began  to 
agitate  the  country.  He  was  an  uncompromising 
anti-slavery  man,  and  was  matched  against  some 
of  the  most  eminent  Democratic  speakers  of  his 
State.  No  man  who  felt  the  touch  of  his  blade 
desired  to  be  pitted  with  him  again.  With  all 
his  eloquence  as  an  orator  he  never  spoke  for  ora- 
torical effect,  but  his  words  always  went  like  bul- 
lets to  the  mark.  He  is  purely  American  in  his 
ideas,  and  is  a  splendid  type  of  the  American 
statesman.  Gifted  with  quick  perception,  a  logi- 
cal mind  and  a  ready  tongue,  he  is  one  of  the 
most  distinguished  impromptu  speakers  in  the 
nation.  Many  of  these  speeches  sparkled  with  the 
rarest  eloquence  and  contained  arguments  of  great 
weight,  and  many  of  his  terse  statements  have 
already  become  aphorisms.  Original  in  thought, 
precise  in  logic,  terse  in  statement,  yet  withal 
faultless  in  eloquence,  he  is  recognized  as  the 
sound  statesman  and  brilliant  orator  of  the  day. 
By  his  first  wife,  Caroline  (Scott)  Harrison,  he 
had  a  son  and  daughter.  In  1896  he  married 
Mrs.  Mary  (Scott)  Dimmick,  and  they,  with  their 
daughter,  reside  in  Indianapolis,  Ind.,  where  he 
has  made  his  home  since  early  manhood. 


WILLIAM  Mckinley. 


WILLIAM  McKINLEY. 


pGJiLLIAM  McKINLEY,  who  was  inaugu- 
\  A  /  rated  President  of  the  United  States  in  1 89  7 , 
Y  Y  was  born  in  Niles,  Ohio,  January  29,  1843. 
The  family  of  which  he  is  a  member  originated 
in  the  west  of  Scotland,  and  from  there  removed 
to  the  north  of  Ireland.  According  to  the  fam- 
ily tradition,  James  and  WilHam  McKinley  emi- 
grated to  this  country  from  Ireland  and  founded 
the  two  branches  of  the  family  in  the  United 
States,  one  settling  in  the  north,  the  other  in  the 
south.  At  the  time  of  their  arrival,  James  was 
twelve  years  of  age.  He  settled  in  York  County, 
Pa. ,  where  he  quarried  and  spent  his  remaining 
years. 

David,  son  of  James,  and  the  great-grandfather 
of  William  McKinley,  was  born  May  16,  1755, 
and  three  times  enlisted  in  the  service  of  the 
colonies  during  the  Revolutionary  War,  serving 
seven  months  after  his  first  enlistment  in  June, 
1776,  spending  six  months  at  the  front  in  1777, 
and  again  in  the  following  year  serving  eight 
months.  December  19,  1780,  he  married  Sarah 
Gray,  who  was  born  May  10,  1760,  and  died 
October  6,  18 14.  For  fifteen  years  he  lived  in 
Westmoreland  County,  Pa. ,  and  thence  removed 
to  Mercer  County.  One  year  after  the  death 
of  his  first  wife  he  married  Eleanor  McLean 
and  about  the  same  time  settled  in  Colum- 
biana County,  Ohio,  but  afterward  made  his  home 
in  Crawford  County,  where  he  died  August  8, 
1840. 

James,  grandfather  of  William  McKinley,  was 
born  September  19,  1783,  married  Mary  (or 
"Polly' ' )  Rose,  and  with  his  family  moved  to  New 
Lisbon,  Ohio,  in  1809.  Their  eldest  son,  Will- 
iam, Sr. ,  was  born  in  Mercer  County,  Pa., 
November  15,  1807,  and  in  1827  married 
Nancy  Allison,  a  woman  of  noble  and  strong 
character  and  consistent  Christian  life.  For  some 
years  he  was  engaged  as  manager  of  iron  fur- 
naces at  difierent  places.     From  Niles  he  re- 


moved to  Poland,  because  of  the  educational  ad- 
vantages ofiered  by  Poland  Academy.  In  1869 
he  established  his  home  in  Canton,  and  here  he 
died  November  24,  1892.  His  widow  lives  at 
the  family  residence  in  Canton,  and  with  her  are 
her  daughter,  Miss  Helen,  and  two  orphan 
grandchildren. 

Of  the  family  of  nine  children,  William,  Jr.,  who 
was  seventh  in  order  of  birth,  was  born  during 
the  residence  of  his  parents  at  Niles,  Ohio,  Jan- 
uary 29,  1843.  His  boyhood  years  were  spent 
in  that  place  and  Poland,  where  he  studied  in  the 
academy.  At  the  age  of  seventeen  he  entered 
Allegheny  College,  but  illness  caused  his  return 
to  Poland,  and  on  his  recovery  he  did  not  return 
to  college,  but  taught  a  country  school.  At  the 
opening  of  the  Civil  War,  though  only  eighteen 
years  of  age,  he  immediately  wanted  to  enlist. 
As  soon  as  he  could  overcome  the  objections  of 
his  mother,  he  enlisted,  in  May  of  1861,  as  a 
private  in  Company  E,  Twenty-third  Ohio  In- 
fantry. The  regiment  was  commanded  by  Col. 
W.  S.  Rosecrans,  who  afterward,  as  general,  led 
his  forces  on  many  a  bloody  battle  field,  and  the 
first  major  was  Rutherford  B.  Hayes,  afterward 
President  of  the  United  States.  As  a  gallant 
soldier  Mr.  McKinley  soon  won  promotion,  serving 
for  a  time  as  commissary  sergeant,  later  was  pro- 
moted to  the  rank  of  second  lieutenant  for  gal- 
lantry at  Antietam,  and  then  won  his  way  up- 
ward until,  at  the  close  of  the  war,  he  was  pro- 
moted to  major  by  brevet.  July  26,  1865,  after 
more  than  four  years  of  hard  service,  he  was 
mustered  out  with  his  regiment. 

With  Judge  Charles  E.  Glidden,  of  Mahoning 
County,  Mr.  McKinley  began  the  study  of  law, 
which  he  afterward  carried  on  in  the  Albany 
(N.  Y.)  Law  School,  and  in  1867  was  admitted 
to  the  bar.  Beginning  the  practice  of  his  pro- 
fession in  Canton,  he  soon  became  prominently 
known  among  the  able  attorneys  of  the  city.   His 


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WILLIAM  McKINLEY. 


first  connection  with  political  afiairs  was  in  1869, 
when  he  was  elected  prosecuting  attorney  of  Stark 
County,  and  this  office  he  held  for  two  years. 
In  1876  he  was  nominated  for  Congressional 
honors  and  was  elected  to  the  Forty-fifth  Con- 
gress, afterward  by  successive  re-elections  serv- 
ing for  fourteen  years.  In  March  of  1890  he  in- 
troduced the  celebrated  McKinley  tariff  bill, 
which  was  passed  and  became  a  law.  In  the  fol- 
lowing year,  1891,  he  was  elected  governor  of 
Ohio,  and  two  years  afterward  was  re-elected  to 
that  high  office,  which  he  filled  in  such  a  manner 
as  to  command  the  respect  not  only  of  his  own 
party — the  Republican — but  his  political  op- 
ponents as  well.  The  connection  of  his  name 
with  the  tariff  bill  and  his  prominence  in  the  Re- 
publican party,  together  with  his  force  and  elo- 
quence as  a  speaker,  brought  him  into  national 
fame.  In  the  campaign  of  1892,  for  a  period  of 
more  than  three  months,  he  traveled  over  a 
territory  extending  from  New  York  to  Nebraska, 
making  speeches  in  the  interest  of  the  Republi- 
can platform.  Those  who  heard  him  speak, 
whether  friends  or  opponents  of  his  political 
opinions,  cannot  but  have  admired  his  logical 
reasoning,  breadth  of  intellect,  eloquence  of  speech 
and  modesty  of  demeanor.  During  the  campaign 
of  1894  lie  made  three  hundred  and  seventy-one 
speeches  and  visited  over  three  hundred  towns, 
within  a  period  of  two  months,  addressing  perhaps 
two  million  people. 

The  tarifif  issue  and  all  the  intricate  questions 
of  public  revenue  that  are  interwoven  with  it, 
constitute  the  most  complicated  problems  with 
which  a  statesman  has  to  deal.  To  master  them 
in  every  detail  requires  an  intellect  of  the  high- 
est order.  That  Major  McKinley  thoroughly  un- 
derstands these  questions  is  admitted  by  all  who 
have  investigated  his  official  utterances  on  the 
subject,  beginning  with  the  speech  on  the  Wood 
tarifif  bill,  delivered  in  the  house  of  representatives 
April  15,  1878,  and  closing  with  his  speech  in 
favor  of  the  tarifif  bill  of  1 890,  which  as  chairman 
of  the  ways  and  means  committee  he  reported  to 
the  house  and  which  was  subsequently  passed  and 
is  known  throughout  the  world  as  the  McKinley 
tariff  bill  of  1890.  He  opposed  the  Wood  bill  be- 
cause of  a  conviction  that  the  proposed  measure 


would,  if  enacted,  prove  a  public  calamity.  For 
the  same  reason,  in  1882,  he  advocated  a  friendly 
revision  of  the  tariff  by  a  tariff  commission,  to  be 
authorized  by  congress  and  appointed  by  the 
president.  In  1884  he  opposed  the  Morrison 
horizontal  bill,  which  he  denounced  as  ambiguous 
for  a  great  public  statute,  and  in  1888  he  led  the 
forces  in  the  fight  against  the  Mills  tariff  bill. 

As  governor  of  Ohio,  his  policy  was  conserva- 
tive. He  aimed  to  give  to  the  public  institutions 
the  benefit  of  the  service  of  the  best  man  of  the 
state,  and  at  all  times  upheld  the  legitimate  rights 
of  the  workingmen.  Recognizing  the  fact  that 
the  problem  of  taxation  needed  regulation,  in 
his  messages  of  1892,  1893  and  1894,  ^^  urged 
the  legislature  that  a  remedy  be  applied.  In 
1892  he  recommended  legislation  for  the  safety 
and  comfort  of  steam  railroad  employes,  and  the 
following  year  urged  the  furnishing  of  automatic 
couplers  and  air-brakes  for  all  railroad  cars  used 
in  the  state. 

When,  in  1896,  the  Republican  party,  in  con- 
vention assembled  at  St.  Louis,  selected  a  man  to 
represent  their  principles  in  the  highest  office 
within  the  gift  of  the  American  people,  it  was  not 
a  surprise  to  the  public  that  the  choice  fell  upon 
Major  McKinley.  The  campaign  that  followed 
was  one  of  the  most  exciting  in  the  history  of 
the  country  since  the  period  of  reconstruction. 
Especial  interest  centered  in  the  fact  that  the 
point  at  issue  seemed,  not,  as  in  former  days, 
free  trade  or  protection,  but  whether  or  not  the 
government  should  declare  for  the  free  coinage  of 
silver.  This  question  divided  the  voters  of  the 
country  upon  somewhat  different  lines  than  theold- 
time  principles  of  the  Republican  and  Democratic 
parties  and  thus  made  the  campaign  a  memorable 
one.  The  supporters  of  the  gold  standard  main- 
tained that  silver  monometallism  would  precipi- 
tate a  panic  and  permanently  injure  the  business 
interests  of  the  country,  and  the  people,  by  a 
large  majority,  supported  these  principles. 

January  25,  1871,  Major  McKinley  was  united 
in  marriage  with  Miss  Ida  Saxton,  who  was  born 
in  June,  1847,  the  daughter  of  James  A.  Saxton. 
Their  two  children  died  in  1874,  within  a  short 
time  of  each  other,  one  at  the  age  of  three  years 
and  the  other  in  infancy. 


DENVER  AND  VICINITY 


COLORADO 


INTRODUCTORY 


glOGRAPHY  alone  can  justly  represent  the  progress  of  local  history  and  portray  with  accuracy 
the  relation  of  men  to  events.  It  is  the  only  means  of  perpetuating  the  lives  and  deeds  of 
those  men  to  whom  the  advancement  of  a  city  or  county  and  the  enlightenment  of  its  people 
are  due.  The  compilers  of  this  work  have  striven  to  honor,  not  only  men  of  present  prominence, 
but  also,  as  far  as  possible,  those  who  in  years  gone  by  labored  to  promote  the  welfare  of  their  com- 
munity. The  following  sketches  have  been  prepared  from  the  standpoint  of  no  man's  prejudice, 
but  with  an  impartial  aim  to  render  justice  to  progressive  and  public-spirited  citizens  and  to  collect 
personal  records  that  will  be  of  value  to  generations  yet  to  come. 

To  be  forgotten  has  been  the  great  dread  of  mankind  from  remotest  ages.  All  will  be  forgotten 
soon  enough,  in  spite  of  their  best  works  and  the  most  earnest  efforts  of  their  friends  to  preserve  the 
memory  of  their  lives.  The  means  emploj^ed  to  prevent  oblivion  and  to  perpetuate  their  memory 
have  been  in.  proportion  to  the  amount  of  intelligence  they  possessed.  The  pyramids  of  Egypt  were 
built  to  perpetuate  the  names  and  deeds  of  their  great  rulers.  The  exhumations  made  by  the 
archaeologists  of  Egypt  from  buried  Memphis  indicate  a  desire  of  those  people  to  perpetuate  the 
memory  of  their  achievements.  The  erection  of  the  great  obelisks  was  for  the  same  purpose. 
Coming  down  to  a  later  period,  we  find  the  Greeks  and  Romans  erecting  mausoleums  and 
monuments,  and  carving  out  statues  to  chronicle  their  great  achievements  and  carry  them  down  the 
ages.  It  is  also  evident  that  the  Mound-builders,  in  piling  up  their  great  mounds  of  earth,  had  but 
this  idea — to  leave  something  to  show  that  they  had  lived.  All  these  works,  though  many  of  them 
costly  in  the  extreme,  give  but  a  faint  idea  of  the  lives  and  character  of  those  whose  memory  they 
were  intended  to  perpetuate,  and  scarcely  anything  of  the  masses  of  the  people  that  then  lived.  The 
great  pyramids  and  some  of  the  obelisks  remain  objects  only  of  curiosity;  the  mausoleums, 
monuments  and  statues  are  crumbling  into  dust. 

It  was  left  to  modern  ages  to  establish  an  intelligent,  undecaying,  immutable  method  of 
perpetuating  a  full  history — immutable  in  that  it  is  almost  unlimited  in  extent  and  perpetual  in  its 
action;  and  this  is  through  the  art  of  printing. 

To  the  present  generation,  however,  we  are  indebted  for  the  introduction  of  the  admirable 
system  of  local  biography.  By  this  system  every  man,  though  he  has  not  achieved  what  the  world 
calls  greatness,  has  the  means  to  perpetuate  his  life,  his  history,  through  the  coming  ages. 

The  scythe  of  Time  cuts  down  all;  nothing  of  the  physical  man  is  left.  The  monument  which 
his  children  or  friends  may  erect  to  his  memory  in  the  cemetery  will  crumble  into  dust  and  pass 
away;  but  his  life,  his  achievements,  the  work  he  has  accomplished,  which  otherwise  would  be 
forgotten,  is- perpetuated  by  a  record  of  this  kind. 

To  preserve  the  lineaments  of  our  companions  we  engrave  their  portraits;  for  the  same  reason 
we  collect  the  attainable  facts  of  their  history.  Nor  do  we  think  it  necessary,  as  we  speak  only 
truth  of  them,  to  wait  until  they  are  dead,  or  until  those  who  know  them  are  gone;  to  do  this  we 
are  ashamed  only  to  publish  to  the  world  the  history  of  those  whose  lives  are  unworthy  of  public 
record. 


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BIOGRAPHICAL. 


HON.  ALVA  ADAMS.  The  opportunities 
which  Colorado  offers  to  young  men  of  res- 
olute purpose  nowhere  find  a  more  illustri- 
ous exemplification  than  in  the  life  of  the  present 
governor  of  the  state,  a  man  honored  alike  in  the 
counsels  of  the  commonwealth  and  in  the  circle 
of  his  personal  acquaintances  and  friends.  It  was 
not  due  to  mere  luck  that,  seventeen  years  from 
the  time  when  he  hauled  ties  for  the  railroad,  he 
was  the  incumbent  of  the  office  of  chief  executive, 
the  highest  po.sition  within  the  gift  of  the  state. 
Not  by  chance  did  he  rise  from  poverty  to  aiflu- 
ence;  it  was  the  direct  result  of  his  determination 
of  character,  his  purpose  of  will.  Determination 
may  be  said  to  be  the  keynote  of  his  character. 
What  he  sets  out  to  do  he  achieves  though  innu- 
merable obstacles  must  first  be  surmounted  and 
interposing  barriers  removed. 

While  the  most  of  his  life  has  been  spent  in 
Colorado,  Governor  Adams  grew  to  manhood  in 
Iowa  County,  Wis.,  where  he  was  born  May  14, 
1850.  His  father  had  come  from  Kentucky  and 
his  mother  from  New  York,  the  former  being  a 
country  merchant  and  farmer.  The  boy,  though 
never  in  college,  had  the  opportunity  to  secure  an 
education  usual  to  country  boys  in  Wisconsin. 
The  illness  of  a  brother  caused  the  family  to  seek 
a  change  of  climate,  and,  hoping  his  health  might 
be  benefited  by  the  dry,  pure  air  of  Colorado,  they 
decided  to  come  to  this  state.  Accordingly,  in 
the  then  well-known  "prairie  schooner,"  they 
made  the  long  trip  from  Wisconsin  westward, 
landing  in  Greeley,  Colo.,  where  they  stopped 
for  a  time.  At  once  the  son,  who  was  a  young 
man  of  twenty-one,  looked  about  him  for  employ- 
ment. The  only  work  he  couid  secure  was  that 
of  hauling  ties  from  the  mountains  south  of  Den- 
ver for  the  building  of  the  Denver  &  Rio  Grande 
Railroad,  then  in  process  of  construction.  He 
spent  a  few  weeks  in  that  way,  after  which,  in 
July,  1 87 1,  he  went  to  Colorado  Springs  as  an 
employe  of  C.  W.  Sanborn,  dealer  in  lumber  and 
hardware. 


While  working  for  Mr.  Sanborn,  Mr.  Adams 
set  about  building  a  structure  that  would  answer 
for  a  lumber  office,  hardware  store  and  dwelling 
place.  By  August  he  had  completed  a  small 
building  on  South  Cascade  avenue,  which  was  the 
first  building  on  the  present  site  of  Colorado 
Springs,  and  there  the  business  was  carried  on. 
In  October  he  bought  the  stock  of  goods  from  his 
employer,  paying  $4,100  therefor,  and,  as  he  did 
not  have  the  cash  in  hand,  he  paid  in  notes  bear- 
ing two  per  cent  interest  a  month.  Since  then 
he  has  constantly,  and  with  success,  engaged  in 
the  hardware  business.  In  1872  he  took  J.  C. 
Wilson  into  partnership,  and  while  the  latter  re- 
mained at  Colorado  Springs,  he  went  to  Pueblo, 
establishing  a  branch  store  at  that  place.  Later 
the  partnership  was  dissolved,  Mr.  Wilson  retain- 
ing the  store  at  Colorado  Springs,  and  Mr.  Adams 
that  at  Pueblo,  to  which  he  afterwards  added 
branch  stores  in  the  San  Juan  district. 

The  first  position  held  by  Mr.  Adams  was  in 
1873,  when  he  was  chosen  a  trustee  of  South  Pu- 
eblo. Three  years  later  he  was  elected  from  Rio 
Grande  County  to  the  state  legislature,  where  he 
became  noted  for  his  strict  watch  of  expenses  and 
his  opposition  to  bills  requiring  special  appropria- 
tions. In  1884  he  was  nominated  for  governor, 
but  was  defeated.  However,  in  the  election  two 
years  later  he  was  successful,  receiving  a  major- 
ity of  twenty-four  hundred,  and  entering  on  the 
duties  of  his  office  in  January,  1887.  His  admin- 
istration was  perhaps  as  satisfactory  as  that  of 
any  governor  the  state  has  ever  had.  As  in  the 
legislature,  so  in  the  chief  executive's  chair,  he 
was  distinguished  for  the  economical  spirit  that 
governed  his  administration.  Every  bill  demand- 
ing an  appropriation  was  scrutinized  closely  and 
unless  he  was  thoroughly  convinced  of  its  benefits, 
it  was  promptly  vetoed. 

In  August,  1887,  occurred  an  outbreak  of  the 
Utes.  At  that  time  they  had  for  their  chief  Col- 
orow,  a  stubborn,  insolent  but  cowardly  Indian. 
Some  of  his  tribe  were  gambling  with  cowboys  at 


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Meeker  one  day,  but  were  unfortunate  at  the 
cards,  and  staked  and  lost  everything  they  had. 
Their  passion  for  gambling  had  been  aroused  to 
such  an  extent  that  they  went  out  and  stole  two 
horses  belonging  to  white  men,  and  these  they 
also  staked  and  lost.  Warrants  were  issued  for 
their  arrest  for  horse-stealing,  but  they  resisted 
arrest.  Shots  were  exchanged.  At  once  the 
wildest  excitement  prevailed.  The  white  set- 
tlers, remembering  the  bloody  slaughters  by  the 
Indians  in  other  days,  at  once  demanded  that  the 
governor  send  the  militia,  and  he  in  turn  request- 
ed the  government  at  Washington  to  have  the 
Indians  seut  to  their  reservation.  But  as  in  so 
many  other  cases,  the  government  acted  too  slow- 
ly. The  governor  then  ordered  the  troops  to 
White  River,  but  after  a  time,  no  further  trouble 
occurring,  he  had  them  withdrawn. 

From  the  clo.se  of  his  first  administration  Gov- 
ernor Adams  carried  on  business  in  Pueblo  until 
1896,  when  he  was  again  the  successful  candi- 
date for  governor,  being  one  of  the  very  few  men 
(in  fact,  none  beside  himself  and  F.  W.  Pitkin) 
who  have  been  twice  chosen  to  serve  as  chief 
executive.  His  second  term  has  had  no  weighty 
legislation,  no  hostilities,  to  make  it  memorable 
in  history.  It  is  the  record  of  a  peaceful  admin- 
istration, which,  though  it  may  be  unnoticed  in 
history,  has  nevertheless  left  its  impress  in  the  in- 
creasing prosperity  of  the  state,  the  exten.sion  of 
its  industries  and  the  advancement  of  its  mining, 
agricultural  and  commercial  interests. 

It  may  be  said  of  Governor  Adams  that  he  is  a 
safe  man.  As  a  leader  he  has  none  of  that  reck- 
lessness sometimes  found  in  men  in  public  places. 
He  is  as  careful  of  the  state's  finances  as  he  has 
been  of  his  own.  In  that  respect  he  resembles 
Governor  Pitkin,  who  as  a  financier  has  never 
been  surpassed  by  any  governor.  Perhaps  this 
quality  of  cautiousness  has  been  objectionable  to 
men  who  were  interested  in  securing  bridges  over 
rivers  or  other  improvements  for  the  benefit  of  the 
state;  but  the  man  who  stands  at  the  head  of  af- 
fairs owes  a  duty  to  the  tax-payers  and  must  con- 
scientiously guard  the  finances  of  the  state. 

Himself  a  wealthy  man.  Governor  Adams  has 
often  assisted  others  who  have  less  fortune  in 
fighting  the  battle  of  life  than  has  he.  By  travel, 
both  on  this  continent  and  abroad,  he  has  gained 
a  cosmopolitan  knowledge  that  has  atoned  largely 
for  his  lack  of  early  education.     In  the  school  of 


experience  and  observation  he  has  been  an  apt 
pupil,  and  who  shall  say  that  the  graduates  of 
this  .school  have  been  less  successful,  as  a  class, 
than  those  who  boast  of  college  diplomas?  In 
summing  up  the  character  of  Governor  Adams, 
Fitz-Mac  describes  him  in  these  words:  "The 
keynote  of  Alva  Adams'  character  throughout 
has  been — purpose.  He  is  not  a  great  man,  but 
he  is  a  good  man,  a  clever  man,  an  ambitious  and 
cultivated  man.  He  has  made  the  most  of  the 
excellent  talents  with  which  nature  endowed  him 
and  that  is  why  he  seems  to  me  the  most  admira- 
ble man  in  the  state.  What  he  is  he  has  made 
himself,  and  my  heart  goes  out  in  unreserved 
sympathy  toward  the  high  and  honorable  and 
forcible  character  he  has  established. ' ' 


HON.  SAMUEL  H.  ELBERT,  governor  of 
the  territory  of  Colorado  1873-74,  chief  jus- 
tice of  the  supreme  court  1876-82  and  1886- 
88,  is  one  of  the  most  distinguished  citizens  our 
state  has  ever  had.  Under  appointment  by  Pres- 
ident Lincoln  as  secretary  of  the  territory,  he 
came  to  Colorado  in  1862  and  his  life  since  that 
time  has  been  a  part  of  the  history  of  the  state.  As 
the  chief  executive  of  the  territory ,  it  was  his  aim  to 
promote  the  welfare  of  the  people;  as  chief  justice 
of  the  supreme  court,  he  was  wise,  impartial  and 
fearless;  as  a  citizen,  he  has  ever  been  progressive 
and  public-spirited;  and  as  a  friend  those  who 
knew  him  best  have  found  that  beneath  his  dig- 
nity of  manner  and  apparent  reserve  beats  a  kind, 
generous,  warm  heart,  untainted  by  a  shadow  of 
dishonor  or  disloyalty. 

The  life  which  this  narrative  sketches  began 
in  Logan  County,  Ohio,  in  1833.  The  family, 
while  not  wealthy,  was  in  comfortable  circum- 
stances and  the  son  was  given  every  educational 
advantage  which  the  schools  of  Ohio  afforded. 
Dr.  Elbert,  the  father,  was  an  eminent  physician 
and  surgeon,  with  honorary  degrees  from  Cincin- 
nati and  Philadelphia  tuedical  colleges.  In  1840 the 
family  removed  to  Iowa,  but  in  1848  young  Elbert 
returned  to  Ohio,  where  he  took  the  regular  col- 
legiate course  of  Wesley  an  University,  graduating 
in  1854.  During  the  next  two  years  he  studied 
law  in  Dayton,  Ohio,  and  was  there  admitted  to 
the  bar.  In  the  spring  of  1857  he  opened  an 
office  at  Plattsmouth,  Neb.  His  connection  with 
public  and  political  affairs  began  in  May,  i860, 


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when  he  was  a  delegate  from  Nebraska  to  the 
Republican  convention  that  nominated  Abraham 
Lincoln  for  President,  and  in  the  exciting  cam- 
paign that  followed  he  was  an  active  participant. 
In  i860  he  was  elected  to  the  state  legislature, 
his  first  public  position. 

When  Hon.  John  Evans  was  appointed  gov- 
ernor of  Colorado  to  succeed  William  Gilpin,  Mr. 
Elbert  was  at  the  same  time  appointed  territorial 
secretary,  and  he  came  to  Denverin  May,  1862. 
The  intimate  friendship  between  himself  and  the 
chief  executive  was  still  further  deepened  by  his 
marriage  to  the  governor's  daughter,  Miss  Jose- 
phine Evans,  who.se  death,  with  that  of  their  only 
child,  in  1868,  was  the  heaviest  bereavement  that 
ever  befell  Mr.  Elbert. 

Upon  the  expiration  of  his  term  as  secretary, 
in  1866  Mr.  Elbert  began  to  practice  law  in  Den- 
ver, in  partnership  with  Hon.  J.  Q.  Charles,  and 
the  firm  of  Charles  &  Elbert  carried  on  a  very 
large  practice.  In  1873  he  was  appointed  gov- 
ernor of  the  territory  by  President  Grant  and  at 
once  began  the  forwarding  of  plans  for  the  develop- 
ment of  the  state,  the  enlargement  of  its  resources 
and  the  prosperity  of  the  people.  He  was  es- 
pecially interested  in  the  subject  of  irrigation,  for 
he  realized  that  Colorado  could  attain  no  perma- 
nent prosperity  unless  this  problem  was  satisfac- 
torily solved.  He  secured  a  meeting  of  delegates 
in  Denver  from  the  states  and  territories  west  of 
the  Missouri  River,  in  the  summer  of  1873,  and 
delivered  an  address  in  this  convention  upon  the 
necessity  of  government  aid  in  the  irrigating  of 
the  vast  tracts  in  the  west. 

Bitter  political  feuds  in  the  .summer  of  1874  cul- 
minated in  the  removal  of  Governor  Elbert  from 
office.  Later  President  Grant  ascertained  the 
real  facts  of  the  case  and  openly  acknowledged 
that  he  had  been  misled  by  unscrupulous  persons. 
With  the  dignity  that  always  characterized  him. 
Governor  Elbert  wasted  no  time  in  disputes,  but 
withdrew  from  office,  and  went  abroad,  visiting 
all  the  prominent  cities  of  Europe  and  making  a 
careful  study  of  political  economy.  The  people 
had  always  been  his  friends  and  on  his  return  to 
Denver  they  showed  their  appreciation  of  his  serv- 
ices and  their  confidence  in  his  integrity  in  many 
ways  that  won  his  gratitude.  When  Colorado 
was  admitted  to  the  Union  as  the  Centennial  state, 
he  was  called  to  the  recently  organized  supreme 
bench,  and  the  confidence  of  the  people  that  he 


would  discharge  its  duties  faithfully  was  not  mis- 
placed. In  drawing  for  terms,  he  secured  a  ten- 
ure of  six  years.  As  chief  justice  he  was  noted 
for  impartiality  and  integrity.  The  high  office  he 
held  was  never  betrayed  by  him;  he  was  faithful 
to  its  smallest  duty  and  to  the  trust  reposed  in 
him.  When  his  term  expired  in  1882,  the  people 
urged  him  to  become  a  candidate  for  re-election, 
but  his  health  had  been  affected  by  overwork,  and 
he  declined.  However,  when  they  again  urged 
him  to  become  a  candidate  in  1885,  he  consented 
to  the  use  of  his  name  and  was  re-elected,  his  ju- 
dicial term  beginning  in  January,  1886.  After 
two  years,  in  the  latter  part  of  1888,  he  was  com- 
pelled to  withdraw  from  the  position,  a  fact  which 
was  deplored, not  aloneby  thepublic,but  especial- 
ly by  the  attorneys,  who  had  the  warmest  admira- 
tion for  his  ability  and  integrity. 

While  serving  as  chief  justice  his  alma  mater, 
which  had  bestowed  upon  Judge  Elbert  the  de- 
grees of  Bachelor  and  Master  of  Arts  in  previous 
years,  tendered  him  the  degree  of  LL.D.  Since 
his  retirement  from  the  bench  he  has  devoted  his 
attention  to  the  management  of  his  property  and 
has  also  traveled  considerably.  He  justly  ranks 
among  the  most  prominent  men  of  the  state.  His 
services  have  not  been  solely  of  a  gubernatorial 
and  judicial  nature,  but  in  many  ways,  impossi- 
ble to  recount,  he  has  been  helpful  to  the  increased 
prosperity  of  the  state  and  has  labored  to  pro- 
mote its  highest  interests.  As  president  of  the 
State  Industrial  Association,  he  was  an  important 
factor  in  the  development  of  Colorado's  agricult- 
ural resources,  during  the  early  days  of  our  his- 
tory. By  assisting  in  the  solution  of  the  problems 
connected  with  irrigation,  he  aided  every  interest, 
for  the  advancement  of  the  state  has  been  simul- 
taneous with  the  introduction  of  facilities  for  irri- 
gation. In  the  annals  of  the  state  his  name  will 
occupy  a  position  of  eminence  through  the  gener- 
ations to  come. 


HON.  HORACE  M.  HALE,  A.  M.,  LL.D., 
superintendent  of  public  instruction  of 
Colorado  1873-77,  ^^^  president  of  the  Col- 
orado State  University  at  Boulder  1887-92,  is  one 
of  the  distinguished  citizens  of  Denver  and  has 
taken  a  very  active  part  in  the  promotion  of 
movements  for  the  advancement  of  the  city  and 
state.  A  resume  of  his  lineage  and  life  will 
therefore  be  of  especial  interest  to  the  readers  of 


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this  volume.  He  is  a  descendant  of  Thomas 
Hale,  an  Englishman,  who  settled  in  Newbury, 
Mass.,  in  1635,  and  several  succeeding  generations 
of  Hales  were  identified  with  the  history  of  New 
England.  His  great-grandfather.  Col.  John 
Hale,  M.  D.,  was  a  surgeon  on  the  stafi"  of  his 
brother-in-law,  Colonel  Prescott,  during  the 
Revolution,  and  he  and  his  son,  David,  then  a 
lad  of  sixteen,  were  both  present  at  the  battle  of 
Bunker  Hill. 

John  Hale,  our  subject's  father,  was  born  at 
Hollis,  N.  H.,  in  1800.  He  was  a  mechanic  and 
being  a  man  of  great  originality  and  fertile  brain, 
he  devoted  much  time  to  the  invention  of  useful 
articles.  Among  his  inventions  were  the  essen- 
tial features  of  the  present  planing  machine,  one 
of  the  earliest  power  threshing  machines,  one  of 
the  first  machines  for  manufacturing  barrels,  and 
an  improvement  in  the  tread  horse  power.  In 
1837  he  removed  to  Rome,  Oneida  County,  N.Y., 
where  he  engaged  in  manufacturing  his  threshers 
and  horse  powers,  but  after  three  years  he 
removed  his  business  to  North  Bloomfield, 
Ontario  County,  N.  Y. ,  and  added  to  it  the  manu- 
facture of  agricultural  implements.  In  1849  he 
crossed  the  plains  to  California,  the  trip,  which 
was  made  with  his  mule  team,  taking  about  six 
months.  Arriving  at  his  destination  he  engaged 
in  prospecting  and  mining  on  Feather  River,  also 
manufactured  mining  rockers  and  became  inter- 
ested in  a  scheme  for  draining  Feather  River,  but 
this  proved  a  failure.  He  returned  east  with 
health  much  impaired  by  the  hardships  of  western 
life,  and  died  in  April,  1852.  Politically  he  was 
a  Whig  and  in  religion  a  member  of  the  Baptist 
Church. 

The  mother  of  our  subject,  whose  maiden  name 
was  Jane  Morrison,  was  born  in  Peterboro,  N.  H. , 
in  1801,  and  died  in  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  in  1865. 
The  Morrison  family  came  from  Scotland  to  New 
Hampshire.  John,  who  was  born  in  Aberdeen, 
probably  in  1628,  was  of  Protestant  faith  and  on 
account  of  religious  persecution  went  to  the 
north  of  Ireland,  being  in  the  city  of  Londonderry 
before  and  during  its  siege.  About  1720  he 
joined  his  sons  in  New  Hampshire,  where  he  died 
in  1736,  aged  one  hundred  and  eight  years.  His 
son,  John,  was  born  in  Ireland  in  1678,  married 
Margaret  Wallace  there,  settled  in  Londonderry, 
N.  H.,  in  1719,  being  one  of  the  first  sixteen 
settlers  there,  and  in  1750-51   became  one  of  the 


first  settlers  of  Peterboro,  where  he  died  June  14, 
1776.  Capt.  Thomas,  son  of  John  Morrison,  was 
born  in  Ireland  in  17 10,  came  to  America  with 
his  parents  in  childhood,  and  served  as  captain  of 
a  company  during  the  early  Indian  wars.  By  his 
marriage  to  Mary  Smith  he  had  a  son,  John, who 
was  born  in  Londonderry,  N.  H.,  but  spent  his 
life  principally  in  Peterboro.  His  daughter  Jane 
(Mrs.  John  Hale)  had  six  children  that  attained 
maturity,  one,  Mary  Jane,  having  died  in  infancy. 
They  are:  Charles  G.,  who  has  been  master 
mechanic  for  forty  years  with  the  New  York 
Central  road  at  Rochester  and  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 
John  Albert,  a  mine  operator,  residing  in  Denver 
Benjamin  Franklin,  a  photographer  of  Rochester 
Horace  Morrison,  our  subject;  Ellen  Amelia, 
Mrs.  Rand,  of  Bellefontaine,  Ohio;  and  Henry 
William,  a  miner  and  mechanic,  residing  in 
Denver.  The  combined  ages  of  the  brothers  and 
sister,  at  this  time  (1898)  is  three  hundred  and 
ninety-six  years. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  in  Hollis, 
N.  H.,  March  6,  1833,  and  was  in  his  eighth 
year  when  the  family  removed  to  Bloomfield. 
His  school  advantages  were  limited  to  about 
three  months'  attendance  in  a  public  school  dur- 
ing the  winter.  He  early  began  to  work  in  his 
father's  foundry,  machine  and  woodwork  shops, 
learning  every  department.  Soon  after  his 
father's  death  the  business  was  discontinued. 
Meanwhile,  having  gained  a  fair  common-school 
education,  he  began  to  teach  in  the  winter  of 
1852,  having  charge  of  a  three  months'  country 
school  in  Mendon,  N.  Y.,  where  he  "boarded 
round"  and  was  given  $14  a  month.  In  the 
spring  of  1853  he  entered  Genesee  Wesleyan 
Seminary  at  Lima,  N.  Y.,  and  in  the  fall  of  the 
same  year  took  a  school  in  Victor,  Ontario 
County,  where  he  boarded  among  the  pupils  and 
was  given  $18  a  month.  Returning  to  Lima  in 
the  spring  of  1854,  he  entered  the  sophomore 
class  in  Genesee  College,  helping  to  pay  his  way 
by  working  during  the  summer  vacation  at 
carpentry  and  harvesting.  In  the  winter  of 
1854-55  he  taught  at  Fisher's  Station,  Ontario 
County,  resuming  collegiate  work  in  the  spring, 
and  teaching  in  West  Bloomfield  union  school  as 
principal  the  following  winter.  At  the  close  of 
his  junior  year  he  left  Genesee  to  enter  Union 
College  at  Schenectady,  N.  Y.,  from  which  he 
graduated   in  _i856  with  the  degree  of  A.    B. 


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Later  he  was  again  principal  at  West  Bloomfield. 
When  he  entered  the  seminary  at  Lima  he  had 
only  $42,  the  proceeds  of  his  three  months'  teach- 
ing. When  he  graduated  from  Union  he  had 
$230  and  owed  no  debts. 

In  the  spring  of  1858  he  went  to  Nashville, 
Tenn.,  where  he  was  principal  of  the  primary 
department  in  the  public  schools  that  had  been 
established  the  previous  year.  After  one  year  he 
was  made  principal  of  a  school  of  four  rooms  and 
the  next  j'ear  was  given  the  principalship  of  the 
Howard  school,  one  of  the  largest  in  the  city. 
When  the  Civil  war  broke  out,  he  being  a  Union 
man  was  warned  to  leave  and  the  house  and  lot 
and  other  real  estate  he  had  bought  were  confis- 
cated, but  he  fini.shed  the  school  year,  which 
ended  with  June,  before  leaving  the  city. 

While  in  Nashville,  in  1859,  Mr.  Hale  married 
Miss  Martha  Eliza  Huntington,  a  teacher  in  the 
schools  there,  a  native  of  Barry,  Vt.,  and  his 
schoolmateof  former  years.  Her  father,  Leonard 
Huntington,  was  a  member  of  an  old  family  of 
New  England  and  was  a  carriage  and  wagon 
maker  in  Bloomfield,  N.  Y.  The  morning  after 
the  close  of  his  school,  in  June,  1861,  Mr.  Hale 
started  north,  going  first  to  Bloomfield,  and  later 
to  Detroit,  Mich.,  where  he  studied  law  in  C.  I. 
Walker's  law  ofiice  and,  at  the  same  time,  taught 
in  an  evening  school  and  in  a  German-English 
school  there.  Soon  after  the  close  of  the  war  he 
recovered  his  property  in  Nashville.  In  1862  he 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  Michigan,  but  his 
health  having  become  seriously  impaired  and 
Suffering  greatly  with  bronchitis,  he  deemed  it 
imprudent  at  that  time  to  begin  practice.  His 
brother  Albert,  from  Colorado,  was  just  then 
visiting  in  the  east  and  on  his  return  Horace 
accompanied  him,  driving  from  Atchison,  Kan., 
to  Denver  in  a  buggy,  and  spending  .seven- 
teen days  on  the  trip.  He  went  from  Denver  to 
Central  City,  where  he  arrived  in  October,  1863, 
and  for  a  short  time  he  was  in  H.  M.  Teller's  law 
office,  but  the  confinement  being  injurious,  he 
turned  his  attention  to  outdoor  business,  such  as 
mining  and  freighting  between  Denver  and  the 
mountains. 

In  1864  he  formed  one  of  a  cavalry  company 
of  home  guards  organized  under  Capt.  Sam 
Browne  for  the  purpose  of  defense  against  an 
anticipated  attack  by  Indians.  Each  man 
furnished    his    own  horse  and  equipments;  the 


territory  supplied  rations.  The  company  served 
but  two  weeks.  In  1865  he  went  east  for  his 
wife  and  child,  whom  he  had  left  in  Bloomfield 
when  starting  for  Colorado.  He  crcssed  the 
plains  on  this  trip,  both  ways  with  a  mule  team, 
the  westward  journey  covering  forty-two  days' 
time  from  St.  Joseph,  Mo.,  to  Central  City.  This 
was  during  Indian  troubles,  and  emigrants  had 
to  travel  in  large  companies,  hence  slowly. 

In  1868  he  accepted  the  principalship  of  the 
Central  City  public  schools,  where  he  remained 
until  1873  and.  then  resigned  to  take  the  office  of 
territorial  superintendent  of  public  instruction 
to  which  he  had  been  appointed  by  Governor 
Elbert  to  fill  a  vacancy.  In  1874  he  was  again 
appointed  by  Governor  Elbert,  for  a  full  term  (two 
years),  and  was  reappointed  by  Governor  Routt. 
When  Colorado  was  admitted  to  the  Union, 
August  I,  1876,  he  was  filling  this  office,  and  by 
provision  of  the  statute  he  retained  it  until  Janu- 
ary I,  1877,  thus  making  him  the  last  territorial 
and  the  first  state  superintendent  of  public  instruc- 
tion. Returning  to  Central  City,  he  resumed  his 
work  as  principal,  and  remained  in  the  position 
for  ten  years,  meanwhile  serving  as  mayor  of  the 
city  in  1882  and  1883,  and  also  as  county  superin- 
tendent of  schools  for  Gilpin  County.  In  1878 
he  was  elected,  on  the  Republican  ticket,  regent 
of  the  State  University  for  a  term  of  six  years. 
He  was  therefore  at  one  and  the  same  time 
principal  of  the  schools,  county  superintendent, 
mayor  of  the  city  and  state  regent.  In  1887  he 
resigned  as  principal  in  Central  City  to  accept 
the  presidency  of  the  Colorado  State  University 
at  Boulder,  which  was  tendered  him,  unsolicited, 
by  the  board  of  regents.  This  position  he  ably 
filled  for  four  and  one-half  years,  returning  to 
Denver  in  January,  1892.  While  president  of 
the  university  the  honorary  degree  of  LL.  D.  was 
conferred  upon  him  by  Iowa  Wesleyan  University. 
Several  buildings  were  added  to  the  univer- 
sity during  his  incumbency,  among  them  the 
Hale  Scientific  building,  named  in  his  honor 
after  his  resignation  had  been  tendered.  Thus, 
after  forty  years  of  almost  continuous  service  in 
educational  work,  he  retired  from  active  duty. 

While  superintendent  of  public  instruction, 
Mr.  Hale  organized  the  State  Teachers'  Associa- 
tion, of  which  he  was  the  first  president  in  1875, 
and  again  president  in  1883.  He  is  a  member  ot 
the  National  Educational  Association   and   has 


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been  a  frequent  and  valued  contributor  to  educa- 
tional journalsof  the  country.  While  in  Central 
City  he  was  president  of  the  Mining  Exchange, 
and  in  1894-95  was  president  of  the  Charity  Or- 
ganization Society  of  Denver.  In  the  Knights  of 
Honor  he  is  grand  chaplain  of  the  grand  lodge. 
In  former  years  he  was  a  Republican,  but  since 
1894  has  been  independent  in  his  political  views. 
During  all  the  j'ears  of  his  connection  with  the 
history  of  Colorado  he  has  been  interested  in  its 
growth  and  active  in  furthering  its  development, 
and  he  has  contributed  his  quota  to  the  advance- 
ment of  its  influence  and  resources. 

The  only  son  of  our  subject  is  Gen.  Irving 
Hale,  who  was  born  in  North  Bloomfield,  N.  Y., 
August  28,  1861,  came  with  his  parents  to  Colo- 
rado in  1865,  and  lived  in  Central  City  until 
1873,  when  he  came  to  Denver.  He  graduated 
from  the  East  Denver  high  school  in  1877,  at  the 
head  of  its  first  graduating  class,  and  then  went 
back  to  Central  City,  where  he  remained  until 
1880.  The  next  four  years  were  spent  at  West 
Point  Military  Academy,  where  he  graduated  in 
1884,  with  the  highest  honors  ever  attained  there 
by  any  graduate.  In  1887  he  married  Miss  Mary 
King,  daughter  of  Col.  W.  R.  King,  of  the 
United  States  engineering  corps.  They  have 
four  children,  William  King,  John  Huntington, 
Dorothy  and  Marjory.  He  resigned  from  the 
army  in  1889.  In  the  war  with  Spain  (1898)  he 
was  commissioned  colonel  of  the  first  regiment  of 
the  Colorado  National  Guard  and  with  his 
command,  volunteered  for  two  years'  service  in 
the  United  States  army,  and  left  Denver  for  the 
Philippine  Islands  May  17,  1898. 


HON.  JOHN  F.  SHAFROTH,  M.  C.  The 
character  of  a  city  is  the  character  of  its 
citizens.  The  character  of  the  city  of 
Denver  may  be  judged  in  a  measure  from  the 
names  of  its  leading  public  men,  who  have 
become  closely  identified  with  its  interests  by 
long  residence  and  have  contributed  to  the  ex- 
tension of  its  interests.  Few  of  its  citizens  are 
better  known  throughout  the  entire  nation  than 
Mr.  Shafroth,  and  certainly  none  has  a  more  en- 
viable reputation  for  breadth  of  intellect  and  up- 
rightness of  life.  To  write  of  his  career  is  to 
write,  in  part,  a  history  of  Colorado  during  a 
similar  period,  for  his  name  has  been  associated 


with  all  the  leading  measures  for  the  benefit  of 
the  state  and  the  development  of  its  industries. 

The  life  of  Congressman  Shafroth  began  in 
Fayette,  Howard  County,  Mo.,  June  9,  1854. 
His  father,  John,  who  was  born  in  Canton  Berne, 
Switzerland,  was  the  son  of  a  hotelkeeper  who 
took  part  in  the  French  wars  under  Napoleon, 
but  died  at  an  early  age.  Orphaned  at  twelve 
years,  John  Shafroth  had  few  advantages  in  his 
youth.  When  a  young  man  he  came  to  America 
and  in  1839  settled  in  Booneville,  Mo.  The 
following  year  he  married  Miss  Annis  Aule,  a 
native  of  Frankfort,  Germany,  and  an  orphan 
who  came  to  America  with  two  sisters.  After 
his  marriage  he  engaged  in  the  general  mercantile 
business  until  his  death,  in  1866.  Thirty  years 
afterward  his  wife  passed  away  in  Fayette,  where 
she  had  lived  for  fifty-six  years,  having  come 
there  at  the  age  of  twenty.  She  was  the  mother 
of  six  children,  five  now  living,  of  whom  John  F. 
is  the  j'oungest. 

The  education  of  our  subject  was  begun  in  the 
public  schools,  continued  in  Central  College  and 
finished  in  the  University  of  Michigan,  where  he 
studied  from  1872  to  1875,  graduating  with  the 
degree  of  B.  S.  He  then  studied  law  with 
Samuel  C.  Major,  of  Fayette,  and  was  there  ad- 
mitted to  the  bar  in  August,  1876,  after  which  he 
formed  a  partnership  with  his  former  preceptor 
under  the  title  of  Major  &  Shafroth.  Upon  the 
election  of  Mr.  Major  to  the  state  senate,  the 
business  of  the  firm  fell  upon  the  junior  member. 
In  1879  he  came  to  Colorado,  reaching  Denver 
on  the  ist  of  October,  and  soon  afterward  forming 
a  partnership  with  Andrew  W.  Brazee,  ex-judge 
of  the  supreme  court.  Two  years  later  this  con- 
nection was  dissolved,  and  the  firm  of  Stallcup, 
Luthe  &  Shafroth  formed.  Soon  afterward  Mr. 
lyUthe  was  elected  district  attorney  and  Mr. 
Shafroth  became  prosecuting  attorney.  The 
latter,  in  1887,  was  elected  city  attorney  of  Den- 
ver upon  the  Republican  ticket,  was  re-elected 
two  3'ears  later,  serving  until  the  spring  of  1891. 
Meantime  the  senior  member  of  his  firm  was  ap- 
pointed a  judge  of  the  supreme  court,  and  in 
1888  he  formed  another  partnership,  becoming  a 
member  of  the  firm  of  Rogers  &  Shafroth. 

In  the  fall  of  1894  Mr.  Shafroth  was  nominated 
on  the  Republican  ticket  as  member  of  congress 
from  the  first  congressional  district  of  Colorado, 
and  was  elected  by  a  majority  of  thirteen  thou- 


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sand  and  five  hundred.  At  the  expiration  of  his 
terra,  in  1896,  he  was  re-elected  on  the  silver 
Republican  ticket  by  a  majority  of  fifty-eight 
thousand.  During  both  terms  in  congress  he  has 
been  a  member  of  the  committees  on  public  lands 
and  the  irrigation  of  arid  lands.  The  numerous 
bills  introduced  by  him  have  been  largely  in  the 
interests  of  his  constituents,  and  among  those 
that  passed  perhaps  the  most  important  was  that 
providing  for  the  opening  of  forestry  reserves  to 
mining,  exploration  and  the  location  of  mining 
claims.  He  introduced  and  was  largely  instru- 
mental in  securing  the  passage  of  bills  providing 
for  water  reservoir  sites  at  Colorado  Springs, 
Leadville  and  Sugar  Loaf;  also  for  the  protecting 
of  the  forests  from  fire. 

Always  an  active  Republican,  Mr.  Shafroth 
favored  the  readjustment  of  the  currency  of  the 
nation  and  the  placing  of  silver  upon  its  proper 
standard.  He  was  one  of  the  party  of  seven  sen- 
ators and  five  congressmen  who  issued  a  paper 
calling  for  the  organization  of  the  silver  Repub- 
lican party  and  a  meeting  of  its  supporters  in 
Chicago.  He  believes  prosperity  will  never 
come,  in  fullest  measure,  to  the  great  west  until 
the  present  financial  policy  of  the  government  is 
altered.  That  he  is  sustained  in  this  belief  by 
his  constituents  is  shown  by  the  largely  increased 
majority  he  received  at  his  last  election. 

In  matters  pertaining  to  the  improvement  of 
Denver  Mr.  Shafroth  has  always  been  interested. 
While  city  attorney  he  succeeded  in  securing 
from  the  supreme  court  a  reversal  of  the  decision 
rendered  by  the  same  court  in  the  past,  and  under 
this  new  decision  abutting  property  can  be  as- 
sessed aud  taxed  for  street  improvements,  a 
measure  that  has  been  most  helpful  to  the  city. 
He  also  began  a  case  against  all  the  railroads 
here  to  compel  them  to  construct  a  viaduct  over 
Nineteenth  street.  This  was  defeated  before  the 
district  court,  but  when  taken  to  the  supreme 
court  the  latter  body  held  that  the  railroads  were 
compelled  to  construct,  at  their  own  cost,  a  via- 
duct over  streets  rendered  useless  to  the  general 
public  by  their  use  for  railroad  purposes.  This 
decision  has  not  yet  been  made  effective,  but  will 
be  in  time. 

In  Fayette,  Mo.,  October  26,  1881,  Mr.  Shaf- 
roth married  Virginia  F.  Morrison,  who  was 
born  there,  is  a  graduate  of  Howard  Female  Col- 
lege and  in  religious  belief  is  connected  with  the 


Baptist  Church.  Her  father,  John  I,.  Morrison, 
a  prominent  business  man  of  Fayette,  at  one  time 
was  sherifi"  of  Howard  County  and  later  warden 
of  the  state  penitentiary.  Her  grandfather,  Al- 
fred Morrison,  settled  in  Fayette  about  1S24  and 
became  a  man  of  prominence  in  public  affairs. 
He  was  elected  state  treasurer  and  filled  the  posi- 
tion for  four  years;  also  held  other  ofiices  of 
responsibility.  Mr.  Shafroth  has  four  sous, 
John,  Jr.,  Morrison,  George  and  WiUiam. 


RT.-REV.  JOHN  FRANKLIN  SPALDING, 
D.  D.  The  life  of  this  distinguished  bishop 
began  in  Belgrade,  Kennebec  County,  Me., 
August  25,  1828.  He  is  a  member  of  an  old  and 
patriotic  family  that  has  been  identified  with  the 
history  of  America  since  an  early  period  of  its 
settlement.  In  1619  two  brothers,  Edmond  and 
Edward,  came  to  this  country  from  Lincolnshire, 
England,  the  former  settling  in  Maryland  and 
the  latter  in  Virginia.  However,  in  1627  he 
went  to  Massachusetts  and  settled  at  Braintree, 
but  later  he  and  his  son,  Col.  John  Spalding, 
with  others,  incorporated  the  town  of  Chelms- 
ford. Col.  John,  who  gained  his  title  by  service 
in  King  Philip's  war,  had  a  son  Joseph,  whose 
son,  Lieut.  John,  was  an  ofiicer  in  the  Revolu- 
tion, while  a  brother  of  Lieut.  John,  Hon. 
Simeon  Spalding,  was  a  member  of  Washington's 
staff  and  a  prominent  statesman  of  Massachu- 
setts. Jesse,  son  of  Lieut.  John,  was  born  in 
Chelmsford,  where  he  engaged  in  farming  until 
his  death.  He  was  a  young  man  at  the  time  of 
the  Revolution  and  enlisted  in  the  American 
service. 

John,  son  of  Jesse  and  father  of  Bishop  Spald- 
ing, was  born  in  Chelmsford,  but  removed  to 
Maine  and  improved  a  tract  of  land  lying  on  the 
Kennebec  River.  He  was  selectman  of  Belgrade 
and  a  man  of  prominence  in  his  locality.  His 
death  occurred  when  he  was  quite  advanced  in 
years.  His  first  wife,  who  died  in  early  woman- 
hood, bore  the  maiden  name  of  Lydia  Coombs, 
and  was  born  at  Vinalhaven,  Me.  Her  father, 
Sylvanus,  who  was  a  shipbuilder  and  farmer 
there,  was  the  son  of  a  Revolutionary  soldier, 
who  removed  from  Massachusetts  to  Maine  and 
entered  land  around  Coombs  Neck.  He  married 
a  daughter  of  James  Stinson,  also  a  soldier  in  the 
Revolution  and  a   member  of  a   Massachusetts 


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family.  John  Spalding  had  four  children  bj-  his 
first  marriage,  of  whom  three  are  living,  John 
Franklin  being  the  eldest.  By  his  second  mar- 
riage he  had  two  children,  one  now  living. 

Having  fitted  himself  for  college  at  Camden, 
Kent's  Hill  (Me.)  Wesleyan  Seminary  and 
North  Yarmouth  Academy,  the  subject  of  this 
sketch  entered  Bowdoin  College  in  1849  and 
graduated  in  1853  with  the  degree  of  A.  B., 
later  receiving  the  degrees  of  A.  M.  and  D.  D. 
from  his  alma  mater.  Afterward  he  taught 
school,  being  principal  of  East  Pittston  (Me.) 
Academy  for  one  term,  and  preceptor  of  Dennys- 
ville  Academy  in  the  winter  and  spring  terms  of 
1854.  In  October  of  that  year  he  entered  the 
General  Theological  Seminary  of  the  Protestant 
Episcopal  Church,  New  York  City,  from  which 
he  graduated  June  24,  1857.  July  8  he  was 
ordained  deacon  of  St.  Stephen's  Church,  Port- 
land, Me.,  and  August  i  was  appointed  mission- 
ary to  St.  James  Church,  Oldtown,  Me.;  July  14, 
1858,  ordained  priest  by  Bishop  Burgess  in 
Christ  Church,  Gardiner,  Me.;  August  i,  1859, 
appointed  rector  of  St.  George's  Church,  Lee, 
Mass.;  November  i,  i860,  became  assistant  min- 
ister of  Grace  Church,  Providence,  R.  I.,  of 
which  Bishop  Clark  was  the  rector;  November  i , 
1861,  dissolved  his  connection  with  that  church 
and  April  i,  1862,  became  rector  of  St.  Paul's 
Church  in  Erie,  Pa.,  where  he  remained  for 
twelve  years  and  of  which  his  son,  Rev.  Frank 
Spalding,  is  now  the  rector. 

In  1865  he  commenced  the  erection  of  a  church 
edifice  of  stone,  built  in  the  early  English  style 
of  architecture,  and  with  a  seating  capacity  of 
eight  hundred.  This  magnificent  building  cost 
$65,000.  During  the  same  year  he  was  elected 
a  member  of  the  Board  of  Missions  of  the  Protest- 
ant Episcopal  Church  for  Western  Pennsylvania 
and  was  subsequently  re-elected  every  third  year 
for  the  diocese  of  Pittsburg.  In  1866  he  organ- 
ized St.  John's  Church  of  Erie  and  the  following 
year  built  a  church  that  cost  $5,000.  In  1868  he 
was  a  member  of  the  general  convention  of  the 
Episcopal  Church,  meeting  in  New  York.  The 
next  year  he  organized  the  Church  of  the  Cross 
and  Crown  in  Erie,  and  built  a  church  that 
seated  three  hundred.  In  October,  1871,  he  was 
a  member  of  the  general  convention  that  met  in 
Baltimore,  and  the  next  year  he  built  Trinity 
Chapel  in  Erie. 


September  28,  1873,  he  was  unanimously 
elected  and  December  3 1  was  consecrated  bishop 
of  Colorado,  Wyoming  and  New  Mexico,  as  suc- 
cessor to  the  late  Bishop  Randall.  He  reached 
Denver  February  27,  1874,  and  at  once  entered 
upon  the  duties  of  his  large  diocese.  Railroads 
were  few  and  far  apart  in  those  days,  and  the 
bishop  was  obliged  to  do  much  of  his  visiting  on 
horseback  or  by  stage  over  rough  mountain  roads. 
The  labor  was  enormous,  but  his  courage  was 
equal  to  the  responsibility.  Soon  the  number  of 
communicants  was  greatly  increased.  New 
churches  and  chapels  were  built,  parsonages  were 
erected  and  parishes  were  organized.  The  work 
grew  to  such  an  extent  that  in  1 88 1  New  Mexico 
was  separated,  and  in  1887  Wyoming  was  formed 
into  another  diocese.  He  built  the  Wolfe  School 
for  girls  and  Jarvis  Hall,  a  military  academy  for 
boys;  also  Matthews'  Hall  Theological  School,  of 
all  of  which  he  is  the  president.  He  also  was  in- 
strumental in  the  erection  of  St.  Luke's  Hospital 
and  the  Home  for  Consumptives. 

In  Erie  Bishop  Spalding  married  Lavinia 
Spencer,  who  was  born  there  and  received  an  ex- 
cellent education.     She  was  a  daughter  of  Judah 

C.  Spencer,  a  native  of  Connecticut  and  a  de- 
scendant of  Revolutionary  ancestors.  She  is  a 
lady  of  sweet  disposition  and  noble  character,  a 
fitting  companion  for  her  husband  in  all  his  re- 
sponsible undertakings.  They  are  the  parents  of 
five  children,  of  whom  Frank  is  a  graduate  of 
Princeton  and  rector  at  Erie,  Pa.;  William,  also  a 
graduate  of  Princeton,  is  engaged  in  business  in 
Denver;  Elizabeth  and  Sarah  were  given  splendid 
advantages,  the  latter  being  a  Vassar  graduate; 
and  John  Edward  died  in  Erie. 

Three  times  Bishop  Spalding  has  gone  to  Eu- 
rope to  attend  great  meetings  of  bishops  in 
London,  and  twice,  in  1878  and  1888,  he  also 
visited  the  continent,  but  the  last  time,  in  1897, 
his  visit  was  limited  to  England.  Fraternally  he 
is  a  Knight  Templar   Mason.      The  degree  of 

D.  D.  was  conferred  upon  him  by  both  Bowdoin 
and  Trinity  Colleges,  the  latter  of  Hartford, 
Conn.  He  is  a  fluent  writer  and  has  published 
a  number  of  books,  among  them  the  ' '  Church 
and  Apostolic  Ministry"  (1886);  "The  Best 
Mode  of  Working  a  Parish  "  (used  in  the  Syra- 
cuse (N.  Y.)  Theological  Seminary);  "Jesus 
Christ,  the  Proof  of  Christianity"  (18S9),  and 
many  pamphlets  and  short  articles.     In  length  of 


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time  of  service  he  is  next  to  the  oldest  bishop 
west  of  the  Mississippi.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Sons  of  the  Revolution,  was  its  first  president, 
and  served  for  two  years;  is  also  identified  with 
the  New  York  Society  of  Colonial  Wars  and  the 
Colorado  Society,  having  been  a  charter  member 
of  the  latter  and  its  president  for  two  years. 

The  life  of  Bishop  Spalding  has  been  a  busy 
and  active  one.  Nor  is  there  any  noticeable 
diminution  of  liis  activity  now,  although  his 
twenty-five  years  of  service  in  his  present  po-sition 
certainly  entitle  him  to  a  lightening  of  labor, 
should  he  so  desire.  By  all  who  know  him, 
whether  or  not  they  are  identified  with  his  de- 
nomination, he  is  recognized  as  a  man  of  scholarly 
attainments  and  great  executive  ability,  and  is 
respected  and  admired  for  his  kindness  to  the 
poor,  his  great  heart  that  is  open  to  every  de- 
served appeal  for  assistance,  and  his  noble  char- 
acter that  has  stood  the  fiery  crucible  of  hardships 
and  has  come  unscathed  through  every  trial. 


HON.  HENRY  MOORE  TELLER.  In  its 
entire  history  as  a  state,  it  is  doubtful  if 
Colorado  has  given,  to  assist  in  framing  the 
laws  of  the  nation,  any  citizen  who  has  attained 
a  fame  equal  to  that  of  Senator  Teller.  His  name 
is  indelibly  written  upon  the  annals  of  his  state 
and  his  country.  Through  his  long  and  brilliant 
career  as  United  States  senator  he  has  not  only 
retained  the  friendship  of  his  political  supporters, 
but  has  won  the  admiration  even  of  those  whose 
opinions  upon  political  subjects  are  diametrically 
opposed  to  his  own.  He  stands  now,  near  the 
climax  of  his  career,  as  he  has  always  stood,  for 
what  he  believes  to  be  true  and  right,  for  what  he 
believes  will  promote  the  national  welfare.  To 
these  principles  he  would  remain  stanch  and  true, 
though  it  cost  him  defeat  for  the  highest  position 
within  the  gift  of  the  people,  for  he  is  a  man  of 
fearless  courage  and  values  integrity  more  than 
position,  honor  more  than  ofiBce. 

A  publication  of  the  nature  of  this  should 
justly  devote  considerable  space  to  the  life  and 
works  of  such  a  man.  In  this  resume  it  will  be 
our  effort  to  give  an  account  of  his  ancestry,  in 
order  that  the  reader  may  understand  the  quali- 
ties that  have  come  by  inheritance;  also  a  sketch 
of  the  career  that  has  been  so  remarkable  in 
amount  of  good  accomplished  for  the  people  of 


the  state  and  nation.  From  the  presentation  of 
his  biography  may  be  gleaned  lessons  worthy 
of  emulation  by  all,  and  especially  by  the  young 
man,  starting  out  in  the  world,  with  every  possi- 
bility before  him  if  he  but  have  the  courage  to  do 
and  dare. 

The  founder  of  the  Teller  family  in  America 
was  William,  a  native  of  Holland,  born  in  1620. 
In  1639  he  came  to  New  York  and  settled  at  Fort 
Orange,  where  the  king  of  Holland  had  appointed 
him  trustee  of  a  tract  of  land.  In  1664  he  moved 
to  New  York,  where  his  remaining  years  were 
passed.  By  his  marriage  to  Mary  Douchen  he 
had  a  son, William  (2d), whose  son,  William  (3d), 
was  the  father  of  William  (4th) ,  and  the  latter 
had  a  son,  Isaac  Teller,  M.  D.,  a  prominent 
physician  of  New  York,  having  an  office  on  the 
corner  of  Chambers  street  and  Broadway.  Dur- 
ing the  Revolution  he  volunteered  as  a  surgeon 
in  the  colonial  army  and  died  while  in  active  serv- 
ice. By  his  marriage  to  Rebecca  Remsen,  who 
was  born  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  of  Dutch  parent- 
age, he  had  a  son,  Remsen  Teller,  who  was  born 
about  1769  and  resided  atSchenectady.N.Y.  He 
married  Catherine  McDonald,  of  Ballston  Spa, 
N.  Y. ,  daughter  of  David  McDonald  and  Sarah 
(DuBois)  McDonald,  the  latter  a  daughter  of 
Col.  Louis  DuBois,  of  Ulster  County,  N.  Y., 
who  was  a  colonel  in  the  Revolutionary  war. 
Remsen  Teller  and  his  wife  had  a  son,  John,  who 
was  born  in  Schenectady,  N.  Y.,  February  15, 
1800,  and  married  Charlotte  Moore,  who  was 
born  in  Vermont  in  1808  and  is  now  living  in 
Illinois.  John  Teller  located  on  a  farm  in  Alle- 
gany County,  N.  Y.,  but  later  he  removed  to 
Girard,  Erie  County,  Pa.,  and  after  ten  years 
there,  in  1862  he  settled  in  Morrison,  Whiteside 
County,  111.,  where  he  died  in  1879.  His  wife 
was  a  daughter  of  Willard  Moore,  who  was  born 
in  Vermont,  removed  thence  to  Ballston  Spa, 
N.  Y.,  from  there  went  to  Allegany  County  about 
182 1,  and  in  1840  settled  in  Rochester,  the  same 
state. 

Upon  his  father's  farm  in  Allegany  County  the 
subject  of  this  review  was  born  May  23,  1830. 
The  years  of  his  boyhood  and  youth  passed  un- 
eventfully in  farm  work  and  study.  His  indomit- 
able perseverance  was  apparent  at  an  early  age. 
Knowing  his  parents  would  be  unable  to  give  him 
the  advantages  he  desired  he  set  himself  reso- 
lutely to  work  to  secure  them  for  himself,  and  by 


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teaching  school  earned  the  money  necessary  for 
the  prosecution  of  his  academic  studies.  On  the 
completion  of  the  academic  course  he  entered  the 
law  office  of  Judge  Martin  Grover,  under  whose 
preceptorship  he  acquired  an  accurate  knowledge 
of  the  law.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  January 
5,  1858,  at  Binghamton,  N.  Y.  Coming  as  far 
west  as  Morrison,  Whiteside  County,  111.,  he 
engaged  in  active  general  practice  until  his  re- 
moval to  Colorado. 

During  his  residence  there  gold  was  discovered 
in  Pike's  Peak  and  thousands  of  men  crossed  the 
plains,  joining  the  army  of  gold-seekers  in  the 
mountains  of  Colorado.  Other  lines  of  activity 
sprang  into  existence  with  the  birth  and  develop- 
ment of  bustling  towns  from  the  primitive  min- 
ing camps.  He  was  among  those  whose  attention 
was  called  to  the  opening  offered  men  of  energy 
and  determination  in  this  part  of  the  country. 
He  determined  to  come  west,  and  in  April,  1861, 
made  the  long  and  tedious  overland  trip  to  the 
mountains.  He  opened  an  office  at  Central  City, 
then  the  chief  center  of  population  and  mining 
in  the  territory.  Three  years  later  he  was  joined 
by  his  brother,  Willard,  and  the  firm  of  H.  M. 
&  W.  Teller  was  established.  In  1865  he  drew 
up  the  charter  for  the  Colorado  Central  Railroad 
and  presented  it  to  the  territorial  legislature.  As 
he  was  the  originator  of  the  railroad  and  its  most 
enthusiastic  promoter,  he  was  selected  as  the 
president  of  the  company  and  for  five  years  held 
that  position,  his  excellent  management  placing 
the  concern  upon  a  sound  financial  basis.  During 
the  Indian  troubles  in  1863  he  was  appointed 
major-genera!  of  militia  by  Governor  Evans  and 
held  the  office  for  two  years,  then  resigned. 

Senator  Teller  was  reared  in  the  Democratic 
faith,  but  when  the  Republican  party  was  organ- 
ized he  found  himself  in  sympathy  with  its  prin- 
ciples and  therefore  joined  its  ranks.  Soon  after 
coming  to  Colorado  he  began  to  participate 
actively  in  politics,  and  in  1876,  when  Colorado 
was  admitted  to  the  union,  he  and  Mr.  Chaffee 
were  elected  its  first  representatives  in  the  United 
States  senate.  He  drew  the  term  of  three  months, 
and  on  its  expiration  was  elected  for  a  full  term 
of  six  years,  1877  to  1883.  His  record  in  the 
senate  is  a  part  of  history,  and  his  acceptable 
service  in  behalf  of  his  constituents  has  led  to 
his  re-election  at  every  election  since  1876. 
Shortly  after  he  entered  the  senate  he  was  made  a 


member  of  the  committee  on  privileges  and  elec- 
tions and  was  sent  to  Florida  to  investigate  the 
alleged  frauds  in  the  election  of  1876.  In  1878 
he  was  made  chairman  of  a  special  committee  to 
investigate  alleged  election  frauds  in  southern 
states,  his  report  of  which  was  most  thorough. 
As  chairman  of  the  committee  on  civil  service 
and  retrenchment  he  rendered  efficient  service. 

In  1882  Senator  Teller  was  chosen  secretary  of 
the  interior  in  President  Arthur'%  cabinet  and  he 
served  in  that  responsible  position  until  the  ex- 
piration of  the  presidential  term,  March  3,  1885. 
The  following  da}'  he  took  his  seat  in  the  senate, 
having  been  elected  to  succeed  Hon.  Nathaniel 
P.  Hill.  In  1 89 1  he  was  re-elected  for  the  term 
ending  in  March,  1897,  and  at  the  latter  time  was 
again  the  people's  choice  for  the  position.  He 
has  served  as  chairman  of  the  committees  on 
pensions,  patents,  mines  and  mining,  and  as  a 
member  of  the  committees  on  claims,  railroads, 
judiciary,  appropriations  and  public  lands.  On 
all  questions  relating  to  public  lands  he  is  con- 
sidered an  authorit}'. 

Perhaps  in  no  way  is  Senator  Teller  better 
known  than  for  his  championship  of  the  free 
coinage  of  silver.  He  is  a  stanch  advocate  of 
the  restoration  of  bimetallism,  believing  that  the 
act  of  1873  demonetizing  silver  has  proved  prej- 
udicial to  the  welfare  of  the  nation,  and  especi- 
ally injurious  to  the  interests  of  Colorado.  Be- 
lieving that  the  prosperity  of  the  working  people 
can  never  be  subserved  until  silver  is  restored  to 
its  proper  standard  and  the  currency  issue  is 
honestly  and  fairly  settled,  he  has  given  much  of 
his  thought  and  time  in  late  years  to  this  matter. 
His  labors  in  the  interests  of  free  coinage  in  the 
senate  of  1893  are  too  recent  to  need  especial 
mention.  On  his  return  to  Colorado  at  the  ex- 
piration of  that  session,  the  people,  appreciating 
what  he  had  done  in  their  behalf,  accorded  him  a 
most  hearty  welcome  and  demonstration.  It  was 
said  at  the  time  that  the  reception  was  the  most 
brilliant  ever  given  anyone  in  the  state.  But, 
grand  as  it  was,  the  reception  given  him  in  1896, 
after  the  famous  St.  Louis  national  convention, 
eclipsed  every  previous  affair  of  the  kind.  In 
the  national  convention  of  his  party  in  1896  he 
had  stood  firmly  for  the  free  coinage  of  the  white 
metal,  which  he  desired  to  be  made  a  plank  in  the 
party  platform.  The  majority  were  against  him, 
and,  feeling  that  his  party  had  turned  its  back 


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upon  principles  it  should  have  supported,  he  and 
his  followers  left  the  convention  hall,  disappointed 
and  sad  at  heart.  Whatever  disappointment  he 
may  have  experienced,  however,  was  forgotten 
in  the  gratitude  he  felt  toward  the  people  whom 
he  represented  and  who,  upon  his  return  home, 
showered  upon  him  expressions  of  heartiest 
appreciation  and  thanks  for  his  steadfast  support 
of  their  interests. 

In  1886  Alfred  University  conferred  upon  Sena- 
tor Teller  the  degree  of  LL.D.  In  fraternal  rela- 
tions he  is  a  Mason  and  has  done  much  for  the 
upbuilding  of  the  order  in  Colorado.  He  has 
attained  the  thirty-third  degree,  Scottish  Rite, 
and  has  been  honored  by  his  brethren  of  the 
Mystic  Tie  with  many  important  and  honorable 
offices.  For  seven  years  he  was  grand  master  of 
the  state  and  was  also  the  first  grand  commander 
of  the  Knights  Templar  of  Colorado. 

At  Cuba,  N.  Y.,  June  7,  1862,  he  married 
Harriet  M.,  daughter  of  Packard  Bruce,  a  farmer 
of  Allegany  County.  They  have  three  children, 
Emma  A.,  John  Harrison  and  Henry  Bruce,  all 
of  whom  were  born  in  Central  City. 

Of  the  personal  characteristics  of  Senator  Tel- 
ler, one  of  the  most  conspicuous  is  that  quality 
which  enables  him  to  look  ahead,  measuring 
forces  and  their  effects  upon  the  future.  He  is 
peculiarly  far-seeing,  able  to  discern  influences 
that  will  bear  upon  the  prosperity  of  the  people 
in  da}-s  yet  to  come.  As  a  leader  he  is  safe, 
because  he  is  cool,  calm  and  keen,  never  allowing 
himself  to  become  excited  and  nervous,  but  main- 
taining a  steady  control  over  his  own  mind  as 
well  as  over  others.  Because  of  the  wonderful 
control  he  exercises  over  himself,  he  has  some- 
times been  called  cold;  but  he  may  be  compared 
with  the  ocean  beneath  which  flows  the  gulf 
stream,  the  ocean  itself  on  the  surface  giving 
little  indication  of  the  warmth  of  the  current 
below.  So  it  is  with  him;  on  the  surface  he  is 
great,  awe  inspiring  and  cold,  but  below  flows 
the  warm  and  genial  current  of  kindness,  sympa- 
thy and  love. 

Perhaps  we  cannot  better  conclude  this  sketch 
than  with  a  quotation  from  the  pen  of  that  versa- 
tile and  brilliant  writer,  Fitz-Mac,  which  appeared 
in  a  recent  character  study  of  Senator  Teller, 
published  in  the  Denver  Evening  Post.  "He  has 
this  mark  of  genuine  greatness  above  any  man 
whom  I  know  in  Colorado,  or  perhaps  any  that  I 


personally  know  anywhere  in  public  life,  except 
Tom  Reed,  speaker  of  the  house  of  representa- 
tives. He  is  simple.  He  is  natural.  He  is  with- 
out affectations.  He  is  simple  because  it  is  natural 
for  him  to  be  simple,  and  simplicity  indicates  the 
calm  mind  and  clear  vision  as  to  the  relations  of 
things,  their  real  values. 

"  It  seems  to  me  that  the  holy  spirit  of  patriot- 
ism has  descended  upon  Teller  and  enveloped 
him  and  entered  into  his  soul  and  sanctified  his 
purposes.  He  stands  before  the  country  as  the 
tongue  of  Colorado,  but  he  speaks  not  for  Colo- 
rado alone,  not  alone  for  the  United  States,  but 
for  the  humbler  three-fourths  of  all  humanity. 
Soberly,  bravely  and  ably  he  is  fighting  human- 
ity's holy  cause  for  us  and  for  all,  and  it  behooves 
us  as  an  intelligent,  appreciative  and  generous 
people  to  hold  up  his  honored  hands  steadfastly 
and  stand  by  him  with  a  courage  as  dauntless,  as 
devoted  as  his  own." 


(John  W.  ILIFF.  Among  the  men  who 
I  gained  fortune  in  Colorado  was  one  who  was 
(2/  known  all  over  the  country  as  the  "cattle 
king' '  of  this  state.  When  people  by  thousands 
were  coming  west  during  the  Pike's  Peak  excite- 
ment, he  decided  to  join  the  tide  of  emigration 
that  moved  westward.  He  had  the  sound  com- 
mon sense  to  bring  with  him  a  wagon  train  of 
provisions,  and  these  he  sold  in  Denver  at  a 
large  profit.  With  this  money  he  bought  a 
small  herd  of  cattle,  the  nucleus  of  the  immense 
cattle  business  he  afterward  conducted.  Study- 
ing his  chosen  occupation  with  care  and  giving  it 
his  entire  time,  he  was  naturally  rewarded  with 
success.  With  the  exception  of  about  a  year  in  the 
banking  business  with  Hon.  Amos  Steck,  in 
Wyoming,  he  engaged  in  no  business  but  the 
raising  and  selling  of  stock,  and  as  his  means  in- 
creased he  increased  his  herds.  Some  cattle- 
men, attaining  a  fair  degree  of  success,  relaxed 
efforts  and  thus  reduced  their  profits,  but  he 
seemed  to  grow  more  energetic  with  the  passing 
years.  He  was  the  head  and  mainspring  of  all 
the  work,  accompanied  the  men  on  the  round- 
ups and  worked  side  by  side  with  them.  His 
possessions  extended  over  such  a  large  tract  of 
land  that  it  is  said  he  could  travel  for  a  week, 
yet  always  eat  and  sleep  at  one  of  his  own 
ranches.      He    had   twenty  thousand    acres    of 


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pasturage,  watered  by  springs  and  creeks.  From 
here  he  shipped  cattle  to  eastern  markets.  At 
one  time,  during  the  early  days,  he  supplied 
dressed  beef  to  all  the  military  posts  along  the 
line  of  the  Union  Pacific.  He  also  had  large 
government  contracts  and  contracts  with  whole- 
sale butchers.  Over  the  plains  from  Julesburg 
on  the  east  to  Texas  on  the  south  ranged  his 
cattle,  numbering  more  than  fifty  thousand  head, 
of  which  he  marketed  perhaps  fifteen  thousand 
per  annum.  He  was  a  man  of  vast  wealth,  with 
a  princely  income;  yet  his  life  was  unostentatious 
and  to  the  last  he  retained  the  simplicity  of  habits 
that  marked  his  earlier  years. 

For  the  facts  given  in  regard  to  the  origin  and 
early  history  of  the  AyloiF,  or  Iliff,  family,  we 
are  indebted  to  Morant's  history  of  Essex,  Eng- 
land. In  Austria,  where  one  branch  of  the  fam- 
ily resides,  the  name  was  Ayecliffe.  From  Eng- 
land some  of  the  name  emigrated  to  New  Eng- 
gland  in  a  very  early  day  and  with  the  subse- 
quent history  of  that  part  of  our  country  later 
generations  were  intimately  identified.  From 
there  they  moved  west  to  Ohio,  where  our  sub- 
ject's father,  Thomas  Ilifi",  cultivated  a  farm  near 
Zanesville.  Thomas  Iliff"  was  born  in  Pennsyl- 
vania April  24,  1803,  and  died  October  10,  1874. 
By  his  first  wife,  who  was  Salome  Reed,  he  had 
ten  children,  of  whom  four  are  deceased.  His 
second  wife  was  Harriet  Halcomb,  who  survived 
hira  twenty-four  years.  He  was  one  of  the  most 
successful  and  intelligent  farmers  of  Ohio  and 
accumulated  a  fair  property.  In  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church,  of  which  he  was  a  member, 
he  filled  offices  of  trust.  Politically  he  was  a 
Republican  and  a  man  of  influence  in  his  locality. 
His  name  was  a  synonym  for  everything  that 
was  substantial  and  trustworthy  and  his  life  was 
worthy  of  emulation. 

The  shrewd  judgment  of  Mr.  IliS"  is  illustrated 
by  an  incident  that  happened  in  his  youth.  He 
was  living  near  Zanesville,  Ohio,  on  the  farm 
where  he  was  born  in  1831,  and  was  about  to  em- 
bark in  the  world  for  himself.  His  father,  wish- . 
ing  him  to  remain  near  the  old  home,  offered  to 
invest  $7,500  in  a  farm  for  him,  but  he  asked  him 
to  give  him  $500  and  permit  him  to  go  west. 
With  that  small  capital  he  went  to  Kansas,  where 
he  remained  for  three  years,  until  he  settled  in 
Colorado. 

In  January,  1864,  Mr.  Ilifl  married  Miss  Sarah 


E.  Smith,  a  lineal  descendant  of  John  Smith,  of 
Pocahontas  fame,  and  a  native  of  Delaware,  Ohio, 
but  for  some  years  a  resident  of  Kansas,  where 
she  was  educated.  The  only  son  born  of  this 
marriage  is  William  S.,  of  Denver.  In  March, 
1870,  Mr.  Iliff"  married  Miss  Elizabeths.  Eraser, 
of  whose  family  mention  is  made  in  the  sketch  of 
her  brother,  J.  J.  Eraser.  She  was  born  in 
Canada,  but  came  to  Colorado  at  an  early  age 
and  afterward  made  her  home  with  an  aunt  near 
Pueblo.  By  her  marriage  to  Mr.  Iliff  three  chil- 
dren were  born,  one  of  whom  died  when  young. 
In  spite  of  the  fact  that  his  journeyings  around 
the  country  brought  him  into  frequent  contact 
with  Indians,  Mr.  Iliff  never  carried  weapons, 
but  he  did  not  molest  the  savages  and  they  in 
turn  did  not  molest  him.  Politically  he  was  a 
Republican,  and  in  religious  belief  adhered  to 
the  Methodist  faith.  He  died  February  9,  1878, 
and  was  buried  in  Riverside  cemetery  at  Denver. 
Afterward  his  son  erected  the  Iliff  School  of 
Theology  at  University  Park  as  a  memorial  to 
him.  His  widow  is  now  the  wife  of  Bishop 
Warren,  of  University  Park. 


Gl  B.  DANIELS.  During  the '70s  there  was 
LJ  no  citizen  of  Denver  who  was  more  in- 
/  I  timately  associated  with  its  business  inter- 
ests or  held  a  position  higher  in  the  confidence  of 
the  people  than  did  Mr.  Daniels,  and  his  death, 
which  occurred  April  8,  1881,  was  mourned  as 
a  public  loss.  His  great  business  ability  was 
recognized  by  all,  and  was  the  chief  factor  in  his 
financial  success;  another,  and  scarcely  less  vital 
force  in  his  success,  was  his  boundless  energy, 
the  enterprise  that  no  obstacle  daunted,  the  in- 
dustry that  the, hardest  labor  could  not  diminish. 
A  member  of  an  old  family  of  New  York  and 
himself  a  native  of  that  state,  Mr.  Daniels  was 
reared  upon  a  farm  there,  but  early  in  life  went 
to  New  York  City,  where  he  embarked  in  busi- 
ness as  a  ship  chandler.  About  1865  he  came 
west  to  Council  Bluffs,  Iowa,  but  after  three 
years  settled  in  Denver,  which  continued  to  be 
his  home  during  his  remaining  years.  For  a 
time  he  was  interested  in  the  wholesale  grocerj' 
business,  as  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Daniels  & 
Brown.  Later  he  assisted  in  the  organization  of 
the  Colorado  National  Bank,  of  which  he  was 
vice-president  until  his  death.     He  was  inter- 


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ested  in  the  real-estate  business,  and  built  a 
number  of  business  blocks,  among  them  the 
building  occupied  by  the  bank.  He  was  also 
the  head  of  the  banking  house  of  Daniels,  Brown 
&  Co.,  of  Del  Norte,  knowu  as  the  Bank  of  Sau 
Juan,  which  under  his  management  gained  a 
reputation  as  one  of  the  strongest  financial  in- 
stitutions in  the  west. 

lyike  the  majority  of  the  early  residents  of 
Denver,  Mr.  Daniels  held  important  interests  in 
the  cattle  business.  He  was  one  of  the  first  to 
buy  and  improve  a  ranch  in  the  San  Luis  Val- 
ley and  he  also  owned  large  tracts  in  Jefferson 
County.  His  business  affairs  received  his  entire 
attention,  to  the  exclusion  of  public  matters,  but 
he  did  not  forget  the  duty  he  owed  to  his  coun- 
try and  kept  himself  posted  upon  the  questions 
before  the  people.  In  politics  he  was  a  Demo- 
crat. His  first  residence  in  Denver  stood  on 
Curtis  and  Sixteenth  streets,  where  is  now  the 
Tabor  opera  house,  and  afterward  he  moved  to 
Court  place  and  Fourteenth  street,  where  he 
died. 

In  Council  Bluffs,  Iowa,  Mr.  Daniels  married 
Hattie  Ramsen,  who  was  born  in  St.  Catharines, 
Canada,  her  father  having  come  there  from  Scot- 
land, and  her  mother  from  England.  She  died 
in  1879,  when  thirty-five  years  of  age.  Two  of 
her  children,  Olive  E.  and  George  Sheedy,  died 
in  childhood,  and  the  only  survivor  is  A.  B.,  Jr. 


HON.  JEROME  B.  CHAFFEE.  From  what- 
ever point  the  life  and  character  of  Senator 
Chaffee  may  be  viewed,  whether  as  the 
head  of  large  and  valuable  mining  interests,  the 
organizer  and  first  president  of  the  First  National 
Bank  of  Denver,  or  as  a  man  of  public  affairs, 
devoted  to  the  welfare  of  his  state  and  intensely 
interested  in  its  progress,  it  will  be  readily  con- 
ceded that  he  was  a  great  man.  His  representa- 
tion of  Colorado  in  the  United  States  senate  was 
of  such  a  nature  as  to  reflect  credit  upon  his  own 
high  order  of  talents  and  se'cure  for  him  the 
regard  of  his  constituents. 

Born  in  Niagara  County,  N.  Y. ,  April  17,  1825, 
Mr.  Chaffee  was  quite  a  young  man  when  he  came 
west  to  Adrian,  Mich.,  where  he  taught  school 
and  afterwards  kept  a  store.  Later  he  removed 
to  St.  Joseph,  Mo. ,  where  he  engaged  in  bank- 
ing.    In  1857  he  organized  the  Elmwood  Towu 


Company  in  Kansas,  of  which  he  became  secre- 
tary and  manager.  Soon  after  the  discovery  of 
gold  in  Colorado  he  decided  to  come  here,  and  in 
i860  he  crossed  the  plains  to  Gilpin  County, 
where  he  developed  some  gold  lodes,  and,  with 
Eben  Smith,  erected  the  Smith  &  Chaffee  stamp 
mill.  In  1863  he  sold  the  interest  in  the  lode  he 
was  working,  but  afterward  bought  it  back  and 
consolidated  it  with  other  lodes,  the  whole  form- 
ing the  famous  "Bob-Tail  Lode  and  Tunnel," 
the  name  of  which  is  said  to  have  been  derived 
from  the  fact  that  a  bob -tailed  ox,  harnessed  to 
a  drag,  made  by  stretching  a  rawhide  across  a 
forked  stick,  was  used  for  hauling  the  first  pay- 
dirt  to  the  gulch  for  sluicing.  Mr.  Chaffee  be- 
came the  largest  owner  of  the  Bob-Tail  Company, 
which  owned  the  best  paying  mine,  largest 
tunnels  and  one  of  the  most  complete  mills  in  the 
state  at  that  time.  He  became  the  owner  of  one 
hundred  or  more  gold  and  silver  lodes,  among 
them  the  Caribou  silver  mine  in  Boulder  County, 
and  he  was  one  of  the  organizers  and  principal 
stockholders  in  the  Little  Pittsburg  Consolidated 
Mining  Company. 

The  business  energies  of  Mr,  Chaffee  found  a 
new  outlet  in  1865,  when  he  bought  the  banking 
interests  of  Clark  &  Co.,  and  organized  the  First 
National  Bank  of  Denver,  of  which  he  was  presi- 
dent until  January,  1880.  Politically  he  was  a 
Republican  from  the  organization  of  that  party, 
and  he  was  its  leader  in  Colorado  for  many  years 
before  his  death.  Though  from  i860  to  1888 
extensively  interested  in  mining,  yet  the  larger 
portion  of  his  time  was  given  to  public  affairs. 
In  1 86 1  he  was  elected  to  represent  Gilpin  County 
in  the  first  territorial  legislature,  two  years  later 
was  re-elected  and  chosen  speaker  of  the  house. 
In  1865  the  people  organized  a  state  government 
under  the  enabling  act  of  congress  and  he  and 
Hon.  John  Evans  were  elected  United  States 
senators.  A  bill  to  admit  the  state  was  intro- 
duced and  passed  bj'  the  congress  and  senate  in 
1865-66,  but  President  Johnson  vetoed  it.  Again 
introduced  in  the  session  of  1867-68,  it  was  again 
vetoed  by  President  Johnson.  This  veto  and  the 
subsequent  controversy  are  memorable  events  in 
the  administration  of  Johnson,  nor  was  Senator 
Chaffee's  connection  with  the  matter  of  insig- 
nificant importance. 

When  elected  a  delegate  to  congress  and  be- 
ginning upon  his  duties  in  the  spring  of  1871, 


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Senator  Chaffee  at  once  presented  a  new  enabling 
act.  During  his  four  years  of  service  as  delegate 
he  labored  hard  for  the  passage  of  the  act,  but  it 
was  not  until  near  the  expiration  of  his  term  that 
he  was  successful.  When  the  news  reached 
Denver  there  was  the  wildest  enthusiasm,  and 
both  parties  united  in  praising  Mr.  Chaffee,  for 
both  Democrats  and  Republicans  wished  the 
territory  admitted  to  the  Union,  each  believing  it 
would  have  a  majority  of  votes.  On  the  admis- 
sion of  the  state  into  the  Union,  Mr.  Chaffee  was 
unanimously  elected  to  the  senate,  a  well-merited 
recognition  of  his  efforts  in  the  attainment  of  the 
end  long  desired.  Hon.  H.  M.  Teller  was  elected 
as  junior  senator.  When  they  reached  Washing- 
ton, Mr.  Chaffee  drew  by  lot  the  long  term  ex- 
piring March  4,  1879.  After  his  election  his 
first  effort  in  behalf  of  the  state  was  an  arrange- 
ment of  facts  relative  to  the  question  of  pro  rata 
between  the  Kansas  Pacific  and  the  Union  Pacific 
roads.  These  he  drew  up  and  presented  to  the 
senate  in  a  speech  that  attracted  the  attention  of 
the  ablest  men  of  the  country  and  proved  the  be- 
ginning of  the  final  settlement  of  the  question. 
He  introduced  a  bill  authorizing  a  treaty  with  the 
Ute  Indians  for  the  cession  of  a  part  of  their 
reservation,  thus  opening  to  development  the  rich 
mining  district  of  San  Juan.  He  introduced  a 
bill  changing  the  rules  of  the  house  so  as  to  give 
the  territories  representation  in  the  committee  on 
territories,  thus  establishing  a  precedent  for  per- 
mitting delegates  to  participate  in  the  business  of 
other  committees.  He  drafted  and  secured  the 
passage  of  a  bill  for  enlarging,  confirming  and 
defining  the  power  of  territorial  legislature. 
Largely  through  his  labors  an  excellent  mining 
code  was  passed  by  congress.  Under  the  new 
state  organization  he  was  again  elected  United 
States  senator  and  drew  the  short  term,  expiring 
March  3,  1879,  when  he  refused  further  election 
on  account  of  ill  health.  His  friends  were  ex- 
tremely reluctant  to  accept  his  refusal  of  further 
nomination,  but  when  he  urged  his  physical 
inability  to  discharge  the  duties  of  the  responsible 
position,  Hon.  Nathaniel  P.  Hill  was  placed  in 
nomination  and  afterward  duly  elected  to  the 
ofiSce. 

Beginning  with  the  convention  in  Buffalo  in 
1844,  when  J.  G.  Birnej'  was  nominated  by  the 
Liberal  party,  Senator  Chafiee  was  a  delegate  to 
every  national  convention  of  his  party.     During 


many  years  he  represented  his  state  as  a  member 
of  the  Republican  national  committee.  He  did 
much  for  the  advancement  of  the  state,  giving 
liberally  of  his  time  to  promote  progressive  proj- 
ects and  also  contributing  with  the  greatest 
generosity  to  matters  for  the  benefit  of  the  people. 
His  talents  were  of  an  unusually  high  order,  and 
he  is  remembered  as  one  of  the  most  eminent 
men  that  the  state  has  ever  had  among  its  citizens. 
At  Adrian,  Mich.,  in  1848,  Senator  Chaffee 
married  Miriam,  daughter  of  Warner  and  Mary 
(Perry)  Comstock.  Their  children  were:  Horace 
Jerome,  Nellie  Virginia,  Edward  Fenton  and 
Fannie  Josephine,  wife  of  U.  S.  Grant,  Jr.  In 
his  la.st  years  Senator  Chaffee  divided  his  time 
between  Colorado  and  the  home  of  his  daughter 
at  Murry  weather  farm,  Westchester  County,  N.Y. 
He  died  there  March  9,  1886,  and  lies  buried  in 
Adrian,  by  the  side  of  his  wife  and  three  of  his 
children. 


j  EWIS  E.  LEMEN,  M.  D.,  president  of  the 
It  Colorado  State  Medical  Societj^  and  surgeon 
U  for  the  Union  Pacific  Railroad,  was  born  in 
Belleville,  St.  Clair  County,  111.,  April  i,  1849. 
The  first  of  his  ancestors  who  settled  in  America 
was  his  great- grandfather,  James  Lemen,  a  native 
of  Scotland,  but  in  early  manhood  an  emigrant  to 
Harper's  Ferry,  Va.,  and  during  the  Revolution 
a  brave  defender  of  the  colonial  honor.  After 
the  war  closed  he  was  sent  west  by  the  govern- 
ment in  order  to  locate  lands  for  soldiers  in  the 
western  territory.  He  settled  in  St.  Clair  County, 
of  which  he  was  one  of  the  earliest  pioneers. 

Rev.  James  Lemen,  the  doctor's  grandfather, 
was  the  first  white  child  born  in  Illinois  in  the 
old  Indian  fort  at  Kaskaskia.  Amid  the  pioneer 
influences  and  environments  of  his  day  he  grew 
to  manhood,  and,  selecting  the  ministry  for  his 
profession,  he  was  ordained  a  preacher  in  the 
Baptist  denomination.  For  forty-five  years  he 
was  pastor  of  Bethel  Church  in  St.  Clair  County, 
and  in  addition  to  his  ministerial  duties  he  also 
entered  and  improved  land.  He  passed  away 
when  eighty -six  years  of  age. 

Born  in  St.  Clair  County,  Sylvester  Lemen, 
father  of  the  doctor,  was  given  better  educational 
advantages  than  had  been  possible  when  his 
father  was  young.  He  made  agriculture  his  prin- 
cipal vocation  and  became  the  owner  of  a  valuable 
farm  near  Belleville,  on  which  his  active  years 


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were  passed.  He  was  also  a  licensed  preacher  in 
the  Baptist  Church.  In  politics  he  was  a  Re- 
publican and  strong  in  his  advocacy  of  the  Union 
during  the  Civil  war.  His  last  days  were  spent 
in  Belleville,  where  he  died  at  fifty-six  years. 
His  wife,  who  was  born  in  Illinois  and  died  in 
Denver  at  the  age  of  sixty-six,  was  Susan  K., 
daughter  of  Aaron  Shook,  a  native  of  Pennsyl- 
vania and  a  pioneer  farmer  of  St.  Clair  County. 
The  family  of  Sylvester  and  Susan  Lemen  con- 
sisted of  nine  children,  of  whom  seven  attained 
mature  years  and  six  are  living  now,  the  four 
sons  all  being  professional  men.  H.  A.,  the 
eldest,  is  a  physician  in  Denver,  and  E.  C.  is  a 
physician  at  Upper  Alton,  111.,  while  the  young- 
est. Rev.  T.  A.,  is  a  minister  in  the  Evangelical 
Church  in  Oklahoma. 

The  early  years  of  Dr.  Icemen's  life  were  un- 
eventfully passed  on  his  father's  farm.  At  the 
age  of  sixteen  he  entered  Shurtleff  College  in 
Alton,  111.,  where  he  carried  on  his  literary 
studies.  From  there  he  went  to  the  St.  Louis 
Medical  College,  from  which  he  graduated  in 
1871  with  the  degree  of  M.  D.  In  1876  the 
degree  of  A.  M.  was  conferred  upon  him  by  his 
alma  mater,  Shurtleff  College.  After  graduating 
in  medicine  he  practiced  in  St.  Louis  for  a  year, 
but  in  1872,  owing  to  impaired  health  caused  by 
overwork,  it  became  necessary  for  him  to  seek  a 
change  of  climate.  He  had  heard  much  of  the 
salubrious  air  and  healthful  climate  of  Colorado 
and  accordingly  came  to  this  state,  where  he 
opened  an  ofiice  in  Georgetown,  Clear  Creek 
County,  and  engaged  in  practice  there  until  his 
removal  to  Denver  in  1884.  Here  he  was 
appointed  surgeon  for  the  Omaha  and  Grant 
Smelting  Works,  also  in  1887  surgeon  to  the 
Globe  Smelting  and  Refining  Company.  During 
most  of  the  time  since  1884  he  has  been  surgeon 
for  the  Union  Pacific  Railroad,  and  in  1885  he  was 
appointed  surgeon  with  the  Denver  City  Cable 
Railway  Company,  filling  the  position  at  the 
present  writing.  He  is  also  consulting  surgeon 
of  the  Denver,  Texas  &  Gulf' Railroad;  ex-presi- 
dent of  the  staff,  and  surgeon  of  St.  Joseph's 
hospital,  consulting  surgeon  of  St.  Luke's  hos- 
pital, and  president  of  the  staff  of  surgeons  of  the 
Cottage  Home.  He  is  professor  of  clinical 
surgery  in  the  medical  department  of  the  Univer- 
sity of  Denver,  for  three  years  held  a  similar 
position  in  the  University  of  Colorado,  and  for 


one  year  held  the  chair  of  fractures  and  disloca- 
tions in  Gross  Medical  College.  He  is  ex-presi- 
dent of  the  American  Academy  of  Railroad 
Surgeons  and  is  now  president  of  the  Colorado 
Medical  Society. 

In  April,  1893,  Dr.  Lemen  was  appointed 
health  commissioner  of  Denver  by  Mayor  Van 
Horn.  In  1889  he  was  appointed  a  commissioner 
of  the  Colorado  Insane  Asylum,  and  was  presi- 
dent of  the  board  until  1895.  With  the  various 
medical  associations  he  holds  membership, 
national,  state,  and  city  and  county,  of  which 
last  he  was  president  for  some  time.  His  con- 
tributions to  medical  journals  have  made  his 
name  a  familiar  one  to  the  profession  throughout 
the  country.  He  has  been  especially  successful 
in  surgery,  in  which  department  his  skill  is 
universally  recognized,  and  his  articles  upon  any 
branch  of  that  subject  are  always  accepted  as 
authority.  In  fraternal  relations  he  is  a  Knight 
Templar  and  has  taken  the  thirty-second  degree 
in  Masonry.  In  politics  he  adheres  to  the  prin- 
ciples of  that  body  known  as  the  silver  Republi- 
cans. The  demands  of  his  profession  have  been 
such  that  he  has  had  no  time,  had  he  possessed 
the  inclination,  to  enter  the  political  arena.  The 
positions  he  has  held  have  been  those  that  were 
directly  connected  with  his  profession  or  with 
the  educational  interests  of  his  community. 

May  5,  1875,  Dr.  Lemen  married  Miss  Lizzie, 
daughter  of  Hon.  Henry  T.  Mudd,  of  St.  Louis, 
Mo.  She  died  in  Georgetown,  Colo.,  in  1876. 
His  second  marriage,  April  12,  1882,  united  him 
with  Elsie,  daughter  of  Hon.  William  H.  James, 
of  the  Omaha  and  Grant  Smelting  Company. 
Three  children  have  been  born  of  their  union, 
of  whom  two  are  living,  Margaret  Lemen  and 
Lewis  James  Lemen. 


(T  T.  ESKRIDGE,  M.  D.,  president  of  the 
I  State  Board  of  Lunacy,  ex-president  of  the 
(2/  Colorado  State  Medical  Society,  is  one  of 
Denver's  most  prominent  physicians.  In  the 
profession  he  is  regarded  as  an  authority  on 
nervous  and  mental  diseases  and  he  has  written  one 
hundred  and  five  articles  upon  this  type  of  disease 
for  medical  journals  in  this  country.  A  number 
of  his  contributions  have  been  translated  into 
other  languages  and  copied  in  their  medical  jour- 
nals.    He  has  written  for  "Practical  Therapeu- 


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tics"  by  Foster,  "American  Textbook  of  Ap- 
plied Therapeutics"  by  Wilson,  "American  Sys- 
tem of  Practical  Medicine"  by  Loomis  and 
Thompson,  and  "American  System  of  Medical 
Jurisprudence"  by  Haynes  and  Peterson.  What- 
ever subject  he  treats,  within  the  realm  of  medi- 
cal thought,  is  dealt  with  in  a  vigorous  manner, 
so  that  it  is  made  clear  to  the  mind,  and  it  is 
doubtless  due  to  this  vigor  and  terseness  of  style 
that  his  contributions  to  scientific  literature  are 
so  valuable. 

The  Eskridge  family  was  founded  in  America 
by  Judge  George  Eskridge,  a  native  of  Scotland, 
who  came  to  America  in  1660  as  judge  of  the 
king's  bench  in  Virginia  and  continued  to  preside 
over  the  court  until  his  death.  Among  his  de- 
scendants are  numerous  planters,  physicians  and 
attorneys.  His  son,  who  was  a  planter,  par- 
ticipated in  the  Revolution.  The  latter' s  son, 
John,  was  born  in  Virginia  and  took  part  in 
the  war  of  18 12.  Removing  to  Sussex  County, 
Del.,  he  carried  on  farming  extensively  there  un- 
til his  death. 

Jeremiah,  the  son  of  John,  and  the  father  of  the 
doctor,  was  born  in  Delaware  and  took  part  in 
the  Seminole  war  from  1835  to  1838,  and  was 
wounded.  By  trade  a  sea-captain,  he  owned 
vessels  and  schooners  in  Chesapeake  bay.  Final- 
ly he  retired  from  the  sea  and  settled  on  a  farm 
in  Sussex  County,  where  he  still  resides,  quite 
sturdy  in  spite  of  Jiis  eighty-five  years.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church. 
His  wife,  who  died  in  1865,  was  in  maidenhood 
Mary  Marvel  and  was  born  in  Sussex  County, 
member  of  a  prominent  family  there.  Her 
brother,  Josiah  Marvel,  was  recently  the  gov- 
ernor of  Delaware  and  died  during  his  term  of 
office. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch,  the  sixth  among 
twelve  children,  was  born  in  Sussex  County, 
Del.  After  completing  the  public  school  studies 
he  entered  the  classical  institute  at  Laurel,  Del., 
where  he  spent  three  years.  The  next  three 
were  devoted  to  teaching.  He  then  studied 
medicine  under  Dr.  Fowler,  of  Laurel,  Del.,  and 
in  the  Jefferson  Medical  College  of  Philadelphia, 
from  which  he  graduated  in  1875  with  the  degree 
of  Doctor  of  Medicine.  Afterward  he  practiced 
in  Philadelphia  until  1884.  For  a  time  he 
was  assistant- demonstrator  of  anatomy  in  Jeffer- 
son Medical  College  and  physician  to  the  Phila- 


delphia Dispensary.  In  1876  he  was  physician 
to  the  eye  and  ear  department  of  the  Philadelphia 
Dispensary  and  attending  physician  to  the  Cath- 
erine Street  Dispensary.  From  1875  to  188 1  he 
was  quiz-master  on  physiology  and  during  these 
years  gave  lectures  before  the  .students  of  Jeffer- 
son Medical  College.  In  1879  he  was  a  lecturer 
on  physical  diagnosis  at  the  Philadelphia  School 
of  Anatomy  and  attending  physician  to  St.  Mary's 
Hospital.  In  1880  he  was  elected  attending 
physician  to  Jefferson  College  Hospital;  in  1882, 
neurologist  of  Howard  Hospital, and  in  1883  post- 
graduate instructor  in  mental  and  nervous  dis- 
eases in  Jefferson  Medical  College. 

The  duty  of  filling  so  many  positions  neces- 
sarily was  a  great  strain  upon  Dr.  Eskridge, 
and  his  health  broke  down  in  the  winter  of  1883- 
84.  In  August,  1884,  he  came  west  on  account 
of  tuberculosis  of  the  lungs  and  located  in  Colo- 
rado Springs,  where  he  spent  four  years  in 
recuperating  his  health.  In  1888  he  removed  to 
Denver,  where  he  has  his  office  in  the  Equitable 
building.  In  1889  he  was  appointed  neurologist 
and  alienist  to  the  Arapahoe  County  and  St. 
Luke's  Hospitals,  and  the  next  year  began  giv- 
ing a  course  of  lectures  on  the  diseases  of  the 
nervous  system;  in  the  University  of  Colorado. 
In  1892  he  was  appointed  dean  of  the  medical 
faculty  of  the  same  institution  and  professor  of 
nervous  and  mental  diseases  and  medical  juris- 
prudence, but  in  1859  he'  resigned,  severing  all 
connection  with  the  college.  Each  year  he  has 
delivered  a  course  of  lectures  at  Colorado  Col- 
lege, in  Colorado  Springs,  on  cerebral  localiza- 
tion and  physiology  of  the  nervous  system.  In 
1894  Governor  Mclntire  appointed  him  commis- 
sioner of  the  State  Insane  Asylum,  and  since 
that  time  he  has  been  the  president  of  the  board, 
to  which  position  he  was  elected  shortly  after 
he  became  a  member. 

In  Philadelphia,  in  1876,  Dr.  Eskridge  mar- 
ried Miss  Jane  Gay,  who  was  born  in  Ireland, 
but  came  to  this  country  in  childhood,  her  father, 
James  Gay,  becoming  a  real-estate  owner  and 
capitalist  of  Philadelphia.  While  a  resident  of 
the  Quaker  City  Dr.  Eskridge  was  president  of 
the  Philadelphia  Northern  Medical  Society  (now 
the  Clinical  Society  of  Philadelphia)  ;  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  board  of  directors  of  Philadelphia 
County  Medical  Society;  a  member  of  the  Phila- 
delphia   Pathological    Society;  the    Philadelphia 


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Neurological  Society  and  the  American  Neu- 
rological Society.  Later  he  was  elected  a  mem- 
ber of  the  American  Climatological  Society  and 
the  American  Medical  Association,  with  all  of 
which  he  still  retains  his  connection.  He  also 
belongs  to  the  New  York  Medical-Legal  Society, 
the  Denver  and  Arapahoe  County  Medical  So- 
ciety and  the  Colorado  State  Medical  Association 
(president  of  the  last-mentioned)  and  also  presi- 
dent of  the  El  Paso  County  Medical  Society. 
Dr.  Eskridge  has  devoted  the  best  years  of  his 
life  to  the  noble  work  of  alleviating  the  sufferings 
of  his  fellow-men  and  his  scholarly  research, 
indefatigable  labors  and  invaluable  experience 
make  him  an  authority  on  subjects  relating  to 
his  profession.  His  fame  is  far-reaching,  and  his 
carefully  prepared  articles  for  publication  are  al- 
ways eagerly  sought  for  and  thenceforth  quoted. 
Toward  the  young  and  aspiring  physician  he  has 
proved  a  sincere  friend  and  adviser. 


0AVID  H.  MOFFAT.  He  who  contributes 
to  the  commercial  prosperity  of  a  place;  who, 
by  his  judgment  and  foresight,  assists  in  the 
development  of  its  resources;  in  whose  hands 
large  financial  trusts  are  placed  and  safely,  faith- 
fully guarded;  such  an  one  may  justly  be  called  a 
public  benefactor.  To  this  class  belongs  Mr. 
Moffat,  president  of  the  First  National  Bank  of 
Denver,  and  long  one  of  Denver's  most  progress- 
ive and  distinguished  citizens.  It  would  be  im- 
possible to  write  an  accurate  historj'  of  Denver 
and  omit  mention  of  his  connection  with  the  city, 
which  has  been  his  home  since  i860,  and  the 
scene  of  his  financial  .successes.  The  supremacj' 
acquired  by  Denver  over  other  towns  of  the 
mountain  states  is  due  in  no  small  measure  to  his 
business  acumen  and  sagacity,  for  he  used  his  in- 
fluence to  bring  railroads  to  the  city  and  to  intro- 
duce manufacturing  enterprises  and  business  proj- 
ects that  would  be  of  permanent  value  to  the 
place. 

The  success  attained  by  Mr.  Moffat  is  especially 
deserving  of  mention  when  the  fact  is  considered 
that  he  left  home  at  the  age  of  twelve  years,  with 
little  money,  to  begin  the  battle  of  life  for  him- 
self He  went  from  Orange  County,  N.  Y., 
where  he  was  born  July  22,  1839,  to  the  city  of 
New  York,  and  there,  by  a  strange  providence, 
he  found  employment  in  the  line  of  business  for 


which  he  was  best  fitted  by  nature.  He  was  given 
a  place  in  the  New  York  Exchange  Bank  as  mes- 
senger boy,  and  this  apparent  chance  determined 
the  occupation  of  his  life.  He  was  quick  to 
learn,  and  his  increasing  knowledge  of  the  bank- 
ing business  was  recognized  by  the  president, 
Selah  Van  Duser,  who  promoted  him  to  a  clerk- 
ship in  the  bank. 

In  1855,  having  received  an  offer  of  employ- 
ment in  Des  Moines,  Iowa,  he  went  to  that  city  and 
there  for  a  time  was  teller  in  the  banking  house 
of  A.  J.  Stevens  &  Co.  While  connected  with 
that  bank  he  made  the  acquaintance  of  B.  F. 
Allen,  of  Des  Moines,  who,  recognizing  his  finan- 
cial talents,  offered  him  a  more  lucrative  position 
in  Omaha.  Going  to  that  city,  he  took  charge 
of  the  Bank  of  Nebraska,  as  cashier.  At  the  end 
of  four  years  he  closed  the  bank,  paid  its  indebt- 
edness in  full,  and  divided  the  surplus  among  the 
stockholders.  He  then  left  at  once  for  Denver, 
making  the  trip  in  a  wagon  drawn  by  mules  and 
loaded  with  a  full  supply  of  provisions.  When 
he  reached  his  destination,  he  found  on  the  banks 
of  the  Platte  River  a  settlement  of  a  few  thousand 
people,  the  most  of  whom  were  prospectors.  In 
partnership  with  C.  C.  Woolworth,  he  opened  a 
book  and  stationery  store,  which  was  carried  on 
for  six  years.  In  those  days  gold  dust  was  the 
medium  of  exchange.  Interest  rates  were  very 
high,  and  there  was  a  profit  in  the  purchase  of 
bullion  and  its  shipment  east. 

When  Mr.  Moffat  came  to  Denver  he  was 
a  slender  youth,  weighing  only  one  hundred 
pounds,  and  bearing  the  appearance  of  one  in 
delicate  health.  However,  he  was  much  stronger 
than  his  appearance  indicated,  and  as  he  became 
older  he  increased  in  weight,  being  now  a  man 
of  splendid  physique  and  robust  health.  Two 
years  after  he  came  to  Denver  he  established  a 
home  of  his  own,  being  united  in  marriage  with 
Miss  Fannie  A.  Buckhout,  of  Saratoga,  N.  Y.,  by 
whom  he  has  a  daughter,  the  wife  of  J.  A. 
McClurg. 

April  17,  1865,  the  comptroller  of  treasury 
authorized  the  organization  of  the  First  National 
Bank  of  Denver,  and  it  was  opened  for  business 
May  9.  The  original  stockholders  and  directors 
were:  Austin  M,  and  Milton  E.  Clark,  Bela  S. 
Buell,  Jerome  B.  Chaffee,  Henry  J.  Rogers, 
George  T.  Clark,  Charles  A.  Cook  and  Eben 
Smith;  the  officers  being:  J.   B.  Chaffee,  presi- 


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dent;  H.  J.  Rogers,  vice-president;  and  George 
T.  Clark,  cashier.  The  private  banking  busi- 
ness of  Clark  &  Co.  was  merged  into  the  new 
institution,  which  was  located  on  Blake  street, 
then  the  business  center  of  the  city.  No  especial 
success  rewarded  the  investments  of  the  stockhold- 
ers until  1 867,  when  Mr.  Moffat  was  elected  cashier, 
but  after  that  there  was  an  immediate  improvement 
and  from  that  year  the  bank  enjoyed  a  steady  and 
increasing  prosperity.  It  now  has  a  capital  of 
$500,000,  with  a  surplus  larger  than  that,  and 
deposits  amounting  to  $13,000,000.  During  the 
panics  that  engulfed  so  many  banks  throughout 
the  country  it  retained  its  credit  unimpaired, 
meeting  every  demand  on  time. 

Besides  being  connected  with  Mr.  Chaffee  in 
the  bank,  Mr.  Moffat  was,  with  him,  interested 
in  real-estate  and  mining  operations.  They  owned 
the  Caribou  mine,  near  Boulder,  the  Breece  iron 
mine,  in  Leadville,  and  the  Henrietta,  also  in 
Leadville.  They  also  purchased  Senator  Tabor's 
stock  in  the  Little  Pittsburg  Consolidated  Mining 
Company,  of  which  Mr.  MoflFat  became  vice-pres- 
ident and  from  which  he  derived  a  large  income. 
In  addition,  they  together  owned  nearly  a  hundred 
mines  in  different  parts  of  the  state. 

In  projects  for  building  railroads  Mr.  Moffat 
has  always  borne  an  active  part.  In  1869  he  co- 
operated with  Governor  Evans  in  building  the 
Denver  Pacific  Railroad  from  Denver  to  Chey- 
enne, thus  securing  a  connection  with  the  Union 
Pacific.  After  silver  was  discovered  at  Leadville 
he  took  part  in  organizing  a  syndicate  that  built 
the  Denver  &  South  Park  Railroad,  one  hundred 
and  fifty  miles  long,  and  which  at  one  time  yielded 
larger  profits  then  any  railroad  of  its  length  in 
world.  Upon  the  construction  of  the  Boulder 
Valley  Railroad  he  was  chosen  treasurer  of  the 
company  and  himself  built  the  extension  from 
Boulder  to  the  Marshall  coal  banks,  in  Boulder 
County.  For  years  he  held  the  responsible  posi- 
tion of  president  of  the  Denver  &  Rio  Grande 
Railroad  Company,  of  whose  stock  he  was  a  heavy 
owner,  but  in  1891  he  resigned  the  position.  He 
was  largely  interested  in  the  building  of  the 
Florence  &  Cripple  Creek  Railroad,  connecting 
Cripple  Creek  with  Florence,  and  one  of  the  most 
profitable  lines  in  the  state. 

During  the  administration  of  Governor  Evans, 
Mr.  Moffat  held  the  office  of  adjutant-general. 
For  four  years  he   was  territorial  treasurer.     In 


the  organization  of  the  Denver  City  Water  Com- 
pany he  took  an  active  part  and  was  for  years  its 
treasurer.  Other  local  enterprises  have  received 
his  warm  support  and  active  assistance.  Perhaps 
no  trait  of  his  character  is  more  worthy  of  admi- 
ration then  his  generosity.  In  great  financial 
crises  he  has  helped  many  men  to  brave  the  storm 
and  retain  their  financial  credit,  who,  without 
his  aid,  would  have  succumbed  to  the  tempest. 
The  amount  of  his  gifts  no  one  knows,  unless  it 
be  himself,  but  they  must  amount  to  thousands 
annually.  Fitz-Mac,  in  an  admirable  character 
sketch  of  Mr.  Moffat,  says:  "His  friendship 
takes  not  so  much  the  smiling  as  the  helping 
turn.  I  speak  not  of  what  he  gives  away  in 
charity,  but  in  a  straight  business  way  he  has 
helped  more  men  then  any  other  man  in  the 
state.  That  would  be  little  to  say  of  him  now 
because  he  is  the  richest  man  in  the  state,  but  it 
could  have  been  truly  said  of  him  long  before  he 
became  the  richest  man;  and  actually  was  widely 
said."  Great  riches  bring  great  responsibilities, 
but,  did  all  our  men  of  wealth  possess  the  help- 
ful, practical  sympathy  that  has  made  Mr.  Moffat 
a  man  among  men,  there  would  be  less  of  the 
socialistic  spirit  prevalent  in  our  country,  and 
anarchism  would  be  relegated  to  the  dark  ages, 
or  to  unenlightened  countries,  where  it  might 
hope  to  find  followers. 


HON.  HORACE  A.  W.  TABOR.  The  old 
adage,  "Truth  is  stranger  than  fiction," 
finds  exemplification  in  this,  the  most 
famous  of  the  men  who  crossed  the  plains  in  1859 
and  became  the  pioneers  in  the  development  of 
the  mining  resources  of  Colorado.  For  years 
newspapers  chronicled  his  successes,  reporters 
wrote  glowing  descriptions  of  his  triumphs  in  this 
modern  El  Dorado,  and  people,  both  in  this  country 
and  throughout  the  entire  civilized  world,  were 
attracted  by  the  spectacle  of  a  man  who  rose  by 
such  rapid  bounds  to  the  pinnacle  of  fortune  and 
under  whose  leadership,  like  that  of  Midas  of  old, 
every  path  became  a  road  to  fortune. 

The  record  of  the  life  of  such  a  man  has  more 
than  temporary  or  local  interest,  and  it  will  there- 
fore be  the  biographer' s  effort  to  present  it  in  full, so 
that  the  reader  may  understand  the  circumstances 
and  characteristics  that  contributed  to  his  success. 
Horace  A.  W.  Tabor  was  born  in  Orleans  County, 


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Vt.,  November  26,  1830,  and  in  early  life  acquired 
habits  of  industry  and  perseverance.  His  parents 
being  poor,  he  had  meagre  educational  advan- 
tages and  was  forced  to  supply  by  observation  and 
experience  the  knowledge  that  most  boys  gain  in 
school.  In  youth  he  learned  the  trade  of  a  stone- 
cutter, which  he  followed  in  Vermont  until 
twenty-five  years  of  age.  In  1855  he  came  west 
as  far  as  Kansas,  where  he  settled  upon  a  farm. 
While  he  failed  to  gain  financial  success  there, 
he  gained  a  position  of  prominence  among  the 
Free  Soil  party,  and  when  Kansas  became  a  state 
he  was  elected  a  member  of  the  Topeka  legisla- 
ture in  1857,  but  that  body  was  dispersed  by 
Federal  troops,  acting  on  the  orders  of  the  war 
department. 

His  experience  in  Kansas  offered  little  induce- 
ment to  Mr.  Tabor  to  remain  there,  and  when 
rumors  of  the  discovery  of  gold  in  Colorado 
reached  him  he  resolved  to  join  the  Argonauts 
westward  bound.  He  spent  the  winter  of  1859- 
60  in  Denver,  and  in  the  spring  started  for  Cali- 
fornia Gulch  (now  Leadville) ,  he  and  his  wife 
making  the  trip  in  a  "prairie  schooner"  drawn 
by  oxen.  After  six  weeks  of  travel  he  reached 
his  destination  in  April,  and  at  once  began  pros- 
pecting and  mining.  The  mining  camp  was  then 
in  the  zenith  of  its  prosperity  and  when  the  sea- 
son was  over  he  had  $5,000,  a  fair  fortune,  as  it 
seemed  to  him  then.  When  cold  weather  rendered 
mining  impossible,  he  opened  a  grocery  store, 
but  in  the  spring  resumed  mining,  and  at  the  end 
ofhis  second  season  he  had  a  total  sum  of  $15,000. 
In  1865  he  .sold  out  his  mine  and  moved  to 
the  Buckskin  Joe  district,  in  Park  County,  where 
was  then  a  booming  camp,  but  is  now  a  wilder- 
ness. He  opened  a  store  there  and  also  served 
as  postmaster.  When  the  Printer  Boy  mine  was 
discovered  in  California  Gulch,  in  1868,  he  moved 
back  there  and  opened  a  .store  at  Oro  City,  also 
officiated  as  postmaster.  For  a  long  time  his  life 
was  only  ordinarily  successful,  but  in  the  spring 
of  1879  the  tide  of  fortune  changed. 

In  Fairplay,  Park  County,  were  two  shoe- 
makers, August  Rische  and  George  T.  Hook, 
who,  being  poor,  applied  to  Mr.  Tabor  for  assist- 
ance in  their  search  for  carbonates.  Mr.  Tabor 
had  always  been  kind  and  accommodating,  as 
many  a  poor  miner  knew,  and  he  generously  aided 
these  two  men.  They  went  to  the  apex  of  Fryer 
Hill,  and  began  digging   late   in    April.     Many 


laughed  at  their  credulity  in  imagining  any  hid- 
den wealth  there,  but  they  worked  patiently, 
undisturbed  by  ridicule  or  sneers.  Early  in  May, 
at  a  depth  of  twenty-six  feet,  they  struck  a  vein 
and  discovered  what  has  since  been  famous  as  the 
Little  Pittsburg  mine.  During  the  first  half  of 
July  the  yield  from  the  mine  was  $8,000  a  week, 
and  soon  the  mine  was  producing  seventy-five  to 
one  hundred  tons  of  ore  daily.  The  three  part- 
ners purchased  neighboring  claims.  In  Septem- 
ber Mr.  Hook,  who  had  gained  a  fortune  from 
the  intermediate  sale  of  ore,  sold  his  interest  to 
his  associates  for  $90,000,  and  soon  Mr.  Rische 
disposed  of  his  interest  to  J.  B.  Chaffee  and  David 
H.  Moffat  for  $262,500.  In  November  the  New 
Discovery,  Little  Pittsburg,  Dives  and  Winne- 
muc  properties  were  merged  into  the  Little  Pitts- 
burg Consolidated  Company,  with  a  capital  of 
$20,000,000,  and  the  production  of  the  mines 
from  the  spring  of  1878  until  April  i,  1880,  was 
$2,697,534.91  for  receipts  of  ore  sold,  and  $4,246,- 
239.81,  actual  yield.  Afterward  Mr.  Tabor  sold 
his  interest  to  his  partners  for  $1,000,000. 

Meantime  the  other  interests  owned  by  Mr. 
Tabor  became  important  and  extensive.  He 
bought  about  one-half  of  the  stock  of  the  First 
National  Bank  of  Denver,  purchased  the  Match- 
less mine  at  Leadville,  and  bought  a  one-fourth 
interest  in  the  mines  of  Borden,  Tabor  &  Co., 
the  receipts  from  which  were  $roo,ooo  a  month. 
In  company  with  Marshall  Field,  of  Chicago,  he 
acquired  possessions  that  yielded  millions.  The 
Matchless,  which  he  bought  for  $1 17,000,  yielded 
him  a  net  income  of  $2,000  a  day,  and  for  a  time 
its  returns  amounted  to  $100,000  a  month.  He 
owned  the  Alaska,  Adelphi,  Acapulco  and  Vic- 
tory mines  in  the  San  Juan  country,  and  was  the 
sole  owner  of  the  Red  Rogers  and  the  Saxon.  He 
bought  interests  in  mines  in  Arizona,  New  and 
Old  Mexico,  and  became  the  wealthiest  man  in 
the  state.  No  other  man  in  the  state  has  ever 
made  money  so  rapidly.  It  seems  almost  as  if 
everything  he  touched  turned  into  gold,  and  the 
reports  of  his  phenomenal  career  spread  all  over 
the  world. 

It  has  been  said  that  no  man  in  the  state  made 
money  so  rapidly  as  Mr.  Tabor.  With  equal 
truth  it  may  be  said  that  no  man  did  more  for  the 
upbuilding  of  the  state.  He  did  not  remove  to 
foreign  lands,  there  to  dazzle  nobles  and  royalty 
with  his  wealth,  but  devoted  it  to  the  advance- 


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nient  of  his  state.  He  was  especially  interested 
in  the  growth  of  Denver.  February  i,  1879,  he 
purchased  the  Broadwell  corner,  on  Sixteenth  and 
Larimer  streets,  for  $30,000,  and  at  the  same 
time  paid  $40,000  for  a  block  of  ground  and  a 
residence  on  Broadway.  In  the  spring  of  1880 
he  built  the  Tabor  block,  of  sandstone  cut  at 
Clough's  quarries  in  Ohio.  March  8,  1880,  he 
bought  the  corner  of  Sixteenth  and  Curtis  streets, 
and  at  once  made  preparations  for  the  building 
of  an- opera  house  to  equal  or  surpass  the  finest 
in  the  country.  A  Chicago  firm  was  employed 
to  draw  the  plans,  with  instructions  to  visit  the 
best  theatres  in  America  and  Europe  and  erect  a 
building  that  would  be  above  criticism  in  every 
respect.  How  well  the  contractors  succeeded 
all  residents  of  Denver  know.  September  5, 
1 88 1,  the  house  was  formally  opened  to  the  pub- 
lic by  Emma  Abbott's  opera  company.  He  pur- 
chased the  corner  of  Arapahoe  and  Sixteenth 
streets,  and  offered  it  to  the  government  as  a  site 
for  a  postoffice,  which  was  afterwards  erected 
there.  Other  lots  he  also  bought  and  improved, 
thus  adding  to  the  prosperity  of  Denver.  He 
was  also  interested  in  Leadville,  of  which  he  was 
the  first  and  second  mayor.  He  built  an  opera 
house  there,  aided  in  securing  the  water  works 
and  gas  works,  and  was  a  factor  in  the  securing 
of  the  fire  department. 

In  1878  Mr.  Tabor  was  elected  lieutenant-gov- 
ernor of  the  state.  When  Henry  M.  Teller  be- 
came a  member  of  President  Arthur's  cabinet, 
Mr.  Tabor  was  chosen  to  fill  his  unexpired  term 
of  thirty  days  as  United  States  senator.  He  was 
a  candidate  for  election  to  the  office,  but  his  op- 
ponent, Judge  Bowen,  was  elected  by  a  majority 
of  one  vote.  As  chairman  of  the  state  central 
committee,  he  conducted  the  Republican  cam- 
paign of  1886  with  success.  In  1891  he  was 
chosen  president  of  the  Denver  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce and  Board  of  Trade.  His  present  position 
as  postmaster  of  Denver  was  tendered  him  in 
1898.  There  was  a  time  when  his  friends  hoped 
to  see  him  elected  the  chief  executive  of  the  state, 
and  had  he  been  chosen  for  the  position  undoubt- 
edly he  would  have  done  his  utmost  to  advance 
the  welfare  of  his  adopted  state. 

Although  unfortunate  investments,  the  most 
of  them  in  other  states,  have  deprived  Mr.  Tabor 
of  almost  his  entire  property,  it  has  not  robbed 
him  of  the  esteem  of  the  people  among'whom  he 


has  lived  for  so  many  years.  When  the  last  rem- 
nant of  his  property  was  gone,  he  was  not  deser- 
ted by  his  acquaintances.  Through  the  medium 
of  Senator  Wolcott,  he  received  the  appointment 
of  postmaster;  everyone,  no  matter  of  what  political 
belief,  rejoiced  that  this  honor  should  be  conferred 
upon  one  who  had  done  so  much  for  the  advance- 
ment of  the  state,  and  who  had,  through  so  many 
years,  been  an  important  factor  in  the  develop- 
ment of  its  resources. 


g  RADFORD  H.  DUBOIS,  president  of  the 
State  Sanitary  Board,  has  been  ver>'  success- 
fully connected  with  the  mining  interests  of 
Colorado.  Coming  to  Colorado  in  1877,  he, 
with  Gen.  John  A.  Logan,  Governor  Routt  and 
J.  V.  Holcomb,  hired  a  large  carriage  for  the 
season  and,  amply  provided  with  provisions,  set 
out  for  the  mining  regions  of  the  state.  In  July 
of  that  year  they  arrived  in  Oro.  In  February 
of  the  next  year  Leadville,  three  miles  below 
Oro,  was  located  and  named.  At  the  suggestion 
of  J.  J.  DuBois,  the  only  brother  of  our  subject, 
the  original  name  of  Stabtown  was  changed  to 
the  more  pleasing  and  appropriate  appellation 
of  Leadville.  After  some  months  among  the 
mines,  in  November,  1877,  General  Logan  and 
Mr.  DuBois  returned  to  Illinois;  but  in  the 
spring  of  the  next  year  the  latter  again  went  to 
Leadville,  where  he  engaged  in  mining.  With 
three  others  he  located  the  Maid  of  Erin,  which 
has  produced  nearly  $6,000,000  and  paid  div- 
idends to  the  amount  of  about  $3,000,000. 
This  mine  is  still  being  worked  and  is  one  of 
the  most  famous  in  the  world.  After  some  time, 
by  consolidation,  the  Henrietta  and  Maid  Con- 
solidated Mining  Company  was  incorporated  in 
1884.  The  same  gentlemen  also  discovered  and 
located  the  best  portion  of  the  Crystallite,  that 
has  since  become  famous,  but  their  interest  in 
this  they  soon  sold.  In  addition  to  other  mining 
interests  Mr.  DuBois  is  vice-president  of  the 
Hill  Top  Mining  Company,  which  is  in  active 
operation,  and  owns  the  largest  lead-producing 
mine  in  Colorado. 

Tracing  the  record  of  the  DuBois  family,  we 
find  that  Louis  DuBois  was  born  in  France,  but 
on  account  of  religious  persecution  fled  to  Hol- 
land, where  he  married.  In  1624  he  came  to 
America  and  was  one  of  the  original  twelve 


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patentees  of  Ulster  County,  N.  Y.,  where  he 
bought  a  large  tract  of  land  at  New  Paltz.  His 
son,  Jonathan,  had  a  son,  Cornelius,  who  was  a 
captain  in  the  Revolution.  Next  in  line  of  de- 
scent was  Mathelsohn,  a  large  land  owner.  His 
son,  John  B.  DuBois,  our  subject's  father,  was 
born  near  Kingston,  Ulster  County,  and  engaged 
in  the  mercantile  business  at  Libertyville  until 
his  retirement,  when  iifty-two  years  of  age.  For 
years  he  held  the  office  of  supervisor.  His  wife 
was  Mary  Hand,  who  was  born  in  Libertyville, 
and  died  in  Denver  in  1895.  Her  father,  Abel 
Hand,  was  born  in  Connecticut,  removed  to  New 
York  and  carried  on  a  mill  at  Libertyville,  later 
going  to  Palatine  Bridge,  the  same  state,  where 
he  died.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the  war  of  18 12. 
He  had  only  two  children,  sons,  and  they  reside 
in  Colorado,  J.  J.  being  proprietor  of  a  ranch  six 
miles  east  of  Denver. 

Born  in  Ulster  County  in  1853,  our  subject 
attended  the  Libertyville  school  and  New  Paltz 
Academy,  then  was  a  student  in  the  Illinois 
University  at  Champaign,  remaining  there  until 
the  close  of  the  junior  year.  Later  he  engaged 
in  business  in  Decatur,  111.,  where  he  remained 
until  his  removal  west.  In  1885  he  became 
interested  in  ranching,  purchasing  a  tract  one- 
half  mile  from  the  city  limits,  and  at  once  pro- 
ceeded to  improve  its  seven  hundred  and  fifty 
acres,  which  he  irrigates  from  the  High  Line 
ditch,  beside  having  artesian  water  in  every  field. 
General  farm  products  are  raised  here,  also 
standard  bred  horses,  several  of  which  have  made 
world's  records,  and  Jersey  cattle. 

Politically  Mr.  DuBois  is  a  Democrat.  He 
made  his  headquarters  in  Leadville  until  1885, 
when  he  removed  to  Denv-er.  Under  the  adminis- 
tration of  Governor  Mclntire  he  was  appointed 
president  of  the  state  sanitary  board,  and  when 
Governor  Adams  became  chief  executive  he  was 
again  chosen  for  this  responsible  position.  In 
Denve^he  married  Mrs.  Eva  (Speer)  Moore,  the 
first  girl  born  in  Lawrence,  Kan.,  of  which  her 
father,  John  Speer,  was  one  of  the  most  promi- 
nent pioneers,  also  editor  of  the  abolition  paper 
that  excited  the  wrath  of  the  slavery  supporters. 
In  his  family  there  were  eight  children,  the 
eldest  of  whom,  John,  a  married  man,  was  mur- 
dered August  21,  1863,  and  the  second  son, 
Robert,  who  it  is  supposed  was  murdered,  was 
buried  on  the  day  his  older  brother  was  killed. 


The  third  son,  William,  is  a  railroad  man  in 
Wichita,  Kan.;  Mary,  Mrs.  Wood  Neff,  died  in 
Topeka  in  1886;  Eva  was  next  in  order  of  birth; 
Rosa  died  when  a  young  lady;  Hardin  lives  in 
Denver;  and  Joseph  was  accidentally  killed  by  a 
playmate  when  seven  years  of  age.  Mrs.  DuBois 
was  educated  in  the  University  of  Kansas,  at 
Lawrence,  and  when  a  young  woman  was  married 
to  Charles  D.  Moore,  who  was  born  in  Bridge- 
ton,  N.  J.,  and  grew  to  manhood  in  Kansas, 
but  in  1 88 1  removed  to  Robinson,  Colo.,  where 
he  was  manager  of  the  Robinson  mine  until  his 
death  in  1886.  He  left  one  daughter,  Edna. 
The  year  after  her  husband's  death  Mrs.  Moore 
came  to  Denver,  where  afterward  she  was  married 
to  Mr.  DuBois.  She  is  a  member  of  the  Trinity 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  and  a  ladj'  of  fine 
mental  endowments,  whose  superior  attributes  of 
character  attract  many  friends. 

Hon.  John  Speer,  father  of  Mrs.  DuBois,  was 
born  in  Armstrong  County,  Pa.,  December  27, 
181 7,  of  Scotch  descent  on  both  sides.  One  of 
the  ancestors,  Donald  Cargill,  was  a  leader  of  the 
last  struggle  against  Charles  II . ,  and  was  beheaded 
in  1 66 1.  John  Speer  emigrated  from  Ireland  in 
1792  and  settled  in  South  Carolina,  but  his  anti- 
slavery  opinions  made  the  neighborhood  un- 
pleasant and  he  removed  to  Mercer  County,  Pa., 
where  he  purchased  a  farm  now  owned  by  de- 
scendants. His  son,  Capt.  Robert  Speer,  learned 
nail  manufacturing  in  Pittsburg,  and  followed 
the  trade  until  steam  power  took  the  place  of 
hand  work.  In  1830  he  removed  to  a  farm  in 
Armstrong  County,  where  he  died  at  ninety-five 
years.  His  wife,  Barbara,  was  a  daughter  of 
Adam  and  Nancy  Lowrey,  who  were  born  in 
Ireland,  of  Scotch  descent. 

When  twelve  years  old  John  Speer  secured 
a  horseback  mail  route,  to  help  pay  for  the  land 
his  father  had  bought.  The  route  extended  from 
Kittanning  to  Carversville,  a  distance  of  seventy- 
five  miles  through  a  ragged,  rough  country,  and 
sixteen  miles  of  which  was  a  most  dreary  wilder- 
ness. He  gave  the  name  of  Rock  Springs  to  one 
place  in  the  wilderness.  After  following  this 
work  for  some  years  he  became  a  printer's  ap- 
prentice, at  which  he  served  for  three  years  in 
Indiana,  Pa.,  meanwhile  continuing  his  private 
studies  of  grammar,  mathematics  and  the  sciences. 
For  four  months  he  was  employed  on  the  Kit- 
tanning  Gazette.     In  1839  he  began  the  publica- 


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tion  at  New  Castle,  Pa. ,  of  the  Mercer  and  Beaver 
Democrat,  a  Whig  paper,  which  supported  General 
Harrison  for  president.  In  1840  he  was  employed 
on  the  Portsmouth  Tribune,  and  also  made  a 
trip  through  Kentucky,  Indiana  and  Ohio,  later 
taking  a  flatboat  trip  to  New  Orleans.  In  1842 
he  established  the  Harrison  Gazette,  a  Whig 
weekly,  at  Corydon,  Ind.,  but  soon  returned  to 
Ohio  and  assisted  in  the  editing  of  the  Mount 
Vernon  Times,  after  which,  in  September,  1843, 
he  established  the  Democrat  Whig  at  Medina, 
Ohio.  The  office  was  destroyed  by  fire  in  1848, 
but  was  soon  re-established,  and  he  continued  to 
publish  the  paper  until  1853,  when  he  declared 
that  the  Whig  party  had  outlived  its  usefulness. 
On  the  passage  of  the  Kansas  and  Nebraska  bill 
he  went  to  Kansas,  locating  at  Lawrence  Sep- 
tember 27,  1854,  and  on  the  15th  of  October 
publishing  the  first  number  of  the  Kansas  Pioneer, 
which  in  January,  1855,  was  changed  to  the 
Kansas  Tribune.  In  November  of  that  year  the 
paper  was  moved  to  Topeka  and  published  there 
by  Speer  &  Ross  until  1854,  when  it  was  sold  to 
the  j unior  partner.  Afterward  Mr.  Speer  engaged 
in  dealing  in  lumber,  but  in  December,  1859, 
bought  the  Lawrence  Republican,  which  he  con- 
ducted until  September  4,  1862.  January  i,  1863, 
he  revived  the  Kansas  Tribune  at  Lawrence,  and 
this  he  conducted  until  August  21,  1863.  On  that 
day  the  plant  was  destroyed  by  Quantrell's  band, 
who  went  up  to  Lawrence  intending  to  kill  or  cap- 
ture John  Speer,  its  editor.  In  November  the 
paper  again  started  and  he  continued  its  editor  un- 
til 187 1 ,  when  he  retired  temporarily.  From  Octo- 
ber, 1875,  to  March,  1877,  he  was  again  connected 
with  the  paper  as  its  editor.  Since  his  retirement 
from  editorial  work  he  has  devoted  much  of  his 
time  to  literary  work,  for  which  his  wide  travels, 
extensive  experience  and  vigorous  style  of  writ- 
ing admirably  qualify  him.  In  1864  he  was  a 
delegate  to  the  convention  at  Baltimore  that 
nominated  Abraham  Lincoln  and  Andrew  Johnson 
for  president  and  vice-president.  At  one  time 
he  was  state  printer  of  Kansas.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  house  of  representatives  of  the  first 
free  state  legislature,  from  1862  to  1866  was 
United  States  collector  for  the  state  of  Kansas, 
and  in  1864  was  elected  to  the  state  senate. 

In  Corydon,  Ind.,  July  14,  1842,  Mr.  Speer 
married  Elizabeth  D.,  daughter  of  John  and 
Martha  (Withers)  McMahan,  the  latter  a  descend- 


ant of  Governor  Dinwiddle,  of  Virginia,  the 
former  a  relative  of  the  Hardins  of  Kentucky. 
She  was  educated  in  a  Catholic  school  near 
Bardstown,  Ky.,  and  was  a  woman  of  exemplary 
character,  and  in  religious  belief  a  Methodist. 
The  night  when  the  Tribune  office  was  set  on 
fire,  her  son,  John  M.,  was  shot  down  in  cold 
blood,  and  a  younger  son  was  either  murdered 
or  burned  to  death  in  the  office;  the  house,  too, 
was  set  on  fire,  but  she  prevented  it  from  being 
destroyed.     She  died  April  9,  1876. 


RT.-REV.  J.  P.  MACHEBEUF  is  remem- 
bered by  all  who  knew  him  as  a  talented 
bishop,  a  tireless  worker  and  a  genial  friend. 
He  was  born  in  Rione,  France,  August  11,  1812, 
and  was  ordained  to  the  priesthood  on  Christmas 
of  1836.  For  three  years  he  was  in  charge  of  a 
parish  near  Clermont,  after  which,  in  1839,  he 
came  to  America.  He  spent  a  short  time  in  Cin- 
cinnati, where  he  made  a  study  of  the  English 
language  and  became  familiar  with  its  use.  Jan- 
uary I,  1840,  he  was  ordered  to  Sandusky,  Ohio, 
wnere  he  built  the  first  church  in  the  place,  it 
being  a  fine  stone  edifice,  and  he  also  founded  an 
academy  in  the  same  city.  In  1844  he  visited 
his  old  home  in  France  and  on  his  return  to  the 
United  States  brought  with  him  ten  sisters  of  the 
Ursuline  order,  introducing  into  this  country  one 
of  its  finest  body  of  teachers. 

In  January,  1 851,  Father  Machebeuf  left  San- 
dusky and  joined  Bishop  Laniy  at  New  Orleans, 
from  which  place  they  went  to  San  Antonio,  and 
thence  traversed  the  entire  breadth  of  the  state 
of  Texas,  accompanied  by  a  guard  of  soldiers. 
On  their  arrival  at  their  destination,  Santa  Fe, 
the  people  of  that  place  gave  them  a  brilliant 
reception,  showing  every  courtesy  to  their  new 
bishop,  Lamy  and  his  vicar-general,  Machebeuf. 
The  frequent  absences  of  the  bishop  on  mission- 
ary tours  left  the  charge  of  the  diocese  almost 
wholly  upon  his  vicar-general,  who  faithfully 
discharged  every  duty.  Afterward,  for  six  years, 
he  was  pastor  of  the  Albuquerque  parish,  and  be- 
sides his  duties  there,  he  visited  all  the  military 
posts  on  the  frontier  of  New  Mexico.  In  1858, 
when  there  was  a  partial  organization  of  Arizona, 
Bishop  Lamy  was  made  ecclesiastical  adminis- 
trator of  Arizona,  and  Father  Machebeuf  was  sent 
to  take  possession  of  the  missions  established  by 


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the  former  missionaries  at  different  points.  These 
missions  had  been  under  the  bishop  of  Sonera, 
Mexico,  whom  Father  Machebeuf  was  obliged  to 
interview.  After  considerable  delay  he  reached 
the  Villa  de  Alamos,  where  he  met  the  bishop 
and  conferred  with  him  in  regard  to  the  matter. 
On  his  return  to  Santa  Fe  he  was  enabled  to  re- 
port to  Bishop  L,amy  that  his  mission  had  been 
most  successful.  In  1859  he  was  again  sent  to 
Arizona,  this  time  to  take  charge  of  all  its  mis- 
sions. After  a  short  time  Bishop  Lamy  ordered 
him  to  return  to  Santa  Fe,  and  on  doing  so  he 
learned  that  the  bishop  had  been  granted  by  the 
Pope  jurisdiction  over  what  is  now  the  state  of 
Colorado.  He  was  asked  to  come  to  Colorado, 
and,  in  company  with  Father  J.  B.  Raverdy,  in 
September,  i860,  left  Santa  Fe  for  Denver,  where 
they  arrived  the  last  of  October.  In  1866  he 
was  made  vicar-apostolic,  and  in  1868  he  was 
consecrated  a  bishop  in  the  Cincinnati  Cathedral. 
He  remained  a  resident  of  Denver  until  his  death, 
August  10,  1889. 

Of  the  results  of  the  bishop's  work  in  Denver, 
too  much  cannot  be  said  in  praise.  Without 
doubt  he  was  a  man,  not  only  of  great  piety  and 
deep  faith  in  God,  but  also  of  unusual  executive 
ability  and  determination  of  will.  His  church, 
on  Stout  street,  in  Denver,  was  the  first  brick 
house  of  worship  built  in  the  state.  In  his  diocese 
there  are  eighty  or  more  priests,  ninety  churches, 
one  hundred  and  twenty  or  more  stations,  a  large 
number  of  academies  and  parochial  schools,  many 
hospitals,  an  immense  Catholic  population;  and 
all  this  largely  due  to  the  pioneer  work  of  the 
great-hearted  Bishop  Machebeuf. 


/gEORGE  E.  ROSS-LEWIN,  cashier  of  the 
l_  First  National  Bank  of  Denver,  was  born  in 
^_J  the  city  of  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  March  28,  1857, 
and  is  of  Irish  parentage,  but  of  Welsh  descent. 
The  first  of  the  name  in  the  United  States  was 
his  grandfather,  Francis  Burton  Ross-Lewin,  who 
settled  in  Rochester  and  mad^e  that  city  his  home 
until  his  death.  The  father,  W.  H.  Ross-Lewin, 
was  born  in  the  north  of  Ireland  and  accompanied 
his  parents  to  Rochester,  where,  on  attaining 
manhood,  he  embarked  in  the  mercantile  business 
and  continued  a  successful  and  extensive  business 
man  until  his  retirement.  In  1889  he  removed 
to  Chicago,  where  he  has  since  made  his  home. 


From  an  early  age  the  subject  of  this  sketch 
displayed  an  aptitude  for  commercial  affairs.  On 
the  completion  of  the  studies  of  the  grammar 
school,  at  the  age  of  sixteen  he  entered  upon  his 
active  business  career.  His  first  situation  was 
that  of  clerk  in  a  Rochester  bank,  where  he  re- 
mained for  a  number  of  years,  by  his  fidelity  and 
ability  winning  merited  promotion  to  the  position 
of  teller.  He  continued  to  make  his  home  in 
Rochester  until  1 88 1 ,  when  he  came  west  to  Colo- 
rado, arriving  in  Denver  June  19.  His  first 
position  here  was  that  of  collection  clerk  in  the 
First  National  Bank.  May  i,  1886,  he  was  pro- 
moted to  the  position  of  assistant  cashier,  and  in 
the  discharge  of  the  duties  of  that  oiEce  was  so 
conspicuously  successful  that  in  1891  he  was 
made  cashier. 

In  addition  to  his  connection  with  the  bank, 
Mr.  Ross-Lewin  is  treasurer  of  all  the  companies 
of  which  Mr.  Moffat  is  the  president,  as  well  as  a 
number  of  other  concerns,  among  them  being  the 
Denver  Consolidated  Tramway  Company,  the 
Florence  &  Cripple  Creek  Railroad  Company, 
Victor  Gold  Mining  Company,  Metallic  Extrac- 
tion Company  and  the  Anaconda  Mining  Com- 
pany, the  prosperity  of  all  of  which  he  has  pro- 
moted by  his  .sound  judgment  and  acute  intellect- 
ual powers.  He  is  vice-president  and  one  of  the 
directors  of  the  Bimetallic  Bank  of  Cripple  Creek, 
and  is  also  vice-president  of  the  Bank  of  Victor. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Denver  Club,  and  in  polit- 
ical faith  adheres  to  the  policy  of  the  Republican 
party.  In  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  he  married  Miss 
Elizabeth  Closterman,  whose  father,  Henry  Clos- 
terman,  was  a  manufacturer  in  that  city.  They 
have  an  only  child,  Elizabeth. 

The  state  of  Colorado  owes  much  of  her  pros- 
perity to  a  number  of  wide-awake  business  men 
representing  various  interests,  and  among  these 
the  bankers  of  Denver  have  done  much  to  pro- 
mote enterprise  and  give  security  to  investors.  It 
requires  just  the  class  of  men  that  Mr.  Ross-Lewin 
represents  to  conduct  vast  enterprises,  which  by 
their  phenomenal  success  made  Colorado  famous 
among  her  sister  states  and  attracted  millions  of 
eastern  capital.  It  requires  tact  as  well  as  busi- 
ness ability  to  successfully  manage  the  aflfairs  of 
one  concern,  and  it  is  rare  that  one  man  has  been 
equipped  by  nature  to  ably  conduct  a  variety  ot 
enterprises  to  the  satisfaction  of  all  concerned. 
Mr.  Ross-Lewin  owes  much   of  his  success  to 


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his  early  training  and  to  those  precepts  given 
him  by  his  parents,  from  whom  he  also  inherits 
the  energy  of  the  Celt  and  the  thrift  and  persever- 
ance of  the  old  Welsh  ancestors,  which,  properly 
applied,  lead  to  success. 


|~REDERICK  J.  BANCROFT,  M.  D.  The 
ift  eminence  attained  by  Dr.  Bancroft  in  his 
I  ^  profession,  and  his  high  character  as  a  citi- 
zen, have  won  for  him  a  place  among  the  most 
influential  of  the  physicians  and  surgeons  residing 
in  Denver.  The  fact  that  he  has  been  called  to 
many  positions  of  trust,  professional,  military  and 
educational,  testifies  to  the  recognition  of  his 
ability  by  others.  During  the  long  period  of  his 
residence  in  Denver  he  has  aided  in  the  carrying 
out  of  progressive  enterprises  for  the  benefit  of  the 
place;  his  most  valuable  service  probably  being 
his  articles  relating  to  the  climate  of  Colorado 
written  in  the  early  days,  by  which,  directly  and 
indirectly,  he  added  more  to  the  permanent  pop- 
ulation of  Colorado  than  any  citizen  of  the  state. 

The  descendant  of  early  settlers  of  New  England, 
Dr.  Bancroft  was  born  in  Enfield,  Conn.,  May  25, 
1834.  His  literary  education  was  received  in  the 
academy  at  Westfield,  Mass.,  and  the  Charlotte- 
ville  (N.  Y.)  Seminary,  and  upon  leaving  school 
he  began  the  study  of  medicine.  In  February, 
1861,  he  graduated  from  the  medical  department 
of  the  University  of  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  and  in  April 
of  the  same  year  he  opened  an  office  in  Blakely, 
Pa.  About  that  time  the  war  broke  out,  and  after 
six  months  of  private  practice,  in  November  he 
enlisted  as  a  surgeon  in  the  army,  being  detailed 
by  the  surgeon-general  of  the  state  to  take  charge 
of  the  Church  hospital  in  Harrisburg.  In  the 
spring  of  1862  he  was  ordered  to  the  Seventy- 
sixth  Pennsylvania  Infantry,  at  Hilton  Head, 
S.  C,  and  in  May  became  medical  attendant  of  the 
troops  on  Pinckney  Island,  Seabrook's  and  El- 
liott's plantations,  in  South  Carolina.  His  next 
appointment  was  to  take  charge  of  a  small  portion 
of  the  Fourth  and  Seventh  New  Hampshire  Reg- 
iments, in  transit  from  Hilton  Head,  S.  C. ,  to  New 
York  quarantine,  which  troops  were  infected  with 
yellow  fever.  Afterward  ordered  to  Philadelphia, 
and  assigned  to  the  Third  Pennsylvania  Heavy 
Artillery,  he  served  as  examining  surgeon  of  re- 
cruits until  the  spring  of  1863,  when  orders  came 
for  him  to  fit  up  a  hospital  for  Confederate  pris- 


oners, at  Fort  Delaware.  He  attended  to  that 
matter,  then  rejoined  his  regiment,  the  Third 
Pennsylvania  Artillery,  at  Camp  Hamilton,  Va., 
in  May,  1863.  In  June  he  was  appointed  post 
surgeon  at  Fortress  Monroe  by  General  Dix  and 
remained  there  until  the  close  of  the  war.  While 
there  Jefferson  Davis,  the  vanquished  Confederate 
president,  was  brought  to  the  fort,  but  Dr.  Ban- 
croft's nativity  as  a  New  England  man  being  ob- 
jected to,  another  physician  was  summoned  to  at- 
tend Mr.  Davis.  With  two  other  officers.  Dr. 
Bancroft  was  detailed  to  investigate  the  past  man- 
agement of  military  hospitals  near  Fortress  Mon- 
roe. 

On  resigning  from  the  United  States  military 
service,  at  the  close  of  the  war,  Dr.  Bancroft  re- 
turned to  Pennsylvania,  where  he  took  a  course 
of  lectures  in  the  University  of  Pennsylvania.  In 
April,,  1866,  he  came  to  Denver,  where  he  has 
built  up  a  large  practice.  For  several  years  he 
was  surgeon  for  the  Wells  Fargo  stage  lines,  and 
later  was  surgeon  for  the  Denver  Pacific,  Kansas 
Pacific  and  Rio  Grande  Railroads,  being'connec- 
ted  with  the  last-named  company  as  chief  surgeon 
from  1871  to  1887.  He  is  to-day  chief  surgeon  of 
the  Rio  Grande  Western,  Union  Pacific,  Denver 
&  Gulf,  and  the  Denver,  Leadville  &  Gunnison 
Railways.  He  was  elected  president  of  the  Den- 
ver Medical  Society  in  1876;  he  became  identi- 
fied with  the  American  Medical  Association;  was 
vice-president  of  the  National  Association  of 
Railway  Surgeons;  served  as  examining  surgeon 
for  pensions  from  1868  to  1885;  held  the  office 
of  city  physician  1872-77,  1878-79;  was  the  first 
president  of  the  state  board  of  health,  holding  the 
office  for  two  years,  and  later  was  secretary  for  a 
year.  He  became  identified  with  the  medical 
department  of  the  Denver  University,  having  as- 
sisted in  its  organization  and  has  been  an  active 
worker  ever  since.  He  was  elected  to  the  chair  of 
fractures  and  dislocations  and  holds  that  position 
at  the  present  time. 

In  1875  he  was  made  president  of  the  Agricult- 
ural Ditch  Company,  which  position  he  held  until 
1887,  and  was  re-elected  in  1897  ^^'^  1898.  Dur- 
ing his  service  as  president  of  the  board  of  educa- 
tion in  East  Denver,  1872-76,  he  was  instrumen- 
tal in  advancing  the  interests  of  the  public  schools 
and  promoting  the  standard  of  scholarship.  An 
Episcopalian  in  religion,  he  was  a  member  of  the 
standing  committee  of  that  denomination  in  1878- 


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79,  and  for  years  he  served  on  the  board  of  trus- 
tees for  Wolfe  Hall,  Jarvis  Hall  and  St.  Luke's 
Hospital.  When  the  Colorado  State  Historical  and 
Natural  History  Society  was  organized  January 
10,  1879,  he  was  made  its  president,  an  office  that 
he  held  till  1897,  when  he  resigned.  The  result 
of  his  work,  with  that  of  others,  in  this  society  is 
shown  in  the  large  collection  of  pre-historic  relics 
now  in  the  capitol.  When  the  first  Grand  Army 
post  was  established  here  in  1868,  largely  through 
his  efforts  among  the  soldiers  in  enlisting  their  in- 
terest in  the  work,  it  was  felt  that  he  was  the 
one  to  occupy  the  highest  office  in  the  post;  and 
he  was  made  the  commander.  Soon  afterward 
Gen.  John  A.  Logan  appointed  him  provisional 
department  commander  of  Colorado  and  Wyo- 
ming, he  being  the  first  to  occupy  that  position. 
From  1866  to  1876  many  articles  concerning  the 
climate  of  Colorado,  and  its  effect  upon  certain 
types  of  disease,  were  written  by  him. 

June  20,  187 1,  Dr.  Bancroft  married  Miss  Mary 
C.  Jarvis,  daughter  of  George  A.  Jarvis,  of  Brook- 
lyn, N.  Y.,  who  endowed  Jarvis  Hall  of  Denver, 
Colo.  This  union  was  blessed  with  three  chil- 
dren, viz. :  Mary  M. ,  George  J.  and  Frederick  W. 


HON.  WILLIAM  N.  BYERS.  It  would  be 
impossible  to  write  a  history  of  Denver  with- 
out making  frequent  allusion  to  the  subject 
of  this  article,  for  he  has  been  intimately  identi- 
fied with  its  most  important  enterprises  since  the 
days  of  its  infancy.  To  his  enterprise  the  city  is 
indebted  to  an  extent  impossible  to  estimate.  His 
far-seeing  sagacity  and  business  acumen  have 
overleaped  obstacles  that  seemed  to  others  insur- 
mountable. Especially  is  his  name  associated 
with  the  founding  and  early  history  of  Denver's 
oldest  paper,  the  Rocky  Mountain  News.  He 
arrived  in  Denver  April  17,  1859,  bringing  with 
him  the  first  printing  press  west  of  Omaha,  and 
at  once  established  a  weekly  newspaper.  Success 
smiled  upon  his  efforts  and  rendered  possible  the 
establishment  of  a  daily  paper,  the  first  issue  of 
which  appeared  August  18,  i860.  He  continued 
the  manager  and  editor  of  the  paper  until  1878, 
when  he  severed  his  connection  with  it.  In  the 
early  days  of  Colorado  he  did  much  to  attract 
settlers  by  publishing  articles  pertaining  to  this 
state,  explaining  its  resources,  the  advantages 
it  presented  for  stock-raising  and  farming,   the 


wealth  of  its  mountains  in  minerals,  and  the 
salubrity  of  its  climate.  Through  his  pen  he  did 
probably  as  much  as  anyone  in  Colorado  to 
enhance  the  interests  of  the  state  and  render 
possible  its  wonderful  development  of  to-day. 

The  organization  with  which  the  name  of  Mr. 
Byers  is  now  most  intimately  associated  is  the 
famous  festival  of  mountain  and  plain,  which  has 
been  held  annually  since  1895.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  first  board  of  directors,  and  since  the 
second  year  has  been  the  president.  Much  of  his 
time  is  given  to  preparation  for  this  great  cele- 
bration, which  attracts  thousands  to  Denver. 
Many  of  the  most  striking  features  of  the  festival 
are  original  with  him,  among  them  the  bal 
champedre  (outdoor  ball),  when  five  thousand  or 
more  persons,  in  masquerade  attire,  dance  under, 
a  covered  canvas  on  Broadway.  There  are  four 
grand  parades,  the  one  on  the  first  daj'  repre- 
senting a  pageant  of  progress  in  the  history  of 
the  state  and  five  miles  in  length.  On  the  second 
day  occurs  the  great  masked  parade,  while  on  the 
third  day  is  the  military  and  social  parade,  ending 
with  a  sham  battle  at  City  Park,  and  in  the  even- 
ing the  parade  of  the  slaves  of  the  silver  serpent. 

Mr.  Byers  is  descended  from  a  Scotch  family 
that,  during  the  religious  persecution  of  the  six- 
teenth century,  was  driven  into  the  borders  of 
Ireland,  and  there  took  part  in  the  siege  of 
Londonderry.  They  emigrated  to  Pennsylvania 
when  that  state  was  still  a  wilderness,  at  the 
beginning  of  the  eighteenth  century.  The  great- 
grandfather of  our  subject,  and  his  three  sons, 
took  part  in  the  Revolution.  The  father,  Moses 
Watson  Byers,  was  born  in  Washington  County, 
Pa.,  and  at  the  age  of  four  years,  in  1808,  accom- 
panied his  parents  to  Ohio.  They  settled  at 
Circleville,  Pickaway  County,  but  later  he  and  a 
brother  removed  to  Darby  Plains,  in  Madison 
County,  where  he  improved  a  place  of  nearly 
three  hundred  acres.  In  1850  he  sold  his  prop- 
erty there  and  settled  near  Muscatine,  Iowa, 
where  he  improved  a  large  tract.  His  last  days 
were  spent  in  Muscatine,  where  he  died  in  1866, 
at  the  age  of  sixty-two  years.  In  religious  belief 
he  was  a  Presbyterian.  His  wife,  Mary  A. 
Brandenburg,  was  a  member  of  a  well-known 
German  family  that  became  early  settlers  of 
Montgomery  County,  in  the  Miami  Valley  of 
Ohio;  she  died  in  Iowa  in  1884. 

Of  the  family  of  six  children,    five  attained 


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maturity  and  four  are  living,  William  N.  being 
the  eldest.  Mrs.  Ann  Eliza  McDonald  resides  in 
Washington,  Iowa;  Mrs.  Olivia  M.  Kessinger 
makes  her  home  in  Muscatine;  Mrs.  Rachel  Jane 
Morris  resides  in  Denver.  One  of  the  sons, 
James  H.,  was  a  member  of  an  Iowa  regiment 
during  the  Civil  war  and  was  killed  in  1863,  dur- 
ing the  siege  of  Vicksburg.  Our  subject  was 
born  in  Madison  County,  Ohio,  February  22, 
1831,  and  spent  his  early  years  upon  a  farm.  In 
1850,  with  team  and  wagon,  he  removed  to  Iowa, 
and  the  following  year  he  engaged  in  government 
surveying  in  western  Iowa,  soon  becoming  deputy 
United  States  surveyor  in  Iowa,  and  later  in 
Oregon  and  Washington.  From  there,  in  the 
winter  of  1853-54,  he  went  to  California,  return- 
ing east  after  a  few  months.  For  a  short  time  he 
engaged  in  railroad  surveying,  but  when  the 
Kansas  and  Nebraska  bill  opened  those  territories 
for  settlement,  he  went  to  Omaha,  which  then 
had  only  one  house  and  that  a  log  cabin.  As 
county  surveyor,  he  laid  out  a  large  part  of  the 
city.  He  was  the  first  deputy  United  States 
surveyor  appointed  in  Nebraska,  in  which  capa- 
city he  ran  the  township  and  section  lines  in  the 
eastern  part  of  the  territory.  When  the  city 
government  of  Omaha  was  established,  he  was 
elected  an  alderman,  and  in  1854-55  he  was  a 
member  of  the  first  territorial  legislative  assembly 
of  Nebraska.  From  Omaha  he  came  to  Denver 
early  in  1859.  Here  he  established  the  now 
famous  Rocky  Moutitain  News,  which  in  1872 
became  an  incorporated  company,  with  himself  as 
president. 

The  connection  of  Mr.  Byers  with  Denver's 
history  has  by  no  means  been  limited  to  journal- 
istic work.  He  has  been  interested  in  the  develop- 
ment of  mining  properties,  is  now  a  member  of 
the  executive  committee  of  the  city  library,  and 
a  member  of  the  chamber  of  the  commerce,  of 
which  he  was  president  in  1893  and  1894.  He 
was  interested  in  the  Denver  Pacific,  Denver  & 
Rio  Grande,  South  Park,  and  Denver,  Utah  & 
Pacific  roads,  all  of  which  had  an  important  part 
in  the  developing  of  Denver's  resources.  From 
the  organization  of  the  Denver  Tramway  Com- 
pany he  has  been  a  director,  and  since  it  became 
the  Denver  Consolidated  Tramway  Company  he 
has  also  been  vice-president  and  acting  president 
of  the  company,  and  a  member  of  the  executive 
and  auditing  committees.     In  Muscatine,  Iowa, 


in  1854,  be  married  Miss  Elizabeth  Minerva 
Sumner,  granddaughter  of  Governor  Lucas,  an 
early  governor  of  Ohio  and  afterwards  the  last 
territorial  and  first  state  governor  of  Iowa.  The 
Sumners  are  an  old  Virginia  family  and  are  con- 
nected with  the  famous  statesman,  Charles 
Sumner,  of  Massachusetts.  Two  children  were 
born  to  the  union  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Byers.  Frank, 
the  son,  owns  a  horse  and  cattle  ranch  at  Hot 
Sulphur  Springs,  Grand  County,  this  state.  The 
daughter,  Mary  Eva,  is  the  wife  of  William  F. 
Robinson. 

From  the  organization  of  the  party  Mr.  Byers 
has  been  a  stanch  Republican.  For  years, 
through  his  influence  with  his  pen,  he  was  a 
power  in  public  affairs.  For  the  admission  of 
Colorado  into  the  Union  he  labored  unceasingly. 
In  June,  1859,  he  was  chairman  of  the  first  con- 
vention called  to  secure  a  state  organization,  but 
this  convention  adjourned  without  definite  action. 
In  1864  he  was  a  member  of  the  convention  that 
framed  the  first  state  constitution,  under  which 
the  enabling  act  was  passed  by  both  houses  of 
congress,  but  vetoed  by  Andrew  Johnson.  In 
1864  President  Lincoln  appointed  him  postmaster 
in  Denver,  which  office  he  held  until  1867,  resign- 
ing then  on  account  of  the  pressure  of  business. 
Again,  under  the  administration  of  President 
Hayes,  he  was  appointed  postmaster  April  14, 
1879,  and  served  until  1883. 

The  rapid  growth  of  the  city  between  his  first 
term  as  postmaster  and  his  second  tenure  of  the 
oSice  brought  many  problems  before  the  postal 
authorities  for  solution.  During  the  summer 
months,  when  the  city  was  crowded  with  visitors 
from  the  east,  the  throngs  around  the  postoffice 
were  so  great  that  it  was  almost  impossible  to 
gain  access  to  the  building.  In  front  of  each 
delivery  window  would  form  long  lines  extending 
out  into  the  street,  and  although  the  delivery 
clerks  worked  unceasingly  people  sometimes  were 
obliged  to  wait  an  hour  for  their  mail.  Such  a 
condition  of  things  could  not  be  tolerated  in  a 
growing  and  enterprising  city.  Upon  accepting 
the  position  the  second  time,  Mr.  Byers  again  set 
himself  to  work  to  secure  improvements.  It  was 
largely  through  his  influence  and  untiring  efforts 
that  the  free  delivery  system  in  Denver  was 
organized  and  he  at  once  began  to  plan  for  its 
establishment.  It  was  the  work  of  many  days 
before  the  system  was  put  into  operation.      The 


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force  at  first  consisted  of  only  six  letter  carriers 
who  were  properly  equipped  and  trained.  Letter 
boxes  were  placed  on  convenient  corners  through- 
out the  city,  and  soon  the  people  began  to  reap 
the  benefit  of  the  improved  system.  Before  the 
expiration  of  his  term  of  office  about  thirty 
carriers  were  employed.  The  telegraph  had  been 
introduced  in  October,  1863;  the  street  railway 
system  had  been  inaugurated  in  January,  1872; 
the  steam  cars  had  brought  Denver  into  touch 
with  other  localities  June  24,  1870,  when  the  first 
railroad  train  reached  Denver  over  the  Denver 
Pacific  road;  water  and  gas  works  had  been 
introduced,  fire  alarms  and  telephones,  so  that 
the  free  delivery  sy.stem  was  about  the  last ' '  link' ' 
that  was  necessary  to  constitute  Denver  a  metro- 
politan city.  It  was  during  Mr.  Byers'  term  of 
office  from  1879  to  1883  that  Denver  made  giant 
strides  toward  becoming  a  metropolis  and  the 
queen  of  all  our  mountain  states  and  it  was  dur- 
ing these  busy  years  so  fruitful  of  future  greatness 
that  Mr.  Byers  worked  faithfully  and  enthusiasti- 
cally to  bring  his  department  to  its  subsequent 
excellence,  thus  adding  no  small  share  towards 
its  growth  and  development. 

Fraternally  Mr.  Byers  is  past  master  of  Denver 
Lodge  No.  5,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  past  high  priest 
of  Denver  Chapter  No.  2,  R.  A.  M.,  and  for  two 
terms  grand  high  priest  of  the  grand  chapter  of 
Colorado.  On  the  organization  of  the  Knights 
Templar  Commandery  in  Denver,  he  was  elected 
the  first  candidate  for  the  orders  in  Colorado  and 
later  was  elected  eminent  commander  and  served 
as  such  several  years.  In  the  organization  of 
the  Pioneer  Society  he  took  an  active  part,  and 
served  as  its  first  secretary,  later  was  president 
for  several  years.  Some  years  after  the  organiza- 
tion in  1859  the  records  were  lost  and  in  1866  the 
society  was  re-organized.  He  is  president  of 
the  Colorado  State  Historical  and  Natural  History 
Society  which  has  the  best  collection  of  cliff 
dwellers'  relics  in  the  world. 

From  this  resum6  of  the  life  of  Mr.  Byers  it 
will  be  seen  that  he  has  borne  a  very  active  part 
in  the  growth  of  Denver  and  indeed  of  the  state 
itself.  His  sympathy  and  support  have  always 
been  given  to  measures  calculated  to  promote  the 
welfare  of  the  people.  In  earlier  days  the  influ- 
ence of  his  pen  was  given  toward  the  advance- 
ment of  the  city;  later,  through  other  ways,  he 
has  been  no  less  potent  in  securing  the  promotion 


of  public-spirited  and  progressive  projects.  It  is 
doubtful  if,  in  a  review  of  the  eminent  men  of  the 
state,  there  could  be  found  a  man  who  has  done 
more  than  he  in  the  promotion  of  the  state's 
welfare  from  the  early  settlement  of  Colorado  to 
the  present  time. 

HON.  FRED  DICK,  A.  M.,  formerly  state 
superintendent  of  schools  of  Colorado,  now 
principal  of  the  Denver  Normal  and  Pre- 
paratory School,  was  born  in  the  town  of  Aurora, 
Erie  County,  N.  Y.,  May  17,  1852.  He  is  the 
descendant  of  ancestors  who  came  from  Holland 
and  settled  in  Pennsylvania  in  an  early  day.  His 
father,  J.  B.,  who  was  a  native  of  New  York 
and  a  farmer  by  occupation,  was,  under  Presi- 
dent Lincoln,  appointed  assessor  of  internal  reve- 
nue in  western  New  York,  his  territory  embrac- 
ing fourteen  counties.  He  held  the  position  until 
Andrew  Johnson  became  president,  when  he  re- 
signed. Under  the  administration  of  General 
Grant  he  was  re-appointed  to  the  same  position 
in  the  internal  revenue  department,  and  filled  it 
with  credit  until  his  death  in  1871. 

The  mother  of  Mr.  Dick  was  Ann  Eliza  Pratt, 
daughter  of  Luke  N.Pratt,  a  native  of  Connecticut, 
and  member  of  an  old  family  in  that  state,  her 
father  removing  to  Erie  County,  N.  Y.,  and  be- 
coming a  pioneer  farmer.  She  died  in  that 
county,  leaving  two  sons  and  two  daughters,  two 
of  whom,  our  subject  and  Mrs.  A.  M.  Hawley, 
of  Canon  City,  reside  in  Colorado.  The  former, 
who  was  next  to  the  eldest  in  the  family,  was 
educated  in  Aurora  Academy,  and  taught  for  two 
years  in  district  schools  prior  to  entering  Hamil- 
ton College  in  1871.  Immediately  upon  his 
graduation  in  1875,  with  the  degree  of  A.  B.,  he 
was  appointed  principal  of  Hamburg  Academy, 
and  two  years  later  accepted  a  more  favorable 
position  as  principal  of  the  Gowanda  (N.  Y.) 
schools.  In  1880  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar 
and  for  three  years  practiced  law  in  Buffalo, 
N.  Y. 

Removing  to  Colorado  in  the  fall  of  1883,  Mr. 
Dick  accepted  the  superintendency  of  the  Trini- 
dad schools,  where  he  remained  for  five  years, 
and  during  two  years  of  this  time  he  served  both 
as  county  and  city  superintendent.  He  was  the 
first  Republican  who  was  elected  county  superin- 
tendent in  Las  Animas  County.  At  the  state 
election  in  1888  he  was  elected  by  the  Repub- 


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lican  party  to  the  office  of  state  superintendent  of 
schools,  which  position  he  filled  with  credit  for 
one  term.  During  his  term  of  office  he  laid  the 
corner  stone  of  the  State  Normal  School  at  Gree- 
ley. 

The  Denver  Normal  and  Preparatory  School, 
of  which  Mr.  Dick  is  principal,  was  founded  by 
himself,  and  was  the  first  school  of  the  kind  es- 
tablished in  the  state.  It  is  a  most  creditable 
educational  institution,  and  has  received  the 
highest  endorsements  from  educators.  Until  the 
ist  of  May,  1898,  the  school  was  located  in  the 
Kittredge  building,  but  at  that  time  it  was  moved 
to  the  Normal  building,  Nos.  1543-45  Glenarm 
street.  It  has  seven  complete  departments,  viz. : 
Normal,  for  the  training  of  public  school  teachers; 
Kindergarten,  with  life  diplomas,  valid  through- 
out the  state  of  Colorado;  College  preparatory, 
fitting  pupils  for  Yale  and  Harvard,  or  any  other 
leading  educational  institution;  Grade  depart- 
ment, where  instruction  is  given  in  any  of  the 
eight  grades  of  the  grammar  schools;  Modern 
language  department;  Commercial  department, 
and  department  of  oratory,  physical  culture  and 
dramatic  art.  The  faculty  consists  of  Mr.  Dick, 
R.  M.  Streeter,  Margaret  Grabill,  Fordyce  P. 
Cleaves,  Mrs.  R.  M.  Streeter,  Nelson  Rhoades, 
Jr.,  Henry  Reade,  W.  J.  Whiteman,  and  Mina 
McCord  L,ewis.  A  special  summer  term  of  five 
weeks  is  held  each  year.  The  Denver  Commer- 
cial Institute  has  been  incorporated  with  the 
Normal  school,  and  furnishes  instruction  in  sten- 
ography, bookkeeping,  typewriting,  Spanish, 
commercial  law  and  arithmetic,  and  general  cor- 
respondence. 

In  addition  to  his  work  in  connection  with  the 
school,  Mr.  Dick  is  treasurer  of  the  Rocky  Moun- 
tain School  Aid  &  Supply  Company.  He  was 
the  founder  of  the  Rocky  Morintain  Educator,  a 
monthly  journal  devoted  to  the  interests  of  teach- 
ers, students,  school  directors  and  educational 
institutions  of  the  Rocky  Mountain  region.  Of 
this  he  is  now  the  editor  and  manager.  The 
journal  is  high  in  its  standard  and  interesting 
and  comprehensive,  and  is  now  nearing  its  fourth 
volume  as  a  successful  paper  for  educators.  Po- 
litically Mr.  Dick  is  a  Republican,  and  has  at- 
tended every  state  convention,  with  one  excep- 
tion, since  his  residence  in  Colorado.  He  and 
his  wife  are  members  of  the  Unity  Church.  At 
one  time  he  was  president  of  the  State  Teachers' 


Association  of  Colorado,  and  is  a  member  of  the 
Colorado  School  Masters'  Club,  the  National 
Educational  Association  (of  which  he  has  been 
state  manager)  and  the  Educational  Alliance. 
Fraternally  he  is  identified  with  the  Woodmen 
of  the  World  and  the  Ancient  Order  of  United 
Workmen,  being  a  charter  member  of  the  latter 
lodge  in  Trinidad. 

In  Erie  County,  N.  Y.,  June  29,  1876,  Mr. 
Dick  married  Miss  Florence  E.  Sprague,  who 
was  born  in  that  county,  a  daughter  of  Norman 
B.  Sprague.  She  is  a  very  intellectual  woman, 
was  a  charter  member  of  the  Woman's  Club  of 
Denver,  and  is  now  president  of  the  educational 
department  of  that  organization.  Their  only 
child,  Florence  E.,  died  in  Trinidad  when  nine 
years  of  age. 

HON.  GEORGE  W.  BAXTER,  one  of  the 
most  prominent  representatives  of  the  cattle 
industry  in  the  Rocky  Mountain  region,  is 
the  subject  of  this  sketch,  who  is  the  owner  of 
the  Baxter  ranch,  six  and  one-half  miles  in  extent, 
and  situated  on  Horse  Creek  on  the  line  of  the 
Union  Pacific  Railroad,  near  Cheyenne.  Here 
he  is  engaged  in  raising  full  blooded  Hereford 
cattle,  as  fine  as  any  to  be  found  in  the  west. 
Since  1888  he  has  been  identified  with  the  West- 
ern Union  Beef  Company  (now  the  Western  Live 
Stock  and  I,and  Company),  of  which  he  is  presi- 
dent and  manager,  and  which  is  incorporated 
under  the  laws  of  Colorado. 

Mr.  Baxter  was  born  in  Henderson,  N.  C, 
and  is  a  grandson  of  William  Baxter,  a  native  of 
Ireland,,  who  came  to  America  and  settled  in 
Charleston,  S.  C,  at  seventeen  years  of  age,  but 
later  removed  to  Rutherford,  N.  C,  where  he 
became  owner  of  a  plantation.  He  married  Miss 
Katherine  Lee.  Their  son,  John  Baxter,  was 
born  in  Rutherford  in  18 19  and  became  an  attor- 
ney. When  his  son,  our  subject,  was  two  years 
of  age  he  removed  to  Knoxville,  Tenu.,  where 
he  became  a  prominent  lawyer.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  constitutional  convention  of  Tennessee 
in  1870,  at  which  time  the  present  constitution 
was  adopted.  In  1877  he  was  appointed  by 
President  Hayes  as  one  of  the  United  States  cir- 
cuit judges,  his  territory  being  the  sixth  circuit, 
embracing  Tennessee,  Ohio,  Kentucky  and  Mich- 
igan. He  was  filling  that  office  at  the  time  of 
his  death,  in  the  spring  of  1886,  when  he  was 


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sixty-seven  years  of  age.  During  the  war  he  ad- 
hered to  the  Union.  His  was  a  turbulent  career, 
for  his  talents  brought  him  into  prominence 
during  the  critical  period  of  our  nation's  history. 

The  mother  of  our  subject  was  Orra  Ann  Alex- 
ander, who  was  born  in  Asheville,  N.  C,  the 
daughter  of  Mitchell  Alexander  by  his  marriage 
to  Nancy  Foster,  both  natives  of  Virginia.  Her 
grandfather  was  a  soldier  in  the  Revolution  and 
lost  a  limb  in  one  engagement.  The  family  is  of 
Scotch  descent.  Mrs.  Baxter  died  in  1859.  She 
was  the  mother  of  four  sons  and  three  daughters, 
all  of  whom  are  living  but  two  daughters.  The 
third  of  these  was  George  W. ,  who  was  born 
January  7,  1855.  He  was  educated  in  the  Uni- 
versity of  Tennessee  at  Knoxville  and  the  Uni- 
versity of  the  South  at  Sewanee,  Tenn.  In  May, 
1873,  he  entered  the  Military  Academy  at  West 
Point,  from  which  he  graduated  in  June,  1877, 
and  was  then  assigned  to  the  Third  United  States 
Cavalry  as  second  lieutenant  of  Company  H,  with 
which  he  served  in  Wyoming,  Dakota  and  Ne- 
braska. In  July,  1 88 1,  immediately  after  his 
promotion  to  first  lieutenant,  he  resigned  from 
the  service  and  turned  his  attention  to  ranching. 
In  1886  President  Cleveland  appointed  him  gov- 
ernor of  Wyoming,  but  becoming  involved  in  a 
controversy  with  his  immediate  superior,  the 
secretary  of  the  interior,  he  resigned  after  filling 
the  office  three  months.  In  1889  he  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  constitutional  convention  that  adopted 
the  present  constitution  of  Wyoming,  and  after 
the  admission  of  the  state,  in  1890,  he  was  the 
Democratic  candidate  for  governor,  but  the  state 
being  Republican  by  a  large  majority  his  candi- 
dacy was  with  no  expectation  of  success.  He 
made  Cheyenne  his  home  until  1895,  when  he 
came  to  Denver,  and  has  since  resided  in  this 
city. 

At  Knoxville,  Tenn.,  in  1880,  Mr.  Baxter 
married  Miss  Margaret  McGhee,  who  was  born 
there  and  received  her  education  in  Georgetown 
Academy,  Washington,  D.  C,  and  in  Europe. 
She  was  a  daughter  of  Charles  M.  McGhee,  who 
was  closely  identified  with  railroad  interests  in 
Tennessee.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Baxter  are  the  parents 
of  five  children,  Cornelia,  Margaret,  Katherine, 
Charles  McGhee  and  George.  The  family  attend 
St.  Mark's  Episcopal  Church.  Fraternally  Mr. 
Baxter  is  connected  with  Cheyenne  Lodge  No.  i, 
A.  F.    &  A.  M.,   the   Royal  Arch  Chapter  and 


Knight  Templar  Commandery,  also  El  Jebel 
Temple,  N.  M.  S.,  of  Denver.  He  is  still  a 
member  of  the  Association  of  Graduates  of  West 
Point. 


HON.  JOHN  W.  NESMITH.  There  is  no 
concern  of  its  kind  which  has  become  more 
prominently  known  throughout  the  state 
than  the  Colorado  Iron  Works  Company,  of  Den- 
ver, which  was  established  in  i860,  and  incor- 
porated in  1876  and  again  in  1896.  In  January, 
1879,  Mr.  Nesmith  accepted  the  position  of  super- 
intendent and  continued  in  that  capacity  until 
1886,  when,  he  and  his  family  having  acquired 
the  larger  portion  of  the  stock,  he  was  made 
president  and  has  since  been  in  active  manage- 
ment of  the  plant.  At  the  time  he  became  con- 
nected with  the  works,  they  were  small  and  un- 
important, and  it  is  due  almost  wholly  to  his  en- 
terprise and  judicious  management  that  he  has 
now  one  of  the  largest  mining  machinery  factories 
in  the  west.  The  three  hundred  and  fifty  men  em- 
ployed at  the  works  assist  in  the  manufacture  of 
copper,  silver  and  lead  smelting  furnaces.  The 
company  has  built  most  of  the  important  smelters 
from  Helena  to  the  City  of  Mexico;  they  also  build 
mills  and  manufacture  works  for  the  treatment  of 
ores  of  precious  metals.  In  1881  the  shops  were 
destroyed  by  fire,  but  were  rebuilt  soon  at  the  same 
place.  Thirty-third  and  Wynkoop  streets. 

The  Remolino  Coffee  and  Sugar  Company  was 
established  in  1893,  with  Mr.  Nesmith  as  presi- 
dent, and  his  son-in-law  and  daughter,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  F.  L.  McFarland,  as  associates  in  the  en- 
terprise. They  own  a  coffee  plantation  situated 
south  of  the  Gulf  of  Mexico,  on  the  Coatzacoalcos 
River,  on  the  Isthmus  of  Tehauntepec,  state  of 
Vera  Cruz,  Mexico.  In  addition  to  the  manage- 
ment of  the  plantation,  they  operate,  for  general 
traffic,  a  steamboat  on  the  river,  the  vessel  being 
small,  but  as  large  as  the  exigencies  of  that  traffic 
demand.  Not  only  on  account  of  his  business  in- 
terests there,  but  also  because  he  is  fond  of  travel, 
Mr.  Nesmith  has  visited  almost  every  point  of 
interest  in  Mexico.  Of  late  years  he  has  taken 
up  the  study  of  the  Spanish  language,  in  which 
he  has  gained  such  proficiency  as  to  construction 
and  grammar  that  he  can  read  and  write  the  lan- 
guage correctly  and  with  facility. 

From  Parker's  history  of  Londonderry,  N.  H., 


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page  290,  we  quote  the  following  regarding  the 
pedigree  of  the  Naesmyth,  Nasmyth  or  Nesmith 
family  (for  in  these  various  ways  the  name  has 
been  spelled): 

i: — "James  Nesmith  emigrated  from  River 
Bann,  Londonderry,  Ireland,  to  America,  in 
1718.  He  was  one  of  the  first  sixteen  settlers  of 
Londonderry,  N.  H.,  a  highly  respectable  mem- 
ber of  the  colony  and  an  elder  in  the  Presbyterian 
Church.  He  married,  in  Ireland,  Elizabeth 
McKeen,  and  by  her  had  children:  Arthur,  James, 
John,  Thomas  and  Elizabeth. 

"Arthur  (i),  who  was  born  in  Ireland,  settled 
in  Maine,  and  had  children:  James,  John,  Benja- 
min and  Mary.  This  James  (son  of  Arthur  i) 
served  in  the  Revolution  in  the  compan}-  com- 
manded by  Capt.  George  Reid;  was  at  the  battle 
of  Bunker  Hill;  afterwards  was  promoted  to  cap- 
tain and  commanded  a  company  in  Canada;  and 
also  in  Rhode  Island  under  General  Sullivan. 
He  was  frank  and  generous  in  disposition,  digni- 
fied, and  was  distinguished  for  intrepedity,  ac- 
tivity and  muscular  strength. 

"James  Nesmith  (2),  son  of  James  (i),  was 
also  born  in  Ireland  and  was  also  in  Captain 
Reid's  company  as  a  Revolutionary  soldier.  He 
lived  at  Londonderry,  and  had  children:  James, 
who,  married  Martha  McClure,  and  was  an  elder 
in  the  church;  Jonathan,  who  married  Eleanor 
Dickey  and  removed  to  Antrim  in  1778  and  was 
au  elder  in  the  church;  Robert,  who  married 
Jane  Anderson;  and  John,  who  married  Eliza- 
beth, sister  of  Gen.  George  Reid,  and  died  at 
Londonderry  in  18 15,  aged  eighty -seven.  John 
and  Elizabeth  left  the  following-named  children: 
James,  who  married  Elizabeth  Brewster,  of  An- 
trim; Arthur,  who  married  May  Duncan  and 
moved  to  Ohio;  John;  and  Thomas,  born  1731, 
who  married  Annie  Wilson,  settled  at  Windham, 
near  Londonderry,  and  had  children. 

"John  Nesmith  (3)  was  born  November  26, 
1766,  at  Londonderry,  N.  H.  Lived  on  the 
homestead.  Married  February  28,  1797,  Susan 
(Sukey)  Hildreth,  who  was  born  at  London- 
derry, June  22,  1777;  they  left  children:  John 
Pinkerton,  Isabella,  Samuel  Hildreth,  James  P., 
Mary,  Thomas  and  Elizabeth. 

"Samuel  Hildreth  Nesmith  (3),  born  August 
21,  1803,  at  Londonderry,  N.  H.,  married  April 
19,  1831,  Priscilla  Brown  at  Circleville,  Ohio. 
The  father  died  in  August,  1876,  and  the  mother 


July  10,  1 85 1.  They  had  children:  John  Well- 
ington; James  Browne,  born  February  5,  1837; 
and  Ellen  Mary,  born  August  20,  1840. 

"John  Wellington  Nesmith,  born  January  4, 
1834,  nearChillicothe,  Ohio,  married  October  30, 
1856,  Miss  Elizabeth  R.  Dickson,  of  Pittsfield,  111. 
Children:  Isabel,  born  June  13,  1859,  at  Pitts- 
field,  111.;  Eleanor,  born  July  13,  1869,  at  Black- 
hawk,  Colo.  Eleanor  Nesmith  married  February 
26,  1890,  Fiulay  Le  Roy  McFarland,  of  Denver; 
Isabel  Nesmith  married  October  7,  1 891,  James 
Porter  Evans,  of  Denver." 

Tracing  the  more  remote  lineage  of  the  Nesmith 
family,  we  find  that  they  were  represented 
among  the  families  going  from  Scotland  to  the 
Valley  of  the  Bann,  Ireland,  in  1690.  There 
James  Nesmith  was  born  in  1 692  and  from  there 
he  emigrated  to  America  in  17 18.  As  before 
stated,  he  was  one  of  the  sixteen  original  settlers 
of  Londonderry,  N.  H.  He  was  a  signer  of  the 
memorial  to  Governor  Shute,  and  was  appointed 
elder  of  the  West  Parish  Church  on  its  organiza- 
tion in  1739.  He  died  in  1767,  aged  seventy- 
five.  His  wife,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  James 
and  Janet  (Cochran)  McKeen,  was  born  in  Ireland 
and  died  in  New  Hampshire  in  1763,  aged  sixty- 
seven. 

From  the  autobiography  of  Sir  James  Nasmyth 
we  learn  the  following  regarding  the  history  and 
traditions  of  the  Nasmyth  or  Nesmith  family. 
He  writes:  "Sir  Bernard  Burke,  in  his  'Peerage 
and  Baronetage,'  gives  a  faithful  account  of  the 
ancestors  from  which  I  am  lineally  descended. 
The  family  of  Naesmyth,  says  Burke,  is  one  of 
remote  antiquity  in  Tweeddale,  and  has  possessed 
large  lands  there  since  the  thirteenth  century. 
They  fought  in  the  wars  of  Bruce  and  Baliol, 
which  ended  in  the  independence  of  Scotland. 
The  following  is  the  family  legend  of  the  origin  of 
the  name  of  Naesmyth:  In  the  troublous  times 
which  prevailed  in  Scotland  before  the  union  of  the 
crowns,  the  feuds  between  the  king  and  the 
barons  were  almost  constant.  In  the  reign  of 
James  III.  the  house  of  Douglas  was  the  most 
prominent  and  ambitious.  The  earl  not  only 
resisted  his  liege  lord,  but  entered  into  a  combi- 
nation with  the  king  of  England,  from  whom  he 
received  a  pension.  He  was  declared  a  rebel  and 
his  estates  were  confiscated.  He  determined  to 
resist  the  royal  power,  and  crossed  the  border 
with  his  followers.     He  was  met  by  the  Earl  of 


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Angus,  the  Maxwells,  the  Johnstons  and  the 
Scotts.  In  one  of  the  engagements  which  en- 
sued, the  Douglas  appeared  to  have  gained  the 
day,  when  an  ancestor  of  the  Naesmyths,  who 
fought  under  the  royal  standard,  took  refuge  in 
the  smithy  of  a  neighboring  village.  The  smith 
offered  him  protection,  disguised  him  as  a  ham- 
merman, with  a  leather  apron  in  front,  and  asked 
him  to  lend  a  hand  at  his  work. 

"While  thus  engaged  a  party  of  the  Douglas 
partisans  entered  the  smithy.  They  looked  with 
suspicion  on  the  disguised  hammerman,  who,  in 
his  agitation,  struck  a  false  blow  with  the  sledge 
hammer,  which  broke  the  shaft  in  two.  Upon 
this  one  of  pursuers  rushed  at  him,  calling  out, 
'Ye' re  nae  smyth.'  The  stalwart  hammerman 
turned  upon  his  assailant,  and  wrenching  a  dag- 
ger from  him,  speedily  overpowered  him.  The 
smith  himself,  armed  with  the  big  hammer,  ef- 
fectually aided  in  overpowering  and  driving  out 
the  Douglas  men.  A  party  of  the  royal  forces 
made  their  appearance,  when  Naesmyth  rallied 
them,  led  them  against  the  rebels,  and  converted 
what  had  been  a  temporary  defeat  into  a  victory. 
A  grant  of  lands  was  bestowed  upon  him  for  his 
service.  His  armorial  bearings  consisted  of  a 
head  dexter  with  a  dagger,  between  two  broken 
hammer  shafts,  and  there  they  remain  to  this  day. 
The  motto  was,  Non  arte  sed  marte  (Not  by  art 
but  by  war)." 

The  father  of  our  subject,  who  removed  from 
New  Hampshire  to  Ohio  about  1830,  was  a  civil 
engineer  on  the  Ohio  canal,  and  later  a  con- 
tractor. In  the  fall  of  1834  he  removed  to  Pike 
County,  111.,  settling  near  Pittsfield,  where  he 
was  a  pioneer  farmer.  About  1850  he  moved  to 
Barry,  111.,  and  engaged  in  merchandising,  but 
later  went  to  Canton,  Mo.,  where  he  remained 
until  his  death  at  the  age  of  over  seventy.  His 
first  wife,  Priscilla,  who  was  born  near  Chilli- 
cothe,  Ohio,  was  a  daughter  of  White  Brown,  a 
native  of  Delaware,  settling  in  Ohio  about  1808 
and  dying  upon  a  farm  there.  He  owned  many 
slaves  at  one  time,  but  becoining  convinced  that 
slavery  was  wrong,  he  freed  them,  thus  losing 
his  fortune.  Mrs.  Nesmith  died  when  our  sub- 
ject was  fourteen  years  of  age,  leaving  besides 
him  a  j'ounger  brother  and  sister,  James  B.,  later 
a  civil  engineer  engaged  on  the  Iron  Mountain 
road  at  Cape  Girardeau,  Mo.;  and  Mrs.  Ellen 
Burke,  now  of  Kansas. 


When  a  boy  our  subject  learned  the  machinist's 
trade  in  Pittsfield  and  followed  it  in  St.  Louis  for  a 
time;  while  there  he  was  asked  to  come  to  Colo- 
rado and  erect  a  mill  in  what  is  now  Gilpin  Coun- 
ty, which  he  did,  afterward  running  the  mill  for  a 
year,  but  before  the  year  expired  the  firm  failed. 
It  was  in  June,  i860,  that  he  arrived  in  the  moun- 
tains, after  an  ox-train  journey  of  forty-two  days, 
from  Nebraska  City  via  Fort  Kearney  to  Ne- 
vada Gulch.  In  February,  1861,  he  came  to 
Denver  and  entered  a  small  machine  shop  and 
foundry  owned  by  Langford  &  Co.  In  the  fall  of 
1862  the  shop  was  moved  to  Blackhawk,  Gilpin 
County;  in  1864  he  was  made  superintendent  of 
the  shop  and  remained  with  the  company  until 
1869,  when  he  resigned  to  enter  the  milling  busi- 
ness. Building  a  mill  in  Blackhawk,  he  had 
charge  of  it  some  two  years.  About  1874  he  was 
locomotive  engineer  on  construction  of  the  Colo- 
rado Central  Railroad,  and  when  the  line  was 
completed  into  Blackhawk  he  became  master 
mechanic.  The  next  year  he  was  made  master 
of  transportation,  with  headquarters  at  Golden. 
About  1876  he  was  made  master  mechanic  of  the 
■  Upper  Division  of  the  Kansas  Pacific  (now  a  part 
of  the  Union  Pacific),  including  the  lines  from 
Denver  to  Wallace,  Denver  to  Boulder,  Kit  Car- 
son to  Los  Animas,  and  Denver  to  Cheyenne.  In 
1878  he  was  appointed  by  Governor  Evans  super- 
intendent of  the  South  Park  Railroad,  and  con- 
tinued in  that  position  until  January,  1879,  when, 
the  iron  works  having  been  moved  back  to  Den- 
ver, he  resigned  to  become  superintendent  of  the 
plant. 

In  Pittsfield,  111.,  Mr.  Nesmith  married  Eliza- 
beth, sister  of  Judge  Dickson,  of  Leadville.  They 
are  the  parents  of  two  daughters.  The  family 
attend  the  First  Congregational  Church  and  take 
an  interest  in  its  welfare.  Mr.  Nesmith  is  a 
member  of  the  chamber  of  commerce  and  board 
of  trade.  While  in  Illinois  he  was  made  a  Ma- 
son, and  was  past  master  of  Blackhawk  Lodge 
No.  II,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  but  is  now  a  member  of 
Oriental  Lodge  No.  87,  in  Denver,  also  a  member 
of  the  Royal  Arch  Chapter.  He  represented  Gilpin 
County  in  the  upper  house  of  the  territorial  legis- 
lature, sessions  of  1868  and  1870,  during  which 
time  he  was  a  stalwart  supporter  of  the  cause  of 
woman's  suffrage. 

For  many  years  Mr.  Nesmith  has  been  a  stu- 
dent of  the  physical  sciences.     He  is  an  expert  in 


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the  chemistry  and  metallurgy  of  the  smelting  of 
ores  of  the  precious  metals,  as  gold,  silver,  cop- 
per, lead,  etc.,  and  is  a  recognized  authority  on 
blast  furnace  construction  and  practice  as  adapted 
to  such  minerals.  While  in  Blackhawk  and  vi- 
cinitj',  from  1868  to  1874,  he  practiced  civil  and 
mining  engineering,  in  which  he  has  few  superi- 
ors to  this  day.  He  is  a  member  of  the  National 
Association  of  Mining  Engineers,  also  of  the  Den- 
ver Society  of  Civil  Engineers  and  the  Colorado 
Scientific  Society,  of  Denver. 

Associated  with  him  in  the  Colorado  Iron 
Works,  Mr.  Nesmith  has  a  half-brother,  S.  H. , 
who  was  born  to  the  marriage  of  Samuel  H. 
Nesmith  and  Caroline  Rush,  of  Barry,  111.,  and 
by  that  union  there  was  a  daughter  born,  Julie, 
who  married  William  H.  Drescher,  and  resides 
in  Hannibal,  Mo.  In  addition  to  Mr.  Nesmith 
and  his  brother,  the  former's  daughter,  Mrs.  Isa- 
bel Evans,  is  connected  with  the  company,  being 
its  secretary  and  treasurer,  while  John  H.  Mor- 
com  fills  the  position  of  superintendent. 


rDQiLUAM  W.  GRANT,  M.  D.  During 
I  A/  ^^^  years  that  have  elapsed  since  he  came 
Y  V  to  Denver,  Dr.  Grant  has  built  up  a  large 
practice  in  this  city  and  has  become  known  as  a 
skillful  surgeon  and  a  successful  physician,  who 
is  accurate  alike  in  the  diagnosis  and  treatment 
of  disease.  While  his  specialties  are  surgery  and 
gynecology,  yet  in  every  department  of  the  pro- 
fession his  knowledge  is  exhaustive  and  his  skill 
recognized.  He  has  had  the  advantage  not  only 
of  study  in  the  institutions  of  our  own  land,  but 
in  those  abroad,  having  spent  one  year  in  the 
study  of  surgery  and  gynecology  in  the  hospitals 
of  Berlin,  Vienna  and  London. 

The  record  of  the  Grant  family  appears  in  the 
sketch  of  ex-Governor  Grant,  the  doctor's 
brother.  The  family  consisted  of  seven  children, 
of  whom  William  was  the  third.  He  was  born 
in  Russell  County,  Ala.,  near  Columbus,  Ga. , 
and  in  boyhood  attended  a  private  school  there. 
His  boyhood  life  was  spent  on  a  southern  planta- 
tion, where  he  was  instructed  by  his  father  in  the 
making  of  every  kind  of  farm  implement  and  in 
their  use  in  the  cultivation  of  corn,  cotton  and 
other  farm  products.  He  also  learned  to  fell 
trees,  split  rails  and  dig  ditches,  and,  in  fact,  did 
every  kind  of  farm  work,  and  did  it  well.     He 


worked  side  by  side  with  the  colored  help,  and 
no  favors  were  shown  him,  although  his  father 
was  a  kind  and  indulgent  man.  Thus  he  learned 
to  appreciate  individual  effort  and  its  results. 
School  study  and  farm  work  were  alternated; 
yet  before  the  age  of  fifteen  he  and  his  brother, 
the  ex-governor,  read  Virgil  and  had  commenced 
Sallust.  However,  they  were  not  "hothouse" 
products,  for  neither  was  familiar  with  the  letters 
of  the  alphabet  until  seven  and  eight  years  of  age 
respectively. 

At  the  age  of  sixteen  our  subject  entered  as  a 
private  a  company  of  Alabama  artillery  known 
as  Clanton's  battery  in  Gen.  James  H.  Clanton's 
brigade,  and  served  during  the  last  sixteen 
months  of  the  Civil  war,  being  promoted  from 
the  ranks  to  the  position  of  sergeant  of  artillery, 
in  charge  of  the  gun.  He  was  present  in  the  en- 
gagements of  Mount  Hope  Church  and  Colum- 
bus, Ga.  Returning  home  at  the  close  of  the 
war  he  attended  school  for  a  year  and  then  began 
the  study  of  medicine.  For  a  time  he  read  under 
private  tutelage,  then  spent  a  year  (1867)  in 
Jefferson  Medical  College,  of  Philadelphia,  and 
the  following  year  entered  Bellevue  and  Long 
Island  Medical  College,  from  which  he  graduated 
in  1868  with  the  degree  of  M.  D. 

Shortly  after  his  graduation  Dr.  Grant  opened 
an  office  in  Nebraska,  near  Sioux  City,  Iowa, 
but  in  1872  rejnoved  to  Davenport,  Iowa,  where 
he  continued  for  a  number  of  years,  and  while 
there  held  the  office  of  president  of  the  Scott 
County  Medical  Society.  He  was  also  president 
of  the  Iowa  and  Illinois  Central  District  Medical 
Association.  In  1885  the  surgeon-general  of  the 
United  States  army  appointed  him  post  surgeon 
at  the  Rock  Island  arsenal,  and  he  held  the  po- 
sition until  1888,  when  he  resigned  on  account  of 
going  to  Europe.  On  his  return  from  abroad,  in 
December,  1889,  he  came  to  Denver,  where  he 
has  an  office  in  the  Mack  building.  In  addition 
to  his  general  practice  he  is  one  of  the  surgeons  to 
St.  Joseph's  hospital  and  president  of  the  staff, 
and  is  also  surgeon  to  the  Rock  Island  Railroad 
here.  The  various  professional  organizations — 
the  American  Academy  of  Railway  Surgeons, 
American,  State  and  Denver  and  Arapahoe 
County  Medical  Societies — number  him  among 
their  members.  All  discoveries  in  therapeutics, 
all  improvements  in  surgery,  and,  in  fact,  every 
development  made  in  the  profession,  receives  his 


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thoughtful  attention  and  study.  Himself  one  of 
the  foremost  members  of  the  medical  fraternity, 
his  articles  concerning  professional  work  and  the 
treatment  of  disease  frequently  appear  in  medical 
journals  and  are  valuable  additions  to  the  profes- 
sional literature. 

The  residence  of  Dr.  Grant  is  at  No.  930 
Pennsylvania  avenue.  He  was  married  in 
Franklin,  Tenn.,  to  Miss  Mary  A.  Moseley,  who 
was  born  in  that  state  and  died  in  Davenport, 
Iowa,  leaving  two  children,  William  W. ,  Jr., 
and  James.  In  Denver  he  was  a  second  time 
married,  his  wife  being  Miss  Nanny  Green, 
daughter  of  the  late  Judge  James  Green,  of  Cul- 
peper  C.  H.,  Va. 

HON.  JOB  ADAMS  COOPER,  governor  of 
Colorado,  1889-91,  was  born  near  Green- 
ville, Bond  County,  111.,  and  is  a  son  of 
Charles  and  Maria  (Hadley)  Cooper,  members  of 
old  English  families.  His  father,  who  was  born 
at  Maidstone,  County  Kent,  England,  forty  miles 
south  of  I^ondon,  was  a  son  of  Thomas  Cooper,  a 
paper  manufacturer  of  Kent  County,  who  came 
to  the  United  States  late  in  life  and  died  at  Yolo, 
Cal.,  when  eighty-nine  years  of  age.  Charles 
was  one  of  a  large  family  of  children  who  eventu- 
ally came  to  America.  He  was  educated  at  Maid- 
stone and  at  the  age  of  fifteen  crossed  the  ocean 
on  a  sailing  vessel,  settling  in  Newark,  N.  J., 
where  he  learned  the  carriage  manufacturer's 
trade.  At  the  age  of  twenty-two  he  went  to 
Cincinnati,  Ohio,  where  he  engaged  in  the  lum- 
ber business.  It  was  there  that  he  married  Miss 
Hadley.  Removing  to  Illinois  in  1840,  he  be- 
came a  pioneer  of  Bond  County,  where  he  im- 
proved a  valuable  farm  and  continued  to  reside 
Utitil  his  death,  in  1865,  at  the  age  of  fifty-nine 
years.  Fraternally  a  Mason,  he  was  active  in 
the  work  of  his  order.  He  was  a  firm  supporter 
of  Democratic  tenets.  During  the  war  he  was 
loyal  to  the  Union  and  assisted  in  raising  troops 
for  the  Federal  service.  His  wife  died  at  fift)'- 
nine  years  of  age,  and  of  their  seven  children, 
five  of  whom  reached  maturit}*,  only  two  are 
living,  Thomas  Cooper,  of  Morgan  County,  Colo., 
and  Job  Adams  Cooper. 

The  last-named  was  educated  at  Knox  College, 

Galesburg,  111.,   from  which  institution  he  was 

graduated   in    1865,   with  the  degree  of  A.    B. 

Three  years  later  the  degree  of  A.  M.    was  con- 

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ferred  upon  him  by  his  alma  mater.  While  a 
student  in  Knox  College,  in  May,  1864,  he  en- 
listed, with  many  other  students,  in  Company  C, 
One  Hundred  and  Thirty-seventh  Illinois  Infan- 
try, Capt.  B.  M.  Veatch,  and  served  until  mustered 
out  in  the  latter  part  of  the  same  year.  He  was 
stationed  near  Memphis  when  the  Confederate 
general,  Forest,  made  his  memorable  raid. 

In  Galesburg,  111.,  September  17,  1867,  Mr. 
Cooper  married  Miss  Jane  O.  Barnes,  daughter 
of  Rev.  Romulus  E.  Barnes,  one  of  the  early 
Congregational  home  missionaries  of  Illinois. 
She,  too,  is  identified  with  that  denomination  and 
has  done  much  work  of  a  benevolent  nature.  She 
was  educated  in  Rockford  Seminary  in  Illinois, 
and  is  a  lady  whose  culture  makes  her  a  valuable 
acquisition  in  the  most  select  social  circles.  The 
four  children  that  comprise  the  family  are  named 
as  follows:  Olivia  D.,  wife  of  Edwin  S.  Kassler; 
Mary  Louise,  Mrs.  Lucius  S.  Storrs,  of  St.  Paul, 
Minn.;  Charles  J.,  a  graduate  of  Knox  College, 
class  of  1897,  and  now  engaged  in  the  real-estate 
business  in  Denver;  and  Genevieve  P.,  a  gradu- 
ate of  Ogontz  School,  near  Philadelphia. 

On  completing  his  literary  studies  at  Galesburg, 
Mr.  Cooper  began  to  read  law  with  Judge  S.  P. 
Moore,  at  Greenville,  and  in  1867  he  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  bar,  after  which  he  opened  an  office 
for  practice  in  Greenville.  In  1868  he  was  elected 
circuit  clerk  and  recorder  of  Bond  County,  which 
position  he  continued  to  fill  until  he  resigned,  on 
coming  to  Denver  in  1872.  He  arrived  in  this 
city  May  14,  and  was  admitted  to  practice  at 
the  bar  here  September  i,  1872.  Forming  a 
partnership  with  A.  C.  Phelps,  as  Phelps  & 
Cooper,  he  gave  his  attention  closely  to  his  law 
practice.  Afterward,  for  about  two  years,  he  was 
interested  in  a  fire  insurance  agency,  but  retired 
from  the  insurance  business  in  order  to  accept  a 
position  with  the  German  Bank  (later  the  Ger- 
man National  Bank  of  Denver). 

During  the  early  years  of  his  residence  in  the 
west,  he  was  interested  in  the  stock  business, 
buying  cattle  in  Texas  and  feeding  them  on 
Colorado  ranches.  Sometimes  he  shipped  as 
many  as  two  trains  full  of  cattle  a  day  from  Brush, 
on  the  Burlington  Railroad.  The  advent  of  set- 
tlers, however,  caused  him  to  retire  from  the 
business. 

During  the  years  that  followed  he  became 
known  as  a  keen,    discriminating   financier   and 


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public-spirited  man.  His  circle  of  acquaintances 
increased,  and  his  influence  waxed  constantly 
greater.  The  esteem  in  which  he  was  held  and 
the  prominence  which  he  had  attained  made  the 
choice  of  his  name  by  the  Republicans  for  the 
gubernatorial  chair  a  most  happy  selection.  He 
was  elected  by  a  majority  of  ten  thousand 
(which  was  considered  large  at  that  time)  over 
'his  Democratic  opponent,  Thomas  M.  Patterson, 
of  the  Rocky  Mountain  News.  He  took  the 
oath  of  office  January  i,  1889,  succeeding  Gover- 
nor Adams  at  the  expiration  of  the  latter's  first 
term.  He  had  never  been  A  partisan  politician, 
and,  although  always  a  stanch  supporter  of  the 
Republican  party,  he  had  not  actively  identified 
himself  with  party  matters;  however,  he  was  well 
known  throughout  the  state  as  a  successful, 
honest,  progressive  and  efficient  business  man, 
and  it  was  the  desire  of  the  party  to  have  such  a 
man  fill  the  executive  chair. 

On  his  retirement  from  the  office  of  governor, 
he  accepted  the  position  of  president  of  the 
National  Bank  of  Commerce,  and  this  he  filled 
successfully  and  ably  until  1 897 ,  when  he  resigned ; 
since  then  he  has  devoted  his  attention  to  the 
management  of  his  large  and  valuable  property 
interests  in  this  state  and  to  mining  at  Cripple 
Creek  as  a  member  of  the  Tornado  Gold  Mining 
Company.  In  1868  he  erected,  on  the  corner  of 
Grant  and  Colfax,  the  elegant  residence  where  he 
has  since  (and  especially  during  his  term  as 
governor)  entertained  with  a  lavish  and  genial 
hospitality.  In  1891  he  began  the  erection  ofthe 
substantial  block  known  as  the  Cooper  building, 
which  is  situated  on  the  corner  of  Seventeenth 
and  Curtis  streets,  and  which,  in  its  interior  finish, 
is  surpassed  by  no  block  in  the  state. 

During  Governor  Cooper's  term  the  superstruct- 
ure of  the  magnificent  state  capitol  approached 
completion.  He  has  been  a  member  of  the  state 
board  of  capitol  managers  for  six  years,  and 
yet  holds  that  position.  During  his  term  the  state 
also  made  a  notable  advance  in  mining,  stock-rais- 
ing and  commerce.  The  commonwealth  reached 
the  climax  of  its  development  and  attained  a  pros- 
perity never  before  enjoyed,  and  indeed,  dreamed 
of  by  few.  The  World's  Fair  preparations  were 
being  made  while  he  was  at  the  head  of  the  gov- 
ernment, and  he  took  an  active  part  in  arranging 
for  a  representation  of  Colorado  at  the  Fair  that 
would  do  justice  to  the  industries  ofthe  state. 


As  an  executive  official  he  was  conservative  in 
judgment,  never  hasty  in  his  decisions,  but  firm 
in  carrying  out  any  given  course  of  action  when 
once  decided  upon.  He  possessed  a  sagacity 
sound,  well  defined  and  trustworthy  and  was  a 
man  of  profound  foresight.  Having  made  a 
study  of  constitutional  law,  he  was  well  versed  in 
the  principles  of  wise  statesmanship  and  public 
policy,  and  was  admirably  fitted  to  stand  at  the 
head  of  the  greatest  state  in  the  mountain  regions 
of  the  west. 


HON.  JOHN  L.  ROUTT.  The  last  territoria 
and  the  first  state  governor  of  Colorado,  also 
governor  in  1891-93,  enjoys  the  distinction 
of  being  the  only  one  who  has  three  times  filled 
the  gubernatorial  chair  of  the  state,  and  but  two 
other  governors  have  served  more  than  a  single 
term.  Coming  to  Colorado  prior  to  its  admission 
as  a  state,  he  has  from  that  time  been  closely 
identified  with  its  history  and  has  contributed  to 
its  progress.  The  development  of  the  common- 
wealth has  been  ever  near  to  his  heart,  its  mining 
and  stock-raising  industries  he  has  promoted  in 
many  important  ways,  while  its  commercial  in- 
terests have  been  given  an  impetus  through  his 
executive  ability  and  tireless  energy. 

In  view  of  the  close  connection  of  Governor 
Routt  with  the  business  and  political  history  of 
the  state,  considerable  mention  should  be  made 
of  his  life  and  public  career.  Whatever  success 
he  has  achieved  is  the  result  of  his  unaided  efforts, 
for  he  started  out  in  the  world  with  but  a  limited 
education,  wholly  destitute  of  money  and  also 
lacking  influential  friends.  Money,  friends  and 
prominence  have  come  to  him,  as  the  result  of 
the  honorable  and  efficient  manner  in  which  he 
has  conducted  business  and  his  genial  qualities 
as  a  man  and  friend. 

The  Routt  family  came  from  Wales  to  America. 
Daniel,  a  son  ofthe  founder  ofthe  family  in  this 
country,  was  born  in  Virginia  and  became  a 
pioneer  of  Kentucky,  settling  in  the  woods  three 
miles  from  Booneville,  where  he  died  at  the  age 
of  eighty-five  years.  John,  son  of  Daniel  and 
father  of  our  subject,  was  born  in  Clark  County, 
Ky. ,  and  engaged  in  farming  in  Caldwell  Countj^ 
where  he  died  at  the  age  of  thirty-four.  During 
the  war  of  18 12  he  was  a  member  of  Captain 
Long's  company. 

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Martha  Haggard,  who  was  born  in  Clailc  County, 
of  Welsh  descent.  Her  father,  David  Hag- 
gard, was  born  in  Virginia  and  at  the  age  of 
seventeen  enlisted  in  the  American  army,  where 
he  served  until  the  close  of  the  Revolution. 
Later  he  removed  to  Kentucky  and  became  a 
very  early  settler  of  Clark  County,  where  he 
located  very  soon  after  the  arrival  of  Daniel 
Boone.  In  after  years  he  cultivated  a  farm  in 
Trigg  County,  Ky.,  from  which  place  he  re- 
moved to  Illinois  and  spent  his  last  days  with 
relatives  in  Blooraington,  dj-ing  there  at  the  age 
of  eighty  years.  About  1835  our  subject's  mother, 
who  had  in  the  meantime  married  Henry  New- 
ton of  Kentucky,  took  her  family  to  Illinois  and 
for  two  years  resided  in  Hancock  County,  next 
removed  to  McDonough  County,  and  later 
settled  in  McLean  County,  where  she  died  at 
seventy-seven  years;  Mr.  Newton  died  at  the  age 
of  eighty-five  years.  Her  family  consisted  of  two 
sons  and  two  daughters,  of  whom  two  survive: 
John  L-,  and  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Newton,  of  McLean 
County. 

The  life  which  this  narrative  sketches  began 
in  Caldwell  County,  Ky.,  April  25,  1826.  Early 
orphaned  by  his  father's  death,  the  boy  was 
taken  to  Illinois  by  his  mother  and  attended  the 
public  schools  there.  Although  his  educational 
advantages  were  meagre,  he  supplemented  them 
by  reading  night  and  morning  and  at  all  spare 
moments.  At  the  age  of  fourteen  he  began  to 
earn  his  own  livelihood.  He  learned  the  trades 
of  machinist,  architect  and  builder  in  Blooming- 
ton,  where  he  secured  steady  employment,  and 
al.so  held  the  position  of  alderman  of  Bloomington 
and  sheriff  of  McLean  County.  The  latter 
position  he  resigned  in  order  to  enter  the  army 
soon  after  the  opening  of  the  war.  In  1862  he 
raised  Company  E,  of  the  Ninety-fourth  Illinois 
Infantry,  which  was  mustered  in  at  Bloomington 
with  himself  as  captain.  The  regiment  served 
in  Missouri  and  Arkansas  in  1862-63,  under 
command  of  General  Herron,  and  took  part  in 
several  closely  contested  engagements.  In  the 
battle  of  Prairie  Grove,  Ark. ,  he  narrowly  escaped 
death,  for  three  times  bullets  pas.sed  through  his 
clothing.  In  the  .spring  of  1863  he  became 
quartern] ai5ter  of  an  expedition  organized  near 
Rolla,  Mo.,  to  march  upon  Little  Rock.  Soon 
afterward  the  regiment  joined  General  Grant  at 
Vicksburg,  where  they  remained  until  the  fall  of 


that  city.  While  at  Vicksburg  General  Grant 
gave  an  order  to  the  commanding  general  to 
have  a  large  amount  of  ammunition  removed  the 
following  day  from  Chickasaw  Bayou,  eighteen 
miles  away,  by  noon.  This  was  con.sidered  im- 
possible, but  was  accomplished  by  Quartermaster 
Routt,  which  so  pleased  General  Grant  that  he 
wrote  John  L.  Routt's  name  in  his  note  book. 
Years  afterwards  General  Grant  met  Mr.  Routt 
in  Chicago  and,  remembering  the  name,  a  friend- 
ship began  that  lasted  through  life.  In  the  fall 
of  1880  General  Grant  spent  four  weeks  in  the 
company  of  Governor  Routt  in  the  mountains  of 
Colorado,  and  these  are  the  most  memorable  four 
weeks  in  the  governor's  recollection.  The  next 
movement  was  to  Port  Hudson,  Miss.,  thence  to 
Brownsville,  Tex.,  where  Captain  Routt  was  ap- 
pointed to  duty  as  chiefquartermasterofthe  army 
of  the  frontier  on  the  Rio  Grande,  with  the  rank 
of  colonel.  He  was  ordered  to  New  Orleans 
after  the  defeat  of  General  Banks  in  1864  and 
was  then  stationed  at  Baton  Rouge  in  charge  of 
the  outfitting  depot  until  he  was  mustered  out  of 
service  September  20,  1865.  He  was  a  personal 
friend  of  President  Lincoln,  whom  he  warmly 
admired  for  his  depth  of  character  and  breadth  of 
mind. 

Returning  to  Bloomington,  Colonel  Routt  un- 
expectedly found  himself  the  Republican  candi- 
date for  county  treasurer.  He  was  elected  and 
served  for  two  terms,  but  declined  further 
renomination.  During  his  administration  an 
elegant  courthouse  was  built  and  other  improve- 
ments were  made,  in  all  of  which  his  careful 
handling  and  wise  disbursement  of  money  was 
apparent.  At  the  close  of  his  second  term,  in 
November,  1869,  he  went  to  Washington  as  chief 
clerk  to  the  second  assistant  postmaster-general 
under  President  Grant.  During  his  services  in 
that  capacity  a  controversy  arose  in  regard  to  the 
United  States  marshal  for  the  southern  district 
of  Illinois,  and  he,  without  his  knowledge,  was 
appointed  by  President  Grant  to  that  position. 
In  1870  he  took  the  census  of  his  district,  com- 
prising seventy-two  counties. 

In  the  fall  of  1871  Colonel  Routt  received  a 
telegram  from  President  Grant,  offering  him  the 
appointment  of  second  assistant  postmaster-gen- 
eral. He  accepted  the  position,  resigning  as 
marshal,  and  the  following  day  started  for 
Washington.     In  this  office  he  had  charge  of  the 


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conveyance  of  the  whole  United  States  mail, 
making  contracts  with  railway,  steamboat  and 
stage  lines,  to  the  amount  of  about  $20,000,000 
per  annum.  While  holding  the  position,  a 
vacancy  occurred  in  the  governor's  chair  in  the 
territory  of  Colorado  by  the  resignation  of  Ed- 
ward M.  McCook,  and  in  February,  1875, 
General  Grant  appointed  him  governor.  When 
he  came  to  Colorado,  Denver  was  a  city  of  less 
than  five  thousand  inhabitants  and  the  entire 
territory  was  thinly  populated.  Early  in  March 
he  entered  upon  his  duties,  which  were  of  a  most 
responsible  nature,  owing  to  the  fact  that  the 
Republican  party  was  divided  by  dissension. 
The  constitutional  convention  framed  the  con- 
stitution which  was  adopted  July  4,  1876.  The 
first  state  election  was  held  in  October  of  the 
same  year.  While  he  was  not  a  candidate,  he 
was  unanimously  nominated  by  his  party  and 
was  elected  for  a  term  of  two  years,  the  first 
governor  of  the  new  state. 

The  inauguration  of  plans  connected  with  the 
adoption  of  a  state  government  necessarily  in- 
volved many  difficulties.  The  national  govern- 
ment withdrew  its  protection  and  the  state  had 
to  adopt  plans  for  meeting  its  bills  and  maintain- 
ing its  credit.  The  state  warrants  started  off  at 
seventy-five  per  cent  and  increased'during  his  term 
until  they  commanded  a  premium  of  one  per  cent. 
As  president  of  the  state  land  board,  the  governor 
did  much  to  secure  for  the  state  some  of  the  best 
lands  under  grant  of  congress,  and  also  organized 
the  work  of  the  board. 

On  his  retirement  from  the  position  of  chief 
executive.  Governor  Routt  engaged  in  the  cattle 
business  and  in  mining  at  L,eadville,  meantime 
making  his  home  in  Denver.  The  succeeding 
years  passed  by,  unmarked  by  special  events, 
until  his  nomination,  in  1890,  for  the  office  he 
had  so  efficiently  filled  in  former  years.  He  took 
the  chair  in  January,  1891,  and  served  until  1893. 
At  the  time  of  his  inauguration  the  lower  house 
was  in  a  state  of  confusion,  owing  to  the  two 
speakers  being  elected  by  the  two  factions  be- 
tween whom  there  seemed  little  hope  of  producing 
amity.  About  the  same  time  a  United  States 
senator  was  to  be  elected,  a  subject  that  always 
brought  contention.  In  spite  of  these  adverse 
circumstances,  the  governor  succeeded  in  bring- 
ing order  out  of  chaos  and   his   administration 


proved  as  successful  as  those  during  the  early 
days  of  Colorado's  history. 

When  ■  the  bill  providing  for  the  erection  of  a 
new  capitol  was  passed,  Governor  Routt  was 
made  a  member  of  the  board  of  managers  and 
served  until  the  spring  of  1897,  when  he  resigned. 
The  building,  in  the  erection  of  which  he  was  so 
deeply  interested,  is  an  architectural  triumph  and 
may  well  be  a  source  of  pride  and  satisfaction  to 
the  five  trustees  forming  the  board  of  managers. 
It  is  constructed  of  granite,  quarried  in  Gunnison 
County,  this  state.  The  framework  is  of  steel, 
which  makes  the  structure  most  substantial. 
The  location  is  also  unexceptionable,  Capitol 
Hill  commanding  a  fine  view  of  the  surrounding 
country. 

In  1894  Governor  Routt  was  elected  mayor  of 
Denver  and  served  for  one  term.  He  was  a 
delegate  to  the  Republican  national  convention 
at  Cincinnati,  when  Rutherford  B.  Hayes  was 
nominated  for  president;  also  the  convention  of 
1880  in  Chicago,  when  he  was  one  of  three 
hundred  and  six  men  comprising  the  Grant  dele- 
gation; the  convention  of  1884,  when  Blaine  was 
nominated;  and  that  of  i888,  when  General  Har- 
rison was  made  the  Republican  nominee.  In 
1884  he  was  chairman  of  the  state  central  com- 
mittee and  at  one  time  served  as  a  member  of  the 
national  committee.  He  came  within  four  votes  of 
being  chosen  United  States  senator  from  Colorado. 
Fraternally  he  is  connected  with  the  Loyal  Legion 
and  the  Knight  Templar  Masons,  and  he  is  a 
member  of  Lincoln  Post,  G.  A.  R.  He  owns  a 
commodious  and  beautiful  home  in  Denver  and 
a  fine  ranch  of  two  thousand  acres  near  Fort  Col- 
lins, Colo. 

While  in  Bloomington  Mr.  Routt  was  married 
to  Miss  Esther  A.  Woodson,  who  was  born  in 
Springfield  and  died  in  Washington.  The  chil- 
dren born  of  this  union  are:  Minnie,  Mrs.  Charles 
Hartzell,  who  died  in  Denver;  Mrs.  Birdie  M. 
Bryan,  of  Denver;  Frank,  who  is  engaged  in 
mining  at  Cripple  Creek;  John  H.,  of  Denver; 
and  Mrs.  Emma  Butler,  also  of  this  city.  The 
second  marriage  of  Governor  Routt  united  him 
with  Miss  EHza  Pickrell,  of  Springfield,  111.,  and 
they  are  the  parents  of  a  daughter,  Lila  Elkin 
Routt. 

In  the  public  career  of  Governor  Routt, 
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is  his  devotion  to  the  interests  of  the  state.  Even 
those  who  were  his  political  opponents  never 
denied  his  patriotic  interest  in  the  common- 
wealth. Every  trust  reposed  in  him  was  faith- 
fully discharged,  and  it  was  always  his  endeavor 
to  conserve  the  welfare  of  the  state.  He  has 
striven  to  preserve  the  public  lauds  transmitted 
to  the  state  by  congress  in  the  enabling  act,  so 
that  schools  and  public  improvements  may  be 
benefited  thereby.  Himself  a  miner  and  stock- 
raiser,  he  is  in  thorough  sympathy  with  the  men 
who  follow  these  occupations. 

Personally  he  is  a  man  of  sound  common  sense 
and  force  of  will,  in  physique  strongly  built  and 
showing  powers  of  endurance.  He  is  a  man  of 
sympathetic  heart,  benevolent  nature,  large  in- 
tellect, executive  force,  and  with  the  tact  so 
essential  to  the  success  of  a  public  man. 


HON.  JAMES  BENTON  GRANT.  The  his- 
tory of  any  city  or  state  is  best  told  in  the 
lives  of  its  people.  Especially  is  this  the 
case  when  its  citizens  are  men  of  enterprise, 
breadth  of  intellect  and  sagacity  of  judgment, 
men  whose  influence  is  felt  not  only  by  those  of 
the  same  generation,  but  reaches  into  the  far  dis- 
tant future,  affecting  generations  yet  to  come. 
Some  men  advance  the  welfare  of  their  com- 
munities by  their  business  acumen,  some  assist  in 
shaping  the  destiny  of  the  state  and  nation;  and 
others,  in  still  different  lines,  promote  the  high- 
est prosperity  of  the  people. 

The  influence  of  ex-Governor  Grant  has  been 
felt  both  in  commerce  and  in  public  affairs.  As 
the  chief  executive  of  this  state,  he  labored  to 
enhance  every  interest,  to  increase  the  importance 
of  everj'  industry.  As  a  business  man  he  has 
worked  not  alone  to  secure  personal  success,  but 
to  aid  in  public-spirited  and  progressive  enter- 
prises whereby  other  business  men  may  also  be 
benefited.  Especially  in  De'nver  is  his  influence 
felt.  In  1882,  five  years  after  he  came  to  Colo- 
rado, he  settled  in  Denver,  the  company  of  which 
he  is  vice-president,  the  Omaha  and  Grant  Smelt- 
ing and  Refining  Company,  having  removed  its 
headquarters  here.  In  addition  to  his  connection 
with  this  company,  he  is  interested  in  a  number 
of  mining  companies  and  is  vice-president  of  the 


Denver  National  Bank,   in   the  organization  of 
which  he  took  an  active  part. 

The  Grant  family  is  of  Scotch  origin.  The 
great-grandfather  of  Governor  Grant,  James 
Grant,  emigrated  from  Scotland  to  North  Caro- 
lina, where  he  was  a  planter.  Prior  to  coming 
to  this'  country  he  and  two  brothers.  Captain 
Patrick  and  William  Grant,  had  taken  part  in 
the  battle  of  Colodin.  Descendants  of  James  and 
William  are  in  America  to-day,  so  that  the  family 
name  is  being  perpetuated  here.  Hon.  James 
Grant,  a  son  of  the  original  settler,  was  a  planter 
in  North  Carolina  and  one  of  the  most  influential 
public  men  of  that  state,  at  the  time  of  his  death 
holding  the  office  of  comptroller  of  the  state. 

Thomas  McDonough  Grant,  M.  D.,  son  of 
Hon.  James-Grant,  was  born  in  North  Carolina, 
and  graduated  in  medicine  from  the  Jefferson 
Medical  College  of  Philadelphia  and  the  Medical 
College  of  Charleston,  S.  C,  after  which  he 
began  to  practice  in  Alabama  on  the  Chattahoot- 
chie  River  and  also  operated  a  plantation  there. 
He  died  on  his  homestead  at  the  age  of  sixty-six 
years.  His  wife  was  Mary  Jane  Benton,  daugh- 
ter of  James  Benton,  who  was  a  planter  in  North 
Carolina  and  died  in  early  manhood.  After  her 
father's  death  she  was  taken  into  the  home  of 
an  uncle.  Col.  Jack  Crowell,  a  prominent  man 
and  the  first  member  of  congress  from  Alabama, 
also  for  a  time  Indian  agent  for  the  Seminbles. 
The  Crowell  family  removed  to  Alabama  from 
North  Carolina,  whither  they  had  come  from 
England.  The  family  name  was  originally  Crom- 
well, but  there  was  so  much  prejudice  among  the 
people  against  this  name  that  they  dropped  the 
"m"  after  coming  to  America  and  afterward 
were  known  by  the  present  name.  The  Benton 
family  was  also  of  English  extraction,  closely  re- 
lated to  both  the  Grants  and  Crowells.  Dr. 
Grant  had  four  sisters  and  three  brothers.  One 
of  the  brothers  is  Judge  James  Grant,  of  Daven- 
port, Iowa.  Another,  William  A. ,  died  in  Mont- 
gomery, Ala. ;  and  the  third,  Lieut.  Gough  Grant, 
was  an  officer  in  the  United  States  navy  for  eight- 
een years,  but  is  now  retired. 

After  the  death  of  Dr.  Grant  his  wife  removed 
to  Davenport,  where  she  died  at  the  age  of  sixty- 
two  years.  She  was  the  mother  of  seven  chil- 
dren, of  whom  six  are  living,  namely:  Mrs.  Eliz- 
abeth Ragland,  of  Denver;  Sarah,  wife  of  Charles 
Whitaker,    of  Davenport,    Iowa;    Dr.    W.  W. ; 


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James  Benton;  D.  C,  of  Scott  County,  Iowa; 
and  Whitaker  M.,  an  attorney  in  Oklahoma. 
James  Benton  Grant  was  born  on  a  plantation 
near  Columbus,  in  Russell  County,  Ala.,  Jan- 
uary 2,  1848.  His  boyhood  was  spent  on  a 
plantation  in  that  county.  His  father  taught 
him  to  make  everj'  kind  of  farm  implement  and 
its  practical  use  in  the  cultivation  of  corn,  cotton 
and  farm  produce.  He  also  learned  woodcraft 
and  the  use  of  the  axe  in  felling  trees  and  splitting 
rails.  Thus  he  laid  the  foundation  for  a  strong 
mental  and  physical  development.  Though  he 
alternated  .school  work  with  farming,  yet  before 
the  age  of  fifteen  he  had  read  Virgil  and  had 
commenced  to  read  Sallust.  As  he  was  growing 
toward  manhood  the  dark  clouds  of  war  fell  upon 
the  nation  and  when  he  was  but  seventeen,  Jan- 
uary 2,  1865,  he  enlisted  in  the  Confederate 
army  as  a  member  of  Waddell's  battalion,  in 
which  he  remained  until  the  close  of  the  war 
brought  the  di,sbandment  of  the  troops,  and  he 
returned  home  in  April,  1865. 

In  December,  1870,  Mr.  Grant  went  to  Iowa, 
where  he  had  an  uncle  in  Davenport.  Soon  aft- 
erward he  entered  the  Iowa  Agricultural  Col- 
lege, where  he  remained  for  two  years.  He 
then  spent  a  year  in  Cornell,  where  he  took  a 
course  in  civil  engineering.  In  1874  he  went  to 
Freiburg,  Saxony,  Germany,  where  he  studied 
mining  and  metallurgy  for  two  years,  then  re- 
turning to  the  United  States  via  Australia,  New 
Zealand  and  the  Sandwich  Islands.  Reaching 
this  country  in  1877  he  at  once  located  in  Colo- 
rado and  engaged  in  mining  and  assaying,  but 
soon,  in  partnership  with  his  uncle,  started  the 
Grant  smelter  atLeadville.  In  1882  the  concern 
was  removed  to  Denver,  where  he  has  since 
made  his  home. 

During  1882  Mr.  Grant  was  nominated  for 
governor  on  the  Democratic  ticket  and  enjoyed  the 
distinction  of  being  the  first  Democratic  governor 
the  state  ever  had.  He  entered  upon  the  duties 
of  office  in  January,  1883,  and  served  until  Jan- 
uary, 1885.  Besides  holding  this  important  of- 
fice he  has  been  prominent  in  his  party  in  other 
ways.  In  1884  he  was  a  delegate  to  the  national 
convention  at  Chicago,  where  Grover  Cleveland 
was  first  nominated  for  president,  and  at  that 
convention  was  chairman  of  the  Colorado  delega- 
tion and  chairman  of  the  committee  on  permanent 


organization.  Another  important  position  he  has 
held  is  that  of  chairman  of  the  state  board  of 
arbitration. 

No  biography  of  Governor  Grant  would  be 
complete  that  failed  to  mention  his  interest  in 
educational  work.  He  is  a  champion  of  the  pub- 
lic school  system  and  one  of  its  most  earnest  sup- 
porters. Of  his  time  and  influence  he  gives 
freely  for  the  cause  of  free  instruction  to  the 
youth  of  our  land.  In  1891  he  was  elected  a 
member  of  the  board  of  education  in  Denver,  and 
he  has  served  as  its  president  for  six  years  (since 
1892),  filling  that  responsible  position  with  the 
same  accuracy  and  efficiency  he  has  endeavored 
to  fill  every  position  to  which  he  has  been  called. 
In  the  moral  training  work,  too,  he  is  deeply  in- 
terested, giving  it  the  weight  of  his  influence. 

With  a  just  pride  in  the  record  of  his  ancestors, 
he  holds  membership  in  the  Sons  of  the  Revolu- 
tion, and  was  honored  by  the  state  association  by 
being  elected  its  president.  His  marriage  oc- 
curred in  Leadville  and  united  him  with  Miss 
Mary  Matteson  Goodell,  the  granddaughter  of 
Joel  A.  Matteson,  at  one  time  governor  of  Illi- 
nois. Two  sons,  Lester  E.  and  James  B. ,  Jr. , 
have  been  born  of  this  union.  Mrs.  Grant  is  a 
daughter  of  R.  E.  Goodell,  who  formerly  en- 
gaged in  farming  in  Illinois,  but  removed  from 
there  to  Leadville,  and  now  resides  in  Denver. 

A  public  office  is  a  public  trust.  Realizing 
this  fact.  Governor  Grant,  while  occupying  the 
gubernatorial  chair,  endeavored  to  discharge  his 
duties  honestly,  faithfully  and  efficiently.  His- 
tory attests  that  during  his  administration  the 
industries  for  which  the  state  is  famous  flourished 
and  prospered.  Settlers  were  attracted  to  the 
state  in  large  numbers,  new  lines  of  business  were 
opened  and  new  industries  inaugurated.  Ranches 
were  opened  up  for  stock-raising,  towns  were 
founded,  while  mining  continued,  as  before,  to 
draw  thousands  of  men  to  the  mountains.  The 
whole  career  of  Governor  Grant  has  been  one  of 
progress  and  will  furnish  numerous  lessons  to 
other  generations.  He  rose  above  and  conquered 
many  obstacles  in  his  life  and  his  successes  have 
been  more  the  result  of  his  indomitable  will  and 
courage  than  a  chain  of  lucky  circumstances.  In 
his  social  life  he  was  ably  seconded  by  his  wife, 
who  by  her  rare  tact  and  intelligence  made  many 
of  the  social  functions  of  Denver  a  success. 


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HON.  ALBERT  W.  McINTlRE,  governor 
of  Colorado  1895-97,  is  a  member  of  a  family 
that  has  borne  au  active  part  in  American 
history  for  many  generations.  The  first  of  the 
name  in  this  country  was  a  Jacobite  who  came 
from  Ayrshire  in  the  Highlands  of  Scotland  and 
settled  in  Delaware.  He  had  a  son,  John,  who 
was  born  in  Delaware  and  was  engaged  in  the 
transportation  business  between  Marj'land  and 
Delaware  until  he  was  financially  ruined  by  the 
British  during  the  war  of  18 12. 

Next  in  line  of  descent  was  Thomas  Mclntire, 
who  was  born  near  Dover,  Del. ,  but  in  early  man- 
hood removed  to  Bellefonte,  Center  County,  Pa. , 
and  engaged  in  farming.  Prosperity  attended  his 
efforts  and  through  industry  and  good  business 
judgment  he  became  one  of  the  wealthy  men  of 
his  locality.  Unfortunately,  in  1837  he  endorsed 
the  bonds  of  state  officers  and  was  obliged  to  pay 
the  security,  which  caused  his  failure.  He  then 
removed  to  Cincinnati,  where  soon  afterward  he 
died  of  yellow  fever.  During  the  war  of  1812  he 
served  as  a  commissioned  officer  of  the  American 
army.  He  married  a  Miss  Phillips,  a  native 
of  Connecticut  and  member  of  the  Society  of 
Friends. 

One  of  the  children  of  Thomas  was  J.  P.  Mc- 
lntire, who  was  born  in  Bellefonte,  Center  County, 
Pa. ,  and  accompanied  his  father  to  Cincinnati. 
He  was  about  seventeen  when  the  latter  died,  and 
upon  him  then  devolved  the  responsibility  of  car- 
ing for  his  mother,  five  sisters  and  a  brother. 
His  first  venture  was  a  very  successful  one. 
From  Pittsburg  he  went  up  the  Monongahela  to 
secure  lumber  for  the  manufacture  of  barrels. 
The  weather  was  unpleasant  and  rains  were  fre- 
quent. He  was  obliged  to  wade  and  swim  through 
creeks,  carrying  his  pack  on  his  back.  Finally, 
however,  he  secured  the  lumber,  cut  it  out  and 
loaded  a  couple  of  boats  he  had  hired  for  the  pur- 
pose. When  he  reached  the  lock  the  dam  was 
broken,  but  with  the  assistance  of  an  Indian  he 
succeeded  in  shooting  the  boats  through  the  break, 
though  he  was  almost  drowned  in  the  attempt. 
When  he  arrived  in  Pittsburg  he  found  that  the 
price  of  staves  and  hoop-poles  had  risen  enor- 
mously and  he  sold  off  half  his  cargo  for  enough 
to  pay  for  the  whole  and  start  him  in  business. 
He  then  engaged  in  the  cooper's  trade  for  a  few 
years  in  Pittsburg,  after  which  he  became  inter- 
ested in  the  coal  mining  and  shipping  business 


near  the  city.  During  the  war  one  of  his  boats 
was  chartered  by  the  government  and  he  ran  the 
rebel  works  at  Vicksburg  in  order  to  take  coal  to 
the  Union  fleet  below.  In  1867  he  retired  from 
business,  and  in  1894  he  died  in  Pittsburg.  In 
religion  he  was  identified  with  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church. 

Governor  Mclntire's  mother  was  Isabella  A. 
Wills,  a  native  of  Pittsburg,  Pa.,  and  daughter  of 
James  and  Mary  (Thompson)  Wills,  natives  of 
Belfast,  Ireland.  Her  father,  who  came  to  Amer- 
ica in  1790  and  settled  in  Washington  County, 
Pa. ,  was  a  prominent  attorney  of  Pittsburg  and 
about  1820  was  elected  state's  attorney.  During 
his  term  of  office,  while  on  his  way  home  from 
Harrisburg,  he  died  from  the  effects  of  a  sun- 
stroke. In  religious  belief  he  was  a  Presbyterian. 
His  wife  was  a  babe  when  her- father  came  to  this 
country  in  1 790  and  located  in  Washington  Couu' 
ty.  Mrs.  Isabella  Mclntire  is  now  in  her  eigh- 
tieth year  and  makes  her  home  in  St.  Louis  with 
a  daughter. 

The  older  of  the  two  children  of  his  father's 
second  marriage,  Governor  Mclntire  was  born  in 
Pittsburg,  January  15,  1853.  He  was  educated 
in  private  schools,  the  Newall  Institute  and  Yale 
College,  graduating  from  the  latter  in  1873,  with 
the  degree  of  A.  B.  He  then  entered  Yale  Law 
School,  from  which  he  graduated  in  1875,  receiv- 
ing the  degree  of  LL.  B.,  and  admission  to  the 
bar  of  Connecticut.  He  then  returned  to  Pitts- 
burg, and  passing  the  examination  there  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  bar.  In  1876  he  went  to  Colorado, 
living  alternately  in  Denver  and  the  mountain 
regions  until  1880,  then  turned  his  attention  to 
the  cattle  business,  in  the  San  Luis  Valley,  being 
the  owner  of  four  thousand  acres  there  that  he  still 
devotes  to  stock-raising  and  farming.  In  1883 
he  was  nominated  for  county  judge  by  both  the 
Republicans  and  Democrats  and  was  of  course 
elected,  holding  the  position  for  three  years,  when 
he  refused  renoraination.  In  the  fall  of  1886  he 
was  candidate  for  representative  from  Conejos 
County,  but  was  defeated  by  William  H.  Adams, 
a  brother  of  Governor  Adams.  In  the  year  1889 
he  adjudicated  the  water  rights  for  the  Rio  Grande 
River  in  Colorado.  Two  years  later  he  was 
appointed  judge  of  the  twelfth  judicial  district 
by  Governor  Routt. 

Having  for  years  been  prominent  in  the  Repub- 
lican party,  in  1894  ^^  was  made  its  candidate  for 


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governor,  his  opponent  being  his  predecessor  in 
office,  Hon.  David  H.  Waite.  He  was  elected  by 
nineteen  thousand  seven  hundred  and  eight  ma- 
jority over  the  Populist  candidate,  and  began  the 
duties  of  office  January  8,  1895.  During  his  ad- 
ministration he  introduced  a  modification  of  the 
attachment  law,  providing  that  attachments  could 
no  longer  be  served  upon  overdue  promissory 
notes  and  overdue  book  accounts,  which  was  of 
the  greatest  assistance  to  debtors.  The  same 
thing  had  been  attempted,  unsuccessfully,  by 
every  legislature  since  188 1.  He  strongly  urged 
upon  the  legislature  the  industrial  employment  of 
convict  labor.  During  his  term  occurred  the  Wal- 
senburg  lynching,  which  he  settled  in  a  manner 
satisfactory  both  to  the  Italian  government  and 
the  secretary  of  state  of  the  United  States.  He 
also  handled  the  Leadville  strike  troubles,  which 
occurred  during  his  term.  Since  his  retirement 
he  has  given  his  attention  to  his  mining  interests 
and  private  business  affairs. 

In  New  Haven,  Conn.,  in  1873,  occurred  the 
marriage  of  Mr.  Mclntire  to  Miss  Florence  John- 
son, who  was  born  in  New  York  City,  the  daugh- 
ter of  William  L,.  Johnson,  a  manufacturer  there. 
Three  children  were  born  of  their  marriage: 
Joseph  Phillips,  who  is  manager  of  the  ranch  in  the 
San  Lruis  Valley;  Elizabeth  Lord,  deceased;  and 
Dorothy.  Fraternally  Governor  Mclntire  is  a 
Knight  Templar  and  member  of  the  Shrine.  He 
is  connected  with  the  Alpha  Delta  Phi,  the  Colo- 
rado Yale  Association  and  the  Denver  Athletic 
Club.  In  politics  he  is  a  silver  Republican.  He 
is  a  man  of  broad  information,  especially  in  the 
direction  of  scientific  subjects.  He  is  also  a  lin- 
guist, speaking  German,  Spanish  and  French  and 
reading  Latin  and  Greek.  His  state  papers  show 
careful  thought  and  preparation;  and  his  message 
was  declared,  even  by  opposition  papers,  to  be 
the  peer  of  any  of  its  kind  ever  issued  in  the  state. 


RALPH  TALBOT,  senior  member  of  the  law 
firm  of  Talbot,  Denison  &  Wadley,  of 
Denver,  and  president  of  the  fire  and  police 
board,  was  born  in  Fayette,  Howard  County, 
Mo.,  August  17,  1850,  and  is  the  son  of  Dr. 
John  A.  and  Alice  (Daly)  Talbot,  natives  of 
Maryland  and  Lexington,  Ky.,  respectively. 
His  paternal  grandfather,  John  Talbot,  resided 
on  the   Eastern   Shore  of  Maryland   in  Talbot 


County,  which  was  named  in  honor  of  his  an- 
cestors. The  maternal  grandfather,  Laurence 
Daly,  was  born  in  Ireland  and  at  an  early  age 
settled  in  Kentucky,  where  he  married.  Some 
years  later  he  moved  to  Missouri  and  engaged  in 
teaching  school,  having  among  his  pupils  such 
men  as  Gen.  John  B.  Clark,  Colonel  Switzler, 
and  others  who  became  distinguished  in  national 
history.  Dr.  Talbot  graduated  from  the  Jeffer- 
son Medical  College  of  Philadelphia  and  after- 
ward practiced  his  profession  in  Fayette,  Mo., 
where  he  died  in  1858,  at  the  age  of  fifty-four. 
His  wife  died  at  the  family  residence  in  Missouri 
in  1 87 1.  Of  their  family  of  six  sons  and  three 
daughters,  all  survive  with  the  exception  of  one 
daughter. 

The  fourth  son  in  order  of  birth,  the  subject  of 
this  sketch  was  prepared  for  college  in  Kemper's 
Institute  in  Missouri.  In  1868  he  entered 
Dartmouth  College  in  New  Hampshire,  from 
which  he  graduated  in  1872  with  the  degree  of 
A.  B.  For  two  years  after  completing  his  ed- 
ucation he  taught  Latin  and  modern  history  in 
St.  Paul's  school  at  Concord,  N.  H.,  which  is 
the  largest  Episcopal  school  in  America.  He 
resigned  to  study  abroad  and  went  to  Germany 
in  1874,  entering  Leipsic  University,  where  he 
spent  three  years  in  the  study  of  jurisprudence. 
He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  Missouri  in  1878 
and  opened  an  office  in  St.  Louis,  where  he  re- 
mained two  years  or  more.  In  1881  he  came  to 
Denver,  where  he  has  since  engaged  in  profes- 
sional practice.  Though  always  a  stanch  Dem- 
ocrat, he  never  sought  office,  and  the  first  position 
that  he  held  was  in  1897,  when  the  governor 
appointed  him  president  of  the  fire  and  police 
board  of  Denver,  and  as  such  also  became  ex- 
officio  fire  commissioner. 

In  Mexico,  Mo.,  Mr.  Talbot  married  Miss 
Fannie  (Jewell)  Hardin,  a  descendant  of  the  well- 
known  family  of  Kentucky,  who  are  prominently 
identified  with  the  history  of  that  state.  She  was 
born  in  Missouri,  the  daughter  of  Dr.  Thomas  J. 
Hardin,  and  when  she  was  about  seven  years  of 
age,  on  account  of  her  father's  death,  she  was 
taken  into  the  home  of  her  uncle,  ex-Governor 
Charles  H.  Hardin,  of  Missouri.  For  some 
years  she  was  a  student  in  the  William  Jewell 
Baptist  College,  Mr.  Jewell  having  been  a  relative 
of  the  Hardin  family.  The  five  children  of  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Talbot  are:  Alice,  Ralph,  Jr.,  Charles 


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Hardin,  Robert  and  Laurence  Daly.  Fraternally 
Mr.  Talbot  is  connected  with  Union  Lodge 
No!  7,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  of  Denver,  and  in  1894 
was  grand  chancellor  of  the  Knights  of  Pythias 
of  the  state.  While  in  Dartmouth  he  was  a 
member  of  the  Psi  Upsilon  fraternity.  He  is 
connected  with  the  bar  associations  of  Denver 
and  Colorado,  and  for  eight  years  was  one  of  the 
board  of  examiners  for  admission  to  the  bar  in 
the  city  of  Denver. 


3  SIDNEY  BROWN,  president  of  the  J.  S. 
Brown  &  Bro.  Mercantile  Company,  of  Den- 
ver. The  family  of  which  this  gentleman  is 
a  prominent  member  was  founded  in  America  by 
Henry  Brown,  who  emigrated  from  England  to 
Salisbury,  Mass.,  about  1639.  Representing  the 
fifth  generation  in  descent  from  him  was  Mo.ses 
Brown,  born  in  East  Kingston,  N.  H.,  in  1750, 
a  soldier  in  the  Revolution.  He  married  Mary 
Hobbs,  of  Poplin,  N.  H.,  and  afterward  removed 
to  Strafford,  in  Orange  County,  Vt.  Their  son, 
Reuben,  was  born  in  Strafford  in  1797,  and  when 
a  young  man  located  in  Conneaut,  Ashtabula 
County,  Ohio,  where  he  engaged  in  farming.  He 
died  in  1863.  His  wife,  who  was  a  daughter  of 
John  and  Laura  (Bushnell)  Hill,  was  born  in 
Starksboro,  Vt. ,  and  died  in  Denver  in  1889, 
aged  eighty-seven.  She  was  a  sister  of  Gen. 
Charles  W.  Hill,  of  Ohio,  who  during  Governor 
Todd's  administration  was  adjutant-general  of 
Ohio,  and  assisted  greatly  in  putting  Ohio's 
quota  of  soldiers  in  the  field  during  the  war  of  the 
Rebellion,  and  cousin  of  Rev.  Horace  Bushnell,  of 
Hartford,  Conn.,  and  Judge  James  Campbell, 
judge  of  the  supreme  court  of  Michigan. 

On  the  mother's  .side  Mr.  Brown  is  a  lineal  de- 
scendant of  Gen.  Robert  Sedgwick,  colonist  and 
soldier,  who  was  born  in  England  in  1600.  The 
Sedgwicks  came  from  among  the  mountains 
which  form  the  borders  of  Lancashire,  Yorkshire 
and  Westmoreland,  England,  and  suffered  in  the 
border  wars  of  York  and  Lancaster.  Gen.  Rob- 
ert Sedgwick,  the  ancestor  of  the  Sedgwicks  of 
New  England,  became  an  inhabitant  of  Charles- 
town,  Mass.,  June  3,  1636,  and  in  1637  a  freeman 
of  that  town.  His  residence  was  in  the  market 
place,  now  the  square  near  the  site  of  the  Bunker 
Hill  Bank.  He  was  captain  of  the  first  "Trained 
Band' '  in  Charlestown.    He  was  chosen  represent- 


ative in  1637  and  for  several  successive  years 
served  in  that  capacity,  and  as  selectman  of 
Charlestown.  From  1641  to  1648  he  commanded 
the  "Castle."  In  1644  he  was  the  first  major  of 
the  Middlesex  regiment.  In  1645  he  was  com- 
missioned to  take  care  of  the  fortifications  of  the 
town  and  the  harbor.  He  was  elected  major- 
general  May  26,  1652.  In  1654  he  visited  Eng- 
land and  engaged  in  the  service  of  Cromwell  as 
commander  of  a  contemplated  expedition  against 
the  Dutch  of  New  York,  but  peace  was  made 
with  them  and  he  led  the  expedition  against  the 
French  forts  in  Nova  Scotia.  He  captured  St. 
Johns,  Port  Royal  and  another  fort.  This  vigor- 
ous action  was  so  acceptable  to  Cromwell  that  the 
next  year  he  was  appointed  to  service  in  the 
West  Indies.  Jamaica  had  been  captured  and 
General  Sedgwick  was  sent  with  a  fleet  to  re-in- 
force  General  Venable.  He  arrived  at  the  Bar- 
badoes  August  27,  1655,  and  learned  that  Gener- 
al Venable  had  been  repulsed.  A  council  was 
formed  to  govern  the  island  and  manage  the  af- 
fairs. He  was  made  commissioner  for  the  gov- 
ernment and  afterwards  major-general  and  gov- 
ernor. Carlyle  said  he  was  very  brave,  zealous 
and  pious.  He  was  one  of  the  most  distinguished 
men  of  his  time.  He  was  an  enterprising  mer- 
chant. He  built  wharves  on  the  shore  east  of  the 
old  ferry-built  ways  and  the  old  tide  walls.  In 
1643  he  joined  the  younger  Winthrop  in  starting 
the  first  iron  works  in  America. 

Charlestown  has  cause  to  remember  the  public 
spirit  of  General  Sedgwick.  He  took  a  warm 
interest  in  its  welfare  and  was  constantly  in  its 
service.  His  regard  for  education  is  seen  in  his 
gifts  to  the  college.  He  was  a  representative  of 
the  liberal  Puritans  of  New  England;  religion 
was  in  all  his  thoughts  and  yet  he  openly  opposed 
the  prevailing  intolerance.  "He  was  nursed  in 
the  London  Artillery  Garden  and  was  stout  and 
active  in  all  feats  of  war. "  While  in  London  he 
joined  the  Ancient  and  Honorable  Artillery  Com- 
pany and  after  coming  to  America  was  active  in 
organizing  the  Ancient  and  Honorable  Artillery 
Company  of  Boston,  Mass.,  becoming  its  captain 
in  1640.     He  died  in  Jamaica  May  24,  1656. 

John  Sidney  Brown  was  next  to  the  youngest 
of  five  children,  the  others  being:  Junius  F. ,  a 
member  of  the  J.  S.  Brown  &  Bro.  Mercantile 
Company;  Mrs.  Adelia  Dayfoot,  who  died  in 
Canada;  Mrs.  Hannah  Gillett;  and  Charles  H., 


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who  died  in  Denver.  J.  Sidney  Brown  was  born 
in  Ashtabula  County,  Ohio,  June  lo,  1833,  the 
son  of  Reuben  and  Betsey  Horton  (Hill)  Brown. 
He  was  educated  in  public  schools.  In  1858  he 
joined  his  brother  in  Atchison,  Kan.,  and  they 
engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  lumber.  In  1861 
he  began  freighting  between  Atchison  and  Den- 
ver, and  made  two  trips  that  year  with  an  ox- 
train,  and  early  in  1862  he  came  with  a  mule 
train  and  founded  the  present  business.  The 
freighting  business  he  continued  until  1870,  when 
it  was  discontinued.  In  1864  one  of  his  mule- 
train  was  attacked  by  Indians  and  destroyed. 

The  first  location  of  the  firm  in  Denver  was  on 
Blake  street  near  Fifteenth,  where  they  remained 
until  1876,  and  then  removed  to  their  present  lo- 
cation on  Wazee  street.  In  1893  the  firm  was 
incorporated  under  the  name  of  the  J.  S.  Brown 
&  Bro.  Mercantile  Company,  of  which  J.  S. 
Brown  is  president,  J.  F.  Brown  vice-president, 
H.  K.  Brown  secretary,  F.  S.  Brown  treasurer 
and  F.  A.  Hall  general  manager.  The  firm 
erected  the  first  roller  flouring  mill  and  grain  ele- 
vator in  Colorado,  on  the  present  site  of  the  Cres- 
cent mill.  They  were  interested  in  the  organiza- 
tion of  the  Bank  of  San  Juan,  at  Del  Norte,  also 
in  the  founding  of  the  banks  at  Alamosa  and  Du- 
rango,  and  took  an  active  part  in  the  organization 
of  the  Denver  Tramway  Company.  In  1882  they 
embarked  in  the  stock  business  in  the  Platte  Val- 
ley, where  they  are  still  extensivel}'  interested. 
The  Brown-Iliff  Cattle  Company  have  a  large 
ranch  near  Snyder,  Colo. ,  between  South  Platte 
River  and  the  Wyoming  state  line,  the  range  be- 
ing owned  principally  by  the  land  company  of 
which  J.  F.  Brown  is  president. 

In  the  building  of  railroads  Mr.  Brown  is  in- 
terested. He  was  a  director  in  the  South  Park 
line,  assisted  in  the  building  of  the  Denver  Pacific 
Railroad,  between  Denver  and  Cheyenne,  was  a 
promoter,  director  and  vice  president  of  the  Den- 
ver &  New  Orleans  Railroad,  and  assisted  in  other 
enterprises  of  an  important  nature.  Only  one 
man  in  Denver  has  been  engaged  in  the  same 
line  of  business  continuously  for  a  longer  period 
than  Mr.  Brown. 

Mr.  Brown  was  married  to  Miss  Irene  Sopris,  in 
Denver,  in  1868.  She  was  born  in  Indiana,  a 
daughter  of  Richard  and  Elizabeth  (Allen) 
Sopris,  and  died  in  January, 1881,  leaving  five  chil- 
dren, viz.:    Frederick  S.,  treasurer  of  the  J.  S. 


Brown  &  Bro.  Mercantile  Company;  Elizabeth, 
Mrs.  A.  B.  Inglis,  of  Paterson,  N.  J.;  Edward  N., 
who  is  with  J.  S.  Brown  &  Bro. ;  Katherine  and 
William  K.,  the  latter  a  member  of  the  class  of 
1900,  She£5eld  Scientific  School,  of  Yale  Univer- 
sity. 

The  present  wife  of  Mr.  Brown  was  Miss  Adele 
Overton,  who  was  born  in  Wisconsin.  She  grad- 
uated from  the  University  of  Wisconsin  in  187 1, 
with  the  degree  of  B.  S.,  and  the  .same  year  came 
to  Colorado,  where  she  was  assistant  principal  in 
the  Denver  high  school.  She  is  a  member  of  the 
Daughters  of  the  Revolution  and  treasurer  of  the 
Colorado  State  Society.  She  is  the  mother  of 
five  children  now  living:  John  Sidney,  Jr.,  Ben 
Overton,  Carroll  Teller,  Alice  and  Irene.  The 
father  of  Mrs.  Brown,  John  Overton,  was  born 
near  London,  England,  May  11,  1822,  and  died 
at  Parker,  S.  Dak.,  May  14,  1888.  His  parents, 
Robert  and  Maria  (Roy)  Overton,  came  to  Amer- 
ica and  died  in  Wisconsin.  He  was  their  young- 
est child  and  only  son,  and  was  eighteen  years 
old  when  he  came  to  this  country.  His  wife, 
Lucina  Otto,  was  born  in  New  York  in  1824,  and 
died  in  Parker,  S.  Dak.,  in  1892.  She  was  a 
daughter  of  John  Otto  and  Maria  (Teller)  Otto, 
the  latter  a  descendant  of  Dr.  Isaac  Teller,  a 
Revolutionary  soldier.  Senator  Teller's  father, 
John  Teller,  late  of  Morrison,  111. ,  was  a  brother  of 
Maria  (Teller)  Otto;  while  Senator  Jerome  B.  Chaf- 
fee was  a  son  of  John  Otto's  sister.  The  originator 
of  the  Teller  family  in  America  was  William  Tel- 
ler, born  in  1620  in  Holland,  emigrated  to  Amer- 
ica in  1639,  settled  in  Fort  Orange  and  appointed 
by  the  king  of  Holland  a  trustee  for  a  tract  of 
land  there,  but  in  1664  he  returned  to  New  York 
City  and  married  Mary  Douchen.  From  them 
descended  Dr.  Isaac  Teller,  who  lived  on  the  cor- 
ner of  Chambers  and  Broadway,  New  York, 
and  died  while  serving  as  a  surgeon  in  the 
Revolution.  He  married  Rebecca  Remsen,  of 
Brooklyn.  Their  son,  Remsen  Teller,  who 
was  born  about  1769,  married  Catherine  Mac- 
Donald,  ofBallstonSpa,  N.  Y.,  daughter  of  David 
and  Sarah  (DuBois)  MacDonald,  and  grand- 
daughter of  Col.  Louis  DuBois,  of  Ulster,  N.  Y., 
who  was  a  colonel  in  the  Revolution.  Remsen 
and  Catherine  Teller  had  a  daughter,  Maria, 
who  married  John  Otto,  a  native  of  Schoharie 
County,  N.  Y.,  and  a  son  of  Franz  Otto,  who 
served  during  the  entire  period  of  the  Revolution. 


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The  originator  of  the  Otto  family  in  America 
was  Rudolph  Otto,  born  in  Baden-Baden,  Ger- 
many, in  1715,  and  settled  in  Schoharie  County, 
N.  Y.,  in  1 74 1.  He  had  two  sons,  John  and  Franz, 
or  Francis.  The  latter,  born  in  1757  and  died  at 
the  age  of  ninety-six,  married  Barbara  Schultz, 
later  moving  to  Mount  Morris, Livingston  County, 
N.  Y.  Among  their  nine  children  was  John, 
born  in  1796.  He  was  a  brother  of  Mrs.  Eliza- 
beth Chaffee,  who  was  the  mother  of  Jerome  B. 
Chaffee,  United  States  senator  and  one  of  the  most 
prominent  mining  men  of  the  state  of  Colorado. 

In  fraternal  relations  Mr.  Brown  is  a  Knight 
Templar  Mason.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Sons  of 
the  Revolution.  Politically  he  gives  his  affilia- 
tion to  the  silver  branch  of  the  Republican  party. 
As  a  director  he  has  been  actively  interested  in 
the  Colorado  Cattle  Growers'  Association,  and 
has  done  all  within  his  power  to  promote  the  in- 
dustry which  is  so  vitally  connected  with  the  wel- 
fare of  the  state.  He  attends  the  First  Congre- 
gational Church  and  contributes  liberally  to  its 
support,  as,  indeed,  he  does  to  all  enterprises  of  a 
religious  and  philanthropic  nature. 


QROF.  WARREN  EZRA  KNAPP,  superin- 
U'  tendent  of  public  instruction  of  Arapahoe 
J5  County,  is  a  member  of  a  family  that  traces 
its  lineage  back  to  Saxony  and  to  Scotland.  For 
many  generations  its  representatives  have  been 
identified  with  the  history  of  the  United  States. 
From  Connecticut  Oliver  Pickett  Knapp  removed 
to  Westmoreland,  Oneida  County,  N.  Y.,  where 
he  died  at  an  advanced  age.  His  son,  Ezra  Ab- 
bott Knapp,  was  born  near  Fairfield,  Conn. ,  and 
removed  to  Oneida  County,  N.  Y.,  where  he  en- 
gaged in  farming  until  his  death,  in  December, 
1841,  at  the  age  of  forty-three  years  and  eight 
months.  When  a  mere  lad  he  had  taken  part  in 
the  battle  of  Sacket  Harbor.  He  married  So- 
phronia  Waters,  who  was  born  in  Connecticut, 
and  accompanied  her  father,  Elijah  Waters,  to 
New  York  state,  where  he'  followed  the  carpen- 
ter's trade. 

In  the  family  of  Ezra  Abbott  Knapp  there  was 
a  son,  the  oldest  of  the  family,  Edwin  A.  Knapp, 
M.  D. ,  who  served  as  surgeon  of  the  One  Hun- 
dred and  Twenty-second  New  York  Infantry, 
during  the  Civil  war,  and  died  in  Syracuse,  N.  Y. 
Another  son,  Jairus  S.,  who  was  the  third  among 


the  six  children  of  the  family,  was  born  in  West- 
moreland, Oneida  County,  N.  Y.,  May  8,  1825, 
and  grew  to  manhood  on  the  home  farm.  He 
made  farming  his  life  work,  and  for  fifty-four 
years  tilled  the  soil  of  the  old  homestead.  Mean- 
time he  held  a  number  of  local  offices  and  took 
part  in  many  enterprises  for  the  benefit  of  the 
town  and  county.  In  1 89 1  he  retired  from  farm- 
ing and  has  since  resided  in  Denver. 

In  1849  Jairus  S.  Knapp  married  Harriet  A. 
Kellogg,  who  was  born  in  Westmoreland,  N.  Y., 
January  31,  1825,  being  a  descendant  of  one  of 
the  passengers  of  the  historic  "Mayflower. ' '  She 
was  a  daughter  of  Deacon  Warren  Kellogg,  who 
was  born  in  Hartford,  Conn.,  and  became  an 
earlj' settler  of  Oneida  County,  N.  Y.,  where  he 
engaged  in  farming  and  carpentering.  He  died 
in  1869,  at  the  age  of  ninety.  His  father  was 
Abraham  Kellogg. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  is  the  oldest  child  of 
Jairus  S.  and  Harriet  A.  Knapp,  the  other  mem- 
bers of  the  family  being  Leonard  Kellogg,  of 
Denver;  Harriet  Antoinette,  who  is  Mrs.  Newell 
DeRoy  Lee,  of  Westmoreland,  N.  Y. ;  Edwin 
Abbott,  who  has  been  in  Boulder,  Colo.,  since 
November,  1877,  and  is  now  the  city  marshal; 
Helen  Maria,  of  Denver,  and  Alice  Emeline,  who 
has  been  in  Honolulu  since  August,  1891,  and  is 
now  principal  of  the  Kamehameha  preparatory 
school  for  native  boys  in  that  city. 

Born  in  Westmoreland,  N.  Y. ,  January  22, 
1850,  Warren  Ezra  Knapp  was  a  student  in  the 
Whitestone  (N.  Y.)  Seminary,  where  he  pre- 
pared for  college.  About  the  same  time  he  began 
to  teach  school,  teaching  in  his  native  town  and 
at  Jamesville,  N.  Y.  In  September,  1871,  he  en- 
tered Cornell  University  (having  won  a  state 
scholarship),  where  he  remained  for  two  years, 
and  then  spent  one  year  as  principal  of  the  Savan- 
nah Union  school  in  Wayne  County,  N.  Y.,  after 
which  he  applied  his  earnings  as  teacher  to  the 
completion  of  his  college  course.  He  re-entered 
Cornell  as  a  member  of  the  class  of  1876,  having 
among  his  classmates  Jesse  Grant  and  R.  B. 
Hayes,  Jr.  After  leaving  Cornell  he  held  his 
former  position  as  principal  of  the  Savannah  school 
for  one  year. 

In  August,  1876,  at  Ithaca,  N.  Y.,  Professor 
Knapp  married  Miss  Sarah  E.  Cochrane,  who 
was  born  in  Ithaca,  the  daughter  of  Robert  and 
Eliza  J.  Cochrane,  whose  occupation  was  farming. 


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After  his  marriage,  for  three  years  Professor 
Knapp  was  principal  of  the  Union  school  at  West- 
moreland, his  native  place.  In  the  fall  of  1880 
he  became  principal  of  the  Union  graded  school 
and  academy  at  Madison,  N.  Y.,  which  position 
he  held  for  two  years.  He  had  entered  into  a 
contract  for  a  third  year,  but  within  a  month  re- 
signed, in  order  to  accept  the  position  of  cashier 
of  the  banking  house  of  A.  K.  &  E.  B.  Yount,  at 
Fort  Collins,  Colo.  He  reached  Fort  Collins 
July  22,  1882,  and  entered  upon  the  duties  of  his 
position,  remaining  there  until  he  came  to  Denver, 
in  October,  18S3.  He  was  chosen  principal  of  the 
Franklin  school,  which  was  then  being  erected, 
and  entered  upon  his  work  in  January  of  the  fol- 
lowing year.  At  that  time  the  school  was  the 
largest  and  finest  building  of  its  kind  west  of 
Omaha  and  Kansas  City.  He  remained  its  prin- 
cipal until  January,  1898,  when  he  resigned  to 
enter  upon  his  duties  as  county  superintendent 
of  Arapahoe  County.  To  this  position  he  was 
nominated  on  the  silver  Republican  ticket  and 
endorsed  by  the  McKinley  Republicans,  and  was 
elected  by  a  large  plurality  at  the  election  in  No- 
vember previous.  The  county  has  nearly  one 
hundred  school  districts,  with  six  hundred  and 
fifty  teachers  and  thirty-five  thousand  children  of 
school  age,  being  the  most  populous  county  in 
the  state. 

In  1884  Professor  Knapp  became  identified  with 
the  State  Teachers'  Association,  also  the  national 
association,  and  in  1890  was  appointed  superin- 
tendent of  the  Colorado  state  educational  exhibit 
made  at  St.  Paul,  Minn.,  in  July,  at  the  meeting 
of  the  national  association.  He  was  present  at 
the  national  meeting  of  teachers  at  Madison, 
Wis.,  in  1884;  at  San  Francisco  in  1888,  when 
he  had  charge  of  the  Colorado  state  headquarters; 
and  at  St.  Paul  in  1890,  where  was  the  first  ex- 
tensive educational  exhibit  ever  made  by  Colorado 
at  a  meeting  of  an  educational  association.  In 
December,  1890,  he  was  elected  president  of  the 
State  Teachers'  Association,  and  soon  afterward 
was  appointed  state  manager  for  Colorado  for 
the  association  meeting  in  Toronto,  in  July,  189 1, 
the  duty  of  manager  being  to  arrange  for  the  state 
representation  and  take  charge  of  the  delegation. 
During  the  Toronto  meeting  he  was  elected  a 
member  of  the  board  of  directors,  National  Edu- 
cational Association,  to  represent  Colorado.  The 
following  year  he  was  again  made  manager  of 


the  state  delegation,  which  he  took  to  the  Nation- 
al Educational  Association  at  Saratoga,  N.  Y. 

At  the  expiration  of  his  term  as  president  of 
the  state  association,  in  December,  1891,  the  for- 
mer treasurer,  Hon.  J.  C.  Shattuck,  who  had 
held  the  office  for  fourteen  years,  resigned,  and 
Professor  Knapp  was  elected  to  the  place,  which 
he  has  since  filled.  At  the  meeting  of  the  Na- 
tional Educational  Association  in  Asbury  Park, 
N.  J.,  in  July,  1894,  he  was  again  elected  to 
represent  Colorado  on  the  board  of  directors. 
He,  with  the  influence  of  other  Colorado  del- 
egates, succeeded  in  securing  the  convention  of 
1895  for  Denver,  and  he  was  the  state  director 
for  the  meeting  here.  In  1896  he  again  had 
charge  of  the  Colorado  delegation  to  the  National 
Educational  Association  at  Buffalo,  N.  Y.  With 
one  exception  he  has  attended  all  the  meetings  of 
the  National  Educational  Association  since  1888. 

The  first  connection  of  Professor  Knapp  with 
politics  was  in  the  fall  of  1892,  when  he  was  a 
candidate  for  state  superintendent  of  public  in- 
struction before  the  Republican  convention  at 
Pueblo.  Before  the  nomination  he  withdrew  from 
the  race  in  favor  of  his  only  opponent,  geograph- 
ical and  political  reasons  influencing  him  in  this 
decision.  However,  the  convention  by  acclama- 
tion placed  him  in  nomination  as  a  regent  of  the 
state  university,  but,  with  the  whole  ticket,  was 
defeated,  Governor  Waite  and  the  entire  Populist 
ticket  being  elected. 

In  the  Republican  state  convention  of  1894, 
Professor  Knapp  was  again  a  candidate  for  state 
superintendent  of  public  instruction,  and  until 
the  convention  opened  it  seemed  that  he  was  likely 
to  be  nominated.  However,  a  new  candidate 
appeared.  Universal  sufi'rage  had  come  into 
Colorado,  and  a  lady  appeared  as  a  candidate. 
An  exciting  condition  of  aflfairs  followed,  but,  as 
the  ballot  was  about  to  be  taken,  he  voluntarily 
withdrew  from  the  race  and  moved  the  nomina- 
tion of  Mrs.  Angenette  J.  Peavy  by  acclamation, 
which  was  done,  although  hundreds  of  his  friends 
protested  against  his  withdrawal. 

The  legislature  in  1891  organized  the  state  into 
normal  institute  districts,  Arapahoe  County  being 
the  third  district .  He  was  the  first  regular  normal 
institute  conductor  for  this  county  and  after  this 
organization  held  the  institute  in  the  Franklin 
school.  In  1892  he  was  again  appointed  conduc- 
tor,  and  held  the  institute  in  the  East  Side  high 


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school,  being  in  each  case  appointed  by  the  Hon. 
A.  D.  Shepard,  county  superintendent  of  schools. 
Since  then  he  has  engaged  in  institute  work  every 
summer  in  the  various  counties  of  Colorado  and 
in  Cheyenne,  Wyo.  Since  1892  he  has  been  a 
member  of  Washington  Camp  No.  14,  P.  O.  S. 
of  A. ,  in  which  he  is  now  president.  For  sixteen 
years  he  has  been  identified  with  the  Ancient 
Order  of  United  Workmen.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Third  Congregational  Church  of  Denver,  is 
its  treasurer  and  for  six  years  was  superintendent 
of  the  Sunday-school.  His  daughter,  Evelyn,  is 
the  only  survivor  of  his  five  children. 


NENRY  C.  BROWN.  The  first  member  of 
the  Brown  family  of  whom  there  is  any 
definite  knowledge  was  Samuel,  son  of 
Nicholas  Brown,  and  a  native  of  Reading,  Mass. 
He  was  a  man  of  considerable  force  of  character 
and,  for  those  early  days,  was  considered  wealthy, 
leaving  valuable  property  at  his  death.  After- 
ward his  widow  took  charge  of  the  property, 
which  she  managed  until  her  death,  after  a  widow- 
hood of  fifty  years.  Elisha,  son  of  Samuel,  was 
seven  years  of  age  at  the  time  of  his  father's 
death.  In  1744  he  moved  to  Cambridge,  and 
later  married  Elizabeth  Davis,  of  that  city.  By 
inheritance  he  was  a  rich  man,  and  through  the 
exercise  of  good  judgment  he  added  to  the  fort- 
une left  him  by  his  father.  He  and  his  wife 
were  the  parents  of  four  children,  Hannah,  Mary, 
Samuel  and  Elisha.  At  different  times  he 
resided  in  several  Massachusetts  towns,  and 
finally  died  in  Acton,  where  his  mother  had  left 
some  property.  His  wife  also  died  there,  in  1781. 
The  fate  of  their  children  is  not  definitely  known, 
excepting  Samuel,  the  progenitor  of  our  subject. 
He  was  the  third  child  of  his  parents  and  was 
probably  born  in  Cambridge,  but  spent  his  youth 
principally  in  Acton,  from  which  place  he  enlisted 
for  service  in  the  Revolution.  Among  the  en- 
gagements in  which  he  participated  were  the 
battle  of  Concord,  siege  of  Boston,  battles  of 
Bunker  Hill  and  Quebec;  and  at  the  latter  place 
he  was  wounded  and  taken  prisoner,  but  later 
was  sent  home  on  parole.  He  ranked  as  a  second 
lieutenant.  He  was  fifty- one  years  of  age  when ^ 
in  1800,  he  removed  to  St.  Clairsville,  Ohio,  and 
there  he  died  in  1828,  and  was  buried  with 
military  honors.     Twice  married,  his  first  wife 


was  a  daughter  of  Maj.  Daniel  Fletcher,  of  Acton, 
and  his  second  wife  was  Polly  Newkirk.  In  his 
family,  by  both  marriages,  there  were  twenty- 
one  children,  but  only  two  of  them  are  living, 
Elizabeth  Fletcher  Lennon  and  Henry  Cordis 
Brown,  both  of  Denver. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch,  who  was  the  son  of 
Samuel  Brown,  was  born  near  St.  Clairsville, 
Ohio,  November  18,  1820.  He  was  educated  at 
Franklin  Brooks  Academy,  St.  Clairsville.  At 
the  age  of  seven  years  he  was  orphaned  by  his 
father's  death  and  soon  afterward  he  began  to 
earn  his  own  livelihood.  He  remained  on  the 
farm  until  sixteen  years  of  age  and  later  learned 
the  carpenter's  and  joiner's  trade  and  the  ar- 
chitect's business  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  where  he  re- 
mained until  the  spring  of  1852,  assisting  his 
brother,  Isaac  H.  Brown,  an  architect  and  builder. 
From  St.  Louis  he  crossed  the  plains  to  Califor- 
nia, making  the  trip  with  ox-teams,  and  after  a 
journey  of  many  hardships  landed  in  Placerville 
(then  called  Hangtown  on  account  of  the  historic 
tree  used  for  hanging)  after  one  hundred  and  ten 
days  on  the  way.  After  one  day  in  that  town  he 
went  to  Sacramento,  thence  to  San  Francisco,  and 
from  there,  a  month  later,  to  Portland,  Ore., 
where  he  spent  a  month.  He  then  went  down 
the  Columbia  River  and  from  there  crossed  by 
land  to  the  Willamette  River,  thence  to  Olympia, 
Wash.,  where  he  spent  a  month.  Forming  a 
partnership  with  two  men,  Messrs.  Reader  and 
Peabody,  he  began  the  construction  of  a  sawmill 
for  sawing  lumber,  and  located  a  mill  at  the 
mouth  of  the  Whatken  River,  emptying  into 
Bellingham  Bay. 

After  eight  months  Mr.  Brown  sold  his  interest 
in  the  mill  and  returned  to  San  Francisco,  where 
he  followed  the  occupation  of  an  architect  and 
builder,  among  the  buildings  he  erected  being  a 
bank  building,  then  considered  the  best  building 
in  the  city,  and  still  standing.  He  spent  three 
years  in  San  Francisco,  meeting  with  varying 
success.  F'rom  there  he  went  to  Oroville,  Cal. , 
where  he  spent  six  months,  engaged  in  the  build- 
ing and  commission  business,  and  was  so  success- 
ful that  he  accumulated  $6,000  in  that  time.  Re- 
turning to  San  Francisco,  he  sailed  in  a  clipper 
ship,  "The  Golden  Eagle,"  for  Peru,  South  Am- 
erica. He  spent  sixty  days  touring  in  Lima  and 
Calleo,  then  sailed  in  the  "Golden  Age,"  for 
Hampton  Roads,   Va.     From  there  he  went  to 


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Baltimore,  then  to  Philadelphia  and  New  York, 
next  to  Chicago  and  from  there  to  St.  Louis, 
reaching  that  city  after  an  absence  of  five  j'ears. 
After  a  short  visit  there,  he  took  passage  up  the 
Missouri  River  to  Sioux  Citj',  Iowa,  and  from 
there  went  to  Decatur,  Neb.,  where  he  remained 
for  two  years.  Next  he  spent  a  year  or  more  in 
St.  Joseph,  Mo. 

June  9,  i860,  Mr.  Brown  arrived  in  Denver, 
finding  here  a  frontier  town  of  one  thousand 
inhabitants,  and  with  no  substantial  buildings  ex- 
cept the  Broadwell  Hotel,  corner  of  Larimer  and 
Sixteenth  streets.  The  first  building  he  erected 
was  a  large  .structure  on  Cherry  Creek  that  was 
used  by  the  Methodist  Episcopal  congregation  as 
a  church  house  until  the  disastrous  and  memor- 
able flood  of  May  4,  1864,  washed  the  building 
away.  Just  two  weeks  before  the  flood  he  had 
moved  from  the  neighborhood  of  the  creek  to  his 
pre-emption  claim,  later  known  as  Brown's  addi- 
tion, on  which  subsequently  the  state  capitol  was 
built,  also  many  of  the  most  beautiful  residences 
in  the  city,  and  the  famous  Brown  Palace  Hotel, 
the  most  magnificent  hotel  between  Chicago  and 
San  Francisco,  and  erected  at  a  cost  of  $1 ,600,000. 


HON.  HENRY  NEIKIRK,  a  pioneer  of  Colo- 
rado, ex-state  senator,  and  a  prominent 
citizen  of  Boulder,  is  a  representative,  in 
the  fourth  generation,  of  a  family  that  was  found- 
ed in  Pennsylvania  by  three  brothers  from  Ger- 
many. His  grandfather,  Henry,  the  son  of  one  of 
these  pioneers,  was  born  in  Pennsylvania,  but  re- 
moved to  Maryland,  where  he  continued  to  engage 
in  farm  pursuits  until  his  death;  during  the  war  of 
1812  he  rendered  service  in  the  American  army. 
His  son,  Manassas,  was  born  in  Washington 
County,  Md.,  and  after  his  marriage  removed,  in 
1836,  to  Carroll  County,  111.,  where  he  improved 
a  large  tract  of  government  land  that  still  remains 
in  the  possession  of  the  family.  He  was  born  in 
1809  and  died  in  1 871,  at  the  age  of  sixty-two 
years.  His  wife,  Mary,  daughter  of  Josiah  Pope, 
was  born  in  Maryland,  of  Irish-German  descent, 
and  died  in  Illinois  in  1892,  when  more  than 
eighty  years  of  age.  They  were  the  parents  of 
three  sous  and  four  daughters  who  attained  mature 
years,  of  whom  all  but  one  daughter  are  still  liv- 
ing, Henry  being  the  eldest  of  the  sons. 

At  Elkhorn  Grove,  near  MiUedgeville,  Carroll 


County,  111.,  the  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born 
November  27,  1839.  He  was  educated  in  the 
public  schools  and  in  Mount  Carroll  Seminary, 
where  he  remained  for  three  years.  He  studied 
law  in  Mount  Carroll  under  William  T.  Miller, 
then  the  most  prominent  attorney  of  that  section. 
However,  after  a  year  of  study,  he  was  seized 
with  the  western  fever  and  in  1861  started  for  the 
mountain  regions,  going  down  the  Mississippi  to 
Hannibal,  from  there  to  St.  Joseph,  then  horse- 
back to  Nebraska  City,  where  he  outfitted  with 
an  ox-train.  Going  up  the  Platte,  he  established 
a  trading  post  at  Alkali,  on  the  river,  two  hun- 
dred and  thirty  miles  east  of  Denver,  building  the 
first  post  there.  During  the  summer  he  carried 
a  load  of  freight  to  Denver  and  returned  with  a 
loadof  lumber  for  building  on  his  ranch.  Alkali 
was  the  greatest  place  for  trading  he  had  ever 
seen,  but  he  was  too  j'oung  to  take  advantage  of 
the  opportunity.  While  there  he  had  many  in- 
teresting experiences,  such  as  fall  to  the  lot  of  a 
pioneer.  On  the  25th  of  December  he  returned 
to  Nebraska  City,  and  in  the  spring  of  1862 
again  came  west,  beginning  as  a  prospector 
and  miner  in  Blackhawk,  Gilpin  County.  He 
continued  in  the  vicinity  of  that  place  during 
most  of  the  time  until  1875.  In  the  meantime, 
as  early  as  1867,  he  began  to  work  the  Hoosier 
mine  in  Boulder.  In  1875  he  located  the  Mel- 
vina,  near  Salina,  which  was  one  of  the  finest 
mines  of  its  kind  that  had  been  opened  up  to  that 
time;  after  running  it  for  five  years  he  sold  the 
property.  In  1886  he  with  others  bought  the 
White  Crow  at  Sunshine,  and  operated  it  for  five 
years.  He  is  interested  in  the  Freiburg  at  Gold 
Hill,  of  which  he  is  superintendent;  Sunshine  and 
Black  Swan  at  Salina;  Black  Swan  Gold  Mining 
Company,  of  which  he  is  superintendent  and  a 
director;  Golden  Sheen  and  Maveric;  Colonel 
Zellar's  mine  at  Sunshine;  and  Gold  Farms,  com- 
prising one  hundred  and  seventy-three  acres  near 
Magnolia,  the  most  extensive  mining  property  in 
Boulder  County,  and  operated  by  the  Gold  Farms 
Mining  Company,  of  which  he  is  superintendent 
and  a  director. 

In  1875  Mr.  Neikirk  brought  his  family  to 
Boulder,  where  he  established  his  home.  In  1881 
he  located  at  his  present  place,  buying  thirty-four 
acres,  of  which  he  has  sold  sixteen.  He  has 
built  a  substantial  brick  residence,  set  out  shade 
and  ornamental  trees,  as  well  as  a  number  of  fruit 


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trees,  and  iutroduced  a  sj'stem  of  irrigation.  In 
the  spring  of  1898  he  platted  and  placed  on  the 
market  the  Neikirk-Stewart  addition  to  Boulder 
City,  comprising  one  hundred  and  sixty-five  lots 
situated  to  the  north  and  west  of  the  main  busi- 
ness portion  of  the  city.  For  fourteen  years  he 
was  a  director  and  the  vice-president  of  the  Na- 
tional State  Bank  of  Boulder,  but  finally  resigned. 
He  has  been  a  large  land  owner,  having  real  es- 
tate in  Denver,  also  owned  several  ranches,  com- 
prising twelve  hundred  acres  in  Boulder  and 
Weld  Counties,  and  six  hundred  and  forty  acres 
north  of  Longmont,  where  he  built  a  reservoir  of 
one  hundred  acres,  that  furnishes  excellent  irri- 
gation facilities. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Neikirk  took  place  in 
Jamestown,  Boulder  County,  and  united  him  with 
Miss  Emily  Virden,  who  was  born  in  Grant 
County,  Wis.  Her  father,  John  Virden,  was  born 
in  Kentucky,  and  became  a  pioneer  farmer  of 
Wisconsin,  but  in  1863  brought  his  family  to 
Colorado,  settling  in  Gilpin  County,  but  later  re- 
moved to  Jamestown.  Born  in  18 16,  he  is  now 
eighty-two  years  of  age,  and  can  no  longer  en- 
gage actively  in  business  pursuits;  he  is  spending 
his  last  days  in  the  home  of  Mr.  Neikirk,  where 
four  generations  of  his  family  are  represeuted. 
His  wife  was  Jane  Hunt,  born  in  Kentucky,  died 
in  Colorado. 

The  six  children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Neikirk  are 
named  as  follows:  Fannie,  wife  of  Fred  Angove, 
of  Boulder;  Jessie,  a  graduate  of  the  State  Uni- 
versity, in  1897;  Lewis,  member  of  the  class  of 
1898,  in  the  university;  Thomas,  who  ajssists  his 
father  in  mining;  Burr,  who  is  a  member  of  the 
high  school  class  of  1900;  and  Abigail,  who  is  a 
student  in  the  high  school. 

In  1878  Mr.  Neikirk  was  urged  to  accept  the 
nomination  for  the  state  senate  and  was  elected 
by  a  majority  of  four  hundred,  his  opponent  be- 
ing the  noted  Joe  Wolf,  who  had  organized 
Greenback  clubs  throughout  the  county  and  had 
worked  the  district  for  two  years  hoping  to  secure 
the  election.  Mr.  Neikirk  served  in  the  second 
and  third  sessions,  1879-81,  was  chairman  of  the 
committees  on  irrigation  and  fees  and  salaries  the 
first  session,  and  chairman  of  the  finance  com- 
mittee the  second  session.  During  the  first  ses- 
sion he  drew  the  bill  that  levied  the  tax  of  one- 
half  mill,  the  nucleus  of  the  fund  that  built  the 
present  state  capitol  building.     He  secured   ap- 


propriation to  pay  expense  of  martial  law,  declared 
by  Governor  Pitkin  in  1880,  during  the  strike  at 
Leadville.  He  has  frequently  served  the  Republi- 
can party  as  delegate  to  conventions.  During  the 
campaign  of  1896  he  advocated  the  silver  cause, 
and  has  since  served  as  chairman  of  the  county 
convention  of  that  party. 


HON.  MOSES  HALLETT.  While  it  was 
the  hope  of  discovering  gold  in  the  mines  of 
the  mountains  that  induced  Judge  Hallett 
to  come  to  Colorado  at  the  time  of  the  Pike's 
Peak  gold  excitement,  the  competence  he  has 
gained  here  was  not  unearthed  from  hidden  re- 
cesses of  the  mountains,  but  has  come  to  him  in 
the  honorable  discharge  of  his  duties  as  a  jurist. 
When  Colorado  was  admitted  as  a  state,  during 
the  Centennial  year  of  our  country's  history. 
President  Grant  appointed  him  judge  of  the 
United  States  district  court  of  Colorado,  and  this 
honorable  position  he  has  since  most  efiiciently 
filled.  He  is  also  dean  of  the  Colorado  School 
of  Law,  which  is  the  law  department  of  the  Colo- 
rado University,  and  holds  the  chair  of  American 
constitutional  law  and  federal  juri.sprudence. 

Judge  Hallett  was  born  in  Galena,  Jo  Daviess 
County,  111.,  July  16,  1834.  His  father,  who 
was  a  native  of  Massachusetts,  came  west  in  an 
early  day  and  engaged  in  pioneer  farming  in 
Missouri,  and  later  in  Jo  Daviess  County,  111., 
and  served  during  the  period  of  the  Black  Hawk 
war.  When  a  boy  the  subject  of  this  sketch  at- 
tended the  public  schools,  then  continued  his 
studies  in  Rock  River  Seminary,  and  subse- 
quently became  a  student  in  Beloit  (Wis. )  College. 
At  the  age  of  twenty,  in  the  fall  of  1855,  he  be- 
gan to  study  law  in  the  office  of  E.  S.  Williams, 
of  Chicago,  and  four  years  later  was  admitted  to 
the  bar,  after  which  he  opened  an  oSice  in 
Chicago.  In  the  spring  of  i860  he  came  to  Colo- 
rado for  the  purpose  of  mining,  and  for  a  time 
worked  in  Gilpin  and  Clear  Creek  Counties,  but 
the  employment  was  uncongenial  and  unprofit- 
able. He  was  soon  brought  to  realize  that  he 
was  more  fitted  for  the  practice  of  law  than  for 
the  discovery  of  mineral  wealth,  and  he  decided 
to  return  to  practice.  Coming  to  Denver,  he 
formed  a  law  partnership  with  Hon.  Hiram  P. 
Bennett.  In  April,  1866,  he  was  appointed 
chief  justice  of  the  territorial  supreme  court,  as 


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the  result  of  a  joint  memorial  that  was  passed  by 
the  general  assembly  of  the  territory  of  Colorado 
in  Feburary,  1866,  and  presented  to  President 
Andrew  Johnson,  asking  him  to  make  a  citizen 
of  Colorado  the  appointee  and  recommending  Mr. 
Hallett  for  the  position. 

The  memorial  being  approved  by  the  governor 
was  forwarded  to  the  president,  and  the  result 
was  that  April  10  Mr.  Hallett  was  commis- 
sioned chief  justice.  He  was  very  successful  in 
the  position,  winning  recognition  for  fairness  and 
impartiality.  He  was  re-appointed  by  General 
Grant  April  6,  1870,  and  in  April,  1874,  serving 
until  the  territory  was  made  a  state.  It  was  not 
his  first  experience  as  an  office  holder,  for  he  had 
previously  represented  the  counties  of  Arapahoe 
and  Douglas  in  the  legislature.  In  January, 
1877,  he  was  made  judge  of  the  United  States 
district  court  by  President  Grant,  with  whom  he 
was  personally  acquainted.  It  has  been  well  said 
of  him,  "He  has  aided  very  largely,  not  only  in 
settling  many  of  the  disputes  that  have  come  up 
in  the  territory  and  state,  but  he  has  done  a  great 
deal  towards  establishing  justice  and  dignity  in 
the  Colorado  courts,  without  which  no  community 
can  ever  prosper. ' ' 

The  memorial  alluded  to,  asking  the  president 
of  the  United  States  to  appoint  a  citizen  of  the 
territory  as  chief  justice  and  approved  February 
8,  1866,  read  as  follows: 

"To  His  Excellency,  the  President  of  the 
United  States: 

"The  people  of  the  territory  of  Colorado, 
through  their  representatives  in  the  legislative 
assembly,  respectfully  represent  unto  the  presi- 
dent that  many  of  the  questions  growing  out  of 
mining  operations  and  concerning  mining  titles 
in  this  territory  are  novel  and  peculiar,  while 
other  questions,  concerning  the  irrigation  of  lands, 
and  growing  out  of  the  peculiar  situation  of  the 
people,  remote  from  all  other  communities,  are 
almost  unknown  to  the  laws  of  the  eastern  states; 
and  persons  residing  in  the  territory  have  ac- 
quired a  knowledge  of  these  questions,  necessary 
to  a  correct  understanding  of  them,  which  is  not 
possessed  by  residents  of  eastern  states;  and  for 
this  reason,  among  others,  the  people  of  this 
territory  are  exceedingly  anxious  that  citizens  of 
this  territory,  who  are  identified  with  the  people 
and  will  attend  to  their  public  duties,  should  be 
appointed  judges  of  the  territory;    therefore,    the 


council  and  house  of  representatives  of  Colorado 
territory  do  most  earnestly  and  respectfully  pray 
that  your  Excellency  will  appoint  Moses  Hallett, 
a  citizen  of  this  territory,  in  whom  we  have  con- 
fidence, to  be  chief  justice  of  this  territory." 

In  his  capacity  as  judge  of  the  district  court 
and  in  every  duty  connected  with  his  high 
position.  Judge  Hallett  has  shown  himself  to  be 
well  informed,  impartial  and  of  profound  sagacity. 
By  the  people  of  Colorado  he  is  held  in  the  high- 
est esteem.  Personally,  he  is  amiable,  kind- 
hearted,  genial  and  companionable,  and  when 
relieved  from  service  on  the  bench  the  dignity  of 
the  judge  is  lost  in  the  aSability  of  the  man.  In 
addition  to  his  work  as  judge  he  is  dean  of  the 
law  school,  of  which  James  H.  Baker  is  the 
president. 

In  February,  1882,  Judge  Hallett  married  Miss 
Katharine  Felt,  daughter  of  Lucius  S.  Felt,  a 
merchant  of  Galena,  111.  They  have  one  son  now 
living,  Lucius  F.  Mrs.  Hallett  was  educated  in 
New  York  City.  She  is  prominently  connected 
with  St.  Luke's  Hospital  Society  and  is  also  an 
active  member  of  the  Episcopal  Church,  which 
the  judge  attends.  He  is  connected  with  the 
Masonic  fraternity  and  the  University  Club. 

General  Hall,  who,  as  a  citizen  of  the  state,  has 
been  familiar  with  the  judicial  record  of  Judge 
Hallett,  says  of  him,  in  his  History  of  Colorado: 
"He  is,  and  from  the  first  has  been,  noted  as  an 
industrious  and  intelligent  student  of  the  law, 
penetrating  the  depths  of  every  proposition  sub- 
mitted to  him  for  determination.  He  never  was 
a  fluent  or  eloquent  advocate,  but  always  a  wise 
and  safe  counselor,  rigidly  honest,  forceful  and 
frequently  profound;  had  he  never  been  elevated 
to  the  bench,  he  would  still  have  been  an  eminent 
lawyer.  With  a  strong  judicial  mind,  he  has 
brought  to  his  office  the  great  advantage  of  a 
thorough  training  in  his  profession.  Long  years 
of  experience  upon  the  bench  sometimes  begets  a 
certain  disinclination  to  re-consider  expressed 
views,  but  no  judicial  officer  is  less  governed  by 
pride  of  opinion  than  Judge  Hallett.  He  is  firm, 
without  question,  but  the  position  is  taken  only 
after  deliberation.  The  effect  of  his  own  training, 
discipline  and  kindly  disposition  is  manifest  in  his 
court;  business  is  dispatched,  but  there  is  no 
evidence  of  haste;  dignity  in  its  true  sense  is  al- 
ways apparent,  and  casts  its  pleasant  influence 
upon  all  who  enter  the  temple.     The  respect  of 


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bar  and  the  confidence  of  the  entire  mass  of  the 
community  are  his,  while  his  standing  in  the 
supreme  court  of  the  United  States  is  that  of  one 
of  the  purest  and  best  officers  in  the  service. ' ' 


EOL.  HARPER  M.  ORAHOOD.  In  the 
minds  of  most  people,  the  history  of  Colorado 
dates  from  the  year  1859,  when  the  news  of 
the  discovery  of  gold  in  Pike's  Peak  spread 
through  the  eastern  states.  Attracted  by  the  re- 
ports of  the  immense  deposits  of  gold,  thousands 
of  men  came  from  the  east,  some  to  mine  and 
some  to  engage  in  other  industries  which  the 
rapidly  increasing  population  rendered  necessary. 
Among  those  who  made  the  long  and  tedious 
journey  across  the  plains  was  a  youth  of  less  than 
nineteen  years,  who  abandoned  the  study  of 
medicine  to  join  a  train  at  Rock  Island,  111., 
starting  from  there  March  5,  i860,  and  after 
walking  almost  the  entire  distance,  arriving  in 
Blackhawk,  Colo.,  on  the  istof  June.  His  after- 
life has  been  inseparably  associated  with  the 
history  of  Colorado,  of  which  state  he  is  a  distin- 
guished citizen. 

The  first  of  the  Orahood  family  in  America 
was  Thomas,  a  native  of  Glasgow,  Scotland,  and 
a  pioneer  of  Virginia.  His  son,  Amos,  removed 
from  the  Old  Dominion  to  Union  County,  Ohio, 
settling  near  the  county-seat  and  engaging  in  farm- 
ing. He  had  a  son,  William  J.,  who  was  born 
in  Virginia,  and  worked  as  a  mechanic  near 
Columbus  for  a  time,  later  went  to  Mount  Vernon, 
the  same  state,  thence 'removed  to  LaSalle  County, 
111.,  later  went  to  Utah,  and  attheageof  seventj'- 
eight,  in  1894,  passed  away  in  L,os  Angeles,  Cal. 
His  wife,  Ann  Messenger,  was  born  in  Wilming- 
ton, Del.,  and  died  in  Denver,  leaving  three 
daughters  and  a  son. 

The  latter,  who  was  the  eldest  of  the  family, 
forms  the  subject  of  this  sketch.  He  was  born  in 
Columbus,  Ohio,  June  3,  1841,  and  received  his 
education  in  Mount  Vernon,  Ohio,  and  Earlville, 
111.  For  two  years  he  clerked  in  a  drug  store  in 
Rock  Island,  111.  On  coming  to  Colorado  he 
settled  in  Blackhawk,  Gilpin  County,  where,  and 
in  Central  City,  he  engaged  in  the  mercantile 
business  for  ten  years.  In  the  office  of  Hon. 
Alvin  Marsh  he  began  the  study  of  law,  but  after 
one  year  entered  the  office  of  Henry  M.  &  Willard 
Teller,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  October  i , 

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1873.  Entering  upon  active  practice  he  soon 
acquired  a  large  clientage  and  became  known  as 
a  well-informed  rising  attorney.  For  some  years 
he  was  in  partnership  with  Senator  Teller  and  is 
now  associated  with  the  latter's  brother  in  the 
firm  of  Teller,  Orahood  &  Morgan,  of  Denver. 
'Under  E.  O.  Wolcott  he  served  as  deputy  district 
attorney  and  upon  the  latter's  resignation  in  1878, 
Mr.  Orahood  succeeded  to  the  position  of  district 
attorney  for  the  first  judicial  district,  comprising 
Clear  Creek,  Gilpin,  Jefferson,  Boulder  and 
Grand  Counties.  On  the  next  election  he  was 
chosen  for  a  three  years'  term  in  the  office,  but 
in  1881,  about  the  middle  of  the  term,  he  resigned 
in  order  to  remove  to  Denver.  From  1866  to 
1868  he  was  county  clerk  and  recorder  of 
Gilpin  County. 

In  1 86 1  Mr.  Orahood  became  connected  with 
the  Colorado  National  Guard,  and,  in  company 
with  Frank  Hall,  he  raised  the  first  company  of 
militia  mustered  into  service  in  Colorado,  it 
being  Company  A,  known  as  the  Elbert  Guard. 
In  that  company  he  was  made  a  lieutenant.  In 
1864  he  was  made  first  lieutenant  and  regi- 
mental commissary  of  subsistence  of  the  Third 
Colorado  Cavalry,  afterward  becoming  captain  of 
Company  B,  of  this  regiment,  and  doing  duty 
guarding  mails,  stages  and  wagon  trains  on  the 
plains  and  in  Indian  warfare.  December  27, 
1864,  the  regiment  was  mustered  out  at  Camp 
Weld  in  Denver.  His  title  of  colonel  was  con- 
ferred upon  him  by  his  appointment  on  Governor 
Mclntire's  staffi 

The  marriage  of  Colonel  Orahood  was  solem- 
nized in  the  Presbyterian  Church  of  Blackhawk 
and  united  him  with  Miss  Mary  Esther  Hurlbut, 
who  was  born  in  Linn  County,  Mo.  She  is  the 
eldest  daughter  of  Hiram  E.  Hurlbut,  who  came 
to  Colorado  in  i860  and  engaged  in  mining  in 
Gilpin  County  for  years,  but  is  now  a  resident  of 
Denver.  They  have  five  children:  William  F., 
a  graduate  of  Peekskill  Military  Academy  and  of 
the  Denver  Law  School,  and  now  an  attorney  in 
Central  City;  Harper,  of  Denver;  George  and 
Albert,  who  are  students  in  school;  and  Gertrude, 
who  is  attending  Emerson  College  in  Boston. 

In  1863  Colonel  Orahood  was  made  a  Mason  in 
Central  City  Lodge  No.  6,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.  Later 
he  was  a  charter  member  of  Blackhawk  Lodge 
No.  II,  of  which  he  was  master  for  several  years. 
In  1876  he  was  grand  master  of  the  grand  lodge 


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of  Colorado.  He  is  a  member  of  Denver  Chapter 
No.  29,  R.  A.  M.  For  years  he  was  commander 
of  Central  City  Commandery  No.  2,  and  is  now  a 
member  of  Denver  Commandery  No.  25.  In 
1879-80  he  was  grand  commander  of  the  grand 
commandery  of  Colorado,  and  held  that  position 
at  the  time  of  the  triennial  conclave  in  Chicago. 
He  belongs  to  El  Jebel  Temple,  N.  M.  S.,  Denver 
Consistory,  S.  R.,  and  is  a  thirty-third  degree 
Mason.  It  was  in  a  large  measure  due  to  his 
efforts  that  the  conclave  of  1892  was  held  in 
Denver;  he  was  the  first  chairman  of  the  triennial 
committee  and  afterward  first  vice-chairman,  and 
took  an  active  part  in  the  work  that  made  the 
conclave  such  a  memorable  triumph  for  this  city. 
Since  1880  he  has  attended  all  the  conclaves  of 
Knights.  He  is  past  commander  of  the  Loyal 
Legion  and  has  been  an  aide  on  the  department 
staff  of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic.  For 
years  he  has  been  vice-president  of  the  Bar 
Association  of  Denver,  and  he  is  a  member  of 
the  Gilpin  County  and  State  Pioneer  Associations. 
Politically  Colonel  Orahood  is  a  silver  Repub- 
lican. For  eight  years  he  was  city  treasurer  of 
Blackhawk.  With  other  citizens  he  succeeded  in 
having  the  postofRce  established  there  and  in 
1862  was  appointed  postmaster  by  President 
Lincoln,  holding  the  office  until  1871.  For  some 
years  he  was  city  attorney  of  Central  City,  re- 
signing on  his  removal.  The  only  position  he 
has  accepted  in  Denver  was  that  of  director  of 
school  district  No.  i ,  in  which  ofiice  he  did  all 
within  his  power  for  the  advancement  of  the 
schools.  He  took  an  active  interest  in  the  build- 
ing of  the  Colorado  Central  from  Blackhawk  to 
Central  City,  and  later  was  the  attorney  for  that 
road,  now  a  part  of  the  Union  Pacific.  His  firm 
are  now  the  attorneys  for  the  latter  railroad. 
Personally  he  is  a  man  of  many  winning  traits, 
liberal,  large-hearted,  enterprising  and  approach- 
able, and  he  has  won  a  deserved  position  of  prom- 
inence among  the  people  of  the  state. 


HON.  R.  S.  LITTLE.  In  the  history  of  Ara- 
pahoe County  considerable  mention  deserv- 
edly belongs  to  the  founder  of  the  beautiful 
suburban  village  of  Littleton.  The  Little  family 
was  founded  in  America  in  1640  by  George  Little, 
who  came  from  Unicorn  street,  near  London 
bridge,  in  London,  and  settled  in  Newbury,  Mass. 


His  descendants  were  among  the  patriotic  men 
who  fought  for  the  liberty  of  our  country.  Lieut. 
Moses  Little,  of  New  Hampshire  (born  1742, 
died  1813),  served  as  first  lieutenant  under  Capt. 
Samuel  Richards,  in  Col.  John  Stark's  regiment, 
and  he  and  his  son,  George  (our  subject's  grand- 
father), took  part  in  the  battle  of  Bunker  Hill. 
He  marched  from  New  Hampshire  with  Col. 
Jacob  Gates'  regiment  and  joined  the  Continental 
army  in  Rhode  Island  in  August,  1778.  George 
Little  (born  1762,  died  1850)  was  a  private  in 
Capt.  John  Duncan's  company,  commanded  by 
Col.  Moses  Kelly,  and  with  his  command  started 
for  Ticonderoga  on  receiving  the  alarm  July  i , 

1777,  marching  as  far  as  Washington  and  Charles- 
town,  when  he  was  ordered  back.  As  a  member 
of  the  company  of  Capt.  James  Arkens,  in  a  regi- 
ment commanded  by  Colonel  Kelly,  he  marched 
from  New  Hampshire  to  Rhode  Island  in  August, 

1778,  and  joined  the  Continental  army. 

The  subject  of  this  review  was  born  in  Grafton, 
N.  H.,  May  12,  1829,  a  son  of  John  and  Betsey 
(Jackman)  Little.  He  was  seven  years  of  age 
when  he  accompanied  the  family  to  Nashua,  near 
which  place  his  father  carried  on  a  hotel  until 
his  death  in  1854.  R.  S.  Little  received  his  edu- 
cation in  the  Norwich  University,  graduating 
there  in  1850.  He  was  a  classmate  of  Gen.  G.M. 
Dodge,  U.  S.  A.;  Rear- Admiral  George  Dewey 
was  also  a  graduate  of  this  school.  He  proved 
himself  especially  gifted  in  mathematics.  His 
expenses  in  college  he  partly  paid  by  means  of 
his  musical  skill,  for  he  was  a  skilled  violinist. 
He  graduated  at  the  age  o'f  twenty-one.  After- 
ward he  assisted  in  the  survey  of  the  first  railroad 
from  Danforth  Corners  to  Milford,  N.  H.,  under 
General  Stark.  In  1851  he  started  west  via 
Ogdensburg,  from  which  place  he  traveled  by 
stage  to  Watertown  and  then  pursued  his  way  to 
Rome,  from  there  by  rail  to  Buffalo,  then  took  a 
boat  for  Detroit,  and  sailed  up  the  lake  until 
stopped  by  a  blockade  of  ice.  He  finally  reached 
Detroit,  from  which  place  he  traveled  by  steam- 
cars  to  Michigan  City,  making  six  or  eight  miles 
an  hour  over  the  strap  rails.  From  Michigan 
City  he  went  by  boat  to  Racine,  Wis. ,  thence  by 
stage  seventy  miles  into  the  interior  of  the  state, 
stopping  for  a  time  in  Janesville.  From  that  city 
to  Chicago  he  ran  the  levels  for  the  first  railroad 
survey  on  the  line  now  belonging  to  the  Chicago 
&    North-western  Railroad.      The   company  for 


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whom  he  worked  failed,  owing  him  $500.  He 
then  shouldered  his  pack  and  walked  to  Eagle, 
Wis.,  where  he  found  employment  on  the  Mil- 
waukee &  Mississippi  Railroad,  making  the  pre- 
liminary survey  from  Madison  to  the  Wisconsin 
River,  and  having  charge  of  the  construction  of 
the  road  west  of  Whitewater.  Afterward  he  sur- 
veyed a  line  from  Milwaukee  to  Fond  du  Lac. 

In  1853  Mr.  Little  located,  constructed  and 
operated  a  road  from  Milwaukee  to  Columbus, 
Wis.,  as  assistant  to  E.  H.  Broadhead.  Septem- 
ber 24,  1854,  he  married  Angeline,  a  daughter  of 
John  Harwood,  of  Nashua,  N.  H.,  and  afterward 
settled  in  Watertown,  where  he  did  much  toward 
the  development  of  the  city.  In  1858  he  laid  the 
track  from  Fond  du  Lac  to  Oshkosh.  In  i860 
he  came  to  Colorado,  where  he  engaged  in  the 
construction  of  the  capital  hydraulic  ditch  from 
the  present  site  of  Littleton  to  Denver.  Under 
the  claim  law  he  took  up  one  hundred  and  sixty 
acres,  to  which  he  afterward  added  a  homestead 
of  one  hundred  and  twenty  acres.  When  the 
railroad  lands  came  into  the  market  he  purchased 
a  section  and  engaged  in  ranching,  gardening  and 
dairying. 

Mrs.  Little  had  been  greatly  troubled  with 
asthma,  and  as  soon  as  Mr.  Little  found  this  cli- 
mate beneficial  for  that  disease,  he  sent  for  her. 
He  met  her  in  Chicago  in  1862  and  brought  her 
across  the  plains  with  a  mule-team,  spending 
two  months  on  the  way.  The  air  of  these  high 
altitudes  at  once  relieved  her,  and  she  has  had  no 
recurrence  of  the  trouble,  except  when  visiting 
the  east.  She  lived  six  months  in  Littleton  before 
she  saw  a  white  woman.  She  has  been  one  of 
the  prominent  women  in  all  enterprises  that  would 
tend  to  benefit  the  town  and  its  people.  Her 
charity  is  proverbial  and  her  love  for  humanity 
is  beautiful  as  it  is  rare.  She  is  the  mother  of 
Lucius  H,  Little. 

In  1867  Mr.  Little,  in  company  with  others, 
erected  the  Rough  and  Ready  flour  mills  in  Little- 
ton, which  were  destroyed  by  fire  in  1872,  with  a 
loss  of  about  $45,000,  including  the  stock  on 
hand.  The)'  at  once  erected  another  mill  on  the 
same  site.  In  1873  he  was  elected  to  the  terri- 
torial legislature,  receiving  three  thousand  votes 
out  of  three  thousand  and  one  hundred  votes  cast 
in  the  county.  He  was  the  Republican  nominee, 
but  was  endorsed  by  the  other  parties.  While  a 
member  of  the  house,  he  introduced  a  bill  provid- 


ing for  a  general  sy.stem  of  irrigation  for  Colorado, 
making  the  land  owners  under  it  stockholders  and 
assessing  the  land  thus  benefited  pro  rata.  How- 
ever, owing  to  a  variety  of  causes,  the  bill  failed 
to  pass.  In  1874  the  mill  again  burned  down 
with  a  heavier  loss  than  before;  they  at  once 
erected  the  present  stone  mill,  which  is  fireproof 
throughout,  with  five  sets  of  burrs,  and  a  capacity 
for  three  hundred  sacks  per  day.  The  storehouse 
has  a  capacity  of  twenty  thousand  bushels.  PVom 
the  time  of  the  building  of  the  mill  the  flour 
steadily  grew  in  reputation,  and  is  now  famous 
throughout  the  entire  country  as  the  best  brand 
in  the  market. 

A  number  of  people  having  already  settled 
here,  in  1875  Mr.  Little  platted  the  village  of 
Littleton,  which  has  since  become  one  of  the  most 
attractive  towns  in  the  state,  its  churches,  public 
schools  and  public  improvements  of  all  kinds, 
making  it  a  desirable  home  for  a  family.  In  1871 
Mr.  Little  donated  the  ground  on  which  he  built 
St.  Paul's  Episcopal  Church.  He  has  also  do- 
nated the  sites  of  the  present  Presbyterian  Church, 
the  school  house,  four  lots  to  build  the  first  store, 
and  also  lots  for  other  public  enterprises.  He  has 
been  the  leading  spirit  in  the  village  since  its  in- 
ception, and  with  commendable  energy  has  fur- 
thered every  measure  for  the  benefit  of  the  people 
and  the  advancement  of  local  interests. 


j  UMAN  M.  GIFFIN,  M.  D.  The  medical 
It  department  of  the  University  of  Colorado, 
[J2r  or,  as  it  is  more  frequently  called,  the  Colo- 
rado School  of  Medicine,  of  which  Dr.  Gifiin  is 
dean,  was  opened  in  September,  1883.  The 
faculty  for  1883-84  consisted  of  seven  members, 
but  was  increased  from  year  to  year  until  it  num- 
bered twenty-two  professors,  besides  lecturers 
and  assistants.  Soon  after  the  opening  of  the 
school  a  hospital  was  established  on  the  grounds 
and  a  clinic  was  maintained.  The  course  of 
study  covered  three  years  until  1895,  since  which 
time  there  has  been  a  four-year  course  only.  In 
September,  1892,  arrangements  were  made  to 
conduct  the  last  two  years  of  the  course  in  Den- 
ver until  such  time  as  sufiicient  hospital  advan- 
tages might  be  secured  in  Boulder,  and  since  then 
the  plan  has  been  to  have  the  work  of  the  first 
year  in  the  university,  the  other  part  of  the 
course  being  pursued  in  Denver.     By  a  recent 


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decision  of  the  supreme  court,  however,  all  reg- 
ular instruction  must  be  retained  at  the  univer- 
sity until  the  constitutional  right  to  continue  the 
former  arrangement  may  be  obtained.  A  build- 
ing has  recently  been  erected  to  give  more  room 
for  the  medical  school,  and  every  modern  equip- 
ment is  being  furnished  that  will  assist  in  the 
work  of  clinic  and  laboratories. 

The  faculty  of  the  School  of  Medicine  consists 
of  the  following:  James  H.  Baker,  LI/.  D., 
president;  Luman  M.  GiflBn,  M.  D.,  dean  and 
professor  of  anatomy  and  physical  diagnosis; 
Charles  Skeele  Palmer,  Ph.  D.,  professor  of  chem- 
istry; John  Gardiner,  B.  Sc. ,  professor  of  his- 
tology and  bacteriology;  A.  Stewart  Lobinginer, 
M.  D.,  professor  of  surgical  pathology;  Emley  B. 
Queal,  M.  D.,  professor  of  physiology;  Horace 
•O.  Dodge,  M.  D.,  professor  of  materia  medica 
and  therapeutics;  E.  H.  Robertson,  Ph.  M., 
M.  D.,  professor  of  pathology;  John  H.  Parsons, 
D.  D.  S.,  professor  of  operative  and  prosthetic 
dental  technics;  Charles  Fisher  Andrew,  M.  D., 
lecturer  on  hygiene;  George  O'Brien,  M.  D., 
demonstrator  of  anatomy;  and  Mary  Alice  Lake, 
M.  D.,  demonstrator  of  anatomy. 

Dr.  Giflfin  was  born  in  Heuvelton,  St.  Law- 
rence County,  N.  Y.,  October  30,  1850,  the  son 
of  Horace  and  Roxalaua  (Wright)  Giffin,  natives 
of  Vermont.  His  father,  who  was  of  Irish  de- 
scent, was  a  member  of  a  family  that  settled  on 
the  original  site  of  Halifax,  Nova  Scotia,  and 
from  there  removed  to  northern  New  York.  He 
came  from  Vermont  to  Heuvelton,  where  he  en- 
gaged in  the  mercantile  business  until  his  death 
at  thirty-seven  j'ears.  His  wife,  who  was  the 
daughter  of  a  miller,  was  of  English  descent,  her 
family  name  being  originally  Wreut.  She  was 
twice  married,  by  her  first  union  having  two 
sons  and  a  daughter.  After  her  first  husband's 
death  she  became  the  wife  of  Israel  Rowland,  by 
whom  she  had  four  children.  She  died  in  Colo- 
rado at  sixty-five  years  of  age,  and  all  her  chil- 
dren are  in  the  west  except  a  daughter  of  her 
first  marriage; 

At  the  age  of  nine  years  our  subject  accom- 
panied his  mother  to  Morristown,  St.  Lawrence 
County,  where  he  attended  a  district  school. 
Afterward  he  was  a  student  in  Black  River 
Academy  at  Ludlow,  Vt.  He  took  one  course 
of  lectures  in  the  medical  department  of  the  Uni- 
versity  of  Vermont,   after  which  he  took  two 


courses  in  Rush  Medical  College,  Chicago,  from 
which  he  graduated  in  February,  1875,  with  the 
degree  of  M.  D.  He  practiced  in  Rossie,  St. 
Lawrence  County,  until  March,  1881,  when  he 
came  to  Boulder.  Soon  after  the  organization  of 
the  medical  department  of  the  state  university  he 
became  connected  with  it  as  professor  of  anatomy 
and  physiology,  which  chair  he  held  until  1897, 
and  was  then  made  professor  of  anatomy  and 
physical  diagnosis  and  dean  of  the  department. 

At  one  time  Dr.  GifiBn  was  president  of  the 
Boulder  County  Medical  Association.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  State  and  American  Medical  As- 
sociations, is  examining  physician  for  different 
insurance  companies,  and  local  surgeon  for  the 
Union  Pacific,  Denver  &  Gulf  and  Colorado 
Northwestern  Railroads.  Fraternally  he  is  con- 
nected with  Boulder  Lodge  No.  45.  When  the 
United  States  Pension  Examining  Board  was  or- 
ganized in  1894  in  Boulder  County  he  was  chosen 
secretary  of  the  board  and  served  in  that  capacity 
for  some  time. 

In  Rossie,  N.  Y. ,  in  1875,  Dr.  Giffin  married 
Miss  Lillie  J.  Forester,  who  was  born  there  and 
died  in  Colorado  in  1887.  Two  sons  were  born 
of  the  union:  Horace,  who  was  educated  in  the 
high  school  of  Boulder  and  is  now  with  a  book 
firm  in  this  city;  and  Clay,  who  is  a  member  of 
the  high  school  class  of  1902.  Dr.  Giffin  was 
married  a  second  time  in  Denver,  his  wife  being 
Miss  Fannie  Lake,  who  was  born  in  Lake  Forest, 
111.  Three  children  were  born  of  this  union: 
Ruth,  Alice,  and  Louise,  who  died  at  three  years 
of  age. 

pQlLLIAM  P.  DANIELS,  president  and 
I  A/  ™^nager  of  the  Big  Five,  was  the  founder 
Y  V  of  the  town  of  Frances,  where  he  resides. 
He  is  of  remote  Scotch  descent,  but  the  first  rep- 
resentatives of  the  family  in  America  came  here 
from  England.  His  father,  William  F.  Daniels, 
was  born  near  Hamilton,  Canada,  and  in  boyhood 
accompanied  the  family  to  Wayne  Junction, 
Mich. ,  but  a  short  time  afterward  he  settled  near 
Rockton,  Winnebago  County,  111.,  of  which,  as 
also  of  Forreston,  Ogle  County,  he  was  a  pioneer. 
In  1856  he  moved  to  Iowa,  becoming  an  early 
settler  of  Howard,  where  he  followed  the  mill- 
wright's trade  and  the  milling  business.  For 
some  years  after  1865  he  carried  on  a  mercantile 
business  in  Howard  County,     During  the   Civil 


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war  he  volunteered  in  the  Union  service,  but  was 
rejected,  and  so  was  compelled  to  remain  at 
home,  while  five  of  his  brothers  were  accepted  for 
service.  In  1884  he  removed  to  Louisiana, 
where  his  death  occurred  in  1893,  when  he  was 
seventy  years  of  age.  His  wife,  who  bore  the 
maiden  name  of  Mary  G.  Preston,  was  born  in 
Penn  Yan,  N.  Y.,  and  is  now  living  in  Louisiana. 
Her  father,  Richard  G.  Preston,  was  born  in 
Scotland  and  accompanied  his  parents  to  America, 
settling  in  New  York. 

Of  the  family  of  nine  children  five  attained  ma- 
ture years  and  four  are  now  living,  William  P. 
being  the  oldest  of  these.  He  was  born  near 
Rockton,  Winnebago  County,  111.,  June  16,  1851, 
and  was  a  child  of  five  years  at  the  time  the 
family  removed  to  Howard  County.  At  the  age 
of  fifteen  he  left  home  and  began  working  on 
what  is  now  the  St.  Paul  (then  the  McGregor 
Western)  Railroad,  the  first  through  line  to  St. 
Paul.  In  1872  he  began  as  conductor  with  the 
Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  Railroad,  with 
which  he  remained  for  two  years,  and  then  for 
twelve  years  he  was  with  the  Burlington,  Cedar 
Rapids  &  Northern  Railroad  as  conductor.  In 
1873  he  became  a  member  of  the  Order  of  Rail- 
way Conductors  and  five  years  later  was  elected 
its  grand  secretary  and  treasurer,  with  head- 
quarters at  Cedar  Rapids.  This  position  he  held 
for  seventeen  years,  having  in  1 886  retired  from 
the  railroad  in  order  to  devote  his  entire  attention 
to  the  secretary  and  treasurer's  office.  At  the 
time  he  became  secretary  there  were  about  six 
hundred  members  and  when  he  left  the  order 
had  twenty-five  thousand  members  in  the  United 
States,  Canada  and  Mexico.  In  1895  he  resigned 
the  position  and  came  to  Colorado,  accepting  the 
position  as  president  and  general  manager  of  the 
Dew-drop  Company,  that  was  organized  in 
1893-94. 

Since  becoming  president  of  the  Dew-drop 
Company,  Mr.  Daniels  has  been  instrumental  in 
the  organization  of  four  other  companies,  viz.: 
the  Dew-drop  Mill  Company;  the  Adit  Mining 
Company,  the  Adit  Tunnel  Company  and  the 
Ni  Wot  Mining  Company.  The  original  name 
of  the  company  was  the  Orphan  Boy  Extension 
Mining  and  Milling  Company,  which  in  1896  was 
changed  to  the  Dew-drop  Mining  Company. 
The  Ni  Wot  Mining  Company,  with  the  mines, 
mill  and  manager's  office,   is  located   at  Frances, 


a  town  that  he  named  after  his  youngest  daugh- 
ter. A  tunnel  has  been  excavated  which  will, 
when  completed,  be  six  thousand  feet  in  length 
and  which  extends  under  Bald  Mountain.  There 
is  also  a  branch  tunnel  of  twenty-four  hundred 
feet,  to  cut  the  celebrated  Ni  Wot  lode.  The 
company  has  among  its  members  a  large  number 
of  railroad  men,  whose  long  acquaintance  with 
Mr.  Daniels  has  given  them  abundant  reason  to 
rely  in  his  judgment. 

Politically  Mr.  Daniels  is  a  Democrat.  While 
in  Cedar  Rapids  he  served  as  mayor  of  the  city 
for  two  terras.  He  was  made  a  Mason  in  Lime 
Spring,  Iowa,  and  is  now  identified  with  the 
lodge,  chapter,  commandery,  consistory  and 
temple  at  Cedar  Rapids,  having  attained  the 
thirty-second  degree.  In  Washburn,  Iowa,  he 
married  Miss  Julia  C.  Close,  who  was  born  in 
that  state,  daughter  of  Cicero  Close,  a  pioneer  of 
Washburn.  They  have  two  daughters,  Mary  C. 
and  Frances  W. 


HON.  JAMES  MOYNAHAN,  mayor  of 
Alma,  Park  County,  is  the  owner  of  large 
mining  interests,  the  most  of  which  are  in 
Park  County.  Among  the  mines  in  which  he  is 
especially  interested  may  be  mentioned  the  Or- 
phan Boy,  two  and  a-half  miles  from  Alma, 
which  was  discovered  in  1861  and  has  since  been 
successfully  operated.  By  consolidating  the 
entire  slope  of  the  hill  and  running  a  tunnel  four- 
teen hundred  feet  into  the  mountain,  he  not  only 
proved  that  such  a  plan  was  feasible,  but  profited 
by  it  materially  himself  He  is  now  the  presi- 
dent and  general  manager  of  the  company  operat- 
ing the  mine.  Recently  he  became  connected 
with  the  newly  organized  Gold  Drift  Mining 
Company  of  Park  County,  operating  near  Alma, 
and  he  is  now  its  president  and  general  manager. 
Among  the  other  mines  in  which  he  has  been  in- 
terested is  the  Falkland.  In  addition  to  his 
mining  interests,  he  is  engaged  in  the  ranch  busi- 
ness in  South  Park,  in  Park  County. 

Of  Republican  belief,  Mr.  Moynahan  has  been 
prominent  in  poHtics.  From  1870  to  1873  he  was 
commissioner  of  Park  County,  being  chairman  of 
the  board  for  one  year.  In  1876  he  was  elected 
to  represent  his  district  in  the  state  .senate,  and 
the  length  of  his  term  being  detided  by  lot,  he 
drew  the  short  term,  being  a  member  of  the  first 
general  assembly,  which  was  in  session  for  more 


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than  five  months.  In  1882  he  was  chosen  to  rep- 
resent Park  and  Fremont  Counties  in  the  state 
senate  and  served  in  the  fourth  and  fifth  general 
assemblies,  a  term  of  four  years.  For  two  years 
he  was  president  pro  tem  of  the  senate  and  during 
this  time,  by  virtue  of  the  state  law,  when  both 
the  governor  and  lieutenant-governor  were  out  of 
the  state,  he  was  acting  governor,  but  there  be- 
ing no  special  business  to  be  brought  up,  he  was 
not  in  active  service  as  the  chief  executive. 
Many  times  he  has  served  as  mayor  of  Alma. 
He  was  elected  in  1896,  re-elected  the  following 
year,  and  in  1898  was  nominated  and  elected 
without  any  opposition.  He  assisted  in  the  incor- 
poration of  Alma,  was  a  member  of  its  first  board 
of  trustees,  and  laid  out  a  part  of  the  town.  Since 
the  fall  of  1884  his  family  have  resided  in  Denver, 
where  he  owns  a  residence  at  No.  6  Broadway. 
In  addition  to  this,  he  owns  some  vacant  property 
in  the  city. 

In  Greenfield,  Wayne  County,  Mich.,  Mr. 
Moynahan  was  born  June  7,  1842,  the  son  of 
James  and  Catherine  (Hart)  Moynahan,  both 
natives  of  Ireland.  His  grandfather,  Matthew 
Moynahan,  settled  in  Canada  at  Maidstone  Cross, 
near  Windsor,  and  there  engaged  in  farming 
until  his  death.  James  Moynahan  located  in 
Wayne  County,  Mich.,  where  he  carried  on  a 
farm  and  followed  the  blacksmith's  trade.  He 
was  with  the  Michigan  men  in  the  Toledo  war. 
He  died  at  the  age  of  forty-eight.  His  wife  also 
died  in  Michigan,  her  age  being  sixty-two.  They 
had  three  sons  and  two  daughters  who  attained 
maturity,  and  one  son  and  two  daughters  are  now 
living,  the  latter  being  Mrs.  Parks,  of  I,eadville, 
and  Mrs.  Clinton,  of  Michigan.  Two  sons  are 
deceased,  Matthew  having  died  in  Breckenridge 
and  John  in  Georgetown,  Colo. 

After  the  death  of  his  father,  which  occurred 
in  December,  1858,  our  subject  went  to  the  upper 
peninsula  of  Michigan,  where  he  worked  in 
copper  mines.  Later  he  was  in  the  lower  pen- 
insula. At  the  first  call  for  troops  during  the 
Civil  war  he  volunteered  in  the  Fifth  Michigan 
Infantry,  but  the  quota  being  filled,  the  regiment 
was  not  called  into  service  at  that  time.  In  1862 
he  entered  Company  C,  Twenty-seventh  Michi- 
gan Infantry,  and  enlisted  as  a  private  at  Copper 
Harbor,  thence-  going  to  Kentucky  and  joining 
the  Ninth  Corps  under  General  Burnside,  in  the 
Department  of  the  Ohio.     He  took  part  in  the 


siege  of  Vicksburg  and  later  was  at  Jackson,  go- 
ing from  there  back  to  Kentucky,  then  to  East 
Tennessee  and  taking  part  in  the  siege  of  Knox- 
ville.  In  the  spring  of  1864  the  corps  was  re- 
organized at  Annapolis,  Md.,  and  was  incorpo- 
rated with  the  Army  of  the  Potomac,  taking  part 
in  all  the  engagements  in  the  Wilderness.  At 
Spottsylvania,  while  acting  as  second  lieutenant, 
May  12,  1864,  he  was  wounded  by  a  minie-ball 
that  lodged  in  the  right  breast  and  remained 
there  for  eleven  months  before  it  was  removed. 
When  he  was  wounded  he  was  taken  to  Fred- 
ericksburg and  for  four  days  lay  on  a  blanket, 
without  medical  attention,  during  which  time 
the  wound  became  so  swollen  that  the  surgeon 
could  not  probe  for  the  bullet.  He  was  moved 
to  Washington,  sent  from  there  to  Philadelphia, 
and  finally,  though  the  bullet  was  still  in  his 
breast  and  the  wound  still  open,  he  requested  to 
be  returned  to  his  regiment,  which  was  done. 
He  was  commissioned  first  lieutenant  in  February, 
1865.  While  participating  in  the  assault  on  Fort 
Mahone  at  Petersburg  April  2,  1865,  in  com- 
mand of  his  company,  before  daybreak  he  was 
shot  in  the  left  forearm  by  a  minie-ball,  which 
would  have  entered  the  left  side  had  it  not  been 
for  his  silver  watch  and  a  memorandum  book  in 
his  overcoat  pocket.  Previous  to  this  the  fort 
had  been  taken  and  with  it  three  pieces  of  artil- 
lery, and  his  company,  which  carried  the  colors, 
had  planted  the  stars  and  stripes  on  the  fort,  so 
that  he  was  permitted  to  participate  in  the  vic- 
tory before  incapacitated  for  further  service.  On 
his  way  from  the  field  he  met  General  Potter, 
whom  he  notified  of  the  victory,  news  that  natu- 
rally rejoiced  the  general's  heart.  He  went  to  the 
hospital  at  City  Point,  where  he  had  his  arm 
dressed;  the  old  bullet  in  his  breast,  which  was 
lodged  against  the  shoulder  blade,  was  operated 
for  and  removed  at  that  time,  April  12,  1865. 
He  participated  in  the  grand  review  at  Washing- 
ton and  was  mustered  out  as  captain  of  Company 
G,  July  26,  1865,  at  Washington,  and  a  few  days 
later  was  honorably  discharged  at  Detroit.  Dur- 
ing the  period  of  service  his  regiment  crossed  the 
Rapidan,  May  5,  1864,  with  eleven  hundred  men 
and  forty-three  commissioned  ofiicers,  and  after 
the  blowing  up  of  mine  fort  at  Petersburg  in  July, 
three  commissioned  officers  and  sixty-three  men 
reported  for  duty.  The  regiment  stands  eleventh 
in  regard  to  proportionate  loss,  according  to  the 


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statistics  by  Fox,  and  first  in  percentage  of  loss 
of  the  regiments  that  entered  the  service  in  1862. 

After  his  retirement  from  the  army,  Captain 
Moynahan  studied  in  Bryant  &  Stratton's  Com- 
mercial College  in  Detroit.  In  April,  1866,  he 
graduated  from  the  college  and  shortly  afterward 
came  to  Colorado,  where  for  two  years  he  super- 
intended a  mine  in  Park  County,  then  turned  his 
attention  to  merchandising.  In  1874  he  started 
a  store  at  Alma,  of  which  place  he  has  since  been 
the  most  prominent  business  man.  His  name  is 
so  well  known  throughout  the  state  that  both  in 
1884  and  1886  he  was  prominently  mentioned  for 
governor  of  the  state.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Abe  lyincoln  Post,  G.  A.  R. ,  in  Denver,  of  which 
he  is  past  commander.  In  the  Colorado  Com- 
mandery  of  the  Loyal  Legion  he  holds  member- 
ship. 

In  Greenfield,  Mich.,  our  subject  married  Mary 
Monaghan,  who  was  born  in  Ireland,  a  daughter 
of  Peter  Monaghan,  who  came  to  America  and 
settled  in  the  upper  peninsula  of  Michigan,  there 
engaged  in  mining.  The  four  children  born  of 
the  union  are:  Alice,  Ambrose  Edwin,  James  W. 
and  Clarissa. 


0AVID  GRIFFITHS,  state  inspector  of  coal 
mines,  was  appointed  to  this  position  by 
Governor  Mclntire  February  18,  1895,  for  a 
term  of  four  years.  The  coal  industry  in  Colo- 
rado is  yet  in  its  infancy  and  only  the  croppings 
have  been  mined,  the  vast  wealth  in  coal  that  lies 
underneath  the  surface  of  the  earth  having  never 
been  touched.  This  statement  will  give  an  idea 
of  the  immense  veins  that  wait  to  be  freed  from 
their  prison  beds  within  the  earth.  While  the 
output  is  so  very  small  in  comparison  with  the 
actual  amount  here,  yet  it  is  sufficient  to  provide 
the  entire  state  with  coal  for  its  railroads,  manu- 
facturing industries,  public  buildings  and  private 
residences,  and  besides  this,  large  shipments  of 
coal  and  coke  are  made  to  other  states.  The 
manifold  duties  connected  with  the  development 
of  the  industry  require  the  entire  time  of  the  state 
inspector  and  an  assistant. 

The  family  of  which  Mr.  Griffiths  is  a  member 
has  long  been  known  in  Carmarthaenshire,  Wales, 
His  grandfather,  John,  who  was  born  there, 
made  it  his  home  throughout  life,  tilling  one  of 
its  farms.  William,  father  of  David,  was  born  in 
that  shire,  but  after  his  marriage  to  Ann  Evans 


he  removed  to  Glamorganshire,  where  he  en- 
gaged in  farming  until  his  death,  in  1888,  at  the 
age  of  sixty-one.  His  wife  passed  away  in  1878, 
at  the  age  of  fifty-one  years.  She  was  a  daughter 
of  Hugh  Evans,  who  was  a  weaver  and  manufact- 
urer of  woolen  goods. 

Of  four  children,  three  being  daughters  and 
still  in  Glamorgan,  the  subject  of  this  sketch  is 
the  eldest.  He  was  born  at  Glynneath,  Vale  of 
Neath,  Glamorganshire,  February  i,  1856,  and 
in  early  childhood  was  a  pupil  in  the  British 
schools.  Before  he  was  ten  years  of  age  he  be- 
came a  helper  in  a  coal  mine  near  Resolven,  and 
while  there  learned  to  dig  coal,  in  which  work  he 
began  before  he  was  sixteen,  meantime  becoming 
fire  boss  in  a  mine  in  the  Neath  district.  In  1882 
he  took  passage  at  Liverpool  for  America,  and 
after  landing  in  New  York  proceeded  at  once  to 
Colorado,  where  he  arrived  in  May.  He  en- 
gaged in  mining  in  Erie  district  until  February, 
1883,  when  he  went  to  Como,  Park  County, 
Colo.,  and  continued  mining.  March,  1884, 
found  him  in  Crested  Butte,  where  he  was  fire 
boss  for  the  Colorado  Coal  and  Iron  Company, 
and  this  company  in  1885  sent  him  to  take  the 
position  of  fire  boss  at  the  Walsenburg  mines. 
In  May,  1886,  he  resigned  the  position  and 
visited  his  old  home  in  Wales,  spending  six 
months  in  renewing  associations  with  the  com- 
rades and  scenes  of  his  youth.  While  in  Wales 
he  married  Miss  Mary  Ann,  daughter  of  Reese 
and  Elizabeth  Howells. 

On  his  return  to  America  Mr.  Griffiths  re- 
sumed his  former  place  as  fire  boss  in  the  Wal- 
senburg mines,  and  was  later  promoted  by  the 
company  to  be  pit  boss  at  the  Robinson  mines. 
Resigning  in  June,  1889,  he  went  to  Sopris,  Las 
Animas  County,  where  he  took  tlie  position  of 
fire  boss  with  the  Colorado  Fuel  and  Iron  Com- 
pany, but  this  he  resigned  in  October,  1890,  in 
order  to  accept  a  position  as  mine  foreman  with 
the  Trinidad  Fuel  Company  at  Chicosa,  Colo. 
During  his  time  with  them  he  had  entire  charge 
of  the  group  of  mines,  with  three  openings.  In 
1894  he  resigned  and  took  full  charge  of  the  Oak 
Creek  mines  at  Williamsburg  for  the  United  Coal 
Company,  being  superintendent  and  mine  fore- 
man for  the  company  until  he  accepted  his  pres- 
ent position  of  state  inspector.  During  the 
administration  of  Governor  Waite  he  was  one  of 
seven  who  took  the  competitive  examination  for 


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state  inspector,  and  of  the  seven  four  passed  the 
minimum,  which  was  sixty  per  cent;  of  these  he 
received  the  highest  grade,  his  being  ninety-nine 
and  a  fraction  per  cent,  while  the  others  received 
respectively  sixty- six  and  eight- tenths  per  cent, 
sixty-two  and  sixty-one  and  a  fraction.  The  ap- 
pointee was  the  one  who  had  sixty-two  per  cent. 
He  was  again  examined  at  the  regular  time  in 
1895,  this  time  receiving  ninety-nine  and  a  frac- 
tion, while  not  one  of  the  three  other  competitors 
received  ninety  percent,  which  was  the  minimum. 
February  18,  1895,  he  was  appointed  state  in- 
spector for  a  term  of  four  years.  For  three  years 
he  studied  in  the  International  Correspondence 
Schools  of  Scranton  and  graduated  from  that  in- 
stitution in  the  mining  course,  receiving  his 
diploma  September  11,  1897.  In  the  final  ex- 
amination his  standing  was  ninety- eight  and 
seven-tenths  per  cent,  which  was  remarkably 
high. 

Since  his  appointment  as  state  inspector  Mr. 
Griffiths  and  his  wife  have  made  their  home  in 
Denver.  They  have  five  children:  William, 
Martha  A.,  Elizabeth,  Catherine  Jane  and  Blos- 
som. In  national  politics  Mr.  Griffiths  is  a  silver 
Republican.  He  was  made  a  Mason  at  Crested 
Butte  and  is  still  a  member  of  lyodge  No.  38  at 
that  place.  He  is  also  a  member  of  Unity  Lodge 
No.  70,  I.  O.  O.  F.,  at  Walsenburg. 


I  EWIS  CHENEY.  Few  men  who  have  been 
I  C  citizens  of  Boulder  at  any  period  of  its  history 
IT?  became  so  well  known  as  Mr.  Cheney,  and 
still  fewer  gained  a  wider  personal  popularity  or 
warmer  friendships.  For  years  before  his  death 
he  was  president  of  four  banking  institutions,  for 
which  responsible  work  his  superior  mental  qual- 
ities abundantly  qualified  him.  He  accumulated 
an  ample  fortune  through  the  steady  prosecution 
of  business  enterprises,  not  by  any  lucky  turn  of 
fortune's  wheel,  or  the  fortunate  issue  of  specula- 
tive schemes. 

Born  in  Cattaraugus  County,  N.  Y.,  April  4, 
1830,  Mr.  Cheney  was  reared  on  a  farm.  When 
a  boy  he  removed  to  Stephenson  County,  111., 
settling  on  a  farm  near  Lena.  At  the  age  of  twenty 
he  journeyed  over  the  plains  with  an  ox-team  to 
California,  where  he  engaged  in  mining,  freight- 
ing and  stock  dealing,  which  yielded  him  a  hand- 
some revenue.  In  1854  he  returned  overland  to 
Illinois,  and  engaged  in  the  mercantile  business 


in  Lena  until  1866,  when  he  sold  out  and  started 
for  Montana.  On  the  20th  of  May  he  met  his 
brother  in  Nebraska  City  and  together  they 
bought  four  hundred  cattle  and  freight  teams, 
which  they  loaded,  and  started  up  the  Platte.  At 
Fort  Larimer  they  were  informed  by  officers  that 
they  would  have  no  trouble  in  passing  over  the 
Bozeman  route.  After  they  had  traveled  some 
distance  they  were  attacked  by  Sioux  and  Chey- 
ennes  at  Dry  Fork  and  Wind  River.  His  brother 
was  shot  and  killed,  and  he  narrowly  escaped  the 
same  fate.  He  spent  the  winter  at  the  head  of 
the  Missouri  River  and  sold  out  in  the  spring  of 
1867,  returning  to  Illinois  in  July,  accompanied 
by  his  brother's  family. 

After  selling  his  property  in  Lena,  Mr.  Cheney 
removed  to  Holden,  Mo.,  and  in  partnership 
with  I.  M.  Smith,  under  the  firm  name  of  Smith 
&  Cheney,  opened  a  bank  July  i,  1868.  In 
187 1  the  Bank  of  Holden  was  organized,  with 
himself  as  president.  In  1874  he  assisted  in  or- 
ganizing the  Bates  County  National  Bank,  in 
Butler,  Mo. ,  and  was  made  its  president.  Three 
years  later,  in  1877,  he  organized  the  First 
National  Bank  of  Boulder,  of  which  he  was  presi- 
dent until  his  death.  He  also  organized  the  First 
National  Bank  of  Gunnison  and  was  its  president 
during  the  remaining  years  of  his  life.  Through 
his  business  and  financial  ability  and  sound  judg- 
ment in  investments,  he  became  one  of  the  wealth- 
iest men  in  Boulder. 

In  1855  Mr.  Cheney  married  Margaret  Blair, 
who  died  in  1867.  His  second  marriage  took 
place  in  Holden  in  1871,  and  united  him  with 
Sarah  A.  Milner,  who  was  born  near  Connors- 
ville,  Fayette  County,  Ind.  One  of  her  earliest 
recollections  is  of  leading  by  the  hand  her  great- 
grandfather, Amos  Milner,  who  was  a  native  of 
Kentucky,  a  soldier  in  the  Revolution,  and  was 
nearly  blind  at  the  time  of  his  death,  when  little 
less  than  one  hundred  years  old.  His  son  John 
moved  from  Ohio  to  Indiana  and  died  there;  the 
latter's  son,  Amos,  was  born  in  Ohio,  settled  in 
Fayette  County,  Ind. ,  and  engaged  in  farming  un- 
til his  death,  which  occurred  when  his  daughter 
was  ten  years  of  age.  His  wife,  Rosanna,  was  a 
daughter  of  John  Boyd,  a  farmer  in  Indiana;  she 
died  when  her  daughter,  Sarah  A.,  was  eight 
years  old.  Of  her  five  daughters  and  three  sons 
one  daughter  and  two  sons  are  living.  John,  an 
attorney,  died  in  Indiana;  William  I.  and  Amos 


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O.  reside  in  Boulder,  the  latter  being  a  veteran 
of  the  Civil  war.  Three  of  the  sisters  died  in 
Indiana  and  one  in  Missouri.  When  a  girl  Mrs. 
Cheney  lived  with  her  grandparents,  Milner,  in 
Indiana,  but  she  was  married  in  Holden,  Mo. 
Since  fifteen  years  of  age  she  has  been  a  member 
of  the  Christian  Church.  She  owns  and  occupies 
a  beautiful  residence  at  No.  1205  Bluif  street, 
where,  surrounded  by  every  comfort  which  ample 
means  can  provide,  she  may  reasonably  hope  to 
spend  her  declining  days.  She  is  a  lady  of  gentle 
character,  kind  to  the  deserving  poor,  as  was  her 
husband,  and  generous  to  all  in  need.  In  her 
family  there  are  three  children:  Oliver  I.,  who 
is  engaged  in  mining  at  Somerville;  Charles  H., 
who  is  bookkeeper  in  the  First  National  Bank  of 
Boulder;  and  Lynette,  a  graduate  of  the  Christian 
College  at  Columbia,  Mo. 

The  life  of  Mr.  Cheney  closed  March  31,  1885. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Christian  Church  and 
an  active  participant  in  its  enterprises.  Frater- 
nally he  was  a  Knight  Templar  Mason.  He  was 
interested  in  everything  that  would  promote  the 
well-being  of  the  city,  and  was  ever  willing  to 
sacrifice  private  interests  for  the  public  welfare. 
Although  deeply  engrossed  in  his  banking  enter- 
prises, yet  he  was  interested  in  every  good  work, 
ever  public-spirited  and  efficient,  and  believing 
as  he  did  that  there  is  but  one  thing  that  will 
make  a  state  great,  an  educated  Christian  citizen- 
ship, all  along  the  pathway  of  his  busy  life  he 
was  the  friend  of  the  church,  the  school  and  col- 
legiate education.  As  a  progressive  citizen,  an 
able  banker,  a  consistent  Christian  and  a  kind 
friend,  he  is  remembered  by  all  who  knew  him. 


SEN.  BYRON  h.  CARR.  There  are  among 
the  citizens  of  Colorado  many  men  of  un- 
usual breadth  of  mind  and  brilliancy  of  intel- 
lect, men  who  would  be  valuable  acquisitions  to 
the  citizenship  of  any  state,  and  to  whose  mental 
acumen  and  excellent  business  judgment  much 
of  the  progress  made  by  this  state  during  the 
past  two  decades  may  be  attributed.  Such  a  man 
is  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  who  has  been  hon- 
ored by  the  people  of  the  state  with  election  to 
the  ofiice  of  attorney-general.  Since  coming  to 
Colorado  in  1871  he  has  held  many  responsible 
positions,  both  under  the  territorial  and  the  state 
government,  and  the  highest  interests  of  the  com- 


monwealth have  been  visibly  enhanced  by  his 
sagacity  and  practical  judgment. 

The  Carr  family  has  been  represented  in 
America  since  the  days  of  the  Pilgrim  Fathers. 
The  ship  carpenter  of  the  "Mayflower,"  1620, 
was  George  Carr,  who  settled  at  Plymouth,  but 
later  removed  to  Salisbury,  Mass.,  where  gen- 
erations of  his  descendants  lived  and  died.  The 
town  was  situated  on  an  island  in  the  Merrimac 
River,  and  under  the  name  of  Carr's  Island,  by 
which  it  was  commonly  known,  was  granted  to 
George  Carr  in  1625.  Some  of  the  family  were 
in  the  colonial  wars,  and  two,  one  of  whom  was 
named  James,  took  part  in  the  enterprise  against 
Quebec.  Capt.  Daniel  Carr  was  born  in  Salis- 
bury in  1710,  and  attained  the  age  of  one  hun- 
dred years.  His  son.  Deacon  John  Carr,  was 
born  in  Newburyport,  Mass.,  in  1774,  and  when 
a  young  man  removed  to  Grafton  County, N.  H., 
where  he  engaged  in  farming.  For  a  long  time 
he  served  as  deacon  in  the  Congregational 
Church. 

Next  in  line  of  descent  was  General  Carr's 
father,  Capt.  John  Carr,  who  was  born  in  Graf- 
ton County,  served  as  captain  of  a  company  of 
New  Hampshire  militia,  and  for  years  was  a  con- 
tractor and  builder  of  bridges  and  churches.  He 
made  his  home  in  Haverhill  until  his  death, 
which  occurred  at  sixty-four  years.  His  wife 
was  Susan  Ryder,  a  native  of  New  Hampshire, 
and  the  daughter  of  Seth  Ryder,  who  was  born 
in  Newburyport,  Mass.  The  latter,  who  was 
the  son  of  a  sea  captain,  married  Mary  Hibbard, 
whose  father,  Thomas,  was  an  officer  in  the 
Revolution,  having  served  as  clerk  of  a  company 
of  militia  in  1775-76,  sergeant  on  guard  and 
scout  duty  in  1777,  and  captain  of  a  company 
from  May,  1779,  to  1781,  being  continuously  in 
the  service  from  1775  to  1781.  He  was  of  Eng- 
lish descent.  Mrs.  Susan  Carr  died  in  1889,  at 
seventy-five  years;  she  was  the  mother  of  seven 
children,  four  of  whom  attained  maturity,  By- 
ron I/,  being  the  youngest  child  and  the  only 
son  now  living. 

In  his  native  town  of  Haverhill,  N.  H.,  and 
in  the  Newbury  (Vt.)  Academy  General  Carr 
received  his  education.  While  a  student  in  the 
academy,  April  19,  1861,  he  enlisted  in  the  Sec- 
ond New  Hampshire  Infantry,  serving  for  three 
months.  In  1862  he  enlisted  in  the  First  New 
Hampshire  Cavalry,  Company  M,  and  re-enlisted 


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in  1864,  serving  until  June,  1865,  when  he  was 
discharged  as  acting  sergeant-major  of  the  First 
Cavalry.  With  the  Army  of  the  Potomac  he 
took  part  in  the  battles  of  Cedar  Mountain ,  sec- 
ond battle  of  Bull  Run,  Chantilly,  Fredericks- 
burg, Chancellorsville,  the  Wilderness  and  Shen- 
andoah campaigns,  battles  of  Antietam  and  Cold 
Harbor;  the  campaign  around  Richmond  and 
Petersburg,  and  the  battle  of  Appomattox.  At 
Fisher  Hill,  in  September,  1864,  he  was  four 
times  wounded  and  lost  his  left  thumb.  At  Ap- 
pomattox, the  day  before  Lee  surrendered,  he 
was  wounded  in  the  right  arm,  which  was  so  se- 
riously injured  as  to  make  amputation  necessary. 
He  remained  in  the  hospital  from  April  8,  1865, 
to  the  following  July,  when  he  was  able  to  leave. 
At  Middleburg,  Va.,  June  17,  1863,  he  was  cap- 
tured by  Stuart's  cavalry  and  sent  to  Libby 
prison,  thence  to  Belle  Island,  remaining  as  pris- 
oner until  October,  when  he  was  exchanged. 
While  in  prison  he  suffered  all  the  privations  and 
hardships  incident  to  life  as  a  prisoner  of  war. 

On  his  return  from  the  war  he  completed  his 
academic  course  in  Vermont,  and  then,  in  1867, 
went  to  Waukegan,  111.,  where  he  was  principal 
of  the  high  school.  In  1868,  by  appointment, 
he  was  made  county  superintendent  of  schools, 
to  which  ofSce  he  was  elected  in  1869  for  four 
years.  While  in  that  position  he  studied  law 
and  was  admitted  to  the  bar.  Resigning  his  of- 
fice in  187 1  he  came  to  Colorado  in  April  of  that 
year  and  located  at  Lougmont,  where  he  taught 
for  a  year  and  also  practiced  law.  In  1873-74 
he  wag  attorney  of  the  first  judicial  district  of 
Colorado,  including  Gilpin,  Clear  Creek,  Boul- 
der, Jefferson  and  Larimer  Counties.  In  1875  he 
was  chosen  a  member  of  the  constitutional  con- 
vention of  Colorado,  and  in  the  convention  of 
1875-76  he  was  chairman  of  the  committee  on 
military  affairs  and  drew  up  the  military  article. 
He  also  served  as  a  member  of  the  committees 
on  education,  mines  and  mining,  agriculture,  and 
revision  and  adjustment.  The  convention  was 
composed  of  thirty-nine  men,  who  stood  among 
the  brainiest  and  most  influential  in  the  state. 
In  the  convention  March  14,  1876,  the  constitu- 
tion was  adopted,  and  President  Grant  issued  his 
proclamation  admitting  the  state  on  the  ist  of 
August.  On  the  ist  of  July  it  was  submitted  to 
the  people  for  ratification,  and  by  them  was 
adopted. 


On  the  Republican  ticket,  in  1894,  Mr.  Carr 
was  nominated  for  the  office  of  attorney-general 
and  was  elected,  taking  his  seat  in  January, 
1895.  I'he  following  year  he  was  re-elected  on 
a  fusion  ticket  of  silver  Republicans  and  Demo- 
crats. In  addition  to  discharging  the  duties  of 
his  office,  he  is  interested  in  farm  lands  in  Boul- 
der County,  and  in  real  estate  elsewhere.  He  is 
a  member  of  the  Masonic  lodge  in  Longmont, 
and  has  been  past  grand  master  of  Colorado; 
Longmont  Chapter  No.  8,  R.  A.  M.,  in  which  he 
is  past  high  priest;  Long's  Peak  Commandery  No. 
12,  K.  T. ,in  which  he  is  past  eminent  com- 
mander and  past  grand  commander  of  the  state, 
holding  the  latter  position  at  the  time  of  the  con- 
clave in  Denver  in  1892,  when  he  gave  the  ad- 
dress of  welcome;  also  a  member  of  the  Ancient 
Order  of  United  Workmen.  In  the  Grand  Army 
he  is  quite  active.  He  aided  in  organizing  Mc- 
Pherson  Post  No.  6  of  Longmont,  of  which  he  is 
past  commander,  and  in  1884  was  department 
commander  of  Colorado.  The  most  of  the  na- 
tional conventions  of  the  army  he  has  attended. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  national  executive  council 
of  administration  in  the  Grand  Army. 

In  Chicago  General  Carr  married  Miss  Mary 
L.  Pease,  who  was  born  in  Maine,  the  daughter 
of  Eliphalet  Pease,  who  was  a  native  of  Maine 
and  died  in  Colorado.  They  have  two  children, 
Jerome  B.,  a  student  in  the  Denver  high  school; 
and  Susie,  wife  of  Capt.  L.  P.  McGuire,  of  Den- 
ver, who  is  private  secretary  to  his  father-in-law. 
Mrs.  Carr  is  grand  worthy  matron  of  the  Order 
of  Eastern  Star  of  Colorado.  She  is  a  member  of 
the  Woman's  Relief  Corps  No.  32  at  Longmont; 
is  past  department  president  of  the  state  corps, 
and  in  1895  held  office  as  national  inspector. 


i  yi  F.  LEECH.  The  record  of  the  life  of  Mr. 
Y  Leech  for  some  years  past  has  been  the  his- 
(3  tory  of  the  Inter  Mountain  Railway,  or,  as 
it  is  now  known  under  the  more  recent  laws  of 
incorporation,  the  Colorado  Northwestern  Rail- 
way. The  road  extends  from  Boulder  west  and 
north  to  Ward,  passing  through  Crissman,  Sa- 
lina,  Copper  Rock,  Sunset,  Sunnyside  and  Dew- 
drop.  The  charter,  under  the  laws  of  Colorado, 
shows  a  capital  stock  of  $500,000  and  bears  date 
of  1897.  The  contract  was  let  August  i,  1897, 
and  the  road  was  completed  to  Sunset  February 


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28,  1898,  the  first  train  running  on  that  day.  By 
the  latter  part  of  May,  1898,  the  line  was  ex- 
tended to  Ward,  twenty-six  and  one-half  miles 
from  Boulder.  A  branch,  running  from  Gold  Hill 
Junction  to  Eldora,  will  be  completed  in  the  fall 
of  1899,  and  will  be  eighteen  miles  in  length. 
The  undertaking  has  been  one  of  great  responsi- 
bility and  represents  an  immense  amount  of  labor, 
much  of  which  has  been  accomplished  by  Mr. 
Leech,  who  is  a  director.  The  officers  are:  E.  C. 
Thompson,  of  Meadville,  Pa.,  president;  Col.  C. 
W.  Mackey,  of  Franklin,  Pa.,  vice-president  and 
secretary;  Thomas  R.  Mann,  of  Lockhaven,  Pa., 
treasurer;  J.  T.  Blair,  of  Greenville,  Pa.,  general 
manager;  and  T.  S.  Waltemeyer,  of  Omaha,  who 
is  a  director. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  in  Tionesta, 
Forest  County,  Pa. ,  November  24,  1850.  His  fa- 
ther, D.  E.,  was  born  in  Leechburg,  Armstrong 
County,  Pa.,  his  grandfather,  John,  in  Mercer 
County,  and  his  great-grandfather,  John,Sr.,  in 
York  County.  The  last-named,  who  was  a  far- 
mer, served  as  government  surveyor  and  civil  en- 
gineer in  Pennsylvania  and  received  in  payment  a 
large  tract  of  land  in  Mercer  County,  upon  which 
he  settled  and  engaged  in  farm  pursuits;  he  died 
on  that  place  at  the  age  of  ninety-nine  years. 
His  father,  who  was  a  lieutenant  in  the  Revolu- 
tionary war,  was  a  member  of  a  family  that  be- 
longed to  the  Society  of  Friends  and  came  from 
England  to  Philadelphia  with  William  Penn. 

The  grandfather  of  our  subject,  together  with 
his  brother  David,  had  the  contract  to  build  the 
western  end  of  the  Penn.sylvania  Canal,  which 
they  completed  from  the  Allegheny  River  east 
over  the  mountains,  it  being  the  greatest  feat  of 
engineering  that  had  been  accomplished  up  to 
that  time.  They  founded  the  town  of  Leechburg, 
now  on  the  Pennsylvania  Railroad,  and  with  a 
present  population  of  twenty  thousand  people. 
Both  were  stockholders  in  the  canal  until  it  was 
sold  by  the  state.  The  grandfather  died  when 
visiting  in  Tennessee,  aged  seventy-two. 

Our  subject's  father,  who  was  a  farmer  in  For- 
est County,  removed  from  there  to  Greenville, 
Mercer  County.  Prior  to  that,  in  1850,  he  went 
via  the  Panama  route  to  California,  where  he  en- 
gaged in  mining  for  two  years.  On  his  return 
east  he  bought  a  farm  in  Greenville,  where  he 
continued  until  the  war.  He  then  enlisted  as  a 
private  in  Company  I,  Second  Pennsylvania  Cav- 


alry, where  he  served  in  the  Army  of  the  Potomac 
under  General  Stoneman  until  the  close  of  the 
war,  a  period  of  four  and  one-half  years  of  service. 
He  was  slightly  wounded  in  the  battle  of  City 
Point.  For  meritorious  service  he  was  promoted 
to  be  first  lieutenant.  When  the  war  ended  he  re- 
turned to  his  farm.  In  1873  he  removed  to  Ogal- 
lala,  Keith  County,  Neb.,  where  he  remained  for 
six  years  upon  a  ranch.  The  year  1879  found 
him  in  Boulder,  Colo. ,  where  he  continued  to  re- 
side until  shortly  before  his  death.  While  on  a 
visit  to  his  ranch  in  Nebraska,  he  died,  at  the 
age  of  sixty-four;  the  remains  where  brought  to 
Boulder  for  interment.  He  was  identified  with 
the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic  and  was  com- 
mander of  the  post  at  Ogallala. 

Our  subject's  mother  was  Elizabeth  Hilands,  a 
native  of  Tionesta,  Pa.,  and  now  a  resident  of 
Los  Angeles,  Cal.  She  was  a  daughter  of  John 
Hilands,  a  civil  engineer,  who  resided  in  Tiones- 
ta until  his  death,  when  but  little  less  than  one 
hundred  years  of  age.  In  her  family  there  were 
four  sons  and  four  daughters,  namely:  M.  F. ; 
Mrs.  Charlotte  Tanner,  of  Denver;  Mrs.  Dora 
Lonergan,  of  Manitou;  Mrs.  Carrie  Simms,  who 
died  at  Fort  Collins  in  December,  1897;  Elmer 
E. ,  a  cattleman  at  Big  Springs,  Neb. ;  William 
H.,  a  locomotive  engineer  running  on  the  Atch- 
ison, Topeka  &  Santa  Fe  Railroad  into  Los  An- 
geles, Cal. ;  Mrs.  Ida  M.  Stansfield,  of  West 
Australia;  and  C.  D.,  of  Los  Angeles,  Cal. 

When  our  subject  was  a  boy  his  father  entered 
the  service  of  the  Union,  and  he,  being  the  oldest 
of  the  children,  assisted  his  mother  in  the  man- 
agement of  the  farm.  In  1865,  when  his  father 
returned  home,  he  secured  work  as  a  newsboy  on 
the  Atlantic  &  Great  Western  (now  the  Erie) 
Railroad,  and  soon  after  was  given  employment 
in  the  McHenry  House  at  Meadville,  Pa.  Later 
he  was  fireman  on  the  Atlantic  &  Great  Western 
road,  between  Meadville  and  Kent,  and  during 
his  leisure  hours  he  learned  telegraphy.  This  lat- 
ter occupation  he  followed  to  some  extent.  From 
Pennsylvania  he  went  to  join  his  father,  who  had 
moved  to  Sparta,  White  County,  Tenn.,  and  he 
secured  work  as  locomotive  engineer  in  the  em- 
ploy of  the  Nashville  &  Lebanon  Railroad,  where 
he  remained  for  six  months,  when  he  was  injured 
in  a  wreck.  Going  to  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  he  was 
for  a  time  employed  in  the  Western  Union  Tele- 
graph Company's  office.    Believing  that  a  change 


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ofclimate  would  benefit  his  health,  in  1871  Mr. 
Leech  came  west,  making  the  run  along  the 
Union  Pacific  from  North  Platte  as  extra  agent 
and  train  dispatcher.  For  a  time  he  engaged  in 
railroading  in  Wyoming,  but  he  suffered  with  the 
ague  there,  and  concluded  to  "rough  it"  among 
the  Indians.  He  went  among  the  Sioux,  whose 
language  he  learned  and  among  whom  he  spent 
the  greater  part  of  three  years  in  the  western  part 
of  Nebraska  and  Wyoming.  When  he  went  to 
Sherman,  Wyo. ,  in  the  fall  of  1871  he  was  in  such 
poor  health  that  the  inhabitants,  believing  he 
would  not  survive  the  winter,  dug  a  grave  for 
him  at  once,  as  it  was  their  custom  to  prepare 
graves  in  the  fall,  in  order  that  it  would  not  be 
necessary  to  dig  in  the  frozen  ground  in  the  win- 
ter. However,  the  climate  and  his  outdoor  exer- 
cise benefited  him  so  much  that  he  soon  regained 
his  former  strength.  From  the  fact  that  he  is  a 
very  reserved  man,  the  Indians  called  him  "Wah 
see  chee  yoppa  chinclullah,"  meaning  "White 
man  talks  little,"  and  one  might  well  add,  "and 
that  little  is  to  the  point." 

In  1875,  when  the  war  broke  out  with  the 
Sioux,  Mr.  Leech  offered  his  services  to  the  gov- 
ernment and  became  a  scout  with  General  Crook. 
On  account  of  his  familiarity  with  the  Sioux, 
their  country  and  their  language,  he  was  a  very 
valuable  aide,  and  guided  the  army  in  their  scouts 
and  rencontres.  During  one  of  these  expeditions 
he  was  captured  three  times  by  three  different 
bands  of  Sioux  and  each  time  talked  his  way  to 
freedom.  Knowing  their  language,  character  and 
habits  he  succeeded  in  making  them  think  he  was 
the  agent  of  the  government,  authorized  to  secure 
the  number  of  beef  cattle  that  was  needed  to  feed 
the  families  of  the  Indians  on  the  reservations.  It 
was  the  custom  of  the  government  to  send  a  man 
out  every  ten  days  to  get  from  the  Indians  the 
number  of  cattle  needed  on  the  reservations,  and 
he  succeeded  in  'convincing  the  Indians  that  he 
was  this  agent,  showing  them  his  sealed  orders, 
which  were  large  and  official-looking,  to  prove 
the  truth  of  his  assertion;  while  if  they  had  been 
able  to  read,  the  papers  would  have  been  his 
death  warrant.  He  participated  in  the  battle  of 
Rosebud. 

After  the  close  of  the  Sioux  war,  in  the  fall  of 
1875,  Mr.  Leech  went  into  the  employ  of  the  Uni- 
ted States  government,  the  Union  Pacific  Rail- 
road and  the  Wyoming  Cattle  Growers'  Associa- 


tion, to  hunt  down  and  exterminate  the  outlaws, 
train  and  stage  robbers  and  cattle  thieves  who 
had  a  strong  foothold  in  Wyoming  and  western 
Nebraska  during  the  war,  as  the  government 
could  not  pay  much  attention  to  them  during  the 
Indian  troubles.  He  was  placed  at  the  head  of  a 
band  of  men  and  continued  in  the  service  for  three 
years,  until  he  had  all  exterminated.  During  this 
time  he  had  sixty-one  of  the  outlaws  either  hung 
or  sent  to  the  penitentiary,  while  others  were 
hung  by  vigilance  committees  before  he  got  on 
their  track.  Sometimes,  he  rode  after  them  days 
and  nights  in  succession  and  had  more  than  one 
pitched  battle.  The  outlaws  were  desperate  and 
when  they  found  he  was  after  them  they  threat- 
ened his  life  and  several  times  they  attempted  to 
assassinate  him  at  his  home  in  Ogallala,  Neb.  In 
1878  he  moved  his  family  to  Boulder,  thinking  it 
would  be  a  safe  place  for  them.  Once,  in  that 
place,  his  life  was  attempted,  but  he  maimed  his 
assailant  to  prevent  further  harm.  As  the  out- 
laws scattered,  it  took  him  all  over  the  country 
and  he  traveled  under  assumed  names.  It  was  on 
one  of  these  trips  that  he  met,  in  Salem,  Ind.,  the 
lady  whom  he  afterward  married.  In  1878  he 
visited  Leadville  on  business,  and  became  inter- 
ested in  mining.  He  remained  with  the  United 
States  government  until  July,  1880,  when  he 
cleared  up  the  last  gang.  Dock  Middleton's,  at 
Keya  Pah  Hah.  In  1884  he  was  again  called  in- 
to the  service  of  the  Pacific  Express  Company,  to 
hunt  the  perpetrators  of  the  Minnedoka  and  Al- 
bion stage  robbery  in  Idaho.  In  three  weeks  he 
had  them  arrested,  but  it  took  one  year  to  work 
up  the  evidence  against  and  convict  them. 

From  1878  Mr.  Leech  engaged  in  mining  oper- 
ations in  Leadville  until  1880,  when  he  returned 
to  Boulder  County  and  became  manager  of  the 
mines  and  mills  at  Ward  and  Gold  Hill.  Later, 
going  to  Idaho,  he  was  manager  of  the  Alturas 
and  Poor  Man  mines  and  was  also  interested  in 
mining.  In  1893  he  returned  to  Boulder,  for  the 
purpose  of  working  up  interest  in  a  railroad  from 
Boulder  to  Ward  and  other  mining  camps.  He 
was  familiar  with  the  canons  and  made  the  orig- 
inal survey  himself;  and  it  is  of  interest  to  note 
that  the  road  when  completed  did  not  vary  fifty 
feet  from  his  survey.  After  making  the  prelim- 
inary survey  he  went  east  to  secure  the  capital 
needed  for  building  the  road,  having  already  cor- 
responded with  Mr.  Ames,  a  capitalist  of  Boston, 


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whom  he  knew  personally.  On  the  way  east, 
when  at  Chester,  within  one  hundred  miles  of 
Boston,  the  train  was  wrecked,  going  through  a 
bridge  into  the  river,  and  fifteen  were  killed  and 
forty  wounded.  In  the  Pullman  sleeper  there 
were  eleven  passengers  and  he  was  the  only  one 
of  the  number  who  escaped  death.  When  he  re- 
gained consciousness  his  head  was  under  the  wa- 
ter and  his  body  was  caught  between  a  pair  of 
trucks,  the  flanges  of  the  wheels  holding  and 
crushing  his  left  hip.  He  lifted  his  head  out  of 
the  water  and  was  fortunately  seen  by  rescuers, 
who  placed  a  board  under  his  head,  to  hold  it  out 
of  the  water.  Five  hours  passed  before  he  was 
taken  out,  and  it  was  then  found  that  his  left  hip 
was  crushed,  arm  broken  and  his  head  injured. 
He  was  sent  to  the  hospital  in  Springfield,  Mass., 
where  the  physicians  held  out  no  hope  for  his 
recovery;  but  he  slowly  regained  his  strength, 
though  in. the  hospital  for  more  than  one  year. 
During  his  conscious  moments  he  studied  the 
plans  for  the  Inter  Mountain  Railway  (for  he 
had  already  given  a  name  to  his  projected  road); 
and  doubtless  the  same  thought  filled  his  mind 
even  in  moments  of  unconsciousness.  One  day 
he  asked,  "Why  did  the  Lord  spare  my  life 
and  make  me  a  cjipple,"  to  which  his  old  nurse 
replied,  "God  has  spared  you  so  that  the  Inter 
Mountain  Railway  can  be  built  and  you  be  the 
means  through  the  railroad  of  making  thousands 
of  homes  prosperous  and  happy." 

A  year  after  he  was  injured  Mr.  Leech  was 
able  to  leave  the  hospital,  though  still  using 
crutches.  Meantime  Mr.  Ames  had  died,  so  his 
original  plans  were  necessarily  changed.  He  went 
to  New  York  City,  but  was  taken  worse  and  was 
compelled  to  remain  in  a  hospital  for  almost  an- 
other year.  In  spite  of  discouragements  and  long 
illness,  he  did  not  give  up  his  hopes.  In  1897 
he  succeeded  in  interesting  a  few  parties  in  the 
road,  among  them  T.  S.  Waltemeyer,  of  Omaha. 
They  incorporated  the  company  and  started  a  sur- 
vey, when  E.  C.  Thompson  and  other  parties 
from  Pennsylvania  became  interested  and  sent 
out  J.  T.  Blair,  the  manager  of  the  Pittsburg, 
Bessemer  &  Lake  Erie  Railroad,  to  examine  con- 
ditions and  prospects.  After  going  over  the  sur- 
vey, Mr.  Blair  made  a  favorable  report,  and  him- 
self resigned  his  position  and  took  stock  in  the 
new  enterprise. 

In  addition  to  his  connection  with  the  railroad, 


Mr.  Leech  is  vice-president  and  general  manager 
of  the  Midget  Mining  and  Milling  Company, 
which  he  organized  and  which  is  developing  the 
Midget  group  of  mines,  containing  eight  claims. 
His  ofiice  is  in  the  Masonic  Temple  building,  on 
Pearl  street,  Boulder,  and  he  has  a  beautiful  resi- 
dence on  the  corner  of  Sixth  and  Arapahoe 
streets,  surrounded  by  a  fine  lawn  and  a  fruit 
orchard.  By  his  marriage  to  Emma  A.  Goslen, 
a  native  of  Indiana,  he  has  six  children,  namely: 
Susie,  Ralph,  Hoyt,  Edith,  Winniefred  and  Doro- 
thy. Mrs.  Leech  is  identified  with  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church,  to  which  he  is  a  liberal  contrib- 
utor. Fraternally  he  is  connected  with  the  Knights 
of  Pythias  and  in  politics  is  a  Republican. 


QrOF.  WILLIAM  VAN  CLEVE  CASEY 
Lr  occupies  a  leading  position  among  the  edu- 
|>2)  cators  of  Colorado,  and  the  town  of  Boulder 
considers  itself  particularly  fortunate  in  haying 
so  scholarly  and  efficient  a  gentleman  as  superin- 
tendent of  its  public  schools.  In  the  fall  of  1888 
he  was  honored  by  being  elected  county  superin- 
tendent of  schools  and  served  with  marked  ability 
in  that  responsible  position  until  January,  1893, 
having  been  re-elected  in  the  meantime,  in  1890. 
He  is  identified  with  the  State  Teachers'  Associa- 
tion, the  National  Educational  Association  and 
the  Boulder  County  Teachers'  Association.  The 
last-mentioned  he  was  very  influential  in  organiz- 
ing and  has  several  times  been  its  president.  For 
some  time  he  has  delivered  lectures  on  school 
law  before  the  class  in  pedagogy  in  the  Uni- 
versity of  Colorado. 

The  professor's  paternal  grandfather,  Abraham 
Casey,  was  a  minister  in  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church,  riding  on  the  old  "circuit"  in  southern 
Illinois,  preaching  "without  money  and  without 
price"  on  Sundays,  and  carrying  on  his  farm 
during  the  rest  of  the  week,  in  order  to  make  a 
livelihood  for  himself  and  family.  He  was  a  na- 
tive of  Kentucky,  was  a  descendant  of  one  of  the 
respected  old  families  of  Virginia,  and  was  one 
of  the  pioneers  of  Jefferson  County,  111.,  settling 
there  in  1818.  His  son,  Rev.  La  Fayette  Casey, 
father  of  the  subject  of  this  article,  was  born  in 
Illinois,  and  likewise  became  a  Methodist  minister. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  conference  of  southern 
Illinois  for  many  years,  and  during  the  Civil  war 
was  stationed  at  Alton,  111.     He  was  captain  of 


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a  company  in  the  Black  Hawk  war  and  was  one 
of  the  founders  of  Jefferson  County.  Having  at- 
tained almost  the  allotted  age  of  man,  three-score 
and  ten,  he  was  summoned  to  his  reward,  his 
death  occurring  at  his  home  in  Centralia,  111. 
His  wife,  Eleanor  (Herrold)  Casey,  was  a  native 
of  Missouri,  her  birth  having  taken  place  upon  a 
farm  near  Cape  Girardeau.  She  departed  this 
life  when  in  her  fifty-fourth  year.  Of  her  six 
children  all  but  two  survive.  One  son,  Robert, 
now  of  Denver,  and  interested  chiefly  in  mining 
enterprises,  was  formerly  quite  prominent  in  ed- 
ucational circles,  having  been  a  teacher  in  Illi- 
nois, in  Greeley,  Colo. ,  and  in  Boulder. 
•  Prof.  W.  V.  Casey  was  born  in  Edwardsville, 
111.,  February  23,  i860,  and  after  graduating 
from  the  Greenville  high  school  in  1877  began 
his  career  as  a  teacher.  He  taught  in  southern 
Illinois  until  1883,  when  he  came  to  Colorado, 
and  became  principal  in  the  Louisville  school. 
At  the  end  of  two  years  he  succeeded  his  brother 
Robert  as  superintendent  of  the  Boulder  school, 
and  later  he  was  placed  in  charge  of  the  Pine 
street  school.  In  January,  1893,  he  finished  out 
the  school  year  (for  he  had  just  left  the- place  of 
county  superintendent  of  schools)  for  Professor 
Harding,  principal  of  the  Longmont  high  school. 
Since  that  time  he  has  occupied  his  present  posi- 
tion, and  under  his  able  management  the  local 
schools  are  steadily  advancing  toward  perfection. 
When  he  was  first  connected  with  the  schools 
here,  there  were  but  two  .school  buildings,  the 
Central  and  the  Pine  street,  and  now,  in  addi- 
tion to  those  there  are  the  fine  new  Mapleton  and 
Highland,  as  well  as  the  high  school,  which  has 
been  merged  into  the  preparatory  school  of  the 
university.  In  his  political  views  the  professor 
is  a  Democrat,  though  he  was  elected  by  the  Re- 
publicans to  the  superintendency  of  the  county 
schools  in  1888.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Odd 
Fellows'  society,  being  past  ofiicer  of  the  same; 
is  also  a  past  officer  of  the  encampment;  belongs 
to  the  Woodmen  of  the  World;  the  Fraternal 
Union,  being  a  charter  member  of  the  Boulder 
Lodge;  the  Imperial  Legion;  and  Boulder  Lodge 
No.  45,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.  Of  the  la.st-mentioned 
lodge  he  has  twice  been  master. 

The  marriage  of  Professor  Casey  and  Miss  Ida 
Row  was  solemnized  in  Denver  in  1888.  Mrs. 
Casey  was  born  in  Centralia,  111.,  being  a  daugh- 
ter of  S.    and  Susan  (Brown)  Row,  natives  of 


Westmoreland  County,  Pa.,  and  Tennessee,  re- 
spectively. Her  father,  who  is  of  German  de- 
scent, is  a  veteran  of  the  Civil  war  and  is  in  the 
employ  of  the  Illinois  Central  Railroad  Company. 
His  wife  removed  to  southern  Illinois  with  her 
parents  in  her  girlhood.  Mrs.  Casey  is  one  of 
six  children.  She  was  educated  in  music  in  the 
College  of  Music  of  the  Illinois  Female  Seminary 
of  Jacksonville  and  in  the  Chicago  Musical  Col- 
lege. She  is  gifted  as  a  musician  and  is  a  valued 
member  of  the  Young  Ladies'  Musical  Club  of 
Boulder.  Professor  Ca.sey  and  wife  have  two 
children,  Eleanor  and  Robert  Lafayette. 


I  T.  DURBIN,  M.  D.,  surgeon  to  the  Den- 
\r\  ^^^  Consolidated  Tramway  Company  and 
LJ  one  of  the  successful  physicians  of  Denver, 
is  a  descendant  of  an  English  family,  whose  first 
representatives  in  America  were  two  brothers. 
His  father,  Jesse,  who  was  born  in  Maryland, 
was  the  son  of  William  Durbin,  a  jeweler  in  Bal- 
timore. He  was  educated  for  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  ministry  and  for  a  time  he  preached, 
both  in  Maryland  and  Ohio,  but  his  health  broke 
down  and  he  was  obliged  to  seek  a  change  of  oc- 
cupation. For  a  time  he  engaged  in  banking  in 
Woo.ster,  Ohio,  and  later  had  a  drug  store  in  Can- 
ton. In  187 1,  believiiTg  tile  change  would  be 
beneficial  to  his  health,  he  came  to  Colorado,  and, 
settling  in  Denver,  purchased  W.  S.  Cheesman's 
wholesale  and  retail  drug  business  on  Blake 
street,  where  he  remained  for  nine  years.  He 
embarked  in  the  surgical  and  dental  business  in 
1880  and  continued  in  the  same  until  his  death, 
which  occurred  in  1884,  at  the  age  of  fifty-six. 
Since  then  the  business,  which  is  incorporated, 
has  been  carried  on  by  his  children,  under  the 
name  of  J.  Durbin's  Surgical  and  Dental  Instru- 
ment Company.  Until  his  death  he  retained  his 
connection  with  the  Northern  Ohio  Conference. 
He  was  instrumental  in  the  founding  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  Denver  and  was  one  of  its  trustees. 

Rev.  Jesse  Durbin  married  Lucy  Ann  Cain, 
who  was  born  in  Winchester,  W.  Va.,  a  daugh- 
ter of  Levi  Cain,  of  that  place.  She  died  in 
Denver,  February  16,  1898.  Her  five  living 
children  reside  in  Denver.  Her  oldest  son,  Will- 
iam R. ,  who  was  his  father's  bookkeeper,  died  in 
Denver  at  the  age  of  twent3'-five,  leaving  one 
son,  William  R.  Durbin,  now  residing  in  the  state 


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of  Washington.  The  others  are:  Mary  E.,  wife 
of  George  S.  Van  Law,  who  is  a  member  of  the 
real-estate  firm  of  Van  Law  &  Gallup,  in  Denver; 
L'.  T.,  our  subject;  Jesse B.  and  Edward  A.,  who 
are  managers  of  the  business  left  by  their  father; 
and  Charles  K.,who  is  superintendent  of  the 
Denver  Consolidated  Tramway  Company. 

In  Wooster,  Wayne  County,  Ohio,  Dr.  Durbin 
was  born  May  5,  1858.  He  was  educated  in  the 
high  school  of  Canton.  In  1873  he  entered  the 
drug  business  there,  giving  attention  to  the  study 
of  pharmacy,  but  in  1876  joined  his  father,  with 
whom  he  continued  in  business  until  1880,  the 
business  being  at  that  time  disposed  of.  Next 
he  engaged  in  general  merchandising  as  a  mem- 
ber of  the  firm  of  Durbin  Brothers  at  Gold  Park, 
but  after  eighteen  months  sold  out.  He  then 
entered  the  medical  department  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  Denver,  from  which  he  graduated  two 
years  later,  in  1884,  with  the  degree  of  M.  D. 
For  a  few  months  he  was  engaged  as  a  physician 
in  the  county  hospital,  but  soon  began  in  prac- 
tice for  himself.  From  1884  to  1886  he  was  dem- 
onstrator of  anatomy  in  the  University  of  Den- 
ver, but  resigned  in  the  latter  year  owing  to  his 
removal  to  Central  City.  Two  years  were  spent 
in  that  city,  during  which  time  he  was  coroner 
of  Gilpin  County.  From  there  he  removed  to 
Villagrove,  Saguache  County,  in  the  San  Luis 
Vallej',  where  for  four  years  he  was  a  prac- 
ticing physician,  county  coroner  and  local  sur- 
geon for  the  Denver  &  Rio  Grande  Railroad  and 
the  Colorado  Coal  &  Iron  Companj^  the  latter 
concern  having  two  or  three  hundred  men  em- 
ployed at  Orient,  eight  miles  up  the  mountain. 
While  in  Villagrove  he  became  interested  in 
the  San  Luis  hot  springs  and  assisted  in  organiz- 
ing a  company  under  the  leadership  of  Chamber- 
lin  Brothers.  The  San  Luis  Hot  Springs  Com- 
pany secured  the  finest  hot  springs  in  that  locality 
and  bought  a  section  of  land,  upon  which  they 
built  hotels  and  residences.  The  enterprise  is 
yet  in  its  incipiency,  but  without  doubt  the  place 
in  time  will  become  a  noted  health  and  summer 
resort,  for  the  water  possesses  curative  properties 
and  the  climate  is  delightful. 

Returning  to  Denver   in  November,  1891,  Dr. 

Durbin  has  since  engaged  in  practice,  having  his 

office  on  Fifteenth  and  Arapahoe  streets.   He  is  en- 

■  gaged  in  general  professional  practice,  and   has 

been  surgeon  to  the  Denver  Tramway   (now  the 


Denver  Consolidated  Tramway)  Company  since 
his  return  to  the  city.  He  was  also  appointed  on 
the  hospital  staff,  but  pressure  of  other  duties  pre- 
vented his  acceptance.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Denver  and  Arapahoe  County  and  the  State 
Medical  Societies,  and  at  one  time  was  president 
of  the  alumni  of  the  University  of  Denver.  In 
1897  he  took  a  post-graduate  course  in  general 
surgery  at  the  New  York  Polyclinic.  Politically 
he  is  a  Republican,  and  fraternally  belongs  to 
Denver  Lodge  No.  7,  A.  F.  &A.  M.,  the  Ancient 
Order  of  United  Workmen  and  the  Woodmen  of 
the  World.  In  this  city,  in  November,  1886,  he 
married  Miss  Ella  Avery,  who  was  born  in  Bara- 
boo,  Wis.,  and  in  1871  came  to  Denver  with  her 
father,  James  B.  Avery,  a  retired  capitalist. 
They  have  two  children,  Jessie  A.  and  Helen  A. 
Durbin. 


HARRY  S.  BADGER,  president  and  superin- 
tendent of  the  Alauka  Mining  and  Milling 
Company  at  Salina,  Boulder  County,  was 
born  in  Boston,  Mass.,  in  1862,  the  only  child  of 
Charles  W.  and  Mary  M.  C.  (Fowler)  Badger, 
natives  -respectively  of  Montpelier,  Vt. ,  and 
Portland,  Me.  His  father,  who  was  a  son  of 
Charles  Badger,  a  merchant  of  Montpelier,  early 
gained  a  thorough  knowledge  of  the  mercantile 
business,  in  which  he  engaged  for  some  years  in 
Bo.ston;  but  in  1870  he  removed  to  California, 
where  for  years  he  operated  a  mine  in  Amador 
County.  Returning  to  Boston  in  1894  he  died 
the  same  j^ear.  His  wife  makes  her  home  with 
their  only  child. 

The  education  of  our  subject  was  largely  ac- 
quired in  Boston,  but  was  completed  in  the  Uni- 
versity of  California,  from  which  he  graduated  in 
1884,  with  the  degree  of  A.  B.  Afterward,  with 
his  father,  he  became  interested  in  mining  and 
the  stock  business,  and  for  nine  years  engaged 
in  dealing  in  cattle  at  San  Luis  Obispo.  In  1897 
he  came  to  Boulder  County,  Colo.,  and  was  em- 
ployed as  superintendent  of  the  Gold  Extracting 
Mining  and  Supply  Company  at  Wall  street  camp. 
His  connection  with  the  Alauka  Mining  and  Mill- 
ing Company  dates  from  January,  1898,  when  he 
organized  the  company  and  began  remodeling  the 
old  Williamson  mill.  The  mill  has  a  capacity  of 
thirty  tons,  and  the  removal  of  the  product  is  fa- 
cilitated by  a  siding  from  the  Colorado  North- 
western   Railroad.     The  location  could    not  be 


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surpassed,  this  district  comprising  Gold  Hill, 
Sugar  Loaf  and  Sunshine,  which  are  among  the 
best  mining  districts  in  the  state.  A  practical 
mill  man  of  long  experience  has  charge  of  the 
mill,  and  a  complete  assaying  and  sampling 
plant,  with  every  facility  for  the  sampling  of 
ores,  is  an  important  adjunct.  The  ores  are 
purchased  on  a  sliding  scale,  proportionate  to  the 
value  of  the  gold  and  silver  they  contain.  A 
specialty  is  made  of  handling  low-grade  ores, 
averaging  from  $6  to  $20  per  ton,  thus  bringing 
into  the  market  a  product  from  the  mines  never 
before  handled  commercially.  Politically  Mr. 
Badger  is  a  believer  in  Republican  principles, 
but  the  demands  of  his  business  interests  are  such 
as  to  preclude  his  active  participation  in  public 
affairs.  However,  he  is  a  progressive  and  pub- 
lic-spirited citizen,  and  favors  all  measures  for 
the  benefit  of  the  people  and  the  advancement  of 
the  community. 


|5)EIL  D.  Mckenzie,  one  of  the  most  prom- 
yi  inent  mine  operators  of  Boulder  County,  is 
l/j  a  representative  citizen  of  Boulder  and  is 
vice-president  and  a  director  of  the  National 
State  Bank  here.  He  has  been  extensively  in- 
terested in  raining  and  agricultural  affairs  since 
he  came  to  Colorado  some  thirty-two  3'ears  ago, 
and  is  a  member  of  the  Mining  Exchange  of 
Denver.  Politically  a  strong  Populist,  he  was 
sent  as  a  delegate  to  the  national  convention  in 
St.  Louis  in  1896  which  nominated  Bryan. 

In  a  family  numbering  six  sons  and  three 
daughters,  Neil  D.  McKenzie  is  the  seventh  in 
order  of  birth.  He  has  lost  one  brother  and  one 
sister,  and  two  of  his  brothers,  Colin  and  Daniel, 
are  in  Colorado,  being  engaged  in  mining  in  the 
vicinity  of  Boulder.  The  father,  Prof.  Donald 
McKenzie,  was  born  in  the  neighborhood  of 
Loch  Elch,  Scotland.  With  his  father  he  came 
to  America  when  a  young  man  and  was  reared 
upon  a  farm  in  Nova  Scotia,  which  the  senior 
McKenzie  carried  on  as  long  as  he  lived.  The 
younger  man  received  a  superior  education  and 
was  engaged  in  teaching  and  kindred  work  dur- 
ing his  active  years.  For  a  long  time  he  taught 
in  the  public  schools  of  Cape  Breton,  in  which 
place  he  lived  up  to  the  day  of  his  death.  He 
was  in  his  sixty-eighth  year  when  he  died,  and 
his  wife,  who  survived  him  many  years,  reached 


the  advanced  age  of  eighty-four.  She,  too,  was 
a  native  of  Scotland,  and  bore  the  maiden  name 
of  Catherine  McLeod.  She  accompanied  her 
family  to  Nova  Scotia,  and  in  Cape  Breton  be- 
came acquainted  with  the  man  she  later  married. 

N.  D.  McKenzie  was  born  November  29,  1842, 
in  Cape  Breton,  and  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools  of  his  native  island.  In  1862  he  went  to 
New  Brunswick  and  engaged  in  the  lumber  busi- 
ness on  the  St.  John's  River.  Thence  he  went 
to  the  Allegheny  Mountains  in  Pennsylvania, 
and  for  about  a  year  subsequent  to  the  close  of 
the  Civil  war  carried  on  a  lumbering  trade  in 
that  state.  In  1866  he  came  west,  and  for  about 
two  years  was  interested  in  mining  near  Brecken- 
ridge,  in  Summit  County.  He  then  went  to 
Blackhawk,  Gilpin  County,  and  there  bought 
and  sold  claims  and  finally  invested  considerably 
in  mines  in  Boulder  County.  He  improved  and 
placed  in  a  favorable  condition  a  mine  at  Cari- 
bou, known  as  the  Poor  Man's  Mine,  which  he 
operated  for  twelve  or  fifteen  years  alone.  •  He 
then  sold  that  mine,  in  which,  however,  he  re- 
tained an  interest.  He  was  superintendent  of 
the  company  until  1894,  when  he  withdrew  from 
the  concern.  Among  his  possessions  is  a  fine 
ranch  of  four  hundred  and  eighty  acres.  It  is 
situated  about  two  and  one-half  miles  east  of 
Boulder,  is  improved  with  fences,  good  buildings 
and  facilities  for  irrigation,  and  is  a  valuable  and 
model  ranch.  Since  settling  permanently  in 
Boulder  he  has  served  as  a  member  of  the  school 
board  here.  He  belongs  to  Silver  Queen  Lodge 
No.  112,  I.  O.  O.  F.  A  Mason  of  high  stand- 
ing,[  he  was  identified  with  Blackhawk  Lodge 
No.  II,  A.  F.  &  A.  M. ,  and  is  now  associated 
with  Columbia  Lodge  No.  14,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.; 
Boulder  Chapter  No.  7,  R.  A.  M.;  Mount  Sinai 
Commandery  No.  7,  K.  T. ,  and  is  a  member  of 
the  Denver  Consistory  and  El  Jebel  Temple, 
Mystic  Shrine. 

The  pleasant  home  of  Mr.  McKenzie  is  pre- 
sided over  by  his  estimable  wife,  formerly  Miss 
Isabelle  M.  Backus,  a  native  of  Milburn,  111. 
Her  parents,  Benjamin  and  Mary  (Griswold) 
Backus,  who  were  natives  of  New  York  and  Con- 
necticut respectively,  were  early  settlers  in  Illi- 
nois. The  eldest  child  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Mc- 
Kenzie, Neil  Backus,  is  a  member  of  the  Boulder 
high  school,  class  of  '99.  The  four  daughters  are- 
Maud,  Isabelle,  Catherine  and  Pauline. 


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HON.  JAMES  HENRY  BROWN,  attorney- 
at-law,  of  Denver,  was  born  in  St.  Joseph, 
Mo.,  in  September,  1859,  the  son  of  Henry 
Cordis  and  Jane  C.  (Thompson)  Brown.  Among 
both  his  paternal  and  maternal  ancestors  were 
some  who  served  in  the  colonial  wars  and  the 
Revolution.  His  grandfather,  Samuel  Brown, 
who  was  born  in  Cambridge,  Mass.,  October  29, 
1749,  served  throughout  the  entire  period  of  the 
Revolution,  being  a  lieutenant  under  Col.  William 
Prescott  in  the  battle  of  Bunker  Hill.  He  also 
participated  in  the  engagement  at  Concord  and 
the  siege  of  Boston  and,  as  a  lieutenant  under 
Capt.  Joseph  Hubbard,  he  took  part  in  Arnold's 
expedition  to  Quebec.  Captured  by  the  British 
near  the  beginning  of  the  Revolution,  he  was 
paroled  in  September,  1776,  and  conveyed  to 
Elizabethtown,  N.  J.  Soon  after  the  close  of  the 
war  he  went  to  Ohio  and  settled  near  St.  Clairs- 
ville,  Belmont  County,  where  he  worked  at  his 
trade  of  cooper  and  also  engaged  in  clearing  and 
improving  a  farm.  He  was  a  member  of  a  com- 
pany that,  in  1893-94,  went  out  against  the  In- 
dians in  the  northwestern  territory.  His  death 
occurred  in  Ohio  January  16,  1828,  when  he  was 
seventy-nine  years  old. 

The  maternal  grandparents  of  Mr.  Brown  were 
Joshua  Thompson,  born  in  Maine  in  1793,  and 
Marcia  (Crane)  Thompson,  born  at  Guilford, 
Conn.,  April  16,  1805.  The  Cranes  were  a  prom- 
inent family  in  the  early  days  of  Massachusetts 
and  some  of  them  were  soldiers  in  the  colonial 
wars.  James  Thompson,  father  of  Joshua,  was 
born  in  Londonderry,  N.  H.,  and  enlisted  as  a 
private  in  a  New  Hampshire  regiment  under  Col. 
John  Stark,  April  23,  1777,  and  in  time  was  made 
an  officer  as  a  reward  of  meritorious  service. 
After  the  war  he  removed  to  Canandaigua,  N.  Y., 
where  he  remained  until  death.  He  was  a  de- 
scendant of  Sir  Hugh  Thompson,  who  emigrated 
from  Dublin  to  America  in  1722,  settling  in  Rhode 
Island;  his  son,  Hugh,  was  born  in  1722,  three 
daj's  before  the  ship  landed  upon  American  shores. 

The  eldest  of  three  children,  Mr.  Brown  has  a 
brother,  Sherman  T. ,  who  graduated  from  Gross 
Medical  College  in  1897;  and  a  sister,  Carrie  M., 
who  is  the  wife  of  Robert  T.  Cassell,  of  Denver. 
James  Henry  prepared  for  college  in  the  Denver 
schools  and  in  1875  entered  the  Northwestern 
University  at  Evanston,  111.,  where  he  took  a 
Latin  and  scientific  course.     At   the  end  of  the 


sophomore  year  he  left  school  and  began  the  study 
of  law  in  the  office  of  Hon.  G.  G.  Symes  and 
Westbrook  S.  Decker,  of  Denver,  with  whom  he 
remained  until  his  admission  to  the  bar  in  August, 
1879.  In  1 88 1  he  was  admitted  to  practice  be- 
fore the  supreme  court  of  the  United  States,  be- 
fore which  august  tribunal  he  conducted  the  suit 
brought  by  his  father  against  the  state  of  Colorado, 
to  recover  the  capitol  site.  At  that  time  he  was 
only  twenty-one  years  of  age.  From  1883  to 
1885  he  held  the  office  of  city  attorne}'.  He  is 
well  versed  in  corporation  law,  a  knowledge  that 
has  been  worth  much  to  him"  in  his  practice. 
During  his  service  as  counsel  for  the  Denver  Con- 
solidated Tramway  Company,  he  managed  its  im- 
portant affairs  in  an  admirable  manner. 

In  the  fall  of  1890  Mr.  Brown  was  nominated 
for  the  legislature  on  the  straight  Republican  ticket. 
A  split  occurred  in  the  party  and  an  opposing 
candidate  was  nominated.  However,  Mr.  Brown 
was  elected  by  a  fair  majority,  and  took  his  seat 
in  January,  1891,  as  a  member  of  the  Eighth 
General  Assembly.  He  was  the  leader  of  the 
combination  of  Republicans  and  Democrats,  which 
secured  the  enactment  of  important  legislation  and 
removed  the  speaker,  who  had  been  placed  in 
power  by  the  "machine"  element.  The  governor 
was  at  first  inclined  to  sympathize  with  the  other 
side  and  ordered  militia  out  against  the  reformers, 
but  consented  to  drop  matters  on  a  threat  of  im- 
peachment. The  case  went  to  the  supreme  court 
at  the  request  of  the  governor  and  that  body  ren- 
dered a  decision  sustaining  the  position  of  Mr. 
Brown  and  his  friends,  and  deciding  that  a  ma- 
jority of  the  house  could  electa  new  speaker  as 
often  as  it  pleased.  This  is  the  only  instance  in 
th2  history  of  the  country  where  a  precedent  has 
been  established  to  remove  the  speaker  at  will  of 
the  house.  During  the  session  Mr.  Brown  was 
instrumental  in  the  passage  of  a  bill  adopting  the 
Australian  ballot  law,  also  took  an  interest  in  the 
fee  and  salary  bill,  registration  law,  and  a  bill 
requiring  the  state  treasurer  to  pay  interest  on 
'the  public  funds  into  the  state  treasury.  He 
served  as  a  member  of  the  judiciary  and  other  im- 
portant legislative  committees.  This  session 
passed  a  law  establishing  the  court  of  appeals  for 
Colorado,  and  one  making  the  taxes  payable  in 
two  installments  annually.  He  is  general  counsel 
for  the  Barber  Asphalt  Paving  Company  for  Colo- 
rado, also  for  the   Colorado   Paving   Company, 


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and  represents  other  important  legal  interests. 
In  189 1  he  was  a  member  of  the  board  of  directors 
of  the  Denver  chamber  of  commerce  and  board 
of  trade,  and  at  present  is  a  member  of  the  com- 
mittee on  legal  advice,  in  which  capacity  he  has 
served  for  a  number  of  years. 

In  Denver  Mr.  Brown  married  Mary  A.  Clark, 
who  was  born  in  Lyons,  N.  Y. ,  and  graduated 
from  the  Denver  high  school.  Her  father,  Hon. 
William  Clark,  was  born  and  reared  in  New  York 
and  served  in  the  senate  of  that  state,  coming 
from  there  in  1879  to  Colorado,  where  he  made 
his  home  until  he'  was  killed  by  accidentally  fall- 
ing from  a  railroad  train  in  1884  while  returning 
from  the  east.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Brown  have  one 
daughter,  Dorothy. 

June  14,  1896,  the  degree  of  A.  M.  was  con- 
ferred upon  Mr.  Brown  by  the  University  of 
Denver.  Fraternally  he  is  connected  with  the 
Royal  Arcanum;  also  Denver  Lodge  No.  5, 
A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  Denver  Chapter  No.  2,R.A.  M., 
Colorado  Commandery  No.  i,  K.  T.,  the  Thirty- 
second  Degree  Consistory,  Scottish  Rite,  and  El 
Jebel  Temple,  N.  M.  S.,  of  which  he  is  poten- 
tate. He  is  a  member  of  the  Denver  Club  and 
of  the  Denver  Athletic  Club,  upon  whose  board  of 
directors  he  has  served  for  a  number  of  years, 
during  which  time  the  club's  building  has 
been  erected.  He  was  president  of  the  club  at 
one  time.  He  is  captain  of  Troop  C,  First  Squad- 
ron Cavalry,  N.  G.  C,  also  belongs  to  the  Sons 
of  the  Revolution  and  the  Society  of  Colonial 
Wars.  In  the  State  Bar  Association  he  is  an  ac- 
tive member.  A  friend  of  the  silver  cause,  he 
was  a  delegate  to  the  national  silver  conven- 
tion at  St.  Louis  in  July,  1897,  and  served  as 
chairman  of  the  Colorado  delegation. 


n  AMES  M.  IRWIN,  real-estate  and  insurance 
I  agent  at  Brighton,  was  born  in  Pittsburg, 
O  Pa.,  September  5,  1828,  a  son  of  Dr.  William 
B.  and  Virlinda  (McConnell)  Irwin.  His  father, 
who  was  a  physician,  removed  from  Pittsburg  to 
Washington  County,  Pa.,  in  1832  and  there  re- 
mained until  the  son  was  about  eleven  years  of 
age,  when  he  settled  in  New  Lisbon,  Columbiana 
County,  Ohio.  Five  years  later  he  went  to 
Steubenville,  Ohio,  where  the  son  was  employed 
in  the  finishing  department  of  C.  C.  Wolcott's 
woolen  factory,  having  previously  worked  at  all 


branches  of  the  business  in  New  Lisbon  from 
the  age  of  fourteen.  At  the  age  of  eighteen  he 
began  to  clerk  in  a  store  at  Steubenville.  The 
first  month  his  salary  was  $10,  the  second  $25 
and  the  thiid  $40. 

Continuing  in  the  store  until  March,  1849,  Mr. 
Irwin  then  fell  a  victim  to  the  gold  fever,  and  with 
fifty-five  others  formed  a  joint  stock  company, 
each  member  putting  in  $125.  They  chartered  a 
boat,  called  the  "Germantown,"  in  which  they 
went  to  St.  Louis,  and  there  chartered  the  "Mary 
Blaine, ' '  sailing  up  the  Missouri .  Their  wagons 
had  been  made  in  Steubenville,  and  in  Cincinnati 
they  had  contracted  for  sea  biscuit  and  pork. 
Upon  leaving  the  ship  they  bought  sixty-five 
yoke  of  oxen,  which  they  put,  in  three  or  four 
yokes,  to  their  nineteen  wagons.  They  followed 
the  old  Oregon  trail  through  Kansas  and  Nebras- 
ka, striking  the  South  Platte  twelve  miles  below 
Fort  Kearney.  In  Kansas  the  company  divided, 
as  they  could  not  agree,  and  with  four  wagons 
our  subject  and  nine  others  traveled  to  Fort 
Kearney,  where  they  found  two  little  log  huts 
and  seven  Irish  soldiers.  From  the  fort  they 
traveled  up  the  South  Platte  to  the  present  site 
of  Julesburg.  Crossing  the  river,  they  drove  to 
the  North  Platte,  which  they  followed  about  half 
way  to  Fort  Laramie.  Building  a  boat  of  Cot- 
tonwood trees  by  hewing  out  of  them  four  canoes 
they  lashed  these  together  in  order  to  cross  the 
swollen  stream.  One  man  attempted  to  swim  a 
horse  across  and  lost  his  life.  Our  subject  and 
two  others  were  tipped  out  of  the  boat  and  had  a 
hard  struggle  for  life.  After  crossing,  they  fol- 
lowed the  stream  to  Fort  Laramie,  where  they 
found  a  more  extensive  fort  then  at  Kearney,  al- 
though there  were  no  soldiers,  as  the  fort  belonged 
to  the  American  Fur  Company,  who  had  one 
white  man  there  to  trade  with  Indians.  They 
traveled  across  the  country  to  the  Sweetwater  and 
followed  that  up  to  the  base  of  the  mountains. 
They  went  through  South  Pass,  about  ten  miles 
wide,  and  a  most  beautiful  place,  affording  a  nat- 
ural pass  through  the  mountains.  Although  they 
crossed  near  the  center  of  the  park  it  seemed  as 
though  the  mountains  were  perpendicular  on  each 
side.  They  knew  when  they  had  passed  the  di- 
vide by  a  large  spring,  which  they  called  Pacific 
Spring,  and  the  waters  of  which  flowed  west. 

Following  the  slope  downward  the  party  crossed 
Green  River,  where  they  found  Mormpps  build- 


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ing  a  boat.  The  Mormons  wanted  $10  for  each 
wagon  they  took  across  the  river,  but  our  party, 
who  were  old  river  boys,  saw  that  the  Mormons 
knew  nothing  about  boat-building,  so  they  en- 
tered into  an  agreement  to  assist  them  with  the 
boat  if  they  in  turn  would  help  them  across  the 
river.  In  that  way,  after  several  days,  they  crossed 
the  river  without  any  expense.  There,  too,  they 
saw  the  half-breed.  Old  Truckie,  who  had  been 
Fremont's  guide  in  1842,  and  from  him  they  en- 
deavored to  get  information,  but  all  they  could 

learn  was  that  they  would  see  "h 1"  before 

they  got  to  California. 

The  route  lay  north  of  Salt  Lake  City  and  the 
Mormons  before  mentioned  had  come  to  the  river 
to  establish  a  ferry  for  the  purpose  of  making 
monej-  from  the  emigrants  who  wanted  to  cross 
the  river.  The  company  traveled  along  Bear 
River,  which  flows  into  Salt  Lake.  They  followed 
the  curve  of  the  river  on  the  north  side  to  Bear 
Lake,  and  then  turned  almost  due  north  to  Fort 
Hall,  another  trading  post  of  the  Amerjcan  Fur 
Compan)',  where  they  found  a  white  man  and  his 
wife,  the  only  whites  they  had  seen,  except  one 
man  at  Fort  Laramie.  Fort  Hall  was  on  Snake 
River,  which  they  followed  down  and  then  up  a 
creek,  named  by  them  Rattlesnake  Creek,  on  ac- 
count of  the  large  number  of  rattlesnakes  found 
along  its  banks.  Going  south  to  the  Humboldt, 
they  followed  down  that  river  to  the  point  where 
it  sinks  out  of  sight.  Here  a  party  of  one  hun- 
dred tried  unsuccessfully  to  rescue  a  white  woman 
said  to  be  among  the  Indians.  Then  followed  a 
desert  of  seventy- two  miles,  where,  on  account  of 
the  lack  of  water,  many  of  their  oxen  fell  dead  in 
their  yokes.  When  they  reached  Truckee  River, 
two  miles  above  Pyramid  Lake,  they  found  water 
but  no  grass,  so  they  drove  down  to  Pyramid 
Lake,  where  they  found  an  abundance  of  grass 
for  the  cattle.  After  a  few  days  spent  in  recuper- 
ating they  started  up  the  Truckee  River.  They 
were  forced  to  keep  watch  all  the;. way  along  the 
Humboldt  River,  as  the  Indians  were  numerous 
and  hostile. 

From  Pyramid  Lake  the  men  went  up  the 
Truckee  River,  the  west  wall  of  which  is  the 
divide  of  the  Sierra  Nevada  Mountains.  They 
were  obliged  to  cross  the  canon  twenty-eight 
times  before  they  reached  the  lake  where  the 
Donner  party  had  perished  the  year  before  from 
hunger  and  cold.     This  party  had   come  from 


Missouri,  under  the  command  of  Captain  Donner 
and  had  undertaken  to  winter  in  the  canon.  A 
rescuing  party  from  California  came  in  time  to 
rescue  a  man,  whom  they  found  boiling  the  arm 
of  a  woman,  who  had  been  the  last  to  perish. 
The  rescued  man  was  taken  to  California,  where 
he  lived  for  several  years. 

By  unyoking  their  cattle  and  driving  them 
around,  our  subject  and  his  party  reached  the  top 
of  the  divide.  There  they  rigged  up  a  windlass, 
by  means  of  which  they  pulled  the  wagons  up 
the  hill,  which  was  too  steep  for  oxen  to  climb, 
even  without  a  load.  After  many  experiences 
down  the  southern  slope  they  came  to  Steep  Hol- 
low, at  Bear  River,  where  they  camped  for  several 
days  and  where  they  dug  some  gold,  the  first 
they  had  found.  During  their  stay  at  Steep  Hol- 
low, another  company  camping  there  hung  a  man 
for  stealing.  He  was  hung  in  the  evening  and 
the  body  left  on  the  ground,  under  a  blanket,  for 
burial  the  following  morning.  To  the  surprise 
of  the  people,  in  the  morning  the  body  was  gone. 
Some  months  afterward  our  subject  saw  a  man  in 
California  whom  he  took  to  be  the  same  man  that 
was  hung.  He  asked  him  and  the  man  acknowl- 
edged it  was  so.  On  inquiry  as  to  how  he  escaped 
he  said  he  had  no  recollection  of  his  escape,  but 
remembered  only  that  a  rope  was  put  around  his 
neck  and  when  he  came  to  himself  he  was  miles 
away  from  the  place. 

The  company  to  which  our  subject  belonged 
reached  their  destination,  with  the  loss  of  three, 
one  of  whom  had  been  drowned,  another  turned 
back  and  the  third  accidentally  shot  himself. 
The  smaller  company  of  ten  prospected  on  the 
way,  at  Steep  Hollow,  Grass  Valley  and  on  the 
present  site  of  Nevada  Cit}\  They  took  what 
gold  they  had  with  them  to  Sacramento,  in  Octo- 
ber, 1849,  and  there  twenty-seven  of  the  original 
fifty-six  comprising  the  party  were  together  for 
one  night.  Afterward  our  subject  and  another 
man  went  fort5'-five  miles  east  of  Sacramento  to 
Auburn,  where  for  five  months  he  worked  for  a 
gentleman  from  Cleveland,  Ohio,  receiving  $300 
a  month  and  board.  At  the  expiration  of  the 
five  months  he  had  saved  $1 ,200.  He  bought  a 
team  and  began  teaming,  which  he  followed  for 
twenty  months,  employing  a  driver  to  assist  him. 
During  a  part  of  the  time  he  worked  a  claim.  It 
was  his  custom  to  buy  a  load  in  Sacramento  and 
haul  it  to  a  mining  camp,  where  be  would  sell  it, 


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taking  gold-dust  for  his  pay.  He  dealt  in  almost 
every  article  of  provision  except  wbiskej',  which 
he  always  refused  to  handle. 

In  January,  1853,  our  subject  left  California 
and  in  company  with  four  members  of  the  origi- 
nal company  he  journeyed  via  the  Isthmus  of 
Panama,  carrying  his  savings  in  gold-dust.  After 
crossing  the  Isthmus  he  took  passage  on  the 
steamer,  "Ohio,"  which  landed  him  in  New  York, 
after  a  journey  of  forty-one  days.  From  there  he 
went  to  Steubenville,  Ohio,  and  a  short  time  af- 
terwards embarked  in  the  mercantile  business 
with  a  brother-in-law,  at  Salineville,  that  state, 
but  five  years  later  closed  out  the  business,  and 
our  subject  bought  another  store.  Selling  this 
out  in  1858,  he  went  to  Newton,  Jasper  County, 
Iowa,  and  bought  a  farm  of  eighty  acres.  He 
had  never  had  any  experience  as  a  farmer  and 
after  a  year  decided  he  could  do  better  elsewhere. 
Renting  the  place  he  secured  employment  as  a 
clerk  in  Newton,  working  for  one  firm  there  for 
three  and  one-half  years.  In  the  meantime  he 
learned  the  business  of  buying  cattle  and  hogs. 
After  a  time  he  secured  employment  in  the  office 
of  the  recorder  and  treasurer,  where  he  remained 
for  two  years.  Later  he  began  to  buy  cattle  on 
commission,  in  which  business  he  was  successful, 
and  some  of  the  money  he  made  was  invested  in 
an  eighty-acre  tract.  When  the  war  was  at  its 
height,  in  the  summer  of  1863,  he  bought  cattle 
in  Missouri  and  drove  them  to  Iowa,  selling  them 
there.  In  the  spring  of  1865  he  had  one  hundred 
and  twenty -eight  head  of  oxen.  He  and  two 
others  yoked  up  the  cattle  and  loaded  twelve 
wagons  with  flour,  which  they  brought  to  Denver, 
starting  in  June.  As  the  season  was  wet  the  trip 
was  long  and  hard,  and  they  were  three  mouths 
on  the  way.  They  sold  out  at  $18.50  per  hun- 
dred, having  paid  $3.75.  They  turned  the  cattle 
out  to  pasture  and  returned  to  Jasper  County, 
he  and  his  partner  being  in  the  first  coach  that 
ever  went  over  the  Smoky  Hill  Route.  Indians 
having  destroyed  the  provisions,  they  went  for 
seven  days  without  anything  to  eat  except  .such 
game  as  they  killed  on  the  way.  At  Monument 
Station,  now  on  the  Kansas  Pacific  road,  one  of 
the  party  was  so  frightened  that  he  became  in- 
sane, ran  away  and  was  never  heard  of  any 
more. 

Shortly  after  reaching  home  our  subject  heard 
that  the  man  whom  he  had  put  in  charge  of  his 


cattle  was  not  doing  right.  The  temperature  was 
twenty-eight  degrees  below  zero  and  traveling 
was  anything  but  desirable.  However,  he  took  a 
coach  and  started  west.  For  eleven  days  and 
nights  he  had  no  sleep  except  such  as  he  could 
snatch  when  sitting  up  in  the  coach.  He  found 
the  cattle  all  right,  and,  although  he  had  expected 
to  be  home  in  six  weeks  from  the  time  he  started, 
he  decided  to  remain  and  look  after  his  interests. 
In  the  spring  he  bought  a  ranch.  Then,  with 
two  men,  he  went  to  Missouri,  bought  cattle  and 
drove  them  to  Jasper  County,  expecting  soon  to 
return  to  Colorado,  but  the  report  of  Indian 
troubles  caused  them  to  continue  in  Iowa.  In  1886 
he  came  to  Denver  and  two  years  later  bought 
eighty  acres  near  Brighton.  The  laud  was  un- 
improved, but  he  placed  it  under  cultivation. 
For  five  years  or  more  he  has  engaged  in  the  real- 
estate  business  in  Brighton.  In  1856  he  voted 
for  J.  C.  Fremont  and  has  ever  since  been  a 
Republican. 

Before  our  subject  went  west  for  the  first  time 
he  became  acquainted  with  a  young  lady  with 
whom  he  corresponded  for  a  time,  but  the  letters 
afterward  miscarried  and  another  Iowa  boy  re- 
ceived them.  He  became  familiar  with  the  cir- 
cumstances while  in  the  west,  so,  on  his  return , 
an  explanation  was  had  and  an  engagement  an- 
nounced. In  August,  1854,  he  married  Miss 
Lucy  Hart,  of  Carroll  County,  Ohio,  daughter  of 
Cyrus  W.  and  Susan  (Ewing)  Hart.  She  was 
born  on  a  farm  in  that  county  and  received  her 
education  in  the  public  schools.  One  child 
blesses  their  union,  a  son,  Chatham,  who  was 
born  in  Salineville,  Columbiana  County,  Ohio, 
received  an  excellent  commercial  education  and 
now  follows  farm  pursuits.  February  2,  1898, 
he  married  Miss  Eliza  Dwyer,  a  teacher  in  the 
schools  of  Denver. 


HON.  JOHN  G.  LILLEY.  The  farm  where 
Mr.  Lilley  now  resides  was  purchased  by 
him  in  February,  1862,  and  at  that  time 
consisted  of  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres,  but  by 
subsequent  purchase  it  was  increased  to  three 
hundred  and  eighty  acres,  and  now,  a  portion  of 
the  property  having  been  sold,  the  acreage  is 
one  hundred  and  fifty.  The  homestead  being 
situated  adjacent  to  Littleton,  Mr.  Lilley  is, 
therefore,  identified  with  the  history  of  this  place. 


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to  the  development  of  which  he  has  been  a  large 
contributor.  In  1868  he  was  one  of  the  builders 
of  the  Rough  and  Ready  grist  mill,  which  soon 
acquired  a  reputation  for  producing  the  finest 
flour  in  the  state,  and  for  years  the  products  of 
the  mill  were  shipped  as  far  east  as  Boston  and 
commanded  a  higher  price  on  'change  than  al- 
most any  other  flour  in  the  country.  During  the 
time  that  he  was  connected  with  the  mill  it  was 
twice  burned  to  the  ground. 

The  parents  of  Mr.  Lilley  were  John  and  Ann 
(Buck)  lyilley,  natives  of  North  Gillsboro,  Eng- 
land. About  1847  they  removed  from  their  farm 
at  North  Gillsboro  to  Burkinhead,  Cheshire, 
England,  where  he  engaged  in  the  laundry  busi- 
ness until  his  death  in  1886.  His  wife  passed 
away  in  1883.  Both  were  members  of  the  Church 
of  England.  Their  son,  John  G.,was  bom  at 
Gillsboro  June  12,  1833,  and  after  the  family  re- 
moved to  Cheshire  he  served  for  six  years  in  the 
Burkinhead  market.  At  the  age  of  twenty  he 
came  to  America,  and  after  stopping  for  a  few 
days  in  Portland,  Me.,  he  went  to  New  Bruns- 
wick, where  he  stopped  for  ten  days,  and  then 
shipped  for  Ireland  as  steward  on  a  vessel.  After 
a  sojourn  of  six  weeks  in  Ireland,  while  the  ves- 
sel was  anchored  in  Cork,  he  returned  home, 
and  for  a  year  followed  the  butcher's  trade.  He 
then  crossed  the  ocean  to  Boston,  and  from  there 
went  to  LaCrosse,  Wis.,  and  engaged  in  busi- 
ness as  a  butcher.  He  remained  there  from  1854 
to  i860  and  then  came  to  Colorado,  settling  in 
Denver,  and  for  some  two  years  prospecting  in 
the  mountains.  He  then  bought  the  farm  where 
he  has  since  resided. 

While  living  in  LaCrosse,  in  1855,  our  subject 
returned  to  England,  and  on  Christmas  day  of 
that  year  was  there  united  in  marriage  to  Miss 
Louise  Ann  Hay,  whose  father  was  a  civil  en- 
gineer. Ten  children  were  born, of  their  union, 
namely:  William  H.,  commissioner  of  Park 
County,  married  and  the  father  of  two  children; 
Anna,  deceased;  Maggie,  wife  of  Frank  Soper,  a 
telegraph  operator  residing  in  Littleton;  Fred; 
Lucy,  deceased;  Harry,  who  is  engaged  in  the 
livery  business  at  Littleton,  and  who  married 
Kate  Bergen,  by  whom  he  has  two  children; 
Marcia  L. ,  wife  of  Charles  Watlington,  of  Madi- 
son, Ind. ;  Josephine,  a  graduate  of  the  Universi- 
ty of  Colorado,  and  now  teaching  in  the  public 
schools  of  Littleton;  Benjamin  E.,  who  married 


Maggie  Monahan,  and  assists  his  father  in  the 
management  of  the  home  farm;  and  John  G. , 
who  is  engaged  in  the  dairy  business  a  Cripple 
Creek.     The  wife  and  mother  died  May  7,  1895. 

In  politics  Mr.  LiHey  is  a  silver  Republican. 
For  some  twenty-seven  years  he  has  been  presi- 
dent of  the  school  board.  In  1872  he  was  elected 
to  the  legislature,  in  which  he  served  one  term, 
and,  being  himself  actively  engaged  in  the  cattle 
business,  he  took  an  active  part  in  all  cattle 
legislation.  In  1879  he  was  elected  count}^  com- 
missioner and  served  efiiciently  for  a  term  of 
three  years.  He  was  made  captain  of  a  com- 
pany organized  in  1864  for  protection  of  life  and 
property  from  the  Indians.  In  1868  the  com- 
pany was  called  into  active  service  to  suppress 
the  Utes  and  Cheyennes,  whose  raids  had  proved 
troublesome  and  disastrous  to  property,  but  after 
a  futile  chase  of  a  week  or  more  the  men  were 
ordered  to  return  home. 

As  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Lilley  &  Coberley, 
our  subject  was  connected  with  the  building  of 
the  Kansas  Pacific  Railroad,  having  a  contract  to 
deliver  ties  from  the  divide  to  the  territory  be- 
tween here  and  Sheridan,  and  running  forty 
wagons,  with  seven  yoke  of  oxen,  to  the  trail. 
In  1870  the  Indians  raided  a  herd  of  cattle  be- 
longing to  them  at  the  bend  of  the  Sandy,  for 
the  loss  of  which  a  claim  of  $32,000  is  now  be- 
fore the  government. 


"DWARD  B 01  COURT  TROVILLION, 
>)  M.  D.,  a  successful  physician  of  Gold  Hill, 
^  Boulder  County,  where  he  has  resided  since 
1889,  was  born  in  Golconda,  Pope  County,  111., 
October  31,  1861,  a  son  of  Edward  E.  and  Nancy 
(Carr)  Trovillion,  natives  respectively  of  Middle 
Tennessee  and  Virginia.  He  is  a  descendant,  in 
the  fifth  generation,  of  an  Englishman  who  first 
settled  in  Massachusetts,  but  later  removed  to 
Virginia.  The  latter  had  a  sou,  Edward,  who 
was  born  in  the  Old  Dominion  and  bore  a  valiant 
part  in  the  Revolution.  A  town  in  Virginia  was 
named  in  his  honor. 

James  Y.,  son  of  Edward,  changed  the  spelling 
of  the  family  name  from  Trevelian  to  Trovillion. 
He  was  born  in  Virginia  and  became  an  early 
settler  in  Tennessee,  where  he  was  a  tobacco 
planter.  During  the  Seminole  and  Florida  wars, 
in  which  he  served,  he  was  wounded,  and  after- 


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ward  was  again  wounded  in  the  Black  Hawk  war. 
His  death  occurred  in  1881,  when  he  was  about 
eighty  years  of  age.  His  son,  our  subject's  father, 
took  part  in  the  Mexican  war.  After  his  return 
from  the  front  he  married  and  removed  to  Illinois, 
settling  in  Pope  County,  where  he  bought  and 
cleared  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  of  govern- 
ment land.  The  tract  is  still  owned  by  the 
family.  At  the  opening  of  the  Civil  war  he 
assisted  in  raising  Company  G,  Sixth  Illinois 
Cavalry,  and  was  made  its  first  lieutenant,  but  in 
the  fall  of  1864  was  forced  to  resign  his  commis- 
sion, owing  to  a  serious  attack  of  typhoid  fever. 
He  was  brought  home,  where  he  was  confined  to 
his  bed  from  that  time  until  his  death,  in  March, 
1865,  at  the  age  of  thirt3'-nine.  He  organized  a 
Baptist  Church  in  Pope  County  and  officiated  as 
its  minister  until  his  death. 

Our  subject's  mother,  who  still  resides  at  the 
old  homestead,  was  a  granddaughter  of  a  planter 
of  Virginia,  who  went  there  from  the  mountains 
of  Vermont.  His  father  was  one  of  the  Green 
Mountain  boys,  who  bore  so  brave  a  part  in  the 
Revolution.  Our  subject  is  the  youngest  of  the 
parental  family  of  five  sons  and  three  daughters, 
of  whom  three  sons  and  one  daughter  are  living. 
Of  the  family  he  is  the  pnly  one  in  the  west.  At 
the  age  of  seventeen  he  began  to  teach  school  in 
Pope  County,  111. ,  and  continued  in  that  occupa- 
tion until  1882,  when  he  became  deputy  county 
clerk  under  his  brother,  Penn  V.  L,ater  he  entered 
a  medical  college  and  after  taking  a  three-year 
regular  course  he  graduated  from  Rush  Medical 
College  in  Chicago  in  1886  as  an  M.  D.  Open- 
ing an  ofiice  in  Rosebud,  111.,  he  engaged  in 
practice  there  until  1889,  and  meantime  served 
as  secretary  of  the  United  States  board  of  pension 
examiners.  Resigning  that  position,  he  came  to 
Colorado  in  1889  and  succeeded  Dr.  G.  R.  Wells, 
an  old  college  chum  in  Rush  Medical  College,  as 
physician  at  Gold  Hill,  where  he  has  since  re- 
mained. His  practice  is  not  limited  to  this  town, 
but  extends  to  Salina,  Jamestown  and  in  fact 
throughout  the  entire  county.  In  addition  to  his 
practice,  he  is  interested  in  mining  and  operates 
a  number  of  mines.  For  a  short  time  he  was  en- 
gaged in  the  drug  business,  but  the  pressure  of 
his  large  practice  obliged  him  to  give  up  the 
other  enterprise. 

In  Golcorida,  111.,  Dr.  Trovillion  married  Miss 
Carrie  M.  King,  who  was  born  in  Rosebud.     Her 


father,  William  King,  who  is  a  very  extensive 
merchant  and  large  real-estate  owner  in  Rosebud, 
was  a  member  of  the  same  company  and  regiment 
(Company  G,  Sixth  Illinois  Cavalry)  as  our  sub- 
ject's father.  Mrs.  Trovillion  was  educated  in 
the  Southern  Illinois  Normal  at  Carbondale  and 
is  a  lady  of  culture.  Her  two  daughters  are 
Beatrice  and  Genevieve. 

Politically  the  doctor  is  a  Republican.  In  1890 
he  was  elected  county  coroner,  but  did  not  qualify, 
not  desiring  the  position.  In  1894  he  was  a 
candidate  for  representative  and  1897  for  county 
clerk,  but,  belonging  to  the  minority  party,  was 
not  elected.  He  was  made  a  Mason  in  Columbia 
Lodge  No.  14,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  to  which  he  now 
belongs.  He  is  also  identified  with  Boulder 
Chapter  No.  7,  R.  A.  M.,  Mount  Sinai  Com- 
mandery  No.  7,  K.  T.;  Home  Forum,  for  which 
he  is  examiner;  Sons  of  Veterans,  having  his 
membership  at  Golconda,  111. ;  and  the  Ancient 
Order  of  United  Workmen  at  Gold  Hill,  for 
which  he  is  medical  examiner.  A  number  of 
insurance  companies  have  also  secured  his  serv- 
ices as  examiner.  In  religious  belief  he  is  a 
Baptist.  All  matters  pertaining  to  his  profession 
receive  his  thoughtful  attention  and  he  keeps 
abreast  with  every  development  made  in  the 
science  of  medicine.  He  is  vice-president  of  the 
Boulder  County  Medical  Society  and  a  member 
of  the  State  and  American  Medical  Associations. 


r"RANK  DUUN,  M.  D.,  police  surgeon  for 
¥^  Denver  and  member  of  the  state  board  of 
I  ^  medical  examiners,  and  member  of  the 
United  States  board  of  pension  examiners,  is  one 
of  the  successful  and  well-known  physicians  of 
Denver,  where  he  has  his  office  at  No.  1407  Lar- 
imer street.  In  the  general  practice  of  medicine 
he  has  gained  the  confidence  of  his  patients  and 
has  shown  himself  to  be  accurate  in  diagnosis  and 
skillful  in  treatment.  In  addition  to  his  private 
professional  work  he  fills  the  office  of  member  of 
the  state  board  of  medical  examiners,  to  which  he 
was  appointed  by  Governor  Adams  in  April, 
1897;  also  the  office  of  police  surgeon,  to  which 
he  was  appointed  May  i,  1897,  by  the  fire  and 
police  board.  Dr.  Miller  being  the  other  police 
surgeon  for  the  city. 

In  early  days  the  paternal  grandfather  of  our 
subject   removed    from  Virginia    to   Kentucky, 


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where  he  spent  the  remainder  of  his  days  in  the 
cultivation  of  a  plantation.  Rev.  Robert  Dulin, 
the  doctor's  father,  was  born  in  Christian  County, 
Ky.,  in  1815,  and  during  the  earlj' days  of  the 
religious  movement  that  called  for  a  return  to 
apostolic  methods,  he  associated  himself  with 
Alexander  Campbell  and  other  men  who  gave 
their  lives  to  that  work.  For  years  he  preached 
in  the  Christian  Church,  yet  for  all  his  self-sacri- 
ficing labors  he  refused  to  accept  any  salary,  feel- 
ing himself  repaid  if  he  led  men  and  women  into 
the  light  of  the  Gospel.  After  selling  his  farm  of 
five  hundred  acres  in  Christian  County,  he  lived 
somewhat  retired,  enjoying  the  comforts  his  in- 
dustry had  rendered  possible.  In  1879  he  went 
to  Sherman,  Tex.,  and  there  died  in  1895,  aged 
eighty  years. 

The  mother  of  the  doctor  was  Lucy  P.  Coffey, 
who  was  born  in  Cumberland  County,  Ky.,  and 
is  now  living  in  Sherman,  Tex.  Her  father,  Ben- 
jamin Coffey,  was  a  member  of  a  Virginian  family 
of  planters  and  a  descendant  of  Revolutionary  an- 
cestry. Our  subject  was  born  in  Hopkinsville, 
Ky.,  and  was  one  of  thirteen  children,  ten  of 
whom  attained  mature  years  and  eight  are  now 
living.  William  was  killed  at  Fort  Donelson 
when  twenty-one  years  old.  Smith  was  colonel 
of  a  Confederate  regiment  and  fell  at  Jackson, 
Miss.  The  father  had  opposed  the  sons  entering 
the  army,  and  for  that  reason  Smith  went  to 
Texas,  where  he  enlisted  as  lieutenant  and  was 
promoted  to  colonel  on  the  field  at  Jackson. 
There  are  four  daughters  and  four  sons  now  liv- 
ing. John  L.  is  a  graduate  of  Jefferson  Medical 
College  and  a  practicing  physician;  Charles  S.  is 
proprietor  of  a  newspaper  in  Sherman ;  and  Robert 
R.  has  a  store  in  that  place. 

After  having  gained  the  rudiments  of  his  edu- 
cation in  the  private  schools  of  Hopkinsville,  our 
subject  entered  Princeton  College  at  Princeton, 
Ky. ,  where  he  studied  some  time.  Removing  to 
Sherman,  at  the  age  of  twenty-one  he  began  to 
study  medicine  under  Dr.  John  L.  Scott,  and  in 
1880  entered  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Sur- 
geons in  St.  Louis,  from  which  he  graduated  in 
1882  with  the  degree  of  M.  D.  Afterward  he 
was  assistant  demonstrator  of  anatomy  in  that 
college  and  the  hospital  for  a  year,  and  then  lo- 
cated in  Ashley,  Washington  County,  111.,  where 
he  engaged  in  practice  nearly  three  years,  but  in 
the  fall  of  1885  he  removed  to  Garden  City,  Kan., 


and  from  there  in  July,  1889,  came  to  Denver. 
In  1892-93  he  was  county  physician.  In  the  fall 
of  1893,  under  the  civil  service  law,  he  received 
from  President  Cleveland  the  appointment  of 
member  of  the  United  States  board  of  pension  ex- 
aminers, of  which  he  is  now  the  treasurer.  Active 
in  the  Democratic  party,  he  has  been  a  member 
of  the  county  committee  and  a  delegate  to  county 
and  state  conventions.  He  is  connected  with  the 
American  Medical  Society  and  the  Denver  and 
Arapahoe  County  Medical  Society.  In  religious 
belief  he  is  identified  with  the  Central  Christian 
Church,  of  which  Dr.  Barton  O.  Aylesworth  is 
the  pastor.  He  is  physician  to  the  Rocky  Moun- 
tain Camp,  Woodmen  of  the  World.  In  the 
Knights  of  Pythias  he  is  examining  physician 
and  past  officer,  also  three  times  in  succession  its 
representative  to  the  grand  lodge  and  in  that  body 
a  member  of  the  committee  on  credentials.  In 
Caledonia,  Mo.,  he  married  Miss  Fannie  May 
Carr,  daughter  of  Dr.  Munson  Carr,  an  old  set- 
tler of  Caledonia.  They  have  one  son,  Robert 
Carr  Dulin. 


pGJiLLIAM  CLINTON  CALHOUN.  The 
lAl  b"^"^^ss  career  of  Mr.  Calhoun  shows 
Y  V  what  may  be  accomplished  b^'  pluck'  and 
perseverance.  When  he  came  to  Denver  he  had 
no  friends  in  the  city  and  his  means  were  limited; 
but  with  the  determination  characteristic  of  him 
he  again  embarked  upon  the  unknown  sea  of 
journalism.  He  established  the  Rocky  Mountain 
Sentinel,  a  weekly,  which  for  some  time  he  pub- 
lished with  indifferent  success,  but  from  the  time, 
in  1891,  when  he  commenced  to  advertise  in  state 
and  eastern  papers  he  was  unceasingly  prospered. 
His  legal  advertisements  began  to  be  special 
features  of  his  paper,  and  the  advertising  patron- 
age increased  so  rapidly  that  it  absorbed  from 
three  to  eight  pages  of  each  issue.  In  order  to 
meet  this  increased  patronage  and  also  to  make 
his  paper  one  of  general  interest  to  people  through- 
out the  United  States,  he  decided  to  establish  an- 
other publication,  and  so  the  Illustrated  Weekly 
was  born.  Phenomenal  success  attended  the  new 
enterprise,  and  subscriptions  poured  in  at  times 
at  the  rate  of  hundreds  daily.  Finding  that  his 
advertisements  were  profitable,  he  continued 
them  in  about  one  thousand  newspapers  and 
magazines,  and  the  returns  have  been  such  as 
would  convince  the  most  skeptical  of  the  profits 


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derived  from  the  liberal  use  of  printer's  ink.  The 
Twin  Weeklies  of  the  Rockies,  as  the  papers  are 
called,  are  national  illustrated  home  and  family 
papers,  with  views  of  the  finest  scenery  in  Ameri- 
ca and  articles  of  interest  alike  to  busy  mothers, 
school  children,  farmers  and  business  men. 

The  Calhouns  are  an  old  southern  family. 
Garrett  Calhoun,  our  subject's  father,  was  born 
in  South  Carolina,  and  in  childhood,  accompanied 
by  the  other  members  of  the  family,  he  removed 
to  Ohio,  where  he  died  in  1864.  His  wife,  Mary 
E.,  was  born  in  Middletown  Valley,  Md.,  and 
was  a  daughter  of  Samuel  Fisher,  a  native  of 
Hagerstown,  that  state,  a  successful  farmer,  and 
an  own  cousin  of  ex-Governor  CuUom,  of  Illinois. 
He  married  Debbie  Barnhiser,  who  is  still  living, 
and  is  now  eighty-five  years  of  age.  Her  father, 
John  Barnhiser,  was  born  in  Pennsylvania  and 
served  under  Washington  in  the  Revolution,  of 
which  he  was  later  a  pensioner.  He  died  at 
Quincy,  Pa.,  in  June,  1849,  aged  one  hundred 
and  six  years.  Samuel  Fisher  moved  west  to 
Illinois,  settling  first  in  Knox  County,  but  later 
removing  to  I,ogan  County,  and  some  years  later 
to  Kansas,  where  he  died  at  eighty-five  years. 
His  daughter,  Mrs.  Calhoun,  resides  in  Lincoln 
and  is  now  sixty-three  years  of  age.  She  is  a 
lady  of  noble  character  and  culture,  one  who  is 
universally  esteemed  by  her  acquaintances.  She 
had  only  two  children,  and  one  of  these,  John  F., 
died  at  twelve  years  of  age. 

Near  Urbana,  Champaign  County,  Ohio,  the 
subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  November  11, 
1863.  He  was  four  years  of  age  when  the  family 
moved,  by  wagon,  to  Illinois,  and  his  childhood 
years  were  passed  in  Lincoln,  111.  He  can 
scarcely  remember  when  he  first  determined  to  be 
a  printer.  He  had  a  great  desire  to  learn  the 
trade  and  at  the  age  of  thirteen  he  secured  em- 
ployment on  a  farm,  saving  his  earnings  until  he 
had  $35,  with  which  he  bought  a  small  printing 
press  and  a  couple  of  styles  of  type.  He  put  it 
up  at  home  and,  unaided,  gained  an  understand- 
ing of  its  intricacies.  Without  other  aid  than  his 
own  quick  intelligence,  he  learned  to  set  type  and 
gained  a  knowledge  of  leads,  slugs,  fonts,  ems, 
cases,  etc.  When  he  was  seventeen  he  began  to 
print  a  paper  in  Lincoln,  and  later  he  was  em- 
ployed on  some  of  America's  largest  dailies,  being 
with  the  Chicago  Thnes  in  1883. 

During  the  boom  Mr.  Calhoun  took  up  a  pre- 


emption claim  in  Ford  County,  Kan.,  his  land 
being  so  far  from  the  railroad  that  at  first  he  was 
obliged  to  walk  thirty-six  miles,  to  Dodge  City, 
for  his  mail.  He  proved  up  the  claim,  and  the 
next  year  homesteaded  a  tract  in  Grant  County, 
four  miles  from  Zionville,  and  one  mile  from  his 
nearest  neighbor.  He  built  a  sod  house,  with  an 
ox-team  turned  the  first  furrows  in  the  soil,  and 
planted  corn  and  vegetables  with  a  spade.  At 
the  same  time  he  started  the  Zionville  Sentinel, 
walking  four  miles  to  town  in  the  morning,  and 
returning  in  the  evening.  He  also  established 
the  Westola  Wave  in  Morton  County.  When  it 
became  known  that  the  rainfall  was  too  irregular 
and  insufficient  to  insure  crops  in  the  western 
part  of  the  state,  the  settlers,  discouraged  and 
disheartened,  turned  their  faces  towards  their  old 
homes  in  the  east.  Instead  of  following  their  ex- 
ample, he  determined  to  come  still  further  west 
and  establish  a  paper  in  Denver. 

In  1888  Mr.  Calhoun  located  in  Colorado  and 
soon  afterward  he  came  to  Denver,  where  he  at 
once  embarked  in  the  journalistic  field.  His 
present  large  business  has  been  built  up  solely 
through  advertising,  and  the  two  papers  he 
founded  have  grown  to  such  proportions  that  they 
are  the  wonder  and  admiration  of  all  western 
newspaper  men.  Their  success  is  all  the  more 
remarkable  when  it  is  considered  that  he  began 
with  small  capital  and  has  had  to  contend  with 
the  long  continued  period  of  depression  and 
accompanying  hard  times.  In  addition  to  his 
newspapers  he  possesses  large  real-estate  and 
mining  interests  in  the  state.  He  was  among  the 
very  first  to  become  interested  in  the  Cripple 
Creek  gold  fields  in  1891,  and  still  holds  valuable 
interests  there.  He  has  a  comfortable  residence, 
recently  erected,  and  presided  over  by  his  wife, 
whom  he  married  in  Utah,  in  1891,  and  who  was 
Miss  Annie  Orr,  a  native  of  Canada,  the  eldest 
daughter  of  John  Orr,  all  of  whose  ancestors  re- 
sided in  Scotland. 

Mr.  Calhoun  is  a  firm  believer  in  the  teachings 
of  Odd  Fellowship,  and  belongs  to  Anchor  Lodge 
No.  66,  Wauneta  Rebekah  Lodge  No.  22,  and 
Silver  State  Encampment  No.  34.  He  is  also  a 
member  of  Kremlin  Riga  No.  6,  Imperial  Order 
of  Muscovites,  and  is  also  identified  with  the 
several  branches  of  the  Masonic  order,  being 
especially  interested  in  the  Knights  Templar. 
He  takes  great  pride  in  the  fact  that  he  is  a  member 


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of  Colorado  Commandery  No.  i,  K.T. ;  he  is  also  a 
member  of  Temple  lyodge  No.  84,  A.  F.  &  A.  M. 
One  thing  of  which  he  may  well  be  proud  is  the 
fact  that  during  his  eventful  life,  no  matter  what 
his  hardships  or  temptations  might  be,  he  has 
never  drank  a  glass  of  any  intoxicant,  nor  has  he 
contracted  the  use  of  tobacco  in  any  form.  He 
is  a  friend  of  all  measures  for  the  benefit  of  the 
people,  and  strives,  both  through  the  press  and 
by  his  personal  influence,  to  promote  the  cause 
of  truth  and  justice.  In  addition  to  his  other 
connections  he  is  identified  with  the  Printers' 
Union,  the  Mining  Exchange  and  the  Denver 
Chamber  of  Commerce,  and  is  interested  in  all 
local  associations  tending  toward  the  upbuilding 
of  the  city  and  state. 


^  yiORITZ  EARTH,  well  known  as  one  of  the 
Y  old  settlers  of  Colorado  and  successful  busi- 
er ness  men  of  Denver,  was  born  in  Dietz 
Nassau,  Germany,  July  24,  1834.  Until  four- 
teen years  of  age  he  attended  the  public  schools 
and  gymnasium,  after  which  he  was  employed  in 
the  surveyor- general's  office,  intending  to  devote 
himself  to  mining.  However,  on  changing  his 
future  plans  by  a  resolve  to  locate  in  America,  he 
learned  the  shoemaker's  trade.  In  1852  he  left 
Havre  on  the  sailing  vessel  "William  Nelson," 
and  after  a  voyage  of  fifty -four  days  landed  in 
December  in  New  Orleans,  where  he  worked  at 
his  trade  for  a  few  months.  In  May,  with  the 
other  members  of  the  family,  he  came  up  the 
Mississippi  and  located  at  Mascoutah,  St.  Clair 
County,  111.,  but  in  1854  removed  to  Parkville, 
Platte  County,  Mo.,  then  a  populous  and  flourish- 
ing steamboat  landing  town  on  the  Missouri. 
There  he  engaged  in  business  with  his  brother 
William,  of  whom  mention  is  made  on  another 
page. 

The  tide  of  emigration  was  turned  toward 
Colorado  on  account  of  the  discovery  of  gold  in 
Pike's  Peak.  The  two  brothers  in  1861  started 
westward,  with  ox-teams,  and  after  a  month  of 
travel  they  reached  California  Gulch,  near  the 
present  site  of  Leadville,  where  they  engaged  at 
their  trade.  When  William  returned  to  St. 
Louis,  Moritz  went  to  Canon  City,  where  he 
started  a  general  store,  but  the  prospects  were 
poor  there  at  that  time,  so  he  sold  out  and  joined 
his  brother  in  the  manufacture  of  boots  and  shoes 


in  St.  Louis.  During  their  sojourn  in  the  mount- 
ains they  learned  the  requirements  for  footgear 
suited  to  the  place,  and  these  they  manufactured 
for  the  Pike's  Peak  trade.  In  1862  they  again 
made  the  overland  trip  to  Colorado,  this  time 
opening  a  shoe  store  in  Montgomery. 

In  the  spring  of  1863  Mr.  Barth  went  over  the 
Snowy  Range  to  Gold  Run,  Colo.,  where  he  en- 
gaged in  business,  but  in  the  fall,  the  gold  ex- 
citement in  Montana  induced  him  to  go  to  Vir- 
ginia City,  where  he  started  in  business,  and 
after  three  months  there  he  returned  to  the  States, 
bought  a  large  stock  of  goods  and  took  them  to 
Montana.  Selling  out  in  the  fall  of  1865,  he  re- 
turned to  Denver,  where  he  and  his  brother  car- 
ried on  a  large  shoe  business.  In  1868  he  took 
charge  of  the  branch  houses  established  by  the 
firm  in  Salt  Lake  City  and  Corinne,  Utah,  but 
later  returned  to  Denver.  The  firm  were  the 
first  shoe  manufacturers  and  also  the  pioneers  in 
the  wholesale  trade  in  Denver.  After  his  return 
to  Denver  in  1870,  the  two  continued  together 
for  many  years,  but  finally  their  other  interests 
grew  so  large  as  to  require  their  undivided  atten- 
tion and  they  sold  the  shoe  business. 

Investing  heavily  in  Denver  real  estate  in  early 
days,  the  property  grew  in  value  and  in  time 
brought  Mr.  Barth  a  fortune.  He  built  the  old 
Barth  block,  which  was  for  a  time  occupied  by  the 
City  National  Bank  and  is  located  at  the  corner  of 
Sixteenth  and  Lawrence  streets.  He  has  built 
up  and  improved  much  of  his  property  in  Den- 
ver and  also  owns  ranches  in  difierent  parts  of 
the  state.  In  mining,  too,  he  has  met  with  suc- 
cess, being  interested  in  several  companies.  Up- 
on the  organization  of  the  City  National  Bank  he 
became  a  stockholder  and  director,  and  remained 
a  director  upon  the  consolidation  of  the  institu- 
tion with  the  American  National  Bank.  He  was 
for  some  time  a  director  in  the  Denver  Tramway, 
and  the  Denver  Consolidated  Tramway  Company, 
but  finally  sold  his  intere.st.  In  other  corpora- 
tions he  has  been  a  director.  He  was  interested 
in  the  organization  of  the  Bank  of  San  Juan  at 
Del  Norte,  of  which  he  was  a  director  for  years. 
He  has  contributed  to  religious  enterprises,  street 
car  lines,  and  other  enterprises  for  the  upbuilding 
of  Denver  and  the  welfare  of  the  people.  For 
ten  years  he  served  as  treasurer  of  the  State 
School  of  Mines  at  Golden,  during  which  time 
the  school  added  to  its  collection  until  it  had  the 


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finest  exhibit  of  minerals  in  the  United  States. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  chamber  of  commerce 
and  board  of  trade  and  the  mining  exchange  of 
the  chamber  of  commerce.  In  religious  belief 
he  is  a  Presbyterian.  Politically  he  is  a  Repub- 
lican, but  has  never  desired  to  hold  oflBce,  pre- 
ferring to  devote  his  attention  to  private  afEairs. 
For  some  years  he  was  president  of  the  Denver 
Maennerchor,  a  musical  society  of  the  city. 


GJAMUEL  SCALES  SMYTHE,  M.  D.,  dean 
?\  of  the  Denver  Homeopathic  Medical  College 
Cy/  and  professor  of  gynecology,  was  one  of  the 
active  factors  in  the  organization  of  this  institu- 
tion and  has  since  been  one  of  its  mainsprings. 
He  is  to  the  college  in  Denver  what  his  old  pre- 
ceptor, Prof.  R.  Ludlam,  is  to  Hahnemann  Medi- 
cal College  of  Chicago.  Not  only  is  he  promi- 
nent in  college  work,  but  he  also  justly  occupies 
a  high  place  in  the  ranks  of  the  homeopathic 
medical  fraternity  throughout  the  west.  In  ad- 
dition to  his  work  as  an  instructor,  he  carries  on 
a  private  practice,  having  an  office  in  the  Cali- 
fornia building.  In  October,  1894,  he  founded 
the  Critique,  a  medical  journal  devoted  to  the  in- 
terests of  homeopathy  in  the  western  states,  and 
he  has  since  been  its  editor,  through  his  personal 
efforts  increasing  the  number  of  subscribers  to 
one  thousand.  Connected  with  the  college  there 
is  a  homeopathic  hospital  and  a  school  for  nurses, 
where  young  women  are  instructed  in  the  impor- 
tant duties  pertaining  to  their  occupation. 

Dr.  Smythe  was  born  in  Galena,  111.,  July  14, 
1839,  and  is  a  son  of  Hon.  Henry  and  Lucinda 
(Scales)  Smythe.  His  father,  who  was  born  and 
reared  in  Great  Barrington,  Mass.,  came  west  in 
young  manhood,  making  the  trip  via  the  great 
lakes.  He  located  in  Jo  Daviess  County,  111., 
where  he  engaged  in  smelting  lead  ores.  Though 
he  started  in  business  without  means,  he  suc- 
ceeded in  gaining  a  competency  through  his  in- 
dustrious efforts.  From  Jo  Daviess  he  removed 
to  Carroll  County,  111.,  where  he  engaged  in 
farming  upon  a  large  scale.  Prominent  in  public 
affairs,  he  was  chosen  by  his  .fellow -citizens  to 
represent  his  district  in  the  state  legislature,  and 
he  also  held  a  number  of  local  offices.  He  was  a 
delegate  to  the  state  constitutional  convention 
and  assisted  in  framing  the  constitution.  Until 
the  disintegration  of  the  Whig  party  he  affiliated 


with  it,  and  he  became  a  Republican  on  the  or- 
ganization of  that  party.  He  died  in  Denver, 
aged  eighty-four,  while  visiting  his  son  in  this 
city.  His  wife,  who  was  born  near  Charleston, 
S.  C,  died  on  the  old  homestead,  in  Carroll 
County,  111.,  in  1894,  aged  eighty-four.  They 
were  the  parents  of  five  sons:  Samuel  S.,  Gar- 
land, Franklin  D.  (a  physician),  Albert  H.  and 
John  Quincy. 

Concerning  the  lineage  of  the  Smythe  family 
it  is  known  that  they  are  of  English  extraction. 
From  that  country  they  came  to  Massachusetts 
and  settled  in  Great  Barrington.  The  doctor's 
great-grandfather.  Garland  Smythe,  was  a  soldier 
in  the  Revolutionary  war. 

In  the  schools  of  Galena  and  Chicago  the  sub- 
ject of  this  sketch  received  his  education.  In 
April,  1861,  upon  the  call  for  seventy-five  thou- 
sand men ,  he  enlisted  in  a  company  of  dragoons 
in  Chicago  and  served  for  four  months.  Septem- 
ber 20,  1861,  he  again  enlisted  in  the  service,  be- 
coming a  member  of  Company  F,  First  Illinois 
Light  Artillery.  He  entered  as  a  private,  but  at 
Springfield  was  made  second  lieutenant;  became 
first  lieutenant  September  2,  1862;  senior  first 
lieutenant  in  1863;  and  captain  of  Battery  A, 
First  Illinois  Light  Artillery,  July  10,  1864.  He 
participated  in  the  engagements  of  the  Army  of 
the  Tennessee  and  was  a  brave  and  efficient  offi- 
cer, esteemed  alike  by  superiors  and  subordinates. 
In  the  battle  of  Atlanta,  July  22,  1864,  he  was 
wounded,  captured  and  held  as  prisoner  of  war. 
For  eight  months  he  was  confined  in  southern 
prisons,  being  in  Macon,  Ga.,  Charleston  and 
Columbia,  S.  C.  Twice  he  attempted  to  escape 
and  once  was  out  for  five  days,  but  when  hope  of 
rejoining  the  Union  army  seemed  brightest,  he 
one  night  walked  into  a  squad  of  Confederate 
soldiers.  He  was  finally  paroled  at  Wilmington, 
N.  C,  March  i,  1865,  and  was  mustered  out  on 
the  2oth  of  March  and  honorably  discharged  from 
the  service. 

The  following  is  an  extract  from  the  official  re- 
port of  Maj.  Thomas  D.  Maurice  of  the  campaign 
from  May  i  to  September  8,  1864,  and  forwarded 
to  the  father  of  Dr.  Smythe  while  the  latter  lan- 
guished in  a  southern  prison.  The  surprise  and 
joy  of  his  parents  when  the  final  news  of  his 
parole  reached  them  can  be  imagined: 

"Lieutenant  Smythe,  Battery  A,  First  Illi- 
nois Artillery,  fought  until   he  was  overpowered 


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and  yielded  his  four  guns  only  after  a  sacrifice  of 
Lieutenant  Raub  and  thirty  men  killed,  wounded 
and  missing.     He  was  captured." 

"First  Lieutenant  Samuel  S.  Suiythe,  Battery 
F,  First  Illinois  Artillery,  commanding  Battery 
A,  same  regiment,  in  the  battle  of  July  22  before 
Atlanta  was  captured,  while  gallantly  defending 
his  guns  in  the  charge,  and  killed,  while  being 
taken  to  the  rear,  by  a  stray  bullet  from  our  own 
line  advancing  to  re -capture  his  battery.  A  bet- 
ter or  braver  officer  never  commanded  the  Ameri- 
can soldier."  (Signed)  T.  D.  Maurice,  major 
and  chief  of  artillery,  Fifteenth  Corps. 

While  a  prisoner  Lieutenant  Smythe  was  one 
of  six  hundred  Union  officers  who  were  sent  to 
Charleston  to  prevent  its  bombardment  by  the 
Federal  gunboats,  but  all  escaped  injury. 

After  the  war  our  subject  went  to  Chicago, 
where  Prof.  R.  Ludlam  became  his  medical  precep- 
tor in  the  Hahnemann  Medical  College,  and  he  re- 
mained in  that  institution  until  his  graduation  in 
1868.  Afterward  he  practiced  in  Chicago  for  two 
years  and  then  went  to  Lawrence,  Kan.  In  1 880  he 
came  to  Denver,  where  he  has  since  established  a 
large  practice.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Ameri- 
can Institute  of  Homeopathy  and  the  state  and 
city  medical  associations  of  homeopath ists.  Fra- 
ternally he  is  a  Mason  and  belongs  to  the  Dixon 
commandery.     In  politics  he  is  a  Republican. 

The  marriage  of  Dr.  Smythe  took  place  in 
1870  and  united  him  with  MissLydia  K.  Ranson, 
daughter  of  Thomas  Ranson,  of  Carroll  County, 
111.  She  died  in  Denver  in  1889,  leaving  an  only 
daughter,  Grace  E. 


p  QlLLlAM  M.  DAILEY.    Prior  to  1859  little 

I  A/  ^^^  known  concerning  Colorado,  but  the 
Y  Y  discovery  of  gold  led  thousands  of  men, 
during  that  year,  to  link  their  fortunes  with  this 
then  sparsel}'  populated  territory.  Among  a  party 
of  young  men  who  started  west  from  Indiana  was 
the  subject  of  this  sketch,  then  twenty-three 
years  of  age.  The  journey  was  a  long  and  tedi- 
ous one,  but  finally  the  mountains  were  reached, 
and  he  at  once  began  to  work  a  claim  in  Russell 
Gulch.  In  the  fall  of  the  same  year  he  located 
in  Denver  and  followed  the  carpenter's  trade, 
which  he  had  learned  in  Ohio.  He  erected  a 
number  of  buildings,  one  of  which  still  stands, 
near  the  Market  street  bridge  over  Cherry  Creek, 


and  which  was  formerly  occupied  by  Byers  & 
Dailey  as  the  office  of  the  Rocky  Mountaiii  News. 

In  the  spring  of  i860  Mr.  Dailey  took  up  a 
ranch  claim  on  the  Platte  River  (a  tract  now  sub- 
divided as  the  Lake  Archer  division)  and  there 
engaged  in  farming  until  the  disastrous  flood  of 
1864  ruined  his  place.  During  the  summer  of 
1864  he  enlisted  in  Company  A,  Third  Colorado 
Infantry,  and  took  part  in  the  battle  of  Sand 
Creek.  On  being  mustered  out  he  embarked  in 
mining  and  prospecting,  but  in  the  spring  of  1867 
began  in  the  live-stock  business  with  ex-Governor 
John  Evans,  first  locating  in  Pueblo  County,  but 
later  moving  to  Vance's  Park  on  Bear  Creek,  and 
from  there  to  the  Little  Thompson  in  Larimer 
County,  thence  to  the  Black  Hills  of  Wyoming. 
When  cattle  were  at  a  very  high  price  he  sold 
out,  thus  reaping  a  large  profit.  Afterward  he 
superintended  the  developing  of  mines  on  Rock 
Creek,  Gunnison  County.  During  his  last  years, 
as  a  partner  of  his  brother,  John  L.  Dailey,  he 
platted  Dailey 's  addition  to  the  city  and  engaged 
in  the  transfer  and  sale  of  real  estate. 

Prior  to  coming  to  Colorado  Mr.  Dailey's  life 
was  not  an  eventful  one.  He  was  born  near 
Tiffin,  Seneca  County,  Ohio,  April  22,  1836,  and 
in  1848  accompanied  the  family  to  Allen  County, 
Ind.,  where  he  and  his  two  brothers  assisted  in 
clearing  a  farm  out  of  the  unbroken  forest.  He 
received  public  school  and  academic  advantages, 
and  for  a  time  taught  in  order  to  gain  funds 
needed  to  extend  his  educational  advantages. 
His  youth  passed  busily,  but  uneventfully,  and 
the  first  stirring  event  was  the  decision  to  remove 
to  Colorado  and  seek  his  fortune  in  a  country 
then  so  little  known,  but  of  which  so  much  was 
said.  Nor  did  he  ever  have  cause  to  regret  his 
decision.  While  assisting  in  the  advancement  of 
Denver,  at  the  same  time  he  enhanced  his  own 
prosperity,  and  at  the  time  of  his  death,  March 
29,  1890,  he  left  his  family  in  comfortable  circum- 
stances. He  was  a  man  of  genial  disposition  and 
stirring  energy,  one  whose  industry  was  untiring 
and  whose  determination  conquered  every  ob- 
stacle. 

In  Denver,  March  10,  1880,  Mr.  Dailey  mar- 
ried Miss  Nellie  M.  Tilton,  who  was  born  in 
Hudson,  Mich.,  thedaughter  of  Albert  and  Hattie 
L.  (Manley)  Tilton,  natives  respectively  of  Michi- 
gan and  New  York.  Her  paternal  grandfather, 
William  Tilton,  was  a  farmer  in  Michigan,  and 


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her  maternal  grandfather,  Rev.  W.  E.  Manley,  a 
Universalist  minister,  spent  many  years  in  New 
York,  also  resided  in  Michigan  a  short  time,  and 
died  in  Denver,  where  his  daughter  still  lives. 
Albert  Tilton  was  a  farmer,  at  Hudson,  Mich. ,  but 
removed  from  there  to  Lenawee  County,  where 
he  died  in  middle  life.  He  left  three  children, 
Mrs.  Dailey,  Mrs.  Minnie  C.  Hartford,  of  Den- 
ver, and  Charles  M.  Tilton,  of  Berthoud,  Colo. 
Mrs.  Dailey  and  her  children,  William  A.,  Min- 
nie M.  and  Walter  J.,  reside  at  No.  329  Broad- 
way, where  she  built  a  comfortable  home  some 
years  ago.  She  is  a  lady  possessing  many  noble 
attributes  of  character  that  win  the  warm  friend- 
ship of  all  with  whom  she  associates  in  society. 


pCJlLLIAM    EARTH.-     By  far  the  largest 

\  A  /  number  of  those  who  emigrate  to  the 
V  V  United  States  land  in  New  York  and  seek 
employment  in  the  east,  where  their  lives  are 
drearily  passed  in  the  monotonous  toil  of  factory 
life,  uucheered  by  comforts  and  unmarked  by  suc- 
cess. Doubtless  not  a  little  of  Mr.  Barth's  pros- 
perity is  due  to  the  fact  that  he  landed  in  New 
Orleans  on  coming  to  America  and  soon  found 
himself  on  the  frontier,  where  great  opportunities 
were  offered  to  all  who  were  willing  to  work  for 
them.  He  was  a  poor  boy,  so  poor  that  when  he 
arrived  in  New  Orleans  he  had  only  a  nickel  in 
his  possession  and  that  he  used  in  buying  a  loaf 
of  bread.  Poverty,  however,  had  no  terrors  for 
him;  he  was  young,  strong,  hopeful  and  indus- 
trious, and  believed  money  would  come  to  any 
man  who  was  willing  to  work.  When  he  settled 
in  Denver,  a  few  days  after  the  fire  of  May,  1863, 
he  rented  a  space  between  two  buildings  and, 
roofing  it  over,  began  in  the  shoe  business.  His 
quarters  were  so  small  that  he  could  reach  from 
wall  to  wall,  but  after  a  few  months,  his  trade 
warranting  a  change,  he  moved  to  No.  232 
F  street  (now  Fifteenth  street)  and  there  he  did 
a  successful  business  for  many  years.  From  the 
first  he  had  the  greatest  faith  in  the  future  of 
Denver;  he  believed  in  it  and  his  optimistic  faith 
encouraged  others  to  make  investments  here. 
When  he  came  to  this  city  there  were  no  trees 
for  many  miles,  and  he  planted  some  of  the 
first  ever  set  out  here,  by  which  he  was  enabled 
to  prove  to  others  that  trees  could  be  made  to 
grow  in  this  locality.    He  has  been  greatly  inter- 


ested in  building  up  residence  and  business  prop- 
erty in  Denver,  having  built  a  number  of  houses 
and  the  block  that  bears  his  name,  and  his 
activity  has  been  instrumental  in  promoting  the 
growth  and  enhancing  the  commercial  importance 
of  the  place. 

Mr.  Barth  was  born  in  Dietz  Nassau,  Ger- 
many, December  8,  1829,  the  son  of  George  and 
Mina  (Grass)  Barth.  His  father,  who  was  a 
shoemaker  by  trade,  served  in  the  Napoleonic 
wars  in  Belgium  in  1812-15;  when  he  was  an  old 
man  our  subject  sent  the  money  for  his  passage 
to  America  and  he  died  in  Platte  County,  Mo. 
The  Grass  family  were  from  Oranian,  of  the  Neth- 
erlands, whence  they  fled  to  the  Isle  of  Wight  on 
account  of  religious  persecutions,  and  from  that 
isle  they  removed  to  Germany,  where  they  be- 
came very  prominent.  One  member  of  this 
family  was  a  captain  and  two  were  lieutenants  in 
the  German  army  and  all  three  were  killed  in  the 
battle  of  Waterloo.  Another  representative  of 
that  name  was  a  general  in  Napoleon's  army. 

When  a  boy  our  subject  learned  the  shoe- 
maker's trade.  In  1850  he  took  passage  at 
Antwerp  and  after  sixty-eight  days  landed  in 
New  Orleans,  spending  a  short  time  there  and 
then  going  to  Belleville,  111.  A  year  later  he 
went  to  Glasgow,  Mo. ,  in  search  of  a  brother, 
Charles  J.,  who  had  come  to  America  two  years 
earlier  than  himself;  on  inquiry  he  learned  that 
the  brother  had  started  for  California,  but 
perished  on  the  plains.  From  Glasgow  our  sub- 
ject went  to  Platte  County,  Mo.,  where  he  and 
his  brother  Moritz  started  a  boot  and  shoe  busi- 
ness. The  people  of  this  neighborhood  were 
strongly  southern  in  sentiment  and,  at  the  break- 
ing out  of  the  war,  he  being  a  stanch  Union 
sympathizer,  found  residence  there  was  no  longer 
congenial.  For  this  reason  he  determined  to 
leave. 

June  2,  1861,  in  company  with  his  brother, 
Mr.  Barth  crossed  the  Missouri  River  at  Kansas 
City  with  an  ox-team,  which  was  the  extent  of 
his  worldly  possessions.  After  spending  some 
time  in  California  Gulch  (now  Leadville)  he  re- 
turned to  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  and  engaged  in  the 
manufacture  of  nail  boots  for  the  Pike's  Peak 
trade.  Returning  to  Colorado  in  1862,  he  settled 
in  Fairplay  and  his  brother-  in  Montgomery. 
Later  he  spent  a  short  time  in  Breckenridge  and 
May,  1863,  located  in  Denver,  where  he  engaged 


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in  manufacturing  miners'  footwear.  His  earnings 
were  invested  in  citj^  property,  which  as  years 
advanced  increased  in  value  and  brought  him 
wealth.  He  was  interested  in  contributing  to 
the  Denver  Pacific  Railroad,  the  first  railroad  in 
Denver,  and  later  was  active  in  the  building  of 
the  Denver  &  South  Park  Railroad,  and  the  Den- 
ver, Texas  &  Gulf  Railroad,  in  each  of  which  he 
was  a  stockholder  and  director.  Soon  after  the 
organization  of  the  City  National  Bank  he  began 
to  purchase  stock,  in  time  became  one  of  its  con- 
trolling stockholders,  and  was  made  its  president, 
continuing  at  the  head  of  that  institution  for  ten 
years.  Since  his  retirement  from  the  presidency 
he  has  given  his  attention  to  the  oversight  of  his 
large  interests.  He  is  president  and  was  the  or- 
ganizer of  the  D-T  Cattle  Company,  which  has 
a  large  ranch  on  the  Platte  River  in  Morgan 
County;  is  also  interested  in  the  cattle  business 
outside  of  the  company,  owns  large  tracts  of  lands 
in  different  sections,  and  is  interested  in  mining. 
With  Messrs.  Moffat  and  Hathaway  he  started 
the  Bimetallic  Bank  in  Cripple  Creek,  of  which 
he  was  president  until  he  sold  his  interest  in  the 
concern.  He  was  married  in  Missouri  to  Miss 
Charlotte  Kaempfer,  of  Chicago,  and  has  one  son, 
Charles  J.,  of  Denver.  Politically  he  is  a  strong 
Republican,  served  on  the  board  of  aldermen  in 
1867-68  and  held  other  local  offices  in  early  days. 
Fraternally  he  is  a  Mason.  During  the  Vienna 
Exposition  he  went  to  Europe  and  spent  some 
time  travehng  in  Austria,  Germany  and  Switzer- 
land. 


EHARLES  BAI^DWIN  LYMAN,  M.  D. 
A  position  among  the  talented  young  phy- 
sicians of  Denver  is  held  by  Dr.  Lyman, 
who  is  professor  in  the  department  of  fractures 
and  dislocations  in  the  University  of  Denver 
medical  school;  also  visiting  surgeon  to  St.  Jo- 
seph's and  Arapahoe  County  Hospitals,  consult- 
ing surgeon  to  St.  Luke's  Hospital,  surgeon  for 
the  Union  Pacific  Railroad  and  for  the  State 
Home  for  Dependent  Children.  He  also  carries 
on  a  private  practice,  and  has  an  office  in  the 
California  building. 

Dr.  Lyman  traces  his  ancestry  back  to  the  days 
of  William  the  Conqueror,  when  Sir  Radulphus 
Lambert  assisted  his  famous  commander  in  win- 
ning the  battle  of  Hastings.  Fifteen  generations 
later  his  descendant,  Elizabeth  Lambert,  became 


the  wife  of  Thomas  Lyman  during  the  reign  of 
Henry  II.  The  twenty-sixth  generation  in  line 
of  descent  from  the  soldier  at  Hastings  is  repre- 
sented by  Dr.  Lyman.  The  first  of  the  name  in 
America  was  Richard  Lyman,  Sr. ,  who  crossed 
the  ocean  in  1631  from  Bristol,  England,  taking 
passage  on  the  ship  that  bore  to  this  country 
Martha,  wife  of  Gov.  John  Winthrop,  and 
Elliott,  the  celebrated  apostle  of  the  Indians  of 
the  new  world.  He  landed  in  Boston  Novem- 
ber 4  and  at  once  made  settlement  in  Charles- 
ton, a  suburban  town.  A  Puritan  himself,  he 
was  in  hearty  sympathy  with  his  fellow-pioneers, 
and,  like  them,  he  labored  for  the  development  of 
New  England.  In  1635  he  accompanied  a  num- 
ber of  Puritans  to  Connecticut,  and  the  next  year 
he  was  one  of  the  original  proprietors  of  the 
Hartford  Colony.  The  fact  that  he  had  two 
servants  and  large  estates  indicates  that  he  was  a 
man  of  means.  He  had  two  sons,  John  and 
Richard,  Jr.,  the  former  born  in  England  in  1623. 

In  1654  John  Lyman  settled  at  Northampton, 
Mass.,  and  there  he  resided  until  his  death  in 
1690.  During  the  famous  fight  with  the  Indians 
at  Deerfield  he  served  as  lieutenant  of  a  company. 
By  his  marriage  to  Dorcas,  daughter  of  John 
Plumb,  he  had  a  large  family,  of  whom  the 
fourth  son,  Lieut.  Benjamin  Lyman,  was  born  in 
Northampton  August  10,  1674,  and  died  in  1723. 
He  was  an  extensive  farmer,  and  being  thrifty 
and  energetic  he  became  well-to-do.  Among  his 
ten  children  was  a  son,  Benjamin,  who  was  born 
in  Northampton  in  1703  and  moved  to  East- 
hampton,  the  same  county,  in  1745,  dying  there 
in  1762.  His  son,  Lemuel,  was  born  August  17, 
1735,  and  in  1755  joined  an  expedition  against 
Crown  Point,  being  wounded  in  the  battle  of 
Lake  George.  He  was  a  prominent  citizen  of 
his  community,  and  his  death,  in  1810,  was 
widely  mourned. 

Next  in  line  of  descent  was  Ahira  Lyman,  born 
in  1770  and  died  in  1836.  During  his  active  life 
he  engaged  in  the  mercantile  business  in  East- 
hampton.  By  his  first  wife,  who  was  Sallie 
Pomeroy,  he  had  four  children :  Roland,  Lemuel, 
Ahiva  and  Quartus.  His  second  wife  was  Lydia 
Baldwin,  of  Westfield,  Mass.,  and  they  had  two 
children,  William  and  Jabez  B.  The  latter  was 
bom  April  18,  1819,  was  orphaned  in  infancy, 
but,  though  deprived  of  parental  care,  was  given 
every  advantage  for  obtaining  a  splendid  educa- 


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tion.  After  graduating  from  Amherst  College  he 
'went  abroad,  where  he  carried  on  his  studies  for 
a  number  of  years.  On  his  return  he  became  an 
instructor  of  modern  languages  at  Amherst. 
Later  he  accepted  a  position  as  professor  of  math- 
ematics in  Oglethorpe  University  in  Georgia, 
where  he  remained  until  he  went  to  Europe  to 
study  medicine.  About  1850  he  returned  to  the 
United  States  and  opened  an  office  in  Chicago, 
but  soon  afterward  he  removed  to  Rockford,  111., 
where  he  engaged  in  professional  practice  until 
1879.  During  his  residence  in  that  city  he  mar- 
ried Miss  Lucy  DePue,  an  instructor  in  Rockford 
Seminary,  and  the  daughter  of  Ephraim  DePue, 
a  pioneer  wagon  manufacturer  of  Chicago  and 
later  a  railroad  contractor  there.  In  1879  Dr. 
Lyman  removed  to  Salem,  Mass. ,  and  there  his 
death  occurred  in  May,  1893.  He  was  a  schol- 
arly man,  keen  and  quick,  and  with  a  depth  of 
intelligence  that  rendered  him  an  authority  upon 
important  matters.  Naturally  talented,  his  study 
abroad  added  to  his  native  gifts,  and  the  two 
qualities,  talent  and  study,  combined  to  make 
him  one  of  the  most  successful  physicians  of  his 
day  and  locality.  For  a  time  he  was  president 
of  the  Rockford  board  of  education.  In  his  fam- 
ily there  were  five  children:  Charles  B.,  Mary, 
Maud,  George  and  Edith. 

In  Rockford,  111.,  Charles  B.  Lyman  was  born 
September  20,  1863.  He  was  educated  in  the 
public  schools  of  Rockford  and  Salem,  and  on  the 
completion  of  his  literary  studies  turned  his  at- 
tention to  medicine.  In  1882  he  matriculated  at 
Harvard  Medical  College,  Boston,  from  which  he 
graduated  four  years  later.  A  few  months  after 
graduating,  in  the  fall  of  1886,  he  came  to  Den- 
ver, the  inducement  to  locate  here  being  the  offer 
of  the  position  of  surgeon  for  the  Union  Pacific 
Railroad,  which  he  has  since  held.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Denver  and  Arapahoe  County 
Medical  Society,  Denver  Clinical  and  Pathologi- 
cal Society,  State  and  American  Medical  Asso- 
ciations, and  the  National  Academy  of  Railroad 
Surgeons.  In  1888  he  was  chosen  professor  of 
physiology  in  the  Denver  University,  medical  de- 
partment, and  after  two  years  in  that  position 
was  appointed  assistant  professor  in  the  depart- 
ment of  fractures  and  dislocations,  from  which 
he  was  promoted  to  the  head  of  the  department 
in  1893.  Since  1894  he  has  been  surgeon  to  St. 
Joseph's  Hospital   and   Arapahoe    County  Hos- 


pital. Politically  he  is  a  Republican,  and  fra- 
ternally belongs  to  Oriental  Lodge  No.  87,  A.  F. 
&  A.  M.  He  was  united  in  marriage  in  Kansas 
City  with  Mrs.  Emma  Arnold,  daughter  of 
Thomas  Vick  Roy,  of  Denver. 


HOMAS  J.  THOMPSON,  who  was  elected 
to  the  office  of  sheriff  of  Boulder  County  in 
the  fall  of  1897,  is  a  gentleman  who  enjoys 
the  esteem  and  hearty  respect  of  all  with  whom 
he  has  been  associated,  whether  in  business,  po- 
litical circles  or  in  society.  He  was  nominated 
by  the  Populists  to  his  present  position;  was 
elected  by  a  majority  of  six  hundred  and  four- 
teen votes,  and  entered  upon  the  duties  of  his 
office  on  New  Year's  day,  1898,  succeeding 
W.  C.  Dyer.  In  1889  he  was  elected  county 
commissioner  of  Boulder  County,  and  served  in 
that  capacity  for  three  years,  being  chairman  of 
the  board  during  the  last  year  of  his  term.  For 
years  he  has  been  verj'  active  in  the  interests  of 
the  People's  party,  and  has  been  a  delegate  to 
county  and  state  conventions,  and  a  member  of 
the  local  committee.  For  about  nine  years  he 
has  been  engaged  in  general  merchandising  in 
the  town  of  Ward,  in  this  county,  and  ser\'ed  as 
an  alderman  of  that  place  for  one  term.  He  has 
been  very  successful  in  his  business  ventures, 
and  is  rated  high  among  those  with  whom  he 
has  commercial  dealings. 

The  sherifTs  father,  Henry  N.  Thompson,  is 
a  native  of  Ohio,  but  settled  in  Woodbury,  Ind., 
at  an  early  day,  becoming  one  of  the  pioneer 
farmers  of  Hancock  County.  He  remained  in 
that  locality  until  1869,  when  he  turned  his  at- 
tention to  merchandising  in  McCordsville,  Ind. 
He  is  still  a  resident  of  that  place,  and  is  well 
along  in  years,  being  now  fourscore  and  four. 
At  one  time  he  was  a  county  commissioner,  and 
held  other  local  positions  of  trust  and  honor.  His 
wife,  whose  maiden  name  was  Elizabeth  Mc- 
Laughlin, and  whose  birth  had  occurred  in  Ohio, 
died  in  Indiana  many  years  ago.  She  was  the 
mother  often  children,  of  whom  three  sons  and 
two  daughters  survive.  A  brother  of  our  sub- 
ject, J.  S.,  is  a  resident  of  Alma,  Colo. 

T.  J.  Thompson  was  born  in  Woodbury,  Han- 
cock County,  Ind.,  in  1851,  being  the  fifth  of  his 
parent's  family.  His  education  was  obtained  in 
the  public  schools  of  Woodbury  and  McCords- 


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ville.  When  he  was  about  twenty  years  of  age 
he  started  out  to  make  his  own  way  in  the  world, 
and  in  187 1  came  to  Colorado.  Since  then  he 
has  been  more  or  less  actively  interested  in  min- 
ing, and  has  been  connected  with  the  develop- 
ment of  the  L,ittle  Alice  mine  and  others  of  equal 
value.  For  two  years  he  carried  on  a  general 
merchandising  business  at  Gold  Hill,  and  was 
the  first  merchant  in  Ward.  In  his  various  un- 
dertakings he  has  met  with  success  in  almost 
every  instance,  and  has  at  all  times  adhered  to 
strictly  upright  and  praiseworthy  methods.  In 
1892  he  was  initiated  into  the  Masonic  order  in 
Columbia  Lodge  No.  14,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  of 
Boulder.  He  also  belongs  to  the  Fraternal 
Union  at  Ward,  and  the  Ancient  Order  of  United 
Workmen  at  Gold  Hill. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Thompson  and  Miss  Het- 
tie  Lamson  was  solemnized  in  Boulder  April  12, 
1881.  She  is  a  daughter  of  John  W.  Lamson, 
who  removed  from  her  birthplace  in  Iowa  to  this 
.state  in  1870,  locating  in  Boulder  County.  The 
two  children  born  to  our  subject  and  wife  are 
Zelbert  and  Carl. 


DWIN  L.  COATES,  a  successful  business 
^  man  of  Boulder,  was  appointed  postmaster 
^  by  President  Cleveland  March  12,  1896, 
and  since  then  the  business  of  the  ofi5ce  has  in- 
creased fifty  per  cent,  from  $10,000  to  $15,000 
and  more.  May  i,  1898,  a  free  delivery  office 
was  established,  which  greatly  facilitates  the 
work  and  promotes  the  convenience  of  the  peo- 
ple. Among  the  Democrats  of  the  state,  Mr. 
Coates  holds  a  prominent  position.  He  is  chair- 
man of  the  county  committee  and  a  member  of 
the  state  central  committee,  also  a  member  of  the 
executive  committee  of  the  latter. 

Born  in  the  city  of  New  York,  Mr.  Coates  is 
a  son  of  James  S.  and  Anna  (Watson)  Coates, 
natives  respectively  of  Ireland  and  Scotland. 
His  father  was  the  oldest  son  of  the  family  and 
when  a  young  man  crossed  the  ocean  to  New 
York,  where  he  engaged  in  the  wholesale  coal 
business,  being  for  forty  years  a  member  of  the 
firm  of  Jeremiah  Skidmore  &  Sons  and  their  suc- 
cessors. He  continued  with  that  house  until  his 
death,  which  occurred  in  1893,  at  the  age  of 
sixty-nine.  His  wife  died  in  Boulder  in  1897. 
Their  four  children  are  named  as  follows:  Foster, 
at   one   time    editor   of    the  Mail  and  Express 


of  New  York  City;  Arabella,  wife  of  Dr.  I.  L. 
Bond,  of  Boulder;  Edwin  L- ;  and  Wellington 
W. ,  of  Providence,  R.  I.  The  father  was  well 
versed  in  veterinary  surgery  and  assisted  in  the 
organization  of  the  Columbia  Veterinary  College 
in  New  York,  which  was  the  first  started  in  the 
United  States,  and  in  it  he  served  as  a  director. 
The  education  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch  was 
obtained  in  excellent  schools.  He  was  a  student 
in  the  grammar  schools  of  New  York,  the  Uni- 
versity of  the  City  of  New  York,  and  a  boarding 
school  in  New  York.  From  his  father  he  in- 
herited a  love  of  veterinary  surgery,  and  he  took 
a  course  in  the  college,  at  the  same  time  studying 
in  the  College  of  Pharmacy  and  Chemistry.  After 
graduating  he  became  a  clerk  with  the  United 
States  Mortgage  Company  and  then  with  the 
Marine  Bank  on  Wall  street.  In  1885,  when 
twenty  years  of  age,  he  came  to  Boulder,  where 
he  was  made  a  clerk  for  the  Boulder  National 
Bank  at  its  organization,  but  after  three  months 
resigned  and  became  deputy  county  clerk  and  re- 
corder. At  the  close  of  the  term  he  was  ap- 
pointed city  clerk  under  a  Republican  administra- 
tion, and  before  the  expiration  of  his  second 
term  he  was  appointed  under-sheriff,  continuing 
two  terms  in  that  position.  Meantime,  about 
1887,  he  started  the  agricultural  implement  busi- 
ness, in  which  he  has  since  engaged.  In  addi- 
tion to  this  and  his  position  as  postmaster  he  is 
a  notary  public  and  also  represents  a  number  of 
the  old  companies  in  fire  insuraxice. 


(TOHN  S.  REID,  one  of  the  Colorado  pioneers 
I  of  i860,  and  now  a  resident  of  Ward, 
(2/  Boulder  County,  was  born  in  Ireland  No- 
vember 4,  1830,  the  son  of  James  and  Elizabeth 
(Kyle)  Reid.  His  father,  who  brought  the 
family  to  America,  settled  in  Galena,  111.,  in 
1845,  Slid  engaged  in  farming  there  until  his 
death,  at  seventy-five  years.  His  wife  also 
passed  away  there.  Three  of  their  children  are 
living,  but  our  subject  is  the  only  one  in  Colorado. 
The  family  came  to  America  from  Derry  to 
Quebec,  via  the  saiHng  vessel  "Alex  Grant"  and 
from  Quebec  journeyed  to  Chicago  by  way  of 
the  great  lakes,  going  by  wagon  from  Chicago  to 
Galena.  The  father  bought  a  farm  within  one 
and  one-half  miles  of  Galena,  which  he  carried 
on  as  long  as  he  lived.     Our  .subject  learned  the 


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trades  of  millwright  and  cabinet-maker.  In  1850 
he  went  up  the  Mississippi  to  St.  Paul,  which 
then  had  less  than  one  thousand  people,  while  its 
neighboring  city,  Minneapolis,  w^as  at  that  time 
a  part  of  the  Fort  Snelling  reservation.  With 
J.  C.  Burbank,  S.  H.  AxtellandS.  R.  Randolph, 
he  engaged  in  lumbering  on  the  Platte  River, 
which  they  named.  For  some  3'ears  he  went 
back  and  forth  between  St.  Paul  and  Galena, 
following  the  millwright's  trade.  He  assisted  in 
building  the  Goodfrey  mill,  the  first  built  on  the 
site  of  St.  Anthony's  Falls,  and  the  first,  except  a 
government  mill,  on  the  Minneapolis  side. 

When  the  excitement  arose  in  regard  to  the 
discovery  of  gold  in  Pike's  Peak,  Mr.  Reid  de- 
termined to  go  to  the  mountains.  He  outfitted 
with  a  mule  team  and  journeyed  by  way  of 
Omaha  and  the  Platte  route.  Starting  April  16, 
he  reached  his  destination  in  the  latter  part  of 
May,  going  from  Denver  to  Central  City  and 
Blackhawk  and  after  a  few  weeks  proceeding  to 
Grass  Valley  Bar,  or  Montgomery  Hill,  below 
Idaho  Springs,  where  he  began  placer  mining. 
In  the  fall  of  that  year  (i860)  he  went  up  Fall 
River  and  engaged  in  gold  and  silver  mining. 
In  1861  he  was  at  Buckskin  Joe.  For  several 
years  he  went  back  and  forth  between  different 
mining  camps.  In  1867  he  began  prospecting, 
mining  and  lumbering  at  Georgetown,  where  he 
continued  until  the  spring  of  1876  and  then  came 
to  Boulder  County,  investing  in  Magnolia  district. 
Among  the  mines  that  he  developed  were  Poor 
Man's  mine, Home  Stake,  Washington,  Caledonia, 
in  all  of  which,  and  others,  he  is  still  interested. 
He  was  one  of  the  first  miners  at  Iveadville  in 
1878  and  invested  in  mines,  in  which  he  is  still 
interested.  He  also  incorporated  the  Blind  Tom 
Company,  which  owns  twenty  acres,  including 
within  its  limits  the  Blind  Tom,  Frio  and  the  Poor 
Old  Soldier  mines. 

Settling  in  Ward  in  June,  1888,  Mr.  Reid 
began  operating  as  manager  for  the  Utica  Mining 
Company.  He  continued  in  that  capacity  until 
he  met  with  an  unfortunate  accident  through 
"butting  the  skip"  (as  miners  term  it).  His 
scalp  and  head  were  horribly  wounded,  but  he 
retained  his  hold  and  a  man  on  the  level  stopped 
the  skip,  into  which  he  managed  to  crawl  and 
was  taken  to  the  top  of  the  shaft.  The  stunning 
blow  did  not  cause  him  to  lose  consciousness  and, 
such   was   the  vigor  of  his  constitution,    he  re- 


covered in  a  short  time.  To  his  perseverance  is 
largely  due  the  success  of  the  Utica  mine.  Dur- 
ing the  eight  years  he  was  with  the  company  he 
operated  it  judiciously  and  advantageously.  He 
used  his  influence  in  getting  the  company  in- 
terested in  the  construction  of  the  flume  from  the 
foot  of  Mount  Audibon  to  Utica,  whence  it  is 
taken  to  Camp  Talbot;  and  he  superintended 
the  construction  of  the  upper  flume.  He  has 
spent  some  time  in  developing  the  Humbolt 
mine,  in  which  he  is  part  owner. 

From  the  organization  of  the  Republican 
party  Mr.  Reid  has  voted  its  tickets.  In  1856 
he  was  a  member  of  the  Republican  Club  in 
Illinois.  He  is  identified  with  the  Association  of 
Colorado  Pioneers  and  can  tell  many  an  interest- 
ing story  of  life  in  the  early  days  in  the  mountain 
regions  of  Colorado.  In  June,  1862,  he  married 
Margaret  Temple,  their  wedding  being  solemnized 
on  Fall  River,  Colo.,  where  her  family  re- 
sided. She  died  in  April,  1876,  at  Georgetown, 
this  state. 


REUEL  BARTLETT,  M.  D.,  who  has  engaged 
in  the  practice  of  medicine  in  Boulder  since 
1879,  was  born  in  Lamoine,  Hancock  County, 
Me.,  April  6,  1851,  a  son  of  Hon.  Hiram  S.  and 
Phoebe  (Whittaker)  Bartlett,  natives  of  the  same 
place  as  himself  His  paternal  grandfather,  John 
Bartlett,  was  a  descendant  of  English  ancestors 
and  by  occupation  a  farmer.  The  maternal  grand- 
father, Hazen  Whittaker,  was  a  native  of  Maine, 
where  he  owned  a  farm,  but  he  devoted  his  atten- 
tion less  to  agriculture  than  to  his  trade  of  car- 
pentering. 

Reared  upon  a  farm,  Hiram  S.  Bartlett  chose 
agriculture  for  his  occupation  and  continued  in 
that  vocation  until  his  death.  However,  he  had 
other  important  interests,  both  of  a  business 
nature  and  in  connection  with  political  affairs. 
Politically  a  Republican,  he  served  as  selectman, 
member  of  the  assembly  and  state  senate,  in  all 
of  which  connections  he  rendered  efficient  service 
in  behalf  of  the  people  of  his  district.  At  the^ 
time  of  his  death,  in  1888,  he  was  seventy-one 
years  of  age,  and  his  wife  was  the  same  age  at 
the  time  of  her  demise.  Their  five  children  still 
survive.  One  son,  David,  is  an  attorney  in  North 
Dakota;  Henry  remains  on  the  old  homestead; 
Hazen  is  in  California;  and  the  daughter,  Mrs. 
Elizabeth  (Bartlett)  Small,  lives  in  California. 


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When  nineteen  j'ears  of  age  the  subject  of  this 
sketch  secured  a  position  as  teacher  of  a  school 
in  Maine.  Two  years  later,  in  1873,  he  removed 
west  to  Michigan  and  taught  school  in  Midland, 
at  the  same  time  carrying  on  the  study  of  medi- 
cine. In  1876  he  entered  the  medical  department 
of  the  University  of  Michigan  at  Ann  Arbor, 
from  which  he  graduated  in  March,  1879,  with 
the  degree  of  M.  D.  He  came  to  Colorado  on  the 
31st  day  of  the  same  month  and  settled  in 
Boulder,  where  he  has  since  engaged  in  profes- 
sional practice,  his  location  being  No.  1425  Pine 
street.  At  one  time  he  was  a  director  in  the 
Boulder  Electric  Light  Company  and  is  still 
interested  in  it. 

In  this  city  Dr.  Bartlett  married  Miss  Mary 
Holbrook,  who  was  born  in  Belleville,  111.,  a 
daughter  of  John  Holbrook.  She  was  graduated 
from  the  Normal  School  at  Lebanon,  Ohio,  and 
for  a  time  engaged  in  teaching  school.  The  four 
children  of  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Bartlett  are:  Myrl, 
Chenery,  Mary  and  Reuella.  For  years  Dr. 
Bartlett  was  a  member  of  the  school  board  and 
during  much  of  the  time  he  served  as  secretary. 
When  he  came  here  there  was  but  one  school- 
house,  and  while  he  was  a  director  the  Mapleton, 
Highland  and  Pine  street  schools  were  erected, 
and  many  improvements  introduced.  For  three 
years  he  has  held  the  office  of  county  physician 
and  for  a  similar  period  served  as  city  treasurer. 
He  was  made  a  Mason  in  Midland,  Mich.,  and  is 
now  connected  with  Boulder  Chapter  No.  45, 
A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  Boulder  Chapter  No.  7,  R.A.M., 
and  Mount  Sinai  Commandery  No.  7,  K.  T.  His 
wife  is  identified  with  the  Woman's  Christian 
Temperance  Union  and  the  Presbyterian  Church, 
being  a  leading  member  of  both  organizations, 
with  which  he  is  also  in  hearty  sympathy.  In 
politics  he  is  a  silver  Republican  and  profession- 
ally holds  membership  in  the  Colorado  State 
Medical  Society. 

(3  ACRED  HEART  CATHOLIC  CHURCH, 
?\  of  Boulder.  The  history  of  the  Catholic 
\zJ  church  in  Boulder  County  dates  back  to  an 
early  period  in  its  history.  The  first  priest  to  visit 
the  county  and  hold  services  was  Rev.  Joseph  P. 
Machebeuf,  V.  G. ,  who  passed  through  here  in 
January,  1861,  going  north.  On  the  9th  of  that 
month  he  celebrated  mass  at  the  Big  Thompson 
and  after  services  baptized  a  child.  This  was  the 
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first  baptism  in  the  then  unorganized  western 
district  of  the  territory  of  Nebraska.  During  the 
first  part  of  March  he  made  another  such  visit. 
January  7,  1862,  Rev.  John  B.  Raverdy  passed 
through  the  county  going  north.  He  celebrated 
the  sacrifice  of  mass  at  the  residence  of  John  De- 
Baker,  near  the  mouth  of  South  Boulder  Canon, 
and  after  the  services  were  over  he  baptized  two 
children.  September  7,  1866,  Rev.  Joseph  P. 
Machebeuf,  V.  G. ,  held  services  at  Boulder  and 
baptized  two.  These  two  priests  ministered  to 
the  spiritual  wants  of  Catholics  in  this  region, 
coming  here  when  opportunity  offered.  In  Au- 
gust, 1867,  Father  John  D.  Faure  came  here,  and 
from  October,  1868,  to  May,  1869,  Father  John 
O.  Keefe  served  the  people.  From  February, 
1870,  to  September,  1872,  Father  Thomas  Mc- 
Grath  was  with  the  little  band  of  worshipers;  in 
May,  187 1,  Father  Vincent  de  Vilas;  from  Sep- 
tember, 1872,  to  November,  1873,  Father  Henry 
Robinson  was  here.  During  that  year  a  mission 
was  given  here  by  Rev.  J.  M.  Schneider,  C.  S.  S. 
R. ,  then  followed  Father  Louis  B.  Lebouc  from 
March  to  September  of  that  year,  after  which, 
two  months  or  more,  Father  J.  H.  Defouri,  of 
Kansas,  ministered  to  the  Catholics,  and  from  Oc- 
tober, 1873,  to  1874,  followed  Father  L-  Duroc. 
The  two  original  promoters  of  the  work  came  fre- 
quently to  preach  to  the  people  and  perform  the 
ordinance  of  baptism.  Then  Father  Hugh  A. 
Quigley  lived  in  South  Boulder  for  six  months. 
In  the  spring  of  1868,  Rev.  J.  DeBlieck  accompan- 
ied Father  Machebeuf  to  South  Boulder  and  for 
several  months  made  regular  visits  to  his  fellow 
Belgian  countrymen. 

The  first  resident  priest  was  Father  Vincent 
Reitmayr,  who  came  here  in  August,  1875.  From 
here  he  attended  the  missions  at  South  Boulder, 
St.  Vrain,  Fort  Collins,  Longmont,  Erie,  Magno- 
lia, Gold  Hill,  Caribou,  etc.  Like  his  predeces- 
sors, he  was  obliged  to  hold  services  in  private 
houses,  but  later  preached  in  the  old  city  hall  and 
in  Allen  hall.  In  September,  1877,  Father  A.  J. 
Abel  took  charge  of  the  mission.  Through  John 
O'Brien  he  obtained  the  present  site  for  a  church 
and  at  once  began  to  build.  On  Christmas  day 
of  1877  he  celebrated  midnight  mass  at  the  Sacred 
Heart  of  Mary  Church,  South  Boulder,  from 
which  point  he  rode  to  Erie  and  celebrated  early 
mass,  finally  arriving  in  Boulder,  where  he  cele- 
brated high  mass  for  the  first  time  in   the  new 


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Sacred  Heart  Church.  The  four  walls  of  the 
church  were  completed,  a  few  rough  boards  laid 
as  a  floor,  while  a  few  overhead  kept  out  the  hot 
rays  of  the  sun;  though  on  that  day  the  sun  did 
not  shine,  for  the  sky  was  cloudy  and  the  wind 
sharp  and  blustering.  This  building  yet  stands 
and  is  24x55  feet  in  dimensions. 

In  March,  188 1,  Father  J.  W.  Cummings  be- 
came pastor,  but  in  December,  1882,  on  account 
of  illness.  Father  G.  Raber  was  made  his  assistant, 
and  remained  to  June,  1883.  In  October,  1882, 
Father  Edmund  Ley  took  charge.  Father  John 
I.  Riordan  assisted  him  during  January  and  Feb- 
ruary, 1884.  In  April  Rev.  Lawrence  M.  Halton 
became  pastor,  but  in  July  resigned  in  favor  of 
Father  Patrick  J.  Gleeson.  Father  G.  F.  Emblen 
followed  in  June,  1885,  and  remained  two  months. 
In  August,  1885,  Rev.  Godfrey  Raber  took 
charge,  and  in  December,  1887,  Rev.  Rhaban 
Gutraan,  O.  S.  B.,  follovi'ed,  and  was  assisted  by 
Father  M.    Wirtner,   O.  S.  B.,    until    February, 

1888.  March  23,  1889,  Rev.  Eusebius  Geiger, 
O.  S.  B.,  took  charge  of  the  congregation,  and  in 
July  was  succeeded  by  Father  Gutman,  who  had 
previously  held  the  pastorate.  Very  Rev.  Placid 
Pilz,  O.  S.  B.,  took  charge  August  19,  1889,  and 
in  July,  1890,  he  removed  the  partition  in  the 
church,  enlarging  the  interior  by  one-third  if  its 
former  size.  In  October,  1894,  Father  Henry 
Hohman,  O.  S.  B.,  became  pastor,  followed  May 
25,  1896,  by  Very  Rev.  Modest  Wirtner,  O.  S.  B., 
the  present  pastor.  The  building  when  erected 
was  too  large  for  the  congregation,  while  now  it 
is  not  large  enough  for  the  large  number  of 
Boulder  Catholics. 

Church  history  in  Boulder  County  may  be 
summed  up,  in  brief,  as  follows;  187 1,  Coal  Creek 
visited  by  Father  McGrath;  1875,  Canfield  visited 
by  Father  Vincent;  1878,  Caribou  visited  by 
Father  Abel;  1879,  Loui-sburg  (now  Louisville) 
visited  by  Fa^Jier  Abel;  1880,  Nederland,  by 
Father  Abel;  1879,  Fossil  Creek,  near  Caribou, 
and  Salina,  by  Father  Abel;  1885,  Langford  (also 
called  Marshall)  by  Father  Godfrey  Raber,  also, 
during  the  same  year,  Crisman  and  Gold  Hill; 

1889,  Ward,  by  Rev.  I.  Geiger  (however,  there  had 
been  a  priest  at  Ward  before,  who  between  1862- 
66  had  built  the  frame  part  of  the  church,  but 
the  town  went  down  and  records  of  the  time  and 
the  priest  were  lost) ;  1890,  Sunset,  Father  Hoh- 
man;  1893,   Brainerd's  (or  Talcott)    Camp,    by 


Father  Hohman;  1893,  Copper  Rock,  by  Father 
Hohman;  1897,  Springdale,  by  Very  Rev.  M. 
Wirtner;  1897,  Magnolia,  by  Father  Cornelius 
Enders,  O.  S.  B.,  and  1898,  Eldora,  by  Father 
Wirtner. 

In  1867  Rev.  J.  P.  Machebeuf,  V.  G.,  bought 
one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  on  South  Boulder, 
six  miles  south  of  Boulder  and  four  miles  north- 
west of  Louisville.  In  the  fall  of  1874  he  built  a 
church  on  the  land,  the  Sacred  Heart  of  Mary, 
which  was  22x45  in  dimensions.  The  cemetery 
for  the  Catholics  of  the  county  is  also  at  that 
place.  The  list  of  priests  in  charge  is  the  same  as 
that  for  Boulder,  until  1888,  when  Father  Elses- 
ser,  O.  S.  B.,  took  charge.  In  October  of  that 
year  he  was  followed  by  Father  Hohman,  under 
whose  care  it  continued  until  May  25,  1896,  when 
Father  Wirtner  took  this  charge,  in  connection 
with  the  one  at  Boulder,  having  charge  until 
February,  1898.  From  that  time  Rev.  Michael 
Rank,  O.  S.  B.,  had  charge  until  May  8,  when 
he  gave  it  up,  since  which  time  the  people  at- 
tend either  at  Boulder  or  Louisville. 

The  Catholic  Church  at  Louisville  was  estab- 
lished by  Father  Abel, and  the  church  was  built  by 
Rev.  Godfrey  Raber,  who  continued  as  priest  in 
charge  until  November,  1887,  after  which  Father 
Wirtner  had  the  pastorate  until  February,  1888, 
and  then  Rev.  C.  Elsesser  succeeded  to  the  pas- 
torate. In  October  of  the  same  year  Father  Hoh- 
man took  charge,  and  in  July,  1889,  he  was  fol- 
lowed by  Rev.  R.  Schrembs,  O.  S.  B.  Novem- 
ber 4,  1892,  Father  Wirtner  took  charge,  and 
he  was  succeeded  May  25,  1896,  by  Father  B. 
Staudigel.  September  23,  1896,  Rev.  Macar 
Schmidt  became  pastor.  October  22,  1896,  Fa- 
ther Cornelius  Enders  became  pastor  and  has  con- 
tinued to  the  present  time.  The  original  edifice 
was  enlarged  in  1894  by  Father  Wirtner  and  was 
made  24x80,  with  a  sacristy  adjoining  24x12. 

St.  Benedict's  Church  at  Ward  was  built  in 
1897  by  Father  Cornelius  Enders,  who  has  been 
in  charge  since.  The  Longmont  Church  was  es- 
tablished in  1882  and  has  since  been  in  successful 
operation.  The  Catholic  Church  in  Boulder  has 
the  various  societies  usually  to  be  found  in  large 
and  progressive  churches.  There  is,  in  con- 
nection with  the  church,  a  school  with  fifty  ad- 
vanced pupils  and  fourteen  teachers  (Sisters  of 
Charity);  the  school  is  known  as  St.  Gertrude's 
Academy.     The  first  superior  of  the  priory  of  the 


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Sacred  Heart  was  Rev.  R.  Gutman,  who  was  fol- 
lowed bj'  Rev.  P.  Pilz,  and  May  25,  1896,  Father 
Wirtner  became  prior. 

Very  Rev.  Modest  Wirtner,  O.  S.  B.,  was  born 
in  Carrolltowu,  Cambria  County,  Pa.,  March  20, 
1861.  His  father,  John  Wirtner,  was  born  in 
lyoretto,  the  same  county,  and  was  a  son  of  John, 
Sr. ,  a  native  of  Germany  and  proprietor  of  a  tan- 
nery at  Loretto.  John,  Jr.,  was  a  hardware  mer- 
chant in  CarroUtown,  a  place  named  in  honor  of 
Archbishop  Carroll.  He  continued  in  business 
there  until  he  retired  from  active  labors.  He  is  now 
living  in  St.  Augustine,  the  same  county.  His 
wife,  Catherine,  was  born  in  Loretto,  a  daughter 
of  Augustine  Farenbocher,  a  farmer  who  came  to 
this  country  from  Germany.  His  descendants 
have  changed  the  spelling  of  the  family  name  to 
Farabach.  John  Wirtner,  Jr. ,  and  his  wife  had 
eleven  children  and  of  these  nine  are  still  living. 
They  are  all  active  in  the  Catholic  Church  and 
one  daughter  is  a  Sister  of  Mercy  in  Pittsburg. 
Two  cousins  are  priests,  O.  S.  B. 

The  education  of  Father  Wirtner  was  carried 
on  for  a  time  in  St.  Benedict's  parish  school.  In 
1873  he  entered  St.  Vincent's  College  in  West- 
moreland County,  Pa.,  and  remained  a  student 
there  until  his  graduation,  in  the  classical  course, 
in  1880.  At  the  same  time  he  entered  the  order 
to  which  he  now  belongs,  O.  S.  B.,  and  July  11, 
1 88 1,  made  a  profession  of  his  desire  to  enter  the 
priesthood.  He  took  the  degree  of  philosophy 
and  theology  at  St.  Vincent's  Seminary  and 
was  ordained  July  8,  1886,  at  St.  Vincent's 
Church  by  Bishop  Phelan  of  Pittsburg.  His 
first  pastorate  was  St.  Mary's  Church,  Elk 
Count}',  Pa.,  where  he  remained  as  priest 
until  he  came  to  Boulder,  assisting  here  and 
taking  charge  of  the  work  in  Louisville.  De- 
cember 23,  1887,  ^'^s  the  date  of  his  arrival  in 
Colorado,  where  he  has  since  make  his  home. 
On  the  1 7th  of  February  of  the  following  year 
he  was  placed  in  charge  of  the  church  at  Breck- 
enridge,  Summit  County,  where  he  remained  un- 
til March,  1890,  and  then  took  a  charge  in  Park 
County.  After  Januarj',  1891,  he  combined  the 
work  in  Park  and  Summit  Counties  and  remained 
at  the  head  of  both  until  June  13,  1892,  when  he 
went  to  Pueblo.  Six  months  later  he  came  to 
Boulder.  In  November,  1892,  he  took  charge  of 
the  work  at  Louisville,  Erie,  Ward  and  mountain 
missions.    May  25,  1896,  he  was  made  pastor  and 


prior  of  Sacred  Heart  Church,  where  he  has  an 
able  assistant  in  Rev.  Cornelius  Enders.  The 
latter  was  born  in  Bavaria,  December  7,  1866. 
He  received  his  education  principally  in  St.  Vin- 
cent's College,  where  he  took  the  regular  classi- 
cal course.  July  II,  1887,  he  entered  the  order. 
He  was  ordained  to  the  holy  priesthood,  Septem- 
ber 23,  1892,  in  St.  Vincent's  Church,  Bishop 
Phelan  of  Pittsburg  officiating,  and  was  stationed 
at  Peru,  HI.,  as  an  instructor  in  St.  Bede  Col- 
lege. His  next  location  was  with  St.  Mary's 
Church  in  Allegheny  City,  Pa.  In  October,  1896, 
he  came  to  Colorado,  and  has  since  been  con- 
nected with  the  churches  of  Boulder  County. 


SOL.  S.  K.  HOOPER.  The  family  repre- 
sented by  this  leading  citizen  of  Denver  has 
been  identified  with  American  history  for 
many  generations.  The  lineage  is  traced  through 
D.  M.  Hooper  (born  in  Durham,  Me.,  Novem- 
ber 3,  1802,  died  in  New  Albany,  Ind.,  Sep- 
tember 23,  1880)  and  Nehemiah  Hooper  (born 
in  Manchester  Township,  Essex  County,  Mass., 
September  3,  1773,  died  in  Durham,  Me.,  May 
10,  1840)  to  David  Hooper  (also  a  native  of 
Manchester  Township,  born  June  9,  1745,  died 
in  Freeport,  Me.,  February  19,  1835).  The  last- 
named  was  a  descendant  of  English  ancestors  who 
settled  at  Cape  Ann  about  1700.  In  1763  he 
married  Rachel  Story,  a  relative  of  the  jurist  of 
that  name.  Some  years  later,  at  the  opening  of 
the  Revolution,  he  enlisted  in  the  American  army 
and  took  part  in  the  battle  of  Bunker  Hill,  as 
well  as  in  numerous  other  memorable  engage- 
ments of  the  war.  Upon  being  honorably  dis- 
charged he  removed  to  Freeport,  Me.,  where  he 
died  at  the  age  of  eighty-nine  years. 

Col.  Jonathan  Mitchell,  of  whom  our  subject 
is  a  lineal  descendant,  was  born  in  Hiiigham, 
Plymouth  County,  Mass.,  in  1723,  and  died  at 
North  Yarmouth  in  182 1.  During  the  Revo- 
lution he  was  colonel  of  a  regiment  in  which 
were  his  three  sons.  Some  time  before  the  old 
French  war,  probably  about  1748,  he  removed 
from  the  southern  part  of  Massachusetts  to  Yar- 
mouth, Me. ,  where  he  and  other  settlers  were  so 
troubled  by  Indians  that  they  were  obliged  to 
take  refuge  in  the  blockhouse.  The  trouble  with 
the  savages  continued  during  the  French  war 
that  closed  in  1759.     He  died  about  182 1,  at  the 


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age  of  ninety-eight.  His  son,  Bela  Mitchell,  was 
born  at  North  Yarmouth,  Cumberland  County, 
Me.,  in  1752,  and  died  at  Martinique,  West 
Indies,  in  1786.  He,  with  other  members  of  his 
family,  served  in  the  Revolution,  after  which  he 
returned  to  his  occupation  as  a  sailor.  While  in 
command  of  a  vessel  in  the  West  India  trade  he 
fell  a  victim  to  yellow  fever  in  1786.  Some 
years  before  this  he  married  Susannah  Sweat  in 
Newburyport,  Mass.,  and  during  their  residence 
in  Salisbury  theii  daughter,  Susannah,  was  born, 
in  1783.  This  child,  after  her  father's  death, 
was  adopted  by  her  grandfather.  Col.  Jonathan 
Mitchell,  with  whom  she  remained  until  her 
marriage  to  Nehemiah  Hooper.  She  died  in 
Durham,  Me.,  in  i860.  Their  son,  Dummer 
Mitchell  Hooper,  was  born  in  Durham  Novem- 
ber 3,  1802,  and  died  in  New  Albany,  Ind.,  Sep- 
tember 23,  1880.  He  married  Annabella  Brown, 
who  was  born  in  Baltimore  November  3,  18 13, 
and  became  his  wife  November  3,  1832.  She  is 
still  living  at  the  old  homestead,  where  she  has 
resided  since  1834. 

The  father  of  Mrs.  Annabella  Hooper  was  Ed- 
ward Brown,  a  descendant  of  Absalom  Barney, 
brother  of  Commodore  Barney,  who  removed 
from  Baltimore  to  Louisville  and  engaged  in 
freighting  between  that  city  and  Pittsburg.  Fi- 
nally, in  his  old  age  and  with  ample  means,  he 
retired  to  New  Albany,  where  he  died  about 
1857,  at  the  age  of  eighty-four.  He  and  three 
brothers,  Nicholas,  George  and  a  third  whose 
name  is  not  known,  took  part  in  the  war  of  18 12 
and  he  was  in  service  for  a  time  before  that  war. 
George  was  a  famous  preacher  and  author,  and 
one  of  the  most  prominent  ministers  of  the  Meth- 
odist Episcopal  Church  in  Ohio.  Edward  mar- 
ried Miss  Elizabeth  Kemp,  and  it  was  her  brother, 
Shadracli  Kemp,  for  whom  our  subject  was  named. 

In  1850  D.  M.  Hooper  went  to  California  over- 
land, with  ox-teams  outfitted  at  St.  Joe.  His 
wagon  box  for  the  trip  he  built  in  the  form  of  a 
flat  bottom  boat,  so  that  it  might  be  used  in  cross- 
ing streams.  The  idea  was  an  excellent  one.  It 
was  used  as  a  ferry  boat  on  the  Humboldt  River 
and  reimbursed  its  owner  for  the  entire  expense 
of  the  trip.  From  March  to  August  he  engaged 
in  the  steamboat  business,  building  boats  for  the 
Sacramento  River  and  being  located  in  San 
Francisco.  In  1852  he  returned  to  Indiana, 
where  he  resumed  boat  building;  and  during  the 


same  year  he  visited  Maine  for  the  first  time 
since  boyhood.  The  boats  that  he  built  were 
used  for  the  steamboat  trade,  but  the  outbreak  of 
the  Civil  war  rendered  the  business  unprofitable 
and  he  retired.  He  was  prominent  in  local  affairs, 
also  served  for  several  terms  as  a  member  of  the 
city  council  and  for  two  terms  as  mayor  of  New 
Albany.  While  in  Evansville,  Ind.,  he  was 
taken  sick  and  at  once  returned  home,  where  he 
died  soon  afterward.  He  was  buried  with 
Masonic  honors,  having  been  a  thirty-third 
degree  Mason  and  a  member  of  that  order  from 
boyhood.  He  is  said  to  have  been  a  fluent  writer, 
with  an  easy  and  graceful  diction  that  made  his 
articles  interesting.  During  early  years  he  was 
a  Whig,  and  after  the  war  he  became  a  Repub- 
lican, being  the  first  member  of  that  party  ever 
elected  mayor  of  New  Albany. 

In  the  family  of  D.  M.  Hooper  were  seven  chil- 
dren. Susan  E.  resides  in  New  Albany.  Rev. 
William  Story  Hooper  was  formerly  president  of 
a  college,  later  was  pastor  in  the  Methodist  Epis- 
copal denomination,  then  served  as  an  elder,  and 
is  now  retired.  David  Edward  Hooper,  who 
was  in  the  United  States  navy,  was  engineer  on 
the  famous  "Queen  of  the  West,"  that  ran  down 
the  "Vicksburg."  After  the  ship  was  wrecked 
he  made  his  escape  on  a  bale  of  cotton.  On 
retiring  from  the  navy  he  became  a  contractor, 
and  is  now  superintendent  of  bridges  for  the 
Louisville  Southern  Railroad,  with  headquarters 
at  Lawrenceburg,  Ky.  Shadrach  Kemp  was 
next  in  order  of  birth;  and  j'ounger  than  he  were 
three  daughters,  Mrs.  Frances  Taylor,  a  widow 
residing  in  New  Albany;  Mrs.  Maria  M.  Smith, 
who  died  in  New  Albany  in  1875;  and  Eleanor  M., 
also  of  New  Albany. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  in  New 
Albany,  Ind.,  May  30,  1841.  In  boyhood  he 
learned  the  steamboat  blacksmith's  trade,  and  in 
the  winter  seasons,  while  learning  his  trade,  he 
ran  the  Ohio  and  Mississippi  Rivers  from  1856  to 
1 86 1,  part  of  the  time  as  cabin  boy  and  later  as 
third  engineer.  In  1861,  after  having  been  for 
a  time  on  the  steamer  "John  Briggs,"  he  returned 
home,  and  enlisted  for  three  months'  service  in 
the  Twelfth  Indiana  Infantrj^,  but  the  quota  was 
filled,  and  the  company  disbanded.  He  then  en- 
listed in  Company  E,  Twenty-third  Indiana 
Infantry,  June  i,  i86i,  was  mustered  in  as  cor- 
poral  of  the  company  July   29,    1861,    received 


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promotion  to  quartermaster-sergeant  of  the  regi- 
ment March  i,  1863,  and  was  commissioned  first 
heutenant  and  adjutant  April  14,  1864.  The 
regiment  was  organized  at  New  Albany  July 
27-29,  i86i,  and  left  for  Paducah,  Ky.,  August 
15;  it  was  attached  to  the  Second  Brigade,  Third 
Division,  Army  of  Tennessee,  February- March, 
1862,  Third  Brigade,  Third  Division,  to  Novem- 
ber, 1862;  Third  Brigade,  Third  Division,  right 
wing,  Thirteenth  Corps,  Department  of  the  Ten- 
nessee, to  January,  1863;  First  Brigade, Third  Div- 
ision, Seventeenth  Corps,  to  September,  1863; 
Third  Brigade,  Fourth  Division,  Seventeenth 
Corps,  to  February,  1864;  First  Brigade,  Fourth 
Division,  Seventeenth  Corps,  to  April,  1865.  He 
was  on  duty  at  Paducah  until  February,  1862, 
meantime  marching  to  the  relief  of  Grant  at  Bel- 
mont, Mo.,  November  2-12,  1861,  was  at  Fort 
Henry,  Tenn.,  January  2-14,  1862,  took  part  in  the 
operations  against  Fort  Henry  February  2-5,  and 
against  Fort  Donelson  February  12-16;  accom- 
panied the  expedition  to  Yellow  Creek  March  14- 
17;  took  part  in  the  battle  of  Shiloh  April  6-7;  the 
advance  on  and  siege  of  Corinth,  Miss.,  April  17- 
May  30;  was  on  duty  at  Purdy  and  Bolivar  until 
September,  taking  part  in  the  action  at  the  former 
place  August  30;  marched  to  luka  September  1-19; 
took  part  in  the  battle  of  luka  September  19-20;  the 
battle  of  Metamora,  Hatchie's  River,  October  5; 
the  pursuit  to  Ripley  October  6-12;  Grant's  Cen- 
tral Mississippi  campaign,  operations  on  the  Mis- 
sissippi Central  Railroad  to  Oxford  and  Grenada, 
Miss.,  November  26,  1862,  to  January  10,  1863; 
moved  to  Colliersville,  Tenn. ;  thence  to  Memphis, 
Tenn.,  January  20,  1863,  and  to  Lake  Providence, 
La.,  February  21;  moved  to  Milliken's  Bend 
April  17;  thence  to  Rowensburg  and  Grand  Gulf 
April  25-30;  was  at  the  battle  of  Port  Gibson 
May  i;  Bayou  Pierrie  May  2-3;  Bruinsburg  May 
6;  battle  of  Raymond  May  12;  Jackson  May  14; 
Champion  Hills  May  16,  where  his  horse  was 
killed  under  him;  Big  Black  River  May  17;  siege 
of  Vicksburg  May  i8-July  4;  assault  on  Vicksburg 
May  19-22;  surrender  of  Vicksburg  July  4  and  on 
duty  there  until  February,  1864,  took  part  in  the 
expedition  to  Monroe,  La.,  August  28-Septeraber 
I,  1863;  the  expedition  to  Canton  October  12-22; 
the  Meridan  campaign  February  3-March  5, 
1864;  Baker's  Creek  February  5;  Meridan  Febru- 
ary 14-15;  Canton  February  26;  on  veteran's  fur- 
lough until  April;  moved  to  Bird's  Point,  Mo., 


thence  to  Pittsburg  Landing,  Tenn.,  from  there 
in  a  short  time  marched  back  to  Acworth,  Ga. , 
via  Huntsville,  Ala.,  May  5-June  8;  operations 
against  Kenesaw  Mountain  June  9-30;  Busby 
Mountain  June  15-17;  Big  Shanty  June  1 7 ;  assault 
on  Kenesaw  Mountain  June  27,  where  his  horse 
was  killed;  Nickajack  Creek,  July  6-8,  where 
another  horse  was  killed;  Chattahootchie  River 
July  8-12;  Decatur  July  19;  Leggett's  Bald  Hill 
July  20-21;  battle  of  Atlanta  July  22;  siege  of 
Atlanta  July  22-September  2;  Ezra  Chapel  July 
28;  Utoy  Creek  August  5-7;  was  acting  major  of 
the  regiment  from  August  2,  1864,  to  April  5, 
1865;  took  part  in  the  flank  movement  on  Jones- 
boro,  August  25-30,  1864;  the  battle  of  Jonesboro 
(temporarily  in  command  of  regiment)  August 
31-September  i;  Lovejoy  Station  September  2-6; 
pursued  Hood  into  Alabama  October  3-26;  Snake 
Creek  Gap  October  15;  marched  to  the  sea  Nov- 
ember 15-December  10;  was  at  Oconee  River 
November  24-25;  Ogeechee  River  December  7-9; 
siege  of  Savannah  December  10-21;  campaign  of 
the  Carolinas  January- April,  1865;  Pocolalego, 
S.  C,  January  14-16;  Salkeholdue  Swamps 
February  3-5;  South  Edisto  River  February  9; 
North  Edisto  River  February  12-13;  Congaree 
Creek  February  15;  Columbia  February  16-17; 
Cherow  March  2-3;  Fayetteville,  N.  C,  March 
1 1 ;  battle  of  Bentonville  March  19-2 1 ;  occupation 
of  Goldsboro,  March  23;  was  mustered  out 
April  5,  1865,  at  Goldsboro,  N.  C,  and  honor- 
ably discharged. 

It  will  thus  be  seen  that  the  connection  of 
Colonel  Hooper  with  the  army  was  one  reflecting 
the  highest  credit  upon  his  valor  and  patriotism. 
From  first  to  last  he  was  unswerving  in  his  alle- 
giance to  the  Union,  and  on  many  a  hard-fought 
battlefield  he  proved  the  depth  of  his  devotion  to 
his  country.  On  returning  home  he  resumed  the 
pursuits  of  civic  life.  January  i,  1866,  he  began 
his  connection  with  the  railroad,  accepting  a 
position  as  clerk  in  the  general  ticket  ofiice  of 
the  Louisville,  New  Albany  &  Chicago  Railroad, 
which  he  filled  until  March,  1867.  He  then  be- 
came terminal  agent  for  the  Union  Pacific  when 
the  end  of  its  track  was  at  North  Platte.  During 
the  Indian  trouble  in  October,  1867,  he  was  in 
the  government  service,  in  charge  of  the  Indian 
supplies,  which  he  distributed.  He  then  returned 
to  New  Albany  and  in  November  became  chief 
clerk  in  the  general  ticket  ofiice  of  the  Louis- 


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ville,  New  Albany  &  Chicago  Railroad,  but  in 
March  of  the  following  year  was  made  general 
passenger  and  ticket  agent  of  the  same  road  at 
New  Albany,  retaining  the  position  until  Febru- 
ary, 1873.  December  i,  1873,  he  was  chosen 
general  passenger  agent  for  the  Fort  Wayne, 
Jackson  &  Saginaw  (now  a  part  of  the  Lake 
Shore)  Railroad. 

As  general  passenger  agent  for  the  Hannibal 
and  St.  Joe  road  Colonel  Hooper  established  his 
headquarters  at  Hannibal  January  i ,  1880.  Later 
he  removed  his  headquarters  to  Kansas  City, 
where  he  continued  in  the  same  capacity  until 
May,  1884.  On  the  15th  of  that  month  he  ac- 
cepted the  position  of  general  passenger  agent 
for  the  Central  of  Iowa,  with  which  he  remained 
until  June  i,  1884,  and  then  became  general  pas- 
senger agent  for  the  Denver  &  Rio  Grande,  his 
present  position.  While  connected  with  the 
Hannibal  &  St.  Joe  road  he  was  frequently  in 
Colorado  and  took  such  a  liking  to  the  state  that 
he  was  glad  to  accept  a  position  in  Denver.  In 
September,  1881,  he  was  at  Toltec  Gorge,  at  the 
time  of  the  funeral  of  James  A.  Garfield  and  it 
was  through  his  effort  that  the  Garfield  monu- 
ment was  erected  at  this  point. 

At  New  Albany,  Ind.,  May  17,  1865,  Colonel 
Hooper  married  Miss  Nancy  Welch,  who  was 
born  in  Harrison  County,  Ind.,  a  daughter  of 
Morgan  Welch,  who  was  a  native  of  Virginia 
and  engaged  in  steamboat  building  in  connection 
with  our  subject's  father.  He  married  Lucy  Sny- 
der, of  Kentucky;  her  mother  was  a  Miss  Gail, 
whose  father  was  a  member  of  David  Crockett's 
band  of  Indian  fighters.  The  father  of  Morgan 
Welch  was  John  Welch,  who  migrated  west  and 
engaged  in  farming  in  Harrison  County,  Ind., 
where  he  died  at  the  age  of  about  ninety  years. 
Colonel  and  Mrs.  Hooper  have  a  son  and  daugh- 
ter: Charles  E. ,  who  is  now  an  officer  in  the 
regular  army,  and  Jean,  Mrs.  Page,  who  is  a  poet 
and  author. 

Colonel  Hooper  is  a  member  of  the  Grand  Army 
of  the  Republic  and  in  1897  was  colonel  on  the 
staff  of  General  Clarkson.  Twice  he  has  repre- 
sented the  Loyal  Legion  as  delegate  to  national 
conventions,  and  at  this  writing  he  is  vice-com- 
mander of  the  order.  He  has  served  for  a  term 
as  vice-president  of  the  Colorado  Society,  Sons  of 
the  Revolution.  During  the  administration  of 
Governor  A.  W.  Mclntire  of  Colorado,  he  was  a 


colonel  on  the  latter' s  staff.  For  many  years  he 
has  been  identified  with  the  Independent  Order 
of  Odd  Fellows.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Colorado 
board  of  the  Omaha  Exposition  and  was  the  ori- 
ginator of  the  festival  of  the  mountain  and  plain, 
which  has  grown  to  be  one  of  the  most  widely 
known  annual  celebrations  of  the  west.  From 
its  inception  he  has  been  a  leading  director  in  the 
festival  and  chairman  of  important  committees. 
He  has  taken  an  active  interest  in  the  work  of  the 
National  Association  of  General  Ticket  Agents 
and  years  ago  became  recognized  as  one  of  the 
foremost  workers  in  advanced  lines  of  passenger 
and  ticket  business. 

As  an  administrative  officer  in  the  special  field 
which  he  has  filled  for  more  than  a  quarter  of  a 
century,  Colonel  Hooper  has  no  superior.  He 
is  essentially  practical  in  his  business  methods 
and  his  rare  social  qualities,  keen  discrimination 
and  broad  acquaintance  not  only  with  the  passen- 
ger departments,  but  with  men  in  general,  have 
peculiarly  fitted  him  for  the  responsibilities  he  has 
so  ably  filled.  His  military  record,  early  in  life, 
demonstrated  that  quality  of  his  character  which 
was  destined  to  achieve  for  him  success  in  any 
avenue  of  life  he  might  have  selected.  As  a  rail- 
way officer  he  has  the  happy  faculty  of  inspiring 
his  associates  and  assistants  with  his  own  zeal 
and  it  is  in  a  large  measure  due  to  this  talent  that 
he  occupies  a  place  in  the  front  rank  of  the  gen- 
eral passenger  agents  of  the  United  States. 

As  intimated  above,  the  ability  of  Colonel 
Hooper  has  not  been  restricted  to  the  railway 
field.  His  talents  have  embraced  a  wider  scope 
and  it  is  doubtful  whether  any  citizen  of  Colorado 
has  contributed  more,  during  the  past  fifteen 
years,  toward  the  material  advancement  of  the 
commonwealth  than  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 
In  the  broad  acceptation  of  the  term,  he  is  a  pub- 
lic-spirited citizen.  He  has  been  identified  with 
every  large  movement  originating  in  Colorado 
for  the  growth  of  the  state  that  has  been  known 
since  his  advent  in  the  mountain  region.  His 
work  each  year  upon  the  board  of  the  festival  of 
the  mountain  and  plain  is  a  monument  to  his 
energy  and  keen  business  sagacity.  No  man  has 
done  more  than  he  in  presenting  to  the  world  the 
advantages  of  Colorado  as  a  scenic  and  health- 
giving  resort.  Fertile  in  resourses,  never  failing 
in  expedients,  popular  to  a  degree  rarely  known 
by  men  even  in  positions  of  the  largest  responsi- 


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bilit}^  generous,  loyal  to  friends  and  patriotic  to 
country,  the  impression  which  he  has  made  in 
Colorado  is  one  which  his  children  can  remember 
with  pride,  a  record  which  in  future  years  will  be 
pointed  out  as  worthy  of  honest  emulation.  In 
the  midst  of  a  busy  life,  he  has  been  an  extensive 
reader  of  history  and  poetry  and  a  close  student 
of  the  philosophy  of  man's  progress  toward  a 
higher  ideal  in  government,  religion  and  all  that 
enhances  the  value  of  life.  He  is  a  fluent  writer 
and  a  conversationalist  of  the  highest  order.  His 
remarkable  memory  is  stored  with  numberless 
thrilling  incidents  and  reminiscences,  whose  pre- 
sentation in  book  form  has  many  times  been 
urged  upon  him  by  his  friends.  It  is  to  men  of 
his  character  that  Colorado  and  the  mountain 
empire  owe  their  prestige  as  the  most  promising 
field  for  activity  and  enterprise  on  the  continent. 


n  D.  BEST,  one  of  Denver's  most  extensive 
I  wholesale  business  men,  came  to  this  city  in 
(2/  1872  and  has  since  been  closely  identified 
with  the  history  of  the  place,  having  witnessed 
its  location  as  the  capitol  of  the  state  and  its 
growth  from  a  town  of  seven  thousand  inhabitants 
to  a  city  which  is  the  metropolis  of  the  central 
west.  With  one  exception  he  is,  in  point  of 
years  of  business  activity,  the  oldest  wholesale 
grocery  and  grain  dealer  in  the  city.  At  first, 
upon  settling  here,  he  had  many  obstacles  to  over- 
come, many  hardships  to  encounter.  He  began 
in  business,  on  a  small  scale,  on  Fifteenth  street, 
but  about  1874  moved  to  Holiday  street  (now 
Market  j,  where  he  carried  on  a  commission  busi- 
ness for  several  years.  Gradually,  however,  he 
merged  his  business  into  a  wholesale  grocery 
business,  and  during  the  '80s  he  opened  a  grain, 
hay,  flour  and  feed  store  on  Nineteenth  and  Wyn- 
koop  streets,  which  he  has  since  successfully 
conducted. 

The  early  days  of  our  subject's  life  were  spent 
in  Bath,  Me.,  where  he  was  brought  into  con- 
tact with  sea-faring  men.  Through  the  influence 
of  these  associations  he  was  led,  at  the  age  of 
fifteen,  to  ship  before  the  mast,  and  for  many 
years  he  followed  the  sea.  After  his  first  voyage 
he  sailed  to  Charleston,  S.  C,  where  the  ship  was 
loaded  with  cotton  for  Liverpool,  and  at  Liver- 
pool the  cotton  was  replaced  by  iron  for  New 
Orleans,  also  carrying  many  passengers.     On  the 


return  trip,  when  in  Providence  channel,  off 
Florida  coast,  the  vessel  struck  some  hidden 
rocks  and  went  down.  Over  two  hundred 
passengers  and  two  of  the  crew  were  lost.  After 
swimming  about  one  mile,  Mr.  Best  was  picked  up 
by  a  boat  and  that  in  turn  was  picked  up  by  a 
brig,  which  took  the  men  to  New  York.  There 
he  shipped  on  the  "John  C.  Calhoun,"  which, 
about  five  days  out  from  New  York,  was  wrecked 
in  the  Bay  of  Fuudy,  but  in  this  instance  all 
hands  were  saved.  They  were  taken  to  St. 
John's,  and  there  he  again  secured  employment 
as  a  sailor,  but  the  master  of  the  sunken  ship  re- 
fused to  permit  him  to  sail,  insisting  that  he 
return  home  to  see  his  mother.  He  did  this,  re- 
maining at  home  until  November,  when  he  ship- 
ped on  the  ship  "Clinton"  for  Turk's  Island, 
near  Cuba.  While  there,  the  vessel  was  anchored 
ofi"  the  coral  reefs,  but  a  fierce  gale  came  up  and 
parted  the  chains,  driving  the  ship  on  the  reefs 
and  splitting  it  in  two.  All  hands  were  rescued 
and  all  went  back  home  except  our  subject,  who 
was  determined  to  go  on  to  New  Orleans.  While 
at  Turk's  Island  his  hammock  was  swung  be- 
tween two  trees  for  a  bed  and  home  for  three 
weeks.  After  a  time  an  English  mail  steamer 
anchored  oS"  Turk's  Island  and  as  its  quarter- 
master had  been  washed  overboard  they  were 
glad  to  employ  him  for  the  position.  He  went 
with  the  ship  to  the  island  of  St.  Thomas  and 
from  there  shipped  back  to  the  United  States, 
landing  in  Boston. 

From  that  city  he  shipped  before  the  mast  on 
the  ship  "Franconia"  and  went  to  New  Orleans, 
thence  returning  to  Boston  as  second  mate. 
With  the  same  vessel  and  in  the  capacity  of  mate 
he  again  crossed  the  Gulf  of  Mexico,  but  on 
reaching  New  Orleans  he  heard  so  much  said 
about  the  great  west  that  he  determined  to  go 
thither.  Accordingly  he  resigned  his  position 
and  took  passage  on  a  steamer  bound  up  the 
Mississippi  and  Illinois  Rivers  to  Peoria,  thence 
went  by  steam  cars  to  Chicago,  landing  in  that 
city  during  the  cholera  epidemic.  After  paying 
the  hack  fare  to  the  hotel  he  had  fifteen  cents 
left.  The  landlord  kindly  consented  to  wait  for 
his  money,  so  he  remained  in  the  hotel  for  three 
weeks,  and  then  went  on  the  lakes  as  sailor  be- 
tween Chicago  and  Buffalo  in  the  grain  trade. 
In  the  autumn  he  was  made  second  mate,  a  few 
months  later  was  promoted  to  be  mate,  and  the 


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promotion  of  his  captain  in  the  same  summer 
raised  him  to  the  command  of  the  vessel.  He 
remained  on  the  lakes  until  1865,  being  master 
of  the  best  vessels  then  used,  among  them  the 
bark  "Chicago  Board  of  Trade."  He  was  also 
in  the  iron  ore  trade  on  Lake  Superior. 

In  Buffalo,  in  i860,  Mr.  Best  married  Martha 
C.  Hooper,  a  former  schoolmate  of  his  in  Bath, 
Me.  Not  wishing  to  be  away  from  his  family 
so  much,  in  1865  he  decided  to  quit  the  lakes. 
He  then  entered  the  ship  chandler's  business, 
which  he  carried  on  until  the  great  fire  of  1871. 
Being  burned  out  at  that  time,  with  insurance 
only  in  home  companies,  he  lost  everything.  He 
and  his  partner  were  chosen  by  the  executive 
committee  of  the  relief  board  as  distributors  of 
the  relief  funds,  a  work  which  kept  him  busy 
until  the  spring  of  1872,  and  he  then  resumed 
his  former  business.  However,  his  health  had 
been  poor  for  some  months  and,  believing  that  the 
mountain  region  would  relieve  him  of  asthma, 
from  which  he  suffered,  he  sold  out  his  Chicago 
business  and  came  to  Denver.  Here  he  has  since 
built  up  a  profitable  and  important  business  in 
grain  and  groceries.  He  has  never  sought 
public  office  and  is  inclined  to  be  independent  in 
politics,  though  leaning  toward  Republican 
principles.  He  has  two  daughters,  Mrs.  Frank 
H.  Leonard  and  Mrs.  J.  McCuUough  Terry,  both 
of  whom  reside  in  Denver;  also  two  sons,  Charles 
F.  and  John  W.,  both  of  whom  are  associated 
with  their  father  in  his  business. 


•JJEORGEE.  BERMONT,  senior  member  of 
__  the  firm  of  Bermont  &  Zook,  of  Lafayette, 
J  Boulder  County,  is  a  wide-awake,  progress- 
ive business  man,  of  extended  experience  and  un- 
doubted abihty.  He  assisted  in  establishing  the 
mercantile  business  of  which  he  has  since  been 
the  leading  spirit,  and  has  succeeded  in  building 
up  a  large  and  lucrative  trade  in  this  locality. 

Mr.  Bermont  is  a  native  of  Chambersburg,  Pa., 
born  November  19,  1866.  He  is  one  of  six  chil- 
dren whose  parents  are  George  and  Clara  (Gil- 
bert) Bermont.  The  others  are :  Harry  K.,  a  tan- 
ner by  trade  and  a  resident  of  Chambersburg,  Pa.; 
John  G..  engaged  in  mining  in  Creede,  Colo.; 
Alice,  wife  of  William  McCune,  of  Pennsylvania; 
Lizzie,  Mrs.  James  Leonard,  of  Jeannette,  Pa.; 
and   Maggie,  also  a   resident  of  Pennsylvania. 


The  senior  Bermont  was  a  native  of  Franklin 
County,  Pa.,  born  about  1833.  When  he  was  old 
enough  he  commenced  learning  the  trade  of  a 
brick-mason,  and  after  he  had  mastered  it  he  con- 
tinued to  follow  the  calling  for  many  years. 
After  his  family  were  grown  and  some  of  them 
had  gone  to  other  homes  and  states,  he  settled 
down  upon  a  farm  for  a  few  years.  Later  he 
again  worked  at  his  trade  for  a  period,  and  then 
retired  with  a  comfortable  competence. 

The  subject  of  this  article  received  ordinary 
school  advantages  and  when  he  was  sixteen  years 
of  age  he  began  earning  his  own  living.  For  a 
year  he  worked  on  a  Pennsylvania  farm,  and 
then,  with  his  savings,  paid  his  passage  to  north- 
western Illinois,  where  he  became  the  manager 
of  a  large  farm.  He  kept  this  position  for  four 
years,  by  the  end  of  which  period  he  had  a  snug 
little  sum  of  money  to  serve  him  as  capital  in  fu- 
ture enterprises.  Having  determined  to  try  his 
luck  in  Colorado,  he  landed  in  the  town  of  Yuma, 
March  14,  1888,  and  soon  bought  a  homestead 
relinquishment,  pre-empted  it,  and  after  proving 
up  on  the  place,  went  to  Denver.  There  he  passed 
a  couple  of  weeks  and  then  went  home  on  a  five 
weeks'  visit  to  his  relatives. 

The  attractions  and  business  possibilities  of 
Colorado  seemed  of  much  greater  weight  than 
those  of  his  native  state,  and  he  soon  returned  to 
Denver.  He  obtained  a  position  with  the  whole- 
sale lumber  firm  of  Bingham  &  Tage,  in  their 
order  department,  but  in  a  short  time  he  gave  up 
the  place  and  came  to  Lafayette,  where  for  a  year 
he  operated  a  machine  in  one  of  the  local  mines. 
The  Ingersoll  Rock  Drill  Company  then  engaged 
him  to  assist  in  the  erection  of  a  plant  at  Thur- 
ber,  Tex.,  to  which  point  he  went,  but  the  firm 
soon  desired  him  to  go  to  Carbon  Hill,  Ala.,  to 
work  for  them  there,  and  he  declined,  as  he  did 
not  wish  to  live  in  the  south.  Therefore,  resign- 
ing his  position,  he  returned  to  Lafayette,  and 
from  that  time  until  the  spring  of  189 1  he  was 
employed  by  the  Hathaway  Mercantile  Company. 

That  house  having  been  bought  out  by  the 
Lockwood  Trading  Company,  young  Bermont 
was  retained  by  them  in  his  old  position  until  he 
resigned  in  May,  1892.  When  the  new  firm  of 
Noble  &  FauU  was  organized  our  subject  entered 
their  employ  and  was  with  them  for  over  a  year. 
In  the  autumn  of  1893  he  became  an  employe  of 
the  Citizens'  Coal  and  Coke  Company.      In  the 


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spring  of  1895  ^i^  opened  an  oflBce  of  his  own,  be- 
coming agent  for  several  reputable  fire  and  life 
insurance  companies,  and,  at  the  same  time,  car- 
ried on  a  real-estate  business.  He  prospered  in 
this  undertaking  and  at  the  end  of  fifteen  months 
organized  the  firm  of  Cannon  &  Bermont,  mer- 
chants. This  partnership  being  dissolved  the 
following  October,  by  our  subject's  purchasing 
the  interest  of  Mr.  Cannon,  he  continued  toman- 
age  the  business  alone  until  the  spring  of  1897, 
when  he  took  the  agency  for  the  McCormick  ma- 
chines and  extended  his  territory  and  trade.  It 
soon  became  necessary  that  he  should  have  some 
one  associated  with  him  to  look  after  a  portion 
of  the  growing  business  and  accordingly  the  pres- 
ent firm  was  formed  March  16,  1898.  They  are 
doing  splendidly  and  reaching  out  for  still  greater 
things  in  their  various  lines.  Mr.  Bermont  votes 
the  Republican  ticket,  but  is  nothing  of  a  politi- 
cian or  office-seeker. 

September  28,1892,  Mr.  Bermont  married  Miss 
Catherine  Jones,  of  Youngstown,  Ohio.  She  is 
a  daughter  of  J.  W.  and  Catharine  Jones,  and  is 
a  native  of  Ohio. 


REV.  RICHARD  J.  VAN  VALKENBURG. 
This  worthy  citizen  of  Erie,  Weld  County, 
is  known  far  and  wide,  and  is  deservedly 
esteemed  in  religious,  fraternal  and  civic  circles. 
In  many  of  these  varied  fields  of  activity  he  has 
been  a  pioneer  to  this  region  of  Colorado,  for, 
among  others,  he  established  the  first  church  and 
Sunday-school  in  L,ongmont  and  in  Erie,  and 
preached  the  first  sermons  delivered  in  these 
towns.  He  is  a  charter  member  of  Erie  Lodge 
No.  46,  I.  O.  O.  F. ,  and  Garfield  Lodge  No.  50, 
A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  both  of  which  he  assisted  in 
organizing.  He  also  was  prominent  in  the  found- 
ing of  the  first  Good  Templars  Lodge  in  Erie  and 
in  Longmont.  For  a  quarter  of  a  century  he  has 
been  the  chaplain  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Odd 
Fellows,  and  for  a  number  of  years  he  served  in 
the  same  capacity  in  the  Masonic  grand  lodge. 
Having  passed  all  the  chairs  in  the  subordinate 
lodge  and  encampment,  he  represented  this 
jurisdiction  at  the  sovereign  grand  lodge  in  1874 
as  grand  representative,  and  also  served  as  grand 
master  of  the  grand  lodge  of  Colorado, 
I.  O.  O.  F. 

In  tracing  the  history  of  Rev.  R.  J.  Van  Valk- 
enburg,  we  find  that  he  is  a  native  of  Schoharie 


Countj',  N.  Y.,  his  birth  having  occurred  in  the 
village  of  Schoharie  August  16,  1823.  When  he 
was  two  years  old  he  removed  with  his  parents  to 
Owego,  N.  Y.,  and  there  grew  to  manhood.  His 
educational  advantages  were  limited,  as  he  was 
enabled  to  attend  the  district  school  only  in  the 
winter  season,  but  he  was  of  a  studious  disposi- 
tion and  determined  to  prepare  himself  for  a  wide 
sphere  of  action.  When  he  was  fourteen  he  had 
read  the  Bible  through,  and  having  saved  his  few 
coins  carefully,  had  invested  in  a  new.spaper, 
which  he  regularly  perused.  In  1841  he  united 
with  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  and  was 
soon  thereafter  licensed  to  preach.  In  1850  he 
became  a  member  of  the  Wyoming  conference, 
and  during  the  following  fourteen  years  he 
labored  assiduously  in  the  Master's  vineyard  in 
Pennsylvania  and  New  York.  At  that  time  he 
possessed  a  fine  voice,  which  talent  he  likewise 
devoted  to  the  cause,  being  often  styled  the 
"sweet  singer  of  Wyoming. ' ' 

March  i,  1843,  Mr.  Van  Valkenburg  married 
Miss  Cordelia  Briggs,  and  now,  after  fifty-five 
years  of  happy  life  together,  they  are  yet  spared 
to  share  each  other's  joys  and  sorrows.  Their 
golden  wedding  anniversary  celebration  was  one 
of  the  great  events  of  Erie  of  recent  years. 
Standing  so  high  in  the  Odd  Fellows'  society,  in 
particular,  the  members  desired  to  show  their 
appreciation  of  their  brother  and  his  estimable 
wife  in  a  manner  that  would  be  pleasantly  re- 
membered for  years.  No  one  of  the  six  hundred 
guests  on  that  memorable  occasion  has  often  en- 
joj'ed  himself  more  thoroughly.  Guests  there 
were,  nor  only  from  Erie  and  immediate  vicinity, 
but  from  Boulder,  Longmont,  Lafayette,  Greeley, 
Denver,  and  many  other  towns  and  cities  of  the 
state,  all  here  to  do  honor  to  their  friend  and 
brother  and  his  charming  wife.  The  spacious 
halls  of  the  Odd  Fellows  were  thrown  open  to  the 
public  in  the  afternoon,  and  soon  the  rooms  were 
thronged  with  visitors,  about  one  hundred  of 
whom  arrived  on  a  special  train  from  Denver, 
while  many  came  on  other  trains  and  in  carriages 
from  their  homes  in  more  or  less  distant  places. 
A  banquet  was  served  and  a  specially  prepared 
program  was  carried  out,  to  the  enjoyment  of  all. 
One  of  the  pleasant  features  of  the  evening  was 
the  presentation  of  a  golden  purse  with  about 
$200  in  gold  from  the  Odd  Fellows'  lodges  of  the 
state,  a  beautiful  silver  water  pitcher  from  the 


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Lafayette  Odd  Fellows  and  citizens,  and  numer- 
ous lovely  articles  of  gold  and  silver.  An  unusual 
and  beautiful  part  of  the  ceremony  was  the  chris- 
tening of  the  fourth  great-grandchild  of  the 
worthy  couple  by  the  honored  ancestor,  Rev. 
Van  Valkenburg.  The  marriage  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Van  Valkenburg  was  blessed  with  four  chil- 
dren, of  whom  the  following  survive:  Martha  J. , 
wife  of  Edward  C.  Hughes,  of  Blackhawk,  Gil- 
pin County;  Alice  B.,  wife  of  Joseph  R.  Powell, 
of  Erie;  and  Mary  E.,  wife  of  George  A.  Rice,  of 
Denver.  Zalen  B.,  the  only  son,  died  November 
6,  1896,  leaving  a  wife  and  six  children.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Van  Valkenburg  have  living  fourteen 
grandchildren  and  six  great-grandchildren. 

On  a  certain  Sunday  morning  in  1862,  when  Rev. 
Mr.  Van  Valkenburg  was  preaching  at  Montrose, 
Pa. ,  a  telegram  from  the  governor,  Mr.  Curtin,  was 
handed  him.  It  was  a  summons  to  arms,  as  it 
was  believed  that  the  Confederates  were  about  to 
attack  Harrisburg.  The  minister  was  not  slow 
to  respond  to  the  patriotic  impulse,  and,  descend- 
ing from  the  pulpit,  he  raised  a  company  of  one 
hundred  and  eight  men,  who  elected  him  as  their 
captain.  They  went  to  the  front,  but  after  the 
battle  of  Antietam  were  returned  home,  being 
held  as  a  reserve  force,  however.  Later  they 
were  again  called  out,  and  the  night  before  the 
battle  of  Gettysburg  were  stationed  near  Carlisle, 
Pa.  Soon  afterwards  our  subject  volunteered 
and  went  as  chaplain  of  the  pioneer  corps,  accom- 
panying Sherman  on  his  march  through  Georgia. 
For  two  months  he  was  very  ill  in  the  hospital 
at  Atlanta,  and  in  1865  he  received  an  honorable 
discharge  at  Nashville,  Tenn.  He  returned 
home  to  Owego,  but  in  the  following  April,  on 
account  of  his  continued  poor  health,  he  came  to 
Colorado.  His  present  house  was  built  by  him, 
and  was  the  first  one  erected  in  Erie.  Here  he 
held  the  first  Sunday-school  in  the  place,  the 
pupils,  to  the  number  of  perhaps  a  dozen,  assem- 
bling in  his  dining-room  to  study  the  lesson. 
He  continued  as  superintendent  of  the  same  up  to 
two  years  ago. 

Some  indication  of  his  general  popularity  and 
the  confidence  which  the  public  reposes  in  him 
may  be  found  in  the  fact  of  the  numerous  trust- 
worthy oflBces  which  he  has  been  called  upon  to 
fill.  He  is  now  serving  his  twenty-fourth  year 
in  the  two  positions  of  justice  of  the  peace  and 
notary  public,  and  is  entering   upon  his  eight- 


eenth year  as  police  magistrate.  He  has  also 
been  postmaster,  mayor,  president  of  the  school 
board,  and  representative  to  the  state  legislature 
from  Weld  County.  He  was  initiated  into  Odd 
Fellowship  November  20, 1858, in  Laceyville  (Pa. ) 
Lodge  No.  2,  and  ten  years  later  he  identified 
himself  with  Nevada  Lodge  No.  6,  and  still  later 
helped  to  establish  Erie  Lodge,  to  which  he  has 
since  belonged,  and  of  which  he  has  twice  been 
master.  He  joined  Bald  Mountain  Encampment 
No.  3  at  its  formation,  and  has  been  actively 
interested  in  its  growth.  His  long  life  has  been 
filled  with  kindly  deeds  toward  all  with  whom 
he  has  come  into  contact,  and  his  earnest  and  sin- 
cere friends  are  legion. 


pQlLLIAM  T.  CORNWALL,  secretary  of 
\  A  /  the  Denver  F'ire  Clay  Company,  was  born 
YY  in  Mansfield,  Ohio,  October  21,  1842,  a 
son  of  Francis  and  Martha  (Carr)  Cornwall. 
His  father,  who  was  born  in  Canada,  of  English 
descent,  settled  in  Ohio,  where  he  met  and  mar- 
ried Miss  Carr,  a  native  of  New  Jersey.  They 
settled  in  Richland  County,  and  at  one  time  he 
owned  the  land  on  which  the  town  of  Crestline 
now  stands,  but  disposed  of  the  property  before  it 
had  enhanced  in  value. 

When  our  subject  was  a  boy  of  thirteen  his 
father  sold  out  in  Richland  County  and  removed 
to  Iowa,  settling  in  Union  County,  and  driving 
thither  with  a  team.  He  became  the  owner  of  a 
large  tract,  which  he  cultivated  into  a  valuable 
farm  and  upon  which  he  spent  his  remaining 
years.  He  death  occurred  in  1869.  Politically 
he  voted  the  Democratic  ticket,  and  in  religion 
was  a  member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church, 
in  which  he  was  an  exhorter.  Of  his  ten  chil- 
dren, William  T.  was  next  to  the  youngest. 

Shortly  after  our  subject  graduated  from  high 
school  the  Civil  war  began,  and  he  at  once 
offered  his  services  to  the  country,  responding  to 
the  first  call  for  volunteers  for  three  months  and 
enlisting  in  Colonel  Edwards'  regiment.  After 
his  service  of  three  months  he  again  enlisted,  be- 
coming a  member  of  Company  B,  Eighteenth 
Iowa  Infantry,  in  which  he  served  from  August, 
1862,  to  August,  1865.  He  entered  as  a  private 
and  was  serving  as  a  corporal  at  the  time  of  his 
discharge.  Among  the  battles  in  which  he  par- 
ticipated were  those  at  Springfield,  Mo.,  Camden, 


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Ark.,  and  Jenkin's  Ferry,  Ark.  At  Springfield 
his  right  hand  companion  was  twice  shot  down, 
and  the  same  thing  happened  at  Poison  Springs, 
but  he  himself  escaped.  He  was  honorably  dis- 
charged August  5,  1865. 

After  having  been  mustered  out  of  service  at 
Davenport,  Iowa,  Mr.  Cornwall  returned  to 
Richland  County,  Ohio,  where  he  attended  school 
for  a  short  time.  Later  he  was  a  student  in 
Bryant  &  Stratton's  Business  College  at  Cleve- 
land, from  which  he  graduated  in  1866.  Return- 
ing to  Iowa,  in  1869  he  was  elected  county  treas- 
urer, on  the  Republican  ticket,  and  at  the  expira- 
tion of  the  term  was  again  elected  to  the  office. 
During  that  time,  in  Washington  County,  he 
married  Miss  Amy  K.  Bosworth,  of  Clay,  Wash- 
ington County,  and  a  native  of  Keokuk,  the 
same  state.  On  the  expiration  of  his  term  of 
office  he  engaged  in  raising  and  dealing  in  cattle, 
in  which  he  continued  until  1879,  and  then 
removed  to  Butte  City,  Mont.,  and  with  a 
brother,  who  was  a  physician,  established  a  hos- 
pital, from  which  they  cleared  $3,000  each,  the 
first  year.  He  then  sold  out,  came  to  Denver  and 
in  1880  purchased  an  interest  in  his  present  busi- 
ness. At  first  he  was  clerk,  bookkeeper,  salesman 
and  a  general  all-around  man,  with  but  one  man 
to  assist  in  packing,  but  the  business  has  grown 
to  such  an  extent  that  now  twelve  men  are  em- 
ployed in  the  store  and  sixty  in  the  factory.  The 
office  of  the  company  is  at  Nos.  1742-46  Champa 
street,  and  the  factory  at  Thirty-first  and  Blake 
streets,  the  output  being  principally  assayer's 
materials.  In  the  interests  of  the  firm  Mr.  Corn- 
wall has  traveled  extensively  in  this  country  and 
also  in  British  Columbia  and  Mexico. 

While  the  office  was  on  Larimer  street,  a  very 
serious  accident  occurred.  In  the  compounding 
of  chemicals  an  explosion  resulted  that  blew  an 
arm  off  his  brother-in-law,  J.  O.  Bosworth,  re- 
.sulting  in  his  death.  At  the  same  time  Mr. 
Cornwall  was  blown  through  the  plate  glass 
window,  receiving  severe  injuries,  but  not  losing 
consciousness.  In  spite  of  his  injuries,  he  was 
able  to  direct  the  firemen  in  their  work  of  sub- 
duing the  fire  that  resulted  from  the  explosion 
and  that  entailed  a  loss  of  $10,000. 

Two  children  were  born  to  the  union  of  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Cornwall,  one  of  whom  died  at  the  age 
of  two.  The  other,  Milo,  was  born  in  Afton, 
Iowa,  in  Februarj',  1873,  and  received  his  educa- 


tion in  the  State  School  of  Mines,  and  the  Mich- 
igan State  University  at  Ann  Arbor,  where  he 
graduated  in  the  chemical  department.  He  spent 
one  year  in  European  travel  and  was  a  young 
man  of  great  promise.  He  took  a  delight  in  all 
sports,  was  an  enthusiastic  wheelman  and  a  good 
shot.  On  the  26th  of  March,  1898,  he  went  to 
Longmont,  to  make  preparations  for  the  arrival 
of  his  father  and  others  who  were  to  spend  Sun- 
day at  Calkins  Lake  leased  some  two  years  before 
by  employes  of  the  Denver  Fire  Clay  Company. 
He  and  John  Peterson,  who  was  employed  by  the 
lessees  of  the  lake  to  look  after  their  property, 
together  rigged  up  a  sailboat  and  started  across 
the  lake,  but  when  about  half  way  over  a  sudden 
gust  of  wind  swept  over  the  water,  filling  the  sail 
and  overturning  the  boat,  throwing  both  men  into 
the  water.  Peterson  could  not  swim,  but  Corn- 
wall was  an  excellent  swimmer,  and  he  helped 
the  other  above  the  water,  and  lashed  him  to  the 
boat.  His  efforts  to  right  the  boat,  however, 
were  unsuccessful.  Meantime  the  storm  steadily 
increased  and  the  cold  became  more  intense. 
People  from  the  shore  watched  the  unfortunate 
men,  but  were  powerless  to  help  them,  and  finally 
a  gust  of  wind  stronger  than  the  others  whirled 
the  boat  around  broadside  against  the  wind,  and 
the  two  men  slowly  sank  beneath  the  water. 
Two  hours  after  the  boat  was  capsized  it  struck 
the  shore,  and  the  men  were  pulled  out  dead.  In 
the  evening  of  the  same  day  Mr.  Cornwall 
reached  the  lake,  to  be  met  with  the  terrible  news 
of  the  accident.  The  body  was  brought  to  Den- 
ver, then  taken  to  Chicago  for  cremation.  The 
sympathies  of  the  entire  city  were  with  the 
bereaved  father  and  mother,  thus  suddenly  bereft 
of  their  only  child,  in  whose  happiness  their  own 
lives  had  been  so  closely  bound. 


61  VERY  GALLUP.  Of  the  citizens  of  Den- 
U  ver  who  have  contributed  to  its  advance- 
I  I  ment  and  have  assisted  in  making  it  one  of 
the  most  attractive  cities  in  our  country  to-day, 
conspicuous  mention  belongs  to  Avery  Gallup. 
A  love  for  the  beautiful,  both  in  nature  and  art, 
was  always  one  of  his  prominent  characteristics. 
He  selected  for  his  home  a  block  on  South  Broad- 
way, where  in  1879  he  bought  twenty  acres  of 
land.  Two  years  later  he  built  a  residence  in 
the  midst  of  a  large  lawn  adorned  with  velvety 


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grass,  rare  shrubs  and  the  choicest  shade  trees. 
Nor  was  his  taste  for  the  harmonious  and  beauti- 
ful apparent  only  in  his  own  home,  but  it  was 
evidenced  throughout  the  city,  in  the  beautiful 
shade  trees  in  courthouse  and  school  grounds, 
in  the  parks  of  the  city  and  the  lawns  of  private 
residences. 

Love  of  travel  was  another  of  Mr.  Gallup 's 
prominent  characteristics.  Three  times  he  made 
a  tour  of  Europe,  and  he  also  traveled  extensive- 
ly through  the  United  States,  Mexico  and  the 
borders  of  Alaska.  His  powers  of  close  obser- 
vation and  graceful  narrative  made  his  trips  a 
pleasure  to  his  acquaintances,  by  reason  of  the 
interesting  descriptions  of  peoples  and  govern- 
ments that  he  .sent  to  friends  and  the  papers.  In 
1869,  when  twenty-two  years  of  age,  he  made  a 
tour  of  the  Orient  and  Palestine,  and  when  re- 
turning home  he  stopped  in  Paris,  then  the  scene 
of  great  excitement  incident  to  the  Franco-Prus- 
sian war.  While  there  the  German  siege  began, 
and  he  was  among  the  last  to  leave  the  capital. 

Mr.  Gallup  was  born  in  Cleveland,  Ohio,  to 
Jabesh  and  Louisa  (Avery)  Gallup,  native  of 
New  London,  Conn.  His  father,  who  served  in 
the  war  of  18 12,  engaged  in  the  nursery  business 
throughout  his  active  life,  and  on  retiring  came 
to  Denver'  where  he  built  two  business  blocks, 
one  of  which  still  bears  the  family  name.  He  died 
in  this  city  at  the  age  of  eighty-four.  In  1871 
our  subject  married  Miss  Charlotte  R.  Pierce  and 
immediately  afterward  they  came  to  Denver, 
where  he  bought  a  dollar  store  on  Fifteenth 
street  and  embarked  in  the  fancy  goods  business. 
On  the  erection  of  a  block  by  his  father,  he  re- 
moved his  store  to  that  location.  Unfortunately 
he  had  bought  when  prices  were  high  and  a  sub- 
sequent decline  forced  him  to  make  an  assign- 
ment. Prior  to  this  he  had  started  a  small 
greenhouse,  and  after  the  failure  he  turned  his 
attention  to  the  florist's  business.  Later  he 
bought  twenty  acres  on  the  south  side  and  laid 
them  out  in  blocks,  which  he  sold,  being  the  first 
one  to  sell  lots  in  this  part  of  the  city.  For  his 
twenty  acres  he  paid  $160  per  acre.  Two  years 
later  he  bought  an  adjoining  tract  of  twenty 
acres  for  $400  per  acre,  all  of  which  he  laid  out  in 
blocks  and  lots.  He  platted  four  additions  to  the 
city,  viz.:  South  Broadway,  Broadway  High- 
lands, Bryn  Mawr  and  Lake  View. 

About  1887   Mr.  Gallup  became  interested  in 


the  Orchard  Mesa  Land  Company  at  Grand 
Junction,  of  which  he  was  made  president,  and 
which  owned  eight  hundred  acres,  three  hundred 
planted  to  fruit  trees.  After  his  death  the  com- 
pany was  dissolved.  He  bought  and  platted 
seven  hundred  and  twenty  acres  at  Littleton, 
comprising  the  addition  called  Windermere,  and 
one-half  of  this  he  sold  in  tracts  of  five  and  ten 
acres,  while  the  remainder  he  devoted  to  his  own 
use.  The  whole  tract  is  under  cultivation,  and 
seventy-five  acres  are  in  orchards.  In  1887  he 
and  his  wife  started  greenhouses  at  University 
Park,  where  they  leased  fifteen  acres.  Ten  acres 
are  planted  to  nursery  products  and  there  are 
twelve  greenhouses.  At  Littleton  ten  acres  are 
planted  to  a  nursery,  and  irrigation  has  been 
provided  for  this  tract,  as  it  has  also  for  the  land 
in  University  Park.  He  also  owned  one  hun- 
dred and  sixty  acres  of  farm  land  ten  miles  north- 
east of  Denver. 

While  Mr.  Gallup  gave  his  attention  largely 
to  real-estate  matters,  his  wife  carried  on  the 
greenhouses,  the  harmonious  management  and 
excellent  business  qualifications  of  both  result- 
ing in  financial  success.  For  years  he  was 
a  trustee  of  South  Denver,  which  he  and  three 
others  succeeded  in  having  incorporated,  and 
from  which  the  same  citizens  cleared  out  the  dis- 
reputable rum  shops.  He  also  assisted  in  secur- 
ing water  works  for  the  place,  having  the  Holly 
system  at  Petersburg.  Through  his  efibrts  the 
cable  street  railroad  was  secured,  the  people  fur- 
nishing $50,000  bonds,  and  he  also  put  up  a 
bonus  to  secure  the  electric  road.  South  Denver 
was  finally  incorporated  with  the  city  of  Denver, 
in  whose  municipality  its  own  was  merged.  In 
1893  he  added  to  his  possessions  by  the  purchase 
of  forty  acres  near  Petersburg. 

Mr.  Gallup  continued  actively  engaged  in 
real-estate  transactions  until  his  death,  January 
4,  1894.  He  left  two  sons.  Perry  C.  and  Rock- 
well L-  The  elder  son  graduated  from  Mohegan 
Lake  Military  School,  and  has  since  engaged  in 
landscape  gardening;  he  superintended  the  lay- 
ing-out of  the  forty-acre  park  around  Mineral 
Palace  in  Pueblo.  Politically  the  family  adheres 
to  Republican  principles.  While  taking  an  in- 
terest in  public  affairs,  Mr.  Gallup's  happiest 
hours  were  spent  in  the  midst  of  his  family  in 
their  comfortable  home,  where  his  many  friends 
were  always  given  a  hospitable  welcome.     He 


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was  a  man  of  genial  manners,  with  the  elegance 
of  ph3-sique  and  the  intellectual  appearance  that 
made  him  a  noticeable  figure  in  any  gathering. 


yyjRS.  C.  R.  GALLUP.  One  of  the  suc- 
Y  cessful  business  organizations  in  Denver  is 
(9  the  Gallup  Floral  Company,  Incorporated, 
of  which  Mrs.  C.  R.  Gallup  is  president,  Perry 
Gallup  secretary,  and  W.  R.  Long  treasurer. 
The  success  of  this  enterprise  is  due  almost 
wholly  to  the  indefatigable  efforts  of  the  presi- 
dent, who  is  a  lady  of  great  business  capabilities 
and  remarkable  quickness  of  insight,  qualities 
which  are  essential  to  the  prosperous  manage- 
ment of  any  project.  The  original  site  of  the 
greenhouses  was  Champa  and  Twenty  -  first 
streets,  where  she  owned  nine  lots,  but  in  1880  she 
began  to  build  greenhouses  on  South  Broadway 
and  Alameda  avenue  and  two  years  later  located 
on  this  spot,  the  present  site  of  the  greenhouses, 
while  the  uptown  office  is  at  Fifteenth  and  Cleve- 
land place.  In  all  of  this  work,  which  of  course 
required  the  expenditure  of  much  time  and 
thought,  she  was  ably  assisted  by  her  husband, 
whose  devotion  to  the  business  and  interest  in  its 
success  were  not  less  than  her  own. 

Mrs.  Gallup  is  a  descendant  of  an  old  Con- 
necticut family  that  was  identified  with  the  early 
history  of  that  state.  Her  father.  Rev.  George 
E.  Pierce,  D.  D.,  the  son  of  Capt.  Samuel  Pierce, 
was  born  in  Southbury,  Conn.,  graduated  from 
Yale  College,  and  for  a  time  was  pastor  of  a  Con- 
gregational Church  in  Connecticut,  but  later 
went  to  Ohio,  where  for  twenty  years  he  was 
president  of  the  Western  Reserve  College.  The 
last  ten  years  of  his  life  were  spent  in  retirement 
from  active  work,  and  he  passed  away  when 
seventy-eight  years  of  age.  His  wife,  Susan,  was 
born  in  Connecticut,  being  the  daughter  of  Martin 
Rockwell,  who  was  a  large  steel  manufacturer 
near  Winsted.  In  the  family  of  Dr.  and  Mrs. 
Pierce  there  were  four  sons  and  one  daughter, 
namely:  Charles  R.  Pierce,  M.  D. ,  who  was  a 
surgeon  in  the  Union  army  and  died  during  the 
war;  John,  who  for  eight  years  was  surveyor- 
gei;eral  of  Colorado  and  Utah  and  is  still  living 
in  Denver;  George,  a  surveyor,  who  died  in  Den- 
ver; Henry,  also  a  surveyor;  and  Charlotte  R., 
of  this  sketch. 

In  1866  our  subject  visited  Denver,   making 


the  trip  westward  by  stage  from  Atchison.  Three 
years  later  she  again  made  a  visit  to  Colorado, 
this  time  coming  to  Denver  b}'  stage  from  Chey- 
enne. In  1 87 1  she  was  married  in  her  native 
county  of  Summit,  Ohio,  to  Avery  Gallup,  and 
immediately  afterward  came  to  Denver,  where 
she  has  since  resided.  After  engaging  in  busi- 
ness for  a  time,  her  husband  started  a  greenhouse, 
and  since  his  death  she  has  ably  managed  the 
business.  Her  attention  is  given  almost  wholly 
to  the  details  of  her  business  affairs,  and  aside 
from  her  identification  with  the  Woman's  Club 
and  honorary  membership  in  Clio  Club  and 
Round  Table  she  is  not  connected  with  any  so- 
cieties or  organizations.  She  makes  shipments 
from  her  greenhouses  through  the  state  and  also 
to  Wyoming.  She  continues  to  manage  the 
Gallup  estate,  carrying  out  the  plans  adopted  by 
her  husband.  The  connection  of  herself  and  hus- 
band with  the  real-estate  interests  of  Denver  has 
been  fruitful  of  most  excellent  results  and  they 
may  rightly  be  classed  among  the  pioneers  in  the 
development  of  south  side  property. 


QORBREY  J.  HOOVER  is  one  of  the  honored 
I  C  citizens  of  Denver,  where  he  has  made  his 
V^  home  for  a  quarter  of  a  century.  He  is  a 
Colorado  pioneer,  and  both  he  and  his  estimable 
wife  participated  in  the  severe  hardships  and  pri- 
vations which  were  the  common  lot  of  the  settlers 
of  the  early  '60s.  During  the  dark  days  of  the 
war  he  gave  his  services  to  his  country,  while  his 
faithful  wife  struggled  bravelj'  to  care  for  the 
little  home  and  family.  They  were  both  made  of 
sterling  metal,  that  which  faces  every  difficulty 
and  overcomes  it,  and  knows  no  such  word  as 
"fail."  Their  history  is  well  worth  perusing, 
as  it  contains  much  that  is  worthy  of  highest 
praise  and  emulation. 

On  the  paternal  side,  Mr.  Hoover  is  of  German 
extraction,  as  his  grandfather,  Jacob  Hoover,  was 
a  native  of  that  country,  his  birth  having  oc- 
curred on  the  banks  of  the  Rhine.  He  came  to 
America  in  colonial  days,  and  one  of  his  fellow- 
passengers  on  the  ship  was  the  lady  whom  he 
afterwards  married.  They  deferred  their  marriage 
until  the  young  man  had  fought  a  few  battles  for 
the  land  of  his  adoption,  for  he  at  once  entered 
the  army,  the  war  of  the  Revolution  being  then 
in  progress.     He  was  wounded  in  the  knee  and 


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during  the  rest  of  his  life  he  suffered  with  a  stiff 
leg.  Settling  in  Pennsylvania,  he  engaged  in 
the  milling  business  after  the  war,  and  finally 
sold  out,  taking  in  payment  continental  money 
and  therefore  losing  a  large  share  of  the  amount. 
He  settled  in  Greensbury,  Pa. ,  and  there  became 
quite  an  extensive  property  owner.  He  died  in 
1832. 

Our  subject's  parents  were  Frederick  and  Mary 
A.  (Duckett)  Hoover.  The  father,  born  in  1793, 
in  Pennsylvania,  served  in  the  war  of  1812  and 
took  part  in  the  Florida  campaign.  He  removed 
to  Ohio,  and  passed  his  last  years  in  Butler 
County. 

Born  in  Westmoreland  County,  Pa.,  November 
ID,  18 18,  C.  J.  Hoover  was  a  lad  of  thirteen 
j'ears  when  the  family  located  in  Butler  County, 
Ohio,  and  there  he  grew  to  manhood.  He  mar- 
ried Huldah  Rowe,  a  native  of  that  county,  Au- 
gust 25,  1840.  Their  happy  life  together  ex- 
tended over  a  period  of  nearly  fifty-six  years, 
when  the  loved  wife  and  mother  was  summoned 
to  the  better  land.  Her  death  occurred  on  Christ- 
mas day,  1896.  One  or  two  instances  of  her 
patience,  heroism  and  bravery  will  be  cited  in 
this  sketch.  The  young  couple  had  been  mar- 
ried but  a  few  years  when  Mr.  Hoover  concluded 
that  he  had  better  learn  a  trade,  that  he  might 
have  something  to  fall  back  upon.  The  wife 
came  to  the  rescue,  supporting  the  little  family, 
which  included  three  children,  by  raising  garden 
products,  weaving,  sewing,  etc.,  during  the  years 
of  his  apprenticeship.  He  had  chosen  to  be  a 
blacksmith,  and  later  found  employment  as  a 
journeyman  for  several  years. 

The  first  westward  move  made  by  Mr.  Hoover 
was  when  he  went  to  Cincinnati,  in  1846.  There 
he  worked  in  boiler  shops  some  three  years,  but 
was  obliged  to  give  it  up  on  account  of  an  afiiic- 
tion  which  kept  him  from  the  free  use  of  his 
right  arm.  In  1854  he  went  to  Monroe  County, 
Iowa,  where  he  entered  eighty  acres  from  the 
government.  Here  the  family  resided  up  to  1856, 
when  they  removed  to  Cass  County,  Neb.,  to 
another  tract  of  homesteaded  land.  In  1858  Mr. 
Hoover  drove  through  to  Colorado  with  a  mule 
team,  accompanying  a  party  of  fifteen  persons, 
and  making  the  trip  in  twenty-seven  days.  His 
wife,  a  true  and  brave  frontierswoman  as  ever 
lived,  brought  the  family  in  the  spring  of  the 
next  year.    She  drove  cows  which  were  harnessed 


to  wagons  and  with  her  were  seven  of  the  chil- 
dren. There  was  not  a  man  in  the  party,  as  the 
eldest  son,  a  youth  of  nineteen,  who  started  with 
them,  was  pursuaded  to  turn  back  and  continue 
working  for  his  former  employer.  About  a  year 
later,  however,  he  came  to  Colorado  also. 

For  several  months  after  he  arrived  in  this 
state  Mr.  Hoover  was  employed  by  the  Arapahoe 
Indians,  to  kill  game  for  them.  When  his  family 
came  he  was  appointed  deputy  sheriff  and  located 
at  Central  City,  where  he  built  the  first  house. 
It  was  at  the  mouth  of  Eureka  Gulch,  and  was 
later  occupied  by  the  government  authorities  for 
a  long  time.  Then  followed  the  army  service  of 
our  subject,  of  which  mention  will  be  made  fur- 
ther on.  Upon  his  return  he  engaged  in  farming 
in  the  vicinity  of  Longmont,  about  four  miles 
west  of  that  place,  and  there  he  remained  until 
1873,  since  which  year  he  has  lived  in  Denver. 
He  has  made  many  successful  investments  here 
and  owns  a  ranch  of  eighty  acres  in  El  Paso 
County,  also  a  home  at  No.  3138  Gallup  street. 

In  1846  Mr.  Hoover  enlisted  in  Butler  County, 
Ohio,  in  Company  H,  Second  Ohio  Infantry,  for 
service  in  the  war  with  Mexico.  He  was  stationed 
with  the  army  at  the  mouth  of  the  Rio  Grande, 
was  in  the  battles  of  Brownsville  and  Brazos  and 
afterward  was  on  detail  duty.  In  the  spring  of 
1862  he  settled  his  family  in  St.  Vrain  and  offered 
his  services  to  the  Union,  first  going  back  to 
Iowa,  where  he  became  a  member  of  Company 
H,  Twenty-ninth  Iowa  Infantry.  He  was  in  the 
army  three  years  and  seventeen  days,  fighting  in 
the  ranks,  and  taking  part  in  the  battles  of 
Helena,  Little  Rock,  Arkadelphia,  Spoonville, 
Camden,  Saline  River  and  Mobile.  At  Fort  Span- 
ish he  was  struck  on  the  head  and  was  unconscious 
for  a  short  time.  He  was  within  the  enemy's 
lines  and  had  to  crawl  back  very  cautiously,  hid- 
ing in  a  hollow  tree  and  creeping  stealthily  back 
to  his  own  command.  The  next  day,  however, 
he  was  on  hand  to  charge  on  Fort  Blakeley.  His 
son,  Frederick  M.,had  enlisted  in  the  Fourth 
Iowa  Infantry  in  1861,  and  had  been  honorably 
discharged  after  the  battle  of  Pea  Ridge,  owing 
to  the  fact  that  he  had  been  wounded  in  the  en- 
gagement, a  ball  having  passed  through  his  bodj', 
emerging  near  the  spinal  column.  The  plucky 
soldier  made  a  brave  fight  for  life,  and  when 
partly  recovered  re-enlisted  in  the  Fifth  Illinois 
Cavalry.     After  a  long  and  gallant  service  he  was 


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killed  at  Fort  Spanish,  April  9,  1865.  He  was 
buried  there,  and  though  our  subject  fought  in 
the  same  battle  he  did  not  learn  of  his  son's  death 
for  nearly  two  weeks.  He  then  had  the  grav^e 
pointed  out  to  him  by  a  Confederate  oiEcer,  and 
built  a  little  fence  around  it.  The  battle  of 
Whistler,  which  has  been  called  the  last  one  of 
the  war,  was  participated  in  by  Mr.  Hoover,  his 
colonel  at  that  time  being  Thomas  H.  Benton,  Jr. 
He  belongs  to  Crocker  Post  No.  81,  G.  A.  R. 
He  receives  two  small  pensions  from  the  govern- 
ment, in  view  of  the  fact  that  he  nobly  fought  for 
his  country's  honor  and  life  in  two  wars  and  gave 
one  of  his  sons  to  die  that  the  Union  might  be 
preserved. 

In  1840  Mr.  Hoover  voted  for  W.  H.  Harrison 
and  in  1856  for  Fremont.  He  has  always  been  a 
loyal  Republican.  He  was  justice  of  the  peace 
for  six  years  and  also  filled  other  township  offices. 
Since  1865  he  has  held  membership  with  the 
Christian  Church.  Of  his  eleven  children  eight 
grew  to  maturity.  Margaret  Jane  married  Elisha 
Perkins,  now  of  Evans,  Weld  County;  Mary  A. 
first  married  John  Harmon  and  is  now  Mrs.  Van 
Camp;  Harriet  I^.,  of  Kansas  City,  is  the  wife  of 
Peter  D.  Anderson;  Harriet  M.  is  deceased;  Re- 
becca, Mrs.  Calvin  Searl,  lives  in  Page  County, 
Iowa;  Jacob  C. ,  of  El  Paso  County,  married 
Miss  Kate  Monahan. 


WALTER  J.  SWAYZE.  In  1890  Mr.  Swayze 
purchased  twenty  acres  in  Prospect  Valley, 
six  miles  from  Denver.  The  land  was 
rough  and  hilly ,  and  the  investment  was  considered 
an  unprofitable  and  unwise  one  by  his  friends; 
but  time  proved  the  wisdom  of  his  course.  He 
"grubbed"  out  the  .sage  brush  and  cleared  a  spot 
on  which  he  built  a  house.  Working  with  a  will, 
he  cleared  the  land  and  leveled  the  hills;  and  a 
short  time  later  he  sold  ten  acres  for  almost  as 
much  as  he  had  paid  for  the  entire  tract.  Since 
the  organization  of  the  Hog  Growers  and  Hog 
Breeders'  Association  he  has  been  its  treasurer. 
He  has  made  a  specialty  of  the  breeding  and  fat- 
tening of  hogs  for  the  market,  selling  from  $3,000 
to  $4,000  per  annum. 

In  Niagara  Falls,  Canada,  Mr.  Swayze  was 
born  June  14,  1852,  the  youngest  of  ten  children 
of  Caleb  and  Lydia  (Hopkins)  Swayze,  and  one 
of  the  seven  survivors  of  the  family.     The  others 


are  as  follows:  Elizabeth  A.,  wife  of  John  Bouk, 
a  farmer  in  Canada;  Mary,  wife  of  Aughton 
Holditch,  afarmer  near  Welland,  Canada;  Lydia, 
wife  of  Aaron  Higgins;  a  lock  tender  near  Allen- 
burg,  Canada;  Richard,  a  farmer  near  Allenburg; 
and  Minerva,  who  married  Frederick  Willford,  a 
farmer  near  Welland. 

The  father  of  this  family  was  born  in  Canada 
in  1803.  After  his  marriage  he  settled  on  land 
near  Toronto,  where  he  cleared  a  farm;  but  after 
a  short  time  he  moved  to  Monck  County,  where  he 
spent  some  years,  and  from  there  went  to  Welland. 
In  that  place  his  death  occurred  when  he  was 
eighty-eight  years  of  age.  His  father,  Richard 
Swayze,  was  born  in  Canada  and  grew  to  man- 
hood on  a  farm;  he  made  agriculture  his  life  occu- 
pation and  followed  it  until  he  died,  when  eighty- 
eight.  His  father,  Isaac,  was  born  in  New  Jersey 
and  when  a  boy  accompanied  his  parents  to  Can- 
ada, where  he  afterward  engaged  in  farming. 
The  family  is  descended  from  one  of  four  brothers 
who  came  to  America  from  England  in  an  early 
day  and  settled  in  New  Jersey. 

In  youth  our  subject  was  apprenticed  to  the 
brick-layer's  trade,  which  he  followed  for  three 
years  as  an  apprentice  and  for  one  year  as  a  jour- 
neyman. He  arrived  in  Denver  April  7,  1880, 
and  secured  employment  at  his  trade,  which  he 
followed  here  for  five  years.  Afterward  he  en- 
gaged in  gardening  on  Prospect  avenue,  and  then 
turned  his  attention  to  the  breeding  of  hogs  and 
their  fattening  for  the  market.  In  politics  he  is 
a  Democrat .  He  is  a  friend  of  the  public  schools 
and  for  the  past  five  years  has  served  as  a  mem- 
ber of  the  school  board. 

In  Castle  Rock,  Colo.,  May  25,  1881,  Mr. 
Swayze  married  Miss  Sarah  Day,  who  was  born 
in  Roanoke,  Mo.,  August  22,  1858.  She  was 
taken  by  her  parents  to  Glasgow,  Mo.,  where  she 
was  reared  and  educated,  graduating  from  Pritch- 
ett  School  Institute  of  that  place.  In  1879  she 
came  to  Colorado,  where  she  taught  for  two  years 
and  at  the  expiration  of  that  time  was  married  to 
Mr.  Swayze.  They  became  the  parents  of  six 
children,  Clarence,  Berenice,  May,  Carrie,  Harry 
and  Myrtle,  all  of  whom  are  at  home.  The  wife 
and  mother  passed  away  August  12,  1897,  at  the 
age  of  thirty-eight  years,  eleven  months  and 
twelve  days.  She  was  a  woman  of  noble  charac- 
ter and  lovely  disposition,  whose  many  kindly 
deeds  and  unselfish  acts  endeared  her  to  her  family 


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and  friends.  Mr.  Swayze  was  married  a  second 
time,  his  wife  being  Laura  Calkins,  a  daughter 
of  Charles  and  Mary  Ann  (Houck)  Calkins,  na- 
tives of  Canada. 


Cjj  HARLES  M.  CAMPBELL,  who  for  a  quar- 
I C  ter  of  a  century  has  made  his  home  in  Colo- 
\J  rado,  has  been  an  able  member  of  the 
Boulder  County  bar  for  about  sixteen  years  of 
this  period.  As  a  citizen  he  has  been  very  pro- 
gressive and  in  accord  with  the  spirit  of  the  age, 
ready  to  do  all  within  his  power  to  further  im- 
provements and  develop  the  resources  of  this 
locality.  He  has  been  county  attorney,  deputy 
district  attorney  and  city  attorney,  and  has  been 
the  president  of  the  school  board  and  has  held 
other  public  positions  of  trust  and  honor.  His 
interest  in  educational  matters  is  unbounded, 
and  in  1865  he  was  superintendent  of  schools 
here  for  a  term. 

As  the  name  implies,  the  Campbells  are  of  old 
Scotch  stock.  The  early  records  of  the  family 
relate  that  four  brothers  came  to  the  United 
States  during  a  religious  persecution  in  the 
North  of  Ireland  and  Scotland.  One  of  the 
number  settled  in  New  York  state,  while  the 
others  located  on  large  Virginia  plantations. 
The  great-grandfather  of  our  subject,  Maj. 
Arthur  Campbell,  a  native  of  Virginia,  was  a 
hero  of  the  Revolutionary  war,  and  his  son,  Col. 
Arthur  Lee  Campbell  (the  next  in  line  of  descent 
to  our  subject),  was  a  soldier  in  the  war  of  1812. 
The  major  was  a  pioneer  in  Virginia,  as  was  the 
colonel,  who,  however,  had  been  born  in  Vir- 
ginia. The  latter  went  from  eastern  Tennessee 
to  the  present  site  of  Louisville,  Ky.,  where  he 
pre-empted  a  farm.  He  was  related  to  many  of 
the  prominent  families  of  Virginia  and  Ken- 
tucky, the  Lees,  Breckenridges,  Hardins,  etc. 

The  parents  of  C.  M.  Campbell  were  Prof. 
Matthew  Monroe  and  Martha  J.  (McPheeters) 
Campbell,  natives  of  Cumberland  Gap,  Tenn., 
and  Kentucky,  respectively.  The  mother's  peo- 
ple were  originally  from  Scotland  and  were  slave 
holders  in  Kentucky.  When  Mrs.  Campbell 
succeeded  to  her  inheritance,  which  included 
some  slaves,  she  gave  them  their  freedom  at 
once,  however,  as  she  did  not  believe  in  the 
principle.  She  was  a  lady  who  was  universally 
loved  and  admired,  and  her  death,  in  1881,  was 
a  matter  of  deep  regret  to  all  who  knew  her. 


Prof.  Matthew  M.  Campbell  was  a  very  scholar- 
ly man  and  stood  in  the  front  ranks  of  educators 
of  his  day.  He  graduated  in  early  life  from  the 
University  of  Indiana  with  the  degree  of  Master 
of  Arts,  and  after  he  had  taught  for  some  time  in 
the  south,  became  a  member  of  the  faculty  of 
his  alma  mater.  He  was  principal  of  the  prepara- 
tory department  and  adjunct  professor  of  lan- 
guages. Probably  no  one  connected  with  the  in- 
stitution occupied  a  more  important  part  in  its 
success  during  its  first  years.  He  was  a  pro- 
found thinker  and  was  equaled  by  few  as  a 
teacher  of  classics.  Born  in  1810,  he  lived  to 
the  ripe  age  of  eighty-seven,  his  death  occurring 
inTopeka,  Kan.  Of  his  family,  which  comprised 
five  sons  and  six  daughters,  six  are  living. 
Matthew  is  an  attorney  in  Topeka,  Kan.  Louise 
is  the  wife  of  ex-postmaster  A.  J.  Arnold,  of 
Topeka.  Jennie  is  the  wife  of  Prof.  Frank  P. 
Leavenworth,  of  the  State  University  of  Minne- 
sota. John,  of  Boston,  Mass.,  is  a  musician  and 
author.     James  is  a  druggist  in  Topeka. 

Charles  M.  Campbell  was  born  in  Blooming- 
ton,  Monroe  County,  Ind.,  March  10,  1842.  He 
graduated  from  the  University  of  Indiana  in 
1859,  with  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts,  being 
the  salutatorian  of  his  class.  Three  years  later 
his  alma  mater  conferred  upon  him  the  degree 
of  Master  of  Arts.  While  he  was  pursuing  his 
collegiate  course  he  studied  law  to  some  extent. 
In  i860  he  went  to  Missouri,  and  thence  to 
Atchison,  Kan.,  where  he  taught  school.  Dur- 
ing the  same  year  his  sister  died,  and  the  impres- 
sion upon  his  youthful  mind  led  him  to  become 
a  Christian.  The  following  year  he  entered  the 
Western  Theological  Seminary  at  Pittsburg,  Pa., 
and  three  years  later  he  was  graduated  as  a 
Bachelor  of  Divinity.  Ordained  to  the  Presby- 
terian ministry  May  20,  1864,  he  proceeded  to 
Colorado,  and  reached  Boulder  July  20  the  same 
year.  He  organized  a  little  band  of  people  of 
his  denomination,  and  at  first  preached  to  them 
in  a  grove.  Under  his  influence  and  leadership 
the  first  (Presbyterian)  church  ever  erected  in 
this  county  was  built,  and  the  old  frame  structure 
is  still  standing.  Ever  since  that  time  Mr. 
Campbell  has  occasionally  occupied  the  pulpit  of 
the  old  church.  He  has  the  honor  of  being  the 
oldest  member  of  the  Presbyterian  .synod  of  Colo- 
rado, and  has  been  very  active  in  religious  work 
in  many  departments.     From  the  days  when  he 


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received  his  mail  from  Denver  but  once  a  week 
to  the  present  time,  when  Boulder  has  every 
facility  and  advantage  of  eastern  towns  and 
cities,  he  has  been  actively  identified  with  her 
progress.  He  has  always  been  a  straight  Repub- 
lican and  is  a  past  officer  of  the  Ancient  Order  of 
United  Workmen. 

August  24,  1869,  Mr.  Campbell  married  Miss 
Mary  M.  A.  Chambers,  who  was  born  in  Iowa, 
and  died  in  this  county  August  20,  1873.  Of 
their  three  children  two  are  living:  Mrs.  Mary  E. 
Gillard,  of  this  county;  and  Mrs.  Martha  J. 
Giggey,  of  Boulder.  The  lady  who  is  now  the 
wife  of  our  .subject  was  in  her  girlhood  Miss 
Amanda  E.  Hall.  They  were  married  November 
8,  1874.  She  was  born  and  reared  in  Ohio,  and 
by  her  marriage  with  Mr.  Campbell  is  the  mother 
of  four  children,  namely:.  Coline  M.,  Charles 
F.  H. ,  Argyle  M.  and  Amanda  R.  V. 


3 AMES  HARRISON  JORDAN.  The  life 
which  this  narrative  sketches  began  in  Bon- 
ham,  Tex.,  November  7,  1847,  and  closed  in 
Denver,  Colo.,  November  i,  1898.  The  Jordan 
family  is  of  Virginian  lineage  and  is  connected 
with  man}' other  prominent  families  in  the  United 
States,  among  them  being  the  Harrisons,  of  Vir- 
ginia. Elisha  Harrison  Jordan,  a  native  of  Win- 
chester, Va.,  was  a  grandson  of  Col.  Elihu 
Hall,  whose  wife  was  Mi.ss  Amelia  Pinknard 
Ball,  a  first  cousin  of  Mary  Ball,  George  Wash- 
ington's mother,  and  he  himself  was  a  first  cousin 
of  Dr.  Benjamin  Rush,  one  of  the  signers  of  the 
Declaration  of  Independence. 

Reared  in  the  Old  Dominion,  from  there  Elisha 
H.  Jordan  removed  west  to  Missouri,  and  carried 
on  a  store  in  St.  Charles,  later  removing  to 
St.  Louis,  and  from  there  going  to  Shreveport, 
La.,  where  he  was  proprietor  of  a  mercantile 
store.  He  continued  in  that  place  until  his  death, 
at  eighty  years  of  age.  He  married  Jane  Morri- 
.son  Boggs,  who  was  born .  in  Pittsburg,  Pa. , 
being  the  daughter  of  Julia  Wrenshall,  whose 
husband  was  an  Irish  gentleman  and  a  prominent 
merchant  in  Pittsburg.  Julia  Wrenshall  was  a 
si.ster  of  Ellen  Wrenshall,  who  was  the  mother  of 
Julia  Boggs  Dent,  the  wife  of  Ulysses  S.  Grant. 
The  father  of  these  sisters  was  an  English  clergy- 
man, who  came  to  America  and  spent  his  remain- 
ing years  in   this  country.     By   the  marriage  of 

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Elisha  H.  Jordan  and  Jane  Morrison  Boggs  two 
children  were  born:  James  Harrison,  who  was 
born  while  his  mother  was  visiting  in  Bonham, 
Tex.;  and  Mrs.  Littleton  Lyon,  who  was  lost  on 
a  steamer  that  sank  in  the  Mississippi  River. 

The  boyhood  days  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch 
were  passed  in  Shreveport,  La.  He  was  edu- 
cated in  the  Louisiana  Military  Academy  at 
Alexandria,  one  of  the  first  teachers  being  Gen. 
William T.  Sherman.  In  1861  he  leftschool  and 
entered  the  Confederate  army,  in  which  he 
served  from  the  age  of  fifteen  until  nineteen,  and 
although  a  mere  boy  he  was  a  gallant  and  fear- 
less soldier.  On  his  return  home  at  the  close 
of  the  war  he  again  entered  the  military  academy, 
from  which  he  graduated.  Afterward  he  was 
employed  as  agent  for  a  line  of  railroads  and 
steamboats,  in  which  business  he  continued  until 
he  came  to  Denver  in  1881.  Here  he  entered  the 
employ  of  the  Colorado  Milling  and  Elevator 
Company,  with  which  he  remained  for  four 
j'ears,  and  later  was  with  the  Title  and  Guaran- 
tee Abstract  Company  for  two  years,  then  follow- 
ing the  real-estate  business  with  success. 

Politically  a  Democrat,  Mr.  Jordan  always 
took  a  warm  interest  in  public  affairs.  In  recog- 
nition of  the  work  he  accomplished  for  his  party, 
he  was  appointed  postmaster  of  Denver  by  Presi- 
dent Cleveland  December  19,  1893.  This  re- 
sponsible position  he  filled  with  efficiency,  win- 
ning the  appreciation  not  only  of  his  own  party, 
but  of  others  as  well.  While  still  serving  as 
postmaster,  his  death  occurred,  November  i, 
1897,  3'^^  liis  wife  was  then  appointed  to  serve 
out  the  unexpired  term.  To  him  properly  be- 
longs the  credit  of  establishing  the  Slaves  of  the 
Silver  Serpent,  which  is  a  society  of,  though 
apart  from,  the  festival  of  the  mountain  and  plain, 
and  his  daughter  was  the  first  queen  of  the  order. 

In  Shreveport,  La.,  in  December,  1870,  Mr. 
Jordan  married  Miss  Sallie  Menifee  Thatcher, 
who  was  born  in  that  city  and  is  a  lady  of  estim- 
able disposition  and  noble  character.  Her  father, 
William  Thatcher,  who  was  born  near  Front 
Royal,  Va.,  moved  to  Louisiana  in  1832  and 
spent  his  remaining  years  in  that  state.  He  was 
a  sou  of  Thomas  Thatcher,  a  planter  of  Rappa- 
hannock County,  Va.,  and  member  of  an  old  family 
of  that  locality.  Two  .sons  and  one  daughter 
comprise  the  family  of  Mrs.  Jordan,  namely: 
James  Harrison,  a  graduate  of  the   Denver  high 


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school  and  now  a  clerk  in  the  First  National 
Bank;  Bessie  Newman,  a  graduate  of  Wolfe  Hall 
in  June,  1896;  and  Anthony  Pires  Jordan. 


n  OHN  PUGHE,  a  respected  citizen  of  Boulder, 
I  has  been  engaged  in  mining  enterprises  in 
G/  Colorado  for  nearly  thirty  years,  and  is  an 
authority  on  the  subject.  For  many  years  he 
occupied  positions  as  superintendent  or  foreman 
for  various  companies,  but  for  some  years  has 
operated  upon  his  own  account.  He  belongs  to 
Boulder  Lodge  No.  45,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.;  Boulder 
Chapter  No.  7,  R.  A.  M.,  and  Mount  Sinai  Com- 
mandery  No.  7,  K.T.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the 
Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen. 

The  father  of  our  subject,  Tudor  Pughe,  was 
born  in  Cardiganshire,  Wales,  and  was  engaged 
in  farming  and  in  mining  in  the  lead  and  copper 
mines  near  his  home.  His  father,  Griffith  Pughe, 
followed  agricultural  pursuits,  as  had  several 
generations  of  the  family  before  him.  The  mother 
of  our  subject  was  a  Miss  Mary  Morgan  prior  to 
her  marriage.  She,  too,  was  born  and  reared  in 
Wales,  and  was  a  daughter  of  a  farmer.  She 
was  the  mother  of  three  children,  two  of  whom 
are  still  living.  The  father  was  again  married, 
after  the  death  of  his  first  wife,  and  had  two  chil- 
dren by  that  union.  Our  subject's  brother, 
Charles  E.,  who  is  an  agriculturist  in  the  neigh- 
borhood of  Longmont,  Colo.,  came  to  the  United 
States  in  1866. 

John  Pughe  was  born  in  the  town  of  Peny- 
bout,  Wales,  Augusts,  1850,  and  in  his  boyhood 
learned  the  business  of  mining  lead  and  copper 
with  his  father.  When  in  his  twentieth  year, 
desiring  to  try  his  fortune  in  America,  he  went  to 
Liverpool  and  crossed  the  Atlantic  in  the  steamer 
"City  of  Brussels,"  landing  upon  these  hospitable 
shores  at  the  end  of  a  voyage  of  eleven  days.  In 
July,  1869,  he  arrived  in  Colorado,  and  settled  in 
the  vicinity  of  Nevadaville,  Gilpin  County,  where 
he  engaged  in  mining  and  prospecting.  He 
operated  more  or  less  successfully  in  Blackhawk 
and  Russell  Gulch,  then  returning  to  Nevada- 
ville. In  1872  he  came  to  Boulder  and  later 
mined  at  Gold  Hill,  Sunshine  and  Rowena.  He 
was  employed  as  a  foreman  of  the  American 
mine  at  Sunshine,  and  at  the  same  time  held  a 
similar  position  in  the  Slide  mine  at  Gold  Hill, 
for  a  period  of  seven  years.     Then  he  became 


superintendent  of  the  Mountain  Chief  mine  in  the 
Central  Mining  district.  Since  1882  he  has  been 
personally  interested  in  various  mining  properties 
in  the  Mountain  Chief  group  and  is  now  driving 
a  tunnel  into  the  side  of  the  mountain.  He  has 
excavated  some  eight  hundred  feet,  and  has  but 
one  hundred  feet  more  to  go  ere  he  reaches  the 
vein  of  ore  he  desires.  He  is  the  manager  of  the 
J.  U.  Marlow  mine,  belonging  to  the  Green  Bay 
Mining  Company.  Persistent  and  enterprising, 
he  deserves  a  rich  reward  for  his  unceasing  labors, 
and  has  already  been  more  fortunate  than  the 
average  prospector. 

September  8,  1880,  Mr.  Pughe  married  Miss 
Mary  Ellen  Teal,'  a  sister  of  George  W.  Teal, 
whose  sketch  appears  elsewhere  in  this  volume. 
She  is  a  native  of  Manchester,  England,  and 
came  to  this  country  twenty-eight  years  ago. 
To  our  subject  and  his  estimable  wife  four  daugh- 
ters were  born,  their  names  being  respectively: 
Mabel  Alice,  Mary  Ellen,  Verona  and  Charlotte. 
The  family  have  a  pleasant  home  at  No.  1333 
Pine  street,  the  house  having  been  erected  by 
Mr.  Pughe.  In  his  political  affiliations  he  is  a 
stanch  Republican.  Honorable  and  strictly  con- 
scientious in  all  his  dealings  with  his  fellow-men, 
he  possesses  their  confidence  and  high  regard. 


(I  AMES  H.  HOOD,  president,  superintendent 
I  and  manager  of  the  Industrial  Mining  Com- 
Qj  pany,  at  Superior,  Boulder  County,  was  born 
near  London,  Ky.,  October  14,  1853,  a  son  of 
Andrew  J.  and  Sallie  (Cottgaim)  Hood.  He 
was  the  eldest  of  four  children,  of  whom  the 
others  are:  John  W.;  Elizabeth,  wife  of  William 
Owens;  and  Ann  E.,  Mrs.  John  Brumback.  His 
father,  who  was  born  in  London,  Ky.,  in  1833, 
has  followed  farm  pursuits  throughout  his  entire 
life  and  is  still  living  in  the  locality  where  he  was 
born.  The  grandfather,  John  Hood,  a  native  of 
Virginia,  migrated  to  Kentucky  .shortly  after  his 
marriage  and  settled  upon  a  farm,  where  he 
afterward  resided. 

In  the  common  schools  of  London,  Ky.,  the 
subject  of  this  sketch  obtained  a  fair  education. 
At  sixteen  years  of  age  he  began  life  for  himself, 
securing  employment  in  the  coal  mines  at  Pine 
Hill,  Ky.,  where  he  remained  for  twelve  years. 
During  the  time  he  worked  there  he  married 
Miss  Sarah   Rutledge,  but  she  died  ten  months 


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after  their  marriage.  Not  long  after  her  death  Mr. 
Hood  left  Pine  Hill  and  went  to  Mnrphysboro, 
111.,  where  he  worked  in  the  mines  eight  or  nine 
months.  Afterward,  until  1886,  he  worked  in 
numerous  mines  in  Indiana,  Illinois,  Kentucky 
and  Tennessee. 

Coming  to  Colorado  in  1886,  Mr.  Hood  settled 
at  Marshall  and  at  once  began  to  work  in  the 
mines.  In  1889,  with  three  others,  he  opened 
the  Hecla  mine  at  Louisville.  For  three  years 
he  operated  the  property  alone,  after  which  the 
mine  was  leased  to  the  Citizens'  Coal  and  Coke 
Company,  he  selling  his  interest  in  the  same. 
For  some  time  following  he  was  employed  as 
superintendent  of  the  mine  for  this  company.  In 
1894  he  took  charge  of  the  Northwestern  Coal 
Mining  Company's  property  at  Erie,  but  after 
eight  months  with  them  he  became  pit  boss  for 
the  United  Coal  Company  at  Lafayette.  Later 
he  prospected  and  mined  at  Cripple  Creek,  but 
being  unsuccessful,  he  returned  to  Superior  and 
in  partnership  with  others  opened  the  Indus- 
trial mine,  of  which  he  was  the  first  and  is  still 
the  president  and  manager. 

Fraternally  Mr.  Hood  is  identified  with  the 
Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  Somerset 
Lodge  No.  Ill,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  of  Somerset, 
Ky. ;  Mount  Sinai  Chapter  No.  7,  R.  A.  M.,  and 
Boulder  Commandery  No.  7,  K.  T.  He  isaman 
of  great  enterprise  and  perseverance.  During 
his  life  in  many  mining  camps  he  has  met  men  of 
every  character,  and  his  reputation  among  them 
all  has  been  that  of  a  man  of  upright  and  honor- 
able di.sposition  and  large  business  ability. 


HON.  MASON  W.  HOWARD.  This  well- 
known  and  highly  esteemed  citizen  of  Den- 
ver is  one  of  her  most  enterprising  and  pro- 
gressive business  men,  active  in  everything  that 
tends  towards  the  upbuilding  and  improvement  of 
the  place  and  one  who  for  over  twenty  years  has 
been  closely  associated  with  her  development. 
Thougli  brought  up  as  a  Democrat,  he  is  a  man 
who  forms  his  own  opinions,  carefully  weighing 
evidence  and  principles,  and,  after  giving  the 
matter  his  earnest  attention,  he  adopted  the  Re- 
publican party  platform  during  the  dark  days  of 
the  Civil  war  and  has  ever  since  been  a  firm  adher- 
ent of  the  organization.  He  was  honored  by  the 
people  in  being  their  choice  as  state  senator  in  the 


fifth  and  sixth  general  assemblies,  and  did  active 
work  on  their  behalf  while  a  member  of  that  body. 
He  introduced  the  bill  known  as  the  fee  bill,  reg- 
ulating the  fees  of  public  officials;  the  bill  which 
provided  for  the  erection  of  the  state  capitol 
building  and  the  one  giving  to  the  city  of  Denver 
its  first  charter.  There  was  so  much  opposition 
to  the  last-named  bill  that  it  was  actually  stolen, 
but  the  authors  of  it,  having  a  rough  draft  of  the 
original  bill,  submitted  this  instead,  and  it  was 
finally  passed,  to  the  lasting  benefit  of  this  city. 

The  birth  of  Mason  W.  Howard  occurred  in 
Knox  County,  Ohio,  January  8,  1843.  He  is  a  son 
of  Joseph  and  Emeline  (Baker)  Howard,  who  were 
agriculturists,  and  who  removed  with  their  family 
to  the  neighborhood  of  Tipton,  Iowa,  about  1853. 
There  young  Howard  grew  to  manhood,  receiv- 
ing a  district  school  education,  which  was  sup- 
plemented by  a  course  of  practical  business  train- 
ing in  Bryant  &  Stratton's  Commercial  College 
in  Chicago.  Prior  to  this,  however,  he  had 
taught  school  in  the  country  for  several  terms, 
and  had  industriously  kept  up  his  own  studies  by 
himself.  Having  mastered  the  mysteries  of 
bookkeeping  in  college,  the  young  man  accepted 
a  position  as  a  clerk  in  the  ofiice  of  the  Michigan 
Central  Railroad  Company  in  Chicago.  Subse- 
quently he  took  a  course  in  telegraphy  in  Bryant 
&  Stratton's  College,  and  was  the  first  operator  of 
the  kind  that  was  graduated  from  that  institution. 

The  following  thirteen  years  he  was  an  employe 
of  the  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  Railroad  in 
the  capacity  of  telegraph  operator  and  station 
agent.  He  was  located  at  various  points  along 
the  road,  each  change  being  a  promotion  and  a 
recognition  of  his  faithful  and  meritorious  work. 
For  this  long  period  of  thirteen  years  he  was  never 
absent  from  his  post  of  duty  for  one  day.  His  last 
position  with  the  railroad  was  at  Plattsmouth, 
Neb. ,  where  he  was  joint  agent  for  the  Chicago, 
Burlington  &  Quincy  and  the  Burlington  & 
Missouri. 

In  1877  Mr.  Howard  came  to  Colorado,  and 
settled  in  Denver  when  it  was  a  place  of  forty  thou- 
sand inhabitants.  He  began  to  clerk  in  the  ofiice 
of  Colonel  Dodge  of  the  Denver  &  Rio  Grande 
Railroad,  and  was  in  the  same  building  as  the  one 
his  business  is  now  located  in.  No.  1319  Sixteenth 
street.  During  six  months  of  his  service  with  this 
now  wealthy  railroad  the  corporation  was  so  poor 
that  it  was  a  question  with  him  whether  or  not 


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his  salary  would  be  paid  to  him,  but  one  day  he 
received  a  telegram  for  Colonel  Dodge,  from  Lon- 
don, stating  that  $10,000,000  had  been  raised 
for  the  road,  and  this  sum  placed  things  on  a 
very  different  basis.  Mr.  Howard  continued  in 
its  service  about  three  years,  in  the  meantime 
being  station  agent  in  Canon  City,  Pueblo  and 
Denver. 

In  1878  the  Denver  Transit  and  Warehouse 
Company  was  organized  and  two  years  afterwards 
was  incorporated  under  the  laws  of  Colorado. 
The  president  is  Col.  D.  C.  Dodge,  already  men- 
tioned, and  well  known  as  the  vice-president  and 
general  manager  of  the  Rio  Grande  Western  Rail- 
way, and  the  secretary,  treasurer  and  general 
manager  is  M.  W.  Howard,  of  this  sketch.  Both 
of  these  gentlemen  have  been  connected  with  the 
company  as  stockholders  from  its  start  and  are 
possessed  of  great  financial  ability  and  genius,  as 
is  well  known.  They  deserve  great  credit  for 
their  enterprising  methods,  for  they  have  invested 
large  amounts  of  money  in  concerns  that  have 
been  of  untold  benefit  to  the  citizens,  at  times 
when  no  one  else  would  risk  their  fortunes  in  a 
similar  maimer.  They  established  general  stor- 
age warehouses  as  well  as  United  States  customs 
and  international  revenue  general  bonded  ware- 
houses, at  Nos.  1401-27  Wynkoop  street,  about  a 
block  from  the  Union  depot,  and  close  to  the  busi- 
ness center  of  the  city.  These  bonded  warehouses 
are  of  the  greatest  importance  to  the  merchants  and 
shippers  of  Denver  and  the  surrounding  country, 
as  goods  are  imported  direct  from  foreign  lands 
and  can  be  removed  as  a  whole  or  in  part,  by 
paying  the  tax  here,  without  the  delay  of  sending 
the  amount  east.  The  warehouses  are  the  best- 
constructed  ones  in  the  city,  as  is  shown  by  the 
low  rates  of  insurance.  Several  hundred  dollars 
were  spent  by  the  company  in  1895  in  getting 
the  bill  for  the  establishment  of  an  internal  reve- 
nue and  bonded  warehouse  in  Denver  through 
congress.  The  company  gives  special  attention 
to  moving  heavy  machinery,  household  furniture 
and  goods  in  car-lots.  The  business  which  is 
tran.sacted  by  them  in  the  course  of  a  year  is 
something  surprising  and  is  steadily  increasing  in 
volume. 

About  1886  Mr.  Howard  and  Colonel  Dodge 
purchased  a  farm  for  their  own  u.se,  intending  to 
raise  horses  there  and  also  to  have  a  place  for 
their  teams  to  rest  and  recruit  from  time  to   time. 


Finding  that  the  plan  was  a  good  one,  they  turned 
the  property  over  to  the  company,  which  has 
since  invested  in  additional  land,  some  adjoining 
the  first  farm,  which  is  but  eight  miles  from  Den- 
ver, and  still  later  two  thousand  acres  situated  in 
Elbert  County,  forty  miles  from  the  city.  The 
company  now  makes  a  business  of  raising  fine 
draft  horses  and  cattle,  and  many  of  the  horses 
used  on  their  great  vans  and  wagons  in  Denver, 
and  justly  noted  for  their  beauty  and  strength, 
have  been  raised  on  the  farms  of  the  company. 
During  the  winter  the  stock  is  taken  to  the  Bear 
Creek  farm,  where  some  eight  hundred  tons  of 
hay  for  feeding  are  cut  annually.  The  farm 
last  mentioned  comprises  four  hundred  and  twenty 
acres  of  land,  in  the  garden  spot  of  the  state. 

The  first  marriage  of  Mr.  Howard  took  place 
in  Wataga,  111.,  in  1867,  the  lady  of  his  choice 
being  Miss  Mary  Holyoke,  who  was  born  in  that 
place.  She  died  in  1879,  leaving  two  sons, 
Joseph  M.,  who  was  born  in  Rushville,  111.,  and 
is  now  in  the  employ  of  the  company  in  which  his 
father  is  an  official,  and  Harry  H.,  who  was  born 
in  Canon  City,  Colo.,  and  is  also  with  the  firm. 
In  1880  Mr.  Howard  married  Julia  A.  Stoddard, 
of  Denver,  a  native  of  Joliet,  111.,  and  they  have 
one  daughter,  Edna.  Mr.  Howard  is  identified 
with  the  Royal  Arcanum  and  the  Ancient  Order 
of  United  Workmen. 


|~RANK  BOYD,  postmaster  at  Gold  Hill, 
r^  Boulder  County,  was  born  in  Des  Moines, 
I  Iowa,  in  1863,  and  is  a  son  of  James  H.  and 
Frances  P.  (Griffith)  Boyd,  natives  respectively 
of  Pennsylvania  and  Columbus,  Ohio.  His 
father,  who  spent  some  years  in  Iowa,  removed 
from  there  in  1869  to  Chicago,  where  he  engaged 
in  the  manufacture  of  coffins.  In  1875  he  came 
to  Colorado  and  settled  in  Boulder,  where  he 
built  the  first  smelter  in  the  town.  He  continued 
to  operate  this  mill  until  he  retired  from  business, 
since  which  time  he  has  resided  in  Denver.  He 
and  his  wife  are  the  parents  of  five  children, 
namely:  Ida,  Mrs.  Headley,  of  Denver;  Lincoln, 
who  is  foreman  of  the  Philadelphia  smelter  in 
Pueblo;  Frank;  Mrs.  Dessa  Newman,  of  Denver; 
and  Mrs.  LiHie  Foster,  also  of  Denver. 

In  the  public  schools  of  Chicago  and  Boulder 
the  subject  of  this  sketch  obtained  a  fair  educa- 
tion.    For  a  time  he  was  employed  in  his  father's 


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smelter,  after  which,  in  1880,  he  went  to  Lead- 
ville  and  secured  employment  in  the  smelter 
there.  Afterward  he  operated  the  Cash  mine  in 
the  gold  district,  continuing  to  develop  it  for 
five  j'ears.  In  1890  he  bought  out  George  Kirk- 
bride,  one  of  the  oldest  merchants  in  the  district, 
and  embarked  in  the  general  mercantile  business, 
which  he  has  since  conducted,  having  in  stock  a 
full  line  of  dry  goods,  groceries  and  hardware. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Boyd,  in  Boulder,  united 
him  with  Mary  P.  Kirkbride,  who  was  born  in 
England  and  came  to  Boulder  in  company  with 
her  father,  George  Kirkbride.  They  are  the 
parents  of  two  children,  Bessie  and  Donovan. 
Politically  a  Democrat,  Mr.  Boyd  is  active  in  local 
affairs.  He  is  chairman  of  the  district  Demo- 
cratic central  committee  and  a  member  of  the 
county  central  committee.  In  1896  he  was  ap- 
pointed postmaster  under  President  Cleveland  and 
still  holds  the  office.  Fraternally  he  is  connected 
with  Gold  Hill  Lodge  of  Ancient  Order  of 
United  Workmen,  and  is  a  charter  member  of 
Bimetal  Lodge  No.  44,  I.  O.  O.  F.,  in  which  he  is 
a  past  officer. 

EAPT.  NELSON  C.  ROE,  one  of  the  honored 
veterans  of  the  Civil  war,  is  serving  as  jus- 
tice of  the  peace  in  Greeley,  a  position  he  has 
filled  for  four  years  with  credit  to  himself  and 
satisfaction  to  the  community.  He  is  thoroughly 
impartial  in  meting  out  justice,  his  opinions  being 
unbiased  by  either  fear  or  favor,  and  his  fidelity 
to  the  trust  reposed  in  him  is  above  ques- 
tion. He  is  regarded  as  one  of  the  leading  and 
most  highly  respected  citizens  of  Weld  County, 
and  it  is,  therefore,  consistent  that  he  be  repre- 
sented in  a  work  whose  province  is  the  portrayal 
of  the  lives  of  the  prominent  men  of  this  section 
of  the  state. 

Mr.  Roe  was  born  in  Cortland  County,  N.  Y. , 
June  19,  1825,  a  son  of  Sylvester  M.  and  Mary 
(Chattertort)  Roe.  '  His  uncle,  William  Roe,  was 
the  father  of  E.  P.  Roe,  the  well-known  novelist. 
The  family  have  for  many  generations  made  their 
home  in  Cortland  County,  our  Subject's  grand- 
father, John  E.  Roe,  having  settled  there  when 
his  nearest  neighbor  was  seven  miles  away,  and 
there  he  engaged  in  farming.  Of  his  children 
Sylvester  was  the  oldest  and  was  educated  in  the 
common  schools.  In  early  life  he  engaged  in 
clerking  in  New  York  City,  later  followed  mer- 


cantile pursuits  in  Freetown,  Cortland  County, 
and  after  farming  for  some  time  at  Virgil,  N.  Y. , 
he  sold  his  place  and  engaged  in  the  fruit  com- 
mission business.  He  died  at  the  ripe  old  age  of 
eighty-one  years.  For  many  years  he  was  elder 
in  the  Presbyterian  Church',  and  was  greatly  in- 
terested in  all  church  work.  In  his  family  were 
two  sons  and  four  daughters,  of  whom  our  subject 
is  the  oldest. 

Captain  Roe  pursued  his  studies  in  the  schools 
of  his  native  county  until  seventeen  years  of  age, 
when  he  went  to  Elmira  and  engaged  in  clerkr 
ing  for  a  time.  On  his  return  to  Cortland 
County  he  embarked  in  business  on  his  own  ac- 
count, but  in  1852  came  west,  stopping  first  at 
Chicago,  from  which  place  he  shipped  produce  to 
New  York.  Later  he  went  to  San  Francisco  by 
way  of  Cape  Horn,  and  in  1855  located  in  Iowa, 
where  he  was  first  engaged  in  bujdng  grain. 
For  two  years  he  was  also  captain  of  a  steamboat 
on  the  Mississippi  River,  running  from  St.  Louis 
to  St.  Paul,  and  then  settled  in  Lyons,  Iowa, 
where  he  engaged  in  buying  and  shipping  grain 
until  1862.  In  i860  he  had  crossed  the  plains  by 
wagon  to  Denver,  where  he  spent  the  summer, 
but  was  not  enough  impressed  by  the  country  to 
stay. 

By  the  urgent  request  of  Governor  Kirkwood,  of 
Iowa,  and  his  adjutant,  General  Baker,  Captain 
Roe  formed  a  company  during  the  Civil  war, 
raising  eighty-nine  men  and  marching  them  into 
camp  within  two  days.  Upon  his  arrival  the 
governor  commissioned  him  captain  of  Company 
K,  Twenty-sixth  Iowa  Infantry.  By  way  of  St. 
I,ouis  they  joined  the  Federal  troops  and  were 
assigned  to  the  First  Brigade,  First  Division,  Fif- 
teenth Army  Corps,  under  command  of  Generals 
Sherman  and  Logan.  They  participated  in  many 
important  engagements,  including  the  battles  of 
Arkansas  Po.st  and  Chickasaw  Bayou,  arid  the 
siege  of  Vicksburg,  where  Captain  Roe  was  in 
command  of  two  hundred  men  standing  guard 
over  the  man-of-war  '  'Hartford' '  belonging  to  Ad- 
miral Farragut's  fleet.  In  the  Atlanta  campaign 
our  subject  participated  in  sixteen  battles,  in- 
cluding those  at  Lookout  Mountain,  Chattanooga, 
Missionary  Ridge,  Ringgold  and  Kenesaw  Moun- 
tain. The  lieutenant-colonel  of  the  regiment, 
while  intrusting  all  important  matters  to  his 
charge,  would  never  give  him  an  opportunity  for 
advancement,  and  this  so  discouraged  our  subject 


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that  at  Atlanta  he  resigned  August  27,  1864,  hav- 
ing served  two  years  and  fourteen  days.  His 
colonel  would  not  act  on  the  resignation,  and  it 
was  only  through  the  personal  effort  of  General 
Logan  that  he  received  his  honorable  discharge. 

Returning  to  Lyons,  Iowa,  the  captain  pur- 
chased a  hotel,  which  he  conducted  under  the 
name  of  the  Randall  House  for  two  years.  In 
1867  he  came  west,  following  the  Union  Pacific 
Railroad  until  it  reached  Laramie  City,  and  spent 
the  years  1869,  1870  and  1871  at  Sherman  en- 
gaged in  dealing  in  stock  and  shipping  timber. 
In  the  spring  of  1872  he  located  at  Evans,  Colo., 
which  at  that  time  was  three  times  as  large  as 
Greeley,  and  was  clerk  of  the  school  board  when 
they  built  the  large  school  house.  He  was  inter- 
ested in  business  there  until  1879.  In  1880  he 
removed  to  Greeley  and  from  that  time  until  1 894 
engaged  in  farming,  but  ill  health  compelled  him 
to  retire  from  active  work  in  the  latter  year  and 
he  located  in  the  city.  In  the  fall  of  that  year 
he  was  elected  justice  of  the  peace  without  a  single 
dissenting  vote,  and  is  now  most  capably  dis- 
charging the  duties  of  that  office.  As  an  ardent 
Republican  he  has  always  taken  an  interest  in 
political  affairs,  attends  all  of  the  county  and  state 
conventions  of  his  party  and  does  all  in  his  power 
to  promote  its  welfare.  He  is  public-spirited  and 
progressive,  taking  an  active  interest  in  all  mat- 
ters for  the  good  of  the  community,  and  is  one  of 
the  leading  and  influential  members  of  the  Pres- 
byterian Church  of  Greeley.  Fraternally  he  is 
an  honored  member  of  U.  S.  Grant  Post  No.  13, 
G.  A.  R. 

On  the  ist  of  October,  1846,  Captain  Roe 
was  united  in  marriage  with  Miss  Katherine  L. 
Tupper,  a  step-daughter  of  the  well-known  Brick 
Pomeroy.  They  have  one  son,  Herbert  S.,  who 
is  engaged  in  mining  near  Gunnison,  and  is  the 
principal  owner  and  manager  of  the  Cortland 
Gold  and  Silver  Mining  Company. 


"■  LISHA  MCMILLAN.  The  life  which  this 
^  narrative  sketches  began  in  York  County, 
_  Pa.,  in  1810,  and  was  brought  to  a  close  in 
Arapahoe  County,  Colo.,  August  2,  1882.  The 
McMillan  family  was  represented  among  the  early 
Quaker  settlers  of  Pennsylvania,  where  succeed- 
ing generations  resided,  adhering  to  the  religious 
faith  of    their    ancestors.      George    McMillan, 


father  of  our  subject,  was  born  and  reared  in 
Pennsylvania  and  made  farming  his  life  work, 
following  that  occupation  until  his  death  in  1846. 
His  wife,  who  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Rebecca 
Cutler,  died  in  1816,  when  her  son,  Elisha,  was  a 
small  boy,  and  subsequently  the  father  married  a 
second  time. 

After  attaining  manhood  the  subject  of  this 
sketch  removed  to  Ohio,  where  he  began  the 
study  of  medicine,  and  upon  going  to  Illinois  he 
continued  his  professional  studies.  However,  his 
health  was  poor  and  close  study  soon  injured  it 
to  such  an  extent  that  it  became  absolutely  neces- 
sary to  seek  other  employment.  He  then  turned 
his  attention  to  farming,  going  to  Iowa  in  1838 
and  cultivating  a  farm  near  Primrose  for  years. 
From  that  time  until  his  death  he  made  agricult- 
ure his  life  work.  He  died  August  2,  1882,  in 
Pilot  Grove,  Lee  County,  Iowa.  He  was  not 
blessed  with  robust  health,  and  never  had  the 
strength  to  engage  in  manual  labor,  but  he  super- 
intended his  landed  properties  and  left  a  compe- 
tence to  his  wife. 

On  New  Year's  day  of  1862  Mr.  McMillan 
married  Caroline  P. ,  daughter  of  John  and  Mathil- 
da (Board)  Brown,  a  sister  of  ex -Senator  Hiram 
R.  Brown.  Her  grandfather,  Dixon  Brown,  was 
born  in  Fauquier  County,  Va.,  but  prior  to  the 
nineteenth  century  removed  to  Kentucky  and  fol- 
lowed farm  pursuits,  though  giving  some  atten- 
tion to  the  trade  of  a  blacksmith.  The  maternal 
grandfather,  George  Board,  was  born  in  Balti- 
more, Md.,  and  when  a  young  man  removed  to 
Kentucky,  where  he  married  Sarah  Harmon, 
daughter  of  a  wealthy  slaveowner.  Through  his 
energetic  efforts  he  became  well-to-do, but  unfortu- 
nately went  security  for  some  friends  and  was 
obliged  to  pay  the  entire  amount  of  the  notes, 
thus  losing  all  of  his  property.  His  father-in- 
law  offered  to  start  him  in  business  again,  but  he 
was  of  an  independent  nature  and  refused  the 
kind  offer.  He  took  his  family  to  Indiana  and 
later  removed  to  Illinois,  where  he  entered  land 
and  spent  the  remaining  years  of  his  life. 

Mrs.  McMillan  was  a  daughter  of  John  Brown, 
who  was  born  in  Virginia,  spent  his  boyhood 
years  in  Kentucky  and  after  his  marriage  to  Miss 
Board  removed  to  Indiana,  settling  in  Bedford, 
Lawrence  County,  where  he  was  employed  in  a 
bank  for  twenty-two  years.  From  there  he  went 
to  Lee  County,  Iowa,  and  later  settled  in  Mount 


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Pleasant,  where  his  death  occurred.  Further 
reference  to  his  life  will  be  found  in  the  sketch  of 
his  son,  Hiram  R. ,  who  was  formerly  senator 
from  Jefferson  County.  Mrs.  McMillan  is  a  most 
estimable  lady  and  as  such  is  esteemed  by  all  by 
whom  she  is  known.  She  conducts  the  place 
and  attends  to  the  property  interests  left  by  her 
husband,  whose  sound  judgment  and  business 
ability  enable  her  to  enjoy  every  comfort  that 
can  enhance  the  pleasure  of  life. 


EHARLES  H.  FARNS WORTH,  instructor 
in  music  in  the  University  of  Colorado,  has 
been  a  resident  in  this  state  for  the  past 
decade.  He  comes  from  an  old  and  honored  New 
England  family,  his  ancestors  having  settled 
there  upon  their  arrival  from  England  in  1664. 
His  great-grandfather  Farnsworth  was  a  Revolu- 
tionary hero,  and  all  of  his  forefathers  were  noted 
for  patriotism  and  sterling  Puritan  integrity. 
His  grandfather,  Amos  Farnsworth,  was  a  native 
of  Massachusetts,  from  which  state  he  removed  to 
Vermont.  The  parents  of  Mr.  Farnsworth  are 
Rev.  Wilson  and  Caroline  (Palmer)  Farns- 
worth, natives  of  Thetford,  Vt.,  and  Lyme, 
N.  H.,  respectively.  The  Palmers  are  also  an 
old  New  England  family,  tracing  their  lineage 
through  several  generations  in  that  section  of 
this  country,  and  back  to  England.  Rev.  Wil- 
son Farnsworth  graduated  from  Middlebury  Col- 
lege of  Middlebury,  Vt.,  and  later  from  Andover 
Theological  Seminary,  after  which  he  was  or- 
dained as  a  minister  of  the  Congregational 
denomination.  Since  1854  he  has  been  actively 
engaged  in  preaching  the  gospel  and  organizing 
churches,  schools  and  hospitals  in  Turkey,  Asia 
Minor,  his  home  being  in  Cesarea,  Cappadocia. 
The  region  under  his  jurisdiction  and  general  su- 
pervision is  about  as  large  as  New  England,  and 
the  importance  of  the  grand  work  to  which  he  has 
heroically  devoted  the  better  part  of  his  life,  for 
nearly  a  half-ceptury, cannot  be  overestimated.  He 
and  his  several  assistants  are  missionaries  of 
the  American  Board  of  Foreign  Missions. 

A  few  years  subsequent  to  his  parents'  removal 
to  Cesarea,  Turkey,  the  subject  of  this  article  was 
born,  the  date  being  November  29,  1859.  With 
his  eight  brothers  and  sisters  (five  of  whom  are 
now  living)  he  passed  his  boyhood  days  in  the 
land  of  the  "Unspeakable  Turk."     Until  he  was 


entering  upon  his  fifteenth  year  he  pursued  his 
studies  under  the  tutorship  of  his  parents.  In 
1873  he  entered  the  preparatory  department  of 
Robert  College,  in  Constantinople,  and  at  the 
close  of  the  year  came  to  America.  He  con- 
tinued his  education  in  the  high  school  of  New- 
tonville,  Mass. ,  until  his  health  began  to  suffer, 
when  he  went  to  Boston,  and  for  a  short  time 
engaged  in  business.  Believing  that  an  ocean 
voyage  would  be  beneficial,  he  shipped  before 
the  mast  on  the  "William  Hale,"  and  went 
around  Cape  Horn,  South  America,  to  Valparaiso, 
Chili,  thence  to  Iquique,  Peru,  and  to  Talchona, 
Chili,  returning  to  New  York  with  a  cargo  of 
saltpetre  and  wool,  and  arriving  in  the  metropolis 
after  an  ■  absence  of  over  eleven  months.  He 
then  drifted  to  Westboro  and  Worcester,  Mass. , 
and  took  up  the  study  of  music.  He  suf- 
fered with  a  sunstroke  about  this  time,  but  per- 
sisted in  his  musical  training,  and  ultimately  be- 
came a  teacher  of  the  piano  and  organ,  and  church 
organist. 

In  1888  Mr.  Farnsworth  came  to  Colorado,  for 
a  change  of  climate.  Settling  in  Boulder,  he 
started  classes  in  music,  sight-singing,  etc.,  in 
the  university,  and  was  later  chosen  to  act  as  a 
teacher  of  music  in  the  public  schools.  Under  the 
stimulus  of  his  enthusiasm,  a  department  of  music 
was  created  in  the  university, with  himself  as  an  in- 
structor. In  connection  with  Professor  Baker  and 
others  the  Colorado  School  of  Music  was  organ- 
ized, and  he  is  not  only  a  member  of  the  board  of 
the  same  but  musical  director  as  well.  For  several 
years  he  was  organist  in  the  Congregational 
Church.  To  his  efforts  is  due  the  founding  of  the 
Boulder  Choral  Society .  This  successful  organiza- 
tion, under  his  leadership,  has  given  the  Messiah, 
Elijah  and  the  Creation,  and  has  won  an  enviable 
reputation.  He  has  also  had  charge  of  the 
Glee  Club  and  the  Ladies'  Musical  Club.  Be- 
sides those  already  mentioned,  the  Preparatory 
School  Orchestra  has  given  numerous  well-re- 
ceived concerts,  with  him  as  their  leader,  and  he 
is  the  conductor  of  the  Friday  Musical  Club,  of 
which  his  wife  is  the  president.  It  gives  about 
four  concerts  a  year. 

In  Worcester,  Mass.,  Mr.  Farnsworth  mar- 
ried Miss  Charlotte  Joy  Allen,  in  1890.  She  was 
born  in  that  city,  and  after  attending  Wellesley 
College  for  three  years,  completed  her  higher 
studies  in  the  University  of  Colorado,    receiving 


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therefrom  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts.  Her 
father,  Prof  Benjamin  D.  Allen,  has  won  high 
standing  in  the  musical  profession,  and  for 
some  time  was  connected  with  the  faculty  of  the 
New  England  Conservatory  of  Music  at  Boston, 
Mass.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Farnsworth  are  members  of 
the  Congregational  Church,  the  former  being  a 
trustee  and  superintendent  in  the  Sunday-school. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  University  Scientific  Asso- 
ciation and  the  National  Musical  Association.  At 
the  meeting  in  Boulder  of  the  first-named  organ- 
ization, in  1896,  he  read  a  paper  entitled  "In- 
tellectual Element  in  Music,"  and  this  article  was 
published  in  full  in  the  Chicago  Musical  Review. 


HARMON  MERCHANT.  Years  ago,  when 
the  west  was  a  vast  unsettled  territory,  and 
railroads  were  unknown  across  the  plains, 
and  Indians  and  wild  animals  roamed,  un- 
molested, among  the  mountain  fastnesses  Mr. 
Merchant  cast  in  his  fortunes  with  the  few 
settlers  west  on  the  Missouri.  He  planned  to 
start  in  the  fall  of  1858,  but  waited  until  the 
spring  of  the  following  year  in  order  to  make  the 
trip  with  a  company  of  ten.  The  hardships  of 
the  long  journey  can  be  understood  only  by  those 
who  took  it.  The  company  rode  on  the  north 
side  of  the  Platte,  where  no  wagon  had  ever 
passed  before,  and  on  reaching  the  head  of  the 
emigration  at  John  Richow's  bridge,  now  in 
Wyoming,  they  disbanded,  each  to  engage  in 
prospecting  for  himself.  The  Frenchman  who 
had  charge  of  the  toll  bridge  offered  Mr.  Mer- 
chant $50  to  take  care  of  the  business,  which  he 
did,  having  charge  of  the  bridge  toll,  the  store 
and  postofSce.  While  there  he  had  some  interest- 
ing experiences.  At  one  time,  by  his  coolness, 
he  averted  bloodshed  between  his  employer  and 
a  train  of  emigrants  who  had  loosened  the  French- 
man's boat  and  were  crossing  the  river. 

Mr.  Merchant  was  born  in  Cortland  County, 
N.  Y.,  April  30,  1832.  His  father,  Harvey 
Merchant,  was  born  in  Schoharie  County,  N.  Y., 
removed  thence  to  Cortland  County,  and  about 
1841  settled  in  the  midst  of  the  beach  and  maple 
woods  near  Albion,  Calhoun  County,  but  a  few 
years  afterward  went  to  Eaton  Township,  the 
same  state.  Harmon  accompanied  his  father  in 
the  various  removals  and  assisted  in  clearing  up 
the  land  in  Michigan.     When  a  boy  he  was  a 


pupil  in  pay  schools  and  later  studied  in  Olivet 
College  one  winter.  In  1855  lie  went  from  Mich- 
igan to  Iowa  City,  Iowa,  then  the  terminus  of 
the  railroad,  thence  went  to  Council  Bluffs  by 
stage,  from  there  to  DeSoto,on  the  Missouri  River. 
There  he  pre-empted  land  and  began  its  improve- 
ment, but  his  father  was  seriously  injured  about 
that  time,  which  necessitated  his  return  to  Mich- 
igan, and  in  that  way  he  lost  his  pre-emption. 
In  the  spring  of  1858  he  returned  to  Douglas 
County,  Neb.,  and  remained  a  year,  starting 
further  west  in  April  of  1859.  Reaching  the 
Frenchman's  ranch,  he  remained  with  him  until 
December,  when  he  and  J.  H.  Wheeler  bought 
out  the  weekly  stage  that  ran  from  Leavenworth 
to  the  Salt  Lake  district.  While  engaged  in  this 
business,  his  special  work  was  the  care  of  the 
horses.  During  the  winter  of  1 86 1  -62  the  Indians 
were  very  troublesome  and  the  presence  of  gov- 
ernment troops  was  necessary  much  of  the  time. 
In  the  spring  of  1862  he  and  his  partner  crossed 
the  plains  to  Grand  Round  Valley,  Ore.,  driving 
cattle  and  horses  with  them,  and  on  reaching  that 
place  he  took  up  a  ranch  and  started  dn  the  dairy 
business.  He  was  successful,  feeding  and  milk- 
ing sixty  cows,  and  building  up  a  good  business. 
Selling  out  in  the  fall  of  1864,  he  went  to 
Sonoma  County,  Cal.,  where  he  bought  a  ranch, 
and  engaged  in  the  butter  and  cheese  business 
and  as  a  dealer  in  cattle.  While  there  he  mar- 
ried Miss  Margaret  C.  Crisp,  who  was  born  in 
Kentucky  and  was  reared  in  California. 

In  the  fall  of  1869  Mr.  Merchant  sold  his  ranch 
and  returned  on  a  visit  to  Michigan,  Mr.  Wheeler, 
who  had  joined  him  in  California,  accompanying 
him  to  the  east.  The  next  year  they  left  their 
families  in  Cleveland  and  went  to  Texas,  from 
which  place  they  drove  twenty-six  hundred  head 
of  cattle  to  the  north,  expecting  to  start  a  ranch 
in  Nebraska.  They  wintered  the  stock  in  Kansas 
near  Wichita,  where  many  of  the  cattle  died. 
During  the  same  winter  they  fed  cattle  in  Law- 
rence for  the  market.  In  the  spring  of  187 1  they 
started  a  ranch  thirty  miles  from  Sidney,  Neb., 
where  they  had  a  large  herd  of  cattle.  They  con- 
tinued the  partnership  until  the  fall  of  1880, 
when  they  sold  the  ranch  and  stock.  Four  years 
prior  to  this  Mr.  Merchant  located  in  Denver  for 
his  headquarters,  and  afterward  he  became  in- 
terested in  the  livery  business  here,  also  bought 
property  and  dealt  in  real  estate.     He  is  now  the 


OTTO  A.  ERDMAN. 


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agent  for  the  California  and  a  number  of  other 
blocks.  The  first  time  he  ever  saw  Denver  was  in 
i860,  when  the  now  flourishing  city  was  a  small 
and  insignificant  hamlet.  Since  coming  here  he 
has  borne  a  part  in  public  enterprises  and  in  proj- 
ects for  the  benefit  of  the  people.  In  politics  he 
is  a  silver  Republican.  He  attends  the  First  Con- 
gregational Church,  of  which  his  wife  is  a 
member.  He  has  two  children,  a  son  and 
daughter.  Bert  H.,  who  was  educated  in  the 
Denver  high  school  and  Cornell  University,  rose 
from  the  ranks  in  the  regular  array  and  is  now 
second  lieutenant  of  the  Eighth  Regiment  of 
infantry,  stationed  at  Fort  Russell.  The  daugh- 
ter, Maude  M.,  is  a  graduate  of  the  Denver  high 
school. 


0TTO  A.  ERDMAN.  It  is  the  aim  of  the 
public-spirited  citizen  to  do  all  within  his 
power  to  advance  the  welfare  of  his  city  and 
state.  Measures  that  he  deems  prejudicial  to  the 
prosperity  of  his  fellow-citizens  he  firmly  op- 
poses, while  he  is  as  stanch  in  his  support  of 
plans  for  the  highest  good  of  the  people.  Mr. 
Erdman  is  a  patriotic  citizen,  devoted  to  the  wel- 
fare of  Denver  and  unswerving  in  his  allegiance 
to  whatever  will  promote  its  moral,  educational 
and  religious  interests.  An  attorney  by  profes- 
sion, he  finds  time  outside  of  his  duties  in  ofiice 
and  court  to  take  an  active  part  in  public  affairs; 
and  as  chairman  of  the  Christian  citizenship  de- 
partment of  the  Denver  Christian  Endeavor  Union 
he  has  not  only  ably  represented  the  Endeavor- 
ers,  but  has  also  done  much,  by  earnest  speeches 
and  personal  influence,  to  create  a  sentiment 
against  pernicious  laws  and  win  friends  for  the 
temperance  movement. 

Mr.  Erdman  is  of  German  parentage.  His  fa- 
ther, Frederick  C.  Erdman,  came  to  America  at 
the  age  of  eighteen,  and  being  the  son  of  well-to- 
do  parents,  he  brought  some  means  to  this  coun- 
try with  him.  In  Chicago  he  met  and  married 
Miss  Wilhelmine  M.  Sonneman,  who  had  come 
with  her  parents  to  the  United  States  at  the  age 
of  fourteen.  It  is  a  rather  curious  fact  that  his 
name,  in  English,  means  "Earth-man,"  while 
hers  is  "Sun-man,"  which  made  their  marriage 
a  union  of  the  earth  and  sun.  He  invested  his 
money  in  land  in  Jackson  County,  Iowa,  where 
he  and  his  wife  settled  and  where  their  eldest 
child,  Otto  A.,  was  born   November  28,   1859. 


From  Jackson  County  he  moved  to  Jones  Countj^ 
where  he  engaged  in  the  mercantile  business  and 
also  served  as  postmaster  under  President  Grant, 
being  the  only  Democratic  postmaster  in  his  part 
of  the  state.  A  little  later  on  he  moved  back  to 
Jackson  County  and  engaged  in  the  hotel  busi- 
ness in  the  town  of  Preston.  He  is  now  living 
on  the  divide  about  twenty  miles  from  Denver, 
where  he  carries  on  farm  pursuits.  In  politics 
he  is  a  Democrat  and  has  always  voted  the  party 
ticket  in  national  elections  except  once,  when, 
being  a  great  admirer  of  James  G.  Blaine,  he 
cast  his  ballot  for  that  illustrious  statesman  for 
president. 

When  the  subject  of  this  sketch  was  about 
eight  years  of  age  the  family  moved  from  the 
farm  in  Van  Buren  Township  to  the  village  of 
Sabula,  Iowa,  where  he  was  a  student  in  a  private 
school  about  four  years.  He  accompanied  his 
parents  to  Jones  County  and  assisted  his  father  in 
the  store  and  postoflSce.  In  Preston  he  attended 
the  public  school,  the  principal  of  which  had 
been  his  preceptor  in  the  private  school  at  Sabula. 
In  the  same  school  he  also  took  a  normal  course, 
completing  his  studies  at  seventeen  years.  He 
then  secured  a  position  as  teacher  of  a  country 
school  in  Clinton  County,  Iowa,  but  after  one 
term  there  removed  with  his  family  to  Greene 
County,  where  he  lived  on  a  farm  and  engaged 
in  teaching.  For  three  years  he  taught  in 
Greene  and  Carroll  Counties,  meantime  devoting 
his  leisure  to  the  study  of  law.  April  18,1879, 
he  was  admitted  to  the  bar,  and  afterward  for  one 
year  practiced  law  in  Rippey,  Greene  County, 
Iowa.  His  constant  application  to  his  studies 
impaired  his  health  to  such  an  extent  that  a 
change  of  climate  and  outdoor  employment  be- 
came necessary.  He  left  Iowa  and  came  to  Colo- 
rado, where  he  secured  a  position  with  a  mer- 
cantile house  in  Central  City  that  enabled  him  to 
be  out  of  doors  most  of  the  time.  With  the  ex- 
ception of  the  summer  of  1883,  when  he  engaged 
in  prospecting,  he  remained  with  the  firm  five 
years.  While  in  their  employ  he  went  to  Kim- 
ball, S.  Dak.,  and  there,  May  20,  1885,  he  mar- 
ried Miss  Clara  May  Cummings,  with  whom  he 
became  acquainted  in  Rippey,  Iowa.  She  was 
born  in  Whiteside  County,  111.,  the  daughter  of 
a  Methodist  minister  who  died  before  her  birth. 

September  i,  1886,  Mr.  Erdman  came  to  Den- 
ver and  became  collector  and  city  salesman  for 


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N.  B.  McCrary  &  Co.,  this  position  giving  him 
the  outdoor  exercise  so  necessary  to  his  health. 
March  i,  1890,  he  embarked  in  the  real-estate 
business,  buying  and  selling  city  property,  and 
would  have  been  very  successful  in  that  enter- 
prise had  it  not  been  for  the  panic.  He  is  now 
engaged  in  the  practice  of  law,  of  which  he  is 
very  fond  and  in  which  he  is  meeting  with  suc- 
cess. He  is  still  interested  in  silver  and  gold 
mining  to  some  extent.  He  has  invariably  de- 
clined to  become  a  candidate  for  public  office,  but 
is  deeply  interested  in  the  issues  of  the  age.  His 
first  presidential  vote  was  cast  for  James  A.  Gar- 
field, and  he  continued  to  vote  the  Republican 
national  ticket  until  1896,  when  he  supported 
the  silver  cause.  He  is  an  elder  in  the  North 
Presbyterian  Church  and  previous  to  his  connec- 
tion with  this  church  he  served  in  a  similar 
capacity  in  another  congregation  of  the  same  de- 
nomination. He  was  made  a  Mason  in  i88i,in 
Jefferson,  Greene  County,  Iowa,  and  now  holds 
membership  with  Union  l,odge  No.  7,  A.  F.  & 
A.  M.,  in  Denver. 


61  NDREW  HAGUS  is  a  progressive  farmer  of 
f  1  section  24,  township  i  south,  range  67  west, 
I  I  Arapahoe  County,  his  postoffice  address  be- 
ing Brighton.  He  is  one  of  the  pioneers  of  north- 
ern Colorado,  as  he  settled  here  in  1859  and  ex- 
perienced the  many  hardships  which  were  the 
common  lot  of  his  early  associates  here.  For  long 
years  he  labored  unremittingly  until  success 
crowned  his  efforts,  and  now,  when  approaching 
the  decline  of  life,  he  is  well  off  in  this  world's 
goods  and  enjoys  the  feeling  that  he  has  faithfully 
done  his  duty  toward  his  family  and  his  fellow- 
men. 

A  son  of  Joseph  P.  and  Elizabeth  (Leasch) 
Hagus,  our  subject  was  born  in  Prussia,  Ger- 
many, near  the  celebrated  old  city  of  Cologne, 
June  27,  1837.  He  attended  the  government 
schools  there  until  1849,  when  he  came  to  Amer- 
ica with  his  parents.  The  family  settled  at  Ga- 
lena, 111.,  and  there  the  father,  who  was  a  tailor 
by  trade,  plied  his  accustomed  vocation.  Young 
Hagus  acquired  a  knowledge  of  English  in  the 
Galena  public  schools,  and  at  the  age  of  fourteen 
he  commenced  to  earn  his  own  living  by  working 
in  a  nursery.  At  first  he  was  paid  $4  a  month, 
later  $6,  and  finally,  for  two  years  he  received  f 8 


a  month.  In  1857  he  entered  the  employ  of  a 
mercantile  firm  and  continued  with  them  for  near- 
ly two  years. 

In  1859  Mr.  Hagus,  a  Mr.  Hazzard,  and  two 
other  men,  set  out  for  Colorado,  driving  their 
own  teams  all  the  way.  The  trip,  begun  in 
March,  took  about  two  months,  as  they  arrived 
at  the  present  .site  of  Denver  in  May.  The  little 
party  proceeded  to  Deadwood  and  soon  were 
busily  occupied  in  mining.  In  June  they  re- 
moved to  the  Gregory  mines,  and  after  a  few 
months  of  successful  work  they  sold  out  and  re- 
turned to  Denver,  with  the  intention  of  passing 
the  winter  there.  They  did  not  do  so,  however, 
but  came  to  Brighton  and  began  raising  veg- 
etables and  supplies  for  the  miners.  They  were 
the  first  in  this  line  of  business  in  this  region  and 
found  ready  sale  for  their  products.  They 
brought  the  first  mowing  machine,  rake,  etc.,  ever 
seen  in  this  locality.  In  the  fall  of  i860  Mr. 
Hagus  went  to  the  mines,  and,  having  made  the 
discovery  of  a  good  one,  sold  out  and  began  haul- 
ing supplies  to  the  miners  in  different  parts  of  the 
mountains.  In  1863  he  pre-empted  his  present 
farm  under  the  homestead  act.  The  amount  of 
land  granted  to  him  at  that  time  was  a  quarter- 
section,  but  he  has  since  bought  additional,  and 
now  owns  two  hundred  acres,  all  under  fine  cul- 
tivation. He  was  one  of  the  prime  movers  in  the 
building  of  the  Fulton  Ditch  and  is  a  stockholder 
and  the  vice-president  of  the  company.  He  also 
owns  stock  in  the  Brighton  Mills,  and  has  valu- 
able Denver  property  in  his  name.  Politicallj'  he 
is  a  loyal  Republican,  and  voted  first  for  Hayes 
in  1876.  He  has  not  been  an  ofiice  seeker,  as  he 
finds  his  time  fully  occupied  in  attending  to  his 
own  business  affairs  and  to  his  little  family.  In 
religious  belief  he  is  a  Catholic,  as  were  his  an- 
cestors, and  he  has  been  a  member  of  the  Brighton 
parish  for  years. 

In  1864  Mr.  Hagus  returned  to  Galena,  111. 
and  there  was  married  June  4  to  Miss  Katie  Zieg- 
ler,  who,  like  himself,  was  a  native  of  Germany. 
They  were  the  parents  of  five  children,  namely: 
Emma,  who  married  Fred  Milheim;  Henry  J., 
who  assists  in  the  management  of  the  home  farm; 
Louise,  Mrs.  Albert  R.  Ritter,  of  Denver;  Katie, 
wife  of  John  Barnard,  of  Steamboat  Springs;  and 
Fred,  who  is  at  home  with  his  father.  Henry  J. 
is  married  and  has  two  children,  William  Louis 
and   Lydia  Elizabeth.     His  wife  was  formerly 


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Miss  Martha  Bruhart.  Mrs.  Katie  Z.  Hagus  died 
in  1883  and  was  buried  in  Riverside  Cemetery. 
The  present  wife  of  Mr.  Hagus,  whom  he  married 
in  Denver,  July  10,  1885,  was  then  Miss  Magda- 
lena  Baden,  and  is  a  native  of  Germany.  One  child 
blesses  this  union,  Andrew  Hagus,  Jr.,  born  in 
August,  1890. 

pCJlLBUR  HILL.  While  still  a  young  man, 
\A/  in  1872,  Mr.  Hill  came  to  the  then  terri- 
Y  Y  tory  of  Colorado,  bringing  with  him  saw- 
mill engines,  together  with  the  other  equipments 
and  machinery  necessary  for  the  manufacture  of 
lumber.  From  boyhood  he  was  interested  in 
lumbering,  and  at  an  age  when  most  boys  are  in 
school  he  was  gaining  a  thorough  knowledge  of 
the  business  in  its  every  detail.  The  expense 
incident  to  the  removal  of  his  machinery  to  Colo- 
rado was  not  small,  but  his  faith  in  the  future  of 
this  country  prevented  him  from  hesitating  over 
incidental  matters.  Arriving  here,  he  erected  a 
sawmill,  with  the  necessary  equipments,  at  an 
expense  of  $30,000,  and  was  the  first  man  in  the 
state  who  embarked  in  the  manufacture  of  lumber 
upon  a  large  scale,  his  total  investment  in  the 
business  amounting  to  more  than  $50,000.  The 
prosperity  that  rewarded  his  efforts  proved  that 
his  judgment  had  not  erred  in  the  selection  of  his 
field  of  operations.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he 
was  the  possessor  of  large  holdings  and  valuable 
property,  both  here  and  elsewhere. 

The  father  of  our  subject,  James  Hill,  was  a 
pioneer  lumber  manufacturer  in  Saginaw,  Mich., 
and  afterward  became  interested  in  lumber  districts 
in  different  parts  of  the  United  States,  including 
Colorado,  amassing  a  large  fortune  through 
energy  and  judicious  management.  Being  with 
his  father  much  of  the  time,  our  subject  in  that 
way  early  gained  a  thorough  knowledge  of  the 
lumber  business  in  all  of  its  branches.  He  was 
born  and  reared  in  Michigan,  and  there  engaged 
in  the  lumber  business  with  his  father.  Having 
acquired  large  lumber  interests  in  Colorado,  he 
came  to  this  state  in  1872  and  established  a  lum- 
ber camp  at  Fort  Collins,  subsequently  starting 
two  other  camps.  Meantime  he  continued  his 
lumber  interests  in  Michigan  and  other  states, 
traveling  back  and  forth  between  the  two  states. 
In  later  "years  he  became  the  possessor  of  much 
valuable  property  in  British  Columbia,  where  he 
also  engaged  in  lumbering.     At  the  time  of  his 


death,  December  18,  1888,  he  was  wealthy,  hav- 
ing gained  a  fortune  through  his  lumber  interests, 
principally  in  Michigan  and  adjoining  states. 

He  had  rare  mental  gifts  which  predominated 
in  the  commercial  sense.  He  was  never  intended 
for  a  man  of  small  affairs,  but  for  the  manipulat- 
ing of  large  interests,  as  manifested  in  his  whole- 
sale lumber  transactions.  His  judgment  in  select- 
ing Colorado  as  a  lumber  state  and  securing  vast 
pine  forests  was  amply  rewarded  by  the  success 
which  crowned  his  efforts.  Politically  he  was  a 
Republican  and  supported  that  party  by  voice 
and  vote.  He  was  not  a  member  of  social  clubs 
and  secret  societies,  preferring  the  companionship 
of  his  wife  and  a  few  choice  friends,  who  often 
accompanied  him  on  excursions  to  hunt  and  fish. 
He  was  very  generous  and  open-hearted  and  in 
every  way  a  true  type  of  sterling  American  man- 
hood. 

In  Denver  Mr.  Hill  married  Miss  Laura  N. 
Nichols,  daughter  of  Edward  and  Sarah  (Bid- 
well)  Nichols,  natives  respectively  of  Connecticut 
and  New  York,  and  pioneers  of  the  Greeley 
(Colo.)  Colony.  On  the  maternal  side  Mrs.  Hill 
is  a  lineal  descendant  of  Capt.  Benjamin  Bidwell, 
who  enlisted  in  a  Connecticut  regiment  during 
the  Revolution  and  served  as  commander  of  a 
company  from  that  state.  She  erected  and  occu- 
pies a  residence  on  Pennsylvania  avenue  that  is 
one  of  the  most  elegant  and  tasteful  in  appoint- 
ments of  any  home  in  the  city.  The  walls  of  the 
house  are  adorned  with  works  of  art,  some  of 
which  are  the  products  of  her  brush  and  show  an 
artistic  skill  that  merits  admiration.  A  devotee 
of  art,  she  has  studied  both  in  this  country  and 
abroad  and  has  had  the  advantages  offered  by 
study  with  the  best  artists  of  the  age. 


r'RANK  X.  AICHER  came  to  Colorado  in 
JM  1872,  and  has  resided  in  Denver  since  May, 
I '^  1 88 1.  His  principal  occupation  has  been 
that  of  dealer  in  meats  and  he  is  now  a  member 
ot  The  Standard  Meat  &  Live  Stock  Company, 
with  office  at  No.  1538  Wazee  street.  In  addi- 
tion to  the  management  of  the  wholesale  meat 
market,  they  are  also  engaged  in  the  breeding  of 
sheep. 

Mr.  Aicher  was  born  at  Mahlstetten  O.  A., 
Spaichingen,  in  the  province  of  Wurteniberg, 
Germany,  and  received  an  excellent  education  in 


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the  public  schools  there.  Crossing  the  ocean  at 
the  age  of  eighteen,  he  settled  in  Iowa  City, 
Iowa,  where  he  followed  the  butcher's  trade  until 
his  removal  to  Colorado  in  1872.  His  first  home 
in  this  state  was  at  Georgetown,  where  he  opened 
a  meat  market  and  built  up  a  good  trade  in  the 
butchering  business.  From  Georgetown  he  came 
to  Denver  in  1881  and  five  years  later,  in  connec- 
tion with  his  present  partners,  formed  the  com- 
pany with  which  he  is  still  identified  and  which 
is  incorporated  under  the  laws  of  the  state. 

May  17,  1877,  Mr.  Aicher  was  united  in  mar- 
riage with  Miss  J.  R.  A.  Kenuecke,  at  State  Cen- 
ter, Iowa.  She  was  born  in  Brunswick,  Ger- 
many, but  has  .spent  the  principal  part  of  her  life 
in  the  United  States.  They  are  the  parents  of 
three  children,  namely:  Frank  A.,  Edna  M.  and 
Addie  J.  During  his  residence  in  Georgetown 
Mr.  Aicher  was  elected  an  alderman  and  served 
in  that  capacity  until  his  removal  from  the  city, 
when  he  resigned.  Since  coming  to  Denver  he 
has  devoted  himself  closely  to  his  business  duties 
and  has  not  cared  to  take  a  part  in  public  affairs. 


(TAMES  W.  MCGREGOR,  M.  D.,  of  Brighton, 
I  proprietor  of  a  drug  store  and  a  practicing 
(2/  physician  of  this  place,  was  born  in  Belmont, 
Ont.,  June  8,  1861,  and  is  a  son  of  Thomas  and 
Elizabeth  (Wismer)  McGregor.  His  father,  who 
was  born  and  reared  on  a  farm  near  Aberdeen, 
Scotland,  received  a  good  education,  studying 
Eatin  as  well  as  the  common  branches  in  an  acad- 
emy. When  he  was  about  Seventeen  his  father, 
Alexander  McGregor,  brought  the  family  to 
America  and  settled  among  the  hills  of  Canada, 
near  Eondon,  selecting  a  location  that  reminded 
him  as  much  as  possible  of  his  old  Scotch  home. 
Members  of  the  family  are  still  living  on  that 
farm.  Thomas  McGregor  died  in  1892  and  his 
wife,  now  sixty-nine  years  of  age,  has  since  his 
death  managed  the  homestead  without  the  aid  of 
son  or  daughter.  There  were  six  children  in  the 
family  and  four  of  these  are  still  living.  Henry 
G.  is  a  well-to-do  farmer  in  Canada;  Louise  C, 
who  married  Edward  Moore,  resides  in  Aber- 
deen, S.  Dak.;  and  Violet,  who  is  unmarried,  is 
a  successful  teacher  in  Canada. 

After  having  gained  the  rudiments  of  his  edu- 
cation in  common  schools,  our  subject  entered 
the  high  school  at  St.  Thomas,  Ont. ,  at  the  age  of 


fourteen,  and  two  years  later  began  to  teach  a 
country  school,  engaging  in  that  occupation  for 
three  years.  He  then  entered  the  Hamilton  Col- 
legiate Institute,  where  he  did  two  years'  work 
in  one  year,  but  his  health  was  impaired  by  over- 
study,  and  he  left  Canada,  going  to  Michigan, 
where  he  hoped  he  might  gain  renewed  strength. 
Soon  he  entered  the  medical  department  of  the 
University  of  Michigan,  from  which  he  graduated 
in  1884.  While  he  had  gained  a  little  in  health, 
his  father  said  he  would  not  live  a  year.  Hoping 
another  change  might  be  of  benefit,  he  went  to 
Hawkeye,  Iowa,  where  he  immediately  began  a 
country  practice. 

Seeking  another  change  for  the  sake  of  his 
health,  in  1890  Dr.  McGregor  came  to  Brighton, 
Colo.,  where  he  began  to  practice,  and  in  May  of 
the  following  year  he  had  the  largest  month's 
practice  he  has  ever  had.  In  Hawkeye,  Iowa, 
October  30,  1887,  he  married  Miss  Ella  B.  Ches- 
ley,  of  Volga,  that  state,  where  she  was  born  and 
educated.  For  a  time  prior  to  her  marriage  she 
engaged  in  teaching  school.  Four  children 
blessed  their  union :  Archie  N.  and  T.  Vernon, 
who  were  born  in  Hawkeye;  and  Ella  B.  and 
James  Duncan,  both  born  in  Brighton. 

In  May,  1895,  Dr.  McGregor  bought  a  drug 
store  and  has  since  carried  on  a  drug  business  in 
addition  to  his  practice.  In  1884,  when  in  Min- 
neapolis, he  took  out  his  naturalization  papers 
about  the  time  of  an  election.  He  voted  for 
Cleveland  that  year  and  has  since  continued  to 
support  Democratic  principles.  In  1 897  he  served 
as  delegate  to  the  county  Democratic  convention, 
and  in  May,  1898,  he  was  elected  an  alderman, 
but  resigned  the  position,  not  caring  to  serve. 
He  was  elected  a  member  of  the  school  board  in 
1893  and  served  continuously  until  May,  1898. 
Largely  through  his  efforts  was  due  the  erection 
of  the  substantial  new  schoolhouse,  and  he  also 
labored  to  promote  the  efiBciency  of  the  teachers 
and  the  standard  of  scholarship.  He  and  his 
wife  are  both  good  singers  and  members  of  the 
choir  of  the  Presbyterian  Church,  of  which  Mrs. 
McGregor  is  a  member.  She  is  also  an  excellent 
organist. 

Dr.  McGregor  is  connected  with  the  Masonic 
fraternity,  Knights  of  Pythias,  Woodmen  of  the 
World  and  Knights  of  the  Maccabees.  He  was 
made  a  Mason  in  Standard  Lodge,  at  Waucoma, 
Iowa,  and  now  holds  membership  in   Brighton 


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Lodge  No.  78,  in  which  he  served  as  secretary,  and 
by  special  dispensation  was  elected  W.  M.  from  the 
floor,  without  having  filled  other  positions.  He 
served  for  three  years  and  represented  his  lodge 
in  the  grand  lodge.  In  1885  he  became  identified 
with  the  Knights  of  Pythias  at  Arlington,  of 
which  he  was  a  charter  member,  and  after  coming 
to  Colorado  transferred  his  membership  to  the 
lodge  at  Brighton. 


3AC0B  GREGORY  came  to  Denver  in  1865 
and  is  therefore  one  of  the  early  settlers  of 
the  cit}'.  Three  months  after  locating  here 
he  opened  the  first  business  house  on  Lawrence 
street,  it  being  near  Fifteenth,  and  first  in  part- 
nership with  another  gentleman,  but  later  alone 
he  continued  in  that  place  until  1872.  Meantime, 
in  1867,  he  built  a  house  on  Tremont  street,  the 
doors,  sash  and  blinds  for  which  he  manufactured 
by  hand;  with  the  exception  of  Henry  C.  Brown, 
he  was  the  first  to  locate  on  this  street.  He  owns 
ranches  in  Jeiferson  and  Arapahoe  Counties, 
which  he  rents  to  tenants.  He  is  interested  in 
mining  property  in  Park  County,  and  managed 
the  building  of  the  Agricultural  ditch,  the  first  in 
this  locality  and  the  first  large  ditch  ever  con- 
structed, it  being  thirty  miles  in  length. 

In  Weisbaden,  Nassau,  Germany,  Mr.  Greg- 
ory was  born  in  1839,  the  son  of  Anthony  and 
Elizabeth  (Miller)  Gregory,  also  natives  of  Nas- 
sau. His  father,  who  was  born  in  1794,  was  an 
attorney  and  real-estate  owner,  and  when  a  young 
man  participated  in  the  battle  of  Waterloo  as  an 
officer,  receiving  a  medal  for  bravery  in  that  en- 
gagement. In  1853  he  brought  his  family  to 
America  and  purchased  real  estate  in  Chicago, 
also  farming  lands  near  Sycamore,  De  Kalb 
County,  111.  He  died  of  cholera  in  Chicago  in 
1854.  His  wife,  who  was  born  in  1797,  and  died 
in  De  Kalb  County  in  1886,  was  a  daughter  of 
Justius  Miller,  who  was  proprietor  of  a  brewery 
and  hotel  in  Koenigstown,.  Germany,  where  he 
died. 

Our  subject  was  the  youngest  of  twelve  chil- 
dren. In  1853  the  family  went  from  Amsterdam 
to  Liverpool  and  there  took  passage  on  the  Amer- 
ican sailing  vessel  "Star  of  the  Empire,"  which 
landed  in  Boston  after  a  voyage  of  eight  weeks. 
He  attended  the  common  schools  in  Chicago,  but 
soon  became  an  apprentice  to  the  painter's  trade, 


which  he  followed  there  until  1858.  Later  he 
worked  at  his  trade  in  St.  Louis,  Memphis  and 
New  Orleans,  then  went  to  Mobile,  where  he  re- 
mained until  1861.  The  war  coming  on  he  went 
back  to  the  north  and  bought  a  farm  in  De  Kalb 
County,  111. ,  where  he  engaged  in  farming.  Four 
years  later,  however,  he  was  obliged  to  seek  a 
change  of  climate,  as  his  health  was  very  poor. 
He  sold  his  place  and  came  to  Denver,  en 
route  to  Old  Mexico,  but  was  so  pleased  with  the 
climate  here  that  he  decided  to  remain,  so  Den- 
ver has  been  his  home  since  June  8,  1865.  He 
worked  for  others  for  three  months,  then  with 
Henry  Rietze,  started  in  business  on  Lawrence 
street.  His  subsequent  history  has  been  closely 
identified  with  that  of  Denver  and  Colorado, 
where  he  has  many  and  important  interests. 

In  the  establishment  of  the  chamber  of  com- 
merce Mr.  Gregory  was  actively  interested,  as 
he  has  also  been  in  the  inception  of  other  local 
enterprises  of  importance.  At  one  time  he  was 
active  in  the  Odd  Fellows'  lodge,  but  is  now  de- 
mitted.  In  this  city  he  married  Elizabeth  Fil- 
beck,  who  was  born  in  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  and  grew 
to  womanhood  in  Indianapolis,  Ind.  She  is  the 
daughterof  John  Filbeck,  who  was  born  in  Hesse- 
Darmstadt,  and  came  to  America  in  young  man- 
hood, settling  in  Buffalo,  but  afterward  removing 
to  Indianapolis,  where  he  died.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Gregory  have  a  daughter  and  son:  Mrs.  Eliza- 
beth Leighton,  of  Durango,  Colo.;  and  William, 
who  is  attending  the  mercantile  school  here. 


r"REDERICK  HELD,  a  retired  farmer  of 
r^  Weld  County,  is  one  of  the  hardy  pioneers  of 
I  ^  California  and  Colorado,  and  many  were  the 
experiences  which  he  had  in  those  early  days  of 
frontier  life.  He  has  seen  Colorado  developed 
from  almost  a  desert  to  a  paradise  under  the  won- 
derful ingenuity  and  work  of  man,  and  has  as- 
sisted in  the  grand  result.  Formerly  he  was  en- 
gaged in  mining  operations  to  a  greater  or  less 
extent,  then  teamed  and  transported  merchandise 
across  the  plains,  and  finally,  thirty-five  years  ago, 
settled  down  to  a  quiet  agricultural  life.  His  home- 
stead during  all  of  these  years  has  been  the  one  he 
owns  and  carries  on  to-day.  It  is  situated  on  sec- 
tion 30,  township  I,  range  66,  near  the  line  which 
divides  Weld  and  Arapahoe  Counties,  his  post- 
office  being  Brighton,  in  the  last-named  county. 


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The  parents  of  our  subject  were  Gottlieb  and 
Christian  Held,  natives  of  Saxony,  Germany, and 
farmers  by  occupation.  Frederick  Held  was  born 
on  the  old  home  place  in  Saxony,  February  8, 
1824.  He  was  reared  on  the  farm  until  he  was 
fourteen  and  attended  the  public  schools  of  the 
district.  When  he  was  fourteen  years  old  he 
went  to  the  neighboring  city  of  Leipsic  to  learn 
the  trade  of  a  printer.  There  he  served  an  ap- 
prenticeship of  four  years,  in  the  meantime  re- 
ceiving nothing  but  his  board  in  payment  for  his 
services.  As  a  journeyman  he  worked  in  the 
cities  of  Leipsic,  Dresden  and  Began  up  to  the 
year  1850,  when  he  decided  to  go  to  America. 
His  father  had  died  when  our  subject  was  but 
five  years  old,  and  there  being  still  some  money 
coming  to  him  from  the  estate,  he  knew  that  the 
amount  would  serve  to  give  him  a  start  in  the 
new  land. 

After  a  voyage  of  twelve  weeks,  during  which 
the  good  ship  on  which  Mr.  Held  was  a  passen- 
ger battled  with  terrible  storms,  he  arrived  at 
his  destination,  New  Orleans,  from  Bremen,  in 
June,  1850.  As  he  knew  nothing  of  Fnglish, 
the  young  man's  knowledge  of  printing  was 
of  no  value  to  him  and  he  accepted  a  position 
in  a  large  sugar  house.  He  remained  there 
for  about  two  years,  and  diligently  strove  to 
master  the  difficulties  of  the  language.  Then, 
going  to  Cincinnati,  he  worked  at  his  trade  for 
three  years.  In  1855  he  went  to  San  Francisco, 
by  waj^  of  New  York  and  the  Nicaragua  route. 
The  trip  took  twenty-eight  days  and  when  it 
was  ended  he  had  but  $2  of  his  little  store  left. 
He  sorted  oranges  for  a  shipping  firm  for  a  few 
days,  and  next  went  to  the  San  Joachim  mines, 
where  he  worked  for  over  a  j'ear.  His  profits  in 
that  line  being  small,  he  then  tried  farming,  tak- 
ing up  a  claim  which  he  afterwards  sold.  When 
he  had  laid  aside  about  $1,500  he  returned  to 
New  York,  going  across  the  Isthmus  of  Panama. 
Returning  to  his  old  trade  in  Cincinnati  he  resid- 
ed there  until  i86o,  when  he,  with  others,  started 
for  Pike's  Peak.  The  trip  was  made  in  thirty  days, 
and  after  spending  a  couple  of  months  in  Denver 
Mr.  Held  went  to  the  mines  in  South  Park,  and 
later  across  the  divide  to  Breckenridge,  where 
some  new  discoveries  of  importance  had  been 
made.  Two  years  were  spent  by  him  in  the 
mines  there,  after  which  he  made  two  trips  to 
St.  Joseph,  bringing  back  provisions  and  supplies. 


In  1863  he  bought  the  land  where  his  home  is  to- 
day, and  on  which  he  has  made  material  improve- 
ments, including  irrigating  ditches.  In  the  In- 
dian troubles  of  1864  he  enlisted  in  Company  F, 
Third  Colorado  Cavalry,  and  was  placed  on  guard 
duty  near  Fort  Morgan,  serving  for  one  hundred 
days.  Years  ago,  when  living  in  Denver,  he  was 
asisociated  with  the  Odd  Fellows'  society.  Polit- 
ically he  is  a  Republican.  In  1876  he  went  to 
Europe  to  visit  the  scenes  of  his  childhood,  but 
was  glad  to  return  to  his  Colorado  home. 

May  29,  1863,  Mr.  Held  married  Mrs.  Anna 
Stoltz,  widow  of  Christian  Stoltz,  and  a  daughter 
of  John  Munck.  By  her  first  marriage  Mrs.  Held 
has  two  children,  Christopher,  now  of  Denver, 
and  Lena,  who  is  the  wife  of  Benjamin  F.  Twom- 
bly,  and  lives  near  Lupton.  The  two  children 
of  our  subject  and  wife  are  Ennis  F. ,  now  mar- 
ried and  a  resident  of  South  Dakota,  and  Francis 
Julius,  who  superintends  the  homestead  here. 
He  is  married  and  has  two  children,  Lena  and 
Laura.  Mr.  Held  was  reared  in  the  Lutheran 
faith,  while  Mrs.  Held  is  a  Catholic  in  religious 
belief 


EHAUNCEY  JEROME  BARRETT,  who  has 
been  a  resident  of  Colorado  since  1874,  was 
born  in  Goshen,  Ind.,  to  which  place  his 
father,  David,  had  in  early  manhood  removed 
from  his  birthplace  in  Ohio,  but  afterward  went 
still  further  west  and  became  one  of  the  earliest 
settlers  of  Marshalltown,  Iowa,  engaging  in  the 
mercantile  business  there  until  his  retirement 
from  active  labors.  He  is  now  eighty-seven  and 
his  wife  seventy-two  years  of  age  and  they  still 
make  their  home  in  Marshalltown.  Their  family 
consists  of  five  sons  and  one  daughter.  Two  of 
the  sons,  W.  B.,  now  on  the  Pacific  coast,  and 
Milton  L.,  a  resident  of  Marshalltown,  were 
soldiers  in  the  Union  army,  the  former  enlisting 
in  the  Fifth  and  the  latter  in  the  Twenty-third 
Iowa  Infantrj\  The  other  sons  are:  Arthur,  who 
is  editor  of  the  Iowa  Times- Republican;  and 
D.  O.,  who  is  in  Denver. 

In  1865,  when  a  small  boy,  our  subject  made 
two  trips  from  Omaha  to  Denver,  in  company 
with  his  brother,  Milton  L- ,  who  was  freighting 
on  the  plains.  In  1871  he  went  to  California 
and  spent  a  short  time  near  Sacramento,  return- 
ing to  Denver  eighteen  months  after  his  depart- 
ure for  the  coast.     Locating  in  Colorado  in  1874, 


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he  embarked  in  sheep-raising  on  a  ranch  near 
Byers,  Arapahoe  County,  on  the  Bijou.  In  1893 
he  established  feed  yards  in  St.  Marj^'s,  Kan., 
which  he  still  owns  and  from  which  he  feeds 
about  fifteen  thousand  sheep.  He  owns  lands  in 
different  parts  of  Arapahoe  County,  the  most  of 
which  is  used  for  the  pasturage  of  sheep.  He 
ships  to  the  eastern  markets,  and  finds  his  best 
shipping-point  is  Deertrail,  in  this  county.  In  his 
business  enterprises  he  has  been  very  successful. 
In  addition  to  property  in  other  places,  he  is  in- 
terested in  city  real  estate,  and  owns  a  half  cor- 
ner on  Seventeenth  and  Glenarm  streets  and  a 
lot  on  Welton  street,  between  Sixteenth  and 
Seventeenth  streets.  For  some  years  he  was  in- 
terested in  the  mercantile  business  at  Byers,  in 
partnership  with  two  other  men. 

In  1890  Mr.  Parrett  came  to  Denver,  where  he 
resides  on  Downing  avenue.  He  has  never  taken 
an  active  part  in  politics,  but  is  always  stanch  in 
his  allegiance  to  the  Republican  party.  He  was 
married  in  this  city  to  Miss  Maud  Gildersleeve, 
who  was  born  in  Missouri  and  accompanied  her 
parents  to  Denver  when  this  city  was  in  its  in- 
fancy. The  three  children  born  of  their  union 
are  Grace,  Blanche  and  Chauncey. 


yyiAJ.  JAMES  DUNLAP  MOORE,  Jr.,  an 
y  honored  veteran  of  the  Civil  war,  resides 
is  on  a  finely  improved  farm  about  five  miles 
west  of  Brighton,  Arapahoe  County.  He  came 
to  Colorado  on  account  of  poor  health  in  August, 
1879,  having  been  given  by  his  physicians  but  a 
short  time  to  live.  The  higher  altitude  and  out- 
door life, to  which  he  settled  down  benefited  him 
from  the  first.  With  characteristic  energy  he 
began  the  cultivation  of  the  tract  of  land  now  in- 
cluded in  his  homestead,  and  developed  a  good 
farm  from  what  was  little  better  than  a  wilder- 
ness. 

In  many  respects  the  career  of  the  major  has 
been  unusual  and  interesting,  and  the  history  of 
it  well  repays  the  student  of  biography  and 
human  nature.  His  parents,  James  Dunlap  and 
Sarah  Ann  (Shipler)  Moore,  were  both  natives 
of  Pennsylvania.  The  Moores,  who  were  of 
Scotch-Irish  descent,  settled  in  western  Pennsyl- 
vania in  colonial  days.  The  grandfather  of  our 
subject,  Samuel  Moore,  was-  born  in  Pennsylva- 
nia January  II,  1772.     His  wife,  who.se  maiden 


name  was  Agnes  Gault,  was  likewise  a  Pennsyl- 
vanian,  and  a  daughter  of  Adam  and  Agnes 
(Dunlap)  Gault.  Adam  Gault  was  of  English 
extraction,  while  his  wife  was  a  native  of  Scot- 
land, and  came  to  this  country  when  a  little  girl. 
The  couple  were  married  in  Pennsylvania. 

The  birth  of  J.  D.  Moore,  Jr.,  took  place  in 
Mercer,  Pa.,  November  22,  1839.  As  he  grew 
up  he  mastered  his  father's  trade,  that  of  carpen- 
tering, and  worked  for  a  period  in  a  sash  and 
door  factory  in  Warren,  Ohio.  Later  he  clerked 
in  a  store  at  Sandy  Lake,  receiving  about  $100  a 
year  in  salary.  The  war  coming  on,  he  enlisted 
as  a  private  October  6,  186 1,  in  Company  I, 
Fifty-seventh  Pennsylvania  Infantry.  That 
winter  he  spent  in  camp  near  Washington,  after 
which  he  was  sent  to  the  front  with  the  Army  of 
the  Potomac.  Within  a  short  time  he  was  made 
.sergeant,  then  quartermaster's  sergeant,  and  ad- 
jutant, after  the  former  official  had  been  shot  in 
front  of  Petersburg  in  June,  1864.  The  follow- 
ing December  our  subject  was  made  captain  of 
his  old  company,  I,  which  subsequentlj^  became 
Company  D,  and  was  mustered  out  as  such,  at 
Harrisburg,  Pa.,  June  30,  1865,  after  having 
been  in  service  three  years  and  eight  months. 

Altogether  the  major  participated  in  about 
twenty-seven  battles  and  skirmishes,  though  he 
was  absent  from  a  few  that  his  regiment  took 
part  in  while  he  was  serving  in  the  quarter- 
master's department.  April  2,  1865,  at  the  siege 
of  Petersburg,  he  was  in  command  of  the  bri- 
gade picket  line,  First  Brigade,  Third  Division, 
Second  Corps,  and  was  standing  near  a  pine  tree 
watching  his  men,  when  a  shell  passed  close  to 
his  head,  and,  striking  the  tree,  tore  it  into  a 
thousand  fragments.  He  was  stunned  and  un- 
conscious for  some  time,  but,  upon  reviving,  led 
the  charge  with  his  command,  though  the  blood 
kept  oozing  from  the  pores  of  his  skin  on  the  left 
side  of  his  head.  Among  the  important  battles 
in  which  he  was  actively  engaged  were  the  fol- 
lowing: Yorktown,  April  11,  1862;  Fair  Oaks, 
May  31  and  June  i;  attack  on  Richmond,  June 
25;  Glendale,  June  30;  Malvern  Hill,  July  i; 
second  Bull  Run,  August  29;  Chantilly,  Septem- 
ber i;  Antietam,  in  September;  Fredericksburg, 
December  13;  Chancellorsville,  May  3,  1863;  Get- 
tysburg, July  2;  Kelley's  Ford,  November  3; 
Orange  Grove,  November  28;  Wilderness  (three 
days'    battle),    May,    1864;    Spottsylvania,   May 


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12  (in  the  fiercest  of  the  fight  at  the  spot  called 
the  Bloody  Angel,  where  trees  of  eighteen  inches 
were  cut  down  by  musket  bullets) ;  Cold  Harbor, 
June  i;  Petersburg,  June  16-22;  Deep  Bottom, 
July  26-29;  Petersburg  Mine,  July  30;  Deep 
Run,  August  16;  Poplar  Grove,  October  2; 
Boynton  Plank  road,  October  27  (where  some  of 
the  major's  company  were  captured,  but  man- 
aged to  make  their  escape) ;  Weldon  Railroad 
attack,  December  1-13;  Hatchies'  Run,  Febru- 
ary 5,  1865;  and,  finally,  he  was  present  at  the 
surrender  of  Appomattox  Courthouse,  and  at  the 
grand  review  in  Washington.  He  was  mustered 
out  with  the  rank  of  captain.  In  after  years  he 
organized  Company  I,  Fifteenth  Regiment  of 
Pennsylvania  National  Guard.  He  was  made 
its  captain,  and  while  in  attendance  at  the  Phila- 
delphia Centennial  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of 
major.  The  following  year  he  and  his  command 
assisted  in  quelling  the  great  Pittsburg  riots,  and 
went  into  the  anthracite  coal  region,  where  they 
took  seventy-two  prisoners,  and  conveyed  them 
to  jail  in  Wilkesbarre,  Pa. 

Returning  to  his  old  home  in  Mercer  County, 
Major  Moore  carried  on  a  store  in  the  town  of  the 
same  name  some  ten  years.  In  1879  he  sold  out 
and  came  to  this  state.  His  health  being  very 
poor,  he  thought  best  to  live  in  the  open  air  as 
much  as  possible,  and  therefore  resumed  his  old 
employment,  carpentering.  Even  at  this  line  he 
found  himself  too  weak  to  do  much,  but  he  hero- 
ically persisted,  and  in  time  began  to  gain  in 
strength.  Then  he  accepted  a  position  as  book- 
keeper in  the  City  National  Bank,  Denver,  his 
old-time  friend,  J.  R.  Hanna,  whom  he  had 
known  in  the  east,  having  procured  the  place  for 
him.  He  remained  in  the  employ  of  the  bank 
for  five  years,  and  in  the  meantime  had  invested 
in  a  tract  of  land  in  Arapahoe  County.  This 
land,  three-quarters  of  a  section,  lay  in  one  body, 
and,  as  it  was  ten  miles  distant  from  water,  was 
considered  worthless.  Not  discouraged,  how- 
ever, the  major  made  a  furrow  from  the  old 
Golden  Canal  and  endeavored  to  irrigate  his 
farm.  For  six  years  he  kept  hard  at  work,  but 
was  not  making  very  much  of  a  success  of  his 
undertaking,  until  he  and  Mr.  Gallup  were  ap- 
pointed to  make  a  survey  for  a  ditch.  They 
advocated  the  plan  of  tapping  the  creek  further 
up,  and,  a  company  being  organized,  with  our 
subject  as  its    secretary,  the  Golden  Canal  was 


purchased  by  them.  Enlarged  and  improved  at 
an  expense  of  $300,000,  it  is  now  known  as  the 
Farmers'  High  Line  Canal  &  Reservoir  Com- 
pany. Later  another  company  was  formed, 
which  constructed  a  lateral  ditch,  carrying  water 
from  the  first-mentioned  canal  to  the  farms  of 
this  locality.  Thus  the  problem  has  been  solved, 
and  the  major's  farm  on  section  8,  township  i 
south,  range  67  west,  has  become  one  of  the  most 
valuable  homesteads  in  the  county. 

There  was  quite  a  pretty  romance  in  the  court- 
ship of  this  hero  of  the  Civil  war.  In  November, 
1864,  the  regimental  headquarters'  mess  re- 
ceived a  turkey,  which  had  been  sent  for  a 
Thanksgiving  treat  to  a  New  York  regiment, 
but  as  the  aforesaid  regiment  was  not  accessible, 
the  turkey  fell  into  the  hands  of  young  Captain 
Moore  and  his  friends.  Around  the  neck  of  the 
gratefully  received  bird  a  strip  of  paper  was 
securely  fastened.  It  bore  a  request  that  the 
donor  might  be  notified  as  to  the  recipients,  and 
how  they  enjoyed  their  Thanksgiving  dinner. 
The  surgeon  complied  with  the  generous  giver's 
wish,  and  wrote  a  little  note  of  thanks,  this  being 
then  signed  by  the  officers.  This  letter  was  later 
read  at  a  gathering  of  friends  in  the  north,  and  a 
Miss  Sill  was  challenged  to  answer  it.  Though 
she  at  first  demurred,  she  finally  selected  a  name 
from  the  list  and  it  happened  to  be  that  of  the 
major,  then  captain.  A  correspondence  naturally 
followed,  and,  in  time,  an  exchange  of  photo- 
graphs. When  the  young  officer  had  been  mus- 
tered out  he  accepted  the  invitation  of  the  lady's 
father,  Dr.  B.  S.  Sill,  and  visited  the  family. 
The  couple  were  married  at  Bainbridge,  N.  Y., 
October  17,  1866.  Their  four  children  were  born 
in  Mercer,  Pa.  Erastus  B.  married  Miss  Ermal 
Demerest,  and  has  one  son,  Harry  Blin.  They 
live  on  a  farm  of  eighty  acres,  a  part  of  the  ma- 
jor's original  homestead,  and  presented  to  the 
young  couple  by  him.  Jeanette  Sill  is  the  wife 
of  Fred  P.  Watts,  a  teacher  and  farmer,  and  has 
one  child,  Ruth  C.  Catherine  is  the  wife  of  Louis 
A.  Stueland,  a  teacher,  and  their  only  child  is 
named  Stella  Bertha  (the  first  name  in  houor  of 
our  subject's  wife).  James  D.,  unmarried,  has 
been  engaged  in  teaching  for  the  past  six  years. 
To  each  of  his  children  Major  Moore  has  given 
an  eighty-acre  tract  of  land. 

Until  1876  the  major  was  a  stanch  Republican, 
but  that  year  he   supported   Peter  Cooper,  and 


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since  then  he  has  been  independent.  Though 
reared  a  Presbyterian,  he  has  long  been  identi- 
fied with  Trinity  Memorial  Episcopal  Church  of 
Denver,  and  has  served  as  senior  warden.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Ancient  Order  of  United 
Workmen  and  of  the  Loyal  Legion.  In  the 
Grand  Army  of  the  Republic  he  has  served  as 
quartermaster. 

0AVID  JOHNSON  LYKINS,  who  died 
March  i,  1898,  aged  almost  seventy  years, 
was  one  of  the  typical  pioneers  of  Colorado. 
Brave  and  fearless  in  the  days  when  those  qual- 
ities were  of  prime  moment  to  the  few  white 
settlers  of  the  valleys  and  mountains  of  the 
frontier;  '  'endyring  hardness  like  a  good  soldier, ' ' 
kind-hearted  and  generous  to  those  needing  a 
helping  hand,  industrious  and  diligent  in  business, 
he  is  remembered  most  kindly  by  his  hosts  of  old 
associates  and  acquaintances.  From  comparative 
poverty  he  rose  to  a  position  of  wealth  and  in- 
fluence by  the  exercise  of  the  rare  business  talents 
with  which  he  had  been  endowed,  and  by  the 
persistence  and  determination  to  succeed  in  his 
undertakings  which  were  among  his  marked 
characteristics. 

The  Lykins  family  originated  in  Scotland,  but 
prior  to  the  war  of  the  Revolution  three  brothers 
of  the  name  came  to  the  United  States,  one 
locating  in  Philadelphia  and  the  other  two  in 
Virginia.  The  paternal  grandfather  of  our  sub- 
ject was  a  patriot  of  the  Revolution,  enlisting 
from  Virginia.  Jonas  Lykins,  the  father,  born 
near  Winchester,  Va.,  removed  to  Indiana  in  the 
early  days  of  its  history,  and  became  an  extensive 
land  owner  on  the  Wabash  River.  He  lived  to 
be  eighty-two  years  old.  His  wife  was  Miss  Ann 
Johnson  in  her  girlhood.  She  was  born  in 
Virginia  and  removed  withher  parents  to  Indiana. 
She  died  in  February,  1892,  at  the  advanced  age 
of  ninety  years.  Her  father,  David  Johnson,  was 
of  Virginian  birth,  and  he,  too,  fought  in  the 
colonial  army  again.st  the  British, 

David  J.  Lykins  was  born  near  Winchester, 
Ind.,  July  2,  1828,  and  was  the  only  one  of  five 
children  born  to  his  parents  who  survived  to 
mature  years.  He  was  brought  up  on  the  old 
homestead  and  when  still  a  mere  youth  embarked 
upon  his  business  career.  He  first  went  to 
Illinois,  thence  drifted  to  St.  Joseph,  Mo.,  then 
an  out-post  of  civilization,   and  in    1849  crossed 

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the  plains  to  California.  On  the  long  and  peril- 
ous journey  he  suffered  greatly,  and  once,  when 
the  party  was  nearly  out  of  food  supplies,  he 
traded  his  horse  for  seven  pounds  of  flour.  Arriv- 
ing at  his  destination,  he  engaged  in  gulch 
mining,  and  was  very  successful.  He  traded  in 
stock  and  tried  various  methods  of  making  money, 
and,  at  the  end  of  seven  years,  had  accumulated 
about  $10,000.  Then  returning  home  by  the 
Panama  route,  he  soon  settled  in  Missouri,  buying 
a  farm  of  over  two  hundred  acres  near  St.  Joseph. 
He  cultivated  the  place  for  about  three  years  and 
one  hundred  and  seventy-four  acres  of  the  original 
tract  is  still  owned  by  his  widow. 

In  1859  Mr.  Lykins  joined  the  western  tide 
then  making  for  Pike's  Peak,  and  crossed  the 
plains  for  a  second  time.  He  drove  some  cattle 
this  time,  mostly  thoroughbred  Shorthorn  stock, 
and  at  first  located  on  Cherry  Creek.  A  few 
months  later  he  settled  in  what  is  now  called 
Lykins'  Canon,  between  St.  Vrain  and  the  Left 
Hand,  in  Boulder  County.  In  time  the  range 
proved  too  small  and  he  went  into  the  cattle- 
raising  business  on  a  larger  scale  on  the  Little 
Thompson.  He  built  a  home  and  improved  a 
ranch,  adding  to  his  landed  estates  from  time  to 
time,  until  he  owned  twenty-five  hundred  acres, 
nearly  all  of  which  is  in  one  body;  in  addition  to 
this  he  leased  sixteen  hundred  acres  of  school 
land.  His  ranch  is  watered  by  the  Little 
Thompson  and  numerous  springs.  Few,  if  any, 
men  in  this  part  of  the  state  were  more  successful 
in  raising  cattle  and  in  general  farming  and 
kindred  enterprises. 

It  was  against  the  principles  of  Mr.  Lykins  to 
accept  public  ofiice,  otherwise  he  might  have  held 
manj'  positions  of  honor.  For  years  he  was  a 
Democrat,  but  finally  transferred  his  allegiance  to 
the  People's  party.  He  was  a  charter  member 
of  St.  Vrain  Lodge  No.  23,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.;  be- 
longed to  Longmont  Chapter  No.  8,  R.  A.  M., 
and  Commandery  No.  12,  K.T.  He  was  also  iden- 
tified with  the  Association  of  Colorado  Pioneers. 
In  1864,  when  the  Indians  raided  the  upper  St. 
Vrain,  pillaging  and  destroying  property  of  the 
settlers  and  carrying  away  all  of  their  cattle  and 
horses,  a  band  of  white  men  was  formed,  who 
choose  Mr.  Lykins  as  their  captain.  They 
followed  the  Sioux  and  made  it  so  hot  for  them 
that  they  fled  from  their  camp,  leaving  their 
stolen]  property.       While    his    comrades    were 


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rounding  up  the  stock  Captain  Lykins  and  a 
companion  made  a  detour,  intercepting  the  re- 
treating Indians  in  a  small  canon  of  Little 
Thompson  Creek.  The  doughty  captain  shot 
one  of  the  braves  and  wounded  another,  one  of 
them  a  chief.  He  kept  souvenirs  of  this  victory, 
along  with  many  others,  in  acabinet  in  hishome. 
At  other  times  he  was  called  upon  to  defend  his 
property  and  that  of  his  fellow-settlers,  and  was 
quite  noted  as  an  Indian  fighter. 


iyiRS.  ANN  OILMAN  LYKINS,  who  is 
y  well  known  in  Longmont  and  vicinity, 
y  enjoys  the  distinction  of  being  the  wealth- 
iest woman  in  northern  Colorado,  and  is  often 
termed  the  "land  and  cattle  queen"  of  Colorado. 
Since  her  husband's  death,  in  the  spring  of  1898, 
she  has  had  entire  charge  of  his  great  estates  and 
business  investments  and  has  proved  herself  to  be 
fully  equal  to  the  enormous  undertaking,  which 
women  in  other  lands  would  undoubtedly  detail 
to  lawyers  and  agents.  She  is  a  true  American 
in  spirit  and  training  and  feels  deeply  that  she  is 
a  steward  of  the  vast  riches  entrusted  to  her  care, 
and  therefore  chooses  to  keep  the  power  in  her 
own  hands,  rather  than  to  place  it  in  that  of 
irresponsible  persons. 

Mrs.  Lykins  was  the  first  white  girl-baby  born 
in  Adair  County,  Iowa.  She  comes  of  good  old 
New  England  stock,  her  grandfather,  William 
Oilman,  having  been  bom  in  Massachusetts,  and 
her  father,  John  A.  Oilman,  having  been  born 
near  the  town  of  Lowell,  in  the  same  state.  The 
latter  settled  at  Liberty  Landing,  Mo.,  at  a  very 
early  day,  and  later  was  numbered  among  the 
pioneers  of  Adair  County,  Iowa.  There  he  took 
up  a  tract  of  government  land,  and  afterwards,  re- 
moving to  Fremont  County,  Iowa,  he  improved 
another  farm.  Ooing  next  to  Nebraska  City,  in 
1856  he  was  one  of  the  first  to  locate  there  and 
for  some  time  carried  on  a  livery  and  a  meat 
market  in  the  town.  After  a  time  he  engaged  in 
farming  again,  cultivating  a  homestead  about 
two  miles  from  Nebraska  City.  Having  sold  this 
place,  in  1879  he  came  to  Colorado,  but,  soon 
going  back  to  the  home  he  had  recently  left,  he 
passed  the  remainder  of  his  life  there,  dying  at 
the  age  of  seventy-four  years.  He  was  a  man  of 
great  information  and  an  entertaining  speaker! 
He  had  traveled  much  and  was  an  oflBcer  in  the 


Mexican  war.  His  wife,  Sophia,  now  a  resident 
of  Boise  City,  Idaho,  was  born  near  Toledo,  Ohio. 
Her  parents  were  Frederick  and  Laura  (Brown) 
Richardson.  The  former  died  in  Boulder  County 
when  about  seventy-five  years  old. 

The  fourth  in  a  family  of  thirteen  children, 
Mrs.  Lykins  is  now  one  of  the  six  who  survive. 
Mrs.  Martin  resides  in  Jamestown,  Colo. ;  John 
lives  in  La  Junta,  Colo.,  and  two  sisters  and  a 
brother  are  in  Boise  City,  Idaho.  The  early  life 
of  Mrs.  Lykins  was  mainly  passed  in  Nebraska 
City,  and  in  1869  she  came  to  this  state.  In 
October  of  that  year  she  became  the  wife  of  John 
Keen,  who  had  been  living  on  the  St.  Vrain  for 
about  five  years,  and  had  already  amassed  a  com- 
fortable fortune.  He  was  quite,  successful  in 
mining  enterprises,  and,  being  a  miller  by  trade, 
he  bought  a  farm  and  mill  on  the  St.  Vrain  and 
operated  them  for  a  year.  Selling  out,  he  was 
on  the  eve  of  departing  to  Montana  on  business 
when  death  claimed  him,  in  January,  1880.  He 
was  a  native  of  Germany  and  came  to  the  United 
States  when  a  young  man.  The  two  children 
born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Keen  were  Emma  J.  and 
Mary.  The  former  graduated  with  the  highest 
honors  (taking  off  all  prizes  tendered  for  special 
work  or  merit)  from  Gross  Medical  College  of 
Denver  in  1897,  ^^'^  is  now  at  the  head  of  an  ex- 
cellent practice  in  Longmont.  The  other  daugh- 
ter, Mrs.  Stevens,  lives  in  Rattle  Snake  Park, 
Larimer  County,  Colo. 

The  marriage  of  D.  J.  Lykins  and  Mrs.  Keen 
was  solemnized  December  8,  1880,  and  one  child, 
Archie,  blessed  their  union.  Mrs.  Lykins  is  a 
member  of  the  Congregational  Church  and  is  ex- 
treasurer  of  the  local  Woman's  Christian  Tem- 
perance Union.  She  is  also  connected  with  the 
Order  of  the  Eastern  Star  and  the  Hive  of  the 
Maccabees.  In  the  distribution  of  her  means 
she  is  generous,  seeking  ever  to  give  assistance 
to  those  less  fortunately  circumstanced  than  her- 
self, when  she  deems  them  worthy  of  help. 


©QlLLlAM  E.  HODGSON  purchased  eighty 
\KI  ^^''^s  of  land  in  Boulder  County  in  1883. 
Y  V  The  place  was  then  unimproved,  and  with- 
out even  a  stick  of  timber,  while  there  was  not  a 
house  between  it  and  Louisville.  He  at  once 
systematically  began  to  improve  the  land.  In 
1885  he  purchased  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres 


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adjoining,  which  makes  his  farm  one  of  two 
hundred  and  forty  acres.  Here,  in  addition  to 
raising  cereals,  he  has  engaged  extensively  and 
successfully  in  raising  stock. 

The  birth  of  Mr.  Hodgson  occurred  in  Stark 
County,  111.,  March  6,  1845,  his  parents  being 
Jonathan  and  Anna  (Lundy)  Hodgson.  He  was 
one  of  fourteen  children ,  namely :  Mary  E. ,  James 
(deceased),  Levisa,  L,evi,  Lydia  A.,  Daniel,  Ra- 
chel, Anna  J.  (deceased),  Amanda,  William  E. , 
Martin,  Jonathan,  Albert  and  Mary  E.  (twins). 
The  father  was  born  in  Ohio  in  1806  and  after  his 
marriage  removed  to  Illinois  in  1830,  settling 
upon  a  farm,  where  he  remained  until  1858.  He 
then  went  -still  further  west  and  located  in 
Kansas,  sixty-five  miles  south  of  Kansas  City. 
At  that  time  he  had  frequent  conversations 
with  John  Brown,  of  anti-slavery  fame,  who 
lived  in  the  same  locality.  He  was  a  public- 
spirited  man  and  a  member  of  the  first  board  of 
county  commissioners  of  Stark  County,  111.,  in 
the  organization  of  which  he  took  an  active  part. 
For  fourteen  years  he  served  as  a  justice  of  the 
peace  in  Stark  County  and  for  seven  years  held 
the  same  position  in  Kansas.  In  1868  he  was 
elected  to  the  Kansas  legislature  on  an  indepen- 
dent ticket.  During  the  Civil  war  he  served  in 
the  Sixth  Kansas  Cavalry,  Colonel  Judson  com- 
manding, and  took  part  in  the  battles  of  Perry 
Grove,  Cain  Hill,  Pea  Ridge  and  other  engage- 
ments. He  was  received  into  the  Methodist 
Church  by  Peter  Cartwright  and  became  a  local 
preacher,  accomplishing  much  good  through  his 
active  and  earnest  preaching.  His  death  occurred 
in  1879.  He  was  a  son  of  Daniel  Hodgson,  a  na- 
tive of  North  Carolina,  who  removed  to  Ohio  and 
later  to  Illinois,  engaging  in  farm  pursuits  until 
his  death. 

When  the  family  removed  from  Illinois  to 
Kansas  the  subject  of  this  sketch  was  thirteen 
years  of  age.  The  trip,  with  its  many  experiences, 
is  indelibly  impressed  upon,  his  memory.  With 
three  wagons,  some  sixty  head  of  cattle  and  fif- 
teen head  of  horses,  they  joined  a  train  of  some 
ten  more  wagons,  and  spent  thirty-six  days  in 
crossing  the  country  to  their  destination.  From 
the  time  they  started  it  rained  almost  incessantly . 
He  remained  on  the  home  farm  until  he  was 
twenty-four  years  of  age,  and  then  married  Miss 
Christian  Payton,  by  whom  he  had  three  children: 
Marion,   a  farmer   and  stock-raiser  of  Boulder 


County;  Anna  P.,  deceased;   and  one  that   died 
unnamed  in  infancy. 

After  his  marriage  Mr.  Hodgson  entered  as  a 
homestead  eighty  acres  of  land,  which  he  im- 
proved and  cultivated.  While  living  on  that  place, 
his  wife  died  in  1874.  He  was  again  married  in  the 
spring  of  1877,  his  wife  being  Mrs.  Louisa  (Shep- 
herd) Andre,  by  whom  he  has  one  son,  William 
Forest.  By  her  former  marriage  Mrs.  Hodgson 
had  two  children:  Mary  E.,  now  Mrs.  James 
Nichols,  and  John  O.  In  the  spring  of  1880  Mr. 
Hodgson  came  to  Colorado  and  during  the  spring 
and  summer  worked  on  Left  Hand  Creek.  The 
next  year  he  began  farming  on  rented  land.  In 
1883  he  purchased  the  place  where  he  has  since 
made  his  home.  Fraternally  he  is  identified  with 
Boulder  Lodge  No.  9,  I.  O.  O.  F.,  and  Louisville 
Lodge  No.  137,  Pacific  Woodmen  of  the  World. 
In  political  views  he  is  in  hearty  sympathy  with 
the  People's  party,  believing  that  free  silver 
would  advance  the  financial  prosperity  of  our 
country,  and  especially  of  the  great  west. 


GlLEXANDER  J.  GRAHAM.  Every  visitor 
LI  to  Denver  hears  of  the  beauties  of  City  Park, 
I  I  nor  are  its  beauties  overestimated  even  by 
the  citizens  of  Denver  who  have  a  natural  preju- 
dice in  its  favor.  It  comprises  three  hundred 
and  twenty  acres,  two-thirds  of  which  has  been 
improved,  situated  on  the  east  side  of  the  city 
and  commanding  a  fine  view  of  the  surrounding 
country.  E.specially  in  the  summer  season  are 
its  beauties  manifest  to  even  the  most  unobserv- 
ant eye.  There  are  long  stretches  of  green- 
spreading  lawn;  trees  whose  dense  foliage  affords 
a  grateful  shade;  a  pavilion  and  two  lakes  that 
add  picturesqueness  to  the  landscape;  flower  beds 
with  every  species  of  garden  plants,  and  six 
greenhouses,  in  which  may  be  found  palms  and 
potted  plants  of  every  description.  On  summer 
afternoons  it  is  one  of  the  most  popular  places  in 
the  city,  frequented  by  pic-nic  parties  and  by 
families,  and  as  one  walks  along  its  winding 
paths  they  see  gay  groups  in  the  enjoyment  of  a 
holiday,  children  sporting  under  the  trees,  tired 
mothers  getting  a  needed  rest,  and  men  sitting 
lazily  and  comfortably  on  the  rustic  benches  that 
line  the  walks  and  driveways. 

The  transformation  effected  in   City  Park  dur- 
ing the'past  few  years  is  due  almost  wholly  to  the 


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efforts  of  the  superintendent,  Mr.  Graham,  who 
was  appointed  to  the  position  by  John  1,.  Dailej' 
and  has  accomplished  wonders  in  the  place.  He 
added  the  pavilion, built  a  greenhouse  and  a  mu- 
seum, also  the  new  lake  of  twenty-three  acres. 
He  is  well  versed  in  floriculture  and  horticulture, 
and  no  better  man  than  he  could  be  secured  for 
the  superintendency. 

He  was  born  on  Lake  George,  in  Warren 
County,  N.  Y.,  and  is  the  sou  of  William  and 
Agnes  (Lauder)  Graham,  natives  of  Dumfries- 
shire, Scotland.  His  maternal  grandfather,  John 
Lauder,  came  to  America  and  died  on  a  farm  in 
Warren  County  at  ninety-eight  years.  The  pa- 
ternal grandfather  was  a  farmer  in  Scotland;  his 
ancestors  for  generations  had  been  florists  and 
gardeners.  On  coming  to  America,  William 
Graham  settled  in  Warren  County,  but  later  went 
to  Flushing,  L-  L,  and  engaged  in  market  gar- 
dening. Afterward  for  eighteen  years  he  was 
superintendent  of  Pendleton  Rogers  estate,  in 
Hyde  Park,  N.  Y. ,  where  he  died  at  eighty-five 
years.  In  religion  he  was  a  Presbyterian.  His 
wife  died  in  Hyde  Park  at  eighty  years.  Of  their 
ten  children  .seven  are  living,  our  subject  being 
the  youngest.  All  are  in  the  east  except  the  latter 
and  his  brother,  David,  a  veteran  of  the  war  and 
now  on  a  fruit  farm  in  New  Mexico. 

At  the  age  of  eight  our  subject  accompanied 
his  parents  to  Flushing,  and  five  years  later  he 
began  to  work  in  a  nursery  there,  going  thence 
at  the  age  of  eighteen  to  a  place  on  the  Hudson 
that  is  now  owned  by  Hon.  Levi  P.  Morton. 
There  he  was  foreman  of  the  plant  department. 
Next  he  was  superintendent  of  Grand  Park, 
owned  by  Tammany  magnates,  at  Norwalk, 
Conn.,  where  was  the  finest  collection  of  plants 
and  flowers  in  the  world.  He  remained  at  that 
beautiful  place  for  seven  j'ears,  when  the  enter- 
prise collapsed.  Going  to  Cleveland,  Ohio,  he 
was  foreman  of  a  park  for  three  years,  and  then 
started  in  the  nursery  business  in  Elyria,  Ohio. 
In  1890  he  came  to  Denver,  where  he  was  fore- 
man of  Riverside  Cemetery,  until  the  spring  of 
1893,  and  then  for  six  months  was  employed  in 
laying  out  Dunham  Park  in  Swansea,  a  suburb. 
On  the  completion  of  the  work  he  was  appointed 
superintendent  of  City  Park. 

In  Hyde  Park,  N.  Y.,  Mr.  Graham  married 
Ellen,  daughter  of  James  Porter,  who  had  charge 
of  General  Jones'  estate   at  Hyde  Park.  J  [Their 


children  are  Archibald  D.,  who  has  charge  of  the 
animal  department  in  the  park;  David,  who  is  a 
blacksmith  with  the  Orrock  Carriage  Company; 
and  Flora,  wife  of  Col.  William  R.  Grove,  who 
is  assistant  adjutant- general  of  the  state.  Mr. 
Graham  was  made  a  Mason  in  Denver  Lodge  No. 
5,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  to  which  he  belongs  now.  He 
is  also  a  member  of  the  Woodmen  of  the  World, 
the  Foresters  and  the  Caledonian  Club,  and  in 
religious  belief  is  a  Presbyterian. 


Gl  LFRED  H.  GUTHEIL.  In  the  fall  of  1896 
LA  the  Gutheil  Park  Investment  Company,  of 
I  I  Denver,  was  organized  with  a  paid-up 
capital  of  $100,000  and  A.  H.  Gutheil  as  presi- 
dent and  general  manager.  The  company  pur- 
chased six  hundred  acres  at  the  end  of  the  Aurora 
car  line,  on  East  Colfax  avenue.  This  they 
platted  into  tracts  of  five  or  ten  acres  and  placed 
on  the  market.  The  title  to  Gutheil  Park  is  the 
most  perfect  to  be  found,  for  it  was  formerly 
school  land  and  was  bought  by  the  company  from 
the  state.  The  statutes  provide  that  no  taxes 
.shall  be  paid  on  the  land  until  after  191 3,  so  that 
purchasers  are  exempt  from  taxation  until  that 
time.  Repeatedly  the  assessor  of  Arapahoe 
County  has  attempted  to  assess  the  land,  but, 
upon  the  advice  of  county  attorneys,  the  board 
of  equalization  finally  declared  that  the  property 
was  not  subject  to  taxation  until  the  year  named. 

Every  purchaser  of  five  acres  with  water  in 
Gutheil  Park  will,  according  to  contract,  have 
his  land  plowed  up  and  all  ditches  made  to  his 
tract.  He  will  also  receive,  free  of  charge,  first- 
class  fruit  trees  of  his  own  selection,  besides  shade 
trees  for  the  avenues.  In  1897  about  thirteen 
miles  of  shade  trees  (maple  and  elm)  were  planted 
and  fifty  acres  planted  to  orchards.  During  the 
first  year  the  company  sold  over  one  hundred 
acres,  and  a  number  of  houses  have  been  built 
there,  among  these  the  fine  residence  occupied 
by  Mr.  Gutheil. 

Born  near  Leipsic,  Germany,  the  subject  of 
this  sketch  was  a  student  in  the  university  at 
that  place,  graduating  in  1879.  In  the  spring  of 
1880  he  came  to  America,  sojourning  for  a  short 
time  in  Maryland,  Columbus,  Ohio,  Chicago, 
111.,  Omaha,  Neb.,  and  Fort  Sidney,  also  having 
charge  of  a  stock  ranch  in  Wyoming  for  a  while. 
His  first  visit  to  Denver  was  made  in  1882  and 


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four  years  later  he  settled  here  permanently.  He 
entered  the  real-estate  business  in  1888  and  two 
years  later  started  the  Denver  Match  Factory, 
with  himself  as  vice-president  and  chief  stock- 
holder; but  after  one  year  it  was  bought  up  by 
the  syndicate.  While  it  was  a  worthy  industry, 
yet  it  was  not  patronized  by  the  people  to  the 
extent  it  deserved.  In  1889  he  bought  and 
platted  Gutheil  Gardens,  which  he  disposed  of 
soon  afterward.  He  was  married  in  Denver  to 
Miss  Lilla  B.  Baker,  who  was  born  in  Manchester, 
N.  H. 

I  UCIUS  H.  DENISON,  general  manager  of 
I  C  the  Slide  mine  at  Gold  Hill,  Boulder  County, 
12  is  a  member  of  a  New  England  family 
that  emigrated  to  this  country  from  England 
in  an  early  day.  His  father,  Lucius,  was  born  in 
Caledonia  County,  Vt.,  a  son  of  Isaac  Denison, 
who  was  born  in  Vermont,  engaged  in  farming 
there  and  continued  to  make  the  state  his  home 
until  death.  One  of  his  brothers  took  part  in  the 
Revolution. 

From  Vermont  Lucius  Denison  went  to  Boston, 
where  he  engaged  in  business  as  a  commission 
merchant,  meantime  residing  in  the  suburban 
town  of  Chelsea.  In  1861  he  removed  to  Norway, 
Me. ,  and  for  twenty  consecutive  years  carried  on 
a  large  general  mercantile  business.  Later  he 
turned  his  attention  to  the  manufacture  of  wood 
pulp,  in  which  business  he  continued  until  his 
death,  in  1882,  at  seventy-nine  years.  Twice 
married,  he  had  three  children  by  his  first  mar- 
riage, all  of  whom  are  living;  while  by  his  second 
wife  he  had  nine  children,  six  of  whom  survive. 
His  second  wife,  our  subject's  mother,  was 
Adeline  Hobart,  a  native  of  New  Hampshire  and 
an  aunt  of  the  present  vice-president  of  the  United 
States,  Garret  A.  Hobart,  her  brother  being  the 
latter's  father.  She  died  in  1891,  when  sixty-five 
years  of  age. 

One  of  our  subject's  brothers,  Elias  B.,  of 
Portland,  now  manager  of  the  Androscoggan  Pulp 
Company,  was  the  first  purchaser  of  a  patent 
for  the  manufacture  of  wood  pulp  and  subse- 
quently patented  other  improvements  in  the  same 
line.  Our  subject  attended  the  public  schools  of 
Norway  and  graduated  from  the  Liberal  Institute 
of  that  place.  In  1876  he  entered  the  Westbrook 
Seminary  at  Deering,  from  which  he  graduated 
the  following  year.     Later  he  spent  one  year  in 


Tuft's  College  at  Meadford,  Mass.,  after  which 
he  returned  to  Norway,  Me.,  and  secured  work 
in  a  shoe  factory.  His  next  position  was  in 
an  insurance  office  at- Portland,  Me.  In  1881 
he  settled  in  Lincoln,  Neb.,  and  for  fifteen 
months  was  connected  with  a  wholesale  grocery 
house.  In  1882  he  entered  the  First  National 
Bank  of  Crete,  Neb. ,  as  assistant  cashier,  and  in 
1888  was  promoted  to  be  cashier,  which  position 
he  held  until  1897.  Meantime  he  served  for 
three  terms  as  a  member  of  the  council,  to  which 
he  was  elected  on  the  Republican  ticket. 

Locating  at  Gold  Hill  in  1897,  ^^r.  Denison 
leased  the  Slide  mine,  which  he  has  developed 
and  operated.  At  the  same  time  he  has  al.so 
operated  the  Allamakee  mine,  of  which  he  is  in 
charge,  and  the  Slide  mill,  a  thirty-stamp  mill. 
Fraternally  he  is  connected  with  the  blue  lodge 
of  Masonry  at  Crete,  Neb. ,  the  Knights  of  Pythias 
at  Crete  and  the  Ancient  Order  of  United  Work- 
men, of  which  he  is  past  master.  In  religion  he 
is  a  member  of  the  Congregational  Church. 

In  Crete,  Neb.,  Mr.  Denison  married  Miss 
Emma  Bader,  who  was  born  in  Grinnell,  Iowa, 
a  daughter  of  William  and  Catherine  (Heim- 
burger)  Bader,  natives  of  Germany,  and  early 
settlers  of  Grinnell.  Her  father  was  engaged  as 
a  millwright  and  miller  in  Grinnell,  from  which 
place  he  moved  to  Nebraska  City  and  there 
resided  until  his  death.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Denison 
are  the  parents  of  four  children;  Lucius  Bader, 
Philip  Hobart,  Bertha  Helen  and  Ruth. 


•gUY  Le  ROY  STEVICK.    Among  the  attor- 

aneys  of  Denver  Mr.  Stevick  occupies  a  posi- 
tion of  honor  and  influence, a  position  that 
has  come  to  him,  not  through  luck  or  any  acci- 
dental combination  of  circumstances,  but  as  the 
result  of  constant  application  and  determination 
of  will.  Since  coming  to  Denver  he  has  estab- 
lished a  profitable  practice,  extending  into  the 
various  courts.  He  is  a  clear  and  logical  thinker 
and  a  forceful  writer,  and  is  the  author  of  a  law 
work  entitled  "Unincorporated  Associations," 
for  which  he  received  a  prize  in  the  University  of 
Pennsylvania  and  which  was  afterward  published 
by  that  institution. 

The  son  of  David  B.  and  Mary  E.  (Black) 
Stevick,  our  subject  was  born  in  Newburg, 
Cumberland  County,  Pa.,  March  22,  1865.    The 


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first  eleven  years  of  his  life  were  passed  in 
the  town  where  he  was  born,  but  at  that  time  his 
father  removed  to  Carlisle,  Pa.,  and  established  a 
mercantile  business  there.  In  the  public  schools 
of  the  latter  city  he  continued  his  studies.  At 
the  age  of  sixteen  he  entered  Dickinson  College 
at  Carlisle,  and  prosecuted  the  regular  course  of 
study  there,  graduating  in  1885,  with  the  degree 
of  A.  B. 

Immediately  after  completing  his  classical  and 
literary  studies,  Mr.  Stevick  began  the  study  of  law 
in  the  office  of  Hon.  A.  B.  Sharpe,  of  Carlisle,  un- 
der whose  preceptorship  he  gained  his  first  knowl- 
edge of  Blackstone.  Well  grounded  in  the  Eng- 
lish law,  he  entered  the  University  of  Pennsyl- 
vania at  Philadelphia,  where  he  completed  the 
regular  course  of  lectures,  graduating  in  1888, 
with  the  degree  of  LL.  B.  About  the  same  time 
his  alma  mater  at  Carlisle  bestowed  upon  him  the 
degree  of  A.  M.  His  literary  ability  had  been 
cultivated  while  in  college.  While  a  student  in 
Dickinson  he  was  the  editor  of  the  Dickinsonian, 
and  after  entering  the  university  he  became  the 
university  reporter  and  reported  the  lectures  and 
legal  department  of  that  institution. 

Immediately  after  graduating,  Mr.  Stevick  was 
admitted  to  the  Philadelphia  bar.  The  months 
following  this,  however,  were  not  devoted  to 
practice,  but  were  spent  with  the  Sioux  Commis- 
sion in  opening  up  the  Sioux  reservation  in  Da- 
kota, a  work  that  brought  him  into  personal  con- 
tact with  the  Indians.  He  came  to  Denver  in 
1888,  reaching  the  city  on  Christmas  day,  and  for 
a  few  months  afterward  was  in  the  office  of  R.  D. 
Thompson.  Soon  he  formed  a  law  partnership 
with  Robert  Collier  and  the  two  continued  to- 
gether for  a  time,  but  since  the  connection  was 
dissolved  he  has  been  alone.  He  has  the  greatest 
faith  in  Denver,  its  wonderful  opportunities  and 
the  extent  of  its  resources.  Through  his  instru- 
mentality about  twenty-five  houses  have  been 
erected  here,  and  in  other  ways  he  has  promoted 
the  growth  of  the  city. 

Reared  in  the  Democratic  faith,  Mr.  Stevick  is 
stanch  in  his  allegiance  to  its  principles  and  in 
his  support  of  its  candidates.  In  1896  he  was 
nominated  for  the  legislature  on  the  fusion  ticket, 
but  was  defeated.  He  has  served  for  several 
years  as  town  attorney  for  Argo,  a  corporation 
within  the  city  of  Denver.  In  his  religious  views 
he  is  independent,  but,  though  not  a  member  of 


any  denomination,  he  gives  his  support  to  the 
Presbyterian  Church,  of  which  his  wife  is  a  mem- 
ber. April  16,  1888,  in  Carlisle,  Pa.,  he  married 
Miss  Marion,  daughter  of  Capt.  R.  H.  Pratt, 
who  was  the  founder  and  superintendent  of  the 
Carlisle  Indian  Training  School.  They  have  five 
children,  Anna  Laura,  May  Ellen,  Nana,  LeRoy 
Champney  and  Theron  Pratt. 


ROBERT  I.  WILLIS,  the  efficient  and  courte- 
ous superintendent  of  the  Boulder  County 
poor  farm,  has  held  this  responsible  position 
since  February  i,  1898,  and  has  made  a  good 
record,  giving  general  satisfaction.  He  has  been 
a  resident  of  the  Boulder  Valley  since  the  Cen- 
tennial year,  in  which  Colorado  became  one  of 
the  sisterhood  of  United  States,  but  several  years 
prior  to  that  time  he  was  a  property  holder  here 
and  considered  his  interests  identical  with  those 
of  this  immediate  region.  As  a  public  official  he  is 
the  same  conscientious,  diligent,  honorable  man 
that  he  has  always  been  as  a  private  citizen,  and 
the  esteem  and  respect  which  are  universally  ac- 
corded him  are  justly  his  due. 

Mr.  Willis  comes  of  a  good  old  Kentucky 
family,  his  birth  having  occurred  in  Todd  County, 
July  26,  1847.  (For  history  of  his  parents  and 
family  refer  to  biography  of  W.  A.  Willis, 
elsewhere  in  this  volume.)  The  boyhood  of 
our  subject  passed  quietly  and  uneventfully  under 
the  roof  of  his  father,  O.  G.  Willis,  to  whose  wise 
example  and  guiding  influence  he  owed  much  of 
his  success  in  after  life.  His  education,  unfortu- 
nately, was  somewhat  limited,  being  simply  that 
of  the  district  schools,  whose  usefulness,  meager 
at  best,  was  retarded  and  checked  by  the  break- 
ing out  of  the  Civil  war,  and  the  troublous  times 
afterward. 

Soon  after  reaching  his  majority  Robert  I. 
Willis  embarked  upon  his  independent  life,  and 
March  25,  1869,  started  for  the  west  to  carve  out 
his  fortune.  He  was  accompanied  by  his  brother, 
G.  S.  Willis,  and  by  a  friend,  D.  B.  Scott,  all 
ambitious,  enterprising  young  men,  eager  for  a 
ta.ste  of  frontier  life.  They  proceeded  on  the 
railwaj'S  as  far  west  as  the  town  of  Phil  Sheridan, 
then  the  limit  of  the  completed  road,  and 
from  that  point  they  joined  a  government  train 
which  took  them  to  Kiowa  Station.  There  the 
young  men  hired  a  man  to  take  them  to  Denver, 


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in  which  now  important  city  they  safely  arrived 
April  12.  Our  subject  proceeded  to  Boulder 
Valley  and  spent  about  three  weeks  here,  looking 
around  with  a  view  to  making  his  permanent 
home  here.  However,  he  went  on  to  George- 
town, where  he  found  employment  in  cutting 
wood.  Ere  long  he  began  working  for  the 
Bakersville  Mining  Company,  with  whom  he  re- 
mained several  years. 

In  1871  Mr.  Willis  returned  to  Boulder  County 
for  a  brief  period  and  homesteaded  a  tract  of  eighty 
acres.  In  1876  he  settled  on  this  ranch,  which 
he  improved  and  cultivated  for  the  following  dec- 
ade. In  1886  he  sold  his  farm,  as  his  mining 
interests  demanded  his  entire  attention.  Since 
that  time  he  has  paid  little  heed  to  agriculture, 
but  has  devoted  his  energies  chiefly  to  the  develop- 
ment of  his  mines  and  to  his  other  business 
affairs.  He  is  the  owner  of  the  Greenfield  silver 
mine  at  Montezuma,  one  of  the  best-paying  mines 
in  that  section.  In  his  political  aflSliations  he  is 
a  Democrat,  being  an  earnest  believer  in  the  prin- 
ciples advocated  by  that  party. 


Gl  SA  F.  MIDDAUGH.  Among  the  men  who 
LI  were  attracted  to  Colorado  by  the  discovery 
I  I  of  gold  in  Pike's  Peak  was  a  youth  of  twenty 
years,  who  had  been  born  and  reared  near  Erie, 
Pa.,  and  knew  little  by  actual  experience  con- 
cerning the  hardships  of  frontier  life.  He  and  a 
brother  started  from  St.  Joe,  Mo.,  with  an  ox- 
train,  paying  $35  each  for  the  privilege  of  having 
their  supplies  hauled  while  they  walked.  After 
a  hard  trip  of  thirty-five  days  they  reached 
Denver.  Instead,  however,  of  following  the 
usual  custom  of  the  pioneers  of  those  days  and 
staking  a  claim  in  the  mountains,  he  sought 
wealth  through  other  sources.  June  13,  i860,  he 
arrived  in  Colorado  and  the  following  year  he 
sunk  a  shaft  and  struck  amine  of  coal  near  where 
the  Marshall  bank  now  is.  In  the  winter  of 
1861-62  he  hauled  coal  from  his  mine  to  Denver, 
being  the  first  man  to  market  coal  in  this  city. 
In  August,  1861,  he  bought  a  squatter's  right  to 
a  homestead  of  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres,  on 
which  he  proved  up  in  1864.  On  the  northeast 
corner  of  the  land  now  stands  the  shops  of  the 
Denver  &  Rio  Grande  Railroad  Company,  to 
whom  he  donated  the  ground  for  a  building  site. 
From  this  place  he  also  sold  out  for  Fletcher's 


addition  and  platted  Middaugh's  addition  of 
twenty-seven  acres,  upon  a  part  of  which  houses 
have  been  built.  Here,  in  1890,  he  erected  a 
commodious  and  comfortable  residence  for  his 
famil}'. 

The  Middaughs  are  of  Holland  extraction  and 
the  name  in  Dutch,  means  midday.  The  father 
of  our  subject,  William  H.,  was  born  near 
Painted  Post,  N.  Y.,  and  removed  to  Erie,  Pa., 
where  he  followed  the  wagonmaker's  trade,  going 
from  there  in  1853  to  New  Castle,  Lawrence 
County,  the  same  state.  In  1859  he  settled  in 
Denver,  of  which  he  was  a  pioneer  and  a 
prominent  citizen.  He  was  the  first  sheriff  of 
Arapahoe  County  and  the  first  deputy  United 
States  marshal  under  the  Kansas  laws.  He  died 
in  1862,  at  the  age  of  forty-eight.  His  wife, 
Mary,  was  a  daughter  of  Col.  John  Marvin,  who 
was  born  in  Massachusetts,  took  part  in  the 
famous  Boston  tea  party,  was  a  captain  in  the 
Revolution,  and  at  its  close  removed  near  Cov- 
ington, Tioga  County,  Pa.  Mrs.  Middaugh  was 
born  in  Tioga  County  and  died  in  Denver  in 
1884,  at  the  age  of  seventy-four.  All  of  her 
seven  children  came  to  Colorado,  and  two,  Mrs. 
Alfred  Sayre  and  Mrs.  Armstrong,  died  here, 
while  a  son,  James  F.,  died  in  Nevada.  Four 
are  living.  Charles  F.  is  in  Rico,  Colo. ;  William 
is  a  hardware  merchant  in  Ouray;  Asa  F.  resides 
in  Denver;  and  Frances  is  the  wife  of  James  W. 
Wier,  a  real-estate  dealer  in  Denver. 

After  completing  his  schooling  in  Erie  and 
New  Castle,  in  i860  our  subject  and  his  brother, 
James  F. ,  came  to  Denver,  where  he  embarked 
in  the  stock  and  coal  business  and  in  ranching. 
In  1864-65  he  engaged  in  freighting  between 
Denver  and  Missouri  River  points.  For  eight 
years,  beginning  in  1866,  he  was  a  merchant  in 
Elizabethtown  and  Cimarron,  N.  M.,  in  partner- 
ship with  H.  M.  Porter,  and  the  two  also  carried 
on  a  banking  business  in  Cimarron.  In  1875  he 
opened  a  mercantile  store  at  Del  Norte,  in  the 
San  Luis  Valley,  where,  in  1882,  he  opened  the 
Bank  of  Del  Norte,  one  of  the  oldest  financial 
enterprises  in  that  place.  He  still  continues  in 
the  banking  business  there,  where  he  also  has  a 
horse  ranch  and  several  farms.  Among  the 
horses  he  has  raised  is  Jim  Blaine,  record  2 :24, 
and  others  almost  as  fine. 

Fraternally  Mr.  Middaugh  was  made  a  Mason 
in   Cimarron  and  is  now  a  member  of  Denver 


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Lodge  No.  7,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  Pioneers'  Association  and  politically  is  a 
silver  Democrat.  While  in  New  Mexico  he 
married  Miss  Amelie  Siever,  who  was  born  in 
St.  Louis.  Five  children  were  bom  of  their 
union:  Edna,  who  died  in  1895;  Nettie,  Hallett, 
Florence  and  Freeman. 


(eJCHUYLER  GRANT  HURST,  cashier  of 
7\  the  Bank  of  Brighton,  came  to  Colorado  in 
Vyj  the  early  part  of  1892,  shortly  after  complet- 
ing his  business  education.  He  was  so  well 
pleased  with  the  prospects  here  that  he  deter- 
mined to  remain.  He  bought  out  W.  G.  Love- 
lace, banker  of  Brighton,  and,  associated  with 
A.  A.  Failing,  embarked  in  the  banking  busi- 
ness, but  soon  bought  out  his  partner  and  has 
since  been  alone.  The  means  for  establishing 
himself  in  business  he  secured  from  his  mother 
and  grandmother's  estate,  which  enabled  him  to 
start  for  himself,  without  borrowing  money.  At 
the  time  he  began  in  the  banking  business  he  was 
the  youngest  banker  in  Arapahoe  County  and 
one  of  the  youngest  in  the  state,  but  his  sound 
judgment  enabled  him  to  establish  the  bank  upon 
a  substantial  basis.  The  bank  has  weathered  the 
financial  depression  of  the  past  few  years  and  is 
now  in  a  more  prosperous  condition  than  at  any 
time  in  its  history.  A  report,  given  at  the  close 
of  the  year  1897,  showed  that  the  bank  deposits 
had  increased  one  hundred  per  cent  during  1897, 
loans  increased  eighty  per  cent  and  cash  resources 
over  one  hundred  per  cent.  The  business  for 
that  year  was  most  satisfactory  and  far  exceeded 
the  most  sanguine  expectations  of  the  officers  of 
the  bank.  Such  a  report  shows  that  the  com- 
munity in  which  the  bank  is  located  and  from 
which  it  draws  its  patronage,  has  resources  which 
enable  it  to  breast  the  severest  industrial  storms 
and  still  prosper.  At  the  beginning  of  the  panic 
depositors  were  frightened  and  two-thirds  of  the 
deposits  were  withdrawn,  but  it  was  soon  seen 
that  the  bank  was  upon  a  sound  financial  basis, 
confidence  was  restored,  deposits  were  returned 
and  new  accounts  opened. 

The  son  of  Robert  and  Harriet  (McCord) 
Hurst,  the  former  of  whom  resides  in  Fremont 
County,  Iowa,  the  subject  of  this  sketch  was 
born  in  Warren  County,  Ind.,  March  19,  1871. 
His  father,    a  native    of  Virginia,   removed  to 


Indiana  in  early  manhood  and  there  met  and 
married  Miss  McCord,  who  was  born  in  Warren 
County  and  died  there,  leaving  an  only  child, 
five  years  of  age.  The  father  married  again,  re- 
moved to  Iowa  and  is  now  living  there  upon  a 
farm;  by  his  second  marriage  four  children  were 
born.  Our  subject,  who  was  the  only  child  of 
the  first  marriage,  remained  with  his  father  until 
he  was  twenty  years  of  age,  meantime  attending 
the  public  and  high  schools,  and  spending  three 
years  in  Tabor  College,  Fremont  County,  from 
which  he  graduated  in  the  commercial  depart- 
ment in  1 89 1.  He  came  west  in  the  summer  of 
1891,  intending  to  visit  for  a  short  time  in  Colo- 
rado, but  he  was  so  pleased  with  the  state  that 
he  returned  to  Iowa  and  made  arrangements  to 
return  here  permanently. 

October  28,  1896,  Mr.  Hurst  married  Miss 
Carrie  Whitehead,  of  Evansville,  Ind.,  with 
whom  he  became  acquainted  while  she  was  visit- 
ing in  Brighton.  Politically  he  is  a  Republican, 
upon  which  ticket  he  was  elected  an  alderman 
and  town  treasurer  of  Brighton.  While  in  Iowa 
he  was  elected  assessor,  but  did  not  qualify  for 
the  office.  Reared  in  the  Methodist  faith,  he 
attended  that  church  for  some  time,  but  is  now 
identified  with  the  Presbyterian  denomination. 


EYRUS  McCONNELL,  who  is  engaged  in 
business  as  a  carriage,  sign  and  ornamental 
painter,  in  Denver,  was  born  in  Pittsburg, 
Pa.,  December  10,  1853,  and  is  the  son  of  James 
and  Rebecca  (Stuart)  McConnell,  natives  of 
Pennsylvania.  His  maternal  grandfather,  Robert 
Stuart,  was  of  Scotch  descent  and  engaged  in 
farming  near  Pittsburg.  James  McConnell  was 
employed  as  a  blacksmith  in  Pittsburg  for  years, 
but  is  now  living  retired.  By  his  marriage  to 
Miss  Stuart,  now  deceased,  he  had  twelve  chil- 
dren, and  of  these  seven  are  living,  our  subject 
being  third  in  order  of  birth  and  the  only  mem- 
ber of  the  family  in  Colorado.  He  was  reared 
in  Pittsburg  and  at  the  age  of  fifteen  was  appren- 
ticed to  carriage  painting,  which  he  learned,  as 
well  as  sign  and  ornamental  painting.  After  the 
expiration  of  four  years  of  apprenticeship  he  be- 
gan to  work  at  his  trade  in  the  employ  of  others, 
and  finally  entered  the  carriage  manufacturing 
business  in  partnership  with  Mr.  Miller,  but  sold 
out  on  removing  to  Denver  in  1890. 


ALEXANDER  BARRY. 


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At  No.  1441  Wazee  street,  where  he  started  in 
business  in  189 1,  Mr.  McConnell  has  a  building 
25x75  feet  in  dimensions.  He  did  the  painting 
for  the  Studebaker  Carriage  Company,  John 
Deere  Plow  Company,  Pureel  Carriage  Companj', 
and  others,  also  does  the  sign  writing  for  many 
of  the  large  business  houses  of  the  city.  Mr. 
McConnell  is  one  of  the  most  skilled  workmen  in 
his  line  in  the  state,  and  his  work  is  as  artistic  as 
it  is  durable.  Politically  he  is  a  silver  Republi- 
can. He  is  connected  with  the  Woodmen  of  the 
World  and  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fel- 
lows, having  been  a  member  of  Manchester  Lodge 
No.  109  and  the  encampment  in  Pittsburg.  Be- 
fore coming  to  Colorado  he  married  Miss  Minerva 
Anderson,  who  was  born  and  reared  near  Pitts- 
burg. They  have  four  children,  James,  Mabel, 
Luella  and  Frank. 

(31  LEXANDER  BARRY,  one  of  the  prosper- 
LS  ous  farmers  of  Larimer  County,  came  to 
/  I  Colorado  in  1871  and  bought  from  Joe  Ma- 
son one  hundred  and  twenty  acres  on  the  Cache 
la  Poudre,  adjoining  Fort  Collins.  At  that  time 
the  land  was  not  much  improved.  He  became 
interested  in  the  Anderson  and  Ames  ditch  and 
secured  adequate  irrigation  for  his  land,  thus 
being  enabled  to  raise  good  crops.  After  a  few 
years  he  bought  two  hundred  acres  at  New  Wind- 
sor, Weld  Count3%  under  Greeley  ditch  No.  2. 
On  that  place  he  has  made  a  specialty  of  raising 
potatoes,  and  there,  as  on  his  home  place,  he 
feeds  numbers  of  sheep.  He  also  owns  a  ranch 
in  Wyoming  on  the  North  Platte.  On  his  home 
place  he  has  good  improvements,  including  a  neat 
brick  residence  occupying  a  fine  location. 

Though  himself  of  Irish  birth  (born  near  Cole- 
rain,  County  Londonderry)  Mr.  Barry  is  of  di- 
rect Scotch  descent  both  on  his  father's  and  moth- 
ers side.  Both  his  father  and  grandfather  bore 
the  name  of  Alexander  and  both  were  natives  of 
Ireland.  The  former  brought  his  family  to  Amer- 
ica in  1863,  but  died  in  Philadelphia  the  follow- 
ing year.  His  wife,  Nancy,  was  the  daughter  of 
Niel  Blair,  a  farmer  in  Ireland;  she  died  in  Phila- 
delphia in  1870.  Of  their  six  children  Alexander 
was  the  eldest;  Thomas  took  part  in  the  Civil  war; 
Margaret  died  when  a  girl;  Rachel  and  Robert 
live  in  Philadelphia;  and  James  is  the  Denver 
manager  for  the  New  York  Wallpaper  Company. 

On  the  farm,  where  he  was  born  in  1839,  the 


subject  of  this  sketch  passed  the  years  of  his  boy- 
hood. In  1863  he  accompanied  his  parents  to 
America,  via  Londonderry  to  Quebec,  thence  to 
New  York,  and  from  there  to  Philadelphia.  He 
was  employed  for  five  years  in  the  oil  regions, 
where  he  engaged  in  boring  wells  under  contracts, 
being  principally  in  Venango  County.  He  then 
spent  a  yearin  Philadelphia,  after  which,  in  1871, 
he  came  to  Colorado,  and  bought  his  present 
homestead.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Larimer  Coun- 
ty Sheep  Feeders'  Association.  In  politics  he  fa- 
vors the  silver  cause  and  in  religion  is  a  Presbyte- 
rian. While  still  in  Ireland,  when  twenty-two 
years  of  age,  he  was  made  a  Mason,  in  a  lodge 
near  Colerain,  and  is  now  a  member  of  Collins 
Lodge  No.  19,  A.  F.  &  A.  M. 

At  Walnut  Bend,  near  Oil  City,  Pa.,  Mr.  Bar- 
ry married  Miss  Emma  Thompson,  a  native  of 
Pennsylvania.  Her  father,  W.  N.  Thompson, 
was  born  near  Jamestown ,  N.  Y. ,  of  an  old  east- 
ern family,  and  for  some  years  was  engaged  as 
an  oil  speculator  in  Pennsylvania,  but  is  now  liv- 
ing retired  in  Pittsburg.  He  married  Margaret 
Walker,  a  native  of  Westmoreland  County,  Pa. 
Of  their  six  sons  and  three  daughters,  all  are  living 
but  one  of  the  sons.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Barry  are  the 
parents  of  eight  children  now  living,  namely: 
Rachel  Ann,  wife  of  Jerome  Decker,  of  North 
Park;  Maggie,  wife  of  John  Cahill,  of"  Fort  Col- 
lins; May,  a  graduate  of  Fort  Collins  high  school; 
Clara,  Robert,  James,  Alice  and  Ruth,  at  home. 


pGJiLLIAM  A.  POWERS.     Some  years  ago 

\  A  /  Mr.  Powers  purchased  a  ranch  situated  on 
V  Y  Broadway,  one  and  one-half  miles  east  of 
Littleton,  and  here  he  has  since  made  his  home, 
devoting  his  attention  to  the  raising  of  the  various 
farm  products  which  experience  proves  are 
adapted  to  the  soil.  He  is  a  native  of  Vermont, 
born  in  Orange  County  January  15,  1841,  he  and 
his  twin  sister  being  the  youngest  of  eight  children 
comprising  the  family  of  William  B.  and  Matilda 
(Morse)  Powers.  Six  of  the  family  are  now  liv- 
ing, namely:  Josiah  B.,  who  settled  in  Oshkosh, 
Wis.,  in  1853,  was  for  fourteen  years  city  clerk 
and  is  now  engaged  in  the  abstract  business 
there;  David  W.,  who  is  engaged  in  mining  in 
Ouray  and  resides  in  Montrose;  James  Franklin, 
who  for  many  years  has  been  pastor  of  the  Epis- 
copal   Church    of   Pottsville,  Pa.;  Charles    E., 


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who  is  engaged  in  the  milling  business  in  New 
York  state;  Julia  W.  and  William  A.  (twins),  the 
former  married  to  James  G.  Hill,  a  prominent 
architect  of  Washington,  D.  C,  and  at  one  time 
United  States  chief  architect.  Two  daughters 
are  deceased,  Sarah  M.  and  Mary  E. ,  the  latter 
having  been  the  wife  of  John  Frazer,  who  was 
the  first  lieutenant  of  a  Federal  company  during 
the  war. 

The  father  of  this  family  was  born  in  Spring- 
field, Vt.,  and  became  an  extensive  raiser  of  and 
dealer  in  beef  cattle.  Up  to  fifty-six  years  his 
life  was  passed  in  Vermont  and  New  York,  but 
at  that  age  he  removed  to  Oshkosh,  Wis. ,  where 
he  devoted  his  attention  to  farming  until  his  death, 
in  1869.  His  father,  Asial  Powers,  was  a  soldier 
in  the  war  of  18 12. 

When  six  years  of  age  our  subject  accompanied 
his  parents  from  Orange  to  Windsor  County,  Vt., 
and  at  the  age  of  fifteen  he  went  with  the  family 
to  Oshkosh,  Wis.,  which  he  considered  his  home 
up  to  his  twenty-sixth  year.  October  i,  1864, 
he  enlisted  in  Company  E,  Forty-fourth  Wiscon- 
sin Infantry,  in  which  he  served  until  the  close 
of  hostilities,  being  mustered  out  of  service  March 
18,  1865.  When  a  boy  he  worked  in  the  Wis- 
consin pineries  for  a  lumber  firm,  but  not  wishing 
to  make  that  state  his  permanent  home,  shortly 
after  his  return  from  the- war  he  began  to  plan  to 
come  farther  west.  In  November,  1866,  he  car- 
ried out  his  cherished  plan  and  came  to  Colorado, 
settling  in  Denver;  but  sickness  in  the  family 
called  him  home  in  August,  1867,  and  from  that 
time  until  1870  he  engaged  in  farming  in  Wis- 
consin. In  that  year  he  again  settled  in  Colo- 
rado, this  time  in  L,ittleton,  where  he  engaged  in 
stock-raising  and  the  dairy  business.  After  some 
three  years  he  became  an  employe  in  the  Rough 
and  Ready  mill  of  Littleton  and  continued  with 
the  company  for  nine  years,  after  which,  in  1879, 
he  went  to  Leadville  and  embarked  in  the  restau- 
rant business  with  his  brother.  A  short  experi- 
ence in  that  business  was  sufiicient,  however,  to 
convince  him  that  he  had  no  fondness  for  it,  and 
in  a  short  time  he  returned  to  Littleton,  where, 
after  two  years  at  general  work,  he  purchased  his 
present  home. 

In  1895  Mr.  Powers  was  elected  a  member  of 
the  school  board  of  Littleton,  where  he  has  since 
faithfully  served,  his  term  expiring  in  May,  1898. 
Politically  he  is  a  Republican  and  in   religious 


behef  identified  with  the  Presbyterian  Church. 
Like  other  veterans  of  the  Civil  war  he  takes  an 
interest  in  Grand  Army  matters.  November  25, 
1863,  he  married  Sallie  J.  Bartow,  whose  father 
was  a  prominent  farmer  and  for  some  fifteen  years 
held  a  United  States  mail  contract.  They  are  the 
parents  of  four  children,  all  living.  Sylvester, 
who  is  unmarried,  is  engaged  in  mining  in  Victor, 
Colo. ;  Julia  W.  married  Lou  Fauth,  who  is  em- 
ployed by  the  Littleton  Creamery  Company;  they 
have  two  children,  a  son  and  daughter.  Inez  is 
married  and  has  one  child,  a  son.  Frederick  W. 
is  with  his  parents. 


GjUGUST  H.  BEUCK.  Elbert  County  is 
LI  divided  by  the  West  Bijou  Creek  into  two 
I  1  sections,  the  eastern  portion  being  especially 
adapted  for  stock-raising,  while  the  western  sec- 
tion is  mainly  agricultural.  Twelve  miles  from 
Resolis,  on  the  Rock  Island  Railroad,  and  six 
miles  from  the  station  of  Agate,  is  located  the 
ranch  owned  by  Mr.  Beuck.  In  1876  he  bought 
out  a  pre-emption  and  proved  up  one  "hundred 
and  sixty  acres  on  the  East  Bijou  in  Elbert 
County,  where  he  now  owns  over  one  thousand 
acres  of  fine  hay  lands.  He  makes  a  specialty  of 
raising  Shorthorn  Durhams,  and  on  his  place  has 
shed-room  for  seven  or  eight  hundred  head.  He 
was  among  the  first  to  dehorn  cattle,  a  plan 
which  he  has  followed  for  some  years  and  finds 
very  satisfactory.  After  serious  loss  from  black 
leg  among  his  cattle,  he  decided  to  experiment 
with  vaccinating  and  he  tried  Pasteur's  vaccine, 
which  has  worked  so  satisfactorily  that  all  the 
cattle  are  now  treated  with  it. 

Our  subject  was  born  in  Kiel,  Holstein,  the  son 
of  Henry  Beuck,  a  native  of  the  same  province, 
and  by  occupation  a  farmer,  who  came  to  Amer-  * 
ica  in  1876,  settling  in  Pottawattamie  County, 
Iowa,-  and  buying  a  farm,  where  he  continued  to 
reside  until  his  death  ,  at  sixty-five  years.  Au- 
gust came  to  America  in  1868,  when  fifteen  years 
of  age,  and  settled  in  Davenport,  Iowa,  where 
he  learned  the  butcher's  business.  In  1870  he 
came  to  Colorado,  and  for  a  time  spent  his  win- 
ters in  the  mountains  working  at  his  trade  and 
his  summers  on  the  plains.  In  1874  he  bought 
a  few  cattle,  thus  getting  his  start  in  the  busi- 
ness he  has  since  conducted. 

Politically  Mr.  Beuck  is  in  sympathy  with  Re- 


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publican  tenets.  In  1889,  upon  that  ticket,  he 
was  elected  commissioner  of  Elbert  County,  and 
took  his  seat  on  the  board  of  commissioners  in 
January,  1890.  He  was  re-elected  two  years 
later,  without  opposition,  and  served  until  Jan- 
uary, 1896,  his  duties  as  commissioner  requiring 
his  frequent  presence  at  Kiowa,  the  county  seat. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Colorado  Cattle  Growers' 
Association.  In  Central  City,  this  state,  he 
married  Miss  Jennie  Miller,  a  native  of  Germany. 
They  spend  their  summers  on  the  ranch,  and 
during  the  winters  reside  in  Denver,  in  order  that 
their  sons,  Frederick  and  Henry,  may  have  the 
advantages  offered  by  the  excellent  schools  of 
this  city. 

NENLY  W.  ALLEN,  M.  D.,  of  Boulder,  is 
a  pioneer  physician  of  Colorado,  and  has 
been  longer  engaged  in  active  practice  in 
Boulder  County  than  any  other  member  of  his  pro- 
fession. In  the  early  days  of  our  local  history  he 
had  many  extremely  interesting  experiences,  and 
was  foremost  in  every  endeavor  to  place  the 
county  and  state  on  a  safe  and  sound  basis  for 
future  prosperity.  He  brought  the  first  drugs 
and  medicines  (of  any  amount)  into  Boulder 
County,  in  1865,  started  a  drug  store  in  Valmont, 
and  in  1876  opened  a  store  in  Boulder,  and  thus 
was  the  proprietor  of  such  an  enterprise  for  almost 
thirty  years,  as  he  did  not  sell  out  until  1893. 
He  also  purchased  the  first  printing-press  brought 
into  the  county,  and  after  publishing  the  Val- 
mont Bulletin  for  a  year,  disposed  of  the  outfit  to 
parties  from  Boulder,  who  began  printing  the 
Boulder  News,  still  a  flourishing  journal.  For  a 
period  of  twelve  years  he  was  the  efficient  county 
surveyor,  and,  indeed,  was  the  first  to  bring  sur- 
veying instruments  into  this  region.  For  many 
years  he  served  ably  as  county  physician  and 
for  two  terms  held  the  office  of  county  coroner. 
Thus,  it  is  plainly  seen,  even  without  more 
preliminary,  that  the  worthy  doctor  has  been  un- 
usually progressive  and  w'ide-awake  to  the  de- 
velopment of  local  industries  and  resources,  and 
always  ready  to  do  more  than  his  share  in  the 
onward  march  of  civilization,  which  has  trans- 
formed the  desert  and  mountain  wildernesses 
into  beautiful  and  populous  districts. 

The  father  of  Dr.  Allen  was  Rev.  A.  P.  Allen, 
a  native  of  Connecticut.  He  went  to  Ohio  in 
early  manhood,  and  about  1835  was  admitted  to 


the  Illinois  bar.  Later  he  became  a  minister  in 
the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  and  had  pas- 
torates at  Janesville,  Milwaukee  and  Fond  du 
Lac.  In  i860  he  started  across  the  plains  with 
his  family  (exclusive  of  the  doctor)  in  covered 
wagons  drawn  by  numerous  yokes  of  cows. 
Arriving  in  Colorado  he  located  in  what  is  now 
comprised  within  West  Denver,  and  remained  in 
that  section  until  the  disastrous  flood,  when  he 
removed  to  Blackhawk,  where  he  resided  for 
two  years,  thence  came  to  Valmont,  Boulder 
County.  Here  he  served  as  county  commissioner 
for  three  terms;  was  judge  of  the  probate  court 
for  two  terms  and  was  acting  as  county  commis- 
sioner at  the  time  of  his  death  in  1880,  at  the  age 
of  sixty-six  years.  His  wife,  whose  maiden  name 
was  Cornelia  Hayden,  was  born  in  Vermont,  and 
died  just  two  weeks  prior  to  the  death  of  her 
husband.  Her  father,  a  merchant  tailor,  went 
to  the  City  of  Mexico  on  a  trip  years  ago;  he  was 
murdered  by  a  fanatic,  in  his  own  shop,  during 
the  passing  of  a  Catholic  procession.  Of  the 
four  children  of  Rev.  A.  P.  Allen  and  wife  the 
two  daughters  are:  Mrs.  Ophelia  Eldred,  of 
Boulder,  and  Mrs.  Nellie  Andrews,  of  Cheyenne. 
G.  S.  Allen,  now  of  Los  Angeles,  Cal.,  came  to 
this  state  in  i860,  and  by  turns  was  a  preacher,  a 
miner  and  a  freighter  of  goods  across  the  plains 
and  mountains  hereabout. 

The  birth  of  Dr.  H.  W.  Allen  occurred  near 
Chicago,  111.,  December  28,  1838.  He  was  a 
fine  student,  excelling  in  all  of  his  classes,  and 
graduated  from  the  University  of  Appleton,  Wis., 
in  i860,  with  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts, 
being  the  valedictorian.  Three  years  later  he 
received  the  degree  of  Master  of  Arts  from  his 
alma  mater.  Subsequent  to  his  graduation  the 
young  man  went  to  Valparaiso,  Ind.,  where  for 
two  years  he  taught  mathematics  and  sciences 
in  the  Valparaiso  Male  and  Female  College,  now 
called  the  Northern  Indiana  Normal  School.  He 
next  entered  Rush  Medical  College,  where  he 
took  a  course  of  lectures,  then  beginning  the 
practice  of  his  chosen  profession  in  Royal  ton, 
Wis.  In  1864  he  came  to  this  state,  making  a 
part  of  the  journey  to  Omaha  by  horse-team, 
and  thence  proceeding  in  a  large  company,  on 
account  of  Indians,  from  Fort  Kearney  on,  there 
being  over  one  hundred  persons  in  the  caravan. 
At  first  the  doctor  settled  in  Blackhawk,  but  in 
1865   he  came  to  Boulder  Valley,  and  practiced 


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in  Valmont  until  the  Centennial  year,  since 
which  time  he  has  been  a  resident  of  Boulder. 
In  1867  he  graduated  from  the  medical  depart- 
ment of  the  University  of  Iowa,  then  at  Keokuk, 
Iowa,  with  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Medicine. 
He  has  had  a  very  successful  career  as  a  practi- 
tioner, and  has  long  ranked  second  to  none  in  his 
profession  hereabouts.  His  office  is  situated  at 
the  corner  of  Pearl  and  Fourteenth  streets.  From 
the  time  of  the  war  until  the  silver  question  came 
into  prominence,  he  was  loyal  to  the  principles 
of  the  Republican  party,  but  does  not  agree  with 
it  on  this  subject.  He  was  initiated  into  Ma- 
sonry in  1859  in  Wisconsin,  and  is  now  affiliated 
with  Columbia  Lodge  No.  14,  A.  F.  &  A.  M. 
In  the  Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen  he  is 
the  examining  physician.  One  of  the  first  to 
organize  the  Boulder  County  Medical  Society, 
he  occupies  an  honored  place  in  its  ranks  and  is 
also  connected  with  the  State  Medical  Society. 

In  Fond  du  Lac,  Wis.,  Dr.  Allen  married 
Miss  Meldred  McNeel,  in  i860.  She  was  born 
in  Pottsdam,  N.  Y.,  and  her  brother.  Dr.  Henry 
McNeel,  a  state  senator  in  Wisconsin,  is  one  of 
the  leading  physicians  of  Fond  du  Lac.  Of 
the  children  born  to  our  subject  and  wife,  Mellie 
died  at  six  years,  Julius  at  fourteen,  and  Mason 
was  killed  by  a  horse  when  in  his  twenty-fifth 
year.  Meda  E.,  Mrs.  Tavenner,  is  principal  of 
the  public  school  at  Walsenburg,  Colo.  O.  J., 
who  graduated  from  Gross  Medical  College  in 
1898  with  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Medicine,  and 
had  the  highest  average  scholarship  of  any  in  his 
class,  is  now  practicing  in  Boulder.  Arthur  H. 
is  a  member  of  the  drug  firm  of  Richardson  & 
Allen,  of  Denver.  Herbert,  also  a  pharmacist, 
is  now  prospecting  and  mining  in  Walsenburg. 
Charles  E.  is  superintendent  for  the  Victor  Coal 
and  Coke  Company.  Daisy,  Henly,  Fannie  and 
Roy  are  at  home. 

(31  LEXANDER  MILHEIM,  owner  of  a  pretty 
r  I  homestead  on  .section  18,  township  i  south, 
I  1  range  66  west,  Arapahoe  County,  is  a  native 
of  Switzerland.  His  birth  took  place  near  Scher  • 
er,  Canton  Berne,  February  6,  1848.  He  was 
left  an  orphan  at  an  early  age  as  his  father  died 
when  the  lad  was  five  years  old  and  the  mother 
survived  but  a  twelvemonth.  By  a  previous 
marriage  the  senior  Milheim  had  two  children, 
Jacob  and  John,  both  of  whom  are  living  in  the 


United  States,  the  former  in  Allegan  County, 
Mich. ,  and  the  latter  in  Denver.  The  two  own  sis- 
ters of  our  subject  are  deceased  and  his  only 
brother,  Frederick,  is  a  resident  of  this  section 
and  is  represented  elsewhere  in  this  volume. 

John  Milheim,  Sr. ,  left  sufficient  property  to 
rear  and  educate  his  little  family,  and  thus  Alex- 
ander Milheim  was  fortunately  not  dependent 
upon  relatives  or  charity  in  his  boyhood  days. 
In  1862  he  and  his  elder  brother,  Frederick,  de- 
termined to  seek  their  fortunes  in  the  land  of 
promise,  America.  The  long  tiresome  voyage 
on  the  sailing  vessel  of  the  period  consumed  fifty- 
one  days,  but  was  safely  ended  at  last.  Their 
small  capital  now  nearly  gone,  the  two  brave  lads 
concluded  to  begin  their  real  life  battle,  and  going 
into  New  Jersey,  they  worked  as  gardeners  for 
the  thrifty  farmers  for  a  few  months.  They  then 
went  to  Niagara  Falls,  where  a  cousin,  John  Mil- 
heim, lived,  and  from  there  they  went  to  Allegan 
County,  Mich.,  where  their  home  continued  to 
be  together  for  several  years.  They  both  wished 
to  enter  the  army  during  the  Civil  war,  but  the 
health  of  our  subject  was  such  that  he  was  not 
accepted.  He  worked  in  a  shingle  mill  and  at 
other  employments  in  Michigan,  and  finally 
drifted  to  Iowa,  where  he  ferried  across  the  Mis- 
souri River,  and  assisted  in  building  the  bridge 
at  Omaha.  In  the  meantime  he  homsteaded  a 
farm  in  Nebraska,  but  never  improved  it,  and 
ultimately  sold  it. 

Returning  on  a  visit  to  Michigan,  Mr.  Milheim 
was  married  August  31,  1873,  to  Miss  Wila  Traf- 
ford.  Her  parents  were  Thomas  and  Eliza 
(Sheldon)  Traffbrd,  and  her  birthplace  was  in 
Galesburg,  Kalamazoo  County,  Mich.  Four 
children,  two  sons  and  two  daughters,  were  born 
to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Milheim.  The  two  elder  ones 
are  deceased,  Frederick  having  died  when  seven 
years  old  and  little  Alma  when  eighteen  months. 
Bertha,  born  in  Michigan,  and  James  Otto,  born 
on  the  Colorado  homestead  of  his  parents,  are 
with  their  parents.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Milheim  are 
both  members  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  of 
Brighton,  and  are  respected  and  loved  by  all  who 
know  them. 

When  starting  out  in  their  married  life,  the 
young  couple  were  obliged  to  begin  housekeeping 
in  a  humble  way,  but  they  had  brave  hearts  and 
went  forth  to  meet  the  future  with  faith  in  God  and 
themselves.     To  such  loyal  trusting  souls,  ready 


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to  wait  and  labor  in  the  meantime  with  all  their 
powers,  success  usually  comes  sooner  or  later. 
In  the  year  that  Colorado  became  one  of  the 
states  of  the  Union,  Mr.  Milheim  came  west,  but 
he  was  not  favorably  impressed  with  this  countrj', 
the  contrast  with  his  own  state  being  so  marked. 
Therefore  he  returned  to  Michigan,  where  he 
found  that  the  charms  of  the  mountain  and  the 
distinctive  beauties  and  advantages  of  the  Cen- 
tennial state  had  a  lasting  place  in  his  remem- 
brance. In  the  autumn  of  1877  he  again  came  to 
Colorado  and  the  following  June  he  sent  for  his 
wife  and  children.  For  some  time  he  was  em- 
ployed by  a  Mr.  Force  of  Pittsburg  to  look  after 
his  cattle.  Then  he  built  a  small  house  on  Third 
Creek,  and  in  1879  he  became  the  manager  of 
his  brother  Frederick's  ranch.  In  1880  he  pur- 
chased a  claim,  aud  this  land,  since  greatly  im- 
proved by  him,  is  his  homestead,  as  described 
above.  At  that  time  there  was  but  one  tree  on 
the  farm  that  is  now  nicely  shaded  and  pleasant 
to  look  upon.  The  place  is  provided  with  ditches 
for  irrigation,  aud  Mr.  Milheim  is  one  of  the 
stockholders  in  the  Fulton  ditch,  which  has  been 
the  salvation  of  this  portion  of  the  county,  re- 
claiming it  from  the  desert.  Though  nothing  of 
a  politician  he  votes  the  Democratic  ticket  in 
national  elections. 


HARRY  EIvMER  CHURCHILL.  Colorado 
is  distinguished  for  the  high  rank  of  her 
bench  and  bar.  Perhaps  none  of  the  newer 
states  can  justly  boast  of  abler  jurists  or  attor- 
neys. Many  of  them  have  been  men  of  national 
fame,  and  among  those  whose  lives  have  been 
passed  on  a  quieter  plane  there  is  scarcely  a  town 
or  city  in  the  state  but  can  boast  of  one  or  more 
lawyers  capable  of  crossing  swords  in  forensic 
combat  with  any  of  the  distinguished  legal  lights 
of  the  United  States.  Among  these  prominent 
and  successful  attorneys  is  Harry  E.  Churchill, 
of  Greeley,  who  though  young  in  years  has 
already  won  an  enviable  reputation  at  the  Weld 
County  bar. 

He  was  born  in  Benton  County,  Iowa,  July  16, 
1861,  and  is  a  son  of  Almond  M.  and  Anna 
(Lovejoy)  Churchill,  both  representatives  of  good 
old  New  England  families,  the  Churchills  being 
early  settlers  of  Vermont,  while  the  Lovejoy 
family  was  founded  in  this  country  by  one  of  the 


brave  little  band  to  come  over  in  the  "Mayflower. ' ' 
Almond  M.  Churchill  was  born  in  the  Green 
Mountain  state  and  was  one  of  the  "forty-niners" 
who  went  round  the  cape  to  California  during 
the  gold  excitement.  In  1854  he  located  near 
Cedar  Rapids,  Iowa,  where  he  engaged  in  agri- 
culture and  stock-raising,  and  became  one  of  the 
largest  land  owners  of  that  state.  He  was  mar- 
ried in  Vermont  to  Anna  Lovejoy  and  they 
became  the  parents  of  eight  children.  Of  those 
living,  George  R.  resides  on  the  old  homestead  in 
Iowa;  Henry  C.  is  engaged  in  farming  in  Neb- 
raska; Frank  M.  is  a  farmer  and  stock-raiser  of 
Michigan ;  and  Virginia  is  the  wife  of  Samuel  F. 
Negley,  of  Wahoo,  Neb. 

With  the  view  to  entering  the  legal  profession, 
Harry  E.  Churchill  was  educated  at  Cole  Insti- 
tute, Cedar  Rapids,  and  Western  College,  Toledo, 
Iowa,  after  which  he  read  law  at  Toledo  and  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  1885.  After  two  years 
.spent  at  Norton,  Kau.,  he  came  to  Greeley,  Colo., 
and  opened  an  office.  It  was  not  long  before  his 
ability  became  recognized  and  he  soon  succeeded 
in  building  up  a  large  and  lucrative  practice,  which 
he  still  enjoys,  having  probably  tried  more  cases 
before  the  courts  than  any  other  attorney  in  the 
city.  He  has  one  of  the  most  complete  libraries 
in  the  county,  in  fact,  in  this  part  of  the  state, 
and  is  a  well-posted  man.  His  time  is  fully  occu- 
pied in  practice  before  the  lower  courts,  United 
States  district  court,  the  United  States  circuit 
court  and  the  supreme  court  of  the  state  of  Colo- 
rado and  also  of  the  United  States.  Although 
he  makes  a  specialty  of  real-estate  law,  he  is 
noted  as  exceptionally  able  in  criminal  defense, 
having  a  reputation  as  a  trial  lawyer  that  makes 
his  services  in  demand  all  over  the  state.  Spe- 
cial mention  may  be  made  of  the  Richard  Barry 
and  Schneider  murder  cases,  in  both  of  which  he 
was  successful,  and  the  famous  Cochran  cattle 
stealing  case  and  the  Matthews  larceny  cases. 
He  has  met  with  success  financially  as  well  as 
professionally,  and  is  now  the  owner  of  a  large 
amount  of  real  estate,  including  farm  land  and 
his  fine  residence  at  the  corner  of  Seventh  street 
and  Thirteenth  avenue,  which  is  one  of  the  best 
homes  in  Greeley,  the  culture  and  artistic  taste 
of  its  occupants  being  reflected  in  its  appoint- 
ments, while  a  gracious  hospitality  adds  a  charm 
to  its  material  comforts. 

On   the  6th  of  June,  1881,  was  celebrated  the 


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marriage  of  Mr.  Churchill  and  Miss  Isabella 
Van  Osdall,  a  daughter  of  John  Van  Osdall,  of 
Geneseo,  111.,  and  to  them  have  been  born  three 
children:  Flossie  Estelle,  Harry  Van  and  Isa- 
bella. Mr.  Churchill  is  a  member  of  the  Knights 
of  Pythias  and  the  Ancient  Order  of  United  Work- 
men. He  attends  the  Congregational  Church,  to 
the  support  of  which  he  contributes.  He  has 
always  been  a  pronounced  Republican,  and  since 
boyhood  has  taken  an  active  and  influential  part 
in  political  affairs,  particularly  since  coming  to 
Colorado,  but  has  never  been  an  office  seeker. 
He  has  been  a  delegate  to  state  and  national  con- 
ventions, and  for  many  years  has  served  as  chair- 
man of  the  Republican  central  committee. 


nOHN  H.  LAWRENCE,  whose  home  was  in 
I  Brighton,  was  born  in  Pennsylvania,  but  was 
G/  only  four  years  of  age  when  his  parents,  John 
and  Sarah  E.  (Evans)  Lawrence,  removed  to 
Ohio,  settling  in  Wakeman,  Huron  County.  His 
father,  a  native  of  England,  emigrated  to  America 
and  learned  the  trade  of  a  shoemaker  in  Connect- 
icut, with  his  future  wife's  father,  who  carried 
on  an  extensive  business.  After  his  marriage  he 
moved  to  Pennsylvania  and  later  went  to  Ohio, 
where  his  remaining  years  were  spent. 

In  the  town  of  Wakeman  there  lived  a  little 
girl,  Martha  A.  Ransom,  daughter  of  Henry  G. 
and  Mary  (French)  Ransom,  natives  respectively 
of  Connecticut  and  Huron  County,  Ohio.  Her 
father  was  about  two  years  old  when  his  parents, 
Russell  and  Lucretia  (Gates)  Ransom,  drove  with 
an  ox-team  through  from  Connecticut  to  Ohio 
and  settled  in  the  woods  of  Huron  County,  of 
which  they  were  pioneers.  The  maternal  grand- 
parents, Burton  and  Augusta  (Dayton)  French, 
also  drove  through  from  Connecticut  in  an  early 
day.  When  Henry  G.  Ransom  was  still  compara- 
tively a  young  man  he  passed  away,  leaving  his 
widow  and  three  children  in  comfortable  circum- 
stances. Afterward  the  widowed  mother  brought 
her  children  into  town,  leaving  the  farm  where 
she  had  previously  resided  and  removing  to 
Wakeman. 

Living  near  each  other,  in  the  same  town ,  John 
H.  Lawrence  and  Martha  A.  Ransom  were  ac- 
quainted from  childhood.  He  had  entered  Ober- 
lin  College  some  months  before  the  Civil  war 
broke  out,  but  at  the  first  call  for  volunteers  for 


three  months  he  left  his  books  and  entered  the 
service.  At  the  expiration  of  his  time  he  again 
enlisted  and  served  until  the  close  of  the  war. 
From  the  ranks  he  was  promoted  to  be  second, 
and  then  first  lieutenant.  Though  taking  an 
active  part  in  many  battles,  he  was  never  wounded 
nor  taken  prisoner,  but  the  exposure  injured  his 
health  to  such  an  extent  that  he  was  confined  to 
his  bed  for  two  years  after  the  war  and  was  not 
expected  to  live  from  hour  to  hour.  Just  across 
the  road  lived  Miss  Ransom  with  her  mother.  It 
was  but  natural  that  she  should  take  a  deep  in- 
terest in  the  welfare  of  the  sick  soldier,  and  the 
attachment  then  formed  was  consummated  in 
their  marriage,  December  27,  1868.  In  the  mean 
time  the  Soldiers'  Home  had  been  started  at  Col- 
umbus, Ohio,  and  Mr.  Lawrence  was  appointed 
to  go  there  and  take  charge  of  the  farm.  After 
the  home  was  transferred  to  Dayton,  they  went 
there  and  took  charge  of  the  farm. 

In  the  summer  of  1870  Mr.  Lawrence  and  his 
wife  moved  to  Nebraska  and  settled  on  a  farm  in 
Platte  County,  where  he  pre-empted  and  also 
bought  land,  securing  seven  hundred  and  sixty 
acres  in  one  body.  There  he  raised  cattle  and 
hogs.  After  the  grasshoppers  had  destroyed 
their  crops  for  three  successive  years,  he  rented 
his  farm  and  went  to  the  Black  Hills,  his  wife 
going  to  Fremont,  Neb.  After  two  years  he  sold 
his  farm  and  with  his  wife  came  to  Colorado, 
settling  four  miles  from  Denver,  but  after  a  year 
removed  near  Brighton.  A  year  later  he  bought 
one  hundred  and  sixty  acres,  upon  which  he 
made  his  home  for  a  few  years,  and  then  went  to 
Baton  Rouge,  La. ,  where  he  owned  a  plantation. 
However,  the  climate  not  agreeing  with  the 
family,  he  sold  his  place  and  went  to  Cheyenne, 
Wyo.,  and  from  there  returned  to  Brighton  in 
1892.  Here  he  served  one  term  as  mayor.  For 
many  years  he  was  a  justice  of  the  peace,  and  in 
politics  voted  the  Republican  ticket.  He  would 
have  made  a  fine  lawyer  had  his  studies  been  in 
that  direction.  In  religion  a  Presbyterian,  he 
was  a  prime  mover  in  raising  the  money  for  build- 
ing the  church  in  Brighton.  He  was  also  instru- 
mental in  the  erection  of  the  first  schoolhouse 
here  and  served  for  four  years  as  president  of  the 
school  board. 

Seven  children  were  born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Lawrence  and  five  of  these  are  now  living. 
Martha  B. ,  who  lives  in  Weld  County,  married 


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Benjamin  Shearston  and  has  two  children,  Har- 
vey and  Ada.  John  R. ,  who  attended  business 
college  in  Denver  and  Salina,  Kan.,  was  engaged 
in  farming  until  May,  1898,  since  which  time  he 
has  been  proprietor  of  a  livery  stable  in  Brighton. 
Agnes  married  Charles  Shearston  and  resides 
near  Hudson,  Weld  County.  Olive  M.  began  to 
teach  at  a  very  early  age  and  is  very  successful 
in  the  profession.  Sara  E.  was  born  near  Brigh- 
ton and  resides  with  her  mother  in  this  place. 


HENRY  L.  LOCKE,  one  of  the  enterprising 
young  agriculturists  of  Arapahoe  County, 
has  instituted  numerous  valuable  improve- 
ments upon  his  homestead  within  the  past  few 
years  and  is  constantly  adding  to  the  productive- 
ness of  the  place  by  his  judicious  care  and  ex- 
penditure. Coming  here  from  Massachusetts  he 
necessarily  found  at  once  that  eastern  methods 
and  conditions  of  farming  were  totally  inadequate 
for  Colorado,  and  he  industriously  set  to  work  to 
cope  with  the  new  diflBculties. 

The  parents  of  the  above-named  young  man 
were  Calvin  S.  and  Anne  (Lincoln)  Locke,  na- 
tives of  Massachusetts.  The  father,  a  man  of 
good  education,  has  followed  the  profession  of  a 
teacher,  and  under  his  painstaking  instruction 
and  guidance  the  son,  Henry  L-,  received  unusual 
advantages.  At  the  age  of  seventeen  years  the 
youth  was  sufficiently  advanced  in  his  studies  to 
be  allowed  to  enter  Cornell  University,  within 
whose  classic  halls  he  passed  the  following  two 
years.  Later  he  took  a  course  in  agriculture, 
chemistry  and  assaying  iaLehigh  University  with 
a  view  to  being  better  fitted  to  assume  charge  of 
some  Colorado  property  which  his  father  had 
purchased  and  desired  him  to  look  after.  This 
land  was  located  near  Longmont,  and  was  a  part 
of  the  tract  on  which  the  Chicago  colony  settled. 

It  was  in  July,  1880,  that  Henry  L.  Locke 
reached  his  future  home  in  Colorado.  In  the 
succeeding  October  he  began  to  improve  his  farm 
in  earnest,  and  for  ten  years  his  dwelling  place 
was  there,  in  the  vicinity  of  Longmont.  In  1890 
he  purchased  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  of 
land,  located  about  a  mile  and  a-half  from 
Brighton,  on  section  4,  township  i  south,  range  66 
west.  He  commenced  the  system  of  irrigating 
ditches,  connecting  with  Burlington  ditch,  that 
has  gradually  improved  the  farm.  In  1891,  wish- 


ing additional  land,  he  rented  some  unimproved 
property,  and  brought  this,  also,  under  cultiva- 
tion. It  became  his  by  purchase  in  1897,  and 
here  he  has  his  present  home.  He  makes  a 
specialty  of  raising  grain  for  shipment.  It  is  a 
fixed  principle  with  him  to  attend  strictly  to  his 
own  affairs  and  to  keep  out  of  public  office.  Thus 
he  is  nothing  of  a  politician,  though  he  never 
neglects  to  discharge  his  full  duty  as  a  citizen 
and  voter,  his  ballot  being  used  in  favor  of  the 
nominees  of  the  Republican  party.  He  was 
reared  in  the  faith  of  the  Unitarian  Church,  but 
does  not  hold  membership  with  any  denomina- 
tion. In  all  his  dealings  with  his  fellow-men 
his  course  is  marked  by  unquestionable  and 
straightforward  honesty  and  fairness,  and  the  es- 
teem and  respect  of  all  who  know  him  are  his  in 
no  unstinted  measure. 


3AC0B  CAMPBELL,  M.  D.,  of  Ward,  Boulder 
County,  was  born  in  the  city  of  St.  Louis, 
January  22,  1863,  and  is  a  son  of  Alexander 
Campbell.  His  father,  though  a  native  of  Wheel- 
ing, W.  Va.,  was  a  resident  of  St.  Louis  from  his 
youth  until  1871,  when  he  moved  to  Denver; 
three  years  later  he  removed  to  Boulder.  He 
then  retired  from  business  and  returned  to  St. 
Louis.  His  wife  was  Margaret  Hayes,  who  was 
born  in  Tipperary,  Ireland.  Three  children  were 
bom  to  them,  of  whom  Joseph  and  Jacob  survive. 
One  son,  John,  died  in  this  county  at  the  age  of 
twenty-nine  years. 

Dr.  Campbell  received  the  rudiments  of  his 
education  in  Boulder,  after  which  he  entered  the 
medical  department  of  the  University  of  Colorado, 
from  which  he  graduated  May  31,  1887,  with  the 
degree  of  M.  D.  On  the  ist  of  June,  that  year, 
he  located  in  Ward,  where  he  has  remained  ever 
since.  He  was  the  first  physician  to  locate  in 
the  village,  and  he  has  built  up  a  lucrative 
practice,  which  extends  over  a  radius  of  some 
eight  miles.  For  several  years  he  had  to  carry  a 
line  of  drugs  and  dispense  medicine  himself,  as 
there  was  no  drug  store  there  until  within  the 
last  four  years. 

He  was  married  in  Altona,  Colo.,  to  Miss 
Inez  B.  Clawson,  who  was  born  in  Minnesota, 
and  is  a  daughter  of  Abraham  Clawson,  now  of 
Denver.  They  have  four  children:  William 
Ralph,  Jacob  Carl,  Ethel  June  and  Ernest  Glenn. 


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The  doctor  was  interested  in  the  Newmarket 
mine  and  helped  develop  it  until  it  was  sold.  He 
has  been  a  member  of  the  school  board,  serving 
as  secretary  and  president,  and  succeeded  in 
getting  bonds  for  the  present  schoolhouse.  He 
was  elected  county  coroner  two  terms,  resigning 
the  second  year  of  the  second  term.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Boulder  County  Medical  Society, 
and  examiner  for  the  Ancient  Order  of  United 
Workmen  and  the  Knights  of  Pythias.  He  is 
also  a  member  of  the  order  of  Rathbone  Sisters. 
He  is  examiner  for  a  number  of  leading  life  insur- 
ance companies,  such  as  the  New  York  Life,  New 
York  Mutual,  New  York  Equitable,  United 
States  Life,  and  others.  He  is  a  Democrat,  and 
is  chairman  of  the  committee  of  Ward  precinct 
No.  10,  and  a  member  of  the  county  central 
committee. 


nOHN  M.  PAULDING  is  comparatively  a 
I  recent  comer  to  Colorado,  as  his  residence 
(2/  here  dates  back  but  twelve  years.  He  owns 
a  good  homestead  on  section  25,  township  2 
south,  range  68  west,  Arapahoe  County.  This 
property  has  been  in  his  possession  less  than  a 
decade,  but  during  this  period  he  has  placed 
many  material  improvements  upon  it,  and  now 
has  one  of  the  best  farms  in  the  township.  He  is 
a  successful  and  progressive  farmer,  and  though 
he  found  that  Colorado  methods  of  agriculture 
are  vastly  different  from  those  in  use  farther  east, 
he  soon  adapted  himself  to  the  new  conditions 
and  is  doing  well.  He  is  a  member  of  the  grange, 
and  takes  the  best  agricultural  journals  of  the 
day,  in  order  to  keep  up  with  modern  systems  of 
farming. 

The  paternal  grandfather  of  J.  M.  Paulding 
was  John  W.  Paulding,  whose  father,  John 
Paulding,  was  the  soldier  who  captured  Major 
Andre  in  the  days  of  the  Revolution.  Grand- 
father J.  W.  Paulding  was  a  hatter  by  trade,  and 
plied  his  calling  in  Pittsburg,  Pa.,  and  in  St. 
Louis,  whither  he  removed  when  our  subject's 
father  was  about  three  years  old.  He  also  built 
a  sawmill  in  Shannon  County,  Mo.,  and  became 
well  off  in  this  world's  goods.  Judge  George 
Paulding,  father  of  J.  M.,  was  born  in  Pittsburg, 
Pa.,  and  received  a  good  business  education  in 
Belleville,  111.,  and  in  St.  Louis.  When  he  was 
about  seventeen  years  old  he  went  to  Shannon 
County  to  look  after   his  father's  mill,  and  em- 


barked in  farming  there.  Later  he  moved  into 
Texas  County,  Mo.,  where  he  bought  land  and 
passed  the  rest  of  his  life.  He  was  a  prominent 
man  there,  holding  the  offices  of  justice  of  the 
peace,  county  surveyor,  assessor,  probate  judge 
and  judge  of  the  county  court.  He  served  in  the 
Confederate  army  during  the  Civil  war.  His 
first  wife  was  Julia  Turpin,  and  to  them  seven 
children  were  born.  After  the  death  of  this  wife, 
the  judge  remarried  and  had  several  children. 
James  F. ,  of  the  first  family,  died  a  short  time 
after  entering  the  army,  of  fever  contracted  in 
the  service. 

The  birth  of  J.  M.  Paulding  occurred  in  Shan- 
non County,  Mo.,  March  16,  1845.  The  schools 
in  that  county  were  very  poor  at  that  time,  and 
the  lad  did  not  have  very  good  opportunities  for 
gaining  an  education.  He  enlisted  in  the  com- 
pany of  which  his  father  was  a  sergeant  (Com- 
pany B,  Fifth  Division,  Missouri  Volunteers), 
and  about  six  months  after  was  taken  sick  with 
the  measles.  He  went  home,  and  while  there, 
he  and  his  father  were  captured,  but  were  soon 
released  upon  parole.  After  he  had  returned  to 
the  paths  of  peace  he  resumed  his  interrupted 
studies.  He  continued  to  dwell  under  the 
parental  roof  until  he  was  twenty-two  years  of 
age,  when  he  homesteaded  a  tract  of  one  hundred 
and  sixty  acres  in  Texas  Countj',  Mo.,  and  began 
its  improvement. 

To  his  new  humble  home  Mr.  Paulding 
brought  a  bride  to  share  his  joys  and  sorrows. 
She  was  formerly  Miss  Sarah  Roberts,  of  Texas 
County,  Mo.,  and  their  marriage  was  solemnized 
April  3,  1868.  A  native  of  Tennessee,  she  had 
removed  to  Missouri  with  her  parents,  James  and 
Elizabeth  Roberts,  when  she  was  but  five  years 
old.  Six  children  were  born  to  the  couple  in 
Missouri.  William  G.  is  a  good  business  man 
and  prospector;  John  M.  married  Maude  Bache- 
lor, and  lives  in  De  Lamar,  Idaho;  James  F. 
married  Rose  Cline,  and  is  engaged  in  running  a 
grocery  in  Denver;  Maggie  B.,  a  very  successful 
teacher,  supplemented  her  excellent  education  by 
attending  Professor  Dick's  normal  school,  and 
has  taught  in  her  home  district  for  four  years, 
giving  satisfaction  to  all.  Mary  E.  and  Ella  M. 
are  both  at  home,  the  latter  attending  school. 
The  parents  are  members  of  the  Christian 
Church. 

Five  years  after  settling  on  the  Mis,souri  farm 


HON.  JAMES   B.  ARTHUR. 


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that  he  had  entered  from  the  government,  Mr. 
Paulding  sold  it  and  bought  a  better  piece  of 
eighty  acres,  and  there  made  his  home  until 
1886,  when  he  started  for  Colorado  with  his 
family.  They  drove  all  the  way,  and  in  their 
two  wagons  carried  supplies  for  camping  and 
housekeeping.  They  had  intended  to  go  to 
Routt  County,  Colo.,  but  stopped  in  Denver,  and 
finally  did  not  leave  the  vicinity.  They  like  the 
country  and  are  succeeding  in  all  their  undertak- 
ings, being  engaged  mostly  in  gardening. 


HON.  JAMES  B.  ARTHUR,  a  pioneer  of 
'60  in  Colorado  and  now  the  secretary  and 
treasurer  of  the  Consolidated  Plaster  Com- 
pany of  Denver,  is  one  of  the  most  prominent 
and  successful  citizens  of  Fort  Collins,  of  which 
city  he  has  served  as  mayor  and  in  other  public 
positions  of  trust.  He  was  born  in  County 
Londonderry,  Ireland,  in  March,  1835,  of  Scotch 
lineage,  his  grandfather,  Arthur,  having  been  a 
native  of  Scotland  and  an  active  member  of  the 
Presbyterian  Church  in  that  country.  The 
father,  James  Arthur,  was  born  in  Ireland,  where 
he  engaged  in  farming  and  stock-raising  until 
his  death,  when  past  fifty  years  of  age.  He  was 
three  times  married,  and  by  his  union  with  Mary 
Booth,  a  native  of  County  Tyrone,  and  whose 
family  were,  like  his  own,  freeholders,  he  had 
five  children,  three  of  whom  attained  years  of 
maturity,  namely:  James  B.,  of  this  sketch;  John, 
who  joined  our  subject  in  Colorado  and  was 
accidentally  killed  on  the  Cache  la  Poudre  April 
15,  1878,  by  a  runaway  team;  and  Jane,  wife  of 
William  Jessup,  who  died  in  what  is  now 
Hoboken,  Pa.  There  are  two  daughters  living 
of  another  marriage,  Rozetta,  of  Allegheny  City, 
Pa.,  and  Grace,  who  is  married  and  lives  in 
Pittsburg. 

In  1849,  when  fourteen  years  of  age,  Mr. 
Arthur  started  for  America,  and,  crossing  the 
ocean,  joined  his  sister  in  Pennsylvania.  His 
voyage  on  the  sailer  "Cathnes-shire,"  from  Bel- 
fast to  New  York  City,  was  an  eventful  one,  not 
only  because  it  was  his  first  glimpse  of  the  world 
outside  of  his  own  parish  home,  but  more 
especially  on  account  of  shipwreck.  The  vessel 
was  wrecked  on  Barren  Island,  thirty  miles  from 
New  York,  and  remained  stranded  on  a  sand-bar 


until  the  tide  went  down.     The  passengers  were 
rescued  by  a  tugboat  from  New  York. 

In  Pittsburg  the  boy  found  employment  in  the 
grocery  of  Matthews  &  Bros. ,  where  he  remained 
for  eighteen  months.  He  then  secured  work  as 
cabin  boy  on  a  steamer  on  the  Ohio  and  Miss- 
issippi Rivers,  and  later  was  promoted  to  be  a 
clerk.  His  boat  plied  the  waters  of  the  rivers 
between  Pittsburg  and  New  Orleans  in  winters, 
while  the  summers  were  spent  on  the  great  lakes. 
He  was  finally  made  baggage  master  and  placed 
in  charge  also  of  express  packages  on  the  boats 
that  were  run  in  connection  with  railroads,  on 
the  Sandusky,  Toledo,  Buffalo  and  Detroit  lines. 
Quitting  the  lake  trade  in  1858,  he  came  west  as 
far  as  Nebraska  City,  making  the  journey  via  the 
steamer  "Morning  Star"  from  St.  Louis  to  St.  Joe, 
Mo.,  and  on  the  steamer  "Florence"  from  St.  Joe 
to  Nebraska  City.  He  joined  his  brother  John 
in  that  place  and  remained  there  until  the  Pike's 
Peak  excitement  drew  so  many  to  the  mountains 
of  the  west.  Determining  to  seek  his  fortune  in 
Colorado,  in  the  spring  of  i860  he  came  across 
the  plains  with  two  yoke  of  oxen  and  a  wagon,  on 
the  south  side  of  the  Platte,  to  near  Fort  Kearney, 
then  going  on  to  Denver.  He  met  friends,  dis- 
couraged and  returning  east,  but  he  refused  to 
act  on  their  advice  and  turn  back.  He  had  an 
abundance  of  provisions  for  a  year  and  was  deter- 
mined to  see  the  country  for  himself. 
■  Landing  in  Denver  June  10,  he  proceeded 
from  there  into  the  Gilpin  and  Clear  Creek  dis- 
tricts, and  from  there  went  via  Bear  Canon  to 
Boulder.  While  in  the  mining  region,  observa- 
tion taught  him  that  mining  was  not  always  a 
success.  He  decided  the  best  thing  for  him  to  do 
would  be  to  cut  and  make  hay  and  haul  to  the 
mountains.  This  he  did,  locating  his  claim  on 
the  Cache  la  Poudre,  where  the  land  was  well 
adapted  for  his  purpose.  There  were  then  only 
two  tents  in  the  valley  and  about  six  houses. 
The  neighboring  village  of  LaPorte  was  as  large 
as  now,  but  its  inhabitants  were  French  and 
Indians.  The  valleys  of  the  Cache  la  Poudre  and 
Big  Thompson  were  ruled  by  the  Claim  Club 
prior  to  the  formation  of  the  regular  government. 
This  unique  organization  had  a  president,  vice- 
president,  secretary  and  justice  of  the  peace,  and 
all  matters  of  controversy  were  first  submitted  to 
the  justice  and  from  him  taken  to  the  president, 
whose  decision  was  final. 


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Below  we  give  a  copy  of  the  patent  for  his  land 
which  Mr.  Arthur  still  has  in  his  possession.  On 
the  back  is  the  following  endorsement: 

Claim  63 
Book  A 
Page  32 
Club  Record 

J.  B.  Arthur 
160  Acres, 
Colona  City,  N.  T. 
July  25,  i860. 

William  G.  Goodwin, 
Fees  $1  Recorder. 

The   N.    T.    stands  for  Nebraska   Territory. 
Within  the  document  is  the  following: 
J.  B.  Arthur  claim  160  acres 
Claim  63 
Book  A 
Page  32 
Club  Record 
Commencing  at  a  point  or  stake  marked  the 
N.  E.  corner  of  the  claim  of  I.  S.  Cole,  running 
thence    south    ^    mile,    crossing   the   Cache   la 
Poudre    River  to  a  stake,   thence  east  ^    mile 
crossing  the  Cache  la  Poudre  River  to  a  stake 
marking  the  southeast  corner,  thence  north  Y-z 
mile   to   a   stake,    thence   west   to   the  place  of 
beginning. 
Fees$i. 

Taken  July  17,  i860,  according  to  regulations. 
Recorded  July  25,  i860. 

William  G.  Goodwin, 

Recorder. 
The  hay  that  he  cut  Mr.  Arthur  hauled  to 
Central  City  and  Blackhawk,  ninety  miles  dis- 
tant, using  at  first  two  yoke  of  oxen,  but  later 
three  and  four  yoke  and  several  wagons.  He  had 
none  of  the.  modern  improvements  to  assist  in  his 
work,  and  was  forced  to  cut  all  of  his  hay  with  a 
hand  scythe.  Prices  were  high,  and  the  expense 
of  living  was  considerable.  Bacon  was  as  high  as 
forty-five  cents  per  pound,  and  other  things  in 
proportion.  In  1862  and  1863  he  made  a  private 
ditch  from  the  Cache  la  Poudre  and  later  enlarged 
the  ditch.  He  also  introduced  other  improve- 
ments, thus  increasing  the  value  of  the  farm, 
which,  in  1880  he  sold.  In  1863  he  went  to 
Missouri  and  bought  a  bunch  of  cattle,  which  he 
drove  across  the  plains  and  embarked  in  the 
stock  business.    Later  he  drove  from  Oregon  and 


Idaho  to  Wyoming,  where  the  cattle  lived  on  the 
range.  In  1883  he  closed  out  the  open  range 
business  and  settled  in  Fort  Collins,  where  he  had 
built  a  residence  the  previous  year  and  planted 
trees  on  the  place.  He  still  owns  large  tracts  of 
land,  having  one  ranch  three  miles  east,  and 
another  eight  miles  southeast  of  Fort  Collins;  one 
at  Arthur's  Bridge  on  the  Cache  la  Poudre, 
twelve  miles  east  of  Fort  Collins,  and  a  large 
stock  ranch  on  the  Larimer  River  bottom  in 
Larimer  County. 

Aside  from  his  stock  and  farm  interests,  Mr. 
Arthur  has  been  identified  with  many  important 
business  enterprises.  He  is  a  director  in  the 
Poudre  Valley  Bank,  which  was  changed  from  a 
private  to  a  state  bank;  also  a  director  in  the 
Empson  Packing  Company  at  Longmont.  He 
bought  and  opened  the  gypsum  quarries  and  beds 
at  Red  Buttes,  Wyo. ,  also  the  plaster  beds  in  that 
place.  About  1890  the  company  had  mills  erected, 
where  they  manufactured  under  the  name  of 
the  Rocky  Mountain  Plaster,  Stucco  and  Manu- 
facturing Company.  In  1893,  at  the  World's  Fair 
in  Chicago,  they  had  an  exhibit  of  the  products  of 
the  quarries  in  the  manufacturers'  building, 
Wyoming  exhibit,  and  received  the  highest 
award  for  the  same,  also  a  diploma  and  medal  for 
other  exhibits.  In  1896  they  added  machinery, 
and  then  began  the  manufacture  of  the  best  grade 
of  cement  plaster  in  the  world.  The  capacity  of 
the  mills  is  eighty  thousand  pounds  a  day. 

October  11,  1892,  the  Buckhorn  Plaster  Com- 
pany at  Loveland,  Denver  Gypsum  Company 
and  Colorado  Springs  Plaster  and  Cement  Com- 
pany were  incorporated  under  the  name  of  the 
Consolidated  Plaster  Company,  with  Mr.  Arthur 
as  vice-president.  Later  the  number  of  mills  was 
reduced  by  moving  the  Denver  Gypsum  Com- 
pany's mills  to  the  Buckhorn  quarries  in  Larimer 
County.  The  Colorado  Springs  business  was 
destroyed  by  fire,  and  its  interest  was  purchased 
by  Mr.  Arthur.  On  the  death  of  the  first  presi- 
dent, J.  C.  Helm  succeeded  to  the  ofiice,  Mr. 
Arthur  became  secretary  and  treasurer,  and 
A.  Wild  was  made  vice-president  and  manager. 
The  capacity  of  the  two  Buckhorn  mills  is  now 
one  hundred  and  twenty-five  thousand  pounds  per 
day  and  a  fine  quality  of  hard  rock  cement  is  the 
product.  Shipments  are  made  to  California, 
Oregon,  Idaho,  Montana  and  Washington.  At 
Red  Buttes  the  company  owns  two  hundred  and 


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sixty-six  acres  on  section  2 1 ,  south  of  the  Union 
Pacific  Railroad,  and  furnishing  an  inexhaustible 
supply  of  gypsum. 

In  Bay  City,  Mich.,  Mr.  Arthur  married  Miss 
Mary  Kelley,  a  native  of  Ireland,  whose  parents 
were  settlers  in  Buffalo,  N.  Y. ,  while  her  brother 
was  captain  on  the  lakes  for  many  years  and  was 
a  resident  of  Bay  City.  For  about  six  years  Mr. 
Arthur  resided  in  Greeley,  where  his  wife  had  a 
sister  living.  There  he  contracted  heavily  in 
stock,  at  times  having  as  many  as  four  thousand 
head  on  hand.  He  was  appointed  by  Governor 
Evans  a  member  of  the  board  of  commissioners  to 
perfect  the  organization  of  Larimer  County, 
establishing  voting  precincts  and  serving  until 
after  the  first  election.  The  county  was  divided 
into  three  commissioners'  districts,  one  of  which 
elected  a  commissioner  for  one  year,  another  for 
two  years  and  the  third  for  three  years,  .so  that 
an  entire  change  would  not  be  necessary  at  one 
time.  At  that  time  was  established  the  precedent, 
which  still  holds,  that  the  oldest  commissioner, 
in  point  of  service,  shall  be  chairman  of  the 
board  the  last  year  of  his  term.  After  one  year 
he  was  elected  to  succeed  the  one-year  man,  and 
three  years  later  was  re-elected,  being  the  nom- 
inee of  his  party,  the  Democratic,  endorsed  by 
the  Republicans,  and  elected  without  a  dissenting 
vote.  About  the  time  his  second  term  ended,  he 
removed  to  Weld  County.  For  two  terms  he 
was  a  member  of  the  town  council,  and  from  1893 
to  1895  served  as  mayor  of  Fort  Collins.  Frater- 
nally he  was  made  a  Mason  in  Fort  Collins  and 
served  as  pa.st  master  of  Lodge  No.  19,  A.  F.  & 
A.  M.,  is  also  identified  with  Cache  la  Poudre 
Chapter  No.  11,  R.  A.  M. ;  DeMolay  Command- 
ery  No.  13,  K.  T.,  which  he  joined  at  Greeley, 
but  is  now  a  member  in  Fort  Collins  and  past 
eminent  commander  of  the  commandery;  and  El 
Jebel  Temple,  N.  M.  S.  He  is  identified  with 
the  Episcopal  Church,  in  which  he  holds  the 
office  of  vestryman. 


p  QlLLIAM  E.  JOHNSON.  "There  is  a  tide 
\  A  /  in  the  affairs  of  men"  and  of  localities  as 
Y  V  well  "that,  taken  at  the  flood,  leads  on  to 
fortune."  Such  a  tide  came  in  the  history  of  the 
Cripple  Creek  mining  region  and  in  the  life  of  Mr. 
Johnson,  when,  in  1892,  he  conceived  the  idea  of 
building  a  railroad   there  from    Florence.     The 


idea,  once  formed,  was  soon  carried  out.  He  in- 
corporated the  Florence  and  Cripple  Creek  Rail- 
road Company,  and,  with  his  associates,  built  the 
road,  running  the  first  train  into  Cripple  Creek 
July  2,  1894.  From  that  time  Cripple  Creek 
prospered  and  is  now  the  greatest  gold  camp 
known,  notwithstanding  claims  to  the  contrary 
by  others.  In  1896  he  retired  from  the  active 
managementof  the  road,  though  still  remaining 
a  director,  and  since  then  he  has  been  interested 
in  the  working  out  of  a  new  line  running  from 
Florence  south  to  Custer  County.  At  the  time 
of  his  location  in  Florence,  in  1889,  it  was  a  mere 
cross-road,  and  it  was  due  in  no  small  measure 
to  his  enterprise  that  it  has  grown  to  a  thriving 
city  of  four  thousand. 

The  Johnson  family  is  of  English-Scotch  de- 
.scent.  The  grandfather  of  our  subject  was  the 
proprietor  of  a  sawmill  in  Wentworth,  N.  H., 
and  engaged  in  manufacturing  lumber  there. 
The  father,  Proctor  E.  Johnson,  who  was  born 
in  New  Hampshire,  followed  the  millwright's  trade 
in  Massachusetts,  but  in  1857  removed  to  Iowa 
and  located  at  Iowa  Falls,  Hardin  County,  where 
he  engaged  in  bridge  building  on  different  rail- 
road lines,  finally  becoming  contractor  in  the 
construction  of  bridges  in  different  states.  He 
died  in  Iowa  in  1879.  His  wife,  whose  maiden 
name  was  Clarinda  Ellery,  was  a  descendant  of 
the  family  to  which  belonged  William  Ellery,  a 
signer  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence.  She 
was  a  daughter  of  Abraham  Ellery,  a  farmer  of 
Hopkinton,  Mass.,  where  she  was  born;  she  died 
in  Colorado  in  1897,  leaving  two  sons,  Wilbur 
Kossuth  and  William  Ellery,  both  of  Denver. 

Born  in  Hopkinton,  Middlesex  County,  Mass., 
October  26,  1857,  the  subject  of  this  sketch  was 
only  six  months  of  age  when  his  parents  removed 
to  Iowa  Falls,  Iowa,  and  in  1863  they  went  from 
there  to  Fostoria,  Ohio,  returning,  however,  to 
Iowa  Falls  in  1866.  His  education,  begun  in  the 
public  schools,  was  extended  by  a  course  of  study 
in  the  Iowa  State  University  at  Iowa  City.  May 
6,  1878,  he  started  from  Iowa  Falls,  in  company 
with  three  other  young  men,  with  teams  and 
supplies,  for  Colorado,  arriving  here  on  the  4th 
of  July.  Going  direct  to  Alamosa,  he  obtained 
employment  in  an  engineering  corps  as  a  surveyor 
for  a  projected  road  to  Pagosa  Springs.  In 
November  he  went  to  Canon  City,  Fremont 
County,  where  he  resided  the  most  of  the  time 


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until  1886.  Meantime  he  incorporated  the  Canon 
City  Water  Company  and  built  the  water  works. 
In  1886  he  took  a  position  with  the  Colorado  Coal 
and  Iron  Company,  the  then  leading  company  of 
the  state,  and  had  charge  of  all  their  business  in 
Pitkin  and  Garfield  Counties,  opening  coalmines 
and  building  the  Aspen  and  Western  Railroad, 
which,  though  quite  difficult  of  construction, 
was  useful  only  in  forming  a  short  line  to  the 
coal  mines. 

In  1885,  in  company  with  several  other  gentle- 
men, Mr.  Johnson  incorporated  and  founded  the 
Florence  Oil  and  Refining  Company,  of  Florence, 
Fremont  County,  this  being  one  of  the  first  com- 
panies formed  in  the  state  to  produce  oil  on  a 
commercial  scale.  It  still  continues  in  business, 
and,  with  one  other  company,  furnishes  all  the 
oil  used  in  six  states.  When  Cripple  Cteek  be- 
gan to  attract  attention  in  1892,  Mr.  Johnson,  as 
before  stated,  turned  his  attention  to  the  building 
of  a  railroad  to  that  point.  May  27,  1885,  he 
married  Miss  Emma  Adelaide  Mulock,  who  was 
born  in  New  York  state.  A  prominent  Mason, 
he  is  identified  with  the  Knights  Templar  at 
Canon  City  and  El  Jebel  Temple,  N.  M.  S.,  at 
Denver. 


Gl  EBERT  E.  PATTISON.  Numbered  among 
I  1  the  members  of  the  legal  fraternity  in 
I  I  Denver  are  many  who  rank  as  the  peers  of 
the  best  representatives  at  the  bar  of  any  other 
city,  whether  it  be  east  or  west.  In  this  list  of 
able  attorneys  mention  belongs  to  Mr.  Pattison, 
who  has  his  office  in  the  Ernest  &  Cranmer 
building,  and  who  has  for  the  past  fifteen  years 
given  especial  attention  to  railroad  and  corpora- 
tion law,  being  a  recognized  authority  in  that 
department  of  the  profession.  He  possesses  a 
mind  of  great  breadth,  with  the  executive  force 
and  ability  necessary  to  the  successful  consumma- 
tion of  important  plans.  In  addition  to  his 
private  practice  he  is  dean  of  the  faculty  of  the 
University  of  Denver  law  department  and  has 
been  an  important  factor  in  enlarging  the  work 
accomplished  by  that  school. 

At  the  time  of  the  religious  persecutions  in 
Scotland  the  Pattison  family  left  that  country  and 
settled  in  Belfast,  Ireland.  From  there,  in  1730, 
Adam  Pattison  came  to  America,  establishing 
his  home  in  Colerain,  Mass.  He  had  a  son, 
Jonathan  Stuart,  who  was  born  in  Massachusetts 


and  in  early  manhood  removed  to  New  York, 
establishing  a  permanent  settlement  in  Chautau- 
qua County  in  1809.  Next  in  line  of  descent 
was  Albert  H.  Pattison,  a  native  of  Chautauqua 
County  and,  like  his  forefathers,  a  farmer  by 
occupation.  By  his  marriage  to  Sophia  McDon- 
nell, a  son,  Albert  E.,  was  born  in  Chautauqua 
County,  February  10,  1846.  The  latter  spent 
his  boyhood  days  upon  the  home  farm  and  re- 
ceived his  primary  education  in  the  district 
schools.  At  the  age  of  thirteen  he  entered  the 
Fredonia  Academy,  where  he  remained  a  student 
for  three  years.  Before  he  was  ten  years  old 
he  decided  to  be  a  lawyer,  and  all  of  his  sub- 
sequent study  was  with  that  object  in  view. 
Realizing  the  need  of  a  broad  knowledge,  he 
spent  one  year  in  study  at  St.  Lawrence  Uni- 
versity, in  Canton,  St.  Lawrence  County,  N.  Y., 
and  afterward  was  for  four  years  a  student 
in  Hamilton  College  at  Clinton,  Oneida  County, 
N.  Y. ,  from  which  he  graduated  in  1868,  with 
the  degree  of  A.  B. 

In  the  office  of  Sherman  &  Scott,  at  Forest- 
ville,  Chautauqua  County,  N.  Y. ,  Mr.  Pattison 
commenced  the  study  of  Blackstone  and  began  to 
gain  an  idea  of  the  intricacies  of  the  law.  Later 
he  was  in  the  office  of  Kiron  Carroll,  at  Rome, 
N.  Y. ,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  there  in 
April,  1869.  He  began  professional  practice  as 
a  member  of  the  firm  of  Murray  &  Pattison,  at 
Dunkirk,  N.  Y.,  where  for  five  years  he  con- 
ducted a  profitable  practice,  meantime  gaining  a 
reputation  as  one  of  the  rising  young  lawyers  of 
the  town.  January  25,  1870,  at  Cleveland,  Ohio, 
he  married  Miss  Emma  A.  Paddock,  of  that 
cit}'. 

Seeking  a  larger  field  for  professional  activity, 
Mr.  Pattison  removed  to  Buffalo  in  June,  1874, 
and  there  he  had  a  large  and  lucrative  practice 
for  eight  years,  when  his  wife's  ill  health  led  him 
to  seek  another  location.  He  came  to  Denver  in 
June,  1882,  and  at  once  opened  a  law  office,  since 
which  time  he  has  gained  a  large  clientele  and  a 
reputation  as  one  of  the  best  attorneys  in  the 
city.  Though  reared  in  the  Democratic  faith  he 
allied  himself  with  the  Republican  party  in  1880 
and  has  since  voted  that  ticket.  He  has  never 
been  a  politician  nor  an  office  seeker,  and  the 
only  position  he  ever  accepted  was  that  of  mem- 
ber of  the  supreme  court  commission  in  1888, 
but  this  he  resigned  a  year  later.     He  is  a  mem- 


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ber  of  St.  Mark's  Episcopal  Church  and  holds 
office  as  a  vestryman.  He  and  his  wife  have  two 
children:  Myron  Adams  and  Lucia  Ella,  the 
latter  a  graduate  of  the  University  of  Denver. 


(lOHN  COOKE,  who  is  a  well-known  con- 
I  tractor  and  builder,  has  engaged  in  business 
Q)  in  Denver  since  1879.  He  has  had  the  con- 
tract for  many  important  public  buildings  here, 
including  among  others  the  Ernest  &  Cranmer, 
Boston,  Cooper  and  Enterprise  buildings,  Wood- 
ward block.  Hay  den,  Dickinson  &  Feldhauser's 
block,  the  brickwork  on  the  Union  depot  after  the 
fire,  Pioneer  building,  McCarthney  and  McClin- 
tock  blocks,  Pettit  block,  the  Hyde  Park,  Ash- 
land, and  Logan  Avenue  schoolhouses,  also 
several  additions  to  schoolhouses  and  other  build- 
ings, the  town  hall  in  Elyria,  St.  Leo's  Church, 
the  Highlands  Congregational  Church,  Joseph 
Schlitz  Brewing  Company's  building  on  Seven- 
teenth and  Blake  streets,  the  Denver  Packing 
Company's  building  on  Blake  street,  Barth  block, 
Denver  Paper  Mill,  Griffith  Wheel  Works,  and 
the  majority  of  the  car  shops  for  the  city  cable 
company,  on  both  the  north  and  east  sides;  also 
the  residences  of  Lewis  E.  Lemen,  M.D.,  Colonel 
Dodge  and  Charles  Hallock.  For  fifteen  years 
he  has  been  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  brick, 
having  a  brick  yard  covering  two  and  one-half 
blocks  of  McKee's  addition  to  East  Denver  and 
another  yard,  covering  one  and  one-half  blocks 
in  Ashley's  addition,  adjoining  City  Park. 

The  Cooke  family  originally  resided  in  Eng- 
land, but  removed  to  Cork,  Ireland,  where  were 
born  our  subject,  his  father,  William,  and  grand- 
father, Michael.  The  last  named,  who  was  a  con- 
tractor, built  lighthouses  and  barracks  for  the 
English  government,  and  William  was  also  ex- 
tensively engaged  in  the  same  line  of  work  for 
many  years.  He  still  resides  in  Cork  and  is  quite 
hale,  notwithstanding  his  seventy-seven  useful 
years.  His  wife,  Ellen,  was  a  daughter  of  John 
Collins,  who  was  born  in  Cork,  of  English  and 
Scotch  descent,  and  engaged  in  farming  there. 
She  died  at  forty  years.  Her  four  sons  and  two 
of  her  four  daughters  are  living,  namely:  John; 
Michael  and  Mrs.  Ann  Sullivan,  both  of  Denver; 
William,  a  contractor  for  the  British  government 
in  Cork;  Ellen  and  James,  of  Denver. 

The  model  national  school  in  a  suburb  of  Cork, 


which  was  one  of  four  schools  of  the  kind  in  Ire- 
land, was  the  scene  of  our  subject's  boyhood 
studies.  He  graduated  from  it  in  1861  and  began  to 
learn  the  stone  mason's  trade  under  his  father,  as- 
sisting on  government  works  during  his  appren- 
ticeship of  five  years.  Then,  going  to  England,  he 
finished  his  trade  on  the  British  government  docks 
atCardufi".  In  1869  he  came  to  America  and  set- 
tled in  Elmira,  N.  Y.,  where  he  built  residences, 
blocks  and  schoolhouses,  some  of  the  finest  build- 
ings in  the  city.  He  also  built  the  town  hall  in 
Hornellsville,  fifteen  stores  in  Mansfield,  Tioga 
County,  Pa.,  and  rebuilt  the  burned  district  after 
a  fire  in  Corning,  N.  Y.  From  the  east  he  came 
to  Denver,  where  he  has  since  been  busily  en- 
gaged in  contracting  and  building.  Among  his 
important  contracts  here  was  that  for  the  Grant 
smelter  smoke  stack,  three  hundred  and  seventy- 
two  feet  high,  the  tallest  stack  in  the  United 
States.  For  work  of  that  character  he  had  been 
trained  by  his  father,  whom  he  had  often  assisted 
in  building  lighthouses,  and  he  was  therefore  pre- 
pared to  fill  the  contract  to  the  letter  and  do 
successful  work. 

Mr.  Cooke  built  a  residence  for  his  family  at 
No.  2150  Lafayette  street.  In  this  city  he  mar- 
ried Miss  Margaret  McCarthy,  of  Corning,  N.  Y. 
They  are  the  parents  of  five  children:  William, 
Mary,  John,  Jr.,  Eugene  and  Ellen.  Politically 
Mr.  Cooke  is  a  Democrat.  He  is  a  director  in 
the  Brick  Contractors  and  Manufacturers'  Associ- 
ation and  has  held  the  same  position  for  three 
terms  in  the  Master  Builders'  Association. 


.  RNEST  GUEBELLE,  who  owns  a  beauti- 
'y  ful  home  at  Villa  Park,  a  suburb  of  Denver, 
^  is  an  esteemed  citizen.  He  is  an  example 
worthy  to  be  followed  by  the  youth  of  the  rising 
generation,  for  few  of  them,  it  is  to  be  hoped, 
have  greater  obstacles  in  their  pathway  to  over- 
come than  he  did  until  late  years.  He  was  always 
ambitious,  industrious  and  enterprising,  and  to 
such  men  success  is  sure  to  come  sooner  or  later, 
as  they  truly  deserve. 

Born  in  Belfort,  France,  August  2,  1863,  the 
gentleman  of  whom  we  write  is  the  second  child 
of  Charles  F.  and  Emilie  (Tobler)  Guebelle. 
The  others  are:  Mina,  wife  of  Leon  Bailley,  of 
New  York  City;  Mathilde,  formerly  a  teacher  in 
the  public  schools  of  Rochester,  N.  Y.;  Camille, 


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employed  as  a  clerk  in  the  BuflFalo  (N.  Y.)  post- 
office;  and  William,  principal  of  a  public  school 
in  a  suburb  of  New  York  on  the  Hudson  River. 

The  senior  Guebelle  was  born  in  1831  in  Cer- 
nay,  France,  and  there  received  a  superior  educa- 
tion. He  learned  the  business  of  manufacturing 
ornamental  and  carved  combs  (handwork)  when 
he  was  a  boy,  and  followed  the  trade  independ- 
ently for  a  few  years.  As  every  able-bodied  man 
in  France  is  required  to  spend  a  certain  length  of 
time  in  the  army,  he  servedhis  time,  and  by  his 
ability  and  efficiency  rose  from  the  ranks  to  be 
a  commissioned  officer.  During  the  Crimean  war 
he  distinguished  himself  by  his  bravery  and  won 
the  highest  praise  from  his  superiors.  He  died 
in  1867,  while  still  in  the  service  of  his  country. 
He  was  a  Catholic  by  birth,  according  to  the 
usage  of  the  communion,  but  died  strong  in  the 
Protestant  faith.  He  had  acquired  considerable 
property,  among  which  were  two  vineyards  of 
value. 

Soon  after  her  husband's  death  Mrs.  Emilie 
Guebelle  came  to  the  United  States  with  her  two 
younger  children,  the  other  three  remaining  with 
relatives  in  France.  Going  to  Rochester,  N.  Y., 
the  plucky  little  woman  rented  a  house,  which, 
it  seems,  was  the  first  one  erected  in  the  city,  as 
the  corner-stone  bore  the  date  of  1812.  A  lady 
of  finished  education,  she  had  little  difficulty  in 
securing  pupils  in  the  best  families  in  the  place, 
and  soon  she  was  busy  from  morning  until  night, 
giving  instruction  in  German  and  French.  Later 
she  established  a  school  of  her  own  and  em- 
ployed other  teachers.  Her  death  occurred  in 
1891. 

When  his  brave  mother  sailed  from  France  to 
the  unknown  land  and  life  she  had  planned  in  the 
west,  Ernest  Guebelle  was  left  with  his  grand- 
father, Henri  Tobler,  who  for  half  a  century  was 
an  employe  of  a  woolen-cloth  mills  in  Cernay, 
and  for  years  was  superintendent  of  the  plant. 
Four  years  having  rolled  away,  Mrs.  Guebelle 
sent  for  her  children.  Ernest  was  but  nine  and 
his  eldest  sister  only  two  years  his  senior,  but  to- 
gether they  started  on  the  long  trip  to  their  loved 
ones  across  the  ocean.  They  left  Antwerp  on  the 
Star  line  ship  "Fatherland"  bound  for  Philadel- 
phia. On  the  voyage  the  ship  passed  through 
two  storms,  one  of  her  boilers  becoming  disabled, 
and  thus  it  was  seventeen  days  ere  she  reached 
her  destination.     At  Harrisburg,   Pa.,  the  chil- 


dren had  to  change  cars,  and,  as  they  could  not 
speak  English,  they  waited  in  the  depot  for  thir- 
ty-six hours  before  a  German,  making  himself 
understood,  put  them  on  the  right  train.  On 
reaching  Elmira  they  were  obliged  to  stay  over 
night,  and  a  kind-hearted  German  hotel-keeper, 
seeing  the  little  ones  in  the  depot,  took  them  to 
his  hotel  and  kept  them  until  they  were  ready  to 
depart,  then  refusing  any  payment.  Recently, 
when  on  a  visit  east,  Mr.  Guebelle  endeavored  to 
find  the  good  Samaritan  hotel  man,  but  was  un- 
successful in  his  effijrts. 

In  the  public  schools  of  Rochester  Ernest 
Guebelle  received  a  good  education,  completing 
his  studies  in  Benjamin's  high  school,  a  private 
institution  of  learning.  There  the  youth  paid  his 
way  by  sweeping  and  general  janitor  work.  He 
apprenticed  himself  to  the  printer's  trade  in  a 
German  newspaper  office,  but  stayed  there  but 
ten  or  eleven  months,  then  accepting  a  position 
with  the  Judson  Steam  Governor  Works.  He 
was  employed  on  piece  work,  and  was  so  active 
and  ambitious,  that  the  superintendent  once  came 
to  him  and  told  him  not  to  run  his  machine  so 
rapidly,  as  it  shook  the  whole  building.  At  this 
time  he  also  had  a  Sunday  newspaper  route,  and 
averaged  $2  per  Sunday  in  this  manner. 

Having  heard  much  about  Denver  and  the 
west,  Mr.  Guebelle  decided  to  come  here,  and 
arrived  in  this  city  July  3,  1879.  He  went  to 
live  with  an  uncle  who  kept  a  saloon  at  the  corner 
of  Nineteenth  and  Larimer  streets.  The  lad  at- 
tended bar  for  a  month,  but  the  business  was  not 
at  all  to  his  taste,  and  he  was  apprenticed  to  a 
blacksmith.  As  he  had  to  work  six  months 
without  wages  he  continued  to  live  at  his  uncle's, 
and  in  return  for  his  food  and  shelter  he  cleaned 
the  saloon  every  morning  early,  and  attended  bar 
at  noon.  When  the  six  months  dragged  to  an 
end  he  was  given  $4  a  week,  and  he  then  boarded 
himself  Later  he  received  $6  a  week.  Toward 
the  close  of  the  second  year  he  secured  a  place  as 
janitor  in  a  Good  Templar  lodge  (doing  this  in 
addition  to  his  regular  work),  being  paid  $10  a 
month  for  his  services.  The  third  year  his  wages 
were  $8  a  week,  and  the  following  year  he  worked 
up  to  $3.50  per  day.  In  1885  he  opened  up  a 
shop  of  his  own  on  West  Colfax  avenue,  and 
here  ,he  has  built  up  a  large  and  remunerative 
trade. 

In   1893  Mr.  Guebelle  bought  a  tract  of  ten 


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acres  six  miles  west  of  Denver,  on  the  Denver, 
Lakewood  &  Golden  Railroad.  There  he  erected 
a  lovely  residence,  and  is  making  of  the  place  an 
ideal  suburban  abode.  The  lad}^  who  charm- 
ingly presides  over  this  home  was  formerly  Miss 
Ivilly  M.  King.  She  was  born  in  Wisconsin,  and 
became  the  wife  of  Mr.  Guebelle  July  23,  1881. 
The  two  children  of  their  union  are:  Beatrice, 
now  attending  the  manual  training  school,  and 
Ernestine,  who  is  still  in  the  public  schools.  In 
political  matters  Mr.  Guebelle  is  not  partisan, 
and  in  all  concerns  which  bear  upon  the  welfare 
of  the  people  he  strives  to  be  well  posted,  liberal 
and  unbiased  in  judgment. 


r~REDERICK  MILHEIM,  a  respected  citi- 
rQ  zen  of  Arapahoe  County,  is  a  worthy 
I  '  example  of  what  may  be  accomplished  by 
an  industrious,  ambitious  young  man,  in  spite  of 
great  discouragements  and  difficulties.  The 
years  have  swiftly  passed  since  the  day  when  he 
landed  in  Colorado  with  barely  $100  and  with 
the  great  drawback  of  physical  disability,  as  he 
had  recently  lost  an  arm  through  an  accident,  it 
having  been  caught  in  a  machinery-belt  and  torn 
off.  His  was  not  the  kind  of  nature  that  allows 
itself  to  be  overpowered  by  trials,  though  this 
was  surely  sufficiently  serious  to  justify  a  person 
in  despairing.  He  bravely  nerved  himself  to 
face  the  battles  of  life  and  everyone  who  has 
ever  known  him  rejoices  in  the  prosperity  which 
he  now  enjoys  as  the  fruits  of  his  manly  struggles 
for  a  home  and  competence.  His  example  may 
well  be  an  inspiration  to  those  of  the  on-coming 
generation. 

The  present  home  of  Mr.  Milheim  is  located 
on  section  18,  township  i  south,  range  66  west, 
his  postoffice  being  Brighton.  From  its  original 
condition  of  barrenness  and  desert-likeness  he 
has  made  the  place  a  garden  spot.  The  land  is 
well  watered  by  a  fine  system  of  ditches,  and 
bountiful  harvests  reward  the  owner's  care  each 
year.  From  the  time  the  Fulton  ditch  was 
started  Mr.  Milheim  was  one  of  the  most  in- 
terested advocates  of  the  plan,  and  has  always 
held  stock  in  the  company  since.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  German  society  Sons  of  Herman,  and 
has  filled  many  of  the  offices  in  Koerner  Lodge 
No.  4,  of  Brighton.  He  also  holds  membership 
with    the  Odd  Fellows'    society,    belonging  to 


Fidelity  Lodge,  of  Brighton.  Politically  he  is 
independent  at  present,  though  he  formerly  was 
a  Democrat  and  later  a  Populist. 

The  birth  of  Frederick  Milheim  occurred  near 
Berne,  Switzerland,  on  her  father's  farm,  No- 
vember 17,  1846.  His  parents,  John  and 
Mary  Milheim,  both  died  when  he  was  quite 
young.  At  the  age  of  sixteen  our  subject  and 
his  younger  brother,  Alexander,  came  to  the 
United  States,  and  for  a  few  months  they  found 
employment  on  farms  in  New  Jersey.  Frederick 
Milheim  thep  proceeded  to  Niagara  Falls  and 
thence  to  Allegan  County,  Mich.,  during  the 
Civil  war.  Soon  afterwards  he  entered  the 
employ  of  the  United  States  government  as  a 
teamster,  being  regularly  enlisted.  He  served 
in  Tennessee,  Georgia  and  Alabama,  and  once, 
when  on  the  Tennessee  River,  about  sixty-five 
miles  above  Chattanooga,  he  and  his  detach- 
ment of  comrades  were  captured  by  the  Confed- 
erates. He  was  not  kept  long  imprisoned, 
however,  and  was  finally  mustered  out  of  the 
service  February  28,  1865,  at  Chattanooga. 

Returning  to  Michigan,  he  joined  a  company 
of  men  who  were  preparing  to  cross  the  plains  to 
the  west.  In  April  they  left  St.  Louis,  Mo., 
and  at  the  close  of  two  weeks  traveling  reached 
Omaha.  There  Mr.  Milheim  hired  out  to  a 
party  to  drive  an  ox-team  across  the  plains,  he 
to  receive  $35  a  month.  The  journey  was  not 
only  long  and  trying  in  ordinary  ways  common 
to  that  method  of  traveling,  but  was  particularly 
dangerous  that  year,  as  the  Indians  along  the 
way  were  on  the  war-path.  As  he  was  working 
at  wages,  our  subject  was  not  spared  when  there 
was  a  specially  hard  or  hazardous  undertaking  on 
hand,  but  at  length  the  wearisome  plains  were  left 
in  the  background,  and  Denver,  their  goal,  came 
within  sight,  upon  the  6th  of  August.  For  a 
few  months  Mr.  Milheim  was  employed  in  a 
bakery,  after  which  he  farmed  for  a  neighboring 
ranchman.  He  assisted  in  the  construction  of 
the  Union  Pacific  Railroad,  working  as  a  hewer 
of  ties  and  in  tunnels,  etc.,  for  a  period  of  two  or 
three  years,  and  was  later  employed  by  the  Union 
Pacific  Railroad  at  Omaha.  Going  back  to 
Allegan  County,  Mich.,  he  worked  in  a  shingle- 
mill  for  a  few  months,  and  there  it  was  that  the 
great  misfortune  of  his  life  came  to  him,  the  loss 
of  his  arm.  Four  months  he  suffered  untold 
agonies,  but  his  splended  constitution  gradually 


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recovered  from  the  shock.  He  was  given  numer- 
ous opportunities  in  a  business  way,  but  he 
longed  to  return  to  Colorado,  the  state  of  promise 
and  assured  future,  and  again,  in  1872,  he  came 
to  its  hospitable  borders.  Emile  Riethman  em- 
ployed him  for  the  following  four  years  to  herd 
cows  for  his  dairy.  In  various  occupations, 
always  industrious  and  making  the  best  use  of 
his  earnings,  the  years  passed  until,  in  1879,  he 
bought  eighty  acres  of  wild  land,  his  present 
homestead.  Yet  for  two  or  more  years  he  was 
enabled  to  make  but  few  improvements  upon  the 
place  and  was  absent,  engaged  in  the  cattle  busi- 
ness in  Wyoming,  for  the  most  part.  After  his 
marriage  he  settled  down  here  and  set  about 
making  changes  on  the  farm,  which  enterprises 
resulted  most  favorably  within  a  few  years.  He 
has  been  aided  faithfully  in  all  his  plans  by  his 
loyal  wife,  and  frankly  owns  that  he  owes  much  of 
his  success  to  her. 

It  was  upon  November  14,  1883,  that  Miss 
Emma  Hagus,  daughter  of  Andrew  Hagus  (see 
his  sketch  elsewhere  in  this  work)  became  the 
bride  of  Mr.  Milheim.  Four  children  grace  their 
union,  namely:  Fred  A.,  Josephine,  Clara  and 
Benita.  They  have  a  pleasant  home  and  enjoy 
the  friendship  of  a  large  circle  of  acquaintances. 


0AMUEL  DAVID  HOPKINS,  M.  D.,  of 
2\  Denver,  is  a  specialist  in  the  treatment  of 
Qy  nervous  and  mental  diseases  and  a  contribu- 
tor, in  these  departments,  to  the  medical  journals 
both  of  the  east  and  west.  Soon  after  coming  to 
this  city  he  became  assistant  to  Dr.  J.  T.  Eskridge 
in  the  chair  of  nervous  and  mental  diseases,  med- 
ical department  University  of  Colorado,  and  in 
addition  held  the  chair  of  instructor  of  medical 
chemistry  and  urinary  analysis  in  the  university. 
In  1896  he  accepted  the  position  of  lecturer  of 
nervous  and  mental  diseases  in  the  University  of 
Denver,  and  one  year  later  he  was  made  associate 
professor  of  this  chair,  continuing  until  January, 
1898,  when  he  resigned.  Dr.  Hopkins  was  born 
in  Catasauqua,  Lehigh  County,  Pa.,  and  is  the 
son  of  William  P.  Hopkins,  known  as  the  '  'iron 
king  of  the  Lehigh  Valley. ' '  The  latter  was  born 
near  Neath,  Glamorlganshire,  Wales,  March  24, 
1832,  the  son  of  John  and  Anna  (Powell)  Hop- 
kins, and  when  quite  young  was  orphaned  by  his 
father's  death.     From  eight  years  of  age  he  had 


been  employed  in  rolling  mills.  At  the  age  of 
eighteen  he  went  to  Staffordshire,  and  afterward, 
in  Workington,  he  made  the  first  sheet  of  tin  ever 
manufactured  out  of  puddled  steel.  For  this  he 
received  a  watch  from  his  employer,  with  this  in- 
scription: "Presented  to  William  Hopkins  for 
meritorious  services  by  James  Spence,  Working- 
ton, January  i,  1859."  In  i860  he  took  passage 
on  the  sailing  vessel  "Middlesex"  and  after  thir- 
ty-nine days  landed  in  the  United  States.  For 
four  years  afterward  he  worked  in  the  sheet-iron 
mills  of  the  Allen  Wood  Company  at  Consho- 
hocken,  Pa. 

June  29,  1863,  Mr.  Hopkins  enlisted  in  Com- 
pany F,  Forty-third  Pennsylvania  Militia,  and 
with  his  company  was  sent  to  join  the  Army  of 
the  Potomac.  While  away  from  home  two  of  his 
children  died,  and  for  this  reason,  through  the 
kindness  of  Governor  Curtin,  he  was  honorably 
discharged  and  returned  home  August  13,  1863. 
Afterward  he  resumed  work  with  his  former  em- 
ployers, but  in  April  of  the  next  year  he  removed 
to  Catasauqua,  where  for  twenty-five  years  he 
was  general  superintendent  of  the  rolling-mills, 
and  during  that  time  manufactured  the  first  plate 
and  the  first  sheet  ever  rolled  in  the  Lehigh  Val- 
ley. In  1882  he  built  a  large  rolling-mill  at  Ful- 
lerton  and  became  its  superintendent.  He  was 
also  a  large  stockholder  in  the  Catasauqua  Man- 
ufacturing Company.  In  February,  1890,  he 
resigned  in  order  to  organize  the  Slatington  Roll- 
ing Mills,  of  which  he  is  general  manager  and  the 
principal  stockholder.  He  superintended  the 
erection  of  all  the  machinery  in  the  mill,  which 
has  nine  furnaces,  and  furnishes  employment  for 
one  hundred  and  thirty  men.  For  twenty-one 
years  he  owned  part  of  the  stock  in  the  Union 
Foundry  and  Machine  Company.  He  invented  the 
water  shield  for  the  cooling  of  the  front  of  furnaces, 
but  never  had  the  invention  patented. 

In  Wales,  in  1855,  William  Hopkins  married 
Elizabeth  Thomas,  daughter  of  Thomas  Thomas, 
a  tailor  in  that  country.  She  died  in  1888,  leav- 
ing five  children:  John  W. ;  Louis  P.,  who  is  en- 
gaged in  business  with  his  father;  Winifred  and 
Elizabeth,  at  home;  and  Samuel  D.,  M.  D.,  of 
Denver.  The  family  are  identified  with  the  Pres- 
byterian Church  and  are  highly  respected  by  the 
people  of  Catasauqua.  In  politics  Mr.  Hopkins 
is  a  Republican. 

Under  a  private  tutor  the  subject  of  this  sketch 


J.  B.  BARCLAY,  M.  D. 


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acquired  the  rudiments  of  his  education.  In  1888 
he  entered  the  sophomore  class  of  the  University 
of  Pennsylvania,  but  after  a  year  in  the  classical 
course  he  entered  the  medical  department  of  the 
same  institution,  from  which  he  graduated  in 
1893,  with  the  degree  of  M.  D.  He  had,  however, 
studiedsotirelessly  in  the  acquirement  of  profes- 
sional knowledge,  that  his  health  had  become  se- 
riously impaired,  and  in  selecting  a  location  he 
deemed  it  necessary  to  seek  a  salubrious  climate, 
where  he  might  hope  to  soon  regain  his  former 
strength.  Accordingly  he  came  to  Denver,  where 
he  has  made  his  home  since  June  of  1893  and 
where  he  has  become  favorably  known  as  a  special- 
ist in  the  treatment  of  nervous  and  mental  diseases. 
He  is  neurologist  to  St.  Anthony's  Hospital  and 
alternate  in  mental  and  nervous  diseases  to  the 
county  hospital.  His  office  is  in  the  Jackson 
building.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Alumni  Asso- 
ciation of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  the 
Clinical  and  Pathological  Society,  Denver  and 
Arapahoe  County,  and  State  Medical  Societies, 
the  Rocky  Mountain  Inter-State  Medical  Asso- 
ciation and  the  American  Medical  Association. 


30SEPH  B.  BARCLAY,  M.  D.,  who  died  at 
his  home  near  Longmont,  Boulder  County, 
September  27,  1896,  was  one  of  the  honored 
pioneers  of  this  localitj'.  When  he  settled  here 
it  was  his  intention  to  retire  from  his  professional 
life,  but  his  talents  were  discovered  and  his  serv- 
ices were  always  in  demand  up  to  the  last  year 
of  his  career.  A  loyal,  faithful  citizen,  neighbor 
and  friend,  he  won  the  deepest  regard  and  ven- 
eration of  all  who  were  privileged  to  know  him, 
and  always  sustained  the  character  of  a  true 
Christian  gentleman. 

The  American  Barclays  are  descended  from 
one  David  Barclay,  a  native  of  Kirktonhill,  Scot- 
land. Born  in  1610,  he  traveled  in  Germany 
when  young,  and  enlisted  in  the  army  of  Gus- 
tavus  Adolphus,  of  Sweden,  where,  in  numerous 
battles,  he  won  distinction,  and  was  promoted  to 
the  rank  of  major.  Upon  the  breaking  out  of 
the  civil  wars  in  his  home  land  he  returned  and 
bore  a  conspicuous  part  in  the  same,  being  in- 
trusted with  many  important  commissions  and 
military  commands.  By  the  energy  and  prudence 
he  displayed  he  gained  a  lasting  reputation,  nor 
were  his  talents  confined  to  military  affairs,  for 


almost  equally  signal  were  his  civic  labors. 
Twice  he  was  a  member  of  the  parliament,  but 
after  the  Restoration  he  fell  under  the  displeasure 
of  the  government  for  some  unexplained  reason, 
and  for  a  period  was  kept  a  close  prisoner  in 
Edinburgh  Castle.  One  reason  assigned  was 
that  he  had  been  a  trustee  under  the  usurper, 
although  he  had  suffered  in  the  cause  of  Charles 
I,  not  only  by  being  thrust  from  all  his  posts  of 
office,  but  also  by  having  his  estates  confiscated 
and  retained  for  several  years.  At  last  he  was 
liberated  without  having  had  any  charge  laid  to 
his  doors  or  reason  given  him  for  his  commitment 
to  prison.  His  son  Robert  was  the  author  of  '  'Bar- 
clay's Apology  to  the  Society  of  Friends,"  since 
one  of  their  standard  works,  and  when  an  exten- 
sive grant  of  land  was  given  the  Quakers  in  New 
Jersey,  Mr.  Barclay  was  appointed  by  Charles  I 
to  be  the  first  governor  of  the  province  of  eastern 
New  Jersey. 

Dr.  Joseph  B.  Barclay  was  a  grandson  of  Rev. 
David  Barclay,  and  son  of  Rev.  Charles  R.  Bar- 
clay, who  founded  the  town  of  Punxsutawney, 
Pa.  The  doctor  was  born  in  Northampton 
County,  Pa.,  March  19,  1819,  and  was  reared  to 
manhood  in  that  and  Jefferson  Counties,  Pa. 
When  he  was  nineteen  years  of  age  he  entered 
Jefferson  Medical  College  in  Philadelphia,  and 
graduated  from  that  institution  in  1840.  His 
initial  practice  was  in  the  town  where  he  had 
grown  up,  but  in  1843  he  removed  to  Beverly, 
Ohio,  and  within  a  year  located  in  Carmichaels, 
Greene  County,  Pa.,  where  he  remained  six 
years.  Then  for  a  score  of  years  he  was  num- 
bered among  the  leading  physicians  of  Browns- 
ville, Pa.  Notwithstanding  the  fact  that  he  re- 
sided in  a  community  where  the  majority  of  the 
inhabitants  were  not  in  favor  of  abolition,  he  was 
of  such  sterling,  strong  convictions,  that  he 
openly  advocated  the  principle  of  human  liberty 
for  the  black  man  as  well  as  for  the  white  man, 
nor  did  he  lose  many  friends  or  patrons  in  spite 
of  his  views.  When  the  war  broke  out  he 
entered  the  Union  army  as  first  assistant  surgeon 
of  the  Two  Hundred  and  Ninth  Pennsylvania 
Infantry,  serving  until  the  close  of  the  war,  when 
he  was  granted  an  honorable  discharge. 

For  a  long  time  Dr.  Barclay  had  thought  seri- 
ously of  removing  to  the  great  west,  and  in  1870 
he  joined  the  Union  colony  as  a  charter  member 
and  settled   in  Weld   County,  Colo.     Later  he 


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concluded  to  take  up  his  residence  near  the 
mountains,  and,  therefore,  located  a  soldier's 
claim  of  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  in  Boulder 
County,  and  identified  himself  with  the  Chicago 
Colony  of  Longmont.  As  has  been  stated,  he 
expected  to  devote  himself  to  a  pastoral  life,  but 
his  professional  ability  was  not  long  "hidden 
under  a  bushel,"  and  he  was  busy  and  useful  as 
long  as  he  lived. 

In  1841  Dr.  Barclay  married  Jane  E.  Cooper, 
who  was  a  native  of  Indiana  County,  Pa. ,  born 
June  5,  1822.  With  her  parents  she  had  removed 
to  Bucks  County,  and  later  to  Jefferson  County, 
Pa.  Her  mother  was  a  niece  of  Capt.  Samuel 
Brady,  the  noted  government  scout,  and  a  hero 
of  the  battle  of  Bunker  Hill.  Another  uncle,  a 
veteran  of  the  war  of  1812,  was  Gen.  Hugh 
Brady,  of  whom  General  Scott  said:  "God  Al- 
mighty never  made  a  more  honest  or  braver 
man."  Eight  children  were  born  to  Dr.  Barclay 
and  his  most  estimable  wife,  but  four  are  deceased. 
Mary  E.  is  the  wife  of  Maj.  William  Norcross, 
city  treasurer  of  Greeley,  Colo.;  Charles  is  an 
attorney  of  Philadelphia,  Pa.;  and  James  C.  is  a 
resident  of  Longmont,  Colo. 

Edgar  Barclay,  who  was  born  October  2,  1857, 
in  Brownsville,  Pa.,  and  is  the  seventh  child  of 
Dr.  Barclay,  has  had  charge  of  his  father's  busi- 
ness affairs  for  several  years,  and  since  the  death 
of  his  father  has  been  the  sole  manager  of  the 
estate.  He  is  a  young  man  of  genuine  ability 
and  executive  talent,  these  qualities  having  been 
fostered  in  him  by  his  financial  experience  in  the 
east.  He  graduated  in  law  in  Philadelphia  eleven 
years  ago,  and  returned  to  Colorado,  intending 
to  practice  here.  However,  he  was  called  back 
to  Philadelphia  to  assist  in  the  organization  of  a 
commercial  enterprise,  which  consumed  his  time 
up  to  1893.  He  then  came  to  Colorado  and 
relieved  his  father  of  the  weight  of  business  cares 
which  bore  heavily  upon  him  in  his  declining 
days. 

UjATHANIEL  D.  JOHNSON,  a  successful 
YJ  stock-raiser  living  one  and  one-half  miles 
l/j  south  of  Altona,  Bouldei"  County,  was  born 
in  Winneshiek  County,  Iowa,  August  7,  1857, 
and  was  the  younger  of  two  children,  having  a 
sister,  Mrs.  Mary  Woodward,  who  resides  in 
Howard  County,  Iowa.  When  he  was  four  weeks 
old  his  mother  died,  and  the  friend,  Mrs.  Joshua 


P.  Johnson,  who  had  attended  her  in  her  last  ill- 
ness, feeling  a  tender  pity  in  her  heart  for  the 
orphan  boy,  took  him  home  with  her.  There 
she  supplied  every  comfort  that  her  means  permit- 
ted. When  she  and  her  husband  decided  to  move 
to  Colorado  they  legally  adopted  the  child,  then 
two  and  one-half  years  of  age,  and  his  father's 
name  of  David  Easier  was  changed  to  his  adopted 
father's  name  of  Johnson. 

In  the  spring  of  i860  the  family  came  to  Colo- 
rado, where  Mr.  Johnson  engaged  in  mining. 
After  some  years  he  came  to  this  valley,  where 
he  worked  on  a  farm  for  some  time,  and  then  took 
up  a  homestead  of  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres, 
situated  one  mile  north  of  Hay  Stack  Mountain. 
On  that  place  he  engaged  in  farming  until  his 
death,  which  occurred  in  September,  1897.  He 
was  a  native  of  Clarke  County,  Ohio,  born  in 
1818,  and  was  seventy- nine  years  of  age  at  the 
time  of  his  death. 

In  boyhood  our  subject  acquired  a  common- 
school  education.  While  he  was  in  school,  on 
the  breaking  out  of  small-pox  in  the  neighbor- 
hood, he  was  vaccinated,  and  later,  when  his  arm 
had  healed,  he  took  off  the  scab  and  went  around 
the  neighborhood  vaccinating  the  boys  who  had 
escaped  the  doctors  in  their  rounds.  In  that  way 
he  was  given  the  name  of  "Doc,"  which  has 
clung  to  him  ever  since.  At  the  age  of  sixteen 
he  began  at  farm  work  and  herding  cattle,  trading 
horses,  etc.  When  he  was  nineteen  he  went  to 
the  northern  part  of  the  state,  where  he  worked 
as  a  cowboy  for  two  years.  Returning  to  Left 
Hand,  he  farmed  for  one  year,  then  went  again 
to  the  northern  part  of  the  state  with  a  bunch  of 
cattle  of  his  own.  There  he  took  care  of  his  cat- 
tle until  the  fall  of  1880  and  at  the  same  time 
worked  for  others.  On  selling  his  stock,  he  re- 
turned to  Left  Hand.  February  14,  1881,  he 
married  Mrs.  Florilla  Dagle,  the  widow  of  Joseph 
Dagle,  and  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Herrilda 
(Pribble)  Hall. 

After  his  marriage  Mr.  Johnson  took  up  one 
hundred  and  sixty  acres  of  land  as  a  homestead 
and  pre-empted  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres, 
where  he  now  resides.  He  has  since  followed 
stock-raising  and  has  met  with  remarkable  success 
in  his  business  ventures.  He  is  one  of  the  few 
men  who  have  made  a  success  of  the  cattle  busi- 
ness at  all  stages  of  the  work,  and  his  efficiency 
in  the  business  has  made  him  prominent  among 


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the  stock-raisers  of  his  community.  In  addition 
to  his  cattle  interests,  he  takes  an  active  part  in 
public  affairs  and  is  particularly  interested  in 
educational  matters.  For  several  years  he  served 
as  a  member  of  the  school  board. 


(Tames  E.  HUBBARD  has  been  alderman 
I  from  the  fourth  ward  of  Boulder  since  1892, 
O  having  been  elected  on  the  Republican  ticket 
it  the  year  mentioned  and  having  been  three 
times  re-elected.  He  has  done  effective  service 
on  many  important  committees,  and  has  acted  in 
the  capacity  of  chairman  of  the  committees  on 
streets  and  finance,  etc.  While  he  has  been  one 
of  the  city  fathers  great  improvements  have  been 
made,  adding  much  to  the  general  attractiveness 
and  desirability  of  Boulder  as  a  place  of  residence. 
The  water-works  have  been  enlarged  and  made 
more  efficient;  the  electric  light  plant  has  been 
built,  streets  graded  and  paved,  sewers  laid,  etc. 
For  many  years  Mr.  Hubbard  has  been  an  ac- 
knowledged leader  in  local  politics,  and  has  been 
an  earnest  worker  for  the  success  of  his  party. 
He  is  and  has  been  for  a  long  period  the  chair- 
man of  the  committee  of  his  precinct  and  was 
formerly  a  member  of  the  state  Republican  com- 
mittee. 

The  Hubbards  were  early  settlers  in  Maine, 
coming  to  this  country  from  England.  The  sub- 
ject of  this  article  has  in  his  possession  an  old 
Queen  Anne  flint  musket,  which  was  carried  by 
his  great-grandfather  Hubbard  in  the  Revolu- 
tionary war.  Grandfather  William  Hubbard,  a 
native  of  Maine,  was  a  life-long  resident  of  that 
state,  a  farmer  by  occupation.  He  died  when 
about  fourscore  years  of  age.  The  parents  of 
our  subject,  James  and  Hannah  (Adams)  Hub- 
bard,were  natives  of  Maine  and  Gilmanton,  N.  H., 
respectively.  The  mother  was  closely  related 
to  the  two  presidents  of  the  United  States, 
John  Adams  and  John  Quincy  Adams.  She  is  a 
daughter  of  Samuel  Adanis,  who  departed  this 
life  in  New  Hampshire.  She  is  now  eighty-five 
years  of  age,  and  is  making  her  home  with  her 
son,  James  E.  James  Hubbard  joined  the  colony 
which  went  to  Grinnell,  Iowa,  in  1854,  and  there 
established  Grinnell  College  and  the  Congrega- 
tional Church.  He  bought  and  sold  real  estate 
there  for  a  few  years  and  in  i860  started  for  Pike's 
Peak,  with  ox-teams.     Arriving  in  Blackhawk, 


Gilpin  County,  Colo.,  he  engaged  in  mining  and 
the  following  year  built  a  log  house  and  made 
other  improvements  upon  a  farm  three  and  a-half 
miles  from  Boulder  on  the  South  Boulder  River. 
His  family  joined  him  August  14,  1862,  and  he 
continued  to  cultivate  his  homestead  until  a  year 
or  two  before  his  death,  which  event  occurred  in 
1878,  when  he  was  in  his  sixty -sixth  year.  He 
was  a  deacon  in  the  Congregational  Church  here, 
and  was  one  of  the  chief  contributors  to  the  build- 
ing at  the  time  of  its  erection.  Of  his  five  chil- 
dren one  is  deceased.  Elizabeth  is  the  wife  of  Eli 
Dickerson,  a  Boulder  merchant;  Martha  is  Mrs. 
LeFevre,  of  Gunnison  County;  and  Sarah  is  Mrs. 
Robert  Lyman,  of  this  place. 

James  E.  Hubbard,  the  youngest  of  his  father's 
family,  was  born  in  Sanford,  Me.,  September 
22,  1851.  With  the  others  he  went  to  Grinnell, 
and  in  1862  came  to  this  state  with  his  mother 
and  sisters.  They  journeyed  overland  by  ox- 
teams,  via  Plattsmouth,  Neb.,  up  the  South  Platte 
and  through  Fort  lyupton,  and  altogether  spent 
eleven  weeks  on  the  trip.  James  E.  was  a  student 
in  the  first  schoolhouse  erected  in  Boulder, 
and  prepared  himself  for  college  under  private 
tutors.  In  1870  he  entered  the  freshman  class  of 
Grinnell  College,  and  when  the  institution  burned 
down  two  years  later  he  went  to  Iowa  City  and 
in  1873  was  graduated  from  the  law  department 
of  the  University  of  Iowa.  Returning  to  this 
state,  he  embarked  in  legal  practice  in  George- 
town, but  two  years  sufficed  to  show  him  that  such 
a  confining  and  taxing  calling  was  seriously  ef- 
fecting his  health.  For  a  few  years  he  worked 
out  of  doors  on  his  father's  farm,  and  when  fully 
recuperated  he  came  to  Boulder.  In  December, 
1882,  he  embarked  in  an  enterprise  new  to  the 
town  and  vicinity.  He  purchased  a  whole  block 
of  land  (half  of  which  he  has  since  sold)  and 
built  greenhouses.  He  has  handled  all  kinds  of 
plants  and  flowers  and  nursery  stock.  He  has 
five  greenhouses,  and  over  twelve  thousand 
square  feet  of  glass.  In  1894  he  bought  five  acres 
of  land  lying  immediately  east  of  the  university 
grounds,  and  has  here  planted  strawberries  and 
ornamental  shrubbery,  etc.  He  takes  orders  for 
decorating,  plants  and  cut  flowers,  and  does  by 
far  the   largest  business  in  his  line  in  this  section. 

The  wife  of  Mr.  Hubbard  was,  before  their 
marriage  in  1873,  Miss  Rhoda  Duke.  She  is  a 
native  of  Columbus,  Ohio,  and  was  educated   iu 


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the  University  of  Iowa.  Her  father,  John  C. 
Duke,  who,  years  ago,  owned  a  large  factory  in 
Ottumwa,  Iowa,  and  was  the  patentee  and  manu- 
facturer of  Duke's  Patent  Window-screen,  is  now 
in  charge  of  Mr.  Hubbard's  nursery  business. 
The  six  children  of  our  subject  and  wife  are: 
James  Robert,  who  graduated  from  the  University 
of  Colorado  in  1898  with  the  degree  of  Bachelor 
of  Arts;  Charles,  a  member  of  the  class  of  190 1,  in 
the  same  institution;  Edwin  ,  May,  Helen  and 
Estella. 

In  the  Masonic  order  Mr.  Hubbard  stands  very 
high,  being  past  master  of  Boulder  Lodge  No. 
45,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.;  R.  A.  C.  of  Boulder  Lodge 
No.  7,  R.  A.  M.;  and  Generalissimo  of  Mount 
Sinai  Commandery  No.  7,  K.  T.  He  also  belongs 
to  El  Jebel  Temple,  Mystic  Shrine,  of  Denver, 
and  is  connected  with  the  Knights  of  Pythias,  be- 
ing a  member  of  Boulder  Lodge  No.  76,  of  that 
order. 


REV.  R.  P.  ROBINET,  who  was  pastor  of 
St.  Joseph's  Catholic  Church  at  Fort  Col- 
lins, St.  John's  at  Longmont  and  St.  Mary's 
at  Greeley,  was  born  in  the  grand  duchy  of  Lux- 
emburg, which  in  1814  came  into  the  possession 
of  the  King  of  Netherlands,  but  in  1830  was 
given,  in  part,  to  France,  and  has  since  contin- 
ued under  the  dominion  of  these  two  countries. 
His  father,  John,  and  grandfather,  Jerome  Robi- 
net,  were  natives  of  France,  and  the  latter,  who 
served  under  Napoleon,  accompanied  that  general 
on  his  march  to  Moscow,  was  taken  prisoner, 
confined  in  the  bastile  there  and  finally  released 
by  a  large  equipment  of  soldiers  that  came  from 
France  to  reinforce  the  army  in  Russia.  The 
Robinets  are  an  old  French  family,  one  of  whose 
members  became  an  illustrious  philosopher. 

John  Robinet,  who  was  an  agriculturist  by  oc- 
cupation, owned  land  lying  in  France,  Belgium 
and  Luxemburg.  He  was  a  man  of  means  and 
influence  and  held  a  high  place  in  the  esteem  of 
his  countrymen.  His  death  occurred  on  his 
farm  in  1894,  when  he  was  seventy-two  years  of 
age.  He  had  married  Maria  Krier,  who  was 
born  in  the  village  of  Eischen,  Luxemburg,  and 
died  at  thirty-four  years  of  age.  She  was  a 
daughter  of  Henry  Krier,  who  owned  a  brewery 
and  an  entire  side  of  a  street  in  their  village, 
Eischen.  The  ownership  of  the  brewery  de- 
scended to  Mrs.  Robinet,  who  left  a  large  fortune 


to  her  children,  Catherine,  Eliza,  Henry  and  our 
subject.  Of  these  all  remain  in  Europe  except- 
ing the  youngest.  The  father  was  a  second  time 
married  and  had  three  children,  all  of  whom  re- 
side in  Eischen. 

In  the  village  where  he  was  born  August  19, 
1857,  the  subject  of  this  sketch  obtained  the  rudi- 
ments of  his  education.  He  then  entered  the 
city  schools  of  Luxemburg,  where  he  studied  the 
classics.  Later  he  was  under  a  private  tutor  in 
Grevenmocher,  on  the  Mosella.  He  was  fortunate 
in  being  able  to  secure  the  services,. as  instruct- 
ors, of  some  of  the  most  brilliant  Prussian  priests, 
who,  having  been  forced  to  flee  from  their  own 
country,  had  sought  refuge  in  Luxemburg. 
Among  his  instructors  was  the  former  chancellor 
of  the  diocese  of  Trives,  with  whom  he  remained 
for  two  years.  He  then  went  to  the  city  of 
Charleville,  France,  and  for  three  years  carried 
on  classical  studies  there. 

In  the  early  part  of  1879  he  came  to  America 
and  joined  some  friends  in  the  Univ-ersity  of 
Notre  Dame  in  Indiana,  where  he  completed  his 
philosophical  studies.  From  there  he  went  to 
St.  Francis  Seminary,  Milwaukee,  where  he  car- 
ried on  the  study  of  theology  for  three  years. 
On  the  completion  of  his  preparation  for  the 
priesthood  he  was  ordained  by  Archbishop  Heiss, 
of  Milwaukee,  June  24,  1884,  and  was  assigned 
to  the  diocese  of  Colorado.  At  the  earnest  solici- 
tation of  Bishop  Machebeuf  he  came  to  Denver, 
though  he  had  much  pressure  brought  to  bear 
upon  him  to  secure  his  services  elsewhere,  hav- 
ing received  letters  from  the  Archbishops  of  Ore- 
gon, New  Mexico,  Peoria,  Green  Bay  and  Omaha, 
and  being  also  solicited  to  remain  in  Milwaukee. 
Believing  it  would  be  best  to  come  to  Colorado, 
he  accepted  the  invitation  from  the  bishop  of 
Denver,  and  celebrated  the  first  mass  in  Colorado 
at  St.  Elizabeth's  Church  in  Denver,  it  being 
the  feast  of  precious  blood.  For  thirteen  months 
he  was  occupied  as  an  assistant  in  Denver,  after 
which  he  was  sent  to  Fort  Collins  and  reorgan- 
ized a  Catholic  congregation,  which  had  been  in 
a  chaotic  condition.  From  his  private  fortune 
he  paid  off  the  church  debt  and  placed  affairs  up- 
on a  solid  basis. 

However,  the  priest's  efforts  were  not  limited 
to  Fort  Collins.  He  organized  a  church  at 
Platteville,  also  at  Brighton,  and  was  the  first  to 
say  mass  in  these  places.     He  also  inaugurated 


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movements  looking  toward  the  erection  of  church 
buildings,  but  when  Father  Hewlett  was  assigned 
to  the  charge  he  relinquished  the  work  in  his 
favor.  He  organized  the  congregation  and  built 
the  church  house  at  Castle  Rock;  organized  the 
church  in  Longmont,  built  an  edifice  for  which 
he  paid  personally,  also  erected  a  residence  and 
librarj'  there.  The  congregation  in  Greeley  was 
brought  together  through  his  efiforts.  To  these 
several  congregations  he  has  ministered.  Politi- 
cally he  is  a  Democrat.  He  is  a  man  of  splendid 
education  and  is  fluent  in  the  use  of  the  French, 
Latin,  English  and  German  languages,  and  the 
Luxemborgian  dialect. 


(Josephs.  SEELY  is  the  owner  of  the  lake 
I  called  by  his  name  and  is  the  proprietor  of 
(2)  Lakeside,  a  charming  resort  for  pleasure- 
seekers  of  Weld  County.  The  lake  is  an  artifi- 
cial one,  having  been  made  in  1873,  and  originally 
served  merely  as  a  waste-reservoir  for  Ditch  No. 
2,  which  irrigates  this  section  of  farming  country. 
Twenty-four  years  ago,  Mr.  Seely  wisely  look- 
ing forward  to  the  future  possibilities  of  this  little 
lake,  purchased  the  property,  and  within  the  past 
fifteen  years  has  expended  large  sums  of  money 
in  the  improvement  of  the  grounds,  in  stocking 
the  lake  with  perch  and  black  bass,  and  in  other 
material  ways  increasing  the  beauty  and  value  of 
the  place  as  a  resort.  In  1895  he  built  a  pavilion 
and  he  keeps  over  a  dozen  boats  for  the  use  of 
visitors.  The  fishing  here  is  very  good  in  sea- 
son, and  large  parties  frequently  come  here  from 
Denver  and  other  cities  and  towns,  near  and  far. 
Born  October  30,  1841,  our  subject  is  a  son  of 
Joseph  and  Julia  (Jackson)  Seely,  who  were  na- 
tives of  Delaware  County,  N.  Y. ,  anddpent  their 
early  married  life  there.  About'  two  years  prior 
to  the  birth  of  Joseph  S.  they  removed  to  Rome, 
Bradford  County,  Pa.,  and  in  that  locality  they 
spent  the  rest  of  their  lives  upon  a  farm.  Grand- 
father Seely  was  a  native  of  Connecticut,  and 
was  an  early  settler  of  New  York.  Grandfather 
Isaac  Jackson  was  a  native  of  England  and  after 
coming  to  this  country  lived  upon  a  farm  on  the 
banks  of  Trout  Creek,  in  Delaware  County,  N.  Y. 
The  children  of  Joseph  and  Julia  Seely  were  eleven 
in  number.  George  went  to  California  in  1849 
and  was  a  county  surveyor  for  a  while,  but  has 
been  lost  track  of  in  later  years.     Silas  E.,  now 


of  Arkansas,  was  a  wagon  manufacturer  in  Rome, 
Pa.,  for  many  years.  Mrs.  Ada  George  Harman 
lives  on  a  farm  in  Vermont.  Charles  E.,  who 
was  engaged  in  blacksmithing  up  to  the  time  of 
the  Civil  war,  then  enlisted  in  the  Union  army, 
and  later  was  a  Nebraska  farmer;  he  is  now 
managing  a  fruit  farm  near  Loveland,  Colo.  Mary 
R.  is  the  wife  of  Charles  Brown,  of  Sheshequin, 
Pa.  William  H.  is  a  carpenter  and  a  resident  of 
Oakwood,  Mich.  Isaac  J.  remained  on  the  old 
family  homestead  until  recently, when  he  removed 
to  Nichols,  N.  Y.  Warren  A.  died  when  eight- 
een years  of  age,  and  Julia  and  Melissa  were  each 
about  nine  years  old  at  the  time  of  death. 

Joseph  S.  Seely  was  born  and  reared  on  the 
parental  homestead  in  Pennsylvania,  receiving  a 
common-school  education.  In  Januarj^  1864,  he 
became  an  employe  of  the  railroad  construction 
department  of  the  army.  He  worked  on  roads 
in  Tennessee,  Georgia  and  Virginia  for  the  gov- 
ernment, and  was  advanced  to  be  the  foreman  of 
his  force  of  men.  When  the  war  had  been  brought 
to  a  close  he  engaged  in  the  milk  business  in 
Chattanooga  for  a  couple  of  years.  Returning 
then  to  the  north  he  worked  with  his  brother 
Henry  in  Michigan  as  a  carpenter  for  fourteen 
months,  after  which  he  went  back  to  the  old  farm 
and  assisted  in  its  cultivation  for  one  season. 

When  the  colony  for  Greeley,  Colo. ,  was  organ- 
ized he  became  a  member,  and  was  assigned  a 
town  lot  and  an  eighty-acre  farm  on  section  26, 
township  6,  range  66  west.  He  built  a  house  on 
his  farm  and  continued  the  improvement  of  the 
place.  He  has  made  agriculture  his  chief  busi- 
ness and  has  prospered,  as  he  deserves  to  do. 
By  degrees  he  increased  the  boundaries  of  his 
farm  until  he  owned  three  hundred  and  ninetj'- 
five  acres.  Afterwards  he  sold  a  quarter  section, 
and  now  retains  two  hundred  and  thirty-five 
acres.  He  also  owns  a  nice  residence  property 
in  Greeley.  For  the  past  five  years  he  has  been 
engaged  in  the  ice  business,  putting  up  his  sup- 
plies when  the  lake  freezes,  and  running  a  wagon 
to  Greeley  during  the  season,  to  meet  the  de- 
mands of  the  trade  there.  Politically  he  is  a  Re- 
publican. He  is  a  charter  member  of  Occidental 
Lodge  No.  20,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  of  Greeley,  and  is 
connected  with  the  Ancient  Order  of  United 
Workmen. 

October  30,  1877,  Mr.  Seely  married  Esther 
A.  Nettleton,   of  Greeley.     Mrs.    Seely  died   in 


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June,  1879,  leaving  an  onlj'  child,  May  H.,  who 
is  a  graduate  of  the  Greeley  high  school  and  a 
normal  student,  and  now  attending  the  Metro- 
politan Business  College  of  Chicago.  The  present 
wife  of  Mr.  Seely  was  formerly  Mrs.  Kate  S. 
Williams.  They  were  married  in  Greeley,  in 
January,  1881. 

WILLIAM  N.  BELL,  vice-president  and 
factory  manager  of  the  Clarkson  Cheese 
Company  at  Louisville,  Boulder  County, 
was  born  in  Lincolnshire,  England,  August  10, 
1850,  a  son  of  John  and  Elizabeth  (Newton)  Bell. 
He  was  one  of  ten  children,  six  of  whom  survive. 
His  father,  who  was  a  native  of  Lincolnshire, 
born  about  1823,  grew  to  manhood  on  a  farm, 
and  in  1873  emigrated  to  America,  settling  in 
Iowa,  where  he  bought  a  farm.  However,  he 
did  not  live  to  cultivate  and  improve  the  place, 
for  during  the  first  winter  after  coming  to  Amer- 
ica he  contracted  pneumonia,  which  terminated 
fatally.  While  in  England  he  filled  the  office  of 
constable  for  three  terms.  His  father,  William, 
was  for  manj'  years  foreman  of  the  landed  estates 
of  an  English  lord;  and  his  father-in-law,  Samuel 
Newton,  was  a  prominent  farmer  of  Lincoln- 
shire. 

In  the  public  schools  our  subject  obtained  a 
fair  education.  At  seventeen  years  he  began 
railroading  in  Chesterfield,  Derbyshire,  where  he 
worked  for  three  years,and  later  was  similiarly  em- 
ployed for  three  years  in  Skipton ,  Yorkshire.  He 
joined  his  parents  in  their  emigration  to  America 
and  on  his  arrival  in  Iowa  secured  work  at  the  Red 
Head  mine  in  Des  Moines,  where  he  remained  as 
fireman  for  five  years.  His  next  position  was 
with  Lumsden  &  Beck,  coal  operators,  whom  he 
assisted  in  sinking  two  shafts,  and  afterward 
worked  two  years  in  their  employ.  In  1880  he 
came  to  Colorado  and  secured  employment  in 
the  coal  mines  at  Louisville.  After  six  years  of 
mining  he  decided  to  embark  in  farm  pursuits, 
and  accordingly  bought  one  hundred  and  sixty 
acres  situated  five  and  one-half  miles  east  of 
Louisville.  During  the  summer  months  he 
cultivated  the  farm,  while  in  the  winter  months 
he  worked  at  mining. 

In  April,  1897,  the  Clarkson  Cheese  Company 
was  organized  with  John  A.  Ross  as  president, 
William  N.  Bell  vice-president  and  manager,  and 
J.   G.    Eversman  secretary  and  treasurer.     After 


the  erection  of  their  brick  factory  operations  were 
begun  May  12,  1897,  since  which  time  the  factory 
has  been  in  constant  operation.  The  enterprise 
has  proved  a  successful  one,  and  the  company, 
by  the  reliability  and  excellent  quality  of  its 
products,  has  gained  a  wide  and  enviable  rep- 
utation. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Bell  took  place  at  Kay 
Thorp,  Lincolnshire,  England,  in  187 1,  his  wife 
being  Miss  Mary  Gibson.  They  became  the 
parents  of  eight  children,  six  of  whom  are  living, 
namely:  Fannie,  who  is  the  wife  of  Adam  Ginter, 
a  farmer  of  Arapahoe  County;  William,  Alberta, 
Lizzie,  Newton  and  Alta,  who  are  with  their 
parents,  the  sons  assisting  in  the  cultivation  of 
the  ranch.  In  political  views  Mr.  Bell  is  a 
Populist,  and  fraternally  he  is  connected  with 
Hiawatha  Tribe,  Improved  Order  of  Red  Men,  at 
Louisville. 

P  QlLLIAM  R.  MURPHY,  whose  home  is  on 
\  A  /  section  7,  township  2  south,  range  67  west, 
Y  V  Arapahoe  County,  is  one  of  the  hardy  pio- 
neers of  1859,  who  laid  the  foundations  of  Colo- 
rado's greatness  and  prosperity.  Struggling  as 
best  he  might,  with  the  unforseen  trials  and  dan- 
gers of  life  in  a  new  and  unknown  country,  he 
ultimately  gained  a  victory  over  circumstances, 
and  long  ago  became  successful  and  influential 
in  his  own  community.  He  built  his  commodious 
and  comfortable  home  in  1875,  and,  surrounded 
by  his  little  family,  has  enjoyed  life,  secure  in  the 
esteem  and  love  of  friends  and  neighbors.  Under 
his  constant  and  untiring  care  and  labor,  he  has 
made  his  farm  a  garden,  where  it  was  formerly  a 
desert,  and  has  had  the  pleasure  of  reaping  fine 
harvests  from  land  which,  when  he  took  posses- 
sion of  it,  was  a  wilderness. 

The  parents  of  the  above-named  gentleman 
were  David  and  Sarah  (Likens)  Murphy,  who 
were  married  in  Kentucky.  The  father  was  a 
native  of  that  state,  but  the  mother  was  from 
eastern  Tennessee  and  removed  to  Kentucky 
with  her  family  in  girlhood.  After  their  mar- 
riage David  Murphy  and  wife  removed  to  Callo- 
way County,  Mo.,  and  there  William  R.  was 
born  June  4,  1838.  The  family  lived  in  vari- 
ous counties  in  Missouri,  Linn,  Platte  and 
Leavenworth,  but  were  not  well  suited  with  the 
country.  They  arrived  in  the  county  last- 
named    in     1854,    and   were    thus    among    the 


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first  settlers  there.  Five  j^ears  later,  the  father 
sold  out  his  property  and  started  for  Colorado, 
in  company  with  his  family  and  a  few  friends 
and  neighbors.  They  set  out  on  their  long  jour- 
ney May  10,  and  did  not  reach  Denver  until  July 
19,  1859.  Proceeding  expeditiously  as  far  as  the 
head  of  Smoky  Hill  River,  on  the  Smoky  Hill 
trail,  they  soon  found  that  they  were  not  provided 
with  sufficient  water  for  their  cattle  in  the  desert. 
After  anxious  deliberation  it  was  decided  to  turn 
back,  but  when  the  men  began  looking  for  the 
oxen,  which  had  been  allowed  to  wander  away  in 
search  of  pasturage,  the  animals  could  not  be 
found.  The  only  resource  of  the  little  party 
was  their  three  horses,  which  had  been  picketed. 
With  a  few  things  they  started  back  for  water,  be- 
ing obliged  to  leave  their  wagons  and  loads.  Re- 
turning, the  father  of  our  subject  again  went  on 
search  for  the  missing  cattle,  and  while  gone, 
passed  another  trail,  which,  if  they  had  taken, 
would  have  led  them  within  fifteen  miles  of  water. 
Being  unsuccessful  in  finding  the  oxen,  Mr. 
Murphy  conveyed  his  party  to  a  point  known  as 
Twenty-second  Station,  and  also  took  some  sup- 
plies from  their  wagons,  which  had  to  be  aban- 
doned by  the  way.  The  very  day  that  they  reached 
the  station  mentioned,  a  train  passed  and  Mr. 
Murphy  prevailed  upon  the  head  of  the  company 
to  take  his  own  party  through  to  Denver.  As 
soon  as  he  had  arrived  in  that  city  he  hired  a  man 
to  take  five  yoke  of  oxen  and  go  after  the  wagon 
and  goods,  his  payment  to  be  the  sum  of  $80  for 
the  trip.  Mr.  Murphy  accompanied  him  and  the 
night  that  they  found  the  wagons  they  camped 
there  and  to  their  dismay  the  next  morning  their 
oxen  had  disappeared  and  were  never  again  re- 
covered. Their  only  resort  then  was  to  await 
another  company  going  across  the  plains,  and  to 
get  them  to  trail  their  wagons  after  their  own. 
This  was  finally  done,  and  one  of  Mr.  Murphy's 
wagons  was  given  in  payment  for  the  service.  He 
was  thus  left  in  a  bad  condition,  financially,  and 
being  an  old  man,  he  settled  down  in  Denver. 

William  R.  Murphy,  now  a  young  man,  left 
home  and  went  to  the  mines,  but  he  did  not  like 
the  business  and  soon  located  on  some  rented 
land  in  the  valley.  Later  he  entered  a  tract, 
and  then  sold  the  property,  finally  renting  it 
of  the  owner  for  five  years.  When  he  made  a 
fair  start,  he  bought  a  quarter-section  of  his 
present  homested,  and  began  raising  live-stock. 


He  married  and  lived  for  some  years  in  an  humble 
house,  which  was  supplanted  by  his  present 
home,  as  soon  as  he  was  able  to  build  it.  For 
many  years  he  has  been  a  director  and  the  treas- 
urer of  the  Colorado  Agricultural  Ditch  Com- 
pany, and  has  placed  irrigating  ditches  on  his 
farm.  A  few  years  after  making  his  first  pur- 
chase of  land  he  bought  twenty  acres  more.  He 
favors  education  and  good  school  privileges  for 
the  young.     In  politics  he  is  a  Republican. 

December  10,  1863,  Mr.  Murphy  married 
Sarah  E.  Smith,  a  native  of  Ohio.  She  moved 
from  the  Buckeye  state  to  Missouri  and  thence  to 
Colorado  in  1859,  with  her  father.  Shewasonly 
twelve  years  of  age  when  she  crossed  the  plains 
with  her  father.  They  were  only  a  small  party 
and  in  constant  danger  of  the  Indians.  The  five 
children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Murphy  are:  William 
A. ,  who  married  Dilla  Ciardo,  and  is  a  farmer; 
Alice,  wife  of  Edward  Marsh,  and  living  near 
Denver;  May,  Mrs.  Charles  C.  Moore,  also  a  resi- 
dent of  the  environs  of  Denver;  Katie,  Mrs. 
Eugene  O'Connor,  of  Denver;  and  Edward  R.,  a 
youth  of  thirteen  years. 


WILLIAM  W.  KENNEDY.  Among  the 
respected  and  honored  citizens  of  Weld 
County  this  gentleman  ranks  high,  for  he 
is  enterprising  and  systematic  in  business,  ever 
regardful  of  the  rights  of  others;  is  active  in  the 
support  of  worthy  public  institutions  and  im- 
provements, and  endeavors  to  do  his  full  duty 
toward  his  family  and  his  fellow-men.  His  first 
vote  was  cast  for  Lincoln,  since  which  time  he 
has  been  a  zealous  Republican.  In  1898  he  was 
a  nominee  for  the  ofiice  of  county  commissioner 
on  the  Republican  ticket,  but  owing  to  the  pecu- 
liar political  situation  here  at  that  time  was  de- 
feated. In  the  Civil  war  he  was  one  of  the  na- 
tion's brave  defenders,  and,  having  enlisted  in 
Company  I,  Ninety -seventh  Ohio  Regiment  of 
Volunteers,  he  went  to  the  front  and  served  in 
the  Army  of  the  Tennessee  under  Sherman. 
With  that  illustrious  commander  he  started  on 
the  famed  march  to  the  sea,  but  was  taken  ill  at 
Chattanooga  and  sent  to  the  hospital  at  Nash- 
ville. After  he  had  recovered  he  was  transferred 
to  the  veteran  reserve  corps  and  assigned  to  guard 
duty.     He]  was   finally   discharged   in    Chicago 


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August  20,  1864,  on  account  of  physical  dis- 
ability ,  after  having  been  in  the  service  two  and 
a-half  years.  The  boys  who  wore  the  blue  have 
a  very  warm  place  in  his  heart,  and  he  has  been 
an  active  member  of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Re- 
public for  years.  He  has  been  the  commander 
of  R.  B.  Hayes  Post  No.  90,  of  New  Windsor, 
and  in  1898  was  a  delegate  to  the  national  en- 
campment in  Cincinnati. 

W.  W.  Kennedy  is  the  third  of  a  family  of 
eight  children  whose  parents  were  Philip  and 
Susan  (Jones)  Kennedy.  The  father  was  a  well- 
to-do  farmer  of  Coshocton  County,  Ohio.  The 
eldest  of  his  children  is  Rachel  E.,  wife  of  A.  S. 
Eaton,  of  Greeley.  Ann  E.,  deceased,  was  the 
wife  of  William  Smith,  of  Ohio.  Thomas  F.  was 
engaged  in  the  drug  business  in  Clinton,  Mo.,  for 
many  years  and  is  now  deceased.  John  A.,  an 
early  settler  of  Colorado,  is  now  retired.  He  re- 
sides in  Boulder,  and  is  an  extensive  land-owner. 
Harriet  B.  is  the  wife  of  Prof  W.  C.  Thomas, 
principal  of  the  Longmont  public  schools.  Mary 
is  the  wife  of  T.  W.  McCurdy,  a  farmer  of  Mor- 
gan County,  Colo.  He  is  the  county  assessor, 
and  at  present  his  family  is  living  near  Fort 
Morgan.  Emma  J.  is  the  wife  of  L.  M.  Hanks, 
salesman  for  George  Ady,  of  Denver,  Colo. 

The  birth  of  W.  W.  Kennedy  occurred  in 
Coshocton  County,  Ohio,  October  12,  1843.  He 
received  thorough  training  in  farm  work  and  re- 
mained at  home  until  he  was  eighteen  years  of 
age,  when  his  patriotism  led  to  his  enlistment  in 
the  army.  At  the  close  of  his  service  he  went  to 
Muscatine  County,  Iowa,  and  there  taught  school 
and  farmed  rented  land  for  a  number  of  years. 
In  the  spring  of  1880  he  came  to  this  state  and 
rented  the  farm  which  he  now  owns,  as  the  fol- 
lowing year  he  purchased  the  place.  Originally 
comprising  three  hundred  and  twenty  acres,  he 
has  disposed  of  forty  acres  and  has  made  great 
improvements.  There  are  now  one  hundred  and 
sixty  acres  under  cultivation,  and  it  is  the  thrift- 
iest place  in  the  neighborhood.  In  1893  he 
erected  his  pretty  and  comfortable  home.  He  is 
a  stockholder  in  ditch  No.  2,  and  has  been  presi- 
dent of  the  school  board.  He  has  made  one  of  his 
chief  aims  the  educating  of  his  children,  and  has 
fitted  them  to  be  good  and  useful  citizens  in  any 
community.  A  member  of  the  Masonic  order, 
he  belongs  to  Windsor  I^odge  No.  69,  A.  F.  & 
A.  M.,  and  is  also  an  Odd  Fellow,  being  con- 


nected with  Poudre  Valley  Lodge  No.  88,  of 
Windsor,  and  Columbia  Lodge  No.  16,  Eastern 
Star. 

March  19,  1866,  Mr.  Kennedy  was  married  in 
Muscatine,  Iowa,  to  Sarah  F.  Beard,  daughter 
of  John  and  Rebecca  (Fisher)  Beard.  She  was 
born  in  Pennsylvania,  of  which  state  her  parents 
were  also  natives,  and  in  early  days  they  settled 
in  Iowa.  The  five  children  of  our  subject  and 
wife  are:  Alice  A.,  Mrs.  Clarence  McNeal,  of 
this  county;  Susie,  wife  of  William  Mahood,  a 
farmer  and  stockman  of  Weld  County;  Julia  M., 
Mrs.  John  Kern,  of  Milwaukee,  Wis.;  John  H., 
a  graduate  of  Greeley  high  school;  and  Ethel, 
now  a  student  in  the  Greeley  high  school. 


I  GUIS  L.  PRINCE,  one  of  the  capable  farmers 
It  of  Boulder  County  and  the  owner  of  a  farm 
U  near  Canfield,  was  born  in  Cooper  County, 
Mo.,  October  30,  1862,  and  is  a  son  of  Hiram 
and  Helen  M.  (Lindsay)  Prince.  The  sketches 
of  his  father  and  two  brothers  will  be  found  else- 
where in  this  volume.  He  was  only  three  years 
of  age  at  the  time  the  family  removed  to  Colorado 
and  in  this  state  he  passed  the  days  of  boyhood 
and  youth,  meantime  acquiring  a  fair  education 
in  the  common  schools.  To  the  knowledge  gained 
in  schools  he  has  added  by  self-culture  and 
thoughtful  reading,  which  has  made  him  a  man 
of  splendid  general  information. 

September  25,  1892,  occurred  the  marriage  of 
Mr.  Prince  and  Miss  Cora  Smith,  an  estimable 
young  lady  then  living  in  Ashland,  Ore.  She 
was,  however,  a  native  of  Washington  Territory, 
where  her  parents,  G.  W.  and  Elizabeth  (Lind- 
say) Smith,  resided  for  many  years.  This  union 
has  been  blessed  by  the  birth  of  a  daughter, 
Clara  E.,  who  was  born  July  31,  1893. 

After  his  marriage  Mr.  Prince  began  farming  a 
tract  of  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  which  had 
been  given  him  by  his  father.  Here  he  has  since 
remained,  giving  his  attention  to  the  improve- 
ment and  cultivation  of  the  place.  He  is  fond 
of  travel,  and  in  1886  made  a  tour  of  exploration 
through  California  and  Utah.  He  was  also  on  a 
tour  through  the  west  at  the  time  of  his  marriage, 
and  since  then  he  and  his  wife,  in  1895,  returned 
to  Ashland  on  a  visit  and  also  traveled  through 
other  parts  of  the  northwest.  In  politics  he  is 
a  Republican. 


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gRACE  ESPY  PATTON  COWLES.  Per- 
haps in  the  entire  state  of  Colorado  there  is  no 
T  lady  who  has  been  more  prominently  before 
the  people  than  Miss  Patton  (now  Mrs.  Cowles), 
state  superintendent  of  public  instruction  andex- 
ofBcio  state  librarian.  To  some  she  is  known  chief- 
ly by  her  contributions  to  the  press,  which  evince  a 
high  order  of  literary  ability;  to  others  she  is 
known  chiefly  through  her  prominence  in  the 
most  select  society  circles  of  Denver;  but  to  per- 
haps the  largest  class  of  people  she  is  known 
through  her  connection  with  the  educational  in- 
terests of  the  state.  Elected  in  1896  to  the  posi- 
tion she  now  so  efficiently  fills,  it  has  since  been 
her  ambition  to  promote  the  welfare  of  the  pub- 
lic schools,  and  she  has  been  earnest  in  her  efforts 
to  promote  four  lines  of  work:  libraries,  kinder- 
gartens, manual  training  in  both  graded  and  dis- 
trict schools,  and  artistic  .schoolroom  decorations. 
The  contributions  of  Mrs.  Cowles  to  the  Chicago 
Tribune  SinA  other  well-known  dailies  have  made 
her  name  a  familiar  one  to  readers  of  papers  in 
other  states.  She  is  also  the  author  of  '  'The 
Chalchihuitl"  (published  in  attractive  booklet 
form  in  Denver  in  1895),  which  tells  the  story  of 
the  beautiful  Indian  Princess  of  the  tribe  of  the 
Yutahenne,  the  child  of  Nature,  with  a  heart  un- 
tainted by  Realism,  but  abiding  in  the  Ideal.  The 
search  of  the  Princess  for  the  Chalchihuitl,  the 
magic  stone  that  was  to  bring  her  complete  hap- 
piness, is  vividly  depicted,  in  the  author's  usual 
vigorous  and  graceful  style. 

For  some  years  Mrs.  Cowles  was  president  of 
the  alumni  association  of  the  State  Agricultural 
College.  She  is  a  member  of  the  State  Teachers' 
Association,  the  State  Board  of  Land  Commission- 
ers, the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  State  Normal 
School,  and  the  State  Board  of  Education,  of 
which  she  is  now  the  president.  In  the  National 
Educational  Association  and  its  work  she  is  act- 
ively interested,  and  was  present  at  the  meeting 
of  the  department  of  superintendents  connected 
with  the  same,  at  Chattanooga,  Tenn.,  in  Febru- 
ary, 1898,  being  president  and  organizer  of  the 
conference  of  state  superintendents  at  that  con- 
vention. Also  active  in  the  work  of  the  State 
Woman's  Suffrage  Association,  she  was  its  auditor 
for  some  years  and  represented  it  as  delegate  to  the 
national  convention  at  Washington,  D.  C,  in 
1898,  when  her  name  was  upon  the  program  for 
all  address  on  the  evening  of  February  15. 


The  Patton  family  was  founded  in  America  in 
1630  by  Col.  James  Patton,  who  was  sent  by  the 
British  governmeiit  to  Virginia  as  an  officer  and 
settled  upon  a  plantation  there.  The  grandfather 
of  our  subject,  Hon.  Joseph  Patton,  was  born  in 
Fayette  County,  Pa.,  removed  thence  to  Craw- 
ford County,  became  the  owner  of  large  landed 
tracts  and  represented  his  district  in  the  state  legis- 
lature. He  married  Miss  Phebe  Espy,  a  native 
of  Pennsylvania,  to  which  state  her  ancestors  had 
come  from  New  Jersey.  The  Espy  family  had 
several  representatives  in  the  Revolution  and 
some  of  its  members  are  now  well-known  educators 
in  the  east. 

Two  sons  of  Joseph  Patton,  David  and  Joseph, 
continued  the  large  lumber  business  he  had  es- 
tablished on  the  old  Erie  and  Pittsburg  canal, 
but  the  introduction  of  the  railroad  terminated 
the  business,  the  canal  being  then  drained. 
Their  next  location  was  at  Espyville,  Pa.,  where 
they  were  manufacturers  of  and  dealers  in  lum- 
ber. In  1876  David  Patton  came  to  Colorado  and 
embarked  in  the  cattle  business  at  Fort  Collins, 
then  a  small  place,  destitute  of  railroads  or  im- 
provements. After  a  few  years  he  became  inter- 
ested in  a  feed  business.  He  was  mayor  of  Fort 
Collins,  commissioner  of  Larimer  County  and 
held  other  offices  of  trust.  Since  1895  his  home 
has  been  in  Denver. 

In  Linesville,  Crawford  County,  Pa.,  occurred 
the  birth  of  Mary  J.  Allen,  daughter  of  Moses 
Allen,  who  owned  the  largest  flour  mill  in  western  - 
Penns3'lvania.  His  father,  Stephen,  who  was  an 
officer  in  the  war  of  18 12,  was  a  son  of  Moses 
Allen,  who  was  born  in  New  Jersey  and  served 
with  a  regiment  from  that  state  in  the  Revolution 
until  he  was  killed  in  battle.  He  was  a  son  of 
Moses  Allen,  Sr.,  also  a  soldier  in  the  Revolu- 
tion, and  a  pioneer  of  Crawford  County,  Pa., 
where  his  descendants  were  successful  flour 
manufacturers.  The  Aliens  are  of  English  ex- 
traction. The  mother  of  Mary  J.  Allen  was 
Polly  (Burwell)  Allen,  who  was  born  in  Penn- 
sylvania, the  daughter  of  Samuel  Burwell,  who 
emigrated  from  England  to  Virginia  and  thence 
removed  to  Crawford  County,  Pa.  In  England 
they  were  members  of  the  nobility,  but  preferred 
to  give  up  their  titles  and  seek  a  home  in  Amer- 
ica. One  of  the  family,  Maj.  Lewis  Burwell,  set- 
tled in  Virginia  in  1639. 

The  family  of  David  and  Mary  J.  (Allen)  Pat- 


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ton  consisted  of  eight  children,  but  only  four  are 
living:  Knud,  who  is  in  New  Mexico;  Grace 
Espy;  Jessie,  a  member  of  the  class  of  '98, 
Woman's  Medical  College  of  the  Northwestern 
University,  Evanston,  111.;  Webb  Allen,  clerk 
in  the  office  of  the  secretary  of  state  of  Colorado; 
and  Polly.  The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born 
in  Hartstown,  Pa.,  and  received  an  excellent  ed- 
ucation in  the  State  Agricultural  College  at  Fort 
Collins,  graduating  in  1885  with  the  degree  of 
B.  S.  In  1897  the  degree  of  M.  S.  was  conferred 
upon  her  by  the  same  institution.  In  1885,  im- 
mediately after  graduating,  she  became  instruc- 
tor of  English  in  the  college,  in  1890  was  given 
the  chair  of  professor  of  English  and  sociology 
on  its  establishment  and  remained  in  that  depart- 
ment as  instructor  in  ethics,  psychology,  sociol- 
ogy and  civil  government,  until  her  election  as 
state  superintendent. 

In  1 896  she  was  nominated  for  the  office  at  the 
state  Democratic  convention  in  Pueblo  and  her 
name  was  retained  on  the  fusion  ticket  with  the 
silver  Republicans.  She  received  the  largest  plu- 
rality of  any  Democrat  on  the  ticket.  January 
12,  1897,  she  took  the  oath  of  office  and  has  since 
given  her  attention  to  the  discharge  of  its  duties, 
having,  in  addition  to  the  regular  work,  issued 
several  pamphlets  on  subjects  pertaining  to  the 
schools.  She  is  a  member  of  the  State  Library 
Association.  Socially  she  is  prominent  in  the 
Woman's  and  Clio  Clubs  of  Denver,  and  in  re- 
ligious belief  is  a  Presbyterian.  She  was  mar- 
ried April  9,  1898,  to  Warren  Hayden  Cowles, 
then  a  lieutenant  of  the  Sixteenth  United  States 
Infantry,  but  now  a  captain  in  the  Fourth  United 
States  Infantry. 

(lOHN  L.  DAILEY.  Among  the  large  num- 
I  ber  of  business  men  now  in  Denver,  there 
Q)  are  comparatively  few  who  have  been  iden- 
tified with  the  growth  of  the  city  from  the  earliest 
days  of  its  history,  who  have  witnessed  its  devel- 
opment from  one  decade  to  another  and  have 
themselves  been  active  factors  in  its  progress. 
Such  a  citizen  is  John  L-  Dailey,  a  pioneer  of  '59 
and  still  an  enterprising,  successful  business  man 
of  this  city.  In  many  important  ways  he  has 
been  connected  with  the  welfare  of  the  place  and 
his  own  history  has  been  intimately  associated 
with  that  of  Denver  and  Arapahoe  County. 

Mr.  Dailey  was  born  in  Tiffin,  Seneca  County, 


Ohio,  November  9,  1833.  His  father,  William  T., 
was  born  in  Mauchchunk,  Pa.,  and  grew  to  man- 
hood on  a  farm  there,  but  later  removed  to  Perry 
County,  Ohio,  where  he  married  Sarah  McCor- 
mick,  member  of  a  Scotch-Presbyterian  family. 
Immediately  after  his  marriage  he  went  to  Seneca 
County  and  cleared  a  farm  from  the  timber,  the 
tract  lying  in  what  is  now  a  suburb  of  Tiffin.  In 
1848  he  sold  that  place,  and,  removing  to  Allen 
County,  Ind. ,  with  the  aid  of  his  sons  cleared  and 
improved  a  tract  of  forest  land.  Late  in  life  he 
retired  to  the  village  of  Leo  and  there  he  died  at 
the  age  of  seventy-four.  He  was  a  Democrat  in 
politics  and  while  in  Allen  County  served  as 
county  commissioner.  His  wife  died  when  sev- 
enty-four years  of  age.  Of  their  ten  children, 
four  sons  and  four  daughters  attained  maturity, 
and  two  sons  and  three  daughters  are  living. 
Edward  T.,  who  came  to  Colorado  in  1863,  now 
resides  in  Larimer  County,  Colo.;  Samuel,  who 
was  a  farmer,  died  in  1897;  William  M.,  who 
came  to  Colorado  soon  after  his  brother,  John,  in 
1859,  engaged  in  mining  and  the  cattle  business, 
and  died  in  Denver  in  March,  1889. 

When  about  fifteen  years  of  age  our  subject  ac- 
companied his  parents  from  Ohio  to  Indiana.  Two 
years  later  he  became  an  apprentice  to  the  print- 
er's trade  in  Fort  Wayne,  where  later  he  was 
made  foreman  of  the  composing  room,  remaining 
in  the  same  office  until  he  was  twenty-one.  In 
1854  he  started  west,  but  spent  the  winter  in  Des 
Moines,  then  in  the  spring  went  on  to  Omaha, 
where  he  worked  on  Chapman's  ChanHcleer.  In 
the  spring  of  1857  he  went  to  Dakota  City,  Neb., 
where  he  published  the  Dakota  Herald.  In  the 
spring  of  1858,  while  in  Sioux  City,  Iowa,  at 
work  at  his  trade,  he  received  a  request  from 
William  N.  Byers  to  join  him  at  Omaha  in  order 
to  establish  a  paper  in  Denver,  which  he  did  as 
soon  as  he  could  arrange  his  affairs.  He  was 
made  foreman  of  the  Rocky  Mountain  News,  the 
first  four  editions  of  which  he  assisted  in  printing. 
However,  soon  concluding  that  other  interests 
might  prove  more  profitable,  he  terminated  his  en- 
gagement with  the  paper,  and  in  May,  1859,  began 
prospecting  in  Gilpin  County.  He  was  among 
the  first  to  arrive  at  Gregory's  Gulch,  and  helped 
to  cut  a  road  from  there  to  Central  City.  On  the 
ist  of  August  he  returned  to  Denver,  where  he 
became  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Byers  &  Dailey. 
Later  this  firm   was  consolidated   with  the  firm 


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of  Rounds  &  Bliss,  under  the  name  of  the 
News  Printing  Company,  which  founded  the 
Daily  N'ews  in  July,  i860.  The  firm  name 
was  again  changed  in  1863,  Byers  &  Bailey 
having  purchased  the  interest  of  the  other  gen- 
tlemen. The  great  flood  of  1864  washed  out  the 
press  and  carried  away  the  entire  supply  of  type 
and  printing  material.  A  few  days  afterward 
the  firm  bought  out  the  opposition  paper,  known 
as  the  Denver  Commonwealth,  but  continued  to 
publish  only  the  Rocky  Mountain  News,  not  a  sin- 
gle issue  of  which  was  missed  on  account  of  the 
flood. 

Afterward  the  paper  changed  from  a  six- day 
evening  paper  to  a  seven-day  morning  issue.  Mr. 
Dailey  continued  as  the  general  manager  until 
November,  1870,  when  he  sold  his  interest.  The 
next  year  he  engaged  in  the  job  printing  and 
bookbinding  business  under  the  firm  title  of 
Dailey,  Baker  &  Smart,  this  concern  having  the 
first  steam  printing  plant  in  the  city  and  printing 
two  papers  on  contract,  in  addition  to  their  other 
work .  The  location  of  the  plant  was  on  Market 
street,  near  the  United  States  mint.  His  interest 
in  this  enterprise  Mr.  Dailey  finally  sold  to  F.  J. 
Stanton.  He  is  now  engaged  in  the  real-estate 
business,   with  ofiice  at  No.  1725  Arapahoe  street. 

At  the  solicitation  of  friends,  in  1873  Mr. 
Dailey  consented  to  run  for  county  treasurer,  but 
was  defeated  by  the  then  incumbent.  For  a  few 
years  afterward  he  was  secretary  of  the  Rocky 
Mountain  Insurance  and  Savings  Institution, but 
resigned  this  position  in  1877  to  take  the  office  of 
county  treasurer,  having  been  elected  on  the  Re- 
publican ticket  in  the  fall  of  1877,  after  a  spirited 
campaign  with  his  predecessor,  James  M.  Strick- 
ler,  as  opponent.  He  served  for  two  years  and 
was  then  re-elected,  without  opposition,  being  the 
nominee  of  both  tickets.  In  1881  he  was  again 
elected,  this  time  with  but  slight  opposition.  On 
the  expiration  of  his  term,  in  January,  1884,  he 
turned  his  attention  to  the  real-estate  business. 
In  1887  he  was  chief  deputy  county  clerk,  and  in 
1893  was  induced  to  run  for  county  clerk  on  an 
independent  ticket,  but  was  defeated.  Under 
Mayor  Van  Horn  he  was  appointed  a  member  of 
the  board  of  park  commissioners,  of  which  he  was 
the  first  president  under  the  present  charter.  Dur- 
ing his  term  he  laid  out  two  small  new  parks, 
Chaffee  and  James  H.  Piatt  parks,  and  greatly 
improved  City  Park. 


In  Chicago,  in  1866,  Mr.  Dailey  married  Miss 
Melissa  B.  Rounds,  who  was  born  in  Wisconsin 
and  died  in  Denver  in  November,  1866.  In  the 
same  city,  in  1868,  he  married  Mrs.  Helen  M. 
Woodbury,  who  was  born  in  York  state,  the 
daughter  of  Rev.  W.  E.  Manley,  a  minister  in 
the  Universalist  Church,  but  now  deceased.  They 
are  the  parents  of  four  children:  Lissie  W.,  Mrs. 
W.  P.  Peabody,  a  graduate  of  Wolfe  Hall,  and  a 
resident  of  Denver;  Annie  E.,  also  a  graduate  of 
Wolfe  Hall,  and  now  a  student  in  the  Art  Insti- 
tute in  Chicago;  Grace,  a  graduate  of  the  Denver 
high  school  and  now  teaching  in  Larimer  County, 
Colo.,  and  John  L. ,  Jr.,a  student  in  the  high 
school.  The  family  occupy  the  beautiful  home- 
stead on  Broadway  and  Fourth  avenue,  immedi- 
ately south  of  Cherry  Creek,  a  place  that  forms  a 
part  of  the  original  large  tract  purchased  by  Mr. 
Dailey,  and  that  has  been  improved  by  the  pres- 
ent owner  with  a  substantial  brick  residence, 
neatly  kept  lawns,  driveways  lined  with  trees, 
and  a  beautiful  terrace  on  the  north  of  the  house. 

When  the  Indians  were  troublesome  during  the 
Civil  war,  Mr.  Dailey  enlisted,  in  July,  1864,  in 
Company  A,  Third  Colorado  Cavalry,  of  which 
he  was  first  a  sergeant  and  later  second  lieuten- 
ant. He  took  part  in  the  battle  of  Sand  Creek, 
November  19,  and  was  mustered  out  with  the 
company  in  December,  1864.  He  is  a  member 
of  Lincoln  Post,  G.  A.  R.  Since  the  organiza- 
tion of  Unity  Church  he  has  been  a  member  of  the 
board  of  trustees.  Politically  he  favors  protec- 
tion and  is  a  strong  silver  supporter.  For  many 
years  he  was  treasurer  of  the  Association  of  Colo- 
rado Pioneers  and  a  part  of  the  time  was  direc- 
tor and  secretary;  from  January,  1897,  to  January, 
1898,  he  served  as  president  of  the  organization. 
Fraternally  he  is  connected  with  Denver  Lodge 
No.  5,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  Denver  Chapter  No.  2, 
R.  A.  M.,  and  Colorado  Commandery  No.  i,K.  T. 


pGjlLLIAM  HARMON  BUCHTEL,  M.  D., 
\  A  /  LL.  D.,  of  Denver,  was  born  in  Akron, 
VV  Ohio,  August  15,  1845,  and  is  of  German 
descent.  His  father,  Jonathan  B.  Buchtel,  was 
born  in  Stuttgart,  Wurtemberg,  and  was  one  of 
a  family  of  twelve  sons  and  one  daughter,  of 
whom  eight  sons  became  Protestant  ministers. 
When  about  fourteen  he  came  to  America,  locat- 
ing  in    Catawissa,  Pa.,  but  five   years  later  re- 


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moving  to  Akron,  Ohio,  where  he  studied  medi- 
cine with  Dr.  John  Weimer.  Later  he  entered 
Cleveland  Medical  College,  from  which  he  grad- 
uated with  the  degree  of  M.  D.  After  having 
practiced  for  a  few  years  in  Akron,  he  removed 
to  Elkhart,  Ind.,  in  1849,  and  four  years  later 
settled  in  South  Bend,  the  same  state,  where  he 
practiced  until  his  son  returned  from  the  war. 
His  last  home  was  in  Des  Moines,  Iowa,  where 
he  died  in  1869. 

The  opening  of  the  Civil  war  found  our  subject 
young,  ardent,  enthusiastic,  determined  to  enter 
the  service.  Three  times  he  ran  away  from  home 
to  enlist  in  the  army,  but  every  time  he  was 
taken  out  by  his  father  and  his  patriotic  impulses 
were  temporarily  checked.  In  the  spring  of 
1861,  through  the  influence  of  his  father,  he  was 
persuaded  to  begin  the  study  of  medicine  in  what 
is  now  the  Northwestern  University  Medical 
School  in  Chicago.  In  June  of  the  same  year  he 
entered  Mercy  Hospital  as  an  assistant,  and  later 
was  made  the  resident  physician,  which  position 
he  held  for  over  two  years,  being  the  senior  phy- 
sician of  the  three  there.  By  the  time  he  was 
eighteen  and  one-half  years  of  age  he  had  at- 
tended over  six  hundred  women  in  confinement. 
He  passed  his  final  examination  in  the  spring  of 
1864,  and  received  certificates  from  the  presi- 
dent, but  could  not  take  his  degree  until  he  was 
of  age. 

As  soon  as  he  completed  his  course  he  went  to 
Columbus,  Ohio,  and  was,  in  April,  1864,  exam- 
ined by  the  United  States  examining  board,  and 
commissioned  acting  assistant  surgeon  of  the 
United  States  Volunteers,  with  the  rank  of  sec- 
ond lieutenant.  Ordered  to  Louisville,  he  organ- 
ized the  Totten  general  hospital,  and  after  three 
months  was  sent  to  Chattanooga,  where  he  spent 
sixteen  weeks  in  the  Bragg  general  hospital.  In 
August,  1864,  he  was  promoted  to  be  surgeon  of 
a  division,  with  the  rank  of  major  in  the  Depart- 
ment of  Military  Railroads,  and  was  ordered  to 
join  Sherman's  array,  then  at  Resaca,  near  Kene- 
saw  Mountain.  He  was  with  General  Sherman's 
army  at  the  taking  of  Atlanta.  On  the  evacua- 
tion of  the  city  he  left  on  the  last  train  out  and 
returned  to  Dalton,  thence  to  Nashville,  from 
there  to  Baltimore,  and  to  Savannah,  Ga.  At 
Newbern,  N.  C,  he  was  appointed  chief  surgeon 
of  military  railroads  of  the  Department  of  North 
Carolina,  with  the   brevet   rank   of   lieutenant- 


colonel.     This  position  he  held  at  the  time  of  his 
resignation  from  the  army  in  September,  1865. 

Returning  to  Chicago  he  took  another  course 
in  medicine,  and  graduated  in  March,  1866,  with 
the  degree  of  M.  D.  He  then  went  to  South 
Bend  and  practiced  with  his  father  for  a  time,  re- 
maining in  that  place  until  ill  health  obliged  him 
to  seek  a  change  of  climate.  Coming  west  to 
Denver  he  engaged  in  active  practice  here  until 
the  fall  of  1875.  He  found,  however,  that  his 
health  was  better  in  a  higher  altitude,  and  he 
therefore  purchased  a  ranch  of  twenty-one  hun- 
dred acres  on  the  divide  in  Douglas  County, 
where  he  spent  his  summers,  remaining  in  Den- 
ver during  the  winter.  In  this  way  he  com- 
pletely regained  his  health,  and  was  enabled  to 
return  permanently  to  Denver.  He  made  a  tour 
of  Europe  in  1888,  visiting  medical  schools  in  all 
prominent  cities,  and  also  journeying  to  points  of 
historic  interest  on  the  British  Isles  and  on  the 
continent. 

Dr.  Buchtel  is  professor  of  obstetrics  in  the 
Gross  Medical  College,  which  is  the  medical  de- 
partment of  the  Rocky  Mountain  University,  and 
he  is  a  member  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  the  uni- 
versity. Formerly  he  held  the  positions  of  physi- 
cian to  St.  Joseph's  and  St.  Luke's  hospitals.  He 
is  identified  with  the  State  Medical,  Denver  and 
Arapahoe  County  and  American  Medical  Asso- 
ciations, and  is  a  charter  member  of  the  Western 
Association  of  Obstetrics.  He  organized  the  Gross 
midwifery  dispensary,  where  the  senior  students 
are  given  the  practical  knowledge  that  makes  their 
college  course  a  success.  Since  the  organization 
of  the  Imperial  Legion,  a  fraternal  life  insurance 
company,  he  has  been  its  supreme  medical  exam- 
iner. 

The  degree  of  LL.  D.  was  given  Dr.  Buchtel 
by  McKenzie  University  of  Tennessee.  Like  all 
veterans,  he  is  interested  in  Grand  Army  affairs, 
and  he  has  his  membership  in  Lincoln  Post.  Po- 
litically he  is  a  Democrat.  March  22,  1871,  at 
South  Bend,  Ind.,  he  married  Miss  Helen  M. 
Barnum,  who  was  born  in  New  York  City,  re- 
ceived every  educational  advantage,  and  is  a 
woman  of  unusual  executive  ability  and  force  of 
character.  She  has  been  president  of  the  Charity 
Association,  and  has  held  other  positions  of  re- 
sponsibility and  honor.  She  has  one  daughter 
living,  Lelia,  who  is  a  graduate  of  Miss  Brown's 
school  on  Fifty-fifth  street.  New  York  City.  Th? 


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other  daughter,  Pauline,  died  at  the  age  of  two 
years  and  seven  months. 

In  addition  to  his  other  interests,  Dr.  Buchtel 
is  connected  with  a  number  of  mining  corpora- 
tions. He  has  also  been  a  factor  in  the  develop- 
ment of  Denver  real  estate.  In  1882  he  platted 
seven  hundred  and  sixty-five  acres,  upon  which 
he  laid  out  the  town  of  Barnum,  named  in  honor 
of  his  father-iu-Iaw,  the  famous  P.  T.  Barnum, 
now  deceased.  He  built  a  residence  in  this 
suburb  and  was  made  its  mayor,  holding  the 
office  for  three  years,  when  he  moved  back  to  the 
city.  The  place  is  still  being  developed,  and  the 
street  railway  has  been  extended  to  that  point. 
A  few  years  ago  Barnum  was  made  a  part  of  the 
city,  and  is  now  included  in  the  fifteenth  ward 
of  Denver. 

(31  LSTON  ELUS,  A.M.,  Ph.  D.,  LL.D.  Presi- 
T\  dent  of  The  State  Agricultural  College  of 
/  I  Colorado  since  1892  and  for  the  same  period 
a  resident  of  Fort  Collins,  is  a  member  of  an  old 
Virginia  family,  from  which  state  his  great-grand- 
father enlisted  in  the  war  of  the  Revolution  and 
after  its  close  removed  with  his  family  to  Ken- 
tucky. His  wife  was  a  woman  of  great  worth  of 
character  and  lived  to  be  ninety-nine  years  old. 
Their  son.  Rev.  John  G.  Ellis,  was  born  in  the 
Old  Dominion,  but  spent  his  life  principally  in 
Kentucky,  and  was  well  known,  not  only  in  that 
state,  but  also  in  Ohio  and  Indiana.  Though  his 
residence  was  in  a  slave  state,  he  strongly  op- 
posed slavery. 

Absalom  Ellis,  father  of  the  subject  of  this 
sketch,  was  born  in  Kenton  County,  Ky.,  a  de- 
scendant, on  his  mother's  side,  of  Holland-Dutch 
ancestry,  and  on  his  father's  side  of  Scotch  pro- 
genitors. He  married  an  own  cousin,  Mary 
Ellis,  whose  mother  was  Miss  Susan  Arnold,  of 
Irish  descent;  and  her  father,  William  G.  Ellis, 
a  brother  of  Rev.  John  G.  Ellis,  was  one  of  the 
largest  land  owners  and  wealthiest  men  in  Kenton 
County.  He  owned  a  large  number  of  slaves, 
but  rather  inclined  toward  emancipation  on  prin- 
ciple; and  when,  one  night,  all  his  slaves  but  one 
superanuated  old  man  took  the  underground  rail- 
road for  Ohio,  he  made  no  effort  whatever  to 
capture  them. 

After  spending  some  years  as  a  farmer  in  Ken- 
ton County,  Absalom  Ellis  removed  to  Coving- 
ton, Ky.,  in  1863,  where  he  engaged  in  the  man- 


ufacture of  all  grades  of  tobacco.  About  1888  he 
retired  to  his  farm  in  Kenton  County,  and  there 
died  July  2,  1894,  when  past  seventy  years  of 
age.  He  was  an  active  worker  in  the  Christian 
Church  and  served  as  deacon  in  his  congregation. 
His  widow  is  living  in  Covington,  Ky.,  and  is 
now  (1898)  in  her  sixty-sixth  year. 

The  only  child  of  his  parents,  Alston  Ellis  was 
born  on  a  farm  in  Kenton  County  January  26, 
1847.  When  he  was  a  boy  schools  were  con- 
ducted on  the  subscription  plan,  and  were  far  in- 
ferior to  the  free  schools  of  the  present  day,  but 
he  nevertheless  secured  from  them  a  substantial 
basis  for  his  present  knowledge.  When  fifteen 
years  of  age  he  accompanied  his  parents  to  Cov- 
ington, where  he  attended  a  private  school  con- 
ducted by  S.  Mead,  a  noted  teacher  of  his  daj-. 
There  he  prepared  for  college,  but  before  enter- 
ing his  collegiate  course  he  taught  a  country 
school  near  Carrollton,  Ky.,  for  five  months,  re- 
ceiving $8  per  month  of  public  money  and  suffi- 
cient voluntary  subscriptions  to  swell  the  total  to 
$40  per  month.  At  the  expiration  of  the  term 
he  returned  home  and  worked  for  some  months 
in  the  factory  owned  by  his  father. 

In  September,  1864,  he  entered  the  sophomore 
class  of  Miami  University  at  Oxford,  Ohio,  and 
three  years  later  graduated  with  honor.  While 
in  college  he  was  known  as  a  splendid  Latin  and 
Greek  scholar  and  as  a  ready  debater  and  an  ex- 
cellent speaker.  During  his  senior  year  he  de- 
livered four  public  addresses  besides  being  chosen 
by  the  students  to  deliver  the  oration  on  Wash- 
ington's birthday.  Soon  after  he  graduated  he 
was  married,  July  23,  1867,  to  Miss  Katherine 
Ann  Cox,  who  was  born  in  Westchester,  Butler 
County,  Ohio,  a  daughter  of  Capt.  Abram  P. 
and  Elizabeth  (Howery)  Cox.  Her  father,  who 
gained  his  title  through  meritorious  service  in 
the  Union  army  during  the  Civil  war,  studied 
law  in  the  office  of  Hon.  Lfewis  D.  Campbell, 
uncle  of  the  late  governor  of  Ohio,  and  afterward 
became  associated  with  Gen.  Ferd.  Van  Derveer 
in  the  practice  of  law  at  Hamilton.  At  the  time 
of  his  death,  in  1872,  he  was  one  of  the  most 
prominent  members  of  the  Butler  County  bar. 
His  widow  is  now  living  in  Westchester. 

In  September,  1867,  Mr.  Ellis  became  princi- 
pal of  a  ward  school  in  Covington,  Ky.,  at  a  sal- 
ary of  $900  per  year,  which  was  increased  to 
$1,000  before  the  expiration  of  the  school  year. 


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In  January,  1869,  he  was  chosen  principal  of  a 
school  in  Newport,  Ky.,  at  $1,200  per  year,  and 
was  re-elected  at  $1,500.  In  July,  1871,  he  was 
made  superintendent  of  the  schools  of  Hamilton, 
Ohio,  which  position  he  filled  with  the  greatest 
eflSciency  for  over  seven  years,  resigning  in 
March,  1879,  to  accept  a  position  with  Harper 
Brothers,  with  headquarters  in  Columbus,  Ohio, 
at  a  salary  of  $3,000  per  year.  In  February, 
1875,  he  was  appointed  a  member  of  the  Ohio 
state  board  of  school  examiners  and  was  at  once 
made  clerk  of  that  body,  continuing  until  April, 
1879.  In  1887  he  was  again  made  a  member  of 
the  board,  and  in  1891  re-appointed  for  a  term  of 
five  years.  While  filling  this  position,  in  1876, 
he  wrote  a  chapter  entitled  ' '  The  Ungraded 
Schools  of  Ohio  "  for  the  History  of  Education, 
issued  as  a  centennial  volume  and  published  by 
authority  of  the  general  assembly.  In  1872  he 
was  made  Master  of  Arts  by  his  alma  mater,  and 
the  same  year  delivered  the  diplomas  to  the  grad- 
uates of  the  Erodelphian  and  Miami  Union  liter- 
ary societies  of  the  university.  In  1888  he  was 
chosen  by  the  same  societies  to  deliver  the  annual 
address.  He  received  the  degree  of  Doctor  of 
Philosophy  from  Wooster  University  in  1879,  and 
the  same  degree  from  the  Ohio  State  University 
in  1888.  Two  years  later  the  Ohio  State  Uni- 
versity conferred  upon  him  the  degree  of  Doctor 
of  Laws,  and  the  same  degree  was  conferred  upon 
him  by  his  alma  mater  in  1894.  In  1880  he  was 
made  a  member  of  the  Victoria  Institute,  the 
philosophical  society  of  Great  Britain,  and  sub- 
sequently was  made  a  life  member  of  this  noted 
institution,  of  which  Queen  Victoria  is  a  noted 
patron.  In  the  fall  of  1880  he  delivered  the  ora- 
tion at  the  biennial  convention  of  the  Phi  Delta 
Theta  fraternity  at  Indianapolis,  he  having  been 
an  active  member  of  this  fraternity  during  his 
college  course. 

From  1 880  to  1887  Dr.  Ellis  was  superintend- 
ent of  the  Sandusky  (Ohio)  schools,  and  brought 
them  to  a  high  state  of  efficiency.  Here  he  man- 
ifested a  warm  interest  in  the  work  of  the  teach- 
ers of  Erie  County  and  received  recognition  there- 
for in  action  taken  by  the  Erie  County  Teachers' 
Association  at  Milan,  Ohio,  October  15,  1887,  as 
follows: 

"  In  consideration  of  the  valuable  services  ren- 
dered the  Erie  County  Teachers'  Association  by 


Dr.  Alston  Ellis  while  he  was  engaged  in  super- 
intending the  schools  of  Sandusky,  be  it 

'  'Resolved,  That  we,  the  teachers  of  Erie  Coun- 
ty, in  assembly  here,  do  tender  him  a  vote  of 
thanks  for  the  interest  which  he  manifested  in 
behalf  of  our  association. 

"Resolved,  That  in  token  of  our  appreciation 
of  his  aid  in  the  upbuilding  of  this  association, 
we  authorize  the  special  committee,  appointed 
this  morning,  to  prepare  and  forward  to  him  such 
a  badge  or  pin  as  can  be  purchased  with  the  do- 
nations made  to-day  by  individual  members  who 
shall  subscribe  to  the  fund  for  that  purpo.se." 
(Signed)     H.  A.  Myers,         ") 

A.  A.  Bartow,        [  Committee. 
Eliza  G.  Horton,  ) 

This  action  was  taken  two  months  after  he  had 
accepted  his  former  position  at  the  head  of  the 
Hamilton  schools  and  entered  upon  the  duties  of 
the  office.  In  Hamilton  his  salary  was  soon  in- 
creased from  $2,700  to  $3,000  per  annum.  Soon 
after  he  first  went  to  that  city  he  began  to  work 
in  teachers'  institutes,  and  his  services  as  normal 
instructor  have  been  in  demand  ever  since.  For 
some  years  he  devoted  the  summer  months  to 
work  in  Ohio  farmers'  institutes,  under  the  au- 
thority of  the  Ohio  state  board  of  agriculture. 
When  the  Ohio  Agricultural  and  Mechanical 
College  was  made,  by  legislative  act,  the  Ohio 
State  University,  he  became  a  member  of  the 
new  board  of  trustees,  serving  for  five  years.  In 
all  teachers'  associations  of  his  state  he  main- 
tained a  deep  interest.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
State  Teachers'  Association,  also  the  Central 
Ohio,  Northeastern  Ohio,  Northwestern  Ohio 
and  Southwestern  Ohio  Teachers'  Associations, 
and  was  president  of  the  two  last  named.  He 
was  president  of  the  superintendents'  section  of 
the  Ohio  Teachers'  Association  in  1875,  and 
president  of  the  General  Association  in  1888. 
For  more  than  twelve  years  he  was  clerk  of  the 
Butler  County  Board  of  School  Examiners. 

On  the  departure  of  Dr.  Ellis  from  Ohio  the 
Butler  County  Teachers'  Association  passed  the 
following  resolutions: 

'  'Resolved,  That  we  take  leave  of  Dr.  Alston 
Ellis  with  sincere  regret,  feeling  that  his  depart- 
ure is  a  serious  loss  to  our  county  and  state;  but 
we  congratulate  the  people  of  Colorado  on  hav- 
ing secured  the  services  of  so  distinguished  an 
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"Resolved,  That  the  members  of  the  Butler 
County  Teachers'  Association  extend  to  Dr. 
Ellis  their  hearty  congratulations  and  their  best 
wishes  for  his  success  in  his  distant  field  of  la- 
bor. 

"Resolved,  That  a  copy  of  these  resolutions  be 
presented  to  Dr.  Ellis,  and  that  they  be  furnished 
for  publication  in  the  county  papers  and  in  the 
Ohio  Educational  Monthly." 

(Signed)     B.  B.  Harlan,  \ 

John  Morris,    [•  Committee. 
W.  P.  Cope,      ) 

On  the  afternoon  of  the  day  Dr.  Ellis  left  Ham- 
ilton for  the  west  a  number  of  the  prominent  citi- 
zens repaired  to  his  office  in  the  courthouse  to 
give  him  "hail  and  farewell."  They  left  with 
him  a  beautiful  and  substantial  token  of  their  re- 
gard for  him  as  a  citizen  and  their  appreciation 
of  his  servicses  as  an  educator,  in  the  shape  of  a 
heavy  gold  watch  of  superior  workmanship  with 
the  following  inscription  within  the  case: 

' '  Presented  to  Dr.  Alston  Ellis  by  the  citizens 
of  Hamilton,  Ohio,  1892." 

The  presentation  speech  was  made  by  Judge 
P.  G.  Berry,  since  deceased,  and  was  an  eloquent 
and  timely  tribute  to  the  worth  and  professional 
zeal  of  the  man  who  had  given  the  schools  of  the 
city  thirteen  years  of  devoted  service.  Hon. 
Thomas  Millikin,  the  Nestor  of  the  Butler  Coun- 
ty bar,  and  others  of  those  present  made  fitting 
re.iiarks  expressive  of  regret  at  the  near  depart- 
ure of  their  friend  and  best  wishes  for  his  future 
success  and  happiness. 

In  the  fall  of  1891,  when  Dr.  Ellis  was  first 
tendered  the  presidency  of  the  State  Agricultural 
College  of  Colorado,  he  declined  it,  but  on  the 
renewal  of  negotiations  in  January,  1892,  he  ac- 
cepted it  for  a  term  of  five  years,  at  an  annual 
salary  of  $6,000.  The  college  was  opened  in 
1879,  and  at  the  close  of  the  college"  year  of  1891 
it  had  one  hundred  and  six  students.  Since  he 
assumed  its  management  it  has  had  its  great  suc- 
cess, and  at  the  close  of  the  school  year  of  1898 
it  had  three  hundred  and  forty-seven  students. 
The  course  of  study  has  been  broadened  and  the 
standard  of  attainment  materially  increased. 
The  grounds  and  buildings  are  attractive  and 
well  kept,  and  the  annual  revenue,  amounting  to 
almost  $90,000,  is  received  equally  from  the  state 
and  the  general  government.  Most  of  the  build- 
ings have  been  erected  since  1891,  and  the  other 


buildings  have  been  remodeled  and  enlarged.  A 
sum  not  less  than  $50,000  has  been  expended 
for  scientific  and  technical  apparatus.  The  li- 
brary, which  is  open  for  the  entire  year,  contains 
eleven  thousand  choice  volumes.  The  total  val- 
uation of  college  property  is  $275,000. 

The  college  is  one  of  the  land-grant  institutions 
established  by  congressional  acts,  known  better 
as  the  Morrill  Bills  of  1862  and  1890,  by  the  pro- 
visions of  which  the  institution  is  required  to  pro- 
vide for  the  liberal  and  practical  education  of  the 
industrial  classes.  The  courses  provided  are  ag- 
ricultural, mechanical  engineering,  civil  and  irri- 
gation engineering,  ladies',  and  commercial. 
The  location  of  the  grounds  is  picturesque. 
They  lie  in  the  valley  with  the  beautiful  moun- 
tains in  the  rear,  and  form  a  picture  to  delight 
the  eye  and  satisfy  the  mind.  The  grounds  have 
been  highly  improved  since  Dr.  Ellis  became 
president,  and  most  of  the  buildings  have  been 
erected  under  his  personal  supervision. 

At  the  convention  of  the  Colorado  State  Teach- 
ers' Association  in  Colorado  Springs,  in  Decem- 
ber, 1893,  Dr.  Ellis  delivered  the  annual  address. 
In  1895  he  was  chairman  of  the  college  section  of 
the  same  association.  He  is  even  more  active  in 
institute  work  in  Colorado  than  he  was  in  Ohio, 
giving  his  services  gladly  and  without  remunera- 
tion. He  has  lectured  before  associations  of 
every  kind  in  the  state,  and  in  the  last  six  years 
has  probably  given  more  addresses  than  any 
other  one  in  the  entire  state.  During  vacation 
months  he  travels  in  the  interests  of  the  college, 
lectures  in  various  places  and  attends  to  the  in- 
terests of  the  college  at  home,  so  that  he  is  kept 
constantly  busy.  His  private  library  is  one  of 
the  best  in  the  state,  and  much  of  his  leisure 
time  is  given  to  literary  and  historical  research, 
for  he  continues  to  be  a  close  student. 

While  in  Sandusky,  Ohio,  he  was  raised  to  the 
rank  of  Master  Mason  in  Science  I<odge  No.  50, 
A.  F.  &  A.  M.  Later  he  became  a  member  of 
Erie  Commandery  No.  23,  K.  T.  He  is  now 
identified  with  Collins  Lodge  No.  19,  A.  F.  & 
A.  M.,  Chapter  No.  11,  R.  A.  M.,  and  DeMolay 
Commandery  No.  13,  K.  T. 

June  8,  1893,  Dr.  Ellis  was  made  a  director  of 
the  Colorado  Experiment  Station,  which  position 
he  has  since  held.  February  18,  1893,  he  was 
commissioned  colonel  and  aide-de-camp  on  the 
stafi"of  Governor  Waite,  commander-in-chief  of 


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the  military  forces  of  Colorado.  Again,  May  28, 
1895,  he  was  commissioned  colonel  and  aide-de- 
camp by  Gov.  Albert  W.  Mclntire.  He  is  a 
prominent  member  of  the  American  Association  of 
Agricultural  Colleges  and  Experiment  Stations. 
At  the  annual  meeting  of  the  association  held  at 
Minneapolis  in  July,  1897,  he  was  made  chair- 
man of  the  college  section  and  vice-president  of 
the  general  association. 

On  the  evening  of  July  3,  1895,  at  Johnson's 
Island,  in  Sandusky  Bay,  Ohio,  President  Ellis 
delivered  the  annual  address  before  the  Ohio 
Teachers'  Association.  The  subject  was  "  Edu- 
cation and  Citizenship."  At  the  session  of  the 
convention  held  the  following  morning  the  chair- 
man of  the  executive  committee  introduced  the 
following  resolution,  which  was  unanimously 
adopted: 

'  'Resolved,  By  the  teachers  of  Ohio  in  State  As- 
sociation assembled,  that  we  most  highly  appre- 
ciate the  generosity  of  our  former  associate  and 
friend.  President  Alston  Ellis,  and  that  as  an  ex- 
pression of  our  thanks,  we  hereby  elect  President 
Ellis  a  life  member  of  our  association." 

At  the  afternoon  session  of  the  association  on 
the  same  day,  the  committee  on  resolutions  made 
report  as  follows: 

'  'Resolved,  That  the  thanks  of  the  association 
are  due  to  the  old  friend  of  its  members,  who 
came  from  such  a  distance  to  meet  again  with  .us 
and  to  stir  in  us  noble  sentiments  by  his  eloquent 
address,  patriotic  in  the  highest  sense  of  the 
word." 

Dr.  Ellis  has  a  fine  presence  and  a  genial  per- 
sonality, from  which  an  air  of  dignity  and  re- 
serve force  is  rarely  absent.  Not  only  is  he  a 
fine  scholar  and  executive  officer,  but  as  an  in- 
spiring and  thought-provoking  teacher  he  has 
but  few  equals.  In  class-room  work  in  his 
specialties,  logic,  economics  and  civics,  he  stands 
almost  without  a  rival.  Students  under  his  in- 
struction have  the  best  that  scholarship,  enthu- 
siasm and  experience  can  bring  to  bear  upon  the 
studies  they  are  pursuing. 

President  Ellis  has  added  to  the  material  wel- 
fare of  his  adopted  state  not  alone  through  the 
rapid  upbuilding  of  its  great  industrial  school 
and  the  wise  direction  of  the  practical  workings 
of  the  experiment  stations;  he  has  invested 
largely  in  real  estate  in  Fort  Collins  and  vicinity 
and  is  to-day  one  of  the  heaviest  tax-payers  in 


Larimer  County,  Since  assuming  the  presidency 
of  the  college  he  has  used  his  means  in  the  erec- 
tion of  a  number  of  handsome  dwellings,  possess- 
ing architectural  merit  and  having  modern  con- 
veniences, which  now  ornament  some  of  the 
spacious  avenues  of  Fort  Collins  and  afford  eligi- 
ble homes  for  a  number  of  families. 

Dr.  and  Mrs.  Ellis  are  closely  identified  with 
the  best  social  life  of  Fort  Collins  and  northern 
Colorado.  The  doors  of  their  elegant  home  are 
frequently  thrown  open  to  the  members  of  the 
social  circle  to  which  they  belong,  on  which  oc- 
casion geniality  and  open-hearted,  but  not  osten- 
tatious, hospitality  characterize  the  manners  of 
host  and  hostess.  The  "President's  Reception," 
given  annually  in  commencement  week,  is  one 
of  the  events  in  college  social  life.  Faculty  par- 
ties, dinners  to  members  of  the  college  governing 
board,  receptions  and  luncheons  for  students,  and 
other  functions  connected  with  the  life  of  hospit- 
able entertainers,  make  the  parlors  of  President 
Ellis'  home  almost  as  well  known  to  those  con- 
nected with  or  interested  in  college  work  as  are 
the  interiors  of  the  college  buildings  themselves. 

President  Ellis  takes  a  high  moral  view  of  pub- 
lic education  in  all  its  phases.  As  the  head  of  a 
great  state  school,  whose  financial  support  comes 
largely  from  the  pockets  of  tax-payers  represent- 
ing, as  they  do,  almost  every  shade  of  religious 
belief,  he  recognizes  that  religious  instruction,  as 
bounded  by  denominational  lines,  would  be  out 
of  place  in  the  daily  chapel  exercises,  attendance 
upon  which  is  required  of  all  students;  yet  these 
exercises,  planned  as  they  are  by  the  president 
and  prepared  in  most  cases  by  him,  are  not  with- 
out sound  moral,  and  even  religious  lessons. 
Private  religious  belief — even  unbelief — of  stu- 
dents is  respected  in  all  the  work  of  the  college, 
but  wrongdoing  is  never  suffered  to  pass  unre- 
buked,  and  the  neces.sity  of  educating  the  heart 
and  directing  the  conscience,  character  building, 
is  never  lost  sight  of.  The  religious  afiiliations 
of  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Ellis  are  with  the  Congregational 
Church,  of  which  organization  they  became  mem- 
bers in  1881,  in  the  time  of  their  residence  in 
Sandusky,  Ohio. 

(lOHN  J.  ERASER.     The  Brown-Iliff  Cattle 

I    Company,  of  which  Mr.  Eraser  is  a  member, 

(2/  is  among  the  best-known   concerns  of  the 

kind  in  Colorado.     They  own  an  immense  tract 


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of  land,  lying  principally  in  Weld  County,  and 
embracing  the  territory  extending  from  the  South 
Platte  to  the  Wyoming  line.  Of  the  land  twenty 
thousand  acres  lie  along  the  river,  thus  furnish- 
ing an  abundant  supply  of  water  for  the  stock. 
The  headquarters  of  the  company  are  five  miles 
west  of  Merino,  and  shipments  are  made  from 
Snyder,  Colo.,  to  various  points  in  the  east,  but 
chiefly  to  Omaha.  The  entire  management  of 
the  ranch  and  range  is  in  charge  of  Mr.  Fraser, 
who,  though  making  his  home  in  Denver,  neces- 
sarily spends  much  of  his  time  on  the  range. 

The  father  of  our  subject,  Henry  Fraser,  was 
born  in  Scotland,  but  removed  to  Ontario,  Can- 
ada, and  engaged  in  farming  near  Ottawa,  where 
he  died  when  John  was  five  years  of  age.  The  wife 
and  mother,  who  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Sarah 
Wright,  was  born  in  Canada  and  died  there  when 
John  was  an  infant.  They  had  a  large  family  of 
children,  of  whom  three  are  living:  Samuel,  in 
Oakland,  Cal.;  John  J.,  the  youngest  of  the  fam- 
ily; and  a  sister,  who  was  formerly  Mrs.  J.  W. 
IlifF,  but  who  is  now  the  wife  of  Bishop  Warren. 
One  brother.  Brock,  fought  all  through  the  con- 
flict. He  enlisted  with  the  Chicago  Zouaves  and 
later  joined  other  organizations,  serving  last  in 
the  heavy  artillery.  He  was  accidentally  killed 
while  engaged  in  the  construction  of  the  Union 
Pacific  Railroad  west  of  Cheyenne. 

When  quite  young  our  subject  left  the  farm 
near  Ottawa,  where  he  was  born,  and  went  to 
Henry  County,  111.,  where  he  grew  to  manhood 
on  a  farm.  He  attended  the  Henry  County  dis- 
trict schools  and  Lake  Forest  Academy.  In  the 
spring  of  1870  he  came  to  Colorado,  where  he 
spent  a  year  near  Pueblo,  and  then  entered  the 
employ  of  his  brother-in-law,  Mr.  IlifF.  In  time 
he  became  financially  interested  in  the  business, 
and  after  the  death  of  Mr.  Ilifi"  he  became  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Brown-Iliff"  Cattle  Company.  In  the 
winter  of  1873-74  a  large  camp  of  Indians,  prin- 
cipally Sioux,  camped  around  Mr.  Fraser' s ranch, 
but  to  their  credit  be  it  said  they  never  stole  any- 
thing from  the  ranch  nor  made  a  disturbance  of 
any  kind.  Since  1878  he  has  resided  in  Denver, 
where  he  is  a  member  of  the  Grace  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church.  In  national  politics  he  is  a 
Republican. 

In  Denver  Mr.  Fraser  married  Miss  Lois 
Morse,  who  was  born  in  Berea,  a  suburb  of 
Cleveland,  Ohio,  and  is  of  English  descent,  her 


ancestors,  eight  generations  back,  having  been 
among  the  Puritans  who  settled  in  Dedham, 
Mass.,  in  1635.  They  were  prominent  in  public 
aflairs,  serving  as  selectmen  and  in  other  ofiices 
of  trust,  and  later  having  representatives  in  the 
Colonial  and  Revolutionary  wars.  Her  grandfa- 
ther, Nathaniel  Morse,  was  born  in  Massachu- 
setts and  removed  to  Shelby,  N.  Y.,  where  he 
died.  Her  father,  Charles  Morse,  a  native  ot 
Warwick,  Mass.,  was  a  pioneer  of  Berea,  Ohio, 
where  he  engaged  in  the  lumber  business  until 
his  death  at  forty-eight  years.  He  married 
Emma  Robards,  who  was  born  near  Saratoga, 
N.  Y.,  her  parents  being  natives  of  England. 
She  is  still  living  and  makes  her  home  in  Cleve- 
land. In  her  family  there  are  three  children, 
namely:  Lucius  D.  Morse,  M.  D.,  a  retired  phy- 
sician of  Atlanta,  Ga.;  Mrs.  Laura  Andrews,  of 
Cleveland,  a  graduate  of  Baldwin  University  in 
Ohio;  and  Lois,  Mrs.  Fraser,  also  a  graduate  of 
Baldwin  University,  with  the  degree  of  B.  S. 


EOL.  WESLEY  BRAINERD,  president  and 
manager  of  the  Chicago  and  Colorado  Mining 
and  Milling  Company,  owners  of  Camp  Tal- 
cott,  at  Ward,  Boulder  County,  was  born  in 
Rome,  Oneida  County,  N.  Y. ,  September  27, 
1832,  and  is  the  descendant  of  a  family  that 
settled  in  Haddam,  Conn.,  early  in  the  seven- 
teenth century.  His  grandfather,  Jeremiah  Brain- 
erd,  who  was  born  and  reared  in  that  old  town, 
subsequently  removed  to  New  York  state,  be- 
coming a  contractor  on  the  Erie  Canal. 

Alexander  Hamilton  Brainerd,  a  native  of 
Haddam,  Conn.,  and  father  of  the  subject  of  this 
article,  became  a  civil  engineer  and  railroad  con- 
tractor, and  had  the  contract  for  a  part  of  the 
Hudson  River  Railroad, also  in  1 848-50  built  allthe 
bridges  on  that  road.  Among  his  other  contracts 
some  were  in  Canada.  For  a  time  he  operated 
car  manufacturing  shops  in  Niagara,  Canada,  and 
large  iron  mills  at  St.  Albans,  Vt.  After  his 
retirement  from  active  business  he  made  his 
home  in  Rome,  N.  Y. ,  where  he  died  in  1879,  aged 
seventy-two  years.  His  maternal  grandfather. 
Col.  Daniel  Greene,  was  a  colonel  in  the  Revolu- 
tionary war  and  a  Mason  of  the  Royal  Arch  de- 
gree; he  diedin  York  state,as  did  also  his  daughter, 
Elizabeth,  wife  of  Jeremiah  Brainerd.  The  mother 
of  our  subject  was  Mary  Gouge,  a  descendant  of  a 


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French- Huguenot  family  that  settled  at  Trenton 
Falls,  N.  Y.;  she  died  in  Rome,  that  state,  when 
thirty-two  years  of  age. 

The  only  child  of  Alexander  H.  and  Mary 
Brainerd  that  attained  years  of  maturity  was 
Wesley.  He  was  educated  principally  in  Rome 
Academy.  At  the  age  of  fifteen  he  went  with  his 
father,  as  assistant  in  the  construction  of  the 
Hudson  River  Railroad  contract.  Continuing 
there  until  1850,  he  then  went  to  Philadelphia, 
Pa.,  and  became  an  apprentice  in  the  Norris  Lo- 
comotive Company's  works,  where  he  completed 
the  trade  of  draughtsman  and  locomotive  builder 
in  1854.  For  four  years  afterward  he  continued 
with  the  company  as  draughtsman  and  aided  in 
the  starting  of  locomotives  in  different  sections 
of  the  United  States  and  Canada.  Next  going 
to  Georgia,  he  accepted  a  position  as  master 
mechanic  of  a  railroad,  where  he  remained  until, 
seeing  that  war  was  inevitable,  he  returned  north 
to  Rome,  N.  Y.,  and  engaged  in  manufacturing 
and  milling. 

At  the  opening  of  the  war,  in  1861,  he  was  the 
captain  of  a  local  company  known  as  the  Ganse- 
vort  Light  Guards  of  Rome,  which  took  its  name 
from  an  old  colonel  who  had  been  in  command  of 
Fort  Stanwix.  He  at  once  raised  a  company  for 
the  Fiftieth  New  York  Engineers  and  was  com- 
missioned captain  of  Company  C,  which  was 
mustered  into  service  at  Elmira,  and  went  to  the 
front  in  August,  1861.  Among  the  engagements 
in  which  he  participated  were  Yorktown,  Gaines' 
Mills,  White  Oak  Swamp,  Savage  Station,  Mal- 
vern Hill,  second  battle  of  Bull  Run,  Antietam, 
Harper's  Ferry  and  Fredericksburg.  In  Decem- 
ber, 1862,  he  laid  the  pontoon  bridges  at  the 
Lacy  House  in  front  of  Fredericksburg,  and 
while  thus  engaged  he  was  wounded  in  the  left 
arm.  For  meritorious  service  he  was  promoted 
and  commissioned  major.  After  a  short  time  in 
the  hospital  he  returned  to  duty  and  took  part, 
in  the  following  months,  in  the  battles  of  Chan- 
cellorsville,  Franklin's  Crossing  and  Gettysburg. 
Receiving  a  second  promotion  for  bravery,  he  was 
brevetted  lieutenant-colonel  of  the  same  regiment, 
his  commission  being  signed  by  President  Lincoln. 
The  next  engagements  in  which  he  participated 
were  the  battles  of  the  Wilderness,  Spottsylvania, 
North  Anna,  Cold  Harbor,  and  the  battles  before 
and  during  the  siege  of  Petersburg  in  1864.  In 
November,  1864,  he  was  promoted  and  commis- 


sioned colonel  of  the  Fifteenth  New  York  En- 
gineers by  Governor  Seymour,  and  continued  in 
active  command  of  his  regiment  until  the  close  of 
the  war,  with  the  exception  of  the  time  (1864-65) 
when  General  Grant  had  his  headquarters  at  City 
Point  and  Colonel  Brainerd  had  command  of  the 
defenses  of  that  place.  He  took  part  in  the  final 
assault  and  fall  of  Petersburg  in  April,  1865,  and 
shortly  afterward  participated  in  the  grand  review 
at  Washington,  where  he  led  the  Fifteenth  as 
their  commander.  He  was  mustered  out  of  the 
service  in  June,  1865. 

Locating  in  Chicago,  Colonel  Brainerd  em- 
barked in  the  lumber  business  under  the  firm  title 
ofSoper,  Brainerd  &  Co.,  in  which  enterprise  he 
was  interested  from  1865  to  1876.  The  firm  en- 
gaged in  the  manufacture  and  sale  of  lumber  and 
owned  a  mill,  with  a  capacity  of  one  hundred 
thousand  feet  a  day,  covering,  with  the  adjoining 
yards,  two  blocks  on  Polk  and  Beach  streets. 
Meantime,  in  1873,  he  also  became  interested  in 
the  Brighton  Smelting  Works,  of  which  he  was 
manager,  and  in  this  way  was  aroused  his  first 
interest  in  and  connection  with  mining.  In  1876 
he  assisted  in  the  organization  of  the  Chicago  and 
Colorado  Mining  and  Milling  Company,  of  which 
he  was  made  president  and  manager.  During 
the  .same  year  (which  was  the  year  of  Colorado's 
admission  as  a  state)  he  came  west,  for  the  pur- 
pose of  developing  the  company's  mining  prop- 
erty in  Ward  district,  Boulder  County. 

Camp  Talcott  (or,  as  it  is  often  called,  Brain- 
erd's  Camp)  is  one  of  the  large  as  well  as  one 
of  the  most  completely  developed  properties  in 
the  state.  Tunnels  and  mines  have  been  opened 
on  different  parts  of  the  property  of  eight  hun- 
dred acres.  The  entire  tract  was  patented  by 
Colonel  Brainerd  as  a  stock  ranch  and  was  after- 
ward patented  by  discovering  and  developing 
mining  claims,  thus  having  a  double  patent  on 
much  of  the  land.  The  Colorado  and  Northwest- 
ern Railroad  between  Boulder  and  Ward  passes 
the  property,  and  at  a  convenient  place  Brainerd 
Station  is  located.  The  plant  is  undoubtedly  the 
most  modern  in  the  state  and  is  the  first  mining 
property  to  be  operated  by  electricity  in  this  part 
of  Colorado. 

In  his  travels  through  the  mountains,  Colonel 
Brainerd  came  across  the  natural  lakes  at  the 
foot  of  Mount  Audubon  and  at  once  saw  the 
natural  advantage  for  the  water  power.     As  early 


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as  1884  he  took  the  necessary  steps  to  secure  the 
water  rights  of  the  same,  having  in  mind  a  way 
by  which  it  could  be  utilized,  as  the  path  of  the 
flume  necessary  to  convey  the  water  to  Camp  Tal- 
cott  would  come  via  the  Utica  mine.  He  succeed- 
ed in  arousing  the  interest  of  the  Utica  Company 
by  the  aid  of  John  S.  Reid,  then  manager  of  the 
Utica,  who  heartily  endorsed  the  project.  Fin- 
ally the  flume  from  the  South  St.  Vrain,  from  the 
foot  of  the  Snowy  Range,  to  a  point  above  Ward 
was  constructed,  with  Mr.  Reid  as  superintend- 
ent of  construction  of  this  upper  flume.  The 
flume  is  2x2  J^  feet  in  dimensions,  and  takes  three 
hundred  and  fifty  thousand  feet  of  lumber;  from 
the  headwaters  to  the  Pentstock  it  is  taken 
through  Ward  in  a  pipe  of  seventy-five  hundred 
feet,  and  here  the  Utica  uses  it.  Up  to  this  point 
it  was  jointly  constructed  by  the  Utica  Company 
and  the  Chicago  and  Colorado  Mining  and  Mill- 
ing Company,  while  the  latter  company  alone 
constructed  it  to  Camp  Talcott  from  Utica  by  a 
flume  2x2  feet,  one  mile  long,  taking  one  hun- 
dred and  fifty  thousand  feet  of  lumber.  To  manu- 
facture this  lumber  they  put  up  their  own  sawmill 
in  the  mountains. 

From  the  Pentstock  above  Camp  Talcott, 
Colonel  Brainerd  calculated  the  dimensions  and 
strength  of  the  pipe  necessary  to  carry  it  to  the 
power  house.  It  was  here  that  his  experience 
as  machinist  and  locomotive  builder  proved  most 
helpful,  as  did  also  his  natural  inventive  genius, 
for  there  was  no  plant  in  existence  of  the  type 
of  his,  and  he  was  forced  to  rely  upon  his 
own  brain  and  judgment.  From  the  Pentstock 
it  is  taken  down  the  hill  in  steel  pipe,  a  distance 
of  twenty-seven  hundred  feet,  making  .seven  hun- 
dred and  forty  feet  perpendicular  fall,  thus  get- 
ting a  pressure  of  three  hundred  and  twenty 
pounds  to  the  square  inch.  Beginning  at  the 
top,  the  first  twelve  hundred  feet  is  of  sixteen 
inch  pipe,  No.  10  steel;  the  next  seven  hun- 
dred and  fifty  feet,  fourteen  inch  pipe.  No.  8 
steel;  and  the  last  seven  hundred  and  fifty  feet, 
twelve  inch,  3-16  steel;  all  double  riveted  flange 
joints.  The  pipe  is  fitted  to  the  irregularities  of 
the  hill  and  anchored  in  bed  rock.  It  was  manu- 
factured in  sheets  in  the  east  and  brought  to 
Denver,  where  it  was  bent  and  riveted  into  nine- 
teen foot  lengths,  and  hauled  from  Boulder  to 
Camp  Talcott.  In  all  there  were  sixty-five  tons 
of  steel  pipe.     The  pipe  is  connected  with  the 


four  Leifel  wheels,  thirty-six  inches  in  diameter, 
developing  a  maximum  of  twelve  hundred  horse 
power  and  a  minimum  of  three  hundred  and  fifty. 
A  substantial  stone  powerhouse,  40x28,  has  been 
built  and  equipped  with  a  one  hundred  and 
twenty  horse-power  dynamo  of  the  three  phase 
system,  with  four  hundred  and  forty  volts  capac- 
ity, with  five  hundred  and  forty  revolutions  a 
minute  and  energized  by  one  of  the  wheels  which 
has  a  capacity  of  one  hundred  and  fifty  horse- 
power. There  is  an  air  column  construction  of 
one  hundred  and  twenty  pounds'  pressure  that 
acts  as  an  air  cushion. 

The  construction  of  the  pipe  line  and  the  devices 
for  regulating  the  flow  of  water  are  very  complete 
and  efiiciently  accomplish  the  purpose  for  which 
they  are  designed.  Power  is  transmitted  to  the 
different  mines,  viz.:  three  thousand  feet  to  the 
Polar  Star,  where  is  a  forty  horse  motor;  forty- 
four  hundred  and  forty  feet  to  the  Coy  mine, 
where  are  a  fifteen  horse  motor  and  skips;  and  to 
the  Left  Hand  mine,  fifteen  hundred  feet  up  a  side 
hill.  In  each  a  most  complete  electric  hoist  has 
been  equipped  with  the  three  phase  system.  An 
ingenious  device  for  dumping  buckets,  the  inven- 
tion of  the  foreman,  is  a  great  labor  saver.  When 
power  is  desired,  telephone  signals  are  given  to 
the  operator  in  the  power  house,  who  connects 
the  circuit  and  the  turning  of  the  switch  en- 
ergizes the  motor. 

All  of  these  properties  at  depths  varying  from 
seventy-five  to  one  hundred  and  thirty  feet  show 
very  large  veins  of  iron  sulphide,  running  from 
$10  to  $500,  with  a  fair  average  of  about  $40  ore. 
The  veins  range  from  five  to  ten  feet  in  width. 
About  twenty-five  other  properties  are  being 
equipped,  having  shafts  of  twenty  feet  deep. 
Ultimately  many  of  these  properties  will  be 
equipped  with  electric  hoists.  The  plant  in  the 
power  house  was  installed  by  the  Mountain  Elec- 
tric Company,  and  when  its  full  capacity  is 
utilized,  the  output  from  Camp  Talcott  will  be  no 
insignificant  factor  in  the  traffic  offered  the  rail- 
road from  Boulder  to  Ward. 

Among  the  other  mines  that  have  been  de- 
veloped is  the  Moltke,  which  is  in  shape  for  suc- 
sessful  operation  at  any  time.  A  complete 
telephone  system,  centering  at  the  power  house, 
connects  all  the  mines,  and  also  makes  connection 
with  the  residence  of  Colonel  Brainerd  and  other 
buildings  on  the  camp.     All  of  the  buildings  are 


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modern  and  complete,  and  when  it  is  observed 
that  nearly  all  of  the  material  for  construction 
has  been  hauled  from  Boulder  at  a  rate  of  $6  per 
ton,  one  can  well  imagine  the  energy  and  great 
amount  of  money  it  has  taken  to  accomplish  this 
gratifying  result.  All  the  plans  are  now  com- 
pleted for  building  a  switch  from  the  Colorado 
and  Northwestern  Railroad  to  the  power  house, 
which  will  take  about  ten  thousand  feet  of  track, 
on  account  of  the  height  of  the  road  above  Camp 
Talcott. 

When  Colonel  Brainerd  first  came  to  Ward, 
there  was  considerable  prospecting,  but  later  it 
fell  off  considerably.  He,  however,  continued 
his  prospecting  and  found  that  he  secured  rich  ore, 
so  he  continued  the  development  and  discoveries, 
and  now  has  over  sixty  different  claims.  He  has 
done  more  to  bring  Ward  mining  and  mines  to 
the  front  than  anyone  else,  by  the  expenditure  of 
enormous  sums  in  the  development  of  claims. 
The  most  of  his  claims  were  discovered  directly 
by  himself 

In  Chicago,  November-iy,  1858,  Colonel  Brain- 
erd married  Miss  Amelia  M.  Gage,  who  was  born 
in  DeRuyter,  Madison  County,  N.  Y.,  a  daughter 
of  Eli  A.  and  Mary  (Judson)  Gage,  natives  of 
DeRuyter  and  New  Berlin.  Mrs.  Brainerd  is  a 
sister  of  Lyman  J.  Gage,  present  secretary  of  the 
treasury.  Her  grandfather,  Justus  Gage,  was  a 
pioneer  of  Madison  County ;  his  father  came  from 
England  and  settled  in  New  England.  Eli  A. 
Gage  was  a  merchant  and  manufacturer  in  De- 
Ruyter, subsequently  removed  to  Rome,  N.  Y., 
whence  in  1855  he  removed  to  Chicago  and 
embarked  in  the  lumber  business.  He  died  in 
Evanston,  111.,  in  1879.  His  wife  was  a  daughter 
of  Abel  Judson,  who  was  a  sea-faring  man. 
Colonel  and  Mrs.  Brainerd  have  two  children: 
Irving  Gage,  who  is  assistant  superintendent  of 
the  mines;  and  Belle,  who  is  Mrs.  Emil  Phillip- 
son,  of  New  York  City. 

Fraternally  Colonel  Brainerd  is  a  prominent 
Mason.  He  is  a  charter  member  of  the  Colorado 
Commandery  of  the  Loyal  Legion,  of  which  he 
was  commander  in  1894-95.  For  years  he  was 
active  in  his  support  of  the  Republican  party,  but 
he  is  now  independent  in  politics  and  votes  for 
the  man  he  deems  best  qualified  to  represent  the 
people  in  office,  regardless  of  political  affiliations. 
Personally  he  is  a  man  of  fine  physique,  in  whose 
countenance  kindness,  amiability  and  benevolence 


glow.  To  all  public  enterprises  of  a  helpful 
nature  he  is  liberal  and  enterprising.  He  is 
exceedingly  hospitable,  and  happy  is  the  guest 
who  comes  beneath  his  roof 

While  the  colonel  has  continued  in  the  stock 
business  and  raising  full-blood  cattle  on  his  eight 
hundred  acre  ranch  and  farm  in  Nebraska,  yet 
mining  has  been  his  principal  business,  and  in  it 
he  has  made  his  greatest  success.  Talcott  Camp 
is  located  conveniently  on  the  Left  Hand  Creek. 
The  surrounding  scenery  is  beautiful.  Upon  the 
side  rise  the  mountains,  delighting  the  eye  with 
long  glimpses  of  forests  of  spruce  and  pine,  while 
the  air  of  busy  thrift  and  industry  around  the 
camp  delight  the  eye  of  every  practical  miner. 


(TOHN  T.  BOTTOM.  Not  alone  through  the 
I  high  position  which  he  occupies  as  an  attor- 
(2/  ney-at-law,  but  also  by  reason  of  his  promi- 
nence in  the  order  of  the  Knights  of  Pythias,  his 
attractive  style  as  a  writer  and  his  eloquence  as  a 
speaker,  Mr.  Bottom  has  become  well  and  favor- 
ably known  to  the  people  of  Colorado.  Upon 
establishing  his  home  in  Denver  in  1889  he 
opened  an  office  for  the  practice  of  the  legal  pro- 
fession, and  in  time  became  the  possessor  of  a 
clientele  that  brought  influence  and  financial  suc- 
cess. Reared  in  the  faith  of  the  Democratic 
party  and  thoroughly  devoted  to  its  principles, 
here  as  in  his  former  home  he  has  taken  an  active 
part  in  promoting  party  success,  in  winning  vic- 
tory for  its  men  and  measures.  In  1891  he  was 
made  secretary  of  the  Democratic  central  com- 
mittee of  Denver,  and  during  the  presidential 
campaign  of  1892  he  was  made  chairman  of  the 
county  committee.  Chosen  by  his  party  to  act 
as  their  nominee  in  the  congressional  campaign 
of  1894,-  he  held  aloft  the  party  standard  in  every 
part  of  the  district,  which,  however,  was  too 
thoroughly  Republican  to  make  hope  of  election 
possible.  When  the  stirring  campaign  of  1896 
began,  with  its  new  questions  and  issues,  that 
broke  the  ranks  of  the  old  parties,  he  at  once 
took  the  "stump"  in  behalf  of  the  silver  cause, 
and  his  eloquent,  earnest  addresses  deepened  the 
public  sentiment  in  favor  of  a  new  standard  of 
money.  His  opinions  on  this  subject  have  not 
been  formulated  thoughtlessly;  they  are  the  re- 
sult of  study  and  observation.  His  travels  have 
taken  him  into  sections  of  the  country  where  once 


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were  thriving  mining  towns,  now  forlorn  and  de- 
serted; towns  that  once  were  astir  with  life  and 
activity,  but  that  were  ruined  by  the  act  of  con- 
gress in  1873  demonetizing  silver,  thus  forcing 
the  silver  mines  to  shut  down  and  hundreds  of 
miners  to  be  thrown  out  of  employment.  Nor  is 
the  question  one  of  local  interest  only,  for  what 
affects  the  silver  mines  in  the  first  instance  will 
eventually  affect  the  prosperity  of  the  state  and 
the  welfare  of  the  nation. 

Mr.  Bottom  was  born  in  St.  Marys,  W.  Va., 
January  26,  i860,  and  was  an  infant  when  his 
parents.  Dr.  Montgomery  and  Lavinia  (Harri- 
son) Bottom,  removed  to  Breckenridge,  Mo., 
where  his  father  still  practices  medicine.  His 
primary  education  was  obtained  in  the  public 
school  there,  and  at  the  age  of  sixteen  he  entered 
Central  College,  at  Fayette,  Mo.,  continuing 
there  for  two  years.  His  education  was  com- 
pleted in  the  University  of  Missouri  at  Columbia, 
where  he  graduated  from  the  literary  department 
in  1879  and  from  the  law  department  in  1881. 
On  being  admitted  to  the  bar  he  opened  an  office 
in  Breckenridge,  earning  his  first  fee  four  days 
after  graduation.  The  Democrats  of  Caldwell 
County  nominated  him  in  1882  to  represent  the 
district  in  the  legislature,  but  he  was  obliged  to 
decline  the  nomination,  as  he  was  not  old  enough 
for  constitutional  requirements.  Though  not 
permitted  to  be  a  candidate  he  took  an  active 
part  in  the  campaign,  and  did  all  within  his 
power  to  promote  party  success.  In  1884  he  was 
nominated  for  prosecuting  attorney,  but  was  de- 
feated by  one  hundred  and  thirty-eight  votes,  the 
remainder  of  the  ticket  losing  by  seven  hundred 
and  fifty-seven  votes.  At  the  time  of  leaving 
Missouri,  in  1889,  he  was  chairman  of  the  county 
Democratic  committee,  secretary  of  the  Demo- 
cratic congressional  committee  and  chairman  of 
the  senatorial  committee. 

In  Quincy,  111.,  May  15,  1884,  Mr.  Bottom 
married  Miss  Lethe  M.  Boyer,  daughter  of  Noah 
and  Ellen  (McCuUough)  Boyer.  They  have  an 
only  child,  a  daughter,  Monta. 

Fraternally  Mr.  Bottom  is  identified  with  the 
Masons  as  a  Knight  Templar.  He  is,  however, 
most  prominent  through  his  connection  with  the 
Knights  of  Pythias.  He  was  first  initiated  into 
the  order  in  Denver  Lodge  No.  41,  in  which  he 
filled  the  offices  of  vice-chancellor  and  chancellor- 
commander.     In    1893    he   exemplified   the  new 


ritual  that  had  been  adopted  before  representa- 
tives of  all  the  lodges  of  the  state.  The  next 
year  he  became  a  member  of  the  Grand  Lodge, 
and  in  1895  ^^s  made  chief  tribune  of  the  Grand 
Tribunal,  in  1896  was  honored  by  election  as 
grand  vice-chancellor,  and  in  1897  received  the 
further  honor  of  election  as  grand  chancellor,  his 
present  office.  The  membership  of  the  order  in 
Colorado  is  about  six  thousand,  and  new  mem- 
bers are  constantly  being  added  to  the  ranks. 
The  lodges  in  the  different  parts  of  the  state  are 
frequently  visited  by  the  grand  chancellor,  whose 
entertaining  and  eloquent  speeches  do  much  for 
the  advancement  of  the  cause.  In  a  recent  num- 
ber of  The  Pythian  appears  his  address  delivered 
at  the  eleventh  anniversary  of  Myrtle  Lodge 
No.  34  Colorado  Springs,  which  is  considered 
one  of  the  best  ever  delivered  upon  the  subject  of 
the  order,  its  principles,  foundation  and  teach- 
ings. In  it  he  traces  the  teachings  of  the  order 
to  the  commands  given  to  Moses  on  Mount  Sinai. 
"Its  corner  stone  is  the  solid  granite  rock  of 
friendship.  The  columns  on  either  side  the  en- 
trance are  charity  and  benevolence.  Our  teach- 
ings embrace  loyalty  to  country,  devotion  to  its 
flag,  observance  of  its  laws,  lov-e  of  home,  love 
of  justice,  mercy  and  fidelity  one  to  another." 
Briefly  sketching  the  immortal  friendship  of 
Damon  and  Pythias,  he  described  how  the  read- 
ing of  this  story  inspired  Justus  H.  Rathbone  to 
found  the  order  that  marches  under  the  banner 
of  Pythianism.  "Thirty-four  years  ago  Rath- 
bone  breathed  the  breath  of  life  in  what  is  to-day 
America's  greatest  civic  society.  It  was  born  in 
the  city  of  Washington.  The  fame  of  the  order 
was  not  long  in  spreading  from  the  capitolon  the 
historic  Potomac.  Like  the  tinj'  waves  caused 
by  throwing  a  pebble  in  the  placid  pool,  its  influ- 
ence was  felt  farther  and  farther,  touching  the 
rock-bound  coast  of  Maine  and  reaching  on  the 
other  side  to  the  city  by  the  Golden  Gate.  And 
now  we  have  organized  a  lodge  amid  the  gold- 
bearing  icebergs  of  far-oif  Alaska.  In  every 
state  and  territory  that  protects  and  for  protection 
looks  to  the  tri-colored  flag  of  the  Union,  you 
will  find  the  blue,  yellow  and  red  banner  of 
Pythianism.  The  banner  of  the  stars  and  stripes 
stands  for  our  country.  The  tri-colored  banner 
of  the  order  of  Knights  of  Pythias  stands  for  hu- 
manity, it  stands  for  all  that  is  best  in  manhood 
and  for  all  that  is  purest  and  loveliest  in  woman- 


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hood.  I^ong  may  it  wave.  The  blue  is  emblem- 
atic of  truth  and  expresses  heaven  itself.  The 
yellow  is  a  symbol  of  the  great  orb  of  day 
and  portrays  the  faithfulness  that  should  charac- 
terize our  membership.  The  red  symbolizes  love 
and  loyalty,  and  under  a  banner  so  expressive  of 
lofty  sentiments  we  should  keep  ourselves  loyal 
to  truth,  faithful  to  our  tenets  and  guide  with 
love  our  lives  to  the  end." 


0EORGE  M.  McCLURE,  president  of  the 
l_l  McClure-White  Mercantile  Company  of 
Vjj  Boulder  and  the  Boulder  Electric  Light 
Company,  is  a  member  of  a  Vermont  family  that 
came  originally  from  Scotland.  His  grandfather, 
Samuel  McClure,  accompanied  his  parents  from 
Scotland  to  America,  settling  in  Vermont,  where 
he  engaged  in  farm  pursuits  through  the  remain- 
der of  his  life.  The  father,  H.  B.,  was  born  in 
Middletown  Springs,  Rutland  County,  Vt.,  and 
became  a  millwright  and  wagon-maker,  which 
trades  he  followed  in  his  native  state.  Late  in 
life  he  removed  to  Spenceport,  N.  Y. ,  where  he 
died  at  sixty-eight  years  of  age.  In  religion  he 
was  a  Baptist.  His  wife,  Susan,  daughter  of 
Sylvanus  Mallory,  a  soldier  in  the  war  of  1812 
and  a  farmer  of  Vermont,  was  born  in  Connecti- 
cut and  died  in  Spenceport,  N.  Y.  She  was  a 
descendant  of  Puritan  ancestors,  who  came  to 
this  country  from  England. 

The  family  of  H.  B.  and  Susan  McClure  con- 
sists of  six  sons,  all  living,  our  subject  being  the 
only  one  now  in  Colorado,  the  others  residing  in 
Vermont.  One  brother,  Charles,  took  part  in  the 
Civil  war  as  a  member  of  the  Tenth  Vermont 
Infantry.  George  M.  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools  of  Middletown  Springs,  his  native  village. 
At  the  age  of  eighteen,  in  1863,  he  went  to  Poult- 
ney,  Rutland  County,  where  he  was  employed  by 
Jay  J.  Joslin,  now  of  Denver.  In  the  spring  of 
1873  he  came  to  Colorado  to  assist  in  opening 
Joslin' s  dry -goods  store,  and  in  the  fall  of  the 
same  year  he  came  to  Boulder,  opening  a  store 
here  for  Mr.  Joslin,  in  connection  with  H.  N. 
Bradley,  now  of  Denver.  Soon  the  firm  of  Brad- 
ley &  McClure  was  established,  and  they  began 
in  business  in  March,  1874,  at  their  present  lo- 
cation, though  occupying  a  room  much  smaller 
than  the  one  now  used. 

Selling  his  interest  in  the  Boulder  store  in  1887, 


Mr.  McClure  became  one  of  the  proprietors  of  a 
store  in  Glenwood  Springs,  and  remained  there 
for  three  years,  when  he  sold  to  his  partner,  Mr. 
Napier,  and  to  Mr.  McLean.  Returning  to  Boul- 
der in  1890,  he  bought  Mr.  Bradley's  interest  in 
the  Bradley-Wise  Mercantile  Company,  and 
changed  the  title  to  the  McClure- White  Mercan- 
tile Company,  of  which  he  is  president  and  man- 
ager, Mr.  White  vice-president,  Mr.  Davis  sec- 
retary and  H.  B.  McClure  treasurer.  The  firm 
occupy  three  rooms,  75x125  feet  in  dimensions, 
with  basement. 

Mr.  McClure  is  a  director  in  the  First  National 
Bank.  He  was  one  of  the  original  promoters  of 
the  Boulder  National  Bank  about  1884,  and  was 
a  director  from  the  start  until  1887.  His  estab- 
lishment is  the  largest  in  northern  Colorado  and 
contains  a  full  line  of  goods  of  highest  grade,  for 
the  best  trade.  The  success  that  has  come  to 
him  is  due  to  his  energy  and  determination.  In 
1894  he  and  H.  N.  Bradley  opened  a  dry-goods 
bu.siness  in  Denver,  on  Sixteenth  street,  continu- 
ing it  together  until  May,  1897,  when  he  sold  his 
interest  to  Mr.  Bradley,  the  present  proprietor. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  McClure  took  place  in 
Middletown  Springs,  Vt.,  and  united  him  with 
Edilda  M.  Burnham,  daughter  of  Albert  Burn- 
ham,  a  native  of  Maine  and  a  blacksmith  in 
Middletown  Springs,  where  she  was  born.  Her 
death  occurred  at  Boulder  in  January,  1885. 
Her  three  children  are:  Harry  B.,  who  was  edu- 
cated in  the  public  schools  and  Rochester  (N.  Y.) 
Commercial  College; George  A. ,  who  was  educated 
in  the  State  University  and  is  with  the  company; 
and  Elizabeth  M.,  who  is  a  member  of  the  uni- 
versity class  of  1898. 

Politically  Mr.  McClure  is  a  Republican.  Fra- 
ternally he  is  connected  with  Boulder  Lodge  No. 
45,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  Boulder  Chapter  No.  7, 
R.  A.  M.,  Mount  Sinai  Commandery  No.  7,  K.T., 
(of  which  he  is  a  charter  member  and  the 
present  treasurer) ,  and  El  Jebel  Temple,  N.  M.S., 
of  Denver. 


QEV.  JOSEPH  P.  CARRIGAN.  St.  Patrick's 
^\  parish,  Denver,  was  established  in  1881  by 
p\  the  venerable  Bishop  Machebeuf.  Rev.  M. 
J.  Carmody  said  the  first  mass  on  the  north  side, 
and  assembled  the  newly  formed  congregation 
for  divine  service  in  the  old  hose  house  on 
Fifteenth  street.     He  was  taken  ill  a  few  weeks 


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afterwards  and  resigned  his  charge.  Father 
Carmody  was  succeeded  by  Rev.  J.  C.  Ahern, 
who  changed  the  place  of  service  to  Platte  street. 
During  his  time  the  present  site  of  St.  Patrick's 
was  secured,  the  venerable  old  Bishop  Machebeuf 
donating  $1,000  towards  the  purchase  of  the  five 
lots  on  which  the  church  and  school  now  stand. 
Rev.  J.  C.  Ahern  was  succeeded  shortly  by  Rev. 
Jeremiah  Ahern. 

From  its  very  beginning  St.  Patrick's  parish 
had  a  turbulent  career.  Misunderstandings  there 
had  been  between  pastors  and  people.  Debts  had 
accumulated,  and,  to  add  to  the  distress,  the 
church  just  nearing  completion  was  blown  down 
by  a  terrific  windstorm.  It  was  a  total  loss  on 
the  congregation.  Father  John  Quinn,  of  the 
Cathedral,  managed  the  affairs  of  the  parish  for 
some  time,  however,  residing  on  the  north  side. 
He  was  succeeded  by  Father  Patrick  Sheridan 
and  Father  James  Conroy,  both  delicate  priests, 
who  came  to  Colorado  in  search  of  health.  In 
the  year  1S83  Rev.  Stephen  Keegan  took  charge. 
During  his  pastorate  the  church  was  rebuilt  and 
the  school  opened  under  the  care  of  the  Sisters  of 
St.  Joseph.  During  the  building  of  the  church 
Father  Keegan  erected  on  the  site  of  the  present 
parish  dwelling  a  frame  church  which  he  affec- 
tionately christened  the  "Shanty."  It  .served  its 
purpose  well  until  the  new  church  could  be  re- 
built. In  1885  Father  Keegan  left  Colorado  and 
took  up  his  home  in  California,  where  a  few  years 
later  he  died. 

The  successor  of  Father  Keegan  was  Father 
Carrigan,  who  found  the  new  church  with  an 
incumbrance  that  remained  from  the  building  of 
the  first  church.  Directing  himself  to  the  raising 
of  the  debt,  within  two  years  he  had  freed  the 
congregation  from  the  entire  indebtedness.  A 
year  before  he  became  pastor  a  school  had  been 
started,  which  he  found  feebly  struggling  for  ex- 
istence. He  remodeled  the  church,  making  it 
large  enough  to  accommodate  both  the  congre- 
gation and  the  school,  and  at  once  the  latter  took 
on  new  life.  There  are  now  two  hundred  and 
seventy  pupils,  taught  by  the  Sisters  of  St.  Joseph 
of  Carondelet  and  who,  at  graduation,  are  pre- 
pared to  enter  high  school.  An  academic  course 
is  being  projected  and  will  soon  open,  in  connec- 
tion with  the  convent,  known  as  Sisters  of  St. 
Joseph  Academy. 

The  church  is  situated  on  Bell  avenue  between 


Fairview  avenue  and  Wanless,  but  other  property 
has  been  bought  and  in  time  a  church  will  be 
erected  on  the  corner  of  Clear  Creek  and  Thirty- 
third  avenue  west.  In  the  parish  there  are  over 
three  hundred  and  fifty  families,  to  whose 
spiritual  interests  Father  Carrigan  ministers. 
His  pastorate  here  has  extended  over  a  greater 
number  of  years  than  that  of  any  other  priest  in 
Denver.  In  connection  with  the  church,  he  has 
the  usual  societies,  including  the  Sodality,  Sacred 
Heart  League,  Holy  Name  and    Young  Ladies'. 

In  1889  St.  Patrick's  parish  extended  over  the 
whole  of  the  north  side,  including  a  portion  of 
East  Denver,  as  far  as  the  Union  depot.  Rev. 
T.  J.  Murphy,  who  was  then  assistant  at  St. 
Patrick's,  assumed  charge  of  what  was  known 
as  the  Highlands.  Father  Carrigan  purchased 
the  ground  on  which  the  present  St.  Dominic's 
Church  now  stands  and  formed  the  first  parish 
out  of  St.  Patrick's.  The  Dominican  fathers 
now  have  a  flourishing  congregation  in  that 
beautiful  portion  of  the  north  side.  The  next 
parish  to  be  formed  out  of  St.  Patrick's  was  the 
Holy  Family  in  the  scattered  portion  of  North 
Denver,  surrounding  the  Jesuit  college.  The 
Holy  Family  have  no  church  as  yet,  but  the 
congregation  hold  divine  service  in  the  college 
chapel. 

The  Italian  people  having  become  very  numer- 
ous in  this  portion  of  the  city,  he  deemed  it 
advisable  that  they  should  have  a  church  of  their 
own  where  they  could  hear  the  word  of  God  and 
receive  instruction  in  their  native  tongue.  Ac- 
cordingly, in  1892,  the  Italian  church  was  built 
within  the  limits  of  St.  Patrick's  parish. 

Born  and  reared  in  Auburn,  N.  Y. ,  Father 
Carrigan  is  thesonof  Patrick  and  Anna  (Shields) 
Carrigan,  natives  of  Ireland,  who  were  married 
in  England  and  came  to  America  in  1848.  For 
many  years  the  former  engaged  in  business  in 
New  York.  During  the  war  he  responded  to  the 
draft,  but  was  rejected  on  account  of  physical 
disability.  Of  their  nine  children,  four  are 
living,  Joseph  being  the  sole  surviving  son.  He 
studied  in  the  parochial  and  public  schools  of 
Auburn,  then  for  two  years  was  under  a  private 
tutor,  and  later  took  a  classical  course  in  St. 
Hyacinthe  College,  in  Quebec,  from  which  he 
graduated  in  1878.  A  few  months  afterward  he 
entered  Troy  Theological  Seminary,  where  he 
spent  four  and  one-half  years  in  the  study    of 


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theology  and  philosophy.  December  23,  1882, 
he  was  ordained  to  the  holy  prieshood  by  Bishop 
McNeirney,  of  Albany,  and  was  assigned  to  the 
Denver  diocese.  In  January,  1883,  he  came  to 
Colorado  and  was  stationed  successively  at 
Breckenridge,  Summit  Park,  Eagle  and  Garfield 
as  assistant  pastor,  utilizing  houses,  depots  and 
other  buildings  for  religious  services.  In  the  fall 
of  1883  he  was  assigned  as  assistant  to  Bishop 
Machebeuf,  at  the  Cathedral  in  Denver,  and 
after  fifteen  months  there,  was  made  pastor  of  St. 
Ann's,  now  the  Church  of  the  Annunciation, 
where  he  remained  for  three  months.  From  there 
he  came  to  St.  Patrick's  parish,  which  at  that 
time  included  all  of  the  north  side  and  a  portion 
of  the  west  side.  Since  coming  here  he  has  en- 
larged the  church  and  school  to  the  present  size 
and  has  built  the  parsonage.  He  has  remained 
here  constantly  with  the  church,  with  the  ex- 
ception of  a  portion  of  1894  and  1895,  when 
another  priest  was  assigned  to  his  parish  while 
he  took  a  post-graduate  work  in  the  Catholic 
University  of  Washington.  Alive  to  the  interests 
of  the  church,  he  devotes  himself  closely  to  its 
welfare  and  has  been  efiFectual  in  increasing  its 
membership  and  standing  among  the  other 
churches  of  the  city. 


QROF.  GEORGE  L.  HARDING,  superin- 
L/  tendent  of  the  public  schools  of  Boulder 
fS  County,  is  an  able  educator  and  by  years  of 
practical  experience  in  teaching  is  especially 
qualified  to  occupy  the  responsible  position  with 
which  the  people  of  his  county  of  Colorado  have 
honored  him  in  three  successive  elections.  The 
numerous  and  varied  duties  which  rest  upon  a 
man  in  such  an  office  cannot  be  laid  down  by  rule 
and  precedent  to  any  great  extent,  but  depend 
largely  upon  the  character  of  the  person,  his  en- 
ergy and  interest  in  the  work  and  his  desire  to 
make  his  country  a  banner  one  in  the  common- 
wealth to  which  it  belongs.  Fortunately  for  the 
citizens  of  Boulder  County,  Professor  Harding  is 
devoted  heart  and  soul  to  the  noble  work  he  has 
in  charge,  and  under  his  judicious  administration 
the  standard  of  our  local  schools  has  been  wonder- 
fully advanced. 

The  gentleman  of  whom  this  sketch  is  written 
is  a  native  of  Cork,  Ireland,  born  July  26,  1847. 
With  his   parents,    Thomas   and    Mary  (I,ester) 


Harding,  of  the  same  isle,  he  came  to  the  United 
States  in  1861,  and  in  the  following  year  removed 
from  New  York,  where  they  had  first  settled,  to 
Sturgis,  Mich.  Both  parents  were  of  English  de- 
scent, the  Hardings  having  taken  up  their  res- 
idence in  Ireland  during  the  time  of  Cromwell. 
Thomas  Hardfng  was  engaged  in  the  manu- 
facture of  pumps  and  machinery  and  was  interest- 
ed in  the  shipping  trade  while  in  Ireland.  He 
has  been  connected  with  the  Studebaker  Company 
as  an  employe,  and  has  been  variously  occupied 
in  a  business  way  since  coming  to  the  United 
States.  He  and  his  wife  are  residents  of  Sturgis, 
Mich.,  where  they  have  dwelt  for  many  years 
and  are  much  respected  and  loved.  His  father, 
William  Harding,  was  engaged  in  a  private  bank- 
ing business  in  Ireland,  and  his  wife's  father, 
George  Lester,  was  a  sea- faring  man,  interested  in 
trade  with  the  West  Indies  and  trans- Alantic 
ports. 

Professor  Harding  is  the  eldest  of  the  four  sur- 
viving children  of  his  parents.  In  boyhood  he 
learned  the  trade  of  making  chairs,  and  by  in- 
dustry earned  sufficient  money  to  enable  him  to 
complete  his  higher  education.  In  1874  he  grad- 
uated from  the  University  of  Michigan,  and  three 
years  later  had  the  degree  of  Master  of  Arts  con- 
ferred upon  him  by  his  alma  mater.  His  natural 
tastes  lying  in  the  direction  of  pedagogic  work, 
he  soon  embarked  upon  his  career  as  a  teacher 
and  has  met  with  success  from  the  first.  For 
several  years  he  taught  in  his  native  state,  in 
Minnesota  and  in  Indiana.  In  1890  he  resigned 
the  position  that  for  five  years  he  had  filled  most 
acceptably  in  Middlebury,  Ind.,  and  coming  to 
Colorado,  he  took  charge  of  the  city  schools  of 
Longmont.  This  position  he  resigned  in  1893, 
as  he  had  been  elected  to  the  superintendency  of 
the  county  schools.  Upon  the  expiration  of  his 
term  he  was  re-elected,  and  again  in  1897.  He 
has  inaugurated  many  valuable  reforms  and 
changes  in  our  school  system,  and  his  earnest  and 
constant  aim  is  to  elevate  the  standard  and  en- 
courage teachers  and  pupils  to  greater  efforts. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  committee  that  succeed- 
ed in  securing  the  Texas  Chautauqua  for  Boul- 
der; is  a  member  of  the  State  Teachers'  Associa- 
tion; has  been  president  of  the  State  Association 
of  County  Superintendents  and  of  the  Boulder 
County  Teachers'  Association.  In  1892  he  took 
the  required  state  teachers'  examination  in  Colo- 


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rado,  and  received  a  diploma.  Previously  he 
had  been  granted  a  similar  certificate  in  Indiana. 

In  1895  his  name  was  on  the  Populist  ticket 
and  in  1897  he  received  a  plurality  of  about  eight 
hundred  votes.  For  some  time  he  has  been  the 
president  of  the  People's  Publishing  Company, 
which  carries  on  a  general  publishing  business 
and  edits  the  Colorado  Representative  as  well. 
Fraternally  he  was  made  a  Mason  in  1886  in  Mid- 
dlebury,  Ind.,  and  is  now  identified  with  Boulder 
Lodge  No.  45,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.  He  also  belongs 
to  the  Order  of  the  Eastern  Star. 

In  1878  Professor  Harding  married  Miss  Alice 
Stansbury,  daughter  of  John  Stansbury,  of  Ligo- 
nier,  Ind.  She  has  been  of  great  assistance  to 
him  in  his  work  and  is  a  lady  who  is  beloved  by 
all  who  have  the  pleasure  of  her  acquaintance. 
With  their  two  daughters,  Eva  and  Mildred,  she 
holds  membership  with  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church. 


(Junius  F.  brown,  since  1870  Mr.  Brown 
I  has  been  identified  with  the  business  in- 
C/  terests  of  Denver,  and  has  contributed  to  its 
advancement  by  his  connection  with  progressive 
enterprises  and  public-spirited  movements.  As 
the  president  of  the  Brown  and  Uifi"  Land  Com- 
pany he  is  intimately  associated  with  a  concern 
widely  and  favorably  known  for  reliability  and 
extensive  operations.  He  is  also  vice-president  of 
The  J.  S.  Brown  &  Bro.  Mercantile  Company,  an 
old  and  well-known  wholesale  house  of  Denver. 
For  a  number  of  years  he  was  president  of  the  con- 
struction company  of  the  Denver  &  New  Orleans 
Railroad  Company  (now  the  Union  Pacific,  Den- 
ver &  Gulf  Railroad),  and  from  the  organization 
of  the  Denver  Tramway  Company  until  1896  he 
was  one  of  its  directors.  He  was  for  many  years 
vice-president  of  the  City  National  Bank,  but 
withdrew  in  1894,  before  its  consolidation. 

The  ancestry  of  the  Brown  family  is  given  in 
the  sketch  of  J.  Sidney  Bro.wn.  In  Conneaut, 
Ohio,  where  he  was  born  September  3,  1827, 
Junius  F.  Brown  received  public-school  and 
academic  advantages.  In  1850  he  began  clerk- 
ing in  a  mercantile  house  in  his  native  place,  but 
two  years  later  removed  to  Toledo,  where  he 
clerked  in  a  dry-goods  house  one  year,  and  then 
spent  a  similar  period  with  the  Lake  Shore  & 
Michigan  Southern  Railroad.  His  next  position 
was  with  Buckingham  &  Co.     In  May,  1857,  he 


went  to  Atchison,  Kan.,  and  embarked  in  the 
manufacture  of  lumber  for  the  home  market. 
The  mills  were  located  on  the  Missouri  side,  and 
when  the  war  broke  out  his  strong  northern  pro- 
clivities made  it  undesirable  for  him  to  continue 
business  there,  so  he  abandoned  the  enterprise. 

Wishing  to  utilize  the  large  number  of  teams 
on  hand,  he  loaded  a  wagon  train  with  merchan- 
dise and  placed  his  brother  in  charge,  with  in- 
structions to  cross  the  plains  to  Denver.  While 
waiting  for  the  latter's  return,  he  continued  in 
charge  of  affairs  at  Atchison,  but  afterwards  per- 
sonally engaged  in  freighting  until  1865,  and 
then  became  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Drury  & 
Brown,  wholesale  grocers,  in  Atchison.  Closing 
out  the  business  in  1870  became  to  Denver,  with 
the  business  history  of  which  he  has  since  been 
intimately  connected. 

In  Conneaut,  Ohio,  Mr.  Brown  married  Jane 
B.  Kilborn,  who  was  born  in  Canada,  and  accom- 
panied her  father,  John  H.  Kilborn,  to  Conneaut. 
She  died  in  1877,  leaving  two  daughters  and  a 
son,  namely:  Helen,  Mrs.  S.  H.  Nesmith,  of 
Denver;  Jane  M. ,  Mrs.  F.  S.  Titsworth,  of  Ana- 
conda, Mont.;  and  Harry  K.,  a  graduate  of  Yale 
College  in  1892,  and  secretary  of  The  J.  S.  Brown 
&  Bro.  Mercantile  Company.  The  second  mar- 
riage of  our  subject,  solemnized  in  Denver,  united 
him  with  Miss  Mary  L.  Brundage,  by  whom  he 
has  one  child,  June  Louise.  Mrs.  Brown  is  a 
lady  of  intellectual  attainments,  and  is  a  member 
of  the  Woman's  Club,  the  Fortnightly  Club  and 
the  Daughters  of  the  Revolution.  Her  father, 
Marcus  B.  Brundage,  was  born  in  Poughkeepsie, 
N.  Y.,  the  youngest  of  twelve  children,  and  was 
orphaned  at  fourteen  years.  After  completing 
his  education  he  went  to  New  Haven,  Conn., 
where  he  engaged  in  carriage  manufacturing,  but 
removed  from  there  to  Tallmadge,  Ohio,  engag- 
ing in  the  same  business.  Failing  health  brought 
him  to  Colorado,  and  afterward  to  California, 
where  he  died  in  1883.  He  married  Harriet 
Parmelee,  who  was  born  in  Ohio,  the  daughter 
of  Theodore  Hudson  Parmelee,  of  Goshen, Conn., 
and  a  descendant  of  a  Revolutionary  patriot. 
The  family  came  to  this  country  in  1639  from 
England,  where  the  name  was  originally  Parmly. 
Mrs.  Brundage  died  in  Ohio,  at  the  age  of  seven- 
ty-five years,  leaving  four  children,  of  whom 
Mrs.  Brown  is  next  to  the  oldest. 

The  business  interests  of  Mr.  Brown  and  his 


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brother  have  been  In  common  for  many  years, 
having  achieved  satisfactorj'  results,  not  only  in 
the  mercantile  business,  but  also  in  real-estate 
and  banking  interests.  Mr.  Brown  has  always 
been  interested  in  the  election  of  good  men  to 
fill  responsible  official  positions,  and  has  given 
them  every  assistance.  He  has  assisted  in  the 
development  of  Denver  and  in  the  progress  of 
its  material  prosperity  by  the  energy  he  has  dis- 
played in  private  affairs,  and  by  the  executive 
ability  he  has  shown  in  the  capacity  of  director 
in  many  important  organizations.  A  worthy 
cause  of  a  philanthropic,  religious,  social  or  edu- 
cational character  is  sure  of  his  prompt  and  gen- 
erous assistance,  and  in  a  way  that  the  left  hand 
will  not  know  what  the  right  hand  does. 

Mr.  Brown  is  a  man  of  untiring  energy  in  his 
devotion  to  every  business  interest  committed  to 
him,  the  smallest  detail  receiving  the  attention 
it  deserves,  and  this,  in  a  great  measure,  has  led 
to  his  success  in  the  financial  world. 

The  lives  of  Mr.  Brown  and  his  brother  Sid- 
ney have  been  closely  interwoven,  both  having 
taken  a  firm  stand  as  Republicans,  although 
neither  has  accepted  political  preferment.  They 
have  been  devoted  to  their  business,  and  have 
demonstrated  to  the  world  at  large  what  the  con- 
centration of  energy,  indomitable  will  and  splen- 
did courage,  even  in  adversity,  can  accomplish. 


pCjARREN  C.   DYER,  ex-sheriff  of  Boulder 

\  A  /  County,  is  engaged  in  the  real-estate  busi- 
YV  ness.  He  has  his  office  in  the  Camera  block. 
Eleventh  and  Pearl  .street,  Boulder,  and  has  built 
up  a  large  business  in  general  real  estate,  insurance 
and  conveyancing.  He  platted  Dyer's  addition 
to  Boulder,  consisting  of  the  southeast  forty 
acres  of  section  26,  adjoining  Chautauqua 
and  University  place;  also  handles  Newland's 
addition,  consisting  of  one  hundred  and  forty 
acres,  which  has  been  platted  in  town  lots. 

It  is  supposed  that  the  Dyer  family  came  to 
America  from  England.  From  Cape  Cod,  Mass., 
one  of  the  name  migrated  to  Maine,  where  oc- 
curred the  birth  of  our  subject's  grandfather,  a 
farmer,  who  died  aged  eighty-seven  years.  The 
father  of  our  subject,  Hon.  Zachariah  Dyer,  a 
native  of  Maine,  served  as  under  sheriff  of  Frank- 
lin County  for  six  years  and  as  sheriff  for  a 
similiar  period,   also  represented  his  district  in 


the  state  legislature  for  two  terms,  being  in  public 
service  during  much  of  his  active  life.  Meantime 
he  also  superintended  the  management  of  his 
farm.  He  is  now  living  retired,  having  justly 
earned  the  freedom  from  business  cares  that  he 
enjoys.  His  wife,  Emily  Cram,  was  born  in 
Maine  and  died  there  in  1859.  Her  father  was 
a  member  of  an  old  Maine  family  that  came  from 
England;  he  died  at  seventy-four  years  of  age. 
Of  the  four  children  of  whom  our  subject  was 
the  youngest  all  but  one  are  still  living.  The 
oldest  son,  Augustus,  a  veteran  of  the  war,  is  a 
merchant  in  Lewiston,  Me.;  a  younger  son,  Row- 
land, resides  in  North  Dakota. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  in  New 
Sharon,  Me.,  September  21,  1855,  and  was  reared 
in  his  native  town.  In  the  spring  of  1877  ^^ 
went  to  the  Black  Hills,  where  he  remained  for 
three  months,  and  then  moved  to  Hastings,  Neb. 
Five  months  after  settling  in  that  place,  he  was 
appointed  under  sheriff  to  Mr.  Martin,  and  con- 
tinued in  the  position  until  he  came  to  Colorado. 
In  June,  1880,  he  began  prospecting  and  mining 
at  Breckenridge,  and  later  was  appointed  under 
sheriff  to  William  Iliff,  of  Summit  County,  con- 
tinuing in  the  position  for  two  years.  He  still 
owns  three  patent  claims  in  that  county.  In  the 
spring  of  1887  he  went  to  Denver,  where  he 
engaged  in  building,  contracting  and  selling,  but 
in  1890  sold  out  the  business  and  removed  to 
Lyons,  Boulder  County.  There  he  engaged  in 
the  mercantile  business  until  the  fall  of  1893, 
when  he  was  elected  sheriff  on  the  People's 
party  ticket.  After  two  years  of  successful, 
efficient  service,  he  was  re-elected  by  a  large 
majority.  The  time  of  his  service  extended  from 
January,  1894,  to  January,  1898.  At  the  close 
of  his  second  term,  the  bar  of  Boulder,  though 
opposed  to  him  politically,  showed  their  apprecia- 
tion of  his  valuable  services  by  presenting  him 
with  a  gold-headed  cane  and  at  the  same  time 
gave  a  set  of  resolutions  commending  him  for  his 
ability  in  filling  the  office.  During  the  time  he 
served  as  sheriff  he  had  forty-eight  insane  people 
in  his  charge  and  also  had  five  murder  cases. 
The  Democratic  platform,  adopted  by  the  Chicago 
convention  in  1896,  is  in  accord  with  his  opinions, 
for  he  favors  free  silver  and  free  trade.  While 
in  Lyons  he  held  the  position  of  alderman  and 
was  at  one  time  mayor  pro  tern,  but  resigned  the 
position  on  being  elected  sheriff. 


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In  Summit  County,  Colo.,  Mr.  Dyer  married 
MoUie  T.  Churchill,  who  was  born  in  Florence, 
Ala.,  and  accompanied  by  her  father,  Willard 
Churchill,  to  Breckenridge,  Colo.,  in  1880.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Dyer  are  the  parents  of  two  daughters, 
Laura  E.  and  Elvie  C.  Fraternally  he  is  con- 
nected with  the  Knights  of  Pythias  at  Boulder; 
also  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows, 
which  he  joined  in  Hastings,  Neb.,  in  1879,  but 
afterward  became  identified  with  Breckenridge 
Lodge  No.  49,  then  was  a  charter  member  of 
Denver  Lodge  No.  96,  later  a  charter  member  of 
Lyons  Lodge  No.  102,  and  finally  a  charter 
member  of  Boulder  Lodge  No.  112,  also  a  mem- 
ber of  Unity  Encampment  No.  13,  in  which  he  is 
a  pa.st  oificer,  and  Boulder  Canton  No.  5.  He  is 
also  a  member  of  Columbia  Lodge,  A.  F.  &  A.M., 
of  Boulder.  In  the  lodges  with  which  he  has 
been  identified  he  has  held  various  oificial  posi- 
tions. 

(fi\  ARON  S.  BENSON,  president  of  the  Bank 
I  1  of  Loveland,  president  of  The  Louden  Irri- 
I  1  gating  Canal  Company,  and  also  connected 
with  several  other  irrigation  and  business  enter- 
prises, is  a  native  of  the  state  of  New  York, 
the  son  of  Sherman  and  Jane  E.  (Shaw)  Benson, 
both  of  New  York  state. 

The  boyhood  years  of  our  subject  were  spent 
in  New  York  and  Iowa.  In  1862  he  returned  to 
New  York  for  the  purpose  of  settling  his  grand- 
father's estate.  In  1865  he  returned  to  Louden, 
Iowa,  where  he  was  engaged  in  the  nursery  busi- 
ness for  some  years.  His  health  failing,  he  con- 
cluded to  try  a  change  of  climate  and  came  to 
Colorado,  settling  at  Golden,  Jefferson  County, 
where  he  carried  on  the  nursery  bu.siness,  con- 
nected with  market  gardening  and  fruit  growing. 
In  1878  he  came  to  Larimer  County  for  the  pur- 
pose of  constructing  the  Louden  Canal,  and  has 
since  been  an  officer  of  the  county.  At  the  same 
time  he  purchased  and  improved  farm  lands  and 
engaged  in  stock-raising  -and  the  dairy  business, 
in  which  he  has  successfully  continued. 

He  owns  about  one  thousand  acres  of  cultivated 
farm  lands  in  Larimer  County,  which  is  divided 
into  five  farms,  and  is  also  the  owner  of  a  fine 
residence  and  property  in  Loveland.  In  1882  he 
became  interested  in  the  Bank  of  Loveland,  of 
which  he  has  been  president  since  1883. 

The  first  wife  of  Mr.   Benson  was  Eliza  Cleg- 


horn,  who  died  in  1862,  leaving  three  children. 
Perry,  Mary  (now  the  wife  of  J.  A.  Lewis),  and 
Charles.  In  1864  Mr.  Benson  was  united  in 
marriage  with  Miss  Marion  Vanderburgh,  of 
New  York.  Four  children  blessed  their  union, 
Clarence  V.,  who  is  cashier  of  the  Bank  of  Love- 
land; Velma  V.,  wife  of  Alfred  Beebe;  Franc  V. 
and  Aaron  V.  The  family  is  identified  with  the 
Baptist  Church.  Fraternally  he  is  a  Mason,  be- 
ing a  member  of  Lodge  No.  53,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  of 
Loveland.  In  his  political  belief  he  is  a  Repub- 
lican and  as  such  has  been  active  in  local  and 
state  affairs. 

While  in  Jefferson  County  he  was  for  three 
years  a  member  of  the  board  of  county  commis- 
sioners. Soon  after  coming  to  Larimer  County 
he  was  elected  county  commissioner  and  after 
serving  for  three  years  he  was  elected  a  member 
of  the  state  legislature.  Having  served  his  time 
he  was  again  elected  a  member  of  the  board  of 
county  commissioners  for  three  years.  He  served 
as  school  director  in  Jefferson  County  for  six 
years,  and  in  Larimer  County  he  has  for  sixteen 
years  filled  a  similar  position  in  District  No.  i. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  board  of  trustees  of 
the  State  Agricultural  College.  As  a  friend  of 
education  he  favors  any  plan  whereby  the  educa- 
tional interests  of  the  state  may  be  fostered  and 
promoted. 

(JOSEPH  T.  ATWOOD  is  a  successful  attor- 
I  ney-at-law,  and  a  member  of  the  firm  of 
(2J  Minor  &  Atwood,  who  have  offices  in  the 
Masonic  Temple  building  in  Longmont.  He  is 
the  legal  adviser  of  the  Farmers'  National  Bank 
of  Longmont,  and  has  a  large  practice  in  Long- 
mont and  vicinity.  In  the  political  world  he  is 
verj^  prominent  and  popular,  and  has  frequently 
been  chosen  to  preside  as  chairman  over  conven- 
tions of  the  Boulder  County  Democratic  party  in 
late  years.  Moreover,  he  has  frequently  been 
sent  as  a  delegate  to  the  state  conventions  of  the 
party,  and  has  been  an  active  and  aggressive 
worker  in  the  cause.  For  several  terms  he  has 
served  as  city  attorney,  and  has  made  a  good 
record  for  himself  and  constituents. 

Marsylus' Atwood,  father  of  the  above-named 
gentleman,  was  a  native  of  Greene  County,  Ind., 
born  in  1823.  He  was  a  son  of  George  B. 
Atwood,  who  was  born  in  Massachusetts,  and 
came  from  an  old  and  respected  New  England 


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family.  George  B.  Atwood  married  a  Miss 
I^awrence,  who,  though  born  in  Georgia,  was  of 
English  parentage.  The  couple  moved  to  Indiana 
at  an  early  day  in  the  history  of  that  state,  and 
in  1837  went  to  Texas.  Mr.  Atwood  took  up  a 
tract  of  forty -five  hundred  acres  of  land  in  Hen- 
derson County,  under  the  peculiar  laws  then  in 
force  in  that  region,  and  died  just  prior  to  the 
Mexican  war.  His  wife  returned  to  Indiana  at 
the  outbreak  of  hostilities  between  the  two 
countries,  and  thus  the  property  was  lost  to  the 
family  under  the  statute  of  limitations.  Marsylus 
Atwood  was  reared  to  manhood  in  Indiana  and 
Texas,  and  after  he  returned  to  his  native  state 
he  was  occupied  in  farming  in  Greene  County 
until  his  death,  during  the  Civil  war,  in  1863.  He 
married  Martha  Ann  Martindale,  likewise  a 
native  of  Indiana,  and  five  children  came  to  bless 
their  union.  Two  of  the  number  are  deceased. 
Mrs.  lyce  resides  in  Longmont  and  William  is 
living  in  Boulder.  The  Martindales  were  origin- 
ally from  England,  and  settled  in  Virginia  at  an 
early  period.  Mrs.  Atwood  was  the  daughter  of 
William  Martindale,  who  was  born  and  brought 
up  in  Virginia  and  went  to  Indiana  on  arriving 
at  maturity,  there  to  engage  in  cultivating  a 
homestead  during  the  rest  of  his  active  life.  Mrs. 
Atwood  departed  this  life  in  Indiana  when  but 
forty  years  of  age. 

Joseph  T.  Atwood  was  born  in  Newark,  Greene 
County,  Ind.,  in  1862.  His  father  died  when 
the  boy  was  scarcely  a  year  old,  aud  the  mother 
died  a  few  years  later.  Until  he  was  fourteen 
our  subject  attended  the  public  schools  of 
Newark,  and  in  the  fall  of  the  Centennial  year 
he  started  for  the  west.  For  nearly  a  year  he 
lived  in  Taylor  County,  Iowa,  but  in  1877  came 
to  Boulder  County.  Here  he  spent  about  ten 
years  in  agricultural  pursuits,  giving  as  much 
time  as  possible  to  his  studies  and  going  to  the 
district  schools  several  terms.  In  1887  he  en- 
tered the  State  Agricultural  College,  and  con- 
tinued until  the  cldse  of  his  junior  year.  In  1890 
he  returned  to  the  east  and  in  the  fall  matricu- 
lated in  the  University  of  Michigan  at  Ann 
Arbor.  He  was  one  in  a  class  originally  number- 
ing three  hundred  and  twelve,  but  twenty-two 
failed  to  graduate,  a  large  percentage.  It  was  in 
the  summer  of  1892  that  he  received  the  honors 
for  which  he  had  been  striving,  that  of  Bachelor 
of  L,aws.     The  same  year  he  opened  an  ofiSce  in 


Longmont  and  has  since  been  engaged  in  the 
practice  of  general  law.  The  following  year  he 
entered  into  partnership  with  Mr.  Minor  and  the 
present  firm  of  Minor  &  Atwood  was  formed. 
Mr.  Atwood  has  rapidly  risen  in  his  profession, 
and  his  friends  predict  for  him  a  brilliant  future. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Knights  of  Pythias  and 
of  the  Woodmen  of  the  World,  and  is  a  great 
favorite  in  social  circles. 


HN.  BR  ADIvEY,  who  is  engaged  in  the  mer- 
cantile business  at  No.  720  Sixteenth  street, 
Denver,  was  born  in  Sunderland,  Vt. ,  May 
6,  1846,  and  is  a  son  of  Gilbert  and  Mary  (Lock- 
wood)  Bradley.  His  father,  who  was  born  in 
the  same  town  in  1800,  was  a  son  of  Ethan  Brad- 
ley, who  removed  from  Connecticut,  his  birth- 
place, and  settled  in  Vermont,  engaging  in  the 
mercantile  businesss  there.  Gilbert,  who  was 
also  a  merchant,  was  a  man  of  considerable  prom- 
inence in  his  locality  and  in  politics  was  an  old- 
line  Democrat.  He  died  at  eighty  years  of  age. 
In  his  family  there  were  seven  children  who  at- 
tained mature  years,  and  five  of  these  are  still 
living,  namely:  Frances,  who  lives  in  New  York; 
Jane,  Mrs.  Isaac  G.  Johnson,  of  New  York;  Gil- 
bert W. ,  a  manufacturer  living  in  Manchester, 
Vt.;  Herbert  N.,  who  was  next  to  the  youngest; 
and  John,  a  manufacturer,  living  in  Buffalo, 
N.  Y. 

In  the  schools  of  Sunderland  and  the  academies 
at  Manchester  and  Bennington,  Vt.,  the  subject 
of  this  sketch  gained  his  education.  At  the  age 
of  sixteen  he  left  school  and  began  to  give  his 
attention  exclusively  to  his  father's  store,  where 
he  continued  until  1866.  Having  meantime  saved 
his  wages,  he  started  in  business  for  himself  at 
Rupert,  Vt.,  where  he  remained  for  seven  years. 
In  1873  he  sold  out  and  came  to  Colorado,  open- 
ing a  store  in  Boulder  in  the  spring  of  the  follow- 
ing year  and  continuing  in  the  same  place  until 
1897.  At  the  organization  of  the  bank  in  Boul- 
der he  was  chosen  its  head  and  for  several  years 
served  as  president,  when  he  resigned,  sold  his 
stock  and  went  east,  remaining  several  years,  but 
not  engaging  in  business.  On  his  return  he  ac- 
cepted the  position  as  vice-president  of  the  bank, 
which  he  still  holds.  In  June,  1895,  he  began  in 
the  mercantile  business  in  Denver,  where  he  has 
a  large  and  lucrative  business.     He  has  invested 


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in  real  estate  in  various  parts  of  the  country  from 
Vermont  to  Colorado. 

In  Orange  County,  N.  Y.,  in  1884,  Mr.  Brad- 
ley married  Miss  Margaret  Brodhead,  who  was 
born  and  reared  in  that  county,  a  daughter  of 
Capt.  Edgar  Brodhead,  who  graduated  from  An- 
napolis Naval  School,  served  for  many  years  in 
the  United  States  Navy  and  is  now  living  retired 
in  Orange  County.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bradley  have 
two  children:  Mary,  who  was  born  in  Boulder  in 
June,  1886;  and  Herbert  N.,  born  in  Boulder  Oc- 
tober 12,  1888.  Though  reared  a  Democrat,  Mr. 
Bradley  has  always  supported  Republican  prin- 
ciples, and  cast  his  first  vote  for  Gen.  U.  S.  Grant. 
While  in  business  at  Rupert  he  became  a  member 
of  Morning  Flower  Lodge,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,in 
which  he  filled  all  the  chairs.  After  he  had  been 
living  in  Colorado  for  some  time,  and  during  a 
trip  east,  he  took  the  chapter  degrees  at  Man- 
chester, Vt.  He  became  a  charter  member  of 
the  chapter  in  Boulder  and  later  took  the  com- 
mandery  degrees  there,  being  the  first  to  do  so 
after  its  organization. 


HON.  JAMES  P.  MAXWELL.  Since  the 
admission  of  Colorado  as  one  of  the  states  of 
the  Union,  the  name  of  Senator  Maxwell 
has  been  closely  identified  with  its  history. 
Elected  to  the  first  session  of  the  state  senate  in 
1876,  after  having  ably  represented  his  district  in 
important  territorial  positions,  he  drew  the  long 
term  and  served  until  1880.  In  the  second  ses  - 
sion,  in  1879,  he  served  as  president  pro  tem  of 
the  senate.  He  was  prominently  connected  with 
early  legislative  acts  and  took  a  warm  interest  in 
securing  the  appropriations  for  the  state  uni- 
versity. In  1877  he  had  the  distinction  of  plac- 
ing in  nomination  for  the  United  States  senate 
Hon.  H.  M.  Teller,  who  then  began  his  long  and 
distinguished  connection  with  public  affairs. 
Elected  mayor  of  Boulder  in  1878,  he  served  for 
one  term  of  two  years,  resigning  in  1880,  after 
which  he  held  the  ofiBce  of  county  treasurer 
for  two  years.  He  was  again  elected  to  the  state 
senate  in  1896,  as  the  candidate  of  the  silver  Re- 
publicans and  Democrats,  and  was  the  recipient 
of  a  large  majority  in  a  county  that  usually  gives 
a  majority  to  the  People's  party.  At  the  close  of 
the  eleventh  session  he  was  elected  president  pro 
tem  of  the  senate  for  the  next  session. 


Three  miles  from  the  foot  of  Geneva  Lake,  at 
Bigfoot,  Walworth  County,  W^is.,  the  subject  of 
this  sketch  was  born  in  June,  1839,  a  son  of 
James  A.  and  Susan  V.  (Clark)  Maxwell,  and  a 
grandson  of  Col.  James  Maxwell,  who  was  a  pio- 
neer of  Walworth  County,  a  merchant  by  occu- 
pation, a  member  of  the  territorial  legislature  and 
colonel  of  the  Wisconsin  state  militia,  dying  in 
Wisconsin  at  eighty  years  of  age.  His  brother, 
Philip  Maxwell,  M.  D.,  was  one  of  the  prominent 
physicians  in  the  early  days  of  Chicago. 

For  some  years  James  A.  Maxwell  was  a  large 
land  holder,  a  successful  merchant  and  a  promi- 
nent man  in  the  public  affairs  of  Walworth 
County,  but  removed  from  there  to  Sauk  County, 
and  from  there  came  to  Colorado  in  i860.  He 
assisted  in  the  construction  of  the  Boulder  and 
Blackhawk  wagon  road,  which  he  operated  for  a 
time,  but  sold  to  the  railroad  company  on  the 
building  of  the  railroad  through  the  canon.  In 
early  days  he  also  engaged  in  the  sawmill 
business  in  Boulder.  He  was  a  consistent  and 
active  member  of  the  Methodist  Epi.scopal 
Church.  One  Thursday  evening  in  1892  he  at- 
tended the  regular  weekly  prayer-meeting,  walk- 
ing three-quarters  of  a  mile  to  the  church.  He 
seemed  in  his  usual  health  at  the  meeting  and 
when  it  had  closed  he  walked  home,  where  he 
sat  down  in  a  rocking  chair,  with  his  feet  on  the 
fender,  a  paper  in  his  hands,  and  his  glasses  on. 
In  that  position  he  was  found,  dead,  the  follow- 
ing morning.  He  had  passed  peacefully  away, 
at  the  close  of  a  service  in  the  church  he  had 
helped  to  organize,  and  in  his  home,  surrounded 
by  every  comfort,  and  apparently  without  any 
pain.  He  was  twice  married.  His  first  wife, 
Miss  Clark,  accompanied  her  parents  from  New 
York  to  Indiana,  thence  to  Wisconsin,  where 
she  remained  until  her  demise.  She  was  the 
mother  of  six  children,  viz. :  Emma,  Mrs.  H.  H. 
Potter,  ofBaraboo,  Sauk  County,  Wis. ;  James  P.; 
Charles  A.,  of  Boulder;  Ophelia,  Mrs.  George  H. 
Rust,  who  died  in  Boulder;  Ellen,  wife  of 
William  Hill,  of  Missouri;  and  Augusta,  wife  of 
J.  V.  Pierce,  of  Kansas  City. 

In  1854  t'ls  subject  of  this  sketch  entered  the 
Lawrence  University  at  Appleton,  Wis.,  where 
he  was  graduated  in  1859  with  the  degree  of  A.B. 
In  i860  he  joined  his  father,  who  had  preceded 
him  to  Omaha,  and  together  they  journeyed 
with  horses  over  the  plains,  reaching  .Denver 


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June  lo,  after  a  journey  of  six  weeks.  They 
went  to  Central  City  and  Nevadaville,  thence  to 
Lump  Gulch  and  engaged  in  placer  mining.  In 
i860  our  subject  was  elected  sheriff  of  Gold  Dirt 
district,  serving  for  one  year,  and  then  for  a  simi- 
lar period  engaged  in  lode  mining  at  Leaven- 
worth Gulch.  In  1863,  with  Captain  Tyler,  his 
brother-in-law,  he  embarked  in  the  lumber  busi- 
ness on  South  Boulder  Creek,  putting  up  a  mill, 
and  engaging  in  the  manufacture  of  lumber  of 
all  kinds.  This  lumber  he  sold  in  Blackhawk, 
Central  City  and  Cheyenne.  Also,  in  partnership 
with  his  father,  he  operated,  by  water  power,  a 
mill  at  the  mouth  of  Four  Mile  Creek.  In  1867 
he  moved  from  South  Boulder  to  the  mouth  of 
Four  Mile,  three  miles  from  Boulder,  and  from 
there  in  1870  he  came  to  Boulder.  For  several 
years,  as  deputy  United  States  mineral  and  land 
surveyor,  he  made  surveys  of  the  public  lands  of 
the  state.  In  1872  he  was  elected  to  the  territo- 
rial legislature  from  Boulder,  two  years  later  was 
re-elected,  and  in  1876  was  made  a  member  of  the 
first  state  senate.  From  1882  to  1888  he  en- 
gaged in  government  surveying  in  western  Colo- 
rado, and  from  1888  to  1893  he  acted  as  state  en- 
gineer, under  appointment  by  Governors  Cooper 
and  Routt.  As  state  engineer  he  had  charge  and 
control  of  the  irrigation  of  the  state,  and  the  ap- 
propriations made  for  public  improvements  by 
two  legislatures,  amounting  to  about  $200,000 
each  term,  of  which  amount,  by  economical  ex- 
penditures, he  returned  about  f  100,000  each  two 
years.  Appropriations  for  bridge  building,  road 
construction  and  re,servoir  building  were  made  at 
his  discretion  and  under  his  supervision.  He  gave 
personal  oversight  to  every  contract  and  its  com- 
pletion, and  such  roads  and  bridges  asked  for, 
but  not  deemed  actual  necessities  by  himself, 
were  not  built. 

For  the  past  ten  years  Mr.  Maxwell  has  been 
engaged  in  the  cattle  business,  and  owns  ranches 
and  real  estate.  He  laid  out  Maxwell's  addition 
of  fifteen  acres  on  the  mesa,  a  fine  site,  and  was 
vice-president  of  the  Mapleton  Company  that 
laid  out  forty  acres.  With  others,  in  1888,  he  be- 
gan the  construction  of  the  Silver  Lake  ditch, 
the  highest  ditch  of  Boulder  canon,  covering 
about  two  hundred  acres  of  his  laud;  irrigation 
has  made  of  this  section  a  valuable  fruit  tract. 
He  is  president  of  the  Silver  Lake  Ditch  Com- 
pany, and  through  his  efforts  an   abundance  of 


water  has  been  given  to  this  property.  He  has 
also  stocked  Silver  Lake  with  fi.sh  and  is  making 
of  the  lake  and  surrounding  country  a  fine  resort. 
For  fifteen  years  he  was  president  of  the  Steam- 
boat Springs  Company,  that  laid  out  Steamboat 
Springs  in  Routt  County.  He  is  still  interested 
in  mining  and  prospecting  in  different  parts  of  the 
state.  Besides  his  other  interests,  he  is  the  owner 
of  .Maxwell  block,  on  Pearl  near  Twelfth  street, 
Boulder. 

In  Gilpin  County,  Colo.,  Mr.  Maxwell  married 
Miss  Francelia  O.  Smith,  who  was  born  near 
Milwaukee,  Wis.  Her  father.  Nelson  K.  Smith, 
was  long  a  resident  of  Wisconsin  (see  sketch 
elsewhere  in  this  work)  and  came  to  Colorado  in 
i860,  engaging  in  the  sawmill  business,  in  manu- 
facturing enterprises  and  in  the  construction  of  a 
toll  road  from  Golden  to  Central.  He  died  in 
Boulder  in  1896.  The  children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Maxwell  are  named  as  follows:  Clint  J.,  who  is 
in  charge  of  his  father's  ranches  and  also  carries 
on  a  stock  business;  Mark  N.,  who  is  a  drug- 
gist in  Boulder;  Helen  M.,  who  studied  German 
and  music  under  the  best  instructors  in  Germany; 
and  Marie  O. ,  wife  of  Prof.  Charles  R.  Burger, 
instructor  of  mathematics  in  the  East  Denver 
high  school. 

Fraternally  Mr.  Maxwell  is  connected  with 
Boulder  Lodge  No.  14,  A.  F.  &  A.  M. ,  in  which  he 
is  past  master;  Boulder  Chapter  No.  7,  R.  A.  M., 
in  which  he  is  past  high  priest;  Mount  Sinai 
Commandery  No.  7,  K.  T. ,  in  which  he  is  past 
eminent  commander,  and  was  grand  commander 
of  the  grand  commandery  of  Colorado  for  one 
year;  the  consistory  in  Denver  and  El  Jebel 
Temple,  N.  M.  S.  For  some  years  he  acted  as 
president  of  the  state  forestry  association  and  is 
now  a  member  of  the  State  Historical  Society. 
For  several  terms  he  has  held  the  office  of  presi- 
dent of  the  Boulder  County  Pioneer  Society  and 
he  is  also  identified  with  the  Society  of  Colorado 
Pioneers. 


CySAAC  LAMB  BOND,  M.  D.,  a  resident  of 
I  Boulder  since  187 1,  came  to  Colorado  in  that 
X  year  with  the  Chicago-Colorado  Colony, 
which  located  Longmont,  but  instead  of  making 
the  new  town  his  permanent  location  he  settled 
in  Boulder  and  has  since  made  this  city  his  home. 
He  engaged  in  the  practice  of  his  profession  for 
only  five  years  after  coming  west,  and  is  now  re- 


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tired  from  active  participation  in  professional 
work  or  in  business.  For  one  term  he  acted  as 
mayor  of  Boulder.  He  took  no  active  part  in  poli- 
tics until  populism  sprang  up;  he  opposes  this 
doctrine  with  all  his  intellect  and  influence,  giv- 
ing his  support  to  kepublican  principles  and 
working  for  their  success. 

The  Bond  family  was  founded  in  Massachu- 
setts about  two  hundred  years  ago,  coming  there 
from  England.  The  doctor's  father,  George  S., 
was  a  son  of  George  Bond,  a  farmer  of  Worcester 
County;  he  was  born  in  Brimfield,  Hampden 
County,  but  was  reared  in  Leicester,  Worcester 
County,  where  he  has  since  resided,  being  now 
eighty-three  years  of  age.  He  married  Eliza 
Lamb,  who  was  born  in  Worcester  County  and 
still  lives  there,  being  now  eighty  years  of  age. 
She  was  a  daughter  of  Isaac  and  Abigail  (White) 
Lamb,  natives  of  Spencer,  Worcester  County. 
Her  father,  who  was  born  in  3765  and  died  in 
1853,  took  part  in  the  Revolution  and  later  was 
major  of  militia.  Her  grandfather,  John  Lamb, 
was  born  in  Massachusetts  in  1727  and  died  in 
1796;  he  was  a  son  of  Jonathan  Lamb,  a  native 
of  Boston,  who  settled  in  Worcester  County  in 
1726  and  served  as  a  lieutenant  in  the  early  colo- 
nial wars.  Jonathan's  father,  Joshua,  came  from 
England  to  Massachusetts  and  held  the  rank  of 
colonel  in  early  wars. 

The  family  of  George  S.  and  EHza  Bond  con- 
sisted of  two  children,  the  older  being  Mrs.  Maria 
Kent,  of  Worcester.  The  younger,  who  forms 
the  subject  of  this  sketch,  was  born  in  Leicester, 
Mass.,  March  31,  1841.  He  received  his  educa- 
tion in  the  Leicester  Academy  and  the  State  Nor- 
mal School,  from  both  of  which  he  graduated.  He 
then  taught  school  at  Holyoke,  Mass.,  for  three 
years,  after  which  he  took  up  the  study  of  medi- 
cine with  Dr.  Blodgett,  of  Holyoke,  and  later 
studied  in  the  Bellevue  Hospital  Medical  College, 
New  York,  from  which  he  graduated  in  1866,  with 
the  degree  of  M.  D.  Opening  an  ofiRce  in  Wor- 
cester County  he  continued  in  practice  there  until 
1871,  when  he  came  to  Boulder.  After  five  years 
here  he  retired  from  practice  on  account  of  poor 
health  and  since  then  he  has  engaged  in  mining, 
farming  and  banking. 

In  1887  Dr.  Bond  organized  the  Boulder  Elec- 
tric Light  Company,  of  which  he  served  as  presi- 
dent for  eight  years  and  which  has  had  a  very 
successful  history.     In  1884  he  assisted  in  the  or- 


ganization of  the  Boulder  National  Bank  and 
served  as  its  vice-president  from  that  time  until 
1 89 1,  after  which  he  acted  as  cashier  for  two 
years.  He  is  still  connected  with  the  bank  as  a 
stockholder.  He  has  dealt  extensively  in  mining 
properties  and  has  also  engaged  in  mining.  As 
an  irrigation  farmer,  he  was  interested  in  the 
building  of  some  of  the  first  ditches  in  the  St. 
Vrain  Valley,  and  was  president  of  a  number  of 
the  companies.  Much  of  his  land  lies  in  Boulder 
County  and  consists  of  improved  ranching  prop- 
erty. 

The  marriage  of  Dr.  Bond,  solemnized  in  New 
York  City,  united  him  with  Arabella,  daughter 
of  James  and  Anna  (Watson)  Coates,  and  a  sis- 
ter of  the  present  postmaster  of  Boulder.  She 
possesses  many  admirable  qualities  and  is  a  lady 
of  refinement.  A  stanch  Republican,  Dr.  Bond 
has  been  a  member  of  the  state  central  committee, 
was  chairman  of  the  county  committee  1894-96, 
served  as  mayor  of  Boulder  in  1891-93,  and  was 
his  party's  candidate  for  state  senator  in  1892, 
but  was  defeated  by  the  Populists.  He  has  done 
much  to  advance  the  welfare  of  his  party,  among 
whose  members  he  is  very  popular. 


HON.  ADAIR  WILSON,  associate  judge  of 
the  Colorado  State  Court  of  Appeals,  was 
born  in  1841  in  what  is  now  Cambridge, 
Saline  County,  Mo.,  and  is  of  Scotch-Irish  lineage. 
His  paternal  great-grandfather  emigrated  from 
Ireland  to  the  United  States  and  after  a  short  so- 
journ in  Pennsylvania  went  to  the  Shenandoah 
Valley,  of  Virginia,  where  he  was  engaged  as  a 
planter  until  his  death.  He  had  a  brother, 
James,  who  was  a  signer  of  the  Declaration  of 
Independence,  also  of  the  Constitution,  by  pro- 
fession an  attorney,  and  under  appointment  by 
President  Washington  chosen  to  fill  the  position 
of  justice  of  the  supreme  court  of  the  United 
States. 

The  grandfather  of  our  subject,  William  Wil- 
son, was  born  in  Virginia,  and  took  part  in  the 
Revolution  when  a  young  man.  Many  years 
later,  in  1824,  he  removed  to  Missouri  and  settled 
upon  a  farm  near  Glasgow,  Howard  County, 
where  he  lived  retired  until  his  death.  The  young- 
est of  his  large  family  was  William  A.,  a  native 
of  Augusta  County,  Va.,  and  in  early  life  a  mer- 
chant, but  later  a  student  of  law  with  his  brother, 


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Gen.  John  Wilson,  who  had  preceded  the  family 
to  Missouri  and  had  served  in  the  war  of  1812. 
William  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  Saline  County 
and  opened  an  office  in  Marshall,  where  he  was 
a  pioneer  and  prominent  attorney.  For  years  he 
was  clerk  of  all  the  courts  there.  When  the 
Civil  war  broke  out  he  was  somewhat  advanced 
in  years,  but  enlisted  in  the  state  militia  and  was 
made  lieutenant-colonel  of  a  regiment,  serving 
until  the  close  of  the  war,  but  the  exposure  of 
camp  life  caused  his  death  soon  afterwards.  He 
was  then  about  fifty-seven  years  of  age.  Frater- 
nally he  was  a  Mason. 

Our  subject's  mother  was  Mary  E.  Reeves,  a 
native  of  Todd  County,  Ky.,  and  now  living  in 
Marshall,  Mo.  She  is  the  descendant  of  English 
and  Scotch-Irish  ancestors,  who  early  settled  in 
Virginia.  Her  father,  Col.  Benjamin  H.  Reeves, 
was  born  in  Augusta  County,  Va.,  but  about 
the  close  of  the  eighteenth  century,  when  in  in- 
fancy, he  removed  to  Kentucky  with  his  parents. 
His  father  had  served  in  the  Revolution  and  he 
took  part,  as  a  captain,  in  the  war  of  1812,  being 
of  the  greatest  assistance  to  the  cause  in  Indiana 
and  Kentucky  and  relieving  Zacliary  Taylor 
when  the  latter  was  besieged  near  Lafayette. 
During  his  residence  in  Kentucky  he  was  for 
many  years  a  member  of  the  legislature.  In 
1818  he  removed  to  Missouri,  where  he  was  a 
member  of  the  constitutional  convention,  later 
state  senator  from  his  district,  and  afterward 
lieutenant-governor  of  the  state  for  one  term. 
He  was  one  of  the  commissioners  appointed  by 
the  president  of  the  United  States  to  locate  the 
Santa  Fe  trail.  Both  while  in  Kentucky  and 
Missouri  he  was  active  in  the  skirmishes  with  the 
Indians,  and  during  the  Iowa  Indian  war  he  was 
colonel  of  a  regiment.  He  died  in  1849,  at  the 
age  of  sixty-two  years.  Politically  he  had  been 
an  ardent  supporter  of  Henry  Clay  and  the  Whig 
party. 

The  family  of  which  our  subject  is  a  member 
consisted  of  seven  children,  he  being  third  in 
order  of  birth.  One  brother,  Benjamin  H.,  was 
a  captain  in  a  Missouri  regiment  during  the 
Civil  war  and  is  now  a  resident  of  Denver.  Our 
subject  was  reared  in  Marshall  and  received  his 
education  in  the  Masonic  College,  from  which  he 
graduated  with  the  degree  of  A.  B.,  in  1858, 
when  less  than  seventeen  years  of  age,  being  the 
youngest  member  of  his  class.     He  studied  law 


under  an  uncle.  Judge  Abiel  Leonard,  who  was 
at  one  time  judge  of  the  supreme  court  of  Mis- 
souri. In  i860  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  at 
Marshall  and  in  the  spring  of  the  following  year 
came  to  Denver,  making  the  trip  overland  with 
teams.  After  a  few  weeks  he  proceeded  west- 
ward to  California  and  located  in  San  Francisco, 
where  his  uncle.  Gen.  John  Wilson,  was  a  prom- 
inent attorney.  The  uncle  and  nephew  practiced 
together  for  two  years,  then  the  latter  went  to 
Virginia  City,  Nev.,  and  embarked  in  the  news- 
paper business  as  city  editor  of  the  Virginia  City 
Union,  at  the  same  time  that  Mark  Twain  was  city 
editor  of  the  EnterpHse.  After  one  year  he  went 
to  Austin,  Nev.,  where  he  was  the  first  editor  of 
the  Reese  River  Reveille,  a  paper  that  is  still  being 
published.  Resigning  his  position  a  year  later, 
he  went  back  to  San  Francisco  and  resumed  the 
practice  of  law.  His  father  dying  in  1867,  he  re- 
turned to  Missouri  to  look  after  the  estate,  and 
opened  an  office  in  Marshall,  where  he  practiced 
until  1872. 

Coming  again  to  Colorado  in  1872,  our  subject 
located  in  Pueblo,  where  he  practiced  for  a  year. 
He  was  among  the  earliest  settlers  in  the  San  Juan 
mining  region  and  located  at  Del  Norte,  which 
became  the  county  seat.  In  1875  he  was  elected 
the  first  member  of  the  territorial  council  from  the 
San  Juan  country,  comprising  five  or  six  counties, 
and  served  during  the  last  session  of  the  legis- 
lature of  the  territory,  being  chosen  as  president 
of  the  body.  In  1876  he  was  a  delegate  to  the 
national  Democratic  convention  at  St.  Louis  that 
nominated  Samuel  J.  Tilden  for  president,  and 
during  the  ensuing  election  was  one  of  the  Demo- 
cratic candidates  for  presidential  elector  voted  for 
by  the  legislature  of  Colorado.  During  the  same 
year  he  was  nominated  for  judge  of  the  fourth 
judicial  district,  but  declined  the  nomination.  In 
1880  he  was  tendered  the  Democratic  nomination 
for  governor,  in  the  convention  held  at  Leadville, 
but  refused  to  accept.  Six  years  later  he  was 
nominated  on  the  Democratic  ticket  for  state 
senator  from  the  San  Juan  district  and  was  the 
only  one  on  the  Democratic  ticket  elected,  the 
district  being  Republican.  His  term  of  service 
covered  the  years  1887-go,  during  which  time  he 
introduced  many  bills  of  importance.  In  1887 
he  opened  an  office  in  Durango,  where  he  has 
since  resided.  At  the  convention  in  Chicago  in 
1896  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the  Democratic 


HON.  JAMES  W.  McCREERY. 


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national  committee.  In  April,  1897,  Governor 
Adams  appointed  him  to  the  position  he  now 
holds,  that  of  associate  judge  of  the  court  of 
appeals.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Pioneers'  As- 
sociation of  San  Juan,  and  fraternally  is  connected 
with  the  Masonic  lodge  of  Del  Norte.  In  Arrow 
Rock,  Saline  County,  Mo.,  he  married  Miss 
Margaret  E.  Edwards,  who  was  born  in  Pettis 
County,  that  state,  being  the  daughter  of  Philip 
W.  Edwards,  who  was  born  in  Kentucky  in  1800, 
removed  to  Missouri  in  an  early  day  and  en- 
gaged in  business  there  until  his  death.  This 
union  was  blessed  with  the  following  children: 
Katharine  W.,  who  married  Austin  H.  Brown; 
Edwards  Adair,  Alva  Adams  and  Margaretta. 


HON.  JAMES  W.  McCREERY,  state  sena- 
tor, and  one  of  the  ablest  attorneys  not  only 
of  Greeley,  but  of  the  entire  state  as  well, 
was  born  in  Indiana  County,  Pa.,  July  13,  1850, 
a  son  of  William  G.  and  Mary  (Work)  McCreery. 
His  paternal  grandfather,  William  McCreery,  was 
born  in  County  Donegal,  Ireland,  in  1772,  of 
Scotch  descent,  and  emigrated  to  America  in 
1793,  settling  in  Indiana  County,  Pa.,  where,  in 
1804,  he  married  Margaret  McLain,  born  in 
America  in  1781.  He  was  a  son  of  Samuel  Mc- 
Creery, who  came  to  America  at  the  same  time 
with  a  brother  and  si.ster;  their  father,  Samuel, 
Sr.,  was  a  native  of  Scotland,  who  removed 
thence  to  Ireland. 

In  Pennsylvania,  where  he  was  born  July  4, 
182 1,  William  G.  McCreery  devoted  his  active 
years  to  farming,  and  he  is  still  living  on  the 
family  homestead  in  Indiana  County.  He  has 
been  a  Republican  since  the  organization  of  the 
party.  The  only  office  he  ever  accepted  was  that 
of  school  director,  in  which  position  he  aided  the 
public  schools.  To  the  work  of  the  United  Pres- 
byterian Church  he  has  for  years  given  liberally 
of  his  time  and  means,  and"  been  one  of  its  faith- 
ful members.  His  first  marriage  united  him  with 
Mary,  daughter  of  James  Work.  They  became 
the  parents  of  seven  children,  four  of  whom  are 
living,  viz.:  Margaret  E.,  James  W.;  Samuel 
Fletcher,  who  is  engaged  in  the  insurance  busi- 
ness in  Greeley ;  and  Robert  C. ,  a  farmer  resid- 
ing at  Fort  Morgan,  Colo.  Mrs.  Mary  McCreery 
died  in  i860,  and  afterward  Mr.  McCreery  mar- 


ried Rachel  Miller,  by  whom  he  had  two  chil- 
dren, Silas  H.  and  Alexander  H.  His  second 
wife  is  still  living. 

In  local  schools,  an  academy  and  the  State 
Normal  in  Indiana  County  the  subject  of  this 
article  received  his  education.  While  teaching 
for  several  years  he  devoted  his  leisure  hours  to 
the  study  of  law.  In  December,  1880,  he  was 
admitted  to  the  bar,  and  in  the  spring  of  188 1 
came  west  to  Greeley,  reaching  here  on  the  ist  of 
June.  He  was  pleased  with  the  location  and  de- 
termined to  make  the  city  his  permanent  home. 
Confining  himself  to  civil  law,  he  has  succeeded 
in  that  line  of  the  profession  and  has  built  up  a 
remunerative  practice.  By  his  energy  and  native 
ability  he  has  placed  himself  in  the  front  rank  of 
the  bar  of  northern  Colorado.  In  all  the  promi- 
nent irrigation  cases  that  have  come  up  in  the 
past  seventeen  years  he  has  been  interested,  and  a 
fair  percentage  of  these  he  has  won.  During  the 
same  time  he  has  also  been  connected  with  all 
irrigation  legislation.  His  practice  extends 
throughout  the  entire  state,  and  in  1897  he  was 
called  to  Illinois  to  take  charge  of  an  important 
will  case  involving  $500,000. 

An  ardent  Republican,  Mr.  McCreery  has  been 
active  in  almost  all  of  the  county  and  state  con- 
ventions. In  1888  he  was  elected  to  the  state 
senate  from  the  district  then  comprising  Weld, 
lyOgan  and  Washington  Counties.  During  the 
f9ur  years  that  followed  he  made  an  enviable 
record  as  a  legislator.  One  of  his  most  impor- 
tant works  was  the  introduction  and  passage  of  a 
bill  providing  for  the  establishment  of  the  State 
Normal  School  at  Greeley,  a  school  intended  for 
the  preparation  of  teachers  in  the  common  schools 
of  the  state.  For  the  past  eight  years  he  has 
been  a  trustee  of  the  institution,  and  during  part 
of  the  time  served  as  president  of  the  board. 

In  1896  he  was  again  nominated  for  the  senate 
and  was  elected  by  a  plurality  of  nearly  nine 
hundred.  In  the  session  that  followed  he  was 
one  of  the  most  prominent  members,  and  as  a 
member  of  the  committee  on  finance  took  a  firm 
stand  for  retrenchment  in  public  expenses,  and 
openly  advocated  reform  in  such  expenditures. 
Having  made  the  subject  of  finance  a  close  study, 
he  was  well  fitted  for  that  kind  of  work. 

One  noticeable  trait  in  Mr.  McCreery 's  char- 
acter is  his  kindness  to  young  men  just  starting 
out  as  attorneys.     Many  a  one  owes  to  his  sym- 


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pathetic  interest  the  start  in  the  profession  to 
which  he  owed  his  later  success.  In  1897,  when 
the  rules  relative  to  admission  to  the  bar  were 
drafted  again  and  a  committee  appointed  to  act  as 
a  board  of  law  examiners,  the  supreme  court  of 
the  state  named  him  as  a  member.  He  practices 
before  all  the  courts,  including  the  supreme  court 
of  the  United  States.  In  addition  to  his  other 
practice  he  is  attorney  tor  the  First  National 
Bank  of  Greeley  and  for  ex-Governor  Eaton  in 
the  latter' s  irrigation  matters. 

In  religion  he  is  connected  with  the  Presby- 
terian Church.  August  27,  1883,  he  married 
Mary  M.,  daughter  of  Mathew  Arbuckle,  of 
Madison,  Ind.  They  are  the  parents  of  four 
children  now  living:  Mary,  Donald,  Edith  and 
Dorothy. 

P'RANK  C.  AVERY,  president  of  the  First 
f^  National  Bank  of  Fort  Collins  and  a  resident 
I  of  Colorado  since  1870,  was  born  in  Cayuga 
County,  N.  Y.,  at  L,edyard,  near  Cayuga  Lake, 
April  8,  1849,  a  son  of  Edgar  and  Eliza  (Worth- 
ing) Avery.  He  is  a  descendant,  on  the  pater- 
nal side,  of  a  pioneer  family  of  New  England. 
His  grandfather,  Benjamin  Avery,  who  was  born 
in  New  London,  Conn.,  went  to  Cayuga  County, 
N.  Y.,  at  the  age  of  eighteen  years,  and  began 
the  improvement  of  a  farm  from  the  wilderness. 
At  the  time  he  settled  there  Auburn  had  but  two 
houses,  and  they  were  built  of  logs.  He  engaged 
in  farming  and  stock-raising  until  his  death. 
His  son,  Edgar,  who  was  born  and  reared  in 
Cayuga  County,  removed  from  there  to  Colorado 
and  died  in  Greeley  in  1887.  His  wife  died  in 
Fort  Collins  in  1897.  She  was  a  daughter  of 
Rev.  Jonathan  Worthing,  a  pioneer  minister  in 
the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  and  for  some 
time  a  presiding  elder  of  that  denomination.  He 
died  in  Binghamton,  N.  Y. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  second  among 
five  children.  His  older  brother,  Edward,  is  liv- 
ing in  Fort  Collins.  Louise,  the  wife  of  Alex- 
ander Mead,  resides  in  Greeley;  George  is  a 
minister  in  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  now 
stationed  in  Fort  Collins;  and  William,  who  came 
to  Colorado  about  1880,  became  a  land  owner  in 
Larimer  County  and  was  also  connected  with  the 
First  National  Bank  until  his  death,  in  1890. 
Our  subject  attended  Cazenovia  Seminary.  Upon 
completing  the  engineer's  course  he  joined  the 


Union  colony  and  came  to  Greeley,  where  he  ar- 
rived May  9,  1870.  He  made  the  surveys  and 
laid  out  the  town;  also  surveyed  the  ditches. 
After  eighteen  months  in  that  place,  in  the  fall  of 
187 1,  he  located  near  La  Porte,  Larimer  County, 
where  he  embarked  in  the  stock  business.  In 
1872  he  made  the  original  plat  and  laid  out  the 
town  of  Fort  Collins,  changing  the  old  town  as 
much  as  possible  in  order  to  make  the  streets  run 
straight.  He  became  interested  in  the  real-estate 
business  here,  and  was  among  the  first  to  im- 
prove and  sell  town  lots.  In  the  fall  of  1872  he 
was  elected  county  surveyor  and  in  1874  was  re- 
elected. The  first  noticeable  growth  of  the  city 
took  place  in  1873,  after  which  its  development 
was  steady.  As  long  as  the  colony  existed  he 
continued  its  engineer. 

In  January,  1880,  Mr.  Avery  organized  the 
Larimer  County  Bank,  a  state  institution,  with  a 
capital  stock  of  $30,000,  and  himself  as  presi- 
dent. After  a  few  months  the  name  was  changed 
to  the  First  National  Bank  and  the  capitalization 
was  increa.sed  to  $50,000.  In  addition  to  build- 
ing the  first  bank  building,  he  also  erected  ten 
stores  near  the  bank,  comprising  the  Avery 
block,  and  a  commodious  and  substantial  stone 
residence,  set  in  the  midst  of  large  grounds.  He 
had  a  one- fourth  interest  in  the  building  of  the 
opera  house,  and  has  aided  in  the  improvement 
of  other  property.  In  a  number  of  ditch  com- 
panies he  has  been  largely  interested,  serving  as 
president  of  several.  Through  his  efforts  was 
organized  the  Water  Supply  and  Storage  Com- 
pany of  Fort  Collins,  of  which  he  is  still  a  di- 
rector. This  company  built  the  most  expensive 
ditch  for  its  length  in  the  entire  state,  having 
spent  $100,000  in  blasting  through  the  solid  rock 
in  order  to  bring  the  ditch  over  the  Snowy  range, 
nine  thousand  feet  elevation,  for  feeding  the 
Larimer  County  ditch.  The  company  also  built 
two  large  reservoirs,  which,  after  two  years  of 
work,  were  completed  in  1893.  For  this  work  he 
made  the  preliminary  survey.  He  is  interested 
in  ranches  in  Larimer  and  Weld  Counties,  and 
owns  several  sections  which  he  has  fenced  and 
improved.  In  the  organization  of  the  Akin  Live 
Stock  Company  he  took  an  active  part.  They 
feed  about  six  thousand  sheep  and  own  a  number 
of  fine  thoroughbred  horses. 

Politically  Mr.  Avery  is  a  Republican.  For 
three  terms  he  served  as  a  member  of  the  city 


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council.  In  New  York  state,  February  24, 
1876,  he  married  Miss  Sarah  Edson,  who  was 
born  near  Auburn.  Three  children  were  born  of 
their  marriage:  Edgar,  Ethel  and  Mettie.  The 
children  are  being  given  the  benefits  of  good 
educations.  Mrs.  Avery  is  identified  with  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  to  the  maintenance 
of  which  Mr.  Avery  is  a  regular  contributor. 

In  reviewing  the  history  of  any  community 
there  are  always  a  few  names  that  stand  out  pre- 
eminent. In  the  history  of  Fort  Collins  the  name 
of  Mr.  Avery  is  prominent.  Doubtless  few  have 
accomplished  more  than  he  in  behalf  of  the  city's 
interests,  the  development  of  its  resources  and 
the  enlargement  of  its  commerce.  He  has  aided  by 
his  means  and  influence  those  projects  calculated 
to  promote  the  welfare  of  the  people  and  advance 
their  prosperity.  Progressive  plans  have  been 
promoted  by  his  co-operation  and  local  interests 
have  received  his  fostering  aid.  Justly,  there- 
fore, he  occupies  a  position  among  the  most  influ- 
ential men  of  the  town  and  county. 


~  DWARD  C.  PARMELEE.  The  record  of 
^  the  life  of  Mr.  Parmelee  since  coming  to 
_  Colorado  is  a  record  of  the  growth  and  prog- 
ress in  Masonry  during  the  same  period.  No 
one  has  been  more  prominent  in  the  order  than 
he  and  no  one  has  contributed  more  to  its  ad- 
vancement. Upon  the  organization  of  the  grand 
chapter  of  Colorado  he  was  elected  grand  secretary, 
which  position  he  has  since  held.  He  has  also 
been  grand  recorder  of  the  grand  commandery  of 
Colorado  since  its  organization  in  1876.  He  is 
identified  with  the  consistory  of  Colorado  in 
Denver  and  for  a  number  of  years  has  been  recorder 
and  secretary  of  the  several  bodies  of  the  Scottish 
Rite. 

The  connection  of  Mr.  Parmelee  with  human 
activities  began  in  Waterbury,  Vt.  The  family 
of  which  he  is  a  member  came  from  Wales  to 
America,  but  originated  in.  Holland,  where  the 
name  was  Van  Parmelee.  William  Parmelee  was 
born  in  Londonderry,  Conn.,  in  1775,  and  re- 
moved from  there  to  New  Hampshire,  but  later 
became  a  pioneer  farmer  of  Summit  Count}',  Ohio. 
His  son,  Lucius,  was  born  in  New  Hampshire, 
whence  in  early  manhood  he  removed  to  Water- 
bury,  Vt.,  and  embarked  in  the  boot  and  shoe 
business,   continuing  the  same  until  his  retire- 


ment. He  died  at  seventy-seven  years  of  age. 
His  wife,  who  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Ann 
Wallace,  was  born  in  New  Hampshire,  the 
descendant  of  an  old  Scotch  family,  and  died  in 
1840,  at  the  age  of  thirty.  Her  father,  James 
Wallace,  was  born  in  Connecticut,  but  removed 
to  New  Hampshire,  where  he  owned  and  con- 
ducted a  boot  and  shoe  store. 

The  third  in  order  of  birth,  and  the  only  sur- 
vivor of  six  children,  the  subject  of  this  sketch 
was  orphaned  by  his  mother's  death  when  he  was 
quite  small.  He  attended  the  public  school  of 
Waterbury,  where  he  obtained  a  fair  education. 
At  the  age  of  seventeen  he  went  as  far  west  as 
Summit  County,  Ohio,  and  there  became  a  clerk 
in  a  mercantile  store.  It  was  not  long,  however, 
before  the  excitement  occasioned  by  the  discovery 
of  gold  in  the  mountains  of  Colorado  brought 
many  argonauts  from  the  east.  With  them  came 
many  who  have  since  resided  in  the  state  and 
have  been  influential  factors  in  the  development 
of  its  resources.  Among  them  came  Mr.  Parmelee 
in  i860,  making  the  long  journey  via  ox  team 
from  Kansas  and  finally  arriving  at  what  is  now 
Central  City,  in  Gilpin  County,  where  he  began 
prospecting  and  mining.  While  still  connected 
with  mining  interests  there  he  formed  a  partner- 
ship with  Mr.  Sayr  and  opened  the  first  abstract 
oSice  in  Gilpin  County,  later  also  starting  the 
first  abstract  office  in  Clear  Creek  County.  In 
1887  he  went  to  Pueblo  County,  where  he  also 
engaged  in  the  abstract  title  business.  In  1891 
he  sold  out,  and  this  time  settled  in  Denver, 
where  he  has  since  given  his  entire  attention  to 
the  duties  of  his   position   as  grand   secretary. 

In  1857,  in  Monroe,  Iowa,  Mr.  Parmelee  was 
made  a  member  of  Monroe  Lodge  No.  88,  A.  F. 
&  A.  M.  On  coming  to  Colorado  he  became 
identified  with  Central  Lodge  No.  6,  A.F.  &  A.M., 
and  later  was  connected  with  Georgetown  Lodge 
No.  48,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  of  which  he  is  still  a 
member  and  past  master.  While  in  Central  City 
he  joined  Central  City  Chapter  No.  i ,  R.  A.  M., 
and  at  Georgetown  he  became  a  charter  member 
of  Georgetown  Chapter  No.  4,  of  which  he  was 
the  first  high  priest.  His  membership  is  now  in 
Colorado  Chapter  No.  29.  In  1866  he  was  made 
a  Knight  Templar,  in  Cuba,  N.  Y. ,  becoming  a 
member  of  St.  John's  Commandery  No.  24,  later 
of  Central  City  Commandery  No.  2  (in  which  he 
was  an  officer)  and  afterward    of    Georgetown 


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Commandery  No.  4,  in  which  he  is  past  com- 
mander. He  is  now  identified  with  Denver 
Commandery  No.   25. 

Though  without  political  aspirations,  Mr. 
Parmelee  is  not  without  decided  opinions  upon 
the  issues  of  the  age  and  has  allied  himself  with 
the  silver  Republicans,  being  a  stanch  advocate 
of  bimetalism. 


OOI..  J.  L.  HANDLEY,  M.  D.,  supreme 
I  (  secretary  and  vice-president  of  the  Fraternal 
\J  Union  of  America,  was  one  of  the  original 
promoters  of  this  order,  for  which  he  assisted  in 
securing  a  charter  in  1894.  With  the  formation 
of  Union  Lodge  No.  i,  of  Denver,  he  was  actively 
connected;  a  noteworthy  fact  connected  with  the 
history  of  this  lodge  is  that  its  first  candidate  for 
admission  was  Mayor  Van  Horn,  and  he  was  also 
the  first  of  the  members  to  die.  From  the  first 
Colonel  Handley  was  supreme  secretary  of  the 
order,  and  upon  the  reorganization,  in  Septem- 
ber, 1896,  he  was  made  supreme  vice-president, 
both  of  which  offices  he  has  since  filled,  having 
full  charge  of  the  order.  The  purpose  of  reor- 
ganization was  to  change  the  modus  operandi, 
profiting  by  the  experiences  of  the  past  and 
making  of  the  order  the  most  modern  institution 
of  its  kind.  Since  actively  commencing  the  work 
of  organization  in  1896,  the  Union  has  gained 
lodges  throughout  the  country,  as  far  east  as 
Ohio,  and  west  to  the  Pacific  Coast.  The  entire 
time  of  the  supreme  secretary  is  given  to  the 
work  of  organization  and  the  supervision  of 
lodges.  The  supreme  president  is  F.  F.  Roose, 
of  Omaha,  and  the  supreme  treasurer  S.  S.  Baty, 
of  Denver.  The  Union  is  a  fraternal,  social  and 
benefit  order,  and  provides  accident,  total  disabil- 
ity, old  age  and  death  benefits,  creating  a  matu- 
rity or  reserve  fund  which  guarantees  its  perma- 
nency. It  combines  the  most  equitable  features 
and  guarantees  cheapness  in  the  future,  when 
most  orders  will  be  expensive.  The  fact  that  both 
sexes  are  admitted  on  equal  terms  wins  many 
friends  for  the  fraternity. 

Colonel  Handley  was  born  in  Sheffield,  Eng- 
land, February  9,  1834,  the  sou  of  James  and 
Martha  (Ennis)  Handley,  the  former  of  whom 
died  of  paralysis  in  Sheffield.  One  grandfather, 
Lawrence  Handley,  was  a  manufacturer  in  Shef- 
field, and  the  other  grandfather,  John  Ennis,  was 
in  the  English  navy  during  the  Napoleonic  wars, 


1812-15,  and  afterward  was  connected  with  the 
shipping  interests  of  Dover,  England.  Mrs. 
Handley  had  three  children,  but  two  died  in 
childhood,  and  she  spent  her  last  days  in  the 
home  of  her  only  surviving  child,  our  subject,  in 
Carmi,  111.,  where  she  died  at  the  age  of  sixty 
years. 

At  the  age  of  fourteen  our  subject  began  an 
apprenticeship  to  the  tanner's  and  currier's  trade, 
but  he  did  not  like  the  work  and  decided  to  come 
to  America.  With  a  cousin,  in  1848,  he  left 
Liverpool  on  the  sailer  "Harriet  Augusta," 
which  encountered  severe  storms  and  landed  in 
New  York  after  a  voyage  of  six  weeks.  He  se- 
cured employment  as  clerk  in  the  store  of  Priest 
Brothers,  in  Albany,  and  while  there,  in  1850, 
sent  for  his  mother  to  come  to  this  country.  In 
1851,  with  a  corps  of  engineers,  he  made  surveys 
for  the  widening  of  Erie  Canal,  and  after  a  year 
in  that  work  he  came  as  far  west  as  Evansville, 
Ind. ,  where  he  was  assistant  engineer  on  the 
Evansville  &  Crawfordsville  Railroad.  In  1854 
he  settled  in  Carmi,  White  County,  111.,  where 
for  two  years  he  was  bookkeeper  for  Stewart  & 
Graham,  and  for  a  similar  period  was  with  Albert 
Shannon,  dry-goods  merchant.  Meantime  he 
began  the  study  of  medicine,  under  Dr.  E.  L. 
Stewart.  In  the  fall  of  1857  he  entered  Jefferson 
Medical  College,  from  which  he  graduated  in 
1859,  with  the  degree  of  M.  D.,  and  then  engaged 
in  practice  at  Carmi. 

In  1862  he  was  commissioned  assistant  surgeon, 
with  the  rank  of  captain,  of  the  Eighty-seventh 
Illinois  Infantry,  the  surgeon  being  his  former 
preceptor.  Dr.  Stewart,  and  he  served  with  the 
regiment  during  the  entire  war.  After  the  fall 
of  Vicksburg  the  regiment  was  sent  to  New  Or- 
leans, and  from  there  accompanied  Banks'  expe- 
dition up  the  Red  River  to  Sabine  Cross  Roads, 
where  his  command  brought  on  a  fight  by  at- 
tacking Dick  Taylor's  forces.  From  there  they 
went  to  Morganzes  Bend  at  the  mouth  of  the 
White  River  and  later  scouted  through  the 
country,  finally  reaching  Helena,  Ark.  He  was 
mustered  out  at  Springfield,  111.,  July  3,  1865. 

After  the  war  Dr.  Handley  located  in  Mount 
Erie,  Wayne  County,  111.,  which  was  quite  close 
to  his  former  home  in  Carmi.  In  1868  he  was 
nominated,  on  the  Democratic  ticket,  for  the  po- 
sition of  clerk  of  the  circuit  court  and  recorder  of 
the  countj',  and  was  elected,  taking  the  oath  of 


ABNER  LOOMIS. 


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office  immediately  after  his  election .  He  removed 
to  Fairfield,  the  county-seat,  where  he  resided 
for  some  years.  At  the  expiration  of  his  term,  in 
1872,  he  was  re-elected,  this  timeby  an  overwhelm- 
ing majority,  and  served  until  1876,  when  he 
refused  further  nomination.  During  that  j'ear  the 
circuit  judge  appointed  him  master  in  chancery  of 
Wayne  County,  and  by  appointment  every  two 
years  he  served  until  1886.  In  1885  President 
Cleveland  appointed  him  postmaster  of  Fairfield, 
but  the  next  year  he  resigned  that  office,  as  well 
as  the  position  of  master  in  chancery. 

In  the  spring  of  1887  he  came  to  Denver, 
where  he  became  connected  with  the  postoffice 
department  and  was  appointed  the  first  superin- 
tendent of  carriers.  On  the  appointment  of  John 
Cochrane  as  postmaster  he  resigned,  though  soli- 
cited to  remain  in  his  position.  During  his  term 
as  superintendent  he  organized  the  carrier  system 
and  perfected  its  management.  After  sersdng  as 
bookkeeper  for  A.  C.  Harris  for  a  j'ear  he  was 
appointed  a  sanitary  inspector  in  the  health  de- 
partment of  Denver.  While  Dr.  Steele  was  health 
commissioner  he  created  the  office  of  lieutenant 
of  sanitary  inspectors  and  organized  the  corps. 
On  Dr.  Lemen  becoming  health  commissioner. 
Colonel  Handley  was  appointed  superintendent 
of  the  health  department  and  had  full  charge  of 
the  sanitary  affairs  of  the  city.  He  was  retained 
in  the  same  position  by  Dr.  Munn.  In  Septem- 
ber, 1896,  he  resigned  to  become  supreme  sec- 
retary of  the  Fraternal  Union. 

In  Carmi  Colonel  Handley  married  Miss  Clar- 
inda  Hoffman,  who  was  born  in  Virginia  and  died 
in  Fairfield,  111.,  in  March,  1873.  She  had  two 
children,  only  one  of  whom  is  living,  Bessie  S., 
wife  of  William  Nelson,  of  Portland,  Ore.  The 
colonel's  second  marriage  took  place  in  Fairfield, 
111.,  April  27,  1874,  and  united  him  with  Miss 
Sallie  N.  McCall,  of  Kentucky,  by  whoni  he  has 
a  son,  Lawrence  R. 

While  in  Illinois  Colonel  Handley  was  made  a 
Mason,  and  he  still  has  his  membership  in  the 
lodge  at  Carmi,  in  which  he  was  an  officer,  and 
also  held  official  position  in  the  Royal  Arch  Chap- 
ter there.  In  the  council  at  Fairfield  he  was 
Thrice  Illustrious  Master,  and  he  also  belonged 
to  Commandery  No.  14,  K.  T.,  ofOlney,  111.  At 
one  time  he  was  connected  with  the  Odd  Fellows. 
He  is  a  member  of  Reno  Post  No.  39,  G.  A.  R., 
of  Denver,  in  which  he  was  commander  for  two 


terms.  He  was  quartermaster  general  in  the 
department  of  Colorado  and  Wyoming  for  two 
terms,  with  the  rank  of  colonel.  He  is  also  con- 
nected with  the  Union  Veterans'  Legion.  During 
his  residence  in  Illinois,  he  was  frequently  a  del- 
egate to  local  and  state  conventions,  and  also 
served  as  delegate  to  the  national  convention  at 
St.  Louis,  where  Samuel  Tilden  was  nominated 
for  president.  In  Illinois  he  was  a  well-known 
man  of  affairs  and  a  leading  politician  of  his  local- 
ity. He  is  a  member  of  Trinity  Methodist  Episco- 
pal Church. 

GlBNER  LOOMIS,  president  of  the  Poudre 
Lj  Valley  Bank  of  Fort  Collins,  is  one  of  the 
I  I  pioneers  of  Colorado  who  have  achieved 
financial  success  through  attention  to  business 
and  determination  of  will.  He  was  born  in 
Chautauqua  County,  N.  Y.,  December  17,  1829, 
and  was  next  to  the  youngest  among  twelve 
children,  all  but  one  of  whom  attained  maturity 
and  eight  are  still  living.  His  father,  William, 
a  native  of  York  state  and  a  member  of  an  old 
eastern  family,  settled  in  Ohio  in  1834  and  from 
there  in  1840  went  to  Iowa,  locating  near  Fair- 
field, Jefferson  County,  where  he  engaged  in 
farming  until  his  death  at  sixty-six  years.  His 
wife,  who  was  Sylvia  Morton,  was  born  in  New 
York  and  died  in  Birmingham,  Iowa. 

In  the  public  schools  of  Iowa  the  subject  of 
this  article  obtained  a  fair  education.  He  learned 
gunsmithing  in  Iowa.  In  1850,  with  a  company 
from  the  vicinity  of  Birmingham,  Iowa,  he  went 
to  California,  going  via  the  Platte  with  horse- 
train,  through  South  Pass,  via  Fort  Hall,  down 
the  Humboldt,  and  arriving  in  Sacramento  after 
five  months  of  travel.  For  four  years  he  engaged 
in  mining  on  the  Trinity  River,  after  which  he 
turned  his  attention  to  buying  and  selling  cattle, 
having  his  ranch  on  Belle  Creek.  In  1859  he  re- 
turned to  Iowa,  via  Panama  and  New  York  City. 
It  was  then  the  time  of  the  Pike's  Peak  gold  ex- 
citement, and  he  fell  a  victim  to  the  prevailing 
fever.  In  April,  i860,  he  again  started  across 
the  plains,  this  time  going  from  Kansas  City  by 
stage  to  Denver,  where  he  met  Antoine  Janise,  a 
Frenchman  from  Cache  la  Poudre,  who  had  been 
here  from  twelve  years  of  age.  He  told  Mr. 
Loomis  that  he  had  found  gold  in  the  sands  of 
the  Cache  la  Poudre  and  its  tributaries,  and  in- 
duced him  to  come^sre.      June  27,    i860,    he 


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arrived  at  the  stream,  where  he  prospected  for  a 
month,  finding  gold  in  small  quantities,  but  not 
enough  to  pay  for  the  expense  of  mining.  How- 
ever, he  decided  that  money  might  be  made  here 
in  other  ways  than  mining,  and  determined  to 
engage  in  the  stock  business.  With  this  object 
in  view,  he  bought  the  ranch  at  Pleasant  Valley 
that  is  now  owned  by  Captain  Post.  Returning 
to  Omaha,  he  bought  a  supply  of  provisions,  etc., 
and  returned  via  ox-train.  In  the  spring  of  1861 
he  dug  the  first  ditch  ever  dug  on  the  Cache  la 
Poudre  (now  known  as  Pleasant  Valley  ditch) 
and  by  the  aid  of  irrigation  raised  a  small  crop. 
In  the  fall  of  1861  he  planted  a  sack  of  black  wal- 
nuts, brought  from  the  vicinity  of  Omaha,  and  it 
is  probable  that  this  was  the  introduction  of  the 
black  walnut  into  Colorado.  The  trees  are  still 
growing  and  have  been  transplanted  to  different 
parts  of  the  county.  In  1862  he  raised  some 
potatoes  and  a  fair  crop  of  wheat.  He  continued 
with  increasing  success  until  1867,  when  he  sold 
the  place,  and,  settling  in  Spring  Canon,  estab- 
lished a  cattle  ranch,  buying  Shorthorns  which 
he  crossed  with  Spanish  cows.  In  187 1  he  sold 
that  place  and  settled  in  the  new  town  of  Fort  Col- 
lins. In  the  springof  1872  he  moved  his  cattle  on 
Horse  Creek,  north  of  Cheyenne,  where  he  had  a 
ranch,  and  later  took  them  to  Sabile,  Wyo.,  then 
above  Fort  Casper,  on  the  North  Platte,  in  Wyo- 
ming, where  he  kept  them  several  years,  finally 
selling  to  Swan  Brothers.  His  next  venture  was 
to  start  a  ranch  further  north,  not  far  from  Sun- 
dance, where  the  Indians  were  very  troublesome. 
There  he  put  in  ten  thousand  head  of  cattle,  with 
Charles  Andrews  as  his  partner  in  the  business. 
After  some  years  he  sold  the  ranch  to  the  loi 
Cattle  Company,  of  which  Colonel  Babbitt  was 
manager.  From  that  time  he  continued  stock- 
dealing  and  feeding  in  Fort  Collins,  making  a 
special  feature  of  sheep  feeding.  He  has  owned 
three  different  farms  here,  and  now  has  a  place 
adjoining  Fort  Collins,  from  which  he  has  plat- 
ted eighty  acres  as  an  addition  to  the  city.  His 
comfortable  home  stands  on  Remington  street. 

In  early  days  a  company  was  organized  for 
protection  from  the  Indians.  He  was  a  member 
of  this  organization  and  was  considered  one  of 
the  best  trailers  in  that  entire  section,  being  able 
to  track  an  Indian  as  fast  as  his  horse  could  run. 
In  1864  he  made  one  trip  to  Virginia  City,  Mont., 
freighting   with  a  bull-team.       In    1861    he   had 


made  a  trip  with  an  ox-team  to  the  Missouri  River, 
and  in  the  spring  of  the  next  year  made  his  third 
trip  to  the  Missouri,  while  in  the  fall  he  again 
crossed  the  plains,  with  mule-team  and  spring 
wagon.  During  that  trip  he  was  married,  in 
Bethany,  Mo.,  to  Jane  Isabelle  Allen,  who  was 
born  in  Missouri  and  died  at  Excelsior  Springs, 
that  state,  in  October,  1893.  She  left  five  chil- 
dren: Leonidas,  a  graduate  of  the  State  Agricult- 
ural College  and  now  engaged  in  the  stock  business 
near  Fort  Collins;  Lelia,  a  graduate  of  the  State 
Agricultural  College,  and  now  the  wife  of  T.  H. 
Robinson,  of  Fort  Collins;  Guy,  a  merchant  in 
Fort  Collins;  Effie,  wife  of  Charles  Dwyre,  of  Fort 
Collins;  and  Jasper.  All  the  children  have  been 
given  excellent  educational  advantages  in  the 
college  in  this  city.  The  present  wife  of  Mr. 
I/Oomis  was  Mrs.  Melinda  Maxwell,  who  was  born 
and  reared  in  Independence,  Mo. ,  and  came  to 
Colorado  in  1873.  She  is  a  member  of  the  Chris- 
tian Church  and  a  lady  of  estimable  character. 

Politically  a  Democrat,  Mr.  Loomiswas  county 
commissioner  for  twelve  years  and  for  a  number 
of  years  served  as  chairman  of  the  board.  His 
nomination  to  this  office  came  unsought  by  him, 
but  though  he  did  not  seek  the  position,  he  filled 
it  with  the  greatest  efficiency.  While  in  the 
office  he  superintended  the  making  of  bridges  and 
roads  for  the  county.  He  has  frequently  served 
as  a  member  of  the  city  council,  and  while  in  that 
position  assisted  in  the  building  of  the  water 
works.  While  ranging  in  Wyoming  he  was 
identified  with  the  Wyoming  Cattle  Growers' 
Association.  Before  leaving  Iowa  he  was  made 
a  Mason,  and  after  coming  to  Fort  Collins  he  be- 
came a  charter  member  of  the  blue  lodge  here. 

The  history  of  the  Poudre  Valley  Bank  shows 
that  an  institution  that  has  at  its  head  men  of 
business  sagacity  and  judgment  will  attain  suc- 
cess. This  bank  is  the  outgrowth  of  the  private 
banking  house  of  Stover  &  Sheldon,  that  began 
in  business  here  in  November,  1878.  In  1882 
Abner  L,oomis  and  Charles  B.  Andrews  purchased 
an  interest  in  the  concern.  In  1877  the  bank 
bought  the  stock  owned  by  Mr.  Andrews.  In 
February,  1893,  the  bank  was  incorporated  as  a 
state  institution,  and  a  capital  paid  in  of  $100, 000. 
The  president  is  Abner  Loomis;  vice-president, 
James  B.  Arthur;  cashier,  Charles  H.  Sheldon; 
assistant  cashier,  Vernef  Wolfe.  These  men,  to- 
gether with  C.  B.  Andrews,  W.  C.  Stover,  N.  C. 


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Alford  and  James  Andrews,  form  the  board  of 
directors.  The  banking  rooms  are  located  at  the 
corner  of  L,inden  and  Walnut  streets,  in  a  large 
three-story  brick  building  owned  by  Mr.  Loomis. 
Here  they  have  improved  fire  proof  and  burglar 
proof  vaults,  so  arranged  as  to  afford  perfect  se- 
curity to  the  contents.  Under  its  wise  and  con- 
servative managers,  the  bank  is  doing  a  large 
and  safe  business,  and  has  attained  a  place  among 
the  solid  financial  institutions  of  the  county. 


HON.  RICHARD  H.  WHITELEY,  Sr., 
was  born  in  the  north  of  Ireland  December 
22,  1830.  In  1836  he  was  brought  to 
America,  first  settling  in  Charleston,  S.  C,  and 
thence  going  to  Augusta,  Ga.,  where  he  attended 
school  until  1839.  He  was  then  apprenticed  to 
learn  the  trade  of  a  cotton  and  woolen  manufact- 
urer at  Belleville,  near  Augusta,  where  he  re- 
mained until  1848,  and  from  that  date  until  i860 
was  engaged  in  the  same  business  at  other  places. 
His  last  work  in  that  line  was  the  erection  of  a 
cotton  and  woolen  factory  at  Bainbridge,  Ga. 

During  his  last  years  in  business  Mr.  Whiteley 
had  been  studying  law,  and  in  the  spring  of  i860 
he  was  admitted  to  the  bar.  He  continued  in 
active  practice  until  the  opening  of  the  Civil  war. 
In  1 86 1  he  took  an  active  part  in  the  issue 
of  secession,  and  both  through  the  press  and 
on  the  stump  opposed  secession,  both  as  a 
right  and  as  a  remedy.  Entering  the  Con- 
federate army  when  war  was  declared,  he  was 
with  the  western  army  and  surrendered  as  major 
of  infantry  under  Gen.  Joseph  E.  Johnston  at 
Durham  Station,  N.  C,  in  1865.  When  the 
question  of  reconstruction  was  brought  up  he  fa- 
vored the  policy  of  congress  and  opposed  the 
action  of  President  Johnson,  maintaining  that  the 
first  duty  of  southerners  was  to  unconditionally 
accept  the  results  of  the  war. 

In  1867  Mr.  Whiteley  was  elected  to  the  state 
constitutional  convention,  and  was  a  member  of 
its  judiciary  committee.  In  1868  he  was  nomi- 
nated by  the  Republicans  of  the  second  district 
of  Georgia  for  the  fortieth  congress  and  was 
elected  by  a  large  majority,  but  was  defrauded 
by  a  false  count.  In  the  fall  of  1868  he  was  ap- 
pointed solicitor-general  of  the  southwestern  cir- 
cuit, a  position  resembling  that  of  district  attor- 
ney in   the  north.     He  served  in  that  "capacity 


until  elected  to  the  forty-first  congress.  In  Feb- 
ruary, 1870,  he  was  elected  United  States  sena- 
tor by  the  general  assembly  of  Georgia,  but  on  a 
contest  before  the  senate  the  election  was  de- 
clared to  be  illegal.  During  the  same  year  he 
was  elected  to  the  forty-first  and  forty- second 
congresses  by  the  Republicans  of  the  second  dis- 
trict, and  served  during  both  sessions.  In  1870 
he  established  the  Bainbridge  Siui,  a  Republican 
newspaper,  and  edited  it  until  it  was  destroyed 
by  political  incendiaries  during  the  congressional 
canvas  of  1872.  He  was  a  delegate  to  the  na- 
tional Republican  convention  held  in  Philadel- 
phia in  1872,  and  during  the  same  year  was  again 
elected  to  congress,  and  again  succeeded  in  de- 
feating an  attempt  to  count  him  out.  In  1874 
and  1876  Jie  was  elected  to  congress  by  large  ma- 
jorities, but  both  times  was  defrauded  by  false 
counts. 

In  March,  1877,  being  fully  satisfied  that  there 
was  no  hope  of  a  change  of  policy  in  the  south, 
he  determined  to  remove  to  Colorado,  for  whose 
admission  as  a  state  he  had  voted  in  congress. 
He  came  to  Boulder  and  engaged  in  the  practice 
of  his  profession  until  his  death,  in  1886.  Frater- 
nally he  was  a  Knight  Templar  Mason.  His 
wife  was  Margaret  E.  Devine,  who  was  born  in 
Ireland,  and  now  resides  in  Boulder.  She  was  a 
daughter  of  Rev.  Archibald  Devine,  a  minister 
in  the  Church  of  England,  and  for  years  a  resi- 
dent of  Georgia.  Of  her  ten  children  two  sons 
and  two  daughters  are  now  living.  One  son, 
Montford,  is  a  merchant  in  Boulder,  and  another, 
Richard  H.,  Jr.,  is  a  prominent  lawyer  of  this 
city.  Charles,  who  was  employed  in  the  treasury 
department,  died  in  Washington. 


HON.  RICHARD  H.  WHITELEY,  Jr. 
Both  in  public  affairs  and  in  the  profession 
of  the  law  Mr.  Whiteley  has  become  known 
as  one  of  the  most  prominent  men  of  Boulder  and 
this  portion  of  the  state.  After  graduating  from 
the  law  department  of  Harvard  College  in  1885 
with  the  degree  of  LL-  B.,  he  opened  an  ofiice  in 
the  Holstein  building,  Boulder,  and  has  since 
carried  on  a  large  general  practice.  In  1888  he 
was  nominated  and  elected  on  the  Republican 
ticket  as  state  senator  from  Boulder,  and  served 
in  the  seventh  and  eighth  general  assemblies, 
being  the  youngest  member  of  the  senate  and  at 


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the  same  time  one  of  the  most  active.  In  the 
seventh  assembly  he  introduced  a  general  rail- 
road bill  to  regulate  tariff  charges,  but  was  in  the 
minority  and  the  bill  failed  to  become  a  law.  He 
introduced  and  was  instrumental  in  securing  the 
passage  of  the  Australian  ballot  law.  In  the 
eighth  assembly  he  was  chairman  of  the  judi- 
ciary committee.  At  the  expiration  of  his  term 
in  1892  he  was  not  a  candidate  for  re-election, 
but  resumed  the  active  practice  of  his  profession. 
In  addition  to  his  private  practice  he  is  attorney 
for  the  National  State  and  Boulder  National 
Banks  and  is  attorney  for  numerous  other  com- 
panies. 

The  youngest  son  of  Maj.  Richard  Henry  and 
Margaret  E.  (Devine)  Whiteley,  the  subject  of 
this  sketch  was  born  in  Bainbridge,  Ga. ,  July  14, 
1861.  He  received  his  education  in  private 
schools  until  coming  to  Boulder  in  1878,  when 
he  entered  the  University  of  Colorado,  graduating 
with  the  first  class  in  1882.  The  degree  of  A.  B. 
was  conferred  upon  him  at  graduation,  and  four 
years  later  he  received  the  degree  of  A.  M.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Delta  Tan  Delta,  a  Greek 
letter  society.  In  1882  he  entered  the  Harvard 
law  department,  from  which  he  graduated  three 
years  later.  He  at  once  began  the  practice  of 
his  profession  in  Boulder.  He  is  recognized  as 
one  of  the  leading  and  influential  Republicans  of 
the  state.  Fraternally  he  is  connected  with 
Boulder  Lodge  No.  45,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  in  which 
he  is  a  past  master;  the  chapter,  commandery 
and  consistory,  and  El  Jebel  Temple,  N.  M.  S., 
of  Denver. 

In  Boulder  occurred  the  marriage  of  Mr. 
Whiteley  to  Miss  Ella  Tyler,  who  was  born  in 
Gilpin  County,  Colo.,  and  received  her  education 
in  the  University  of  Colorado,  graduating  in 
1885.  One  child,  Richard  Tyler,  blesses  the 
union.  Mrs.  Whiteley  is  the  daughter  of  Capt. 
C.  M.  Tyler,  who  was  a  captain  of  troops  during 
the  Indian  troubles  and  was  one  of  the  pioneers 
of  Gilpin  County,  his  life  being  intimately  asso- 
ciated with  the  early  days  of  that  county. 


r^RANK  JONES  is  known  far  and  wide  as 
JM  one  of  the  enterprising  ranchmen  and  cattle- 
I  men  of  Larimer  County.  He  is  considered 
an  authority  on  cattle  and  in  1897  was  appointed 
by  the  governor  to  serve  as  "round-up"  com- 


missioner for  northern  Colorado.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  executive  committee  of  the  Colorado 
Cattle  Growers'  Association,  and  in  January, 
1898,  was  sent  as  a  delegate  to  the  National 
Stock  Growers'  Association,  to  which  organiza- 
tion he  belongs.  He  is  also  a  charter  member  of 
the  Larimer  County  Stock  Growers'  Protective 
Association.  Under  C.  H.  Bond  he  has  acted  in 
the  office  of  deputy  sheriff,  and  on  the  school 
board  he  has  been  one  of  the  most  zealous  mem- 
bers, for  years  acting  in  the  various  capacities  of 
president,  secretary  and  treasurer. 

The  parents  of  our  .subject  were  Johnson  and 
Ellen  (Coulter)  Jones,  natives  of  Crab  Orchard, 
Ky.,  and  North  Carolina,  respectively.  The  fa- 
ther settled  on  a  farm  near  Macon  City,  Mo. , 
about  1840,  and  since  then  the  city  has  grown 
until  it  covers  a  portion  of  the  old  homestead. 
In  1883  he  came  to  Colorado,  and  was  accident- 
ally killed  at  Fort  Collins.  His  father,  James 
Jones,  was  an  early  settler  in  Crab  Orchard,  Ky., 
to  which  point  he  had  gone  from  his  native  state, 
Maryland.  Grandfather  James  Coulter  was  a 
pioneer  farmer  of  Jacksonville,  Mo.,  whither  he 
went  about  1833.  He  held  official  positions  in 
both  the  war  of  18 12  and  the  Mexican  war,  en- 
listing in  the  first-mentioned  from  North  Caro- 
lina. He  died  in  Missouri  at  the  extreme  age  of 
ninety-eight  years.  Our  subject's  mother  died 
in  Missouri  over  a  score  of  years  ago.  Of  her 
four  children  the  eldest,  Sarah,  Mrs.  Pullin, 
died  in  Fort  Collins,  and  Bettie  died  in  Miss6uri. 
Mortimer  M.  is  a  farmer  near  Fort  Collins. 

The  birth  of  Frank  Jones  occurred  August  26, 
1858,  in  Macon  City,  Mo.  He  was  reared  on  the 
farm  and  attended  the  local  schools.  In  1880  he 
went  to  Fort  Laramie,  Wyo. ,  and  engaged  in  driv- 
ing a  stage  for  the  Sidney  and  Deadwood  stage 
line  from  Cheyenne  to  Deadwood.  In  1882  he 
embarked  in  the  cattle  business  at  Fort  Collins 
and  the  following  year  he  drove  two  herds  from 
Missouri  and  brought  others  here  from  Texas 
and  Arkansas.  In  1886  he  purchased  the  prop- 
erty he  now  lives  upon  and  manages,  in  Liver- 
more  Park.  It  is  one  of  the  oldest  ranches  oil 
the  old  overland  stage  line,  and  is  known  as 
Stonewall  Station.  In  the  place  there  are  twelve 
hundred  and  eighty  acres  situated  in  one  body, 
and  the  many  improvements,  such  as  fences 
ditches,  etc.,  have  all  been  made  by  our  subject. 
Springs  and  ditches  provide  abundance  of  water 


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for  the  land,  and  in  addition  to  this  property  Mr. 
Jones  owns  some  alfalfa  land  on  Stonewall  Creek. 
He  raises  Hereford  cattle  and  does  an  extensive 
business  in  alfalfa. 

In  1882  Mr.  Jones  was  married  in  Clifton, 
Kan.,  to  Miss  Emma  Powell,  a  native  of  Indiana. 
Her  father,  John  I.  Powell,  was  a  Baltimore 
man,  and  her  grandfather,  William  B.  Powell, 
was  a  native  of  London,  England.  The  latter, 
who  was  a  captain,  engaged  in  trans-Atlantic 
trade,  was  a  soldier  in  the  war  of  18 12.  He  took 
up  his  residence  near  Baltimore,  later  went  to 
Ohio  and  finally  became  a  pioneer  in  Indiana,  in 
which  state  his  death  occurred.  J.  I.  Powell, 
the  father  of  Mrs.  Jones,  was  noted  for  his  horse- 
manship, and  for  the  fine  Kentucky  horses  which 
he  raised.  He  had  lived  in  Clifton,  Kan.,  but  a 
few  years  when  death  put  an  end  to  his  labors, 
he  being  in  his  sixty-first  year.  His  wife,  Louisa, 
was  a  daughter  of  Benjamin  N.  Denton,  both  of 
Lexington,  Ky.  The  Denton  family  were  orig- 
inally from  Virginia.  B.  N.  Denton  removed  to 
Indiana  at  an  early  day,  and  was  the  first  asses- 
sor in  his  county,  besides  holding  other  offices. 
Mrs.  Jones'  mother  returned  to  Indiana  after 
her  husband's  death  in  1893  and  has  since  died. 
Mrs.  Jones  is  well  educated,  being  a  graduate  of 
the  high  school  at  Clifton,  Kan.,  and  at  present 
she  is  a  member  of  the  Livermore  Club.  She  is 
quite  an  artist  and  possesses  ardent  love  for  the 
beautiful.  Mr.  Jones  has  been  a  member  of  the 
Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen  and  of  the 
Knights  of  Pythias  for  several  years.  For  many 
years  he  was  a  Democrat,  but  is  now  a  stanch 
Republican. 

0AVID  CROCKETT  WYATT,  the  gentle- 
man who  holds  the  honored  office  of  presi- 
dent of  the  Colorado  Cattle  Growers'  Asso- 
ciation, is  one  of  the  pioneers  of  the  state,  having 
come  here  May  5,  1859,  soon  after  the  rumor  of 
the  discovery  of  gold  spread  eastward.  With  the 
history  of  the  succeeding  years  he  has  been  inti- 
mately identified.  Especially  has  he  been  help- 
ful in  developing  the  stock  industry  and  the  agri- 
cultural resources  of  the  state,  and  his  efibrts  in 
these  lines  have  been  of  the  greatest  benefit  to 
others.  Since  1883  he  has  resided  in  Denver, 
where  he  built  a  comfortable  residence  at  No.  304 
Lincoln  avenue,  but  much  of  his  time  is  spent  at 
his  ranch,  in  the  vicinity  of  Greeley. 
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The  Wyatts  are  of  English  descent  and  were 
represented  among  the  F.  F.  Vs.  The  grand- 
father of  our  subject,  William  Wyatt,  removed 
from  Virginia  to  Kentuckj',  where  he  died  in 
February,  1801.  His  son,  John  S.,  was  born  in 
Bardstown,  Ky.,  September  30,  1796,  in  youth 
learned  the  blacksmith's  trade  and  soon  after  his 
marriage  to  Margaret  Greggsby,  also  a  native  of 
Bardstown,  he  removed  to  St.  Charles  County, 
Mo.,  where  he  and  his  brother,  L.  L-,  became 
the  pioneer  settlers  of  the  county.  He  improved 
a  farm  and  engaged  in  raising  stock,  also  followed 
his  trade  of  blacksmith.  Later,  however,  he  re- 
moved to  Lincoln  County,  Mo.,  where  he  culti- 
vated a  farm  until  his  death,  November  10,  1854, 
at  the  age  of  fifty-eight.  His  first  wife,  our  sub- 
ject's mother,  who  was  born  April  13,  1800,  a 
descendant  of  Virginian  ancestry,  died  September 
22,  1839.  Of  her  children  we  note  the  following: 
William  S.  went  to  California  in  1850  and  died 
there;  Mary  E.,  Mrs.  Shelton,  died  in  Missouri; 
Nathaniel  G.  came  to  Colorado  in  1859,  but  later 
went  to  California,  where  occurred  his  death; 
James  R.  went  to  California  in  1853  and  there 
died;  Henry  A.  took  part  in  the  Civil  war  as  a 
member  of  a  Confederate  regiment  from  Missouri 
and  afterward  went  to  Kansas,  where  he  died; 
Rebecca  M. ,  Mrs.  Cochrane,  died  in  Missouri; 
and  David  C,  the  youngest  of  that  family,  was 
born  in  St.  Charles  County,  Mo.,  in  1837.  The 
second  marriage  of  our  subject's  father  resulted 
in  the  birth  of  four  children.  John  Thomas 
died  in  Maryland  at  ten  years  of  age;  Louis 
L.  (the  namesake  of  his  uncle,  who  served  under 
Jackson  in  the  battle  of  New  Orleans)  resides  in 
Greeley,  Colo. ;  Francis  Eaton  is  engaged  in 
ranching  in  Idaho;  and  Demosthenes  Bland  is 
engaged  in  the  stock  business  in  Greeley,  in 
partnership  with  his  brother,  David  C. 

In  1852,  at  the  age  of  fifteen,  our  subject  went 
to  Texas  with  a  mule-team  and  established  his 
headquarters  in  Paris,  Lamar  County,  from  which 
place  he  engaged  in  trading  in  cattle  and  horses. 
In  1858  he  returned  to  Missouri  with  a  lot  of 
horses  bought  by  himself  and  his  brother,  Henry 
A. ,  in  Old  Mexico  and  these  he  sold  after  reach- 
ing the  north.  In  the  spring  of  1859  he  started 
west  with  two  pack  mules,  one  of  which  he  rode 
while  the  other  carried  the  pack.  He  went  via 
Independence,  Mo.,  and  Lawrence,  Kan.,  up  the 
Arkansas^  River  and   from   Pueblo  to  Denver, 


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where  he  spent  about  twenty  days.  From  this 
point  he  proceeded  to  Blackhawk,  Gilpin  County, 
where  he  assisted  in  starting  the  town  that  after- 
ward became  so  prominent  during  the  days  of  the 
mining  excitement.  Hearing  of  new  diggings  iu 
the  mountains,  he  bought  some  mules  and  with  a 
pack  of  goods  started  for  the  new  mining  camp, 
but  at  Central  City  sold  his  provisions.  After- 
ward he  engaged  in  freighting  between  Denver 
and  the  mountains  some  twenty  miles  away,  pack- 
ing goods  from  Golden  up  to  Blackhawk,  using 
six  mules,  and  for  two  months  charging  ten  cents 
per  pound  freight,  but  afterward  the  prices  were 
reduced.  A  few  months  after  coming  to  the 
state  he  bought  some  milch  cows  and  established 
a  dairy  farm  at  the  head  of  Russell's  Gulch,  his 
being  the  first  enterprise  of  the  kind  there.  .  In 
the  fall  he  drove  his  cows  to  a  ranch  near  Fort 
Lupton,  where  he  wintered  them.  At  the  same 
time  he  began  making  improvements  on  his  place, 
situated  on  the  Platte  River,  and  he  made  it  his 
home  for  two  years,  but  sold  out  in  1862  and  en- 
gaged in  dealing  in  stock  and  in  the  hay  busi- 
ness. Later,  with  A.  G.  Reed  as  a  partner,  he 
started  a  ranch  on  Plum  Creek  and  engaged  in 
raising  and  dealing  in  cattle.  After  twelve  years 
Mr.  Reed  returned  to  Missouri  and  Mr.  Wyatt 
continued  the  business  alone.  For  some  years 
he  had  the  government  contract  to  furnish  meat 
and  cattle  for  army  troops  at  some  five  or  six 
posts,  but  the  enterprise  did  not  prove  a  financial 
success.  During  the  early  days  he  was  more 
than  once  attacked  by  Indians  and  several  times 
was  in  peril  of  his  life,  but  fortunately  always 
escaped. 

The  ranch  owned  by  Mr.  Wyatt  and  his  brother 
is  situated  northeast  of  Greeley,  and  north  of 
the  mouth  of  the  Cache  la  Poudre  River,  and  com- 
prises three  thousand  acres  of  land,  stocked  with 
several  thousand  heads  of  cattle  (brand  33),  fur- 
nished with  an  abundance  of  water  by  the  Eaton 
ditch,  and  planted  to  hay,  grain  and  potatoes. 
Shipments  of  cattle  are  made  to  the  east,  usually 
two  train  loads  at  one  time.  In  addition  to  this 
property,  Mr.  Wyatt  has  for  years  owned  a  ranch 
in  Wyoming,  and  he  also  owns  real  estate  in 
Denver. 

In  Evans,  Colo.,  Mr.  Wyatt  married  Miss  Vir- 
ginia Lucas,  who  was  born  in  Dekalb  County, 
Mo.,  the  daughter  of  C.  B.  and  Rebecca  (Black) 
Lucas.     Her  father,  who  was  a  farmer  and  stock- 


man in  Missouri,  removed  to  Colorado  in  1872, 
but  now  resides  in  Wyoming;  her  mother,  who 
was  born  in  Columbia,  Mo.,  died  in  Denver.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Wyatt  have  four  children,  Maud  R., 
Kenney  D.,  Moss  B.  and  William  J.  Formerly 
Mr.  Wyatt  was  a  Democrat,  and  upon  that  ticket 
he  was  a  candidate  for  the  state  legislature  and 
senate,  and  in  1875  was  elected  sheriff  of  Weld 
County  for  a  term  of  two  years.  Now,  however, 
he  is  a  champion  of  the  Populist  party.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Colorado  Pioneer  Society.  In 
1882  he  become  identified  with  the  Colorado 
Cattle  Growers'  Association,  which  had  been 
started  during  the  time  he  was  ranching  in 
Wyoming,  and  on  his  return  to  this  state  he  at 
once  united  with  the  society.  For  a  time  he  was 
a  member  of  the  board  of  trustees  and  in  1890 
was  made  president  of  the  association,  which  po- 
sition he  has  held  ever  since  by  successive  re- 
elections. 


P  QlLLIAM  A.  DRAKE,  who  came  tb  Colo- 
\  A  /  rado  in  1882,  is  one  of  the  large  farmers 
V  V  and  sheep  dealers  in  the  state.  His  first 
purchase  was  an  eightj'-acre  tract  in  Larimer 
County.  This  land  he  improved  and  after  four 
years  bought  an  adjoining  eighty-acre  tract  and 
in  three  years  purchased  another  piece  of  land  of 
the  same  size,  making  two  hundred  and  forty 
acres  in  one  body,  all  of  which  he  has  improved. 
He  has  recently  completed  a  substantial  barn, 
44x60  feet  in  dimensions,  with  a  wing  on  each 
side,  24x30,  and  here  he  stores  grain  and  fur- 
nishes a  shelter  for  his  stock.  In  1891  he  began 
to  ship  sheep,  being  among  the  first  to  embark  in 
this  industry  in  the  state.  In  his  corrals  he  feeds 
about  four  thousand  sheep  and  during  a  year 
handles  about  thirty  thousand  head,  bringing 
them  to  his  farm  from  New  Mexico,  Arizona  and 
the  southern  part  of  Colorado.  On  his  place  he 
has  two  hundred  acres  seeded  to  alfalfa  and  raises 
nearly  eight  hundred  tons,  which  he  uses  for 
feed.  In  addition  to  his  sheep  and  some  cattle, 
he  raises  Percheron  and  Clydesdale  horses. 

Mr.  Drake  was  born  on  Cayuga  Lake  in  Cayuga 
County,  N.  Y. ,  March  4,  1853.  His  father, 
William  A.,Sr.,  was  born  in  Goshen,  Orange 
County,  N.  Y.,  and  was  a  descendant  of  Sir 
Francis  Drake,  the  famous  voyager.  He  engaged 
in  farming  at  Coventry,  from  which  place  he  re- 
moved to  Des  Moiues,  Iowa,  in   1857,  and  has 


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since  resided  near  that  city,  engaged  in  farming. 
His  wife,  who  was  Roxanna  Andrus,  was  born 
in  Ithaca,  N.  Y.,  and  died  in  Iowa  at  sixty-six 
years  of  age.  Of  their  seven  children,  Charles 
Oliver  died  in  boyhood,  and  six  are  living, 
namely:  William  A.,  Georgia  Ann,  A.  H. , 
J.  H.,  Edla  and  Helen,  all  of  whom  are  in  Iowa 
but  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 

When  our  subject  was  four  years  of  age  he 
was  taken  by  his  parents  from  New  York  to  Polk 
County,  Iowa.  He  attended  the  public  schools 
of  Des  Moines  and  the  Baptist  University  in  the 
same  city,  and  during  this  time  devoted  his  va- 
cations to  teaching,  in  order  to  defray  his  ex- 
penses at  the  university.  The  summer  of  1876 
he  spent  in  Oregon,  teaching,  then  returned  to 
Iowa.  Since  coming  to  Colorado,  in  the  spring 
of  1882,  he  has  engaged  in  farming  and  the  stock 
business.  He  is  president  of  the  school  board  of 
District  No.  16,  in  Larimer  County,  and  largely 
through  his  influence  was  erected  the  finest 
country  school  building  in  the  country,  if  not  the 
state,  the  building  being  of  pressed  brick,  with 
every  modern  equipment.  He  was  the  first  presi- 
dent of  the  Larimer  County  Sheep  Feeders'  Asso- 
ciation. Politically  he  votes  the  Republican 
ticket. 

In  Des  Moines,  Iowa,  Mr.  Drake  married  Miss 
Emma  A.  Darnell,  who  was  born  in  Illinois  and 
accompanied  her  father,  Thomas  Darnell,  from 
that  state  to  Iowa,  settling  upon  a  farm.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Drake  have  three  children,  namel}': 
Nellie,  who  is  a  member  of  the  class  of  1900, 
State  Agricultural  College;  Arthur  and  Ray. 


E  ROM  WELL  TUCKER,  grand  master  of  the 
grand  lodge  of  Colorado,  A.  F.  &  A.  M., 
is  one  of  the  most  prominent  members  of  the 
fraternity  in  this  state.  He  was  made  a  Mason 
in  1 88 1,  becoming  identified  with  Denver  Lodge 
No.  5,  in  which  he  held  the  office  of  W.  M.,  in 
1891.  In  1882  he  became  a  member  of  Denver 
Chapter  No.  2,  R.  A.  M.,  and  in  1892  was  high 
priest  of  the  chapter.  While  holding  that  office 
the  Grand  Conclave  of  Knights  Templar  was 
held  in  Denver  and  no  chapter  did  more  than  his 
in  preparing  for  the  vast  crowds  and  in  entertain- 
ing their  guests.  In  fact,  its  record  for  the  year 
was  the  highest  of  any  chapter  in  the  world. 
The  position  of  grand  lecturer  for  Colorado  was 


given  him  in  1893  and  the  following  j-ear  he  was 
chosen  junior  grand  warden  of  the  grand  lodge, 
from  which  position  in  1895  he  was  promoted  to 
be  senior  grand  warden,  and  the  next  year  be- 
came deputy  grand  master.  His  present  position, 
that  of  grand  master  of  the  grand  lodge,  was 
conferred  upon  him  in  September,  1897,  in  elec- 
tion by  the  grand  lodge. 

Denver  Chapter  No.  2  exalted  one  hundred 
and  twenty  members  in  one  year,  and  increased  its 
membership  to  one  hundred  and  thirty-nine,  after 
deducting  losses  by  death,  suspension  and  dimis- 
sions.  They  exalted  one  hundred  and  two  in  the 
first  six  months  of  1892,  and  claim  that  they  hold 
the  record  for  the  United  States,  which  means  the 
world. 

In  addition  to  his  important  position  in  Masonry 
Mr.  Tucker  has  connection  with  the  railroad  in- 
terests of  the  state,  being  freight  claim  agent  for 
the  Denver  &  Rio  Grande  Railroad.  He  is  of 
English  birth,  and  was  born  in  Camelford,  Corn- 
wall, July  19,  1852,  being  a  member  of  an  old 
famil)'  of  that  section.  His  father,  William,  was 
the  son  of  Thomas  Tucker,  and,  like  him,  was  an 
agriculturist  by  occupation,  following  it  until  his 
death  at  forty-six  years.  In  religious  belief  he 
was  a  Methodist.  His  wife,  who  bore  the  maiden 
name  of  Hannah  Hicks,  was  born  in  Cornwall, 
her  father,  Charles,  being  a  farmer  there.  She 
died  at  the  age  of  forty-three.  Of  their  eight 
children,  five  are  now  living,  one  of  whom,  Will- 
iam Charles  Hicks,  is  treasurer  of  Douglas 
County,  Kan.,  and  resides  in  Lawrence. 

The  oldest  of  the  family  and  the  onlj'  one  in 
Colorado  is  Cromwell  Tucker.  At  the  age  of 
nine  he  was  sent  to  a  boarding  school  at  St. 
Columb,  but  left  at  the  time  of  his  father's  death. 
Soon  afterward  he  was  apprenticed  to  the  grocery 
business,  and  later  to  the  dry-goods  trade,  in 
Camelford,  where  he  also  learned  the  trade  of 
chemist  or  pharmacist.  Coming  to  America  in 
1 87 1  he  settled  in  Lawrence,  Kan.,  where  he  en- 
gaged in  the  dry-goods  business  for  four  years. 
He  then  returned  to  England  and  also  visited 
France,  remaining  abroad  for  a  year.  On  his  re- 
turn to  America  in  1876  he  located  in  Kansas 
City,  where  he  was  in  the  auditor's  office  of  the 
Kansas  Pacific  (now  the  Union  Pacific)  Railroad. 
The  j-ear  1877  found  him  in  Denver,  where  he 
was  employed  in  the  auditor's  office  of  the  Den- 
ver (now  the  Union)  Pacific  Railroad.     His  con- 


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nection  with  the  Denver  &  Rio  Grande  Railroad 
began  in  1879,  when  he  took  a  position  in  their 
employ.  For  two  years  he  was  claim  superin- 
tendent for  the  company  and  is  now  the  freight 
claim  agent  of  the  system.  In  national  politics 
he  adheres  to  the  Republican  party,  but  in  local 
elections  votes  for  the  man  whom  he  believes  to 
be  best  qualified  for  the  po.sition.  Fraternally  he 
is  connected  with  the  Woodmen  of  the  World. 

In  England  Mr.  Tucker  married  Miss  Jessie 
Henwood,  who  was  born  in  Callington,  Cornwall, 
and  died  in  Denver  in  1895.  She  was  a  daughter 
of  William  Henwood,  who  was  engaged  in  the 
mercantile  business  in  Cornwall.  Mr.  Tucker 
has  two  daughters  and  one  son,  namely:  Dora, 
Mrs.  Nicholl,  of  Denver;  John  Hicks,  a  gradu- 
ate of  the  Denver  high  school  and  now  an  assist- 
ant in  his  father's  officer;  and  Jessie  May. 


(TOHN  W.  BROWNING.  The  subject  of  our 
I  sketch  was  born  in  the  city  of  New  York, 
Qj  June  ID,  1842,  and  was  educated  in  the 
public  schools  of  that  state.  Prior  to  the  war  he 
was  an  indentured  apprentice  to  the  brick-laying 
trade.  When  President  lyincoln  called  for  his  first 
seventy-five  thousand  volunteers  in  April,  1861, 
young  Browning  enlisted  in  Company  E,  Twelfth 
Regiment,  N.  Y.  S.  M.,  and  re-enlisted  for  three 
years  in  the  First  New  York  Engineers;  was 
appointed  sergeant-major,  and  on  July  4,  1862, 
for  special  services  while  in  action,  he  was  made 
second  lieutenant  of  Company  F  of  the  regiment, 
which  position  he  held  until  November,  1863. 
He  was  then  transferred  to  the  war  department  at 
Washington,  and  remained  there  until  November, 
1867,  when  he  resigned  and  returned  to  New 
York,  under  appointment  of  Commissioner  Rol- 
lins, of  the  internal  revenue  department,  assigned 
to  the  duty  of  looking  after  all  the  breweries  in 
New  York  City;  he  resigned  this  position,  how- 
ever, in  December,  1868,  to  accept  the  position  of 
inspector  of  the  building  department  of  New  York 
City.  This  position  he  resigned  in  May,  1872, 
to  accept  the  position  of  Albany  correspondent  of 
the  New  York  Sfar  and  New  York  Eve7iing  Ex- 
press, which  position  he  retained  until  January  i, 
1878,  having  been  elected  the  fall  previous  to  the 
general  assembly.     In  the  fall  of  1878  he  was  re- 


elected. In  the  fall  of  1879  he  was  elected  to 
the  state  senate,  but  was  counted  out.  In  1880 
he  was  again  returned  to  the  assembly  and  in 
1881  was  elected  to  the  state  senate,  serving  in 
that  body  during  the  sessions  of  1882-83.  In  1881 
he  was  admitted  an  attorney  and  counselor-at-law 
by  the  state  supreme  court  and  was  associated 
with  Hon.  Arthur  Palmer  until  he  came  to  Colo- 
rado in  December,  1884. 

Arriving  in  Denver  on  Christmas  day  he  at 
once  secured  offices  in  the  Symes  block  and  took 
up  his  profession.  In  August,  1885,  he  was  per- 
suaded by  Postmaster  Speer  to  accept  the  position 
of  assistant  postmaster  of  Denver,  which  he  held 
until  June,  1888,  when  he  was  appointed  by 
President  Cleveland,  melter  of  the  United  States 
mint,  but  resigned  the  same  in  February,  1890, 
and  resumed  the  practice  of  law. 

He  joined  Martin  Camp,  afterward  called  Unity 
Camp,  No.  25,  in  the  fall  of  1889  and  from  that 
day  until  this  has  been  .  an  active  worker  in  the 
field  of  Woodcraft.  When  Head  Consul  Falken- 
burg  went  to  Colorado  to  organize  the  Pacific 
jurisdiction  in  the  fall  of  1890  he  found  the  gen- 
eral one  of  his  most  earnest  supporters  and  ap- 
pointed him  a  head  manager,  which  position  he 
continued  to  hold  until  the  25th  of  May  following, 
when  he  was  appointed  head  clerk.  He  was 
elected  head  clerk  at  the  Pueblo  session  in  1892, 
again  at  Portland  in  1894  and  again  at  Helena  in 
1896.  There  is  probably  no  head  camp  officer 
upon  whom  the  head  consul  has  relied  and  de- 
pended for  active  support  in  all  of  his  efforts  to 
build  up  our  honorable  order  so  much  as  our 
esteemed  head  clerk.  He  is  regarded  as  a  safe 
counselor  and  steadfast  friend,  and  is  always 
patient  and  courteous  with  all  with  whom  he  has 
official  relations.  As  a  public  speaker  he  is  very 
direct,  going  from  premise  to  conclusion  without 
much  regard  to  the  grain.  He  is  always  earnest 
and  impresses  his  hearers  that  he  believes  what 
he  says. 

He  was  elected  in  March,  1888,  at  Cheyenne, 
department  commander  of  the  department  of 
Colorado  and  Wyoming,  G.  A.  R. ;  he  is  also  a 
member  of  the  Loyal  Legion,  is  a  Knight  Tem- 
plar, Knight  of  Pythias  and  a  member  of  several 
other  orders,  and  at  the  present  time  holds  the 
honorary  position  of  national  commander  of  the 
Veteran  Legion,  U.  S.  A. 


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HON.  N.  C.  ALFORD,  a  pioneer  of '59  and 
a  member  from  Larimer  County  of  the  first 
legislature  of  Colorado,  was  born  in  South 
Hope,  Knox  County,  Me.,  November  29,  1834, 
the  son  of  Nathaniel  and  Deborah  (Cushman) 
Alford.  His  mother,  who  was  born  in  Warren, 
Me.,  was  a  daughter  of  Nathaniel  Cushman,  and 
a  descendant  of  Robert  Cushman,  one  of  the  pas- 
sengers on  the  "Mayflower."  She  died  in  South 
Hope,  and  of  her  nine  children  four  are  living, 
our  subject  being  next  to  the  oldest;  one  of  the 
sons  was  a  lieutenant  in  the  Eighth  Maine  In- 
fantry during  the  Civil  war,  and  now  resides  in 
Waterloo,  Iowa.  .The  father  of  this  family  was 
a  farmer  at  South  Hope,  and  a  son  of  a  native  of 
Massachusetts,  who  removed  to  Maine.  After 
the  death  of  his  first  wife  he  married  again,  and 
at  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  eighty  years  of 
age. 

At  the  age  of  seventeen  our  subject  began  an 
apprenticeship  to  the  carpenter  and  joiner's  trade, 
which  he  completed.  In  1855  he  settled  in  Rock- 
ford,  111.,  where  he  engaged  in  contracting  for  a 
number  of  years.  In  March,  1859,  ^^  went  to 
St.  Joseph,  Mo.,  where  he  and  four  others  out- 
fitted with  an  ox-train  and  followed  the  Platte 
route  to  Denver.  In  the  fall  he  went  with  a 
company  of  sixty  on  a  prospecting  tour  in  Middle 
Park  and  the  Gunnison  country.  While  there 
the  food  gave  out  and  it  was  impossible  to  secure 
anything  to  eat,  except  berries.  Game  was 
scarce  and  besides  Indians  lurked  around  and 
rendered  hunting  a  dangerous  pastime.  For  a 
week  he  had  nothing  but  berries  to  eat.  Finally, 
in  South  Park,  they  met  a  freight  wagon  en  route 
from  a  mine  to  Canon  City  for  flour,  and  there 
secured  enough  to  satisfy  their  hunger  for  a  few 
days.  After  a  hard  trip  of  two  months  he  reached 
Idaho  Springs.  The  party  was  successful  in  find- 
ing gold  at  Breckenridge  and  fifteen  miles  below 
Leadville,  at  Kelly's  bar. 

In  the  fall  of  1859  Mr.  Alford  returned  to  St. 
Joe,  where  he  wintered  ox-teams  and  in  the  spring 
of  i860  he  drove  them  across  the  plains,  via  the 
Platte.  For  two  years  he  engaged  in  freighting, 
making  two  trips  each  year.  He  then  went  to 
Oregon  and  spent  the  winter  of  1862-63  there. 
In  the  spring,  upon  the  Boise  City  gold  excite- 
ment, he  went  to  that  place,  where  he  engaged 
in  mining,  and  also  carried  on  market  gardening. 
Indians  were  troublesome  there,  but  were  eifect- 


ually  driven  out  through  the  eflforts  of  the  miners 
and  settlers.  In  1866  he  returned  to  Maine,  but 
the  next  year  came  back  to  Colorado,  overland, 
and  went  on  to  Cheyenne,  where  he  manufact- 
ured the  first  brick  in  Wyoming  and  sold  it  to 
the  government,  for  the  erection  of  Fort  Russell. 
He  also  built  the  first  brick  store  in  Cheyenne, 
a  building  used  as  a  drug  store.  In  the  spring 
of  1868  he  went  to  the  Elizabethtown  mines  in 
New  Mexico,  where  for  three  months  he  engaged 
in  freighting,  and  bought  a  drove  of  cattle  (one 
thousand  head) ,  which  he  wintered  on  the  Arkan- 
sas and  drove  to  Nevada  and  sold  in  1869.  Go- 
ing east  again  he  bought  a  herd  of  horses  in  Otta- 
wa, 111. ,  and  one  hundred  and  fifty  head  of  brood 
mares,  which  he  shipped  to  Cheyenne,  thence 
drove  to  Rock  Creek,  Boulder  County.  In  1872 
he  moved  into  Larimer  County  and  put  his  cattle 
on  the  range  in  the  mountains;  also  brought  his 
horses  up  to  Rabbit  Creek,  thirty  miles  northwest 
of  Fort  Collins,  where  he  had  his  ranch  for  nine 
years,  meantime  building  fifteen  miles  of  fencing, 
and  having  a  range  fifteen  miles  long  and  three 
miles  wide.  He  brought  the  first  full-blooded 
Norman  horses  ever  in  Colorado  and  shipped  the 
first  train  load  of  horses  into  the  state,  and  the 
first  the  Union  Pacific  ever  hauled  as  freight. 
The  company  treated  him  in  a  princely  manner 
and  ran  an  extra  train  for  him,  directly  following 
the  regular  passenger  train. 

In  1877  Mr.  Alford  started  a  cattle  ranch  in 
Wyoming,  with  Messrs.  Emerson,  Baker  and 
Kennedy.  In  188 1  he  sold  out  his  interest  in 
the  business  and  settled  in  Fort  Collins,  where 
he  has  since  engaged  in  farming,  irrigating  and 
the  stock  business.  At  the  time  of  the  building 
of  the  Larimer  County  ditch  he  was  president  of 
the  company,  in  which  he  is  still  interested.  He 
is  also  interested  in  the  Sky  Line  ditch.  He 
owns  one  section  of  land  on  Box  Elder,  an  eighty - 
acre  tract,  and  one  of  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres 
that  are  irrigated,  and  one  hundred  and  sixty 
acres  northeast  of  LaPorte.  He  feeds  four  or  five 
hundred  head  of  cattle  and  a  large  number  of 
sheep.  On  the  incorporation  of  the  Poudre  Val- 
ley Bank  as  a  state  institution  he  became  a  direc- 
tor, in  which  capacity  he  has  since  served.  Since 
1 88 1  his  home  has  been  in  Fort  Collins. 

In  Maine,  January  14,  1872,  Mr.  Alford  married 
Miss  Annie  E.  Hobbs,  who  was  born  in  Hope, 
that  state.     She  was  a   daughter  of  Josiah  and 


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Sarah  (Brown)  Hobbs,  natives  respectively  of 
Hope  and  Belfast,  Me. ,  the  former  a  farmer,  who 
died  at  sixty-nine  years,  and  the  latter  deceased 
in  1872,  at  sixty-nine  years.  Mr.  Hobbs  served 
for  twenty-five  years  as  justice  of  the  peace  and 
was  also  town  clerk  for  some  time.  In  religion 
he  was  a  Universalist.  His  father,  Micah,  was 
born  in  Massachusetts,  but  moved  to  Maine, 
where  he  carried  on  farm  pursuits.  The  father 
of  Mrs.  Hobbs  was  John  Brown,  of  Maine,  who 
died  in  middle  life.  Mrs.  Alford  was  next  to  the 
youngest  of  nine  children  that  attained  maturity, 
four  of  whom  are  now  living.  Two  of  her  broth- 
ers died  in  California.  She  is  the  mother  of  four 
children:  Fred,  a  graduate  of  the  Agricultural 
College  in  1896  and  now  assistant  in  the  chemical 
laboratory  of  that  institution;  Lore,  at  home; 
Abbie,  who  is  a  student  in  the  Agricultural  Col- 
lege; and  Anna,  at  home. 

Politically  a  silver  Republican,  Mr.  Alford 
takes  an  active  interest  in  public  affairs.  In  1876 
he  was  elected  to  represent  Larimer  County  in  the 
general  assembly,  where  he  served  as  chairman 
of  the  engrossing  committee  and  the  committee  on 
appropriations,  and  as  a  member  of  various  com- 
mittees. Through  his  efforts  was  passed  what 
was  known  as  "Alford's  Pumpkin  Bill,"  provid- 
ing the  first  appropriation  for  the  building  of  the 
Agricultural  College.  While  he  was  a  member 
of  the  legislature  he  assisted  in  securing  the  elec- 
tion of  Senators  Chaffee  and  Teller.  In  1878  he 
was  solicited  to  become  a  candidate  for  the  state 
senate,  but  declined  to  accept  the  candidacy. 
For  one  term  he  served  as  a  councilman.  He 
was  made  a  Mason  while  in  Maine,  but  is  now 
demitted.  Like  other  pioneers,  he  is  actively 
connected  with  the  Association  of  Colorado  Pio- 
neers. He  is  not  identified  with  any  denomina- 
tion, but  contributes  to  the  Unity  Church,  of 
which  his  wife  is  an  active  member.  She  is  also 
a  silver  Republican. 


iA  AJ.  SCOTT  J.  ANTHONY-.  When  rumors 
y  of  the  discovery  of  gold  in  Pike's  Peak 
(g  were  carried  eastward.  Major  Anthony, 
then  in  Leavenworth,  determined  to  come  to 
Colorado!  In  the  spring  of  1 860  he  outfitted  eight 
wagons  with  ox-teams  and  started  for  California 
Gulch  (now  Leadville),  arriving  in  Denver 
March  8,    and,    reaching    California  Gulch  the 


following  May,  he  with  his  partner,  Frank 
Palmer,  at  once  started  a  general  store,  and  they 
also  engaged  in  prospecting  in  the  mountains. 
The  firm  was  known  as  Anthony  &  Palmer.  In 
the  fall  they  sold  out  the  goods  and  returned  to 
Leavenworth,  whence,  in  March,  1861 ,  our  subject 
again  started  for  the  west,  with  eight  wagons 
drawn  by  mule-trains,  himself  journeying,  as 
before,  by  coach.  He  resumed  business  at  the 
old  place  and  also  prospected.  In  August,  1861, 
while  crossing  the  mountains  between  Green  and 
Grand  Rivers,  his  pack  mule  carrying  the  provis- 
sions  slipped  and  fell  to  the  bottom,  leaving 
his  party  of  five  destitute  of  provisions.  He 
journeyed  back  to  California  Gulch,  and  on  arriv- 
ing there,  for  the  first  time  heard  of  war  between 
the  north  and  south.  Awaiting  him  he  found 
clippings  from  a  Leavenworth  newspaper  stating 
that  a  colonel's  commission  awaited  him,  should 
he  wish  to  return  to  Kansas.  At  the  same  time 
he  found  a  captain's  commission  from  Governor 
Gilpin  of  Colorado.  His  first  impulse  was  to 
return  to  Leavenworth,  raise  a  regiment  and 
march  to  the  seat  of  war,  for  he  believed  the  war 
would  not  last  more  than  a  month.  However, 
several  of  the  men  in  California  Gulch  urged 
him  to  remain  and  raise  a  company,  which  he 
agreed  to  do,  providing  Lieut.  George  Buell, 
who  had  been  in  the  regular  army,  would  become 
the  first  lieutenant  of  his  company,  the  captain 
having  the  power  to  appoint  his  under  ofiBcers  at 
that  time.  Mr.  Buell  consented,  so  ninety-two 
men  enlisted,  forming  Company  E,  First  Colo- 
rado Infantry,  which  in  the  autumn  of  1862 
were  mounted  and  called  the  First  Colorado 
Cavalry,  he  becoming  the  major. 

Severe  criticisms  were  made  concerning  Gov- 
ernor Gilpin's  dilatoriness  in  sending  the  regiment 
to  the  seat  of  war,  but  subsequent  developments 
proved  he  had  reason  for  his  action.  Governor 
Marshall,  his  predecessor  in  office,  was  an  ardent 
southerner,  and  after  he  left  the  office.  Governor 
Gilpin  found  some  letters  which  revealed  a  plan 
of  the  Confederates  to  raise  a  large  command, 
march  up  the  Rio  Grande,  taking  the  forts  along 
the  way  to  Fort  Union,  N.  M.,  and  from  there  to 
Colorado,  which  they  would  cut  ofi"  from  all 
communication  with  the  east.  General  Sibley 
raised  a  large  command  of  Texas  rangers,  com- 
prising about  eight  regiments,  telling  them 
Colorado    was    settled  largely  by  people  from 


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Georgia  and  the  Federals  and  Confederates  were 
about  equally  divided;  upon  cutting  oif  com- 
munication, it  would  be  the  plan  to  organize  a 
government  out  of  the  area  from  Texas  to  British 
Columbia  and  ask  foreign  countries  for  recogni- 
tion. General  Sibley  started  north,  and  pro- 
ceeded on  his  march.  lyieutenant-Colonel  Canby, 
with  a  small  command,  was  unable  to  check  his 
advance  until  joined  by  the  First  Colorado  Regi- 
ment. 

The  first  Colorado  were  rugged  and  strong, 
men  who  marched  fifty-two  miles  the  last  day,  in 
their  race  for  Fort  Union,  a  thing  that  was  never 
done  before  and  has  never  been  done  since. 
They  reached  Fort  Union  before  the  enemy,  and 
there  they  were  rearmed  and  equipped.  Three 
days  later  they  marched  out  and  defeated  the 
enemy  at  La  Glorietta,  though  Sibley  had  four 
times  as  many  men  as  they.  Major  Anthony 
captured    the    mountain    rebel    Captain    West. 

The  Union  forces  pursued  the  enemy  to  Albu- 
querque, where  a  battle  was  fought,  and  there 
were  subsequent  skirmishes  at  Val  Verda,  Fort 
Craig  and -Socorro,  from  which  place  the  Con- 
federates were  chased  back  into  Texas,  and  the 
troops  were  ordered  to  Fort  Craig  to  await 
orders. 

On  the  return  of  the  regiment  to  Fort  Lyon, 
our  subject  was  commissioned  major  of  the  Fir.st 
Colorado  Cavalry  and  was  put  in  command 
of  the  district  of  Arkansas,  extending  from  Bents 
old  fort  to  Foit  Larned  for  two  and  one-half 
years.  Indians  were  exceedingly  troublesome 
and  scarcely  a  week  passed  without  a  skirmish 
with  them.  He  ardently  longed  to  go  east  and 
assist  in  work  at  the  seat  of  war,  but  the  con- 
stant outbreaks  of  the  Indians  rendered  the 
presence  of  a  cool,  clear-headed  man  absolutely 
necessary,  so  he  was  obliged  to  remain  and  guard 
the  country.  He  was  then  mustered  out  January 
22,  1865,  and  returned  to  Denver.  The  exposure 
of  his  army  life  left  him  in  poor  health  and  he 
has  never  fully  recovered.  In  army  circles  he 
was  recognized  as  a  brave  and  efficient  officer,  a 
good  disciplinarian  and  ever  ready  for  a  fight. 

Major  Anthony  is  a  New  Yorker  by  birth,  and 
was  born  in  Cayuga  County,  January  22,  1830. 
He  is  a  descendant  of  a  Quaker  family  that 
settled  in  Newport,  R.  I.,  in  early  days;  later 
one  branch  went  to  North  Adams,  another  to 
Providence,  and  a  third  to  Philadelphia.     His 


father,  Elam,  who  was  born  in  Newport,  engaged 
in  farming  and  business  pursuits,  and  about  1817 
moved  to  Union  Springs,  N.  Y.,  where  he  mar- 
ried. He  and  his  wife  had  a  happy  married  life 
of  sixty-two  and  one- half  years  before  death  came 
to  part  them,  she  dying  at  eighty-nine  and  he  at 
ninety-one.  She  was  Nancy  Hunt,  a  native  of 
Mount  Morris,  N.  Y.,  and  a  daughter  of  Hum- 
phrey Hunt,  who,  with  two  sons,  served  in  the 
Revolution,  and  a  younger  son  served  in  the 
Mexican  war.  Humphrey  Hunt  was  a  brother- 
in-law  of  Colonel  Moore,  an  officer  in  the  Rev- 
olution. 

The  family  of  which  Major  Anthony  was  a 
member  consisted  of  six  sons  and  six  daughters, 
nine  of  whom  attained  maturity:  Mrs.  Mary  Hare, 
of  Hillsboro,  Ore. ;  Charles,  who  was  in  a  New 
York  regiment  during  the  war  and  now  resides 
in  San  Diego,  Cal. ;  Mrs.  Cynthia  Hamilton,  of 
Portland,  Ore.;  Scott  J.;  Mrs.  Curry,  now  of 
Union  Springs,  N.  Y.;  Mrs.  Margaret  Birdsell, 
who  died  in  Buffalo;  Mrs.  Howell,  who  died  in 
Union  Springs;  Emmett,  whose  death  occurred 
in  San  Francisco  in  1S92;  and  Webster,  who  died 
in  Denver  in  June,  1896.  The  last-named  was  a 
man  of  prominence,  being  a  speaker  of  the  lower 
house  of  the  legislature,  a  member  of  the  state 
senate  and  for  some  time  grand  master  of  the 
grand  lodge  of  Colorado. 

In  1838  our  subject  accompanied  the  family  to 
Ellicottville,  N.  Y.,  where  he  remained  until  he 
was  twenty-one.  In  185 1  he  passed  through 
Chicago,  then  a  mudhole  on  the  banks  of  the 
lake,  and  without  one  single  feature  to  favorably 
impress  a  stranger.  He  went  up  the  lake  to 
Portage,  Wis.,  where  he  took  a  flatboat  for 
Prairie  du  Chien,  and  from  there  went  on  a 
steamer  to  St.  Paul,  remaining  there  and  at  St. 
Anthony  just  one  year  and  one  day.  From  there 
he  traveled  by  stage  to  Galena  and  Elgin,  then 
back  to  Chicago,  and  from  there  returned  to 
Ellicottville.  On  the  passage  of  the  Kansas- 
Nebraska  bill,  in  the  spring  of  1855,  he  determined 
to  go  to  Kansas,  so  again  started  westward.  He 
traveled  up  the  river  from  St.  Louis  to  Kansas 
City,  where  he  caught  his  first  real  glimpse  of 
frontier  life.  Lines  of  steamers  four  deep  were 
anchored  on  the  levee,  and  near  by  were  at -least 
thirty  ox-trains  and  twelve  mule  teams,  destined 
to  every  point  in  the  west.  Each  ox-train  was 
composed  of  thirty-one  wagons  and  six  yoke  of 


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cattle  to  each  wagon,  while  a  mule  train  consisted 
of  eight  wagons,  with  four  pairs  of  mules  to  each 
wagon. 

The  mingled  medley  caused  by  the  braying  of 
the  mules,  the  lowing  of  the  cattle  and  the  shout- 
ing of  the  men  was  confusing  to  the  '  'tenderfoot. ' ' 
He  gazed  around  him  in  amazement.  While  he 
stood  watching  everything  with  curiosity,  a 
Mi.ssouri  freighter  asked  him  where  he  came 
from,  and  on  receiving  his  reply,  said,  "Yes,  you 

are  one  of  those Abolitionists  and  the  quicker 

you  get  out  of  here,  the  better  for  you."  He 
settled  in  Leavenworth  and  engaged  in  mer- 
chandising as  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Bailey, 
Anthony  &  Co.,  and  a  year  later  was  elected 
county  clerk  and  recorder.  He  drew  the  laws 
prescribing  the  forms  for  the  recording  of  deeds, 
which  are  still  in  use  in  Kansas  and  Colorado. 
At  the  second  election  in  the  city  he  saw  the 
necessity  for  organization  for  the  enforcement  of 
laws.  People  coming  across  the  river  from  Mis- 
souri harassed  the  Abolitionists  and  became  very 
troublesome.  He,  with  twenty-six  others,  or- 
ganized the  Leavenworth  Rangers  and  equipped 
themselves  with  good  horses  and  sharp  rifles,  the 
latter  of  which  he  soon  found  to  be  much  feared 
by  the  border  ruffians  across  the  river.  At  the 
next  elections  held  in  Kansas  a  large  crowd  of 
Missourians  came  over  early  in  the  morning,  in- 
tending to  take  charge  of  the  election,  but  he  saw 
them,  then  gathered  his  men  on  the  bottom  and 
came  to  the  esplanade,  riding  forward  in  a  circuit 
and  shouting  to  them  that  an  election  would  be 
held  that  day  for  Kansas  people  only  and  anyone 
not  a  resident  who  attempted  to  vote  would  be 
taken  in  hand.  He  so  frightened  the  men  that 
they  stampeded  for  home.  One  of  his  souvenirs 
is  a  photograph  album  containing  pictures  of 
early  residents  of  Kansas,  among  them  an  orig- 
inal photograph  of  John  Brown,  given  him 
personally  and  probably  the  only  one  of  the  kind 
in  existence. 

From  Kansas  Major  Anthony  came  to  Colorado, 
in  time  to  participate  in  the  stirring  events  of  war 
times  here.  On  the  close  of  the  Rebellion  he  went 
to  the  mountains,  but  when  the  survey  of  the 
Union  Pacific  was  begun  he  piloted  the  surveyors 
in  their  expeditions  and  also  piloted  the  sur- 
veyors of  the  Northern  Pacific  through  to 
Helena,  doing  the  preliminary  surveying.  He 
was  then  a  sub-contractor  and  civil  engineer  on 


the  Union  Pacific.  When  the  Deadwood  ex- 
citement broke  out,  he  went  there  and  took  up  a 
large  claim,  but  found  it  was  not  as  reported, 
and  returned  to  Denver.  In  1877  he  embarked 
in  the  real-estate  business  upon  a  large  scale  and 
has  continued  in  it  ever  since.  He  was  so 
familiar  with  the  city  that  he  knew  the  location 
and  value  of  every  lot.  He  laid  out  additions, 
only  one  of  which,  however,  bears  his  name. 
With  his  brother  he  built  blocks  on  the  corner 
of  Curtis  and  Fifteenth,  and  Champa  and 
Fifteenth,  and  he  still  owns  the  old  Wilcox  block 
at  Nos.  1629-35  Curtis.  In  the  organization  of  the 
Denver  Tramway  Company  he  was  actively  in- 
terested and  for  years  was  a  director.  Still  in 
the  real-estate  business,  he  is  located  in  room  5, 
No.  1 63 1  Curtis  street.  It  has  been  his  ex- 
perience that  when  he  took  charge  of  his  business 
aff"airs  they  returned  profits,  but  when  he  en- 
trusted them  to  others,  he  invariably  lost  money. 
He  is  a  lover  of  flowers  and  for  his  own  pleasure 
has  a  moneyed  interest  in  a  floral  establishment. 
During  the  summer  months  his  home  at  No. 
1280  Logan  street  is  bright  with  flowers,  in  the 
cultivation  of  which  he  passes  many  pleasant 
hours. 

At  the  time  that  his  brother  was  county  clerk, 
Major  Anthony  organized  Anthony's  Abstract 
Company,  the  formation  of  which  was  not  re- 
vealed for  a  time.  Later  it  was  consolidated 
with  another  concern  under  the  title  of  Anthony, 
Landon  &  Curry.  Even  after  the  major  retired 
from  the  company,  his  name  was  still  continued 
in  the  firm.  Like  all  other  fifty-niners,  he  is  a 
member  of  the  Colorado  Association  of  Pioneers; 
while  it  is  true  he  did  not  reach  Denver  until  the 
spring  of  i860,  yet  from  the  fact  that  he  started 
on  his  westward  journey  in  1859,  he  is  entitled  to 
a  place  among  the  men  who  came  to  the  state  in 
that  most  eventful  year.  He  is  a  life  member  of 
the  Masons,  affiliates  with  the  Sons  of  the  Rev- 
olution and  the  Loyal  Legion,  and  is  connected 
with  Lincoln  Post,  G.  A.  R. 

The  first  marriage  of  Major  Anthony  united 
him  with  Lucy  Stebbins,  of  Atchison,  who  died 
three  months  after  they  were  married.  His 
second  wife  was  Frances  Brown,  who  was  born 
and  educated  in  Utica,  N.  Y.,  but  at  the  time  of 
her  marriage  was  living  in  Denver.  She  was  a 
daughter  of  Richard  and  Elizabeth  Brown, 
natives   of  Bath,    England,    but  during  most  of 


JAMES  E.  GARRIGUES. 


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their  lives  residents  of  the  United  States.  Her 
father  died  in  Utica,  and  her  mother  in  Denver 
when  lacking  only  one  month  of  uinety-five 
years. 

As  a  pioneer  of  Colorado  Major  Anthony  has 
always  been  intensely  interested  in  its  progress. 
He  remembers  the  state  when  it  was  thinly 
populated,  with  little  appearance  of  its  present 
population  and  prosperity.  The  gradual  growth 
of  the  years  he  has  witnessed,  contributing 
thereto  not  a  little  by  his  energy  and  abilty. 
While  Denver  has  been  his  home  for  years,  yet 
he  has  been  a  traveler  and  has  spent  considerable 
time  in  visiting  other  parts  of  the  world,  thereby 
gaining  a  cosmopolitan  knowledge  that  makes 
him  a  delightful  companion.  He  has  traveled  in 
every  country  and  visited  every  city  of  impor- 
tance on  the  globe.  He  spent  two  and  one-half 
years  in  making  the  tour  of  the  world,  during 
which  time  he  traveled  from  the  northernmost 
point  of  Europe  to  the  south  of  New  Zealand. 
Like  all  men  who  have  traveled  much,  he  has 
liberal  views  and  maintains  an  interest  in  the 
progress  of  the  entire  world. 


(TAMES  E.  GARRIGUES,  a  well-known  at- 
I  torney-at-law  in  Greeley,  Weld  County,  was 
C)  elected  in  the  fall  of  1888  to  the  office  of 
district  attorney  for  the  eighth  judicial  district  of 
Colorado,  and  at  the  close  of  his  three  years' 
term  was  re-elected  for  a  similar  period.  When 
his  official  term  had  expired  for  the  second  time 
he  was  put  in  nomination  for  the  judgeship  of  this 
district,  his  opponent  being  Jay  Boughton  of  Fort 
Collins,  who  headed  the  Populist  ticket.  That 
party,  sweeping  everything  before  it,  came  off 
victor  in  the  ensuing  election,  Mr.  Garrigues 
being  defeated  by  a  small  majority,  some  sixty- 
five  votes.  He  carried  Weld,  Larimer  and  Mor- 
gan Counties;  but  Boulder  County,  with  its  large 
Populist  numbers,  turned  the  tide.  Mr.  Garri- 
gues practices  in  all  the  Ipcal  and  state  courts, 
and  enjoys  the  esteem  and  respect  of  the  bench 
and  bar. 

Born  October  6,  1852,  in  Lawrenceburg,  Dear- 
born County,  Ind.,  the  subject  of  this  article  is  a 
son  of  James  M.  and  H.  (Tuttle)  Garrigues, 
natives  of  New  Jersey  and  Ohio  respectively. 
The  father  removed  to  Indiana  in  his  early  man- 
hood (about  1830)  and  there  engaged  in  farming 


and  teaching  up  to  the  time  of  his  death  in 
1894.  James  E.  has  in  his  possession  an  old  certif- 
icate entitling  his  father  to  teach,  dated  Septem- 
ber 28,  1840,  and  signed  by  Jesse  L.  Holdman, 
father  of  Hon.  William  Holdman,  present  con- 
gressman from  Indiana.  The  great-grandfather 
of  our  subject,  James  Garrigues,  and  his  brother 
John,  were  French  Huguenots,  who  came  to 
America,  the  land  of  liberty,  in  colonial  days, 
and  both  fought  in  defense  of  that  liberty,  when 
it  was  endangered  in  the  war  with  the  mother 
country,  at  the  close  of  the  last  century. 

The  eldest  brother  of  James  E.  was  Henry 
Garrigues,  who  enlisted  during  the  Civil  war  in 
the  Seventh  Indiana  Cavalry,  and  lost  his  life  in 
battle  in  Mississippi.  Amzi,  the  next  brother,  is 
a  farmer  of  Dearborn  County,  Ind.  Dr.  Dayton, 
is  a  practitioner  of  Cedar  Grove,  Ind.  Fannie, 
the  elder  sister,  is  the  wife  of  Charles  Carpenter, 
of  Bloomington,  Ind.;  and  Harriet  is  a  teacher  of 
the  public  schools  of  Greele}\ 

The  boyhood  and  youth  of  our  subject  were 
passed  on  his  father's  farm,  his  education  being 
acquired  in  the  common  schools  and  Moore's  Hill 
College.  When  he  had  finished  his  studies  he 
began  teaching,  and  was  principal  of  a  school  in 
Delaware,  Ind.  Subsequently  he  went  to  Tren- 
ton, 111. ,  where  he  had  charge  of  a  school  and 
later  read  law  in  the  office  of  J.  G.  Van  Hoore- 
beck.  For  one  year  he  held  the  principalship  of 
a  public  school  in  Malvern,  Iowa,  and  in  1887 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  at  Glenwood,  Iowa.  He 
established  an  office  for  the  practice  of  his  chosen 
profession  in  the  town  of  Malvern, remaining  there 
for  eight  years. 

May  6,  1880,  Mr.  Garrigues  married  Clara  L. 
Boehner,  daughter  of  Matthew  Boehner,  both 
natives  of  Maine.  In  February,  1883,  our  sub- 
ject removed  to  Colorado,  owing  to  the  failing 
health  of  his  wife.  For  a  time  she  seemed  to  be 
benefited,  but  March  25,  1896,  she  was  summoned 
to  her  reward.  Helen,  the  eldest  child  of  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Garrigues,  graduated  from  the  Greeley 
high  school  and  is  now  a  student  in  the  Denver 
University.  Georgia,  the  next  child,  died  of 
scarlet  fever  when  eight  years  old.  The  others 
are,  Dwight,  Edith,  Grace  and  Edna.  The  last- 
mentioned,  who  was  an  infant  at  the  time  of  her 
mother's  death,  is  living  with  her  grandmother 
Boehner,  in  Salt  Lake  City,  Utah. 

Fraternally    Mr.    Garrigues  is  a  member    of 


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Occidental  I^odge  No.  20,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  and  is 
past  master  of  the  same.  He  is  also  identified 
with  the  Odd  Fellows'  society,  is  past  chancellor 
of  the  Knights  of  Pythias  and  is  connected  with 
the  Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen  and 
Woodmen  of  the  World. 


NON.  LOUIS  H.  DICKSON,  an  early  settler 
of  Colorado  and  for  years  a  resident  of 
Ivongmont  and  vicinity,  is  one  of  the  best- 
known  and  most  highly  respected  citizens  of 
Boulder  County.  In  the  fall  of  1880  he  was 
called  upon  to  represent  his  district  in  the  third 
general  assembly,  and  was  re-elected  in  1884,  and 
served  in  the  fifth  session,  both  times  being  the 
Republican  nominee.  He  was  the  first  mayor  of 
Longmont,  and  acted  for  three  successive  terms 
in  that  responsible  position.  Moreover,  he  has 
frequently  ofiiciated  in  minor  places  of  trust,  and 
has  served  as  justice  of  the  peace  for  many  years. 
In  1894  he  was  appointed  water  commissioner 
of  district  No.  5,  and  upon  the  expiration  of  his 
term  was  reappointed  to  the  ofiice,  which  he  ad- 
ministers with  ability  and  zeal  in  the  best  inter- 
ests of  the  people,  whose  welfare  has  always  been 
uppermost  in  his  mind. 

The  paternal  grandfather  of  our  subject  was  a 
native  of  Pennsylvania,  and  an  energetic,  suc- 
cessful farmer.  His  son,  Hiram,  father  of  Louis 
H.,  was  likewise  born  in  the  Keystone  state,  and 
when  a  young  man  he  settled  in  Franklin  Coun- 
ty, Ohio.  There  he  married  Elizabeth  Hay  ward, 
and  carried  on  a  farm.  In  1846  he  removed  to 
Dane  County,  Wis.,  and  there  departed  this  life 
in  1856.  Of  his  six  children  four  are  now  liv- 
ing, namely:  Mrs.  Phoebe  E.  Allen,  a  widow  re- 
siding inEvanston,  111.;  Joel,  a  well-to-do  farmer 
of  the  state  of  Washington;  Hannah  M.,  wife  of 
Joseph  C.  Cannon,  a  prosperous  farmer  of  Wis- 
consin; and  Louis  H. 

Hon.  L.  H.  Dickson  was  born  in  Franklin 
County,  Ohio,  January  18,  1834.  He  was  reared 
to  mature  years  upon  his  father's  farm  and  when 
he  started  out  to  fight  the  battle  of  life  he  chose 
the  vocation  of  his  ancestors.  For  three  years 
he  rented  land  in  Wisconsin,  after  which  he  went 
into'  the  pineries  of  that  state  and  engaged  in 
lumbering  for  a  year  or  more.  In  1858,  accom- 
panied by  his  brother  Joel,  he  went  to  Kansas. 
After  wintering  at  Fort  Riley  they  started  for 


Colorado,  their  entire  equipment  being  a  wagon, 
three  yoke  of  oxen  and  a  pony.  They  proceeded 
by  the  Smoky  Hill  route,  and  after  a  forty-four 
days'  journey  arrived  in  Denver.  Three  days 
were  spent  there  and  then  they  went  on  to  Boul- 
der, reaching  that  point  May  27,  1859.  From 
there  they  went  direct  to  Gold  Run,  and  engaged 
in  placer  mining  for  a  month.  On  July  3,  with 
a  company  of  about  a  dozen  men,  they  crossed 
the  mountains  to  Middle  Park,  where  they  pros- 
pected for  the  precious  yellow  metal.  Then  they 
drifted  to  Nevada  Gulch,  and  continued  to  mine 
in  that  vicinity  until  November,  when  our  sub- 
ject and  his  brother  started  for  Wisconsin  for 
their  families.  Saddling  two  mules,  and  leading 
another  as  a  pack  or  baggage-carrier,  they  wend- 
ed their  lonely  way  across  the  plains.  Arriving 
at  Nebraska  City  they  left  their  animals  and 
walked  to  St.  Joseph,  nearly  one  hundred  miles. 
From  that  city,  then  the  westernmost  railroad 
station  on-  the  continent,  they  took  the  train  for 
home.  After  passing  the  winter  there  they  re- 
turned to  Colorado  with  their  families.  Arriving 
in  Denver  June  12,  i860,  they  went  to  Nevada 
Gulch,  and,  in  a  short  time,  to  California  Gulch. 
That  fall  they  returned  to  Boulder,  and  the  fol- 
lowing spring  our  subject  took  up  a  claim  of  a 
quarter-section  of  land  four  miles  east  of  Long- 
mont,  on  the  St.  Vrain  River,  while  his  brother 
settled  on  Left  Hand. 

The  next  few  years  passed  rapidly,  as  Mr. 
Dickson  toiled  to  provide  well  for  his  little  house- 
hold and  to  improve  his  farm.  He  raised  large 
crops  of  hay  and  was  successful  in  his  handling 
of  live  stock,  in  addition  to  which  he  was  occu- 
pied in  general  farming.  Then  came  on  the  In- 
dian troubles  of  1864,  and  he  left  his  ranch  to 
enlist  in  Company  D,  Third  Colorado  Cavalry, 
commanded  by  Capt.  D.  H.  Nichols.  Going 
with  them  to  the  seat  of  warfare,  he  took  part  in 
the  celebrated  battle  of  Sand  Creek,  and  when 
the  redskins  were  quelled  he  was  mustered  out 
of  the  service.  He  continued  to  live  on  his  farm 
up  to  1869,  when  he  decided  to  go  to  Oregon. 
He  and  his  family  started  with  a  wagon  on  the 
long  western  journey,  and  safely  arrived  at  their 
destination,  Oregon  City.  There  Mr.  Dickson 
purchased  a  farm  and  settled  down  to  its  improve- 
ment. In  1873  he  rented  his  homestead  there 
and  returned  to  his  old  Colorado  home.  Since 
1880  he  has  lived  in  Longmont.     Two  years  be- 


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fore  he  had  acquired  an  extensive  interest  in 
what  was  known  as  the  Grange  Mill,  two  miles 
east  of  lyOngmont,  and  in  1885  became  its  sole 
proprietor.  This  property  claimed  his  attention 
until  1892,  when  he  sold  it. 

November  i,  1854,  Mr.  Dickson  married  Miss 
Emily  A.  Sharp,  who  was  born  in  Franklin 
County,  Ohio,  and  was  the  daughter  of  Stephen 
Sharp,  a  wealthy  farmer  of  that  section.  For 
the  past  three  years  Mr.  Dickson  has  been  adju- 
tant of  McPherson  Post  No.  6,  G.  A.  R.  He 
also  belongs  to  L,ongmont  Lodge  No.  29,  I.  O. 
O.  F. ,  and  is  a  member  of  Columbus  Encamp- 
ment No.  18.  In  the  Masonic  order  he  is  iden- 
tified with  St.  Vrain  Lodge  No.  23,  A.  F.  &  A. 
M.;  Longmont  Chapter  No.  8,  R.  A.  M.,  and 
Long's  Peak  Commandery  No.  12,  K.  T.  Col- 
umbine Chapter  No.  32,  Order  of  the  Eastern 
Star,  also  claims  him  as  one  of  its  members. 
With  the  exception  of  the  last  named  and  the 
encampment,  he  has  held  about  all  the  ofiices  in 
the  several  lodges. 


pGJiLLIAM  JOHN  ROTHWELL,  M.  D. 
\  A/  The  principal  ambition  in  the  life  of  Dr. 
Y  V  Rothwell  has  been  the  acquirement  of  pro- 
fessional knowledge  and  the  acquisition  of  the 
classical  culture  that  always  marks  the  man  of 
intellect  and  broad  attainments.  Fond  of  the 
classics,  he  has  devoted  many  of  his  leisure 
hours  to  the  study  of  Latin,  French  and  Ger- 
man, and  has  become  so  conversant  with  these 
languages  that  he  often  reads  in  the  orig- 
inal important  medical  treatises  written  by  men 
of  these  several  nationalities.  During  the  long 
trips  he  has  been  obliged  occasionally  to  make 
into  Idaho  and  other  states  he  has  one  of  the 
classics  as  a  companion,  and  by  thus  utilizing  his 
time  he  has  been  enabled  to  acquire  a  fund  of  in- 
formation that  few  possess. 

The  Rothwell  family  originated  in  England, 
but  removed  thence  to  Ireland,  where  the  doctor's 
grandfather,  Benjamin,  engaged  in  farming.  He 
took  his  family  from  there  to  Ottawa,  Ontario, 
Canada,  where  he  engaged  in  farming.  During 
the  Canadian  Rebellion  of  1837  he,  with  his  son, 
Thomas,  bore  a  part.  Thomas  Rothwell  was  a 
farmer  and  died  in  1896,  at  the  age  of  eighty- 
eight.  His  wife,  Catherine,  was  born  near  the 
Vale  of  Avoca,  Ireland,  and  now  resides  in  Can- 


ada. She  was  a  daughter  of  Peter  Tompkins,  a 
farmer,  who  removed  to  Canada  with  his  family 
in  an  early  day. 

Six  sons  and  three  daughters  comprised  the 
family  of  which  Dr.  Rothwell  was  a  member,  and 
of  these  all  are  living  but  two  of  the  daughters. 
One  brother,  E.  J.,  graduated  from  the  medical 
department  of  the  Michigan  State  University  at 
Ann  Arbor  and  is  now  a  practicing  physician  in 
Denver.  Another  brother,  P.  D. ,  is  also  a  grad- 
uate of  Ann  Arbor  and  a  physician  in  Denver. 
Benjamin  is  an  educator  in  Canada,  and  Samuel 
and  Thomas  are  farmers  there.  The  subject  of 
this  sketch  was  born  near  Ottawa,  and  at  the  age 
of  thirteen  accompanied  the  family  from  there  to 
Listowell,  County  Perth,  Ontario,  where  he  at- 
tended the  public  school.  He  prepared  for  col- 
lege at  Rockwood,  Canada.  In  1869  he  entered 
the  medical  department  of  the  University  of 
Michigan,  but  after  one  year,  his  funds  being  ex- 
hau.sted,  he  was  obliged  to  discontinue  his  studies 
until  he  had  reimbursed  his  bank  account.  Go- 
ing to  Idaho  in  1870,  he  became  principal  of  the 
Idaho  City  school,  and  continued  in  that  position 
for  two  years,  meantime  studying  medicine  in  his 
leisure  hours.  In  1872  he  entered  Jefferson  Med- 
ical College,  Philadelphia,  from  which  he  gradu- 
ated in  1873  with  the  degree  of  M.  D.,  and  for  a 
few  months  afterward  he  did  hospital  work  in 
Philadelphia,  having  as  his  roommate  Dr.  E.  E. 
Montgomery,  since  prominent  as  a  gynecologist. 

Returning  to  Idaho  City  in  the  fall  of  1873, 
Dr.  Rothwell  opened  an  oflSce  and  for  fourteen 
years  carried  on  a  general  practice  in  medicine 
and  surgery.  While  there  he  was  elected  on  the 
Republican  ticket  to  the  ofiice  of  county  .superin- 
tendent of  Boise  County,  serving  for  four  years. 
In  the  fall  of  1887  he  located  in  Denver.  His 
office  is  in  the  Cooper  building.  Immediately 
after  coming  here  he  became  associated  with 
Gross  Medical  College,  which  had  recently  been 
opened.  For  three  years  he  held  the  chair  of 
therapeutics,  after  which  he  was  made  professor 
of  physical  diagnosis  and  diseases  of  the  chest, 
holding  the  same  until  the  establishment  of  the 
chair  of  mental  and  nervous  diseases,  in  1895, 
when  he  was  elected  to  that  chair.  In  addition 
to  being  an  instructor,  he  has  been  a  trustee  of 
the  institution  since  its  establishment.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Denver  and  Arapahoe  County,  the 
State  and  American   Medical  Societies,  and  in 


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1884  took  a  post-graduate  course  in  New  York  in 
order  to  perfect  himself  in  certain  branches.  Re- 
ligiously he  is  an  Episcopalian. 

In  Idaho  City  Dr.  Rothwell  married  Miss  Clara 
Galbreaith,  who  was  born  in  Shasta,  Cal.,  the 
daughter  of  Stephen  Galbreaith,  a  native  of  Ham- 
ilton, Ontario,  and  a  "forty-niner"  in  California. 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  Rothwell  have  four  sons:  William 
Herbert,  a  graduate  of  the  Denver  high  school 
and  a  member  of  the  class  of  1900  Gross  Medical 
College,  and  now  with  the  hospital  corps  at 
Manila,  Philippine  Islands;  Matthew  Thomas,  a 
graduate  of  the  Denver  high  school  in  1895; 
Walter  Peter;  and  Stephen  Gainsford.  While  in 
Idaho  City  the  doctor  was  made  a  Mason,  and  he 
is  now  a  member  of  Denver  I^odge  No.  7,  A.  F. 
&  A.  M. ,  and  Denver  Chapter  No.  2,  R.  A.  M. 
For  some  time  he  was  grand  representative  of 
the  state  of  Pennsylvania  for  Idaho. 


V  yiYRON  H.  AKIN,  vice-president  and  man- 

Y  ager  of  the  Akin  Live  Stock  Company  and 
(9  one  of  the  influential  citizens  of  Fort  Col- 
lins, was  born  near  Joliet,  Will  County,  111.,  No- 
vember 7,  1857,  and  is  of  Scotch  lineage.  His 
father,  Henry,  was  born  at  Johnstown,  near  Al- 
bany, N.  Y.,  and  was  a  son  of  Abraham  Akin,  a 
native  of  York  state  and  one  of  the  discoverers 
of  salt  and  owner  of  the  original  salt  works. 
After  a  very  successful  business  life  he  died  in 
Syracuse. 

For  some  years  Henry  Akin  engaged  in  farm- 
ing in  Albany  County,  N.  Y.,  but  in  1841  he 
located  in  Will  County,  111.,  between  Lockport 
and  Joliet,  where  he  improved  a  fine  farm  from 
the  prairie  of  that  section.  He  became  well 
known  throughout  that  region  and  acquired  the 
ownership  to  large  tracts  of  land.  In  1874  he 
removed  to  Vermilion  County  and  bought  the 
town  site  of  East  Lynn,  which,  in  connection 
with  George  H.  White,  he  platted  in  lots.  To 
the  sale  of  his  real  estate  and  the  cultivation  of 
his  land  he  gave  his  attention  until  1879,  when, 
hoping  by  a  change  of  climate  to  obtain  relief 
from  asthma,  he  settled  in  Larimer  County,  Colo., 
and  embarked  in  farming  upon  a  four  hundred 
acre  tract  that  he  purchased.  He  is  hale  and 
hearty,  showing  in  his  appearance  and  activity 
little  trace  of  his  eighty  years  of  life. 

The  wife  of  Henry  Akin  bore  the  maiden  name 


of  Eunice  Harris  and  was  born  in  Pine  Plains, 
Dutchess  County,  N.  Y.  After  a  married  life  of 
fifty-two  years,  she  died  in  Colorado  in  1896, 
aged  seventy-four  years.  Her  father,  Israel  Har- 
ris, was  born  in  Dutchess  County,  which  he 
represented  in  the  legislature  of  New  York.  He 
married  a  daughter  of  Colonel  Barker,  an  officer 
in  the  Revolution.  Late  in  life  he  went  to  Michi- 
gan, where  he  died.  He  had  sons  who  served  in 
the  legislatures  of  New  York  and  Michigan. 
Ten  children  were  born  to  the  union  of  Henry 
and  Eunice  Akin,  of  whom  seven  attained  man- 
hood and  womanhood,  namely:  Plicebe,  who  died 
in  Dutchess  County,  N.  Y. ;  Henry  R.,  a  con- 
ductor on  the  Houston  &  Texas  Central  Railroad 
in  Texas;  Myron  H.;  Harris,  Abraham  and  Will- 
iam, who  are  farmers  in  Larimer  County;  and 
John,  who  is  connected  with  the  First  National 
Bank  of  El  Paso,  Tex. 

After  having  for  some  terms  attended  the  pub- 
lic and  high  schools  of  Lockport,  111.,  the  sub- 
ject of  this  sketch  began  railroading  at  the  age 
of  sixteen.  He  learned  telegraphy  at  Lockport, 
in  the  Chicago  &  Alton  depot,  and  continued  as 
operator  there  for  a  year,  after  which  he  was  with 
the  Lake  Erie  &  Western  Railroad  at  East  Lynn, 
111.,  for  five  years.  Resigning  in  1881,  became 
to  Colorado  and  became  operator  at  Fort  Collins 
for  the  Union  Pacific  (now  the  Gulf)  Railroad. 
He  had  purchased  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres 
three  miles  southwest  of  the  town  while  he  was 
still  in  Illinois  and  had  helped  to  put  a  ditch 
through  the  land,  out  of  which  he  evolved  a 
valuable  farm.  This  property  he  traded  for  one 
hundred  head  of  brood  mares  in  1882,  and  located 
at  Steamboat  Rock,  where  he  took  up  a  ranch 
and  fenced  twenty-five  hundred  acres  of  fine  graz- 
ing land  that  he  still  owns.  His  next  employ- 
ment was  that  of  foreman  for  Jesse  Harris,  the 
largest  importer  of  horses  in  the  west,  and,  as 
foreman  for  that  gentleman  for  five  years,  he 
traveled  through  the  western  states  and  terri- 
tories. At  the  same  time  he  raised  horses  on  his 
ranch,  and  these  he  later  traded  for  cattle.  For 
a  while  he  engaged  in  the  real-estate  business, 
dealing  in  residence  property  and  farms,  and  also 
carried  on  a  cattle  business. 

Mr.  Akin  and  his  brothers  were  among  the 
first  to  bring  sheep  into  Larimer  County,  buying 
them  in  New  Mexico  and  feeding  them  here. 
November  17,  1895,  he  formed  a  partnership  with 


WILLIAM    B.  MINER. 


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Messrs.  Avery  and  Hall,  as  Hall  &  Co.  This 
firm  was  succeeded,  September  17,  1897,  by  the 
Akin  Live  Stock  Company,  of  which  F.  C.  Avery 
is  president,  Myron  H.  Akin  vice-president  and 
manager;  and  Edward  H.  Hall  secretary  and 
treasurer,  the  capital  stock  being  $60,000.  The 
company  have  a  farm  of  eighteen  hundred  acres 
and  ranches  aggregating  three  thousand  acres  in 
the  foot  hills,  also  Steamboat  Rock  ranch  of 
twenty-five  hundred  acres,  and  raise  from  twenty- 
five  hundred  to  four  thousand  tons  of  alfalfa  each 
year;  also  handle  as  many  as  sixty  thousand  head 
of  sheep  annually,  this  being  one-fourth  of  the 
entire  number  handled  here;  and  feed  over  four 
thousand  head  per  annum.  They  buy  Mexican 
lambs,  which  are  shipped  to  this  point.  In  his 
work  Mr.  Akin  has  become  familiar  with  the 
Mexican  language,  much  of  his  business  having 
been  done  with  the  people  of  Mexico.  He  is  a 
charter  member  of  the  Larimer  County  Sheep 
Feeders'  Association,  of  which  he  was  the  first, 
and  is  still  secretary  and  treasurer.  He  is  also 
identified  with  the  Colorado  Stock  Growers'  As- 
sociation and  was  a  delegate  to  the  National 
Stock  Growers'  Convention  in  1897.  Politically 
he  is  a  silver  Republican.  In  fraternal  relations 
he  is  connected  with  the  Ancient  Order  of  United 
Workmen.  He  is  a  trustee  in  the  Presbyterian 
Church,  of  which  denomination  he  and  his  wife 
are  both  members. 

In  Las  Animas,  Colo.,  June  5,  1890,  Mr.  Akin 
married  Miss  Elizabeth  D.  Mellinger,  who  was 
borrf  in  Seven  Mile,  Butler  County,  Ohio.  Her 
father,  Jacob  Mellinger,  was  born  in  Lancaster, 
Pa.,  a  son  of  Jacob  Mellinger,  Sr.  Removing  to 
Butler  County,  Ohio,  he  engaged  in  the  hotel 
business  there.  His  last  days  were  spent  in  Fort 
Wayne,  Ind.,  where  he  died.  He  married  Julia 
Hunt,  a  native  of  Ohio,  and  daughter  of  Henry 
Hunt,  who  was  born  in  New  Jersey  and  engaged 
in  farming  in  Ohio.  Mrs.  Julia  Mellinger  is  now 
living  in  Las  Animas.  She  has  four  children: 
Elizabeth;  Eleanor,  who  is  married  and  lives  in 
Las  Animas;  Wayne  H.,  also  a  resident  of  that 
town;  and  Mrs.  Edith  Deweese,  of  the  same  place. 
Mrs.  Akin  was  graduated  from  the  Fort  Wayne 
high  school  in  1877  and  the  following  year  com- 
pleted the  course  in  the  Fort  Wayne  Normal 
School,  after  which  she  engaged  in  teaching.  In 
1882  she  came  to  Fort  Collins,  and  here  taught 
in  the  grammar  school  for  eight  years.     After 


her  marriage  she  took  a  course  in  kindergarten 
work  and  became  a  teacher  in  that  department  of 
school  work.  She  was  the  first  lady  in  this  city 
to  be  elected  a  member  of  the  board  of  education 
and  was  made  secretary  of  the  board,  serving  for 
five  years.  She  is  also  actively  identified  with 
the  Woman's  Club  of  Fort  Collins.  The  two 
children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Akin  are  Eunice  Eliza- 
beth and  Wayne  Mellinger. 


pGJiLLIAM  B.  MINER,  president  of  the  Fort 
\  A  /  Collins  Electric  Light  Company  and  one 
YV  of  the  most  successful  stockmen  of  Lari- 
mer County,  is  a  descendant  of  a  pioneer  New 
England  family.  His  grandfather,  Jesse  Miner, 
a  native  of  New  London,  Conn.,  was  a  govern- 
ment contractor  during  the  war  of  18 12  and 
afterward  engaged  in  farming  at  Vernon,  Conn. 
He  had  a  son,  Dudley  T. ,  who  was  born  and 
reared  at  Vernon,  and  devoted  his  entire  active 
life  to  the  management  of  the  old  homestead; 
there  he  died  at  eighty-five  years.  The  home 
farm  is  now  owned  by  one  of  his  sons,  Harry  T. 
Dudley  T.  Miner  was  twice  married,  and  by  his 
first  wife  had  a  son,  John  R.,  who  now  resides 
near  the  old  home  place.  His  second  wife  was 
Augeline  Davis,  a  native  of  Springfield,  Mass. 
Two  children  were  born  of  that  union,  William  B. 
and  Harry  T.  The  latter  at  one  time  served  in 
the  Connecticut  legislature. 

In  Vernon,  Conn.,  where  he  was  born  June  23, 
1837,  the  subject  of  this  sketch  spent  the  first 
eighteen  years  of  life.  In  1855  he  came  west, 
joining  at  St.  Joe,  Mo.,  a  train  bound  for  Cali- 
fornia, and  journeying  with  an  ox-team  and  herd 
of  stock  across  the  plains,  through  South  Pass, 
down  the  Humboldt  and  into  California.  At 
Thirty-Mile  Canon  the  party  was  attacked  by  the 
Indians  and  at  other  places  they  had  consider- 
able trouble  on  account  of  the  proximity  of  the 
red  men.  The  journey  consumed  six  months. 
He  remained  in  California  for  ten  years,  engag- 
ing in  sheep-raising  on  the  Cosmunes  River, 
twenty-two  miles  south  of  Sacramento,  whence 
in  1866  he  returned  to  Connecticut.  Settling  in 
Vernon,  he  built  a  mill  and  embarked  in  the 
manufacture  of  paper,  which  business  he  had 
learned  in  his  boyhood.  With  a  partner  he 
owned  and  conducted  the  Granite  Mills  until 
187 1,  when  he  sold  out. 


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While  in  Connecticut,  September  13,  1869,  Mr. 
Miner  married  Miss  Mary  F.  Battey,  who  was 
born  in  that  state.  Her  father,  Robert  Battey,  a 
farmer  by  occupation,  was  a  mechanical  genius  and 
could  contrive  useful  articles  in  any  lineof  work. 
In  1876  he  came  to  Colorado,  where  he  died  in 
1895,  at  the  age  of  seventy-two.  He  had  been 
self-supporting  from  an  early  age,  as  his  father, 
Amasa,  a  farmer  of  New  England,  had  died  when 
he  was  a  boy  of  only  six.  He  married  Faith 
Stiles,  who  was  born  in  Connecticut,  daughter 
of  Samuel  Stiles,  a  farmer.  She  is  now  living  in 
Fort  Collins.  Of  her  family  of  nine  children  all 
are  still  living,  Mrs.  Miner  being  fourth  in  order 
of  birth. 

In  1871  Mr.  Miner  removed  to  Dixon,  Lee 
County,  111.,  and  from  there  in  July,  1873,  he 
came  to  Colorado,  settling  on  a  ranch  thirteen 
miles  north  of  Fort  Collins,  on  Park  Station 
Creek,  which  was  named  for  a  station  on  the 
overland  stage  road.  He  was  one  of  the  first 
men  in  Colorado  to  embark  in  the  sheep  busi- 
ness. He  believed  sheep  could  be  raised  here 
and  bought  some  Illinois  merinos,  with  which  he 
started  his  herd.  The  experiment  was  costly  at 
first.  However,  he  secured  a  fine  herd,  being  a 
cross  between  Merino-Shropshires  and  New  Mex- 
ican ewes,  thus  getting  a  sheep  suited  to  this 
country.  In  his  work  he  was  greatly  assisted  by 
his  experience  while  in  California.  In  1890  he 
sold  out  the  sheep  business.  He  owns  in  one 
ranch  ten  sections  of  land,  all  of  which  is  fenced. 

In  1878  Mr.  Miner  formed  a  partnership  with 
Senator  Warren,  of  Wyoming,  in  the  sheep- 
raising  business,  and  for  five  years  the  firm  title 
was  Miner  &  Warren,  after  which  it  was  incor- 
porated as  the  Warren  Live  Stock  Company. 
They  owned  ranches  in  Wyoming  and  Colorado, 
and  had  forty  thousand  sheep.  When  the  busi- 
ness was  merged  into  the  incorporated  company 
a  capitalization  of  $560,000  was  secured,  Mr. 
Miner,  Mr.  Warren  and  Mr.  Gleason  being  the 
incorporators,  Mr.  Miner  becoming  a  director. 
Some  time  later  he  sold  his  interest  in  the  con- 
cern. About  1883  he  started  in  the  cattle  busi- 
ness, and  when  he  had  built  up  a  herd  he  sold 
out  his  sheep  interests.  He  has  full-blooded  and 
high-grade  Herefords,  all  of  which  are  kept  inside 
the  fence  during  the  entire  year.  The  North 
Fork  ditch  runs  through  the  land,  providing  the 
cattle  with  water.     On  the  ranch  alfalfa  and  hay 


are  raised  in  large  quantities,  and  the  most  mod- 
ern machinery  is  used  in  farming.  The  brand  is 
nine  half  diamond,  or  an  inverted  six. 

In  addition  to  his  other  property  Mr.  Miner 
owns  a  large  ranch  in  Wyoming,  comprising 
thirty-five  hundred  acres,  under  fence,  on  the 
headwaters  of  the  Box  Elder,  near  Granite  Canon, 
on  the  Union  Pacific  Railroad,  where  he  summers 
his  herd.  This  place  is  only  eighteen  miles  from 
the  other  ranch.  He  also  leases  three  and  one- 
fourth  sections  of  land  near  Park  Station  ranch, 
his  home  farm.  In  September,  1883,  he  removed 
to  Fort  Collins,  and  the  following  year  built  his 
present  substantial  residence.  In  addition  to 
owning  cattle,  he  has  some  fine  Percheron  horses. 
From  the  organization  of  the  Fort  Collins  Elec- 
tric Company  he  was  its  president  and  manager, 
and  is  still  the  principal  stockholder,  his  son  be- 
ing superintendent.  The  plant  owned  by  the 
company  furnishes  light  for  the  city  and  college. 

The  older  son  of  Mr.  Miner  is  Duane  F. ,  who 
was  educated-  in  the  State  Agricultural  College 
and  is  now  superintendent  of  the  electric  com- 
pany; the  younger  son  is  Earl  D.  In  politics 
Mr.  Miner  was  a  Democrat  prior  to  1884,  since 
which  he  has  been  a  Republican,  as  is  also  Mrs. 
Miner.  For  two  years  he  was  a  member  of  the 
city  council,  and  for  the  same  period  mayor  of 
Fort  Collins;  also  served  as  county  commissioner 
for  three  years.  When  away  from  the  state  at 
one  time  he  was  nominated  for  the  state  senate, 
but  not  desiring  the  office  he  did  no  campaign 
work  and  was  defeated,  but  by  only  two  totes. 
He  is  a  member  of  Fort  Collins  Lodge  and  Chap- 
ter in  Masonry.  In  1884  he  was  a  delegate  from 
Colorado  to  the  National  Wool  Growers'  Con- 
vention in  Chicago,  of  which  association  he  was 
a  member  for  many  years.  He  was  also  long 
identified  with  the  State  Wool  Growers'  Asso- 
ciation, which  he  assisted  in  organizing.  Per- 
sonally he  is  genial  and  good-natured,  liberal  to 
all  enterprises  of  a  public-spirited  nature  and 
generoits  in  his  benefactions.  For  a  number  of 
years  he  was  the  president  of  the  Larimer  County 
Fair  Association,  which  held  at  Fort  Collins  the 
best  exhibitions  of  the  kind  ever  held  in  Colorado. 


(TOSEPH    R.    POWELL,    vice-president  and 

I    secretary  of  the  Long's  Peak  Coal  Company, 

(2/  and  a    prominent    citizen    of    Erie,    Weld 

County,  was  born  in  Wilkes-Barre,  Pa.,    Decem- 


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351 


ber  14,  1845,  a  son  of  John  J.  and  Eliza  McG. 
(Risdon)  Powell.  He  was  one  of  six  children, 
of  whom,  besides  himself,  two  daughters  survive, 
namel}':  Caroline,  wife  of  H.  I,.  Krigbaum,  of 
Scranton,  Pa.;  and  Mary  A.,  Mrs.  W.  M.  Darling, 
also  of  Scranton. 

A  native  of  Burlington,  N.  J.,  born  March  17, 
1813,  John  J.  Powell  served  an  apprenticeship  to 
the  brick-layer's  trade  in  Philadelphia  when  he 
was  a  young  man,  and  after  his  marriage,  which 
took  place  in  Mount  Holly,  N.  J.,  he  settled  with 
his  young  wife  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  While  there 
he  erected  the  first  gas  works  built  in  the  city  of 
New  York.  Afterward  he  erected  gas  works  in 
every  seaboard  town  from  Maine  to  Georgia.  At 
the  breaking  out  of  the  war  he  embarked  in  busi- 
ness at  White  Sulphur  Springs,  Va.,  where  he 
arched  a  number  of  tunnels.  On  his  return  to 
Scranton,  Pa.,  to  visit  his  relatives  he  was  obliged 
to  remain  there,  not  being  permitted  to  go  south 
of  the  Mason  and  Dixon  line;  and  his  outfit, 
which  he  had  left  in  Virginia,  was  confiscated. 
It  was  not  long  after  this  that  he  contracted  rheu- 
matism, which  prevented  him  from  re-engaging 
in  active  work.  He  lived  retired  until  his  death 
June  3,  1871.  His  father  was  a  native  of  New 
Jersey  and  a  successful  contractor  and  builder. 

When  the  subject  of  this  sketch  was  about 
fifteen  years  of  age  his  father  lost  all  he  had 
through  confiscation.  The  son,  obliged  to  begin 
in  the  world  for  himself,  secured  employment  as 
a  fireman  on  the  Delaware,  Lackawanna  &  Wes- 
tern Railroad.  At  twenty  years  of  age  he  was 
running  a  passenger  engine  on  the  same  road, 
being  one  of  the  youngest  engineers  on  the 
system.  February  14,  1866,  he  was  united  in 
marriage  with  Miss  Alice  Van  Valkenburg,  a 
native  of  Bradford  County,  Pa. ,  and  the  daughter 
of  Rev.  R.  J.  Van  Valkenburg.  In  1868,  with 
his  wife,  he  came  west,  traveling  by  rail  to  Chey- 
enne, and  thence  going  by  stage  to  Blackhawk, 
where  he  secured  work  as  an  engineer.  Previous 
to  coming  to  this  state  he  had  gone  to  Omaha, 
where  he  was  promised  an  engine,  but  after 
waiting  for  two  weeks  without  securing  work  he 
returned  to  New  York,  and  after  consulting  his 
wife  they  decided  to  come  to  Colorado. 

For  a  time  Mr.  Powell  continued  engineering 
and  mining  on  his  own  responsibility,  but  when 
the  Colorado  Central  Railroad  was  built  into 
Blackhawk  in  1872,  he  made  application  for  and 


was  given  a  freight  engine,  which  he  ran  for  two 
weeks,  and  was  then  given  a  passenger  engine. 
In  1873  he  retired  from  railroading  and  began 
pro.specting,  which  he  continued  until  1882. 
During  the  latter  year  he  came  to  Erie  and  en- 
tered the  employ  of  the  Union  Pacific  Railroad 
and  during  the  five  years  that  followed  he  worked 
for  the  company  at  Erie,  Rock  Springs,  Carbon 
and  Como,  where  he  held  the  position  of  chief 
engineer  of  the  company's  mines.  At  Erie  he 
embarked  in  the  hotel  business  in  1887,  contin- 
uing in  that  business  until  the  summer  of  1 89 1, 
when  he  commenced  to  prospect  for  coal.  In 
partnership  with  William  Nicholson,  in  June, 
1892,  he  leased  his  present  property  and  immedi- 
ately began  to  sink  the  shaft  of  the  Long's  Peak 
Coal  Company,  which  he  has  since  operated  with 
Mr.  Nicholson,  the  latter  being  president,  while 
he  is  vice-president  and  secretary.  In  December 
of  the  same  year,  when  the  United  Coal  Company 
bought  an  interest  in  the  company,  Edward  P. 
Phelps  was  made  treasurer.  The  company  is 
now  sinking  another  shaft  about  one  mile  south 
of  Erie,  which  promises  to  develop  some  of  the 
best  coal  in  this  reigion. 

Fraternally  Mr.  Powell  is  connected  with  Gar- 
field Lodge  No.  50,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  of  Erie,  of 
which  he  is  the  present  master.  He  is  identified 
with  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  of  which 
denomination  in  America  his  maternal  ancestors 
were  among  the  founders.  His  mother  was  a 
cousin  of  Dr.  Adam  Clark,  author  of  Clark's 
Commentaries.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Powell  became  the 
parents  of  four  children,  namely:  Harry  A.,  de- 
ceased; Alice  M.,  wife  of  W.  J.  Breckel,  who  is 
engaged  in  thejewelery  business  at  Steamboat 
Springs,  Colo.;  Emma  R.,  wife  of  C.  M.  Morning 
a  railroad  man,  now  holding  a  position  in  the 
office  of  the  superintendent  of  the  Burlington  & 
Missouri  Railroad  at  McCook,  Neb;  and  Richard 
T.,  deceased. 


HON.  EDWIN  J.  TEMPLE,  secretary  of  the 
board  of  regents  of  the  University  of  Colo- 
rado, is  one  of  the  wealthiest  and  most  in- 
fluential citizens  of  Boulder.  No  one  here  has 
taken  a  more  active  or  interested  part  in  the  pro- 
motion of  local  enterprises  and  institutions,  or 
been  swifter  to  come  to  the  assistance  of  such  with 
material  aid.  Education  of  the  young  is  a  sub- 
ject the  importance  of  which  he  deeply   feels,  as 


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has  been  manifested  by  him  in  many  substantial 
ways.  For  eight  years  he  has  served  as  a  mem- 
ber of  the  school  board  and  for  five  years  has  been 
the  able  president  of  that  honorable  body.  Sub- 
sequent to  the  death  of  Captain  Tyler,  Governor 
Eaton  appointed  Mr.  Temple  to  the  vacated  place 
on  the  regency  board  of  the  university.  In  the 
following  election  he  was  chosen  to  continue  in 
the  office  by  the  Republicans,  and  as  such  re- 
mained for  six  years;  at  the  time  of  the  election 
of  Governor  Waite  he  was  defeated  with  his  whole 
party  by  the  Populist  vote,  which  carried  every- 
thing before  it.  Later,  however,  he  was  ap- 
pointed on  the  board  by  Governor  Mclntire,  and  is 
now  filling  out  his  tenth  year  in  this  responsible 
position.  He  is  an  earnest  champion  of  the  prin- 
ciples of  the  Republican  party  and  has  been  an 
alderman  here  for  about  twelve  years,  much  of 
the  time  being  the  president  pro  tem.  In  this 
period  the  new  water  works  have  been  instituted, 
the  Highland  and  high  schools  have  been  built 
and  many  other  improvements  carried  to  success- 
ful completion. 

The  paternal  grandfather  of  the  subject  of  this 
biography  was  born  in  the  northern  part  of  Ire- 
land, and  was  of  Scotch,  English  and  Irish 
extraction.  He  brought  his  family  to  the  United 
States  at  an  early  day  and  settled  in  Ohio,  where 
he  passed  the  remainder  of  his  life.  James 
Temple,  father  of  our  subject,  was  likewise  a 
native  of  the  Emerald  Isle,  but  was  reared  chiefly 
in  Ohio.  He  married  Rebecca  Temple,  whose 
birth  had  occurred  in  Scotland,  and  who  is  now 
a  resident  of  Boulder.  In  1861  the  family  started 
for  Colorado,  going  by  way  of  St.  Joseph,  up  the 
Platte  River,  and  south  to  Blackhawk.  There 
the  father  engaged  in  milHng  and  mining  opera- 
tions for  a  few  years,  but  in  1866  went  to  New 
Mexico.  There  he  managed  the  famous  Moreno 
ranch,  near  EHzabethtown,  for  two  or  three  years, 
and  about  1869  started  in  the  cattle  business  on 
his  own  account.  His  property,  known  far  and 
near  as  the  Temple  ranch,  is  one  of  the  finest  and 
largest  in  the  territory,  and  for  years  prior  to  his 
death  Mr.  Temple  was  considered  to  be  one  of  the 
most  extensive  cattle  raisers  of  the  locality .  Death 
put  an  end  to  his  career  in  1886,  when  he  was 
but  fifty-six  years  of  age.  Of  his  six  children 
E.  J.  is  the  eldest.  William  O.  is  operating  the 
Temple  ranch  in  New  Mexico;  Joseph  R.  is  liv- 
ing at  Fort  Collins;  John  Charles  is  managing  a 


ranch  in  Routt  County  (near  Hayden)  ;  Harry  R. 
is  superintendent  of  a  mill  at  Ward,  for  the  Utica 
Mining  Company;  and  Frank  L-  is  on  a  ranch  in 
Routt  County. 

Edwin  J.  Temple  was  bom  June  22,  1851,  in 
Youngstown,  Ohio,  and  was  consequently  but 
ten  years  of  age  when  he  came  across  the  plains 
to  this  state.  He  engaged  in  the  milling  busi- 
ness in  Blackhawk  when  a  mere  lad  and  after- 
ward embarked  in  merchandising  while  quite 
young.  He  continued  as  a  member  of  the  firm 
of  Smith  &  Temple  in  Blackhawk  up  to  1879, 
dealing  in  groceries,  grain  and  hay.  The  next 
two  years  he  was  occupied  in  freighting  goods  in 
the  vicinity  of  Leadville,  and  became  more  or  less 
interested  in  mines  thereabouts.  In  1881  he  loca- 
ted in  Boulder,  having  determined  to  make  his 
permanent  home  here,  however  scattered  his  nu- 
merous business  enterprises  might  be.  He  estab- 
lished an  extensive  ranch  near  Haj'den,  Routt 
County,  and  has  always  had  investments  in  prop- 
erty and  cattle  in  New  Mexico.  He  is  vice-presi- 
dent of  the  Pawnee  Cattle  Company,  of  Colorado, 
which  does  a  very  profitable  business  in  buying 
and  selling  cattle.  In  short,  he  is  undoubtedly 
one  of  the  most  extensive  dealers  in  cattle  in  Colo- 
rado and  on  his  ranches  forty-five  hundred 
lambs  were  fed  and  kept  during  the  winter  of 
1897-98.  He  still  operates  with  his  brother  the 
Temple  ranch  in  New  Mexico  and  owns  three 
ranches,  one  of  six  hundred  and  forty  acres,  and 
the  other  two  of  a  quarter-section  each,  in  Larimer 
County,  not  far  from  the  county-seat.  Mr. 
Temple  is  a  member  of  the  executive  committee 
of  the  Colorado  Cattle  Growers'  Association. 

In  addition  to  his  large  operations  in  the  cattle 
line,  Mr.  Temple  is  interested  extensively  in 
mining.  He  is  the  sole  owner  of  the  group  of 
Emancipation  mines  near  Sunshine  (three  differ- 
ent claims)  now  being  worked  by  a  force  of  twent}'- 
five  men,  and  considered  one  of  the  best-paying 
mines  in  the  county.  Mr.  Temple  is  a  director 
in  the  National  State  Bank  of  Boulder,  and  is  a 
director  in  the  Boulder  Electric  Light  Companj'. 
He  helped  to  organize  and  is  now  a  director  in 
the  Boulder  Milling  and  Elevator  Company.  At 
present  he  is  serving  for  a  second  term  as  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Veterinary  Sanitary  Board  of  Colorado, 
and  is  the  president  of  the  same.  He  was  ap- 
pointed first  by  Governor  Mclntire  and  later  by 
Governor    Adams.      Fraternally    he   belongs   to 


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Boulder  Lodge  No.  45,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  Boulder 
Chapter  No.  7,  R.  A.  M.,  Mount  Sinai  Com- 
mandery  No.  7,  K.  T.,  and  El  Jebel  Temple, 
Mystic  Shrine. 

In  1871  Mr.  Temple  married  Miss  Nina  M. 
Smith,  of  Blackhawk.  She  is  a  native  of  Wis- 
consin and  a  daughter  of  Nelson  K.  Smith,  a  pio- 
neer of  this  valley.  The  union  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Temple  was  blessed  with  two  sons,  Elmer  S.  and 
Paul  E.  The  former  received  his  higher  educa- 
tion in  the  university  here  and  the  younger  is  now 
a  student  in  the  preparatory  department,  expect- 
ing to  enter  the  university  later. 


30SEPH  W.  ANDREW.  Three-fourths  of  a 
mile  north  of  the  city  limits  of  Boulder  lies 
the  improved  and  valuable  farm  owned  by 
Mr.  Andrew.  In  1881  he  purchased  one  hundred 
and  twenty  acres,  but  afterward  sold  fifty  acres, 
leaving  his  present  acreage  seventy,  upon  which 
he  has  made  improvements  that  greatly  enhance 
its  value.  The  success  that  has  come  to  him  is 
especially  praiseworthy,  when  the  fact  is  taken 
into  consideration  that  he  began  for  himself  with- 
out capital  and  encountered  hardships  in  attaining 
a  competency. 

A  native  of  Washington  County,  Pa.,  born 
March  9,  1839,  our  subject  was  a  son  of  Ira  and 
Chloe  (Axtell)  Andrew,  and  was  one  of  five 
children,  of  whom,  besides  himself,  a  son  and 
daughter  survive.  The  former,  Samuel,  resides 
in  Kansas,  Edgar  County,  111.  The  latter, 
Lovina,  is  the  widow  of  John  Allender,  of  Wash- 
ington, Washington  County,  Pa.  The  father, 
when  a  youth,  learned  the  trade  of  a  shoemaker, 
which  he  followed  until  1850.  He  then  pur- 
chased a  tract  of  one  hundred  acres  in  Washing- 
ton County,  which  place  had  been  previously 
owned  by  his  father.  From  that  time  until  his 
death  he  followed  general  farm  pursuits.  He  was 
a  son-in-law  of  Luther  Axtell,  a  native  of  New 
Jersey,  but  for  many  years  a  .resident  of  Wash- 
ington County,  Pa.,  where  he  carried  on  a  farm 
until  his  death. 

The  advantages  which  our  subject  had  in  boy- 
hood were  exceedingly  limited.  At  the  age  of 
twenty-one,  in  November,  1861,  he  enlisted  in 
Company  A,  Eighty-fifth  Pennsylvania  Infantry, 
Capt.  H.  J.  Vankirk  commanding.  Among  the 
engagements  in  which  he  bore  a  part  were  the 
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following:  siege  ofYorktown;  Williamsburg,  Va. , 
May  5,  1862;  Savage  Station,  Va.,  May  24, 
1862;  Seven  Pines,  Va.,  May  31,  1862;  Jones 
Fort,  Va.,  June  28,  1862;  Black  Water,  Va., 
October  28,  1862;  Southwest  Creek,  N.  C, 
December  13,  1863;  Kinston,  N.  C,  December 
14,  1863;  Whitehall,  N.  C,  December  16,  1863; 
Goldsborough,  N.  C,  December  17,  1863;  siege 
of  Morris  Island;  siege  of  Forts  Wagner  and 
Greeg;  and  the  expedition  to  White  Marsk  Island, 
Ga.,  February  22,  1864.  Following  the  expedi- 
tion last-named  the  regiment  came  north  and 
joined  Butler's  division,  being  with  him  at  the 
taking  of  City  Point,  Va. ,  and  remaining  with 
him  until  Grant's  army  swung  down  there  en 
route  to  Petersburg.  In  the  battle  of  Malvern 
Hill,  August  17,  1864,  one  hundred  and  four  of 
the  members  of  the  regiment  were  killed  or 
wounded,  and  all  of  the'officers  were  either  killed 
or  missing.  In  this  engagement  our  subject  did 
not  participate,  as  he  was  ill  and  in  the  hospital 
at  the  time.  He  rejoined  the  regiment  Septem- 
ber 23,  1864,  after  having  been  an  inmate  of  the 
hospital  for  two  months,  and  was  then  camped 
at  Fort  Morton,  in  front  of  Petersburg.  October  14, 
1864,  the  regiment  was  sent  to  the  rear  on  account 
of  the  expiration  of  their  service,  and  went  to 
Portsmouth,  Va. ,  where  they  were  in  camp  for  a 
few  days.  October  29  our  subject,  with  a  num- 
ber of  others  detailed  from  two  companies,  went 
on  board  the  vessel  "Northern  Light,"  which 
proceeded  to  Point  Lookout,  Md.,  and  took  on 
board  nine  hundred  rebel  prisoners,  expecting 
to  make  an  exchange  of  prisoners  ac  Atlanta, 
Ga.,  but  while  there.  General  Sherman  arrived 
and  blocked  the  exchange  of  a  number  of  the 
prisoners.  Proceeding  to  Charleston,  S.  C, 
where  they  arrived  December  6,  they  made  the 
exchange  of  the  balance  of  the  prisoners,  and 
then  proceeded  to  Annapolis,  Md. ,  arriving  there 
December  17.  On  their  journey  north  sixty  of 
the  Union  prisoners  died.  From  Annapolis  they 
went  to  Norfolk,  Va.,  and  on  the  19th  started 
for  Baltimore,  arriving  there  on  the  20th.  From 
that  city  they  went  by  rail  to  Pittsburg,  where 
they  were  discharged  two  days  later.  Mr. 
Andrew  arrived  at  his  home  December  24,  1864. 
During  the  two  years  following  he  assisted  in  the 
cultivation  of  the  home  farm. 

February  14,  1867,  Mr.  Andrew  married  Sarah 
Lovina  Day,  of  Washington  County,  Pa.     After- 


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ward  he  removed  to  Edgar  County,  111.,  where 
he  rented  a  farm.  In  187 1  he  came  to  Colorado, 
arriving  in  Denver  with  a  drove  of  horses  the 
latter  part  of  February.  Coming  through  to 
Boulder,  he  purchased  a  farm  of  eighty  acres 
three  miles  east  of  this  city  and  here  he  began 
as  a  farmer  and  stock-raiser.  In  the  spring  of 
1876  he  sold  his  place  and  for  five  years  fanned 
as  a  renter,  after  which,  in  1881,  he  bought  one 
hundred  and  twenty  acres,  seventy  acres  of  which 
comprises  his  present  farm.  Fraternally  he  is 
a  member  of  Centennial  State  Lodge  No.  8, 
A.  O.  U.  W.,  and  Nathaniel  Lyon  Post  No. 
5,  G.  A.  R.  He  and  his  wife  became  the 
parents  of  nine  children,  but  have  been  bereaved 
by  the  loss  of  six,  only  three  now  living.  Hilliard 
S.,  who  was  a  student  in  the  State  University 
for  two  years,  is  engaged  in  mining  in  Eldora; 
Henry  C,  a  graduate  of  the  State  University, 
is  now  studying  law;. and  Ida  M.is  a  student  in 
the  Boulder  high  school.  The  family  are  active 
in  the  work  of  the  Presbyterian  Church.  In 
politics  he  is  a   member  of  the  People's  party. 


HERMAN  S.  YOUTSEY,  county  treasurer 
of  Larimer  County,  was  born  near  Sey- 
mour, Jackson  County,  Ind.,  December  31, 
1842,  a  son  of  Peter  and  Mary  (Hay.s)  Youtsey. 
His  father,  who  was  born  near  Circleville,  Ohio, 
was  a  son  of  Peter  Youtsey,  a  native  of  Pennsyl- 
vania, of  German  descent,  and  a  pioneer  of  Ohio, 
later  of  Missouri,  where  he  died.  Purchasing  an 
unimproved  tract  of  land  in  Jackson  County,  Peter 
Youtsey,  Jr. ,  engaged  in  its  cultivation  until  1852, 
when  he  removed  to  Iowa  and  settled  near  Chari- 
ton, Lucas  County,  where  he  engaged  in  farm 
pursuits  until  his  death.  In  the  latter  part  of  his 
life  he  spent  some  time  in  Colorado,  but  had  no 
thought  of  permanently  locating  here,  as  his  in- 
terests were  elsewhere.  In  religion  he  was  a  con- 
sistent member  of  the  Christian  Church.  His 
death  occurred  in  1888,  when  he  was  eighty-one 
years  of  age. 

The  mother  of  our  subject  was  born  near  old 
Fort  Bologna,  on  Driftwood  Fork  of  the  White 
River,  in  Indiana.  Her  father,  a  native  of  Ken- 
tucky, served  in  the  war  of  18 12  and  was  killed 
in  an  Indian  fight  that  took  place  near  Fort 
Bologna  in  18 13.  His  father,  who  probably  came 
from  Virginia,  was  killed  by  Indiansln  Kentucky. 


Mrs.  Mary  Youtsey  was  reared  on  the  frontier 
and  had  few  advantages,  but  was  a  well-informed 
woman  nevertheless.  She  died  in  Kansas  in 
1886,  near  Great  Bend,  when  almost  eighty  years 
of  age.  In  her  family  there  were  eight  children, 
namely:  Malinda  C,  Mrs.  Stout,  who  died  in 
Iowa;  Mehssa,  Mrs.  Scott,  of  Kansas;  Cordelia, 
Mrs.  Goltry,  of  Russell,  Iowa;  Columbus,  who 
died  in  Carthage,  Mo.,  in  1896;  Farilla,  Mrs. 
McGill,  of  Great  Bend,  Kan.;  John  J.,  of  Love- 
land,  Colo.,  a  retired  physician;  Herman  S.;  and 
Sarah,  who  died  in  Iowa  when  a  young  lady. 

When  about  ten  years  of  age  the  subject  of  this 
sketch  was  taken  by  his  parents  to  Iowa,  travel- 
ing through  Illinois  in  a  "prairie  schooner,"  and 
crossing  the  Illinois  River  at  Peoria  and  the  Mis- 
sissippi at  Burlington.  He  was  reared  on  a  farm 
at  Chariton.  His  education,  primarily  acquired 
in  public  schools,  was  supplemented  by  an  attend- 
ance of  almost  three  years  at  Oskaloosa  College. 
During  the  vacation  months  he  engaged  in  teach- 
ing. Upon  leaving  college  he  embarked  in  the 
mercantile  business,  continuing  thus  engaged 
until  1 87 1,  when  he  came  to  Colorado  and 
secured  a  position  as  teacher  in  the  Boulder 
school.  His  brother,  John  J.,  had  come  to  Colo- 
rado in  1864,  and  he  was  induced  to  come  hither 
through  favorable  reports  of  the  country.  In 
1877,  after  having  taught  for  a  time  and  engaged 
as  deputy  assessor  of  Boulder  County  for  two 
years,  he  removed  to  the  Big  Thompson  Valley, 
where  he  proved  up  a  homestead,  to  which  he 
added  until  he  became  the  owner  of  two  hundred 
and  forty  acres,  devoted  to  general  farming.  In 
1895  he  sold  this  place,  and  has  since  given  his 
attention  entirely  to  ofiicial  duties. 

In  1 88 1,  on  the  Greenback  ticket,  Mr.  Youtsey 
was  elected  county  assessor  and  two  years  later 
he  was  re-elected,  serving  from  January,  1882,  to 
January,  1886,  two  terms,  with  office  in  the  old 
courthouse.  He  was  then  continued  as  deputj^ 
assessor  until  January,  1892,  and  meantime,  in 
1888,  took  possession  of  the  assessor's  office  in 
the  new  courthouse.  In  1892  he  was  appointed 
deputy  county  treasurer,  which  he  held  under 
F.  P.  Stover  and  J.  L.  Thomas,  two  terms.  In 
1897,  on  the  People's  party  ticket,  he  was  elected 
by  a  good  majority,  being  the  only  successful 
candidate  on  that  ticket.  He  took  the  oath  of 
office  January  i,  1898,  for  two  years.  He  has 
been  connected  with  Larimer  County  offices  for  a 


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longer  period  than  any  other  officer.  His  record 
is  an  excellent  one,  showing  that  he  is  faithful  to 
every  duty  and  energetic  in  his  work.  He  is  a 
firm  believer  in  silver  money  and  thinks  that 
those  who  champion  the  cause  of  silver  should 
unite,  sinking  other  difierences  regarding  tariff, 
etc.,  and  making  the  money  question  the  sole 
issue. 

In  November,  1875,  in  Boulder,  Mr.  Youtsey 
married  Miss  Alice  Stephens,  who  was  born  in 
Ohio,  and  in  1870  accompanied  her  father, 
Robert  Stephens,  to  Colorado,  joining  the  Union 
colony  at  Greeley,  but  removing  in  1874  to 
Boulder  County  and  settling  upon  a  farm  near 
Longmont.  The  two  children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Youtsey  are  Floyd  S.  and  Otho  E.,  nineteen  and 
ten  years  of  age  respectively.  The  older  son  was 
in  the  draughting  department  of  the  Cambria 
Iron  Works  for  two  years,  and  is  now  a  student 
in  the  State  Agricultural  College. 


gEORGE  A.  ANDREWS  is  one  of  the  hon- 
ored citizens  of  Boulder,  of  which  place  he 
was  one  of  the  pioneers,  as  he  came  here 
during  the  Civil  war.  He  has  been  a  witness  of 
great  changes  in  the  more  than  thirty-five  years 
that  have  elapsed  since  his  arrival  here,  and  has 
done  not  a  little  toward  the  development  of  this 
town.  He  has  himself  put  up  buildings  here  on 
land  where  he  has  seen  deer  and  other  wild  game 
roaming,  and  when  it  was  proposed  to  locate  the 
state  university  here,  he  was  one  of  the  most  in- 
fluential in  securing  the  institution,  and  donated 
twenty  acres  of  land  for  the  purpose.  All  public 
improvements  have  always  been  warmly  advo- 
cated by  him,  and  his  ballot  is  sure  to  be  cast-on 
the  side  of  progress. 

A  son  of  Asa  and  Ruth  (Kendrick)  Andrews, 
our  subject  was  born  in  Saco,  Me.,  June  6,  1832, 
being  one  of  their  ten  children.  Albert  served 
during  the  Civil  war  in  the  Union  army.  John 
William,  another  son,  served  in  the  United  States 
navy  in  the  conflict  between  the  North  and  South. 
The  Andrews  family  is  of  Scotch-English  extrac- 
tion. Asa  Andrews  was  a  native  of  Maine,  and 
was  occupied  in  conducting  a  merchant  tailoring 
establishment  in  the  town  of  Saco  up  to  1835, 
when  he  retired  and  spent  his  last  years  upon  his 
farm  in  that  vicinity.  He  died  in  1843,  when  but 
fifty-five  years  of  age.'  His  wife,  likewise  a  native 


of  Maine,  lived  to  be  eighty-four  years  of  age, 
her  death  occurring  in  1878.  Her  father.  Captain 
Kendrick,  was  master  of  his  own  vessel,  which 
was  engaged  in  the  coasting  trade  in  Atlantic 
waters,  and  her  mother  was  a  Miss  Warren,  of 
Massachusetts  Quaker  stock.  She  lived  to  be 
eighty-seven  years  old.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Andrews 
were  identified  with  the  Presbyterian  Church 
and  were  exemplary  Christians,  beloved  by  all 
who  knew  them. 

George  Andrews  was  reared  in  his  native  town, 
and  received  his  education  in  the  higher  branches 
of  learning  in  the  Saco  Academy.  When  in  his 
eighteenth  year  he  went  to  Lawrence,  Mass., 
where  he  served  a  two-years'  apprenticeship  to 
the  carpenter's  trade.  Then  he  worked  at  his 
calling  in  New  York  City  up  to  1853,  and  for  the 
following  four  years  engaged  in  contracting  in 
Massachusetts.  In  1857  he  turned  his  face  west- 
ward, and  was  a  resident  of  Galva,  111.,  for  the 
next  six  years.  May  i,  1863,  he  started  for 
Colorado,  reaching  here  after  a  journey  of  about 
two  months.  Coming  across  the  plains  he  drove 
two  yoke  of  oxen  and  two  yoke  of  cows,  and  took 
the  route  up  the  Platte  River,  by  way  of  Platts- 
mouth.  Neb.  July  2,  1863,  he  arrived  in  Boulder 
County,  having  made  good  time  in  his  long  trip. 
With  Charles  Hamblin  he  located  on  a  ranch  ad- 
joining the  present  town  on  the  southeast,  and 
improved  the  property.  The  succeeding  year 
they  divided  the  land,  Mr.  Andrews  becoming 
the  owner  of  one  hundred  and  twenty  acres.  He 
continued  to  cultivate  this  place  and  live  thereon 
until  1869,  when  he  changed  his  place  of  residence 
to  the  town.  He  rented  his  farm  up  to  1874  and 
then  sold  the  place.  The  first  flour- mill  put  up 
in  Boulder  was  the  Sternberg  mill,  built  in  1872 
on  his  land.  In  1869  he  established  a  general 
merchandise  store  here,  but  sold  out  two  years 
later.  He  built  and  still  owns  a  store  at  the  cor- 
ner of  Pearl  and  Thirteenth  streets,  and  erected 
his  comfortable  house  at  Walnut  and  Nineteenth 
streets.  In  his  numerous  business  ventures  he 
has  been  quite  successful,  as  he  has  exercised 
good  judgment  and  forethought  and  has  been  fair 
and  just  in  all  his  dealings.  He  possesses  the 
respect  of  a  large  circle  of  acquaintances  and 
friends,  and  justly  deserves  their  esteem. 

April  13,  1857,  Mr.  Andrews  married  Miss 
Mary  A.  Ellsworth,  of  Massachusetts.  Her 
father,   James  Ellsworth,  was  an  officer  in  the 


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United  States  navy,  before  and  during  the  Civil 
war.  Of  the  four  children  born  to  our  subject 
and  wife  two  are  living,  and  all  were  educated  in 
the  University  of  Colorado.  Charles  died  when 
in  his  thirty-third  year.  Mina  is  Mrs.  Maulford 
Whiteley,  of  Boulder;  Susie  May  married  Victor 
Gothe,  of  Denver,  and  died  September  15,  1898; 
Frances  R.  is  at  home  with  her  parents. 

Mr.  Andrews  was  initiated  into  the  Masonic 
order  when  he  was  a  resident  of  Galva,  111.,  and 
is  now  a  demitted  member.  He  belonged  to  the 
Odd  Fellows'  society  when  he  was  a  young  man, 
in  Massachusetts.  He  is  connected  with  the 
Boulder  Building  and  Loan  Association.  Since 
the  days  of  Fremont  he  has  been  an  ardent  Re- 
publican. 

[5JEORGE  F.  FONDA,  one  of  the  most  enter- 
|_  prising  and  successful  of  Boulder's  business 
V_J  men,  is  vice-president  of  the  First  National 
Bank  of  this  place  and  is  financially  interested  in 
many  local  concerns  and  industries  which  are  of 
benefit  to  this  community.  He  has  been  a  res- 
ident of  BQulder  for  nearly  a  quarter  of  a  cen- 
tury, or  his  entire  adult  life,  and  his  own  career 
has  been  closely  associated  with  the  upbuilding 
and  development  of  the  town. 

The  Fonda  family  is  of  Holland-Dutch  extrac- 
tion. The  founder  of  the  American  branch  in 
this  country  settled  here  in  1654,  and  represent- 
atives of  the  family  have  been  prominently 
connected  with  every  war  in  which  our  govern- 
ment has  since  figured,  except  war  with  Spain. 
The  name  is  found  in  the  history  of  the  war  of 
the  Revolution,  the  war  of  1812,  the  Mexican 
war  and  the  Civil  war.  Gen.  John  G.  Fonda, 
after  serving  in  the  war  with  Mexico,  became  a 
general  in  the  war  of  the  Rebellion;  he  was  a 
civil  engineer  by  occupation. 

The  parents  of  our  subject  are  Henry  D.  and 
Catherine  (Farrell)  Fonda,  who  were  natives  of 
the  Mohawk  Valley,  N.  Y.,  and  of  Pennsylvania, 
respectively.  The  father  was  a  civil  engineer, 
and  for  years  in  the  early  days  of  the  New  York 
Central  &  Hudson  River  Railroad  he  was  em- 
ployed in  that  capacity  by  the  company.  Later 
he  removed  to  Illinois,  and  settled  on  a  farm  in 
Hancock  County,  near  the  town  of  Augusta. 
He  was  count3'  surveyor  there  for  five  terms  and 
helped  drive  the  Mormons  out  of  Hancock 
County   when   they   became  obnoxious    to    the 


citizens.  In  1874  Mr.  Fonda  came  to  Colorado, 
and  taking  up  his  abode  in  Boulder,  practiced 
civil  engineering  and  mineral  surveying  up  to  the 
time  of  his  death,  at  sixty-nine  years  of  age. 
He  was  married  in  Peoria,  111.,  and  his  widow  is 
now  a  resident  of  Denver.  Of  their  ten  children, 
all  but  one  is  living. 

G.  F.  Fonda  was  born  in  Augusta,  111.,  and 
passed  the  first  thirteen  years  of  his  life  in  that 
state.  In  1874  he  came  to  Boulder,  where  his 
brother,  Ghiles  H.,  was  in  the  drug  business,  his 
store  being  situated  on  the  land  now  owned  by 
our  subject,  and  on  which  he  has  since  built  a 
substantial  two-story  and  basement  building, 
modern,  heated  by  steam  and  lighted  by  elec- 
tricity. Soon  after  his  arrival  here  he  began  to 
work  for  his  brother  in  the  drug  store,  with  a 
view  to  learning  the  business.  He  received 
$10  a  month  at  first  and  gradually  a  larger 
salary.  He  was  ambitious  and  enterprising,  and 
when  his  brother  determined  to  remove  to  Lead- 
ville  in  1878,  the  youth,  then  but  seventeen  years 
old,  bought  the  business  on  time.  He  studied 
pharmacy  and  by  wisdom  and  judgment  beyond 
his  years  gained  the  respect  and  confidence  of  the 
citizens  and  built  up  a  lucrative  trade.  He  now 
deals  in  wholesale  drugs,  his  patrons  being 
located  in  small  towns  of  this  county  and  ad- 
joining territory,  and  it  is  safe  to  say  that  he 
controls  the  largest  trade  in  northern  Colorado. 
He  also  keeps  a  fine  line  of  wall-paper,  paints, 
oils,  etc.  For  a  time  he  was  interested  in  the 
manufacture  of  soda-water  and  was  a  dealer  in 
mineral  waters,  but  his  brother  is  now  managing 
that  business.  For  some  years  our  subject  has 
been  vice-president  and  a  director  of  the  Boulder 
Milling  and  Elevator  Company. 

Politically  Mr.  Fonda  is  a  Democrat,  and  was 
elected  alderman  from  the  first  ward,  but  resigned 
before  the  completion  of  his  term.  He  is  past 
master  of  Columbia  Lodge  No.  14,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.; 
belongs  to  Boulder  Chapter  No.  7,  R.  A.  M.  (of 
which  he  is  past  high  priest) ;  Mount  Sinai  Com- 
mandery  No.  7,  K.  T.,  and  El  Jebel  Temple, 
Mystic  Shrine.  He  also  is  a  member  of  the 
Uniform  Rank  of  the  Knights  of  Pythias  and 
the  Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen.  In  the 
Colorado  Pharmaceutical  Association  he  has  been 
vice-president. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Fonda  and  Miss  Marj'  E. 
Jones  was  solemnized  in  Boulder  November  26, 


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1879.  Mrs.  Fonda  is  a  native  of  Michigan,  and 
is  a  daughter  of  David  Jones,  one  of  the  early 
settlers  of  Nederland,  Boulder  County.  She  re- 
ceived her  higher  education  in  the  University  of 
Colorado.  To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Fonda  two  daugh- 
ters were  born,  Elizabeth  and  Catherine. 


EORNELIUS  H.  BOND,  sheriff  of  Larimer 
County,  was  born  in  Guernsey  County, 
Ohio,  across  the  river  from  Wheeling, 
W.  Va.,  October  9,  1855,  a  son  of  Joshua  H.  and 
Susan  (Huffman)  Bond.  His  father,  who  was 
born  near  Baltimore,  was  a  son  of  Joshua  Bond, 
Sr.,  also  a  native  of  Maryland,  and  a  pioneer 
farmer  of  Ohio.  Two  of  his  brothers  were  sol- 
diers in  the  war  of  1812.  The  family  is  of  Eng- 
lish descent,  but  has  been  identified  with  Amer- 
can  history  since  an  early  period  in  the  settlement 
of  Maryland. 

From  Guernsey  County,  where  he  engaged  in 
farming,  Joshua  H.  Bond  removed  to  Harrison 
County,  Ohio,  where  he  still  resides,  being  now 
seventy-one  years  of  age.  His  wife,  who  was 
born  in  Virginia,  died  in  Ohio  in  1880,  when 
forty-nine  years  of  age.  She  was  a  daughter  of 
John  Huffman,  a  circuit  rider  in  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church  and  a  pioneer  missionary,  who 
traveled  on  horseback  with  saddlebags  from  town 
to  town  and  accomplished  much  good  among  the 
frontiersmen.  He  and  his  wife  died  within  fif- 
teen hours  of  each  other  and  were  buried  in  the 
same  grave. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  the  oldest  of 
seven  children  who  attained  years  of  maturity. 
Of  these  three  sons  and  three  daughters  are  now 
living.  He  was  educated  in  public  schools  and 
an  academy,  and  at  the  age  of  twenty  began  to 
teach,  in  which  work  he  was  engaged  for  four 
years,  being  principal  of  a  school  for  one  year. 
March  7,  1879,  he  started  for  Colorado,  and  on 
reaching  this  state  located  in  Loveland,  where  he 
secured  employment  on  a  ranch.  Later  he 
clerked  in  a  store.  In  1885,  with  a  partner,  he 
started  in  the  grocery  business  in  Loveland, 
but  after  two  years  closed  out  the  business  and 
resumed  work  as  a  clerk.  For  two  3' ears  he  was 
with  Mr.  Seaman  in  the  general  merchandise 
business  as  a  partner,  but  then  sold  his  interest 
and  again  embarked  in  the  grocery  business.  On 
retiring  from  that  business  he  represented  the 
Deering  Harvester  Company. 


On  the  Republican  ticket,  in  1895,  Mr.  Bond 
was  elected  sheriff  of  Larimer  County.  Two 
years  later  he  was  re  elected  as  the  nominee  of 
the  silver  Republicans,  endorsed  by  the  Demo- 
crats. He  received  a  plurality  of  twelve  hun- 
dred and  thirty-four,  which  was  the  largest  re- 
ceived by  any  of  the  candidates  elected  at  that 
time.  He  held  the  office  from  January,  1896,  to 
January,  1898,  and  his  present  term  extends  from 
January,  1898,  to  January,  1900.  Whilein  Love- 
land  he  was  alderman  for  several  terms.  Frater- 
nally he  is  connected  with  the  Knights  of 
Pythias,  U.  R.,  in  Fort  Collins,  the  Woodmen  of 
the  World  in  Loveland,  the  Eastern  Star,  and  was 
made  a  Mason  in  Loveland  Lodge  No.  53, 
A.  F.  &  A.  M. 

In  Loveland,  in  1888,  Mr.  Bond  married  Miss 
Frona  Sullivan,  who  was  born  in  Iowa  and  died 
February  20,  1895,  leaving  a  daughter,  Doris. 
The  second  marriage  of  Mr.  Bond  united  him 
with  Miss  Alma  Sanborn,  who  was  born  in 
Guernsey  County,  Ohio,  a  daughter  of  George 
W.  Sanborn,  of  Vermont.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bond 
are  the  parents  of  two  children,  twins,  Frank 
and  Florence. 


fDQALTERA.  CHAMBERLAIN  is  one  of  the 
\  A  /  most  popular  and  enterprising  young  men 
Y  V  of  Boulder.  He  was  born  near  Council 
Bluffs,  Iowa,  September  23,  1859,  and  is  the  son  of 
William  G.  and  Frances  Rogers  (Allen)  Cham- 
berlain. His  father,  whose  history  is  given 
among  the  representative  citizens  of  Denver,  was 
for  many  years  a  resident  of  Peru,  South  America, 
where  he  was  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of 
silk,  and  after  returning  to  the  states  located  in 
Colorado  and  established  a  large  photograph 
gallery,  and  gave  to  the  public  the  first  views  of 
Colorado  scenery.  He  married  Frances  Rogers 
Allen,  an  Eughsh  lady,  living  with  her  parents 
in  Lima,  Peru,  and  at  present  both  reside  in 
Denver.  Six  children  were  born  to  them,  of 
whom  four  are  living,  two  sons  and  two  daughters. 
The  youngest  of  the  family,  our  subject,  was 
reared  in  Denver,  and  educated  in  the  public  and 
high  schools  until  he  reached  his  sixteenth  year, 
when  he  entered  his  father's  store  on  Larimer 
and  Fifteenth  streets  and  learned  the  business 
under  him.  He  afterwards  accepted  a  position 
with  W.  H.  Jackson,  in  the  same  business,  and 
remained  with    him    eleven    years.     He    there 


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finished  some  of  the  finest  mountain  sceneries 
ever  printed.  He  was  the  first  man  in  the  west 
to  make  prints,  and  is  credited  with  making  the 
first  and  largest  section,  or  panoramic  pictures. 
In  1892  he  resigned  this  position  to  take  charge 
of  the  Chamberlain  sampling  works  in  Boulder. 
W.  J.  Chamberlain  &  Co.  have  branch  works 
in  Georgetown,  Blackhawk  and  Denver,  be- 
sides the  one  in  Boulder.  This  is  a  steam  plant, 
with  a  capacity  of  thirty  tons  and  is  the  oldest  of 
the  kind  in  Boulder.  The  company  do  crush- 
ing and  assaying,  and  purchase  a  large  quantity 
of  ore  outright. 

He  was  married  in  Denver  to  Miss  Jennie 
Herrick,  daughter  of  Samuel  E.  Herrick,  a  na- 
tive of  Indiana.  Their  union  has  been  blessed 
with  three  children:  Estes  H.,  Hyla  K.  and 
Helena  F.  He  is  one  of  the  officers  of  Columbia 
Lodge  No.  14,  A.  F.  &  A.  M. ;  a  past  officer  in 
the  Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen,  the 
Woodmen  of  the  World  and  the  Knights  of  the 
Maccabees.  He  is  treasurer  in  the  Fraternal  Aid 
and  Woodman  Circle,  and  holds  the  same  office  in 
the  Select  Knights  of  the  Ancient  Order  of  United 
Workmen.  He  was  a  member  of  the  old  gov- 
ernment guards,  state  milita  for  three  years,  and 
joined  the  Archer  Hose  Company  of  Denver  as  a 
torch  boy.  He  is  now  a  member  of  the  Boulder 
Hose  Company  and  is  serving  the  third  term  as 
foreman.  He  is  a  Republican,  but  is  not  an 
active  politician. 


HNIVERSITY  OF  COLORADO.  Adjoining 
the  city  of  Boulder  and  overlooking  it  from 
the  high  ground  on  the  south  side  of  Boulder 
Creek  stand  the  buildings  that  comprise  the  Uni- 
versity of  Colorado.  The  scenery  is  incompa- 
rable. To  the  west  may  be  seen  the  highest  foot- 
hills of  the  Rocky  Mountains,  and  far  in  the  dis- 
tance gleam  the  snow-capped  heights  of  Arapahoe 
Peak.  As  the  eye  turns  to  the  south,  there  may 
be  seen  the  beautiful  mesas;  while  the  entire  ex- 
panse to  the  north  shows  fertile  plains,  where  the 
summer  sun  falls  on  green  fields  and  tiny  lakes. 

The  history  of  the  University  of  Colorado  dates 
back  to  1 86 1,  when  the  legislature  enacted  its 
establishment  at  Boulder.  Nothing,  however, 
was  done  toward  opening  the  institution  for  some 
years.  In  1871  fifty- two  acres  of  land,  valued  at 
f5,ooo,  were  given  for  university  grounds,  and 


three  years  later  the  legislature  of  the  then  terri- 
tory appropriated  $1 5,000,  which  sum  was  doubled 
by  the  citizens  of  Boulder.  In  1875  congress  set 
apart  seventy-two  sections  of  land  for  the  support 
of  the  university.  The  next  year  the  territory 
became  a  state,  and  the  constitution  provided  that 
the  university  should  become  a  state  institution, 
and  thus  be  entitled  to  the  lands  appropriated  by 
congress.  The  first  general  assembly  of  the  state 
made  provision  for  its  permanent  support  by  levy- 
ing a  tax  of  one-fifth  of  a  mill  upon  the  property 
of  the  state;  also,  for  a  fund  to  be  secured  by  the 
sale  of  land  granted  by  the  United  States. 

In  September,  1877,  the  university  opened  for 
the  reception  of  students.  There  were  two  in- 
structors and  forty-four  pupils.  In  1878  the  gen- 
eral assembly  appropriated  $7,000  for  apparatus, 
furniture,  etc.  Five  years  later  a  special  fund 
was  created  by  a  tax  of  one-fifth  of  a  mill  for  1883 
and  1884,  which  yielded  $40,000,  and  was  expend- 
ed for  apparatus,  additional  buildings,  etc.  The 
university  is  maintained  by  a  tax  levy  of  one-fifth 
of  a  mill  on  the  assessed  valuation  of  the  property 
of  the  state.  In  1891  a  special  appropriation  of 
$30,000  was  made,  which  was  used  toward  the 
erection  of  the  Hale  Scientific  Building,  a  beauti- 
ful structure  of  modern  style  of  architecture.  Be- 
ginning with  the  general  assembly  of  1893,  a 
large  special  appropriation  in  addition  to  the  one- 
fifth  mill  has  been  made  for  each  biennial  period. 

From  time  to  time  different  departments  have 
been  added  to  the  university,  until  it  now  com- 
prises the  following:  College  of  Liberal  Arts, 
Graduate  Courses,  Colorado  School  of  Applied 
Science,  Colorado  School  of  Medicine,  Colorado 
School  of  Law  and  Colorado  State  Preparatory 
School.  In  the  College  of  Liberal  Arts  four 
bachelor  degrees  are  conferred,  A.  B.,  Ph.  B., 
B.  L-  and  B.  S.  These  courses  have  in  common 
certain  basic  studies,  but  are  differentiated  by 
characteristic  studies  for  each  degree.  Group 
election  has  recently  become  an  important  feature 
of  the  curriculum.  The  graduate  degrees  are: 
M.  A.,  M.  S.  and  Ph.  D. 

The  School  of  Law  was  opened  in  September, 
1892,  and  is  conducted  upon  the  most  advanced 
methods  of  legal  instruction.  Special  attention  is 
given  to  mining  and  irrigation  law,  in  which  a 
Colorado  attorney  needs  to  be  well  grounded;  as 
well  as  in  the  broader  realm  of  national  and  inter- 
national law.     The  student  is  grounded  in  the 


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principles  of  English  and  American  law,  while 
unusual  phases  of  the  law  are  presented  in  lectures 
by  the  most  distinguished  jurists  of  the  Rocky 
Mountain  region. 

The  School  of  Applied  Science  was  established 
in  1893.  Its  advantages  are  apparent  to  all  who 
are  familiar  with  the  requirements  of  a  high  citi- 
zenship in  Colorado.  The  requirements  for  ad- 
mission are  the  same  as  in  the  College  of  Liberal 
Arts.  The  principle  is  carried  into  practice  here 
that  thorough  training  on  theory,  followed  by  the 
application  of  theory  to  practice,  is  the  only  ra- 
tional preparation  for  engineering. 

The  School  of  Medicine  was  the  first  profes- 
sional department  established  in  the  university. 
Since  the  reorganization  of  the  school  in  1892,  its 
growth  has  been  rapid.  A  hospital  has  been  erec- 
ted near  the  university  grounds.  The  school  has 
a  large  corps  of  professors,  lecturers  and  assist- 
ants. The  medical  course  extends  over  four 
years,  of  nine  months  each.  A  very  high  stand- 
ard of  training  is  maintained  in  the  school. 

The  State  Preparatory  School,  conducted  by 
the  university,  has  for  its  object  the  attainment 
of  a  high  standard  of  college  preparatory  educa- 
tion. This  school  occupies  a  substantial  building 
in  the  center  of  Boulder,  and  is  furnished  with 
laboratories,  library  and   other   facilities. 

The  School  of  Music,  technically,  is  not  a  de- 
partment of  the  university,  but  was  organized  to 
promote  musical  culture  throughout  the  state. 

It  is  the  pride  of  the  Colorado  people  that  no- 
where in  the  United  States  can  a  classical  educa- 
tion be  secured  at  less  cost  than  in  the  State  Uni- 
versity. The  tuition  is  as  free  as  the  Colorado 
sunshine  and  pure  air.  Here  the  young  men  and 
women  of  the  state  may  obtain  an  education  equal 
to  that  to  be  obtained  in  the  best  universities  of 
the  land.  That  the  people  appreciate  the  advan- 
tages offered  is  shown  by  the  enrollment,  includ- 
ing the  Preparatory  School,  of  more  than  seven 
hundred  students. 

There  are  now  twelve  university  buildings  on 
the  campus.  The  Medical,  Chemical,  Engineering 
buildings  and  the  gymnasium  were  dedicated  in 
1898,  three  years  after  the  dedication  of  the  Hale 
Scientific  building.  The  engineering  building, 
as  thus  completed,  contains  twelve  rooms,  besides 
well-eqiiipped  shops,  and  is  a  model  of  its  kind. 
The  gymnasium,  which  is  80x40,  adjoins  the  ath- 
letic field,  and  its  entire  space  is  thrown  into  one 


hall,  provided  with  a  platform  at  one  end  and  a 
gallery  at  the  other. 

Having  existed  as  a  university  for  twenty- one 
years,  the  Colorado  State  University  may  now  be 
said  to  have  attained  its  majority,  and  what  it 
has  already  accomplished  may  be  taken  as  an 
index  of  what  it  will  accomplish  in  the  future. 
Its  work  has  been  definite  and  far  reaching.  It 
has  awakened  in  young  men  and  women  a  desire 
for  knowledge  and  an  ambition  to  broaden  their 
mental  horizons.  It  has  developed  their  mind, 
enlarged  their  aspirations  and  uplifted  their 
thoughts.  What  it  has  done  in  the  past  it  will 
do  in  a  larger  measure  in  the  future.  In  the  en- 
lightened citizenship  of  the  state,  in  the  refine- 
ment of  its  daughters  and  the  statesmanship  of  its 
sons,  the  good  accomplished  by  the  university 
will  live  through  countless  years  to  come. 


3 AMES  H.  BAKER,  A.  M.,LL.  D.,  presi- 
dent of  the  University  of  Colorado,  was 
born  in  Harmony,  Me.,  October  13,  1848,  a 
son  of  Wesley  and  Lucy  (Hutchins)  Baker, 
natives  of  Harmony  and  New  Portland,  Me., 
respectively.  His  grandfather,  Lemuel,  was  a 
son  of  Joseph  Baker,  a  native  of  Massachusetts. 
Agriculture  has  been  the  principal  occupation  of 
the  family  and  longevity  noticeable  among  its 
members.  James  Hutchins,  the  father  of  Mrs. 
Lucy  Baker,  was  a  member  of  the  Maine  legis- 
lature. Josiah  Parker,  her  grandfather,  was  a 
member  of  General  Washington's  bodyguard. 

In  1869  the  subject  of  this  sketch  entered  Bates 
College  at  Lewiston,  Me.,  from  which  he  gradu- 
ated in  1873,  and  afterward  he  was  employed  as 
principal  of  the  Yarmouth  (Me.)  high  school. 
Resigning  that  position  in  1875,  he  came  west  to 
take  charge  of  the  Denver  high  school.  His 
influence  in  that  city  was  felt  from  the  first.  He 
kept  abreast  with  the  most  advanced  educational 
methods  of  the  times  and  was  quick  to  adopt  their 
most  desirable  features,  applying  them,  with  such 
modifications  as  he  thought  best,  in  his  own  field 
of  labor.  During  the  seventeen  years  of  his 
service  in  Denver,  the  attendance  increased  from 
fifty  pupils  to  seven  hundred  and  one  of  the  finest 
high  school  buildings  in  the  country  was  erected. 

While  at  the  head  of  the  Denver  high  school, 
Mr.  Baker  took  an  active  part  in  the  educational 
work  of  the  state.     He  became  active  in  the  work 


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of  the  State  Teachers'  Association,  and  in  1880 
served  as  its  president,  while  five  years  later  he 
was  made  president  of  the  high  school  and  college 
section.  In  1886  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the 
National  Council  of  Education,  and  in  1890  he 
served  as  its  chairman  on  the  relation  of  high 
schools  to  colleges.  In  1891  he  was  elected  as 
president  of  the  highest  educational  council  in  the 
United  States. 

In  January,  1892,  Mr.  Baker  accepted  the 
presidency  of  the  State  University  of  Colorado. 
His  influence  has  been  wonderfully  apparent  in 
the  increased  usefulness  of  the  university  and  its 
enlarged  attendance.  Under  his  leadership,  the 
school  has  attained  an  enviable  reputation  abroad 
and  in  every  town  of  the  state,  and  the  university 
has  become  the  pride  of  every  educator  in  the 
state  as  well  as  of  every  citizen  in  Boulder.  Al- 
though the  growth  in  the  number  of  students  has 
been  remarkably  rapid,  the  standards  and  effici- 
ency of  the  various  departments  at  the  same  time 
have  been  constantly  improved.  That  the  char- 
acter of  the  work  done  in  the  University  of  Colo- 
rado is  widely  recognized  appears  in  many  Vays, 
but  in  none  more  notably  than  in  an  editorial 
recently  published  in  Minerva,  the  German  year- 
book of  the  educational  world.  This  ranks  the 
University  of  Colorado  amongst  the  first  eleven 
American  universities  and  the  first  five  state 
universities.  This  estimate  is  based  upon  fac- 
ulties, facilities,  standards  and  character  of 
graduate  work. 

In  1883  President  Baker  was  the  orator  of  the 
day  before  the  Alumni  Association  of  his  alma 
mater,  and  that  institution  in  1892  conferred 
upon  him  the  degree  of  1,1,.  D.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  committee  of  ten  that  made  the 
famous  report  on  secondary  education  in  the 
United  States  and  was  the  one  who  originated 
the  scheme  of  such  an  investigation.  His  "Ele- 
mentary Psychology"  was  published  in  1890, 
besides  which  he  has  written  many  valuable 
papers  and  delivered  many  important  addresses. 
His  psychology  has  been  extensively  used  as  a 
text  book,  both  in  high  school  and  academies. 
Besides  his  regular  work  he  has  been  a  constant 
student  of  psychology  and  philosophy  and  has 
also  kept  in  touch  with  developments  made  in 
other  lines  of  scientific  thought. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Baker  took  place  in  Den- 
ver, his    wife   being    Miss    Jennie    V.    Hilton, 


who  was  born  in  New  York  state.  She  is  a 
daughter  of  Rev.  John  V.  Hilton,  who  was  a 
Congregational  clergyman  in  Bo.ston,  and  later 
in  Denver.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Baker  have  two  chil- 
dren, Hilton  and  Helen. 


REVILO  LOVELAND,  who  came  to  Colo- 
rado in  the  government  employ  in  1857,  has 
made  his  home  in  Fort  Collins  since  1895. 
He  was  born  in  Durham,  Middlesex  County, 
Conn.,  in  March,  1838,  and  was  the  oldest  of 
three  children,  his  sister  being  Mrs.  Ellen  Isbell, 
of  New  Haven,  Conn.,  while  his  brother,  El- 
bridge,  was  a  sailor.  His  father,  Isaac  Loveland, 
was  born  in  Durham,  and  was  a  descendant  of 
one  of  the  first  settlers  at  Saybrook,  Middlesex 
County.  For  years  he  engaged  in  farming  at 
Durham,  but  in  1866  he  came  to  Colorado  and 
settled  on  the  Cache  la  Poudre  River,  where  he 
engaged  in  agricultural  pursuits  until  his  death, 
in  1890,  at  seventy-eight  years.  His  wife,  Susan 
Hall,  was  born  in  Killingworth,  Middlesex 
County,  member  of  an  old  Connecticut  family;  she 
died  at  Durham  when  her  children  were  young. 

It  was  in  the  summer  of  1857  that  our  subject 
joined  a  government  expedition  that  started  from 
Fort  Leavenworth  and  afterward  divided,  part 
going  up  the  Platte  under  Colonel  Sumner  and 
the  remainder  going  up  the  Arkansas  to  a  point 
below  the  mouth  of  the  Cache  la  Poudre.  The 
latter  expedition  our  subject  accompanied,  under 
Major  Sedgwick,  traveling  with  mule- train  up  the 
Arkansas  and  meeting  the  other  expedition  at  a 
point  previously  arranged,  after  which  Colonel 
Sumner  took  command  of  the  entire  force.  They 
encountered  the  Indians  and  had  a  fight  with 
them  on  Solomon's  Fork.  In  the  fall  of  the  same 
year  the  train  returned  to  Leavenworth.  From 
that  time  until  1861  Mr.  Loveland  continued  in 
the  government  service  every  summer  on  the 
plains.  In  1858  he  went  to  Utah  on  a  Mormon 
expedition.  The  next  year  he  drove  the  team  of 
the  Smoky  Hill  Express,  owned  by  Jones  &  Rus- 
sell, between  Leavenworth  and  Denver,  and  later 
he  was  employed  by  the  same  firm  in  herding 
mules.  In  i860  he  went  to  New  Mexico  for  the 
government. 

During  the  war  Mr.  Loveland  was  wagon 
master,  also  inspector  and  receiver  of  horses,  in 
the  west  and  southwest.     In  the  siege  of  Vicks- 


GEORGE  K.  PEASLEY. 


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burg  he  was  taken  sick  and  afterward  spent  a  year 
in  RoUa  and  Springfield,  Mo.  In  the  spring  of 
1864  he  was  discharged  at  Springfield,  Mo.,  and 
in  the  summer  of  the  same  year  he  again  came  to 
Colorado.  This  time  he  settled  in  Larimer 
County,  twelve  miles  southeast  of  the  present 
site  of  Fort  Collins,  on  the  Cache  la  Poudre, 
where  he  took  a  homestead  of  one  hundred  and 
sixty  acres,  and,  with  two  others,  made  a  private 
ditch.  He  continued  raising  stock  and  farm 
products  on  that  place  until  1895,  when  he  sold 
out  and  bought  a  home  in  Fort  Collins. 

Politically  Mr.  Loveland  is  a  pronounced  Re- 
publican. He  was  made  a  Mason  in  Collins 
Lodge  No.  19,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.  In  1876  he  was 
elected  county  commissioner  and  served  in  that 
capacity  for  one  term  of  three  years.  In  Greeley 
he  was  united  in  marriage  with  Miss  Sarah  Car- 
penter, a  native  of  Ohio,  and  daughter  of  Daniel 
Carpenter,  a  member  of  the  Union  colony,  com- 
ing to  Greeley  in  1871. 


/JJEORGE  K.  PEASLEY,  deceased,  was  a 
l_l  leading  representative  of  the  business  inter- 
vU  ests  of  Greeley,  where  he  was  extensively 
engaged  in  buying  and  shipping  stock,  and  also 
conducted  a  hardware  business,  and  was  a  di- 
rector in  the  First  National  Bank.  Of  excellent 
business  ability  and  broad  resources,  he  attained 
a  prominent  place  among  the  substantial  citizens 
of  Weld  County,  and  was  a  recognized  leader  in 
public  affairs.  He  won  success  by  his  well-di- 
rected, energetic  efforts,  and  the  prosperity  that 
came  to  him  was  certainly  well  deserved. 

Mr.  Peasley  was  born  in  Burlington,  Iowa, 
August  15,  1847,  ^iid  w^s  a  .son  of  John  F.  and 
Lucretia  Peasley,  representative  of  a  well-known 
and  highly  respected  family  of  Illinois.  Our 
subject  was  successfully  engaged  in  farming  in 
Henderson  County  until  1880,  when  he  came  to 
Colorado  and  located  at  Evans,  where  he  was  en- 
gaged in  business  for  about  three  years  with 
Capt.  B.  D.  Harper,  under  the  firm  name  of 
Harper,  Peasley  &  Co.  He  then  came  to  Gree- 
ley, where  the  company  was  later  re-organized 
under  the  name  of  the  Illinois  Live  Stock  Com- 
pany, with  Mr.  Peasley  as  general  manager.  He 
and  his  brother-in-law,  Nat.  Bruen,  of  Hen- 
derson County,  111.,  probably  did  more  to  raise 
the  quality  and  standard  of  roadsters  and  track 


horses  in  that  and  adjoining  counties  than  any 
other  two  individuals.  They  owned  the  noted 
horses  Egmont  and  Fame,  brought  from  Ken- 
tucky, and  many  of  Egmont's  colts  have  won  a 
world-wide  reputation.  Mr.  Peasley  became  one 
of  the  most  energetic  and  active  business  men  of 
Greeley ;  was  a  member  of  the  hardware  firm  of 
Robie  &  Peasley;  was  a  director  of  the  First  Na- 
tional Bank;  owned  an  excellent  farm  of  three 
hundred  and  twenty  acres  of  land  under  ditch 
in  Weld  County,  and  was  also  interested  in  real 
estate  in  Salt  Lake,  Utah. 

On  the  7th  of  January,  1874,  Mr.  Peasley  was 
united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Mary  E.  King,  of  La 
Harpe,  111. ,  a  daughter  of  Calvin  and  Jane  (Aus- 
tin) King.  She  grew  to  womanhood  in  her  na- 
tive town,  living  there  until  her  marriage,  when 
she  and  her  husband  located  on  the  old  Peasley 
homestead  in  Henderson  County,  near  the  town 
of  Decorra.  To  them  were  born  four  children, 
namely:  George  S.,  who  died  in  infancy;  Leroj', 
Maude  and  Mabel.  Mr.  Peasley  had  one  sister, 
Mrs.  Nat.  Bruen,  of  Iowa,  and  two  brothers, 
Frank  and  Charles. 

While  shipping  cattle  to  Omaha,  Mr.  Peasley 
was  killed  by  falling  between  the  cars  at  Jules- 
burg  September  17,  1895.  He  was  a  prominent 
member  of  the  Ancient  Order  of  United  Work- 
men and  the  Knights  of  Pythias,  and  was  buried 
under  the  auspices  of  both  fraternities,  the 
funeral  services  being  conducted  by  Rev.  O.  J. 
Moore,  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church.  His 
genial,  pleasant  manner  made  him  popular  in 
social  as  well  as  business  circles,  and  he  was  rec- 
ognized as  one  of  the  foremost  citizens  in  north- 
ern Colorado,  honored  and  respected  by  all  who 
knew  him. 


EHARLES  B.  ANDREWS,  of  Fort  Collins, 
is  the  owner  of  large  landed  tracts  in  Lari- 
mer County.  His  home  farm,  known  as 
Shadeland,  is  named  from  the  fact  of  the  fine 
grove  of  trees  on  the  place,  which  comprises  one 
hundred  and  twenty  well-improved  acres,  within 
the  city  limits.  His  ranch,  which  is  called  Shet- 
land, takes  its  name  from  the  fact  that  he  long 
raised  Shetland  ponies  on  the  place,  having 
brought  the  first  herd  ever  in  the  state,  and  mak- 
ing from  time  to  time  several  importations  of  ponies. 
Now,  however,  he  gives  his  attention  largely  to 
raising  full-blooded  registered  Herefords,of  which 


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he  has  a  large  number.  Adjoining  Fort  Collins 
to  the  west  he  has  two  hundred  and  forty  acres, 
much  of  which  is  laid  out  in  cherry  and  apple 
orchards.  All  of  his  land  is  under  irrigation, 
and  he  is  interested  in  and  a  director  of  most  of 
the  ditches  on  the  south  side  of  the  Cache  la 
Poudre. 

John  Andrews,  who  was  an  old  laird  of  Scot- 
land, and  owned  the  town  of  Ingleston,  brought 
his  family  to  America  and  settled  in  Allegheny 
City,  Pa.,  where  he  lived  retired.  I,ike  his  fore- 
fathers, he  was  a  strict  Presbyterian.  His  son, 
Col.  James  Andrews,  was  born  in  Dumfries-shire, 
Scotland, and  engaged  in  contracting,  having  con- 
tracts for  bridges  at  Pittsburg  and  along  the 
Pennsylvania  Railroad  at  different  places.  With 
Captain  Eades  he  became  interested  in  the  build- 
ing of  the  famous  Eades'  bridge  at  St.  Louis,  and 
contracted  for  the  tunnel  through  that  city  to  the 
Union  depot.  Next,  with  Captain  Eades,  he 
assisted  in  building  the  jetties  at  the  mouth  of 
the  Mississippi,  doing  the  most  of  the  work  on 
money  advanced  by  himself,  not  receiving  any 
money  from  the  government  until  the  completion 
of  the  work.  He  was  engaged  in  building  a 
railroad  across  the  isthmus  at  Tehauntepec  when 
Captain  Eades  died  and  the  work  was  abandoned. 
The  two.  Captain  Eades  and  Colonel  Andrews, 
worked  together  harmoniously  and  successfully, 
the  former  influencing  and  working  with  politi- 
cians, the  latter  carrying  out  practical  plans. 
But  when  Captain  Eades  died.  Colonel  Andrews 
gave  up  the  work,  as  he  had  no  taste  for  working 
with  politicians.  He  embarked  in  the  iron  man- 
ufacturing business  at  Pittsburg,  where  he  bought 
the  Moorehead  and  McLean  foundries,  and  op- 
erated it  as  long  as  he  lived.  In  the  rolling  mills  he 
manufactured  a  fine  grade  of  steel  rails.  He  was 
a  director  in  many  banks,  street  railway  and 
bridge  companies,  and  took  an  active  part  in 
many  local  enterprises.  He  owned  a  beautiful 
home,  known  as  Ingleside,  which  was  situated  in 
Allegheny  City  on  Nunnery  Hill.  There  his 
death  occurred  in  July,  1897,  when  he  was 
seventy-two  years  of  age.  His  wife,  who  was 
Maria  Carson,  a  native  of  the  north  of  Ireland, 
accompanied  her  parents  to  Allegheny,  Pa.,  and 
is  still  living  at  Ingleside.  They  were  the  pa- 
rents of  eight  children,  namely:  Mary,  wife  of 
Alexander  Cochran,  of  St.  Louis,  Mo.;  Ella,  of 
Allegheny;  Charles  B. ;  Sidney,  who  is  assistant 


solicitor  for  the  Illinois  Central  Railroad  and  re- 
sides in  Chicago;  Rie,  of  Allegheny;  Robert,  a 
stockman  owning  a  large  ranch  in  Larimer 
County;  Walter  and  Eades,  who  live  in  Pittsburg. 

In  Allegheny,  Pa.,  where  he  was  born  August 
6,  1854,  Mr.  Andrews  laid  the  foundation  of  his 
education,  which  was  subsequently  enlarged  by 
attendance  at  the  Western  University  of  Pitts- 
burg. On  account  of  ill  health  he  was  obliged  to 
leave  college  prior  to  the  completion  of  the  regu- 
lar course.  Hoping  that  a  change  might  be  ben- 
eficial, he  traveled  through  Florida  and  California. 
In  1 87 1  he  passed  through  Denver,  en  route  to 
California,  and  the  next  year  returned,  settling  in 
Fort  Collins,  where  he  embarked  in  the  stock 
business,  becoming  one  of  the  most  extensive 
cattle  dealers  here.  For  some  time  he  was  inter- 
ested with  Abner  Loomis  in  the  purchase  and 
sale  of  cattle.  He  had  his  range  first  at  Fort 
Casper,  Wyo. ,  later  near  the  Black  Hills,  and 
owns  several  thousand  acres  of  land,  all  fenced, 
in  Larimer  County,  at  the  headwaters  of  the 
Cache  la  Poudre.  Besides  other  interests,  he  was 
a  charter  member  of  the  company  that  organized 
the  State  Bank  and  is  now  a  director  in  the  Poudre 
Valley  Bank. 

In  Fort  Collins  Mr.  Andrews  married  Miss 
Julia  Henderson,  in  March,  188 1,  who  was  born 
in  La  Grange,  Mo.,  a  daughter  of  John  W.  Hen- 
derson, a  native  of  old  Virginia.  Her  paternal 
grandfather  removed  with  the  family  to  Lewis 
County,  Mo.,  where  he  and  later  his  son  engaged 
in  farming.  In  1880  the  latter  came  to  Leadville, 
but  after  two  years  there,  settled  in  Fort  Collins, 
where  he  is  now  superintendent  of  two  ditches. 
He  married  Henrietta  Durkee,  a  native  of  Mis- 
souri, and  daughter  of  Lucien  Durkee,  whose  wife 
was  a  Miss  Bourne,  of  Kentucky.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Henderson  had  three  children,  but  one,  a  son, 
Lucien,  died  in  Silverton,  where  he  was  mining; 
the  other  son,  Joseph,  is  living  in  Fort  Collins. 
Mrs.  Andrews  was  educated  in  La  Grange  Col- 
lege. Mr.  and  Mrs.  Andrews  have  one  son, 
James  Henderson,  now  a  student  at  the  State 
Agricultural  College. 

Politically  Mr.  Andrews  is  a  Republican.  He 
was  made  a  Mason  in  Collins  Lodge  No.  19, 
A.  F.  &  A.  M. ,  to  which  he  belongs,  as  he  also 
does  to  Collins  Chapter  No.  11,  R.  A.  M.,  De- 
Molay  Commandery  No.  13,  K.  T.,  Colorado 
Consistory   of  Denver,  and    El   Jebel  Temple, 


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N.  M.  S.  He  and  his  wife  are  Presbyterians  in 
religious  belief.  In  1898  he  represented  the 
Wyoming  Cattle  Growers'  Association,  of  which 
he  is  a  member,  in  the  National  Stock  Growers' 
Convention  in  Denver.  In  earlier  days,  when 
game  was  plentiful,  he  heartily  enjoyed  a  hunt 
on  the  plains,  where  he  frequently  saw  thousands 
of  elks  and  as  many  buffaloes  in  a  herd.  The  ad- 
vance of  civilization,  however,  has  had  its  effect 
upon  wild  animals  and  there  are  now  few  to  be 
found  by  even  the  most  ardent  hunter. 


City,  with  the  spiritual  oversight  also  of  Empire, 
Idaho  Springs,  Georgetown,  Boulder  and  other 
small  settlements,  and  continued  at  the  head  of 
this  work  until  187 1.  Three  years  previous  to 
this  his  old  friend  and  loved  associate  appoint- 
ed him  his  vicar-general.  The  tie  between  these 
two  men  was  peculiarly  strong  and  affectionate, 
and  continued  until  death  separated  them.  Father 
Raverdy  returned  home  from  France  to  learn 
that  Bishop  Machebeuf  had  passed  away,  and  the 
shock  undoubtedly  hastened  his  own  death,  which 
occurred  in  Denver  November  18,  1889. 


REV.  JOHN  BAPTIST  RAVERDY  was  born 
in  Rheims,  France,  June  24,  1831,  and  was 
ordained  a  sub-deacon  in  1850.  After  nine 
years,  hearing  of  the  thousands  who  were  cross- 
ing the  plains  to  the  mines  of  the  Rocky  Mount- 
ains, he  felt  there  would  be  need  of  a  spiritual 
adviser  here,  and  he  therefore  crossed  the  ocean. 
Soon  afterward  Bishop  L,amy  ordered  him  to  go 
to  the  mountain  region  with  Father  Machebeuf. 
He  arrived  in  Denver  October  29,  i860,  where 
he  found  between  thirty  and  forty  Catholics. 
Though  the  outlook  was  not  encouraging  he 
urged  his  associate  to  build  a  church  and  this  was 
done.  On  a  foundation  so  unhopeful  was  built 
what  is  now  known  as  St.  Mary's  Cathedral,  on 
Stout  and  Fifteenth  streets,  then  out  on  the 
prairie. 

While  Bishop  Machebeuf  was  building  the 
church.  Father  Raverdy  made  a  horseback  tour 
of  the  southern  part  of  the  state.  He  arrived  at 
Huerfano  November  15,  i860,  and  remained 
there  for  some  days,  engaged  in  the  sacred  duties 
of  his  profession.  Hejourneyed  toandfro,  endur- 
ing all  the  hardships  of  pioneer  life,  suffering  ex- 
posure, and  sometimes  almost  fainting  from  weari- 
ness, but  never  growing  discouraged.  Many  a 
time  he  slept  with  no  canopy  save  the  arched  vault 
of  heaven,  and  his  fare  was  poor  and  plain,  but 
no  one  ever  heard  a  word  of  complaint  from  his 
lips.  On  the  other  hand,  he  rejoiced  that  it  was  his 
privilege  to  engage  in  the  holy  calling  of  a  priest. 
In  1864  he  visited  Utah  and  spent  some  weeks 
with  the  Catholics  at  Salt  Lake.  He  then  pushed 
his  way  on  to  Montana,  where  he  found  thousands 
of  men  engaged  in  a  search  for  gold,  and  the 
month  he  spent  among  those  ofttimes  discouraged 
miners  was  fruitful  of  much  good. 

In  1866  he  accepted  the  pastorate  at  Central 


NON.  HENRY  P.  H.  BROMWELL  was  born 
in  Baltimore,  Md.,  August  26,  1823,  the 
descendant  of  English  ancestors  who  adhered 
to  the  Quaker  faith.  His  grandfather,  William, 
was  born  in  1751,  in  Maryland;  but  the  father, 
Henry,  was  a  native  of  Richmond,  Va.  For 
some  years  the  latter  was  a  lumber  merchant  of 
Baltimore,  thence  went  to  Cincinnati,  and  later 
settled  in  Clark  County,  111.,  and  finally  removed 
to  Charleston,  Coles  County,  where  he  died  at 
seventy-four  years.  When  a  boy  of  seventeen 
years  he  took  part  in  the  war  of  18 12  and  was 
present  at  the  defense  of  North  Point.  He  mar- 
ried Henrietta  Holmes,  daughter  of  Lemuel  and 
granddaughter  of  Joseph  Holmes,  whose  ances- 
tors came  to  this  country  in  the  "Mayflower" 
and  was  for  years  a  wealth^'  shipping  merchant 
of  Boston  and  New  York.  Mrs.  Bromwell  died 
in  Denver,  in  January,  1882,  aged  eighty-six' 
years.     Of  her  six  children,  only  one  survives. 

When  the  family  left  Cincinnati  our  subject 
was  five  years  of  age.  He  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  at  Vandalia,  111.,  in  1853,  and  while  practic- 
ing law,  published  a  paper  called  the  Age  0/ 
Steam  and  Fire.  For  four  years  he  was  county 
judge,  and  after  removing  to  Charleston,  he  was 
elected,  on  the  Republican  ticket,  a  member  of 
congress  from  the  seventh  district  and  re-elected 
after  two  years,  serving  from  1865  to  1869,  and 
taking  an  active  part  in  all  the  stormy  legislation 
that  culminated  in  the  attempted  impeachment  of 
President  Johnson.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
constitutional  convention  of  Illinois  in  1869.  In 
1865-66  he  was  grand  master  of  the  grand  lodge 
of  Masons  in  Illinois. 

Coming  to  Denver  in  1870,  Judge  Bromwell 
engaged  in  the  practice  of  law.     He  was  a  mem- 


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ber  of  the  territorial  council  of  1874,  the  consti- 
tutional convention  of  1875-76  and  the  legisla- 
ture of  1879,  and  while  in  the  latter  position  he 
introduced  and  secured  the  passage  of  the  bill  to 
establish  the  irrigation  system  of  Colorado.  In 
188 1,  under  appointment  by  Governor  Pitkin,  he 
made  the  revision  of  the  statutes  of  the  state, 
which  on  completion  were  published  in  one  large 
volume.  Ill  health  led  him  to  retire  from  the  prac- 
tice of  the  law  and  from  public  life  in  1889;  but, 
though  retired,  he  still  takes  a  warm  interest  in  all 
matters  pertaining  to  the  welfare  of  the  people  and 
the  prosperity  of  the  nation.  Formerly  a  Repub- 
lican, after  a  careful  study  of  the  needs  of  our 
country  he  was  led  to  change  his  views  in  1884 
and  has  since  been  a  Democrat.  At  one  time  he 
was  connected  with  the  Odd  Fellows.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  lodge,  chapter  and  commandery 
of  Masons,  and  is  past  grand  master  of  the  grand 
lodge  of  Colorado.  In  Marshall,  111.,  he  mar- 
ried Emily  F.  Payne,  daughter  of  John  W. 
Payne,  an  attorney  in  Indiana,  where  she  died 
during  a  visit  to  her  old  home.  She  was  the 
mother  of  three  children:  Henrietta  E.;  Henry 
P.,  who  died  while  a  student  of  law,  at  nineteen 
years  of  age;  and  Emily,  who  died  in  girlhood. 


EHARLES  P.  MILIvER,  M.  D.,  is  in  point 
of  years  of  active  professional  practice  the 
oldest  resident  physician  and  surgeon  of 
Fort  Collins,  where  he  has  resided  since  Septem- 
ber of  1878.  In  1880  he  built  the  residence  he 
now  occupies,  a  commodious  and  comfortable 
home,  around  which  are  large  grounds  with  fruit 
and  shade  trees.  He  owns  a  forty-acre  farm  near 
Fort  Collins,  on  which  is  a  cherry  orchard  with 
five  hundred  early  Richmond  cherry  trees. 

The  Miller  family  was  identified  with  the  early 
history  of  Vermont.  From  Bridgewater,  that 
state,  Lewis  Miller  came  to  Akron,  Ohio,  where  he 
was  employed  as  a  contractor.  Later  he  settled 
at  Three  Rivers,  St.  Joseph  County,  Mich. ,  where 
he  engaged  in  farming.  When  he  located  there, 
in  1845,  the  land  was  heavily  timbered  and  wholly 
destitute  of  improvements,  but  he  succeeded  in 
grubbing  and  clearing  it,  and  placed  it  under 
good  cultivdtion.  A  stanch  Republican  from  the 
organization  of  the  party,  he  was  also  a  pro- 
nounced Abolitionist,  and  was  the  only  man  in 
the  town  of  Lockport,  St.  Joseph  County,  who 


voted  for  abolition  and  its  supporters.  He  died 
in  August,  1878,  when  he  was  seventy-six  years 
of  age.  By  his  first  marriage  he  had  six  chil- 
dren, four  of  whom  are  living.  His  second 
marriage  united  him  with  Mary  Vincent,  by 
whom  he  had  one  son,  born  at  Lockport,  Mich., 
April  26,  1853,  and  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 

From  an  early  age  Dr.  Miller  was  self-support- 
ing. He  taught  much  of  the  time  when  a  youth, 
in  order  to  pay  his  way  through  college.  Hav- 
ing chosen  medicine  as  his  profession,  he  began 
to  study  under  Dr.  E.  B.  Graham,  of  Three 
Rivers,  Mich.  In  1874  he  entered  the  homeopa- 
thic Medical  College  connected  with  the  Uni- 
versity of  Michigan,  and  graduated  in  1877,  with 
the  first  class  of  thirteen  that  completed  the  course 
in  that  institution. '  When  he  received  the  degree 
of  M.  D.,  after  having  supported  himself  through 
the  entire  course  and  paid  all  of  his  expenses,  he 
found  himself  only  $15  in  debt.  While  this 
showed  that  he  had  been  persevering  and  eco- 
nomical, yet  it  required  some  courage  for  a  young 
practitioner,  without  experience,  to  start  out  for 
himself,  without  money  or  influence.  He  went 
to  Kent,  Portage  County,  Ohio,  where  he  com- 
menced to  practice.  In  September,  1878,  he 
came  to  Fort  Collins,  where  he  soon  built  up  an 
enviable  reputation  for  skill  in  his  profession. 

The  first  wife  of  Dr.  Miller  was  Lillian  Min- 
nick,  who  was  born  in  Ohio,  married  in  Chey- 
enne, Wyo.,  and  died  in  Fort  Collins.  The  only 
child  of  this  union,  Eva,  died  at  nine  years. 
The  doctor's  second  wife,  whom  he  married  in 
Fort  Collins,  was  Nora  Rice,  of  Charleston,  111. 
They  have  two  children,  Zareefa  and  Mary  J. 

Dr.  Miller  was  made  a  Mason  in  Collins  Lodge 
No.  19,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.  He  is  connected  with 
it,  also  with  Cache  la  Poudre  Chapter  No.  11, 
R.  A.  M.,  DeMolay  Commandery  No.  13,  K.  T., 
Scottish  Rite,  Colorado  Consistory  No.  i,  ElJebel 
Tempel  N.  M.  S.,  behaving  attained  the  thirty- 
second  degree  in  Masonry;  also  the  Odd  Fellows' 
Lodge  No.  19,  the  Knights  of  Pythias,  being  a 
charter  member  of  the  Uniform  Rank.  For  some 
years  he  advocated  Republican  principles,  but  in 
1896,  when  that  party  declared  for  the  gold 
standard,  he  came  oiit  firmly  and  decidedly  for 
the  People's  party,  believing  that  the  safety  of 
the  money  problem  depends  upon  raising  silver 
to  its  original  and  proper  standard.  He  is  a 
member  of   the  Alumni   Association   of   Three 


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Rivers  Union  School,  from  which  he  graduated. 
He  is  a  well-educated  man,  with  a  broad  knowl- 
edge of  history,  mediaeval  and  modern,  and  with 
a  desire  to  aid  in  the  development  of  his  town 
and  county  by  the  support  of  educational  and 
philanthropic  institutions. 


I  ^  ARTIN  LUTHER  LANDES,  of  LaPorte, 
y  Larimer  County,  is  a  man  of  prominence, 
(9  and  is  known  throughout  the  county  as  a 
progressive  farmer,  one  who  brought  skill  to  the 
aid  of  the  agricultural  art.  He  was  born  in  Cir- 
cleville,  Pickaway  County,  Ohio,  March  3,  1844. 
His  father,  Joseph  Laudes,  was  of  German  stock 
and  was  born  in  Bucks  County,  Pa. ,  but  went  to 
Ohio  when  young;  there  he  married  Miss  Eve 
Weaver,  also  a  native  of  Pennsylvania,  but  a 
resident  of  Circleville,  Ohio,  from  her  fourth 
year,  when  that  city  was  nothing  but  a  fort. 
Her  father  was  a  farmer.  Joseph  Landes  was  a 
hatter  by  trade  and  manufactured  hats  in  Circle- 
ville for  several  years,  but  afterwards  started  a 
bakery  and  in  185 1  located  in  Lucas  County, 
Iowa,  near  Chariton,  and  there  engaged  in  farm- 
ing. He  died  in  1864,  during  the  war;  his  wife 
reached  her  seventieth  year.  Four  sons  are  still 
living:  Henry,  a  resident  of  Keokuk,  Iowa;  John, 
of  Battle  Creek,  Mich.;  Joseph,  of  Chariton, 
Iowa;  and  Martin  Luther,  of  LaPorte,  Colo. 

When  a  child  of  seven  Mr.  Landes  went  with 
his  parents  to  Iowa,  traveling  by  boat  down  the 
Ohio  and  up  the  Mississippi  to  Chariton,  where 
he  attended  the  public  schools.  In  August, 
1862,  he  enlisted  in  Company  F,  Thirty -sixth 
Iowa  Infantry,  and  was  mustered  in  at  Keokuk. 
He  was  in  the  engagements  at  Helena,  Ark., 
July  4,  1863,  the  taking  of  Little  Rock,  in 
October,  1863,  and  the  battle  of  Little  Missouri, 
in  April,  1864.  The  same  month  they  were  sent 
to  re-inforce  Banks,  and  at  Marks  Mills  the  en- 
tire brigade,  except  six  or  eight  men,  were  cap- 
tured, and  sent  to  Tyler,  Tex.,  where  they  were 
kept  in  the  stockade  ten  months  and  then  ex- 
changed. Mr.  Landes,  with  several  others,  es- 
caped capture  in  the  rush  through  the  closing 
lines.  He  went  to  Pine  Bluff,  Ark.,  thence  to 
Little  Rock,  where  he  remained  a  year  and  did 
city  provost  duty  until  the  close  of  the  war. 
After  his  regiment  was  exchanged  he  joined 
them  at  Duvall's  Bluff  and  was  mustered  out  in 


October,  1865.  He  then  returned  to  Iowa  and 
engaged  in  farming  until  1873,  when  he  moved 
to  Colorado  and  engaged  in  farming  in  the 
vicinity  of  LaPorte  for  three  years.  Going  back 
to  Iowa  he  bought  a  farm  near  Red  Oak,  Mont- 
gomery County,  that  state.  In  1882  he  sold 
this  and  bought  a  ranch  of  four  hundred  acres  in 
Livermore,  where  he  raised  stock  and  hay  until 
his  wife's  failing  health  necessitated  a  change, 
and  he  moved  farther  down  the  valley.  In  1893 
he  went  to  California  and  spent  a  year.  In  the 
fall  of  the  following  year  he  returned  to  Colorado 
and  bought  his  present  farm  of  eighty  acres, 
three  and  one-half  miles  from  Fort  Collins.  Here 
he  raises  grain  and  hay  and  is  an  extensive  cattle 
feeder. 

Mr.  Landes  married  Miss  Frances  J.  Riddle,  a 
native  of  Iowa,  born  in  Marion  County,  that 
state.  She  was  a  daughter  of  John  Riddle,  who 
moved  to  Colorado  in  1870.  They  have  one  child 
living.  Pierce  J.  Landes,  aged  fourteen,  now  a 
student  in  the  LaPorte  public  school.  Their  eld- 
est child,  Frances  Eve,  born  in  1870,  died  at  the 
age  of  one  year.  The  home  farm  is  a  model  of 
comfort.  It  is  irrigated  by  a  private  ditch,  and 
ornamented  with  a  grove,  while  the  house  and 
other  improvements  leave  little  to  wish  for.  Mrs. 
Landes  is  a  lady  of  pleasing  manners,  and  is  a 
power  for  good  in  the  community.  She  is  a 
member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  al- 
ways ready  to  reach  out  a  helping  hand  to  a 
needy  brother,  and  consequently  very  popular 
in  the  community.  Mr.  Landes  was  a  member 
of  the  school  board  for  nine  years  at  Livermore, 
acting  as  president  and  treasurer  a  part  of  the 
time.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Grand  Army  of  the 
Republic,  and  was  demitted  by  the  Independent 
Order  of  Odd  Fellows.  In  politics  he  stands  a 
stalwart  Republican,  and  in  the  last  election  Mrs. 
Landes  voted  for  William  McKinley,  although 
she  is  somewhat  independent  in  politics. 


.  DWARD  MONASH.  Among  the  well- 
^  known  establishments  of  Denver  is  The  Fair, 
_  of  which  Mr.  Monash  is  proprietor,  and 
which  has  the  distinction  of  being  the  original 
department  store  in  the  city.  Through  his 
energy  and  excellent  judgment  a  profitable  local 
business  has  been  built  up  and  a  mail-order  trade 
that  extends  throughout  the    entire    state.      A 


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visitor  to  the  city  finds  the  store  upon  one  of  the 
best  corners  in  the  business  center  of  town;  with- 
in are  floor  walkers  and  clerks,  who  are  studious 
of  the  customers'  desires  and  attentive  to  every 
want.  A  large  trade,  both  wholesale  and  retail, 
is  carried  on  in  the  articles  usually  found  in  a  de- 
partment store,  and  the  business  is  among  the 
most  substantial  in  the  city. 

Mr.  Monash  is  a  German  by  nativity,  having 
been  born  in  the  province  of  Posen,  where  his 
ancestors  had  long  resided  and  where  his  father, 
Marcus,  was  a  lithographer.  Edward,  who  was 
next  to  the  youngest  among  four  children,  re- 
ceived his  education  and  afterward  served  an 
apprenticeship  in  a  mercantile  establishment  in 
the  province  of  Silesia.  When  sixteen  years  of 
age,  in  1865,  he  came  to  America  and  settled  in 
St.  Ivouis,  where  he  secured  employment  as  a 
clerk.  In  1868  he  moved  to  I,eota  Landing,  in 
Mississippi,  and  there  started  in  the  mercantile 
business  for  himself,  later  also  carried  on  a  cotton 
plantation.  Selling  out  in  1880,  he  married  in 
Peoria,  111.,  Miss  Jennie Schradzki,  whose  father, 
Joseph,  was  a  pioneer  merchant  of  that  city.  On 
his  bridal  tour  he  visited  his  old  home  in  Posen, 
and  traveled  through  England,  Ireland,  France, 
Austria  and  Switzerland. 

Returning  to  the  United  States  in  1881,  Mr. 
Monash  settled  in  Denver  and  for  one  year  had  a 
mercantile  store  on  Larimer,  between  Fourteenth 
and  Fifteenth  streets.  Afterward  for  five  years 
he  was  in  the  Union  building  on  Sixteenth  street, 
where  he  inaugurated  the  department  system, 
starting  the  first  store  of  that  kind  in  Denver. 
The  name  of  The  Fair  was  given  to  the  store  in 
1882.  Since  1887  he  has  been  located  on  Six- 
teenth and  Champa  streets,  where  he  occupies 
a  large  ground  space  and  four  floors.  For  j'ears 
he  has  been  a  member  of  the  chamber  of  com- 
merce and  board  of  trade,  of  which  in  1890-92 
he  was  a  director,  then  was  chosen  first  vice- 
president;  in  1897  he  was  again  elected  a  member 
of  the  board  of  directors  and  the  same  year  be- 
came president  of  the  board.  His  service  of  one 
year  was  most  satisfactory  in  every  respect,  but 
at  the  expiration  of  the  term  he  refused  re-election, 
as  the  duties  of  the  position  took  his  time  too 
much  from  business.  June  i,  1895,  under  ap- 
pointment by  Governor  Mclntire,  he  became 
president  of  the  board  of  public  works,  and  served 
in  that  capacity  until  June    i',    1897.     He   also 


served  two  years  as  park  commissioner,  having 
been  appointed  to  the  position  by  Mayor  Van 
Horn  in  1893.  While  president  of  the  chamber 
of  commerce,  the  convention  of  January,  1898, 
was  originated  in  that  body,  who  invited  the 
Colorado  Cattle  Growers'  Association  to  meet  in 
Denver,  and  out  of  that  convention  grew  the 
national  association,  Mr.  Monash  appointing  the 
committee  that  presented  it  for  adoption.  He 
also  appointed  the  committee  that  went  to  Phila- 
delphia and  urged,  successfully,  the  American 
Medical  Association  to  meet  in  Denver  in  June, 
1898.  Since  the  starting  of  the  festival  of  the 
mountain  and  plain,  he  has  been  a  member  of  the 
board  of  directors  and  for  two  years  was  chair- 
man of  the  third  day,  and  is  now  first  vice- 
president,  also  chairman  of  the  finance  committee 
of  the  association  and  a  member  of  numerous 
committees.  He  has  never  identified  himself 
with  politics,  his  interest  in  the  progress  of 
Denver  having  been  solely  that  of  a  public-spirited 
citizen.  However,  he  is  well  informed  regarding 
the  issues  before  the  people  of  this  age.  He 
favors  protection  of  home  industries  and  the 
placing  of  silver  upon  a  proper  basis,  by  which 
two  things  he  believes  the  advancement  of  the 
city  and  state  and  the  welfare  of  the  citizens  can 
be  most  fully  conserved. 


(JOSEPH  EDWARD  PAINTER.  Faithful- 
I  ness  to  duty  and  strict  adherence  to  a  fixed 
(2/  purpose  in  life  will  do  more  to  advance  a 
man's  interests  than  wealth  or  adventitious  cir- 
cumstances. The  successful  men  of  the  day  are 
those  who  have  planned  their  own  advancement 
and  have  accomplished  it  in  spite  of  many  ob- 
stacles and  with  a  certainty  that  could  have  been 
attained  only  through  their  own  efforts.  This 
class  of  men  has  a  worthy  representative  in  Mr. 
Painter,  the  present  efiicient  chairman  of  the 
board  of  county  commissioners  of  Weld  County, 
who  began  life  amid  rather  unfavorable  circum- 
stances. Although  yet  a  young  man  he  has  left 
the  impress  of  his  individuality  on  the  policy  of 
the  county,  and  is  regarded  as  one  of  its  most 
prominent  and  influential  citizens. 

Mr.  Painter  was  born  in  Stafibrd,  England, 
January  6,  1862,  and  was  educated  at  King  Ed- 
ward VI  grammar  school  of  that  place.  At  the 
age  of  fifteen  he  entered  the  cashier's  oflBce  of 


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Barbour  Brothers'  cotton  and  silk  establishment 
at  Manchester,  and  later  was  employed  in  the 
government  postal  service,  with  which  he  was 
connected  until  coming  to  America  at  the  age  of 
nineteen.  He  and  his  brother  arrived  in  New 
York  City  October  i,  1881,  and  he  came  direct 
to  Denver,  Colo. ,  reaching  there  on  the  4th  of 
the  same  month.  He  found  employment  in  the 
large  grocery  of  Briks  Cornforth  on  Fifteenth 
street,  where  he  remained  until  the  following 
May.  He  then  went  by  wagon  on  a  prospecting 
tour  through  the  southern  part  of  the  state.  In 
July  he  went  to  the  Blue  Range  to  do  some  work 
on  property  for  Denver  parties,  but  soon  returned 
to  the  Atlantic  district,  where  he  remained  until 
fall.  He  looked  for  a  location  for  a  cattle  ranch 
on  the  Muddy  and  Troublesome  Rivers,  but  failed 
to  find  a  suitable  one.  After  spending  the  win- 
ter at  Rico,  he  returned  to  Denver,  but  almost 
immediately  went  to  Idaho  Springs,  where  he 
did  some  contract  work  for  Brick  Pomeroy  on  the 
Idalia  tunnel,  remaining  there  all  winter.  He 
was  told  that  he  did  more  than  any  one  else  for 
the  same  money.  He  next  went  to  Middle  Park 
on  a  gold  hunting  trip,  and  then  over  the  range, 
locating  mines  in  the  Atlantic  district.  He 
and  his  brother  visited  several  places  and  de- 
cided to  embark  in  the  cattle  business  on  what 
was  then  known  as  Blair,  now  Roggen ,  Weld 
County,  where  they  took  up  government  land 
and  also  leased  some  from  the  state.  This  they 
improved,  and  started  in  business  with  two  hun- 
dred head  of  stock,  which  they  increased  to  six 
hundred,  and  also  raised  on  shares  hundreds  for 
other  parties.  During  this  time,  however,  our 
subject  returned  to  Denver,  where  he  engaged  in 
the  wholesale  coal,  grain  and  feed  business  with 
success,  but  ill  health  finally  compelled  him  to 
abandon  that  business,  and  early  in  the  year  of 
1893  he  again  came  to  Weld  County  and  em- 
barked in  farming,  in  which  he  has  also  been 
successful,  although  the  hail  in  1898  destroyed 
his  crops  and  killed  some  of  his  hogs  and  fruit 
trees.  He  owns  a  fine  farm  of  one  hundred  and 
sixty  acres  under  an  excellent  state  of  cultivation, 
and  his  cattle  graze  on  six  hundred  and  forty 
acres  adjoining.  He  expects  in  the  future  to 
give  more  attention  to  cattle  raising. 

On  the  13th  of  March,  1889,  Mr.  Painter  mar- 
ried Miss  Florence  Mary,  daughter  of  Thomas 
Musgrave,  of  Pittsburg,  Pa.,  and  to  them  have 


been  born  two  children,  Alice  Musgrave  and 
Joseph  Edward.  They  attend  the  Episcopal 
Church  and  are  widely  and  favorably  known. 
Taking  a  deep  interest  in  educational  afiairs, 
Mr.  Painter  organized  School  District  No.  88, 
at  Roggen  and  served  as  trustee  there  until  his 
removal  to  Denver,  and  was  also  postmaster.  In 
the  fall  of  1895  he  was  elected  county  commis- 
sioner on  the  Republican  ticket  and  when  the 
board  assembled  was  chosen  chairman.  He  al- 
ways attends  the  state  conventions  of  his  party, 
and  takes  a  prominent  part  in  political  affairs. 
He  is  a  good  financier  and  excellent  business 
man,  and  is  therefore  well  qualified  for  his  pres- 
ent responsible  positions,  the  duties  of  which  he 
is  most  ably  discharging,  paying  particular  at- 
tention the  preservation  of  county  roads. 


HOMAS  H.  ROBERTSON,  of  Fort  Col- 
lins, was  born  in  Culpeper  County,  Va., 
April  20,  1856.  His  father,  William  A., 
also  a  native  of  Culpeper  County,  born  May  28, 
1820,  was  a  son  of  William  Robertson,  a  planter, 
and  became  the  owner  of  Clairmont,  a  fine  farm, 
where  he  has  resided  for  many  years.  During 
the  late  war  he  was  a  member  of  the  Virginia 
cavalry.  His  wife,  Sarah  T.,  was  born  Septem- 
ber 14,  1814,  in  Orange  County,  Va.,  where  her 
father,  John  Parish,  was  long  a  resident.  She 
died  July  29,  1897.  Of  her  seven  children  all 
but  one  are  living.  William  R. ,  a  farmer, resides 
in  Culpeper,  Va.;  James  F.  is  a  druggist  in  Char- 
lotte, N.  C. ;  Katherine,  wife  of  Edmund  P. 
Nalle,  lives  in  Washington, D.  C. ;  Alexander  F.  is 
an  attorney  in  Staunton,  Va. ;  and  Benjamin  T. 
is  a  physician  at  Sulphur  Springs,  Tex. 

The  education  of  our  subject  was  obtained  in 
private  schools.  In  1873  he  embarked  in  the 
dry-goods  business  in  Culpeper,  and  continued  in 
that  way  until  1878,  when  he  became  connected 
with  a  wholesale  dry-goods  house  in  Baltimore, 
Md.  In  1879  he  went  to  Chicago,  111.,  where  he 
was  employed  in  a  wholesale  hat  and  fur  house. 
January,  1882,  found  him  in  Colorado,  and  here 
he  has  since  resided.  He  started  the  firm  of 
T.  H.  Robertson  &  Co.,  on  Jefferson  street,  Fort 
Collins,  where  he  began  with  a  stock  of  boots 
and  shoes,  and  later  added  a  stock  of  clothing 
and  furnishing  goods.  In  1885  he  sold  out  and 
settled  on  a  ranch  eight  miles  northwest  of  the 


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town,  where  he  pre-empted  one  hundred  and 
sixty  acres  and  remained  for  two  j'ears.  Return- 
ing to  Fort  Collins  in  1887,  he  embarked  in  busi- 
ness on  Linden  street,  where  he  carried  a  full 
line  of  shoes,  clothing  and  furnishing  goods. 
July  I,  1S96,  he  sold  out  his  business,  since  which 
time  he  has  given  his  attention  principally  to 
feeding  and  selling  cattle. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Robertson  took  place  in 
Fort  Collins  June  14,  1888,  ^nd  united  him  with 
Miss  Lelia,  daughter  of  Abner  Loomis.  She 
was  born  in  Larimer  County  October  6,  1865, 
and  here  her  entire  life,  thus  far,  has  been  passed. 
She  is  a  graduate  of  the  State  Agricultural  Col- 
lege. The  family  home  is  situated  on  Mountain 
avenue  and  is  brightened  by  two  children,  Scott 
Loomis,  born  August  8,  1891,  and  Helen  Parish, 
born  January  31,  1897.  In  addition  to  this  prop- 
erty Mr.  Robertson  owns  other  valuable  real  estate. 
Politically  he  is  a  Democrat,  and  is  chairman  of 
the  Democratic  county  central  committee.  For 
a  time  he  served  as  councilman.  He  is  one  of 
the  directors  in  the  Poudre  Valley  Bank  and  has 
other  connections  with  local  enterprises.  Fra- 
ternally a  Mason,  he  belongs  to  Collins  Lodge 
No.  19,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  Collins  Chapter  No.  11, 
R.  A.  M.,  and  DeMolay  Commandery  No.  13, 
K.  T.,  besides  which  he  is  identified  with  the 
Woodmen  of  the  World. 


30HN  D.  JONES,  assistant  state  inspector  of 
coal  mines  for  Colorado  and  a  resident  of 
this  state  since  1882,  was  born  in  Ystrad- 
gynlais,  Breconshire,  Wales,  the  son  of  David 
and  Margaret  Jones.  His  father,  who  was  born 
in  Carmarthaenshire,  removed  to  Brecon  in  early 
manhood  and  there  married  and  engaged  in 
working  for  the  Yniscedwyn  Coal  and  Iron  Com- 
pany until  he  was  fatally  injured  by  the  fall  of 
coal  and  slate  in  the  mine.  After  a  few  months 
of  suffering  he  passed  away,  aged  forty-six  years. 
His  father-in-law,  whose  name  was  the  same  as 
his  own  and  who  came  from  the  same  shire,  was, 
however,  no  relation;  he  was  for  years  employed 
as  superintendent  of  the  coal  department  of  the 
Yniscedwyn  Coal  and  Iron  Company,  but  retired 
in  old  age  and  died  when  past  seventy  years. 
Mrs.  Margaret  Jones,  who  still  lives  in  Wales, 
had  six  children,  namely:  Mrs.  Mary  Griffith,  of 
Wales;    Mrs.    Catherine  Hoskins,    who  died  in 


Wales  in  1894;  David,  who  is  engaged  in  oper- 
ating gold  mines  in  Anaconda;  John  D.;  Mrs. 
Ann  Watkins,  of  Wales;  and  Mrs.  Gwen  Thomas, 
who  died  in  her  native  land. 

At  the  age  of  about  ten  our  subject  went  into  the 
mines  with  his  father,  under  whom  he  learned  to 
mine  coal  and  became  familiar  with  the  other  de- 
partments of  the  work.  He  was  with  his  father 
when  the  latter  was  fatally  injured  in  the  mine. 
After  his  father's  death  he  remained  a  workman 
in  the  mine  for  some  time,  but  believing  that 
America  offered  better  opportunities  he  resolved 
to  come  hither,  and  in  1882,  with  his  brother, 
arrived  in  Colorado,  where  he  secured  work  at 
Coal  Creek  with  the  Colorado  Coal  and  Iron 
Company.  In  1885  he  resigned  his  position 
there  and  went  to  Leadville,  where  he  engaged 
in  metalliferous  mining  in  Iowa  Gulch,  but  in 
the  fall  of  the  same  year  went  back  to  Coal  Creek. 
In  1887  he  entered  the  University  of  Denver, 
where  he  studied  bookkeeping  and  other  studies 
connected  with  the  commercial  course.  After- 
ward he  worked  in  the  Blossburg  mines  a  short 
time,  but  in  the  fall  of  1888  took  up  the  study 
of  mathematics  in  the  University  of  Denver.  In 
the  spring  of  1889  he  went  to  Idaho  Springs, 
where  he  worked  in  the  Salisbury  mines. 

Taking  a  vacation  from  his  work,  after  almost 
ten  years  in  America,  in  the  fall  of  1891  Mr. 
Jones  returned  to  his  native  land  on  a  visit,  going 
from  New  York  by  steamer  to  Liverpool  and 
thence  to  Swansea.  He  spent  three  months  in 
the  old  home  shire,  and  in  February,  1892,  re- 
turned to  the  United  States,  encountering  much 
unpleasant  weather  between  Liverpool  and  New 
York.  On  going  home  his  brother  was  with  him, 
but  he  returned  to  this  countrj^  alone.  For  some 
months  he  was  employed  in  the  Maid  of  Erin 
mine  at  Leadville,  but  an  attack  of  grippe  left 
him  in  delicate  health  and  he  was  obliged  to  seek 
a  lower  altitude.  He  then  went  to  Canon  City. 
In  1893  he  engaged  with  the  Santa  Fe  Company 
at  Rockville,  and  remained  in  their  employ  until 
February  18,  1895,  when  he  was  appointed  assist- 
ant state  inspector  of  coal  mines  by  David  Grif- 
fith. In  1894  he  began  a  course  with  the  Inter- 
national Correspondence  School  of  Scranton,  from 
which  he  received  a  diploma  September  8,  1897, 
having  a  standing  of  over  ninety-nine  per  cent. 
Fraternally  he  is  connected  with  the  Odd  Fel- 
lows at  Idaho  Springs.     He  is  not  a  member  of 


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any  denomination,  but  inclines  to  the  faith  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  to  which  his  par- 
ents belonged.  He  has  a  son,  David  L.,  by  his 
marriage  to  Sarah  Rees,  who  was  born  in 
Streator,  111.,  but  spent  her  girlhood  principally 
in  Colorado,  where  she  was  married.  Her  father, 
Thomas  Rees,  was  born  in  South  Wales,  emi- 
grated to  Illinois,  thence  to  Colorado,  and  en- 
gaged in  mining  at  Rockville,  but  died  of  heart 
disease  while  working  in  the  mine. 


61  NDREW  J.  MACKY,  president  of  the  First 
LI  National  Bank  of  Boulder,  has  been  inti- 
/  I  mately  identified  with  this  institution  from 
its  start.  He  was  one  of  its  organizers  in  1877 
and  was  made  a  director  at  that  time,  but  two 
years  later  was  elected  vice-president,  and  about 
1885  was  chosen  president,  which  position  he  has 
filled  with  efficiency.  The  other  ofiicers  are: 
George  F.  Fonda,  vice-president;  W.  H.  Aller- 
son,  cashier;  Charles  H.  Wise,  assistant  cashier. 
The  second  charter  of  the  bank,  secured  in  1897, 
showed  an  increase  of  capitalization  from 
$50, 000, to  $100, 000, a  surplus  of  $20,000  and  paid- 
in  dividends  of  $260, 000,  since  its  organization. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  is  a  member  of  an 
old  family  of  New  York.  His  grandfather,  who 
was  a  soldier  in  the  war  of  1812,  engaged  in 
farming  and  general  business  pursuits,  and  died 
at  ninety-five  years  of  age;  his  wife  passed  away 
at  the  age  of  ninety-four.  The  father,  Abraham 
Macky,  a  native  of  New  York,  removed  to 
Wayne  County  and  engaged  in  farming  near 
Savannah,  where  he  remained  until  his  death. 
He  was  accidentally  killed  in  a  railroad  accident, 
when  forty-five  years  of  age.  His  wife,  Eliza- 
beth Wormuth,  was  of  Holland-Dutch  descent, 
her  ancestors  having  located  in  the  Mohawk  Val- 
ley at  an  early  day.  She  died  at  seventy-seven 
years.  Her  father  was  ninety-five  and  her 
mother  ninety-four  at  the  time  of  death. 

The  family  of  which  Mr.  Macky  was  the  old- 
est consisted  of  four  sons  and  three  daughters, 
all  of  whom,  but  one  daughter,  attained  mature 
years  and  are  still  living.  Two  brothers,  Jerome 
and  Alonzo,  were  members  of  a  New  York  regi- 
ment during  the  Civil  war,  and  they,  as  well  as 
the  third  brother,  Chauncey,  reside  in  Michi- 
gan. The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  in 
Herkimer  County,  N.  Y.,  November  11,  1834, 
14 


and  was  reared  in  Wayne  County,  where  he  at- 
tended public  school.  He  learned  the  trade  of  a 
carpenter  and  joiner, which  he  followed  in  Wayne 
County  until  1857,  and  then  went  to  Grant  Coun- 
ty, Wis. ,  where  he  was  similarly  occupied.  Dur- 
ing the  Pike's  Peak  gold  excitement  of  1859  he 
started  for  the  mountains,  going  with  team  and 
cows  to  Omaha,  and  from  there  three  weeks 
later  he  started  across  the  plains  with  an  ox- 
train.  After  a  journey  of  six  weeks  he  reached 
Colorado,  in  July,  and  spent  the  remainder  of  the 
summer  in  Boulder  and  Gilpin  Counties.  In  i860 
he  went  to  California  Gulch,  where  he  engaged 
in  mining,  but  in  the  fall  returned  to  Boulder, 
where  he  worked  at  his  trade.  On  coming  to 
this  now  beautiful  city  he  found  it  a  town  of  log 
huts  and  tents,  and  in  the  fall  of  1 860  he  built  the 
first  frame  house  here.  It  then  stood  on  the  corner 
of  Pearl  and  Fourteenth  streets,  but  has  since 
been  removed  two  blocks  east.  Being  a  fine 
building  for  those  days,  it  was  used  for  special 
occasions,  such  as  court  sessions,  public  meet- 
ings and  dances.  Later  he  erected  the  first  bpck 
residence  in  Boulder,  a  portion  of  which  is  still 
standing;  also  the  first  brick  business  .house, 
which  still  stands;  and  the  first  building  with 
plate  glass  front  and  iron  posts. 

The  first  public  position  held  by  Mr.  Macky 
was  that  of  deputy  to  Mr.  Chambers,  the  county 
treasurer.  Afterward  he  was  elected  to  the  office 
and  became  the  second  trea.surer  of  Boulder 
County,  holding  the  position  nine  years,  a  longer 
period  than  it  has  been  held  by  any  other  in- 
cumbent. He  was  postmaster  for  more  than 
nine  years  and  the  postoffice  was  kept  in  his 
building.  As  deputy  internal  revenue  collector 
for  Boulder,  Weld  and  Larimer  Counties,  it  was 
his  duty  to  collect  income,  profession  and  property 
tax,  placed  on  account  of  the  Civil  war.  This 
position  of  deputy  he  held  until  the  oflSce  was 
moved  to  Denver.  For  some  time  he  was  city 
clerk,  also  served  as  postmaster  and  city  treas- 
urer over  nine  3'ears;  and  as  clerk  of  the  dis- 
trict court  under  James  A.  Belford,  and  deputy 
clerk  for  Boulder  County  under  John  A.  Cleve- 
land. As  justice  of  the  peace  he  also  rendered 
efficient  service  to  his  community.  For  many 
years  he  served  as  secretary  of  the  Boulder 
County  Agricultural  Society,  accepting  the  posi- 
tion when  the  organization  had  a  debt  of  $4,000 
and  through  his  personal  efibrts  reducing  the  in- 


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debtedness  to  $75.  He  had  almost  the  whole 
burden  of  the  management  of  the  societ}^  and  suc- 
ceeded in  increasing  its  usefulness  and  popularity, 
but  after  his  resignation  as  secretary  the  society 
fell  to  pieces. 

In  addition  to  the  presidency  of  the  bank,  Mr. 
Macky  has  other  valuable  business  interests.  He 
was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Boulder  Mill- 
ing and  Elevator  Company,  with  which  he  is  still 
connected.  During  all  this  time  he  has  been  in- 
terested in  mining.  Among  the  tracts  of  real 
estate  that  he  owns  are  the  lands  included  in  the 
Mapleton  addition  to  the  city  of  Boulder,  and  he 
is  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  company  that 
has  platted  and  sold  the  lots.  In  the  association 
of  Boulder  County  Pioneers,  of  which  he  is  an 
active  member,  he  has  for  years  held  the  office  of 
secretary  and  is  also  a  member  of  the  As.sociation 
of  Colorado  Pioneers.  His  marriage,  which  took 
place  in  Boulder  March  8,  1870,  united  him  with 
Adelaide  B.  Dickerson,  who  was  born  in  Massa- 
chusetts and  died  in  Colorado  in  1895.  Frater- 
nally he  is  identified  with  Columbia  Lodge  No. 
14,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.;  Boulder  Chapter  No.  7, 
R.  A.  M.;  Mount  Sinai  Commandery  No.  7, 
K.  T. ;  El  Jebel  Temple,  N.  M.  S. ,  and  the  Eastern 
Star  Lodge.  Politically  he  is  a  Republican  and 
has  been  a  member  of  the  state  central  committee 
of  the  party. 

(JEROME  MATHEWS,  who  is  engaged  in 
I  the  cattle  business  in  Elbert  County,  was 
(2)  born  in  Kenton,  Hardin  County,  Ohio,  and 
is  the  son  of  Bernard  and  Ellen  (Clinton) 
Mathews,  both  natives  of  Dublin,  Ireland.  His 
mother,  who  was  of  English  ancestry,  was  a  lineal 
descendant  of  Lord  Clinton,  who  was  a  British 
general  during  the  Revolutionary  war.  Bernard 
Mathews  grew  to  manhood  in  his  native  land, 
where  he  married  and  where  two  of  his  children 
were  born.  On  emigrating  to  America  he  settled 
in  Ohio  and  engaged  in  farming  in  Hardin 
County,  where  he  died  at  ninety-one  years  of  age. 
His  wife  was  seventy-two  at  the  time  of  her 
death. 

The  parental  family  consisted  of  ten  children, 
of  whom  we  note  the  following:  Mrs.  Mary  Gar- 
rity  lives  in  Des  Moines,  Iowa;  John,  one  of  the 
pioneer  cattlemen  of  Elbert  County,  owns  and 
carries  on  a  ranch  at  North  Park;  James  C,  also 
a  cattleman,  resides  in  Denver;  Matthew  R.  is  in 


North  Park;  Cornelius  M.  is  ranching  in  Elbert 
County;  Lucy  P.,  a  sister  of  charity,  is  con- 
nected with  the  Good  Samaritan  Hospital  of  Cin- 
cinnati; Joseph  C.  resides  on  the  old  Ohio 
homestead;  Clotilda  was  the  wife  of  D.  Flanni- 
gan,  of  Kenton,  Ohio,  where  she  died  in  1897; 
Alfred  is  the  editor  of  the  Kenton  Democrat,  pub- 
lished in  Kenton,  Ohio;  and  Jerome  is  the  young- 
est of  the  family. 

The  first  members  of  the  family  to  locate  in 
Colorado  were  John  and  Cornelius  M.,  who 
crossed  the  plains  with  freight  teams  in  1862  and 
for  a  period  continued  in  that  then  very  lucrative 
business.  In  1869  they  established  a  ranch  upon 
the  present  site  of  Elizabeth,  Elbert  County,  and 
continued  in  the  cattle  business  until  their  cattle 
were  numbered  by  the  thousands.  In  1872  they 
were  joined  by  James  C,  who  had  gone  from 
Ohio  to  Des  Moines,  Iowa.  There,  in  1869,  he 
married  Teresa  Kennedy,  a  beautiful  and  accom- 
plished lady,  who  comes  from  a  fine  family  num- 
bering among  their  ancestors  the  eminent  scholar. 
Dr.  Cahil,  and  Bishop  Butler,  of  Limerick. 
Coming  from  a  family  of  orators,  she  inherited  a 
great  talent  for  this  art,  and  in  early  life  became 
a  pupil  of  the  late  Walter  C.  Lyman.  On  arriv- 
ing in  Colorado  she  became  a  pioneer  ranch- 
woman,  but  later  made  her  home  in  Denver, 
where  she  has  devoted  her  time  to  her  art  and 
established  The  Kennedy  College  of  Oratory. 

Jerome,  of  this  sketch,  was  educated  in  Notre 
Dame  University  at  South  Bend,  Ind.,  from 
which  he  received  his  diploma  in  1874.  Being 
the  seventh  son  of  the  seventh  son,  it  was  decided 
by  the  family  that  he  should  be  a  physician,  but, 
his  health  having  failed  during  his  studies,  he 
was  advised  by  his  doctor  to  give  up  school  and 
seek  an  open  air  life  in  Colorado,  where  he  ar- 
rived in  1877,  joining  his  older  brothers  in  the 
cattle  business.  In  1886  he  and  his  brother, 
James  C,  established  a  large  hay  ranch  at  Wal- 
den  in  North  Park.  They  fenced  the  entire  ranch 
and  carried  on  cattle-raising  extensively,  raising 
a  fine  grade  of  cattle  and  making  shipments  to 
the  east.  The  climate  of  North  Park  being 
severe  and  the  locality  too  far  away  from  their 
Denver  home,  they  sold  their  property  there  and 
returned  to  Elbert  Count}^  where  they  now  are 
engaged  in  cattle-raising. 

Politically  Mr.  Mathews  is  in  sympathy  with 
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votes  that  ticket  at  elections,  but  the  duties  of 
business  have  engrossed  his  attention  and  pre- 
vented him  from  identifying  himself  with  public 
afEairs.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Colorado  Cattle 
Growers'  Association.  In  everything  pertaining 
to  the  cattle  business  he  takes  a  warm  interest. 
He  believes  Colorado  to  be  one  of  the  best  of  our 
states  for  stock-raising  purposes,  the  abundance 
of  water,  excellence  of  the  pasturage  and  extent 
of  range  making  it  especially  adapted  for  that  de- 
partment of  agriculture. 


pQlLLIAM  P.  ALLEN,  M.  D.,  a  practicing 
\KI  pl^J'sicianof  Eaton,  Weld  County,  is  one 
Y  V  of  the  rising  young  professional  men  of  his 
locality.  He  is  a  son  of  Levi  E.  Allen,  president 
of  the  Weld  County  Abstract  Company,  at 
Greeley,  and  a  native  of  New  York  state,  born 
January  25,  1840,  to  John  and  Mary  (Butterick) 
Allen,  natives  respectively  of  Hartford,  Conn., and 
Massachusetts.  John  Allen,  who  'was  one  of 
eleven  children  that  attained  mature  years,  en- 
gaged in  farm  pursuits  during  his  active  life. 
His  son,  Levi  E. ,  was  educated  in  a  log  school 
house  in  Wisconsin,  the  family  having  moved  to 
that  state  when  he  was  five  years  of  age.  When 
twenty-one  he  enlisted  in  Company  C,  Thirteenth 
Wisconsin  Infantry,  and  later,  until  May,  1866, 
served  as  quartermaster  of  the  Sixty-fifth  United 
States  colored  troops.  On  his  return  to  Wiscon- 
sin he  engaged  in  farming  near  Sharon,  but 
after  some  years,  in  1872,  he  opened  a  hardware 
store.  Five  years  later  he  was  elected  circuit 
clerk,  which  office  he  filled  for  seven  years,  then 
resumed  farming.  In  1893  he  came  to  Colorado 
and  has  since  carried  on  an  abstract  business. 
He  is  a  member  of  U.  S.  Grant  Post  No.  13, 
G.  A.  R.J  and  its  present  commander.  In  re- 
ligion he  is  a  Congregationalist.  In  1864  he 
married  Carrie,  daughter  of  Joseph  R.  and 
Celestial  (Johnson)  Wilkins,  and  they  are  the 
parents  of  five  children,  namely:  Pliny  W.,  who 
is  associated  with  his  father  in  business;  William 
P.;  Albert  J.,  a  notary  public,  and  also  in  the 
abstract  business;  Mary  C,  a  teacher  in  the  Fort 
Collins  public  schools;  and  Maud  Alice.  Calver 
Allen,  the  doctor's  great-grandfather,-  was  a 
brigadier-general  in  the  war  of  1812,  and  fought 
in  the  battle  of  Sacket's  Harbor. 

In  Sharon,  Wis.,  where  he  was  born  May   27, 


1870,  the  subject  of  this  sketch  received  his  edu- 
cation, first  attending  public  schools  and  later 
taking  a  special  course  under  a  professor,  after 
which  he  matriculated  at  the  Chicago  Homeo- 
pathic College.  He  continued  in  that  institution 
until  he  graduated  with  the  class  of  1894,  and 
afterward  spent  eighteen  months  in  hospital 
work,  in  order  that  he  might  obtain  the  practical 
experience  so  essential  to  the  highest  success. 
Coming  west,  he  opened  an  office  at  Greeley,  but 
a  few  months  later  located  at  Eaton,  where  he 
has  since  built  up  an  excellent  practice.  At  this 
writing  he  holds  ofiice  as  health  physician  of 
Eaton.  His  practice  takes  him  on  drives  through 
the  surrounding  country,  as  well  as  in  the  village 
itself.  He  is  a  student  of  the  profession,  and 
keeps  in  touch  with  every  advance  made  in  the 
science,  thereby  heightening  his  skill  as  a  phy- 
sician. Fraternally  he  is  connected  with  Occi- 
dental Lodge  No.  20,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  of  Greeley, 
Eaton  Lodge  No.  130,  Woodmen  of  the  World, 
and  Elkhorn  (Wis.)  Lodge  No.  89,  K.  of  P. 
In  politics  he  is  a  Republican. 


P  QlLLIAM  NICHOLSON,  president  of  the 
I  A/  Long's  Peak  Coal  Company  and  mayor  of 
V  Y  Erie,  Weld  County,  was  born  in  County 
Durham,  England,  July  21,  1850,  a  son  of  Henry 
and 'Jane  (Atkinson)  Nicholson.  He  was  the 
youngest  of  thirteen  children,  five  of  whom  are 
still  living.  Those  besides  himself  are  sisters: 
Mrs.  Mary  Robinson,  a  widow;  Elizabeth,  wife 
of  John  Warhurst;  Esther,  wife  of  John  Lawson; 
and  Jane,  Mrs.  Thomas  Johnson,  all  living  in 
England.  The  father,  who  spent  his  entire  life 
in  England,  followed  coal  mining  until  his  death. 
When  a  small  child  our  subject  was  deprived 
of  a  mother's  care  by  death.  He  was  thirty 
when  his  father  died.  From  the  time  he  was 
eighteen  he  was  thrown  upon  his  own  resources. 
Going  to  work  in  the  mines,  he  devoted  himself 
to  coal  mining,  and  at  twenty  years  of  age  had 
charge  of  some  ninety  men  in  the  Dickinson  mine, 
which  important  position  he  held  about  ten  years. 
In  1 88 1  he  determined  to  come  to  America  and 
landed  in  Philadelphia  after  a  thirteen  days' 
voyage  on  the  steamer  "British  Crown,"  which 
anchored  in  harbor  July  28  of  that  year.  From 
Philadelphia  he  went  direct  to  Steubenville,  Ohio, 
where  be  worked  in  the  mines  for  two  years.     In 


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1883  he  came  to  Colorado  and  took  charge  of  the 
Garfield  mine  at  Erie,  which  he  managed  some 
four  years.  He  was  then  made  manager  of  the 
Stewart  mine  here  and  for  five  years  continued  in 
this  position. 

Resigning  that  position  in  1892,  Mr.  Nicholson 
formed  a  partnership  with  Joseph  R.  Powell  and 
leased  their  present  property,  and  sinking  their 
mine,  began  business  for  themselves  as  the  Long's 
Peak  Coal  Mining  Company,  with  Mr.  Nicholson 
as  president  and  Mr.  Powell  as  vice-president  and 
secretary.  In  1893  they  sold  a  half-interest  in 
the  mine  to  the  United  Coal  Company,  when  that 
company  was  incorporated  and  Edward  P.  Phelps, 
of  Denver,  became  treasurer  of  the  consolidated 
company. 

In  Denver,  in  1883,  Mr.  Nicholson  was  united 
in  marriage  with  Miss  Alice  V.  Pallatt,  a  native 
of  Philadelphia.  No  children  were  born  to  their 
marriage. 

In  April  of  1898  Mr.  Nicholson  was  elected 
mayor  of  Erie.  Four  years  prior  to  this  he  served 
as  a  member  of  the  board  of  aldermen.  He  is  in- 
terested in  all  matters  pertaining  to  the  welfare 
of  his  fellow-citizens  and  the  development  of  local 
resources.  Fraternally  he  is  connected  with 
Garfield  Lodge  No.  50,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  Long's 
Peak  Commandery  No.  12,  K.  T.,  of  Longmont, 
and  Eureka  Lodge  No.  i,  A.  O.  U.  W.  His 
residence  is  one  of  the  most  handsome  in  this 
section.  He  is  held  in  high  esteem  by  all  with 
whom  he  comes  in  contact. 


HON.  HENRY  GEBHARD.  In  the  list  of 
industries  contributing  to  the  development 
of  Colorado  the  Colorado  Packing  and  Pro- 
vision Company  should  receive  prominent  men- 
tion. This  company  was  organized  in  1890  by 
Mr.  Gebhard,  who  the  following  year  built  a 
large  packing  house,  equipped  with  refrigerator 
and  ice  machine  and  furnished  with  steam  power. 
From  the  first  he  has  been  the  president  of  the 
company  as  well  as  its  manager,  and  it  is  largely 
due  to  his  enterprise  and  sagacious  judgment  that 
the  house  does  the  largest  business  of  any  of  its 
kind  in  the  state. 

As  the  name  indicates,  the  Gebhard  family  is 
of  German  origin.  The  subject  of  this  .sketch 
was  born  in  Baden  February  12,  1846,  and  that 
city  was  also  the  birthplace  of  his  parents,  Adam 


and  Susan  (Geiger)  Gebhard,  and  of  his  grand- 
fathers, Henry  Gebhard  and  Conrad  Geiger,  both 
farmers  by  occupation.  Of  the  family  of  five 
children  he  was  next  to  the  eldest;  he  has  with 
him  a  younger  brother,  Paul,  who  is  interested 
in  the  packing  company.  When  seventeen  years 
of  age  Henry  began  to  learn  the  builder's  trade, 
which  he  followed  for  some  years  in  his  native 
land.  In  1868  he  took  passage  on  a  vessel  at 
Hamburg  and  after  landing  in  New  York  he  pro- 
ceeded direct  to  Chicago,  from  there  going  to  the 
Lake  Superior  region  and  working  at  his  trade 
in  Hancock,  Mich.  In  1869  he  came  to  Colorado 
and  located  in  Central  City,  where  he  secured 
employment  at  his  trade. 

In  company  with  another  gentleman,  in  1872 
Mr.  Gebhard  started  in  business  for  himself,  and 
the  firm  of  Huber  &  Gebhard  became  well  known 
as  wholesale  and  retail  dealers  in  meat.  Two 
years  later  he  started  a  ranch  in  Elbert  County 
and  embarked  in  the  cattle  business,  buying  and 
selling,  and  shipping  to  Denver  and  other  points. 
The  ranch  was  sold  in  1884  and  the  partnership 
dissolved  the  next  year.  Coming  to  make  his 
home  in  Denver  in  1884,  Mr.  Gebhard  has  since 
resided  in  this  city,  where,  in  1887,  he  laid  the 
plans  for  his  packing  house.  He  was  first  a 
member  of  the  Burkhardt  Packing  Company, 
which  conducted  business  in  an  old  packing 
house  built  by  Mr.  Hufifers,  but  this  building 
soon  became  too  small  for  the  increasing  trade. 
In  1890  he  organized  the  Colorado  Packing  and 
Provision  Company,  the  largest  packers  of  pork 
and  beef  in  the  state.  The  packing  house  con- 
tains every  modern  equipment.  The  meat  is  cut 
up  on  the  second  floor  and  dropped  to  the  cellar, 
where  it  is  cured  and  hams  are  smoked.  On  the 
third  floor  is  the  cooling  or  chilling  room,  and  on 
the  fourth  floor  is  the  sausage  factory.  .  The  meat 
is  distributed  in  Denver  and  shipped  to  the 
mountain  towns  of  Colorado;  also  to  New  Mex- 
ico, Arizona,  Texas,  Idaho,  California,  Nevada, 
Oregon  and  Washington. 

Mr.  Gebhard  is  a  member  of  the  Colorado 
Cattle  Growers'  Association  and  has  served  on  a 
number  of  its  committees.  In  politics  he  is  a  Re- 
publican. For  two  terms  (from  1878  to  1882)  he 
was  a  member  of  the  state  legislature,  and  served 
with  marked  ability  and  satisfaction  to  his  con- 
stituents. He  also  served  on  the  board  of  county 
commissioners   of  Elbert   County,  and  for   one 


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term  was  its  chairman.  He  is  a  director  in  the 
Denver  National  Bank.  He  has  a  comfortable 
home  in  Denver,  presided  over  by  his  wife,  who 
was  Miss  Emily  Ehorst,  a  native  of  Hanover. 
The}'  are  the  parents  of  six  children,  namely: 
Charles,  who  is  foreman  of  the  shipping  depart- 
ment of  the  packing  house;  Harry,  who  is  em- 
ployed on  the  delivery  force;  Mina;  Paul  and 
Otto,  twins;  and  Margaret. 

The  business  interests  of  Colorado  are  indebted 
to  such  men  as  Mr.  Gebhard  for  developing  the 
resources  of  the  countr)'  and  giving  employment 
to  many  hands  and  thus  sending  happiness  to 
many  homes.  He  worked  his  way  to  success  by 
the  use  of  good  business  methods,  and  built  up 
an  enviable  reputation  among  the  business  men 
of  the. state,  who  prize  his  friendship  and  ac- 
knowledge him  as  a  leader  among  men. 


gEORGE  RICHARD  WILLIAMSON  is  one 
of  the  pioneers  of  Colorado,  as  he  arrived 
here  in  December,  1858,  and  in  the  follow- 
ing spring  assisted  in  laying  out  the  town  of 
Boulder,  and  built  one  of  the  first  houses  in  the 
place,  it  being  made  of  logs.  For  the  past  forty 
years  he  has  been  actively  interested  in  farming 
and  mining  operations  and  has  done  all  within  his 
power  to  advance  the  material  welfare  of  this  lo- 
cality. He  constructed  the  wagon  road  between 
Boulder  and  Rawlins,  along  Bear  Canon;  was  one 
of  the  organizers  of  the  Boulder  National  Bank, 
and  since  the  expiration  of  its  second  year  has 
been  the  president  and  chief  stockholder.  He 
was  one  of  the  early  members  of  the  Boulder 
Electric  Light  Company,  and  has  been  a  director 
and  treasurer  of  the  same;  and  is  financially  in- 
terested in  the  Boulder  Elevator  and  Milling  Com- 
pany. 

The  birth  of  G.  R.  Williamson  occurred  near 
Mercer,  Mercer  County,  Pa.,  July  14,  1824.  His 
parents,  Thomas  and  Elizabeth  (Fruit)  William- 
son, were  natives  of  the  same  county,  Mercer. 
The  father  was  a  soldier  of  the  war  of  18 12,  enlist- 
ing when  but  eighteen  years  of  age,  and  was  in 
the  lake  region  service.  His  three  brothers  were 
also  participants  in  the  war,  and  one  of  them, 
Samuel,  rose  to  the  rank  of  colonel.  Thomas 
Williamson  was  occupied  in  farming  in  his  native 
county  until  he  was  well  along  in  years.  His 
death  took  place  when  he  had  reached  his  seventy- 


first  year.  His  wife,  who  was  a  daughter  of 
Richard  Fruit,  died  at  the  age  of  fifty  years.  Her 
mother  was  related  to  Governor  Curtiu  of  Penn-  ■ 
sylvania.  The  marriage  of  Thomas  and  Eliza- 
beth Williamson  was  blessed  with  eight  children, 
four  of  whom  survive.  Samuel,  a  brother  of  our 
subject,   died  in  Colorado. 

Anancestor  of  our  subject, Thomas  Williamson, 
was  created  a  baronet  June  3,  1642,  by  Charles  I. 
of  England.  The  family  coat-of-arms  is  a  shield 
or  a  chevron  gules,  between  three  trefoils,  slipped 
sable.  The  crest:  issuing  from  a  mural  crown, 
gules  a  drui-wyvern,  and  the  motto  is  "Et  patri- 
bus  et  posteritate."  ("Both  for  forefathers  and 
for  posterity.")  The  great-grandfather  of  our 
subject  was  a  native  of  Scotland.  He  married 
Mollie  Cochran,  and  emigrated  to  the  United 
States,  settling  in  eastern  Pennsylvania.  His 
forefather's  history  and  lineage  can  be  traced  back 
as  far  as  1381.  Grandfather  George  Williamson 
was  born  in  Pennsylvania  and  with  his  six  broth- 
ers fought  in  the  war  of  the  Revolution.  Subse- 
quently he  went  to  the  neighborhood  of  Lexing- 
ton, Ky.,  where  he  located  on  a  land  claim,  but 
the  Indians  were  so  troublesome  that  he  returned 
to  his  native  state,  and  in  1798  engaged  in  farm- 
ing in  Mercer  County,  where  he  continued  to 
dwell  until  his  death,  at  the  age  of  fourscore 
years. 

Reared  on  a  farm  and  educated  in  the  district 
schools,  such  was  the  history  of  George  R.  Wil- 
liamson prior  to  his  eighteenth  year,  when  he 
obtained  a  teacher's  certificate  and  had  charge  of 
a  school  for  a  term  or  more.  He  went  to  Wiscon- 
sin and  spent  the  winter  of  1852-53,  and  in  the 
following  year  crossed  the  state  of  Iowa  with  a 
team,  and  settling  in  Nebraska,  engaged  in  farm- 
ing in  Dakota  County.  He  was  the  first  sheriff 
of  that  county,  in  which  region  he  remained  until 
the  Pike's  Peak  excitement  led  him  to  start  for 
Colorado.  He  joined  a  wagon  train  fitted  out  in 
Sioux  City,  and  journeyed  up  the  Platte  as  far  as 
Julesburg,  thence  to  the  present  site  of  Cheyenne, 
and  southward  to  Boulder,  the  trip  taking  about 
two  months.  Stopping  in  the  hamlet  of  Big 
Thompson,  they  put  up  some  shanties  and  in  the 
January  following  went  to  Boulder.  Mr.  William- 
son engaged  in  gulch-mining  at  South  Boulder, 
Spring  Gulch,  California  Gulch,  etc.,  for  some  time, 
having  John  Rothrick  for  his  partner.  In  the  fall 
of  i860  our  subject  returned  to  this  town  and  has 


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since  been  interested  in  several  mines  which 
he  opened,  known  as  the  Yellow  Pine  Group. 
He  personally  superintends  the  mines,  and 
made  the  locations  under  the  new  law  of  fif- 
teen hundred  feet  to  the  claim.  He  also  is 
concerned  in  the  extension  of  the  Utica  mine 
east  (the  Oklahoma),  near  Ward,  and  in  other 
mining  property  of  value.  He  has  made  a 
study  of  mineralogy  and  is  thoroughly  posted 
upon  everything  pertaining  to  ores  and  mining. 
His  fine  farm  of  three  hundred  acres  is  well  im- 
proved, and  lies  about  a  mile  and  a-half  east  of 
Boulder.  A  well-built  brick  block,  called  in  his 
honor,  was  erected  by  him  in  this  place,  as  well 
as  other  structures.  For  years  he  made  his  home 
near  Sugar  lyOaf,  in  this  county,  in  order  to  be  in 
the  vicinity  of  his  mines,  but  for  about  nine  years 
he  has  been  a  resident  of  Boulder.  Until  recently, 
and  from  its  organization,  he  was  a  member  of  the 
Association  of  Colorado  Pioneers,  and  he  still  be- 
longs to  the  Boulder  County  Pioneer  Society 

May  13,  1875,  Mr.  Williamson  married  in  Den- 
ver Mrs.  Erie  (Kuester)  Graves,  daughter  of 
James  M.  Kuester,  who  was  a  noted  editor  and 
journalist.  He  was  one  of  the  first  editors  of  the 
Pittsburg  Dispatch;\dXtr  published  the  Mercer  Dis- 
patch; the  Erie  Observer;  the  Lawrence  Journal, 
ofNewcatle.  He  came  to  Denver  in  1875,  and 
died  at  the  age  of  seventy-two  years.  His  father, 
Mordecai,  was  a  native  of  Germany,  and  after  his 
settlement  in  the  Keystone  state,  married  a 
Quaker  maiden,  and  lived  in  Philadelphia.  The 
mother  of  Mrs.  Williamson  was  Catherine, daugh- 
ter of  Daniel  Deutler  and  wife,  who  was  a  Miss 
Gottschalk,  a  descendant  of  a  Revolutionary  war 
hero.  Mrs.  Williamson  was  born  near  Erie,  Pa.; 
was  educated  in  the  high  school  and  seminary  of 
Newcastle,  and  upon  reaching  maturity  married 
Daniel  Graves,  a  farmer,  who  died  in  1876,  in 
Pennsylvania.  Some  time  afterward  she  came 
west,  and  lived  in  Denver  until  her  marriage  to 
Mr.  Williamson.  Her  only  sister,  Mary  E.,  is 
Mrs.  M.  Bliss,  of  Denver,  and  her  only  brother, 
Gilbert,  died  in  Pittsburg.  She  is  president  of 
the  Ladies'  Union  of  the  Boulder  Congregational 
Church. 

In  early  life  Mr.  Williamson  was  a  Whig  in 
politics,  and  cast  his  first  vote  for  Henry  Clay. 
After  the  dissolution  of  the  Whig  party,  he  be- 
came somewhat  independent  in  politics,  voting 
for  what  he  considered  to  be  the  best  interests  of 


the  people  and  the  country.  In  1874  he  was  ap- 
pointed by  Governor  Grant  one  of  the  county 
commissioners  of  Boulder  County  and  served 
about  one  year.  He  was  one  of  the  prime  factors 
in  the  organization  of  the  silver  party  in  the  state, 
and  has  ever  since  been  a  strong  advocate  of  the 
same,  believing  that  the  principles  and  policy  of 
that  party  would  best  insure  the  development  of 
the  state  and  country.  He  was  one  of  the  men 
who  determined  to  make  the  ratio  sixteen  to  one 
in  the  platform  of  the  party. 

For  many  years  Mr.  Williamson  has  been  rec- 
ognized as  one  of  the  most  intelligent  and  able 
men  of  Boulder  County  and  this  portion  of  Colo- 
rado. He  is  one  of  those  who,  in  the  pioneer  era, 
laid  the  foundation,  broad  and  deep,  which  has 
enabled  the  state  to  move  forward  in  its  splendid 
development.  As  one  of  the  pioneers  and  as  a 
citizen  possessing  sterling  qualities  of  manhood, 
he  will  long  be  remembered.  He  is  now  the  oldest 
bank  president  living  in  the  county. 


rjROF.  L.  G.  CARPENTER,  professor  of 
y^  civil  and  irrigation  engineering  in  the  State 
\!>  Agricultural  College  at  Fort  Collins,  was 
born  near  Orion,  Oakland  County,  Mich.,  and  is 
a  descendant  of  a  family  that  came  from  England 
to  Massachusetts,  thence  spreading  out,  through 
different  branches,  into  Connecticut,  Rhode  Is- 
land and  Long  Island.  The  first  of  the  name  in 
this  country  came  in  1636  to  Plymouth  and  one 
of  the  family  became  the  wife  of  Governor  Brad- 
ford. Daniel  P.  Carpenter,  theprofes,sor's  grand- 
father, was  born  in  Queens  County,  N.  Y.,  and 
became  a  pioneer  of  New  York,  one  of  his  daugh- 
ters being  the  first  white  child  born  at  Hornells- 
ville,  that  state.  In  1836  he  took  his  family  to 
Michigan  and  settled  near  Orion,  where  he  en- 
gaged in  farming  until  his  death.  He  was  suc- 
ceeded in  the  ownership  of  the  homestead  by  his 
son,  C.  K.,  a  native  of  Steuben  County,  N.  Y., 
but  during  most  of  his  life  a  resident  of  Michigan, 
where  he  was  a  very  prominent  man.  In  many 
enterprises  he  took  an  active  part,  all  of  them  of 
a  responsible  nature.  He  was  instrumental  in 
the  organization  of  the  Farmers'  (or  Monitor) 
Mutual  Fire  Insurance  Company,  of  which  he 
remained  president  until  his  death  and  which  be- 
came remarkably  successful.  Prior  to  the  Civil 
war  he  was  a  Democrat,  and  was  elected  to  the  state 


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legislature  on  his  party's  ticket.  During  the 
war  he  was  a  stanch  Union  man,  and  called  the 
first  Union  mass  meeting  in  Oakland  County, 
irrespective  of  party  lines.  Largely  through  his 
efforts  was  built  the  Detroit  and  Bay  City  Rail- 
road, the  right  of  way  for  which  he  secured,  as 
well  as  raising  a  large  part  of  the  money  required. 
He  was  vice-president  and  a  director  of  the  road 
until  his  death.  In  the  Grange  he  served  as  a 
state  officer.  A  stanch  friend  of  the  Prohibition 
movement,  and  by  principle  a  total  abstainer,  he 
finally  identified  himself  with  the  Prohibition 
party,  and  upon  that  ticket  was  nominated  for  gov- 
ernor of  Michigan.  At  one  time  he  was  also  the 
Greenback  nominee  for  governor,  but  refused  to 
accept  the  nomination,  having  never  acted  with 
that  party.  He  died  in  1884,  at  the  age  of  fifty- 
eight  years. 

The  mother  of  Professor  Carpenter  was  born  in 
Livingston  County,  N.  Y.,  and  was  Jennette, 
daughter  of  George  Coryell,  a  native  of  New 
York,  but  from  1843  a  farmer  in  Lapeer  County, 
Mich.  The  Cory  ells  are  of  French -Huguenot 
extraction,  and  he  inherited  the  courage  and 
determination  of  character  so  noticeable  in  people 
of  that  descent.  In  early  days  he  went  to  New 
Orleans  on  a  flatboat  and  from  that  city  crossed 
the  country  into  Texas,  where  a  brother-in-law 
was  surveyor-general.  He  remained  for  two 
years  and  one  of  the  counties  of  the  state  was 
named  in  his  honor.  Mrs.  Carpenter  is  still  liv- 
ing in  Orion.  Of  her  eight  children  all  but  two 
are  living.  Prof.  R.  C,  the  eldest  of  the  six,  is 
a  graduate  of  the  University  of  Michigan  and  the 
Agricultural  College,  and  is  now  professor  of  ex- 
perimental engineering  at  Cornell.  Judge  W.  L., 
the  second  son,  is  an  attorney  of  Detroit  and  a 
jurist  of  Wayne  County,  Mich.  Blanche  is  the 
wife  of  C.  H.  Seeley,  of  Aberdeen,  S.  Dak.; 
Mary  L.  is  the  wife  of  N.  S.  Mayo,  a  professor  in 
the  Agricultural  College  of  Connecticut;  and 
Jennette,  a  member  of  the  class  of  '98,  Agricult- 
ural College  of  Michigan. 

In  Orion,  where  he  was  born  March  28,  1861, 
the  subject  of  this  sketch  gained  the  rudiments  of 
his  education.  From  1876  to  1879  he  attended 
the  Michigan  Agricultural  College,  from  which 
he  graduated  with  the  degree  of  B.  S.  Afterward 
he  engaged  in  teaching  French  in  the  college.  In 
1 88 1  he  was  made  assistant  professor  of  mathe- 
matics and  engineering,    which    he  held    until 


resigning  to  accept  his  present  position.  He 
was  practically  the  organizer  of  the  department 
of  irrigation  engineering  in  the  Agricultural 
College  of  Colorado,  the  former  professor  having 
resigned  the  position  six  weeks  after  he  opened 
the  department.  He  spent  the  winters  of  1881-82 
and  1883-84  in  graduate  work  in  the  University 
of  Michigan,  making  a  specialty  of  mathematics 
and  physics.  In  the  winters  of  1885-86  and 
1887-88  he  engaged  in  post-graduate  work  in 
Johns  Hopkins  Univensity  at  Baltimore,  where 
he  had  all  the  privileges  of  a  Fellow  and  made  a 
specialty  of  mathematics,  physics  and  astronomy. 
In  June,  1888,  he  accepted  the  position  with  the 
Colorado  State  Agricultural  College,  and  in  Sep- 
tember took  up  the  professorship,  beginning  ex- 
perimental work  in  one  room,  then  branching  out 
to  the  main  building.  In  1893  he  took  posses- 
sion of  the  engineering  building,  which  had  been 
remodeled  for  this  department,  with  a  main  class 
room  upstairs,  an  office  and  drafting  room  on  the 
first  floor,  and  a  laboratory  in  the  basement.  At 
first  he  had  but  four  classes,  now  he  has  nearly 
thirty,  some  of  them  in  two  and  three  divisions. 
An  engineering  course,  which  is  complete,  has 
been  introduced.  He  also  has  charge  of  the 
meteorology  and  irrigation  engineering  section  of 
the  United  States  Agricultural  Experiment  sta- 
tion, the  line  of  experiments  stretching  out  over 
a  large  part  of  the  state.  A  number  of  years  ago 
he  was  appointed  an  United  States  artesian  well 
investigator,  having  charge  of  Colorado  and  New 
Mexico. 

In  Jackson,  Mich,,  Professor  Carpenter  mar- 
ried Miss  Mary  J.  Merrill,  who  was  born  in 
Canada  and  was  reared  in  Michigan,  graduating 
from  the  Michigan  Agricultural  College  in  188 1 
with  the  degree  of  B.  S.,  and  later  receiving  the 
degree  of  M.  S.  They  have  two  children,  Charles 
Louis  and  Jennette. 

Some  years  ago  Professor  Carpenter  was  made 
a  Fellow  of  the  American  Association  for  the 
Advancement  of  Science,  of  which  he  is  a 
member.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  British 
Association  for  the  Advancement  of  Science  and 
attended  the  meeting  of  the  society  at  Montreal 
in  1884.  He  was  one  of  the  incorporators  of  the 
Michigan  Engineering  Society  and  is  an  active 
member  of  the  Denver  Engineering  Society,  of 
which  he  has  served  as  vice-president.  In  1891 
he  assisted  in  the  organization,  at  Salt  Lake  City, 


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of  the  American  Society  of  Irrigation  Engineers, 
of  which  he  held  the  office  of  president  for  two 
years  and  which  has  members  from  many  of  the 
countries  of  the  world.  He  takes  an  active  in- 
terest in  the  work  of  the  American  Society  for 
the  Promotion  of  Engineering  Education,  and 
serves  as  a  member  of  its  board  of  directors.  In 
1895  the  French  government  conferred  on  him 
the  order.  Chevalier  du  Merite  Agricole,  in  rec- 
ognition of  important  services  rendered  in  the 
department  of  agriculture.  He  is  probably  the 
only  American  on  whom  this  honor  has  been 
bestowed. 

In  1892  he  visited  Europe,  and  spent  some 
time  in  investigating  the  irrigation  methods  and 
enterprises  of  France,  Italy  and  Algeria.  The 
work  of  this  department  has  been  generally  recog- 
nized by  the  different  countries  in  their  leading 
papers,  viz.:  Germany,  France,  Russia,  India, 
Australia  and  England,  also  throughout  the 
United  States.  This  recognition  of  his  work  is 
naturally  quite  gratifying  to  him.  It  is  solely  due 
to  his  personal  efforts  that  his  department  is  fore- 
most among  all  in  the  entire  country,  while  he 
has  without  doubt  the  best  and  most  complete 
library  on  irrigation  in  existence.  He  is  fre- 
quently called  upon  to  deliver  lectures  along  the 
line  of  his  specialties.  In  1898  he  gave  the  state 
address  for  the  League  of  American  Wheelmen 
at  Rocky  Mountain  Chautauqua,  Glen  Park.  In 
1884  he  received  the  degree  of  M.  S.  from  his 
alma  mater.  In  religion  he  is  connected  with  the 
Presbyterian  Church. 


(S\  LFRED  A.  FALKENBURG,  head  consul 
T\  Pacific  jurisdiction  of  Woodmen  of  the 
I  I  World,  was  born  in  southern  Indiana,  Jan- 
uary 31,  1857,  and  is  a  son  of  Rev.  S.  B.  and  A. 
Jane  (Gardiner)  Falkenburg,  the  father  a  minis- 
ter in  the  Methodist  Episcopal  denomination. 
Fred  A.  (he  is  known  by  this  name)  was  educa- 
ted primarily  in  the  public  schools  of  Indiana,  and 
afterward  entered  the  preparatory  department  of 
Moore's  Hill  College,  where  he  remained  a  stu- 
dent for  six  years.  At  the  end  of  the  junior  year 
he  entered  Bryant  &  Stratton's  Business  Col- 
lege in  Indianapolis,  where  he  took  a  business 
and  law  course.  He  engaged  in  law  practice  in 
Indiana  from  1876  to  1881.  In  the  latter  year 
he  became  auditor  for  the  Toledo,  Cincinnati  & 


St.  Louis  Railroad,  then  in  process  of  construc- 
tion, also  auditor  for  the  construction  company  in 
charge  of  the  building  of  the  road. 

The  next  position  secured  by  Mr.  Falkenburg 
was  with  the  Royal  Fire  Insurance  Company  of 
Chicago,  where  he  had  charge  of  sub-agency  ac- 
counts for  thirteen  northwestern  states.  After- 
ward he  became  secretary  and  treasurer  of  a  large 
publishing  firm  in  Chicago,  and  later,  going  to 
Lincoln,  Neb. ,  he  entered  the  wholesale  book  and 
stationery  business.  It  was  while  in  that  city  he 
became  interested  in  Woodcraft,  and  there  he 
held  the  position  of  presiding  officer  of  the  local 
camp.  Modern  Woodmen  of  America.  In  May, 
1889,  he  moved  to  Colorado,  at  which  time  Will- 
iam Jennings  Bryant  succeeded  him  in  the  posi- 
tion of  presidingofficer  at  Lincoln.  June  6,  1890, 
with  Joseph  Cullen  Root,  he  organized  the  Wood- 
men of  the  World,  which  had  a  membership,  May 
I,  1898,  of  one  hundred  and  twenty-eight  thou- 
sand, and  has  paid  over  $3,000,000  in  benefits  to 
widows  and  orphans.  At  the  convention  where  the 
Woodmen  of  the  World  was  organized  he  served 
as  secretary  and  now  holds  benefit  certificate  No. 
I ,  in  that  order.  At  this  writing  he  is  sovereign 
adviser  of  the  eastern  jurisdiction  and  head  con- 
sul, or  chief  executive,  of  the  Pacific  jurisdiction, 
in  which  are  thirty-five  thousand  members  and  in 
which  $1,000,000  has  been  paid  to  beneficiaries. 

Outside  of  his  executive  duties  and  the  man- 
agement of  a  correspondence  that  averages  three 
thousand  letters  per  month,  Mr.  Falkenburg  has 
been  engaged  considerably  in  platform  work,  and 
during  the  past  year  (1897)  delivered  two  hun- 
dred and  forty-seven  addresses,  traveling  over 
thirty  thousand  miles.  He  is  serving  his  fourth 
biennial  term  as  head  consul  in  the  Woodmen  of 
the  World.  Three  times  he  has  been  selected  as 
a  representative  of  the  order  to  the  National  Fra- 
ternal Congress.  On  the  breaking  out  of  the  war 
with  Spain  in  1898  he  was  the  first  supreme  offi- 
cer of  any  fraternal  order  who  officially  requested 
all  of  the  local  organizations  to  keep  all  soldier 
Woodmen  in  good  standing  during  their  term  of 
service  under  the  stars  and  stripes;  also  to  provide 
a  large  hospital  fund  for  wounded  and  sick  mem- 
bers of  the  order.  His  request  was  unanimously 
adopted  by  the  camps  of  the  nine  states  under  his 
supervision. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Falkenburg  took  place  in 
Indianapolis  in  1879  and  united  him  with  Miss 


HON.  HIRAM  R.  BROWN. 


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Ida  May  Baty.  Three  children  were  born  of 
their  union,  but  only  one  survives,  Jessie  May, 
who  was  born  in  Chicago. 

While  in  Indianapolis,  Mr.  Falkenburg  took 
an  active  part  in  politics,  favoring  the  Republican 
party.  He  is  not  an  office-seeker  and  has  de- 
clined many  opportunities  to  become  a  candidate 
for  office.  His  membership  is  in  the  Cameron 
Memorial  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  which  he 
serves  as  a  trustee.  Fraternally  he  is  connected 
with  the  Masonic  fraternity.  Independent  Order 
of  Odd  Fellows,  Knights  of  Pythias  and  Ancient 
Order  of  United  Workmen,  besides  the  Woodmen 
of  the  World  and  Fraternal  Union  of  America, 
already  alluded  to. 

HON.  HIRAM  R.  BROWN.  In  1874  Mr. 
Brown  settled  upon  his  present  farm,  two 
and  one  quarter  miles  northeast  of  Arvada, 
Jeffisrson  County,  where  he  had  purchased  one 
hundred  and  sixty  acres  of  railroad  land  some 
two  years  before.  Here  he  has  since  resided, 
having  in  the  meantime  added  to  his  landed  pos- 
sessions until  his  farm  now  comprises  two  hun- 
dred and  thirty-five  acres.  As  a  Republican  he 
has  been  closely  identified  with  public  affairs  of 
his  county.  In  1889  he  was  elected  to  represent 
his  district  in  the  state  legislature;  two  years  later 
he  was  elected  to  the  state  senate  and  served  in 
the  eighth,  ninth  and  tenth  general  assemblies. 
During  his  term  in  the  senate  the  Australian  bal- 
lot system  was  introduced,  the  police  system  of 
Denver  was  enacted  and  the  woman  suffrage  was 
carried. 

In  Bedford,  Lawrence  County,  Ind. ,  the  subject 
of  this  sketch  was  born  December  13,  1836.  He 
was  one  of  nine  children,  five  of  whom  are  still 
living:  Caroline  P.,  widow  of  Elisha  McMillan, 
and  residing  in  Berkeley,  Arapahoe  County; 
William  B. ,  also  of  Berkeley;  Hiram  R. ;  Richard 
T.,  who  lives  in  Lincoln,  Neb.;  and  Sarah  E., 
wife  of  T.  W.  H.  Miller,  a  retired  farmer  living 
in  Tecumseh,  Neb.  The  father  of  this  family 
was  John  Brown,  a  native  of  Virginia,  but 
reared  in  Kentucky,  and  after  his  marriage  to 
Mathilda  Board  he  moved  to  Indiana,  settling 
in  Bedford,  where  he  secured  employment  as 
clerk  in  a  bank.  After  filling  this  position  for 
twenty-two  years  he  removed  to  Lee  County ,  Iowa, 
where  he  purchased  an  extensive  tract  of  land 
and  laid  out  the  town  of  Franklin,  now  a  flourish- 


ing village.  After  a  number  of  years  he  removed 
to  Mount  Pleasant  and  there  died.  In  political 
life  he  was  prominent  and  served  for  one  term  as 
a  member  of  the  legislature.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  committee  chosen  to  locate  the  state  capitol 
when  it  was  changed  from  Iowa  City  to  Des 
Moines.  He  was  a  stanch  advocate  of  Republican 
principles  and  contributed  largely  to  his  party's 
success  in  his  locality.  He  was  well  situated 
financially,  being  the  owner  of  large  tracts  of 
land.  By  observation  and  reading  he  became  the 
possessor  of  a  broad  education  that  made  him  an 
entertaining  companion. 

After  having  completed  the  studies  of  the  com- 
mon schools,  our  subject  entered  the  Iowa  Uni- 
versity at  Mount  Pleasant,  and  there  completed 
his  education.  Afterward  he  taught  one  term  of 
school  in  Pike  County,  Mo.,  and  two  terms  in 
Mount  Pleasant,  Iowa.  In  1862  he  came  to  Colo- 
rado, making  the  journey  down  the  river  in  com- 
pany with  another  man,  and  landing  at  Louisiana, 
where  he  took  a  steamer  up  the  Missouri  to 
Leavenworth.  There  he  hired  out  to  some  parties 
to  drive  ox-teams  across  the  plains.  On  the  4th 
of  July  he  arrived  in  Denver,  with  fifty  cents  in 
his  pocket.  With  a  desire  to  mine,  he  went  to 
Tarryall  Gulch,  South  Park,  where  he  worked  in 
the  mines,  and  from  there  he  went  to  Mont- 
gomery and  worked  in  a  lead  mine.  In  the  fall  of 
the  same  year  he  went-  to  Colorado  City,  where 
he  was  appointed  deputy  county  clerk  and  deputy 
■  postmaster.  While  there  he  organized  the  Colo- 
rado Town  Company  and  secured  from  the  gov- 
ernment the  title  for  the  town  site.  During  this 
time  the  Indian  troubles  came  up  and  a  company 
was  organized  for  service,  but  the  government 
refused  to  permit  them  to  act  as  an  independent 
regiment,  and  they  were  mustered  in  as  United 
States  troops,  our  subject  being  quartermaster- 
sergeant  of  Company  F,  Third  Colorado  Cavalry. 
When  the  quartermaster-sergeant  of  the  regiment 
was  taken  ill  shortly  afterward,  Mr.  Brown  was 
detailed  to  fill  his  position,  in  which  he  afterward 
served.    He  took  part  in  the  battle  of  Sand  Creek. 

Shortly  after  his  return  from  the  Indian  fights, 
Mr.  Brown  was  appointed  provost-marshal  and 
assigned  to  Park  County,  where  he  served  for 
nine  months.  In  1866  he  came  to  Denver,  where 
he  engaged  in  the  mercantile  business  with  a 
brother-in-law  for  two  years.  When  the  Union 
Pacific  Railroad  was  in  process  of  construction  to 


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Cheyenne,  he  decided  to  go  to  the  latter  city,  and 
during  the  building  boom  there  he  found  employ- 
ment at  large  wages.  After  eighteen  months  he 
came  back  to  Denver  and  with  a  Mr.  McCune 
engaged  in  the  painting  business,  having  large 
and  important  contracts.  After  four  years  of  suc- 
cessful business,  in  1874  he  came  to  his  present 
farm,  where  he  has  since  engaged  in  farming.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Clear  Creek  Valley  Grange  and 
the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic  and  is  junior  vice 
of  the  post.  In  the  fall  of  1 863  he  married  Miss 
Mary  A.  Boyd,  and  four  children  were  born  to 
them,  viz.:  Edgar  A.,  deceased;  Maud  J.,  who  is 
a  student  at  Wolfe  Hall;  Hiram  A. ,  who  is  attend- 
ing the  Agricultural  College  at  Fort  Collins;  and 
Carrie  B.,  who  graduated  from  the  East  Denver 
high  school  in  June,  1898. 


HARRY  NEIL  HAYNES.  In  the  early  set- 
tlement of  the  New  England  states  the 
Puritans  who  lauded  on  these  shores  had 
much  to  do  with  giving  that  section  of  the  coun- 
try the  reputation  for  sagacity  and  piety  that  it 
has  since  enjoyed.  From  such  stock  the  subject 
of  this  sketch  descends.  One  of  his  ancestors 
came  over  with  Governor  Winthrop,  and,  though 
he  is  many  generations  removed,  he  inherits 
many  traits  of  character  that  were  dominant  in 
the  lives  of  those  pioneers.  However,  he  is  in- 
debted, not  only  to  his  ancestors  for  his  success, 
but  as  well  to  his  native  ability  and  the  attention 
given  to  all  cases  entrusted  to  his  charge  as  attor- 
ney. Among  the  members  of  the  bar  of  Weld 
County  he  stands  high,  ranking  with  the  ablest 
in  Greeley. 

The  maternal  grandfather  of  Mr.  Haynes,  Col. 
E.  H.  Neil,  of  Skowhegan,  Me.,  was  one  of  the 
prominent  citizens  of  that  state,  and  stood  high 
in  the  respect  of  all.  He  was  engaged  in  mercan- 
tile pursuits,  and  also  held  many  positions  of 
trust.  About  1820  he  was  colonel  of  the  militia 
of  his  locality.  By  his  marriage  to  Mary  Fletcher 
four  children  were  born,  who  attained  maturity. 
The  paternal  grandfather  of  our  subject  was 
Francis  F.  Haynes,  of  East  Farmington,  Me.; 
one  of  his  daughters  married  Timothy  O.  Howe, 
who  was  a  member  of  the  United  States  senate 
for  eighteen  years,  and  who  died  while  serving 
as  postmaster-general. 
Silas  B.  A.  Haynes,  the  father  of  our  subject, 


was  a  man  of  prominence.  He  was  educated  in 
Maine,  and  read  law  under  one  of  the  most 
prominent  attorneys  there,  Mr.  Abbott,  after- 
ward a  leader  of  the  Boston  bar.  At  the  out- 
break of  the  Civil  war,  in  1861,  he  was  appointed 
paymaster  with  the  rank  of  major,  and  served 
until  the  close  of  the  war,  when  he  was  honor- 
ably discharged  with  the  brevet  commission  of 
lieutenant-colonel.  For  many  years  afterward  he 
was  clerk  of  the  United  States  senate  committee 
on  claims.  In  1872  he  came  to  Colorado,  where 
his  ability  was  soon  recognized.  He  served  as 
county  judge  of  Weld  County,  and  was  state 
senator  in  the  first  and  second  general  assem- 
blies. By  his  marriage  to  Harriet  C.  Neil  five 
children  were  born,  of  whom  the  oldest  living 
son  is  Harry  Neil. 

Born  at  Green  Bay,  Wis.,  November  29,  1855, 
the  subject  of  this  sketch,  when  in  his  teens,  went 
to  Skowhegan,  Me.,  and  made  his  home  with  his 
grandfather  during  his  father's  sojourn  in  Wash- 
ington. In  1872  he  graduated  from  the  high 
school,  and  the  next  year  entered  Colby  Uni- 
versity at  Waterville,  Me.,  where,  as  a  junior, 
he  received  the  first  prize  for  composition  and  de- 
livery, and  in  1877  graduated  as  an  A.  B.  with  hon- 
ors. In  the  catalogue  he  was  given  special  men- 
tion for  general  work  outside  of  the  regular 
course,  and  received  special  honors  for  scholar- 
ship. His  interest  in  college  societies  he  has 
maintained,  having  held  the  highest  office  in  Chi 
Chapter  of  the  Zeta  Psi  Fraternity,  from  which 
he  was  a  delegate  to  the  Grand  Chapter  in  Phila- 
delphia in  1876.  Since  his  graduation  he  has 
joined  the  noted  alumni  society,  to  which  only 
graduates  of  high  scholarship  are  admitted,  the 
Phi  Beta  Kappa.  Prior  to  entering  college  he 
had  read  law  with  Hon.  Stephen  Coburn,  of 
Skowhegan,  who  was  a  member  of  congress  in 
1859-60.  After  graduating  he  came  to  Greeley, 
where  he  read  with  Haynes  &  Dunning,  later 
with  Symes  &  Decker  in  Denver. 

Immediately  after  his  admission  to  the  bar  in 
May,  1879,  Mr.  Haynes  located  at  Fort  Collins, 
where  he  resided  for  four  years.  In  1880  he  en- 
tered his  father's  firm,  the  name  of  which  was 
changed  to  Haynes,  Dunning  &  Haynes,  with 
offices  in  Fort  Collins  and  Greeley.  From  Judge 
Elliott  he  received  appointment  as  referee  for  irri- 
gation district  No.  3,  the  oldest  and  most  thor- 
ough irrigation  district  in  the  state.     His  atten- 


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tion  to  that  trust  was  generally  commended.  In 
1882  he  removed  to  Greelej^  and  upon  the  retire- 
ment of  his  father  in  1883,  the  firm  took  in 
Frank  J.  Annis,  and  was  afterward  known  as 
Haynes,  Dunning  &  Annis.  Since  1887,  when 
this  partnership  was  dissolved,  Mr.  Haynes  has 
practiced  alone.  The  success  attendant  upon  his 
conduct  of  many  important  cases  has  given  him 
the  prestige  that  assures  him  of  all  the  business 
he  can  attend  to.  While  engaged  in  general 
practice  he  has  also  given  much  attention  to  irri- 
gation matters,  and  has  the  reputation  of  being 
one  of  the  foremost  attorneys  in  the  state  in  this 
important  branch  of  law.  He  has  been  connected 
with  the  majority  of  the  prominent  irrigation 
cases,  and  his  judgment  is  much  sought  in  these 
matters.  He  has  had  cases  reported  in  all  of  the 
reports  from  the  Fifth  Colorado  down.  One  of 
his  most  important  cases  not  connected  with  irri- 
gation was  that  of  Allen  vs.  Glenn,  in  the  thir- 
teenth judicial  district,  in  which  he  was  counsel 
for  Judge  Allen  in  the  supreme  court.  His  serv- 
ices are  in  demand,  not  only  in  Weld  County, 
but  also  in  Arapahoe,  I,arimer,  Boulder,  Logan 
and  Morgan  Counties,  as  well  as  in  the  court  of 
appeals  and  the  supreme  court.  He  has  served 
as  county  attorney  of  Weld  County  and  attorney 
for  the  city  of  Greeley. 

Fraternally  Mr.  Haynes  is  connected  with  the 
Knights  of  Pythias,  the  Odd  Fellows  and  the 
Woodmen  of  the  World.  At  the  Pueblo  session 
of  the  Woodmen  in  1892  he  was  elected  one  of 
the  head  managers  of  the  head  camp  of  the  Pa- 
cific jurisdiction,  and  has  been  twice  re-elected, 
at  Portland,  Ore.,  in  1894,  and  at  Helena,  Mont., 
in  1896.  During  this  time  the  order  rapidly  in- 
creased from  three  thousand  to  thirty-five  thou- 
sand. He  was  a  member  of  the  board  having 
control  of  the  finances,  which  distributed  $35,000 
per  month.  He  is  also  legal  counsel  for  the  head 
camp.  He  declined  to  be  candidate  for  re-elec- 
tion as  head  manager  at  San  Francisco,  in  1898. 

A  member  of  the  State  Bar  Association,  Mr. 
Haynes  is  a  member  of  its  committee  on  legal  edu- 
cation. He  is  interested  in  educational  matters,  and 
a  member  of  the  school  board  of  Greeley.  Polit- 
ically he  has  always  been  a  Republican,  but  not 
a  politician  in  the  ordinary  usage  of  that  word. 
His  name  was  prominently  mentioned  for  judge 
of  the  court  of  appeals,  and  in  1896  he  was  the 
nominee  of   the  Republicans  for  state  senator, 


and  ran  two  hundred  ahead  of  his  ticket.  He  is 
a  member  of  the  University  Club  of  Denver,  and 
the  Denver  Chess,  Checker  and  Whist  Club.  An 
admirer  of  chess,  .he  is  one  of  the  best  players  of 
that  game  in  the  state.  He  attends  the  Congre- 
gational and  Unitarian  churches  and  contributes 
to  both. 

June  3,  1882,  he  married  Anna  E.,  daughter 
of  Ovid  and  Anna  (Miles)  Plumb,  of  Greeley,  a 
niece  of  ex-Congressman  Frederick  Miles,  of 
Connecticut.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Haynes  are  the 
parents  of  two  sons  and  three  daughters,  namely : 
Florence  I.,  who  is  a  student  in  the  Greeley 
high  school;  Rhoda  N. ,  Rollin  Fletcher,  Doro- 
thy Plumb  and  Harold  Douglas. 


(TESSE  S.  gale,  president  of  the  Union 
I  Bank  of  Greeley,  is  one  of  the  leading  busi- 
(2/  ness  men  of  northern  Colorado,  and  occupies  a 
foremost  position  among  the  prominent  financiers 
of  the  state.  Genuine  success  is  not  likely  to  be 
the  result  of  mere  chance  or  fortune,  but  is  some- 
thing to  be  labored  for  and  sought  out  with  con- 
secutive effort.  Ours  is  a  utilitarian  age  and  the 
life  of  every  successful  man  bears  its  lessons  and 
as  told  in  contemporary  narration  perhaps  is  pro- 
ductive of  the  greatest  good.  Mr.  Gale  has  not 
only  made  a  wide  reputation  as  a  most  capable  fi- 
nancier, but  occupies  a  position  of  no  little  promi- 
nence in  connection  with  the  political  affairs  of  the 
county,  although  he  has  never  sought  or  desired 
political  preferment.  His  life  demon.strates  what 
may  be  accomplished  through  energy,  careful 
management,  keen  foresight  and  the  utilization 
of  the  powers  with  which  nature  has  endowed 
one,  and  the  opportunities  with  which  the  times 
surround  him. 

Mr.  Gale  was  born  in  Heath,  Franklin  County, 
Mass.,  September  16,  1845,  and  traces  his  ances- 
try back  to  three  brothers  who  came  from  Eng- 
land in  the  seventeenth  century  and  located  in 
that  state.  His  parents  were  Otis  and  Martha 
(Henry)  Gale.  The  father,  who  was  born  in 
Massachusetts,  in  1806,  was  a  drover  by  occupa- 
tion, selling  his  stock  principally  in  Boston  and 
Springfield  before  railroads  had  been  built,  and 
also  owned  and  operated  a  farm.  In  religious 
faith  he  was  a  Unitarian  and  in  political  senti- 
ment a  Whig.  He  died  at  comparatively  an 
early  age,  when  our  subject  was  ten  years  old. 


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His  father,  Luther  Gale,  spent  his  entire  life  in 
Massachusetts,  and  being  one  of  the  most  promi- 
nent and  influential  agriculturists  of  his  commu- 
nity, he  \^as  called  upon  to  represent  his  district 
in  the  state  legislature.  His  death  occurred  in 
Heath,  Mass. 

Our  subject  is  the  ninth  in  order  of  birth  in  a 
family  of  ten  children,  the  others  being:  Edward 
H. ,  deceased,  who  came  to  Colorado  and  was  ex- 
tensively engaged  in  the  cattle  business  with  our 
subject;  Catherine,  who  died  at  the  age  of  fifteen 
years;  James,  who  was  formerly  interested  in 
the  cattle  business  in  Colorado,  but  is  now  living 
retired  in  National  City,  Cal. ;  Martha,  wife  of 
Charles  Coburn,  of  Hartford,  Conn.;  Prudence, 
who  died  in  early  life;  Hanson,  who  died  at  the 
age  of  eleven;  David  H. ,  who  was  formerly  presi- 
dent of  the  Farm  and  Investment  Company,  and 
Savings  Bank  of  Greeley,  and  died  here  Sep- 
tember 6,  1894;  Emma  I,.,  wife  of  Albert  Bow  en, 
proprietor  of  the  Bowen  Hotel  of  Boulder,  Colo.; 
and  Mary,  who  died  in  early  womanhood. 

Jesse  S.  Gale  spent  the  first  eighteen  years  of 
his  life  in  his  native  town,  acquiring  his  educa- 
tion in  the  common  schools,  the  East  Hampton 
schools  and  the  Williston  Seminary.  He  com- 
menced his  business  career  as  a  butcher,  later 
spent  one  year  as  a  marble  cutter,  and  then  en- 
gaged in  the  meat  business  at  Shelburn  Falls  and 
East  Hampton,  Mass.,  in  partnership  with  his 
brother,Edward,until  coming  to  Colorado  in  188 1. 
They  located  in  Greeley  and  under  the  firm  name 
of  E.  H.  &  J.  S.  Gale  extensively  engaged  in 
cattle  ranging.  In  1883  their  brother,  David, 
also  became  interested  in  the  business  and  the 
name  was  changed  to  Gale  Brothers.  They  be- 
came the  most  extensive  cattle  grazers  in  the 
state,  having  from  six  to  ten  thousand  head  at 
one  time,  branded  with  P.O.  Edward  died  in 
January,  1890,  and  David  in  September,  1894, 
but  our  subject  continued  the  business  until  1898, 
when  he  sold  out,  carrying  on  operations  in  com- 
pany with  Walter  J.  Farr,  under  the  name  of 
Gale  &  Farr.  In  1897  they  had  forty  thousand 
head  of  sheep.  In  1886  Mr.  Gale  became  inter- 
ested in  the  Union  Bank  of  Greeley  as  a  stock- 
holder, later  was  elected  vice-president,  and  has 
served  as  president  since  1893.  1°  ^897  the 
charter  expired,  it  being  one  of  the  oldest  banks 
in  the  state,  but  it  was  renewed  under  the  name 
of   the  Union  Bank  of  Greeley.     Our  subject  is 


also  a  director  in  the  Farm  and  Investment  Com- 
pany of  Greeley,  the  Savings  Bank  and  the 
Electric  Light  Company,  and  as  a  promoter  of 
these  enterprises  has  done  much  to  advance  the 
interests  of  the  city.  Besides  his  valuable  town 
property  he  owns  seven  hundred  acres  of  land  in 
Weld  County,  four  hundred  of  which  are  under 
cultivation,  and  he  personally  superintends  its 
operation.  As  a  business  man  he  has  been  enter- 
prising, energetic  and  always  abreast  of  the  times, 
and  the  success  that  has  crowned  his  eiforts  is 
certainly  well  deserved. 

At  Wilmington,  Vt.,  in  1866,  Mr.  Gale  was 
united  in  marriage  with  Miss  Jennie  V.  Morse, 
daughter  of  Gideon  and  Betsy  (Mann)  Morse,  of 
that  state,  and  they  have  become  the  parents  of 
one  sou,  Edward,  the  present  cashier  of  the  Union 
Bank.  Politically  Mr.  Gale  has  always  been  a 
stanch  supporter  of  the  Republican  party,  and 
was  president  of  the  National  Republican  League 
of  Weld  County,  and  served  as  alderman  from  the 
second  ward  in  Greeley  in  1893-94.  Fraternally 
he  is  a  Royal  Arch  Ma.son,  holding  membership  in 
Occidental  Lodge  No.  20,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  and 
Greeley  Chapter  No.  13,  R.  A.  M.,  of  which  he 
is  past  high  priest.  Formerly  he  also  belonged 
to  the  Knights  of  Pythias. 


30HN  H.  BEHRENS,  who  is  engaged  in  the 
lumber  business  in  Evans,  Weld  County,  was 
born  in  Germany  in  1839,  a  son  of  John  H. 
and  Elizabeth  (Schwaubeck)  Behrens,  both  na- 
tives of  Germany.  Afterthe  death  of  his  mother 
the  family  came  to  the  United  States  in  1857,  the 
father  settling  in  Wyoming  County,  Pa.,  where 
he  carried  on  a  farm  during  the  remainder  of  his 
life.  He  died  at  the  age  of  sixty-five  years. 
The  only  surviving  member  of  the  family,  our 
subject  was  educated  in  Germany,  and  on 
coming  to  this  country  spent  one  year  in  Pennsyl- 
vania. At  the  age  of  twenty  he  went  to  New 
York  City,  where  be  became  an  employe  in  a 
piano  manufactory.  He  was  fitted  for  that  kind 
of  work,  as  from  fourteen  to  seventeen  years  of 
age  he  was  an  apprentice  to  a  cabinet-maker,  and 
gained  a  thorough  knowledge  of  the  trade.  His 
first  work  in  this  country  was  in  the  railroad 
shops  at  Scranton,  but  the  position  he  held  in 
New  York,  with  the  Steinway  and  other  piano 
manufactories,  was  more  congenial,    and  he  re- 


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mained  with  them  until  1871.  April  5  of  the 
latter  year  he  arrived  in  Evans,  Colo.,  and  here 
he  followed  the  carpenter's  trade  for  a  few  years, 
then  launched  out  as  a  contractor  and  builder, 
and  finally  in  1884  he  embarked  in  lumber  con- 
tracting. He  has  built  a  number  of  the  sub- 
stantial houses  in  Evans,  as  well  as  some  public 
buildings,  and  is  considered  a  reliable  workman. 

In  187 1  Mr.  Behrens  took  up  a  pre-emption  on 
section  28,  township  5,  range  65,  Weld  County, 
and  to  the  original  forty  acres  he  afterward  adde4 
one  hundred  and  sixty  acres,  making  his  present 
place  one  of  two  hundred  acres.  It  is  con- 
veniently situated  near  the  village  of  Evans. 
An  organizer  of  the  Union  ditch,  he  has  since 
served  as  secretar3^  and  treasurer  of  the  company. 
It  is  from  this  ditch  that  he  secures  the  water 
supply  for  his  land.  In  combining  farming  with 
stock-raising  he  finds  sufficient  to  engage  his 
time  and  thought. 

Politically  Mr.  Behrens  is  a  Republican.  In 
1892  he  was  elected  mayor  of  Evans  and  served 
for  one  year.  In  1893-94  ^^  served  as  trustee. 
At  other  times  he  has  been  chosen  to  occupy 
different  local  offices,  including  his  present  office 
of  city  treasurer,  to  which  he  was  elected  in  the 
fall  of  1897.  For  six  years  he  was  secretary  of 
the  school  board  of  district  No.  1 1 ,  and  during 
that  time  was  an  active  factor  in  promoting  the 
welfare  of  the  school.  Fraternallj'  he  is  connected 
with  Prosperity  Lodge  No.  109,  I.  O.  G.  F. 

In  New  York  City,  in  1865,  Mr.  Behrens  mar- 
ried Miss  Caroline  Hipsehle,  of  that  place,  her 
father  having  come  to  America  from  Germany 
and  served  during  the  Civil  war.  They  are  the 
parents  of  six  children,  namely:  Henrj',  Edward, 
John  A.,  Charles  O.;  Matilda,  wife  of  William 
G.  Smith,  of  Denver;  and  Ollie  L.,  wife  of  Robert 
B.  Wilson,  of  La  Junta,  Colo.  Mrs.  Wilson 
died  April  29,  1898;  one  child  survives,  OUena. 


Gl  S.  ELWOOD,  M.  D.,  is  among  the  citizens 
LI  of  Golden  who  served  in  the  late  war. 
/  I  When  the  Rebellion  began  he  wished  to  enter 
the  service  and  was  examined  in  Keokuk  for  a 
position  as  surgeon,  but  was  prevented  from  en- 
listing at  that  time.  However,  a  year  later,  when 
news  came  of  the  battle  of  Shiloh,  nothing  could 
prevent  him  from  going  to  his  country's  aid  and 
he  at   once  enlisted   as  a   private   in    Company 


E,  Fortieth  Iowa  Infantry,  which  was  mus- 
tered into  service  at  Davenport.  About  one 
month  afterward,  he  was  given  by  Governor 
Kirkwood  a  commission  as  assistant  surgeon  of  the 
Fortieth  Regiment,  assigned  to  the  Sixteenth 
Army  Corps,  and  participated  in  the  siege  of 
Vicksburg  and  the  opening  up  of  the  Mississippi. 
For  a  time  he  was  detailed  as  surgeon  of  the 
Tenth  Missouri  Cavalry,  serving  in  Kentucky. 
Later  he  was  placed  in  charge  of  the  camps  at 
Helena  and  Duvall's  Bluffi  In  the  summer  of 
1863  he  was  acting  brigadier-general  and  ranking 
surgeon  in  charge  of  the  division.  Overwork 
and  exposure  injured  his  health  to  such  an  ex- 
tent that  he  was  unable  to  remain  in  the  service, 
and  after  the  capture  of  Little  Rock,  in  the  fall  of 
1863,  he  was  honorably  discharged,  on  account  of 
physical  disability. 

Dr.  Elwood  is  not  the  first  of  his  family  who 
served  faithfully  in  defense  of  his  country,  for  his 
father,  Henry,  was  a  soldier  in  the  war  of  1812. 
The  grandfather,  Robert  Elwood,  was  born  in  Ire- 
land and  came  to  America  in  early  manhood,  set- 
tling in  the  east,  where  Henry  was  born.  The 
latter  settled  upon  a  farm  near  Hillsboro,  High- 
land County,  Ohio,  where  his  son,  our  subject, 
was  born  October  29,  1827;  from  there  he  moved 
to  Martinsville,  Clinton  County,  Ohio,  and  in 
1849  went  to  Monroe,  Jasper  County,  Iowa, 
where  he  engaged  in  farming  and  stock-raising. 
He  died  on  his  farm  there  when  seventy  years  ot 
age. 

The  mother  of  our  subject  was  Sarah,  daughter 
of  John  and  Sarah  (Mishon)  St.  Clair,  all  natives 
of  Kentucky.  Her  father  was  the  son  of  a  Revo- 
lutionary soldier  and  himself  took  part  in  the 
war  of  18 1 2.  He  died  in  Highland  County, 
Ohio.  Henry  and  Sarah  Elwood  were  the  parents 
of  ten  children,  viz.:  Mrs.  Mahala  Moon,  who  is 
now  more  than  eighty  years  of  age;  Washington, 
who  died  in  Iowa;  John,  a  resident  of  Kingman, 
Kan. ;  Hiram,  whose  death  occurred  in  Nebraska; 
A.  S.;  William,  of  Lincoln,  Neb.;  Amos,  who 
lives  in  Iowa;  Henry  and  Elizabeth,  who  died  in 
childhood;  and  Nancy,  who  was  accidentally 
killed  when  a  girl. 

In  the  public  schools  and  the  Quaker  seminary 
at  Martinsville,  Dr.  Elwood  received  a  fair  edu- 
cation. His  first  salaried  work  was  as  a  teacher 
of  a  three  months'  term  of  school,  for  which  he 
received  $50  and  boarded  himself.     There  was  so 


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little  profit  in  this  that  he  decided  he  could  earn 
more  money  with  his  axe,  and  accordingly  he 
began  'shipping  rails  and  'chopping  logs,  for 
which  he  was  given  $8  per  month  and  his  board. 
In  1850  he  began  to  study  medicine  with  a  cousin, 
Dr.  Elwood,  inLeesburg,  Highland  County.  On 
his  removal  to  Iowa  he  continued  his  studies  un- 
der Dr.  H.  C.  Huntsman,  of  Fella,  and  in  1854 
began  to  practice  with  his  preceptor.  Feeling, 
however,  that  he  needed  more  professional  knowl- 
edge, in  1856  he  entered  the  Keokuk  Medical 
College,  where  he  took  one  course  of  lectures, 
and  then  formed  a  partnership  with  Dr.  Putman, 
of  Monroe,  Iowa.  In  i860  he  entered  the  School 
of  Medicine  and  Surgery,  in  Cincinnati,  from 
which  he  graduated  the  following  year  with  the 
degree  of  M.  D.  He  then  resumed  practice  in 
Monroe,  where  he  continued,  with  the  exception 
of  the  time  spent  in  the  army,  until  1884.  Sev- 
eral times  he  was  chosen  president  of  the  Jasper 
County  Medical  Societj'  and  he  is  still  a  member 
of  the  Iowa  Medical  Association.  On  account  of 
ill  health,  largely  due  to  the  exposure  of  army 
life,  he  decided  to  seek  a  change  of  climate,  and 
in  1884  came  to  Golden,  where  he  has  since  en- 
gaged in  practice. 

In  Monroe,  Iowa,  Dr.  Elwood  married  Mary 
E.  Howard,  who  was  born  in  Utica,  N.  Y. ,  the 
daughter  of  William  and  Martha  (Brockway) 
Howard,  natives  of  New  York  state.  Her  pa- 
ternal grandfather,  Samuel  Howard,  who  was  a 
farmer,  took  part  in  the  war  of  181 2,  and  died 
in  Mohawk,  N.  Y.;  his  wife,  Lucretia,  was  a 
daughter  of  Seth  Johnson,  a  soldier  in  the  Revo- 
lution. William  Howard  removed  west  to  Mon- 
roe, Iowa,  where  he  was  an  attorney  for  some 
years,  dying  there  at  the  age  of  forty-eight.  His 
wife,  who  was  orphaned  at  three  years  of  age,  is 
still  living  in  Iowa,  being  now  seventy-seven 
years  old.  They  were  the  parents  of  four  chil- 
dren: Mrs.  Elwood;  Willett,  formerly  a  merchant 
in  Monroe  and  treasurer  of  Jasper  County,  now 
deceased;  Chauncey,  a  miner  at  Cripple  Creek; 
and  Samuel,  a  merchant-  of  Greenfield,  Iowa. 
Three  children  were  born  to  the  union  of  Dr.  and 
Mrs.  Elwood,  namely:  Mattie,  who  is  the  wife  of 
Johnly.  Silverthorn,  of  Golden;  William,  who  is 
operating  mines  at  Idaho  Springs;  and  Charles, 
who  died  at  the  age  of  thirteen  months.  The 
family  are  Presbyterians  in  religious  belief. 

During  his  residence  in  Iowa  Dr.  Elwood  was 


made  a  Mason  and  he  is  now  a  demitted  member 
of  the  chapter  at  Golden.  In  1856  he  voted  for 
John  C.  Fremont  and  he  has  ever  since  voted  for 
Republican  candidates,  always  taking  an  active 
part  in  politics.  In  1894  he  was  elected  county 
coroner  of  Jefferson  County  by  a  large  majority, 
but  not  desiring  the  office  he  refused  to  qualify. 


HON.  HERBERT  E.  TEDMON,  county 
clerk  of  Larimer  County,  and  member  of  the 
fourth  and  fifth  general  assemblies  of  Colo- 
rado, .sessions  of  1883  and  1885  of  the  state  sen- 
ate, was  born  in  Martinsburg,  Lewis  County, 
N.  Y.,  June  12,  1852,  being  a  son  of  Levi  and 
Rachel  L.  (Seward)  Tedmon,  natives  respect- 
ively of  Lancsborough,  Mass.,  and  Otsego 
County,  N.  Y.  His  maternal  grandfather  was  a 
soldier  in  the  war  of  181 2.  His  ancestors  on  the 
paternal  side  were  pioneers  of  Massachusetts, 
having  come  to  this  country  from  Scotland.  Levi 
Tedmon,  when  a  boy  of  eight  years,  was  taken 
by  his  parents  to  Lewis  County,  N.  Y.,  where  he 
engaged  in  farming  for  .some  years.  His  last 
years  were  spent  in  Martinsburg,  where  he  died 
at  the  age  of  sixty  years.  For  eighteen  years  he 
served  as  overseer  of  the  poor.  Twice  married, 
the  only  child  of  his  first  marriage,  a  daughter, 
resides  in  Minnesota.  By  his  second  wife,  who 
survives  him  and  resides  in  Fort  Collins,  Colo., 
he  had  four  children.  The  oldest  of  these  is  Fer- 
dinand L.,  living  in  Lewis  County,  N.  Y.  The 
second  son,  Bolivar  S.,  came  to  Fort  Collins  in 
1878  with  his  younger  brother,  H.  E.,  and  en- 
gaged in  general  mercantile  business.  He  built 
the  Tedmon  House,  which  he  carried  on  one 
year.  He  now  resides  in  New  York  City.  For 
two  terms  he  was  deputy  state  auditor  of  New 
York  under  Auditors  Abbott  and  Spruance.  The 
only  daughter,  Edith  E.,  is  the  wife  of  S.  E. 
Moore,  of  Fort  Collins. 

When  a  boy  the  subject  of  this  sketch  attended 
the  local  public  schools  and  Martin's  Institute. 
In  1872  he  went  to  Lowville,  Lewis  County, 
where  for  three  and  one-half  years  he  clerked  in 
a  hardware  store.  Returning  from  there  to  Mar- 
tinsburg he  and  his  brother  embarked  in  the 
grocery  and  hardware  business.  After  continu- 
ing in  that  line  until  the  spring  of  i&^S,  he  then 
disposed  of  his  interest  in  the  business  and  came 
west  to  Colorado,  opening  a  mercantile  store  in 


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Fort  Collins.  For  a  year  the  firm  title  was  Ted- 
mon  Brothers  &  Arthur,  after  which  it  remained 
Tedmon  Brothers  until  1883,  when  our  subject 
purchased  his  brother's  interest  and  closed  out 
all  lines  except  the  hardware  business.  He 
bought  property  and  built  an  addition  to  the 
store  on  Jefferson  street.  For  two  years  he  was 
in  partnership  with  E.  R.  Barclay  as  Tedmon  & 
Barclay,  after  which  he  sold  out,  desiring  to  de- 
vote his  attention  to  ranching. 

In  1885  Mr.  Tedmon  began  in  the  stock  busi- 
ness, opening  a  ranch  on  the  North  Fork  of  the 
Poudre,  forty  miles  northwest  of  Fort  Collins,  in 
Larimer  County.  The  land  he  purchased  from 
the  railroad  company  and  improved  it,  irrigating 
from  the  Poudre.  Here  he  has  four  thousand 
acres,  almost  all  of  which  is  fenced.  He  raises 
Herefords  of  a  high  grade,  also  horses.  In  1887, 
with  Kilham  Johnson  as  partner,  he  bought  a 
ranch  on  the  Platte  in  Logan  County,  but  after 
two  years  sold  his  interest  in  the  place.  He  is  a 
charter  member  and  president  of  the  Larimer 
County  Protective  Stock  Growers'  Association, 
and  an  associate  member  of  the  National  Stock 
Growers'  Association. 

Politically  a  Republican,  Mr.  Tedmon  has  held 
numerous  offices  of  trust.  In  1889  he  was  ap- 
pointed clerk  of  the  district  court  of  Logan 
County,  which  position  he  held  for  three  years.' 
Afterward,  for  four  and  one-half  years,  he  was 
register  of  the  United  States  land  office  at  Ster- 
ling, Colo. ,  to  which  office  he  was  appointed  by 
President  Harrison.  During  his  incumbency  of 
the  position  he  resided  at  Sterling,  but  in  1894 
returned  to  his  ranch,  and  in  January,  1898, 
upon  beginning  the  duties  of  county  clerk  and 
recorder,  he  moved  to  Fort  Collins.  He  was 
elected  to  the  office  on  the  straight  Republican 
ticket,  against  the  combined  forces  of  Democrats 
and  silver  Republicans,  and  entered  upon  official 
duties  January  i,  1898,  for  two  years,  being  the 
only  county  clerk  in  Colorado  whose  views  po- 
litically are  the  same  as  those  of  the  national  ad- 
ministration. For  one  term  he  was  a  member 
of  the  city  council.  He  served  as  secretary  of 
the  school  board  of  Fort  Collins  until  he  resigned 
to  remove  to  his  ranch.  While  in  Sterling  he 
served  as  mayor  for  one  term  and  was  president 
of  the  school  board  for  a  term  also. 

In  Booneville,  N.  Y.,  Mr.  Tedmon  married 
Miss  Jennie  L.  Smith,  who  was  born  on  the  Hud- 


son. They  have  an  only  son,  Earl  L.,  who  is  a 
student  in  the  Agricultural  College.  Mr.  Tedmon 
was  made  a  Mason  in  Collins  Lodge  No.  19, 
A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  of  which  he  is  still  a  member. 
He  is  also  identified  with  the  Ancient  Order  of 
United  Workmen. 

The  record  of  Mr.  Tedmon  as  a  legislator  is  one 
of  which  he  might  well  be  proud.  In  1882  he 
was  elected  .state  senator  by  a  large  majority  in 
the  district  comprising  Larimer,  Grand  and 
Routt  Counties.  In  the  fifth  general  assembly  he 
served  as  chairman  of  the  committees  on  coun- 
ties and  county  lines,  insurance  and  engrossment, 
and  as  a  member  of  many  other  committees.  In 
1883  he  was  successful  in  his  endeavor  to  secure 
the  perpetual  appropriation,  one-fourth  of  a  mill 
tax  of  all  property  in  the  state  for  the  support  of 
the  Agricultural  College.  This  appropriation, 
however,  was  absorbed  in  an  appropriation  of 
one-sixth  of  a  mill  tax  for  all  state  institutions. 
In  1883  he  participated  in  the  memorable  strug- 
gle for  the  United  States  senatorship,  a  contest 
that  ended  in  the  election  of  Thomas  Bowen.  In 
1885  he  aided  in  electing  Senator  Teller,  being 
one  of  the  original  supporters  of  that  now  famous 
statesman.  Upon  the  expiration  of  his  term  he 
refused  further  candidacy  and  retired  from  state 
political  affairs. 


/n  APT.  RICHARD  SOPRIS.  The  history  of 
I C  a  state  is  best  told  in  the  biographies  of  its 
\J  citizens.  Especially  is  this  the  case  when 
the  citizens  are  men  of  intelligence,  ability  and 
prominence,  guiding  spirits  who  lead  others  into 
the  promised  land  of  prosperity.  The  history  of 
Colorado  may  properly  be  said  to  begin  with  the 
discovery  of  gold  in  Pike's  Peak  and  the  first 
chapter  of  the  book  carries  the  date  1858.  It  was 
during  this  year  that  Captain  Sopris  started  west- 
ward from  Indiana,  going  by  stage  to  Omaha  and 
from  there  making  the  trip  across  the  plains,  in 
company  with  two  men,  in  a  cart  drawn  by  one 
horse.  He  reached  Auraria  March  15,  1859,  in 
time  to  become  one  of  the  original  shareholders 
of  the  town.  Hoping  to  find  gold  in  the  mount- 
ains, he  prospected  along  the  Platte  River  and 
at  Gregory's  Diggings  (now  in  Gilpin  County), 
where  he  engaged  in  mining.  He  was  elected 
president  of  the  Miners'  Union,  an  organization 
formed  to  maintain  law  and  order,  and  establish 


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laws  relating  to  mining  claims.  After  the  Bates 
lode  was  discovered,  he  located  a  claim  on  it,  and 
continued  to  mine  for  a  time. 

Returning  to  Denver  in  the  fall  of  1859  he  was 
elected  to  represent  Arapahoe  County,  Kansas 
Territory,  in  the  Kansas  legislature,  his  district 
at  that  time  comprising  all  of  the  mining  region 
of  this  part  of  the  Rocky  Mountains.  He  spent 
the  winter  in  Lawrence  and  in  the  spring,  when 
the  legislature  adjourned,  he  went  back  to  Indi- 
ana, returning  to  Colorado  in  April,  accompanied 
by  his  family.  He  had  been  so  pleased  with  the 
prospects  in  the  west  that  he  determined  to  settle 
in  Colorado  permanently,  believing  that  the  suc- 
cess promised  in  the  future  would  outweigh  all 
the  hardships  and  deprivations  of  the  present. 
During  the  year  of  his  return  he  headed  a  large 
company  of  gold  seekers,  to  explore  the  then  un- 
known regions  west  of  the  Snowy  Range;  the 
party  left  Denver  July  i,  crossed  South  Park  to 
where  Breckenridge  now  stands,  went  down  Blue 
River  and  Eagle  River,  from  there  to  the  Roaring 
Fork  of  the  Grand,  and  up  Willow  Creek  to  the 
foot  of  the  mountain  they  named  Sopris  Peak, 
which  is  a  part  of  the  Elk  Mountains,  near- Glen- 
wood.  They  came  to  the  hot  springs  (now  famous 
as  Glenwood  Springs)  .where  they  camped  and  cut 
pine  trees,  constructing  a  boat  in  which  they 
crossed  Grand  River.  Just  below  the  cave  stood 
a  large  pine  tree,  which  they  blazed  and  inscribed 
with  these  words:  "These  springs  were  discov- 
ered on  July  23,  i860,  by  Captain  Sopris,  and 
party  of  prospectors."  After  a  week  at  the 
springs  they  crossed  the  river  and  went  via 
Cochetopa  Pass  into  the  San  Luis  Valley,  thence 
to  Fort  Garland  and  Denver,  reaching  this  city 
after  an  absence  of  three  months.  The  prime 
object  of  their  journey  had  been  to  prospect  for 
gold, but  they  failed  to  find  any  trace  of  the  precious 
metal.  However,  the  notes  made  and  measure- 
ments taken  were  of  great  assistance  to  Governor 
Gilpin  in  preparing  his  first  map  of  Colorado. 

In  the  spring  of  i860  Captain  Sopris  and  two 
other  gentlemen  framed  a  constitution  and  laws 
for  a  city  government.  The  same  was  read  at  a 
public  meeting  and  was  adopted.  It  provided  for 
the  division  of  the  town  into  three  wards,  with 
two  alderman  from  each  ward  as  members  of  the 
council.  When  the  common  council  was  organ- 
ized. Captain  Sopris  was  chosen  president.  On 
the  organization  of  the  territory  the  next  year,  a 


new  charter  was  framed  by  the  legislature.  In 
August,  1861,  he  was  commissioned  captain  of 
Company  C,  First  Colorado  Infantry,  and  served 
one  year.  On  his  return  he  again  became  active- 
ly connected  with  public  affairs.  He  was  ser- 
geant-at-arms  of  the  house  in  the  second  territo- 
rial legislature;  was  a  delegate  to  the  first  constitu- 
tional convention  of  Colorado,  served  as  county 
sheriff  1864-68,  deputy  sheriff  1873-78,  mayor  of 
Denver  1878-81,  and  in  i88i  was  cho.sen  park 
commi.ssioner,  the  first  to  hold  the  office,  and 
continued  in  the  position  until  1890.  In  every 
place  to  which  he  was  called,  integrity,  energy 
and  intelligence  characterized  his  actions.  While 
serving  as  park  commissioner,  though  he  had  but 
a  limited  fund  at  his  disposal  (usually  but  $3,000 
or  $4,000  annually),  he  created  the  first  parks 
Denver  ever  had,  among  them  City  Park,  which 
he  transformed  from  a  sage  brush  tract  of  three 
hundred  and  twentj'  acres,  into  a  beautiful  resort, 
with  driveways,  lakes,  lawns,  flower  beds  and 
many  thousands  of  trees.  In  1863  he  was  chosen 
the  first  president  of  the  Colorado  Agricultural 
Society,  holding  the  office  five  successive  years. 
In  1866,  while  acting  as  sheriff,  he  erected  the 
buildings  of  the  Colorado  Agricultural  Society, 
on  their  fair  grounds,  adjoining  Ford's  Park  add- 
ition to  Denver.  For  six  years  he  was  president 
■  of  the  Association  of  Colorado  Pioneers.  From 
1869  to  1872  he  was  interested  in  railroad  build- 
ing, assisting  in  the  construction  of  the  Kansas 
Pacific,  Denver  Pacific  and  the  Denver  &  Rio 
Grande  Railroads. 

The  life  of  Captain  Sopris  covered  eighty  years. 
It  began  in  Bucks  County,  Pa.,  June  26,  1813, 
and  closed  in  Denver  April  7,  1893.  It  naturally 
divides  itself  into  three  eras:  first,  that  of  youth 
and  character  forming,  when  he  resided  in  Penn- 
sylvania; second,  the  time  spent  in  Indiana,  from 
1836  to  1858,  when  he  was  a  contractor  on  the 
Whitewater  canal,  then  for  five  years  captain  of 
an  Ohio  River  steamboat,  and  later,  a  railroad 
contractor;  and  third,  what  was  doubtless  the 
most  important  and  useful  part  of  his  life,  the 
years  spent  in  Colorado. 

June  5,  1836,  near  Philadelphia,  Captain  Sopris 
married  Miss  Elizabeth  Allen,  a  descendant  of 
Ethan  Allen.  The  fiftieth  anniversary  of  their 
wedding  was  appropriately  observed,  and  was 
probably  the  first  golden  wedding  celebrated  in 
the  state.     They  were  the  parents  of  eight  chil- 


D.  C.  DONOVAN. 


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dreii:  Allen  B.,  who  died  in  May,  1897;  Indiana, 
wife  of  Samuel  Cushman,  of  Deadwood,  S.  Dak.; 
Irene,  formerly  the  wife  of  J.  Sidney  Brown,  of 
Denver,  now  deceased;  Elbridge  B.,  of  Trinidad; 
Simpson  T.  and  George  1,.,  both  residents  of 
Denver,  the  latter  a  member  of  the  board  of 
county  commissioners;  Levi  S.,  whose  home  is  in 
Texas;  and  Henry  C,  deceased. 


0ENNIS  C.  DONOVAN,  senior  member  of 
the  firm  of  D.  C.  Donovan  &  Co.,  of 
Longmont,  is  one  of  the  live  business  men 
of  this  place.  Coming  here  early  in  his  commer- 
cial career,  some  sixteen  years  ago,  he  soon 
gained  a  foothold  among  our  leading,  progressive 
business  men  and  has  steadily  advanced  in  the 
esteem  of  Longmont' s  best  citizens.  By  degrees 
he  built  up  his  trade,  which  is  now  second  to 
none  in  the  place,  and  in  all  his  transactions  he  is 
strictly  reliable,  prompt  and  painstaking. 

Mr.  Donovan  is  one  of  the  sons  of  the  good  old 
Buckeye  state,  which  has  produced  so  many  of 
the  men  who  stand  pre-eminent  in  the  business 
circles  of  this  land,  as  well  as  in  the  so-called 
learned  professions  and  in  the  ranks  of  statesmen. 
Born  in  Cincinnati,  he  passed  the  greater  part  of 
his  boyhood  in  Hamilton  and  Butler  Counties, 
Ohio.  The  parental  homestead  stood  on  the  line 
between  the  two  counties,  near  Crescentville. 
The  parents,  Dennis  and  Mary  (Dugan)  Dono- 
van, are  still  living,  though  well  along  in  years, 
their  home  being  in  Longmont,  where  they  came 
to  be  near  their  children.  The  father  is  over 
fourscore  years  and  the  mother  is  now  in  her 
seventy-third  year.  They  had  six  children,  of 
whom  two  died  in  Ohio  and  one  in  this  state. 
Timothy  and  John  are  residing  in  Longmont. 

When  he  was  a  lad  of  about  thirteen  D.  C. 
Donovan  embarked  in  the  world  of  business  in 
the  neighboring  town  of  Crescentville  by  entering 
the  employ  of  the  Friend  &  Fox  Paper  Com- 
pany. He  worked  in  their  mills,  where  paper 
was  manufactured,  and  was  gradually  promoted 
from  one  position  to  another.  He  learned  every 
detail  of  the  business  and  laid  the  foundations  of 
his  future  success  in  life  by  acquiring  correct 
methods  and  principles  of  action.  He  remained 
in  the  employ  of  the  one  firm  until  he  was 
twenty-three  years  of  age,  when  he  engaged  in 
business  on  his  own  account  as  a  merchant. 
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This  pursuit  he  followed  with  fair  success  for 
three  years,  but  feeling  the  need  of  special  train- 
ing in  commercial  transactions,  he  entered  the 
Normal  school  at  Lebanon,  Ohio,  graduating 
from  the  business  course  in  1880. 

Having  a  desire  to  try  his  wings  in  the  outside 
world  and  to  see  something  of  the  great  west, 
where  he  believed  larger  opportunities  awaited 
him,  Mr.  Donovan  came  to  Colorado  in  April, 
1881.  He  entered  the  employ  of  the  E.  F.  Hal- 
lock  Lumber  Company,  of  Denver,  and,  having 
mastered  the  general  run  of  the  trade,  came  to 
Longmont  the  following  year  and  started  a  lum- 
ber yard  here.  His  business  location  has  been 
changed  three  times,  but  he  has  occupied  his 
present  site  for  the  past  seven  years.  The  yards 
are  about  half  a  block  in  extent  and  are  situated 
on  Main  street,  between  Second  and  Third  ave- 
nues. Good  sheds,  warehouses  and  offices  are  on 
the  premises,  and  a  full  line  of  builders'  ma- 
terials are  kept  in  stock.  About  thirteen  years 
ago  Mr.  Donovan  entered  upon  the  manufacture 
of  brick,  and  of  late  years  has  added  a  retail  coal 
business  to  his  other  enterprises.  His  brick 
yards,  south  of  Coffman's  addition  to  the  city, 
cover  five  acres.  The  plant  has  a  capacity  of  one 
million  bricks  per  annum.  In  1887  the  present 
firm,  composed  of  himself  and  brother,  J.  A., 
was  formed,  under  the  style  of  D.  C.  Donovan 
&Co. 

Three  times  Mr.  Donovan  has  served  as  one  of 
the  trustees  of  Longmont.  He  is  active  in  the 
Democratic  party,  and  has  frequently  attended 
the  state  conventions  of  the  same.  In  1892  he 
was  honored  by  being  elected  as  a  delegate  to  the 
national  Democratic  convention  which  assembled 
in  Chicago  and  nominated  Cleveland.  He  is 
connected  with  the  Woodmen  of  the  World.  His 
marriage  was  solemnized  in  Longmont  in  1885, 
Miss  Clara  Henrett}',  daughter  of  Peter  and  Mary 
(Dillon)  Henretty,  being  the  lady  of  his  choice. 
Mrs.  Donovan  was  likewise  born  in  Ohio,  though 
in  Warren  County.  Five  children  comprise  their 
family,  namely:  Irene,  Alice,  Clara,  Herbert  and 
Sheridan. 


"OM  BEACH,  who  has  resided  in  Fort  Col- 
lins since  1881,  is  of  English  birth,  a  native 
of  London  and  a  member  of  an  old  familj'  of 
that  city.  His  parents,  George  and  Caroline 
(Reeder)  Beach,  were  born  in   London  and  Dor- 


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setshire  respectively,  and  died  at  the  ages  of  six- 
tj'-five  and  sixty-two.  His  grandfather,  George 
Beach,  was  engaged  in  the  whaling  business, 
having  vessels  made  for  his  use  in  his  long  expe- 
ditions upon  the  North  Sea,  and  continuing  in 
the  same  occupation  until  he  died.  George,  Jr., 
was  a  miller  by  trade,  and  operated  two  mills  at 
Croydon;  he  was  also  a  custom  house  or  excise 
officer.  In  his  family  there  were  six  children, 
namely:  George  (3d),  who  was  a  wheelwright 
in  London;  Alfred,  who  died  in  London  at  twenty 
years  of  age;  Tom;  Arthur,  who  is  engaged  in 
the  cattle  business  in  Old  Mexico;  Caroline,  Mrs. 
Joseph  Latham,  of  London,  England;  and  Alice, 
who  died  in  London. 

In  London,  where  he  was  born,  October  4, 
1855,  our  subject  attended  the  national  schools. 
In  1 87 1,  a  lad,  friendless  and  alone,  he  came  to 
Ainerica,  landing  in  New  York,  and  from  there 
journeying  to  Alton,  111.,  where  he  arrived  with- 
out a  dollar.  Fortunately  he  at  once  secured 
work,  being  taken  into  a  meat  market,  where  he 
learned  the  butcher's  business.  He  remained  in 
Alton  for  ten  years.  In  1881  he  came  to  Fort 
Collins,  where  he  bought  an  old  meat  market  from 
James  Fletcher  and  embarked  in  the  meat  business 
on  Linden  street,  then  located  on  College  avenue, 
where  he  has  continued  almost  ever  since.  In 
addition  to  the  sale  of  meat,  he  has  engaged  in 
raising  and  feeding  stock.  He  bought  a  ranch  of 
two  hundred  and  forty  acres  on  the  Cache  la 
Poudre,  four  and  one-half  miles  from  Fort  Col- 
lins, where  he  has  two  hundred  head  of  cattle  and 
fifteen  hundred  sheep  and  lambs.  Here,  too,  he 
raises  alfalfa  for  feed,  averaging  eight  hundred 
tons  a  j'ear.  Until  a  few  years  ago  he  owned  a 
cattle  ranch  in  Chalk  Bluffs,  Weld  County. 

In  1895  Mr.  Beach  took  a  partner  into  his  busi- 
nesss.  Ward  Stewart,  since  which  time  the  firm 
has  been  Beach  &  Stewart.  They  have  two  mar- 
kets in  Fort  Collins,  one  on  Linden  street,  the 
other  on  College  avenue,  and  carry  a  full  line  of 
fresh  meats.  Their  slaughter  house  is  on  a  ten- 
acre  tract  west  of  town,  with  feed  yards  attached. 
They  cure  their  own  pork,  and  sell  large  quanti- 
ties of  bacon  and  smoked  ham;  also  pack  consid- 
erable pork  and  manufacture  sausageof  all  kinds, 
operating  their  plant  with  a  gasoline  engine. 
The  delivery  outfits  are  the  finest  in  the  city,  the 
wagons  and  horses  being  the  best  that  can  be 
bought.     If  Mr.  Beach  has  a  hobby,  it  is  a  desire 


to  have  everything  connected  with  his  business 
carried  on  systematically  and  satisfactorily.  Those 
who  are  acquainted  with  the  business  know  that 
he  has  succeeded  in  this  desire.  In  addition  to 
his  business  property  he  owns  a  comfortable 
home. 

In  Alton,  111.,  Mr.  Beach  married  Miss  Lucy 
Douglas,  who  was  born  in  that  city,  daughter  of 
Henry  Douglas,  a  native  of  Durham,  England, 
and  an  old  settler  and  farmer  near  Alton.  She  is 
identified  with  Unity  Church  and  is  a  lady  of  cult- 
ure and  refinement.  The  five  children  born  of 
their  union  are:  Alice,  Annie,  Nellie,  Tom,  Jr. , 
and  George,  all  at  home.  Formerly  Mr.  Beach 
voted  the  Republican  ticket,  but  when  his  party 
declared  for  the  gold  standard,  he  identified  him- 
self with  the  People's  party,  believing  that  the 
cause  of  silver  should  be  supported  by  all  who 
wish  to  arrive  at  a  satisfactory  settlement  of  the 
currency  problem. 


PIERY  REV.  HENRY  ROBINSON,  V.  G. 
\  /  No  priest  now  living  in  Colorado  has  been 
Y  identified  with  the  history  of  the  Catholic 
Church  in  this  state  for  a  longer  number  of  years 
than  has  the  vicar-general  of  the  Denver  diocese. 
Assigned  to  work  among  miners,  in  the  fall  of 
1874  he  went  to  his  new  field  of  labor,  which 
comprised  Park,  Chaffee,  Summit  and  Lake 
Counties,  containing,  altogether,  not  more  than 
one  hundred  Catholics.  Those  were  days  of  hard- 
ships, which  tested  the  power  of  physical  endur- 
ance. Often,  in  the  discharge  of  his  duties,  the 
young  priest  crossed  the  mountains  on  foot, 
carrying  with  him  a  lunch  and  blanket,  and  fre- 
quently journeying  for  forty  miles  without  passing 
a  house.  Wild  game  was  plentiful  and  herds  of 
antelopes  were  sometimes  seen,  with  as  many  as 
one  thousand  head  in  a  herd.  The  surroundings 
were  those  of  primeval  nature,  except  where 
might  be  seen  a  mining  camp  and  near  by  a 
village  with  a  few  rudely  constructed  houses. 

The  years  that  have  since  elapsed  have  wit- 
nessed many  changes,  but  the  growth  of  the 
population  is  not  more  remarkable  than  the  in- 
crease in  the  number  of  Catholic  communicants, 
a  fact  that  is  due  to  the  efforts  of  Father  Robinson 
in  no  small  degree.  When  after  twenty-five 
years  of  tireless  labor  he  celebrated  the  silver 
jubilee  of  his  work   as  priest,  the  occasion  was 


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justly  a  memorable  one.  Solemn  high  mass  was 
held  in  the  Church  of  the  Annunciation,  of  Den- 
ver, the  pastorate  of  which  he  holds,  and  he 
officiated  as  celebrant,  while  other  priests  assisted 
in  the  ceremonies.  The  clergy  and  laity  of  the 
city  tendered  him  a  banquet  at  the  Brown  Palace 
hotel,  at  which  toasts  and  responses  were  given, 
and  two  beautiful  gifts  were  presented,  represent- 
ing the  clergy  and  laity  respectively. 

The  oldest  of  seven  children,  three  of  whom 
are  living.  Father  Robinson  was  born  in  Salem, 
111.,  the  son  of  William  and  Jane  (O'Hara)  Rob- 
inson, natives  of  Ireland.  His  father  removed 
from  Utica,  N.  Y. ,  to  Illinois,  thence  to  Wiscon- 
sin, settling  on  Lake  Winnebago,  and  there  en- 
gaged in  farming  until  his  death  at  an  advanced 
age.  His  wife,  who  also  died  when  quite  old, 
was  a  daughter  of  James  O'Hara,  who  emigrated 
to  New  York  from  Ireland,  later  removed  to 
Illinois,  and  from  thereto  Appleton,  Wis.,  where 
he  spent  his  remaining  years  as  a  farmer. 

In  youth  our  subject  entered  St.  Francis  de 
Sales  Seminary  at  Milwaukee,  and  later  carried 
on  his  studies  in  St.  Vincent's  Seminary  at  Cape 
Girardeau,  Mo.  There  he  was  ordained  a  deacon 
by  Archbishop  Kendrick  in  1871  and  graduated 
the  next  year.  He  then  came  to  Colorado  and 
was  ordained  to  the  priesthood  January  21  of 
1872,  by  Bishop  Machebeuf.  For  two  and  one- 
half  years  he  was  an  assistant  in  the  Cathedral, 
after  which  he  went  to  Fairplay  and  built  the 
Church  of  the  Assumption,  later  working  as  a 
missionary  in  the  mountainous  districts.  When 
Leadville  was  started,  in  the  spring  of  1878,  he 
went  there  and  organized  the  Annunciation  con- 
gregation, afterward  building  a  church  and  par- 
sonage. At  the  same  time  he  attended  the  Fair- 
play  church  until  1880,  when  another  priest  was 
appointed.  The  congregation  at  Leadville  origi- 
nally comprised  twelve  members,  but  grew  con- 
stantly, and  at  the  time  he  left  it  was  one  of  the 
largest  and  best  congregations  in  the  state.  In 
188 1  the  Church  of  the  Annunciation  was  com- 
pleted, at  the  corner  of  Seventh  and  Poplar  streets, 
a  structure  that  has  the  distinction  (owing  to  the 
altitude)  of  having  the  highest  spire  of  any  church 
in  the  world.  A  fine  hospital  was  built,  in  which 
ihe  nurses  were  Sisters  of  Charity;  a  school  build- 
ing with  accommodations  for  six  hundred  chil- 
dren was  erected,  and  also  a  neat  parish  house. 

While   in    Leadville    Father    Robinson    often 


mediated  between  strikers  and  employers,  and 
during  the  smallpox  plague  he  visited  and  minis- 
tered to  the  sick,  unmindful  of  the  danger  of 
contagion.  His  heroism  was  remarkable  during 
all  the  trying  days  in  the  early  history  of  Lead- 
ville; his  courage  was  unfaltering  and  won  him 
the  admiration  even  of  those  who,  as  a  rule,  had 
no  respect  for  ministers  of  the  gospel.  In  1889 
he  visited  Europe  and  the  Holy  Land,  devoting 
considerable  time  to  those  places  associated  with 
our  Savior's  life  upon  earth.  In  1889  he  was 
appointed  vicar-general  of  the  Denver  diocese,  to 
succeed  the  recently  deceased  Father  Raverdy. 
In  1890  he  was  appointed  pastor  of  the  Church 
of  the  Annunciation,  which  he  organized  in 
1890,  building  a  three-story  stone  structure,  6ox 
108,  one  floor  of  which  is  used  for  the  church, 
and  the  remainder  for  the  school.  In  the  latter 
four  hundred  pupils  are  taught  the  public  school 
branches  by  the  Sisters  of  Charity,  and  are  also 
given  instruction  in  bookkeeping,  drawing  and 
music.  The  church  is  located  on  the  corner  of 
Humboldt  and  Thirty-seventh  streets.  It  has  a 
membership  of  over  two  hundred  English-speak- 
ing families,  besides  one  hundred  others.  The 
usual  sodalities  of  the  Catholic  church  have  been 
organized  and  are  in  active  operation.  The 
growth  of  the  congregation  is  remarkable  and  is 
certainly  a  tribute  to  the  ability  and  energy  of 
Father  Robinson.  The  growth  of  the  church 
speaks,  far  better  than  mere  words  could  do,  of 
the  tact,  tireless  industry  and  excellent  manage- 
ment of  him  who  stands  at  the  head  of  the  con- 
gregation. 

pGjESTBROOK  SCHOONMAKER  DECKER, 
\  A  /  attorney-at-law,  of  Denver,  was  born  in 
VY  Tyre,  Seneca  County,  N.  Y.,  April  22, 
1839,  the  son  of  Albert  and  Gertrude  (Schoon- 
maker)  Decker,  natives  respectively  of  Orange 
and  Ulster  Counties,  N.  Y.,  and  descendants  of 
Holland-Dutch  ancestors,  who  were  among  the 
earliest  settlers  of  Manhattan.  He  was  reared 
on  the  home  farm,  for  his  father,  in  addition  to 
being  proprietor  of  a  mercantile  store,  also  en- 
gaged in  agricultural  pursuits.  Primarily  edu- 
cated in  public  schools,  at  the  age  of  sixteen  he 
entered  Brockport  Collegiate  Institute,  where  be 
was  a  student  for  three  terms.  When  eighteen 
he  began  to  teach,  going  west  to  Charleston, 
Coles  County,  111.,  and  engaging  in  that  profes- 


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sion  until  1861.  lu  the  summer  of  i860  he 
taught  at  Milton  Station,  in  the  same  county,  but 
with  that  exception  he  was  employed  continuously 
at  Charleston. 

It  had  been  his  intention  to  apply  his  earnings 
to  his  tuition  in  a  college,  where  he  could  take  a 
thorough  literary  and  classical  course,  but  the 
outbreak  of  the  Civil  war  changed  his  plans.  He 
returned  to  New  York  and  taught  near  his  native 
place  until  the  summer  of  1862,  wheti  he  enlisted 
as  a  private  in  Company  I,  One  Hundred  and 
Twenty-sixth  New  York  Infantry,  and  was 
mustered  into  service  on  the  22d  of  August. 
His  first  battles  were  those  of  Maryland  Heights 
and  Harper's  Ferry.  At  the  latter  place,  Sep- 
tember 13-15,  he  was  taken  prisoner,  but  was 
soon  paroled  and  sent  to  Camp  Douglas,  Chi- 
cago, being  exchanged  in  December.  Sent  to 
the  defense  of  Washington,  he  did  duty  at  Union 
Mills  and  Centerville  early  in  1863.  His  regi- 
ment with  others  became  the  Third  Division  of 
the  Second  Army  Corps,  under  General  Hancock. 
At  Gettysburg,  where  he  served  in  the  Third 
Division,  Second  Corps,  under  the  immediate 
commaud  of  Gen.  Alexander  Hayes,  he  was 
wounded,  and  was  removed  to  the  hospital  at 
Newark,  N.  J.,  where  he  was  obliged  to  remain 
for  four  months.  Next  he  was  commi.ssioned 
second  lieutenant  in  the  Nineteenth  United 
States  Colored  Troops,  and  in  the  winter  of 
1863-64  was  on  detached  service  on  the  eastern 
shore  of  Maryland.  In  the  camp  at  Baltimore  he 
acted  as  assistant  quartermaster.  His  regiment 
became  a  part  of  the  Fourth  Division,  Ninth 
Army  Corps,  commanded  by  General  Burnside, 
the  Ninth  Corps  forming  a  part  of  the  Army  of 
the  Potomac,  under  General  Meade.  With  other 
troops  he  was  on  duty  in  front  of  Petersburg. 

From  June  to  November  he  was  ordnance  ofii- 
cer  of  the  Third  Division,  Ninth  Army  Corps, 
and  was  later  transferred  to  the  same  position  in 
an  independent  command,  occupying  the  Federal 
lines  between  the  Appomattox  and  James  Rivers. 
After  the  evacuation  of  Petersburg,  the  forces 
entered  that  city,  and  he  was  appointed  ordnance 
officer  of  the  district  of  Nottoway  under  Gen. 
George  h-  HartsufF,  with  headquarters  at  Peters- 
burg. In  June,  1865,  he  was  ordered  to  Browns- 
ville, Tex.,  and  was  appointed  assistant  provost 
marshal,  which  position  he  filled  until  August  18, 
when  he  re.signed  and  returned  to  New  York. 


In  the  fall  of  1865  Mr.  Decker  entered  the  law 
department  of  the  Michigan  State  University,  at 
Ann  Arbor,  and  remained  a  student  there  until 
his  graduation  in  1867.  He  began  the  practice 
of  law  at  Kankakee,  111.,  where  he  remained  un- 
til January,  1874.  Meantime  he  established  a 
home  of  his  own,  having  married,  August  i,  1867, 
Miss  Katherine  Worden,  who  lived  near  his  child- 
hood's home,  and  with  whom  he  had  been  ac- 
quainted for  years.  In  1869,  without  opposition, 
he  was  elected  county  judge  of  Kankakee  County, 
and  held  the  position  for  the  four  ensuing  years. 
Previous  to  this  he  had  served  as  city  attorney. 

On  account  of  failing  health  it  became  ueces- 
sarj'  for  Mr.  Decker  to  seek  a  change  of  climate. 
Accordingly,  in  1874,  with  his  wife  and  two  chil- 
dren, he  came  to  Denver,  then  a  city  of  about 
twelve  thousand  inhabitants.  As  soon  as  his 
health  had  improved  sufficiently  he  opened  a  law 
office  and  began  practice.  In  February,  1877, 
under  the  administration  of  President  Grant,  he 
was  appointed  United  States  district  attorney, 
being  the  first  to  hold  this  office  under  the  state 
government  of  Colorado. 

Public  announcement  was  made  April  16,  1880, 
that  Mr.  Decker,  one  of  the  ablest,  most  conscien- 
tious and  efficient  prosecutors  the  Federal  gov- 
ernment had  selected  for  the  management  of  its 
legal  cases  in  Colorado,  had  resigned  his  office  to 
resume  the  regular  practice  of  law.  He  had  filled 
the  position  with  ability  and  success.  Familiar- 
ity with  the  conduct  of  the  office  of  public  prose- 
cutor in  the  United  States  court  and  in  those  of 
the  district  under  the  territorial  regime,  teaches 
us  that  for  the  most  part  the  multiplication  of 
fees  was  the  paramount  consideration.  Scores  of 
men  were  brought  to  these  courts  upon  charges 
that,  when  investigated,  could  not  be  sustained. 
The  greedy  cormorants  who  had  arrested  these 
men  were  reprimanded  from  the  bench  and 
warned  not  to  repeat  the  ofience.  As  the  first 
United  States  district  attorney,  Judge  Decker 
established  an  honorable  precedent  for  the  guid- 
ance of  his  successors. 

To  fill  an  unexpired  term  of  one  year.  Judge 
Decker  was  elected  district  judge  in  the  fall  of 
1887,  and  in  1888  was  elected  for  the  full  term  of 
six  years,  but  resigned  the  position  January  i , 
1 891.  He  has  a  large  practice  in  the  state  and 
federal  courts,  and  has  the  reputation  of  being 
one  of  the  ablest  attorneys  ip  the  state.     Politi- 


AUGUST  L.  ROHLING. 


PORTRAIT  AND  BIOGRAPHICAL  RECORD. 


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cally  he  has  always  beeu  a  stanch  Republican. 
He  was  reared  in  the  doctrines  of  the  old  Dutch 
Reformed  Church,  but  now  attends  the  First 
Congregational  Church  of  Denver.  During  the 
most  of  the  time  since  the  organization  of  the 
chamber  of  commerce,  he  has  beeu  one  of  its 
members.  He  is  identified  with  the  Denver  and 
Colorado  Bar  Associations,  in  the  latter  of  which 
he  has  served  as  a  member  of  the  executive  com- 
mittee and  the  committee  on  admissions.  Like 
the  majority  of  Denver  business  and  professional 
men,  he  has  mining  interests  in  the  state. 

Mr.  Decker  is  the  father  of  three  children: 
Cora  E.,  wife  of  George  W.  Sargent,  of  Trini- 
dad, Colo.;  Howard,  who  died  at  seven  years; 
and  Mason  L.,  who  married  Jeanne  Stewart,  of 
New  York  City,  and  is  now  a  member  of  the  law 
firm  of  Decker  &  Mead,  of  Denver.  Mrs.  Decker 
was  a  daughter  of  Edmund  and  Emily  (Bailey) 
Worden,  natives  of  New  York.  She  was  born  at 
Seneca  Falls,  N.  Y.,  April  lo,  1844,  ^^^  died 
March  18,  1897. 

(pi  UGUST  L.  ROHLING,  the  prosperous  and 
LA  popular  merchant  of  Fort  Collins,  is  a  na- 
I  I  tive  of  Dielingen,  Westphalia,  Germany, 
and  a  sou  of  Philip  and  Agnes  (Heitplocke) 
Rohling.  He  was  fifth  in  order  of  birth  among 
six  children,  the  others  being  Mrs.  Angeline 
Wellman,  who  lives  at  the  old  homestead; 
Henry,  a  namesake  of  his  grandfather  Rohling, 
and  an  officer  in  the  war  of  1870-71,  since  which 
time  he  has  been  a  shoe  merchant;  Philip,  of 
Blackhawk,  Colo.;  William,  a  merchant  of  Dan- 
ville, 111.;  and  Herman,  who  was  an  officer  in 
the  German  army,  and  is  now  a  veterinary  sur- 
geon at  the  old  home  in  Germany.  The  father, 
who  was  fond  of  military  afiairs,  served  in  the 
German  army  as  an  officer.  He  followed  the 
occupation  of  a  veterinary  surgeon  until  his 
death,  which  occurred  at  the  age  of  seventy-eight 
years  and  six  months.  His  wife  is  still  living  in 
Westphalia. 

In  Dielingen,  where  he  was  born  February  28, 
1858,  our  subject  passed  the  first  fifteen  years  of 
his  life,  meantime  attending  the  gymnasium. 
In  1873  he  accompanied  his  brother  Philip  to 
America  and  settled  in  Indianapolis,  where  he 
secured  employment  in  the  wholesale  dry-goods 
house  of  Hibbon,  Patterson  &  Co.  Remaining 
there  three  years,  in  1876  he  came  to  Colorado, 


the  first  member  of  the  family  to  locate  in  this 
state.  The  name,  Blackhawk,  being  peculiar, 
attracted  his  attention  and  led  him  to  the  town, 
where  he  secured  employment  as  clerk  for  Ritt- 
master  &  Co.  In  1882  he  was  joined  by  his 
brother  Philip,  and  they  formed  a  partnership  as 
Rohling  Brothers,  starting  a  store  on  Gregory 
street  and  building  up  a  large  trade.  In  1892 
they  opened  a  store  at  Fort  Collins  and  our  sub- 
ject came  here  to  superintend  it,  since  which 
time  he  has  acquired  a  valuable  patronage.  In 
1894  he  bought  the  block  he  now  occupies,  and 
which  was  built  in  1892. 

The  Rohling  Block,  asitis  known,  has  a  front- 
age of  fifty  feet,  divided  into  two  store  rooms, 
and  is  one  of  the  largest  blocks  in  the  city.  The 
entire  first  floor  and  the  basement  are  occupied 
by  the  stock  of  dry-goods,  carpets,  clothing,  fur- 
niture, etc. ,  which  is  the  largest  of  its  kind  in 
the  place.  February  i,  1896,  the  partnership 
was  dissolved,  and  our  subject  retained  the  Fort 
Collins  interest,  his  brother  taking  the  Black- 
hawk store.  In  addition  to  the  store  he  is  in- 
terested in  mining  in  the  Manhattan  district  of 
this  county,  and  is  developing  the  Lynn  lode,  the 
extension  of  the  Ida  May  mine.  He  is  also  in- 
terested in  mines  in  the  Tip  Top  district.  With 
his  brother  he  worked  the  Belmont  mine  for  many 
years,  but  finally  sold  his  interest.  He  is  also 
interested  in  the  Greeley  and  Fort  Collins  Mining 
Company,  of  which  he  has  been  treasurer,  and 
has  invested  some  in  placer  mining  in  North 
Park  at  Owl  Mountain. 

In  Blackhawk  Mr.  Rohling  married  Johanna 
Rudolph,  who  was  born  in  Newark,  N.  J.,  and 
died  in  Blackhawk,  leaving  one  child,  Elizabeth 
Augusta.  His  second  wife,  whom  he  married  in 
Longmont,  was  June  Stephenson,  who  was  born 
in  Carthage,  Mo.,  a  daughter  of  W.  T.  Stephen- 
son, ofjoplin.  Mo.  Their  union  has  been  blessed 
with  two  children,  A.  Lynn  and  Lois. 

During  the  period  of  his  residence  in  Black- 
hawk Mr.  Rohling  was  a  member  of  the  council 
for  one  term  and  for  three  years  a  member  of  the 
school  board,  of  which  he  was  president  for  a 
year.  He  was  made  a  Mason  in  Blackhawk 
Lodge  No.  4,  A.  F.  &.  A.  M.,  and  now  belongs 
to  Fort  Collins  Lodge  No.  19.  In  the  Independ- 
ent Order  of  Odd  Fellows  he  belongs  to  Fort  Col- 
lins Lodge  No.  19,  which  he  has  represented  in 
the  grand  lodge,  and  is  also  identified  with  the 


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encampment  and  Rebekah  Lodge.  He  is  a  char- 
ter member  of  Larimer  Lodge  No.  loi,  K.  of  P., 
in  which  he  was  the  first  chancellor  commander, 
and  is  grand  district  deputy;  also  a  charter  mem- 
ber of  the  Uniform  Rank,  K.  of  P.;  al.so  repre- 
sented the  Knights  of  Pythias  in  the  grand 
lodge.  His  wife  is  connected  with  the  Eastern 
Star. 


HON.  FREDERICK  J.  EBERT.  It  would 
be  impossible  to  write  an  accurate  history  of 
Denver  without  making  mention  of  the  life 
and  works  of  Mr.  Ebert,  who  was  a  prominent 
citizen  of  this  place  from  1875  until  his  death, 
May  3,  1888.  In  many  different  ways  that  showed 
the  versatility  of  his  talents,  he  contributed  to 
the  development  of  the  city  and  the  advancement 
of  its  interests.  Especially  was  his  influence 
given  to  the  public  schools,  and,  recognizing  his 
assistance  in  the  promotion  of  educational  inter- 
ests, it  was  deemed  a  fitting  memorial  to  his 
labors  to  name  in  his  honor  one  of  the  fine  school 
buildings  of  Denver.  Believing  that  iron  manu- 
factures could  be  successfully  established  in  the 
west,  he  took  an  active  part  in  founding  the  first 
rolling  mill  in  this  city,  and  at  the  time  of  his 
death  he  was  president  of  the  Colorado  Iron 
Works.  In  spite  of  the  fact  that  he  was  one 
of  the  busiest  of  men,  he  nevertheless  found  time 
for  scientific  and  classical  studies,  and  acquired  a 
conversational  knowledge  of  six  languages,  be- 
sides a  broad  fund  of  historical  information  that 
made  him  one  of  the  most  learned  men  in  his 
state. 

Reviewing  the  ancestry  of  the  Ebert  family, 
we  find  that  the  name  was  originally  Aberhart 
and  that  many  years  ago  it  was  founded  in  Ger- 
many by  emigrants  from  France.  Our  subject 
was  born  in  Brunswick,  Germany,  January  27, 
1822,  and  attended  the  gymnasium  for  some  time, 
after  which  he  was  a  student  in  the  Academy 
Collegium  Corolinum,  a  polytechnic  institution 
of  high  reputation,  from  which  he  graduated 
with  first  honors.  He  selected  the  science  of  for- 
estry for  his  occupation,  and  in  his  twenty-fourth 
year  was  given  the  degree  of  A  by  the  govern- 
ment and  was  duly  commissioned  as  forest  en- 
gineer. He  was  an  officer  under  the  duke  of 
Brunswick  in  the  Revolution  of  1848,  and  during 
the  troubled  times  that  followed  he  deemed  it 
best  to  seek  a  home  in  another  country.     After 


starting  to  America  in  1850,  a  pardon  was  sent 
him  for  his  connection  with  the  Revolution,  but 
he  preferred  to  continue  his  journey  to  a  land  of 
freedom  and  liberty  of  thought.  Reaching  New 
York  in  June,  he  went  on  to  Milwaukee,  Wis. , 
where  he  remained  a  year,  studying  the  English 
language  and  the  customs  of  the  people.  He 
spent  two  years  in  St.  Louis,  where  he  was  em- 
ployed as  a  civil  engineer  in  the  building  of  the 
bridge  across  the  Missouri,  and  from  there  went 
to  St.  Joseph,  Mo.,  where  he  engaged  in  civil 
engineering  for  seven  years. 

Coming  with  an  engineeringcorps  to  Denver  in 
i860,  Mr.  Ebert  surveyed  what  is  now  the  Kansas 
Pacific  Railroad  as  far  as  the  headwaters  of  the 
Republican  River,  one  hundred  and  twelve  miles 
from  Denver,  but  the  Indians  under  Little  Wood 
and  Left  Hand  attacked  them,  and  while  by  par- 
leying they  saved  their  lives,  still  further  advance 
was  considered  impracticable.  The  engineers 
came  via  the  Platte  to  Denver,  arriving  here  De- 
cember 12.  Mr.  Ebert  soon  secured  work  with 
W.  A.  H.  Loveland  in  surveying  a  line  for  a 
mountain  road  from  Denver  to  Central  City, which 
was  the  first  railroad  survey  in  the  Rocky  Mount- 
ain district.  In  1862  he  drafted  the  first  map  of 
the  territory  and  assisted  Surveyor- General  John 
Pierce  in  making  its  first  land  survey.  In  1863 
he  was  chosen  city  engineer  of  Denver  and 
served  for  two  terms,  his  surveys  being  the  only 
ones  that  have  stood  the  test  of  time  and  the  law. 
In  1865  he  embarked  in  the  stock  and  dairy  busi- 
ness near  Denver,  but  ten  years  later  moved  back 
to  the  city  in  order  that  his  children  might  have 
educational  advantages. 

On  the  organization  of  the  Exchange  Bank, 
Mr.  Ebert  was  a  stockholder  and  director,  con- 
tinuing in  that  capacity  until  his  election  as  pres- 
ident; the  latter  office  he  resigned  in  1878,  but 
continued  connected  with  the  bank  as  vice-presi- 
dent until  his  death.  He  was  elected  a  member 
of  the  constitutional  convention  that  framed  the 
fundamental  law  of  the  .state,  and  his  services  in 
that  body  were  of  a  distinguished  and  honorable 
nature.  To  him  and  Mr.  Golden,  more  than  to 
any  other  men,  may  be  ascribed  the  establish- 
ment of  the  schools  of  Denver  and  their  subse- 
quent success.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was 
president  of  the  board  of  regents  of  the  State 
University  at  Boulder.  Politically  he  was  a  Re- 
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In  St.  Joseph,  Mo.,  in  December,  1855,  Mr. 
Ebert  married  Miss  Mary  Davies,  who  was  born 
in  Shrewsbury,  England,  a  descendant  in  the 
third  generation  of  a  Frenchman  who  crossed  the 
channel  and  settled  in  Shropshire,  England. 
Her  father,  Thomas  Davies,  was  born  in  1800, 
and  some  years  after  his  marriage  he  came  to 
America,  settling  in  Buchanan  County,  Mo.,  in 
1849,  but  later  removing  to  Troy,  Doniphan 
County,  Kan.,  where  he  died  in  1892,  at  the  age 
of  ninety-two.  Before  leaving  England  he  mar- 
ried Phoebe  Nooks,  who  was  born  in  Mont- 
gomeryshire and  died  in  St.  Louis  while  en  route 
to  the  west.  Of  their  five  children,  two  sons 
took  part  in  the  Civil  war  as  soldiers  in  the  Union 
army;  and  during  his  service  the  younger  son 
took  both  of  his  brothers-in-law  and  a  number  of 
friends  prisoners-of-war  and  sent  them  back  to 
his  father  in  Kansas  in  order  to  save  their  lives. 
Mrs.  Ebert  was  reared  in  St.  Joseph,  Mo. ,  and  re- 
mained there  for  a  time  after  her  marriage,  but 
in  1862  came  to  Colorado,  reaching  Denver  after 
a  five  weeks'  trip,  October  22  of  that  year.  She 
is  a  woman  of  superior  business  ability  and  since 
the  death  of  her  husband  has  managed  the  estate 
in  a  most  efficient  manner.  She  was  left  four 
hundred  and  eighty  acres,  a  portion  of  which  was 
in  the  city,  extending  from  Twenty-fourth  street 
to  Downing  avenue,  between  the  Platte  and  Whit- 
tier  school;  but  after  her  husband's  death  .she  was 
compelled  to  go  to  law  in  order  to  retain  the 
land.  For  four  years  the  matter  was  in  the 
courts,  but  she  was  finally  successful  in  retaining 
a  large  share  of  the  tract.  She  owns  a  farm  of 
three  hundred  and  twenty  acres,  within  the 
present  limits  of  the  city,  and  this  by  irrigation 
she  keeps  in  a  high  state  of  cultivation,  building 
upon  the  place,  on  Hyde  Park  street,  just  beyond 
City  Park,  a  little  town  known  as  London  farm. 
She  also  owns  twenty  acres  on  North  Capitol 
hill,  and  has  in  addition  what  is  the  largest  dairy 
farm  for  miles  around,  having  the  ranch  stocked 
with  registered  Jerseys,  Holsteins  and  Shorthorn 
Durhams.  One-half  block  oi  land  on  her  farm 
she  donated  for  school  purposes.  In  the  manage- 
ment of  the  property  she  is  assisted  by  her  son, 
Alfred  G.,  who  is  a  graduate  of  the  high  school 
and  for  two  years  a  student  in  the  University  of 
Denver.  Her  other  children  are  daughters, 
namely:  Mrs.  Leonore  M.  Hall,  who  graduated 
from  Wolfe  Hall  and  resides  in  Denver;  Mrs.  Ida 


J.  O'Brien,  whose  husband  is  an  attorney  in 
Denver;  and  Zetella  E.,  who  graduated  from  the 
Denver  high  school  and  from  the  Emerson  School 
of  Oratory  in  Boston,  and  is  now  a  prominent 
member  and  the  auditor  of  the  Woman's  Club, 
of  Denver.  The  family  are  identified  with  the 
Episcopal  Church. 


HORACE  O.  DODGE,  M.  D.,  professor  of 
clinical  medicine  in  the  Colorado  University 
and  secretary  of  the  board  of  education  of 
Boulder,  is,  in  point  of  years  of  practice,  the  old- 
est physician  of  the  city  now  following  the  pro- 
fession. He  has  been  identified  with  many 
enterprises  for  the  benefit  of  the  people  and  the 
advancement  of  the  state.  In  the  organization 
of  the  Colorado  School  of  Music  he  took  a  warm 
interest,  was  elected  the  first  president  of  the  in- 
stitution, and  has  held  the  position  from  the  time 
of  its  organization  in  1894,  ^'s  enterprise  and 
excellent  judgment  doing  much  for  the  growth  of 
the  school. 

The  Dodge  family  has  been  represented  in 
America  ever  since  the  "Mayflower"  made  its 
first  trip  across  the  waters.  The  doctor's  great- 
grandfather was  a  soldier  in  the  Revolution.  The 
grandfather,  Zebulon,  was  born  in  Massachusetts 
and  engaged  in  farming  there  until  his  death. 
The  father,  Horace  Dodge,  was  born  in  Belcher- 
town,  Mass.,  and  removed  to  the  west  in  1836, 
settling  as  a  pioneer  in  DuPage  County,  111., 
twenty  miles  from  Chicago,  where  he  secured  a 
deed  to  land  from  the  government  and  improved 
a  farm.  The  land  is  still  owned  by  members  of 
the  family.  He  was  eighty-four  at  the  time  of 
his  death;  his  mother  was  ninety-nine  when  she 
died.  Longevity  is  noticed  in  every  generation 
of  the  family,  many  of  whom  reach  ninety  years 
of  age. 

The  doctor's  mother,  Lucy  A.  Hickman,  was 
born  in  Winchester,  Va.,  in  the  Shenandoah 
Valley,  and  resides  in  Wheaton,  111.,  at  the  age 
of  eighty-three  years.  She  is  a  member  of  the 
Baptist  Church.  Her  father,  W.  Fielding  Hick- 
man, was  born  at  Natural  Bridge,  a  member  of 
an  old  Virginia  family,  and  removed  to  the 
Shenandoah  Valley,  where  he  engaged  in  farm- 
ing. He  started  to  remove  to  Indiana,  traveling 
by  team,  but  died  while  on  his  way  west.  One 
of  his  sons  was  in  the  navy  during  the  war  of 


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i8i2  and  also  accompanied  Commodore  Perry  on 
his  expedition  for  the  opening  of  the  Japanese 
ports.  The  Hickman  family  are  lineal  descend- 
ants of  John  Knox,  the  Reformer. 

The  family  of  Horace  and  Lucy  A.  Dodge  con- 
sisted of  six  daughters  and  one  son,  all  of  whom 
are  still  living,  the  youngest  sister,  the  wife  of  a 
minister,  having  for  the  past  seventeen  years 
been  a  missionary  in  Africa.  The  subject  of  this 
sketch  was  the  fifth  in  order  of  birth.  He  was 
born  on  the  home  farm  in  DuPage  County,  De- 
cember 13,  1840,  and  grew  to  manhood  on  the 
homestead  where  he  was  born.  At  the  age  of 
eighteen  he  began  to  teach  school,  and  with  the 
money  thus  earned  he  expected  to  avail  himself 
of  a  collegiate  education.  In  1861  he  entered 
the  freshman  class  of  Wheaton  College,  but  four 
weeks  later  he  volunteered  in  Company  E, 
Eighth  Illinois  Cavalry,  and  was  mustered  into 
service  at  St.  Charles,  111.,  as  a  private.  Ordered 
to  Washington,  he  remained  there  until  Decem- 
ber 13,  1861,  when  he  went  to.camp  in  Virginia. 
In  March,  1862,  he  marched  to  Centerville  and 
Manassas,  where  he  took  part  in  a  battle,  then 
retreated  to  Alexandria,  and  went  by  transport 
to  join  in  the  Peninsular  campaign  of  1862.  He 
took  part  in  the  engagements  at  Williamsburg 
and  Mechanicsville  and  the  .seven  days'  battle, 
then  retreated  to  Harrison's  Landing,  ordered 
back  to  Alexandria,  and  from  there  to  Bull  Run, 
in  time  for  the  second  battle  there;  afterward 
participated  in  the  battle  of  Antietam,  spent  the 
winter  in  picket  duty  and  scouting,  took  part  in 
the  battle  of  Fredericksburg,  and  in  the  spring  of 
1863  was  present  at  Chancellorsville,  Beverly 
Ford,  Brandy  Station,  Aldie,  Upperville  and 
Gettysburg,  where  his  regiment  opened  the  battle 
on  the  first  day  and  continued  at  the  front  until 
the  close  of  the  third  day.  Soon  after  that  battle 
he  was  detailed  to  the  division  headquarters  as  a 
scout,  and  the  winter  of  1863-64  was  occupied  in 
scouting.  In  the  spring  of  1864  he  was  in  the 
advance  in  the  battles  of  the  Wilderness  and 
Spottsylvania,  and  after  the  latter  engagement 
was  transferred  to  Sheridan's  headquarters  as 
scout,  taking  part  in  Sheridan's  raid  on  Rich- 
mond and  continuing  at  his  headquarters  until 
the  fall  of  1864.  In  October  he  was  mustered 
out  and  discharged  in  Chicago. 

Returning  to  the  home  farm,  our  subject  spent 
some  time  in  improving  it.      In  January,    1866, 


he  entered  the  Chicago  Medical  College,  from 
which  he  was  graduated  in  1868.  He  was  in  the 
Hospital  for  Women  and  Children  in  Chicago  for 
a  year,  also  engaged  in  practice  in  Riverside  for 
a  year,  and  in  January,  1871,  settled  in  Denver, 
where  he  engaged  in  practice  for  eight  months. 
He  then  removed  to  Valmont,  at  that  time  the 
most  promising  town  in  Boulder  County.  Eight- 
een months  later  the  railroad  was  completed  to 
Boulder,  and  he  located  here,  where  he  has  since 
carried  on  a  general  practice.  For  years  he  has 
been  president  of  the  board  of  pension  examiners 
in  Boulder,  which  he  assisted  in  organizing. 
For  four  years  he  was  county  physician,  has 
served  as  alderman  two  terms,  as  fire  chief  one 
term,  county  coroner  two  terms  and  health  officer 
six  terms.  He  has  been  professor  of  materia 
medica  and  therapeutics  in  the  Colorado  Uni- 
versity, and  in  the  fall  of  1898  was  given  the 
chair  of  clinical  medicine.  In  November,  1897, 
he  was  appointed  chairman  of  a  committee  to 
raise  money  for  the  erection  of  a  hospital  in  con- 
nection with  the  medical  department  of  the  state 
university.  The  committee  was  successful  and  a 
commodious,  well-appointed  building  now  fur- 
nishes refuge  for  the  afflicted,  as  well  as  clinical 
material  for  the  students. 

In  Chicago,  Dr.  Dodge  married  Miss  Laura  H. 
Sturdevant,  who  was  born  in  that  city,  daughter 
of  Noah  Sturdevant,  member  of  an  old  York 
state  family  and  a  coal  operator  and  lime  manu- 
facturer in  Illinois.  Two  children  of  Dr.  and 
Mrs.  Dodge  are  living  and  two  are  deceased, 
namely:  Horace  C,  who  graduated  from  the 
Boulder  high  school  and  is  a  member  of  the 
medical  department  of  the  state  university,  class 
of  1901;  Laura,  who  was  educated  in  the  Rock- 
ford  Female  College;  LeRoy,  who  was  accident- 
ally killed  at  twelve  years,  being  thrown  from  a 
horse;  and  Frederick,  who  died  at  four  years. 

Fraternally  Dr.  Dodge  is  identified  with  Col- 
umbia Lodge  No.  14,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.;  Boulder 
Chapter  No.  7,  R.  A.  M. ,  in  which  he  is  past 
high  priest;  Mount  Sinai  Commandery  No.  7,  in 
which  he  has  been  eminent  commander  four  terms, 
and  is  a  permanent  member  of  the  grand  com- 
mandery; El  Jebel  Temple,  N.  M.  S.,  of  Denver; 
and  is  grand  representative  of  the  Grand  Com- 
mandery of  New  Jersey.  He  is  a  charter  member 
of  the  Nathaniel  Lyon  Post  No.  5,  G.  A.  R.,  in 
which  he  is  past  commander,  and  for  one  year, 


HENRY  BEAN  NEWLON. 


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1896-97,  was  commander  of  the  department  of 
Colorado  and  Wyoming,  G.  A.  R.,  was  also  an 
aide  on  the  staff  of  the  commander  of  the 
National  Encampment,  General  Lawler.  In 
religion  he  is  an  Episcopalian.  Politically  he  is 
a  Republican.  At  this  writing  he  is  president  of 
the  Boulder  County  Medical  Association.  He 
was  a  charter  member  of  the  State  Medical 
Society,  and  held  the  position  of  president  of  that 
body  in  1876.  He  is  also  connected  with  the 
American  Medical  Association,  American  Clima- 
tological  Association,  and  a  member  of  the 
Alumni  Association  of  Chicago  Medical  College, 
now  the  medical  department  of  the  Northwestern 
University. 

HENRY  BEAN  NEWLON,  who  came  to 
Colorado  in  December,  1863,  and  for  some 
time  engaged  in  mining,  but  is  now  pro- 
prietor of  a  farm  and  fruit  ranch  near  LaPorte, 
Larimer  County,  was  born  in  Martinsville,  Clark 
County,  111.,  October  8,  1845,  and  traces  his 
lineage  to  one  of  the  F.  F.  Vs.  His  father,  James 
Newlon,  was  born  in  Culpeper  County,  Va. ,  and 
was  an  own  cousin  of  President  James  Madison, 
their  mothers  being  Misses  Bean,  sisters.  When 
a  young  man  he  came  as  far  west  as  Illinois, 
where  he  embarked  in  the  mercantile  business  at 
Tuscola,  Douglas  County.  Later  he  removed 
to  Texas  and  died  at  Gainesville  in  1882.  His 
wife,  Ruth  (Downs)  Newlon,  was  born  in  Cul- 
peper County,  of  an  old  Virginian  family,  and 
died  in  Clark  County,  111. ,  when  her  youngest 
child,  our  subject,  was  only  two  years  of  age. 
She  left,  besides  this  son,  two  daughters  and  a 
son,  namely:  Mrs.  Cynthia  Grant,  who  died  in 
Illinois;  Champion,  who  was  killed  in  Illinois  by 
being  thrown  from  a  horse;  and  Mattie,  of  Texas. 
In  the  public  schools  of  Clark  and  Douglas 
Counties,  111.,  our  subject  received  his  education. 
In  1862  he  went  to  Cairo  and  for  a  year  worked 
on  the  Illinois  Central  Railroad.  In  1863  he 
came  to  Colorado,  outfitting  at  St.  Joseph,  Mo., 
and  traveling  along  the  Platte,  hisjourney  lasting 
from  October  i  to  December  18,  when  he  arrived 
at  Denver.  He  proceeded  to  Gilpin  County  and 
engaged  in  mining  and  milling  at  Nevadaville 
for  a  time,  after  which  he  prospected  and  mined 
under  lease.  He  was  there  in  187 1,  at  the  time 
of  the  striking  of  the  Caribou  mine,  the  extension 
of  which  he  developed,  also  operated  the  None- 


Such  mine  successfully.  At  the  time  he  went  to 
that  camp,  there  was  but  one  cabin  at  the  camp, 
and  indications  of  future  prosperity  were  meagre. 
In  1 88 1  he  came  to  LaPorte  and  bought  eighty 
acres  of  unimproved  land.  Here  he  has  since 
planted  twelve  acres  to  apples  and  plums,  six 
acres  to  cherries,  and  ten  acres  to  blackberries, 
raspberries,  gooseberries  and  currants.  The 
place  is  one  of  the  finest  fruit  farms  in  the  coun- 
try, and  appropriately  bears  the  name  of  "None- 
Such,"  after  the  mine  Mr.  Newlon  once  operated. 

In  Caribou,  on  New  Year's  day  of  1878,  Mr. 
Newlon  married  Miss  Hilda  L.  Hoel,  who  was 
born  in  Madison,  Wis.,  a  daughter  of  John 
and  Susan  (Nelson)  Hoel,  natives  of  Christiana, 
Norway.  Her  father,  who  was  a  carpenter  and 
architect,  settled  in  Madison,  Wis.,  and  while 
there  planned  and  built  the  capitol,  courthouse, 
hospital  and  the  university  buildings.  On  ac- 
count of  ill  health  he  removed  to  Nevada,  Iowa, 
and  there  he  died  in  1882.  His  wife,  who  is 
living  in  Nevada,  Iowa,  is  identified  with  the 
Lutheran  Church.  She  is  the.  mother  of  three 
children,  namely:  Mrs.  Inger  Wells,  who  lives 
in  the  same  town  as  her  mother;  Hilda  Lillian; 
and  Henry  W. ,  a  successful  architect  and  builder, 
of  St.  Louis,  Mo.  Mrs.  Newlon  was  reared  in 
Madison,  Wis.,  until  fifteen  years  of  age,  after 
which  she  resided  in  Iowa,  and  from  there  in 
1876  came  to  Colorado.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Newlon 
have  an  adopted  daughter,  Bertha  May,  who  was 
graduated  from  the  high  school  of  Fort  Collins  . 
in  1898,  and  is  now  a  student  at  the  State  Agri- 
cultural College,  at  Fort  Collins. 

Politically  our  subject  is  a  Democrat,  while  Mrs. 
Newlon  is  a  Republican.  While  in  Blackhawk 
he  was  made  a  Mason,  and  now  belongs  to 
Collins  Lodge  No.  19,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.  Both  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Newlon  are  members  of  the  Presby- 
terian Church. 


"■  ZRA  T.  CARR  is  one  of  the  most  successful 
'y  fruit-growers  of  Boulder  County  and  is 
__  treasurer  and  manager  of  the  Boulder  Fruit 
Growers'  Association,  which  organization  he  was 
very  influential  in  founding.  When  a  resident  of 
Gilpin  County  he  served  for  six  years  as  county 
commissioner,  and  for  two  years  of  that  period 
was  chairman  of  the  board.  He  was  elected  first 
in  1880,  re-elected  in  1883  and  vacated  the  office 
in  1887,  with  a  record  of  which  he  has  ju.st  cause 


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to  be  proud,  for  it  was  eminently  satisfactory  to 
all  concerned.  He  has  always  been  a  thorough- 
going Republican,  and  of  late  years  has  been  ac- 
tively interested  on  the  side  of  the  silver  question. 
While  he  was  county  commissioner  the  bonded 
indebtedness  of  Gilpin  County,  amounting  to 
about  $100,000,  was  reduced  nearly  half,  and 
since  then  has  been  wholly  wiped  out,  leaving 
the  county  free  from  debt.  Mr.  Carr  possesses 
excellent  business  ability  and  almost  invariably 
makes  a  success  of  the  enterprises  he  undertakes. 

The  parents  of  the  above-named  gentleman  were 
Josiah  S.  and  Lucinda  (Tracy)  Carr,  both  na- 
tives of  New  York  state,  where  they  lived  till 
death  closed  their  labors.  The  father  was  a  mer- 
chant at  West  Dresden  for  many  years,  and  he 
lived  to  the  ripe  age  of  eighty-three  years.  His 
wife  died  when  in  her  fifty-third  year.  Seven  of 
their  fourteen  children  grew  to  maturity,  and  of 
this  large  family  Mr.  Carr  of  this  sketch  is  now 
the  only  survivor. 

The  birth  of  our  subject  took  place  in  the  town 
of  West  Dresden,  N.  Y.,  December23,  1838.  He 
was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  his  native 
place,  and  learned  the  mercantile  business  with 
his  father.  In  1856  he  went  to  Minnesota,  arriv- 
ing in  Minneapolis  when  the  place  comprised  but 
five  hundred  inhabitants.  He  taught  school  the 
first  winter,  after  which  he  engaged  in  farming 
nine  miles  from'the  city.  In  August,  1862,  he 
volunteered  in  Company  B,  Ninth  United  States 
Infantry,  for  service  in  the  Civil  war.  Soon  af- 
terward he  was  sent  on  the  frontier  against  the 
Indians,  who  had  taken  the  occasion  to  rise  in 
force  because  the  country  was  already  engaged 
in  civil  war.  Mr.  Carr  was  mustered  into  the 
service  as  first  sergeant  of  Company  B,  at  Fort 
Snelling,  Minn.,  and  was  honorably  discharged 
in  June,  1863,  at  St.  Peter's.  He  participated  in 
a  fierce  fight  with  the  Indians,  when  he  was  one 
of  a  little  band  of  sixty  against  three  hundred  red- 
skins. Three  of  his  comrades  were  killed  and 
twenty-one  were  injured,  himself  being  one  of  the 
number.  His  right  arm  was  badly  shattered  by 
a  bullet,  and  he  was  taken  to  the  hospital  for 
treatment.  The  young  lady  who  shortly  after- 
ward became  his  wife  was  most  kind  and  tender 
in  nursing  the  injured  soldiers  and  though  our 
hero  had  escaped  being  captured  by  the  Indians, 
he  found  a  more  formidable  foe  within  the  bare 
hospital  walls,  and  capitulated  at  once. 


Up  to  1868  Mr.  Carr  operated  a  farm  situated 
about  two  miles  from  Hutchinson,  Minn.,  but  in 
that  year  sold  out  and  located  in  Iowa,  near  Des 
Moines.  The  following  year  he  came  to  Colo- 
rado, by  way  of  Cheyenne,  making  the  trip  by 
rail  and  stage  to  Central  City,  and  in  July  com- 
menced mining  in  Russell  Gulch.  Among  the 
mines  which  he  opened  during  the  next  few  years 
are  the  Grizzly  and  Specie  Payment  and  others, 
which  have  produced  precious  metal  in  paying 
quantities.  Since  1885  he  has  lived  in  Boulder; 
but  built  his  residence  here  two  years  after  com- 
ing here,  planted  fruit  trees  and  greatly  improved 
his  property.  He  purchased  a  block  of  land  in 
Garden  City  Addition  to  Boulder.  In  1893  the 
Fruit  Growers' Association,  for  shipping  and  hand- 
ling fruit,  was  organized,  and  it  has  proved  of 
material  benefit  to  local  producers.  In  1897  Mr. 
Carr  was  very  active  in  getting  started  the  Boul- 
der Fruit  Juice  and  Preserving  Company,  of  which 
he  is  the  president.  At  one  time  he  was  a  mem- 
ber and  senior  commander  of  Ellsworth  Post  No. 
20,  G.  A.  R.,  in  Central  City,  and  was  honorably 
discharged  from  the  same  by  request.  He  was 
also  formerly  identified  with  the  Masonic  order 
and  is  of  high  standing  in  the  Odd  Fellows'  so- 
ciety. He  is  past  grand  in  the  order,  was  grand 
marshal  of  the  grand  lodge  of  Colorado,  and  is  a 
member  of  the  encampment.  He  was  captain  of 
Canton,  Boulder  No.  16,  and  major  of  the  fourth 
battalion.  At  the  request  of  the  Boulder  Canton 
the  Decoration  of  Chivalry  was  conferred  upon 
Mr.  Carr,  April  26,  1898. 

As  previously  mentioned  there  was  a  very 
pretty  little  romance  attending  the  meeting  of  Mr. 
Carr  and  the  lady  who  has  been  his  faithful  help- 
mate since  their  marriage,  October  7,  1863.  She 
was  Miss  Ludie  Tucker,  a  native  of  the  vicinity 
of  Fort  Smith,  Ark. ,  and  daughter  of  Rev.  Eber 
and  Martha  (Cox)  Tucker,  both  of  New  York 
state.  The  father,  who  was  a  minister  of  the 
Baptist  Church,  went  to  Fort  Smith  in  early  days 
and  was  a  missionary  of  his  denomination  there- 
abouts for  some  thirteen  years.  Thence  he  re- 
moved to  Knox  County,  Mo.,  where- his  death 
occurred  when  he  was  in  his  sixtieth  year.  In 
1861  the  mother,  with  her  son  Hiram  and  daugh- 
ter I/Udie,  went  to  Minnesota.  Mrs.  Tucker  de- 
parted this  life  in  Russell  Gulch,  at  the  age  of 
seventy-five  years.  The  paternal  grandfather  of 
Mrs.   Carr,  Eben  Tucker,  Sr. ,    was  a   native  of 


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Germany,  and  was  a  farmer  in  New  York  after 
his  arrival  in  this  country.  The  seven  children 
of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Carrare:  Lois  G.,  now  Mrs.  John 
L.  Hazleton,  of  Boulder;  Lillian  M.,  Mrs.  Harry 
Werry,  also  of  this  city;  Mary  E.,  wife  of 
Nathaniel  Lewis,  of  Russell  Gulch;  Edna  J.,  wife 
of  Walter  Booth,  of  Boulder;  Olive,  wife  of  C.  L. 
Purmort,  of  Boulder;  Ezra  E.  and  Lucy  M.  The 
two  eldest  daughters  are  graduates  of  the  schools 
ofCentral  City,  and  Mary  E.  graduated  from  the 
University  of  Colorado  in  the  class  of  '92. 


P  6JILLIAM  K.  BURCHINELL,  president  of 
\  A/  several  Colorado  mining  companies  and 
YV  sheriff  of  Arapahoe  County  1892-96,  is  a 
representative  of  one  of  Maryland's  oldest  fam- 
ilies, his  ancestors  having  come  to  this  country 
with  Lord  Baltimore.  It  is  said  that  some  of  the 
name  are  still  to  be  found  in  Normandy,  but  the 
branch  to  which  our  subject  belongs  was  estab- 
lished in  England  at  the  time  of  William  the 
Conqueror  and  subsequent  generations  were  iden- 
tified with  the  history  of  Great  Britain.  After 
coming  to  America  the}'  transferred  their  alle- 
giance to  the  colonies  and  during  the  Revolution 
William  Burchinell,  a  planter  of  Kent  County, 
Md.,  served  valiantly  in  the  cause  of  independ- 
ence. 

Thomas,  a  son  of  this  Revolutionary  patriot, 
was  born  in  Chestertown,  Md.,  and  grew  to  man- 
hood upon  the  eastern  shore,  receiving  his  educa- 
tion in  William  and  Mary  College,  of  which  he 
was  a  graduate.  He  became  an  architect  and 
builder  in  Baltimore,  but  later  removed  to  Hunt- 
ingdon and  was  employed  as  master  builder  in 
the  construction  of  the  Pennsylvania  Railroad. 
He  died  in  Huntingdon  when  sixty-six  years  of 
age.  His  wife  was  Anna  M.  Wilson,  who  was 
born  in  Huntingdon,  Pa.,  of  Scotch  descent,  and 
was  a  daughter  of  Matthew  Wilson,  a  native  of 
Pennsylvania,  but  for  some  years  a  merchant  in 
Baltimore.  There  were  three  sons  and  three 
daughters  in  the  family  of  Thomas  Burchinell, 
and  all  the  sons  come  to  Colorado.  Thomas  W. 
died  while  acting  as  receiver  of  the  United  States 
land  office  at  Leadville;  and  John  E.  resides  in 
Denver. 

The  second  of  the  sons,  William  K.,  was  born 
in  Huntingdon,  Pa.,  October  12,  1846.  While  a 
student  in  the  Hollidaysburg  Academy,  he  en- 


listed as  a  member  of  the  Fifteenth  Pennsylvania 
Cavalry,  in  which  he  served  from  July,  1862, 
until  the  close  of  the  war,  being  assigned  to  the 
Army  of  the  Cumberland  under  General  Rose- 
crans  and  General  Thomas.  Among  the  impor- 
tant engagements  in  which  he  participated  were 
those  of  Stone  River,  Chattanooga,  Chicka- 
mauga,  Lookout  Mountain,  Missionary  Ridge, 
the  march  to  Atlanta  and  then  back  to  Nashville 
under  General  Thomas.  On  being  mustered  out 
in  1865,  he  returned  to  Huntingdon  and  em- 
barked in  the  planing  mill  business.  In  the  fall 
of  1873  he  was  elected,  on  the  Republican  ticket, 
to  represent  the  district  in  the  legislature,  and 
while  a  member  of  the  session  of  1874  served  on 
various  committees  and  as  chairman  of  the 
military  and  judiciary  committees.  In  1874  ^^ 
was  appointed  by  President  Grant  to  the  receiver- 
ship of  the  United  States  land  office  at  Fairplay, 
Colo.,  and  assumed  the  duties  of  the  position  in 
February,  1875.  Four  years  later  President 
Hayes  re-appointed  him  to  the  office,  which  was 
removed  to  Leadville,  and  he  served  there  until 
1883.  Meantime  he  had  become  interested  in 
mining  in  the  Leadville  district.  Though  on  the 
expiration  of  his  term  of  office  he  removed  to 
Denver,  he  still  continued  to  operate  in  the  Lead- 
ville region,  and  is  now  interested  in  the  Welton, 
Nubian  and  Superior  Consolidated  mines  there, 
besides  being  interested  in  scores  of  mines  else- 
where. He  is  president  of  the  Golden  Ocean 
Mining  Company,  which  operates  at  Victor;  presi- 
dent of  LaPlatte  Placer  Mining  Company;  presi- 
dent of  the  Grouse  Mountain  Gold  Mining  and 
Tunnel  Company,  operating  in  the  Cripple  Creek 
district;  and  president  of  the  Mineral  Hill  Gold 
Mining  Company  in  Park  County. 

In  Huntingdon,  Pa.,  Mr.  Burchinell  married 
Miss  Mant  Cunningham,  daughter  of  Josiah 
Cunningham,  who  was  a  merchant  and  farmer 
there.  They  have  one  child,  Annie  C.  Politi- 
cally Mr.  Burchinell  is  a  silver  Republican,  and 
he  has  been  active  upon  committees,  in  conven- 
tions and  as  a  member  of  the  state  Republican 
committee.  His  party,  in  1891,  elected  him 
sheriff  of  Arapahoe  County  and  two  years  later 
he  was  re-elected,  holding  the  office  from  Janu- 
ary, 1892,  to  January,  1896.  At  the  second  elec- 
tion he  won  by  a  plurality  of  eleven  hundred  and 
eighty  votes,  in  spite  of  the  fact  that  he  was 
opposed  by  the  "machine"  political  element  and 


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the  newspapers,  who  fought  him  because  he 
would  not  be  dictated  to.  During  his  term  of 
oflSce  occurred  the  celebrated  attack  on  the  city, 
when  his  coolness  and  determination  saved  blood- 
shed and  his  promptness  in  securing  the  aid  of 
the  United  States  troops  and  not  allowing  any 
demonstration  kept  both  sides  down.  He  is  a 
member  of  Reno  Post  No.  39,  G.  A.  R.,  and  the 
Union  Veterans'  Legion.  While  in  Huntingdon 
he  was  made  a  Mason  and  afterward  identified 
himself  with  the  fraternity  in  Leadville.  He  be- 
longs to  Temple  Lodge  No.  84,  A.  F.  &  A.  M,, 
Colorado  Chapter  No.  29,  R.  A.  M.,  Denver 
Commandery  No.  25,  K.  T.,  Denver  Consistory 
and  El  Jebel  Temple,  N.  M.  S. 


0R.  AYRES  STRADLEY  has  been  associated 
with  his  brother  in  Longmont  for  about  two 
years,  both  in  the  practice  of  medicine  and 
surgery  and  in  mining  enterprises.  Previously 
he  was  located  at  Platteville,  Colo.,  for  thirteen 
years,  gaining  an  enviable  reputation  for  skill  in 
his  profession  during  that  period.  He  has  made 
a  specialty  of  nervous  diseases  and  is  in  partner- 
ship with  his  brother,  D.  N.,  in  the  management 
of  a  sanitarium  for  the  cure  of  the  liquor  habit. 
At  present  he  is  the  city  physician  of  lyOngmont, 
and  is  examiner  for  numerous  leading  life  insur- 
ance companies  here. 

The  parents  of  the  doctor  were  Dr.  D.  W.  and 
Elizabeth  (Bell)  Stradley,  natives  of  Zanesville 
and  Circleville,  Ohio,  respectively.  They  became 
residents  of  Wabash,  Ind.,  in  1849  and  thence- 
forth made  their  home  in  that  city,  the  father 
dying  there  in  November,  1895,  aged  fourscore 
years,  and  the  mother  many  years  before,  when 
fifty-four  years  of  age.  Dr.  D.  W.  Stradley  was 
much  esteemed  by  his  professional  brethren  and 
took  a  leading  part  in  public  enterprises  and  edu- 
cational work.  He  acted  as  a  director  and  was 
deeply  interested  in  the  development  and  improve- 
ment of  the  system  of  educating  the  young.  His 
father,  Ayres  Stradley,  was  born  in  Baltimore, 
Md.,  married  Rhoda  Wilkins,  of  the  same  city, 
and  followed  farming  and  building  as  occupations. 
He  lived  in  Hancock  County,  Ohio,  for  several 
years  and  spent  his  last  days  in  Wabash,  Ind., 
dying  in  his  eighty-third  year.  His  good  wife 
also  died  in  Wabash,  in  November,  1882,  having 
attained  the  extreme  age  of  ninety-six   years. 


The  father  of  Ayres  Stradley  was  a  native  ot 
England,  who,  upon  his  arrival  in  the  United 
States,  located  permanently  in  Baltimore. 

Mrs.  Elizabeth  (Bell)  Stradley  was  a  daughter 
of  Abner  Bell,  originally  of  Pennsylvania,  but 
later  of  Hancock  County,  Ohio,  and  Winterset, 
Iowa.  To  the  last-named  place  he  removed  in 
1851,  and,  after  living  in  the  town  fortwenty-one 
years,  he  passed  to  his  reward,  in  1872,  aged 
about  eighty-six  years.  He  was  a  hero  of  the 
war  of  18 12,  and  his  wife  was  the  daughter  of 
Rev.  John  Smith,  a  soldier  of  the  Revolution  and 
also  of  the  war  of  1812.  He  was  a  noble  minister 
of  the  gospel,  for  years  was  connected  with  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church  in  Ohio,  and  received 
his  summons  to  the  better  land  while  he  was 
occupying  his  pulpit,  then  past  eighty  years  of 
age.  His  wife  died  in  Winterset,  Iowa,  in  1881, 
at  the  advanced  age  of  ninety-five  years.  Both 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  D.  W.  Stradley  were  members  of 
the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church.  They  had  ten 
children,  four  of  whom  died  in  childhood.  Their 
four  married  daughters  died  in  Indiana:  Rhoda, 
Mrs.  Baker;  Margaret  A.,  Mrs.  Litsenberger,  and 
Sarah  E-,  Mrs.  Comstock,  all  in  Wabash;  and 
Charlotte  E.,  Mrs.  Steele,  in  South  Bend.  Their 
two  surviving  sons  are  Ayres  and  Daniel  N.,who 
are  represented  in  this  volume.  (See  sketch  of 
Dr.  D.  N.  Stradley.) 

Dr.  Ayres  Stradley  was  born  in  Mount  Blanch- 
ard,  Hancock  County,  Ohio,  October  11,  1840,  and 
was  nine  years  old  when  the  family  went  to 
Wabash,  Ind.  He  received  a  good  education  in 
the  common  and  high  schools  and  then  took  up 
the  study  of  medicine  with  his  father.  In  April, 
1861,  he  was  among  the  first  to  respond  to  the 
president's  call  for  troops  but  was  rejected.  In 
1863  he  entered  the  University  of  Michigan  and 
took  a  course  of  lectures,  after  which  he  opened 
an  oflSce  in  Wabash  and  commenced  practice. 
In  1866  he  went  to  Bloomingdale,  Mich.,  and 
remained  there  for  ten  years,  giving  his  earnest 
attention  to  the  duties  of  his  profession.  Then 
returning  to  Wabash,  he  continued  his  practice 
in  that  city  up  to  1883,  when  he  came  to  Colo- 
rado, and  for  over  thirteen  years  practiced  in 
Platteville.  His  well-established  reputation  for 
ability  preceded  him  to  this  place  and  in  the  brief 
period  of  his  stay  here  he  has  won  the  respect  and  . 
best  wishes  of  all  who  know  him,  whether  in  a 
business  or  social  way. 


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While  living  in  Platteville,  Dr.  Stradley  was  a 
candidate  for  count}'  clerk  of  Weld  County  on 
the  Populist's  ticket,  which  was  defeated.  At 
the  time  of  the  election  he  was  absent  in  the  east, 
at  the  bedside  of  his  dying  father.  He  became 
a  member  of  the  Masonic  fraternity  when  he  was 
a  young  man,  in  Bloomingdale,  Mich.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Uniform  Rank  of  the  Knights  of 
Pythias  and  is  a  Knight  of  the  Maccabees.  He 
was  married  in  Wabash,  Ind. ,  in  1863  to  Miss 
N.  M.  Baruhart,  a  native  of  Virginia  and  daugh- 
ter of  Joel  Barnhart,  an  early  settler  of  Wabash. 
Of  the  four  children  born  to  the  doctor  and  wife 
three  are  living,  namely:  Carl,  a  civil  engineer 
and  county  surveyor;  Maude  M.,  Mrs.  Dudley, 
of  IrOngmont;  and  Edessa  E.,  who  is  at  home. 


0ANIEL  N.  STRADLEY,  M.  D.,  one  of  the 
well-known  and  highly  respected  physicians 
of  Longmont,  has  been  established  in  prac- 
tice here  for  the  past  eighteen  years  and  has  been 
a  resident  of  the  county  for  a  score  of  years.  That 
he  is  considered  an  authority  in  his  special  de- 
partment, nervous  and  mental  diseases,  is  evi- 
denced by  the  fact  that  four  different  judges  have 
appointed  him  as  medical  expert  in  lunacy  cases. 
He  has  also  served  to  the  entire  satisfaction  of 
everyone  as  city  physician  and  is  medical  exami- 
ner for  several  of  the  old  standard  life  insurance 
companies.  In  1892  he  opened  a  sanitarium  here 
for  the  treatment  of  persons  afflicted  with  dipso- 
mania and  nervous  diseases,  and  has  successfully 
attended  to  some  eight  or  nine  hundred  patients. 
He  has  the  highest  testimonials  from  many  of 
these,  and  numerous  outsiders  who  know  of  the 
good  work  that  has  been  accomplished  under  his 
able  management  in  this  institution. 

The  birth  of  Dr.  D.  N.  Stradley  occurred  in 
Mount  Blanchard,  Ohio,  July  3,  1849.  His  par- 
ents were  Dr.  D.  W.  and  Elizabeth  (Bell)  Strad- 
ley, likewise  of  Ohio,  of  English  descent,  but  rep- 
resentatives of  patriotic  American  families  who 
had  dwelt  in  the  United  States  for  several  gene- 
rations. Dr.  Stradley,  Sr.,  practiced  his  profes- 
sion in  Ohio  and  Indiana,  and  was  loved  and  re- 
spected by  all  who  knew  him.  His  children  were 
ten  in  number,  but  only  six  lived  to  maturity. 
Four  daughters  married  and  had  homes  of  their 
own  in  Indiana,  but  one  by  one  they  were  gath- 
ered to  the  silent  land,  and  now,   of  the  entire 


family  only  two  remain,  the  subject  of  this  article 
and  his  brother.  Dr.  Ayres,  who  has  been  in  part- 
nership with  him  for  about  two  or  three  years. 

The  early  years  of  Dr.  Daniel  N.  Stradley 
were  spent  in  Wabash,  Ind.,  where  he  attended 
the  public  schools.  Having  inherited  a  taste  for 
the  medical  profession  he  found  an  able  instructor 
in  his  father,  and  in  1873  took  a  course  of  lectures 
in  the  Curtis  Medical  College  in  Cincinnati,  com- 
pleting his  studies  in  Marion,  Ind.,  where  the 
college  had  been  removed  after  his  first  year 
in  the  institution.  He  graduated  in  1875,  but  in 
the  preceding  year  had  begun  practice  in  Marion, 
with  Dr.  Snodgrass,  the  dean  of  the  college.  In 
1878,  on  account  of  poor  health.  Dr.  Stradley 
came  to  Colorado,  and  for  two  years  or  more 
lived  in  Boulder.  There  he  became  a  member  of 
the  Boulder  County  Medical  Association  and  in 
partnership  with  Dr.  H.  W.  Allen  was  made  sur- 
geon for  the  South  Park  &  Rio  Grande  Railroad, 
and  opened  a  hospital  at  Buena  Vista,  Dr.  Allen 
being  secretary  and  himself  treasurer.  When  the 
railroad  was  completed  the  hospital  was  aban- 
doned, and  Dr.  Stradley  came  to  Longmont,  where 
he  has  since  made  his  home,  his  ofiSce  being  on 
Main  Street.  Formerly  he  was  a  member  of  the 
Indiana  Medical  Society. 

In  addition  to  being  thoroughly  interested  in 
his  professional  work.  Dr.  Stradley  and  his 
brother  are  engaged  in  mining  operations  upon 
quite  a  large  scale.  They  are  working  the  Vir- 
ginius  mine  near  Ward,  and  the  Miser  group  of 
mines  in  the  vicinity  of  Rowena,  near  Left  Hand. 
The  subject  of  this  article  was  one  of  the  incor- 
porators of  the  Great  Northern  Oil,  Coal,  Mineral 
Refining  and  Prospecting  Company,  which  is 
capitalized  at  $100,000,  and  has  as  its  president 
Dr.  W.  H.  Davis,  of  Denver,  Colo.;  treasurer. 
Dr.  Stradley;  secretary.  Judge  H.  M.  Minor,  of 
Longmont;  and  manager,  S.  L.  Holaday.  Prof. 
Arthur  Lakes,  late  professor  of  geology  at  the 
State  School  of  Mines  and  editor  of  Mines  and 
Minerals  in  Denver,  was  employed  by  the  company 
to  make  a  thorough  investigation  of  the  strata 
and  existing  conditions  of  the  region  which  they 
proposed  to  search  for  oil,  coal  and  minerals,  and 
his  careful  and  detailed  report  was  most  encour- 
aging and  valuable,  pointing  out,  as  it  does,  the 
facts  and  reasons  for  his  belief  of  the  existence  of 
certain  mineral  and  oil  deposits  within  conven- 
ient distance  from  Longmont.      With  redoubled 


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vigor  and  euterprise  the  company  is  now  pushing 
forward  the  work  which  is  certain,  sooner  or  later, 
to  meet  with  the  most  gratifying  results. 

Politically  the  doctor  is  identified  with  the 
People's  party.  October  i,  1898,  he  received  the 
nomination  of  his  party  for  representative  of  the 
northern  district  of  Colorado.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen  and 
the  Knights  of  the  Maccabees.  He  was  married 
in  Xenia,  Ohio,  in  1873,  toMiss  Margaret  Pence, 
daughter  of  Darius  Pence.  She  was  born  and 
reared  in  Xenia  and  by  her  marriage  with  the 
doctor  is  the  mother  of  a  son,  D.  Pry,  who  is 
a  promising  young  man,  and  is  a  member  of 
Gross  Medical  College,  class  of  '99. 


(John  Rowland  hanna.    coming  to 

I  Colorado  in  1869  and  to  Denver  in  1871, 
Qj  Mr.  Hanna  has  witnessed  much  of  the  de- 
velopment of  the  state  and  has  been  identified 
with  the  growth  of  Denver  since  it  was  a  place 
of  five  thousand  inhabitants.  Religious,  charit- 
able and  educational  institutions  have  alike  felt 
the  impetus  of  his  sympathy  and  support,  and  in 
every  enterprise  calculated  to  benefit  the  people 
he  has  been  deeply  interested.  After  years  of 
active  connection  with  the  banking  business  of 
this  city,  he  resigned  his  position  and  retired  to 
private  life. 

The  Hanna  family  is  of  Scotch-Irish  lineage, 
but  has  had  representatives  in  America  from  an 
early  day.  In  their  honor  was  named  Hannas- 
town,  Westmoreland  County,  Pa.,  which  was  so 
loyal  to  the  cause  of  freedom  that  it  declared  in- 
dependence from  Great  Britain  in  May,  1775, 
soon  after  the  battle  of  Lexington.  After  the 
Revolution  the  town  was  burned  by  the  Indians. 
Judge  John  Hanna,  grandfather  of  our  subject, 
was  born  in  Hannastown  and  removed  to  Cadiz, 
Harrison  County,  Ohio,  where  he  engaged  in 
farming,  and  also  for  a  time  served  as  county 
judge.     He  attained  to  advanced  years. 

Our  subject's  father,  A.  F.  Hanna,  was  born 
in  Cadiz,  where  he  first  engaged  in  merchandis- 
ing, but  later  was  editor  of  the  Liberty  Advocate 
in  that  city.  He  died  in  1847,  when  he  was 
thirty-four  years  of  age.  His  wife,  who  bore  the 
maiden  name  of  Susanna  Craig,  was  born  in 
Cadiz,  the  youngest  of  six  children  and  the  only 
living  representative  of  her  family  during   her 


later  years.  She  died  in  Colorado  in  1892,  at  the 
age  of  seventy-five.  Her  father,  Rowland  Craig, 
was  born  in  Brownsville,  Pa.,  and  settled  in  Ca- 
diz, where  he  engaged  in  the  mercantile  business 
until  his  death.  Our  subject  was  one  of  three 
children  that  attained  maturity,  two  of  whom  are 
living.  His  brother,  Maj.  James  W.  Hanna, 
served  during  the  Civil  war  and  at  its  close  or- 
ganized a  company  and  came  to  Colorado  to  fight 
the  Indians,  being  stationed  at  Fort  Collins  until 
his  honorable  discharge.  He  now  lives  in  Denver. 

Born  and  reared  in  Cadiz,  our  subject  attended 
the  public  schools  and  Franklin  College  in  Har- 
rison County.  At  the  age  of  eighteen  he  went 
to  Mercer,  Pa. ,  where  he  secured  work  as  book- 
keeper, and  when  twenty-three  he  started  the  first 
bank  in  the  place.  After  five  years  he  sold  it  to 
the  Fir.st  National  Bank,  of  which  he  was  cashier 
from  1864  to  1869,  resigning  in  the  latter  year 
on  account  of  illness.  In  the  spring  of  that  year 
he  came  to  Colorado,  where  the  salubrious  air 
and  outdoor  exerci.se  upon  a  farm  enabled  him 
to  regain  his  health.  In  the  spring  of  187 1  he 
came  to  Denver  and  at  once  began  to  plan  the 
organization  of  the  City  National  Bank,  the  char- 
ter for  which  he  secured  in  Washington.  His 
bank  bought  out  the  private  bank  of  Warren 
Hussey  and  continued  the  business  at  the  corner 
of  Fifteenth  and  Market  streets,  but  after  fifteen 
years  erected  a  new  building  and  removed  to  Six- 
teenth and  Lawrence  streets.  In  1892,  after 
having  served  as  cashier  for  twenty  years,  he 
was  made  president,  and  continued  in  that  ca- 
pacity until  the  business  was  sold  in  1894.  He 
was  then  with  its  successors,  the  American  Na- 
tional Bank,  as  vice-president  until  the  suspen- 
sion of  the  institution. 

In  Penn  Yan,  N.  Y. ,  Mr.  Hanna  married  Miss 
lone  T.  Munger,  who  was  born  in  New  York 
•state,  the  daughter  of  Lyman  and  Martha  S. 
(Whitney)  Munger,  natives  of  Massachusetts  and 
New  York  respectively.  Her  father,  who  was  a 
druggist  in  Penn  Yan,  later  engaged  in  the  gro- 
cery and  drug  business  at  Galva,  111.,  and  still 
later  engaged  in  farming.  In  1891  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Munger  came  to  Denver,  where  they  have  since 
made  their  home  with  their  daughter,  Mrs. 
Hanna.  The  latter  is  a  member  of  the  Daugh- 
ters of  the  Revolution.  Active  in  educational 
work,  she  has  been  president  of  the  educational 
department  of  the  Woman's  Club  and  for  one 


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term  of  three  years  held  the  office  of  school  di- 
rector, but  afterward  refused  reuomination. 

•With  others  Mr.  Hanna  organized  the  Colorado 
College  at  Colorado  Springs  in  1874,  and  from  its 
inception  he  has  taken  an  active  interest  in  the 
progress  of  the  institution.  For  years  he  was  its 
treasurer  and  is  now  serving  as  a  trustee.  The 
college  is  now  considered  one  of  the  leading  edu- 
cational institutions  in  the  west.  Politically  he 
is  a  Republican.  In  the  organization  of  the 
Y.  M.  C,  A.  he  took  an  active  part  and  for  more 
than  twenty  years  he  has  been  one  of  its  trustees. 
He  assisted  in  the  founding  and  building  of  the 
People's  Tabernacle  Congregational  Church,  in 
which  he  was  long  a  trustee.  With  many  of  the 
laudable  enterprises  for  the  advancement  of  Den- 
ver his  name  has  been  intimately  identified  and 
his  influence  has  been  felt  in  their  development. 
It  may  be  truly  said  that  Denver  has  no  citizen 
more  loyal  to  its  welfare  than  he,  nor  are  there 
many  who  have  been  more  important  factors  in 
its  progress  and  advancement. 


~  DWARD  A.  THOMPSON.  In  the  last  half 
^  of  the  present  century  the  lawyer  has  been 
_  a  pre-eminent  factor  in  all  affairs  of  private 
concern  and  national  importance.  He  has  been 
depended  upon  to  conserve  the  best  and  perma- 
nent interests  of  the  whole  people  and  is  a  recog- 
nized power  in  all  the  avenues  of  life.  He 
stands  as  the  protector  of  the  rights  and  liberties 
of  his  fellow-meu  and  is  the  representative  of  a 
profession  whose  followers,  if  they  would  gain 
honor,  fame  and  success,  must  be  men  of  merit 
and  ability.  Such  a  one  is  Edward  A.  Thomp- 
son, who  is  now  serving  as  county  attorney  of 
Weld  County. 

He  was  born  in  Gravesend,  England,  May  27, 
1845,  but  in  November,  1847,  was  brought  to 
America  by  his  parents.  Dr.  William  and  Eliza 
(Hodson)  Thompson,  who  settled  in  Bradford 
County,  Pa.,  first  at  lycroy  and  later  at  Herrick, 
where  he  has  been  engaged  in  the  practice  of  medi- 
cine until  within  the  last  few  years.  In  1896  he 
removed  to  Towanda,  the  same  county,  where  he 
is  now  enjoying  a  well-earned  rest.  Eleven  chil- 
dren constituted  his  family,  namely:  William  H., 
who  was  graduated  from  Princeton  College  and 
is  now  a   leading  attorney   of  Wyalusing,  Pa.; 


Alfred,  a  merchant  of  Towanda,  Pa.;  Edward  A., 
of  this  sketch;  Mary,  deceased  wife  of  Frederick 
Leavenworth,  of  Towanda;  Josephine,  who  died 
in  childhood;  Ernest  T.,  who  died  at  Towanda; 
Ferdinand,  a  physician  practicing  at  the  asylum 
in  ^Bradford  County,  Pa. ;  Edith  A. ,  deceased, 
who  was  a  teacher  in  the  south;  Eugene  A.,  an 
attorney  of  Towanda;  John  G.,  a  carpenter  and 
builder  of  Scranton,  Pa.;  and  Ethelbert  R.,  a 
business  man  of  Towanda. 

Edward  A.  Thompson  acquired  his  literary 
education  in  the  common  schools  of  Herrick  and 
the  Towanda  Collegiate  Institute.  As  his  father 
was  a  country  physician  in  rather  limited  circum- 
stances and  had  a  large  family  depending  upon 
him,  our  subject  began  life  for  himself  at  the  age 
of  thirteen  and  made  his  own  way  through  school, 
paying  his  expenses  at  college  by  teaching.  In 
March,  1865,  he  enlisted  in  Company  G,  Ninety- 
ninth  Pennsylvania  Volunteer  Infantry,  and  re- 
mained in  the  service  until  hostilities  ceased. 
For  three  years  thereafter  he  served  as  sergeant 
in  Company  A,  Ninth  Regiment  Pennsylvania 
National  Guard,  resigning  his  office  on  coming 
west.  While  teaching  school  in  Pennsylvania, 
Mr.  Thompson  read  law  and  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  in  1870,  after  which  he  engaged  in  practice  at 
Towanda  until  1882,  the  year  of  his  arrival  in 
Weld  County,  Colo.  He  was  principal  of  the 
public  schools  of  Erie  for  three  years,  and  en- 
gaged in  practice  at  that  place  until  1889,'  when 
he  was  elected  county  judge  for  a  term  of  six 
years.  He  then  removed  to  Greeley,  where  he 
opened  an  oSice,  and  has  since  successfully  en- 
gaged in  general  practice,  retaining  a  clientele  of 
so  representative  a  character  as  to  alone  stand  in 
evidence  of  his  professional  ability  and  personal 
popularity.  In  1898  he  was  appointed  county 
attorney,  and  is  now  discharging  the  duties  of 
that  office  to  the  utmost  satisfaction  of  the  court 
and  bar  of  the  county. 

In  August,  1870,  Mr.  Thompson  was  united  in 
marriage  with  Miss  Nellie  M.,  daughter  of  Dan- 
iel C.  and  Minerva  M.  Hall,  of  Bradford  County, 
Pa.  They  have  a  son,  William  Hall,  who  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  1896  and  is  now  associated 
with  his  father  in  practice  under  the  firm  name 
of  Thompson  &  Thompson.  The  son  was  married 
January  19,  1894,  to  Mi.ss  Alice  Clark,  a  daugh- 
ter of  Arthur  and  Lula  (McNutt)  Clark,  who 
now  reside  in  Eos  Angeles,  Cal.     Mrs.  Nellie  M. 


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Thompson  died  at  Towanda,  Pa. ,  in  September, 
1879.  Our  subject  was  again  married  at  that 
place,  November  29,  1880,  his  second  union  being 
with  Miss  Susan  M.  Bump,  a  daughter  of  Cor- 
nelius Bump,  of  Bradford  County,  Pa.  She  was 
a  very  successful  teacher  in  that  state,  and  while 
her  husband  was  principal  of  the  schools  of  Erie, 
Colo.,  she  taught  there. 

Formerly  Mr.  Thompson  was  a  Republican  in 
politics,  but  now  supports  the  men  and  measures 
of  the  Democracy.  In  1867  he  united  with  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church  of  Herrick,  Pa.,  but 
since  coming  to  this  county  has  become  identified 
with  the  Congregational  denomination.  He  has 
affiliated  with  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd 
Fellows  since  1866  and  now  belongs  to  Poudre 
Valley  Lodge  No.  12.  He  has  also  been  a 
Mason  since  1867,  and  is  a  prominent  member  of 
Occidental  Lodge  No.  20,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  of 
Greeley;  Greeley  Commandery  No.  10,  K.  T.; 
Greeley  Chapter  No.  13,  R.  A.  M.;  Greeley 
Lodge  No.  31,  K.  of  P.,  which  he  joined  in  1891; 
and  U.  S.  Grant  Post  No.  13,  G.  A.  R.  He 
has  filled  various  offices  in  each  of  these  orders. 


/Charles  w.  enos,  m.  d.,  who  is  one  of 

j(  the  prominent  homeopathic  physicians  of 
\J  Denver,  is  vice-president  and  a  director  of  the 
Denver  Homeopathic  Medical  College  and  Hos- 
pital Association,  in  the  organization  of  which  he 
actively  assisted.  He  was  also  one  of  the  or- 
ganizers of  the  Denver  Homeopathic  Club  and 
belongs  to  the  Colorado  State  Homeopathic  Med- 
ical Society.  In  the  college  he  is  lecturer  on 
materia  medica,  also  professor  of  the  eye,  ear, 
nose  and  throat  department,  and  successfully 
superintends  a  large  clinic  at  the  free  dispensary. 
Since  May,  1889,  when  he  came  to  Denver,  he 
has  been  closely  identified  with  the  homeopathic 
fraternity  of  this  city.  In  1880-81  he  took  a 
special  course  in  the  New  York  Ophthalmic  Hos- . 
pital  and  later  he  also  studied  in  Dr.  Knapp's 
Ophthalmic  and  Oral  Institute,  from  which  he  re- 
ceived a  certificate.  In  1883  he  took  a  post- 
graduate course  in  the  Hahnemann  Medical  Col- 
lege of  Chicago.  He  is  very  systematic  in  his 
professional   work   and,  believing  such  a  plan  to 


be  helpful,  he  takes  a  complete  record  of  every  case 
that  comes  to  his  notice,  also  a  record  of  the  an- 
cestry. 

Dr.  Enos  was  born  in  Marine,  Madison  County, 
111.,  December  13,  1849,  and  is  the  son  of  Charles 
R.  and  Eliza  Ann  (Thorp)  Enos.  His  father  was 
educated  in  New  York  state  and  after  his  re- 
moval to  Illinois  he  settled  on  a  farm  near  Ma- 
rine, where  he  engaged  in  agricultural  pursuits. 
In  i873,whenhewasfifty-nineyears  of  age,  he  en- 
tered the  Missouri  Homeopathic  Medical  College 
and  took  the  regular  course  of  lectures,  graduating 
as  an  M.  D.  Since  then  he  has  been  engaged  in 
active  practice.and  though  now  eighty-three  years 
of  age  he  still  superintends  his  professional  inter- 
ests successfully.  For  the  last  twenty  years  he 
has  resided  in  Jersey  County,  111. 

The  marriage  of  Dr.  C.  R.  Enos  united  him  with 
Eliza  Ann  Thorp,  a  member  of  a  Puritan  family 
and  the  descendant  of  ancestors  who  emigrated 
from  Holland  to  England,  thence  to  America. 
She  died  in  May,  1897,  aged  seventy-one  years. 
Of  her  seven  sons  and  three  daughters,  two  sons 
are  deceased,  and  of  the  survivors  the  five  sons 
and  one  of  the  daughters  are  homeopathic  physi- 
cians, while  another  daughter  is  a  nurse.  The 
children  are  named  as  follows:  Sarah  Cordelia 
Enos,  M.D. ,  of  Jerseyville,  111. ;  George,  deceased; 
Charles  W.,  of  this  .sketch;  Ida  Viola,  wife  of 
Theodores.  Ellison,  of  Emmetsburg,  Iowa;  Will- 
iam H.,  of  Alton  111.;  Joseph  W. ,  of  Jerseyville; 
Dudley,  deceased;  Lawrence,  of  Decatur,  111.; 
Clinton,  of  Brighton,  Colo.;  and  Grace,  a  nurse 
who  lives  in  Jerseyville. 

The  literary  studies  of  our  subject  were  carried 
on  in  the  Illinois  State  Normal  School  at  Normal, 
near  Bloomington,  111.,  and  the  Illinois  Industrial 
State  University  at  Champaign.  He  studied 
Medicine  in  the  Homeopathic  Medical  College  of 
Missouri  and  graduated  in  1874,  after  which  he 
went  to  Jerseyville,  111. ,  and  engaged  in  practice 
for  fifteen  years,  coming  from  there  to  Denver  in 
1889.  In  political  belief  he  has  been  a  Prohibi- 
tionist since  1881  and  in  1884  he  was  his  party's 
candidate  for  secretary  of  state  of  Illinois.  He 
has  always  been  deeply  interested  in  the  temper-' 
ance  movement  and  gives  his  influence  to  the 
cause.  By  his  marriage  to  Sarah  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  Abner  and  Margarets.  Cory,  he  has 
three  children,  Herbert  C,  Grace  E.  and  Charles 
R.  Enos. 


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EASPAR  S.  DESCH  is  prominent  in  the 
business,  civic  and  fraternal  circles  of  Colo- 
rado. He  is  the  manager  of  the  Corry 
Mining  Company,  at  Silver  Plume,  and  is  a 
member  of  the  executive  committee  and  manager 
of  the  Silver  Plume  Electric  Light  plant.  In 
1881  he  started  the  gas  works  in  Georgetown 
and  operated  the  same  until  the  company  was 
consolidated  with  the  United  Light  and  Power 
Company.  In  1893  he  placed  in  successful  run- 
ning order  the  Georgetown  electric  light  works 
and  has  since  been  connected  with  the  company 
as  a  director.  Thirty  years  ago  he  joined  the 
Knights  of  Pythias  and  in  1889  associated  him- 
self with  the  Silver  Plume  Lodge,  of  which  he  is 
past  chancellor.  He  is  now  grand  chancellor 
of  the  order  of  the  state.  In  the  Masonic 
order,  with  which  he  became  associated  in  Balti- 
more, Md.,  in  1865,  he  also  stands  high.  He 
belongs  to  Warren  Lodge  No.  51,  A.  F.  &A.  M.; 
Phoenix  Chapter  No.  7,  R.  A.  M.,  and  Baltimore 
Commandery  No.  2,  K.  T.,  when  a  resident  of 
Baltimore,  and  now  is  identified  with  Washing- 
ton Lodge  No.  12,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.;  Georgetown 
Chapter  No.  4,  R.  A.  M.,  and  Georgetown  Com- 
mandery No.  4,  K.  T.,  of  Georgetown.  Politi- 
cally he  has  always  been  a  strong  Republican, 
but  now  is  a  silver  advocate. 

The  ancestors  of  C.  S.  Desch  were  participants 
in  the  Napoleonic  wars.  His  father,  Isaac  Desch, 
was  born  and  died  in  Hesse-Darmstadt,  and  his 
mother,  Anna  Elizabeth  (Schutte)  Desch,  likewise 
a  native  of  that  German  province,  subsequently 
brought  her  children  to  the  United  States,  taking 
up  her  abode  in  Albany,  N.  Y.  C.  S.  Desch, 
the  youngest  of  six  children,  was  born  near 
Frankfort-on  the- Main,  Hesse- Darmstadt,  Dec- 
ember 14,  1836.  He  was  a  lad  of  nine  years 
when  with  the  rest  of  the  family  he  sailed  from 
Cologne  and  Antwerp  on  the  sailing  vessel 
"Talbott. "  The  tedious  voyage  lasted  fifty-two 
days.  In  the  public  schools  of  Albany  the 
education  of  our  subject  was  completed.  He  was 
but  fourteen  when  he  began  learning  the  stove- 
molder's  trade,  and  three  years  later  he  went  to 
Dedham,  Mass.,  where  he  took  up  the  business 
of  cabinet-making.  For  ten  or  twelve  years  he 
was  thus  occupied,  making  furniture  for  the  Cali- 
fornia trade.  He  worked  by  the  piece,  but  gave 
to  his  firm  several  simple  devices  and  inventions 
for  fastenings,  etc. 
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In  April,  1861,  Mr.  Desch  enlisted  on  the 
three  months'  call  in  Company  G,  Fifth  Pennsyl- 
vania Infantry,  while  temporarily  at  Alexandria, 
Va.  He  was  not  .summoned  into  the  field,  but 
remained  at  Camp  Curtin.  His  time  having  ex- 
pired, he  recruited  a  company,  which  he  turned 
over  to  another  man,  while  he  proceeded  to  sell 
supplies  to  the  army.  He  became  an  independ- 
ent sutler,  having  a  store  at  Good  Hope  Hill. 
His  brother  John,  captain  of  a  companj^  in  a  New 
York  regiment,  was  cut  in  two  by  a  cannon-ball 
during  the  Peninsular  campaign. 

In  1863  Mr.  Desch  was  engaged  in  the  real- 
estate  business  in  Baltimore,  and  subsequently 
engaged  in  the  grain  business,  his  location  being 
on  South  Charles  street  near  Conway.  There 
he  built  a  large  warehouse  and  from  1864  to 
1889  was  a  member  of  the  firm  of  C.  S.  Desch 
&  Co.  He  was  interested  in  grain,  dealing  quite 
extensively  in  the  same,  and  also  carried  on  a 
large  commission  business  in  tobacco  and  general 
produce.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Baltimore 
Corn  and  Flour  Exchange  and  was  very  active 
and  enterprising  in  his  numerous  and  varied 
undertakings  while  there. 

It  was  in  1874  that  Mr.  Desch  first  came  to 
Colorado,  but  it  was  not  before  twelve  years  had 
elapsed  that  he  gave  up  his  eastern  interests  to 
locate  here  permanently.  He  is  now  manager  for 
the  Corry  Mining  Companj^  which  owns  the 
Diamond  Tunnel  group  of  twenty-nine  lodes, 
covered  by  patents,  and  having  four  miles  of 
underground  passages.  When  the  conditions 
become  sufficiently  favorable  they  are  prepared 
to  employ  and  keep  busy  a  force  of  four  hundred 
or  more  men.  To  the  executive  skill  and  genius 
of  the  manager  is  due  the  splendid  system  and 
progress  of  the  work  at  these  mines.  He  is  a 
practical  genius,  and  has  invented  many  appli- 
ances which  have  been  of  great  use  in  the  develop- 
ment of  the  plant. 

In  Baltimore,  November  i,  1864,  Mr.  Desch 
married  Louisa  A.  Hagan,  a  daughter  of  John  H. 
and  Margaret  Ann  (Dell)  Hagan.  The  great- 
grandfather of  Mrs.  Margaret  Ann  Hagan  was 
George  Hay,  an  officer  in.  the  Revolutionary  war. 
He  was  of  German  descent,  his  ancestors  having 
settled  in  the  province  of  Maryland  in  1700.  His 
wife  was  an  English  lady.  The  maternal  grand- 
father of  Mrs.  Desch  was  a  member  of  the  home 
guard  in  the  war  of  1812  and  was  stationed  at 


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Wilmington,  Del.  Her  ancestors  for  nearly  two 
hundred  years  were  residents  of  Baltimore  and 
Wilmington.  Her  great-grandfather  Dell  was  an 
English  nobleman,  who  came  to  America  at  the 
time  of  the  Revolution  and  settled  in  Wilming- 
ton. John  H.  Hagan  for  years  was  a  prosperous 
merchant  of  Baltimore,  of  which  city  Mrs.  Desch 
is  a  native.  Will  M.,  eldest  son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Desch,  is  bookkeeper  and  cashier  in  the  office  of 
the  Times,  in  Denver;  Caspar  S.,  Jr.,  is  a  member 
of  the  class  of  1901,  Mining  University  of  Colo- 
rado; the  only  daughter,  Emily  Addie,  is  the  wife 
of  Harry  Morganthau,  a  dry-goods  merchant, 
residing  at  Silver  Plume,  Colo. 


HON.  REUBEN  CAEVIN  WEEES,  ex- 
state  senator  from  the  eighth  district  of 
Colorado,  is  one  of  the  pioneers  of  '59,  but 
he  did  not  make  permanent  settlement  in  the 
west  until  1869.  He  then  bought  the  building 
and  water  power  owned  by  the  Golden  Paper 
Mills  Company  and  at  once  began  to  remodel 
the  plant,  introducing  new  machinery  and  water 
wheels,  and  greatly  increasing  the  capacity  of 
the  mill.  He  was  a  pioneer  in  the  manufacture 
of  wrapping  and  newspaper,  of  which  he  made  a 
success.  For  several  years  he  manufactured  pa- 
per used  by  the  Rocky  Mountain  Nezvs,  Tribune 
and  Times,  until  they  began  to  purchase  in  the 
east  paper  manufactured  from  wood  pulp.  After- 
ward he  continued  to  manufacture  wrapping  and 
building  paper,  his  mills  having  a  capacity  of 
five  tons  per  day.  All  the  buildings  but  one, 
40x60,  were  erected  by  himself,  including  a  two- 
story  mill,  80x140,  and  a  two-story  warehouse, 
50x130,  to  which  a  siding  runs  from  the  Denver 
&  Gulf  Railroad.  About  1872  he  started  the 
first  wholesale  and  retail  paper  store  ever  in  Den- 
ver, his  location  being  Sixteenth,  between  Mar- 
ket and  Larimer  streets.  The  party  to  whom  he 
sold  the  business  later  disposed  of  it  to  C.  N. 
Knowles,  the  present  proprietor.  In  1896  he 
leased  the  mill  and  retired  from  business. 

The  Wells  family  is  of  English  descent.  Our 
subject's  grandfather,  Joel  Wells,  was  born  in 
Vermont,  whence  he  removed  to  New  York  state, 
then  to  Ohio,  and  from  there  to  southern  Illinois, 
finally  settling  in  Rock  Island,  where  he  died. 
His  son,  Huntington,  father  of  our  subject,  was 


born  in  Vermont,  and  accompanied  the  family  in 
their  various  removals.  Locating  on  the  present 
site  of  Moline,  111.,  he,  with  others,  laid  out 
the  town  that  has  since  become  famous  as  a 
manufacturing  city.  This  was  about  the  j^ear 
1843.  On  account  of  failing  health,  in  1850  he 
went  to  California,  where  he  hoped  the  delight- 
ful climate  would  enable  him  to  regain  his 
strength,  but  he  soon  afterward  died,  aged  forty- 
four  years.  He  and  his  brothers  and  several 
cousins  had  served  in  the  Blackhawk  war.  His 
wife,  who  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Letitia  Long, 
was  of  southern  birth  and  lineage,  her  father, 
Reuben  Long,  coming  north  and  settling  in  Illi- 
nois. She  died  in  Moline  when  forty  years  of 
age.  Of  her  seven  children  only  two  are  now 
living,  Reuben  Calvin  and  Mrs.  Sickles,  of  Den- 
ver. 

In  Moline,  111. ,  where  he  was  born  September 
26,  1833,  the  subject  of  this  sketch  remained 
until  nearly  seventeen  years  of  age.  April  i, 
1850,  with  a  horse  and  mule  train,  he  started  for 
California,  traveling  through  Iowa  and  crossing 
the  Missouri  at  the  present  site  of  Omaha.  At 
that  time  a  Mormon  settlement  occupied  the 
present  site  of  Council  Bluffs.  He  journeyed 
along  the  north  side  of  the  Platte  to  Fort  Lari- 
mer, then  crossed  to  the  south  side  of  the  river, 
but  after  several  hundred  miles  again  crossed 
and  continued  to  follow  the  course  of  the 
stream.  From  South  Pass  he  went  into  the  Salt 
Lake  district,  where  he  rested  for  a  short  time. 
Resuming  the  journey,  after  a  few  hundred  miles 
he  came  to  the  Humboldt,  which  he  followed  to 
its  sink.  He  traveled  fifty  miles  across  the 
desert,  then  crossed  the  Sierra  Nevada  range, 
and  finally  reached  Hangtown  (now  Centerville) , 
Cal.,  on  the  12th  of  August.  From  there  he 
went  to  Sacramento,  and  soon  began  to  mine  on 
the  Yuba  River.  His  father  died  in  1851,  but  he 
remained  in  the  far  west  two  more  years,  return- 
ing to  the  east  in  1853  '^'i^  the  Nicaragua  route 
to  New  York  City.  On  his  return  to  Moline  he 
became  bookkeeper  in  the  office  of  John  Deere, 
the  celebrated  plow  manufacturer,  and  there  he 
continued  for  some  time.  In  the  spring  of  1859 
he  started  to  Pike's  Peak,  but  on  the  westward 
journey  constantly  met  parties  of  discouraged 
prospectors  returning,  and  none  of  them  had  any 
good  words  for  the  mountain  regions.  However, 
he  continued  his  journey  and  spent  the  summer 


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prospecting  in  the  mountains,  but  in  the  fall  went 
back  to  Moline,  where  he  was  afterward  with 
Deere  &  Co.  and  other  firms. 

Coming  to  Colorado  a  second  time  in  1869, Mr. 
Wells  settled  in  Golden,  where  he  has  since  re- 
sided. He  was  here  at  the  organization  of  the 
city  and,  as  a  member  of  the  last  board  of  town 
trustees  rendered  valuable  .service  in  making  the 
change,  but  afterward  he  refused  to  serve  as  trus- 
tee longer.  In  1888  he  was  elected  to  represent 
the  seventh  (now  the  eighth)  senatorial  district 
in  the  senate  on  the  Republican  ticket,  and  took 
an  active  part  in  the  sessions  of  1889-91,  the  sev- 
enth and  eighth  general  assemblies.  While  in 
the  senate  he  introduced  several  bills  that  became 
laws,  and  served  as  chairman  on  the  committee 
on  education  and  educational  institutions.  In 
1889  he  voted  for  Edward  O.  Wolcott  for  United 
States  senator,  and  two  years  later  assisted  in  the 
re-election  of  Henry  M.  Teller.  For  a  short  time 
he  served  as  trustee  of  the  State  School  of  Mines, 
to  which  he  was  appointed  by  Governor  Pitkin. 
He  was  married  in  Moline,  in  1859,  to  Miss  Hen- 
rietta Warner,  a  native  of  Pennsylvania.  They 
are  the  parents  of  one  child,  Mrs.  Ellen  Moody, 
of  Golden. 

HON.  BENJAMIN  H.  EATON,  ex-governor 
of  Colorado,  has  for  years  been  one  of  the 
most  prominent  citizens  of  the  state.  Com- 
ing here  in  1859,  during  the  first  days  of  the 
Pike's  Peak  gold  excitement,  he  has  since  wit- 
nessed the  remarkable  development  of  this  sec- 
tion of  the  country  and  has  himself  contributed 
thereto.  In  the  three  industries  that  have  ever 
been  foremost  in  the  state — mining,  agriculture 
and  irrigation — he  has  achieved  unusual  suc- 
cess; and  not  in  these  alone,  but  in  public  affairs 
as  well,  his  name  has  stood  for  all  that  is  aggres- 
sive, keen  and  enterprising.  His  election  to  the 
highest  position  within  the  gift  of  the  common- 
wealth is  sufficient  proof  of  his  prominence  as  a 
citizen. 

The  Eaton  family  is  of  English  lineage.  The 
first  of  this  branch  in  America  was  Benjamin 
Eaton ,  who  crossed  the  ocean  in  early  life  and 
.settled  in  Boston,  there  marrying  a  lady  of 
Quaker  faith.  His  son,  Benjamin,  who  was  for 
years  a  sea  captain,  removed  to  Kentucky  on  re- 
tiring from  ocean  life,  and  thence  went  to  Ohio, 
where  he  spent  his  last  years.     Next  in  line  ot 


descent  was  Levi  Eaton,  who  was  born  in  Harri- 
son County,  Ohio,  and  spent  the  most  of  his  life 
as  a  farmer  in  Coshocton  County,  that  state.  By 
his  marriage  to  Hannah  Smith,  a  native  of  Har- 
rison County,  there  were  born  eight  children,  of 
whom  six  attained  mature  years,  namely:  Mary 
J.,  who  is  married  and  resides  in  Colorado;  Benja- 
min H.,  of  this  sketch;  Aaron  S.,  a  well-known 
retired  farmer  of  Greeley,  Colo.;  Rebecca  R., 
who  is  married  and  lives  in  this  state;  Elizabeth 
E.,  wife  of  Henry  Paul,  M.  D.,  of  Denver;  and 
Albert  L. ,  of  Colorado. 

Upon  completing  his  education,  the  subject  of 
this  article  taught  school  for  a  time  in  Ohio.  In 
1854  he  removed  to  Iowa,  where  he  taught  in 
Louisa  County  for  two  years.  Then,  returning 
to  Ohio,  May  i,  1856,  he  was  there  united  in  mar- 
riage with  Delilah,  daughter  of  James  Wolf,  and 
afterwards  spent  two  years  in  that  state,  princi- 
pally as  a  farmer.  His  wife  died  May  31,  1857, 
leaving  a  son,  Aaron  J.,  who  is  now  a  prominent 
agriculturist  of  Weld  County.  In  the  spring  of 
1858  he  went,  for  the  second  time,  to  Iowa,  but  a 
year  later,  when  the  tide  of  emigration  turned 
westward  toward  the  mines  of  the  mountains,  he 
joined  a  party  and  crossed  the  plains  to  Colorado. 
Here,  and  in  New  Mexico,  he  prospected  and 
mined  and  engaged  in  agricultural  pursuits.  In 
1864  he  returned  to  Iowa  and  in  Louisa  County 
married  Miss  Rebecca  J.,  daughter  of  Abraham 
Hill.  Crossing  the  plains  with  his  wife,  he 
settled  upon  land  between  Greeley  and  Fort  Col- 
lins, and  embarked  in  the  raising  of  stock.  He 
soon  became  one  of  the  most  prominent  men  of 
his  section.  Prosperity  rewarded  his  efforts  and 
proved  the  wisdom  of  his  judgment.  In  the 
earlj'  days  of  his  residence  here  he  endured  all 
the  hardships  incident  to  frontier  life  and  endured 
them  bravely,  as  one  who  sees  victory  and  pros- 
perity ahead.  In  addition  to  his  ranching  pur- 
suits and  mining  interests,  he  early  became  an 
extensive  contractor  and  constructor  of  canals 
and  waterways,  through  the  building  of  which 
he  greatly  advanced  the  agricultural  interests  of 
his  county.  As  the  years  passed  by  he  en- 
larged his  possessions  until  he  came  to  be  recog- 
nized as  the  most  extensive  farmer  in  the  state, 
and  his  activities  continued  unabated  until  more 
recent  years,  but  he  still  superintends  all  of  his 
properties  and  gives  personal  attention  to  his 
large  moneyed  interests. 


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The  connection  of  Mr.  Eaton  with  public  af- 
fairs dates  from  the  '60s.  In  politics  he  has  al- 
ways been  an  adherent  to  Republican  principles 
and  stands  firm  and  stanch  for  the  policy  and 
platform  of  his  party .  In  1 866  he  was  elected  to 
the  oflSce  of  justice  of  the  peace,  which  position 
he  held  for  nine  years.  He  also  held  the  office  of 
county  commissioner  for  six  years,  during  four  of 
which  he  officiated  as  chairman  of  the  board.  In 
1872  he  was  selected  to  represent  his  district  in 
the  territorial  legislature,  in  which  body  his  tal- 
ents commanded  attention.  In  1875  he  was 
elected  to  the  territorial  senate,  where  he  served 
for  one  term,  meantime  doing  effective  service  on 
various  committees.  Step  by  step  he  had  ad- 
vanced in  influence  until  1884,  when  he  was 
nominated,  as  the  one  best  fitted  to  make  the 
race  of  the  party  for  governor.  He  was  elected 
by  a  fair  majority  and  filled  the  executive  chair 
for  two  years. 

Since  his  retirement  from  the  governor's  office, 
Mr.  Eaton  has  carried  on  his  ranch,  also  built  one 
of  the  largest  reservoirs  and  canals  in  the  state, 
erected  the  mill  at  Eaton,  a  town  that  was  named 
in  his  honor;  and  until  1890,  also  gave  consider- 
able time  to  mining  interests,  but  these  he  sold 
in  the  latter  year.  Fraternally  he  is  connected 
with  the  Knight  Templar  Masons.  By  his  second 
marriage  he  has  a  son  and  a  daughter,  namely: 
Bruce  G.,  who  resides  in  Eaton  and  assists  in 
the  management  of  his  father's  extensive  inter- 
ests in  this  place;  and  Jennie  B.,  wife  of  John 
M.  B.  Petrikin,  the  postmaster  at  Greeley. 


pQlLLIAM  S.  BAGOT,  B.  A.,  M.  B.,  M.  D. 
\KI  ^^'  ^^^  most  thorough  preparation  in 
YY  Europe  and  by  subsequent  supplemental 
study.  Dr.  Bagot  is  entitled  to  be  placed  in  the 
front  ranks  of  the  medical  profession  of  Colorado. 
He  is  now  professor  of  clinical  gynecology  in  the 
University  of  Denver,  attending  gynecologist  to 
St.  Joseph's,  St.  Luke's  and  Arapahoe  County 
hospitals,  consulting  surgeon  of  the  Cottage 
Home  hospital,  and  in  his  private  practice  makes 
a  specialty  of  abdominal  surgery  and  the  treat- 
ment of  diseases  of  women. 

The  Bagot  family  was  founded  in  England  at 
the  time  William  the  Conqueror  came  over  from 
Normandy  and  they  fought  in  the  battle  of  Hast- 
ings in  1066.       During   the  reign  of  Henry  II 


(1172),  Sir  John  Bagot  of  Bagotsbromley, 
County  Stafford,  England,  went  to  Ireland, 
where  he  became  the  owner  of  vast  estates.  Later 
his  descendants  removed  to  different  parts  of 
the  Emerald  Isle.  They  were  leaders  among  men 
and  possessors  of  large  landed  properties.  A 
number  of  villages  and  streets  were  named  in 
their  honor.  Among  their  representatives  were 
many  prominent  lawyers  and  physicians.  The 
genealogical  record  can  be  traced  back,  in  a  di- 
rect line,  to  1171.  The  doctor's  grandfather, 
Thomas  Neville  Bagot,  owned  the  Ballymoe  es- 
tates in  the  west  of  Ireland,  County  Galway,  and 
was  a  typical  Irish  gentleman,  witty,  brave,  kind, 
and  fond  of  sports. 

Charles  Augustus  Bagot,  the  doctor's  father, 
was  the  next  to  the  youngest  son  in  the  family. 
He  was  educated  in  Trinity  College,  Dublin,  and 
followed  the  profession  of  law  in  Dublin  until  his 
death.  His  wife,  Frances  Louisa,  was  a  daugh- 
ter of  Dr.  Alexander  Kerr,  of  Dublin,  and  is  now 
living  in  County  Kilkenny.  In  her  family  there 
are  three  sons:  Bernard  William,  who  resides  in 
Virginia;  George  Hinds,  whose  home  is  in  New 
South  Wales,  Australia;  and  William  Sidney. 
The  last-named  was  born  in  Dublin  and  wa.s 
given  the  best  educational  advantages  that  city 
afforded.  In  1885  he  graduated  from  Dublin 
University  with  the  degree  of  A.  B.,  and  two 
years  later  he  graduated  with  the  degree  of  M.  B. 
From  1887  to  1891  he  was  assistant  physician  in 
the  Rotunda  Hospital,  and  on  retiring  from  that 
position  he  opened  an  office  in  Dublin  and  en- 
gaged in  practice  until  1892.  Failing  health  ren- 
dered a  change  of  climate  necessary  and  he  made 
preparations  to  go  to  Australia,  via  the  United 
States.  On  his  way  he  stopped  in  Denver,  where 
Dr.  Eskridge  and  other  physicians  prevailed 
upon  him  to  locate  permanently.  He  reached 
the  citj'  in  May,  1892,  and  in  July  opened  an  of- 
fice in  the  California  block,  but  three  years  later 
removed  to  his  present  quarters  in  the  Stedman 
block.  Shortly  after  coming  here  he  accepted 
the  position  of  professor  of  obstetrics  and  abdomi- 
nal surgery  in  the  University  of  Denver,  later 
took  the  chair  of  gynecology  and  is  now  professor 
of  clinical  gynecology.  While  in  Europe  he  con- 
tributed frequently  to  current  medical  literature, 
and  since  coming  to  this  country  he  has  written 
articles  for  professional  journals.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Colorado  State,  and  the  Denver  and 


PHILIP  MIXSELL. 


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Arapahoe  County  Medical  Societies.  While  in 
Rotunda  Hospital  he  received  a  special  certificate 
in  gynecology,  and  he  was  prizeman  in  clinical 
medicine  at  Meath  Hospital  and  Dublin  Infirm- 
ary. During  his  residence  in  his  native  land  he 
was  fellow,  member  of  the  council  and  of  the 
publication  committee  of  the  Obstetrical  Section, 
Royal  Academy  of  Medicine  in  Ireland;  the  ob- 
stetrical and  gynecological  member  of  the  com- 
mittee of  reference  for  the  Royal  Academy  of 
Medicine  in  Ireland;  fellow  of  the  British  Gyne- 
cological Society  and  member  of  the  Dublin  Bio- 
logical Club. 

r\HII.IP  MIXSELL,  a  prominent  citizen  of 
Ly  Idaho  Springs,  built  the  first  custom  stamp 
1^  mill  in  this  place,  and  for  a  decade  has  ope- 
rated the  same.  The  mill  is  kept  busy  day  and 
night  and  uses  both  the  amalgamation  and  concen- 
tration processes  of  treatment  of  ore.  When  the 
Mixsell  mill  was  started  it  was  one  of  ten  stamps, 
but  has  since  been  increased  to  thirty  stamps,  and 
runs  from  eight  to  ten  hundred  tons  every  month. 
Its  success  proves  the  rare  good  judgment  of  the 
owner,  who,  when  he  embarked  upon  the  enter- 
prise, was  laughed  at  for  hissanguineness  and  be- 
lief in  the  future  of  his  mill.  His  success  has 
worked  wonders  for  Idaho  Springs  and  vicinity, 
and  has  brought  into  prominence  its  ores  and 
resources.  Mr.  Mixsell  is  a  mining  expert  and 
his  services  and  opinions  are  being  constantly  de- 
manded in  various  portions  of  this  and  adjoining 
states.  From  these  different  points  considerable 
ore  has  been  shipped  to  his  mill,  and  numerous 
stamp  mills  have  been  modeled  after  his  own. 

The  parents  of  the  above-named  gentleman  are 
Philip  and  Sarah  (Diehl)  Mixsell,  of  Northamp- 
ton County,  Pa.  The  father  was  born  in  Easton, 
May  12,  1819,  while  his  wife  was  born  November 
26,  18 18.  He  received  a  college  education  and 
succeeded  to  the  large  lumber  business  which  had 
been  established  by  his  father  in  Easton.  Later 
he  removed  to  Philadelphia,  where  he  was  simi- 
larly occupied,  his  sales  extending  to  all  parts  of 
Northampton  and  Lehigh  Counties.  In  time  he 
became  one  of  the  wealthy  and  influential  men 
of  his  day,  and  among  his  intimate  friends  and 
business  associates  were  Asa  Packer  and  Mr. 
Baldwin,  of  the  Baldwin  locomotive  works.  The 
panic  of  1857  was  of  serious  financial  damage  to 
his  business  and  he  retired  from  active  life.     His 


death  took  place  in  Philadelphia  in  1868.  His 
father,  who  was  of  German  descent,  died  in 
Easton  at  the  age  of  ninety-eight  years. 

Mrs.  Sarah  Mixsell  was  a  daughter  of  Jacob 
and  Rosina  Diehl,  the  former  born  October  5, 
1769,  and  died  September  28,  1851,  and  the  latter 
born  December  26,  1776,  and  died  January  3, 
1837.  The  Diehls  were  of  German  lineage,  and 
belonged  to  the  rank  of  the  nobility  prior  to  the 
Reformation,  when  they  espoused  the  doctrines 
of  Luther  and  were  exiled,  about  1600,  after  one 
of  their  number,  an  aunt  of  the  then  Baron  Diehl, 
head  of  the  house,  had  been  beheaded.  On  being 
exiled  from  Germany  the  family  came  to  America, 
the  land  of  religious  liberty,  somewhat  prior  to 
William  Penn,  to  whom  they  were  related. 
Grandfather  Diehl,  whose  home  was  in  Easton, 
was  a  hero  of  the  Revolutionary  war.  Of  the  six 
children  born  .to  Philip  and  Sarah  Mixsell,  one, 
Harry,  died  young.  Anna  M.,  deceased,  mar- 
ried Col.  Peter  Penn  Gaskell  Hall,  who  was 
colonel  of  a  regiment  in  the  Union  army  during 
the  Civil  war.  Howard,  master-at-arms,  and  in 
the  United  States  navy  all  through  the  Civil  war, 
died  of  yellow  fever  in  Panama  in  1868.  Amelia, 
Mrs.  Penn  Gaskell  Hall,  resides  in  Philadelphia. 
Virginia,  Mrs.  De  Lancey  H.  Louderback  lives 
in  Chicago;  her  husband  is  the  promoter  of  rapid 
transit  in  that  city,  building  the  Lake  Street  El- 
evated, the  Union  Loop  and  a  number  of  other 
large  enterprises. 

Philip  Mixsell,  of  this  sketch,  was  born  Nov- 
ember 8,  1851,  in  Philadelphia,  and  was  educated 
there  in  the  public  schools.  In  1 860  he  became  a 
messenger  boy  in  the  old  United  States  telegraph 
office,  and  within  three  years  had  learned  the 
business  of  an  operator,  and  was  given  a  position, 
being  then  the  youngest  operator  in  the  employ 
of  the  company.  After  the  consolidation  of  two 
companies  under  the  name  of  the  Western  Union, 
he  became  one  of  their  employes,  and  continued 
to  live  in  Philadelphia  for  several  years.  Gradu- 
ally he  worked  his  way  upward  from  one  position 
to  another,  until  he  was  in  very  responsible  places. 
Among  them  were  the  train  dispatcher's  ofiice  at 
Phillipsburg,  N.  J.,  and  New  Hampton  Junction, 
N.  J.,  Col.  R.  E.  Ricker,  superintendent  and 
engineer  of  New  Jersey  Central  office;  master 
mechanic's  office,  Elizabethport,  N.  J. ;  Pittsburg, 
Fort  Wayne  &  Chicago  Railway  oflSce;  Crestline, 
Ohio,  dispatcher's  and    division    headquarters; 


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Missouri  Pacific  Railway ,  Jefferson  City,  Mo.,  and 
dispatcher's  office,  North  Missouri  Railway,  Mo- 
berly.  Mo.  At  the  time  of  the  great  strike  among 
the  telegraphers  he  went  to  Philadelphia  and  took 
a  position  with  the  Franklin  Telegraph  Company 
in  Old  Town  Building,  at  the  corner  of  Third 
and  Chestnut  streets,  where  the  first  Sterns  Du- 
plex instrument  was  perfected  and  used.  Then, 
for  two  years,  he  was  located  in  the  Continental 
Hotel  in  Philadelphia. 

In  1868  our  subject  came  to  the  west  and  was  an 
operator  at  various  stations  along  the  Union  Pa- 
cific. Soldiers  were  then  guarding  the  stations 
from  Omaha  west,  but  at  Bitter  Creek  he  was 
simply  supplied  with  ammunition  and  guns  and 
told  to  take  care  of  himself.  At  last  his  health 
broke  down  and  he  returned  to  his  old  home  and 
later  went  to  Chicago  and  St.  Louis.  The  Asso- 
ciated Press  commanded  his  services  at  two  ses- 
sions of  the  Missouri  legislature,  he  representing 
a  St.  Louis  paper.  He  became  manager  of  the 
telegraph  ofiice  in  Central  City  for  the  Western 
Union.  A  few  months  later  the  Caribou  mine 
was  discovered  and  he  conceived  the  plan  of 
building  a  telegraph  line  to  Nederland  and  Cari- 
bou. Having  done  so,  he  organized  a  larger 
company,  with  Senator  Teller,  Col.  W.  H.  Bush 
and  J.  H.  Pickle,  and  constructed  the  first  line 
to  Boulder  City,  connecting  with  the  Atlantic  & 
Pacific  Telegraph  Company  at  Cheyenne,  for 
eastern  and  western  business,  and  having  branch 
lines  to  Sunshine,  Gold  Hill  and  Salina.  Two 
years  afterward  these  lines  were  sold  to  the  West- 
ern Union  and  Mr.  Mixsell  turned  his  attention 
to  mining.  His  first  experience  in  this  direction 
was  with  the  Hattie  mine,  above  Central  City,  in 
Spring  Gulch.  From  that  time  until  1878  he 
mined  and  worked  at  stamp  mills. 

Mr.  Mixsell  has  always  been  an  ardent  Repub- 
lican. When  W.  A.  H.  Loveland,  president  of  the 
Colorado  Central  Railroad,  ran  for  governor  on 
the  Democratic  ticket,  he  took  a  leading  part  in 
the  campaign.  For  three  years  thereafter  he  was 
agent  of  the  Idaho  Springs  station,  and  then  oc- 
cupied a  similar  position  at  Central  City.  When 
he  returned  to  Idaho  Springs  a  few  months  later, 
the  A'fzc^of  that  town  had  just  been  fairly  started 
by  Benedict  &  HoUis.  He  purchased  the  paper, 
which  he  managed  three  years,  and  then,  selling 
out,  he  devoted  himselfexclusively  to  mining  and 
milling.      He  discovered  the   Clarissa  mine   in 


1874,  in  Virginia  Canon,  and  has  operated  it  ever 
since.  He  is  the  proprietor  of  the  Blue  Bell 
group;  the  United  States  Tunnel  Company,  in 
Hukill  Gulch,  and  the  Mixsell  tunnel  are  opera- 
ted by  our  subject,  who  is  largely  interested  in 
them.  Of  the  United  States  tunnel  it  may  be 
said  that  it  is  the  largest  project  of  the  kind  in 
the  state,  and  Mr.  Mixsell  is  its  manager  and  an 
extensive  stockholder. 

In  Manitou,  Colo.,  the  marriage  of  Mr.  Mixsell 
and  Miss  Lizzie  MacGee  was  solemnized  in  1891. 
Mrs.  Mixsell  was  born  in  Cumberland,  Md.,  and 
her  parents  were  natives  of  Scotland.  The  two 
children  of  our  subject  and  his  estimable  wife  are 
named  Philip  and  DeLancey. 


HON.  SAMUEL  M.  BREATH.  Numbered 
among  the  most  prominent  citizens  of 
Boulder  is  this  worthy  pioneer  of  Colorado. 
He  has  long  been  connected  with  the  development 
and  progress  of  this  portion  of  the  state,  and  has 
truly  done  his  full  share  in  establishing  the 
county  upon  a  safe  and  substantial  basis.  Time 
and  again  have  his  fellow-citizens  honored  him 
with  high  and  responsible  offices,  and  never  has 
he  in  the  slightest  degree  neglected  such  trusts. 
Three  terms  he  acted  in  the  capacity  of  commis- 
sioner of  Boulder  County,  once  while  the  Civil 
war  was  in  progress,  at  which  time  county  bonds 
were  issued  for  the  purpose  of  raising  and 
equipping  a  company  for  the  service.  In  1865 
and  1866  he  was  a  member  of  the  territorial 
legislature  of  Colorado,  and  in  the  sessions  of 
1 88 1  he  served  for  a  third  term  in  the  legislative 
body  of  this  commonwealth.  In  1872  and  1873 
he  was  probate  and  county  judge  of  this  county, 
acquitting  himself  with  distinction.  The  welfare 
of  the  people  has  always  been  dear  to  his  heart, 
and  he  has  often  allowed  his  personal  interests  to 
suffer,  while  he  discharged  what  he  believed  to 
be  his  duty  toward  the  public. 

Though  over  fourscore  years  of  age  (his  birth 
having  occurred  October  5,  1817,  at  No.  50  Lom- 
bard street.  New  York),  the  judge  is  still  active 
and  sound  in  mind  and  body.  His  paternal 
grandfather,  John  Breath,  was  a  native  of  the 
Highlands  of  Scotland,  while  his  maternal  grand- 
father, Abraham  Leggett,  was  a  native  of  Eng- 
land. The  former,  after  his  marriage,  settled  in 
New  York  City,  where  he  engaged  in  merchan- 


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dising,  and  Mr.  I^eggett  was  likewise  a  merchant 
of  the  metropolis  for  many  years.  He  held  the 
office  of  major  in  the  Revolutionary  war,  and  had 
charge  of  a  portion  of  the  United  States  na\ry  in 
southern  waters.  The  parents  of  the  judge  were 
Capt.  James  and  Elizabeth  (IvCggett)  Breath. 
The  father  was  a  fine  scholar,  an  expert  math- 
ematician and  graduated  from  a  theological 
seminary,  with  the  intention  of  entering  the 
ministry  of  the  Presbyterian  Church.  However, 
he  did  not  follow  out  that  course,  but  became  in- 
terested in  the  merchant  marine  service.  He 
owned  two  vessels  which  were  engaged  in  trading 
with  the  East  Indies,  and  one  of  these  ships  was 
lost  at  sea.  When  his  six  sons  were  growing  up 
around  him,  he  concluded  to  remove  inland,  as 
he  preferred  that  they  should  not  become  at- 
tached to  a  sea-faring  life.  Therefore,  in  1818, 
he  settled  in  the  then  far  west,  Illinois.  He 
owned  a  very  large  tract  of  land  twelve  miles  east 
of  Edwardsville,  and  there  he  died  at  the  ripe 
age  of  seventy-three  j'ears.  His  wife,  who  was 
born  in  New  York  City,  departed  this  life, 
while  on  a  visit  to  her  daughter  at  Danville,  Ky. 
Of  their  nine  children,  the  judge,  who  was  •the 
youngest,  alone  survives.  One  son  participated 
in  the  Black  Hawk  war. 

The  Breath  family  settled  in  Illinois  when  the 
judge  was  an  infant,  and  when  he  was  eight 
years  old  he  was  sent  back  to  the  eastern 
metropolis  in  order  that  he  might  attend  school, 
as  the  schools  in  Illinois  were  very  poor  at  that 
time.  He  remained  in  the  city  for  three  years, 
and  then,  returning  home,  he  worked  on  his 
father's  farm  near  Marine,  111.,  until  he  was 
eighteen  years  of  age.  In  1845  he  engaged  in 
mining  in  the  Galena,  111.,  and  the  Grant  County, 
Wis.,  lead  mines,  and  was  thus  employed  for 
about  a  year.  From  that  time  on  he  resided 
chiefly  in  Alton,  111. ,  first  being  connected  with  a 
lumber  company  and  later  with  a  grocery. 

In  1859  he  started  for  Colorado  with  a  large 
stock  of  merchandise  of  various  kinds,  tools, 
machinery,  etc.  He  fitted  out  five  large  wagons, 
with  five  yoke  of  oxen  to  each,  and  proceeded  up 
the  Platte  and  North  Platte  Rivers  from  Omaha, 
Neb.,  choosing  that  route  in  order  that  better 
grazing  might  be  found  for  his  cattle.  The  trip 
was  made  very  successfully,  and  in  June  the 
little  party  reached  Boulder.  The  judge  put  up 
a   16x32  tent  here  for  a  store,  and  embarked  in 


business,  but  in  the  same  fall  everybody  left  for 
other  fields  and  he  went  to  Golden  City.  There 
he  erected  a  substantial  log  store  and  continued 
in  business  until  about  the  time  of  the  Civil  war, 
when  the  government  bought  all  the  supplies  he 
had,  for  the  equipment  of  soldiers.  In  1862  he 
returned  to  this  vicinity,  buying  a  large  ranch  on 
South  Boulder  River,  about  ten  miles  from  the 
county-seat.  This  place  he  carried  on  for  several 
years,  also  turning  his  attention  somewhat  to- 
wards miniiTg  and  prospecting,  in  Ward  district. 
While  in  Golden  he  had  sold  goods  to  a  stamp 
mill,  and  was  finally  obliged  to  take  the  same  in 
payment  of  the  debt.  He  removed  it  to  Ward, 
where  it  was  the  first  mill  in  operation.  Later 
he  opened  the  mine  now  known  as  the  Ni  Wot 
(an  Indian  name  meaning  left  hand)  and  within 
a  few  months  had  taken  out  $50,000  worth  of  ore. 
Then,  following  the  example  of  many  others,  he 
put  up  a  fifty-stamp  mill,  the  finest  in  the  state  at 
that  time.  It  was  erected  at  a  cost  of  $125,000, 
by  the  Ni  Wot  Mining  Company  of  New  York, 
and  was  burned  down  in  November,  1866.  The 
judge  and  two  friends  owned  a  three-fifths  in- 
terest of  the  $500,000  stock  of  the  company. 
When  a  new  mill  had  been  built  and  everything 
was  again  in  working  order,  the  judge  resigned 
his  position  as  superintendent  of  the  concern, 
owing  to  the  fact  that  they  had  mined  down  to 
the  "refractory"  ore,  for  which  there  was  then  no 
efiicieut  method  of  treatment.  The  next  few 
years  he  was  interested  in  various  enterprises, 
conducting  a  mercantile  business  on  Pearl  street, 
Boulder,  for  two  years;  prospected  and  mined 
for  an  eastern  company  in  Caribou  and  other 
localities  and  homesteaded  in  Nederland  Park, 
owning  three  hundred  and  twenty  acres  in  that 
district.  He  has  improved  property  in  Boulder, 
and  was  one  of  the  first  to  build  upon  the  mesa, 
now  the  most  beautiful  residence  part  of  town. 
Breath's  subdivision,  a  tract  of  eight  acres,  was 
laid  out  and  is  now  all  built  up  with  good  homes. 
October  11,  1864,  Judge  Breath  married  Mrs. 
Amanda  Barker,  who  had  come  to  Boulder 
County  in  1862.  She  was  born  in  Vermont,  be- 
ing a  daughter  of  Abel  and  Amanda  (Heb- 
ard)  Goss,  natives  of  Lower  Waterford,  Vt., 
and  Lebanon,  N.  H.,  respectively.  They 
were  farmers,  as  were  their  fathers  before 
them.  Grandfather  Abel  Goss  was  of  the  Green 
Mountain    state,   and   was  of  English  descent. 


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Aaron  Hebard,  the  maternal  grandfather  of  Mrs. 
Breath,  was  a  native  of  New  Hampshire.  She 
is  one  of  nine  children,  five  of  whom  are  living. 
She  was  first  married  in  1851  to  Jerome  Barker, 
who  had  come  to  this  county  in  i860  (and  Mrs. 
Barker  came  in  1862),  making  the  trip  across  the 
plains,  and  had  settled  on  a  farm  near  the  lower 
Boulder  River.  For  a  j'car  or  two  he  was  en- 
gaged in  mining  at  Russell  Gulch.  His  death 
occurred  in  1863,  and  his  widow  was  left  to 
manage  the  large  ranch  and  other  property.  The 
only  child  of  the  judge  and  wife,  Edward,  a  youth 
of  much  promise,  died  when  in  his  seventeenth 
year,  in  188 1. 

In  the  fraternities  Judge  Breath  is  a  charter 
member  of  Golden  City  Lodge  No.  2,  A.  F.  & 
A.  M.,  and  is  now  identified  with  Columbia 
Lodge  No.  14,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  of  Boulder.  He 
assisted  in  the  organization  of  the  Republican 
party  in  Illinois,  and  has  never  swerved  in  his 
allegiance.  He  is  an  honored  member  of  tlie 
Boulder  County  Pioneer  Association.  Both  he 
and  his  wife  are  valued  members  of  the  Congre- 
gational Church,  he  being  one  of  the  deacons 
and  Mrs.  Breath  being  connected  with  the  Ladies' 
Union  of  the  church. 


ROBERT  FIELDS  LeMOND,  oculist  and 
aurist,  was  born  at  Springfield,  Tex.,  April 
9,1852,  son  of  Cyrus  M.  and  Sarah  Fields 
LeMond.  His  father  was  a  farmer  and  stock- 
raiser  in  comfortable  circumstances,  who,  upon 
the  outbreak  of  the  Civil  war,  enlisted  in  the 
Confederate  army,  and  was  elected  captain  of  the 
second  company  that  was  organized  in  the  coun- 
ty, and  served  until  the  close  of  the  war,  which, 
by  being  away  from  home  and  neglecting  his 
private  business,  reduced  him  to  poverty.  He 
returned  to  his  plantation  and  stock  farm  and  went 
to  work  immediately  after  the  close  of  the  war  to 
recuperate  his  fortune.  Soon  after  he  entered  the 
ministry  of  the  Cumberland  Presbyterian  Church 
and  preached  for  twenty  years.  His  paternal 
great-grandfather  fought  as  a  patriot  in  the  Revo- 
lutionary war,  and  was  one  of  the  signers  of  the 
Declaration  of  Independence. 

Young  LeMond  worked  on  his  father's  farm, 
where  it  was  quite  hard,  for  a  number  of  years, 
for  the  family  to  make  a  mere  existence.  He 
attended  a  private  school  anywhere  from  two  to 


four  months  a  year,  until  he  was  able  to  get  a 
certificate  as  a  teacher,  when  he  began  teaching 
small  public  country  schools.  After  a  year  or 
two  he  entered  an  academy,  where  he  paid  his 
tuition  and  board  by  assisting  the  president  of 
the  school  two  hours  per  day.  After  one  term 
of  this  kind  of  work  he  taught  another  school 
or  two  and  then  entered  Cedar  Grove  Acad- 
emy, which  was  considered  at  that  time  the  fin- 
est school  in  that  part  of  Texas.  There  he 
graduated  in  1878  with  the  highest  general  av- 
erage that  had  been  given  out  from  that  academy 
in  eleven  years,  being  a  general  average  of 
ninety-eight  and  seven-tenths.  In  the  same  year 
there  was  a  proposition  from  the  University  of 
Nashville  (Tenn.),  offering  two  scholarships  to 
each  congressional  district  of  Texas,  to  be  elected 
by  competitive  examination,  which  was  main- 
tained by  the  Peabody  fund,  which  also  paid  $25 
a  month  for  eight  months  of  each  year.  Young 
LeMond  was  successful  in  competing  for  one 
of  these  scholarships,  and  so  became  a  student 
in  the  University  of  Nashville  in  1879,  where  he 
entered  the  third  year  of  the  university  course 
and  graduated  in  188 1,  A.  B.  He  returned  to 
Texas  and  resumed  teaching  and  began  the  study 
of  medicine,  which  he  afterwards  practiced,  grad- 
uating from  the  Hospital  College  of  Medicine 
at  Louisville,  Ky.,  in  1885,  and  was  the  fifth  in 
standing  in  a  class  of  one  hundred  and  forty-six. 

In  1887  he  attended  the  Post-Graduate  School 
at  St.  Louis,  taking  a  special  course  on  the  eye 
and  ear,  from  which  place  he  went  to  New  York 
City  and  attended  the  Post- Graduate  School  there 
in  the  eye  and  ear  department.  At  the  close  of 
the  term  he  was  elected  as  interne  to  the  Man- 
hattan Eye  and  Ear  Hospital.  In  1889  he  re- 
turned to  Texas,  where  he  practiced  the  spe- 
cialty of  diseases  of  the  eye  and  ear.  In  1891  he 
took  another  course  in  the  New  York  Post-Grad- 
uate Medical  School,  and  while  in  New  York  he 
was,  through  the  recommendation  of  the  faculty 
there,  elected  by  the  Gross  Medical  College  of 
Denver  as  professor  of  the  chair  of  diseases  of  the 
eye  and  ear,  which  position  he  still  holds,  being 
also  a  member  of  the  executive  faculty  of  the 
Gross  Medical  College. 

In  April,  1892,  Dr.  LeMond  came  to  Denver, 
where  he  is  also  surgeon  to  the  eye  and  ear  de- 
partment of  the  county  and  city  hospitals,  chief 
surgeon   of  the  Herman  Straus   Free  Clinic,  a 


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member  of  the  American  Medical  Association 
and  all  of  the  Colorado  regular  medical  associa- 
tions, and  is  ex-president  of  the  Colorado  South- 
ern Society.  He  is  a  contributor  to  numerous 
medical  journals,  and  through  his  learned  arti- 
cles has  acquired  national  reputation  as  an  ocu- 
list and  aurist. 

Dr.  LeMond  is  prominently  identified  with  the 
Masonic  fraternity,  being  Knight  Templar, 
Shriner,  and  having  passed  most  of  the  chairs  up 
to  past  high  priest.  He  is  married  and  has  two 
children,  a  daughter  and  son.  The  doctor  has  a 
magnificent  business,  often  having  patients 
seated  in  his  waiting  room  from  three  to  six  dif- 
ferent states.  He  has  been  offered  a  chair  in 
two  different  medical  colleges  in  the  last  several 
years,  but  has  declined  both  propositions.  In 
1891  the  University  at  Quanah,  Tex.,  conferred 
upon  him  the  degree  of  Master  of  Arts. 


NGN.  EUAS  M.  AMMONS,  ex-speaker  of 
the  house  of  representatives  of  Colorado  and 
senator  from  El  Paso  and  Douglas  Counties, 
elected  on  the  silver  ticket  of  1898,  is  a  prominent 
stock  dealer  and  farmer  of  the  latter  county,  his 
home  being  five  and  one-half  miles  south  t)f  Little- 
ton, on  Plum  Creek.  He  was  born  on  a  farm 
near  Franklin,  Macon  County,  N.  C,  July  28, 
i860,  and  at  ten  years  of  age  accompanied  his 
parents  to  Colorado,  settling  in  Denver,  where 
he  soon  secured  employment  in  a  woolen  mill. 
After  a  few  months  the  family  moved  to  the  head 
of  Deer  Creek,  in  Jefferson  County,  and  therefor 
a  year  he  worked  on  a  ranch.  Later  he  engaged 
in  hauling  lumber  and  railroad  ties,  and  skidded 
from  the  woods  the  first  five  thousand  ties  of 
the  South  Park  Railroad.  During  the  entire 
winter,  even  when  the  weather  was  intensely 
cold,  he  worked  constantly  out  of  doors,  without 
gloves  or  overshoes.  In  fact,  he  never  had  a  pair 
of  either  until  he  was  about  grown.  He  con- 
tinued lumbering  until  1875.  Meantime  his  edu- 
cational advantages  had  been  very  meagre;  in- 
deed, he  may  be  said  to  have  had  none  at  all. 
However,  he  was  fortunate  in  having  for  a  father 
a  man  who  was  well  educated,  and  who  had  been 
a  school  teacher  and  Baptist  minister.  At  the 
age  of  fifteen  he  went  to  Denver  to  attend  school. 
He  worked  in  a  laundry,  intending  to  use  the 
money  thus  earned  for  the  purchase  of  books,  but 


was  cheated  out  of  his  wages.  He  then  secured 
employment  at  sawing  wood  in  the  wood  yard. 
Finally  he  was  successful  in  buying  the  needed 
books  and  at  once  entered  the  old  Arapahoe 
school,  where  he  began  in  the  fourth  grade. 
Within  two  weeks  he  was  promoted  to  a  higher 
grade,  and  after  eighteen  months  was  promoted 
to  the  high-school  grade.  At  the  age  of  nineteen 
he  graduated  from  the  East  Denver  high  school. 
Meantime  he  had  worked  nights  and  Saturdays 
in  order  to  earn  the  money  for  his  education. 
For  four  years  he  worked  nights  lighting  the 
street  lamps,  and  in  addition  used  to  gather  up 
discarded  tin  cans  and  melt  the  solder  off,  and 
engaged  in  a  number  of  other  schemes  for  making 
money.  For  a  time  he  was  employed  on  the 
Times,  in  the  circulation  department.  After 
graduating  he  was  sent  out  by  the  Denver  Tribime 
to  write  up  the  boom  at  Breckenridge.  In  the 
fall  of  1880  he  was  accidentally  shot  in  the  head, 
and  for  some  time  was  incapacitated  for  duty. 
Upon  his  recovery  he  reported  for  the  Denver 
Hotel  Reporter.  Next  he  was  put  on  the  cir- 
culation staff  of  the  Times,  with  which  paper  he 
continued  for  four  and  one-half  years.  Mr. 
Woodbury  took  him  into  the  business  office,  and 
when  he  sold  out  the  new  firm  assigned  him  to 
reportorial  work.  Soon  he  began  to  edit  the 
telegraph  for  the  Times,  read  the  proofs  for  the 
paper  and  was  afterwards  made  city  editor,  and 
at  the  age  of  twenty-five  was  made  associate 
editor.  Unfortunately,  his  eyes,  which  had  been 
affected  by  the  injury  of  1880,  troubled  him  to 
such  an  extent  that  he  was  obliged  to  resign  his  • 
position. 

Turning  his  attention  to  the  cattle  business,  in 
partnership  with  Thomas  F.  Dawson,  now  private 
secretary  to  Senator  Teller,  our  subject  began  in 
1885  with  eighty  acres  of  land  on  the  western  line 
of  Douglas  County,  thirty-nine  miles  from  Den- 
ver. At  first  they  had  only  twenty-five  head  of 
cattle.  They  now  have  eight  hundred  and  eighty' 
acres,  all  in  one  body,  and  one  hundred  and 
sixty  acres  on  Lost  Park  Creek,  twenty  miles 
from  the  other  tract;  also  two  hundred  and  sixty- 
two  acres  where  he  now  resides,  the  last  purchase 
of  eighty  acres  costing  $4,800.  Besides  the  land 
owned  by  them  they  lease  about  five  thousand 
acres.  In  1898  they  sold  fourteen  hundred  head 
of  cattle  at  $28  per  head.  Mr.  Ammons  has  al- 
ways been  the  active  manager  of  the  business. 


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In  Denver,  January  28,  1889,  Mr.  Amnions 
married  Miss  Lizzie  Fleming,  asister  of  James  A. 
Fleming,  who  at  one  time  owned  practically  all 
of  South  Denver. 

Though  too  young  to  vote,  Mr.  Amnions  took 
an  active  part  in  the  campaign  of  1880.  He 
frequently  represented  the  Republican  party  in 
conventions,  but  refused  to  act  as  a  delegate  to 
the  national  convention  in  St.  Louis  in  1896.  On 
a  previous  occasion,  before  he  was  a  voter,  he 
had  been  chosen  as  a  delegate  to  state  conven- 
tion, but  declined  on  account  of  age.  In  1890 
he  became  clerk  of  the  district  court,  but  after 
three  months  of  service  resigned.  He  was  then 
elected  to  the  state  legislature  after  the  most 
exciting  campaign  in  the  history  of  Douglas 
County.  He  had  as  an  opponent  William  Dillon, 
brother  of  the  famous  Irish  agitator.  Mr.  Dillon 
challenged  him  to  joint  debates.  He  accepted 
the  challenge  and  vanquished  his  opponent  in 
Dillon's  precinct,  while  Dillon  secured  but  five 
votes  in  his  district.  Interest  was  so  great  that 
large  crowds  went  from  one  precinct  to  another 
to  listen  to  the  debates.  In  the  legislature  he 
was  one  of  three  grangers  who  decided  the 
speakership  in  the  caucus.  Mr.  Ammons  made 
a  strong  fight  on  parliamentary  rulings  and  in 
this  way  the  impression  was  created  that  he  was  a 
lawyer.  However,  he  had  never  studied  law  a 
day  in  his  life,  but  he  had  debated  in  literary 
societies,  where  he  had  gained  a  thorough  knowl- 
edge of  parliamentary  tactics.  In  the  legislature 
he  served  as  a  member  of  the  judiciary  committee. 
He  was  instrumental  in  the  passage  of  the  fee 
and  salary  bill,  the  Australian  ballot  law,  appro- 
priations for  state  roads  in  Douglas  County  and 
numerous  reform  measures  passed  by  this  general 
assembly.  There  was  a  strong  fight  made  for 
representation  from  different  counties,  and  he 
succeeded  in  making  such  arrangements  that 
Douglas,  though  having  insufficient  population, 
was  permitted  to  retain  its  representation.  He 
was  instrumental  in  electing  Senator  Teller,  of 
whom  he  has  always  been  a  warm  admirer. 
Among  the  other  members  he  was  credited  with 
being  the  hardest  worker  in  the  house. 

At  a  convention  held  for  a  nomination,  in  1892, 
Mr.  Ammons  received  every  delegate's  vote  (ex- 
cept his  own)  on  a  secret  ballot,  and  was  re- 
elected by  an  increased  majority.  He  had  proved 
so  popular  and  able  as  a  legislator  that  it  was  de- 


cided he  should  make  the  race  for  speaker.  The 
Republicans  had  thirtj' -three  out  of  sixty-five 
votes  and  he  was  elected  to  the  highest  office  in 
the  gift  of  the  a.ssembly,  being  the  youngest  man 
ever  elected  to  that  position  in  this  state.  In  his 
rulings  as  speaker  no  appeal  was  ever  sustained, 
and  at  the  extra  session  of  fifty-two  days  no  ap- 
peal from  his  decisions  was  ever  taken,  although 
the  session  was  an  exciting  one  and  many  matters 
of  importance  were  brought  to  him  for  settlement. 
On  the  conclusion  of  his  second  term  he  declined 
to  be  a  candidate  for  re-nomination.  In  1896  he 
refused  the  chairmanship  of  the  state  silver  Re- 
publican committee  and  later  in  the  same  year 
declined  the  nomination  for  representative. 

September  16,  1898,  in  the  silver  Republican 
senatorial  convention  of  El  Paso  and  Douglas 
Counties,  Mr.  Ammons  was  (without  his  seeking 
the  position)  nominated  for  senator.  The  nomina- 
tion was  endorsed  by  Populists  and  Democrats. 
He  was  nominated  on  a  platform  that  bound  him 
not  to  support  for  United  States  senator  any  man 
who  is  in  the  slightest  degree  suspected  of  leaning 
toward  the  policy  of  the  national  Republican 
party  in  its  advocacy  of  the  single  gold  standard. 
In  the  election  that  followed,  a  vigorous  campaign, 
he  was  elected  by  more  than  four  thousand  ma- 
jority, carrying  every  precinct  in  his  own  county, 
as  well  as  getting  an  enormous  majority  in  his 
opponent's  home  county. 

Mr.  Ammons  has  several  terms  been  a  mem- 
ber of  the  state  central  committee  for  Douglas 
County,  and  twice  was  chairman  of  the  county 
central  committee.  He  is  now  the  member  of 
the  state  central  committee  from  Douglas  County 
and  is  also  chairman  of  the  congressional  district 
committee. 

When  the  national  Republican  party  became 
a  gold  standard  party,  Mr.  Ammons  followed 
Mr.  Teller  out  of  that  party  and  helped  to  or- 
ganize in  Colorado  the  silver  Republican  party. 
Indeed,  he  led  the  fight  in  the  second  con- 
gressional district  convention  in  1896  to  instruct 
a  bolt  from  the  national  convention  under  the 
leadership  of  Senator  Teller,  in  case  the  expected 
announcement  of  the  gold  standard  policy  should 
be  made.  He  was  always  a  stanch  believer  in 
the  ability  of  this  country  to  carry  out  its  own 
policies  and  is  earnestly  opposed  to  any  man  or 
party  that  proposes  to  ask  the  consent  of  foreign 
governments  to  the  use  of  the  kind  of  money  we 


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want  for  ourselves.  He  is  a  man  of  far  more  than 
ordinary  ability,  with  a  thorough  knowledge  of 
parliamentary  laws,  and  a  broad  information  that 
makes  him  a  conspicuous  figure,  both  in  public 
and  private  life. 

€]rSAAC  NEWTON  STEVENS.  Of  the  men 
I  who  have  been  leaders  in  public  affairs,  con- 
X  tributing  to  the  advancement  of  the  state  and 
wielding  large  influence  in  political  circles,  among 
the  most  distinguished  is  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 
Mr.  Stevens  has  long  been  a  prominent  politician, 
and,  first  as  a  Republican,  later  as  an  ally  of  the 
silver  cause,  has  been  an  element  in  party  suc- 
cess. While,  as  is  the  case  with  every  man  who 
has  taken  a  firm  stand  on  public  questions,  he 
has  his  political  enemies,  yet  it  has  never  been 
denied  by  anyone  that  he  is  a  counselor  of  broad 
knowledge,  a  politician  of  keen  discrimination, 
and  a  man  who  possesses  rare  ability  in  the  or- 
ganization or  conduct  of  a  campaign,  local  or 
state. 

Through  his  mother  Mr.  Stevens  is  a  relative 
of  Commodore  Perry,  the  illustrious  hero  of  Lake 
Erie.  He  was  born  in  Newark,  Ohio,  November 
I,  1858,  the  son  of  Dr.  L.  A.  and  Sarah  Stevens. 
In  youth  he  was  given  excellent  advantages  in 
high  school  and  academy,  and,  had  his  father 
lived,  he  would  undoubtedly  have  enjoyed  uni- 
versity training.  But  the  death  of  Dr.  Stevens 
terminated  his  son's  schooling  at  an  early  age 
and  forced  upon  him  the  necessity  of  self-support. 
In  the  winter  of  1876-77  he  taught  a  country 
school  in  Henderson  County,  111.,  but  in  March 
of  1877  he  went  to  Burlington,  Iowa,  and  entered 
the  office  of  Hedge  &  BIythe.  He  continued  to 
study  law  until  he  was  twenty-one,  when  he  was 
admitted  to  the  bar.  Coming  at  once  to  Colorado, 
he  arrived  in  Denver  June  i,  1880. 

Not  long  after  coming  here  Mr.  Stevens  began  to 
take  an  active  part  in  politics  as  a  member  of  the 
Republican  party.  For  a  time  he  was  president 
of  the  Lincoln  Club.  In  1882-83  he  served  as  a 
member  of  the  Republican  executive  committee, 
in  1884-85  was  chairman  of  the  city  committee, 
and  in  1886-88  secretary  of  the  state  committee. 
Under  President  Arthur,  in  1884,  he  was  appointed 
assistant  United  States  attorney  for  Colorado,  be- 
ing the  first  to  fill  that  po.sition  in  the  state.  In 
1888  he  was  chosen  district  attorney  for  the  sec- 
ond judicial  district,  which  office  he  held  for  three 


years,  meantime  having  in  hand  many  important 
cases,  in  the  management  of  which  he  displayed 
energy  and  talent.  Two  of  these  cases  became 
especially  prominent  on  account  of  their  connec- 
tion with  state  officials,  one  having  to  do  with 
frauds  upon  the  state  treasury,  the  other  impeach- 
ing the  integrity  of  certain  state  officials.  The 
prosecution  of  Harley  McCoy  for  the  murder  of 
Inspector  Hawley  occurred  during  his  term;  also 
a  case  that  gained  national  note,  the  trial  of  Dr. 
T.  Thatcher  Graves  for  the  murder  of  Mrs.  Jose- 
phine Barnaby,  of  Providence,  R.  I.  In  1892  he 
was  appointed  county  attorney,  and  the  next 
year  as  chairman  of  the  Republican  central  com- 
mittee, had  charge  of  the  local  campaign.  As  a 
politician  he  is  a  force  everywhere.  While  he 
has  risen  or  fallen  with  the  cause  he  has  espoused, 
yet  there  has  never  been  a  time  when  he  has  been 
without  influence  in  the  world  of  public  affairs. 
In  every  position,  and  under  every  circumstance, 
his  skill  in  solving  intricate  problems  that  affect 
the  political  status  of  affairs  has  made  him  con- 
spicuous among  even  the  most  gifted  men. 


LIJAH  BOSSERMAN,  general  manager  of 
^  the  Denver  Live  Stock  Commission  Com- 
^  pany  and  its  organizer  in  1886,  was  born 
in  Clinton,  DeWitt  County,  111.,  and  is  of  Ger- 
man descent.  His  father,  David,  was  the  son  of 
Michael  Bosserman,  a  native  of  Pennsylvania, 
and  an  early  settler  of  Perry  County,  Ohio,  the 
birthplace  of  David.  About  1859  the  latter  re- 
moved to  Illinois  and  engaged  in  farm  pursuits 
there  until  1880,  when  he  went  to  Superior,  Neb. , 
and  started  a  banking  business  in  that  place.  He 
is  the  president  of  the  First  National  Bank  of  Su- 
perior, and,  with  his  sons,  owns  thirty-two  hun- 
dred acres  of  land  adjoining  the  city.  His  sixty- 
eight  years  are  carried  lightly,  and  he  retains  the 
mental  acumen  and  energy  of  former  days.  His 
wife,  Catherine  Cowan,  was  born  in  Ohio  and 
died  in  Illinois,  leaving  three  sons  and  two  daugh- 
ters, the  latter  living  in  Nuckolls  County,  Neb., 
where  two  of  the  brothers,  Lincoln  and  John,  are 
engaged  in  the  cattle  business. 

The  oldest  member  of  the  family  is  our  subject. 
He  was  educated  in  Clinton  and  at  the  age  of 
twenty-one  began  farming  and  dealing  in  cattle 
in  DeWitt  County.  Removing  to  Superior,  Neb. , 
in  188 1,  he  entered  land  in  that  vicinity  and  en- 


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gaged  in  the  cattle  business,  buying  and  selling 
steers  in  large  numbers,  often  as  many  as  two  to 
three  thousand  head  per  annum.  With  his 
father  and  brothers  he  organized  the  Superior 
Cattle  Company  of  Superior,  Neb. ,  and  was  its 
manager  until  removing  to  Denver.  He  still 
owns  large  tracts  near  Superior  and  is  a  stock- 
holder in  the  First  National  Bank  there.  In 
1886  he  conceived  the  idea  of  incorporating  a 
stock  company  and  interested  C.  J.  Duff,  F.  P. 
Ernst  and  H.  M.  Porter  in  the  plan,  soon  after- 
ward forming  the  Denver  Live  Stock  Commission 
Company,  which  was  the  first  company  to  locate 
at  the  Union  stock  yards  of  Denver.  They  carry 
on  strictly  a  commission  business,  furnishing 
money  to  feeders,  etc. ,  and  running  average  sales 
of  from  $300,000  to  $500,000. 

Fraternally  Mr.  Bosserman  is  connected  with 
the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows  and  the 
Knights  of  Pythias  at  Superior  and  the  Benevo- 
lent Protective  Order  of  Elks  at  Denver.  He  is  an 
active  member  of  the  chamber  of  commerce  and 
board  of  trade,  and  is  identified  with  the  Colo- 
rado Cattle  Growers'  Association.  Politically  he 
upholds  Republican  principles.  In  Illinois  he 
married  Miss  Laura  Watt,  who  died  in  Denver, 
leaving  five  children:  Alonzo,  Cyril,  Barco, 
Ethel  and  Gladys.  His  second  marriage  took 
place  in  Denver  and  united  him  with  Mrs.  Min- 
nie Youmans,  of  Kansas  City. 


HON.  J.  W.  BARNES,  secretary  of  the  state 
board  of  arbitration  and  for  nine  years  judge 
of  Jefferson  County,  came  to  Colorado  in 
1874,  and  for  four  years  ser\-ed  as  superintendent 
of  the  schools  of  Fort  Collins.  On  coming  to 
Golden  in  1879  he  accepted  a  similar  position  in 
the  schools  here,  and  while  discharging  his  du- 
ties as  superintendent  also  engaged  in  reading 
law,  the  study  of  which  he  had  begun  some  years 
before.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  Colorado 
in  1882  and  the  following  year  resigned  his  con- 
nection with  the  schools  in  order  to  engage  in 
practice,  which  he  carried  on  from  June,  1883,  to 
January,  1884.  Meantime  he  had  been  elected 
county  judge  on  the  Democratic  ticket,  and  the 
first  of  1884  he  took  the  oath  of  ofiice.  He  filled 
the  position  so  ably  and  satisfactorily  that  he  was 
twice  re-elected,  holding  the  office  until  January, 
1893.     At  once  after  his  retirement  from  office 


he  resumed  his  law  practice  and  he  has  since  es- 
tablished an  enviable  reputation  as  a  lawyer.  He 
is  a  recognized  authority  on  irrigation  law  and 
water  rights. 

The  Barnes  family  is  of  English  extraction  and 
its  first  representatives  in  this  country  settled  in 
New  England.  Thomas  Barnes,  who  lived  at 
Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  was  a  seafaring  man,  the 
master  of  a  vessel  of  his  own,  and  all  of  his  sons 
but  James  were  sailors  and  took  part  in  the  naval 
affairs  of  the  war  of  18 12.  James,  who  selected 
agriculture  for  his  life  work,  was  born  in  Ports- 
mouth, N.  H.,  and  moved  with  his  father  to  Ox- 
ford County,  Me.,  where  he  spent  his  remaining 
years  upon  a  farm.  His  son,  Nahum,  father  of 
Judge  Barnes,  was  born  in  Oxford  County,  and 
engaged  in  farming  there  until  his  death,  which 
took  place  at  forty-eight  years.  For  some  time 
previous  he  had  been  serving  as  a  selectman. 
His  wife,  Clarissa,  was  a  daughter  of  Capt. 
Thomas  Mathews,  who  was  captain  of  a  whaler 
that  sailed  from  New  Bedford;  he  died  at  sea. 
His  father  was  of  English  birth  and  founded  the 
family  in  this  country.  Mrs.  Barnes  was  born 
in  Oxford  County  and  is  still  living  there,  being 
now  eighty  years  of  age.  She  was  the  mother  of 
four  children,  of  whom  our  subject  and  two 
daughters  in  Oxford  County  are  now  living. 

In  Oxford  County,  Me.,  the  subject  of  this 
sketch  was  born  March  22,  1850.  He  was  edu- 
cated in  the  public  schools  and  private  acade- 
mies of  the  vicinity.  At  the  age  of  eighteen, 
in  1868,  he  went  to  Iowa,  where  he  taught  at 
Earlville  for  one  year.  He  then  went  to  Minne- 
sota and  was  superintendent  of  the  schools  of 
Glencoe  and  Litchfield  for  five  years.  In  1874 
he  came  to  Colorado,  where  he  has  since  resided. 

On  the  creation  of  the  board  of  arbitration  by 
the  legislature  of  1897  it  was  stipulated  that  three 
men  be  appointed,  one  from  the  ranks  of  employ- 
ers of  labor,  another  from  the  Labor  Union  and 
the  third  impartial.  Governor  Adams  appointed 
Judge  Barnes  for  the  third  member  and  he  was 
made  secretary  of  the  board.  His  services  in 
this  capacity  have  been  able  and  satisfactory.  In 
political  belief  he  has  always  adhered  to  the  Dem- 
ocratic doctrines.  He  is  a  member  and  past 
master  of  Golden  City  Lodge  No.  i,  A.  F.  & 
A.  M.,  a  member  and  past  high  priest  of  Golden 
Chapter  No.  5,  R.  A.  M.,  also  a  member  and 
past  chancellor  commander  of  Lodge  No.   10, 


HON.  J.  C.  EVANS. 


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K.  P.,  of  Golden.  While  living  in  Fort  Collins 
he  married  Miss  Leonore  Lawson,  who  was  born 
in  Indianapolis,  received  an  excellent  education 
in  the  east,  and  previous  to  her  marriage  was 
engaged  as  a  teacher  in  the  Fort  Collins  schools. 
They  have  had  two  children,  but  one  died  in 
infancy,  and  the  other,  John  I,.,  when  twelve 
years  of  age. 

NGN.  JAMES  C.  EVANS,  member  of  the 
state  senate  from  Larimer  County  and  one 
of  the  most  influential  men  of  Fort  Collins, 
was  born  in  Mount  Vernon,  Knox  County,  Ohio, 
August  22,  1845,  and  is  a  de.scendant  of  an 
old  Pennsylvania  family.  His  father,  Thomas 
Evans,  a  native  of  Berks  County,  Pa.,  removed 
to  Ohio  and  settled  about  1835  in  Knox  County, 
where  he  engaged  in  farming.  He  was  ninety- 
two  years  of  age  at  the  time  of  his  death  in  1892. 
His  wife,  Ann,  was  born  in  Knox  County, 
whither  her  father,  Robert  Cooper,  had  removed 
from  Pennsylvania.  She  was  married  twice,  and 
had  five  sons  by  her  first  husband,  and  James  C. 
was  the  only  child  born  to  her  union  with  Mr. 
Evans.  One  of  her  sons  by  her  first  marriage, 
George  Rogers,  entered  the  Ohio  Infantry  as  a 
lieutenant  during  the  Civil  war  and  rose  to  the 
rank  of  brevet  brigader- general;  he  died  in  Ohio. 
Two  brothers  of  Mrs.  Evans  have  for  years  been 
engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  machinery  at 
Mount  Vernon,  Ohio,  under  the  firm  title  of 
Cooper  Brothers. 

In  the  grammar  and  high  schools  of  Mount 
Vernon  the  subject  of  this  sketch  obtained  the 
rudiments  of  his  education.  Afterward  he  at- 
tended the  OhioWesleyan  University  at  Delaware, 
Ohio.  While  carrying  on  his  college  studies,  in 
1864  he  volunteered  in  Company  E,  One  Hundred 
and  Forty-fifth  Ohio  Infantry,  of  which  he  served 
as  corporal  until  the  expiration  of  his  period  of 
service.  On  leaving  the  army  he  returned  to 
the  university,  where  he  remained  until  his 
graduation  in  1868,  with  the  degree  of  A.  B. 
After  graduating  he  entered  the  mercantile  busi- 
ness, being  thus  engaged  in  Delaware,  Ohio  and 
Morrow  County,  that  state. 

Coming  to  Colorado  in  1879,  Mr.  Evans  settled 
in  Fort  Collins.  From  1880  to  1891  he  was  in 
the  meat  business  with  Messrs.  Thoman  and  Vol- 
lintine,  and  also  had  charge  of  the  boarding  house 
and  stores  at  the  stone  quarries  in   Arkins  and 


Stout  for  a  number  of  years.  Since  1891  he  has 
engaged  in  the  grocery  business,  conducting  the 
well-known  College  avenue  grocery.  From  the 
time  of  his  settlement  here  he  has  been  interested 
in  the  sheep  business.  For  two  years  he  engaged 
in  sheep  ranching  near  Bristol,  twenty  miles  north 
of  Fort  Collins,  and  on  selling  out  turned  his 
attention  to  the  grocery  and  produce  business. 
In  1896-97  he  fed  five  thousand  head  of  lambs, 
being  the  heaviest  feeder  in  the  country  at  that 
time.  He  owns  two  hundred  and  forty  acres  six 
miles  southeast  of  Fort  Collins,  all  of  which  is 
under  irrigation;  also  owns  a  ranch  of  one 
hundred  and  sixty  acres  northwest  of  the  town. 
Since  1894  ^is  grocery  store  has  been  carried  on 
under  the  firm  name  of  J.  C.  Evans  &  Son. 
They  set  out  fifty  acres  in  cherry  trees,  planting 
eleven  thousand  of  the  English  niurella  variety, 
and  irrigating  the  land.  On  the  place  they  in- 
tend building  a  canning  factory.  Two  men  have 
the  oversight  of  the  trees,  and  it  is  the  intention 
of  the  firm  to  set  out  ten  acres  additional  in  trees. 
It  is  probable  that  this  is  the  largest  cherry 
orchard  in  the  United  States. 

In  Ohio,  August  15,  1871,  Mr.  Evans  married 
Augusta  Noe,  who  was'  born  in  Morrow  County, 
daughter  of  R.  L.  Noe,  a  farmer  and  business 
man  of  that  county.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Evans  have 
a  son  and  daughter.  The  former,  Charles  R., 
his  father's  partner,  is  a  graduate  of  the  state 
Agricultural  College.  The  daughter,  Grace  G. , 
is  a  graduate  of  the  Ohio  Wesleyan  Universitj' 
and  the  wife  of  E.  L-  Shannon,  an  attorney  of 
Denver. 

Politically  Mr.  Evans  is  a  silver  Republican. 
For  two  years  he  served  as  mayor  of  Fort  Collins. 
In  1894,  on  the  Republican  ticket,  he  was  elected 
state  senator  by  a  large  majority.  He  served 
creditably  in  the  tenth  and  eleventh  general  as- 
semblies, sessions  of  1895  ^"d  1897.  Through 
his  efforts,  in  1895,  was  .secured  the  passage  of 
an  appropriation  bill  of  $15,000  for  the  new  state 
road  over  Medicine  Bow  Range  through  Ute  Pass 
to  North  Park,  a  road  that  has  since  been  com- 
pleted. During  the  same  year  he  worked  for 
an  appropriation  of  $10,000  for  the  state  Agricult- 
ural College,  which  was  secured,  and  appro- 
priated for  the  enlargement  of  Machinery  hall, 
completed  in  1897.  ^^  ^Iso  worked  for  the 
appropriation  of  $5,000  to  build  the  chemical 
laboratory ,  which  amount  was  secured  and  used  for 


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the  purpose  intended.  He  introduced  a  bill  scaling 
down  the  salaries  of  county  offices,  in  order  to  re- 
duce them  to  a  level  with  other  labor;  this  bill 
passed  the  senate  but  was  defeated  in  the  house. 
He  was  re-elected  to  the  state  senate  Novem- 
ber 8,  1898. 

In  Collins  Lodge  No.  19,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  Mr. 
Evans  was  made  a  Mason.  In  1898  he  attended 
the  convention  of  the  national  organization  of 
cattlemen,  where  he  read  a  paper  concerning 
"Lambs  on  Alfalfa  Feed."  He  is  clear  in  his 
thoughts  and  earnest  in  their  expression,  and  is 
considered  one  of  the  best  speakers  in  his  county. 


61 SA  STERLING.  Of  the  stockmen  residing 
fj  in  Greeley  few  are  better  known  than  the 
/  I  subject  of  this  article,  who  has  gained  note- 
worthy success  through  his  good  management  in 
business  affairs.  In  addition  to  his  large  stock 
interests,  he  is  president  of  the  First  National 
Bank  of  Greeley,  which  was  established  in  1884 
and  is  regarded  as  one  of  the  substantial  and  safe 
monetary  institutions  of  northern  Colorado.  Its 
officers  are:  Mr.  Sterling,  president;  William 
Mayher,  vice-president;  A.  J.  Park,  cashier;  and 
U.  M.  Henderson,  assistant  cashier.  The  bank 
has  a  paid-up  capital  of  $100,000,  with  a  surplus 
of  $15,000,  loans  to  the  amount  of  $250,000,  and 
about  an  equal  amount  in  deposits. 

On  a  farm  in  Livingston  County,  Mo.,  Mr. 
Sterling  was  born  April  20,  1842,  being  a  son  of 
Travis  and  Chloe  Sterling.  His  father  was  a 
native  of  Maryland,  his  mother  of  Kentucky.  In 
1859  he  left  home  and  went  to  St.  Joseph,  Mo., 
where  he  spent  the  winter  with  an  uncle.  In 
the  spring  of  i860  he  came  across  the  plains  with 
a  herd  of  cattle  and  arrived  in  Denver  during 
July  of  that  year,  when  the  gold  excitement  was 
at  its  height.  For  four  years  he  herded  cattle  on 
a  ranch  near  Denver.  In  1864  he  went  with  a 
drove  of  cattle  to  Montana,  where  he  remained 
until  1867.  In  April  of  that  year  he  went  to  Salt 
Lake,  Utah,  and  remained  there  until  the  fall  of 
1869,  engaged  in  buying  and  selling  cattle  for 
John  W.  Kerr  &  Co.  In  the  fall  of  1869  he  went 
to  Cheyenne,  bought  some  cattle,  drove  them 
to  Salt  Lake,  and  sold  them  to  Kerr  &Co.,  thus 
doubling  his  capital,  and  again  was  employed  by 
Kerr  &  Co.,  and  remained  with  them  until  the 
spring  of  1870.     He  then  purchased  cattle  near 


old  Bent's  Fort  in  Colorado  and  sold  them  in 
Utah.  He  continued  buying  and  selling  cattle 
and  horses  and  thus  laid  the  foundation  of  his 
fortune.  His  business  took  him  all  over  the 
west  and  into  Texas  and  Mexico,  and  he  spent 
considerable  time  in  Old  Mexico.  In  1871  he 
drove  Texas  cattle  into  Weld  County,  but  the 
winter  being  unusually  severe,  half  of  his  herd 
was  lost. 

The  range  on  which  Mr.  Sterling  pastures 
his  cattle  extends  about  twenty  miles  along  the 
Platte  River.  He  is  the  owner  of  several  ranches, 
which  are  leased  to  tenants,  and  also  has  a  hay 
ranch  of  four  hundred  and  eighty  acres  in  Tenn- 
essee Park,  near  Leadville.  He  has  always  been 
identified  with  the  cattle  and  horse  interests  of 
this  western  country  and  is  at  the  present  time  a 
large  owner  of  cattle  and  horses.  For  about 
eight  months  during  the  year  his  stock  pastures 
on  the  range,  when  the  most  of  them  are  gathered 
and  feed  hay.  Mr.  Sterling  is  a  Democrat  in 
politics.  In  1875  he  was  united  in  marriage  with 
Miss  Anna  Loustelet,  of  Denver,  and  they  have  a 
comfortable  home  in  Greeley. 


EHARLES  E.  PENNOCK,  president  and 
manager  of  the  Pennock  Nursery  and  Seed 
Company,  of  Fort  Collins,  is  a  member  of  a 
pioneer  family  of  Mas.sachusetts,  some  of  whose 
representatives  drifted  to  Vermont.  His  grand- 
father, who  was  the  son  of  a  Revolutionary  sol- 
dier, himself  rendered  active  service  in  the 
second  war  with  England.  The  father,  Oliver 
P.  Pennock,  was  born  in  Vermont,  whence  he 
removed  to  Livingston  County,  N.  Y.,  and  en- 
gaged in  farming.  In  1861,  when  fifty  years  of 
age,  he  enlisted  in  the  One  Hundred  and  Fourth 
New  York  Infantry,  in  which  he  remained  until 
his  death,  two  years  later.  His  wife,  Caroline, 
who  was  born  in  Haverhill,  N.  H.,  died  in  New 
York  in  1854.  She  was  a  daughter  of  Benjamin 
Rowell,  a  farmer  and  a  soldier  in  the  war  of 
18 1 2,  who  in  early  days  removed  from  New 
Hampshire  to  Livingston  County,  N.  Y. 

Of  the  nine  children  of  Oliver  P.  and  Caroline 
Pennock,  five  are  now  living.  John  R.  lives  in 
Livingston  County,  N.  Y. ;  Mary  B.,  Mrs.  Hor- 
atio M.  Foster,  came  to  Colorado  in  i860  and 
resides  at  Parker;  Ellen  M.,  Mrs.  Edward  Q. 
Peck,  lives  in   Colorado  Springs;    Elizabeth  J., 


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Mrs.  J.  M.  Tallman,  lives  in  Elizabeth,  this  state. 
Of  those  deceased,  William  M.  was  a  member  of 
the  Wadsworth  Guard  (One  Hundred  and  Fourth 
New  York  Infantry ) ,  and  was  killed  in  the  battle 
of  Gettysburg;  George  F.  died  in  Fort  Collins  in 
1888;  Alice  died  at  seven  years;  and  one  died 
unnamed  in  infancy. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  on  a  farm 
in  Livingston  County,  N.  Y.,  May  5,  1850. 
When  he  was  a  boy  his  father  and  brothers  (ex- 
cept John)  enlisted  in  the  Federal  army,  and  he 
followed  their  example  by  enlisting  in  the  Four- 
teenth New  York  Heavy  Artillery  as  a  drummer 
boy,  but  he  was  not  accepted.  Six  months  later, 
at  the  time  of  muster,  he  was  rejected  as  too 
young.  In  1864  he  again  enlisted,  this  time  in 
the  Fifty-eighth  New  York  National  Guard,  and 
was  mustered  in  for  one  hundred  days.  He 
served  for  four  months,  guarding  rebel  prisons, 
and  was  mustered  out  at  Elmira,  N.  Y.  Early 
in  1865  he  enli.sted  in  the  Forty-fourth  New  York 
Infantry,  and  was  mustered  in  and  stationed  in 
New  York  on  Hart's  Island.  At  the  close  of  the 
war  he  was  honorably  discharged.  In  April  of 
the  next  year  he  came  to  Colorado,  starting  from 
Omaha  with  a  mule  team  and  joining  a  train  on 
the  Platte.  The  Indians  drove  the  mules  ofif, 
and  he  then  hired  to  an  ox- team  train,  which 
reached  Denver  in  June.  For  ten  years  he  en- 
gaged in  freighting,  his  route  extending  west  to 
Salt  Lake  City  and  Nevada  and  north  to  Chey- 
enne. His  brother,  Frank,  preceded  him  two 
years  to  Colorado,  having  come  in  1864.  He 
was  noted  as  an  Indian  fighter,  and  was  a  man  of 
great  bravery.  In  1876  our  subject  began  pros- 
pecting in  the  mountains,  going  into  North  Park 
when  there  was  not  a  person  within  its  bounds. 
Next  he  engaged  in  making  ties,  which  he 
floated  down  the  Cache  la  Poudre,  at  the 
time  the  railroad  was  building  from  Fort  Col- 
lins to  Stout.  Later  he  was  superintendent  in 
charge  of  the  building  of  the  High  Line  ditch 
around  Bingham  Hill,- having  the  oversight  of 
the  construction  of  two  tunnels,  two  hundred  feet 
and  one  hundred  and  fifty  feet  long,  respectively. 
His  next  work  was  the  building  of  the  railroad 
for  the  Union  Pacific  through  the  Poudre  canon, 
which  work  took  fourteen  months,  his  special 
charge  being  the  construction  of  the  Big  Narrows 
road,  twenty  milea  above. 

In  1 88 1  Mr.  Pennock  retired  from  railroading 


and  homesteaded  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  in 
Pleasant  Valley.  Nothing  was  to  be  seen  on  the 
land  but  prairie  dogs.  The  surroundings  were 
desolate  and  the  prospects  unattractive.  How- 
ever, with  a  firm  faith  in  the  future,  he  began  to 
cultivate  the  land.  He  put  in  lateral  ditches, 
drowned  out  the'  prairie  dogs,  began  planting 
apple,  pear  and  peach  trees,  and  made  a  specialty 
of  the  nursery  business.  He  now  has  thirteen 
acres  in  orchards  of  pears,  apples,  peaches  and 
cherries,  and  all  kinds  of  small  fruits.  In  1897 
he  started  a  nursery  at  Fort  Collins,  incorpor- 
ating the  Pennock  Nursery  and  Seed  Company, 
which  owns  seventeen  acres  adjoining  Fort  Col- 
lins on  the  west  and  has  leased  six  acres  in  the 
eastern  part  of  the  city.  Here  are  propagated 
thousands  of  trees  of  all  kinds,  which  are  sold  not 
only  in  this  state  and  in  all  the  states  of  the 
union,  but  in  Germany  and  England  also.  A 
number  of  new  fruits  have  been  originated  and 
propagated,  one  of  which  is  the  Rocky  Mountain 
cherry,  now  sold  all  over  the  country.  The 
office  of  the  company  is  in  Fort  Collins,  Mr. 
Pennock's  home  farm  in  Pleasant  Vallej^  one 
mile  south  of  Bellvue,  being  used  for  an  experi- 
mental station  in  originating  and  testing  fruits. 
Not  only  is  his  the  finest  variety  of  fruits  in  the 
state,  but  it  is  also  probably  the  largest.  The 
homestead  is  known  as  "Apple  Grove  Fruit 
Farm." 

In  Pleasant  Valley  Mr.  Pennock  married  Miss 
Lydia  C.  Flowers,  who  was  born  near  Bull  Run, 
Va.  Her  father,  Jacob  Flowers,  was  born  in 
Pennsylvania  and  was  captain  on  the  river  in 
early  life.  About  1868  he  removed  to  Kansas 
City,  and  in  the  spring  of  1873  came  from  there 
to  Colorado,  settling  in  Pleasant  Valley,  where  he 
has  since  resided,  engaging  in  farming  and  the 
lumber  business.  His  wife,  Elizabeth  Meeks, 
was  born  in  West  Virginia  and  died  in  Colorado. 
They  had  six  children,  namely:  T.  Wesley,  ot 
Bellevue,  Idaho;  S.  W. ,  who  is  in  the  stock  busi- 
ness in  British  Columbia;  Lydia  C,  Mrs.  C.  E. 
Pennock;  Sarah,  Mrs.  J.  T.  Beach,  of  Fort  Col- 
lins; Benjamin  Franklin;  and  Cora,  wife  of 
William  Tilton,  a  merchant  of  Bellevue.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Pennock  have  four  children  living: 
Arthur,  Mary  Alice,  Charles  Eldridge  and  George 
Maurice. 

Besides  his  other  property  Mr.  Pennock  owns 
a  ranch  in  the  mountains  six  miles  west  of  his 


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homestead.  This  propert}',  of  one  hundred  and 
sixty  acres,  he  has  fenced  and  improved,  making 
of  it  both  a  fruit  and  stock  farm.  He  was  one  of 
the  founders  of  the  Larimer  County  Horticultural 
Society,  of  which  he  is  president.  Frequently 
he  has  written  articles  upon  horticultural  topics 
for  the  Field  and  Farm,  by  which  others  receive 
the  benefit  of  his  successful  experience.  Politi- 
cally he  votes  the  Democratic  ticket,  and  in 
religion  he  is  of  the  Universalist  faith.  He  is 
connected  with  George  H.  Thomas  Post  No.  7, 
G.  A.  R.  Fraternally  he  holds  membership  with 
Larimer  County  Lodge,  K.  of  P.,  in  Fort  Col- 
lins. On  the  formation  of  District  No.  50  he 
became  a  school  director,  and  for  many  years  was 
secretary  of  the  board,  but  resigned  some  years 
ago.  In  many  respects  his  success  is  remarkable, 
for  he  began  without  capital  and  under  disad- 
vantageous circumstances;  but  in  spite  of  hard- 
ships and  obstacles  he  has  won  success,  and  is 
among  the  most  prominent  and  influential  men 
of  his  county  in  his  line  of  business. 


SlLBERT  C.  OVIATT,  late  postmaster  of 
r  1  Longmont,  was  a  man  universally  respected 
/  1  and  honored  by  his  associates  and  acquaint- 
ances. As  a  business  man  and  public  ofiicial  he 
was  equally  well  liked  and  was  entirely  deserving 
of  the  high  praise  that  was  accorded  him  at  all 
times.  Generous  to  a  fault,  kindly  and  genial  in 
disposition, he  won  warm  friends  wherever  he  went 
and  his  loss  has  been  deeply  felt  in  many  circles 
here  and  elsewhere,  wherever  he  was  known.  No 
one  ever  applied  to  him  in  vain  for  help  and  sym- 
pathy, for  he  was  always  ready  to  carry  out  the 
teachings  of  the  Golden  Rule. 

A  son  of  Cyrus  and  Marian  Oviatt,  residents 
of  Ohio,  Mr.  Oviatt  was  born  in  Richfield,  a 
thriving  village  of  the  Buckeye  state  in  August, 
1853.  He  was  reared  to  manhood  and  acquired 
his  education  in  Ohio.  His  health  not  of  the 
best,  he  decided  to  travel  in  the  west  to  some  ex- 
tent before  settling  down  to  business,  and  about 
one  year  was  passed  by  him  in  California.  Re- 
turning then  as  far  as  Colorado  he  led  an  out- 
door life  for  a  few  years,  carrying  on  a  farm  at 
Highland  Lake,  Weld  County,  with  success. 
Soon  after  Longmont  was  founded  he  located  here 
and  opened  a  meat  market.  In  this  new  line  of 
enterprise  he  also  met  with  gratifying  results, 


financially,  at  the  same  time  gaining  the  good 
will  and  respect  of  all  our  business  men  and 
citizens. 

Albert  C.  Oviatt  was  active  in  the  ranks  of  the 
Democratic  party.  He  served  as  deputy  sheriff 
under  Sheriff  Jester,  and  also  as  constable.  In 
1 894  he  was  appointed  postmaster  of  Longmont  by 
President  Cleveland.  He  continued  to  fill  the 
office  to  the  entire  satisfaction  of  everj'one  from 
that  time  until  his  death,  which  sad  event  occurred 
July  9,  1896.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Ancient 
Order  of  United  Workmen. 

The  first  wife  of  Albert  C.  Oviatt  was  Miss 
AUie  Comstock  in  her  girlhood.  She  departed 
this  life  in  Colorado,  leaving  two  children,  now 
grown  to  be  young  ladies.  The  elder,  Nellie 
Marian,  is  a  graduate  of  the  Presbyterian  College, 
of  Longmont,  and  is  now  an  assistant  in  the  post- 
office.  Lida  Miller,  who  graduated  from  the 
Longmont  high  school,  is  a  successful  teacher,  now 
located  in  the  town  of  Hygiene,  Boulder  County. 
In  1891  Mr.  Oviatt  married  Miss  Lillian  Terry, 
daughter  of  Edwin  and  Jane  (Lewis)  Terry. 
Her  father  was  born  in  Connecticut  and  died  in 
Kalamazoo,  Mich.,  where  he  had  been  engaged 
in  building  and  contracting  for  several  years. 
He  was  seventy-one  years  old  at  the  time  of  his 
demise.  The  mother  was  born  in  Ireland,  but 
came  to  the  United  States  in  infancy.  She  lived  in 
New  York  City  and  there  met  and  married  Mr. 
Terry.  She  also  died  in  Kalamazoo,  Mich.  Mrs. 
Lillian  Oviatt  is  a  native  of  Kalamazoo,  and  in  1890 
came  to  Colorado.  Her  marriage  with  Mr. 
Oviatt  was  solemnized  in  Longmont,  and  here 
their  happy  life  together  was  passed.  Three 
beautiful  little  daughters  came  to  brighten  their 
home,  namely:  Helen  Marie;  Hazel  Marguerite 
and  Inez  Alberta. 

In  the  fall  of  1896  Mrs.  Oviatt  was  appointed 
postmistress  of  Longmont,  to  succeed  her  hus- 
band. So  well  was  she  esteemed  by  our  citizens 
and  so  strongly  recommended  for  continuance  in 
the  office  that  President  McKinley,  of  the  oppo- 
site party,  retained  her  and  gave  her  a  re-appoint- 
ment. Very  few  women  in  Colorado  were  better 
fitted  for  such  a  responsible  position  or  have 
given  greater  satisfaction.  She  in  turn  was  suc- 
ceeded by  O.  W.  Richardson.  Mrs.  Oviatt  is  a 
member  of  the  Ladies  of  the  Tent  of  the  Macca- 
bees, and  is  a  memberof  the  Presbj'terian  Church 
and  of  the  aid  society  connected  therewith. 


HON.  HENRY  KNEISEL. 


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HON.  HENRY  KNEISEL,  the  leading  gro- 
cer of  Georgetown,  Clear  Creek  County, 
was  born  in  Breidenbach,  Kur-Hessen, 
June  9,  1852,  the  son  of  John  and  Elizabeth 
(Schneider)  Kneisel,  both  of  whom  were  natives 
of  the  same  place.  His  father  was  a  wagon- 
maker  and  brought  his  family  to  America,  set- 
tling in  Iowa  City,  Johnson  County,  Iowa, where 
he  followed  his  trade  until  he  enlisted  in  the 
Civil  war.  He  was  a  member  of  Company  K, 
Twenty-second  Iowa  Volunteer  Infantry,  and 
served  in  the  war  until  his  death,  which  occurred 
in  the  south  in  1864.  Two  brothers-in-law  and 
a  cousin  also  went  with  this  company  and  but 
one  of  them  returned  home.  The  mother  of  our 
subject  died  soon  after  reaching  Iowa  City,  leav- 
ing an  only  child,  Henry.  The  father  was  again 
married  and  had  a  family  of  five  children,  all  of 
whom  are  now  living.  In  their  religious  belief 
the  parents  were  Lutherans. 

Mr.  Kneisel  was  but  an  infant  when  his  pa- 
rents came  to  America.  They  landed  at  New 
Orleans,  and  sailed  up  the  Mississippi,  stopping 
in  Iowa  and  making  their  home  in  what  was 
then  the  capital,  Iowa  City.  He  attended  the 
public  schools  of  that  place  until  his  father's 
death,  when  it  became  necessary  for  him  to  se- 
cure work  to  provide  for  the  wants  of  himself 
and  the  family.  He  worked  on  a  farm  in  that 
vicinity  for  four  years,  the  money  he  received  go- 
ing to  the  support  of  the  family.  About  1867, 
after  having  attended  school  during  the  winter, 
he  went  to  Des  Moines,  where  a  sister  of  his 
mother  resided.  Here  he  was  apprenticed  as  a 
baker  to  Kurtz  &  Co.,  and  during  that  time  he 
attended  night  school  at  J.  W.  Muffley's  Business 
College.  He  learned  the  trade  and  remained 
with  the  firm  until  1872,  when  he  came  to 
Colorado. 

After  being  in  the  employ  of  Mr.  Schneider,  a 
general  merchant,  about  seven  months,  Mr. 
Kneisel  went  to  the  San  Juan  country,  where  there 
were  but  three  cabins,  these  being  at  the  mouth 
of  Cunningham  Gulch.  He  remained  there  until 
June,  1874,  when  he  returned  to  this  county  and 
settled  in  Georgetown.  Here  he  was  employed  for 
the  first  seven  or  eight  months  in  a  smelter,  and 
afterward  entered  the  employ  of  Mr.  Guanella,  a 
grocer  and  baker.  He  had  full  charge  of  the 
bakery,  and  remained  an  employe  until  1884, 
when  he  bought  out  his  employer,  Mr.  Guanella, 
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and  continued  in  the  same  place  for  himself. 
At  first  he  conducted  the  business  alone,  but  in 
October,  1893,  he  took  a  partner,  and  the  fipm  is 
now  known  as  Kneisel  &  Anderson,  grocers. 
They  have  one  of  the  finest  store  buildings  in 
the  county,  and  their  assortment  of  groceries, 
glassware  and  queensware  is  complete  and  un- 
equalled. On  buying  the  lot  they  tore  down 
the  old  building  and  erected  on  the  same  site 
their  present  commodious  brick  structure,  which 
is  24x45  feet  and  two  stories  in  height,  in  addi- 
tion to  which  there  is  also  a  warehouse.  Mr. 
Kneisel  is  extensively  engaged  in  mining  oper- 
ations, being  the  owner  of  the  Alto  mine  in  the 
Argentine  district,  the  Twin  mine  in  George- 
town, and  owning  an  interest  in  the  Big  Quartz, 
Big  Copper,  Missouri  Girl,  Missouri  Boy,  and 
the  Martin  mill  site,  all  patented,  and  covering 
an  area  of  twenty-seven  acres. 

After  coming  to  Colorado  Mr.  Kneisel  married 
Miss  Emma  Peterson,  who  was  born  in  Smaalan, 
Sweden.  They  have  one  child  living,  Cora,  and 
have  lost  three  sons:  Otto,  who  died  at  the  age 
of  seven  years;  Ernest,  at  the  age  of  eight;  and 
Louis  S. ,  when  nineteen.  Louis  was  a  graduate 
of  the  Georgetown  High  school  in  the  class  of 
1897,  and  delivered  the  class  prophecy.  He  was 
a  young  man  who  gave  promise  of  a  brilliant 
future,  and  after  graduating  from  the  high 
.school  attended  the  Central  Business  College  of 
Denver.  While  home  on  a  visit  he  was  taken 
suddenly  ill,  bursting  a  blood  vessel  in  the  head, 
and  died  February  8,  1898. 

For  a  number  of  terms,  and  until  April,  1897, 
Mr.  Kneisel  was  mayor  of  Georgetown.  In  1891 
he  was  elected  county  treasurer,  and  re-elected  in 
the  fall  of  1893,  serving  from  January,  1892, 
until  the  same  month  in  1896,  through  the  panic. 
He  is  a  past  officer  in  the  Independent  Order  of 
Odd  Fellows,  was  representative  in  1888-89,  ^Iso 
served  as  past  officer,  and  for  fourteen  years  as 
treasurer  of  the  encampment.  Politically  he  is  a 
strong  advocate  of  bimetalism. 


I  EBBEUS  E.  MARSH,  M.  D.  When  after 
It  years  of  long  and  earnest  labor  in  some 
LJ  honorable  field  of  business,  a  man  puts  aside 
all  cares  to  spend  his  remaining  years  in  the  en- 
joyment of  the  fruits  of  his  former  toil,  it  is 
certainly  a_well- deserved  reward  for  his  industry. 


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"How  blest  is  he  who  crowns  in  shades  like  these 
A  youth  of  labor  with  an  age  of  ease," 

wrote  the  poet,  and  the  world  everywhere  recog- 
nizes the  justice  of  a  season  of  rest  following  an 
active  period  of  business  life.  Dr.  Marsh  is  now 
living  retired  at  his  pleasant  home  in  Greeley, 
and  his  history  shows  the  accomplishment  of  well- 
directed  labor. 

The  doctor  was  born  in  Belchertown,  Mass., 
April  II,  1824,  and  is  a  son  of  John  C.  and  Elci- 
phae  (Marsh)  Marsh,  both  natives  of  Massachu- 
setts and  of  old  Puritan  stock.  The  father's 
ancestors  came  to  this  country  from  England  in 
the  seventeenth  century  and  settled  first  in  Con- 
necticut, and  later  near  Hatfield,  Mass.  The 
father  was  a  farmer  and  blacksmith  by  occupation 
and  when  our  subject  was  two  years  old  estab- 
lished business  in  the  town  of  L,everett,  where 
the  latter  was  reared.  In  the  family  were  five 
children,  but  only  two  now  survive.  Marah 
Augusta  first  married  a  Mr.  Doane,  and  later 
George  Lawton,  and  she  died  in  Troy,  N.  Y. 
John  A.  made  his  home  in  the  town  of  Bethel, 
Vt.  Julia  was  the  wife  of  George  Sibley,  of  West- 
field,  Mass.  Cyrus  A.,  a  hatter  by  trade,  was 
engaged  in  business  with  his  brother-in-law,  Mr. 
Lawton,  at  Providence,  R.  I.,  for  some  time, 
from  there  removed  to  New  York  City,  and  later 
to  Texas,  where  he  died  very  suddenly. 

Dr.  Marsh  remained  under  the  parental  roof 
during  his  boyhood  and  youth ,  and  after  attend- 
ing the  common  schools  for  some  time  he  became 
a  student  in  Amherst  Academy.  At  the  age  of 
nineteen  his  health  failed  and  he  was  incapaci- 
tated for  manual  labor.  He  then  took  up  the 
study  of  medicine  in  the  office  of  Dr.  Rice,  the 
old  family  physician,  and  later  attended  medical 
lectures  at  Pittsfield  and  New  Haven,  where  he 
was  graduated  at  the  head  of  his  class  in  January, 
1848.  He  began  the  practice  of  his  chosen  pro- 
fession at  New  Salem,  Mass.,  but  after  spending 
a  short  time  at  that  place  he  removed  to  Dana, 
the  same  state,  where  he  engaged  in  practice  for 
ten  years.  At  New  Salem  he  was  married,  May 
23,  1848,  to  Miss  Sarah  Gibbs,  of  Massachusetts, 
who  died  in  June,  1877,  leaving  two  children: 
viz. :  George  W. ,  now  a  resident  of  Tower  City, 
N.Dak.;  and  HattieG.,widow  of  Frank  Johnson, 
of  Greeley,  where  she  was  married  in  March,  1878. 

From  Dana,  Dr.  Marsh  removed  to  Granby, 
Mass.,  where   he   engaged    in  practice  for  nine 


years,  and  later  located  in  Wales,  a  manufactur- 
ing town  on  the  border  of  Connecticut,  where  he 
built  up  a  large  practice  and  was  very  successful 
in  the  treatment  of  that  dread  disease  diphtheria. 
In  1872  he  came  to  Greeley  Colo.,  which  at  that 
time  was  a  mere  colony  founded  two  years  before, 
and  as  the  settlements  in  this  state  were  then  few 
and  far  between  his  practice  extended  over  a 
radius  of  sixty  miles.  After  the  death  of  his 
first  wife  he  married  Dr.  Anna  E.  Eastman,  a 
physician  of  Denver,  who  after  her  marriage  en- 
gaged in  practice  in  Greeley,  until  her  death, 
which  occurred  February  20,  1896.  The  doctor 
was  again  married  February  2,  1897,  his  wife 
being  Mrs.  Laura  A.  (Northrup)  Bishop,  of 
Greeley. 

Dr.  Marsh  made  a  specialty  of  lung  and  bron- 
chial diseases,  and  was  remarkably  successful  in 
the  treatment  of  diphtheria  and  pneumonia.  On 
beginning  his  professional  career  he  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  old  school,  but  after  coming  to  Colorado 
took  up  the  practice  of  homeopathy,  and  made 
use  of  the  best  methods  out  of  both  schools.  He 
has  been  a  constant  student  and  always  kept 
abreast  of  the  times  in  his  chosen  calling.  Owing 
to  failing  health  he  was  compelled  to  give  up 
active  practice  for  a  time,  but  two  years  ago  re- 
sumed practice.  At  the  age  of  sixteen  he  united 
with  the  Congregational  Church,  but  now  holds 
membership  in  the  First  Baptist  Church  of  Gree- 
ley, which  he  joined  on  coming  to  this  state. 
During  his  life  in  the  east  he  took  quite  an  active 
part  in  educational  matters  and  held  .several 
school  ofiices,  but  here  he  has  been  compelled  to 
give  his  entire  attention  to  his  extensive  practice. 
He  is  the  oldest  physician  in  the  city  and  is  also 
one  of  her  most'  honored  and  highly  esteemed 
citizens. 


HARRISON  TELLER,  a  resident  of  the  town 
of  New  Windsor,  Weld  County,  is  one  of 
the  representative  business  men  of  this  sec- 
tion of  Colorado.  He  owns  about  one  thousand 
acres  of  town  propertj'  and  farming  land,  and  has 
money  invested  in  other  enterprises.  Coming 
here  some  fifteen  years  ago,  he  was  one  of  the 
first  settlers  of  this  place,  and  from  that  time  un- 
til the  present  he  has  been  actively  connected 
with  the  progress  and  development  of  local  indus- 
tries and  upbuilding.  Politically  he  is  a  stanch 
Republican  and  a  worker  in  the  interests  of  the 


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party.  Socially  lie  belongs  to  Windsor  Lodge 
No.  69,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  Greeley  Chapter  No.  13, 
R.  A.  M.,  of  Greeley;  and  El  Jebel  Temple,  Mys- 
tic Shrine,  of  Denver. 

The  father  of  our  subject,  Lewis  M.  Teller,  is 
now  living  retired  in  Greeley.  He  is  a  native  of 
New  York  state  and  came  with  the  Greeley  Col- 
ony to  Colorado  in  1870,  arriving  here  on  April 
29.  There  he  was  busily  employed  in  contract- 
ing and  building  for  a  number  of  years,  and  when 
New  Windsor  was  founded  in  1883  he  came  here 
and  assisted  in  placing  the  infant  town  on  a  .sound 
basis.  He  kept  a  general  merchandise  store  here 
for  several  years,  and  at  last,  upon  retiring  from 
active  life,  returned  to  New  York.  A  few  years 
later,  however,  he  came  back  to  Colorado,  and 
has  since  made  his  home  in  Greeley,  where  he  is 
widely  known  and  highly  esteemed.  His  family 
consists  of  his  wife,  formerly  Miss  Emma  Clowes, 
a  native  of  New  York,  and  three  children.  Sarah, 
the  only  daughter,  is  the  wife  of  R.  L-  Hall,  a 
builder  and  contractor  of  Greeley;  Frederick  is 
the  owner  of  a  farm  near  Greeley. 

Harrison  Teller  was  born  August  16,  1859,  in 
Mount  Kisco,  N.  Y. ,  and  was  less  than  twelve 
years  old  when  he  came  to  Colorado.  He  attend- 
ed the  public  schools  of  Greeley,  and  when  he 
had  reached  his  majority  he  engaged  in  agricult- 
ural pursuits.  Later  he  embarked  in  business 
with  R.  L-  Hall,  as  general  merchants,  and  after 
a  period  he  became  associated  with  Otis  Hill. 
The  business  was  subsequently  merged  into  that 
of  the  Windsor  Mercantile  Company,  incorpora- 
ted at  $30,000.  The  firm  now  does  an  extensive 
business  of  about  $250,000  a  year,  shipping  and 
dealing  in  all  kinds  of  produce.  In  1897  they 
handled  five  hundred  car-loads  of  potatoes  and 
two  hundred  and  fifty  carloads  of  wheat.  They 
erected  a  substantial  warehouse  of  brick,  25x100 
feet  a  few  years  ago,  and  in  1898  were  obliged  to 
increase  their  accommodations  by  building  another 
portion,  similar  to  the  first  structure.  Mr.  Teller 
is  the  secretary  and  manager  of  the  corporation 
and  by  his  aggressive  and  progressive  business 
methods  has  done  much  for  the  success  of  the 
enterprise. 

September  22,  1882,  Mr.  Teller  married  Miss 
Anna  Goetchins,  a  native  of  Iowa  and  a  daughter 
of  George  Goetchins,  who  was  a  soldier  of  the 
Civil  war,  serving  from  the  beginning  to  the  close 
of  the  conflict.     Four  sons  and  a  daughter  have 


been  born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Teller,  namely:  Grif- 
fith H.,  Harrison  v.,  George  B.,  John  and  Emma. 
The  family  have  a  pleasant  home,  where  their 
many  friends  delight  to  congregate. 


HOMAS  S.  PECK,  deceased,  a  pioneer  of 
'59,  was  born  in  Kentucky,  October  22, 
1829,  a  son  of  George  and  Luciuda  (Samuels) 
Peck.  While  he  was  an  infant  his  parents  re- 
moved to  Indiana  and  settled  in  Hendricks  Coun- 
ty, where  he  grew  to  manhood  and  learned  the 
carpenter's  trade.  September  2,  1850,  he  was 
united  in  marriage  with  Miss  Susan  E.  Walthall, 
daughter  of  Samuel  W.  and  Rebecca  A.  (Johns) 
Walthall,  natives  of  Virginia,  but  from  1850  until 
death  residents  of  Chariton,  Lucas  County,  Iowa. 

Shortly  after  his  marriage  Mr.  Peck  took  his 
wife  to  Iowa  and  settled  in  Lucas  County,  where 
he  followed  carpentering.  In  the  spring  of  1859 
he  started  across  the  plains  with  an  ox-team  for 
Colorado,  and  after  a  journey  of  six  weeks  he  ar- 
rived in  Central  City,  where  he  engaged  in  mining. 
In  the  winter  he  went  back  to  Iowa  for  his  family, 
whom  he  had  left  behind  until  a  suitable  location 
could  be  found  for  their  future  home.  April  2, 
i860,  he  started  with  them  for  the  mountains  and 
crossed  the  plains,  arriving  in  Central  City  June 
10.  There  he  again  resumed  mining.  During 
the  four  years  that  followed  he  was  the  discoverer 
of  the  California  mine,  which  has  proved  one  of 
the  most  valuable  mining  properties  in  the  state. 
This  he  sold  for  $36,000,  and  shortly  afterward 
embarked  in  the  mercantile  business.  Like  all 
miners,  however,  he  found  it  impossible  to  relin- 
quish all  connection  with  mining.  After  four 
years  he  sold  his  mercantile  interests  and  once 
more  turned  his  entire  attention  to  mining. 

August  16,  1866,  Mr.  Peck  brought  his  family 
to  Boulder  Valley  and  bought  a  claim  of  one 
hundred  and  sixty  acres,  some  four  miles  west  of 
Longmont,  and  there  he  settled  down  to  a  farm- 
ers' life,  retaining,  however,  many  mining  inter- 
ests. In  1874  he  acquired  properties  in  Left  Hand 
Canon,  and  spent  much  money  in  developing 
them,  but  failed  to  realize  any  returns.  His 
death  occurred  March  17,  1898.  He  was  a  man 
of  great  worth  of  character,  and  possessing,  also, 
fine  business  qualifications,  and  through  his  ener- 
gy and  sound  judgment  he  accumulated  a  valuable 
property,  which  his  family  inherited.     He  was 


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mourned  in  death  by  those  with  whom  he  had 
social  and  business  relations,  and  who  had  come 
to  appreciate  his  integrity  and  ability.  He  had 
three  children,  one  daughter,  Lucinda  J.,  having 
passed  away  before  his  demise.  The  other 
daughters  are:  Clara  C.wife  of  John  Butterworth; 
and  Isabelle,  who  resides  with  her  mother  in 
Longmont. 

•gEORGE  W.  HARRIMAN.  It  is  difficult 
i_  to  adequately  measure  the  services  rendered 
J  by  Mr.  Harriman  in  the  development  of 
Jefferson  County,  for  he  has  for  years  been  so  in- 
timately connected  with  every  enterprise  of  im- 
portance in  this  part  of  the  state  that  his  name  is 
indissolubly,  though  unpretentiously  on  his  part, 
associated  with  the  history  of  the  county.  A 
native  of  Argentine,  Canada,  born  September  i, 
1826,  he  was  one  of  seven  children  comprising 
the  family  of  Reuben  and  Abigail  (Davis)  Harri- 
man. Of  these  seven,  three  besides  himself  are 
now  living,  namely:  Caroline,  wife  of  Alphonso 
Thurber,  of  Orleans  County,  N.  Y. ;  Frank,  now 
in  Dyea,  Alaska;  and  John,  of  Milwaukee,  Wis. 
The  father  of  our  subject  was  born  in  Vermont 
on  the  first  day  ofthe  year  1799.  When  a  boy  he  ac- 
companied his  father  to  Canada,  where  he  learned 
the  trade  of  a  shoemaker,  afterward  following  the 
occupation  during  his  entire  active  life.  In  1833 
he  removed  to  Niagara  County,  N.  Y. ,  where  he 
remained  until  1842,  and  then  went  to  Ohio; 
from  there  to  Indiana,  thence  to  Michigan,  and 
in  1848  settled  in  Walworth  County,  Wis.,  re- 
maining there  until  his  death,  which  occurred 
April  12,  1863. 

In  the  various  removals  made  by  the  family  the 
subject  of  this  sketch  accompanied  his  parents. 
November  11,  1851,  he  married  Miss  Betsy  M. 
Spencer.  After  some  six  months  in  the  hotel 
business  he  engaged  in  farming,  but  in  1858 
opened  a  livery  stable  at  Elkhorn,  and  during  the 
same  year  became  interested  in  a  hotel  at  that 
place.  In  i860  he  crossed  the  plains  with  a  two- 
horse  team,  arriving  in  Boulder  June  28.  Thence 
he  went  to  Central  City.  After  engaging  in  min- 
ing for  one  month  he  opened  a  boarding  house, 
which  he  operated  one  year.  In  the  spring  of 
1 86 1  he  went  to  Kenosha,  Park  County,  and 
built  a  hotel,  which  he  conducted  for  three  and 
one-half  years.  During  that  time  he  participated 
in  the  Espanosa  and  Runnell's  raids.     The  com- 


munity was  a  lawless  one,  which  fact  caused  him, 
in  October,  1865,  to  sell  out  his  interests  there. 
Returning  to  Wisconsin  he  spent  the  winter,  and 
in  the  spring  came  back  to  Colorado,  where  for  a 
time  he  ran  a  stage  from  Denver  to  Buckskin 
Joe.  H.  A.  W.  Tabor  was  then  postmaster  of 
the  latter  place.  After  one  year  he  went  to 
Turkey  Creek,  two  miles  above  Morrison,  Jeffer- 
son County,  and  erected  a  hotel,  which  he  carried 
on  for  three  years,  and  at  the  same  time  he  en- 
gaged in  raising  stock  and  teaming. 

In  1870  Mr.  Harriman  came  to  what  is  now 
known  as  the  Harriman  ranch,  on  Bear  Creek, 
between  Fort  Logan  and  Morrison.  Here  he 
homesteaded  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  of  land 
and  became  the  originator  and  principal  pro- 
moter ofthe  extensive  irrigation  system  of  Bear 
Creek  Valley.  Seeing  the  necessity  of  such  a 
system  in  order  to  make  the  valley  what  it  is  to- 
day, a  beautiful  spot  of  nature,  his  was  the 
master  hand  to  take  hold  of  the  Arnett  ditch, 
which  had  been  commenced  two  years  before; 
his  was  the  mind  that  conceived  its  completion 
and  his  the  brain  that  planned  its  ramifications. 
With  characteristic  business  energy  he  pushed 
forward  the  extensive  undertaking  to  a  rapid 
completion.  When  it  was  finished  the  Harriman 
interests  absorbed  the  Arnett  interests,  and  it  be- 
came known  as  the  Harriman  ditch.  In  1873  he 
built  the  Harriman  reservoir,  the  first  in  Colo- 
rado, and  thus  became  the  father  of  the  great 
system  of  storage  reservoirs  now  so  much  in  use 
throughout  the  state.  He  was  largely  instru- 
mental in  the  building  of  the  Bergen  reservoirs, 
and  was  one  of  the  heaviest  stockholders  in  the 
Soda  Lake  reservoirs. 

During  the  '70s  Mr.  Harriman  was  a  member 
of  the  board  of  county  commissioners  that  had 
charge  ofthe  erection  of  the  courthouse  at  Golden. 
Subsequently  he  was  strongly  importuned  to 
allow  the  use  of  his  name  as  candidate  for  the 
legislature,  but  he  has  never  desired  public  office, 
preferring  to  devote  his  attention  to  business  pur- 
suits. During  the  building  of  Fort  Logan  he 
was'one  of  the  contractors  who  made  brick  for  the 
buildings  and  also  did  much  of  the  team  work  in 
their  construction.  During  his  years  of  pros- 
perity his  ranch  increased  in  size  to  eight  hun- 
dred and  eighty  acres.  The  Harriman  ranch  was 
synonymous  with  hospitality  in  the  minds  of  the 
ranchnien  who  frequented  the  place,  and  the  ad- 


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W.  HENRY  SMITH. 


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vice  of  the  owner  was  sought,  not  only  in  matters 
relating  to  the  public  welfare,  but  in  private  mat- 
ters, by  those  who  placed  implicit  confidence  in 
his  judgment.  In  1897  he  sold  his  ranch,  since 
which  time  he  has  lived  retired  in  Fort  Logan. 
A  man  of  liberal  nature  and  large  heart,  he  has 
spent  a  large  amount  of  money  in  the  develop- 
ment of  Jefferson  County,  and  has  been  the  mov- 
ing spirit  in  public  enterprises,  supporting  them 
with  his  time,  his  influence  and  his  money.  He 
and  his  wife  became  the  parents  of  four  children, 
but  only  two  are  living,  namely:  Clark  S.,  who 
resides  with  his  parents;  and  Hattie  M.,  the 
widow  of  W.  J.  Watson. 


WILLIAM  HENRY  SMITH,  attorney-at- 
law,  of  Denver,  was  born  in  Wellsboro, 
Tioga  County,  Pa. ,  and  was  orphaned  by 
his  father's  death,  Lambert  Miles  Smith,  when  he 
was  an  infant.  The  groundwork  of  his  educa- 
tion was  laid  in  the  classic  academy  in  Wellsboro, 
and  continued  in  the  State  Normal  University  at 
Mansfield,  Pa.  He  read  law  under  Hon.  Henry 
Warren  Williams,  one  of  the  judges  of  the  su- 
preme court  of  Pennsylvania.  In  1864  he  en- 
tered upon  the  practice  of  his  profession  in  his 
native  county,  where  he  remained  for  six  years. 

Removing  to  Philadelphia  in  1870,  Mr.  vSmith 
there  found  a  larger  field  for  legal  practice,  and 
soon  acquired  note  as  a  trial  and  consulting  law- 
yer. The  years  that  passed  brought  him  suc- 
cess and  an  enviable  reputation,  but  for  some 
years  he  suffered  greatly  from  a  local  facial  trouble, 
to  alleviate  which  he  closed  his  labors  in  Phila- 
delphia, in  1888,  after  which  he  traveled  for  a 
time  hoping  to  find  relief  from  a  dryer  climate  and 
higher  altitude.  He  first  located  in  Lincoln, 
Neb.,  and  engaged  in  general  practice,  in  con- 
nection with  which  he  delivered  two  courses  of 
private  law  lectures  for  the  benefit  of  the  univer- 
sity students  of  that  city  and  state.  Attracted  by 
the  success  of  these  lectures,  he  was  tendered  and 
accepted  the  position  of  dean  of  the  College  of 
Law  of  the  University  of  Nebraska  by  the  Regents. 
He  organized  a  successful  legal  department  be- 
sides continuing  his  private  practice.  He  re- 
mained at  the  head  of  the  College  of  Law  for  two 
years,  delivering  courses  of  lectures  upon  con- 
tracts, commercial  law,  constitutional  law,  pri- 
vate corporations,  common  law   pleading,  and 


upon  historical  legal  topics.  Among  the  mem- 
bers of  his  law  faculty  were  Chief-Justice  Max- 
well, ex- Chief-Justice  Reese,  Hon.  James  M. 
Woolworth,  of  Omaha,  Hon.  W.  Munger,  United 
States  District  Judge  for  Nebraska,  Hon.  J.  M. 
Webster,  Hon.  John  C.  Watson  and  Professor 
Wilson. 

At  the  close  of  the  university  year  of  1893 ,  Mr. 
Smith  again  visited  Denver.  After  an  experimen- 
tal sojourn  for  some  months,  the  beneficial  eff'ects 
of  the  climate  caused  him  to  resign  his  position 
as  dean  of  the  College  of  Law  in  the  Nebraska 
University.  Since  September  i,  1893,  he  has 
been  steadily  engaged  in  the  practice  of  his  pro- 
fession in  Denver  and  has  built  up  a  reputation 
for  breadth  of  legal  knowledge  and  depth  of  gen- 
eral information.  He  was  employed  as  special 
counsel  for  the  city  and  has  had  entire  charge  of 
the  case  of  the  City  of  Denver  vs.  the  Denver 
Union  Water  Company,  which  has  become  so  fa- 
mous, the  actual  trial  of  which  lasted  over  one 
year  in  the  district  court.  Though  never  a  can- 
didate for  ofiBce,  and  with  no  desire  for  positions 
of  public  trust,  he  is  nevertheless  very  firm  in  the 
political  beliefs  and  principles  of  the  Republican 
party, in  the  faith  of  which  he  was  reared.  In  relig- 
ious connections  he  is  identified  with  the  Central 
Presbyterian  Church  as  a  member  and  officer.  His 
experience  in  the  law,  covering  a  wide  range  of 
practice,  has  made  him  familiar  with  the  doctrines 
of  general  jurisprudence.  During  the  first  year 
of  his  residence  in  Denver  he  delivered  a  course 
of  lectures  upon  Pleading,  comparing  the  com- 
mon law  and  code  systems  of  practice. 


HON.  DUNCAN  DRUMMOND,  ex-senator 
and  at  present  a  member  of  the  board  of 
county  commissioners  of  Clear  Creek  Coun- 
ty, is  a  resident  of  Dumont.  He  is  an  active  and 
influential  worker  in  the  People's  party,  for  two 
years  has  been  a  member  of  the  state  executive 
committee  of  the  same  and  has  attended  every 
convention  of  importance.  He  has  lived  within 
the  borders  of  Colorado  since  the  year  which  wit- 
nessed its  admission  to  the  sisterhood  of  states, 
and  from  that  time  until  the  present  he  has  been 
interested  in  its  development  and  progress,  and  in 
material  ways  has  aided  in  the  grand  result  of 
to-day. 

Though  his  home  is  in  Dumont,  Mr.  Drum- 


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PORTRAIT  AND  BIOGRAPHICAL  RECORD. 


mond  is  constantly  called  to  different  parts  of  the 
countj%  as  his  services  as  a  practical  machinist 
and  builder  of  stamp  and  other  mills  are  in  great 
demand.  For  two  years  after  he  came  to  this 
state  he  was  superintendent  of  machinery  in  the 
mill  of  the  Pelican  Mining  Company  of  George- 
town, and  since  leaving  their  employ  he  has 
built  mills  and  hoisting  plants  in  numerous  places. 
He  erected  the  Drummond  mill  at  Dumont  and 
the  Specht  mill,  which  is  situated  here;  of  the 
former  he  is  also  manager  and  part  owner.  It  is 
a  thirty-five-ton  mill,  with  concentrator,  modern 
machinery  and  equipments,  all  run  by  steam- 
power.  Mr.  Drummond  is  interested  in  the  Ohio 
Gulch  Mining  Company  at  Dumont.  This  con- 
cern controls  about  twenty  mining  claims,  all  of 
which  were  discovered  by  our  subject.  He 
thoroughly  understands  everything  pertaining  to 
mines,  mills  and  machinery,  and  is  considered  an 
authority  on  the  subject. 

The  Drummond  family,  as  is  well  known,  is 
one  of  the  old  Scottish  families,  from  which  many 
noted  men  have  sprung.  Our  subject's  father, 
Robert,  and  grandfather,  John,  were  both  natives 
of  Glasgow,  Scotland.  The  father  was  a  manu- 
facturer in  that  city  and  in  1866  brought  his 
family  to  the  United  States,  settling  in  Chicago, 
111.  His  wife,  whose  maiden  name  was  Agnes 
Fraser,  was  born  at  Berwick-on-the-Tweed.  Her 
brother,  David  R.  Fraser,  of  Chicago,  is  senior 
member  of  the  influential  and  wealthy  firm  of 
Fraser  &  Chalmers,  manufacturing  machinists. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Drummond  both  died  in  Chicago. 
They  were  the  parents  of  seven  children,  six  of 
whom  are  living.  One  son,  Ralph,  was  a  victim 
of  the  frightful  ' '  cold-storage  ' '  building  fire  at 
the  Columbian  Exposition  in  1893.  He  had  been 
placed  in  charge  of  some  machinery  exhibits  there, 
and  was  unfortunately  in  the  building  at  the  time 
of  the  fire,  iu  which  nineteen  men  lost  their  lives. 
He  was  last  seen  in  the  tower,  from  which  he 
had  started  to  descend,  when  the  structure  col- 
lapsed, falling  into  the  sea  of  flames  below. 

Duncan  Drummond  was  born  May  21,  1854,  in 
Glasgow,  and  was  educated  in  the  public  schools 
.  of  Chicago.  At  the  age  of  fifteen  3^ears  he  com- 
menced serving  an  apprenticeship  to  his  uncle, 
Mr.  Fraser,  as  a  machinist.  In  1876  he  came  to 
Colorado,  and,  as  previously  stated,  has  been  act- 
ively engaged  in  affairs  related  directly  or  in- 
directly to  mining  ever  since.     He  was  elected 


in  1895  to  fill  out  the  unexpired  term  of  Senator 
Robert  Turner,  deceased,  and  in  1896  was  elected 
county  commissioner  of  Clear  Creek.  He  was 
reared  in  the  faith  of  the  Presbyterian  Church. 
Fraternally  he  is  identified  with  the  Knights  of 
Pythias,  Woodmen  of  the  World,  and  Ancient 
Order  United  Workmen,  the  lodges  of  these  three 
organizations  with  which  he  is  associated  being 
in  Idaho  Springs. 

NON.  EDWARD  OLIVER  WOLCOTT, 
United  States  senator  from  Colorado,  was 
born  in  Longmeadow,  Mass.,  March  26, 
1848.  He  is  a  lineal  descendant  of,  Roger  Wol- 
cott  and  several  succeeding  Wolcotts,  who  were 
colonial  governors  of  Connecticut.  Among  his 
ancestors  was  Oliver  W^olcott,  a  signer  of  the 
Declaration  of  Independence,  and  whose  son  was 
the  second  secretary  of  treasury,  succeeding  Alex- 
ander Hamilton  in  Washington's  cabinet. 

Rev.  Samuel  W.  Wolcott,  the  senator's  father, 
was  for  some  time  a  missionary  in  Syria,  and  for 
many  years  officiated  as  pastor  of  a  Congrega- 
tional Church  in  Ohio.  He  was  the  author  of 
over  three  hundred  hymns,  and  was  a  man  of 
marked  ability  and  rare  gifts.  His  son,  our  sub- 
ject, served  for  a  few  months  in  1864  as  a  private 
in  the  One  Hundred  and  Fifteenth  Ohio  Regi- 
ment, and  in  1866  matriculated  at  Yale  College, 
but  did  not  complete  the  course  in  that  institu- 
tion. In  1 87 1  he  graduated  from  the  Harvard 
Law  School,  and  came  to  Colorado,  settling  in 
Denver,  of  which  city  he  has  since  been  a  promi- 
nent citizen.  He  was  first  elected  to  the  United 
States  senate  to  succeed  Thomas  M.  Bowen  (Re- 
publican), and  took  his  seat  March  4,  1889.  In 
1895  he  was  re-elected,  his  term  to  expire  March 
3,  1 90 1.  He  is  one  of  the  Republican  leaders  of 
his  state,  and  has  wielded  a  powerful  influence  in 
public  affairs.  May  14,  1890,  in  St.  Paul's 
Church,  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  he  was  united  in  mar- 
riage with  Frances,  daughter  of  the  late  James 
H.  Metcalfe,  of  that  city. 

Writing  of  Senator  Wolcott,  Stanley  Wood 
says  that  "he  is  a  man  of  impulse,  yet  with  a 
keen  sagacity  that  guides  and  controls  his  im- 
pulses in  such  a  manner  that,  while  his  actions 
lose  nothing  in  spontaneity,  they  are  seldom,  if 
ever,  mal  apropos.  He  has  the  courage  to  ex- 
press his  opinions,  the  gratitude  to  reward  his 
friends,  the  firmness  to  pursue  and  punish  his 


CHRISTIAN  MANHART. 


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439 


enemies.  He  possesses  the  temperament  of  a 
leader,  the  magnetism  to  attract  and  hold  a  fol- 
lowing, the  audacity  to  lead  a  forlorn  hope  if 
necessary,  and  the  elan  to  win  victory  in  the  face 
of  defeat." 


gHRISTIAN  MANHART  is  the  owner  of 
Keystone  ranch,  comprising  eighteen  hun- 
dred acres,  located  six  miles  from  Sedalia, 
Douglas  County.  He  was  born  near  Catawissa, 
Columbia  County,  Pa.,  April  30,  1835,  a  son  of 
Philip  and  Sarah  Manhart,  natives  of  Alsace, 
Germany.  A  few  years  after  their  marriage  his 
parents  emigrated  to  America  and  settled  in  Phila- 
delphia, where  the  fathei  followed  the  wheel- 
wright's trade;  later,  however,  he  removed  to  a 
farm  near  Catawissa,  in  Columbia  County,  where 
the  remainder  of  his  life  was  passed  in  agricult- 
ural pursuits.  He  died  there  in  1861  and  his 
wife  passed  away  seven  years  later.  Of  their 
seven  children  three  were  born  in  Germany,  one 
on  the  ocean,  and  three  in  the  United  States. 
Five  attained  years  of  maturity  and  four  are  still 
living.  Christian  being  the  youngest.  Philip, 
who  is  the  oldest,  is  still  living  in  Columbia 
County,  Pa. ;  Frederick,  a  retired  business  man, 
resides  in  Knoxville,  Iowa;  and  John  Michael 
makes  his  home  at  Roaring  Creek,  Montour 
County,  Pa. 

In  boyhood  our  subject  was  given  fair  school- 
ing advantages.  At  the  age  of  sixteen  he  began 
to  learn  the  carpenter's  trade  with  his  oldest 
brother  at  Plymouth,  Luzerne  County,  Pa.,  and 
at  the  close  of  two  years  of  apprenticeship  he 
began  to  get  journeyman's  wages.  When  only 
nineteen,  April  23,  1854,  he  married  Miss  Sarah 
Barney,  who  was  born  in  Plymouth,  Luzerne 
County  Pa.,  a  daughter  of  Henry  and  Susan 
(Keller)  Barney.  November  6,  1856,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Manhart  started  for  Iowa  and  arriving  in 
Marion  County,  settled  in  Marysville,  where  he 
commenced  to  work  at  his  trade.  In  the  spring 
of  i860  he  drove  through  to  Colorado  with  an 
ox-team,  in  company  with  a  party  of  emigrants, 
spending  forty-five  days  on  the  road.  In  Park 
County  he  engaged  in  various  pursuits,  mining, 
prospecting,  working  at  his  trade,  and  during 
one  season  carrying  mail  once  a  week  from  Buck- 
skin to  Montgomery,  Park  County.  He  came  to 
his  present  place  in  1866  and  bought  a  claim  of 
one  hundred  and  twenty  acres,  to  which  he  added. 


by  pre-emption  and  homesteading,  as  well  as 
purchase,  until  he  acquired  his  present  acreage. 
The  log  cabin  in  which  he  first  made  his  home  is 
still  standing.  Since  1883  he  has  made  his  home 
in  a  substantial  frame  residence.  At  one  time  he 
had  two  hundred  head  of  cattle,  but  since  the 
range  has  become  limited,  he  has  reduced  the 
number  to  one  hundred  and  fifty. 

In  the  fall  of  1868  the  neighborhood  in  which 
Mr.  Manhart  lived  was  disturbed  by  the  Indians. 
In  the  afternoon  word  was  received  that  the 
Indians  were  coming.  At  nightfall  Mr.  Man- 
hart loaded  his  wife  and  children  into  a  wagon 
and  drove  to  Denver,  where  they  remained 
during  the  winter,  Mr.  Manhart  and  his  hired 
help  staying  on  the  ranch.  They  lost  consider- 
able in  the  line  of  clothing,  provisions  and  stock, 
on  account  of  the  Indians,  and  were  obliged  to 
guard  their  possessions  and  do  their  work  with 
arms  always  within  reach. 

Of  the  children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Manhart  we 
note  the  following:  George  W.,  who  was  born  at 
Plymouth,  Luzerne  County,  Pa.,  is  engaged  in 
the  mercantile  business  at  Sedalia,  his  sketch 
appearing  elsewhere;  John  F.,  who  was  born  in 
Marysville,  Marion  County,  Iowa,  died  in  Colo- 
rado March  6,  1885,  his  death  being  the  result  of 
having  been  accidentally  thrown  from  a  horse; 
Alice  Susan,  who  was  born  in  Park  County, 
Colo. ,  married  Arthur  H.  White,  and  lives  near 
Sedalia;  Clara  B. ,  who  was  born  in  Douglas 
County,  is  the  wife  of  William  O'Brien,  living 
near  Williamsburg,  El  Paso  County,  Colo. ;  they 
have  five  children;  Henry  P.  was  born  on  the 
home  farm  and  still  resides  here;  October  26, 
1898,  he  married  Mary  A.  Lowell,  of  Sedalia,  a 
daughter  of  Charles  and  Lydia  E.  (Bowman) 
Lowell;  Anna  C,  Mrs.  William  Burke,  lives  in 
El  Paso  County  and  has  one  child;  Alphonso  is 
at  home;  and  Frances  C.  married  Matthew 
Rogers,  of  Eldora,  Colo. 

Although  his  father  was  a  Democrat,  our  sub- 
ject became  a  Republican.  He  did  not  vote  at  a 
presidential  election  until  1876,  when  he  cast  his 
ballot  for.R.  B.  Hayes.  He  was  elected  sheriff 
in  1874,  upon  the  organization  of  Douglas  County, 
and  served  until  the  fall  of  1875,  being  the  first 
elected  after  the  division  of  the  county.  In  Park 
County  he  served  as  a  constable,  and  also  held 
the  ofiice  in  Douglas  County  both  before  and 
after  he  served  as  sheriff.  During  the  administra- 


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tion  of  President  Hayes  Mr.  Manhart  held  the 
ofiSce  of  postmaster  at  Sedalia.  For  twenty-five 
years  he  has  served  as  a  school  director.  Through 
his  assistance  the  schools  of  his  section  have  been 
promoted  and  the  system  of  teaching  advanced. 
He  is  a  friend  of  the  public  school  system  and 
gave  his  children  the  best  advantages  possible, 
not  only  in  local  schools,  but  also  in  those  of 
Denver.  Though  reared  in  the  Lutheran  Church, 
he  supports  the  Episcopal  Church  and  assisted  in 
building  St.  Philip's  Church  near  his  home.  In 
1872  he  became  identified  with  Weston  Lodge 
No.  22,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  at  Littleton,  with  which 
he  has  since  been  connected.  He  is  also  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Association  of  Colorado  Pioneers  and 
Plum  Creek  Camp  No.  226,  Woodmen  of  the 
World.  As  a  citizen  he  is  progressive  and  public- 
spirited,  and  justly  occupies  a  position  among  the 
most  prominent  and  influential  men  of  his  county. 


30HN  NICHOLLS,  Sr.,  has  held  a  number 
of  important  public  positions,  among  them 
those  of  sheriff  and  commissioner  of  Jefferson 
County,  chairman  of  the  county  central  com- 
mittee, mayor  of  Golden,  and  is  at  present  a  justice 
of  the  peace  for  Jefferson  County  and  a  member 
of  the  state  silver  Republican  committee.  He  re- 
sides in  Golden  and  has  the  distinction  of  occupy- 
ing the  first  house  built  here,  a  building  con- 
structed of  logs,  which  has  been  thoroughly 
remodeled  so  as  to  give  it  a  modern  appearance. 
Possessing  considerable  inventive  genius,  he  has 
invented,  among  other  things,  a  number  of  im- 
provements for  mining  carriages,  and  an  incuba- 
tor, which  he  has  manufactured  under  the  name 
of  the  Atlantic  incubator,  also  a  spring  seat  for 
the  use  of  engineers  and  firemen  on  locomotives. 
Mr.  Nicholls  was  born  in  Cardiganshire, 
Wales,  July  16,. 1842,  the  next  to  the  oldest  of 
his  father's  twenty-eight  children.  He  has  a 
sister,  Mrs.  Spear,  in  Blackhawk,  Colo.;  a 
brother,  William,  in  Denver,  and  another  sister, 
Mrs.  Emma  Triscot,  in  New  Jersey.  His  father, 
John,  was  the  son  of  Samuel  Nicholls,  who  en- 
gaged in  mining  in  Wales  for  Taylor  &  Co. ,  of 
London.  He  was  born  in  Devonshire,  England, 
but  during  most  of  his  life  was  superintendent  of 
mines  in  Wales,  from  there  returning  to  Devon- 
shire, then  going  back  to  Wales  he  subsequently 
died  there  at  the  age  of  fifty-six,   in    1876.     His 


first  wife,  our  subject's  mother,  was  Mary  Ann 
Colmer,  a  native  of  Devonshire  and  daughter  of 
Thomas  Colmer,  a  raining  engineer  of  England. 
She  died  in  England  at  the  age  of  thirtj'-eight. 

When  two  years  of  age  our  subject  was  taken 
to  England  and  at  the  age  of  eight  he  began  to 
assist  his  father  in  the  mines  of  Devonshire. 
After  some  years  of  experience  he  became  a 
practical  miner  in  tin,  copper  and  lead  mines. 
In  1859  he  went  to  Carmarthaenshire,  Wales, 
where  he  worked  in  the  Vale  of  Towan  lead  mine. 
A  year  later  he  went  to  the  Cardiganshire  lead 
mines,  where  he  was  employed  as  timberman  for 
some  years.  In  1865  he  took  passage  on  the 
steamer  "Marathon"  at  Liverpool,  and  after  a 
voyage  of  sixteen  and  one-half  days  landed  in 
New  York  City,  from  .which  place  he  went  to 
Wilkesbarre,  Pa.  He  secured  work  in  the 
mines  of  Luzerne  County,  and  for  eight  years 
was  foreman  of  the  Lehigh  Valley  Coal  Company 
in  the  Henry  and  Prospect  mines.  This  position 
he  resigned  in  1873,  on  coming  to  Colorado.  He 
arrived  in  Golden  on  Sunday  morning,  April  6, 
1873,  and  has  since  considered  this  place  his 
home.  He  leased  one  mine  and  opened  several 
others  near  Golden,  and  for  some  years  engaged 
in  mining  coal,  which  he  shipped  to  Denver  and 
to  Gilpin  and  Clear  Creek  Counties,  also  supply- 
ing railroads  on  contract.  He  is  the  only  man 
who  ever  worked  the  coal  mines  here  successfully. 
In  1885  he  sold  out  to  a  Philadelphia  company, 
and  was  superintendent  of  coal  mines  at  Tindale 
for  years  for  a  London  company.  In  1880  he 
started  a  boot  and  shoe  store,  which  he  has  since 
conducted,  in  addition  to  his  work  in  the  mines. 
He  is  president  and  a  director  of  the  Golden 
Opera  House  Company,  which  conducts  the 
opera  house  here. 

The  first  marriage  of  Mr.  Nicholls  united  him 
with  Margaret  Edwards,  who  was  bcrrn,  reared 
and  married  in  Wales,  and  died  in  Golden.  Of 
the  children  born  of  this  union  three  are  living: 
Mary  A.,  Mrs.  Preston, of  Elizabethtown,N.  Mex. ; 
John,  Jr.,  who  is  in  the  tobacco  and  cigars  busi- 
ness at  Golden;  and  Emma,  who  is  in  New 
Mexico.  The  present  wife  of  Mr.  Nicholls  was 
Clara  York,  a  native  of  Pennsylvania,  and  three 
children  have  been  born  unto  them:  Foster 
George,  Clarence  Silver  and  Stella  May. 

During-  the  early  days  of  his  residence  here, 
Mr.  Nicholls  was  appointed  night  marshal  and 


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deputy  sheriff,  and  the  latter  office  he  held  for 
two  terms.  In  1880  he  was  elected  county  com- 
missioner, and  served  from  January,  1 88 1,  until 
1884,  being  chairman  of  the  board  the  last  year 
of  his  service.  In  the  fall  of  1883  he  was  elected 
sheriff  on  the  Republican  ticket  by  a  good  ma- 
jority and  took  the  oath  of  office  in  January,  1884, 
for  a  term  of  two  years.  At  the  expiration  of  the 
time  he  was  re-elected,  serving  until  1888.  Since 
then  he  has  served  for  two  terms  as  mayor  of 
Golden  and  has  been  a  member  of  the  board  of 
aldermen  for  two  terms.  He  is  a  firm  friend  of 
the  silver  cause  and  adheres  to  the  silver  wing  of 
the  Republican  party.  Fraternally  he  is  con- 
nected with  Golden  Lodge  No.  10,  A.  F.  &  A.  M. , 
in  which  he  was  made  a  mason;  the  Knights  of 
Pythias,  in  which  order  he  is  past  chancellor; 
and  the  Odd  Fellows'  lodge,  in  which  he  is  past 
grand  and  which  he  has  represented  in  the  grand 
lodge;  he  is  also  a  member  of  the  encampment. 


Q  ENJAMIN  QUICK,  of  Perry  Park,  Doug- 
r?\  las  County,  is  the  owner  of  twenty-four 
[^  hundred  acres  of  land,  nearly  all  of  which 
lies  in  one  body.  He  settled  here  in  the  spring 
of  1861  and  built  a  log  liouse,  which  is  now  used 
for  a  barn.  In  1867  he  built  a  better  house,  which 
is  still  used  for  a  dwelling,  and  in  1885,  from  rock 
on  his  farm,  he  built  his  present  substantial  resi- 
dence. Of  the  same  rock  he  also  built  a  stone 
fence  around  his  yard.  The  land  is  splendidly 
irrigated,  and  is  furnished  with  a  large  reservoir, 
built  at  a  cost  of  $3,000.  On  the  place  are  about 
two  hundred  head  of  cattle  and  twenty  horses. 

Born  in  Holmes  County,  Ohio,  in  December, 
1828,  our  subject  is  a  son  of  Benjamin  and  Clar- 
issa (Priest)  Quick.  His  father,  who  was  both 
a  farmer  and  wagon-maker,  was  born  in  Pennsyl- 
vania, whence  in  an  early  day  he  removed  to  Ohio 
and  there  married.  He  experienced  all  the  hard- 
ships incident  to  frontier  life  among  Indians  who 
were  unfriendly.  When  his  son,  our  subject, 
was  a  child,  he  removed  to  Richland  County,  and 
later  settled  in  Ashland  County.  His  death  oc- 
curred in  1834  and  his  wife  passed  away  eight 
years  previous  to  his  own  demise. 

When  only  ten  our  subject,  at  his  father's 
death,  began  to  make  his  own  way  in  the  world. 
At  sixteen  he  commenced  to  learn  the  carpenter's 
trade,  at  which  he  served  an  apprenticeship  of 
five  years  without  wages.     During  that  time  his 


employer,  who  had  decided  to  move  to  Missouri, 
asked  him  if  he  would  go  also.  His  reply  was 
characteristic  of  him.  He  said  he  had  started 
out  to  learn  the  trade  and  was  determined  to  do 
so,  and  was  of  course  perfectly  willing  to  accom- 
pany his  master  on  the  trip.  He  finished  his 
trade  in  Johnson  County,  Mo.,  after  which  he 
began  contracting  and  was  enabled  to  earn  money. 
He  had  left  his  brother,  Cornelius,  back  in  Ohio, 
and  in  1849  an  arrangement  was  made  that  the 
latter  should  come  to  Missouri,  bringing  with 
him  his  part  of  the  estate,  $800,  as  well  as  his 
brother's, which  amounted  to  the  same.  Cornelius 
started,  but  while  on  his  way  was  robbed  of  all 
he  had  and  reached  Johnson  County  penniless. 
However,  Benjamin  had  saved  some  money,  and 
he  at  once  invested  it  in  the  purchase  of  an  outfit 
for  the  trip  across  the  mountains  to  California. 
With  two  other  men  and  five  yoke  of  oxen  and 
one  wagon,  they  started.  When  they  reached 
Steamboat  Springs,  Colo.,  the  brothers,  conclud- 
ing that  their  mode  of  travel  was  too  slow,  took 
their  packs  on  their  backs  and,  leaving  the  others 
to  follow  with  the  oxen,  they  started  ahead  on 
foot.  Their  packs  were  so  heavy  that  they  left  a 
part  of  their  contents  by  the  wayside,  and  this 
their  partners  picked  up.  They  carried  no  bed- 
ding, but  slept  on  the  ground,  even  when  the 
weather  was  cold  and  the  earth  frozen.  During 
the  last  week  of  their  journey  they  walked 
seventy-five  miles  a  day.  They  reached  their 
destination,  Hangtown,  Cal.,  two  months  before 
their  partners  arrived  with  the  wagon,  and  mean- 
time had  made  enough  to  pay  for  the  entire  out- 
fit. They  were  fortunate  as  gold-diggers,  and 
discovered  the  Shasta  mines.  However,  provi- 
sions were  exceedingly  high.  Salt  was  so  scarce 
that  they  weighed  gold  against  salt,  ounce  for 
ounce.  Provisions  were  $3  per  pound.  They 
dug  out  more  gold  than  they  could  carry;  but  ex- 
penses were  so  great  that  there  was  but  very  little 
profit.  In  1852  they  returned,  on  mules,  to  John- 
son County,  Mo.,  and  settled  in  Missouri,  Corne- 
lius in  Henry  County  and  Benjamin  in  Johnson. 
The  brother  spent  his  remaining  years  in  Henry 
County,  where  he  has  a  son,  Morris,  one  of  the 
wealthiest  farmers  in  that  section. 

While  in  Johnson  County  our  subject  married 
Miss  Mary  E.,  daughter  of  Francis  R.  and  Sarah 
(Wright)  Jackson,  of  Johnson  County.  She  was 
born  in  Ray  County,  Mo.,  in  1858.     Having  sold 


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his  farm,  Mr.  Quick  took  his  family  behind  a 
good  team,  and  with  provisions  suflScient  for  two 
years,  started  for  Colorado,  bringing  with  him  a 
drove  of  fifty  cattle.  One  day,  in  Kansas,  he 
met  sixty  wagons  returning  east,  whose  drivers 
gave  such  discouraging  reports  of  Colorado  that 
he  decided  it  would  be  best  to  return  to  his  old 
home.  Accordingly  he  sold  out  to  his  wife's 
brother,  who  now  lives  in  Holden  City,  Mo.  He 
and  his  wife  returned  to  Missouri  and  shortly 
afterward  drove  through  to  Texas,  where  they 
spent  the  winter.  However,  they  received  such 
glowing  reports  of  Colorado  from  Mr.  Jackson 
that,  for  the  second  time,  they  determined  to 
move  there.  In  i860  they  drove  through  with  a 
span  of  mules  and  at  first  they  lived  in  an  old 
cabin,  six  miles  below  his  present  place  of  resi- 
dence. In  the  spring  of  the  next  year  they  set- 
tled upon  their  present  homestead.  Of  their  chil- 
dren, we  mention  the  following:  Sarah  Frances 
died  in  Missouri ;  Frank  died  in  Colorado  when 
eight  years  of  age;  Amelia  died  in  Denver  at  six 
years;  Susan  passed  away  when  two  years  old. 
Hattie  married  James  Skelton,  of  Arapahoe 
County,  by  whom  she  had  one  child,  Benjamin, 
at  present  with  his  grandparents;  later  she  became 
the  wife  of  William  Stumpf,  of  Pueblo,  Colo. ; 
Clara  married  John  Cantril  and  died,  leaving  two 
children;  Mary  is  the  wife  of  Thomas  Evans,  of 
Denver,  and  has  two  children;  Laura,  Mrs.  Mil- 
ton Robinson,  has  one  child. 

Mr.  Quick  voted  the  Republican  ticket  until 
1896,  since  which  time  he  has  been  a  silver  sup- 
porter. He  voted  for  John  C.  Fremont  and  came 
nearly  being  mobbed  for  so  doing.  He  has  never 
cared  for  office  and  has  always  refused  ofiiers  of 
nomination  for  public  positions. 


I  EWIS  B.  FRANCE.  This  sterling  citizen  of 
I  C  Denver,  who  has  won  for  himself  a  high 
12  place  in  the  legal  profession,  is  no  less  noted 
as  an  author,  his  most  widely  known  work  being 
the  novel  "Over  the  Old  Trail,"  which  received 
deserved  honorable  mention  in  a  long  article  or 
review  published  in  the  "Arena"  in  October, 
1895.  (See  quotation  at  close  of  this  sketch.) 
Mr.  France  was  the  first  prosecuting  attorney  of 
Arapahoe  County,  filling  the  position  with  ability 
for  a  period  of  four  years,  and  was  the  reporter  of 
the  supreme  court  of  this  state  from  the  organ- 


ization of  the  same  until,  on  account  of  the  pres- 
sure of  a  multitude  of  other  duties,  he  resigned 
in  1877.  He  has  given  his  attention  to  the  gen- 
eral practice  of  law  and  has  built  up  a  very  large 
and  representative  patronage. 

The  parents  of  the  above-named  gentleman 
were  Lewis  H.  and  Mary  A.  (Talbott)  France. 
The  father  died  when  our  subject  was  a  lad  of  about 
fifteen  and  he  was  thenceforth  dependent  upon 
his  own  resources.  He  was  born  in  Washing- 
ton, D.  C,  August  8,  1833.  He  made  rapid 
progress  in  his  studies,  both  in  private  schools 
and  in  Georgetown  College,  in  which  institution 
he  had  spent  nearly  three  years  at  the  time  of  his 
father's  death.  He  was  then  obliged  to  take  up 
the  burdens  of  life,  his  initial  experience  at  earn- 
ing a  competence  being  as  a  clerk  in  a  mercan- 
tile establishment.  In  1847  he  went  to  Cincin- 
nati, Ohio,  and,  having  a  desire  to  become  a 
journalist,  entered  a  printing-office,  where  he 
served  a  regular  apprenticeship  as  a  type-setter 
for  three  and  a-half  years.  He  was  then  in 
the  employ  of  Morgan  &  Sons,  at  the  munifi- 
cent salary  of  $2.50  per  week  at  first  and 
J57  per  week  toward  the  close  of  his  apprentice- 
ship. The  wages  last  mentioned  were  supposed 
to  compensate  him  for  the  work  of  press  fore- 
man. This  task  demanded  ability,  and  would 
certainly  command  two  or  three  times  the 
remuneration  nowadays.  The  four  succeeding 
years  he  worked  as  a  journeyman  in  various  of- 
fices in  the  same  city.  Then,  going  to  St.  Louis, 
he  was  similarly  employed,  sometimes  as  a  com- 
positor, sometimes  as  a  foreman,  up  to  June, 
1856,  his  wages  ranging  from  $15  to  $30  a 
week. 

In  the  summer  of  1856  Mr.  France  was  offered 
a  position  as  foreman  on  the  Daily  Columbian, 
of  Cincinnati,  and,  having  accepted  the  place, 
was  promoted  at  the  end  of  three  weeks  to  the 
post  of  city  editor,  his  associates  being  Albert  D. 
Richardson  and  Junius  Henri  Browne.  The 
company  owning  this  journal  were  forced  to  sus- 
pend business  within  a  few  months,  and  thus  Mr. 
France  was  once  more  obliged  to  seek  employ- 
ment as  a  journeyman.  He  had,  however,  some 
time  before  taken  up  the  study  of  law,  as  the 
prospects  in  the  field  of  journalism  were  so  un- 
promising, and  the  following  spring  he  went  to 
Chicago  and  entered  the  law  office  of  Joseph  P. 
Clarkson  and  Lambert  Tree.     He  remained  with 


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that  firm  until  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1858, 
meantime  spending  a  portion  of  his  evenings  in 
setting  type  in  order  that  he  might  meet  his  nec- 
essary expenses.  He  opened  an  office  in  Chicago, 
but  a  few  months  later  removed  to  Elgin,  111., 
where  he  was  associated  with  the  Hon.  Charles 
H.  Mo"rgan  about  a  year.  At  length,  as  he  was 
not  entirely  satisfied  with  his  future  prospects,  he 
concluded  to  take  the  advice  of  Horace  Greeley 
and  "Go  West."  Coming  to  Denver  in  186 1,  he 
found  it  a  town  of  about  twenty -five  hundred  in- 
habitants. In  the  intervening  years  he  has  wit- 
nessed the  development  of  the  place  into  the 
beautiful,  enterprising  city  that  it  is  to-day. 

In  1863  Mr.  France  married  Miss  Rowena 
Hewitt,  who  was  born  in  Cayuga  County,  N.  Y. , 
and  with  whom  he  had  become  acquainted  dur- 
ing his  residence  in  Elgin,  111.  She  was  a  lady 
who  was  beloved  by  all  who  came  within  the 
sphere  of  her  influence.  Death  entered  the 
happy  home  of  the  family  April  19,  1898,  and 
claimed  the  beloved  wife  and  mother.  She  left 
two  children  to  mourn  the  irreparable  loss  of  an 
always  kind  and  tenderly  affectionate  parent. 
Talbott  H.,  the  son,  who  is  living  at  home,  was 
educated  at  the  University  of  Michigan  at  Ann 
Arbor,  and  is  now  interested  in  mining  invest- 
ments in  this  state.  Elizabeth,  the  only  daugh- 
ter, is  a  talented  young  lady,  her  father's  con- 
stant companion,  comforter  and  advisor. 

Though  his  early  training  was  of  a  Democratic 
tendency,  and  his  first  vote  was  cast  for  Millard 
Fillmore,  Mr.  France  voted  for  Lincoln  in  i860, 
and  has  since  been  loyal  to  the  Republican  party. 
His  father  was  assistant  postmaster-general  dur- 
ing Jackson's  administration.  In  Elgin,  111.,  Mr. 
France  became  a  member  of  the  Masonic  frater- 
nity, being  then  identified  with  Elgin  Lodge  No. 
117,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  and  is  now  affiliated  with 
Union  Lodge  No.  7,  of  Denver.  He  became  a 
Royal  Arch  Mason  in  Fox  River  Chapter  of  St. 
Charles,  111.,  and  is  now  a  member  of  Denver 
Chapter  No.  2,  R.  A.  M..  Though  reared  in  the 
faith  of  the  Baptist  Church,  he  is  now  a  member 
of  the  Unitarian  Church  here,  which  he  helped 
to  organize. 

The  old  journalistic  spirit  having  revived  in 
the  breast  of  Mr.  France  of  late  years  he  has 
wielded  the  pen  to  good  purpose.  The  following 
are  some  of  his  works  which  have  been  published 
in  Denver  by  Chain,  Hardy  &  Co. :     "With  Rod 


and  Line  in  Colorado  Waters";  "Mountain  Trails 
and  Parks  of  Colorado" ;  "Mr.  Dide;  His  Vaca- 
tion in  Colorado."  The  able  critic,  B.  O. 
Flower,  thus  speaks  of  "Over  the  Old  Trail,"  in 
the  "Arena": 

"The  author  of 'Over  the  Old  Trail'  has  en- 
riched our  literature  by  a  graphic  picture  of  old- 
time  mining  life  in  Colorado,  written  with  strik- 
ing fidelity  to  the  realities  of  those  stirring, 
rugged  and  unique  times,  but  exhibiting  such 
fine  artistic  feeling  that  the  novel  is  thoroughly 
clean,  charming,  inspiring,  wholesome  and  subtly 
ennobling.  The  life  described  by  this  gifted  au- 
thor, in  the  hand  of  a  nature  less  endowed  with 
true  artistic  impulses  and  high  ideals,  without 
being  one  whit  truer  to  the  realities,  would  have 
been  at  times  repulsive,  if  not  revolting,  yet  from 
the  first  to  the  last,  throughout  the  lights  and 
shadows,  the  native  humor  and  the  deep  trag- 
edies, the  genuine  pathos  and  the  heart- sickening 
criminality,  which  form  the  web  and  woof  of  the 
story,  a  fine,  pure  atmosphere  pervades  the 
whole,  while  the  delicate  hand  of  an  artist  relieves 
the  story,  even  in  its  gloomiest  pages,  from  all 
that  could  offend  any  wholesome  imagination. 
The  evident  purpose  of  Mr.  France  has  been 
to  write  a  good  story,  at  once  true  to  life, 
artistic  and  so  interesting  as  to  hold  the  attention 
of  all  lovers  of  good  literature  from  cover  to 
cover,  and  in  these  respects  he  has  succeeded  to 
an  eminent  degree.  But  he  has  done  more  than 
this;  without  at  any  time  becoming  a  preacher, 
or  using  the  framework  of  fiction  to  emphasize 
some  great  truth,  our  author  has  succeeded  in 
imparting  a  high  and  ennobling  atmosphere  to  his 
work,  which  cannot  fail  to  be  helpful  to  all  read, 
ers  and  especially  valuable  to  the  young,  while 
he  has  also,  in  a  delightful,  artless  manner,  inter- 
woven much  of  the  finest  new  thought  of  the 
present  day,  in  a  way  that  must  prove  suggestive. 
Thus  the  story,  while  at  no  time  rendered  tedi- 
ous by  moralizing,  contains  in  bright-spirited 
conversations,  sound  observations  on  the  double 
standard  of  morals,  the  rights  of  women,  and 
many  of  the  great  issues  now  up  for  adjustment. 
In  the  character  of  Dolly,  the  heroine,  we  have  a 
noble  pen-picture  of  the  new  woman  with  her 
fine  new  ideals  and  big  heart  aflame  with  love, 
balanced  and  held  in  poise  by  a  vigorous  brain 
which  does  great  credit  to  the  discriminating 
power  of  the   author.     The  new  woman  is  here 


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presented,  not  as  the  vicious  sensationalists  de- 
light to  caricature  her,  but  as  all  true  men  and 
women  of  the  new  time  see  and  know  her.  Dolly 
is  a  noble  creation,  a  fine  representative  of  the 
type  of  oncoming  womanhood,  which  is  to  do  so 
much  toward  redeeming  the  world;  she  is  at 
once  pure-minded,  brave,  strong  of  mind  and 
warm  of  heart,  impulsive  and  as  free  from  pru- 
dery as  she  is  a  stranger  to  low  ideals;  and  though 
for  a  time  she  travels  a  perilous  pathway,  to  a 
certain  degree  under  the  psychological  influence 
of  one  of  that  numerous  class  who  seem  framed  to 
win  the  hearts  of  the  noblest,  while  their  own 
hearts  are  sadly  wanting  in  moral  rectitude,  the 
danger  is  averted  by  an  ignoble  proposal  trom 
her  lover,  which  opens  her  eyes  and  closes  her 
heart  to  his  entreaties.  The  character  of  Dolly  is 
especially  interesting  as  being  a  true  characteriza- 
tion of  the  new  woman  whom  Tennyson  has  so 
aptly  described  in  his  prophetic  picture  of  the 
coming  dawn  in  'The  Princess' : 
'The  woman's  cause  is  man's;  they  rise  or  sink 
Together,  dwarfed  or  godlike,  bond  or  free. 
Woman  is  not  undeveloped  man,  but  diverse; 

*      *      *      *     Like  in  difference.     *    *    *      * 
Yet  in  the  long  years  liker  must  they  grow; 
The  man  be  more  of  woman,  she  of  man; 
He  gain  in  sweetness  and  in  moral  height. 
Nor  lose  the  wrestling  thews  that  throw  the  world; 
She  mental  breadth,  nor  fail  in  childlike  care; 
More  as  the  double-natured  poet  each.     *    *    *    * 
Then  comes  the  statelier  Eden  back  to  man ; 
Then  comes  the  world's  great  bridals,  chaste  and  calm; 
Then  springs  the  crowning  race  of  humankind.'  " 


RICHARD  BROAD,  Jr.,  chairman  of  the 
board  of  commissioners  of  Jefferson  County, 
and  chairman  of  the  state  silver  Republican 
central  committee,  is  the  proprietor  of  a  mer- 
cantile establishment  on  Washington  avenue. 
Golden.  He  first  became  connected  with  the 
business  October  i,  1887,  when  the  co-partner- 
ship of  Hammond  &  Broad  was  formed,  but  in 
1893,  upon  his  election  as  county  commissioner,  he 
sold  out  his  interest  to  Mr.  Hammond  and  turned 
his  attention  to  the  real-estate  business.  How- 
ever, two  years  later  he  bought  out  his  former 
partner  and  has  since  continued  alone,  carrying 
on  a  large  trade  among  the  people  of  Golden  and 
surrounding  country.  In  the  northern  peninsula 
of  Michigan,  at  Superior  mine,  the  subject  of  this 
sketch  was  born  November  13,  1 863 .     His  father, 


Richard  Broad,  Sr. ,  a  native  of  England,  re- 
turned to  that  country  with  his  family  in  1866  and 
remained  until  1869,  when  he  again  cro-ssed  the 
ocean,  settling  in  Pennsylvania.  Soon,  however, 
he  brought  the  family  to  Colorado,  where  he  en- 
gaged in  mining  in  the  Gilpin  district.  In  1870 
he  settled  upon  a  farm  on  Ralston  Creek,  in 
Jefierson  County,  where  he  remained  until  he  re- 
tired from  active  labors.  He  now  lives  in  Golden 
and  is  about  sixty-five  years  of  age.  His  wife, 
was  Mary  Bunney,  a  native  of  England  and  the 
daughter  of  Robert  Bunney,  who  was  a  machinist 
in  his  native  land,  but  emigrated  from  there  to 
America  and  died  in  Central  City,  Colo. 

There  are  five  children  in  the  family  of  Richard 
and  Mary  Broad,  and  of  these  Richard,  Jr.,  is 
the  oldest.  He  was  quite  small  when  his  parents 
returned  to  England  and  has  little  recollection  of 
the  visit  there.  When  he  was  six  the  family 
settled  in  Colorado,  in  which  state  he  has  since 
made  his  home.  From  187 1  to  1885  he  spent  his 
time  principally  in  assisting  in  the  cultivation  of 
the  farm  on  Ralston  Creek,  but  in  the  latter  year 
he  came  to  Golden  and  secured  employment  in  the 
State  Industrial  School,  where  he  remained  until 
he  embarked  in  business  in  1887,  being  assistant 
superintendent  of  the  school  in  1886. 

In  Arvada,  Colo.,  Mr.  Broad  married  Sarah 
Churches,  who  was  born  in  Holton,  Mich. 
They  are  the  parents  of  three  children,  George, 
Grace  and  Margery.  In  political  faith  Mr.  Broad 
is  a  stanch  friend  of  protection  of  home  industries 
and  equally  stanch  in  his  advocacy  of  the  silver 
cause.  He  was  a  member  of  the  board  of  alder- 
men of  Golden  in  1890-91.  In  the  fall  of  1892 
he  was  elected  on  the  Republican  ticket  as  a 
county  commissioner  and  took  the  oath  of  office 
in  January,  1893.  He  was  re-elected  in  1895  to 
serve  until  January,  1899.  In  1895  and  again  in 
1898  he  was  chosen  chairman  of  the  board.  On 
the  formation  of  the  state  silver  Republican  cen- 
tral committee,  in  1896,  he  was  chosen  its  chair- 
man, which  position  he  has  since  held,  meantime 
having  had  charge  of  two  campaigns.  He  sup- 
ported Governor  Adams  and  the  rest  of  his  ticket 
in  1896,  and  the  following  year  the  governor  ap- 
pointed him  a  member  of  the  board  of  trustees  for 
the  State  Normal  School  at  Greeley,  for  a  term 
of  six  years.  At  this  writing  he  is  also  secretary 
of  the  school  board  of  Golden.  Fraternally  he 
is  past  chancellor    of   Golden  Eodge   No.    10, 


HON.  C.  S.  THOMAS. 


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K.  of  P.  He  is  one  of  the  most  enterprising  and 
popular  young  men  of  Jefferson  County  and  also 
has  a  host  of  friends  in  other  parts  of  the  state. 


HON.  CHARLES  SPALDING  THOMAS, 
governor-elect  of  Colorado,  has  for  years 
held  a  position  of  prominence  among  the 
professional  and  public  men  of  Denver,  and,  in- 
deed, of  the  entire  state  of  Colorado.  Since  he 
came  west  in  the  fall  of  187 1  with  limited  means 
and  little  influence  he  has  gained  a  place  as  one 
of  the  eminent  and  successful  lawyers  of  his  city, 
his  success  being  due  to  his  untiring  industry, 
business  ability  and  keen  discrimination  of  men 
and  things.  Not  alone  in  his  profession,  but  in 
politics  as  well,  he  has  become  widely  known. 
He  is  recognized  as  one  of  the  leading  Democrats 
of  thestate.  From  1884  to  1896  he  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Colorado  Democratic  national  commit- 
tee; from  1889  until  1890  held  the  chairmanship 
of  the  state  central  committee;  besides  which  he 
has  in  many  ways  promoted  actively  the  welfare 
of  his  party . 

Though  of  southern  birth  (born  inDarien,  Ga., 
December  6,  1849,)  the  subject  of  this  review  is 
of  northern  parentage  and  descent.  His  father, 
William  B.  Thomas,  was  born  in  Connecticut 
and  removed  from  there  to  Georgia.  His  wife 
was  Caroline  B.  Wheeler,  daughter  of  Amos  H. 
Wheeler,  of  Bridgeport,  Conn.  In  the  village 
of  Macon,  where  his  father  had  removed,  our 
subject  attended  school  and  passed  the  unevent- 
ful years  of  early  youth.  He  can  scarcely  recall 
the  time  when  he  first  formed  the  plan  of  study- 
ing law.  All  of  his  studies  in  youth  were  di- 
rected toward  that  end.  His  first  law  readings 
were  in  the  University  of  Michigan  at  Ann 
Arbor,  and  there  he  continued  in  the  law  de- 
partment until  his  graduation  with  the  class  of 
1871. 

Coming  to  Denver  within  a  few  months  after 
his  graduation,  Mr.  Thomas  entered  the  law 
office  of  Sayre  &  Wright,  then  the  leading  law 
firm  in  the  state.  In  1873  he  formed  a  partner- 
ship with  T.  M.  Patterson,  which  connection 
continued  for  a  year  at  that  time.  Afterward  he 
continued  alone  until  1879,  when  he  again  en- 
tered into  partnership  with  Mr.  Patterson,  with 
whom   he  remained  until   1890.     During  some 


years  of  this  time  he  tnade  his  home  in  Leadville, 
where  he  conducted  the  practice  of  the  firm  at 
that  point.  At  this  writing  he  is  a  member  of 
the  firm  of  Thomas,  Bryant  &  Lee.  While  he 
has  managed  cases  of  all  kinds,  his  specialty  is 
mining  law,  and,  having  made  a  study  of  it,  he 
is  able  to  conduct  successfully  and  skillfully  all 
matters  coming  within  this  department  of  juris- 
prudence. 

Always  stanch  in  his  adherence  to  the  Demo- 
cratic party,  Mr.  Thomas  had  not  been  in  Denver 
long  before  he  began  to  be  actively  identified 
with  political  afifairs.  To  the  information  gained 
by  study  and  observation  he  added  natural  abili- 
ties of  a  high  order,  and  his  influence  was  ap- 
parent in  the  advanced  success  of  his  party.  In 
1875-76  he  served  as  city  attorney.  In  1884  and 
1896  he  was  chosen  as  a  delegate  to  the  Demo- 
cratic national  conventions.  In  September,  1898, 
he  was  chosen  the  nominee  of  the  Teller  silver 
Republicans,  Populists  and  Democrats,  in  their 
respective  conventions,  for  the  office  of  governor, 
and  was  elected  November  8,  1898. 

In  social  relations  Mr.  Thomas  is  connected 
with  the  Athletic  Club  of  Denver,  and  fraternally 
is  a  Knight  of  Pythias.  In  Kalamazoo,  Mich., 
December  29,  1873,  he  married  Miss  Emma, 
daughter  of  Thomas  Fletcher,  a  prominent  citizen 
of  that  place.  Mrs.  Thomas  was  given  the  best 
educational  advantages  when  a  girl,  and  is  a  lady 
possessing  refinement  and  the  highest  culture. 
She  is  an  active  member  of  the  Woman's  Club 
of  Denver.  The  five  children  born  of  her  mar- 
riage are:  Mrs.  William  P.  Malburn,  Edith, 
Charles  S.,  Jr.,  Hubert  F.  and  George  K. 

The  professional  career  of  Mr.  Thomas  proves 
the  individuality  of  his  character  and  its  force. 
He  has  pursued  his  course  in  life  unmoved  by 
those  obstacles  that  often  dauut  and  undismayed 
by  hardships.  With  a  mind  capable  of  grasping 
great  things,  he  has  stored  it  with  information  of 
incalculable  value  to  him  in  his  practice,  and 
this  knowledge  he  uses  in  the  conduct  of  his  cases 
and  the  successful  evolving  of  tangled,  intricate 
technicalities.  Endowed  with  mental  vigor,  he 
is  prompt  in  forming  and  resolute  in  carrying  out 
any  putpose  or  plan  of  action  decided  upon. 
Great  emergencies  would  have  developed  to  their 
utmost  his  large  abilities,  but  even  in  the  ordi- 
nary walks  of  life,  in  the  management  of  cases 
affecting  only  local  interests,  he  has  nevertheless 


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labored  with  such  sagacity  and  skill  that  he  has 
proved  himself  to  be  a  man  of  large  mental 
endowments. 

"Charles  S.  Thomas  has  been  a  public  figure 
of  consequence  in  this  community  and  state  for 
many  years.  In  political  campaigns  he  has  been 
criticised  and  even  denounced,  for  he  is  a  man  of 
strong,  even  profound,  convictions,  who  always 
stands  firmly  for  the  principles  which  he  advo- 
cates. After  all  that  can  be  said  has  been  said 
these  facts  stand  forth  unchallenged.  He  is  a 
man  of  very  unusual  talents.  While  on  the  one 
hand  a  man  of  affairs,  practical,  level-headed  and 
shrewd,  he  is,  on  the  other  hand,  a  hard  student, 
a  wide  reader,  with  a  bent  toward  governmental 
science,  of  which  he  is  a  master.  L,oyal  in  his 
friendships,  square  in  his  business  dealings,  do- 
mestic in  his  tastes,  there  is  no  man  in  Colorado 
who  knows  the  state  from  top  to  bottom  more 
thoroughly,  who  understands  more  clearly  the 
public  questions  which  afifect  it,  or  who,  in  our 
judgment,  will  labor  more  earnestl}^  to  improve 
existing  conditions.  Some  good,  earnest  and 
able  men  have  occupied  the  gubernatorial  chair 
of  this  state,  but  we  risk  nothing  in  saying  that 
Charles  S.  Thomas  is  in  each  and  every  respect 
the  peer  of  the  best  of  them. ' ' 


EAPT.  GEORGE  K.  KIMBALL,  of  Golden, 
arrived  in  Denver  April  28,  i860,  and  has 
since  made  his  home  in  Colorado.  He  is  a 
member  of  a  family  that  anciently  resided  in 
County  Cumberland,  England,  and  took  its  name 
from  a  point  on  the  Scottish  borders.  The  first 
representative  of  the  family  in  America  was 
Richard  Kemball,  who  came  to  this  country  from 
Suffolk,  England.  His  son,  John,  changed  the 
spelling  of  the  name  to  its  present  form,  and  sub- 
sequent generations  adhered  to  this  spelling. 
Richard,  son  of  John,  had  a  son,  Richard,  Jr., 
the  father  of  Aaron,  who  served  in  the  Revo- 
lution. From  him  the  line  of  descent  is  traced 
through  Leonard  to  Daniel  Kimball,  the  captain's 
father. 

It  was  in  1634  that  Richard  Kemball,  a  native 
of  Ipswich,  England,  took  passage  on  the  ship 
"Elizabeth"  and  sailed  across  the  ocean  to  Amer- 
ica, settling  in  Watertown,  Mass.  John  Kim- 
ball, his  son,  was  born  in  Suffolk  County, 
England,'^  and  settled  in  Ipswich,  Mass.,  where 


he  died  May  6,  1698.  By  his  union  with  Mary 
Bradstreet,  whom  he  married  in  1655,  he  had  a 
son,  Richard,  born  in  1665,  September  22,  in 
Ipswich,  Mass.,  and  died  in  1716,  May  26.  He 
was  a  member  of  a  committee  to  treat  with  the 
Englishmen  and  Indians  concerning  the  title  to 
their  land,  including  the  town  of  Bradford.  By 
his  marriage  to  Lydia  Wells,  of  Ipswich,  he  had 
a  son,  Richard,  born  in  that  place  August  17, 
1 69 1,  died  in  1760.  He  was  a  carpenter,  and  re- 
moved from  Ipswich  to  Norwalk,  Conn.,  later 
settling  in  Windham,  Conn.  He  married  Sarah, 
daughter  of  Andrew  and  Mary  (Conant)  Burley. 

Next  in  descent  was  Aaron,  born  in  Norwich, 
Conn.,  February  18,  1729,  and  died  in  Grafton, 
Mass.,  March  20,  1808.  In  1757  he  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  militia  at  Grafton  and  was  one  of  the 
soldiers  who  marched  to  the  relief  of  Fort  Will- 
iam Henry  August  16,  1757.  He  was  captain  of 
a  Grafton  company  that  marched  on  the  Lexing- 
ton alarm  of  the  approach  of  the  British,  April  19, 
1775,  and  served  until  May  15  of  the  same  year. 
On  the  5th  of  April,  1776,  he  was  made  captain 
of  the  Sixth  Worcester  Company,  and  served  in 
the  Revolution.  He  married  Mary  Brooks, 
daughter  of  Noah  and  Sarah  (Willard)  Brooks. 

Their  son,  Leonard,  was  born  in  Grafton, 
Mass.,  June  18,  1772,  and  died  at  Greenwich, 
Mass.,  March  30,  1817.  The  most  of  his  active 
life  was  passed  as  a  farmer  at  Greenwich.  He 
married  Patty  Baird,  of  Worcester,  Mass.  Of 
their  seven  children  the  oldest  was  Daniel,  born 
at  Sutton,  Mass.,  October  31,  1794,  and  died  at 
Hingham,  the  same  state,  June  21,  1874.  Sep- 
tember 28,  1825,  he  married  Louisa,  daughter  of 
Royal  and  Deborah  Keith,  of  Grafton,  the  latter 
a  Miss  Adams  in  maidenhood  and  a  member  of 
the  same  family  as  the  presidents  of  that  name. 
Royal  Keith  was  the  son  of  Simeon  Keith,  Jr., 
a  soldier  in  the  Revolution  and  a  descendant  of 
Scotch  ancestors.  Upon  her  father's  farm  at 
Grafton  Louisa  Keith  was  born  June  15,  1801; 
her  death  occurred  in  Boston  January  20,  1870. 

For  thirteen  years  Daniel  Kimball  transacted 
business  as  a  commission  merchant  in  Charles- 
ton, S.  C,  and  on  his  return  north  he  settled  in 
Boston,  where  he  engaged  in  the  dry-goods  busi- 
ness for  twenty-five  years,  retiring  in  1855.  I" 
1840-41  he  was  a  member  of  the  common  council 
of  Bo.ston.  For  many  years  he  was  a  director  of 
the    North   Bank   and  the  National   Insurance 


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Company.  He  was  largely  interested  in  the 
woolen  factories  at  Fitchburg,  Mass.  In  per- 
sonal character  he  possessed  many  admirable 
traits  and  was  a  man  of  great  moral  worth.  He 
was  the  father  of  eight  children,  viz.:  Daniel, 
who  died  in  Boston  in  1870;  Mrs.  Louisa  Plymp- 
ton,  of  Boston;  George  K. ;  Anna,  Mrs.  Wales, 
of  Boston;  Mrs.  Lavinia  T.  Snow,  of  Boston; 
Herbert  W.,  of  Boston,  great  registrar  of  Massa- 
chusetts for  the  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution; 
Samuel  F.  and  Mary  F. ,  who  died  in  infancy. 

In  Boston,  where  he  was  born  March  26,  1831, 
the  subject  of  this  sketch  received  his  education 
in  a  private  school.  At  the  age  of  seventeen  he 
entered  a  hardware  store  as  clerk,  but  resigned 
the  position  in  1852  and  went  to  New  Orleans, 
where  he  remained  with  an  uncle  for  a  year.  In 
1853  he  went  up  the  Mississippi,  then  crossed  to 
Milwaukee,  Wis. ,  where  he  was  employed  by  a 
hardware  firm  until  1855.  From  that  time  until 
the  fall  of  1859  he  engaged  in  the  furniture  busi- 
ness there.  The  discovery  of  gold  in  Colorado 
caused  him  to  remove  to  this  state.  He  spent 
the  winter  of  1859-60  in  Leavenworth,  and  then, 
with  an  ox-train,  spent  two  months  in  crossing 
the  plains  to  Denver.  He  camped  on  Cherry 
Creek  after  his  arrival  in  Denver,  but  soon  wentiu- 
to  the  Gilpin  district,  where  he  engaged  in  mining 
until  the  fall  of  1861.  The  war  breaking  out,  he 
started  east  to  enlist  in  a  Wisconsin  regiment, 
but  while  on  a  stage  en  route  to  Kansas  City  he 
met  Colonel  Leavenworth,  who  was  going  to 
Washington  to  get  a  recruiting  commission.  The 
colonel  offered  Mr.  Kimball  a  position  as  major 
in  his  regiment,  but  afterward  politics  crept  in 
and  the  appointment  was  never  given. 

Commissioned  first  lieutenant,  our  subject  was 
mustered  in  February  23,  1862,  and  soon  re- 
ceived promotion  to  the  command  of  Company  E, 
Second  Colorado  Volunteers.  Afterward  he 
served  as  acting  assistant  adjutant-general  of  the 
Santa  Fe  route.  Among  the  battles  in  which  he 
took  part  were  those  of  Honey  Springs,  Cabin 
Creek  and  Elk  Creek.  Upon  the  consolidation 
of  the  Second  and  Third  Colorado  Infantry  into 
the  Second  Colorado  Cavalry,  he  being  super- 
numerary was  mustered  out  and  honorably  dis- 
charged at  St.  Louis  in  February,  1864.  After 
his  discharge  he  spent  a  year  in  Boston,  but  in 
1865  returned  to  Colorado  as  superintendent  of 
the  Lode  Star  Mining  Company,  of  Boston,  put- 


ting up  their  mill  and  operating  it  until  1867. 
Afterward  for  a  year  he  was  superintendent  of 
the  Glade  gold  mines  at  AUatoona,  Ga.,  and 
then  came  back  to  Colorado  and  engaged  in 
mining  at  Central  City.  During  1866  he  had  be- 
come interested  in  a  mine  in  Russell  Gulch,  and 
his  son  later  organized  a  company  for  working  it, 
the  Calumet  Gold  Mining  and  Milling  Company, 
of  which  our  subject  is  treasurer,  a  stockholder 
and  director,  and  his  son,  George  K.,  Jr.,  gen- 
eral manager.  In  1870  he  came  to  Golden, 
where  he  was  employed  as  freight  and  passenger 
agent  for  the  Colorado  Central  road  until  1873, 
and  afterward,  for  eleven  years,  from  1873  to 
1884,  he  was  postmaster  of  Golden  under  Presi- 
dents Grant  and  Hayes.  He  was  then  city  clerk 
and  superintendent  of  the  city  water  works  for 
three  years  and  county  commissioner  for  four 
years,  being  chairman  of  the  board  during  two 
years  of  this  time.  For  a  time  he  was  clerk  in 
the  surveyor-general's  office,  but  political  changes 
caused  his  resignation.  He  has  since  given  his 
attention  to  the  oversight  of  his  mining  interests. 

July  2,  1856,  in  Milwaukee,  Wis.,  Captain 
Kimball  married  Miss  Frances  E.  Smith,  daugh- 
ter of  J.  W.  and  Ruth  (Benjamin)  Smith,  of 
Chatham,  N.  Y.,  where  she  was  born.  They  are 
the  parents  of  three  children,  the  eldest  of  whom, 
Louise  Ruth,  married  and  died  in  California, 
leaving  six  children.  The  older  son,  George  K., 
Jr.,  graduated  from  the  School  of  Mines  in  1892 
and  is  now  general  superintendent  of  the  Calumet 
Gold  Mining  and  Milling  Company.  The  younger 
son  also  graduated  from  the  School  of  Mines  in 
1892  and  is  connected  with  the  Calumet  Com- 
pany. Captain  and  Mrs.  Kimball  have  a  com- 
fortable home  on  Second  street,  built  by  himself 
in  1877. 

Politically  a  Republican,  Captain  Kimball  voted 
for  Winfield  S.  Scott  in  1852,  for  John  C.  Fre- 
mont in  1856  and  Abraham  Lincoln  in  i860. 
He  has  been  an  elder  in  the  Golden  Presbyterian 
Church  since  1873.  In  the  state  and  county 
associations  of  pioneers  he  holds  membership. 
He  is  president  of  the  Veteran  Association  of 
Colorado  Troops,  and  is  a  charter  member  and 
past  commander  of  T.  H.  Dodd  Post  No.  3, 
G.  A.  R.  He  was  offered  the  position  of  senior 
vice-commander  of  Colorado,  but  declined  the 
honor.  In  Denver  Lodge  No.  5,  A.  F.  &  A.  M., 
he  was  made  a  Mason,  and  now  holds  member- 


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ship  in  Golden  lyodge  No.  i,  Golden  Chapter 
No.  5,  R.  A.  M.,  Colorado  Commandery  No.  i, 
K.  T.,  of  Denver,  and  El  Jebel  Temple,  N.  M.  S. 
From  September,  1887,  to  September,  1888,  he 
was  grand  master  of  Colorado,  and  he  is  now  past 
deputy  grand  high  priest,  but  declined  the  offered 
position  of  grand  high  priest. 


EHRISTIAN  A.  BENNETT.  Whatever  else 
may  be  said  of  the  legal  fraternity,  it  cannot 
be  denied  that  members  of  the  bar  have 
been  more  prominent  actors  in  public  affairs  than 
any  other  class  of  American  people.  This  is  but 
the  natural  result  of  causes  which  are  manifest 
and  require  no  explanation.  The  ability  and 
training  which  qualify  one  to  practice  law  also 
qualify  him  in  many  respects  for  the  duties  which 
lie  outside  the  strict  path  of  his  profession  and 
which  touch  the  general  interests  of  society. 
The  subject  of  this  record  is  a  man  who  has 
brought  his  keen  discrimination  and  thorough 
wisdom  to  bear  not  alone  in  professional  paths, 
but  also  for  the  benefit  of  the  city  and  county 
where  he  makes  his  home  and  with  whose  inter- 
ests he  is  thoroughly  identified. 

Mr.  Bennett,  who  is  now  serving  as  county 
treasurer  of  Weld  County,  is  a  native  of  Ozaukee 
County,  Wis.,  born  November  7,  1849,  and  is  a 
son  of  Daniel  John  and  Iretta  (De  Couders)  Ben- 
nett, both  natives  of  Cayuga  County,  N.  Y., 
whence  they  removed  to^  Wisconsin  at  an  early 
day.  In  the  midst  of  the  wilderness  the  father 
developed  a  good  farm  which  extended  down  to 
the  lake,  and  in  connection  with  its  operation  he 
also  engaged  in  merchandising  for  a  short  time 
and  in  contracting  for  delivering  wood  to  the 
steamers.  In  religious  belief  he  was  a  Meth- 
odist, and  in  political  sentiment  a  Republican. 

Reared  in  his  native  state.  Christian  A.  Ben- 
nett obtained  his  early  education  in  the  schools 
of  Port  Washington,  where  his  father  was  en- 
gaged in  mercantile  pursuits.  With  his  parents 
he  removed  to  Maries  County,  Mo.,  in  May, 
1865,  and  soon  afterward  entered  the  law  oiEce 
of  J.  M.  Siglin  at  Vienna,  where  he  remained  as 
a  student  until  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1870.  He 
has  always  been  an  active  and  prominent  mem- 
ber of  the  Democracy  and  in  Maries  County 
served  as  deputy  circuit  and  county  clerk. 
Afterward  he  entered  upon  the  active  practice  of 
his  profession  and  at  the  election  in  November, 


1874,  was  elected  prosecuting  attorney  to  succeed 
Joseph  Mosby,  and  re-elected  in  1876.  While  his 
practice  has  been  in  both  the  civil  and  criminal 
courts,  his  preference  has  been  for  the  latter  and 
in  his  chosen  line  he  has  met  with  remarkable  suc- 
cess. In  November,  i879,he  was  elected  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Thirty-first  General  Assembly  of  Mis- 
souri for  a  term  of  two  years,  and  after  that 
session  took  up  the  practice  of  law  and  in  1880 
became  part  owner  of  the  Gazette.  As  senior 
editor  he  conducted  the  paper  in  the  interests  of 
the  Democracy  until  he  sold  out  in  1883  to  John 
H.  Diggs  and  came  to  Greeley,  Colo.  He  was  a 
forceful  advocate  and  as  a  political  speaker  ranked 
among  the  best  of  his  locality.  Upon  coming  to 
Greeley  he  opened  a  law  office  and  engaged  in 
practice  until  1888,  when,  although  his  party  was 
decidedly  in  the  minority,  he  was  elected  to  the 
office  of  city  attorney,  which  position  he  held 
until  189 1,  and  again  from  1892  to  1895.  On 
the  19th  of  December,  1893,  he  was  appointed 
referee  by  Judge  Downer  to  settle  the  priority  of 
water  rights  in  irrigation  district  No.  i ,  which 
required  an  immense  amount  of  work.  At  the 
fall  election  of  1897  he  was  elected  to  the  office  of 
county  treasurer. 

At  Vienna,  Mo.,  Mr.  Bennett  was  married  De- 
cember 3,  1873,  to  Miss  Mary  R.,  daughter  of 
A.  K.  Burke,  of  Scotch-Irish  descent,  and  to 
them  have  been  born  five  children:  John  A., 
quartermaster-sergeant  of  the  First  Colorado  Light 
Artillery;  Lena;  Mabel;  Nellie;  and  one  who  died 
in  early  childhood. 

Fraternally  Mr.  Bennett  belongs  to  Poudre 
Valley  Lodge  No.  12,  I.  O.  O.  F.;  the  Ancient 
Order  of  United  Workmen;  the  Woodmen  of  the 
World;  and  the  Imperial  Legion,  a  Colorado 
organization.  He  attends  the  First  Presbyterian 
Church,  to  which  he  contributes,  and  is  an  up- 
right and  honorable  man.  An  article  published 
at  his  old  home  in  Missouri  after  he  left  there 
states  that  his  most  intimate  friends  had  never 
heard  an  oath  escape  his  lips.  At  home  he  is  a 
model  host  and  an  affectionate  and  indulgent 
husband  and  father,  and  anger  and  immorality 
have  never  blurred  his  name.  He  is  a  worthy 
man,  a  steadfast  friend,  a  safe  and  cautious  ad- 
visor, and  his  holding  the  responsible  position  he 
does  is  the  best  evidence  of  the  esteem  in  which 
he  is  held,  when  it  is  considered  that  the  political 
party  to  which  he  adheres  is  in  the  minority. 


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ISAAC  P.  VAN  WORMER. 


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CySAAC  P.  VAN  WORMER.  Fourteen  miles 
I  south  of  Denver,  on  Plum  Creek,  is  a  stock 
1  ranch  of  thirteen  hundred  acres,  bearing  ex- 
cellent improvements  in  fencing  and  buildings, 
and  stocked  with  cattle  and  various  breeds  of 
horses.  This  property  was  purchased  by  Mr. 
Van  Wormer  in  187 1,  and  with  another  tract 
(leased)  of  equal  size  has  since  been  used  for  the 
pasturage  of  stock.  It  is  said  that  Mr.  Van 
Wormer  is  the  oldest  man  in  the  cattle  business 
in  Colorado,  and  certainly  it  may  also  be  said 
that  he  is  one  of  the  most  successful,  for  his  finan- 
cial standing  is  the  highest  and  his  check  is  hon- 
ored for  any  amount  he  desires.  He  resides  at 
No.  II  South  Sherman  street,  Denver,  which 
property  he  owns,  as  well  as  other  real  estate. 
He  built  and  later  sold  the  Van  Wormer  block, 
and  has  erected  many  houses  on  the  hill  and  also 
south  of  Cherry  Creek. 

On  the  Mohawk  River,  near  Fonda,  Montgom- 
ery County,  N.  Y. ,  Mr.  Van  Wormer  was  born 
April  15,  1833.  He  is  of  Dutch  descent,  his 
great-grandparents  having  come  to  this  country 
from  Holland.  His  father,  Frederick  D.,  the  son 
of  a  farmer,  was  reared  in  Montgomery  County 
and  was  educated  for  an  attorney,  but  never  en- 
tered the  profession,  working  during  most  of  his 
life  as  a  boatman  on  the  Erie  Canal.  He  died  in 
Montgomery  County.  His  wife,  Ann,  was  a 
daughter  of  James  Cooley,  a  soldier  in  the  war  of 
1812.  She  was  born  in  Montgomery  County  and 
died  there  at  eighty-two  years  of  age.  Her  fam- 
ily comprised  eight  children,  namely:  Henry  E., 
who  died  in  New  York  City;  Thomas  R.,  now  in 
Michigan;  Isaac  P.;  Antoinette,  who  remains  in 
the  vicinity  of  the  old  home;  James  H.,  who  was 
a  soldier  in  the  war  and  now  resides  in  Bradford, 
Pa.;  Jane  A.,  who  lives  near  Syracuse,  N.  Y.; 
Chester,  who  served  in  the  Civil  war  and  now 
makes  his  home  in  Michigan;  and  Elizabeth,  de- 
ceased. 

During  three  months  of  the  year  our  subject 
when  a  boy  attended  the  common  schools  and  the 
remainder  of  the  time  was  devoted  to  farm  work, 
having  begun  to  work  out  on  farms  when  he  was 
only  a  child  of  seven.  Later  he  worked  on  the 
canal,  thefa  on  a  stage  line,  and  in  the  spring  of 
1855  went  to  Michigan,  where  he  drove  a  stage 
between  Grand  Rapids  and  Kalamazoo  for  a  time. 
During  the  same  year  he  went  to  LaFayette, 
Ind.,  where  he  worked  out  by  the  month.  In 
18 


1857  he  located  in  Leavenworth,  Kan.,  where  he 
worked  as  a  carpenter  for  a  short  time,  and  then 
entered  a  pre-emption  claim  near  Carbondale,  in 
southern  Kansas,  but  the  attempt  to  farm  the 
place  profitably  proved  a  failure  and  he  came  to 
Colorado,  making  the  trip  with  ox-teams  along 
the  Santa  Fe  trail.  He  camped  out  on  Clear 
Creek  and  for  a  month  prospected.  The  country 
was  full  of  fortune  seekers,  for  it  was  the  summer 
of  1859  and  thousands  of  men  had  been  attracted 
to  the  state  by  the  recent  discovery  of  gold. 

Returning  to  Kansas  in  the  fall  of  1859,  Mr. 
Van  Wormer  settled  up  his  business  affairs  there 
and  in  i860  came  back  to  Colorado,  making  the 
trip  with  a  horse  train.  He  engaged  in  trading 
and  made  his  home  in  Denver,  but  in  1862  turned 
his  attention  to  the  cattle  business,  buying  cattle 
from  Missouri  and  Iowa  and  bringing  them  to 
Colorado.  At  the  same  time  he  located  a  ranch 
on  Running  Creek,  near  the  line  of  Arapahoe  and 
Douglas  County.  When  the  Hungate  family 
were  murdered  by  the  Arapahoe  Indians  in  1864, 
he  left  that  place  and  afterward  carried  on  the 
cattle  business  in  different  localities,  but  finally 
located  at  Sampson  Gulch,  in  Arapahoe  County, 
and  from  there  in  187 1  removed  his  cattle  to 
his  present  ranch.  He  was  among  the  very  first 
who  allowed  the  cattle  to  roam  over  the  open 
prairies  and  he  was  also  one  of  the  first  who 
branded  cattle,  his  first  brand  being  the  letter  V, 
but  this  was  changed  to  Van  when  the  legislature 
passed  the  law  requiring  all  cattle  to  be  branded. 
During  the  early  days  he  allowed  his  cattle  to  oc- 
cupy a  range  on  the  Republican  River,  while  the 
home  ranch  was  kept  for  the  pasturage  of  horses 
exclusively. 

At  Denver,  in  June,  1867,  Mr.  Van  Wormer 
married  Cora  Wright,  who  was  born  in  Washing- 
ton County,  N.  Y.,  the  daughter  of  Charles  S. 
Wright,  a  native  of  Vermont.  Her  grandfather. 
Judge  Wright,  of  New  York,  married  a  daughter 
of  Capt.  Nathaniel  Seeley,  who  served  in  the 
Revolution.  For  some  yeafs  Charles  S.  Wright 
engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  lime  in  New  York, 
where  he  had  large  kilns.  He  married  Abbie 
Dickinson,  who  was  born  in  Washington  County, 
N.  Y. ,  of  Scotch  descent,  and  died  in  Kansas. 
They  were  the  parents  of  eleven  children,  of 
whom  four  daughters  and  two  sons  are  now  liv- 
ing. One  of  the  sons,  T.  D.  Wright,  was  a  sol- 
dier in  a  New  York  regiment  during  the  war,  and 


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a  nephew,  Capt.  George  Robinson,  also  bore  an 
honorable  part  in  quelling  the  Rebellion.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Van  Wornier  have  six  children:  Mrs. 
Lillian  M.  Pierce,  of  Denver;  Mrs.  Ruth  M.  Mil- 
ler, of  Denver;  Laura  B,;  Frank  W.;  Ethel  B. 
and  May  C. 

Mr.  Van  Woimer  has  been  a  stockholder  in 
the  Denver  Consolidated  Tramway  Company,  the 
Littleton  Milling  Company  and  other  corpora- 
tions. For  one  term  he  was  commissioner  of 
Douglas  County,  but  refused  re-election.  He  is 
a  member  of  the  Association  of  Colorado  Pioneers. 
In  the  chamber  of  commerce  and  the  board  of 
trade  he  is  a  charter  member.  He  was  one  of  the 
first  members  of  the  Colorado  Cattle  Growers' 
Association,  to  which  he  still  belongs.  In  poli- 
tics he  is  a  Republican.  The  transformation 
wrought  in  this  country  since  he  came  here  is 
wonderful  and  surpassed  even  the  fondest  hopes  of 
his  pioneer  days,  but  he  may  justly  feel  that  he 
has  been  one  of  the  factors  in  contributing  to  the 
progress  of  city  and  state  and  has  contributed  his 
share  to  the  development  of  the  material  resources 
of  both. 


iA  ARSHALL  M.  NAY,  one  of  the  old  and 
Y  respected  citizens  of  Morrison,  Jefferson 
is  County,  has  been  engaged  in  business  in 
this  place  for  the  past  seventeen  years,  during 
which  period  he  has  won  the  good  will  and  high 
regard  of  his  fellow-citizens  by  his  honesty, 
square  dealing  and  unfailing  courtesy.  His  mar- 
ket is  one  of  the  best  in  the  county  and  is  always 
well  equipped  with  a  fine  variety  of  meats,  fresh 
and  salted.  His  long  experience  in  the  business 
gives  him  certain  knowledge  of  the  demands  of 
the  trade,  which  he  seeks  to  meet  at  all  times. 
In  all  public  matters  affecting  the  general  welfare 
he  is  an  actively  interested  participant  and  can 
always  be  safely  counted  upon  to  endorse  all  pro- 
gressive movements  accruing  to  the  good  of  the 
community.  The  educational  cause  finds  no 
more  devoted  friend  than  he,  and  for  twelve  years 
he  was  a  member  of  the  school  board,  and  for  a 
period  was  secretary  of  that  honorable  body. 
Fraternally  he  holds  membership  with  Morrison 
Lodge  No.  82,  I.  O.  O.  F. ,  and  politically  he 
sides  with  the  Fusion  party. 

Born  in  Logan  County,   111.,  March  4,  1850, 
Mr.  Nay  is  in  the  prime  of  manhood.     He  is  one 


in  a  family  which  originally  included  eight  chil- 
dren, but  whose  numbers  have  diminished  to  five. 
He  has  four  brothers  living,  namely:  Lafayette, 
George,  Horace  F.  and  Samuel  G.  Their  parents 
were:  L-  H.  and  Sally  D.  (Maston)  Nay,  both  of 
whom  were  long  since  summoned  to  their  reward. 
The  father,  a  native  of  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  born  in 
1812,  moved  to  Ohio  in  his  early  manhood  and 
spent  several  years  in  Loraine  and  Medina  Coun- 
ties, his  time  being  devoted  to  farming.  Later 
he  settled  in  Illinois  and  carried  on  a  farm  in 
Logan  County  for  a  few  years.  Thence  he  went 
to  Iowa  and  to  Missouri,  but  after  some  years  of 
experience  in  agricultural  pursuits  in  Henry  and 
Lafayette  Counties  he  concluded  to  return  to 
Illinois.  Three  years  elapsed  and  he  went  back 
to  Missouri,  this  time  taking  up  his  residence  in 
Holt  County,  where  his  death  occurred  in  1865. 
During  the  Civil  war  he  was  a  strong  Union  man, 
which  fact  made  it  a  little  unpleasant  for  him  at 
times  among  some  of  his  Missouri  neighbors. 
For  many  years  he  was  engaged,  more  or  less,  in 
the  real-estate  business,  and  on  some  of  his  farms 
he  was  extensively  occupied  in  raising  fine  live- 
stock. A  man  of  broad  education  and  intellect, 
he  was  greatly  interested  in  the  cause  of  educa- 
tion, and  for  two  or  three  terms  he  taught  school 
successfully. 

At  the  time  of  his  father's  death  our  subject 
was  but  half  way  through  his  teens,  and  the 
property,  which  would  otherwise  have  been  then 
divided  among  the  children,  had  to  remain  intact 
until  he  had  arrived  at  his  majority.  His  mother 
had  died  when  the  lad  was  but  five  or  six  years 
old.  The  brothers  continued  to  live  on  the  old 
homestead,  which  comprised  some  five  hundred 
acres,  up  to  1871.  M.  M.  Nay,  by  that  time  a 
practical  farmer,  carried  on  his  share  of  the  prop- 
erty for  five  years  longer  and  then  removed  to 
Kansas,  where  he  took  up  a  homestead  of  one 
hundred  and  sixty  acres.  This  land  he  tilled 
and  improved  for  about  a  year,  after  which  he 
embarked  in  the  lumber  business,  also  dealing  in 
farming  implements  and  stock.  In  September, 
1 88 1,  he  disposed  of  all  his  business  interests 
and  came  to  Colorado,  reserving  his  farm,  how- 
ever, which  he  sold  about  a  year  later  at  advan- 
tageous terms.  Two  weeks  or  so  spent  in  Den- 
ver and  then  Mr.  Nay  came  direct  to  Morrison, 
of  which  he  had  heard  that  it  was  a  live  and 
growing  town.     He  soon  after  established  a  meat 


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market  and  began  dealing  in  stock,  which  enter- 
prises he  follows  up  to  the  present  time. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Nay  and  Miss  Emma  J. 
Warner,  of  Holt  County,  Mo.,  occurred  March 
17,  1872.  Four  children  came  to  bless  their 
hearthstone,  but  one  is  deceased.  Ida  V.  is  the 
wife  of  Earl  D.  McGill,  a  successful  medical 
practitioner  of  Yuma,  Colo.  George  W.  is  in 
partnership  with  his  father  in  the  meat  and  stock 
business.  His  wife,  formerly  Miss  Anna  I.  Strick- 
land, was  a  successful  teacher  in  the  schools  of 
this  county  for  six  years.  Samuel  W.,  a  gradu- 
ate of  the  Colorado  State  University  at  Boulder, 
is  now  engaged  in  teaching  in  this  county. 


(TOEL  B.  KING.  The  press,  which  forms  a 
I  potential  and  indispensable  factor  in  advanced 
C2/  civilization,  is  but  the  mouthpiece  of  men  of 
education,  men  who  possess  broad  and  progress- 
ive minds  and  devote  their  whole  energy  and  in- 
fluence toward  promoting  the  interests  of  their 
country  and  the  locality  in  which  they  reside. 
Men  who  do  not  possess  these  essential  qualifica- 
tions are  but  short-lived  in  the  journalistic  realms, 
as  the  number  of  newspaper  failures  throughout 
the  country  will  testify.  The  press  of  Elbert 
County  is  ably  represented  by  the  gentleman 
named  above,  who  through  the  medium  of  the 
Elbert  County  Tribime  and  the  Eastonville  World 
has  labored  zealously  to  elevate  the  moral  and  in- 
tellectual standard  of  the  people  and  to  enlighten 
the  community  upon  events  transpiring  on  every 
section  of  the  globe.  His  editorials  are  always 
substantial  and  well  written,  while  the  local  col- 
umns of  his  publications  are  filled  with  fresh  and 
crisp  items  of  interest.  However,  the  field  of 
journalism  has  not  claimed  his  entire  attention, 
for  he  is  the  proprietor  of  a  large  general  mer- 
chandise store  in  Elbert,  the  town  of  his  resi- 
dence. 

Mr.  King  is  a  son  of  Dr.  J.  E.  and  Emaline 
(Barnes)  King,  and  was  born  in  DeWitt  County, 
111.,  July  22,  1849.  He  was  partially  reared  upon 
a  farm  and  attended  the  public  schools  of  Clinton, 
111. ;  this  training  was  supplemented  by  a  course 
in  the  Wesleyan  University  at  Bloomington,  111., 
which  he  entered  at  the  age  of  fifteen  years.  One 
year  later  he  moved  with  his  father  to  Fairfield, 
Iowa,  where  he  became  apprenticed  to  the  print- 
ers' trade,  receiving  the  paltry  sum  of  $50  per 


annum  for  his  services.  He  made  rapid  strides 
in  his  profession  and  worked  as  a  journeyman 
but  a  few  months,  when,  at  the  age  of  nineteen 
years,  he  established  the  Moulton  Independent, 
at  Moulton,  Iowa,  and  although  it  was  his  first 
attempt  in  his  own  behalf  he  displayed  unusual 
judgment  and  ability.  Five  years  later  he  moved 
to  Bloomfield,  Iowa,  where  he  founded  the  Odd 
Fellows''  Banner,  a  weekly  paper  devoted  to  the 
interest  of  Odd  Fellowship.  He  worked  up  a 
circulation  of  eight  thousand  copies,  at  that  time 
the  largest  weekly  circulation  in  the  state,  and 
continued  successfully  for  a  period  of  four  years, 
when  he  met  with  financial  reverses  and  remove"d 
to  Pratt  County,  Kan.,  where  for  two  years  he 
conducted  the  Pratt  County  Press.  He  then  con- 
tinued west  to  Colorado  and  established  the  Huer- 
fano Herald  at  La  Veta,  Huerfano  County,  his 
removal  to  that  section  being  mainly  because  of 
poor  health.  His  enterprises  prospered  and  he 
remained  there  until  1S84,  when  he  realized  the 
excellent  opportunities  offered  for  a  publication 
in  Elbert  County,  and  immediately  thereafter 
located  at  Elbert,  and  established  the  Elbert 
Cojinty  Tribune,  which  was  successful  from  the 
start  and  is  now  a  paper  of  influence  in  that  com- 
munity. In  1888  he  started  the  Eastonville  World, 
which  has  also  had  a  prosperous  career  and  is 
one  of  the  thriving  weeklies  of  the  county.  In 
1885  he  also  embarked  in  the  general  merchan- 
dise business  in  Elbert;  beginning  in  a  small  way 
he  gradually  increased  his  stock  as  his  business 
justified,  and  at  the  present  time  he  has  a  large, 
well-stocked  store,  which  is  patronized  by  the 
leading  citizens.  He  owns  considerable  real  es- 
tate, including  Scott's  addition  to  Elbert.  He  is 
a  man  of  good  character,  a  pleasant  and  genial 
companion,  and  occupies  a  high  position  in  the 
estimation  of  his  fellow-citizens. 

August  29,  1871,  at  Ellsworth,  Kan.,  Mr. 
King  married  Miss  Eva  Davis,  a  native  of  Illi- 
nois, and  their  happy  union  resulted  in  the  fol- 
lowing issue:  Edward  M. ,  who  died  in  Elbert  at 
the  age  of  twenty-one  years;  Frank  M.,  whose 
death  occurred  in  childhood;  Happy,  who  died 
in  childhood;  Wei  by,  who  died  at  Elbert,  aged 
two  years;  Keo,  the  wife  of  F.  N.  La  Veil;  Emma, 
who  is  at  home  with  her  parents;  Eva  and  lo, 
daughters,  aged  respectively  twelve  and  ten 
years.  Our  subject  has  always  voted  the  Repub- 
lican  ticket,   casting  bis  first  vote  for  General 


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Grant  in  1872.  Although  not  an  aspirant  for 
office,  he  accepted  the  appointment  as  postmaster 
of  Elbert  under  the  Harrison  administration,  and 
served  for  three  years,  when  he  handed  in  his 
resignation.  He  is  equally  as  prominent  in  fra- 
ternal as  in  business  circles,  being  an  active  mem- 
ber of  Union  Lodge  No.  7,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  of 
Denver;  Knights  of  Pythias,  of  Eastonville;  and 
of  the  Elbert  Lodge,  I.  O.  O.  F. ,  of  which  he  has 
filled  all  of  the  chairs  and  taken  the  grand  lodge 
degree.  He  became  a  member  of  the  latter 
order  at  Bloomfield,  Iowa,  in  187 1,  and  has  been 
active  in  the  work  of  that  body  since. 


(lAMES  A.  MAULDIN.  As  a  representative 
I  of  the  agricultural  class,  and  one  who  has 
(2/  met  with  more  than  ordinary  success  in  the 
prosecution  of  his  independent  calling,  we  take 
pleasure  in  mentioning  the  name  of  the  gentleman 
whose  biography  we  write.  He  is  pleasantly 
located  on  his  fine  farm  on  section  17,  township 
8,  range  64,  which  consists  of  eight  hundred 
acres  and  also  owns  three  hundred  and  seventy 
acres  one  mile  east  of  the  town  of  Elizabeth,  and 
he  may  be  found  almost  any  day  engaged  in  the 
general  routine  of  a  farmer's  life.  He  is  a  native 
of  Hall  County,  Ga.,  the  date  of  his  birth  being 
September  16,  1846,  and  is  a  son  of  Terrill  W. 
and  Sarah  (Jackson)  Mauldin. 

James  A.  Mauldin  received  a  common-school 
education  and  was  reared  to  agricultural  pursuits, 
which  he  made  his  life's  vocation.  His  father 
was  in  a  helpless  condition,  and  as  his  two  older 
brothers  were  away,  one  being  in  the  west  and 
the  other  in  the  Civil  war,  our  subject  being  the 
eldest  son  at  home,  the  support  of  the  family  fell 
upon  his  shoulders;  in  1862  his  father  died,  and 
our  subject  migrated  west.  With  his  mule 
team  he  drove  to  Nashville,  Tenn.,  from  which 
place  he  took  the  boat  for  St.  Louis,  Mo. ,  where 
he  stopped  off  with  his  elder  brother  for  a  short 
time.  In  company  with  his  mother  and  three 
younger  sisters  he  again  started  on  his  journey 
west,  and  in  the  year  1867  he  settled  on  his 
present  property.  He  had  but  one  mule  when  he 
started  in  farming,  and  that  one  was  unbroken. 
The  land  which  he  had  taken  up  was  rich  and 
fertile,  and  by  his  perseverance  and  untiring 
energy,  coupled  with  the  practice  of  economy, 
he    succeeded   in   saving  enough  money,    with 


which  to  purchase  more  land,  and  is  now  one  of 
the  largest  land  owners  in  that  vicinity.  In 
addition  to  farming,  he  is  also  engaged  in  stock- 
raising,  in  which  he  is  remarkably  successful. 
He  is  well  known  throughout  his  community, 
and  enjoys  the  respect  and  good  will  of  a  large 
circle  of  acquaintances. 

Mr.  Mauldin  has  twice  been  united  in  marriage. 
In  1877  he  married  Caroline  McCurry,  a  native 
of  Missouri,  whose  acquaintance  he  made  in 
Colorado;  she  died  in  December,  1890.  February 
25,  1892,  he  married  Frances  E.  Tee,  a  native 
of  Cambridge,  111.,  at  Geneseo,  111.  Three  chil- 
dren have  blessed  this  union,  asfoUows:  James  F., 
William  B.  and  Charles  W.  Politically  our 
subject  has  always  been  an  ardent  supporter  of 
the  Democratic  party,  and  cast  his  first  vote  for 
Tilden  in  1876.  He  has  been  a  candidate  for 
county  commissioner  five  times,  and  has  been 
elected  thrice.  He  has  also  been  delegated  to 
various  conventions. 


0  LIVER  EVANS  came  to  Colorado  on  a  tour 
of  inspection  in  i860.  In  the  spring  of 
1 87 1  he  brought  his  family  to  the  state  and 
purchased  his  present  place  from  a  brother  who 
had  taken  it  up  as  a  claim.  The  property  then 
consisted  of  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  and  has 
been  increased  by  the  purchase  of  an  eighty-acre 
tract,  making  the  present  size  two  hundred  and 
forty  acres.  The  place  is  situated  two  miles  west 
of  Arvada,  in  Jefferson  County,  where  the  fertile 
soil  affords  the  farmer  an  opportunity  to  engage 
in  farming  successfully. 

In  Beaver  County,  Pa.,  Mr.  Evans  was  born 
September  17,  1827,  being  a  son  of  Noah  and 
Mary  Ann  (Black)  Evans.  He  was  one  of  eleven 
children,  seven  of  whom  are  still  living,  namely: 
Oliver,  Hiram,  North,  Ephraim  C,  Eli  L.;  Mar- 
garet, wife  of  Walter  Fen  ton;  and  Elmira,  who 
married  George  Thornsburg.  His  grandparents, 
Eli  and  Elizabeth  (Davis)  Evans,  removed  to 
Beaver  Falls,  Beaver  County,  from  Chester 
County,  Pa.,  in  1806,  and  there  the  grandfather 
built  a  mill  and  did  a  large  milling  business.  In 
the  early  days  he  bought  a  settlers'  right  from  a 
man  who  had  taken  up  a  claim  of  some  three  hun- 
dred acres,  but  after  thirty  years  of  litigation,  he 
lost  the  property,  which  is  now  worth  $1,000  an 
acre.     Noah  Evans  was  born  in  Chester  Count}', 


H.  J.  HAWLEY. 


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in  1798,  and  was  a  boy  of  eight  years  when  the 
family  removed  to  Beaver  County.  There  he 
grew  to  manhood  and  engaged  in  farming.  For 
some  time  he  and  his  brothers  engaged  in  build- 
ing keel  boats,  which  they  would  sail  down  the 
river  to  Cincinnati  or  Louisville  and  there  sell 
them,  walking  the  entire  distance  back  to  their 
home.     He  died  in  1870. 

Reared  in  his  native  county,  our  subject  en- 
gaged in  farming  and  teaming,  also  spent  some 
time  in  railroading  and  boating.  Since  1871  he 
has  engaged  in  ranching  in  Colorado.  In  politics 
he  votes  the  Republican  ticket.  He  is  interested 
in  educational  matters  and  has  served  as  a  mem- 
ber of  the  school  board. 

In  1865  occurred  the  marriage  of  Mr.  Evans 
to  Miss  Mary  Dougherty .  They  became  the  par- 
ents of  nine  children,  now  living,  namely:  Robert, 
who  is  interested  in  farming  in  Jefferson  County; 
North,  also  a  farmer  in  this  county;  Lawrence 
Colorado,  Homer  Denver,  Elmus  Smith,  William, 
Anna,  Elmira  Jane  and  Mary  Agnes.  Two 
children,  Bessie  J.  and  John,  are  deceased. 


NJ.  HAWLEY,  of  Central  City,  owns  the 
finest  business  block  in  this  place  and  is  in- 
fluential in  the  public  affairs  of  Gilpin 
County.  His  road  to  success  lay  through  ob- 
stacles that  would  have  discouraged  a  less  stout- 
hearted man,  but  he  has  proved  himself  superior 
to  circumstances.  He  was  born  near  Freeport, 
111.,  May  13,  1839.  His  father,  Daniel  S.  Haw- 
ley,  was  a  native  of  Brattleboro,  Vt.,  while  his 
grandfather,  Aaron  Hawley,  was  from  Connecti- 
cut. The  family  were  from  England,  but  came 
to  Connecticut,  whence  Aaron  moved  to  Vermont, 
and  later  to  Sangamon  County,  111.,  where  he 
took  part  in  the  Black  Hawk  war  in  1832,  and  was 
killed  in  a  battle  near  Warren,  111.  The  father 
also  fought  in  this  war,  although  but  a  lad  of 
twelve  years  when  he  shouldered  his  gun.  In 
1828  he  went  to  Wisconsin,  where  he  followed 
farming.  Later  he  moved  to  Oneca,  Stephenson 
County,  111.,  then  returned  to  Wisconsin,  settling 
in  La  Fayette  County,  where  he  was  employed  in 
farming  near  Wiota.  In  1851  he  moved  to  Ar- 
gyle,  the  same  county,  where  he  was  occupied  in 
the  hotel  business,  milling  and  farming.  In  1873 
he  went  to  Evansville,  Rock  County,  where  he 
lived  in  retirement  until  his  death,  in  1893,  at  the 


age  of  seventy-six  years.  While  in  Argyle  he 
was  recruiting  officer.  He  married  Helen  Reed, 
of  Brattleboro,  Vt. ,  who  died  in  Argyle  at  the 
age  of  fifty-four  years.  Of  the  eight  children, 
five  grew  to  adult  years.  These  were  as  follows: 
Charles  A. ,  a  resident  of  Chicago,  who  served 
through  the  late  war  in  a  Wisconsin  cavalry; 
H.  J.,  of  this  sketch;  Louisa,  Mrs.  Campbell, 
who  died  in  Argyle;  Albert,  a  stockman  of  that 
place  and  who  also  served  in  the  army  during  the 
Civil  war;  and  Theodore.  The  last-named  enlisted 
when  fifteen  in  a  Wisconsin  regiment,  and  was 
with  Sherman  through  the  war,  in  his  march 
through  Georgia  and  to  the  sea;  he  was  accident- 
ally drowned  ia  Eagle  River,  near  Redcliff,  Eagle 
County,  Colo.,  where  he  was  engaged  in  ranch- 
ing. 

H.  J.  Hawley  was  reared  in  LaFayette  County, 
Wis. ,  and  attended  the  public  school  at  Argyle, 
and  later  the  Platteville  Normal,  under  Professor 
Pritchard.  When  fourteen  he  obtained  a  clerk- 
ship in  Wiota.  After  the  Pike's  Pieak  excitement 
started  he  came  west  in  i860,  with  an  uncle, 
Louis  Seargent,  who  had  crossed  the  plains  in 
1849.  This  trip  was  made  by  team  all  the  way. 
They  crossed  the  Mississippi  at  Dubuque,  the 
Missouri  at  Omaha,  and  traveled  up  the  Platte 
to  Fort  Kearney.  On  the  13th  of  May  they 
reached  Denver  and  came  on  to  Central  Citj% 
where  they  engaged  in  gulch  mining.  At  the 
end  of  the  summer  the  uncle  returned  home  and 
Mr.  Hawley  continued  his  mining  operations  for 
eight  years.  He  gave  to  it  his  entire  time,  and 
like  many  others  he  failed.  In  1868  he  went  in 
debt  $800  for  a  half-interest  in  a  grocery  store, 
his  partner  being  Benjamin  Lake.  The  firm  of 
Lake  &  Hawley  flourished  for  three  years,  when 
it  was  changed  to  Hawley  &  Manville,  the  latter 
gentleman  having  acquired  Mr.  Lake's  interest 
in  the  business.  This  firm  continued  until  1878. 
They  enlarged  their  store,  added  to  their  stock 
and  were  doing  a  good  business  when  the  fire  of 
1 874  swept  from  them  their  entire  stock  and  left 
them  in  debt  to  the  extent  of  $10,000. 

This  would  have  crushed  an  ordinary  man,  but 
Mr.  Hawley  possessed  an  undaunted  spirit  and  a 
determination  to  succeed,  and  the  very  next 
morning  after  the  fire  he  bought  the  stock  of 
groceries  of  Roworth  &  Co.  for  $20,000,  making 
their  total  indebtedness  $30,000.  Business  men 
in  Denver  tried  to  discourage  him,  telling  him  he 


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never  would  succeed  in  his  undertaking,  but  he 
was  determined  to  pay  every  dollar  that  he  owed, 
and  to  that  end  increased  his  debt.  They  re- 
ceived $3,000,  which  was  paid  on  the  trade 
leaving  $17,000,  for  which  they  gave  thirty- four 
notes  for  $500  each,  drawing  interest  at  one  per 
cent,  a  month.  One  note  was  to  be  paid  each 
month,  and  they  were  happily  able  to  meet  each 
as  it  became  due,  besides  paying  their  other  in- 
debtedness with  ten  per  cent,  interest  added.  In 
1878  he  bought  out  his  partner  and  continued 
alone  until  two  years  later,  when  he  incorporated 
the  Hawley  Merchandise  Company,  of  which  he 
has  since  been  president  and  is  the  principal 
stockholder.  He  erected  the  .Hawley  block, 
the  largest  and  best  in  the  city,  having  three 
store  room  fronts.  His  is  one  of  the  oldest  in- 
corporated companies  in  the  state,  and  he  was 
the  iirst  to  send  out  to  take  orders  and  give  free 
delivery.  He  is  interested  in  twenty  patented 
claims  and  many  inines. 

In  Central  City  Mr.  Hawley  married  Miss  An- 
netta  Miller,  of  Ohio,  and  in  1890  established  his 
family  in  Denver,  on  Pearl  street,  Capitol  Hill. 
He  has  four  children,  viz. :  Medora  (Mrs.  Perry), 
and  Mabel  (Mrs.  Wiley) ,  both  of  whom  reside  in 
Central  City;  Frank,  who  is  one  of  the  head  men 
with  the  Morey  Mercantile  Company  of  Denver; 
and  Martha,  at  home.  Mr.  Hawley  was  an  al- 
derman in  Central  City  for  one  term  during  the 
iire,  when  the  streets  were  changed  and  the  town 
laid  out  anew.  He  was  county  commissioner  for 
one  term,  from  1878  to  1881.  From  1882  until 
1886  he  was  a  member  of  the  school  board.  He 
has  been  a  stockholder  of  the  Gilpin  County  Min- 
ing Association  since  its  organization.  Frater- 
nally he  belongs  to  Central  City  L,odge  No.  6, 
A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  the  Ancient  Order  of  United 
Workmen,  and  the  Gilpin  County  Pioneer  So- 
ciety. In  politics  he  is  a  Republican.  At  this 
writing  he  is  candidate  on  the  Republican  ticket 
for  state  senator  from  Gilpin  County. 


n  AMES  GRANT  MILNE,  a  farmer  and  stock- 
I  raiser,  residing  on  section  18,  township  6, 
O  range  65,  has  one  of  the  best  places  in  Weld 
County.  In  1893  he  erected  a  fine  two-story 
brick  residence,  also  put  up  a  substantial  barn, 
and  in  1898  built  a  brick  structure  providing 
sleeping  accommodations  for  the  men  in  his  em- 
ploy. 


The  water  supply  for  his  house  and  stock  is 
provided  by  a  large  windmill.  A  corral  furnishes 
quarters  for  feeding  his  stock  and  fencing  them 
in  when  they  are  not  on  the  range.  The  yard  is 
neatly  laid  out  with  shade  trees,  giving  to  the 
place  a  homelike  and  attractive  appearance. 

Born  in  Forfarshire,  Scotland,  April  30,  1857, 
the  subject  of  this  sketch  is  a  son  of  William 
Milne,  who  was  a  farmer  and  stock-raiser.  He 
was  especially  interested  in  the  sheep  business, 
and  was  one  of  the  best-known  sheep-raisers  in 
Scotland,  being  considered  an  authority  in  the 
business.  In  political  matters  he  was  a  strong 
Liberal.  For  some  years  he  served  as  a  member 
of  the  local  school  board.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Established  Church,  which  he  served  as  an 
elder. 

By  the  marriage  of  William  Milne  to  Betsy 
Grant  nine  sons  were  born,  one  of  whom  died 
young.  The  others  are:  George,  who  holds  the 
position  of  clerk  on  the  Grand  Trunk  Railroad  at 
Toronto,  Canada;  William,  who  was  foreman  of 
construction  on  the  Canadian  Pacific  Railroad, 
and  is  now  located  at  Que  Apple,  in  the  North- 
west Territory;  James  Grant;  David,  manager  of 
the  old  homestead  in  Scotland;  Robert,  who  is 
engaged  in  the  stock  business  in  Montana;  John, 
at  home;  Francis,  who  is  in  the  Indian  civil 
service  of  Great  Britain;  and  Charles,  a  stockman 
in  Montana. 

In  Scottish  parochial  schools  the  subject  of  this 
sketch  was  a  student  until  eighteen  years  of  age. 
Afterward  he  acted  as  manager  of  the  cattle  and 
sheep  owned  by  his  father  and  an  uncle.  In 
1 88 1  he  came  to  America,  arriving  in  Greeley  on 
the  14th  of  April.  He  entered  the  employ  of 
ex-Senator  Boyd,  who  was  the  superintendent  of 
schools.  One  year  later  he  began  for  himself, 
but  was  prostrated  by  a  severe  illness  and  for 
some  time  lay  in  a  hospital.  After  his  recovery 
he  worked  for  different  persons  until  the  fall  of 
1888,  when  he  came  to  his  present  place,  one-half 
mile  west  of  Lucerne,  buying  here  a  tract  of  one 
hundred  and  sixty  acres  that  is  conveniently  lo- 
cated for  irrigating.  On  the  entire  place  there  is 
not  a  foot  of  waste  land.  The  soil  is  fertile,  and 
large_  crops  of  grain,  potatoes  and  alfalfa  are 
raised.  His  knowledge  of  the  sheep  business, 
gained  in  Scotland,  eminently  qualifies  him  for 
the  handling  of  sheep,  and  during  the  winter 
months  he  feeds  large  numbers  of  them,  besides 


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buying  many  for  others.  The  lightest  lambs  he 
ever  put  in  the  Chicago  market  weighed  an  aver- 
age of  eighty-eight  pounds,  and  those  shipped  in 
the  spring  of  1898  averaged  ninety-seven  pounds, 
which  was  the  heaviest  lot  of  Mexican  lambs  ever 
sold  in  that  market.  Being  a  man  of  good  judg- 
ment, he  has  applied  himself  closely  to  whatever 
work  he  considered  would  be  profitable,  and  in 
that  way  he  has  achieved  commendable  success. 
Besides  his  other  interests,  Mr.  Milne  holds 
stock  in  the  I^arimer  and  Weld  Reservoir  Com- 
pany and  the  Larimer  and  Weld  Ditch  Company, 
and  for  two  years  acted  as  vice-president  of  the 
former.  He  is  also  interested  in  the  Farmers' 
Mercantile  Company  of  Greeley.  He  has  also 
held  the  position  of  president  of  the  North  Gree- 
ley Produce  and  Storage  Company.  It  was  due 
very  largely  to  his  influence  and  work  that  the 
organization  of  the  Boyd  Lateral  Company  was 
consummated,  an  enterprise  that  has  been  of 
great  benefit  to  the  people,  as  it  provides  the 
proper  amount  of  water  for  those  who  deserve  it. 
Another  of  his  public-spirited  efibrts  was  in  favor 
of  the  building  of  the  switch  to  Lucerne,  thus 
saving  the  long  haul  to  Greeley.  Politically  he 
is  a  Republican.  January  14,  1896,  he  was 
united  in  marriage  with  Julia  M.,  daughter  of 
John  Montgomery,  and  they  have  a  comfortable 
home  in  their  new  and  tastily  furnished  residence. 


(TOHN  R.  MINER,  a  farmer  of  Weld  County, 
I  owns  a  ranch  situated  on  township  4  south, 
QD  range  67  west,  near  the  village  of  Berthoud. 
He  is  a  native  of  Indiana,  born  in  Louisville  in 
1850,  to  Simeon  B.  and  Elizabeth  (Connard) 
Miner.  About  1856  his  father  removed  to 
Champaign,  111.,  where  he  engaged  in  farming 
near  Urbana,  but  after  four  years  in  the  country 
he  located  in  the  city  of  Urbana,  where  he  follow- 
ed the  wagon-maker's  trade  during  the  remain- 
der of  his  active  life.  His  death  occurred  Janu- 
ary 5,  1869,  and  his  wife  passed  away  November 
I,  1885. 

The  early  years  of  our  subject's  life  were 
passed  on  a  farm.  At  the  age  of  seventeen  years 
he  secured  employment  with  a  street-car  com- 
pany, with  whom  he  remained  for  seven  years. 
However,  his  health  failed  and  he  was  obliged  to 
resign  his  position  and  seek  a  change  of  climate. 


Accordingly,  in  the  spring  of  1873,  he  came  west 
to  the  mountain  regions.  After  some  time  spent 
in  Greeley,  his  health  was  entirely  restored.  In 
1875  he  went  to  Erie,  where  he  was  employed  as 
engineer  for  a  company  in  coal  mines,  remaining 
in  their  employ  until  his  marriage  in  1881.  He 
then  settled  on  his  present  farm,  which  he  had 
taken  up  some  time  previous.  Here  he  has 
since  engaged  in  farming  and  stock-raising, 
owning  two  hundred  and  forty  acres  of  valuable 
land,  under  cultivation. 

Besides  his  other  interests  Mr.  Miner  is  a 
stockholder  in  and  president  of  the  Hillsborough 
Ditch  Company,  in  the  construction  of  which  he 
was  a  leading  promoter.  He  is  also  a  stock- 
holder in  the  Consolidated  Home  Supply  Ditch 
and  Reservoir  Company.  In  1893  he  constructed 
a  private  ditch  for  his  own  use,  the  water  being 
taken  from  the  Little  Thompson.  At  this  writing 
he  is  president  of  the  board  of  directors  of  school 
district  No.  50.  Politically  he  is  now  independ- 
ent, but  was  formerly  active  in  the  People's 
party.  Fraternally  he  is  a  member  of  Berthoud 
Lodge  No.  83,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  in  which  he  has 
passed  all  the  chairs  and  is  past  master.  For  three 
years  he  represented  the  lodge  in  the  grand  lodge. 
In  1 88 1  he  was  united  in  marriage  with  Miss 
Nellie  Harmon,  the  daughter  of  Manning  and 
Julia  A.  (Rexroad)  Harmon,  of  Boulder  County. 
They  are  the  parents  of  two  children,  Nettie  and 
Ray. 


IT  LISHA  DUNCAN,  deceased,  one  of  the  rep- 
1^  resentative  pioneers  of  Colorado,  was  very 
I  closely  identified  with  the  founding  of  Weld 
and  Boulder  Counties,  and  helped  materially  in 
placing  them  on  the  sound  basis  upon  which 
they  now  rest  secure.  He  aided  in  the  estab- 
lishment of  schools  and  churches,  the  construc- 
tion of  roads,  the  instituting  of  local  law  and 
order,  of  protection  against  the  Indians,  and 
was  one  of  the  earliest  mining  operators  and 
ranchmen  in  Boulder  and  St.  Vrain  valleys.  At 
a  period  when  little  but  the  mineral  wealth  of 
this  country  was  thought  of,  he  foresaw  the  great 
possibilities  that  were  in  store  for  it,  by  proper 
irrigation  and  cultivation  of  the  fertile  alluvial 
valleys  and  plateaus  and  very  successfully  carried 
on  the  raising  of  cattle  and  horses. 

The  founder  of  this  branch   of  the   Duncan 


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family  in  America  was  Col.  James  Duncan,  who 
was  a  native  of  Scotland.  Early  in  the  seven- 
teenth century  he  resigned  his  commission  in  the 
army  and  settled  in  Virginia.  His  son,  John 
Duncan,  was  born  in  Scotland  and  with  his  par- 
ents took  up  his  permanent  residence  in  the  Old 
Dominion.  John  married  Miss  Sarah  Anderson, 
and  their  son  Robert,  born  in  1795,  was  the 
father  of  the  subject  of  this  article.  He  became 
one  of  the  first  settlers  in  Illinois,  his  home  being 
in  Shelby  County.  Besides  cultivating  a  farm  he 
was  interested  in  the  Galena  lead  mines,  in  the 
northern  part  of  the  state  and  in  Wisconsin. 
During  the  Black  Hawk  war  he  was  one  of  the 
settlers  who  fought  against  the  Indians,  finally 
subduing  them.  He  died  October  19,  1868, 
near  Greenville,  Bond  County,  111.  His  wife, 
Nancy,  born  in  Virginia  January  26,  1805,  was 
a  daughter  of  Abraham  and  Mary  (Whitley) 
Bateman  and  granddaughter  of  Col.  William 
Whitley,  a  native  of  England.  Mrs.  Nancy 
Duncan  died  October  i,  1851,  in  Illinois.  One 
of  her  sons,  John,  now  of  California,  came  to 
Colorado  in  i860.  Another  son,  James,  fought 
in  the  Mexican  war. 

Elisha  Duncan,  the  eldest  of  his  father's  family, 
was  born  near  Greenville,  Bond  County,  111.,  Sep- 
tember 13,  1822.  When  he  reached  a  suitable 
age  he  commenced  farming,  at  first  in  his  home 
county,  and  later  went  into  Clinton  County,  111. 
In  1850  he  started  for  California  across  the 
plains,  by  ox  teams,  and  was  nearly  six  months 
on  the  journey.  For  nearly  two  years  he  was  oc- 
cupied in  mining  and  prospecting  at  Mud  Springs, 
and  at  the  expiration  of  that  period  he  re- 
turned home,  by  way  of  the  Isthmus  of  Panama 
and  New  York  City.  Then  he  resumed  agricult- 
ural pursuits  in  the  Prairie  state,  and  was 
quite  successful  in  stock-raising.  In  i860,  hav- 
ing heard  glowing  accounts  of  the  newly  discov- 
ered wealth  of  Colorado,  he  determined  to  see 
for  himself,  with  a  view  to  removing  his  family  to 
the  west.  After  sending  ahead  teams  and  stock, 
he  resorted  to  a  method  of  crossing  the  plains 
which  was  a  very  venturesome  and  hazardous 
way  in  those  days,  but  happened  to  turn  out  all 
right  for  him.  Mounting  a  trusty  horse,  he  pro- 
ceeded alone,  and  at  a  point  on  the  I^ittle  Blue 
River,  in  Kansas,  he  camped  where,  exactly  ten 
years  before,  when  on  his  way  to  California,  two 
of  his  companions  had   been   buried.     Arriving 


safely  in  Colorado,  he  and  Alfred  Tucker,  an  old 
schoolmate,  engaged  in  constructing  the  Golden 
Gate  toll-road  in  Jefferson  and  Gilpin  Counties. 
His  cabin  was  at  Golden  Gate,  a  mile  and  a-half 
above  Golden.  For  part  of  the  time  he  was  also 
interested  in  mining  in  Boulder  County,  at  Gold 
Hill.  In  the  winter  following  Mr.  Duncan  re- 
turned home  by  mule  team,  and  the  next  spring 
his  family  accompanied  him  to  their  new  western 
home.  From  St.  Louis  to  Atchison,  Kan.,  they 
went  by  steamer  "War  Eagle"  and,  as  war  had 
been  declared,  expected  they  would  be  captured 
and  at  least  detained  by  the  troops  of  the  contend- 
ing armies,  but  were  not.  The  Blue  River  was  so 
high  that  it  reached  the  wagon-beds  when  they 
attempted  to  ford  it,  and  further  on  in  their  jour- 
ney they  found  that  the  Indians  were  on  the  war- 
path, taking  advantage  of  the  unsettled  state  of 
the  country  and  the  removal  of  western  troops  to 
the  east,  by  the  government.  June  9,  1861,  he 
arrived  in  Golden  Gate  with  his  family. 

In  1862  Mr.  Duncan  sold  his  interest  in  the 
road  which  he  had  helped  to  build,  and  bought  a 
ranch  seven  miles  east  of  the  present  town  of 
Longmont.  He  became  extensively  occupied  in 
raising  stock  and  the  celebrated  Gold  Dust  horses. 
At  first  he  had  only  a  quaijter-section  of  land,- 
but  to  this  he  added  from  time  to  time,  until  he 
had  a  very  large  ranch  of  several  thousand  acres. 
The  depreciation  in  the  price  of  honses  and  cat- 
tle affected  him  seriously  during  the  '80s  but, 
nevertheless,  he  was  a  rich  man  at  the  time  of  his 
death,  July  3,  1893.  I"  the  first  few  years  of 
his  career  in  this  state  he  was  in  business  part- 
nership with  Mr.  Tucker;  owned  a  ranch  on  the 
Ralston,  and  raised  cattle.  In  all  his  dealings 
with  his  fellows  he  was  upright  and  just,  and 
thus  commanded  their  respect.  In  Illinois  he 
was  connected  with  the  Odd  Fellows'  society. 

Mrs.  Mary  Duncan,  widow  of  our  subject,  be- 
came his  wife  August  9,  1849,  in  Bond  County, 
111.  She  bore  the  girlhood  name  of  Mary  W. 
Myatt,  and  was  born  in  Pocohontas,  Bond 
County,  111.,  March  27,  1832.  Herfather,  Judge 
Alexander  Myatt,  was  born  in  Tennessee,  Feb- 
ruary 9,  1802,  and  was  of  Welsh  extraction. 
At  an  early  date  he  settled  in  Illinois,  and  for 
years  was  county  judge  of  Bond  County.  His 
death  occurred  September  4,  1 861,  at  his  home 
in  the  Prairie  state.  His  wife,  who  was  Miss 
Mary    W.    Chisenhall,   died    March    27,    1832. 


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Two  of  their  sons,  Edward  Wesley  and  Wiley, 
fought  in  the  Mexican  war,  and  of  their  entire 
family  of  four  girls  and  two  boys,  only  three 
survive. 

Since  the  death  of  her  husband  Mrs.  Duncan 
has  lived  in  Boulder,  at  No.  735  Pine  street, 
though  she  still  owns  the  old  homestead  and 
other  property.  Of  the  seven  children  born  to 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Duncan,  Margaret  J.  and  Robert 
A.  reside  in  Boulder;  John  T.  is  superin- 
tendent of  the  Dewdrop  Mining  Company,  at 
Ward;  Mary  W.  is  engaged  in  mercantile  busi- 
ness at  Camp  Francis,  Boulder  County,  Colo.; 
Edward  E.,  after  an  active  life  as  a  farmer,  stock 
grower  and  miner,  died  in  Denver  in  1896,  at  the 
age  of  thirty-three  years,  leaving  one  son,  Claude 
Irving,  and  his  wife,  Elcena  Duncan,  daughter 
of  Turner  Wright;  Guy  D.  lives  in  Boulder;  and 
James  Dell  died  June  9,  1893,  but  four  days  after 
reaching  his  majority.  At  the  time  of  this  death 
a  peculiar  coincidence  was  noted  by  the  father. 
The  first  corpse  Which  he  could  recall  was  that  of 
his  uncle  James,  while  his  oldest  daughter,  Mar- 
garet, remembered  that  the  first  corpse  she  ever 
saw  was  that  of  her  uncle  James,  and  his  three 
grandchildren  then  beheld  their  uncle  of  the  same 
name  as  the  first  corpse  they  had  ever  seen. 
Mrs.  Duncan  recalls  her  early  experiences  in 
this  state  with  a  feeling  of  relief  that  such  times 
do  not  now  exist.  Many  a  night  she  has  lain 
awake,  dreading  lest  the  hostile  Indians  should 
surround  the  lonely  cabin.  In  1864  Mr.  Duncan 
and  other  pioneers  built  a  sod  fort,  near  his  farm 
in  Weld  County,  into  which  his  family  were  to 
take  refuge  should  they  at  any  time  have  warning 
of  an  attack  of  the  Redskins.  She  and  her 
husband  were  proud  that  several  of  their  chil- 
dren were  among  the  first  to  enter  the  State 
University  and  that  all  of  them  have  received  the 
best  education  which  their  economy  and  energy 
rendered  possible. 


gUY  D.  DUNCAN,  one  of  the  prominent 
young  members  of  the  legal  profession  in 
Boulder,  is  very  popular  with  the  citizens  of 
this  place  and  has  a  brilliant  future  in  store.  He 
ably  and  efficiently  served  as  deputy  district  at- 
torney for  three  years  and  has  been  the  secretary 
of  the  Boulder  County  Bar  Association.  He 
takes  great  interest  in  all  of  the  occupations  and 


industries  which  absorb  the  attention  of  the  peo- 
ple of  this  region,  and  is  foremost  in  advocating 
all  improvements  and  enterprises  calculated  to 
upbuild  and  develop  the  resources  of  the  com- 
munity in  which  he  dwells. 

Our  subject  is  a  son  of  Elisha  and  Mary  W. 
(Myatt)  Duncan,  whose  biography  appears  else- 
where in  this  volume.  Guy  D.  is  a  native  of 
Colorado,  his  birth  having  occurred  a  few  years 
subsequent  to  the  arrival  of  the  family  in  this 
state.  The  date  of  this  event  in  his  history 
is  July  5,  1866,  and  his  birthplace  was  his 
father' s  fine  homestead  on  the  St.  Vrain  River, 
east  of  Liongmont,  Weld  County.  In  his  boy- 
hood he  attended  the  district  schools  and  later, 
coming  to  Boulder,  was  a  student  here.  He 
graduated  from  the  preparatory  department  of 
the  University  of  Colorado  in  1885,  and  then 
matriculated  in  the  university,  continuing  there 
until  the  close  of  his  junior  year.  In  1888  he 
enrolled  in  the  University  of  Michigan,  and  in 
the  summer  of  1890  graduated  with  the  degree 
of  Bachelor  of  Philosophy.  Prior  thereto,  and 
from  that  time  forward,  he  devoted  himself  as- 
siduously to  the  study  of  law,  and  was  duly  grad- 
uated from  the  University  of  Michigan  with  the 
degree  of  Bachelor  of  Laws,  in  June,  1891. 

Returning  home  he  at  once  embarked  in 
his  chosen  life-work  and  soon  established  an 
office  in  Boulder,  and  has  since  been  industri- 
ously and  busily  occupied  in  attending  to  the 
needs  of  his  clients.  At  present  his  office  is  cen- 
trally situated,  being  in  the  Masonic  Temple. 
His  practice  is  general,  and  he  is  authorized  to 
appear  before  all  the  state  and  federal  courts. 
From  1895  to  1898  he  was  deputy  district  attor- 
ney, serving  under  A.  C.  Patton.  Since  attain- 
ing his  right  of  franchise  he  has  used  the  same  in 
favor  of  the  People's  party,  and  has  been  their 
candidate  at  different  times,  for  the  positions  of 
county  judge  and  city  attorney;  he  is  at  this 
writing  a  candidate  for  county  judge.  He  is 
financially  interested  in  the  Boulder  County  De- 
velopment Company,  which  has  mines  in  this 
locality  and  he  is  also  individually  connected 
with  several  mining  and  farming  enterprises. 
He  is  now  interested  in  the  establishment  of  an 
electric  railway  in  Boulder  and  vicinity.  Person- 
ally, he  is  well  liked  and  a  general  favorite  in  soci- 
ety, as  well  as  in  business  circles.  His  superior 
education   and   general  knowledge  of  men  and 


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afifairs,  the  culture  tie  has  acquired  in  travel  and 
in  college  life,  make  him  an  entertaining  conver- 
sationalist. 


ROBERT  A.  DUNCAN,  a  well-known  citizen 
of  Boulder,  has  literally  grown  up  among 
mines,  and  cannot  recall  a  time  when  he  was 
not  deeply  interested  in  the  subject.  He  was  but 
five  years  of  age  when,  in  i860,  he  crossed  the 
plains  with  his  parents  in  a  mule  train,  and 
landed  in  Colorado,  and  from  that  time  to  the 
present  he  has  been  more  or  less  intimately  asso- 
ciated with  mining  operations.  Though  now 
but  in  the  prime  of  manhood,  he  is  entitled 
to  be  called  a  pioneer  of  this  region,  and  few  of 
the  residents  of  the  state  have  had  the  privilege 
of  watching  its  marvelous  development  for  a 
longer  period.  Years  ago,  when  the  Democratic 
party  was  in  a  minority  in  Boulder  County,  he 
was  a  candidate  on  that  ticket  for  the  office  of 
county  commissioner  and  also  for  the  legislature, 
and  since  the  monetary  system  has  been  the  most 
prominent  feature  of  politics  he  has  advocated 
silver. 

The  birth  of  our  subject  took  place  in  Carlyle, 
Clinton  County,  111.,  August  14,  1855.  He  is 
next  to  the  oldest  in  a  family  of  seven  children. 
(See  sketch  of  his  father,  Elisha  Duncan,  for 
family  history.)  The  journey  across  the  plains 
in  wagons  drawn  by  mules  and  oxen  was  a  won- 
derful event  to  the  boy,  and  after  the  party  reached 
Colorado  his  father  decided  to  locate  at  Golden 
Gate,  above  Golden  City.  There  the  lad  went  to 
school  for  a  short  time  and  also  was  a  pupil  in 
the  school  at  Golden,  but  his  educational  advant- 
ages were  quite  limited,  owing  to  the  few  facilities 
within  his  reach  in  the  sparsely  settled  districts 
in  which  he  resided.  When  he  was  a  mere  child 
he  accompanied  his  father  in  his  prospecting  ex- 
peditions and  frequently  carried  provisions  and 
supplies  to  the  mining  camp.  In  1865  he  located 
in  lyongmont,  and  in  1877  he  went  to  Leadville. 

It  would  be  difiicult  to  tell  exactly  when  Rob- 
ert A.  Duncan  first  actively  engaged  in  mining 
operations  on  his  own  account,  but  certain  it  is 
that  he  was  very  young.  In  the  vicinity  of 
Leadville  he  was  concerned  in  numerous  enter- 
prises of  the  kind  for  two  or  more  years,  but  in 
the  spring  of  1879  went  into  Gunnison  County, 
and  prospected  and  mined  near  Gothic  and  Ruby. 
There  he  discovered  several  good  gold  and  silver 


mines,  most  of  which  are  still  being  worked  with 
profit.  The  chief  producers.  Little  Chief,  Lead 
Chief,  Oakes  and  Independence,  were  very  suc- 
cessfully run  by  Mr.  Duncan  up  to  1885,  when  he 
commenced  his  labors  in  Ward  and  vicinity. 
There  he  opened  the  Puzzler,  the  Dewdrop,  the 
Protection  and  the  Red  Lion  group  of  mines. 
The  Puzzler  was  for  years  one  of  the  best  paying 
mines  of  its  class.  The  Dewdrop  was  operated 
by  our  subject  and  his  brother,  JohnT.,  for  some 
time,  as  was  the  Protection,  which  he  discov- 
ered, put  into  fine  condition  and  later  sold.  At 
present  among  his  property  is  Chief  Big-Finger 
mine,  and  the  east  extension  of  the  B.  and  M.  mine. 
The  outlook  for  this  mine  is  most  promising,  and 
the  Lois  and  the  Lucky  Star, in  Sugar  Loaf  district, 
are  also  doing  well.  In  addition  to  the  others 
named  Mr.  Duncan  owns  six  claims  in  Gilpin 
County,  the  Orear  group,  situated  in  Travis 
Gulch.  He  is  a  practical  miner,  understanding 
thoroughly  the  best  methods  for  this  peculiar 
region,  and  has  made  the  subject  a  serious 
study. 

Several  years  ago  Mr.  Duncan  erected  his  com- 
fortable house  at  No.  430  Mapleton  avenue,  the 
first  residence  put  up  on  this  street.  His  marriage 
to  Miss  Myrtle  Wright  took  place  in  Longmont 
in  1890.  She  was  born  in  Weld  County,  Colo., 
and  is  a  daughter  of  Turner  Wright,  who  was 
one  of  the  pioneers  of  this  state,  and  is  now  a  res- 
ident of  Denver.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Duncan  have 
three  children,  Ralph,  Ella  and  Lawrence. 


HM.  JORALMON.  The  causes  which  led 
to  the  rapid  development  of  Colorado  were 
principally  her  enormous  resources  and  the 
able  business  men  who  helped  to  develop  them. 
Among  the  active,  wide-awake  business  men  of 
Denver,  who  by  their  tireless  energy  and  thor- 
ough business  methods  have  made  Colorado 
famous  as  one  of  the  great  banking  and  business 
centers  of  America,  we  confidently  mention  the 
subject  of  this  sketch.  In  a  remarkably  short 
time,  Mr.  Joralmon  has  gained  the. good  will  and 
confidence  of  our  older  financiers  and  by  his  hon- 
orable dealings  and  courteous  bearing  secured 
the  confidence  of  the  people,  who  are  the  best 
judges  of  a  man's  worth  and  ability. 

Mr.   Joralmon   descends  from  the  best  of  old 
Huguenot  stock,  who  for  the  sake  of  honest  con- 


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victious  and  religious  principles  left  home  and 
lifelong  friends,  to  live  in  a  far-away  land,  the 
faith  they  held  being  dearer  than  life  itself.  We 
hear  much  of  the  Pilgrim  Fathers,  but  little  is 
said  in  history  of  the  intelligent  and  liberal- 
minded  Huguenot  who  brought  his  knowledge 
"and  art  into  a  new  country,  ill-fitted  to  receive 
them,  and  yet  who  left  upon  our  western  civiliza- 
tion the  indelible  impress  of  his  sterling  char- 
acter, which  has  descended  through  many  gen- 
erations. 

The  old  French  ancestors  found  a  refuge  in 
America  about  1620  and  eventually  settled  in 
Westchester  County,  N.  Y.,  where  they  became 
prominent.  One  of  them,  Capt.  Henry  Jorale- 
mon  (as  the  name  was  then  spelled)  was  a  Revo- 
lutionary soldier,  of  whom  mention  is  made  in 
Barker's  History  of  New  Jersey.  Through  the 
Kierstead  family  they  are  related  to  the  Bogardus 
and  Anneke  Jans  families.  Members  of  the  fam- 
ily were  among  the  founders  of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y., 
and  one  of  the  principal  streets  in  the  business 
center  of  that  city  bears  the  family  name  to  this 
day. 

Rev.  John  Sansom  Joralmon,  the  father  of  our 
subject,  was  born  in  New  York  City.  He  re- 
ceived excellent  educational  advantages,  gradu- 
ating from  Rutgers  College  in  New  Brunswick, 
N.  Y.,  in  classics  and  theology,  and  receiving 
the  degree  of  A.  M.  Shortly  afterward  he  was 
ordained  to  the  ministry  of  the  Dutch  Reformed 
Church  and  at  once  offered  himself  to  the  Amer- 
ican Board  of  Commissioners  for  Foreign  Mis- 
sions. He  was  assigned  to  Amoy,  China,  where  ^ 
he  remained  for  three  years.  On  his  return  to 
America  he  became  pastor  of  the  Dutch  Re- 
formed Church  at  Belleville,  N.  J.  Later,  for 
twenty-five  years  he  resided  at  Fairview,  Fulton 
County,  111.,  after  which  he  accepted  the  pastor- 
ate of  the  Dutch  Reformed  Church  at  Norwood 
Park,  Chicago.  Since  his  retirement  from  an 
active  ministerial  service,  he  has  resided  in  Den- 
ver. His  wife,  Martha.  Bogart  Condit,  was  a 
daughter  of  Peter  Condit  and  was  born,  of  Eng- 
lish descent,  in  Newark,  N.J.  She  is  the  mother 
of  two  children,  Harry  McDonald  and  Louis 
Bogart  Joralmon,  who  are  associated  together  in 
business. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  near  Chi- 
cago, 111.  He  was  educated  at  Knox  College, 
Galesburg,  from  which  he  later  received  the  de- 


gree of  A.  M.  He  has  decided  literary  tastes, 
which  he  cultivated  while  associate  editor  of  the 
American  Field  for  a  period  of  six  years.  To  his 
friends  it  is  a  surprise  that  he  chose  a  business 
life,  when  nature  had  endowed  him  with  rare 
mental  gifts  that  would  have  brought  him  honor, 
if  not  wealth,  in  the  world  of  letters.  His  ener- 
getic spirit,  clear  perceptions  and  a  good  knowl- 
edge of  business  methods,  however,  led  him  to 
engage  in  the  investment  and  private  banking 
business  in  Chicago.  He  came  to  Denver  in 
1889  and  here,  principally  by  his  own  energy  and 
ability,  he  rose  in  a  remarkably  short  time  to 
the  enviable  position  he  now  occupies.  He  is  a 
director  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  and  Board  of 
Trade  and  has  other  important  business  connec- 
tions. He  is  the  senior  member  of  the  firm  of  Joral- 
mon &  Co.,  investment  bankers,  financial  agents 
and  attorneys,  with  elegant  ofiices  in  the  Equitable 
building.  The  business  was  first  established  in 
1873  in  Colorado  Springs,  but  removed  to  Den- 
ver in  1883.  Mr.  Joralmon  is  a  man  of  business 
ability  and  sound  judgment,  and  his  advice  is 
often  sought  by  experienced  business  men,  who 
look  upon  him  as  a  man  destined  to  take  an  im- 
portant part  in  the  management  of  finances  in 
Colorado  and  the  great  west. 

Politically  Mr.  Joralmon  is  a  gold  Democrat. 
Socially  he  is  a  member  of  the  Denver  Club  and 
the  Overland  Park  Club.  His  wife,  Katherine 
(Gaddis)  Joralmon,  is  a  graduate  of  the  well- 
known  Illinois  Female  Seminary  and  a  lady  of 
culture  and  refinement.  Their  home  is  brightened 
by  two  daughters,  Berenice  and  Catherine.  Mrs. 
Joralmon  is  a  daughter  of  Dr.  John  Van  Dyke 
Gaddis,  a  well-known  physician  of  Illinois,  and 
is  a  descendant  of  Sarah  Rappelje,  the  first  white 
child  born  in  Long  Island. 


gHARLES  TURNER  NEWMARCH,  a  re- 
tired dairyman  and  stock-raiser, whose  home 
is  three  miles  northwest  of  Sedalia,  Douglas 
County,  and  who  is  the  owner  of  a  ranch  com- 
prising five  hundred  and  thirty  acres,  was  born 
in  Lincolnshire,  England,  September  15,  1825, 
being  a  son  of  Thomas  and  Mary  (Turner) 
Newmarch.  He  was  reared  on  a  farm  in  Eng- 
land and  began  to  be  self-supporting  when  a  mere 
lad.  In  1853  he  came  to  America,  landing  in 
Montreal  after  a  voyage  of  nine  weeks  and  three 


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days  on  a  sailing  vessel,  during  which  time  they 
encountered  a  severe  storm  and  gave  themselves 
up  for  lost.  After  a  few  days  in  Montreal  he 
came  to  the  United  States,  joining  a  cousin  in 
Washington  County,  Ohio.  For  a  year  he 
worked  on  the  Marietta  &  Cincinnati  Railroad  in 
that  locality. 

Starting  down  the  Ohio  River  in  a  skiff,  Mr. 
Newmarch  deserted  the  skiff  for  a  steamer,  and 
continued  on  the  latter  until  he  reached  Point 
Pleasant,  where  he  disembarked  and  took  a  stage 
to  Charleston,  W.  Va.  He  went  to  a  place  where 
a  tunnel  was  being  cut  through  the  Allegheny 
Mountains,  and  there  for  several  years  he  had 
charge  of  the  laborers.  July  7,  1858,  he  left  that 
place  and  went  by  stage  to  Charleston,  where  he 
took  a  boat  for  Cincinnati,  and  thence  journeyed 
by  steamer  to  St.  Louis.  From  there,  via  an- 
other steamer,  he  traveled  to  Comanche,  Clin- 
ton County,  Iowa,  to  which  place  his  cousin  had 
removed  from  Ohio.  He  remained  in  that  county 
until  May  12,  1859,  when  he  started  for  Pike's 
Peak,  accompanying  E.  H.  Frank  and  G.  E. 
Lowell,  and  making  the  trip  with  a  wagon  and 
an  ox  team.  They  reached  Boulder  just  as  the 
raspberries  were  ripening,  and  as  there  was  an 
abundance  of  the  fruit,  they  subsisted  largely 
upon  it.  They  made  a  general  survey  of  the 
mines.  Their  camp  was  on  Clear  Creek,  a  few 
miles  below  Golden.  Some  of  the  party  went  to 
Georgia  Gulch,  but  returned,  reporting  no  gold. 
They  then  went  to  Blackhawk  and  mined  in 
Gregory  Gulch  until  autumn,  but  were  not  very 
fortunate,  barely  making  their  expenses.  Re- 
turning to  Denver  they  camped  in  a  tent  near 
the  present  site  of  the  Union  depot,  which  prop- 
erty they  could  have  secured  for  almost  nothing. 
Mr.  Newmarch  took  a  claim  near  where  Rufus 
Clark  had  settled.  In  the  spring  of  the  following 
year  he  left  Denver  on  the  day  of  the  famous 
duel  fought  between  Bliss  and  Stone.  Going  to 
Russell  Gulch  he  worked  there,  also  at  Idaho 
Springs  and  Spanish  Bar.  Finally  he  and  his 
companions  reached  a  lake  where  they  found 
some  gold,  but  soon  afterward  one  of  the  men 
fell  a  victim  to  the  mountain  fever,  and  the 
others  traded  their  claim  for  a  team.  They  went 
to  Jefferson  County  and  gave  the  name  of  Deer 
Creek  to  a  small  stream,  naming  it  this  on  ac- 
count of  the  large  number  of  deer  and  other 
game  found  there.  Settling  there  the  men  turned 


their  attention  to  farming,  and  were  quite  suc- 
cessful, selling  one  hundred  tons  of  hay  for  $25 
a  ton,  and  receiving  cash  in  payment. 

In  1863  Mr.  Newmarch  sold  out  and  moved  to 
Platte  Canon,  in  Douglas  County, where  he  traded 
for  a  squatter's  claim.  In  1866  he  sold  out  and 
moved  to  Indian  Creek,  squatting  on  a  claim 
where  W.  T.  Lambert  now  lives.  He  had  a 
cabin  on  Wild  Creek,  and  there  lived  for  some 
time,  but  finally  moved  to  the  land  now  owned  by 
W.  T.  Lambert.  Soon  after  his  marriage,  which 
occurred  November  15,  1868,  he  moved  to  his- 
present  property,  building  a  neat  residence  there 
in  1873.  His  wife,  Elizabeth  M.  Perry,  was 
born  in  Somersetshire,  England,  a  daughter  of 
James  and  Elizabeth  Ann  (Dowden)  Perry.  She 
was  about  nine  years  of  age  when  she  came  to 
America  with  her  parents  and  settled  in  Pennsyl- 
vania, but  after  a  few  months  removed  to  Dela- 
ware, and  one  year  later  went  to  New  Jersey, 
thence  after  a  year  settled  in  Cuyahoga  County, 
Ohio,  and  in  1857  went  further  west  to  Daven- 
port, Iowa,  and  from  there  in  i860  removed  to 
St.  Joseph,  Mo.  In  July,  1861,  they  came  to 
Colorado,  and  have  since  lived  in  Douglas  Coun- 
ty. Mr.  and  Mrs.  Newmarch  are  the  parents  of 
three  children  now  living:  Charles  James,  who 
is  a  farmer;  George  Thomas,  who  married  Susan 
B.  Harlin,  and  has  one  child;  and  Ida  M.  A., 
who  resides  at  home. 

Politically  a  Democrat,  Mr.  Newmarch  has 
never  actively  identified  himself  with  politics,  and 
has  always  refused  to  become  a  candidate  for  of- 
fice. He  was  reared  in  the  Methodist  faith,  but 
became  an  Episcopalian,  and  all  of  his  family  are 
also  connected  with  that  denomination. 

In  1867  the  Indians  became  troublesome  and 
attacked  settlers  in  this  part  of  the  state.  One 
day,  while  Mr.  Newmarch  was  looking  after  his 
cattle,  a  man  hurried  along  and  gave  warning 
that  the  Indians  were  approaching  and  had 
already  driven  some  of  the  cattle  away.  The 
savages  had  encamped  and  fortified  themselves 
near  where  Benjamin  Quick  now  lives.  Our  sub- 
ject and  others  went  to  the  place,  but  found  the 
Indians  had  gone  down  to  Platte  Canon.  The 
white  men  followed.  Meantime  the  red  men  were 
stealing  horses  and  cattle,  and  killed  a  man  near 
where  Mr.  Perry  now  lives,  hurrying  away  after 
the  awful  deed,  and  leaving  the  man's  scalp  in 
the  bushes.  While  the  settlers  were  riding  along. 


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he  has  also  been  prominent  in  temperance  work. 
Rev.  Alva  D.  Hammitt,  his  eldest  son,  is  zealous 
in  the  work  of  the  Congregational  Church,  and 
is  a  minister  at  present  located  in  Pacific  Grove, 
Cal.  Nellie,  the  eldest  daughter,  is  the  wife  of 
Arthur  R.  Ross,  of  Platteville.  George  Warren 
and  Carleton  W.  are  operating  the  homestead. 
Frank  N.  is  associated  with  the  Cody  Land  Com- 
pany of  Cody,  Wyo.  Elma  is  the  wife  of  Clarence 
Armstrong,  a  farmer  near  Platteville.  Pearl  is 
Mrs.  Fred  Brisco,  of  La  Belle,  Idaho.  The 
mother  of  these  children  died  September  29,  1878. 
June  15,  1881,  Mr.  Hammitt  married  Mrs.  Louie 
Shea,  widow  of  Henry  Shea,  and  daughter  of 
Jeremiah  and  Emeline  (Lowrey)  Lycam.  She  is 
a  native  of  Wisconsin.  The  two  children  of  our 
subject  and  wife  are:  Grace  A.  and  Guy  L. 


«ySAAC  WILLIS  BENNETT,  who  came  to 
I  Colorado  in  1872,  has  the  distinction  of  being 
X  the  originator  of  the  sheep  feeding  industry 
in  Larimer  County,  an  industry  that  has  assumed 
large  proportions  and  has  become  one  of  the  most 
important  in  the  county.  He  and  his  brother, 
Egbert  Jay,  had  engaged  in  the  sheep-feeding 
business  in  Nebraska,  subsequently  purchasing 
twenty-four  hundred  lambs,  which  they  intended 
to  ship  to  Nebraska,  but  they  were  caught  at 
Walsenburg  in  a  severe  blizzard,  and  of  necessity 
remained  in  this  state.  They  shipped  the  sheep 
to  Fort  Collins,  hoping  to  save  them  by  feeding 
them  on  alfalfa,  and  the  results  were  far  superior 
to  what  they  were  realizing  in  Nebraska.  They 
were  so  pleased  that  they  decided  to  continue  the 
business  here.  Thus,  by  accident,  was  discovered 
an  industry  that  has  grown  to  such  proportions 
that  in  1897-98  there  were  over  three  hundred 
thousand  sheep  fed  in  this  locality. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  in  Oregon, 
Wis.,  November  14,  1855.  His  father  is  of  Eng- 
lish descent,  a  member  on  the  maternal  side  of 
the  Mygatt  family,  who  settled  at  Coxsackie  on 
the  Hudson,  while  his  mother  was  of  Holland- 
Dutch  and  French  descent,  being  a  member  of 
the  Keistead  family,  of  central  New  York.  His 
father,  Hon.  Isaac  Bennett,  was  born  in  Dutchess 
County,  N.  Y.,  and  grew  to  manhood  in  Schoharie 
County,  whence  he  removed  to  Wisconsin,  be- 
coming one  of  the  earliest  settlers  in  the  village 
of  Oregon,     Later  he  was  a  merchant  and  banker 


at  Evansville.  About  1869  he  served  as  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Wisconsin  legislature.  Since  retiring 
from  business  he  has  made  his  home  in  Chicago. 
His  wife,  Elizabeth,  who  was  born  in  New  York 
.state,  was  a  daughter  of  Abraham  Kei.stead,  an 
early  settler  of  Oregon,  Wis.  She  died  in  Wis- 
consin. Of  her  five  children  all  but  one  attained 
maturity  and  two  are  now  living.  Duane,  who 
was  graduated  from  the  Chicago  Homeopathic 
Medical  College,  settled  in  Colorado  in  187 1  and 
died  at  Fort  Collins  in  the  fall  of  1878,  when 
thirty  years  of  age.  Edwin  died  in  Wisconsin. 
The  surviving  sons  are  E.  J.  and  our  subject. 

When  a  boy,  I.  W.  Bennett  attended  the  public 
schools  of  Evansville,  Wis.  At  the  age  of  six- 
teen he  came  to  Colorado  with  his  brother  E.  J. 
and  joined  their  brother  Dr.  Duane  Bennett,  and 
embarked  in  raising  horses  and  sheep  near  Liver- 
more.  In  1879,  when  the  severe  and  protracted 
drought  forced  him  to  remove  his  stock,  he  drove 
them  to  North  Park,  where  he  had  a  ranch  on  the 
North  Fork  of  the  Platte.  In  the  fall  of  1881  he 
sold  out.  He  has  since  made  a  specialty  of  the 
sheep  industry.  He  and  his  brother,  who  are 
partners,  own  Bonner  Spring  ranch,  Steve  George 
ranch,  at  Livermore,  and  several  other  places, 
which  are  improved.  They  have  a  section  of  land 
ten  miles  east  of  Fort  Collins  known  as  Black  Hol- 
low ranth,  nearly  all  of  which  is  seeded  to  alfal- 
fa, where  lambs  are  fed  for  the  Chicago  market. 

At  Fort  Collins,  October  14,  1885,  Mr.  Bennett 
married  Miss  Laura  Budrow,  who  was  born  in 
Moscow,  Livingston  County,  N.  Y.,  a  daughter 
of  James  and  Jane  (Thompson)  Budrow,  natives 
of  Livingston  County.  Her  grandfather,  James, 
a  native  of  Geneva,  N.  Y. ,  was  a  farmer  in  Liv- 
ingston County.  He  was  a  son  of  James  de 
Budreaux  (here  we  preserve  the  French  spell- 
ing), who  came  to  this  country  from  France, 
shortly  after  the  close  of  the  French  and  Indian 
war,  and  bought  at  Geneva,  on  Seneca  Lake,  a 
tract  twenty-seven  miles  long  and  a  league  wide, 
where  he  afterward  resided.  While  crossing  the 
ocean  on  a  visit  back  to  his  native  land  he  was 
ship- wrecked  and  lost.  James  Budrow  engaged  in 
the  manufacture  of  fanning  mills  in  western  New 
York,  where  he  died  in  1879,  at  the  age  of  fifty- 
three  years.  His  wife,  who  has  resided  in  Fort 
Collins  since  1880,  was  a  daughter  of  Theodore 
Thompson,  who  was  born  at  Beekman-on-Hud- 
gon  in  1800  and  engaged  in  the   mercantile  busi- 


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ness  at  Moscow,  N.  Y.,  where  he  died.  For 
twenty  years  he  served  as  sheriff  of  Livingston 
County.  His  father,  Theodore  Thompson,  St., 
was  pressed  by  the  English  into  service  upon  a 
British  warship  and  nothing  further  was  ever 
heard  of  him.  Mrs.  Bennett  was  the  fourth 
among  six  children,  the  others  of  whom  are: 
Jennie,  who  married  J.  Monroe  Whiteman,  and 
died  in  Fort  Collins;  Theodore,  who  is  engaged 
in  the  abstract  business  in  Fort  Collins;  Gideon, 
a  merchant  in  Cheyenne,  Wyo.;  Frank,  who  is 
in  Denver;  and  James,  superintendent  of  a  ditch 
at  Fort  Collins.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bennett  have 
three  children  now  living,  Anna  L-,  Charles 
Edwin  and  Ruth  B.;  Arthur  Thompson  being 
deceased. 

Aside  from  his  other  interests,  Mr.  Bennett 
owns  stock  in  the  First  National  Bank  of  Fort 
Collins,  in  which  he  is  a  director.  He  is  identi- 
fied with  the  Larimer  County  Sheep  Feeders' 
Association.  Politically  he  and  his  family  are 
Republicans.  He  is  a  member  of  the  vestry  of 
the  Episcopal  Church,  to  which  denomination 
his  family  also  belong.  Fraternally  he  was  made 
a  Mason  in  Evansville,  and  is  now  connected  with 
Collins  Lodge  No.  19,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  and  Cache 
la  Poudre  Chapter  No.  11,  R.  A.  M.  He  was 
one  of  the  promoters  and  the  president  of  the 
Larimer  County  Ditch  Company,  later  a  promo- 
ter of  the  Sky  Line  ditch,  and  member  of  the 
Water  Supply  and  Storage  Company.  The  Sky 
Line  ditch,  which  is  five  and  one- quarter  miles 
in  length,  cost  about  |ioo,ooo  and  taps  the  head- 
waters of  Larimer  River.  For  many  years  he 
was  president  of  the  company,  and  is  still  a 
director. 


(Tames  D.  perry  owns  Mount  Hope  farm, 
I  one  and  one-half  miles  north  of  Sedalia,  on 
Q)  the  east  bank  of  Plum  Creek,  Douglas 
County,  and  here  he  has  two  hundred  and  thirty 
acres,  devoted  to  gardening,  dairying  and  general 
farm  pursuits.  He  was  born  near  Taunton, 
Somersetshire,  England,  November  27,  1S31,  a 
son  of  James  and  Ann  (Dowden)  Perry.  His 
father,  who  was  a  nurseryman  by  occupation, 
brought  his  family  (consisting  of  three  children, 
of  whom  James,  about  seventeen,  was  the  oldest) 
to  the  United  States,  crossing  the  ocean  in  a 
-sailing  vessel  that  encountered  severe  storms  and 
came  nearly  being  wrecked.     The  mate,  who  had 


followed  the  sea  for  thirty  years,  said  it  was  the 
worst  storm  he  had  ever  seen,  and  our  subject 
distinctly  remembers  the  earnest  prayers  of  the 
hitherto  rough.  Godless  seaman.  After  eleven 
weeks  the  ship  came  to  anchor  in  New  York. 

For  two  years  the  family  lived  upon  a  rented 
farm  in  Delaware,  after  which  they  spent  one  year 
in  New  Jersey,  and  in  1851  removed  to  Cleve- 
land, Ohio,  where  they  engaged  in  gardening. 
Six  years  later  they  went  to  Davenport,  Iowa, 
where  they  had  a  large  garden,  eight  acres  being 
planted  to  onions,  which  they  shipped  to  St.  Louis. 
In  i860  our  subject  crossed  the  plains,  leaving 
home  in  April,  and  arriving  in  Denver  May  26. 
The  journey  was  made  by  means  of  an  ox-team, 
the  usual  mode  of  travel  in  those  days.  He  went ' 
to  Tarry  all,  where  he  bought  his  brother's  interest 
in  a  mine.  Selling  it  soon,  he  went  to  California 
Gulch  (now  Leadville),  where  he  prospected  and 
mined.  After  a  year  he  located  near  the  present 
site  of  Sedalia,  where  he  began  gardening,  and 
this  occupation  he  has  followed  during  most  of 
the  time  since.  He  entered  land,  which  in  1867  he 
sold  to  its  present  owner,  Mr.  Bryant,  and  then 
homesteaded  eighty  acres  five  and  one-half  miles 
south  of  Denver.  Two  years  later  he  secured 
a  deed  to  the  property,  which  he  then  sold.  Previ- 
ous to  this,  in  1864,  he  drove  through  to  Montana 
with  five  yoke  of  oxen  and  was  snowed  in  for 
some  time  on  Snake  River.  He  sold  his  outfit 
and  returned  to  Colorado. 

From  1 869  to  187 1  Mr.  Perry  lived  near  Denver, 
and  in  the  latter  year  he  bought  where  he  now 
resides.  April  23,  1871,  he  married  Mi.ss  Sarah 
M.  Jerome,  whose  home  was  in  Kansas  and  with 
whom  he  had  become  acquainted  in  Colorado. 
She  was  born  near  Girard,  Pa.,  a  daughter  of 
Homer  and  Cordelia  (Russell)  Jerome.  They 
are  the  parents  of  eight  children,  viz.:  William, 
who  married  Veronicia  C.  Brown,  and  lives  in 
Douglas  County;  Homer  Bert,  who  assists  his 
father  on  the  home  farm;  Daisy  Cordelia,  Mrs. 
Louis  Overstreet,  of  Douglas  County;  Clara, 
Ella  E. ,  Dora  Isabelle,  Sarah  Grace  and  Albert 
Jerome. 

In  religion  Mr.  Perry  inclines  toward  the  Epis- 
copal faith,  in  which  belief  he  was  reared.  He 
was  a  contributor  to  the  building  of  St.  Philip's 
Church  in  Bear  Canon  and  has  since  aided  in 
its  maintenance.  Politically  he  usually  votes  the 
Republican  ticket,  but  he  is  not  a  partisan  in  his 


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opinions.  He  has  been  identified  with  the  history 
of  Colorado  since  pioneer  days,  has  endured  all 
the  hardships  of  frontier  life  and  experienced  the 
hardships  incident  to  the  settling  of  a  new  coun- 
try. His  trip  across  the  plains,  with  all  its 
hardships,  was  but  the  forerunner  of  trials  that 
were  to  follow.  His  father,  who  started  across 
the  country  to  Colorado  in  1861,  died  on  the 
Little  Blue  River  in  Nebraska,  and  was  buried 
there,  the  family  continuing  their  way  alone. 
But,  while  Mr.  Perry  has  experienced  the  hard- 
ships of  pioneer  life,  he  has  lived  to  enjoy  its  re- 
sults, and  now  has  a  fine  home  and  every  com- 
fort, all  the  result  of  the  sacrifices  he  made  in 
former  years;  and  certainly  no  one  is  more  de- 
serving of  success  and  prosperity  than  he. 


[""RANK  H.  KIRK,  superintendent  of  the 
ly  Greenland  farm  at  Greenland,  Douglas 
I  ^  County, was  born  in  Atchison,  Kan. ,  Novem- 
ber 23,  1865,  and  is  a  son  of  James  E.  and 
Mary  E.  (Hull)  Kirk.  His  father  was  born  on 
a  farm  near  Springfield,  Va.,  and  at  twelve  years 
of  age  was  apprenticed  to  learn  the  machinist's 
trade,  which  he  followed  for  years.  While  en- 
gaged at  his  trade  in  Berrien  County,  Mich.,  he 
made  the  first  model  for  the  Gage  roller  drill, 
which  was  extensively  manufactured  in  Michigan. 
Later  he  drifted  into  the  manufacture  and  sale  of 
lumber,  on  the  Missouri  River,  near  Atchison, 
Kan.  During  his  residence  in  Michigan  he  had 
married,  and  shortly  afterward  brought  his  wife 
to  Atchison.  Early  in  the  war  he  enlisted  in 
Company  H,  Thirteenth  Kansas  Infantry,  in 
which  he  served  for  three  years,  participating  in 
the  battles  of  Perry  Grove  and  Pea  Ridge,  Ark., 
and  a  number  of  other  engagements.  For  some 
time  he  was  confined  in  the  hospital  at  Fort 
Leavenworth,  and  on  recovering  sufficiently  he 
was  discharged  and  sent  home.  After  he  was 
taken  ill  and  sent  to  the  hospital  his  family  left 
Atchison  and  joined  him  in  Leavenworth,  in  order 
to  be  near  him. 

After  the  war  Mr.  Kirk  made  considerable 
money  in  the  lumber  business,  but  he  loaned  it 
to  a  man  who  bankrupted,  and  thus  the  entire 
amount  was  lost,  and  on  his  removal  to  Colorado 
in  1872,  he  was  a  poor  man.  Here  he  took  charge 
of  the  cutting  and  sale  of  timber  on  the  divide,  on 
what  is  now  known  as  the  K.  K.  ranch.     At  this 


writing  he  is  in  the  employ  of  Charles  B.  Kountze, 
as  land  agent  for  the  Colorado  National  Bank. 
Of  his  children  all  (seven)  are  living,  our  sub- 
ject's twin  brother,  Charles  M.,  being  superin- 
tendent of  the  K.  K.  ranch  at  Eastonville. 

When  our  subject  was  seven  years  of  age  he 
was  brought  to  Colorado.  In  the  schools  of  El 
Paso  County  he  obtained  a  fair  education.  At 
seventeen  years  of  age  he  took  charge  of  the  farm 
owned  by  W.  E.  Meek,  in  El  Paso  County,  and 
for  two  years  he  had  charge  of  the  place,  Mr. 
Meek  being  absent  the  greater  part  of  the  time. 
At  nineteen  he  and  his  twin  brother  were  given 
their  time,  and  they  rented  from  their  father  a 
ranch  in  El  Paso  County,  where  they  remained  for 
a  year.  Afterward,  in  partnership  with  Kountze 
Brothers,  he  embarked  in  the  cattle  business,  and 
during  the  seven  years  in  which  he  was  so  en- 
gaged he  prospered.  April  29,  1892,  he  married 
Miss  Nellie  M.  Toelle,  of  El  Paso  County,  Colo., 
who  was  born  in  Wyandotte,  Kan.,  and  came  to 
Colorado  with  her  mother  in  1872. 

Shortly  after  his  marriage  Mr.  Kirk  took  charge 
of  the  farm  where  he  now  resides.  Some  knowl- 
edge of  the  extent  of  the  business  may  be  gath- 
ered from  the  fact  that  there  are  twenty  thousand 
acres  of  land  in  one  body,  of  which  one  thousand 
are  under  cultivation.  On  the  place  there  are 
twenty-five  hundred  head  of  live  stock,  the  build- 
ings have  been  enlarged  and  doubled  in  number, 
and  the  monthly  pay  roll  aggregates  from  $600 
to  $1,200,  between  ten  and  forty-five  men  being 
employed. 

Fraternally  Mr.  Kirk  is  connected  with  Castle 
Rock  Lodge  of  Ancient  Order  of  United  Work- 
men. He  was  reared  a  Republican,  but  in  1896, 
favoring  silver,  he  voted  for  Bryan.  He  has 
served  his  party  as  delegate  to  conventions.  He 
and  his  wife  are  the  parents  of  two  children. 
Hazel  Charles,  a  daughter,  and  Wallace  B. ,  a  son, 
both  of  whom  were  born  on  the  Greenland  farm. 


I  LEWELLYN  P.  DAVIES,  of  Central  City, 
IC  was  born  in  North  Wales  in  1851,  a  son  of 
Ii2f  O.  L-  Davies,  a  merchant  of  Anglesea,  and  a 
grandson  of  David  Lewis  Davies,  a  boat  builder  of 
the  same  place.  The  marriage  of  O.  L.  Davies  to 
Ann  Hughes  resulted  in  the  birth  of  ten  children, 
three  ofwhomarein  Colorado,  namely:  O.  L-,who 
lives  in   Denver;  L-   P.,  who  was  next  to  the 


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youngest  of  the  family;  and  Ann,  also  a  resident 
of  Denver.  At  the  age  of  fourteen  our  subject 
left  school  and  became  an  apprentice  to  a  phar- 
macist, with  whom  he  remained  for  four  years. 
He  then  went  to  Liverpool,  where  he  was  man- 
ager of  a  pharmacy  and  assistant  to  a  physician 
for  eight  years.  After  spending  fifteen  years  in 
Liverpool,  he  crossed  the  ocean  in  1885  and  set- 
tled in  Central .  City,  where  he  has  made  his 
home  since  November  of  that  year.  For  eighteen 
months  he  was  an  employe  of  John  Best,  whom 
he  bought  out  and  has  since  engaged  in  the  drug 
business. 


KOBERT  O.  OLD,  of  Georgetown,  Clear 
Creek  County,  is  one  of  the  wealthiest  mine 
owners  of  the  state,  and  has  probably  done 
more  in  the  way  of  developing  the  mines  in  this 
county  than  any  other  person  or  corporation. 
He  has  been  a  resident  of  the  state  for  almost 
forty  years,  and  has  been  closely  identified  with 
its  upbuilding.  His  ancestors  were  pure  Saxons 
and  were  in  England  before  the  time  of  the  Nor- 
man Conquerors.  His  grandfather,  Robert  Old, 
was  born  in  Dorsetshire,  England,  and  was  a  miller 
of  that  place  until  he  entered  the  British  army 
under  Wellington,  serving  as  his  aide-de-camp  in 
the  battle  of  Waterloo.  He  died  in  England  in 
the  ripeness  of  age.  His  son,  the  father  of  our 
subject,  Thomas  C.  Old,  was  also  born  in  Dorset- 
shire, and  was  a  glove  manufacturer  there.  He 
later  moved  to  America,  and  died  at  the  age  of 
eighty-four  years,  in  Vineland,  N.  J.,  where  he 
had  been  living  in  retirement. 

His  wife,  Ann  Orchard,  the  mother  of  our  sub- 
ject, was  a  native  of  Wiltshire,  England,  and 
a  daughter  of  Joseph  Orchard,  who  was  super- 
visor of  internal  revenue  for  the  English  govern- 
ment. He  died  in  Bath,  England,  as  did  also 
Mrs.  Old,. in  her  seventy-eighth  year. 

Robert  O.  Old  is  the  eldest  of  thirteen  children 
and  was  born  in  Yeovil,  Somerset  County,  Eng- 
land, October  28,  1829.  One  brother,  Thomas  S., 
lives  in  Georgetown,  and  a  sister  lives  in  Eng- 
land. The  remainder  of  the  family  are  dead. 
One  brother,  John  William,  served  through  the 
latter  part  of  the  Civil  war  in  the  Third  Colo- 
rado Cavalry,  and  died  in  that  state  in  1865. 
Mr.  Old  first  lived  at  Buckland,  St.  Mary,  Somer- 
set, and  later  at  Broadway  Hill  and  Bath.  He 
received  the  greater  part  of  his  education  at 
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Broadway  Hill  and  this  was  supplemented  by  a 
course  at  the  grammar  school  at  Ilminster.  In 
1847,  when  but  little  past  seventeen,  he  came  to 
America  by  waj'  of  Bristol  and  Liverpool,  landing 
in  New  York  City  after  a  voyage  of  four  weeks. 
He  at  once  obtained  employment  as  clerk  in  a 
drug  store  and  learned  the  business  of  an 
apothecary.  He  also  began  the  study  of  medi- 
cine, but  after  a  short  trial  found  it  was  a  pro- 
fession he  did  not  care  for  and  abandoned  it. 

After  a  two  years'  stay  in  New  York  Mr.  Old 
went  west  on  a  prospecting  tour,  with  a  view  to 
buying  land.  He  spent  the  winter  in  Michigan,  but 
went  from  there  to  the  Green  Bay  district  in  Wis- 
consin, where  the  country  was  so  bleak  and  bare 
that  he  was  discouraged  from  his  purpose.  Lo- 
cating in  Chicago,  he  opened  a  book  store  on 
Clark  street  and  conducted  it  for  two  years.  He 
then  opened  a  similar  store  in  Elgin,  running 
both  stores  for  a  year,  when  he  closed  out  his  busi- 
ness in  Chicago  and  gave  his  entire  attention  to 
the  store  in  Elgin,  which  he  continued  for  another 
three  years.  In  1857  he  took  a  trip  through 
Nebraska,  and  was  so  well  pleased  with  the  coun- 
try that  he  returned  to  Elgin,  disposed  of  his 
business  there,  and  moved  to  Nebraska,  locating 
in  Cass  County,  on  the  Weeping  Water,  near 
Avoca.  He  purchased  one  hundred  and  sixty 
acres  of  government  land,  which  he  improved 
and  cultivated  for  two  years,  but  was  burned 
out — house,  fences  and  all — by  prairie  fire.  In 
the  spring  of  i860  he  crossed  the  plains,  arriving 
in  Denver  July  9  of  that  year.  He  bought  land 
at  Canon  City,  and  became  one  of  the  company 
that  laid  out  that  town.  He  opened  a  general 
merchandise  store,  which  he  conducted  until  the 
guerrillas  captured  the  Southern,  or  Arkansas, 
route,  and  so  cut  off  immigration,  resulting  in 
general  ruin.  He  then  went  one  hundred  miles 
into  the  mountains  to  the  mining  camp  of  Mont- 
gomery, which  he  helped  to  open,  and  with  a 
partner  built  and  carried  on  a  store  of  the  same 
class,  the  firm  being  known  as  Old  &  Fowler.  He 
also  engaged  in  mining  there,  but  not  to  any  ex- 
tent. Later  he  moved  to  Summit  County ,  where  he 
mined  on  Gold  Run  and  Stilson  Patch  one  season, 
but  as  this  was  not  satisfactory  he  returned  to 
Denver  in  the  fall  of  1864,  engaging  in  wholesale 
and  retail  merchandising.  He  was  located  on 
Fifteenth  and  Wazee  streets,  where  he  continued 
nearly  two  years.     At  the  expiration  of  that  time 


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he  went  to  London  and  organized  the  British  and 
Colorado  Mining  Bureau.  Their  headquarters 
were  in  the  Bartholomew  House,  opposite  the 
Bank  of  England,  London,  and  the  bureau  was 
in  operation  until  1872,  when  he  closed  it.  In 
1868  he  located  in  Georgetown,  and  shipped  ores 
from  that  place  and  Central  City  to  the  Johnsons 
in  London,  Lewis  Brothers  in  Liverpool,  Bath  & 
Son  in  Swansea,  Wales,  and  to  the  English 
bureau,  from  the  Terrible,  the  Briggs  and  the 
Gregory  mines.  He  then  organized  the  British 
and  Colorado  Mining  Bureau,  he  being  the  resi- 
dent director  in  Georgetown. 

In  March,  1870,  Mr.  Old,  in  connection  with 
the  bureau,  sold  the  Terrible  mine,  situated  at 
Silverplume,  in  Griffith  district,  of  which  he 
assumed  the  management  for  two  years.  In  1872 
he  published  the  Colorado,  U.  S.  /i.,  devoted  to  the 
mineral  and  other  resources  of  the  state,  putting 
out  thirty  thousand  copies.  Four  years  previously 
he  had  published  a  similar  work  of  twenty  thou- 
sand copies.  He  now  began  discovering  and 
developing  mines  for  himself,  and  bought  the 
Dunderberg  and  other  mines,  operating  them  for 
a  time  and  then  selling  them  to  a  New  York 
company,  in  1879.  He  next  turned  his  attention 
to  the  development  of  the  Mendota  group  of 
mines,  and  has  operated  them  ever  since.  In 
1868  he  began  the  Victoria  tunnel,  which  is  now 
eighteen  hundred  feet  in  length,  and  through  it 
he  does  the  greater  part  of  his  mining  for  the 
Mendota,  East  Mendota,  Fulton,  Frostburg  and 
Norman  mines.  These  are  known  as  the  Mendota 
group.  He  is  also  interested  in"  many  other  mines, 
principally  in  this  county,  and  is  the  owner  of 
the  Vulcan  mine  in  Central  City,  which  is  now 
operated  by  parties  who  have  leased  it  from  him. 

He  is  now  running  a  tunnel  eight  by  eight  feet 
and  two  hundred  feet  in  length  to  strike  a  group 
of  half  a  dozen  lodes,  known  as  the  Great  West- 
ern group,  on  Democrat  Mountain.  He  has  ac- 
quired considerable  property  and  made  some 
money  in  his  mining  operations,  a  large  per  cent 
of  which  he  has  used  in  developing  his  numerous 
interests,  furnishing  employment  to  a  large  num- 
ber of  men  continually. 

Mr.  Old  married  Miss  Ellen  Harvey,  a  native 
of  Bath,  Somerset,  England,  and  they  have  three 
children,  viz.:  Carrie  L-,  a  graduate  of  a  ladies' 
seminary  in  Bath,  England,  and  now  the  wife  of 
E.  H.  Park,  an  attorney  of  Denver;    John  Will- 


iam, a  graduate  of  the  Georgetown  high  school, 
and  the  School  of  Mines  at  Golden,  and  now  his 
father's  assistant;  and  George  Harvey,  also  with 
his  father  in  the  mines.  The  family  have  a 
beautiful  home  at  the  foot  of  Republican  Moun- 
tain and  Silver  Gulch,  which  Mr.  Old  has  im- 
proved. It  is  an  ideal  situation  with  a  lovely 
grove.  Some  small  fruit  is  raised  on  the  place. 
Mr.  Old  is  president  of  the  Light  and  Power 
Company  of  Georgetown,  and  is  largely  inter- 
ested in  real  estate  in  Denver.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  People's  party  and  has  attended  a  large 
number  of  silver  and  mining  conventions.  He 
was  made  a  Mason  in  Elgin  in  April,  1855,  and 
after  was  a  member  of  Denver  Lodge  No.  5,  until 
he  was  demitted.  For  three  years  he  was  presi- 
dent of  the  board  of  education  of  the  George- 
town public  schools.  He  has  been  a  member  of 
the  Association  of  Colorado  Pioneers  since  the 
first  year  of  its  organization,  and  is  a  charter 
member  and  now  the  president  of  the  Clear  Creek 
Pioneer  Association. 


HON.  JOSEPH  MANN.  The  life  of  Judge 
Mann  has  been  one  of  active  identification 
with  public  affairs.  Since  coming  to  Golden 
in  1868  he  has  engaged  in  the  practice  of  his 
profession,  the  law,  and  has  also  filled  various 
ofiices  of  trust  and  responsibility  to  which  he  has 
been  called.  In  1869  he  was  elected  probate 
judge,  which  position  he  filled  for  four  years,  and 
afterward  he  served  as  a  justice  of  the  peace.  In 
the  fall  of  1879  he  was  elected  to  the  state  legis- 
lature and  for  two  years  was  a  member  of  the 
lower  house.  For  nine  years,  during  the  '80s, 
he  filled  the  ofiice  of  county  attorney.  He  has 
been  a  member  of  the  city  council  of  Golden  and 
has  filled  other  local  ofiices,  always  discharging 
their  duties  with  fidelity. 

A  native  of  Maryland,  Judge  Mann  was  born 
in  Hancock,  Washington  County,  February  7, 
1824,  a  son  of  John  H.  and  Elizabeth  (Warford) 
Mann.  He  was  one  of  seven  children,  five  of 
whom  are  living,  namely:  James,  a  prominent 
farmer  of  Hancock,  Md.;  Rebecca,  widow  of 
Denton  Oliver,  also  of  Hancock;  Joseph;  Abigail, 
widow  of  William  Reamer,  of  Baltimore;  and 
Rachel,  widow  of  Rev.  Mr.  Thrush,  of  Lewis- 
town,  Pa.  The  father  was  born  in  Pennsylvania 
about   1790  and  after  attaining  manhood  he  re- 


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moved  to  Maryland,  where  he  opened  a  hotel  and 
also  engaged  in  the  mercantile  business.  He  ac- 
quired large  landed  interests  and  became  a  man  of 
much  influence  in  his  community.  He  filled  the 
office  of  county  commissioner  and  was  a  stanch 
Democrat  in  politics.    His  death  occurred  in  1841 . 

When  a  boy  our  subject  attended  the  Hancock 
schools.  I^ater  he  was  a  student  in  Marshall  Col- 
lege at  Mercersburg,  Pa.,  where  he  graduated  in 
1844.  He  then  went  to  Bedford,  Pa.,  and  took 
up  the  study  of  law  under  Job  Mann,  an  uncle, 
who  represented  his  district  in  congress  for  a 
number  of  terms.  In  the  spring  of  1847  he  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  under  Jerry  Black,  then  dis- 
trict judge  and  later  attorney-general.  Afterward 
he  practiced  law  in  Bedford  for  two  years.  In 
the  spring  of  1849  he  removed  to  Iowa  and 
settled  at  Anamosa,  where  for  sixteen  years  he 
was  one  of  the  most  influential  attorneys  of  the 
town.  In  1850  he  was  elected  school  fund  com- 
missioner and  the  next  year  was  chosen  district 
attorney;  in  1852  was  elected  county  judge  and 
continued  in  that  position  until  1857,  when  he 
was  elected  to  the  state  senate  on  the  Democratic 
ticket.  He  retired  from  office  in  1861  and  re- 
sumed the  practice  of  law.  During  the  last  year 
of  his  service  he  was  a  member  of  the  special 
session  called  after  the  firing  on  Fort  Sumter. 

In  1865  Judge  Mann  crossed  the  plains  with  an 
ox-team  and  arrived  in  Denver  in  July,  after 
three  months  of  travel.  He  camped  in  Denver 
for  three  weeks,  and  then  came  to  Golden.  Leav- 
ing his  team  with  a  friend  some  five  miles  south 
of  the  town,  he  went  on  to  the  mountains,  where 
he  spent  three  years  in  mining  and  prospecting 
in  the  Argentine  mining  district,  discovering  five 
lodes  in  1865.  In  the  fall  of  1866  he  returned  to 
Iowa  to  dispose  of  his  property  and  from  there 
went  on  to  Boston,  where  he  had  an  assay  made 
from  the  five  lodes,  the  result  showing  that  they 
ran  from  forty  to  two  hundred  ounces  in  silver. 
He  spent  the  winter  in  the  east  and  returned  to 
his  mine  in  the  spring. .  In  1868  he  came  to 
Golden  and  began  the  practice  of  law  here. 

May  3,  1 85 1,  Judge  Mann  married  Miss  Cali- 
phurnia  O.  Peet,  who  died  on  Christmas  day  of 
1867,  leaving  an  only  son,  Warford  J.,  now  a 
stock-raiser  in  Eagle  County.  November  6, 
1872,  Judge  Mann  married  Miss  Mary  E.  Young, 
of  Golden.  He  became  a  member  of  the  Inde- 
pendent Order  of  Odd  Fellows  in  Bedford,  Pa., 


October  15,  1846,  and,  in  point  of  years  of  con- 
nection with  the  order,  he-  is  the  oldest  Odd 
Fellow  in  the  state.  He  has  filled  all  the  offices 
in  the  grand  lodge,  and  for  twenty  years  has  been 
treasurer  of  Golden  Lodge  No.  13,  and  is  treas- 
urer of  Jefierson  Encampment,  also  a  member  of 
Canton  JeSerson,  Patriarchs'  Militant.  In  1854 
he  was  made  a  Mason  and  is  now  identified  with 
Golden  Lodge  No.  i ,  A.  F.  &  A.  M. 

As  a  citizen  Judge  Mann  has  favored  measures 
for  the  benefit  of  the  people  and  the  advancement 
of  his  town  and  county,  giving  his  influence  to  all 
projects  of  a  public-spirited  nature,  and  favoring 
plans  that  promote,  directly  or  indirectly,  the 
progress  of  his  city  and  the  welfare  of  the  people. 


rTRED  S.  ROCKWELL,  live-stock  agent  for 
Y^  the  Burlington  Railroad,  is  also  engaged 
I  ^  in  the  cattle  business  as  a  member  of  the 
firm  of  Ballantine  &  Rockwell,  his  partner  being 
the  general  manager  of  the  Union  stockyards  of 
Denver.  A  resident  of  Colorado  since  1877,  ^^ 
has  had  varied  interests  in  this  state,  having  been 
proprietor  of  a  freighting  outfit,  contractor  of  a 
mail  route,  a  pioneer  ranchman  and  a  successful 
cattle  dealer.  In  'company  with  W.  C.  Needles, 
F.  Walworth  Smith  and  Judge  Ballou  of  Lead- 
ville,  in  1881  he  spent  three  months  in  looking  up 
a  suitable  location  for  a  ranch,  and  finally  found 
an  ideal  spot  in  Plateau  Valley,  Mesa  County, 
flanked  by  the  Grand  Mesa  and  Battlement  Mesa, 
and  lying  in  the  Ute  reservation.  On  the  re- 
moval of  the  Utes,  in  the  fall  of  1881,  he  stocked 
the  place  he  had  previously  selected,  and  as  other 
.settlers  came  in  they  were  of  mutual  assistance 
in  the  building  of  corrals.  After  six  years  there 
he  sold  the  cattle  and  removed  to  Denver,  his 
present  place  of  residence. 

The  Rockwells  are  an  old  family  of  New  York. 
Our  subject's  father,  Silas,  was  bom  on  a  farm 
owned  by  his  father,  Chester,  in  St.  Lawrence 
County,  N.  Y. ,  and  was  reared  to  agricultural 
pursuits.  His  principal  occupation  was  the  rais- 
ing of  Blackhawk  and  Morgan  horses,  of  which 
breeds  he  was  the  pioneer  in  the  state.  He  was 
a  strong  Abolitionist  and  during  the  campaign  of 
i860  spoke  in  the  interests  of  Lincoln  and  anti- 
slavery  in  many  towns  of  the  state.  The  excite- 
ment of  the  campaign  exhausted  his  nervous 
system   and   brought  on  a  fatal  illness,   which 


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terminated  his  career  before  the  triumph  of  the 
principles  he  espoused.  He  was  then  forty-four 
years  of  age.  In  religious  belief  he  was  a  Pres- 
byterian. His  wife,  Cornelia  (Booth)  Rockwell, 
was  born  in  Rutland  County,  Vt.,  and  resides 
with  her  only  son,  in  Denver,  enjoying  excellent 
health  for  one  of  her  years.  Her  only  daughter 
is  the  wife  of  John  D.  Sibley,  of  San  Francisco. 

Born  near  Potsdam,  St.  Lawrence  County, 
N.  Y.,  in  1852,  the  subject  of  this  sketch  was 
eight  years  old  at  the  time  of  his  father's  death. 
The  family  soon  removed  to  Lake  Geneva,  Wal- 
worth County,  Wis.,  where  he  attended  school 
for  three  years.  Later  they  went  to  Milan,  Rock 
Island  County,  111.,  and  he  went  to  school  there 
and  for  a  time  worked  in  a  wholesale  book  and 
stationery  store  at  Davenport,  Iowa,  also  was  with 
the  Davenport  Democrat  for  a  year.  His  health 
became  so  poor  that  a  change  of  occupation  and 
climate  was  rendered  necessary.  In  1869,  with 
two  other  boys,  he  started  overland  to  Nebraska, 
being  so  weak  at  the  time  that  he  was  seldom 
able  to  sit  up.  When  he  reached  Thayer,  he 
already  felt  benefited  by  the  pure  air  and  delight- 
ful climate.  His  friends  returned,  but  he  re- 
mained and  build  a  sod  house  one  hundred  miles 
from  Beatrice,  the  nearest  town.  Though  too 
young  to  homestead  the  place,  he  improved  it 
and  afterward  sold  the  claim.  For  six  months 
he  worked  on  the  Burlington  &  Missouri  River 
Railroad  engineering  corps,  of  the  first  railroad 
west  from  Beatrice  to  Orleans,  Neb. 

With  health  regained,  he  returned  to  Iowa  and 
entered  the  employ  of  the  Rock  Island  Railroad 
Company  at  Council  Bluffs,  his  mother  and  sister 
joining  him  there.  He  was  check  clerk  at  the 
freight  depot  under  S.  S.  Stevens,  general  agent, 
for  whom  he  later  became  western  live-stock 
agent.  A  business  trip  for  the  railroad  company 
brought  him  to  Colorado  in  the  fall  of  1877,  and 
he  was  so  pleased  with  the  outlook  here  that  he 
secured  a  leave  of  absence  in  the  winter  and  came 
to  Denver.  He  started  a  freight  outfit  between 
Denver  and  Leadville,  running  eight  mule  teams 
on  the  road  at  the  same  time,  but  discontinued 
the  work  when  the  Denver  &  Rio  Grande  road 
built  to  Malta  in  1880.  Later  he  started  to  Lead- 
ville transfer,  handling  the  merchandise  between 
Leadville  and  Malta.  During  1880  he  hauled 
the  plant  of  the  Fairwell  Mining  Company,  two 
hundred  and  fifty  thousand  pounds  in  weight, 


over  the  Continental  divide  to  Independence,  do- 
ing the  most  of  the  hauling  at  night  when  the 
roads  were  frozen  and  driving  the  mules  tandem 
a  part  of  the  way.  At  the  suggestion  of  the 
citizens  of  Independence  and  Aspen,  he  was  sent 
to  Washington,  D.  C,  to  secure  the  establish- 
ment of  a  mail  route,  and  he  was  successful  in 
the  undertaking,  putting  on  the  first  stage  line 
and  having  the  first  contract  for  the  mail  route 
between  Leadville,  Aspen  and  Ashcroft,  via  In- 
dependence. The  winter  of  1880-81,  when  he 
had  the  contract,  was  one  of  the  most  severe  ever 
known  in  the  mountains.  Frequently  he  and  his 
partner,  George  H.  Bicknell,  carried  the  mail  on 
horseback,  and  sometimes,  when  the  roads  were 
impassable,  they  were  obliged  to  walk.  In  1881 
he  sold  the  stage  line  and  went  into  the  Ute 
reservation,  where  he  located  a  ranch  on  the  re- 
moval of  the  Indians.  In  the  spring  of  1882, 
having  organized  the  Grove  Creek  Ranch  Asso- 
ciation, he  went  to  Utah  to  buy  cattle,  and  put 
in  four  thousand  head  the  first  year,  besides 
bringing  some  fine  bulls  from  the  east.  The 
family  lived  there  for  six  years,  the  ranch  being 
meantime  improved  with  buildings.  Through 
his  instrumentality  the  postoffice  of  Plateau  was 
established  and  he  was  appointed  the  postmaster. 
In  1887  he  sold  the  cattle  and  moved  to  Denver, 
in  order  to  educate  his  son.  He  still  owns  the 
ranch  there. 

In  1887  Mr.  Rockwell  was  made  live-stock 
agent  for  the  Denver  &  Rio  Grande  Railroad. 
When  the  building  of  the  Rio  Grande  Southern  was 
started,  he  and  Messrs.  Rouse  and  Black  formed 
a  construction  company  and  took  the  contract  for 
seventeen  miles  of  the  heaviest  work,  extending 
the  line  from  Durango  westward.  The  contract 
was  filled  in  six  months  and  the  company  then 
dissolved.  During  the  building  of  the  Denver, 
Lakewood  &  Golden  Railroad,  Mr.  Rockwell 
was  superintendent  of  construction  between  Den- 
ver and  Golden.  In  September,  1893,  he  ac- 
cepted a  position  as  live-stock  agent  for  the  Bur- 
lington road.  He  has  the  reputation  of  having 
marketed  the  best  bunch  of  yearlings  ever  sold 
in  Denver.  His  judgment  in  respect  to  cattle 
and  horses  is  unsurpassed,  his  long  experience 
and  keen  judgment  having  greatly  aided  him  in 
this  line.  He  is  a  member  of  the  National  Stock 
Growers'  Association,  and  politically  he  is  a 
Republican.       In   Galesburg,    111.,    he   married 


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479 


Miss  Nellie  A.  Roberts,  daughter  of  Rev.  H.  P. 
Roberts,  a  Congregational  minister  and  for  j'ears 
professor  of  theology  in  Knox  College.  She  was 
educated  in  Galesburg,  Chicago  and  Boston,  and 
is  one  of  the  most  intellectual  women  and  finest 
pianists  in  Denver.  She  is  a  member  of  the 
musical  society  here,  also  of  the  Woman's  Club. 
They  have  an  only  son,  Robert  Blanchard,  now 
a  student  in  the  Denver  high  school. 


EHARIvES  A.  MARTINE.  In  the  fall  of 
1895  this  worthy  citizen  of  Georgetown  was 
nominated  and  elected  by  the  Republicans 
of  Clear  Creek  County  to  serve  as  one  of  its  com- 
missioners. He  had  the  honor  of  being  the  only 
man  on  the  ticket  who  was  elected,  and  is  now 
the  efficient  chairman  of  the  board.  Mr.  Martine 
is  a  man  of  superior  education  and  practical 
attainments  and  is  a  valued  member  of  the  Colo- 
rado Scientific  Society  and  the  American  Institute 
of  Mining  Engineers.  Fraternally  he  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Colorado  Commandery  of  the  I,oyal 
Legion. 

Many  generations  ago  the  Martine  family  resid- 
ed in  France,  but  they  were  Huguenots  and  dur- 
ing the  dreadful  persecutions  of  that  fated  and 
devoted  band  of  believers,  they  fled  for  protection 
to  the  neighboring  province  of  Bavaria,  Germany. 
There  they  prospered,  gained  a  foothold  and  from 
their  ranks  many  a  noble  man  has  sprung,  giving 
added  lustre  to  the  name  by  his  achievements 
among  the  world's  great  minds.  The  father  of 
our  subject,  John  George  Martine,  was  born  in 
Bavaria  and  always  dwelt  in  that  section  of  the 
German  empire.  He  was  a  successful  manufact- 
urer of  china,  owning  extensive  works,  and  turn- 
ing out  exquisite  specimens  of  ware.  He  married 
a  Miss  Schwartz,  who  came  from  one  of  the  old 
German  families  of  Bavaria. 

C.  A.  Martine  was  born  in  Germany  October 
14,  1839,  attended  the  government  schools,  and 
after  completing  the  ordinary  curriculum  of  stud- 
ies entered  the  University  of  Munich.  Graduat- 
ing from  that  renowned  institution  of  learning  in 
1857  Mr.  Martine  decided  to  seek  his  fortune  in 
Mexico,  but  changed  his  plans,  on  account  of  the 
revolution  then  in  progress  in  that  land.  Instead, 
he  came  to  the  United  States,  arriving  in  New 
York  City  in  August,  1857.  For  ^  few  years  he 
was  a  member  of  the  faculty  of  Columbia  College, 


as  an  instuctor  in  chemistry.  In  1861  he  entered 
the  engineer  corps  of  the  United  States  navy  and 
continued  therein  until  the  close  of  the  war,  being 
mustered  out  in  the  autumn  of  1865.  He  was 
senior  engineer,  with  the  rank  of  master,  on  a 
vessel  in  the  North  Squadron.  He  twice  took 
part  in  the  bombardment  of  Fort  Fisher.  His 
services  on  behalf  of  his  adopted  country  were 
gallant  and  worthy  of  commendation,  and  justly 
found  honorable  mention  in  the  annals  of  the 
navy. 

In  1866  Mr.  Martine  came  to  Colorado,  attract- 
ed hither  by  mines  and  mining  operations  which 
have  since  made  it  world  famous.  In  Maj'  of 
that  year  he  located-  in  Central  City  and  at  the 
end  of  a  twelvemonth  he  removed  to  Georgetown, 
where  he  has  since  made  his  home.  To  him  is 
due  the  honor  of  having  been  the  first  to  put  in- 
to use  a  practical  system  of  ore  sampling  and 
stamping  in  Colorado.  He  built  a  mill,  or  rather 
remodeled  the  Pelican  from  a  gold  to  a  silver  mill, 
and  turned  out  the  first  silver  bars  ever  made  in 
this  state.  This  was  efiected  by  the  amalgama- 
tion process,  but  in  course  of  time,  the  ores  being 
less  suitable  for  this  method  of  treatment,  he  gave 
it  up  and  shipped  large  quantities  of  ore  to  the 
markets  of  England  and  Germany,  until  about 
1877.  The  next  three  years  he  shipped  the  ore 
to  St.  Louis,  Chicago  and  Pueblo.  For  the  past 
eighteen  years  he  has  devoted  himself  exclusively 
to  mining.  During  a  period  of  nearly  thirty  years 
he  operated  the  McClellan  mine  in  this  district  at 
intervals,  and  since  1880  has  worked  it  .contin- 
uously. The  McClellan  group  of  mines  is  situa- 
ted in  a  seventy-acre  tract.  A  tunnel  strikes  the 
lode  at  a  depth  of  about  one  thousand  feet.  The 
ore,  both  of  silver  and  lead,  is  very  rich,  high- 
grade  ore,  in  large-  and  paying  quantities.  Mr. 
Martine  is  one  of  the  owners  of  the  Kirtley  mine, 
a  good  producer  of  high-grade  ore. 


3AMES-G.  MAXWELL,  M.  D.,  a  man  of 
intellectual  attainments  and  one  who  has  a 
thorough  knowledge  of  the  intricacies  of  the 
medical  profession,  has  acquired  a  goodly  practice 
in  Elizabeth,  Elbert  County,  where  he  has  been 
located  since  May  i,  1898.  His  early  success  re- 
flects great  credit  upon  his  energy  and  general 
ability  as  a  physican  and  surgeon,  also  his  ability 
to  win  the  confidence  of  his  fellow-citizens.     He 


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is  a  son  of  James  and  Margaret  (Paul)  Maxwell, 
and  was  born  near  Toledo,  Ontario,  Canada,  on 
a  farm,  August  i6,  1868.  The  Maxwell  family 
is  of  Scotch  ancestry,  and  as  far  back  as  there  is 
any  authentic  record  lived  in  Scotland.  Our  sub- 
ject was  reared  on  a  farm  and  obtained  a  prelimi- 
nary education  in  the  district  schools.  At  the  age 
of  sixteen  years  he  moved  to  a  farm  near  Brock- 
ville,  Canada,  where  he  entered  the  Brockville 
Collegiate  Institute.  Soon  after  his  graduation 
from  the  latter  institution, with  the  class  of  1892, 
he  moved  to  Colorado,  where  he  taught  in  the  pub- 
lic schools  of  Douglas  County  for  one  year,  show- 
ing much  ability  as  an  instructor.  His  leisure 
moments  were  spent  in  diligent  study  of  medicine 
with  his  brother,  W.  J.  Maxwell,  M.  D.,  now 
deceased.  In  1894  he  was  matriculated  at  the 
State  University  at  Boulder,  where  he  took  a 
medical  course  and  was  graduated  in  1897.  He 
then  obtained  a  position  as  house  surgeon  in  St. 
Luke's  Hospital,  in  Denver,  which  he  held  for 
one  year,  beginning  May  i,  1897.  He  then  lo- 
cated at  Elizabeth,  where  he  now  has  a  large  and 
remunerative  practice.  He  has  a  thorough  and 
profound  knowledge  of  his  profession  as  a  result 
of  years  of  assiduous  study,  which,  combined 
with  the  practical  experience  gained  in  the  hos- 
pital at  Denver,  well  qualify  him  to  treat  the 
most  complicated  of  cases  with  a  high  degree  of 
success.  He  is  kind  and  gentle  in  spirit,  cheerful 
in  the  companionship  of  his  patients,  and  strives 
to  make  them  his  friends  as  well  as  patients. 
Religiously  he  is  and  always  has  been  a  faithful 
member  of  the  Presbyterian  Church.  He  is  a 
member  of  Elizabeth  Camp  No.  304,  W.  W.,  of 
which  he  is  medical  examiner. 

Dr.  William  J.  Maxwell,  a  brother  of  James 
G.  Maxwell,  and  a  successful  physician  and  sur- 
geon of  Castle  Rock,  Douglas  County,  Colo., 
was  called  to  his  eternal  reward  at  Tucson,  Ariz. ; 
October  11,  1897.  He  was  a  man  of  excellent 
qualities  and  was  held  in  the  highest  esteem  by  a 
large  circle  of  acquaintances.  Dr.  Maxwell  was 
born  in  the  township  of  Kittley,  Ontario,  and 
was  reared  upon  the  farm,  obtaining  his  early 
training  in  the  common  schools.  At  the  age 
of  sixteen  years  he  attended  the  Athens  high 
school,  Ontario,  after  which  he  was  engaged  in 
teaching  for  three  years.  In  the  year  of  1875  he 
became  a  student  of  medicine  at  Queen's  Col- 
lege, Kingston,  from  which  he  was  graduated  four 


years  later  with  honors.  Immediately  thereafter 
he  began  practice  at  Bishop's  Mills,  and  subse- 
quently moved  to  Toronto,  where  he  had  charge 
of  a  good  patronage  for  one  year,  when,  in  1890, 
he  went  to  Colorado,  thence  to  New  Mexico  and 
Mexico,  where  he  sought  to  locate.  As  the  cli- 
mate in  the  latter  states  did  not  agree  with  him, 
he  returned  to  Colorado  and  located  at  Castle 
Rock,  Douglas  County,  where  he  was  successfully 
engaged  in  practice  until  his  demise.  He  was  a 
conscientious  Christian  and  a  faithful  member  of 
the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  which  passed 
suitable  resolutions  at  the  time  of  his  death  and 
caused  them  to  be  recorded  in  the  records  of  the 
church.  The  Castlewood  Camp,  W.  W. ,  of 
which  he  was  also  a  member,  adopted  resolutions 
as  a  token  of  the  esteem  in  which  he  was  held  by 
that  body. 


.  IvLIS  F.  OlyDEN,  an  honored  veteran  of  the 
'y  Civil  war,  is  a  well-known  citizen  of  Black- 
__  hawk,  Gilpin  County.  He  is  the  president 
and  one-third  owner  of  the  fifty-stamp  mill  here, 
and  with  the  company  is  also  concerned  in  gen- 
eral mining  operations.  He  is  an  expert  mill- 
wright and  is  considered  an  authority  on  ma- 
chinery and  everything  relating  to  the  construc- 
tion of  stamp  mills,  etc.  From  the  first  he  has 
been  one  of  the  prime  movers  in  the  establish- 
ment, building  and  operation  of  the  Gilpin  stamp 
mill,  and  to  his  ability  and  executive  talent  its 
success  must  be  attributed.    . 

The  history  of  the  Olden  family  to  which  the 
subject  of  this  narrative  belongs  can  be  traced 
back  to  the  early  colonial  days  of  the  United 
States.  With  William  Penn,  who  was  of  the 
same  faith,  they  came  to  these  shores  from  Eng- 
land, and  made  homes  in  Pennsylvania.  An  old 
mansion  near  Bound  Brook  was  built  by  the 
Oldens  and  called  the  Olden  Manor-house.  The 
great-grandfather  of  our  subject  was  a  partici- 
pant in  the  Revolutionary  war.  Grandfather 
Thomas  Olden  was  a  commissioned  officer  in  the 
war  of  18 1 2,  and  subsequently  was  a  revenue  col- 
lector for  the  state  of  New  Jersey.  He  was  born 
in  Princeton,  N.  J.,  and  was  a  farmer  and  tanner 
by  occupation.  He  took  his  family  to  Fayette 
County,  Pa.,  and  there  spent  the  rest  of  his  life. 

The  parents  of  Ellis  F.  Olden  are  Robert  Law- 
rence and  Mary  A.  (Crain)  Olden,  natives  of 
Princeton,  and  Morristowa,  N.  J.,  respectively. 


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The  latter  was  a  child  of  Matthias  Grain,  whose 
ancestors  came  to  this  country  from  the  northern 
part  of  Ireland.  He  was  keeper  of  the  New  York 
city  prison  during  the  war  of  18 12,  and  afterward 
lived  in  Fayette  County,  Pa.  Robert  L.  Olden 
moved  to  Illinois  in  1839,  and  up  to  1848  lived  in 
Union,  Madison  and  Macoupin  Counties.  Subse- 
quently he  owned  and  carried  on  a  homestead  in 
Madison  County, near  Alton.  Both  parents  died  in 
Illinois,  the  father  when  in  his  seventieth  year. 
Eight  of  their  nine  children  grew  to  maturity,  but 
one  by  one  they  have  each  been  summoned  to  the 
silent  land,  until  the  sole  survivor  of  the  family 
is  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 

E.  F.  Olden  was  born  near  Uniontown,  Pa., 
March  9,  1838,  and  received  a  common-school  ed- 
ucation. From  his  boyhood  he  had  access  to  all 
kinds  of  tools  and  as  it  came  natural  to  him  to 
use  them  he  was  apprenticed  to  the  carpenter's 
trade  in  Alton,  when  he  arrived  at  a  suitable  age. 
Having  mastered  the  business,  he  became  a  con- 
tractor, and  was  thus  employed  when  the  war 
broke  out.  One  of  the  first  to  volunteer  in  the 
Union  cause,  he  offered  his  services  April  11, 
1861 ,  and  was  mustered  into  Company  B,  Twenty- 
second  Illinois  Infantry,  for  three  years,  at  Belle- 
ville, St.  Clair  County,  by  General  Grant.  Sent 
to  Missouri,  he  took  part  in  the  battle  of  Belle- 
mont  and  several  lesser  engagements,  and  at  the 
battle  of  Stone  River,  December  31,  1862,  was 
captured  with  a  part  of  his  regiment.  They  were 
taken  almost  to  Mobile,  Ala.,  and  were  then  sent 
on  to  Libby  Prison,  Richmond,  and  confined  there 
until  March,  1863.  At  last  freed  on  parole  and 
sent  to  Benton  Barracks,  St.  Louis,  he  was  ex- 
changed and  rejoined  his  regiment  at  Salem  Pike, 
near  Murfreesboro,  June  10,  1863.  He  was  mus- 
tered out  and  honorably  discharged  soon  after- 
wards by  special  order  of  the  secretary  of  war. 
Returning  to  Alton,  he  resumed  his  former  work 
of  contracting  and  building.  From  1864  to  1873 
he  engaged  in  stair  building  in  St.  Louis.  In 
the  last-named  year  he  came  to  Colorado  and  for 
some  years  vibrated  between  Central  City  and 
Blackhawk,  while  he  erected  mills  and  prospected 
and  mined.  The  year  1887  he  spent  in  Mexico, 
where,  as  usual,  his  services  were  in  demand  as 
a  millwright. 

Ill  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  in  1873,  Mr.  Olden  married 
Miss  Minnie  E.  Ferguson.  She  is  a  native  of 
Ireland  but  has  lived  in   the  United   States  for 


years.  Four  children  bless  the  marriage  of  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Olden,  namely:  Jessie,  Ethel,  Ruth  and 
Robert.  The  family  reside  in  a  pleasant  home 
on  Tremont  street,  Denver,  and  the  children  are 
receiving  their  educations  in  that  city.  Mr.  Olden 
is  a  stanch  Republican  and  is  a  member  of  the 
Grand  Army  of  the  Republic.  He  is  an  Odd 
Fellow  and  belongs  to  the  encampment. 


HON.  WILLIAM  O.  JENKINS,  paying 
teller  and  bookkeeper  of  the  First  National 
Bank  of  Central  City,  and  the  present  repre- 
sentative of  Gilpin  County  in  the  state  legislature, 
was  born  in  this  city  October  11,  1868.  He  is 
the  youngest  son  of  David  Jenkins,  of  whom 
mention  is  made  in  the  sketch  of  John  C.  Jenkins, 
elsewhere  presented.  In  1882  he  graduated  from 
the  high  school,  and  afterward  entered  the  First 
National  Bank,  where  he  has  since,  through 
successive  promotions,  been  made  teller  and 
bookkeeper. 

In  addition  to  his  connection  with  the  bank, 
Mr.  Jenkins  is  secretary  and  general  manager  of 
the  Gilpin  Mill  Company,  whose  mill,  completed 
in  1894,  has  a  capacity  of  fifty  tons  a  day  and  is 
the  most  modern  stamp-mill  pattern,  with  con- 
centrating machines  against  the  battery.  Since 
this  was  introduced  it  has  saved  millions  for  the 
county. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Jenkins,  in  Central  City, 
united  him  with  Miss  Elizabeth  Davies,  who  was 
born  in  Liverpool,  England,  and  came  to  Central 
City  with  her  father,  L.  P.  Davies,  a  druggist  of 
this  place.  They  and  their  son,  Walter  W.,  re- 
side in  the  old  home  which  Mr.  Jenkins'  father 
built  on  Third  and  High  streets.  Mrs.  Jenkins 
is  a  member  of  the  First  Baptist  Church  in 
Denver. 

The  principles  of  the  Democratic  party  receive 
the  support  of  Mr.  Jenkins  and  he  has  been 
very  prominent  in  party  councils.  For  one 
term  he  represented  the  first  ward  in  the  council 
of  Central  City,  where  he  served  as  chairman  of 
the  finance  committee.  In  the  fall  of  1896  he  was 
elected  to  represent  Gilpin  County  in  the  state 
legislature,  being  the  Democratic  nominee,  in- 
dorsed by  the  silver  Republicans.  He  received 
four  hundred  and  sixty-eight  majority,  which  was 
large  for  this  county.  In  the  eleventh  general 
assembly  he  worked  on  the  bank  and  insurance, 


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fish,  forestry  aud  game  committees,  and  had  the 
honor  of  placing  in  nomination  for  the  United 
States  senate  Hon.  Henry  M.  Teller,  who  re- 
ceived ninety-four  out  of  ninety-eight  votes  in  the 
joint  a.ssembly.  The  bill  for  building  and  loan 
associations  he  was  active  in  having  passed.  He 
favored  the  Crowder  bill,  pertaining  to  fish, 
forestry  and  game.  At  present  he  is  a  member 
of  the  county  central  committee  and  a  member  of 
the  school  board.  Fraternally  he  is  past  master 
of  Central  Lodge  No.  6,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  and  a 
member  of  Central  Chapter  No.  i,  R.  A.  M. 


NENRY  BOYER,  the  pioneer  furniture  dealer 
and  undertaker  of  Georgetown,  Clear  Creek 
County,  came  to  the  state  during  the  early 
'60s  and  has  traveled  over  a  great  part  of  its 
territory,  which  he  has  seen  transformed  from  a 
wild,  unbroken  tract,  to  its  present  cultivated 
condition.  He  was  born  in  Frederick  County, 
Md.,  in  January,  1837,  and  is  a  son  of  Peter  and 
Mary  Catherine  (Hersperger)  Boyer.  The  Boyers 
were  an  old  Maryland  family  and  several  genera- 
tions of  the  name  were  bom  there.  The  grand- 
father was  a  soldier  in  the  Revolutionary  war; 
Peter  Boyer,  a  farmer  in  Maryland,  married 
Mary  C.  Hersperger,  who  died  in  early  life.  He 
died  in  the  fall  of  1861,  at  the  age  of  sixty-five 
years.  Of  their  teu  children,  eight  grew  to 
mature  years  and  two  daughters  and  three  sons 
are  still  living. 

Henry  Boyer  was  the  youngest  of  the  family 
and  the  only  one  who  makes  his  home  in 
Colorado.  His  early  years  were  spent  on  the 
farm  and  his  education  was  received  in  the  public 
schools  until  he  was  eighteen.  In  the  spring  of 
that  year,  in  1855,  he  went  to  Dover,  LaFayette 
County,  Mo.,  where  he  learned  the  carpenter's 
trade  and  this  occupation  he  followed  until  the 
war  broke  out.  In  the  spring  of  186 1  he  entered 
Waltraan's  brigade  and  later  was  in  Shelby's, 
taking  part  in  the  battles  of  Carthage,  Spring- 
field, or  Wilson's  Creek,  and  Lexington.  The 
brigade  was  camped  at  Osage  and  was  ordered 
back  to  the  river.  Here  he  was  taken  sick  and  was 
confined  to  his  bed,  being  unable  to  go  south 
with  his  company;  the  Federals  took  possession 
of  the  place.  He  made  arrangements  to  come 
to  Colorado  in  the  spring  of  1862,  as  soon  as  he 


was  able  to  travel.  He  crossed  the  plains  with 
oxen,  driving  over  the  Platte  route,  and  reaching 
Denver  in  August.  He  came  on  to  the  mountains 
as  far  as  Gilpin,  where  he  rested  a  day  or  two 
and  then  pushed  on  to  Idaho  Springs,  reaching 
there  in  the  fall.  He  began  work  for  an  old 
gentleman  called  Bill  Russell,  with  whom  he 
stayed  for  three  months,  and  then  went  down  the 
creek  to  Floyd  Hill  and  worked  there  until  the 
creek  froze  up.  From  there  he  went  to  Black- 
hawk  and  spent  the  remainder  of  the  winter  of 
1862-63,  then  to  Empire,  where  he  stayed  until 
the  next  fall.  Going  to  Denver  Mr.  Boyer  was 
employed  in  the  Rice  sash  factory,  but  soon  gave 
up  the  work  to  drive  a  team  through  to  Salt  Lake 
City.  Owing  to  the  severe  storms  that  overtook 
them,  they  were  unable  to  reach  their  destination 
until  the  following  spring.  That  summer  was 
spent  in  Highland  Gulch  and  in  the  fall  of  1864 
he  returned  to  this  state,  stopping  in  Empire  and 
soon  after  coming  to  Georgetown,  where  he  as- 
sisted in  building  the  water  wheel  in  the  mill  at  the 
head  of  Sixth  street.  He  also  helped  build  the 
mill  at  Empire,  and  iu  1865  engaged  in  prospect- 
ing and  mining  near  this  city.  He  discovered 
one  of  the  first  silver  mines  at  East  Argentine, 
and  was  very  successful  in  his  mining  venture 
but  soon  sold  out  and  for  two  or  three  years 
worked  at  his  trade  in  Georgetown.  He  .then 
started  a  sash  and  door  factory  and  made  all  of 
that  class  of  goods  that  was  used  here.  In  1870 
he  started  in  the  furniture  business  and  soon  after 
added  undertaking.  His  is  the  oldest  house  of 
that  kind  in  the  county  and  has  been  most  success- 
ful. He  has  a  good  building,  3 1x140  feet,  where 
he  carries  on  his  business,  the  first  floor  devoted 
to  furniture  and  the  second  to  undertaking. 

In  this  city  Mr.  Boyer  married  Miss  Anna 
Landsdowne,  a  native  of  Philadelphia.  They 
have  buried  three  children:  Frank  L.  died  at  the 
age  of  three  years;  and  in  1888,  Etta,  aged  eleven, 
and  Lulu,  aged  two,  were  called  home.  The 
five  remaining  children,  Ernest,  Bertie  L., 
Charles,  Edith  and  Ella,  reside  in  Georgetown. 
Mr.  Boyer  is  a  Democrat  and  served  the  city  as 
alderman  for  three  terms  until  April,  1898,  and 
is  filling  his  third  term  as  coroner  of  Clear  Creek 
County.  He  is  a  member  of  Lodge  No.  12, 
A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  Royal  Arch  Chapter  No.  4, 
Commandery  No.  4,  and  the  Independent  Order 
of  Odd  Fellows. 


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nAMES  M.  SIMMS,  postmaster  at  Fort  Col- 
I  lins,  was  born  near  Huntsville,  Logan  County, 
(2)  Ohio,  April  2,  1845,  a  son  of  James  S.  and 
Jane(Sides)  Simms,  natives  respectively  of  Clarke 
County,  Ohio,  and  Maryland.  His  paternal 
grandfather,  Jeremiah  Simms,  migrated  from 
Virginia  to  Ohio,  and  was  a  pioneer  farmer  of 
Clarke  County  and  a  local  preacher  in  the  Method- 
ist Episcopal  Church.  From  there,  in  early  man- 
hood, James  S.  Simms  removed  to  Logan  County, 
engaging  in  farming  at  Huntsville,  where  he  re- 
mained until  his  death,  at  seventy-six  years. 
For  many  years  he  served  as  justice  of  the  peace. 
He  was  a  stanch  Abolitionist  and  denounced,  in 
no  uncertain  tones,  the  fugitive  slave  law  and 
kindred  measures  for  the  oppression  of  slaves. 
In  religion  he  was  identified  with  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church.  His  wife,  who  resided  in 
Clarke  County  from  childhood  until  her  mar- 
riage, died  on  the  homestead  in  Logan  County 
when  forty-five  years  of  age. 

The  eldest  son  of  James  S.  Simms  was  Will- 
iam R.,  who  served  as  captain  of  a  company 
during  the  Civil  war.  On  his  return  he  was 
elected  sheriff  of  Harrison  County,  Mo.,  and 
served  for  two  terms,  four  years  altogether.  He 
was  also  ex-officio  collector  of  the  county  during 
the  same  period.  Afterward  he  became  United 
States  mail  clerk  on  the  Rock  Island  Railroad 
and  met  a  terrible  death  in  the  wrecking  of  his 
train  and  the  burning  of  the  car,  December  6, 
1880,  between  Cameron,  Mo.,  and  Atchison,  Kan. 
The  second  son,  Jeremiah  T.,  died  in  Logan 
County,  Ohio,  during  the  progress  of  the  Civil 
war.  Peyton  S. ,  the  third  son,  is  a  resident  of 
Cincinnati,  Ohio.  He  has  served  as  sergeant-at 
arms  of  the  Ohio  senate  and  is  now  a  commercial 
traveler.  Sarah  F. ,  the  wife  of  George  McElree, 
lives  in  Logan  County,  near  the  old  homestead. 
Mary  A.,  who  married  Isaac  N.  Boggs,  died  in 
Logan  CountjMu  1868.  James  M.  was  next  in 
order  of  birth.  Rev.  Joseph  D.  Simms,  the 
youngest  of  the  family,  a.  graduate  of  the  Ohio 
Wesleyan  University,  is  a  member  of  the  Ohio 
Methodist  Episcopal  conference,  and  is  now 
stationed  at  Rockford,  Ohio. 

Until  eighteen  years  of  age  the  subject  of  this 
sketch  remained  at  home,  assisting  on  the  farm 
in  the  summer  and  attending  the  district  school 
in  the  winter.  In  June,  1863,  when  the  Union 
cause  was  trembling  in  the  balance,  he  enlisted  in 


Company  L,  Second  Ohio  Heavy  Artillery,  and 
was  mustered  into  service  at  Covington,  Ky. 
He  served  in  Kentucky  and  Tennessee  until 
August  of  1865,  when  he  was  mustered  out  and 
honorably  discharged  at  Nashville,  Tenn.  A 
few  weeks  after  his  discharge  from  the  army,  he 
started  west,  and  spent  one  year  on  his  brother's 
farm  near  Bethany,  Harrison  County,  Mo.,  after 
which,  on  the  election  of  his  brother  as  sheriff 
and  collector  for  Harrison  County,  he  became 
deputy  sheriff,  and  served  for  four  years.  He 
then  embarked  in  the  mercantile  business  and  also 
served  as  deputy  county  clerk  until  March,  1877, 
when  President  Hayes  tendered  him  the  appoint- 
ment as  postmaster  of  Bethany.  By  reappoint- 
ment under  President  Arthur,  he  held  the  posi- 
tion for  nine  years,  until  1886,  when  the  Demo- 
crats gained  the  administration  of  the  countr}' 
and  he  resigned.  While  in  Bethany  he  served 
on  the  school  board  and  the  town  council. 

Coming  to  Colorado  in  1888,  Mr.  Simms  spent 
one  year  in  Denver,  where  he  engaged  in  the 
real-estate  business.  In  May,  1889,  he  moved  to 
Fort  Collins,  and  from  that  year  until  1894  served 
as  assistant  postmaster,  being  four  years  under 
the  Harrison  administration  and  one  year  under 
President  Cleveland.  In  1895  he  engaged  in  the 
building  of  several  cottages.  In  1896  he  was 
engaged  in  politics,  espousing  the  cause  of  the 
Republican  party,  and  assisted  in  editing  the  only 
Republican  organ  in  northern  Colorado,  said  pa- 
per being  the  Register,  published  at  Loveland.  In 
September,  1897,  President  McKinley  appointed 
him  postmaster  of  Fort  Collins.  His  first  step  in 
the  position  was  to  secure  the  present  fine  loca- 
tion, corner  of  College  and  Mountain  avenues. 
Into  the  new  building  he  put  new  fixtures  and 
modern  improvements.  He  also  advanced  the 
standard  of  the  office  to  such  an  extent  that 
in  June,  1898,  it  was  changed  from  third  to  sec- 
ond class,  taking  effect  July  i,  1898. 

The  first  wife  of  Mr.  Simms  was  Clara  J.  Ford, 
daughterofDr.  J.  J.  Ford,  of  Bethany,  Mo.,  whom 
he  married  November  1 1 ,  1869.  They  became  the 
parents  of  two  children :  Blanche,  wife  of  A.  J.  Star- 
lin,  of  Fort  Collins;  and  CharlesS.,  a  commercial 
traveler.  Mrs.  Clara  J.  Simms  died  February  i, 
1877.  Miss  Ida  E.  Nordyke,  of  Bartlett,  Iowa, 
became  the  wife  of  Mr.  Simms  February  17,  1878, 
and  died  March  23,  1887,  leaving  one  daughter, 
Amy  Ida,  who  is  with  her  father.     The  other 


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child  born  of  this  union  was  Don  E.,  born  June 
22,  1879,  and  died  March  23,  1882.  In  June, 
1893,  Mr.  Simms  was  united  in  marriage  with 
Caroline  E.  Leech,  sister  of  M.  F.  Leech,  of 
Boulder,  and  daughter  of  a  lieutenant  in  a  Penn- 
sylvania regiment  during  the  Civil  war.  She 
died  December  27,  1897.  She  was  a  finely  edu- 
cated woman,  and  for  several  years  was  a  teacher 
in  the  public  schools.  Possessing  considerable 
literary  ability,  she  was  a  frequent  contributor  to 
magazines,  newspapers  and  other  periodicals. 
She  was  a  stanch  worker  in  the  temperance  cause 
and  her  efforts  were  always  given  to  the  uplifting 
of  humanity. 

In  the  spring  of  1896  Mr.  Simms  was  elected 
alderman  of  Fort  Collins,  but  resigned  on  being 
appointed  postmaster,  after  eighteen  months  of 
service.  He  was  made  a  Mason  in  Bethany  in 
1885  and  is  now  connected  with  Collins  Lodge  No. 
19,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.  In  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church  he  is  a  member  of  the  oiEcial  board.  He 
is  a  member  of  George  H.  Thomas  Post  No.  7, 
G.  A.  R.,  and  in  1898  served  on  the  staff  of 
General  May  as  inspector  general  of  the  depart- 
ment of  Colorado  and  Wyoming.  In  1897  he 
was  elected  a  delegate  to  the  national  encamp- 
ment of  the  Grand  Army  at  Buffalo  and  in  1898 
served  as  delegate  to  the  state  encampment  at 
Cripple  Creek.  Politically  he  has  never  swerved  in 
his  allegiance  to  Republican  principles.  By 
birth,  training  and  inclination  he  is  a  Republi- 
can, and  he  has  never  been  known  to  vote  for 
men  or  measures  antagonistic  to  party  principles. 


Q  HARLES  F.  HERTEL,  the  well-known  pro- 
I  r  prietor  of  the  Kiowa  Hotel  and  livery  barn 
\J  at  Kiowa,  Elbert  County,  is  a  man  of  energy 
and  enterprise  and  conducts  one  of  the  leading 
hotels  in  the  county.  He  is  a  son  of  George  W. 
and  Artemisia  E.  (Rinehart)  Hertel,  and  was 
born  in  Andrew  County,  Mo.,  December  9,  1856. 
He  is  of  German  descent,  his  father  having  been 
born  in  Hanover,  where  he  resided  until  he 
was  nine  years  of  age.  He  was  then  brought  to 
this  country  by  his  parents,  who  settled  in  Mis- 
souri, where  he  lived  until  i860.  After  his  mar- 
riage he  crossed  the  plains  with  his  family  by 
means  of  an  ox-team  and  located  on  a  farm  four 
miles  south  of  Elizabeth,  Elbert  County,  Colo., 
where  he  resided  for  some  years.     He  finally  dis- 


posed of  his  property  and  purchased  a  sawmill  at 
Middle  Park,  the  first  steam  sawmill  in  that  sec- 
tion. This  he  has  since  operated  with  much  suc- 
cess and  has  become  one  of  the  leading  citizens 
of  that  community.  He  was  married  to  Artemi- 
sia E.  Rinehart,  a  native  of  Missouri,  in  that 
state,  before  going  we.st. 

Charles  F.  Hertel  was  four  years  of  age  when 
he  moved  to  Colorado  with  his  parents,  and  after 
becoming  old  enough  he  assisted  his  father  in 
operating  the  sawmill.  He  subsequently  took  up 
a  tract  of  land  at  Middle  Park,  upon  which  he 
resided  for  six  years,  after  which  he  engaged  in 
freighting.  He  continued  in  that  business  for  a 
time  and  then  bought  and  sold  cattle  until  he 
returned  to  his  farm  at  Middle  Park,  where  he 
carried  on  general  farming  with  much  success, 
but  was  finally  obliged  to  move  owing  to  his  wife's 
inability  to  stand  the  high  altitude.  They  then 
moved  to  Kiowa,  where  he  became  proprietor  of 
the  Kiowa  Hotel,  which  he  has  greatly  improved 
and  since  conducted.  It  is  a  very  popular  house 
and  is  well  patronized  by  both  local  and  transient 
trade.  The  culinary  department  is  under  the  su- 
pervision of  Mrs.  Hertel,  and  the  excellent  table  set 
is  all  that  could  be  desired  to  satisfy  the  wants  of 
the  inner  man.  The  house  is  fitted  out  with  many 
modern  conveniences  and  everything  possible  is 
done  by  the  genial  landlord  to  add  to  the  comfort 
of  his  guests,  and  that  his  efforts  are  appreciated 
is  shown  by  the  liberal  patronage  which  he  en- 
joys. Another  good  feature  is  the  excellent  livery 
barn,  conducted  in  connection  with  the  hotel, 
which  is  supplied  with  good  horses  and  vehicles 
of  every  description. 

While  still  a  resident  of  Middle  Park,  August 
15,  1886,  Mr.  Hertel  was  united  in  marriage  with 
Miss  Minnie  Brockmann,  who  was  born  in  Daven- 
port, Iowa,  and  is  a  daughter  of  John  Brockmann, 
who  moved  to  Colorado  in  i860,  locating  at 
Kiowa.  Our  subject  has  met  with  many  thrilling 
adventures  in  his  life  on  the  frontier,  and  in 
his  younger  days  had  frequent  altercations  with 
troublesome  Indians.  When  a  lad  of  twelve  years 
working  on  his  father's  farm,  the  neighbors  as- 
sisted each  other  in  harvesting,  and  for  fear  of  an 
attack  by  Indians  each  man  had  a  horse  saddled 
and  stationed  near  him.  Upon  one  occasion  he 
was  driving  a  reaper  and  because  of  the  noise  of 
the  machine  he  did  not  hear  the  shots  fired  by 
the  Indians  in  their  charge;  his  fellow-workmen 


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took  to  their  horses  and  soon  he  would  have  been 
at  the  mercy  of  the  enemy,  but  with  rare  presence 
of  mind  he  cut  the  horses  from  the  reaper  and 
effected  his  escape,  being  the  last  to  leave  the 
field. 


gORNELIUS  CLARK  is  one  of  the  most  en- 
terprising and  successful  farmers  of  Weld 
County.  His  finely  improved  ranch  is  situ- 
ated on  sections  11  and  12,  township  4,  range 68, 
and  is  considered  one  of  the  best  places  in  the 
county.  Mr.  Clark  is  a  stockholder  in  the  Ber- 
thoud  Farmers'  Mill  and  Elevator  Company,  and 
has  served  as  one  of  the  board  of  directors  of  the 
concern .  He  also  owns  stock  in  the  Home  Supply 
Ditch  Company,  from  which  source  his  farm  se- 
cures its  water  supply.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Masonic  order,  being  associated  with  Berthoud 
Lodge  No.  83,  A.  F.  &  A.  M. ;  Longmont  Chap- 
ter, R.  A.  M.,  and  Long's  Peak  Commandery 
No.  12,  K.  T. 

The  father  of  the  above-named  gentleman  was 
John  Clark,  a  native  of  County  Galway,  Ireland. 
The  mother,  whose  maiden  name  was  Nellie  Mc- 
Donald, was  born  in  Ireland.  The  parents  re- 
sided in  Whitehall,  N.  Y. ,  for  a  few  years  after 
their  marriage,  and  then  removed  to  Beloit,  Wis. 
Cornelius  Clark  was  bom  November  9,  1855,  prior 
to  the  removal  of  the  family  to  the  west,  White- 
hall being  his  birthplace.  He  was  educated  in 
the  common  schools  of  Beloit  and  when  he  was 
about  seventeen  years  of  age  he  went  to  Howard 
County,  Iowa.  There  he  engaged  in  farming,  his 
whole  experience  up  to  this  time  being  in  the  line 
of  agriculture.  The  year  that  saw  Colorado  ad- 
mitted to  the  Union  was  the  year  that  he  attained 
his  majority,  and  he  decided  to  cast  in  his  fortunes 
with  those  of  the  infant  state.  Coming  to  this 
county  he  took  a  position  with  a  farmer  in  the  vi- 
cinity of  Erie  and  worked  at  a  stated  salary  until 
the  mining  excitement  of  1879-80,  in  Leadville. 
At  that  time  he  followed  the  hosts  of  prospectors 
and  mined  for  a  year  or  so,  with  indifferent  suc- 
cess. He  then  took  up  a  tract  of  land  in  Thomp- 
son Valley,  it  being  situated  on  section  8,  town- 
ship 4,  range  67.  This  property  came  into  his 
possession  in  November,  1880,  and  after  cultivat- 
ing it  for  a  few  years  he  sold  it  and  removed  to 
the  place  he  now  occupies.  This  land  he  had 
purchased  in  1889,  and  here  he  has  dwelt  ever 
since.     The  ranch  comprises  two  hundred  and 


forty  acres,  eighty  acres  of  this  having  been  a  gov- 
ernment claim,  which  he  bought  of  another  party, 
and  eighty  acres  railroad  land.  Abundantly  wa- 
tered by  the  fine  system  of  irrigating  ditches 
which  he  has  made,  the  place  is  exceptionally  fer- 
tile and  productive,  large  crops  being  harvested 
every  year.  In  1891  the  proprietor  erected  a  sub- 
stantial barn,  one  of  the  best  and  most  commo- 
dious in  the  county.  Everything  about  the  place 
shows  the  constant  care  and  watchful  super- 
vision of  the  thrifty  owner,  who,  within  a  few 
years,  has  transformed  almost  wild  prairie  land 
into  a  model  farm.  He  has  met  with  special  suc- 
cess in  the  raising  of  cattle  and  horses,  and  has 
done  much  to  elevate  the  standard  of  live  stock 
in  this  community.  He  bought  and  owned  the 
first  thoroughbred  Percheron  stallion  in  this  sec- 
tion of  the  county.  At  present  he  has  a  herd  of 
about  two  hundred  head  of  cattle  and  keeps  some 
forty  head  of  horses.  His  stock  always  com- 
mands the  highest  price  on  the  markets,  and  jus- 
tifies the  extra  care  he  takes  of  his  animals. 

July  7,  1892,  Mr.  Clark  married  Miss  Nannie 
Graham,  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Elizabeth  Gra- 
ham, of  this  county.  Mrs.  Clark  is  a  native  of  Mis- 
souri, but  has  been  a  citizen  of  Colorado  for  many 
years.  To  the  marriage  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Clark 
two  children  have  been  born,  a  son  and  daughter, 
named  respectively,  John  Thomas  and  Cornelia  E. 


yyi  S.  CHENOWETH,  M.  D.,  a  represent- 
y  ative  of  the  medical  profession  of  Elbert 
(9  County,  has  attained  prominence  as  a 
practitioner  by  carefully  diagnosing  his  cases, 
bringing  that  skill  to  bear  in  their  treatment 
which  he  is  enabled  to  do  by  years  of  careful 
study  and  constant  practice.  His  undisputed  and 
profound  knowledge  of  his  profession,  and  the 
large  success  which  he  has  won  by  his  perse- 
vering industry  and  attention  to  business  have 
given  to  him  the  standing  and  prestige  he  so 
richly  merits.  He  is  a  son  of  Isaac  and  May  J. 
(Goben)  Chenoweth,  and  was  born  in  Grundy 
County,  Mo.,  November  30,  1861. 

Isaac  Chenoweth,  the  father  of  our  subject, 
was  a  native  of  Ohio,  and  at  an  early  day  accom- 
panied his  father  to  Missouri,  locating  in  Liv- 
ingston County,  where  he  followed  his  trade,  that 
of  a  cabinet-maker,  architect  and  builder.  Upon 
the  outbreak  of  the  Civil  war  he  enlisted  in  the 


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PORTRAIT  AND  BIOGRAPHICAL,  RECORD. 


cause  of  the  Union  and  fought  valiantly  until  the 
close,  receiving  a  number  of  serious  wounds,  one 
of  which,  a  bullet  in  his  right  hand,  developed 
a  cancerous  growth,  which  necessitated  the  am- 
putation of  that  member.  He  also  received  a  bad 
bullet  wound  in  the  hip,  from  which  he  has  suf- 
fered at  times.  The  war  left  him  in  financial 
straits,  and  only  by  dint  of  untiring  energy 
and  unceasing  toil  did  he  regain  his  former  stand- 
ing. In  1886  he  moved  to  Denver,  Colo.,  where 
he  invested  heavily  in  real  estate  and  built  two 
residences.  At  the  present  time  he  lives  at 
Chenoweth,  Elbert  County,  where  he  owns  a 
ranch  of  about  four  hundred  and  forty  acres. 
Politically  he  has  always  been  a  Republican, 
while  in  religious  fellowship  he  was  formerly  a 
member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church. 
While  in  Missouri  he  was  a  member  of  the  Ma- 
sonic order.  He  married  May  J.  Goben,  a  native 
of  lyivingston  County,  Mo.,  when  a  resident  of 
Spring  Hill,  that  county. 

Dr.  Chenoweth  spent  his  boyhood  days  upon  a 
farm  and  obtained  a  good  intellectual  training  in 
the  public  schools.  At  the  age  of  twelve  years, 
when  not  in  attendance  at  school,  he  worked  in  a 
drug  store,  continuing  in  that  manner  until  he 
was  fifteen  years  old.  He  then  learned  teleg- 
raphy in  the  freight  office  at  Jameson,  Mo.,  and 
he  advanced  with  such  rapidity  that  he  was  pro- 
moted to  the  position  of  assistant  agent.  Becom- 
ing an  expert  telegrapher,  his  services  were  ever 
in  demand,  and  he  served  in  that  capacity  at 
various  points  in  the  west  until  1885,  when  he 
became  superintendent's  clerk  on  the  Union  Pa- 
cific system  at  Denver,  having  charge  of  the  train 
department,  and  still  later  became  train  dis- 
patcher, retaining  that  office  until  the  spring  of 
1887.  During  these  years  he  had  been  saving  in 
his  habits  and  accumulated  some  wealth,  and 
having  always  evinced  a  fondness  for  the  medical 
profession  he  decided  to  make  it  his  vocation.  As 
a  means  to  that  end  he  entered  the  Missouri  Med- 
ical College,  of  St.  I/Ouis,  and  by  close  applica- 
tion to  study  took  a  complete  course  and  was 
graduated  in  1890  with  the  degree  of  M.  D.  He 
then  formed  a  partnership  with  his  uncle,  Dr. 
G.  A.  Goben,  with  whom  he  practiced  a  few 
months  at  Kirksville,  Mo.,  and  then  went  to 
Sublett,  Mo.,  where  he  not  only  practiced  medi- 
cine, but  also  successfully  conducted  a  drug  store 
for  one  year.     Upon  moving  to  Browning,  Mo., 


he  became  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Smith  &  Co. , 
in  the  drug  business,  and  also  acquired  an  exten- 
sive patronage  in  the  practice  of  medicine.  He 
was  especially  successful  in  surgical  practice, 
performing  a  number  of  capital  operations  with- 
out losing  a  case.  Being  favorably  impressed 
with  the  state  of  Colorado  upon  his  first  visit,  he 
and  his  wife  took  a  pleasure  trip  to  the  state  in 
1892  and  decided  to  make  their  home  there,  lo- 
cating in  Denver  during  the  same  year.  He  re- 
turned, however,  in  a  few  months,  as  Mrs. 
Chenoweth  preferred  to  live  in  Missouri.  He 
again  entered  upon  a  practice  and  became  promi- 
nently identified  with  the  famous  Meeks  murder 
case,  which  attracted  attention  throughout  the 
United  States  as  one  of  the  most  horrible  crimes 
ever  perpetrated.  He  sewed  up  the  gash  on  the 
head  of  the  little  girl,  who  was  found  out  in  a 
haystack,  and  she  was  placed  in  his  charge  by  the 
sheriflf.  Being  convinced  of  the  guilt  of  the  Tay- 
lors, he  aided  in  bringing  them  to  justice  for  the 
good  of  the  community.  Factions  sprang  up  in 
the  community,  and,  as  his  life  was  in  great 
danger,  he  removed  to  Colorado  in  1895,  locating 
at  Elbert,  where  he  has  since  had  charge  of  a 
large  and  lucrative  practice.  His  wide  experi- 
ence has  made  him  cool  and  practical  in  critical 
and  important  cases,  and  caused  his  skill  as  a 
physician  to  be  thoroughly  relied  upon. 

December  25,  1888,  Dr.  Chenoweth  married 
Miss  Minnie  B.  Fowler,  a  native  of  Kirksville, 
Mo.,  who  graduated  from  the  normal  school  of 
that  town  and  later  engaged  as  a  teacher  in  the 
public  schools.  Their  home  is  brightened  by 
three  children,  namely:  Montford  I.,  who  was 
born  at  Sublett,  Mo.,  February  i,  1891;  May 
Edith,  born  at  Browning,  Mo.,  July  30,  1893; 
and  Lola  B.  Fowler,  a  niece,  whom  they  have 
taken  to  rear.  In  political  afiiliations  Dr.  Chen- 
oweth is  a  firm  Republican,  and  cast  his  first  vote 
for  James  G.  Blaine  in  1884;  he  has  been  active 
in  the  workings  of  the  party,  and  has  frequently 
been  a  delegate  to  the  different  conventions.  At 
one  time  he  received  the  nomination  for  coroner 
of  Sullivan  County,  Mo.,  but  withdrew  from  the 
race.  In  1897  he  was  the  popular  candidate  for 
county  clerk  in  Elbert  County,  and  was  loyally 
supported  by  his  party  and  many  Democrats,  re- 
ceiving a  majority  in  ever>-  precinct  but  two,  but 
he  was  defeated  by  fifty-four  votes.  Fraternally 
he  became  a  member  of  Buruham  Lodge  No.  59, 


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489 


I.  O.  O.  F.,  of  Denver,  in  1886,  but  now  has  a 
membership  in  the  Elbert  Lodge  of  that  order  and 
is  passing  through  the  chairs;  he  was  a  member 
of  the  Knights  of  Pythias,  of  Browning,  Mo., 
which  lodge  surrendered  its  charter;  is  a  member 
of  Elbert  Camp  No.  152,  W.  of  W.,  of  which  he 
is  clerk;  the  Home  FoAim,  of  Elbert,  of  which 
he  is  secretary  and  examining  physician;  the  Pa- 
cific Circle,  of  which  he  is  examining  physician; 
the  Colorado  State  Medical  Society,  and  the 
American  Medical  Society.  He  is  also  local  sur- 
geon for  the  Union  Pacific  &  Gulf  Railway.  In 
religious  attachment  he  was  formerly  an  active 
worker  in  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  at 
Browning,  Mo. ,  and  contributed  liberally  toward 
the  erection  of  the  church  there. 

Since  this  sketch  was  written  the  doctor's 
father  died,  November  19,  1898,  and  the  doctor, 
having  no  further  interests  in  Elbert  County,  has 
since  returned  to  No.  329  Santa  Fe  avenue,  Den- 
ver, where  he  expects  to  practice  medicine  and 
spend  the  balance  of  his  life. 


fDQlLWAM  H.  DICKENS,  of  Longmont,  is 
\A/  o'ls  of  the  wealthiest  and  most  influential 
YV  men  of  Boulder  County.  While  thousands 
were  investing  almost  fabulous  sums  in  more  or 
less  doubtful  mining  ventures,  in  enterprises 
where  great  fortunes  have  been  repeatedly  sunk, 
he  steadily  pursued  old  and  reliable  methods  of 
gaining  riches,  was  conservative  and  wise  in  all 
his  investments,  and  prosperity  long  ago  came  to 
him  as  his  just  reward.  He  is  now  the  largest 
payer  of  taxes,  individually,  in  the  county,  it  is 
asserted,  and  no  one  has  been  more  deeply  in- 
terested in  the  advancing  civilization  and  prog- 
ress of  this  immediate  region  than  he. 

The  paternal  grandfather  of  the  above,  Charles 
Dickens,  was  a  near  relative  of  the  celebrated 
author  of  the  same  name.  He  was  born  in 
Leicestershire,  England,  and  was  a  maltster,  as 
was  also  his  son,  William  Henry,  father  of  our 
subject.  William  Henry  Dickens  married  Miss 
Mary  Ann  Harris,  a  native  of  the  same  shire  and 
daughter  of  John  Harris,  a  hotel-keeper  and 
farmer.  He  was  a  member  of  a  company  of 
British  cavalry  at  one  time.  His  wife,  Mary 
Jerome,  died  in  England  and  he  accompanied  the 
family  of  his  son  when  they  came  to  this  country 
in  1843.     He  was  over  seventy  years  old  at  the 


time  of  his  death,  which  took  place  in  Wisconsin. 
His  father,  John  Harris,  Sr.,  was  a  man  of 
wealth  and  his  fortune  is  still  in  chancery  in 
England.  Fifty-five  years  ago,  William  Henry 
Dickens,  Sr.,  then  a  young  man,  sailed  for 
Quebec  in  the  ship  '  'John  Walker. ' '  His  wife 
and  little  daughter  Eliza  were  with  him,  and 
during  the  voyage  a  son,  the  subject  of  this 
sketch,  was  born,  May  26,  1843.  The  little 
party  traveled  up  the  Welland  Canal  and  the 
great  lakes  to  Columbus,  Wis.,  where  they  set- 
tled on  a  pre-emption  claim.  The  father  did  not 
long  survive  the  rigors  of  climate  and  hard  work, 
but  died  in  1847,  when  but  twenty-seven.  His 
eldest  child,  Eliza,  married  a  Mr.  Franklin,  and 
died  in  Colorado.  John,  the  younger  son,  died 
when  three  years  old,  and  the  j-oungest  of  the 
family  is  Mrs.  Maria  Quist,  of  Ellis,  Kan.  The 
mother  became  the  wife  of  Alonzo  Nelson  Allen, 
who  had  settled  in  Wisconsin  on  a  farm,  and 
whose  birthplace  was  Oberlin,  Ohio.  Five  chil- 
dren were  born  of  this  marriage  and  three  sons 
and  a  daughter  are  living. 

In  1859  W.  H.  Dickens  started  with  a  train 
across  the  plains  to  Colorado,  and  arrived  here 
May  I .  He  had  followed  the  Platte  River  from 
Omaha  and  had  an  uneventful  journey.  He  had 
accompanied  a  party  of  over  a  score  of  men,  each 
of  whom  rode  a  horse  and  led  three  others.  Mr. 
Allen  located  on  the  homestead  now  owned  by 
our  subject  and  built  a  log  cabin  near  the  St. 
Vrain  River.  Young  Dickens  assisted  his  step- 
father to  get  settled  and  worked  with  him  for 
several  years  very  diligently.  When  the  stage 
line  began  running  by  way  of  Denver,  instead  of 
over  the  Black  Hills,  there  was  a  great  and 
steady  demand  for  hay  in  this  locality,  as  the 
route  (the  Salt  Lake  division)  traversed  it.  The 
value  of  farm  land  rose  accordingly  and  a  good 
market  was  afforded  the  pioneers  for  all  their 
products. 

In  1864  the  troubles  with  the  Indians  proving 
of  no  slight  consequence  to  the  settlers,  many  of 
them  took  up  arms  against  the  red  men,  and  in 
July  of  that  year  Mr.  Dickens  was  mustered  in  as 
a  private  of  Company  D,  Third  Colorado  Cavalry. 
He  served  about  six  months  on  the  frontier  and 
participated  in  the  engagement  of  Big  Sandy.  In 
1863  he  homesteaded  a  quarter-section  of  land 
adjoining  his  stepfather's  property;  later  bought 
the  other  land  and  added  to  it  from  time  to  time. 


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cause  of  the  Union  and  fought  valiantly  until  the 
close,  receiving  a  number  of  serious  wounds,  one 
of  which,  a  bullet  in  his  right  hand,  developed 
a  cancerous  growth,  which  necessitated  the  am- 
putation of  that  member.  He  also  received  a  bad 
bullet  wound  in  the  hip,  from  which  he  has  suf- 
fered at  times.  The  war  left  him  in  financial 
straits,  and  only  by  dint  of  untiring  energy 
and  unceasing  toil  did  he  regain  his  former  stand- 
ing. In  1886  he  moved  to  Denver,  Colo.,  where 
he  invested  heavily  in  real  estate  and  built  two 
residences.  At  the  present  time  he  lives  at 
Chenoweth,  Elbert  County,  where  he  owns  a 
ranch  of  about  four  hundred  and  forty  acres. 
Politically  he  has  always  been  a  Republican, 
while  in  religious  fellowship  he  was  formerly  a 
member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church. 
While  in  Missouri  he  was  a  member  of  the  Ma- 
.sonic  order.  He  married  May  J.  Goben,  a  native 
of  Livingston  County,  Mo.,  when  a  resident  of 
Spring  Hill,  that  county. 

Dr.  Chenoweth  spent  his  boyhood  days  upon  a 
farm  and  obtained  a  good  intellectual  training  in 
the  public  schools.  At  the  age  of  twelve  years, 
when  not  in  attendance  at  school,  he  worked  in  a 
drug  store,  continuing  in  that  manner  until  he 
was  fifteen  years  old.  He  then  learned  teleg- 
raphy in  the  freight  office  at  Jameson,  Mo.,  and 
he  advanced  with  such  rapidity  that  he  was  pro- 
moted to  the  position  of  assistant  agent.  Becom- 
ing an  expert  telegrapher,  his  services  were  ever 
in  demand,  and  he  served  in  that  capacity  at 
various  points  in  the  west  until  1885,  when  he 
became  superintendent's  clerk  on  the  Union  Pa- 
cific system  at  Denver,  having  charge  of  the  train 
department,  and  still  later  became  train  dis- 
patcher, retaining  that  office  until  the  spring  of 
1887.  During  these  years  he  had  been  saving  in 
his  habits  and  accumulated  some  wealth,  and 
having  always  evinced  a  fondness  for  the  medical 
profession  he  decided  to  make  it  his  vocation.  As 
a  means  to  that  end  he  entered  the  Missouri  Med- 
ical College,  of  St.  Louis,  and  by  close  applica- 
tion to  study  took  a  complete  course  and  was 
graduated  in  1890  with  the  degree  of  M.  D.  He 
then  formed  a  partnership  with  his  uncle,  Dr. 
G.  A.  Goben,  with  whom  he  practiced  a  few 
mouths  at  Kirksville,  Mo.,  and  then  went  to 
Sublett,  Mo.,  where  he  not  only  practiced  medi- 
cine, but  also  successfully  conducted  a  drugstore 
for  one  year.     Upon  moving  to  Browning,  Mo., 


he  became  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Smith  &  Co. , 
in  the  drug  business,  and  also  acquired  an  exten- 
sive patronage  in  the  practice  of  medicine.  He 
was  especially  successful  in  surgical  practice, 
performing  a  number  of  capital  operations  with- 
out losing  a  case.  Being  favorably  impressed 
with  the  state  of  Colorado  upon  his  first  visit,  he 
and  his  wife  took  a  pleasure  trip  to  the  state  in 
1892  and  decided  to  make  their  home  there,  lo- 
cating in  Denver  during  the  same  year.  He  re- 
turned, however,  in  a  few  months,  as  Mrs. 
Chenoweth  preferred  to  live  in  Missouri.  He 
again  entered  upon  a  practice  and  became  promi- 
nently identified  with  the  famous  Meeks  murder 
case,  which  attracted  attention  throughout  the 
United  States  as  one  of  the  most  horrible  crimes 
ever  perpetrated.  He  sewed  up  the  gash  on  the 
head  of  the  little  girl,  who  was  found  out  in  a 
haystack,  and  she  was  placed  in  his  charge  by  the 
sheriff.  Being  convinced  of  the  guilt  of  the  Tay- 
lors, he  aided  in  bringing  them  to  justice  for  the 
good  of  the  community.  Factions  sprang  up  in 
the  community,  and,  as  his  life  was  in  great 
danger,  he  removed  to  Colorado  in  1895,  locating 
at  Elbert,  where  he  has  since  had  charge  of  a 
large  and  lucrative  practice.  His  wide  experi- 
ence has  made  him  cool  and  practical  in  critical 
and  important  cases,  and  caused  his  skill  as  a 
physician  to  be  thoroughly  relied  upon. 

December  25,  1888,  Dr.  Chenoweth  married 
Miss  Minnie  B.  Fowler,  a  native  of  Kirksville, 
Mo. ,  who  graduated  from  the  normal  school  of 
that  town  and  later  engaged  as  a  teacher  in  the 
public  schools.  Their  home  is  brightened  by 
three  children,  namely:  Montford  I.,  who  was 
born  at  Sublett,  Mo.,  February  i,  1891;  May 
Edith,  born  at  Browning,  Mo.,  July  30,  1893; 
and  Lola  B.  Fowler,  a  niece,  whom  they  have 
taken  to  rear.  In  political  affiliations  Dr.  Chen- 
oweth is  a  firm  Republican,  and  cast  his  first  vote 
for  James  G.  Blaine  in  1884;  he  has  been  active 
in  the  workings  of  the  party,  and  has  frequently 
been  a  delegate  to  the  different  conventions.  At 
one  time  he  received  the  nomination  for  coroner 
of  Sullivan  County,  Mo.,  but  withdrew  from  the 
race.  In  1897  he  was  the  popular  candidate  for 
county  clerk  in  Elbert  County,  and  was  loyally 
supported  by  his  party  and  many  Democrats,  re- 
ceiving a  majority  in  every  precinct  but  two,  but 
he  was  defeated  by  fifty-four  votes.  Fraternally 
he  became  a  member  of  Burnham  Lodge  No.  59, 


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I.  O.  O.  F.,  of  Denver,  in  1886,  but  now  has  a 
membership  in  the  Elbert  Lodge  of  that  order  and 
is  passing  through  the  chairs;  he  was  a  member 
of  the  Knights  of  Pythias,  of  Browning,  Mo., 
which  lodge  surrendered  its  charter;  is  a  member 
of  Elbert  Camp  No.  152,  W.  of  W.,  of  which  he 
is  clerk;  the  Home  FofUm,  of  Elbert,  of  which 
he  is  secretary  and  examining  physician;  the  Pa- 
cific Circle,  of  which  he  is  examining  physician; 
the  Colorado  State  Medical  Society,  and  the 
American  Medical  Society.  He  is  also  local  sur- 
geon for  the  Union  Pacific  &  Gulf  Railway.  In 
religious  attachment  he  was  formerly  an  active 
worker  in  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  at 
Browning,  Mo. ,  and  contributed  liberally  toward 
the  erection  of  the  church  there. 

Since  this  sketch  was  written  the  doctor's 
father  died,  November  19,  1898,  and  the  doctor, 
having  no  further  interests  in  Elbert  County,  has 
since  returned  to  No.  329  Santa  Fe  avenue,  Den- 
ver, where  he  expects  to  practice  medicine  and 
spend  the  balance  of  his  life. 


WILLIAM  H.  DICKENS,  of  Longmont,  is 
one  of  the  wealthiest  and  most  influential 
men  of  Boulder  County.  While  thousands 
were  investing  almost  fabulous  sums  in  more  or 
less  doubtful  mining  ventures,  in  enterprises 
where  great  fortunes  have  been  repeatedly  sunk, 
he  steadily  pursued  old  and  reliable  methods  of 
gaining  riches,  was  conservative  and  wise  in  all 
his  investments,  and  prosperity  long  ago  came  to 
him  as  his  just  reward.  He  is  now  the  largest 
payer  of  taxes,  individually,  in  the  county,  it  is 
asserted,  and  no  one  has  been  more  deeply  in- 
terested in  the  advancing  civilization  and  prog- 
ress of  this  immediate  region  than  he. 

The  paternal  grandfather  of  the  above,  Charles 
Dickens,  was  a  near  relative  of  the  celebrated 
author  of  the  same  name.  He  was  born  in 
Leicestershire,  England,  and  was  a  maltster,  as 
was  also  his  son,  William.  Henry,  father  of  our 
subject.  William  Henry  Dickens  married  Miss 
Mary  Ann  Harris,  a  native  of  the  same  shire  and 
daughter  of  John  Harris,  a  hotel-keeper  and 
farmer.  He  was  a  member  of  a  company  of 
British  cavalry  at  one  time.  His  wife,  Mary 
Jerome,  died  in  England  and  he  accompanied  the 
family  of  his  son  when  they  came  to  this  country 
in  1843.     He  was  over  seventy  years  old  at  the 


time  of  his  death,  which  took  place  in  Wisconsin. 
His  father,  John  Harris,  Sr.,  was  a  man  of 
wealth  and  his  fortune  is  still  in  chancery  in 
England.  Fifty-five  years  ago,  William  Henry 
Dickens,  Sr.,  then  a  young  man,  sailed  for 
Quebec  in  the  ship  "John  Walker. "  His  wife 
and  little  daughter  Eliza  were  with  him,  and 
during  the  voyage  a  son,  the  subject  of  this 
sketch,  was  born.  May  26,  1843.  The  little 
party  traveled  up  the  Welland  Canal  and  the 
great  lakes  to  Columbus,  Wis.,  where  they  set- 
tled on  a  pre-emption  claim.  The  father  did  not 
long  survive  the  rigors  of  climate  and  hard  work, 
but  died  in  1847,  when  but  twenty -seven.  His 
eldest  child,  Eliza,  married  a  Mr.  Franklin,  and 
died  in  Colorado.  John,  the  younger  son,  died 
when  three  years  old,  and  the  youngest  of  the 
family  is  Mrs.  Maria  Quist,  of  Ellis,  Kan.  The 
mother  became  the  wife  of  Alonzo  Nelson  Allen, 
who  had  settled  in  Wisconsin  on  a  farm,  and 
whose  birthplace  was  Oberlin,  Ohio.  Five  chil- 
dren were  born  of  this  marriage  and  three  .sons 
and  a  daughter  are  living. 

In  1859  W.  H.  Dickens  started  with  a  train 
across  the  plains  to  Colorado,  and  arrived  here 
May  I .  He  had  followed  the  Platte  River  from 
Omaha  and  had  an  uneventful  journey.  He  had 
accompanied  a  party  of  over  a  score  of  men,  each 
of  whom  rode  a  horse  and  led  three  others.  Mr. 
Allen  located  on  the  homestead  now  owned  by 
our  subject  and  built  a  log  cabin  near  the  St. 
Vrain  River.  Young  Dickens  assisted  his  step- 
father to  get  settled  and  worked  with  him  for 
several  years  very  diligently.  When  the  stage 
line  began  running  by  way  of  Denver,  instead  of 
over  the  Black  Hills,  there  was  a  great  and 
steady  demand  for  hay  in  this  localitj^  as  the 
route  (the  Salt  Lake  division)  traversed  it.  The 
value  of  farm  laud  rose  accordingly  and  a  good 
market  was  afforded  the  pioneers  for  all  their 
products. 

In  1864  the  troubles  with  the  Indians  proving 
of  no  slight  consequence  to  the  settlers,  many  of 
them  took  up  arms  against  the  red  men,  and  in 
Jul}'  of  that  year  Mr.  Dickens  was  mustered  in  as 
a  private  ofCompanj'D,  Third  Colorado  Cavalry. 
He  served  about  six  months  on  the  frontier  and 
participated  in  the  engagement  of  Big  Sandy.  In 
1863  he  homesteaded  a  quarter-section  of  land 
adjoining  his  step  father's  property;  later  bought 
the  other  land  and  added  to  it  from  time  to  time. 


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He  now  owns  six  hundred  and  forty  acres  in  the 
one  body.  The  St.  Vrain  affords  necessary 
water,  and  for  over  a  mile  of  its  course  runs 
through  Mr.  Dickens'  land.  At  first  he,  as  well 
as  others  of  his  fellow- pioneers,  knew  little  about 
irrigation  systems,  but  years  of  experience  have 
made  him  an  expert  on  the  subject.  His  land  is 
well  watered  by  a  splendid  set  of  ditches,  etc., 
and  improved  with  four  good  residences  and 
numerous  barns  and  other  buildings.  His  home 
is  a  substantial  brick  structure  and  his  best  barn 
is  a  model.  It  is  40x100  feet  in  dimensions;  has 
an  eight-foot  wall  with  seventeen-foot  posts  and 
has  a  capacity  of  two  hundred  and  fifty  tons  of 
alfalfa  and  quantities  of  grain,  etc.  Sixty  head 
of  cattle  are  often  wintered  under  its  roof,  also. 
Mr.  Dickens  has  dealt  extensively  in  stock,  has 
made  a  specialty  of  high-grade  Shorthorn  cattle 
and  blooded  PercheronNorman  horses,  and 
brought  a  dozen  or  more  of  brood  mares  here 
some  years  ago.  He  leases  land  on  Crow  Creek, 
northeast  of  Greeley,  for  cattle  ranges  and  owns  a 
section  of  land  northwest  of  Longmont.  Here  he 
has  a  sheep  ranch,  many  of  the  animals  being  of 
the  Shropshire  variety.  Besides,  he  owns  half  a 
section  of  land  in  Weld  County,  three  miles  east 
of  Longmont,  and  this  place  is  well  irrigated. 

In  the  early  years  of  his  residence  here,  Mr. 
Dickens  was  engaged  in  freighting  at  certain 
periods  of  the  year.  He  continued  to  transport 
merchandise  between  Cheyenne  and  Denver, 
even  after  the  Union  Pacific  had  been  completed 
through  the  first-named  town.  Raising  in  the 
neighborhood  of  ten  thousand  bushels  of  wheat  a 
year,  he  sells  a  portion  of  it,  and,  as  he  grows 
four  thousand  or  more  sacks  of  potatoes  a  season, 
he  ships  the  product  to  Denver  in  car-load  lots. 
He  owns  a  thresher,  self-binder,  and  all  kinds  of 
labor-saving  machinery,  and  is  thoroughly  abreast 
of  the  times  in  every  way. 

Since  the  Farmers'  Mill  and  Elevator  Company 
was  started  Mr.  Dickens  has  been  president  of  the 
concern,  which  he  was  mainly  instrumental  in 
founding.  The  mill  has  a  'capacity  of  six  hun- 
dred sacks  per  day;  is  equipped  with  improved 
roller  machinery  and  "Pride  of  the  Rockies,"  its 
finest  product,  commands  the  highest  market 
price  of  any  flour  manufactured  in  the  state.  It 
is  shipped  all  over  this  and  adjoining  states,  and 
even  to  New  Orleans  and  eastern  cities.  A  large 
warehouse  (the  old   Washington  Hotel  site)    at 


Fifteenth  and  Wazee  streets  is  utilized  for  storage 
purposes.  Mr.  Dickens  is  a  director  in,  and  was 
one  of  the  incorporators  of,  the  Farmers'  National 
Bank  and  is  now  vice-president  of  the  same.  He 
belongs  to  the  Cattle  Growers'  Association  of 
Colorado.  He  is  a  charter  member  of  McPherson 
Post  No.  6,  G.  A.  R.  Ill  politics  he  is  a  strong 
and  loyal  Republican,  and  has  persistently  de- 
clined public  office  and  honors. 

December  13,  1886,  Mr.  Dickens  married  Miss 
IdaKiteley,  a  native  of  Walworth  County,  Wis. 
Her  parents  were  John  and  Catherine  (Flans- 
burg)  Kiteley,  her  father  a  native  of  England 
and  her  mother  of  New  York  state,  of  Holland- 
Dutch  descent.  The  father  settled  in  Colorado 
about  1872  and  resides  in  Longmont.  The  five 
children  born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Dickens  are: 
William  A.,  a  member  of  the  class  of  '98,  of  the 
Fort  Collins  State  Agricultural  College;  Rienzi  C. , 
Mary,  Artalissa  and  John,  at  home. 


BERNARD  CHESTER  KILLIN,  a  man  of 
much  prominence  in  Elbert  County,  con- 
ducts a  large  ranch  near  the  town  of  Kiowa, 
on  section  20,  township  8  south,  range  63  west, 
and  is  extensively  engaged  in  stock-raising.  He 
is  a  son  of  Patrick  and  Sarah  (Wakefield)  Killin, 
and  was  born  in  Washtenaw  County,  Mich.,  Feb- 
ruary 6,  1845. 

Patrick  Killin,  the  father  of  our  subject,  was 
born  in  Ireland  and  in  his  boyhood  emigrated  to 
America  with  his  parents,  locating  in  New  York 
City,  where  he  lived  for  a  few  years.  In  1828  he 
moved  to  Hartford,  Conn.,  and  in  1834  to  Wash- 
tenaw County,  Mich. ,  where  he  was  one  of  the 
pioneers,  and  engaged  in  agricultural  pursuits 
during  the  remainder  of  his  life.  He  married 
Sarah  Wakefield,  a  lineal  descendant  of  the  Wake- 
fields  who  came  to  this  country  in  the  "  May- 
flower." 

Bernard  C.  Killin  is  a  man  of  superior  educa- 
tion, having  taken  a  course  in  the  state  normal 
school,  of  Ypsilanti,  Mich.,  after  attending  the 
public  schools  for  a  time.  He  was  but  fifteen 
years  old  upon  the  demise  of  his  mother,  and 
shortly  after  began  to  shift  in  the  world  for  him- 
self, going  to  Fulton  County,  Ohio,  where  he 
was  employed  in  lumbering  pursuits  for  four  or 
five  years.  In  the  spring  of  1866  he  went  to 
Omaha,  intending  to  go  from  there  to  Montana 


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by  means  of  a  wagon  train.  As  the  Indians  were 
very  troublesome  the  journey  was  a  dangerous 
one,  and  the  train  was  not  allowed  to  start  with 
less  than  sixty  wagons.  They  made  such  slow 
progress  that  our  subject  and  a  few  others  decided 
to  go  ahead,  and  soon  the  train  was  left  far  in  the 
rear,  but  all  to  no  purpose,  for  at  the  next  post 
they  were  forcibly  detained  until  there  were  the 
required  number  of  wagons.  Although  greatly 
delayed  he  arrived  safely  at  Denver,  Colo.,  where 
he  was  obliged  to  stop  and  seek  employment,  as 
he  was  without  means.  He  received  work  from 
M.  M.  Delano,  Esq.,  who  was  at  that  time  mayor 
of  Denver.  After  laying  by  a  neat  little  sum  he 
pre-empted  the  land  upon  which  his  home  is  now 
located,  and  engaged  in  the  cattle  business  on  a 
small  scale.  He  soon  after  homesteaded  another 
piece  of  land  and  took  up  a  timber  claim.  Hon- 
est and  upright  at  all  times,  energetic  and  indus- 
trious, his  business  prospered,  and  now  and  again, 
as  his  means  justified,  he  added  to  his  estate, 
owning  at  the  present  time  three  thousand  five 
hundred  acres  in  Elbert  County. 

December  30,  1891,  Mr.  Killin  married  Miss 
Olive  Adelia  Grigg,  of  Greenville,  Bond  County, 
111.,  where  she  was  born.  She  was  educated 
principally  in  the  public  schools.  She  also  took 
a  course  in  Almira  College,  of  that  town,  and 
taught  school  for  a  few  years  prior  to  going  to 
Colorado  in  1891.  She  is  a  daughter  of  Jesse 
Richardson  Grigg  and  Sarah  (Rhea)  Grigg.  Jesse 
R.  Grigg  was  born  in  Rutherford  County,  N.  C. 
He  was  taken  to  Bond  County,  111. ,  when  but  two 
years  old,  by  his  parents,  Jesse  and  Susanah 
(Taylor)  Grigg.  Sarah  Rhea  was  born  in  Ma- 
coupin County,  111.  Her  parents  were  Henry 
Dill  Rhea  and  Elizabeth  (Adams)  Rhea,  of  Ken- 
tucky. The  parents  of  Elizabeth  Adams  were 
James  Adams  and  Sarah  (Ingram)  Adams.  Two 
sons  have  blessed  the  home  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Kil- 
lin: Bernard  Chester  and  Valmi  Grigg. 

Politically  our  subject  has  always  unswervingly 
supported  the  principles  of  the  Democratic  party, 
and  has  frequently  been  called  upon  to  serve  in 
various  official  capacities.  In  1873  he  was  elected 
sheriff  of  Douglas  County,  which  at  that,  time 
comprised  Elbert  and  Douglas  Counties,  but 
when  the  division  was  made  he  resigned  and  was 
elected  superintendent  of  schools  in  the  former. 
He  held  that  office  for  fourteen  consecutive  years, 
with  the  exception  of  1884  and    1885,    serving 


until  1892.  Several  times  he  has  been  elected  j  us- 
tice  of  the  peace,  and  was  also  appointed  on  the 
state  board  of  stock  inspectors  by  Governor  Waite. 
Fraternally  he  is  prominent,  being  the  oldest  and 
one  of  the  best-informed  Masons  of  Elbert  Coun- 
ty; he  became  a  member  of  that  order  in  Febru- 
ary, following  his  twenty-first  birthday,  at  Wau- 
seon,  Fulton  County,  Ohio,  where  he  took  three 
degrees.  He  has  since  taken  the  Scottish  Rite, 
up  to  and  including  the  thirty-second  degree,  be- 
ing a  member  of  Union  Eodge  No.  7,  of  Denver; 
Chapter  No.  2,  R.  A.  M.;  Colorado  Commandery 
K.  T.;  No.  I  El  Jebel  Temple,  A.  A.  O.  N.  M.  S. 
He  is  also  a  charter  member  of  the  Odd  Fellow 
Lodge  at  Elbert,  of  which  he  has  filled  a  number 
of  the  chairs;  and  a  charter  member  of  the  Yeo- 
man order,  at  Elizabeth,  of  which  he  is  foreman. 
Mrs.  Killin  is  a  charter  member  and  secretary  of 
Lodge  No.  29,  W.  R.  C,  of  Elbert  County,  and 
is  a  member  of  the  S.  O.  O.  B.  Society  No.  i,  of 
Denver,  an  auxiliary  of  the  Knights  Templar. 
Our  subject  is  of  genial  disposition,  a  pleasant 
companion,  and  has  many  friends  in  the  various 
communities  in  which  he  has  lived. 


0ANIEL  T.  CORT,  a  gentleman  who  has 
been  prominently  identified  with  many  busi- 
ness enterprises  and  an  owner  of  consider- 
able real  estate,  some  of  which  is  in  the  city  of 
Denver,  is  a  member  of  the  Cort-Hames  Mercan- 
tile Company,  dealers  in  general  merchandise  in 
Elizabeth,  Elbert  County,  of  which  he  is  a  resi- 
dent. He  is  a  son  of  Simon  and  Sophia  (Har- 
den) Cort,  and  was  born  at  Greensburg,  West- 
moreland County,  Pa.,  November  20,  1849. 

Simon  Cort  was  also  a  native  of  Westmoreland 
County,  where  he  attended  the  public  schools, 
and  at  an  early  age  learned  the  trade  of  a  tan- 
ner. After  his  marriage  he  moved  to  Leaven- 
worth, Kan.,  where  he  embarked  in  the  mercan- 
tile business  and  successfully  continued  for  a 
period  of  four  years.  He  then  loaded  his  stock 
in  wagons  and  crossed  the  plains  to  Denver, 
locating  between  Blake  and  McGee  streets,  where 
he  subsequently  erected  the  first  two-story  brick 
business  block  in  East  Denver,  now  occupied  by 
Barter  s  seed  store.  He  continued  in  business 
there  with  good  results  until  he  retired  from 
active  business  life,  and  has  since  been  living 
in   Denver  in  the  enjoyment  of  the  fruits  of  an 


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industrious  and  well  spent  life.  He  is  now  past 
eighty-seven  years  of  age,  and  has  been  an  elder 
in  the  Presbyterian  Church  for  fifty -five  years. 
In  politics  he  is  a  stanch  Democrat  and  cast  his 
first  vote  for  Andrew  Jackson.  He  was  frequently 
called  upon  to  accept  ofiice,  and  at  one  time  re- 
fused the  nomination  for  governor  on  the  Prohi- 
bition ticket.  He  was  elected  to  the  state  legis- 
lature from  Jefferson  County,  of  which  he  was  a 
resident  for  a  few  years,  but  was  counted  out  by 
a  Republican  legislature  upon  protest.  He  mar- 
ried Sophia  Harden,  a  native  of  Westmoreland 
County,  Pa.,  and  a  daughter  of  Capt.  Harden,  a 
soldier  of  the  war  of  1812. 

Daniel  T.  Cort  attended  the  public  schools  of 
Leavenworth,  Kan.,  until  he  was  eleven  years  of 
age,  when  his  parents  moved  to  Denver.  There 
his  education  was  supplemented  by  a  course  in 
the  public  schools  and  the  Methodist  seminary, 
leaving  school  at  eighteen  years.  As  a  boy  he 
clerked  in  his  father's  store,  later  for  W.  B.  Dan- 
iels &  Co.  for  four  years,  then  for  Walsen  & 
Levy  three  and  one-half  years,  thereby  gaining  a 
practical  experience  as  to  the  best  manner  in  which 
to  carry  on  the  business.  He  then  started  in 
business  for  himself  with  the  last-named  firm  as 
his  backers  financially.  The  business  prospered 
and  in  a  short  time  he  paid  ofi"  the  indebtedness 
and  established  himself  at  Franceville,  El  Paso 
County,  where  he  continued  until  1890,  and  then 
■  moved  to  Elizabeth,  in  which  town  he  and  his 
brother  established  a  store  a  few  years  previous. 
He  has  since  resided  there  and  has  the  best 
equipped  and  stocked  store  in  that  section.  He 
is  at  present  interested  in  a  ranch,  owns  some 
mining  stock,  and  also  considerable  propertj'  in 
the  city  of  Denver.  He  is  a  man  of  energy  and 
enterprise  and  has  won  his  way  to  the  front  by 
his  individual  efforts.  A  man  of  good  character, 
honorable  and  upright  in  all  transactions,  he  pos- 
sesses the  confidence  and  esteem  ofall  with  whom 
he  comes  in  contact  in  both  business  and  social 
relations. 

Daniel  T.  Cort  married  Miss  Minnie  F.  Cary, 
a  native  of  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  and  a  daughter  of 
Freeman  G.  Cary,  who  was  president  of  the  Far- 
mers' College  of  that  city  for  twenty-two  years. 
Among  the  noted  scholars  under  his  tutelage 
were  Murat  Halstead,  Benjamin  Harrison  and 
Benjamin  Butterworth.  She  was  a  cousin  of 
Phoebe  and   Alice  Cary,  who  attained  a   world- 


wide reputation  as  poets.  She  was  called  to  her 
final  rest  at  Franceville  in  1890,  and  was  survived 
by  two  children:  Simon  Levy,  aged  fourteen, 
and  Lelah  Isabelle,  aged  ten  years.  The  second 
marriage  of  our  subject  took  place  April  3,  1892, 
and  united  him  with  Miss  Gertrude  O.  Randolph, 
who  was  born  in  Ohio,  educated  in  the  normal 
school  at  Valparaiso,  Ind.,  and  was  a  teacher  of 
Elizabeth  prior  to  her  marriage.  Politically  Mr. 
Cort  is  an  unswerving  supporter  of  the  Democratic 
party,  and  in  1876  polled  his  first  vote  for  Tilden. 
He  has  never  sought  public  ofiices,  but  was  the 
nominee  of  his  party  for  the  state  legislature  in 
1894-  ■     

j5^0RMAN  D'ARCY,  who  is  engaged  in  farm- 
\l  ing  and  stock  raising  on  section  3,  township 
I  ID  6,  range  66  west,  near  the  village  of  Parker, 
Douglas  County,  was  born  in  Monkstown,  Ire- 
land, September  18,  1856,  and  is  a  son  of  George 
J.  and  Maria  (Bingham)  D'Arcy.  His  father, 
who  was  a  native  of  Ireland,  was  of  French  lin- 
eage, as  the  name  indicates.  The  earliest  records 
of  the  family  indicate  that  they  accompanied 
William  the  Conqueror  to  England  in  1066  and 
from  there  removed  to  Ireland. 

When  our  subject  was  a  boy  of  about  ten  years 
he  came  to  America  with  his  parents  and  settled 
at  Youngstown,  Ohio,  where  he  attended  school 
until  he  was  fourteen.  He  then  secured  a  posi- 
tion as  a  clerk  in  a  store  in  the  city,  and  for  three 
years  continued  in  the  same  place.  The  follow- 
ing three  years  were  spent  as  a  clerk  in  Chicago. 
In  1876  he  went  to  Texas  and  began  to  work  upon 
a  ranch,  remaining  in  the  state  until  1881.  He 
then  removed  to  New  Mexico,  where  he  bought 
land  and  carried  on  a  ranch  until  1895.  During 
that  year  he  came  to  Colorado  and  purchased  his 
present  home  of  more  than  nine  hundred  acres, 
where  he  has  since  been  successful  in  carrying  on 
general  farm  work. 

December  18,  1895,  Mr.  D'Arcy  married  Miss 
Evelyn  H.  Woodbury,  who  was  born  in  Colorado, 
a  daughter  of  Samuel  S.  and  Evelyn  (Hey wood) 
Woodbury,  and  at  the  time  of  her  marriage  was 
living  in  Douglas  Count}-.  Though  reared  in 
the  Republican  faith,  Mr.  D'Arcy  is  a  stanch  ad- 
vocate of  Democratic  principles  and  votes  the 
straight  ticket.  While  he  was  in  New  Mexico 
he  was  a  candidate  for  county  commissioner  for 
Bernalillo  County. 


AUGUSTS  COURVOISIER. 


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495 


(Ti  UGUSTE  COURVOISIER.  Both  in  physical 
/  I  and  mental  endowments  this  well-known 
I  I  watchmaker  of  Denver  is  a  remarkable  man. 
Though  advanced  in  years,  he  is  hale  and  robust, 
his  hand  is  as  steady  and  his  eye  as  keen  as  in 
days  gone  by.  His  skill  in  the  repairing  of 
watches  is  so  well  known  that  they  are  sent  to 
him  to  be  repaired  from  every  part  of  the  country, 
between  the  lakes  and  the  gulf,  the  Atlantic  and 
the  Pacific,  and  never  yet  has  he  failed  to  repair 
a  watch  perfectly.  In  fact,  he  has  offered  a  re- 
ward of  $i,ooo  for  any  watch  that  he  cannot  re- 
pair, but  it  is  not  probable  that  he  will  ever  be 
called  upon  to  pay  this  amount. 

In  points  of  years  of  work  at  the  trade,  Mr. 
Courvoisier  is  the  oldest  watchmaker  in  the  state, 
having-  followed  the  business  for  sixty-six  years; 
and  he  is  third  in  point  of  time  spent  in  Denver. 
His  location  in  this  city  was  partly  the  result  of 
chance,  as  he  had  started  from  the  east  as  Montana 
as  his  objective  point,  but  the  Indians  being 
dangerous,  he  deemed  it  best  not  to  proceed 
further  on  his  journey,  so  located  in  Denver  in 
the  fall  of  1866.  He  began  in  business  on 
Larimer  street  and  built  at  Nos.  1732-34  during 
the  early  days  of  his  residence  here,  this  being 
the  first  brick  building  in  the  block.  From  there 
he  removed  to  Lawrence  street,  near  Nineteenth, 
where  he  also  built,  and  both  of  these  properties 
he  still  owns.  In  1889  he  visited  Europe  and 
attended  the  Paris  Exposition,  and  after  his  re- 
turn he  built  a  two-story  block,  60x60,  corner  of 
Broadway  and  Dakota  avenue,  where  he  still 
carries  on  a  jewelry  business. 

In  Canton,  Neuchatel,  Switzerland,  our  sub- 
ject was  born  November  11,  1821,  the  son  of 
Hipolite  and  Felicite  (Pernoud)  Courvoisier,  also 
natives  of  Switzerland,  but  of  French  descent. 
His  paternal  grandfather,  David  Louis  Cour- 
voisier, was  a  farmer,  and  his  maternal  grand- 
father, Henry  Francois  Pernoud,  followed  the 
watchmaker's  trade;  the  latter  attained  the  age 
of  nearly  one  hundred  years.  Our  subject's 
father  was  a  woodturner  and  cooper  and  manu- 
factured all  kinds  of  woodwork.  When  an  old 
man  he  came  to  America  and  joined  his  son, 
Auguste,  in  Madison,  Wis.,  where  he  died. 
Twice  married,  by  his  first  wife  he  had  five  chil- 
dren, of  whom  Auguste  was  next  to  the  oldest 
and  is  the  only  one  living;  by  his  second  mar- 
riage he  had  one  child. 
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At  the  age  of  ten  our  subject  was  apprenticed  to 
a  watchmaker  for  seven  years  and  at  the  close  of 
his  time  he  traveled  in  France,  following  his 
trade.  He  took  part  in  the  Revolution  of  1848. 
When  the  republic  was  overthrown  and  an  em- 
pire again  established,  he  came  to  America, 
settling  in  Providence,  R.  I.,  in  1852.  For  eight 
months  he  was  in  the  employ  of  Sharp  &  Brown, 
after  which  he  started  in  business  for  himself. 
During  eight  months  of  1854  he  worked  at  his 
trade  in  Attleboro,  Mass.  In  1855  he  removed  to 
Madison,  Wis.,  and  opened  a  store  on  Pinkney's 
street.  During  the  Pike's  Peak  gold  excitement 
of  1859  he  started  for  Colorado,  but  instead  of 
mining  settled  in  what  is  now  DeSoto,  Neb.  In 
the  fall  of  the  same  year  he  removed  to  New  Or- 
leans, where  he  spent  two  years,  returning  thence 
to  Madison,  but  later  going  back  to  New  Orleans. 
When  the  war  opened  the  Confederate  gov- 
ernment attempted  to  force  him  into  ser\-ice; 
not  desiring  to  enlist,  he  started  for  France,  but 
was  blockaded  for  forty- three  days  on  shipboard. 
Finally  he  succeeded  in  making  his  way  up  the 
Mississippi  to  St.  Louis,  from  which  city  he  went 
to  Madison.  In  the  fall  of  1862  he  started  for 
France,  where  and  in  Switzerland  he  spent  a 
year,  then  returning  to  Madison,  Wis.,  remained 
there  until  1866,  the  date  of  his  location  in 
Denver.  He  made  the  journey  westward  by 
means  of  a  mule  train,  enduring  all  the  hardships 
of  such  a  trip. 

Mr.  Courvoisier  has  always  had  the  greatest 
faith  in  the  future  of  Denver  as  a  metropolitan 
city.  After  being  in  Denver  one  year,  and  in 
spite  of  the  entreaties  of  some  friends  who  wanted 
him  to  locate  in  Golden,  he  answered  that  he 
wanted  to  see  Denver  with  fifty  thousand  inhabi- 
tants. While  there  was  no  room  in  Golden  for  such 
a  population,  the  said  friends  laughed  at  him  and 
asked  if  he  expected  to  live  a  couple  of  hundred 
years.  He  believes  that  at  no  distant  day  Denver 
will  rise  to  a  foremost  position  among  the  cities 
of  the  United  States,  as  it  is  now  the  principal 
city  of  the  great  west.  He  owns  a  ranch  two 
and  one-half  miles  from  the  heart  of  Denver  and 
consisting  of  one  hundred  acres,  twenty  of  which 
are  within  the  city  limits.  His  possessions  here 
are  large  and  valuable,  but  he  does  not  desire  to 
sell,  preferring  to  hold  all  his  property  awaiting 
the  further  growth  and  development  of  the  city. 
However,  he  does  not  believe  that  the  west  can 


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expect  any  continued  prosperity  until  the  cur- 
rency question  is  adjusted  on  a  more  satisfac- 
tory basis  and  the  double  standard  is  adopted. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Gruetli  Verein,  the  Swiss 
society  here.  While  in  Besancon,  France,  he 
was  made  a  Free  Mason  and  was  master  of  the 
lodge  there.  In  France  he  married  Victorine 
Colard,  who  was  born  there  and  died  in  Denver 
September  21,  1896,  aged  seventy  years. 


(Tames  IZETT.  when  a  mere  boy  Mr.  Izett 
I  came  from  Scotland  to  America  and  settled 
(2/  with  the  other  members  of  the  family  in 
Denver,  then  a  comparatively  small  and  unim- 
portant place,  with  few  indications  to  the  un- 
observing  eye  of  its  present  greatness.  October 
31,  1888,  he  opened  a  shop  at  No.  1131  Welton 
street,  where  he  has  a  building  two  stories  in 
height  and  25x100  feet  in  dimensions,  devoted  to 
the  manufacture  of  vehicles  of  all  kinds,  though 
making  a  specialty  of  delivery  wagons. 

The  Izetts  are  a  Scotch  family.  Grandfather 
James  Izett  was  born  in  Ayrshire,  and  for  years 
was  a  toll-gate  keeper  at  Lanark,  but  afterward 
kept  a  country  inn  in  the  same  place.  His  son, 
James,  Jr.,  who  was  a  native  of  Ayrshire  and  a 
carpenter  by  trade,  came  to  America  in  1871  and 
settled  in  Denver,  where  he  was  joined  by  his 
family  the  following  year.  He  worked  at  his 
trade,  being  for  a  time  in  the  shops  of  the  Denver 
&  Rio  Grande  Railroad,  but  in  1878  he  turned 
his  attention  to  merchandising,  opening  a  store  on 
Welton  street.  After  his  death,  which  occurred 
in  1889,  at  the  age  of  forty-seven,  the  business 
was  continued  by  his  second  wife,  Jane  (Harvey) 
Izett.  His  first  wife,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  John 
Harvey,  was  born  near  Lanark  and  died  in  Denver 
in  1872.  She  was  of  distinguished  Covenanter 
descent;  one  of  her  ancestors,  William  Harvey, 
was  burned  at  the  stake  on  account  of  his 
religious  belief.  Of  her  six  children  all  but  one 
are  living. 

James  was  born  in  Lanarkshire,  Scotland,  June 
2,  1863,  and  was  the  eldest  of  the  family.  At 
the  age  of  nine  he  came  to  Denver,  where  he  at- 
tended the  grammar  school.  Afterward  he 
carried  on  his  studies  in  the  Boulder  high  school 
for  a  year.  At  the  age  of  fourteen  he  secured 
employment  on  a  ranch  near  Byers,  where  he 
remained  for  six    months;   then    returning    to 


Denver,  he  clerked  in  a  hardware  store  for  six 
months  and  for  a  similar  period  was  on  a  farm 
near  Clear  Creek.  At  the  age  of  sixteen  he  began 
a  four  years'  apprenticeship  to  the  general  black- 
smith's trade  under  William  Reid,  and  at  the 
expiration  of  his  time  he  engaged  in  journeyman 
work.  He  worked  for  the  Colorado  Iron  Works, 
and  later  worked  eighteen  months  in  the  Denver 
&  Rio  Grande  shops.  In  1883  he  sailed  for 
Europe  on  the  ship  "Devonia,"  spending  ten 
days  between  New  York  and  Glasgow.  During 
the  winter  he  worked  in  Perth,  Scotland,  then 
went  to  Glasgow  and  secured  employment  in  the 
Dubbs  Locomotive  Works  as  a  blacksmith,  re- 
maining there  for  eighteen  months.  In  1885  he 
came  back  to  the  United  States,  and  the  following 
three  and  one-half  years  he  worked  as  a  black- 
smith in  the  employ  of  David  Orrock. 

While  in  Scotland  Mr.  Izett  was  made  a  Mason 
and  is  now  a  demitted  member  of  the  fraternity. 
He  was  united  in  marriage,  in  Denver,  with  Miss 
Alexandra  Fraser,  who  was  born  in  Aberdeen- 
shire, Scotland,  but  has  spent  ten  yearsof  her  life 
in  Denver,  where  her  father,  Gordon  Fraser,  was 
a  carpenter.  The  three  children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Izett  are:  Jeannie  I.,  Elizabeth  H.  and  James 
Izett,  Jr. 

As  a  workman  Mr.  Izett  has  few  equals,  hav- 
ing learned  his  trade  thoroughly  in  two  continents. 
His  growing  business  is  in  itself  a  testimony  of 
the  appreciation  Denver  people  have  for  his 
ability. 

QHILIP  ZANG,  founder  of  the  Ph.  Zang 
Lr  Brewing  Company,  of  Denver,  is  a  native  of 
j5  Bavaria,  Germany,  and  is  next  to  the  oldest 
among  the  six  sons  and  two  daughters  of  John 
and  Fredericka  (Kaufman)  Zang.  His  father, 
who  was  a  member  of  an  old  Bavarian  family, 
engaged  in  farming  and  the  milling  business,  and 
took  part  in  the  Napoleonic  wars,  accompanying 
the  illustrious  general  on  his  march  to  Moscow. 
He  died  in  1849,  at  the  age  of  sixty-two.  Of  his 
children  two  sons  and  one  daughter  are  living, 
the  latter  being  still  a  resident  of  Bavaria.  One 
of  the  sons,  Alexander,  came  to  America  and  dur- 
ing the  Civil  war  served  in  the  Thirty-ninth  New 
York  Infantry;  he  died  in  Denver  in  1892. 

In  accordance  with  the  national  custom,  the 
subject  of  this  sketch  attended  school  until  he  was 
fourteen,  when  he  was  bound  out  to  learn  a  trade. 


PORTRAIT  AND  BIOGRAPHICAL  RECORD. 


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For  two  and  one-half  years  he  was  a  brewer's 
apprentice,  after  which  he  traveled  around  Ger- 
many, working  at  his  trade  as  he  had  opportu- 
nity. In  1853  he  came  to  America,  going  from 
Rotterdam  to  Hull,  thence  to  Liverpool,  and  from 
there  on  the  "City  of  Glasgow,"  which  landed 
him  in  Philadelphia  after  a  voyage  of  eighteen 
days.  Ignorant  of  the  English  language,  his 
first  endeavor  was  to  gain  sufficient  knowledge  to 
converse  with  the  people  here,  and  during  the 
first  six  months  in  this  country,  while  working 
as  a  railroad  hand,  he  was  storing  in  his  mind  a 
knowledge  of  our  customs  and  language.  In 
January,  1854,  he  went  to  Louisville,  Ky.,  where 
he  worked  at  his  trade  for  one  j'ear.  Later, 
desiring  to  learn  engineering,  he  secured  employ- 
ment in  a  woolen  mill,  and  remained  there  until 
January,  1859,  meantime  becoming  familiar  with 
the  engineer's  occupation.  During  the  latter 
year  he  built  a  brewery  in  Louisville  and  this  he 
conducted  alone  until  1865,  when  he  erected  a 
large  brewery,  which  was  carried  on  under  the 
firm  name  of  Zang  &  Co.  Selling  this  in  Feb- 
ruary, 1869,  he  decided  to  locate  in  the  growing 
town  of  Denver. 

Here  Mr.  Zang  was  engaged  as  superintendent 
of  the  brewery  owned  by  John  Good  until  July, 
1 87 1,  when  he  bought  out  his  employer  and  con- 
tinued the  business  alone.  The  business  had 
been  started  by  Mr.  Good  in  1859  on  the  same 
spot,  under  the  title  of  the  Rocky  Mountain  Brew- 
ery, which  continued  to  be  its  name  for  some 
years.  In  July,  1871,  Mr.  Zang  enlarged  the 
brewery,  which  now  has  a  capacity  of  one  hun- 
dred and  fifty  thousand  barrels  per  annum,  and  is 
the  largest  between  St.  Louis  and  San  Francisco. 
There  are  also  a  malt  house,  with  modern  equip- 
ments; an  ice  plant,  lager  beer  vaults,  boiler 
house,  brewery  stables,  and  a  switch  from  the 
railroad  connecting  with  the  main  lines,  in  order 
to  facilitate  the  work  of  shipment.  In  1880  the 
name  was  changed  to  Philip  Zang  &  Co. ,  and  in 
July,  1889,  the  business  was  sold  to  an  English 
syndicate,  who  changed  the  name  to  the  Ph. 
Zang  Brewing  Company.  Adolph  J.  Zang,  our 
subject's  only  son,  is  now  the  manager  of  the 
brewery,  and  our  subject  assists  him  by  his 
counsel  and  experience.  He  is  interested  in 
mining  companies  in  Cripple  Creek  and  Eagle 
County  and  also  has  interests  in  Silverton  mining 
districts. 


In  Philadelphia  Mr.  Zang  married  Miss  Eliza- 
beth Hurlebaus,  who  died  in  Chicago,  leaving  an 
only  child,  Adolph  J.  In  Denver,  October  18, 
1870,  he  was  united  in  marriage  with  Mrs.  Anna 
B.  Boch,  nee  Kalberer,  an  estimable  lady  and  one 
who  has  many  friends  in  this  city.  The  family 
residence,  built  in  1887,  stands  at  No.  2342 
Seventh  street.  For  one  term  Mr.  Zang  served 
as  an  alderman  of  the  sixth  ward,  to  which 
position  he  was  elected  on  the  Democratic  ticket, 
but  he  himself  is  independent  in  politics.  While 
in  Louisville  he  was  made  a  Mason  and  an  Odd 
Fellow,  and  he  now  belongs  to  Schiller  Lodge 
No.  41,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  and  Germania  Lodge 
No.  14, 1.  O.  O.  F.,  of  Denver,  of  both  of  which  he 
is  a  charter  member.  He  is  also  connected  with 
the  Turn  Verein,  Krieger  Verein  and  Bavarian 
Verein,  and  takes  a  prominent  part  in  all  local 
affairs. 


pGJiLLIAM  ALBERT  WEIGELE.  In  his 
\  A  /  special  line  of  business,  no  man  in  the  we.st 
Y  Y  is  better  known  than  Mr.  Weigele,  who  is 
proprietor  of  the  Weigele  Pipe  Works  at  Nos. 
2949-51  Larimer  street,  Denver.  The  building 
he  occupies,  remodeled  under  his  supervision  to 
meet  his  special  needs,  is  two  stories  in  height 
and  25x125  feet  in  dimensions.  Here  are  manu- 
factured riveted  steel  water  pipe,  for  placer  min- 
ing, water  power  and  water  works,  for  pressure 
as  high  as  five  hundred  pounds  to  the  square  inch, 
and  sheet  steel  work  of  all  kinds.  In  1895  he 
manufactured  sixty  thousand  feet  of  steel  pipe 
and  the  following  year  did  even  a  larger  amount 
of  business,  his  orders  coming  from  all  parts  of 
Colorado,  New  Mexico,  Wyoming  and  Idaho. 

The  Weigele  family  was  founded  in  America 
by  John  C,  our  subject's  father,  who  was  born 
near  Stuttgart,  Germany,  and  emigrated  with 
three  brothers  to  America,  all  settling  in  Lafay- 
ette, Ind.  These  brothers  were  George,  Charles 
and  Jacob,  the  last  named  now  deceased.  In 
Lafayette  John  C.  engaged  in  the  bakery  business 
for  many  years,  but  upon  retiring  from  active 
labors  he  joined  his  children  in  Denver,  where  he 
died  at  the  age  of  fifty-five.  His  wife,  who  was 
also  born  near  Stuttgart,  bore  the  maiden  name 
of  Anna  C.  Hederly  and  accompanied  her  parents 
to  America,  settling  in  Lafayette.  Her  death 
occurred  in  Denver.     Both  she  and  her  husband 


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were  consistent  members  of  the  Methodist  Epis- 
copal Church.  They  were  the  parents  of  six 
children:  E.  George,  who  was  the  first  to  come 
to  Denver  and  still  resides  here;  Caroline,  wife 
of  Frederick  Neef,  of  Denver;  John  C,  who  was 
the  second  member  of  the  family  to  settle  in 
Denver,  and  is  now  foreman  in  the  Weigele  Pipe 
Works;  Eda  K.,  wifeof  Alonzo  Hewitt,  of  Kan- 
sas City;  William  A.,  of  Denver;  and  Margaret, 
wife  of  W.  R.  Freeman,  cashier  of  the  Colorado 
Midland  Railroad. 

During  the  residence  of  his  parents  in  Lafay- 
ette, Ind.,  the  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born, 
July  24,  1869.  July  8,  1880,  he  came  with  his 
parents  to  Denver,  where  he  completed  his  educa- 
tion in  the  public  schools.  In  1885  he  began  in 
the  sheet  iron  business  with  a  brother,  later 
serving  an  apprenticeship  under  John  Young  and 
in  the  Colorado  Copper  and  Sheet  Iron  Works. 
He  began  for  himself  in  1892,  having  his  shop 
on  Thirty-second  and  Market  streets,  but  in  the 
spring  of  1893  he  removed  to  his  present  location. 
He  does  the  heaviest  and  largest  business  of  any- 
one in  his  line  in  the  city  and  has  built  up  not 
only  a  large  business,  but  also  a  reputation  as  an 
honest,  reliable  and  efficient  business  man.  He 
does  not  take  an  active  part  in  politics,  contenting 
himself  with  depositing  a  Republican  vote  at 
elections.  He  was  married  iii  Denver  to  Miss 
Beatrice  Coad,  who  was  born  in  Blackhawk, 
Colo.,  her  father  having  been  one  of  the  pioneer 
miners  in  that  town.  They  are  the  parents  of 
one  child,  a  daughter,  Doris  Weigele. 

The  success  which  has  attended  Mr.  Weigele 
is  an  object  lesson  to  every  j'oung  man  who  has 
his  own  way  to  make  in  life.  He  was  qualified 
for  the  struggle  of  life  by  having  inherited  the 
sterling  virtues  of  honesty  and  industry,  which 
he  brought  into  his  ever}'  action  and  contact  in 
business  with  his  fellow-men.  His  word  is  never 
doubted  and  the  reputation  he  has  built  up  in  the 
mountain  states  rests  upon  a  solid  foundation  and 
reflects  honor  and  credit  on  his  name. 


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LEXANDER  B.  POTTER,  representative 
of  the  Manitou  Mineral  Water  Company  in 
Denver,  is  of  Canadian  birth  and  English 
descent.  His  grandfather,  David  Potter,  a  native 
of  Scotland,  and  of  English  parentage,  emigrated 
to  America  and  settled  in  Albany,  N.  Y.    In  that 


city  occurred  the  birth  of  D.  M.  Potter,  who  in 
early  manhood  moved  to  Canada  and  embarked 
in  business  at  Elora,  Ontario,  remaining  there  as 
a  manufacturer  of  machinery  until  his  retirement 
from  business.  He  married  Elizabeth  Buchanan, 
who  was  born  in  Canada,  of  Scotch  lineage. 
Both  still  make  their  home  in  Elora.  Of  their 
six  children  three  sons  and  two  daughters  are 
living,  Alexander  being  next  to  the  oldest.  He 
was  educated  in  his  native  town  of  Elora  and  in 
youth  was  connected  with  his  father  in  business. 
For  a  time  he  was  employed  in  the  States,  but 
returning  to  Canada  he  bought  his  father's  busi- 
ness and  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  ma- 
chinery. Prosperity  continued  with  him  until  the 
burning  of  his  property,  which  proved  a  serious 
lo-ss;  however,  he  rebuilt  a  part  of  the  plant  and 
engaged  in  manufacturing  shingles,  having  his 
water  power  furnished  from  the   Grand   River. 

Selling  out  the  business  in  1889,  Mr.  Potter 
came  to  Denver  and  became  city  salesman  for 
one  of  the  most  prominent  business  houses  here, 
but  after  a  short  time  he  accepted  a  position  as 
traveling  representative  for  the  Manitou  Mineral 
Water  Company,  his  territory  comprising  all  the 
district  west  of  Chicago.  In  their  interests  he 
traveled  throughout  the  western  states  and 
territories  and  British  Columbia.  When  General 
Adams  was  accidentally  killed  in  the  Gomery 
Hotel  disaster  in  August,  1895,  Mr.  Potter  was 
chosen  to  succeed  him  as  representative  of  the 
company  in  Denver,  and  has  since  had  exclusive 
charge  of  the  warehouse  at  No.  131 7  Thirteenth 
street.  In  April,  1S97,  he  also  accepted  the 
position  of  manager  for  the  Pabst  Brewing 
Company  for  the  state  of  Colorado,  the  head- 
quarters of  the  company  being  at  No.  1824  Stout 
street,  and  their  cold  storage  warehouses  at  the 
same  place  and  also  on  Blake  street.  Fraternally 
he  is  a  Mason. 

Mr.  Potter  was  married  June  21,  1898,  in  Buf- 
falo, N.  Y.,  to  Luella  H.  Schlund,  of  Buffalo, 
where  her  father,  John  B.  Schlund,  was  foirmerly 
a  well-known  business  man. 


gARL  A.  LAMMERS,  proprietor  of  the  C.  A. 
Lammers  Bottling  Company,  of  Denver,  was 
born  and  reared  in  the  province  of  Hanover, 
Germany,  and  received  an  excellent  education 
in  the  gymnasium   at    Osnabrueck.      In    1882 


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he  came  to  America  and  settled  in  St.  Louis, 
where  he  clerked  with  several  well-known  firms 
and  finally  became  a  traveling  man,  selling  brew- 
ers' supplies  in  sixteen  states  east  and  west  of  the 
Mississippi.  His  travels  enabled  him  to  obtain  a 
splendid  insight  into  different  localities,  their  re- 
sources and  prospects,  and  among  other  places 
visited  by  him,  Denver  he  found  especially 
pleasant  and  inviting.  He  was  here  in  1885  for 
the  first  time  and  during  the  ensuing  five  years 
frequently  came  here  on  short  business  trips, 
which,  however,  enabled  him  to  ascertain  that 
the  city  was  enjoying  a  steady  growth,  with  the 
brightest  prospects  for  the  future. 

Resigning  his  position  with  the  St.  Louis  house 
in  1890,  Mr.  Lammers  visited  his  old  home  in 
Germany  and  other  places  in  Europe.  Mean- 
while his  building  in  Denver,  the  C.  A.  Lammers 
Bottling  Works,  was  being  erected.  In  July, 
1 89 1,  he  started  the  business,  which,  two  years 
later,  was  incorporated  with  himself  as  secretary, 
treasurer  and  general  manager.  The  works 
have  a  capacity  of  one  hundred  barrels  per  day, 
and  shipments  are  made  to  Colorado,  Wyoming, 
New  Mexico,  Utah  and  Nebraska.  The  build- 
ing is  a  three-story  stone  structure,  88x80  feet 
in  dimensions,  and  the  firm  are  the  sole  and  ex- 
clusive bottlers  for  the  Philip  Zang  Brewing 
Company. 

In  Germany,  in  1891,  Mr.  Lammers  married 
Miss  Mary  Ohlhorst,  who  was  born  in  the  city 
of  Hanover.  They  have  one  child,  Siegfried 
Alexander.  In  fraternal  relations  Mr.  Lammers 
is  identified  with  the  Turn  Verein, 


(pTEPHEN  NEUMAN,  M.  D.,  was  born 
2\  in  St.  Petersburg,  Russia,  September  2, 
Vy  1827,  the  son  of  Gen.  Jacques  and  Leonore 
(Raffalovitch)  Neuman.  His  paternal  grand- 
father, Henry  Neuman,  M.  D. ,  a  native  of  Stutt- 
gart, Germany,  accompanied  Napoleon  Bonaparte 
from  France  to  Russia  in  18 12  and  remained  in 
the  latter  country,  where  he  filled  the  same  posi- 
tion as  in  France,  that  of  physician  to  the  army, 
with  the  rank  of  general.  He  died  in  Moscow  in 
1858,  at  the  great  age  of  one  hundred  and  fourteen 
years.  Dr.  Jacques  Neuman  graduated  from  the 
Academy  of  Surgeons  in  St.  Petersburg  and 
afterward  held  the  position  of  physician  in  the 
Russian  army,  participating  in  the  Polish,  Turk- 


ish and  Hungarian  wars.  He  died  in  1863,  at 
the  age  of  sixty-eight.  His  wife  was  a  daughter 
of  Col.  Alexander  Raffalovitch,  a  member  of  the 
nobility  and  an  ofiicer  in  the  Russian  army. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  the  eldest  of 
five  children.  His  education  was  completed  in 
the  St.  Vladimir  University  of  Russia,  in  1859; 
he  subsequently  took  a  three  years'  post-graduate 
course  in  the  Berlin  University,  where  he  gradu- 
ated in  medicine  in  1861.  He  was  then  appointed 
a  surgeon  in  the  Russian  army,  and  attained  the 
rank  of  general,  accompanying  the  army  to 
various  fields  of  wars.  He  was  present  in  the 
engagements  of  the  Crimean  war,  twice  was  sent 
to  Turkey  and  twice  went  to  Poland  during  the 
revolution  there.  Only  once  was  he  wounded 
and  then  but  slightly.  After  retiring  from  the 
army  he  was  surgeon  in  a  hospital  in  St.  Peters- 
burg, but  in  1889  resigned  his  commission  and 
came  to  America.  He  spent  six  months  in  New 
York  and  then  located  in  Denver,  where  he  has 
a  general  practice  in  medicine  and  surgery. 

In  St.  Petersburg  Dr.  Neuman  married  Emelia 
Raffalovitch,  daughter  of  Alexander  and  sister  of 
Daniel  Raffalovitch,  counselor-at-law  for  all  the 
railroads  and  ship  companies  for  the  Russian 
government  and  representative  of  his  country  in 
the  bimetallic  conference  at  Brussels  in  1893. 
Dr.  Neuman  is  a  member  of  prominent  medi- 
cal societies  in  Germany  and  Russia,  Denver 
and  Arapahoe,  and  also  the  American  Medical 
Association.  He  has  frequently  contributed  to 
medical  journals,  both  in  Russia  and  America, 
and  stands  high  in  the  councils  of  the  medical 
profession. 


0ANIEL  NEUMAN,  M.  D.,  has  resided  in 
America  since  1889.  He  came  to  Denver 
in  January  of  the  following  year,  and  in 
1892  entered  Gro.ss  Medical  College,  from  which 
he  graduated  in  1895  with  the  degree  of  M.  D. 
While  at  college  he  held  the  position  of  chemist 
to  the  County  Hospital.  He  began  in  practice 
here,  having  his  ofiice  at  No.  131 1  Nineteenth 
street.  For  a  time  he  held  the  position  of  clini- 
cal instructor  of  laryngology  and  rhinology  in 
Gross  Medical  College.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
county,  state  and  American  medical  societies,  and 
was  vice-president  of  the  alumni  society  of  his 
alma  mater,  1897-98.     A  fluent  writer  and  clear 


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thinker,  his  contributions  to  medical  journals  are 
valuable  additions  to  the  medical  literature  of 
the  times.  In  his  native  land  he  was  a  member 
of  the  Society  of  the  Fourth  Gymnasium  and  the 
Young  Men's  L,iterary  Club  of  St.  Petersburg. 

The  Neuman  ancestry  appears  in  the  sketch  of 
his  father,  Dr.  Stephen  Neuman.  Daniel  was 
the  second  of  five  children,  the  others  being 
Jacob,  an  attorney,  who  holds  the  office  of 
supreme  judge  in  Eastern  Siberia;  Agate,  whose 
husband  is  the  city  physician  of  Moscow  ;  Matilda 
and  Sophia,  who  are  with  their  mother  in  Mos- 
cow. After  graduating  from  the  gymnasium  of 
his  native  city,  St.  Petersburg,  our  subject  entered 
the  College  of  Pharmacy  at  St.  Vladimir  and 
graduated  with  the  degree  of  Master  of  Pharmacy. 
Since  coming  to  the  United  States  he  has  built 
up  a  large  practice  in  Denver  and  has  become 
known  as  one  of  the  rising  physicians  of  the  city. 
His  attention  is  closely  given  to  his  profession 
and  he  has  little  time  for  politics  or  fraternal 
organizations,  though  he  is  a  member  of  the 
Knights  of  Pythias  and  Woodmen  of  the  World. 

The  marriage  of  Dr.  Neuman  took  place  in 
Denver,  where  he  was  united  with  Miss  Grace 
Bailey,  a  native  of  England.  They  are  the 
parents  of  a  daughter,  Lizzie. 


0AVID  H.  COOVER,  M.  D.,  professor  of 
clinical  ophthalmology  and  otology  in  Gross 
Medical  College,  oculist  and  aurist  to  St. 
Anthony's  and  St.  Joseph's  hospitals  and  to  the 
Union  Pacific,  Denver  &  Rio  Grande,  and  Denver, 
Leadville  &  Gunnison  Railroads,  is  a  well-known 
and  successful  specialist  in  the  treatment  of  dis- 
eases of  the  eye  and  ear  and  has  his  ofiice  in  the 
California  building,  Denver.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  American  Association  of  Railway  Surgeons 
and  the  American  Medical  Society,  and  since 
coming  to  Denver  he  has  identified  himself  with 
the  Colorado  State  Medical  Society,  Denver 
Pathological  Society  and  Denver  and  Arapahoe 
County  Medical  Society. 

The  Coover  family  originated  in  Germany, 
where  the  name  was  Kober,  but  Jacob,  the  doc- 
tor's grandfather,  changed  the  spelling  to  Cover, 
and  in  the  next  generation  it  was  changed  to  the 
present  form  of  spelling.  Dr.  E.  H.  Coover, 
father  of  our  subject,  was  born  in  Cumberland 
County,  Pa.,   and   in    1840  graduated   from   the 


Jefferson  Medical  College,  after  which  for  twenty 
years  he  carried  on  a  general  practice  in  New 
Cumberland.  From  there  he  removed  to  Harris- 
burg,  where  he  is  still,  though  now  advanced  in 
years,  engaged  in  active  practice.  His  wife,  who 
was  born  in  Harrisburg  and  died  there  in  1889, 
was  Annie,  daughter  of  David  Hummel,  of  Ger- 
man descent,  and  a  native  of  Hummelstown, 
Dauphin  County,  Pa.,  but  for  many  years  a  sad- 
dler in  Harrisburg,  where  he  died.  His  wife's 
maternal  grandfather  was  Christian  Kunkle,  a 
quartermaster  in  the  Revolutionary  war.  The 
two  sons  of  Dr.  E.  H.  Coover  are  D.  H.  and  H. 
R.,  the  latter  a  graduate  of  Jefferson  Medical 
College  and  a  practicing  physician  in  Harrisburg. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  in  New 
Cumberland,  Pa.,  in  1852,  and  received  his  edu- 
cation in  the  public  school  there  and  the 
high  school  in  Harrisburg.  The  study  of 
medicine  he  continued  under  his  father.  In  the 
year  187 1  he  entered  Jefferson  Medical  College, 
where  he  studied  for  three  years,  though  the 
regular  college  course  was  only  two  years. 
After  graduating  in  1874  he  engaged  in  practice 
with  his  father,  but  two  years  later  went  to 
Philadelphia  and  spent  a  year  in  study  under 
Dr.  P.  D.  Keyser,  in  Welt's  Eye  Hospital. 
For  the  purpose  of  extending  his  studies 
he  went  to  Europe  in  1878  and  studied  dis- 
eases of  the  eye  and  ear  in  the  hospitals  of 
Berlin,  Paris,  Vienna  and  London,  remaining 
abroad  for  two  years.  On  his  return  to  Harris- 
burg he  at  once  entered  upon  the  practice  of  these 
specialties,  in  which  department  of  therapeutics 
he  had  gained  a  thorough  practical  knowledge  by 
his  studies  in  America  and  Europe.  He  acquired 
a  large  practice  and  a  reputation  as  a  skillful  ocu- 
list and  aurist,  but  his  wife's  health  made  a 
change  of  climate  necessary  and  he  therefore 
came  to  Colorado. 

In  Harrisburg  Dr.  Coover  married  Miss  Annie 
Gross,  by  whom  he  had  a  son,  David  Gross.  In 
politics  he  is  a  Republican,  but  not  active  in  party 
affairs.  He  is  a  member  of  the  University  Club 
and  in  religious  connections  is  identified  with 
Central  Presbyterian  Church. 


"HEODORE  SESS,  member  of  the  firm  of 
Combs  &  Sess,  of  Denver,  and  a  resident  of 
this  city  since  1889,  was  born  in  St.   Louis, 
Mo.,  May  31,    1852,  and  is  a  son  of  Henry  and 


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Elizabeth  (Menke)  Sess,  natives  of  Germany. 
His  father,  who  engaged  in  carpentering  in  New 
York  and  St.  Louis,  took  his  family  to  Leaven- 
worth, Kan.,  in  1855,  and  there  engaged  in  con- 
tracting and  building,  and  also  operated  a  saw- 
mill. During  the  exciting  days  of  slavery  agita- 
tion he  was  an  advocate  of  a  free  state.  He  was 
accidentally  killed  at  his  mill  in  1863.  His  wife 
is  still  living  in  Leavenworth.  Of  their  six  chil- 
dren, all  but  one  are  living,  Theodore  being  the 
oldest  of  the  family  and  the  only  one  in  Colorado. 

From  the  age  of  three  years  our  subject  spent 
his  childhood  years  in  Leavenworth,  where  he 
attended  the  public  schools.  At  the  age  of  six- 
teen he  began  an  apprenticeship  of  three  years  to 
the  trade  of  carpenter  and  cabinet-maker,  and  at 
the  expiration  of  his  time  he  went  to  Creston, 
Iowa,  where  he  worked  in  the  carpenter  shop  of 
the  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  Railroad. 
For  eleven  years  he  held  the  position  of  assistant 
foreman  in  the  coach  and  cab  department,  after 
which  he  engaged  in  building  for  two  years. 
Coming  to  Denver  in  1889,  he  worked  in  the  em- 
ploy of  contractors  until  1893,  when  he  began  in 
business  for  himself,  forming  a  partnership  with 
O.  N.  Combs.  He  has  made  a  specialty  of  store 
and  office  fixtures  and  fine  cabinet  work. 

In  politics  Mr.  Sess  is  a  silver  Republican.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Carpenters  &  Builders'  As- 
sociation and  the  Woodmen  of  the  World.  He 
was  married  in  Creston  to  Miss  A.  E.  Smith,  a 
native  of  Illinois.  They  have  two  children,  Her- 
bert and  Mildred. 


pQlLLIAM  H.  WEST.  Among  the  business 
I  A/  ^'^^  °^  Denver  this  gentleman  occupies  a 
YY  responsible  place.  He  is  a  contractor, 
builder  and  jobber,  with  a  specialty  of  laundry 
work,  in  which  department  he  has  been  partic- 
ularly successful.  Since  taking  up  this  work  as 
his  specialty  in  1896,  he  has  refitted  nearly  every 
laundry  in  the  city,  manufacturing  their  wood- 
work and  furnishing  their  supplies.  In  this  line 
he  is  considered  the  best  workman  in  Denver.  He 
has  his  office  at  Nos.  1421-27  Eighteenth  street. 
Born  in  Keokuk,  Lee  County,  Iowa,  Mr.  West 
is  of  English  descent.  His  grandfather,  for  whom 
he  was  named,  was  born  and  reared  in  England, 
where  he  learned  the  trade  of  weaving.  He  came 
to  America  on  a  visit   when  advanced  in  years 


and  died  here.  Samuel  West,  our  subject's  fa- 
ther, was  born  in  Manchester,  England,  where 
he  learned  the  trade  of  gas  manufacturer.  He 
went  to  Keokuk  to  take  the  superintendency  of 
the  works  there  and  remained  in  the  city  for 
seventeen  years.  At  this  writing  he  resides  on  a 
farm  in  Clark  County,  Mo.  He  married  Mary 
Bowden,  a  native  of  England  and  daughter  of 
James  Bowden,  who  was  an  engineer  there. 

The  eldest  of  five  children  now  living,  William 
H.  West  spent  the  first  ten  years  of  his  life  in 
Keokuk,  after  which  he  settled  with  the  family 
on  a  farm  in  Clark  County.  At  the  age  of  twen- 
ty he  began  carpentering  and  cabinet-making  in 
Keokuk,  Iowa,  where  he  worked  at  the  trade  for 
two  years.  In  1880  he  came  to  Colorado  and 
settled  at  Silver  Cliflf,  where  he  assisted  in  erect- 
ing the  mill  for  the  Silver  Clifi"  Mining  and  Mill- 
ing Company.  On  the  completion  of  the  mill  he 
was  made  foreman  of  the  pan  and  amalgamating 
rooms.  In  January,  1881,  he  began  to  assist  in 
the  erection  of  a  wet  process  mill  in  the  same 
county  and  for  eight  months  he  was  foreman  of 
the  sluice.  Later  for  a  year  he  engaged  in  pros- 
pecting, but  then  returned  to  Clark  County, 
where  he  settled  upon  his  farm  of  one  hundred  and 
sixty  acres.  The  succeeding  five  years  were  de- 
voted to  the  cattle  business  and  general  farm  pur- 
suits. In  1887  he  returned  to  Denver,  where  he 
worked  at  his  trade  a  short  time,  then  went  to 
Colorado  Springs  and  engaged  in  contracting  and 
building  for  two  years  as  a  member  of  the  firm  of 
Weight  &  West.  Returning  to  Denver  in  1889, 
he  worked  at  his  trade  for  others  until  1893,  since 
which  time  he  has  been  a  contractor,  with  the 
exception  of  seven  months  in  1894,  when  he  was 
erecting  and  starting  a  mill  in  Idaho  Springs. 

In  Colorado  Springs,  Mr.  West  married  Miss 
Belle  Fox,  who  was  born  in  Missouri.  Political- 
ly he  is  a  silver  Republican.  He  was  made  a 
Mason  while  in  Keokuk,  Iowa,  where  his  mem- 
bership remains.  He  is  past  officer  of  tl^e  An- 
cient Order  of  United  Workmen,  in  which  he 
has  received  the  degree  of  honor. 


EHARLES  ARTHUR  BEAMER.  The  opera 
stables,  of  which  Mr.  Beamer  has  been  mana- 
ger since  1891,  are  situated  at  Nos.  1012-18 
Fifteenth  street,  Denver,  where  a  livery,  board- 
ing and  sales  business  is  conducted  in  a  two-story 


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building,  50x100  feet  in  dimensions.  The  barn 
was  built  about  1865  by  John  Hughes  and  was 
then  considered  out  of  town,  but  the  tide  of  busi- 
ness has  changed  so  as  to  make  it  now  in  the 
heart  of  the  city. 

Mr.  Beamer  was  born  in  St.  Catharines,  Onta- 
rio, Canada,  and  is  of  German  and  French  de- 
scent. His  father,  William  Jesse,  was  born  in 
Ontario,  but  removed  to  New  York  and  engaged 
in  the  mercantile  business  on  Broadway,  after 
some  years  going  west  to  St.  l/ouis.  During  the 
Civil  war  he  enlisted  in  a  Missouri  regiment  and 
was  made  first  lieutenant  of  his  company,  remain- 
ing in  the  service  until  he  died  at  Springfield,  Mo. , 
at  the  age  of  thirty-five.  His  wife,  who  was 
Miss  Emeline  Woods,  was  born  in  Buffalo,  N.  Y., 
the  granddaughter  of  a  Revolutionary  patriot,  • 
who  died  in  St.  I<ouis  at  eighty-nine  years  of  age. 
Her  father,  Stephen,  was  born  in  Kentucky  in 
1805  and  removed  to  Ohio,  thence  to  Buffalo, 
N.  Y.,  where  he  was  an  architect,  contractor 
and  builder.  After  the  death  of  her  first  husband 
Mrs.  Beamer  married  John  R.  Parsons,  of  St. 
Ivouis,  by  whom  she  had  seven  children,  but 
only  one  survives.  Of  her  first  marriage  there 
were  four  children,  but  our  subject  is  the  sole 
survivor.  He  was  two  years  of  age  when  his 
parents  went  to  St.  Louis,  and  his  education  was 
obtained  in  the  public  and  high  schools  of  that 
city.  When  not  attending  school  he  clerked  for 
his  step-father,  who  owned  a  store  on  Fourth,  be- 
tween Olive  and  Locust,  a  business  that  is  still 
conducted  there,  with  branch  stores  in  New  York. 

At  the  age  of  twenty -four  our  subject  embarked 
in  business  for  himself,  opening  a  men's  furnish- 
ing store  on  Sixth  street,  St.  Louis.  In  1885  he 
sold  out  and  came  to  Denver.  He  was  then  a 
widower,  his  first  wife,  who  was  Miss  Nellie 
Stewart,  a  niece  of  Congressman  William  H. 
Stone,  of  St.  Louis,  having  died  in  1875,  less  than 
a  year  after  their  marriage.  In  this  city  he  be- 
came buyer  for  McNamara  &  Co.,  in  which  ca- 
pacity he  went  east  five  times  a  year.  After 
continuing  with  the  firm  about  four  years  he  re- 
signed his  position,  and  has  since  managed  the 
opera  stables.  He  is  a  stanch  advocate  of  bi- 
metallism and  fraternally  is  connected  with  Mount 
Moriah  Lodge  No.  40,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  in  St. 
Louis. 

Five  children,  Charles  Arthur,  Jr.,  William 
Jesse,    Elsie  Marie,  Berenice    Beryl   and  Laura 


Frances  (the  latter  deceased  aged  nine  months) 
have  been  born  to  the  union  of  Mr.  Beamer  and 
Miss  Elva  Hughes,  an  accomplished  lady,  who 
was  born  in  Kentucky,  and  received  an  excellent 
education  in  eastern  schools.  She  is  one  of  eight 
children,  six  of  whom  are  living,  comprising  the 
family  of  John  and  Laura  F.  (Carter)  Hughes. 
Her  father,  who  settled  in  Denver  in  early  days, 
became  largely  interested  in  the  development  of 
the  place  and  had  important  real-estate  interests 
here.  For  some  time  he  was  engaged  in  the  mer- 
cantile business,  in  which  he  was  prominent  and 
successful.  In  politics  he  was  a  leader  of  the 
Democratic  party  in  this  section.  At  the  time  of 
his  death,  which  occurred  in  1883,  he  was  the 
owner  of  a  large  amount  of  valuable  property 
situated  in  Denver,  and  the  estate,  divided  among 
his  widow  and  children,  left  them  in  comfortable 
circumstances.  He  is  remembered  as  one  of  the 
most  progressive  and  enterprising  among  the 
early  business  men  of  Denver,  which  owes  its 
growth  to  the  energy  of  such  citizens  as  he. 


yyi  J.  DUNLEAVY,  M.  D.  C,  has  built  up  a 
Y  large  business  as  a  veterinary  dentist  and 
(9  surgeon.  His  practice  is  not  limited  to 
Denver,  but  extends  through  the  surrounding 
country  and  is  constantly  increasing.  Being 
skillful  and  accurate,  he  has  gained  an  enviable 
reputation  in  his  chosen  calling  and  has  won  the 
confidence  of  the  people  as  to  his  efficiency  and 
reliability.  He  is  a  graduate  in  his  profession, 
and  to  the  knowledge  acquired  in  college  has 
added  the  information  obtained  by  experience. 

The  parents  of  Dr.  Dunleavy,  M.  J.  and  Bertha 
(McHugh)  Dunleavy,  were  natives  of  New  York 
state.  The  former,  who  was  a  stockman,  resided 
for  a  time  in  Albany,  but  afterward  located  in 
Owensboro,  Ky.,  and  thence  removed  to  Belvi- 
dere,  Boone  County,  111.,  where  he  died  at  the 
age  of  seventy-seven.  His  widow  makes  her 
home  in  St.  Louis.  Of  their  family  of  three 
sons  and  two  daughters  all  are  living  except  one 
of  the  sons.  Our  subject,  who  was  next  to  the 
youngest,  was  born  in  Steuben  County,  N.  Y. , 
in  1863,  and  was  eight  years  of  age  at  the  time 
the  family  removed  to  Owensboro.  His  educa- 
tion was  obtained  in  the  public  school  of  that 
place  and  the  high  school  of  Belvidere,  from 
which  he  graduated  in  1881. 


DAVID  ORROCK. 


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Entering  upon  the  study  of  veterinary  den- 
tistry, our  subject  became  a  student  in  Craig's 
Veterinary  Dental  College  of  Chicago,  from 
which  he  graduated  in  1883,  with  the  degree  of 
V.  D.  After  his  graduation  the  college  sent  him 
out,  as  an  expert  dentist,  into  different  parts  of 
the  country.  For  about  three  years  he  traveled 
in  this  capacity,  spending  a  short  time  on  Iceland 
Stanford's  ranch  in  California,  also  visiting  Ken- 
tucky, Illinois,  Montana,  Iowa  and  Indiana.  In 
the  meantime,  in  1885,  he  established  his  head- 
quarters in  Denver,  where  he  married  Miss  Alice 
Fitzgibbons,  a  native  of  Utica,  N.  Y. 

In  1893  Dr.  Dunleavy  entered  the  Chicago 
Veterinary  College,  where  he  took  the  regular 
course  of  study,  graduating  April  28,  1896,  with 
the  degree  of  M.  D.  C.  Returning  to  Denver, 
he  resumed  his  practice,  and  has  since  given  at- 
tention to  both  departments  of  his  profession, 
surgery  and  dentistry,  having  his  office  at  No. 
47  West  Colfax  avenue.  For  years  he  has  been 
given  the  city  veterinary  dental  work  and  has 
also  done  considerable  work  in  the  line  of  surgery. 
He  is  active  in  the  Woodmen  of  America  and  the 
Benevolent  Protective  Order  of  Elks,  and  is  pop- 
ular in  social  circles  of  the  city. 


0AVID  ORROCK  was  founder  and  president 
of  the  Orrock  Carriage  Company  in  Denver 
and  had  the  reputation  of  building  the  finest, 
best  and  most  durable  vehicles  of  any  manufact- 
urer here.  His  death,  which  occurred  January 
18,  1898,  was  a  loss  to  the  business  interests  of 
the  city,  which  he  had  so  honorably  represented 
and  with  which  he  had  been  so  intimately  con- 
nected. The  company  with  which  his  name  is 
connected  was  organized  in  November,  1896,  and 
incorporated,  with  himself  as  president,  under 
the  laws  of  the  state  of  Colorado.  The  building 
he  occupied  was  erected  under  his  personal  su- 
pervision in  1887  and  was  50x70,  two  stories  in 
height,  the  first  floor  being  used  for  a  blacksmith 
shop  and  for  woodwork  and  trimming,  while  the 
second  floor  was  a  painting  department.  For 
years  he  did  most  of  the  work  for  the  fire  depart- 
ment, Colorado  and  Denver  Packing  Companies, 
Metropole  stables  and  other  prominent  concerns, 
and  he  also  made  a  specialty  of  the  manufacture 
of  express  spring  wagons,  his  being  the  best  of  the 
kind  made  in  the  city. 


Near  Dundee,  in  Farfarshire,  Scotland,  the 
subject  of  this  article  was  born  March  24,  1858, 
the  descendant  of  an  old  family,  some  of  whose 
members  were  in  the  war  of  the  Picts  and  Scots. 
His  father,  Alexander,  and  grandfather,  John 
Orrock,  were  born  in  the  same  shire,  where  the 
latter  became  wealthy  in  business  as  a  contractor 
of  turnpikes  and  macadamized  roads;  he  died 
when  ninety-seven  years  of  age.  Alexander  Or- 
rock was  a  large  general  contractor,  but  later  be- 
came chief  forester  of  the  Farthingham  estate,  and 
held  that  position  until  his  death,  which  was  the 
result  of  an  accident.  He  married  Cecelia  Smith, 
daughter  of  Alexander  Smith,  both  natives  of 
Farfarshire,  where  the  latter,  a  farmer,  died  at 
the  age  of  ninety-eight.  Of  their  four  children 
only  one  is  now  living,  Betsy,  wife  of  George 
Johnson,  of  Denver. 

At  the  age  of  thirteen  David  Orrock  began  to 
work  upon  a  farm  and  continued  in  that  occupa- 
tion until  he  was  eighteen,  when  he  was  appren- 
ticed to  the  blacksmith's  trade  near  Dundee.  At 
the  expiration  of  three  years,  his  time  of  service, 
he  engaged  in  journeyman  work  and  six  months 
later  was  made  foreman  in  a  shop.  In  1880  he 
came  from  Glasgow  to  New  York  on  the  steamer 
"Devonia,"  of  the  Anchor  line,  leaving  Glasgow 
July  17  and  arriving  at  the  old  frame  depot  in 
Denver  August  i,  at  8  A.  M.  At  once  after  com- 
ing to  this  city  he  secured  employment  with  War- 
ren Purcell,  but  one  month  later  he  entered  the 
Union  Pacific  shops  at  South  Park  as  a  black- 
smith, remaining  in  that  position  for  nineteen 
months.  His  next  employment  was  with  Mr. 
Reed,  whose  partner  he  became  in  the  shop  on 
Market,  between  Seventeenth  and  Eighteenth 
streets.  Later  he  bought  his  partner's  interest 
and  continued  in  the  same  location  until  1887, 
when  he  bought  the  property  at  No.  1840  Mar- 
ket street,  where  he  continued  in  business  until 
his  death. 

Fraternally  Mr.  Orrock  was  past  officer  of 
Union  Lodge  No.  i,  I.  O.  O.  F.,  and  a  member 
of  the  Grand  Encampment  and  Patriarchs  Mili- 
tant. In  Denver  he  married  Miss  Carrie  David- 
son, who  was  born  in  this  city,  being  the  daugh- 
ter of  Joseph  and  Mary  C.  (Davies)  Davidson, 
natives  respectively  of  Glasgow,  Scotland,  and 
South  Wales,  England.  Her  mother  emigrated 
to  America  in  1856,  landing  in  Boston  April  6. 
She  accompanied  her  parents,  David  and  Mary 


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Davies,  to  Iowa  City,  Iowa,  where  her  father 
died.  In  the  autumn  of  the  same  year  the  family 
passed  through  Denver  and  located  at  Tulo  Val- 
ley, Utah,  where  they  remained  until  the  spring 
of  the  following  year.  They  then  returned  to 
Denver,  where  the  home  of  the  family  has  since 
been.  After  the  death  of  Joseph  Davidson,  who 
was  a  prominent  citizen  of  Denver  during  the 
war,  his  widow  was  married  to  Llewellyn  Rees. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Orrock  had  two  children,  Cece- 
lia Smith  and  David.  Mr.  Orrock  was  a  man 
who  had  the  respect  of  his  entire  circle  of  ac- 
quaintances and  his  death  was  mourned  as  a  loss 
to  the  city  of  which  he  had  been  an  honored  and 
honorable  resident. 


EHARLES  J.  REILLY  came  to  Denver  in 
the  spring  of  1880  and  after  having  been  in 
the  employ  of  others  for  four  years  he  em- 
barked in  business  for  himself,  becoming  a  con- 
tractor for  steam  and  hot  water  heating  and  ven- 
tilating. In  February,  1888,  he  removed  to  the 
building  he  had  just  completed  at  Nos.  1425-27 
Curtis  street,  where  he  has  a  store  25x100  feet, 
and  two  stories  in  height.  Afterward  increasing 
business  made  his  quarters  inadequate  to  his 
needs,  and  he  built  a  one-story  structure,  of  the 
same  dimensions,  adjoining,  thus  giving  him 
three  floors  for  business.  Among  the  contracts 
he  has  had  are  those  for  heating  the  State 
building.  Equitable,  Cooper,  Railroad  and  Pi- 
oneer buildingii.  Cooper  block  and  East  Denver 
high  school;  the  Turk  terrace,  and  residences  of 
J.  W.  Barker,  John  F.  Campion,  Dr.  Stedman, 
Dr.  Whitney  and  others  of  the  fine  residences  of 
the  city.  In  the  fall  of  1894  he  started  the  Den- 
ver Engineers'  Supply  Company  at  Nos.  1429-31 
Curtis,  where  he  carries  on  a  wholesale  and  re- 
tail business  in  that  line.  He  is  also  interested 
in  the  Onderdonk  Air  Valve  Company,  of  Phila- 
delphia. 

Mr.  Reilly  is  of  Irish  parentage.  His  father, 
Philip,  was  born  in  Dublin,  but  immediately  after 
his  marriage  he  settled  in  Massachusetts,  where  he 
engaged  in  general  contracting.  For  more  than  fif- 
ty years  he  made  his  home  in  Westfield  and  there 
he  died  at  the  age  of  seventy-nine.  His  wife,  Ellen, 
was  born  in  Ireland  and  died  in  Westfield.  They 
were  the  parents  of  four  sons  and  three  daughters, 
all   of  whom  are  living.     Charles  J.,  who  was 


next  to  the  oldest,  was  born  in  Westfield  in  1843, 
and  at  the  age  of  nineteen  came  as  far  west  as 
Chicago,  where  he  was  apprenticed  to  the  steam 
and  hot  water  heating  trade  with  the  firm  of  Wal- 
worth, Hubbard  &  Co.  After  the  expiration  of 
his  time  he  worked  at  his  trade  there.  In  1869 
he  became  an  employe  of  John  Davis  &  Co. ,  with 
whom  he  remained  for  more  than  fifteen  years,  be- 
ing promoted  from  time  to  time  until  he  became  su- 
perintendent. They  chose  him  to  represent  them 
in  Denver,  when  in  1 880  they  decided  to  open  a 
branch  house  here,  and  accordingly  he  came  in 
their  interests.  In  188 1  the  firm  name  was 
changed  to  Davis,  Creswell  &  Co. ,  and  he  con- 
tinued as  superintendent  until  March  i,  1884. 
He  then  opened  a  store  of  his  own  at  No.  417  Ara- 
pahoe street,  later  removed  to  No.  404  Arapahoe, 
then  to  No.  142 1  Lawrence  street,  and  finally,  in 
1888,  to  his  new  building  at  No.  1425  Curtis  street. 
In  Chicago  Mr.  Reilly  married  Miss  Caroline 
Emelia  Stacy,  who  was  born  in  Silver  Creek, 
N.  Y.,  of  French-Canadian  descent.  They  have 
four  children :  John  J. ,  of  Denver;  Mrs.  Nellie  C. 
Dougherty,  of  this  city;  William  C,  who  is  in 
business  with  his  father;  and  Charles  J.,  Jr.  Mr. 
Reilly  was  made  a  Mason  in  Union  Lodge  No.  7, 
A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  and  is  also  a  member  of  Denver 
Chapter  No.  2,  R.  A.  M.,  Colorado  Commandery 
No.  I,  K.  T.,  'e1  Jebel  Temple,  N.  M.  S.,  and 
the  thirty-second  degree  Consistory,  S.  R.  He 
is  also  connected  with  the  Woodmen  of  the  World, 
the  Knights  of  Honor  and  the  Ancient  Order  of 
United  Workmen.  Politically  he  is  a  silver  Re- 
publican. He  is  a  charter  member  of  the  Master 
Builders'  Association  of  Denver  and  has  been 
identified  with  the  Ma.ster  Steam  and  Hot  Water 
Fitters'  Association  of  the  United  States,  all  of 
whose  national  meetings  he  attended  priorto  1893. 


REV.  WILLIAM  O'RYAN.  St.  Leo's  par- 
ish, of  Denver,  was  organized  in  1887  and 
now  has  a  handsome  church  building,  pa- 
rochial residence  and  the  other  equipments  of  a 
modern  parish.  Much  of  the  growth  of  the  work  is 
due  to  the  efiicient  oversight  of  its  pastor.  Father 
O'Ryan,  who  has  been  the  spiritual  adviser  of 
the  congregation  since  1892  and  who  has  the  rep- 
utation of  being  one  of  the  most  brilliant  orators 
and  intellectual  priests  in  the  city. 

The  parents  of  Father  O'Ryan  are  Michael  and 


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Ellen  (Maher)  O'Ryan,  natives  of  County  Tip- 
perary,  Ireland,  where  they  still  reside.  A  num- 
ber of  relatives  of  the  family  are  members  of  the 
clergy  in  Ireland  and  the  United  States,  among 
them  Archbishop  Ryan,  of  Philadelphia,  and 
Bishop  Scanlon,  of  Salt  Lake  City.  A  brother. 
Rev.  Philip  O'Ryan,  of  the  Cathedral,  San  Fran- 
cisco, is  licentiate  of  theology  of  the  Catholic 
University,  Washington,  D.  C,  and  editor  of  the 
San  Francisco  Monitor.  An  uncle,  Rev.  T. 
Maher,  is  one  of  the  oldest  priests  of  the  Notre 
Dame  University,  South  Bend,  Ind. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  in  the  city 
of  Cashel,  County  Tipperary,  Ireland,  Febru- 
ary 23,  1861.  He  was  educated  in  the  national 
schools  until  twelve  years  of  age,  and  then  studied 
in  a  private  academy  for  three  years,  after  which 
he  read  rhetoric  and  philosophy  in  Thurles  Col- 
lege, Ireland,  for  three  years.  The  next  four 
j'ears  were  spent  in  the  study  of  theology  in  the 
Royal  College  of  Maynooth.  He  was  ordained  to 
the  priesthood  by  Cardinal  Manning,  in  London, 
October  i,  1884,  and  for  two  years  afterward 
served  under  that  eminent  cardinal,  but  failing 
health  obliged  him  to  seek  a  change  of  climate. 
He  had  heard  njuch  of  the  healthfulness  of  Colo- 
rado and  decided  to  come  here,  which  he  did  in 
1887.  He  received  an  appointment  in  the  Cathe- 
dral of  Denver,  where  he  served  for  five  years, 
and  in  1892  was  transferred  to  his  present  pasto- 
rate. He  holds  the  diocesan  offices  of  fiscal  pro- 
curator (similar  to  that  of  prosecuting  attorney) , 
defender  of  the  marriage  tie  and  examiner  of  the 
clergy. 


REV.  MARIANO  LEPORE.  The  Mount 
Carmel  Italian  Church,  of  Denver,  was  or- 
ganized March  18,  1894,  by  the  gentleman 
who  has  since  held  the  pastorate.  Through  his 
influence  property  was  purchased  and  an  edifice 
built  and  furnished,  $4,000  of  the  same  being 
provided  for  by  himself  through  his  own  gifts  and 
personal  solicitation  of  others.  The  congregation 
owns  seven  lots  on  the  corner  of  Palmer  avenue 
and  West  Thirty-sixth  avenue,  and  is  now  prac- 
tically free  from  indebtedness.  Two  hundred  and 
forty-seven  families  hold  membership  in  the 
church,  and  there  are  also  one  hundred  and  fifty 
other  families  who  live  at  too  great  distance  to 
attend  services  regularly.     In  1898  a  school  was 


built  and  it  is  the  intention  of  the  pastor  to  erect 
a  hospital  as  soon  as  the  necessary  funds  are  ar- 
ranged for. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  near  Naples, 
Italy,  September  16,  1868,  and  is  the  youngest  of 
five  children,  there  being  three  daughters  and  two 
sons.  The  latter  is  with  his  brother  as  manager 
of  the  papers  published  here.  The  father,  Dom- 
inic Lepore,  was  born  near  Naples,  where  for 
some  years  he  engaged  in  merchandising,  but  is 
now  living  retired;  he  married  Louisa  De  Blasio, 
who  was  born  in  Italy  and  died  there  in  1889. 
Our  subject  pursued  the  study  of  the  classics,  the- 
ology and  philosophy  in  the  College  of  Santa 
Marie,  Naples,  and  was  ordained  to  the  priest- 
hood September  19,  1 891,  in  the  Pride  de  Chapel, 
by  Bishop  Cosenza.  Immediately  after  his  ordi- 
nation he  made  preparations  to  come  to  America. 

Arriving  in  New  York  City  in  May,  1892,  a 
month  later  he  was  made  pastor  in  St.  Anthony's 
Church  in  Northvale,  N.  J.,  a  congregation  of 
American  worshipers.  Though  he  was  unfa- 
miliar with  the  English  language,  yet  a  month 
after  becoming  pastor  he  was  able  to  read  the 
gospel  in  English.  He  filled  that  pastorate  for 
fourteen  months  and  then  accepted  a  call  to  Den- 
ver, where  he  started  the  congregation  of  which 
he  has  since  been  the  head.  In  addition  to  his 
regular  work  in  the  church  he  is  the  editor  of 
three  Italian  papers:  La  Nazione,  a  weekly 
newspaper  founded  in  1894  and  now  publi.shedin 
Denver;  The  Catholic,  a  monthly  paper  published 
in  Denver;  L'  Italiari,  a  weekly  published  in 
Kansas  City,  Mo.,  and  circulated  through  Mis- 
souri and  Kansas.  These  papers  are  widely  read 
among  the  Italian  residents  of  the  United  States, 
and  bear  witness  to  the  ability  and  intellectual 
attainments  of  their  editor. 


fi>6J  ALTER  FINLAY.  A  resident  of  Denver 
\  A  /  since  1890,  Mr.  Finlay  is  now  one  of  the 
Y  V  well-known  business  men  of  the  place. 
Soon  after  coming  here  he  embarked  in  the  livery 
business  as  the  active  member  of  the  firm  of  W. 
Finlay  &  Co.,  but  in  1896  he  bought  the  entire 
interest  and  now  has  sole  charge  of  the  enter- 
prise. The  barns  are  located  at  No.  1432  Ar- 
apahoe street,  where  he  has  a  building,  50x125 
feet  in  dimensions,  and  adapted  to  the  general 
livery  and  boarding  business. 


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The  Finlay  family  probably  originated  in 
Scotland,  but  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  his  fa- 
ther, John,  and  grandfather,  Alexander,  were  na- 
tives of  Belfast,  Ireland,  the  last-named  being  a 
manufacturer  of  soap  there.  The  father  removed 
to  Brighton,  England,  in  1864,  and  remained 
there  until  his  death.  His  wife,  who  still  makes 
her  home  in  England,  was  Elizabeth  Finlay, 
but,  though  bearing  the  same  name,  she  was  a 
member  of  a  different  family  from  that  to  which 
her  husband  belonged.  She  was  born  in  County 
Down,  Ireland,  and  was  a  daughter  of  Rev. 
Charles  Finlay,  who  for  years  was  pastor  of  the 
Presbyterian  Church  at  Lake  View,  County 
Armagh.  Of  her  seven  children,  four  are  living, 
Walter  and  Alexander  in  Denver,  and  two  daugh- 
ters in  England. 

At  the  age  of  eight  the  subject  of  this  notice 
became  a  pupil  in  the  public  school  of  Brighton, 
England,  but  ten  years  later  he  returned  to  his 
birthplace  in  Ireland,  where  he  learned  the  linen 
business  with  the  company  doing  the  largest 
business  in  that  line  of  any  in  Belfast.  He  re- 
mained with  the  firm  for  eight  years,  and  during 
the  last  eighteen  months  represented  the  com- 
pany in  London,  England,  but  finally  resigned 
and  embarked  in  the  tea  business  in  Belfast. 
Coming  to  America  in  1884,  he  located  at  Raton, 
N.  M.,  where  he  engaged  in  the  cattle  business. 
Hard  times  and  depreciation  in  the  price  of  cattle 
unfortunately  made  his  enterprise  a  failure,  and 
he  sold  out  in  1890  and  came  to  Denver. 

The  Republican  party  receives  the  support  of 
Mr.  Finlay  and  its  candidates  rely  upon  his  vote. 
Fraternally  he  is  connected  with  the  United 
Moderns  and  the  Woodmen  of  the  World.  He 
was  married  in  this  city  to  Miss  Annie  Leigh,  a 
native  of  Manchester,  England,  and  daughter  of 
John  Leigh,  an  old  cattleman  and  wholesale 
butcher  residing  in  Boulder,  Colo. 


(T  AMES  R  AE,  who  is  proprietor  of  a  carriage 
I  factory  and  general  blacksmith  works  at 
(*/  No.  1640  Wazee  street,  Denver,  was  born 
in  Chatham,  N.  B.,  October  29,  1857.  His 
father,  James  Rae,  Sr.,  a  native  of  Scotland, 
crossed  the  ocean  in  young  manhood  and  settled 
in  New  Brunswick,  where  he  followed  the  black- 
smith's trade.  When  quite  advanced  in  years  he 
retired  in  the  enjoyment  of  the  competency  his 


honest  efforts  had  accumulated.  He  still  resides 
in  Chatham  and  is  sixty-nine  years  of  age,  hav- 
ing been  born  in  1829.  By  his  marriage  to  Mary 
Ann  Gillis,  a  native  of  Chatham,  he  has  four 
sons  now  living. 

The  next  to  the  youngest  of  this  family  is  our 
subject.  He  attended  the  Chatham  public  school 
and  made  that  place  his  home  until  seventeen, 
meantime  having  learned  the  blacksmith's  trade 
under  his  father.  From  Chatham  he  went  to 
St.  Johns,  where  he  completed  his  trade.  In 
1879  he  came  to  Denver,  where  for  four  years  he 
was  employed  in  the  shop  then  owned  by  Camp- 
bell &  Welsh.  In  1883  he  bought  out  his  em- 
ployers and  has  since  continued  the  business  at 
the  old  stand,  having  by  honest  application  and 
good  management  secured  a  good  trade  and  built 
up  a  profitable  business.  He  makes  a  specialty 
of  horse  shoeing,  though  he  is  proficient  in  every 
line  of  work  connected  with  his  trade.  He  has 
not  identified  himself  with  political  matters,  but 
is  a  stanch  Republican  in  belief. 

In  Denver  he  married  Miss  Anna  Marshall, 
who  was  born  in  Rock  Island  County,  111.,  and 
of  whom  mention  is  made  in  this  volume.  They 
are  the  parents  of  two  children,  Arthur  Lester 
and  Ethel  Frances. 


yyiRS.  ANNA  MARSHALL  RAE,  M.  D.,  of 
y  Denver,  is  a  member  of  a  family  prominently 
(9  connected  with  the  history  of  America. 
Her  great-uncle  was  one  of  the  fir-st  chief  justices 
in  the  United  States  and  was  a  man  of  great  in- 
fluence and  prominence.  Her  uncle,  James 
Wilson  Marshall,  is  illustrious  as  having  been 
the  original  discoverer  of  gold  in  California,  hav- 
ing found  a  nugget  weighing  six  pennyweights 
January  19,  1848.  The  news  of  this  discovery 
and  the  .subsequent  hastening  of  men  toward  that 
.El  Dorado  is  a  matter  of  history.  In  recognition 
of  this  discovery  a  monument  has  recently  been 
erected  to  the  memory  of  Mr.  Marshall  and 
stands  on  a  tract  of  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres 
in  Corona. 

The  father  of  Dr.  Rae,  Hon.  William  Marshall, 
was  born  in  Trenton,  N.  J.,  November  22,  1815. 
In  1837  hs  settled  in  Cordova  Township,  Rock 
Island  County,  111.,  where  the  family  owned  and 
operated  a  sawmill.  During  the  early  days  he 
represented  his  district  in  the  state  legislature  for 


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two  terms.  To  him  belongs  the  credit  of  securing 
for  Rock  Island  both  the  Chicago,  Burlington  & 
Quincy  and  the  Chicago,  Milwaukee  &  St.  Paul 
roads,  as  it  was  the  adoption  of  his  suggestions 
and  the  use  of  his  ideas  by  men  of  money  that 
rendered  possible  the  innovation  of  railroads. 
His  initiative  step  in  railroad  development  was 
made  in  Cordova,  111.,  at  the  home  of  William 
Marshall,  and  was  the  organization  of  a  company 
known  as  the  Rockford,  Rock  Island  and  St. 
lyouis  Railroad  Company,  which  was  later  bought 
and  operated  by  the  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy 
Railroad.  Subsequently  he  planned  the  Western 
Union  (now  the  Chicago,  Milwaukee  &  St.  Paul), 
extending  the  track  from  Freeport  to  Rock 
Island. 

The  mother  of  Hon.  William  Marshall  was 
Catherine,  daughter  of  James  Larrison,  and  a 
descendant  of  John  Larrison,  a  Danish  nobleman, 
who  took  part  in  the  war  of  1665  between  the 
king  and  the  nobility,  but  was  defeated  and  his 
property  confiscated.  Soon  afterward  he  went 
to  Scotland  and  from  there  came  to  America, 
where  he  bought  a  tract  of  land  on  Long  Island. 
Two  of  his  sons  were  killed  bj'  Indians,  and  an- 
other, who  went  to  New  Jersey,  was  James, 
grandfather  of  Mr.  Marshall. 

Mention  has  before  been  made  of  a  member  of 
the  Marshall  family  who  attained  prominence  in 
the  early  history  of  our  country.  This  was  Judge 
John  Marshall,  son  of  Col.  Thomas  Marshall, 
who  commanded  a  regiment  of  Virginia  troops 
in  the  Revolution.  He  was  born  in  Fauquier 
County,  Va.,  in  1755,  and,  like  his  father,  served 
valiantly  in  defense  of  the  cause  of  independence, 
being  a  commissioned  officer  in  the  colonial  army. 
Afterward  he  was  elected  to  congress,  later  served 
as  secretary  of  state  under  John  Adams,  and 
January  31,  1801,  was  appointed  chief  justice  of 
the  United  States,  which  position  he  held  until 
his  death  thirtj'-four  years  later. 

The  mother  of  Dr.  Rae  was  Rebecca  Ennis,  a 
native  of  CoUinsville,  Ind-,  and  now  (1898) 
seventy-two  years  of  age.  In  her  family  there 
were  five  children,  namely:  Mrs.  Viola  Mc- 
Cormick,  of  Pueblo;  Mrs.  Florence  Willett,  of 
Comanche,  Iowa;  Mrs.  Mary  Phillips,  who  died 
in  Illinois  in  1895;  Anna;  and  Norman,  a  gradu- 
ate of  the  Jefferson  Medical  College,  and  now  a 
successful  eye,  ear  and  throat  specialist  in  Clinton, 
Iowa.      Our  subject    was    educated  in  Illinois, 


graduating  from  Mount  Carroll  Female  Seminary 
in  1883.  Six  years  later,  in  Colorado,  she  be- 
came the  wife  of  James  Rae,  whose  sketch  ap- 
pears in  this  work.  Under  th&  preceptorship  of 
her  brother  she  first  began  the  study  of  medicine, 
and  later  continued  her  studies  in  Gross  Medical 
College,  from  which  she  graduated  in  1897,  with 
the  degree  of  M.  D.  She  has  since  engaged  in 
the  practice  of  her  profession  in  Denver. 


REV.  J.  J.  GIBBONS.  In  every  pastorate 
which  he  has  held  Father  Gibbons  has 
shown  the  greatest  zeal  in  the  discharge  of 
his  duties.  He  has  faithfully  followed  the  apos- 
tolic command,  "Preach  the  Word;  be  instant  in 
season  and  out  of  season."  To  whatever  charge 
he  has  been  called,  it  has  been  his  earnest  aim 
to  promote  the  welfare  of  the  congregation,  in- 
crease its  membership  and  advance  the  interests 
of  the  church.  Nor  have  his  labors  been  in  vain. 
The  record  of  his  ministerial  career  is  a  record  of 
congregations  built  up  and  the  spiritual  and 
financial  interests  of  the  church  promoted.  Called 
to  Denver  November  16,  1892,  he  organized  the 
St.  Francis  de  Sales'  Catholic  Church,  which  held 
services  at  first  in  Russell  hose  house.  However, 
the  church  was  completed  within  four  weeks 
after  the  organization  of  the  church,  and  services 
have  since  been  held  in  it;  later  a  parsonage  was 
built  for  the  priest. 

The  parents  of  Father  Gibbons  are  James  and 
Anna  (Wade)  Gibbons.  The  former  removed 
from  Rhode  Island  to  Walworth  County,  Wis., 
and  settled  near  Clinton,  where  he  engaged  in 
farming.  Later  he  went  to  Iowa  and  settled  near 
Waterloo,  where  he  has  since  resided.  He  and 
his  wife  are  the  parents  of  fourteen  children, 
eleven  of  whom  are  still  living,  our  subject  being 
next  to  the  oldest.  He  was  born  in  Providence, 
R.  I.,  in  1855,  but  was  taken  to  Wisconsin  in  in- 
fancy, and  from  that  state  accompanied  his  par- 
ents to  Iowa  in  1868.  At  the  age  of  nineteen  he 
began  to  teach  school,  which  occupation  he  fol- 
lowed for  four  years,  carefully  saving  his  earn- 
ings in  order  that  he  might  have  better  educa- 
tional privileges.  For  a  time  he  attended  the 
Iowa  State  Normal,  and  for  two  years  was  a 
student  in  St.  Francis  Seminary  at  Milwaukee, 
Wis. ,  after  which  he  taught  school  for  eighteen 
months.     He  completed  his  classical   studies  in 


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St.  Joseph's  College,  Dubuque,  Iowa,  where  he 
studied  for  three  years.  Afterward  he  spent  two 
years  in  the  study  of  theology  at  St.  Mary's,  Bal- 
timore, but  was  obliged  to  discontinue  his  work 
there  on  account  of  illness.  On  recovering  his 
health  he  came  to  Illinois  and  soon  entered  the 
seminary  at  Kankakee,  111.,  where  he  was  or- 
dained to  the  holy  priesthood  of  the  Catholic 
Church.  June  5,  1886,  in  Chicago,  Bishop  (now 
Archbishop)  Feehan  ordained  him  for  the  Den- 
ver diocese,  and  he  soon  began  preparations  for 
work  in  his  new  field.  He  reached  Denver  June 
17,  1886,  and  has  been  constantly  "in  the  har- 
ness" ever  since,  having  never  spent  more  than 
twelve  weeks  out  of  the  diocese.  He  was  an 
assistant  in  the  Cathedral  for  six  weeks,  after 
which  he  filled  a  vacancy  in  the  Georgetown 
pastorate  until  October  3,  1886,  and  then  went  to 
Leadville  as  assistant  to  Father  Robinson,  con- 
tinuing thereuntil  August,  1888.  His  next  field 
of  labor  was  in  Ouray,  but  his  work  was  by  no 
means  limited  to  that  town.  Altogether,  his 
assignments  included  four  counties,  San  Juan, 
Ouray,  San  Miguel  and  Dolores,  comprising  the 
charges  at  Silverton,  Rico,  Telluride,  Trout 
Lakes,  Placerville,  Ridgeway  and  fronton  (where 
he  built  churches) ,  Red  Mountain  and  Sneffles, 
all  of  which  congregations,  excepting  those  at 
Ouray  and  Silverton,  were  organized  through  his 
personal  efforts.  Much  of  his  time  was  spent  in 
saddle,  riding  from  one  mission  to  another,  over 
the  mountains  where  the  roads  were  rough  and 
travel  was  hard.  Frequently  he  rode  sixty-five 
miles  in  a  day,  in  order  to  meet  his  appointments 
for  services. 

After  four  and  one-half  busy  years  in  this  part 
of  the  state,  Father  Gibbons  was  made  pastor  of 
St.  Francis  de  Sales'  Church  in  Denver,  his  pres- 
ent charge,  the  growth  of  which  is  due  to  his  un- 
wearied labors  and  excellent  management.  He 
is  connected  with  the  different  societies  of  the 
church,  and  is  chaplain  of  St.  Joseph's  Com- 
mandery,  Knights  of  St.  John,  and  of  St.  Patrick's 
Benevolent  Society,  C.  M.  B.,  as  well  as  St. 
Teresa's  Auxiliary. 

Father  Gibbons  is  the  author  of  a  book  entitled 
"In  the  San  Juan."  The  San  Juan  is  a  section 
of  Colorado  which  is  very  little  known  to  eastern 
people.  It  is  a  region  of  sitrpassingly  beautiful 
and  sublime  scenery.  Indeed,  in  comparing  its 
grandeurs  with  those  of  the  Alps,    the   tourist 


hesitates  as  to  which  of  these  two  wonderful 
regions  deserves  the  allotment  of  superiority. 
The  book  consists  of  a  series  of  .sketches  in  which 
the  author  relates  his  wonderful  experiences  of 
five  years  in  that  country.  It  is  written  in  a 
pleasing  and  simple  style.  Father  Gibbons  shows 
throughout  the  entire  work  great  sympathy  with 
nature.  The  habits  and  customs  of  the  miners 
are  accurately  described,  and  the  sketches  are 
enlivened  by  interesting  anecdotes.  Prominent 
features  of  the  work  are  several  pieces  of 
poetry,  notably  those  written  on  the  mummy  and 
the  burro.  The  work  is  the  first  of  the  kind  pro- 
duced in  Colorado  and  will  be  read  with  eager 
interest  not  only  in  the  state,  but  it  is  certain  to 
find  many  admirers  elsewhere.  Its  moral  tone 
will  be  found  to  be  of  the  highest  order. 


gHARLES  E.  WINGATE,  a  general  con- 
tractor and  builder  located  at  No.  1106 
Eighteenth  street,  Denver,  is  of  English 
birth  and  descent.  His  paternal  grandfather, 
John  Wingate,  owned  the  ground  and  was  the 
first  to  build  upon  the  present  site  of  Kingsbridge, 
where  the  fast  clippers  were  afterward  con- 
structed. The  maternal  grandfather,  Thomas 
Toms,  was  a  farmer  and  cattle  dealer  at  Corn- 
wood,  Devonshire,  where  his  daughter,  Mary, 
was  born.  In  early  womanhood  she  became  the 
wife  of  Charles  Wingate,  a  native  of  Kingsbridge 
and  by  trade  a  carpenter,  who  for  thirty-five 
years  has  been  employed  by  the  government  as 
foreman  of  works  and  now  holds  that  position  in 
the  Davenport  dockyards  adjoining  Plymouth. 
He  is  now  sixty-five  years  of  age  and  his  wife  is 
two  years  his  junior. 

Their  only  child,  our  subject,  was  reared  in 
Plymouth  and  attended  the  public  schools  of  this, 
his  native  city.  When  a  youth  he  became  an 
apprentice  to  William  Ham,  with  whom  he 
remained  for  seven  years,  learning  the  carpenter's 
trade  and  then  for  two  years  as  an  employe. 
Later  he  was  employed  by  a  cousin  for  two  years. 
Meantime  he  had  been  reading  much  about 
Denver,  its  wonderful  growth,  its  remarkable 
climate  and  the  opportunities  it  offered  to  men  of 
moderate  capital.  He  determined  to  come  here 
and  investigate  for  himself.  Accordingly  in  May, 
1889,  he  came  to  this  city  and  so  well  was  he 
pleased  that  he  has  since  made  it  his  home.     In 


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1 89 1  he  became  a  sub-contractor,  in  which  capac- 
ity he  was  employed  by  several  contractors. 
Afterward  he  was  a  member  of  the  firm  of 
Toogood  &  Wingate,  but  their  partnership  was 
dissolved  by  mutual  consent  and  he  began  in 
business  alone.  While  with  others  or  by  himself 
he  has  had  the  contracts  for  the  Morey  Mercantile 
warehouse,  Jackson  building,  Governor  Baxter's 
residence,  the  Babcock  and  Young  residences,  etc. 
While  in  Plymouth  Mr.  Wingate  was  made  a 
Mason  in  Brunswick  L,odge  No.  159,  in  which  he 
was  junior  deacon.  He  is  now  a  member  of 
Denver  Lodge  No.  5,  Denver  Chapter  No.  2, 
R.  A.  M.;  also  of  South  Side  Camp  No.  71, 
Woodmen  of  the  World.  In  national  politics  he 
is  a  Republican  and  in  religious  belief  an  Episco- 
palian. Before  leaving  Plymouth,  England,  he 
married  Miss  Lucy,  daughter  of  John  Elliott,  a 
traveling  salesman.  They  are  the  parents  of 
three  childreh,  the  eldest  of  whom,  Byron,  was 
born  in  England,  and  the  others,  Lillian  and 
Dorothy,  in  Denver. 


(lOHN  J.  BITTER  has  resided  in  Denver 
I  since  1879  and  is  well  known  among  the 
C2/  efficient,  successful  business  men  of  the  city. 
Beginning  as  contractor  in  1883,  he  has  since 
given  his  attention  to  the  erection  of  public 
buildiugs  and  private  residences,  among  his  con- 
tracts being  those  for  Hon.  Fred  Walson's  resi- 
dence, on  Eighteenth  and  Grant  avenues;  the 
Thompson  building,  on  Fifteenth  and  Boulder 
streets;  and' the  Garfield  school,  on  the  north 
side.  His  office  is  located  at  No.  118  Seventeenth 
avenue,  and  his  residence  at  No.  445  Ogden 
street. 

The  Bitter  family  is  of  German  origin.  Chris- 
tian Bitter,  who  served  in  the  German  army 
during  youth,  later  was  occupied  as  an  architect 
and  draughtsman  in  Oldenburg,  where  he  died 
in  1849,  at  the  age  of  more  than  fifty  years.  His 
son,  J.  F.  W.,  our  subject's  father,  was  born  in 
Oldenburg,  but  went  to  Amsterdam  at  the  age  of 
fourteen  and  there  learned  the  carpenter's  trade. 
After  his  marriage  to  Sophia  Elizabeth  Haut- 
housen,  a  native  of  Amsterdam,  he  came  to 
America  and  settled  in  Albany,  N.  Y.,  where  he 
followed  his  trade  for  two  years.  Removing  from 
thereto  Ohio,  he  settled  in  what  is  now  Toledo, 
and  in  1853  purchased  a  tract  of  land  included  in 


the  present  corporate  limits  of  that  city.  This 
land  he  tilled  and  cultivated,  but  later  sold  and 
retired  from  active  business.  He  and  his  wife 
are  still  living,  as  are  also  seven  of  their  eight 
children. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  in  Toledo, 
Ohio,  February  20,  1853,  and  was  the  fourth 
among  the  children  born  to  his  parents.  When  a 
boy  he  worked  on  the  home  farm  and  attended 
private  schools,  where  he  obtained  a  fair  educa- 
tion. When  quite  young  he  was  handy  with 
tools  and  had  a  taste  for  carpentering.  At  the 
age  of  twenty  he  became  an  apprentice  in  Toledo 
and  for  seven  years  remained  with  the  firm  of 
Custer  &  Byer,  assisting  during  that  time  in  the 
erection  of  the  chamber  of  commerce  and  many 
churches  and  large  office  buildings  in  that  city. 
In  1879  he  came  to  Denver,  where  he  worked 
for  others  until  1883,  but  since  that  year  has  been 
in  business  for  himself. 

In  Toledo,  Ohio,  occurred  the  marriage  of 
Louisa  Samson  to  Mr.  Bitter,  and  five  children, 
now  living,  bless  their  union:  Fred,  a  carpenter 
assisting  his  father;  Herman,  who  also  works  with 
his  father;  Arthur,  Gertrude  and  Clara.  One 
daughter,  Elsie,  died  at  three  years  of  age.  Mrs. 
Bitter  is  a  daughter  of  Herman  Samson,  who  was 
at  one  time  the  largest  contractor  in  Toledo  and 
died  here  in  1892. 

Fraternally  Mr.  Bitter  is  connected  with  the 
Woodmen  of  the  World.  He  is  a  charter  mem- 
ber of  the  Carpenters  &  Builders'  Association. 
Identified  with  St.  John's  German  Evangelical 
Lutheran  Church,  he  has  been  a  member  of  the 
board  of  trustees  for  nine  years;  he  was  one  of  the 
nine  who  organized  the  church  in  1880  and  was 
the  architect  and  contractor  of  the  new  church, 
erected  in  1896,  at  the  corner  of  Fifth  avenue  and 
Evans  street.  He  also  assisted  in  establishing 
the  missions  at  Brighton  and  Littleton,  Colo. 


yyi  ALCOLM  McCRIMMON  came  to  Colorado 
Y  in  1873,  arriving  at  Georgetown  on  the 
(9  27th  of  March  and  embarking  in  business 
as  a  blacksmith  and  wagonmaker.  In  January, 
1877,  he  opened  a  shop  at  Lawson  and  continued 
the  two  for  six  months,  when  he  sold  the  newer 
enterprise.  Meantime  he  began  to  be  interested 
in  mining,  a  considerable  portion  of  his  earnings 
being  invested  in  mining  property.     During  the 


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period  of  his  residence  in  Georgetown  lie  served 
as  an  alderman  for  two  j'ears.  May  12,  1886,  he 
came  to  Denver,  where  at  first  he  carried  on  a 
shop  situated  on  Blake  street,  but  in  1889  he  sold 
out  and  embarked  in  the  grocery  business  on 
the  corner  of  Twelfth  and  L,arimer  streets.  For 
twenty-two  months  he  was  a  grocer,  but  then 
sold  out  and  resumed  work  as  a  blacksmith, 
locating  at  No.  1730  Wazee  street.  His  horse- 
shoeing and  wagon  shop  is  now  located  at  No. 
1706  Wazee. 

As  his  name  indicates,  Mr.  M.Crimmon  is  a 
Scotchman.  He  was  born  in  Inverness  in  1838, 
and  his  father,  Kenneth,  and  grandfather,  Duncan 
McCrimmon,  were  natives  of  the  same  shire,  the 
latter  being  a  farmer  and  the  former  a  stone- 
mason by  trade.  During  the  dull  seasons  in 
building,  Kenneth  McCrimmon  engaged  in  fish- 
ing, having  a  number  of  small  boats  that  he  used 
for  this  purpose.  In  1849  he  removed  with  his 
family  to  Canada,  where  he  followed  his  trade 
until  he  died,  at  sixty-six  years  of  age.  His 
wife,  Annie,  was  a  daughter  of  Donald  McClure, 
of  Scotland;  she  died  in  1838,  and  of  her  nine 
children  Malcolm  is  the  sole  survivor.  After  her 
death  Mr.  McCrimmon  married  again  and  two 
children  were  born  of  that  union. 

When  the  family  settled  in  Canada  our  subject 
was  a  lad  of  eleven  years.  He  remained  at  home 
until  August  14,  1857,  when  he  began  an 
apprenticeship  to  the  blacksmith's  trade  at  Lan- 
caster, and  served  until  September  14,  i860. 
Five  days  later,  on  the  19th,  he  came  to  the 
States,  settling  in  Rutland,  Vt. ,  where  he  worked 
at  his  trade.  April  15,  1861,  he  came  further 
west,  and  for  two  months  engaged  in  the  hotel 
business  at  Bloomington,  111.,  later  working  at 
his  trade  until  October  of  the  same  year,  when 
he  secured  employment  as  a  teamster  in  govern- 
ment employ.  He  worked  in  Sedalia,  Mo.,  until 
February  i,  1862,  when  he  accompanied  the 
military  command  to  Commerce,  Mo.,  remaining 
there  two  weeks.  He  then  went  to  St.  Louis, 
and  from  there  to  Fort  Leavenworth,  where  he 
again  worked  as  a  teamster  for  the  government, 
hauling  supplies  between  Forts  Riley  and  Leaven- 
worth. July  I,  1862,  he  went  to  Fort  Scott, 
Kan.,  as  a  blacksmith  for  the  government,  and 
two  years  later  removed  to  Mapleton,  Kan. ,  where 
he  opened  a  blacksmith  shop.  In  1866  failing 
health  induced  him  to  stop  work  at  his  trade  and 


engage  in  farming;  after  a  year  as  an  agricult- 
urist in  Neosho  County,  Kan.,  he  returned  to 
Mapleton  and  again  engaged  as  a  blacksmith, 
continuing  in  that  place  until  his  removal  to 
Colorado,  March  25,  1873. 

While  in  Fort  Scott,  Kan.,  Mr.  McCrimmon 
married  Miss  Amy  Ann  Wells,  who  was  born  in 
Lincoln  County,  Tenn.  They  are  the  parents  of 
six  children  now  living,  viz. :  Archie  and  Edwin 
P.,  who  are  engaged  in  the  grocery  business; 
Annie,  Lulu  M.,  Malcolm  and  Milton  H.  For 
some  years,  while  in  Georgetown,  Mr.  McCrim- 
mon acted  as  an  elder  in  the  Presbyterian  Church, 
of  which  denomination  he  is  a  member.  Frater- 
nally he  is  connected  with  Washington  Lodge 
No.  12,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  at  Georgetown,  and 
politically  he  is  a  silver  Republican. 


r^ETER  C.  SCHAEFER.  Among  the  natives 
LX  of  other  countries  who  have  sought  homes 
^^  in  Denver  and  have,  by  their  industry  and 
perseverance,  contributed  to  the  progress  of  the 
city,  mention  belongs  to  the  subject  of  this  notice, 
who  is  engaged  in  business  here  as  a  blacksmith 
and  carriage  manufacturer.  He  is  a  son  of  Peter 
and  Catherine  (Weimer)  Schaefer,  and  was  born 
upon  their  farm  at  Dehrn,  Hessen-Nassau,  Ger- 
many, in  1862,  being  one  of  twelve  children  that 
attained  years  of  maturity.  The  members  of  this 
family  are  now  scattered  in  different  parts  of  the 
world,  only  two  of  them  being  in  the  United 
States. 

The  third  of  this  large  family  was  the  subject 
of  our  sketch.  He  received  his  education  in  the 
public  schools  of  his  native  place  and  followed 
the  common  custom  of  leaving  school  to  learn  a 
trade  at  the  age  of  fourteen.  For  three  years  he 
was  apprenticed  to  a  blacksmith  and  in  this  way 
gained  a  thorough  knowledge  of  that  trade.  In 
the  spring  of  1880  he  took  passage  at  Bremen  for 
New  York,  from  which  place  he  proceeded  west 
to  Chicago,  but  after  working  at  his  trade  there 
for  three  months,  he  came  still  further  west  and 
settled  in  Denver.  Here  he  remained  working 
at  his  trade  until  1883,  when  he  went  to  Cheyenne, 
Wyo. ,  and  was  employed  there  for  fourteen 
months. 

On  his  return  to  Denver  Mr.  Schaefer  at  first 
worked  for  others,  but  in  1886  started  in  business 


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for  himself,  establishing  a  shop  on  Fifteenth, 
between  Wynkoop  and  Wewatta  streets.  About 
five  years  later  he  removed  to  his  present  loca- 
tion, No.  1333  Thirteenth  street,  where  he  is 
engaged  in  making  wagons  and  carriages  and 
also  in  doing  general  blacksmith  work.  Politi- 
cally he  is  a  silver  Republican,  favoring  pro- 
tecting of  home  industries  and  a  new  adjustment 
of  the  currency  question.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Turn  Verein  and  holds  office  as  past  sachem  of 
Colorow  Tribe  No.  10,  I.  O.  R.  M.,  which  he  has 
represented  in  the  Grand  Lodge. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Schaefer  took  place  in 
Denver  in  1890,  his  wife  being  Miss  Pauline 
Ludolf,  who  was  born  in  Macon,  Mo.,  but  came 
from  there  to  Denver  with  her  father,  Joseph 
Ludolf.  They  are  the  parents  of  one  child  now 
living,  a  son,  Charles  Peter  Schaefer. 


EAVALIER  GUISEPPE  CUNEO,  M.  D., 
is  Knight  of  the  following  Italian  orders: 
La  Carona  d' Italia  and  Santi  Maurizio 
e  Lazzaro;  is  also  con.sul  of  Italy  for  Utah 
and  Colorado,  a  practicing  physician  of  Denver, 
and  a  man  of  wide  travel  and  cosmopolitan  cult- 
ure. The  position  which  he  occupies  as  repre- 
sentative of  the  Italian  government  is  one  of  im- 
portance and  responsibility.  February  24,  1895, 
he  was  appointed  by  the  Italian  government  act- 
ing counsel  for  thirteen  states  and  territories,  viz. : 
Kansas,  Nebraska,  Wyoming,  Montana,  North 
and  South  Dakota,  Colorado,  New  Mexico,  In- 
dian Territory,  Oklahoma,  Utah,  Idaho  and  Ari- 
zona. The  following  year  President  Cleveland 
appointed  him  counsel  at  Denver  for  Utah  and 
Colorado,  by  reason  of  the  royal  patent,  signed  by 
His  Majesty,  King  Umberto  the  First,  May  7, 
1896. 

In  the  town  of  Alpepiana  St.  Stefano  d'  Aveto, 
state  of  Genoa,  Italy,  Dr.  Cuneo  was  born  Sep- 
tember 2,  1856,  the  descendant  of  a  family  whose 
history  is  traced  back  six  hundred  years  in 
Genoa,  to  the  days  of  the  existence  of  the  Gen- 
oese republic.  It  has  furni.shed  many  men  promi- 
nent in  business  and  the  professions.  One  of 
the  name  was  a  major  under  the  illustrious  Na- 
poleon and  was  made  a  prisoner.  Another,  J.  B. 
Cuneo,  was  a  wealthy  business  man  of  Mon- 
tevideo and  during  the  nine  years'  war  he  assisted 


Garibaldi  with  the  money  that  secured  the  free- 
dom of  the  Argentine  Republic. 

The  doctor's  father,  Joseph  Cuneo,  was  a  land 
owner  and  agriculturist  in  Genoa,  where  he 
died  in  1888,  at  the  age  of  seventy -eight.  He 
married  Anna  Maria  Ertola,  who  was  born  in 
Ertola  St.  Stefano  d' Aveto,  the  town  being  named 
in  honor  of  the  family,  who  had  been  identified 
with  its  history  for  centuries.  Some  of  the  name 
are  now  in  almost  every  foreign  country.  Mrs. 
Cuneo  died  in  1882,  leaving  eight  children,  name- 
ly: John,  who  was  educated  in  the  United  States 
and  now  lives  in  Albuquerque,  N.  M.;  George 
A.,  a  business  man  of  Denver;  Joseph,  of  this 
sketch;  Louis,  a  manufacturer'  in  St.  Louis; 
Mary,  Mrs.  A.  G.  Ghio,  of  St.  Louis;  Emelia, 
Mrs.  James  Ghio,  also  of  St.  Louis;  Beatrice,  wife 
of  J.  Turre,  of  Denver;  and  Julia,  Mrs.  J.  Par- 
etti,  of  Italy. 

The  education  of  our  subject  was  acquired  in 
the  University  of  Pavia,  and  the  Royal  University 
of  Naples,  from  which  latter  he  graduated  in 
the  medical  and  surgical  department  in  1887. 
After  graduation  he  became  surgeon  on  ocean 
steamers  that  plyed  the  waters  of  the  Mediter- 
ranean along  the  northern  coast  of  Africa  and 
southern  coast  of  Europe.  He  was  also  on 
steamers  that  visited  India,  China,  Japan,  Aus- 
tralia and  South  America;  and  later  was  on  the 
Anchor  line  in  trips  from  the  Mediterranean  to 
North  American  seaports,  being  on  the  ocean  for 
four  years  altogether.  During  his  voyages  he 
often  was  in  great  danger  of  shipwreck.  His 
ship  encountered  one  of  the  dreaded  monsoons  of 
East  India;  at  another  time  a  heavy  fog  ren- 
dered the  ship's  course  uncertain  and  death 
seemed  imminent  when  at  the  entrance  to  the 
port  of  Iquique,  Chile,  and  again,  twelve  days 
later,  at  the  entrance  to  the  Strait  of  Magellan. 

On  account  of  his  father's  death,  Dr.  Cuneo 
resigned  as  ocean  surgeon  and  became  adminis- 
trator of  the  estate.  He  came  to  Denver  in  De- 
cember, 1889,  attracted  hither  by  the  genial  cli- 
mate which  so  much  resembles  that  of  Italy.  In 
January  of  the  next  year  he  opened  an  office  at 
No.  1449  Larimer  street,  but  in  1893  removed  to 
the  Pioneer  building,  Fifteenth  and  Larimer 
streets,  where  he  has  since  carried  on  a  general 
practice.  For  a  time  he  was  a  member  of  the 
stafi"of  St.  Anthony's  Hospital,  but  pressure  of 
other  duties  caused  his  resignation.     He  is  medi- 


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cal  examiner  and  an  officer  in  Union  Lodge  No. 
6i,  A.  O.  U.  W.,  and  is  honorary  president  for 
the  Italian  government,  of  the  Italian-Spanish- 
American  Columbian  Protective  Federation  for 
Colorado.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Denver 
and  Arapahoe  County  Medical  Societies.  Three 
months  after  his  appointment  as  acting  consul, 
the  Italian  Massacre  at  Walsenburg,  Colo.,  oc- 
curred, March  12,  1895,  and  the  complications 
ensuing  therefrom  he  settled,  in  a  manner  satis- 
factory both  to  this  and  the  Italian  governments, 
doing  this  by  going  down  to  the  .seat  of  the  mas- 
sacre at  the  risk  of  his  own  life.  He  also  settled 
the  Ute  and  Ulay  trouble,  caused  by  the  non-pay- 
ment of  wages  due  the  Italian  workmen  in  the 
Ute  and  Ulay  mining  district.  On  account  of  his 
services  at  the  time  of  the  massacre  he  was 
knighted  by  King  Umberto  amember  of  the  order 
"Crown  of  Italy,"  dated  Rome,  December  30, 
1895,  No.  54,  210,  which  gives  him  the  title  of 
Cavalier  Guiseppe  Cuneo.  In  recognition  of  his 
services  in  securing  the  release  from  life  sentences 
in  the  state  penitentiary  at  Canon  City,  Colo.,  of 
five  countrymen  who  were  wrongfully  convicted 
for  murder  and  had  served  six  years,  he  was  again 
knighted  by  King  Umberto  of  Italy,  February  20, 
1898,  No.  25,567,  Santi  Maurizio  e  Lazzaro. 
His  countrymen  appreciating  the  efforts  he  makes 
in  their  behalf,  have  at  different  times  presented 
him  with  a  number  of  medals,  of  the  finest  work- 
manship and  material,  in  recognition  of  his  serv- 
ices in  their  interests. 


/gj  FORGE  J.  CHARPIOT,  a  mechanic  and  safe 
l__  expert  residing  in  Denver,  was  born  in 
Q  Belleville,  St.  Clair  County,  111.,  in  the 
year  1864,  and  is  a  member  of  a  family  whose  his- 
tory appears  in  the  sketch  of  his  cousin,  H.  C. 
Charpiot.  His  father,  George,  was  born  in 
Paris,  a  son  of  Pierre  Charpiot,  who  was  the  in- 
ventor of  the  plating  of  tin.  On  coming  to  Amer- 
ica, George  Charpiot  settled  in  Dubuque,  Iowa, 
and  from  there  went  to  St.  Louis,  the  home  of 
his  sister,  Mrs.  Underbill.  For  a  time  he  oper- 
ated a  coal  mine  near  Belleville,  whence  he  removed 
to  Virginia  City,  Mont.,  and  engaged  in  the 
wholesale  liquor  business.  With  ox- teams  he  re- 
moved to  Salt  Lake,  secreting  a  large  quantity  of 
gold  dust  inside  the  collars  used  in  harnessing  the 
oxen.     In    1859  he   came  to  Denver,  where  he 


started  a  restaurant  on  Blake  street,  continuing  in 
the  business  for  some  years.  He  was  a  fine  cook, 
having  served  an  apprenticeship  to  the  occupa- 
tion at  Delmonico's.  About  1891  he  removed  to 
San  Diego,  Cal.,  where  he  now  owns  and  resides 
on  a  lemon  ranch. 

The  grandfather  of  our  subject,  Pierre  Charpi- 
ot, was  born  in  France,  where  his  father,  Pierre, 
Sr.,  was  a  schoolmaster  and  at  one  time  mayor  of 
the  city  of  Barth.  The  family  is  of  the  old  French- 
Huguenot  stock.  Pierre,  Jr. ,  who  was  an  expert 
machinist,  held  a  position  as  foreman  in  Lalance, 
one  of  the  largest  manufactories  of  France.  He 
invented  tin-plating  by  dipping  and  saved  the 
labor  of  over  forty  men  a  day.  Afterward  he  went 
to  Lyons,  France,  where  he  engaged  in  manufact- 
uring, but  competition  was  so  great  that  he  de- 
cided to  come  to  America,  hoping  to  meet  with 
greater  success  here.  In  1854  he  settled  in  Bal- 
timore, but  after  a  short  time  went  west  to  Chi- 
cago, where  he  started  the  first  French  hotel  on 
La  Salle  street.  After  operating  this  for  many 
years  he  removed  to  Iowa  and  settled  on  a  farm 
near  Davenport,  where  he  died  at  the  age  of  sixty- 
eight.  He  married  Clemence,  a  daughter  of  David 
Bauceer,  who  was  a  wealthy  farmer  of  Barth. 
She  died  in  Chicago,  and  of  her  seven  children 
five  are  living.  Charles  died  in  Chicago  and 
Louis  in  Virginia  City,  Nev.  Frederick  is  a 
wealthy  retired  business  man  of  Denver;  George, 
father  of  our  subject,  was  the  third  of  the  sons; 
Eugenia  is  married  and  lives  in  Denver;  Jacques 
lives  in  Iowa;   and  Henry  is  in  Denver. 

The  mother  of  our  subject  was  Celestine  Huot, 
a  native  of  France.  Her  father,  Victor  Huot, 
settled  in  Davenport,  Iowa,  where  he  engaged  as 
a  contractor  and  builder,  and  as  a  manufacturer 
of  sash,  doors  and  blinds,  which  business  is  now 
carried  on  by  his  sons.  Mrs.  Celestine  Charpiot 
died  when  a  young  woman,  and  left  three  chil- 
dren: Eugenia,  Mrs.  Jones,  of  Denver;  Charles, 
who  is  with  the  Armour  Packing  Company  in 
Kansas  City,  Mo.;  and  George  J.  Afterward  the 
father  married  Mrs.  Margaret  Pratt,  widow  of 
Charles  Pratt,  who  was  at  one  time  a  millionaire 
resident  of  St.  Louis. 

Upon  the  death  of  his  mother  our  subject  was 
taken  into  the  home  of  his  uncle,  Victor  Huot,  at 
Davenport,  Iowa,  where  he  remained  until  six- 
teen years  of  age.  He  then  served  an  appren- 
ticeship to  the  machinist' s  trade  in  Indianapolis, 


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Ind.,  and  after  three  years,  in  1882, became  to  Den- 
ver, where  he  completed  his  trade  with  the  Den- 
ver &  Rio  Grande  Railroad  Company.  Four  years 
later  he  went  back  to  Indianapolis,  where  he  was 
foreman  in  a  machine  shop  for  two  years.  When 
the  firm  sold  out,  he  returned  to  Denver  to  take 
charge  of  his  father's  property.  He  was  employed 
here  as  a  safe  expert,  and  is  now  one  of  two  ex- 
perts in  that  line  in  Denver.  In  1897  ^^  opened 
a  shop  at  No.  16 10  Glenarm  street,  where  he  is 
engaged  in  the  manufacture  and  repair  of  bicy- 
cles and  safes.  As  safe  expert  he  has  traveled 
through  all  parts  of  Colorado,  New  Mexico,  Ari- 
zona and  Utah. 

Politically  Mr.  Charpiot  is  a  Republican.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Rambler  Wheel  Club  and  the 
Wheelmen's  Association.  Fraternally  he  is  con- 
nected with  Harmony  Lodge  No.  61,  A.  F.  &  A. 
M.,  and  the  Knights  of  Pythias,  while  in  religion 
he  is  connected  with  the  Twenty-third  Avenue 
Presbyterian  Church .  He  was  married  in  Indiana 
to  Miss  Anna  Hurley,  who  was  born  there,  the 
daughter  of  a  physician. 


^EORGE  N.  BILLINGS  is  one  of  the  old 
|_  settlers  of  Colorado,  having  started  west- 
\j^  ward  at  the  time  of  the  discovery  of  gold  in 
Pike's  Peak.  However,  he  stopped  in  Belvidere, 
111.,  during  the  winter  of  1859-60  and  in  the  early 
spring  assisted  ih  fitting  out  an  expedition  there, 
the  proprietors  being  John  Q.  A.  Rawlins  and 
James  McNes.ser.  He  crossed  the  Mississippi  at 
Clinton  and  the  Missouri  at  Council  Bluffs,  after 
which  he  followed  the  course  of  the  Platte  River 
westward.  In  July,  i860,  he  arrived  in  Denver, 
where  he  was  appointed  deputy  sheriff  under 
Andrew  Snyder.  But  four  weeks  in  the  position 
was  sufficient  for  him  and  he  resigned.  He  then 
clerked  for  some  months  for  Hewett  &  Bueford, 
after  which  he  took  the  contract  for  building  a 
mill  for  Lou  Morris  in  Empire  City,  it  being  the 
first  stamp  mill  in  that  place.  From  there  he 
went  to  Central  City,  after  which  he  came  to 
Denver  as  a  clerk  in  the  postoffice  under  Post- 
master Samuel  Curtis.  In  1 863  Governor  Evans 
appointed  him  as  ensign  of  the  governor's  guard 
in  the  Colorado  militia,  and  he  was  also  commis- 
sioned by  Governor  Gilpin  as  first  lieutenant  of 
the  First  Regiment  of  Colorado  Infantry,  but 
was   unable  to  leave  the  postoffice,  as  the  post- 


master had  accepted  the  commission  of  major. 
In  1869  he  resigned  his  position  in  the  office  and 
embarked  in  the  planing  mill  business,  which  he 
now  conducts  at  No.  1824  Blake  street. 

Mr.  Billings  was  born  in  Apalachin,  Tioga 
County,  N.  Y.,  August  18,  1836.  His  great- 
grandfather Billings  was  a  drummer  in  the  Revo- 
lution and  his  grandfather,  Charles  Billings,  was 
a  soldier  in  the  war  of  18 12.  The  latter  removed 
from  Massachusetts  to  the  Black  River  country  in 
early  days  and  later  settled  upon  a  farm  in  west- 
ern New  York.  The  father  of  our  subject, 
Clinton  Billings,  was  born  in  Great  Barrington, 
Mass.,  and  engaged  in  lumbering  on  the  Susque- 
hanna River.  The  lumber  was  rafted  down  the 
Susquehanna  to  Columbia  and  Green's  Dam,  and 
some,  eighty  to  ninety  feet  long,  were  floated 
down  to  Baltimore.  He  owned  two  mills  in 
Apalachin  and  remained  there  until  his  death  in 
1874. 

The  mother  of  our  subject,  Anna  Goodsell, 
was  born  in  Connecticut  October  29,  1813.  She 
was  a  daughter  of  Lloyd  Goodsell,  a  native  of 
Connecticut  and  a  soldier  in  the  war  of  18 12,  who 
resided  for  some  time  in  Wyalusing,  Bradford 
County,  Pa.,  but  afterward  settled  in  Apalachin, 
N.  Y.  She  is  still  living  and  is  now  eighty-five 
years  of  age.  Her  family  consisted  of  two 
daughters,  both  still  living,  and  four  sons,  of 
whom  George  N.  is  the  sole  survivor.  He  was 
educated  in  the  Apalachin  public  school  and  the 
Owego  Academy.  From  boj'hood  he  was  inter- 
ested in  lumbering  and  by  the  age  of  sixteen  he 
had  become  a  practical  sawyer.  He  assisted  his 
father  until  1853,  when  he  removed  to  Belvidere, 
Boone  County,  111.,  and  from  there  went  to  Chi- 
cago as  a  clerk.  Since  i860,  as  already  stated, 
he  has  resided  in  Denver,  and  his  planing  mill  is 
the  oldest  in  the  city.  It  was  built  by  him  and 
is  constructed  of  brick,  and  operated  by  steam 
power.  He  does  all  kinds  of  trimming,  joining, 
finishing  and  planing,  and  has  carried  on  a  profit- 
able business  in  his  line.  From  1862  to  1870  he 
was  in  partnership  with  T.  W.  Moffat,  a  nephew 
of  D.  A.  Moffat,  conducting  a  planing  mill  where 
his  mill  now  stands. 

Politically  a  Republican,  Mr.  Billings  served 
as  alderman  from  the  third  ward  for  one  term  and 
in  1866  was  assessor.  Fraternally  he  is  connected 
with  Union  Lodge  No.  7,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  Denver 
Chapter  No.  2,  R.  A.  M.,  Colorado  Commandery 


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No.  I,  K.  T. ,  the  Consistory  of  Denver,  and  El 
Jebel  Temple,  N.  M.  S.  In  Denver  he  married 
Miss  Gertrude  E.  Jenks,  who  was  born  in  Ohio, 
being  the  daughter  of  a  physician  there.  They 
are  the  parents  of  three  children:  Marcia  1,. ,  who 
graduated  from  the  high  school  of  Denver  and  is 
now  the  wife  of  Benjamin  Thomas,  of  Central 
City,  this  state  ;  Anna,  who  completed  her  educa- 
tion in  Whitney,  Canada,  and  is  now  the  wife  of 
Prof.  C.  H.  Thurber,  dean  of  the  theological 
department  of  the  University  of  Chicago;  and  Wirt 
J.,  who  was  educated  in  Owego  (N.Y.)  Academy, 
and  is  now  with  his  father  in  business. 


ROBERT  LEVY,  M.  D.,  professor  of  physiol- 
ogy and  laryngology  in  Gross  Medical  Col- 
lege, is  also  secretary  of  the  faculty  and  the 
board  of  trustees.  Many  of  his  professional  arti- 
cles have  been  published  for  distribution  among 
the  profession,  among  them  being  the  following: 
"Inoperable  Sarcoma  of  the  Nose,"  reprinted 
from  the  New  York  Medical  Journal;  "Treatment 
of  Laryngeal  Phthisis,"  from  the  Medical  and 
Surgical  Reporter;  "Pharyngeal  Tuberculosis" 
from  the  Denver  Medical  Times;  "Medical  Edu- 
cation," president's  address  delivered  before  the 
Colorado  State  Medical  Society  June  17,  1897; 
"The  Treatment  of  Laryngeal  Tuberculosis," 
with  a  report  of  cases,  reprinted  from  the  New 
York  Medical  Journal;  "Fatal  Hemorrhage  from 
the  Nose  and  Pharynx  from  Unusual  Cause," 
read  before  the  Colorado  State  Medical  Society  in 
June,  1896;  "Exaggerated  Arytenoid  Movement, 
Anchylosis  of  the  Crico,  Arytenoid  Articulation, " 
reprinted  from  Annals  of  Ophthalmology  and 
Otology, in  October,  1896;  and  "Direct  Autoscopy; 
Kirstein,"  reprinted  from  Gross  Medical  College 
Bulletin. 

Of  Canadian  birth,  Dr.  Levy  was  bom  in  Ham- 
ilton, Ontario,  May  30,  1864,  and  is  the  son  of 
Mandel  and  Rebecca  (Eisner)  Levy,  natives  re- 
spectively of  Germany  and  Vienna,  Austria.  The 
latter  has  three  brothers  who  are  physicians,  and 
her  father,  Dr.  Leopold  Eisner,  was  also  a  prac- 
titioner of  note  in  Austria.  In  1848  became  to 
America  with  the  illustrious  Louis  Kossuth,  with 
whom  he  had  participated  in  the  Hungarian  re- 
bellion. He  settled  in  New  York  and  practiced 
in  Utica  and  Syracuse  for  many  years.  Mandel 
Levy  was  an  early  settler  of  Hamilton,  Ontario, 


where  he  engaged  in  the  mercantile  business,  but 
from  there  he  removed  to  Milwaukee,  Wis. ,  and 
continued  in  business.  He  now  resides  at  Iron 
Mountain,  Mich.,  retired  from  active  labors.  Of 
his  five  children  Robert  is  the  eldest  and  the  only 
one  in  Colorado.  He  was  two  years  old  when 
the  family  removed  to  Milwaukee  and  he  received 
his  education  in  the  public  and  high  schools  of 
that  city.  In  1879  he  came  to  Colorado  and  took 
a  special  course  in  the  University  of  Denver.  In 
1880  he  entered  Princeton  College,  but  after  a 
short  time  he  left  and  took  up  the  study  of  med- 
icine at  Bellevue  Hospital  Medical  College,  grad- 
uating in  1884,  with  the  degree  of  M.  D.  While 
in  college  he  made  a  specialty  of  diseases  of  the 
throat  and  nose. 

Returning  to  Colorado,  Dr.  Levy  engaged  in 
general  practice  in  Denver  for  five  years,  when 
he  limited  his  attention  to  the  practice  of  laryn- 
gology. In  the  foundation  of  Gross  Medical  College 
he  was  actively  interested,  and  as  soon  as  it  was 
established  he  became  a  member  of  the  faculty 
and  board  of  trustees.  Three  years  later  he  was 
chosen  secretary  of  both  bodies,  and  has  since 
served  in  that  capacity,  besides  having  been  in- 
structor in  the  college  from  its  organization.  He 
has  his  ofiice  in  the  California  building. 

In  Denver  Dr.  Levy  married  Miss  Rebecca 
Goldsmith,  of  Philadelphia,  by  whom  he  has  a 
daughter,  Leona.  He  has  been  very  prominent 
in  the  medical  fraternity  of  the  city  and  state.  He 
assisted  in  the  organization  of  the  Denver  and  Ar- 
apahoe County  Medical  Society,  of  which  he  was 
afterward  elected  president.  In  1896-97  he  was 
president  of  the  Colorado  State  Medical  Society  .be- 
fore which  he  delivered  an  address,  on  the  expira- 
tion of  his  term ,  that  is  said  to  have  been  one  of  the 
most  thoughtful  ever  presented  before  that  body. 
In  it  occurred  a  graphic  comparison  between  the 
specialist  and  the  generalist.  "The  relation  of  the 
specialist  to  general  practitioner  should  be  one  of 
concerted  action,  each  taking  advantage  of  the 
other's  experience  and  assistance.  There  is  no 
need  of  fear  that  either  the  general  practitioner 
or  the  specialist  will  be  driven  from  the  field. 
Each  has  his  prominent  place  in  the  profession, 
and  this  place  will  be  strengthened  by  each  becom- 
ing broader  in  his  views.  The  generalist  is  often 
too  narrow,  as  is  the  specialist;  they  are  both  as 
often  at  fault;  but  the  fact  that  each  class  is  a  ne- 
cessity assures  us  that  the  position  of  both  will  be 


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so  clearly  defined  and  maintained  that  only  good 
will  result.  The  specialist  alone  will  be  able  to 
make  the  rapid  strides  forward  which  point  the 
way.  He  will  be  the  teacher  of  the  future,  and 
his  students  will  be  practitioners  of  such  thorough 
knowledge  as  will  best  fit  them  for  the  struggle 
which  their  life's  work  entails.  They  will  be  like 
the  experienced  master  of  the  ship  who  is,  of 
course,  'most  competent  to  command,  so  long  as 
his  voyage  lies  in  the  open  sea;  but  when  he  ap- 
proaches a  strange  harbor  on  a  danger  shore  and 
feels  the  full  weight  of  responsibility  that  a  valua- 
ble cargo  and  precious  lives  impose,  will  certainly 
take  on  a  pilot  who  is  especially  familiar  with  the 
channel  and  its  peculiar  perils.'  " 

Dr.  Levy  assisted  in  the  organization  of  the 
Denver  Pathological  Society  and  was  its  president 
for  a  time.  He  is  an  honorary  member  of  the 
PuebloCounty  Medical  Society,  a  member  of  the 
American  Public  Health  Association,  and  fellow 
of  the  American  Laryngological,  Rhinological  and 
Otological  Society.  In  the  Colorado  Dental  School 
he  is  professor  of  physiology  and  he  is  also  a 
member  of  the  Dental  Club.  In  addition  to  his 
other  positions,  he  is  laryngologist  to  Arapahoe 
County,  St.  Luke's  and  St.  Anthony's  hospitals, 
in  Denver.  Politically  he  is  a  Republican  and 
takes  an  interest  in  public  affairs,  keeping  himself 
posted  concerning  all  the  questions  before  the  peo- 
ple to-day,  which  he  believes  to  be  the  duty  of 
every  public-spirited,  patriotic  citizen. 


Gj  NTON  SCHINDELHOLZ.  The  life  of  a 
I  1  stockman  is  seldom  one  of  continued,  un- 
/  I  interrupted  success.  There  are  times  of 
reverses,  when  losses  come  thick  and  fast,  when 
markets  are  poor,  prices  low  and  results  unsatis- 
factory. In  spite  of  these  discouraging  features, 
the  man  who  has  the  courage  to  endure  and  the 
determination  to  overcome  misfortune  invariably 
attains  a  fair  degree  of  prosperity.  Such  has 
been  the  experience  of  Mr.  Schindelholz,  who 
came  to  Colorado  during  the  Pike's  Peakexcite- 
meut  of  i860  and  has  since  been  identified  with 
the  history  of  the  state.  He  is  one  of  the  oldest 
cattle  men  of  Colorado  and  still  superintends  his 
ranch  in  Elbert  County.  About  1887  he  started 
a  ranch  in  New  Mexico  on  the  Mora  River,  in 
San  Miguel  and  Mora  Counties,  where  he  owns 
twenty-one  thousand  acres,  all  under  fence.     His 


property  is  known  as  the  Cherry  Valley  ranch  or 
the  Peter  Rosar  pasture,  and  he  has  T.  O.  K.  as 
his  brand. 

During  the  early  years  of  Mr.  Schindelholz' 
life  in  Colorado  the  Indians  were  very  trouble- 
some and  hostile,  and  frequently  drove  off  the 
cattle  of  the  ranchmen,  thus  causing  constant 
trouble.  More  than  once  he  was  brought  into 
personal  encounter  with  them  and  more  than 
once  he  suffered  from  their  depredations.  It  was 
he  who  found  the  Hungate  family  on  Running 
Creek,  when  they  were  attacked  and  killed  by 
the  Indians  in  1864.  As  he  was  passing  near  he 
noticed  the  smoke,  and  approaching  nearer  saw 
the  Cheyenne  Indians  escaping,  after  having 
scalped  the  wife  and  children  about  three  hun- 
dred yards  from  the  house.  Mr.  Hungate,  who 
had  also  seen  the  smoke,  had  hastened  toward 
his  house,  but  the  Indians  pursued  him  three 
miles  down  the  creek  and  shot  him,  being  too 
intent  in  their  pursuit  of  him  to  notice  the  other 
white  man  near  by. 

Mr.  Schindelholz  was  born  in  Canton  Luzerne, 
Switzerland,  December  25,  1832,  a  member  of  an 
old  family  there.  His  grandfather,  a  native  of 
the  same  canton,  was  a  sugar  and  cheese  manu- 
facturer, and  died  at  ninety-two  years  of  age. 
The  father,  Anton,  was  in  the  dairy  and  stock 
business  in  that  canton,  where  he  died  in  1844,  at 
forty-four  years.  His  wife,  who  was  born  in  the 
same  place,  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Barbara 
Portmann,  and  died  at  the  age  of  sixty.  Of  their 
twelve  children,  seven  attained  maturity  and 
four  are  living,  two  sons  in  America  and  two 
daughters  in  Switzerland.  Anton,  who  was  next 
to  the  youngest  of  these,  was  eleven  .years  old 
when  his  father  died,  and  afterward  he  worked 
for  an  uncle  on  a  farm,  receiving  $5  for  every  six 
months  of  labor.  After  a  year,  however,  he 
sought  employment  elsewhere.  At  the  age  of 
twenty-one  he  went  to  Alsace,  France,  where  he 
was  engaged  in  the  dairy  business  for  a  time. 
In  1856  he  left  Havre  on  the  sailing  vessel 
"Ruessel,"  which  reached  New  York  City  after 
a  voyage  of  thirty-seven  days.  A  stranger  in  a 
stange  land  and  with  but  little  money,  his  con- 
dition was  forlorn,  but  his  courage  never  wavered. 
He  had  enough  money  to  buy  a  ticket  to  Chicago, 
which  city  he  reached  in  October,  1856,  with  $3 
in  his  pocket.  The  day  after  his  arrival  in  Chi- 
cago he  went  to  Evans,  where  he  secured  work  in 


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chopping.  In  the  spring  of  the  following  year 
he  secured  employment  in  a  stone  quarry  near 
Joliet,  where  he  spent  the  summer. 

The  fall  of  1857  found  him  in  Leavenworth, 
Kan.,  where  he  was  engaged  in  burning  lime  for 
a  year,  and  later  was  employed  in  a  dairy.  Soon 
after  the  Pike's  Peak  gold  excitement  began  to 
attract  men  to  Colorado  he  and  a  partner,  Mr. 
Albus,  started  hither,  with  an  ox-team  wagon 
and  plenty  of  "grub. "  When  within  two  hun- 
dred miles  of  Denver  one  of  the  oxen  died,  but 
they  hired  a  party  who  had  two  yoke,  and  finally 
reached  Denver,  June  10,  i860,  where  they  sold 
their  outfit  and  bought  two  yoke  of  oxen,  then 
proceeded  to  the  Blue  River.  They  engaged  in 
prospecting  and  mining  for  a  time,  and  in  the 
fall  Mr.  Schindelholz  took  a  load  of  hides  back  to 
Leavenworth,  returning  to  Colorado  in  1861  with 
two  yoke  of  oxen.  He  reached  Denver  in  twenty- 
seven  days,  but  found  that  his  partner,  having 
become  lonesome,  had  returned  east  and  the 
claim  was  jumped.  He  soon  formed  a  partner- 
ship with  N.  Myer  and  bought  a  ranch  on  the 
Blue  River.  In  1862,  having  saved  about  $500, 
he  came  to  Denver,  bought  twenty- one  cows,  and 
started  a  dairy  in  partnership  with  Alexander 
Rooney,  locating  the  dairy  between  Bear  Creek 
and  Golden.  The  partnership  was  dissolved  in 
1865,  and  his  share  was  $5,000,  but  he  loaned  it 
to  his  partner  for  thirty  days  and  lost  it  all, 
which  left  him  with  nothing. 

Going  up  on  Cherry  Creek,  he  bought  one 
hundred  head  of  yearling  steers  and  one  hundred 
head  of  beef  cattle,  the  latter  of  which  he  at  once 
sold,  receiving  more  than  enough  to  pay  for  the 
beef  and  the  steers.  The  latter  he  took  to  his 
ranch  in  Elbert  County.  He  continued  buying 
and  selling.  Later  he  riioved  his  ranch  to  Chey- 
enne County,  Kan.,  on  the  south  branch  of  the 
Republican,  which  property  he  subsequently 
sold  to  George  John  Benkelman.  He  owns  a 
large  number  of  cattle  in  Elbert  County,  Colo., 
where  he  also  owns  over  one  thousand  acres  of 
land  and  has  a  lease  on  many  hundred  acres  of 
land  on  which  he  pastures  a  large  herd  of  cattle. 
His  cattle  he  sells  largely  in  the  east,  taking  train 
loads  at  one  time  to  the  market.  In  1879  be 
built  on  the  corner  of  Thirtieth  and  Lawrence 
streets,  in  Denver,  where  he  also  owns  other  resi- 
dence and  business  property.  Since  the  organiza- 
tion of  the  Colorado  Cattle  Growers'  Association 


he  has  been  one  of  its  members.  In  politics  he 
is  a  Republican.  His  marriage,  which  took  place 
in  Elbert  County,  united  him  with  Miss  Mary 
Dietemann,  a  native  of  Alsace,  France.  Four 
children  were  born  of  their  union,  but  all  died 
when  young.  His  niece.  Miss  Maria  Lumena 
Dietemann,  presides  over  his  Denver  home.  Miss 
Dietemann  was  brought  to  America  by  her  uncle 
when  a  little  girl  and  shared  with  him  in  the 
hardships  and  privations  of  frontier  life. 


©QlLLIAM  H.  McKELVEY  is  the  senior 
lAl  ni^^berofthe  firm  of  McKelvey  &  Mon- 
VV  criefi",  plumbers,  located  at  No.  1109 
Eighteenth  street,  Denver.  He  was  born  in 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  and  is  a  son  of  Charles  McKel- 
vey, a  native  of  Ireland,  who  came  to  America 
with  his  parents  and  settled  in  Brooklyn .  At  an 
early  age  he  entered  upon  business  pursuits  and 
for  many  years  he  was  the  head  of  a  wholesale 
and  retail  grocery  in  Brooklyn.  When  advanced 
in  years  he  retired  from  active  labors  and  spent 
his  closing  days  in  the  enjoyment  of  the  com- 
petency he  had  acquired  by  honest  effort.  His 
death  occurred  in  1890,  when  he  was  seventy-eight 
years  of  age.  He  married  Elizabeth,  daughter 
of  Richard  Dytton,  both  natives  of  England,  but 
afterwards  residents  of  Brooklyn,  where  Mr.  Dut- 
ton  engaged  in  the  mercantile  business.  Mrs. 
McKelvey  still  resides  in  that  city.  She  was  the 
mother  of  four  sons  and  four  daughters,  of  whom 
all  but  one  are  living. 

The  next  to  the  oldest  of  the  sons  in  the  family 
is  the  .subject  of  our  sketch.  He  was  a  pupil  in 
the  grammar  and  high  schools,  but  at  the  age  of 
fourteen  his  studies  ceased  and  he  began  in  the 
world  for  himself.  He  was  apprenticed  to  Arm- 
strong &  Blacklin,  plumbers,  of  Brooklyn,  with 
whom  he  remained  altogether  twelve  years.  In 
the  fall  of  188 1  he  came  to  Denver,  where  he 
secured  employment  at  his  trade,  but  after  four 
years  in  the  employ  of  others  he  determined  to 
embark  in  business  for  himself.  Forming  a  part- 
nership with  another  plumber,  under  the  firm 
name  of  Reynolds  &  McKelvey,  he  opened  a 
shop  at  No.  1831  Arapahoe  street.  A  year  later 
Mr.  Reynolds  died  aud  Mr.  McKelvey  continued 
the  business  alone.  In  1895  he  removed  to  his 
present  quarters,  and  took  Mr.  Moncrieff  into 
partnership.     He  has  had  a  number  of  important 


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contracts  for  plumbing,  among  them  the  Y.  M. 
C.  A.  Building,  Leonard,  Montgomery  and  Hart- 
wig  blocks  and  numerous  residences  and  terraces. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Master  Plumbers'  Associ- 
ation and  takes  a  warm  interest  in  everything 
connected  with  his  occupation.  Politically  he 
believes  in  the  policy  adopted  by  the  Republican 
party. 


~UGENE  C.  DAWSON  came  to  Denver  in 
^  1890  for  the  purpose  of  developing  a  mechan- 
^  ical  patent  applied  to  electric  lights  for  ad- 
justing the  height,  and  this  patent  he  manufact- 
ured until  the  contract  was  taken,  on  royalty,  by 
Flint  &  Lomax,  of  this  city.  For  a  time  he  was 
in  partnership  with  the  American  Motor  &  Dyna- 
mo Company  in  the  manufacture  of  motors  and 
dynamos,  and  since  the  firm  went  out  of  business 
he  has  been  engaged  as  an  electrical  engineer,  at 
No.  1407  Lawrence  street.  He  is  a  man  of  invent- 
ive genius  and  while  in  the  jewelry  business  he 
invented  a  vertical  stem  winder,  now  in  use  by 
the  Elgin  Watch  Company.  In  his  shop  he  makes 
and  repairs  electrical  instruments,  repairs  bi- 
cycles, manufactures  Vim  saddles  and  rewinds 
dynamos  and  motors. 

The  Dawson  family  came  from  England  and 
settled  at  Cambridge,  Md. ,  its  first  representative 
being  William,  our  subject's  great-grandfather, 
who  for  some  time  lived  at  a  place  called  Dawson's 
Hazard,  an  old  Quaker  settlement.  The  father 
of  our  subject,  Thomas,  son  of  Greenbury  Daw- 
son, was  born  in  Kent  County,  Del.,  and  removed 
from  there  to  Templeville,  Queen  Anne's  County, 
Md.  (where  our  subject  was  born);  later  he  re- 
turned, however,  to  Kent  County  and  there  died, 
from  the  effects  of  sunstroke,  at  the  age  of  thirty- 
eight.  His  wife,  Hester,  daughter  of  Daniel 
Greene,  was  born  in  Kent  County  and  died  there 
in  1864.  Her  father,  who  was  a  farmer  in  Kent 
County,  was  a  son-in-law  of  John  Simmons,  a 
soldier  of  the  Revolution.  Thomas  Dawson  and 
his  wife  were  the  parents  of  five  children,  of 
whom  a  son  and  daughter  are  now  living.  Our 
subject,  who  was  the  fourth  in  order  of  birth,  was 
reared  in  Kent  County,  and  at  the  age  of  eighteen 
began  an  apprenticeship  of  three  years  to  the 
jewelers'  trade  in  the  city  of  Philadelphia.  From 
there  he  went  to  Wilmington,  Del.,  where  he 
worked  at  his  trade  for  eight  years,  being  in  busi- 


ness for  himself  during  five  j'ears  of  that  time. 
While  there  he  began  the  study  of  electricit}'. 

Coming  to  Colorado  in  1885,  Mr.  Dawson 
spent  five  years  in  Greeley,  where  he  engaged  in 
the  jewelry  business  and  at  the  same  time  per- 
fected his  invention  of  the  Dawson  light.  Politi- 
cally he  is  a  Republican.  He  is  a  member  of  In- 
dustry Lodge,  A.  O.  U.  W.,  in  Wilmington, 
Del.;  also  formerly  held  membership  in  Eden 
Lodge  No.  34,  I.  O.  O.  F. ,  and  the  Knights  of 
the  Golden  Eagle.  He  is  connected  with  Lodge 
No.  65,  K.  of  P.,  in  Denver,  is  past  chancellor  of 
Greeley  Lodge  No.  31,  K.  of  P.,  and  represented 
his  lodge  as  its  delegate  in  the  grand  lodge.  In 
Masonry  he  belongs  to  Temple  Lodge  of  Wil- 
mington, in  which  he  was  an  officer;  is  a  demit- 
ted  member  of  Wilmington  Chapter  of  the  Royal 
Arch  Degree,  and  belongs  to  St.  John's  Command- 
ery  No.  i,  and  Consistory  No.  13,  of  Wilmington. 


.  DWARD  MATTHEWS  came  to  Denver  in 
^  1888  and  has  since  engaged  in  business  as 
^  a  carriage  and  wagon  manufacturer,  being 
the  proprietor  of  a  shop,  36x100  feet  in  dimen- 
sions, and  extending  from  No.  5 1 1  West  Colfax 
to  Nos.  1220-22  Glenarm  streets.  The  building 
is  composed  of  two  stories  and  a  basement,  the 
latter  being  utilized  for  storage  of  materials  for 
manufacture  and  repair.  On  the  first  floor  are 
the  blacksmith  shop  and  carriage  repository, 
while  the  second  floor  has  the  woodshop  and 
paint  and  varnishing  room.  Usually  about  one 
hundred  wagons,  heavy  and  light,  are  manu- 
factured per  annum. 

The  Matthews  family  was  identified  with  the 
earlj'  history  of  Virginia.  Caleb,  son  of  Tedie 
Matthews  and  father  of  our  subject,  was  born  in 
Mississippi  County,  Mo.,  where  he  was  reared 
on  a  farm.  At  the  age  of  twenty-one  he  enlisted 
for  service  in  the  Mexican  war.  At  the  time  of 
the  Civil  war  he  was  engaged  in  farming,  but 
was  lured  from  home  and  murdered  by  guerrillas 
in  1863.  His  wife,  who  bore  the  maiden  name 
of  Labemma  Slaton,  was  born  in  Missouri,  where 
her  father,  Thomas,  was  a  farmer  for  many  years; 
later,  however,  he  was  a  distiller  in  Middle  Tenn- 
essee. After  the  death  of  Caleb  Matthews,  his 
widow  became  the  wife  of  John  Naron  and  in 
1866  removed  to  Clay  County,  Mo.,  settling  near 
Liberty,  but  after  a  time  went  to  Iron  Mountain 


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in  Iron  County,  Mo.,  and  from  there  to  Crystal 
City,  in  the  same  state,  where  Mrs.  Naron  died. 
Afterward  Mr.  Naron  went  to  Farmington,  St. 
Francois  County,  Mo.,  where  his  death  occurred. 
He  and  his  wife  were  the  parents  of  six  children. 

The  only  child  of  his  mother's  first  marriage, 
Edward  Matthews  was  born  near  Charleston, 
Mississippi  County,  Mo.  At  the  age  of  twelve 
he  began  to  work  for  farmers  and  was  thus  em- 
ployed for  six  years.  He  became  an  apprentice 
to  A.  L.  Edson  in  St.  Louis,  with  whom  he  re- 
mained four  years,  meantime  learning  the  trade 
of  a  carriage  blacksmith.  On  the  expiration  of 
his  time  he  began  to  work  as  a  journeyman  in 
St.  Louis.  Going  to  Booneville,  Mo.,  in  1886,  he 
worked  at  his  trade  for  two  years,  and  then,  in 
1888,  came  to  Denver,  where  he  was  in  the  em- 
ploy of  others  for  eighteen  months,  and  afterward 
opened  a  shop  of  his  own.  He  is  a  man  of  con- 
siderable mechanical  genius  and  invented  and 
patented  the  Matthews  and  Brooks  fifth  wheel, 
which  has  been  placed  on  the  market.  Frater- 
nally he  is  connected  with  Denver  Lodge  No.  5, 
A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  Lodge  No.  92,  I.  O.  O.  F.,  the 
Woodmen  of  the  World  and  the  Junior  Order 
United  American  Mechanics,  being  treasurer  of 
the  Woodmen  organization. 

In  St.  Louis  Mr.  Matthews  married  Miss  Helen 
Porter,  who  was  born  in  Tell  City,  Perry  County, 
Ind. ,  but  removed  from  there  to  St.  Louis,  where 
her  father,  F.  A.  Porter,  was  connected  with  a 
printing  office.  The  two  children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Matthews  are  named  Roy  and  Jessie  Matthews. 


0AVID  D.  SEERIE.  The  finest  buildings  in 
Denver  have  been  erected  under  contract  by 
the  firm  of  Geddis  &  Seerie,  who  have  estab- 
lished a  reputation  second  to  no  firm  in  their  line. 
The  junior  partner,  to  whose  efficiency  and  talent 
not  a  little  of  the  success  is  due,  is  still  a  young 
man,  having  been  born  in  1862;  but  he  combines 
the  enterprise  of  youth  with  the  wise  judgment 
usually  found  onlj'  in  older  men.  In  1885  he 
began  in  business  with  his  present  partner,  estab- 
lishing the  company  that  has  since  built  up  an 
immense  trade  in  stone.  Their  most  important 
contract,  perhaps, was  that  for  the  building  of  the 
state  capitol,  which  was  awarded  to  them  after 
the  original  contractor  had  been  displaced  by  the 
state  board  of  capitol  commissioners.     The  result 


of  their  work  is  seen  in  the  magnificent  and  im- 
posing structure  that  is  said  by  all  visitors  to  be 
one  of  the  finest  capitols  in  the  entire  country. 
At  the  time  the  capitol  was  building,  the  firm 
also  had  the  contract  for  the  completion  of  the 
Brown-Palace  Hotel,  a  beautiful  building  con- 
structed of  Arizona  brown  stone,  and  by  compe- 
tent judges  declared  to  be  without  a  peer  from 
Chicago  to  San  Francisco,  both  as  to  the  luxuri- 
ousness  of  its  appointments  and  the  harmony  of 
interior  effiects. 

Scotch  by  birth  and  by  a  long  line  of  ancestry, 
Mr.  Seerie  was  born  in  Vale-Strathmore,  Forfar- 
shire, March  1 1 ,  1862,  and  received  a  good  educa- 
tion in  the  schools  near  his  home.  Under  the 
training  of  an  uncle  he  learned  the  trade  of  a 
stone-cutter  and  the  more  difficult  calculations  of 
cubical  sections,  etc.  In  1880  he  crossed  the 
Atlantic  and  from  New  York  came  direct  to  Den- 
ver, where  he  secured  work  with  Hayes  &  Cain, 
contractors.  He  continued  in  their  employ  until 
the  Geddis  &  Seerie  Stone  Company  was  formed. 
Among  the  contracts  he  has  had  may  be  men- 
tioned those  for  the  railroad  building  on  Larimer 
street,  the  People's  National  Bank,  Grace  and 
Trinity  Methodist  Episcopal  Churches,  the  latter 
being  one  of  the  finest  churches  owned  by  the 
denomination  in  the  United  States;  many  of  the 
elegant  stone  residences  on  the  hill:  Wyoming 
University,  Laramie  City,  and  the  high  school  at 
Rawlins. 

A  list  of  the  buildings  for  which  the  firm  has 
been  given  contracts  is  sufficient  to  show  the  high 
position  they  occupy  in  business  circles  and  the 
confidence  which  people  place  in  their  ability  and 
integrity.  Their  work  is  built  to  stand  the  wear 
and  tear  of  years.  It  is  not  of  a  temporary 
nature,  but  permanent,  and  will  be  seen  here, 
strong  and  substantial,  for  generations  yet  to 
come,  proving  a  more  lasting  monument  to  their 
faithful  performance  of  pledges  than  the  majority 
of  people  will  be  granted. 

Mr.  Seerie  was  married  December  8,  1887,  i° 
Denver,  to  Miss  Maggie  A.  Price,  daughter  of 
David  H.  and  Elizabeth  (Tudar)  Price,  natives 
of  Wales  and  descendants  of  ancient  families,  as 
the  Tudar  name  indicates. 

Politically  Mr.  Seerie  is  a  Democrat  and  has 
taken  a  keen  interest  in  local  and  national  affairs. 
In  June,  1897,  ^^  was  appointed  by  Gov.  Alva 
Adams  to  the  office  of  member  of  the  board  of 


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public  works.  He  is  a  member  of  all  the  Masonic 
bodies  except  the  Thirty-third.  He  joiued  the 
commaudery  in  1890  and  the  following  year 
joined  the  Shriners. 


0ILVIN  LOUSTANO,  a  retired  cattleman  re- 
?\  siding  in  Denver,  has  been  identified  with  the 
0/  history  of  Colorado  since  the  spring  of  1861, 
and  has  therefore  been  a  witness  of  the  growth 
and  development  of  the  state,  to  which  his  per- 
sonal efforts  contributed  not  a  little.  Seven  times 
he  made  the  long  and  perilous  journey  between 
Leavenworth  and  the  Rockies,  his  first  trip  being 
made  by  mule  to  Topeka,  then  to  Fort  Dodge 
and  Pueblo  and  up  the  Arkansas  to  Terry  Hall. 
Subsequent  trips  were  made  via  the  Platte  River 
with  mule  and  cattle  trains.  The  most  important 
of  these  trips  was  in  1862,  when  he  and  a  comrade 
brought  a  wagon  and  six  yoke  of  oxen  and  a  herd 
of  sixty-three  cattle  with  them  to  Colorado,  mak- 
ing the  journey  in  forty -eight  days. 

Of  his  immediate  family  Mr.  Loustano  is  the 
sole  representative  in  America.  He  was  born  in 
the  department  of  Bospernia,  near  Pau,  France, 
where  also  occurred  the  birth  of  his  parents, 
Joseph  and  Julia  (Daje)  Loustano.  His  father 
was  a  merchant  and  his  maternal  grandfather, 
John  Peter  Daje,  a  farmer  there.  Mr.  Loustano 
was  one  of  seven  children.  At  the  age  of  seven- 
teen, in  1853,  he  left  Bordeaux  on  an  English 
sailing  vessel  and  after  a  voyage  of  sixty-three 
days  arrived  in  New  Orleans.  He  spent  five 
years  in  the  south  and  in  1858  located  in  Leaven- 
worth, Kan.  Three  years  later  he  came  to  South 
Park,  Colo.,  where  he  followed  freighting,  and 
also  engaged  in  mining  and  prospecting. 

About  1866  he  began  in  the  cattle  business, 
locating  a  ranch  fifteen  miles  east  of  Denver,  in 
Arapahoe  County,  on  Cold  Creek,  but  later  re- 
moving farther  east  to  Beaver  Creek  in  the  same 
county.  He  purchased  cattle  from  the  ranges 
south  and  became  a  large  dealer,  continuing  suc- 
cessfully in  the  business  until  1888,  when  he  was 
obliged  by  ill  health  to  discontinue.  He  then 
came  to  Denver,  where  he  now  resides.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Colorado  Cattle  Growers'  Associa- 
tion and  at  one  time  was  a  director  in  it.  He  is 
also  a  member  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce.  He 
was  married  in  Denver  to  Mrs.  Celestine  A. 
(Riche)  Cotton,  who  was  born  in  France.     They 


became  the  parents  of  two  sons:  Andrew  J. ,  who 
died  April  2,  1898,  and  Silvin  Riche,  who  resides 
in  Denver.  Dr.  Loustano  was  educated  at  the 
Longfellow  school  and  the  Denver  high  school; 
he  also  attended  the  University  gf  Colorado, 
graduating  in  the  medical  department  May  29, 
1895;  he  was  selected  house  physician  at  St. 
Luke's  Hospital  for  one  year,  after  which  he 
located  at  No.  15 17  Stout  street.  He  was  one  of 
the  most  promising  young  physicians  of  his  class 
and  was  honored  and  esteemed  by  all  who  knew 
him  for  his  many  sterling  qualities  of  head  and 
heart.  After  leaving  the  hospital  he  was  assistant 
to  Dr.  W.  B.  Craig,  of  Denver,  until  his  health 
failed.  He  gave  great  promise  of  excelling  in 
his  chosen  profession,  in  which  he  had  a  high 
and  noble  aspiration. 


pQ  INFIELD  S.  GARDNER.  The  machine 
\  A  /  shop  of  which  Mr.  Gardner  is'  the  pro- 
YY  prietor  is  situated  at  No.  1434  Blake 
street,  Denver,  and  is  operated  by  steam  power. 
While  he  has  been  in  this  place  for  comparatively 
a  short  period  (having  come  here  in  May,  1897,) 
he  has  alreadj-  built  up  a  fair  business  in  general 
job  work  and  has  become  known  as  an  expert 
machinist  and  manufacturer. 

During  the  Revolution  a  member  of  the  Gard- 
ner family  came  from  Scotland  to  America  as  a 
soldier  in  the  British  army.  After  the  war  closed 
he  settled  in  Virginia,  but  later  removed  to  Ohio. 
His  son,  John,  who  was  born  in  the  Old  Do- 
minion, accompanied  the  family  to  Muskingum 
County,  Ohio,  and  later  settled  in  Morrow 
County,  the  same  state,  where  he  engaged  in 
farming.  He  had  a  son,  Washington,  who  is  a 
native  of  Morrow  County  and  still  resides  there, 
having  engaged  in  farming,  milling  and  lumber- 
ing. During  the  war  he  was  a  soldier  in  the 
Twenty-sixth  Ohio  Infantry,  and  he  is  now  a 
Grand  Army  man.  He  married  Mary  Wise- 
man, who  was  born  and  reared  on  a  farm  on 
Sandusky  Plains. 

Of  the  four  living  children  of  Washington 
Gardner,  Winfield  S.  is  the  oldest.  He  was  born 
near  Mount  Gilead,  Morrow  County,  Ohio,  No- 
vember 2,  1 85 1,  and  in  boyhood  attended  the 
Westfield  public  school.  He  had  a  love  for  ma- 
chinery and  many  of  his  leisure  hours  in  boyhood 
were  spent  around  the  sawmill,  which  he  soon 


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learned  to  run.  At  the  age  of  seventeen  he  was 
apprenticed  to  John  Cooper  &  Co.,  of  Mount 
Vernon,  with  whom  he  remained  for  four  years, 
learning  the  machinist's  trade.  Afterward  he  did 
journeyman  work  in  different  places,  but  soon  re- 
turned to  the  employ  of  Cooper  &  Co.  While 
there  he  married  Miss  Mary  Click,  who  was  born 
in  Morrow  County. 

For  a  time  Mr.  Gardner  worked  in  Dennison, 
Tuscarawas  County,  Ohio,  and  later  was  with 
Warder,  Bushnell  &  Glessner  in  Springfield,  the 
same  state.  After  holding  the  position  of  tool- 
maker  with  the  latter  firm  for  ten  years  he  went 
to  Delaware,  Ohio,  where  he  carried  on  a  machine 
shop  for  two  years,  but  then  sold  and  returned  to 
Springfield.  In  a  short  time  he  went  west  to 
Nevada  and  took  charge  of  the  machinery  in  a 
mining  camp  at  Austin.  Later  he  was  with  the 
Central  Pacific  Railroad  Company  in  their  shops 
at  Sacramento,  and  then  was  with  the  Union  Iron 
Works  in  San  Francisco.  His  first  connection 
with  Denver  was  in  1887,  when  he  came  here  to 
work  at  his  trade,  but  after  several  years  he  went 
to  Butte  City,  Mont. ,  where  he  was  employed  by 
the  Western  Iron  Works  Company  and  the  Ana- 
conda Mining  Company.  Next  he  spent  a  short 
time  in  Denver,  but  soon  went  to  Arizona  to  take 
charge  of  the  works  of  William  Church  of  Den- 
ver, at  Morenci.  Eighteen  months  were  spent 
there,  since  which  time  he  has  been  in  Denver. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Machinists  and  Engineers' 
Union  and  fraternally  is  identified  with  the  Im- 
proved Order  of  Red  Men,  having  served  as  past 
sachem  of  his  tribe  in  Ohio.  He  and  his  wife  are 
the  parents  of  an  only  son,  John,  a  member  of  the 
high  school  class  of  1898,  graduating  June  10. 


HENRY  CHARPIOT,  who  is  engaged  in 
bu.siness  as  a  costumer  at  No.  15 16  Law- 
rence Street,  Denver,  was  born  in  Bort,  de- 
partment of  Doubs,  France,  and  is  a  son  of 
Pierre  Charpiot.  Reference  to  the  family  history 
is  made  in  the  sketch  of  Henry  C.  Charpiot,  else- 
where in  this  volume.  He  was  reared  in  Lyons 
and  Strasburg,  and  attended  a  boarding  school  in 
the  latter  town.  In  1854  he  accompanied  his 
father  to  America  and  settled  in  Baltimore,  but 
after  a  short  time  went  to  Chicago,  and  later 
worked  on  his  father's  farm  near  Davenport, 
Iowa.     From  there  he  proceeded  to  St.  Louis  and 


entered  the  quartermaster's  department  of  the 
United  States'  government,  serving  under  General 
Clarey  the  most  of  the  time  until  1864. 

During  that  year  Mr.  Charpiot  came  west  to 
Virginia  City,  Mont.,  and  after  a  short  time  went 
to  Memphis,  Tenn.,  where  he  worked  in  the 
quartermaster's  department  until  the  close  of  the 
war.  Next  he  came  to  Denver  and  carried  on  a 
liquor  business,  but  soon  went  to  Fort  Casper, 
Nev. ,  as  a  sutler,  and  on  his  return  to  Colorado 
secured  employment  in  a  restaurant  at  Central 
City,  remaining  there  for  eighteen  months. 
Thence  he  came  to  Denver,  later  moved  to  Chey- 
enne, where  he  remained  for  two  years,  and  then 
worked  in  Promontory,  Utah,  for  a  short  time, 
being  there  at  the  time  the  last  spike  was  driven 
in  the  railroad  track  connecting  the  Atlantic  with 
the  Pacific.  After  a  short  time  in  Atlantic  City, 
Omaha  and  Kansas  City,  he  went  to  San  Fran- 
cisco, Cal.,  and  from  there  to  Santa  Rosa,  finally 
returning  to  Denver,  where  he  was  employed  by 
his  brother.  As  an  assistant  to  his  sister,  Mrs. 
Underbill,  he  started  in  his  present  business,  of 
which  he  has  been  the  proprietor  since  1889  and 
which  is  the  largest  business  of  its  kind  in  the 
city.  His  trade  is  not  limited  to  Denver,  but  ex- 
tends throughout  Colorado,  Wyoming,  New 
Mexico,  Utah  and  Dakota.  He  was  married  in 
St.  Joseph,  Mo.,  to  Miss  Mary  Coffey,  who  was 
born  in  Maryland. 


EHARLES  BYRON  NICHOLS,  M.  D.,  pro- 
fessor of  clinical  midwifery  in  Gro.ss  Medical 
College,  Denver,  and  formerly  for  years  an 
officer  in  the  United  States  navy,  was  born  in 
Enfield,  N.  H.,  of  Efiglish  descent.  The  family 
was  represented  among  the  earliest  settlers  of  the 
Massachusetts  colony  and  subsequent  generations 
resided  in  that  state.  Stephen  Nichols,  who  was 
born  near  Boston,  removed  to  Unitj-,  Sullivan 
County,  N.  H.,  where  he  was  extensively  en- 
gaged in  the  stock  business.  He  was  a  deacon 
in  the  Friends'  Church  and  died  in  the  Quaker 
faith  when  eighty-seven  years  of  age. 

Humphrey,  son  of  Stephen,  was  born  in  Unity, 
N.  H.,  and  was  a  pioneer  gold  and  silver  smith, 
establishing  the  first  factory  in  the  country  at 
Claremont,  N.  H.,  for  the  manufacture  of  silver 
spoons  by  the  die  process,  his  own  invention.  In 
1850,  impelled  by  rumors  of  the  great  gold  mines 


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in  California,  he  went  to  the  Pacific  coast,  via 
Panama.  On  the  way  his  three  companions, 
Messrs.  Clough,  Johnson  and  Currier,  were 
seized  with  a  fever  prevalent  in  Panama;  he 
nursed  them  until  they  died  and  afterward 
buried  their  remains,  then  continued  his  jour- 
ney alone.  On  reaching  San  Francisco  he 
entered  the  United  States  mint  as  a  govern- 
ment official.  While  in  that  city  he  became  a 
sergeant  of  the  vigilance  committee  and  executed 
some  of  the  most  desperate  criminals  of  that 
state. 

Having  spent  two  years  in  the  far  west,  Mr, 
Nichols  returned  to  Boston  via  the  isthmus,  and 
began  the  manufacture  of  rolled  silver  and  the 
various  kinds  of  silver  work.  Four  years  later 
ill  health  obliged  him  to  retire  from  business. 
He  was  an  invalid  for  three  years,  when  he  died, 
at  the  age  of  forty-one.  His  wife,  who  was  Ma- 
tilda Jones,  a  native  of  Enfield,  N.  H.,  and  de- 
ceasedin  1893,  was  a  daughter  of  Capt.  John  Jones, 
who  was  born  in  Massachusetts,  and  prior  to  the 
Revolution  rode  from  there  to  New  Hampshire. 
The  house  that  he  built  in  Enfield  is  still  stand- 
ing, a  relic  of  days  gone  by,  and  there  may  also 
be  seen,  near  the  house,  a  large  willow  tree, 
twenty-two  feet  in  circumference,  that  he  plant- 
ed when  a  little  switch.  He  enlisted  in  the  Revo- 
lution and  was  captain  of  a  company  that  served 
during  the  war.  His  father  was  also  a  soldier  in 
the  colonial  army.  The  family  was  related  to 
John  Paul  Jones,  who  was  captain  of  a  brig  dur- 
ing the  Revolution. 

At  the  time  of  his  father's  death.  Dr.  Nichols 
was  eleven  years  of  age.  Afterward  he  attended 
the  Enfield  high  school  and  Kimball  Union  Col- 
lege at  Meriden,  N.  H.  When  sixteen  years  of 
age,  in  1864,  he  passed  an  examination  in  New 
York  City  and  was  admitted  to  the  engineering 
department  of  the  United  States  navj',  being  ap- 
pointed assistant  engineer.  He  was  of  a  more 
youthful  age  than  most  of  his  fellow-lieutenants, 
but  was  large  and  powerful  in  physique,  with  the 
appearance  of  one  much  older  than  he  actually 
was.  During  the  battle  at  Fort  Fisher  he  was 
wounded  by  a  shell  in  the  left  temple  and  was  re- 
ported dead,  but  fortunately  the  wound  was  less 
serious  than  first  supposed.  He  was  given  leave 
of  absence  until  September,  1865,  when  he  was 
ordered  upon  the  United  States  steamer  "Shen- 
andoah,"  which    made    a    three    years'    cruise 


around  the  world.  He  was  at  Rio  Janeiro  at 
the  time  of  the  birth  of  the  emperor's  (Don  Pe- 
dro) granddaughter  and  took  part  in  the  impos- 
ing celebrations  in  honor  thereof  He  was  at 
Cape  Town  at  the  time  the  Duke  of  Edinburgh 
was  there,  then  sailed  to  the  Isle  of  France,  Ara- 
bia and  India.  While  in  India  the  officers  were 
entertained  by  the  governor-general  and  other 
high  officials,  and  given  trips  inland,  also  visit- 
ing the  Himalaya  Mountains.  While  in  Calcutta 
he  was  seized  with  the  cholera.  The  day  he  fell 
ill  seven  of  his  comrades  died  of  the  same  disease, 
and  all  that  saved  his  life  was  the  fact  that  the 
ship  went  out  to  sea  that  day. 

With  the  commodore  and  eleven  other  officers. 
Dr.  Nichols  went  to  Bangkok,  Siam,  as  the  guest 
of  the  king,  and  remained  there  for  two  weeks, 
during  which  time  he  saw  the  present  king,  then 
a  little  boy,  and  had  the  honor  of  trotting  him  on 
his  knee.  While  at  Saigon  there  was  a  mutiny 
on  board  ship,  but  it  was  finally  quelled.  He 
then  went  to  Hong  Kong,  China,  and  afterward 
spent  four  months  in  Yokahoma,  Japan,  mean- 
time exploring  the  whole  island.  In  Japan  he 
was  made  a  Mason,  joining  Yokahoma  Lodge 
No.  1092,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.  Afterward  the  ship 
coasted  around  the  island,  during  which  time  he 
visited  the  Albino  colony  some  miles  inland,  also 
the  "missing  link"  fifty  miles  from  the  shore, 
and  the  famous  rock  at  Nagasaki.  On  return- 
ing to  Yokahoma  the  ship  took  part  in  the  open- 
ing of  the  port  of  Osacka,  and  for  one  week  the 
officers  were  guests  of  the  emperor  of  Japan. 
During  that  time  Admiral  Bell  and  eleven  men 
perished  in  a  storm,  and  theirs  were  the  first  fu- 
nerals of  any  foreigners  at  the  port. 

From  Shanghai,  China,  the  ship  sailed  to  the 
coast  of  Corea,  in  search  of  a  captain  and  his  wife 
who  had  been  wrecked  and  afterward  murdered 
by  the  natives.  When  two  miles  up  the  river  the 
natives  began  to  fire  upon  the  vessel,  and  the 
order  was  given  to  retreat,  fearing  that  otherwise 
international  trouble  might  be  brought  on.  Va- 
rious Chinese  ports  were  visited,  then  the  ship 
sailed  to  Java  and  from  there  to  Cape  Town. 
Within  four  hundred  miles  of  Cape  Agullus  a 
fearful  storm  arose  and  for  three  days  the  ship 
lay  helplessly  in  the  wake  of  the  wind.  When 
the  sea  subsided  they  went  on  to  Cape  Town,  and 
from  there  to  St.  Helena,  and  the  doctor  has  some 
souvenirs  he  gathered  there.  While  at  Cape  Town 


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the  officers  ot  the  ship  were  entertained  by  the 
Duke  of  Edinburgh,  attached  to  H.  M.  S.  "Gala- 
tea, ' '  the  Duke  also  presenting  Dr.  Nichols  with 
his  photograph.  On  returning  to  Boston  he  was 
honorably  discharged,  in  1869. 

While  upon  the  high  seas  he  had  studied  medi- 
cine under  the  preceptorship  of  the  ship  surgeon, 
and  he  now  entered  the  medical  department  of 
Dartmouth  College,  from  which  he  graduated  in 
1871  with  the  degree  of  M.  D.  He  began  pro- 
fessional practice  in  Franklin,  N.  H.,  but  after 
three  years  went  to  Boston,  where  he  made  a 
specialty  of  surgery.  His  wife's  health  failing, 
after  three  years  in  Boston  he  went  back  to 
Franklin,  N.  H.,  and  spent  eight  years  there. 
In  1888  he  settled  in  Sacramento,  Cal.,  where  he 
practiced  his  profession.  From  there,  in  March, 
1896,  he  came  to  Denver,  where  he  made  a  spe- 
cialty of  surgery.  In  1896  he  was  lecturer  on 
clinical  midwifery  in  Gross  Medical  College,  and 
the  following  year  was  made  professor  of  the 
same.  He  has  his  office  in  the  Denison  build- 
ing. 

In  Hanover,  N.  H.,  Dr.  Nichols  married  a 
daughter  of  John  Mattocks,  late  of  Chicago,  and 
a  descendant  of  Gov.  John  Mattocks,  of  Vermont. 
She  died  in  Franklin,  leaving  a  son,  William 
Mattocks,  who  is  now  engaged  in  business  in 
New  York  City.  After  the  doctor  arrived  in 
Denver  he  was  married  to  Miss  Linnie,  daughter 
of  the  late  John  Shy,  of  Byers,  Colo.  Like  his 
father  and  grandfather.  Dr.  Nichols  is  a  Demo- 
crat. He  is  identified  with  the  New  Hampshire, 
Colorado  State,  and  Denver  and  Arapahoe  Coun- 
ty Medical  Societies.  Fraternally  he  is  high  in 
the  ranks  of  the  Masons.  He  is  connected  with 
the  lodge  and  chapter  at  Franklin,  thecommand- 
ery  at  Concord,  consistory  at  Nashua,  and  mem- 
ber of  El  Jebel  Temple,  Mystic  Shrine,  of  Den- 
ver. He  is  past  supreme  representative  of  the 
Knights  of  Pythias  and  is  brigadier-general  of 
the  Uniform  Rank.  While  in  Franklin  he  was 
commander  of  the  Grand  Army  post  there  and  an 
aide  on  the  department  staflf. 


r"RANK  E.  MULVIHILL.  The  Carr  House, 
1^  Stables  and  Corral,  of  which  Mr.  Mulvihill 
I  '  is  one  of  the  proprietors,  are  located  on  the 
corner  of  Fifteenth  and  Wynkoop  streets,  Denver. 
The  corral,  which  was  one  of  the  first  started  in 


the  city,  was  known  originally  as  the  Monmouth 
corral,  and  has  always  been  run  in  connection 
with  the  Carr  House.  The  present  proprietors 
have  maintained  the  business  in  the  excellent 
condition  in  which  it  was  left  by  their  father. 
They  deal  extensively  in  high-grade  draft,  work 
and  carriage  horses,  which  they  buy  in  the  east  for 
shipment  to  Denver. 

Comparatively  few  of  the  men  now  engaged  in 
business  in  Denver  were  born  in  Colorado,  but 
this  distinction  belongs  to  the  Mulvihill  brothers, 
who  were  born  in  Longmont,  Colo.  The  father, 
John,  a  native  of  Canada,  born  near  Quebec,  in 
1839,  accompanied  his  parents  to  Malone,  N.  Y., 
in  boyhood,  and  after  their  death  he  went  to 
Oshkosh,  Wis.,  where  he  worked  in  the  lumber 
region.  In  1861  he  crossed  the  plains  with  oxen, 
bringing  groceries  to  Denver,  and  for  three  years 
afterward  he  continued  in  the  freighting  business 
with  ox  trains.  Meantime  he  preempted  a  claim 
near  Longmont,  where  he  engaged  in  the  .stock 
business  and  in  raising  hay  for  feed  and  sale, 
hauling  to  Gilpin  County  until  the  introduction 
of  the  railroad.  In  1866  he  bought  an  interest 
in  the  hotel,  livery  and  feed  business  with  S.  H. 
Carr,  in  Denver,  and  removed  to  thiscity  in  1875, 
retaining  his  farm,  however.  In  the  meanwhile 
Mr.  Peck  had  bought  Mr.  Carr's  interest,  and  on 
coming  to  Denver  Mr.  Mulvihill  bought  out  Mr. 
Peck,  continuing  the  business  alone.  He  died 
in  Denver  in  January,  1890,  aged  fifty-four.  His 
wife,  Cynthia  A.  (Clough)  Mulvihill,  was  born 
near  Marietta,  Ohio,  and  died  in  Denver  in  1888. 
In  1861  she  crossed  the  plains  with  an  ox-team, 
settling  in  Jefferson  County,  where  her  father, 
Hiram  Clough,  became  keeper  of  the  toll  gate 
and  inn  at  Golden,  Colo.  Of  her  four  children 
three  are  living.,  Frank  E. ,  Arthur  H.  and 
Walter  J.,  all  of  Denver. 

The  primary  education  of  our  subject  was  ob- 
tained in  the  Denver  public  schools,  and  later  he 
was  a  student  in  the  California  State  Normal 
School,  in  San  Jose,  from  which  he  graduated  in 
1887.  On  his  return  to  Denver  he  entered 
business  with  his  father,  and  on  the  latter's  death 
continued  the  business  at  the  hotel  and  stables. 
He  and  his  brothers  are  also  the  owners  of  the 
old  homestead  ranch  of  one  hundred  and  sixty 
acres  in  Longmont.  Politically  he  favors  Demo- 
cratic principles,  but  is  not  active  in  politics.  In 
fraternal   relations  he   is   a    member   of  Denver 


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Lodge  No.  5,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.  He  has  one  child, 
Lela,  born  to  his  union  with  Miss  Ella  Wilbur, 
a  native  of  Wisconsin,  and  daughter  of  Thomas 
Wilbur,  who  resided  in  Denver  for  some  years 
before  his  death. 


(John  M.  SIMPSON.  One  of  the  well-known 
I  business  concerns  of  Denver  is  the  Colorado 
Q)  Planing  Mill  Company,  manufacturers  of 
sash,  doors,  stairs,  mantels,  buffets,  bookcases, 
bank,  store  and  oSice  fixtures,  and  other  house 
and  office  finishing  articles  of  a  similar  nature. 
The  mill  stands  at  Tenth  and  Water  streets  and 
is  operated  by  steam  power.  The  company  is 
composed  of  four  members,  James  and  Alexander 
Silver,  William  W.  Ewen  and  John  M.  Simpson, 
the  last-named  being  superintendent  of  the  mill 
and  the  principal  factor  in  securing  its  present 
success.  A  man  of  energy  and  indomitable  will, 
he  pushes  forward  to  a  successful  consummation 
every  measure  in  which  he  is  interested. 

Born  in  Chatham,  N.  B.,  Canada,  the  subject 
of  this  sketch  is  a  son  of  John  and  Abigail  Mary 
(Dickson)  Simpson,  natives  respectively  of  Scot- 
land and  New  Brunswick.  He  is  next  to  the 
youngest  of  four  children,  the  eldest  of  whom, 
William,  is  represented  on  another  page,  and  in 
his  sketch  will  be  found  the  family  history.  John 
M.  received  a  public-school  education,  and  at 
the  age  of  sixteen  was  apprenticed  to  the  carriage- 
maker's  trade,  at  which  he  served  for  four  years. 
Afterward  he  worked  as  a  journeyman  until 
1879,  when  he  left  his  native  place  and  came  to 
Denver,  securing  employment  here  at  the  car- 
penter's trade.  He  also  worked  at  Leadville, 
Blackhawk  and  Buena  Vista.  In  1883  he  entered 
the  employ  of  the  Hallack  Lumber  Company, 
with  which  he  remained  until  1889,  as  a  carpen- 
ter. He  remained  with  the  concern  under  its 
new  title  of  Hallack  -  Sayre  -  Newton  Lumber 
Company,  and  was  foreman  of  the  mill  for  five 
years. 

Finally  resigning  his  connections  with  the 
company  he  started  in  business  for  himself,  and 
for  six  months  ran  a  planing  mill  on  Seventh  and 
Platte  streets.  He  then  formed  the  Colorado 
Planing  Mill  Company,  associated  with  the  gen- 
tleman already  named.  His  attention  is  given 
closely  to  his  business.  He  has  little  time  for 
public  affairs,  but  manages,  nevertheless,  to  keep 


himself  posted  concerning  the  affairs  of  import- 
ance before  the  nation  to-day.  In  former  years 
he  advocated  Republican  principles,  but  the 
change  in  the  issues  before  the  people  caused  a 
change  in  his  afiiliations  and  he  is  now  a  Demo- 
crat. As  a  citizen  he  supports  all  measures  for 
the  benefit  of  Denver,  of  the  future  of  which  he 
has  a  most  hopeful  opinion,  believing  that  at  no 
distant  day,  under  favorable  circumstances,  it 
will  rank  with  the  greatest  of  our  cities  in  com- 
merce, finance  and  population.  He  was  married 
in  Colorado  Springs  to  Miss  Catherine  Flieger, 
who  was  born  in  Canada  and  is  a  daughter  of 
Archibald  Flieger,  for  years  the  owner  of  a  saw- 
mill there.  One  child  blesses  their  union,  a 
daughter,  Ethel  Jane.  Mr.  Simpson  keeps  in 
remembrance  his  Scotch  descent  and  takes  an 
active  interest  in  the  Caledonian  Club,  of  which 
he  is  a  member. 


EHARLES  C.  KRUSE  is  engaged  in  the 
carriage  and  wagon  manufacturing  and 
blacksmith  business  at  No.  1407  Wazee 
street,  Denver,  where  he  has  built  up  an  exten- 
sive and  profitable  business  in  his  special  line. 
He  is  of  direct  German  descent,  his  father,  John 
C,  having  been  born  and  reared  in  Oldenburg. 
The  latter,  when  a  youth,  learned  the  cabinet- 
maker's trade  and  afterward  engaged  in  work  as 
a  journeyman  in  different  localities,  but  after  his 
marriage  he  crossed  the  ocean  and  established  his 
home  in  the  United  States.  The  first  six  months 
he  spent  in  New  York  City,  after  which  he  was 
employed  at  Peoria,  111.,  for  two  years,  and  then 
settled  in  Springfield,  the  same  state,  where  he 
carried  on  business  as  cabinet-maker  and  under- 
taker. He  died  in  that  city  in  May,  1886,  aged 
seventy-two  years.  His  wife,  Charlotta  (Storm) 
Kruse,  was  born  in  Germany  and  died  in  Denver 
July  I,  1895,  aged  seventy- four  years.  They 
were  the  parents  of  six  children,  of  whom  four 
are  living,  all  in  Colorado,  the  other  son  being 
a  bookbinder  in  Denver. 

During  the  residence  of  his  parents  in  Spring- 
field, 111.,  our  subject  was  born,  March  15,  1857. 
He  attended  the  public  schools  of  that  city  and 
gained  a  fair  education.  At  the  age  of  fifteen  he 
became  an  apprentice  to  the  trade  of  a  carriage- 
maker  and  faithfully  served  for  three  years.  On 
the  expiration  of  his  time  he  began  to  work  in 


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Springfield,  but  one  year  later  went  to  Auburn, 
111.,  and  in  six  months  went  south,  visiting 
Memphis,  New  Orleans,  Mobile  and  other  points 
in  that  section  of  the  country.  On  his  return  to 
.Springfield  he  spent  a  year  in  that  city  and  its 
immediate  vicinity. 

The  year  1878  witnessed  the  arrival  of  Mr. 
Kruse  in  Denver,  where  he  has  since  made  his 
home.  In  work  at  his  trade  he  was  employed 
here  and  in  other  parts  of  this  state,  as  well  as  in 
Utah  and  elsewhere.  Beginning  independently 
for  himself,  he  opened  the  shop  of  which  he  has 
since  been  the  proprietor  and  founded  the  busi- 
ness that  has  grown  to  large  proportions.  From 
1893  to  1896  he  was  al.so  engaged  in  prospecting 
and  placer  mining  in  Boulder  County.  He  has 
been  president  of  the  Carriage  Makers'  Union 
and  is  now  treasurer  of  the  organization.  He  is 
also  treasurer  of  Washington  Camp  No.  15, 
P.  O.  S.  of  A.  Politically  he  is  a  stanch  advo- 
cate of  the  Democratic  party  and  a  double  stan- 
dard of  currency,  holding  the  belief  that  national 
prosperity  can  never  be  wholly  conserv'ed  until 
silver  is  raised  to  its  proper  position  as  a  medium 
of  exchange. 

Mr.  Kruse  was  "married  May  25,  1898,  in 
Springfield,  111.,  to  Miss  Dora  Grospitz,  a  native 
of  that  city. 


"T  LLIS  E.  GOODALE.  In  the  spring  of  1897 
^  Denver  had  a  multiplicity  of  tickets  in  the 
^  field.  In  the  fifth  ward  the  name  of  Mr. 
Goodale  had  been  placed  on  the  ticket  for  alder- 
man bj'  the  silver  Republicans  and  Democrats, 
and  in  the  election  that  followed  he  was  success- 
ful by  a  majority  of  more  than  two  hundred,  this 
being  the  largest  majority  ever  given  in  the  ward. 
The  circumstance  is  more  noteworthy  owing  to 
the  fact  that  he  was  the  only  man  elected  on  the 
two  tickets  who  was  not  also  the  candidate  on 
the  taxpayers'  ticket.  Since  becoming  a  member 
of  the  board  he  has  been  stanch  in  his  advocacy 
of  progressive  measures  and  firm  in  the  support 
of  plans  for  the  benefit  of  his  constituents  in  the 
fifth  ward. 

The  business  connections  of  Mr.  Goodale  are 
with  the  Colorado  Iron  Works  Company,  in 
which  he  is  the  timekeeper  and  a  stockholder. 
He  was  born  in  Barry,  Pike  County,  111.,  August 
4.  1853,  the  son  of  Jackson  and  Maria  (Stokes) 


Goodale,  natives  respectively  of  New  York  State 
and  Lebanon,  Ohio.  His  father,  who  came  to 
Illinois  in  young  manhood,  followed  the  black- 
.smith's  trade  there.  In  1849  he  started  to  Cali- 
fornia, crossing  the  plains  with  an  ox  team  and 
enduring  all  the  hardships  of  that  journey  in  the 
early  days.  While  on  the  way  the  party  was  at- 
tacked by  Indians  and  some  were  killed  and 
others  captured.  Only  a  few  reached  their  desti- 
nation in  safety,  and  Mr.  Goodale  was  one  of 
these.  He  followed  his  trade  for  a  time  in  New 
Mexico,  but  in  1852  returned  to  Illinois,  where 
he  continued  to  reside  until  his  death,  in  1894,  at 
the  age  of  seventy-four.  Twice  married,  he  had 
one  son  by  his  first  wife.  By  his  second  wife, 
who  died  in  1888,  he  had  seven  sons,  of  whom 
five  are  living,  Ellis  E.  being  third  in  order  of 
birth  and  the  only  one  of  the  sons  in  Colorado. 

When  fourteen  years  of  age  our  subject  began 
to  clerk  in  a  mercantile  store.  In  1880  he  came 
to  Colorado,  where  he  was  employed  as  salesman 
by  Welsh  &  Co.,  of  Boulder,  for  nine  mouths. 
When  the  firm  established  a  store  in  Denver  he 
came  here  with  them,  remaining  with  the  con- 
cern for  five  years  in  all,  being  in  charge  of  the 
silk  department.  He  then  went  to  Butte  City, 
Mont.,  where  he  was  interested  in  merchandising, 
but  in  less  thaUv  a  year  he  returned  to  Denver. 
In  1887  he  became  timekeeper  for  the  Colorado 
Iron  Works  Company,  and  still  holds  this  posi- 
tion. He  was  married  in  Denver  to  Miss  Carrie 
Feuersteiu,  who  was  born  in  this  city.  She  is  a 
daughter  of  Henry  Feuerstein,  a  business  man  of 
Aspen,  and  a  descendant  of  German  ancestry. 
Mr.  Goodale  is  connected  with  the  Ancient  Order 
of  United  Workmen  in  Barry,  111.,  and  the 
Fraternal  Union  of  Denver. 


~  DWIN  S.  KASSLER,  who  is  engaged  in  the 
^  loan  and  investment  business  at  No.  814 
_  Cooper  building,  Denver,  was  born  in  this 
city  in  1866.  His  father,  George  W.,  was  born 
in  New  York  state,  the  descendant  of  German 
ancestors  who  have  resided  in  America  for  two 
hundred  years  or  more.  At  the  age  of  thirteen 
he  left  home  and  began  to  earn  his  own  livelihood, 
at  first  clerking  in  a  grocery  at  Canajoharie,  the 
town  where  he  was  born.  From  there  he  went 
to  Cooperstown,  where  he  was  a  clerk  in  the 
postoffice  for  about  three  years.     From  there  he 


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went  to  Omaha,  where  he  worked  in  a  bank  for 
several  years.  In  i860  he  settled  in  Denver, 
where  he  engaged  in  the  book  and  stationery 
business.  About  1872  he  entered  the  First 
National  Bank  as  assistant  cashier  and  later  was 
made  cashier,  remaining  in  that  position  until 
1881,  when  he  retired.  At  Clinton,  N.  Y.,  May 
31,  1865,  he  was  united  in  marriage  with  Maria 
T.  Stebbins,  and  they  came  at  once  to  Denver, 
making  the  latter  part  of  the  trip  by  coach.  Po- 
litically he  was  a  Democrat  and  on  his  party  ticket 
was  elected  to  various  official  positions.  He  died 
July  20,  1890,  leaving  two  sons,  Edwin  S.  and 
Charles  M. ,  the  latter  a  clerk  in  the  First  National 
Bank  of  Denver. 

In  1886  Mr.  Kassler  graduated  from  the  Den- 
ver high  school.  Immediately  afterward  he  be- 
came a  clerk  in  the  First  National  Bank,  remain- 
ing in  that.. capacity  for  three  years,  when  he 
resigned  to  enter  his  present  business.  He  is  a 
mau  of  excellent  business  qualifications,  keen, 
shrewd  and  energetic,  and  has  already  gained 
unusual  success  for  one  of  his  age.  He  was  mar- 
ried in  Denver  to  Miss  Olivia  Denham  Cooper, 
daughter  of  the  well-known  ex-governor  and 
financier.  They  have  two  children,  Ruth  and 
Edwin  S. ,  Jr.  In  politics  Mr.  Kassler  gives  his 
support  to  the  Republican  party,  but  has  never 
identified  himself  closely  with  public  affairs.  He 
was  reared  in  the  faith  of  the  Episcopal  church 
and  inclines  toward  its  doctrines.  Since  1S86  he 
has  been  a  member  of  the  Denver  Athletic  Club. 


SEORGE  H.  ADAMS.  One  of  the  most  re- 
markable instances  of  the  adaptation  of  Col- 
orado to  the  cattle  industry  may  be  found  in 
the  business  career  of  Mr.  Adams,  who  is  prom- 
inent among  the  citizens  of  Denver.  Embarking 
in  business  as  a  stock-raiser  in  1869,  he  then 
bought  the  two  first  thoroughbred  Shorthorn 
bulls  ever  in  the  San  Luis  Valley.  He  has  been 
a  pioneer  in  the  introduction  of  Herefords,  to 
which  exclusively  his  ranch  has  been  stocked 
since  1878,  and  he  has  paid  as  much  as  $2200  for 
a  bull  and  as  high  as  $1500  for  a  two-year-old 
heifer  of  that  breed.  The  Adams  Hereford  ranch 
covers  more  than  four  townships  of  land,  embraces 
twelve  and  one-half  miles  and  in  extent  comprises 
one  hundred  thousand  acres,  watered  by  eleven 
streams  and  lakes,  and  bordering  on  the  western 


slope  of  the  Sangre  de  Cristo  Range.  The  entire 
tract  is  fenced  in  pastures  with  eighty  miles  of 
substantial  fencing,  while  one  hundred  and  forty 
miles  of  ditches  furnish  water  for  the  irrigation 
of  hay  and  the  range.  The  herd  consists  of  four 
thousand  head  of  pure-bred  and  high-grade  Here- 
ford cattle.  From  the  ranch,  cattle  are  sold  and 
shipped  to  Old  Mexico,  Arizona,  Texas,  Oregon, 
Montana,  Wyoming,  New  Mexico,  Idaho,  Kan- 
sas and  Nebraska  for  breeding  purposes. 

Mr.  Adams  was  born  in  Milwaukee,  Wis. ,  the 
only  child  of  George  and  Agnes  J.  (Lace)  Adams, 
natives  of  Rochester  and  New  York  City  respect- 
ively. His  father  removed  to  Milwaukee  in  1836 
and  engaged  in  the  mercantile  business  there 
until  his  death.  His  widow,  who  still  resides 
there,  was  a  daughter  of  John  Lace,  who  was 
born  in  Aberdeen,  Scotland,  and  settled  in  New 
York  City,  where  he  owned  a  mercantile  store. 
Our  subject  was  educated  in  the  schools  of  Mil- 
waukee. In  January,  1863,  when  only  seventeen 
years  of  age,  he  enlisted  as  a  private  in  Company 
A,  Thirty-ninth  Wisconsin  Infantry,  for  one 
hundred  days,  but  continued  in  the  service,  in 
the  Army  of  the  Cumberland,  until  September, 
1863,  when  he  was  honorably  discharged  as  cor- 
poral. Again,  soon  afterward,  he  enlisted  as  a 
private  in  Company  F,  Forty-seventh  Wisconsin 
Infantry,  and  served  as  first  sergeant  and  ser- 
geant-major until  September,  1865,  when  he  was 
honorably  discharged  at  Nashville. 

Returning  to  Milwaukee,  Mr.  Adams  became 
money  receiving  clerk  for  the  United  States  Ex- 
press Company,  which,  in  1867,  sent  him  to 
Kansas  as  messenger  between  Kansas  City  and 
Fort  Ellsworth,  the  terminus  of  the  Kansas  Pa- 
cific. In  the  spring  of  1868  he  returned  to  Mil- 
waukee, where  he  was  superintendent  of  the 
Goodrich  Express  Company  until  1869,  when  he 
resigned  to  come  to  Colorado.  The  trip  to  the 
west  he  made  via  Cheyenne  to  Denver  and  from 
this  city  went  to  California  Gulch  (now  Lead- 
ville),  where  he  engaged  in  prospecting  for  two 
months,  but  in  December  went  to  the  San  Luis 
Valley.  A  pioneer  in  that  section,  he  entered 
one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  on  Rio  Alto  Creek 
and  embarked  in  the  stock  business.  In  1871  he 
entered  the  employ  of  a  cattle  company  as  fore- 
man on  Baca  Grant  No.  4,  and  later  became  pro- 
prietor. In  1878  he  brought  to  his  place  eighty 
full-bred  Hereford  bulls  and  has  since  devoted 


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his  attention  to  the  raising  of  pure- bred  and  high- 
grade  Herefords.  He  has  been  a  director  in  the 
American  Hereford  Association,  is  a  member  of 
the  Colorado  Cattle  Growers'  and  National  Stock 
Breeders'  Associations,  and,  under  appointment 
by  Governor  Pitkin,  served  for  eight  years  as  a 
member  of  the  State  Cattle  Inspection  and  Round- 
up Boards.  In  April,  1895,  Governor  Mclntire 
appointed  him  president  of  the  board  of  trustees 
of  the  State  Soldiers'  and  Sailors'  Home,  to  serve 
for  six  years. 

In  Wisconsin,  August  27,  1878,  Mr.  Adams 
married  Miss  Addie  J.  Bertschy,  of  Appleton,  a 
graduate  of  the  university  at  that  place.  They 
have  one  child,  Florence  P.  In  politics  Mr. 
Adams  supports  the  silver  branch  of  the  Repub- 
lican party.  He  has  frequently  been  delegate  to 
conventions,  has  served  as  a  member  of  the  state 
Republican  committee,  and  while  in  Saguache 
County  held  the  office  of  county  clerk  for  one 
term  and  was  also  justice  of  the  peace  and  sherifiF 
of  the  county.  By  service  upon  the  school  board 
he  advanced  the  educational  interests  of  his  com- 
munity. Shortly  after  his  return  from  the  army 
he  became  identified  with  Post  No.  g,  Wisconsin 
G.  A.  R. ,  as  one  of  its  charter  members.  Frater- 
nally he  is  connected  with  the  Independent  Order 
of  Odd  Fellows. 

There  have  been  so  many  successful  cattlemen 
in  Colorado  that  it  may  not  be  considered  a  more 
than  ordinary  statement  to  speak  of  Mr.  Adams 
as  one  of  the  most  successful,  as  he  is  also  one  of 
the  most  extensive.  But  when  we  consider  that 
he  came  to  the  state  with  comparatively  little 
capital  and  with  no  experience  in  the  cattle  busi- 
ness, his  present  position  is  remarkable.  By  dint 
of  industry,  executive  ability  and  determination, 
he  has  risen  to  rank  among  the  foremost  cattle 
breeders  of  the  state  and  may  appropriately  be 
termed  the  "Hereford  king"  of  the  west. 


(lOHN  B.  ROBERTSON  is  the  president  of 
I  the  Robertson-Peery  Leather  Company,  in- 
(2/  corporated  April  i,  1898,  wholesale  and  re- 
tail dealers  in  leather  and  shoe  findings,  and 
manufacturers  of  boot  and  shoe  uppers  and  ladies' 
and  misses'  leather  leggins,  with  office  and  fac- 
tory at  No.  1526  Lawrence  street,  Denver.  While 
this  business  is  not  an  old  one,  having  been 
started  in  January,  1896,  yet  through  the  energy 


of  the  president  and  his  excellent  judgment  it  has 
become  known  among  the  growing  concerns  of 
the  city. 

The  Robertsons  are  a  Scotch  family.  Andrew 
Robertson,  a  native  of  Scotland,  was  a  soldier  in 
the  English  army  during  and  after  the  Crimean 
war,  in  the  campaigns  of  which  he  bore  an  active 
part.  He  was  promoted  from  the  ranks  and 
made  a  recruiting  officer.  While  serving  in  the 
army  his  death  occurred.  He  had  a  son,  Peter  D., 
who  was  born  in  Lanarkshire,  and  has  .spent  the 
principal  part  of  his  life  in  Glasgow,  of  which  he 
was  assessor  for  more  than  fifteen  years;  now, 
however,  he  is  living  retired.  He  married  Mary 
Biggar,  daughter  of  John  Biggar,  who  engaged 
in  the  cattle  bu-siness  in  Scotland  for  some  years. 
She  died  in  May,  1896,  in  Glasgow. 

Of  eleven  children  comprising  the  family  all 
but  two  are  living,  and  of  these  John  B.  was  third 
in  order  of  birth  and  is  the  only  one  in  America. 
He  was  reared  in  his  native  city,  Glasgow,  where 
he  attended  the  schools  until  seventeen  years  of 
age.  Afterward  he  served  an  apprenticeship  to 
the  machinists'  and  draughtsman's  trade,  and 
also  clerked  for  a  short  time.  In  1881  he  took 
passage  for  New  York  and  from  that  city  came 
west  to  Colorado,  where  for  two  years  he  was 
employed  on  a  large  ranch  near  Livermore,  Lar- 
imer County.  For  six  years  he  was  employed  on 
ex-Governor  Routt's  ranch  at  Pleasant  Valley. 
In  1889  he  came  to  Denver  and  became  an  em- 
ploye of  the  Dunn  &  Blass  Leather  Company,  for 
whom  he  was  traveling  salesman  and  bookkeeper. 
On  the  incorporation  of  the  company,  with  J.  P. 
Dunn  as  president,  he  became  a  stockholder  in 
the  concern  and  was  elected  its  secretary  and 
treasurer.  His  interest  in  the  company  he  sold 
in  January,  1896,  and  started  in  the  business  with 
which  he  is  now  identified. 

Busy  with  his  business  affairs,  Mr.  Robertson 
has  never  taken  an  active  part  in  politics  nor 
identified  himself  closely  with  public  affairs. 
However,  while  residing  in  Larimer  County  he 
served  as  treasurer  of  his  school  district.  No.  7. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Caledonian  Club,  a  social 
organization  composed  of  Scotchmen  and  the  sons 
of  Scotchmen.  He  is  secretary  and  treasurer  of 
the  Denver  Cricket  Club,  which  he  helped  to  or- 
ganize, and  is  one  of  its  best  players,  having  mas- 
tered the  game  thoroughly  in  his  native  country. 
He  has  been  twice  married,  his  first  wife  having 


WILLIAM  K.  ROBERTS. 


PORTRAIT  AND  BIOGRAPHICAL  RECORD. 


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been  Miss  lyiilu  Reed,  who  was  born  in  Missouri 
and  died  in  Denver.  Two  children  were  born  of 
this  union,  William  and  Kate.  His  second  mar- 
riage united  him  with  Mrs.  Minnie  (Powell) 
Oleson,  who  was  born  in  London. 


pCJlLLIAM  E.  ROBERTS,  chief  of  the  fire 

\  A  /  department,  is  one  of  the  old  and  trusted 
VY  employes  of  the  city  of  Denver,  and  his 
honorable  and  efficient  service  entitles  him  to  the 
respect  in  which  he  is  held.  Under  the  adminis- 
tration of  Governor  Waite  he  was  appointed  chief 
of  the  department,  but  after  serving  one  year  to  a 
day  he  was  reduced  to  the  rank  of  assistant-chief 
by  the  new  board  under  Governor  Mclntire.  He 
continued  in  the  subordinate  rank  until  Septem- 
ber 4,  1897,  when  he  was  appointed  chief  by  the 
present  board.  The  fire  department  is  composed 
of  fourteen  companies,  aggregating  one  hundred 
and  twenty  men,  assigned  to  fourteen  different 
fire  houses,  and  equipped  for  service  with  three 
hook  and  ladders,  seven  engines  and  wagons,  five 
hose  wagons,  one  chemical  engine  and  one  water 
tower. 

A  Welshman  by  birth,  Mr.  Roberts  was  born 
in  Wrexham,  Denbighshire,  North  Wales,  Janu- 
ary 12,  1858.  His  father,  Edward,  and  grand- 
father, David,  were  born  in  the  same  shire,  where 
the  latter  followed  farm  pursuits  and  the  former 
was  employed  as  a  stone  carver  and  sculptor,  but 
died  when  our  subject  was  only  two  and  one-half 
years  of  age.  The  wife  and  mother  bore  the 
maiden  name  of  Jane  Thomas,  and  was  born  on 
the  island  of  Anglesea,  which  has  been  famous  in 
history  for  its  Druid  priests.  Her  father,  Will- 
iam Thomas,  came  from  Anglesea  to  America 
about  i860  and  settled  in  Emporia,  Kan.,  but  in 
1867  removed  to  Denver,  where  he  afterward  re- 
sided. The  Thomas  family  has  given  to  Wales 
some  of  its  greatest  preachers  and  to  the  Presby- 
terian Church  some  of  its  world-famous  divines. 
They  have  also  been  prominent  as  artisans,  and 
it  is  said  that  for  more  than  three  hundred  3'ears 
successive  generations  have  carried  on  business 
as  stone  cutters  in  the  same  yard.  Mrs.  Jane 
Roberts  died  at  the  age  of  thirty,  leaving  an  only 
child,  William  E.,  then  eleven  years  of  age. 

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At  the  age  of  eleven  our  subject  was  appren- 
ticed to  the  stone  cutter's  trade  and  remained 
with  his  master  for  about  three  years.  In  1871 
he  came  to  America,  reaching  Chicago  ju.st  before 
its  disastrous  fire  in  October.  He  was  so  young 
that  people  refused  to  employ  him  at  first,  but 
after  the  fire  there  was  such  a  demand  for  labor 
that  he  found  no  difficulty  in  securing  work,  and 
for  two  and  one-half  years  he  worked  at  his  trade 
in  that  city.  In  December,  1873,  he  came  to 
Denver,  where  there  were  only  about  five  stone 
cutters.  He  cut  stone  for  the  city  hall  and  some 
of  the  large  buildings  here,  including  the  first 
brown  stone  block,  the  McClinton  building  and 
the  Central  Presbyterian  Church. 

In  1876  Mr.  Roberts  joined  Volunteer  Fire 
Hook  and  Ladder  Company  No.  2,  of  which  he 
was  elected  foreman  in  188 1  and  with  which  he 
continued  until  its  disbandment  in  1883.  In 
1 8-8 1  he  was  chosen  assistant-chief  of  the  fire  de- 
partment, in  1885  became  a  paid  member  of  the 
department  as  a  ladder  man,  three  years  later 
was  transferred  to  captain  of  Steamer  No.  i,  in 
1 89 1  was  transferred  to  be  captain  of  Hook  and 
Ladder  Company  No.  2,  and  later  was  made  cap- 
tain of  Steamer  No.  2.  During  the  city  hall  war 
in  1894  he  was  discharged,  but  thirty  days  later, 
on  the  17th  of  April,  he  was  reinstated  and 
afterward  accepted  the  appointment  of  chief  of 
the  fire  department.  While  he  has  been  rather 
fortunate  in  his  work  as  fireman,  yet  he  has  not 
been  without  his  share  of  accidents.  During  a 
fire  on  Sixteenth  street  he  fell  in  an  elevator 
shaft  and  his  right  ankle  was  broken;  again,  in 
August,  1896,  his  horse  ran  away  and  he  was 
thrown  from  the  buggy,  and  his  shoulder  was 
broken. 

Being  a  great  reader,  Mr.  Roberts  is  well  in- 
formed concerning  all  matters  of  public  interest. 
He  is  a  skillful  amateur  artist  in  crayon  and 
pastel,  and  his  work  may  be  seen  in  the  office 
and  various  parts  of  Denver.  In  this  city  he 
married  Miss  Sarah  M.  Wright,  who  was  born  in 
Birmingham,  England,  but  at  an  early  age  ac- 
companied her  father,  Edwin  Wright,  to  Amer- 
ica, settling  in  Denver,  where  he  engaged  in 
business.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Roberts  have  three 
children,  Victor  Edwin,  Maud  and  Grace  Roberts. 

The  following  letter  from  the  president  of  the 
National  Firemen's  Association  is  indicative  of 
the  esteem  in  which  be  Js  held : 


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Omaha,  Neb.,  Sept.  lo,  1898. 
Hon.    Ralph  Talbott,    President   Fire   Commis- 
sioners. 

Dear  Sir: — We  wish  to  thank  the  city  of 
Denver  for  its  kindness  in  sending  its  fire  depart- 
ment to  attend  the  National  Firemen's  tourna- 
ment, held  at  Omaha  Sept.  5  to  1 1 ,  and  wish  to 
add  that  the  chief  and  his  men  and  their  efficient 
work  reflect  credit  upon  the  city  of  Denver.  The 
exhibition  given  by  your  men  in  extinguishing 
the  flames  in  the  burning  buildings,  and  their 
gentlemanly  conduct,  place  the  Denver  depart- 
ment in  the  front  rank  as  an  active,  efiicient, 
first-class  fire-fighting  team.  It  is  the  unanimous 
verdict  of  all  who  had  the  pleasure  of  meeting 
Mr.  Roberts  that  Denver  made  no  mistake  when 
she  placed  him  at  the  head  of  her  fire  depart- 
ment. Yours  very  respectfully, 

Fred  a.  Wood, 

President. 


nOHN  J.  HAGUS,  who  for  years  was  a  prom- 
I  inent  business  man  of  Colorado  and  is  now 
Q)  living  retired  at  No.  1 959  Washington  ave- 
nue, Denver,  was  born  near  Cologne,  Prussia, 
September  25,  1838,  the  son  of  Joseph  and  Eliz- 
abeth (I/Crsch)  Hagus.  When  he  was  ten  years 
of  age,  in  the  spring  of  1849,  the  family  came  to 
America,  spending  forty  days  on  the  ocean  be- 
tween Antwerp  and  New  York;  during  that  time 
they  encountered  many  severe  storms,  one  of 
which  was  especially  dangerous,  and  the  captain, 
who  thought  all  was  lost,  had  the  passengers 
locked  below,  where  they  clustered  together,  all 
terribly  frightened,  and  some  weeping,  while  others 
prayed. 

Landing  in  New  York  the  family  went  from 
there  to  Galena,  111.,  where  they  had  friends. 
The  father,  who  was  a  tailor  by  trade,  followed 
his  chosen  occupation  in  Galena  until  1877,  when 
he  came  to  Colorado.  Here  he  spent  the  remain- 
der of  his  days,  passing  away  in  July,  1891,  at 
the  age  of  eighty-three.  The  mother  also  died 
here  in  June,  1893,  at  the  age  of  eighty-five. 
They  were  the  parents  of  ten  children,  six  of 
whom  died  in  infancy,  and  four  are  still  living, 
all  in  Colorado.  Of  these  Andrew  came  to  Colo- 
radoatthe  time  of  the  gold  excitement  at  Pike's 
Peak  in  1859,  and  he  is  now  living  near  Brighton, 
where  he  is  a  wealthy  farmer  and  dairyman. 


After  receiving  an  excellent  education  in  the 
German  language,  our  subject  entered  the  public 
school  in  Galena,  where  he  was  a  pupil  about 
three  years.  At  the  age  of  fifteen  he  began  to 
clerk  in  a  grocery,  receiving  a  salary  of  $6  per 
month.  In  i860  he  followed  his  brother  to  Colo- 
rado, leaving  a  position  that  paid  him  $12  per 
month,  board  and  lodging.  His  brother  had 
spent  the  winter  of  1859-60  as  a  miner  in  Russell 
Gulch,  but  in  the  spring  he  settled  on  a  farm  near 
Brighton,  sixteen  miles  from  Denver,  and  on  that 
place  our  subject  found  him,  upon  driving  across 
the  plains  with  a  company  of  emigrants.  They 
spent  six  weeks  on  the  way  and  frequently  met 
Indians,  but  all  showed  a  disposition  to  be 
friendly. 

Upon  arriving  in  the  then  state  of  Kansas  he 
went  over  into  the  Blue  River  country  and  began 
mining,  in  which  he  engaged  for  four  years,  doing 
fairly  well.  In  the  fall  of  1863  he  came  down 
from  the  mountains  and  took  up  a  homestead 
near  Brighton,  on  the  Platte  River,  and  began 
farming,  which  he  followed  until  the  fall  of  1869. 

Mr.  Hagus  then  secured  employment  in  a  store, 
where  he  remained  for  ten  years,  his  salary  being 
$100  a  month  the  last  years.  In  1870  he  married 
Miss  Mary  H.  Flucken,  of  Galena,  111.,  whom  he 
had  met  while  visiting  there.  She  was  born  in  Ger- 
many and  from'  there  accompanied  her  parents  to 
the  United  States,  settling  with  them  in  Galena. 
In  1879  he  removed  to  Leadville  and  embarked 
in  the  furniture  business  as  a  member  of  the  firm 
of  Pryor,  Hagus  &  Cooper,  remaining  in  the  bus- 
iness for  five  years.  In  1884  he  sold  out  and 
returned  to  Denver,  where,  the  following  year, 
he  started  the  Cooper-Hagus  Furniture  Com- 
pany, a  business  that  was  conducted  profitably 
until  1896,  when  he  sold  out  and  retired.  His 
success  illustrates  the  power  of  energy  and  deter- 
mination of  will.  He  began  for  himself  when  a 
boy,  penniless,  with  no  influence  to  assist  him  in 
getting  a  start,  but  with  indefatigable  persever- 
ance he  worked  his  way  steadily  forward  until  he 
became  the  possessor  of  a  competency.  In  boy- 
hood he  assisted  in  the  support  of  his  parents, 
and  when  they  became  aged  he  and  his  brothers 
cared  for  them,  providing  them  with  every  com- 
fort that  could  bring  happiness  to  their  declining 
years.  He  and  his  wife  became  the  parents  of 
seven  children,  but  two  died  in  infancy.  The 
others  are:  Mrs.  Elizabeth  M.  Brandenburg,  who 


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lives  in  Eldora;  Joseph  C,  a  salesman  in  Brown 
Brothers'  wholesale  grocery  house;  Louis  P., 
Charles  H.  and  Emma  M. ,  who  are  pupils  in  the 
Denver  schools. 

In  politics  Mr.  Hagus  is  independent.  When 
in  Leadville  he  was  often  urged  to  become  a  can- 
didate for  office,  but  always  refused,  not  desiring 
to  enter  public  life.  In  religion  he  was  reared 
in  the  faith  of  the  Roman  Catholic  Church.  His 
money  is  largely  invested  in  real  estate  in  Denver 
and  in  mining  interests  throughout  the  state, 
from  which  investments  he  is  in  receipt  of  a  fair 
remuneration. 


61  VERY  R.  THOMPSON,  contractor  and 
U  builder,  has  his  office  and  shop  at  No.  1539 
/  I  Stout  street,  Denver,  and  for  some  years  has 
carried  on  an  extensive  business  in  his  line, 
taking  contracts  for  the  erection  of  business  blocks 
and  private  residences.  He  is  a  descendant  of 
Scotch  ancestors,  who  were  identified  with  the 
early  history  of  South  Carolina  and  took  up  arms 
in  defense  of  the  colonies  during  the  war  with 
England.  His  grandfather,  Jeremiah  Thompson, 
who  was  the  son  of  a  Revolutionary  patriot,  was 
born  in  South  Carolina,  and  from  there  removed 
to  Highland  County,  Ohio,  where  he  engaged  in 
farming.  Laterhe  went  to  Jefferson  County,  Iowa, 
and  there  died  in  1875,  at  the  age  of  seventy-five 
years. 

Charles  M.  Thompson,  our  subject's  father, 
was  born  in  Highland  County,  Ohio,  bi:t  spent 
his  life  principally  in  Iowa,  where  he  cleared  a 
farm  in  Jefferson  County  and  engaged  in  agricult- 
ural pursuits  for  many  years.  He  was  one  of 
the  most  honored  men  of  his  community,  and  his 
life  of  steadfast  integrity  won  for  him  the  confi- 
dence of  all  his  associates.  On  the  farm  where 
so  many  useful  years  had  been  passed,  he  died, 
August  28,  1897,  at  the  age  of  sixty-four.  His 
wife  was  Sarah  McGuire,  a  native  of  Indiana  and 
the  daughter  of  James  McGuire,  who  removed 
from  that  state  to  Iowa  and  settled  upon  a  farm 
there.  She  passed  away  at  the  age  of  forty-two 
years,  leaving  nine  children,  all  of  whom  still 
survive. 

The  fifth  of  these  is  Avery  R. ,  who  was  born 
near  Fairfield,  Iowa,  in  1866,  and  received  a  com- 
mon-school education  in  Jefferson  County.  He 
was  handy  with  tools  when  a  boy  and  could  make 


anything  that  could  be  constructed  from  his  lim- 
ited appliances.  He  liked  carpentering  and  nat- 
urally drifted  into  the  occupation  for  his  life-work. 
In  1886  he  started  out  for  himself,  and  for  a  year 
traveled  through  Kansas,  following  his  trade  in  dif- 
ferent parts  of  the  state.  The  next  year  found  him 
in  Denver,  where  for  six  months  he  was  employed 
with  the  Santa  Fe  Railroad  Company,  and  after- 
ward worked  as  a  journeyman.  In  1890  he  be- 
gan contracting  for  himself  and  has  since  done  a 
large  general  jobbing  and  building  business.  As 
a  carpenter  he  is  accurate,  careful  and  conscien- 
tious, carrying  out  the  architects'  plans  with  the 
utmost  fidelity.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Contract- 
ors and  Builders'  Association,  and  takes  an  inter- 
est in  ever3'thing  connected  with  his  chosen  occu- 
pation. Through  his  energy  and  judicious  man- 
agement he  has  accumulated  some  property 
which  his  present  prosperous  condition  will  enable 
him  to  increase  and  improve.  His  family  con- 
sists of  one  son,  Charles,  bom  May  29,  1893,  and 
his  wife,  who  was  Miss  Ellen  McKernan,  is  a 
native  of  West  Virginia. 


HENRY  E.  HOKLAS  is  the  junior  member 
of  the  firm  of  Cochran  &  Hoklas,  architects 
and  builders,  at  No.  181 1  Stout  street,  Den- 
ver. He  was  born  in  Bremen,  Germany,  June 
4,  1848,  and  is  a  son  of  Henry  and  Margaret 
(Raby)  Hoklas,  natives  respectively  of  Holstein 
and  Bremen,  and  members  of  old  German  fami- 
lies. His  father,  who  carried  on  a  button  factory 
in  Bremen,  emigrated  to  the  United  States  in  1852 
and  settled  in  Peoria,  111., where  at  first  he  was  em- 
ployed by  a  furniture  house,  and  later  engaged  in 
the  manufacture  of  cigar  boxes.  He  died  in  1895, 
at  the  age  of  seventy-two.  His  wife  is  also  de- 
ceased. 

Their  only  child,  our  subject,  was  reared  in 
Peoria,  where  he  attended  the  public  schools.  At 
the  age  of  seventeen  he  began  to  learn  the  carpen- 
ter's trade,  of  which  he  soon  acquired  a  compre- 
hensive knowledge.  In  1875  he  removed  to  Iowa 
and  settled  near  Corning,  where  he  had  a  farm, 
and  also  engaged  in  building.  From  there  in 
1888  he  removed  to  Hastings,  Neb.,  where  he 
worked  at  his  trade  as  foreman  in  the  building 
of  the  court  house.  After  some  two  years,  in 
1890,  he  came  to  Denver,  where  he  was  emploj^ed 
as  foreman  in  building.     In   1895  he  became  a 


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member  of  the  firm  of  Cochran  &  Hoklas,  who 
take  contracts  for  store  and  office  work,  furnish 
plans  and  specifications  for  buildings  of  all  kinds 
and  do  carpenter  work  and  jobbing,  having  their 
oflSce  and  shop  at  No.  i8ii  Stout  street. 

By  the  marriage  of  Mr.  Hoklas  to  Miss  Lucy 
Brockett,  of  Peoria  County,  111.,  two  children 
were  born,  Wilbur  and  Wesley.  Fraternally 
Mr.  Hoklas  is  connected  with  the  Woodmen  of 
the  World  and  the  Ancient  Order  of  United  Work- 
men, in  which  he  has  been  an  officer.  He  is  a 
stanch  supporter  of  the  silver  cause,  and  in  reli- 
gion is  connected  with  the  Baptist  Church. 


^RANCIS  D.  MEAD,  a  veteran  of  the  Civil 
r^  war  and  a  resident  of  Denver,  was  born  in 
I  *  Pittsfield,  Berkshire  County,  Mass.,  in  1842, 
being  the  youngest  of  the  eleven  children  of  Darius 
L.  and  Artless  (Comstock)  Mead,  natives  respect- 
ively of  New  York  state  and  Great  Barrington, 
Mass.  His  father,  who  was  the  son  of  a  physi- 
cian, became  a  mechanic  in  early  life  and  followed 
the  trade  at  New  Lebanon  Springs,  N.  Y.,  and 
Pittsfield,  Mass.,  the  most  of  his  life  being  spent 
in  the  latter  place.  He  is  said  to  have  been  one 
of  the  finest  mechanics  in  the  state. 

Being  handy  with  tools,  at  an  early  age  our 
subject  learned  carpentering  and  under  his  father's 
instruction  became  an  expert  mechanic.  In  New 
London,  Conn.,  he  was  a  member  of  the  Lincoln 
Wide-Awakes.  He  was  at  Norwich  when  the 
first  shot  was  fired  at  Fort  Sumter  and  at  once  he 
determined  to  enlist  in  the  army.  Going  to 
Lebanon,  he  assisted  in  drilling  a  company,  and 
soon  afterward  he  enlisted  from  Hartford,  as  a 
member  of  Company  D,  Fourth  Connecticut  In- 
fantry (later  First  Connecticut  Heavy  Artillery) . 
He  took  part  in  the  seven  days'  siege  at  York- 
town,  during  which  his  battery  never  lost  a  gun; 
also  in  the  battle  of  Malvern  Hill,  after  which  he 
was  ordered  to  Washington,  D.  C,  from  there  to 
Fredericksburg,  and  participated  in  the  hard 
fighting  in  front  of  Petersburg.  At  the  expira- 
tion of  his  time,  in  1864,  he  was  mustered  out  at 
Hartford, Conn.  April  7,  1865,  he  again  enlisted, 
becoming  a  member  of  Company  K,  Sixth  Regi- 
ment Hancock's  Veterans,  and  was  stationed  at 
Washington  and  Harrisburg  until  he  was  honor- 
ably discharged,  in  June,  1866. 

After  the  close  of  the  war  Mr.  Mead  followed 


his  trade  in  Pittsfield,  Northampton,  Portland 
(Me.),  Sparta  (Wis.)  and  then  went  to  Minnea- 
polis and  from  there  to  Lansing,  Mich. ,  where  he 
had  charge  of  a  furniture  factory.  Next  he 
engaged  in  jobbing  in  Omaha.  He  first  visited 
Denver  in  1879,  but  did  not  locate  here  perma- 
nently until  1889,  when  he  came  from  California 
and  settled  in  this  city.  For  four  years  he  worked 
in  the  employ  of  McPhee  &  McGinnity,  and  since 
then  has  been  in  business  for  himself  as  a  cabinet- 
maker and  carpenter.  He  was  married  in  Harris- 
burg, Pa.,  ill  1865  to  a  daughter  of  Rev.  George 
Kurtzman,  a  minister  in  the  German  Reformed 
denomination.  Three  children  have  been  born  to 
his  marriage,  namely:  Florence,  wife  of  William 
I.  Laird,  who  is  traveling  freight  agent  for  the 
Maple  Leaf  Railroad  in  Chicago;  Guy,  a  book- 
keeper and  stenographer  in  Denver;  and  Grace, 
wife  of  Edward  N.  Bullock,  D.  D.  S.  In  politics 
he  adheres  to  Republican  principles.  With  other 
old  soldiers  he  takes  an  interest  in  Grand  Army 
matters,  his  membership  being  in  the  Lincoln 
Post  No.  4  of  Denver. 


ELAYTON  T.  COCHRAN,  senior  member  of 
the  firm  of  Cochran  &  Hoklas,  of  Denver, 
was  born  in  Oxford  County,  Ontario, Canada, 
in  1844,  and  is  the  fourth  of  the  seven  children 
of  William  P.  and  Margaret  (Rupert)  Cochran, 
natives  respectively  of  Scotland  and  Nova  Scotia. 
His  father,  who  came  to  this  country,  engaged  in 
farming  in  Ontario  until  his  death  at  seventy-nine 
years;  his  wife  was  also  seventy-nine  at  the  time 
of  her  death. 

At  the  age  of  fifteen  our  subject  began  to  learn 
the  carpenter's  trade.  In  1864  he  came  to  the 
States,  spending  four  months  in  Bufialo,  nine 
months  in  Toledo,  and  then  going  to  Chicago, 
where  he  engaged  in  building  until  June,  1872. 
At  that  time  he  came  to  Denver,  where  he  has 
since  resided.  At  first  he  devoted  himself  entirely 
to  carpentering,  but  since  1893  he  has  taken  con- 
tracts, and  has  also  designed  his  own  plans.  He 
is  an  industrious,  painstaking  man,  and  makes 
every  effort  to  please  those  for  whom  he  has  con- 
tracts. While  he  has  met  with  business  reverses, 
he  has  never  become  discouraged,  but  has  worked 
with  a  perseverance  and  determination  that  almost 
invariably  win  success. 

In  Chicago  Mr.  Cochran  married  Miss  Belle 


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Fry,  who  was  born  in  Bath,  Canada,  and  died  in 
Colorado.  The  only  child  of  this  union  is  Mrs. 
Belle  Yale,  of  Waterloo,  Iowa.  His  second  mar- 
riage took  place  in  Canada  and  united  him  with 
Miss  Emily  M.  Armstrong,  who  was  born  there 
and  died  in  Denver,  leaving  an  only  son,  Crandall 
A.  In  religious  connections  Mr.  Cochran  is  a 
member  of  the  First  Baptist  Church.  Fraternally 
he  is  connected  with  the  Ancient  Order  of  United 
Workmen,  and  in  politics  adheres  to  the  doctrines 
of  the  silver  Republican  organization.  By  his 
present  wife,  who  was  Charlotte  M.  Miles,  of 
Canada,  he  has  one  child,  Eleanor. 


JJJEWTON  ALDEN  BOEEES  and  NETTIE 
rV  HUBBARD  BOLEES.  In  1897  the  West- 
I  Is  ern  Institute  of  Osteopathy  was  founded  at 
Denver  by  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bolles,  under  charter 
from  the  .state  government,  and  it  is  now  the  only 
school  recognized  by  the  American  School  of 
Osteopathy.  The  school  is  located  at  No.  832 
East  Colfax  avenue,  where  a  two  years'  course  of 
instruction  will  be  given  similar  to  that  in  the 
parent  school  at  Kirksville,  Mo.  Of  the  institute 
Mrs.  Bolles  is  president  and  Mr.  Bolles  secretary 
and  treasurer.  Both  are  members  of  the  American 
Association  for  the  advancement  of  Osteopathy, 
in  which  she  has  served  as  vice-president. 

Up  to  a  comparatively  recent  date  very  little 
was  known  concerning  osteopathy.  It  is  a  sys- 
tem of  treating  disease  without  drugs,  by  skill- 
fully tracing  out  and  readjusting  mechanical  dis- 
orders that  interfere  with  the  natural  functions 
of  the  body.  It  is  the  claim  of  those  who  ad- 
vocate this  course  of  treatment  that  when  all  ob- 
struction to  the  free  circulation  of  the  fluids  of 
the  body  is  detected  and  removed,  the  system  can 
then  regain  its  normal  condition.  The  touch  is 
educated  to  such  a  degree  that  practitioners  of 
this  system  can  detect  the  least  deviation  from 
normal  in  any  part  of  the  body.  The  science 
was  originated  and  developed  by  Dr.  Andrew  T. 
Still,  of  Kirksville,  Mo.'  formerly  a  physician  of 
the  old  school,  who  for  nearly  twenty-five  years 
worked  upon  the  principles  of  the  system  that 
now  constitute  the  science  of  osteopathy. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  is  of  English  de- 
scent. Three  brothers  crossed  the  ocean  in  1600 
from  England,  two  of  whom  settled  in  the  north 
and  one  went  south.     Alden  Bolles,  who  was  the 


son  of  a  Revolutionary  soldier,  was  born  in  Mas- 
sachusetts. His  wife  was  Dorcas  Munger,  a  na- 
tive of  Saratoga  County,  N.  Y.  Of  their  ten 
children,  William  Alden  Bolles  was  the  young- 
est. He  was  born  in  Milton,  N.  Y.,  July  7, 
1 83 1 ,  aud  at  the  age  of  eighteen  began  teaching, 
which  he  made  his  life  occupation. 

In  Louisville  Professor  Bolles  married  Mattie 
A.  Lewton,  who  was  born  in  New  Albany,  Ind., 
and  was  a  teacher  in  the  Louisville  schools.  Her 
father,  James  Lewton,  was  born  in  Bristol,  Eng- 
land, and  married  Cynthia  Parker,  of  York  State, 
by  whom  he  had  ten  children,  six  still  living. 
Professor  and  Mrs.  Bolles  had  nine  children,  and 
of  these  six  attained  maturity,  viz.:  Newton 
Alden,  J.  Lewton,  Clarence  William,  Nettie  B., 
Arthur  Elliott  and  Mary  E. 

While  his  parents  resided  in  Lexington,  Ky., 
the  subject  ofthis  sketch  was  born,  May  20,  1859. 
He  accompanied  his  parents  in  their  various  re- 
movals. In  the  fall  of  1876  he  entered  the  Uni- 
versity of  Kansas,  where  he  studied  for  two 
years,  after  which  he  taught  for  three  years.  In 
the  spring  of  1881  he  went  to  New  Mexico  and 
traveled  through  that  state,  also  visited  Arizona, 
Idaho,  Colorado,  Utah,  Montana  and  Old  Mexico, 
spending  four  years  in  prospecting,  mining  and 
assaying.  The  largest  mine  in  which  he  was 
employed  was  that  owned  by  Senator  Tabor,  at 
Chihuahua,  Mexico.  In  1896  he  entered  the 
American  School  of  Osteopathy  at  Kirksville, 
Mo. ,  from  which  he  graduated  in  the  spring  of 
1898,  with  the  degree  of  D.  O.  Politically  he  is 
a  Republican  and  fraternally  is  connected  with 
the  Knights  of  Pythias. 

At  Olathe,  Kan.,  December  7,  1887,  Mr.  Bol- 
les married  Miss  Nettie  Hubbard ,  who  was  born 
in  Marion,  Douglas  County,  Kan.  Her  father, 
David  Hubbard,  a  pioneer  of  Lawrence,  Kan., 
aud  during  the  war,  when  Quantrell  made  his 
raid  on  Lawrence,  w.as  wounded  by  a  bullet 
that  passed  through  his  lungs.  He  recovered 
from  the  wound,  largely  through  the  treatment 
of  Dr.  Still,  who  was  then  living  in  Douglas 
County.  He  now  resides  at  Olathe.  The  Hub- 
bard family  is  of  English  descent  and  remote 
Norman  extraction,  the  ancestors  having  crossed 
the  channel  with  William  the  Conqueror.  The 
mother  of  Mrs.  Bolles  was  Martha  J.  Merrill, 
daughter  of  Sherburne  Merrill,  of  New  Hamp- 
shire.    She  is  still  living,  as  are  five  of  her  seven 


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children.  lu  1878,  when  a  young  girl,  Mrs. 
Bolles  spent  some  months  in  travel  through 
France,  Germany,  Austria  and  Switzerland.  She 
graduated  from  the  University  of  Kansas  in  1885 
with  the  degrees  of  B.  S.  and  B.  P.  and  later 
took  the  Chautauqua  course  of  study.  In  the 
fall  of  1892  she  entered  the  American  School  of 
Osteopathy  and  was  a  member  of  Dr.  Still's  first 
graduating  class,  receiving  the  degree  of  D.  O. 
in  1894.  During  the  last  year  of  her  college 
course,  1893-94,  ^^^  taught  anatomy  in  the 
school,  and  also  taught  one  year  after  graduat- 
ing. In  the  fall  of  1895  she  located  in  Denver. 
She  is  a  member  of  the  college  fraternity  of  Phi 
Beta  Phi  and  belongs  to  the  Woman's  Club  of 
Denver.  In  religious  connections  both  she  and 
her  husband  are  identified  with  the  Plymouth 
Coug;regational  Church.  Fraternally  she  is  a 
member  of  the  Eastern .  Star. 


■"DWIN  H.  park,  attorney-at-law,  with 
^  olEce  at  No.  711  Ernest  and  Cranmer  build- 
__  ing,  Denver,  was  born  in  Waukesha,  Wis., 
September  23,  1864,  and  is  a  son  of  John  W.  and 
Sarah  I,.  (Thomas)  Park.  His  father,  who  was 
a  farmer  near  Waukesha,  was  born  in  Weston, 
Vt. ,  and  there  grew  to  manhood  upon  a  farm, 
receiving  an  excellent  academic  education,  after 
which  for  several  years  he  engaged  in  teaching  in 
country  and  village  schools.  About  1850  he  re- 
moved to  Wisconsin  and  there  carried  on  farm 
pursuits.  After  going  west  he  met  Miss  Thomas, 
a  native  of  Vermont,  who  had  removed  to  Wis- 
consin in  1837.  They  were  married  and  soon 
afterward  went  to  Minnesota,  where  he  laid  out 
and  named  the  town  of  Owatonna.  However, 
after  a  few  years  he  sold  out  and  returned  to 
Wisconsin,  settling  in  the  town  of  Vernon,  Wau- 
kesha County.  In  early  life  he  had  been  educated 
for  civil  engineering,  in  which  line,  as  well  as  in 
surveying,  he  did  considerable  work  during  the 
early  days  of  Wisconsin.  He  passed  away  in 
Waukesha  County  in  August,  1879,  at  about 
fifty  years  of  age,  leaving  a  wife  and  six  children. 
The  boyhood  days  of  our  subject's  life  were 
spent  on  the  home  farm  near  Waukesha.  After 
completing  the  public-school  studies,  he  entered 
Rochester  Seminary,  in  Racine  County,  where  he 
prepared  for  college.  In  the  fall  of  1882  he 
entered  the  University  of  Wisconsin,  from  which 


he  graduated  in  1886,  with  special  honors.  After- 
ward he  taught  for  one  year  in  a  graded  school  as 
its  principal,  but  did  not  find  the  occupation  con- 
genial, and  so  turned  his  attention  to  the  study  of 
the  law.  Later  he  took  the  regular  course  in  the 
law  department  of  the  state  university,  from 
which  he  graduated  in  1889.  Soon  afterward  he 
came  to  Denver,  where  he  was  attorney  for  the 
Jarvis-Conklin  Mortgage  Trust  Company  for  one 
year,  and  then  opened  an  office  for  himself  in  the 
Good  block.  In  1892  he  opened  an  ofiice  in  the 
Ernest  and  Cranmer  building.  He  has  been 
identified  with  many  important  cases  which 
attracted  more  than  local  attention.  In  the  fam- 
ous case  of  Trimble  vs.  People  he  was  attorney 
for  the  plaintiff  and  succeeded  in  retaining  Mr. 
Trimble  as  a  member  of  the  fire  and  police  board. 
His  specialty  is  mining  law,  in  which  he  has  been 
eminently  successful,  and  he  is  now  engaged  in 
the  prosecution  of  mining  cases  that  involve  vast 
interests. 

In  Denver,  December  31,  1891,  Mr.  Park  mar- 
ried Carrie  I..  Old,  who  was  born  in  Omaha, 
Neb.,  a  daughter  of  Prof.  R.  Orchard  Old;  she 
was  reared  in  Bath,  England,  received  an  excel- 
lent education,  and  is  a  lady  of  many  accomplish- 
ments and  charming  disposition.  Their  only 
child  is  R.  Orchard,  born  in  Nebraska  City  in 
1893. 

Though  reared  a  Republican,  Mr.  Park  became 
an  adherent  of  the  People's  party.  He  was  a 
candidate  for  city  attorney  of  Denver,  but  was  de- 
feated. In  1896  he  stumped  Nebraska  in  Bryan's 
behalf  and  at  other  times  he  has  done  much  to 
advance  the  interests  of  his  party.  He  became  a 
Master  Mason  in  Waterford  Eodge  No.  96  (Wis- 
consin) and  was  demitted  to  Union  lyOdge  No.  7, 
of  Denver. 


QERRY  a.  CEAY,  formerly  under-sheriff 
L/  and  for  five  months  acting  sheriff  of  Arapa- 
f^  hoe  County,  was  well  qualified  by  nature 
for  the  positions  he  has  held,  being  the  possessor 
of  ability  and  courage  not  unlike  that  displayed 
by  his  relative,  the  illustrious  Commodore  Perry, 
the  hero  of  I^ake  Erie.  He  is  of  English  descent, 
but  his  forefathers  have  been  identified  with 
American  history  since  an  early  period  in  the 
settlement  of  this  country,  and  his  grandfather 
and  great-grandfather  were  patriotic  soldiers,  the 


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541 


one  in  the  war  of  18 12,  the  other  in  the  Revolu- 
tion. The  grandfather,  who  was  born  in  Ver- 
mont, engaged  in  farming  throughout  his  active 
life;  when  eighty-seven  years  of  age  he  was  ac- 
cidentally killed.  His  wife,  who  was  a  Miss 
Perry,  died  at  the  age  of  one  hundred  and  two 
years. 

The  father  of  our  subject,  Daniel  Theodore 
Clay,  was  born  in  Rutland,  Vt.,  in  1817,  and  in 
early  days  removed  to  Wisconsin,  where  he  be- 
came a  pioneer  minister  in  the  Baptist  Church 
and  established  a  number  of  congregations.  After 
seventeen  years  in  Wisconsin  he  moved  to  Cob- 
den,  111.,  where  he  continued  in  the  ministry  un- 
til his  death,  in  1878,  at  the  age  of  sixty-four. 
His  wife,  who  was  Olivia  Maria  Beardsley,  was 
born  in  St.  Clair,  Mich.,  and  now  makes  her 
home  in  Denver.  Her  father,  Melvin  Beardsley, 
who  was  descended  from  English  ancestors  that 
settled  in  Connecticut  and  took  part  in  the  Rev- 
olution, was  a  native  of  the  Nutmeg  state,  but 
removed  to  Batavia,  N.  Y.,  from  there  to  St. 
Clair  County,  Mich.,  and  thence  to  Baraboo, 
Sauk  County,  Wis.,  where  he  was  proprietor  of 
a  store.  When  eighty-six  years  of  age  a  severe 
fall  resulted  in  his  death. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  is  one  of  a  family  of 
four  sons  and  two  daughters,  of  whom  two  of  the 
sons  are  deceased.  Harvey,  the  eldest  brother, 
was  a  member  of  a  Wisconsin  regiment  during 
the  Civil  war,  was  wounded  in  the  battle  of 
Antietam,  losing  his  right  arm  at  the  shoulder 
joint.  The  record  in  the  pension  office  shows 
that,  of  all  who  received  similar  wounds  in  the 
war,  he  is  the  sole  survivor.  His  home  is  in 
Fitzgerald,  Ga.  The  second  son,  Orley  T.,  died 
in  Illinois  when  thirty  years  of  age.  Mrs.  Lizzie 
D.  Finley  is  the  manager  of  the  Western  Union 
telegraph  office  in  Canon  City,  Colo.  Perry  A. 
is  next  in  order  of  birth.  Melvin  died  at  the  age 
of  eight  years.  Mrs.  Laura  Morgan  lives  in 
Denver. 

In  Kilbourn  City,  Wis.,  where  he  was  born 
June  4,  1859,  our  subject  spent  only  his  infant 
days.  He  was  six  when  the  family  removed  to 
Cobden,  111.,  and  his  education  was  obtained  in 
the  district  schools  there  and  the  State  Normal 
University  at  Carbondale,  from  which  he  grad- 
uated in  1875.  Afterward  he  taught  for  two 
years  at  Makanda,  111.,  and  then  learned  teleg- 
raphy  in  the  Illinois  Central  depot.      He  was 


with  the  St.  Louis,  Iron  Mountain  &  Southern 
road  and  the  Western  Union  Telegraph  Company 
at  St.  Louis  until  1882,  when  he  came  to  Colo- 
rado. He  was  with  the  Union  Pacific  on  the 
Kansas  Pacific  division  in  Colorado  and  later 
with  the  Denver  &  Rio  Grande  road  until  1889, 
when  he  was  appointed  an  officer  on  the  police 
force,  and  after  patrolling  a  beat  for  nine  months, 
he  was  made  sergeant  and  then  promoted  to  the 
rank  of  captain,  which  was  virtually  the  office  of 
assistant  chief.  In  1894,  through  an  attempt  to 
make  a  political  machine  of  the  police  department, 
the  question  arose  whether  or  not  the  so-called 
metropolitan  system  meant  anything.  Chief-of- 
Police  John  F.  Stone  and  Captain  Clay  contended 
that  removals  could  not  be  made  for  political 
reasons,  and  acting  under  the  advice  of  able 
council  and  the  main  portion  of  the  business 
community  of  Denver,  organized  the  police  de- 
partment, and  held  the  city  hall  against  the  state 
militia.  When  the  matter  finally  reached  the  su- 
preme court,  a  decision  was  rendered  against 
them,  and  Chief  Stone,  Captain  Clay  and  fifty-six 
subordinate  officers  retired  voluntarily  from  the 
city  service. 

During  the  next  two  years  Mr.  Clay  and  Mr. 
Stone  carried  on  a  paper  called  the  Patriot,  in 
the  interests  of  the  Republican  party.  Mr.  Clay 
is  an  adherent  of  that  party,  but  a  strong  sup- 
porter of  its  silver  wing.  In  January,  1896,  he 
was  appointed  under-sheriff  by  Mr.  Webb  and 
two  years  later  he  was  again  appointed  to  the  po- 
sition, which  is  practically  that  of  acting  sheriff. 
In  1896  he  went  to  Europe  in  search  of  the  de- 
faulting clerk  of  the  district  court  of  Arapahoe, 
whom  he  arrested  in  Southampton  and  brought 
back  to  Denver,  after  an  absence  of  only  forty-four 
days.  In  May,  1898,  Sheriff  Webb  died.  The 
last  paper  which  he  dictated  and  signed  three 
days  before  his  death  was  as  follows:  "To  the 
Honorable  Board  of  County  Commissioners  of 
Arapahoe  County,  Colo.:  Gentlemen:  I  am  now 
lying  seriously  sick.  I  respectfully  request  your 
honorable  body,  in  the  event  of  my  death,  to 
appoint  Perry  A.  Clay  sheriff.  He  has  been  a 
most  faithful  friend  to  me,  and  as  under-sheriff 
has  proven  himself  to  be  a  most  able  and  efficient 
officer,  and  is  thoroughly  familiar  with  the  duties 
pertaining  to  the  office  of  sheriff. 

;  'Very  respectfully, 

"E.  H.  Wbbb." 


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The  various  Grand  Army  posts  of  the  city 
passed  resolutions  requesting  this  appointment, 
and  lawyers  and  business  men  joined  fraternal 
societies  in  the  same  request;  but  the  county 
board  selected  another  man.  Mr.  Clay  did  not 
wait  for  something  to  turn  up.  The  next  day  he 
bought  a  half  interest  in  The  Denver  Examiner, 
"the  live  weekly  of  the  west." 

Fraternally  Mr.  Clay  is  connected  with  Denver 
Lodge  No.  17,  B.  P.  O.  E.,  and  Temple  Lodge 
No.  84,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.  His  marriage  in  1883 
united  him  with  Miss  Annie  M.  Smith,  who  was 
born  in  Jefferson  City,  Mo.,  the  daughter  of  John 
Smith,  of  that  place.  They  have  two  children, 
Horace  Greeley  and  Archibald.  In  person  Mr. 
Clay  is  six  feet  one  inch  in  height  and  weighs  two 
hundred  and  ten  pounds.  His  countenance  ex- 
presses honor  and  honesty,  thus  reflecting  the 
true  history  of  his  life.  He  is  no  sycophant  or 
worshiper  of  power.  He  is  consistently  tem- 
perate and  moral.  He  is  tolerant  and  generous  to 
a  fault.  He  is  a  speaker  and  writer  of  no  mean 
ability.  In  December,  1892,  he  delivered  a  gen- 
eral eulogy  at  the  Elks'  annual  memorial  service, 
which  was  reproduced  in  over  thirty  of  the  great 
metropolitan  papers  and  magazines  of  the  United 
States.  He  has  written  verse  which  the  Harper 
publications  have  considered  acceptable.  He 
possesses  no  small  or  petty  larceny  traits  of  char- 
acter, nor  is  he  "mealy-mouthed;"  men  and 
things  are  called  by  their  right  names  by  Perry 
A.  Clay. 


0AMUEL  CRAFT,  who  has  engaged  in  con- 
?\  tracting  and  building  in  Denver  since  1888, 
Cv/  and  is  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Craft  &  Gil- 
more,  was  born  in  Boston,  Mass.,  November  24, 
i860,  and  was  the  fifth  among  ten  children,  all 
but  two  of  whom  are  still  living.  He  is  the  son  of 
Reuben  and  Esther  (Bailey)  Craft,  natives  respec- 
tively of  St.  Johns,  N.  B.,and  Maine,  both  now  de- 
ceased. His  paternal  grandfather,  Samuel  Craft, 
was  born  in  New  Brunswick,  of  Scotch  descent, 
and  was  a  carpenter  by  occupation;  the  maternal 
grandfather,  Edmund  Bailey,  was  a  farmer  in 
Maine. 

Having  learned  the  carpenter's  trade  in  Bos- 
ton, in  September,  1875,  our  subject  went  to  Min- 
neapolis, where  in  time  he  became  foreman  for  a 
firm  of  large  contractors.     In  1886  he  began  as  a 


contractor  there,  but  two  years  later  removed  to 
Denver,  where  he  now  owns  residence  and  busi- 
ness property.  In  January,  1897,  he  formed  the 
firm  of  Craft  &  Gilmore,  which  is  doing  a  good 
business  in  the  city  and  vicinity.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Carpenters  and  Builders'  Association 
and  takes  an  interest  in  everything  pertaining  to 
his  chosen  work  in  life.  Politically  he  adheres 
to  the  principles  of  the  Republican  party,  but  has 
never  desired  to  identify  himself  with  public  af- 
fairs, preferring  to  devote  himself  to  private  busi- 
ness matters.  Fraternally  he  is  a  member  of  Col- 
orado Lodge  No.  I,  K.  of  P.,  in  which  he  is  past 
chancellor,  and  also  belongs  to  the  Uniform  Rank 
No.  17.  While  in  Minneapolis  he  was  married, 
his  wife  being  Martha  Giemer,  a  native  of  that 
city. 


■gEbRGE  W.  WILDER.     The  history  of  the 

a  Wilder  family  in  America  has  about  it  an  el- 
ement of  romance.  Edward  Marlow  Wilder, 
Earl  of  Shefiield,  was  an  officer  in  the  Queen's 
army  and  received  a  wound  in  the  battle  of  Wa- 
terloo, from  the  effects  of  which  he  died.  By  his 
marriage  to  a  daughter  of  Sir  Arthur  Stuart,  mem- 
ber of  the  Scotch  house  of  Hanover,  he  had  an 
only  son,  James,  who  ran  away  from  home  at  the 
age  of  thirteen  years  and  was  therefore  disinheri- 
ted, the  Earl's  personal  property  being  willed  to 
his  son's  oldest  son.  James  refused  to  receive 
anything  whatever  from  the  estate.  He  came  to 
America,  settled  in  Portland,  Me. ,  and  studied 
law  there  and  in  Boston,  afterward  engaging  in 
the  profession.  In  time  he  rose  to  be  judge  of 
the  supreme  court  of  Massachusetts  and  while 
holding  that  office  he  died,  at  the  age  of  sixty- 
eight  years.  Fraternally  he  was  a  thirty-third 
degree  Mason.  He  married  Mary  Morris,  who 
was  born  in  Massachusetts  and  died  there.  They 
became  the  parents  of  twelve  children,  all  of  whom 
are  living,  George  W.,  our  subject,  being  the 
only  son  and  the  youngest  child.  One  of  his  sis- 
ters, Ruth,  is  a  missionary  in  India. 

The  primary  education  of  our  subject  was  ob- 
tained in  Dartmouth  school,  Boston.  At  the  age 
of  nine  he  went  to  Nova  Scotia,  where  he  re- 
mained for  three  years,  and  then  returned  to  Bos- 
ton. When  thirteen  he  enlisted  in  the  United 
States  navy  and  through  successive  promotions 
rose  to  be  mate,  serving  on  the  steamers  "Wyo- 


¥ 


HON.  RUFUS  CLARK. 


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ming,"  "Minnesota,"  "Tennessee"  and  "Ports- 
mouth.' '  During  hissix  years'  connection  with  the 
navy  he  was  in  France,  Spain,  Germany,  China, 
Africa,  and  around  Cape  Horn  and  Cape  of  Good 
Hope.  He  was  honorably  discharged  in  Washing- 
ton in  1881.  After  resigning  from  the  navy  he 
worked  for  four  years  at  the  carpenter's  trade,  but 
first  traveling  for  nearly  a  year,  visiting  Washing- 
ton, Baltimore,  Norfolk,  Va.,  St.  I,ouis,  Mo.,  and 
Kansas  City.  In  1882  he  came  to  Colorado  for  a 
New  York  firm,  and  after  one  year  in  their  serv- 
ice he  began  mining  in  the  Gunnison  district. 
From  there  he  went  to  Platte  Canon,  then  to  Black- 
hawk,  and  later  became  owner  of  one-fourth  in- 
terest in  eight  hundred  and  forty  acres  in  Douglas 
County,  where  were  placer  and  lead  mines.  In 
the  meantime  he  established  his  headquarters  in 
Denver,  where  he  is  now  engaged  in  contracting 
and  building.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Carpenters 
and  Builders'  Association  and  politically  is  a  Re- 
publican. By  his  marriage  to  Hattie  Williams,  who 
was  born  in  Greeley,  Colo.,  he  has  two  children, 
Daisy  and  Ida. 


HON.  RUFUS  CIvARK.  Perhaps  there  is 
no  life  that  more  fully  exemplifies  what  it 
is  in  the  power  of  God  to  accomplish  than 
does  that  of  Mr.  Clark.  His  has  been  a  strange 
and  unusual  career,  and  its  record  tends  to  in- 
crease our  faith  in  God's  wisdom  and  grace. 
When  a  lad  of  about  fifteen  he  was  converted, 
but  in  a  boyish  way,  that  resulted  from  impulse 
rather  than  reason.  He  became  a  sailor  and  went 
to  sea,  which  threw  him  into  intimate  association 
with  a  class  of  men  who  were  rough  and  Godless, 
and  naturally  he  soon  fell  into  their  ways.  How- 
ever he  says  it  took  him  a  year  to  learn  to  swear 
without  reluctance,  for  the  oaths  of  the  sailors  at 
first  sounded  very  harsh  to  him.  From  swearing 
he  took  another  step  and  began  to  drink,  in  the 
course  of  time  becoming  a  confirmed  drunkard. 
These  habits  became  so  imbedded  in  his  nature 
that  when  he  left  the  sea  tbey  clung  to  him.  He 
came  to  Colorado,  a  pioneer,  and  while  financial 
success  attended  his  every  effort  he  continued  a 
seemingly  hopeless  slave  to  drink.  His  appetite 
for  liquor  was  insatiable  and  demanded  constantly 
fresh  stimulants. 

It  seems  strange  that,  while  so  deep  in  the  mire 
of  sin  and  drink  that  be  contemplated  committing 


suicide,  he  still  retained  the  confidence  of  busi- 
ness men.  This  was  doubtless  because  his  word 
could  always  be  relied  upon,  even  when  he  was 
under  the  influence  of  whiskey.  Whenever  he 
made  a  promise  to  merchants,  they  knew  he 
would  fulfill  the  obligation.  At  any  time  he 
desired  the  bankers  gave  him  money  without 
security,  though  other  business  men  they  required 
to  furnish  an  additional  signer  as  security.  In 
all  these  years  he  was  never  arrested,  though 
looking  back  over  the  past  he  wonders  how  he 
escaped. 

In  the  spring  of  1873  the  noted  evangelist.  Rev. 
E.  P.  Hammond,  was  holding  a  great  revival  in 
Denver,  and  out  of  curiosity  he  attended  the 
meeting  on  the  23d  of  March.  His  sense  of  hon- 
or prevented  him  from  desiring  a  rear  seat  where 
might  be  others  like  himself,  and  so,  thinking  in 
this  way  he  would  not  create  a  disturbance,  he 
asked  the  usher  to  take  him  as  far  forward  as 
possible.  He  was  given  a  seat  near  the  minister. 
The  meeting  was  enthusiastic.  Mr.  Hammond 
preached  what  was  called  the  gambler's  sermon. 
Sinners  wept  and  there  was  a  great  outpouring 
of  God's  spirit.  He  came  under  conviction  of  sin 
and  was  converted  the  same  night.  At  once  the 
desire  for  drink  was  taken  from  him,  and  during 
the  twenty-five  years  that  have  followed  he  has 
never  had  a  craving  for  liquor.  In  this  the  grace 
of  God  was  abundantly  manifested.  At  first 
people  said  it  was  one  of  his  jokes.  Three  days 
after  his  conversion  there  was  an  open  air  revival 
on  the  street,  and  he  told  the  listeners  the  story 
of  his  conversion.  Those  who  heard  him  said 
his  conversion  was  genuine,  but  he  was  so  soaked 
with  whiskey  and  rum  he  would  never  be  able  to 
carry  out  his  reform  and  good  intentions.  As 
the  days  passed,  however,  the  power  of  God 
began  to  be  shown  in  his  life,  and  the  fruits  of  his 
conversion  were  evident  on  every  hand.  He 
united  with  the  United  Brethren  Church,  to 
which  his  benefactions  have  been  continuous. 
With  another  gentleman,  he  also  donated  the 
building  now  occupied  by  the  Salvation  army,  for 
he  is  a  thorough  believer  in  the  good  accomp- 
lished by  this  organization .  At  Shangay  Sherbro, 
Africa,  sixty  miles  from  Freetown,  on  the  west 
coast  of  Africa,  he  built,  in  1886,  a  college  thatis 
known  as  the  Rufus  Clark  and  Wife  Theological 
Training  School.  The  corner  stone  was  taken 
from  John  Newton's  slave  pen  in  Africa,  which 


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had  been  built  a  century  ago,  John  Newton  later 
became  converted  and  was  known  as  Rev.  John 
Newton,  a  noted  evangelist  and  preacher.  The 
building  was  dedicated  in  1887;  it  is  a  three- 
story  structure  of  granite,  and  at  present  has  two 
hundred  and  thirteen  students.  During  its  first 
year  he  paid  for  thirteen  scholarships  to  be  pre- 
sented to  worthy  young  men,  and  in  other  ways 
he  has  promoted  its  welfare. 

The  site  for  the  University  of  Denver  was  the 
gift  of  Mr.  Clark,  who  gave  it  to  the  institution, 
together  with  $500  in  cash.  At  that  time  he  es- 
timated that  he  had  given  $16,000  to  the  college, 
figuring  that  the  eighty  acres  were  worth  $200 
per  acre,  but  the  rapid  rise  in  the  value  of  real 
estate  in  a  very  short  time  made  his  gift  worth 
$80,000.  He  has  since  been  a  trustee  of  the  Uni- 
versity. 

The  Clark  family  was  founded  in  America  in 
1620,  when  one  of  that  name  came  over  from 
England  as  mate  of  the  "Mayflower."  Rev.  Josiah 
Clark,  a  minister  of  the  Congregational  Church, 
left  Plymouth  Rock  in  1630,  and  went  to  Wind- 
sor Locks,  Conn.,  where  he  settled.  John  Clark, 
who  was  born  in  Lebanon,  Conn.,  served  from 
the  beginning  to  the  close  of  the  Revolution,  and 
afterward  engaged  in  farming  at  Coventry,  Tol- 
land County,  Conn.,  where  he  died  at  ninety-six. 
His  son,  Milton,  our  subject's  father,  was  born 
in  Coventry,  served  in  the  war  of  18 12,  engaged 
in  farming  in  Tolland  County  and  died  there  at 
seventy -two  years.  His  wife,  Anna,  daughter  of 
Daniel  Dimmick,  was  a  member  of  a  family  of 
land  owners  and  farmers  in  Tolland  County.  She 
died  in  that  place  when  fifty-nine  years  old.  Of 
her  family  of  one  daughter  and  four  sons  all  but 
one  (the  daughter)  attained  mature  years. 

The  youngest  of  these,  and  the  only  one  now 
living,  is  Rufus  Clark,  who  was  born  in  Coventry 
December  4,  1822.  In  1836  he  went  to  Farm- 
ington  and  engaged  in  farming  for  eighteen 
months,  after  which,  in  1838,  he  went  to  sea  in 
the  coasting  trade.  In  1 839  he  went  on  a  whaling 
voyage  on  the  "Delphos,"  which  touched  at  King 
George's  Land,  Australia,  and  was  at  sea  for  sev- 
enteen months,  mainly  in  the  South  Atlantic. 
Afterward  he  shipped  on  the  "Panama,"  of  Sag 
Harbor,  L.  L,  to  the  South  Atlantic  and  Cape  of 
Good  Hope,  a  two  years'  trip.  Next  he  was  on 
a  whaling  barque  in  the  Indian  Ocean,  and  then 
became  second  mate  of  the  "Portland,"  out  of 


Sag  Harbor.  In  1848  he  was  made  chief  mate  of 
the  "Columbia,"  which  sailed  to  the  Arctic 
Ocean,  via  Cape  Horn,  and  reached  the  ocean 
through  Behring  Strait,  Latitude  64  North. 
About  this  time  occurred  the  discovery  of  gold 
in  California  and  the  sailors  wanted  to  desert,  but 
he  went  ahead  and  carried  out  his  contract.  The 
fog  prevented  him  from  filling  his  ship,  but  the 
captain  gave  him  his  discharge  and  he  went  to 
the  California  mines,  spending  two  and  one-half 
years  near  Columbus.  In  1852  he  started  for 
Australia,  but  was  wrecked  en  route  on  the  Nav- 
igator Islands  and  was  picked  up  by  a  ship  bound 
for  Auckland,  New  Zealand.  There  he  took 
another  ship  for  Sydney,  where  he  worked  in  the 
Turin  gold  mines.  Next  he  traveled  on  foot  four 
hundred  miles  across  the  country  and  spent  eight- 
een months  on  the  Melbourne  side,  returning  to 
the  United  States  in  1854  and  visiting  his  early 
home  in  Connecticut. 

In  1854  Mr.  Clark  went  to  Taylor  County, Iowa, 
where  he  engaged  in  farming  and  the  manufac- 
ture of  lumber,  erecting  one  of  the  first  sawmills 
there.  In  April,  1859,  on  the  discovery  of  gold  in 
Pike's  Peak,  he  started,  with  ox  train,  for  Colo- 
rado, taking  his  family  via  Omaha  and  the  Platte, 
and  reaching  Overland  Park  July  11.  Here  he 
homesteaded  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres,  where 
he  engaged  in  farming.  He  still  owns  a  part  of 
this  property,  which  adjoins  the  city  limits. 
Making  a  specialty  of  potatoes,  he  raised  in  1867 
a  crop  that  sold  for  $30,000,  and  he  hauled  as 
much  as  $1,500  worth  of  potatoes  to  Denver  in  a 
day.  At  one  time  he  owned  over  twenty  thousand 
acres  of  land  in  Colorado,  but  he  sold  fifteen  thou- 
sand eight  hundred  acres,  seven  and  one-half 
miles  southeast  of  Denver,  to  the  Clark  colony, 
and  the  first  few  years  after  the  sale  he  paid  the 
taxes  on  the  property  until  the  reorganization  of 
the  colony  in  1895,  when  the  amount  was  made 
good  to  him.  He  is  still  a  very  large  owner  of 
ranches  and  city  property,  a  fact  which  is  shown 
by  the  statement  that  his  assessments  take  twelve 
pages  in  the  county  assessor's  books.  He  pays 
taxes  on  forty-five  hundred  pieces  of  property, 
this  being  more  tracts  that  are  taxed  than  anj^ 
other  property  owner  in  the  county  has. 

The  first  wife  of  Mr.  Clark  was  Miss  Mary 
Pomeroy,  of  New  York  state.  In  Iowa  he  mar- 
ried Miss  Lucinda  Watts,  who  was  born  in  Ohio 
and  died  in  Denver  in  1861,  leaving  a  daughter, 


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now  Mrs.  Mary  Walker,  of  Bedford,  Iowa.  His 
third  marriage  was  to  Miss  Mary  Gaff,  of  Iowa, and 
his  present  wife  is  Mrs.  Ella  (Knight)  Ferryman, 
of  Illinois,  a  daughter  of  Rev.  John  Knight,  a  Cum- 
berland Presbyterian  minister,  a  pioneer  of  Fay- 
ette County,  111.  Her  mother  was  Ann  (Hinds) 
Knight. 

Politically  Mr.  Clark  is  a  silver  Republican. 
In  the  fall  of  1864  he  was  nominated  for  represent- 
ative in  the  territorial  legislature  and  was  elected, 
serving  in  the  session  of  1865,  when  the  legisla- 
ture met  in  Golden  City.  In  1867  he  was  chosen 
a  member  of  the  board  of  education  and  during 
his  term  a  new  school  house  was  built;  again  in 
1880  he  served  another  term  in  this  position.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Pioneers'  Society. 


Gl  NDREW  R.  BATY  is  engaged  in  business 
LA  in  Denver  as  a  contractor,  builder  and 
I  I  cabinet-maker.  He  is  a  descendant  of  an 
old  Scotch  family,  originally  known  as  Beaty, 
but  the  name  has  been  shortened  to  the  present 
spelling  by  recent  generations.  His  father, 
Samuel,  was  a  son  of  Adam  Baty,  a  farmer  in 
Kentucky  and  a  soldier  in  the  war  of  1 8 1 2 .  After 
learning  the  cabinet-maker's  trade  in  his  native 
place  in  Kentucky,  Samuel  Baty  removed  to 
Rushville  and  became  a  pioneer  of  Rushville,  then 
a  small,  unimportant  hamlet  in  Schuyler  County, 
111.  I,ater  he  followed  his  trade  in  Vienna,  Scott 
County,  Ind.,  but  went  from  there  to  Macon, 
Macon  County,  111.,  and  resided  in  that  place 
until  his  death  at  fifty-five  years  of  age.  His 
wife,  Sarah  Ross,  was  born  in  Kentucky  and  died 
in  Iowa  when  past  eighty  years  of  age.  They 
were  the  parents  of  four  sons  and.  two  daughters, 
of  whom  all  are  living  but  one  son  and  one 
daughter. 

Of  these  our  subject  was  third  in  order  of  birth. 
He  was  born  in  Rushville,  111.,  in  1832,  and  at 
the  age  of  ten  accompanied  his  parents  to  Indiana, 
where  he  received  his  education  in  a  subscription 
school,  kept  in  a  log  house.  In  boyhood  he 
learned  the  cabinet-maker's  trade  and  was  a 
practical  workman  when  still  quite  young.  Re- 
maining with  his  father  until  twenty-one  years  of 
age,  he  then  took  up  carpentering  and  contract- 
ing in  Lexington,  Ind.,  where  he  remained  for 
fifteen  years.  His  next  home  was  in  Indianapolis, 
where  he  engaged  in  contracting  upon  a  large 


scale,  building  as  many  as  seventy  or  eighty 
houses  a  year.  After  eight  years  in  Indianapolis, 
he  went  to  Chicago,  111.,  where  he  had  a  jobbing 
shop  and  engaged  in  contracting  for  five  years. 
In  1885  he  came  as  far  west  as  Lincoln,  Neb., 
and  worked  at  his  trade.  The  next  year  he 
located  a  homestead  near  Gandy,  in  Logan 
County,  Neb.,  where  he  proved  up  his  claim  and 
made  improvements  upon  it.  He  remained  there 
until  1891,  when  he  rented  the  place  and  came  to 
Denver.  He  has  since  engaged  in  contracting 
here,  having  been  located  formerly  at  No.  1655 
Broadway,  but  now  at  No.  1307  Broadway. 

At  one  time  Mr.  Baty  was  a  Knight  of  Pythias, 
but  he  is  not  identified  with  the  organization  at 
present.  He  is  a  member  of  the  South  Broad- 
way Christian  Church,  of  which  Rev.  S.  B. 
Moore  is  pastor.  In  political  belief  he  is  a  Dem- 
ocrat. He  was  married,  in  Lexington,  Ind.,  to 
America  HoUenbeck,  a  native  of  that  place  and 
the  daughter  of  Henry  HoUenbeck,  who  was  an 
agriculturist.  They  are  the  parents  of  three 
children,  namely:  Frank,  who  is  with  the  Novelty 
Manufacturing  Company;  Samuel  S.,  a  charter 
member  of  the  Fraternal  Union,  of  which  he  is 
the  grand  treasurer  and  deputy  grand  secretary; 
and  May,  wife  of  F.  A.  Falkenburg,  who  is  head 
consul  of  the  Woodmen  of  the  World,  and  its 
originator  in  Denver. 


r~  ERDINAND'  BRINK  has  followed  the  oc- 
1^  cupation  of  a  carpenter  and  builder  in  Denver 
I  ^  for  some  years  and  has  met  with  success  at 
the  trade,  having  been  employed  in  the  construc- 
tion of  many  residences  and  a  immber  of  public 
buildings  in  the  city.  Before  coming  here  he 
followed  his  trade  in  several  other  large  cities  ot 
the  United  States,  and  being  a  conscientious,  skill- 
ful workman,  had  never  experienced  any  diSiculty 
in  securing  employment.  Since  starting  in  busi- 
ness for  himself  he  has  done  all  kinds  of  job  work, 
as  well  as  engaged  in  the  building  of  houses. 

In  Jylland,  Denmark,  the  subject  of  this  sketch 
was  born  March  17,  1859,  being  the  fifth  among 
seven  children  who  attained  mature  years  and  of 
whom  all  but  one  are  still  living.  His  parents 
were  Soren  and  Georgiana  Brink,  the  former  a  na- 
tive of  Jylland.  The  latter  was  born  in  Lolland,  a 
descendant  of  an  old  Danish  family,  and  died  in 
1897.     The  father,  who  was  for  years  a  business 


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man  of  Sundby,  is  now  living  there  retired.  Of 
the  children  our  subject  was  the  only  one  who 
settled  in  the  United  States.  He  was  reared  and 
educated  in  Sundby  and  at  the  age  of  fifteen  be- 
came an  apprentice  to  the  carpenters  and  build- 
ers' trade,  at  which  he  served  for  five  years.  He 
then  went  to  Copenhagen  and  secured  employ- 
ment at  his  trade. 

When  a  young  man,  in  1882,  Mr.  Brink  came 
to  America.  After  spending  two  weeks  in  New 
York  he  went  to  Pennsylvania  and  for  three 
months  remained  in  the  vicinity  of  Altoona,  in 
the  soft  coal  region  of  Pennsylvania.  In  the 
spring  of  1883  he  went  to  Chicago,  where  he 
worked  at  his  trade  for  some  months,  but  in  the 
fall  of  the  same  year  he  went  further  west.  He 
spent  a  few  days  in  Seattle,  Wash.,  and  then 
went  on  to  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  where  he  re- 
mained for  three  months.  Afterward  for  a  year 
he  worked  in  Sacramento.  Returning  east  to 
Chicago,  he  spent  three  years  in  his  chosen  oc- 
cupation. In  1888  he  came  to  Denver,  where, 
after  working  as  an  employe  for  some  years,  he 
started  in  business  for  himself,  in  April,  1895. 

In  this  city,  in  1888,  occurred  the  marriage  ot 
Mr.  Brink  to  Miss  Mary  Schwartz,  who  was  born 
in  Sweden  and  reared  in  Norway.  Two  sons 
have  been  born  of  the  union,  Norman  and  Ros- 
well.  Fraternally  Mr.  Brink  is  actively  con- 
nected with  the  Woodmen  of  the  World.  Politi- 
cally he  is  independent,  voting  for  the  best  man, 
regardless  of  party. 


"T  LMER  P.  NEWMAN.  While  the  Newman 
^  pianos  have  been  in  the  market  for  only  a 
_  short  time,  yet  they  have  gained  a  wide  repu- 
tation for  sweetness  of  tone  and  durability.  They 
contain  some  important  improvements,  which  the 
manufacturer  has  found  absolutely  necessary  to 
meet  climatic  conditions.  The  wood  used  in  the 
construction  of  the  frames  and  cases  is  seasoned 
and  kiln-dried  in  Colorado  and  will  not  shrink  or 
warp,  as  is  the  case  in  pianos  shipped  to  Colorado 
from  the  east.  The  cases  are  made  of  solid 
natural  wood  and  the  front  has  a  nickel-plated 
metallic  guard  to  prevent  the  case  from  being  in- 
jured when  it  is  moved  through  doors.  The 
four  hundred  pounds  of  iron  used  in  each  piano 
come  from  the  mountains  of  this  state  and  are 
cast  in  the  foundries  of  Denver.     A  special  feature 


is  the  solid  iron  stringing  frame  with  patent  iron 
grip  bars  for  holding  the  tuning  pins,  and  as  the 
tuning  plank  is  not  connected  with  the  tuning 
pins  the  pianos  are  not  affected  by  excessive  dry 
or  damp  weather.  There  are  four  pedals,  one 
very  soft,  another  medium  soft,  to  be  fastened 
down  when  children  are  at  practice;  and  a  third 
that  operates  a  patent  harp  attachment  which 
brings  into  use  an  entire  set  of  small  hammers, 
made  of  brass  and  faced  with  soft  leather,  pro- 
ducing a  nearly  perfect  harp  tone. 

The  manufacturer  of  these  pianos  is  a  native 
of  Lansing,  Mich.,  and  a  son  of  G.  W.  and 
Eunice  (King)  Newman,  natives  of  Rochester 
County,  N.  Y.,  and  Ohio  respectively.  The 
former,  who  was  a  farmer  in  early  years,  settled 
near  Lansing,  where  he  remained  until  his  re- 
tirement from  active  labors.  Previous  to  this  he 
had  started  an  orange  grove  at  Palmetto,  Fla., 
and  there  he  now  resides.  His  wife  died  in 
Michigan.  She  was  a  daughter  of  John  King, 
who  was  born  in  Medina,  Ohio,  and  removed  to 
Michigan,  where  he  owned  and  operated  a  farm. 
The  paternal  grandfather  of  our  subject,  Benja- 
min Newman,  was  born  in  Greece,  N.  Y.,  and 
was  a  member  of  an  old  eastern  family  that 
followed  agriculture  principally. 

Of  a  family  of  eight  children,  five  now  living, 
our  subject  isoiext  to  the  oldest.  He  was  edu- 
cated in  the  Battle  Creek  (Mich.)  College,  and 
at  the  age  of  eighteen  began  to  learn  organ 
making  with  a  firm  in  Battle  Creek,  where  he 
remained  for  two  years.  He  then  went  to  Detroit, 
where  he  learned  piano  making  with  a  firm  of 
piano  manufacturers.  From  there  he  went  to 
Chicago,  where  he  was  with  George  P.  Bent,  a 
piano  manufacturer.  Returning  to  Lansing, 
Mich.,  he  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  the 
Newman  organs.  In  1891  he  came  to  Denver, 
where  he  engaged  in  the  sale  of  pianos  and  organs 
for  eastern  manufacturers  for  five  years.  The 
high  price  of  these  pianos  and  the  fact  that  they 
were  not  adapted  to  this  climate,  led  him  to  en- 
gage in  the  manufacture  of  pianos  of  his  own. 
He  spent  four  months  perfecting  a  pattern,  which 
was  entirely  original,  and  completed  his  first 
pianos  in  November,  1896,  since  which  time  he 
has  engaged  in  their  manufacture  at  Nos.  1805-7 
Blake  street.  While  selling  some  of  other 
makes,  his  largest  sales  are  of  his  own  pianos, 
which  are  strictly  high  grade,   sweet  toned  and 


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sold  on  easy  payments.  In  addition,  he  also 
does  considerable  business  in  repairing  and 
tuning  instruments. 


0RRISON  B.  Mc  DONALD,  at  the  time  of 
the  Civil  war  Mr.  Mc  Donald  was  a  resident 
of  Iowa  and  he  was  one  of  four  brothers 
who  enlisted  in  the  Second  Iowa  Infantry.  In 
the  spring  of  1864  his.  name  was  enrolled  as  a 
member  of  Company  G,  which  was  mustered  into 
service  and  ordered  to  Rome,  Ga. ,  and  there  as- 
signed to  Logan's  corps  for  the  Atlanta  campaign. 
With  the  others  of  his  company  he  marched  to 
Savannah  and  then  through  the  Carolinas  on 
Sherman's  famous  march  to  the  sea,  being  in  the 
advance  regiment  at  the  time  of  Johnston's  sur- 
render. He  participated  in  the  grand  review  in 
Washington  and  was  mustered  out  in  that  city 
in  June,  1865,  returning  to  his  home  with  a  fine 
record  as  a  patriot  and  soldier. 

The  Mc  Donald  family  was  founded  in  America 
under  strange  circumstances.  Our  subject's  grand- 
father, Orrison  McDonald,  when  a  youth  of 
eighteen,  was  one  day  fishing  in  company  with 
three  other  young  men  and  was  kidnapped  by 
the  English,  taken  on  board  a  vessel  and  pressed 
into  service  against  the  Americans,  the  Revolu- 
tionary war  being  then  in  progress.  He  was  a 
Highlander  and  had  been  reared  to  believe  in 
liberty  and  freedom  of  thought  as  man's  inalien- 
able right.  Naturally,  therefore,  he  resented 
his  forced  fighting  against  a  people  in  whose 
cause  he  thoroughly  believed.  After  six  months 
with  the  British  an  opportunity  came  for  him  to 
escape  and  he  at  once  joined  the  Americans.  He 
was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  major  in  their  army 
and  was  twice  wounded  while  in  the  service. 
When  peace  was  declared  he  received  bounty  land 
situated  at  Saratoga  Springs,  N.  Y.  He  mar- 
ried an  American  girl  and  from  that  time  forth 
his  interests  were  all  in  America,  where  he  re- 
mained until  his  death  at  seventy  years. 

Among  the  children  of  Major  Mc  Donald  was 
a  son  who  bore  his  name,  Orrison.  He  was  born 
at  Saratoga  Springs  and  there  grew  to  manhood. 
From  New  York  he  removed  to  Sandusky,  Ohio, 
and  from  there  to  Fulton,  Jackson  County,  Iowa, 
where  he  engaged  in  farming.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  and  a  man 
of  consistent  Christian  character.     He  died  at 


sixty-three  years.  His  wife  bore  the  maiden 
name  of  Deborah  West  and  was  the  daughter  of 
a  prominent  minister  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church.  She  was  born  in  Saratoga  County, 
N.  Y. ,  and  died  in  Iowa  in  1894,  aged  ninety-one 
years  and  six  months.  Of  her  family  of  fourteen 
children,  all  but  three  are  still  living,  Orrison 
being  the  fourth  of  the  number.  He  was  born  in 
Lewis  County,  N.  Y. ,  Julj'  3,  1828,  and  spent 
the  first  twelve  years  of  his  life  in  that  state. 
Afterward  he  attended  the  public  schools  of  San- 
dusky, Ohio,  and  in  that  place  he  was  apprenticed 
to  the  tinsmith's  trade  at  the  age  of  seventeen. 
He  began  in  business  for  himself  at  Cold  Creek, 
Ohio,  but  after  three  years  there  returned  to  New 
York  and  engaged  in  the  tinware  and  stove  busi- 
ness at  Angelica,  Allegany  County,  for  three 
years.  His  next  location  was  in  Wisconsin, 
where  he  carried  on  a  tin  and  hardware  and  dry- 
goods  store  at  Kingston  for  two  years.  Going 
from  there  to  Iowa,  he  spent  a  short  time  in 
Fulton,  Jackson  County,  and  afterward  carried 
on  business  at  West  Liberty,  Muscatine  County, 
for  sixteen  years. 

During  the  absence  of  Mr.  McDonald  in  the 
army,  the  business  was  conducted  by  his  wife. 
On  his  return  he  resumed  work  in  the  same  place, 
but  in  1 87 1  sold  out  and  moved  to  Virginia  City, 
then  in  the  midst  of  its  "boom."  He  built  a 
store  building  and  engaged  in  plumbing  and  gas- 
fitting,  the  manufacture  of  tinware  and  the  sale 
of  tinware  and  hardware.  A  fire  burned  his 
building  to  the  ground  and  caused  serious  loss, 
but  with  undaunted  pluck  he  commenced  again. 
In  188 1  he  came  to  Denver,  where  he  started  in 
business  near  his  present  location.  In  1893  he 
located  at  No.  2628  Larimer  street,  where  he  has 
a  two-story  building,  25x125  feet  in  dimensions. 
He  carries  on  the  same  line  of  business  that  he 
has  successfully  conducted  in  other  places,  his 
specialties  being  furnace  work,  plumbing  and 
gasfitting  and  the  manufacture  of  tinware.  In 
1893  he  formed  the  McDonald  Hardware  Com- 
pany, his  partner  being  J.  S.  Barber. 

The  principle  of  bimetallism  has  in  Mr.  Mc- 
Donald one  of  its  stoutest  champions.  He  be- 
lieves the  highest  prosperity  will  come  to  the 
west  only  when  silver  is  placed  upon  its  proper 
basis.  Fraternally  he  is  connected  with  High- 
lands Lodge  No.  86,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  and  Reno 
Post  No.   39,  G.  A.  R.     While  residing  in  West 


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Liberty,  Iowa,  he  served  as  alderman  for  two 
terms,  and  was  also  township  trustee  there  for 
two  years.  In  Erie,  Pa.,  he  married  Miss 
Fidelia  Harding,  who  was  born  in  Steuben 
County,  N.  Y.  Four  children  were  born  of 
their  union,  but  two  died  in  infancy.  Martin, 
who  was  in  business  with  his  father,  died  in 
Denver  at  the  age  of  thirtj^-two;  he  married 
Anna  Hanson,  who  survives  him.  The  daughter, 
Mrs.  Cassie  Elliott,  lives  in  West  Liberty,  Iowa, 
and  is  the  mother  of  two  children,  Mrs.  Edith 
Harris  and  Efl<3ie.  Mrs.  Harris  is  the  mother 
of  two  daughters  and  one  son,  the  latter  named 
Donald  after  his  great-grandfather. 


ELARENCE  S.  JACKSON,  vice-president 
and  treasurer  of  the  Jackson-Smith  Pho- 
tograph Company,  and  one  of  the  rising 
young  business  men  of  Denver,  was  born  in 
Washington,  D.  C,  February  2,  1876,  and  is  a 
son  of  William  H.  and  Emily  (Painter)  Jackson. 
He  is  a  great-great-nephew  of  Samuel  Wilson, 
the  original  of  "Uncle  Sam,"  the  well-known 
sobriquet  of  the  United  States.  It  is  said  that 
after  the  declaration  of  war  with  England  in  1812, 
Elbert  Anderson,  of  New  York,  then  a  contractor, 
visited  Troy  on  the  Hudson,  where  he  purchased 
a  large  quantity  of  provisions.  The  inspectors  of 
the  provisions  were  Ebenezer  and  Samuel  Wilson, 
and  the  latter  (who  was  known  as  Uncle  Sam) 
usually  superintended  in  person  a  large  number 
of  workmen.  The  casks  were  marked  "E.  A.- 
U.  S."  A  facetious  fellow,  on  being  asked  the 
meaning  of  these  letters  said,  it  mu.st  mean  Elbert 
Anderson  and  Uncle  Sam.  The  joke  passed 
current  among  the  workmen,  and  Uncle  Sam  was 
occasionally  rallied  on  the  subject.  Many  of 
these  workmen  went  to  the  front,  and  there  the 
joke  was  told  so  often  that,  before  the  first  cam- 
paign ended,  it  appeared  in  print.  It  gained 
favor  until  it  was  recognized  in  every  part  of  the 
country,  and  no  doubt  until  the  end  of  time 
Uncle  Sam  will  stand  for  the  United  States. 

The  father  of  our  subject,  who  is  now  identified 
with  the  Photochrom  Company  of  Detroit,  was 
born  in  Keyesville,  N.  Y.,  in  January,  i84i,and 
when  he  was  quite  young  he  moved  to  Troy,  the 
same  state.  When  only  ten  years  of  age  his  taste 
for  art  was  apparent,  and  this  talent  he  carefully 


trained  and  developed.  He  was  employed  to 
make  backgrounds  for  large  portraits,  a  work 
that  he  did  so  rapidly  that  his  employer  could 
not  furnish  him  with  a  sufiBcient  quantity  of 
pictures  to  keep  him  busy.  During  the  war  he 
entered  the  army,  going  to  Rutland,  Vt. ,  where 
he  joined  the  Rutland  Light  Guards  in  Company 
K,  Twelfth  Vermont  Volunteer  Infantry.  Dur- 
ing the  Peninsular  campaign  he  took  part  in 
numerous  battles.  He  was  detailed  to  make 
sketches  of  the  country  in  which  the  battles  were 
fought.  During  the  three  days'  engagement  at 
Gettysburg  he  was  detailed  to  guard  prisoners. 
During  his  service  of  eleven  months,  all  under 
General  Grant,  he  received  many  passes,  orders 
and  other  papers,  all  of  which  are  now  in  the 
hands  of  our  subject.  On  receiving  an  honorable 
discharge  he  returned  to  Troy,  N.  Y. ,  his  old 
home.  Going  to  the  west  in  1866,  he  found 
himself  stranded  in  Detroit,  and  so  started  for 
Chicago,  walking  a  part  of  the  way,  and  at  other 
times  riding  when  the  opportunity  offered  itself. 
In  Chicago  he  secured  employment  as  a  sign 
painter  and  thus  earned  enough  to  get  to  Omaha, 
where  he  joined  an  expedition  for  Salt  Lake  City. 
By  driving  an  ox  team  he  paid  his  own  way. 
En  route  to  Salt  Lake  City  he  passed  through 
Denver.  In  the  possession  of  our  subject  is  a 
picture  showing  his  father  as  he  looked  on  his 
arrival  in  Salt  Lake  City,  also  a  picture  showing 
him  "batching  it"  and  in  the  act  of  baking  buck- 
wheat cakes. 

The  first  employment  Mr.  Jackson  secured  in 
the  west  was  as  a  drover.  The  task  he  under- 
took was  no  light  one.  It  was  that  of  driving 
six  hundred  head  of  horses  to  Omaha,  and  at 
times  the  horses  stampeded,  requiring  days  to 
get  them  together  again.  In  Omaha  he  met  his 
brother,  E.  C,  who  had  been  a  captain  in 
the  Civil  war,  and  the  two  started  in  the  photo- 
graph business,  which  the  captain  had  previously 
learned.  This  was  in  1868.  Under  his  brother, 
Mr.  Jackson  became  familiar  with  the  business, 
which  the  two  carried  on  in  Omaha.  While 
there  they  entered  into  a  contract  to  photograph 
the  places  of  interest  on  the  Union  Pacific  Rail- 
road, then  building,  and  he  was  on  the  ground 
when  the  last  spikes  (of  gold  and  silver)  were 
driven.  On  his  return  to  Omaha  he  joined  the 
Hayden  exploring  expedition,  with  Dr.  F.  V. 
Hayden  in  charge  and  himself  as  photographer. 


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After  the  death  of  his  first  wife  he  was  a  second 
time  married,  being  united  with  Miss  Painter 
October  8,  1873,  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  a  lady  whom 
he  had  met  at  the  Omaha  Indian  Agency,  while 
her  father,  Dr.  Edward  Painter,  was  Indian  agent 
of  that  place.  Mr.  Jackson  went  with  the  survey- 
ing expedition  to  Washington,  D.  C,  and  Miss 
Painter,  accompanied  by  her  brother,  met  him  in 
Cincinnati,  where  the  marriage  was  solemnized. 
They  went  to  Washington  to  make  their  home 
and  during  their  residence  in  that  city  our  subject 
was  born. 

In  1875,  while  connected  with  the  United 
States  government  survey  in  the  west,  Mr. 
Jackson  was  captured  by  the  Indians  and  was 
held  a  prisoner  for  a  few  days,  before  being  put 
to  death  in  accordance  with  their  intention. 
Meantime  he  affected  his  escape.  Afterward  he 
received  a  letter  from  James  T.  Gardner,  who 
had  written  to  warn  him  of  his  danger  of  capture, 
but  the  letter  did  not  reach  him  in  time  for  him 
to  act  and  thus  prevent  the  capture.  While  on 
the  second  government  expedition  he  again 
passed  through  Denver,  which  he  liked  so  much 
that  he  decided  to  locate  here;  accordingly,  in 
1879,  he  moved  his  family  here.  He  then  opened 
a  gallery  at  No.  413  Larimer  street,  in  a  poor 
building,  but  after  a  few  years  he  moved  to  No. 
1615  Arapahoe  street,  and  in  1893  transferred 
the  business  to  the  present  quarters.  Soon  after 
coming  to  Denver  he  again  became  connected 
with  railroad  photography,  and  in  that  line  he 
made  himself  famous.  His  name  is  known,  not 
only  in  the  west,  but  throughout  the  entire 
country,  as  that  of  the  most  successful  photog- 
rapher of  mountain  scenery  in  the  country. 
Visitors  from  the  east,  touring  through  Colorado, 
invariably  pause  to  admire,  and  then  to  purchase, 
some  of  the  charming  scenes  whose  beauty  he 
has  perpetuated  through  his  incomparable  scenic 
photography. 

One  of  the  most  admired  photographic  exhibits 
at  the  World's  Fair  in  1893  was  that  made  by 
William  H.  Jackson,  and- for  it  he  received  a 
medal.  In  the  fall  of  1894  he  was  appointed 
official  photographer  on  the  world's  transporta- 
tion commission  for  the  Field  Columbian  Museum 
in  Chicago,  and,  with  Maj.  J.  G.  Pangborn  as 
head  of  the  exposition,  he  traveled  around  the 
world,  spending  eighteen  months  in  different 
countries,   and  making  views  of  all  points  of  in- 


terest. These  views  are  in  the  possession  of 
our  subject  and  form  a  collection  that  has  never 
been  surpassed,  both  in  accuracy  in  detail  and 
beauty  of  finish.  While  in  India  he  was  given  a 
medal  for  an  exhibition  of  views.  He  has  re- 
ceived altogether  twenty-six  medals,  in  fact,  at 
every  place,  but  one,  where  he  has  made  exhib- 
itions, he  has  received  medals.  His  attention 
has  been  given  so  closely  to  his  art  that  he  has 
had  neither  time  nor  inclination  for  public  matters; 
the  prominence  offered  by  office,  and  the  influence 
it  gives,  appeal  alike  to  him  in  vain.  His  heart 
is  wrapped  up  in  his  chosen  work.  The  success 
he  has  gained  shows  that  talent,  guided  by  sound 
judgment  and  fostered  by  painstaking  effort, 
brings  its  possessor  name  and  fame. 

The  three  children  of  William  H.  Jackson  are, 
Clarence  S. ,  Louise  and  Harriet.  Louise,  who 
was  born  in  Washington,  is  a  college  graduate 
and  an  accomplished  young  lady.  Harriet,  who 
was  born  at  Sandy  Spring,  Md.,  possesses  marked 
artistic  tastes  and  is  now  studying  under  Professor 
Reed,  of  Denver.  When  our  subject  was  about 
eleven  years  of  age  he  entered  Harned  Academy, 
at  Plainfield,  N.  J.,  and  graduated  with  the  class 
of  1893,  after  which  he  worked  with  his  father 
for  a  year.  While  the  latter  was  abroad,  the 
family  resided  in  Baltimore  and  our  subject  took  a 
position  with  the  Fort  Wayne  Electric  Corpora- 
tion in  Baltimore,  working  in  their  experimental 
laboratorj'  for  one  year,  until  the  failure  of  the 
firm.  While  his  salary  was  but  nomial  ($4  a 
week),  yet  he  felt  that  the  experience  was  worth 
thousands  of  dollars  to  him,  and  the  knowledge 
he  there  acquired  has  been  most  helpful  to  him 
since.  In  the  fall  of  1896  he  was  offered  a  posi- 
tion in  charge  of  the  photographic  work  of  the 
American  Mutoscope  Company,  New  York  City, 
with  which  he  remained  about  six  months. 
From  there  he  went  to  Baltimore,  then  returned 
to  Denver,  and  from  that  time  remained  with  his 
father  until  March  i,  1898,  when  the  Jackson- 
Smith  Photograph  Company  was  organized. 

March  23,  1898,  Mr.  Jackson  married  Miss 
Irene  D.  Wysham,  who  was  reared  in  Catonsville, 
Md. ,  and  Norfolk,  Va.  The  two  met  in  Balti- 
more in  November,  1894,  and  became  engaged 
on  St.  Patrick's  Day  of  1895.  Mrs.  Jackson  is 
adaughter  of  the  late  William  E.  Wysham,  M.  D., 
surgeon  in  the  United  States  navy,  in  charge 
of  the   Norfolk  navy  hospital,   and  during  the 


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war  a  surgeon  in  the  Confederate  army.  Her 
grandfather,  Dr.  Williamson,  had  served  as  a 
surgeon  in  the  United  States  navy  prior  to  the 
Civil  war  and  received  a  medal  from  the  French 
govenmient  for  his  services  during  an  epidemic, 
also  was  given  the  badge  of  the  Legion  of  Honor. 


0L.  SMITH,  president  of  the  Smith-Brooks 
Printing  Company  of  Denver,  was  born  at 
Sandy  Hill,  N.  Y.,  July  i8,  1850,  and  is  a 
son  of  Abram  and  Emma  (Harris)  Smith.  His 
boyhood  days  were  uneventfully  passed  at  his 
native  place.  Having  attended  school  from  the 
age  of  six  until  thirteen,  he  then  started  out  to 
earn  his  own  livelihood,  and  for  a  time  worked  in 
a  sawmill,  and  later  was  employed  in  a  printing 
office.  From  Sandy  Hill  he  went  to  Philadelphia 
at  sixteen  years  of  age,  and  secured  employment 
as  driver  of  a  delivery  wagon.  After  two  years 
at  that  work  he  went  into  a  printing  office  and 
fini.shed  learning  the  trade.  After  two  years  in 
the  office  in  Philadelphia  he  went  to  New  York 
and  worked  as  a  journieyman,  going  from  there 
to  Albany,  where  he  was  employed  as  a  printer. 
Returning  to  New  York  in  1872,  he  resided  there 
till  the  spring  of  1878. 

In  New  York,  November  13,  1872,  Mr.  Smith 
married  Miss  Agnes  Riordan,  of  New  York,  a 
native  of  Cork,  Ireland,  whence  she  emigrated  to 
America  in  childhood  with  her  parents.  With 
his  family,  in  1878,  Mr.  Smith  went  to  Kansas 
and  settled  in  Ellsworth  County,  settling  upon 
the  open  prairie  and  building  the  first  house  in 
that  section.  However,  he  found  business  there 
unprofitable,  and  after  two  years  he  came  to  Den- 
ver, arriving  here  without  means.  His  first 
position  here  was  with  the  Denver  Republican,  as 
a  printer,  and  from  that  time  until  1885  he  worked 
on  different  papers.  During  the  latter  year  he 
was  elected  a  member  of  the  first  board  of  super- 
visors, becoming  president  of  the  board  and 
serving  for  two  years. 

The  firm  of  Smith  &  Ferl  was  organized  in 
1886  and  continued  until  1889,  when  the  present 
concern,  the  Smith-Brooks  Printing  Company, 
was  started,  an  enterprise  that  has  met  with  con- 
tinuous success.  He  gives  time  and  money  for 
the  Republican  cau.se,  and  frequently  served  as 
delegate  to  party  conventions.  When  the  Order 
of  Knights  of  Pythias  was  about  three  and  one- 


half  years  old,  he  became  identified  with  it  in 
Philadelphia,  in  1868,  and  is  now  a  member  of 
Centennial  Lodge  No.  8,  in  which  he  has  filled 
the  chairs  and  is  now  past  grand  chancellor  of  the 
Grand  Lodge.  During  the  existence  of  the  Order 
of  Knights  of  Labor  he  was  identified  with  it. 
He  and  his  wife  are  the  parents  of  two  children: 
O.  L. ,  Jr.,  who  was  born  in  New  York  City  and 
is  a  director  in  the  Smith-Brooks  Printing  Com- 
pany; and  Kate,  who  was  born  in  Ellsworth 
County,  Kan. 


(JOHN  H.  G.  ERASER,  member  of  the  firm 
I  of  Stocker  &  Eraser,  contractors  and  build- 
G'  ers,  came  to  Denver  in  1879,  when  he  was  a 
young  man  of  nineteen  years.  He  was  born  in 
South  Wiltshire,  Prince  Edward  Island,  Canada, 
November  3,  i860,  the  son  of  John  and  Sarah 
(Dougherty)  Eraser,  also  natives  of  that  island, 
where  the  former  died  at  the  age  of  sixty-five 
years.  The  latter  is  also  deceased.  William 
Eraser,  one  of  our  subject's  grandfathers,  was 
born  in  Scotland  and  removed  from  there  to 
Prince  Edward  Island,  where  he  engaged  in 
farming.  The  other  grandfather,  Donald  Dough- 
erty, also  emigrated  from  Scotland  and  settled 
upon  a  farm  on  the  island. 

In  the  parental  family  there  were  eleven  chil- 
dren and  of  these  nine  attained  mature  years  and 
are  still  living,  John  H.  G.  being  the  third  young- 
est of  the  number  and  the  only  one  in  Colorado. 
He  received  a  public-school  education  and  when 
a  boy  took  up  carpentering,  which  he  has  since 
followed.  In  1879  he  came  to  Colorado  and 
settled  in  Denver,  where  for  ten  years  he  was  in 
the  employ  of  McPhee  &  McGinnity,  contractors, 
being  most  of  the  time  in  charge  of  their  jobbing. 
Since  1890  he  has  been  in  business  for  him- 
self, being  first  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Brower  & 
Eraser,  but  later  in  partnership  with  Allison 
Stocker.  Among  the  contracts  he  has  had  were 
those  for  finishing  the  McPhee  block,  and  build- 
ing H.  H.  Hizer's  residence  in  Highlands,  D.  W. 
Mullen's  house  in  West  Denver  and  the  Loretta 
convent  in  Colorado  Springs, 

While  Mr.  Eraser  has  been  too  engrossed  in 
business  to  take  an  active  part  in  politics,  never- 
theless he  has  decided  opinions  upon  all  subjects 
of  importance  and  always  upholds  Republican 
principles.     In  religious  belief  he  is  a   Baptist. 


DAN  P.  HADFXELD. 


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Since  coming  to  Denver  he  has  established  do- 
mestic ties,  being  united  in  marriage  with  Miss 
Maggie  Stocker,  who  was  born  in  St.  Clair, 
Schuylkill  County,  Pa.,  daughter  of  Matthew 
Stocker  and  sister  of  one  of  the  aldermen  of  Den- 
ver. Four  children  were  born  of  their  union,  one 
of  whom,  Clay,  is  deceased,  and  three  are  living: 
Elizabeth,  Esther  and  William. 


BAN  P.  HADFIELD  came  to  Denver  in  i88r, 
and,  with  the  exception  of  short  periods 
spent  elsewhere,  has  since  made  this  city 
his  home.  For  a  time  he  was  employed  in  the 
South  Park  shops,  later  was  foreman  on  the  Den- 
ver &  Rio  Grande  Railroad  for  a  year  and  was  sta- 
tioned at  Chama,  N.  M.  On  his  return  to  Denver 
he  entered  the  general  shops  of  the  Union  Pacific 
road  as  foreman  in  the  machine  shop.  Through 
his  work  while  in  the  employ  of  others  he  gained 
the  experience  that  has  since  been  so  valuable  to 
him  and  also  accumulated  sufficient  capital  to  en- 
able him  to  start  out  for  himself.  In  1889  he 
began  general  contracting  and  plumbing,  and  now 
has  his  place  of  business  at  No.  27 11  Stout  street. 
In  the  town  of  North  Dighton,  Bristol  County, 
Mass.,  the  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  in 
1845.  He  is  a  son  of  Dan  Hadfield,  a  native  of 
Lancashire,  England,  and  a  cotton  spinner  by 
trade,  but  in  1840  an  emigrant  to  America,  where 
he  secured  employment  in  the  paper  factory  of 
Lincoln  &  Co.,  at  North  Dighton,  Mass.  He 
continued  with  the  same  company  until  he  died, 
at  the  age  of  seventy-eight.  His  wife,  who  bore 
the  maiden  name  of  Mary  Holt,  was  born  in  Eng- 
land and  died  in  Massachusetts  in  1868,  at  the 
age  offifty-three.  She  was  a  daughter  of  Thomas 
Holt,  who  was  superintendent  of  stables  at  a  large 
cotton  manufactory  in  England. 

There  were  four  children  in  the  family  of  Dan 
Hadfield,  Sr.,  and  three  of  these  are  living:  Mrs. 
Elizabeth  Tisdale,  of  New  Haven,  Conn.;  Dan 
P.;  and  Mrs.  Patience  Haworth,  of  Denver.  Our 
subject  was  reared  in  North  Dighton  and  Taun- 
ton, Mass. ,  where  he  attended  the  public  schools. 
At  the  age  of  seventeen  he  was  apprenticed  to  the 
machinist's  trade  in  the  Mason  Machine  Works, 
where  he  continued  for  three  years.  He  then 
went  to  Boston,  where  he  secured  work  with  Mc- 
Kay, the  large  shipbuilder,  who  built  the  "Great 
Republic."  During  the  two  years  he  was  there  he 
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assisted  in  building  three  large  steamers  for  the 
Amazon  River,  Brazil,  trade.  His  next  position 
was  with  the  Rhode  Island  Locomotive  Works  of 
Providence,  after  which  he  was  a  contractor  with 
the  Burnside  Rifle  Works.  Ill  health  forced  him 
to  seek  a  change  of  climate  and  he  went  south,  but 
after  a  time  located  in  Chicago,  where  he  was 
foreman  in  Crane  Brothers  Northwest  pipe  fac- 
tory. For  a  short  time  he  was  with  a  railroad  in 
Urbana,  111.,  but  returned  to  Chicago  at  the  time 
of  the  fire  and  remained  there  until  the  panic. 

Returning  to  Massachusetts,  Mr.  Hadfield  was 
employed  as  a  foreman  with  a  manufacturing 
company  in  Greenfield.  Later  he  was  for  three 
years  with  William  Corliss,  safe  manufacturer, 
in  Rhode  Island,  and  during  the  most  of  this  time 
he  was  engaged  in  perfecting  the  Corliss  safe, 
eleven  of  which  he  put  in  the  banks  of  that  town, 
the  first  one  costing  $85,000.  When  through 
this  work  he  went  to  Kansas  City,  then  in  the 
days  of  its  first  boom.  He  secured  work  in  the 
Union  Pacific  shops  at  Armstrong,  Kan.,  and 
later  at  Omaha,  Neb.,  where  he  remained  until 
coming  to  Denver  in  1881, 

Politically  Mr.  Hadfield  was  a  stanch  support- 
er of  silver.  Having  made  a  careful  study  of  the 
currency  question,  he  believes  that  the  west  can 
never  attain  desired  prosperity  and  wealth  until 
the  standard  of  the  two  metals,  gold  and  silver, 
is  changed.  Regarding  the  tariff  question  he  fa- 
vors protection  of  home  industries.  He  has  fre- 
quently been  elected  as  delegate  to  local  conven- 
tions and  has  served  on  committees.  In  1885, 
on  the  Republican  ticket,  he  was  elected  alderman 
from  the  eighth  ward  and  served  for  one  term, 
being  a  member  of  the  license,  water  and  health 
committees.  He  was  made  a  Mason  in  Wyan- 
dotte, Kan.,  and  was  also  at  one  time  identified 
with  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  but 
is  not  now.  His  wife,  who  was  born  in  Vermont, 
was  Mrs.  Emma  A.  (Walker)  Hawthorne,  daugh- 
ter of  Edwin  Walker. 


©QlLLIAM  SIMPSON,  president  of  the  Con- 
\  A  /  tractors  and  Builders'  Association  of  Den- 
YV  ver,  is  one  of  the  well-known  business 
men  of  this  city,  where  he  has  since  1879  made 
his  home.  In  1882  he  built  at  No.  1643  Champa 
street  and  this  property  he  still  owns,  as  well  as 
his  home  at  No.  2906  Boulevard,  Highlands.    As 


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a  contractor  and  builder  he  has  had  several  very 
important  contracts,  among  them  the  Central 
Presbyterian  Church,  the  residences  of  Donald 
Fletcher  and  J.  C.  Harley,  and  many  other  con- 
tracts of  less  importance.  In  other  lines  of  busi- 
ness he  has  also  been  interested,  and  through  en- 
ergy and  the  exercise  of  good  judgment  he  has  ac- 
cumulated a  competency. 

The  Simpson  family  is  of  Scotch  origin.  The 
father  of  our  subject,  John  Simpson,  was  born  in 
Forfarshire  and  was  reared  on  the  home  farm;  in 
youth  he  learned  the  carpenter's  trade  in  Dundee 
and  shortly  afterward  came  to  America,  settling 
in  New  Brunswick,  where  he  engaged  in  the 
building  business,  also  manufactured  carriages 
and  farm  implements,  and  was  the  owner  of  a 
large  farm  in  Chatham.  His  death  occurred  in 
that  place  at  the  age  of  sixty-nine.  His  wife, 
who  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Abigail  Mary 
Dickson,  was  born  in  New  Brunswick  and  now 
resides  with  our  subject,  being  in  the  enjoyment 
of  fair  health  for  one  of  her  years  (seventy-eight) . 
Her  father  was  an  officer  in  the  English  army 
and  upon  his  retirement  settled  upon  a  farm  in 
New  Brunswick. 

In  the  parental  family  of  four  children,  three  of 
whom  are  living,  William  is  the  eldest.  He  was 
born  in  Chatham  in  1851  and  attended  the  public 
schools  and  academy  of  that  place,  graduating 
from  the  latter  in  1871 .  Afterward  he  served  an 
apprenticeship  of  four  years  to  the  carpenter's 
trade  and  on  the  expiration  of  his  time  continued 
with  his  former  master,  remaining  with  the  same 
man  for  eight  years, lacking  only  a  week.  His  em- 
ployer dying,  he  continued  the  business  alone  for 
seven  years  afterward.  The  ill  health  of  a  son 
induced  him  to  seek  a  change  of  climate,  and 
hearing  much  concerning  the  salubrious  air  of 
Colorado  he  resolved  to  come  hither.  Accord- 
ingly he  settled  in  Denver  in  1879  and  embarked 
in  the  building  business  here.  When  quite 
young  he  made  a  study  of  architecture,  and 
many  of  the  buildings  he  has  erected  were  also 
designed  by  him. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Simpson  took  place  in 
Canada,  his  wife  being  Annie,  daughter  of  David 
Mc  Hardy,  a  farmer  in  New  Brunswick,  where 
she  was  born.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Simpson  have  a 
family  of  seven  children,  Etta,  Hardy,  Beatrice, 
Kate,  Mary,  William  and  Colin.  In  national 
politics  Mr.  Simpson  is  a  Republican,  but  in  local 


elections  votes  for  the  man  he  believes  to  be  best 
qualified  to  represent  the  people  in  office.  For 
one  term  he  was  a  member  of  the  board  of  alder- 
men. In  the  spring  of  1896  he  was  nominated 
for  alderman  from  the  fifteenth  ward,  but  re- 
fused to  accept;  he  also  declined  the  nomination 
for  member  of  the  board  of  supervisors.  Both 
the  men  who  were  nominated  after  his  refusal  to 
serve  received  the  election,  but  he  preferred  to 
devote  his  attention  to  business  matters  and  not 
mingle  in  public  affairs.  He  was  a  charter 
member  of  the  Carpenters  and  Builders'  Associa- 
tion, of  which  he  was  the  first  president  and  is 
still  the  incumbent  of  that  office.  Formerly  he 
was  connected  with  the  Central  Presbyterian 
Church,  but  he  became  one  of  the  charter 
members  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  of  High- 
lands and  is  now  chairman  of  its  board  of 
trustees. 


J  DWIN  J.  HEIvLIER,  one  of  Denver's  suc- 
^  cessful  contractors  and  builders,  was  born 
_  in  Sidmouth,  Devonshire,  England,  and  is 
the  eldest  son  of  James  and  Emma  (Hellman) 
Hellier.  His  father,  who  is  a  member  of  an  old 
Devonshire  family,  is  engaged  in  the  shoe  busi- 
ness in  Torquay,  where  he  and  his  wife  make 
their  home.  The  only  member  of  their  family 
in  America  is  Edwin  J. ,  who  was  educated  in 
Sidmouth  College,  but  at  the  age  of  only  twelve 
years  began  to  learn  the  carpenter's  trade,  at 
which  he  served  in  Torquay  until  he  was  twenty- 
one,  meantime  gaining  a  thorough  knowledge  of 
carpentering  and  building,  brick-laying,  stone- 
cutting,  papering  and  painting  and  draughting. 
He  successfully  passed  the  examination  in  build- 
ing construction  and  draughting  in  the  school  of 
arts  at  Torquay,  gaining  the  government  prize 
for  draughting  in  1885. 

Continuing  at  his  trade  in  his  native  land  until 
1889,  Mr.  Hellier  then  came  to  America,  proceed- 
ing direct  from  New  York  to  Denver,  where  he 
arrived  in  June  of  that  year.  Here  he  has  since 
engaged  in  general  contracting.  Among  his  con- 
tracts may  be  mentioned  those  for  Mrs.  Fisher's 
residence  on  South  Fifteenth  street,  the  Ursey 
residence,  St.  Paul's  rectory,  the  Slack  home  at 
Mount  Clair,  Dr.  Woods'  residence.  First  District 
school,  and  other  buildings  that  rank  among  the 
best  of  their  kind  in  Denver. 


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Fraternally  Mr.  Hellier  is  connected  with  the 
Woodmen  of  the  World  and  Columbia  Court  No. 
14,  F.  O.  A.  He  is  fond  of  the  bicycle  and  is  a 
member  of  the  Denver  Wheel  Club.  In  the 
Carpenters  and  Builders'  Association  he  holds 
active  membership.  The  possessor  of  a  bass 
voice  of  marvelous  compass  and  power,  he  spends 
considerable  time  with  his  music,  and  now  sings 
second  bass  in  the  Apollo  Club  of  Denver,  to 
which  he  belongs.  He  also  sings  in  the  choir  of 
St.  Mark's  Episcopal  Church.  He  is  a  man  of 
genial,  pleasant  disposition,  and  has  won  a  host 
of  friends  among  the  people  of  Denver. 


'ANDY  ALLEN  HUGHES,  M.  D.,  presi- 
dent of  the  board  of  pension  examiners  and 
head  physician  of  the  Pacific  iurisdiction 
Woodmen  of  the  World, has  resided  in  Denver  since 
1867,  and  during  a  considerable  portion  of  this 
time  has  engaged  in  the  practice  of  medicine.  After 
a  three  years'  course  of  study  in  the  St.  Louis  Med- 
ical College,  he  graduated  in  1883,  with  the  degree 
of  M.  D.,  and  at  once  opened  an  office  in  Denver, 
where  he  has  since  built  up  a  large  private  prac- 
tice. In  1888,  during  the  finst  term  of  Governor 
Adams,  he  was  appointed  a  member  of  the  state 
board  of  medical  examiners,  and  served  six  years. 
In  1896  he  was  again  appointed  by  Governor 
Mclntire  and  is  still  filling  the  position,  having 
beeu  secretary  during  the  larger  part  of  his  connec- 
tion with  the  board.  Under  President  Cleveland, 
in  June,  1893,  he  was  appointed  upon  the  board  of 
examining  surgeons  for  United  States  pensions 
and  has  since  been  president  of  the  organization. 
Actively  interested  in  the  establishment  of  the 
Woodmen  of  the  World,  he  now  has  the  distinc- 
tion of  being  the  oldest  member  in  the  Pacific 
jurisdiction.  In  1890  he  was  made  head  consult- 
ing physician  of  the  order,  and  three  years  later 
was  promoted  to  head  physician  of  the  jurisdic- 
tion, with  six  hundred  physicians  under  him,  his 
duty  being  to  pass  upon  all  the  applications  for 
membership  in  the  order.  He  is  local  surgeon 
for  the  Missouri  Pacific  Railroad  Company  and 
chairman  of  the  Prudential  Insurance  Company 
of  New  Jersey.  In  Denver  Lodge  No.  41,  K.  of 
P.,  he  is  examining  physician.  He  is  connected 
with  both  the  Colorado  State  and  American 
Medical  Associations. 
The  Hughes  family  was  represented  among  the 


early  settlers  of  Virginia  and  some  of  its  members 
took  part  in  the  Revolution.  Andrew  S.  Hughes 
was  for  some  years  a  resident  of  Kentucky,-  but 
removed  from  there  to  Missouri  and  became  a  pio- 
neer of  Clay  County,  where  he  engaged  in  the 
practice  of  law.  His  son,  Bela  M.,  was  born  in 
Nicholas  County,  Ky.,  a  nephew  of  ex-Govern- 
or Metcalf  of  that  state.  He  was  admitted  to 
the  bar  in  Missouri,  where  he  practiced  for  years. 
In  early  days  he  went  to  St.  Joseph,  Mo.,  and 
later  located  in  Atchison,  Kan.  With  his  cousin, 
Benjamin  HoUiday,  and  others  he  started  the 
overland  stage  line  between  Atchison,  Denver 
and  Salt  Lake  and  this  he  was  connected  with 
for  some  years  as  president  and  attorney.  In 
1864  he  came  to  Denver,  where  he  entered  upon 
the  practice  of  his  profession.  He  was  one  of  the 
most  active  promoters  of  the  Denver  Pacific 
Railroad  between  Denver  and  Cheyenne  and  was 
the  first  president  of  the  company,  also  in  pro- 
moting the  construction  of  the  Denver  &  South 
Park  Railroad.  While  in  Missouri  he  was  gen- 
eral of  the  state  militia,  and  he  is  usually  called 
by  that  title.  A  Democrat  in  politics,  he  was 
a  member  of  the  first  state  senate  of  Colorado. 
He  is  still  living  in  Denver,  which  he  has  seen 
grow  from  a  small  and  unimportant  village  to  a 
commercial,  railroad,  mining  and  stock-raising 
center,  the  metropolis  of  the  great  Rocky  Moun- 
tain region.  His  wife  is  Laura,  a  daughter  of 
Maj.  Tandy  Allen,  of  Bourbon  County,  Ky., 
whose  father  was  a  soldier  of  the  Revolution  and 
a  pioneer  from  Virginia  to  Kentucky,  and  after- 
wards was  a  circuit  judge  in  Kentucky  for  many 
years,  residing  in  Paris. 

The  youngest  of  six  children  comprising  the 
family  of  General  Hughes  was  Tandy  Allen 
Hughes,  who  was  born  in  St.  Joseph,  Mo.,  but 
has  spent  his  life  principally  in  Denver,  liaving 
come  here  in  boyhood.  His  great-grandfathers, 
Allen  and  Hughes,  were  officers  in  the  war  for 
independence,  from  the  beginning  of  hostilities 
with  Great  Britain  to  the  end  of  the  struggle. 
He  was  given  excellent  educational  advantages 
and  is  a  man  of  broad  information,  not  only  upon 
subjects  pertaining  to  medicine,  but  in  matters  of 
historical,  scientific  or  general  importance.  He 
was  married  in  St.  Louis  to  Miss  CecileS.  Shorb, 
of  that  city,  and  they  have  one  child,  Margaret 
Belle.  In  political  belief,  like  his  father,  he  ad- 
heres to  Democratic  principles.     He  is  a  director 


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of  the  Denver  Athletic  Club,  and  is  eligible  to 
membership  in  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution.  His 
attention  has  been  closely  given  to  his  profes- 
sional interests,  which  leave  him  but  little  time, 
even  had  he  the  desire,  to  enter  public  life;  how- 
ever, he  is  well  informed  regarding  the  topics  of 
the  age  and  is  unswervingly  loyal  to  the  princi- 
ples that  he  believes  will  best  promote  the  happi- 
ness and  welfare  of  the  people. 


©AMUEL  W.  AKINS,  alderman  of  the  eighth 
?\  ward,  Denver,  was  nominated  for  that  office 
j2/  in  April,  1897,  upon  the  tax  payer's  ticket, 
endorsed  by  the  Populists;  and,  although  there 
were  five  candidates  in  the  field,  he  was  elected 
by  a  majority  of  over  six  hundred,  polling 
three  hundred  more  votes  than  the  other  four 
combined.  During  his  term  of  service  in  the 
council  he  has  been  chairman  of  the  committees 
on  rules  and  order  of  business,  and  member  of  the 
committees  on  claims,  electric  light  and  gas, 
markets,  printing,  public  grounds  and  buildings, 
street  railways  and  water,  and  he  expects  to  lead 
the  fight  against  the  electric  light  and  gas  trusts. 
He  takes  a  very  active  part  in  the  city's  progress 
and  favors  all  plans  for  the  advancement  of  the 
people's  interests. 

In  St.  Joseph  County,  Ind.,  Mr.  Akins  was 
born  June  17,  1852,  being  the  oldest  son  and  fourth 
child  in  a  family  of  nine  that  attained  maturity, 
of  whom  seven  are  now  living.  His  father,  Sam- 
uel B.,  was  born  in  Toronto,  Canada,  and  re- 
moved in  boyhood  to  Indiana,  where  he  learned 
the  carpenter's  trade.  He  became  a  contractor 
and  builder,  following  that  occupation  until  his 
death  at  the  age  of  seventy-five  years.  He  mar- 
ried Sarah  Burkett,  who  was  born,  of  German 
descent,  in  South  Carolina  and  accompanied  her 
parents  to  Indiana,  where  she  died  at  fifty-two 
years. 

Under  the  instruction  of  his  father,  our  subject 
learned  the  carpenter's  trade.  At  the  age  of 
sixteen  he  began  to  earn  his  own  livelihood, 
working  afterward  in  Jewell  County,  Kan.,  and 
Otoe  County,  Neb.,  then  going  in  1871  to  Wyo- 
ming, where  he  worked  near  Fort  Steele.  In 
1873  and  afterward  he  was  employed  at  Alta,  near 
Salt  Lake  City.  From  there  he  went  in  1878  to 
Butte,  Mont.,  then  a  small  village  of  only  four 
hundred   inhabitants,  and  he  at   once   began  to 


work  as  a  carpenter  and  builder,  also  invested  in 
real  estate,  and  at  one  time  owned  the  Maria  mine. 
The  spring  of  1881  found  him  located  in  Denver, 
where  he  has  engaged  in  contracting  and  build- 
ing, also  carried  on  a  real-estate  business.  He 
has  his  office  at  No.  2748  Franklin  street. 

Fraternally  Mr.  Akins  is  identified  with  the 
Woodmen  of  the  World,  and  in  national  politics 
he  votes  the  Democratic  ticket.  He  was  united 
in  marriage,  in  Denver,  to  Mrs.  Clara  (Kreider) 
Woodend,  who  was  born  in  Pennsylvania.  They 
are  the  parents  of  three  children,  Blanche,  Arthur 
and  Stewart.  Mrs.  Akins  is  a  daughter  of  Daniel 
F.  Kreider,  who  was  born  in  Lebanon  County, 
Pa.,  where  he  engaged  in  the  mercantile  business; 
afterward  he  removed  to  Princeton,  Mo. ,  and  ac- 
cepted a  position  as  freight  and  ticket  agent  on 
the  Rock  Island  Railroad.  He  still  resides  in 
Princeton  and  is  a  member  of  the  United  Breth- 
ren Church  of  that  place.  His  wife,  who  bore 
the  maiden  name  of  Mary  Thomas,  was  born  in 
Schaefferstown,  Lebanon  County,  Pa.,  where  her 
father,  James  Thomas,  was  a  farmer. 


Gl  LEXANDER  V.  SCHERRER.  It  was  in 
LJ  1864  that  the  subject  of  this  sketch  first  saw 
I  I  Colorado.  During  that  year  he  came  with 
his  parents,  via  ox-team  train,  from  Omaha  to 
Boulder,  and  settling  in  the  latter  town  he  assist- 
ed his  father  in  the  dairy  business  until  Decem- 
ber, 1867,  when  the  family  returned  to  Johnson 
County,  Iowa.  However,  he  did  not  forget  the 
years  spent  here,  and,  believing  the  state  offered 
wonderful  opportunities  to  industrious  men,  he 
determined  to  establish  his  home  here.  In  1872 
the  way  opened  for  him  to  come  to  the  state  and 
he  located  in  Denver,  at  once  embarking  in  the 
cattle  business.  He  and  his  brother,  with  whom 
he  is  in  partnership,  have  made  a  specialty  of 
dealing  in  beef  cattle  and  were  the  pioneers  in 
the  dehorning  of  cattle,  which  has  now  become 
so  popular  in  the  state. 

Joseph  and  Theresa  Scherrer,  parents  of  our 
subject,  were  born  in  Alsace,  France,  and  after 
their  marriage,  in  1847,  emigrated  to  America, 
settling  upon  a  farm  near  Iowa  City,  Johnson 
County,  Iowa.  There,  with  the  exception  of  the 
years  already  alluded  to,  they  made  their  home 
until  1882,  when  they  came  to  Colorado  a  second 
time  and  both  died  in  Denver,  the  father  in  1885, 


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at  the  age  of  seventy-nine,  and  the  mother  in  1 884, 
at  the  age  of  sixty-  eight  years.  By  trade  the  father 
was  a  shoemaker,  but  after  coming  to  this  country- 
he  devoted  his  attention  to  farming.  Of  their 
nine  children  all  but  one  are  still  living.  The 
oldest  child,  Jacob,  came  to  Denver  in  1859  and 
for  some  years  was  extensively  engaged  in  the 
cattle  and  real-estate  business  here,  but  now  re- 
sides in  East  St.  lyouis,  111.  Two  sisters,  Mrs. 
F.  Scherrer  and  Mrs.  Schwanke,  came  to  Colo- 
rado in  1861;  the  latter  resides  in  California. 
Joseph  A.  is  engaged  in  the  cattle  business  at 
Agate,  Colo.  Mrs.  Guard  and  Mrs.  McClure, 
who  came  to  this  state  in  1864  and  1876  respect- 
ively, now  reside  in  California,  and  the  youngest 
sister,  Mrs.  Doll,  who  came  to  Colorado  in  1882, 
is  also  now  a  resident  of  California. 

The  birth  of  our  subject  occurred  near  Iowa 
City,  April  13,  1848,  and  he  was  reared  in  John- 
son County  on  the  home  farm.  In  1864  and 
again  in  1882  he  came  to  Colorado,  the  latter 
year  as  a  permanent  settler.  In  January,  1884, 
he  originated  the  Arapahoe  Cattle  and  Land  Com- 
pany, which  was  incorporated  with  himself  presi- 
dent and  manager.  The  company  located  a 
ranch  at  Agate  and  continued  the  cattle  business 
until  1891,  when  the  sold  out,  and  since  then  Mr. 
Scherrer  has  bought  the  place.  Meantime  he 
also  pre-empted  a  homestead  on  the  East  Bijou. 
On  his  large  ranch  he  has  a  reservoir,  and  by 
damming  a  gulch  established  a  natural  lake  of 
more  than  two  hundred  and  fifty  acres,  from 
which  irrigation  ditches  run  to  every  part  of  the 
land.  Little  is  raised  on  the  place  except  hay, 
which  is  used  for  feed;  the  land  is  principally  de- 
voted to  the  pasturing  of  stock,  which  are  raised 
here  in  large  numbers.  From  the  organization 
of  the  Colorado  Cattle  Growers'  Association  he 
has  been  identified  with  it  and  for  a  time  was  its 
vice-president.  Politically  he  favors  a  readjust- 
ment of  the  currency  question,  so  that  silver 
may  be  placed  upon  its  proper  basis,  and  he  votes 
for  the  men  who  are  pledged  to  the  support  of 
silver.  He  is  a  member  of  St.  Mary's  Catholic 
Church. 

In  Denver,  in  1876,  Mr.  Scherrer  married  Miss 
Angele  Marion,  who  was  born  in  Paris,  France, 
the  daughter  of  Joseph  Marion,  a  native  of 
Auxierre,  France,  and  for  years  the  largest  seed 
merchant  in  his  native  land.  He  married  a 
daughter  of  Blaze  Savrie,    a    wine   grower   in 


France,  and  in  1854  brought  his  family  to 
America,  settling  near  Hartford,  Conn.,  but  after 
two  years  removing  to  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  where  he 
engaged  in  general  merchandising.  In  1859  h^ 
made  the  overland  trip  to  Colorado  and  the  next 
year  his  wife  joined  him.  He  located  in  Denver, 
and  embarked  in  merchandising  on  Ferry  street, 
but  after  some  years  he  engaged  in  mining  in 
Utah,  where  he  makes  his  home  in  Salt  I^ake 
City.  His  wife  died  in  Denver,  August  6,  1896, 
aged  seventy  years.  They  were  the  parents  of 
four  children  that  reached  maturity,  of  whom  two 
were  born  in  Denver.  Their  names  are:  Leontine, 
Mrs.  Jacob  Scherrer,  of  St.  Louis;  Angele,  Mrs. 
A.  V.  Scherrer;  Josephine  and  Albert,  of  Denver, 
and  the  latter  is  engaged  in  the  real-estate 
business  in  this  city.  Mrs.  Scherrer  remained 
with  her  grandmother  in  Paris  until  1863,  when 
her  mother  returned  to  France  and  brought  her 
to  the  United  States.  In  1864  she  came  to  Colo- 
rado by  stage,  and  has  since  resided  in  Denver, 
receiving  her  education  in  the  Loretto  convent 
and  Wolfe  Hall  here,  and  Sacred  Heart  College 
in  St.  Joseph,  Mo.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Scherrer  are 
the  parents  of  seven  children,  namely:  Edith, 
who  died  in  April,  1894,  at  the  age  of  seventeen; 
Harry,  who  is  a  member  of  the  class  of  '98,  in 
Wallace  Business  College;  Louise,  William, 
Josephine,  Angele  and  Albert. 


Gl  LFRED  H.  MILES,  one  of  the  pioneers  of 
La  Colorado,  and  a  well-known  resident  of 
/  1  Denver,  was  born  in  Cleveland,  Ohio,  in 
1820,  and  is  a  descendant  of  English  ancestors. 
His  paternal  grandfather  removed  from  Vermont 
to  Ohio,  and  presented  to  each  of  his  children  a 
farm  of  one  hundred  acres  at  Newburg,  now  a 
part  of  the  city  of  Cleveland,  Ohio.  At  the  time 
of  the  removal  the  father  of  our  subject,  Theo- 
dore, was  twenty  years  of  age.  He  began  as  a 
farmer  on  the  land  given  him  by  his  father,  and 
there  continued  during  his  active  life,  retiring 
when  an  old  man,  and  dying  in  Newburg  at  the 
age  of  seventy-four.  His  wife,  who  was  born  in 
Ohio,  was  Fannie,  daughter  of  Erastus  Hawley, 
who  was  of  English  lineage  and  occupied  a  farm 
then  two  and  one-half  miles  out  of  Cleveland,  but 
now  within  the  corporate  limits  of  the  city.  At 
the  time  of  her  death  she  was  eighty-one  years  of 
age. 


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Of  the  children  of  Theodore  and  Fannie  Miles, 
Alfred  H.  was  next  to  the  youngest  and  is  now 
the  only  survivor.  He  was  educated  in  Ohio 
and  when  a  boy  often  shot  squirrels  in  what  is 
now  the  public  square  of  Cleveland.  In  1840, 
when  a  little  less  than  twenty  years  of  age,  he 
was  married  in  Newburg  to  Miss  Sophronia  C. 
Simmons,  who  died  in  Denver  in  1891.  Three 
children  were  born  of  the  union:  Fannie  D.,  Mrs. 
Randall,  who  died  in  Old  Mexico;  Emma  C, 
Mrs.  Stokely  W.  Slayden,  whose  first  husband, 
R.  E.  Whitsitt,  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the 
city  of  Denver;  and  George  T.,  who  lives  on  the 
Zeandale  farm. 

In  youth  Mr.  Miles  learned  the  trade  of  car- 
riage-maker, which  he  followed  for  a  time.  In 
1850  he  Went  to  California,  via  New  York  and 
Panama  to  San  Francisco,  and  from  there  found 
his  way  to  the  mines,  where  he  engaged  unsuc- 
cessfully in  prospecting  and  mining.  His  next 
venture  was  in  a  wagon  shop  at  Stockton,  but  he 
soon  .sold  that  and  entered  the  cattle  business  in 
southern  California.  In  1853  he  returned  to  Ohio 
and  bought  a  hotel  at  Newburg,  which  he  carried 
on  for  a  few  years.  Later  he  bought  and  opera- 
ted a  sawmill  at  Eight-mile  Lock.  Selling  out 
in  1859,  at  the  time  of  the  discovery  of  gold  in 
Colorado,  he  started  west,  intending  to  go  to  Cal- 
ifornia, but  decided  to  settle  in  Colorado.  At 
Leavenworth  he  outfitted  with  two  ox-teams  and 
a  wagon,  also  taking  provisions  for  a  year  and 
the  first  cookstove  ever  in  Colorado.  After  fifty- 
nine  days  he  landed  in  Auraria  (Denver),  and 
soon  pre-empted  a  tract  of  one  hundred  and  sixty 
acres  four  miles  below  Golden,  on  Clear  Creek. 
In  1864  he  located  a  homestead  in  Denver,  now 
R.  E.  Whitsitt' s  addition  to  Arlington  Heights. 
He  erected  the  first  brick  residence  in  Denver,  a 
house  that  is  still  standing.  Near  the  city  he 
bought  a  farm  for  $2,000  and  after  nine  years  sold 
it  for  $72,000.  He  also  owned  the  Bryn  Mawr 
addition  to  the  city  of  forty  acres,  now  sold  to 
the  city  for  $24,500,  to  be  included  within  a  park. 
His  residence  stands  at  No.  1018  South  Fifteenth 
street. 

At  the  time  he  came  to  Denver  Mr.  Miles  had 
only  $5,  and  his  present  financial  position  and 
high  standing  speak  volumes  for  the  opportuni- 
ties which  Denver  offers  to  every  man  of  enter- 
prise and  determination.  On  concluding  to  set- 
tle in  this  locality  he  took  up  a  farm,  and  borrow- 


ing the  only  plow  in  the  country,  in  one  day 
(and  that  Sunday)  he  broke  three  acres.  He 
had  one  pound  of  turnip  seed  sent  him  from  his 
uncle  in  Ohio  and  this  he  sowed.  He  also  started 
a  garden.  The  turnips  proved  to  be  the  largest 
ever  .seen  in  the  state,  some  of  them  measuring 
one  foot  across.  He  took  them  to  Central  City, 
where  they  sold  for  twenty -five  cents  apiece; 
these  were  the  first  vegetables  ever  in  that  town, 
and  he  was  paid  for  them  in  gold  dust.  So  anx- 
ious were  people  to  get  turnips  from  him  that 
they  traveled  fifty  miles  or  more  for  them  and 
ofiered  cattle  or  horses  in  exchange.  Out  of  the 
pound  he  sowed  he  raised  fifteen  hundred  bushels 
of  turnips;  so  it  may  truthfully  be  said  that  tur- 
nips gave  him  his  start  in  business.  He  paid 
$2.50  per  quart  for  potatoes,  and  from  these  he 
raised  eighteen  bushels,  which  he  sold  at  thirty 
cents  a  pound.  His  uncle  sent  him  some  straw- 
berry plants,  but  only  two  grew,  and  from  these 
in  two  years  he  was  raising  strawberries  for  sale, 
disposing  of  the  first  of  these  at  $32  ber  bushel. 
While  in  California  he  saw  immense  stalks  of 
corn,  which,  however,  bore  no  corn;  and  he  was 
therefore  much  surpri.sed  when  a  man  from  Cali- 
fornia showed  him  a  couple  of  ears  grown  there. 
He  concluded  to  try  the  experiment  of  raising 
corn  here,  and  bought  Australian  corn  at  $1  per 
quart,  which  he  planted  on  his  Clear  Creek  farm 
and  from  which  he  raised  three  hundred  bushels. 
The  corn  was  of  the  finest  quality  and  took  a 
prize  at  the  fair.  With  the  firmest  faith  in  irriga- 
tion and  its  necessity  in  this  country,  he  was 
among  the  first  to  take  steps  for  providing  water 
for  his  ranch,  and  the  experiment  proved  very 
successful.  His  confidence  in  the  growth  of  Den- 
ver led  him  to  invest  in  real  estate  here,  some  of 
which  he  sold  at  a  large  profit,  while  some  he 
still  retains  in  his  possession.  At  one  time  he 
owned  two  lots  occupying  the  present  site  of  the 
postofEce.  For  years  he  has  been  connected  with 
the  Colorado  Society  of  Pioneers.  Politically  he 
was  first  a  Whig,  later  a  Republican,  then  a  Pop- 
ulist and  a  champion  of  the  silver  cause. 

When  settling  on  his  Zeandale  farm  Mr.  Miles 
had  no  lumber,  but  an  abundance  of  limestone, 
so  he  built  a  house  of  cement  and  limestone.  It 
stood  on  the  trail  between  Golden  and  Denver. 
The  Indians  had  been  very  troublesome  and  dur- 
ing one  of  their  raids  had  killed  the  Hungate 
family,  frightening  the  other  settlers  so  that  they 


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took  refuge  in  Denver.  After  two  years  a  com- 
pany was  organized,  Capt.  Clinton  Tyler  at  the 
head,  to  chastise  the  savages,  in  order  to  prevent 
future  attacks  from  them.  The  Utes  had  been 
friendly,  but  the  Arapahoes  were  hostile,  cun- 
ning and  desperate,  and  an  attack  on  them  was 
therefore  planned.  The  Indians  concealed  them- 
selves behind  trenches,  but  the  white  men  fired 
the  cannon  horizontally  into  the  trenches,  thus 
frightening  and  routing  the  enemy.  For  a  time 
there  was  peace,  but  in  two  years  the  Indians 
made  another  raid  up  the  Platte,  and  then  started 
up  Clear  Creek.  The  farmers,  knowing  that  Mr. 
Miles  had  a  concrete  house  which  could  not  be 
burned,  hastened  thither  and  filled  the  building, 
some  of  the  men  also  standing  guard  without. 
Meantime  the  people  in  Golden  went  to  the  top 
of  Table  Mountain  and  fortified  themselves  there. 
The  Indians  found  themselves  unable  to  success- 
fully attack  either  party  and  so  withdrew  without 
molesting  the  settlers.  Afterward  no  further 
trouble  was  experienced  with  them . 


"HOMAS  SKERRITT.  It  is  always  inter- 
esting to  read  the  experiences  of  the  pio- 
neers of  '59,  those  brave  men  who  endured 
all  the  hardships  of  an  overland  journey  to  Colo- 
rado and  all  the  deprivations  incident  to  life  in  a 
frontier  country.  Nor  were  the  experiences  of 
Mr.  Skerritt  less  thrilling,  nor  his  perils  fewer, 
than  those  of  other  early  settlers.  When  the 
gilded  rumors  of  Pike's  Peak  spread  through  the 
east  he  at  once  determined  to  come  hither  and 
mine  for  gold.  This  he  did,  and  Colorado  has 
since  been  his  home.  He  is  the  owner  of  Shady 
Side  farm,  where  he  is  engaged  in  farming  and 
raising  a  fine  grade  of  cattle,  and  he  also  owns  a 
ranch  of  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  at  Rifle, 
Garfield  County,  in  the  midst  of  a  fine  farming 
country. 

Mr.  Skerritt  was  born  in  Parsonstown,  Kings 
County,  Ireland,  the  oldest  of  eight  children,  of 
whom  seven  are  living.  One  of  the  brothers, 
Richard,  was  a  soldier  in  a  Michigan  regiment 
during  the  war.  The  parents  were  Richard  and 
Catherine  Skerritt,  of  Ireland,  the  former  a  sol- 
dier in  the  British  army  and  a  member  of  the 
British  Horse  police,  doing  duty  in  Ireland.  He 
was  a  fine  horseman,  an  excellent  judge  of  horse 
flesh,  and  was  detailed  to  buy  horses  for  the  Brit- 


ish army.  After  his  marriage  he  secured  an  hon- 
orable discharge  from  the  army.  In  1835  he  set- 
tled in  Oakland  County,  Mich.,  and  engaged  in 
farming  in  White  Lake  Township  until  his  death, 
which  occurred  at  fifty-six  years  of  age.  His 
wife  also  died  in  Michigan. 

After  his  father  came  to  America,  our  subject, 
who  had  remained  in  Ireland,  was  taken  into  the 
home  of  an  uncle,  with  whom  he  remained  for 
thirteen  years.  In  1848  he  and  his  uncle,  Thomas 
Skerritt,  came  to  America,  where  he  spent  one 
year  in  Michigan.  Then,  with  his  uncle,  he  re- 
moved to  Amherstburg,  near  Fort  Moulden,  Can- 
ada, where  he  engaged  in  farming  from  1849  to 
1856.  Returning  to  Michigan  in  the  spring  of 
the  latter  year,  he  settled  in  Wyandotte,  Mich., 
where  he  was  contractor  for  A.  B.  Ward  &  Co. , 
proprietors  of  the  first  rolling  mill  in  the  west. 
In  November,  1856,  at  Pontiac,  Mich.,  he  mar- 
ried Miss  Mary  Skerritt,  who  was  born  in  Kings 
County,  Ireland,  the  daughter  of  Thomas  and 
Mary  (Proud)  Skerritt.  .  She  was  one  of  four 
children,  of  whom  but  two  are  living.  Her 
brother,  Joseph,  was  an  early  settler  of  Oakland 
County,  Mich.,  where  he  engaged  in  farming 
until  his  death.  Another  brother,  Thomas,  who 
is  with  the  Denver  &  Rio  Grande  Railroad  in 
Denver,  volunteered  at  the  opening  of  the  war  in 
a  Michigan  regiment  and  served  until  the  close 
of  the  conflict.  He  was  wounded  and  taken  pris- 
oner at  Lexington,  but  was  paroled  and  ex- 
changed. Mrs.  Skerritt  left  Ireland  at  the  age 
of  fourteen  and  came  to  her  brother,  Joseph,  in 
America,  settling  in  Oakland  County,  Mich. 

In  December,  1856,  Mr.  Skerritt  went  to  Chica- 
go with  the  company  that  started  the  first  rolling 
mill  there,  but  they  closed  down  the  mill  after  a 
year  and  he  then,  in  the  spring  of  1858,  started 
for  Kansas,  going  by  team  to  Leavenworth, 
where  he  engaged  in  teaming  and  the  livery 
business.  In  April,  1859,  he  started,  with  a 
horse  team  for  Pike's  Peak,  but  on  the  way  west 
traded  his  team  for  oxen  and  cows.  After  a  dan- 
gerous and  tiresome  journey  of  six  weeks  he 
reached  Denver,  June  2,  1859,  and  then  proceeded 
to  Central  City,  his  wife  being  the  first  white 
woman  in  that  place.  In  August  of  the  same 
year  he  crossed  the  mountains  to  Breckenridge, 
Summit  County,  his  wife  being  the  first  woman 
to  cross  the  range.  On  the  way  they  camped 
once  near  the  soda  springs  at  Manitou  and  his 


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wife  made  biscuit  from  soda  water.  November 
5,  1859,  he  left  Breckeiiridge,  intending  to  spend 
the  winter  in  New  Mexico,  but  when  he  reached 
old  Fountain  City,  near  what  is  now  Pueblo,  he 
was  advised  not  to  proceed  further,  as  New  Mex- 
ico was  no  place  for  a  white  woman.  For  that 
reason  he  turned  back  and  came  to  Denver. 

Immediately  afterward  Mr.  Skerritt  took  up  a 
pre-emption  claim  on  the  Platte,  where  Peters- 
burg now  stands,  and  there  he  remained  until  the 
flood  of  1864  washed  out  his  land.  He  then  pre- 
empted his  present  property.  Shady  Side  farm, 
where  he  set  out  the  trees  that  make  the  name  of 
the  place  a  very  appropriate  one.  He  has  traded 
some  in  land  and  in  1880  sold  off  the  site  of  Orch- 
ard Place.  He  irrigates  his  ranch  from  the  city 
ditch,  by  which  means  he  can  water  every  part  of 
the  place.  In  early  days  he  engaged  in  the  cat- 
tle business,  but  for  some  time  has  not  been  in- 
terested in  that  industry.  He  and  his  wife  are 
members  of  the  Pioneer  Society.  In  religious 
belief  they  are  connected  with  the  Episcopal 
Church.  Politically  he  is  a  Republican.  For 
over  twenty -five  }'ears  he  was  a  director  of  the 
school  board,  during  part  of  the  time  serving  as 
secretary ;  and  he  was  also  road  supervisor  for  nine 
years. 

The  family  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Skerritt  consists  of 
eight  children.  Thomas,  who  was  born  in  May, 
i860,  in  Denver,  is  engaged  in  mining  in  Cripple 
Creek  and  is  a  member  of  the  Pioneer  Association, 
being  perhaps  the  youngest  member  of  that  so- 
ciety; Joseph  is  with  a  mercantile  firm  in  Cripple 
Creek;  George  is  engaged  in  the  livery  business 
at  Shady  Side;  William  died  at  thirteen  years  of 
age;  Marguerite  and  Mamie  are  with  their  pa- 
rents; Harry  is  interested  with  his  brother  in  the 
livery  business;  and  Charles  manages  his  father's 
ranch  at  Rifle,  Garfield  County. 


eARL  M.  LINDQUIST,  member  of  the 
board  of  supervisors  of  Denver,  is  president 
and  general  manager  of  the  Lindquist 
Bakery  and  Cracker  Company,  one  of  the  well- 
known  business  concerns  of  the  city.  In  1891 
he  built  the  works  at  No.  3528  Market  street, 
and  carried  on  the  business  under  the  title  of 
C.  M.  Lindquist  Biscuit  Company,  but  March  2, 
1898,  the  company  was  incorporated  under  its 
present   name.     All   kinds   of  bread,   cake   and 


crackers  are  manufactured  here,  and  the  excellent 
quality  and  reasonable  prices  of  the  bakery  goods 
have  created  a  demand  for  them  not  only  in  this 
.state,  but  also  in  Utah,  New  Mexico  and  Wyo- 
ming and  other  adjacent  states. 

Mr.  Lindquist  was  born  in  Enkjoping,  Upplau, 
Sweden,  August  15,  1861,  the  .son  of  John  and 
Hilda  Elizabeth  (Ekeberg)  Lindquist.  His 
father,  who  was  a  cabinet  maker  and  manufacturer 
of  furniture,  engaged  in  business  in  Enkjoping 
until  his  death  at  the  age  of  fifty-two  years.  He 
married  a  daughter  of  John  Ekeberg,  a  merchant 
tailor  in  Sweden.  When  still  quite  young  she 
died,  November  i,  1861,  leaving  two  sons,  John 
A.,  now  of  Denver,  and  Carl  M.  The  latter  was 
only  three  months  old  when  his  mother  died. 
He  was  reared  in  Enkjoping  and  attended 
the  public  .schools  there.  November  i,  1878,  he 
went  to  Germany,  and  for  a  year  worked  at  the 
baker's  trade  in  Kiel.  In  1879  he  went  to  Copen- 
hagen, Denmark,  and  continued  to  work  at  his 
trade  in  that  city. 

Having  resolved  to  come  to  America,  Mr. 
Lindquist  left  Copenhagen,  March  15,  1881,  on 
the  steamer  "Harold,"  which  sailed  first  to  Eng- 
land for  repairs  and  then  crossed  the  ocean,  an- 
choring in  New  York  April  25.  From  that  city 
he  went  to  Pittsburg  and  secured  employment 
with  the  Marviij  Biscuit  Company,  remaining  in 
their  bakery  for  two  years.  Next  going  to  Chi- 
cago, he  worked  with  the  Aldrich  Baking  Com- 
pany there  until  1884.  The  work  was  injurious 
to  his  health,  and  thinking  an  ocean  voyage  and 
a  visit  to  his  old  home  would  be  beneficial,  he 
left  Chicago  November  5,  and  took  passage  at 
Philadelphia  for  Copenhagen,  going  from  there 
to  Stockholm  and  the  old  homestead  in  Sweden. 
He  spent  seven  months  with  his  father  and  old 
friends,  and  came  back  to  America  so  benefited 
by  the  trip  that  his  fellow-workmen  in  the  Chi- 
cago shop  scarcely  recognized  him.  After  con- 
tinuing for  another  year  with  the  Aldrich  Com- 
pany, he  started  in  business  for  himself,  opening 
a  bakery  at  No.  148  Milton  Avenue,  North  Chi- 
cago, where  he  engaged  in  business  for  eighteen 
months. 

Selling  out  the  business  June  23,  1887,  Mr. 
Lindquist  came  to  Colorado,  and  on  the  12th  of 
July  he  opened  a  bakery  on  Thirty-fifth  and 
Larimer  streets,  Denver,  where  he  remained  until 
his  removal  to  his  present  location  in  1891.     He 


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is  one  of  the  most  prominent  Swedes  in  Denver, 
and  is  now  vice-president  of  the  Swedish  Repub- 
lican Club.  In  national  politics  he  is  a  silver 
Republican.  In  1897  he  was  nominated  for  city 
supervisor  on  the  national  silver  ticket,  endorsed 
by  the  tax  payers  and  civic  federation,  and  was 
elected  by  a  majority  of  eight  thousand.  He 
took  office  April  14,  1898,  for  a  term  of  two  years, 
and  has  since  been  a  member  of  the  important 
committees  and  chairman  of  the  license,  market 
and  market  place,  and  police  and  fire  department 
committees.  He  introduced  the  bill  to  license 
and  regulate  the  chattel-mortgage  men,  which 
was  passed  by  the  board;  also  the  bill  compelling 
street  car  companies  to  provide  cars  with  vestibules 
for  motormen,  which  was  carried  after  a  hard  and 
prolonged  fight.  Other  good  measures  have  re- 
ceived his  warm  sympathy  and  active  support. 

Fraternally  Mr.  Lindquist  is  past  sachem  of 
Red  Cloud  Tribe  No.  14,  I.  O.  R.  M.;  belongs 
to  Court  Wallhalla,  Order  of  Foresters,  and 
Uniform  Rank,  also  Denver  Conclave,  of  which 
he  is  the  commander;  Northern  Lodge  No.  61, 
I.  O.  O.  F.,  and  the  Silver  State  Encampment. 
While  living  in  Chicago  he  married  Miss  Char- 
lotte Maline,  a  native  of  Sweden.  They  have 
four  children,  Carl  Eugene,  Hilda  Christine, 
Axel  Wilbert  and  Lillie  Evangeline. 


HON.  HENRY  SUESS,  who  won  the  title  of 
major  in  the  Civil  war,  was  a  member  of  the 
Colorado  legislature  in  the  session  of  1885- 
86,  during  which  he  served  as  chairman  of  the 
committee  on  roads  and  bridges  and  a  member  of 
the  railroad  and  other  committees.  He  in- 
troduced a  bill  which  was  carried,  providing  for 
the  use  of  the  public  improvement  fund  in  the 
erection  of  bridges,  and  under  the  new  law  the 
iron  bridge  at  Grand  Junction  was  the  first  to  be 
built.  During  his  term  occurred  the  great  con- 
test between  Hill  and  Teller  for  United  States 
senator.  At  first  Mr.  Suess  supported  Hill,  but 
when  he  saw  the  impossibility  of  the  latter  re- 
ceiving the  election  he  voted  for  the  opposing 
candidate.  He  was  not  a  candidate  for  re-elec- 
tion to  the  legislature,  but  afterward  was  nomi- 
nated on  the  regular  Republican  ticket  for  state 
senate.  Unfortunately  there  was  a  split  in  the 
party  and  a  second  nomination,  which  resulted 
in  a  Democratic  victory. 


Born  in  Hesse-Cassel,  Germany,  our  subject 
is  a  son  of  George  Suess,  a  native  of  Zierenberg, 
who  located  three  miles  from  Hesse-Cassel  and 
engaged  in  the  saddlery  and  harness  busiuess. 
After  his  death  the  business  was  continued  by 
his  youngest  son,  George,  who  was  a  soldier  in 
the  Franco-Prussian  war.  The  father  also  was 
a  soldier,  serving  for  ten  years  in  the  Garde  du 
corps,  a  regiment  of  cavalry.  He  died  at  the 
age  Of  fifty-seven.  In  religious  belief  he  was 
identified  with  the  Reformed  Church.  The  name 
Suess,  translated  into  the  English  language,  is 
"sweet." 

The  mother  of  our  subject  was  Amelia  Pfeiifer, 
daughter  of  a  city  official  in  Wolfhagen,  Kur- 
Hessen,  where  she  was  born.  She  died  young, 
leaving  only  one  child.  The  father  was  mar- 
ried three  times  and  had  one  son  by  each  mar- 
riage. Julius,  one  of  the  sons,  came  to  America 
in  1847  and  settled  upon  a  farm  in  Adams  Coun- 
ty, 111.  During  the  war  he  was  employed  at 
Jefferson  barracks  in  St.  Louis.  While  on  his 
way  back  to  Illinois,  at  the  close  of  the  war,  he 
was  on  a  Mississippi  River  boat  and  was  ac- 
cidentally killed  by  stepping  through  the  hatch- 
way. The  youngest  son  is  George,  now  in  Ger- 
many. 

Born  in  1837,  the  subject  of  this  skecth  was 
educated  in  the  gymnasium  in  Hesse-Cassel, 
where  he  completed  the  course.  At  the  age  of 
fourteen  he  began  to  learn  the  saddler's  trade, 
serving  for  three  years.  In  1854  he  left  Bremen 
on  the  steamer  "Herman"  and  after  a  voyage  of 
two  days  landed  in  Southampton,  from  which 
place  he  sailed  to  New  York.  He  joined  his 
brother  Julius,  who  then  lived  near  New  Balti- 
more, Mich. ,  but  soon  went  to  Romeo,  Macomb 
County,  Mich.,  where  he  worked  at  the  saddler's 
trade  for  two  years.  There  he  married  Miss 
Wilhelmina  Lange,  who  was  born  in  Prussia. 
From  Romeo  he  removed  to  New  Baltimore  and 
started  in  business  for  himself,  but  the  panic  of 
1859  caused  his  financial  ruin.  He  then  went  to 
St.  Louis  and  secured  employment  at  his  trade. 
In  i860  he  settled  in  Concordia,  Mo.,  and  started 
in  business  for  himself 

Immediately  after  the  capture  of  Camp  Jack- 
son, our  subject  organized  a  company  of  home 
guards  and  was  mustered  into  service  as  sergeant 
at  Booneville.  He  was  elected  first  lieutenant  of 
Company  B,  of  the  Lafayette  home  guard,  and 


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at  once  engaged  in  guerrilla  fighting.  He  was 
stationed  at  Waverly,  then  near  Concordia,  where 
he  assisted  in  building  the  stockade  and  breast- 
works, then  went  to  the  relief  of  four  companies 
at  I,exington  and  was  captured  by  General  Price, 
but  afterward  paroled.  Returning  home,  he  soon 
re-enlisted,  becoming  a  member  of  Company  B, 
Seventh  Missouri  Cavalry,  in  which  he  was 
orderly  sergeant  for  five  days  and  then  was  elected 
first  lieutenant.  He  continued  the  guerrilla  war- 
fare, taking  part  in  the  Shelby  raid  and  the  Price 
raid  in  Missouri,  Kansas  and  Arkansas,  and  was 
promoted  to  be  major  December  i6,  1863.  For 
three  months  he  commanded  a  boat  on  the  Mis- 
souri River,  from  Glasgow  to  Fort  Leavenworth, 
and  with  the  aid  of  a  company  of  infantry,  twen- 
ty-five cavalry  and  two  pieces  of  artillery,  suc- 
ceeded in  largely  stopping  the  crossing  of  the 
river  by  guerrillas.  He  served  as  inspector  of 
cavalry  for  the  central  district  of  Missouri  on  the 
staff  of  Gen.  E.  B.  Brown,  then  was  transferred 
to  the  staff  of  Gen.  Alfred  Pleasanton.  At  the 
beginning  of  the  Price  raid  he  became  identified 
with  that  campaign  and  took  part  in  all  its  skir- 
mishes. He  had  charge  of  the  prisoners  taken  in 
the  battle  of  the  Osage  and  delivered  them  to  St. 
Louis.  He  was  mustered  out  of  service  Decem- 
ber 10,  1865. 

The  following  day  he  began  in  business  in 
Sedalia,  Mo.,  opposite  the  Missouri  Pacific,  where 
he  remained  until  1878.  Meantime,  foi-  six 
j-ears,  he  was  a  member  of  the  city  council,  being 
its  president  for  one  term;  mayor  in  1867-68, 
during  which  time  the  water  works  were  built, 
the  fire  department  organized  and  the  streets 
macadamized;  president  of  the  board  of  educa- 
tion for  six  years;  county  treasurer  for  one  term; 
one  of  the  founders  of  the  First  National  Bank 
and  a  director  in  it.  On  selling  out  he  took  a 
position  with  the  Anheuser-Busch  Brewing  As- 
sociation, being  manager  of  their  business  in 
Houston,  Tex.,  for  two  and  one- half  years,  and 
then,  in  188 1,  was  transferred  to  Denver.  His 
territory  extends  to  the  coast  and  he  has  opened 
agencies  in  Kaslo,  B.  C,  Spokane,  Wash.,  and 
coast  cities.  His  location  is  at  Tenth  and  Wazee 
streets,  where  he  has  the  oldest  plant  west  of  the 
Missouri. 

In  1891  Mrs.  Suess  died,  leaving  eight  chil- 
dren: Mrs.  Flora  Mansbach,  of  Denver;  George, 
a  plumber  and  gas-fitter;   Mrs.   Mary  Horn,  of 


Denver;  Henry,  who  is  in  business  with  George; 
Fred,  also  a  plumber,  in  this  city;  Julius,  who 
died  in  1896;  Bertha  and  Theresa.  The  second 
wife  of  Major  Suess  was  Mrs.  Kate  L.  (Lemen) 
Taylor,  a  sister  of  Dr.  L.  E.  Lemen.  Fraternally 
Major  Suess  is  connected  with  the  Loyal  Legion 
of  Colorado,  Lincoln  Post,  G.  A.  R.,  Turn 
Verein,  Elks  and  Masons.  He  was  made  a  Royal 
Arch  Mason  in  Sedalia  and  took  the  Scottish 
Rite  degree  here,  being  now  a  member  of  El 
Jebel  Temple,  N.  M.  S. 


nOHN  GREGOR,  of  Denver,  was  born  in 
I  Ratibor,  Silesia,  Prussia,  October  16,  1850, 
(2/  the  son  of  Franz  and  Thekla  (Maly)  Gregor. 
His  father,  who  was  a  soldier  in  the  Franco- 
Prussian  war  of  1870,  has  been  a  lifelong  resident 
of  Silesia,  where  he  is  still  engaged  in  the  manu- 
facture of  brick.  Notwithstanding  his  seventy 
active  years,  he  is  still  hale  and  robust.  His 
wife,  who  was  the  daughter  of  John  Maly,  a  car- 
riage manufacturer  and  a  soldier  in  the  Prussian 
army  during  the  Napoleonic  wars,  was  born  in 
Prussia  and  there  died  when  advanced  in  years. 
Of  her  three  children,  two  are  living,  one  in  Ger- 
many and  the  other  in  America. 

In  the  common  schools  and  gymnasiums  of 
Silesia  our  subject  received  his  education.  At 
the  age  of  sixteen  he  began  an  apprenticeship  to 
the  brickmason's  trade,  which  he  followed  for 
three  years  in  the  summers,  while  during  the 
winter  months  he  studied  in  an  architect's  office. 
At  the  age  of  eighteen  he  was  made  foreman  of 
jobs,  and  worked  in  that  capacity  for  a  year, 
when  he  decided  to  come  to  America.  In  the  fall 
of  1868  he  crossed  the  ocean  and  spent  a  time  in 
traveling  through  New  York,  Pennsylvania, 
Ohio,  Illinois,  Indiana  and  Iowa.  He  then  lo- 
cated in  Port  Washington,  Tuscarawas  County, 
Ohio,  where  he  worked  at  his  trade.  In  1879  he 
came  to  Colorado  and  settled  in  Denver,  where 
he  worked  at  his  trade  in  the  employ  of  others 
for  three  years,  beginning  as  a  contractor  of 
brickwork  in  1882.  He  has  had  the  contracts 
for  the  tramway  power  house  and  residence  and 
business  property.  In  the  organization  of  the 
Master  Builders'  Association  and  Brick  Contract- 
ors' and  Manufacturers' Association  he  was  an  act- 
ive factor,  and  has  since  been  secretary  of  both 
organizations. 


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Politically  Mr.  Gregor  is  a  silver  Republican. 
He  was  made  a  Mason  in  1888  and  is  identified 
with  Denver  Lodge  No.  5,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  of 
which  he  was  worshipful  master  in  1895-96;  he 
is  also  connected  with  Denver  Chapter  No.  2, 
R.  A.  M. ,  of  which  he  is  an  officer.  At  No. 
1827  Pearl  street  he  built  the  residence  now  oc- 
cupied by  himself  and  wife  and  their  two  daugh- 
ters, Anna  E.  and  Helen  M.  His  wife,  who  was 
Miss  Ola  Haskinson,  was  born  in  Port  Washing- 
ton, Ohio,  where  her  father,  who  is  of  Scotch  de- 
scent, has  long  been  engaged  in  farming. 


Ki  RS.  F.  C.  BRAY,  a  very  successful  business 
Y  woman  and  the  owner  of  valuable  property 
y  in  Denver,  was  born  in  Franklin  County, 
Ind.,  the  daughter  of  Laborens  and  Agnes 
(Shepherd)  Brown,  natives  of  Berlin,  Germany. 
In  that  land  the  family  name  was  Braum,  but  the 
change  to  the  present  form  was  made  on  coming 
to  America.  Her  father,  who  was  a  contractor  and 
builder  by  trade,  brought  his  wife  and  children 
to  Indiana  in  1849  and  settled  in  Franklin  Coun- 
ty, where  he  followed  his  chosen  occupation. 
He  soon  became  known  as  a  man  of  skill  and  ex- 
cellent judgment  in  his  trade,  and  he  was  called 
to  almost  every  part  of  the  state,  as  a  contractor 
in  the  erection  of  buildings.  Much  of  his  money 
he  invested  in  land,  and  he  became  the  owner  of 
over  six  hundred  acres  in  Franklin  County.  His 
death  occurred  there  when  he  was  fifty-nine  years 
old.     His  wife  also  died  in  Indiana. 

Of  their  children  three  sons  and  three  daugh- 
ters are  living,  Mrs.  Bray  being  next  to  the 
youngest.  One  brother.  Christian  Brown,  en- 
listed in  an  Indiana  regiment  and  served  through 
the  Civil  war,  being  wounded  in  the  shoulder  at 
the  battle  of  Gettysburg;  he  is  now  living  at  the 
old  homestead  in  Indiana.  Another  brother, 
Jacob,  was  a  member  of  the  Thirty-second 
Indiana  Regiment  and  served  until  the  close  of 
the  Rebellion. 

Mrs.  Bray  was  educated  in  the  public  schools 
of  Franklin  County  and  Terre  Haute,  Vigo  Coun- 
ty. In  1875  she  went  to  St.  Louis,  where  seven 
years  later  she  became  the  wife  of  C.  A.  Bray,  of 
that  city.  Prior  to  that,  in  1879,  she  started  a 
laundry  in  St.  Louis,  and  in  July,  1885,  opened 
the  City  laundry  there,  where  steam  power  was 
used.     This  laundry  had  a  larger  capacity  than 


any  .similar  concern  in  the  city,  except  the  Ex- 
celsior, to  which  she  sold  out  in  November, 
1889.  In  March  of  the  following  year  she  came 
to  Denver,  and  purchased  the  Elite  laundry,  that 
had  been  established  the  preceding  November. 
She  rebuilt  and  enlarged  the  laundry,  at  Eleventh 
and  California  streets,  near  the  West  Colfax  ave- 
nue bridge.  The  management  of  this  she  has 
since  successfully  superintended.  In  July,  1892, 
she  bought  the  City  laundry  and  combined  the 
two,  continuing  them  in  one  building.  The  oflSce 
of  the  Elite  laundry  is  at  No.  15 13  Curtis  street, 
and  has  been  recently  enlarged,  and  its  capacity 
increased.  Mrs.  Bray  is  a  member  of  the  Laun- 
drymen's  Association.  She  is  a  capable  business 
woman,  thoroughly  familiar  with  everj'  detail  in 
connection  with  the  laundry  business  and  efiicient 
in  superintending  the  work  so  as  to  secure  satis- 
factory financial  returns.  Her  residence  is  at 
No.  2712  Curtis  street. 


QROMAN  W.  BLAKLEY.  In  the  list  of  en- 
U'  terprising  business  men  of  Denver  we  find 
fS  the  name  of  Mr.  Blakley,  proprietor  of  the 
United  Carriage  Company's  stable,  at  Nos.  2012- 
14  Lawrence  street.  This  business  he  started  in 
the  spring  of  1897,  when  he  remodeled  a  building 
50x125  feet  in  dimensions,  and  here  he  has  since 
carried  on  a  general  livery  and  transfer  trade. 
He  keeps  a  line  of  first-class  livery  and  furnishes 
carriages  for  funerals,  weddings  and  operas.  By 
his  energy  and  sagacious  judgment  he  has  built 
up  an  excellent  trade  and  has  become  known  as 
one   of  the  judicious  business  men  of  the  city. 

The  birth  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch  occurred 
in  Oregon,  Holt  County,  Mo.,  April  22,  1854. 
He  was  next  to  the  oldest  of  eight  sons,  of  whom 
all  but  one  are  living.  His  father,  Charles  Blakley, 
was  born  in  Kentucky,  but  settled  in  Missouri  in 
an  early  day  and  engaged  in  farming  and  the 
stock  business  there.  Often  he  bought  cattle  in 
Texas,  which  he  shipped  to  Fort  Lea\'enworth 
and  Atchison  and  sold  them  there.  In  1870  he 
came  to  Colorado,  where  he  engaged  in  the  stock 
business,  shipping  draft  horses  and  milch  cows 
into  the  state,  but  later  became  proprietor  of  the 
old  Santa  Fe  stables,  on  Larimer  between  Twenty- 
first  and  Twenty-second  streets.  His  last  years 
were  spent  in  retirement,  and  he  died  in  Denver 
at  the  age  of  seventy-three.     He  was  water  com- 


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missioner  of  this  city  for  one  term  under  Dr.  Buck- 
ingham, then  mayor.  His  wife,  who  bore  the 
maiden  name  of  Vilena  Lewis,  was  born  in  Jack- 
son County,  Mo.,  and  died  in  Denver.  Her 
father,  Jesse  Lewis,  was  born  in  Virginia,  of 
Welsh  descent,  and  engaged  in  farming  in  Mis- 
souri for  some  time,  but  finally  removed  to  within 
five  miles  of  Atchison,  Kan.,  where  he  died  at 
ninety-three  years. 

When  our  subject  was  eight  years  of  age  his 
father  moved  to  Platte  City,  Mo.,  and  there  he 
attended  the  public  schools.  He  was  the  first  of 
the  family  to  come  to  Denver  and  some  months 
later  he  was  joined  by  his  father,  with  whom  he 
engaged  in  the  stock  business.  July  4,  1876,  he 
started  a  carriage  shop,  and  continued  exclusively 
in  that  industry  until  becoming  interested  in  the 
livery  business.  His  attention  has  been  given 
closely  to  matters  relating  to  his  business,  but 
he  has  kept  abreast  with  the  developments  of  the 
age  and  the  march  of  thought.  In  politics  he  is 
a  stanch  Democrat.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Wood- 
men of  the  World. 

In  Platte  City,  Mo.,  Mr.  Blakley  married  Miss 
Ella  Moore,  who  was  born  in  Missouri,  and  is  the 
adopted  daughter  of  Judge  E.  H.  Norton,  a  prom- 
inent attorney,  and  for  sixteen  years  judge  of  the 
supreme  court  of  that  state.  They  are  the  par- 
ents of  two  children,  Norton  and  Berta. 


I  AWRENCEH.  BALFE,  plumbing  inspector 
I C  for  the  city  of  Denver  and  third  vice-presi- 
12  dent  of  the  United  Journeymen  Plumbers' 
Association  of  the  United  States  and  Canada,  is 
a  native  of  County  Wexford,  Ireland,  where  were 
also  born  his  parents,  Thomas  and  Eliza  (Kinsler) 
Balfe,  and  his  grandfathers,  Miles  Balfe,  a  horse 
trainer  by  occupation,  and  Patrick  Kinsler,  a 
large  wholesale  merchant  of  Courtowu  Harbor. 
Interested  in  horses  from  childhood,  Thomas 
Balfe  became  widely  known  as  a  successful  jockey, 
and  in  that  capacity  he  was  called  to  almost  every 
part  of  the  British  Isles.  Later  he  retired  from 
that  work  and  embarked  in  the  wholesale  grocery 
business  at  Courtown  Harbor,  where  he  is  still 
living,  hearty  and  stout,  in  spite  of  his  eighty- 
seven  years.  When  he  was  seventy-six  years 
old  he  rode  his  own  horse  in  a  race  and  won  it. 
His  wife  is  now  eighty-five  years  of  age.  Of 
their  thirteen  children  that   attained   maturity. 


eight  are  living,  all  in  this  country,  except  two 
sisters  who  remain  in  Ireland.  P.  H.  Balfe,  the 
oldest  son,  is  represented  on  another  page  of  this 
volume;  Edward  is  a  blacksmith  in  the  Grant 
Smelter  Works  of  Denver;  Thomas  is  engaged  in 
the  plumbing  business  in  Omaha;  Mrs.  Mary 
Rose  lives  in  Omaha,  and  Mrs.  Sarah  Smith  in 
Chicago. 

In  the  seaport  town  of  Courtown  Harbor  our 
subject  grew  to  sturdy  youth,  attending  the  na- 
tional school  there  for  some  time.  At  the  age  of 
fourteen  and  one-half  he  enlisted  in  the  British 
navy  and  was  ordered  upon  a  man-of-war  train- 
ing ship  which  was  stationed  at  Kingstown  for 
eighteen  months.  He  was  then  given  a  furlough 
and  went  home  to  visit  his  parents,  but  on  his 
return  he  made  a  mistake,  and  instead  of  board- 
ing Her  Majesty's  ship  he  found  himself  on  an 
American  vessel  westward  bound.  He  landed  in 
New  York  City  in  the  fall  of  1883,  when  seven- 
teen years  old.  Four  months  he  spent  in  Phila- 
delphia, after  which  he  went  to  Omaha  and  served 
an  apprenticeship  of  two  and  one-half  years  at 
the  plumbers'  trade.  In  the  spring  of  1886  he 
came  to  Denver,  where  he  worked  for  one  year 
with  Hohne  &  White,  and  then,  did  journeyman 
work  until  1890.  The  next  two  years  were  de- 
voted to  the  business  which  he  e.stablished  for 
himself.  Iq  1892  he  was  appointed  plumbing 
inspector  by  Dr.  L-  E.  Lemen,  health  physician, 
and  the  appointment  was  approved  by  Mayor 
Van  Horn.  After  a  term  of  two  years  and  six 
months  he  was  reappointed  by  Dr.  William  P. 
Munn,  health  physician,  the  appointment  being 
concurred  in  by  Mayor  McMurray.  In  1896  he 
was  again  appointed  by  the  same  gentleman,  and 
is  now  serving  his  third  term  in  the  office,  which 
he  has  filled  with  such  marked  capability. 

In  Denver,  in  1888,  Mr.  Balfe  married  Miss 
Annie  Cahaney,  a  native  of  County  Sligo,  Ire- 
land, and  the  daughter  of  Alexander  and  Bridget 
(Irwin)  Cahaney.  Her  father  is  still  a  farmer 
and  drover  in  County  Sligo,  but  her  mother  died 
some  years  ago.  There  were  seven  children  in 
the  family  and  five  are  now  living,  Mrs.  Balfe 
being  next  to  the  oldest.  She  crossed  the  ocean 
and  came  from  her  native  land  to  Colorado  at  the 
age  of  seventeen.  Of  her  three  children  two  are 
living,  John  and  Edward. 

A  member  of  the  United  Journeyman  Plumbers' 
Association  of  the  United  States  and  Canada,  Mr. 


JOSE  PIERRE  ADAMS. 


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569 


Balfe  has  held  everj'  ofiBce  in  the  local  branch, 
and  is  now  third  vice-president  of  the  organiza- 
tion, having  been  elected  to  the  position  by  the 
convention  at  Nashville,  Tenn.,  in  1897.  He 
expects  to  attend  the  convention  at  Cleveland, 
Ohio,  in  1898.  In  the  local  branch  of  the  Ancient 
Order  of  Hibernians  he  has  been  president,  and 
he  is  also  a  member  of  the  Irish  Progressive  So- 
ciety and  the  Foresters  of  America.  He  is  well 
known  as  an  all-around  athlete.  November  8, 
1892,  he  won  the  state  championship  by  throw- 
ing a  sixteen-pound  hammer,  and  he  has  since 
held  the  championship.  He  has  won  medals 
from  the  Denver  Wheel  and  Denver  Athletic 
Clubs.  For  four  years  he  played  with  the  Den- 
ver Athletic  Club  foot  ball  team,  principally  as 
center  rush,  but  now  plays  with  the  foot  ball 
team  of  the  Denver  Wheel  Club.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  Church  of  Annunciation.  In  politics  a 
Republican,  he  has  frequently  served  as  a  delegate 
to  county  and  state  conventions,  and  has  taken 
a  warm  interest  in  the  success  of  the  party. 


(TOSE  PIERRE  ADAMS.  The  first  ex- 
I  perience  of  Mr.  Adams  in  the  west  was 
Q)  during  the  civil  war,  when  he  was  but  a 
boy.  He  was  then  living  in  Missouri,  but  afiairs 
in  that  state  were  exciting  and  residence  there 
undesirable;  so  in  1863  he  went  to  St.  Joe  by  rail- 
road and  there  took  the  stage  to  Leavenworth, 
where  he  hired  as  a  driver  of  a  six-yoke  ox-team 
over  the  government  trail  to  Santa  Fe.  How- 
ever, they  soon  had  an  unfortunate  encounter  with 
the  Indians.  At  Larned,  Kan.,  while  the  men 
were  in  camp  and  the  cattle  were  grazing  on  the 
plains,  a  band  of  Comanche  Indians  attacked  the 
party.  The  first  volley  by  the  whites  killed 
seven  Indians  and  enraged  the  others  so  that 
they  continued  fighting  all  afternoon,  kilHng  the 
wagon  master,  and  finally  leaving  with  the  oxen. 
The  following  day  government  troops  from  the 
Larned  post  rescued  Mr.  Adams  and  the  other 
members  of  the  party. 

During  the  years  that  have  since  elapsed  Mr. 
Adams  has  had  many  other  thrilling  experiences, 
in  all  of  which  he  has  borne  himself  valiantly. 
He  is  fond  of  Colorado,  and  is  especially  inter- 
ested in  the  welfare  of  Denver,  where  he  is 
engaged  in  business  as  a  commission  merchant. 
He  also  owns  a  ranch  at  Corona,  sixty  miles  east 


of  Denver,  on  the  Kiowa  Creek,  where  he  is 
engaged  in  raising  cattle  and  horses.  While  in 
Douglas  County  he  served  as  count}'  commis- 
sioner for  two  terms  of  three  years  each,  and  each 
year  he  was  re-elected  chairman.  In  1875  he  was 
elected  sheriff  of  the  county  (which  was  Re- 
publican) on  the  Democratic  ticket,  by  a  fair 
majority,  although  there  were  two  other  candi- 
dates. While  he  was  in  office  he  was  instrumental 
in  securing  the  erection  of  the  courthouse  at 
Castle  Rock,  one  of  the  prettiest  public  buildings 
in  the  state,  for  the  erection  of  which  $20,000 
bonds  were  voted,  but  it  was  necessary  to  float 
only  $14,000  of  the  amount. 

Near  Brunswick,  Mo.,  Mr.  Adams  was  born 
May  31,  1848.  His  grandfather,  Jose  Pierre 
Adams,  was  born  in  Scotland,  emigrated  to 
America  in  early  manhood,  married  in  Virginia 
and  was  there  employed  as  a  chemist.  While 
testing  a  variety  of  herb  he  was  accidentally 
poisoned  and  soon  died.  He  was  then  forty-five 
years  of  age.  He  had  two  sons,  George  F.  and 
Alexander  Washington,  and  three  daughters. 
The  first-named  son  was  born  in  Jefferson  County, 
Va. ,  where  he  engaged  in  farming  until  1827,  and 
then  removed  to  Chariton  County,  Mo.,  settling 
upon  a  tract  of  prairie  land  that  had  been  set 
a.side  for  the  war  of  18 12  land  grants.  One  of 
these  he  bought  and  subsequently  sold,  after 
which  he  was  permitted  to  pre-empt  another  one 
hundred  and  sixty  acres,  paying  twelve  and  one- 
half  cents  per  acre,  and  was  also  given  permis- 
sion to  take  another  tract  of  similar  size.  He 
improv^ed  all  the  land  and  devoted  it  principally 
to  the  stock  business,  buying  adjacent  property, 
until  he  finally  owned  a  section.  While  there  he 
served  as  justice  of  the  peace.  In  1886  he  came 
to  Colorado  and  afterward  lived  retired  until  his 
death,  at  eighty-one  years. 

The  mother  of  our  subject,  who  was  Cynthia 
Lane,  was  born  in  Kentucky  and  died  in  Missouri 
in  1861.  Her  father,  John  Lane,  removed  from 
Kentucky  to  Chariton  County,  Mo.,  where  he 
died.  She  was  the  mother  of  four  sons  and  four 
daughters,  all  still  living.  James  Casper  is  a 
cattleman  in  Douglas  County,  Colo.;  A.  W.  is  a 
stock  commission  merchant  in  Kansas  City;  and 
John  W.  is  a  farmer,  living  near  Marceline, 
Chariton  County,  Mo. 

After  his  encounter  with  the  Indians  at  Larned, 
our  subject  secured  employment  as  driver  of  a 


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train  of.  six  mules  up  the  Arkansas  River  to  Fort 
Lyons,  Pueblo  and  Denver,  which  city  he  first 
saw  in  July,  1863.  For  six  months  he  was 
employed  as  a  stage  driver  from  Julesburg  to 
Fort  Morgan,  and  afterward  for  eighteen  months 
engaged  in  freighting.  He  then  went  to  Ne- 
braska City,  where  he  attended  school  a  few 
months,  and  next  spent  a  year  on  the  home  farm. 
During  this  time  he  married  Susan  M.  Pugh, 
daughter  of  Alexander  Pugh,  who  removed  in 
early  days  from  Louden  County,  Va.,  to  Missouri. 
Coming  to  Colorado  again  in  1869,  Mr.  Adams 
embarked  in  the  cattle  business  in  Douglas  (now 
Elbert)  County,  where  he  started  a  ranch.  In 
1873  he  removed  to  a  ranch  on  Plum  Creek  in 
Douglas  County,  where  he  began  to  deal  in  cattle, 
in  addition  to  raising  them.  For  fourteen  years 
he  was  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Adams  &  Green 
at  Ca,stle  Rock.  In  1893  he  removed  to  Denver, 
where  he  resides  at  No.  43  Sherman  avenue  and 
has  his  place  of  business  in  the  Exchange  build- 
ing. While  in  Douglas  County  he  was  active  in 
securing  the  removal  of  the  county  seat  from 
Frenchtown  to  Castle  Rock.  He  has  been  active 
in  the  Democratic  party  and  has  been  a  member 
of  the  state  central  committee  and  a  delegate  to 
state  conventions.  He  and  his  wife  have  three 
daughters:  Mrs.  Alice  Hazleton,  of  Philadelphia, 
Pa. ;  Mary  and  Edna.  He  is  still  a  member  of 
the  Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen  at  Castle 
Rock,  in  which  he  was  formerly  an  ofiicial. 


["RANK  O.  BLAKE,  president  of  the  Ber- 
r^  mudez-Blake  Contracting  Company  and 
I  ^  vice-president  of  the  Pacific  Asphalt  Com- 
pany, is  the  pioneer  in  American  asphalt  paving, 
having  been  the  first  to  meet  with  success  in  its 
use.  A  careful  student  of  chemistry,  through 
his  experiments  in  the  mixture  of  ingredients  he 
was  enabled  to  devise  the  combination  that  re- 
sulted in  the  successful  laying  of  American 
asphalt.  He  was  the  discoverer  of  a  large  deposit 
of  asphalt  in  Santa  Barbara  County,  Cal.,  which 
he  found  after  a  thorough  search  of  several  years 
through  the  state,  and  which,  with  its  twenty- 
nine  hundred  and  forty-five  acres  of  deposit,  his 
company  now  controls. 

The  Blake  lineage  is  traced  back  several  cen- 
turies, one  of  its  members,  of  whom  our  subject 
is  a  direct  descendant,   being   Admiral    James 


Blake,  of  the  English  navy.  Freelove  and 
Richard  Blake,  twins,  emigrated  from  Ireland  to 
Litchfield,  Conn.,  where  Freelove  followed  the 
trade  of  carpenter  and  builder.  During  the 
Revolution  both  enlisted  in  the  colonial  service  in 
Company  F,  Ninth  Regiment  of  Connecticut  Vol- 
unteers, raised  on  the  Lexington  alarm.  His  .son, 
Henry,  a  native  of  Litchfield  and  in  boyhood  a 
soldier  in  the  Revolution,  served  as  an  officer  in 
the  American  army  during  the  war  of  18 12. 
Much  of  his  life  was  spent  in  New  York,  where 
he  engaged  in  contracting  and  building.  He 
married  Isabella  Barnes,  of  New  York,  who  was 
of  Revolutionary  stock.  When  advanced  in  life 
he  joined  his  children  in  Peru,  Ind. ,  and  there 
died  at  sixty-seven  years. 

Col.  Orris  Blake,  son  of  Henry  and  father  of 
Frank  O.,  was  born  in  the  town  of  Clay,  Onon- 
daga County,  N.  Y.,  and  in  boyhood  was  a  tow- 
boy  on  the  Erie  Canal.  When  fifteen  he  went  to 
Peru,  Ind.,  where  he  became  a  merchant  tailor. 
There  he  married  Miss  Sarah  A.  Todd,  an  esti- 
mable lady,  who  was  born  in  Indiana,  of  Scotch 
descent.  Her  father,  David  Todd,  was  born  in  a 
fort  in  the  frontier  of  West  Virginia  and  was 
reared  in  Kentucky,  removing  from  there  to 
Parke  County,  Ind. ,  of  which  he  was  one  of  the 
earliest  settlers.  Afterward  he  removed  to  Peru, 
Miami  County,  where  he  gained  a  livelihood  by 
following  the  blacksmith's  trade,  but  devoted 
much  of  his  time  to  the  gratuitous  preaching  of 
the  Gospel,  traveling  on  horseback  through  parts 
of  Indiana  and  Illinois  in  order  to  meet  appoint- 
ments for  preaching.  He  was  ordained  to  the 
ministry  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  and  his  self- 
sacrificing  efforts  to  promote  the  spiritual  welfare 
of  others  were  rewarded  in  the  good  he  did  and 
the  lives  he  uplifted.  He  was  a  brother  of  ex- 
Governor  Todd,  of  Kentucky,  whose  daughter 
became  the  wife  of  Abraham  Lincoln. 

Receiving  a  contract  from  the  government  to 
make  pants  for  soldiers  in  the  army,  our  subject's 
father  devoted  his  evenings  to  cutting  the  material, 
which  his  wife  would  sew  the  next  day.  This 
gave  him  an  opportunity  to' study  law,  which  he 
did  under  Judge  Biddle,  of  Logansport,  Ind.,  and 
he  was  admitted  to  the  bar.  For  two  terms  he 
was  prosecuting  attorney  for  his  district.  At  the 
opening  of  the  war  he  went  into  service  as  cap- 
tain of  Company  I,  Thirty-ninth  Indiana  Infan- 
try.    Later  he  organized  the  Twelfth   Indiana 


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Cavalry,  of  which  he  was  major  and  afterward 
brevet-colonel.  He  was  a  staff  ofEcer  under 
Gen.  Alexander  McDowell  McCook.  When  the 
war  closed  he  resumed  the  practice  of  law  in 
Indiana,  but  his  health  was  injured  by  service  in 
the  army  and,  knowing  a  change  would  be  bene- 
ficial, in  187 1  he  came  to  Denver,  where  he  carried 
on  legal  practice.  On  retiring  from  the  profession 
he  removed  to  Boulder,  where  he  died  in"  1885, 
aged  fifty-six  years,  his  death  resulting  from 
paralysis  brought  on  by  exposure  in  the  army. 
Politically  he  was  a  Republican  and  fraternally  a 
Royal  Arch  Mason.  His  widow  makes  her  home 
with  a  daughter,  Mrs.  Isabella  Crane,  in  Cincin- 
nati. A  son,  James  E., resides  in  Covington,  Ky., 
while  the  youngest  child,  Mrs.  Daisy  Conner, 
lives  in  El  Paso,  Tex. 

Born  in  Wabash,  Ind.,  September  2,  1857,  our 
subject  was  three  years  of  age  when  the  family 
removed  to  Peru,  Ind.,  and  there  he  attended  the 
public  schools.  In  1874  he  came  to  Denver  and 
the  following  year  began  prospecting  and  mining 
in  Boulder  County,  where  he  located  the  Little 
Daisy  and  also  became  interested  in  the  Doss  mine. 
From  1878  to  1881  he  studied  law  with  his  father, 
and  after  being  admitted  to  the  bar  he  practiced 
with  his  father.  In  1883  he  became  interested  in 
the  abstract  title  business,  which  he  later  bought 
and  carried  on  until  1887.  During  the  latter 
year  he  started  an  abstract  and  real-estate  office 
in  Durango,  Colo.,  but  in  1890 located  in  Denver, 
where  he  became  a  contractor  for  asphalt  pave- 
ments. Soon  afterward  he  organized  the  Blake 
Asphalt  Company,  which  was  incorporated  with 
himself  as  general  manager.  February  15,  J898, 
the  concern  was  consolidated  with  the  Bermudez 
Asphalt  Company,  of  Detroit,  Mich.,  as  the 
Bermudez- Blake  Contracting  Company',  Mr. 
Blake  being  president  and  general  manager.  He 
had  the  contract  for  East  Larimer  street  from 
Nineteenth  street  to  Downing  avenue.  At  first 
his  contracts  were  confined  to  Denver,  but  the 
business  now  extends  all  over  the  United  States. 

In  Boulder,  in  1880,  Mr.  Blake  married  Miss 
Fannie  Hoskinson,  who  was  born  in  Xenia,  111., 
and  received  her  education  in  Rollo,  Mo.  Her 
grandfather  was  of  Revolutionary  stock  and  was 
an  early  settler  in  Muskingum  County,  Ohio, 
having  gone  there  from  Virginia.  After  the  war 
her  father,  Gamaliel  Hoskinson,  removed  from 
Zanesville,  Ohio,  to  Illinois,  and  thence  to  Rollo, 


Mo.,  where  he  engaged  in  merchandising  for 
.some  years.  During  the  war  he  was  captain  of 
Company  I,  Fortieth  Illinois  Infantry,  which 
served  under  General  Sherman.  Afterward  he 
became  a  Grand  Army  member.  When  advanced 
in  years  he  removed  to  Boulder,  Colo.,  and 
became  a  mine  operator.  His  death  occurred  at 
the  home  of  Mr.  Blake  in  Denver  in  1894.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Blake  have  four  children:  Frederick  C. , 
Frank  O.,  Jr.,  Harold  and  Isabelle. 

Mr.  Blake  was  made  a  Mason  in  Columbia 
Lodge  No.  45,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  at  Boulder,  and 
is  how  a  member  of  Temple  Lodge  No.  5,  in 
Denver.  He  joined  the  Royal  Arch  Chapter  in 
Durango  and  is  now  identified  with  Denver  Chap- 
ter No.  2,  also  Colorado  Commandery  No.  i, 
K.  T.,  Colorado  Consistory,  thirty-second  degree, 
and  El  Jebel  Temple,  N.  M.  S.  When  General 
McCook  was  commander  of  the  Colorado  Com- 
mandery of  Loyal  Legion  he  became  connected 
with  it,  and  still  retains  his  membership.  In 
politics  he  favors  Republican  principles. 


I  UMAN  MOODY  BOGUE,  president  of  the 
jC  Bogue  Lead  Company,  at  No.  18 10  Blake 
li2f  street,  Denver,  was  born  in  Chicago,  111., 
January  17,  1858,  and  is  a  son  of  Oswell  A.  and 
Mary  (Moody)  Bogue.  His  father,  who  is  a 
descendant  of  Scotch  ancestry  and  a  native  of 
New  York  State,  has  spent  his  entire  active  life 
in  Chicago,  where  he  formerly  carried  on  a  real- 
estate  business,  but  is  now  interested  in  the  man- 
ufacture of  railroad  gates. 

When  a  boy  the  subject  of  this  sketch  attended 
the  public  schools  of  Chicago.  He  carried  on 
the  studies  of  the  Hyde  Park  high  school  until 
within  one  year  of  graduation,  when  he  left  in 
order  to  begin  work.  At  the  age  of  fifteen  he 
secured  employment  in  a  drugstore,  where  he  ob- 
tained a  fair  knowledge  of  the  drug  business,  and 
after  a  time  he  entered  the  Chicago  College  of 
Pharmacy,  carrying  on  his  studies  there.  For 
seven  years  he  engaged  in  the  drug  business  as  a 
prescription  pharmacist,  but  finally  his  health 
failed  and,  hoping  that  a  change  of  climate  would 
prove  beneficial,  he  came  to  Denver  when  twen- 
ty-two years  of  age.     Here  he  has  since  resided. 

In  the  organization  of  the  Davis- Creswell  Manu- 
facturing Company  Mr.  Bogue  took  an  active 
part,  and  he  became  secretary  and  treasurer  of 


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the  concern,  with  which  he  was  identified  for 
twelve  3'ears.  On  severing  his  connection  with 
that  company  he  organized  the  Bogue  Lead 
Company  and  became  its  president,  which  posi- 
tion he  has  since  filled.  The  firm  have  a  large 
plant  on  Blake  street,  where  they  manufacture 
the  crude  metals  into  lead  pipe,  etc. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Bogue  took  place  in  Den- 
ver February  28,  1888,  and  united  him  with 
Miss  Helen  T.  Creswell,  who  was  born  in  Chi- 
cago, a  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Clara  Creswell, 
now  of  Denver.  They  are  the  parents  of  two 
children,  Genevieve  and  Joseph,  both  of  whom 
were  born  in  Denver.  Mr.  Bogue  was  reared  in 
the  Republican  faith  and  has  always  adhered  to 
the  principles  of  that  party,  but  does  not  take  an 
active  part  in  public  affairs,  preferring  to  con- 
centrate his  attention  upon  business  matters. 
Frequently  he  has  been  asked  to  accept  positions 
of  responsibility  within  the  gift  of  his  fellow- 
citizens,  but  all  nominations  he  has  invariably 
declined.  In  religion  he  is  connected  with  the 
Congregational  Church.  In  1889  he  was  made 
a  Mason,  uniting  with  Union  Lodge  No.  7, 
A.  F.  &  A.  M. ,  and  he  has  since  become  identified 
with  the  Commandery  and  the  Mystic  Shrine. 


EHARLES  H.  SISLER.  The  Rio  Grande 
shops  in  Denver  have  been  declared  by  com- 
petent judges  to  be  among  the  most  perfect 
in  operation  and  management  of  any  in  the  entire 
country,  a  result  that  is  due  almost  wholly  to  the 
judgment  of  the  company  in  employing  men  of 
superior  ability.  Mr.  Sisler  entered  the  com- 
pany's employ  in  1885,  immediately  after  coming 
to  Denver,  and  for  a  time  was  occupied  as  ma- 
chinist, later  was  given  charge  of  the  round  house, 
and  in  1893  was  promoted  to  his  present  position, 
that  of  foreman  of  the  machine  shop,  which  is 
large,  thoroughly  equipped,  and  turns  out  almost 
everything  in  the  line  of  railroad  work. 

The  birth  of  Mr.  Sisler  occurred  in  Morgan- 
town,  now  in  West  Virginia,  but  at  that  time  a 
part  of  the  Old  Dominion.  He  is  of  Revolution- 
ary stock,  the  descendant  of  ancestors  who  came 
to  this  country  from  Germany  and  settled  in  Penn- 
sylvania, where  they  participated  in  the  Indian 
fights  of  early  days.  In  religion  they  were  Lu- 
therans. The  grandfather  of  our  subject ,  George 
Sisler,  was  born  in   Maryland,    where  his  father 


had  made  settlement  from  Pennsylvania.  After 
his  marriage  he  removed  to  Virginia  and  .settled 
on  a  farm  near  Morgantown.  His  son,  Lorenzo, 
was  born  near  what  is  now  Oakland,  Md.,  and 
after  his  father's  death  continued  to  operate  the 
farm  of  two  hundred  and  eighty  acres,  lying  near 
Morgantown.  He  still  resides  upon  the  place, 
which  is  finely  improved,  and  devoted  to  the  rais- 
ing of  stock  and  general  farm  products.  During 
the  Civil  war  he  was  an  officer  in  the  Federal 
army,  and  several  of  his  relatives  also  took  part 
in  the  war,  some  of  them  losing  their  lives  in  the 
service. 

Our  subject's  mother  was  Mary,  daughter  of 
William  Robinson,  who  was  a  farmer  in  West 
Virginia.  The  Robinson  family  came  to  America 
from  Scotland,  settling  in  Virginia  in  the  .seven- 
teenth century,  and  participating  in  the  Indian 
wars  and  the  Revolution.  Mrs.  Sisler  is  still  liv- 
ing and  is  now  sixty-six  years  of  age.  Of  her 
seven  children  six  are  living,  Charles  H.  being 
the  eldest  of  the  family.  When  he  was  a  mere 
child,  his  father  enlisted  in  the  army  and  he  suc- 
ceeded to  the  management  of  the  farm.  There 
were  so  many  bands  of  Confederates  in  the 
country  that  he  drove  the  cattle  and  horses  into 
the  mountains,  by  which  means  he  was  enabled 
to  keep  them  in  safety.  On  his  father's  return 
he  resumed  his  school  studies,  and  later  took  a 
course  in  t"he  state  university  at  Morgantown, 
completing  the  junior  year.  Afterward  he 
taught  school  and  took  the  regular  course  in 
Duft's  Commercial  College  in  Pittsburg,  from 
which  he  graduated.  Soon  afterward  he  became 
an  apprentice  to  the  machinist's  trade,  at  which 
he  served  for  five  years  in  Lima,  Ohio.  He  be- 
came a  practical  machinist  and  engine  maker, 
with  a  thorough  knowledge  of  every  department 
of  his  trade. 

Entering  the  employ  of  the  Pennsylvania  Rail- 
road Company,  Mr.  Sisler  worked  for  them  in 
Altoona,  Pa.,  and  later  was  foreman  of  erection 
at  Ft.  Wayne,  Ind.  For  a  short  time  he  also  ran 
a  locomotive  engine.  In  1882  he  went  to  To- 
peka,  Kan.,  where  he  had  charge  of  the  men  in 
the  Santa  Fe  shops,  remaining  there  until  his  re- 
moval to  Denver.  He  is  an  expert  machinist, 
thoroughly  familiar  with  the  work,  and  while  his 
position  is  one  of  great  responsibility,  he  has 
filled  it  successfully  and  to  the  satisfaction  of  the 
company.     He  is  a  Republican,  a  member  of  the 


WILLIAM  D.  NASH. 


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Woodmen  of  the  World,  and  a  fine  singer,  fre- 
quently singing  in  church  choirs.  In  Lima, 
Ohio,  he  married  Ella  Bastable,  whose  father  was 
a  merchant  there  and  at  one  time  sheriff  of  the 
count}^  They  are  the  parents  of  four  children: 
Charles  Kenneth,  who  is  a  mechanical  engineer, 
employed  in  the  shop  with  his  father;  Claudius 
F. ;  Nellie  N.  and  Thomas  L. 


pGJiLLIAM  D.  NASH,  president  of  the 
lAl  Farmer  &  Hale  Undertaking  Company 
Y  Y  at  No.  1625  Tremont  street,  Denver,  is  a 
descendant  of  an  English  family  whose  history  in 
American  can  be  traced  back  to  1637.  During 
that  year  Thomas  Nash  came  from  London  and 
settled  in  Stockbridge,  Mass.,  where  his  remain- 
ing years  were  spent.  He  had  a  son,  Timothy 
(born  in  England,  1626,  died  in  Massachusetts, 
March  13,  1699),  who  married  Rebecca,  daugh- 
ter of  Rev.  Samuel  Stone,  of  Hartford,  Conn. 
Their  son,  John,  born  August  21,  1667,  was  a 
resident  of  Hadley,  Mass.  Stephen,  next  inline 
of  descent,  was  born  September  20,  1704,  and 
engaged  in  business  at  Stockbridge,  where  much 
of  his  active  life  was  passed.  His  son,  Moses, 
who  was  born  in  Westfield,  Mass.,  settled  in 
Stockbridge  and  from  there  enlisted  as  a  lieuten- 
ant in  the  Revolution,  doing  excellent  service  as 
a  member  of  a  company  of  minute-men.  He 
married  Miss  Anna  Bliss,  daughter  of  a  minister 
in  Boston,  and  both  passed  away  in  Stockbridge, 
he  in  1792. 

The  next  generation  was  represented  by  Peltiah 
Nash,  our  subject's  grandfather,  who  was  born 
in  Stockbridge  August  2,  1770,  and  in  early  man- 
hood moved  to  Dorset,  Vt. ,  where  he  conducted 
a  furniture  business.  From  there  he  went  to  New 
York  City  and  engaged  in  business,  but  later  re- 
tired and  moved  west  to  Mar.shall,  Mich.,  where 
he  died  in  1847.  During  his  residence  in  Dorset, 
Vt.,  a  son,  Harvey  B.  Nash,  was  born.  The 
latter  engaged  in  the  furniture  and  undertaking 
business  in  New  York  for  more  than  fifty  years, 
and  was  the  patentee  of  the  first  bed-fastener  and 
mitre  box,  both  of  which  he  manufactured  for 
the  trade.  He  married  Mary  J.  Dunham,  who 
was  born  at  Sandy  Hill  on  the  Hudson,  N.  Y., 
the  daughter  of  Samuel  Dunham,  who  was  of 
Scotch  descent  and  engaged  in  farming  there. 
She  died  at  Sandy  Hill  in  188 1.  Of  her  four 
children,  one  son  died  at  twenty-three  years;  the 

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two  daughters  are  Mrs.  J.  D.  Sherrill,  of  Sandy 
Hill,  and  Estella,  of  Denver.  The  youngest  of 
the  family  is  the  subject  of  this  sketch.  He  was 
born  and  reared  in  Sandy  Hill,  N.  Y. ,  and  at- 
tended the  grammar  and  high  schools,  from 
which  latter  he  graduated  in  1879.  He  after- 
ward embarked  in  business  with  his  father,  the 
firm  title  being  H.  B.  Nash  &  Son  until  the 
death  of  the  senior  member.  The  son  then  suc- 
ceeded to  the  business,  which  he  carried  on  until 
1888,  and  then  sold  out,  locating  in  Denverthe 
following  year. 

Here  Mr.  Nash  became  intere.sted  in  the  firm 
of  Farmer  &  Hale,  of  which  he  was  manager  un- 
til 1894.  The  business  was  then  incorporated  as 
the  Farmer  &  Hale  Undertaking  Company,  with 
himself  as  president,  F.  C.  Farmer,  vice-presi- 
dent, and  C.  Hale,  secretarj',  until  March,  1898, 
when  William  D.  Nash  bought  the  entire  stock. 
Through  his  energy  and  good  judgment  a  large 
business  has  been  built  up,  and  the  reputation  of 
the  firm  established  for  integrity  and  fair  business 
transactions.  He  is  a  graduate  of  the  United 
States  College  of  Embalming  in  New  York  City. 
In  the  organization  of  the  Colorado  State  Funeral 
Directors'  Association  he  took  an  active  part, 
and  is  now  .serving  his  second  term  as  its  presi- 
dent. He  is  also  identified  with  the  National 
Funeral  Directors'  Association. 

In  New  York  City  Mr.  Nash  married  Miss 
Susie  DeMaugh,  whose  father,  John  DeMaugh, 
was  born  in  that  city,  of  French  descent.  By 
this  union  two  children  have  been  born,  Chaun- 
cey  and  William  D.  During  his  residence  in  the 
east  Mr.  Nash  was  made  a  Mason,  and  is  now  a 
member  of  Oriental  Lodge  No.  87,  A.  F.  &  A. 
M.,  al.so  of  Denver  Chapter  No.  2.  Denver 
Lodge  No.  41,  K.  of  P.,  and  the  Royal  Arcanum 
number  him  among  their  members.  He  became 
connected  with  the  Modern  Woodmen  in  New 
York  and  took  an  active  part  in  organizing  the 
Woodmen  of  the  World  in  Denver.  He  has  been 
an  officer  in  the  lodge,  and  its  delegate  to  the  dis- 
trict convention  at  Pueblo,  the  conventions  at 
Portland,  Ore.,  and  Helena,  Mont.,  and  at  one 
time  representative  of  the  Sovereign  Camp  at 
Omaha.  In  the  organization  of  local  societies  in 
difierent  parts  of  Colorado  he  has  been  actively 
interested.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Society  of 
Sons  of  the  Revolution,  and  politically  is  of  the 
Republican  faith. 


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0AMUEL  HERMAN  MEUER,  M.  D.  In 
Ny  liis  work  as  a  physician  Dr.  Meuer  has 
Qj  gained  a  place  among  the  able  and  successful 
specialists  of  Denver,  where,  while  engaging  in  a 
general  practice,  he  is  at  the  same  time  making  a 
specialty  of  the  treatment  of  diseases  of  the 
nose,  throat  and  lungs.  He  makes  of  his  pro- 
fession a  never-ending  source  of  investigation, 
and  as  new  remedies  are  discovered  and  new 
methods  of  healing  adopted  he  studies  each  care- 
fully, with  a  view  to  incorporating  every  practi- 
cable idea  in  his  own  practice.  Although  a 
young  man  and  still  in  the  dawn  of  the  success 
that  has  attended  his  efforts,  he  has  already 
given  abundant  evidence  of  the  ability  that  qual- 
ifies him  for  a  high  place  in  the  medical  profes- 
sion. Truly  ambitious,  and  with  an  ambition 
whose  aim  is  high,  there  seems  to  be  no  reason 
why  his  ability  should  not  find  full  scope  in  re- 
lieving the  ills  to  which  this  suffering  world  is 
heir. 

The  son  of  Louis  and  Eva  (Minski)  Meuer, 
the  subject  of  this  article  was  born  in  the  north- 
eastern part  of  Russia  February  21,  1866.  When 
he  was  six  months  old  his  father  died.  In  1877, 
when  only  eleven  years  of  age,  he  came  to  the 
United  States  alone,  and  afterward  made  his 
home  with  relatives  of  his  father  in  New  York 
City,  securing  a  fair  education  in  the  schools  of 
that  city.  From  an  early  age  he  was  desirous 
of  entering  the  medical  profession,  and  his  studies 
were  directed  with  that  end  in  view.  At  the  age 
of  eighteen  he  entered  the  New  York  University. 
A  year  later  he  took  up  the  study  of  medicine  in 
Bellevue  Hospital  Medical  College,  but  at  the 
close  of  the  first  term,  his  money  being  almost 
exhausted,  he  secured  employment  as  traveling 
salesman  for  a  New  York  importing  house,  and 
during  the  three  years  that  followed  he  traveled 
through  much  of  the  United  States. 

When  his  finances  permitted  him  to  resume 
professional  studies  he  entered  Gross  Medical 
College  in  Denver,  Colo.,  from  which  he  was 
graduated  in  1894,  completing  the  regular  course 
of  study  with  credit  to  himself.  While  still  a 
medical  student,  in  1 891,  he,  in  company  with  his 
uncle,  Dr.  A.  J.  Meuer,  went  to  Berlin,  Germany, 
to  investigate  Koch's  discovery  for  the  treatment 
of  tuberculosis.  He  took  a  full  course,  and  on 
their  return  to  Denver  opened  the  Koch  Hospital 
Sanitarium   under  most  favorable  auspices,  but 


after  three  years'  work  the  hospital  was  aban- 
doned. This  experience  materially  aided  Dr. 
Meuer  in  the  treatment  of  diseases  of  the  lungs. 
He  at  once  took  up  the  practice  of  medicine  in 
this  city,  where  he  has  carried  on  a  practice  that 
he  is  well  qualified  to  conduct  successfully.  In 
addition  to  his  private  practice  he  holds  the  posi- 
tion of  clinical  instructor  in  nose  and  throat  dis- 
eases with  his  alma  mater.  Gross  Medical  College. 
He  is  a  member  of  various  organizations,  among 
them  the  American  Medical  Association,  and  is  a 
valuable  addition  to  the  best  society  of  Denver. 
He  was  married  in  this  city,  in  1894,  to  Miss 
Alice  J.  Killam. 

r"RANKLIN  COOK,  who  served  honorably 
ry  as  a  soldier  in  the  Civil  war,  came  to  Den- 
I  ver  in  1891  and  has  since  followed  the  occu- 
pation of  carpenter  and  builder,  his  location  being 
No.  1423  Champa  street.  He  was  born  near 
Whitehall,  Washington  County,  N.  Y. ,  and  is  one 
of  twelve  children,  eleven  of  whom  attained  years 
of  maturity.  His  paternal  grandfather.  Rev. 
Richard  Cook,  was  a  native  of  Washington 
County  and  a  minister  in  the  Society  of  Friends; 
on  the  maternal  side.  Grandfather  Richardson  en- 
gaged in  farming  in  Vermont. 

Seth  Cook,  our  subject's  father,  was  born  in 
Washington  C^ounty,  where  for  .some  time  he 
carried  on  farm  pursuits,  later  removing  to  Man- 
chester, Vt.,  where  he  died  at  sixty-nine  years. 
His  wife,  who  was  born  in  the  mountainous  dis- 
trict of  Vermont,  died  when  sixty-seven  years  of 
age.  Their  son,  our  subject,  was  reared  in  Wash- 
ington County  and  attended  the  public  schools 
when  a  boy.  Injuly  of  1862  he  enlisted  in  the  Fed- 
eral service.  He  became  a  member  of  Company 
K,  One  Hundred  and  Twenty-third  New  York 
Infantry,  and  was  mustered  into  service  at  Salem, 
N.  Y.,  after  which  he  went  to  the  front.  Among 
his  first  battles  were  those  of  Chancellorsville  and 
Gettysburg.  Afterward  the  Eleventh  and  Twelfth 
Corps  were  consolidated  and  became  the  Twen- 
tieth, with  Sherman  as  commander.  Altogether 
he  took  part  in  thirty-six  engagements,  and  dur- 
ing all  these  conflicts,  with  the  exception  of  two 
slight  wounds,  he  escaped  uninjured.  He  re- 
mained with  the  company  continuously  until  he 
was  honorably  discharged  in  Albany,  N.  Y.,  in 
June,  1865,  after  a  service  of  three  years  lacking 
two  months. 


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For  two  years  after  his  return  from  the  war 
Mr.  Cook  engaged  in  farming  in  Vermont.  After- 
ward he  engaged  in  carpentering  in  Washington 
County,  N.  Y.,  and  later  became  a  contractor  in 
Granville.  In  1885  he  went  to  St.  Paul,  Minn., 
and  from  there,  in  1887,  removed  to  Marion, 
Fla.,  where  he  was  interested  in  the  building 
business.  The  year  1889  found  him  in  Phila- 
delphia, but  from  there  he  soon  went  to  Marion, 
Ind.,  where  he  had  the  contract  for  the  building 
of  six  houses.  A  year  later,  in  1891,  he  came  to 
Denver,  where  he  has  business  and  residence 
property  at  No.  1423  Champa  street.  Politically 
he  votes  the  Republican  ticket,  but  has  never 
been  active  in  public  affairs.  He  is  connected 
with  Lincoln  Post,  G.  A.  R.,  and  like  all  old 
soldiers  heartily  enjoys  recounting,  with  other 
veterans,  incidents  and  experiences  of  those  fate- 
ful years,  1861-65.  He  was  married  in  Phila- 
delphia, his  wife  being  Miss  Georgia  Williams,  a 
native  of  that  city. 

pCjlLLIAM  THOMPSON,    of    Denver,    was 

I  A/  ^^^^  ^^  Forfarshire,  Scotland,  the  oldest 
V  V  of  six  children  comprising  the  family  of 
William  and  Margaret  (Japean)  Thompson,  also 
natives  of  Scotland.  His  father,  who  was  a  son 
of  William,  Sr.,  engaged  in  farming  in  Forfar- 
shire during  his  entire  active  life,  with  the  ex- 
ception of  the  period  of  his  service  in  the  English 
army  during  the  Peninsular  war.  His  death  oc- 
curred when  he  about  sixty-five  years  of  age. 
He  had  long  survived  his  wife,  who  died  in 
young  womanhood;  she  was  a  daughter  of  Robien 
(Japean),  a  native  of  France  and  a  farmer  by 
occupation.  Of  their  five  sons  and  one  daughter, 
two  came  to  America,  William  and  Robert,  the 
latter  of  whom  died  in  Salt  Lake  City  in  1894. 

At  the  age  of  fifteen  our  subject  was  appren- 
ticed to  the  carpenter's  trade,  at  which  he  worked 
for  four  years  in  his  native  place.  He  continued 
working  there  for  six  months  after  the  expiration 
of  his  time,  and  then  went  to  Dundee,  where  he 
remained  for  nine  months.  Afterward  he  spent 
a  year  in  Edinburgh  and  three  years  in  Galli- 
shields.  In  1871  he  took  passage  at  Glasgow  on 
a  steamship  bound  for  New  York  City,  and  after 
reaching  the  United  States  settled  in  Chicago, 
arriving  in  that  city  shortly  after  the  great  fire. 
He  secured  work  in  hall  and  stair  building,  and 
remained  in  the  city  until  1879.     During  that 


year  he  came  to  Denver,  where  he  was  employed 
as  foreinan  in  a  stair  shop  until  April,  1880,  and 
then,  with  Thomas  Nichol  (ex-county  commis- 
sioner) and  E.  F.  Hallack,  started  what  is  now  the 
Hallack-Sayre- Newton  Lumber  Company.  After 
assisting  in  running  this  for  two  years  he  sold 
out  and  engaged  in  contracting,  to  which  he  has 
since  given  his  attention,  being  now  a  member  of 
the  firm  of  Thompson  &  Helm.  Among  his  con- 
tracts were  those  for  an  addition  to  the  Whittier 
school,  the  contract  for  the  Wayman  school, 
manual  training  school,  Franklin  school  on  the 
west  side,  Logan  school  and  Fairmount  school, 
the  high  .school  on  the  north  side,  Columbine, 
Louise  A.  Olcott  and  Webster  schools;  Arapahoe 
block.  Union  depot,  Charles  block,  and  the  finish- 
ing of  the  Albany  hotel. 

In  Chicago  Mr.  Thompson  married  Miss  Mary 
A.  McGilivray,  who  was  born  in  Forfarshire, 
Scotland.  They  are  the  parents  of  five  children: 
James,  a  student  in  the  School  of  Mines,  class  of 
'99;  Jessie,  who  graduated  from  the  high  school 
of  Denver  in  1B97;  George,  Jane  and  Helen  M. 
Politically  Mr.  Thompson  is  a  silver  Republican. 
Fraternally  he  is  connected  with  Arapahoe  Lodge 
No.  24,  and  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the 
Master  Builders'  Association,  of  which  he  served 
at  one  time  as  president. 


(I  AMES  H.  GORMAN.  During  the  '60s  the 
I  tide  of  emigration  drifted  steadily  westward 
(2/  to  the  mountains.  A  party,  one  hundred 
strong,  left  Belvidere,  111.,  August  26,  1866,  with 
Colorado  for  their  destination.  They  were  well 
equipped  with  horse  and  mule  teams  and  an 
abundant  supply  of  provisions.  Reaching  the 
Missouri  at  Council  Bluffs,  they  crossed  the  river 
on  a  ferry,  and  then  proceeded  up  the  Platte  to 
North  Bend,  where  they  again  crossed  on  a  ferry. 
The  long  journey  across  the  plains  finally  came 
to  an  end.  Denver  was  reached,  from  which  point 
one  member  of  the  party,  Mr.  Gorman,  went  on 
to  Golden  and  secured  employment  in  freighting 
between  Golden  and  Central.  As  soon  as  the 
weather  became  too  cold  for  freighting,  he  en- 
tered the  employ  of  the  Overland  Stage  Company. 
In  the  spring  of  1867  he  opened  a  livery  stable  in 
Golden  and  about  the  same  time  pre-empted  a 
ranch  north  of  Table  Mountain,  where  he  en- 
gaged in  raising  race  horses.     Later  he  bought 


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property  south  of  the  mountain.  He  assisted  in 
building  the  first  race  track  in  Jefferson  County 
and  had  a  corral  near  by. 

Selling  this  place  in  1886,  Mr.  Gorman  en- 
gaged in  the  stock  business  between  Golden, 
Central  City,  Blackhawk  and  Georgetown  to 
Denv^er.  Meantime  he  also  stocked  a  ranch  of 
four  hundred  acres  at  Fort  Lupton,  placing  on  it 
four  hundred  and  fifty  head  of  cattle.  When  the 
excitement  incident  to  the  discovery  of  gold  in 
the  Black  Hills  had  drawn  many  men  to  that 
place,  he  shipped  the  cattle  there  and  sold  out. 
He  then  began  to  raise  horses  on  his  ranch,  be- 
coming the  owner  of  the  best-bred  stallion  in 
Colorado,  Hamilton  Abdallah  Pilot  by  Adminis- 
trator, sired  by  Hamiltonian  No.  10,  dam  Lucille 
by  Alex.  Abdallah.  Upon  his  farm  he  had  as 
many  as  one  hundred  and  fifty  horses  at  a  time. 
One  of  his  colts  he  sold  when  nine  days  old  for 
$100.  Another  colt,  E.  S.,  had  a  three-year-old 
record  of  2:14. 

Tiring  of  ranch  life,  in  1890  Mr.  Gorman 
shipped  his  horses  to  Illinois  and  sold  them.  He 
then  settled  in  Lupton,  where  he  built  three  large 
brick  buildings.  One  of  these  was  used  for  a  dry 
goods  store  and  hotel,  another  for  a  carriage  shop 
and  the  third  for  machinery.  He  engaged  in 
business  there  until  1891,  when  he  sold  out. 
Coming  to  Denver  in  the  spring  of  that  year,  he 
started  a  livery  stable  on  Twenty-fourth  street, 
but  after  six  months  he  located  at  No.  2055  Mar- 
ket street,  where  he  has  a  building  with  a  front- 
age of  fifty -six  feet,  and  one  hundred  and  twenty- 
five  feet  deep,  two  stories  in  height.  He  still 
raises  fine  horses,  and  now  owns  Ida  May,  by 
Abdallah  Pilot  of  Hamilton,  daughter  of  Ida 
Martin  by  Weisbaten,  full  brother  to  Wedge 
Wood;  also  Amazonia  by  Abdallah  Pilot,  dam 
by  Monarch  Bell,  with  pedigree  back  to  Strong 
Monarch.  He  is  also  interested  in  mining.  Po- 
litically he  is  a  Democrat,  which  party  he  has 
often  represented  in  county  and  state  conventions 
and  upon  county  committees.  While  in  Golden 
he  served  a  marshal  and  deputy  sheriff".  Frater- 
nally he  is  a  Knight  of  Pythias,  belonging  to 
Brighton  Lodge. 

Mr.  Gorman  was  born  in  Belvidere,  Boone  Coun- 
ty, 111.,  November  27,  1841,  and  is  a  son  of  Philip 
and  Mary  (Riley)  Gorman,  natives  respectively 
of  Canada  and  Ireland.  His  father,  settling  in 
Boone  County  in  the  early  days,  entered  land 


seven  miles  north  of  Belvidere  and  there  con- 
tinued to  reside  until  his  death,  at  seventy  years. 
His  wife,  who  emigrated  with  her  parents  from 
Ireland  to  Canada,  now  resides  on  the  old  home- 
stead in  Illinois  and  is  about  ninety  years  of 
age.  They  were  the  parents  of  eight  children 
that  attained  mature  years  and  of  the.se  three  are 
in  Illinois  and  five  in  Colorado,  James  H.  being 
the  oldest  of  all.  He  was  reared  in  Illinois  and 
during  the  winter  months  attended  a  school 
taught  in  a  log  house  that  stood  upon  the  prairie. 
At  the  age  of  nineteen  he  started  for  himself  with 
one  span  of  horses.  He  engaged  in  threshing 
and  farming  until  1866,  when  he  came  to  Colo- 
rado, where  he  has  since  resided.  He  was  mar- 
ried in  Denver  to  Miss  Mary  E.  Burns  and  they 
have  two  sons,  George  H.  and  Philip  J.  Mrs. 
Gorman  is  a  daughter  of  James  L.  Burns,  who 
was  born  in  New  York  state  and  is  now  engaged 
in  the  dairy  business  near  Denver. 


Gl  NDREW  SAGENDORF.  There  may  occa- 
LA  sionally  be  found,  among  the  residents  of 
/  I  Denver,  one  who  remembers  it  as  it  was  in 
1859.  But  almost  none  now  living  saw,  as  did 
Mr.  Sagendorf,  the  present  site  of  the  city  at  a 
period  earlier  than  that.  He  came  across  the 
plains  in  1858  with  a  party  of  forty-six,  the  trip, 
which  was  made  with  oxen,  taking  sixty-three 
days  and  coming  to  an  end  November  6.  Of  that 
large  party  all  were  hale,  robust  men  except  the 
subject  of  this  sketch,  who  was  an  invalid  seeking 
the  far  west  in  the  hope  that  the  climate  might 
benefit  his  health;  yet  of  all  that  party,  so  far  as 
he  knows,  only  six  are  now  living,  and  four  of 
these  are  in  Colorado,  viz. :  Richard  Blore,  John 
Sanderson,  McCaslin,  of  Longmont,  and  himself. 
Denver  in  1 858  did  not  present  a  promising  ap- 
pearance and  even  the  most  cheerful  optimist 
could  have  found  little  upon  which  to  build  the- 
ories for  future  greatness.  The  scenery,  then,  as 
now,  was  charming.  To  the  south  and  west 
spread  the  beautiful  mountains,  snow  capped  dur- 
ing much  of  the  year,  and  containing,  so  rumor 
said,  countless  stores  of  gold.  Along  the  banks 
of  the  Platte  River  grew  tall  cottonwood  trees 
and  some  outlined  the  course  of  Cherry  Creek. 
Houses  there  were  none,  nor  any  sign  of  human 
habitation  save  tents  and  Indian  wigwams. 
Where  now  stands   West  Denver,  on   the  west 


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bank  of  Cherry  Creek,  was  Denver's  rival,  Aiira- 
ria,  which  was  laid  out  in  October,  1858,  and 
was  the  more  important  town  up  to  the  time  of 
the  flood,  in  1864.  It  was  given  its  name  by 
Green  Russel,  who  had  migrated  from  Auraria, 
Ga.  The  first  houses  were  constructed  of  cotton- 
wood  logs.  For  a  time  Auraria  prospered  more 
than  Denver.  During  the  winter  of  1858-59  it  is 
said  that  one  hundred  and  twenty-five  houses 
were  built  there,  but  these  were  of  a  most  primi- 
tive character,  destitute  of  board  floors,  nails  and 
glass. 

Meantime  Denver  was  given  its  present  name 
in  honor  of  the  then  Governor  of  Kansas,  Gen. 
J.  W.  Denver,  of  Leavenworth.  Houses  were 
built  of  hewed  logs,  a  sawmill  was  built  in  March, 
1859,  and  in  April  William  N.  Byers  arrived  here 
and  established  the  first  newspaper,  called  the 
Rocky  Mountain  News.  There  were  a  few  Free 
Masons  in  the  place  and  in  December  of  1858 
they  met  socially  in  Dr.  Russell's  cabin,  on 
what  is  now  Tenth  street,  and  later  organized 
Auraria  Lodge.  Among  these  men  was  Mr. 
Sagendorf,  who  had  been  made  a  Mason  in 
December,  1856,  when  he  united  with  Allen 
Lodge  No.  13,  at  Hudson,  N.  Y.  Afterward 
he  afiiliated  with  Bellevue  Lodge  in  Nebraska. 
Auraria  Lodge  was  instituted  in  Denver  in  Jan- 
uary, 1859,  working  under  a  dispensation  from 
the  Grand  Lodge  of  Kansas.  Henry  Allen 
was  W.  M.  and  Judge  Smith  secretary.  The  or- 
ganization was  maintained,  and  presently  secured 
a  charter,  by  which  it  became  independent  of 
Kansas  jurisdiction  and  united  with  the  Grand 
Lodge  of  Colorado,  as  Denver  Lodge  No.  5.  Mr. 
Sagendorf  attended  the  meetings  of  the  lodge  reg- 
ularly and  was  its  past  master  in  1864.  His  in- 
terest in  Masonry  led  him  to  identify  himself 
later  with  Denver  Chapter  No.  2,  R.  A.  M.,  and 
Denver  Commandery  No.  i,  K.  T.  In  1874  he 
assisted  in  the  organization  of  a  chapter  of  Royal 
Arch  Masons  at  Colorado  Springs  and  was  its 
first  high  priest,  holding  the  ofiice  for  two  years. 
Afterward  he  assisted  in  organizing  Pike's  Peak 
Commandery  No.  6,  Of  which  he  was  the  first 
commander,  holding  that  position  for  three  years. 
For  one  term  he  was  master  of  El  Paso  Lodge  No. 
13,  and  in  1884  he  was  grand  master  of  the  grand 
lodge  of  Colorado;  he  was  also  deputy  grand 
high  priest  of  the  grand  chapter  of  Colorado.  He 
still  belongs  to  the  Colorado  Springs  Lodge  and 


is  a  member  of  El  Jebel  Temple  of  Denver.  He 
has  been  very  prominently  connected  with  the 
fraternity  and  is  one  of  its  most  active  and  pop- 
ular officials. 

All  the  facts  that  we  have  mentioned  in  the 
early  history  of  Denver  are  fresh  in  the  mind  of 
Mr.  Sagendorf,  besides  many  others  of  equal  in- 
terest. His  close  connection  with  the  early  history 
of  Denver,  and  the  fact  that  he  is  still  one  of  her 
most  honored  citizens,  will  make  his  biography 
of  interest  to  the  people  of  this  section.  Many 
years  ago  the  Sagendorf  family  emigrated  from 
Germany  to  America  and  settled  four  miles  east 
of  the  Hudson,  where  some  of  their  grant  of  land 
is  still  held  by  their  descendants.  Harmon  Sagen- 
dorf, who  was  born  in  Columbia  County,  N.  Y., 
was  one  of  seven  brothers  and  had  seven  sons,  to 
each  of  whom  he  gave  land  adjoining  the  home 
place.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Reformed  Church 
of  America.  Of  his  sons,  Andrew,  our  subject's 
father,  was  born  in  Columbia  County  and  was 
captain  of  a  company  in  the  war  of  181 2.  He 
continued  to  farm  until  his  death  in  1855,  at  the 
age  of  sixty  years.  His  wife,  who  was  born  in 
the  same  county  as  himself,  was  Maria  Whitbeck, 
daughter  of  John  Whitbeck,  a  major  of  the  war  of 
18 1 2  and  a  member  of  an  old  Holland-Dutch 
family.  She  died  when  seventy-four  years  old. 
Of  her  four  sons  and  four  daughters  all  but  one 
son  attained  mature  years,  and  one  son  and 
three  daughters  are  now  living. 

Andrew,  who  was  next  to  the  youngest  of  the 
family,  was  born  near  the  Hudson  in  Columbia 
County,  N.  Y.,  and  grew  to  manhood  on  the 
home  farm,  receiving  the  advantages  afforded  by 
public  schools  and  Hudson  Academy.  For  a 
time  he  taught  school  in  his  native  county,  but 
ill  health  forced  him  to  discontinue  the  work  and 
seek  a  change  of  climate.  In  1856  he  started 
west,  going  from  Iowa  City  by  stage  coach  to 
Omaha,  and  then  locating  near  Bellevue,  Sarp}' 
County,  Neb.  Subsequently  he  located  and  en- 
tered three  hundred  and  twenty  acres,  on  which 
later  the  town  of  Papillion,  on  the  Union  Pacific, 
was  built;  he  remained  there  until  1858.  Mean- 
time a  rumor  had  been  heard  of  the  discovery  of 
gold  in  Colorado,  and  people  were  preparing  to 
seek  their  fortunes  in  the  Rocky  Mountains. 
Among  these  adventurous  pioneers  was  Mr.  Sag- 
endorf, who  started  west,  intending  to  go  to  Salt 
Lake,  but,  changing  his  plan.s,  came  to  what  is 


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now  Denver  instead.  He  engaged  in  prospect- 
ing and  mining  in  this  vicinity  with  varying  suc- 
cess. May  8,  1859,  he  went  to  the  Jackson  bar, 
and  a  few  days  after  his  arrival  he  and  Ransom 
Smith  discovered  the  Spanish  bar  above  Idaho 
Springs,  one  of  the  richest  bars  in  Clear  Creek 
County.  He  was  taken  ill  and  obliged  to  return  to 
Denver,  leaving  matters  in  charge  of  his  partner, 
who  sold  the  bar.  For  some  years  he  was  secre- 
tary of  the  Auraria  Town  Company  on  the  west 
side.  Upon  the  establishment  of  the  United 
States  government  mint  in  Denver  he  was  given 
a  position  as  weigher.  Later  he  was  private  sec- 
retary to  Governor  Evans.  On  resigning  that 
position  he  established  a  wholesale  and  retail 
grocery  on  Fifteenth  near  Blake  street,  which 
later  he  sold.  In  November,  1865,  he  was  ap- 
pointed postmaster  by  President  Johnson  and  had 
charge  of  the  office,  then  located  on  Larimer 
street  between  Fourteenth  and  Fifteenth.  The 
work,  however,  was  too  confining,  and  in  the 
spring  of  1869  he  resigned.  Shortly  afterward 
he  went  to  the  White  River  to  superintend  the 
building  of  the  first  Ute  Indian  agency,  for  which 
Governor  A.  C.  Hunt  had  the  contract,  and  he 
remained  there  from  July,  1869,  until  August, 
1870. 

For  four  years  Mr.  Sagendorf  engaged  in 
stock-raising  on  his  ranch  in  Douglas  County,  from 
which  place  he  went  to  Colorado  Springs  and  en- 
gaged in  the  drug  business  for  eight  years;  then 
sold  out  and  came  back  to  Denver.  For  one  year 
he  was  deputy  assessor  of  internal  revenue  under 
Revenue  Collector  J.  S.  Wolfe.  In  February, 
1885,  he  was  appointed  register  of  the  state  board 
of  land  commissioners,  and  served  until  April  15, 
1 89 1.  He  is  now  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the 
Tenderfoot  Leasing  and  Mining  Company  and  is 
interested  in  Cripple  Creek  mines.  He  was  among 
the  first  citizens  of  Denver  who  built  south  of 
Cherry  Creek,  his  comfortable  home  at  No.  133 
West  Fourth  avenue  having  been  built  in  1889. 

Reared  a  Democrat,  Mr.  Sagendorf  became  a 
Republican  during  the  war  and  has  since  ad- 
hered to  the  principles  of  that  party.  In  1862,  in 
Denver,  he  married  Mrs.  Eliza  D.  McCook, whose 
first  husband  was  a  brother  of  General  McCook. 
She  was  a  daughter  of  Lazarus  McLain,  of  New 
Lisbon,  Ohio,  and  came  to  Colorado  in  June, 
i860,  with  two  brothers,  one  of  whom  was  assist- 
ant surgeon   in  the  United  States  army   and   a 


member  of  the  first  legislature  of  Colorado;  the 
other,  William  D.,  was  captain  of  the  First  Colo- 
rado Light  Battery,  during  the  war.  Mrs.  Sag- 
endorf died  in  1894.  She  was  a  member  of  the 
Society  of  Knight  Templars'  Wives,  the  Pioneer 
Ladies'  Aid  Society  and  the  First  Congregational 
Church.  She  left  two  sons,  but  one,  William  L-, 
died  in  1897,  at  the  age  of  thirty-two;  the  other, 
Andrew  H.,  is  an  engineer  and  machinist  at 
Cripple  Creek,  this  state. 


3ER0ME  C.  CONVERSE,  president  of  the 
Denver  Commission  and  Realty  Company, 
is  also  a  prominent  man  in  public  affairs,  be- 
ing now  the  alderman  from  the  eleventh  ward. 
At  the  election  of  1897  he  was  solicited  to  accept 
the  nomination,  which  he  refused,  but  was  finally 
induced  to  accept,  and  was  elected  by  a  good  ma- 
jority. At  this  writing  he  is  chairman  of  the 
committees  on  public  grounds  and  buildings, 
streets,  alleys,  bridges  and  claims.  All  measures 
for  the  benefit  of  the  city  and  the  increasing  of 
her  commercial  importance  receive  his  warm 
sympathy  and  active  support. 

The  Converse  family  is  of  English  descent  and 
was  represented  among  the  pioneers  of  Massa- 
chusetts, some  of  its  members  there  enlisting  for 
service  in  the  Revolution.  Royal  Converse 
was  born  in  the  Lake  Champlain  district  of  New 
York,  but  afterward  removed  to  Portage  County, 
Ohio,  where  he  entered  and  improved  a  tract  of 
land.  His  son.  Chandler,  who  was  born  in  the 
same  locality  as  himself,  engaged  in  farming  in 
Kent,  Portage  County,  where  he  died  at  seventy- 
five  years  of  age.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Chris- 
tian Church  and  a  man  of  upright,  unblemished 
character.  His  wife,  Johanna  Gay  lord,  was  born 
in  Springfield,  Mass.,  and  accompanied  her  father, 
John  Gay  lord,  from  there  to  Kent,  Ohio.  She  is  a 
descendant  of  English  ancestors.  For  some  years 
she  has  resided  in  Cleveland ,  where  she  has  a  home 
on  Euclid  avenue.  Of  her  four  children  three 
are  living:  Erwin  resides  in  Cleveland;  Ellen, 
Mrs.  M.  J.  Glasier,  also  resides  in  that  city; 
Edelbert,  who  was  a  member  of  Garfield's  old 
regiment  (the  Forty-second  Ohio),  died  in  the 
south;  Jerome  C. ,  who  was  born  in  Franklin 
Township,  Portage  Count}',  is  the  youngest  of 
the  family. 

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in  the  cultivation  of  the  place  until  he  was  twenty- 
three.  He  then  entered  the  employ  of  the 
Wheeler  and  Wilson  Sewing  Machine  Company, 
which  he  represented  for  five  years.  Afterwards, 
for  seventeen  years,  he  traveled  as  salesman  for 
the  Akron  Rolling  Mill  Company,  having  as  his 
territory  Pennsylvania,  New  York,  Ohio,  Canada, 
Illinois,  Michigan,  Indiana  and  Kentucky.  In 
1889  he  resigned  and  came  west,  locating  in 
Denver,  where  he  opened  a  grocery  on  the  corner 
of  Thirteenth  street  and  Colfax  avenue  west. 
After  a  year  he  retired  from  the  business  and 
organized  the  Denver  Commission  and  Realty 
Company,  which  has  its  office  at  No.  1538  Law- 
rence street.  They  occupy  a  building  of  two 
stories,  25x150,  and  are  engaged  in  a  general 
comrai.ssion  business.  During  the  season  of  1898 
they  handled  fifteen  hundred  bicycles  and  their 
other  business  has  also  been  large. 

In  Ravenna,  Ohio,  Mr.  Converse  married  Miss 
Emma  Rodenbaugh,  who  was  born  in  Springfield, 
Ohio.  She  is  a  daughter  of  John  Rodenbaugh, 
for  years  the  state  auctioneer  and  a  very  promi- 
nent commission  man,  but  who,  on  one  of  his 
trips,  was  murdered  for  his  money.  Mr.  Converse 
has  one  son,  Harry  C,  a  member  of  the  police 
force  of  Denver.  Fraternally  he  is  connected 
with  the  Royal  Arcanum,  in  religion  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  and 
politically  has  always  been  stanch  in  his  adher- 
ence to  Republican  principles.  His  wife  was  a 
charter  member  of  the  Civil  Federation,  and  one 
of  its  most  active  workers,  being  associated  with 
Mrs.  Frank  Hall  and  others  upon  important  com- 
mittees. 


(Joseph  C.  KNOWLES.  WWle  many  men 
I  have  come  to  Colorado  with  the  hope  that 
C)  they  might  gain  wealth  from  its  hidden 
stores  of  gold  and  silver,  an  equal,  or  perhaps 
greater,  number  have  come  here,  hoping  that  the 
dry,  pure  air  and  delightful  climate  might  bring 
them  the  health  and  strength  that  are  worth  far 
more  than  all  the  metalliferous  mines  of  El  Dorado. 
Among  the  latter  class  may  be  mentioned  Mr. 
Knowles,  a  well-known  and  successful  citizen  of 
Denver.  Prior  to  coming  here  he  had  been  en- 
gaged in  farming  in  Michigan,  but  his  health  be- 
came so  poor  that  during  the  last  four  years  of 
his  residence  there  he  was  unable  to  work  an  en- 
tire day.     With  his  wife,  herself  an  invalid,  and 


their  two  children,  he  started  west  in  the  fall  of 

1878,  scarcely  knowing  what  his  destination 
would  be.  Traveling  slowly,  as  their  strength 
permitted,  they  reached  Lewis,  Iowa,  forty  miles 
from  Council  Bluffs,  in  October,  and  as  the 
weather  was  cold  and  roads  rough,  they  stopped 
there  for  a  time.  From  the  time  he  left  Michi- 
gan he  began  to  grow   stronger.     In   February, 

1879,  they  resumed  their  westward  journey,  but 
on  reaching  the  Missouri  could  not  secure  trans- 
portation. The  river  was  frozen  over  and  he 
risked  crossing  it  on  the  ice,  which  was  accom- 
plished successfully.  Continuing  the  journey 
along  the  Platte,  they  passed  long,  lonely  stretches 
of  land,  where  for  a  hundred  miles  not  a  house 
could  be  seen.  Added  to  the  loneliness  was  the 
danger,  for  the  Indians  had  been  exceedingly 
troublesome  the  previous  year  and  white  travel- 
ers were  still  in  great  peril  in  crossing  the  plains. 
At  one  time  the  supply  of  hay  gave  out  and  he 
was  obliged  to  leave  the  family  and  ride  horse- 
back fifteen  miles  in  order  to  secure  some  feed. 
March  25,  1879,  he  arrived  in  Denver,  strength- 
ened in  body,  and  able  to  take  up  business 
pursuits.  He  had  with  him  the  finest  team  ever 
seen  in  Denver  at  that  time,  and  also  two  un- 
broken colts,  and  ever  since  then  he  has  al- 
ways kept  a  span  of  fine  horses,  his  fondness  for 
equine  flesh  being  one  of  his  noticeable  character- 
istics. 

The  Knowles  family  is  of  English  and  Welsh 
descent.  The  grandfather  of  our  subject  was 
Seth  Knowles,  a  native  of  Connecticut  and  a 
Revolutionary  soldier,  who  about  1812  settled  in 
Livingston  County,  N.  Y.,  and  founded  the  town 
of  Springwater,  which  he  named  on  account  of 
its  numerous  springs.  His  son,  Girard  Knowles, 
was  born  in  Connecticut  in  1800  and  was  one  of 
twenty-one  children  that  attained  mature  years. 
From  Livingston  County  he  moved  to  Canadice, 
Ontario  County,  where  he  engaged  in  farming. 
He  died  while  on  a  visit  in  Wisconsin.  Twelve 
children  were  born  of  his  marriage  to  Diana 
Farwell,  a  native  of  New  York  and  of  Scotch 
descent. 

One  of  the  youngest  of  the  children  and  the 
only  one  to  come  to  Colorado  was  Joseph  C,  who 
was  born  in  Springwater,  N.  Y.,  September  4, 
1842,  and  was  eight  when  the  family  removed  to 
Canadice.  The  next  year  he  went  to  make  his 
home  with  the  family's  nearest   neighbor,  Mr. 


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Macomber,  a  shoemaker,  who  taught  him  the 
trade  and  cared  for  him  during  the  twelve  years 
he  was  an  inmate  of  the  house.  In  1862  he  at- 
tempted to  enlist  in  the  army,  but  was  rejected 
on  physician's  examination.  In  1863  he  removed 
to  Albion,  Mich.,  and  the  next  year  bought  a 
farm  two  miles  east  of  Albion ,  where  he  engaged 
in  farming  until  his  removal  west. 

On  settling  in  Colorado  Mr.  Knowles  began 
freighting  between  Denver  and  Leadville.  Later 
he  decided  to  engage  in  merchandising  in  Lead- 
ville,  but  the  altitude  was  too  high  and  he  was 
unable  to  remain.  He  then  bought  one  hundred 
and  sixty  acres  nine  miles  from  Denver,  where 
Irondale  now  stands,  and  two  years  later  started 
a  dairy,  but  after  twelve  months  he  sold  out  and 
located  nearer  the  city,  buying  a  farm  on  which 
he  engaged  in  the  dairy  business  and  general  agri- 
cultural pursuits.  Since  then  he  has  dealt  in  farm 
and  city  property.  About  1882  he  disposed  of  his 
farm  in  Michigan;  but  he  still  owns  ranches  in 
different  parts  of  Colorado.  In  1885  he  bought 
land  at  $50  an  acre,  which  he  later  sold  at  $250, 
and  also  a  tract  at  $55,  which  afterwards  brought 
him  fSoo  an  acre.  From  boyhood  he  was  in- 
terested in  fruits,  and  in  Colorado  he  has  been  an 
experimenter  in  orchards,  having  set  out  the  first 
orchard  in  Platte  Valley.  He  has  set  out  about 
twenty  acres  in  orchards,  and  one  of  his  orchards 
is  considered  the  finest  in  the  state.  Its  trees  are 
capable  of  bearing  six  to  eight  barrels  of  fruit 
and  have  to  be  propped  up  in  order  that  the 
weight  of  the  fruit  may  not  break  the  branches. 
The  fruit  problem  was  an  enigma  at  the  time  he 
came  here  and  he  spent  considerable  money  in  ex- 
perimenting, but  has  found  that  all  fruits  will 
grow  here  except  pears,  which  cannot  be  raised. 
In  addition  to  his  orchards,  he  has  on  his  ranch 
a  fine  residence  and  two  artesian  wells.  In  1893 
he  bought  the  Knowles  building,  60x125,  four 
stories  in  height,  and  adjoining  the  Getty.sburg 
Panorama,  on  Champa  near  Seventeenth  street, 
one  of  the  most  desirable  corners  in  the  city.  He 
is  also  interested  in  mining.  Politically  he  is  a 
silver  Republican. 

In  Calhoun  County,  Mich.,  Mr.  Knowles 
married  Miss  Eliza  A.  Dart,  who  was  born  in 
Barnstable,  England.  After  the  death  of  her 
parents,  Burwick  and  Ann  Dart,  which  occurred 
when  she  was  small,  she  came  with  an  uncle  to 
America  and  grew  to  womanhood   in  Michigan. 


She  is  the  mother  of  six  children,  the  eldest  of 
whom,  Mrs.  Clara  Adell  Leggett,  died  in  Colo- 
rado. The  others  are  Mrs.  Evora  Mabel  Bowen, 
of  Denver;  Chloe  Anita,  Arthur  Seward,  Isabelle 
and  Eva  Viola. 


/5JEORGE  W.  SCHECK,  president  of  the 
l_  Leonard-Scheck  Saddlery  Company  at  Nos. 
\^  1716-20  Arapahoe  street,  Denver,  was  born 
in  Nashville,  Tenn. ,  July  7,  1857,  and  is  a  son  of 
Michael  and  Marie  (Scharnagle)  Scheck.  His 
parents,  both  of  whom  were  natives  of  Germany, 
came  to  the  United  States  in  early  life,  he  cross- 
ing the  ocean  first  and  securing  employment  as  a 
dyer  and  scourer  in  Alabama.  As  soon  as  he 
was  established  in  business,  she  joined  him  there 
and  they  were  married.  After  a  year  or  more 
they  removed  to  Nashville,  Tenn.,  where  they 
made  their  home  during  the  entire  period  of  the 
war. 

The  earliest  recollections  of  our  subject  are  of 
the  fair  southern  city  where  he  was  born  and  the 
excitement  incident  to  war  between  the  north  and 
south.  He  attended  the  public  schools  until  he 
was  fourteen  years  of  age,  when  he  became  an 
apprentice  to  the  harness-maker's  trade,  receiv- 
ing $1  per  week  and  his  board.  After  two  years 
he  secured  another  position  that  paid  him  $7  per 
week,  although,  being  obliged  to  board  himself, 
the  profit  was  not  large.  A  year  was  spent  there, 
after  which  he  went  into  a  larger  establishment 
to  complete  his  trade,  and  later  he  was  employed 
as  a  journeyman  for  some  six  years.  In  1881  he 
came  to  Denver  and  for  several  j-ears  worked  as  a 
journeyman,  but  in  1888  started  in  business  for 
himself  and  two  years  later  with  S.  B.  Leonard 
established  the  shop  which  they  have  since  con- 
ducted. The  company  engages  in  the  manu- 
facture and  sale  of  harness,  saddles  and  bicj-cles, 
and  carries  on  a  trade  amounting  to  more  than 
$100,000  per  annum. 

In  1882,  in  Denver,  Mr.  Scheck  married  Miss 
Anna  Hennekes,  with  whom  he  had  become  ac- 
quainted in  Cincinnati,  her  birthplace.  Like 
himself,  she  was  of  German  parentage  and  pos- 
sessed the  energy  and  thrift  characteristic  of  that 
people.  At  her  death,  which  occurred  in  1892, 
she  left  two  children,  Herbert  and  Laura.  The 
preseiit  wife  of  Mr.  Scheck,  with  whom  he  was 
united  in  1894,  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Mary 
Fenger,  and  was  born  in  Cincinnati,  but  formed 


HON.  HIRAM  PRINCE. 


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the  acquaintance  of  Mr.  Scheck  in  Denver.  Two 
children  bless  this  union,  Raymond  and  Ralph. 
In  matters  political  Mr.  Scheck  has  never  given 
his  allegiance  to  either  of  the  prominent  political 
parties,  but  maintains  an  independence  of  opinion 
that  finds  expression  in  a  ballot  cast  for  the  man 
he  deems  best  qualified  for  a  position  of  trust  and 
responsibility.  Fraternally  he  is  connected  with 
Colorado  Lodge  No.  i,  K.  of  P. 


HON.  HIRAM  PRINCE.  Few  of  the  farmers 
and  stock- rai.sers  of  the  Boulder  Valley  have 
been  more  successful  than  Mr.  Prince,  and 
certainly  none  has  exerted  a  greater  or  more 
wholesome  influence  upon  the  citizenship  of  the 
county.  Life  with  him  has  been  eventful;  its 
experiences  many  and  thrilling,  but  its  twilight 
is  being  passed  tranquilly  in  preparation  for  the 
eternal  reunion  with  loved  ones  gone  before. 
Among  his  fellow-citizens  he  has  always  been 
popular;  and  when,  in  1880,  trouble  arose  in  the 
division  of  the  water  for  irrigation  purposes, 
many  men  some  distance  down  the  creek  who  had 
prior  water  rights  being  unable  to  get  water,  as 
it  was  taken  out  of  the  ditch  before  it  reached 
them,  a  petition  was  gotten  up  and,  with  four 
hundred  names  attached,  was  taken  by  J.  P. 
Maxwell  to  the  governor,  asking  to  have  Mr. 
Prince  appointed  water  commissioner,  the  people 
feeling  that  their  troubles  would  be  satisfactorily 
settled  if  placed  in  his  hands.  He  served  accept- 
ably in  this  position  for  five  years.  For  three 
years  he  was  justice  of  the  peace.  In  1885,  on 
the  Republican  ticket,  he  was  elected  by  a  large 
majority  to  represent  the  people  in  the  state 
legislature;  again,  in  1889,  he  was  returned  to 
the  lower  house,  during  which  term  he  was  made 
chairman  of  the  committee  on  state  institutions 
and  took  an  active  part  in  regulating  and  remedy- 
ing abuses  in  these  institutions. 

A  native  of  Mobile,  Ala. ,  Mr.  Prince  was  one 
of  three  children  born  to  John  and  Mary  (Cooper) 
Prince.  When  about  ten  years  of  age  he  ran 
away  from  home  and  shipped  aboard  a  schooner 
for  New  York  City,  there  meeting  parties  who 
were  looking  for  sailors  to  man  a  whaling 
schooner.  He  secured  employment  with  them 
and  was  sent  to  Stonington,  Conn.,  where  he 
shipped  on  board  the  barque  ' '  George. ' '  After 
a  trip  of  some  eighteen  months,  when  the  vessel, 


loaded  with  eighteen  hundred  barrels  of  oil  and 
a  supply  of  bone,  was  on  its  journey  home  from 
the  Arctic,  at  the  Hawaiian  Islands  he  ran  away 
and  boarded  the  barque  "Croton,"  bound  for 
New  Bedford,  notwithstanding  the  fact  that  he 
had  more  than  $400  coming  to  him  from  the  cargo 
of  the  "  George."  The  "  Croton  "  encountered 
a  terrific  storm  at  latitude  76  and  the  ship  was 
dismantled;  finally,  however,  he  arrived  at  New 
Bedford  on  board  a  schooner. 

After  some  years  Mr.  Prince  shipped  on  board 
a  barque  as  second  mate  and  made  several  trips 
between  Boston  and  New  Orleans,  after  which  he 
shipped  as  second  mate  of  a  schooner  bound  for 
the  Sierre  Leone  Islands  on  the  coast  of  Africa. 
He  made  two  trips  on  the  schooner,  during  the 
first  of  which  every  man  on  board  came  down 
with  the  African  fever  and  many  perished.  He 
fell  a  victim  to  the  disease,  as  did  also  the  captain 
and  the  first  mate,  and  the  latter  was  left  blind. 
After  his  second  trip  he  returned  to  New  York, 
in  poor  health.  He  went  to  Mobile,  Ala.,  where 
he  secured  work  on  a  lighter.  Later  a  better 
position  opened  for  him  and  he  became  master  of 
a  sloop,  but  his  health  was  still  poor  and  the  work 
was  too  much  for  his  debilitated  system.  He 
contracted  yellow  fever,  on  his  recovery  from 
which  he  became  cook  on  a  wrecking  steamer 
that  was  raising  railroad  rails  from  a  barge 
wrecked  some  time  before.  While  working  in 
this  capacity,  he  was  granted  the  privilege  of 
acting  as  a  diver  and  during  the  six  weeks  he 
spent  in  diving,  he  found  five  corpses  that  had 
gone  down  with  the  wreck.  His  next  employ- 
ment was  at  steamboating  on  the  Tombigbee  and 
Alabama  Rivers  in  the  cotton  trade,  for  which  he 
received  $90  per  month.  A  few  months  later  he 
was  stevedoring  at  Mobile. 

At  last,  with  several  hundred  dollars  in  his 
pocket,  Mr.  Prince  concluded  to  go  to  St.  Louis 
and,  with  a  companion,  he  took  passage  on  one 
of  the  large  steamers  of  the  Mississippi.  The 
good  time  they  had  while  on  board  the  ship  was 
expensive,  and  left  them  with  but  twenty-five 
cents  apiece  on  arriving  in  St.  Louis.  Here  Mr. 
Prince  secured  employment  fitting  up  the  "Polar 
Star,"  and  when  his  work  was  finished  he  was 
made  second  mate.  When  the  boat  left  Boone- 
ville,  however,  he  was  dissatisfied  and  left,  going 
to  the  lead  mines  in  the  southwestern  part  of 
Missouri.      From    there   he  accompanied   some 


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traders  on  an  expedition  among  the  Osage  and 
Comanche  Indians,  and  during  that  time  met 
with  many  thrilling  adventures.  He  made  two 
trips  of  this  kind,  then  began  to  work  for  a  black- 
smith, who  gave  him  a  set  of  tools  for  a  horse 
and  bridle,  and  for  many  nights,  after  his  em- 
ployer had  retired  to  rest,  he  remained  at  work, 
anxious  to  acquire  a  thorough  knowledge  of  the 
trade.  Soon  he  secured  work  with  another  em- 
ployer who  was  a  finished  mechanic,  and  it  was 
not  long  before  he  became  an  adept  at  all  kinds  of 
iron  work.  Some  three  years  later  his  employer 
left  and  he  married  the  latter' s  daughter  and 
continued  the  blacksmith's  business  at  the  old 
stand.  Prosperity  attended  him  and  he  bought 
two  hundred  and  twenty  acres,  which  he  farmed 
in  connection  with  work  at  his  trade. 

Seven  years  after  his  marriage  to  Miss  Helen 
M.  Lindsay,  which  occurred  in  1856,  Mr.  Prince 
started  across  the  plains  for  Colorado.  Arriving 
in  Denver,  he  filled  a  government  contract  to  put 
up  hay  and  various  other  things.  The  next  year, 
1864,  he  bought  an  interest  in  the  Files  House 
and  began  as  a  hotel  keeper.  However,  he 
objected  to  the  business  on  account  of  the  bar  in 
connection  with  the  hotel,  so  he  sold  out  and 
took  a  contract  to  put  up  two  hundred  tons  of 
hay  at  $40  a  ton;  Indian  troubles  prevented  him 
from  filling  his  contract.  In  1865  with  another 
man,  he  bought  a  blacksmith  shop,  of  which  he 
later  became  the  sole  proprietor,  and  followed 
wagon  making  and  blacksmithing.  He  made  the 
first  omnibus  in  Denver,  which  was  sold  for  $2,700. 
About  that  time  troubles  arose  between  the 
colored  and  white  children,  and  his  opinions  were 
asked;  on  giving  them,  they  were  found  to  be  so 
practical  that  he  was  placed  on  the  school  board 
by  a  majority  of  fifty  to  one. "  Little  do  the  chil- 
dren now  in  Denver  realize  how  much  they  owe 
to  Mr.  Prince.  Through  his  broad  views  on 
educational  matters  he  became  one  of  the  well- 
known  men  of  the  city.  When  the  school  funds 
ran  low  he  kept  the  school  open  by  leaving  his 
shop  and  giving  his  time  to  the  circulation  of  a 
subscription  list,  to  which  men  of  all  classes  con- 
tributed when  asked  by  him  to  do  so.  He  justly 
deserves  the  title  of  "Father"  of  the  Denver 
schools.  In  addition  to  his  other  work  in  behalf 
of  children,  he  opened  a  Sunday-school  independ- 
ent of  any  church.  This  project  was  frowned 
upon  by  some,  who  believed  it  would  not  succeed 


unless  carried  on  under  the  auspices  of  the  church; 
but  the  school  grew  constantly  until  the  capacity 
of  the  building  was  taxed  to  its  utmost.  He  took 
the  first  excursion  of  school  children  out  of  Den- 
ver to  Greeley  and  Fort  Collins,  hiring  a  train  of 
palace  cars  for  the  occasion. 

In  1867  Mr.  Prince  bought  a  trust  deed  for 
forty  acres  of  land,  which  was  on  the  corner  on 
the  Larimer  street  bridge.  His  health  failing, 
he  turned  his  attention  to  the  stock  business.  In 
1870  he  sold  that  property  and  coming  to  the 
Boulder  Valley  settled  down  to  farming  and 
stock-raising.  Here  he  has  prospered  and  after 
giving  each  of  his  six  children  eighty  acres  he 
still  retains  two  hundred  and  forty  acres  in  his 
home  farm.  His  sons,  Frank,  Louis  L.,  John 
H.  and  Clarence  E.,  are  prosperous  farmers,  and 
his  daughters,  MoUie,  Mrs.  Alphonso  Schofield, 
and  Emma,  Mrs.  Elmer  Schofield,  are  living  in 
this  locality,  where  their  husbands  are  progress- 
ive farmers. 

This  sketch  would  be  incomplete  were  not 
mention  made  of  Mrs.  Prince.  Whatever  of  suc- 
cess has  come  to  Mr.  Prince,  he  owes  in  no 
small  degree  to  his  wife.  In  early  life  he  en- 
countered hardships  and  made  many  unfortunate 
ventures,  but  after  he  was  blessed  by  the  counsel 
and  co-operation  of  his  wife,  prosperity  came  to 
him  and  whatever  he  undertook  was  crowned 
with  success.  She  was  a  broad-minded  woman, 
with  keen  insight  and  an  intuition  that  was  rarely 
equalled.  When  death  claimed  her,  February  21 , 
1898,  Mr.  Prince  received  the  greatest  blow  of 
his  whole  life.  He  had  encountered  adversity 
with  a  brave  heart,  but  this  bereavement  dark- 
ened his  life  and  brought  an  unconquerable  sor- 
row to  his  heart.  He  is  blessed  by  the  afiection 
of  his  sons  and  daughters,  who  have  endeavored, 
as  far  as  possible,  to  alleviate  his  sorrow  and,  by 
loving  care,  render  his  loss  less  difficult  to  bear. 


QETER  MAHLER,  who  owns  and  occupies 
y!^  a  farm  of  one  hundred  and  twenty  acres 
M^  near  Littleton,  was  born  February  22,  1852, 
in  Miedesheim,  Lower  Alsace,  now  a  part  of 
Germany.  He  is  the  son  of  George  and  Cath- 
erine (Martin)  Mahler,  whose  family  consisted  of 
seven  sons  and  two  daughters,  all  still  living  but 
two  of  the  sons.  They  are  as  follows:  Catherine, 
wife  of  Jacob  Siegefried,  a  farmer  of  Phafienhofien, 


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Lower  Alsace;  John,  who  is  engaged  as  a  farmer 
in  Engweiler,  Lower  Alsace;  Margaret,  wife  of 
Michael  Dorer,  who  is  a  barber  in  Orange,  N.  J. ; 
Peter,  of  this  sketch;  Philip,  who  farms  the  old 
homestead  in  Alsace;  and  Henry,  who  is  an  agri- 
culturist in  Kent  County,  Ontario.  The  farm 
where  Philip  lives  has  been  in  the  family  for  a 
number  of  generations.  There  the  father  of  our 
subject  was  born  in  18 15,  and  there  he  died  in 
1894,  having  devoted  his  active  years  to  the  culti- 
vation of  the  homestead.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Lutheran  Church  and  was  highly  respected 
for  his  integrity  and  upright  character.  His 
wife,  who  like  himself  was  a  consistent  member 
of  the  Lutheran  Church,  was  born  in  Engweiler, 
Alsace,  in  1822,  and  died  in  1887;  she  was  a 
daughter  of  Jacob  Martin,  a  farmer  of  Engweiler, 
where  his  ancestors  had  resided  for  many  genera- 
tions. 

It  was  the  universal  custom  in  Alsace  for  the 
boys  to  learn  a  trade,  but  our  subject,  not  wish- 
ing to  be  bound  out  as  an  apprentice,  asked  his 
father  to  give  him  the  money  that  his  apprentice- 
ship would  require,  and  allow  him  to  come  to 
America.  His  father  consented,  and  accordingly, 
March  20,  1867,  the  fifteen-year-old  lad  took 
passage  on  the  steamer  '  'Cele, ' '  bound  from  Havre 
to  New  York.  After  a  rough  and  stormy  voy- 
age of  twenty-two  days  he  landed  in  New  York, 
from  which  city  he  went  at  once  to  London,  On- 
tario, and  from  there  to  Delaware,  Ontario,  where 
lived  an  older  brother. 

Among  the  farmers  of  that  locality  Mr.  Mahler 
secured  employment,  remaining  there  until  the 
spring  of  1872,  when  his  health  being  poor  he 
determined  to  seek  a  home  in  a  more  congenial 
climate.  For  that  reason  he  came  to  Colorado. 
After  his  arrival  he  hired  out  by  the  month  to 
different  farmers  in  Arapahoe  and  Douglas  Coun- 
ties. In  1884  he  pre-empted  a  homestead  claim 
of  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres,  two  miles  south 
of  his  present  home,  and  for  five  years  he  re- 
mained on  that  place,  reaping  the  benefits  of  his 
personal  labor.  In  1889  he  sold  the  property  for 
a  good  sum,  and  at  the  same  time  purchased  his 
present  farm,  from  which  he  sold  forty  acres  in 
1 891,  leaving  it  one  hundred  and  twenty  acres. 
He  devotes  his  attention  to  the  cultivation  of  the 
property,  the  value  of  which  has  been  greatly 
enhanced  by  the  improvements  he  has  placed 
on  it.     He  has  never  taken  part  in  politics  and 


does  not  ally  himself  with  any  party,  voting  for 
the  men  whom  he  considers  will  best  represent 
the  people. 

March  27,  1890,  Mr.  Mahler  married  Mrs. 
Eva  C.  (Erickson)  Johnson.  No  children  have 
been  born  of  this  union,  but  three  boys  are  given 
a  home  by  Mr.  Mahler,  one  of  them  being  Fred  A. 
Johnson,  a  son  of  his  wife  by  her  former  mar- 
riage, while  the  other  two  are  orphans,  Albert 
and  Arvid  Erickson,  sons  of  a  deceased  brother 
of  Mrs.  Mahler. 


G\  A.  CLOUGH,  M.  D.,  who  is  a  well-known 
Ll  physician  and  surgeon  of  Denver,  and  has 
I  I  his  office  at  No.  1349  California  street,  was 
borti  in  Folsomdale,  Wyoming  County,  N.  Y., 
March  21,  1859,  and  is  a  son  of  Nathan  and 
Electa  Louisa  (Rice)  Clough.  His  father,  who 
was  born  on  the  old  family  homestead  in  Wyoming 
County,  made  farming  his  life  work  and  passed 
the  years  of  active  manhood  upon  the  place 
where  he  was  born,  superintending  the  im- 
provement of  the  place  and  the  cultivation  of  the 
land. 

At  the  age  of  nineteen,  having  previously  ob- 
tained a  fair  education,  our  subject  began  to  teach 
in  the  school  near  his  father's  home.  In  1879 
he  entered  Griffith  Institute,  Springville,  Erie 
County,  N.  Y.,  where  he  completed  two  years' 
work  in  one  year,  and  was  thus  enabled  to  be- 
gin his  collegiate  course  in  the  fall  of  1880.  He 
remained  for  four  years  as  a  student  of  Hamilton 
College,  Clinton,  N.Y.,  from  which  he  graduated 
with  the  class  of  1884,  receiving  the  degree 
of  A.  B.  All  of  the  expenses  connected  with 
his  college  course  he  had  himself  defrayed, 
doing  any  kind  of  work  that  offered  itself  in 
order  that  he  might  obtain  the  desired  education. 
After  having  completed  his  literary  education 
he  entered  the  medical  department  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  Niagara  at  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  and  spent 
one  year  there.  His  mother  had  died  of  con- 
sumption and  his  own  lungs  were  weak,  so,  fear- 
ing that  he  might  inherit  the  disease  that  had 
carried  his  mother  away,  he  deemed  it  best  to 
seek  a  more  salubrious  climate.  In  1885  he 
came  to  Colorado,  since  which  time  he  has  made 
his  home  in  this  state.  March  27,  1884,  he 
married  Miss  Lela  Barker,  of  Clinton,  N.  Y., 
daughter  of  Col.  Henry  Barker.  They  were  the 
parents  of  one  child,  Aenona. 


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Soon  after  removing  to  Colorado  Dr.  Clough 
entered  the  medical  department  of  the  Univer.sity 
of  Denver,  from  which  he  graduated  in  1886, 
with  the  degree  of  M.  D.  He  at  once  went  to 
Morrison,  this  state,  to  enter  upon  practice,  and 
had  the  unusual  experience  of  being  called  into 
service  on  the  dayof  his  arrival.  Heremained  there 
about  a  year  and  built  up  an  excellent  practice, 
but  believing  Denver  to  be  a  much  more  preferable 
location  he  returned  to  this  city.  Here  for  seven 
years  he  was  associated  in  practice  with  Dr. 
Steadman,  and  afterwards  was  in  partnership 
with  Dr.  A.  R.  Seebass  for  three  years,  since 
which  time  he  has  practiced  alone.  The  degree 
of  A.  M.  was  conferred  upon  him  by  his  alma 
mater.  His  second  marriage  occurred  Septem- 
ber 6,  1893,  an^l  united  him  with  Miss  Grace 
Neely,  daughter  of  Col.  Floyd  Neely,  of  West 
Virginia. 

Dr.  Clough  is  a  member  of  the  county  and 
state  medical  societies,  as  well  as  of  the  American 
Medical  Association  and  the  American  Academy 
of  Medicine,  and  has  attended  and  participated 
in  the  work  of  several  conventions,  and  is  also 
connected  with  the  Alumni  Association  of  the 
Denver  University.  He  was  reared  in  the  Re- 
publican faith.  In  1889  he  was  appointed  com- 
missioner of  health  for  the  city  of  Denver  by  the 
mayor,  Wolfe  Londoner,  and  held  the  position 
for  two  years.  He  is  a  man  of  inventive  turn  of 
mind,  and  possesses  the  faculty  of  devising  needed 
improvements.  Seeing  the  great  necessity  for  a 
street  sweeper  that  will  clean  the  streets  while 
dry,  he  in  1896  began  to  study  out  a  model,  in 
the  construction  of  which  he  was  finally  success- 
ful, and  a  patent  has  been  applied  for.  In  this 
work  he  is  in  partnership  with  H.  H.  Call,  who 
is  a  skilled  mechanic  of  Denver. 


(TOHN  W.  WALKER,  who  for  years  resided 
I  upon  a  ranch  situated  on  section  34,  town- 
O  ship  5,  range  65,  Weld  County,  removed  in 
August,  1898,  to  Delta,  Delta  County,  Colo., 
where  he  now  lives  in  retirement  from  life's  active 
labors.  He  is  a  man  of  excellent  character,  re- 
tiring in  disposition  and  unobtrusive  in  manner, 
but  known  for  his  honesty  and  integrity,  and  one 
who  numbers  many  friends  among  his  associates. 
In  Chester  District,  S.  C,  Mr.Walker  was  born 
in  September,  1824,  a  son  of  John  and  Elizabeth 


(Hood)  Walker,  natives  respectively  of  County 
Antrim,  Ireland,  and  South  Carolina.  His  father, 
who  accompanied  his  parents  to  this  country  about 
1778,  located  in  South  Carolina,  where  he  re- 
mained for  many  years.  In  1835  he  removed 
to  Illinois,  where  he  engaged  in  farming  and 
stock-raising,  and  spent  the  remainder  of  his  life. 
In  politics  he  affiliated  with  the  Democrats.  His 
death  occurred  in  1854,  when  he  was  eighty-seven 
years  of  age.  Of  his  eleven  children,  only  two 
are  living,  John  W.  and  Thomas,  of  Orange,  Cal. 
The  wife  and  mother  died  in  Illinois  when  fifty- 
four  years  of  age. 

When  the  subject  of  this  sketch  was  about  ten 
years  of  age  his  parents  removed  to  Illinois  and 
in  that  state  his  boyhood  days  were  passed. 
When  a  boy  he  attended  school  held  in  an  old 
log  building,  destitute  of  the  equipments  now 
considered  so  essential  to  a  school.  After  grow- 
ing to  manhood,  he  carried  on  a  farm  with  his 
brother  Thomas,  making  a  specialty  of  raising 
cattle.  In  1866  ill  health  forced  him  to  abandon 
all  active  participation  in  business.  The  follow- 
ing year  he  and  his  brother  came  to  Colorado, 
arriving  at  Evans  June  14,  1872.  After  a  short 
time  his  brother  returned  to  Illinois,  but  he 
remained,  and,  with  the  cattle  he  had  brought 
with  him,  embarked  in  the  stock  business.  In 
1873  he  tocjk  up  as  a  homestead  his  present  farm 
and  during  the  same  year  built  a  house,  his 
sisters,  Jane  and  Margaret,  joining  him  here  and 
making  his  home  theirs  until  they  died.  During 
his  first  six  years  on  the  ranch  he  made  a  specialty 
of  stock.  In  1878  he  formed  a  company  and 
constructed  the  Union  ditch,  which  was  completed 
about  1882.  For  several  years  he  served  as 
treasurer  of  the  company.  He  also  bought  stock 
in  the  Old  Colony  Ditch  Company,  built  by  the 
Massachusetts  colony.  Since  irrigating  his  land, 
he  has  carried  on  general  farm  pursuits.  Stock- 
raising,  however,  has  formed  his  principal  indus- 
try, and  at  one  time  he  had  two  hundred  head  of 
cattle  and  forty  horses,  but  later  sold  most  of  his 
stock,  retaining  only  forty  head  of  cattle  and  one 
horse.  His  four  hundred  and  sixty  acres  of  land 
are  well  improved  and  all  under  water,  making 
them  responsive  to  cultivation. 

Politically  Mr.  Walker  is  active  in  the  local 
ranks  of  the  Republican  party,  which  ticket  he 
has  voted  continuously  since  the  party  was  or- 
ganized.     His    sisters    were    members    of    the 


WIIvLIAM  H.  MCCARTHY. 


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Reformed  Presbyterian  Church  and  active  in 
religious  work.  Both  continued  to  reside  with 
their  brother  until  they  died,  Jane  on  the  14th  of 
November,  1897,  at  the  age  of  seventy- nine,  and 
Margaret  in  May,  1892,  at  the  age  of  sixty-four. 
A  brother,  James,  also  resided  here  until  his 
death,  July  27,  1898,  at  the  age  of  seventy-seven. 
The  four  lived  happily  together  for  twenty-five 
years,  and  were  a  congenial,  united  family. 
After  their  death,  and  feeling  the  care  of  the 
farm  too  much  for  his  strength,  Mr.  Walker 
retired  from  active  cares  and  removed  to  Delta,  to 
pass  his  remaining  years  in  retirement. 


pCJlLLlAM  H.  MCCARTHY  arrived  in  Den- 
\  A/  ver  September  15,  1876,  having  come 
V  Y  from  Chicago  on  the  Kansas  Pacific  road, 
via  Atchison.  On  his  arrival  here  he  found  that 
but  little  work  had  been  done  in  the  line  of  his 
trade,  plumbing.  He  at  once  sought  employ- 
ment in  his  chosen  occupation  and  secured  a  po- 
sition with  Brown  &  Kiefer,  with  whom  he  en- 
gaged until  1879.  Later  for  four  years  he  was 
foreman  of  their  work  in  this  city.  Meantime  he 
organized  the  Journeyman  Plumbers'  Union  and 
was  its  president  at  the  time  of  the  strike  in  1879. 
Foreseeing  trouble,  and  not  wishing  to  have  any 
difficulty  with  his  employers,  he  resigned  his 
position  in  the  shop.  He  had  no  trouble  in  se- 
curing other  work  and  for  six  months  had  charge 
of  the  plumbing  in  the  Windsor  hotel,  represent- 
ing the  Chicago  firm  of  Sanders  Brothers,  in 
whose  employ  he  had  been  before  coming  west. 
Later  he  did  the  plumbing  work  in  Senator  Hill's 
house.  About  this  time  he  was  sent  for  by 
Brown  &  Kiefer,  who  offered  him  the  position  of 
foreman.  He  accepted  and  continued  with  them 
for  four  years,  when  he  resigned  in  order  to  en- 
gage in  business  for  himself. 

Forming  a  partnership  with  Henry  Suess,  Jr., 
under  the  firm  title  of  McCarthy  &  Suess,  our 
subject  located  on  Champa  street.  After  two 
years  he  bought  his  partner's  interest  and  after- 
ward carried  on  the  business  at  No.  1621  Champa 
street,  continuing  to  take  contracts  for  plumb- 
ing until  the  fall  of  1897,  when  he  was  injured 
by  an  accident  that  for  some  time  prevented  him 
from  looking  after  his  business  interests.  Among 
his  contracts  were  those  for  the  upper  story  of 
the  county  courthouse,  the  county  hospital  and 


the  remodeling  of  the  county  jail,  the  sanitary 
condition  of  which  is  now  equal  to  that  of  any 
prison  in  the  country.  He  built  his  residence  at 
No.  2439  Emerson  street  and  has  built  other 
houses  in  different  parts  of  the  city. 

Mr.  McCarthy  was  born  in  one  of  the  southern 
counties  of  Ireland  and  was  brought  to  America 
when  a  child  by  his  parents,  Patrick  and  Margaret 
(Grady)  McCarthy,  who  settled  in  Cincinnati, 
Ohio,  and  remained  in  that  city  until  death.  He 
was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Cincinnati. 
In  April,  i860,  he  was  apprenticed  to  the 
plumber's  trade  and  continued  at  that  for  a  year, 
when,  at  the  opening  of  the  war,  he  enlisted 
with  a  company  of  volunteers  and  went  into 
camp  at  Camp  Clay,  Cincinnati.  The  Ethan 
Allen  Continental,  a  military  company  of  which 
he  was  a  member,  volunteered  in  Company  D, 
First  Kentucky  Infantry,  a  regiment  that  was 
raised  in  Cincinnati,  for  three  months'  service. 
Before  being  mustered  in,  a  call  came  for  three 
years'  men,  and  he  enlisted  for  that  time  in  Com- 
pany H,  Thirty-fourth  Ohio  Infantry,  which  was 
mustered  in  July  23,  1861,  at  Camp  Olive  Grove, 
near  Batavia,  Ohio.  He  was  ordered  to  Camp 
Dennison  and  was  commissioned  sergeant  and 
assigned  to  service  in  West  Virginia.  In  the  fall 
of  1862,  after  the  battle  of  Charleston,  there  was 
skirmishing  for  several  days  during  the  retreat 
along  the  Kanawha  Valley,  during  which  time 
he  was  wounded  in  the  right  temple,  on  a  line 
with  the  right  eye.  For  months  afterward  he 
was  obliged  to  remain  in  the  Gallapolis  hospital, 
but  finally  recovered  sufficiently  to  return  home. 
On  account  of  the  gunshot  wound  he  was  hon- 
orably discharged  from  service  in  December, 
1862. 

It  was  more  than  two  years  before  he  was  able 
to  engage  in  any  work.  In  1864  he  returned 
to  his  former  employer,  with  whom  he  continued 
his  apprenticeship.  In  1869  he  came  west  to 
Omaha,  Neb.,  and  spent  a  year  at  his  trade, 
working  on  the  line  of  the  Union  Pacific  as  far 
west  as  Rawlins,  Wyo.  The  next  year  he  went 
to  St.  Paul,  Minn.,  and  worked  at  his  trade 
there  and  in  Minneapolis.  Two  months  after  the 
great  Chicago  fire  of  1871,  he  went  to  that  city, 
thence  went  to  Rock  Island,  111.,  in  the  spring  of 
1872,  where  he  was  employed  on  the  government 
works  on  the  island  until  October  of  that  year. 
He  then  visited  Cincinnati ,  where  he  was  married 


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October  6,  1872,  to  Miss  Ellen  McGee,  who  is  of 
Irish  descent.  During  the  same  month  he  re- 
turned to  Chicago,  from  which  city  he  removed 
to  Denver. 

At  one  time  Mr.  McCarthy  was  president  of 
the  Master  Plumbers'  Association,  which  he 
represented  as  delegate  to  the  national  conven- 
tion in  Chicago,  in  1887,  and  was  also  a  delegate 
to  the  convention  held  in  Denver  in  1890,  when 
he  was  elected  sergeant-at-arms.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  Lincoln  Post,  G.  A.  R.,  and  the  Ancient 
Order  of  United  Workmen.  Besides  his  other 
interests,  he  is  connected  with  some  mining  com- 
panies and  is  president  of  a  stage  line  gold  min- 
ing company,  that  has  opened  up  work  along 
West  Creek,  Colo. 

By  his  own  unaided  efforts  Mr.  McCarthy  has 
made  a  success  of  life.  The  city  of  Denver  is  in- 
debted to  just  such  men  as  he,  whose  pluck, 
thrift  and  courage  enabled  her  to  outrank  all 
other  cities  of  the  great  west.  He  has  a  host  of 
fiiends.  His  work  in  his  line  of  business  is  a 
monument  to  his  ability  as  a  thorough  mechanic 
and  business  man.  Politicallj'  he  has  been  iden- 
tified with  the  Democratic  party,  but  is  thorough- 
ly independent,  preferring  the  man  to  the  party 
at  all  times. 


WILLIAM  L.  SCOTT  is  the  proprietor  of  a 
fine  fruit  farm  of  twenty-four  acres,  sit- 
uated near  the  county-seat  of  Boulder 
County.  He  became  the  owner  of  the  land,  by 
purchase,  some  thirteen  years  ago,  since  which 
time  he  has  made  wonderful  improvements  and 
changes  on  the  place.  He  planted  and  set  out 
all  of  the  splendid  large  orchards,  comprising 
various  kinds  of  fruit,  suitable  to  this  climate, 
and  with  constant  care  and  judicious  irrigation, 
has  brought  them  to  their  present  fine  condition. 
He  is  a  practical  farmer,  having  had  a  life-time  of 
experience,  and  even  the  ver}-  different  methods 
employed  by  the  tiller  of  Colorado  soil  were  soon 
mastered  by  him.  In  every  sense  of  the  word  he 
is  self-made  and  self-educated,  and  the  success 
which  he  has  wrought  out  is  therefore  greatly  to 
his  credit.  His  multitudinous  friends  enjoy  his 
victories  over  circumstances  and  unite  in  heart- 
ily wishing  him  even  better  fortune  in  the  future. 
Born  in  Washington  County,  Pa.,  July  12, 
1833,  Mr.  Scott  is  a  son  of  John  and  Nancy  (Gil- 
more)   Scott,  who  were  likewise  natives  of  that 


county.  The  father,  whose  birth  occurred  iu 
1809,  shortly  after  his  marriage  removed  to 
Beaver  County ,  Pa. ,  where  he  passed  the  rest  of  his 
life.  He  lived  to  the  ripe  age  of  eighty -six  years, 
dying  in  1895.  His  first  wife  died  in  1851  and 
later  he  wedded  Ellen  Stansbury,  of  West  Vir- 
ginia. The  five  children  of  this  marriage  are  all 
living  and  are  named  as  follows:  Mack  M., 
Joseph  L. ,  Leonides  H.,  Ellsworth  L.  and 
Charles.  Of  the  three  children  of  the  first  mar- 
riage our  subject  and  brother,  Samuel  F. ,  of 
Beaver  County,  Pa.,  survive. 

Reared  to  early  manhood  on  his  father's  farm, 
young  Scott  had  but  limited  advantages  in  an 
educational  way,  as  he  worked  on  the  homestead 
much  of  the  year  and  in  the  spring  and  winters 
frequently  was  employed  on  coal-barges  on  the 
river.  In  1854  ^^^  started  out  toward  the  west, 
with  its  promise  of  better  things  to  the  ambitious 
and  enterprising.  He  landed  in  Davenport, 
Iowa,  on  Sunday  morning,  April  14.  He  had 
but  fifty  cents  in  the  world  available  and  half  of 
that  went  for  his  breakfast.  He  bravely  started  out 
into  the  country,  hoping  to  find  work  of  some 
kind,  and,  after  walking  fourteen  miles,  arrived 
at  Le  Claire,  where  he  secured  a  place  to  take 
care  of  a  very  sick  man.  This  man  died  two 
days  later,  and  Mr.  Scott  had  to  look  for  other 
means  of  earning  a  livelihood.  For  a  year  or 
two  he  was  employed  at  one  thing  and  another, 
whereby  he  might  earn  an  honest  dollar,  and 
then  he  settled  down  to  farming.  He  was  thus 
occupied  in  that  vicinity  for  twelve  years,  after 
which  he  went  to  Story  County  and  five  years 
later  to  Poweshiek  County.  Up  to  1879  he  de- 
voted himself  entirely  to  agriculture,  with  fair 
success.  Then,  coming  to  Colorado,  he  em- 
barked in  mining  enterprises  in  Gilpin  County. 
In  the  fall  of  1885  he  came  to  Boulder  County 
and  in  the  following  spring  bought  his  fruit  farm, 
then  but  little  improved.  In  1895  and  1896  he 
was  the  official  inspector  of  fruit  for  Boulder 
County,  as  he  is  now  considered  an  authority  on 
this  subject,  to  which  he  has  devoted  so  much 
attention  and  study.  Fraternally  he  is  associated 
with  Boulder  Lodge  No.  9,  I.  O.  O.  F.  His 
right  of  franchise  he  uses  in  favor  of  the  Repub- 
lican party. 

The  companion  of  all  his  joys  and  sorrows  for 
the  past  forty- two  years  was  before  their  mar- 
riage Miss  Minerva  Glass,  a  native  of  Hollidays- 


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593 


burg,  Pa.  The  worthy  couple  were  married  in 
Scott  County,  Iowa,  March  30,  1856.  Their 
daughter,  Mary  A.,  is  the  wife  of  D.  E.  Hayward, 
of  Boulder,  and  the  mother  of  three  girls  and  a 
boy.  WiUiani  T.,  the  son,  is  engaged  in  min- 
ing in  Gilpin  County.  He  is  married  and  has  a 
son  and  daughter.  In  religion  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Scott  are  Baptists,  and  hold  membership  with 
the  Boulder  Church  of  that  denomination. 


3  AMES  J.  COOKE,  who  has  made  his  home 
in  Denver  since  Maj'  of  1880,  was  born  in 
County  Cork,  Ireland,  in  1856,  and  is  the 
youngest  son  of  William  Cooke,  a  contractor  and 
stone  mason  in  that  country.  Reference  to  the 
family  history  will  be  found  in  the  sketch  of  his 
brother  John,  upon  another  page.  He  received 
a  fair  education  in  the  model  government  school 
in  his  native  county,  spending  the  winter 
months  in  study,  while  the  summer  months  were 
devoted  to  the  stone-mason's  trade.  Under  the 
instruction  of  his  father,  he  became  familiar  with 
every  department  of  the  trade  and  followed  it, 
not  only  in  Ireland,  but  also  in  England,  where 
he  was  called  to  fill  contracts. 

Coming  to  America  in  1878,  Mr.  Cooke  spent 
two  years  in  Elmira,  N.  Y.,  where  he  followed 
his  trade.  His  firstjob  in  this  country  was  as  fore- 
man of  the  stone  work  in  the  Soldiers'  Home  at 
Bath,  N.  Y.  In  1880  he  came  to  Denver,  where 
he  was  employed  by  his  brother,  John,  and  others, 
being  foreman  a  part  of  the  time.  In  1887  he  be- 
came a  partner  of  William  Duthie  under  the  firm 
name  of  Cooke  &  Duthie,  but  after  a  year  this 
connection  was  dissolved,  and  he  bought  a  half 
interest  in  the  contracting  business  of  his  brother, 
John,  having  charge  of  the  buildings  erected  by 
them.  At  one  time  he  had  ten  millions  of  brick 
to  lay,  having  the  contracts  for  the  Ernest  & 
Cranmer  and  Boston  buildings,  the  county  jail 
and  Mack  block,  and  after  these  were  completed 
he  had  paper  mill  jobs,  schoolhouses  and  resi- 
dences. The  partnership,  was  dissolved  in  1894, 
since  which  time  he  has  been  alone   in  business. 

In  Ireland  Mr.  Cooke  married  Miss  Maggie 
O'Leary,  who  was  born  in  County  Cork,  the 
daughter  of  Mortimer  and  Margaret  O'Leary. 
Her  father  was  engaged  in  the  shoe  business  in 
Ireland,  but  died  in  Boston  within  a  year  after 
coming  to  America.     The  mother  still  lives  in 


that  city.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Cooke  reside  at  No.  25 16 
Franklin  street.  They  are  the  parents  of  eight 
living  children,  namely:  James  A.,  who  assists 
his  father  in  business;  John,  Ella,  Paul,  Francis, 
Margaret,  Monica  and  Leo. 

While  in  Ireland  Mr.  Cooke  was  engaged  in 
the  construction  of  government  works,  .some  of 
which  were  very  difficult,  and  in  this  way  he 
gained  a  thorough  knowledge  of  his  trade.  Much 
of  his  work  in  Colorado  has  been  of  a  most  im- 
portant and  diflScult  character,  notable  among 
which  may  be  mentioned  the  construction  of  the 
Grant  smelter  smoke  stack.  In  1896  he  had  the 
contract  for  the  erection  of  business  blocks  in 
Pueblo,  the  following  year  erected  three  buildings 
on  the  university  grounds  at  Boulder,  and  also 
had  the  contract  for  the  Consumptives'  Home  in 
Highlands.  In  the  Brick  Contractors  and  Man- 
ufacturers' Association  he  is  a  member  of  the 
board  of  arbitration,  and  at  one  time  he  was  a 
director  in  the  Master  Builders'  Association.  In 
his  views  he  is  liberal  and  in  political  opinions 
independent.  He  is  a  Catholic  in  religion  and  is 
corresponding  secretary  of  Branch  No.  i,  of  the 
Catholic  Mutual  Benevolent  Association . 


'HOMAS  W.  PAGE,  who  is  interested  in 
the  nursery  business  at  Littleton,  was  born 
in  Louisiana,  Pike  County,  Mo.,  October  2, 
1 850,  and  is  the  sou  of  Thomas  W.  and  Eli.za 
(Stewart)  Page.  He  was  next  to  the  youngest 
of  six  children,  of  whom  four  are  now  living. 
James  M.,  the  oldest  of  the  sons,  is  connected 
with  the  nursery  owned  by  Stark  Brothers  in 
Louisiana,  Mo. ;  William  J.  is  a  farmer  in  Lincoln 
County,  Mo.;  and  John  W.  is  manager  of  an 
orchard  of  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  for  Messrs. 
Kountze  and  Sheedy,  of  the  Colorado  National 
Bank,  having  been  formerly  bridge  builder  for 
the  Denver  &  Rio  Grande  Railroad  for  several 
years. 

The  father  of  our  subject  was  born  in  Bedford 
County,  Va.,  August  10,  1808,  and  grew  toman- 
hood  in  his  native  place,  but  shortly  after  his 
marriage  he  removed  west  and  settled  in  Pike 
County,  Mo.,  purchasing  one  hundred  and 
seventy-five  acres  known  as  the  Buffalo  Knob 
farm.  Some  five  years  prior  to  his  death  he  re- 
moved from  there  to  Lincoln  County,  where  he 
afterwards  made   his   home   with   his    children. 


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For  years  he  was  an  elder  in  the  Baptist  Church, 
and  his  life  was  so  exemplary  as  to  prove  the 
depth  of  his  religious  convictions.  He  passed 
away  August  lo,  1872. 

When  our  subject  was  seventeen  years  old  his 
mother  died  and  the  home  was  broken  up,  the 
personal  property  being  sold,  and  his  father  going 
to  Lincoln  County.  He  and  a  younger  brother 
attended  school  in  Louisiana  for  two  years  and 
then  he  secured  employment  in  a  grocery,  which 
position  he  filled  for  four  years.  In  1874  he  en- 
tered the  employ  of  Stark  Brothers,  proprietors  of 
a  nursery,  and  learned  the  business  in  its  every 
detail,  so  that  his  services  came  to  be  very  valu- 
able. For  years  he  was  foreman  of  the  nursery 
in  Louisiana,  Mo.  In  1888,  when  the  firm  de- 
cided to  purchase  an  orchard  in  Colorado,  with  a 
view  to  one  of  the  partnerspossibly  locating  here, 
he  was  delegated  to  plant  the  trees  and  care  for 
the  orchard.  This  caused  him  to  remove  to 
Colorado,  and  he  has  since  represented  the  firm 
here,  having  charge  of  their  nursery  at  Littleton. 
In  political  belief  he  is  a  Democrat,  but  his 
business  afiairs  engross  his  attention  to  such  an 
extent  as  to  prevent  his  active  participation  in 
political  or  tnunicipal  affairs. 

April  28,  1872,  Mr.  Page  married  Miss  Mary 
E.  Haff,  wlio,se  father,  Blan  Haff,  a  Kentuckian, 
removed  to  Bowling  Green,  Mo. ,  and  for  years 
was  a  prominent  merchant  of  that  place,  re- 
moving finally  from  there  to  Louisiana,  in  the 
same  state.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Page  have  had  five 
children,  and  of  these  four  are  living,  namely: 
William  T.,  Edward  W.,  Earl  and  Frank. 


(S\  NDREW  H.  SMITH  reached  Denver  May 
T\  25,  i860,  having  made  the  journey  from 
/l  Wisconsin,  in  company  with  his  brother, 
M.  G.,  via  Dubuque  and  St.  Joseph,  crossing  the 
Platte  at  Fort  Kearney  and  reaching  Denver 
after  a  tedious  trip  of  eight  weeks.  He  has  since 
been  connected  with  the  mining  and  ranching 
interests  of  Colorado.  In  1884  he  established  his 
home  in  Denver,  where,  until  May,  1898,  he  re- 
sided in  Smith's  terrace,  a  modern  building 
erected  by  himself  on  Twenty-sixth  and  Curtis 
streets.  He  has  erected  houses  in  different  parts 
of  the  city,  among  them  a  commodious  double 
residence  at  Nos.  1 240-42  South  Fifteenth  street, 
where  he  now  resides.     The  summer  months  he 


usually  spends  at  his  summer  home,  six  miles 
west  of  Denver  on  the  road  to  Golden,  where  he 
owns  twenty  acres,  improved  with  a  comfortable 
cottage,  and  planted  principally  to  fruit  trees. 
One  of  the  attractions  of  the  place  is  an  artificial 
lake  that  is  stocked  with  fine  perch. 

In  County  Cavan,  Ireland,  Mr.  Smith  was  born, 
in  the  house  where  years  before  had  occurred  the 
birth  of  his  mother's  father.  He  was  the  young- 
est of  the  family,  which  consisted  of  three  daugh- 
ters and  eight  sons.  His  father,  Peter  Smith,  who 
was  a  stock  dealer,  brought  the  family  to  Amer- 
ica in  1847  and  settled  in  Franklin  County, 
N.  Y.,  continuing  in  business  at  Malone  until  his 
death  at  sixty-four  years  of  age.  Afterward  the 
widow  and  children  removed  to  Madison,  Dane 
County,  Wis. ,  and  from  there  the  mother  came 
to  Colorado,  where  she  died. 

At  the  time  the  family  came  to  America,  Mr.. 
Smith  was  four  years  of  age.  In  1855  ^^  accom- 
panied his  mother  to  Madison,  Wis.,  where  he 
attended  the  university,  earning  his  way  by  clerk- 
ing in  the  morning  and  evening.  In  1859  he 
went  to  Louisiana  and  for  a  time  worked  on  a 
plantation  near  Vicksburg,  but  later  engaged  in 
contracting.  Shortly  before  the  war  began  he 
came  north,  and  finding  that  his  brother  intended 
to  remove  to  the  west,  he  decided  to  accompany 
him.  The  two  drove  a  team  of  horses  from 
Madison  to  Denver,  and  arriving  in  Colorado  he 
was  one  of  the  first  to  locate  land  on  the  Platte, 
in  what  is  now  Weld  County.  He  started  a 
ranch  and  embarked  in  the  cattle  business,  also 
gave  considerable  attention  to  the  raising  of  horses, 
of  which  he  had  as  many  as  three  hundred  head 
at  one  time.  Among  his  horses  was  Viscount,  of 
Hambletonian,  a  half-brother  to  Goldsmith  Maid; 
he  also  raised  Colorado  Chief,  a  horse  that  be- 
came noted  for  his  speed.  Some  of  his  horses  he 
sold  for  $450  a  span.  He  was  known  through- 
out the  state  for  his  success  in  the  raising  of  horses, 
and  at  the  starting  of  the  Greeley  colony  he  sup- 
plied many  of  the  men  with  their  teams.  He 
used  his  own  horses  in  the  grading  of  the  railroad 
between  Car  and  Fort  Lupton,  a  distance  of  thirty- 
five  miles  on  the  Denver  Pacific. 

In  addition  to  his  ranch  on  the  Platte,  Mr. 
Smith  pre-empted  other  tracts,  among  them  one 
hundred  and  sixty  acres  now  included  in  Greeley; 
also  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  at  Evans,  where 
he  made  his  home  until  his  removal  to  Denver, 


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and  of  whose  town  council  he  was  frequently 
chosen  president.  At  the  time  of  the  mining  ex- 
citement in  Montana  he  drove  to  Virginia  City, 
where  he  engaged  in  freighting.  He  was  present 
at  the  hanging  of  the  notorious  Jim  Slade  by  the 
vigilance  committee.  In  1 864  he  went  to  the  head 
of  navigation  at  Fort  Benton  and  from  there 
hauled  baggage  and  provisions  to  Virginia  City, 
ferrj'ing  the  river  by  caulking  the  wagons  and 
swimming  the  stock.  After  an  absence  of  a  year 
and  a-half  he  returned  to  Colorado.  In  1884  he 
embarked  in  the  live-stock  business,  buying  stock 
in  Nebraska,  Kansas  and  Iowa,  and  shipped  the 
herds  to  Denver,  where  he  sold  to  packers  and 
butchers. 

In  Denver  Mr.  Smith  married  I<aura  E.  Lem- 
mon,  who  was  born  in  Illinois,  but  spent  her  girl- 
hood in  Colorado,  her  father,  I.  S.  Lemmon,  be- 
ing an  early  settler  and  stockman  of  Weld  County. 
In  the  Association  of  Colorado  Pioneers  Mr. 
Smith  has  been  a  director.  For  many  years  he 
has  been  a  member  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce 
and  Board  of  Trade.  A  Democrat  in  political 
belief,  he  was  at  one  time  a  member  of  the  state 
central  committee.  While  residing  in  Weld 
County  he  was  chairman  of  conventions  and 
county  committees  and  presided  at  the  meeting 
where  occurred  the  discussion  between  Belford 
and  Patterson,  both  candidates  for  congress.  He 
is  a  self-made  man,  the  architect  of  his  own  for- 
tune. By  industry,  not  by  speculation,  his  prop- 
erty has  been  accumulated.  He  is  a  pioneer  in 
the  fullest  sense  of  the  word. 


EARLOS  GOVE,  who  has  been  in  the  west 
ever  since  he  joined  the  regular  United 
States  arm)-  on  the  frontier  in  1837,  arrived 
in  Denver  June  11,  i860,  and  remained  for  two 
days  in  this  city  pending  a  decision  as  to  his 
future  plans.  Then,  with  his  ox-team  and  six 
wagons  of  groceries,  he  went  to  Lake  Gulch, 
where  he  cut  down  some  trees  and  with  the  logs 
built  a  room  for  his  supplies,  this  being  one  of 
the  first  stores  in  the  place.  Finding  that  he 
needed  more  flour,  he  sent  teams  to  Denver  to  re- 
plenish his  supply.  October  3,  i860,  he  sold  the 
goods  and  with  his  oxen  returned  to  his  former 
home  in  Iowa.  The  next  year  he  again  came  to 
Colorado,  but  finding  the  cattle  too  slow,  he  used 
mules,  driving  sixteen  span  with  five  wagons. 
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Again  he  went  to  Lake  Gulch,  to  the  log  store 
he  had  built  the  previous  year,  but  finding  the 
competition  too  strong  in  the  grocery  business  he 
concluded  to  engage  in  the  gun  business. 

In  the  fall  of  1862  he  started  a  gun  .shop  on  the 
corner  of  Sixteenth  and  Larimer  streets,  Denver, 
later  opened  a  branch  store  on  Blake  street,  hav- 
ing in  both  places  $40,000  in  goods.  Afterward 
he  moved,  his  last  location  being  on  Blake  and 
Sixteenth  streets.  In  1884  he  retired  from  busi- 
ness. For  years  he  was  recognized  as  the  best 
shot  in  Denver,  and  even  now  advancing  years 
have  not  impaired  the  accuracy  of  his  aim.  He 
has  won  scores  of  medals  for  skill  with  the  gun, 
among  them  the  Fay  and  Creedmore  medals,  and 
was  recognized  as  the  crack  champion  shot  of  the 
territory.  In  matches  he  has  won  as  much  as 
$1,000  at  one  time. 

Mr.  Gove  was  born  in  Wentworth,  N.  H., 
April  19,  1817,  the  son  of  Enoch  and  Elsie 
(Savage)  Gove,  natives  of  Wentworth  andOrford, 
N.  H.  His  grandfather,  Ebenezer  Gove,  who 
was  born  in  Seabrook,  N.  H. ,  and  who  was  a 
carpenter  by  trade,  served  in  the  Revolution, 
carrying  into  battle  a  gun  with  a  left-handed 
lock  made  for  his  special  use.  He  was  a  descend- 
ant of  one  of  two  brothers,  who  came  from  Eng- 
land and  settled  in  southern  New  Hampshire, 
but  not  being  obedient  to  British  rules,  they  were 
taken  back  to  their  native  land,  where  they  were 
tried  and  acquitted.  One  of  the  brothers  died 
there,  but  the  other  returned  to  New  Hampshire. 
Enoch  Gove,  who  was  a  carpenter,  lived  on  the 
homestead  farm  until  his  death,  at  sixty-seven 
years;  his  wife  died  when  young.  Their  only 
child,  our  subject,  was  reared  in  Wentworth  and 
at  the  age  of  sixteen,  in  1833,  .started  out  for  him- 
self, going  to  Cambridge,  Mass.,  where  he  secured 
employment  in  a  brickyard  at  a  salary  of  $9  per 
month.  The  next  year  his  wages  were  raised  to 
$16  and  the  third  year  to  $25.  Afterward  he 
served  an  apprenticeship  of  several  years  to  the 
gunsmith's  trade  in  Boston. 

When  the  First  United  States  Cavalry  was  the 
sole  regiment  of  which  our  country  could  boast, 
Mr.  Gove  enlisted  in  it  in  1837,  for  three  years. 
During  the  preparations  for  the  Seminole  war 
the  Second  United  States  Cavalry  was  organized. 
He  took  part  in  that  conflict  with  the  Indians, 
then  was  sent  to  Leavenworth,  where  he  remained 
until  June,  1840,  and  was  then  mustered  out  as 


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sergeant.  Soon  afterward  he  was  employed  as 
gunsmith  in  the  Indian  department  of  the  gov- 
ernment, and  .was  stationed  at  the  Pottawattamie 
agency,  on  the  present  site  of  Council  Bluffs,  for 
four  years.  From  there  he  went  to  St.  Joseph, 
Mo.,  which  had  less  than  a  hundred  inhabitants, 
and  remained  there,  engaged  in  the  gun  business, 
until  1854,  meantime  making  hundreds  of  guns 
for  the  Indian  department.  Returning  to  Coun- 
cil Bluffs  in  1854,  he  found  the  country  was  rapidly 
settling  up,  and  he  continued  there  for  six  years. 
Meantime  he  became  the  owner  of  a  farm  of  five 
hundred  acres  near  Glenwood,  in  Mills  County, 
Iowa,  and  he  made  his  headquarters  there  until 
he  came  to  Colorado. 

In  i860  he  outfitted  at  St.  Joseph  for  his  west- 
ern trip.  He  had  bought  a  stock  of  groceries  in 
St.  Louis  and  shipped  them  to  Plattsmouth,Neb., 
and  from  that  place  he  hauled  the  supplies,  weigh- 
ing about  forty  thousand  pounds,  in  six  wagons 
drawn  bj'  eighteen  yoke  of  oxen,  via  Fort  Kear- 
ney, and  reaching  Denver  after  thirty-seven  days 
of  travel.  As  before  stated,  he  located  at  Lake 
Gulch,  where  he  engaged  in  the  grocery  business. 
On  coming  to  Denver  he  opened  a  gunnery, 
where  he  manufactured  guns  for  the  local  trade 
and  for  shipment  to  outlying  points,  having  in 
his  employ  seven  men  during  busy  times.  He 
built  on  Blake  street  and  also  erected  residences 
on  Stout,  between  Fourteenth  and  Thirteenth 
streets.  During  the  Civil  war  he  was  out  from 
Denver  in  the  various  Indian  campaigns.  He  is 
the  only  man  now  living  who  was  a  member  of 
the  United  States  Cavalry  in  1837-40.  In  early 
days  he  was  president  of  the  fire  and  police  board 
of  Denver  and  bought  the  first  steamer  for  the 
department.  While  chairman  of  the  sewer  board 
he  superintended  the  laying  of  sewers  in  the  city. 
For  six  years  he  was  a  member  of  the  city  coun- 
cil of  Denver,  and  during  four  years  of  that  time 
served  as  its  president.  Fraternally  he  is  con- 
nected with  Denver  Lodge  No.  5,  A.  F.  &  A.  M., 
and  Denver  Chapter  No.  2,  R.  A.  M. 

The  first  wife  of  Mr.  Gove  was  a  Miss  Wood- 
worth,  of  Illinois,  who  was  the  mother  of  Charles 
Gove.  After  her  death  he  married  Miss  Wood, 
who  was  born  in  Illinois  and  died  in  Iowa,  leav- 
ing seven  children:  James  and  Oliver,  who  are 
mining  in  the  mountains;  William,  of  Aspen, 
Colo.;  Burt,  of  San  Antonio,  Tex.;  Belle,  wife  of 
Mr.  Pitsipous,  secretary  to  the  British  consul  to 


Shanghai,  China;  Phoebe,  Mrs.  Frank  Church, 
of  Denver;  and  John,  who  died  at  sixteen  years. 
The  present  wife  of  Mr.  Gove  was  Mrs.  Theresa 
(Weeks)  Stanley,  who  was  born  in  Madison, 
Wis.,  the  oldest  of  five  children,  all  yet  living, 
and  was  brought  to  Denver  at  the  age  of  twelve 
years.  In  Blackhawk  she  married  Henry  Stan- 
ley, a  merchant  there,  but  later  a  miner  at  Marys- 
ville,  Cal.,  where  he  was  accidentally  killed.  His 
only  child.  May,  died  at  five  and  one-half  years. 
By  her  present  husband  Mrs.  Gove  has  one  child, 
Aileen  Claire  Gove.  The  Weeks  family  was 
founded  in  America  by  Ricord  Weeks,  who  was 
born  in  Norway,  became  the  owner  of  an  ocean 
vessel  and  died  of  cholera  in  St.  Louis.  Afterward 
his  wife,  Mary  C,  was  married  to  John  Graves, 
who  was  a  lead  miner  in  Wiscon.sin,  but  came  to 
Colorado  in  1864  and  engaged  in  mining  until 
his  death,  at  forty-five  years.  Mrs.  Graves  was 
born  in  Copenhagen,  Denmark,  and  died  in  Den- 
ver in  1895,  aged  seventj-- seven  years. 


.  UGENE  FARNY,  who  owns  a  stock  and 
^  dairy  farm  in  Arapahoe  County,  was  born 
^  in  St.  Amarin,  Alsace,  Germany,  February 
4,  1855,  ^  son  of  John  Baptist  and  Mary  Ann 
(Clauser)  Famy,  natives  of  the  same  province. 
His  father,  w^o  has  devoted  his  entire  active  life 
to  the  shoemaker's  trade,  is  still  living  in  his 
native  land;  his  wife  died  in  1897,  aged  sixty-five 
years.  They  were  the  parents  of  three  sons  and 
three  daughters,  viz. :  Eugene, our  subject;  Adolph, 
who  has  been  employed  in  the  Colorado  iron 
works;  Joseph,  who  remained  in  his  native  coun- 
try; Mary,  in  Alsace;  Rosalie,  in  Paris,  France; 
and  Josephine,  wife  of  Herman  Zyser,  who  is  a 
baker  on  Champa  street,  Denver. 

When  only  thirteen  years  of  age  the  subject  of 
this  sketch  commenced  to  teach  school  in  his 
native  country.  During  the  Franco-Prussian  war 
he  taught  for  five  years  and  had  sixty  pupils  under 
his  charge;  and  subsequently,  when  he  was  eight- 
een years  of  age,  in  1873,  he  sailed  on  a  steamship 
of  the  Red  Star  line,  and  on  his  arrival  in  this 
country  settled  in  Mercer  County,  Pa.,  where  he 
remained  for  two  years.  Returning  to  the  old 
country,  he  went  to  Paris  and  from  there  to 
Switzerland,  where  for  three  years  he  was  em- 
ployed as  bookkeeper.  On  his  return  to  the 
United  States  he  came  west  to  Colorado  and  en- 


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gaged  in  mining  for  some  time,  after  which  he 
was  employed  for  two  years  as  a  teamster. 
Since  that  time  he  has  resided  on  his  present 
place. 

In  1883,  in  Denver,  Mr.  Farny  married  Sophia 
Gill,  a  native  of  Germany,  whence  she  came  to 
the  United  States  and  first  settled  in  St.  Louis. 
They  are  the  parents  of  two  sons  and  four  daugh- 
ters: Rosalie;  Josephine,  George,  Anthony,  Ber- 
tha and  Sophia.  In  politics  Mr.  Farny  has  been 
a  Democrat.  He  has  served  as  a  member  of  the 
school  board  and  has  aided  in  promoting  the  wel- 
fare of  the  local  schools.  When  he  settled  on  his 
ranch  it  had  no  improvement  except  a  small 
stable  and  house,  but  under  his  supervision 
buildings  have  been  erected,  improvements  made 
and  a  large  dairy  business  established.  The  place 
contains  four  hundred  acres  and  is  one  of  the  best 
improved  in  the  county. 


rSETER  M AGNES,  a  pioneer  of '59  and  one 
U'  of  the  best-known  men  in  Arapahoe  County, 
fD  was  born  in  Eksjo,  Sweden,  March  12,  1824. 
He  came  to  America  in  1852  and  settled  in  La- 
Salle  County,  111.,  where  he  was  employed  as  a 
farrier  and  veterinary  surgeon  for  some  years. 
Crossing  the  plains  at  the  time  of  the  excitement 
caused  by  the  discovery  of  gold  in  Pike's  Peak, 
he  arrived  in  Petersburg  June  i8,  1859.  The 
town  was  then  a  mere  stretch  of  prairie  land, 
without  houses  or  buildings  of  any  kind.  He 
platted  the  land  and  laid  out  the  village,  where, 
in  1874,  he  erected  the  Harvest  Queen  grist  mill. 
The  enterpri.se  proved  a  financial  failure  and  he 
soon  abandoned  it. 

In  1866  Mr.  Magnes  purchased  his  present 
ranch  of  three  hundred  and  fifty-nine  acres,  situ- 
ated two  miles  southwest  of  Littleton,  and  in  1877 
he  removed  to  this  place,  where  he  has  since  re- 
sided, though  still  retaining  his  landed  interests 
in  Petersburg.  He  has  been  a  prominent  agri- 
culturist and  has  received  four  silver  and  one  gold 
medal(the  latter  in  1871  at  the  State  Fair  of  Colo- 
rado), also  many  other  premiums  and  valuable 
rewards.  In  1881  he  married  Miss  Mary  Young- 
berg,  a  native  of  Sweden  and  an  estimable  lady, 
who  has  been  his  faithful  helpmate  and  com- 
panion. 

In  public  affairs  Mr.  Magnes  has  been  promi- 
nent.    In  1866  he  was  the  nominee  of  both  the 


Republican  and  Democratic  parties  for  the  office 
of  county  commissioner  and  received  all  the  votes 
in  the  entire  county,  serving  from  that  year  until 
1869.  In  1868  he  purchased  forty  acres  of  land 
on  Broadway  for  the  county,  to  be  used  for  a  poor 
farm  and  hospital,  paying  for  the  same  $300  out 
of  his  private  funds,  but  later  this  amount  was 
repaid  by  the  county.  Some  years  afterward  the 
same  property  sold  for  $26,000.  In  1889  he  was 
nominated  for  county  commissioner  on  a  number 
of  tickets  and  was  elected,  serving  until  1892. 
Without  doubt  he  gave  as  efficient  service  as 
commissioner  as  the  county  has  ever  had.  In 
1890  he  served  four  injunctions  on  other  commis- 
sioners for  money  voted  for  donations.  During 
the  same  year  he  was  made  chairman  of  the 
finance  committee  and  in  1891  served  as  chair- 
man of  the  board  of  commissioners.  During  1891, 
after  $6, 500  had  been  granted  for  eastern  sufferers, 
$500  in  addition  was  allowed  by  other  commis- 
sioners, when  he  served  an  injunction  on  them, 
thus  stopping  the  matter  here  and  in  two  other 
districts.  In  the  same  year  $385,000  was  voted 
for  a  courthouse,  connected  with  the  jail,  but, 
though  his  was  the  only  dissenting  vote,  the 
fact  that  he  was  chairman  of  the  board  caused  the 
court  to  sustain  his  objection.  In  all  his  work 
he  has  been  unselfish  in  his  devotion  to  the  in- 
terests of  the  county  and  has  striven  to  conserve 
the  public  funds  economically  and  wisely.  For 
this  reason  he  deserves  a  place  among  the  pro- 
gressive, judicious  citizens  of  Arapahoe  County. 
He  is  a  Swedenborgian  in  religious  belief,  as  is 
also  his  wife.  Both  are  well  known  to  the  older 
residents  of  the  county  and  highly  honored  for 
their  many  good  qualities  of  head  and  heart. 


(TJAMUEL  F.  SHANNON,  M.  D.,  a  success- 
7\  ful  practitioner  of  the  school  of  homeopathy, 
\zJ  with  office  at  No.  711  Seventeenth  street, 
Denver,  was  born  in  Pittsburg,  Pa.,  July  15,  1857, 
and  is  a  son  of  William  T.  and  Margaret  F. 
(Frew)  Shannon.  His  grandfather,  Robert  Shan- 
non, was  born  in  County  Down,  Ireland,  where 
he  spent  his  entire  life.  In  the  same  place,  in 
1827,  occurred  the  birth  of  William  T.  Shannon, 
who  crossed  the  ocean  in  1843  ^"d  secured  em- 
ployment as  clerk  in  a  dry-goods  store  in  New- 
castle, Pa.,  remaining  there  for  four  years.  For 
a  short  time  he  clerked  for  Thomas  White  &, 


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PORTRAIT  AND  BIOGRAPHICAL  RECORD. 


Brothers,  in  Pittsburg,  after  which  he  was  with 
Charles  Arbuthnot  for  five  years  as  an  employe 
and  was  then  taken  into  partnership,  remaining 
a  member  of  the  firm  for  thirty  years.  His  suc- 
cess was  the  result  of  his  energy  and  untiring 
perseverance.  At  the  time  he  landed  in  America 
he  had  only  $15,  and  his  first  year's  salary  was 
only  $50  and  board  and  room,  yet  from  that  small 
beginning  he  worked  his  way  forward  to  a  posi- 
tion of  influence  as  a  business  man  and  a  financier. 
At  the  time  of  his  retirement  he  was  well-to-do. 
He  is  now  a  silent  partner  in  a  wholesale  dry- 
goods  house  in  Pittsburg,  the  head  of  which  is 
his  son,  Robert  F. 

Politically  Mr.  Shannon  was  an  adherent  of 
the  Republican  party,  and  in  religious  belief  he 
was  connected  with  the  United  Presbyterian 
Church.  In  Pittsburg,  July  12,  1853,  he  married 
Miss  Frew,  by  whom  he  had  six  children,  but 
three  of  these  died  in  infancy.  The  oldest  child 
is  Robert  F.,  of  Pittsburg,  who  is  married  and 
has  five  children.  The  only  daughter  is  Eliza- 
beth E.,  who,  since  the  death  of  her  mother  in 
1891,  has  affectionately  cared  for  her  father  and 
presided  over  his  home. 

After  having  completed  the  studies  of  the  gram- 
mar school,  our  subject  in  1869  entered  the  high 
school  of  Pittsburg,  from  which  he  graduated 
with  the  class  of  '73,  being  one  of  ten  who  re- 
ceived honors.  In  addition  to  the  scientific  and 
philosophical  studies,  he  took  the  languages  and 
became  well  versed  in  Latin  and  German.  He 
had  a  taste  for  the  jewelry  business  and  the 
medical  profession,  but  having  an  uncle  who  was 
a  physician  he  was  influenced  to  enter  that  pro- 
fession. He  read  for  one  year  with  Dr.  J.  C. 
Burher  and  then  entered  the  Hahnemann  Medi- 
cal College,  Philadelphia,  from  which  he  gradu- 
ated in  1879.  He  spent  six  months  in  Sewickley, 
Pa.,  and  then  went  to  London,  where  he  took 
two  full  courses  in  the  London  School  of  Homeo- 
pathy, carrying  on  hospital  work  at  the  same 
time.  After  ten  months  in  that  city  he  returned 
to  the  United  States,  in  October,  1880,  and  opened 
an  office  in  Allegheny  City,  Pa.  May  5,  1 881,  he 
married  Miss  Sue  J.  Murdock,  daughter  of  H.  J. 
and  Rachel  V.  (Hutton)  Murdoch,  and  an  estim- 
able young  lady,  with  whom  he  had  been  ac- 
quainted ever  since  she  was  a  child  of  seven 
years. 

After  two  years  in  Allegheny  City,  Dr.  Shannon 


returned  to  Sewickley  April  i,  1883,  and  there 
continued  to  make  his  home,  engaging  in  prac- 
tice until  March,  1889.  He  then  came  to  Den- 
ver and  in  this  city  has  since  carried  on  a  general 
practice,  following  the  homeopathic  school  of 
medicine.  August  10,  1892,  his  wife  died  at 
their  old  home  in  Sewickley,  where  he  had  taken 
her  a  short  time  before,  in  the  hope  that,  among 
her  old  friends,  she  might  regain  her  health.  She 
left  two  children,  Hugh  M.,  who  was  born  in 
Sewickley  and  is  now  thirteen  years  of  age;  and 
Margaret  F.,  who  was  born  in  Denver  April  16, 
1892.  June  26,  1894,  Dr.  Shannon  married  Miss 
S.  Bertha  Jacques,  of  Denver,  who  was  born  in 
Newburg,  N.  Y.,  and  is  a  daughter  of  Mrs. 
Sarah  E.  Warner,  of  Denver.  They  have  one 
child,  Kathleen,  born  March  4,  1897. 

In  politics  Dr.  Shannon  is  independent.  He  is 
identified  with  Central  Presbyterian  Church  and 
an  attendant  at  its  services.  He  maintains  an 
interest  in  his  profession  and  is  devoted  in  his 
allegiance  to  the  particular  school  which  he  fol- 
lows. In  the  sessions  of  1892  and  1893  he  held 
the  position  of  professor  of  materia  medica  in 
Denver  Homeopathic  Medical  College  and  Hos- 
pital Association.  In  addition  to  frequent  contri- 
butions to  medical  journals,  he  has  published  a 
book  of  five  hundred  and  forty-four  pages  entitled 
"A  Repertory  of  the  Tissue  Remedies."  He  is 
medical  supervisor  of  Denver  Orphans'  Home. 
He  is  connected  with  the  American  Institute  of 
Homeopathy  and  the  International  Hahnemann 
Association,  being  one  of  the  two  physicians  in 
Colorado  who  are  identified  with  the  latter  organi- 
zation. 


(lOHN  L.  BINNER,  who  resides  near  Little- 
I  ton,  was  born  in  Liverpool,  England,  Janu- 
(2/  ary  11,  1869,  the  descendant  of  English 
ancestors.  His  father,  Edward  Binner,  was 
foreman  in  Laird  Brothers'  shipbuilding  yards  at 
Birkenhead,  England,  and  assisted  in  the  con- 
struction of  the  ship  "Alabama,"  but  died  when 
he  was  still  a  young  man.  The  son,  being  left 
fatherless  so  early  in  life,  was  to  a  large  extent 
alone  in  the  world  and  for  this  reason  desired  to 
come  to  America.  When  he  was  eleven  he 
crossed  the  ocean.  After  his  arrival  in  Colorado 
he  found  a  home  with  an  uncle,  John  G.  Lilley, 
with  whom  he  remained  for  two  years.  When 
he  began  supporting  himself  he  worked  at  any  em- 


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ployment  that  was  offered.  After  six  years  in 
general  work  he  turned  his  attention  to  mining, 
and  for  five  years  engaged  as  a  miner  in  Aspen, 
Colo.  He  then  went  to  Cripple  Creek  and  estab- 
lished what  is  now  Beaver  Park  dairy.  This  he 
stocked  with  seventy-five  thoroughbred  Hol- 
steins.  Success  attended  the  enterprise,  and  he 
still  owns  the  dairy. 

From  Cripple  Creek  in  1898  Mr.  Binner  moved 
to  his  present  home  in  Arapahoe  County,  where 
he  settled  upon  a  part  of  the  Caley  ranch.  He 
has  gained  many  friends  among  the  people  in  and 
around  Littleton,  who  respect  him  for  the  energy 
he  has  shown  in  working  his  way  up  to  success. 
Fraternally  he  is  a  Chapter  Mason,  connected 
with  the  lodge  at  Cripple  Creek.  He  has  never 
identified  himself  with  any  political  party,  being 
independent  in  his  opinions.  He  was  united  in 
marriage  February  17,  1892,  with  Miss  Minnie 
M.  Caley,  an  estimable  lady,  who  shares  with 
him  in  the  esteem  of  their  neighbors  and  friends. 


K^ATHANIELW.  SAMPLE.  Since  1871  Mr. 
V^j  Sample  has  been  with  the  Denver  &  Rio 
lis  Grande  Railroad  in  Denver,  and  his  steady 
advancement  to  positions  of  increasing  impor- 
tance proves  the  efficient  and  acceptable  character 
of  his  services.  At  the  time  he  came  west  he  ex- 
pected to  remain  here  but  a  short  time,  instead  of 
which  he  has  remained  a  permanent  resident, 
identified  with  the  growth  and  interested  in  the 
progress  of  the  city  and  state.  He  was  made 
general  superintendent  of  the  road  January  i, 
1892,  and  has  since  held  that  responsible  posi- 
tion. 

The  Sample  family  is  of  remote  Irish  descent, 
tracing  its  ancestry  to  John  Sample,  who  with  his 
brother  set  sail  from  Ireland  in  1680  and  settled 
in  Peachbottom,  York  County,  Pa.,  of  which 
he  was  a  pioneer.  From  bim  was  descended 
Rev.  Nathaniel  W.  Sample,  a  native  of  York 
County  and  a  graduate  of  Princeton  in  1752, 
later  pastor  of  the  Leacock  Presbyterian  Church 
in  Lancaster  County  for  forty  years.  Next  in 
line  of  descent  was  Nathaniel  W.  Sample,  M.  D., 
who  was  born  in  York  County,  graduated  from 
the  medical  department  of  the  University  of 
Pennsylvania,  and  afterward  practiced  his  pro- 
fession in  Lancaster  County  until  his  death,  at 
eighty-six  years.     His  son   and  namesake  also 


became  a  physician,  graduating  from  Jefferson 
Medical  College  and  practicing  in  Lancaster 
County  until  he  died  at  thirty-two  years  of  age. 
In  religious  belief  he  was  a  Presbyterian. 

The  mother  of  our  subject,  Sarah  Hamilton 
(Steele)  Sample,  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  of 
Scotch  lineage,  and  died  in  Pennsylvania  in  1893, 
when  seventy-four  years  old.  She  was  a  de- 
scendant of  Capt.  William  Steele,  who  was  born 
in  Pennsylvania  and  accompanied  the  provincial 
troops  under  Arnold  to  Quebec,  having  command 
of  a  company  that  he  had  raised  in  the  southern 
part  of  Lancaster  County.  His  son.  Gen.  John 
Francis  Steele,  was  a  captain  in  the  Revolution, 
witnessed  the  surrender  of  Cornwallis  at  York- 
town  and  was  later  appointed  major-general  of 
Pennsylvania  state  troops.  Entering  poHtics,  he 
received  appointment  as  collector  for  the  port  of 
Philadelphia,  which  he  held  for  sixteen  years. 
He  was  also  a  director  in  the  old  United  States 
Bank  of  Philadelphia.  He  attained  advanced 
years  and  died  in  Philadelphia.  His  commis- 
sion, signed  by  John  Q.  Adams,  secretary  of 
state  to  George  Washington,  is  now  in  the  pos- 
session of  our  subject.  It  is  worthy  of  note  that 
both  he  and  his  father,  the  captain ,  studied  for 
the  ministry,  but  abandoned  it  to  take  up  arms, 
the  latter  serving  for  some  time  in  the  regular 
army,  and  after  his  resignation  engaging  in  the 
cultivation  of  a  farm  in  Lancaster  County  until 
his  death  at  sixty-five  years. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  near  Gor- 
donville,  Lancaster  County,  Pa.,  August  14,  1843, 
the  same  day  and  month  on  which  were  born  his 
father,  grandfather  and  great-grandfather,  all  of 
whom  bore  the  same  name.  He  was  the  second 
of  four  children,  the  others  being  Jane,  Mrs.  C. 
E.  Long,  who  died  in  Lancaster  in  1897;  Mar- 
garet, Mrs.  S.  C.  Stewart,  of  Tyrone,  Pa.;  and 
John,  also  a  resident  of  Tyrone.  When  he  was 
eight  years  of  age  Nathaniel  lost  his  father.  He 
was  given  fair  educational  advantages  in  the  pub- 
lic schools  and  Beck's  Academy.  In  1858  he 
went  to  Philadelphia,  where  he  was  apprenticed 
to  the  machinist's  trade  in  the  Baldwin  Loco- 
motive works,  remaining  there  until  some  months 
after  the  Civil  war  opened. 

In  August,  1862,  he  enlisted  in  Company  K, 
Fifteenth  Pennsylvania  Cavalry,  and  was  mus- 
tered in  at  Philadelphia,  being  assigned  to  the 
Army  of  the  Cumberland.     During  the  Atlanta 


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campaign  he  was  a  non-commissioned  ofiScer, 
and  afterward  was  commissioned  first  lieutenant 
of  his  company  by  Governor  Curtin.  In  Janu- 
ary, 1865,  he  was  appointed  aide-de-camp  on 
the  staff  of  Gen.  W.  J.  Palmer,  commanding 
the  First  Brigade,  First  Cavalry,  Military  Divi- 
sion of  Mississippi.  In  July,  1865,  he  was  mus- 
tered out  and  honorably  discharged  at  Nashville. 
He  then  resumed  his  work  as  machinist  in  the 
Baldwin  shops,  Philadelphia,  where  he  remained 
until  187 1.  In  that  year  he  came  to  Denver  with 
three  locomotives  from  the  shops,  which  he  was  to 
set  up  and  start  in  the  shops  of  the  Denver  &  Rio 
Grande,  intending  to  return  to  Philadelphia  as 
soon  as  his  work  was  ended.  However,  his  plans 
were  changed  and  he  remained  with  the  Denver 
&  Rio  Grande,  becoming  first  foreman  in  the  com- 
pany's shops.  In  1877  he  was  appointed  master 
mechanic  and  superintendent  of  machinery  for 
the  company,  which  position  he  held  until  the 
last  of  1 89 1,  and  then  resigned  to  become  general 
superintendent  of  the  road.  At  the  time  that  he 
was  superintendent  of  machinery  the  Denver  & 
Rio  Grande  and  Rio  Grande  Western  were  under 
one  management,  the  line  extending  to  Ogden. 
He  built  the  shop  in  Denver  and  that  in  Salt 
Lake  City. 

Mr.  Sample  is  a  member  of  the  Master  Me- 
chanics' Association  of  the  United  States  and 
Canada,  and  is  also  connected  with  the  Society 
of  Colonial  Wars  and  the  Colorado  Commandery 
of  the  lyoyal  l,egion.  Politically  he  is  a  Repub- 
lican and  in  religious  belief  a  Presbyterian.  His 
first  marriage  united  him  with  Miss  Louisa  Hoff, 
of  Philadelphia,  who  died  six  months  later.  In 
August,  1890,  in  Denver,  he  was  united  in  mar- 
riage with  Miss  Nellie  Town,  whose  parents  were 
early  settlers  of  Denver,  coming  from  New  York 
state.  They  have  three  children,  Nathaniel  W., 
Jr.,  William  and  Caroline  Shopleigh. 


(S\  LLISON  STOCKER,  member  of  the  firm  of 
r  I  Stocker  &  Fraser  and  representative  of  the 
/  I  fifteenth  ward  in  the  Denver  city  council,  is 
one  of  the  well-known  residents  of  Highlands. 
In  1892  he  was  an  alderman  in  that  suburb  and 
the  following  year  was  the  candidate  on  the  Popu- 
list ticket  for  mayor.  In  the  spring  of  1897  he 
was  elected  alderman  from  the  fifteenth  ward, 
which  includes  all  of  Highlands  and  Barnum. 


Since  becoming  a  member  of  the  council  he  has 
supported  measures  for  the  benefit  of  his  constit- 
uency. Among  the  important  positions  he  has 
filled  while  in  the  council  is  that  of  chairman  of 
the  finance  committee,  water  committee  and 
electric  light  and  gas  committees. 

The  first  member  of  the  Stocker  family  in 
America  was  our  subject's  grandfather,  who  came 
from  Ireland  and  settled  in  Catawissa,  Columbia 
County,  Pa. ,  where  he  engaged  in  farming  until 
his  death.  It  is  not  known  whether  his  son, 
Matthews.,  was  born  in  Ireland  or  Pennsylvania, 
but  if  the  former,  he  was  brought  to  America  in 
infancy.  He  learned  the  carpenter's  trade  and 
was  a  large  contractor  in  St.  Clair,  Schuylkill 
County,  Pa.  In  1879  he  came  to  Colorado  and 
settled  in  Leadville,  but  his  last  days  were  spent 
in  Denver,  where  he  died  in  November,  1884,  at 
the  age  of  sixty  years.  His  wife,  who  was  born 
in  Mauch  Chunk,  Pa. ,  and  resides  in  Denver, 
bore  the  maiden  name  of  Elizabeth  Allison.  Her 
father,  Joseph  Allison,  was  born  in  England,  but 
came  to  America  and  settled  in  Mauch  Chunk, 
Pa.,  thence  removed  to  St.  Clair  and  became 
superintendent  of  a  colliery.  He  died  about  1891, 
when  eighty -seven  years  of  age. 

In  the  family  of  Matthew  S.  Stocker  there  were 
nine  -children,  but  only  four  are  now  living.  One 
son,  Alexander  S.,  is  with  the  Rio  Grande  & 
Western  Railroad  in  Salt  Lake  City;  another  son, 
William,  resides  in  Denver,  which  is  also  the 
home  of  the  only  surviving  daughter,  Mrs.  J.  H. 
G.  Fraser.  Allison  Stocker  was  born  in  St.  Clair, 
Pa.,  in  1862,  and  received  his  education  in  that 
place.  Having  learned  the  carpenter's  trade,  he 
came  to  Colorado,  in  March,  1880,  settling  in 
Leadville,  where  he  worked  at  his  trade  and  also 
prospected.  Two  years  later  he  came  to  Denver, 
where,  in  1888,  he  began  contracting  and  build- 
ing, and  is  now  in  partnership  with  John  H.  G. 
Fraser,  the  firm  having  put  up  a  large  number  of 
buildings  here. 

Mr.  Stocker  is  past  master  of  Highlands  Lodge 
No.  86,  A.  F.  &.  A.  M.  He  is  a  silver  Demo- 
crat and  a  member  of  the  Jacksonian  Democratic 
Club.  In  religious  connections  he  is  identified 
with  the  Boulevard  Congregational  Church  in 
Highlands,  in  which  he  is  a  chairman  of  the 
board  of  trustees  and  has  been  president  of  the 
Sunday  Evening  Club.  His  home  at  No.  2636 
West  Twentyrseventh  avenue  is  presided  over  by 


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his  estimable  wife,  whom  he  married  in  Denver. 
She  was  formerly  Blanche  Roerig  and  was  born 
in  St.  Clair,  Pa.,  being  a  daughter  of  Henry 
Roerig.  The  three  children  born  of  their  union 
are  named,  Jessie  May,  Harry  Short  and  Ruth 
Stocker. 

HARRY  NUTTING,  cashier  of  the  Bank  of 
Littleton  and  manager  of  the  R.  W.  English 
Lumber  Company  of  Littleton,  has  taken 
an  active  part  in  municipal  affairs,  contributing 
to  the  commercial  growth  of  the  place  and  assist- 
ing in  the  development  of  its  resources.  In  1892 
he  was  chosen  to  occupy  the  office  of  town  treas- 
urer and  has  since  served  in  this  capacity.  He 
was  largely  instrumental  in  establishing  the  Little- 
ton board  of  trade,  which  was  organized  April  7, 
1892,  and  he  held  the  office  of  secretary  of  the 
board  from  that  time  until  the  dissolution  of  the 
board  in  1894. 

Mr.  Nutting  was  one  of  eight  children,  five  of 
whom  are  living:  Burtis,  who  is  married  and  has 
one  child;  Drusilla  and  Rupert;  Gladys,  wife  of 
Charles  H.  Davis  and  mother  of  four  children; 
and  Harry  E. ,  who  was  born  in  Linn  County, 
Iowa,  June  28,  1867.  His  father,  Eugene  Nutt- 
ing, was  born  in  Cattaraugus  County,  N.  Y., 
June  2,  1837,  and  at  the  age  of  twenty-four 
removed  to  Marion,  Iowa,  where  he  married 
Sarah  Burtis.  Soon  afterward  he  settled  upon  a 
farm,  where  he  remained  for  a  number  of  years. 
In  1872  he  migrated  to  Kansas  and  for  eighteen 
months  made  his  home  in  Osborn  City.  From 
there  he  came  to  Colorado  and  settled  at  Deer 
Trail,  Arapahoe  County,  fifty  miles  from  Denver. 
In  1880  he  again  removed,  this  time  settling  in 
Silvercliff,  where  he  spent  some  four  years.  Later 
he  located  in  Canon  City,  of  which  place  he  was 
afterward  a  prosperous  timber  contractor.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Ancient  Order  of  United 
Workmen  and  a  guide  of  his  lodge.  In  politics 
he  affiliated  with  the  Republican  party.  He  died 
in  Canon  City  March  6,  1898. 

In  the  various  removals  of  the  family  the  sub- 
ject of  this  sketch  accompanied  his  parents.  He 
attended  the  public  and  high  schools  of  Canon 
City,  but  at  the  age  of  fourteen  discontinued  his 
studies  and  began  to  earn  his  livelihood.  For 
some  months  his  time  was  given  to  ranching,  but 
later  he  turned  his  attention  to  the  lumber  busi- 
ness, in  which  he  has  since  successfully  engaged. 


In  1 888  he  accepted  a  position  as  bookkeeper  for 
R.  W.  English  at  Salida,  where  he  remained  for 
one  and  one-half  years,  and  then  came  to  Little- 
ton as  manager  for  the  R.  W.  English  Lumber 
Company,  of  this  place.  In  1892  the  banking 
business  was  opened  up  in  connection  with  the 
lumber  trade,  and  on  the  first  of  March,  1896, 
Mr.  Nutting  was  made  cashier  of  the  bank,  which 
position  he  has  since  held,  at  the  same  time  re- 
taining the  management  of  the  lumber  business. 
Fraternally  he  is  connected  with  the  Ancient 
Order  of  United  Workmen  and  the  Chapter 
Masons,  while  in  politics  he  votes  the  Republican 
ticket,  supporting  the  men  and  measures  advo- 
cated by  his  party. 


~DWARD  BELL  FIELD.  Much  has  been 
^  written  in  praise  of  the  glories  of  Colorado 
^  climate.  Its  beauties  and  its  health-giving 
qualities  have  made  the  state  well  known  through- 
out the  entire  world,  and  have  attracted  hither 
people  from  every  land,  in  the  hope  that  the  pure 
air  and  fine  climate  ofthe  mountain  regions  might 
restore  them  to  health.  In  the  list  of  well-known 
men  of  Denver  who  came  west  for  their  health 
mention  belongs  to  Mr.  Field,  who  crossed  the 
country  from  Massachusetts,  the  victim  of  con- 
sumption in  its  first  stage.  Naturally,  since  his 
complete  restoration  to  health,  he  is  enthusiastic 
regarding  the  climate  of  the  west.  Nor  is  he  less 
a  believer  in  the  future  of  Colorado  as  a  commer- 
cial center.  With  mining  and  stock-raising  as 
its  principal  and  most  profitable  industries,  with 
a  grand  climate  too,  he  feels  that  Colorado  must 
shortly  become  among  the  greatest  states  in  the 
galaxy  of  our  country. 

The  Field  family  has  been  identified  with  the 
history  of  America  since  an  early  period  in  the 
existence  of  Massachusetts.  From  the  original 
home,  Quincy,  Mass.,  the  descendants  scattered 
throughout  New  England,  and  one  branch  went 
to  Virginia.  The  father  of  the  subject  of  this 
article,  James  B.  Field,  was  born  in  West  New- 
bury, Mass.,  and  for  years  was  manager  of  a 
theater  in  Chelsea,  but  is  now  living  retired,  at 
seventy-two  years  of  age.  His  wife,  who  bore 
the  maiden  name  of  Eliza  Ann  Bell,  died  about 
i860,  when  thirty-three  years  of  age.  She,  too, 
was  a  member  of  a  pioneer  family  of  Massachu- 
setts. 


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Ill  Chelsea,  Mass. ,  where  he  was  born  Septem- 
ber 4,  1850,  the  subject  of  this  article  passed  the 
years  of  boyhood,  alternating  attendance  at  school 
with  the  usual  sports  and  employments  of  youth. 
He  was  fifteen  when  he  began  to  earn  his  own 
livelihood.  At  the  age  of  fifteen  he  entered  a 
wholesale  woolen  house  in  Boston,  where,  from 
an  unimportant  position  with  small  salary,  he 
worked  his  way,  through  diligence  and  perse- 
verance, to  a  position  of  responsibility  and  trust. 
Doubtless  he  would  have  been  a  resident  of  Bos- 
ton to-day,  had  it  not  been  for  his  health,  which 
failed  so  seriously  that  a  change  of  climate  was 
rendered  necessary.  On  coming  to  Denver,  in 
November,  1879,  he  at  once  began  to  improve  in 
health.  In  January,  1880,  he  secured  employ- 
ment as  an  operator  with  a  telephone  company 
and  while  filling  that  place  he  spent  his  nights  in 
the  study  of  electricity.  After  a  year  he  was 
promoted  to  be  manager  of  the  operating  depart- 
ment for  the  state  of  Colorado.  In  1882  he  was 
appointed  superintendent  of  the  company  and  the 
next  year  was  made  general  manager,  which  po.si- 
tion  he  still  fills.  He  is  also  vice-president  and 
general  manager  of  the  Colorado  Telephone  and 
Telegraph  Company,  which  operates  in  New 
Mexico,  having  been  made  an  officer  of  the  com- 
pany in  February,  1898.  He  is  also  vice-presi- 
dent and  general  manager  of  the  A.  D.  T.  Com- 
pany. 

In  all  matters  relating  to  politics  Mr.  Field 
takes  an  intelligent  interest.  From  youth  to  the 
present  time  he  has  been  a  Republican,  and  be- 
lieves that  the  principles  of  this  political  organ- 
ization are  best  adapted  to  secure  the  progress  of 
free  government  and  perpetuate  the  institutions 
of  our  republic.  However,  he  takes  no  further 
interest  than  to  express  his  sentiments  through 
the  ballot,  never  having  sought  office  for  himself. 
His  business  affairs  have  occupied  his  time  and 
absorbed  his  attention.  He  is  connected  with  the 
Masonic  fraternity,  the  Denver  Club,  the  Denver 
Athletic  Club  and  the  Overland  Park  Club.  In 
all  work  pertaining  to  the  welfare  of  the  city  and 
state  he  has  maintained  a  warm  interest,  and  his 
co-operation  has  always  been  given  to  public- 
spirited  projects. 

In  Chelsea,  prior  to  his  removal  west,  Mr. 
Field  was  united  in  marriage  with  Mi.ss  Mary  A. 
Legg,  member  of  an  old  New  England  family 
from  Providence,  R.  I.     They  are  the  parents  of 


four  children:  Edward  Bell,  Jr.,  who  is  a  gradu- 
ate of  the  Denver  high  school  and  is  treasurer  of 
the  various  companies  in  which  his  father  is  in- 
terested; May  Agnes,  Martha  I,,  and  Grace  W. 
Mrs.  Field  is  a  lady  of  refinement  and  culture. 
In  social  organizations,  particularly  the  Round 
Table,  she  is  warmly  interested.  She  holds  active 
membership  in  the  Denver  Woman's  Club,  to 
which,  as  to  other  organizations,  she  has  fur- 
nished articles  posses.s)ng  decided  literarj-  merit. 
As  a  business  man  Mr.  Field  is  known  for  his 
keen  and  careful  judgment.  Through  energy 
and  perseverance  he  has  become  prosperous,  and 
his  prosperity  is  the  reward  of  his  discretion  and 
sagacity.  While  promoting  his  personal  pros- 
perity, he  has  also  advanced  the  welfare  of  the 
city  and  has  done  all  in  his  power  to  promote  its 
commercial  development. 


GlNDREW  MOSSBERG.  The  farm  which 
LI  Mr.  Mossberg  now  owns  was  purchased  by 
I  I  him  in  1881,  and  lies  three  miles  northwest 
of  Canfield,  Boulder  County.  At  the  time  of  pur- 
chase the  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  were 
wholly  unimproved.  In  placing  needed  improve- 
ments on  the  land  he  experienced  all  the  hard- 
ships of  pioneer  life,  but  discouragements  did  not 
daunt  him;  he  worked  tirelessly,  erecting  sub- 
stantial buildings  and  cultivating  the  land.  As 
prosperity  attended  him  he  added  to  his  prop- 
erty, until  at  present  his  possessions  aggregate 
five  hundred  and  twenty  acres,  situated  in  the 
best  farming  community  of  the  county.  Between 
the  time  of  his  emigration  to  this  county  and  1891 
he  had  acquired  his  present  propertj',  which 
speaks  volumes  for  his  industry  and  persever- 
ance. 

A  native  of  Sweden,  born  July  22,  1851,  the 
subject  of  this  sketch  was  a  .son  of  Andrew  An- 
derson. The  latter  was  born  in  Sweden  in  18 18 
and  worked  on  a  nobleman's  estate  until  1880, 
when  he  crossed  the  ocean  and  settled  in  Colo- 
rado. He  now  makes  his  home  with  our  subject 
and  is  eighty  years  of  age.  Our  subject  received 
a  common-school  education.  At  the  age  of  thir- 
teen he  apprenticed  himself  to  the  tailor's  trade, 
at  which  he  served  for  four  years.  In  1871  he 
went  to  Norway  and  worked  for  six  months,  after 
which  he  took  passage  on  a  steamer  from  Chris- 
tiana, Norway,  to  Liverpool,  England,  and  from 


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the  latter  city  sailed  on  the  steamer  '  'Bristol' '  to 
New  York,  arriving  in  this  country  June  15, 
1872.  From  New  York  he  traveled  by  rail  to 
Denver,  reaching  this  city  June  25.  He  had 
borrowed  the  money  with  which  to  pay  his  pass- 
age to  this  country,  so  not  only  had  nothing,  but 
was  in  debt  when  he  began  for  himself  in  Colo- 
rado. For  six  years  he  worked  as  a  farm  hand 
in  Boulder  County,  being  for  one  year  with 
Nelson  Bailer,  his  brother-in-law,  and  for  five 
years  with  William  Howell.  During  the  time  he 
was  with  Mr.  Howell  he  saved  his  earnings,  with 
which  he  purchased  eighty  acres  four  miles  south 
of  Ivongmont,  and  there,  in  1878,  he  began  farm- 
ing for  himself.  Soon  that  place  became  too 
small,  and  in  1881  he  bought  the  land  now  com- 
prising a  part  of  his  large  estate.  His  attention 
is  given  closely  to  the  management  of  his  ranch 
and  he  has  had  little  time  for  pubhc  affairs.  In 
politics  he  is  liberal,  voting  for  the  man  whom  he 
deems  best  qualified  to  serve  the  people.  Frater- 
nally he  is  connected  with  Erie  Lodge  No.  139, 
Woodmen  of  the  World. 

April  22,  1878,  Mr.  Mossberg  married  Miss 
Katie  Bailer.  Four  children  were  born  of  their 
union,  namely:  Anna  Caroline,  Emily,  Mathilda 
Christina  and  Oscar  Wilbert,  all  of  whom  are  at 
home. 


30HAN  ERNST  MADLUNG,  proprietor  of 
of  the  O.  K.  dairy,  of  Denver,  was  one 
of  the  first  settlers  of  the  suburban  town 
of  Harman.  At  the  time  he  settled  there  the 
town  had  but  two  or  three  houses.  He  bought 
four  lots,  to  which  he  subsequently  added  a  tract 
of  similar  size  adjoining,  on  Third  avenue  and 
Columbine  street.  Here  he  built  a  residence  and 
barns;  also  windmills  with  a  tank  eighteen  feet 
above  ground,  and  on  this  place  has  about  fifty 
milch  cows  for  his  dairy  business.  He  took  an 
active  part  in  the  building  up  of  the  town,  was 
one  of  its  incorporators,  and  was  chosen  to  serve 
on  the  first  board  of  trustees,  subsequently  occu- 
pying the  position  three  other  terms  and  going 
out  of  office  the  year  before  Harman  was  an- 
nexed to  Denver.  He  assisted  in  securing  water 
works  and  electric  lights  for  the  town,  was  inter- 
ested in  the  establishment  of  the  postoffice  here, 
and  took  an  actiye  part  in  the  extension  of  the 
street  car  line  to  this  place. 

The  parents  of  Mr.  Madlung  were  Henry  and 


Anna  Maria  (Kling)  Madlung,  natives  of  Saxony 
and  members  of  the  Lutheran  Church.  His 
father,  who  was  a  farmer,  held  local  offices  of 
trust,  among  other  positions  being  chosen  to  serve 
as  trustee  and  also  as  schultheis  (mayor)  of 
Reischenbach,  and  there  he  remained  until  his 
death,  at  nearly  eighty  years  of  age.  His  wife 
was  forty-five  at  the  time  of  her  death.  They 
were  the  parents  of  two  sons  and  four  daughters, 
of  whom  Anna  Marie  and  Mary  are  in  German}'; 
Mrs.  Caroline  Hogg  and  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Ham- 
berger  are  residents  of  Denver;  and  Frederick 
Carl  a  brewer  in  Sweden  and  a  man  of  promi- 
nence and  considerable  enterprise;  the  first  tele- 
phone in  Sweden  was  built  to  connect  his  place 
with  Stockholm. 

Mr.  Madlung  was  born  in  Reischenbach  and 
attended  the  public  schools  of  Saxony.  At  the 
age  of  fourteen  he  was  apprenticed  to  the  cabinet- 
maker's trade  and  served  for  four  years,  after 
which  he  was  employed  as  a  journeyman  in  Kur- 
Hessen,  Marburg,  Frankfort,  Mentz,  Heidelberg 
and  other  places.  After  working  at  Baden-Baden 
for  a  time  he  enlisted  in  the  army  and  served  as  a 
commissioned  officer  through  the  Austro-Prussian 
war  of  1866,  taking  part  in  the  battle  of  Lan- 
gensalza,  and  from  there  going  south  on  a  cam- 
paigning tour.  On  the  close  of  the  war  he  took 
a  course  in  a  school  of  design  and  then  resumed 
work  at  his  trade. 

As  a  passenger  on  a  sailing  vessel,  "Marco 
Polo,"  Mr.  Madlung  left  Hamburg  in  1869,  and 
after  a  voyage  of  seven  weeks  he  landed  in  New 
York,  proceeding  from  there  to  Chicago,  where 
he  worked  as  a  carpenter  and  builder  for  eighteen 
months.  Coming  to  Denver  in  February,  1871, 
he  worked  at  his  trade  here;  also  for  six  months 
was  employed  in  locating  the  Chicago  colony  at 
Longmont;  then  returned  to  Denver  and  engaged 
in  contracting  and  building.  His  first  location 
for  a  dairy  was  on  the  Platte,  between  Lupton 
and  Brighton,  where  he  started  in  with  three 
heifers,  and  in  seven  years  was  the  owner  of  one 
hundred  and  sixty  cows  and  four  horses.  Unfor- 
tunately a  dry  summer,  followed  by  a  cold,  severe 
winter,  resulted  in  the  loss  of  considerable  stock, 
and  induced  him  to  sell  out  the  remainder  of  his 
herd.  Returning  to  Denver,  he  was  for  a  short 
time  employed  in  setting  shade  trees  in  the 
Denver  Investment  Company's  addition  to  the 
city.     In  1883  he  bought  the  O.  K.  dairy,  which 


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at  that  time  was  located  on  Bear  Creek,  and  he 
at  once  moved  it  to  Harman,  his  present  location, 
where  he  has  a  well-improved  and  valuable 
place.  In  politics  he  is  a  Republican.  Like  his 
parents  he  adheres  to  the  Lutheran  faith,  and 
fraternally  he  is  a  member  of  the  German  Krieger 
Verein.  In  Denver  he  married  Katie  Vallbracht, 
a  native  of  Germany.  They  have  two  children, 
Irene  and  Stuart. 


r"RANK  PIERCE  BERTSCHY,  head  auditor 
ra  Pacific  jurisdiction  of  Woodmen  of  the 
I  World  and  United  States  internal  revenue 
ganger,  whose  home  is  at  No.  129  West  Third 
avenue,  Denver,  was  born  in  Peoria,  111.,  June 
18,  1853,  and  is  a  son  of  Jacob  A.  and  Julia  L. 
(Pierce)  Bertschy.  His  mother  was  a  grand- 
niece  of  Franklin  Pierce,  at  one  time  president  of 
the  United  States.  When  he  was  three  years  of 
age  his  parents  went  to  Milwaukee,  where  his 
father  engaged  in  the  mercantile  business  for  a 
few  years,  being  in  partnership  with  Jonathan  L. 
Pierce,  an  uncle  of  Mrs.  Bertschy.  When  he  was 
six  years  of  age  the  family  moved  to  Appleton, 
Wis.,  where  he  attended  the  public  school, 
graduating  therefrom.  At  fourteen  years  he 
entered  Bryant  &  Stratton's  Business  College  in 
Milwaukee,  from  which  he  graduated  two  years 
later. 

After  the  Civil  war  the  family  went  to  Iowa 
and  settled  at  Sioux  City,  where  our  subject 
joined  them  on  completing  his  business  educa- 
tion. For  a  few  months  he  looked  after  his 
father's  interests,  assisting  in  locating  the  lands 
in  which  his  father  was  speculating  in  Cherokee 
County,  Iowa.  Next  he  went  to  Omaha,  where 
he  remained  for  a  few  months  as  assistant  book- 
keeper for  a  wholesale  firm.  In  December,  1870, 
he  went  to  Columbine,  Neb.,  and  acted  as  private 
secretary  for  Maj.  Frank  North,  who  was  in 
command  of  the  Pawnee  scouts  in  the  Indian 
fights.  For  eighteen  months  he  remained  with 
Major  North,  after  which  he  removed  from  Col- 
umbine to  Salt  Lake  City,  making  that  place  his 
headquarters,  while  he  traveled  through  northern 
Colorado,  southern  Wyoming  and  eastern  Utah 
on  horseback.  He  was  at  Ogalala  Bluffs  the  day 
after  the  Indians  had  wrecked  the  freight  train 
and  robbed  it  of  all  they  could  carry  off. 

From  the  mountain  country  Mr.  Bertschy  re- 
turned to  Wisconsin,   where  he  remained  about 


seven  years,  during  two  years  of  which  he  was  in 
the  emplo}'  of  the  Green  Bay  &  Winona  Rail- 
road Company,  and  for  one  year  he  was  chief 
clerk  of  the  freight  department  at  Green  Bay 
.station,  also  for  one  year  acted  as  station  agent 
at  New  London,  Wis.  He  then  returned  to 
Appleton  and  was  deputy  register  of  deeds  for 
Outagamie  County  for  five  years.  Leaving  Wis- 
consin he  returned  to  Colorado,  arriving  at  Ala- 
mosa February  3,  1879,  and  for  a  time  remaining 
on  his  brother-in-law's  ranch  as  a  cowboy.  In 
September  of  the  same  year  he  went  to  Orient, 
where  he  engaged  in  mining  in  one  of  the  first 
iron  mines  opened,  a  mine  that  is  now  owned  by 
the  Colorado  Fuel  and  Iron  Company.  After 
having  assisted  in  the  development  of  the  mine 
for  some  years,  it  was  sold  to  the  company  named. 
In  June,  1880,  he  entered  the  employ  of  Gotthelf 
&  Mayer,  of  Saguache  County,  with  whom  he  re- 
mained for  a  year  as  bookkeeper,  and  also  assist- 
ed in  opening  the  books  of  the  Saguache  County 
Bank,  which  has  since  been  in  successful  opera- 
tion. He  was  also  employed  by  Otto  Mayer  to 
take  charge  of  the  books  of  his  toll-road  .system. 
After  a  year  he  went  to  Marshallport,  riding  in 
the  first  stage  coach  that  ever  drove  over  the  road. 

During  the  Garfield  campaign,  in  1880,  Mr. 
Bertschy  was  the  Democratic  nominee  for  county 
clerk  and  recorder  of  Saguache  County,  and 
although  the  county  usually  gave  a  Republican 
majority  of  two  hundred  he  was  defeated  by  only 
ninety-three  votes.  In  the  following  year  he  was 
again  nominated  by  the  Democrats,  and  this  time 
was  elected  by  a  majority  of  three  hundred.  Two 
years  later  he  was  elected  by  a  majority  of  three 
hundred  and  eighty.  On  the  expiration  of  the 
second  term,  January  13,  1886,  he  entered  the 
mercantile  business  at  Villa  Grove,  Saguache 
County,  and  carried  on  a  profitable  trade  until 
May,  1889,  when  he  sold  out  and  came  to  Denver. 

In  this  city  Mr.  Bertschy  engaged  in  the  real- 
estate  business  during  the  years  1889,  1890  and 
1 89 1.  He  was  appointed  clerk  of  a  justice  court 
and  served  in  1891-92.  During  1893  he  was 
employed  by  the  board  of  county  commissioners 
as  expert  accountant  to  the  finance  committee  of 
the  board,  which  office  he  filled  for  a  year,  and 
at  the  same  time  he  was  secretary'  of  the  Demo- 
cratic county  central  committee  and  chairman  of 
the  city  central  committee.  In  the  spring  of  1891 
he  joined  Silver  State  Camp  No.  19,  Woodmen 


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of  the  World,  in  which  he  filled  the  office  of  con- 
sul commander  for  a  few  months.  In  August, 
1892,  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the  board  of 
head  managers,  Pacific  jurisdiction,  Woodmen 
of  the  World.  June  i,  1894,  he  received  the 
appointment  of  United  States  Internal  Revenue 
Gauger,  and  in  August  of  the  same  year  he  was 
re-elected  head  manager,  also  selected  by  the 
board  as  accountant  for  the  jurisdiction.  In 
August,  1896,  he  was  chosen  head  auditor  for 
the  term  ending  in  August,  1898. 

March  5,  1884,  Mr.  Bertschy  married  Miss 
Mary  F.  Bennett,  who  was  born  in  Peoria,  111.,  a 
daughter  of  William  and  Catherine  (Slygh)  Ben- 
nett. She  was  educated  in  her  native  city  and 
for  a  time  engaged  in  teaching.  It  was  during  a 
visit  she  made  to  her  brother  in  the  San  Luis 
Valley  that  she  met  the  gentleman  she  afterward 
married.  They  have  an  only  child,  LaVeta,  who 
was  born  at  Villa  Grove,  Colo.  Mr.  Bertschy  is 
a  member  of  Harmony  Lodge  No.  61,  A.  F.  & 
A.  M.,  Denver  Lodge  No.  41,  K.  of  P.,  and  Con- 
clave No.  320,  Ancient  Order  of  Heptasophs. 


pCJlLLIAM  L.  BRADBURN,  a  pioneer  ot 
\kl  '63,  who  has  had  varied  experiences  since 
Y  V  he  came  to  Denver,  was  born  in  Franklin, 
Simpson  County,  Ky.,  in  1839.  He  is  a  member 
of  an  old  Virginian  family.  His  grandfather, 
William,  was  born  in  Albemarle  County,  and 
removed  from  there  to  Kentucky,  where  he  was 
a  pioneer  wagon-maker,  settling  eight  miles  from 
Franklin.  In  1853  he  removed  to  Monroe  County, 
Ky.,  where  he  followed  his  trade  and  also  en- 
gaged in  farming  about  fifteen  miles  from  Tomp- 
kinsville.  From  there  in  1857  he  went  to  Sullivan 
County,  Mo.,  there  following  the  same  business. 
In  the  fall  of  1864  he  joined  our  subject  in 
Denver,  where  he  remained  two  years,  and  then, 
in  1866,  located  on  the  Maxwell  Grant  in  New 
Mexico.  In  1868  he  went  to  Fort  Milan,  Tex., 
where  he  died  at  the  age  of  sixty-two  years. 

The  mother  of  our  subject  was  Sarah  Ryan, 
who  was  born  in  Kentucky  and  died  near  Frank- 
lin, that  state,  in  1848.  Of  her  seven  children 
five  grew  to  maturity,  but  only  two  are  now  liv- 
ing, William  L.  being  the  oldest  of  these;  the 
other  is  a  sister,  Mrs.  Davis,  of  Denver.  The 
father  of  Mrs.  Bradburn  was  John  Ryan,  a  native 
of  Kentucky  and  a  large  farmer  near  Franklin. 


After  the  death  of  our  subject's  mother,  his  father 
married  again,  and  by  his  second  marriage  had 
seven  children,  all  but  one  of  whom  are  still 
living. 

When  a  boy  our  subject  learned  the  carriage- 
maker's  trade,  beginning  in  the  wood-working 
department  and  learning  every  detail  of  the  busi- 
ness. In  1863  he  came,  overland,  to  Denver, 
coming  in  company  with  a  mule  train.  He  went 
from  Denver  to  Golden  Gate,  where  he  worked 
at  his  trade  during  part  of  the  summer,  but  in 
Julj'  returned  to  Denver,  where  he  worked  for 
others  until  October.  He  bought  a  shop  on 
Fifteenth  street,  near  Wazee,  where  he  continued 
business  until  1868,  and  then,  forming  a  partner- 
ship with  a  brother-in-law,  he  moved  his  shop  to 
Cheyenne,  following  up  the  line  of  the  Union 
Pacific  Railroad,  while  his  partner  carried  on  the 
business  in  Cheyenne.  Finally  he  came  back  to 
Denver,  and  engaged  in  business  at  the  old  stand 
until  1873.  He  then  bought  out  his  partner's 
interest  and  continued  alone  until  1876,  when  a 
severe  attack  of  rheumatism  forced  him  to  dis- 
continue business.  He  then,  with  Dr.  Case, 
carried  on  a  Turkish  bath  business,  and  by  taking 
the  baths  himself  he  was  finally  entirely  cured. 
After  three  years  he  sold  out,  and  went  to  the 
mountains,  where  he  engaged  in  prospecting. 
With  four  others  he  leased  the  Virginius  mine, 
which  he  operated,  however,  without  success, 
though  afterward  the  mine  proved  very  profitable 
to  others.  He  spent  one  winter  in  Garland  City 
and  in  the  spring  of  the  following  year  went  to 
Alamosa,  where  he  was  twice  burned  out;  while 
there  he  employed  from  ten  to  fifteen  hands. 
After  three  years  he  went  to  Gunnison  and  ran 
the  Ruby  mine  there  for  five  years,  spending 
about  $7,000  and  finally  selling  out  for  $1,000. 
He  left  there  in  debt,  but  has  relieved  himself  of 
that  obligation,  paying  the  last  of  the  debt  in 
1897.  In  Granite,  Colo.,  he  carried  on  a  black- 
smith and  carriage  shop,  but  after  a  year  he  sold 
out  and  removed  to  Aspen,  where  he  continued 
for  a  year,  then  sold  out  to  his  partner.  Going 
to  Glenwood  Springs,  he  engaged  in  business 
there.  In  the  fall  of  the  same  year  he  went  to 
the  San  Luis  Valley,  where  he  carried  on  a  ranch 
for  one  season,  having  some  cattle  on  his  place. 
In  the  spring  of  1884  he  returned  to  Denver, 
where  he  started  a  carriage  business.  After  six 
months  he  built  a  shop  at  Harman,  a  suburb  of 


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Denver,  and  two  years  later  sold  out.  For  one 
year  he  had  a  shop  on  Twenty-first  and  Blake 
streets.  Later  he  bought  his  present  shop,  which 
he  carried  on  with  Mr.  Nitt  until  the  latter  died, 
in  September,  1896,  since  which  time  he  has  been 
alone.  His  location  is  No.  2238  Market  street, 
where  he  has  a  carriage  and  wagon  repair  shop. 
Politically  Mr.  Bradburn  is  a  Democrat.  He 
is  a  trustee  of  the  Tabernacle  Congregational 
Church,  of  which  the  well-known  Rev.  T.  A. 
Uzzell  is  pastor.  While  in  Alamosa  he  served  as 
an  alderman.  His  wife,  formerly  Miss  Fannie 
B.  Dunham,  died  in  Denver  in  1887. 


EEORGE  F.  WILMORE  came  to  Colorado 
in  the  spring  of  1873  and  settled  upon  a  farm 
in  the  Platte  Valley,  where,  upon  rented 
land,  he  engaged  in  raising  garden  stuffs  and  gen- 
eral farm  products.  In  1877  he  went  to  the  Black 
Hills  and  during  the  summer  raised  garden  prod- 
ucts, but  in  the  late  fall  he  returned  to  his  ranch 
on  the  Platte.  In  1879  he  bought  fifteen  acres 
on  Highland  avenue,  four  blocks  west  of  Man- 
hattan Beach,  and  built  a  residence,  to  which,  in 
1880,  he  brought  his  family.  In  1881  he  sold 
five  acres  to  his  son,  Charles  T.,  who  is  also  a 
gardener.  Three  years  after  settling  here  he 
purchased  ten  acres  in  addition,  making  his  gar- 
den twenty  acres  in  extent. 

A  native  of  Birmingham,  England,  born  No- 
vember 18,  1827,  the  subject  of  this  sketch  is  a 
son  of  Joseph  and  Susanna  (Hodgetts)  Wilmore. 
He  was  one  of  six  children,  three  of  whom  are 
now  living,  namely:  Martha,  widow  of  Thomas 
Poyner,  one  of  the  men  who  helped  to  make 
the  wires  which  composed  the  first  ocean  cable; 
George  F.;  and  Thomas  H.,  of  Michigan.  His 
father,  who  was  born  near  Birmingham,  learned 
the  trade  of  a  gun-barrel  borer,  which  he  followed 
in  Birmingham  during  his  entire  active  life. 

When  a  boy  our  subject  was  apprenticed  to  the 
trade  of  a  cabinet-maker,  which  he  followed  for 
several  years.  Afterward  he  began  grinding 
bayonets  in  the  gun  factory  at  Birmingham, 
working  in  the  same  factory  as  his  father.  In 
1850  he  came  to  America,  and  on  his  arrival  in 
New  York  he  began  to  work  as  a  carpenter.  After 
some  four  years  he  and  his  brother,  Thomas  H., 
went  to  Canada,  where  he  was  employed  in  a 
ship  yard  in  Kingston.     Three  months  later  he 


went  to  Toronto,  where  he  worked  as  a  carpenter. 
After  eight  months  he  went  to  Goderich,  and  for 
twelve  months  was  engaged  in  fishing,  he  and  a 
partner  buying  a  small  fishing  schooner  and 
taking  a  load  of  fish  down  the  Thames  River  to 
Chatham,  returning  with  a  load  of  apples.  After 
having  disposed  of  their  fish  their  boat  was 
wrecked  in  a  storm  and  the  profits  of  the  entire 
season  were  lost.  Selling  the  wreck  for  $5,  they 
walked  a  distance  of  sixty  miles  to  Goderich. 

In  the  spring  of  the  following  year  our  subject 
went  to  Baltimore,  Md.,  where  for  one  year  he 
worked  at  carpentering,  and  then  for  a  similar 
period  worked  in  a  mill  at  Laurel,  Md.,  changing 
the  plant  from  a  cotton  into  a  grist  mill.  Next 
he  removed  to  a  farm  near  Laurel,  where  he  en- 
gaged in  agricultural  pursuits,  remaining  for 
fourteen  years.  In  the  spring  of  1872,  after  the 
Chicago  fire,  he  went  to  that  city,  where  he  se- 
cured remunerative  employment  as  a  carpenter. 
In  the  spring  of  1873  he  returned  to  Maryland, 
sold  his  farming  implements,  and  with  his  family 
came  to  Colorado,  where  he  has  since  resided. 

In  1848  Mr.  Wilmore  married  Miss  Emma 
Williams  in  Birmingham,  England.  In  1850, 
when  he  came  to  America,  his  wife  and  their 
daughter,  six  months  of  age,  accompanied  him. 
He  has  had  eight  children,  and  of  these  all  but 
three  are  living.  They  are:  Fannie  E.  (de- 
ceased); Susan  E.  (deceased)  and  Clara  A., 
twins;  Joseph  H.  (deceased);  Charles  T.,  who 
is  engaged  in  gardening  on  Highland  avenue; 
Fred  G.,  also  a  gardener  on  Highland  avenue; 
William  W. ,  a  gardener  and  florist  on  Prospect 
avenue;  andJohnT.,a  gardener  and  proprietor 
of  a  cannery.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wilmore  and  their 
daughter,  Clara  A. ,  are  connected  with  the  Epis- 
copal Church. 

HRI  M.  NORTON,  member  of  the  contracting 
firm  of  Norton  &  Reynolds,  atNos.  1741-43 
Curtis  street,  Denver,  was  born  in  St. 
Thomas,  Ontario,  Canada,  and  is  a  son  of  Joseph 
and  Sarah  (Wallis)  Norton,  who  were  born  near 
London  and  St.  Thomas,  Canada,  respectively. 
The  family  is  of  French  lineage.  His  grand- 
father, Harvey  Francis  Norton,  was  born  in 
Quebec  and  married  a  Miss  Mudge,  who  was 
born  in  Hartford,  Conn.,  of  Holland-Dutch  de- 
scent. The  father  and  mother  live  upon  a  farm 
near  St.  Thomas,  where  their  entire  married  life 


JAMES  A.  RUNDEIvL. 


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has  been  passed.  Their  five  children  are,  James, 
Isaac,  Uri,  Sarah  and  Mar)'.  The  maternal 
grandfather,  Isaac  Wallis,  was  born  in  Wiltshire, 
England,  and  removed  from  there  to  Ontario, 
Canada,  where  he  engaged  in  farming. 

Reared  upon  a  farm,  at  the  age  of  nineteen  our 
subject  was  apprenticed  to  the  carpenter's  trade. 
He  continued  in  or  near  St.  Thomas  until  1883, 
when  he  came  to  Denver.  Here,  after  working 
at  his  trade  in  the  employ  of  others  for  one  year, 
in  the  fall  of  1884  he  began  contracting  and  build- 
ing. Later  he  was  foreman  in  the  stair  shop  of 
McPhee  &  McGinnity,  remaining  in  their  em- 
ploy until  1895,  when  he  resigned  his  position  and 
started  in  contracting,  as  a  member  of  the  firm  of 
Norton  &  Reynolds. 

In  political  matters  Mr.  Norton  is  in  sympathy 
with  the  principles  of  the  People's  party.  In 
religion  he  is  identified  with  the  Baptist  Church, 
and  fraternally  he  is  a  member  of  the  Independent 
Order  of  Odd  Fellows.  In  Denver  he  married 
Miss  Agnes  MacKiiizie,  who  was  born  in  Boston. 
They  are  the  parents  of  three  children,  Thomas, 
Joseph  (deceased,  aged  three  years,)  andCorinne. 
Mrs.  Agnes  MacKinzie  is  of  Scotch  descent. 
Her  parents,  Thomas  and  Agnes,  came  from 
Scotland  before  they  were  married.  The  Mac- 
Kinzie family  descends  from  one  of  the  oldest 
clans  in  the  lowlands,  near  Glasgow,  and  is  re- 
lated to  the  old  McGregor  clan  made  famous  by 
Sir  Walter  Scott  in  his  "Rob  Roy." 


(Tames  a.  RUNDELL,  formerly  mayor  of 
I  Ward,  Boulder  County,  and  now  a  success- 
Q)  ful  merchant  of  the  town,  has  resided  in  Colo- 
rado since  1888.  He  was  born  in  Platteville, 
Grant  County,  Wis.,  in  1858,  a  son  of  H.  P.  and 
Elizabeth  (Eudey)  Rundell,  natives  of  England. 
He  was  next  to  the  oldest  of  nine  children,  all 
but  one  of  whom  are  still  living,  and  six  are  in 
Colorado.  His  father,  who  resided  in  Platte- 
ville for  a  time,  removed  from  there  to  Iowa 
County,  where  he  carried  on  a  farm.  He  is  now 
living  retired  in  Platteville. 

In  the  public  schools  of  Iowa  County  our  sub- 
ject acquired  a  fair  education.  In  1883  he  went 
to  South  Dakota  and  engaged  in  farming  near 
Yankton,  where  he  remained  for  three  years. 
He  did  not,  however,  feel  satisfied  with  prospects 
there,  and  so  in  1886  came  to  Colorado,  but  after 


a  short  time  went  to  Iowa  and  for  eighteen 
months  lived  near  Corning.  In  1888  he  came 
permanently  to  Colorado  and  settled  in  Boulder, 
where  he  operated  the  creamery  for  four  years, 
and  then  engaged  in  bookkeeping.  In  January, 
1894,  b^  came  to  Ward,  and  opened  a  store,  which 
he  stocked  with  dry  goods,  groceries,  clothing, 
hardware  and  household  utensils.  At  first  he  con- 
ducted the  store  alone,  but  in  1897  admitted  his 
brother  and  another  gentleman  as  partners,  and 
the  firm  title  became  Rundell  Brothers  &  Wylam. 
In  addition  to  his  business  interests  he  owns  a  part 
interest  in  the  Binford  stamp  mill,  but  leases  it. 
In  connection  with  the  mill  there  is  a  small  tract 
of  land,  owned  by  the  company  and  laid  out  as 
the  Humbolt  addition.  He  also  owns  real  estate 
in  Boulder,  Denver  and  Ward. 

Politically  Mr.  Rundell  is  a  Republican.  In 
1897-98  he  served  as  mayor  of  Ward  and  in 
1896-97  he  was  treasurer  of  the  town.  He  was 
made  a  Mason  in  Instruction  Lodge  No.  275,  in 
Corning,  Iowa,  and  is  a  charter  member  of  Audu- 
bon Lodge  in  Ward.  In  the  Odd  Fellows'  Order 
he  is  connected  with  Ward  Lodge  No.  22,  and  is 
also  a  member  of  the  encampment  here.  He  is 
an  excellent  business  man,  keen,  persevering  and 
capable,  and  the  financial  success  he  has  already 
attained  is  justly  merited  by  his  perseverance  and 
determination. 


pGJiLLIAM  SCOTT  LEE.     Since  the  early 

\  A  /  history  of  our  country,  when  one  of  the 
Y  V  name  took  an  active  part  in  colonial  politics 
and  became  a  signer  of  the  Declaration  of  In- 
dependence, the  Lee  family  has  been  prominent 
and  influential.  The  New  England  branch  were 
Congregationalists,  regular  attendants  at  church 
and  very  strict  in  their  observance  of  the  Sab- 
bath. The  great-grandfather  of  the  subject  of 
this  article  took  part  in  the  Revolutionary  war. 
His  son,  Nehemiah  Lee,  moved  from  Connecticut 
to  Peacham,  Vt.,  and  engaged  in  farming  upon 
an  extensive  scale.  He  married  Lavinia,  a  half- 
sister  of  ex- Governor  Chauncey  F.  Cleveland,  of 
Connecticut,  one  of  the  members  of  the  constitu- 
tional convention.  In  their  old  age  they  removed 
to  Maine,  where  they  remained  with  a  son  until 
they  passed  away,  at  more  than  eighty  years  of 
age. 

Of  their  sons  Harvey  was  born  at  Peacham, 
where  he  spent  the  larger  part  of  his  life,  dying 


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there  at  forty-three  years  of  age.  He  was  not 
strong  physically,  but  attended  to  his  father's 
business  affairs  and  did  as  much  as  his  strength 
permitted.  His  wife,  Laura  Steele  Smith,  was  a 
daughter  of  Ebenezer  Smith,  of  Cabot,  Vt.,  a 
man  of  powerful  physique,  six  feet  and  four 
inches  in  height,  noted  for  his  strength  and 
powers  of  endurance,  and  noted  also  for  his  intel- 
lectual vigor  and  great  will  power.  His  father 
was  a  soldier  in  the  French  and  Indian  wars.  On 
her  mother's  .side  Mrs.  Laura  Lee  was  a  descend- 
ant of  the  old  Steele  family  that  took  a  prominent 
part  in  the  history  of  Vermont.  She  died  in 
Royalton,  Vt.,  at  seventy-one  years  of  age.  In 
religion  she  was  an  active,  earnest  member  of  the 
Congregational  Church.  She  had  only  two  chil- 
dren, Mrs.  Ellen  Lee  Stearns,  of  Royalton,  Vt., 
and  William  Scott  Lee,  of  this  sketch.  The  for- 
mer was  for  many  years  principal  of  a  well-known 
academy  at  Royalton,  and  was  prominent  in  ed- 
ucational and  Christian  work  in  that  locality. 
Though  of  a  very  delicate  physique  and  frail 
health,  she  has  accomplished  a  great  work  and 
has  fitted  many  young  men  for  college. 

At  the  time  of  his  father's  death  our  subject 
was  eleven  years  of  age.  His  educational  ad- 
vantages were  very  meagre.  He  went  on  a  farm 
and  worked  by  the  month  for  one  summer,  then 
entered  a  cabinet  shop,  where  he  worked  for  a 
time.  August  22,  1866,  at  the  age  of  fourteen 
years  (he  having  been  born  December  11,  1851), 
he  left  his  native  place  in  Orange  County,  Vt., 
and  went  to  Chester,  the  same  state,  where  he 
clerked  for  five  years,  and  a  part  of  the  time  he 
studied  during  his  leisure  hours  and  recited  at 
the  academy  during  two  j^ears  of  that  time. 
From  there  he  went  to  Greenfield,  Mass.,  where 
at  nineteen  years  of  age  he  became  the  head 
clerk  in  a  dry-goods  .store.  After  five  years  in 
that  pcsition  he  became  salesman  for  the  John 
Russell  Cutlery  Company,  of  Turner's  Falls,  near 
Greenfield,  and  traveled  for  them  among  the  job- 
bers in  the  eastern  and  middle  states.  He  re- 
mained for  five  years  in  that  position,  after  which 
he  embarked  in  the  wholesale  and  retail  hard- 
ware business  in  Albany,  N.  Y.,  being  a  mem- 
ber of  the  firm  of  Ackerman  &  Lee.  His  partic- 
ular work  was  the  financial  management  of  the 
business.  However,  he  suffered  severely  in  a 
railroad  wreck  and  his  physicians  advised  him  to 
come  west.     By  slow  stages  he  traveled  to  Colo- 


rado, reaching  Denver  in  the  spring  of  1883.  The 
following  year,  after  having  regained  to  some 
extent  his  former  health,  he  embarked  in  the  real- 
estate  business,  and  from  the  start  met  with  suc- 
cess. Through  his  large  acquaintance  in  the 
ea.st  and  the  high  esteem  he  was  held  in,  he  was 
enabled  to  secure  extensive  business  as  financial 
agent  for  eastern  concerns  and  loaned  out  eastern 
money  on  Colorado  securities. 

In  politics  Mr.  Lee  has  always  favored  Repub- 
lican principles.  In  1884  he  aided  in  organizing 
the  committee  of  One  Hundred  (of  which  he  was 
the  first  secretary),  which  helped  to  purify  the 
political  atmosphere  of  Denver  and  vicinity.  In 
the  fall  of  1886  he  was  the  Republican  nominee 
for  county  commissioner,  and  was  no  doubt 
elected  by  a  fair  majority,  but  was  counted  out. 
The  following  year  he  became  the  Republican 
candidate  for  mayor  and  was  elected  by  a  large 
majority.  He  served  one  term  of  two  years  and 
then  declined  renoniination,  turning  his  attention 
again  strictly  to  his  business.  In  1896  he  was 
nominated  for  secretary  of  state,  but  declined  on 
account  of  business  reasons.  His  party,  how- 
ever, desiring  his  influence  on  the  ticket,  nomi- 
nated him  for  lieutenant-governor,  and  he  and 
the  remainder  of  the  candidates  carried  the  cen- 
tral part  of  the  state,  but  were  defeated  by  the 
large  Democratic  vote  in  the  southern  part  of  the 
state. 

In  1895  the  New  England  Society  was  organ- 
ized in  Colorado  and  Mr.  Lee  was  elected  the 
first  president.  He  was  succeeded  by  Rev.  Dr. 
Slocum,  of  the  Colorado  College  at  Colorado 
Springs.  During  his  administration  as  mayor, 
Denver  enjoyed  a  wave  of  unusual  prosperity. 
He  assisted  in  electing  Senator  Wolcott  and  was 
instrumental  in  strengthening  his  party  in  the 
state.  In  the  course  of  his  public  life  he  has 
won  the  esteem  of  even  his  political  enemies,  who 
respect  him  for  his  honorable  character  and  enter- 
prising disposition.  For  years  he  has  been  a 
trustee  in  the  Plymouth  Congregational  Church. 
He  is  a  -member  of  the  Denver  Club  and  the  Ma- 
sonic fraternity.  In  April,  1882,  in  Philadelphia, 
he  married  Miss  Sallie  Moore  Hesser,  daughter 
of  J.  Hesser,  a  well-known  lumberman  of  north- 
ern Michigan.  They  have  two  daughters,  Ger- 
trude L.  and  Ellen  C. 

The  success  which  has  attended  Mr.  Lee's 
business  efforts  proves  that  he  possesses  qualities 


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of  a  high  order.  When  a  boy  he  had  few  ad- 
vantages. When  his  father  died  his  mother  was 
left  very  poor,  but  was  too  proud  to  ask  assistance 
from  his  wealthy  relatives,  and  so  mother  and 
children  struggled  along  until  finally  they  were 
above  want.  The  schooling  that  he  obtained  he 
paid  for  by  shoveling  snow  and  doing  other  work. 
Reared  among  the  economical,  and  sometimes 
penurious,  farmers  of  New  England,  he  learned 
lessons  of  economy  and  frugality  which  are  es- 
sential as  the  groundwork  for  a  successful  career. 
In  that  way  he  gained  an  appreciation  for  the 
broader  life  he  subsequently  entered. 


gHRISTOPHER  C.  GIRD,  a  retired  stock- 
raiser  and  real-estate  dealer,  whose  home  is 
at  No.  2418  Lincoln  avenue,  Denver,  was 
born  in  Belmont  County,  Ohio,  September  3, 
1836,  and  is  a  son  of  James  and  Jane  (Moore) 
Gird.  His  father,  who  was  born  in  Westmore- 
land County,  Pa.,  removed  from  there  to  Ohio 
and  followed  the  trade  of  a  carpenter  in  Belmont, 
Guernsey,  Noble  and  Washington  Counties,  mov- 
ing from  place  to  place  as  an  opportunity  for 
work  was  offered.  The  family  were  poor  and 
the  son  was  therefore  early  obliged  to  assist  his 
father.  During  three  months  of  the  year  he 
attended  school,  and  in  spite  of  limited  advan- 
tages he  acquired  a  fair  education.  When  six- 
teen years  of  age  he  began  to  learn  the  carpen- 
ter's trade  with  his  father,  with  whom  he  worked 
until  he  was  twenty-one.  He  then  went  to 
Tennessee  and  spent  one  winter  near  Memphis, 
taking  contracts  and  following  his  trade. 

Going  to  Leavenworth,  Kan.,  in  1856,  Mr. 
Gird  secured  work  at  his  trade  there,  remaining 
in  that  city  until  the  spring  of  i860.  Meantime 
he  participated  in  the  border  warfare  and  was 
with  the  forces  of  the  free  state  movement  during 
many  of  their  thrilling  experiences  of  those  peri- 
lous days.  From  Leavenworth  he  came  to  Denver, 
where  he  arrived  June  5,  i860,  having  driven 
across  the  plains  with  a  company  of  forty-two,  in 
an  ox  train,  and  consuming  forty-two  days  upon 
the  road.  Denver  he  found  to  be  a  town  of  tents 
and  wagons  mostly;  however,  people  were  com- 
ing in  every  day  and  there  was  an  abundance  of 
work  for  a  carpenter.  For  one  year  he  followed 
his  trade,  after  which  he  carried  on  freighting 
between  the  Missouri  River  and  Denver  for  two 


years  and  later  was  similarly  employed  in  the 
mountains  and  from  Denver  to  Cherry  Creek 
pineries. 

In  1863  Mr.  Gird  took  up  a  claim  on  Cherry 
Creek,  about  fifteen  miles  south  of  Denver,  and 
there  he  put  up  a  number  of  necessary  buildings 
and  made  other  improvements.  About  one  year 
after  he  established  his  home  there,  and  while  he 
was  temporarily  in  Denver,  May  19,  1864, occurred 
the  greatest  flood  Denver  has.  ever  known.  The 
creek  overflowed  its  banks  and  all  of  his  build- 
ings were  washed  away,  necessitating  consider- 
able expense  in  replacing  them.  In  the  fall  of 
1869  he  married  Sarah  Ramsey,  who  was  born  in 
Beaver  County,  Pa.,  a  daughter  of  James  and 
Jane  Ramsey,  and  from  Pennsylvania  came  west 
to  Colorado,  where  she  was  employed  as  a  teacher 
at  Cherry  Creek  until  her  marriage.  In  1880  he 
removed  from  the  ranch  to  Denver,  where  he  has 
now  no  business  cares  except  those  connected 
with  the  management  of  his  property  interests. 

Actively  identified  with  the  Republican  party, 
Mr.  Gird  has  been  elected  upon  that  ticket  to  a 
number  of  responsible  po.sitions.  In  the  fall  of 
1869  he  was  chosen  to  represent  the  counties  of 
Arapahoe  and  Douglas  in  the  state  legislature, 
where  he  served  as  a  member  of  the  printing  and 
stock  committees.  Again,  in  1878,  he  was  elect- 
ed to  represent  Arapahoe  County  in  the  lower 
house,  where  he  served  on  the  stock  committee 
and  had  charge  of  the  general  legislation  of  the 
live-stock  interests.  From  1885  to  1888  he  served 
as  commissioner  for  Arapahoe  County,  and  dur- 
ing two  years  and  nine  months  of  that  time  he 
was  chairman  of  the  board.  The  following  reso- 
lutions, which  were  printed,  framed  and  presented 
to  him,  show  the  respect  in  which  he  was  held  by 
the  other  board  members: 

"State  of  Colorado,  Arapahoe  County. 

"At  a  meeting  of  the  board  of  county  commis- 
sioners of  Arapahoe  County,  held  on  the  ninth 
day  of  January,  A.  D.  1888,  the  following  reso- 
lution was  unanimously  adopted: 

"The  terra  of  Christopher  C.  Gird,  a  member 
of  this  board  and  for  nearly  three  years  past  its 
chairman,  being  about  to  expire,  his  associate 
members  deeming  it  proper  that  a  record  should 
be  made  of  our  appreciation  of  his  worth  as  an 
officer  and  a  citizen,  do  hereby  unanimously 

"Resolve,  That  in  the  retirement  of  Mr.  Gird 


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from  the  board  of  county  commissioners,  this 
county  loses  an  able,  zealous  and  conscientious 
public  ofBcer.  As  chairman  of  this  board  and 
superintendent  of  the  poor,  he  has  always  been 
firm,  impartial  and  discerning,  and  ever  watch- 
ful of  the  interests  of  the  county,  and  with  the 
purest  of  motives  he  has  been  a  model  commis- 
sioner. As  a  man  we  commend  him  for  his 
worth  and  we  speak  but  the  truth  in  saying  that 
the  county  is  deeply  indebted  to  him  for  the  faith- 
fulness and  efficiency  with  which  he  has  dis- 
charged the  trust  reposed  in  him.  In  going  from 
us  he  takes  with  him  our  best  wishes  for  his  suc- 
cess and  welfare  and  he  leaves  only  the  kindliest 
of  memories. ' ' 

"Attested    by    Joseph    H.    Smith,    County 
Clerk." 

From  the  spring  of  1893  to  1898  Mr.  Gird  was 
auditor  of  Denver.  Frequently  he  has  repre- 
sented his  party  in  state  and  count)'  conventions. 
During  the  campaign  of  1896  he  cast  his  influ- 
ence and  vote  in  behalf  of  the  silver  Republican 
cause.  He  was  reared  in  the  Methodist  faith, 
but  did  not  unite  with  the  church  until  he  came 
to  Denver,  when  he  became  a  member  of  the 
Trinity  Church.  Since  then  he  has  served  the  con- 
gregation as  a  steward.  He  has  filled  the  chairs 
in  Union  Lodge  No.  7,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  and  is  a 
thirty-second  degree  Mason.  Three  children  were 
born  of  this  marriage,  but  all  have  passed  away: 
Elbert  Grant  at  the  age  of  eleven,  James  Hayes 
at  five  years,  and  May  when  four  months  old. 


I  EWIS  B.  AMES,  who  has  for  thirty  years 
j  C  owned  and  occupied  a  farm  near  Littleton,  was 
O  born  in  Canton,  St.  Lawrence  County,  N.Y., 
May  7,  1826.  His  father,  Barnabas  Ames,  was 
a  native  of  Vermont,  born  in  1787,  and  when  still 
a  boy  moved  to  St.  Lawrence  County,  N.  Y.,  of 
which  he  was  a  pioneer.  He  assisted  in  opening 
up  some  of  the  oldest  roads  in  the  county,  and 
grubbed  and  improved  land  from  which  he  de- 
veloped a  good  farm.  He  was  a  man  of  retir- 
ing disposition,  and  would  never  accept  public 
office,  though  he  took  an  interest  in  politics  and 
aided  his  friends  who  were  candidates  for  town- 
ship or  county  positions.     His  death  occurred  in 

1881. 
The  common  schools  of  St.    Lawrence  County 


furnished  our  subject  with  fair  educational  privi- 
leges, which  were  further  enhanced  by  a  course  in 
the  academy  at  Canton.  After  leaving  school 
for  a  few  years  he  devoted  his  summers  to  farm 
work  and  his  winter  months  to  teaching  school. 
In  1847  he  went  to  Michigan  and  for  four  years 
was  employed  in  the  office  of  the  recorder  of 
Hillsdale  County  at  the  county-seat,  Hillsdale. 
In  the  spring  of  1847  he  visited  Chicago  for  the 
first  time,  seeing  the  delegates  to  the  Rivers  and 
Harbor  convention,  among  whom  was  General 
Cass,  of  Michigan.  He  found  but  two  brick 
houses  on  the  present  site  of  the  metropolis  of 
the  middle  states. 

Returning  to  St.  Lawrence  County  in  185 1,  Mr. 
Ames  remained  there  for  four  years,  and  in  1855 
went  to  Decorah,  Iowa,  where  he  opened  a  shoe 
store  in  company  with  R.  Willson,  embarking  in 
business  for  himself.  He  spent  five  years  in  that 
place  and  was  fairly  successful,  but  when  the  dis- 
covery of  gold  in  Colorado  drew  thousands  of 
men  westward,  he  decided  to  try  his  fortune  in 
the  mountains.  June  8,  i860,  he  arrived  at 
Denver  and  for  five  years  he  devoted  his  atten- 
tion principally  to  mining  nearBlackhawk.  Be- 
lieving, [_however,  that  the  earth  would  give  a 
greater  reward  to  the  agriculturist  than  to  the 
miner,  he  decided  to  engage  in  farming,  and  in 
1867  bought  his  present  homestead  of  one  hun- 
dred and  twenty  acres,  upon  which  he  settled 
the  following  year.  During  the  years  that  have 
followed,  he  has  placed  a  number  of  substantial 
buildings  on  the  property,  has  provided  it  with 
substantial  fencing  and  the  other  improvements 
that  so  materially  add  to  the  value  of  a  farm. 
During  the  year  that  he  settled  here,  he  was 
chosen  justice  of  the  peace,  in  which  capacity  he 
continued  to  serve  until  about  1882.  In  fraternal 
relations  he  is  identified  with  Weston  Lodge  No. 
22,  A.  F.  &  A.  M. 

January  31,  1866,  occurred  the  marriage  of 
Mr.  Ames  to  Miss  Laura  H.  Larawa,  an  estima- 
ble lady,  devoted  to  the  welfare  of  her  family 
and  accommodating  as  a  neighbor.  She  was  a 
consistent  Christian  and  an  active  member  of  the 
Episcopal  Church.  Her  death,  which  occurred 
July  27,  1897,  was  a  deep  bereavement  to  her 
husband,  who  was  thus  left  alone,  their  two  chil- 
dren having  died.  The  younger  son,  Harry  H., 
died  February  22,  1880,  aged  three  years  and 
six  months;  Milo  C.  was  born  December  13,  1870, 


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and  was  drowned  in  the  city  ditch  July  15,  1885. 
He  was  a  bright,  intelligent  and  manly  boy.  Mr. 
Ames'  home  is  now  brightened  by  the  widow  of 
his  nephew,  Mrs.  Edward  S.  Bixby,  and  her 
four  children:  George  P.,  Joseph  A.,  Alice  J. 
and  Edward  S.,  Jr.  Mrs.  Bixby,  whose  maiden 
name  was  Ella  Powell,  is  a  daughter  of  James  S. 
and  Julia  A.  (Griffith)  Powell,  of  Kentucky, 
who,  in  June,  1863,  crossed  the  plains  in  a  wagon 
drawn  by  an  ox-team  and  accompanying  sixty 
other  teams;  they  located  in  Central  City,  Colo., 
but  returned  to  Douglas  County  in  187 1.  Both 
are  deceased,  leaving  four  children. 


yyiAJ.  AARON  GOVE.  The  Gove  family 
Y  was  founded  in  America  by  John  Gove, 
0  who,  with  his  sons  Edward  and  John,  Jr., 
came  to  New  England  in  an  early  day;  he  died 
in  Cambridge,  Mass.,  in  1682,  and  his  son  and 
namesake  died  in  the  same  place  November  24, 
1704.  About  1665  Edward  Gove  moved  from 
Cambridge  to  Hampton,  N.  H.,  and  bought  from 
the  Indians  a  tract  of  land,  where  he  settled  and 
engaged  in  farm  pursuits.  In  1660  he  had  mar- 
ried Hannah  Titcomb,  who  accompanied  him  to 
Hampton.  His  death  occurred  May  29,  1691. 
One  of  their  children  was  Ebenezer,  born  June 
23,  1 67 1,  married  to  Judith  Sanborn  December 
20,  1692;  among  their  large  number  of  children 
was  Jeremiah,  whose  sons  were  Joseph,  Nathan 
and  John.  Joseph's  sons  were  Jeremiah  and 
Ezekiel;  the  former  married  Mary  Morrill,  b3' 
whom  he  had  the  following  children:  Jeremiah, 
Aaron  M.,  Susan,  John,  Mary,  Hannah  and 
Charles.  Aaron  M.  married  Sarah  Becket  Hil- 
ton, and  had  two  sons,  John  Francis  and  Daniel. 
John  Francis  Gove  married  Sarah  Jane  Wad- 
leigh,  and  they  had  three  children,  Aaron,  Frank 
and  Sarah  J.  F.  The  eldest  of  these  is  the  sub- 
ject of  our  sketch.  His  father  moved  from 
Hampton  to  Boston,  where  he  engaged  in  busi- 
ness. About  1850  he  came  as  far  west  as  Rut- 
land, LaSalle  County,  III.;  and  built  the  first 
house  on  the  prairie  there,  with  not  a  single  tree 
for  twenty  miles  around.  Later  he  removed  to 
southern  Illinois  and  from  there  went  to  Peoria, 
where  he  died  January  2,  1895. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  in  Hamp- 
ton, N.  H.,  September  26,  1839.     At  the  age  of 
eight  he  was  taken  by  his  parents  to  Boston,  where 
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he  attended  the  public  school.  He  accompanied 
the  family  to  LaSalle  County,  111.,  where  his 
father  was  a  blacksmith  for  ten  years.  At  the  age 
of  fifteen  he  began  to  teach  school,  and  while  not 
thus  engaged  gave  his  attention  to  the  studies  of  the 
Illinois  State  Normal  School.  In  the  summer  of 
1 86 1  he  entered  the  volunteer  service  of  the  United 
States  army,  remaining  for  three  years,  and  dur- 
ing the  last  two  years  was  adjutant  of  the  Thirty- 
third  Illinois  Infantry.  Soon  after  leaving  the 
service  he  returned  to  his  profession  and  took 
charge  of  the  school  at  New  Rutland,  111.  In 
1868  he  accepted  the  position  as  superintendent 
of  schools  at  Normal.  There  he  remained  as- 
teacher  for  five  years,  also  owned  and  edited  the 
Il/i?iois  Schoolmaster,  a  state  educational  journal 
of  high  standing.  In  1874  he  was  called  to  the 
superintendency  of  the  Denver  schools,  which 
position  he  has  since  occupied.  In  1888  he  was 
given  the  degree  of  LL-D.  from  the  University  of 
Colorado. 

When  a  child  of  only  three  years  Mr.  Gove 
began  to  attend  school  and  his  entire  subsequent 
life,  with  the  exception  of  the  period  spent  in  the 
army,  has  been  given  to  educational  work.  In 
recognition  of  his  high  standing  among  the  edu- 
cators of  the  country,  Dartmouth  College  in  1878 
conferred  upon  him  the  honorary  degree  of  A.  M. 
He  is  interested  in  the  cause  of  education  and 
has  done  much  to  advance  the  standard  of  the 
schools  of  Denver.  His  military  experience  and 
tastes  have  caused  his  elevation  to  various  posi- 
tions of  honor  outside  of  educational  circles.  He 
is  a  prominent  thirty-third  degree  Mason  and  has 
served  as  grand  commander  of  the  Knights  Tem- 
plar of  Colorado,  also  for  two  years  was  commander 
of  the  military  order  of  Loyal  Legion.  He  is 
connected  with  Lincoln  Post,  G.A.R.  For  years 
he  has  been  a  member  of  the  board  of  trustees  of 
the  First  Congregational  Church.  In  1888  he 
was  president  of  the  National  Educational  As- 
sociation that  met  in  San  Francisco  and  is  a  life 
director  in  the  same. 

At  Andover,  Mass.,  Major  Gove  married  Miss 
Caroline  C.  SpofFord,  daughter  of  Farnham  and 
Lydia  (Coggeshall)  Spofford,  of  the  Island  of 
Nantucket.  Her  father,  who  was  a  member  of 
an  old-established  family  of  New  England,  was  in 
early  life  a  schoolmaster  and  later  a  tiller  of  the 
soil.  He  was  a  man  of  noble  character.  Mrs. 
Gove  was  educated  at  Andover.    By  her  marriage 


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four  children  were  born,  namely:  Frank  Edward, 
a  member  of  the  law  firm  of  Yeaman  &  Gove; 
Aaron  M.,  whose  sketch  follows  this;  Ellen  S., 
wife  of  Henry  Harrington,  Jr. ;  and  Caro. 


GlARON  M.  GOVE,  one  of  Denver's  most 
Ll  successful  architects,  was  born  in  Rutland, 
/  1  111.,  in  July,  1867,  and  is  a  son  of  Prof. 
Aaron  and  Caroline  (SpofEord)  Gove.  He  is  the 
second  of  four  children,  his  brother  and  sisters 
being  Frank  E-,  a  graduate  of  Dartmouth  Col- 
lege in  1888  and  now  an  attorney;  Ellen  Spofford, 
who  is  married  and  resides  in  Denver;  and  Caro, 
who  is  now  studying  in  Europe.  When,  in 
1874,  his  father  accepted  the  position  of  super- 
intendent of  school  district  No.  i,  in  Denver,  the 
family  removed  to  this  city  and  our  subject  has 
since  made  it  his  home.  He  was  primarily  edu- 
cated in  the  old  Arapahoe  street  school,  where  he 
acquired  a  fair  knowledge  of  common-school 
branches.  In  1886  he  entered  the  School  of 
Mines,  where  he  was  a  student  for  a  short  time. 

Entering  the  office  of  Robert  S.  Roeschlaub 
in  1887,  Mr.  Gove  there  learned  the  architect's 
business  and  spent  five  years  as  an  employe.  In 
1891  he  entered  the  Illinois  State  University,  for 
the  purpose  of  taking  a  special  course  in  archi- 
tecture, and  after  one  year  he  returned  to  Denver, 
where  he  secured  employment  in  the  office  of 
Andrews,  Jacques  &  Rantoul.  In  1892  he  opened 
an  office  for  himself  in  the  McPhee  building, 
where  he  has  since  remained,  being  now  the 
senior  member  of  the  firm  of  Gove  &  Walsh. 
He  has  designed  some  of  the  finest  residences  in 
the  city,  among  them  the  homes  of  C.  S.  Morey, 
on  Sherman  avenue,  between  Colfax  and  Six- 
teenth avenues;  Jacob  Savageau,  on  Colfax  and 
Gilpin;  Frederick  Buckley,  on  Pennsylvania  street 
near  Tenth  avenue;  Mrs.  L.  M.  Gale,  on  High 
street,  between  Thirteenth  and  Fourteenth  ave- 
nues; Frank  Miller,  corner  of  Thirteenth  and  High 
street;  John  F.  Campion,  corner  of  Eighth  avenue 
and  Logan  street;  J.  K.  Mullin,  corner  of  Ninth 
and  Pennsylvania;  and  J.  S.  Brown,  Ninth  and 
Grant  avenue;  and  warehouses  for  Mrs.  E.  K. 
Watkins  and  the  C.  S.  Morey  Mercantile  Com- 
pany, on  Sixteenth  and  Wynkoop. 

In  1895,  in  Denver,  occurred  the  marriage  of 
Mr.  Gove  to  Miss  Elizabeth  M.  Farrar,  by  whom 
he  has  one  child,  a  daughter,  Margaret.     In  po- 


litical views  he  is  independent  and  has  never 
identified  himself  with  public  affairs  nor  desired 
the  emoluments  or  honors  of  public  position. 
He  takes  an  interest  in  everything  pertaining  to 
architecture  and  is  a  charter  member  of  the  Colo- 
rado Chapter  of  the  American  Institute  of  Archi- 
tecture. Like  his  father,  he  is  public-spirited, 
desiring  to  do  all  within  his  power  to  promote 
the  welfare  of  the  city  where  for  so  long  he  has 
made  his  home. 


(31  LFRED  C.  PHELPS.  Our  nation  owes  a 
fl  debt  of  gratitude  that  can  never  be  repaid 
I  I  to  the  brave  soldiers  who  gallantly  and  fear- 
lessly fought  for  the  abolition  of  slavery  and  the 
preservation  of  the  Union,  holding  aloft  the  stars 
and  stripes  on  many  a  closely  contested  battle- 
field. Among  those  who  enlisted  from  Illinois 
was  a  youth  of  less  than  twenty  years,  whose 
brave  heart  formed  a  strange  contrast  to  his  deli- 
cate appearance.  Friends  opposed  his  enlistment, 
declaring  he  would  be  dead  or  discharged  on  ac- 
count of  ill  health  within  six  months.  However, 
their  ominous  predictions  failed  of  fulfillment,  for 
the  young  soldier  continued  to  serve  his  country 
until  the  rebellion  ended  and  the  war  closed. 

Honorably  discharged  from  the  army,  he  turned 
his  attention  to  the  study  of  the  law,  which,  after 
being  admitted  to  the  bar,  he  followed  for  some 
years  in  Illinois,  but  in  1872,  believing  the  tide  of 
population  would  drift  westward  and  build  up  the 
Rocky  Mountain  states,  he  removed  to  Denver. 
He  did  not  come,  as  have  so  many,  in  search  of 
the  gold  believed  to  be  hidden  in  the  metalliferous 
mines  of  the  mountains,  nor  in  search  of  the  re- 
newed health  so  generously  bestowed  by  the  salu- 
brious climate;  but  he  came  because  he  believed 
Denver  would  in  time  become  one  of  the  great 
cities  on  the  continent  and  therefore  offered  great 
opportunities  to  the  legal  practitioner.  He  still 
retains  his  faith  in  the  future  of  Denver,  which 
he  has  seen  make  marvelous  strides  in  population 
and  commercial  importance. 

A  study  of  the  parentage  of  any  man  assists  us  in 
gaining  an  insight  into  his  own  character.  Mr. 
Phelps  was  born  in  Woodville,  Miss.,  December 
4,  1842.  His  parents  were  born  in  New  York, 
but  were  married  in  Woodville,  where  they  re- 
sided for  a  few  years,  and  until  the  death  of  the 
mother.  They  were  both  opposed  to  slavery, 
which  they  believed  to  have  a  debasing  influence 


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upon  both  slaves  and  masters,  and  for  this  reason 
they  determined  to  seek  a  home  in  the  north,  amid 
more  congenial  surroundings.  The  mother  did 
not  live  to  see  this  plan  carried  out,  but  the  father 
gave  up  his  lucrative  law  business  and  moved  to 
Illinois,  settling  upon  a  farm  in  Bond  County  in 
the  spring  of  1844.  Later  he  settled  in  Green- 
ville, the  county  seat,  where  he  has  since  prac- 
ticed his  profession  until  elected  county  judge. 

The  boyhood  days  of  Mr.  Phelps  were  passed 
on  the  home  farm,  iu  the  cultivation  of  which  he 
assisted.  In  order  to  secure  funds  for  continuing 
his  studies,  he  taught  a  country  school  and  for  a 
time  clerked  in  a  store.  It  had  been  his  inten- 
tion to  enter  college  in  the  fall  of  1862,  but  the 
breaking  out  of  the  war  changed  his  plans,  and 
as  soon  as  possible  he  entered  the  Federal  service, 
responding  to  the  president's  call  for  three  hun- 
dred thousand  men.  In  July,  1862,  he  enlisted  in 
Company  F,  One  Hundred  and  Thirtieth  Ill- 
inois Infantry,  which  was  ordered  to  Tennessee 
and  from  there  went  to  Vicksburg,  taking  part  in 
the  siege  of  that  city.  During  the  early  part  of 
the  siege  occurred  the  march  from  Milliken's 
Bend,  and  while  it  was  being  made  the  running 
blockade  of  the  Mississippi  by  boats  took  place, 
after  which  the  army  crossed  the  river  and 
marched  to  the  rear  of  the  city.  In  this  move- 
ment, as  well  as  in  every  part  of  the  siege,  Mr. 
Phelps  actively  participated,  his  regiment  being 
incorporated  in  Smith's  Division,  Thirteenth 
Army  Corps.  Soon  afterward  he  was  made  ser- 
geant of  Company  F,  and  later  was  detached  from 
his  regiment  to  engage  in  recruiting  colored 
troops.  He  was  commissioned  second  lieutenant 
of  the  Twenty-fifth  Regiment  Corps  d'Afrique, 
afterward  known  as  the  Ninety-third  United 
States  Colored  Infantry,  and  he  was  chosen  first 
lieutenant  of  Company  I,  being  its  acting  com- 
mander, as  the  captain  was  engaged  elsewhere  as 
a  staff  officer.  On  the  close  of  the  war  he  was 
honorably  discharged  from  the  service. 

Returning  north,  he  took  a  short  course  in  Ill- 
inois College  at  Jacksonville,  and  then  studied 
law  in  Greenville,  where  he  began  to  practice  in 
the  spring  of  1867.  In  company  with  ex-Govern- 
or Cooper  he  came  to  Denver  and  for  a  time  the 
two  were  partners,  but  Mr.  Cooper  turning  his 
attention  to  other  pursuits,  Mr.  Phelps  entered 
the  law  office  of  Charles  &  Elbert.  On  the  elec- 
tion of  Judge  Elbert  as  chief  executive  of  the 


state,  he  became  a  partner  of  Mr.  Charles,  but  in 
1875  entered  into  his  connection  with  Judge  Ben- 
edict as  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Benedict  &  Phelps. 
He  has  never  sought  office,  his  tastes  not  running 
in  that  direction,  nor,  indeed,  has  he  cared  to 
identify  himself  with  political  affairs.  At  one 
time  he  was  mentioned  for  the  office  of  attorney- 
general,  but  withdrew  his  name  in  favor  of  a 
gentleman  from  the  southern  part  of  the  state. 
With  reluctance  he  accepted  from  the  Republicans 
nomination  for  the  first  state  legislature.  He  was 
elected  and  became  a  leading  member  of  the  lower 
house,  being  chairman  of  its  judiciary  committee 
and  having  a  reputation  as  one  of  its  most  eloquent 
speakers  and  logical  debaters.  For  a  time  he 
was  city  attorney  of  Denver  and  was  tendered  an 
appointment  as  a  district  judge  in  the  second 
di.strict,  which  he  declined. 

In  1867  Mr.  Phelps  married  Miss  Donnell,  of 
Bond  County,  111.  They  are  the  parents  of  four 
children.  The  eldest,  Horace,  graduated  from 
the  Northwestern  University  at  Evanston,  111., 
and  later  from  the  law  department  of  Yale  Col- 
lege. He  married  a  daughter  of  Hon.  D.  H. 
Ferguson,  ex-president  of  the  Denver  Savings 
Bank.  He  is  now  in  the  employ  of  the  firm  of 
Benedict  &  Phelps.  Already  he  has  gained  dis- 
tinction as  a  rising  young  attorney.  In  1897  ^^ 
was  tendered  the  position  of  assistant  district  at- 
torney, but  declined  on  account  of  not  desiring  to 
relinquish  his  civil  practice.  The  elder  daughter, 
Edelle,  has  been  liberally  educated,  and  is  a  tal- 
ented musician.  The  two  youngest  children  are 
twins,  Enid  and  Harlo,  now  fourteen  years  of  age 
and  students  in  the  city  schools. 


EHARLES  BURKE  established  his  home  in 
Denver  in  January,  1896,  and  is  engaged 
in  the  stock  business,  being  connected  with 
the  Union  Stockyards  here.  In  October  of  the 
same  year  he  started  the  Grand  Junction  .stock 
and  feed  yards,  of  which  he  has  since  been  the 
proprietor  and  which  are  situated  on  his  ranch 
at  Grand  Junction,  on  the  line  of  the  Colorado 
Midland,  Rio  Grande  Western  and  Denver  & 
Rio  Grande  Railroads.  He  is  a  large  buyer  of 
cattle,  making  purchases  in  Montana,  Wyoming, 
Nevada,  Oregon,  Colorado  and  New  Mexico. 

Mr.  Burke  was  born  at  old  Fort  McPherson, 
Neb.,  near  what  is  now  North  Platte,  lyiacoln 


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County.  His  father,  John,  emigrated  from  Ger- 
many to  America  in  young  manhood,  and  after  a 
short  sojourn  in  Illinois  removed  to  Nebraska, 
where  in  1858  he  settled  a  homestead  at  Fort 
McPherson.  Two  years  previous  to  this  he  had 
visited  the  state  and  investigated  its  prospects 
and  opportunities.  By  government  contract  he 
furnished  the  fort  with  hay,  wood,  freight  and 
beef,  and  also  carried  the  mail  from  the  railroad 
to  the  fort.  He  started  the  first  store  on  the 
Platte,  on  this  side  of  old  Fort  Phil  Kearney, 
near  Fort  McPherson.  He  was  postmaster  and 
also  had  the  stage  and  mail  contracts.  Indians 
were  troublesome  and  he  took  part  in  many 
skirmishes  with  them.  In  1872,  when  he  was 
sixty  years  old,  he  was  carrying  the  mail  accord- 
ing to  contract;  freshets  had  washed  away  the 
bridges  across  the  Platte  and  he  attempted  to 
cross  by  flat  boat,  but  was  drowned.  His  wife, 
who  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Margareta  Baurch, 
was  born  in  Germany  and  resides  at  the  old 
homestead  near  North  Platte.  At  the  age  of 
seventy-six  she  is  still  physically  robust  and 
mentally  active.  Her  family  consisted  of  one 
daughter  and  eight  sous,  of  whom  all  but  one 
are  living.  Five  are  in  Nebraska  and  the  others 
in  Wyoming,  Oregon  and  Colorado,  respectively. 

The  youngest  of  the  family  is  the  subject  of 
this  sketch.  He  was  educated  in  public  schools 
and  Nebraska  College  in  Nebraska  City  and 
Lincoln  University,  from  which  he  graduated  in 
188 1.  Meantime  he  and  his  brothers  had  en- 
gaged in  the  cattle  business  in  Lincoln  County, 
the  firm  of  M.  Burke  &  Sons  comprising  the 
mother  and  eight  sons.  When  the  youngest  son 
reached  his  majority  the  business  was  divided, 
but  several  of  the  .sons  have  continued  together 
since.  Our  subject  still  has  cattle  interests  there 
and  a  ranch  that  is  well  stocked.  In  1890  he  es- 
tablished stockyards  at  North  Platte,  Neb.',  on 
the  Union  Pacific,  which  were  incorporated  as 
the  Union  Stockyards  Company,  and  his  stock 
in  this  concern  he  retained  until  very  recently. 
His  brother,  John,  is  now  its  manager. 

In  Nebraska,  in  1891,  Mr.  Burke  married  Miss 
Mary  Hail,  who  was  born  in  Nebraska  City  and 
there  grew  to  womanhood.  She  was  next  to  the 
youngest  of  four  children,  all  living,  one  ol 
whom,  Charles  M.,  resides  in  North  Denver. 
Her  father,  Granville  Hail,  was  born  in  Vir- 
ginia and  in  1854  settled  in  Otoe  County,  Neb., 


where  he  was  a  county  and  state  officer  for  years, 
but  is  now  living  retired.  He  married  Sarah 
Mahan,  who  was  born  in  Kentucky  and  settled 
as  a  pioneer  of  Otoe  County,  remaining  there 
until  her  death.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Burke  attend  the 
Episcopal  Church.  They  and  their  children, 
Margharetta  and  Evard  Hail  Burke,  reside  at 
No.  2412  Marion  street.  In  political  belief  he  is 
an  advocate  of  free  trade  and  free  silver. 


pQlLLlAM  HELM,  member  of  the  firm  of 
\  A  /  Thompson  &  Helm,  contractors  andbuild- 
Y  V  ers,  of  Denver,  was  bom  in  Dumfriesshire, 
Scotland,  July  26,  1841,  and  is  a  son  of  William 
and  Margaret  (Scott)  Helm,  also  natives  of  Scot- 
land. His  father,  who  was  a  son  of  William 
Helm,  Sr.,  was  a  sheep  farmer  in  his  native  land, 
and  from  there  came  to  the  United  States,  in  1S79 
settling  in  Burlington,  Coffey  County,  Kan., 
where  he  died  about  1892,  at  the  age  of  ninety- 
two.  His  wife,  who  was  a  daughter  of  Alex- 
ander Scott,  of  Dumfries,  Scotland,  was  born  in 
18 15  and  is  still  living,  making  her  home  in  San 
Marcial,  N.  M.  Of  their  nine  children  eight  are 
living,  William  being  the  oldest  son  and  next  to 
the  oldest  child. 

In  the  common  schools  of  Dumfries  and  Rox- 
burgh shires  ojir  subject  obtained  a  fair  educa- 
tion. At  the  age  of  fourteen  he  became  an  ap- 
prentice to  the  carpenter's  trade  in  Edinburgh, 
where  he  remained  for  six  years,  and  then  went 
to  England,  spending  three  years  on  the  Tyne. 
He  next  shipped  as  carpenter  on  a  merchant  ves- 
sel and  spent  fourteen  years  on  the  water,  mean- 
time taking  three  trips  around  the  world.  Twice 
he  was  wrecked,  once  on  the  Mediterranean, 
when  the  vessel  sank  and  the  crew  escaped  in 
boats;  again,  on  the  Southern  Pacific,  when  the 
ship  was  saved.  During  his  entire  period  of  serv- 
ice he  was  foreman  of  the  carpenters,  or  "chips," 
as  they  are  called  at  sea,  a  very  suggestive  name, 
as  chips  float  and  "chips"  at  sea  are  necessary  to 
keep  the  vessel  whole  and  afloat. 

While  employed  as  ship  carpenter,  Mr.  Helm 
first  touched  American  waters  in  1863.  In  1872 
he  settled  in  this  country,  following  his  trade  at 
Joliet,  Will  County,  111.,  for  two  years,  and  then 
going  to  Emporia,  Kan. ,  as  contractor.  Later 
he  was  a  salesman  for  the  Chicago  Lumber  Com- 
pany, in  their  yard  at    Burlington,   Kan.,   and 


J.  GEORGE  BENKELMAN. 


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after  three  years  there  worked  for  G.  B.  Shaw  in 
different  places  in  southern  Kansas.  In  1888  he 
came  to  Denver,  where  he  engaged  in  contract- 
ing, but  three  years  later  he  went  to  Cripple 
Creek,  remaining  there  for  six  years.  In  Jami- 
ary,  1896,  he  was  made  building  inspector,  but 
in  July  of  1897  he  resigned  the  position  and  re- 
turned to  Denver,  to  engage  in  contracting  and 
building  here  with  William  Thompson. 

Politically  Mr.  Helm  is  a  Democrat,  and  in  re- 
ligious belief  supports  Presbyterian  doctrines. 
Fraternally  he  is  connected  with  the  Knights  of 
Pythias,  and  is  an  active  Mason,  being  master  of 
Mount  Pisgah  Lodge  No.  96,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  at 
Cripple  Creek,  member  of  the  Royal  Arch  Chap- 
ter in  Sedan,  Kan.,  and  the  Knights  Templar 
Commandery  in  Independence.  His  marriage, 
in  Goodland,  Ind. ,  united  him  with  Jessie  D. 
Galbraith,  who  was  born  in  Geneva,  N.  Y. ,  and 
is  a  daughter  of  George  Galbraith,  a  farmer  in 
Indiana.  They  are  the  parents  of  four  children, 
William,  George,  Maggie  and  Robert. 


(T  GEORGE  BENKELMAN.  It  was  during 
I  the  year  1&62  that  Mr.  Benkelman  came  to 
Q)  Colorado  and  located  a  ranch  on  Turkey 
Creek.  Like  all  the  early  settlers  of  Colorado, 
he  experienced  many  hardships  in  his  journey 
westward.  He  joined  an  ox  and  horse  train  at 
Omaha  and  from  there  followed  the  Platte  to  Fort 
Morgan,  then  crossed  the  plains  to  Denver.  Nor 
did  his  hardships  cease  with  the  end  of  his  journey . 
Colorado  was  then  in  its  infancy.  Comforts  were 
few  and  of  improvements  there  were  none,  but 
he  had  all  the  dauntless  perseverance  of  his  race 
and  remained  undismayed  bj'  hardships  and  re- 
verses. Finally,  as  a  result  of  his  judicious 
efforts,  he  acquired  a  fortune.  For  several  years 
he  has  been  retired  from  the  cattle  business, 
giving  his  time  to  the  supervision  of  his  moneyed 
intere.sts  and  to  the  enjoyments  of  the  comforts 
his  industry  has  rendered  possible.  Since  De- 
cember, 1871,  he  has  occupied  a  residence  on  the 
corner  of  California  and  Eighteenth  streets, 
Denver. 

The  son  of  Leonard  and  Daro  (Stahl)  Benkel- 
man, the  subject  of  this  notice  was  born  in 
Wurtemberg,  Germany,  where  his  father  was 
employed  as  a  stone  cutter,  mason  and  farmer. 
The  family  consisted  often  children,  all  of  whom 


came  to  America,  and  six  are  now  living.  Two 
of  the  sons  enlisted  in  the  Union  armj'  from 
Michigan  during  the  late  war.  Our  subject  is 
the  only  one  in  Colorado.  He  was  fifth  in  order 
of  birth  and  was  reared  on  the  home  farm,  re- 
ceiving a  public-school  education.  In  1850,  at 
the  age  of  twenty,  he  left  Antwerp  on  a  sailing 
vessel  and  arrived  in  New  York  after  a  voyage  of 
forty-six  days.  Locating  in  Lancaster,  N.  Y., 
he  secured  work  on  a  farm,  where  he  remained 
for  four  years.  In  1854  he  went  to  California  via 
the  New  York  and  Nicaragua  route  to  San 
Francisco,  from  which  place  he  proceeded  to  the 
Yuba  River,  where  he  engaged  in  prospecting 
and  mining  for  eight  years.  In  the  fall  of  1861 
he  returned  east  by  Panama  to  New  York  City, 
then  went  west  to  Michigan,  and  in  the  spring  of 
1862  came  to  Colorado  with  a  view  to  mining 
here,  but  instead  turned  his  attention  to  the  cattle 
business. 

After  one  year  on  Turkey  Creek  Mr.  Benkel- 
man located  in  Blackhawk,  Gilpin  County,  where 
he  engaged  in  the  meat  business,  and  he  also  had 
a  market  in  Central  City.  In  1870  he  located  in 
Denver  and  at  the  same  time  started  a  cattle 
ranch  on  the  Middle  Kiowa,  in  Elbert  County, 
where  he  continued  in  business  until  1876.  His 
next  location  was  on  the  South  Fork  of  the  Re- 
publican, in  Cheyenne  County,  Kan.,  where  he 
first  leased  land,  but  subsequently  bought  a  large 
tract  situated  along  the  south  fork  of  the  Re- 
publican River.  The  most  of  this  he  still  owns 
and  now  rents.  On  his  ranch  he  had  from 
ten  to  twelve  thousand  head  of  cattle.  Shipments 
were  made  each  fall  to  Chicago,  often  sending 
two  trains  of  thirty-three  cars.  In  1883  he  re- 
tired from  business.  He  has  been  an  active  mem- 
ber of  the  Colorado  Cattle  Growers'  Association 
and  is  now  a  director  in  the  Colorado  Packing 
and  Provision  Company,  in  which  he  is  financial- 
ly interested .  Politically  he  votes  the  Republican 
ticket. 

At  Sturgis,  Mich.,  in  December,  i86r,  occurred 
the  marriage  of  Mr.  Benkelman  to  Miss  Christine 
Romel,  who  was  born  near  Stuttgart,  Wurtem- 
berg, Germany.  She  was  a  daughter  of  Michael 
and  Barbara  (Frey)  Romel,  the  latter  of  whom 
died  in  Germany;  the  former,  who  was  a  shoe- 
maker by  trade,  joined  his  children  in  Michigan 
and  died  there  at  the  age  of  eighty-four.  All  of 
his  eight  children  came  to  America  and  six  are 


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still  living,  Mrs.  Benkelman  being  the  only  one 
in  Colorado.  She  is  the  mother  of  three  sons 
now  living:  George  W. ,  who  is  traveling  sales- 
man for  the  Colorado  Packing  and  Provision  Com- 
pany of  Denver;  Charles  A.,  who  is  engaged  in 
mining  in  the  Cripple  Creek  district;  and  Harry  J. , 
formerly  deputy  secretary  of  state  and  a  resident  of 
Denver.  Another  son,  Frank  B. ,  an  exceptionally 
bright  and  promising  boy,  died  at  the  age  of  nearly 
twelve  years.  The  family  are  identified  with  the 
English   Lutheran  Church. 


WORTH  BRASIE,  who  is  a  well-known 
citizen  of  Denver,  formerlj'  made  his  home 
in  Minnesota  and  was  prominent  in  the 
public  affairs  of  Monticello,  Wright  County.  His 
popularity  in  his  county  may  be  shown  by  the 
statement  that  in  1872,  when  he  was  elected  clerk 
of  courts,  he  was  the  Democratic  nominee  in  a 
county  largely  Republican.  On  beginning  his 
duties  as  clerk,  he  removed  to  the  county  seat  at 
Buffalo.  In  1880  he  was  again  nominated  for  the 
office  and  this  time  was  successful  by  a  majority 
of  nine  hundred,  while  James  A.  Garfield,  candi- 
date for  president  on  the  Republican  ticket,  was 
elected  by  a  majority  of  more  than  one  thousand. 
During  his  last  ofiicial  years  in  Wright  County, 
he  also  had  a  large  fire  insurance  business  in 
Minneapolis,  under  the  firm  name  of  Brasie  & 
Bartlett.  The  climate  of  Minnesota,  however, 
did  not  prove  healthful  and  hoping  to  be  relieved 
from  asthma  by  a  change  of  location,  he  decided 
to  come  to  Colorado.  This  he  did,  notwith- 
standing the  fact  that  in  the  same  year  (1884)  he 
was  offered  the  Democratic  nomination,  and  gen- 
erally endorsed  by  the  Republicans,  for  the  office 
of  county  clerk.  Owing  to  the  condition  of  his 
health,  he  felt  obliged  to  decline  the  nomination. 
The  Brasie  family  was  founded  in  America  by 
Alfred  Brasie,  a  native  of  Alsace,  on  the  Rhine, 
and  after  coming  to  America  was  a  resident  of 
New  York  state,  where  he  died.  His  son.  Row 
Brasie,  was  born  on  the  home  farm  near  the  Hud- 
son River  and  in  youth  entered  the  army  as  a 
private  soldier,  but  rose  in  rank  to  the  position  of 
major- sergeant  under  Gen.  W.  J.  Worth.  The 
regiment  of  which  he  was  a  member  was  the  only 
regiment  of  United  States  troops  until  the  time  of 
the  Seminole  war.  During  his  eight  years'  serv- 
ice in  the  array  he  participated  in  the  Seminole 


war  and  later  was  stationed  at  Key  West,  Fla. 
His  service  covered  two  terms  of  three  and  five 
years  respectively.  On  retiring  from  the  army, 
he  settled  on  a  farm  near  Peoria,  111.,  where  he 
improved  and  cultivated  a  large  tract  of  land.  In 
1850  he  removed  to  Wisconsin  and  engaged  in 
agricultural  pursuits  near  Ripon;  from  there, 
in  1854,  ^^  went  to  Minnesota,  pre-empting  gov- 
ernment land  in  Wright  County  and  becoming  a 
pioneer  of  Monticello.  While  there  he  .served  as 
county  treasurer,  being  elected  to  the  position  on 
the  Democratic  ticket.  His  last  days  were  spent 
in  Litchfield,  Meeker  County,  Minn.,  where  he 
died  in  April,  1897,  at  the  age  of  ninety-one. 
His  wife  was  Huldah  Bettis,  a  native  of  York 
state  and  in  childhood  orphaned  by  the  death  of 
her  parents.  She  died  in  1886,  at  sixty-seven 
years,  leaving  four  sons:  Henry  S.,  a  business 
man  of  Monticello;  W.  Worth;  John  A.,  a  promi- 
nent business  man  of  Monticello;  and  Charles  A., 
who  is  engaged  in  business  in  Litchfield. 

While  his  father  was  stationed  at  Key  West, 
Fla.,  the  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  there  in 
1846.  He  was  an  infant  when  the  family  settled 
in  Peoria  County,  111.,  and  was  only  eight  years 
old  when  he  went  with  his  parents  to  Minnesota, 
so  that  his  young  life  was  practically  spent  in 
that  state.  He  received  his  primary  education 
in  Monticello  ^nd  later  graduated  from  the  high 
school  of  Minneapolis,  after  which  he  was  a  stu- 
dent in  Lombard  University  until  the  close  of  the 
sophomore  year.  In  1866  he  graduated  from 
Eastman's  Business  College  at  Poughkeepsie, 
N.  Y.  On  completing  his  studies  he  embarked 
in  mercantile  pursuits  in  Monticello,  and  con- 
tinued in  business  until  his  election  as  clerk  of 
the  district  court  in  1872.  As  a  public  official 
his  record  was  one  reflecting  the  highest  credit 
upon  himself.  Accurate  in  judgment,  conscien- 
tious in  even  the  smallest  detail  of  work,  and 
unwavering  in  integrity,  he  won  the  confidence 
of  his  electors,  and  the  regard  of  all  with  whom 
he  had  dealings.  His  first  two  years  in  Colorado 
were  spent  at  Canon  City,  and  on  regaining  his 
health  he  came  to  Denver  in  1886,  and  has  since 
engaged  in  the  buying  and  improving  of  prop- 
erty. One  of  his  first  purchases  was  on  Six- 
teenth, between  Glenarm  and  Welton,  where  he 
tore  down  an  old  homestead  occupying  the  site 
and  erected  a  three-story  building  known  as  the 
Brasie  block.     He  als,o  built  a  fine  row  of  houses 


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on  Fourteenth  street,  and  owns  a  three-story 
brick  block  on  Wazee,  between  Sixteenth  and 
Seventeenth  streets,  an  excellent  wholesale  busi- 
ness location. 

While  in  Monticello  Mr.  Brasie  was  made  a 
Mason,  and  afterward  he  held  the  office  of  master 
of  the  lodge  at  Buffalo;  also  was  connected  with 
Zion  Commandery  No.  2,  K.  T.,  at  Minneapolis. 
He  has  always  been  stanch  in  his  allegiance  to 
the  Democratic  party,  whose  principles,  carried 
into  practical  business,  he  believes  will  conserve 
the  best  interests  of  state  and  nation.  He  was 
married  in  Minneapolis  to  Miss  Susie  Weeks, 
who  was  born  in  Maine  and  accompanied  her 
father,  John  Weeks,  to  Minnesota.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Brasie  have  an  only  son,  N.  Eugene,  who 
is  a  member  of  the  class  of  1900,  Colorado  State 
University,  at  Boulder. 


(S\  UGUST  G.  BURKE,  who  owns  and  occupies 
r  1  a  farm  of  one  hundred  and  thirty  acres  near 
I  I  Boulder,  was  born  in  Sweden  December  14, 
1835,  and  is  a  son  of  August  G.  and  Anna 
(Stiener)  Burke.  He  was  the  only  son  among 
three  children,  his  sisters  being  Anna,  wife  of  S. 
Swanson,  a  farmer  of  Chautauqua  County,  N.  Y. , 
and  Sadie,  who  married  Ferry  Anderson,  a  far- 
mer, also  of  Chautauqua  County.  The  father, 
who  was  born  in  Sweden  in  1810,  learned  the 
trade  of  a  miller  under  his  father's  instructions. 
For  nearly  thirty  years  the  latter  was  in  the  em- 
ploy of  the  government  as  forester,  a  most  respon- 
sible position,  that  gave  him  charge  of  all  the 
government  timber. 

Purchasing  a  grist  mill,  August  G.  Burke,  Sr., 
carried  on  a  milling  business  in  his  native  land 
until  1854.  He  then  came  to  America  and  set- 
tled in  Brockton,  Chautauqua  County,  N.  Y. , 
where  he  purchased  one  hundred  and  twenty 
acres  of  railroad  land  and  began  the  clearing  and 
cultivation  of  the  property.  He  continued  to  re- 
side on  that  place  until  his  death.  In  addition 
to  the  management  of  his  estate,  he  speculated  in 
buying  wheat  and  other 'grains,  which  he  stored 
in  elevators  until  selling  them .  He  was  an  ex- 
cellent business  man  and  became  well-to-do. 

When  a  boy  the  subject  of  this  sketch  learned 
the  trade  of  a  baker  and  confectioner.  In  1855 
he  came  to  America,  sailing  from  Guttenberg  to 
Boston  and  landing  in  the  latter  city  on  the  15th 


of  November,  after  a  stormy  voyage  of  five  weeks 
on  the  sailing  vessel  "Richmond."  One  year 
was  spent  in  Dunkirk,  N.  Y.,  where  he  worked 
for  his  father  on  the  home  farm  and  in  some  rail- 
road work  for  which  his  father  held  the  contract. 
In  1856  he  went  to  St.  Paul,  in  what  was  then 
the  territory  of  Minnesota,  and  for  a  year  worked 
in  a  bakery,  after  which  for  seven  months  he 
was  pastry  cook  for  the  Fuller  House,  then  the 
leading  hotel  of  St.  Paul. 

Afterward  Mr.  Burke  hired  as  a  cook  for  two 
lieutenants  and  the  captain  of  a  companj',  on  an 
expedition  to  make  a  treaty  with  the  Sioux  In- 
dians. This  trip  took  him  through  the  two  Da- 
kotas,  Montana,  Wyoming,  Nebraska,  Colorado 
and  Arkansas,  and  took  five  months.  On  his  re- 
turn to  Minnesota,  he  wentfrom  thereto  Chicago, 
with  the  intention  of  returning  to  his  old  home 
in  Sweden.  In  Chicago  he  met  a  man  who  had 
been  his  schoolmate  in  Sweden  and  who  dis- 
suaded him  from  returning  home,  by  telling  him  of 
the  hard  times  in  the  old  country.  He  insisted 
upon  our  subject  going  to  Pike's  Peak  with  him, 
and  while  Mr.  Burke  had  just  returned  from  the 
mountains,  he  consented  to  return  with  his  friend. 
The  two  went  by  steam  car  to  St.  Joseph,  Mo. ,  and 
there  bought  a  team  of  horses,  with  which  they 
crossed  the  plains,  landing  in  Denver  after  a 
three  weeks'  trip.  On  reaching  this  city,  Mr. 
Burke  had  $40  in  his  pocket.  The  night  after 
his  arrival,  in  1859,  he  played  the  violin,  while  a 
colored  man  played  the  banjo,  for  a  dance  given 
in  a  butcher  shop  on  Larimer  and  Fifteenth 
streets;  the  dancers  were  men,  as  there  were  no 
ladies  in  Denver  at  the  time.  Though  the  price 
of  the  tickets  was  $5,  the  attendance  was  large. 

A  German  who  was  conducting  a  boarding  house 
and  bakery  in  West  Denver  gave  Mr.  Burke  em- 
ployment for  six  months  at  $5  per  day.  In  the  fall 
of  1859  he  opened  a  bakery  on  Larimer  street. 
The  brick  of  which  he  built  his  oven  were  the 
first  brick  taken  from  the  first  kiln  ever  burned 
in  Colorado,  and  the  brick  for  the  oven  alone  cost 
him  more  than  $300.  After  carrying  on  a  pros- 
perous business,  in  1863  he  sold  the  store  for  more 
than  $7,000,  but  retained  some  fifteen  lots  on  Fif- 
teenth and  Sixteenth  and  Larimer  streets.  Going 
to  Central  City,  he  invested  a  part  of  his  money 
with  a  Boston  company  in  a  mine,but  lost  hisentire 
investment.  He  then  built  a  house  and  opened  a 
bakery,  which  after  six  months  he  sold  and  built 


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in  Nevada,  where  he  again  did  a  prosperous  ba- 
kery business.  In  the  spring  of  1865  he  came  to 
Boulder  and  took  up  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres 
three  miles  north  of  Boulder.  At  the  same  time 
he  took  out  his  naturalization  papers.  In  farm- 
ing he  was  at  first  unfortunate,  losing  his  first  two 
crops  on  account  of  the  grasshopper  plague. 
With  fifty  cents  in  his  pocket  and  his  violin  under 
his  arm,  he  walked  to  Julesburg,  where  he  se- 
cured employment  at  $5  per  day  for  four  months. 
He  then  secured  employment  in  Cheyenne  for 
eight  months  and  finally  returned  to  his  farm  and 
resumed  agricultural  pursuits.  In  1880  he  pur- 
chased the  farm  which  he  had  rented  since  1877 
and  upon  which  he  has  since  resided. 

September  14,  i860,  Mr.  Burke  married  Miss 
Mary  J.  Harding.  Six  children  were  born  of 
their  union.  Carl  W.,  the  oldest,  is  a  farmer  at 
Lamar,  Colo.  Oscar  A.  carries  on  a  farm  in 
Boulder  County,  as  does  also  the  third  son,  Frank 
P.  Kate  L.  is  the  wife  of  James  Gallagher,  a 
farmer  of  Boulder  County.  Reuben  V.  is  a  teacher 
in  the  Boulder  public  schools;  Maud  is  the  wife 
of  James  Liverton,  of  Boulder.  The  second  mar- 
riage of  Mr.  Burke  was  solemnized  .December  24, 
1883,  and  united  him  with  Mrs.  Jennie  Dorsy, 
of  Boulder. 


EHARLES  L.  BURPEE.  During  the  years 
of  his  residence  in  Denver,  Mr.  Burpee  has 
built  up  a  reputation  for  executive  ability 
and  strength  of  character.  He  is  one  of  the  prom- 
inent business  men  of  the  city,  having  his  office 
at  No.  1530  Curtis  street,  and  is  extensively  en- 
gaged in  the  real-estate  and  loan  business.  For- 
merly, and  for  some  years,  he  was  president  of 
the  First  National  Bank  of  Urbana,  111. ,  but  de- 
cided to  resign  that  position  and  remove  to  Colo- 
rado, in  the  hope  that  the  change  of  climate 
might  benefit  his  son,  who  was  ill. 

Mr.  Burpee's  ancestors  on  the  Bailey  and  Bur- 
pee sides,  were  soldiers  in  the  war  of  the  Revolu- 
tion. He  was  born  in  Livingston  County,  N.  Y., 
in  1843,  and  is  a  son  of  Elijah  and  Myra  (Bailey) 
Burpee.  When  he  was  a  child  of  ten  years  the 
family  removed  to  Rockford,  111.,  and  there  he 
was  a  pupil  in  the  public  schools.  When  he  was 
twenty  years  of  age,  in  September,  1863,  he  en- 
listed as  a  member  of  Company  F,  Seventy-fourth 
Illinois  Infantry,  and  served  for  a  period  of  twelve 
months,  but  on  account  of  poor  health  received 


an  honorable  discharge  before  the  war  ended. 
Among  the  battles  in  which  he  participated  were 
those  of  Perry ville,  Ky.,  Stone  River  and  Mur- 
f  reesboro,  Tenn. ,  and  it  was  the  exposure  at  Stone 
River  that  brought  on  his  sickness.  For  sixty 
days  before  his  discharge  he  was  in  the  hospital 
at  Murfreesboro. 

On  retiring  from  the  army,  Mr.  Burpee  went 
to  Leavenworth,  Kan.,  where  for  a  year  he  was 
employed  as  clerk  in  a  wholesale  boot  and  shoe 
house.  In  1867  he  went  to  Chicago,  and  after- 
ward, until  1873,  traveled  for  a  wholesale  boot 
and  shoe  house  of  that  city.  Meantime  he  had 
married,  being,  in  1870,  united  with  Miss  Myra 
E.  Cady,  of  Champaign,  111.  Two  sons  were 
born  of  their  union,  both  born  in  Champaign,  111., 
Fayette  C.  and  Charles  M.,  the  latter  a  graduate 
of  Denver  high  school.  No.  i,  in  1897. 

In  1873  Mr.  Burpee  established  the  First 
National  Bank  of  Urbana,  111. ,  of  which  he  was 
chosen  the  first  president,  and  continued  at  the 
head  of  the  institution  until  1888.  Under  his 
management  the  bank  was  very  successful  and 
gained  a  wide  reputation  for  financial  stability. 
When  he  severed  his  relations  with  the  institu- 
tion of  which  he  had  been  the  head  for  fifteen 
years,  the  board  of  directors  adopted  the  following 
resolutions: 

"Whereas,  Charles  L.  Burpee,  the  first  presi- 
dent of  this  bank,  is  about  to  retire  from  said  oifice, 
from  the  board  and  as  a  stockholder  of  this  bank; 
therefore  be  it 

'■'Resolved,  by  the  board  of  directors,  that  in  the 
loss  of  the  services,  high  ability  and  sterling  in- 
tegrity of  its  first  president,  to  whom  the  financial 
success  of  the  bank  is  in  a  large  measure  due,  we 
suffer  a  loss  which  we  deeply  feel,  and  one  which 
will  be  difficult  to  replace. 

''Resolved,  that  in  the  more  noble  realm  of 
true,  manly  friendship,  we  lose  from  our  midst  one 
whom  we  shall  ever  cherish  in  fond  recollection, 
and  to  whom  we  give  our  assurance  that  in  what- 
ever walks  of  life  he  may  hereafter  wander,  our 
highest  esteem,  personal  regard  and  good  wishes 
will  ever  attend  him." 

From  early  youth  Mr.  Burpee  has  been  a  stanch 
advocate  of  Republican  principles.  In  1893  he 
was  elected  a  member  of  the  board  of  supervisors 
of  Denver,  of  which  he  was  made  president  in 
1895;  this  board  is  the  upper  legislative  house  of 
the  city  of  Denver  and  its  president  is  acting  exec- 


COL.  IVERS  PHILLIPS. 


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utive  of  the  city  in  the  absence  of  the  mayor.  In 
1897  he  was  again  nominated  for  the  position, 
but  declined  to  become  a  candidate.  While  in 
Chicago  he  was  made  a  Mason,  identifying  him- 
self with  Ashler  Lodge  No.  308,  A.  F.  &  A.  M., 
and  later  he  became  a  member  of  the  chapter  and 
commandery  at  Urbana.  As  a  citizen  he  favors 
all  measures  for  the  benefit  of  the  people  and  the 
extension  of  the  commerce  of  the  city,  and  his 
personal  influence  is  given  to  aid  all  public-spir- 
ited projects. 

EOL.  IVERS  PHILLIPS,  of  Boulder,  is  a 
very  remarkable  man;  his  life,  which  very 
nearly  spans  the  present  century,  having 
been  characterized  by  unusual  activity  and  enter- 
prise in  numberless  directions.  He  has  been  the 
president  of  railroad  companies,  financially  con- 
nected with  banking  institutions  and  other  busi- 
ness concerns;  has  ofiiciated  with  distinction  in 
public  positions,  both  in  the  government  and 
military  service;  has  been  no  less  faithful  in 
minor  civic  offices,  and  was  one  of  the  founders 
of  the  Republican  party.  Thus,  very  briefly,  is 
summed  up  a  portion  of  the  affairs  which  have 
interested  him — matters  comprehensive  enough 
to  have  occupied  a  dozen  different  men,  it  would 
seem,  but  he  has  been  equal  to  much  more  than 
this. 

In  tracing  the  history  of  Colonel  Phillips  we 
find  that  his  birth  took  place  in  Ashpenham, 
Worcester  County,  Mass.,  July  28,  1805.  He 
recalls  incidents  of  the  war  of  18 12,  and  though 
he  is  now  in  his  ninety-fourth  year  of  age,  he  re- 
tains everj'  faculty  and  enjoys  life  as  in  days  ot 
yore.  His  childhood  was  spent  in  Fitchburg, 
Mass.,  and  Ipswich,  where  he  attended  the  public 
schools  and  Appleton  Academ3^  He  remained 
under  the  parental  roof  uutil  he  attained  his 
majority,  and  the  following  year  he  determined 
to  see  something  of  the  then  far  west.  Going 
across  Pennsylvania,  until  he  arrived  at  the  Ohio 
River,  he  proceeded  down  it  and  the  Mississippi 
River  to  New  Orleans.  There  he  stayed  for  a 
short  time  and  then  took  passage  in  a  sailing 
vessel  bound  for  Boston.  Years  afterward,  in 
1873,  he  once  more  traveled  through  the  west; 
and  for  nine  years  spent  much  of  his  time  in 
visiting  all  portions  of  the  United  States  and 
Canada. 

But  before  entering  further  into  the  details  of 


the  colonel's  history  it  might  be  well  to  devote 
some  space  to  his  forefathers.  He  is  justly  en- 
titled to  belong  to  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution 
(and  is  connected  with  the  Denver  branch  of  that 
order),  as  his  grandfather,  Seth  Phillips,  was  a 
lieutenant  in  the  colonial  army  during  that  con- 
flict. After  the  war  he  settled  in  Fitchburg, 
Mass. ,  and  died  in  that  town  when  he  was  seventy- 
five  years  of  age.  He  was  a  native  of  Pembroke, 
Plymouth  County,  Mass.,  in  which  locality  his 
English  ancestors  had  settled  in  the  early  days 
of  colonial  history.  His  father  bore  the  name  of 
Lot  Phillips.  The  parents  of  the  colonel  were 
Samuel  and  Sally  (Thurston)  Phillips,  both  na- 
tives of  Fitchburg,  and  reared  upon  farms.  The 
formerremoved  to  Ashpenham,  Worcester  County, 
Mass.,  but  in  181 1  he  returned  to  the  old  home- 
stead where  his  boyhood  had  been  passed.  Two 
of  his  brothers  served  in  the  war  of  18 12,  and 
he  would  have  enlisted  but  for  physical  dis- 
ability. He  departed  this  life  when  in  his  fifty- 
eighth  year.  His  wife,  who  died  in  1848,  was 
likewise  of  English  lineage.  Her  father.  Deacon 
John  Thurston,  a  native  of  Plymouth  County, 
Mass.,  participated  in  the  early  Indian  wars,  and 
later  was  a  farmer  in  Fitchburg.  The  only  sister 
of  our  subject,  Mrs.  Sally  Russell,  died  in  Mas- 
sachusetts. 

Col.  Ivers  Phillips  continued  to  dwell  on  the 
old  parental  homestead  until  1833,  when  he  was 
appointed  deputy-sheriff'  of  Worcester  County. 
Before  his  term  had  expired  he  was  elected 
county  coroner,  and  acted  in  that  capacity  from 
1836  to  1856.  A  portion  of  that  time  he  also 
officiated  as  a  justice  of  the  peace,  and  there  was 
not  one  interruption  in  his  public  office-holding 
during  his  entire  residence  in  his  native  state, 
from  1833  to  1873.  June  i,  1825,  he  was  made 
corporal  of  a  company  of  light  infantry  in  the 
Fourth  Regiment,  Seventh  Brigade,  Sixth  Di- 
vision, of  Massachusetts  .state  militia.  Sub- 
sequently he  was  appointed  ensign,  later  lieuten- 
ant, and  May  13,  1831,  was  commissioned  major 
of  the  regiment  by  Governor  Lincoln.  August  4 
of  the  same  summer  he  was  raised  to  the  rank  of 
lieutenant -colonel  and  March  12,  1833,  was  made 
colonel  of  the  Fourth  by  Governor  Lincoln. 
May  2,  1835,  he  resigned  his  commission,  as  other 
affairs  required  his  attention.  Thus  before  he 
was  thirty  years  of  age  he  had  been  colonel  of 
two  different  regiments  (one  infantry  and  one  of 


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light  infantry)  and  was  then  honorably  dis- 
charged, merely  at  his  own  request.  June  22, 
1863,  Governor  Andrews  commissioned  Mr. 
Phillips  captain  of  the  first  company  of  Massa- 
chusetts State  Guards,  organized  under  the 
special  law.  He  served  as  such  throughout  the 
Civil  war,  and  was  once  or  twice  called  into  ac- 
tion for  a  few  days  at  a  time.  Later  he  was 
again  appointed  to  the  captaincy  of  the  same 
company  by  Governor  Bullock. 

In  1852  Colonel  Phillips  was  elected  to  represent 
his  home  district  (Worcester  County)  as  a  senator, 
and  acted  as  chairman  of  the  committee  on  militia 
laws.  At  that  time  he  was  elected  on  the  Demo- 
cratic ticket.  In  company  with  one  or  two  others 
he  set  on  foot  a  movement  toward  the  founding 
of  a  new  party,  called  upon  men  in  all  portions 
of  the  state  to  meet  in  Boston  to  agitate  the 
matter,  and,  in  brief,  the  result  of  his  determina- 
tion and  zeal  was  that  such  an  assemblage  did 
convene  at  Worcester,  Mass.,  in  1855,  and  the 
new  party  was  named  Republican.  Mr.  Phillips 
was  sent  as  a  delegate  to  the  first  national  con- 
vention of  the  party,  which  met  in  Philadelphia 
the  following  year  and  nominated  John  C.  Fre- 
mont for  the  presidency.  August  26,  1862,  he 
was  appointed  internal  revenue  assessor  for  the 
eighth  congressional  district  of  Massachusetts  by 
President  Lincoln,  and  held  this  office  for  seven 
years.  For  years  he  was  president  of  the  Fitch- 
burg  &  Worcester  Railroad;  later  was  president 
of  the  Agricultural  Branch  Railroad  and  held  a 
similar  position  with  the  Boston,  Barry  &  Gar- 
diner Railroad.  He  has  been  connected  with 
numerous  banks,  among  them  being  the  Fitch- 
burg  State  Bank  and  the  Worcester  Bank.  Since 
the  First  National  Bank  of  Boulder  was  incorpo- 
rated, he  has  been  a  director  in  it,  also.  He  is 
a  member  of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic, 
and  has  been  a  member  of  the  Masonic  order 
since  August,  1826.  At  that  time  he  entered 
the  Blue  Lodge  in  Leominster,  Mass. ,  afterwards 
took  the  Royal  Arch  degree  in  Fitchburg,  and 
is  yet  identified  with  the  Knight  Templar  Com- 
mandery  of  Worcester.  Religiously  he  is  a 
Unitarian. 

In  1882  the  colonel  built  his  beautiful  residence 
in  Boulder,  at  No.  2145  Eleventh  street.  In  ad- 
dition to  this  he  has  erected  several  other  houses, 
here  and  elsewhere.  His  first  marriage  took 
place  in  Fitchburg,  Mass.,  in  1828;  Miss  Rebecca 


Carter  being  the  lady  of  his  choice.  She  was 
born  in  Leominster,  Mass. ,  and  was  a  daughter 
of  Thomas  Carter,  a  farmer.  She  died  in  1867. 
Of  her  five  children,  Mary  A.  and  Abigal  (Mrs. 
Lawrence)  are  residents  of  Fitchburg.  Ivers  C. 
died  in  Cambridge;  Mrs.  Harriet  R.  Works  died 
in  Fitchburg;  and  Sarah  T.  (Mrs.  Wood)  died 
in  Colorado  in  1872.  In  1869  the  colonel  married 
in  Worcester  Mrs.  Abigail  R.  Haines,  a  native 
of  Leominster,  as  was  her  father  before  her.  Dr. 
Sewell  Richardson,  and  her  grandfather,  Luke 
Richardson.  The  latter  was  a  lieutenant  of  a 
company  which  fought  against  the  Indians  in 
colonial  times.  Luke  was  a  son  of  James,  who 
was  a  son  of  Joseph,  and  he  was  a  son  of  Thomas, 
which  is  as  far  as  the  lineage  can  be  traced.  Dr. 
Sewall  Richardson  was  the  youngest  of  nine 
children,  and  for  years  he  was  successfully  en- 
gaged in  practice  in  Leominster.  His  death,  in 
July,  1867,  was  the  result  of  his  accidentally  fall- 
ing down  stairs.  His  wife,  Abigail  Kendall,  was 
a  daughter  of  John  and  Rebecca  (Hills)  Kendall. 
John  Kendall  was  an  extensive  farmer  and  was 
also  a  manufacturer  of  combs.  He  was  of  Eng- 
lish descent.  Mrs.  Abigail  R.  Phillips  had  but 
one  sister,  Clarissa,  Mrs.  Charles  H.  Colburn, 
and  she  died  several  years  ago  in  Massachusetts. 
Mrs.  Phillips  was  reared  in  the  Bay  state,  and  in 
early  life  became  the  wife  of  Daniel  R.  Haines, 
a  native  of  New  Hampshire.  He  was  a  manu- 
facturer of  pianos,  and  was  at  one  time  an  aide 
on  the  staff  of  Major-General  Morse  of  Massachu- 
setts. The  two  children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Haines, 
William  and  Sewall,  died  while  j'oung.  Mr. 
Haines  departed  this  life  in  August,  1865. 


EHARLES  BAILEY  PATTERSON.  The 
discovery  of  gold  in  Colorado  caused  thou- 
sands of  men  in  1858  to  start  across  the 
plains  with  the  hope  that  the  hardships  they 
endured  would  receive  a  reward  in  the  discovery 
of  nuggets  of  the  precious  metal.  The  trip  at 
that  time  was  almost  as  difficult  as  the  journey 
undertaken  forty  years  later  by  men  who  hoped 
to  find  mines  of  gold  in  Klondike.  Among  the 
number  who  journeyed  overland  to  the  moun- 
tains was  Mr.  Patterson,  who  left  St.  Louis  and 
joined  the  tide  of  emigration  that  moved  toward 
Colorado.  In  July,  1859,  he  arrived  in  what  is 
now  Denver.     Its  aspect  then  was  widely  differ- 


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ent  from  its  present  appearance.  A  few  houses, 
rudely  constructed,  constituted  the  town  that  now 
boasts  of  one  of  the  finest  state  capitols  in  the 
country  besides  a  host  of  business  blocks  and 
private  residents  that  compare  favorably  with  the 
most  substantial  and  elegant  in  the  world .  Since 
that  time  he  has  made  his  home  in  Colorado, 
whose  development  he  has  materially  promoted 
and  whose  growth  he  has  watched  with  the 
pleasure  of  a  progressive,  loyal  citizen. 

The  Patterson  family  is  of  Scotch  descent. 
James  Patterson  emigrated  from  Dundee  to 
America  and  settled  in  Pennsylvania,  where  his 
remaining  years  were  spent.  Hisson,  Alexander, 
was  a  successful  farmer  of  Allegheny  County, 
Pa.,  and  acquired  a  competence  through  his  in- 
dustrious efforts.  When  advanced  in  years  he 
ceased  active  farm  labor  and  thenceforward  lived 
in  retirement  in  Sharpsburg  until  his  death,  in 
1857.  He  was  a  consistent  Christian  and  an 
oflBcer  in  the  Presbyterian  Church.  His  wife 
was  Hannah  Bailey,  a  native  of  Belmont  County, 
Ohio. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  in  Alle- 
gheny County,  Pa.,  November  7,  1839.  He 
acquired  the  rudiments  of  his  education  in  the 
common  schools  and  afterward  took  apreparatory 
collegiate  course  in  Sewickley.  On  leaving  home 
and  starting  out  in  the  world  for  himself,  he 
secured  employment  in  St.  Louis,  where  he  re- 
mained for  eighteen  months,  coming  from  here 
to  Colorado  in  July,  1859.  Here  he  embarked  in 
mining  in  Russell  Gulch,  where  he  spent  two 
years  of  hard  but  fairly  successful  work.  He 
then  went  to  Empire,  Colo.,  and  opened  a 
general  store,  succeeding  so  well  in  the  enterprise 
that  in  1864  he  opened  a  branch  store  at  George- 
town. His  mercantile  experiences  extended 
over  a  period  of  nine  years.  In  January,  1870, 
he  sold  out  his  stores  and  settled  in  Denver, 
where  he  engaged  in  the  real-estate  and  insurance 
business.  In  1890  he  removed  to  his  palatial 
home  near  Littleton,  where  he  has  since  resided. 
He  has  done  much  for  the  upbuilding  of  Denver 
by  his  real-estate  enterprises.  Among  the  build- 
ings he  erected  in  this  city  are  the  Pioneer  build- 
ing and  the  block  on  the  southeast  corner  of 
Larimer  and  Fourteenth  streets. 

For  years  Mr.  Patterson  has  been  a  regular 
attendant  upon  the  services  of  the  Episcopal 
Church,  which  he  has  served  in  an  official  ca- 


pacity. His  first  vote  was  cast  for  Democratic 
candidates  and  he  has  never  swerved  from  his 
allegiance  to  that  party.  During  his  residence 
in  Clear  Creek  County,  in  1866  he  was  elected  a 
member  of  the  state  legislature  and  ably  repre- 
sented the  people  of  his  county  in  the  house  of 
representatives.  During  the  period  of  his  service 
he  assisted  in  the  election  of  two  United  States 
senators,  but  the  territory  not  being  admitted  as 
a  state,  the  election  was  rendered  void.  He  has 
never  joined  a  society  of  any  kind,  is  thoroughlj' 
temperate  and  a  model  independent  citizen. 


(lOSEPH  S.  CLARK.  In  the  spring  of  1897 
I  Mr.  Clark  was  nominated  on  the  tax  payers' 
Q)  ticket,  for  the  position  of  alderman  of  the 
seventh  ward  and  was  elected  by  a  fair  majority 
over  the  other  six  candidates.  About  the  same 
time  he  accepted  the  position  of  representative 
for  the  Nave  &  McCord  Mercantile  Company,  of 
St.  Joe,  one  of  the  largest  concerns  of  its  kind  in 
the  United  States.  Both  in  business  and  political 
circles  he  is  deservedly  prominent,  and  his  in- 
fluence is  felt  for  good  in  the  advocacy  of  public- 
spirited  and  progressive  plans.  As  a  member  ot 
the  council  he  was  chairman  of  the  committees 
on  street  railways,  funerals  and  official  visitors, 
and  member  of  the  committees  on  electric  light 
and  gas,  finance,  and  drains  and  sewers. 

Near  what  is  now  Carbondale,  Lackawanna 
(then  Luzerne)  County,  Pa.,  the  subject  of  this 
sketch  was  born  January  19,  1844.  His  father, 
Judson,  who  was  born  near  Canandaigua,  N.  Y. , 
was  one  of  the  pioneer  coal  operators  of  Carbon- 
dale,  and  among  the  first  shippers  of  coal  for  the 
Delaware,  Lackawanna  &  Western  road.  From 
Carbondale  he  removed  to  Scranton,  where  he 
continued  to  operate  extensively.  He  dis- 
covered a  vein  of  coal  that  was  named  the  Clark 
vein  in  his  honor.  In  his  efifort  to  keep  his  men 
employed  and  his  mine  in  active  operation  he 
overworked  himself,  and  fatal  results  followed. 
He  died  in  April,  i860,  when  forty-eight  years 
of  age.  He  was  twice  married,  having  six  chil- 
dren by  his  second  wife.  The  mother  of  our  sub- 
ject, Emma  J.  (Grosvenor)  Clark,  was  born  in 
Abington  Township,  Lackawanna  (then  Luzerne) 
County,  and  died  in  Scranton  at  the  age  of  sixty 
years.  She  was  a  daughter  of  Joseph  Gros- 
venor, a  farmer  by  occupation  and  descendant  of 


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English  ancestors.  Of  her  children  four  are 
living:  Lillie,  Mrs.  David  Seward,  of  Green 
Ridge,  Pa.;  Morris  and  Willis,  ofScranton;  and 
Joseph  S. 

When  our  subject  was  six  years  of  age  the 
family  removed  to  Scranton.  He  was  educated 
in  the  schools  of  Providence,  Scranton,  and  in 
Wyoming  Seminary  and  Williston  Seminary  at 
East  Hampton,  Mass.  Returning  to  Scranton 
he  engaged  in  the  mercantile  business  at  Provi- 
dence Square,  but  after  a  time,  in  1868,  removed 
to  Valley  Falls,  Jefferson  County,  Kan.,  where 
he  bought  land  and  engaged  in  farming.  After- 
ward he  carried  on  a  store  at  the  same  place  and 
was  there  during  the  famous  grasshopper  siege, 
when  Kansas  was  overrun  with  those  "imple- 
ments of  destruction."  Later  he  engaged  in 
railroading,  with  A.  A.  Robinson,  in  the  engineer- 
ing corps  of  the  Atchison,  Topeka  &  Santa  Fe 
Railroad,  which  he  assisted  in  surveying  from 
Granada  to  West  Las  Animas.  The  same  year, 
1874,  he  was  in  the  company's  office  at  Las 
Animas,  afterward  clerked  in  the  quartermaster's 
office  at  the  fort. 

In  the  spring  of  1876  Mr.  Clark  settled  in 
Denver,  where  he  was  shipping  clerk  for  a 
wholesale  grocer,  and  later  was  with  a  mercantile 
firm.  In  1880  the  board  of  trade  appointed  him 
official  city  weigher  at  the  scales  on  Nineteenth 
street,  and  this  position  he  held  for  two  years. 
For  four  and  one-half  years  he  was  inspector  for 
the  Colorado  Railroad  Pool  Association,  and  for 
eighteen  months  was  in  charge  of  the  city  ship- 
ping department  of  the  C.  S.  Morey  Mercantile 
Company,  after  which  he  was  with  Benjamin  F. 
Bowen  in  the  wholesale  commission  business  as 
city  salesman  for  eight  years,  resigning  in  April, 
1896,  and  accepting  the  appointment  of  deputy 
county  assessor  under  Willard  L-  Ames,  for 
whom,  he  made  assessments  in  the  central  portion 
of  the  city.  In  the  spring  of  1897  he  was  nom- 
inated for  alderman  and  received  the  majority 
of  the  votes  in  the  election. 

In  Abington  Township,  Lackawanna  County, 
Pa.,  Mr.  Clark  married  Miss  Lucy  Colvin,  who 
was  born  there.  Her  father,  Ezra,  was  a  son 
of  Otis  Colvin,  a  native  of  Rhode  Island  and  a 
pioneer  farmer  of  Lackawanna  County ;  he  died 
at  the  age  of  eighty,  and  his  wife,  Mary  (Capwell) 
Colvin,  at  the  age  of  ninety.  Ezra  Colvin  re- 
moved from  Pennsylvania  to  Valley  Falls,  Kan., 


where  he  was  proprietor  of  the  Cataract  House. 
He  died  there  at  the  age  of  forty-eight  years. 
Two  of  Mrs.  Clark's  great-grandfathers,  Colvin 
and  Capwell,  served  in  the  Revolution.  Her 
mother  was  Celinda,  daughter  of  George  Parker, 
who  removed  from  New  York  state  to  Lacka- 
wanna County,  Pa.,  and  settled  upon  a  farm; 
Mrs.  Clark  was  educated  in  the  Lewisburg  Fe- 
male Seminary.  The  three  children  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Clark  are:  Bertha,  Mrs.  Crumb,  of  Denver; 
Lora,  Mrs.  Cusick,  of  La  Junta,  Colo.;  and  W. 
Judson,  who  is  a  student  in  Denver. 

Fraternally  Mr.  Clark  is  a  member  of  Hiram 
Lodge  No.  261,  F.  &  A.  M.,  in  Scranton,  Pa., 
Chapter  No.  185,  in  that  city,  and  Coeur  de  Lion 
Commandery  No.  2 1 ,  in  the  same  place.  He  is 
connected  with  the  Ancient  Order  of  United 
Workmen  and  has  been  past  master.  He  is  also 
identified  with  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd 
Fellows  in  Scranton.  In  the  Galilee  Baptist 
Church  he  has  been  a  trustee  and  the  treasurer. 
In  former  years  he  was  a  Democrat,  and  in 
1878-80  was  secretary  of  the  Democratic  county 
committee,  but  he  became  identified  with  the  tax- 
payers in  their  first  meeting  and  supported  their 
ticket  at  the  last  election. 


r~RANKLIN,  R.  CALEY.  Having  passed 
r^  almost  his  entire  life  in  Colorado,  Mr. 
I  Caley  has  been  intimately  identified  with 
the  development  of  its  agricultural  resources  and 
has  himself  contributed  to  its  growth.  While  he 
is  still  a  young  man,  his  birth  having  occurred 
August  31,  1869,  he  has  already  won  a  position 
of  prominence  among  the  farmers  and  dairymen 
of  Arapahoe  County.  He  is  the  owner  of  one 
hundred  and  sixty  acres  of  land  adjoining  his 
father's  homestead  near  Littleton  and  here  he  is 
engaged  in  general  agricultural  pursuits.  He  has 
recently  made  application  for  a  patent  on  a  retail 
delivery  milk  can,  an  ingenious  device  by  which 
the  milk  and  cream  are  delivered  to  a  customer 
in  separate  compartments  after  having  passed 
through  a  separator.  This  patent  he  hopes  he 
may  use  to  advantage  in  the  dairy  business,  in 
which  he  has  established  himself.  He  is  acquir- 
ing valuable  cattle  interests  and  will  undoubtedly 
in  time  become  one  of  the  large  land  owners  and 
dairymen  of  the  county. 
The  history  of  the  Caley  family  is  given  in  the 


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sketch  of  our  subject's  father,  Franklin  T.  Caley, 
which  appears  on  another  page.  The  first  five 
years  of  our  subject's  life  were  passed  in  his 
native  town,  Sullivan,  Crawford  County,  Mo. 
He  accompanied  his  parents  to  Colorado  and  ob- 
tained his  education  in  the  public  schools  and  the 
Agricultural  College  at  Fort  Collins.  September 
12,  1895,  he  was  united  in  marriage  with  Edna, 
daughter  of  E.  W.  Stradley,  of  I^ittleton.  One 
child  blesses  the  union,  a  daughter,  Alma  E. 

Giving  his  attention  closely  to  his  personal 
affairs,  Mr.  Caley  has  never  taken  an  active  part 
in  politics.  He  is  inclined  to  be  independent  in 
his  views,  and  casts  his  ballot  for  the  men  whom 
he  considers  best  qualified  for  office,  whatever 
may  be  their  political  affiliations. 


/HHARLES  LERCHEN.  Persistence,  when 
1 1  joined  with  good  judgment,  almost  invariably 
\J  brings  success.  Mr.  Lerchen  has  never  had 
reason  to  regret  that  his  foresight  led  him  to  per- 
sist in  making  the  journey  to  the  west  in  the  early 
days.  The  excitement  caused  by  the  discoverj- 
of  gold  in  Pike's  Peak  caused  many  men  to  take 
the  long  trip  overland  to  the  mountains;  many  of 
these  Argonauts,  as  history  records,  soon  wearied 
of  the  struggle  and  turned  their  faces  eastward. 
About  this  time  four  young  men,  of  whom  Mr. 
lyerchen  was  the  youngest,  started  from  Daven- 
port, Iowa,  with  a  four-yoke  ox-team  and  trav- 
eled up  the  Platte  toward  Colorado.  From  time 
to  time  they  met  groups  of  discouraged  men  going 
eastward  and  the  reports  thus  gained  were  not  in 
the  least  flattering,  either  to  the  mineral  wealth 
or  other  resources  of  California.  The  enthusiasm 
of  the  men  perceptibly  decreased  and  near  Fort 
Kearney  the  three  oldest  of  the  party  turned  back, 
leaving  Mr.  Lerchen  with  one  yoke  of  oxen  and  a 
sack  of  flour.  He  then  joined  another  company, 
which,  when  within  two  hundred  miles  of  Den- 
ver, also  turned  back.  Again  left  alone  with  his 
oxen  and  flour,  he  joined  a  man  who  was  also 
coming  to  Denver  and  the  two  reached  here  June 
22,  1859,  after  having  been  ninety  days  absent 
from  Davenport,  Iowa. 

Mr.  Lerchen  is  of  Saxon  birth,  and  was  born 
near  Dresden,  September  11,  1839,  the  son  of 
Charles  and  Amelia  (Lau)  Lerchen.  His  father, 
who  was  a  harness-maker,  brought  the  family  to 
America  in  1843  and  settled  in  Detroit,  but  in  the 


spring  of  1850  went  to  Wheeling,  W.  Va.,  and 
in  the  fall  of  the  same  year  located  in  Davenport, 
Iowa,  where  he  worked  at  his  trade.  In  the 
spring  of  i860,  accompanied  by  his  sons,  Charles 
and  William,  he  started  for  Colorado,  from  which 
Charles  had  returned  in  November  of  the  pre- 
vious year.  The  three  traveled  towards  the  Blue 
River  country  and  engaged  in  mining  there  for 
two  seasons,  after  which  Charles  went  to  Mont- 
gomery and  mined.  In  the  fall  of  1863  the  firm 
of  Charles  Lerchen  &  Brother  started  a  harness 
business.  The  father  died  in  1892,  when  eighty- 
four  years  of  age.  In  politics  he  was  originally 
a  Democrat,  but  after  the  formation  of  the  Re- 
publican party  supported  its  principles.  Our  sub- 
ject's mother  was  the  daughter  of  a  large  landed 
proprietor  in  Germany  and  the  city  of  Lau,  loca- 
ted on  his  property,  was  named  in  his  honor. 
She  resides  in  Davenport,  and  is  the  mother  of 
three  sons  and  four  daughters,  all  of  whom  are 
living  but  one  son. 

The  eldest  of  the  children  was  Charles.  He 
was  educated  in  Detroit  and  Davenport  and  ob- 
tained a  good  knowledge  of  both  the  German  and 
English  languages.  As  a  boy  he  assisted  his 
father  in  the  harness  business  until  coming  to 
Colorado.  Here  he  prospected  for  a  few  months 
at  Russell's  Gulch,  starting  for  Davenport  in  1859, 
on  his  twentieth  anniversary.  In  the  spring  of 
i860,  with  his  father  and  brother  William,  he  came 
west  again,  making  the  journey  with  a  mule  team, 
and  crossing  the  Missouri  at  Omaha.  He  reached 
Denver  thirty-five  days  after  leaving  Davenport, 
and  at  once  began  mining  in  the  Blue  River 
country,  five  miles  below  Breckenridge.  In  1862 
he  went  to  Montgomery,  but  was  not  so  success- 
ful there.  In  the  summer  of  1863  he  and  a  brother 
bought  a  harness  business  on  Blake,  between  Fif- 
teenth and  Sixteenth  streets,  Denver,  and  carried 
on  business  together  until  1867,  when  he  sold  to 
his  brother.  During  the  war  the  Indians  were 
very  troublesome  and  frequently  he  joined  private 
companies  that  went  out  to  fight  the  savages. 

Mr.  Lerchen  embarked  in  copper  and  silver 
lode  mining  in  Custer  and  Huerfano  Counties, 
and  during  this  time  found  some  gold  mines,  but 
the  grant  had  been  given  by  Governor  Gilpin  to 
the  Denver  &  Rio  Grande  road,  and  it  was  there- 
fore inadvisable  to  work  them.  In  1880  he  went 
to  the  Bonanza  camp  in  the  San  Luis  Valley,  and 
prospected  at  Kerber  Creek,  being  there  at  the 


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time  of  General  Grant's  visit  to  the  Colorado 
mines.  In  1883  he  became  interested  in  dealing 
in  cattle.  This  was  not  his  first  venture  in  that 
line,  as  from  1868  to  1870  he  had  carried  on  a 
cattle  ranch  in  Arapahoe  County,  ten  miles  east 
of  Denver.  He  has  brought  more  thoroughbred 
bulls  into  Colorado  than  any  other  man  in  the 
state,  having  made  a  specialty  of  full-blooded  Dev- 
oDshires,  Herefords,  Shorthorns  and  Durhams. 
In  1892  he  bought  two  carloads  of  full-blooded 
Devonshires  from  Rumsey  Brothers,  in  Westfield, 
N.  Y.,  and  sold  them  in  Middle  Park  and  vicinity. 
He  was  the  first  man  in  the  state  who  gave  indi- 
vidual premiums  for  fine  bred  cattle.  He  is  a 
member  of  Colorado  Cattle  Growers'  Association. 
In  national  politics  he  is  a  Republican.  From  the 
first  carnival  of  the  festival  of  the  mountain  and 
plain  he  has  been  marshal  of  the  first  division  on 
Pioneers'  day.  Like  all  Fifty-niners  still  living 
here,  he  holds  membership  in  the  Colorado  Asso- 
ciation of  Pioneers.  His  office  is  in  the  Jacobson 
block,  No.  1029  Sixteenth  street. 

In  Denver  Mr.  Lerchen  married  Miss  Naomi 
M.  Haggerty,  who  was  bom  in  Missouri,  the 
daughter  of  Henry  and  Mary  (Gunter)  Haggerty, 
natives  of  County  Derry,  Ireland,  and  Nashville, 
Tenn.,  respectively.  Her  father,  who  came  to 
America  in  early  life,  settled  in  Colorado  in  1863 
and  was  a  merchant  tailor  here.  In  the  fall  of 
1866  his  family  joined  him  in  Denver.  His  wife, 
who  is  still  living,  was  a  daughter  of  August 
Gunter,  a  native  of  Mobile,  Ala.,  for  a  time  a  res- 
ident of  Nashville,  thence  removing  to  St.  Louis, 
but  soon  afterward  settling  upon  a  farm  in  Clin- 
ton County,  where  he  remained  until  his  death. 


r^  J.  CLEARY,  proprietor  of  the  West  Denver 
Ly  Boiler  Works,  was  born  in  County  Clare, 
fS  Ireland,  in  1845,  the  son  of  John  and 
Margaret  (Rohan)  Cleary,  also  natives  of  the 
Emerald  Isle.  John  Cleary  was  employed  as 
pound  master  in  Ireland,  and  died  there  in  1849, 
at  the  age  of  twenty-seven.  Afterward  Mrs. 
Clearj'  was  married  to  M.  Ryan,  who  was  for 
years  foreman  of  the  New  York  Central  Railroad 
at  Rochester.  In  1849  the  family,  comprising 
two  children,  our  subject  and  a  sister,  were 
brought  by  the  mother  to  America,  and  for  a 
time  lived  in  New  York  City,  but  later  moved  to 
Rochester,  where  she  died  at  sixty-seven  years. 


The  daughter,  Annie,  now  resides  in  Brooklyn. 
In  1850  an  uncle  of  our  subject,  James  Cleary, 
came  with  his  mother  to  America  and  located  in 
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.,  but  later  removed  to  La 
Salle,  111.,  where  the  grandmother  died  at  a  very 
advanced  age,  and  the  uncle  still  makes  his  home, 
being  retired  from  active  business. 

At  the  age  of  eleven,  our  subject  began  to  work 
on  a  farm  in  Mendon,  Monroe  County,  N.  Y., 
and  at  the  age  of  sixteen  he  was  apprenticed  as  a 
boiler  maker  in  the  New  York  Central  &  Hudson 
River  Railroad  shops  at  Rochester,  where  he 
served  his  time.  Later  he  was  employed  by 
Chapin  &  Terry,  boiler  manufacturers  of 
Rochester,  and  afterward  was  with  Woodbury, 
Booth  &  Co.,  of  the  same  city.  December  28, 
1868,  he  went  to  Omaha,  Neb.,  where  he  was 
employed  by  the  Union  Pacific  Railroad  Com- 
pany and  by  them  sent  to  Laramie,  Wyo.,  as 
boiler  maker  in  the  car  shops.  He  arrived  in 
Wyoming  just  before  New  Year's,  1869,  and  con- 
tinued there  until  April  5,  when  he  was  trans- 
ferred back  to  the  Omaha  shops,  remaining  in 
them  until  1872.  He  then  returned  east  and 
worked  at  his  trade  in  Corning,  N.  Y. ,  for  a  few 
months,  then  was  at  Painted  Post,  Addison  and 
Elmira,  in  the  latter  place  being  foreman  in 
charge  of  the  boiler  shops  for  three  years  and 
seven  months  |br  the  La  France  Fire  Engine 
Manufacturing  Company.  Early  in  1879  he  start- 
ed west, and  reaching  Stewart,  Iowa,  worked  there 
for  five  months,  then  in  the  fall  of  the  same 
year  came  to  Golden,  Colo. ,  where  he  was  made 
foreman  in  the  boiler  department  of  the  Union 
Pacific  shops.  This  position  he  held  until  1883, 
after  which  he  was  foreman  in  the  Denver  &  New 
Orleans  Railroad  shops  about  four  months,  and 
for  seventeen  months  foreman  in  what  is  now  the 
Engineering  Works  of  Denver.  In  the  fall  of 
1884  he  went  to  Evanston,  Wyo.,  where  he 
worked  at  his  trade  about  six  months.  On  his 
return  to  Denver  he  accepted  a  place  as  foreman 
with  the  F.  M.  Davis  Iron  Works  Company, 
with  whom  he  remained  for  five  years  and  five 
months,  then  resigned  in  order  to  start  in  busi- 
ness for  himself  In  July,  1890,  he  started  in 
business  as  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Cleary  & 
Campbell,  but  after  eight  months  bought  his 
partner's  interest  and  has  since  run  the  works 
alone.  He  manufactures  boilers  and  heavy 
sheet  iron  of  all  descriptions.     Among  his  con- 


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tracts  are  the  following:  three  boilers,  eighty 
horse-power  each,  for  the  Milwaukee  Brewing 
Company,  of  Denver;  two  sixty-five  horse-power, 
for  the  Greeley  Light  and  Power  Company;  one, 
eighty  horse-power  for  the  l,ongmont  Flour 
Mills;  one  eighty  horse  for  the  Alamosa  Mills; 
one  forty-five  horse  for  H.  W.  Bingham;  and 
two,  each  forty  horse,  in  the  Tabor  block  and 
Tabor  Opera  House  block;  and  other  boilers. 
The  location  of  the  shop  is  on  Larimer  and  Fifth 
streets. 

In  Rochester  Mr.  Cleary  married  Miss  Mary 
A.  Huck,  daughter  of  Edward  Huck,  a  cooper 
there.  They  have  had  ten  sons  and  one  daugh- 
ter, but  seven  of  these  are  deceased,  viz.:  John, 
Katie,  William,  George  (ist),  George  (2d),  Emil 
and  Henry,  who  died  between  the  ages  of  six 
months  and  eight  years.  Those  living  are  Ed- 
ward James,  who  is  employed  in  the  Hungarian 
Mills;  William  Tecumseh,  Fred  Joseph  and 
Albert  John  Rohan,  all  of  whom  are  employed  in 
their  father's  shop.  Politically  Mr.  Cleary  was 
at  one  time  a  Democrat,  but  is  now  a  silver  Re- 
publican. 

HON.  O.  F.  A.  GREENE,  a  pioneer  attorney 
of  Boulder,  is  a  member  of  an  old  eastern 
family  that  was  identified  with  the  history 
of  Massachusetts  during  colonial  days.  The  first 
of  the  name  to  settle  in  Maine  was  the  great- 
great-grandfather  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  a 
native  of  Massachusetts,  and  a  pioneer  of  Maine, 
where  he  was  killed  by  Indians  in  one  of  the 
early  Indian  wars.  Seward,  son  of  Joseph 
Greene,  was  born  in  Maine  and  engaged  in  farm- 
ing, in  Troy,  Waldo  County,  where  he  also  served 
as  selectman  and  captain  of  militia.  He  married 
Abigail  Conner,  daughter  of  John  Conner,  a 
native  of  New  England,  whose  father  emigrat- 
ed from  Ireland  and  settled  in  Massachusetts. 
Seward  Greene  and  his  wife  died  in  Maine  in  1859, 
within  two  weeks  of  each  other.  Of  their  two 
daughters  and  one  son  the  latter  alone  survives, 
he  being  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 

Born  in  Troy,  Me.,  February  2,  1842,  our 
subject  passed  his  boyhood  years  in  his  native 
town.  In  September,  1861,  he  enlisted  in  Com- 
pany M,  First  Maine  Cavalry,  and  with  his  regi- 
ment took  part  in  the  principal  battles  of  the 
Army  of  the  Potomac,  among  which  were 
Antietam,  Gettysburg  and  the  Wilderness,     He 


was  wounded  at  Blackwater  Bridge,  Petersburg, 
in  September,  1864,  the  bullet  passing  through 
his  arm  and  entering  the  right  side,  lodging 
under  the  right  shoulder  blade,  where  it  still 
remains.  Upon  the  expiration  of  his  term  of 
enlistment  he  was  honorably  discharged,  in 
December,  1864.  In  1865  he  entered  Bowdoin 
College,  where  he  was  graduated  in  1869,  at  the 
head  of  a  class  of  thirty-one.  During  the  same 
year  he  settled  in  Manitowoc,  Wis.,  where  he 
taught  school  for  one  year,  and  then  engaged  in 
studying  law.  After  his  admis.sion  to  the  bar  in 
18  7 1  he  practiced  law  in  the  same  town  until 
December,  1874.  Meantime,  in  1873,  he  had 
married  Miss  Carrie  A.  Mason,  of  Appleton,  Wis. 
Arriving  in  Boulder,  Colo.,  in  January,  1875, 
Mr.  Greene  has  been  a  practicing  attorney  of  this 
city  ever  since.  In  the  sessions  of  188 1  and  1883 
he  was  a  member  of  the  general  assembly  of 
Colorado,  and  served  as  a  member  of  the  state 
senate  in  1885-87,  being  chairman  of  the  judi- 
ciary committee  both  in  the  lower  and  upper 
houses,  in  1 88 1-83-87.  For  fourteen  years,  at 
different  times,  he  held  the  ofiBce  of  city  attorney 
of  Boulder.  His  knowledge  of  the  law  is  broad 
and  comprehensive.  For  ten  years  he  has  been 
devoting  leisure  hours  to  the  preparation  of  "A 
Treatise  on  State  Legislation"  from  a  scientific 
standpoint,  which  will  soon  be  issued  in  book 
form  and  will  form  a  valuable  addition  to  the  law 
literature  of  the  state.  He  has  been  professor  of 
Roman  law  in  the  University  of  Colorado  for  a 
number  of  years. 

0TTO  P.  BAUR,  senior  member  of  the  firm 
ofO.  P.  Baur  &  Co.,  confectioners  and  ca- 
terers, at  No.  1572  Curtis  street,  Denver, 
was  born  in  Wurtemberg,  Germany,  October  15, 
1846,  and  is  a  son  of  Dr.  Joseph  and  Pauline 
(Kohler)  Baur.  When  he  was  a  child  of  seven 
years,  his  parents  crossed  the  ocean  to  Philadel- 
phia, and  settled  in  Tamaqua,  Pa.,  where  they 
remained  until  death.  In  that  place  the  days  of 
Mr.  Baur's  boyhood  and  youth  were  spent.  As 
the  family  was  large,  it  was  necessary  for  him  to 
become  self- supporting  at  an  early  age.  His  first 
position  was  that  of  a  clerk  in  a  grocery  estab- 
lishment in  his  hometown,  but  the  wages  were  so 
small  that  he  determined  to  seek  employment 
elsewhere,  and  at  the  age  of  sixteen  he  went  to 
Pottsville,   Pa.,  where  he  spent  three  and  one- 


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half  years  in  learning  the  confectioner's  business, 
receiving  $10  per  month  until  the  last  year,  when 
his  wages  were  $16. 

On  the  expiration  of  his  apprenticeship,  in 
April,  1867,  Mr.  Baur  left  Pottsville  and  proceed- 
ed westward  until  he  arrived  in  Denver,  on  the 
5th  of  May,  having  made  the  journey  by  rail  to 
North  Platte,  Neb.,  and  thence  by  coach  to  Den- 
ver. At  Council  Bluffs  he  was  compelled  to  wait 
for  five  days  for  an  opportunity  to  cross  the 
river,  which  was  exceedingly  high,  so  that  every- 
thing was  inundated  and  the  trains  could  move 
only  at  a  snail's  pace.  At  North  Platte  he  slept 
in  a  roofless  hotel,  with  the  floor  for  a  bedstead, 
and  having  only  such  bedding  as  he  himself  could 
furnish.  Indians  were  troublesome  at  that  time 
and  traveling  across  the  plains  was  dangerous. 
The  coach  was  overloaded  with  passengers  and 
delayed  United  States  mails,  which  added  to  the 
danger,  when  the  Indians  gave  chase,  but  no 
blood  was  shed.  Our  subject  rode  on  the  top  of 
the  coach,  lying  on  the  mail  sacks.  The  coach 
that  immediately  followed  this  one  was  attacked 
by  the  savages  and  several  people  were  shot. 

On  reaching  his  destination  Mr.  Baur  was  JS5 
in  debt,  the  trip  having  cost  more  than  he  antici- 
pated; in  order  to  pay  the  entire  amount  of  his 
passage,  he  had  borrowed  from  a  companion  who 
was  more  generously  provided  for  than  himself. 
He  found  Denver  a  town  of  four  thousand  inhab- 
itants, prosperous  and  flourishing.  He  soon  se- 
cured employment  in  his  line  at  $40  per  month, 
but  the  cost  of  living  was  so  great  that  it  was 
impossible  to  save  much.  He  paid  $10  for  a  pair 
of  blue  jeans,  and  everything  else  was  as  high  in 
proportion.  In  the  fall  of  the  same  year  he  was 
taken  ill  and  for  a  time  could  not  work.  In  Feb- 
ruary, 1868,  he  went  to  Elizabethtown,  N.  M., 
where  gold  had  been  discovered.  He  started  on 
horseback  but  walked  a  part  of  the  way  and  suf- 
fered many  hardships  en  route.  Having  with  him 
a  complete  baker's  outfit,  he  opened  a  bakery  in 
company  with  some  friends  who  had  preceded 
him.  The  summer  was  spent  there  prosperously. 
In  the  autumn  he  returned  to  Denver,  where  he 
spent  the  winter,  and  then  again  went  to  Eliza- 
bethtown, N.  M.  The  second  season,  however, 
brought  him  less  good  fortune  than  the  first. 
Coming  to  Denver  again  in  the  fall  of  1869,  he 
joined  a  party  and  started  a  bakery  at  Evans, 
Colo. ,  on  the   Denver  Pacific  surveyed   line.     At 


that  time  the  town  existed  "on  paper"  mostly. 
After  carrying  on  a  bakery  in  a  tent  for  a  time 
he  returned  to  Denver,  sold  out  his  interest  in 
Mexico  and  in  1869-70  was  employed  as  a  cook 
for  the  government  surveying  expedition  in  south- 
ern Colorado,  in  the  vicinity  of  the  Spanish  Peaks, 
receiving  $1  per  day.  That  part  of  the  state  was 
undeveloped  and  inhabited  mostly  by  the  In- 
dians and  Mexicans,  who  gave  the  surveying 
party  considerable  trouble.  On  the  return  of  the 
party,  when  within  thirty-eight  miles  of  Denver, 
a  coach  going  southward  brought  the  news  that 
the  first  railroad  train  on  the  Denver  Pacific 
would  soon  reach  Denver.  The  men  hastened  on 
at  four  o'  clock  and  reached  the  grounds  in  time 
to  see  the  first  train  that  ever  entered  Denver. 

In  August,  1870,  Mr.  Baur  accompanied  an- 
other surveying  expedition  to  the  northeastern 
portion  of  the  state,  and  was  again  in  danger  from 
Indians,  but  through  strategy  the  surveyors  kept 
the  savages  at  bay.  Water  was  very  scarce  and 
often  the  men  suffered  greatly  from  thirst.  While 
the  others  were  at  work,  he  was  obliged  to  stay 
alone  in  camp  all  day  and  protect  the  outfit,  a 
work  of  some  danger,  but  fortunately  he  was 
never  attacked.  In  the  fall  of  the  same  year,  re- 
turning from  the  expedition,  he  began  to  work  in 
a  confectioner's  store  on  Lawrence  and  Sixteenth 
streets,  and  in  February,  1871,  he  and  a  partner 
bought  out  his  employer.  They  started  in  a 
small  way  and  were  obliged  to  go  into  debt  to 
begin,  but  after  a  time  the  debt  was  paid  and 
from  that  time  the  business  prospered.  After- 
ward he  bought  out  another  confectioner,  whose 
business  he  consolidated  with  his  own  on  Larimer 
street,  where  he  remained  for  seventeen  years. 
In  1891  he  moved  to  his  present  location.  In 
his  employ  there  are  about  twenty  persons,  and 
a  number  of  teams  are  kept  on  the  road  to  deliver 
goods.  His  catering  establishment  has  the  largest 
and  best  equipped  ice  cream  parlors  in  the  city, 
and  he  enjoys  the  patronage  of  Denver's  select 
society. 

In  1876  Mr.  Baur  married  Marie  Kuner,  of 
Denver,  a  native  of  Iowa.  In  politics  he  is  inde- 
pendent and  has  never  allied  himself  with  either 
of  the  prominent  parties.  Fond  of  travel,  he  has 
often  found  recreation  from  business  cares  in  vis- 
iting points  of  interest  in  this  and  other  countries. 
In  1885  he  went  to  Europe  and  while  there  vis- 
ited Switzerland  and  many  well-known  and  his- 


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toric  cities  of  the  continent.  The  winter  of  1895 
he  spent  in  Florida,  and  while  there  crossed  over 
to  Cuba.  He  has  visited  the  far-famed  Yellow- 
stone Park  and  was  one  of  the  visitors  at  the 
World's  Fair  in  1893.  During  1898  he  traveled 
through  Mexico  and  spent  some  time  in  its  capital 
city.  Being  a  man  of  close  ob.servation,  he  has 
learned  much  from  travel  and  has  gained  a  breadth 
of  information  that  makes  him  an  entertaining 
companion. 

gHARLES  WESLEY  BOWLES,  who  oc- 
cupies a  large  ranch  near  Littleton,  is  one  of 
the  progressive  and  energetic  young  men  of 
his  locality  and  has  already  won  noteworthy  suc- 
cess as  a  stock-raiser.  After  having  been  in 
charge  of  a  cattle  ranch  in  Wray,  Yuma  County, 
for  four  years,  he  returned  to  Arapahoe  County 
and  leased  from  his  father  the  large  ranch  owned 
by  the  latter.  Here  he  cultivates  about  one 
thousand  acres  of  land,  raising  ten  thousand 
bushels  of  grain,  cutting  eight  hundred  tons  of 
hay  annually,  and  in  addition  he  is  extensively 
engaged  in  raising  stock.  He  possesses  excellent 
judgment,  which,  coupled  with  his  tireless  en- 
ergy, will  undoubtedly  bring  him  constantly  in- 
creasing prosperity. 

Mr.  Bowles  was  born  in  Denver  November  10, 
1868,  the  son  of  Joseph  Wesley  and  Cynthia  R. 
Miller  (Blackburn)  Bowles.  His  father,  who 
was  born  in  Rockford,  N.  C,  July  17,  1836,  ac- 
companied his  parents  to  Johnson  County,  Ind. , 
in  early  boyhood,  and  from  there,  in  the  fall  of 
1847,  removed  to  Keokuk  County,  Iowa.  Again 
changing  his  place  of  residence  in  1848,  he  set- 
tled in  Marshall  County,  Iowa,  when  that  section 
of  country  was  comparatively  a  wilderness,  with 
a  population  not  to  exceed  twelve  families.  He 
settled  upon  a  place,  which  he  cleared,  improved 
and  cultivated.  In  March,  1858,  he  went  still 
further  west  and  settled  in  Riley  County,  Kan. , 
where  he  cast  his  first  vote,  it  being  for  the  free 
state  constitution. 

When  the  news  of  the  discovery  of  gold  in 
Pike's  Peak  reached  Mr.  Bowles,  he  determined 
to  try  his  luck  in  Colorado.  Accordingly,  in  the 
spring  of  1859  ^^  joined  a  band  of  fortune-seekers 
and  crcssed  the  plains,  reaching  the  Cherry  Creek 
settlement  on  the  25th  of  May.  Having  come  in 
search  of  gold  he  at  once  turned  his  attention  to 
prospecting  for  that  metal.  He  went  to  the 
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mountains,  where  he  endured  many  hardships 
and  privations.  In  the  fall  of  1859  he  .settled  on 
Quartz  hill,  Nevada  district,  where  for  three 
years  he  engaged  in  mining  on  the  Burroughs 
lode.  During  his  residence  there  he  was  twice 
elected  sheriff  of  the  district  under  the  miners' 
organization.  In  the  fall  of  1862  he  purchased  a 
homestead  claim  near  the  present  town  of  Little- 
ton, where  he  has  since  resided,  and  by  subse- 
quent purchases  and  many  improvements  he  has 
made  the  ranch  one  of  the  largest  and  best  in 
Arapahoe  County.  For  some  years  he  was  ex- 
tensively engaged  in  raising  stock,  his  ranch 
being  on  the  Republican  River,  in  Yuma  County. 

In  public  affairs  Mr.  Bowles  has  been  influen- 
tial and  prominent.  In  September,  1869,  he  was 
elected  to  the  board  of  county  commissioners  and 
on  the  expiration  of  his  term,  in  1874,  was  again 
chosen  to  occupy  the  ofiice,  in  which  he  was  ac- 
counted an  able,  efficient  and  conscientious  officer. 
In  the  fall  of  1880  he  was  elected  to  the  state 
legislature.  For  some  j'ears  he  was  a  director  in 
the  City  National  Bank,  and  continued  interested 
in  the  institution  after  its  absorption  by  the  Amer- 
ican National  Bank.  By  the  enhanced  value  of 
his  landed  estate  and  by  his  success  in  the 
cattle  business,  he  has  become  wealthy,  and  after 
more  than  thirty  years  of  honorable  labor  he  now 
lives  in  contented  retirement.  By  his  marriage 
to  the  daughter  of  Gideon  Blackburn,  a  resident 
of  Pettis  County,  Mo.,  he  became  the  father  of 
five  children:  Charles  W.;  Edward  V.,  an  exten- 
sive cattle  grower  in  Wray;  Josie  C.  and  Harry, 
deceased;  and  Walter  A.,  a  youth  of  sixteen 
years.  Through  all  the  years  of  his  residence  in 
Colorado,  Mr.  Bowles  has  never  entirely  aban- 
doned mining  and  he  now  has  extensive  mining 
interests  in  Eldoro,  Colo. ,  which  promise  much. 

When  our  subject  was  three  years  of  age  the 
family  settled  upon  the  ranch.  He  attended  the 
public  schools  of  Littleton,  later  took  a  commer- 
cial course  at  Notre  Dame,  Ind.,  and  also  spent 
one  year  as  a  student  in  the  State  University  at 
Boulder.  On  completing  his  education  he  went  to 
Wray,  where  he  was  employed  for  four  years  as 
foreman  on  his  father's  ranch.  Since  that  time 
he  has  resided  on  the  home  ranch.  March  20, 
1892,  he  married  Addie  N.,  daughter  of  T.  J. 
and  Susan  E.  (Randolph)  Lee,  the  former  a 
prominent  farmer  of  Fort  Logan.  Three  chil- 
dren have  been  born  of  their  union:    Nellie  C, 


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who  was  born  October  13,  1893;  Albert,  deceased; 
and  Baby  Ed.  Politically  Mr.  Bowles  is  a  Re- 
publican. In  May,  1897,  ^^  was  elected  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Littleton  school  board  and  in  that  ofiSce 
has  striven  to  advance  the  educational  interests 
of  the  town. 


(TAMES    B.    TOURTELLOT.      During    the 

I  thirty-five  years  of  his  residence  in  Boulder 
Q)  County  Mr.  Tourtellot  has  owned  many 
tracts  of  land,  and  now  has  in  his  home  place 
some  two  hundred  and  eighty  acres,  where  he  is 
giving  his  attention  to  the  cattle  business.  Be- 
sides this,  he  is  the  owner  of  three  hundred  acres 
scattered  in  different  parts  of  this  county.  As  a 
stockman  he  is  enterprising,  judicious  and  perse- 
vering, and  the  prosperity  he  now  enjoys  repre- 
sents his  intelligent  labor  through  the  past  years. 

In  Rhode  Island,  February  26,  1841,  the  sub- 
ject of  this  sketch  was  born  to  Jonathan  A.  and 
Maria  (Wade)  Tourtellot,  and  is  the  only  sur- 
vivor of  four  children  comprising  the  family. 
His  parents  were  natives  of  Rhode  Island.  His 
father,  who  was  born  in  18 12,  was  a  son  of  Jesse 
Tourtellot,  whose  family  resided  in  Rhode  Island 
while  he  engaged  in  business  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio, 
he  being  one  of  the  first  pork  packers  in  that 
city.  Once  every  year  he  visited  his  family  in 
the  east,  making  the  trip  both  ways  on  horse- 
back. 

A  man  of  versatile  ability,  Jonathan  A.  Tour- 
tellot was  interested  in  various  enterprises,  hav- 
ing farming  interests,  also  engaged  in  the  mer- 
cantile and  woolen  mill  business.  In  1853  ^^ 
moved  to  the  western  part  of  Connecticut,  and 
there  remained  until  1855,  when  he  returned  to 
Rhode  Island.  The  following  year  he  came  west 
as  far  as  Geneseo,  Henry  County,  111.,  where  he 
remained  until  i860.  There  his  active  dispo- 
sition found  a  channel  for  its  outlet  in  various 
enterprises,  such  as  farming,  the  hotel  business, 
the  management  of  a  flouring  mill,  etc.  In  i860 
he  formed  one  of  the  Colorado  pioneers,  coming 
to  Boulder,  where  he  opened  a  hotel  and  general 
store  and  became  interested  in  mining.  He  was 
one  of  the  active  business  men  of  this  city  until 
his  death,  which  occurred  in  1870. 

At  the  age  of  eighteen  years  our  subject  left  the 
parental  home.  In  1859  he  went  to  California 
and  worked  for  an  uncle  in  San  Francisco  in  the 
milk  business,  spending  the  greater  part  of  five 


years  in  that  city.  From  that  state  he  took  a 
.steamer  to  the  isthmus  and  thence  to  New  York, 
after  which  he  visited  his  relatives  for  a  short 
time.  It  was  his  intention  to  proceed  by  .stage 
from  Atchison  to  Colorado,  but  at  Atchison  he 
found  the  Indian  depredations  had  resulted  in  an 
abandonment  of  the  stage  line,  so  he  went  to 
Omaha,  where  he  traveled  by  stage  to  Fort 
Kearney,  and  from  there  hired  out  to  drive  a 
four- mule  team  to  one  of  a  train  of  freighters' 
wagons  bound  for  Denver.  Notwithstanding 
that  Indians  were  exceedingly  hostile,  they  ar- 
rived at  their  destination  without  having  encoun- 
tered any  of  the  red  men.  From  Denver  he  came 
to  Boulder  County,  where  he  has  since  engaged 
in  the  cattle  business. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Tourtellot  to  Miss  Sarah, 
daughter  of  Marinus  G.  Smith,  a  Colorado  pio- 
neer of  1858,  occurred  April  8,  1866.  Eleven 
children  were  born  of  their  union,  namely: 
Charles,  who  is  a  farmer  in  Arizona;  James,  of 
Eeadville;  Maria,  wife  of  Arthur  H.  Allen,  a 
druggist  in  Denver;  Albert;  Louise,  deceased; 
Ralph,  who  lives  in  Leadville;  Amy,  a  graduate 
of  the  preparatory  school  in  Boulder  and  now  a 
teacher  in  district  schools;  Jo,  also  a  graduate 
of  the  preparatory  school;  Curtis,  who  is  engaged 
in  farming  in  Boulder  County;  Frank  and  Walter, 
who  are  still  at  home.  In  politics  Mr.  Tourtel- 
lot is  liberal,  with  sympathies  toward'  the  Demo- 
cratic party.  In  1866,  being  the  lowest  bidder, 
he  was  appointed  to  assess  Boulder  County.  He 
has  had  no  desire  for  public  office,  preferring  to 
give  his  attention  wholly  to  business  afiairs. 


N  OLDEN  RENNINGTON  ELDRED.  Of 
the  pioneers  of  Colorado  few  crossed  the 
plains  more  times  then  did  the  gentle- 
man whose  name  stands  at  the  head  of  this  re- 
view, and  very  few  had  more  narrow  escapes  and 
thrilling  experiences  in  dealing  with  the  hostile 
Indians  than  fell  to  his  share.  He  has  lived  to 
see  peace  and  plenty,  civilization  and  progress 
possess  those  once  barren  valleys,  and  '  'the  desert 
blossom  like  the  rose,"  and  can  truly  feel  that  he 
has  been  no  unimportant  factor  in  the  happy  re- 
sult. He  is  justly  entitled  to  an  honored  place 
among  the  Colorado  Pioneers'  Association,  to 
which  he  has  belonged  for  many  years. 

Born  in   Medina  County,  Ohio,  May   3,  1837, 


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our  subject  is  a  sou  of  Dr.  Holden  and  P0II3' 
(Tryou)  Eldred,  natives  of  London,  England, 
and  Glasgow,  Scotland,  respectively.  Dr.  Holden 
Eldred  was  a  graduate  of  a  London  medical  col- 
lege, and  in  the  early  part  of  this  century  crossed 
the  Atlantic  Ocean  in  a  sailing  vessel,  here  to 
found  a  home.  He  lived  at  first  in  New  York 
state,  but  later  removed  to  Medina,  Ohio,  and  in 
1842  to  Lowell,  Dodge  County,  Wis.,  where  he 
was  actively  engaged  in  the  practice  of  his  pro- 
fession until  he  retired  from  arduous  labor.  He 
was  ninety-four  years  old  at  the  time  of  his  death. 
His  wife  was  a  daughter  of  David  Tryon,  who 
was  an  Ohio  farmer  for  many  years.  Mrs.  El- 
dred was  severely  injured  when  sixty-five  j'ears 
old,  by  a  runaway  team,  and  died  from  the  effects 
of  the  injuries  received.  Dr.  Eldred  and  wife 
were  the  parents  of  thirteen  children,  all  but  one 
of  whom  lived  to  maturity.  Six  of  the  number 
are  now  living.  Two  of  the  sons  were  soldiers  in 
the  Union  army  during  the  Civil  war;  Daniel  was 
a  colonel  in  the  Tenth  Wisconsin,  of  which  his 
brother  Martin  w^s  also  a  member.  Frederick 
has  been  engaged  in  mining   in    Boulder  since 

1875- 

H.  R.  Eldred  received  good  common-school 
advantages  in  Wisconsin  in  his  youth.  March 
25,  i860,  he  married  Ophelia  P.  Allen,  who  was 
a  native  of  Wisconsin,  and  is  a  daughter  of  Judge 
A.  P.  Allen  and  sister  of  Dr.  H.  W.  Allen,  of 
Boulder.  (See  his  sketch,  which  appears  else- 
where in  this  volume.)  Upon  the  second  of 
April,  i860,  the  young  couple  set  out  upon  their 
wedding  tour,  a  journey  across  the  plains.  The}' 
were  accompanied  by  Judge  Allen  and  other  mem- 
bers of  his  family,  and  by  some  friends  and  neigh- 
bors. The  party  went  to  Denver  by  way  of 
Plattsmouth,  ox- teams  conveying  them  and  neces- 
.sary  equipments.  Our  subject  then  engaged  in 
freighting  to  and  through  the  mountains,  and 
crossed  the  plains  nineteen  times  with  teams. 
Several  times  in  1863  and  1865  he  participated  in 
skirmishes  and  fights  with  the  Indians,  and  in  the 
intermediate  year  was  lieutenant  of  the  Tyler 
Rangers,  who  were  organized  at  Blackhawk, 
for  protection  of  .settlers  and  in  order  to  keep  the 
route  to  the  west  free  from  attacks  by  the  Red- 
skins. He  then  took  up  his  abode  in  Blackhawk, 
and  was  there  occupied  in  merchandising  until 
1867.  He  next  went  into  partnership  with  his 
brother,  Frederick,  and  carried  on  a  store  in  Val- 


mont,  but  the  grasshopper  became  a  burden,  and 
in  1868  H.  R.  Eldred  resumed  his  former  occu- 
pation of  transporting  goods.  He  freighted  from 
a  point  about  three  hundred  miles  east  of  Chey- 
enne to  that  village,  and  thence  to  Blackhawk, 
Valmont  and  Boulder.  Later  he  turned  his  at- 
tention to  agricultural  pursuits,  his  ranch  being 
near  Valmont,  on  the  Boulder  River.  From  1880 
to  1883  he  dwelt  in  Boulder,  after  which  he  re- 
turned to  his  farm  and  cultivated  the  place  for 
ten  years.  In  1893  he  sold  the  homestead,  and 
has  since  lived  in  Boulder.  Here  he  purchased 
the  old  Colorado  livery  stable  and  has  since  man- 
aged it.  The  location  of  the  livery  is  on  Thir- 
teenth street,  west  of  the  courthouse.  Years 
ago  Mr.  Eldred  became  identified  with  the  Ma- 
sonic order,  and  still  holds  membership  with 
Central  City  Lodge  No.  6,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.  Polit- 
ically he  is  a  silver  Republican. 

The  five  children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Eldred  are: 
Frank,  of  Sheridan,  Wyo. ;  Schuyler,  who  is 
engaged  in  freighting,  with  his  headquarters  in 
Boulder;  Hanley  Holden,  now  in  the  prepara- 
tory school,  of  the  classof '99;  May,  who  died  at 
the  age  of  six  months;  and  Bertie,  who  lived  to 
be  three  years  and  seven  months  old. 


"HOMAS  CARROLL  HAYES  is  the  only 
stone  contractor  doing  business  in  Denver 
who  learned  the  trade  in  America.  He  be- 
gan contracting  in  this  city  in  1878,  his  first  work 
being  for  ex-Governor  Evans,  Colonel  Archer 
and  Edwin  C.  Platte,  since  which  time  he  has 
had  contracts  for  some  of  the  best  buildings  here. 
Frequently  he  has  been  given  the  preference  over 
bidders  lower  than  himself,  a  fact  which  speaks 
volumes  for  his  efiiciency,  skill  and  reliability. 
For  years  he  furnished  the  stone  for  every  build- 
ing erected  in  Denver  (including  the  granite  for 
the  United  States  Mint),  and  he  is  still  one  of 
the  largest  contractors  in  the  city,  where  since 
1891  he  has  had  his  business  headquarters  at 
Lawrence  and  Sixth  streets. 

Mr.  Hayes  was  born  in  County  Kerry,  Ireland, 
in  1849,  the  fourth  among  nine  children,  all  of 
whom  came  to  America  and  all  are  still  living. 
His  parents,  Patrick  and  Johanna  (Carroll) 
Hayes,  came  to  this  country  when  advanced  in 
years  and  joined  their  children  in  Ohio.  The 
father  died   while  visiting  in   Ireland,   and   the 


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mother  passed  away  in  Toledo,  Ohfo.  Our  sub- 
ject was  educated  in  the  national  schools  at  Banna 
and  Ardfert,  and  about  1868  came  to  the  United 
States,  settling  in  Toledo,  where  he  attended  the 
School  of  Design  and  learned  the  stonecutter's 
trade.  This  occupation  he  followed  in  Ohio, 
Michigan  and  Canada,  and  while  in  the  latter 
country  had  the  contract  for  the  erection  of  a 
large  bank  building  in  Montreal.  While  in  Ohio 
he  was  foreman  in  the  erection  of  a  block  for  ex- 
President  Hayes  and  Gen.  Ralph  Buckland.  In 
November,  1875,  he  came  to  Colorado  and  en- 
gaged as  foreman  with  Alexander  Young,  under 
whom  he  had  been  apprenticed  in  Ohio  and  who 
now  owned  quarries  in  Morrison,  Colo.  In  1878 
he  began  contracting  in  Denver  as  a  member  of 
the  firm  of  Hayes  &  Cain,  with  shop  first  on 
Sixth  and  Lari'mer  streets,  then  on  Tenth  and 
Wazee  streets,  and  finally  on  Sixth  and  I/awrence. 
After  dissolving  his  partnership  with  Mr.  Cain 
he  was  alone  for  a  time,  then  became  the  head  of 
the  firm  of  Hayes  &  McGilvery.  He  owns  an 
interest  in  large  granite  quarries  in  Fremont 
County,  and  is  also  interested  in  the  Platte  Canon 
quarries  in  Jefierson  County. 

Among  his  contracts  may  be  mentioned  the 
following:  Walla  Halla  Hall  for  Charles  I,eisen- 
ring;  City  Hall,  built  of  Castle  Rock  stone; 
Glenarm  Hotel,  Alkire  block,  Colorado  National 
Bank  and  Lathrop  blocks,  Times  building,  Symes 
block  and  the  Daniels  and  Fisher  building,  the 
above  by  the  firm  of  Hayes  &  Cain.  While 
alone  he  had  many  important  contracts,  among 
them  that  for  the  first  stone  front  in  Cheyenne, 
Wyo. ,  built  by  United  States  Senator  (then  Gov- 
ernor) F.  E.  Warren,  and  for  a  time  used  as  the 
state  capitol,  but  now  utilized  for  business  pur- 
poses. While  in  partnership  with  John  D. 
McGilvery  he  built  the  postofi&ce,  custom  house, 
St.  lyeo's  Church,  Barth  and  Jacobson  blocks, 
Wolfe  Londoner  and  Pioneer  blocks,  Granite 
building,  Lewis  block,  East  Denver  high  school 
building,  Logan  school,  North  Denver  high 
school  building,  Masonic  Temple,  I.  O.  O.  F. 
block,  East  Turner  Hall,  Kittredge  building, 
McPhee  building,  Welsh  building  (now  the 
Albert  Hotel) ,  McClintock  and  McCune  blocks, 
power  houses  for  both  the  tramway  and  cable, 
Kinneavy  block,  both  cable  viaducts  and  bridges 
across  the  river.  Since  he  has  been  alone  a 
second  time  he  has  built  the  Printers'  National 


Home  in  Colorado  Springs  and  rebuilt  the  Union 
Depot  after  the  fire;  also  the  Hayes  terrace  on 
Thirteenth  and  Curtis  streets. 

Mr.  Hayes  was  one  of  the  incorporators  of  the 
Denver  Paving  Company,  of  which  some  of  the 
prominent  men  in  Denver  and  on  the  Pacific 
coast  are  members.  He  is  a  director  of  the 
Master  Builders'  Association,  and  is  treasurer  of 
the  Stone  Cutters'  Association.  On  the  organ- 
ization of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  and  Board 
of  Trade  he  became  identified  therewith.  He  is 
a  strong  and  faithful  friend  of  the  white  metal, 
and  in  national  politics  is  allied  with  the  Demo- 
crats. In  Denver  he  married  Miss  Jessie  McGil- 
vray,  who  was  born  in  Ireland,  but  lived  in 
Forfarshire,  Scotland,  from  the  age  of  three  until 
she  came  to  the  United  States.  They  have  two 
children,  Alice  and  William  Gladstone. 


y/llCHAEL  P.  FOX  is  an  energetic  and 
Y  prosperous  citizen  of  Boulder  County,  and 
(3  in  the  varied  operations  to  which  he  has 
given  his  attention  he  has  met  with  almost  in- 
variable success.  His  executive  talent  and  fore- 
sight are  truly  remarkable  and  well  he  deserves 
the  good  fortune  which  he  now  enjoys.  As  late 
as  1884  he  began  farming  in  earnest,  and  year 
by  year  he  has  increased  his  landed  possessions 
until  he  is  now  one  of  the  most  extensive  property 
holders  in  the  county.  In  all  public  affairs  he  is 
conservative,  keeping  out  of  politics  and  devot- 
ing himself  almost  exclusively  to  his  business, 
home  and  family. 

The  parents  of  our  subject,  Michael  W.  and 
Delia  B.  (Prior)  Fox,  had  eight  children.  Ann 
is  the  wife  of  T.  McTierman,  a  Denver  builder 
and  contractor;  Margaret  is  the  wife  of  T.  Mc- 
Nulty,  a  coal  miner;  James  and  Timothy  are 
residents  of  Pennsylvania;  .Frank  is  engaged  in 
mining  in  San  Juan,  Colo.;  and  Mary  and  Delia 
are  living  in  Ireland.  Delia  B.  is  the  wife  of 
Louis  Cull,  of  County  Leitrim.  The  father  was 
a  native  of  County  Leitrim  and  followed  agri- 
cultural pursuits  during  his  whole  life. 

Michael  P.  Fox  was  born  in  County  Leitrim 
in  1844  and  resided  under  the  parental  roof  until 
he  was  sixteen  years  old.  He  acquired  a  general 
education,  sufficient  for  all  his  needs,  in  the 
common  schools,  and  in  i860  he  concluded  to 
strike  out  for  himself.     In  August  of  that  year 


GEORGE  F.  CHASE. 


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he  landed  in  New  York  City,  where  he  found  va- 
rious kinds  of  employment  for  some  six  months. 
Then  he  spent  the  most  of  two  years  working  in 
the  state  quarries  in  Vermont,  after  which  he 
went  to  Massachusetts.  He  became  a  practical 
miner  in  the  Hoosac  Tunnel  mines,  where  he 
continued  to  be  employed  up  to  1869.  That  year 
he  came  to  Colorado,  and,  settling  in  Erie,  Weld 
County,  he  engaged  in  coal  mining  there  for  a 
year.  Later  he  went  to  Ralston  Creek,  near 
Golden,  and  mined  for  another  two  years.  In 
1 87 1  he  purchased  eighty  acres  of  land  in  Boulder 
County,  a  portion  of  his  present  homestead.  He 
continued  his  mining  operations  and  in  the  year 
that  saw  Colorado  admitted  to  statehood  he 
bought  his  first  tract  of  coal  land.  This  he 
worked  up  to  four  years  ago,  when  he  leased  it 
to  other  parties.  In  December,  1897,  he  com- 
menced developing  his  valuable  coal  mine,  which 
is  in  full  operation  and  promises  yet  greater 
things.  Since  he  settled  in  this  county  Mr.  Fox 
has  invested  his  money  largely  in  land  and  now 
owns  upward  of  sixteen  hundred  acres.  Four- 
teen years  ago  he  became  specially  interested  in 
farming  and  stock-raising,  and  in  these  directions 
he  has  met  with  success  equal  to  that  which  has 
blessed  him  as  a  miner. 

The  pleasant  home  of  Mr.  Fox  owns  as  its 
mistress  a  lady  who  before  her  marriage  with  our 
subject  was  Miss  Elizabeth  Wilhelm,  of  Marshall. 
The  marriage  of  this  worthy  couple  was  solem- 
nized in  1883,  and  to  them  five  children  have 
been  born,  namely:  Guy,  Michael  P.,  Charles  J., 
Alva  T.  (deceased)  and  Dewey. 


"3  EORGE  F.  CHASE,  of  Boulder,  is  a  charter 
_  member  of  the  Boulder  County  Pioneer  As- 
^Jl  sociation,  and  has  been  an  active  and  inter- 
ested witness  in  the  development  of  this  town  and 
county  from  its  early  history.  He  has  made  his 
home  in  the  county-seat  for  the  past  thirty  years, 
during  which  period  he  has  been  very  influential 
in  the  support  of  local  improvements  and  indus- 
tries. He  was  one  of  the  promoters  and  builders 
of  the  Boulder  and  Central  City  toll  road,  which 
was  later  sold  to  the  Union  Pacific  Railroad,  and 
was  a  liberal  contributor  to  the  Boulder  Valley 
Railroad  at  the  time  of  its  construction.  Politi- 
cally he  is  a  true-blue  Republican;  has  served 


one  term  as  county  commissioner  of  this  county 
and  has  been  a  member  of  the  board  of  trustees  of 
the  town. 

Three  brothers  of  the  name  of  Chase  emigrated 
from  England  to  the  United  States,  and  settled 
in  New  Hampshire,  where  they  engaged  in  farm- 
ing. One  of  the  number  was  the  great-great- 
grandfather of  the  gentleman  of  whom  we  write. 
Grandfather  Nicholas  Chase,  a  native  of  New 
Hampshire  and  a  farmer  by  occupation,  lived  to 
be  four-score  years  old.  Our  subject's  parents 
were  George  W.  and  Ann  A.  (Matthews)  Chase, 
natives  of  Stratham  and  Portsmouth,  Rocking- 
ham County,  N.  H.,  respectively.  The  father 
was  a  contractor  and  builder,  and  in  his  early 
married  life  lived  in  Lowell,  Mass.,  thence  re- 
moving to  Newfield,  Me.,  where  he  engaged  in 
general  merchandising,  and  operated  a  dyeing  and 
fulling  mill.  He  died  in  that  town  in  1873,  aged 
sixty-four  years.  Religiously  he  was  a  Free- 
will Baptist.  His  wife  died  in  Lowell,  Mass.,  in 
1839,  and  of  their  two  children  but  one  lived  to 
maturity. 

George  P.  Chase  was  born  in  Lowell,  August 
3,  1837,  and  in  the  public  schools  and  academies 
of  Maine  he  received  an  excellent  education. 
When  the  western  fever  took  hold  of  so  many 
citizens  in  this  country,  1859,  he  and  four  other 
young  men  started  from  Maine,  and  from  Clinton, 
Iowa,  proceeded  westward  with  wagons  drawn  by 
oxen.  While  proceeding  through  Nebraska, 
they  met  a  continuous  stream  of  wagons  return- 
ing east,  and  one  day  counted  two  hundred  and 
sixty.  In  place  of  the  pictured  elephant  with  the 
legend,  "We  are  going  to  see  the  elephant," 
which  had  decorated  many  of  the  wagons  west- 
ward bound,  was  the  sign,  "We  have  seen  the 
elephant;"  others  had  as«  sequel  to  the  old  term 
"Pike's  Peak  or  bust,"  Pike's  Peak  and  busted." 
It  had  been  the  intention  of  Mr.  Cha.se  and  his 
comrades  to  go  on  to  California,  but,  arriving  at 
Fort  Laramie  the  day  after  Horace  Greeley  had 
given  an  address  there,  in  which  he  counseled 
people  to  locate  in  Colorado  instead,  as  he  had 
been  in  both  states  and  spoke  from  experience, 
the  little  party  concluded  to  act  upon  his  advice. 
Colorado  was  then  apart  of  Nebraska  and  Kansas 
Territories,  and  the  line  between  the  states  of 
Nebraska  and  Kansas  was  not  surveyed  until 
some  months  afterwards.  Mr.  Chase  arrived  in 
Boulder  July  22,   1859  (about  six  months  after 


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the  town  had  been  laid  out)  and  with  his  com- 
panions built  the  first  two-story  log  house  in  the 
place.  They  engaged  in  prospecting  less  than 
two  months  before  three  of  the  party  returned 
east.  H.  P.  Butler,  now  of  North  Park,  was'the 
other  man  who  with  our  subject  concluded  to  stay 
here. 

The  fall  of  1859  Mr.  Chase  took  up  land  on 
South  Boulder  Creek,  three  and  a-half  miles 
southeast  of  this  town.  He  erected  a  log  house, 
and  in  the  spring  of  the  year  following  put  into 
operation  plans  of  irrigating  the  land  that  proved 
very  successful.  He  has  ever  since  been  engaged 
in  general  farming  and  stock-raising  on  this 
place,  but  has  made  his  home  in  Boulder  for 
thirty  years.  In  1866  Mr.  Chase  took  up  a 
quarter  section  of  land  in  Weld  County,  near  the 
Platte  River,  and  engaged  in  stock-raising  there 
up  till  1875,  when  he  sold  the  property;  however, 
he  never  lived  in  Weld  County,  but  conducted 
the  place  by  tenants.  In  1863  he  built  a  frame 
house  here,  but  it  was  later  burned,  and  he  erected 
another  one  for  his  family. 

May  14,  1864,  Mr.  Chase  returned  to  Maine  and 
married  Miss  Augusta  A.  Staples,  a  native  of 
that  state,  and  daughter  of  Isaac  Staples,  a  farmer. 
He  lived  to  the  extreme  age  of  ninety-five  years, 
dying  in  1895.  The  young  couple  had  an  ex- 
citing wedding  journey  across  the  plains,  for  In- 
dian troubles  were  prevalent,  and  at  Fort  Kearney 
they  stayed  until  three  hundred  wagons  had 
assembled  there  when  a  government  escort  of 
troops  was  provided  the  company.  All  along  the 
way  they  saw  deserted  ranches  and  ruined  cabins, 
and  each  night  Mr.  Chase  and  his  brother-in-law 
kept  watch,  taking  turns  in  guarding  their  prop- 
erty. The  five  children  born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Chase  are:  Frederick  J^ ,  who  graduated  from 
the  University  of  Colorado  in  1885;  took  a  post- 
graduate course  in  Yale  College  and  is  now  pro- 
fessor of  astronomy  in  that  institution;  George 
A.,  who  was assayer  in  Boulder  until  his  death 
in  1897,  at  the  age  of  thirty  years;  Charles  H., 
who  died  in  his  eighteenth  year;  Harry  A. ,  a 
member  of  the  University  of  Colorado,  class  of '  99 , 
and  captain  of  the  university  foot-ball  team;  and 
Susie,  who  died  in  childhood. 

For  over  thirty  years  Mr.  Chase  has  been  a 
deacon  and  trustee  of  the  Congregational  Church 
in  Boulder.  Fraternally  he  is  a  member  of  Co- 
lumbia Lodge  No.  14,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.;  isastaud- 


ard-bearer  of  Mount  Sinai  Commandery  No.  7, 
K.  T.;  is  king  of  Boulder  Chapter  No.  7,  R.  A.  M., 
and  belongs  to  El  Jebel  Temple,  Mystic  Shrine, 
of  Denver.  He  was  probably  the  first  one  initi- 
ated into  Columbia  Lodge  after  it  was  removed 
from  Ward  to  Boulder,  and  for  twenty-nine  years 
he  has  been  its  treasurer.  He  is  one  of  the 
trustees  of  the  Boulder  Masonic  Temple  Associ- 
ation, which  boasts  one  of  the  handsomest  and 
most  complete  lodge-rooms  to  be  found  anywhere. 
Mr.  Chase  is  also  a  member  and  noble  commander 
of  the  Order  of  the  Golden  Cross.  He  was  in- 
fluential in  securing  the  university  for  Boulder. 


pQlLLIAM  C.  AUTREY.     In   July,    1870, 

I  A/  ^^'■^  ^'^  brother  Thomas,  the  subject  of 
V  V  this  sketch  homesteaded  eighty  acres  of 
land  where  he  now  lives,  two  miles  .southeast  of 
Superior,  Boulder  County,  and  here  embarked 
in  the  cattle  business.  After  a  time  another 
eighty-acre  tract  was  added  to  the  original  pur- 
chase, and  as  other  property  came  to  them  from 
time  to  time,  a  division  was  finally  made,  William 
receiving  the  homestead  of  one  hundred  and  sixty 
acres.  About  1885  he  purchased  three  hundred 
and  twenty  acres  of  railroad  land,  making  his 
present  place  one  of  four  hundred  and  eighty 
acres,  on  which  he  is  engagad  in  farming,  dairy- 
ing and  stock-raising. 

In  Andrew  County,  Mo.,  Mr.  Autrey  was  born 
January  26,  1846,  a  son  of  James  S. ,  and  Sarah 
(Robinson)  Autrey.  He  was  one  of  eleven  chil- 
dren, ten  of  whom  are  still  living,  namely:  Mary, 
wife  of  David  Estey;  Isaac;  Sarah,  wife  of  James 
C.  Jones;  Thomas;  William  C. ;  Edward;  Elijah; 
Mrs.  Susan  Ellsworth;  Nancy  M.,  wife  of  Henry 
Holt;  and  George  K.  The  father,  who  was  a 
native  of  North  Carolina,  born  in  18 15,  accom- 
panied his  parents  to  Tennessee  in  childhood  and 
there  grew  to  manhood  and  married  Miss  Robin- 
son, who  was  born  in  that  state  in  18 15.  Shortly 
after  his  marriage  he  moved  to  Indiana  and  for  a 
few  years  made  his  home  there.  Migrating  to 
Missouri,  he  resided  in  DeKalb  and  Andrew 
Counties  until  1869,  and  then  came  to  Colorado, 
where  he  invested  in  Denver  real  estate.  During 
the  remainder  of  his  life  he  engaged  in  no  active 
business,  but  gave  his  time  to  the  management 
of  his  property  interests  and  received  a  good  in- 
come therefrom.     With  the  exception  of  a  short 


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time  in  Arkansas,  he  continued  to  reside  in 
Denver  until  1892.  From  this  city  he  went  to 
Cheyenne,  where  he  bought  property.  After- 
wards, for  some  years,  he  resided  in  Pueblo, 
Colo. ,  where  he  owned  residence  and  business 
property.  From  Pueblo  he  returned  to  Denver, 
but  in  1892  removed  to  Canada,  where  he  re- 
mained until  his  death,  in  1895. 

The  education  obtained  by  our  subject  was 
such  as  the  common  schools  afforded.  In  the 
spring  of  1866  he  began  for  himself,  going  to 
Minnesota,  where  for  eighteen  months  he  was  en- 
gaged as  a  farm  hand.  Returning  to  Missouri  in 
1867,  with  his  brother  Thomas  he  engaged  in 
farming  for  two  seasons.  In  1869,  when  the 
family  migrated  to  Colorado,  he  accompanied 
them,  arriving  in  Denver  in  January  of  that  year. 
For  a  short  time  he  attended  school,  after  which 
he  engaged  in  freighting  from  Denver  to  the  end 
of  the  railroad,  which  had  then  reached  Evans, 
Colo.  Since  1870  he  has  given  his  attention 
successfully  to  agricultural  pursuits. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Autrey  occurred  Decem- 
ber 9,  1877,  and  united  him  with  Miss  Zelda  E. , 
daughter  of  William  C.  Hake  (see  sketch  upon 
another  page  for  family  history) .  Five  children 
were  born  of  their  union,  all  of  whom  are  at  home. 
They  are  named  as  follows:  William  Frederick, 
born  November  17,  1878;  Clinton  Elmer,  October 
24,  1882;  Addie  E.,  November  16,  1885;  Byrna 
Grace,  September  23,  1892;  and  James  Sterling, 
May  20,  1898.  Fraternally  Mr.  Autrey  is  identi- 
fied with  Louisville  Camp  No.  137,  Woodmen  of 
the  World,  and  his  wife  is  connected  with  the 
Ladies  Circle  No.  123,  of  Louisville,  an  auxiliary 
of  the  Woodmen  of  the  World. 


3D.  HILL  settled  in  Littleton  in  1870  and 
has  since  made  his  home  in  this  pretty  and 
prosperous  suburb  of  Denver.  For  a  time 
after  coming  here  he  was  employed  in  the  Rough 
and  Ready  mill,  but  in  1872  he  embarked  in  the 
mercantile  business,  which  he  has  since  con- 
ducted, carrying  in  his  store  a  general  stock  of 
goods.  About  1885,  in  connection  with  I.  S. 
Morse,  he  established  the  Littleton  Creamery 
Company,  of  which  he  has  since  been  president 
and  Mr.  Morse  secretary  and  manager.  To  this 
concern  the  most  of  his  time  and  attention  are  now 
given.      The    business  includes    creameries    at 


Littleton,  Sedalia,  Castlerock  and  Parker,  with 
an  office  and  warerooms  at  Nos.  1732-36  Blake 
street,  Denver.  From  the  parent  creamery  at 
Littleton  the  other  concerns  have  sprung,  but  at 
the  present  time  this  is  the  least  important  sta- 
tion of  the  four. 

In  the  town  of  Spencer,  Worcester  County, 
Mass.,  Mr.  Hill  was  born  August  13,  1843,  the 
son  of  Dexter  and  Eliza  (Prouty)  Hill.  He  was 
one  of  five  children,  of  whom  besides  himself  two 
survive,  C.  P.,  of  Oakham,  Mass.,  and  O.  G.,  a 
druggist  of  Littleton.  The  father  was  born  in 
1807  in  Worcester  County,  where  his  ancestors 
had  lived  for  several  generations.  He  devoted 
his  active  life  to  the  mercantile  business  and  died 
at  the  age  of  forty- six.  He  was  a  man  of  good 
moral  character  and  undoubted  integrity  and  as 
such  was  highly  respected. 

Mr.  Hill  was  eighteen  j'ears  of  age  when  the 
Civil  war  began.  He  had  taught  one  term  of 
.school  in  New  Hampshire  prior  to  that  time,  but 
at  once  abandoned  the  occupation  and  entered  the 
service  of  the  Union.  August  16,  1861,  he  en- 
listed in  Company  H,  Twenty-fifth  Massachu- 
setts Infantry,  under  Capt.  O.  Moulton  and  Col. 
Edwin  Upton.  Among  the  important  battles  in 
which  he  took  part  were  those  of  Newberne, 
N.  C,  Roanoke  Island,  Kenston,  N.  C,  Bermuda 
Hundred,  Petersburg  and  Cold  Harbor,  and  he 
also  bore  himself  valiantly  in  the  minor  engage- 
ments of  the  regiment.  In  the  statistics  drawn 
up  by  Colonel  Fox,  that  great  statistician  states 
that  the  Twenty-fifth  Massachusetts  heads  the 
list  in  number  of  its  killed,  having  lost  seventy- 
one  per  cent,  in  the  battle  of  Cold  Harbor  alone, 
and  of  the  three  hundred  fighting  regiments  in 
the  army  none  equalled  that  number. 

Mustered  out  of  service  at  the  expiration  of  the 
war,  Mr.  Hill  returned  to  Worcester,  Mass. ,  and 
entered  the  employ  of  the  Adams  Express  Com- 
pany, remaining  in  that  position  for  a  year.  July 
24,  1866,  he  arrived  in  Denver  after  a  trip  of 
twenty-six  days  across  the  plains.  Shortly  after 
arriving  here  he  secured  a  contract  to  cut  one 
hundred  and  fifty  tons  of  hay  on  the  Platte  near 
Fort  Lupton.  After  this  was  finished  he  returned 
to  Denver  and  for  a  time  was  variously  employed. 
The  Union  Pacific  road  had  by  that  time  been 
completed  as  far  west  as  Fort  Kearney  and  he 
secured  employment  with  the  corporation,  being 
employed  for  two  years  in  the  construction  of  this 


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and  the  Central  Pacific  roads.  He  came  to  Little- 
ton in  1870  and  has  since  become  one  of  the  pros- 
perous business  men  of  this  place.  He  is  a  silver 
Republican  and,  like  all  veterans  of  the  war, 
takes  an  interest  in  Grand  Army  matters. 

Mrs.  Inez  B.  Hill,  our  subject's  wife,  is  a 
daughter  of  B.  J.  Berry,  who  was  born  in 
Machiasport,  Me. ,  and  from  there  moved  to  Colo- 
rado in  1866,  settling  at  Littleton,  where  he  con- 
tinued to  reside  until  his  death  in  1897.  On^ 
daughter  blessed  this  union,  Eva  E.  Hill,  born  in 
Littleton,  and  a  graduate  of  the  Littleton  school. 


i  yiAXMILLIAN  NEEF,  treasurer  of  Neef 
Y  Brothers'  Brewing  Company  and  a  resident 
(^  of  Denver  since  1873,  was  born  in  Wolfach, 
Baden,  Germany,  and  is  the  son  of  Rudolph  and 
Paulina  (Armbruster)  Neef , both  natives  of  Baden. 
His  paternal  grandfather,  Louis  Neef,  was  for 
many  years  engaged  in  the  meat  business  in  Ba- 
den, and  during  the  Napoleonic  wars  served  as 
captain  of  a  company  that  accompanied  the  illus- 
trious general  on  the  march  to  Moscow ;  during 
his  term  of  service  he  was  seriously  wounded. 
He  died  when  seventy-one  years  of  age. 

For  years  Rudolph  Neef  carried  on  the  largest 
hotel  business  of  anyone  in  his  place,  which  on 
account  of  its  springs  was  a  noted  health  resort. 
He  was  the  originator  of  Kiefernadeln  oil  (the 
original  St.  Jacob's  oil),  which  he  manufactured 
from  certain  kinds  of  pine  tree  needles  and  from 
which  St.  Jacob's  oil  has  been  produced,  the  two 
being  alike  except  that  the  American  St.  Jacob's 
oil  has  coal  for  its  principal  ingredient.  He  died 
at  the  age  of  sixty-five.  Twice  married,  he  is 
survived  by  his  second  wife,  who  has  conducted 
the  hotel  since  his  death.  By  his  first  wife  he  had 
twelve  children  and  of  these  eight  are  living,  all 
in  Germany  except  two.  One  son,  Fred,  came 
to  America  in  1871  and  two  years  later  settled  in 
Denver,  where  he  is  now  president  of  the  Neef 
Brothers'  Brewing  Company. 

Concerning  the  life  of  Fred  Neef  we  note  the 
following:  He  was  born  in  Wolfach,  Baden,  Ger- 
many, March  6,  1846,  and  was  educated  in  the 
gymnasium,  going  to  Lyons,  France,  at  the  age 
of  seventeen  and  securing  employment  as  a  clerk 
in  the  Credit  Lyonais,  one  of  the  largest  banking 
institutions  in  the  world.  Later  he  became  a 
traveling  salesman  for  a  raw  silk  firm  in  Lyons, 


of  which  in  time  he  was  made  assistant  manager. 
This  firm  did  from  fifteen  to  twenty-five  million 
dollars'  worth  of  business  every  year.  In  1871  he 
came  to  America  and  settled  in  St.  Louis,  Mo., 
where  he  was  in  the  employ  of  a  wholesale  paper 
and  wall  paper  firm  for  one  year.  Next  he  went 
to  Omaha  as  bookkeeper,  later  as  salesman,  for 
the  largest  wholesale  business  of  that  city.  In 
1873  became  to  Denver,  where  he  has  since  re- 
sided. In  1884  he  erected  a  three-story  brick 
building,  and  in  August,  1891,  with  his  brother 
Max,  he  bought  the  Western  brewery.  He  was 
married  in  this  city  to  Miss  Carrie  Weigele,  a 
native  of  Lafayette,  Ind.,  and  sister  of  William 
Weigele,  of  this  city.  They  have  one  child,  Emil 
Neef. 

Primarily  educated  in  Wolfach,  the  subject  of 
this  sketch  afterward  was  a  student  in  the  high 
school  at  Breisach  on  the  Rhine  in  Baden,  where 
he  finished  his  schooling.  For  one  year  he  was 
apprenticed  to  the  cooper's  trade,  after  which  he 
spent  two  years  as  a  brewers'  apprentice  in  Fries- 
enheim,  and  then  went  to  Wurtemberg,  working 
there  and  in  a  number  of  other  large  cities  and 
later  following  his  trade  in  Switzerland.  In  1868 
he  took  passage  at  Bremen  on  the  steamer  "New 
York,"  which  landed  him  in  New  York  City, 
from  where  he  went  to  St.  Louis,  where  he  se- 
cured employment  in  the  Greentree  brewery,  and 
for  four  and  ohe-half  years  he  remained  in  the 
same  place.  His  next  position  was  in  an  Omaha 
brewery,  where  he  remained  for  a  year.  In  1873 
he  came  to  Denver  and  with  his  brother  started 
in  the  wholesale  liquor  business  at  No.  133 1  Fif- 
teenth street,  his  brother  being  the  head  of  the 
concern. 

After  a  time  Mr.  Neef  accepted  the  position  of 
foreman  of  Ph.  Zang's  brewery,  having  been  rec- 
ommended to  Mr.  Zang  by  Mr.  Sclilosstein,  of 
the  Greentree  brewery .  One  year  later,  however, 
he  resigned  the  place  and  returned  to  Fifteenth 
street,  forming  with  his  brother  the  firm  of  Fred 
Neef&Bro.  In  August,  1 891,  they  purchased 
from  J.  B.  Dostal  a  brewery  at  Nos.  1 201-19 
South  Fifth  street,  and  at  once  took  possession  of 
the  recently  completed  plant.  Two  years  later, 
July  I,  1893,  the  firm  of  Neef  Brothers'  Brewing 
Company  was  incorporated  with  Fred  Neef  as 
president,  J.  R.  Schilling  secretary  and  Max  Neef 
treasurer.  The  brewery  has  a  capacity  of  seventy- 
five  thousand  barrels  per  year.     It  has  the  mod- 


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em  improvements,  including  a  substantial  bottling 
house.  Besides  the  old  ice  machine,  which  has  a 
capacity  of  thirty-five  tons,  there  is  a  new  one  of 
fifty  tons' capacity.  The  well-known  "Wiener 
Maerzen' '  is  manufactured,  shipments  of  which  are 
made  to  all  points  in  Colorado,  also  to  Wyoming, 
New  Mexico,  Utah,  Kansas  and  Nebraska.  The 
brewery  occupies  a  block  on  South  Fifth  street 
and  Twelfth  avenue,  Denver. 

In  this  city  Mr.  Neef  married  Miss  Carrie 
Sachse,  who  was  born  in  Wisconsin.  They  have 
four  children:  Rudolph,  who  is  a  graduate  of 
Central  Business  College  and  keeps  the  books  for 
the  company;  Emma  F.,  Max  and  Louis.  In 
national  politics  Mr.  Neef  is  a  Democrat.  He  is 
a  member  ofSchiller  Lodge  No.  49,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.; 
the  Turn  Verein;  Badishe  Verein,  in  which  he 
has  held  the  offices  of  president  and  treasurer; 
the  Foresters,  of  which  he  is  a  charter  member 
and  has  served  as  treasurer;  and  Manulita  Tribe 
No.  20,  I.  O.  R.  M.,  of  which  he  has  been  treas- 
urer. 


I  AFAYETTE  MILLER,  in  whose  honor  the 
I  C  village  of  Lafayette,  Boulder  County,  was 
l_3  named,  and  who,  from  1863  until  his  death, 
was  a  resident  of  this  section,  was  born  in  Tou- 
lon, Stark  County,  111.,  March  18,  1840,  the  son 
of  John  and  Mary  A.  (Able)  Miller.  He  was 
one  of  eleven  children,  six  of  whom  are  still 
living.  His  father,  who  was  a  native  of  Rock- 
away  County,  N.  J.,  born  October  8,  1800,  ac- 
quired in  youth  an  accurate  knowledge  of  both 
law  and  medicine,  and  engaged  in  professional 
practice  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  for  some  years.  In 
1836  he  removed  to  Stark  County,  111.,  and  from 
there,  in  1852,  went  to  Iowa,  settling  near  Inde- 
pendence, Buchanan  County.  His  death  occurred 
in  Johnson  County,  that  state,  May  13,  1884. 

On  the  organization  of  Stark  County,  111.,  John 
Miller  donated  fifty  acres  of  his  farm  as  a  site  for 
a  town,  and  upon  that  land  the  village  of  Toulon 
was  built.  For  eight  successive  years  he  held 
office  as  judge  of  the  county  or  the  probate  court. 
He  also  served  as  magistrate  from  the  organiza- 
tion of  the  county  until  his  removal  to  Iowa. 
The  latter  part  of  his  life  was  devoted  to  farming 
and  stock-raising. 

The  education  of  our  subject  was  completed  in 
Western  College  at  Western,  Iowa.     December 


24,  1862,  he  married  Mary  E.  Foot.  June  i, 
1863,  they  started  for  Colorado,  and  on  the  19th 
of  August  arrived  at  Burlington  (now  Long- 
mont) .  With  him  he  brought  the  first  threshing 
machine  that  was  ever  hauled  across  the  plains 
and  the  first  that  was  ever  brought  to  Boulder 
County.  The  long  journey  overland  was  made 
with  three  wagons  and  twelve  yoke  of  oxen  that 
formed  a  part  of  a  train  of  fifty  wagons.  One  of 
the  members  of  the  party  had  a  quartz  mill,  one 
of  the  first  in  the  state.  Indians  were  numerous, 
and  two  weeks  after  the  party  arrived  at  their 
destination  the  red  men  commenced  the  long 
series  of  depredations  that  cost  so  many  emigrants 
their  lives. 

Entering  a  homestead  of  one  hundred  and  sixty 
acres  near  Burlington,  Mr.  Miller  began  farming 
and  stock-raising.  In  1864  he  removed  to  Rock 
Creek  and  bought  a  large  hotel  and  stage  station, 
where  he  continued  to  make  his  home  until  1871. 
At  that  time  he  settled  on  the  present  site  of 
Lafayette  village,  where  he  pre-empted  and  pur- 
chased six  hundred  and  forty  acres  of  land  and 
began  agricultural  pursuits.  In  1874  he  removed 
to  Boulder  and  there  engaged  in  the  meat  busi- 
ness until  his  death,  which  occurred  June  28, 
1878.  He  was  a  member  of  Phoenix  Hook  & 
Ladder  Company  and  also  a  member  of  the  town 
council.  A  public-.spirited  man,  he  always  sup- 
ported enterprises  for  the  benefit  of  the  people  and 
the  development  of  local  resources.  Generous, 
whole-souled  and  hospitable,  he  was  a  typical 
pioneer,  whose  latch-string  always  hung  on  the 
outside  of  the  door.  The  only  fraternal  organ- 
ization in  which  he  held  membership  was  the 
Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows. 

Mrs.  Miller  was  a  daughter  of  John  B.  and 
Sallie  (Cole)  Foot.  Her  father,  who  was  a  na- 
tive of  Pittsfield,  Mass.,  was  born  in  1805,  and  in 
farly  manhood  removed  to  Portlaud,  Portland 
County,  N.  Y.  From  there,  shortly  after  his 
marriage,  he  removed  toGeneseo,  the  same  state, 
and  embarked  in  the  hotel  business.  One  of  the 
early  gold  seekers  in  California,  after  ten  months 
in  the  mines  he  returned  home  with  $10,000  in 
gold.  In  1852  he  went  to  Hastings,  Mich., 
where  he  became  proprietor  of  the  largest  hotel  in 
the  town  and  also  acquired  extensive  landed  in- 
terests. In  1858  he  removed  to  Iowa,  and  there, 
too,  he  became  a  large  land-owner.  His  atten- 
tion was  given  principally  to  farming  in  Iowa. 


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In  1869  he  came  to  Colorado,  where  he  made  his 
home  with  Mrs.  Miller  until  his  death,  Novem- 
ber 12,  1885. 

Six  children  were  born  to  the  union  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Miller.  They  are:  Thomas  J.  and  Charles 
L,.,  who  operate  the  home  farm;  George  I.,  a 
prominent  farmer  whose  land  adjoins  the  town  of 
Lafayette;  James  P. ,  a  graduate  of  the  law  de- 
partment of  the  University  of  Colorado  and  at 
present  located  at  Lafayette;  and  Frank  and 
Amelia,  both  deceased.  Mrs.  Miller  has  been 
repeatedly  elected  to  the  office  of  school  trustee, 
and  has  acted  in  the  capacity  of  secretary  of  the 
board  for  the  past  eight  years.  She  is  deeply  in- 
terested in  temperance  work,  and  when  the  town 
was  founded  she  inserted  a  clause  in  every  deed 
prohibiting  the  sale  of  all  intoxicating  drinks  in 
the  village.  She  has  frequently  been  offered 
large  sums  to  give  a  deed  with  the  prohibitory 
clause  omitted,  but  has  steadfastly  adhered  to 
this  principle. 

In  1884  coal  was  discovered  on  the  Miller 
ranch,  and  on  boring  a  fourteen-foot  vein  was 
struck.  Three  years  later  the  first  shafl  was 
sunk,  under  lease  to  John  Simpson,  and  in  1888 
the  second  shaft  was  sunk,  the  two  forming  the 
best  producing  coal  properties  in  the  valley. 

The  village  of  Lafayette  is  situated  on  the 
prairie  knoll  ten  miles  east  of  Boulder,  and  is 
reached  by  the  Union  Pacific  Railroad,  which 
runs  two  passenger  trains  each  way  daily,  and  by 
the  Burlington  road,  which  has  a  passenger  depot 
near  the  village.  The  climate  is  exceptionally 
fine,  the  water  system  perfect,  the  streets  well 
kept  and  its  buildings  substantial.  Surrounded 
by  a  fine  farming  country,  the  village  will  prob- 
ably become  a  large  agricultural  center,  as  well 
as  a  mining  town,  and  every  indication  points  to 
a  prosperous  future  for  it  and  for  its  citizens. 


ELARK  A.  TITUS,  one  of  the  well-known  and 
highly  respected  agriculturists  of  Boulder 
County,  is  the  proprietor  of  a  valuable  home- 
stead located  about  two  and  a-half  miles  north- 
west of  Canfield.  He  has  been  a  citizen  of  this 
county  for  over  a  score  of  years  and  has  taken  an 
active  and  interested  part  in  everything  tending 
to  promote  its  general  prosperity  and  advance- 
ment. He  is  a  member  of  Pleasant  View  Grange 
and  for  one  term  served  as  constable  of  this  dis- 


trict. Politically  he  sides  with  the  principles  set 
forth  by  the  Populist  party.  For  a  number  of 
years  he  has  been  a  valued  member  of  the  Meth- 
odist Episcopal  Church  and  has  always  been 
counted  upon  to  use  his  influence  in  favor  of 
things  upright,  good  and  just. 

On  both  sides  of  the  family  Mr.  Titus  is  de- 
scended from  long-lived  ancestry.  His  grand- 
father, Jacob  Titus,  a  native  of  New  York,  lived 
to  the  ripe  age  of  ninety-six  years.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Society  of  Friends  and  was  a 
thrifty  farmer,  owning  extensive  tracts  of  land  in 
Delaware  County,  N.  Y.  The  great-grandfather 
of  our  subject  on  the  maternal  side  was  Jasper 
Bush,  who  attained  the  advanced  age  of  one 
hundred  years.  He,  too,  was  a  New  York  state 
farmer,  and  was  of  German  extraction. 

The  parents  of  Clark  A.  Titus  were  Stephen 
and  Mary  (Bush)  Titus.  The  father  was  born 
June  29,  i8i»,  in  Delaware  County,  N.  Y.,  and 
continued  to  dwell  there,  actively  occupied  in 
tilling  the  soil  up  to  1880,  when  he  came  to  this 
state.  Settling  on  a  ranch  near  Longmont,  he 
gave  his  attention  to  its  cultivation  for  about  four 
years,  at  the  end  of  which  time  he  came  to  live 
with  our  subject.  He  was  summoned  to  the 
silent  land  March  6,  1897.  His  life  was  one  full 
of  good  deeds  and  kindly  ministries  toward  his 
fellow-men,  and  all  who  knew  him  loved  and  re- 
spected him.  His  family  comprised  five  children, 
two  of  whom  are  deceased.  A  daughter,  Fannie, 
is  the  wife  of  W.  A.  Freeman,  an  insurance  man 
of  Chicago,  111.  George  is  a  successful  farmer 
of  Idaho. 

Clark  A.  Titus  was  born  November  15,  1850, 
upon  the  old  homestead  in  Delaware  County. 
There  he  passed  his  boyhood,  and,  more  fortu- 
nate than  many,  gained  an  excellent  education, 
as,  after  leaving  the  common  schools  he  attended 
the  Delaware  Literature  Institute  for  four  terms. 
When  he  had  reached  his  majority  he  began 
teaching  each  winter,  while  the  rest  of  the  year 
he  worked  on  the  farm.  In  1877  he  came  to  Col- 
orado, believing  that  better  opportunities  awaited 
him  here.  He  arrived  in  Denver  about  the 
middle  of  October  and,  going  to  Longmont,  rented 
a  farm  situated  some  six  miles  southeast  of  that 
city.  He  did  very  well  during  the  four  years 
that  followed,  but  he  wished  to  own  a  homestead, 
and  pre-empted  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  to 
the  northeast  of  Berthoud.     Meeting  with  finan- 


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cial  reverses,  he  lost  this  property  within  a  year 
and  this  led  him  to  make  a  choice  of  his  present 
farm.  This  place  is  one  of  a  quarter-section,  also, 
and  many  substantial  improvements  stand  upon 
it,  making  it  a  most  desirable  country  home. 
Mr.  Titus  became  the  owner  of  it  a  few  years 
ago,  and  has  been  successful  in  its  management. 
He  thoroughly  understands  agriculture  and  is  a 
systematic,  practical  business  man. 

In  January,  1882,  Mr.  Titus  married  Mrs. 
Ella  A.  Faulkner,  whose  maiden  name  was 
Stebbins.  A  son  and  daughter  were  born  to 
them  and  are  respectively  named  Willet  C.  and 
Ella  A.  Mrs.  Titus  was  called  from  the  loving 
family  circle  October  2,  1884,  by  the  angel  of 
death,  and  the  many  friends  to  whom  she  had 
endeared  herself  treasure  her  memory,  scarcely 
diminished,  though  long  years  have  rolled  by 
since  then. 


JEORGE  J.  BOAL.  During  the  years  of  his 
residence  in  Denver  Mr.  Boal  gained  a  wide 
acquaintance  and  many  warm  personal 
friends.  His  life,  which  covered  a  span  of  almost 
sixty  years,  began  in  Boalsburg,  Center  County, 
Pa.,  October  4,  1835,  and  was  brought  to  an  end 
in  Denver  May  17,  1895.  The  family  of  which 
he  was  a  member  was  one  of  those  Scotch  families 
that,  on  account  of  religious  persecution,  fled  to 
Ireland,  settling  in  Count)'  Antrim,  where  they 
were  at  liberty  to  follow  the  doctrines  of  the  Pres- 
byterian religion.  Both  physically  and  mentally, 
they  were  people  of  unusual  strength. 

In  1798  Capt.  David  Boal,  who  was  born  in 
Ireland  in  1764,  came  to  America,  accompanied 
by  his  wife,  Nancy  Young,  and  his  three  brothers, 
John,  who  settled  in  Union  County,  Pa.;  William, 
in  Virginia;  and  one  (unknown  by  name)  who 
settled  in  Bedford  County,  Pa.  On  the  same 
vessel  were  Rev.  Samuel  B.  Wilie,  D.  D.,  and 
Rev.  John  Black,  of  Pittsburg.  Landing  in  Phil- 
adelphia, Captain  Boal  and  his  wife  made  their 
way  to  what  was  afterward  known  as  Center 
County.  In  Ireland  he  had  been  active  in  the 
Presbyterian  Church  and  on  establishing  his 
home  in  Center  County  he  at  once  identified  him- 
self with  that  denomination,  worshiping  with 
the  congregation  at  Slab  Cabin,  now  Spring 
Creek.  He  was  afterward  made  an  elder  of  the 
church  and  served  faithfully  in  that  capacity  until 
his  death,  in  March,  1837.     The  town  of  Boals- 


burg, named  after  him,  was  built  on  his  land. 
His  two  children,  Mary  and  John,  were  born  in 
Center  County. 

The  older  son,  George,  and  his  sister,  Elizabeth, 
were  born  in  Ballymena,  County  Antrim,  Ireland. 
The  former  was  a  man  of  note  in  public  affairs. 
For  many  years  he  served  as  an  associate  judge 
and  in  1840  he  was  elected  to  the  state  legisla- 
ture. During  President  Lincoln's  administration 
he  held  the  office  of  United  States  revenue  col- 
lector. He  was  not  a  politician,  and  the  offices 
which  he  filled  came  to  him  without  solicitation 
on  his  part.  During  the  war  he  supported  the 
Federal  government  and  no  man  in  Center 
County  exerted  a  larger  influence  in  procuring 
volunteers  for  the  Union  army  than  did  he.  His 
honesty  and  integrity  were  proverbial.  It  may 
truthfully  be  said  of  him  that  his  record  was  with- 
out a  stain.  His  honor  was  unquestioned.  In 
manner  he  was  affable  and  courteous,  and  he  won 
hosts  of  friends.  His  first  wife,  who  died  in  1843, 
was  Nancy,  daughter  of  Michael  and  Su.sanna 
Jack,  pioneers  of  Center  County.  To  this  union 
four  sons  and  three  daughters  were  born,  namely: 
David  C,  George  Jack,  James  Wilson,  John, 
Susanna,  Nancy  Young  and  Mary.  By  his 
second  wife,  Elizabeth  Johnson,  who  survived 
him,  he  had  two  children,  Elizabeth  Maria  and 
Robert  Hamill  Boal.  Of  these  nine  children,  the 
eldest,  David,  graduated  from  Jefferson  College, 
studied  law  with  Hugh  McAllister,  of  Bellefonte, 
Pa.,  and  became  a  brilliant  and  successful  at- 
torney; at  the  age  of  thirty-three  years  he  served 
as  a  member  of  the  house  of  representatives 
and  died  at  the  age  of  thirty-seven  5'ears;  he 
married  Frances,  daughter  of  the  Supreme  Court 
Judge  Buruside,  and  at  his  death  he  left  two 
children:  a  son,  George  O'Brien  Boal,  who  is  a 
government  official;  and  Nellie,  whose  husband, 
F.  M.  Barnes,  is  also  in  the  government  service, 
living  in  Washington,  D.  C.  The  third  son, 
Capt.  John  Boal,  raised  a  company  of  volunteers 
who  enlisted  August  31,  1861.  He  was  killed 
March  13,  1865,  in  North  Carolina,  while  on. 
Sherman's  famous  march  to  the  sea. 

The  subject  of  this  article  was  educated  at  the 
Boalsburg  Academy  in  Center  County,  of  which 
his  father  was  one  of  the  founders.  In  1857  ^^ 
went  to  Iowa  City,  Iowa,  where  he  studied  law 
under  the  supervision  of  Hon.  Rush  Clark.  After 
having  been  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1859,  he  at 


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once  opened  an  office  and  began  in  the  practice 
of  his  profession.  In  1866  he  was  admitted  to 
the  supreme  court  of  the  United  States.  He  was 
held  in  high  esteem  by  all  the  judges  of  the 
supreme  court  before  whom  he  practiced  and  was 
considered  one  of  the  most  successful  pleaders 
before  that  body  in  the  entire  country.  For  some 
time  he  was  lecturer  of  medical  jurisprudence  in 
the  Iowa  State  Medical  University,  which  be- 
stowed on  him  the  title  of  LL.  D.  He  was  the 
Democratic  candidate  for  congress  from  his  dis- 
trict, but  declined  to  accept  the  nomination;  later 
he  was  his  party's  choice  for  governor  of  Iowa. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  American  Bar  Associa- 
tion, and  he  and  Hon.  George  G.  Wright  were  for 
a  long  time  the  only  members  from  Iowa.  He 
was  one  of  its  vice-presidents.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  general  council  and  of  the  special  commit- 
tees, and  was  sometimes  invited  to  read  papers 
before  that  association. 

In  Iowa  City,  August  21,  1861,  Mr.  Boal 
married  Miss  M.  Amanda  Buttles,  daughter  of 
the  Hon.  Joel  Benoni  Buttles,  formerly  of  Warren, 
Ohio.  Five  children  blessed  their  union,  namely: 
George  Buttles,  who  died  at  seventeen  years; 
Anna  Theodora,  who  died  in  infancy;  Theodore 
Davis,  Montgomery  Davis,  of  Denver;  and 
Frederick,  who  died  when  an  infant. 

In  1887  Mr.  Boal  came  to  Denver,  having  been 
engaged,  at  a  large  salary,  by  J.  B.  Wheeler,  of 
New  York,  to  look  after  his  many  interests  in 
Colorado,  a  position  of  great  trust,  and  one  that 
he  filled  with  the  utmost  efiiciency.  He  also 
engaged  in  the  practice  of  law  and  in  mining,  his 
time  and  attention  being  more  and  more  given  to 
mining  as  the  years  passed  by.  Fraternally  he 
was  a  Knight  Templar  Mason.  He  was  reared 
in  the  Presbyterian  faith,  but  after  his  marriage 
he  identified  himself  with  the  Episcopal  Church. 
He  was  prominent  in  the  work  of  St.  John's 
Cathedral  of  Denver  and  was  a  warm  personal 
friend  of  Dean  Hart.  To  him  came  the  honor  of 
being  chosen  to  represent  his  diocese  in  the  Tri- 
ennial convention  of  the  Episcopal  Church  of  the 
United  States,  and  as  delegate  he  served  with 
ability.  He  was  a  member  of  the  standing  com- 
mittee of  the  diocese  and  of  the  Cathedral  Chap- 
ter, and  served  his  congregation  as  senior  church 
warden.  In  all  his  church  work  his  efiForts  and 
interests  were  nobly  seconded  by  his  wife,  who, 
especially  while  in  Iowa  City,  assumed  great  re- 


sponsibilities in  the  work  of  the  church  and  was 
most  helpful  in  its  success  and  welfare.  For 
some  time  he  served  as  trustee  of  Wolfe  Hall  and 
Jarvis  Hall,  which  schools  are  under  the  super- 
intendence of  the  Episcopal  Church. 

Personally  Mr.  Boal  is  a  man  of  striking 
appearance,  above  the  average  height,  with  clear- 
cut  features  and  kindly,  courteous  manner.-  In 
important  gatherings,  both  of  his  church  and  pro- 
fessional men,  his  presence  was  sought  and  his 
counsel  desired.  In  his  home  he  was  a  fond  hus- 
band and  indulgent  father.  He  gave  his  .sons 
excellent  advantages  and  Theodore  studied  arch- 
itecture in  Paris  for  some  years.  Shortly  after 
the  son's  marriage  in  that  city,  Mrs.  Boal 
arranged  to  join  him  there,  and  Mr.  Boal  planned 
to  meet  her  en  route  at  Cambridge,  where 
Montgomery  was  a  student  at  Harvard  Univer- 
sity, and  accompany  her  across  the  ocean,  but 
death  unexpectedly  frustrated  all  their  plans  and 
ended  his  earth  career  at  a  time  when  others,  and 
himself  as  well,  might  have  hoped  for  many 
years  of  continued  activity.  There  came  to  his 
wife  and  sons  many  tributes  of  esteem  in  their 
bereavement.  The  press  and  the  people  alike 
spoke  of  his  noble  and  useful  life  as  a  bright  light 
that  had  been  suddenly  extinguished;  they  re- 
viewed his  career  with  admiration,  spoke  of  his 
friendliness  to  young,  aspiring  but  briefless,  law- 
yers; of  his  polished  manners;  his  brilliancy  as  an 
after-dinner  speaker;  his  genial  comradeship,  and 
those  other  admirable  qualities  that  combined  to 
make  hitn  a  man  among  men. 


(James  a.  S.  ANDRUS,  a  progressive  agri- 
I  culturist  of  Boulder  County,  owns  a  farm  of 
C2?one  hundred  and  twenty-six  acres  near  Val- 
mont,  where  he  carries  on  a  gardening  and  general 
farming  business  and  engages  in  raising  stock. 
In  addition  to  other  enterprises,  he  is  one  of  the 
largest  melon  growers  in  northern  Colorado,  and 
has  one  of  the  finest  young  orchards  (containing 
one  thousand  trees)  in  the  entire  state.  He  has 
resided  on  the  place  he  now  occupies  since  1888, 
when  he  traded  a  herd  of  cattle  for  three  hundred 
and  thirty-three  acres,  but  a  portion  of  this  tract 
he  afterward  sold. 

Born  in  Richland  County,  Wis.,  November  10, 
1856,  the  subject  of  this  sketch  is  one  of  eight 
children,  all  living,  that  were  bom  to  Horace  and 


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Mary  (Slaughter)  Andrus.  His  brothers  and 
sisters  are:  Carissa  E.,  Frank  M.,  Harrj'  E., 
Luella  O.,  Zenobia  M.,  Barbara  M.  and  Bert  H. 
His  father,  a  native  of  Ohio,  born  January  31, 
1834,  was  the  son  of  Horace  and  Eunice  (Hurl- 
burt)  Andrus,  and  was  one  of  seven  children. 
The  grandfather,  who  was  born  in  Massachusetts 
about  1880,  removed  to  New  York,  where  he 
devoted  himself  to  farming  for  some  years;  later 
he  settled  in  Illinois,  but  after  four  years  removed 
to  Wisconsin,  where  he  worked  in  the  lead  mines 
at  Platteville  for  nine  years.  He  continued  there 
until  his  death.  In  the  Black  Hawk  war  he 
served  under  Governor  Dodge  of  Wisconsin. 

At  the  time  of  his  father's  death  Horace 
Andrus,  Jr.,  was  seventeen  years  of  age,  and 
upon  his  shoulders  devolved  the  care  of  the 
family.  When  he  was  almost  twenty-one  his 
mother  married  again  and  a  few  months  later  he 
established  domestic  ties,  being  united  with  Miss 
Mary  L,.  Slaughter  November  20,  1855.  Going 
west  to  Indiana  with  his  young  wife,  he  settled 
in  Tippecanoe  County,  near  L,afayette,  where  he 
purchased  eighty  acres  of  land,  and  settled  down 
to  a  farmer's  life.  Some  fourteen  years  were 
spent  on  that  place,  and  he  then  removed  to 
Wisconsin,  where  he  remained  eight  years,  en- 
gaged in  farming  in  Richland  County.  In  1875 
he  came  further  west  to  Kansas,  and  settled  in 
Rush  County,  where  he  took  up  a  homestead  of 
one  hundred  and  sixty  acres.  For  four  years  he 
also  ran  a  livery  in  Rush  City.  Coming  to 
Colorado  in  1883,  he  spent  two  years  in  and 
around  Boulder,  after  which  he  cultivated  a  farm 
three  miles  east  of  Boulder  for  three  years,  and 
in  1885  moved  to  Valmont,  where  he  embarked 
in  the  mercantile  business  and  general  gardening, 
in  which  he  is  still  interested.  In  189 1  he  was 
appointed  postmaster  at  Valmont  under  President 
Harrison  and  has  filled  the  oflBce  ever  since. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  acquired  a  common- 
school  education  in  Wisconsin.  When  nineteen 
years  of  age  he  accompanied  his  parents  to 
Kansas,  driving  a  wagon  and  cattle  some  nine 
hundred  miles,  and  completing  the  journey  in 
nine  weeks.  One  year  after  going  to  Kansas  he 
took  up  a  claim  on  the  frontier,  in  Rush  County, 
on  Wall  Creek,  where  he  began  farming.  Buffalo 
and  antelope  were  plentiful,  and  he  always  had 
a  bountiful  supply  of  meat  on  hand,  as  the  result 
of  his  skill  in  the  use  of  a  rifle.     He  proved  up 


on  his  claim,  where  he  spent  eight  years.  In 
1883  he  came  to  Colorado,  where  he  spent  two 
years  as  a  general  contractor  in  the  mountains. 
Here,  also,  he  prospected.  In  1885  he  came  to 
Boulder  County,  where  he  has  since  made  his 
home. 

August  4,  1884,  Mr.  Andrus  married  Miss 
Nellie  E.  Yockey,  of  Elgin,  Kan.,  the  ceremony 
being  performed  in  Boulder.  She  died  December 
10,  1889,  leaving  a  daughter,  Georgia  E.  The 
present  wife  of  Mr.  Andrus,  whom  he  married 
December  2,  1894,  was  Miss  Bertha,  daughter 
of  J.  A.  Hairrell.  They  have  two  sons, 
Clifton  H.  H.  and  James  Ernest.  Fraternally 
Mr.  Andrus  is  a  member  of  Columbia  Lodge 
No.  14,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  of  Boulder;  and  secre- 
tary of  Boulder  Valley  Grange  No.  131,  also 
deputy  state  master.  As  secretary  of  the  school 
board  for  District  No.  14,  White  Rock,  he  has 
rendered  efficient  service  in  the  interests  of  free 
schools.     Politically  he  is  a  Republican. 


ROBERT  BOYEAN,  a  Colorado  pioneer  of 
'  60,  owns  and  cultivates  eighty  acres  of  land 
on  Left  Hand  Creek,  in  Boulder  County, 
one  and  one-half  miles  south  of  Hay  Stack  moun- 
tain. He  was  born  in  Hamilton,  Ohio,  January 
2,  1841,  a  son  of  Samuel  and  Mary  (Hoagland) 
Boylan.  He  was  one  of  eight  children,  five  of 
whom  are  now  living,  viz.:  John,  Robert,  Amos, 
Elizaljeth  and  Samuel.  The  father,  a  native  of 
Kentucky,  born  in  18 15,  while  still  a  young  man 
removed  to  Ohio,  where  he  married  and  made  his 
home  until  1846.  Thence  removing  to  Iowa,  he 
settled  in  Linn  County,  residing  in  Cedar  Rapids 
and  Mount  Vernon.  From  Iowa  in  1856  he  went 
to  Kansas  and  later  settled  in  Gentry  County, 
Mo.  In  1858  he  established  his  home  in  St.  Joe, 
Mo.,  where  he  still  resides.  During  his  many 
years  of  active  life  as  a  carpenter  and  builder  he 
acquired  a  competence  and  now,  in  retirement 
from  business  cares,  enjoys  every  comfort  which 
ample  means  can  provide.  His  father,  a  native 
of  Virginia,  was  descended  from  Engli.sh,  Irish 
and  German  ancestors,  and  died  in  Cedar  Rapids, 
Iowa. 

When  a  boy  of  thirteen  years  the  subject  of 
this  sketch  began  life  for  himself  During  the 
winter  he  followed  the  usual  custom  of  country 
lads   and  studied  the  three  R's  in  the  district 


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school,  while  in  the  summer  he  followed  the  plow 
or  guided  the  harrow  over  the  furrowed  land. 
March  29,  i860,  with  a  spring  wagon  and  a  yoke 
of  cattle  he  left  St.  Joe  for  Colorado,  arriving  in 
Denver  April  27.  While  en  route  west  he  had 
come  across  a  man  who  was  walking  acro.ss  the 
plains  and,  with  a  friendly  desire  to  help  him,  he 
brought  the  stranger  with  him.  On  reaching 
Denver  he  learned  of  an  uncle  on  Cherry  Creek 
and  left  his  outfit  and  provisions  with  the  stranger 
while  he  looked  up  his  relative.  Three  days 
later  he  returned  to  find  that  the  stranger,  outfit 
and  provisions  had  vanished  completely,  leaving 
him  with  but  five  cents  in  his  possession.  There 
was  nothing  for  him  to  do  but  make  the  best  of 
an  unfortunate  afiair.  He  secufed  employment 
in  a  sawmill,  but  after  two  weeks  went  to  Buck- 
skin Joe  and  from  there  to  California  Gulch, 
where  he  worked  in  the  mines  for  a  month. 
Returning  to  Buck.skin  Joe,  he  soon  afterward 
discovered  the  Bates  mine  (now  the  famous 
Cyclone  mine)  and  there  he  worked  for  .some 
months;  but,  while  the  mine  was  profitable,  he 
had  become  dissatisfied  and  abandoned  it.  After 
spending  the  winter  in  Canon  City,  he  returned 
to  Buckskin  Joe  in  the  spring,  and  there  dis- 
covered Excelsior  Mine  No.  i,  which  was  within 
five  hundred  feet  of  his  former  mine.  This  he 
abandoned  after  two  months,  although  he  had 
taken  out  something  like  $3,000.  It  is  worthy 
of  note  that  the  Bates  mine  has  been  sold  several 
times  for  sums  between  two  and  three  million 
dollars  and  the  Excelsior  No.  i  has  brought  one 
million. 

Abandoning  the  Excelsior  to  go  to  Washington 
Gulch  on  the  breaking  out  of  the  excitement  there, 
he  worked  in  the  mines  at  that  camp  for  a  time. 
During  the  winter  that  followed  he  was  one  of  a 
party  of  six  that  worked  at  Colorado  Springs  in 
mines;  but  becoming  "broke,"  they  went  to 
Cripple  Creek,  where  they  built  sluices.  Three 
of  the  men  worked  at  gulch  mining  and  three 
others  (among  whom  was  our  subject)  worked  at 
sinking  a  shaft.  From  all  that  can  be  learned,  it 
is  supposed  that  this  shaft  was  sunk  on  the  site 
of  the  famous  Stratton  mine. 

At  Montgomery  City  Mr.  Boylan  worked  on 
the  Cleaner  mine,  then  went  to  Blackhawk  and 
worked  in  a  quartz  mill,  thus  getting  a  second 
start  in  life.  In  the  spring  of  1863  he  went  to 
Georgia  Gulch  and  during  the  summer  worked 


by  the  day.  With  the  money  thus  earned  he 
purchased  three  claims,  Nos.  7,  8,  and  9,  paying 
down  all  of  his  ready  money  and  assuming  a  debt 
of  $1,000.  Going  to  Blackhawk  he  worked  dur- 
ing the  winter  as  stationary  engineer  in  the  New 
York  mill.  In  the  spring  of  1864,  with  his  sav- 
ings, he  returned  to  Georgia  Gulch  to  work  his 
claims.  During  the  summer  he  bought  three 
other  claims.  He  was  so  fortunate  in  his  efforts 
that  in  the  winter  he  had  a  bank  account  of  $100,- 
000  standing  to  his  credit.  About  that  time  he 
bought  twenty-five  more  claims,  but  the  develop- 
ment of  these  extensive  properties  brought  such 
heavy  obligations  to  him  that  he  was  unable  to 
carry  the  load  and  sold  the  claims.  Going  to 
Coal  Creek,  he  engaged  in  the  sawmill  business, 
and  enjoyed  a  few  years  of  prosperity,  but  finally 
forest  fires  destroyed  his  mill. 

Once  more  starting  out  without  money,  Mr. 
Boylan  came  to  Left  Hand  Creek  and  bought  the 
ranch  where  he  has  since  resided.  To  this  work, 
as  to  all  enterprises  in  which  he  has  been  inter- 
ested, he  brings  energy,  business  ability  and 
determination,  and  as  a  consequence  he  has 
become  known  as  one  of  the  successful  ranchmen 
of  Boulder  County.  He  is  a  member  of  Left 
Hand  Grange  No.  9,  in  the  work  of  which  he 
takes  an  active  interest. 

September  16,  1875,  Mr.  Boylan  married  Miss 
Alice,  daughter  of  J.  B.  Allen,  a  prominent  far- 
mer of  Jefferson  County.  They  are  the  parents 
of  five  children,  all  of  whom  are  at  home  but  the 
married  daughter.  They  are:  Judson  C;  John; 
Robert  R.;  Hattie,  wife  of  Clyde  Jain,  a  farmer 
of  Boulder  County;  and  Nellie. 


3 AMES  MONROE  DUMM,  a  well-known 
citizen  of  Boulder,  first  came  to  this  place  in 
1872,  and  has  ever  since  been  more  or  less 
actively  identified  with  the  local  welfare.  He  is 
a  native  of  Carroll  County,  Mo.,  born  in  the 
town  of  DeWitt,  in  1852.  His  father,  Wylie 
Dumm,  operated  a  carding-mill  at  that  place  for 
several  years,  but  died  in  1854,  when  but  forty- 
one  years  of  age.  His  father,  Elijah  Duram,  was 
a  native  of  Pennsylvania,  thence  removed  to 
Ohio,  where  his  son  Wylie  was  born,  and  later 
settled  in  Missouri.  Locating  in  Brunswick, 
Chariton  County,  he  owned  and  managed  a  card- 
ing-mill there.     The  mother  of  our  subject  was 


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Miss  Catherine  Akers  in  her  girlhood.  She  was 
born  in  Iowa,  and  died  in  her  native  state  while 
the  Civil  war  was  in  progress. 

The  five  children  of  Wylie  and  Catherine 
Dumm  are  all  living  at  this  writing.  Ivy  A.  is 
the  wife  of  O.  B.  Kendrick,  of  Boulder;  John 
Milton  is  a  merchant  of  DeWitt,  Mo. ;  Hattie  E. 
is  the  wife  of  A.  T.  Kendrick,  of  DeWitt,  Mo.; 
James  M.  is  the  next  in  order  of  birth;  and 
William  Wylie  is  engaged  in  merchandising  in 
DeWitt,  Mo.  The  two  brothers  of  our  subject 
came  to  Colorado  in  1872,  at  the  same  time  that 
he  made  the  trip  for  the  first  time,  but  they  re- 
turned and  settled  down  in'  their  birthplace, 
within  a  few  years. 

James  M.  Dumm  passed  his  boyhood  chiefly  in 
DeWitt,  Mo.,  though  for  a  few  years  he  resided 
in  Decatur,  Iowa.  Returning  to  his  old  home, 
he  continued  to  dwell  upon  a  farm  until  he  was 
about  twenty  years  of  age,  when  a  longing  to  see 
something  of  the  great  west  took  possession  of 
him.  His  brothers  being  of  the  same  frame  of 
mind,  the  three  started  forth  and  located  at  first 
in  Golden,  Colo.,  upon  their  arrival  in  the  state. 
For  several  years  Mr.  Dumm  was  employed  in 
and  around  Golden,  and  in  1875  he  went  to  Sun- 
shine, where  he  became  much  interested  in 
prospecting  and  mining.  The  following  year  he 
entered  the  employ  of  Captain  Tyler,  and  was 
foreman  of  his  ranch  for  six  years.  In  1882  Mr. 
Dumm  set  out  fruit  trees  on  a  tract  of  land  which 
he  purchased  near  Boulder,  and  four  years  later 
he  bought  a  ranch  fourteen  miles  east  of  Boulder. 
This  farm,  comprising  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres, 
he  greatly  improved,  putting  in  a  fine  irrigating 
system.  After  living  upon  the  place  for  six  years 
he  returned  to  Boulder,  and  took  up  his  abode  on' 
his  fruit  farm,  then  in  good  condition,  and 
numbering  one  and  three-fourths  acres  of  orchard. 
He  grows  all  kinds  of  large  and  small  fruits  and 
berries,  and  is  reaping  a  goodly  income  from  his 
venture.  He  ships  direct  to  wholesale  merchants 
in  Denver,  and  always  obtains  good  prices.  Po- 
litically he  is  afiSliated  with  the  Democratic 
party. 

In  1895  ^Ir.  Dumm  built  his  pretty  and  com- 
fortable house  at  the  corner  of  Marine  and  Sixth 
streets.  His  wife,  who  was  Miss  Sue  Caton  in  her 
girlhood,  is  a  native  of  Brunswick,  Mo.,  and 
daughter  of  Joseph  and  Harriet  (Dumm)  Caton. 
The  Catons  were  an  old  Virginia  family,    and 


members  of  it  participated  in  the  Revolutionary 
war.  Joseph  Caton  was  born  in  Virginia  and 
was  engaged  in  the  tailor's  trade  in  Brunswick. 
He  is  now  living  in  Booneville,  Mo.  His  wife, 
Harriet  was  born  in  Ohio  and  departed  this  life 
in  Brunswick.  Five  of  their  six  children  lived 
to  maturity.  The  eldest  son,  Eugene  DeCourcey, 
now  a  resident  of  New  Frankford,  Mo.,  was  a 
drummer-boy  in  the  Civil  war  and  was  nick- 
named "Harry."  The  name  clung  to  him  and 
he  still  goes  by  it.  Thomas  Edgar  is  operating 
lead  mines  in  Galena,  Kan.  Otis  O.  is  a 
merchant  tailor  in  Salisbury,  Mo.  Mrs.  Sallie 
Shantz  lives  in  Marshall,  Mo.  The  three  chil- 
dren of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Dumm  are:  Clinton  O.; 
James,  who  died  at  the  age  of  eight  months;  and 
Wylie  Edgar.  The  parents  are  members  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church  and  are  liberal  to- 
wards all  good  enterprises  and  institutions. 


I  EVI  HAKE,  a  prosperous  farmer  and  stock- 
It  raiser  of  Boulder  County,  was  born  in 
|_3  Trumbull  County,  Ohio,  March  3,  1840, 
being  the  younger  son  of  George  and  Catherine 
Hake.  He  has  a  brother,  Israel,  who  is  a  farmer 
in  Iowa;  also  a  sister,  Caroline,  the  widow  of 
John  Sparks,  and  living  near  Sioux  City,  Iowa. 
His  father,  who  was  a  native  of  Pennsylvania, 
born  in  1813,  grew  to  manhood  on  a  farm,  and 
after  his  marriage  settled  down  to  a  farmer's  life. 
His  wife  died,  leaving  six  children.  Some  years 
later  he  removed  to  Ohio,  where  he  was  united 
in  marriage  with  Mrs.  Catherine  Wire,  a  widow 
with  one  child,  Jacob,  now  in  California. 

When  the  subject  of  this  sketch  was  four  years 
of  age  his  parents  removed  to  Wisconsin  and 
settled  in  Grant  County,  where  the  father  devoted 
his  attention  to  farming  and  the  cooper's  trade, 
which  he  had  learned  in  youth.  The  son  grew 
to  manhood  on  the  home  farm  and  acquired  a 
common-school  education.  At  eighteen  years  of 
age  he  began  life  for  himself  as  a  farmer,  renting 
land  in  Grant  County.  In  1859,  when  the  tide 
of  emigration  turned  toward  Pike's  Peak,  he 
joined  the  procession  moving  westward,  and  with 
an  ox-team,  in  company  with  John  Whittaker, 
he  crossed  the  plains  to  Colorado,  landing  in 
Boulder  about  the  ist  of  July.  He  went  to  Four- 
Mile  Canon,  where  he  engaged  in  gulch  mining 
for  four  months.     From  there  he  proceeded  to 


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Golden,  and  in  company  with  others  opened  up 
a  ditch  for  the  purpose  of  hydraulic  work  on 
Arapahoe  Bar.  The  ditch  was  built,  but  the 
venture  did  not  prove  to  be  a  profitable  one,  and 
some  four  months  later  he  went  to  Central  City, 
where  for  a  year  he  worked  at  lead  mining.  In 
1 86 1  he  came  to  Boulder  and  began  to  freight 
from  this  place  to  Empire,  also  from  the  Missouri 
River  to  Denver. 

In  the  fall  of  1863  Mr.  Hake  bought  his  present 
farm  of  one  hundred  and  thirty  acres,  purchas- 
ing a  claim  for  which  he  was  given  a  quit-claim 
deed.  Here  he  began  farming  and  for  some 
five  years  he  also  carried  on  freighting,  in  con- 
junction with  the  cultivation  of  his  land.  In 
1868  he  gave  up  freighting  and  devoted  himself 
to  farm  pursuits  and  the  raising  of  stock,  which  he 
has  continued  to  the  present  time.  For  a  nirm- 
ber  of  years  he  has  served  as  a  member  of  the 
school  board.  In  1873  he  was  united  in  marriage 
with  Mrs.  MaryE.  Stotts,  widow  of  Lewis  Stotts, 
and  the  mother  of  two  children,  one  now  living, 
Luella,  wife  of  Robert  Gibbon,  of  Ward.  Mr. 
Hake  is  a  hardworking,  persevering  man,  and 
deserves  the  prosperity  he  has  attained. 


'HOMAS  E.  GIELER.  This  well-known 
citizen  of  Boulder  has  been  the  agent  for  the 
Union  Pacific,  the  Union  Pacific,  Denver  & 
Gulf  and  the  Colorado  &  Northwestern  Railroads 
for  some  time  at  this  point  and  is  very  popular 
with  the  traveling  public  in  general  and  with  all 
who  are  associated  with  him  in  business  relations. 
He  has  been  engaged  in  railroading  for  nearly 
twenty  years,  in  one  capacity  or  another,  and  thor- 
oughly understands  his  business. 

The  paternal  grandfather  of  Mr.  Giller  was 
Thomas  Giller,  a  wealthy  manufacturer  of  Man- 
chester, England,  who,  in  partnership  with 
another  man,  owned  all  of  the  various  stage  lines 
centering  in  that  city  prior  to  the  establishment 
of  railroads.  Thus  he  became  quite  rich  and  in- 
vested large  amounts  in  real  estate.  Our  subject's 
father,  C.  H.,  was  born  in  Manchester,  and  came 
to  the  United  States  about  i860.  He  was  inter- 
ested in  farming  for  a  while  in  Kansas,  and  later 
carried  on  a  lumber  business  in  Osawatomie, 
Kan.  He  is  the  present  postma.ster  of  that  town 
and  for  years  has  been  a  prominent  Grand  Army 
man.   During  the  Civil  war  he  enlisted  and  served 


in  the  Twelfth  Kansas  Regiment  as  second  lieu- 
tenant of  Company  I.  He  took  part  in  the  Red 
River  and  Texas  campaigns  and  did  most  gallant 
service.  He  married  Miss  Amanda  Holden,  a 
native  of  Marietta,  Ohio.  Her  father,  Thomas 
Holden,  was  likewise  born  in  the  Buckeye  state, 
and  was  a  farmer  by  occupation.  In  1854  he 
went  to  Kansas,  where  he  became  one  of  the  pio- 
neers of  Spring  Hill,  Miami  County,  and  in  time 
was  numbered  among  the  most  extensive  land- 
holders in  that  section  of  the  state.  He  was  a 
strong  anti- slaver)'  man,  and  very  nearly  lost  his 
life  on  account  of  his  earnestly  expressed  opinions 
more  than  once.  On  one  occasion  his  home  was 
burned  down  by  a  band  of  Quantrell's  guerrillas, 
and  their  intention  of  shooting  him  had  been 
frankly  avowed,  but  he  tried  to  escape  on  horse- 
back, and  when  he  found  that  he  could  not  do  so, 
he  slipped  from  the  animal  into  some  bushes, 
while  they,  not  noticing  the  movement,  pursued 
the  horse,  and  directed  their  shots  toward  the 
thoroughly  frightened  creature,  Mr.  Holden, 
meanwhile  making  good  his  escape.  He  lived  to 
be  seventy- seven  years  of  age  and  was  loved 
and  respected  by  all  who  knew  him.  He 
was  a  zealous  member  of  the  Methodist  Epis- 
copal Church.  Mrs.  Amanda  Holden  died  at  her 
home  in  Kansas,  leaving  two  sons  and  two  daugh- 
ters to  mourrf  her  loss. 

T.  E.  Giller  was  born  in  Paola,  Kan.,  May  23, 
1863,  and  in  his  boyhood  attended  the  public 
schools  of  his  native  town.  From  1878  until 
1880  he  was  engaged  in  the  lumber  business  with 
his  father,  at  Osawatomie,  Kan.,  after  which  he 
entered  the  employ  of  the  Missouri  Pacific.  He 
learned  telegraphy,  and  then  was  the  operator  at 
■Harrisonville,  Mo. ,  for  three  years.  Later  he  was 
at  Rich  Hill,  Mo. ,  two  years,  and  with  the  Rich- 
mond &  Danville  Railroad  at  Atlanta,  Ga.,  for 
two  years,  as  an  operator  and  train  dispatcher.  Re- 
turning then  to  Harrisonville,  he  was  the  Missouri 
Pacific  agent  there  for  about  a  year  and  next  was 
installed  as  agent  for  the  same  corporation  in 
Ottawa,  Kan.  This  position  he  retained  nine 
years,  and  since  the  close  of  1894  has  been  occu- 
pying his  present  post  of  duty. 

While  living  in  Ottawa  Mr.  Giller  was  chair- 
man of  the  Franklin  County  Democratic  central 
committee  for  several  3'ears,  was  a  delegate  to 
numerous  conventions,  and  was  a  favored  candi- 
date for  postmaster.     He  was  also  a  candidate 


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for  county  treasurer  and  came  within  one  hundred 
and  thirty  votesof  gaining  his  election.  He  joined 
the  Masonic  order  in  Ottawa,  and  belonged  to  the 
Blue  Lodge  chapter  and  commandery  there,  and 
was,  moreover,  affiliated  with  the  Woodmen  of 
the  World  there. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Giller  and  Miss  Mary 
Owens,  a  native  of  Kentucky,  was  solemnized  in 
Harrisonville,  Mo.,  August  25,  1887.  Her  father, 
Robert,  was  a  farmer  in  that  vicinity.  Mrs.  Gil- 
ler departed  this  life  February  15,  1897,  in  Boul- 
der, leaving  four  children:  Helen  Mowbray, 
Eleanor  Louise,  Henry  Thomas  and  Charles  Rob- 
ert. Mr.  Giller  is  a  member  of  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church,  and  is  now  acting  in  the  capaci- 
ty of  trustee. 

QROF.  p.  v.  CARLIN,  M.  D.,  who  has  his 
LX  office  at  No.  1407  Champa  street,  Denver,  is 
yS  connected  with  the  University  of  Denver 
Medical  College  as  clinical  professor  of  obstetrics 
and  is  a  member  of  the  staff  of  St.  Joseph's  Hos- 
pital. He  enjoys  the  distinction  of  being,  in 
point  of  years  of  active  practice,  the  oldest  phy- 
sician in  Denver  who  is  a  graduate  of  a  medical 
college  in  this  city.  His  success  is  the  result  of 
energy,  close  application  and  sound  judgment 
and  entitles  him  to  a  position  among  the  foremost 
physicians  of  the  city. 

Born  in  Ireland  in  1854,  Dr.  Carlin  was  only 
one  year  old  when  his  parents  crossed  the  Atlantic 
and  settled  at  Caledonia,  Livingston  County, 
N.  Y.,  where  the  father  engaged  in  farming  until 
he  was  accidentally  killed  in  1867.  The  mother, 
who  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Mary  O'Neill, 
reared  her  family  on  the  home  farm,  but  after- 
ward came  west  and  now  makes  her  home  with 
her  eldest  child,  our  subject.  Two  sons,  John 
and  James,  are  engaged  respectively  in  farming 
and  mining,  the  former  being  in  California.  The 
only  daughter,  Mar>'  A.,  is  a  teacher  in  the  Hyde 
Park  public  school;  and  the  youngest  son,  T.  J., 
is  a  practicing  physician  of  Denver. 

When  a  boy  Dr.  Carlin  attended  the  Caledonia 
public  school.  Later,  by  teaching,  he  earned  the 
money  with  which  to  defray  his  tuition  in  the 
State  Normal  School  in  Geneseo.  In  1878  he 
began  to  study  medicine  in  Rochester,  under 
Prof.  E.  M.  Moore,  but  after  a  year  entered  the 
medical  department  of  the  University  of  the  City 
of  New  York.  He  took  a  course  of  lectures  there, 
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then  came  to  Colorado  with  a  brother  who  suf- 
fered from  pulmonary  trouble.  Arriving  in  Den- 
ver, he  became  a  student  in  the  University  of 
Denver  medical  department,  and  was  a  member 
of  the  first  graduating  class,  composed  of  five 
young  men,  only  two  of  whom  are  in  Colorado 
and  only  one  in  Denver.  After  graduating  in 
1882,  he  was  appointed  resident  physician  to  the 
Arapahoe  County  Hospital  by  the  board  of 
county  commissioners,  but  after  three  months 
resigned  and  formed  a  partnership  with  Dr. 
Denison,  the  two  practicing  together  for  two 
years.  Since  that  time  he  has  been  alone.  For 
two  years  he  held  the  chair  of  demonstrator  of 
anatomy  in  the  University  of  Denver  Medical 
College,  after  which  he  was  made  adjunct  pro- 
fessor of  anatomy,  and  is  now  clinical  professor 
of  obstetrics.  He  is  a  member  of  the  American 
Medical  Association,  also  belongs  to  the  Colorado 
State  and  Denver  and  Arapahoe  County  Medical 
Societies,  and  is  consulting  physician  to  the 
Union  Pacific,  Denver  &  Gulf,  and  Leadville  & 
Gunnison  Railroads.  Politically  he  votes  the 
Democratic  ticket.  He  is  married,  his  wife  hav- 
ing been  Miss  B.  A.  Delehanty,  of  Geneseo,  N.  Y. 


^  NDREW  REED  owns  and  occupies  a  farm 
T\  of  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  in  Boulder 
I  I  County.  After  the  purchase  had  been  made 
and  some  improvements  effected,  the  government 
made  the  survey  of  this  country  and  while  he 
still  retained  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres,  the 
boundaries  of  the  farm  were  moved,  and  thirty 
acres,  on  which  were  all  the  improvements,  were 
lost  to  him  on  one  side  of  his  ranch,  while  the 
same  amount  was  given  to  him  on  the  other 
side.  Later,  however,  he  bought  the  thirty 
acres  with  the  improvements,  paying  $500  for 
the  same.  Recently  eighteen  acres  of  this  land 
were  sold  for  $2,800.  In  addition  to  this  property, 
he  owns  a  valuable  farm  of  two  hundred  and 
forty-two  acres,  some  six  miles  west  of  Longmont, 
in  this  county,  which  he  has  owned  since  1863. 

Mr.  Reed  was  born  in  Alvesta,  Sweden,  Decem- 
ber 14,  1828,  a  son  of  Swan  and  Anna  (Larson) 
Reed,  being  one  of  seven  children,  three  of  whom 
survive,  Carl,  Andrew  and  Lars.  His  brothers 
remain  in  Sweden  and  are  engaged  in  agricultural 
pursuits.  The  father,  who  was  bom  in  Sweden, 
was  reared   upon  a  farm  and  became  an  agri- 


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culturist.  Being  a  very  energetic  and  progressive 
man,  he  acquired  much  landed  property,  being 
the  owner  of  between  four  and  five  thousand 
acres.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  seventy- 
five  years  of  age. 

At  an  early  age,  upon  the  home  farm,  our  sub- 
ject gained  a  thorough  knowledge  of  agriculture. 
March  6,  1854,  he  took  passage,  in  company  with 
his  brother  John,  on  a  small  sailboat,  "Lulio," 
bound  for  America.  After  a  rough  voyage  of 
more  than  two  months,  they  landed  in  New  York 
City  May  22,  and  from  there  went  direct  to 
Chicago,  where  they  spent  three  months,  work- 
ing in  a  stone  quarry.  From  that  city  our  sub- 
ject went  to  Geneva,  111.,  where  he  secured  farm 
work;  and  his  brother  John  went  to  Batavia, 
where  he  died  in  February  of  the  following  year. 

In  1856  Mr.  Reed  moved  to  Minnesota,  settling 
in  Rice  County,  where  for  the  next  six  years  he 
farmed  during  the  summers  and  spent  his  winter 
months  in  the  lumber  camps  of  Steele  County. 
In  1862  he  joined  the  procession  westward  and 
with  an  ox-team  crossed  the  plains  to  Colorado, 
arriving  in  Denver  July  7,  1862.  The  train  was 
composed  of  himself  and  wife  with  their  two 
children,  two  lawyers,  one  brewer,  two  musicians, 
two  clog  dancers,  one  blacksmith  and  others,  and 
at  night,  when  the  camp  was  struck,  music  and 
dancing  were  the  order  of  the  evening,  and  for  a 
time  all  the  privations  and  hardships  of  the  trip 
were  forgotten  through  the  jolly  disposition  of 
the  men.  Before  they  started  an  agreement  was 
made  that  there  was  to  be  no  traveling  on  Sunday, 
and  this  rule  was  strictly  adhered  to.  On  arriving 
at  the  Platte  River  in  Nebraska,  they  came  to  a 
ranch  whose  owner -was  a  Mr.  Hastings.  They 
found  his  farm  was  being  raided  and  his  supplies 
stolen  by  another  train,  composed  of  disreputable 
men.  They  surrounded  the  robbers  and  forced 
them  to  return  all  the  stolen  goods.  In  Iowa  one 
member  of  the  company  captured  an  immense 
turtle  and  on  Sunday,  with  Mrs.  Reed  as  chief 
cook,  a  turtle  soup  diimer  was  served  to  the  sur- 
rounding farmers,  with  toasts  and  speeches  from 
the  lawyer  members  of  the  party.  With  a  can  of 
milk  tied  to  the  bow  of  the  wagon,  they  would 
have  milk  to  drink  for  dinner  and  cream  skimmed 
from  the  morning's  milk  was  thrown  into  the 
milk  that  was  left,  which,  through  tlie  motion 
of  the  wagon,  was  churned  into  butter  for  supper. 

On  arriving  in  Denver,  Mr.  Reed  at  once  made 


preparations  to  go  on  to  the  mountains.  As  soon 
as  he  arrived  at  Russell  Gulch,  he  .secured 
employment  in  the  mine,  while  his  wife  served  as 
cook  for  the  miners.  When  cold  weather  came 
on,  he  went  to  Blackhawk,  and  spent  a  month  in 
going  from  there  to  Bob  Tail  Hill,  where  he 
remained  until  April  8,  1863.  He  then  went  to 
Clear  Creek  Valley,  four  miles  west  of  Denver, 
where  he  began  to  farm.  In  the  fall  of  the  same 
year  he  removed  to  Marshall,  where  he  remained 
until  spring,  and  then  moved  to  his  present  place, 
which  he  had  purchased  some  months  before. 

In  Minnesota,  July  8,  1858,  Mr.  Reed  married 
Caroline  Nyberg,  of  Sweden.  Five  children  were 
born  to  them,  of  whom  Angenella  and  John  A. 
are  deceased.  Emma,  who  attended  the  state 
university,  at  St.  Louis,  is  the  wife  of  Prof. 
Charles  H.  Wright,  who  organized  the  first 
manual  training  school  in  Denver  and  is  now  an 
instructor  in  Throop's  Institute,  at  Pasadena, 
Cal.  Oscar  M.  is  a  graduate  of  the  manual  train- 
ing department  of  Denver  university  and  now 
in  partnership  with  his  father,  owns  valuable 
mining  property  at  Copper  Rock,  Colo.,  which 
he  superintends.  Luella,  who  took  a  course  in 
the  Denver  high  school,  the  Colorado  state 
university  and  the  kindergartens  in  Colorado 
Springs  and  Denver,  is  the  wife  of  William  A. 
Heath,  who  is  engaged  in  missionary  work  in 
the  mining  regions  of  Trinidad,  Colo. 

For  years  Mr.  Reed  has  been  a  member  of  the 
school  board.  In  religion  he  is  identified  with 
the  Congregational  Church,  and  contributes  gen- 
erously to  its  maintenance.  He  gives  his  in- 
fluence to  aid  those  measures  that  will  benefit 
the  people  and  aid  in  the  developing  of  the  re- 
sources of  the  county. 


QOBERT  J.  SPOTSWOOD,  who  was  a  well- 
^\  known  character  on  the  plains  in  early  days 
p  \  and  is  now  engaged  in  farming  and  stock- 
raising  at  Littleton,  Arapahoe  County,  was  born 
at  Culpeper  C.  H. ,  Va. ,  October  25,  1839,  a  son 
of  Naborn  B.  and  Sarah  E.  (Markham)  Spots- 
wood.  He  was  one  of  two  children,  the  other 
being  A.  T.,  of  Moscow,  Idaho.  His  father,  who 
was  born  in  Rappahannock,  Va.,  about  1785, 
moved  to  Missouri  in  1847  and  settled  in  Colum- 
bia, Boone  County,  where  he  engaged  in  the 
drug  business  and  carried  on  a  large  practice  as 


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a  physician  until  his  death,  in  1858.  During  the 
war  of  1 8 1 2  he  served  as  a  member  of  what  was 
known  as  the  Petersburg  Blues.  He  was  a 
grandson  of  Sir  Alexander  Spotswood,  the  first 
colonial  governor  of  Virginia. 

After  having  attended  the  local  public  schools 
for  some  years,  the  subject  of  this  sketch  entered 
the  University  of  Missouri  at  Columbia,  where 
he  remained  for  two  terms.  In  1858,  at  the  age 
of  eighteen,  he  went  to  Fort  Leavenworth  and 
secured  employment  with  Hickman  &  Parker, 
who  were  sub-contractors  under  Majors,  Waddle 
&  Russell,  contractors  to  freight  supplies  from  the 
Missouri  River  to  Camp  Floyd,  forty-five  miles 
south  of  Salt  Lake  City.  He  drove  an  ox-team 
across  the  plains,  and  spent  five  months  in  cross- 
ing, reaching  Salt  Lake  in  November.  There 
the  teams  were  sold  and  in  a  very  short  time  he 
started  back  with  a  mule-team,  which  was  con- 
sidered a  hazardous  undertaking.  It  was  in- 
tensely cold  when  he  reached  Ash  Hollow  on  the 
North  Platte.  There  he  found  a  man  whose 
name  was  Sam  McChatt,  and  the  two  camped  to- 
gether until  the  weather  moderated  and  rendered 
travel  possible.    He  arrived  at  home  in  February. 

With  an  outfit  of  his  own,  Mr.  Spotswood  went 
on  a  trading  trip  to  Fort  Kearney.  In  i860  he 
came  to  Denver,  bringing  a  load  of  freight  from 
Atchison,  and  arriving  in  this  city  April  16,  i860. 
During  that  season  he  made  three  trips  between 
Atchison  and  Denver  and  spent  the  winter  in 
Atchison.  In  1861  he  went  to  Salt  Lake  as 
wagon  master,  with  twenty  wagons  and  five  3'oke 
of  oxen,  for  David  P.  Power.  The  trip  was 
made  in  one  hundred  days,  which  was  considered 
a  short  time.  Selling  the  outfit,  he  returned  to 
Atchison,  where  he  arrived  November  i.  He 
was  on  the  point  of  joining  Gen.  Odon  Guiteau's 
regiment  and  had  gone  down  to  take  the  boat; 
when,  as  he  stood  on  the  landing,  Paul  Coburn, 
of  the  Overland  Stage  Company,  sent  a  boy  down 
to  him  with  a  request  to  come  up  at  once,  as  Gen. 
Bela  M.  Hughes  wished  to  confirm  him  as  mes- 
senger. He  went  to  Denver  as  messenger,  spend- 
ing six  days  and  six  nights  on  the  trip,  and  re- 
turning in  the  same  length  of  time.  Six  months 
later  he  was  appointed  division  superintendent, 
having  the  first  division,  from  Denver  to  Jules- 
burg,  two  hundred  miles.  While  he  had  charge 
of  that  division,  he  had  horses  changed  every 
ten  miles,  and  he  bought  both  the  horses  and  the 


supplies.  Ben  HoUiday  owned  the  line  from 
Atchison  to  Salt  Lake  and  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co. 
owned  from  Salt  Lake  to  Placerville,  Cal.  While 
Mr.  Spotswood  was  in  charge  of  the  first  division, 
Mr.  Holliday  made  his  famous  trip,  to  win  a 
wager  with  an  ocean  steamer  that  he  would  make 
the  trip  to  New  York  sooner  than  they  would 
make  a  given  point.  Our  subject  took  him  over 
his  division  in  seventeen  and  one-half  hours, 
which  was  the  fastest  time  made  during  any  part 
of    the  trip.     This  occurred  in  1862. 

In  the  spring  of  1864  Mr.  Spotswood  was  en- 
gaged in  buying  horses  and  supplies  to  outfit  a 
mail  route,  Mr.  Holliday  having  secured  mail  con- 
tracts from  Salt  Lake  to  Virginia  City,  Mont.  In 
May,  1864,  the  enterprise  was  started,  with  two 
hundred  head  of  horses  and  mules  and  coaches 
and  fifty  men,  Mr.  Spotswood  being  ordered  to 
make  a  quick  trip  and  get  the  line  in  operation  by 
July  I.  Instead  of  taking  the  stage  line  route  via 
Denver,  he  crossed  the  river  at  Julesburg  and  took 
the  old  South  Platte  road,  going  through  country 
inhabited  by  hostile  Indians,  with  whom,  how- 
ever, he  had  no  trouble  until  he  reached  Poison 
Springs,  where  there  was  a  skirmish  with  the  red 
men  and  two  of  the  whites  were  killed.  He  ar- 
rived in  Salt  Lake  June  20,  and  stocked  the 
road,  of  which  he  was  superintendent  for  one 
year.  When  Mr.  Holliday  came  out  on  his 
annual  trip,  he  ordered  Mr.  Spotswood  to  take 
the  first  division  out  of  Denver  on  the  Salt  Lake 
road,  from  Denver  to  North  Platte,  two  hundred 
and  twenty  six  miles.  During  the  five  years  he 
was  there,  he  had  many  experiences  that  were 
thrilling  and  dangerous,  and  was  in  constant 
skirmishes  with  Indians. 

When  the  Union  Pacific  Railroad  was  built 
through  that  section  of  the  country,  Mr.  Spots- 
wood  gave  up  his  work,  and  came  to  Denver, 
where  he  was  with  John  Hughes  &  Co.  Later 
he  bought  out  his  employers,  and  with  William 
C.  McClellan,  bought  out  the  Colorado  Stage 
Company,  which  he  operated  ten  years,  staging 
to  Fairplay  from  Colorado  Springs,  and  from 
Fairplay  to  Alma  and  Dudley,  also  to  Leadville 
and  Canon  City. 

In  August,  1879,  Mr.  Spotswood  bought  five 
hundred  and  twenty  acres  on  Bear  Creek,  to 
which  he  moved  in  1880.  In  1887  he  sold  a  part 
of  the  land  to  the  United  States  government,  to 
be  used  for  Fort  Logan,    and  the  remainder  to 


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Henry  R.  Wolcott  for  a  ranch.  Since  then  he  has 
owned  and  operated  his  one  hundred  and  sixty 
acres  near  Littletown.  In  Boston,  Mass. ,  January 
8,  1888,  he  married  Jessie  Broad,  by  whom  he 
had  three  children.  Two  are  living,  Minnie  May 
and  Robert  Wolcott. 


P  QlLIvIAM  JAMES  BAIRD,  M.  D.  Among 
\  A  /  the  prominent  members  of  the  medical 
V  Y  profession  of  Boulder  County  this  young 
man  has  taken  a  well-deserved  place  within  a  few 
years.  He  is  talented  and  scholarly,  having 
spared  no  pains  in  the  acquisition  of  a  thorough 
education  and  the  best  possible  preparation  for 
his  chosen  field  of  noble  endeavor.  Not  content 
with  the  ordinary  degree  of  Doctor  of  Medicine, 
he  has  given  many  additional  years  to  post- 
graduate work  and  special  lines  of  study,  and  has 
also  had  several  years  of  invaluable  experience 
as  a  physician  and  surgeon  in  actual  practice. 

The  family  of  which  the  above-named  is  a 
sterling  representative  is  of  the  same  stock  as  the 
celebrated  Bairds  of  Auchmedden,  Scotland,  who 
owned  great  estates  and  a  fine  castle  for  gener- 
ations, and  though  this  property  passed  from  the 
family  for  a  period,  it  was  eventually  bought 
back  and  is  still  in  the  possession  of  the  Bairds. 
They  originated  in  Normandy  and  accompanied 
William  the  Conqueror  to  England.  Subse- 
quently one  of  the  brave  and  sturdy  Bairds 
rescued  King  William  the  L,ion  from  a  bear 
which  was  about  to  make  short  work  of  the  royal 
personage,  and  the  lucky  subject  who  had  killed 
the  bear  was  forthwith  given  a  coat-of-arms  and 
a  large  tract  of  land,  which,  in  addition  to  that 
which  he  already  possessed,  made  him  a  very  ex- 
tensive land-owner.  When  this  place,  Auch- 
medden, was  in  the  hands  of  strangers  the  Bairds 
lived  in  Lanarkshire,  and  one  of  the  number, 
Alexander,  was  a  wealthy  coal  operator.  Two 
of  his  sons,  Robert  and  James,  became  iron- 
masters, owning  at  one  time  from  forty  to  fifty 
large  blast  furnaces  with  a  combined  capacity  of 
more  than  three  hundred  thousand  tons  per 
annum,  and  affording  employment  to  about  ten 
thousand  men  and  boys.  Besides,  the  brothers 
were  extensively  interested  in  coal  mines  and 
owned  vast  estates  in  various  parts  of  Scotland. 
Robert  Baird  became  the  purchaser  of  the  old 
family    castle    and    property,    Auchmedden,    in 


1856;  and  at  his  death  it  passed  into  the  hands  of 
his  brother,  James.  The  latter,  whose  name  was 
given  to  the  doctor,  was  a  wonderful  man  in 
many  respects.  From  1851  to  1857  he  repre- 
sented Falkirk  Burgs  in  parliament,  and  in  his 
later  years  he  built  and  endowed  numerous 
schools  and  was  exceedingly  generous  toward 
various  philanthropies.  He  was  a  very  devout 
man,  and  in  187 1  set  aside  a  fund  for  what  were 
called  the  "Baird  lectures,"  a  series  of  addresses 
in  the  defense  of  orthodox  theology  in  Scotland. 
In  1873  he  made  a  magnificent  gift  to  the  Church 
of  Scotland — $2,500,000 — to  be  used  in  meeting 
the  spiritual  destitution  among  the  people  of  that 
country  with  the  "bread  of  life." 

The  great-grandfather  of  Dr.  Baird  was  an  own 
brother  of  the  Alexander  Baird  previously  men- 
tioned. He  came  to  America  at  an  early  period 
and  settled  in  Virginia.  There  his  son,  Capt. 
John  Baird,  grandfather  of  our  subject,  was  born. 
He  won  his  title  in  the  war  of  1812.  Removing 
from  his  native  state  to  Alabama  he  became  a 
well-to-do  planter  in  Madison  County.  The 
parents  of  the  doctor  are  Duke  O.  and  Eliza 
(Robertson)  Baird,  both  natives  of  Alabama  and 
still  living  there.  The  father  was  an  attorney- 
at-law,  but,  as  he  had  a  decided  preference  for 
medicine,  he  eventually  abandoned  the  law  and 
became  one  of  t^ie  best  phj^sicians  and  surgeons 
of  Pickens  County,  Ala.,  where  he  is  still 
engaged  in  active  professional  work.  During  the 
Civil  war  he  was  a  surgeon  in  the  army.  Mrs. 
Baird  is  a  daughter  of  Daniel  Robertson,  an 
Alabama  planter.  The  five  children  of  Dr. 
Duke  O.  and  Eliza  R.  Baird  are:  W.  J.,  Mary 
Eliza,  Jane  Hamilton,  Duke  McCabe  and  Electra 
Williams. 

Dr.  W.  J.  Baird  was  born  at  Coal  Fire,  Ala. , 
June  21,  1 86 1,  and  was  educated  under  private 
tutors  and  in  private  schools.  He  took  up  the 
study  of  medicine  with  his  father  and  in  1879 
entered  the  medical  department  of  the  University 
of  Alabama.  A  year  later  he  enrolled  himself  in 
the  University  of  Maryland,  and  on  the  third  of 
the  following  March  he  was  graduated  from  that 
institution  with  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Medi- 
cine. Returning  then  to  the  south  he  established 
an  office  and  began  practice  in  Birmingham,  Ala. 
From  1884  to  1887  he  was  the  resident  surgeon 
for  the  Penn  Mobile  Coal  Company  at  Corona, 
Ala.     In  1887  he  returned  to  the  University  of 


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Maryland  and  pursued  a  post-graduate  course. 
From  1890  to  1892  he  was  assistant  chief  surgeon 
of  the  north  and  south  divisions  of  the  Louis- 
ville &  Nashville  Railroad,  and  was  also  assist- 
ant physician  to  the  Jefferson  County  Hospital. 

The  year  1893  witnessed  the  arrival  of  Dr. 
Baird  in  Boulder,  and  that  winter  he  was  a 
student  in  the  University  of  Colorado.  In  June, 
1894,  he  went  to  Chicago  and  took  a  special  line 
of  studies  in  the  Chicago  University,  and  from 
January  to  October,  1895,  was  a  fellow  in 
physiology  in  the  institution.  The  following 
winter  of  '95-96  he  was  instructor  in  experi- 
mental physiology  in  the  University  of  Colorado, 
and  in  '96-97  he  held  the  professorship  of  path- 
ology in  addition.  During  the  summers  of  1896 
and  1897  he  was  a  graduate  student  in  the  medi- 
cal department  of  the  Johns  Hopkins  University, 
making  a  specialty  of  bacteriology  and  path- 
ology. Thus  from  1893  to  August,  1897,  he 
gave  all  of  his  time  and  attention  to  perfecting 
himself  in  scientific  methods  of  treatment  and 
diagnosis  of  disease,  save  the  periods  that  he 
devoted  to  teaching  along  the  same  lines  of 
thought. 

The  doctor's  office  is  at  the  corner  of  Pearl  and 
Fourteenth  streets.  He  is  examiner  for  the  Des 
Moines  Life  Insurance  Company  and  is  similarly 
employed  by  the  Fraternal  Aid  and  the  National 
Union.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Boulder  County 
and  Colorado  State  Medical  Association  and 
is  also  identified  with  the  American  Medical 
Association.  Fraternally  he  is  connected  with 
Silver  Queen  Lodge  No.  112,  I.  O.  O.  F.,  of 
Boulder.  When  a  student  in  Chicago  he  joined 
the  First  Baptist  Church  on  the  south  side,  and 
still  holds  membership  there. 


"HOMAS  W.  LIPSCOMB  opened  a  law  office 
in  Denver  November  i,  1879,  when  the  city 
had  a  population  of  about  forty  thousand, 
and  he  has  since  been  numbered  among  the  able 
attorneys  and  counselors-at-law  of  the  place. 
Though  not  a  politician,  in  the  usual  sense  of  the 
word,  he  is  a  stanch  friend  of  the  Republican 
party  and  has  frequently  served  as  delegate  to 
conventions.  For  one  year  he  held  the  office  of 
assistant  district  attorney  under  Judge  Graham. 
He  has  an  extensive  general  practice  in  the 
courts  of  the  city  and  state.     Among  his  notable 


cases  was  that  of  Williams  vs.  Williams,  in  which 
Mrs.  Kate  Williams  sued  her  mother-in-law, 
Mrs.  Elizabeth  M.  Williams,  for  alienating  the  af- 
fections of  her  husband.  He  was  engaged  as 
attorney  for  the  plaintiff,  whom  the  jury  awarded 
$12,500.  The  case  was  afterward  appealed  to 
the  supreme  court,  by  whom  the  plaintiff  was 
given  $16,000  damages.  As  attorney  for  the  de- 
fendant he  took  an  active  part  in  the  celebrated 
case  of  the  People  vs.  Mackey,  for  the  Sunday 
closing  of  barber  shops,  where  the  defendant 
won,  the  district  court  deciding  that  the  law  was 
unconstitutional.  He  was  employed  as  attorney 
in  the  case  ofDruryetal.  vs.  City  of  Denver  and 
the  Denver  Sanitary  &  Fertilizing  Company,  in 
which  the  city  and  the  company  were  enjoined 
from  using  the  Merz  process  in  destroying  the 
garbage  of  the  city.  The  case  was  bitterly 
fought,  but  the  city  was  permanently  enjoined, 
and  the  defendants  did  not  consider  it  advisable 
to  carry  the  case  before  the  supreme  court. 

Mr.  Lipscomb  was  born  in  Marion  County,  Mo., 
December  18,  1855;  and  is  a  son  of  Henry  S. 
and  Martha  E.  (Maddox)  Lipscomb.  His 
father,  who  was  a  native  of  Virginia,  removed 
from  there  to  Missouri.  He  was  a  Democrat  and 
a  stanch  supporter  of  the  Union.  At  the  time 
the  war  broke  out  he  was  a  member  of  the  Mis- 
souri legislature  and  was  one  of  the  number  who 
refused  to  leave  the  hall  when  Clabe  Jackson  ad- 
journed the  legislature  to  Neosho,  Mo. ,  and  at- 
tempted to  take  the  state  out  of  the  Union.  He 
enlisted  in  the  state  militia  for  service  in  the 
Union  army  and  was  a  commissioned  colonel. 
At  the  close  of  the  Rebellion  he  was  the  People's 
party  candidate  for  congress,  but  was  defeated 
by  the  Democratic  nominee,  John  T.  Glover. 
He  had  been  offered  the  nomination  for  attorney- 
general  of  the  state,  but  declined,  preferring  to 
make  the  race  for  congress.  He  died  in  1889,  at 
the  age  of  sixty-nine. 

The  boyhood  days  of  Thomas  W.  Lipscomb 
were  passed  in  Palmyra,  Mo.,  where  he  prepared 
for  the  University  in  St.  Paul's  college.  At  the 
age  of  seventeen  he  entered  the  University  of 
Michigan,  but  spent  only  one  year  there,  next 
becoming  a  student  in  the  University  of  Missouri 
at  Columbia  and  spending  a  year  in  the  classical 
course  there.  In  Ann  Arbor  he  was  a  sophomore 
and  in  Columbia  a  member  of  the  junior  class. 
Afterward  he  was  in  the  office  of  his  brother-in- 


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law,  Judge  Slingerland,  at  Kirksville,  Mo.,  until 
his  father  removed  to  St.  Louis,  when  he  accom- 
panied the  family  to  that  city.  When  about 
twenty-one  years  of  age  he  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.  While  in  Marion  County 
he  acted  as  deputy  in  the  circuit  clerk's  office  for 
some  time,  in  order  to  familiarize  himself  with 
the  proceedings  of  court.  From  St.  Louis  he 
came  to  Denver  in  1879.  He  was  a  candidate 
here  for  the  office  of  city  attorney  after  it  became 
an  elective  position,  but  was  defeated  by  Judge 
Dawson.  In  1889  he  was  the  Republican  candi- 
date for  county  judge,  but  was  defeated  by  Judge 
George  W.  Miller. 

Soon  after  coming  to  Denver  Mr.  Lipscomb 
became  a  member  of  Union  Lodge  No.  7,  A.  F.  & 
A.  M.,  and  he  has  since  taken  the  higher  degrees 
to  the  Mystic  Shrine.  In  this  city  he  married 
Miss  Clara  B.  Selleck,  daughter  of  Mrs.  George 
W.  Brown,  of  Denver.  They  have  an  only  child, 
Clara  Belle  Lipscomb. 


qJ  FORGE  A.  KOEHLER,  agent  for  the  Pa- 
__  cific  Express  Company  at  Boulder,  is  a  re- 
J  spected  citizen  of  this  place.  He  has  been 
in  the  United  States  for  thirty  years,  and  is  a  loy- 
al citizen  of  his  adopted  country.  He  stands 
high  in  business,  fraternal  and  religious  circles, 
and  is  thoroughly  upright  and  straightforward 
in  all  his  dealings  with  others. 

The  birth  of  our  subject  occurred  in  Dresden, 
Saxony,  Germany,  April  28,  1846.  His  ances- 
tors were  noted  for  superior  scholarship  and  at- 
tainments in  the  world  of  science  and  education, 
and  many  of  their  sterling  characteristics  have 
been  handed  down  to  their  posterity.  Grand- 
father Koehler  was  for  years  a  member  of  the 
faculty  in  the  University  of  Leipsic,  Germany, 
and  Carl  G.,  the  father  of  George  A.,  was  a  na- 
tive of  that  classic  city.  He  graduated  from  the 
university  there  with  the  degrees  of  Doctor  of 
Philosophy  and  Doctor  of  Divinity,  and  after- 
wards was  professor  of  philosophy  and  theology 
in  Dresden,  being  at  the  head  of  the  Annen 
Real  school.  He  died  while  serving  in  that  ca- 
pacity in  1868,  aged  fifty -six  years.  His  wife, 
Marie,  was  likewise  born  in  Dresden,  and  her 
death  occurred  in  i860.  Her  father.  Dr.  Henry 
Schmalz,  a  native  of  Saxony,  graduated  from  the 
universities  of  Heidelberg  and  Leipsic,  and  from 


the  medical  college  at  Bonn.  He  made  a  spe- 
cialty of  diseases  of  the  eye,  and  became  foremost 
in  that  direction  among  the  celebrated  oculists 
of  Europe.  His  fame  was  widespread,  and  among 
his  patients  were  numbered  many  of  the  nobility 
of  various  countries  on  the  continent.  He  died 
in  1 86 1,  at  the  advanced  age  of  eighty-seven 
years. 

George  A.  Koehler  is  the  youngest  of  six  chil- 
dren and  the  only  one  of  the  family  in  the  United 
States.  He  grew  to  maturity  in  Dresden,  was 
educated  in  the  government  schools,  and  com- 
pleted his  studies  in  the  University  of  Tharandt. 
He  continued  as  a  student  there  for  three  years, 
when  he  left,  at  the  close  of  his  junior  year.  His 
mother  had  previously  been  summoned  by  the 
death  angel,  and,  his  father  then  dying,  the 
young  man  decided  to  enter  at  once  upon  his 
business  career.  Leaving  Bremen,  he  sailed  for 
New  York  City,  and  as  he  could  not  speak 
English,  he  knew  he  must  accept  a  subordinate 
position  of  some  kind  to  that  which  he  would 
have  liked.  He  was  employed  by  Marburg 
Brothers  for  a  year  and  a-half  in  Baltimore,  and 
then,  for  a  like  period  was  an  orderly  at  Castle 
Garden.  His  next  venture  was  to  learn  the  proc- 
ess of  manufacturing  powder  and  high  explosives 
in  the  works  of  J.  R.  Rand  &  Co.,  of  Pequanoc, 
N.  J.  During  the  seven  years  of  his  employment 
with  this  firm  he  was  once  blown  up  and  fell 
into  some  acid,  which  so  severely  burned  him 
that  he  was  laid  up  for  about  two  months.  He 
thoroughly  learned  everything  pertaining  to  the 
business  and  ultimately  became  the  superintend- 
ent of  the  plant.  He  served  as  such  until  the 
works  were  closed,  and  then,  in  April,  1882,  he 
came  to  Colorado,  and  was  installed  as  foreman 
of  the  powder  works  at  Mooreville.  This  plant 
also  closed  down  in  a  year  or  thereabouts.  The 
auditor  of  the  Union  Pacific,  who  had  met  Mr. 
Koehler  at  the  station  at  Mooreville,  told  him 
that  a  position  was  awaiting  him  at  Como,  and 
accordingly  the  young  man  was  made  a  clerk  at 
that  station.  At  the  expiration  of  a  year  he  was 
promoted  to  be  agent  at  Como,  and  held  the 
post  until  February,  1893,  when  he  deemed  it 
advisable  to  seek  a  lower  altitude,  on  account  of 
his  health.  Coming  to  Boulder,  he  was  im- 
mediately offered  a  place  as  agent  for  the  Pacific 
Express  Company,  and  accepted  the  same.  In 
1894  the  Denver  &  Rio  Grande  Express  Company 


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had  a  contract  with  the  Gulf  Railroad,  and  made 
our  subject  agent  for  both  lines  (Pacific  &  Rio 
Grande).  Since  1896  he  has  been  joint  agent 
for  the  Rio  Grande  and  the  Pacific  Express  Com- 
panies. The  Denver  &  Rio  Grande's  contract 
having  expired  in  1897,  they  discontinued  their 
local  office  here.  A  portion  of  Mr.  Koehler's 
duty  is  to  look  after  all  express  matter  for  the 
various  mountain  camps  of  this  region,  and  he  is 
kept  very  busy. 

In  New  York  City  the  marriage  of  Mr.  Koehler 
and  Miss  Dorothea  Witthoeff  was  solemnized  in 
1874.  She  is  a  native  of  Hamburg,  Germany, 
and  has  lived  in  the  United  States  for  twenty - 
seven  years.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Koehler  have  one 
son,  Victor,  who  is  a  messenger  on  the  new 
Colorado  &  Northern  Railroad.  When  he  was  a 
resident  of  Como,  Mr.  Koehler  was  an  alderman 
for  five  years,  and  for  seven  years  was  a  member 
of  the  school  board,  serving  as  president,  secre- 
tary and  treasurer  at  different  times.  Politically 
he  is  a  Democrat.  In  Boulder  l/odge  No.  112, 
I.  O.  O.  F. ,  he  is  a  charter  member,  past  officer 
and  ex-representative,  and  is  a  past  officer  of 
Encampment  No.  6,  and  was  twice  grand  mar- 
shal of  the  Grand  Encampment.  Of  Canton  No. 
9,  at  Como,  he  is  past  commander,  and  with  Can- 
ton No.  16,  of  Boulder,  he  holds  a  similar  place. 
He  is  connected  with  the  Kremlin  Riga,  of  Den- 
ver, and  is  an  elder  and  member  of  the  board  of 
trustees  of  the  English  Lutheran  Church. 


I  EANDER  WILLIAMS  KIMBALL,  a  well- 
I  C  known  citizen  of  Boulder,  is  a  veteran  of  the 
12  Civil  war  and  has  always  been  a  loyal  Re- 
publican, taking  an  active  and  influential  part  in 
support  of  his  party.  He  has  worked  in  Repub- 
lican leagues  and  has  made  a  point  of  attending 
local,  county  and  state  conventions,  whenever 
possible.  In  the  last  presidential  campaign  he 
sided  with  the  silver  supporters,  as  he  is  a  firm 
believer  in  that  side  of  the  financial  question. 
He  is  past  commander  of.  Nathaniel  Lyon  Post 
No.  5,  G.  A.  R. ,  and  has  served  as  an  aide  on 
the  staff  of  Gen.  John  A.  Palmer.  Thirty  years 
ago  he  was  initiated  into  the  Masonic  order  in 
Kingsville,  Ohio,  and  is  now  identified  with 
Columbia  Lodge  No.  14,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  of 
Boulder. 
Our  subject  is   a  son  of  Chester  and  Victoria 


(Williams)  Kimball,  natives  of  Montpelier,  Vt. , 
and  Hartford,  Conn.,  respectively.  The  father 
of  Chester,  Lewis  Kimball,  was  also  of  the  Green 
Mountain  state,  coming  from  an  old  family  there, 
and  some  time  prior  to  his  death  he  became  a  resi- 
dent of  Michigan,  there  spending  his  last  years. 
By  occupation  Chester  Kimball  was  a  carpenter 
and  builder,  and  for  a  number  of  years  his  home 
was  in  Centerville,  Allegany  County,  N.  Y.  His 
death  occurred  in  that  town  when  he  was  in  his 
sixty-eighth  j'ear.  His  first  wife  had  died  many 
years  previously,  when  but  thirty-three  years  old. 
His  son  George,  now  of  Golden,  Colo.,  was  a 
soldier  of  the  Fifth  New  York  Regiment  in  the 
Civil  war.  Julia,  the  eldest  daughter,  died  in 
Golden  and  Victoria  died  in  childhood.  By  a 
second  marriage  Mr.  Kimball  had  two  daughters, 
both  living  in  Centerville,  N.  Y.,  at  this  time. 

L- W.  Kimball  was  born  February  4,  1834,  in 
Centerville,  and  after  completing  his  common 
school  education  attended  Rushford  Academy, 
graduating  therefrom.  He  then  engaged  in 
teaching  school  for  two  terms  in  Rushford,  after 
which  he  was  a  teacher  in  Harmonsburg,  Craw- 
ford County,  Pa.,  up  to  the  time  of  the  war. 
Seven  days  after  Fort  Sumter  was  fired  upon  the 
young  man  enlisted  in  the  three  months'  service 
as  a  member  of  Company  E,  in  the  "Erie"  regi- 
ment, commanded  by  Col.  John  W.  McLean. 
Upon  the  expiration  of  the  term  of  his  enlistment 
he  assisted  in  raising  a  company,  and  was  com- 
missioned first  lieutenant  of  Company  E,  One 
Hundred  and  Eleventh  Infantry.  With  his 
regiment  he  was  ordered  south  and  took  part  in 
all  of  its  campaigns  until,  upon  account  of  physi- 
cal disability  he  was  sent  to  Baltimore,  where  his 
resignation  from  the  service  was  accepted  Novem- 
ber 16,  1862,  an  honorable  discharge  being 
granted  him. 

The  following  year  Mr.  Kimball  entered  the 
employ  of  Powell  Brothers,  of  Syracuse,  N.  Y. , 
and  for  ten  years  represented  them  as  their  agent 
in  Pennsylvania  and  Michigan.  During  three 
years  of  this  period  he  was  interested  in  the  small 
fruit  business.  F'rom  1880  until  1890  he  was  an 
agent  for  T.  Rupert,  of  Conneautville,  Pa.,  travel- 
ing mostly  in  Nova  Scotia.  Eight  years  ago  he 
came  to  Colorado,  and  locating  in  Boulder,  bought 
a  piece  of  property  at  No.  646  Marine  street  and 
built  thereon.  He  established  a  nursery  and 
fruit-tree  business  here,  and  is  the  leader  in  this 


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line  in  the  county.  His  trade  is  not  confined 
to  the  limits  of  the  county,  however,  as  he  has 
built  up  a  good  patronage  in  Jefferson  County,  as 
well.  He  has  introduced  many  new  varieties  of 
shrubs,  rose-bushes,  vines  and  small  fruits,  etc. 
In  addition  to  his  regular  business,  he  has  invest- 
ments in  two  mining  claims  in  Eldora,  Colo.,  and 
others  at  Summerville  and  Boulder  Canyon. 

The  first  marriage  of  Mr.  Kimball  occurred  in 
Conneautsville,  Pa.,  Miss  Mary  E.  Smith,  a  native 
of  Crawford  County,  being  the  lady  of  his  choice. 
She  died  in  Kingsville,  Ohio,  and  two  of  their 
sons  died  in  childhood.  Ernest,  who  graduated 
in  the  Austinburg  (Ohio)  Commercial  College,  is 
now  a  resident  of  Boulder.  The  lady  who  now 
bears  the  name  of  our  subject  was  formerly  Miss 
Emma  Whitelock,  a  native  of  Hutchinson,  Minn. , 
and  daughter  of  Sidney  W.  Whitelock,  of  Boulder. 


EROCKETT  RICKETTS,  mayor  of  Boulder, 
is  the  proprietor  of  the  Boulder  News,  the 
oldest  paper  published  in  the  county,  as  it 
was  founded  in  1866.  During  its  existence  it  has 
passed  through  many  hands,  but  has  always  con- 
tinued to  be,  as  it  is  to-day,  a  strong  and  clear  ex- 
ponent of  the  principles  of  the  Republican  party. 
It  is  printed  each  week  and  aims  to  give  a  concise, 
yet  sufficiently  comprehensive  review  of  the  great 
events  which  are  engaging  the  attention  of  the 
world,  and  at  the  same  time  present  to  its  readers 
an  interesting  account  of  the  doings  of  the  citi- 
zens of  this  locality,  of  improvements  and  prog- 
ress along  all  lines. 

For  the  past  decade  Mr.  Ricketts  has  been 
editor  and  proprietor  of  the  News.  He  had  for- 
merly been  occupied  in  newspaper  work  for  many 
years  and  is  a  practical,  broad-m;nded  mail,  ably 
qualified,  both  by  nature  and  education,  for  such 
a  responsible  position  as  is  afforded  an  editor, 
who  has  the  direction  of  the  public  mind,  in  great 
measure.  He  has  the  welfare  of  the  county  and 
city  deeply  at  heart,  and  is  a  true  patriot. 
Though  a  mere  lad,  he  enlisted  in  the  Union 
army  towards  the  close  of  the  war,  being  as- 
signed to  Company  D,  One  Hundred  and  Thirty- 
fourth  Indiana  Infantry.  For  years  he  has  been 
connected  with  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic, 
and  is  past  commander  of  Nathaniel  Lyon  Post 
No.  5,  of  Boulder.  In  1872  he  was  admitted  into 
the  Masonic  order  at  Westport,   Ind. ,  and  was 


made  a  Royal  Arch  Mason  before  leaving  that 
state.  He  now  belongs  to  Columbia  Lodge  No. 
14,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  of  this  city.  He  is  also  iden- 
tified with  the  Knights  of  the  Maccabees. 

In  tracing  the  history  of  the  subject  of  this 
review  it  is  found  that  his  paternal  great-grand- 
father settled  at  Rising  Sun,  Ind.,  on  the  Ohio 
River,  about  the  commencement  of  this  century. 
Grandfather  Abraham  Ricketts  removed  further 
into  the  territory  of  Indiana  (as  it  was  then) 
about  1820,  settling  in  the  wilderness  of  Decatur 
County,  near  the  present  town  of  Greensburg. 
At  that  time  our  subject's  father,  Nathan  Rick- 
etts, was  a  boy  of  six  years.  His  whole  life, 
thenceforth,  was  spent  within  the  boundaries  of 
Decatur  County,  where  he  was  respected  by  all. 
In  1835  he  married  Louisa,  eldest  daughter  of 
Abel  Todd,  who  was  one  of  the  early  pioneers  of 
Indiana,  going  to  that  state  from  Kentucky, 
where  his  ancestors  had  been  contemporaries  of 
the  famous  Daniel  Boone.  Nathan  Ricketts  died 
in  1887.  He  was  the  father  of  seven  children, 
all  but  one  of  whom  survive.  LaFayette,  the 
eldest  of  the  family,  enlisted  in  the  defense  of  the 
Stars  and  Stripes,  in  the  One  Hundred  and 
Twenty-third  Indiana  Volunteers,  and  had  his 
leg  shot  off  at  the  battle  of  Kenesaw  Mountain. 
He  died  two  months  later  from  the  effects  of  the 
wound. 

Crockett  Ricketts  was  born  near  Greensburg, 
Ind.,  March  24,  1846,  and  led  the  usual  life  of 
the  farmer's  boy  of  the  period.  He  worked  on 
the  old  homestead,  attending  the  district  schools 
in  the  winter  season,  and  when  he  returned  from 
the  war  he  industriously  laid  his  plans  to  secure 
a  better  education  than  he  had  yet  been  able  to 
acquire.  Part  of  the  time  he  found  employment 
on  farms  and  the  remainder  of  the  time  he  taught 
in  the  country  schools  until  he  had  a  sufficient 
amount  to  pay  his  way  through  college.  After- 
wards he  read  law  in  the  office  of  Col.  Simeon 
Stansifer,  at  Columbus,  Ind. ,  and  then  practiced 
for  a  short  period.  He  then  became  connected 
with  the  Columbus  Republican  (a  daily  and 
weekly  paper)  and  in  1878  assumed  the  edi- 
torial management  of  the  journal,  continuing 
in  that  capacity  for  ten  years,  or  until  he  came 
to  Boulder.  In  1895  he  was  elected  mayor,  in 
spite  of  his  protest,  and  was  re-elected  in  1897. 

April  6,  1876,  Mr.  Ricketts  married  Miss 
Amanda  E.  Patterson,  who  was  born  in  Hamil- 


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ton  County,  Ind.  They  have  two  daughters, 
twins,  Bessie  and  Blanche,  and  lost  a  son  in  his 
infancy.  Both  daughters  are  students  in  the 
University  of  Colorado,  being  members  of  the 
class  of  1 90 1. 

eUDIyEY  D.  MAYO,  manager  of  the  Denver 
and  Rio  Grande  Express,  with  ofSce  at  No. 
346  Equitable  building,  Denver,  was  born 
in  Newport,  Ky.,  September  24,  1843,  and  is  a 
son  of  Henry  Hunt  and  Louisa  (Winston)  Mayo, 
also  natives  of  Kentucky.  The  Mayo  family  is 
of  remote  English  extraction  and  was  founded  in 
this  country  by  three  brothers,  one  of  whom  set- 
tled in  Massachusetts,  another  went  to  Connecti- 
cut and  the  third  established  his  home  in  Vir- 
ginia. From  the  Connecticut  branch  our  subject 
is  directly  descended,  some  of  the  family  having 
removed  from  the  Nutmeg  state  to  Kentucky. 
Daniel  Mayo,  who  was  born  in  Kentucky,  was, 
in  partnership  with  Colonel  Taylor,  the  owner  of 
the  land  on  which  Newport  is  built,  and  he  be- 
came the  first  postmaster  of  that  town,  a  position 
which  he  held  for  twenty-five  consecutive  years. 
Henry  Hunt,  son  of  Daniel  Mayo,  was,  on  his 
mother's  side,  a  great-great-grandson  of  Gen. 
Israel  Putnam.  A  business  man  of  large  ability, 
he  carried  on  a  planing  mill  and  engaged  in  the 
manufacture  of  sash,  doors  and  blinds,  as  well  as 
all  kinds  of  building  material.  At  the  beginning 
of  the  Civil  war  his  mills  were  burned  down  and, 
while  he  rebuilt,  he  carried  on  business  at  a  loss 
during  the  war.  His  lumber  yards  were  in  New- 
port and  his  mill  in  Covington,  to  which  place  the 
family  removed  when  our  subject  was  a  child  ot 
ten  years.  From  that  time  until  manhood  he  re- 
sided in  Covington,  where  he  attended  the  public 
schools  and  aided  his  father  in  business.  He  fin- 
ished his  schooling  at  an  academy  in  Cincinnati. 
During  a  part  of  the  Civil  war  he  worked  on  a 
farm  in  Kentucky  with  his  brother. 

In  1863  he  secured  employment  as  express  mes- 
senger for  the  Adams  Express  Company  between 
Cincinnati  and  Indianapolis, -and  this  position  he 
held  for  two  years,  after  which  he  became  clerk 
for  the  same  company  in  Evansville,  Ind.  Two 
years  later  he  was  transferred  to  Cincinnati  as 
messenger  on  the  Kentucky  Central  Railroad, 
serving  in  that  capacity  for  three  years.  Between 
1869  and  1877  he  received  successive  promotion 
from  messenger  to  way-bill  clerk,  money  clerk 


and  cashier,  and  in  1877  he  was  transferred  to 
St.  Louis  as  cashier.  He  remained  in  that  city 
until  1880,  when  he  was  transferred  to  Colorado 
as  route  agent,  having  charge  of  the  Adams  ex- 
press business  on  the  Denver  &  Rio  Grande  and 
the  Atchison,  Topeka  &  Santa  Fe  Railroads  in 
Colorado  and  New  Mexico  for  ofie  year,  and 
afterward  took  the  agency  for  the  Adams  Ex- 
press Company  in  Denver.  When,  eighteen 
months  later,  the  company  withdrew  from  Den- 
ver, he  became  cashier  for  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co. 
In  1883  he  severed  his  connection  with  that  con- 
cern and  accepted  a  position  as  cashier  for  the 
Denver  and  Rio  Grande  Express.  He  was  pro- 
moted to  be  agent  and  in  1885  became  general 
agent,  continuing  in  the  latter  position  until 
April,  1893,  since  which  time  he  has  been  man- 
ager. 

In  Covington,  Ky.,  May  9,  1877,  Mr.  Mayo 
married  Miss  Mary  Ella  Monk,  a  daughter  of 
Samuel  Monk,  who  came  to  Denver  during  the 
early  '60s  and  has  since  resided  in  this  city.  The 
three  children  that  came  to  bless  their  union  were 
Ella  Louisa,  who  was  born  in  St.  Louis  and  died 
in  Denver  when  about  nine  years  of  age;  Flor- 
ence and  Dudley  D.,  both  of  whom  were  born  in 
Denver.  Mr.  Mayo  was  reared  in  the  Methodist 
faith  and  his  wife  in  the  Episcopalian  doctrines, 
and  after  settling  in  Denver  he  identified  himself 
with  the  Episcopal  Church,  to  which  he  has  since 
adhered.  Politically  he  is  a  Democrat.  While 
in  Newport  he  was  made  a  Mason  and  after  com- 
ing to  Colorado  took  the  Royal  Arch  and  Knight 
Templar  degrees;  also  became  a  member  of  the 
Mystic  Shrine  of  El  Jebel,  in  which  he  holds  the 
office  of  Chief  Rabbi. 


U|  ELVIN  A.  TENNEY,  who  came  to  Colo- 
Y  rado  in  1875  and  settled  in  Denver  six  years 
(S  later,  was  born  in  Lebanon,  Grafton  County, 
N.  H.,  June  26,  1833,  and  is  a  member  of  an  old 
Connecticut  family  that  traces  its  lineage  to  Eng- 
land. The  first  of  the  name  in  America  were 
three  brothers,  John,  William  and  Asa,  who 
crossed  the  ocean  in  an  early  day  and  made  set- 
tlement in  Connecticut.  The  father  of  our  sub- 
ject, Andrew  Tenney,  was  born  in  Hanover, 
N.  H. ,  and  followed  the  carpenter's  trade  in  Leba- 
non, where  he  died  in  1836,  at  the  age  of  thirty- 
five.    His  wife,  Eliza  M.  Miner,  was  born  in  New 


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Hampshire,  her  parents  having  removed  to  that 
state  from  Connecticut.  The  Miner  family  is  de- 
scended from  Henry  BoUman,  a  brave  Knglish- 
nian,  who  owned  and  operated  large  mines  in  his 
native  land  and  who,  when  the  Revolution  broke 
out,  organized  his  men  and  marched  at  their 
head,  assistirig  in  quelling  the  revolution.  For 
this  signal  service  he  was  knighted  and  given  the 
name  of  Miner.  The  Miner  arms  consisted  of 
a  shield  with  three  grifBn  heads. 

Our  subject's  mother  died  in  New  Hampshire 
when  seventy  years  of  age.  In  her  family  there 
were  seven  sons  and  one  daughter,  but  only  three 
are  living.  A  brother,  Edwin  A.,  who  served  as 
a  lieutenant  in  the  Mexican  war,  died  in  I,a- 
Crosse,  Wis.,  in  1895.  Charles  V.,  who  was  in 
the  quartermaster's  department  during  the  Civil 
war,  died  in  Dixon,  111.,  where  he  had  long  made 
his  home.  R.  O.,  who  was  a  member  of  a  Ver- 
mont regiment  during  the  Civil  war,  for  three 
months,  later  served  in  the  commissary  depart- 
ment for  three  years,  and  is  now  living  at  Fort 
Collins,  Colo.  The  only  sister  is  our  subject's 
twin,  Helen  E.  A. ,  wife  of  Charles  Barrett,  of 
Somerville,  Mass. 

Our  .subject  was  taken  to  Hanover  when  he 
was  but  four  years  old.  There  he  worked  on  a 
farm  during  the  summers  and  attended  the'public 
schools  winters.  At  the  age  of  seventeen  he  was 
apprenticed  to  the  carpenter's  trade,  but  after 
one  year  his  boss  died;  however,  he  continued  at 
the  trade  with  another  man  in  Hanover,  and  after 
finishing  his  term  of  service  he  was  employed  on 
the  Vermont  Central  Railroad  as  foreman  in 
bridge  building.  At  the  opening  of  the  war  he 
determined  to  enlist  in  the  Union  service  and  in 
October,  1861,  his  name  was  enrolled  as  a  mem- 
ber of  a  regiment,  which  was  to  be  the  First  New 
England  Cavalry,  but  which,  on  the  muster,  was 
made  the  First  Rhode  Island  Cavalry.  For  two 
years  he  remained  in  the  service  as  quartermaster 
sergeant,  being  with  the  Army  of  the  Potomac 
until  mustered  out  by  Order  No.  126  from  the 
war  department.  He  was  honorably  discharged 
in  1863. 

Returning  to  New  Hampshire,  Mr.  Tenney  en- 
gaged in  the  building  business  until  1875.  He 
then  came  to  Colorado  and  settled  at  Fort  Collins, 
where  he  engaged  in  ranching  for  two  years,  and 
later  resumed  work  as  a  carpenter.  In  i88i  he 
came  to  Denver,  where  he  was  interested  in  the 


building  of  irrigation  canals,  being  in  charge  of 
all  the  woodwork  and  also  giving  levels  in  the 
construction  of  the  Highland  ditch  in  the  Platte 
Valley.  He  superintended  the  operating  of  the 
Highland  and  Platte  Valley  ditches,  also  the 
Loveland  and  Greeley  canal.  In  1886  he  re- 
signed his  position  and  went  to  Larimer,  where 
he  had  charge  of  the  construction  and  giving 
levels  on  the  lone  Land  and  Cattle  Company's 
canal  for  eight  months.  On  returning  to  Denver 
he  began  general  carpenter  work,  which  he  has 
since  carried  on,  having  his  shop  at  No.  1856 
Arapahoe  street.  In  politics  he  is  a  silver  Re- 
publican. Fraternally  he  is  connected  with 
Franklin  Lodge  No.  6,  F.  &A.  M.,  at  Leba- 
non, N.  H.,  in  which  he  was  Worshipful  Master 
for  years.  He  was  at  one  time  commander  of  the 
James  B.  Perry  Post  No.  6,  G.  A.  R.,  at  Leba- 


(lOHN  H.  PRINCE,  one  of  the  progressive 
I  and  enterprising  farmers  of  Boulder  County, 
Q)  has  spent  his  entire  life  in  Colorado  and  is 
one  of  the  few  men  now  living  in  the  state  who 
were  born  here.  A  native  of  Denver,  his  birth 
occurred  March  14,  1866,  to  Hiram  and  Helen  M. 
(Lindsay)  Prince,  of  whom  further  mention  is 
made  elsewhere  in  this  volume.  He  passed  his 
boyhood  years  in  the  parental  home  and  acquired 
a  fair  education  in  the  local  common  schools. 

In  1895  Mr.  Prince  was  united  in  marriage  with 
Miss  Margaret  Huffmann,  daughter  of  Thomas  D. 
Huffmann,  a  native  of  Iowa,  but  since  1894  ^ 
resident  of  Colorado.  His  first  home  in  this 
state  was  at  Boulder,  where  he  resided  until  re- 
cently. At  this  writing  he  is  engaged  in  farm 
pursuits  and  the  stock  business  in  Weld  County. 
One  child  blesses  the  union  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Prince,  a  daughter,  Alice  Mary,  who  was  born 
January  29,  1897. 

Fraternally  Mr.  Prince  is  identified  with  the 
Knights  of  Pythias.  At  one  time  he  was  prom- 
inent in  the  Woodmen  of  the  World,  but  his  mem- 
bership in  this  order  he  has  allowed  to  lapse.  In 
political  belief  he  is  an  advocate  of  protection  of 
American  industries,  believing  such  a  course 
most  helpful  to  workingmen  of  our  country.  He 
is  also  a  stalwart  champion  of  the  silver  cause, 
holding  the  belief  that  permanent  prosperity  can- 
not be  attained  until  silver  is  restored  to  its  right 
Standard.     In  addition  to  the  cultivation  of  his 


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place  of  eighty  acres,  he  also  manages  the  home- 
stead comprising  two  hundred  and  forty  acres; 
and  the  oversight  of  these  two  estates  consumes 
his  entire  time,  so  that  he  has  little  leisure  for 
public  affairs.  However,  he  is  a  public-spirited 
citizen  and  discharges  every  duty  that  comes  to 
him  as  a  citizen  of  Colorado. 


"HOMAS  J.  RHYNO  came  from  Iowa  to 
Colorado  in  1878,  making  the  long  journey 
across  the  plains  with  a  team  of  horses  and 
spending  thirty-five  days  on  the  road.  As  soon 
as  he  arrived  in  Boulder  he  began  to  freight  from 
this  city  to  Leadville,  covering  intermediate 
points,  but  after  three  years  he  discontinued  that 
work  and,  purchasing  land,  settled  down  to  farm- 
ing. In  1892  he  purchased  three  hundred  and 
twenty  acres  near  Louisville,  Boulder  County, 
but  afterward  sold  eighty  acres  and  gave  to  his 
son  another  eighty,  leaving  one  hundred  and  six- 
ty acres  in  his  home  farm. 

Born  in  Putnam  County,  Ind.,  October  28, 
1848,  our  subject  is  a  son  of  William  and  Sarah 
(Nunn)  Rhyno,  and  was  one  of  seven  children, 
all  but  one  of  whom  are  still  living.  His  father, 
who  was  a  native  of  Wythe  County,  Va.,  born  in 
1822,  moved  to  Indiana  in  early  manhood  and 
settled  down  to  farming  in  that  state.  From  there, 
in  1849,  he  migrated  to  Iowa  and  .settled  in  Mad- 
ison County,  where  he  made  his  home  nearly 
thirty  j^ears.  In  1878  he  accompanied  his  son, 
Thomas,  to  Colorado  and  was  so  delighted  with 
the  prospects  here  that  he  returned  to  Iowa  to 
dispose  of  his  property.  Having  done  so,  he 
came  to  Colorado  to  establish  his  permanent  home 
here,  and  for  five  years  resided  in  Denver,  where 
he  had  a  contract  in  car-building  for  the  Denver 
&Rio  Grande  Railroad.  From  that  city,  in  1884, 
he  went  to  the  North  Fork  of  the  Gunnison 
River,  where  for  three  years  he  engaged  in  farm- 
ing. Selling  that  property,  he  went  to  Iowa,  and 
in  1898  returned  to  Colorado,  where  he  is  now 
making  his  home  with  our  subject.  He  was  one 
of  those  men  who,  in  i860,  were  led  to  the 
mountain  regions  by  reason  of  the  discovery  of 
gold,  but  after  a  few  months  in  the  Blackhawk 
district,  not  finding  gold,  he  returned  to  Iowa. 
His  wife,  who  was  born  in  Ohio  in  1817,  resides 
in  Delta  County,  Colo. 

When  a  boy  our  subject  was  obliged  to  work 


almost  constantly  on  the  home  farm.  Forty- 
eight  days  at  one  time  was  his  longest  continued 
experience  of  school  life.  However,  by  reading 
and  contact  with  men  he  has  gained  a  broad  and 
useful  knowledge.  He  remained  at  home  until 
he  was  twenty-three  years  of  age,  when  he  began 
to  work  for  the  farmers  of  his  neighborhood.  No- 
vember 6,  1871,  he  married  Miss  Emma  Rancy, 
and  afterward  devoted  himself  to  farm  work.  In 
1872  he  bought  fifty  acres  in  Madison  County, 
which  he  cultivated  until  his  removal  to  Colo- 
rado. He  left  Iowa  August  11,  1878,  and  has 
since  made  his  home  in  Boulder  County.  He 
and  his  wife  had  three  children,  but  the  older 
son,  Charles  E.,  is  deceased.  The  only  daugh- 
ter, Rosa  B.,  is  the  widow  of  Richard  Strong; 
and  the  younger  son,  Fred,  who  is  married  and  has 
one  daughter,  is  engaged  in  cultivating  a  farm, 
that  adjoins  his  father's  place.  Mrs.  Rhyno  died 
October  18,  1876. 

Fraternally  Mr.  Rhyno  is  identified  with  Col- 
umbia Lodge  No.  14,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  of  Boulder, 
and  is  also  a  member  of  Camp  No.  137,  Wood- 
men of  the  World,  of  Louisville. 


r"RANK  K.  WAGNER,  a  successful  contractor 
r3  and  builder  of  Boulder,  is  a  young  man  who 
I  ^  numbers  a  host  of  sincere  friends  among  his 
fellow-citizens  here  and  outside  acquaintances. 
His  genial,  cordial  manners  make  him  a  general 
favorite,  and  his  rectitude  and  correct  methods  of 
transacting  his  business  affairs,  entitle  him  to 
the  nigh  reputation  he  bears  in  commercial 
circles. 

Born  in  Atchison,  Kan.,  the  subject  of  this 
sketch  is  now  in  his  thirty-fifth  year.  His  father, 
Tilghman  Wagner,  came  from  a  sterling  old 
Pennsylvania  family,  and  his  birthplace  was  in 
AUentown,  Lehigh  County.  He  came  as  far  west 
as  Illinois  in  his  early  manhood,  and  there  mar- 
ried Miss  Juliet  Wilson,  a  native  of  Canada,  who 
had  accompanied  her  father,  Samuel  P.  Wilson, 
to  the  Prairie  state.  The  latter  went  to  Cali- 
fornia during  the  gold  excitement  and  died  on  the 
Pacific  Slope  a  few  years  ago.  The  three  chil- 
dren of  Tilghman  and  Juliet  Wagner  are:  Frank 
K. ;  Charles,  who  is  in  business  with  his  father  in 
Aspen,  Colo.;  and  Jessie,  who  is  at  home.  After 
his  marriage  the  father  went  to  Atchi.son,  Kan., 
and  about    i860  started  for  Colorado  by  team. 


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He  has  followed  brick-laying  and  contracting,  and 
erected  many  of  the  old-time  brick  residences  and 
business  blocks  yet  standing  in  Boulder.  The 
first  time  that  he  came  to  this  state  he  remained 
but  a  year,  then  returning  to  his  old  home  in 
Atchison,  where  he  was  steadily  employed  at  his 
accustomed  vocation  up  to  1874.  That  year  he 
came  to  Denver  by  railroad,  and  from  that  city 
to  Boulder  by  wagon.  In  1893  he  took  up  his 
residence  in  Aspen,  Colo.,  and  is  still  living 
there,  his  time  being  given  to  the  manufacture  of 
bricks  and  to  contract  work. 

Frank  K.  Wagner  was  about  ten  years  of  age 
when  he  came  to  Colorado,  and  for  some  time  he 
was  a  pupil  in  the  public  schools  of  Boulder. 
Afterwards  he  learned  the  butcher's  trade  and  as 
a  member  of  the  firm  of  Church  &  Co.,  carried 
on  a  market  up  to  1889.  About  that  time  he 
commenced  learning  the  bricklayer's  trade  with 
his  father  and  brother  and  two  years  later  he 
started  in  contracting  on  his  own  account.  He 
plastered  the  Masonic  Temple,  built  Dr.  Dodges' 
residence  and  that  of  Mr.  Fulton  and  many 
others,  too  numerous  to  mention.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Master  Plasterers'  Association  and  was 
one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Boulder  Brickbuild- 
ers'  Association.  He  is  connected  with  the  In- 
dependent Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  and  with  Ruth 
Rebekah  Lodge  No.  5,  to  which  his  wife  also 
belongs.  In  politics  he  is  to  be  found  on  the  side 
of  the  Prohibition  party. 

Mrs.  Wagner,  who  is  a  charter  member  of  the 
Ladies  of  the  Hive  of  the  Maccabees,  and  has 
been  commander  of  the  same  ever  since  it  was 
organized,  is  from  an  old  and  prominent  Colo- 
rado family.  Her  father,  Samuel  Mishler,  was 
born  in  Dayton,  Ohio,  and  came  to  this  state  in 
1859,  when  a  young  man.  He  settled  on  Dory 
Hill,  and  for  years  was  engaged  in  mining.  He 
died  in  Boulder  in  December,  1893,  aged  sixty- 
four  years.  Three  of  his  brothers  were  in  eastern 
regiments  during  the  Civil  war.  His  father, 
William  Mishler,  was  a  native  of  Germany,  and 
lived  in  Pennsylvania  and  later  in  Ohio.  The 
mother  of  Mrs.  Wagner,  Mary  A. ,  was  born  in 
Wisconsin,  near  Milwaukee,  and  is  now  living  in 
Central  City,  Colo.  She  was  the  only  child  born 
to  the  first  marriage  of  George  Lytle,  who,  in 
company  with  three  others,  discovered  and 
named  the  famous  Caribou  mine  after  one  which 
Mr.   Lytle  had  seen  in  California,  of  a  similar 


rock  formation.  He  had  gone  to  the  Pacific  coast 
in  1848,  and  there  engaged  in  mining  for  eight- 
een years.  Returning  then  to  Colorado,  he  was 
occupied  in  the  same  pursuit  for  years  and  died 
here  in  September,  1896,  at  the  ripe  age  of 
seventy-one.  The  Caribou  mine,  which  he  and 
his  companions  opened  and  worked  for  seven 
years  or  more,  they  at  last  sold  for  $3,000,000. 
Mr.  Lytle  also  discovered  the  Idaho,  which  was 
a  large  paying  mine. 

The  marriage  of  our  subject  and  wife  was 
solemnized  near  Blackhawk,  Colo.,  in  1890. 
She  was  formerly  Miss  Viva  Mishler  and  was 
educated  in  the  preparatory  school  here,  after 
which  she  entered  the  University  of  Colorado, 
and  devoted  three  years  to  teaching.  She  is  the 
eldest  of  nine  children,  three  of  whom  died  while 
young.  Bertha  died  in  Blackhawk,  May  i, 
1891.  Ida  is  the  wife  of  Harry  Feehan,  of 
Blackhawk;  and  Blanche,  Dora  and  Irena  are 
residents  of  Central  City. 


gEORGE  B.  POOR,  who  is  engaged  in  farm- 
ing in  Boulder  County,  was  born  in  Chau- 
tauqua County,  N.  Y. ,  May  28,  1842,  and  is 
a  son  of  Alanson  and  Ruth  (Adams)  Poor.  He 
was  one  of  nine  children,  six  of  whom  are  still 
living,  namely:  Tracy  H.,  Andrew  J.,  Charles  B., 
Cordelia,  Qeorge  B.  and  Dallas  M.  The  father 
was  born  in  Vermont  in  1793,  and  migrated  to 
New  York  state  in  boyhood,  settling  in  Chau- 
tauqua County,  where  he  followed  farm  pursuits. 
About  1852  he  retired  from  active  labors  and 
afterward  made  his  home  with  his  children.  In 
i860  he  went  to  Hastings,  Minn.,  where  he  made 
his  home  with  his  eldest  son  up  to  the  time  of  his 
death,  in  1866. 

At  the  time  of  the  mother's  death,  the  family 
broke  up  housekeeping,  and  our  subject  was 
given  a  home  with  his  sister,  Mrs.  Solomon  Ben- 
nett. He  was  then  ten  years  of  age,  and  for  six 
years  he  lived  in  his  sister's  home  at  Bust  Eye 
Corners,  Chautauqua  County.  Afterward  he 
lived  with  his  brother,  Tracy  H.,  in  Centerville, 
Crawford  County,  Pa.,  within  eight  miles  of  the 
oil  regions,  where  he  engaged  in  teaming  in  con- 
nection with  his  brother.  In  the  fall  of  1861  he 
made  a  trip  to  Minnesota,  where  he  spent  the 
winter  in  visiting  a  relative  and  attending  school. 

In  April,  1862,  Mr.  Poor  turned  his  face  west- 
ward.    He  secured  employment  as  a  cook  for  a 


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train  crossing  the  plains  and  went  direct  to  Rus- 
sell Gulch,  arriving  there  on  the  15th  of  July. 
His  brother,  Andrew  J.,  formed  .one  of  the  train, 
and  he  having  been  in  the  state  before  was  able 
to  give  valuable  counsel  to  the  others.  He  owned 
some  mining  claims  in  the  gulch,  and  thither  the 
two  brothers  went.  When  the  winter  weather  set 
in  they  engaged  in  the  wood  business,  and  for 
three  years  devoted  themselves  to  this  enterprise. 
For  two  years  following  our  subject  engaged  in 
teaming  and  freighting  from  Denver  and  the 
mountains.  In  1867  he  married  Miss  Artemissia 
M.  Mathewson,  their  marriage  being  solemnized 
on  the  20th  of  February.  Afterward  he  came  to 
Boulder  and  took  up  a  homestead  of  one  hundred 
and  sixty  acres,  also  pre-empted  one  hundred  and 
twenty  acres,  situated  some  three  miles  northeast 
of  town.  Here  he  began  raising  stock  and  farm 
products,  and  also  turned  his  attention  to  dairy- 
ing. During  the  thirty-one  years  he  has  lived 
on  this  place  he  has  been  prospered  in  his  enter- 
prises and  has  gained  a  reputation  as  a  man  of 
persevering  disposition  and  upright  character. 

The  two  children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Poor  are: 
Ella  E.,  deceased,  and  Arthur  D.,  who  assists  his 
father  in  the  management  of  the  farm.  The 
family  are  identified  with  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church  and  contributors  to  its  good  works. 
Fraternally  Mr.  Poor  is  a  member  of  Centennial 
State  Lodge  No.  8,  A.  O.  U.  W.  While  in  the 
main  he  has  been  prosperous  and  has  attained  a 
competency  through  his  untiring  perseverance, 
yet  he  has  had  his  share  of  reverses.  January  5, 
1874,  his  residence  was  destroyed  by  fire,  and  on 
the  29th  of  January,  1883,  his  barn  burned  down, 
at  the  same  time  thirty-five  head  of  cattle  and 
four  horses  being  lost  in  the  fire. 


0EKALB  STERNBERG,  who  owns  and  oc- 
cupies a  farm  of  one  hundred  and  sixty 
acres  one  and  one-half  miles  east  of  Boulder, 
was  born  in  Herkimer  County,  N.  Y. ,  November 
24,  1833,  a  son  of  Lambert  and  Ruvina  (Stern- 
berg) Sternberg.  He  was  one  of  nine  children, 
seven  of  whom  are  living,  as  follows:  Jane; 
Mary,  wife  of  Charles  Reed,  of  Dakota;  Rebecca, 
the  widow  of  Jacob  Crouse,  of  Los  Angeles,  Cal.; 
Marcus,  of  Mitchellville,  Iowa;  our  subject;  Jay, 
living  in  Pomona,  Cal.;  and  Lambert,  a  farmer 
whose  home  is  in  Mitchellville,  Iowa. 


Lambert  Sternberg  was  born  in  Schoharie 
County,  N.  Y.,  in  1800,  and  in  boyhood  accom- 
panied his  father,  Marcus,  to  Herkimer  County, 
where  he  grew  to  manhood  and  married.  He 
was  a  man  of  sagacity  and  integrity  and,  as  he 
prospered  in  farming,  he  enlarged  his  ventures 
and  became  a  stock  speculator,  attaining  large 
wealth.  In  1857  he  removed  to  Polk  County, 
Iowa,  and  established  a  hotel  at  the  junction  of 
the  Iowa  City  and  Keokuk  roads,  which  was  one 
of  the  noted  points  of  pioneer  days  and  was  the 
crossing  point  of  five  or  six  stage  routes.  He 
also  engaged  in  breeding  and  feeding  stock,  and 
cultivating  a  farm,  until  his  death,  which  oc- 
curred in  1870. 

The  Sternberg  family  descends  from  three 
brothers  who  came  from  Germany  in  an  early 
day  and  settled  in  Schoharie  County,  N.  Y. 
They  became  well  known  throughout  the  state 
as  the  producers  of  the  first  wheat  sold  in  their 
count3^  Marcus  Sternberg,  grandfather  of  our 
subject,  was  a  farmer  and  the  son  of  Nicholas 
Sternberg.  George  M.  Sternberg,  well  known 
throughout  the  United  States  as  a  surgeon-gen- 
eral of  the  regular  army,  is  a  member  of  this  fam- 
ily and  a  second  cou.sin  of  our  subject. 

The  mother  of  our  subject  was  Ruvina  Vroman, 
but  when  she  was  a  child  her  mother  was  mar- 
ried a  second  time,  becoming  the  wife  of  Marcus 
Sternberg,  and  the  daughter  took  her  stepfather's 
name,  as  did  the  other  Vroman  children.  Dur- 
ing the  Revolution  Indians  massacred  a  father 
and  mother  in  the  family  of  Vromans  and  captured 
three  or  four  of  their  children,  whom  they  took 
into  Canada;  one  or  two  died  of  exposure  to  the 
severe  cold  and  of  starvation.  Others  of  the 
family  escaped  by  fortifying  themselves  in  an  old 
stone  church  near  their  home. 

In  1855  our  subject  removed  to  Polk  County, 
Iowa,  where  for  six  years  he  was  engaged  with 
his  father  in  farming  and  raising  stock.  In  1862 
he  went  to  Hamilton  County,  where  he  con- 
ducted milling  and  farming  pursuits  until  1867, 
and  then  disposed  of  his  property  and  removed 
to  Ogle  County,  111.  Upon  a  farm  of  two  hun- 
dred and  ninety  acres  that  he  purchased,  he  set- 
tled down  to  farming.  November  7,  1864,  in 
Hamilton  County,  Iowa,  he  married  Miss  Mary 
Harris.  Five  children  were  born  of  the  union. 
Lambert,  the  eldest,  is  a  member  of  the  McAl- 
lister Lumber  &  Supply  Company,  and  manager 


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of  the  firm's  interests  and  lumber  yards  at  Louis- 
ville, Colo.;  he  is  a  graduate  of  the  Colorado 
State  University  and  took  a  law  course  at  the 
State  University  of  Michigan.  Guy  V.,  the  sec- 
ond son,  is  a  graduate  of  the  State  University, 
degree  of  A.  B.,  and  graduated  from  the  law  de- 
partment of  the  same  school  with  the  degree  of 
LL-B.  He  is  now  practicing  his  profession  at 
Grand  Junction,  Colo.  Irene  resides  with  her 
parents;  Emma  L. ,  who  graduated  from  the 
State  University  with  the  degree  of  A.  B.,  took 
a  four  years'  course  in  Germany,  spending  the 
time  in  Berlin,  Dresden  and  Leipsig;  and  Grace 
R.  is  the  wife  of  Dr.  Charles  Ambrook,  of 
Boulder. 

Selling  his  property  in  Illinois  in  1869,  Mr. 
Sternberg  returned  to  Hamilton  County,  Iowa, 
and  remained  there  until  February,  1870,  when 
he  settled  in  Arapahoe  County,  Colo.,  some  five 
miles  north  of  Denver,  purchasing  three  hundred 
and  forty  acres  and  engaging  in  farming.  In 
December,  1872,  he  removed  to  Boulder  and 
erected  a  gristmill.  This  he  conducted  until 
1879  and  then  sold  his  interests  and  purchased 
his  present  valuable  homestead  of  one  hundred 
and  sixty  acres,  where  he  has  since  resided.  He 
also  owns  eighty  acres  one-half  mile  east  of  his 
homestead,  which  he  acquired  in  1880.  Fra- 
ternally he  is  connected  with  the  Ancient  Order 
of  United  Workmen.  In_  political  views  he  is 
liberal,  supporting  men  and  measures  he  believes 
to  be  right,  irrespective  of  the  parties  supporting 
them.  When  the  town  of  Boulder  was  incorpo- 
rated he  was  a  member  of  the  council. 


p\ETER  HALDI,  a  pioneer  of  Altona,  Boul- 
LX  der  County,  was  born  in  Canton  Berne, 
fS  Switzerland,  November  25,  1845,  a  son  of 
Peter  and  Catherine  (Reichenbach)  Haldi.  He 
was  one  of  nine  children,  of  whom  five  besides  him- 
self are  living,  viz.:  Catherine,  Louisa,  Maria, 
Christian,  Alfred  and  Susanna  C.  His  father,  a 
native  of  Switzerland,  born  in  1826,  learned  the 
trade  of  a  blacksmith  in  youth  and  followed 
that  occupation  in  his  native  land  until  1881, 
when  he  crossed  the  ocean  to  Canada  and  spent 
three  years  there.  Returning  to  Europe,  he  re- 
mained two  years,  and  then,  in  1886,  came  to  the 
United  States,  stopping  eighteen  months  in  Ohio 
and  coming  from  thereto  Colorado  in  1888.     Es- 


tablishing his  home  in  the  Left  Hand  Canon,  he 
engaged  in  the  dairy  business  and  farming  on  a 
small  scale,  and  has  since  continued  to  reside 
there. 

After  acquiring  a  common-school  education  and 
learning  the  blacksmith's  trade,  the  subject  of 
this  sketch  entered  the  military  service  at  the  age 
of  twenty  years  and  for  three  years  was  a  member 
of  the  Heavy  Artillery,  Company  5,  Division  No. 
44.  Upon  the  close  of  his  term  of  service  he  re- 
turned home,  where  he  worked  in  the  shop  for  a 
short  time.  In  1869  he  emigrated  to  America, 
landing  in  New  York  on  the  ist  of  June. 
From  there  he  went  to  Carrollton,  Mo.,  where  he 
worked  as  a  journeyman  blacksmith.  In  October, 
1872,  became  across  the  plains  to  Colorado,  as  a 
member  of  a  party  whose  train  was  stopped  sev- 
eral times  by  herds  of  buffalo.  Arriving  in  Den- 
ver on  the  ist  6f  November,  he  secured  employ- 
ment at  his  trade,  in  which  capacity  he  continued 
until  April  i,  1875.  Atthat  time  became  to  the 
mouth  of  Left  Hand  Canon  and  bought  his  pres- 
ent shop,  which  had  been  built  by  Walt  Wright 
and  Sam  Noblet  in  1870.  This,  and  some  other 
buildings  that  he  bought,  cost  him  f  1,100.  He 
settled  down  to  the  blacksmith's  trade  and  gradu- 
ally built  up  a  good  custom.  The  township  had 
not  yet  been  surveyed,  and,  wishing  to  take  up  a 
homestead,  he  turned  his  attention  to  the  survey, 
which  was  finally  made,  in  1882,  through  his 
efforts.  He  then  entered  one  hundred  and  sixty 
acres  of  land.  In  1879  he  was  instrumental  in 
establishing  a  postoffice  here.  The  original 
name  of  Ni  Wot  was  changed  to  Altona,  on  ac- 
count of  the  confusion  caused  from  the  fact  that  a 
railroad  station  on  the  Colorado  Central  Railroad 
bore  the  name  of  Ni  Wot.  In  1880  he  was  in- 
strumental in  the  building  of  the  direct  road 
to  Boulder.  His  father,  on  coming  to  Boulder 
Canon,  had  taken  up  one  hundred  and  sixty 
acres  of  land,  and  this  our  subject  bought  later, 
and  with  an  eighty-acre  tract  that  he  also 
bought,  makes  his  place  one  of  four  hundred 
acres. 

In  Denver,  May  i,  1872,  Mr.  Haldi  married 
Miss  Anna  E.  Seekamp.  Five  children  were 
born  of  their  union,  three  of  whom  are  living: 
Adolpli,  Ida  and  Fred.  For  the  past  eighteen 
years  (with  the  exception  of  eighteen  months) 
Mr.  Haldi  has  been  a  member  of  the  school  board, 
and  he  is  also  actively  connected  with  the  Altona 


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Grange.  Fraternally  he  is  connected  with  the 
Swiss  Gruetli  Society  of  Denver  and  Columbia 
Lodge  No.  14,  A.  F.  &  A.  M. 


nOHN  N.  EWING,  a  progressive  agricult- 
I  iirist,  whose  farm  is  situated  near  Louisville, 
Q)  Boulder  County,  was  born  in  Highland 
County,  Ohio,  January  15,  1833,  a  son  of  Robert 
and  Elizabeth  (Milton)  Ewing.  He  was  one  of 
ten  children,  five  of  whom  are  now  living,  namely: 
Jessie  C,  Robert  M.,  John  N.,  Samuel  E.  and 
Lorena  I.,  wife  of  William  P.  Graham.  The 
father,  who  was  a  native  of  Brown  County,  Ohio, 
born  March  12,  1805,  learned  the  trade  of  a  car- 
penter in  youth,  and  followed  it  in  Ohio  for  some 
time,  but  in  1837  took  his  family  to  Illinois, 
settling  in  Schuyler  County,  where  he  followed  his 
trade.  As  his  boys  grew  toward  manhood,  wish- 
ing to  give  them  some  practical  experience  in 
farming,  he  bought  eighty  acres,  which  he  super- 
intended, while  working  at  his  trade.  In  1857 
he  removed  to  Kansas  and  settled  sixty-five 
miles  south  of  Kansas  City.  There  he  devoted 
his  attention  entirely  to  farm  work.  For  many 
years  he  served  as  justice  of  the  peace,  and  was 
chosen  a  delegate  to  the  convention  that  framed 
the  constitution  of  the  state  of  Kansas.  His 
death  occurred  December  12,  1884. 

In  the  common  schools  of  the  home  neighbor- 
hood our  subject  had  fair  educational  advantages. 
He  worked  on  the  home  farm  until  the  breaking 
out  of  the  war.  September  16,  1861,  he  enlisted 
in  Company  E,  Sixth  Kansas  Cavalry,  Colonel 
Judson  commanding.  He  took  part  in  the 
battles  of  Cain  Hill,  Prairie  Grove  and  many 
skirmishes.  Upon  the  close  of  hostilities  he  was 
mustered  out  of  service  January  5,  1865,  at  Fort 
Leavenworth,  Kan. 

While  in  the  army  Mr.  Ewing  applied  for  a 
short  furlough.  This  was  granted  him,  and  Sep- 
tember 4,  1862,  he  returned  to  Kansas,  where  he 
married  Miss  Amanda  Hodgson,  sister  of  Wil- 
liam E.  Hodgson,  whose  sketch  appears  upon 
another  page.  They  were  married  September  6th 
and  on  the  7th  Mr.  Ewing  returned  to  his  com- 
mand. After  the  war  closed  he  entered  one 
hundred  and  sixty  acres  in  Linn  County,  Kan., 
under  the  homestead  law,  and  began  to  farm  the 
place,  where  he  remained  until  1880.  He  then 
joined  a  wagon  train  composed  of  four  wagons, 


en  route  to  Colorado,  and  after  a  journey  of  four 
weeks  arrived  at  Boulder  May  26.  He  spent 
the  summer  on  Left  Hand  Creek,  at  job  and  day 
work,  being  too  late  to  put  in  a  crop.  In  the 
spring  of  1881  he  settled  in  Boulder  Valley,  one- 
half  mile  north  of  his  present  home,  and  for  seven 
years  operated  rented  land.  In  1888  he  pur- 
chased fort}'  acres  where  he  now  resides.  This 
he  has  improved  and  cultivated,  in  connection 
with  eighty  to  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  which 
he  rents  each  year.  For  many  years  he  has 
served  as  a  member  of  the  school  board  and  is 
heartily  in  sympathy  with  the  free-school  system. 
The  Boulder  Valley  Grange  numbers  him  among 
its  active  members. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ewing  became  the  parents  of 
seven  children,  three  of  whom  are  living.  They 
also  adopted  a  child,  whom  they  reared  as  their 
own.  The  daughters  and  son  were  named  as 
follows:  Ida  M.,  Hattie  F.  and  Myrtie  A.,  all 
deceased;  Anna  J. ;  Carrie  S. ,  who  married  Albert 
P.  Carnahan  and  has  a  son,  Raymond  E. ;  Mary, 
deceased;  Flora  E.  and  Delton  R.  H. 


(SlLBERT  T.  HENRY,  who  first  came  to 
r  1  Boulder  in  the  Centennial  year,  has  been  a 
/  I  witness  of  vast  changes  in  Colorado.  His 
beautiful  home  is  situated  at  the  corner  of  Hill 
and  Thirteenth  streets,  and  in  addition  to  this,  he 
is  the  owner  of  several  valuable  pieces  of  property 
in  the  town,  as  well  as  other  residences.  He  has 
always  taken  an  active  and  interested  part  in  all 
local  enterprises,  and  has  freely  used  his  means 
and  influence  for  the  development  of  the  resources 
of  this  region  and  for  the  improvement  of  the 
town. 

In  early  life  Mr.  Henry  engaged  in  the  milling 
business  in  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  but  later  removed 
to  Michigan  and  subsequently  became  proprietor 
of  a  hotel  at  Jack.son.  As  his  health  was  not  of 
the  best,  he  determined  to  try  life  on  the  plains, 
and,  accordingly,  went  to  San  Antonio,  Tex., 
where  he  remained  until  the  spring  of  the  next 
year.  He  then  started  for  Denver  by  team, 
traveling  part  of  the  way  with  a  body  of  United 
States  troops,  and  the  rest  of  the  distance  with 
Mexican  trains,  as  the  Indians  were  very  hostile, 
and  emigrant  trains  which  had  preceded,  as  well 
as  several  which  followed,  were  destroyed  by  the 
red  men.     The  trip  to  Denver  took  three  months. 


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and  a  few  days  after  his  arrival  in  the  present 
capital  of  Colorado,  Mr.  Henry  settled  in  Boulder. 
The  next  June  he  went  east  and  at  a  point  near 
Sedalia,  on  the  Missouri  Pacific  Railroad  line,  the 
train  in  which  he  was  traveling  was  "held  up" 
by  the  famous  James  boys  and  the  Younger 
brothers.  He  went  to  Cincinnati  and  Michigan, 
and  on  his  return  to  Boulder  engaged  in  the 
wholesale  liquor  and  cigar  business.  He  con- 
tinued in  this  pursuit  until  1894,  when  he  sold 
out  and  retired. 

Mr.  Henry  was  one  of  the  original  stock- 
holders in  the  Boulder  Milling  and  Elevator 
Company,  and  has  always  been  connected  with 
the  organization  in  this  capacity  and  also  holds 
stock  and  for  some  years  was  a  director  in  the 
First  National  Bank  of  Boulder.  When  the 
Masonic  Temple  was  in  process  of  erection  he 
was  one  of  the  trustees  and  was  treasurer  of  the 
funds.  When  he  was  a  young  man,  and  a 
resident  of  St.  Joseph,  Mich.,  he  was  initiated 
into  the  Masonic  order,  and  has  long  stood  high 
in  the  fraternity.  He  belongs  to  Columbia 
Lodge  No.  14,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  and  is  its  past 
master,  while  his  son,  A.  T.,  Jr. ,  is  the  present 
master  (and  the  youngest,  by  the  way,  who  ever 
occupied  the  chair  in  this  lodge) .  For  eight 
years  Mr.  Henry  was  the  high  priest  of  Boulder 
Chapter  No.  7,  R.  A.  M.,  and  in  1879  he  received 
the  degree  of  Knight  Templar,  in  Colorado 
Commandery  No.  i,  of  Denver.  Later  he  was 
one  of  the  leaders  in  the  founding  of  Mount  Sinai 
Commandery  No.  7,  K.  T.,  of  Boulder,  being 
one  of  its  charter  members.  With  the  exception 
of  once,  when,  in  1883,  he  was  absent  and  travel- 
ing in  Europe,  Mr.  Henry  has  attended  every 
national  conclave  of  the  Masons.  He  is  identified 
with  El  Jebel  Temple,  Nobles  of  the  Mystic 
Shrine  of  Denver.  Formerly  he  was  active  as  a 
Knight  of  Pythias  and  Odd  Fellow,  but  is  not 
at  this  time.  He  was  first  chancellor  of  the  first- 
mentioned  order  and  belonged  to  the  encamp- 
ment and  canton  of  the  Odd  Fellows'  Society. 
Politically  he  is  a  Republican. 

Until  about  six  years  ago  Mr.  Henry  owned 
real-estate  in  Denver,  but  is  now  more  interested 
in  his  Boulder  property.  He  is  building  three 
cottages  on  terraced  lots  at  the  corner  of  Spruce 
and  Ninth  streets,  and  is  greatly  improving  that 
locality.  Other  property  in  this  town  is  also 
owned  by  him,  from  which  he   derives   a   good 


income.  His  attractive  home  is  presided  over  by 
his  cultured  wife,  whose  maiden  name  was 
Carrie  Andrews.  They  have  two  children, 
Albert  T.,  Jr.,  and  Beulah  Genevieve.  The  son 
was  educated  in  the  University  of  Colorado,  and 
while  there  belonged  to  the  glee  club.  At 
present  he  is  assisting  in  the  management  of  his 
father's  interest.  The  daughter  is  a  graduate  of 
the  class  of  '98  of  the  state  university.  Both  are 
most  promising  young  people. 


yyilCHAEL  L.  ROSENBAUM,  the  owner  of 
y  a  large  farm  and  sawmill  near  Louisville, 
(3  Boulder  County,  was  born  in  Homer,  Neb. , 
February  22,  i860,  a  son  of  Anthony  and  Mary 
(Boyle)  Rosenbaum.  He  was  one  of  twelve  chil- 
dren, ten  of  whom  are  living,  namely:  Michael 
L.,  Christopher  C,  Harmon,  Mary,  Maggie, 
Katie,  Emma,  Lizzie,  Willie  and  Nettie.  The 
father,  who  was  a  native  of  German}',  was  born 
on  the  River  Rhine  in  1837,  and  in  youth  learned 
the  trade  of  a  carpenter.  In  1855  he  emigrated 
to  America  with  his  father,  Christopher  Rosen- 
baum, who  was  also  a  carpenter;  and  for  some  time 
he  worked  in  New  York  City.  Later,  when  his 
father  returned  to  the  old  country,  he  settled  in 
Covington,  Neb.,  and  after  working  some  time 
at  his  trade  he  embarked  in  farming.  Afterward 
he  kept  a  stage  station  for  a  number  of  years. 
In  1863  he  came  to  Colorado  and  opened  a 
carpenter  shop  on  Fifteenth  street,  Denver, 
where  he  worked  for  two  years.  In  1865  he 
went  to  Virginia  City,  Mont.,  and  opened  a 
shop.  He  made  coffins  for  seven  road  agents 
who  had  been  hung,  receiving  $700  for  the 
seven  coffins.  A  year  later  he  went  to  Silver 
Bow,  where  he  was  engaged  in  mining  and  con- 
tracting. After  some  months  he  proceeded  to 
Diamond  City,  where  he  spent  several  years  in 
mining  and  contracting.  A  very  substantial 
monument  to  his  memory  there  is  the  piping  he 
put  in  Altar  Gulch,  one-half  mile  each  side  of  the 
mountain,  where  a  two-foot  piping  forced  the 
water  up  the.  mountain  for  hydraulic  purposes. 
In  1870  he  returned  to  Colorado  and  settled  in 
Boulder  Valley,  two  miles  north  of  our  subject's 
home,  on  Dry  Creek,  where  he  engaged  in  farm- 
ing and  continued  to  reside  until  his  death,  in 
1897. 
The    maternal    grandfather    of   our    subject, 


JEREMIAH  LEGGETT. 


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Michael  Boyle,  was  born  in  County  Tyrone, 
Ireland.  In  middle  life  he  came  to  America  on  a 
tour  of  inspection,  leaving  his  family  in  Ireland. 
He  worked  at  various  occupations,  as  he  could 
find  employment.  It  was  his  plan  to  send  for  his 
family  as  soon  as  he  could  secure  a  permanent 
position,  but  while  in  New  York  City  he  was 
sunstruck  and  died  from  the  effects.  Twenty 
years  afterward  his  widow,  Ann  Boyle,  crossed 
the  ocean,  accompanied  by  her  son  and  two 
daughters,  and  settled  in  Boulder  County,  where 
she  remained  until  her  death. 

When  eighteen  years  of  age  our  subject  settled 
in  Louisville,  where  he  engaged  in  the  butcher 
business  for  three  years,  but  in  1881  sold  his  busi- 
ness interests  here  and  bought  a  farm  adjoining 
his  father's  land.  In  1890  he  purchased  his 
present  homestead  of  two  hundred  acres,  where 
he  has  since  resided,  engaged  in  farming  and  the 
raising  of  cattle.  He  has  also  acquired  valuable 
city  property  in  Boulder  and  Loui.sville.  In  1895 
he  established  a  sawmill  in  the  mountains  and 
this  has  proved  a  very  profitable  investment. 
Politically  he  is  a  Democrat,  and  active  in  party 
interests.  Fraternally  he  is  connected  with 
Loui-sville  Lodge  No.  137,  Woodmen  of  the 
World. 

In  1 88 1  Mr.  Rosenbaum  married  Miss  Nora 
Doran,  and  they  have  three  children,  Anthony, 
Julia  and  James.  Mrs.  Rosen baum's  father  was 
born  in  1820  and  her  mother  in  1822,  both  in 
Ireland.  They  came  to  America  in  1864  and 
settled  near  Langford,  Boulder  County,  where 
Mr.  Doran  embarked  in  farming,  and  he  con- 
tinued in  that  occupation  until  his  death.  His 
wife  is  still  living. 


(lEREMIAH  LEGGETT,  whose  farm  in  Boul- 
I  der  County  comprises  a  half-section  of  im- 
Qj  proved  laud,  was  born  in  Licking  County, 
Ohio,  May  16,  1837,  and  was  one  of  the  seven 
children  of  James  and  Elizabeth  (Younger)  Leg- 
gett.  Of  the  family,  five  are-now  living,  namely: 
Jeremiah;  John  W.,  a  farmer  of  Madison  County, 
Iowa;  Leander,  who  is  engaged  in  farming  in 
Polk  County,  Iowa;  Eliza,  wife  of  Ezra  Miller,  of 
Woodward,  Iowa;  and  Sarah,  widow  of  William 
Leman,  of  Iowa.  The  father  of  these  children 
was  born  in  Virginia  in  18 16  and  removed  with 
his  parents  in  boyhood  to  Ohio,  settling  in  Lick- 
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ing  County,  where  he  was  reared  and  married.  In 
youth  he  served  an  apprenticeship  to  the  shoe-' 
maker's  trade,  which  he  followed  in  Licking 
County  until  1852,  and  then,  accompanied  by  his 
family,  he  migrated  to  Indiana.  There  for  two 
and  one-half  years  he  engaged  in  farming  in 
Henry  County.  In  1854  he  again  moved,  this 
time  going  to  Iowa,  where  he  farmed  in  Polk 
County  and  also  dealt  extensively  in  cattle  and 
hogs.  His  death  occurred  on  his  farm  in  1856. 
The  paternal  grandfather  of  our  subject, 
Thomas  Leggett,  was  born  in  Scotland,  and 
coming  to  America  in  youth,  settled  in  Vir- 
ginia, where  he  married  and  lived  for  a  number 
of  years.  Later  he  removed  to  Ohio,  where  he 
engaged  in  farm  pursuits  until  his  death.  Our 
subject's  maternal  grandfather,  who  was  a  Scotch- 
man, settled  in  Virginia  in  youth.  When  a 
boy  our  subject  had  few  educational  advantages, 
but  being  a  thoughtful  reader  he  has  acquired  a 
thorough  education  and  is  well  posted  on  all  the 
current  topics  of  the  day.  When  his  father  died 
he  was  nineteen  j-ears  of  age  and  the  support  of 
the  family  fell  on  his  shoulders,  he  being  the 
eldest  of  the  children.  October  31,  1861,  he 
married  Miss  Augusta  M.  Hinman,  daughter 
of  Porter  T.  Hinman,  who  was  born  near  Buf- 
falo, N.  Y.,  July  6,  1816.  Her  grandfather, 
Anson  Hinman,  was  for  many  years  judge  of 
the  county  court  and  was  prominently  identified 
with  military  matters,  holding  the  rank  of  gen- 
eral in  the  state  militia.  Porter's  parents  dy- 
ing when  he  was  young,  he  was  thrown  upon 
his  own  resources  and  at  the  age  of  fifteen  he 
went  to  Buffalo,  thence,  a  few  months  later, 
settled  at  Grand  Island,  on  the  Niagara  River. 
There  he  spent  three  years  as  clerk  for  the  Grand 
Island  Company,  a  ship-building  concern.  His 
next  position  was  that  of  clerk  on  the  steamship 
"Constellation,"  plying  on  Lake  Erie.  Two 
j'ears  later  he  removed  to  Mansfield,  Ohio,  where 
he  taught  a  writing  school  for  about  five 
years.  During  his  residence  there  he  married 
Mary  A.  Smith,  and  in  1845  removed  to  Clinton 
County,  Ind.,  where  he  followed  farming  four 
years.  During  the  California  excitement  of  1849 
he  went  to  the  Pacific  coast,  where  he  followed 
freighting  and  mining  until  1853.  On  his  return 
east  he  settled  in  Illinois  and  -for  two  and  one- 
half  years  engaged  in  farming  in  McDonough 
County.     His  next  position  was  that  of  clerk  in 


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the  United  States  land  ofBce  at  Des  Moines. 
Moving  from  there  to  Polk  City,  he  embarked  in 
the  sawmill  business,  becoming  proprietor  of  two 
sawmills,  from  which  he  reaped  large  profits. 
During  his  residence  in  Polk  City  he  served  as 
postmaster  for  three  years.  In  i860  he  came  to 
Colorado  in  company  with  his  oldest  son  and  pre- 
empted one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  on  Left 
Hand  Creek.  In  1862  he  returned  home  and 
came  back  with  his  second  son.  The  next  year 
he  returned  and  brought  his  family  with  him. 
Afterward  he  gave  his  attention  to  the  cultivation 
of  land.  About  1876,  with  his  youngest  son,  he 
went  to  the  mines  at  Hand's  Peak,  where  he 
operated  for  three  years,  and  during  that  time  he 
served  as  judge  of  Routt  County  and  postmaster 
at  Hand's  Peak.  In  1884  he  represented  his 
county  in  the  state  legislature,  being  elected  on 
the  Republican  ticket.  His  death  occurred  June 
8,  1894. 

After  his  marriage  our  subject  continued  to 
live  at  the  old  home,  caring  for  the  younger 
members  of  the  family.  But  when  they  had 
mostly  married  and  left  home,  he  with  his  wife 
and  two  children  .started  for  Colorado  in  1866. 
Leaving  Polk  County  April  5,  they  crossed  the 
plains  with  a  team  of  horses  and  arrived  on  Left 
Hand  Creek  May  18.  This  was  not  his  first  trip 
to  Colorado,  as  he  had  come,  in  i860,  with  three 
others,  making  the  journey  with  horses  and  two 
wagons,  and  spending  six  months  in  the  mining 
regions. 

On  making  permanent  settlement  in  Colorado, 
Mr.  Leggett  embarked  in  agricultural  pursuits  on 
Left  Hand  Creek.  After  one  year  he  removed  to 
Boulder  Creek  and  took  charge  of  the  Ni  Wot 
Mining  Company's  landed  property,  where  for 
four  years  he  remained.  In  1871  he  cultivated 
the  farm  adjoining  his  present  property,  but  in 
1872  purchased  and  removed  to  one  hundred 
and  sixty  acres,  to  which  he  afterward  added, 
making  his  place  one  of  three  hundred  and  twenty 
acres.  He  has  given  considerable  attention  to 
the  breeding  and  raising  of  cattle  and  horses.  In 
1897  he  erected  his  present  substantial  brick 
residence,  which  is  one  of  the  attractive  country 
homes  of  Boulder  County,  and  is  known  as 
Clifton  Place.  For  the  past  ten  years  he  has 
served  as  president  of  the  Boulder  Industrial 
Association,  and  for  many  years  he  has  served  on 
the  school  board.     Politically  he  favors  the  silver 


Republican  cause.  Fraternally  he  is  identified 
with  Eureka  Lodge  No.  i,  A.  O.  U.  W.,  and 
Boulder  Valley  Grange,  of  which  he  is  now 
master,  and  for  one  term  was  overseer  of  the 
State  Grange. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Leggett  are  the  parents  of  six 
children.  Harriet  A.,  who  was  born  September 
18,  1862,  is  the  widow  of  Willard  Slocum,  and 
resides  in  Loveland,  Larimer  County.  Alice  M. 
was  born  in  August,  1864,  and  died  October  9, 
1871.  James  E.  was  born  August  8,  1866, 
and  died  January  30,  1867.  Edgar  W.,  born 
March  2,  1868,  is  superintendent  of  the  Rock 
Springs  Mining  Company  and  resides  at  Four 
Mile,  Routt  County.  Mary  E.,  born  April  17, 
1 87 1,  is  a  graduate  of  the  State  Normal  School 
and  for  the  past  four  years  has  been  a  teacher  in 
the  Erie  school.  Nathan  H.,  born  December  2, 
1878,  resides  at  home  and  assists  in  the  manage- 
ment of  the  farm. 


fD  G;|ILLIAM  C.  hake,  one  of  the  highly  es- 
\A/  ^^^'"^^  ^"*^  well-known  old  settlers  of 
YY  Coal  Creek  Valley,  Boulder  County,  has 
been  a  land  owner  and  resident  of  this  section  for 
the  past  thirty-eight  years.  During  this  period 
he  has  done  all  within  his  power  to  promote  law, 
order  and  gopd  government  in  general  and  has 
been  an  important  factor  in  the  increasing  civili- 
zation and  prosperity  which  the  state  now  enjoys. 
He  has  been  a  witness  of  vast  changes  since  he 
came  to  Colorado,  and,  as  an  honorable  and  up- 
right citizen,  has  substantially  assisted  in  placing 
the  state  and  section  in  which  he  dwells  on  a  safe 
and  sure  basis. 

William  C.  Hake  hails  from  the  sturdy,  grand 
old  Buckeye  state  whose  proud  lot  it  has  been  to 
produce  such  hosts  of  noble  sons,  men  strong  in 
the  councils  of  the  government  and  the  various 
states.  Mr.  Hake  was  born  in  Trumbull  County, 
January  26,  1833,  and  is  one  of  the  six  children 
of  George  W.  and  Hannah  (Sowers)  Hake,  and 
now  the  sole  survivor  of  the  family.  He  was 
reared  to  manhood  in  the  old  home  in  Ohio,  and 
gained  a  common-school  education  in  the  neigh- 
borhood. The  family  removed  to  Grant  County, 
Wis.,  about  1853,  and  soon  after  our  subject  had 
reached  his  majority  he  started  out  in  the  world  to 
earn  his  own  livelihood.  Going  to  Prairie  du 
Chien,  Wis.,  he  entered    the  employ  of  a  stone- 


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mason  and  worked  industriously  for  about  three 
months,  when  he  was  obhged  to  return  home,  as 
he  had  contracted  the  fever  and  ague.  Six  months 
later  he  went  to  the  Black  River  pineries  and  en- 
gaged in  logging  there  some  four  months.  Then 
he  tried  the  arduous  task  of  breaking  prairie  in 
Wisconsin  and  finally  settled  down  to  farming  in 
that  state. 

October  16,  1856,  Mr.  Hakemarried  Miss  Em- 
eline  Davis,  in  Platteville,  Wis.  Mrs.  Hake  is  a 
daughter  of  Abnerand  Sarah  (Drake)  Davis,  the 
former  a  native  of  Pennsylvania  and  a  blacksmith 
by  trade,  while  his  father,  in  turn,  was  a  native 
of  Wales.  Six  children  blessed  the  marriage  of 
our  subject  and  wife.  They  are  all  living  and 
are  as  follows:  Araminta  J.,  wife  of  James  F. 
McCorkle,  a  prominent  farmer  of  the  state  of 
Washington;  Zelda  E.,  wife  of  W.  C.  Autrey 
(see  his  .sketch  upon  another  page  of  this  vol- 
ume); IdaC,  wife  of  C.  W.  Gilbert,  a  well-to-do 
farmer  of  this  county;  Ella  M.,  whose  husband, 
F.  J.  L-  MacCormac,  is  a  member  of  the  Indus- 
trial Coal  Mining  &  Mercantile  Company;  and 
Charles  W.  and  Mary  Byrna,  twins,  the  former  a 
member  of  the  Industrial  Coal  Mining  &  Mer- 
cantile Company,  and  the  latter  the  wife  of  George 
I.  Miller,  who  has  farming  interests  and  is  a  clerk 
in  the  employ  of  the  Lafayette  Supply  Company, 
of  Lafayette. 

May  10,  1859,  Mr.  Hake  started  for  Colorado 
with  two  wagons  drawn  by  one  yoke  of  oxen  and 
two  yoke  of  cows.  The  little  party,  including  the 
family  of  our  subject,  arrived  at  Ralston  Creek, 
near  Golden,  July  7,  and  the  same  week  went  on  to 
Golden  Gate.  There  Mr.  Hake  assisted  in  building 
a  house  for  a  man  who  kept  a  restaurant,  and  was 
thus  occupied  for  about  a  month.  He  then  loca- 
ted in  the  .small  mining  camp  of  Arapahoe,  on 
Clear  Creek,  and  proceeded  to  engage  in  gulch- 
mining  up  to  the  following  February.  Then 
coming  to  Coal  Creek  Valley  he  pre-empted  a 
quarter-section  of  land,  proving  it  up  later  and 
afterwards  bought  eighty  acres  adjoining.  Thus 
he  had  a  large  farm,  which,  by  patient  improve- 
ment and  good  management  has  been  made  to 
yield  a  good  living.  Mr.  Hake  has  given  much  time 
to  dairying  and  stock-raising  and  has  met  with 
well-deserved  success  in  his  labors.  In  the  spring 
of  1864  an  unusually  great  flood  exposed  coal 
upon  his  land,  but  it  was  not  until  1895  that  the 
extent  and  value  of  the  vein  became  known.     It 


proved  to  be  seven  feet  in  thickness  and  thus  in 
paying  quantity.  In  1896  the  coal  land  was 
leased  by  Mr.  Hake  to  J.  H.  Hood,  who  organ- 
ized a  company,  which  has  since  operated  the 
mines.  Politically  Mr.  Hake  is  a  supporter  of 
the  Democratic  party. 


EHARLES  S.  TURNER  is  the  proprietor  of 
the  oldest  and  only  exclusive  plumbing 
establishment  in  Boulder.  His  place  of 
business  is  centrally  located,  being  at  No.  11 25 
Pearl  street.  He  thoroughly  understands  every 
department  of  his  calling,  and  has  done  consider- 
able work  for  public  buildings,  as  well  as  for 
private  concerns.  That  his  fellows  in  the  craft 
place  confidence  in  his  executive  ability  is  plainl}^ 
shown  by  the  fact  that  they  chose  him  to  serve 
as  vice-president  of  the  Colorado  Master  Plumb- 
ers' Association,  in  which  capacity  he  is  still 
acting,  and  he  also  belongs  to  the  National  Asso- 
ciation of  Master  Plumbers. 

Mr.  Turner  is  in  the  prime  of  early  manhood, 
as  he  was  born  July  12,  1867.  Des  Moines,  Iowa, 
was  the  place  of  his  birth,  and  in  that  city  his 
boyhood  was  quietly  passed.  He  attended  the 
public  schools  there  and  in  1882  accompanied  his 
family  to  Boulder,  on  their  removal  here.  Soon 
afterwards  he  began  an  apprenticeship  to  the 
plumber's  trade  with  the  firm  of  Rutter  &  Han- 
kins  (later  the  Rutter  Hardware  Company)  and 
at  the  end  of  three  years  he  was  promoted  to  the 
post  of  foreman  in  this  department  of  their  busi- 
ness. He  continued  to  act  as  such  until  March, 
1896,  when  he  purchased  the  plumbing  outfit  of 
his  former  employers  and  has  since  carried  on  an 
independent  business.  He  takes  and  executes 
contracts  for  all  kinds  of  plumbing,  gas,  steam 
and  hot  water  pipes  and  appliances,  and  keeps  in 
stock  a  very  extensive  line  of  supplies  commonly 
used  in  the  trade.  From  the  time  that  he  en- 
gaged in  business  he  has  had  charge  of  nearly 
all  work  in  the  line  of  tapping  the  mains,  and 
among  the  numerous  buildings  which  he  has 
done  plumbing  on  are  the  various  university 
structures,  the  sanitarium  and  the  Cheney  block, 
and  the  residences  of  Charles  Davis,  A.  T.  Henry, 
Prof  R.  M.  DeLong  and  Mr.  Hazen. 

The  parents  of  Mr.  Turner  are  Jeptha  J.  and 
Elizabeth  (Bond)  Turner,  both  natives  of  Ken- 
tucky. The  father  was  born  and  reared  in  Louis- 


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ville,  and  in  his  young  manhood  went  to  Iowa. 
By  trade  he  was  a  carpenter  and  for  years  he  was 
ver}'  successfully  engaged  in  building  and  con- 
tracting in  Des  Moines.  In  the  summer  of  1882 
he  came  to  Boulder,  and  here  made  his  home  up 
to  the  time  of  his  death,  in  1894.  His  widow  is 
now  a  resident  of  Denver.  Of  their  four  chil- 
dren the  subject  of  this  article  is  the  youngest. 

The  marriage  of  Charles  S.  Turner  and  Miss 
Emma  Hacker  occurred  in  Boulder  in  1891. 
Mrs.  Turner  was  born  in  Worcester,  Mass. ,  and 
is  a  daughter  of  R.  A.  and  Eliza  (Hentz)  Hacker, 
who  were  natives  of  Vienna,  Austria  and  Ger- 
many respectively.  The  father  came  to  this 
country  in  childhood  with  his  father,  Frederick 
Hacker.  R.  A.  Hacker  was  one  of  the  gallant 
Patriots  who  went  forth  under  the  stars  and 
stripes  in  the  Civil  war,  enlisting  at  the  begin- 
ning of  the  conflict,  and  serving  as  a  lieutenant 
of  the  Sixth  Massachusetts  Regiment  of  Volun- 
teers. He  has  since  been  identified  with  the 
Grand  Array  of  the  Republic.  With  his  wife  he 
is  living  retired  in  Boulder,  having  come  here  in 
1882.  Mrs.  Turner  is  the  second  of  their  three 
children,  and  is  a  member  of  the  Woman's  Relief 
Corps,  and  of  the  Degree  of  Honor.  The  latter 
is  auxiliary  to  the  Ancient  Order  United  Work- 
men, to  which  Mr.  Turner  belongs.  He  is  also 
connected  with  the  Woodmen  of  the  World.  Po- 
litically he  is  a  Republican. 


GILBERT  E.  BOWEN  is  the  proprietor  and 
I  I  manager  of  the  Bowen  Hotel,  which  he  has 
/  I  successfully  operated  for  the  past  ten  years. 
This  well-known  hotel,  the  largest  in  Boulder, 
stands  as  a  pioneer  here,  as  it  was  originally  built 
in  1876,  the  year  of  Colorado's  admission  to  the 
sisterhood  of  states.  Formerly  it  was  styled  the 
American  House,  but  when  Mr.  Bowen  took 
charge  of  it  and  remodeled  and  improved  it,  the 
name  was  changed  to  its  present  form.  He  is  a 
genial  and  popular  landlord,  and  numbers  hosts 
of  friends  in  the  ranks  of  the  traveling  public. 
Everything  pertaining  to  the  hotel  is  first-class; 
well-served  meals  and  neat  and  attractive  rooms 
being  the  constant  aim  of  the  proprietor. 

The  Bo  wens  are  of  Welsh  extraction,  three 
brothers  bearing  the  name  having  set  forth  from 
Wales  to  found  a  new  home  in  America  at  an 
early  day.     They  settled  in  Rhode  Island,  and 


there  our  subject's  paternal  grandfather  was  born. 
He  removed  to  Vermont,  becoming  a  farmer  of 
Bennington  County.  His  son,  Lorenzo,  father  of 
A.  E.  Bowen,  was  born  on  the  old  Vermont 
homestead,  and  was,  in  turn,  an  agriculturist,  his 
home  being  near  Readsboro.  He  lived  to  the 
ripe  age  of  seventy-five  years.  The  mother,  who 
bore  the  girlhood  name  of  Beulah  Blanchard,  was 
born  in  Bennington  County,  Vt.,  and  died  when 
four-score.  Her  father,  Isaac  Blanchard,  was 
also  a  native  of  Vermont,  and  came  from  an  old 
New  England  family. 

A.  E.  Bowen  is  one  of  ten  children,  seven  of 
whom  are  living.  He  was  born  on  the  old  home 
place  in  Bennington  County,  Vt.,  March  27, 
1841,  and  was  there  reared  to  maturity  with  his 
brothers  and  sisters.  One  of  the  number,  Faxon 
L.,  is  a  judge  in  the  old  Vermont  town.  Euphe- 
mia  A.  is  the  wife  of  Dr.  W.  A.  Scott,  of  Niagara 
Falls,  N.  Y. ;  Leora,  Mrs.  Wilson,  resides  in 
Bennington;  and  Gertrude  is  Mrs.  C.  A.  Russell, 
of  Wilmington,  Vt.  William  A.  is  living  in  Ver- 
mont and  Fred  L.  is  a  merchant  in  Brooklyn, 
N.  Y.  Dr.  Merritt  A.  and  James  E.  died 
in  Massachusetts  in  1896.  Up  to  the  time  that 
he  arrived  at  his  majority,  our  subject  remained 
at  home,  and  acquired  his  education  in  the  gram- 
mar and  high  schools  of  his  native  town.  In 
1862  he  went^to  Hinsdale,  N.  H.,  and  carried  on 
a  hotel  there  for  three  years  with  very  fair  suc- 
cess, as  it  was  his  first  business  venture.  Then 
he  went  to  Shelburne  Falls,  and  conducted  a 
mercantile  enterprise  for  a  period,  after  which  he 
was  numbered  among  the  leading  merchants  of 
Hartford,  Conn.,  for  twenty  years. 

It  was  twelve  years  ago  that  Mr.  Bowen  came 
to  this  state,  and  for  two  years  he  was  the  pro- 
prietor of  the  Oasis  Hotel  of  Greeley.  The  next 
six  months  he  was  in  the  boot  and  shoe  business, 
then  selling  out.  In  the  fall  of  1888  he  bought 
the  old  American  House,  and  has  since  very 
profitably  operated  it.  For  perhaps  nine  years 
he  has  been  interested  in  mining.  He  developed 
and  still  operates  the  Bowen  lead  mines  at  James- 
town and  the  New  York  lead  mine  in  the  same 
neighborhood.  He  also  bought  and  placed  in 
successful  working  order  the  Pine  Shade  mine  in 
the  Central  district— the  largest  low-grade  '  'prop- 
osition" in  Colorado.  When  the  Pine  Shade 
Mining  Company  (comprising  but  four  members) 
was  instituted,  Mr.  Bowen  was  made  vice-president 


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of  the  concern.  They  have  a  twenty-stamp  mill 
and  the  plant  is  in  full  blast,  it  having  been  exca- 
vated some  five  hundred  feet  already.  Mr.  Bowen 
also  owns  three  other  fine  pieces  of  mining  prop- 
erty, all  situated  in  the  Central  district,  in  Cen- 
tral Gulch,  and  named  respectively  Cashier,  Gold 
Ledge  and  Dutch  Jake.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows  and  is  a  true- 
blue  Republican.  In  Greenfield,  Mass.,  Mr. 
Bowen  married  Miss  Emma  L.  Gale,  a  native  of 
Massachusetts,  and  daughter  of  Otis  and  Martha 
Gale,  of  that  state. 


(lOHN  DE  BACKER,  a  farmer  in  the  Boulder 
I  Valley,  was  born  in  Belgium  January  13, 
(2/  1827,  a  son  of  Robert  and  Marie  (De  Vondal) 
De  Backer.  He  was  one  of  eleven  children,  of 
whom  four  besides  himself  are  living,  namely: 
Glamacy,  widow  of  James  McKane;  Leopold,  a 
farmer  and  stock-raiser  of  this  county;  Peter,  a 
carpenter  in  Belgium;  and  Johanna.  His  father, 
who  was  born  in  the  province  of  Moerkacke, 
Belgium,  was  in  youth  too  weak  to  do  the  severe 
manual  labor  required  on  a  farm,  and  so  enlisted 
under  Napoleon's  banner  in  the  Franco-Prussian 
war,  serving  for  France  two  years.  On  his  re- 
turn home  he  apprenticed  himself  to  the  mill- 
wrighting  trade,  in  which  he  followed  the  example 
set  by  his  father,  who  had  been  a  millwright. 
On  completing  his  apprenticeship  he  began  to 
work  as  a  journeyman.  He  continued  to  follow 
his  chosen  occupation  until  too  old  to  work;  at 
the  time  of  his  death  he  was  eighty  years  of  age. 
Having  no  opportunities  for  an  education,  our 
subject,  however,  by  reading  and  by  contact  with 
the  world  gained  a  broad  fund  of  information. 
He  learned  the  millwright's  trade,  and  in  1855 
crossed  the  ocean  from  Antwerp  to  New  York 
City,  on  the  sailing  vessel  "De Fanny,"  arriving 
in  this  country  May  16,  after  a  voyage  of  fifty- 
eight  days.  The  voyage  was  rough  and  stormy, 
and  more  than  once  the  passengers  gave  up  all 
hope  of  ever  seeing  land  again.  From  New 
York  he  went  to  Norfolk,  Va.,  where  for  three 
months  he  worked  for  a  gardener  and  farmer. 
Returning  to  New  York  in  August,  he  worked 
for  two  weeks  in  the  employ  of  a  carpenter,  after 
which  he  secured  work  in  Hecker's  mill,  con- 
verting an  immense  cotton  mill  into  a  grist  mill, 
and  putting  in  twenty-eight  pairs  of  burrs.     In 


the  spring  of  1856  he  resumed  carpentering  and 
in  the  winter  worked  for  a  Mr.  Provost,  pro- 
prietor of  eleven  grocery  stores. 

With  his  family  and  two  countrymen  who  had 
accompanied  him  to  America,  Mr.  De  Backer  re- 
moved to  Iowa  in  1857  and  bought  forty  acres  in 
Johnson  County,  five  miles  from  Iowa  City, 
where  he  began  agricultural  pursuits.  May  16 
he  and  his  two  partners  left  Iowa  City  for  Colo- 
rado. They  crossed  the  plains  with  two  ox-teams, 
one  of  which  he  owned.  They  arrived  in  Bould- 
er July  1 1  and  proceeded  direct  to  the  mountains, 
where  they  and  three  others  bought  a  claim  and 
embarked  in  gulch  mining.  After  they  had  taken 
out  something  over  $100,  they  sent  two  of  the 
company  to  Mexico  for  a  load  of  provisions.  On 
their  journey,  after  crossing  the  Mexican  border, 
they  were  robbed  and  massacred  by  a  band  of 
Mexican  bandits;  so  the  company  lost  two  of 
their  comrades,  as  well  as  considerable  money 
and  their  team. 

Later  Mr.  De  Backer  built  a  quartz  mill  with  a 
water  wheel  forty  feet  high  and  nine  stamps. 
He  embarked  in  lead  mining,  but  the  ore  failed 
to  pay,  and  in  i86o,  after  almost  a  year  of  mining, 
he  came  to  the  South  Boulder  Valley,  where  he 
took  up  a  homestead  of  one  hundred  and  sixty 
acres,  adjoining  his  present  home  on  the  east. 
Here  he  engaged  in  the  stock  and  dairy  business, 
milking  some  fifty  cows  and  selling  butter  at  a 
good  price.  In  1865  he  cut  the  timber  from 
Boulder  Canon  and  framed  a  mill  on  his  place, 
to  be  erected  in  Valmont.  His  partner  in  the 
enterprise  was  P.  M.  Housel,  who  went  east  to 
the  states  for  the  machiner}'.  After  the  timber 
was  framed,  it  was  hauled  to  Valmont.  The 
fall  of  1866  found  the  mill  ready  to  grind 
that  year's  wheat  crop.  After  two  years  Mr. 
De  Backer  sold  his  interest  to  his  partner  and 
moved  to  Denver,  in  order  to  give  his  children 
better  educational  facilities.  His  ranch  had  been 
sold  to  his  sister,  Mrs.  Blake,  who  looked  after 
his  dairy  business  in  his  absence.  After  six 
months  in  Denver  he  returned  to  Boulder 
Valley  and  purchased  one  hundred  and  sixty 
acres  adjoining  his  former  place  on  the  west, 
once  more  turning  his  attention  to  the  cattle  busi- 
ness. As  he  prospered  he  added  from  time  to 
time  to  his  farm  of  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres, 
until  his  present  place  comprises  six  hundred 
and  forty  acres. 


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While  his  schooling  was  limited,  Mr.  De  Backer 
was  broadmiuded  and  knew  the  value  of  an 
education.  After  coming  to  the  valley  he  was 
largely  instrumental  in  the  construction  of  a 
schoolhouse  near  Marshall.  However,  the  dis- 
tance was  too  great  for  his  children  to  attend,  and 
he  agitated  the  question  of  building  a  school  in 
Boulder  Valley  nearer  to  his  home  and  the  homes 
of  his  neighbors.  With  a  little  encouragement 
from  his  neighbors,  he  built  a  schoolhouse,  and 
here  his  children  and  those  of  his  neighbors 
were  pupils. 

In  New  York  City,  in  1856,  Mr.  De  Backer 
married  Miss  Marie  Fouse.  Of  their  five  chil- 
dren three  survive:  Louisa,  wife  of  William 
Niemaster,  a  real-estate  dealer  of  Denver;  Delia, 
wife  of  C.  L.  Davis,  whose  sketch  appears  on 
another  page;  and  Frank,  represented  elsewhere 
in  this  volume.  The  wife  and  mother  died  June 
22,  1865.  The  present  wife  of  Mr.  De  Backer 
was  Miss  Marie  Dane,  a  native  of  Germany. 
Four  children  were  born  of  this  union,  of  whom 
three  are  living,  Martha,  Marie  and  Emma. 
The  family  are  of  the  Catholic  faith. 


r~RANK  DE  BACKER,  who  is  engaged  in 
Iw  the  stock  and  real-estate  business  in  Boulder 
I  ^  County,  also  has  extensive  farming  and 
mining  interests,  was  born  in  this  county  Feb- 
ruary I,  1863,  a  son  of  John  and  Marie  (Fouse) 
De  Backer.  He  grew  to  manhood  on  his  father's 
cattle  ranches,  of  which  he  assumed  the  manage- 
ment at  the  age  of  eighteen.  When  a  boy  he 
attended  the  schools  of  the  county,  but  his  educa- 
tion has  been  acquired  principally  by  self-culture. 
His  father  deeded  him  a  farm  of  one  hundred  and 
sixty  acres,  four  miles  southeast  of  Boulder,  and 
he  began  life  for  himself.  Here  he  devoted  his 
time  to  farming,  feeding  the  produce  of  his  farm 
to  his  cattle.  For  ten  years  he  was  successfully 
engaged  in  the  cattle  business,  and  in  1894,  in 
connection  with  his  stock  business  he  became 
interested  in  raining,  as  a  stockholder  in  the 
Ward  Rose  Gold  Mining  Company,  owners  of 
one  of  the  valuable  mining  properties  of  Boulder 
County,  consisting  of  six  mines  with  two  mill 
sites  and  two  tunnel  sites.  He  also  owns  a  two- 
third  interest  in  the  extension  of  the  old  Califor- 
nia mine,  one  of  the  best  leads  in  the  Ward  dis- 
trict. 


Acquiring  city  property  in  1896,  Mr.  De  Backer 
embarked  in  the  real- estate  busine.ss,  and  soon 
afterward  removed  his  family  to  Boulder,  where 
he  has  since  resided.  His  marriage  united  him 
with  Miss  Nora  Howard,  a  native  of  Boulder 
County.  Two  children  bless  their  union :  Lester, 
who  was  born  August  17,  1886;  and  Ethel,  born 
February  29,  1888.  Fraternally  Mr.  De  Backer 
is  identified  with  Boulder  Lodge  No.  9,  I.  O.  O.  F. 
Besides  his  other  interests,  he  is  a  stockholder  in 
the  Enterprise  Ditch  Company,  of  which  he  was 
president  for  two  years  and  has  served  as  super- 
intendent since  becoming  the  owner  of  stock  in 
the  company. 

j  EMUEL  McINTOSH,  of  Boulder,  is  one  of 
jt  the  sterling  old  pioneers  who  assisted  in 
U  placing  Colorado  on  a  sound  basis  as  a  state 
and  did  much  toward  the  development  of  her 
infant  industries.  Many  a  trip  has  he  made 
across  the  plains,  and  many  a  time  has  he  feared 
that  the  Indians  would  attack  his  home  in  the 
valley  of  the  Boulder  River.  With  Rev.  C.  M. 
Campbell,  Judge  Housel  and  others  he  built  a 
fort  near  Valmont,  in  early  days,  in  order  that 
some  protection  might  be  afforded  to  their  families 
in  case  of  an  uprising  among  the  Redskins. 

The  parents  of  our  subject  were  Peter  and 
Elizabeth  (Williams)  Mcintosh,  natives  of  In- 
diana. The  former  was  a  son  of  George  Mcintosh, 
who  was  born  in  Scotland,  and  at  an  early  period 
settled  in  the  Hoosier  state.  Mrs.  Elizabeth 
Mcintosh  was  of  Welsh  descent;  her  maternal 
grandfather  Bell,  who  was  a  soldier  in  the  Rev- 
olutionary war,  removed  from  Kentucky  to  Iowa, 
dying  there  at  the  advanced  age  of  one  hundred 
and  five  years.  She  departed  this  life  in  Boulder 
County  when  fifty  -six  years  of  age.  She  survived 
her  first  husband  several  years,  as  he  died  in 
1846,  and  subsequently  she  became  the  wife  of 
Joseph  Hardin.  Two  of  the  four  children  of  the 
first  union  survive,  and  the  three  children  of 
the  second  marriage  are  living.  Our  subject's 
own  sister  is  Mrs.  Hannah  Corson,  of  Colorado 
Springs.  His  brother  Joseph,  a  member  of  Com- 
pany D,  Third  Colorado  Cavalry,  during  the 
latter  part  of  the  Civil  war  was  in  the  battle  of 
Sand  Creek,  and  many  years  afterward  was  killed 
in  Smuggler  mine,  in  1889. 

Lemuel  Mcintosh  was  born  in  Indiana,  March 
20,  1838,  and  resided  in  Illinois  until  1849,  when 


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the  family  removed,  with  teams,  to  Boone  County, 
Iowa.  They  settled  in  the  neighborhood  of  the 
present  town  of  Madrid,  Boone  County,  and 
there  our  subject  attended  the  local  schools.  His 
step-father,  Mr.  Hardin,  built  a  hotel  at  Boones- 
boro  (now  Boone)  and  the  young  man  assisted 
him  in  running  it  up  to  1858,  when  he  joined  the 
state  militia,  and  for  a  year  or  more  was  stationed 
at  Spirit  Lake,  Iowa,  to  keep  down  the  Indians. 
April  2,  i860,  he  married  Miss  Angelina  Stuart 
and  they  at  once  started  for  the  west.  By  horse- 
team  they  proceeded  to  Omaha,  and  left  that  city 
on  the  ist  of  May,  having  fitted  up  ox-teams  for 
their  further  journey.  Their  route  was  the  old 
trail  along  the  Platte  River,  and  down  to  Gold 
Hill.  There  Mr.  Mcintosh  engaged  in  mining 
and  prospecting  for  a  year  or  two,  and  in  1862 
settled  on  a  tract  of  land  which  he  homesteaded 
from  the  government.  This  ranch,  situated  two 
and  a-half  miles  from  Boulder,  he  improved, 
building  a  log-house,  and  making  irrigation 
ditches.  He  assisted  in  putting  in  one  of  the 
first  high-line  ditches  in  the  state,  and  had  it  in 
successful  operation  by  July  i,  1862.  The  prop- 
erty has  since  continued  in  his  possession,  with 
the  exception  of  twenty-five  acres,  which  he  has 
sold.  For  some  years  he  raised  cattle  and  hay 
and  he  set  out  a  fine  orchard  of  about  fifteen 
hundred  trees.  In  September,  1896,  he  retired 
and  settled  in  Boulder,  leasing  his  homestead. 
For  a  number  of  years  he  has  been  connected 
with  Columbia  Lodge  No.  14,  A.  F.  &  A.  M., 
and  in  politics  is  a  Democrat. 

Mrs.  Mcintosh,  who  is  a  native  of  Hancock 
County,  111.,  is  a  daughter  of  Dr.  Alanson  and 
Mary  J.  (Eberhart)  Stuart.  The  father  was 
born  in  Louisville,  Ky.,  in  18 12,  and  in  young 
manhood  moved  to  Indiana,  where  he  was  mar- 
ried. Later  he  went  to  Illinois,  and  for  years 
practiced  his  profession  in  Montrose,  Dahlonega, 
and  Stratford,  all  in  Iowa.  He  was  a  graduate 
of  the  Louisville  Medical  College,  and  was 
a  man  of  much  ability  and  skill.  His  death 
took  place  April  6,  1886,  when  he  was  in  his 
seventy-fourth  year.  His  father,  Alexander,  was 
of  Scotch  descent.  He  was  born  in  the  Blue 
Grass  state  and  died  in  Galveston,  Tex.,  at  the 
home  of  his  daughter,  Mrs.  Ferish.  Mrs.  Mcin- 
tosh's mother  was  born  in  Greenfield,  Ind.,  and 
is  still  living,  her  home  being  in  Iowa.  Her 
father,  John  Eberhart,  a  native  of  Maryland,  was 


an  early  settler  in  the  Hoosier  state  and  departed 
this  life  in  1862.  He  was  a  minister  in  the  United 
Brethren  Church  and  for  years  was  a  presiding 
elder  in  Iowa.  Mrs.  Mcintosh  is  one  of  eight 
children,  three  of  whom  have  been  summoned  to 
the  better  land.  One  sister,  Mrs.  Clara  Bradford, 
is  a  resident  of  Boulder. 

The  five  children  born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Mcin- 
tosh are  as  follows:  Joseph  Leander,  Alene  Flor- 
ence, William  Edward,  Evelena  and  LeRoy 
Stuart.  The  eldest  son  was  the  first  male  child 
born  of  white  parents  in  Gold  Hill,  Colo.,  the  date 
of  his  birth  having  been  January  13,  1861.  He 
was  educated  in  the  University  of  Colorado,  and 
is  engaged  in  farming  near  Lamar,  Colo.  Alene 
F.,born  in  Boonesboro,  Iowa,  April  26,  1863, 
was  a  student  in  the  university  here,  and  is  now 
Mrs.  C.  W.  Burke,  of  Lamar, Colo.  William  E., 
born  on  the  old  farm  in  this  county,  August  11, 
1870,  was  accidentally  killed.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Colorado  National  Guards,  who  were 
placed  on  the  defense  of  the  Victor  Mine  at  Crip- 
ple Creek  in  the  summer  of  1894,  and  while  on 
duty  he  was  so  unfortunate  as  to  fall  into  a  shaft 
two  hundred  and  fifty  feet  in  depth.  He  had 
graduated  but  a  short  time  before,  in  June,  1894, 
from  the  University  of  Colorado,  with  the  degree 
of  Bachelor  of  Philosophy,  and  had  a  most 
promising  future  in  store,  as  every  one  believed, 
who  knew  him.  Evelena,  born  on  the  old  home- 
stead, December  14,  1871,  died  January  27,  1877. 
LeRoy  Stuart,  who  was  born  July  10,  1881,  is  a 
member  of  the  preparatory  school,  and  expects 
to  enter  the  university  later. 


ROSCOE  M.  CROSBY,  a  well-known  mu- 
sician and  leader  of  bands  and  orchestras, 
has  been  numbered  among  the  successful 
business  men  of  Boulder  for  several  years,  being 
the  oldest  in  his  line  in  the  town.  He  is  a  native 
of  Maine,  his  birth  having  occurred  in  Bangor 
in  1857.  After  completing  his  education  in  the 
public  schools  he  learned  the  trade  of  carpenter. 
He  was  employed  as  a  contractor  in  Marshall 
County,  Iowa,  for  two  or  three  years  prior  to  at- 
taining his  majority.  The  calling  was  not  to 
his  liking,  however,  and  in  1879  he  began  serv- 
ing an  apprenticeship  to  the  jeweler's  trade,  for 
from  his  childhood  he  had  had  a  natural  taste  for 
the  business.     After  he  had  been  employed  some 


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three  years  in  Marshalltown  and  Oilman,  Iowa, 
he  embarked  in  an  independent  enterprise  in  the 
town  last  mentioned  and  carried  on  a  business 
successfully  for  two  years. 

In  1884  Mr.  Crosby  decided  to  try  his  fortunes 
further  west,  and,  locating  in  Denver,  opened  a 
store  and  at  the  same  time  became  actively  inter- 
ested in  various  musical  organizations  and  clubs. 
He  started  the  Denver  &  Rio  Grande  orchestra  of 
Denver,  and  was  the  leader  of  both  the  band  and 
orchestra  until  he  removed  to  Boulder  in  1886. 
Since  that  time  he  has  been  the  leader  of  the 
Boulder  Band,  now  styled  the  Second  Regiment, 
Uniform  Rank  of  the  Knights  of  Pythias  Band. 
Under  his  leadership  the  band  has  risen  into  de- 
served prominence,  and  is  considered  one  of  the 
representative  musical  organizations  of  the  state. 
A  portion  of  the  time  for  the  past  decade  Mr. 
Crosby  has  been  the  leader  of  the  Crosby 
Brothers'  orchestra.  In  1886  he  opened  a 
jewelry  store,  and  is  now  located  centrally  at 
No.  1310  Pearl  street.  He  carries  a  fine  line  of 
watches,  diamonds,  gems  and  silverware  of  all 
descriptions,  and  also  has  a  splendid  stock  of 
optical  goods  and  musical  instruments.  He  is  a 
stockholder  in  the  Boulder  Building  and  Loan 
Association.  For  several  years  he  taught  pupils 
the  violin  and  brass  musical  instruments,  but 
since  1891  has  devoted  himself  to  his  other  pur- 
suits. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Crosby  and  Miss  Isa 
Beeson  was  solemnized  in  Grundy  Center,  Iowa, 
in  188 1.  Mrs.  Crosby  was  born  and  brought  up 
in  Marshall  County,  Iowa,  of  which  locality  her 
parents,  Joseph  and  Nancy  Beeson,  were  pio- 
neers, they  having  settled  there  in  1855.  The 
two  children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Crosby  are  named 
respectively  Earl  and  Carmen.  Mr.  Crosby  has 
used  his  ballot  in  favor  of  the  nominees  of  the  Re- 
publican party,  and  is  now  enrolled  among  the 
silver  Republicans.  He  is  a  member  of  the  An- 
cient Order  of  United  Workmen  and  the  Knights 
of  Pythias,  Uniform  Rank.  Mrs.  Crosby  is  pres- 
ident of  the  Woman's  Relief  Corps,  has  been 
grand  chief  of  the  Rathbone  Sisters  for  two  terms, 
and  is  an  active  member  in  the  Christian  Church. 

The  Crosbys  are  of  Scotch-Irish  lineage,  but 
have  been  inhabitants  of  Maine  for  many  gener- 
ations. William  Crosby,  the  paternal  grand- 
father of  our  subject,  was  a  native  of  Maine  and 
was  a  boot  and  shoe  manufacturer.      One  of  his 


brothers  was  a  soldier  in  the  war  of  18 12.  The 
parents  of  R.  M.  Crosby  are  John  and  Charlotte 
(Mclntyre)  Crosby,  both  natives  of  Maine.  They 
went  to  Marshalltown,  Iowa,  in  1862,  where  Mr. 
Crosby  learned  the  business  of  a  brick-mason, 
builder  and  contractor,  which  he  carried  on  until 
his  death.  He  was  very  patriotic,  and  two  or 
three  times  offered  his  services  to  the  Union 
army,  both  in  Maine  and  Iowa,  and  even  tried  to 
go  as  a  substitute,  but  was  refused  each  time  on 
account  of  the  results  of  a  broken  leg,  an  accident 
that  had  occurred  in  his  childhood.  In  1882  he 
located  in  Grant  County,  S.  Dak. ,  where  he  died 
at  nearly  fifty  years  of  age.  The  mother  is  now 
a  resident  of  Boulder,  and  three  of  their  five  chil- 
dren survive.  Herbert  is  a  business  man  of  Port- 
land, Ore.,  and  Wesley  is  employed  in  the 
Boulder  electric  light  plant.  Mrs.  Charlotte 
Crosby's  father,  Hugh  Mclntyre,  was  born  in 
Maine,  and  his  grandfather  was  a  native  of  Scot- 
land. Grandfather  Mclntyre  was  a  hero  of  the 
war  of  1812. 


j  AWRENCE  M.  PURCELL  is  secretary  and 
It  treasurer  of  the  Joseph  P.  Dunn  Leather 
|_2f  Company  at  No.  1748  Lawrence  street,  Den- 
ver. His  connection  with  this  enterprise  dates 
from  1894.  The  firm  are  wholesale  dealers  in 
leather  findings  and  shoe-store  supplies,  and 
manufacturers  of  boot,  shoe  and  gaiter  uppers. 
They  sell  their  products  to  the  trade  in  Colo- 
rado, Wyoming,  Utah,  Montana,  Idaho,  Oregon, 
Washington,  New  Mexico,  Texas,  Arizona  and 
Nevada. 

Mr.  Purcell  is  a  young  man,  having  been  born 
in  Ireland  in  1871.  In  1886,  at  the  age  of  fifteen, 
he  came  to  New  York  City,  and  for  about  a  year 
he  was  engaged  in  the  wholesale  grocery  busi- 
ness; but  hearing  of  the  great  resources  of  Col- 
orado and  being  among  the  ambitious  ones,  he 
came  to  Denver,  and  engaged  in  the  building 
business.  He  was  looked  upon  as  one  thoroughly 
competent  in  his  line,  which  was  plastering.  At 
the  age  of  twenty  he  was  given  charge  of  that 
work  in  the  construction  of  the  Equitable  build- 
ing. Afterwards  he  became  interested  in  the  cattle 
business,  and  has  a  ranch  nine  miles  south  of 
Denver,  where  he  has  since  raised  fine  thorough- 
bred Holsteins.  Since  1894,  as  before  stated,  he 
has  been  in  business  with  Joseph  P.  Dunn.  In 
addition  to  being  an  officer  of  the  company  he 


ALONZO  ALLEN. 


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travels  for  it  through  the  west,  usually  making 
several  trips  every  year.  He  is  an  energetic 
young  man,  with  a  seemingly  inexhaustible  store 
of  pluck  and  a  quick  and  accurate  judgment  in 
business  matters. 

Having  given  his  attention  very  closely  to  busi- 
ness he  has  not  identified  himself  with  political 
affairs,  though  he  keeps  posted  on  the  issues 
before  the  people  and  always  supports  the  silver 
Democratic  principles.  He  was  married  in  Den- 
ver, in  1894,  to  Miss  Agnes  Emiley  Dunn,  a 
sister  of  Joseph  P.  and  Charles  J.  Dunn. 


(31  LONZO  ALLEN,  treasurer  of  the  Lake  Ditch 
LA  Company,  treasurer  of  the  Altona  Stone 
/  I  Quarry  Company,  treasurer  of  the  Altona 
Grange,  and  for  fifteen  years  secretary  of  the 
Altona  school  board,  is  one  of  the  most  influential 
farmers  and  business  men  of  Boulder  County. 
He  was  born  in  Trumbull  County,  Ohio,  Octo- 
ber 14,  1843,  a  son  of  John  and  Abigail  (Broad- 
swoard)  Allen,  and  was  one  of  seven  children, 
six  now  living,  viz. :  Alonzo,  Joktan,  Mary  A., 
Eliza  J.,  Levi  and  Clara  E.  His  father,  who 
was  a  native  of  Cheshire,  England,  emigrated  to 
the  United  States  in  early  manhood  with  his  fa- 
ther, John  Allen,  and  settled  in  Trumbull  Coun- 
ty, Ohio,  where  he  married.  In  1853  he  re- 
moved from  there  to  Defiance  County,  Ohio, 
where  he  has  since  engaged  in  agricultural  pur- 
suits. 

In  the  schools  of  the  home  neighborhood  our 
subject  acquired  a  fair  education.  He  remained 
at  home  with  his  parents  and  assisted  his  father 
in  the  management  of  the  home  place.  In  1872 
he  married  Miss  Pruda  Parker.  Two  children 
were  born  of  their  union,  namely:  Edwin,  now 
deceased,  and  Eunice,  wife  of  Clyde  Bolton,  a 
prominent  farmer  of  Boulder  County.  In  the 
fall  of  1873  our  subject  migrated  to  Colorado, 
and  from  Boulder  went  by  stage  to  Gold  Hill, 
where  he  joined  his  brothers,  Joktan  and  Levi. 
After  spending  some  days  with  them  he  came  to 
the  valley  and  settled  on  Left  Hand  Creek,  where 
he  built  a  cabin  and  engaged  in  farming  and 
stock-raising.  His  first  work  was  on  the  Lake 
ditch;  in  1882,  after  the  survey  of  the  township, 
he  filed  his  claim  for  one  hundred  and  sixty 
acres,  which  he  now  owns,  he  and  his  brothers 
together  owning  eight  hundred  and  forty  acres. 


Joktan  Allen  was  born  in  Trumbull  County 
January  3,  1845,  and  from  his  native  place  came 
to  Colorado  in  the  fall  of  1869,  settling  in  Black- 
hawk,  where  he  hauled  wood  to  the  smelter  for 
three  years.  Next  he  went  to  Gold  Hill  and 
worked  in  the  mines  for  two  years,  after  which 
he  worked  at  Sunshine  for  three  years.  In  1876 
he  came  to  this  valley  and  took  up  one  hundred 
and  sixty  acres,  which  land  he  has  since  cul- 
tivated. 

Levi  Allen  was  born  in  Defiance  County,  Ohio, 
October  18,  1854.  In  the  fall  of  1871  he  came 
to  Colorado,  hoping  to  benefit  his  health,  which 
had  been  poor.  For  a  time  he  remained  in 
Blackhawk  and  afterward  accompanied  his  brother 
to  Gold  Hill,  thence  going  to  Sunshine,  where 
he  worked  at  sorting  ore.  Coming  to  Boulder 
County  in  1876  he  settled  on  one  hundred  and 
sixty  acres  of  land,  which  he  has  since  cultivated. 

The  three  brothers  are  highly  respected  wher- 
ever known.  Joktan  and  Alonzo  are  members  of 
the  Grange,  in  the  work  of  which  they  take  an 
active  interest.  All  are  energetic,  capable  and 
persevering,  with  the  business  ability  and  sound 
judgment  that  invariably  bring  success. 


pCJ ALTER  EDMOND  TOWERS,  of  Denver, 
\  A  /  was  born  at  Denny,  seven  miles  from 
Y  V  Sterling,  Sterlingshire,  Scotland,  Sunday, 
March  28,  1841.  He  is  a  descendant  of  English 
ancestors,  his  paternal  great-grandfather  having 
"removed  from  the  North  of  England  to  the  vi- 
cinity of  Edinboro.  The  latter' s  son,  Walter, 
was  born  near  that  city,  but  removed  to  Bonney- 
bridge,  where  he  engaged  in  milling.  In  Bonney- 
bridge,  Sterlingshire,  occurred  the  birth  of  his 
son,  Robert,  who  was  for  a  few  years  engaged  in 
the  freighting  and  hay  and  grain  business  be- 
tween Sterling  and  Glasgow,  but  he  died  at  the 
early  age  of  thirty-two.  In  religious  belief  he 
was  a  Presbyterian.  He  married  Agnes  Mac- 
Donald,  a  native  of  Sterlingshire,  and  deceased 
at  forty-nine.  She  was  a  daughter  of  Archibald 
MacDonald,  a  farmer,  who  was  born  in  the  High- 
lands and  was  a  relative  of  the  MacDonald  family 
massacred  at  Glencove. 

In  the  family  of  Robert  and  Agnes  Towers 
there  were  six  children,  of  whom  four  are  living, 
Walter  Edmond  being  the  third  in  order  of  birth 
and  the  only   one  of    the  number  in  America. 


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He  was  the  first  child  christened  by  John  Edmond, 
D.D.,  afterward  Loudon's  famous  divine,  who  gave 
him  his  name  in  recognition  of  the  fact.  He  was 
only  seven  when  his  father  died,  and  as  the  family 
were  poor  he  was  early  obliged  to  earn  his  own 
livelihood.  For  this  reason  he  had  no  school  ad- 
vantages, and,  with  the  exception  of  six  months' 
attendance  upon  night  schools,  he  has  acquired 
his  education  by  self-culture,  experience  and  ob- 
servation. At  the  age  of  eight  he  began  to  work 
in  a  calico  printing  factory,  where  his  first  em- 
ployment was  that  of  dipping  the  blocks  into  the 
colors.  In  time  he  was  advanced  to  more  impor- 
tant positions.  At  the  age  of  sixteen  he  left  the 
works  and  apprenticed  himself  to  the  carpenter's 
trade  in  Denny,  where  he  served  about  three 
years.  He  then  went  to  Glasgow,  where  he 
worked  as  journeyman  and  later  as  foreman. 

April,  1867,  found  Mr.  Towers  in  Canada, 
where  he  spent  three  weeks  in  Richmond  and 
Montreal.  In  May  he  went  to  Vermont  and  for 
one  season  worked  on  a  boat  in  the  mountains. 
His  next  location  was  in  New  York  City,  but 
after  a  short  time  he  went  as  far  west  as  Chicago, 
where  he  remained  two  years.  In  August,  1869, 
he  went  to  California,  and  worked  in  contracting 
at  Sacramento,  San  Francisco  and  San  Jose,  re- 
turning to  Chicago  in  November,  1870,  and  engag- 
ing in  contracting  and  building  there.  The  year 
1877  found  him  prospecting  and  mining  between 
Webb  City  and  Joplin,  Mo.,  and  later  he  was  simi- 
larly occupied  in  Galena,  Kan.,  from  which  place 
he  came  to  Colorado,  settling  in  Silver  Clifi"  in" 
March,  1879.  After  prospecting  there  for  a  year  he 
went  to  the  Bonanza  camp  in  the  San  Luis  Val- 
ley, where  he  mined  about  one  year.  In  August, 
1881,  he  went  to  Pueblo,  where  he  engaged  in 
contracting  and  building,  but  in  June,  1885, 
went  east  and  two  months  later,  returning  to  this 
state,  settled  in  Denver.  His  contracts  here 
have  included  some  of  the  most  important  work 
of  the  kind  in  the  city,  among  them  being  the 
Denver  high  school,  Trinity  Methodist  Episco- 
pal Church  (the  finest  structure  built  by  that  de- 
nomination in  the  world),  St.  James  Church, 
Iliff  School  of  Theology  (which  always  attracts 
the  admiring  attention  of  visitors) ,  the  elegant 
residence  of  Bishop  and  Mrs.  Warren  at  Uni- 
versity Park,  also  remodeled  the  Markham  and 
the  front  of  Daniels  &  Fisher's  store,  put  in  the 
front  of  The  Fair,  the   addition  to  the  Colorado 


National  Bank,  the  Preston  residence  in  Colo- 
rado Springs  and  remodeled  the  Central  block  of 
Pueblo. 

In  Denver  Mr.  Towers  married  Mrs.  Susan 
Aline  (Tipton)  Williams,  who  was  born  on  the 
farm  owned  by  her  parents  and  situated  on  the 
battlefield  of  Gettysburg.  The  homestead  was 
originally  purchased  by  her  Grandfather  Rogers 
and  is  now  a  part  of  the  National  Park.  Mrs. 
Towers  is  the  mother  of  one  son,  Ralph  B.  Will- 
iams. The  home  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Towers  is  at 
No.  104  South  Lincoln  avenue  and  his  shop  is  in 
the  rear  of  No.  145  Champa  street.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Master  Builders'  Association  and 
takes  an  interest  in  everything  pertaining  to  his 
occupation.  Fraternally  he  is  connected  with 
the  Masons  in  Chicago  and  in  politics  adheres  to 
the  doctrines  of  the  Republican  party. 


^VRWIN  E.  KEELER,  a  member  of  the  firm  of 
I  W.  B.  Keeler  &  Sons,  of  Boulder,  is  a  very 
X  energetic  and  successful  business  man.  He 
is  upright  and  just  in  all  his  transactions  and  has 
won  the  respect  and  high  regard  of  everyone 
who  has  had  dealings  of  any  kind  with  him. 
About  twelve  years  have  passed  since  he  cast  in 
his  fortunes  with  the  inhabitants  of  this  attractive 
valley  town,  and  he  has  never  seen  reason  to  re- 
gret his  choice  of  a  home  and  place  of  business. 
He  is  politically  allied  to  the  Republican  party, 
firmly  believing  that  its  policy  has  been  the  cause 
of  our  national  success  and  standing  among  the 
great  powers  of  the  earth  since  the  dark  days  of 
the  Civil  war,  and  that,  under  its  banners,  we,  as 
a  people,  shall  march  onward  and  upward  to  yet 
greater  glory. 

The  paternal  grandfather  of  the  above-named 
gentleman  was  Samuel  Keeler,  who  was  born  in 
New  York  and  later  removed  to  New  Jersey, 
where  he  was  engaged  in  running  a  tannery. 
Later  in  life  he  removed  to  Ohio,  ^nd  during 
his  last  years  he  led  a  retired  life  in  Columbus. 
Both  he  and  his  wife  attained  the  venerable  age 
of  ninety  years  and  over.  Our  subject's  father, 
William  B.  Keeler,  was  born  in  New  Jersey,  in. 
18 16,  and  is  still  living,  his  home  being  in  Boul- 
der. In  1843  he  moved  to  Iowa,  settled  in  Bur- 
lington, and  from  that  point  made  frequent  trips 
into  the  interior,  transporting  supplies  and  goods 
for  people   who   were   moving  further  west.     In 


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1849  he  took  up  a  tract  of  government  land  near 
Pella,  Marion  Count)',  Iowa,  and  improved  a 
farm,  which  he  placed  under  good  cultivation, 
adding  much  to  its  original  value  in  innumerable 
waj-s.  In  1873  he  located  in  the  town  of  Otley, 
in  the  same  county,  and  embarked  in  a  mercan- 
tile enterprise,  continuing  there  for  ten  years. 
Going  then  to  Greene  County,  Iowa,  he  conducted 
a  store  in  Rippey  until  the  fall  of  1886,  when  he 
came  to  Boulder  and  started  the  business  now 
managed  by  his  two  sous.  He  has  practically 
retired  from  active  life,  and  is  justly  entitled  to 
restful  old  age  after  the  long  years  he  has  spent 
in  industrious  and  unremitting  toil.  His  faithful 
companion  and  helpmate  along  life's  journey  is 
still  sharing  his  joys  and  sorrows  and  is  now  in 
her  seventy-third  year.  She  was  Miss  Ruth  H. 
Wilson  before  her  marriage,  and  is  a  native  of 
Hunterdon  County,  N.  J.  This  worthy  couple  had 
a  family  of  seven  children,  but  four  of  the  num- 
ber have  been  called  to  the  silent  land.  One  son 
is  Rev.  A.  C.  Keeler,  pastor  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church  in  Norton,  Kan.;  the  other  surviving 
children  are  Irwin  E.  and  Harry  E. ,  who  are 
members  of  the  firm  which  was  established  here 
by  their  father. 

Irwin  E.  Keeler  was  born  on  his  parents' 
homestead  near  Pella,  Marion  County,  Iowa,  and 
spent  his  childhood  in  that  state.  His  education 
was  such  as  the  common-schools  afforded  him, 
and  under  his  father's  judicious  training  he  early 
learned  the  principles  of  business.  As  early  as 
1873  he  commenced  his  mercantile  career  by 
clerking  in  the  store  owned  by  the  senior  Keeler, 
and  in  1883  was  admitted  to  partnership,  the 
style  of  the  newly -made  firm  being  W.  B. 
Keeler  &  Son.  They  located  in  Rippey,  Iowa,  that 
year  and  remained  in  that  town  for  a  period  of 
three  years.  The  youngest  son  of  W.  B.  Keeler 
was  taken  into  the  firm  in  1 890,  it  having  since 
been  known  as  W.  B.  Keeler  &  Sons.  In  1886 
the  business  was  brought  to  Boulder,  and  a  store 
was  opened  in  the  I/ippoldt  building,  on  Pearl 
street,  near  Eleventh.  Their  trade  increased  so 
rapidly  that  within  a  year  or  two  it  was  found 
necessary  to  double  their  accommodations.  In 
1890  they  moved  about  a  block  further  up  the 
street,  and  occupied  a  space  of  25  x  roo  feet. 
Later  this  was  extended  twenty-five  feet,  but  this 
extra  amount  of  room  also  proved  inadequate  and 
in  1894  the  firm  built  a  fine  store,  71^x125  feet, 


placed  hot-water  heating  pipes  and  other  modern 
appliances  in  the  building,  and  have  had  every- 
thing to  their  satisfaction  since.  The  store  is  a 
department  concern  and  is  run  on  the  most  ap- 
proved city  plan.  A  splendid  line  of  dry  goods, 
carpets,  shoes,  groceries,  etc. ,  is  to  be  found  here, 
and  trade  is  in  a  most  flourishing  condition.  The 
proprietors  do  a  wholesale  and  retail  business,  on 
a  strictly  cash  basis,  and  are  prospering.  Mr. 
Keeler,  of  this  article,  and  his  brother,  Harry  E., 
are  members  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  and  are 
loyal  and  patriotic  citizens. 


GlLONZO  C.  STILWELL,  water  commis- 
U  sioner  of  district  No.  6  and  a  prominent 
/  I  citizen  of  Boulder  County,  began  farming 
pursuits  on  his  arrival  here,  and,  after  having 
operated  as  a  renter  for  some  time,  he  pre- 
empted eighty  acres  some  five  miles  northeast  of 
Boulder.  To  this  tract  he  afterward  added  forty 
acres  of  school  land,  and  continued  to  improve 
and  cultivate  the  property  until  1880,  when  he 
sold  the  place.  At  the  same  time  he  purchased 
one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  in  the  same  locality, 
and  here  he  has  since  resided.  In  politics  he  is  a 
stanch  Republican.  Governor  Routt  tendered 
him,  in  1891,  appointment  as  water  commissioner 
of  District  No.  6,  and  the  appointment  was  tend- 
ered him  later  by  Governors  Waite,  Mclntire  and 
Adams  successi\'ely.  He  is  a  veteran  of  the  war 
and  holds  membership  in  Nathaniel  Lyon  Post 
No.  5,  G.  A.  R.,  of  which  he  was  commander  for 
one  term. 

A  native  of  York  state,  born  April  i,  1845,  the 
subject  of  this  sketch  is  a  sou  of  Ezra  and  Mary 
(Howe)  Stilwell.  He  was  one  of  eight  children, 
five  now  living,  viz.:  A.  A.,  of  Grant  City, 
Iowa;  Sophronia,  wifeof  L.  M.  Lewis,  of  Albany, 
Wis.;  C.  S.  and  H.  H.,  both  residents  of  Wau- 
kon,  Iowa;  and  A.  C,  of  this  sketch.  The  father 
was  born  on  Lake  Champlain,  in  Vermont,  and 
in  youth  learned  the  trades  of  a  wheelwright  and 
miller.  He  married  Miss  Howe,  who  was  born 
in  Chesterfield,  N.  H.,  April  2,  1809.  Shortly 
afterward  he  removed  to  York  state,  where  he 
spent  a  number  of  years  in  Allegany  County 
following  his  trades.  There  all  of  his  children 
were  born.  In  the  fall  of  1851  he  removed  to 
Wisconsin,  stopping  for  a  short  time  in  Milwau- 
kee, Janesville  and  Dunkirk,  and  finally  settling 
in  Fulton,  where  he  soon  died. 


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At  the  time  of  his  father's  death  our  subject 
was  about  seven  years  of  age.  At  the  age  of 
seventeen  he  obtained  employment  as  a  farm 
hand.  When  nineteen,  May  10,  1864,  he  en- 
listed in  Company  E,  One  Hundred  and  Thirty- 
fourth  Illinois  Infantry,  Captain  Milligan,  and 
was  sent  down  to  Kentucky,  where  he  remained 
nearly  four  months,  much  of  the  time  at  May- 
field.  Going  to  Chicago,  he  was  expecting  his 
discharge  there,  but  as  Price's  raid  occurred  in 
Missouri  about  that  time,  he  was  sent  with  his 
company  there,  finding,  however,  on  their  ar- 
rival that  Price  had  retreated.  They  were  then 
returned  to  Chicago,  where  he  was  discharged 
October  25,  1864.  He  proceeded  at  once  to 
Allamakee  County,  Iowa,  and  joined  two  broth- 
ers at  Buckland,  where  he  assisted  in  getting  out 
wagon  material  which  his  brothers  had  con- 
tracted to  furnish.  This  occupied  him  some  two 
and  one-half  years. 

Crossing  the  plains  with  his  wife's  relatives  in 
1867,  Mr.  Stilwell  arrived  in  Ward  June  23. 
Here  his  father-in-law  owned  a  sawmill,  he  hav- 
ing resided  here  for  some  four  years  prior  to  our 
subject's  arrival.  The  latter  began  to  work  in 
the  mill  and  remained  there  eighteen  months, 
after  which  he  began  farming.  He  is  an  indus- 
trious, persevering  man,  and  the  large  farm  that 
he  owns  represents  his  unaided  efforts  through  a 
long  term  of  years. 


/gj  ARRET  A.  GARRISON,  architect,  con- 
l_  tractor  and  builder,  of  Denver.  The  family 
^_J  of  which  Mr.  Garrison  is  a  member  was 
represented  among  the  earliest  settlers  of  New 
Jersey  and  originated  in  Holland,  where  the 
name  was  spelled  Garretsen.  It  is  thought  that 
they  are  connected  with  the  New  York  family  of 
the  same  name.  The  great-grandfather  of  our 
subject  was  born  near  Paterson,  N.  J.,  and  was 
accidentally  drowned  by  the  capsizing  of  a  boat 
in  which  he  was  crossing  the  Hudson  to  New 
York.  His  son,  G.  A.,  who  was  with  him, 
escaped.  The  latter  enlisted  for  service  in  the 
war  of  18 1 2,  but  was  not  called  out.  He  owned 
a  farm  in  Bergen  County,  N.  J.,  twelve  miles 
from  Paterson,  and  there  he  died  at  eighty- 
nine  years  of  age.  His  wife  was  Adeline  Za- 
briskie,  descendant  of  one  of  that  name  who, 
when  a  boy,  was  kidnapped  by  the  Indians,  and 


while  in  captivity  learned  their  language.  The 
Indians  were  finally  crowded  by  civilization  and 
moved  westward,  leaving  Mr.  Zabriskie,  who 
had  reached  maturity,  in  possession  of  a  valuable 
tract  of  land. 

The  father  of  our  subject,  Abraham  Garrison, 
was  born  on  the  old  homestead  near  Paterson, 
and  there  much  of  his  life  was  passed,  engaged 
in  agricultural  pursuits.  He  also  owned  a  farm 
of  four  hundred  and  six  acres  in  Bergen  County. 
His  last  years  were  spent  in  retirement  in  Pater- 
son, where  he  died  in  1891,  at  the  age  of  eighty- 
seven  years.  In  religion  he  was  identified  with 
the  Reformed  Church  of  America.  His  wife,  who 
bore  the  maiden  name  of  Leah  Harris,  was  born 
in  New  York  City  and  died  at  Paterson  in  1888. 
Their  twelve  children  were  as  follows:  Adeline 
and  Doramus,  who  died  in  childhood;  Mary,  who 
died  at  Paterson  when  sixty  years  of  age;  John, 
who  occupies  a  portion  of  the  old  homestead; 
Jane,  who  passed  away  during  the  '50s;  Leah, 
who  died  in  1862;  Mrs.  Ann  McNama,  who  re- 
sides in  Bergen  County;  Garret  A.;  David  and 
Abraham,  who  are  engaged  in  the  carriage 
manufacturing  business  in  Paterson;  Simeon,  a 
carpenter,  also  of  Paterson;  and  Mrs.  Ellen  Ptillis, 
of  Allendale,  N.  J. 

At  the  age  of  eighteen  Mr.  Garrison,  of  this 
sketch,  was  apprenticed  to  the  carpenter's  trade 
in  Paterson  and  served  for  five  years.  In  1868 
he  embarked  in  business  as  a  contractor  and 
builder,  and  from  the  first  his  skill  and  accuracy 
were  evident.  Up  to  1887  he  had  made  his  home 
in  or  near  Paterson,  where  he  had  been  born  in 
September,  1842;  but  the  west  presented  a  field 
for  labor  that  seemed  profitable  and  pleasant,  and 
he  finally  determined  to  seek  a  home  beyond  the 
Mississippi.  Accordingly  he  came  to  Denver, 
and,  as  many  buildings  were  being  erected  here 
at  that  time,  he  at  once  stepped  into  a  profitable 
business.  He  had  the  contract  for  the  telephone 
building  on  Lawrence  street  and  for  other  im- 
portant public  structures;  in  addition  to  which  he 
has  erected  many  residences  and  terraces. 

In  politics  Mr.  Garrison  is  a  Populist,  believing 
that  the  highest  prosperity  of  our  nation  and  its 
people  can  be  secured  only  when  a  double  stand- 
ard of  money  is  adopted.  Fraternally  he  still 
holds  membership  in  Joppa  Lodge  No.  29,  F. 
&  A.  M.,  at  Paterson.  His  family  are  connected 
with  the  Broadway  Christian  Church,  but  he  is 


THOMAS  AUTREY. 


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not  a  member  of  any  denomination.  While  re- 
siding in  Paterson  he  married  Miss  Rachel  Van 
Winkle,  a  native  of  Passaic  County,  N.  J.,  and 
daughter  of  Cornelius  S.  Van  Winkle,  for  some 
years  a  farmer  of  that  county,  but  later  a  resident 
of  Paterson.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Garrison  are  the 
parents  of  five  children:  Mrs.  Lizzie  Curzons, 
of  San  Francisco;  Frank,  a  merchant  tailor  of 
San  Francisco;  Laura,  Mabel  and  Birdie,  who 
are  at  home. 


'HOMAS  AUTREY,  who  resides  at  No.  808 
Pine  street,  Boulder,  was  born  in  Andrew 
County,  Mo.,  April  6,  1842,  a  son  of  James 
Sterling  and  Sarah  (Robinson)  Autrey.  Refer- 
ence to  the  family  history  is  made  upon  another 
page,  in  the  sketch  of  William  Autrey.  After 
having  acquired  a  fair  education  in  the  common 
schools  of  Missouri,  in  the  fall  of  1862  our  subject 
went  to  Leavenworth,  Kan.,  and  hired  to  Power 
&  Faulkner,  to  drive  a  team  to  Denver,  but  after 
going  as  far  as  Rock  Creek,  Kan.,  having  grown 
tired  of  that  kind  of  work,  he  left  his  employers 
and  proceeded  alone  to  Nebraska  City,  where  he 
was  employed  during  the  winter  in  chopping 
cord  wood.  In  the  spring  of  1863  he  drove  an 
ox-team  through  to  Cottonwood  Springs  for  Jen- 
nings &  Humphrey,  and  from  that  point  drove  a 
team  to  Denver  for  a  Mr.  Clark,  thence  going  to 
Central  City  for  Mr.  Jennings,  working  his  way 
for  his  board.  After  having  been  employed  at 
chopping  cord-wood  for  fifteen  days  at  Central 
City,  he  started  for  Denver  with  $5  in  his  pocket 
and  walked  the  entire  distance,  bare-footed,  and 
with  only  such  food  as  he  could  procure  at  the  in- 
frequent stopping  places. 

Arriving  in  Denver,  Mr.  Autrey  hired  with 
Carlyle  &  HoUiday  as  a  teamster  and  went  to  La- 
Porte,  where  he  worked  for  them  during  the  sum- 
mer at  $25  per  month.  In  the  winter  he  had 
charge  of  cattle  at  Cottonwood  Springs  and  in  the 
spring  resumed  teaming,  which  he  continued 
through  the  summer.  In  the  fall  of  1864  he  went 
to  Nebraska  City,  where  he  remained  during  the 
winter.  During  the  summer  of  1865  he  drove 
six  mules,  and  in  the  fall  stopped  on  Laramie 
Plains,  where  he  wintered  cattle.  In  the  spring 
of  1866  he  became  assistant  wagon- master,  and 
later  in  the  season  was  made  wagon-master.  In 
the  spring  of  1867  he  joined  the  wagon  train  of 
Walters  &   Dunham,  loaded  with  dry  hides  and 


bound  for  Salina,  Kan.,  he  being  assistant  wag- 
on-master. During  the  trip,  at  Cedar  Point,  one 
of  his  employers  was  killed  by  Indians.  After 
herding  cattle  for  the  firm  at  Salina  for  a  month, 
he  joined  his  employers  on  a  trip  to  Fort  Hayes. 
From  there  he  took  the  train  for  his  home. 

For  two  years  afterward  Mr.  Autrey  devoted 
his  time  to  farming.  In  the  winter  of  1869  he 
emigrated  to  Colorado,  in  company  with  his 
parents  and  brothers,  William  and  George  K. 
In  the  spring  of  the  following  year  he  and  his 
brother,  William,  bought  four  mules  and  engaged 
in  freighting.  For  a  time  they  worked  for  the 
railroad  company,  constructing  a  track  from 
Evans  to  Denver.  In  the  fall  of  1870  they  took 
up  a  homestead  claim  of  eighty  acres,  and  con- 
tinued together  for  some  years,  increasing  their 
possessions  and  meeting  with  success.  When  a 
division  of  the  property  was  made  Thomas  took 
one  hundred  and  twenty  acres  of  railroad  land  in 
township  I  south,  range  69  west,  in  addition  to 
which  he  rented  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  from 
his  father-in-law.  After  two  years  he  bought 
eighty  acres  previously  rented,  and  on  this  land, 
in  1893,  he  discovered  coal.  The  following  year 
he  leased  the  property  to  the  Enterprise  Coal 
Company.  For  two  years  he  carried  on  a  meat 
business  in  Louisville,  and  still  owns  one-half  in- 
terest in  a  shop  there,  besides  having  two  houses 
in  the  town.  In  1895  he  removed  to  Boulder, 
where  he  owns  valuable  city  property.  In  June, 
1875,  he  married  Miss  Mary  Mink.  Four  chil- 
dren were  born  of  their  union,  namely:  James  B., 
Luella,  Laura  and  Marion  Thomas,  all  of  whom 
are  living  except  Laura.  Fraternally  Mr.  Aut- 
rey is  connected  with  Hiawatha  Tribe  No.  25, 
I.  O.  R.  M. 


•gEORGE  W.  EGGLESTON,  who  is  one  of 
_  the  influential  residents  of  Boulder  County, 
^  was  born  near  Simcoe,  Canada,  September 
29,  1833,  a  son  of  Elisha  and  Rachel  (Kinne) 
Eggleston.  He  was  one  of  eight  children,  those 
besides  our  subject  being  Elisha  M.,  a  retired 
businessman  residing  in  Denver;  Theodore  D., 
deceased;  Susan  E.,  who  is  married  and  lives  in 
Idaho;  William  W.;  Wellington  K.,  of  Grand 
Junction,  Colo.;  Charles  B.,  of  Denver;  and 
Albert  L.,  of  Ouray,  Colo. 

The  father  of  our  subject  was  born  in  Madison 
County,  N.  Y.,  in  1804,  and  grew  to  manhood 


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and  married  there.  Afterward,  removing  to  Can- 
ada, he  settled  in  Norfolk  County  on  what  was 
known  as  Yankee  street.  Some  five  years  were 
spent  there,  and  in  1837  'le  removed  to  New 
York,  after  having  taken  up  arms  in  the  Canadian 
rebellion.  For  some  six  years  he  resided  in 
Onondaga  County,  and  then  went  back  to  Can- 
ada, again  settling  on  Yankee  street.  After  four 
years  he  removed  to  another  part  of  the  county, 
where  he  erected  a  sawmill  and  remained  until 
1850.  His  next  location  was  McHenry  County, 
111.,  but  after  a  year  he  moved  to  West  Union, 
Fayette  County,  Iowa,  where  he  engaged  in 
farming,  brick-making  and  milling.  In  i860  he 
came  to  Colorado,  where  he  spent  the  summer  in 
the  mines  and  took  up  a  claim  of  one  hundred 
and  sixty  acres.  Returning  for  his  family  in 
1 86 1,  he  came  back  with  them  and  settled  on 
Coal  Creek,  in  Boulder  County,  where  he  engaged 
in  farming,  stock-raising  and  mining,  his  ditch 
being  the  first  water  taken  out  of  Coal  Creek. 
His  death  occurred  in  1868. 

The  great-grandfather  of  our  subject.  Bigot 
Eggleston,  was  a  native  of  London,  England. 
The  grandfather,  Darius  Eggleston,  was  born  in 
Madison  County,  N.  Y.,  and  became  one  of  the 
leading  contractors  on  the  Erie  canal  when  it  was 
constructed.  He  was  a  sawmill  man  and  farmer, 
and  an  active  and  successful  business  man. 

In  the  common  schools  our  subject  acquired  a 
fair  education.  At  twenty  years  of  age  he  began 
life  for  himself  in  Fayette  County,  Iowa,  as  a 
brick  molder  and  subsequently  engaged  in  the 
grocery  business.  Later  he  began  teaming  and 
expressing  from  McGregor  to  West  Union.  In 
1864  he  came  west  to  Colorado  in  company  with 
his  brother,  Elisha  M.,  both  bringing  their  fami- 
lies. They  left  Iowa  on  May  15  with  two  wagons 
and  some  five  or  six  yoke  of  cattle,  arriving  in 
Denver  August  i.  Coming  from  there  to  Coal 
Creek,  our  subject  preempted  one  hundred  and 
twenty  acres  of  land  adjoining  his  father's  place, 
and  afterward  went  into  the  mountains,  spending 
the  winter  at  Blackhawk  in  mining  and  working 
at  other  things.  On  the  ist  of  March,  1865,  he 
returned  to  the  valley  and  settled  down  to  farm- 
ing. With  the  exception  of  a  short  time  spent 
in  mining,  he  has  since  devoted  his  attention  to 
farming  and  stock-raising.  As  he  prospered  he 
added  to  his  place  of  one  hundred  and  twenty 
acres  by  purchase  until  his  property  comprised 


six  hundred  acres.  The  family  own  all  together 
twelve  hundred  acres  in  this  valley,  all  of  which 
is  supposed  to  be  valuable  coal  land. 

April  29,  1858,  Mr.  Eggleston  married  Miss 
Sarah  A.  Smith,  daughter  of  Daniel  B.  Smith,  a 
prominent  farmer  of  West  Union,  Iowa.  To 
their  marriage  five  children  were  born.  The 
oldest,  Inez  A.,  born  September  12,  1859,  is  the 
wife  of  E.  A.  Weston,  a  prominent  farmer  and 
stockman  of  Chaffee  County,  Colo.;  she  owns  a 
farm  on  Coal  Creek  and  city  property  in  Boulder. 
Charles  E.,  the  oldest  son,  was  born  August  17, 
1 86 1,  and  is  now  a  farmer  and  stock-raiser  in 
Boulder  County.  Ada  Myrtle  is  a  graduate  of 
the  state  preparatory  school  and  a  teacher  in  the 
public  schools  of  Boulder  County.  Nellie  M.  and 
Bessie  L.  have  also  been  given  good  advantages 
and  are  with  their  parents.  Politically  Mr.  Eg- 
gleston is  a  silver  Republican.  For  four  terms 
he  served  as  justice  of  the  peace,  and  for  thirty 
years  he  has  been  a  member  of  the  school  board 
of  his  district  in  Boulder  County. 


(TOHN  J.  WALLACE,  who  has  resided  upon 
I  his  farm  near  Lafayette,  Boulder  County, 
(2/  since  1885,  was  born  in  Jefferson  County, 
Ind. ,  December  29,  1827,  a  son  of  William  and 
Mary  (Conway)  Wallace,  natives  of  Gallatin 
County,  Ky.  His  father,  after  some  time  spent 
in  Indiana,  removed  in  1848  to  Wisconsin,  where 
his  son,  John  J.,  had  preceded  him  some  months. 
After  entering  eight  hundred  acres  of  land  he 
returned  to  Indiana  and  brought  his  family  to 
Wisconsin,  where  he  had  land  in  Iowa,  Lafayette 
and  Grant  Counties.  There  he  remained  until 
his  death. 

At  the  age  of  twenty  our  subject  went  to  Wis- 
consin, where  he  attended  the  academy  at  Platte- 
ville.  Grant  County.  On  leaving  school  he 
turned  his  attention  to  farming,  and  in  one  fall 
he  broke  up  and  put  in  a  portion  of  one-quarter 
section  of  the  land  his  father  had  taken  up. 
Later  he  went  to  the  lumbering  woods  up  the 
Wisconsin  River,  where  he  worked  with  three 
other  men  rafting  the  logs  down  the  river.  In 
the  spring  he  ran  the  first  lumber  from  Jennie 
Bull  to  Little  Bull,  the  former  being  the  highest 
camp  up  the  river  at  that  time.  He  rafted  lum- 
ber to  build  a  slide  over  the  falls,  which  he  as- 
sisted in  building.     Returning  home  his  father 


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gave  him  a  quarter  section  of  land  in  Lafayette 
County,  and  with  the  proceeds  of  his  winter's 
labor  he  began  farming  for  himself.  After  he 
had  improved  his  place  he  sold  it  and  bought  a 
farm  in  Grant  County,  where  he  remained  until 
the  spring  of  i860. 

About  the  ist  of  April  of  that  year  he  was 
elected  captain  of  an  emigrant  train  bound  for 
Colorado,  and  composed  of  seven  wagons  and 
many  head  of  oxen.  The  weather  was  fine  and 
they  traveled  without  interruption,  arriving  in 
Denver  the  ist  of  May,  and  spending  some  days 
there,  thence  he  came  to  Boulder  and  went  into 
Gold  Hill,  where  he  prospected.  Afterward  he 
was  joined  by  his  partner,  a  cousin  of  his  wife, 
who  had  accompanied  him  from  Wisconsin,  but 
had  gone  west  to  California.  The  two  worked 
together  in  the  erection  of  a  fifty-stamp  quartz 
mill  on  Horse  Falls,  but  when  the  work  was 
about  completed,  they  found  they  had  scarcely 
water  power  enough  to  run  a  three-stamp  mill. 
Mr.  Wallace  took  the  mill  down,  moved  it  to 
Left  Hand  Creek  and  set  it  up  again.  He  had 
some  cattle  and  a  wagon,  and  with  these  he  went 
to  Gold  Dirt,  when  the  excitement  incident  to  the 
discovery  of  gold  broke  out. 

The  winter  of  1860-61  was  spent  there,  and  in 
the  spring  he  went  to  what  was  then  known  as 
the  Wanamaker  ranch  on  Upper  Boulder  Creek, 
where  he  prospected  during  the  summer.  About 
the  same  time  he  took  up  a  ranch  on  a  small 
creek  which  leads  up  near  the  Caribou  lode,  and 
there  he  hunted,  fished,  prospected  and  cut  hay. 
In  the  spring  of  1862  he  came  to  the  valley  and 
began  at  ditch  work  and  gardening.  In  the  fall 
he  bought  some  cattle  and  a  wagon,  and  cut  hay 
which  he  hauled  to  the  mountains.  In  the  spring 
he  rented  a  ranch  on  South  Boulder  Creek,  and 
there  farmed  during  the  remainder  of  1863.  The 
following  year  he  bought  one  hundred  and  sixty 
acres  of  land  near  Valmont,  where  he  engaged  in 
farming,  at  the  same  time  superintending  his 
rented  ranch.  In  1865  he  removed  to  his  Val- 
mont ranch,  where  he  lived,  with  the  exception 
of  one  year  in  Blackhawk,  until  1871,  and,  hav- 
ing in  the  meantime  become  involved,  he  was 
obliged  to  give  up  his  farm.  In  1872  he  bought 
back  his  former  farm  and  there  resided  until  1876, 
when  he  took  a  bunch  of  cattle  and  went  down 
the  Platte,  but  was  unfortunate  in  losing  them. 
Returning  to  the  valley  he  resumed  farming  on 


rented  land  and  prospered,  in  spite  of  grasshoppers 
and  hail  storms  that  injured  his  crop,  and  other 
calamities.  In  1885  he  purchased  his  present 
homestead  of  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres.  Wher- 
ever he  has  lived,  he  has  planted  trees  and  made 
valuable  improvements. 

In  October,  1855,  Mr.  Wallace  married  Miss 
Mary  A.  Johnson,  a  native  of  Wisconsin.  Six 
children  blessed  their  union,  namely:  Farnam  J., 
at  home;  William,  deceased;  Kittie  M.,  deceased; 
Lew,  who  is  engaged  in  railroading;  John  W. , 
who  manages  the  home  ranch  and  also  owns  one 
hundred  and  sixty  acres  in  partnership  with  his 
brother;  and  Lena,  the  youngest  of  the  family, 
and  the  wife  of  Marion  Hudson. 


'IMOTHY  SHANAHAN,  a  prosperous  agri- 
culturist of  Boulder  County,  was  born  in 
Tipperary,  Ireland,  March  3,  1835,  and  was 
one  of  thirteen  children,  eight  of  whom  are  still 
living,  viz.:  Mary,  Kate,  Julia,  Bridget,  Ellen, 
Patrick,  Edward  and  Timothy.  His  ancestors 
were  prominent  in  the  history  of  County  Tipper- 
ar3%  where  his  father,  Timothy,  and  grandfather, 
Edward,  were  born.  The  former,  whose  birth 
occurred  in  1794,  came  to  America  in  1845  with 
his  family,  settling  in  Franklin  County,  N.  Y., 
where  he  remained  for  fifteen  years.  Thence  he 
went  to  Iowa  and  settled  in  Benton  County, 
and  later  lived  in  Washington  and  Henry 
Counties.  In  1863,  with  a  team  of  mules,  he 
crossed  the  plains  to  Colorado,  arriving  in 
August  in  Boulder,  where  he  afterward  made  his 
home  with  his  son,  Timothy.  He  was  ninety- 
six  years  of  age  when  he  died,  and  his  wife,  who 
was  Winifred  Dunn,  attained  the  great  age  of 
one  hundred  and  two  years. 

In  early  boyhood  our  subject  attended  school 
during  the  winter  months,  while  the  summer 
seasons  were  given  to  such  work  as  his  strength 
permitted.  His  frugal  and  industrious  habits 
laid  the  foundation  for  active  manhood  and  for  a 
successful  business  life.  He  began  farming  and 
stock-raising  for  himself  and  was  prosperous 
from  the  first.  His  father  and  mother,  who  were 
advanced  in  years,  took  up  their  home  with  him 
and  assisted  him  financially.  Shortly  after  his 
arrival  in  Boulder  he  bought  one  hundred  and 
sixty  acres  five  miles  southeast  of  Boulder  and 
began  to  cultivate  the  tract.     After  some  years  of 


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successful  fanning  there,  he  sold  the  place  and 
purchased  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres,  about 
one  mile  further  west,  where  he  now  resides. 
The  most  of  his  time  and  attention  has  been 
given  to  the  raising  of  cattle.  He  has  acquired 
additional  land  from  time  to  time  until  now  his 
possessions  aggregate  six  hundred  and  ten  acres, 
including  a  timber  claim  of  one  hundred  and 
sixty  acres.  In  1875  he  bought  eighty  acres  on 
section  two.  Finding  indications  of  coal  in  the 
soil,  in  1893  he  decided  to  bore  for  the  black 
diamond,  and  was  successful  in  striking  a  twelve- 
foot  vein  of  superior  coal.  The  development  of 
the  mine  was  at  once  begun.  After  its  develop- 
ment he  leased  the  property  and  March  25,  1898, 
sold  twenty-seven  of  the  eighty  acres,  containing 
the  mine  and  all  improvements,  to  a  good  ad- 
vantage. 

Politically  Mr.  Shanahan  is  liberal  in  his  views. 
In  religion  he  is  a  consistent  member  of  the  Cath- 
olic Church.  His  marriage  took  place  in  Boulder 
in  1863,  and  united  him  with  Mrs.  Mar}'  (Cough- 
lin)  Hoonahan,  the  widow  of  Thomas  Hoonahan, 
and  the  mother  of  a  son,  James  Hoonahan,  who 
was  cared  for  and  reared  by  Mr.  Shanahan. 


EAREY  K.  FLEMING,  M.  D.,  professor  of 
gynecology,  abdominal  surgery  and  clinical 
midwifery  in  Gross  Medical  College,  is  one 
of  the  prominent  and  successful  specialists  of 
Denver.  On  coming  to  Denver  in  1889  he  en- 
gaged in  general  professional  work,  but  he  now 
limits  his  practice  to  gynecology  and  abdominal 
surgery,  and,  in  addition  to  his  private  practice 
and  college  professorship,  he  is  attending  gynecol- 
ogist to  St.  Anthony's  Hospital.  In  the  organiza- 
tion of  the  Denver  Clinical  and  Pathological  So- 
ciety he  took  a  very  active  part  and  is  now  presi- 
dent of  the  organization.  He  is  secretary  of  the 
local  committee  of  arrangements  of  the  Western 
Surgical  and  Gynecological  Association,  a  meeting 
of  which  was  held  in  Denver  in  December,  1897. 
For  the  meeting  of  the  American  Medical  Society, 
to  be  held  in  Denver  in  1898,  he  is  chairman  of 
the  committee  on  exhibits.  At  one  time  he  was 
secretary  of  the  Colorado  State  Medical  Society 
and  also  served  as  chairman  of  its  executive  com- 
mittee. He  has  also  been  secretary  of  the  Denver 
and  Arapahoe  County  Medical  Society,  of  which 
he  is  an  active  mepiber.    His  name  is  prominently 


associated  with  the  Rocky  Mountain  Inter-State 
Medical  Association,  of  which  he  is  a  charter 
member.  In  addition  to  his  other  duties  in  Gross 
Medical  College  he  is  assistant  secretary  of  the 
faculty  and  chairman  of  the  dispensary  com- 
mittee. He  is  also  assistant  surgeon  (with  the 
rank  of  captain)  to  the  Colorado  National  Guard, 
this  appointment  having  been  tendered  him  by 
Governor  Adams. 

Tracing  the  record  of  the  Fleming  family  in 
this  country  we  find  that  the  doctor's  great- 
grandfather, James  Fleming,  was  a  soldier  in  the 
Revolutionary  war,  enlisting  from  his  native 
state,  North  Carolina.  After  the  close  of  the 
war  he  removed  to  Indiana  in  the  capacity  of 
civil  engineer  for  the  government,  and  entered 
the  land  and  laid  out  the  village  of  New  Paris, 
where  later  he  engaged  in  farming.  His  son, 
James,  was  born  and  reared  in  Indiana  and  spent 
his  active  life  in  New  Paris.  Josiah  M.  Fleming, 
our  subject's  father,  was  born  in  New  Paris,  but 
removed  to  Dayton,  Ohio,  where  he  engaged  in 
the  mercantile  business,  and  while  there  he  en- 
listed in  an  Ohio  regiment  for  service  in  the  Civil 
war.  Later  he  went  to  Cincinnati  and  thence  to 
Chicago,  where  he  engaged  in  merchandising. 
In  1889  he  came  to  Denver,  where  he  is  a  mer- 
chant. His  wife,  who  bore  the  maiden  name  of 
Addie  W.  Cpm,  was  born  in  Cincinnati,  of  Ger- 
man descent,  being  a  member  of  a  family  that 
early  settled  in  Virginia.  Her  father.  Rev. 
George  Crum,  was  born  in  Winchester,  Va.,  and 
became  a  pioneer  minister  of  Cincinnati,  being 
for  some  time  a  presiding  elder  in  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  is  the  only  living 
child  of  his  parents.  He  was  educated  in  the 
Chicago  University,  but  left  that  institution  at 
the  close  of  the  junior  year,  and  took  up  the  study 
of  medicine.  In  1883  he  entered  Chicago  Medical 
College,  the  medical  department  of  the  North- 
western University,  from  which  he  graduated  in 
1886.  He  then  engaged  in  practice  in  Chicago 
until  1889,  having,  in  addition  to  his  private 
practice,  the  duties  of  attending  physician  to 
Chicago  Orphans'  Asylum  and  the  South  Side 
free  dispensary  of  Chicago  Medical  College.  In 
1889  he  came  to  Denver,  where,  the  next  year, 
he  became  connected  with  Gross  Medical  College 
as  an  instructor,  later  was  the  lecturer  and  in 
1894  became  professor  of  gynecology,  abdominal 


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surgery  and  clinical  midwifery.  His  office  is  in 
the  California  building.  He  is  editor  of  the 
department  of  gynecology  and  obstetrics  in  the 
Western  Surgical  and  Medical  Gazette.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Alumni  Association  of  North- 
western University,  is  connected  with  the  Univer- 
sity and  Overland  Park  Clubs  of  Denver,  holds 
membership  with  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution,  and 
in  religious  connections  is  identified  with  Cen- 
tral Presbyterian  Church.  In  politics  he  is  a 
silver  Republican,  but,  aside  from  the  casting  of 
his  vote,  he  has  never  taken  any  part  in  political 
affairs,  preferring  to  devote  his  attention  ex- 
clusively to  his  professional  duties. 


HON.  CHARLES  A.  CLARK.  The  name  of 
this  enterprising  merchant  of  Louisville  is 
well  known  throughout  Boulder  County, 
and  in  many  parts  of  the  state  as  well.  It  was  in 
1877  that  Judge  Clark  came  to  Boulder  Valley 
and  extensively  embarked  in  the  cattle  and  stock 
business.  He  soon  became  prominent  in  the  Re- 
publican party  in  the  county.  In  1883  he  was 
elected  to  the  state  legislature,  where  he  served 
through  the  session  of  1883-84,  and  was  chair- 
man of  the  committees  on  agriculture  and  irriga- 
tion. Upon  his  return  home  from  the  legislature 
he  continued  in  the  cattle  business  upon  his 
ranch  of  three  hundred  and  sixty  acres,  which  is 
valuable  coal  land.  Removing  to  Louisville  in 
1895,  he  opened  a  real-estate  office  and  was  ap- 
pointed a  notary  public  (which  office  he  still 
holds)  and  justice  of  the  peace.  Since  1895  he 
has  carried  on  a  mercantile  business,  having  a 
stock  of  goods  .suited  to  the  wants  of  the  people 
of  his  locality,  and  conducting  business  upon  an 
honest  and  reliable  basis  that  has  won  him  many 
patrons  and  friends.  In  addition  to  other  inter- 
ests he  owns  the  town  site  of  Clarkston,  where 
there  is  a  fine  creamery  and  cheese  factory  in 
operation. 

In  Hopkinsville,  Christian  County,  Ky.,  the 
subject  of  this  sketch  was  born,  June  5,  1834,  a 
son  of  Henry  I.  and  Mary  (Mansfield)  Clark,  na- 
tives of  Virginia.  His  father,  who  was  born  in 
1793,  grew  to  manhood  and  was  married  in  the 
Old  Dominion,  but  shortly  after  his  marriage 
he  removed  to  Kentucky  and  settled  in  Christian 
County,  becoming  one  of  the  extensive  planters 
and  slave  holders  of  his  locality.    During  the  war 

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of  181 2  he  enlisted  and  served,  by  various  pro- 
motions, in  all  the  ranks  up  to  that  of  captain.  In 
1836,  selling  his  property  in  Kentucky,  he  re- 
moved to  Illinois  and  located  near  Bloomington, 
McLain  County.  The  section  where  he  settled 
was  afterward  incorporated  in  Woodford  Count}-. 
He  was  a  prominent  man  of  his  locality  and  filled 
the  offices  of  county  commis.sioner  and  justice  of 
the  peace  for  several  terms.  His  death  occurred 
in  that  county  in  1874. 

The  paternal  grandfather  of  Judge  Clark  was 
Henry  Clark,  a  native  of  Virginia,  where  he  was 
a  slave  owner  and  planter.  He  accompanied  his 
son  to  Kentucky,  and  there  remained  until  his 
death.  The  mother  of  our  subject  was  a  mem- 
ber of  a  prominent  Virginian  family  and  was  born 
in  1794  and  died  in  1859.  Her  father,  William 
Mansfield,  was  a  veteran  of  the  Revolution  and 
was  present  at  the  surrender  of  Lord  Cornwallis. 
The  wife  of  Henry  Clark  was  a  cousin  of  the  fa- 
mous General  Gaines,  who  is  remembered  es- 
pecially through  a  law  case  that  attracted  the  at- 
tention of  the  entire  world. 

The  education  of  our  subject  was  obtained  in 
the  common  schools  and  a  private  high  school, 
where  he  studied  for  one  term.  At  eighteen 
years  of  age  he  began  to  clerk  in  a  general  store, 
at  Danvers,  111.,  but  in  1854  went  to  Chicago, 
where  he  clerked  for  others  for  two  years  and 
then  embarked  in  the  grocery  business  for  him- 
self After  two  years  he  sold  out  and  until  Feb- 
ruary, 1859,  was  employed  as  a  clerk.  At  the 
time  of  the  Pike's  Peak  excitement  he  started 
for  the  mountains.  Going  to  Lawrence,  Kan., 
he,  in  company  with  three  others,  bought  a  wagon, 
cattle  and  outfit,  and  started  across  the  plains, 
leaving  his  wife  and  family  with  her  relatives, 
who  had  moved  to  Lawrence  some  time  previous. 
He  reached  Denver  June  14,  1859,  and  proceeded 
direct  to  the  mountains,  where  he  spent  the  re- 
mainder of  the  summer,  in  the  vicinity  of  Nevada- 
ville  and  Central  City.  Returning  in  the  fall  to 
Lawrence  for  his  family,  in  the  spring  of  i860  he 
made  his  second  trip  across  the  plains  with  an  ox- 
team.  He  again  went  to  the  mountains,  and  there 
mined  until  late  in  1862,  when  his  health  failed. 
He  then  came  to  the  valley,  settling  on  Bear 
Creek,  in  Jefferson  County,  where  he  carried  on 
a  stock  ranch  for  three  years,  and  met  with  suc- 
cess in  that  undertaking.  Being  elected  sheriff 
of  Jefferson  County,  in  1865   he  went  to  Golden, 


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where  he  remained  in  the  capacity  of  sheriff 
for  two  years  and  deputy-sherifif  two  years.  He 
also  served  as  justice  of  the  peace  for  a  number 
of  years  in  Jefferson  County,  and  for  eight  years 
in  Boulder  County.  Upon  retiring  from  the 
deputy-sherift's  ofiBce  he  established  a  mercantile 
business,  which  he  carried  on  for  a  number  of 
years,  and  until  his  removal  to  Boulder  County. 
For  eight  years  he  served  as  chairman  of  the 
Jefferson  County  Republican  central  committee 
and  at  the  same  time  was  a  member  of  the  execu- 
tive board  of  the  state  committee. 

In  1854  Judge  Clark  (for  by  the  title  of  judge 
he  is  best  known)  was  united  in  marriage  with 
Miss  Sabrina  Smith,  a  native  of  Maine,  who  died 
March  10,  1888.  They  were  the  parents  of  seven 
children,  but  only  two  are  living,  Harry  I,,  and 
Frank  W.  The  former  has  for  nine  years  been 
superintendent  and  head  assayer  of  W.  J.  Cham- 
berlain &  Co. ,  of  Blackhawk.  The  latter,  who 
is  an  expert  metallurgist,  has  for  eight  years  been 
superintendent  and  metallurgist  of  a  large  smelt- 
ing plant  at  Tacoma,  Wash.  Fraternally  Judge 
Clark  is  connected  with  the  blue  lodge  of  Masons. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Colorado  Association  of 
Pioneers,  in  which  he  takes  an  active  interest. 
The  success  that  has  met  his  efforts  is  the  result 
of  his  energy,  business  judgment  and  determina- 
tion of  will,  qualities  that  almost  invariably  bring 
their  possessor  a  large  share  of  financial  success. 


yyiARION  FULWIDER,  who  came  to  Col- 
y  orado  in  1877,  was  one  of  the  successful 
(9  ranchmen  of  this  state  and  was  for  some 
years  prominently  identified  with  the  Colorado 
Cattle  Growers'  Association  as  the  chairman  of 
its  executive  committee.  He  embarked  in  the 
stock  business  immediately  after  coming  to  the 
state  and  for  some  time,  in  partnership  with  his 
brother,  owned  and  conducted  a  ranch  in  Arap- 
ahoe County,  but  afterward  he  sold  out.  He 
was  later  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Harrison  & 
Ful wider,  engaged  in  ranching  at  Roggen,  on 
the  Burlington  road. 

The  Fulwider  family  originated  in  Germany, 
but  has  long  been  identified  with  American  his- 
tory. The  grandfather  of  our  subject,  David 
Fulwider,  was  born  in  Virginia,  and  there  en- 
gaged in  farming,  also  followed  the  trade  of  tan- 
ner and  currier,  until  advancing  years  rendered 


further  labor  impossible.  He  died  at  the  age  of 
ninety-three.  Henry,  our  subject's  father,  was 
born  in  Greenbrier  County,  in  what  is  now  West 
Virginia,  and  about  1830  removed  to  the  west, 
spending  a  few  years  in  Ohio,  Indiana,  Michigan 
and  Missouri,  but  in  1839  settling  near  what  is 
now  Tipton,  Cedar  County,  Iowa.  He  bought  a 
tract  of  government  land,  upon  which  not  a 
furrow  had  been  turned.  At  once  beginning  to  im- 
prove the  place,  he  soon  brought  it  under  excel- 
lent cultivation.  The  land,  which  comprises  four 
hundred  and  eighty  acres,  was  owned  by  our 
subject.  Upon  that  place  the  father  died  at  the 
age  of  eighty-two.  He  was  an  earnest  Christian 
and  a  consistent  member  of  the  Methodist  Epis- 
copal Church.  His  wife,  in  maidenhood  Harriet 
Kincaid,  was  born  in  Greenbrier  County,  of  an 
old  Virginian  family,  and  died  in  Iowa  at  eighty- 
seven  years. 

The  parental  family  consisted  of  ten  children, 
all  but  one  of  whom  attained  maturity.  They  are 
as  follows:  Mrs.  Betsey  Bolton,  who  died  in  Ore- 
gon; Mrs.  Sallie  A.  Hanner,  of  Iowa;  Mrs.  Allie 
Hill,  and  Mrs.  Ellen  Edmundstone,  both  of  whom 
died  in  Iowa;  Mrs.  Emily  Speer,  who  lives  in 
that  state;  Andrew,  a  resident  of  Ringgold,  Iowa; 
Marion;  Newton,  who  is  proprietor  of  the  Armory 
stables  in  Denver;  and  H.  M.,  a  merchant  in 
St.  Louis.  Our  subject  was  born  near  Tipton, 
Iowa,  in  1841,  and  was  reared  on  the  home  farm. 
The  first  school  that  he  attended  was  conducted 
in  a  log  building,  with  none  of  the  appurte- 
nances now  considered  so  necessary  in  teaching. 
After  a  few  years,  however,  a  brick  building  was 
erected,  and  he  was  a  student  in  it  until  his 
schooling  was  completed.  From  an  early  age  he 
was  interested  in  stock-raising,  and  his  farm  con- 
tained many  head  of  fine  animals,  which  he  sold 
in  Tipton  and  neighboring  towns.  In  the  spring 
of  1877  he  came  to  Denver  and  here  carried  on 
the  stock  business  successfully  until  his  death, 
April  3,  1898. 

Politically  Mr.  Fulwider  voted  the  Democratic 
ticket,  but  was  not  active  in  politics.  He  was 
married  in  Iowa  to  Miss  P.  J.  Reeve,  a  native  of 
Ohio,  and  a  daughter  of  Rev.  James  Reeve,  a 
pioneer  minister  of  the  Baptist  Church  in  Iowa. 
They  had  two  sons,  the  elder  of  whom,  Forest  E., 
is  with  the  Denver  &  Rio  Grande  Express  Com- 
pany; and  the  younger,  Harold,  is  a  student  in 
the  manual  training  school. 


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Mr.  Fulwider  will  long  be  remembered  by  his 
friends  and  associates  as  a  man  of  sterling  worth 
of  character,  whose  word  was  his  bond  and  whose 
friendship  was  above  price.  His  many  good 
qualities  of  head  and  heart  endeared  him  to  all 
who  knew  him. 

nOHN  V.  YOUNG,  who  located  in  Denver 
I  in  1887,  was  born  in  Andover,  Allegany 
(2)  County,  N.  Y.,  in  March,  1847,  the  son  of 
D.  K.  and  I,avinia  (Davis)  Young,  natives  re- 
spectively of  Vermont  and  New  York.  His 
father,  who  was  a  cooper  in  Auburn,  N.  Y.,  for 
some  years,  removed  thence  to  Andover  and 
opened  a  cooper  shop,  following  that  business  for 
many  years.  He  died  in  1887,  at  the  age  of 
seventy-eight.  His  wife  is  still  a  resident  of  An- 
dover. They  were  the  parents  of  six  children, 
five  living:  Abbie  J.,  wife  of  John  C.  Nichols, 
of  Andover;  Ebenezer,  who  served  in  the  Eighty- 
fifth  New  York  Infantry  during  the  Civil  war  and 
is  now  living  retired  in  Almond,  N.  Y. ;  Dewert 
E.,  of  Denver;  John  V.;  and  Viola  J.,  wife  of 
Charles  Hand,  of  Andover.  The  youngest  son, 
H.  D.,  died  in  Denver. 

The  first  twenty  years  of  Mr.  Young's  life  were 
passed  upon  the  home  farm.  At  Alfred,  N.  Y., 
in  1867,  he  married  Miss  Victoria  Tucker, 
daughter  of  Gardner  Tucker,  who  was  born  in 
Berkshire  County,  Mass. ,  and  became  a  very  suc- 
cessful farmer  of  Alfred,  N.  Y.,  owning  over  a 
thousand  acres  there.  He  was  of  English  descent. 
His  father,  Gardner  Tucker,  Sr.,  was  born  in 
Rhode  Island  and  settled  upon  a  farm  in  Massa- 
chusetts, but  later  became  a  pioneer  agriculturist 
of  Alfred.  The  mother  of  Mrs.  Young  was 
Martha  Partridge,  who  was  born  in  Berkshire 
County,  Mass.,  in  1810,  the  daughter  of  William 
Partridge,  who  emigrated  from  England  to  Mas- 
sachusetts and  died  soon  afterward.  She  passed 
away  in  1890,  and  her  husband  in  November, 
1885,  at  the  age  of  seventy-four  years.  They 
were  the  parents  of  eight  children,  of  whom  six 
are  living,  Mrs.  Young  being.next  to  the  young- 
est. 

After  his  marriage  Mr.  Young  engaged  in 
farming  near  Alfred,  but  in  1887  he  came  west  to 
Colorado,  where  he  located  a  ranch  in  Washing- 
ton, Morgan  and  Weld  Counties  and  embarked 
extensively  in  the  sheep- raising  business;  also  en- 
gaged in  the  wholesale  meat   business,  mutton 


and  lamb  exclusively.  On  his  ranch  he  raises 
alfalfa  for  feed  and  usually  keeps  twenty  thousand 
head  of  sheep,  the  flock  being  increased  each 
year  by  breeding  and  at  the  same  time  decreased 
by  the  sale  of  sheep  in  the  markets.  He  and  his 
brother  are  practical,  experienced  ranchmen, 
with  a  thorough  knowledge  of  the  sheep  busi- 
ness, and  possessing  the  energy  and  business 
ability  calculated  to  secure  success.  During  the 
time  they  have  resided  in  Colorado  they  have 
gained  a  large  acquaintance  among  the  people  of 
Denver,  as  well  as  among  the  ranchmen  in  the 
state,  and  wherever  known  are  respected  for  their 
intelligence  and  good  judgment. 

While  Mr.  Young  is  not  active  in  politics  he  is 
firm  in  his  opinions  and  adheres  to  the  Repub- 
lican doctrines.  In  religion  he  is  connected  with 
Grace  Methodist  Episcopal  Church.  He  and  his 
wife  are  the  parents  of  five  children,  namely: 
Mrs.  Fannie  Shannon,  whose  husband  is  en- 
gaged in  the  paint  and  wall  paper  business  in 
Denver;  Mrs.  Viola  Cudworth,  of  Silverplume, 
Colo.;  Archie,  Iva  and  Allen. 


pCJlI^LIAM  HUIvT,  who  is  engaged  in  the 
\A/  mercantile  business  at  Salina,  is  a  native 
YV  of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  where  his  father, 
William,  Sr.,  died  in  early  manhood;  his  mother, 
Elizabeth,  is  still  living  and  makes  her  home  in 
Jamestown,  N.  Y.  He  was  one  of  three  chil- 
dren, of  whom  himself  and  Conrad  survive;  the 
latter,  now  a  resident  of  Jamestown,  served  in 
the  Civil  war  under  General  Hancock  and  was 
wounded  upon  several  battlefields.  In  Brooklyn, 
where  he  was  born  in  1856,  our  subject  attended 
grammar  school  No.  15.  In  1871  he  removed 
with  his  mother  to  Jamestown,  where  for  a  time 
he  clerked  for  his  brother,  but  in  1877  came  west 
to  Colorado,  settling  in  Leadville  the  following 
year.  After  two  years  devoted  to  mining  in  that 
town,  he  went  to  Red  Clifi",  where  he  prospected. 
Crossing  the  range  with  a  pack  of  burrows  in 
1880,  Mr.  Hult  located  the  first  claim  and  took 
up  the  first  mill  site  where  Red  Cliff  is  now  lo- 
cated. After  three  years  in  that  location  he  re- 
moved to  the  present  site  of  Aspen,  where  then 
there  were  only  two  log  cabins  and  a  tent.  He 
prospected  through  the  "frying  pan"  country, 
then  went  to  the  mount  of  the  Holy  Cross,  where 
now  is  Brook's  camp,  thence  to  the  Bonanza  at 


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Saugre  de  Cristo  range,  from  there  to  Iveadville, 
where  he  resumed  mining.  In  1886  he  settled 
in  Crisman,  Boulder  County,  where  he  built  a 
store  and  engaged  in  merchandising.  May  3, 
1894,  the  flood  washed  his  store  and  its  contents 
away,  and  he  decided  to  remove  to  Salina.  Here 
he  bought  his  present  building  and  stocked  it 
with  a  choice  grade  of  goods,  since  which  time 
he  has  carried  on  a  general  mercantile  business. 

In  Leadville,  in  1884,  Mr.  Hult  married  Miss 
Kate  Robinson,  a  native  of  County  Clare,  Ire- 
land, whence  she  came  to  Montpelier,  Vt.,  and 
from  there,  in  1883,  to  Colorado.  Her  parents 
both  remained  in  Ireland  until  their  death. 

In  the  local  ranks  of  the  People's  party  Mr. 
Hult  is  an  active  and  influential  worker.  While 
in  Red  Clifl"  he  served  as  deputy  marshal  and  at 
Saugre  de  Cristo  he  held  the  office  of  constable. 
In  1893  he  was  elected  commissioner  of  Boulder 
County  on  the  People's  ticket,  and  served  from 
January,  1894,  to  January,  1897,  being  chairman 
of  the  board  during  the  last  year  of  his  term. 
He  was  elected  to  this  position  as  representative 
of  the  third  district  of  Boulder  County. 

Fraternally  Mr.  Hult  was  made  a  Mason  in  Co- 
lumbia Lodge  No.  14,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  to  which 
he  still  belongs,  as  he  does  also  to  Boulder  Chap- 
ter No.  7,  R.  A.  M.;  Mount  Sinai  Command- 
ery  No.  15,  K.  T.,  and  El  Jebel Temple,  N.  M.  S. 
He  is  also  a  Knight  of  Pythias,  belonging  to  the 
Uniform  Rank,  and  is  first  lieutenant  of  the  Sec- 
ond Regiment.  In  the  Odd  Fellows  he  is  identi- 
fied with  lodge,  encampment  and  canton,  and  is 
also  a  member  of  the  Muscovites  of  Denver.  The 
Woodmen  of  the  World  and  the  Ancient  Order 
of  United  Workmen,  both  of  Boulder,  number 
him  among  their  active  members. 


y yi  RS.  LUCY  J.  (MATHEWSON)  CARLE, 
y  who  resides  three  and  a-half  miles  north- 
0  east  of  Boulder,  was  born  in  the  town  of 
Walworth,  Wayne  County,  N.  Y.  In  her  early 
childhood  she  accompanied  her  parents,  Daniel 
and  Celestia  (Baker)  Mathewson,  to  Chautauqua 
County,  N.  Y.,  where  she  was  reared  and  edu- 
cated. When  seventeen  years  of  age  she  became 
a  school  teacher,  and  this  occupation  she  followed 
for  several  years  in  her  home  county,  after  which 
she  went  to  Minnesota,  and  taught  in  the  village 
of  Nininger  (which  was  named  in  honor  of  the 


then  governor  of  the  state).  In  this  place  she 
made  the  acquaintance  of  J.  H.  Carle,  a  native  of 
Ithaca,  N.  Y.  Two  years  afterward  they  were 
married,  the  ceremony  being  performed  by  Rev. 
J.  H.  Vincent,  D.D.,  LL.  D.,  of  Chautauqua 
and  Sunday-school  fame.  They  started  for  Colo- 
rado April  5,  i860,  and  reached  the  Rocky 
Mountains  on  the  5th  of  June.  After  residing  at 
Blackhawk  during  the  winter,  they  bought  the 
Half  Way  House  on  the  road  between  Boulder 
and  Central  City,  where  they  remained  for  ten 
years.  They  then  moved  to  her  present  home, 
which  is  less  than  four  miles  northeast  of  Boulder. 
Here  Mr.  Carle  died  November  27,  1887,  of 
paralysis,   leaving  his  wife  to  mourn  his  loss. 

Mrs.  Carle  is  of  Scotch  descent.  Her  great- 
great-grandparents,  on  her  father's  side,  migrated 
from  Scotland  in  1602.  There  were  two  brothers 
who  came,  Daniel  and  Artemus,  and  they  settled 
in  Massachusetts,  where  their  descendants  resided 
until  1810.  At  that  time  they  migrated  to  Wal- 
worth, Wayne  County,  N.  Y.  From  early  child- 
hood George  Mathewson  exhibited  remarkable 
talent,  especially  in  scientific  and  mechanical 
pursuits.  On  his  deathbed  he  said  the  only  re- 
gret he  felt  was  that  there  was  no  one  to  step  in 
and  carry  on  his  scientific  work,  the  foundation 
for  which  he  had  laid.  His  son,  Daniel,  seemed 
the  best  fitted  to  be  his  father's  successor.  When 
a  mere  boy  he  began  to  teach  andassist  his  father 
in  surveying.  He  was  diligent  and  improved 
every  spare  moment  by  study.  While  still  quite 
young  he  was  considered  one  of  the  best  mathe- 
maticians in  the  state.  At  the  age  of  twenty- 
four  he  married  Mrs.  Celestia  Baker,  who  re- 
mained his  faithful  helpmate  until  death  parted 
them.     He  passed  away  in  1886  and  .she  in  1890. 

Twelve  children  were  born  to  the  union  of 
Daniel  and  Celestia  Mathewson.  The  eldest, 
Alphonsso,  is  a  business  man  of  Hamlet,  Chautau- 
qua County,  N.  Y. ;  George,  the  second  son,  is  a 
mechanical  artist  and  preacher  at  College  Place, 
Wash. ;  Lillies  C. ,  the  oldest  daughter,  is  a  widow 
and  resides  on  a  farm  near  Park  City,  Mont.; 
Lucy  J.,  Mrs.  J.  H.  Carle,  was  the  .second 
daughter;  Artemisia,  the  third  daughter,  married 
G.  B.  Poor,  of  Boulder;  Mary  A.,  the  fourth 
daughter,  is  married  and  lives  in  Fredonia, 
Chautauqua  County,  N.  Y.;  A.  J.,  the  third  son, 
is  a  mechanic  and  farmer  near  Boulder;  Daniel, 
the  fourth  son,  came  to  Colorado  in  1864  and   re- 


p.  H.  BALFE. 


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sided  here  for  twenty-four  years.  He  married 
Miss  Belle  Montgomery,  and  they  had  four 
daughters,  the  eldest  of  whom  died  in  infancy. 
Two  of  the  daughters  are  now  residents  of  Colo- 
rado. The  eldest  of  these,  Mrs.  Lillian  French, 
went  to  Forestville,  Chautauqua  County, N.  Y., 
at  the  age  of  sixteen  and  there  fitted  herself  for  a 
teacher  and  taught  several  terms,  when  a  young 
man  who  had  been  in  the  habit  of  carrying  her 
dinner  basket  for  her  thought  it  would  be  better, 
for  their  mutual  welfare,  if  they  were  united. 
Accordingly  he  went  to  New  York  for  her  and  she 
returned  with  him  to  the  beautiful  Rocky  Moun- 
tain region;  they  now  reside  at  Hayden,  Routt 
County,  Colo.  Maud,  a  younger  sister  of  Mrs. 
French,  married  John  Gri.swold,  of  Forestville, 
N.  Y. ;  and  the  youngest  sister,  Louie,  lives  in 
Boulder  County,  Colo. 

The  fifth  daughter  of  Daniel  Mathewson  was 
Sally  A.,  who  married  Gordon  Putnam,  who  is 
engaged  in  the  fruit  raising  business  at  Brocton, 
Chautauqua,  N.  Y.  Elijah  Mathewson,  a  farmer, 
lives  near  Fredonia,  N.  Y.;  Ransom  A.  Mathew- 
son, the  youngest  of  the  sons,  is  a  teacher,  sur- 
veyor and  experienced  cheesemaker,  at  Sinclair- 
ville,  N.  Y.;  he  is  married  and  has  one  son. 
Celestia,  the  sixth  daughter  and  youngest  child 
of  Daniel  Mathewson  and  the  namesake  of  his 
wife,  died  in  infancy. 


r\ATRICK  HENRY  BALFE  came  to  Denver 
LX  in  1879  and  eight  years  later  embarked  in 
fS  the  plumbing  business,  opening  a  shop  at 
No.  515  Sixteenth  street,  the  present  site  of  the 
Kittredge  building.  While  carrying  on  business 
there  he  erected  three  stores  at  Nos.  1540-48 
Stout  street,  and  in  1890  removed  his  headquar- 
ters to  No.  1540,  where  he  has  his  office,  show 
i-oom  and  shop.  He  has  been  given  contracts  for 
plumbing,  gas-fitting  and  sewerage  in  many  of 
the  most  substantial  public  buildings  and  private 
homes  of  the  city,  among  them  being  the  resi- 
dences of  C.  B.  Kountze,  D.  Sheedy,  William  B. 
Berger,  Dr.  Blickensderfer,'  John  F.  Campion, 
C.  S.  Morey,  Dr.  F.  J.  Bancroft,  J.  V.  Dexter, 
T.  S.  Hayden,  D.  G.  Miller,  A.  B.  Daniels, 
William  H.  James  and  Edward  Raymond;  Colo- 
rado National  Bank,  Denver  Dry  Goods  Com- 
pany building,  Steele  block  and  Hughes  block. 
Reference  to  the  Balfe  family  history  is  made 


in  the  sketch  of  L.  H.  Balfe,  presented  on  another 
page.  Patrick  Henry  was  the  oldest  son  and  the 
fourth  child  in  a  family  of  eleven  children.  He 
was  born  in  Courtown  Harbor,  County  Wexford, 
Ireland,  September  21,  1853.  When  a  lad  he 
went  to  sea  in  the  coasting  and  fishing  trade,  and 
at  the  age  of  fifteen,  in  1868,  removed  to  Dublin, 
where  he  spent  two  years.  In  1872  he  came  to 
America  via  Dublin  to  New  York  on  the  steamer 
"Egypt,"  and  at  once  began  an  apprenticeship 
to  the  plumber's  trade  with  Dougherty  &  Cain, 
whose  shop  was  located  on  the  present  site  of  the 
Spring  Garden  Bank,  Philadelphia.  After  two 
and  one-half  years  he  started  in  business  for  him- 
self, opening  a  shop  at  Eighteenth  and  Oxford 
streets,  Philadelphia,  and  meeting  with  such  suc- 
cess that  he  later  opened  another  shop  at  Junipar 
and  Arch  street. 

In  1879,  having  decided  to  go  to  Australia, 
Mr.  Balfe  traveled  via  railroad  across  the  United 
States,  and,  viewing  the  country  as  he  traveled, 
he  was  so  pleased  with  the  prospects  that  he  de- 
cided to  stop  at  Denver  and  investigate  the  oppor- 
tunities here.  This  he  did,  the  result  being  that 
he  decided  to  locate  here.  He  at  once  secured 
employment,  working  for  a  time  on  the  Windsor 
Hotel,  later  as  foreman  for  what  is  now  the  firm 
of  Johnson  &  Davis,  and  in  1880  taking  charge 
of  the  work  at  Idaho  Springs.  On  his  return  to 
Denver  he  entered  the  employ  of  Holme  &  White, 
for  whom  afterward  he  became  foreman,  in  full 
charge  of  the  business,  at  a  salary  of  $5  per  day. 
His  next  venture  was  for  himself,  and  the  results 
have  been  such  as  to  prove  his  capability  as  a 
business  man  as  well  as  his  efficiency  in  his  trade. 
Besides  the  management  of  his  business  he  is  in- 
terested in  mining  and  real  estate,  and  has  built 
five  stores  and  five  houses.  For  some  three  years 
he  had  a  wholesale  plumbing  supply  house  in 
Ogden,  Utah,  during  the  days  of  the  "boom" 
there,  and  he  still  owns  real  estate  in  that  city. 
He  has  had  contracts  in  Colorado  Springs,  Man- 
itou,  Palmer  Lake  and  Twin  Lakes,  and  in  every 
place  his  work  has  given  satisfaction. 

In  Denver  Mr.  Balfe  married  Miss  Elizabeth 
F.  Langan,  who  was  born  in  St.  Louis.  They 
are  the  parents  of  five  children  now  living: 
Thomas  F.,  Edward  J.,  Patrick  Henry,  Jr., 
Nora  L.  and  Elizabeth  M.  In  national  politics 
Mr.  Balfe  is  a  silver  Republican.  He  has  been 
active  in  his  party,  which  he  has  represented  as 


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delegate  in  county,  city  and  state  conventions 
and  on  local  committees.  Not  only  has  he  trav- 
eled all  over  this  country,  but  he  has  also  made 
three  trips  to  Europe.  In  the  fall  of  1884  he 
crossed  the  ocean,  spending  five  months  abroad; 
again  in  1891  and  1896  he  visited  Europe.  He 
is  interested  in  the  Capitol  Building  and  Loan 
Association  of  Denver.  Fond  of  athletic  sports, 
he  is  an  active  member  of  the  Denver  Wheel 
Club  and  was  the  first  to  compete  against  the 
Denver  Athletic  Club,  in  which  competition  he 
won  medals.  He  is  connected  with  the  Knights 
of  St.  John,  the  Woodmen  of  the  World  and  the 
Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen.  During 
1881-82  he  was  master  workman  of  the  Knights 
of  Labor  for  Colorado,  and  at  this  writing  he  is  a 
member  of  the  executive  committee  of  the  Master 
Plumbers'  Association.  Since  becoming  a  con- 
tractor he  has  always  employed  union  men  and 
paid  the  regular  scale  of  wages,  his  honest  and 
honorable  manner  of  treating  his  employes  hav- 
ing won  for  him  their  regard  and  confidence, 
while  at  the  same  time  the  skill  and  dispatch 
with  which  he  has  filled  his  contracts  have  made 
him  popular  among  the  people  with  whom  he  has 
done  business.  He  has  recently  returned  (1898) 
from  an  extended  trip  through  Old  Mexico  and 
the  south,  and  moved  to  his  new  home  which  he 
purchased  at  No.  2337  Grant  avenue. 


SEORGE  W.  DATZEL,  foreman  of  the  South 
Broadway  machine  and  blacksmith  shops  of 
the  Denver  Consolidated  Tramway  Com- 
pany, was  born  in  Warren,  Ohio,  August  16, 
1862,  and  is  the  son  of  Peter  and  Pauline  (Bear) 
Datzel,  natives  of  Germany.  His  father,  who 
came  to  America  in  early  manhood,  followed  the 
trade  of  a  carriage  blacksmith  for  a  time,  and 
later  established  a  carriage  and  wagon  shop  in 
Warren,  Ohio,  continuing  the  management  of  the 
same  until  his  death.  His  widow  still  makes  her 
home  in  Warren.  Of  their  ten  children  six  are 
living,  George  being  next  to  the  youngest  of  the 
family  and  the  only  one  in  Colorado. 

The  education  of  our  subject  was  limited  to  a 
few  years'  attendance  upon  the  public  schools  of 
Warren.  In  1878  he  went  to  Cleveland,  where 
he  was  apprenticed  as  a  paper-hanger,, but  the 
occupation  was  not  congenial,  and  as  soon  as  an 
opportunity  came  he  made  a  change.      For  three 


years  he  was  an  apprentice  in  the  Vulcan  Iron 
Works,  and  at  the  expiration  of  his  time  he  went 
to  Willoughby,  where  he  worked  as  a  machinist 
for  three  months.  His  next  location  was  in 
Wellsville,  Ohio,  where  he  was  employed  in  the 
Cleveland  and  Pittsburg  shops  as  a  machinist  for 
five  years. 

Coming  to  Colorado  in  April,  1887,  Mr.  Datzel 
was  employed  as  a  machinist  in  the  Colorado 
Iron  Works,  but  after  nine  mouths  resigned  his 
position  and  entered  the  printing  business  with  a 
brother-in-law,  T.  A.  Macklind,  under  the  firm 
name  of  Macklind  &  Datzel.  They  opened  a  job 
office  in  the  Titus  block  on  South  Eleventh 
street,  but  after  five  months  the  business,  though 
profitable,  not  proving  congenial,  the  partnership 
was  dissolved  and  he  resumed  work  as  a  machin- 
ist. In  1889  he  accepted  a  position  as  machinist 
in  the  tramway  cable  shop  on  Colfax  avenue  and 
Broadway,  and  two  years  later,  on  the  comple- 
tion of  the  South  Broadway  shop,  he  was  trans- 
ferred to  it.  For  a  time  he  was  night  foreman, 
but  since  August  of  1894  he  has  been  general 
foreman  of  the  machine  and  blacksmith  shops. 
In  addition  to  his  daily  duties  he  has  made  a 
number  of  inventions,  among  them  a  wrecking 
truck  for  the  transportation  of  cars  with  broken 
axles,  a  most  useful  contrivance,  only  six  inches 
high,  which  ^oes  away  with  the  necessity  of  re- 
moving the  car  from  the  track.  Mr.  Datzel  was 
married  August  17,  1886,  to  Miss  Florence  E. 
Macklind.  This  union  was  blessed  with  one 
child,  Florence  Cecil.  Fraternally  Mr.  Datzel  is 
connected  with  Colorado  Lodge  No.  i,  K.  of  P., 
and  Silver  State  Camp  No.  19,  Woodmen  of  the 
World. 


IOELSON  K.  SMITH,  who  died  December 
rV  26,  1894,  at  his  home  in  Boulder,  was  one  of 
1/9  the  honored  pioneers  of  Colorado,  and  for 
eighteen  years  was  a  resident  of  the  county-seat 
of  Boulder  County.  He  was  very  active  and 
aggressive  in  the  organization  of  the  county  and 
state  and  was  thoroughly  respected  and  admired 
by  his  associates  and  acquaintances.  From  the 
time  that  the  Republican  party  was  formed  until 
his  death  he  was  an  ardent  and  fearless  defender 
of  its  principles.  For  two  terms  he  served  as 
county  commissioner  of  Gilpin  County,  and  in 
1875  was  maj'or  of  Blackhawk,  resigning  the 
following   year  on   account  of   his  removal  to 


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Boulder.  From  1866  to  1869  he  was  assessor  at 
Blackhawk  and  for  years  he  was  a  director  in 
the  National  State  Bank  of  Boulder. 

The  birth  of  N.  K.  Smith  occurred  September 
16,  1810,  in  Genesee  County,  N.  Y.,  he  being 
the  sixth  in  a  family  of  eleven  children  born  to 
Amos  Smith  and  wife,  who  before  their  marriage 
was  Sarah  Purdy.  Both  were  natives  of  New 
York  state  and  of  old  eastern  families.  N.  K. 
Smith  lived  in  the  Genesee  Valley  until  he  was 
sixteen  years  of  age,  when  he  went  to  Sandusky, 
Ohio,  and  there  his  father  died.  About  1833 
Nelson  K.  Smith  settled  in  Cortland  County,  N.  Y. , 
and  during  his  residence  in  that  region  he  was 
married  to  the  lady  who  faithfully  shared  his 
joys  and  sorrows  until  death  separated  them. 
In  1835  they  went  to  La  Porte  County,  Ind.,  and 
thence  to  Waukesha  County,  Wis. ,  in  1837.  Mr. 
Smith  took  up  some  government  land  near 
Vernon,  and  improved  the  property.  For  the 
first  six  weeks  of  their  stay  in  that  district,  Mrs. 
Smith  was  the  only  white  woman  in  the  county, 
as  far  as  was  known.  In  1850  our  subject  started 
overland  for  California,  with  ox-teams,  and  at 
the  end  of  three  years  returned,  by  the  Nicaragua 
route.  He  had  been  occupied  in  mining  and 
desired  to  go  back  to  the  Pacific  coast,  provided 
his  family  could  accompany  him. 

In  1854  Mr.  Smith  and  his  dear  ones  set  out  on 
their  long  journey  across  the  plains,  but,  owing 
to  the  Indian  troubles  and  the  Mormon  scare, 
the  little  party  abandoned  their  first  plans  and 
took  up  their  residence  in  Carroll  County,  Iowa, 
for  a  few  months.  Finding  that  there  was  little 
hope  of  their  being  able  to  safely  cross  the  great 
western  plains  and  mountains  for  years  to  come 
they  returned  to  Baraboo,  Wis. ,  where  Mr.  Smith 
carried  on  a  store  up  to  i860.  Then,  once  more, 
the  family  started  for  the  west,  this  time  with  the 
intention  of  stopping  in  Colorado,  and  the  plan 
was  carried  out.  In  Blackhawk,  Mr.  Smith 
engaged  in  mining  for  a  short  time  and  kept  a 
tavern  at  Smith's  Hill,  between  Golden  and 
Blackhawk.  He  was  connected  with  the  build- 
ing of  the  toll  road  along  Clear  Creek  to  Black- 
hawk, in  1863,  in  company  with  his  brother  and 
W.  A.  H.  Loveland.  In  1870  he  constructed 
the  water-supply  system  of  Blackhawk,  the 
pipes  being  of  hollowed  logs  and  the  water  being 
brought  from  Dory  Hill.  In  his  pioneer  days 
here  he  was  also  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of 


lumber  and  in  various  other  enterprises.  In  1876 
he  moved  into  his  comfortable  residence  at  the 
corner  of  Thirteenth  and  Hill  streets,  Boulder, 
he  having  just  completed  the  building  of  the 
house.  He  was  a  devoted  member  of  the  Baptist 
Church,  and  nobly  followed  the  teachings  of  the 
Golden  Rule  in  all  his  intercourse  with  his  fellow- 
men. 

In  1832  Nelson  K.  Smith  married  Miss  Helen 
M.  Campbell,  a  native  of  Cortland  County,  N.  Y., 
and  a  daughter  of  Benjamin  S.  and  Sarah  (Kies) 
Campbell.  The  father  was  born  in  New  Hamp- 
shire and  in  the  early  '30s  moved  to  Cortland 
Count}',  N.  Y.,  where  he  engaged  in  farming 
and  served  as  sheriff.  He  lived  to  the  ripe  age 
of  seventy-two  years,  and  his  wife  also  departed 
this  life  at  that  age.  Both  she  and  her  father, 
John  Kies,  were  from  Connecticut.  The  mater- 
nal grandfather  of  B.  S.  Campbell,  Hugh  Argyle, 
was  born  in  Scotland,  and  was  related  to  the 
famous  Argyle  family  there.  Mrs.  Smith,  who  is 
now  in  her  eighty-sixth  year,  is  the  only  survivor 
of  a  family  that  originally  numbered  eleven  chil- 
dren. 

The  marriage  of  N.  K.  Smith  and  wife  was 
blessed  by  the  birth  of  seven  children,  namely: 
S.  Emma,  widow  of  Captain  Tyler  (see  his 
biography  printed  upon  another  page  of  this 
work);  Lucian  K.,  a  resident  of  Aspen,  Colo.; 
Francelia,  Mrs.  J.  P.  Maxwell,  of  Boulder; 
Medora,  wife  of  Maj.  D.  D.  Leach,  an  attorney 
of  Oklahoma;  Rodolphus,  whose  home  is  in 
Weld  County,  Colo. ;  Jennie,  widow  of  Dr.  G.  A. 
Clark;  and  Nina,  Mrs.  E.  J.  Temple,  of  Boulder. 
Mrs.  Clark  also  dwells  in  this  city.  Her  husband, 
after  his  graduation  from  Rush  Medical  College, 
of  Chicago,  practiced  in  Madison  and  Indianapo- 
lis and  in  1874  came  to  Colorado.  For  a  year  he 
was  occupied  in  professional  work  in  Black- 
hawk, and  from  1875  until  his  death,  in  1880, 
lived  in  Boulder. 

For  a  lady  who  is  eighty-five  years  of  age,  Mrs. 
Helen  Smith  is  remarkably  well  preserved;  and 
she  knits  beautiful  lace  without  the  aid  of  glasses. 
At  the  time  of  the  World's  Columbian  Exposition 
in  1893,  some  of  her  knitted  lace  was  placed  on 
exhibition  in  the  Colorado  exhibit.  A  portion 
of  this,  an  infant's  dress,  and  ten  yards  of  three- 
inch  wide  lace,  was  so  beautiful  and  truly  artistic 
and  like  a  delicate  cobweb,  that  the  authorities, 
of  their  own  accord,  removed  the  exhibit  to  the 


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Manufactures  Building,  to  compete  with  the  lace 
of  the  world.  The  result  was,  that  the  premium 
medal  and  diploma  was  awarded  to  Mrs.  Smith. 
She  uses  very  fine  thread  in  much  of  her  work, 
some  of  it  ranging  from  No.  130  to  140  and  150. 
She  estimates  that  she  has  knitted  over  six  hun- 
dred yards  of  lace,  altogether.  Since  she  was 
sixteen  years  old  she  has  been  a  devoted  member 
of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church. 


(t)6)lLI.IAM  H.  GARDNER,  who  owns  and 
\  A  /  occupies  one  of  the  handsome  suburban 
Y  Y  homes  of  Boulder,  was  born  in  Buffalo, 
N.  Y.,  October  24,  1849,  ^  son  of  Thomas  and 
Mary  E.  (McNaughton)  Gardner.  He  was  one 
of  eight  children,  five  of  whom  are  living, 
namely:  William  H.;  John,  a  farmer  living  in 
Dent  County,  Mo. ;  Lucy,  wife  of  Otto  Kindred, 
also  of  Dent  County,  Mo.;  Charles,  who  is  en- 
gaged in  mining  in  Old  Mexico;  and  Samuel,  a 
roll  turner  in  the  Illinois  Steel  Company's  works 
at  South  Chicago,  111. 

A  native  of  London,  England,  Thomas  Gard- 
ner was  born  in  1820.  His  parents  dying  when 
he  was  a  child,  he  was  taken  into  the  home  of 
his  grandparents.  At  twelve  years  of  age  he 
shipped  on  board  a  vessel  as  cabin  boy,  and  for 
twenty  years  followed  the  sea.  During  this  time 
he  was  a  member  of  two  whaling  expeditions. 
He  applied  himself  to  his  calling,  and  by  succes- 
sive promotions  was  made  first  mate.  About 
1846  he  settled  in  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  where  he  fol- 
lowed carpentering.  In  1865  he  migrated  to 
Springfield,  111.,  and  followed  the  carpenter's 
trade  some  three  years.  Thence  he  went  to 
Decatur,  where  he  was  employed  as  pattern- 
maker in  a  rolling  mill.  He  spent  a  short  time 
in  Kansas  City,  and  then  removed  to  Chicago,  in 
.  both  of  which  places  he  was  employed  at  pattern 
making.  He  died  in  South  Chicago,  March  i, 
1898.  While  his  education  was  limited,  he  was 
a  great  reader  and  few  men  had  a  broader  fund 
of  information  at  their  command  than  did  he.  In 
public  affairs  he  took  the  interest  of  a  progressive 
and  patriotic  citizen. 

In  his  fifteenth  year,  in  February,  1864,  the  sub- 
ject of  this  sketch  left  home  and  enlisted  in  an 
independent  company  at  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  that  was 
attached  to  the  Twenty-seventh  New  York  Light 
Artillery.     Two  weeks    later    he  was    sent  to 


Washington,  D.  C,  where  the  company  remained 
nearly  five  weeks.  From  there  he  was  sent  to 
the  front,  and  after  a  few  days  took  part  in  the 
battles  of  the  Wilderness.  His  next  engagement 
was  at  Spottsylvania  Court  House,  after  which 
there  were  many  skirmishes  and  minor  engage- 
ments; then  came  the  great  battle  of  Cold  Har- 
bor and  the  subsequent  forced  march  to  Peters- 
burgh,  where  he  took  part  in  an  important 
engagement  June  17,  1864.  Later  he  partici- 
pated in  the  Fort  Fisher  battle,  the  Weldon 
Railroad  engagement  and  many  skirmishes.  His 
last  important  battle  was  at  Petersburg,  April  2, 
1865,  where  he  received  a  flesh  wound  in  the 
right  arm.  Orders  were  received  to  dispatch  the 
regiment  to  Alexandria,  and  from  there  he  went 
to  Washington  to  take  part  in  the  grand  review. 
He  was  mustered  out  of  the  service  at  Buffalo  in 
July,  1865. 

After  his  discharge  Mr.  Gardner  went  to 
Springfield,  111.,  and  there  remained  until  the 
spring  of  1866,  when  he  started  across  the  plains 
for  Denver.  An  uncle  who  had  charge  of  the 
Wells  Fargo  &  Company's  interests  at  Denver  h&d 
written  him  to  come  to  Colorado  and  take  up  land 
near  Denver.  On  reaching  Leavenworth  he 
found  the  government  was  forming  a  train  for 
New  Mexico,  and  he  joined  the  expedition  as  a 
driver,  going  through  to  Fort  Union  and  Albu- 
querque, and  from  there  to  Fort  Bliss,  Tex., 
where  he  remained  about  one  year,  driving  an 
ambulance  in  the  government  service.  From 
there  he  went  to  Forts  Riley,  Harker  and  Hayes. 
In  the  winter  of  1869  he  drove  a  team,  hauling 
supplies  from  Fort  Dodge  to  Camp  Supply,  and 
during  the  entire  winter  did  not  sleep  indoors  a 
single  night. 

After  a  short  visit  to  his  parents  in  Decatur, 
111.,  in  the  spring  of  1870,  Mr.  Gardner  again 
started  for  Colorado.  The  fall  of  the  year  found 
him  in  Greeley,  and  then  he  went  to  work  at  log- 
ging on  the  Cache  La  Poudre  River,  sixty  miles 
west  of  Fort  Collins.  In  the  spring  he  secured 
employment  in  a  sawmill.  After  some  eighteen 
months  he  embarked  with  his  father-in-law  in  the 
business  of  tanning  buffalo  hides,  and  continued 
in  that  occupation  for  three  years,  when  he  sold 
his  interest.  Going  to  Sunshine,  Colo.,  he  en- 
gaged in  mining  and  at  the  same  time  accumu- 
lated a  number  of  cattle.  In  1886  he  drove  his 
cattle  to  Badger,  Wyo.,  where  he  took  up  a  cattle 


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ranch,  and  for  three  years  devoted  his  time  to  his 
cattle  interests.  In  1889  he  left  the  management 
of  the  business  with  his  partner  and  removed  to 
Ward,  where  he  became  proprietor  of  a  hotel.  In 
the  fall  of  1895  he  sold  his  Wyoming  cattle  ranch 
to  his  partner,  disposed  of  his  cattle  interests  and 
of  his  hotel  property  in  Ward  and  removed  to 
Boulder,  where  he  purchased  twenty  acres.  This 
land  he  has  improved,  largely  increasing  its  value 
by  the  improvements  he  has  made. 

In  Greeley,  November  19,  1874,  Mr.  Gardner 
married  Miss  Eliza  A.  Hartley,  daughter  of  John 
Hartley,  a  general  merchant  of  Ward,  a  sketch 
of  whom  appears  elsewhere  in  this  work.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Gardner  have  two  children.  Their  son, 
Arthur  C,  is  looking  after  his  father's  interests 
in  the  Old  Mexico  mines  at  Sonora.  The  daugh- 
ter, Ivy  M. ,  is  with  her  parents.  The  interest 
in  the  Mexico  mine  was  purchased  January  i, 
1898,  when  Mr.  Gardner  became  a  member  of  the 
Bertha  Mining  and  Milling  Company.  Frater- 
nally he  is  identified  with  the  Knights  of  Pythias 
and  is  also  a  member  of  the  Home  Forum.  Po- 
litically he  has  always  been  a  Democrat.  Mrs. 
Gardner  is  a  member  of  the  Congregational 
Church. 

r~  RANK  L.  BOLTON  owns  and  occupies  one 
r^  of  the  valuable  farms  of  Boulder  County, 
I  '  consisting  of  one  hundred  and  twenty  acres 
one  mile  northwest  of  Ni  Wot.  He  was  born  in 
Cleveland,  Ohio,  March  11,  1842,  asonof  Labon 
and  Loraine  (Ingersoll)  Bolton,  being  their  old- 
est child  and  the  only  survivor  of  three  children. 
His  father,  a  native  of  Pennsylvania,  born  in 
18 1 8,  accompanied  his  parents  to  Ohio  in  boy- 
hood and  settled  in  Paris,  Portage  County,  where 
he  grew  to  manhood  and  married.  Shortly  after- 
ward he  removed  to  Cleveland,  where  he  con- 
tinued to  reside  until  his  death.  Some  years 
after  he  settled  in  Cleveland,  his  father  removed 
to  Wisconsin.  The  maternal  grandfather  of  our 
subject,  L.  W.  Ingersoll,  was  a  farmer  near 
Cleveland,  Ohio,  until  late  in  life,  when  he  re- 
tired and  removed  to  Cleveland,  spending  his  last 
years  in  that  city. 

In  early  boyhood  our  subject  had  good  educa- 
tional advantages.  When  he  was  thirteen  years 
of  age  his  father  died  and  the  support  of  the 
family  devolved  largely  upon  him.  At  nineteen 
years  of  age  he  went  to  Michigan  to  begin  life  for 


himself,  and  for  one  summer  worked  on  a  farm 
near  Grand  Rapids.  November  2,  1861,  he  en- 
listed in  Company  B,  Second  Michigan  Cavalry, 
and  was  sent  to  Fort  Benton  at  St.  Louis,  where 
the  troops  were  drilled.  Shortly  afterward  he  was 
sent  to  the  front,  where  he  served  in  Pope's 
division  at  Madrid,  and  later  was  in  Cook's 
cavalry  division.  Among  the  first  engagements 
in  which  he  took  part  were  the  siege  of  Corinth, 
the  battle  of  Perryville  and  almost  continuous 
skirmishes.  He  arrived  at  Murfreesboro  too  late 
to  participate  in  the  battle.  With  his  regiment 
he  took  part  in  skirmishes  through  Tennessee, 
and  participated  in  the  battle  of  Chickamauga. 
From  there  he  went  to  East  Tennessee  to  relieve 
General  Burnside,  and  during  the  winter  skir- 
mished almost  every  day.  On  the  expiration  of 
the  term,  the  regiment  re-enlisted  and  went  home 
on  a  thirty  days'  furlough,  returning  to  Middle 
Tennessee  at  the  expiration  of  the  furloughs. 
There  he  remained  until  Hood  came  north,  when 
he  took  part  in  the  battle  of  Franklin  and  gradu- 
ally fell  back  to  Nashville,  fighting  an  important 
battle  in  that  city.  From  there  the  regiment 
pursued  Hood  to  the  Tennessee  River,  and  in  the 
spring  of  1865  crossed  the  river  with  General 
Stanley's  cavalry  command  and  with  General 
Croxton's  brigade,  which  was  detached  from  the 
command.  Going  to  Tuscaloosa,  Ala.,  the 
Federals  captured  the  town,  burned  the  Confed- 
erate stores  and  started  for  Selma  to  join  the 
command,  but  being  cut  ofi"from  the  main  route, 
they  came  out  at  Macon,  Ga.,  joining  the  main 
command  there.  In  that  city  Mr.  Bolton  was 
honorably  discharged  Augitst  19,  1865. 

From  the  south  Mr.  Bolton  returned  to  Mich- 
igan. Shortly  afterward  he  was  united  in  mar- 
riage with  Miss  Almira  Strock,  of  Newton  Fajls, 
Ohio.  He  settled  in  Buchanam,  Mich.,  and  en- 
gaged in  farming,  remaining  in  that  place  until 
February,  1879,  when  he  came  to  Colorado, 
arriving  in  Boulder  on  the  evening  of  February 
21  of  that  year.  He  went  to  the  mountains  and 
settled  near  Rockville,  on  Left  Hand  Creek, 
where  he  remained  for  two  and  one-half  years. 
During  that  time  he  engaged  in  any  work  by 
which  he  could  earn  an  honest  livelihood.  In 
1 88 1  he  sold  his  property  and  returned  to  Boulder, 
taking  a  mail  contract  from  that  place  to  Ward 
for  a  period  of  fourteen  months.  At  the  ex- 
piration of  his  contract  he  engaged  in  teaming 


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in  the  mountains.  In  the  spring  of  1883  he  rented 
a  herd  of  cattle  and  moved  to  North  Park,  where 
he  spent  four  years  prosperously  engaged  in  the 
cattle  business.  After  four  years  he  sold  his  in- 
terests there  and  came  to  Boulder  Valley,  settling 
near  Altona,  where  he  had  acquired  two  hundred 
acres.  In  1895  he  sold  that  farm  and  moved  to 
his  present  place.  In  addition  to  his  farming  in- 
terests, since  1889  he  has  served  as  secretary  of 
the  Left  Hand  Ditch  Company.  Politically  he 
is  a  Republican  and  a  stanch  supporter  of  his 
party. 

Three  children  were  born  to  the  union  of  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Bolton,  but  the  two  eldest,  Thomas 
and  Madge,  are  deceased.  The  only  surviving 
child  is  Otis  Clyde,  born  August  7,  1879,  and 
now  with  his  parents. 


HON.  CLINTON  MONROE  TYLER,  de- 
ceased, was  one  of  the  foremost  citizens  of 
Boulder  County,  and  to  him  is  due  much 
credit  for  the  prosperity  which  it  now  enjoys,  as 
he  was  one  of  those  brave  and  sturdy  patriots 
who,  unsparing  of  themselves,  placed  the  county 
on  a  sure  and  lasting  basis  of  civilization,  law 
and  good  government.  His  business  interests 
were  as  varied  as  they  were  extensive  and  at  his 
death  his  estate  was  estimated  to  include  over 
thirteen  thousand  acres  of  land,  situated  in  six  or 
seven  counties  of  Colorado.  In  1864  he  recruited 
a  company  of  one-hundred-day  men  and  was 
commissioned  their  captain  by  Governor  Evans. 
They  were  a  part  of  the  Third  Colorado  Regiment 
of  Cavalry,  which  put  down  the  Indians  who 
were  making  trouble  for  the  pioneers,  on  account 
of  the  absence  of  the  regulars  at  the  front  in  the 
Civil  war.  Captain  Tyler  furnished  many  of  the 
horses  ridden  by  the  men  of  his  company,  and  in 
other  material  ways  aided  in  effectually  driving 
the  red-skins  from  this  beautiful  valley. 

Captain  Tyler,  as  he  was  generally  styled, 
came  from  patriotic  stock,  his  grandfather  Tyler 
having  fought  in  the  war  of  the  Revolution  and 
lost  his  life  at  Black  Rock,  and  another  of  his  an- 
cestors, on  the  maternal  side,  having  been  one 
of  the  Americans  who  captured  Maj.  John  Andre 
as  he  was  returning  to  the  British  lines  after  his 
conference  with  the  traitor,  Benedict  Arnold. 
The  captain's  parents  were  George  W.  and  Lo- 
doiski  Tyler,  natives  of  Vermont  and  Susque- 


hanna, Pa. ,  respectively.  The  mother,  who  was 
born  about  i8o8,  removed  with  her  parents, 
Luther  and  Margaret  (Halstead)  Norton,  to  Li- 
vonia, N.  Y.,  in  her  girlhood,  and  was  married 
there  to  Mr.  Tyler  in  1829.  Subsequently  the 
couple  went  to  Rush,  Monroe  County,  N.  Y., 
and  in  1844  emigrated  to  Pulaski  Township, 
Jackson  Countj',  Mich.,  then  a  wilderness.  The 
trip,  which  can  now  easily  be  made  in  thirteen 
hours,  took  thirteen  days  at  that  time.  Mr.  Ty- 
ler improved  a  farm  and  died  in  1859,  leaving  ten 
children.  The  mother  reared  the  family  to  be 
good  and  useful  citizens,  and  was  summoned  to 
her  reward  June  14,  1870. 

The  birth  of  Captain  Tyler  took  place  in  Living- 
ston County,  N.  Y.,  January  16,  1834,  and  when 
he  was  a  lad  often  years  he  accompanied  his  family 
to  Michigan.  He  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools,  in  Michigan  Central  College,  and  later 
attended  Oberlin  College  until  his  health  forced 
him  to  desist  from  study.  April  4,  1856,  he  grad- 
uated from  Gregory's  Commercial  College  in  De- 
troit, and  soon  afterwards  he  went  to  Illinois  and 
Wisconsin.  Locating  in  Baraboo,  Wis.,  he  en- 
gaged in  the  hardware  business  in  company  with 
N.  K.  Smith,  whose  daughter  be  married.  In 
February,  i860,  with'  his  wife  and  little  child, 
Mr.  Smith  and  his  family,  he  set  out  for  Colorado. 
The  party  had  seven  wagons,  drawn  by  oxen  and 
horses,  and  seven  weeks  were  passed  in  crossing 
the  plains.  They  rested  every  Sunday,  and  with 
a  cast-iron  stove,  which  they  had  brought  with 
them,  baked  what  food  they  desired.  They  also 
had  a  six-stamp  mill  among  their  merchandise,  and 
this  was  put  up  and  operated  after  their  arrival  at 
Blackhawk. 

In  the  following  spring  Mr.  Tyler  was  obliged 
to  return  east  for  provisions,  etc. ,  and  brought 
back  a  sawmill,  which  he  managed  in  partner- 
ship with  Mr.  Smith.  Three  j-ears  later,  he  and 
J.  P.  Maxwell  erected  a  sawmill  on  South  Boul- 
der Creek,  below  Rollinsville,  and  operated  this 
until  1867.  In  the  meantime  he  and  N.  K.  and 
E.  B.  Smith  built  the  Central  City  toll  wagon- 
road,  which  was  in  use  until  the  railroad  was  put 
through.  He  also  (in  company  with  N.  K. 
Smith)  made  the  Boulder  Valley  wagon  road  and 
controlled  the  same  until  the  Union  Pacific  bought 
it.  Gradually  his  possessions  accumulated,  by 
his  judicious  investments,  and  he  was  very  suc- 
cessful as  a  raiser  of  live  stock.     He  owned  land 


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in  Boulder,  Weld,  Larimer,  Arapahoe,  Logan, 
Morgan,  Jefferson  and  Gilpin  Counties,  as  well  as 
some  in  Wyoming.  The  town  of  Merino,  Logan 
County,  was  named  for  his  enterprise  in  bringing 
the  first  fine  Merino  sheep  here  in  1876.  He 
raised  Hereford  cattle  and  Percheron  horses,  in 
addition  to  the  common  stock,  and  for  years  was 
the  most  extensive  raiser  of  mules  in  the  west. 
In  1874  he  bought  Judge  Decker's  ranch  near 
Boulder,  it  then  being  chiefly  wild  land.  He  in- 
dustriously improved  the  property,  made  Tyler's 
Lake,  and  within  a  few  years  had  so  entirely 
transformed  the  property  that  no  one  would  have 
known  it  for  the  same. 

Mr.  Tyler  was  a  strong  Republican  from 
the  time  that  the  party  was  organized  until  his 
death.  He  was  a  member  of  the  first  city  gov- 
ernment of  Blackhawk  and  was  elected  to  the 
territorial  legislature  from  Gilpin  County  by  a 
larger  majority  than  any  candidate  before  or 
since  ever  received.  Having  been  elected  regent 
of  the  University  of  Colorado,  he  did  effective 
service  for  the  institution,  in  which  he  took  great 
pride,  as  he  had  been  one  of  the  hardest  workers 
in  getting  the  college  located  here.  His  busy  and 
useful  career  was  terminated  by  death,  March  18, 
1886,  and  his  loss  was  one  which  was  deeply  felt 
throughout  northern  Colorado. 

December  24,  1857,  Captain  Tyler  married,  in 
Baraboo,  Wis.,  Miss  S.  Emma  Smith,  a  native 
of  Cortland,  N.  Y.  Her  father,  Nelson  K.  Smith, 
was  born  in  New  York  state,  and  by  degrees 
drifted  westward  until  he  finally  settled  in  Colo- 
rado. He  was  one  of  the  so-called  forty-niners, 
and  for  three  years  was  engaged  in  mining  on  the 
Pacific  slope.  In  this  state  he  took  a  very  active 
part  in  the  early  days  of  its  history.  (See  his 
sketch  which  appears  at  some  length  elsewhere  in 
this  volume.)  His  aged  widow,  now  in  her 
eighty-sixth  year,  is  living  in  Boulder.  She  was 
formerly  Miss  Helen  Campbell,  of  Scotch-Irish 
descent.  Mrs.  S.  Emma  Tyler  is  the  eldest  of 
seven  children,  the  others  being  as  follows: 
Lucian  K.,  of  Aspen,  Colo.;  Francelia,  wife  of 
Senator  J.  P.  Maxwell,  of  Boulder;  RodolphusN., 
an  extensive  ranchman  and  stock-raiser  of  Coal 
Creek,  Colo.;  Medora  A.,  Mrs.  D.  D.  Leach,  of 
Oklahoma;  Nina  M.,  Mrs.  E.  J.  Temple,  of 
Boulder;  and  Jennie  A.,  widow  of  the  late  Dr. 
G.  A.  Clark,  of  Boulder.  Since  the  death  of  Mr. 
Tyler  his  widow  and  son,  Frank,  have  managed 


the  homestead  and  estate.  Under  their  super- 
vision one  hundred  and  eighty-five  steers  and 
seventeen  hundred  lambs  were  fed  and  cared  for 
in  1898,  the  former  being  marketed  in  Boulder 
and  the  latter  in  Chicago. 

The  seven  children  of  Captain  Tyler  and  his 
estimable  wife  are:  Lillian  E. ,  Mrs.  Samuel 
Ward,  of  Boston;  Ella,  wife  of  Richard  Whiteley, 
a  well-known  attorney  of  Boulder;  Bert,  who 
died  in  Boulder  in  1885;  Frank,  previously  men- 
tioned; Frederick,  who  is  in  Montana;  Dolph 
Smith,  a  citizen  of  Philadelphia;  and  Lu  Clinton, 
an  assayer  in  Boulder.  Mrs.  Tyler  holds  mem- 
bership with  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church 
and  is  a  generous  contributor  to  religious  and 
benevolent  enterprises. 


GlDAM  WEBER,  owner  and  builder  of  the 
LJ  substantial  brick  business  block  known  as 
/  I  the  Weber  building,  is  one  of  the  enterpris- 
ing real-estate  dealers  of  Boulder.  He  owns 
some  very  valuable  property  here,  and  has  in- 
vested large  amounts  in  improving  and  adding  to 
the  beauty  and  desirability  of  the  same.  He  is  a 
public-spirited  citizen  and  takes  great  interest  in 
everything  which  tends  toward  the  permanent 
welfare  of  this  place.  He  is  identified  with  the 
Knights  of  Pythias,  and  the  Uniform  Rank  of 
the  same  order,  and  in  his  political  convictions  is 
a  Democrat. 

Nicholas  Weber,  the  father  of  the  subject  of  this 
review,  was  born  near  Leipsic,  Ohio,  and  when 
he  reached  manhood  he  removed  to  a  farm  near 
Marietta,  Washington  County,  in  the  same  state, 
and  thenceforth  devoted  his  time  and  energies  to 
the  cultivation  of  his  homestead.  His  death 
occurred  in  the  fall  of  1897.  Towards  the  close 
of  the  late  Civil  war  he  enlisted  in  an  Ohio  regi- 
ment but  was  not  called  into  active  service.  His 
wife  was  Miss  Martha  Fisher  before  their  mar- 
riage. She  is  .still  living  in  Ohio,  and  was  born 
in  Pennsylvania.  She  is  the  mother  of  eight 
children,  only  six  of  whom  survive,  and  our  sub- 
ject is  fourth  in  order  of  birth  in  the  family. 

Adam  Weber  was  born  on  the  parental  home- 
stead near  Marietta,  Ohio,  in  1865,  and  passed 
his  youthful  days  upon  the  farm.  He  received 
a  good  general  education  in  the  public  schools  of 
the  home  district,  and  when  he  was  in  his  six- 
teenth year  he  went  to  Marietta,    and  began   an 


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apprenticeship  to  a  barber.  After  spending  three 
and  a-half  yeans  in  this  calling  he  concluded  to 
embark  in  business  on  his  own  account.  In 
April,  1887,  he  came  west  to  Denver  and  a  few 
months  later  settled  in  Boulder,  where  he  has 
since  dwelt.  For  some  time  he  worked  for 
Charles  Woolfer,  whom  he  finally  bought  out. 
From  that  time  to  the  present  he  has  succeeded 
remarkably  well,  and  having  added  bath-rooms 
and  other  modern  conveniences  he  commands  a 
large  patronage  among  the  best  citizens  of  the 
town.  His  place  of  business  is  No.  1914 
Thirteenth  street. 

The  beautiful  home  of  Mr.  Weber,  No.  2329 
Thirteenth  street,  was  erected  under  his  super- 
vision a  few  years  ago.  He  married  one  of 
Boulder's  charming  daughters.  Miss  Alice  Lytle, 
in  1894.  She  was  educated  in  the  high  school 
here  and  finished  her  studies  in  the  University  of 
Colorado.  Her  father,  a  noted  pioneer  of  this 
region,  George  Lytle,  was  one  of  four  men  who 
discovered  the  wonderful  Caribou  mine,  which 
they  afterwards  disposed  of  for  three  million  dol- 
lars. He  lived  to  reach  the  ripe  age  of  seventy- 
two  years,  and  for  a  long  period  was  a  prominent 
figure  in  Boulder.  The  only  child  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.    Weber  is  Clarence  A. 


T"  UGENE  WILDER,  for  several  years  prom- 
^  inent  in  journalistic  fields,  has  been  a  popu- 
^  lar  public  official  in  Boulder  for  a  period  of 
over  fifteen  years,  and  has  been  very  active  in  all 
local  enterprises  and  in  the  advocacy  of  improve- 
ments calculated  to  accrue  to  the  benefit  of  the 
people  of  this  vicinity.  In  1882  he  was  made 
assistant  postmaster  here,  and  occupied  the 
position  for  eighteen  montbs.  In  1885  he  was 
appointed  clerk  of  the  district  court  by  Judge 
Carpenter,  and  held  this  post  under  several  ad- 
ministrations, or  until  1893,  when  there  was  a 
change  in  the  political  condition.  Later  he  was 
appointed  deputy-clerk,  and  is  now  acting  in  that 
capacity.  He  is  a  stanch  Republican,  and  has 
been  a  member  of  the  city  council  several  terms. 
While  serving  as  an  alderman  sidewalks  and 
other  substantial  improvements  were  instituted. 
Soon  after  he  came  to  Boulder  his  enthusiastic 
endeavors  in  getting  the  citizens  interested  in 
providing  a  suitable  fire  department  resulted  in 
the  organization  of  the  Hook  &  Ladder  Company 


of  one  hundred  men.  This  movement,  in  turn, 
was  of  even  greater  benefit  to  the  people  of 
Boulder,  for  it  soon  became  apparent  that  our 
facilities  for  furnishing  water  in  case  of  fire  were 
lamentably  inadequate  and  the  realization  of  this 
fact  led  to  the  establishment  of  Boulder's  present 
fine  waterworks. 

Eugene  Wilder,  born  in  Canandaigua,  N.  Y., 
September  14,  1840,  is  an  only  child.  He  was 
educated  in  the  public  grammar  and  high  schools 
of  Joliet,  111.,  and  learned  the  printer's  trade  in 
the  office  of  the  Joliet  Signal.  Then,  going  to 
St.  Louis,  Mo.,  he  found  employment  with  the 
publishers  of  Manford's  Magazine  for  a  short 
time  and  next  entered  the  service  of  the  state, 
doing  provost-marshal  duty  in  the  militia.  Sub- 
sequently he  was  made  lieutenant  under  Captain 
Hancock.  In  May,  1863,  he  started  for  Colorado, 
across  the  plains,  and,  arriving  in  Blackhawk,  be- 
came foreman  of  the  Blackhawk  Journal,  re- 
maining there  for  about  three  years,  thus  being 
one  of  the  pioneer  newspaper  men  of  this  state. 
From  there  he  went' to  Central  City,  where  he 
accepted  a  position  as  foreman  and  bookkeeper 
of  the  Register.  In  1874  the  great  fire  oc- 
curred in  that  city  and  Mr.  Wilder  removed  to 
Boulder  and,  as  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Bixby  & 
Wilder,  owned  and  operated  the  News.  This 
paper  wasi  afterwards  consolidated  with  the 
Courier,  of  Sunshine,  the  name  continuing  as 
the  Nezijs  and  Courier,  and  the  new  firm  being 
known  as  Shedd  &  Wilder.  The  latter  withdrew 
from  the  partnership  in  1882  and  has  since  given 
the  chief  share  of  his  attention  to  his  public 
duties,  though  he  has  some  mining  investments. 

In  July,  1889,  Mr.  Wilder  and  Miss  Marie  W. 
Eddy  were  married  in  Cheboygan,  Mich.  Mrs. 
Wilder  was  born  near  Saratoga,  N.  Y.,  and  is  a 
highly  educated  and  cultured  lady.  Mr.  Wilder 
was  initiated  into  Masonry  in  Central  City  Lodge 
in  1865,  and  assisted  in  organizing  the  lodge  at 
Blackhawk.  He  now  belongs  to  Columbia 
Lodge  No.  14,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.;  Boulder  Chapter 
No.  7,  R.  A.  M.,  and  is  a  charter  member  of 
Mount  Sinai  Commandery  No.  7,  K.  T.,  and  El 
Jebel  Temple,  Mystic  Shrine,  of  Denver. 

In  tracing  the  ancestry  of  the  subject  of  this 
review  it  is  found  that  his  ancestors  have  been 
loyal  citizens  of  this  country  since  1639,  when 
Martha  Wilder,  widow  of  Thomas  Wilder,  came 
to  the  infant  colony  in  Charlestown,  Mass.,  with 


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her  children,  one  of  whom  was  Thomas,  from 
whom  Eugene  Wilder  is  directly  descended.  He 
was  a  freeman  of  Charlestown  in  1640,  as  the 
colonial  records  show.  His  father,  Thomas,  Sr., 
had  been  the  proprietor  of  the  Sulham  estates,  in 
Berkshire,  England.  John,  a  son  of  Thomas,  Jr., 
was  a  farmer  of  Lancaster,  Mass.,  as  was  also 
his  namesake,  John,  Jr.,  after  him.  The  last- 
mentioned  married  Sarah  Sawyer,  and  one  of 
their  children,  Jonas,  born  in  1733,  removed  from 
Lancaster  to  Lynn,  Conn.,  and  in  1760  to  Hart- 
land,  Conn.  He  was  a  farmer  by  occupation  and 
lived  to  the  extreme  age  of  ninety-eight  years. 
His  son,  Jonathan,  who  was  a  native  of  Connecti- 
cut, married  a  Miss  Austin,  and  their  son  Clement 
was  the  grandfather  of  our  subject.  He  was  born 
in  the  Genesee  Valley,  N.  Y.,  and  married  Urania 
Doolittle,  by  whom  he  had  two  children,  Maurice, 
who  died  while  young,  and  Marvin  W.  The 
latter  was  the  father  of  Mr.  Wilder  of  this  sketch. 
He  was  engaged  in  the  manufacturing  of  cloth  in 
Canandaigua,  N.  Y.,  until  1842,  when  he  settled 
in  Wilmington,  111.,  and  there  manufactured 
fabrics  for  the  clothing  trade.  During  the  Civil 
war  he  served  in  the  quartermaster's  department 
and  went  with  Banks  on  the  Red  River  expedi- 
tion. In  1872  he  came  to  Boulder,  where  his 
remaining  days  were  quietly  passed.  His  wife, 
Louisa,  was  a  daughter  of  William  Bryant  (own 
cousin  of  the  poet,  William  CuUeu  Bryant),  of 
New  Hampshire.  He  was  the  owner  of  large 
estates  and  was  a  cloth  manufacturer. 


HON.  WILLIAM  A.  WILLIS,  county  com- 
missioner of  Boulder  County  and  a  pioneer 
of  Louisville,  was  born  in  Todd  Count}', 
Ky.,  May  18,  1846,  a  son  of  Oliver  G.  and  Martha 
A.  (Thompson)  Willis.  He  was  one  of  seven 
children,  of  whom  five  are  living,  those  besides 
himself  being  as  follows:  Robert  I.,  superintend- 
ent of  the  Boulder  County  farm;  George  S.,  also 
a  farmer  of  this  county;  Mary  E.,  wife  of  J.  W. 
Dameron,  a  farmer  of  Christian  County,  Mo.; 
and  Thomas  N.,  a  farmer  of  Boulder  County. 

The  father  of  this  family  was  born  in  Todd 
County,  Ky.,  in  1823,  and  graduated  in  medicine, 
after  which  he  practiced  his  profession  in  Elkton. 
He  was  prosperous  and  became  the  possessor  of 
much  valuable  farming  land,  also  the  owner  of 
many  slaves.     In  1856  he  disposed  of  all  his'prop- 


erty  in  Kentucky  and  removed  to  Dade  County, 
Mo.,  where  he  continued  the  practice  of  medicine 
and  became  the  owner  of  two  hundred  acres  of 
land.  Shortly  after  the  breaking  out  of  the  war 
he  removed  to  Texas  and  settled  in  Fort  Worth, 
where  he  remained  until  his  death,  in  1868. 

Educational  facilities  being  very  meagre  in  his 
locality,  our  subject  had  few  advantages  when  a 
boy.  In  1864  he  secured  employment  as  team- 
ster in  a  wagon  train  bound  for  Colorado.  He 
drove  six  yoke  of  oxen  to  a  wagon,  which  com- 
prised one  of  a  train  of  fifty-two  wagons.  Indians 
were  very  hostile,  and  the  party  were  often  com- 
pelled to  form  stockades  and  corrals  in  order  to 
protect  themselves  and  their  cattle  from  the  red 
men.  They  arrived  in  Denver  August  23,  1864, 
and  from  there  proceeded  to  Golden,  where  they 
laid  over  for  two  days;  then  went  to  Central  City, 
where  they  arrived  August  28.  Going  on  to  the 
present  site  of  Greeley,  our  subject  freighted  in 
the  employ  of  the  man  for  whom  he  had  driven 
across  the  plains.  He  hauled  hay  to  Denver  and 
the  mountains.  After  three  months  he  began  to 
freight  for  other  parties,  with  whom  he  remained 
some  months.  In  the  summer  of  the  next  year 
he  worked  in  the  Golden  Gate  Hotel  near  Golden. 
In  September  he  came  to  Weld  County  and  once 
more  resumed  freighting.  In  the  spring  of  1866 
he  went  to  Arvada  and  farmed  on  a  place  owned 
by  George  C.  Swadley.  In  the  fall  he  came  to 
Cole  Creek  and  herded  cattle,  remaining  until  the 
fall  of  1867. 

After  his  marriage  to  Miss  Rachael  A.  Eggles- 
ton,  which  occurred  at  this  time,  our  subject 
began  general  farming  and  the  dairy  business. 
In  1 87 1  he  went  to  Georgetown  and  commenced 
to  mine,  but  three  years  later  returned  to  the 
valley,  settling  near  his  present  place  and  engag- 
ing in  stock-raising  and  farming.  In  1876  he 
homesteaded  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  where 
he  now  lives.  In  the  fall  of  1879  he  sold  forty 
acres,  and  continued  to  improve  and  cultivate 
the  remaining  iract.  At  the  time  that  he  settled 
here,  there  were  no  improvements  and  no  timber 
for  miles  around,  and  he  and  James  F.  Jones  and 
Owen  Kilkerr  were  the  first  settlers  in  this  sec- 
tion. Since  then  he  has  devoted  himself  to  cattle- 
raising  and  farming.  In  July,  1894,  ^^  discovered 
coal  on  his  land  and  in  April,  1897,  he  sold  the 
entire  property,  with  the  exception  of  five  acres, 
to  the  Citizens'  Coal  and  Coke  Company.     He  is 


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now  erecting  a  substantial  and  comfortable  resi- 
dence on  his  five-acre  tract,  and  is  planning  to 
put  his  land  in  fruit. 

For  two  terms  Mr.  Willis  served  as  constable. 
In  the  fall  of  1897  he  was  elected  on  the  People's 
ticket  to  the  board  of  county  commissioners.  He 
was  one  of  four  candidates  (all  old  settlers)  who 
ran  for  the  oflSce,  and  much  to  his  surprise,  he 
was  elected  by  a  majority  of  three  hundred  and 
eighty-six  votes.  Fraternally  he  is  a  member  of 
Camp  No.  137,  Woodmen  of  the  World,  at 
Louisville.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Willis  have  one  son, 
Oliver,  who  married  Ida  M.  Jones,  daughter  of 
Hon.  J.  F.  Jones,  of  Louisville,  this  county,  and 
settled  near  the  old  homestead. 


r~  REDERICK  WHITE  is  one  of  the  most  ex- 
r^  tensive  real-estate  dealers  of  Boulder,  and  is 
I  '  thoroughly  enterprising  and  progressive  in 
all  his  ideas.  The  cause  of  temperance  is  one 
which  is  especially  near  his  heart,  and  in  national 
politics  he  uses  his  ballot  on  behalf  of  the  plat- 
form and  nominees  of  the  Prohibition  party.  He 
was  a  candidate  for  the  legislature  and  for  the 
state  treasurership  on  the  Prohibition  ticket  a  few 
years  ago.  Fraternally  he  belongs  to  Boulder 
Lodge  No.  45,  A.  F.  &  A.  M. ,  of  which  he  is 
past  ofifiicer,  and  in  the  local  lodge  of  the  Wood- 
men of  the  World  he  is  a  charter  member  and  a 
past  official. 

The  parents  of  our  subject  were  John  Charles 
and- Sarah  Ann  (Harris)  White.  The  father  was 
born  in  Glasgow,  Scotland,  and  was  a  member 
of  the  firm  of  William  White  &  Sons,  manu- 
facturers of  tobacco  pipes.  The  senior  member 
of  the  firm,  William  White,  the  grandfather  of 
our  subject,  was  at  the  time  of  the  battle  of 
Waterloo  a  sergeant  in  a  company  of  infantry. 
He  was  a  native  of  the  county  of  Roxburgh, 
Scotland.  Mrs.  Sarah  White  was  a  daughter  of 
Jonathan  Harris,  senior  partner  in  the  firm  of 
Jonathan  Harris  &  Sons,  manufacturers  of  thread 
in  the  town  of  Cockermouth,  England.  The 
family  were  members  of  the  Society  of  Friends. 
By  the  marriage  of  John  Charles  and  Sarah 
White  five  children  were  born,  and  all  but  one  of 
the  number  are  living. 

Frederick  White  was  born  in  Glasgow,  Scot- 
land, October  25,  i860,  and  is  the  only  represent- 
ative of  his  family  in  America.     He  received  his 


education  in  the  northern  part  of  England,  and 
when  he  was  fifteen  years  of  age  he  entered  his 
father's  office,  and  was  well  trained  in  business. 
In  the  spring  of  1880  he  came  to  Colorado,  where 
his  father  had  investments  in  mining  property,  and 
has  since  looked  after  the  same.  Included  in 
this  is  the  Melvina  mine  at  Salina  and  mines  at 
Camp  Albion,  which  are  now  being  operated 
under  his  supervision.  In  1890  he  came  to 
Boulder  and  embarked  in  the  real-estate  business, 
in  which  undertaking  he  has  met  with  deserved 
success.  He  is  a  member  of  the  board  of  trustees 
of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  of  this  place 
and  is  also  treasurer  of  the  same. 

The  pleasant  and  attractive  home  of  Mr.  White 
is  presided  over  his  charming  wife,  formerly  Miss 
Edith  Ingram,  of  Boulder.  She  is  a  native  of 
Wisconsin,  and  is  a  daughter  of  Moses  Ingram, 
who  removed  to  Boulder  Yrom  his  former  home 
in  Albany,  Wis.,  many  years  ago,  and  is  still 
living  here.  The  two  children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
White  are  named  respectively  Kenneth  and 
Winifred. 


(JOSEPH  N.  WOOLLETT,  president  and 
I  general  manager  of  the  WooUett  &  Brown 
(2/  Lumber  &  Supply  Company,  of  Boulder,  is 
one  of  the  most  enterprising  and  energetic  young 
business  men  of  this  locality.  Though  he  is 
comparatively  a  newcomer  here,  he  has  already 
won  hosts  of  friends,  both  in  business  and  social 
circles.  He  has  been  connected  with  the  Odd 
Fellows'  society  for  several  years,  and  has  identi- 
fied himself  with  the  local  lodge.  Moreover,  he 
is  a  Mason,  belonging  to  Boulder  Lodge  No.  45, 
A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  also  a  member  of  the  Knights  of 
Pythias,  Uniform  Rank. 

The  records  of  the  WooUett  family  show  that 
they  originated  in  England  many  generations  ago. 
They  were  well-to-do  and  prominent  people,  and 
the  great -great-grandfather  of  the  subject  of  this 
article  was  an  architect  and  carver  of  wood  of 
such  skill  that  he  was  retained  in  the  employ 
of  George  III.,  King  of  England,  and  at  his  death 
was  honored  by  being  interred  among  the  great 
ones  of  the  realm  in  Westminster  Abbey.  His 
son,  the  next  in  the  line  of  direct  descent,  was 
William  L.  WooUett,  and  he,  too,  was  a  wood- 
carver  and  an  architect  of  much  ability.  Will- 
iam L.,  the  second  of  the  name,  and  our  sub- 
ject's  grandfather,    was    a   native  of    Oxford, 


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England,  and  a  graduate  of  the  celebrated  col- 
lege of  that  place.  He  came  to  the  United  States 
in  early  manhood,  and,  settling  in  Albany,  N.  Y., 
engaged  in  the  same  occupation  that  had  en- 
grossed the  time  and  energies  of  his  sires.  He 
died  in  his  adopted  city  and  country  at  the  age  of 
fifty-seven  years. 

William  L.  Woollett  the  third,  father  of  J.  N. 
WooUett,  was  born  in  Albany,  and  had  just  fairly 
embarked  in  business  life  when  he  was  cut  down 
by  death.  He  had  started  in  the  footsteps  of  his 
forefathers,  whose  great  talents  had  apparently 
been  handed  down  to  him.  At  the  time  of  his 
death  he  was  only  thirty  years  of  age,  and  when 
his  son,  the  fourth  William  I,.,  had  attained  ma- 
turity, he  succeeded  to  his  father's  business, 
and  is  now  pursuing  it  with  success.  The  mother 
of  our  subject  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Fannie 
C.  Nelligar.  She  is  a  daughter  of  Joseph  Nelli- 
gar,  who  came  of  an  old  New  England  family, 
and  though  he  is  now  retired,  he  formerly  car- 
ried on  a  drug  store  in  Albany,  the  birthplace  of 
Mrs.  Woollett  (now  Mrs.  E.  C.  Lewis,  of  Boul- 
der). 

Of  the  four  children  born  to  William  I,-  Wool- 
lett and  wife,  Fannie  C,  J.  N.  Woollett  is  the 
second.  He  was  born  in  Albany  in  1874  and 
passed  his  childhood  uneventfully  in  that  city. 
After  leaving  the  public  schools  he  completed  his 
education  in  Albany  Academy.  At  the  age 
of  fifteen  years  he  was  given  a  position  with  a 
large  lumber  firm  in  Albany,  and  became  their 
delivery  foreman.  Having  gained  invaluable  ex- 
perience he  decided  to  strike  out  for  the  west,  and 
in  the  spring  of  1894  landed  in  Boulder.  He  em- 
barked in  the  lumber  trade,  having  his  yards  at 
the  corner  of  Fifteenth  and  Walnut  streets.  He 
has  manufactured  lumber  extensively,  his  mill 
having  a  capacity  of  fifteen  thousand  feet  per 
day.  Six  delivery  wagons  are  kept  running  con- 
stantly, in  order  to  meet  the  demand  for  building 
material,  and  everything  connected  with  the  en- 
terprise is  in  a  most  flourishing  condition.  In 
December,  1897,  the  Woollett  &  Brown  Lumber 
&  Supply  Company  was  organized,  with  Mr. 
Woollett  as  president  and  general  manager,  and 
under  his  good  methods  and  supervision  the  trade 
has  been  on  the  increase,  and  the  outlook  is  most 
promising  for  the  firm.  He  is  interested,  also,  in 
the  E.  C.  Lewis  Company,  which  represents  sev- 
eral important  fire  insurance  companies  in  Boul- 


der. Politically  Mr.  Woollett  is  a  silver  Repub- 
lican. He  is  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church  and  is  very  liberal  toward  all  worthy 
charities.  June  15,  1898,  he  married  Nan  Katha- 
rine Brown,  daughter  of  W.  T.  Brown,  secretary 
and  treasurer  of  the  Woollett  &  Brown  Company. 


"T  MILE  J.  RIETHMANN,  Swiss  consul  for 
^  Colorado,  Utah,  New  Mexico  and  Arizona, 
__  and  one  of  the  pioneers  of  '59,  was  born  in 
Canton  Lausanne,  on  Lake  Geneva,  in  the  French 
part  of  Switzerland,  March  5,  1844.  His  father, 
John,  who  was  a  son  of  Jacob  Riethmann,  an 
agriculturist,  was  born  in  the  German  part  of 
Switzerland  and  in  youth  learned  the  butcher's 
trade,  which  he  followed  for  some  years  in 
Lausanne.  In  1848,  accompanied  by  his  family, 
he  took  passage  on  a  sailing  vessel  from  Havre 
and  after  fifty-four  days  landed  in  New  York 
City.  His  first  two  years  in  this  country  were 
spent  in  Utica,  N.  Y. ,  from  which  place  he  went 
to  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  and  thence  to  Switzerland 
County,  Ind. ,  where  he  was  employed  as  a  drover 
to  the  Cincinnati  market.  Moving  to  Council 
Bluffs  in  1856,  he  engaged  in  the  stock  business 
and  in  farming.  March  23,  1859,  his  sons,  E.  J. 
and  J.  J.,  arrived  in  Denver,  and  in  June  of  the 
same  year  the  father  and  other  members  of  the 
family  joined  them  here.  Soon  afterward  he 
entered  a  large  tract  of  land  four  miles  from 
Denver  and  there  he  engaged  in  farming  and 
stock-raising  until  his  death  at  eighty-one  years. 
His  wife  still  resides  on  the  old  homestead  of 
four  hundred  and  thirty  acres.  She  bore  the 
maiden  name  of  Mary  Hunzeker  and  was  born  in 
Switzerland  eighty-six  years  ago. 

Of  the  family  of  seven  children  all  but  one 
attained  mature  years.  J.  J.  resides  in  Denver, 
where  the  second  son,  L-  D. ,  died;  Mary  married 
John  Milheim  and  makes  her  home  in  this  city; 
Emile  J.  is  next  in  order  of  birth;  Victoria,  Mrs. 
Foreman,  lives  in  Leadville;  and  Fred  owns  and 
operates  a  farm  at  Brighton.  At  the  time  the 
family  crossed  the  ocean  our  subject  was  four 
years  of  age.  During  the  winters,  when  the 
family  lived  in  Indiana  and  Iowa,  he  attended 
the  country  schools,  but  in  summer  he  helped 
his  father  on  the  farm.  In  1859,  when  he  was 
fifteen,  he  and  his  brother,  J.  J.,  were  induced  to 
come  to  Colorado  by  reason  of  the  discovery  of 


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gold  in  Pike's  Peak.  His  older  brothers  had 
come  west  in  the  fall  of  1858  and  1,.  D.  remained, 
but  J.  J.  started  back,  and  he  was  the  first  to 
bring  the  news  of  the  discovery  of  gold  dust  in 
Colorado  to  Council  Bluffs,  Iowa.  The  brothers 
started  west  with  two  teams  and  a  wagon  and 
arrived  in  what  is  now  West  Denver,  in  the 
spring,  finding  only  a  few  log  houses  in  this 
place.  They  settled  on  the  east  side  of  Cherry 
Creek,  building  a  log  house  in  what  is  now  East 
Denver.  The  house  was  of  a  primitive  character, 
built  of  logs  and  covered  with  dirt,  while  a  rude 
chimney  of  mud  and  sticks  formed  an  outlet  for 
the  smoke.  The  building  of  a  house  entitled  a 
settler  to  thirteen  lots,  six  of  which  they  could 
choose,  while  seven  were  drawn  by  lot.  They 
constructed  several  cabins  and  thus  became  the 
owners  of  some  forty  lots,  some  of  which  in  time 
became  very  valuable  property. 

In  May,  1859,  the  three  brothers  went  to  the 
mountains  at  South  Boulder,  then  called  Dead- 
wood  Diggings.  From  there  they  went  to 
Gregory's  Diggings  (Central  City)  and  Russell's 
Gulch,  where  they  struck  a  lead  and  mined  until 
they  received  news  of  their  father's  arrival  in 
Denver.  They  then  sold  their  claim  and  returned 
to  Denver,  soon  after  which  our  subject  began  to 
work  upon  the  farm  that  the  family  entered. 
While  there,  in  1864,  ^e  joined  an  independent 
company,  with  Captain  Brown  in  command  and 
Jim  Baker  as  guide,  and  started  in  pursuit  of 
Indians  who  had  molested  the  settlers.  They 
went  toward  Fort  Lupton,  twenty-eight  miles 
down  the  Platte  River,  and  remained  out  scout- 
ing for  two  weeks. 

In  1866  Mr.  Riethmann  started  in  the  dairy 
business  five  miles  north  of  Denver,  where  he 
had  bought  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  from 
his  brothers.  From  the  dairy  business  he  drifted 
into  raising  stock.  He  called  his  place  the 
Pioneer  dairy  and  milked  as  high  as  one  hundred 
and  twenty-five  cows,  selling  the  milk  in  the 
city.  He  started  the  first  dairy  wagon  in  Denver 
(it  was  drawn  by  oxen)  and  was  one  of  the  first 
dairymen  in  the  state,  having  had  charge  of  a 
dairy  wagon  for  his  father  as  early  as  the  fall  of 
1859.  After  having  conducted  the  dairy  business 
for, twenty-two  years,  in  1888  he  sold  out  to 
Cooke  Brothers,  who  carried  it  on  under  the 
same  name.  The  old  homestead  is  still  owned 
by  our  subject,  but  in  1890  he  removed  to  the 


city  and  built  his  comfortable  residence  at  No. 
2030  Stout  .street.  He  still  superintends  the 
management  of  his  farm  at  Brighton,  which  is 
irrigated  from  the  Platte  River  and  contains 
valuable  improvements.  In  Denver  he  married 
Miss  Mary  Yeisley,  who  was  bom  near  Mans- 
field, Ohio,  and  is  the  daughter  of  Henry  Yeisley, 
deceased.     They  have  an  only  son,  John  F. 

In  1896  Mr.  Riethmann  was  appointed  Swiss 
consul,  which  position  he  has  since  held.  He  is 
a  member  of  the  Gruetli  Verein  and  the  Associa- 
tion of  Colorado  Pioneers.  Politically  he  is  a 
Democrat,  which  party  he  has  represented  in 
state  conventions.  The  election  of  James  E. 
Bates  as  mayor  of  Denver  left  a  vacancy  in  the 
board  of  county  commissioners  in  1885  and  he 
was  elected  to  that  position,  afterward  being 
chosen  for  a  full  term.  He  served  from  Novem- 
ber, 1885,  to  January,  1889,  refusing  the  chair- 
manship of  the  board,  but  holding  many  positions 
of  responsibility  on  its  various  committees.  He 
was  chairman  of  jail,  roads  and  bridges,  and  in 
the  latter  capacity  opened  more  roads  and  built 
more  bridges  than  had  been  secured  during  any 
previous  term  of  county  commissioners. 


(lOHN  WALTERS,  president  of  the  Standard 
I  Meat  an(J  Live  Stock  Company,  is  at  the 
(2/  head  of  one  of  the  largest  firms  that  do  busi- 
ness in  their  line  in  Denver.  Beginning  without 
capital,  he  worked  his  way  forward  until  now  he 
occupies  a  position  among  the  foremost  business 
men  of  the  west.  The  firm  is  interested  in  sheep 
raising  in  Wyoming,  where  they  are  engaged  in 
breeding  and  raising  sheep,  and  they  are  also 
buying,  ranging  and  breeding  sheep  in  Utah  and 
Colorado.  They  also  feed  sheep  in  Almena, 
Norton  County,  Kan.,  and  St.  Paul,  Neb.,  being 
perhaps  one  of  the  largest  sheep  dealers  and 
raisers  in  the  west.  They  are  also  engaged  in 
cattle  feeding  at  Almena,  Kan. 

The  first  member  of  the  Walters  family  in 
America  was  our  subject's  grandfather,  who 
located  in  Bufialo  nearly  fifty-five  years  ago. 
The  father,  Leonard  Walters,  was  born  in  Wurtem- 
berg,  Germany,  and  in  youth  learned  the  baker's 
trade,  but  the  work  was  not  congenial  nor  the 
confinement  healthful,  so  he  changed  his  occupa- 
tion and  became  an  employe  of  the  Lake  Shore 
&  Michigan  Southern   Railroad.      He  died  in 


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Buffalo  at  fifty-five  years.  His  first  wife  died 
there  of  cholera  when  quite  young,  leaving  an 
only  child,  John.  Of  his  second  marriage  four 
children  are  living,  one  of  these  being  Leonard, 
whose  sketch  appears  on  another  page. 

In  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  where  he  was  born  in  1853, 
our  subject  passed  his  boyhood  days.  At  the  age 
of  thirteen  he  began  to  learn  the  butcher's  trade, 
while  with  his  uncle,  John  Walters.  In  1870  he 
came  to  Colorado  and  for  a  few  months  worked 
in  the  employ  of  others,  but  in  the  fall  of  1870 
started  in  the  meat  and  live-stock  business  for 
himself,  beginning  on  a  small  scale  near  the 
present  location  of  the  Denver  &  Rio  Grande 
yards.  Several  months  later  he  embarked  in  the 
sheep  business,  buying  several  hundred  head  in 
New  Mexico  and  driving  them  up  to  Denver 
market,  thus  laying  the  foundation  of  the  large 
business  of  the  present  time.  The  meat  business 
was  carried  on  as  Walters  &  Co.  for  a  time,  then 
changed  to  John  Walters  &  Co.,  later  became 
Walters,  Aicher  &  Walters,  and  finally  was  in- 
corporated as  the  Standard  Meat  and  Live  Stock 
Company  (close  corporation,  same  owners  only), 
with  our  subject  as  president,  Mr.  Aicher  vice- 
president,  and  Leonard  Walters  secretary  and 
treasurer. 

Politically  Mr.  Walters  adheres  to  Republican 
principles.  He  was  married,  in  Pennsylvania,  to 
Miss  Mina  E.  Burgie.who  was  born  in  Rochester, 
N.  Y.  They  have  four  children.  Pearl,  Ruby, 
Mina  and  John,  Jr. 


r^  W.  SNYDER  is  an  extensive  stock-raiser 
Ly  and  dairyman  of  Henderson,  and  is  an 
k)  influential  and  highly  respected  citizen  of 
Arapahoe  County.  He  was  born  February  11, 
1837,  in  Clinton,  Pa.,  his  parents  being  Jacob 
and  Katherine  (Walker)  Snyder.  His  grand- 
father came  from  Germany  and  settled  in  Penn- 
sylvania, where  he  died  while  Mr.  Snyder  was  a 
small  lad.  Jacob  Snyder  was  born  in  Berks 
County  and  was  a  miller  by  trade,  at  the  same 
time  cultivating  his  farm  upon  which  his  family 
lived.  In  1855  he  moved  to  Wisconsin  and 
worked  in  a  sawmill  and  later  in  a  gristmill  near 
the  Illinois  state  line,  his  work  taking  him  from 
one  state  to  the  other.  In  1862  he  went  to  Floyd 
County,  Iowa,  where  he  died  soon  after  at  the 
home  of  one  of  his  sous. 

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Until  past  sixteen  Mr.  Snyder  lived  on  the 
farm  and  attended  school,  getting  sufiicient  edu- 
cation to  enable  him  to  read,  write  and  cipher. 
He  then  went  to  Niagara  Falls  and  clerked  one 
summer  in  a  store,  returning  home  in  the  fall  to 
attend  school  during  the  winter  of  1854-55,  ^nd 
the  next  year  worked  on  a  farm.  In  1856  he 
went  west,  and  after  a  visit  to  his  father,  the  last 
time  he  saw  him,  he  went  to  Dubuque,  where  he 
obtained  a  clerkship  and  remained  during  the 
summer.  The  following  winter  he  clerked  in 
Freeport,  111.,  and  then  went  to  Floyd  County, 
Iowa,  where  he  had  three  brothers  living,  and 
with  one  of  them  learned  the  trade  of  carpenter. 
He  worked  here  at  his  trade  about  two  years  and 
a-half,  and  then,  in  answer  to  the  first  call  for 
troops,  enlisted  in  Company  K,  Third  Iowa  In- 
fantry, as  a  private  for  three  years'  service.  In 
this  service  he  traveled  over  a  great  portion  of  the 
south  and  saw  some  desperate  battles  fought. 
He  was  first  engaged  in  skirmishes  along  the 
St.  Joe  Railroad,  in  Missouri,  and  fought  in  the 
battle  of  Blue  Mills.  They  spent  three  months 
in  the  fall  of  1861  drilling  in  Benton  Barracks, 
St.  Louis,  and  then  had  several  skirmishes  when 
on  duty  in  central  Missouri,  near  Mexico.  They 
were  ordered  south,  and  took  transports  at  St. 
Louis  down  the  Mississippi  and  up  the  Tennessee 
to  Pittsburg  Landing,  where  he  took  part  in  that 
battle  and  the  siege  of  Corinth.  They  camped  at 
LaGrange,  then  went  to  Cold  water.  Miss.,  Mem- 
phis, Jackson,  Tenn.,  and  to  Tallahatchie,  where 
a  battle  was  fought,  after  which  they  returned  to 
Jackson  and  started  for  LaGrange,  but  were 
driven  back.  They  finally  made  LaGrange  and 
made  their  way  back  to  Memphis  through  Holly 
Springs  and  Coffey  ville,  and  took  transports  down 
the  Mississippi  and  up  the  Yazoo  to  the  rear  of 
Vicksburg,  where  they  landed  and  took  part  in 
the  siege  of  that  city.  They  remained  until  the 
city  surrendered  and  then  went  under  Sherman's 
command  to  Jackson,  Miss.,  where  they  met  and 
whipped  Joe  Johnson.  They  then  went  into 
camp  at  Natchez  to  guard  that  country  for  a 
time,  but  were  returned  to  Vicksburg  and  were 
in  the  raids  on  Meridian  and  Enterprise,  Miss. , 
and  returned  to  Vicksburg  by  a  different  route. 

Here  many  of  the  men  re-enlisted  and  were 
granted  furloughs,  while  the  others,  among  whom 
was  Mr.  Snyder,  were  sent  up  Red  River  to  re-in- 
force  General  Banks.     This  expedition  was  at- 


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tended  with  hard  fighting,  both  up  and  back,  and 
was  his  last  engagement,  as  his  term  expired 
upon  his  return  to  Memphis,  and  he  returned  to 
Floyd  County,  Iowa.  During  all  this  time  he 
was  neither  wounded,  captured  nor  in  the  hospital, 
although  in  the  thickest  of  the  fray,  and  he 
missed  but  one  guard  duty  and  once  was  unable 
to  march.  He  went  to  Waverly,  and  from  there, 
after  a  short  time,  to  Pennsylvania  to  visit  his 
mother,  with  whom  he  spent  the  winter  of 
1864-65,  leaving  in  April  of  1865  for  Fort  Atchi- 
son, where  he  joined  an  emigrant  train  and  came 
to  Colorado.  He  drove  cattle  and  walked  all  the 
way,  receiving  for  his  services  $25  per  month. 
He  arrived  in  Denver  July  3,  1865,  and  worked 
at  his  trade,  with  a  brother  who  lived  here,  for 
four  and  one-half  months.  Then,  going  to  Aus- 
tin, Nev. ,  he  worked  in  the  silver  mines  two 
years  and  one-half  and  did  well.  He  was  a  man 
of  wonderful  endurance,  and  besides  doing  the 
regular  work  required  did  a  great  deal  of  extra 
work.  He  returned  to  Sweet  Water  in  a  wagon, 
and  remained  there  until  the  fall  of  1869,  pros- 
pecting for  gold  during  the  gold  excitement.  He 
spent  the  winter  in  Denver  and  then  returned 
and  again  prospected  in  Sweet  Water  for  another 
year.  In  1871  he  began  working  at  his  trade  in 
Denver  and  continued  that  work  until  1873,  when 
he  and  his  brother  bought  two  hundred  and  forty 
acres  of  land  near  Henderson,  where  he  now 
lives. 

March  31,  1873,  Mr.  Snyder  married  Miss 
Mary  M.  Wolfe,  of  Denver,  who  was  born  in 
Clinton  County,  Pa.,  a  daughter  of  Thomas  M. 
and  Esther  (Kline)  Wolfe,  of  Clinton  County, 
Pa.,  where  they  were  pioneers.  She  came  west 
in  1871.  The  ranch  purchased  by  Mr.  Snyder 
was  in  a  wild  and  uncultivated  state,  having  on 
it  a  rude  log  cabin,  and  here  he  brought  his 
young  bride  and  made  his  home.  They  at  once 
set  about  transforming  it  by  cultivation  and 
otherwise  improving  it,  until  to-day  their  prop- 
erty is  second  to  none.  He  bought  his  brother's 
interest  in  a  few  years  and  sold  forty  acres  from 
the  original,  and  in  1892  erected  a  fine  brick 
residence,  which  is  one  of  the  most  beautiful  in 
the  community,  while  his  barns  and  other  build- 
ings are  in  keeping  with  it.  They  have  three 
children,  viz.:  Wilbur  N.,  who  married  Dora 
Krueger  and  lives  in  Colorado  Springs;  Joseph 
F.,  who  married  Tessie  Roby  and  lives  with  his 


father,  managing  the  farm;  and  Ada,  now  twelve 
years  old  and  at  home.  Mr.  Snyder  is  inde- 
pendent in  his  politics,  but  has  never  been  an 
oflBce-seeker,  although  he  is  always  interested  in 
good  schools  and  has  been  president  of  the  school 
board  for  eighteen  consecutive  j'ears.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Grange  and  was  formerly  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Grand  Army. 


p6|lI.LIAM  F.  McClelland,  M.  D.,  has 

\  A  /  long  been  numbered  among  the  skillful 
Y  V  and  successful  physicians  of  Denver,  where 
he  has  his  office  on  Lawrence  and  Fifteenth  streets. 
Through  his  long  and  useful  life  it  has  been  his 
aim  to  promote  the  w^elfare  of  humanity,  not  only 
by  the  use  of  the  proper  remedial  agencies,  but 
(and  this  is  the  indication  of  the  true  physician) 
he  has  endeavored  to  impress  upon  mankind  that 
the  laws  of  physiology  should  never  be  violated 
and  that  those  who  have  good  health  should  by 
proper  exercise  and  care  of  the  body  preserve  a 
robust  constitution.  When  he  first  came  to  Den- 
ver, during  the  infancy  of  this  now  prosperous 
city,  he  gave  especial  attention  to  the  climate, 
which  he  studied  in  its  effects  upon  different 
forms  of  disease.  The  information  thus  obtained 
he  gave  to  others,  writing  articles  upon  the  cli- 
mate of  the  state  and  its  effect  upon  disease.  He 
found  that  certain  forms  of  pulmonary  and  throat 
trouble  could  be  wholly  cured  here,  and  this  fact 
he  told  to  eastern  people,  thus  being  the  means  of 
bringing  many  invalids  to  the  state  and  securing 
their  restoration  to  health;  on  the  other  hand,  he 
realized  that  certain  types  of  disease  are  injuri- 
ously affected  by  the  high  altitude,  and  this, 
too,  he  published,  in  order  that  no  one  might  be 
misled  in  coming  here.  It  will  thus  be  seen  that 
as  a  physician  he  has  exerted  an  influence  by  no 
means  limited  to  this  state. 

The  McClelland  family  is  of  remote  Scotch  ex- 
traction, but  during  the  days  of  religious  perse- 
cution in  Scotland  they  removed  to  Ireland  and 
from  there  came  to  America.  The  doctor  was 
born  in  New  Philadelphia,  Harrison  County, 
Ohio,  May  29,  1821.  He  inherited  the  quickness 
of  the  Irish  race  and  the  thrift  of  the  Scotch,  to- 
gether with  the  sturdy  determination  of  the  Ger- 
man (for  his  mother  was  of  German  descent). 
He  completed  his  literary  studies  in  the  Mount 
Vernon  (Ohio)  Seminary.     In   1847-48  he  was  a 


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student  in  the  medical  department  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  New  York  City ,  but  afterward  he  en- 
tered Jefferson  Medical  College,  from  which  he 
graduated  March  27,  1849,  with  the  degree  of 
M.D.  Hepracticed  for  one  year  in  Mount  Gilead, 
Ohio,  and  then  located  in  Mount  Vernon,  that 
state,  where  he  opened  an  office  and  embarked  in 
professional  practice.  After  live  years  he  removed 
to  Council  Bluffs,  Iowa,  where  he  became  known 
as  one  of  the  most  skillful  surgeons  in  that  state. 
While  in  Council  Bluffs  he  performed  what  may 
be  called  a  remarkable  operation  for  that  day, 
known  as  "Caesarean  Section,"  which  even  at 
this  time  is  considered  one  where  great  skill  and 
judgment  are  required.  The  operation  occurred 
November  9,  1857,  and  was  a  complete  success, 
the  life  of  the  mother  and  child  being  saved  and 
the  former  making  a  rapid  recovery,  no  longer 
than  an  ordinary  accouchment.  The  history  of  the 
case  was  published  at  the  time  in  the  Boston 
Medical  and  Surgical  Journal  and  republished  by 
European  medical  journals,  reflecting  great  credit 
on  Dr.  McClelland's  judgment  and  skill.  Since 
coming  to  Denver,  in  June,  1862,  he  has  engaged 
in  general  practice. 

With  the  various  associations  of  the  medical 
fraternity  Dr.  McClelland  has  been  intimately 
identified.  In  1873  he  was  president  of  the  Colo- 
rado State  Medical  Society,  and  three  years  later 
held  the  same  office  in  the  Denver  and  Arapahoe 
County  Medical  Society.  In  1876  he  was  chosen 
treasurer  of  the  State  Medical  Society,  which  po- 
sition he  held,  by  re-election,  for  seventeen  years 
and  is  at  present  its  treasurer.  During  1 864  he 
was  surgeon  of  the  Denver  Military  Hospital. 
For  years  he  has  been  connected  with  the  Ameri- 
can Medical  As.sociation.  He  has  served  as  medi- 
cal examiner  and  referee  of  the  Equitable  I,ife 
•  Assurance  Company  of  New  York  for  the  district 
composed  of  Colorado,  New  Mexico  and  Wyo- 
ming. Upon  the  incorporation  of  the  Millionaire 
Mining  &  Tunnel  Company  in  1876  he  was 
chosen  its  president.  He  was  also  president  of 
the  Denver  Mutual  Building  and  Loan  Associa- 
tion and  a  trustee  of  its  property.  With  the 
Denver  Consolidated  Tramwaj'  Company  he  has 
also  been  prominently  connected,  and  is  at  present 
a  director  and  member  of  the  executive  board. 

The  enterprises  with  which  Dr.  McClelland  has 
been  connected  have  resulted  to  his  own  good  and 
to  the  benefit  of  the  city.  He  has  erected  a  number 


of  houses  here,  and  is  still  the  owner  of  consider- 
able real  estate.  His  first  wife,  whom  he  mar- 
ried in  1850,  was  Dorothy  Leach,  of  Mount  Ver- 
non, Ohio;  she  died  in  1854,  leaving  one  child, 
Amanda  M. ,  wife  of  Frederic  A.  Driscol,  of  Den- 
ver. His  second  marriage  took  place  November 
II,  1858,  and  united  him  with  Miss  Harriet  B. 
Honn,  of  Council  Bluffs,  Iowa,  a  sister  of  his 
old  partner.  Dr.  H.  D.  Honn.  They  became  the 
parents  of  four  children,  who  reached  maturity, 
viz.:  Etta,  wife  of  Richard  H.  Malone;  CoraC, 
wife  of  George  B.  Lott,  of  Colorado  Springs; 
William  F. ,  Jr.,  of  New  York  City;  and  Jennie 
M.,  wife  of  F.  R.  Wood,  also  of  New  York  City. 
Politically  Dr.  McClelland  was  long  a  stanch 
Republican,  but  of  late  years  has  been  a  firm 
believer  in  the  silver  party. 


(TEROME  F.  GOULD.  One  mile  northwest 
I  of  Ni  Wot  lies  one  of  the  valuable  farms  of 
G/  Boulder  County.  This  place  is  the  property 
of  Mr.  Gould,  who  came  to  Boulder  Valley  in 
August,  1862,  and  traded  a  yoke  of  oxen  for  one 
hundred  and  twenty  acres  of  unimproved  land. 
In  the  spring  of  the  following  year  he  returned  to 
Blackhawk,  where  he  had  been  before  coming 
here,  and  secured  employment  in  the  Idaho  mill, 
remaining  there  until  the  fall  of  1864,  at  $4.50 
per  day.  On  resigning  his  position,  the  value 
placed  upon  his  services  was  indicated  by  the 
fact  that  he  was  urged  to  stay,  at  $5  per  day,  but 
his  health  was  so  poor  he  believed  it  unwise 
to  remain.  Coming  once  more  to  the  valley,  he 
settled  on  his  ranch  and  engaged  in  farming  and 
the  dairy  business.  Here,  with  the  exception  of 
four  years  spent  in  the  vicinity  of  Boulder,  he 
has  since  made  his  home. 

In  Ontario  County,  N.  Y.,  April  21,  1834,  the 
subject  of  this  sketch  was  born,  a  son  of  Jotham 
and  Miranda  (Patterson)  Gould.  He  was  one  of 
ten  children,  nine  of  whom  attained  mature 
yearsand  eight  are  still  living.  They  are:  Mary, 
widow  of  Lyman  Phillips;  Elizabeth,  widow  of 
Addison  Day;  Ora,  Mrs.  Mills;  JeromeF.;  James 
B.,  also  of  Boulder  County;  Lee;  Almira,  wife  of 
Isaac  Piatt;  and  Henry,  who  lives  in  Dakota. 

Jotham  Gould  was  born  in  Washington  County, 
N.  Y.,  in  1799.  After  his  marriage  he  removed 
to  Ontario  County,  N.  Y.,  and  after  some  twelve 
years  there,  he  went  to  Crawford  County,  Pa., 


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where  be  engaged  in  farming  for  sixteen  years. 
In  1854  he  removed  to  Iowa,  where  he  made  his 
home  in  Polk  County  until  1863.  During  the 
latter  year  he  settled  in  Colorado,  establishing 
his  home  upon  the  ranch  his  son  had  previously 
purchased.  Later  he  bought  a  farm  on  Boulder 
Creek,  and  there  his  death  occured  in  1882.  His 
father,  Ebeuezer  Gould,  was  a  prominent  farmer 
of  Washington  County,  N.  Y.;  and  his  father-in- 
law,  Abel  Patterson,  who  was  a  sea- faring  man, 
also  made  his  home  in  Washington  County. 

Having  previously  acquired  a  thorough  knowl- 
edge of  farm  work,  at  the  age  of  twenty-one 
Jerome  F.  Gould  began  work  as  a  farm  hand. 
Later  he  spent  much  of  his  time  freighting.  In 
those  days  all  supplies  were  hauled  from  the 
Mississippi  River  west,  and  there  was  a  demand 
for  teamsters,  who,  when  competent,  received 
fair  wages.  In  1861  he  started  for  Colorado, 
leaving  Iowa  May  14  and  arriving  at  Blackhawk 
July  3.  He  spent  the  summer  in  the  mines  and 
in  the  fall  returned  to  Iowa  for  his  family,  whom 
he  brought  west  with  him  in  the  spring  of  1862. 
After  a  few  months  in  Blackhawk,  he  came  to 
Boulder  County  in  August  and  purchased  the  land 
embodied  within  his  present  ranch. 

In  Iowa,  May  i,  1861,  Mr.  Gould  married 
Miss  Amy  Foster,  of  Van  Wert  County,  Ohio. 
Seven  children  were  born  of  their  union,  six  of 
whom  are  now  living,  namely:  Delia,  wife  of 
A.  M.  Dodd,  represented  elsewhere  in  this  vol- 
ume; May,  who  married  William  EUinger,  of 
Boulder  County;  Flora,  wife  of  Charles  Sherman, 
also  of  this  county;  Margaret,  wife  of  Albert 
Remley,  a  miner  of  Eldora;  James,  who  assists 
his  father  in  the  management  of  the  ranch;  and 
Lola,  who  is  with  her  parents.  The  family  are 
united  with  the  United  Brethren  Church  and  Mr. 
Gould  is  superintendent  of  the  Sunday-school  at 
NiWot.  Politically  he  is  a  Republican.  Through 
his  energy  and  business  judgment  he  has  become 
owner  of  two  hundred  and  fifty-eight  acres,  the 
value  of  which  has  been  greatly  increased  by 
systematic  cultivation  and  improvement. 

For  the  start  he  was  able  to  make  in  life  Mr. 
Gould  was  indebted  most  of  all  to  his  devoted 
mother,  who  was  in  some  respects  a  remarkable 
woman.  She  was  born  in  Washington  County, 
N.  Y.,  in  1802,  and  during  much  of  her  life  has 
lived  amid  frontier  environments.  While  her  ad- 
vantages were  meagre,  yet  she  became  a  woman 


of  great  mental  power  as  well  as  physical  en- 
durance. Her  time  was  wholly  given  to  the 
care  of  her  family,  and  to  promote  their  happiness 
was  her  chief  aim  in  life.  She  endured  the  hard- 
ships of  pioneer  life,  journeying  from  New  York 
to  Pennsylvania,  thence  to  Iowa,  and  from  there 
to  Colorado,  with  no  other  mode  of  conveyance 
except  a  wagon.  She  is  still  living  and  makes 
her  home  in  South  Dakota  near  Rapid  City.  In 
spite  of  her  great  age  she  is  well  preserved,  and 
has  the  command  of  all  her  faculties.  She  has 
from  early  womanhood  been  noted  for  her 
knowledge  of  .scriptures  and  has  been  a  Bible 
student  all  her  life.  Of  her  it  may  be  said,  as  of 
the  woman  of  old,  that  her  children  shall  rise  up 
and  call  her  blessed. 


(S\  LVA  M.  DODD,  one  of  the  prominent  farm- 
LA  ers  of  Boulder  County,  purchased  in  1884 
I  I  his  present  place  of  one  hundred  and  sixty 
acres,  one-half  mile  west  of  Ni  Wot.  At  the  time 
he  took  possession  of  the  property  he  owed  everj' 
dollar  of  the  purchase  price.  From  the  first  he 
prospered,  and  in  a  short  time  was  enabled  to  pay 
for  the  place,  upon  which  he  afterwards  made 
valuable  improvements.  In  the  winter  of  1897- 
98  he  built  his  present  handsome  brick  residence, 
which  is  one  of  the  most  comfortable  farm-houses 
in  the  county. 

Mr.  Dodd  was  born  in  Davis  County,  Iowa, 
May  2,  1857,  ^  son  of  John  and  Elizabeth  (Bell) 
Dodd.  He  was  the  youngest  of  fourteen  chil- 
dren, nine  of  whom  are  living.  Those  besides 
himself  are  William,  Thomas,  Barnett,  Charles, 
Henry,  Catherine,  Jeannette  and  Jane.  The  fa- 
ther, a  native  of  Kentucky,  born  March  5,  1800, 
married  in  that  state  and  later  removed  to  Indiana, 
where  he  made  his  home  until  1848;  thence  re- 
moving to  Davis  County,  Iowa,  where  he  con- 
tinued to  reside  until  his  death,  January  30,  1874. 
The  grandfather  of  our  subject,  Hugh  Dodd,  was 
born  in  the  parish  of  Merton  on  the  banks  of  the 
River  Tweed,  near  Kelso,  England.  Emigrat- 
ing to  America  in  179 1,  he  settled  in  Kentucky 
in  1798,  and  there  in  January  of  the  next  j-ear 
he  married  Miss  Millie  Barnett.  His  death  oc- 
curred January  I,  i8o8. 

At  the  time  of  his  father's  death  our  subject 
was  eighteen  years  of  age,  and  he  and  his  brothers 
then  assumed  the  management  of  the  home  farm, 


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In  1880  he  came  to  Colorado,  arriving  at  Ni  Wot 
March  9.  Here  he  worked  by  the  month  during 
the  summer.  In  the  spring  of  the  following  year 
he  rented  land  and  began  farming  for  himself.  In 
1884  he  purchased  the  ranch  which  he  has  since 
owned  and  conducted.  February  19,  1885,  he 
married  Miss  Delia  Gould,  a  daughter  of  J.  F. 
Gould.  To  this  marriage  eight  children  were 
born,  fiveof  whom  are  living,  namely:  Courtney, 
Guy,  Inez,  Belle  and  Mary.  The  family  are 
identified  with  the  United  Brethren  Church,  to 
the  support  of  which  Mr.  Dodd  is  a  generous  con- 
tributor. Politically  he  votes  the  Democratic 
ticket. 


Gl  NDREW  FRASER,  a  member  of  the  firm  of 
Li  Grant  &  Eraser,  has  been  numbered  among 
I  I  the  wide-awake  business  men  of  Boulder  for 
little  more  than  six  years,  but  has  established  a 
reputation  for  thorough  knowledge  of  his  calling 
and  for  general  straightforwardness  in  the  execu- 
tion of  all  contracts,  which  is  truly  enviable.  He 
is  a  native  of  Scotland,  and  possesses  the  honest, 
just  and  industrious  traits  of  character  which 
have  always  been  noticeably  prominent  in  the 
sons  of  that  rugged  land. 

The  youngest  of  five  brothers  and  sisters, 
Andrew  Eraser  was  born  in  Invernesshire,  near 
the  city  of  Inverness,  November  8,  1858.  His 
parents,  Andrew  and  Margaret  Eraser,  were 
natives  of  the  same  locality,  and  both  have  passed 
to  the  reward  in  the  better  land.  The  father  was 
a  carpenter  and  contractor,  which  callings  he  fol- 
lowed until  shortly  before  his  death  at  the  age  of 
three-score  years.  His  father,  John,  and  his 
grandfather,  Andrew,  were  both  natives  of  In- 
vernesshire— the  former  a  farmer  and  the  latter  a 
stone-cutter  by  occupation. 

Andrew  Eraser  of  this  sketch  was  educated  in 
the  schools  of  Scotland,  and  when  he  was  about 
.seventeen  years  of  age  he  began  serving  an  ap- 
prenticeship to  a  stone-mason.  He  thoroughly 
mastered  the  details  of  stone- cutting  and  carving, 
and  worked  as  a  journeyman  for  a  year  or  two 
before  coming  to  the  United  States  in  1882.  Here 
he  traveled  quite  extensively,  aswell  as  in  Canada, 
but  finally  located  in  Atchison,  Kan.,  where  he 
was  successfully  engaged  in  contracting  for  about 
eight  years.  In  1891  he  came  to  Colorado  and 
for  eighteen  months  remained  in  Denver.  Dur- 
ing that  period  he  built  the  residence  of  William 


N.  Byers,  the  Berger  Brothers'  building  and 
many  others.  In  September,  1892,  he  came  to 
Boulder  and  has  since  been  busilj'  employed. 
He  had  charge  of  the  stone-work  upon  the 
Masonic  Temple,  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church, 
the  Presbyterian  Church,  the  high  school,  and 
nearly  all  of  the  fine  stone  residences  on  Univer- 
sity Place  and  Mapleton  Addition.  Besides  this, 
he  has  been  given  work  in  other  places,  such  as 
Central  City,  etc.  He  owns  an  interest  in  the 
Markley  building-stone  quarries,  and  is  prosper- 
ing in  all  his  business  ventures,  as  he  deserves  to 
do.  In  his  political  convictions,  he  is  a  Republi- 
can, with  a  leaning  toward  the  silver  side  of  the 
monetary  issue.  He  is  connected  with  the 
Knights  of  the  Globe,  of  Ereeport,  111. 

Mr.  Eraser  married  in  Hutchison,  Kan.,  Miss 
Nellie  Shottenkirk,  April  12,  1888.  She  was 
born  in  Iroquois  County,  111.,  and  is  a  daughter 
of  Chauncey  E.  and  Eliza  (Rowe)  Shottenkirk, 
natives  of  New  York  and  Pennsylvania,  respect- 
ively. The  father  settled  in  Illinois  before  the 
Rebellion,  and  served  in  a  regiment  from  that 
state  during  the  war  of  the  Rebellion.  Later  he 
removed  to  Hutchison,  and  is  still  engaged  in 
managing  a  hardware  store  there.  His  family 
comprised  nine  children,  six  of  whom  are  living. 
To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Eraser  three  children  have  been 
born,  namely:  Chauncey,  Margaret  and  Ve'rness. 
They  are  members  of  the  First  Presbyterian 
Church. 


DWARD  SNYDER,  the  owner  of  a  farm 
'y  near  Valmont,  Boulder  County,  where  he  is 
_  engaged  in  general  agricultural  pursuits, 
was  born  in  Lancaster,  Erie  County,  N.  Y.,  May 
16,  1844,  a  son  of  Joseph  D.  and  Catherine 
(Snyder)  Snyder.  Of  seven  children  comprising 
the  family,  five  are  still  living,  namely:  Emil, 
Tillie,  Lou,  Edward  and  Mary.  His  father,  a 
native  of  the  southern  part  of  Germany,  near  the 
French  border,  was  born  about  1808,  and  ac- 
quired a  fair  education  in  French,  English,  Latin 
and  German,  after  which  he  became  a  teacher  in 
the  German  schools.  While  still  a  young  man 
he  emigrated  to  the  United  States  and  for  three 
or  four  years  was  a  teacher  in  the  Buifalo  (N.Y.) 
schools,  after  which  he  purchased  one  hundred 
and  sixty  acres  some  ten  miles  from  Buffalo. 
Settling  down  to  a  farmer's  life,  he  devoted  him- 
self to  the  cultivation  of  his  place,  and  there  he 


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resided  until  his  death,  in  1859.  He  filled  the 
office  of  county  commissioner  and  other  minor 
offices,  and  was  a  member  of  the  school  board 
from  the  time  of  the  erection  of  the  schoolhouse 
in  the  district  where  he  resided. 

At  the  age  of  fifteen  the  subject  of  this  sketch 
left  home  and  secured  employment  in  a  sawmill, 
where  he  remained  for  six  months  and  then  went 
to  Rochester,  doing  general  work  for  a  year.  On 
returning  home  he  continued  there  for  a  few 
months  and  assisted  in  the  cultivation  of  the 
farm.  At  the  breaking  out  of  the  Civil  war  he 
enlisted  in  Company  H,  One  Hundred  and  Six- 
teenth New  York  Infantry,  Captain  Werts  com- 
manding. Soon  after  they  went  to  the  front  they 
were  rushed  through  to  the  field  of  Bull  Run, 
but  being  delayed  near  their  destination,  they 
did  not  arrive  until  the  day  after  the  battle. 
After  two  months  they  were  ordered  to  Baltimore, 
and  from  there  went  across  the  country  and 
down  the  Mississippi  to  Baton  Rouge,  but  were 
soon  sent  back  to  Pennsylvania  to  clean  out  the 
Black  Horse  Regiment,  then  committing  so  many 
depredations.  He  took  part  in  the  battles  of  New- 
berne,  N.  C. ,  Port  Hudson  Plains,  the  charge  of 
Port  Hudson  and  other  minor  engagements.  He 
was  wounded  in  the  side  and  leg  at  Port  Hudson 
and  was  sent  to  the  hospital  at  Baton  Rouge, 
where  he  hovered  between  life  and  death  for 
almost  five  months.  Finally  he  was  discharged 
and  sent  home  on  account  of  chronic  disability. 

After  regaining  his  health,  in  the  spring  of 
1865,  Mr.  Snyder  came  to  Colorado.  He  spent 
two  days  in  Denver  and  Valmont  and  then  went 
to  Boulder,  where  he  worked  for  three  months 
with  the  Boulder  Canon  Road  Company.  His 
next  position  was  in  a  sawmill.  In  1866  he 
bought  five  yoke  of  oxen  and  a  wagon  and  com- 
menced to  haul  lumber  from  South  Boulder  to 
Blackhawk.  In  November  he  came  to  Boulder 
and  from  here  went  into  the  mountains,  where  he 
chopped  and  hauled  logs  for  two  years.  Coming 
back  to  Boulder,  he  worked  at  various  occupa- 
tions. In  1873  he  married  Miss  Mary  Larson 
and  they  opened  a  boarding  house  in  Boulder, 
which  they  conducted  for  three  years.  On  sell- 
ing out  he  returned  to  the  mountains,  but  after 
six  months  he  came  back  to  Boulder  and  farmed 
on  the  creek  as  a  renter  for  a  year.  Going  from 
hereto  Left  Hand  Creek,  he  bought  one  hundred 
and  sixty  acres,   which  he  farmed  for  thirteen 


years.  On  his  return  to  Boulder  Valley  he  rented 
for  two  years,  after  which  he  purchased  his  pres- 
ent place  of  eighty  acres,  his  present  residence. 
He  is  identified  with  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Re- 
public and  takes  an  interest  in  everything  con- 
nected with  his  post. 

The  seven  children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Snyder 
are  as  follows:  Lewis  D.,  a  farmer  of  Boulder 
Valley;  Mary  L. ,  wife  of  Adolph  Anderson,  a 
gardener  at  Fort  Collins;  Katie  (changed  from 
Christina),  wife  of  Grant  Hall,  a  stonemason 
and  bricklayer;  John  A.,  who  is  attending  school 
at  Morgan;  Mattie  M.,  Bessie  J.  and  Inez  L.,  at 
home. 


y/lYRON  W.  JONES,  manager  for  the  Holt 
Y  Live  Stock  Company  and  a  well-known 
(9  citizen  of  Denver,  was  born  in  Minot, 
Androscoggin  County,  Me.,  and  is  the  descend- 
ant of  English  ancestors  who  settled  in  Mas- 
sachusetts in  an  early  day.  From  that  state 
Elijah  Jones  removed  to  Maine,  where  he  de- 
voted his  active  life  to  the  legal  profession.  Dur- 
ing the  Revolution  he  enli.sted  in  the  colonial 
army  and  did  good  service  in  the  cause  of  liberty. 
His  son,  Rev.  Elijah  Jones,  was  born  in  Hamp- 
den, Me.,  received  his  education  in  Bangor  Theo- 
logical Seminary  and  in  early  manhood  entered 
the  ministry^  of  the  Congregational  Church, 
whose  doctrines  he  preached  in  Minot  for  about 
fifty  years,  and  until  his  death  at  seventy-nine 
years.  He  was  a  man  of  remarkably  upright 
life,  kind  in  heart,  generous  to  the  needy  and  in 
sympathy  with  the  suffering  and  sad,  striving 
conscientiously  and  vsrith  self-sacrifice  to  do  all 
the  good  within  his  power  to  those  among  whom 
his  lot  was  cast. 

By  his  marriage  to  Bathsheba  Rider,  member 
of  an  old  Puritan  family.  Rev.  Elijah  Jones  had 
nine  children,  all  of  whom  are  living,  Myron  W. 
being  the  youngest  of  the  family  and  the  only  one 
in  Colorado.  One  brother,  Edward  E.,  served 
throughout  the  entire  war  as  a  member  of  the 
Third  Maine  Infantry  and  is  now  a  merchant  in 
New  York  City;  another  brother,  Rev.  W.  L. 
Jones,  is  a  Congregational  minister  in  Pomona, 
Cal.  Our  subject  was  educated  in  the  Minot 
school.  He  studied  law  in  Lewiston,  Me.,  with 
M.  T.  Ludden,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in 
1873,  after  which  he  at  once  made  preparations 
to  remove  to  the  west.     In  1874  he  came  to  Colo- 


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rado,  but,  instead  of  practicing  his  profession,  he 
formed  a  partnership  with  W.  T.  Holt  in  the  live- 
stock business  at  Colorado  Springs.  The  two, 
in  1879,  organized  the  Holt  Live  Stock  Com- 
pany, of  which  Mr.  Holt  was  president  until  his 
death,  in  1894.  Since  the  organization  of  the 
company  Mr.  Jones  has  been  its  manager  and  in 
1 88 1  removed  from  Colorado  Springs  to  Denver, 
where  he  established  headquarters  and  now  has 
an  office  in  the  Kittredge  building.  The  com- 
pany's ranch  was  started  at  the  head  of  Horse 
Creek  in  Elbert  County,  where  sheep  are  raised; 
and  they  also  have  a  tract  on  Rush  Creek,  where 
they  pasture  their  cattle.  In  former  years  the 
companj'  had  a  range  on  the  Pecos  River  in  New 
Mexico,  where  the  cattle  were  bred  and  later 
driven  to  Colorado,  and  they  still  buy  in  large 
quantities  in  New  Mexico. 

While  in  Maine  Mr.  Jones  married  Miss  Caro 
Farrington,  who  died  in  Denver  in  1894.  He 
.  was  one  of  the  charter  members  of  the  Colorado 
Cattle  Growers'  Association  and  is  now  a  mem- 
ber of  the  executive  committee.  Politically  he  is 
a  Republican  and  in  religion  is  connected  with 
the  Glenarm  Congregational  Church.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Odd  Fellows'  Lodge  in  Denver. 
While  in  Maine  he  was  made  a  Mason,  and  is 
now  identified  with  Denver  Lodge  No.  5,  A.  F. 
&  A.  M.;  King  Hiram  Chapter,  R.  A.  M.,  in 
Lewiston;  Pike's  Peak  Commandery,  K.  T.,  in 
Colorado  Springs;  and  El  Jebel  Temple,  N.  M. 
S.,  ofDenver. 

(TOSIAHNEWH ALL  HALL,  M.  D.,  profes- 
I  sor  of  medicine  in  Gross  Medical  College, 
(2/  Denver,  visiting  phj-sician  to  the  county  and 
St.  Anthony's  hospitals,  ex-president  and  ex- 
secretary  of  the  State  Board  of  Medical  Examin- 
ers, is  prominently  known  among  the  physicians 
of  Denver,  where  he  has  his  office  in  the  Jack- 
son building,  on  Tremont  and  Seventeenth  streets. 
A  resident  of  Colorado  since  1883,  hecame  to  this 
state  from  Massachusetts,  where  he  was  born, 
reared  and  educated.  He  is  a  member  of  an  old 
family  of  New  England,-  founded  at  Medford, 
Mass.,  by  Stephen  Hall,  an  emigrant  from  Eng- 
land in  1652.  The  grandfather,  William  Hall, 
was  born  in  Medford  and  served  in  the  war  of 
1812. 

Stephen  Hall,  the  doctor's  father,  was  born  in 
North  Chelsea,  Mass.,  and  followed  farm  pursuits 


until  the  excitement  caused  by  the  discovery  of 
gold  in  California  in  1849,  when  he  sailed  for 
that  country  via  Cape  Horn.  He  spent  three 
years  in  the  far  west,  in  mining  and  prospecting, 
after  which  he  returned  by  way  of  Panama  to  his 
native  locality.  His  last  years  were  spent  in 
Massachusetts,  where  he  died  at  the  age  of  seventy- 
two.  He  married  Evelina  A.  Newhall,  who  was 
born  in  Lynnfield,  Mass.,  a  descendant  of  a  fam- 
ily who  settled  in  the  Bay  state  in  1640.  Her 
father,  Gen.  Josiah  Newhall,  was  a  soldier  in  the 
war  of  18 1 2,  after  which  he  was  commissioned 
brigadier- general  of  the  Massachusetts  militia 
and  in  that  capacity  commanded  the  troops  at 
the  reception  of  General  Lafayette  and  the  dedica- 
tion of  Bunker  Hill  monument  in  1825.  Mrs. 
Hall  resides  at  Revere  (formerly  North  Chelsea) 
and  all  of  her  children  except  our  subject  also 
reside  in  Massachusetts,  namely:  Mrs.  William 
B.  Brooks,  of  Amherst;  Alfred  S.,  who  occupies 
the  old  homestead;  and  Mrs.  S.  S.  Harriman. 

Reared  in  his  native  place.  North  Chelsea,  the 
subject  of  this  sketch  gained  his  primary  educa- 
tion in  that  town.  Later  he  was  a  student  in  the 
Massachusetts  Agricultural  College  at  Amherst, 
from  which  he  graduated  in  1878,  with  the  degree 
of  B.  S.  A  few  months  later  he  entered  the  Har- 
vard Medical  School  and  remained  there  until  his 
graduation  in  1882,  as  an  M.  D.  During  the 
last  year  of  his  course  he  was  appointed  house 
physician  in  the  Boston  City  Hospital,  and  held 
the  position  for  eighteen  months,  resigning  on  his 
removal.  In  January,  1883,  he  came  to  Colorado, 
where  he  practiced  at  Sterling,  Logan  County, 
for  nine  years,  meantime  also  serving  as  mayor  of 
the  city  in  1888  and  also  as  examiner  for  pen- 
sions. Hecame  to  Denver  in  1892  and  has  since 
carried  on  a  general  practice.  For  some  years, 
and  until  1897,  lie  was  lecturer  in  the  department 
of  therapeutics  in  the  University  of  Colorado,  but 
resigned  when,  by  the  decision  of  the  supreme 
court,  the  medical  department  was  removed  to 
Boulder,  the  seat  of  the  main  university.  In 
1897  he  was  elected  professor  of  medicine  in  Gross 
Medical  College,  which  position  he  now  holds. 
Appointed  a  member  of  the  State  Board  of  Medi- 
cal Examiners  in  1889,  he  was  president  of  the 
board  in  1891  and  its  secretary  for  three  years, 
and  served  until  the  expiration  of  his  term  of  six 
years.  While  in  Sterling,  Colo.,  he  was  phj'si- 
ciau  for  the  Union   Pacific   and   the   Burlington 


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roads.  While  there  he  married  Miss  Carrie  G. 
Ayres,  a  native  of  Mississippi,  and  they  have  be- 
come the  parents  of  two  sons,  Sigourney  D.  and 
Oliver  W. 

In  national  politics  Dr.  Hall  is  a  silver  Repub- 
lican. He  is  a  frequent  contributor  to  medical  lit- 
erature, and  his  articles  in  medical  journals  com- 
mand a  wide  reading.  In  the  Woodmen  of  the 
World  he  is  medical  examiner.  For  a  time  he 
was  vice-president  of  the  Colorado  State  Medical 
Society,  of  which  he  is  an  active  member,  as  he 
is  also  of  the  American  Medical  Association.  In 
1 895  he  was  president  of  the  Denver  and  Arapahoe 
County  Medical  Society,  and  he  was  also  at  one 
time  vice-president  of  the  Clinical  and  Pathologi- 
cal Society.  On  the  organization  of  the  Rocky 
Mountain  Inter-State  Medical  Society  he  became 
a  charter  member.  He  is  also  identified  with  the 
Medico-Legal  Society  of  New  York  City  and  the 
International  Association  of  Railway  Surgeons. 
In  these  various  organizations  he  is  well  and  fa- 
vorably known  as  one  of  the  skillful  and  success- 
ful physicians  of  the  west,  whose  present  high 
standing  is  due  wholly  to  his  energetic  and  un- 
tiring efforts  in  the  past. 


r^ROF.  WILLIAM  HENRY  DAVIS,  M.  D., 
LrJ'  of  Denver,  was  interested  in  the  organiza- 
1*3  tion  of  the  Rocky  Mountain  University  and 
was  one  of  the  original  promoters  of  Gross  Medi- 
cal College,  of  which  he  is  treasurer  and  mem- 
ber of  the  board  of  trustees,  also  professor  of 
dermatology  since  the  inception  of  the  institution. 
In  addition  to  his  private  practice  and  his  duties 
in  connection  with  the  college,  he  is  president  of 
the  Long's  Peak  Reservoir  and  Irrigation  Com- 
pany, which  was  organized  for  irrigating  pur- 
poses and  has  the  finest  body  of  water  in  the 
state. 

The  Davis  family  is  descended  from  English 
ancestry.  In  colonial  days  two  brothers,  one  of 
whom  was  a  physician,  came  to  this  country  for 
.settlement.  Afterward  returning  to  England  on 
a  visit,  they  were  passengers  on  the  same  boat 
with  Oliver  Cromwell.  Later  the  entire  family 
of  five  brothers  came  to  America,  two  of  whom 
settled  in  New  England,  one  dying  there,  child- 
less, but  the  other  leaving  descendants.  One 
brother  settled  in  the  Carolinas,  but  all  knowl- 
edge of  him  was  lost.     The  others  settled  in  Vir- 


ginia and  Kentucky.  Grandfather  William  Davis, 
who  was  born  in  Kentucky,  removed  to  southern 
Indiana  and  engaged  in  manufacturing,  mer- 
chandising and  farming  in  Jennings  County,  of 
which  he  was  a  pioneer.  He  died  in  Decatur 
County  at  the  age  of  eighty-four.  His  wife,  who 
was  a  French  school  teacher,  was  a  member  of 
the  La  FoUette  family.  They  had  a  son,  Phoe- 
nell  La  Follette  Davis,  who  was  born  in  Indiana, 
and  in  youth  learned  the  trade  of  architect  and 
builder.  He  was  engaged  in  business  at  Vernon, 
Franklin  and  Martinsville.  During  the  war  he 
was  general  superintendent  of  construction  of 
arsenal  buildings  at  Indianapolis,  where  he  later 
engaged  in  work  as  an  architect  and  builder. 
In  1867,  when  he  was  forty -seven  years  of  age, 
he  was  killed  by  a  boiler  explosion  in  the  fair 
grounds  at  Indianapolis. 

The  marriage  of  P.  L.  Davis  united  him  with 
Sarah  C.  Pearcy,  who  was  born  in  Jennings 
County,  Ind.,  the  daughter  of  a  non-commis- 
sioned officer  in  the  war  of  18 12  and  a  farmer, 
who  died  in  Jennings  County  at  the  age  of 
seventy-three.  She  is  now  sixty-eight  years  of 
age  and  makes  her  home  with  her  sou,  Dr.  Davis, 
in  Denver.  Of  her  four  sons  three  are  living, 
Millard  F.,  who  was  a  pharmacist,  having  died 
in  Indianapolis.  James  M.  is  foreman  on  the 
Union  Pacific,  Denver  &  Gulf  Railroad  at 
Trinidad,  Colo. ;  and  Oscar  P.  is  foreman  in  a 
bookbinding  e.stablishment  in  Denver.  There  is 
one  daughter,  and  she  resides  in  Indianapolis. 

The  oldest  of  the  surviving  sons  is  the  subject 
of  this  sketch,  who  was  born  in  Vernon,  Ind., 
November  28,  1848.  He  received  his  primary 
education  at  Franklin  and  Martinsville,  and  in 
1862  accompanied  his  parents  to  Indianapolis, 
where  for  a  year  he  was  a  student  in  the  literary 
department  of  a  business  college.  Soon  after- 
ward he  entered  the  Northwestern  Christian 
University,  later  called  Butler,  and  now  Indiana- 
polis University,  where  he  was  a  student  for  two 
years,  there  beginning  the  study  of  medicine 
under  Dr.  R.  T.  Brown,  who  was  one  of  the  uni- 
versity professors.  In  187 1  he  graduated  from 
the  Indiana  Medical  College,  now  the  medical 
department  of  the  Indianapolis  University,  re- 
ceiving the  degree  of  M.  D.  After  a  short  period 
of  practice  in  Indianapolis,  he  went  to  Bellevue 
Hospital  Medical  College,  in  order  that  the  ad- 
vantages offered  by  that  famous  institution  might 


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be  enjoyed  by  himself,  and  in  1876  he  graduated 
from  there.  On  his  return  to  Indianapolis  he 
was  superintendent  of  the  City  hospital  for  two 
terms,  1877-79. 

The  severe  strain  caused  by  his  professional 
duties  was  too  much  for  the  constitution  of  Dr. 
Davis  and  his  health  broke  down .  He  came  to 
Colorado  hoping  the  change  of  climate  might  be 
beneficial,  and  in  January,  1880,  opened  an  office 
in  Denver.  The  following  year  he  went  to 
Golden,  where  he  became  surgeon  for  the  Colo- 
rado Central  Railroad  and  on  the  removal  of  their 
shops  to  Denver,  in  October,  1883,  he  returned 
here,  continuing  to  act  as  surgeon  for  a  time, 
until  he  resigned.  He  has  his  office  at  No.  1209 
Seventeenth  street.  In  1887  he  took  a  post-grad- 
uate course  in  the  Polyclinic  and  Post-graduate 
Hospital  Medical  Colleges  of  New  York,  where 
he  made  a  special  study  of  dermatology.  He  has 
one  son,  John  B.  Davis,  who  is  a  member  of  the 
class  of  1899,  literary  department  of  the  Denver 
University. 

Politically  Dr.  Davis  is  a  Republican.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Denver  and  Arapahoe  County 
Medical  Society,  the  State  and  American  Medical 
Societies,  and  is  grand  medical  examiner  for  the 
Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen  of  Colorado, 
New  Mexico  and  Arizona.  Fraternally  he  is 
past  chancellor  of  the  Knights  of  Pythias,  and  is 
connected  with  Denver  I^odge  No.  5,  A.  F.  &  A. 
M. ;  Denver  Chapter  No.  2,  R.  A.  M.,  and  Colo- 
rado Commandery  No.  i,  Knights  Templar. 


pQlLI/IAM  G.  PELL,  who  owns  and  occu- 
\  A  /  pies  a  farm  near  Ni  Wot,  Boulder  County, 
VV  was  born  in  Canada,  August  10,  1820,  a 
sou  of  William  and  Anna  (Van  Antwerp)  Pell. 
He  was  one  of  nine  children,  five  of  whom  are 
still  living,  namely:  Peter,  who  is  engaged  in 
farming  at  Hiawatha,  Kan.;  William  G.;  Ed- 
ward, of  Ni  Wot;  Amelia,  wife  of  Samuel  John- 
son, who  lives  in  the  state  of  Washington;  and 
Daniel,  a  carpenter  of  Vermont. 

Sixty  years  of  his  life  William  Pell  passed  in 
his  native  land,  Canada.  He  then  migrated  to 
Wisconsin  and  settled  ten  miles  west  of  Racine, 
where  his  death  occurred  five  years  later.  His 
wife,  who  was  of  Mohawk-Dutch  stock,  was  born 
in  Canada  prior  to  the  breaking  out  of  the  Revo- 
lution, her  parents,  who  were  in  sympathy  with 


England,  having  removed  from  Schenectady, 
N.  Y.,  with  other  Tories,  on  the  opening  of  hos- 
tilities between  the  two  countries.  Her  father 
was  not  an  active  participant  in  the  war,  but  his 
sympathies  were  strongly  on  the  side  of  England. 
The  father  of  William  Pell  was  a  native  of  Eng- 
land and  emigrated  to  Canada  in  his  youthful 
days,  settling  upon  a  farm,  where  he  afterward 
resided. 

At  the  age  of  about  twenty  years  the  subject 
of  this  sketch  left  home  and  went  to  Rochester, 
N.  Y.,  where  he  apprenticed  himself  to  the  black- 
smith's trade.  About  three  years  later  he  went 
further  west,  settling  in  Cleveland,  Ohio,  where 
he  was  employed  for  two  years  as  a  journeyman 
blacksmith.  On  the  discovery  of  copper  in  the 
Lake  Superior  country,  he  went  there,  and  for 
eleven  years  worked  at  his  trade  in  the  copper 
region.  In  1859  he  went  home,  fitted  out  for  a 
western  trip,  and  early  in  May  left  Wisconsin  for 
Colorado.  Crossing  the  plains  in  a  light  wagon, 
with  a  pair  of  horses,  he  arrived  in  Boulder  July 
20,  1859,  and  is  therefore  one  of  the  pioneers  of 
this  locality.  To  him  and  to  Carver  Gauss  belongs 
the  distinction  of  being  the  locators  of  the  now 
thriving  city  of  Boulder.  Making  this  place  his 
headquarters,  he  became  interested  in  mining, 
and  followed  gulch  mining  with  intervals  of 
working  at  his  trade  until  1875.  Then,  in  part- 
nership with  John  Scroles,  he  grub- staked  rich 
property  on  Gold  Hill.  These  two  and  John 
Nicholson  began  the  development  of  what  was 
known  as  the  Slide  mine,  on  the  Slide  lode. 
Here,  during  the  first  week,  they  took  out  a 
small  shipment  of  ore  near  the  surface,  which 
netted  them  $300  after  .shipping  and  milling  ex- 
penses (which  were  then  exorbitant).  January 
20,  1876,  the  Corning  Tunnel  Mining  &  Reduc- 
tion Company  filed  an  adverse  claim  and  then 
began  a  litigation  which  lasted  some  six  years, 
our  subject  and  his  partners  winning  every  de- 
cision rendered  from  the  lowest  court  to  the 
United  States  supreme  court. 

About  1888  Mr.  Pell  disposed  of  his  interest  in 
the  mine  and,  with  his  family,  removed  to  Den- 
ver, making  his  home  in  that  city  until  1894. 
He  then  removed  to  his  present  home  farm  at  Ni 
Wot,  which  he  had  owned  for  some  years  pre- 
vious and  which  has  since  been  his  dwelling  place. 
In  politics  he  is  a  Republican.  In  1862  he  en- 
listed in  the  Second  Colorado  Cavalry  and  served 


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his  country  during  the  Civil  war.  He  was  ap- 
pointed sergeant  November  i,  1862.  With  his 
regiment  he  went  to  Kansas  and  pursued  Price, 
whom  they  brought  to  bay  at  Kansas  City,  and 
there  had  the  first  important  fight  of  their  cam- 
paign. Following  Price  through  Missouri,  they 
had  other  engagements.  They  were  mustered 
out  of  service  at  Fort  Riley,  Kan. 

In  1 87 1  occurred  the  marriage  of  Mr.  Pell  to 
Miss  Eliza  Parker,  who  was  born  in  Wisconsin 
and  died  in  Boulder,  Colo. ,  eighteen  months  after 
her  marriage.  June  11,  1875,  he  was  united  in 
marriage  with  Miss  Ellen  H.  Bergeron,  a  native 
of  Quebec,  Canada,  her  father,  Gabriel  Bergeron, 
being  of  French  lineage.  There  was  born  to  this 
union  a  son,  Earnest,  February  9,  1880,  now  a 
student  in  the  State  Agricultural  College,  at 
Fort  Collins.  During  the  period  of  his  residence 
in  Denver,  Mr.  Pell  carried  on  a  stone  yard. 
While  in  Boulder  he  took  an  active  part  in  pub- 
lic affairs  and  for  one  term  served  as  an  alder- 
man. He  is  identified  with  the  As.sociation  of 
Colorado  Pioneers. 


'HOMAS  N.  WILLIS  is  one  of  the  progress- 
ive, wide-awake  farmers  of  Boulder  Coun- 
ty. He  is  the  owner  of  a  fertile  and  well- 
improved  ranch,  situated  about  one  and  a-half 
miles  south  of  the  town  of  Lafayette,  and  in  ad- 
dition to  this  he  is  the  fortunate  possessor  of 
some  valuable  mining  property  in  Summit  Coun- 
ty. Twenty  years  have  rolled  away  since  he  cast 
in  his  lot  with  the  inhabitants  of  Colorado,  and 
during  the  intervening  period  he  has  labored  in- 
dustriously to  gain  a  substantial  foothold,  and 
to  his  credit  be  it  said,  has  ably  succeeded  in  his 
commendable  endeavors. 

Born  in  Dade  County,  Mo.,  September  22, 
i860,  our  subject  is  a  son  of  Oliver  G.  Willis, 
whose  history  is  to  be  found  in  the  sketch  of 
W.  A.  Willis,  printed  upon  another  page  of  this 
work.  Our  subject  was  reared  to  manhood  upon 
his  father's  homestead  in  the  southwestern  part 
of  Missouri,  and  early  became  familiar  with  the 
varied  duties  pertaining  to  the  proper  manage- 
ment of  a  farm.  The  public  schools  of  that  por- 
tion of  Missouri  were  of  a  decidedly  poor  type 
during  the  Civil  war  and  for  a  decade  or  more 
subsequently,  and  thus  the  educational  privileges 
of  the  youth  were  limited.     When  he  was  in  his 


eighteenth  year  he  left  home  and  embarked  on 
the  independent  sea  of  life,  from  that  time 
forward  making  his  own  livelihood.  In  1878  he 
turned  his  face  we.stward  to  the  new  and  promis- 
ing state  of  Colorado,  whose  destinies  were 
thenceforth  to  be  indissolubly  interwoven  with 
his  own.  He  landed  in  Denver  on  the  2d  of 
March  and  soon  proceeded  on  his  way  to  Coal 
Creek,  where  his  brother  William  was  then  liv- 
ing. For  nearly  two  years  our  subject  found  em- 
ployment with  farmers  of  the  locality  and  thus 
acquired  the  means  for  other  ventures. 

In  1880  Mr.  Willis  went  to  Summit  County 
and  for  the  next  four  years  was  concerned  in 
mining  operations.  He  then  returned  to  Boulder 
Valley  and  rented  the  farm  of  Judge  C.  A. 
Clark.  This  place  he  cultivated  for  the  next 
three  years,  in  the  meantime  spending  a  few 
months  with  his  Missouri  relatives,  during  the 
winter  of  1886-87.  In  the  spring  of  the  year 
last  named  he  went  to  Summit  County  again,  and 
from  August  until  June,  1888,  he  was  occupied 
in  mining  operations  in  Leadville  and  vicinity. 
The  next  six  months  he  lived  in  Alma,  Park 
County,  after  which  a  similar  period  of  time  was 
passed  by  him  in  Boulder  Valley.  Returning 
then  to  Alma,  he  remained  there  until  the  fall  of 
1894,  when  he  .took  up  a  homestead  of  one  hun- 
dred and  twenty  acres,  convenient  to  Lafayette, 
Boulder  County.  He  has  given  his  chief  atten- 
tion to  the  management  of  this  place  ever  since 
and  has  made  a  financial  success  of  the  enter- 
prise. He  has  not  relinquished  his  mine  prop- 
erty in  Summit  County,  however,  some  of  it 
being  very  valuable.  He  uses  his  right  of  fran- 
chise in  behalf  of  the  nominees  of  the  Democratic 
party. 

(TOHN  D.  MASON  is  the  superintendent  and 
I  general  manager  of  the  Boulder  Electric 
(2/  Light  Companj',  which  was  incorporated  in 
the  summer  of  1889,  and  has  proved  one  of  the 
most  successful  and  useful  enterprises  of  Boulder. 
In  1891  the  fine  new  building  and  plant  were 
erected  on  Walnut  street.  The  boiler  room  is 
35x40  feet  in  dimensions  and  is  equipped  with 
three  boilers;  while  the  dynamo  and  engine  room 
is  47x42  feet  and  is  fitted  with  three  engines,  of 
one  hundred-horse  power  each.  The  plant  fur- 
nishes power  for  eighty  arc  lights  and  three 
thousand  incandescent  lights.  The  success  which 


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has  attended  this  enterprise  from  its  inception  is 
almost  entirely  due  to  the  excellent  business 
management  of  Mr.  Mason,  and  his  thorough, 
practical  supervision  of  every  detail  connected 
with  the  running  of  the  plant.  In  1888  he  and 
I.  E.  Storey  and  T.  Austin,  in  partnership, 
founded  the  electric  light  works,  and  after  run- 
ning it  for  a  few  months  it  was  incorporated  un- 
der its  present  title.  Mr.  Mason  is  the  only  one 
of  the  originators  of  the  electric  light  works  in 
this  city  who  is  still  actively  interested  in  its  de- 
velopment and  success.  At  first  the  plant  was 
located  at  Thirteenth  and  Spruce  streets,  but, 
for  various  reasons,  it  was  deemed  best  to  remove 
to  the  new  site. 

The  birth  of  J.  D.  Mason  occurred  June  8, 
1856,  in  Rossie,  N.  Y.,  and  in  the  public  schools 
of  that  town  he  acquired  his  education.  He  is 
one  of  the  two  children  of  John  and  Mary  (Van 
Dusen)  Mason,  natives  of  Scotland  and  Canada 
respectively.  The  former  came  to  America  with 
his  mother  when  he  was  a  young  man,  and  set- 
tled in  Rossie,  St.  Lawrence  County,  N.  Y. , 
where  he  carried  on  the  butcher  business  for  a 
few  years.  When  on  a  trip  through  Michigan 
during  the  '60s  he  contracted  a  fever,  from  the 
results  of  which  he  died.  Thus  the  mother  was 
left  with  her  two  little  ones  to  bring  up,  and 
nobly  did  she  fulfill  the  task,  being  both  father 
and  mother  to  them.  Her  daughter,  Alice,  is 
now  the  wife  of  C.  W.  Rowland,  of  Boulder,  and 
she  makes  her  home  with  her  children  in  this 
town.  Her  father,  David  Van  Dusen,  was  from 
an  old  and  respected  Dutch  family  of  the  Mohawk 
Valley.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the  war  of  1812. 
For  a  few  years  he  lived  in  Canada,  but  later  set- 
tled in  St.  Lawrence  County,  N.  Y.,  where  he 
died  at  the  age  of  eighty-seven  years. 

When  he  was  seventeen  years  of  age  Mr. 
Mason  commenced  an  apprenticeship  to  a  car- 
penter in  Rossie,  working  there  and  in  Ham- 
mond, N.  Y.,  for  a  period  of  about  three  years. 
He  then  engaged  in  business  upon  his  own  ac- 
count, and  in  the  spring  of  1882  came  to  Colo- 
rado. Locating  in  Boulder,  he  became  a  con- 
tractor and  builder,  erected  numerous  residences, 
business  blocks  and  the  medical  hall  at  the  uni- 
versity. For  the  past  decade  he  has  given  his 
time  and  energies  to  the  electric  light  works,  as 
already  mentioned.  He  has  made  a  close  study 
of  everything  relating  to  electricity  and  electrical 


appliances  and  machinery.  The  "Governor 
Routt"  mine,  at  Sunset,  now  being  operated,  be- 
longs to  him,  and  he  takes  great  interest  in  min- 
ing in  general .  He  is  a  charter  member  of  the 
local  lodge  of  the  .Woodmen  of  the  World  and 
politically  is  a  Republican.  He  is  one  of  the 
board  of  trustees  and  ex-superintendent  of  the 
Sunday-school  of  the  Baptist  Church  here,  to 
which  he  belongs.  His  marriage,  March  27, 
1890,  united  him  with  Miss  Josie  Niles,  daugh- 
ter of  H.  S.  Niles,  of  Boulder,  and  their  two 
children  are  named  respectively,  Guy  H.  and 
Carl  L. 


yyiONTFORD  S.  WHITELEY,  one  of  the 
Y  reliable  and  straightforward  business  men 
(9  of  Boulder,  enjoys  the  confidence  and  es- 
teem of  his  fellow- townsmen  to  an  enviable  de- 
gree. He  is  progressive  and  thoroughly  in  ac- 
cord with  thespirit  ot  the  times,  favoring  modern 
improvements,  advanced  ideas  in  education  and 
all  measures  calculated  to  permanently  benefit 
the  community,  state  and  country  in  which  his 
lot  has  been  cast.  In  politics  his  ideas  coincide 
with  the  principles  of  the  Republican  party,  and 
he  earnestly  believes  that  their  policy  has 
brought  this  fair  land  to  its  present  prosperous 
condition.  For  two  terms  he  has  served  in  the 
council  here  as  alderman  from   the  second  ward. 

Hon.  R.  H.  Whiteley,  father  of  the  subject  of 
this  sketch,  died  several  years  ago.  He  was  a 
very  prominent  'man  in  his  generation,  was  act- 
ive and  influential  in  politics,  and  in  the  business 
world  and  commanded  the  esteem  and  respect  of 
all  who  knew  him.  His  history  is  given  at  some 
length  in  that  of  his  son,  R.  H.,  Jr.,  printed  else- 
where in  this  volume.  Montford  S.  Whiteley  was 
born  in  Bambridge,  Ga.,  in  i860,  and  received 
good  educational  advantages  in  his  native  town. 
In  1877  he  came  to  Colorado,  and  the  year  that 
the  state  university  opened  in  Boulder  he  was 
one  of  the  students.  He  continued  in  the  in- 
stitution until  the  close  of  his  junior  year,  when, 
in  1 88c,  he  entered  the  commercial  world. 

At  first  Mr.  Whiteley  was  interested  in  the 
real-estate  business  here,  and  for  a  year  or  two 
was  employed  by  different  firms.  In  1882  he  en- 
tered the  establishment  with  which  he  has  since 
been  connected,  and  was  bookkeeper  for  the  com- 
pany for  some  time.  The  store  changed  hands 
once  or  twice,  and  he  was  retained  iu  the  em- 


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ploy  of  each  successive  firm,  the  last  being  that 
of  the  Brown  Merchandising  Company,  dealing 
in  groceries  and  hardware,  etc.  When  they 
failed  in  business,  in  March,  1897,  ^r.  Whiteley 
purchased  the  hardware  department  and  has 
since  carried  on  the  business  alone  very  success- 
fully. The  store  is  modern  and  centrally  located, 
being  No.  1413  Pearl  street.  The  proprietor 
carries  a  full  line  of  shelf  and  heavy  hardware, 
general  house  furnishings,  stoves,  etc.,  and  an 
extensive  stock  of  mining  and  milling  machinery 
and  miners'  supplies.  The  store  building  is 
25x90  feet  in  dimensions,  with  a  warehouse 
25x50  feet  additional,  and  the  main  structure  is 
two  stories  in  height.  Mr.  Whiteley  is  prosper- 
ing, and  in  the  brief  time  that  has  elapsed  since 
he  took  hold  of  the  enterprise  has  amply  demon- 
strated his  executive  and  financial  ability.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Ancient  Order  of  United 
Workmen  and  is  one  of  the  board  of  directors  of 
the  Boulder  Building  &  Loan  Association.  He 
was  one  of  the  charter  members  of  this  organiza- 
tion and  a  stockholder,  later  becoming  a  di- 
rector. 

Mr.  Whiteley  married,  in  this  town,  one  of 
Boulder's  most  charming  daughters.  Miss  Mina 
A.  Andrews.  Her  father,  George  A.  Andrews, 
one  of  the  prominent  old  settlers  of  this  section, 
is  represented  elsewhere  in  this  history.  The 
four  children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Whiteley  are, 
George,  Moua,  Marguerite  and  Mary. 


(Joseph  ho  ward,  who  has  been  identified 
I  with  the  history  of  Colorado  since  the  fall  of 
Q)  1865,  was  born  on  Prince  Edward  Island, 
Canada,  the  son  of  Adam  and  Nancy  (Stagman) 
Howard.  His  father,  who  was  born  in  Germany, 
emigrated  to  Prince  Edward  Island,  where  he 
cleared  two  farms,  "grubbing"  the  land,  cutting 
down  timber,  and  working  for  a  long  time  with 
his  axe  and  hoe,  in  order  to  prepare  the  land 
for  cultivation.  He  died  at  eighty-eight  years  of 
age.  His  wife,  whose  father  emigrated  from 
France,  was  born  on  the  island  and  grew  to 
womanhood  upon  a  farm.  She  died  at  the  age 
of  forty-five.  She  was  the  mother  of  thirteen 
children,  of  whom  "six  sons  and  six  daughters  at- 
tained their  maturity;  five  sons  and  two  daugh- 
ters are  yet  living.     The  father  had  been  previ- 


ously married,  by  which  union  he  had  four  chil- 
dren, while  by  his  third  marriage  he  had  eight 
children.  Only  two  of  the  family  are  in  the 
United  States,  Joseph  and  Mrs.  Morrison,  of 
Denver. 

On  the  home  farm,  near  Augustine  cove,  on 
theTryon  River,  our  subject  was  born  in  Febru- 
ary, 1834.  His  school  advantages  were  limited 
to  a  brief  attendance  at  the  pioneer  pay  schools, 
where  he  was  taught  the  three  R's.  When  he 
was  in  his  teens,  his  brother-in-law,  Edward 
Warren,  left  the  island  and  sailed  around  Cape 
Horn  on  the  brig,  "Fannie,"  Captain  Irving, 
reaching  California,  where  he  spent  two  and  one- 
half  years  mining  in  the  Grass  Valley,  and  then 
returned  home.  Joseph,  hearing  the  accounts  of 
the  Golden  Gate  and  Pacific  coast,  resolved  to  go 
there.  Soon  he  was  ready  for  the  long  trip.  In 
1854  lis  atid  two  friends  started  for  California,  but 
the  friends  returned  home  from  New  York,  leav- 
ing him  to  make  the  trip  alone.  He  took  pass- 
age on  the  "Star  of  the  West"  to  the  Gulf  of 
Mexico  and  then  crossed  the  Nicaragua  canal,  af- 
terward going  to  San  Francisco  on  the  boat 
"Cortez,"  which  encountered  a  very  severe 
storm  in  the  Pacific. 

From  San  Francisco  Mr.  Howard  went  to  Sac- 
ramento, then  to  the  mines  in  Placer  County, 
where  he  engaged  in  mining.  Soon  he  bought 
seven  acres  and  began  raising  vegetables,  for 
which  he  always  secured  good  prices  in  the 
market.  Afterward  he  went  to  the  Salmon 
River,  where  his  nephew,  John  Simpson,  had 
been  among  the  first  to  find  the  diggings.  Prices 
were  exceedingly  high  there,  nothing  selling  for 
less  than  $1.25  per  pound.  He  and  six  others 
remained  .six  months,  then  went  down  the  Snake 
River  to  Walla  Walla,  and  finally  reached  San 
Francisco,  without  any  money.  He  then  went 
to  Last  Chance,  on  the  North  Branch  of  the 
American  River,  but  while  there  he  and  his  com- 
panions had  an  altercation  with  an  Irishman 
who  claimed  he  owned  the  claim  and  in  the  melee 
the  man  was  shot  in  the  arm,  but  not  seriously 
wounded.  The  friends  of  the  Irishman  then  at- 
tacked the  other  party,  who  gave  themselves  up, 
but  were  soon  released. 

After  leaving  Last  Chance,  he  engaged  in  cut- 
ting hay  on  shares.  In  the  fall  of  1864  he  went 
to  Idaho  and  spent  the  winter,  finding  the  snow 
there  eight  feet  on   the  level.     A  year  later  he 


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came  to  Colorado,  where  he  was  hired  to  take 
charge  of  stock  on  Coon  Creek  and  employed  in 
other  wa3's  for  a  3'ear.  He  then  freighted  for  the 
stage  company  to  the  various  stations  out  of 
Denver.  In  1868  he  went  to  Cheyenne  with  a 
mule  team  and  hauled  wood  from  the  Black  Hills, 
later  freighted  to  Elizabeth,  making  three  trips 
with  groceries.  On  his  return  to  Denver  he 
worked  for  the  Denver  &  Rio  Grande  road  and 
D.  C.  Dodge,  in  the  express  and  transfer  busi- 
ness, in  which  he  was  successful.  Meantime  he 
erected  four  cottages  on  Champa  street  near  Thir- 
teenth, and  two  residences  at  Nos.  1425-31  Court 
place.  In  1876  he  sold  out  his  business  and  re- 
tired. He  has  spent  four  winters  in  California 
and  visited  the  Midwinter  fair.  He  also  visited 
his  old  home  on  Prince  Edward  Island  and  on  his 
return  to  Denver  brought  a  sister  with  him,  Mrs. 
Lydia  Morrison,  who  has  since  resided  here. 


HON.  JAMES  F.  JONES,  a  member  of  the 
present  Colorado  legislature,  was  elected 
thereto  by  the  silver  Democrats  and  Repub- 
licans. During  the  last  sessions  he  introduced 
and  championed  two  bills  in  favor  of  mining  in- 
terests, though  one  of  them  failed  to  pass  the 
senate.  He  has  always  been  deeply  concerned  in 
everything  tending  to  effect  the  welfare  of  the 
hosts  of  people,  here  and  elsewhere,  who  have 
connection,  directly  or  indirectly,  with  mines  or 
mining  in  Colorado.  At  the  same  time,  he  be- 
longs to  the  class  of  agriculturists;  that  class,  who 
no  less  surely  than  the  other,  have  brought  this 
state  into  prominence  among  those  of  the  great 
west,  and  have  added,  immeasurably,  to  the 
desirability  and  convenience  of  citizenship  here. 
The  parents  of  our  subject  were  Samuel  D. 
and  Ruth  M.  (Fisher)  Jones,  and  of  his  eight 
brothers  and  sisters  but  four  survive.  Mary  is 
the  wife  of  John  Gano,  of  Wisconsin.  Charles 
is  a  prominent  ranchman  and  cattle-raiser  of 
Montana.  Bruce  is  also  engaged  in  the  cattle 
and  ranch  business  in  Montana.  Blanche  is 
Mrs.  N.  Burgess,  of  Montana.  The  father,  born 
in  1803,  was  a  native  of  Michigan.  Early  in 
life  he  went  to  New  York  and  there  attained  his 
majority.  He  was  married  in  the  Empire  state 
and  subsequently  removed  to  Ohio.  From  that 
state  he  gradually  drifted  westward,  his  home 


being  for  a  few  years  in  Indiana,  Wisconsin  and 
Kansas.  His  chief  occupation  in  life  was  that  of 
farming.     His  death  took  place  in  Kansas. 

A  native  of  Delaware  County,  Ohio,  James  F. 
Jones  was  born  on  the  parental  homestead  near 
the  town  of  Delaware,  October  13,  1843.  After 
he  had  mastered  the  elements  of  an  education  in 
the  public  schools  he  left  home  to  make  his  own 
way  in  the  world.  He  had  heard  much  of  the 
great  and  growing  west  and  determined  to  cast 
in  his  lot  with  the  steady  stream  of  emigration 
which  was  pouring  into  the  immense  plains  and 
valleys  of  the  territory  formerly  given  up  to  the 
scattered  tribes  of  red  men.  Leaving  Iowa 
County,  Wis.,  May  18,  1863,  he  undertook  to 
drive  a  wagon  with  two  yoke  of  oxen  and  twenty 
head  of  cattle,  for  a  woman  who  wished  to  join 
friends  in  Colorado.  The  journey  was  at  length 
safely,  accomplished,  the  little  party  reaching 
Marshall  July  19.  Mr.  Jones  at  once  found  em- 
ployment upon  the  building  of  a  furnace  at  this 
point,  and  was  kept  busily  at  work  until  the  fol- 
lowing spring.  From  April  to  July  he  engaged 
in  mining  at  Blackhawk  and  next  he  put  up  hay 
at  $10  per  ton.  That  autumn  he  teamed  and 
hauled  hay  into  the  mountains  and  in  the  early 
part  of  December  sold  his  cattle  and  wagon  in 
order  to  enlist  in  the  ninety-day  service.  He  was 
in  the  command  of  Captain  Berkeley  during  the 
exciting  campaign  against  the  Indians,  who  had 
become  very  troublesome  to  the  white  settlers. 

After  he  had  been  honorably  discharged  Mr. 
Jones  had  a  very  severe  spell  of  illness,  and  the 
savings  of  a  long  period  were  consumed.  Not 
only  this,  but  he  found  himself  $25  in  debt.  He 
bought  a  yoke  of  cattle  and  a  wagon  on  time  and 
bravely  started  out  again  to  recover  his  independ- 
ence. He  cut  hay  on  the  prairie  and  sold  it  at 
$40  a  ton.  Thus  he  soon  paid  for  his  outfit  and 
continued  teaming.  He  found  a  ready  market 
for  all  the  coal  which  he  could  transport  from 
Marshall  to  Denver,  and  received  fiS  or  jj520  a 
ton  for  the  product.  In  the  summer  of  1866  he 
settled  down  as  a  farmer  in  Boulder  County, 
having  bought  a  claim  of  one  hundred  and  sixty 
acres  on  Coal  Creek.  At  the  end  of  two  seasons 
he  sold  it,  and,  going  to  a  point  one  and  a-half 
miles  further  up  the  creek,  homesteaded  a  tract  of 
eighty  acres.  Here  he  resided  about  seven  years, 
after  which  he  lived  a  year  on  a  farm  on  Rock 
Creek,  and  for  a  similar  period  on  the  present  site 


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of  lyouisville.  Twenty-one  years  ago  he  rented 
a  quarter-section  of  land,  his  present  homestead 
(then  school  property),  and  six  years  later  he 
purchased  the  same.  He  has  made  substantial 
improvements  from  time  to  time  and  to-day  the 
place  is  one  of  the  model  farms  of  his  township. 
A  true  friend  to  the  cause  of  education,  Mr.  Jones 
has  used  his  influence  in  favor  of  better  schools 
and  teachers  and  has  served  as  a  member  of  the 
local  board  for  a  number  of  years.  Socially  he 
is  identified  with  l,ouisville  l,odge  No.  94,  I.  O. 
O.  F.,  and  with  Louisville  Camp  No.  137,  Wood- 
men of  the  World. 

March  17,  1868,  Mr.  Jones  was  united  in  mar- 
riage with  Miss  Sarah  C.  Minks,  daughter  of 
James  Minks,  a  native  of  Greene  County,  Pa. 
Mr.  Minks,  who  was  a  carpenter  by  trade,  came 
to  Colorado  from  Burlington,  Iowa,  in  1863,  and 
thenceforth  devoted  himself  to  agriculture..  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Jones  have  eight  children  all  living, 
and  named  as  follows:  Maud,  Adelle,  George, 
Ida,  Charles,  Chester,  Edwin  and  Leroy.  George 
is  engaged  in  mining  at  Gold  Hill  and  Charles  is 
interested  in  farming.  The  three  younger  chil- 
dren are  still  at  home  and  Ida  is  the  wife  of  Ollie 
Willis,  a  rising  young  farmer  of  this  county. 


I  GUIS  SCHROERS,  postmaster  at  Elyria,  is 
j  C  the  only  representative  of  his  immediate 
113  family  in  America.  He  was  born  in  Kreis 
Rees,  Germany,  October  16,  1830,  the  son  of 
Bernard  and  grandson  of  Henry  Schroers,  also 
natives  of  the  same  province  as  himself.  During 
the  war  of  18 12-15  Bernard  Schroers  was  a  sol- 
dier in  the  German  army  and  a  participant  in 
several  conflicts.  Under  his  father,  who  was  a 
blacksmith,  he  learned  that  trade,  which  he  fol- 
lowed in  Ringenberg.  Finally  he  accompanied 
his  children  to  America  and  settled  in  Henderson, 
Arapahoe  County,  Colo.,  where  he  died  at  the 
age  of  ninety-two.  His  wife,  Johanna  Dacke, 
was  born  in  Germany  and  died  in  Wisconsin  in 
1856.  She  was  a  daughter  of  Peter  Dacke,  who 
held  a  government  position  as  chief  forester,  an 
office  that  remained  in  the  family  for  years. 

Four  children  of  the  Schroers  family  came  to 
America.  Among  these  Louis  was  next  to  the 
oldest  and  is  the  only  one  now  living.  He  .spent 
the  first  fourteen  years  of  his  life  in  Germany  and 
was  a  pupil  in  the  public  schools  for  some  time. 


In  1845,  with  his  parents,  he  took  passage  at 
Rotterdam  on  the  sailing  vessel  ' '  Catherine 
Jackson,"  that  landed  in  New  York  City  after  a 
voyage  of  fifty-two  days.  Going  to  Wisconsin, 
he  began  to  work  upon  a  farm  in  the  town  of  Oak 
Creek,  Milwaukee  County.  In  1854  he  removed 
to  Dane  County  and  there  engaged  in  farming 
until  1862.  Meantime  his  brother,  Henry  Will- 
iam, had  gone  to  Colorado  and  the  reports  he 
sent  back  were  so  encouraging  that  he  determined 
to  remove  to  this  state.  To  this  resolution  he 
was  partly  led  on  account  of  ill  health.  He  made 
the  trip  via  stage  from  Atchison,  and,  reaching 
his  destination,  located  on  a  ranch  near  Hender- 
son, where  he  bought  an  interest  with  his  brother 
in  the  place  and  engaged  in  farming  and  stock- 
raising  on  the  Platte  River.  With  a  Colorado 
regiment  he  took  part  in  the  one-hundred-day 
service  at  Fort  Morgan,  but  on  account  of  illness 
was  honorably  discharged. 

Selling  his  ranch  in  1894,  Mr.  Schroers  settled 
in  Elyria,  where  he  became  deputy  postmaster 
under  Postmaster  McDermott.  In  February,  1895, 
he  was  appointed  postmaster  through  the  influ- 
ence of  the  a.ssistant  postmaster-general,  and 
since  then  he  has  filled  the  position  with  eSiciency 
and  success.  This  is  the  only  oflSce  he  has  ever 
held  except  that  of  road  overseer,  which  he 
occupied  while  on  his  ranch  in  district  No.  3. 
He  was  reared  in  the  faith  of  the  Lutheran  Church, 
but  since  coming  to  Elyria  he  has  attended  the 
Congregational  Church.  At  one  time  he  was  an 
active  worker  in  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd 
Fellows.  While  in  Wisconsin  he  married  Miss 
Abbie  Knoblach,  who  was  born  in  Germany  and 
died  in  Dane  County,  Wis.,  in  1857.  The  only 
child  born  of  the  union  is  now  Mrs.  Anna  C. 
Watt,  of  Elyria. 


EHARLES  H.  WATKINS.  A  business  man 
of  undoubted  ability  and  excellent  judgment, 
Mr.  Watkins  has  been  an  employe  of  the 
Denver  Fire  Clay  Company  since  1895.  In 
April,  1881,  he  located  in  Elyria  and  seven  years 
later  erected  the  house  he  now  occupies.  Ad- 
joining this  is  the  house  occupied  by  his  mother, 
which  was  the  first  residence  built  in  the  Elyria 
plot.  In  the  election  of  1896  he  was  chosen,  on 
the  city  party  ticket,  as  trustee  of  Elyria  for  a 
term  of  two  years,  and  since  becoming  connected 


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with  the  board  he  has  served  as  chairman  of  the 
purchasing  committee  and  a  member  of  other 
committees. 

A  native  of  Prince  Edward  Island,  Mr.  Wat- 
kins  was  born  in  Charlottetown,  November  6, 
1867.  His  father,  Samuel,  was  born  in  1840  in 
London,  England,  of  Welsh  ancestry,  and  when 
a  young  man  served  as  a  soldier  in  the  British 
army.  It  was  during  his  service  in  the  army  that 
he  was  ordered  to  Prince  Edward  Island,  where 
he  was  stationed  for  some  time.  Soon  after  his 
marriage  he  retired  from  the  army  and,  having 
learned  the  trade  of  stone  mason  and  brick  layer, 
he  moved  to  Halifax  and  engaged  in  work  at  his 
occupation.  In  1879  he  came  to  Denver,  where 
his  family  joined  him  the  following  year.  In  the 
spring  of  188 1  he  established  his  home  in  Elyria, 
from  which  suburb  he  rode  daily  to  the  city.  One 
evening  in  November,  1881,  while  riding  home 
on  the  Union  Pacific  road,  a  collision  occurred  at 
what  is  now  Thirty-sixth  street,  and  he  received 
injuries  that  resulted  in  his  death  two  hours 
later.  Our  subject  was  on  the  same  train,  but 
jumped  from  the  car  and  reached  the  ground 
before  the  collision  occurred. 

The  mother  of  our  subject  was  Fannie  Stewart, 
a  native  of  Charlottetown,  to  which  place  her 
grandparents  had  come  from  Scotland.  She  was 
a  daughter  of  Charles  Stewart,  who  was  born  and 
reared  on  Prince  Edward  Island  and  engaged  in 
farming  there  until  the  gold  excitement  in  Aus- 
tralia in  1852,  when  he  went  to  that  country  and 
engaged  in  mining.  On  the  return  voyage  home 
he  was  shipwrecked  and  drowned.  His  wife  was 
Jane  Heartz,  a  native  of  Prince  Edward  Island, 
whither  her  father  had  come  from  New  York. 
The  Heartz  family  is  of  German  descent. 

The  family  of  which  our  subject  is  a  member 
consists  of  five  children,  namely:  Charles;  Frank, 
of  Elyria;  William,  who  is  employed  on  the 
Denver  &  Rio  Grande  Railroad  at  Trinidad,  Colo. ; 
.  Jennie  and  May.  Charles  was  educated  in  the 
public  schools  of  Halifax.  He  was  a  boy  when 
the  family  removed  to  Denver,  and  he  at  once 
began  to  work  in  a  planing  mill,  where  he  was 
employed  for  five  years.  For  three  years  he  was 
a  machinist's  helper  in  the  Denver  &  Rio  Grande 
Railroad  shops  at  Burnham,  and  then  for  five 
years  was  with  the  Union  Pacific  Railroad  as 
stone  mason  and  in  other  capacities.  Since  1895 
he  has  been  with  the  Denver  Fire  Clay  Company. 


In  Denver,  Mr.  Watkins  married  Miss  Emma 
Hester,  who  was  born  in  Richview,  Washington 
County,  111.,  the  second  among  the  four  children 
of  W.  R.  and  Mary  (Butts)  Hester,  natives  re- 
spectively of  Kentucky  and  Tennessee.  Her 
father  was  engaged  in  the  marble  business  in 
Illinois,  and  for  ten  years  was  with  the  Union 
Pacific  Railroad  as  foreman  of  the  stone  mason 
department.  Mr.  Watkins  has  two  daughters. 
Ruby  and  Edith.  Politically  a  Republican,  he 
has  been  a  delegate  to  county  conventions  and 
assisted  his  party  in  other  capacities.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Simpson  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church,  and  fraternally  is  past  master  of  Robert 
Morris  Lodge  No.  92,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  of  Denver. 


MITCHELL  BURNS,  M.  D.,  a  rising 
young  physician  of  Denver,  is  a  graduate 
of  Gross  Medical  College,  in  which  he  now 
holds  a  professorship  as  instructor  of  obstetrics. 
Under  the  preceptorship  of  Dr.  W.  H.  Buchtel 
he  began  the  study  of  medicine  and  afterward  be- 
came a  student  in  Gross  Medical  College,  from 
which  he  graduated  in  1893  with  the  degree  of 
M.  D.  For  about  a  year  he  was  interne  in  the 
State  Woman's  Hospital.  In  1892  he  passed 
the  examination  before  the  state  board  of  medical 
examiners  and  received  a  certificate  to  practice 
medicine,  which  profession  he  has  since  followed, 
having  his  office  at  No.  161 8  Glenarm  street. 

The  Burns  family  is  descended  from  the  nobil- 
ity, for  its  lineage  can  be  traced  back  to  the 
house  of  Stuarts  in  Scotland.  From  Scotland 
members  of  the  family  removed  to  Ireland  and 
from  there  to  Canada,  where  the  doctor's  father, 
T.  M.  Burns,  M.  D.,  was  born  and  reared.  For 
some  years  he  resided  in  Schoharie  County, 
N.  Y.,  but  his  death  occurred  in  California.  His 
wife,  who  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Minnie 
Cochran,  was  born  in  Nova  Scotia,  a  lineal  de- 
scendant of  Lord  Nelson,  of  England.  She  was 
a  daughter  of  Daniel  Cochran,  a  merchant  of 
Nova  Scotia,  and  the  father  of  three  sons,  one  a 
physician  and  two  that  were  sea  captains  on  mer- 
chant vessels  engaged  in  the  East  India  trade. 
She  is  still  living  and  makes  her  home  in  Denver, 
where  live  her  only  surviving  children,  T. 
Mitchell  and  Daniel  C. ,  the  latter  a  graduate  of 
the  Denver  University  law  department  in  1895 
and  now  a  practicing  attorney  in  this  city. 


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Dr.  Burns  was  born  in  Richmondville,  N.  Y. , 
January  3,  1868,  and  received  his  education  in 
the  public  and  high  schools  of  Homer,  N.  Y.  In 
1888  he  came  to  Colorado  and  two  years  later  be- 
gan to  study  medicine  with  W.  H.  Buchtel, 
M.  D.  After  receiving  his  certificate  from  the 
state  board,  he  engaged  in  a  general  practice, 
with  a  specialty  of  obstetrics.  In  1892  he  became 
resident  physician  of  the  midwifery  dispensary, 
which  he  and  Dr.  Buchtel  established  and  which 
was  one  of  the  first  of  the  kind  in  the  United 
States.  In  1893  he  was  made  instructor  of 
obstetrics  in  Gross  Medical  College,  two  years 
later  was  made  an  adjunct  professor  in  that  de- 
partment, and  in  1897  was  elected  to  the  pro- 
fessorship. Meantime  he  has  been  a  frequent 
contributor  to  medical  papers  and  journals.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  staff  of  St.  Anthony's  Hospital 
and  is  still  medical  director  of  the  midwifery 
dispensary.  In  the  organization  of  the  Denver 
Literary  and  Social  Society  he  took  an  active 
part  and  for  a  time  was  its  president.  In  Decem- 
ber, 1897,  ^^  w^^  elected  president  of  the  Denver 
Ralston  Club  on  the  occasion  of  the  reorganization 
of  that  club,  which  is  now  in  a  flourishing  con- 
dition, with  a  membership  of  one  hundred  and 
fifty.  He  has  served  both  as  secretary  and 
president  of  the  Gross  Medical  College  Alumni, 
of  which  he  is  a  member.  He  is  also  identified 
with  the  American  and  State  Medical  Societies, 
the  Rocky  Mountain  Inter-State  Medical  Society 
and  the  Denver  and  Arapahoe  County  Medical 
Society. 

GILBERT  G.  SNYDER,  who  is  engaged  in 
r  1  the  real-estate  and  fruit-growing  business 
/l  in  Boulder,  is  a  public-spirited  citizen,  re- 
spected and  esteemed  by  all  who  know  him.  In 
1893  he  was  elected  to  serve  as  alderman  from 
the  third  ward  by  the  Republicans,  and  in 
1895  he  was  re-elected,  thus  serving  four  years. 
He  was  chairman  of  different  committees,  and 
while  he  was  in  office  the  city  water  system  was 
enlarged,  sewers  were  built  and  many  other  valu- 
able improvements  instituted. 

A.  G.  Snyder  is  a  native  of  Canton  Berne, 
Switzerland,  born  on  the  23d  of  November,  1845. 
His  parents,  Benedict  and  Anne  (Alleman)  Sny- 
der, of  the  same  locality,  were  people  of  gcod 
education  and  standing  in  the  community  where 
they  dwelt.   The  mother  was  a  teacher  in  the  high 


school  of  Canton  Berne  prior  to  her  marriage. 
The  father  was  a  gardener  by  occupation  and 
participated  in  the  Revolution  of  1848  in  the 
German  army.  The  same  year  he  emigrated 
with  his  family  to  the  United  States,  and  settled 
in  Carthage,  Jefferson  County,  N.  Y.  There  he 
passed  the  remainder  of  his  life,  his  death  oc- 
curring in  1866.  He  was  an  honest,  industrious 
man,  respected  and  admired  by  all  who  knew 
him.  The  mother  died  in  September,  i860.  Of 
their  family,  which  comprised  six  sons  and  five 
daughters,  five  are  deceased. 

With  the  exception  of  one  sister,  our  subject 
is  the  only  one  of  the  parental  family  in  the  west. 
He  was  next  to  the  eldest  child  and  was  brought 
up  in  Jefferson  County,  N.  Y.,  on  a  farm.  From 
the  time  that  he  was  twelve  years  of  age  he 
worked  for  farmers  for  his  board  and  the  privilege 
of  attending  school  during  the  winter  term.  He 
was  very  anxious  to  enlist  in  the  Union  army  at 
the  outbreak  of  the  Civil  war,  but  he  was  young 
and  his  father  would  not  give  his  consent  to  the 
project.  At  last  he  relented,  when  our  subject 
found  that  he  could  enter  a  cavalry  regiment,  in 
1863.  The  young  man  became  one  of  Company  E, 
Twentieth  New  York  Cavalry,  being  mustered 
in  for  three  years  at  Sacket's  Harbor.  At  the 
close  of  four  months  he  was  made  a  corporal;  then 
took  part  in  the  defense  of  Norfolk  and  Ports- 
mouth, and  later  was  stationed  at  points  along 
the  coast  of  Virginia.  During  the  last  ten  months 
of  his  service  he  was  duty  sergeant.  He  was  at 
Fortress  Monroe  at  the  time  that  Jefferson  Davis 
was  taken  there  as  a  prisoner,  and  there  Mr. 
Snyder  was  mustered  out,  his  honorable  dis- 
charge being  granted  at  Sacket's  Harbor,  August 
II,  1865.  Thus  he  had  been  a  soldier  for  two 
years,  lacking  three  days.  Returning  home,  he 
suffered  with  malaria  and  fever  for  several  weeks, 
and  as  soon  as  he  was  recovered  he  turned  his 
attention  to  farming,  as  formerly. 

November  5,  1867,  Mr.  Snyder  started  for 
Missouri,  and  purchased  a  farm  near  Kingston. 
This  land  was  on  the  Hannibal  &  St.  Joseph  Rail- 
road, and  comprised  one  hundred  and  twenty 
acres.  In  February,  1887,  having  rented  his 
farm,  he  came  to  Sterling,  Logan  County,  Colo., 
and  homesteaded  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  of 
land.  This  property  he  improved  and  cultivated 
for  four  years,  and  in  1891  became  a  resident  of 
Boulder.     Here  he  bought  two  acres  in  High- 


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landlawn  and  planted  large  orchards  and  smaller 
fruit,  including  grapes,  strawberries  and  black- 
berries. He  has  prospered  in  his  venture  and 
has  also  done  well  in  his  real-estate  dealings.  He 
built  up  considerable  property  and  then  sold  the 
same,  and  is  still  carrying  on  a  brisk  business  in 
this  direction.  He  is  quartermaster  of  N.athaniel 
Lyon  Post  No.  5,  G.  A.  R. 

In  Jefferson  County,  N.  Y.,  Mr.  Snyder  mar- 
ried Mary  J.  Pierce,  in  1871.  Mrs.  Snyder  is  a 
native  of  that  county  and  is  a  daughter  of  Charles 
Pierce,  who  was  a  farmer  of  the  Empire  state,  and 
whose  birthplace  was  in  Vermont.  He  departed 
this  life  in  1898.  The  two  children  of  our  sub- 
ject and  wife  are:  Charles,  manager  of  the  Kilton 
Gold  Reduction  Company  (see  his  sketch,  pub- 
lished elsewhere),  and  Maude,  who  resides  with 
her  parents. 

P  QlLLIS  ADAMS  MAREAN.  The  Marean 
I  A/  ^^'i^i^y  ^"^'^s  founded  in  America  about  1650, 
V  Y  when  Dorman  Marean,  a  native  probably 
of  Normandy,  crossed  the  ocean  in  company  with 
a  number  of  persecuted  pilgrims  and  settled  near 
Boston,  where  he  took  up  land  and  established 
his  home.  His  descendants  were  founders  of  the 
town  of  Newton  Centre,  Mass.,  where  some  of 
them  still  live.  Thomas  Marean,  great-grand- 
father of  our  subject,  was  a  soldier  in  the  Revo- 
lution and  served  with  valor  and  fidelity  until 
independence  was  won.  One  of  his  sons,  Lewis, 
moved  from  Massachusetts  to  New  York,  and 
made  settlement  in  the  midst  of  the  forest, 
taking  up  laud  that  is  now  owned  by  one  of  his 
descendants. 

Ransom,  sou  of  Lewis  Marean,  was  born  in 
Maine,  Broome  County,  N.  Y.,  April  17,  1817, 
and  in  boyhood  learned  the  mechanic's  trade, 
which  he  followed  for  a  time.  After  he  became 
of  age  he  entered  Madison  TTniversit)',  where  he 
studied  for  the  ministry,  and  on  completing  his 
preparatory  studies,  began  to  preach  the  Gospel. 
He  continued  actively  in  the  Baptist  ministry 
until  .seventy  years  of  age,  and  now  resides  in 
Rochester,  N.  Y.  He  was  three  times  married; 
his  second  wife,  Clarissa  Jane  Adams,  the  mother 
of  our  subject,  was  related  to  the  old  Adams 
family  of  Revolutionary  fame.  Of  the  first  mar- 
riage two  children  were  born,  one  of  whom  died 
in  infancy.  The  other,  Charles,  enlisted  in  the 
Twenty-fourth  New  York  Light    Artillery    and 

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took  part  in  its  various  engagements  until  he  was 
captured  by  the  Confederates.  For  six  months 
he  was  imprisoned  in  Andersonville,  after  which 
he  was  sent  to  Florence,  S.  C. ,  and  there  died  for 
lack  of  nourishment.  Of  the  members  of  his 
company  who  were  captured  by  the  enemy,  only 
oue  came  from  the  prison  alive. 

Of  his  father's  second  marriage,  our  subject  is 
the  only  survivor  of  three  children.  His  older 
brother,  Lewis  Pliny,  studied  medicine  in  Cin- 
cinnati and  engaged  afterward  in  practice  in 
Wisconsin  until  his  death.  The  third  marriage 
of  Ransom  Marean  was  blessed  by  a  daughter, 
Catherine,  who  lives  with  her  father. 

Born  inthetownof  Woodhull,  Steuben  County, 
N.  Y.,  May  24,  1853,  the  subject  of  this  sketch 
was  a  child  of  four  years  when,  in  1857,  the  family 
moved  to  Moscow,  Livingston  County,  N.  Y. 
After  four  years  they  again  moved  to  South 
Livonia,  in  the  same  county,  where  the  father 
was  pastor  of  the  Baptist  church  for  twenty-seven 
yeans,  and  until  his  retirement  from  the  ministry. 
At  the  age  of  fourteen  our  subject  began  to  learn 
the  trade  of  carpenter  and  joiner,  working  with 
his  father,  who  not  only  preached,  but  also  fol- 
lowed a  trade  in  order  to  instruct  his  sons  in  the 
craft.  At  different  times  Willis  was  in  the  em- 
ploy of  various  builders.  His  summers  were 
given  to  the  pursuit  of  his  trade,  while  during 
the  winter  he  attended  school.  At  the  age  of 
seventeen  he  attended  Middlebury  (N.  Y.) 
Academy  for  one  term,  and  the  following  two 
winters  he  was  a  student  in  the  State  Normal 
School  at  Geneseo,  Livingston  County,  N.  Y. , 
where  he  completed  the  mathematical  course  in 
the  academic  department.  When  twenty-one  he 
started  for  himself  as  a  builder  at  Geneseo,  N.  Y., 
and  continued  in  that  city  for  five  years.  Mean- 
time he  took  private  lessons  in  drawing,  and  the 
winter  of  1874-75  he  spent  in  New  York  City, 
where  he  studied  under  A.  Colon,  a  French  pro- 
fessor of  architecture.  While  in  Geneseo  he  de- 
signed and  built  many  of  the  finest  homes  in  the 
place,  also  the  auditorium  for  the  State  Normal 
School,  and  the  residence  of  the  principal,  William 
J.  Milne,  LL.  D. ,  now  president  of  the  State 
Normal  College  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

Leaving  Geneseo  in  1878,  Mr.  Marean  went 
to  Rochester,  where  he  was  in  the  employ  of 
Josiah  Putnam,  a  leading  architect  of  that  city. 
In  the  spring  of  1880  he  came  to   Denver  and 


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entered  the  employ  of  Frank  E.  Edbrooke,  with 
whom  he  remained  until  the  ist  of  January,  1881, 
as  an  emplo}'e,  and  was  then  offered  and  accepted 
a  partnership  with  Mr.  Edbrooke.  Their  con- 
nection continued  until  April  1,  1895,  during 
which  time  Mr.  Marean  was  in  charge  of  the 
office  work  and  the  planning  and  designing  of 
many  of  the  principal  buildings  in  Denver,  among 
them  the  Brown  Palace  Hotel,  Cooper  and  Ernest 
and  Cranmer  buildings,  People's  National  Bank, 
Masonic  Temple,  McPhee  building.  Central  Pres- 
byterian Church  (the  finest  in  the  city  and  one 
of  the  most  beautiful  in  the  west) ,  West  Denver 
high  school  and  St.  Mary's  Academy  of  the 
sisters  of  Loretta. 

December  19,  1891,  Mr.  Marean  married 
Charlotte  Therese  Hemeranger,  who  was  born  in 
Prairie  du  Chien,  Wis.,  of  French  ancestrj' on  her 
father's  side,  and  of  Scotch  and  French  descent 
through  her  mother.  Her  maternal  grandfather 
Smith  was  a  Scotchman  and  one  of  the  principal 
members  of  the  Hudson  Bay  Fur  Company,  being 
stationed  at  Hudson  Bay,  where  his  daughter  was 
born.  He  was  an  intimate  personal  friend  of  Sir 
John  Franklin  and  in  the  possession  of  Mrs. 
Marean,  as  a  valued  souvenir,  is  a  jewel  ca.se 
given  by  that  famous  explorer  to  her  mother. 

Since  April  i,  1895,  Mr.  Marean  has  had  as  a 
junior  partner  Albert  J.  Norton.  In  politics  he 
was  a  Republican  until  1893,  since  which  time  he 
has  been  independent.  In  religious  views  he 
is  liberal.  He  is  a  charter  member  of  Oriental 
Lodge  No.  87,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  of  Denver,  having 
been  made  a  mason  in  Geneseo  Lodge  No.  214, 
where  he  served  as  senior  deacon  and  senior 
warden.  He  is  a  member  of  Denver  Chapter 
No.  2,  R.  A.  M.,  Colorado  Commandery  No.  i, 
K.  T.,  Colorado  Consistory,  having  attained  the 
thirty-second  degree,  and  El  Jebel  Temple, 
N.  M.  S.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Denver 
chapter  of  the  American  Institute  of  Architects 
and  the  Artists'  Club,  is  a  lover  of  art  in  all  its 
branches,  and  takes  an  active  interest  in  art 
matters  in  the  city  of  Denver, 


[7  RANK  V.  KIRK,  who  cast  in  his  lot  with 
1^  the  people  of  the  great  commonwealth  of 
I  *  Colorado  a  score  of  years  ago,  is  now  ac- 
ceptably filling  the  position  of  clerk  of  the  district 
court  of  Boulder    County,    his  home  being  in 


Boulder,  the  county-seat.  He  was  appointed  to 
this  important  place  in  January,  1895,  by  Judge 
Jay  H.  Boughton,  and  has  discharged  the  duties 
devolving  upon  him  with  promptness  and  fidelity, 
thus  gaining  the  commendation  of  all  concerned. 

Mr.  Kirk  is  a  native  of  Maryland,  his  birth 
having  occurred  in  the  city  of  Baltimore,  August 
II,  1847.  His  father,  Samuel  Kirk,  removed  to 
Baltimore  from  his  former  home  in  Delaware  in 
his  childhood,  and  there,  after  growing  to  man- 
hood, married  Miss  Sarah  Suter,  a  native  of 
Baltimore,  and  a  daughter  of  Henry  Suter,  who 
was  of  English  birth.  He  had  located  in  Balti- 
more, however,  prior  to  the  war  of  1812  and  took 
part  in  that  struggle  with  the  mother  country. 
During  the  battle  of  North  Point  he  was  captured 
by  the  British.  He  was  engaged  in  manufactur- 
ing enterprises,  and  his  death  occurred  at  his  home 
in  Baltimore.  For  many  years  our  subject's 
father  was  employed  in  Chesapeake  Bank  in  some 
clerical  capacity,  and  for  a  few  years  prior  to  his 
death,  in  1885,  he  held  the  important  position  of 
president  of  the  board  of  fire  commissioners. 
His  wife  died  in  Baltimore  early  in  the  year  1853, 
and  eight  of  their  thirteen  children  grew  to  ma- 
ture years,  though  but  one  son  and  four  daugh- 
ters are  now  living.  One  son,  Samuel,  Jr., 
enlisted  in  the  First  Maryland  Confederate 
Volunteer  In^fantry  and  served  throughout  the 
Rebellion.  He  was  a  sergeant  in  his  company  and 
with  the  exception  of  slight  wounds  received  at 
Richmond,  he  was  never  injured.  Later  he  was 
a  clerk  in  the  ofiice  of  the  chief  of  police  in  Balti- 
more, and  his  death  took  place  in  that  city. 

The  education  of  Frank  V.  Kirk  was  such  as 
was  afforded  by  the  public  schools  of  Baltimore. 
He  was  an  apt  student  and  made  good  progress 
in  his  school  work,  being  particularly  proficient 
in  mathematics.  When  he  was  about  sixteen 
years  of  age  he  took  a  position  as  a  clerk  in  the 
private  bank  of  John  S.  Gittings  &  Co.  A  few 
months  afterward  he  entered  a  hardware  store 
as  clerk  and  later  was  given  a  place  in  the  Frank- 
lin State  Bank,  of  which  Charles  J.  Baker  was 
president.  There  he  continued  for  thirteen 
years,  working  upward  by  merit  and  strict  at- 
tention to  duty,  from  messenger  to  paying  teller. 
Believing  that  the  west  afforded  great  opportun- 
ities for  young  men  of  push  and  ability,  he 
resigned  his  position  in  August,  1878,  and  coming 
to  Colorado,  engaged  in  mining  operations  in  the 


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Jamestown  district  for  a  short  time.  He  then 
became  connected  with  the  Denver  &  Rio  Grande 
Railroad,  being  baggage  agent  at'  Manitou  and 
later  Colorado  Springs  for  a  period  altogether  of 
five  years.  Then  he  was  in  the  Denver  postoffice 
department  for  about  a  j'ear;  after  returning  to 
Boulder  he  was  made  deputy  postmaster  under 
Valentine  Butsch.  During  his  term  of  office  he 
was  deputy  for  two  years,  and  then  for  three 
years  he  was  deputy  of  postmaster  S.  B.  Border. 
He  went  out  of  office  in  May,  1894.  He  is  an 
adherent  of  the  People's  party.  Fraternally  he  is 
an  Odd  Fellow,  a  member  of  Silver  Queen  Lodge 
No.  112,  and  belongs  to  Encampment  No.  13. 

In  the  summer  of  1880  Mr.  Kirk  married  Miss 
Lillian  Butsch,  daughter  of  Valentine  Butsch, 
formerly  of  Indianapolis.  Mrs.  Kirk  received 
her  higher  education  in  St.  Mary's  Academy,  in 
the  town  of  St.  Mary's,  Ind.  The  only  child  of 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Kirk,  Bertha,  died  at  the  age  of 
six  years.  Mr.  Kirk  is  a  member  of  the  Meth- 
odist Episcopal  Church,  is  secretary  of  the  board 
of  trustees  and  is  treasurer  of  the  official  board  of 
the  church. 

[5JEORGE  W.  TEAL  is  one  of  the  most  prom- 
l__  inent  mining  and  civil  engineers  of  Boulder 
^J  County,  and  is  thoroughly  posted  in  every- 
thing pertaining  to  mines  and  mining  in  this 
region.  Nine  years  ago  he  was  appointed  city 
engineer  of  the  town  of  Boulder  and  served  for 
one  year,  after  which  he  was  elected  to  the  position 
and  has  since  been  re-elected,  at  each  successive 
election,  the  last  time  in  April,  1898,  his  term  to 
expire  in  1900.  During  this  period  he  has  laid 
out  several  additions  to  the  city,  put  in  about 
seven  miles  of  sewers,  laid  out  streets  and  roads, 
etc.,  and  in  innumerable  ways  has  enhanced  the 
desirability  and  beauty  of  the  place.  In  1891  he 
was  honored  by  being  elected  county  surveyor  of 
Boulder  County  and  was  his  own  successor  in  the 
office  until  January,  1898,  when  he  resigned  in 
favor  of  the  newly  elected  surveyor,  C.  Stradley. 
The  latter  made  Mr.  Teal  his  deputy  and  as 
such  he  is  now  acting. 

The  parents  of  our  subject  were  George  and 
Hannah  (Rich)  Teal,  natives  of  England.  The 
father  was  born  and  reared  in  the  city  of  Man- 
chester, and  in  1849  went  to  California,  by  way 
of  Cape  Horn,  South  America.  On  the  Pacific 
Slope  he  was  in  charge  of  a  mining  company  as 


superintendent  for  a  few  years,  after  which  he  re- 
turned to  England  and  was  there  married.  In 
1868  he  again  crossed  the  Atlantic,  and,  coming 
to  Colorado,  became  superintendent  of  the  Terrible 
mine  (owned  by  a  London  company),  then  the 
largest  silver-producing  mine  in  the  state,  located 
in  Clear  Creek  County,  near  Georgetown.  He 
was  connected  with  this  enterprise  for  eight  years, 
after  which  he  took  a  similar  position  in  the 
Caribou  mine,  for  an  eastern  concern.  This  mine, 
one  of  the  most  famous  in  the  state,  was  the  best 
producer  in  Boulder  County  for  years.  In  1882  he 
retired  from  active  cares  and  made  his  home  in 
Boulder.  His  death  occurred  in  California, 
(San  Diego)  in  the  winter  of  189 1,  when  he  was 
in  his  sixty-seventh  year.  He  was  one  of  the 
first  men  who  operated  mines  in  this  state  on  a 
scientific  basis,  and  erected  mills  for  the  treat- 
ment of  ore.  For  several  terms  he  was  one  of  the 
county  commissioners  of  Boulder  County  and 
was  the  chairman  of  the  commissioners  at  the 
time  of  the  building  of  the  beautiful  and  imposing 
courthouse  here,  which  will  stand  as  a  monu- 
ment to  his  zeal  and  enterprise  for  decades  to 
come.  There  was  great  opposition  to  the  plan 
of  constructing  such  an  expensive  building  at  the 
time,  but  with  his  far-seeing  belief  in  the  future 
of  this  section,  he  carried  the  ambitious  enterprise 
through  to  successful  completion.  His  family 
numbered  twelve  children,  but  only  six  lived  to 
maturity  and  but  four  survive:  Mrs.  Pughe,  of 
Boulder;  Mrs.  Foster,  of  Denver;  Thomas,  metal- 
lurgical engineer  in  Montana;  and  our  subject. 
The  father  of  Mrs.  Hannah  Teal  was  a  manu- 
facturer of  machinery  in  England.  She  departed 
this  life  while  a  resident  of  Georgetown. 

George  W.  Teal  was  born  in  England  in  1863, 
and  was  about  eight  years  of  age  when  he  accom- 
panied the  family  to  the  United  States  in  1872. 
He  attended  the  Georgetown  public  schools  until 
1879,  when  he  went  to  London,  England,  and 
there  was  in  college  for  two  years.  Then,  going 
to  Cornwall,  he  studied  mining  scientifically,  and 
practically  in  the  mines  at  Lands  End,  working 
in  every  department,  in  order  to  thoroughly 
equip  himself  with  needful  knowledge  for  his 
future  life-work.  At  the  end  of  a  year  and  a-half 
he  became  a  student  in  the  School  of  Mining,  at 
Freiberg,  Germany,  and  graduated  from  that 
celebrated  institution  in  1883,  with  the  degree  of 
Mining  Engineer.     Returning  then  to   Colorado 


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he  engaged  in  mining,  surveying,  etc. ,  with  Mr. 
Foster,  who  was  then  superintendent  of  several 
large  mines.  For  the  past  nine  years  Mr.  Teal 
has  been  the  consulting  engineer  of  the  Chicago 
&  Colorado  Mining  Company,  and  has  also  been 
employed  by  numerous  smaller  concerns  here- 
about, though  in  the  meantime  he  was  in  New 
Mexico  for  eighteen  months.  It  was  in  1885  that 
he  went  to  that  region  as  mining  engineer  for  a 
Holland  mining  syndicate,  on  the  Maxwell  land 
grant.  Since  1886  he  has  lived  uninterruptedly 
in  Boulder.  Since  1887  he  has  been  United 
States  deputy  mineral  and  land  surveyor.  He  is 
a  director,  superintendent  and  manager  of  the 
Yukon  Gold  Mining  Company  of  Colorado, 
which  he  assisted  in  organizing.  It  controls  a 
group  of  eleven  mines  at  Ward,  all  now  in  active 
operation. 

Socially  Mr.  Teal  belongs  to  Boulder  Lodge 
No.  45,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.;  Boulder  Chapter  No.  7, 
R.  A.  M.;  Mount  Sinai  Commandery  No.  7, 
K.  T.,  and  El  Jebel  Temple,  Mystic  Shrine,  and 
is  also  a  Knight  of  Pythias.  Religiously  he  is 
an  Episcopalian.  Mrs.  Teal  was  formerly  Miss 
Francisca  Price,  a  native  of  Central  City,  and 
was  married  in  Denver  in  1894.  Her  father, 
John  Price,  an  eastern  man,  came  to  this  state  in 
the  early  part  of  the  '70s.  The  only  child  of 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Teal  is  their  little  daughter, 
Annabel. 

n  AMES  W.  DEVELINE.  Among  the  sterling 
I  pioneers  and  citizens  of  Boulder,  no  one  is 
(*)  more  thoroughly  honored  and  respected  than 
this  gentleman.  Coming  here  in  the  Centennial 
year,  he  identified  himself  with  our  people  and 
lias  always  done  all  within  his  power  to  promote 
the  development  and  prosperity  of  the  county- 
seat.  Though  he  is  now  in  his  eighty-seventh 
year,  he  is  well  preserved  in  mind  and  body  and 
personally  supervises  his  business  affairs  now, 
just  as  he  did  when  in  the  prime  of  manhood. 
Since  the  formation  of  the  Republican  "party  he 
has  been  a  stanch  and  true  friend  to  its  principles, 
and  prior  to  that  time  was  an  ardent  supporter  of 
the  Whig  party. 

Mr.  Develine  is,  to  all  intents  and  purposes,  a 
strictly  self-made  and  self-educated  man,  as  his 
advantages  in  youth  were  extremely  meager,  and 
he  was  early  thrown  upon  his  own  resources. 
He  was  born  May   i,  1812,  in  County  Tyrone, 


Ireland,  and  in  childhood  came  to  the  United 
States  with  his  parents,  the  voyage  being  made 
in  a  sailing  vessel,  the  "Lady  of  the  Lake." 
Fourteen  weeks  from  the  date  of  their  sailing 
from  port  the  weary  passengers  were  landed  on 
the  shores  of  the  new  world.  This  was  in  1820, 
and  subsequently  Mr.  Develine  had  no  school- 
ing, but  was  at  once  apprenticed  to  a  molder  in 
Montgomery  County,  Pa.,  to  learn  the  trade. 
Later  he  found  employment  in  various  states, 
Virginia,  Maryland,  Delaware,  New  Jersey  and 
Ohio,  finally  settling  down  in  the  last-mentioned 
state,  about  1840.  Having  been  in  the  employ 
of  George  W.  Siser,  of  Cleveland,  Ohio,  for  some 
six  years,  a  part  of  the  time  as  superintendent, 
he  moved  to  Norwalk,  Ohio,  and  became  a 
partner  in  the  firm  of  Perkins  &  Co.  They 
manufactured  sewing  machines  and  general 
machinery,  Mr.  Develine  being  the  superintend- 
ent of  the  foundry.  Thence  he  went  to  Toledo, 
Ohio,  at  the  expiration  of  a  decade,  and  was 
similarly  engaged  in  business,  as  a  member  of 
the  firm  of  Smith  &  Develine,  some  six  years. 

In  the  fall  of  1876  Mr.  Develine  came  to  Colo- 
rado, and  embarked  in  business  at  the  same 
location  where  his  foundry  may  be  seen  to-daJ^ 
He  is  the  sole  proprietor  and  his  hand  is  yet 
steady  enough  to  make  intricate  moulds.  The 
shop  is  calle(i  the  Boulder  Foundry  &  Machine 
Shop  and  all  kinds  of  general  repair  work  is  done 
here,  as  well  as  castings  and  molds  of  all  kinds 
made  for  the  trade.  Mr.  Develine  has  over  ten 
thousand  dollars  worth  of  patterns,  and  the  cupola 
has  a  capacity  of  three  tons  of  metal.  By  in- 
dustry and  correct  business  methods,  attention  to 
the  wishes  of  his  patrons  and  a  thorough  knowl- 
edge of  his  trade  he  built  up  a  business  that  has 
steadily  increased  in  proportions,  and  is,  in  itself, 
a  testimonial  to  his  able  qualifications. 

Many  decades  ago  Mr.  Develine  was  admitted 
to  the  ranks  of  the  Masonic  brotherhood  in 
Norwalk,  Ohio,  and  rose  to  the  Knight  Templar 
degree  before  coming  to  the  west.  For  some 
years  he  has  been  connected  with  Columbia  Lodge 
No.  14,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.;  is  past  high  priest  of 
Boulder  Chapter  No.  7,  R.  A.  M.,  and  is  a  charter 
member  of  Mount  Sinai  Commandery  No.  7, 
K.  T.,  of  Boulder.  He  was  also  a  charter 
member  of  the  commandery  at  Norwalk,  Ohio. 
His  wife  is  a  member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church,  and  he  is  one  of  the  trustees  of  the  same. 


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Mr.  Develine  married  in  1839,  at  Baltimore,  Md., 
Miss  Elizabeth  Van  Zant.  They  have  an  only 
child,  a  daughter,  Harriet,  now  Mrs.  Robert 
Dillon,  of  Cleveland,  Ohio. 


in  Chatham,  being  the  daughter  of  Archer 
Fleiger,  proprietor  of  a  sawmill  there.  They 
are  the  parents  of  one  child,  George  Archer  F. 


gHARLES  S.  CARRUTHERS  has  the  repu- 
tation of  being  one  of  the  best  workmen  in 
Denver.  He  came  to  this  city  in  1889  and 
secured  employment  at  the  carpenter's  trade  with 
Erastus  F.  Hallack,  on  Fifteenth  and  Wynkoop 
streets.  On  the  ist  of  March  of  the  same  year 
he  became  a  contractor  in  the  planing  department 
of  McPhee  &  McGinnity  and  remained  in  that 
capacity  until  early  in  1897,  when  he  was  pro- 
moted to  the  position  of  general  foreman  of  the 
same  department. 

A  Canadian  by  birth  and  a  Scotchman  by  de- 
scent, the  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  near 
Chatham,  N.  B. ,  February  6,  1861.  He  is  a  son 
of  George  and  Jane  (Clayton)  Carruthers,  natives 
of  Scotland,  but  from  childhood  residents  of  New 
Brunswick.  The  former  has  made  agriculture 
his  life  work  and  is  still  living  on  the  old  home 
farm,  where  so  much  of  his  life  has  been  passed. 
His  wife,  who  is  still  living,  is  a  daughter  of 
William  Clayton,  a  farmer  and  an  early  settler  in 
the  vicinity  of  Chatham.  The  family  of  George 
Carruthers  consisted  of  ten  children,  of  whom 
Charles  S.  was  the  youngest  son  and  sixth  child. 
He  was  reared  on  the  old  homestead  and,  being 
one  of  a  large  family  whose  parents  were  not  rich, 
he  was  forced  from  an  early  age  to  earn  his  own 
livelihood.  Hence  his  school  advantages  were 
few.  However,  in  the  winter,  when  it  was  im- 
possible to  work  on  the  farm,  he  was  permitted 
to  attend  .school. 

For  some  years  Mr.  Carruthers  was  employed 
in  a  sawmill  and  later  learned  the  planing-mill 
business.  In  1889  he  left  Canada  and  came  west 
to  Denver,  where  he  has  since  resided.  He  is  a 
skilled  workman  and  discharges  faithfully  the  du- 
ties of  the  respon.sible  position  which  he  holds. 
Formerly  he  was  connected  with  the  Ancient 
Order  of  United  Workmen,  but  he  has  not  re- 
tained his  connection  with  this  organization. 
The  only  secret  .society  with  which  he  is  now 
identified  is  the  Woodmen  of  the  World. 

Before  leaving  New  Brunswick  Mr.  Carruthers 
married   Miss  Mary   A.  Fleiger,  who  was  born 


.  UGENE  A.  AUSTIN,  who  for  three  terms 
^  in  succession  served  acceptably  to  the 
^  citizens  of  Boulder  as  mayor,  having  been 
elected  by  the  local  Republicans,  is  now  acting 
as  a  member  of  the  city  council,  as  alderman 
from  the  first  ward.  He  previously  served  in 
this  capacity  for  two  terms.  Without  doubt,  he 
is  the  youngest  member  of  the  Grand  Army  of  the 
Republic  in  Colorado,  not  excepting  drummer- 
boys  of  the  Civil  war,  and  the  circumstances  of 
his  enlistment  into  the  Union  army  are  briefly  as 
follows:  One  morning,  January  22,  1864,  he  and  a 
school- mate,  Frank  Nash,  started  for  school  as 
usual,  but  when  the  bell  rang  they  went  over  to 
the  recruiting  oflRce.  Young  Austin,  then  but 
fourteen  and  a-half  years  of  age,  but  tall  and 
weighing  one  hundred  and  thirty  pounds,  was 
accepted,  and  assigned  to  Company  M,  Fourth 
New  York  Heavy  Artillery.  He  was  mustered 
into  the  service  in  Rochester.  The  artillery 
served  most  of  the  time  as  infantry  in  the  Army 
of  the  Potomac,  from  the  battle  of  the  Wilder- 
ness until  the  surrender  of  the  rebel  forces  at 
Appomattox.  He  and  his  school-mate  were 
comrades  and  messmates  until  the  disastrous  en- 
gagement of  Ream  Station  on  the  Weldon  Rail- 
road, when  his  friend  was  wounded.  Over  two- 
thirds  of  the  regiment  to  which  Mr.  Austin 
belonged  was  either  captured  or  killed,  and 
every  one  of  their  field  officers  met  death  or  re- 
ceived wounds.  Their  regiment  was  on  the 
extreme  left  of  the  Union  army,  which  was 
attacked  fiercely  upon  that  wing.  Their  men 
fought  desperately  and  with  distinguished  hero- 
ism, but  the  odds  were  against  them.  Neverthe- 
less, their  colors  were  saved  by  the  daring  color- 
bearer,  who  was  obliged  to  tear  them  from  the 
stafi"  in  order  to  preserve  them,  as  they  were  all 
cut  to  pieces.  After  Lee's  surrender  Mr.  Austin 
was  assigned  to  guard  duty  in  forts,  etc.,  until 
October,  1865,  when  he  was  mustered  out  and 
honorably  discharged.  It  was  his  privilege  to 
participate  in  the  grand  review  at  Washington 
at  the  close  of  the  war. 

The  parents  of  our  subject  were  Clement  W. 
and  Elmira    (O'Rallow)   Austin.      The  father, 


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who  now  resides  in  Boulder,  was  born  near 
Bristol,  N.  Y.,  and  was  a  farmer  in  the  vicinity 
of  Rochester,  Monroe  County,  N.  Y.,  during  his 
active  years.  He  and  his  wife  were  both  from 
good  old  New  England  families.  She  died  in  the 
Empire  state.  They  were  the  parents  of  five 
children,  four  of  whom  survive.  Mrs.  Newcomb 
is  a  resident  of  Denver  and  Mrs.  Stanley  lives  on 
the  old  homestead,  while  Alphonso  is  a  farmer  of 
Monroe  County,  N.  Y. 

Eugene  A.  Austin  was  born  August  ii,  1849, 
in  Rochester,  N.  Y. ,  and  attended  the  public 
schools  until  his  memorable  enlistment  in  his 
country's  service.  Upon  his  return  from  south- 
ern battlefields  he  resumed  his  studies.  In  the 
spring  of  1866  he  came  to  Colorado  with  his 
father,  and  together  they  opened  a  coal-mine  in 
Erie,  the  first  in  Weld  County.  It  was  owned 
by  an  uncle  of  our  subject,  and  after  it  had  been 
mined  for  about  two  years,  it  was  sold  to  the 
Boulder  Valley  Railroad  Company.  In  1868  the 
young  man  went  to  Gilpin  County,  where  for 
two  years  or  more  he  was  engaged  in  mining  at 
Central  City,  Blackhawk  and  Georgetown.  In 
1870  he  .settled  in  Boulder,  opened  a  meat- market 
on  Pearl  street  and  for  several  years  dealt  quite 
extensively  in  cattle  and  live  stock  as  well.  Then 
selling  out,  he  turned  his  attention  to  the  real- 
estate  business  and  with  his  brother-in-law,  Mr. 
Russell,  bought  a  tract  of  land  known  as  North 
Boulder  (including  Lover's  Hill),  some  seventy 
acres,  and  has  laid  it  out  in  town  lots. 

When  the  excavations  were  being  made  at 
Thirteenth  street  for  filling  in  around  the  court- 
house Mr.  Austin  noticed  the  peculiar  feeling  of 
the  moist  clay  under  foot,  one  morning  after  a 
rain,  and  curiously  examining  it,  came  to  the 
conclusion  that  it  was  a  superior  quality  of  shale 
clay,  used  in  the  manufacture  of  fine  pressed 
brick.  After  testing  it  in  various  ways  and 
sending  some  of  it  to  Chicago  to  experts  for 
analysis,  he  and  Mr.  Russell  organized  the 
Boulder  Pressed  Brick  Company  and  built  their 
works,  equipping  thesame  with  special  machinery 
brought  from  Chicago.  The  Boyd  press  has  a 
capacity  of  sixteen  thousand  brick  per  day.  The 
clay  is  very  fine,  being  smooth,  and  capable  of 
being  used  in  its  natural  state,  with  only  the 
processes  of  pulverizing,  screening,  dry  pressing 
and  burning.  The  company  has  built  up  a  large 
and  remunerative  trade,  shipping  to  Denver  and 


places  in  different  parts  of  the  state.  Mr.  Austin 
is  the  president  and  general  manager  of  the 
company  and  Mr.  Russell  is  the  secretary  and 
treasurer. 

January  8,  187 1,  Mr.  Austin  married,  in  this 
city,  Miss  Jennie  A.  Gilbert,  who  was  born  in 
Ohio  and  who  died  here,  leaving  one  child,  Evan, 
now  attending  the  University  of  Colorado.  Mr. 
Austin  was  afterwards  married  in  Michigan  to 
Miss  Sarah  Phelps,  daughter  of  Henry  Phelps,  an 
old  settler  of  Flint,  Mich.  They  have  two  chil- 
dren, Russell  and  Hazel.  Their  handsome  home. 
No.  1543  Pine  street,  was  built  by  Mr.  Austin  in 
1875.  He  is  past  commander  of  Nathaniel  Lyon 
Post  No.  5,  G.  A.  R.,  and  served  on  the  staff  of 
General  Carr,  of  the  department  of  Colorado  and 
Wyoming,  as  quartermaster,  with  the  rank  of 
colonel. 


EHAUNCEY  STOKES.  This  sterling  citizen 
of  Boulder  has  made  his  home  here  since  1875 
and  has  been  actively  interested  in  the  up- 
building and  prosperity  of  the  town  and  county. 
He  was"  one  of  the  original  stockholders  in  the 
Boulder  Milling  and  Elevator  Company  and  has 
been  connected  with  various  local  industries  and 
institutions.  At  one  time  he  was  a  candidate  for 
the  position  of  alderman  from  the  first  ward  and 
was  elected  v^ithout  opposition.  A  man  of  honor 
and  uprightness  in  all  his  dealings,  he  enjoys  the 
respect  and  high  regard  of  all  who  know  him,  and 
no  one  is  more  justly  entitled  to  be  represented  in 
the  annals  of  Boulder  County. 

The  paternal  grandfather  of  our  subject  was 
John  Stokes,  a  native  of  Ireland.  He  settled  in 
Connecticut  at  an  early  period,  and  thence  re- 
moved to  the  vicinity  of  Auburn,  Caj'uga  County, 
N.  Y.  He  was  a  farmer  by  occupation  and  was  a 
soldier  in  the  war  of  181 2.  The  father  of  Chaun- 
cey  Stokes  was  Augustus  Stokes,  whose  birth 
occurred  on  the  old  homestead  near  Auburn. 
He  was  a  carpenter  and  builder  in  central  New 
York.  His  death  took  place  when  he  was  in  his 
fifty-fifth  year,  and  his  wife,  who  survived  him  a 
long  time,  died  at  the  age  of  seventy-eight.  Her 
maiden  name  was  Catherine  Farrington,  and 
Long  Island  was  her  birthplace.  Her  father, 
John  Farrington,  was  a  native  of  Germany,  who, 
after  coming  to  this  country,  worked  at  his  trade 
of  blacksmithing  at  Martha's  Vineyard,  Mass., 
and  later  removed  to  Long  Island.     Ten  of  the 


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twelve  children  of  Augustus  and  Catherine  (Far- 
rington)  Stokes  grew  to  maturity,  but  only  two 
of  the  number  are  now  living,  namely:  Chauncey 
and  Henry,  the  latter  in  central  New  York. 

Chauncey  Stokes  was  born  February  12,  1824, 
near  Auburn,  N.  Y.,  and  spent  his  boyhood  on 
his  father's  farm.  His  education  was  obtained  in 
the  district  schools,  which  were  in  session  during 
the  winter  season  chiefly.  In  those  days,  when 
the  majority  of  families  made  their  own  woolen 
cloth,  wholly  or  in  part,  the  lad  worked  for  as 
little  as  six  and  a-fourth  cents  a  day.  When  he 
was  twelve  he  began  serving  an  apprenticeship  to 
the  carpenter's  trade  with  his  father,  and  in  1820 
he  started  out  as  an  independent  contractor  and 
builder.  In  1853  he  went  to  Wisconsin,  and  for 
about  six  months  lived  in  Madison,  where  he 
found  plenty  of  employment.  Later  he  settled 
in  Walworth  County,  in  the  same  state,  and 
•  engaged  in  building  at  Elkhorn  for  several  years. 
In  1864  he  took  up  his  residence  in  Evanston, 
111.,  and  there  erected  Heck  Hall,  one  of  the 
Northwestern  University  buildings  (the  cost  of 
which  was  about  $13,000)  and  also  a  portion  of 
the  main  building.  Many  other  beautiful  struct- 
ures and  homes  for  the  people  of  the  pretty  little 
city  were  put  up  by  Mr.  Stokes  during  the  few 
years  of  his  stay  there. 

It  was  in  1871  that  the  subject  of  this  review 
joined  a  colony  of  Chicagoans  bound  for  Colo- 
rado. They  reached  Longmont  in  February, 
and  after  Mr.  Stokes  had  located  their  lands  he 
proceeded  to  build  a  house,  the  first  one  on  the 
site  of  the  now  large  and  flourishing  town.  Later 
he  built  the  bank  and  hotel  and  many  of  the 
houses  of  the  colony.  In  the  fall  of  1872  he  went 
to  Denver  and  was  very  busily  occupied  there  at 
his  accustomed  work  for  three  years.  He  built 
for  Judge  Stiles  the  beautiful  residence  now 
owned  by  Willard  Teller,  and  many  other  not- 
able houses  and  business  blocks.  Coming  to 
Boulder  in  1875,  he  engaged  in  the  lumber 
business  at  Eighteenth  and  Pearl  streets;  later 
removing  to  Pearl,  between  Fourteenth  and  Fif- 
teenth. He  dealt  extensively  in  lumber  and 
building  material,  and  also  gave  much  of  his  time 
to  architecture.  He  drew  up  plans  for  the  presi- 
dent's house  at  the  University  of  Colorado  and 
those  of  many  other  fine  homes  and  edifices  in 
the  town  and  vicinity.  He  was  employed  to 
superintend  the  erection  of  the  courthouse  here, 


but  resigned  ere  the  work  was  completed,  be- 
cause the  authorities  were  not  disposed  to  give 
him  the  support  he  deemed  necessary.  Six  years 
ago  he  sold  out  the  lumber  business,  and  has 
since  devoted  himself  to  drawing  up  plans  for 
buildings,  general  architectural  work,  etc.  In 
1896  he  planted  five  acres  in  fruit  trees,  and  is 
watching  the  outcome  with  great  interest.  The 
orchard  is  situated  at  Manzanola,  Colo.,  on  the 
Arkansas  River.  Mr.  Stokes  was  president  of 
the  board  of  trustees  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church  and  superintended  the  building  of  the 
new  house  of  worship.  He  also  supervised  the 
erection  of  the  Presbyterian  Church,  the  Masonic 
Temple  and  the  high  school  building.  He  is,  and 
has  been  for  some  years,  connected  with  the 
Boulder  Building  &  Loan  Association.  In  1848 
he  identified  himself  with  the  Sons  of  Temper- 
ance, and  from  the  time  that  his  influence  counted 
for  anything,  it  has  been  used  against  the  saloon. 
He  is  now  afiiliated  with  the  Prohibition  parly. 
A  member  of  the  Masonic  order,  he  belongs  to 
Boulder  Lodge  No.  45,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.  For  many 
years  he  has  been  a  devoted  worker  in  the  Meth- 
odist Episcopal  Church.  At  present  he  is  a  trus- 
tee, and  has  been  superintendent  of  the  Sunday- 
school  and  occupied  other  official  positions. 

The  comfortable  and  attractive  home  of  Mr. 
Stokes  is  located  on  Pine  street,  near  Sixteenth, 
and  besides  this  he  owns  several  other  residences 
here.  He  was  married  in  1848  in  Wisconsin  to 
Lucy,  daughter  of  John  P.  Wylie,  a  farmer.  She 
was  born  in  Oneida  County,  N.  Y.,  and  removed 
to  Wisconsin  with  her  parents  in  1844.  The  two 
children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Stokes  are  S.  Stanley, 
who  for  three  or  four  years  was  the  assistant 
clerk  of  the  Colorado  legislature  and  is  now  a 
Denver  editor,  and  Mary  J.,  Mrs.  J.  H.  Parsons, 
of  Boulder. 


'HOMAS  M.  HYDER  is  comparatively  a 
newcomer  in  Boulder,  but  has  already 
gained  a  foothold  among  the  established 
contractors  and  builders  by  the  excellence  of  the 
work  he  has  done  and  his  manifest  knowledge 
and  experience  in  his  chosen  field  of  enterprise. 
He  is  a  wide-awake  western  young  man,  full  of 
energy  and  push,  and  is  certain  to  carve  out  for 
himself  an  enviable  position  in  the  business 
world. 

The  father  of  Thomas  Hyder,  Rev.  J.  A.  Hy- 


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der,  is  a  native  of  Knoxville,  Tenn.,  and,  having 
been  ordained  in  the  ministry  of  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church  South,  he  was  actively  en- 
gaged in  preaching  in  Missouri  up  to  the  Civil 
war.  He  then  enlisted  in  the  division  of  the 
army  commanded  by  General  Price,  and  served 
with  the  rank  of  captain.  He  was  wounded  and 
captured  in  the  battle  where  General  Lyon  met 
his  death,  and  was  afterward  paroled  and  banished 
from  the  state.  He  then  located  in  Council 
Grove,  Morris  County,  Kan.,  and  turned  his  at- 
tention to  agricultural  pursuits  until  the  close  of 
the  war.  In  the  fall  of  1865  he  returned  to  Mis- 
souri, and  settling  in  Plattsburg,  resumed  his 
ministerial  labors.  In  1890  he  went  to  Abilene, 
Taylor  County,  Tex.,  where  he  may  be  found  to- 
day, earnestly  occupied  in  preaching  the  Gospel. 
His  wife,  whose  maiden  name  was  Elizabeth 
Malotte,  is  of  French  extraction.  Her  father, 
Thomas  Malotte,  was  one  of  the  pioneers  of  Platte 
County,  Mo.,  and  erected  the  first  house  put  up 
in  that  section.  In  1868  he  removed  to  Clay 
County,  where  he  lived  until  claimed  by  death, 
in  1884.  He  was  a  local  preacher  of  the  Primi- 
tive Baptist  denomination,  and  was  loved  and 
respected  by  all  who  knew  him.  Rev.  J.  A. 
Hyder  and  wife  have  had  eight  children,  all  of 
whom  are  still  living. 

Thomas  Hyder,  of  this  sketch,  was  born  at  the 
close  of  the  Civil  war,  in  Council  Grove,  Kan., 
August  17,  1865.  He  is  the  third  child  in  the 
parental  family,  and,  with  his  brother,  J.  B.,  is  the 
only  representative  of  the  same  in  Colorado.  He 
was  reared  to  manhood  in  Plattsburg,  Mo.,  and 
received  an  excellent  education.  His  studies 
were  finished  at  Plattsburg  College,  where  he 
graduated  in  1882.  He  then  commenced  serving 
an  apprenticeship  to  the  carpenter's  trade  at 
Platte  City,  and  at  the  end  of  two  years  went  to 
Kansas  City,  where  he  obtained  a  position  as  fore- 
man for  Hays  Brothers,  contractors  and  builders. 
He  spent  three  years  in  the  employ  of  that  firm, 
and  then  embarked  in  independent  business  as  a 
contractor.  Two  years  later  he  removed  to  West 
Plains,  Mo. ,  and  was  there  successfully  occupied 
in  his  usual  calling  until  the  years  that  he  con- 
cluded to  try  his  fortune  in  Colorado.  Less  than 
two  years  ago  he  came  to  Boulder,  where  he  has 
been  busily  engaged  in  carrying  out  the  contracts 
for  residences,  stores,  etc.,  that  have  come  to  his 
share.  Thus,  specimens  of  his  skill  and  thorough 


workmanship  are  plentiful  here  now,  and  are 
witnesses  to  his  reliability  and  integrity  in  carry- 
ing out  his  contracts  to  the  letter.  While  living 
in  West  Plains  he  was  affiliated  with  the  Odd 
Fellows'  society  and  is  past  grand  in  that  state. 
He  also  belonged  to  the  encampment  of  the  same 
place;  is  a  past  ofiicer  in  the  Ancient  Older  of 
United  Workmen  and  also  of  the  Modern  Wood- 
men of  America.     Politically  he  is  a  Democrat. 

An  important  event  in  the  career  of  Mr.  Hyder 
occurred  while  he  was  a  citizen  of  West  Plains, 
Mo.,  as  there  it  was  that  Miss  N.  L.  Stubblefield 
became  his  wife,  October  i,  1885.  She  is  a  na- 
tive of  Howell  County,  Mo.,  and  is  a  lady  of  good 
education  and  social  attainments.  She  holds 
membership  with  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church 
South.  The  three  children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Hyder  are:  Elva  L.,  Erma  L-  and  Harold  A. 


EHARLES  J.  DUNN.  The  large  amount  of 
building  done  in  Denver  during  the  past 
decade  has  made  contracting  and  building  a 
very  important  occupation,  and  among  the  men 
who  have  followed  it  with  success  a  prominent 
position  belongs  to  Charles  J.  Dunn.  A  resident 
of  Denver  since  1887,  the  following  year  he  began 
as  a  general  carpenter  and  builder,  and  since  then 
has  had  many  contracts  for  private  and  public 
buildings.  In  addition  to  this  work,  he  is  also 
vice-president  of  the  Joseph  P.  Dunn  Leather 
Company,  wholesale  and  retail  dealers  in  leather 
and  findings,  and  manufacturers  of  boot  and  shoe 
uppers;  the  office  and  factory  are  at  No.  1748  Law- 
rence street,  and  Mr.  Dunn's  carpenter  shop  and 
office  are  at  No.  1827  Arapahoe  street. 

Born  in  New  York  City,  Mr.  Dunn  is  a  son  of 
Michael  Dunn,  who  removed  from  New  York  to 
St.  Louis  and  was  there  engaged  in  the  express 
business  for  some  years,  but  finally,  about  1887, 
removed  to  Denver,  his  present  place  of  residence. 
Of  his  five  children  all  but  one  are  living  in  Den- 
ver. Charles  J.,  who  was  next  to  the  eldest  of 
the  children,  was  educated  in  the  public  schools 
of  St.  Louis,  and  there,  at  the  age  of  seventeen, 
began  a  four  years'  apprenticeship  to  the  carpen- 
ter's trade.  When  the  family  came  to  Denver 
he  accompanied  them  and  since  1888  has  engaged 
in  contracting  and  building  here. 

In  this  city  Mr.  Dunn  married  Miss  Kate 
Smith,   who  was  born  in   Leavenworth,    Kan. 


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She  is  the  daughter  of  Johu  T.  Smith,  a  pioneer 
freighter  on  the  plains,  and  now  a  resident  near 
Holton,  Kan.  The  three  children  of  Mr.  Dunn 
are:  John,  Charles  J.,  Jr.,  and  Kate.  While  not 
radical  in  politics,  his  sympathies  are  with  the 
principles  of  the  Democratic  part}\  He  is  a  char- 
ter member  of  the  Carpenters  and  Builders'  As- 
sociation and  is  now  the  secretary  of  the  organi- 
zation. He  is  identified  with  the  Knights  of  St. 
John,  a  flourishing  beneficiary  association  of  the 
United  States.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Wood- 
men of  the  World,  Denver,  Camp  No.  i. 


r"REDERICK  W.  KOHI^ER,  who  for  two 
r^  terms  was  one  of  the  commissioners  of 
I  ^  Boulder  County,  is  a  prominent  and  in- 
fluential citizen  of  Boulder  City.  He  stands  high 
in  business,  fraternal  and  political  circles  and  has 
a  host  of  sincere  friends  throughout  this  section 
of  the  state.  He  is  public- spirited,  and  a  great 
friend  to  education,  as,  for  twenty  years,  more 
or  less,  was  made  manife-st,  for  during  that  period 
he  served  on  the  school  board.  He  has  reached 
the  highest  degree  in  Masonr}',  being  a  member 
of  the  commandery  and  the  Mystic  Shrine  of 
Denver.  He  is  identified  with  Columbia  Lodge 
No.  14,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  of  Boulder.  He  is  a 
stanch  Democrat,  and  was  elected  on  that  ticket 
to  the  office  of  county  commissioner  in  1885. 
After  serving  three  years  another  person  took 
his  place,  and  three  years  later,  he,  in  turn, 
stepped  down  to  make  way  for  his  predecessor, 
who  had  been  again  elected  to  the  position. 

A  native  of  Saxony,  Germany,  Mr.  Kohler  of 
this  sketch  was  born  October  24,  1832.  He  is 
one  of  the  eight  children  of  Frederick  and 
Christina  Kohler,  and  with  his  sister,  Joanna, 
Mrs.  Edward  Bader,  alone  survives  at  this  writ- 
ing. His  father  was  a  man  of  considerable 
prominence  in  Germany  and  for  many  years 
filled  a  public  oSice,  similar  to  that  of  justice  of 
the  peace  in  the  United  States,  only  more  re- 
sponsible. He  died  at  a  good  old  age  on  the  old 
homestead,  where  he  had  been  reared  and  had  fol- 
lowed agricultural  pursuits  in  mature  life. 

The  boyhood  of  our  subject  passed  quietly  on 
the  family  estate,  and  in  1849,  when  in  his 
eighteenth  year,  he  came  to  the  United  States  to 
seek  his  fortune;  landing  in  New  York  City  he 
proceeded  direct    to    Pennsylvania,    where    for 


seven  years  he  worked  for  one  man  in  Tioga 
County,  as  a  farm  hand.  At  first  he  was  not 
able  to  speak  any  English,  and  his  year's 
wages  amounted  to  but  $roo.  Year  by  year, 
however,  his  earnings  increased,  until  he  was 
paid  $14  a  month,  then  considered  very  good 
remuneration.  The  young  man  was  industrious 
and  economical,  and  at  the  end  of  the  seven 
years  he  had  saved  $600.  He  determined  to 
go  to  California  and  enter  the  lists  with  the. 
gold-miners.  Accordingly,  in  1856,  he  crossed 
the  plains  and  began  prospecting  in  the  mount- 
ains of  Calaveras  County,  Cal.  He  met  with 
success  and  deposited  his  money  until  he  had 
$1,800  in  the  Adams  Express  Bank,  which, 
on  account  of  the  name,  he  naturally  .supposed 
was  connected  with  the  old,  reliable  Adams  Ex- 
press Company.  One  morning,  however,  he 
found  that  the  sign  of  the  bank  had  been  taken 
down  and  the  bank  closed,  while  the  proprietors 
had  disappeared  with  his  hard-earned  cash.  Mr. 
Kohler  did  not  give  way  to  despondency,  as  many 
a  man  would  have  done,  but  bravely  returned  to 
the  mines  and  worked  with  redoubled  energy. 
In  1862  he  started  on  his  way  to  Colorado  with  a 
goodly  sura  of  money,  the  result  of  his  long  and 
thrifty  labors. 

Settling  in  Boulder  County,  Mr.  Kohler  bought 
a  quarter-section  of  land  from  three  brothers, 
paying  |8oo  for  the  property.  The  land  was 
situated  but  a  short  distance  from  Boulder,  and 
when  the  government  survey  was  made  it  turned 
out  that  there  had  been  misrepresentation,  and 
in  consequence  of  this  and  legal  technicalities, 
Mr.  Kohler  lost  the  farm.  He  was  more  suc- 
cessful the  next  time,  as  he  bought  a  quit-claim 
deed,  on  which  he  afterward  filed  as  a  homestead 
one  hundred  and  sixty  acres.  Here  he  made 
many  improvements,  and  has  since  dwelt  in  peace 
and  prosperity.  From  time  to  time  he  bought 
additional  land,  until  he  now  owns  between  seven 
and  eight  hundred  acres.  The  land  is  very  fertile 
and  abundant  harvests  reward  the  owner's  toil. 
In  the  latter  part  of  the  '60s  Mr.  Kohler  invested 
somewhat  extensively  in  a  mining  venture  known 
as  the  Conning  Tunnel,  in  Gold  Hill.  After 
four  years  of  heavy  expense  the  project  was 
abandoned.  When  the  Boulder  National  Bank 
was  established  our  subject  became  a  stockholder 
and  was  made  a  director. 

June  4,   1868,  Mr.  Kohler  and  Rosetta  Viele, 


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of  Boulder,  were  married.  Of  their  three  chil- 
dreu  two  survive:  Frederick  W.,  Jr.,  employed 
in  the  Boulder  National  Bank;  and  Charles  E., 
an  able  agriculturist  and  business  man,  now 
fitting  himself  to  take  charge  of  his  father's 
estates,  whenever  desired. 


Gl  NDREW  J.  CAMPION,  secretary  and  gen- 
.  l\  eral  manager  of  the  Sigel-Barnes  Live  Stock 
/  I  Commission  Company,  of  Denver,  was  born 
in  Rutland,  near  Springfield,  Mass.,  July  4,  i860, 
being  the  son  of  James  and  Margaret  Campion. 
When  he  was  six  years  of  age  he  was  taken  by  his 
parents  to  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  where  his  primary 
education  was  obtained  in  the  public  schools. 
After  three  years  in  that  city  the  family  removed 
farther  west,  locating  in  Lafayette,  Ind.,  where 
he  had  such  educational  advantages  as  the  district 
schools  afforded.  In  1882  he  came  to  Colorado 
and  for  eight  months  was  in  the  employ  of  Her- 
man &  Hirsch,  but  on  the  failure  of  that  firm  he 
returned  east  as  far  as  Chicago.  However,  in  a 
very  short  time  he  came  back  to  Colorado,  and  in 
the  spring  of  1883  he  secured  a  position  with 
Henry  Grimm,  of  Denver.  Later  he  was  a  com- 
mercial traveler,  representing  Joseph  Metzler,  and 
in  1884  became  a  bookkeeper  for  H.  H.  Mills  at 
the  stockyards,  which  position  he  held  for  three 
years. 

On  the  organization  of  the  Burkhardt  Packing 
Company,  Mr.  Campion  and  Mr.  Mills  were  the 
chief  stockholders  in  the  new  concern,  but  after 
three  years  the  partnership  was  dissolved,  and 
the  name  of  the  firm  was  changed  to  the  Colo- 
rado Packing  Company.  Some  time  afterward 
the  B.  &  M.  Packing  Company  was  organized, 
and  a  year  later  Mr.  Burkhardt  sold  his  interest 
in  the  company.  At  this  writing  Mr.  Campion 
is  secretary  and  manager  of  the  Sigel-Barnes  Live 
Stock  Commission  Company,  at  the  Union  Stock- 
yards. He  is  an  experienced  stockman  and  in 
matters  relating  to  cattle  interests  his  judgment 
never  errs.  He  is  a  member  of  the  chamber  of 
commerce  and  is  identified  with  other  local  in- 
terests of  the  city  where  he  resides.  In  June, 
1890,  he  married  Emily  Kaub,  daughter  of  Frank 
H.  Kaub,  one  of  the  oldest  engineers  of  Denver, 
and  they  have  a  pleasant  home  at  No.  2343  Stout 
street.  One  daughter  blessed  this  union,  Patricia 
Marie  Campion. 


gAPT.  ALONZO  COAN,  a  worthy  citizen 
of  Boulder,  gained  his  title  in  the  Civil  war, 
in  which  his  services  were  distinguished  for 
unusual  bravery  and  gallantry.  But  a  youth  at 
the  time  of  his  enlistment  in  the  summer  of  1861, 
he  rose  step  by  step  from  the  ranks  through  all 
the  grades  of  promotion  until  he  was  commis- 
sioned captain  of  his  company.  Five  years  of 
his  early  manhood  was  the  tribute  of  patriotism 
which  he  paid  to  his  beloved  country — five  years 
of  active  campaigning,  of  the  hardships  and  pri- 
vations which  are  the  common  lot  of  the  soldier 
in  the  field,  and  since  the  war  he  has  stood  high 
in  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic.  He  has 
been  commander  of  Nathaniel  Lyon  Post  No.  5 ; 
has  been  an  aide  on  the  department  staff  and  has 
occupied  a  similar  position  on  the  national  com- 
mander's staff.  In  1896  and  1897  he  was  assist- 
ant adjutant-general  of  the  department  of  the 
Colorado  and  Wyoming,  having  the  rank  of 
colonel. 

The  captain's  parents  were  Abraham  and  Mary 
(Abbott)  Coan,  natives  of  Penobscot  County,  Me., 
and  New  Hampshire,  respectively.  The  former 
was  a  son  of  Capt.  Elisha  Coan,  a  sea-faring  man, 
who  was  for  years  engaged  in  trading  with  East 
Indian  ports.  He  was  a  native  of  Cape  Cod, 
Mass.,  and  at  an  early  day  located  on  Castine 
Bay,  at  the  m9uth  of  the  Penobscot  River.  While 
the  war  of  1812  was  in  progress  he  was  in  the 
merchant  marine  service,  and  at  one  time  his  ship 
was  detained  at  Havre,  France,  owing  to  the 
French  embargo  then  prevailing.  The  Coans 
were  of  English  descent,  members  of  the  family 
having  settled  at  Cape  Cod  several  generations 
prior  to  the  time  of  Capt.  Elisha  Coan.  Abraham 
Coan  owned  and  cultivated  a  farm  near  Exeter, 
Penobscot  County,  Me.  This  place  he  cleared 
from  the  heavy  forests  of  beach  and  maple  trees 
that  covered  it,  and  passed  his  last  years  in  the 
comfortable  farm  house  which  he  had  built  upon 
the  homestead.  He  lived  to  be  sixty  years  of 
age.  His  wife,  who  attained  the  allotted  age  of 
mankind  according  to  the  Psalmist,  "three  score 
and  ten,"  was  the  daughter  of  John  Abbott,  a 
New  Hampshire  farmer.  The  seven  children  of 
Abraham  and  Mary  Coan  were:  Elisha,  who  died 
on  the  old  farm;  Col.  W.  B.,  who  died  in  Mas- 
sachusetts; Julia,  Mrs.  James  R.  Simpson,  of 
Lawrence,  Mass. ;  Samuel,  who  died  at  the 
beginning  of  the  war,   in  Maine;    Gilman  R., 


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whose  death  occurred  in  Massachusetts;  Albert, 
who  died  in  Lawrence,  Mass. ;  and  Alonzo.  Col. 
William  B.  enlisted  in  the  Seventh  New  York 
Regiment,  of  which  he  was  a  sergeant,  and  later 
in  the  war  raised  a  company  for  the  Forty-eighth 
New  York,  being  commissioned  a  colonel  for 
meritorious  services.  Albert  served  for  three 
years  as  a  non-commissioned  officer  in  the  Twelfth 
Maine. 

Capt.  Alonzo  Coan  was  born  in  Exeter,  Me., 
June  6,  1842.  After  he  had  graduated  from 
Exeter  Academy  he  engaged  in  teaching,  and 
when  Fort  Sumter  was  fired  upon,  in  April,  1861, 
he  at  once  offered  his  services  to  the  Union.  He 
was  refused  at  that  time,  but  in  the  following  Au- 
gust was  mustered  into  Company  H,  Fifteenth 
Maine  Infantry,  at  Augusta.  He  was  sent  to 
Ship  Island  and  joined  Butler  in  his  expedition 
against  New  Orleans.  Subsequently  he  ser\'ed 
under  General  Banks  in  the  siege  of  Port  Hud- 
son, and  went  on  the  Texas  expedition  in  1863, 
capturing  Brownville  on  the  Rio  Grande  and  at 
Corpus  Christi  and  Matagorda.  After  that  the 
Red  River  campaign  followed  and  the  battles 
of  Sabine  Cross  Roads  and  Pleasant  Hill.  Cap- 
tain Coan  helped  construct  the  dam  at  Alexandria 
on  the  Red  River,  in  order  to  enable  the  gun- 
boats to  go  down  the  stream.  After  the  fight  at 
Marksville  he  was  ordered  to  Virginia,  and  was 
sent  by  boat  to  Washington,  where  he  arrived  in 
July,  1864,  at  the  time  of  Early's  raid  toward 
that  city.  He  was  sent  to  follow  up  Early  under 
the  command  of  General  Wright,  until  Wright 
was  relieved  by  Sheridan.  In  the  spring  of 
1864  he  and  his  regiment  veteranized  in  Texas, 
and  afterwards,  when  in  Virginia,  they  were  all 
granted  a  thirty-days'  furlough  and  returned  to 
Maine.  After  the  battle  of  Winchester  they  re- 
assembled and  went  with  Sheridan  up  and  down 
the  Shenandoah  Valley  in  that  campaign.  At 
the  close  of  the  war  Captain  Coan  participated  in 
the  grand  review  at  Washington,  and  was  then 
sent  to  Georgia  and  South  Carolina.  He  acted  in 
the  capacity  of  quartermaster-sergeant,  sergeant- 
major,  second  lieutenant  of  Company  H,  first 
lieutenant  of  Company  K,  and  finally  captain  of 
Company  H,  of  the  Fifteenth  Maine  Infantry. 
In  South  Carolina  he  was  provost-marshal  of  the 
sub- district  of  Georgetown,  and  later  was  made 
the  judge  of  the  provost- court  of  the  same  locality. 
Afterwards  he  was  an  aide  on  the  stafi"  of  Major- 


General  Ames,  with  the  rank  of  captain,  until 
his  superior  left  the  service,  when  he  returned 
to  his  own  company.  In  August,  1866,  Captain 
Coan  was  honorably  discharged  from  the  service. 

For  a  year  or  more  the  captain  was  engaged  in 
business  in  his  native  state,  but  in  1867  he  came 
west  to  Missouri.  Settling  in  Maysville,  De- 
Kalb  County,  he  embarked  in  the  manufacture 
and  sale  of  lumber,  and  also  dealt  in  real  estate 
until  the  Centennial  year.  In  April  he  came  to 
Boulder,  since  which  he  has  been  extensively 
engaged  in  mining  enterprises  of  this  state, 
Arizona  and  New  Mexico.  The  Kej'stone  mine, 
near  Magnolia,  is  operated  by  him.  The  Living- 
stone, near  Sugar  Loaf,  consists  of  seven  claims, 
owned  by  the  Livingstone  Gold  Mining  Company, 
of  which  he  is  the  vice-president  and  secretary. 
The  Logan  he  operates  alone,  and  the  Morning 
Star,  at  Ward,  is  carried  on  by  a  company.  All 
of  these  mines  are  very  valuable  and  in  full  opera- 
tion. Since  he  became  a  voter  the  captain  has 
been  a  faithful  Republican.  From  1894  to  1898 
he  was  alderman  from  the  second  ward  in  the 
Boulder  City  council,  and  for  three  years  has 
acted  as  chairman  of  the  finance  committee.  He 
is  public-spirited  and  devoted  to  the  best  in- 
terests of  the  people,  as  they  realize.  Frater- 
nally he  belongs  to  Columbia  Lodge  No.  14, 
A.  F.  &  A.  M. 

The  marriage  of  Captain  Coan  and  Etta,  daugh- 
ter of  Manford  Lancaster,  was  solemnized  in  De- 
Kalb  County,  Mo.,  July  12,  1875.  Her  father 
was  a  native  of  Kentucky,  and  was  an  early 
settler  in  DeKalb  County.  Edith,  the  only 
daughter  of  the  captain  and  wife,  graduated  from 
the  University  of  Colorado  in  1897  and  is  the 
wife  of  George  A.  McClure,  of  Boulder.  Ralph, 
the  only  son,  is  a  student  in  the  preparatory 
department  of  the  same  institution. 


<A  ILO  E.  PLATT,  who  is  engaged  in  stock- 
y  raising  and  farming  in  Boulder  County, 
(9  was  born  in  Dallas  County,  Iowa,  October 
12,  1861,  a  son  of  Isaac  and  Elmira  (Gould) 
Piatt.  He  was  one  of  twelve  children,  of  whom 
nine  are  living,  viz.:  Lee,  John,  Jerome,  Milo 
E.,  Mary,  Lurinda,  Eva,  Emma  and  Laura. 
His  father,  a  native  of  Richland  County,  Ohio, 
bcrn  in  1834,  grew  to  manhood  in  his  native 
locality,    and    from    there    migrated    to    Dallas 


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County,  Iowa,  where  he  married.  In  1874  he 
removed  from  there  to  Colorado  with  the  inten- 
tionof making  this  state  his  permanent  home, 
but  after  following  farm  pursuits  in  Boulder 
County  until  1886,  he  removed  to  Rapid  City, 
S.  Dak.,  where  he  is  now  engaged  in  farming  and 
stock-raising.  His  father,  Richard  Piatt,  was 
born  in  Ohio  and  became  a  successful  agricult- 
urist of  that  state;  while  his  father-in-law,  Jona- 
than Gould,  was  a  native  of  New  York. 

In  the  schools  near  his  childhood's  home  our 
subject  obtained  a  fair  education.  At  the  age  of 
eighteen  he  secured  work  as  a  farm  hand  and 
five  years  later  began  as  a  farmer  for  himself,  on 
the  place  where  he  still  resides.  Here,  for  twelve 
years  or  more,  he  has  raised  stock  and  such  cere- 
als as  are  adapted  to  the  soil.  January  1,1885,  he 
married  Miss  Bertha  Davis,  and  five  children 
comprise  their  family,  viz.:  Pearl,  Frank,  Edward 
George  and  Mary. 

Politically  Mr.  Piatt  is  independent  and  votes 
for  the  man  whom  he  considers  best  fitted  for 
office,  without  regard  to  his  political  affiliations. 
He  is  a  friend  of  the  free  school  system  and  has 
served  as  a  member  of  the  school  board  sines 
1889.  Fraternally  he  is  connected  with  Boulder 
Tent  No.  4,  Order  of  Maccabees.  He  is  also 
actively  identified  with  the  Boulder  Valley 
Grange. 

EHARLES  O.  RICE,  M.  D.,  has  won  unusual 
prominence  in  his  profession  for  one  of  his 
years  and  stands  very  high  among  the  phy- 
sicians and  surgeons  of  Boulder  County.  Though 
he  has  been  a  resident  of  this  valley  but  four 
years,  he  has  a  large  and  lucrative  practice  and 
for  the  past  two  years  has  been  the  regular  sur- 
geon for  the  Marshall  mines.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Boulder  County  Medical  Association,  and 
formerly  was  connected  with  the  New  York  Med- 
ical Association.  When  engaged  in  practice  in 
New  York  City  he  was  a  member  of  the  local 
board  of  health,  and  February  4,  1896,  he  was 
appointed  one  of  the  United  States  pension  exam- 
iners, and  served  as  treasurer  of  the  board  until 
the  following  year,  when  a  change  of  political  ad- 
ministration brought  about  a  change  in  the 
force. 

Dr.  Rice  can  boast  of  at  lea.st  two  thoroughly 
patriotic  ancestors,  for  his  father's  maternal  grand- 
father, Everett,  was  a  hero  of  the  Revolutionary 


war,  as  was  also  Great-grandfather  Judd,  the 
grandfather  of  our  subject's  mother.  The  doc- 
tor's parents  are  Brainard  and  Electa  (Judd)  Rice, 
natives  of  New  York  state.  The  Rices  origina- 
ted in  Connecticut,  and  representatives  of  the 
family  were  early  settlers  in  Jefferson  County, 
near  the  outlet  of  Lake  Ontario.  Grandfather 
Leander  Rice  was  born  in  that  region  as  was  his 
son  Brainard  and  grandson  Charles,  of  this  sketch. 
Leander  Rice  married  a  Miss  Philura  Everett, 
of  New  England  birth,  and  daughter  of  the  Rev- 
olutionary soldier  above  mentioned.  Mrs.  Electa 
Rice  is  a  daughter  of  Philetus  Judd,  who  was  born 
in  New  England,  and  in  boyhood  went  with  his 
parents  into  New  York  state,  subsequent  to  the 
colonial  struggle  for  independence,  in  which  his 
father  had  participated.  Brainard  Rice  was  a 
farmer  in  former  years,  but  has  been  a  merchant 
in  Rivervievv,  N.  Y.,  for  many  years  now.  He 
held  the  position  of  collector  in  the  custom  house 
there  for  one  term  about  a  decade  ago,  under  a 
Republican  administration,  but  aside  from  that 
has  not  figured  in  public  life  to  any  extent.  His 
eldest  son,  Albert  E.,  is  a  resident  of  Riverview, 
N.  Y. ,  as  is  likewise  the  only  daughter,  Mrs. 
Jessie  Harris. 

The  birth  of  Dr.  Charles  Rice  took  place  at 
Cape  Vincent,  Jefferson  County,  N.  Y.,  January 
8,  1868.  He  received  good  educational  advan- 
tages in  his  native  state  and  pursued  his  higher 
studies  in  Ives  Seminary,  and  Watertown  (N.  Y. ) 
high  school.  Then,  having  determined  to  enter 
the  field  of  medicine,  he  read  with  Dr.  Spencer 
of  Watertown  for  about  two  years.  In  1887  he 
entered  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons, 
in  New  York  City,  graduating  from  that  celebra- 
ted institution  in  1889,  with  the  degree  of  Doctor 
of  Medicine.  He  at  once  started  on  a  post-grad- 
uate course  in  the  New  York  Polyclinic  College, 
in  order  to  more  thoroughly  qualify  himself  for 
the  serious  work  before  him.  Then  it  was  his 
privilege  to  practice  under  the  trained  preceptor 
whose  advice,  instruction  and  encouragement  had 
heretofore  been  almost  invaluable  to  the  young 
man.  Two  years  were  most  profitably  spent 
under  his  guidance,  after  which  Dr.  Rice  felt 
fully  qualified  to  enter  upon  an  independent  ca- 
reer. Going  to  New  York  City,  he  opened  an 
oflice  on  West  Fifty-seventh  street,  and  was  suc- 
cessfully engaged  in  practice  in  that  locality  for  a 
period  of  some  four  years.    An  attack  of  bronchitis 


JOHN  ISRAEL  BREWER. 


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interfered  with  his  duties,  and,  proving  quite  se- 
vere and  weakening,  he  decided  to  trj'  a  change 
of  climate.  This  occurred  in  the  winter  of  1894, 
since  which  time  he  has  made  his  home  in  Boul- 
der. He  is  a  member  of  the  Alumni  Association 
of  Columbia  College,  New  York  City,  and  is  the 
examining  physician  of  the  local  lodges  of  the 
Knights  of  the  Golden  Eagle  and  of  the  Foresters. 
Politically  he  is  a  silver  Democrat.  He  was  ini- 
tiated into  the  mysteries  of  Masonry  in  Water- 
town,  N.  Y. ,  and  still  holds  membership  with 
Watertown  lyodge  No.  49,  A.  F.  &  A.  M. ,  the 
one  to  which  ex-Governor  Flower  belongs. 

The  marriage  of  the  doctor  and  Miss  May 
Frances  Gordon  was  solemnized  in  New  York 
City,  September  25,  1893.  Her  father,  Edward 
Gordon,  is  a  well-known  business  man  of  Colum- 
bus avenue.  New  York.  The  marriage  of  Dr. 
Rice  and  his  estimable  wife  has  been  blessed  by 
the  birth  of  a  little  daughter,  Ethel. 


(lOHN  ISRAEL  BREWER  enjoys  the  dis- 
I  tinction  of  being  one  of  the  best  farmers  and 
(2/  business  men  of  Arapahoe  County.  His 
homestead,  located  on  section  18,  township  2 
south,  range  67  west,  is  a  model  one  in  every 
respect,  and  can  be  excelled  by  few  in  this  por- 
tion of  the  state.  In  the  year  1864  he  entered 
fifty  acres  of  it  from  the  government,  it  then  be- 
ing entirely  unbroken  and  unimproved.  From 
time  to  time  he  purchased  more,  until  he  owned 
four  hundred  and  forty  acres.  He  sold  eighty 
acres  of  this  later,  and  deeded  some  to  his  sons 
until  he  has  now  but  one  hundred  and  thirty 
acres  left,  though  this  is  ample  for  his  needs.  It 
is  well  irrigated,  and  the  owner  is  a  stockholder 
in  the  Colorado  Agricultural  Ditch  Company, 
having  served  as  its  secretary  five  or  six  years 
and  for  several  years  as  its  president,  while  he  has 
been  a  director  from  the  organization  of  the  con- 
cern. 

On  both  sides  of  the  family  Mr.  Brewer  comes 
of  patriotic  ancestry.  His  grandfather,  John 
Brewer,  a  native  of  New  Jersey  and  of  English 
extraction,  was  about  seventeen  years  old  when 
the  war  of  the  Revolution  came  on.  He  enlisted 
and  served  under  General  Washington  at  Schuyl- 
kill, Valley  Forge  and  other  notable  places.  His 
two  brothers,  George  and  Paul,  were  killed  in 
the  Revolutionary  war.      Adam  Hinkle,  the  ma- 


ternal grandfather  of  our  subject,  was  a  soldier 
of  the  Revolution  and  was  in  the  branch  of  the 
army  commanded  by  General  Greene.  After  the 
war  he  settled  in  Frederick  County,  Va. ,  where 
he  had  located  previously,  upon  arriving  in  this 
country  from  Germany,  his  native  land.  He 
married  in  Virginia  and  there  his  children  were 
born. 

James  H.  Brewer,  father  of  our  subject,  was 
born  on  an  island  in  the  Susquehanna  River,  in 
Union  County,  Pa.  He  was  educated  for  the 
Presbyterian  ministry  and  went  to  Virginia  in 
that  capacity.  He  there  met  and  married  Mary 
Hinkle,  by  whom  he  had  ten  children.  He  died 
March  13,  1833,  when  our  subject  was  but  four- 
teen, and  the  latter,  being  the  eldest  son,  felt  that 
the  family  was  thus  left  to  his  charge  in  large 
measure.  For  eight  years  they  kept  together, 
living  on  a  small  farm  which  had  belonged  to  the 
father.  The  mother  then  married  a  second  time, 
and  James  H.,  who  had  manfully  contributed  his 
earnings  to'the  support  of  the  family,  at  last  felt 
that  he  was  free.  His  education  had  materially 
suffered,  for,  whereas  his  father  had  had  college 
advantages,  he  had  only  had  a  subscription- 
school  education. 

John  I.  Brewer  was  born  in  Frederick,  Va., 
February  25,  18 19.  He  picked  up  the  carpen- 
ter's trade  after  his  father's  death  and  worked  at 
building  barns,  sheds  and  at  whatever  he  could 
find  to  do.  In  1849  he  joined  a  party  of  men  who 
were  going  to  California  after  gold.  The  com- 
pany was  in  charge  of  Frank  Washington,  who 
was  a  nephew  of  President  Washington.  As  Mr. 
Brewer  had  some  business  affairs  to  settle  he  al- 
lowed the  others  to  precede. him  and  intended  to 
overtake  them  on  the  way.  Cholera  was  abroad 
in  the  land  and  he  almost  decided  not  to  leave 
home,  but  finally  did  set  out,  and  had  proceeded 
to  a  point  beyond  Evansville,  Ind.,  when  he  was 
taken  sick  with  the  mumps,  and  not  knowing 
what  was  the  trouble  he  did  not  continue  his 
westward  trip.  He  spent  the  next  two  years  in 
Aurora,  Ind.,  thence  going  to  Harrison  County, 
Ky. ,  where  he  was  married.  Later  he  moved  to 
Carrollton,  Ky.,  and  in  December,  i860,  went  to 
St.  Joseph,  Mo.  About  a  year  afterward  he 
came  to  Colorado  with  the  intention  of  going 
into  the  mines  here.  Instead  he  worked  for 
James  M.  Broadwell,  of  Denver,  for  a  short  time 
and  then  rented  a  farm  near  his  present  home- 


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stead.  At  the  end  of  a  year  he  rented  another 
place,  and  in  1863  went  back  for  his  family, 
driving  through  to  Colorado  with  them.  Then, 
in  1864,  as  previously  related,  he  located  on  the 
land  where  he  still  dwells. 

From  his  early  manhood  Mr.  Brewer  has  been 
a  Democrat.  He  was  nominated  for  county  com- 
missioner here,  but  was  not  elected,  and  when  a 
resident  of  Kentucky  he  was  tendered  the  nomin- 
ation for  the  legislature,  but  declined  the  honor. 
He  served  as  a  justice  of  the  peace  for  two  years. 
In  Aurora,  Ind.,  he  joined  the  Masonic  order, 
and  when  he  moved  to  Carrollton,  Ky.,  he  be- 
came a  member  of  the  Odd  Fellows'  society  and 
took  the  fifth  degree. 

December  15,  1850,  Mr.  Brewer  married  Miss 
Hannah  C.  Zilar,  a  native  of  Fleming  County, 
Ky.  Her  parents  were  Jacob  and  Esther  (Chad- 
wick)  Zilar,  of  English  and  Irish  descent  re- 
spectively. The  great-uncle  of  the  mother  was 
Sir  Andrew  Chadwick,  who  was  knighted  for 
saving  the  life  of  Queen  Anne  on  one  occasion 
when  her  horses  were  running  away.  The  faith- 
ful wife  of  Mr.  Brewer,  his  kind  and  helpful  com- 
panion through  joys  and  sorrows,  died  on 
Thanksgiving  day,  1896,  and  was  placed  to  rest 
in  Riverside  Cemetery.  Their  five  children,  all 
born  in  Carrollton,  Ky.,  where  Mr.  Brewer  kept 
a  hotel  for  several  years,  are  as,  follows:  John 
Randolph,  born  in  1851,  is  unmarried  and  lives 
with  his  father;  Mary  Ellen,  Mrs.  F.  S.  McKay, 
lives  in  Irondale  and  has  six  children;  James  M., 
born  in  1855,  died  November  8,  1897,  ^^^  l^ft 
ten  children;  JefiFerson  Z.,  unmarried  and  wealthy, 
is  now  living  in  Billings,  Mont.,  and  for  thirteen 
years  was  manager  of  a  large  cattle  ranch;  and 
Louise  Ada  is  the  wife  of  John  B.  Zilar,  of  Weld 
County,  and  is  the  mother  of  seven  children. 


EHARLES  SNYDER,  superintendent  of  the 
Kilton  Gold  Reduction  Company,  a  flourish- 
ing business  enterprise  in  Boulder,  is  a 
young  man  of  marked  talent  and  executive 
ability.  He  is  connected  with  other  local  indus- 
tries, is  interested  extensively  in  mining  opera- 
tions and  has  investments  in  real  estate.  With 
the  brilliant  start  he  has  already  made  in  the 
commercial  world,  it  is  safe  to  predict  for  him  a 
prosperous  future. 

The  father  of  our  subject  is  A.  G.  Snyder,  who 


is  represented  elsewhere  in  this  volume.  The  sen- 
ior Mr.  Snyder  is  a  native  of  Berne,  Switzerland, 
and  came  to  the  United  States  with  his  parents 
at  an  early  age.  They  settled  in  Carthage,  N.  Y. 
on  a  farm,  where  the  lad  grew  to  manhood. 
During  the  war  of  the  Rebellion  he  enlisted  in 
the  Twentieth  New  York  Cavalry,  and  served 
with  fidelity  and  bravery  until  after  the  close  of 
hostilities,  when  he  was  granted  an  honorable 
discharge,  and  returned  home.  Some  time  sub- 
sequently he  went  to  Missouri,  where  he  took  up 
a  homestead  in  Caldwell  County,  and  operated 
the  place  for  a  few  years,  then  coming  to  Colo- 
rado. Locating  in  Logan  County,  near  the  town 
of  Sterling,  he  conducted  a  farm  and  raised  stock 
quite  successfully  from  1887  until  1891,  when  he 
took  up  his  residence  in  Boulder.  Since  that  time 
he  has  been  engaged  in  the  real-estate  business  and 
other  enterprises.  His  wife,  whose  maiden  name 
was  Mary  Pierce,  comes  of  the  same  family  as 
B.  F.  Pierce  of  this  city,  and  is  a  native  of  Penn- 
sylvania. Her  father  was  Charles  Pierce,  a 
native  of  Vermont  and  a  life-long  agriculturist. 
Two  children  came  to  bless  the  home  of  A.  G. 
Snyder  and  wife,  namely:  Maude  and  Charles,  of 
this  sketch. 

The  birth  of  Charles  Snyder  occurred  in 
Kingston,  Mo.,  August  2,  1872,  and  his  early 
recollections  are  of  life  on  a  prairie  farm.  When 
he  was  about  ten  years  of  age  he  accompanied 
his  parents  on  a  visit  to  New  York  state,  and  for 
several  years  he  pursued  his  studies  in  the  ex- 
cellent schools  of  Carthage.  Eleven  years  ago 
he  came  to  Colorado,  continued  his  course  in  the 
school  at  Sterling,  Logan  Count}^  and  finally 
graduated  with  honors  from  the  Sterling  high 
school.  He  then  matriculated  in  the  University 
of  Colorado  in  1891,  and  passed  two  years  very 
profitably  in  that  well-known  institution  of  learn- 
ing. At  the  close  of  his  sophomore  year  he  left 
his  studies  to  engage  in  business. 

Ever  since  he  has  had  the  right  of  franchise, 
Mr.  Snyder  has  wielded  his  ballot  on  behalf  of 
the  Republican  party.  In  1893,  when  but  little 
past  his  majority,  he  held  his  first  public  ofiice, 
being  made  deputy  county  treasurer  under  B.  R. 
McNaughton.  He  proved  thoroughly  capable 
and  trustworthy  and  continued  to  occupy  the 
position  of  deputy  with  L.  H.  Smith  until  1896, 
when  he  resigned  in  order  to  give  his  whole 
time  and  attention   to  a  new  enterprise.      The 


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Kilton  Gold  Reduction  Company,  formerly  the 
Kilton  Gold  Extraction  Company,  was  then  just 
starting  its  plant  in  Boulder,  and  Mr.  Snyder 
was  made  the  assistant  manager  of  the  concern. 
In  May,  1897,  he  resigned,  and  three  months 
later  accepted  the  superintendency  of  the  re-or- 
ganized and  consolidated  company,  under  its 
present  name.  The  Boulder,  Breckenridge,  Idaho 
Springs,  Florence  and  Victor  Companies  were 
all  merged  into  the  Kilton  Gold  Reduction  Com- 
pany. Mr.  Snyder  has  been  the  superintendent 
of  the  Boulder  plant  since  its  beginning.  In 
December,  1896,  the  Chlorination  works  were 
added  to  the  original  estabhshment.  All  kinds 
of  minerals  and  ores  are  bought  and  treated  here, 
and  the  company  handles  the  bulk  of  ore  taken 
out  in  this  county.  Mr.  Snyder  is  the  sole  owner 
of  the  Cash  mine  near  Gold  Hill,  and  owns  a 
stamp  mill  there  also. 

Socially  Mr.  Snyder  is  very  popular  in  Boul- 
der. He  is  a  member  of  the  Boulder  Club  and  is 
identified  with  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church. 
He  is  kind-hearted  and  liberal,  being  always 
ready  to  lend  a  helping  hand  to  those  who  are  in 
need  of  assistance. 


pCJlLLIAM  J.  IREDALE,  who  has  been  the 

\  A  /  proprietor  of  the  Capitol  Livery  Stables 
VV  for  about  five  .years,  is  one  of  the  ener- 
getic, popular  business  men  of  Boulder.  His  es- 
tablishment, which  he  is  managing  with  ability, 
is  one  of  the  oldest  in  the  county  in  its  line,  and 
receives  a  large  patronage.  Mr.  Iredale  is  very 
prominent  in  the  local  fraternities;  is  a  member 
of  the  Boulder  Brass  Band  and  is  one  of  the  old- 
est members,  in  years  of  service,  in  the  A.  J. 
Macky  Hose  Company.  He  belongs  to  the 
Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen;  the  Knights 
of  the  Maccabees,  and  the  Knights  of  Pythias 
(Uniform  Rank). 

In  a  family  that  originally  numbered  thirteen 
children,  W.  J.  Iredale  is  the  eldest  of  three  sons 
and  five  daughters  who  survive,  and  is  the  only 
one  residing  in  Colorado.  His  father,  Thomas 
Watson  Iredale,  is  a  native  of  Harfordshire,  Eng- 
land. He  was  married  in  that  country  and  soon 
afterwards  came  to  America.  He  settled  in  St. 
Mary's,  Ontario,  Canada,  where  he  pursued  his 
trade  of  milling,  and  later  removed  to  Manitoba. 
He  is  now  the  postmaster  of  the  little  town  of 


Dolphin,  in  that  province.  His  wife  bore  the 
maiden  name  of  Rebecca  Game,  and  both  are 
members  of  the  Episcopal  Church. 

W.  J.  Iredale  was  born  in  St.  Mary's,  Ontario, 
September  20,  1856,  and  was  educated  in  the 
public  and  high  schools  of  that  town.  He  ob- 
tained a  position  in  a  hardware  store  after  he  had 
completed  his  studies,  and  learned  the  tinsmith's 
trade.  The  Centennial  year  he  came  to  Colo- 
rado, being  then  in  his  twentieth  year,  and  easily 
found  work  at  his  trade  in  Boulder.  Eighteen 
months  later  he  embarked  in  mining  operations 
in  this  count}',  and  continued  in  that  line  of  en- 
terprise for  about  a  year.  Since  then  he  has 
been  engaged  in  freighting  goods  up  the  mount- 
ains, farming,  etc.,  and  for  the  past  few  years 
has  been  the  manager  of  the  Capitol  stables  and 
a  dealer  in  horses.  He  is  also  concerned  in  real- 
estate  transactions,  and  owns  a  one-third  interest 
in  the  Newland  Addition  to  Boulder.  Politi- 
cally he  is  a  Democrat,  and  religiously  an  Epis- 
copalian. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Iredale  and  Miss  Ida  M. 
Newland  took  place  in  this  city  September  20, 
1883.  Mrs.  Iredale  was  born  on  the  site  of  Lead- 
ville,  Colo.,  in  pioneer  days,  and  is  one  of  the 
four  children  of  William  and  Mary  E.  (Harris) 
Newland,  the  others  being:  Ivanhoe,  who  is  oc- 
cupied in  mining  enterprises;  George  W.  a  news- 
paper man  of  Albuquerque,  N.  M. ;  and  Alonzo, 
of  Cleveland,  Ohio.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Iredale  have 
three  children,  Thomas  Watson,  Katie  and 
Mary  E. 

William  Newland,  who,  from  1871  to  the  time 
of  his  death,  August  14,  1886,  was  a  prominent 
citizen  of  Boulder  County,  was  one  of  the  early 
pioneers  of  Colorado,  coming  here  across  the 
plains  in  the  year  i860.  In  tracing  his  history, 
we  find  that  he  was  born  in  Adams  County,  111. , 
March  7,  1833,  ^^^  parents  having  been  John  and 
Nancy  (Irvin)  Newland,  of  Adams  County. 
William  was  the  eldest  of  six  children,  and  a 
brother,  James,  made  the  trip  to  this  state  in 
i860,  and  is  now  living  in  Deadwood,  Dak. 
When  he  was  a  lad  of  but  ten  j'ears  his  father' 
died,  and  he  helped  his  mother  what  he  could  in 
the  farm  work  up  to  the  time  of  his  marriage, 
in  1858.  His  wife  was  a  native  of  Missouri, 
daughter  of  George  W.  and  Aurelia  Harris,  the 
former  of  whom  died  when  Mrs.  Newland  was  a 
little  girl.     The  mother  was  a  daughter  of  a  hero 


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of  the  war  of  1812,  who  was  a  minister  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  and  also  an  Aboli- 
tionist, though  his  people  had  been  slave-holders. 
He  was  an  early  settler  in  Jefferson  City,  Mo., 
and  later  lived  in  Adams  County,  111.,  his  death 
occurring  in  Columbus,  111. 

In  i860  William  Newland  located  in  California 
Gulch,  Colo.,  and  in  the  fall  returned  to  Mis- 
souri for  his  family.  In  the  following  spring 
they  started  with  mule-teams,  proceeding  up  the 
Platte  River,  and  upon  reaching  their  destina- 
tion, Buckskin  Joe,  near  Leadville,  Mr.  New- 
land  turned  his  attention  to  mining.  His  health 
becoming  poor  he  settled  on  a  farm  near  Colo- 
rado Springs.  Then  for  seven  years  he  rained 
at  Breckenridge,  after  which  he  took  contracts 
for  work  on  the  Union  Pacific  Railroad  west  of 
Cheyenne.  His  wife  was  a  faithful  helpmate, 
keeping  restaurants  for  people  on  the  line  of  the 
railroad,  and  assisting  in  various  ways.  Then 
for  two  years  Mr.  Newland  operated  a  cattle 
ranch  in  Texas,  but  from  187 1  onward  was  en- 
gaged in  farming  and  dairying  on  his  three-hun- 
dred-acre ranch  in  Boulder  County.  He  was  in- 
terested in  mining  during  the  Black  Hills  ex- 
citement for  two  years.  His  numerous  enter- 
prises resulted  in  the  accumulation  of  a  large  and 
valuable  property,  which  has  been  managed 
since  his  death  by  his  widow,  who  is  an  excel- 
lent business  woman.  She  sold  the  old  home- 
stead to  an  English  company,  but  soon  bought 
it  back,  and  has  greatly  increased  its  value  by 
judicious  improvements. 


"DWARD  KOSSUTH  STAFFORD  is  the 
^  popular  city  clerk  of  Boulder,  to  which  po- 
^  sition  he  was  appointed  in  1892  for  the  first 
time.  He  was  re-appointed  in  1893,  and  when 
the  .state  legislature  made  the  office  an  elective 
one,  he  was  nominated  on  the  Republican  ticket 
and  was  duly  elected  for  a  term  of  two  years. 
Upon  the  expiration  of  that  period  he  was  re- 
elected without  opposition,  and  again,  in  1898, 
when  he  received  a  flattering  majority,  leading 
the  ticket.  His  present  term  expires  April  i, 
1900.  He  is  a  true  and  tried  Republican,  and  a 
firm  believer  in  the  policy  of  that  party. 

In  noting  the  birthplaces  of  several  genera- 
tions of  the  Stafford  family  it  will  be  observed 
that  they,  as  a  family,  have  been  steadily  moving 
westward.     The  great-grandfather  of  our  sub- 


ject, John  Stafford,  was  born  in  England,  and 
was  an  early  settler  in  Vermont,  where  his  son, 
Edward,  the  next  in  line  of  descent,  was  born. 
He  was  a  soldier  in  the  war  of  18 12,  and  later 
went  to  New  York,  locating  in  Franklin  County, 
where  he  carried  on  a  farm.  His  son.  Col. 
Edward  Stafford,  father  of  our  subject,  was  born 
in  Franklin  County,  and  with  the  family  re- 
moved to  Erie  County,  Pa.,  where  he  was  reared 
to  maturity.  Edward,  Sr. ,  passed  his  last  years 
in  Burlington,  Iowa. 

Col.  Edward  Stafford  was  a  talented  man  and 
an  ardent  patriot,  daring  to  do  and  say,  during 
and  after  the  Civil  war,  what  few  men  would 
have  ventured  in  those  stormy  times  in  the 
south.  He  was  .strong  and  fearless  in  his  con- 
victions and  was  thoroughly  respected,  even  by 
his  political  enemies.  He  was  a  lawyer  by  pro- 
fession and  practiced  in  Aurora,  111.,  and  New 
Boston,  111.,  prior  to  the  war.  While  that  strug- 
gle was  in  progress  he  located  in  St.  Louis,  Mo., 
and  there  organized  a  regiment  of  militia  or 
home  guards,  being  then  commissioned  colonel  of 
the  same  by  the  governor  of  the  state.  They 
were  called  into  service  in  the  southern  part  of 
Missouri,  serving  for  about  a  year.  At  the  end 
of  that  time  the  colonel  was  honorably  discharged, 
and,  returning  to  St.  Louis,  remained  there  un- 
til after  peace  had  been  declared.  He  then  ac- 
cepted an  appointment  as  deputy  United  States 
revenue  collector  of  a  district  (East  Scooba)  in 
Mississippi,  and  held  the  post  for  two  years. 
Going  to  Jackson,  Miss.,  in  1868,  he  started  the 
first  Republican  newspaper  ever  published  in  the 
state  after  the  war — the  Mississippi  Ptio/.  Both 
in  his  journal  and  in  public  speeches  he  nobly 
stood  by  the  government  and  the  Union.  The  gov- 
ernor of  Mississippi  appointed  him  major-general 
of  the  state  militia  and  afterward  appointedhim 
chancellor  of  a  district  (or  judge  of  the  district 
courts)  at  Greenville.  He  held  that  office  most 
efficiently  for  four  years  and  in  1884  came  to 
Boulder.  Here  death  came  to  him  when  he  was 
three  score  and  ten  years  of  age,  his  busy  and 
useful  career  having  been  well  rounded  out.  His 
wife,  who  had  died  at  Greenville,  Miss.,  with 
the  yellow  fever,  was  a  Miss  Mary  Merrill  in  her 
girlhood.  She  was  born  in  Ashtabula  County, 
Ohio,  where  her  father,  Isaac  F. ,  was  an  early 
settler,  having  gone  there  from  his  former  home 
in  New  England. 


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Edward  K.  Stafford  is  the  only  surviving  child 
of  his  parents.  He  was  born  in  Aurora,  111., 
March  21,  1851,  and  was  educated  in  the  schools 
of  St.  Louis  principally.  In  1867  he  went  with 
his  father  to  the  south  and  learned  the  printer's 
trade  in  the  ofiBce  of  the  Mississippi  Pilot.  Later 
he  became  deputy  clerk  in  the  county  court  of 
Washington  County,  Miss.,  when,  on  account  of 
poor  health,  he  dropped  confining  clerical  work 
and  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  lumber.  In 
188 1  he  came  to  Boulder  and  obtained  a  position 
as  bookkeeper  for  Isaac  Berlin,  dealer  in  hard- 
ware and  groceries,  then  was  employed  by  Brad- 
ley &  McClure,  dealers  in  dry  goods  and  carpets, 
for  four  years,  and.  later  was  deputy  in  the  post- 
office.  At  the  time  of  his  acceptance  of  his 
present  position  he  was  already  familiar  with  the 
duties  pertaining  to  this  ofiBce,  as  he  had  filled  the 
same  kind  of  a  position  when  a  resident  of  Green- 
ville, Miss.  While  there  he  was  also  made  a 
member  of  the  order  of  Odd  Fellows  in  1876,  and 
isnowamemberof  Boulder  Lodge  No.  9,  of  which 
he  has  been  secretary  for  ten  years  and  is  past 
grand  and  ex-representative.  Belonging  also  to 
the  encampment  branch  of  the  order,  he  has  been 
its  scribe  for  the  past  eight  years  and  is  past  chief 
patriarch.  Both  he  and  his  wife  are  identified 
with  Ruth  Rebekah  Lodge,  I.  O.  O.  F.  They 
are  members  of  the  Christian  Church,  and  for 
some  years  he  has  served  as  a  deacon  on  the 
ofiicial  board  and  clerk  of  the  church.  In  1880 
he  was  married  in  Greenville,  Miss.,  to  Miss 
Ida  B.  Kelley.  She  is  a  daughter  of  James 
Kelley  and  is  a  native  of  Cambria,  Wis.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Stafford  have  three  children:  Hortense, 
Frank  and  Harlow. 


I  EWIS  HAGUS,  one  of  the  successful  and  en- 
I  C  terprising  farmers  of  Arapahoe  County,  is  a 
l~)  native  of  the  beautiful  city  of  Cologne, 
Prussia,  Germany.  He  is  a  loyal  citizen  of  his 
adopted  country,  where  he  has  dwelt  since  he  was 
six  years  old,  and  in  all  ways  seeks  to  uphold 
her  laws  and  rights.  He  has  lived  in  Colorado 
for  the  past  thirty -five  years,  and  is  justly  entitled 
to  rank  among  the  pioneers  of  the  state,  which 
he  has  seen  developed  from  almost  a  wilderness 
to  its  present  high  cultivation.  In  everything 
that  has  affected  the  growth  or  progress  of  the 

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state  or  county  in  which  he  has  made  his  home, 
he  has  been  actively  interested,  doing  his  share 
toward  improvement. 

The  parents  of  our  subject,  Joseph  and  Eliza- 
beth (Lerch)  Hagus,  were  natives  of  Prussia, 
Germany,  and  both  were  born  in  the  j'ear  1808. 
They  lived  to  a  ripe  age,  the  father  dying  in 
1891  and  the  mother  in  1893.  The  last  years  of 
their  lives  were  happily  passed  in  Colorado  with 
their  children,  who  dutifully  and  lovingly 
smoothed  their  pathways,  and  who  had  sent  for 
them  to  come  west,  that  they  might  be  cared  for 
as  they  could  not  have  been  at  a  distance. 

Lewis  Hagus  was  born  December  30,  1841, 
and  in  1847  crossed  the  broad  Atlantic  with  the 
other  members  of  his  family  who  were  seeking  a 
home  in  the  new  world.  The  father  was  a  tailor 
by  occupation,  and  plied  his  calling  in  Galena, 
111.,  for  many  years  successfully.  In  that  pretty 
little  town  our  subject  grew  to  manhood,  receiv- 
ing the  advantages  of  an  excellent  education  in 
the  meantime.  When  he  was  about  seventeen 
years  old  he  accepted  a  position  in  a  china  and 
crockery  store,  and  continued  to  give  his  employ- 
ers good  satisfaction  as  to  the  manner  in  which 
he  discharged  his  duties  as  long  as  he  remained 
with  them,  which  he  did  for  some  two  years. 
In  i860  he  went  to  Bellevue,  Iowa,  and  there 
soon  found  a  situation  as  shipping-clerk  for  a 
large  grain  firm.  In  the  spring  of  1863  he  came 
to  Colorado  in  hopes  of  benefiting  his  health, 
which  was  somewhat  poor  at  the  time.  Desiring 
to  lead  an  outdoor  life,  according  to  the  advice  of 
his  friends  he  began  working  in  the  mines. 
This  pursuit  he  followed  for  two  years  or  more, 
and  was  rewarded  by  gaining  his  special  object, 
as  well  as  by  laying  aside  considerable  money. 
He  next  decided  that  he  would  invest  his  capital 
in  cattle  and  turn  his  attention  to  raising  live 
stock.  He  did  so,  and  met  with  more  than  his 
expected  prosperity.  Several  years  were  spent 
by  him  in  this  undertaking  and  he  then  went  to 
Denver.  In  that  city  he  resided  from  1880  to 
1885,  being  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  brick. 
In  1886  he  purchased  the  tract  ef  eighty  acres  on 
section  18,  township  i  south,  range  66  west, 
which  he  still  owns  and  operates.  Since  the 
property  came  into  his  possession  he  has  given 
all  of  his  energies  to  its  cultivation  and  has  made 
substantial  improvements.  He  is  regarded  by 
his  neighbors  as  a  man  who  thoroughly  under- 


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stands  his  business  and  as  one  who  can  always 
be  depended  upon  to  deal  fairly  and  honorably 
with  all.  He  was  reared  in  the  faith  of  the 
Catholic  Church,  being  confirmed  at  the  age  of 
thirteen  years.  Politically  he  is  a  Republican, 
and  cast  his  first  presidential  ballot  for  Hayes  in 
1876. 

While  living  in  Iowa,  Mr.  Hagus  made  the  ac- 
quaintance of  the  lady  who  became  his  wife  on 
New  Year's  day,  1878.  She  was  Miss  Josephine 
Weinschenk,  a  native  of  Bellevue,  Iowa,  and 
daughter  of  Xavier  and  Anna  Weinschenk. 
Three  children  came  to  bless  the  hearts  and  home 
of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hagus,  namely:  Nelson  J.,  a 
bright  and  ambitious  young  man  of  about  nine- 
teen years;  Agnes  Louise,  who  is  now  six  years 
old;  and  Florence  M.,  whose  death  occurred  when 
she  was  an  infant  of  six  months. 


/3  EORGE  KIRKBRIDE,  who  for  a  score  of 
|_  years  has  been  a  citizen  of  Boulder  County, 
^J  is  engaged  in  the  real-estate  business  and  is 
extensively  interested  in  mining.  Both  he  and 
his  wife  are  actively  identified  with  temperance 
work,  and  for  some  years  he  has  given  his  support 
to  the  Prohibition  party.  Upon  several  occa- 
sions he  has  been  the  candidate  of  his  party  for 
positions  as  alderman,  state  representative  and 
state  senator,  and  though  he  was  of  course  de- 
feated, his  political  friends  being  in  a  minority, 
his  personal  popularity  was  clearly  demonstrated. 

Mr.  Kirkbride  was  born  in  the  north  of  Eng- 
land, near  the  town  of  Appleby,  Westmoreland 
County,  September  28,  1843.  His  father,  John, 
and  his  grandfather,  Thomas,  were  both  likewise 
natives  of  that  locality,  and  were  agriculturists. 
The  family  originated  in  Scotland  several  gener- 
ations before.  John  Kirkbride  was  not  only  a 
farmer,  but  was  also  interested  in  lead-mining. 
He  lived  to  be  seventy-two  years  of  age,  dying, 
as  he  had  lived,  in  the  faith  of  the  Church  of 
England.  His  wife  was  Miss  Mary  Law  prior 
to  their  marriage,  she  being  a  daughter  of  George 
Law  of  Westmoreland  County.  Her  ancestors 
were  English  as  far  as  they  could  be  traced,  and 
her  immediate  family  were  identified  with  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church.  John  and  Mary 
Kirkbride  were  the  parents  of  three  sons  and  two 
daughters. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  is  the  only  member 


of  his  family  in  the  United  States.  He  was  edu- 
cated in  the  national  school  at  Ravenstonedale, 
and  from  his  boyhood  worked  on  his  father's 
farm  and  in  the  mines.  Later  he  engaged  in  the 
butcher  business  at  Kirkbythore  for  about  four 
years.  In  1869  he  came  to  the  United  States, 
and,  locating  in  Crawford  County,  Mo.,  engaged 
in  farming  and  stock-raising.  He  also  superin- 
tended some  iron  mines  for  a  Pennsylvania  com- 
pany. 

It  was  in  1878  that  Mr.  Kirkbride  concluded  to 
come  to  Colorado,  and  upon  arriving  here  he  lo- 
cated in  the  Gold  Hill  district.  Later  he  became 
the  superintendent  of  the  Prussian  mine,  and  en- 
gaged in  mining  on  his  own  account.  At  present 
he  owns  several  valuable  mining  properties  in 
Gold  Hill  and  Sugar  Loaf  mining  districts,  which 
he  is  actively  operating.  For  a  short  time  he 
carried  on  a  grocery  business  at  Gold  Hill,  and  in 
1 890  he  removed  to  the  vicinity  of  Longmont, 
where  he  carried  on  a  farm  successfully  for  some 
four  years.  Having  traded  that  place  for  property 
in  Boulder  he  came  to  this  city.  At  present  he 
owns  some  fine  business  and  residence  properties. 
In  his  various  enterprises  he  has  met  with  de- 
served success,  for  he  has  always  exercised  good 
judgment  and  forethought.  Fraternally  he  is 
past  officer  in  the  Gold  Hill  lodge  of  the  Ancient 
Order  of  United  Workmen. 

In  his  native  land  Mr.  Kirkbride  married  Miss 
Jane  Horn,  who  came  from  an  old  Westmoreland 
County  family,  and  whose  parents  were  William 
and  Mary  (Parker)  Horn.  Both  died  in  England 
at  the  old  family  residence.  Four  of  their  eight 
children  are  living,  but  Mrs.  Kirkbride  is  the 
only  one  of  the  number  in  the  United  States. 
She  is  a  member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church  and  is  a  great  worker  in  the  Woman's 
Christian  Temperance  Union.  The  marriage  of 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Kirkbride  has  been  blessed  with 
six  children,  namely:  Mrs.  Mary  Parker  Boyd, 
of  Gold  Hill;  Mrs.  Annie  Elizabeth  Bellman,  of 
Boulder;  Rachel  Agnes,  who  is  a  student  in  the 
University  of  Colorado,  the  class  of  1899;  John 
William,  now  interested  in  mines  near  Gold 
Hill;  George  Edward,  who  died  at  the  age  of 
three  years;  and  James  Edwin,  a  student  in  the 
preparatory  school  at  Boulder,  where  the  others 
were  all  also  educated.  The  central  idea  of  Mr. 
Kirkbride's  life  has  been  theology.  In  early 
manhood  he  had  appointments  almost  constantly 


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to  preach  and  lecture,  addressing  hundreds  and 
sometimes  thousands  at  a  time.  The  following 
are  some  of  his  doctrines:  Belief  in  God,  belief  in 
Jesus  Christ  as  a  revelation  of  God;  belief  in 
evolution,  infinite  love  being  the  evolving  power; 
belief  that  all  religion  is  the  result  of  this  motive 
power;  that  inspiration  is  not  confined  to  any  age 
or  people;  that  the  power  of  love  is  omnipresent 
and  that  the  highest  types  of  humanity  are  its 
clearest  revelation;  that  the  Bible  is  the  voice  of 
God  thrown  upon  the  canvas  by  mortal  hands; 
that  the  most  spiritual  life  is  associated  with  the 
most  spiritual  environment;  that  the  ego  must 
forever  change  from  glory  to  glory  as  the  un- 
known becomes  known,  and  that  to  know  God  is 
life  eternal. 

gHARLES  B.  ANDERSON,  a  very  success- 
ful contractor  and  builder  of  Boulder,  is  of 
the  third  generation  of  Andersons  who  have 
devoted  themselves  to  this  line  of  employment. 
Nearly  a  quarter  of  a  century  has  elapsed  since 
he  cast  in  his  lot  with  the  residents  of  the  county- 
seat,  and  during  this  period  he  has  erected 
numerous  residences  and  public  buildings,  which 
stand  as  monuments  of  his  handiwork.  He  is  a 
conscientious  workman,  thoroughly  master  of 
his  trade  and  entirely  reliable.  He  always  makes 
a  point  of  carrying  out,  to  the  letter,  every  con- 
tract he  enters  into,  and  his  patrons  are  inva- 
riably satisfied  with  whatever  work  they  entrust 
to  him. 

The  paternal  grandfather  of  our  subject,  Sven 
Anderson,  was  a  carpenter  and  builder,  and  a 
much-respected  man  in  his  community  in  Sweden. 
His  son  Andrew,  who  was  our  subject's  father, 
was  likewise  a  native  of  Sweden,  and  followed 
the  same  occupation  as  his  father  had  done  before 
him.  He  lived  to  attain  the  good  old  age  of  four- 
score and  seven  years,  and  his  faithful  wife  lacked 
but  a  year  of  the  same  age  at  the  time  of  her 
death,  in  1896.  In  her  girlhood  she  was  a  Miss 
Gretta  Larson,  daughter  of  a  man  who  was  a 
farmer  and  carpenter  as  well..  Andrew  and 
Gretta  Anderson  were  the  parents  of  four  daugh- 
ters and  five  sons.  John,  one  of  the  number,  died 
iu  December,  1873,  and  the  others  are  still  living. 
August  L.  is  now  living  in  Boulder. 

The  birthplace  of  Charles  B.  Anderson  is  in 
Elsborglan,  near  Gottenburg,  Sweden.  The  date 
of  his  birth  is  September  17,  1848.     He  attended 


school  until  he  was  twelve  years  of  age  and 
served  an  apprenticeship  to  the  carpenter's  trade 
with  his  father.  He  continued  to  work  for  him 
for  a  few  years,  at  the  same  time  studying 
draughting  and  the  English  language,  for  he  had 
determined  to  seek  his  fortune  in  America,  whither 
many  of  his  young  friends  were  going.  For  some 
years,  however,  he  remained  with  his  father,  be- 
coming thoroughly  versed  in  everything  pertain- 
ing to  the  business,  and  gaining  invaluable 
experience. 

In  May,"  1869,  Mr.  Anderson  went  to  Liver- 
pool, England,  where  he  took  passage  in  the 
good  ship  "City  of  Brooklyn,"  bound  for  the  new 
world.  He  landed  in  New  York  City  at  the  end 
of  a  voyage  of  eight  and  a-half  days,  and  soon 
proceeded  to  Chicago.  There  he  found  employ- 
ment with  the  Chicago  &  North-western  Rail- 
way, at  first  as  an  interpreter,  and  later  as  a  fore- 
man. During  the  next  three  j'ears  he  traveled 
extensively  iu  eighteen  states  and  three  terri- 
tories of  the  south  and  west,  and,  after  all, 
concluded  that  Colorado  offered  the  greatest 
attractions  to  a  young  man  of  energy  and  ambi- 
tion. In  1872,  therefore,  he  became  a  permanent 
resident  of  the  state,  and  for  about  three  years 
made  his  home  in  Denver.  In  the  spring  of  1875 
he  came  to  Boulder,  where  he  has  since  been  a 
citizen.  During  the  first  three  months  of  his 
stay  here  he  was  foreman  in  a  carpenter  shop, 
but  from  that  time  onward,  has  been  in  business 
alone.  He  erected  the  Highland  school  building, 
the  Episcopal  Church,  the  residence  of  Mr. 
DeLong,  and  many  other  prominent  citizens,  and 
is  a  director  in  the  Boulder  Building  and  Loan 
Association.  While  the  wonderful  boom  was  in 
progress  in  Leadville  and  Ward,  he  was  also 
occupied  in  building  there  quite  extensively. 
The  first  plate  glass  window  that  Boulder  boasted, 
that  in  the  Boston  Clothing  store,  was  put  in 
place  by  Mr.  Anderson,  who  has  since  set  many 
others  in  various  stores,  etc. 

The  plea.sant  home  of  Mr.  Anderson  is  located 
on  Arapahoe  street,  in  the  eastern  part  of  the 
town.  Here  he  owns  nineteen  acres  of  fertile 
land,  which  is  planted  with  two  thousand  fruit 
trees.  He  has  been  very  successful  in  this  enter- 
prise, and  has  some  mining  investments  as  well. 
In  his  political  affiliations,  he  is  a  Prohibitionist. 
The  Swedish  mission  work,  which  he  started,  is 
in  a  flourishing  condition,  and  he  is  the  ruling 


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elder,  and  the  chief  member  of  the  little  congrega- 
tion. While  in  Denver,  in  1874,  Mr.  Anderson 
married  Miss  Catherine  Norborg,  who  was  born 
in  Sweden.  They  have  a  nice  family  of  ten 
children,  all  of  whom  have  had,  or  are  enjoying, 
good  educational  facilities.  Josephine  is  a  gradu- 
ate of  the  Boulder  high  school,  and  Emma  is  now 
attending  the  University  of  Colorado.  The 
younger  children  are:  Alice,  William,  Fred,  Mary, 
Katie,  Charles,  Reuel  and  Ruth. 


30HN  G.  TREZISE,  coroner  of  Boulder 
County,  is  one  of  the  most  progressive  and 
enterprising  business  men  to  be  found  in  the 
county  seat.  Socially  he  ranks  very  high,  being 
identified  with  the  Boulder  Club  and  nearly  all 
of  the  local  fraternal  organizations.  He  is  secre- 
tary of  the  board  of  Boulder  Cemetery  trustees, 
and  is  the  Colorado  chairman  of  the  executive 
committee  and  one  of  the  arbitration  committee 
of  the  State  Funeral  Directors'  Association.  In 
1893  he  was  appointed  to  the  position  of  county 
coroner  by  the  county  commissioners,  and  in  the 
fall  of  that  year  was  elected  for  a  two  years'  term 
on  the  Republican  ticket.  Upon  the  expiration 
of  his  term  he  was  re-elected,  and  in  1897  was  re- 
turned to  the  office,  receiving  an  overwhelming 
majority.  In  1893  his  majority  was  one  thou- 
sand four  hundred  and  two  votes;  in  1895  three 
thousand  eight  hundred  and  twenty-seven,  and 
in  1897  three  thousand  two  hundred  and  seventy- 
six,  the  latter  being  by  far  the  largest  majorities 
ever  given  to  any  candidate  for  a  position  in  this 
county.  His  increasing  popularity  is  alsoplainly 
manifested  by  these  figures,  and  the  high  regard 
in  which  he  is  held  by  his  fellow-citizens  is  but 
his  just  due,  as  he  is  faithful  and  conscientious 
to  the  last  degree  in  the  discharge  of  his  duties 
and  always  strives  to  serve  the  true  interests  of  the 
public. 

A  native  of  England,  Mr.  Trezise  was  born  in 
London  in  1856,  being  a  son  of  Edward  and  Alice 
Trezise,  the  latter  of  whom  died  when  her  son 
was  an  infant.  Another  son,  Edward  W.,  is  in 
the  employ  of  the  Chicago,  Milwaukee  &  St. 
Paul  Railroad  at  Meno,  Wis.,  as  city  freight 
agent.  The  father  was  engaged  in  mining  in 
Cornwall,  England,  up  to  1858,  when  he  went  to 
California.  There  he  was  also  interested  in  min- 
ing for  a  few  years,  after  which  he  went  to  the 


Lake  Superior  copper  region,  becoming  superin- 
tendent of  the  Delaware  Company  mines.  There 
his  family  joined  him,  and  in  1871  John  G.  came 
to  Colorado.  The  following  year  his  father 
started  in  the  milling  industry  in  Central  City 
and  continued  there  until  1896,  when  he  took 
charge  of  our  subject's  ranch  of  one  hundred  and 
sixty  acres  five  miles  northeast  of  Boulder. 
There  large  crops  of  hay  and  grain  are  grown 
and  fine  standard  driving  horses  are  raised.  The 
ranch  is  improved  with  good  fences  and  build- 
ings, and  is  a  model  place. 

Having  learned  the  undertaking  business  with 
au  uncle,  Mr.  Trezise  settled  in  Central  City  in 
1 87 1,  as  previously  noted.  He  was  not  yet 
seventeen  years  of  age  when  he  started  in  busi- 
ness on  his  own  account,  and  now,  with  perhaps 
one  exception,  he  is  acknowledged  to  control  the 
most  extensive  trade  in  the  state  in  his  line. 
Before  many  years  had  passed  he  had  established 
branch  ofiices  in  Idaho  Springs  and  Denver,  and 
managed  the  whole  until  his  health  gave  way. 
Besides,  he  conducted  a  jewelry  business  in  Cen- 
tral City;  owned  a  furniture  store  and  a  livery 
and  grocery  as  well.  For  two  terms  he  was  an 
alderman  in  Central  City  and  served  as  chairman 
of  the  finance  committee. 

His  many  ambitious  enterprises  having  under- 
mined his  health,  Mr.  Trezise  went  to  Eng- 
land in  1886  and  spent  six  months  in  his  native 
land.  During  his  stay  there  he  married  Miss 
Georgiana  Tyack,  a  native  of  Cornwall.  They 
settled  in  Boulder  upon  their  arrival  in  Colorado, 
believing  that  the  lower  altitude  would  prove 
better  suited  to  Mr.  Trezise.  He  soon  opened  an 
undertaking  establishment  here  and  for  one  year 
carried  a  stock  of  furniture.  In  1894  he  started 
a  hack  and  livery  business,  has  two  barns,  and 
now  has  the  largest  trade  in  this  line  in  the  city. 
One  of  the  first  embalmers  in  this  state,  he  now 
attends  to  a  large  business  in  this  branch  of  work. 
Within  a  few  years  he  has  opened  undertaking 
establishments  in  Erie,  Weld  County,  and  an- 
other in  Louisville,  Boulder  County,  both  of 
which  he  carries  on. 

Formerly  Mr.  Trezise  was  a  member  of  Central 
City  Lodge  No.  3,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  and  is  now 
connected  with  Columbia  Lodge  No.  14,  A.  F.  & 
A.  M.,  ofwhich  he  is  past  master;  Boulder  Chapter 
No.  7,  R.  A.  M. ;  Mount  Sinai  Commandery  No.  7, 
K.  T.,  and  El  Jebel  Temple,  Mystic  Shrine.    He 


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belongs  toSilverQueen  Lodge  No.  12, 1.  O.  O.F. , 
the  Boulder  Canton  of  the  Encampment,  the 
Uniform  Rank  of  the  Knights  of  Pythias,  the 
Woodmen  of  the  World,  the  Knights  of  the 
Maccabees,  the  Knights  of  the  Golden  Eagle, 
the  Red  Men,  the  Fraternal  Accident  Associa- 
tion, the  Fraternal  Union  and  the  Foresters.  Of 
the  last-mentioned  he  is  a  past  officer.  A  mem- 
ber of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  he  is  one 
of  its  trustees.  The  three  children  of  our  subject 
and  wife  are  Bessie,  Ethel  and  Edith. 


qJEORGE  T.  JONES,  a  respected  citizen  of 
_  Boulder,  has  been  a  resident  of  the  state  of 
J  Colorado  since  1880,  and  for  about  fifteen 
years  has  been  interested  in  stock-raising,  in  which 
enterprise  he  has  met  with  deserved  financial  suc- 
cess. He  has  had  considerable  experience  as  a 
pioneer,  for  in  1853  he  went  to  California  by  way 
of  New  York  and  the  Isthmus  of  Panama,  and 
upon  his  arrival  in  San  Francisco  he  soon  set  out 
for  the  mines.  For  the  next  three  years  he  was 
actively  engaged  in  prospecting  and  mining 
along  the  Yuba  River  between  Nevada  City  and 
Grass  Valley,  and  had  many  interesting  expe- 
riences. In  18^6  he  returned  to  the  east  by  the 
same  route  as  that  which  he  had  taken  going 
out.  The  memories  of  the  free  outdoor  life 
when  he  was  young  and  an  ardent  seeker  after 
a  fortune  on  the  Pacific  coast,  however,  always 
remained  with  him  and  led  to  his  coming  west 
again,  at  least  as  far  as  this  state,  in  1880,  when 
his  health  had  become  somewhat  impaired  by 
long  continued  attention  to  business. 

Several  generations  ago  the  founder  of  the 
branch  of  the  Jones  family  in  the  United  States 
came  to  these  hospitable  shores  from  his  native 
land,  Wales.  Benjamin  Jones,  the  grandfather  of 
our  subject,  was  born  in  Massachusetts  and  re- 
moved to  Otsego  County,  N.  Y.,  where  his  son 
Richard  was  born  on  the  old  homestead.  The  latter 
married  Amelia  Tuckerman,  of  the  .same  county, 
and  in  1838  they  removed  to  Hillsdale,  Mich.  The 
father  had  a  great  task  before  him  in  clearing 
away  the  primeval  forests  and  preparing  his  land 
for  cultivation,  but  it  was  accomplished  in  due 
course  of  time  and  an  excellent  farm  was  evolved. 
Later  the  parents  settled  in  Battle  Creek,  Mich., 
where  they  resided  until  death,  the  father  attain- 
ing the   ripe  age    of   eighty-four    years.     The 


mother  was  a  daughter  of  Benjamin  Tuckerman, 
a  native  of  Massachusetts  and  an  early  settler  in 
Otsego  County,  N.  Y.  He  was  a  hero  of  the 
Revolutionary  war. 

George  T.  Jones,  who  was  born  in  Otsego 
County,  N.  Y.,  in  1831,  is  the  only  son  of  Rich- 
ard and  Amelia  Jones.  His  eldest  sister.  Flora, 
died  in  Michigan;  the  next  younger,  Mary,  is 
Mrs.  Talmadge,  of  Boulder,  and  Fannie,  Mrs. 
George  McCullom,  resides  in  Minnesota.  When 
he  was  a  child  of  about  seven  years  the  family 
moved  to  Michigan  by  way  of  the  great  lakes  to 
Toledo,  and  thence  across  the  Maumee  swamp. 
In  1848  they  located  in  Calhoun  County,  Mich., 
on  a  tract  of  heavily  timbered  land  north  of  Bat- 
tle Creek,  and  there  the  youth  grew  to  manhood. 
He  attended  the  district  schools,  where  he  learned 
the  rudiments  of  knowledge,  supplementing  this 
later  by  a  course  of  study  in  Olivet  College.  He  be- 
came a  first-class  farmer,  and  after  his  three  years' 
western  trip,  settled  down  to  a  quiet  agricultural 
life  in  Michigan.  He  continued  to  dwell  there 
until  after  the  close  of  the  Civil  war,  when  he 
took  up  his  residence  in  the  town  of  Battle  Creek, 
and  for  fifteen  years  carried  on  a  butcher's  busi- 
ness there.  Some  eighteen  years  ago  he  came  to 
Colorado,  and  for  three  years  was  not  actively 
engaged  in  business  on  account  of  poor  health. 
He  gradually  gained  his  accustomed  vigor  in  the 
bracing  air  of  these  uplands,  and  in  1884,  with 
his  two  sons,  Frank  and  Walter,  started  into  the 
cattle-raising  business  in  Middle  Park.  His 
large  ranch,  which  is  specially  adapted  for  a  cat- 
tle range,  is  located  on  the  Grand  River  about 
twenty  miles  below  Hot  Sulphur  Springs.  At 
present  the  two  young  men  are  in  charge  of  the 
ranch,  and  are  making  a  splendid  success  of  the 
enterprise.  They  have  a  very  large  herd  of  cat- 
tle, with  a  number  of  fine  blooded  Herefords 
among  them.  Father  and  sons  are  loyal  Repub- 
licans, and  are  thoroughly  patriotic,  law-abiding 
citizens. 

The  first  marriage  of  Mr.  Jones,  Sr.,  was  sol- 
emnized in  Battle  Creek  in  1856.  The  lady  of 
his  choice  was  Caroline  M.  Convis,  daughter  of 
Samuel  Convis,  of  New  York  state,  and  the  first 
settler  in  Battle  Creek.  Mrs.  Jones  was  the  first 
white  child  born  in  that  locality,  and  there  her 
entire  life  was  passed.  She  died  May  27,  1872, 
leaving  three  sons  and  a  daughter,  namely' 
.Frank;  Walter;  Mrs.  Annie  Poole,  of  Nashville, 


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Tenn.;  and  Earl,  who  is  now  living  in  Idaho 
Springs,  Colo.  The  present  Mrs.  Jones  became 
the  wife  of  our  subject  in  Edwardsburg,  Mich. 
Her  maiden  name  was  Jennie  Carpenter,  and  her 
birthplace  was  in  Cass  County,  Mich.  Her 
father,  Messick  Carpenter,  a  native  of  Delaware, 
was  a  pioneer  of  1837  in  Michigan,  where  both 
he  and  his  wife,  Eliza  (Clendeniel)  Carpenter, 
(also  a  native  of  Delaware)  died. 


mAMUELCOPELAND,  a  worthy  and  honored 
/\  citizen  of  Boulder,  is  one  of  the  pioneers  to 
Vy  whose  energy  and  tireless  zeal  this  county 
owes  its  development  and  progress  in  the  march 
of  civilization.  He  is  and  always  has  been  a 
man  of  great  public  spirit  and  desire  to  do  all 
within  his  power  to  advance  and  uplift  the  people 
with  whom  circumstances  bring  him  into  contact. 
His  first  trip  to  Colorado  was  made  in  i860,  and 
during  the  next  four  years  he  crossed  the  plains 
altogether  nine  times  by  ox-teams.  He  suffered 
the  hardships  and  vicissitudes  incident  to  camp 
life,  and  knows  from  intimate  experience  what 
it  means  to  leave  the  comforts  and  luxuries  of 
civilization,  and  instead,  subsisting  upon  the 
barest  necessities  of  life.  He  is  a  very  entertain- 
ing conversationalist,  and  delights  to  recount  his 
recollections  of  pioneer  days  on  the  plains  and  in 
the  mountains,  no  less  than  his  auditors  are 
pleased  to  have  him  call  up  the  past. 

The  paternal  grandfather  of  our  subject  bore 
the  same  Christian  name,  Samuel.  He  was  a 
New  Hampshire  farmer  in  his  early  manhood, 
later  removing  to  the  neighborhood  of  Dexter, 
Penobscot  County,  Me.,  where  he  cleared  a  farm 
in  the  wilderness.  His  son  Royal,  father  of  our 
subject,  was  born  in  New  Hampshire,  and  in  his 
turn  cultivated  the  old  homestead  near  Dexter. 
He  was  a  soldier  in  the  war  of  18 12,  and,  follow- 
ing his  patriotic  example,  his  son,  Joseph  T., 
offered  his  services  in  the  Civil  war  years  later, 
and  rose  to  the  rank  of  brigadier- general.  He 
was  a  resident  of  Michigan,  and  for  six  years 
lived  in  Pontiac,  while  he  was  judge  of  the 
supreme  court  of  the  state.  He  died  in  Jackson- 
ville, Fla.,  in  1893,  aged  eighty  years.  Royal 
Copeland  removed  to  Michigan  about  1846,  and 
passed  the  remainder  of  his  life  in  the  town  of 
Dexter,  Washtenaw  County,  dying  at  the  age  of 
seventy-nine  years.     His  good  wife,  whose  girl- 


hood name  was  Alice  Davis,  was  born  in  Wicas- 
set.  Me. ,  and  departed  this  life  in  Michigan  when 
in  her  eighty-second  year.  Of  their  .seven  sons 
and  two  daughters  but  four  survive. 

Samuel  Copeland  was  born  in  Dexter,  Me.,  in 
1819,  and  supplemented  his  public  school  work 
by  attending  the  academies  of  St.  Albans  and 
Charleston,  Me.  When  he  was  but  sixteen  he 
embarked  in  the  mercantile  business  in  Dexter 
and  made  a  success  of  the  enterprise.  In  1848, 
with  the  rest  of  his  father's  family,  he  went  to 
Michigan,  and  took  up  his  residence  in  St.  Clair, 
where  he  carried  on  a  store.  In  the  autumn  of 
1852  he  went  to  Chicago,  and  the  following  year, 
on  account  of  poor  health,  he  concluded  to  pass 
a  few  months  in  Havana,  Cuba.  Arriving  there 
he  devoted  his  leisure  time  to  various  kinds  of 
artistic  endeavor,  drawing  and  painting,  etc. ; 
much  improved  in  health  he  returned  to  Michi- 
gan, and,  having  bought  some  pine  lands  in  the 
vicinity  of  East  Saginaw,  he  proceeded  to  manu- 
facture lumber,  and  at  the  .same  time  ran  a  store 
of  general  supplies.  He  owned  two  mills  that 
were  in  active  operation  in  Bay  City,  and  was 
interested  financially  in  the  company  which  was 
then  sinking  salt-wells  and  turning  out  salt  by 
the  solar  process. 

Scarcely  five  years  after  his  return  from  Cuba, 
the  varied  and  arduous  business  enterprises  of 
Mr.  Copeland  proved  too  much  for  his  strength, 
and  he  decided  that  he  would  try  a  thorough 
change  of  climate  and  occupation.  In  the  spring 
of  i860  he  started  for  the  Colorado  gold  fields, 
and  at  St.  Joseph,  Mo.,  fitted  up  eleven  wagons 
(besides  a  spring  wagon)  to  be  drawn  by  twenty- 
eight  yokes  of  oxen  and  four  horses.  This  quite 
extensive  caravan  carried,  in  addition  to  the 
usual  needed  supplies  and  few  household  treas- 
ures, steam-boilers  and  engines  for  a  sawmill  and 
a  quartz-mill.  The  latter  was  not  of  practical 
value,  as  it  turned  out  under  the  conditions  pre- 
vailing in  this  state,  and  that  part  of  the  plan  of 
Mr.  Copeland  was  abandoned.  Proceeding  to 
Gilpin  County,  he  set  up  the  sawmill,  and 
operated  it  in  what  was  known  as  Michigan 
Gulch  until  1863.  In  the  meantime  he  devoted 
a  portion  of  his  time  to  mining  also. 

In  1863  Mr.  Copeland  moved  his  machinery 
into  Boulder  County,  and  erected  his  sawmill 
about  two  and  a-half  miles  north  of  the  county- 
seat.     He  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  lumber, 


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shingles  and  building  material,  moving  his  mill 
from  time  to  time,  as  the  supply  of  timber  became 
exhausted.  At  that  period  he  was  the  most  ex- 
tensive manufacturer  of  lumber  in  the  county. 
From  1866  to  1870  he  was  in  partnership  with 
W.  A.  H.  lyoveland  in  the  mercantile  business  in 
Boulder,  in  addition  to  all  of  his  other  industries, 
and  he  has  been  more  or  less  interested  personally 
in  mining  operations.  In  January,  1898,  he  sold 
the  old  mill  that  had  done  him  such  good  service 
and  it  has  been  set  up  in  Boulder.  The  old 
boiler  is  yet  actively  operating,  and  the  new 
owners  are  busily  manufacturing  lumber.  Our 
subject  owns  valuable  real  estate  in  Boulder,  and 
his  cozy  home  is  at  No.  1508  Water  street.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Boulder  County  Pioneer  As- 
sociation and  formerly  was  identified  with  the 
Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows.  Politically 
he  has  always  been  a  Republican,  and  is  in  favor 
of  a  silver  standard. 

May  II,  1862,  Mr.  Copeland  was  married,  in 
Saginaw  City,  Mich.,  to  Miss  Ellen  E.  Barnard, 
a  native  of  Gilmanton,  N.  H.,  born  July  27, 
1831.  With  her  father,  Timothy  Barnard,  and 
the  other  members  of  his  family,  she  removed  to 
Penobscot  County,  Me.,  in  1832,  and  in  1859  to 
Michigan.  The  marriage  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Cope- 
land  was  blessed  with  three  children,  Evart  B., 
Melville  P.  and  Royal  T.  They  have  all  been 
occupied  in  the  lumber  business  and  in  mining 
ventures,  and  are  bright,  ambitious  and  success- 
ful business  men  of  this  place.  Evart  B.  is  a 
member  of  the  Ancient  Order  of  United  Work- 
men; Melville  P.  belongs  to  the  Woodmen  of  the 
World,  aud  Royal  T.  to  the  Odd  Fellows'  society. 


0  HARLES  H.  LIPPOLDT,  a  worthy  German- 

1  r  American  citizen  of  Boulder,  has  made  his 
Vj  home  here  for  the  past  eighteen  years,  and 
has  won  the  confidence  and  respect  of  all  with 
whom  he  has  had  dealings.  He  was  born  at 
Meisson,  Saxony,  May  14,  1846,  received  a  good 
education  in  the  public  schoolsof  the  Fatherland, 
and  .subsequent  to  the  completion  of  his  studies 
traveled  extensively  in  Germany,  Switzerland 
and  France.  In  1864  he  determined  to  come  to 
America  to  seek  a  home  and  fortune,  and  em- 
barking on  a  steamer  at  Bremen,  landed  in  New 
York  City  at  the  end  of  a  voyage  of  thirteen 
days. 


The  parents  of  our  subject,  John  August  and 
Fredrica  (Seipt)  Lippoldt,  who  were  likewise 
natives  of  Saxony,  came  to  the  United  States  at 
the  same  time.  The  father  was  a  blacksmith  by 
trade,  and  worked  at  that  calling  during  his 
active  life.  At  first  the  family  settled  in  Milwau- 
kee, but  about  a  year  later  removed  to  Chicago. 
The  father  had  served  in  the  German  army  and 
took  part  in  the  Revolution  of  1848,  for  which  he 
was  imprisoned  a  short  time.  His  death  occurred 
in  Chicago  when  he  had  reached  the  age  of 
seventy-three  years.  His  wife,  who  also  died  in 
Chicago,  was  a  daughter  of  August  Seipt,  a 
blacksmith,  who  served  under  the  great  Napo- 
leon and  went  on  the  famous  march  to  Moscow. 
Of  the  six  children  of  John  August  and  Fredrica 
Lippoldt,  four  survive.  One  son.  Otto,  is  time- 
keeper for  the  Grant  smelters,  of  Denver. 

In  his  native  land  Charles  H.  Lippoldt  learned 
the  blacksmith's  trade  with  his  father  and  became 
an  expert  workman.  After  he  located  in  Mil- 
waukee, Wis.,  he  continued  to  be  employed  at 
his  trade,  and  from  January,  1865,  to  August  of 
the  same  year  he  lived  in  Chicago,  where  he  was 
similarly  engaged.  Having  heard  much  of  the 
resources  of  Colorado,  and  having  a  young  man's 
love  of  adventure  and  outdoor  life,  he  determined 
to  cross  the  plains.  Going  to  Omaha,  Neb.,  he 
started  with  ox- teams  for  the  west,  and  before  he 
arrived  in  Denver  had  had  all  of  the  experience 
in  "roughing  it"  that  he  required.  At  points 
near  Pine  Bluff  and  Antelope  Creek,  his  party 
were  attacked  by  Indians,  but  .succeeded  in  driv- 
ing them  off,  without  much  loss.  Until  the  spring 
of  1867  the  young  man  worked  at  his  trade  in 
Denver,  and  then  he  joined  a  prospecting  expedi- 
tion bound  for  the  Black  Hills.  They  explored 
and  hunted  to  their  heart's  content,  thoroughly 
enjoying  their  experiences,  and  at  the  end  of 
about  two  months  returned  to  Colorado. 

Mr.  Lippoldt  then  entered  the  employ  of  the 
Union  Pacific  Railroad,  which  was  then  grading 
and  working  on  the  line  west  of  Cheyenne,  con- 
tinuing as  their  blacksmith  until  1868.  He  then 
went  to  Blackhawk,  Gilpin  County,  Colo.,  and 
for  two  years  was  employed  by  Captain  Tyler,  at 
his  trade.  In  1870  he  returned  to  Chicago,  and 
started  a  blacksmith's  shop  in  that  city,  but  six 
months  later  his  desire  for  the  west  overcome  all 
other  considerations,  and,  giving  the  shop  to  his 
father,  he  came  back  to  Colorado.     For  nearly 


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ten  j'ears  he  lived  in  Nederland,  Boulder  County, 
carrying  on  a  blacksmith's  shop,  and  at  the  same 
time  being  more  or  less  interested  in  mining 
operations  in  Caribou  and  Russell  Gulch.  In 
1880  he  located  in  Boulder,  and  bought  the  livery 
stable  which  he  has  since  successfully  managed. 
The  building  is  a  substantial  one,  50x110  feet  in 
dimensions,  and  two  stories  high.  The  first  floor 
is  used  for  a  feed  and  sale  stable  and  the  second 
floor  is  reserved  for  carriages  and  vehicles.  Every- 
thing about  the  place  is  kept  up  in  first-class 
style,  and  the  local  patronage  of  the  establish- 
ment has  steadily  increased  from  the  beginning  of 
the  enterprise. 

Fraternally  Mr.  Lippoldt  is  connected  with 
several  orders,  among  them  being  the  Knights  of 
Pythias  (Uniform  Rank),  the  Ancient  Order  of 
United  Workmen,  and  Knights  of  the  Maccabees. 
In  his  political  belief  he  is  a  Republican,  with  a 
strong  leaning  toward  the  silver  standard.  He 
is  a  charter  member  of  the  English  Lutheran 
Church  of  this  place.  His  marriage  with  Mi.ss 
Jennie  A.  Barr,  a  native  of  Alton,  111.,  took  place 
in  Boulder  in  1885.  They  have  one  daughter, 
Genevieve. 


3 AMES  C.  HANKINS,  a  very  successful  bus- 
iness man  of  Boulder,  has  been  a  resident  of 
this  county  for  nearly  twenty  years.  In 
1895  he  became  a  stockholder  in  the  National 
State  Bank  of  Boulder  and  has  since  been  one  of 
the  directors  of  that  institution.  For  years  he 
has  been  actively  engaged  in  various  kinds  of 
merchandising  and  mining  operations.  He  takes 
an  active  interest  in  all  local  affairs,  especially 
everything  affecting  the  welfare  of  this  town,  and 
about  1885  served  in  the  council  as  an  alderman 
from  the  fourth  ward. 

The  father  of  the  above-named  gentleman  was 
Jacob  Hankins,  a  native  of  Lancaster  County, 
Pa.  When  he  was  a  young  man  he  removed  to 
Jasper  County,  Iowa,  there  to  found  a  home  in 
what  was  then  the  far  west.  He  had  learned  the 
blacksmith's  trade  in  his  youth  and  followed  this 
calling  to  some  extent  after  he  had  attained  man- 
hood. He  was  also  occupied  in  conducting  a 
mercantile  establishment  for  many  years  and  met 
with  fair  success.  He  was  honored  and  respected 
in  the  community  where  he  so  long  made  his  home 
and  for  the  period  of  about  twenty-six  years  he 
was  county  assessor.     When  well  along  in  years, 


in  1891,  he  came  to  Boulder  to  live,  and  died  here 
in  1896,  aged  about  four-score.  His  wife,  whose 
maiden  name  was  Elizabeth  Rutter,  died  when 
the  subject  of  this  article  was  a  child.  She  was 
born  in  Ohio,  and  with  her  father,  Andrew  Rut- 
ter, went  to  Iowa  when  she  was  3'oung.  She 
was  the  mother  of  seven  children,  only  one  of 
whom  survives. 

J.  C.  Hankins  was  born  in  Monroe,  Jasper 
County,  Iowa,  January  19,  1858.  His  education 
was  obtained  in  the  common  schools  of  his  native 
town  and  in  the  Iowa  State  Agricultural  College, 
at  Ames,  where  he  was  a  student  for  a  year.  His 
initial  experience  in  business  was  as  a  clerk  in  a 
jewelry  store.  In  1879  he  came  to  Colorado  and 
at  Gold  Hill  engaged  in  merchandising  under  the 
firm  name  of  Rutter  &  Hankins.  They  carried 
a  full  line  of  general  supplies,  commenced  on  a 
small  scale  and  gradually  increased  their  stock 
and  facilities  for  doing  business.  At  the  end  of 
two  years  the  partners  sold  out,  and,  removing  to 
Boulder,  embarked  in  the  grocery  and  hardware 
business  at  the  corner  of  Pearl  and  Fifteenth 
streets.  They  continued  in  this  enterprise  until 
December,  1888,  in  the  meantime  also  running  a 
branch  store  at  Gold  Hill.  At  the  time  that  the 
partners  concluded  to  dissolve  their  connection 
Mr.  Hankins  took  charge  of  the  Gold  Hill  store, 
and  became  t^ie  partner  of  T.  C.  Johnson.  To- 
gether they  transacted  a  large  and  paying  busi- 
ness as  Johnson  &  Hankins  up  to  1896,  when 
our  subject  retired  from  the  firm,  selling  his  inter- 
est to  Mr.  Johnson.  In  February,  1889,  the 
partnership  of  Hankins,  Hiskey  &  Johnson  had 
been  organized,  for  the  purpose  of  conducting  a 
general  store  at  Boulder,  succeeding  Isaac  Berlin 
at  that  place.  This  was  a  very  paying  venture, 
but  in  the  spring  of  1894  Mr.  Hankins  sold  his 
share  to  Mr.  McNaughton.  The  firm  of  Hank- 
ins, Hiskey  &  John.son  were  the  prime  movers  in 
the  organization  of  the  Boulder  Coal  and  Fire  Clay 
Company  and  opened  the  Allen  Bond  mine,  which 
was  very  actively  and  advantageously  operated 
until  a  short  time  ago.  It  is  situated  about  six 
and  one-half  miles  from  Boulder,  and  a  branch  of 
three  and  a-half  miles  of  railroad  was  built  by  the 
owners  in  order  to  connect  it  with  the  Gulf  Rail- 
road, over  which  a  large  amount  of  coal  has  been 
shipped  each  year  from  the  mine.  Mr.  Hankins 
has  been  treasurer  of  the  company  from  the  start 
and  for  the  past  three  years  has  also  been  the 


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general  manager.  He  has  other  mining  enter- 
prises under  foot,  and  owns  a  one-fourth  interest 
in  the  Freiberg  mine  at  Gold  Hill,  which  is  in 
active  operation.  He  is  a  member  of  Columbia 
Lodge  No.  14,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  and  is  identified 
with  the  Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen. 
Politically  he  is  a  Democrat.  Maj'  29,  1884,  oc- 
curred his  marriage  to  Emma  Kaiser,  in  Monroe, 
Iowa.  She  is  a  native  of  Paris,  111.,  and  by  her 
marriage  she  has  become  the  mother  of  one  child, 
Margaret  M. 

0AVID  KERR,  who  is  one  of  the  pioneers 
of  Louisville,  Boulder  County,  and  is  some- 
times called  the  "father"  of  the  village, 
was  born  in  Madison  County,  Ky.,  December 
28,  1833,  a  son  of  Caleb  and  Edith  (Stewart) 
Kerr.  He  was  one  of  twelve  children,  two  of 
whom  are  now  living,  namely:  Leannah  F. , 
widow  of  Joshua  Stewart,  of  Santa  Fe,  Mo.;  and 
David.  The  father,  a  native  of  Estill  County, 
Ky.,  born  May  i,  1805,  married  in  that  county 
and  settled  upon  a  farm,  both  cultivating  the 
land  and  following  the  carpenter's  trade.  In 
1830  he  removed  to  Independence,  Mo.,  where 
he  bought  a  farm.  After  some  four  years  he  se- 
cured a  government  contract  as  mail  carrier,  in 
which  capacity  he  was  retained  for  twenty  years, 
carrying  the  mail  from  Independence  to  Warrens- 
burg,  Harrisonville,  Westport  and  Liberty,  and 
later  from  Westport  to  West  Point  and  Harrison- 
ville, and  from  Kansas  City  to  Platte  City  and 
Weston.  He  carried  the  first  mail  from  Inde- 
pendence and  Westport  ever  carried  into  Kansas 
City.  He  continued  to  reside  in  Missouri  until 
his  death,  which  occurred  in  Bates  County.  His 
wife,  a  native  of  Madison  County,  Ky.,  was  born 
March  30,  1809,  and  died  in  Cass  County,  Mo., 
April  26,  1890. 

The  paternal  grandfather  of  our  subject, 
George  Washington  Kerr,  was  born  in  Virginia 
and  settled  in  Kentucky  the  same  year  that  Henry 
Clay  went  to  that  state,  the  two  being  intimate 
friends.  He  built  the  first  frame  house  ever 
erected  in  Richmond  County,  Ky.  By  trade  a 
millwright,  he  followed  that  occupation,  together 
with  carpentering,  and  also  owned  a  farm.  The 
maternal  grandfather,  David  Stewart,  was  a  na- 
tive of  Scotland  and  accompanied  his  parents  to 
this  country  when  a  child.  He  devoted  his  act- 
ive life  to  farming  and  stock-raising. 


The  major  part  of  his  education  our  subject  ac- 
quired through  reading  and  observation,  as  his 
advantages  in  boyhood  were  limited  to  a  brief  at- 
tendance at  school.  January  6,  1859,  he  married 
Miss  Mary  A.  Clark  in  Kansas  City,  Mo.  From 
that  time  on  he  not  only  supported  his  own 
family,  but  assisted  his  father's  family,  for  his 
father  had  become  almost  blind,  and  at  fourteen 
the  responsibility  of  the  support  of  the  others 
practically  devolved  upon  his  young  shoulders. 
In  1861,  with  a  wagon  and  two  yoke  of  oxen,  ac- 
companied by  his  wife  and  son,  he  came  to  Colo- 
rado, making  the  journey  in  about  six  weeks. 
He  arrived  at  California  Gulch  June  3,  and  after- 
ward worked  for  three  weeks  in  the  mines,  then 
went  to  Buckskin  Joe's,  where  for  some  months 
he  engaged  in  freighting.  In  the  spring  of  1862 
a  man  arrived  there  from  Missouri  with  a  drove 
of  milch  cows  and  a  dairy  outfit,  and  our  subject 
bought  him  out.  At  the  same  time  he  purchased 
land  three  miles  from  the  town.  Establishing 
himself  in  the  dairy  business,  he  had  soon  worked 
up  a  good  trade.  In  the  fall  of  1862  he  removed 
ten  miles  below  Canon  City,  on  the  Arkansas 
River,  where  he  wintered  the  cows.  May  i, 
1863,  he  went  to  Ralston  Creek  and  ran  a  dairy 
into  Blackhawk  and  Central  City.  In  the  fall  of 
1864  he  came  to  his  present  location,  bought  a 
squatter's  claim  and  pre-empted  one  hundred  and 
sixty  acres  of  land.  This  he  improved  and  later 
bought  one  hundred  and  eighty  acres  more. 
He  was  prosperous  and  continued  in  the  cattle 
and  dairy  business,  besides  having  charge  of  ex- 
tensive general  farming  interests.  In.  1878  he 
discovered  and  developed  the  first  coal  land  in 
this  section.  Through  this  discovery  sprang  the 
thriving  village  of  Louisville.  In  188 1  he  em- 
barked in  the  mercantile  business  in  Louisville, 
but  the  venture  was  a  very  unfortunate  one 
financially;  however,  he  possesses  remarkable  re- 
cuperative powers  and  soon  recovered  from  the 
loss.  He  is  a  strong  Jeffersonian  Democrat  and 
an  ardent  supporter  of  his  party.  Fraternally 
he  is  connected  with  Columbia  Lodge  No.  14, 
A.  F.  &  A.  M. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Kerr  became  the  parents  of  eight 
children,  of  whom  four  are  now  living.  They 
are  named  as  follows:  James  T.,  superintendent 
of  the  Louisville  Mining  Company;  Leannah  F., 
wife  of  John  Mayhoffer,  a  farmer  in  this  locality; 
Edith  M.,  wife  of  Daniel   McNeill,  superintend- 


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ent  of  a  mine  in  Glen  Rock,  Wyo.;  and  Mary  A., 
wife  of  David  Allen,  bookkeeper  for  the  United 
Mining  Company. 

"HOMAS  C.  KEIySEY,  who  has  made  his 
home  in  the  pretty  town  of  Boulder  since 
1 88 1,  has  been  no  small  factor  in  its  beauty, 
from  an  architectural  point  of  view,  as  under  his 
supervision  many  of  the  finest  and  handsomest 
public  and  private  buildings  have  been  erected. 
He  thoroughly  understands  his  business,  having 
worked  at  it  in  all  of  its  branches  from  his  youth  to 
the  present  time.  His  methods  of  carrying  out  to 
the  letter  every  detail  of  the  contracts  which  he 
makes  with  others  is  one  of  the  chief  secrets  of 
the  success  which  has  attended  him,  for  he  there- 
by inspires  confideuce  and  genuine  respect. 

The  Kelseys  have  long  been  numbered  among 
the  best  citizens  of  the  United  States.  Originally 
from  England,  they  settled  near  the  Long  Island 
Sound  in  Connecticut,  and  followed  agricultural 
pursuits,  for  the  most  part,  an  occasional  member 
of  the  family  engaging  in  a  sea-faring  career. 
Some  of  them  were  soldiers  in  the  war  of  the 
Revolution,  and  the  great-grandfather  of  the  sub- 
ject of  this  article  was  one  of  those  heroes. 
Grandfather  David  W.  Kelsey  was  a  native  of 
Connecticut,  and  was  a  farmer  near  the  city  of 
Hartford.  He,  also,  was  a  participant  in  the 
colonial  struggle  for  freedom  from  the  mother 
country's  rule,  and  he  lived  to  an  advanced  age. 

The  parents  of  our  subject  were  Hon.  David  P. 
and  Elizabeth  (Wilcox)  Kelsey.  The  mother 
also  came  of  good  old  Revolutionary  stock,  as  her 
Grandfather  Wilcox,  who  was  of  Scotch  descent, 
was  a  soldier  in  that  war.  Mrs.  Kelsey  was  born 
in  Connecticut,  as  was  also  her  father,  Joseph 
Wilcox.  She  died  at  the  ripe  age  of  eighty-three 
years.  Hon.  David  P.  Kelsey  carried  on  a  farm 
not  far  from  Hartford,  and  from  his  early  man- 
hood until  shortly  before  his  death  he  officiated 
in  one  public  position  or  another.  Besides  being 
a  justice  of  the  peace  and  holding  other  county 
offices,  he  served  with  credit  in  the  house  and 
senate  of  the  state.  He  died  in  1880,  when  about 
seventy-five  years  of  age.  Of  the  nine  children 
which  blessed  his  marriage  but  four  are  now 
living. 

The  birth  of  Thomas  C.  Kelsey  occurred  in 
Hartford,  Conn.,  May  20,  1830.  His  education 
was  obtained  in  the  public  schools  and  in  1848  he 


commenced  serving  a  three  years'  apprenticeship 
to  a  carpenter  in  his  home  town.  In  1852  he 
began  taking  contracts  on  his  own  account,  and 
thus  has  been  in  the  business  for  almost  half  a 
century.  In  1855  he  started  out  west  and  in  the 
following  spring  located  in  Louisiana,  Pike 
County,  Mo.  In  that  vicinity  he  was  occupied 
in  building  and  contracting  for  several  years. 
The  courthouse  of  the  county  and  many  of  the 
finest  residences  there  stand  as  evidences  of  his 
handiwork.  In  1872  he  settled  in  Denver,  be- 
coming superintendent  of  the  firm  of  McPhee  & 
McGinnity.  In  1875  he  resumed  independent 
work  and  took  contracts  and  executed  the  same 
for  numerous  large  churches,  business  blocks  and 
residences  in  the  city.  Since  he  came  to  Boulder 
perhaps  the  best  examples  of  his  skill  are  the 
Masonic  Temple;  the  high  school  building,  and 
the  residences  of  S.  A.  Giffin;  Mr.  Rowlands, 
A.  T.  Henry,  etc.  He  was  awarded  the  contract 
for  building  all  the  depots  and  warehouses  of  the 
Colorado  &  Northwestern  Railroad  here  and 
complied  with  all  of  the  wishes  of  the  company. 
Before  leaving  his  old  home  in  Connecticut, 
Mr.  Kelsey  married  Miss  Aurelia  A.  Smith,  a 
native  of  that  state,  and  daughter  of  Samuel 
Smith,  a  farmer.  Since  1864  Mr.  Kelsey  has  been 
affiliated  with  the  Republican  party,  and  when 
he  was  a  resident  of  Louisiana,  Mo. ,  he  served  as 
an  alderman.  He  is  an  Odd  Fellow  and  a  Knight 
of  Pythias,  belonging  to  the  Uniform  Rank. 


(TOHN  PETERSON,  who  is  engaged  in  farm- 
I  ing  in  Arapahoe  County  and  is  the  owner  of 
O  two  farms  of  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres 
each,  was  born  in  Drammen,  Norway,  January 
21,  1846,  a  son  of  Peter  and  Johanna  Gulbransen. 
When  he  was  a  child  of  four  years  his  mother 
died  and  three  years  later  his  father,  who  was  a 
farmer  in  Norway,  was  taken  away  by  death,  leav- 
ing him  and  his  brother  and  sisters  orphans  and 
alone  in  the  world.  His  brother,  Nicoli,  a  sailor, 
was  afterward  drowned  in  the  North  Sea;  his  sister 
Augusta  lives  in  Norway;  Josephine  is  married 
to  Martin  Johnsen,  and  lives  in  Elyria;  and 
Torra,  now  Mrs.  Hansen,  lives  in  Drammen, 
Norway. 

When  a  boy  our  subject  attended  the  national 
schools  of  Norway.  At  the  age  of  thirteen  he  be- 
gan life  as  a  sailor  and  for  thirteen  years  he  fol- 


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lowed  the  seas,  visiting  many  remote  ports  and 
seeing  much  of  the  world.  Among  others,  he  has 
been  all  over  the  West  Indies,  recently  the  seat 
of  the  Spanish- American  war,  and  also  visited 
the  East  Indies,  also  Calcutta,  in  Asia;  Alexan- 
dria, Egypt;  Brazil;  around  the  Horn  to  Peru; 
Valparaiso,  Chili;  around  Cape  of  Good  Hope 
and  African  ports.  In  all  this  sea-faring  ex- 
perience he  was  never  ship-wrecked.  He  also 
sailed  on  the  Great  lyakes  for  three  seasons.  On 
coming  to  America  in  1872  he  eventually  per- 
manently settled  in  Detroit,  Mich. ,  where  he  spent 
ten  years  working  mostly  for  the  Canada  South- 
ern Railroad.  In  1882  he  came  to  Colorado, 
where  for  five  years  he  worked  in  the  Grant 
smelter  in  Denver.  In  1886  he  purchased  the 
farm  where  he  has  since  resided. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Peterson  occurred  De- 
cember 5,  1874,  and  united  him  with  Bertah 
Johansen,  who  was  born  in  Norway  November 
28,  1854.  They  are  the  parents  of  a  son,  Burton 
Gilbert  Nicoli,  and  a  daughter,  Jennie  Louise. 
Three  sons  died  in  Michigan.  In  politics  Mr. 
Peterson  is  stanch  in  his  support  of  Republican 
principles,  but  has  never  taken  an  active  part  in 
political  affairs.  He  and  his  wife  are  interested 
in  the  public  schools  and  the  latter  is  now  serving 
as  president  of  the  school  board  of  their  district. 
He  gives  his  attention  closely  to  the  improvement 
of  his  land,  which  he  has  fenced  and  cultivated, 
and  upon  it  he  has  built  a  neat  and  comfortable 
dwelling  for  his  family. 


HON.  DAVID  H.  NICHOLS,  ex-lieutenant 
governor  of  Colorado.  This  sterling  old 
pioneer  of  Boulder  County  is  very  well  and 
favorably  known,  not  only  in  this  section,  but  in 
other  parts  of  the  state.  He  has  taken  an  active 
part  in  the  founding  of  Colorado  and  in  its  mar- 
velous development,  and  has  fortunately  lived  to 
see  the  wonders  which  he  and  his  early  asso- 
ciates achieved.  During  Boulder  County's  pio- 
neer history  he  served  as  sheriff"  here,  and  in  the 
territorial  legislature  of  1864  and  1865  he  took  a 
prominent  part.  In  1872  and  1873  he  was  again 
a  member  of  that  honorable  body,  having  been 
elected  as  the  candidate  of  the  Republican  party, 
and  served  as  speaker  of  the  house.  Then  for 
one  term  he  was   lieutenant-governor  of  Colo- 


rado, and  as  president  of  the  senate  had  the 
honor  of  opening  the  first  session  of  the  legisla- 
ture in  the  new  capitol  building. 

Mr.  Nichols  is  of  Scotch-Irish  descent,  though 
his  paternal  grandfather,  Alpheus  Nichols,  was 
a  native  of  Vermont,  and  his  maternal  grand- 
father, David  Hopkinson,  was  born  in  New 
Hampshire.  His  parents  were  Ethan  H.  and 
Portia  (Hopkinson)  Nichols.  They  removed  to 
the  vicinity  of  Prophetstown,  111.,  in  1836,  and 
on  the  farm  which  he  had  commenced  to  im- 
prove there  the  father  died  during  the  following 
year.  His  widow,  surviving  him  many  years, 
died  in  Bozeman,  Mont.,  in  1879.  Of  their  thir- 
teen children,  five  sons  and  two  daughters  at- 
tained mature  years.  Ezra  H.,  one  of  the  num- 
ber, enlisted  in  the  Mexican  war  in  Captain 
Stapp's  company  from  Warren  County,  111.,  and 
died  at  Castle  Perote,  Mexico. 

The  birth  of  Hon.  David  H.  Nichols  occurred 
March  16,  1828,  in  Hardwick,  Vt.  He  is  the 
eldest  surviving  member  of  his  father's  large 
family,  and  with  them  started  for  the  Illinois 
prairies  in  1836.  He  went  as  far  as  Buffalo, 
N.  Y. ,  in  wagons,  thence  by  boat  to  Toledo,  and 
from  there  on  in  wagons.  The  father  built  the 
first  house  south  of  the  Rock  River,  between 
Rock  Island  and  Dixon's  Ferry  at  Prophetstown. 
When  our  subject  was  a  lad  of  about  twelve 
years  he  went  to  Jo  Daviess  County  and  worked 
in  the  mines,  after  which  he  was  employed  in  the 
Wisconsin  pineries  during  the  winter  season  and 
rafted  logs  down  the  Mississippi  River  in  the 
summer,  selling  the  same.  Thus  he  continued 
to  do  up  to  1846,  when  he  commenced  to  feel  the 
need  of  a  better  education,  and  earnestly  took  up 
several  lines  of  study.  He  attended  school  in 
Warren  County  for  four  months,  and  then  went 
to  Shurtleff  College  at  Upper  Alton,  111.,  for  six 
years  longer.  His  zeal  and  persistence  were  re- 
warded, and  though  his  health  became  impaired 
by  his  close  and  confining  study,  knowledge  has 
ever  been  its  own  reward  to  him.  For  about  a 
year  he  taught  in  Warren  County.  About  this 
time  he  married  and  settled  down  upon  a  farm  in 
Whiteside  County,  near  Prophetstown. 

In  the  spring  of  i860  Mr.  Nichols  started  for 
Pike's  Peak  with  two  wagons,  two  yoke  of  oxen, 
three  yoke  of  cows  and  needed  household  goods. 
He  crossed  the  Mississippi  River  at  Albany; 
went   to   Nebraska   City,  thence   up   the  Platte 


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route  and  down  to  Boulder.  Here  he  opened  a 
blacksmith  shop  and  conducted  the  same  for 
about  eighteen  months.  In  the  meantime  he 
bought  a  ranch  on  the  outskirts  of  the  town  and 
became  interested  in  improving  the  place.  He 
built  a  log  cabin  on  the  site  of  his  present  hand- 
some residence,  and  before  he  moved  into  it  he 
had  made  the  eighty-rod  ditch  through  his  land, 
connecting  it  with  the  Boulder  Creek.  There 
was  not  a  tree  or  shrub  on  the  place,  but  as  soon 
as  Mr.  Nichols  had  set  out  some  they  began 
growing  at  a  wonderful  rate,  and  in  a  few  years 
the  beholder  could  not  have  believed  that  his  lit- 
tle paradise  of  greenery  was  the  same  desert-like, 
barren-looking  property  of  yore.  A  friend  in 
Illinois  sent  him  a  tiny  branch  of  willow,  about 
six  or  seven  inches  long,  in  a  large  envelope.  He 
planted  it,  and  to-day  it  is  a  tree  of  fine  propor- 
tions. He  has  carefully  trimmed  it  every  year, 
and  people  from  all  parts  of  the  county  have 
carefully  treasured  a  small-  branch  thus  cut  off, 
have  planted  and  attended  to  it,  until  a  large 
tree  rewarded  their  efforts.  From  the  one  tiny 
slip  originally  planted  here,  countless  thousands 
of  flourishing  trees,  in  all  parts  of  the  state,  have 
been  grown.  At  this  time  Mr.  Nichols  has  forty 
acres  of  land  in  his  home  place,  which  is  one 
of  the  thriftiest  and  most  beautiful  ranches  in 
the  county,  and  all  this  is  due  to  his  care  and 
cultivation. 

In  Monmouth,  111.,  the  marriage  of  Mr.  Nich- 
ols and  Miss  Elizabeth  Adkinson  was  solemnized 
September  5,  1848.  She  was  born  in  Virginia 
and  went  to  Illinois  with  her  parents  at  an  early 
age.  The  three  children  born  to  our  subject  and 
wife  are:  Ezra  H.  and  Horace  A.,  who  are  en- 
gaged in  raising  cattle  in  the  Grand  Encamp- 
ment in  Wyoming;  and  a  daughter.  Franc  P., 
who  is  at  home. 

On  the  anniversary  of  his  birth,  the  year  that 
he  attained  his  majority,  Mr.  Nichols  was  ini- 
tiated into  the  mysteries  of  Ma.sonry  in  Mon- 
mouth Lodge  No.  37,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  at  Mon- 
mouth, 111.  He  is  now  identified  with  Columbia 
Lodge  No.  14,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  in  Boulder,  in 
which  he  has  passed  all  the  chairs,  and  he  also 
belongs  to  Boulder  Chapter  No.  7,  R.  A.  M. 
For  years  he  was  connected  with  the  Odd  Fel- 
lows' society.  Formerly  he  was  captain  of  Com- 
pany D,  Third  Colorado  Cavalry.  For  a  period 
of  nineteen  years  he  was  a  member  of  the  board 


of  penitentiary  commissioners.  He  served  as 
chairman  of  the  board  of  commerce  and  for  a 
time  was  secretary  of  the  board.  The  Boulder 
County  and  Colorado  State  Associations  of  Pio- 
neers numbered  him  among  their  active  members 
for  many  years,  but  he  does  not  often  attend  their 
meetings  now.  Frequently  he  was  sent  as  a 
delegate  to  territorial  and  state  conventions  of 
the  Republican  party  up  to  1890.  He  attended 
the  silver  congress  held  in  Washington  a  few 
years  ago,  and  at  this  writing  is  a  strong  advo- 
cate of  the  People's  party.  When'the  university 
was  located  here  he  and  Mr.  Maxwell  were  in- 
fluential in  securing  and  keeping  the  institution, 
and  deserve  great  credit  for  their  enterprise. 
When  the  Colorado  Central  Railroad  was  built 
through  the  valley  he  acted  as  agent  for  the  com- 
pany at  Boulder  for  three  years. 


r"ERDINAND  EBERT,  who  owns  a  ranch 
1^  comprising  twelve  hundred  and  eighty  acres 
I  and  situated  in  Arapahoe  County,  was  born 
in  Brunswick,  Germany,  October  20,  1823.  In 
1 85 1  he  crossed  the  ocean  to  this  country  in  the 
new  ship  "Caparnicus,"  that  anchored  after  a 
voyage  of  forty-eight  days.  He  settled  in  Iowa, 
where  he  engaged  in  farming  for  seventeen  years. 
In  the  spring  of  ^868  he  came  to  Colorado  and 
has  since  made  his  home  on  his  present  property, 
where  he  has  a  ranch  stocked  with  many  cattle 
and  horses.  The  place  is  located  fourteen  miles 
east  of  Denver,  on  the  north  side  of  the  Kansas 
Pacific  Railroad. 

June  27,  1858,  Mr.  Ebert  was  united  in  mar- 
riage with  Miss  Kate  Roeder,  a  native  of  Ger- 
many. She  came  to  the  United  States  in  girlhood 
with  her  mother,  and  was  living  in  Iowa  at  the 
time  of  her  marriage.  They  became  the  parents 
of  three  sons  and  three  daughters.  Ferdinand  F. , 
the  oldest  son,  has  spent  his  life  principally  with 
his  parents,  with  the  exception  of  five  years  in 
Salt  Lake.  He  was  educated  in  the  schools  of 
Arapahoe  County  and  has  assisted  his  father  very 
greatly  in  the  management  of  the  ranch.  The 
second  son,  George  W. ,  resides  in  Salt  Lake 
City;  and  the  youngest  son,  William  J.,  assists 
on  the  home  ranch.  The  daughters  are:  Mary, 
who  married  Herman  C.  Behreus;  Annie,  wife  of 
B.  Speier,  of  Denver;  and  Helena,  at  home. 
In  early  life,  after  coming  to  this  country,  Mr. 


WIIvLIAM   MYERS. 


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Ebert  was  identified  with  the  Republican  party, 
but  later  he  became  an  adherent  of  the  Democracy 
and  a  firm  friend  of  the  silver  cause.  He  has 
never  sought  office  and  has  held  no  position  save 
that  of  member  of  the  school  board.  His  time 
has  been  closely  given  to  the  improvement  of  his 
place,  which  is  well  irrigated  by  a  ditch  running 
through  the  land.  Among  his  improvements  are 
a  large  and  substantial  barn  and  a  comfortable 
house. 


WILLIAM  MYERS  is  a  progressive  agri- 
culturist of  Arapahoe  County,  his  finely 
improved  farm  being  situated  on  section 
10,  township  2  south,  range  67  west.  He  bought 
this  property  in  187 1.  It  might  then  have  been 
appropriately  named  Cactus  Hill,  so  barren  and 
wild  a  piece  of  land  did  it  appear,  but  in  1875  the 
owner  erected  a  commodious  brick  house,  then 
almost  a  wonder  in  the  community,  and  at  once 
set  diligently  to  work  to  institute  sweeping  im- 
provements. To-day  he  has  one  of  the  model 
homesteads  in  this  locality.  In  1887  the  Burling- 
ton Ditch  was  constructed,  and  Mr.  Myers 
worked  on  the  enterprise  for  nearly  two  months, 
taking  his  pay  in  stock  in  the  company.  His 
land  is  splendidly  irrigated  and  on  the  place  is  an 
artesian  well.  His  original  purchase  comprised 
one  hundred  and  sixty  acres,  to  which  he  later 
added  another  eighty  acres,  but  he  afterwards 
sold  a  part  of  the  farm  and  now  retains  one  hun- 
dred and  eighty  acres. 

The  birthplace  of  William  Myers  was  in  Berks 
County,  Pa.,  and  within  the  same  county  his 
parents,  Henry  and  Hannah  CKohler)  Myers, 
were  also  born.  The  paternal  grandfather  of 
our  subject  was  a  native  of  Germany,  but  came 
to  America  in  colonial  days.  Henry  M3'ers,  the 
father,  was  born  May  6,  1784,  and  offered  his 
services  in  the  war  of  181 2,  but  was  not  called 
into  battle.  He  was  a  carpenter  and  builder  and 
also  owned  and  cultivated  a  small  farm.  He  was 
a  Democrat  and  held  several  local  oflBces  in  his 
home  district.  He  lived  to  be  seventy-three  years 
old,  dying  in  the  county  where  his  birth  had 
taken  place.  He  was  the  father  of  fourteen  chil- 
dren, of  whom  but  three  survive.  Obed,  the 
eldest,  is  carrying  on  the  old  homestead,  and 
Frank  resides  in  Reading,  Pa. 

William  Myers  was  born  March  18,  1834,  and 
in  the  schools  of  his  home  neighborhood  received 


a  good  education.  At  seventeen  he  began  learn- 
ing the  blacksmith's  trade.  He  was  paid  $25 
a  year  for  two  years,  his  board  being  also  fur- 
nished. Then  for  one  year  he  worked  as  a 
journeyman  in  Lancaster  County,  Ohio,  earn- 
ing meantime  $10  a  month  and  his  board,  and 
later  he  was  paid  $2  a  day  in  Shelbyville,  111. 
Another  year  was  spent  by  him  in  Iowa  City, 
Iowa,  and  in  i860  he  and  three  other  men 
drove  through  to  Denver  with  a  horse  team. 
They  were  thirty-five  days  on  the  way  and 
crossed  the  Missouri  River  at  Plattsmouth. 
Arriving  in  Denver  June  9,  Mr.  Myers  worked 
as  a  journeyman  blacksmith  until  fall,  when  he 
went  into  partnership  with  the  man  who  had  been 
employing  him.  The  following  year,  however, 
our  subject  started  an  independent  shop  and  con- 
tinued to  run  it  until  1876.  At  the  same  time  he 
sold  wagons  and  farm  implements.  He  invested 
in  his  farm,  as  previou,sly  stated,  in  1871,  but  did 
not  remove  thereto  for  several  years.  He  for-  ^ 
merly  supported  the  Republican  partj',  but  now 
stands  by  the  Prohibitionists.  That  he  is  an 
earnest  friend  to  the  public  schools  may  be  seen 
by  the  fact  he  has  served  as  a  school  director  for 
fifteen  years.  He  was  reared  in  the  Lutheran 
faith,  while  his  wife  was  identified  with  the  Con- 
gregational Church  when  young,  and  now  both 
are  members  of  the  Presbyterian  Church. 

In  1867  Mr.  Myers  went  to  Geneseo,  111.,  on  a 
visit,  and  there  became  acquainted  with  the  lady 
who  is  now  his  wife,  their  marriage  having  taken 
place  in  Denver  September  9,  1869.  She  was 
Hannah  E.  Kinsey  before  her  marriage.  The 
five  children  born  to  this  worthy  couple  are: 
Elsie  C;  Herbert  W.;  Orville  K.,  who  died  when 
six  years  and  five  months  old;  Robert  A.  and 
Henry  L.  Mrs.  Myers  is  a  daughter  of  Amos 
and  Charlotte  (Engle)  Kinsc}',  natives  of  Bucks ' 
County,  Pa.,  and  granddaughter  of  Edmund  and 
Elizabeth  (Briggs)  Kinsey,  also  Pennsylvanians. 

The  first  of  the  Kinsey  family  to  settle  in 
America  was  one  John  Kinsey,  a  Quaker  from 
England,  and  one  of  the  commissioners  for  the 
settlement  of  New  Jersey  under  the  purchase  of 
Edward  Byllinge.  John  Kinsey  arrived  on  the 
ship  "Kent,"  June  16,  1677.  The  majority  of 
the  passengers  on  this  boat  settled  at  what  is  now 
Burlington,  N.  J.,  but  John  Kinsey  made  selection 
of  three  hundred  acres  of  land  on  the  east  side  of 
the  Delaware,  above  the  mouth  of  the  Schuylkill, 


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and  near  the  spot  afterwards  famous  as  Perm's 
Treaty  tree,  and  the  city  of  Philadelphia.  The 
land  mentioned  was  bought  from  Peter  Cock,  a 
Swede,  but  before  the  actual  transfer  of  property 
was  consummated,  John  Kinsey  died.  However, 
at  a  court  held  at  Upland  (now  Chester)  the 
said  Peter  Cock  appeared  before  the  justices  and 
made  formal  acknowledgment  of  his  deed  of  con- 
veyance of  said  land  to  Elizabeth  Kinsey,  widow 
of  John  Kinsey.  John  Kinsey,  the  second,  son 
of  John  and  Elizabeth,  it  appears,  did  not  accom- 
pany them  to  America  in  1677,  but  came  the 
next  year  and  took  charge  of  his  mother's 
business  affairs.  He  afterwards  became  distin- 
guished in  public  services,  and  his  son  John,  like- 
wise a  Quaker,  became  chief  justice  in  Pennsyl- 
vania. 

Edmund  Kinsey,  son  of  John  Kinsey  and  his 
wife,  Elizabeth,  and  brother  of  Chief-Justice  John 
Kinsey,  was  the  ancestor  of  Mrs.  Myers,  in  direct 
line.  Edmund  Kinsey  married  Sarah  Ogborn  or 
Osborn,  by  permission  of  the  Society  of  Friends, 
at  the  house  of  Nathaniel  Fitz  Randolph,  in 
Woodbridge',  N.  J.,  August  8,  1708.  The  young 
couple  at  first  resided  in  the  town  referred  to,  but 
in  August,  1 7 15,  with  her  three  children  and  per- 
sonal effects,  and  accompanied  by  Jane  Fitz  Ran- 
dolph (the  widowed  mother  of  Mrs.  Kinsey)  they 
removed  to  the  untried  wilderness,  now  Bucking- 
ham Township,  Bucks  County,  Pa.  They  were 
guided  to  their  new  home  by  friendly  Indians. 
Edmund  Kinsey  was  deeply  interested  in  the  spir- 
itual welfare  of  the  people  among  whom  his  lot 
was  cast,  and  that  his  labors  were  appreciated  is 
shown  by  the  fact  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  minis- 
ters and  elders,  in  November,  1717,  he  received 
commendation  in  public.  He  was  one  of  the 
founders  of  Buckingham  Meeting  in  1720.  One 
of  the  foremost  mechanics  of  his  day,  he  had  a 
scythe  and  ax  factory  in  Buckingham,  and,  what 
was  remarkable  at  that  time,  he  owned  a  trip  or 
tilt  hammer,  operated  by  water  power.  He  was 
the  father  of  nine  children,  of  whom  the  eighth, 
Benjamin,  was  the  great-grandfather  of  Mrs. 
Myers. 

61  UGUST  MATSCHKE,  a  prosperous  farmer 
lJ  of  Arapahoe  County  and  the  owner  of  an 
I  I  improved  farm  of  one  hundred  and  sixty 
acres  here,  was  born  in  Brandenburg,  Germany, 
November  3,  1858,  a  son  of  August   Matschke,' 


Sr. ,  who  died  in  middle  life  leaving  two  sons. 
One  of  these,  Ernest,  is  a  cabinet-maker  of  Den- 
ver. After  the  death  of  his  father  and  mother 
our  subject  was  taken  into  the  home  of  his  grand- 
mother and  uncle,  and  there  he  remained  for  a 
few  years.  At  the  age  of  fourteen  he  began  to 
learn  the  cabinet-maker's  trade,  which  he  fol- 
lowed in  Germany  for  ten  years  and  traveled  all 
over  Germany,  mostly  on  foot,  seeing  much  and 
learning  many  valuable  le.ssous  in  life. 

In  1883,  at  the  age  of  twenty-five,  our  subject 
came  to  this  country  and  settled  in  Eouisville, 
Ky.,  but  after  a  very  short  time  he  came  to  Den- 
ver. In  1884  he  took  up  a  homestead,  which  is 
now  a  valuable  ranch  of  one  hundred  and  sixty 
acres.  This  he  has  fenced  and  improved  and 
upon  it  he  still  makes  his  home.  In  1883  he 
married  Frieda  Rebien,  by  whom  he  has  two 
sons  and  two  daughters,  namely:  Elsie,  Otto, 
Carl  and  Martha. 

Politically  Mr.  Matschke  favors  the  principles 
of  the  Republican  party.  He  is  interested  in 
educational  matters  and  has  served  two  terms  as 
a  member  of  the  school  board.  He  is  too  busy, 
however,  to  give  much  attention  to  politics  or 
official  positions,  preferring  to  devote  himself  en- 
tirely to  the  management  of  his  farm.  All  the 
improvements  on  his  place,  fences,  house,  barn, 
etc. ,  speak  much  for  his  industrious  labors  in  the 
past,  and  his  success  is  commendable,  especially 
when  it  is  considered  that  he  was  left  an  orphan 
in  early  life  and  came  to  this  country  without 
friends  or  means  to  assist  him  in  getting  a  start. 


QETER  F.  little.  No  one  in  Boulder  is 
L/^  more  thoroughly  respected  as  a  business  man 
^3  than  is  the  subject  of  this  article.  Prompt 
and  faithful  in  meeting  every  obligation,  pleasant 
and  genial  in  manner,  enterprising  and  energetic 
in  disposition,  he  deserves  the  friendship  which 
he  so  freely  enjoys  among  his  acquaintances.  He 
has  been  a  resident  of  Boulder  about  eight  j'ears 
and  is  interested  in  everything  relating  to  the 
progress  and  improvement  of  the  place. 

Born  in  the  northern  part  of  Ireland,  near  the 
famous  Giant's  Causeway,  our  subject  is  one  of 
the  thirteen  living  children  of  Patrick  J.  and 
Ellen  (McGovern)  Little,  who,  with  their  family, 
still  reside  on  their  homestead  in    the  Emerald 


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Isle.  Peter  F.  is  the  only  one  of  the  family  in 
America  at  the  present  time.  He  received  a  good 
education  in  the  national  schools,  and  in  1880 
crossed  the  Atlantic,  going  to  Helena,  Mout. 
In  1 88 1  he  located  in  Boulder  County,  and  en- 
gaged in  mining  and  prospecting,  in  the  Sugar 
Loaf,  Sunshine,  Ward  and  Gold  Hill  districts, 
for  some  time.  Later  he  opened  a  hotel  in  Ward, 
and  was  quite  successful  in  this  enterprise. 

In  1890  he  started  in  the  livery  business  in 
Boulder,  and  now  has  the  most  flourishing  con- 
cern in  the  county  in  this  line.  His  livery  is 
situated  at  the  corner  of  Fifteenth  and  Pearl 
streets.  It  is  equipped  with  a  full  line  of  car- 
riages and  vehicles  and  about  one  hundred  horses 
are  kept  on  hand.  In  1893  Mr.  Little  embarked 
in  a  new  enterprise.  He  began  running  a  stage 
to  Ward,  and  afterward  extended  the  route  to 
Eldora  and  Gold  Hill.  Thus  his  stages  stop  at 
the  chief  mining  camps  in  this  section,  and  bring 
the  outside  world  within  reach  of  those  who  are 
necessarily  absented  from  the  mails,  etc.  He  has 
not  lost  his  interest  in  mining  operations  and  is 
one  of  the  lessees  of  the  Morning  Star  mine  at 
Ward  and  the  Golden  Age  mine  at  Jamestown. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Ancient  Order  of  United 
Workmen  and  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd 
Fellows.  In  politics  he  takes  his  stand  firmly  on 
the  side  of  silver,  regardless  of  party  lines. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Little  and  Miss  Sarah  J. 
Sale,  a  native  of  Kentucky,  was  solemnized  in 
Boulder,  August  13,  1889.  They  are  the  par- 
ents of  two  little  daughters,  namely:  Catherine 
and  Ramona.  The  family  have  a  pleasant  home 
and  their  friends  in  this  community  are  legion. 


EHARLES  DAVIS,  who  has  been  a  resident 
of  Colorado  for  over  a  quarter  of  a  century, 
is  one  of  the  most  successful  mine  operators 
of  Boulder  County.  His  beautiful  home  is  sit- 
uated on  the  corner  of  Pine  and  Thirteenth  ave- 
nues, Boulder,  and  for  the  past  eight  years  he 
has  been  a  resident  of  the  county-seat,  and  thor- 
oughly identified  with  its  upbuilding  and  im- 
provement. He  is  a  self-made  man,  having  been 
thrown  upon  his  own  resources  at  an  early 
age,  and  is  entitled  to  great  credit  for  what  he 
has  accomplished.  He  is  respected  and  honored 
by  all  who  know  him,  and   stands  high  in   the 


Masonic  order,  belonging  to  Columbia  Lodge 
No.  14,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.;  Chapter  No.  7,  R.  A.  M.; 
Mount  Sinai  Commandery  No.  7,  K.  T.,  and  El 
Jebel  Temple,  Mystic  Shrine,  of  Denver. 

In  1871,  when  entering  upon  his  mature  life, 
Charles  Davis  decided  to  come  to  Colorado.  He 
came  across  the  plains  with  stockmen  whose 
names,  many  of  them,  are  now  well  known  in  this 
portion  of  the  west:  Todd  and  Pusey;  Wilford 
and  Money.  He  remained  near  Rocky  Ford,  on 
the  Arkansas,  until  1872,  when  he  went  to  Colo- 
rado Springs.  The  same  year  he  engaged  in 
prospecting  and  mining  in  Park  County,  both  in 
California  and  Buckskin  Joe  Gulches,  and  in  the 
fall  of  1873  went  to  Caribou,  where  he  was 
similarly  occupied.  He  was  one  of  the  first  to 
engage  in  mining  in  Sunshine  at  the  time  of  the 
excitement  over  the  New  American  mine. 

In  1889  Mr.  Davis  embarked  in  a  new  enter- 
pri.se,  for,  going  to  Lake  City,  Colo. ,  he  carried 
on  a  hotel  for  a  season,  and  when  the  railroad 
was  put  through  to  that  point  he  opened  the 
American  House,  which  he  managed  success- 
fully. In  1890  he  took  a  lease  on  Golden  Fleece 
mine,  a  patented  prospect,  and  "struck  it  rich" 
soon  afterwards.  Later  he  sold  out  to  the  pres- 
ent owners,  the  Golden  Fleece  Mining  Company, 
which  has  developed  as  rich  a  mine  as  can  be 
found  in  that  section  of  the  state.  For  eight 
years  Mr.  Davis  has  been  prospecting  and  min- 
ing in  Boulder  County,  and  in  April,  1896, 
bought  the  Victoria  Group  of  Mines,  which  he 
has  since  operated  with  marked  success.  The 
mines  are,  without  doubt,  among  the  best  pro- 
ducing ones  in  this  county;  are  situated  in  the 
Gold  Hill  district,  and  average  a  very  high  ratio 
of  the  precious  metal  to  the  ton.  In  two  years 
the  owner  has  made  numerous  openings  and 
shafts  and  levels  (over  thirty  altogether);  has 
placed  the  most  approved  modern  mining  ma- 
chinery on  the  property  and  now  has  everything 
in  excellent  running  order.  He  has  patented 
six  different  claims,  and  bids  fair  to  soon  retire 
with  a  snug  little  fortune,  should  he  so  desire. 
He  gives  his  personal  attention  to  the  manage- 
ment of  the  Victoria  mines,  the  practical  experi- 
ence he  has  gained  in  his  former  mining  ventures 
being  of  untold  benefit  to  him  now.  In  his  po- 
litical affiliations  he  is  a  Democrat. 

In  February,  1876,  Mr.  Davis  married  Miss 
Mary  Griffin,  of  Boulder.     She  is  a  daughter  of 


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one  of  the  pioneers  of  this  region,  and  at  one 
time  lived  in  Canon  City,  Fremont  County.  The 
marriage  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Davis  has  been  blessed 
with  a  son,  Ralph  G.  They  have  a  very  pleas- 
ant home  and  their  many  friends  are  always  cer- 
tain of  a  cordial  welcome  within  their  hospitable 
doors. 


on  the  school  board  for  years.  He  is  affable  and 
pleasant,  a  shrewd,  keen  man  of  business,  whom 
every  body  knows  and  likes. 


[~  ERDINAND  KUEHN  owns  a  large  ranch  of 
rfi  six  hundred  and  forty  acres  about  fourteen 
I  ^  miles  from  Denver,  and  is  one  of  the  sub- 
stantial farmers  of  the  county  of  Arapahoe.  He 
was  born  in  Schoenlanke,  Prussia,  July  2,  1832, 
and  is  a  son  of  David  Kuehn,  who,  for  thirty- 
five  years  was  treasurer  of  the  city  of  Schoen- 
lanke, Germany.  He  died  in  1863.  His  wife, 
Carolina  Leu,  died  when  Ferdinand  was  but 
twenty-seven  days  old,  leaving  beside  him  a 
daughter,  who  is  now  Mrs.  Amalia  Mittelstadt, 
a  widow  living  in  Berlin,  Germany. 

Mr.  Kuehn  grew  to  manhood  in  his  native 
country,  was  educated  in  her  schools,  and  from 
the  age  of  eighteen  to  twenty  served  in  the 
volunteer  army,  in  which  his  uncle,  August  Leu, 
was  captain.  When  twenty-four  he  sailed  for 
America,  on  the  ship  "Oder,"  under  Captain 
Swanson.  He  first  went  to  Chicago,  where  he 
stayed  for  one  year,  when  he  went  to  St.  Louis  and 
lived  until  he  received  his  naturalization  papers, 
and  became  a  citizen  of  this  country.  In  1861  he 
went  west  to  Wyoming  and  was  5)nnected  with 
the  Ben  Holliday  stage  line  for  a  year.  He  then 
returned  to  Germany  for  a  ten  months'  visit, 
coming  back  to  this  country  about  the  time  gold 
was  first  discovered  in  Montana,  in  1863.  He  was 
in  the  gold  mines  for  three  years  and  then  freighted 
a  year  from  St.  Joe,  Mo.,  to  Montana.  The  next 
year  he  went  to  St.  Louis  and  freighted  between 
that  city  and  Denver  until  the  fall  of  1866,  when 
he  moved  to  Sand  Creek,  Colo.,  and  the  follow- 
ing year  settled  on  the  place  now  occupied  and 
owned  by  him.  He  raises  stock  and  hay,  and 
has  improved  his  farm  himself,  putting  on  it  just 
such  improvements  as  he  desires. 

He  was  married  in  1882  to  Helene  Wolter,  a 
German  lady,  who.se  father,  Peter  Wolter,  was 
a  teacher  in  that  country,  and  an  old  man  when 
he  crossed  the  ocean  to  come  to  this  country. 
Mr.  Kuehn  is  a  Republican,  and  has  been  a  reader 
of  the  New  York  Tribune  ^v^r  since  1868.  He 
organized  the  district  school  here,  and   has   been 


yyiARCELLIN  PINEAU  came  to  Colorado 
y  in  September,  1865,  and  settled  in  Denver, 
(S  where  he  worked  at  the  tailor's  trade. 
After  a  time  he  located  on  Coal  Creek,  Arapahoe 
County,  where  he  now  owns  a  valuable  ranch  of 
four  hundred  and  eighty  acres.  The  place  is 
fenced  and  contains  the  usual  improvements  of 
house,  barn,  etc.,  while  a  part  of  the  land  is 
used  for  pasturage  and  the  remainder  planted  to 
corn  and  hay  that  is  used  for  feed.  The  results 
are  due  to  his  energy  and  perseverance,  for  he 
has  worked  untiringly  to  secure  needed  improve- 
ments on  the  place  and  has  used  every  precaution 
in  purchasing  stock  to  secure  only  the  best  grades. 

A  native  of  Chouviney,  Middle  France,  Mr. 
Pineau  was  born  June  5,  1824,  a  son  of  John  and 
Jane  (De  Cham)  Pineau.  The  parents  remained 
until  death  in  their  native  land,  the  former  dying 
there  in  1863.  In  his  family  there  were  two  sons 
and  one  daughter.  Peter  was  a  grain  dealer  in 
France,  but  is  now  deceased.  Mart  married 
Louis  Repeaux  and  is  living  in  France.  Our 
subject  spent  his  early  life  in  his  native  country, 
where  he  was  educated  in  the  schools.  At  the 
age  of  nineteen  he  started  out  for  himself,  having 
previously  learned  the  tailor's  trade.  He  re- 
mained in  Paris  until  1855,  when  he  crossed  the 
ocean,  settled  in  Chicago,  and  for  seven  years 
carried  on  business  in  that  citj'.  After  coming 
to  Colorado  he  worked  at  his  trade  until  com- 
ing to  his  ranch.  He  pre-empted,  homesteaded 
and  made  a  timber  claim.  The  former  he  sold 
and  later  bought  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres 
more.  He  is  married  and  has  one  son,  Lucian 
Marcell,  who  is  in  the  Colorado  Iron  Works. 

Since  becoming  a  citizen  of  this  country  Mr. 
Pineau  has  been  loyal  to  the  welfare  of  the  nation 
and  its  interests.  Politically  he  believes  in  Re- 
publican principles  and  votes  the  straight  party 
ticket.  In  his  school  district  he  has  served  as 
treasurer,  and  it  was  through  his  eiforts  that  the. 
first  school  was  started  here.  In  religion  he  is  a 
Catholic.  He  has  been  a  very  successful  bu.siness 
man  and  is  one  of  the  best-known  stockmen  in 
this  vicinity.  For  a  time  he  lived  in  Central 
City  and  managed  the  Central  City  Hotel  while 
there. 


FREDERICK  AFFOLTER. 


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r-REDERICK  AFFOLTER,  deceased,  was  a 
lo  man  who  was  universally  respected  and 
I  t  esteemed  by  his  neighbors  and  associates. 
About  thirty-five  years  ago  he  settled  on  a  farm, 
two  miles  southwest  of  Longmont,  Boulder 
County,  and  here  he  passed  the  remainder  of  his 
busy,  useful  life.  He  was  successful  as  a  general 
farmer  and  each  year  reaped  abundant  harvests  of 
hay  and  grain;  nor  was  he  less  fortunate  as  a 
dairyman  and  cattleman,  for  to  each  of  these 
various  lines  he  gave  much  time  and  labor.  In 
a  business  point  of  view  he  won  prosperity,  pro- 
viding well  for  his  large  family,  and  at  the  same 
time  was  never  neglectful  of  his  duty  to  the  pub- 
lic and  his  responsibility  as  a  citizen  of  his 
adopted  country. 

Mr.  AfFolter  was  a  native  of  Switzerland,  and 
possessed  the  exalted  sense  of  liberty,  love  of 
peace  and  regard  for  the  rights  of  his  brother- 
men,  that  are  characteristic  of  the  sons  of  the 
mountain-land.  He  was  one  of  the  nine  children 
of  Jacob  and  Elizabeth  (Bombagger)  Affolter,  of 
whom  but  one,  Jacob,  now  survives.  He  is  a 
prosperous  farmer  of  Phelps  County,  Mo.  The 
father,  also  of  Swiss  birth,  was  a  stone-mason  by 
trade  and  died  when  the  subject  of  this  sketch 
was  a  child.  The  latter,  who  was  born  June  lo, 
1832,  grew  up  at  home  and  under  the  roof  of  an 
uncle.  The  relative  mentioned  was  the  owner  of 
a  large  hotel  and  of  a  distillery,. besides  having 
considerable  farm  land  in  his  possession. 

When  he  was  in  his  twentieth  year  Mr.  Affolter 
and  a  brother  set  sail  for  the  United  States,  and 
reached  these  hospitable  shores  after  a  voyage  of 
six  weeks'  duration.  Going  thence  to  Ohio  they 
found  employment  with  farmers,  but,  ere  a  year 
had  rolled  away,  our  subject  suffered  so  greatly 
with  chills  and  fever,  that  the  brothers  decided 
to  go  elsewhere.  Accordingly,  they  went  to 
Highland,  111.,  and  in  that  vicinity  worked 
for  farmers  some  three  years.  Then,  going  to 
Missouri,  they  settled  upon  rented  land  near  St. 
Joseph,  and  commenced  farming  for  themselves. 
The  country  was  not  exactly  to  their  fancy,  and 
later  they  went  to  Kansas,  with  a  view  to  locat- 
ing there  permanently ,  but  they  liked  it  even  less 
than  Missouri,  to  which  state  they  returned,  after 
a  short  time. 

Having  acquired  something  of  the  Pike's  Peak 
excitement  our  subject  and  his  brother  started 
across  the  plains  in  1861,  with  the  usual  accom- 
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paniments  of  wagons  drawn  by  yokes  of  oxen,  etc. 
After  numerous  adventures  and  hardships  they 
reached  Denver  at  the  end  of  six  weeks,  and  a 
few  days  later  continued  their  journey  towards 
the  mountains.  They  met  numbers  of  dissatisfied 
men,  and,  acting  upon  their  advice,  turned  back, 
also.  Instead,  they  went  to  Boulder  and  tried 
gulch  mining  in  Eeft  Hand  Canon,  but  without 
very  gratifying  success.  Soon  they  took  up  a 
claim  on  Left  Hand,  just  below  Haystack  Mount- 
ain and  the  following  year  cut  hay  and  hauled 
it  to  Blackhawk.  In  the  winter  of  1862  our 
subject  again  crossed  the  plains  to  Missouri,  and 
returned  in  the  spring  with  a  large  drove  of  milch 
cows  and  cattle.  Near  Longmont  he  pre-empted 
a  claim  of  eighty  acres,  the  land  now  owned  and 
cultivated  by  his  family.  With  energy  and  well- 
applied  effort  he  set  to  work  to  improve  this  prop- 
erty, which,  in  time,  became  very  valuable. 

In  1868  Mr.  Affolter  formed  the  project  of  re- 
turning to  Switzerland,  in  order  to  learn  the  pro- 
cess of  making  Swiss  cheese,  for  which  he  was 
convinced  that  he  could  find  a  ready  market  in 
Colorado.  He  went  as  far  as  Ohio,  where,  on 
stopping  for  a  visit  with  an  aunt's  family,  he  was 
persuaded  to  abandon  his  plan  of  going  to  Europe, 
and  he  learned  the  business  in  Ohio.  When  on 
the  way  back  to  this  state  he  visited  some  cousins 
in  Greenville,  111.,  and  there  met  the  lady  who 
became  his  wife  March  21,  1870.  She  was  Miss 
Elizabeth  Ruch,  a  native  of  Switzerland,  who,  as 
both  her  parents  were  dead,  had  come  to  Illinois 
with  some  friends  in  the  spring  of  1869.  The 
young  couple  returned  to  Colorado  after  their 
marriage  and  began  housekeeping  on  the  farm 
which  Mr.  Affolter  had  pre-empted  before  he 
went  east.  They  were  industrious  and  enterpris- 
ing and  within  a  few  years  were  enabled  to  buy 
other  property  adjoining,  until  their  farm  com- 
prised two  hundred  acres. 

Mr.  Affolter  was  a  quiet,  unassuming  man, 
fond  of  his  family  and  caring  little  for  public  life, 
but  in  1893  the  People's  party  made  him  their 
nominee  for  county  commissioner,  and,  though 
he  was  defeated  by  a  small  majority,  his  popu- 
larity as  a  neighbor  and  a  citizen  was  abundantly 
proven.  The  whole  community  mourned  his 
loss  when  death  took  him  from  their  midst,  June 
i7>  1 895'  He  left  eight  children,  two  having 
preceded  him  to  the  better  land.  They  were 
named  respectively,  Frederick  and  Frank.     The 


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others,  all  unmarried  and  living  at  home,  are 
named  as  follows:  Emil,  Mary,  Edward,  John, 
Anna,  Rosa,  Paul  and  Lena. 


pQlLLIAM  R.  JONES  has  been  a  resident  of 
I  A/  Colorado  since  i860,  and  has  followed 
YV  various  occupations  here  with  more  or 
less  success.  For  nearly  thirty  years  he  has 
lived  in  the  neighborhood  of  his  present  home,  on 
section  31,  township  6,  range  66.  One  of  the 
organizers  of  district  No.  17,  he  has  been  active 
in  the  promotion  of  good  schools  and  teachers 
and  for  several  years  served  as  a  member  of  the 
board  of  education.  He  is  a  stockholder  in  the 
Union  Bank  at  Greeley,  and  has  been  prominently 
connected  with  different  ditch  companies  in  this 
locality. 

Born  July  18,  1838,  W.  R.  Jones  is  the  son  of 
John  and  Catherine  (Foglesong)  Jones,  who  were 
natives  of  Virginia.  The  father  was  one  of  the 
pioneers  of  Indiana,  and  about  1840  removed  to 
Schuyler  County,  Mo.  In  1863  he  again  moved 
westward,  and,  having  brought  with  him  from 
Missouri  a  herd  of  young  cattle,  devoted  himself 
to  their  care  for  some  time.  He  then  sold  out 
and  turned  his  attention  to  the  management  of  a 
ranch  in  Boulder  County.  His  death  took  place 
in  1873.  While  he  lived  in  Missouri  he  was 
occupied  in  the  manufacture  of  woolen  goods, 
first  having  a  mill  in  the  country,  and  afterwards 
in  Lancaster.  The  following  are  the  names  of 
his  children:  Mary,  Mrs.  William  Buford,  of 
Lancaster,  Mo.;  Juda,  Mrs.  Robert  Neeley,  of 
Lancaster;  Lena,  Mrs.  Joseph  Groseclose;  Eliza, 
Mrs.  James  Beasley,  of  Longmont;  Lydia,  widow 
of  Thomas  Newman,  of  Colorado;  W.  R.,  of  this 
sketch;  Isaac,  a  farmer  of  Oakland,  Ore.;  Wiley, 
a  ranchman  and  stockman  of  Idaho;  and  Mis- 
souri, widow  of  Joseph  Shelton,  of  Lowell,  Wash. 
The  boyhood  of  our  subject  was  spent  in 
Johnson  County,  Ind. ,  his  birthplace,  and  in 
Missouri.  He  assisted  his  father  on  the  farm 
and  in  the  factory  during  his  youth,  and  in  i860 
struck  out  for  himself.  Coming  to  this  state,  he 
engaged  in  mining  at  Breckenridge  for  three 
years,  at  the  end  of  which  period  he  went  to 
Poudre  Valley,  and  in  company  with  T.  W. 
Whiting  (or  Whitney)  commenced  work  on  the 
Whitney  ditch,  for  the  purpose  of  watering  his 
land  and  that  of  his  partner.     Subsequently  Mr. 


Jones  sold  out  his  business  interests  there  and  en- 
gaged in  freighting  from  Omaha  to  Denver  and 
out-lying  camps.  In  1867  he  homesteaded  his 
present  ranch  and  at  once  began  digging  the 
Jones  ditch,  a  private  ditch  which  he  still  owns. 
Up  to  1886  he  and  his  brother  Wiley  were 
occupied  in  feeding  cattle,  after  which  he  raised 
horses  for  a  few  years.  He  bought  some  thor- 
oughbred animals  and  started  in  the  business 
of  raising  horses,  but  the  ruinously  low  prices  at 
the  time  he  wished  to  sell  was  disastrous,  and  he 
lost  nearly  $20,000.  Since  then  he  has  only 
raised  a  few  horses  and  cattle,  suflScient  for  his 
own  needs  on  the  farm,  and  has  been  interested 
in  general  agriculture.  He  has  bought  and  sold 
land  extensively  and  is  now  the  owner  of  over 
three  hundred  acres  of  fine  bottom-land.  In  his 
political  opinion  he  is  a  strong  Democrat. 

June  16,  1876,  Mr.  Jones  married  Miss  Alice 
Goetchins,  daughter  of  George  G.  Goetchins,  a 
native  of  Ohio.  Three  children  comprise  the 
family  of  our  subject  and  wife,  namely:  Carrie, 
Millie  and  William  R.,  Jr.  Carrie  is  the  wife  of 
James  Warren,  a  ranchman  and  stockman  of 
Kersey,  Colo.  The  two  younger  children  are  at 
home. 


gjEORGE  J.  ZILAR,  who  is  engaged  in  the 
_  stock  business  on  section  23,  township  4, 
^  range  65,  Weld  County,  was  born  in  Cincin- 
nati, Ohio,  in  1854,  a  son  of  Reuben  and  Priscilla 
(Blair)  Zilar.  His  father,  who  was  a  native  of 
Kentucky,  removed  to  Ohio  in  early  manhood, 
and  spent  the  remainder  of  his  life  in  that  state, 
principally  in  Cincinnati.  For  a  number  of  years 
he  engaged  in  the  mercantile  business.  His  death 
occurred  in  Cincinnati  in  1883,  when  he  was 
sixty-five  years  of  age.  His  wife  passed  away 
in  1873,  at  the  age  of  about  forty-nine  years..  Of 
their  nine  children  George  was  the  third  son. 
He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Cincin- 
nati. At  the  age  of  sixteen  he  began  to  learn 
the  printer's  trade,  but  soon  abandoned  it.  After- 
ward he  held  a  clerkship  with  the  Cincinnati  Ice 
Company  and  held  clerical  positions  until  1883, 
when  he  started  west,  in  search  of  a  suitable 
location  for  a  stock  farm. 

After  having  spent  a  few  months  in  New 
Mexico,  Mr.  Zilar  arrived  in  Denver  in  1884. 
Afterward  he  took  up  a  pre-emption  claim  on 
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Draw  Valley,  and  started  in  the  stock  business 
with  a  small  herd.  In  1885  he  bought  one-quarter 
of  section  23,  adjoining  his  pre-emption,  and 
from  time  to  time  he  increased  his  herd,  until  he 
now  keeps  about  two  hundred  head  on  his  place. 
He  has  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  in  one  body, 
which  he  rents,  and  also  has  one  hundred  and 
sixty  arces  on  which  he  resides,  eighty  acres  of 
which  are  planted  to  alfalfa,  which  he  raises  for 
feed.  He  makes  a  specialty  of  Shorthorn  cattle, 
in  raising  which  he  has  been  successful.  He  has 
erected  a  comfortable  house  and  suitable  farm 
buildings,  and  has  improved  the  land  from  barren 
prairie  to  a  cultivated  farm,  with  fences  and  a 
lateral  for  irrigation  purposes.  In  1895  ^^  dug  a 
well  on  his  home  farm,  reaching  water  at  a 
depth  of  one  hundred  and  fifty-three  feet;  and  in 
June,  1896,  he  dug  a  well  on  his  property  that 
is  rented,  and  at  a  depth  of  one  hundred  and 
eighty-three  feet  struck  an  abundant  supply  of 
pure  water. 

Besides  his  other  interests,  Mr.  Zilar  is  a  stock- 
holder in  the  Platte  Land  Company,  Limited, 
commonly  known  as  the  English  Ditch  Company. 
Politically  he  is  a  silver  Republican.  For  several 
terms  he  served  as  judge  of  election.  In  the  or- 
ganization of  school  district  No.  84  he  took  an 
active  interest  and  for  six  years  has  been  con- 
nected with  the  board  of  trustees,  of  which  he  is 
now  the  president.  His  interest  in  educational 
work  has  been  of  long  duration  and  has  borne 
fruit  in  the  increased  facilities  for  schooling  in 
his  locality.  He  represented  the  department  of 
agriculture  in  this  district  in  the  way  of  statistical 
information.     Mr.  Zilar  is  unmarried. 


(31  ARON  McGRAW,  M.  D.,  a  successful  phy- 
Li  sician  and  surgeon  of  Boulder,  has  been  en- 
I  I  gaged  in  the  practice  of  the  medical  profes- 
sion for  forty-five  years  and  for  a  score  of  years  has 
been  a  resident  of  Colorado.  He  is  an  honored 
member  of  the  Boulder  County  Medical  Associa- 
tion and  keeps  thoroughly  posted  in  all  modern 
methods  and  discoveries  along  the  lines  of  medical 
science. 

The  paternal  grandfather  of  the  doctor  was  of 
Scotch  extraction.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the  war 
of  the  Revolution,  serving  as  second  lieutenant. 
He  participated  in  the  battle  of  Bunker  Hill  and 
in  that  engagement  received  a  wound  which  re- 


sulted in  his  death.  His  son  William,  the  doc- 
tor's father,  was  a  native  of  Albany,  N.  Y. ,  and 
for  many  years  was  a  farmer  of  Steuben  County, 
N.  Y.  His  declining  days  were  passed  at  the 
home  of  our  subject  in  Burton,  Ohio.  The 
mother,  whose  maiden  name  was  Margaret  Van 
Zandt,  was  likewise  a  native  of  New  York  state, 
her  birth  having  occurred  in  Albany  County. 
She  was  of  Holland-Dutch  descent,  and  of  that 
hardy  stock  which  laid  the  foundations  of  the 
state  of  New  York,  in  large  degree. 

Dr.  A.  McGraw  is  the  youngest  in  a  family 
originally  numbering  nine  children.  He  was 
born  in  March,  1832,  in  Greenwood,  Steuben 
County ,  N.  Y.  There  his  early  years  were  passed 
on  the  old  homestead,  and  after  leaving  the  public 
school  he  went  to  Alfred  Seminary,  in  Allegany 
County,  N.  Y.,  and  later  attended  Troopsburg 
College.  Then  he  took  a  course  of  lectures  in 
the  Buffalo  (N.  Y. )  Medical  College,  and  subse- 
quently was  a  student  in  the  College  of  Physi- 
cians and  Surgeons  in  New  York  City.  Gradu- 
ating in  1852  with  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Medi- 
cine, he  opened  an  office  in  Hornellsville,  Steuben 
County,  N.  Y.,  and  practiced  his  profession  there 
for  ten  years.  He  then  became  a  contract  surgeon 
in  the  employ  of  the  government,  in  the  western 
department  of  the  army,  and  for  three  years  served 
in  the  south  during  the  war.  He  next  settled  in 
Burton,  Geauga  County,  Ohio,  where  he  con- 
tinued successfully  occupied  in  the  duties  per- 
taining to  his  chosen  work  up  to  1878,  when,  on 
account  of  poor  health,  he  came  to  Colorado. 
He  spent  about  nine  months  in  the  Sierra  Nevada 
Mountains,  and  then  returned  to  Ohio,  where  he 
took  a  post-graduate  course  in  the  Cleveland 
Medical  College.  Thus  more  thoroughly  equipped 
for  his  future  work,  he  came  back  to  the  west, 
and  traveled  in  California  and  other  states,  his 
intention  being  to  settle  down  in  Denver,  ulti- 
mately. He  was  not  strong,  however,  and  con- 
cluded to  follow  the  advice  of  authorities  and  take 
up  his  permanent  residence  in  the  foot-hills. 
Selecting  Boulder  as  a  suitable  town  he  opened 
an  office  here  and  practiced  medicine  for  about 
five  years  in  this  locality.  Having  become  much 
better  in  health,  he  went  to  Denver,  where  he 
made  his  home  for  the  following  six  years;  from 
there  he  came  to  Boulder  in  the  interests  of  the 
health  of  his  .son.  As  a  general  practitioner  he 
has  been  exceptionally     successful,    and   much 


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surgical  work  has  fallen  to  his  share.  He  is  al- 
ways very  busy,  and  is  constantly  in  demand  in 
the  out-lying  districts.  His  political  preference 
is  for  the  principles  of  the  Democratic  party. 

The  doctor  was  first  married  in  Greenwood, 
N.  Y.,  tooneofhis  youthful  companions,  MissC. 
Bowlby,  and  their  three  daughters,  Louise, 
Emma  andLiHie,  are  all  living  in  Denver.  The 
doctor's  present  wife,  formerly  Miss  Fannie 
Wood,  was  born  in  Missouri,  and  is  a  lady  of 
lovable  disposition  and  pleasing  social  attain- 
ments. 


30HN  HARTLEY,  whose  home  has  been  in 
Colorado  since  1875,  was  born  in  Rochdale, 
England,  November  19,  1836,  a  son  of 
Abraham  and  Ann  (Stott)  Hartley,  natives  of 
the  same  locality.  His  maternal  grandfather, 
Robert  Stott,  a  mill  operator,  spent  his  entire  life 
in  his  native  land.  The  paternal  grandfather, 
Richard  Hartley,  a  native  of  Yorkshire,  was  a 
member  of  the  family  whose  most  prominent 
representative  was  a  large  coal  operator  of 
Yorkshire.  Moving  to  the  vicinity  of  Rochdale, 
he  embarked  in  the  cattle  business  and  was  suc- 
cessful until  he  lost  much  of  his  property  by  fire. 
He  continued  to  reside  in  the  same  locality  until 
his  death.  Abraham  Hartley,  who  was  a  mill 
operator,  made  his  home  near  Rochdale  until 
his  death,  when  more  than  seventy  years  of  age. 
His  wife  passed  away  at  sixty-two.  Of  their  five 
children,  three  are  living,  John  being  the  eldest 
of  the  family. 

At  the  age  of  eight  years  our  subject  began  to 
work  in  the  mills  and  when  only  ten  he  worked 
regularly  twelve  and  one-half  hours  per  day.  It 
was  not  long  until  he  was  working  overtime  two 
and  one-half  hours,  which  made  his  work  extend 
over  fifteen  hours  of  hard  labor.  His  pay  was  a 
.shilling  (the  same  as  twenty -five  cents)  a  day. 
After  a  time  he  began  in  the  weaving  of  woolen 
goods,  for  which  he  was  paid  $2.50  per  week, 
and  extra  for  overtime.  After  he  had  been  work- 
ing hard  for  fifteen  years  he  felt  the  need  of  a 
better  education  and,  the  way  being  open,  he  be- 
gan to  attend  night  school,  devoting  six  hours 
each  day  to  study. 

In  England,  in  1856,  Mr.  Hartley  married 
Miss  Elizabeth  Kirshaw,  the  only  child  of  James 
and  Eliza  (Mellor)  Kirshaw,  natives  of  England. 
Her  paternal  grandfather,  James  Kirshaw,  was  a 


gentleman  who  inherited  entailed  property;  her 
maternal  grandfather,  Ralph  Mellor,  was  a 
merchant  in  England.  In  1855  Mr.  Hartlej' 
commenced  to  teach  school,  and  for  three  years 
he  had  charge  of  the  school  at  Haugh,  England, 
meantime  also  engaging  in  the  tea  and  coffee 
business,  soliciting  orders  on  Saturdays  and 
during  evenings.  In  1858  he  settled  at  Oldham, 
where  he  opened  a  general  store,  and  soon  he  be- 
came the  proprietor  of  two  stores.  Oldham  was 
a  cotton  manufacturing  town,  and  when  the  Civil 
war  broke  out  in  the  United  States,  an  embargo 
was  placed  on  cotton,  so  that  it  was  impossible  to 
obtain  any.  His  business  consequently  declined 
and  collections  were  poor.  Hoping  to  better  his 
fortune,  he  resolved  to  come  to  America,  and 
with  his  wife  and  one  child  crossed  the  Atlantic, 
settling  in  Owego,  N.  Y.,  where  for  two  years  he 
was  employed  on  the  railroad  at  $1 .  10  a  day.  For 
a  time  he  was  also  in  the  government  employ  in 
railroad  construction  in  Virginia.  A  second 
time,  in  1864-65,  he  was  sent  south  in  the  gov- 
ernment employ. 

Removing  to  Dubuque,  Iowa,  in  1865,  Mr. 
Hartley  engaged  in  carpentering,  and  for  a  time, 
about  the  time  of  the  close  of  the  war,  he  was 
employed  by  the  government  as  construction 
carpenter.  He  bought  land  near  Dubuque  and 
for  two  years icngaged  in  the  soap  manufacturing 
business,  later  engaging  in  the  manufacture  of 
potash  in  Dubuque.  The  year  1873  found  him 
in  Greeley,  Colo. ,  and  two  years  later  he  settled 
in  Sunshine,  Boulder  County,  where  he  com- 
bined mining  with  contracting.  In  1877  he 
moved  to  Ballyrat  and  at  first  engaged  in  mining, 
but  later  bought  a  ranch  and  from  1880  to  1890 
engaged  in  the  stock  business.  In  the  year  last 
named  he  started  a  store  at  Ward,  where  he  has 
built  a  store  building  and  carries  on  a  large  trade 
in  dry  goods,  groceries  and  hardware.  The  firm 
title  was  first  J.  Hartley  &  Son,  and,  in  1894, 
when  another  son  was  taken  in,  became  J.  Hart- 
ley &  Sons.  While  in  Dubuque  he  was  made  a 
Mason;  he  is  also  connected  with  the  Ancient 
Order  of  United  Workmen.  Politically  he  is  a 
Republican.  For  five  years  he  has  served  as  a 
member  of  the  school  board  of  Ward.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Congregational  Church,  which  he 
serves  as  deacon. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hartle)'  are  the  parents  of  seven 
children :     Mrs.  Eliza  Gardner,  of  Boulder;  Mrs. 


THADDEUS  A.  GAGE. 


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Anna  Barr,  of  Ward;  A.  Lincoln,  of  Denver; 
Joseph  D.,  a  member  of  the  firm,  and  fraternally 
a  member  of  the  Woodmen  of  the  World  and 
Knights  of  Pythias;  Mrs.  Carrie  Talbott,  of  Old 
Mexico;  John  William,  a  partner  of  bis  father, 
and  now  in  Old  Mexico;  and  Ellery  C,  who  is 
also  with  his  father. 


"HADDEUS  A.  GAGE,  the  well-known  live- 
stock dealer  of  Fort  Collins,  is  a  descendant 
of  an  old  Connecticut  family  that  was 
closely  related  to  the  Alden  family  of  Massachu- 
setts. His  father,  Alden  S.  Gage,  was  born  in 
Putnam  County,  N.  Y. ,  and  from  there  removed 
to  Herkimer  County,  the  same  state,  where  he 
engaged  in  merchandising  in  diiferent  cities.  The 
last  twenty-five  years  of  his  active  life  were  spent 
as  a  merchant  in  Utica.  He  retired  from  busi- 
ness at  seventy  years  and  died  when  eighty- three, 
in  1887.  Politically  he  was  first  a  Whig  and 
later  a  Republican,  but,  though  differing  in  some 
opinions  from  Horace  Greeley,  he  was  a  great 
admirer  of  that  famous  statesman.  In  religion 
he  was  of  the  Universalist  faith.  His  wife,  who 
bore  the  maiden  name  of  Malina  S.  Eoomis,  was 
born  in  Herkimer  County  and  died  there  when 
in  middle  life.  She  had  a  brother  who  for  years 
was  a  prominent  judge  of  Little  Falls,  N.  Y. 
Of  her  five  children  all  but  one  are  living, 
our  subject  being  the  only  son  and  youngest 
child.  He  was  born  in  Herkimer  County  No- 
vember 7,  1844,  ^°d  was  reared  in  Newport,  re- 
ceiving a  grammar-school  and  high-school  edu- 
cation. When  he  was  seventeen  he  accompanied 
his  parents  to  Utica,  where  he  remained  for  a 
year  in  the  mercantile  business  with  his  father. 
In  1863  he  moved  to  Illinois,  where  for  ten  years 
he  was  variously  engaged  in  teaching,  farming 
and  mercantile  business. 

In  June,  1873,  he  moved  to  Colorado  for  the 
benefit  of  his  health.  He  came  to  Denver,  and 
for  six  months  taught  school  in  Arvada,  after 
which  he  clerked  until  the  fall  of  1874.  He  then 
settled  on  a  farm  in  Larimer  County.  In  the 
summer  of  1885  he  married  Esther  R.  Riddle, 
who  was  born  in  Iowa,  and  came  here  in  1870 
with  her  father,  John  Riddle. 

Commencing  in  the  stock  business  in  1875, 
Mr.  Gage  has  since  given  much  of  his  time  to 
this  industry.     He  bought  a  ranch  in  the  foot 


hills  near  Livermore  and  engaged  in  dairying  for 
seven  years,  after  which  he  turned  his  attention 
to  breeding  Hereford  cattle.  He  continued  in 
that  occupation  until  1893,  since  which  time  he 
has  purchased  annually  enough  yearling  steers 
to  keep  his  range  stocked.  In  1892,  on  account 
of  the  scarcity  of  range  near  Livermore,  he  moved 
his  cattle  to  the  north  side  of  the  Platte,  in  Weld 
County.  In  January,  1886,  he  moved  to  Fort 
Collins  and  for  two  years  filled  the  office  of  coun- 
ty assessor,  but  declined  re-election.  On  the  ex- 
piration of  his  term  he  organized  the  Poudre 
Live  Stock  Company,  in  connection  with  F.  C. 
Avery,  E.  H.  Hall  and  others,  and  was  made  its 
president  and  general  manager,  but  after  two 
years  sold  his  interest  and  purchased  an  interest 
in  the  meat  market  of  Evans,  Thoman  &  Co. 
Later  he  purchased  their  interests,  and  continued 
the  business  with  other  parties  about  three  years, 
then  selling  out  his  entire  interest.  Since  then 
he  has  given  his  attention  to  the  cattle  business. 
His  brand  is  two  half-circles. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Gage  have  two  children:  Ber- 
tram A. ,  a  graduate  of  the  Agricultural  College 
in  1897,  with  the  degree  of  B.  S.;  and  Hattie,  a 
member  of  the  class  of  1901.  In  politics  Mr. 
Gage  is  identified  with  the  People's  party.  Be- 
sides the  office  of  county  assessor,  he  filled  the 
position  of  deputy  county  treasurer  from  1894  to 
1896.  Fraternally  he  was  made  a  Mason  in  Col- 
lins Lodge  No.  19,  of  which  he  is  the  present 
master.  He  is  also  past  high  priest  of  Cache  la 
Poudre  Chapter  No.  11,  R.  A.  M.,  and  a  mem- 
ber of  DeMolay  Commandery  No.  13.  He  is  a 
charter  member  of  Unity  Church,  in  which  he  is 
chairman  of  the  board  of  trustees.  In  the  Colo- 
rado Cattle  Growers'  Association  he  has  been 
appointed  a  round-up  commissioner  of  District 
No.  II.  He  is  also  connected  actively  with  the 
Larimer  County  Stock  Growers'  Association. 


HARRY  A.  LEE  was  appointed  Commissioner 
of  Mines  for  the  state  of  Colorado  May  11, 
1895.  by  Governor  Albert  W.  Mclntire. 
The  Bureau  of  Mines  of  the  state  of  Colorado  was 
created  by  an  act  of  legislature,  approved  March 
30,  1895.  Owing  to  the  financial  distress  of  the 
state,  the  status  of  the  office  was  soon  attacked 
and  the  State  Board  of  Equalization  recommended 
that  the  state  auditor  suspend  payments  of  appro- 


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priation  provided  by  the  legislature.  Through 
legal  advice  sought,  it  became  clear  to  Mr.  I^ee 
that  the  establishment  and  maintenance  of  the 
office  was  commanded  by  the  constitution  of 
the  state.  Acting  upon  this  theory,  mandamus 
proceedings  were  had  by  the  commissioner  of 
mines  against  the  state  auditor  in  the  district 
court.  The  decision  was  in  favor  of  the  bureau 
and  was  later  affirmed  by  the  supreme  court  of 
the  state.  Both  courts  decided '  'that  the  office  was 
created  in  pursuance  of  a  constitutional  man- 
date, ' '  and  that  its  status  was  the  same  as  any- 
other  state  office.  Mr.  Lee  is  well  equipped  for 
the  duties  of  his  office  and  his  interest  and  zeal 
are  evidenced  by  the  progress  made,  having, 
among  other  things,  made  one  of  the  finest  min- 
eral collections  in  the  west. 

The  father  of  our  subject,  E.  A.  Lee,  M.  D., 
was  born  and  reared  in  Ohio,  graduated  from 
Rush  Medical  College  at  Chicago,  and  during  the 
Civil  war  served  four  years  as  surgeon  in  an  Illi- 
nois regiment,  with  the  rank  of  major.  After 
the  close  of  the  war  he  located  at  Du  Quoin,  111., 
and  followed  his  profession  for  several  years.  On 
account  of  asthma,  necessitating  change  of  cli- 
mate, California  and  other  places  were  visited  and 
settlement  finally  made  in  Colorado  Springs,  Colo. , 
in  1875.  After  several  years'  residence,  another 
change  became  necessary  and  he  removed  to  Fort 
Collins,  Colo. ,  and  is  still  practicing  his  profession 
at  that  place.  He  married  Margaret  M.  Farnan, 
who  was  born  at  Sparta,  111.,  the  daughter  of 
Joseph  Farnan,  a  southern  Illinois  pioneer  and  a 
medical  graduate  of  an  Irish  college.  Both  Dr. 
and  Mrs.  Lee  are  still  living,  as  are  two  of  four 
daughters  and  one  of  two  sons. 

Born  in  Sparta,  111.  ,our  subject  was  there  reared 
and  educated  in  the  Du  Quoin  high  school,  com- 
pleting the  junior  studies  in  the  Illinois  Industrial 
University  at  Champaign,  111.  He  was  self  sup- 
porting from  an  early  age,  having  acquired  the 
trade  of  printer,  which  was  dropped  on  account 
ofhealth,and  later  the  trade  of  machinist.  In  1877 
he  began  mining  at  Joplin,  Mo.,  and  in  1879 
came  to  Colorado.  In  1880  he  went  to  the  Gun- 
nison country,  and  has  since  that  time  followed 
mining  in  its  various  branches,  settling  at  Ouray, 
Colo.,  in  1887,  which  point  he  designates  as 
"home." 

Mr.  Lee  has  always  been  an  ardent  Republican 
in  politics.  He  was  appointed  colonel  on  the  staff  of 


Governor  John  L.  Routt  and  served  as  secretary 
of  the  Republican  state  central  committee  in  1892. 
Fraternally  he  is  a  member  of  Fort  Collins  Lodge, 
A.  F.  &  A.  M. ;  Ouray  Chapter,  R.  A.  M.,  Ouray 
Commandery,  K.  T. ,  of  the  state,  and  a  member  of 
El  Jebel  Temple,  N.  M.  S.  He  was  married  to 
Tere.sa  M.  Killelea  at  Ottawa,  111.,  in  1887,  and 
they  have  three  children  living:  Margaret  Mary, 
born  August  10,  1891;  Jiilius  Joseph,  born  Octo- 
ber 19,  1892;  and  Mary  lone,  born  August  31, 
1894-  

(lOHN  T.  WILLIAMS,  of  Boulder,  was  born 
I  in  Carter  County,  Tenn.,  August  30,  1856, 
(2)  a  son  of  John  Q.  and  Elizabeth  (Haun) 
Williams.  He  was  one  often  children,  eight  of 
whom  are  now  living,  namely:  Jane,  Nathaniel, 
Margaret,  George,  Frank,  Belle,  John  T.  and 
William  N.  The  father,  who  was  born  in  Carter 
County  in  1819,  was  a  son  of  John  L.  and 
Johanna  (Patton)  Williams,  the  former  ofEnglish 
and  Welsh  descent,  and  by  trade  a  blacksmith. 

Under  his  father's  instruction  John  Q. 
Williams  learned  the  trade  of  a  blacksmith. 
After  his  marriage  he  settled  upon  a  farm,  which 
had  been  given  him  by  his  father,  and  there  he 
engaged  in  agricultural  pursuits  and  also  estab- 
lished himself  in  the  blacksmith's  trade,  which 
he  followed  until  about  1888.  Then,  retiring 
from  active  labors  in  field  and  shop,  he  settled 
down  to  enjoy  the  fruits  of  his  many  years  of 
activity.  He  continues  to  reside  in  the  county 
where  he  was  born. 

Remaining  at  home  until  sixteen  years  of  age, 
the  subject  of  this  sketch  then  went  to  Memphis, 
Tenn.,  where  for  two  months  he  was  employed 
in  a  sawmill.  He  afterward  took  deck  passage 
onthesteamer,  "Belle  of  Memphis,"  for  St.  Louis, 
and  on  arriving  in  that  city  he  followed  the  saw- 
mill business.  After  two  months  he  came  to 
Colorado,  landing  in  Denver  July  17,  1873,  and 
from  there  going  direct  to  the  mining  camp  at 
Caribou.  He  arrived  here  without  a  dollar  in 
his  possession.  Securing  employment  in  a 
blacksmith  shop,  he  applied  himself  to  the  trade 
for  eight  months,  during  which  time  he  became 
so  proficient  that  he  was  given  a  forge  and  em- 
ployed at  tool  sharpening.  More  than  two  years 
were  devoted  to  this  work,  after  which  he  went 
to  Ward  and  followed  sharpening  and  running 
a  hoister  in  the  Humboldt  mine.     Seven  months 


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later  he  went  to  Salina  and  for  two  years  was 
tool  sharpener  and  also  ran  a  hoister  for  the 
celebrated  Melvina  mine. 

In  1879  Mr.  Williams  went  to  Leadville  and 
for  the  greater  part  of  the  following  eighteen 
years  he  followed  general  blacksmithing.  During 
the  many  years  he  spent  in  the  mining  regions, 
he  also  did  much  prospecting  and  leasing.  In 
March,  1897,  ^^  purchased  two  hundred  and 
forty  acres  of  land  about  one  mile  north  of  Val- 
mont  and  in  August  of  the  same  year  he  sold  his 
interests  in  Leadville  and  removed  to  his  farm, 
where  he  completed  the  erection  of  a  handsome 
brick  residence  January  14,  1898.  However, 
he  and  his  family  did  not  feel  satisfied  with  life 
in  the  country  and  they  purchased  a  city  resi- 
dence in  Boulder,  where  they  now  reside,  having 
rented  the  farm. 

December  29,  1887,  Mr.  WiUiams  married 
Miss  Lucy  A.  White,  daughter  of  Washington 
White,  a  prominent  farmer  of  Hamilton  County, 
Tenn.  One  son,  Howard  M.,  blesses  this  union. 
Fraternally  Mr.  Williams  is  identified  with 
Columbus  Lodge  No.  14,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  Lead- 
ville Lodge  No.  40,  A.  O.  U.  W.,  and  the  Wood- 
men of  the  World.  In  matters  relating  to 
politics  he  is  liberal  in  his  views,  voting  for  the 
candidates  whom  he  deems  best  qualified  to  repre- 
sent the  people. 

EHARLES  ALBERT  RUSSELL,  now  serv- 
ing his  third  term  as  alderman  from  the 
second  ward  of  Boulder,  is  noted  for  his  public 
spirit  and  progressivencss.  He  was  first  elected 
to  this  office  on  the  Republican  ticket  in  1893, 
was  re-elected  in  1895,  and  again  in  1897,  and 
has  made  a  record  of  which  his  friends  and  asso- 
ciates are  justly  proud.  During  his  tenure  of 
office  many  material  improvements  have  been 
inaugurated,  adding  greatly  to  the  desirability  of 
the  town  as  a  place  of  residence.  Sewers  have 
been  laid,  the  mountain  water  system  has  been 
introduced,  and  the  capacity  of  the  plant  doubled, 
streets  have  been  laid  out  and  improved,  and 
numerous  reforms  started.  Mr.  Russell  has  been 
a  very  active  member  of  various  committees  hav- 
ing these  and  other  matters  in  charge,  and  has 
been  the  chairman  of  the  committees  on  streets 
and  judiciary. 

The  Russell  family  of  which  our  subject  is  a 
sterling  representative  is  one  of  the  oldest  in  New 


England.  His  ancestors  settled  in  the  vicinity 
of  Boston,  Mass.,  about  1635  or  1640,  coming 
from  Scotland.  Great-grandfather  Russell  was 
a  patriot  of  the  Revolutionary  war,  and  his  son, 
Philemon,  the  grandfather  of  our  subject,  was  a 
member  of  the  governor's  council  in  the  Bay 
state.  Like  his  ancestors  Hon.  Levi  Russell 
(father  of  C.  A.)  followed  agricultural  pursuits 
during  active  life,  his  home  being  in  Somer- 
ville,  Mass.  He  represented  his  district  in  the 
state  legislature  at  one  time,  and  was  a  prominent 
man  in  his  section.  He  died  at  his  home  when 
in  his  seventieth  year,  and  is  survived  by  his 
faithful  wife,  who  was  formerly  Miss  Martha 
Smith,  daughter  of  James  Smith,  a  carpenter  and 
builder  of  Londonderry,  N.  H.  The  Smiths 
were  among  the  original  settlers  of  that  town, 
having  removed  there  from  Londonderry,  Ire- 
land. 

C.  A.  Russell  is  next  to  the  eldest  of  five  chil- 
dren, and  is  the  only  one  of  the  family  that  does 
not  live  in  Massachusetts.  He  was  born  in  Somer- 
ville  November  9,  1850,  and,  after  finishing  his 
public  school  education  graduated  from  Tufts  Col- 
lege, in  Massachusetts,  in  1872,  with  the  degree 
of  Bachelor  of  Arts.  He  then  took  a  post-graduate 
course,  and  in  1873  was  granted  the  degree  of  civil 
engineer.  After  serving  for  a  short  time  with  a 
railroad  corps  he  entered  the  United  States  Coast 
Survey  Department,  and  in  the  spring  of  1874 
surveyed  along  the  Atlantic  coast  and  Gulf 
states,  from  Providence,  R.  I.,  to  the  mouth  of 
the  Mississippi  River.  He  was  thus  occupied 
for  six  years,  and  for  all  but  a  year  of  this  time 
was  stationed  near  the  delta  of  the  "father  of 
waters,"  being  assistant  engineer  of  the  survey 
for  the  "Eads"  jetties.  After  the  completion 
of  that  task  he  resigned  from  the  coast  survey 
■Service  and  took  a  position  as  assistant  engineer 
with  the  Mississippi  River  Commission,  still  in 
the  employ  of  the  government.  His  duties  in 
this  department  kept  him  on  the  river  at  points 
between  Cairo,  111.,  and  Vicksburg,  Miss.  At 
the  end  of  three  years  he  resigned,  and  ten  days 
later,  January  10,  1883,  arrived  in  Boulder.  He 
was  soon  made  United  States  deputy  mineral 
surveyor,  and  has  since  given  his  energies  to 
prospecting  and  mining.  He  is  also  extensively 
interested  in  real  estate  in  this  town  and  locality, 
and  is  the  owner  of  a  fine  hay  ranch  near  Alliance, 
Neb.     His  ofiice  is  centrally  located,  being  in  the 


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Masonic  Temple.  In  1890,  in  company  with 
E.  A.  Austin,  he  organized  the  Boulder  Pressed 
Brick  Company,  and  is  secretary  and  treasurer 
of  the  same.  This  company  has  also  laid  out 
sixty  acres  of  land,  known  as  the  North  Boulder 
Addition,  and  has  made  extensive  improvements 
there.  Mr.  Russell  is  an  able  business  man  and 
financier,  and  exercises  superior  judgment  in  the 
management  of  his  affairs. 

In  his  early  manhood  Mr.  Russell  was  initiated 
into  the  Masonic  order  in  his  native  state,  and  is 
now  connected  with  Columbia  Lodge  No.  14, 
A.  F.  &  A.  M.  He  is  the  high  priest  of  Boulder 
Chapter  No.  7,  R.  A.  M.;  iscommander  of  Mount 
Sinai  Commandery  No.  7,  K.  T.,  and  belongs 
to  El  Jebel  Temple,  Mystic  Shrine,  of  Denver. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  board  of  trustees 
of  the  Masonic  Temple  Association  of  Boulder. 
June  12,  1888,  Mr.  Russell  was  married  in  Boulder 
to  Miss  Jennie  Phelps,  daughter  of  Henry  Phelps, 
formerly  of  Flint,  Mich.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Russell 
have  three  children,  Arthur,  Austin  and  Ruth. 


0AVID  T.  HIVELY,  a  farmer  of  Jefferson 
County,  settled  in  Denver  in  1880  and  for  a 
time  worked  at  the  carpenter's  trade.  In 
April,  188 1,  he  was  given  charge  of  the  mill- 
wrighting  of  the  Crescent  mills,  which  position 
he  held  until  the  mills  were  burned  down  in  Sep- 
tember, 1882.  Afterward  he  had  charge  of  im- 
portant work  in  the  construction  of  the  Hun- 
garian mills  and  later  had  charge  of  the  building 
of  a  mill  in  Durango,  in  which  work  he  was  very 
successful.  In  the  spring  of  1885  he  and  his 
family  went  east  and  spent  some  months  visiting 
in  Toledo,  Ohio,  and  his  old  home  in  Maryland. 
Returning  to  Denver  in  the  fall,  he  spent  six 
months  in  the  city  and  then  purchased  twelve 
acres  on  Prospect  avenue,  one  and  three-fourths 
miles  west  of  the  city  limits,  where  he  has  since 
engaged  in  gardening. 

The  sou  of  Adam  and  Anna  V.  (Fowble)  Hive- 
ly,  our  subject  was  born  July  2,  1852,  in  Carroll 
County,  Md. ,  one  of  seven  children;  five  are 
now  living,  namely:  Theodore,  of  Cleveland, 
Ohio;  Charles,  who  lives  in  Carroll  County,  Md. ; 
David  T. ;  Mary  E. ,  wife  of  George  Sharrer,  of 
Carroll  County,  Md.;  and  Mrs.  Anna  V.  Rigley, 
of  Manchester,  Md.  The  father  was  born  in 
Carroll  County  about  1824  and  in  youth   learned 


the  trade  of  a  cigarmaker,  establishing  himself 
in  business  later  and  for  many  years  carrying  on 
a  cigar  factory.  He  gave  this  business  up  in  or- 
der to  attend  to  the  cultivation  of  his  farm,  where 
he  afterward  resided.  His  father,  Capt.  John 
Hively,  was  an  officer  in  the  war  of  1812;  he  was 
a  native  of  York  County,  Pa.,  and  removed  in 
an  early  day  to  Maryland,  where  he  engaged  in 
farming.  Our  subject's  maternal  ancestors  came 
from  Germany,  and  upon  settling  in  Carroll 
County,  took  up  a  piece  of  land  ten  miles  square, 
founding  a  settlement  that  was  known  as  Fow- 
ble's  colony. 

At  the  age  of  eighteen  years  our  subject  was 
apprenticed  to  the  carpenter's  trade,  after  which 
he  was  employed  in  Baltimore  and  Washington 
for  four  years.  He  then  went  to  Detroit,  and 
worked  at  his  trade  for  two  years,  also  found  em- 
ployment for  a  time  in  Cleveland  and  Toledo.  In 
1880  he  came  to  Colorado,  where  he  has  since 
made  his  home.  He  stands  high  in  the  com- 
munity where  he  resides,  being  esteemed  as  a 
man  of  integrity  and  uprightness  of  character. 
November  3,  188 1,  he  married  Miss  Mary  A. 
Richards,  daughter  of  George  and  Mary  A. 
(Bramble)  Richards  and  a  native  of  Feverham, 
England.  Her  father  came  to  America,  accom- 
panied by  his  family,  in  1861,  and  settled  in 
Cleveland,  Ohio.  Soon  afterward  he  enlisted  in 
the  service  of  the  Union  and  served  as  a  soldier 
until  the  close  of  the  Civil  war.  Afterward  he 
settled  upon  a  farm  and  has  since  made  agricult- 
ure his  occupation.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hively  are 
the  parents  of  four  children,  namely:  Harry  R. , 
who  was  born  September  2,  1882;  Charles  D., 
March  6,  1885;  George  A.,  August  8,  1887;  and 
Albert  R.,  November  2,  1894. 


(fOHNH.  NEWELL,  manager  of  the  Berthoud 
I  roller  mills,  at  Berthoud,  Larimer  County, 
(2/  is  one  of  the  enterprising  young  business 
men  of  this  place.  He  is  a  native  of  this  state, 
born  in  Gilpin  County,  in  1869,  to  William  T. 
and  Annie  (Bradley)  Newell,  natives  of  Iowa. 
His  father,  who  was  a  Colorado  pioneer  of  1859, 
crossed  the  plains  at  the  time  of  the  Pike's  Peak 
gold  excitement  and  settled  in  Gilpin  County, 
where  he  remained  for  a  number  of  years,  but  in 
1884  removed  to  Weld  County.  Here  he  now 
carries  on  general  farming  and  stock-raising,    be- 


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ing  one  of  the  largest  stockmen  of  his  section. 
In  addition  to  his  agricultural  interests  he  owns 
a  number  of  mines  in  Gilpin  County.  He  and 
his  wife  were  the  parents  of  eight  children,  five 
of  whom  are  now  living. 

In  the  public  schools  of  Gilpin  Count}'  the 
subject  of  this  sketch  received  his  education.  At 
the  age  of  twenty  he  became  an  employe  in  the 
Berthoud  roller  mills,  with  which  he  has  since 
been  connected.  In  1896  he  was  selected  by 
the  board  of  directors  as  general  manager  of  the 
mill,  and  under  his  capable  supervision  the  busi- 
ness has  flourished  to  an  unusual  degree.  He  is 
one  of  the  stockholders  of  the  company,  whose 
interests  are  safely  guarded  while  in  his  hands. 
He  believes  in  Republican  principles  and  is  stanch 
in  support  of  them.  For  three  years  he  held  the 
office  of  town  clerk  of  Berthoud.  His  time,  how- 
ever, has  been  given  so  closely  to  his  business 
that  he  has  little  opportunity  to  mingle  in  public 
affairs. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Newell  took  place  in  1897, 
uniting  him  with  Miss  Isa  Fenton,  daughter  of. 
W.  L.  Fenton,  of  this  city;  and  by  her  he  has  a 
daughter,  Dora.  Fraternally  he  is  identified  with 
Columbia  Lodge  No.  99,  K.  of  P.,  in  which  he 
has  passed  the  chairs.  He  and  his  wife  attend 
the  Presbyterian  Church  and  are  popular  in  the 
best  social  circles.of  their  town.  He  is  the  only 
business  man  of  Berthoud  who  was  born  in  Colo- 
rado, and  possesses  the  enterprise  that  is  pecul- 
iarly noticeable  in  the  west. 


KNORMAN  W.  BELLROSE,  M.  D.,  a  prom- 
\l  inent  physician  of  Weld  County  and  mayor 
I  Is  of  Eaton,  is  a  native  of  Vermont,  having  been 
born  in  Swanton,  that  state,  December  i,  1865. 
His  father,  Joseph  Bellrose,  wasa  native  of  Canada, 
but  through  most  ofhis  life  a  resident  of  Vermont. 
For  twenty-five  years  he  was  connected  with  the 
Barney  Marble  Company  of  Swanton,  continuing 
with  them  until  their  retirement  from  business  in 
1887.  At  the  outbreak  of  the  Civil  war  he  en- 
listed in  Company  K,  Sixth  Vermont  Infantry, 
as  a  private,  for  a  period  of  ninety  days.  On  the 
conclusion  of  that  term  he  re-enlisted,  remaining 
in  the  service  until  the  conflict  was  ended.  He 
married  Miss  Lucy  Beore,  a  native  of  New  Eng- 
land. To  them  were  born  six  children:  Lucy, 
wife  of  Joseph  Campbell,  a  resident  of  Turner's 


Falls,  Mass. ;  Joseph  G.,  a  prominent  druggist  of 
Burlington,  Vt. ,  who  was  elected  secretary  of  the 
state  board  of  pharmacy  for  a  term  of  one  year, 
and  subsequently  appointed  by  the  governor  for 
a  term  of  five  years,  and  has  also  been  an  active 
factor  in  securing  the  adoption  of  pharmaceutical 
laws  in  that  state;  Peter  W. ,  at  present  engaged 
in  the  milling  business  at  Swanton,  Vt. ;  Julia  A. , 
wife  of  A.  B.  Laviolett,  an  employe  of  the  Grant 
Granite  Works,  at  Barrie,  Vt.;  David  H.,  a  con- 
tractor and  builder,  of  Denver,  Colo. ;  and  Nor- 
man W.,  our  subject. 

The  early  education  of  Dr.  Bellrose  was  ac- 
quired in  the  public  schools  of  his  native  town, 
and  at  the  age  of  fifteen  he  entered  the  employ  of  a 
druggist,  with  whomhe  remained  until  he  attained 
his  majority.  Subsequently  he  entered  the  medical 
department  of  the  University  of  Vermont,  from 
which  he  was  graduated  with  the  degree  of 
M,  D.,  in  1889.  During  his  collegiate  career  he 
was  a  prominent  member  of  the  Delta  Mu  frater- 
nity, serving  in  various  official  capacities.  He 
was  elected  chairman  of  the  executive  committee 
of  the  class  of  '89.  He  stood  high  in  his  classes 
and  won  the  approbation  of  the  faculty  for  thor- 
oughness and  close  application. 

On  conclusion  of  his  education  Dr.  Bellrose 
took  charge  of  Dr.  G.  H.  Gorham's  practice 
at  Alstead,  N.  H.,  where  he  remained  until  Oc- 
tober, 1889.  He  then  removed  to  Evans,  Weld 
County,  Colo.,  and  in  .May,  1890,  he  settled 
permanently  in  Eaton,  his  present  residence. 
Since  establishing  himself  in  Eaton  he  has 
rapidly  attained  a  prominent  position  among  the 
medical  fraternity  of  northern  Colorado,  and  is 
recognized  by  his  fellow  towns  people  as  a  sterling 
and  upright  citizen.  May  19,  1891,  he  estab- 
lished the  City  drug  store,  of  which  he  is  still  the 
proprietor  and  manager.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
American  Medical  Association;  the  American 
Public  Health  Association;  the  Colorado  State 
Medical  and  Pharmaceutical  Association,  and  the 
Weld  County  Medical  Association,  and  is  presi- 
dent of  the  latter  organization.  He  is  also 
medical  examiner  of  the  Equitable,  New  York 
Life,  Mutual  Life  of  New  York  and  Mutual  Bene- 
fit of  New  Jersey  insurance  companies,  and 
others.  Fraternally  he  is  connected  with  Seventy- 
Six  Lodge  No.  14,  F.  &  A.  M.,  ofSwanton,  Vt., 
and  Eaton  Lodge,  I.  O.  O.  F.  He  is  a  contribu- 
tor to  the  Journal    of  the    American    Medical 


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Association,  and  the  Colorado  Medical  Journal, 
and  his  articles  in  these  papers  have  caused 
favorable  comment. 

March  i,  1893,  Dr.  Bellrose  married  Henrietta, 
daughter  of  John  and  Ann  (Dickson)  Trenholme, 
of  Richmond,  Province  of  Quebec,  Canada. 
William  Trenholme,  great-grandfather  of  Mrs. 
Bellrose,  was  a  native  of  Yorkshire,  England, 
who  emigrated  to  America  about  1820,  settling 
on  the  St.  Francis  River,  between  Montreal  and 
Quebec,  and  founded  the  town  of  Trenholmeville, 
where  succeeding  generations  of  the  family  have 
resided. 

Dr.  and  Mrs.  Bellrose  are  the  parents  of  two 
children:  Kenneth  William  and  Norman  Dewey. 
Politically  the  doctor  is  a  stanch  Republican,  and 
in  1898  was  elected  mayor  of  his  town,  although 
the  nomination  was  unsought  by  himself.  He  is 
a  member  of  the  Congregational  Church  and  a 
firm  advocate  of  the  temperance  cause.  Socially 
he  and  his  wife  are  among  the  leaders  of  Eaton, 
and  his  charming  residence,  one  of  the  most 
imposing  in  Eaton,  is  ever  open  for  the  enter- 
tainment of  their  many  friends. 


I  UTHER  HIXSON,  a  well-known  citizen  of 
IC  Boulder,  first  came  here  in  1870,  and,  feel- 
12  ing  assured  that  it  had  a  bright  future  in 
store,  decided  to  cast  iu  his  lot  with  its  people. 
For  the  past  three  years  he  has  been  superin- 
tendent of  the  contracting  department  of  the 
McAllister  Lumber  &  Supply  Company.  About 
a  quarter  of  a  century  ago  he  embarked  in  the 
contracting  and  building  business  here  and  has 
kept  steadily  employed,  in  the  meantime  having 
put  up  many  of  the  best  and  most  substantial 
structures  in  this  section,  among  others  the  state 
university,  the  sisters'  academy  and  the  Method- 
ist Episcopal  Church.  Always  deeply  interested 
in  educational  matters,  he  has  acted  as  a  member 
of  the  board  here  for  the  past  nine  years  and  was 
its  president  one  year.  During  this  period  the 
high  school  and  Highland  school  were  erected 
and  many  improvements  made,  both  in  the 
system  of  educating  the  young  and  in  giving 
them  better  facilities. 

Our  subject  is  the  eldest  of  the  thirteen  chil- 
dren of  Jonathan  and  Catherine  (Somers)  Hix- 
son,  natives  of  Westmoreland  and  Somerset  Coun- 
ties, Pa.,  respectively.     The  father  went  to  Ohio 


in  early  manhood  and  engaged  in  cultivating 
a  farm  near  Shanesville,  Tuscarawas  County, 
until  shortly  before  his  death,  at  the  ripe  age  ot 
eighty  years.  His  father,  Amos,  was  born  in 
Massachusetts  and  lived  in  Pennsylvania  and 
Ohio.  He  departed  this  life  when  in  his  eighty- 
eighth  year.  Mrs.  Catherine  Hixson  was  a 
daughter  of  Jacob  Somers,  a  pioneer  farmer  of 
the  Buckeye  state  and  a  veteran  of  the  war 
of  18 12.  His  father-  was  a  hero  of  the  Revo- 
lutionary war. 

lyUther  Hixson  was  bom  in  Shanesville,  Ohio, 
October  19,  1843,  and  grew  to  manhood  upon  a 
farm.  He  received  ordinary  school  advantages 
and  learned  the  carpenter's  trade  with  an  uncle. 
When  not  yet  eighteen  years  of  age,  in  July, 
1 86 1,  the  young  patriot,  following  the  example 
of  his  worthy  ancestors,  volunteered  his  services 
to  his  loved  country.  He  joined  Company  G, 
Fifty-first  Ohio  Infantry,  which  company  had 
organized  in  May  for  three  months'  service,  but 
were  not  accepted  as  the  state  quota  was  already 
filled.  Mr.  Hixson  was  mustered  in  at  Camp 
Meigs,  Ohio,  and  sent  south  by  way  of  Camp 
Dennison,  and  later  was  drilled  at  Camp  Mitchell, 
near  Louisville,  Ky.,  by  General  Mitchell  him- 
self. Then,  being  placed  under  the  command  of 
General  Nelson,  they  were  transferred  to  Camp 
Wycliffe,  Ky.',  and  finally  ordered  to  reinforce 
General  Thomas.  The  time  of  drilling  and  camp 
life  under  which  he  and  his  comrades  had  been 
chafing  was  now  past  and  from  that  time  on  they 
had  all  the  active  service  they  could  possibly 
desire.  After  taking  part  in  the  battle  of  Shiloh 
Mr.  Hixson  participated  in  that  of  Stone  River. 
Here  he  was  wounded  in  the  right  groin  and  had 
a  narrow  escape,  as  a  box  of  cartridges  in  his 
watch  pocket  stopped  the  bullet  and  saved  his 
life.  In  a  short  time  he  managed  to  regain  his 
senses  and  had  just  bravely  loaded  his  gun  pre- 
paratory to  resuming  the  combat  when  he  was 
shot  near  the  right  shoulder-blade.  He  was  sent 
to  the  hospital,  and  as  soon  as  he  was  able  to 
move  around  the  plucky  youth  was  back  in  the 
ranks.  At  TuUahoma  he  arrived  in  time  to  take 
the  gun  from  the  relaxing  grip  of  a  wounded 
comrade  and  fought  stanchly  in  the  action  that 
followed.  At  Chickamauga  he  was  placed  in  the 
skirmish  line  and  was  wounded  by  a  spent  ball, 
which  he  carried  throughout  the  battle.  Among 
other  famous  engagements  in  which  he  had  a 


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hand  are  those  of  Lookout  Mountain,  Missionary 
Ridge,  Tunnel  Hill  (Ga.),  Dalton,  Resaca, 
Kingston,  Burnt  Hickory,  Kenesaw  Mountain, 
Peach  Tree  Creek,  siege  of  Atlanta,  Lovejoy 
Station,  Spring  Hill  (where  he  was  with  General 
Thomas) ,  Franklin  and  Nashville.  In  the  last- 
mentioned  encounter  Hood's  army  was  com- 
pletely routed  and  numerous  prisoners  were 
taken.  When  news  of  the  surrender  of  Lee  came 
he  was  in  Eastern  Tennessee,  and  with  other 
"veterans"  was  soon  sent  to  Texas  to  look  after 
affairs  there  which  needed  attention.  Several 
months  were  required  to  effect  the  entire  sur- 
render of  the  western  rebels,  but  at  last  it  was 
accomplished  and  Mr.  Hixson  was  mustered  out 
as  first  duty-sergeant  and  was  granted  an  hon- 
orable discharge  at  Columbus,  Ohio,  in  the  first 
week  in  December,  1865. 

After  spending  a  few  weeks  at  home,  young 
Hixson  started  for  the  west  in  search  of  a  home 
and  fortune.  Locating  in  Jefferson,  Iowa,  he 
engaged  with  his  brother-in-law  in  the  hardware 
and  agricultural  implement  business,  but  the 
indoor  life  proved  too  confining  for  one  who  had 
passed  over  four  years  in  the  field.  Therefore  he 
sold  out  and  turned  his  attention  to  building  and 
contracting  for  bridges,  and  in  the  fall  of  1866  he 
settled  in  Fort  Calhoun,  Neb.  In  company  with 
a  Mr.  Hughes  he  made  out  the  abstract  for 
Washington  County,  Neb.  In  the  spring  of 
1867  he  and  seventy-five  ex-soldiers  took  passage 
in  the  first  boat  leaving  Sioux  City  for  Fort 
Benton,  Mont.,  arriving  at  their  destination  after 
a  trip  of  forty-one  days.  There  Mr.  Hixson  en- 
gaged in  mining  and  farming,  also  working  at  his 
trade,  for  which  labor  he  received  $14  a  day.  No- 
vember I,  1870,  he  started  for  Colorado  by  team 
and  went  to  Greeley.  He  did  not  like  the  prospects 
there  and  was  on  his  way  to  Caribou  when  he  ar- 
rived at  Boulder.  Here  he  concluded  to  stay,  and 
the  following  morning  started  work  at  his  trade. 
He  has  never  seen  occasion  to  regret  his  decision 
that  he  would  permanently  remain  here,  for  he  has 
prospered  and  enjoyed  his  identification  with  the 
town's  interests.  He  owns  a  finely  improved 
farm  two  miles  east  of  Boulder  and  superintends 
its  cultivation. 

The  marriage  of  Luther  Hixson  and  Eveline 
L-  Milk  took  place  in  Boulder  June  25,  1873. 
Mrs.  Hixson  is  a  native  of  Cattaraugus  County, 
New  York.     The  couple  have  three  children: 


Howard  H.,  asteamfitter  and  plumber  of  Boulder; 
Thomas  Edison,  whose  education  was  acquired 
in  the  high  school  and  State  University,  and  who 
is  now  engaged  in  mining  at  Caribou;  and  Alice 
Mary,  of  the  class  of  1901,  University  of  Colo- 
rado. 

Fraternally  Mr.  Hixson  belongs  to  Boulder 
Lodge  No.  45,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.;  is  a  member  of 
Boulder  Lodge  No.  9,  I.  O.  O.  F. ;  a  charter 
member  of  the  encampment  and  a  charter  mem- 
ber of  Canton  Boulder  No.  13  and  its  first  cap- 
tain. He  is  also  past  commander  of  Nathaniel 
Lyon  Post  No.  5,  G.  A.  R.  Politically  he  is  a 
silver  Republican.  When  the  English  Lutheran 
Church  was  organized  here  he  was  prominently 
connected  with  the  enterprise  and  is  now  a 
trustee. 


QUDOLPH  KOENIG,  formerly  mayor  of 
|a  Golden  and  commissioner  of  Jefferson 
r\  County,  came  to  Weld  County  in  1889  and 
is  now  the  owner  of  seven  hundred  acres  here. 
He  is  one  of  the  largest  cattle  dealers  in  this 
locality,  having  on  his  place  about  two  hundred 
head  of  fine  cattle  besides  a  number  of  horses. 
While  stock-raising  has  been  his  principal  occu- 
pation, he  also  engages  in  general  farming,  de- 
siring to  raise  enough  feed  for  his  stock.  In 
addition  to  his  other  interests  he  is  secretary  of 
the  Hillsborough  and  the  Farmers'  Ditch  Com- 
panies. 

A  native  of  Switzerland,  born  in  1843,  the  sub- 
ject of  this  sketch  is  a  .son  of  Christian  and  Mag- 
dalena  Koenig.  His  father  brought  the  family 
to  the  United  States  in  1856  and  settled  in  Alle- 
gheny County,  Pa.,  but  after  seventeen  years 
devoted  to  general  farming  there  he  came  to 
Colorado  in  1873,  settling  in  Golden.  He  died 
there  during  the  same  year  at  seventy-seven 
years  of  age.  When  a  boy,  his  son,  our  subject, 
attended  the  public  schools  of  Allegheny  County. 
In  1867  he  came  to  Colorado  and  began  the 
manufacture  of  fire  brick  at  Golden,  which  busi- 
ness he  followed  for  five  years.  In  1879  he  was 
made  president  and  general  manager  of  the 
Golden  Smelting  Company  and  remained  in  the 
position  until  1888,  shortly  before  his  removal  to 
Weld  County. 

The  first  presidential  vote  cast  by  Mr.  Koenig 
was  for  Abraham  Lincoln,  and  he  has  continued 
to  be  a  Republican  from  that  day  to  this.    While 


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in  Golden  he  took  an  active  part  in  local  politics, 
and  was  one  of  the  most  influential  residents  of 
the  city.  In  educational  matters,  too,  he  has 
been  warmly  interested,  and  his  service  as  secre- 
tary of  school  district  No.  7  has  been  helpful  to 
the  cause  of  education  in  his  locality.  Fratern- 
ally he  is  identified  with  Golden  L,odge  No.  i, 
A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  of  which  he  was  treasurer  for 
ten  years,  and  Golden  Chapter  No.  5,  R.  A.  M. 
In  1 88 1  he  married  Miss  Emma  Schupbach,  by 
whom  he  has  seven  children. 


r^ETER  TURNER,  who  resides  in  Berthoud, 
Lr  Larimer  County,  and  has  followed  the  occu- 
k)  pations  of  farmer,  miner  and  stone-mason 
through  his  active  life,  was  born  in  Franklin 
County,  Va.,  in  1838.  He  spent  the  years  of  his 
boyhood  and  youth  in  the  Old  Dominion,  and 
from  there,  in  1857,  he  went  to  Iowa,  where  he 
remained  for  four  years,  engaged  in  farm  pur- 
suits. When  the  tide  of  emigration  began  to 
turn  westward  to  the  mines  of  the  mountains  he 
resolved  to  seek  his  fortune  in  the  far  west,  as 
Colorado  was  then  considered.  Having  no  fam- 
ily, he  felt  free  to  brave  the  hardships  and 
dangers  of*  frontier  life.  Accordingly,  in  1861, 
he  crossed  the  plains,  and,  arriving  in  Central 
City,  embarked  in  gulch  mining,  at  which  he 
continued  for  some  years. 

Returning  to  Iowa  in  1864,  Mr.  Turner  mar- 
ried Miss  Elizabeth  Searcy.  Not  wishing  to 
bring  his  young  wife  to  the  frontier,  he  settled 
upon  a  farm  in  Iowa,  and  there  he  engaged  as  a 
tiller  of  the  soil,  also  following  the  stone-mason's 
trade,  until  1873.  He  then  again  crossed  the 
plains,  accompanied  by  his  family,  making  the 
long  journey  with  a  team  and  wagon  and  camp- 
ing at  night  by  the  wayside.  Indians  were 
troublesome  at  that  time,  and  the  family  suffered 
no  little  anxiety,  fearing  an  attack  from  the 
savages. 

For  four  years  Mr.  Turner  followed  mining  in 
the  then  new  camp  of  Sunshine,  which  after- 
ward became  a  noted  mining  camp.  From 
Boulder  County,  in  1876,  he  removed  to  his  pres- 
ent homestead,  which  was  then  barren,  unim- 
proved land.  He  took  up  a  quarter  section  of 
land,  embarked  in  farming  and  built  the  first 
house  between  the  Big  and  Eittle  Thompson. 
In  1884  he  laid  off  lots,  which  he  sold  for  build- 


ing purposes,   and  the   town  of  Berthoud    now 
stands  on  a  part  of  his  original  acreage. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Turner  are  the  parents  of  six 
children,  namely:  Beverly  B.;  William;  Susan 
Sunshine,  who  was  the  first  child  born  in  Sun- 
shine camp  and  who  for  four  years  has  been  a 
teacher  in  the  graded  public  schools,  being  active 
and  successful  in  educational  work;  Mattie,  wife 
of  Fen  ton  Matthews;  Gustavus  Adolphus  and 
James  Adelphus.  The  family  attend  the  United 
Brethren  Church,  of  which  Mrs.  Turner  is  an 
active  member.  She  is  identified  with  the  aid 
society  in  connection  with  the  church,  and  holds 
the  position  of  vice-president  of  the  society.  In 
fraternal  relations  Mr.  Turner  is  identified  with 
the  Odd  Fellows,  while  his  wife  is  noble  grand  of 
the  Order  of  Rebekah. 


Gl  LFRED  E.  JOHNSON,  who  was  the  pioneer 
Ll  gardener  in  the  Prospect  Valley,  six  miles 
/  I  from  Denver,  and  who  has  prospered  in  his 
enterprises  here,  was  born  near  Boros,  Sweden, 
March -19,  1854,  the  son  of  John  A.  and  Sarah 
(Johnson)  Johnson.  He  was  one  of  a  family  of 
five  children,  three  of  whom  survive,  himself  and 
two  sisters,  Anna  J.,  wife  of  August  Anderson,  of 
Sweden,  and  Christine  C.  His  father  is  still  liv- 
ing in  the  vicinity  of  Boros,  where  his  entire  life 
has  been  passed.  Farming  has  been  his  chosen 
occupation,  but,  in  addition  to  it,  he  has  engaged 
in  lumbering  and  the  raising  of  cattle.  He  is  now 
eighty-six  years  of  age. 

With  the  exception  of  two  years  spent  in  work 
for  neighboring  farmers,  the  subject  of  this  sketch 
remained  beneath  the  parental  roof  until  he  was 
twenty-five  years  of  age.  In  the  spring  of  1880 
became  to  America,  landing  in  New  York,  but 
spending  only  one  night  there.  He  went  direct 
to  Providence,  R.  I.,  where  he  worked  at  any 
occupation  he  could  find.  Finally  he  secured 
steady  employment  with  Budlong  &  Sons,  the 
extensive  gardeners  at  that  place.  In  the  spring 
of  1885  he  returned  to  visit  his  parents  and  friends 
in  Sweden,  and  after  a  pleasant  stay  of  a  few 
weeks,  he  came  back  to  his  American  home.  He 
spent  the  summer  of  1885  in  Rockford,  111.,  where 
he  was  employed  in  gardening.  From  there  he 
came  to  Colorado,  and  in  the  winter  of  1885-86 
he  worked  for  the  Denver  Water  Company.  In 
the  spring  of  1886  he  secured  work  in  Grandview, 


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where  he  remained  for  two  years,  and  then, 
coming  to  Clear  Creek  Valley,  settled  on  forty 
acres  which  he  had  bought  one  year  previous. 
Later  he  acquired  the  ownership  of  forty-six  acres 
in  addition  to  his  original  tract,  but  since  then  he 
has  sold  at  different  times,  until  now  he  owns  only 
a  small  portion  of  his  original  tract,  but  gardens 
on  leased  land. 

May  24,  1893,  Mr.  Johnson  married  Miss  Kmma 
Hawkinson,  a  native  of  Sweden.  They  are  the 
parents  of  three  children:  John  Oscar,  Esther 
Elizabeth  and  Ellen  Ruth.  Politically  Mr.  John- 
son is  a  stanch  supporter  of  the  Repubhcan  party, 
but  has  never  taken  an  active  part  in  party  mat- 
ters nor  sought  official  honors.  He  is  a  member 
of  Pacific  Lodge  No.  18,  A.  O.  U.  W.,  and  in 
religious  connections  is  identified  with  the  Method- 
ist Church.  His  business  address  is  No.  2900 
Forest  street,  Denver. 


GlMOSJ.  EMMONS,  one  of  the  early  settlers 
r  I  of  Colorado,  now  owns  a  comfortable  home 
/  1  in  Longmont,  where  he  spends  a  portion  of 
each  year,  the  remainder  of  his  time  being  passed 
at  his  old  ranch-house,  near  Rinn,  Weld  County, 
just  across  the  Boulder  County  border.  Coming 
here  a  poor  man,  with  his  life  all  before  him  and 
his  fortune  still  to  make,  he  industriously  set  to 
work  and  by  earnest  and  honest  toil  wrought  out 
a  goodly  competence. 

The  Emmons  family  of  which  our  subject  is  a 
representative,  is  of  English  origin.  His  pater- 
nal great-grandfather  was  a  hero  of  the  war  of 
the  Revolution.  His  father,  John  Emmons,  was 
a  native  of  Morris  County,  N.  J.,  as  was  grand- 
father Amos  Emmons,  and  both  were  farmers. 
The  father  died  in  1840,  leaving  his  widow,  for- 
merly Betsey  Leek,  and  their  four  children.  One 
son,  George,  went  to  Denver  in  the  fall  of  1864, 
and  was  never  heard  from  after  his  arrival.  The 
mother  had  died  the  previous  spring. 

Amos  J.  Emmons,  born  in  Chester,  N.  J.,  in 
1838,  was  quite  young  at  the  time  of  his  father's 
death.  He  remained  on  the  old  farm  with  his 
mother  until  he  was  a  youth  of  sixteen  years  or 
more,  his  education  being  acquired  in  the  local 
schools.  Later  he  engaged  in  farming  on  his 
own  account,  his  mother  living  with  him.  When 
the  Civil  war  came  on  he  was  very  desirous  of 
enlisting,  but  yielded  to  the  earnest  entreaties  of 


his  mother,  who  was  in  poor  health.  He  did  not 
long  delay,  however,  after  she  had  been  laid  to 
rest,  but  in  May,  1864,  joined  Company  K, 
Twenty-seventh  New  Jersey  Volunteer  Infantry, 
and  being  mustered  into  the  service  at  Newark, 
was  sent  to  the  front.  There  he  participated  in 
the  siege  of  Petersburg  and  the  following  arduous 
campaign  which  led  up  to  Lee's  surrender.  At 
the  end  of  eleven  months  of  hard  fighting  he  was 
mustered  out  at  Camp  Frelinghuysen,  Newark,, 
though  prior  to  that  event  he  took  part  in  the 
grand  review  at  Washington.  Governor  Parker 
welcomed  the  home-coming  troops  at  Trenton,  in 
a  speech  which  the  boys  in  blue  never  forgot. 

The  next  fall  Mr.  Emmons  set  out  for  the  west, 
hoping  to  find  his  brother  George,  but,  though 
he  was  persistent  and  untiring  in  his  search,  and 
had  the  matter  deeply  at  heart  for  years,  he  never 
found  him  nor  learned  his  fate.  He  went  by 
way  of  Chicago  and  St.  Joseph,  thence  to  Omaha, 
and  there  he  decided  to  go  on  to  Denver.  Mak- 
ing the  acquaintance  of  four  or  five  young  men 
they  bought  a  team  and  camp  outfit  for  $350. 
Some  dissatisfaction  having  risen  among  them, 
Mr.  Emmons  luckily  fell  in  with  Captain  Tyler, 
then  of  Blackhawk,  who  arranged  matters  by 
buying  the  outfit  and  agreeing  to  transport  the 
men  for  $50  apiece,  then  hiring  them,  should 
they  so  desire.  The  journey  was  made  quickly 
for  those  times  (about  twenty  days).  Mr. 
Emmons  finally  gave  up  the  fruitless  search  for 
his  missing  brother  in  Denver,  and  went  to 
Blackhawk,  where  Captain  Tyler  paid  him  $52 
for  the  first  month's  work.  Later  he  went 
with  the  captain  to  the  mouth  of  Boulder  Creek, 
and,  after  being  in  his  employ  for  seven  months, 
received  $75  a  month,  his  board  for  the  time  he 
had  been  in  Blackhawk,  and  was  not  charged  the 
$50  agreed  upon  for  his  trip  across  the   plains. 

Thus  encouraged  by  the  generous  captain,  Mr. 
Emmons  had  a  prosperous  beginning  in  the  new 
country.  The  next  winter  he  baled  hay,  and  in 
the  spring  of  1867  he  rented  a  ranch  of  a  quarter- 
section  of  land,  on  the  lower  Boulder.  This 
property  he  tilled  and  improved  for  nine  years, 
and  in  the  meantime  bought  an  adjoining  tract 
of  eighty  acres  of  school  land  and  built  upon  it. 
Now  he  is  the  owner  of  about  one  thousand  acres 
of  valuable  land,  fenced,  ditched  and  variously 
improved.  Two  farms  are  located  on  the  High- 
land ditch,  and  though  some  of  his  property  is  in 


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Boulder  County,  most  of  it  lies  in  Weld  County. 
Beginning  in  a  limited  way  he  raised  cattle,  and 
improved  the  grade.  He  was  quite  extensively 
engaged  in  the  business  at  one  time  and  has  also 
dealt  to  a  large  extent  in  high-grade  horses,  feed- 
ing and  shipping  both  cattle  and  horses  to  Denver. 
In  1894  Mr.  Emmons  took  up  his  abode  in 
lyOngmont,  in  order  to  give  his  children  better 
school  facilities.  They  are  six  in  number, 
namely:  Nettie,  Elizabeth,  Carrie,  Emma,  Jessie 
and  Harry.  The  eldest  daughter,  now  Mrs. 
Plumb,  of  lyongmont,  graduated  from  the  high 
school  here,  in  the  class  of  '93,  then  attended  the 
normal  for  a  year,  and  successfully  taught  for 
.several  terms.  The  next  daughter,  Miss  Eliza- 
beth, graduated  in  the  class  of  '95  from  the  high- 
school  of  Longmont.  Mr.  Emmons  served  as  a 
school  director  in  early  days  and  was  actively 
concerned  in  the  building  of  many  of  the  first 
schools  of  his  district.  He  has  found  a  true 
helpmate  in  his  devoted  wife,  whose  girlhood 
name  was  L,ovina  Robinson.  She  was  born  in 
Belvidere,  Boone  County,  111.,  and  is  a  daughter 
of  Elijah  Robinson,  who  was  a  native  of  Maine 
and  died  in  Missouri.  While  in  Weld  County, 
Mr.  Emmons  often  served  as  a  delegate  to  county 
and  state  conventions  of  the  Democratic  party, 
and  always  supports  the  platform  of  that  party. 


pQlIvLIAM  W.  WHITE,  vice-president  of 
I  A/  ^^^  McCIure- White  Merchandising  Coni- 
YY  pany  of  Boulder,  is  one  of  the  leading 
business  men  of  this  place,  and  possesses  the  con- 
fidence and  esteem  of  all  who  have  been  asso- 
ciated with  him  in  any  manner.  Over  twenty- 
two  years  have  rolled  away  since  he  cast  in  his 
fortunes  with  those  of  the  inhabitants  of  this  town, 
and  thus  he  has  been  a  witness  of  remarkable 
changes  that  have  transformed  the  small  hamlet 
of  the  Centennial  year  into  the  large  and  pro- 
gressive place  of  to-day. 

The  White  family  to  which  our  subject  belongs 
was  connected  with  the  Society  of  Friends  for 
generations.  W.  W.  White,  father  of  our  subject, 
was  a  native  of  Indiana,  of  which  state  his  father, 
John,  was  a  pioneer.  W.  W.  White  died  when 
just  entering  upon  a  successful  career,  at  the  age 
of  about  twentj'-six  years.  His  wife  was  Miss 
Amy  Wheeler  in  her  girlhood.  She  was  born  in 
Steubenville,   Ohio,   in  July,    18 18,   and   is   still 


living,  her  home  being  in  Seneca,  Kan.,  where 
she  has  resided  for  forty-one  years.  Her  father. 
Nelson  Wheeler,  came  from  an  old  eastern 
family,  and  his  death  took  place  in  Ohio.  Sub- 
sequent to  her  first  husband's  death,  Mrs.  White 
married  James  LaRue.  She  went  to  Mercer 
County,  111.,  in  1854  and  three  years  later  be- 
came a  permanent  resident  of  Seneca,  Kan.  By 
her  first  marriage  she  had  three  children,  two  of 
whom  grew  to  maturity.  John,  one  of  the  sons, 
who  served  in  the  Civil  war  in  the  Seventh 
Kansas  Cavalry,  is  now  engaged  in  farming  near 
Republic  City,  Kan.  The  only  child  born  to  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  LaRue  is  James  W. ,  of  Seneca.  Mrs. 
Amy  LaRue  is  a  devoted  member  of  the  Con- 
gregational Church,  and  is  loved  by  all  who 
know  her. 

W.  W.  White  was  born  in  Brown.sville,  Ind., 
March  19,  1850,  and  was  bereaved  of  his  father 
before  he  was  old  enough  to  remember  him.  In 
1857,  with  his  mother  and  step-father,  the  child 
came  as  far  west  as  Seneca,  Kan  ,  the  town  then 
consisting  of  but  three  houses.  The  journey 
across  the  intervening  states  was  made  in  wagons. 
The  family  settled  upon  a  farm  adjoining  the 
village  and  there  the  subject  of  this  sketch  re- 
ceived his  early  educational  training,  such  as  it 
was.  In  i8$2  he  went  with  his  step-father  up 
the  Platte  River,  and  thence  by  the  usual  route 
to  Denver,  ox-teams  conveying  them  and  their 
supplies.  They  remained  here  only  a  few  months, 
returning  then  to  Kansas.  In  the  following  year, 
however,  W.  W.  White  came  as  far  west  as  Jules- 
burg,  and  was  employed  by  the  government  in 
supplying  hay  on  contract  to  the  old  Ben  Holli- 
day  line.  Again,  in  1865,  he  hauled  corn  and 
freighted  for  the  government,  making  his  trips  in 
company  with  large  trains,  for  protection  against 
the  Indians.  In  1870  he  took  a  position  as  clerk 
in  a  dry-goods  store  in  Seneca,  and  served  in  this 
capacity  for  two  years. 

In  1872  Mr.  White  became  a  resident  of  Golden, 
and  was  in  the  employ  of  A.  M.  DeFrance  for  a 
period  of  two  and  a -half  years.  Later  he  was 
sent  to  Georgetown  to  establish  a  branch  store 
for  Mr.  DeFrance,  and  carried  on  this  enterprise 
successfully  for  fifteen  months.  After  his  mar- 
riage Mr.  White  settled  permanently  in  Boulder, 
and  was  a  clerk  for  Mr.  Cornwall  for  a  few 
months,  later  working  for  Bradley  &  McClure. 
In    1888   he   became   a  member  of  the   firm   of 


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Bradley- Wise  Merchandising  Company,  and  some 
years  afterwards  the  present  firm  of  the  McClure- 
White  Merchandising  Compan}'  was  organized, 
with  himself  as  vice-president.  Fraternally  Mr. 
White  belongs  to  Columbia  Lodge  No.  14,  A.  F. 
&  A.  M.;  Boulder  Chapter  No.  7,  R.  A.  M.; 
Mount  Sinai  Commandery  No.  7,  K.  T.,  and  to 
the  Boulder  Club.  In  his  political  belief  he  is  a 
Republican. 

December  i,  1875,  Mr.  White  married  Miss 
S.  C.  Hammond,  of  Georgetown,  Colo.  A  daugh- 
ter of  Elias  and  Permelia  (Simmons)  Hammond, 
she  was  born  in  Iowa,  and  with  her  family 
removed  to  Golden,  Colo.,  in  1863.  Her  father 
has  been  engaged  in  building  and  contracting, 
but  is  now  retired  from  arduous  labor.  Mrs. 
White  is  the  third  in  a  family  of  nine  children, 
one  of  whom  is  deceased.  For  some  years  she 
was  a  member  of  the  Fortnightly  Club  of  Boul- 
der. The  two  children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  White 
are:  Fred  L. ,  a  member  of  the  class  of  1901 ,  of  the 
University  of  Colorado,  and  Eugene  D.,  now  in 
the  preparatory  department  of  the  same  institu- 
tion, and  a  member  of  the  class  of  1902. 


'HOMAS  SISK,  for  many  years  a  prominent 
railroad  contractor,  and  now  a  leading 
farmer  and  stock- raiser  of  Evans,  Colo.,  is 
a  native  of  the  far-off  state  of  Massachusetts,  his 
birth  occurring  at  Townsend  Harbor  in  1848. 
His  father,  Morris  Sisk,  was  born  in  Ireland,  and 
on  crossing  the  Atlantic  at  the  age  of  eighteen 
years  located  in  Massachusetts.  For  a  quarter 
of  a  century  he  followed  the  trade  of  a  stone 
mason,  and  later  as  a  railroad  contractor  he  con- 
structed several  roads  in  that  and  adjoining 
states.  In  1852  he  removed  to  Lewis  County, 
N.  Y.,  and  opened  up  a  new  farm,  which  he 
operated  for  four  years.  The  year  1861  wit- 
nessed his  arrival  in  Illinois,  where  he  continued 
to  engage  in  agricultural  pursuits  until  some 
time  during  the  '70s,  when  he  went  to  Nebra.ska 
and  resumed  contracting  on  the  Burlington  & 
Missouri  River  Railroad  from  Ottumwa,  Iowa,  to 
Lincoln,  Neb.,  before  the  latter  city  was  laid 
out.  He  erected  a  home  there  and  engaged  in 
contracting  and  building,  doing  the  stone  work 
on  the  state  penitentiary  there.  He  took  a  con- 
tract to  build  a  part  of  the  Hannibal  &  St.  Joe 
Railroad,  which  was  completed  in  188 1,  and  the 


following  year  he  died  at  Hannibal,  Mo. ,  at  the 
age  of  seventy-four.  In  early  life  he  was  a  Demo- 
crat, but  during  his  last  years  he  supported  the 
men  and  measures  of  the  Republican  party,  and  al- 
ways took  quite  an  active  interest  in  public  affairs, 
serving  as  road  commissioner  in  New  York.  His 
wife,  who  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Elizabeth 
Lynch,  died  in  1893,  aged  seventy-six  years. 
To  them  were  born  twelve  children,  of  whom  ten 
are  still  living,  and  our  subject  is  the  third  son. 

The  early  life  of  Thomas  Sisk  was  principally 
passed  in  Illinois,  and  in  the  public  schools  he 
acquired  his  education.  He  engaged  in  railroad 
contracting  with  his  father  until  the  latter's 
death,  and  later  took  the  contract  for  building 
the  extension  of  the  Burlington  &  Missouri 
River  Railroad  from  Denver  to  Pawnee  City, 
Neb.,  which  was  completed  in  1885.  He  con- 
structed five  hundred  miles  of  the  Oregon  short 
line  in  Idaho,  and  the  road  from  Granger  to 
Boise  City,  Idaho,  through  Bellaire,  which  was 
completed  in  1888.  Returning  to  Nebraska  he 
took  a  contract  with  the  old  company  to  build 
one  hundred  and  eighty  miles  of  road  from  Hol- 
drege  to  Newcastle,  Wyo.,  in  the  Black  Hills 
district,  which  he  completed  in  1893.  The  same 
year  he  came  to  Weld  County,  Colo.,  and  en- 
gaged in  constructing  a  reservoir  and  ditches  on 
Crow  Creek,  at  Campfield's  Parish,  which  he 
completed  in  1895.  He  then  located  at  Evans 
and  bought  a  farm  of  thirty-five  acres  and  em- 
barked in  stock-raising,  keeping  a  good  grade  of 
cattle  and  horses,  including  Hereford  and  Gal- 
loway cattle. 

In  1872  Mr.  Sisk  married  Miss  Mary  Flynn,  of 
Illinois,  who  died  in  1880,  leaving  three  sons: 
Thomas,  who  is  in  the  United  States  navy  and  is 
now  stationed  at  Manila;  Willie,  a  railroad  fore- 
man in  Wyoming;  and  Paul,  a  photographer  of 
Denver.  He  was  again  married  in  1884,  his  sec- 
ond union  being  with  Miss  Alice  Doyle,  of 
Beatrice,  Neb. ,  by  whom  he  has  three  children : 
Charles,  Marion  and  Frank. 

Politically  Mr.  Sisk  is  a  stalwart  Republican, 
and  in  1897  ^^  ^^^  appointed  city  marshal  ot 
Evans  by  the  board  of  trustees  for  one  year.  He 
is  an  honored  member  of  W.  T.  Sherman  Post 
No.  94,  G.  A.  R. ,  having  been  one  of  the  boys 
in  blue  during  the  dark  days  of  the  Rebellion.  He 
had  two  brothers  in  the  service:  Edward,  who 
was  captain  of  Company  A,  Seventh  Maine  In- 


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fantry;  and  Job,  who  was  orderly  sergeant  in  the 
Fifth  New  York  Heavy  Artillery.  All  escaped 
uninjured.  Our  subject  enlisted  in  1863  in  Com- 
pany K,  Fortj'-fifth  Illinois  Infantry,  and  during 
the  twenty-one  months  he  was  in  the  ser%'ice  he 
participated  in  the  battle  of  Atlanta,  July  22, 
1862,  was  with  Sherman  on  the  celebrated  March 
to  the  Sea,  and  from  the  time  the  regiment  left 
Atlanta  until  they  reached  Raleigh,  N.  C,  were 
under  fire  for  fifty-four  days.  They  then 
marched  to  Washington,  D.  C,  where  they  took 
part  in  the  grand  review,  were  mustered  out  at 
Louisville,  Ky. ,  and  discharged  at  Chicago,  111., 
July  27,  1865. 


(DQlLLIAM  W.  BROWN.  Adjoining  the  vil- 
\  A  /  lage  of  Eaton  on  the  north  may  be  seen 
Y  V  one  of  the  most  desirable  farms  of  Weld 
County.  It  comprises  one  hundred  and  sixty 
acres,  on  which  have  been  made  valuable  im- 
provements, including  a  substantial  twostory 
brick  residence,  a  good  barn,  fruit  and  shade  trees 
and  shrubbery.  This  property  is  owned  and  oc- 
cupied by  Mr.  Brown,  to  whose  efforts  its  im- 
provements are  due.  Besides  engaging  in  general 
farm  pursuits,  he  has  been  interested  in  sheep- 
feeding  for  some  years,  and  during  the  winter 
months  usually  feeds  twelve  hundred  head  of 
sheep.  He  has  two  wells  on  the  farm,  one  used 
for  watering  the  stock,  and  the  other,  which  is 
one  thousand  feet  in  depth,  used  for  the  house. 

Born  in  Iowa  County,  Iowa,  December  14, 
1861,  our  subject  is  a  son  of  W.  C.  and  Eliza 
(Michels)  Brown.  His  father,  who  was  a  native 
of  Ohio  and  a  carpenter  by  trade,  served  in  the 
Mexican  war  and  at  the  opening  of  the  Rebellion 
he  enlisted  in  the  Thirteenth  Iowa  Infantry,  ser- 
ving until  the  close  of  the  conflict.  Among  the 
most  important  engagements  in  which  he  partici- 
pated were  those  of  Shiloh  and  Vicksburg. 
When  the  war  closed  he  returned  to  Iowa,  where 
he  had  settled  about  1852.  There  he  improved  a 
tract  of  raw  prairie  land,  and,  in  connection  with 
farming,  engaged  in  carpentering.  In  1896  he 
came  to  Eaton,  where  he  now  makes  his  home. 
Politically  a  Republican,  during  his  younger  years 
he  was  active  in  the  party.  In  his  family  there 
are  six  sons  and  two  daughters,  namely:  John 
who  is  a  farmer  and  stock-raiser  in  Kansas; 
George  S'. ,   now  treasurer  of  Graham   County, 


Kan.,  where  he  is  a  well-known  agriculturist; 
Marion  L.,  who  is  engaged  in  farming  in  Weld 
County;  Sarah,  who  married  Francis  Smith  and 
lives  in  Missouri;  William  W.;  Sherman,  who  is 
foreman  on  the  Wyatt  ranch  near  Eaton;  Clinton 
D. ,  who  is  employed  as  foreman  for  Asa  Sterling, 
on  a  Platte  River  farm;  and  Jennie,  who  is  the 
wife  of  Alonzo  Hand,  of  Moscow,  Idaho. 

In  his  boyhood  our  subject  became  familiar 
with  farm  work,  through  assisting  in  the  cultiva- 
tion of  the  homestead.  Going  to  Kansas  in  1878, 
the  next  year  he  secured  employment  in  Kansas 
City,  but  after  two  years  there  he  settled  in  Colo- 
rado. The  village  of  Eaton  was  in  its  infancy 
when,  in  1882,  he  established  his  home  here, 
securing  work  with  Governor  Eaton  as  the  driver 
of  a  six  mule  team  that  broke  prairie  land  for 
cultivation.  After  the  first  year  he  was  made 
foreman  and  remained  in  the  same  position  for 
four  years,  when  he  engaged  with  Brown  &  Ree- 
man,  with  whom  he  worked  for  two  years.  After- 
ward he  resumed  work  as  foreman  with  Gover- 
nor Eaton.  When  four  years  had  passed,  he  in- 
vested his  savings  in  the  purchase  of  his  present 
property,  on  township  7,  range  65,  where  he  has 
since  resided.  He  has  been  quite  successful, 
though  suffering  his  share  of  reverses,  notably  in 
1898,  when  t|he  severe  hail  storm  ruined  his  crops. 
He  is  interested  in  the  Larimer  and  Weld  Irriga- 
tion Company  and  the  Windsor  Storage  Companj'. 

Interested  in  public  affairs,  Mr.  Brown  is  a 
supporter  of  the  silver  wing  of  the  Republican 
party.  He  is  identified  with  the  Congregational 
Church  of  Eaton  and  aided  materially  in  the 
building  of  the  house  of  worship.  January  2, 
1888,  he  was  united  in  marriage  with  Charlotte, 
daughter  of  Jacob  Byerly,  of  Iowa.  Three  chil- 
dren bless  their  union,  namely:  Nellie,  Nina  and 
Geneva. 


30HN  R.  SAMUELS,  of  Loveland,  is  a 
pioneer  of  Larimer  County,  where  he  made 
settlement  in  1863.  Born  in  Illinois  in  1842, 
he  is  a  son  of  Harvey  H.  Samuels,  a  native  of 
Indiana  and  for  some  years  a  resident  of  Illinois, 
but  from  1845  to  1863  a  farmer  of  Iowa,  and 
after  the  latter  year  a  resident  of  Colorado,  where 
he  settled  on  the  Big  Thompson  River  and  carried 
on  a  large  stock  ranch.  He  was  a  very  success- 
ful man  and  was  one  of  the  largest  stock-dealers 


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of  pioneer  days.  He  continued  to  reside  in 
Colorado  until  his  death,  which  occurred  at 
seventy-two  years  of  age. 

When  the  family  settled  in  Larimer  County, 
the  subject  of  this  sketch  was  twenty-one  years 
of  age.  He  assisted  his  father  in  the  years  that 
followed,  thus  gaining  a  thorough  knowledge  of 
ranch  life  and  the  best  method  of  conducting 
agricultural  pursuits  in  these  environments. 
After  the  death  of  his  father  he  and  his  brother, 
F.  M. ,  continued  in  the  cattle  business  together. 
He  was  so  enterprising  and  efficient  that  pros- 
perity rewarded  his  efforts,  and  he  is  now  halt 
owner  (with  his  brother,  F.  M.,)  of  about  two 
thousand  acres  of  land  and  large  numbers  of 
cattle.  In  1894  he  took  up  his  residence  in 
Loveland,  and  here  he  has  since  made  his  home. 

In  political  belief  Mr.  Samuels  favors  the  Demo- 
cratic platform  in  national  issues,  but  in  local 
matters  he  vote's  for  the  man  best  qualified  to 
represent  the  people.  December  5,  1893,  ^^  was 
united  in  marriage  with  Mrs.  Carrie  (Lawrence) 
Clark,  a  widow  with  one  child.  A  son  and  daugh- 
ter have  blessed  their  union,  namely:  William 
and  Edith.  Mrs.  Samuels  is  identified  with  the 
Baptist  Church  and  is  a  lady  who  stands  high  in 
the  esteem  of  her  acquaintances. 


^ARD  WIEST,  M.  D.,  one  of  the  prominent 
r\  physicians  of  northern  Colorado,  and  a  resi- 
le' dent  of  Longmont,  Boulder  County,  was 
born  in  Pontiac,  Oakland  County,  Mich.,  Novem- 
ber 5,  1867,  and  is  a  son  of  Jacob  and  Elizabeth 
(Elmendorf)  Wiest.  He  is  of  German  ancestry, 
being  descended  on  the  paternal  side  from  John 
Wiest,  a  native  of  Wurtemberg,  Germany,  who 
emigrated  to  America  prior  to  the  war  of  the  Rev- 
olution, and  settled  in  Esopus,  Ulster  County, 
N.  Y.,  and  later  served  as  a  member  of  the  Con- 
tinental army  in  that  memorable  struggle  for 
independence.  He  was  the  great-grandfather  of 
our  subject.  His  son,  Stephen,  was  born  in  Ulster 
County,  afterward  served  in  the  war  of  18 12,  and 
on  its  conclusion  engaged  in  agricultural  pursuits. 
He  married  Rachel  Freer,  of  French  Huguenot 
stock,  and  their  son  Jacob,  born  in  Esopus,  was 
the  father  of  our  subject.  He  early  learned  the 
trade  of  a  stone  mason  and  bricklayer,  and  later 
engaged  in  contracting  and  building.  In  1855 
he  removed  to  Michigan,  locating  at  Washington, 
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Macomb  County,  where  he  remained  until  1866, 
then  settled  at  Pontiac.  There  he  passed  the  re- 
maining years  of  his  life  engaged  in  active  busi- 
ness until  a  short  time  before  his  death,  which 
occurred  in  1896,  in  his  eighty-second  year.  Dur- 
ing his  residence  in  New  York  state  he  served  as 
captain  of  an  artillery  company  of  Ulster  County. 

On  the  maternal  side.  Dr.  Wiest  is  descended 
from  Wilhemus  Elmendorf,  a  native  of  Holland, 
who  emigrated  to  America  in  1616,  with  a  colony 
that  settled  in  what  is  now  New  York  state.  He 
was  one  of  the  first  Europeans  in  America,  and 
was  a  descendant  of  Wilhemus,  or  William  Prince 
of  Orange,  sometimes  called"  William  the  Silent. ' ' 
His  son,  Conrad,  was  born  in  Hurley,  N.  Y.,  as 
were  his  son  Wilhemus,  his  son  Conrad  and  his 
son  Lucas,  who  was  the  father  of  Elizabeth  (El- 
mendorf) Wiest,  the  mother  of  our  subject.  Her 
grandfather,  Conrad  Elmendorf,  was  a  member 
of  the  celebrated  committee  of  safety  during  the 
Revolutionary  war.  Many  members  of  this  fam- 
ily achieved  distinction  in  the  professions,  while 
others  were  prominently  identified  with  the  social, 
religious  and  agricultural  life  of  that  section. 

Mrs.  Wiest  survives  her  husband  and  resides 
at  the  old  home  in  Pontiac,  Mich.  Of  their  fam- 
ily nine  children  survive:  Mrs.  Mary  Clark,  Mrs. 
Martha  Tarbox,  both  of  Pontiac;  Mrs.  Annie 
Flater,  of  Ionia,  Mich. ;  Frank,  of  Detroit,  Mich. ; 
Newton,  a  physician  of  Denver;  John  E.,  post 
engineer  at  Fort  Riley,  Kan.;  Edwin,  master 
mechanic  of  the  Manistee  &  North  Michigan 
Railway,  at  Manistee,  Mich.;  Howard,  an  attor- 
ney of  Williamstown,  Mich.;  and  Sard,  the  sub- 
ject of  this  sketch. 

The  early  education  of  Dr.  Wiest  was  acquired 
in  the  public  schools  of  his  native  town,  and  at 
the  age  of  eighteen  he  entered  the  employ  of 
George  Gundrum,  a  druggist,  of  Ionia,  Mich., 
where  he  remained  some  eighteen  months,  when 
he  removed  to  Detroit  to  accept  a  similar  posi- 
tion. In  1888  he  came  to  Denver,  where  an  elder 
brother  had  preceded  him,  and  took  a  partial 
course  in  Gross  Medical  College.  He  next  en- 
tered the  employ  of  the  Sechrist  Electric  Company, 
where  he  remained  one  year,  subsequently  return- 
ing to  his  medical  studies,  and  in  April,  1892, 
was  graduated  with  the  degree  of  M.  D.  During 
the  years  1890-91  he  served  as  house  physician  of 
the  Arapahoe  County  hospital.  On  the  conclusion 
of  his  medical  education  he  removed  to  Longmont, 


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Boulder  County,  where  he  established  himself  in 
the  general  practice  of  his  profession.  He  has 
given  special  attention  to  diseases  of  the  eye,  and 
is  recognized  as  an  authority  upon  this  branch  of 
his  profession.  His  possession  of  one  of  the  most 
extensive  practices  north  of  Denver  is  sufficient 
evidence  of  the  esteem  in  which  he  is  held  by  the 
general  public.  During  his  residence  in  lyong- 
mont  he  has  served  three  years  as  health  officer, 
and  at  present  is  surgeon  for  the  Union  Pacific  and 
Denver  &  Gulf  Railways.  He  i$.  prqsjjnent  in 
Masonic  circles,  being  a  membBr-ii^f  i^tjiiVr^in 
Lodge  No.  23,  A.  F.  &  A.  M. ;  and  of  Delta 
Lodge  of  Perfection  No.  i,  Scottish  Rite,  of 
Denver.  He  is  also  a  charter  member,  past  officer, 
and  present  medical  examiner  of  the  local  lodge 
of  Woodmen  of  the  World.  He  has  also  taken 
great  interest  in  militia  matters,  having  joined 
while  residing  in  Detroit,  Mich., Company  B,  First 
Regiment,  N.  G.  S.  M.,  as  a  private,  and  later 
was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  corporal.  On  com- 
ing to  Colorado  he  was  made  sergeant  of  Company 
C,  First  Regiment,  N.  G.  C.  June  18,  1896, 
he  was  elected  lieutenant  and  May  6,  1897,  was 
elected  captain  of  the  same  company.  He  resigned 
April  9,  1898,  and  was  immediately  appointed 
assistant  surgeon  of  the  National  Guard  Corps, 
with  the  rank  of  first  lieutenant.  During  his 
service  as  a  member  of  Company  C,  First  Regi- 
ment, N.  G.  C,  he  served  in  the  Leadville 
riots.  He  is  also  a  member  of  Longmont  Hose 
Company  No.  i. 

In  August,  1893,  Dr.  Wiest  married  Florence, 
daughter  of  Elijah  J.  Hall,  a  well-known  pio- 
neer, and  now  a  resident  of  Denver.  Her  mother's 
maiden  name  was  Florence  Morrison.  Dr. 
and  Mrs.  Wiest  have  but  one  child,  a  daughter, 
Naomi.  The  doctor  and  his  wife  are  members  of 
the  Presbyterian  Church,  and  he  has  served  as 
elder,  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  official  board 
of  that  organization. 


0ANIEL  F.  CARMICHAEL,  mayoi  of  Brigh- 
ton, and  at  present  agent  for  the  waterworks 
plant  of  Brighton,  of  which  he  was  the 
founder,  was  born  near  Niagara  Falls,  Canada, 
April  17,  1844,  and  is  a  son  of  Daniel  and 
Eliza  (Otis)  Carmichael,  natives  respectively  of 
Orange  County,  N.  Y.,  and  Springfield,  Mass. 
His  father,  who   was  a  railroad  contractor,   was 


employed  in  connection  with  the  construction  of 
the  Welland  Canal  at  the  time  the  son  was  born, 
but  when  the  latter  was  one  year  of  age  the 
father  moved  to  New  York  City,  later  going  to 
Broome  County,  N.  Y.,  where  he  had  a  contract 
on  the  Erie  Railroad.  There  he  remained  for 
some  years,  and  while  still  residing  there  he  went 
on  business  to  Philadelphia  in  1849  and  there 
died  of  the  cholera.  He  was  buried  in  Orange 
County,  N.  Y. 

The  fourth  in  a  family  of  five  children,  the 
subject  of  this  sketch  was  a  child  of  five  years 
when  his  father  died.  The  family  being  left  in 
good  circumstances  he  received  excellent  educa- 
tional advantages.  He  attended  the  public 
schools  of  Geneva,  N.  Y.,  and  later  was  a  student 
in  Hobart  College  for  three  years,  but  in  i86o, 
shortly  before  he  would  have  graduated,  he  left 
college  and  accompanied  his  sister,  Mrs.  Skeel, 
to  Davenport,  Iowa.  On  the  outbreak  of  the 
Civil  war  he  enlisted  in  the  Third  Iowa  Infantry, 
Company  A,  as  a  private,  for  three  years  or  until 
the  close  of  the  war.  He  was  assigned  work  in 
Missouri  along  the  Mississippi  River.  However, 
after  about  ten  months,  he  was  taken  ill  and  was 
sent  to  the  hospital,  where  he  lay  unconscious 
for  several  weeks,  suffering  from  typhoid  fever. 
At  his  motljer's  request  he  was  honorably  dis- 
charged from  the  service.  He  returned  to  Daven- 
port, but  soon  went  to  Chicago,  where  he  clerked 
for  six  months.  From  that  city  he  went  to  New 
York,  and  enlisted  as  a  private  in  Company  F,  of 
the  Twenty-eighth  New  York  Infantry,  assigned 
to  duty  with  the  Army  of  the  Potomac.  He  was 
promoted  to  be  a  corporal,  then  a  sergeant,  later 
second  lieutenant,  first  lieutenant,  captain  and 
finally  was  made  a  major.  Though  he  had  been 
under  fire  several  times  before,  his  first  great 
battle  was  at  Gettysburg.  Later  he  was  ordered 
to  New  York  to  help  in  suppressing  the  riots, 
under  command  of  Gen.  Benjamin  F.  Butler, 
whose  presence  soon  put  an  end  to  the  trouble. 
Next  he  was  sent  to  Elmira  to  guard  the  Confed- 
erate prisoners,  some  fifteen  thousand  in  number, 
and  was  there  for  six  months.  Afterward  he  re- 
ported to  General  Dix  in  New  York,  and  when 
the  time  of  the  majority  of  the  regiment  expired, 
he  with  many  others  was  mustered  out. 

Re-entering  business  pursuits,  Mr.  Carmichael 
traveled  for  a  New  York  wholesale  dry-goods 
house  in  Michigan,  Iowa,    Nebraska  and  other 


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western  states  until  1869,  when  he  went  to 
Omaha,  and  secured  employment  in  the  office  of 
the  company  building  the  Missouri  River  bridge, 
but  within  six  months  he  was  given  full  charge 
of  the  construction  as  chief  engineer  and  manager. 
On  the  completion  of  the  bridge  he  came  to  Colo- 
rado to  build  the  Julesburg  branch  of  the  Union 
Pacific  Railroad,  from  Julesburg  to  Greeley. 
After  a  year  in  that  work  he  went  to  Denver  as 
passenger  and  freight  agent  for  the  Colorado  Cen- 
tral Railroad  and  general  agent  lor  the  Union 
Pacific  and  Kansas  Pacific  Railroads,  with  head- 
quarters in  Denver. 

In  1870,  while  his  home  was  in  Omaha,  he 
married  Miss  Alice  E.  Evans,  of  New  York.  Of 
their  six  children,  five  are  still  living.  AlmetS., 
who  was  born  in  Omaha,  is  now  deputy  county 
assessor  and  lives  in  Brighton;  Eliza  and  Mabel, 
twins,  were  born  in  Golden,  Colo.,  and  graduated 
from  the  Denver  high  school;  Eliza  died  in 
1897  and  was  buried  at  Brighton;  Edward,  born 
in  Denver,  represents  the  interests  of  Mr.  Skeel, 
of  New  York,  and  lives  with  his  parents;  Eliz- 
abeth, born  in  Denver,  is  a  graduate  of  the  Denver 
high  school;  and  Adelaide,  the  youngest,  was 
born  in  Denver  and  is  now  a  student  in  one  of 
high  schools  of  that  city. 

In  1876  Mr.  Carmichael  severed  his  connection 
with  the  railroads  and  entered  the  real-estate  busi- 
ness in  Denver,  and  while  thus  engaged  he  ac- 
quired the  land  where  Brighton  now  stands. 
This  land  he  purchased  in  1877  and  two  years 
later  laid  out  the  town.  In  1884  he  erected  a 
residence  and  removed  his  family  here,  but  he 
did  not  retire  from  his  business  in  Denver  until 
1894.  In  1881  he  built  the  Brighton  opera  house, 
also  started  a  drug  store,  hardware  and  furniture 
establishments,  put  up  a  bank  building  and  start- 
ed a  bank,  built  a  few  cottages  and  established  a 
newspaper  called  the  Brighton  Register.  Besides 
the  land  on  which  the  town  stands  he  owns  four 
thousand  acres,  on  which  he  raises  cattle,  grain 
and  all  the  products  of  the  farm.  He  has  intro- 
duced waterworks,  put  in  mains  and  fire  hydrants, 
and  made  other  improvements.  The  panic  of 
1894  crippled  him,  as  it  did  so  many  business 
men,  in  his  projects,  but  he  owned  some  property 
in  Denver,  and  this  he  turned  over  to  his  cred- 
itors, who  have  left  him  in  charge  thereof. 

A  Republican  in  politics,  Mr.  Carmichael  was 
elected  mayor  of  Brighton  on  that  ticket  in  1888, 


.served  in  the  legislature  from  1889  to  1891,  was 
chairman  of  the  board  of  railroad  commissioners 
and  also  served  as  member  of  its  finance  com- 
mittee. In  April,  1898,  he  was  again  elected 
mayor.  While  in  the  legislature  the  law  was 
passed  regulating  fees  of  public  officers.  When 
the  bill  was  introduced  it  was  fiercely  fought,  as 
it  lowered  official  salaries,  but  it  passed  neverthe- 
less. He  was  the  promoter  of  the  semi-annual 
tax  bill,  which  was  bitterly  fought,  and  in  the 
course  of  the  fight  he  offered  to  put  up  a  bond  for 
$25,000  that  he  could  do  the  work  for  half  of  what 
it  was  costing.  He  has  served  on  the  school 
board  and  has  been  instrumental  in  securing  good 
schools.  As  delegate  to  county  and  state  con- 
ventions he  has  rendered  his  party  good  service. 
Reared  in  the  Presbyterian  faith,  Mr.  Carmich- 
ael has  always  adhered  to  this  faith  and  is  now 
president  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  the  church,  a 
position  that  he  has  filled  for  many  years.  In 
1869,  while  in  Omaha,  he  was  made  a  Mason. 
He  is  now  connected  with  Eureka  Lodge  No.  78, 
A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  at  Brighton,  in  which  he  has 
served  as  junior  and  senior  warden.  While  in 
Denver  he  took  all  the  degrees,  up  to  and  includ- 
ing the  thirty-second,    in    Masonry. 


EHARLES  CRADOCK  is  proprietor  of  what 
is  commonly  known  in  Larimer  County  as 
the  "  C.  C. "  ranch.  This  beautiful  and  ably- 
managed  homestead  is  situated  in  Livermore  Park 
and  from  various  points  in  the  grounds  fine  views 
may  be  had  of  Steamboat  Rock  and  other  local 
spots  of  interest  and  grandeur.  The  fortunate 
owner  of  this  property  recently  built  an  elegant 
modern  residence,  which  is  furnished  with  every- 
thing that  the  cultivated  mind  and  heart  could 
desire. 

Mr.  Cradock  is  a  charter  member  of  the  Lari- 
mer County  Stock  Growers'  Association  and  in 
January,  1898,  was  a  delegate  to  the  National 
Stock  Growers'  Association.  He  has  devoted 
much  time  and  means  to  the  raising  of  thorough- 
bred cattle  and  horses,  and  thus  done  a  great 
deal  toward  elevating  the  grade  of  stock  in  this 
section  of  the  west.  It  was  nearly  a  score  of 
years  ago  that  Mr.  Cradock  came  to  America,  the 
immediate  reason  for  this  step  being  his  health, 
which,  it  was  believed  would  be  benefited  by  an 
out-door  life.    His  parents  had  purchased  a  ranch 


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from  an  English  company,  said  property  being 
situated  near  Fort  Collins.  The  ranch,  compris- 
ing six  hundred  and  forty  acres,  was  well  equipped 
with  all  kinds  of  machinery  of  modern  design, 
and  was  stocked  with  cattle  and  horses,  H.  L. 
Gilpin- Brown  being  for  four  years  his  partner. 
Though  his  knowledge  of  western  ranch  life  was 
necessarily  limited,  our  subject,  in  conjunction 
with  his  partner,  undertook  the  management  of 
affairs  and  at  the  end  of  four  years  they  had  oc- 
casion to  congratulate  themselves  upon  the  success 
they  had  made  of  the  enterprise,  in  spite  of  the  fact 
that  they  had  expended  large  sums  of  money  in  the 
improvement  of  the  ranch. 

In  1875  Mr.  Cradock  sold  the  place  and  re- 
turned home,  where  he  remained  some  eighteen 
mouths.  The  attractions  of  life  on  the  plains 
becoming  overpowering,  he  again  sailed  for 
America  and  went  to  North  Park,  where  he  em- 
barked in  the  business  of  raising  horses.  Later 
he  brought  Shorthorn  cattle  from  Kansas  and 
enjoyed  the  distinction  of  owning  the  finest  herd 
in  the  country.  Then  he  sold  the  cattle  and  once 
more  set  his  face  homeward.  Of  late  years  he 
has  made  his  headquarters  in  Livermore  Park, 
though  his  business  calls  him  to  all  parts  of  this 
and  neighboring  counties,  and  he  has  crossed  the 
ocean  nine  times.  In  1897  he  purchased  the 
Calloway  place,  the  oldest  ranch  in  the  park. 
Here  there  are  thirteen  hundred  and  twenty  acres, 
about  one  hundred  and  fifty-three  splendidly 
watered  with  irrigation  ditches.  The  land  is  on 
the  north  fork  of  the  Main  Powder  River,  and  is 
fenced  in  and  variously  improved.  Nearly  two 
hundred  acres  are  alfalfa  land,  and  fifty  acres  are 
given  up  to  the  raising  of  wheat,  barley,  rye  and 
other  grain.  Mr.  Cradock  owns  the  finest  team 
of  horses  in  this  country  and  drives  all  over  his 
ranch,  superintending  and  directing  the  work  of 
his  employes.  He  takes  little  part  in  public 
affairs,  and  uses  his  ballot  in  favor  of  the  Demo- 
cratic party. 

The  Cradock  family,  as  is  well  known,  is  of  the 
English  aristocracy,  their  estates,  near  Richmond, 
which  have  been  handed  down  for  generations, 
being  called  Hartforth.  The  paternal  grand- 
father of  our  subject  was  Col.  Sheldon  Cradock, 
M.  P.,  a  country  gentleman.  The  father  of 
Charles  Cradock,  Capt.  Christopher  Cradock,  was 
the  proprietor  of  Hartforth  and  Thorpe  estates, 
was  deputy  lieutenant  of  the  county  of  Yorkshire, 


held  a  captaincy  in  the  army,  was  Master  of  Fox 
and  Hounds  and  was  a  magistrate  during  his 
entire  mature  life.  He  died  at  the  age  of  seventy- 
one  years,  in  1895.  His  wife,  the  mother  of  our 
subject,  was  born  in  Aberdeenshire,  Scotland, 
and  died  while  a  young  woman.  She  was 
Georgiana,  daughter  of  Major-general  Duff", 
cousin  to  the  Duke  of  Fife. 

Charles  Cradock,  born  May  22,  1863,  and 
brought  up  at  the  ancestral  home  of  Hartforth,  is 
the  third  of  seven  children,  two  of  whom  are  de- 
ceased. The  eldest  brother,  Capt.  Sheldon,  now 
proprietor  of  Hartforth,  and  justice  of  the  peace, 
was  a  participant  in  the  Soudan  war,  and  while 
in  command  of  a  company  as  captain  had  two 
horses  shot  from  under  him  in  engagements  with 
the  enemy.  The  second  son,  Capt.  Montague, 
held  the  rank  which  he  now  bears,  in  both  the 
Afghan  and  Eg>'ptian  campaigns,  and  is  still  con- 
nected with  the  army,  being  now  in  New  Zealand. 
Christopher,  fourth  son,  is  a  commodore  in  the 
English  navy,  and  did  gallant  service  at  the  bom- 
bardment of  Alexandria.  He  was  on  the  royal 
yacht  for  four  years,  accompanying  the  two 
princes,  Albert  and  George,  on  their  trip  around 
the  world.  He  is  now  in  command  of  the  Bri- 
tannia training-school  ship.  Gwendolin,  the  only 
sister,  is  Mrs.  Herbert  Straker,  of  Hartforth 
Grange,  near  Richmond. 

In  January,  1898,  Charles  Cradock  married 
Miss  Maud  Vaughn  Lloyd,  daughter  of  Dr.  Lloyd. 
Mrs.  Cradock  was  born  in  Richmond,  Va.,  and 
comes  from  one  of  the  old  and  respected  families 
of  that  state.  She  is  a  lady  of  superior  educa- 
tion and  attainments,  her  studies  in  the  lan- 
guages, music  and  art  having  been  perfected  in 
England,  France  and  Germany. 


EHARLES  P.  SCOTT,  one  of  the  oldest 
settlers  of  Loveland,  was  born  in  Yates 
County,  N.  Y. ,  in  1842,  and  is  a  descendant 
of  a  prominent  and  wealthy  English  family  whose 
heir  owns  the  homestead,  with  its  surrounding 
land  covering  seven  square  miles.  He  is  a  son 
of  Charles  and  Sarah  (Plaisted)  Scott,  who  came 
to  this  country  from  England  and  remained  in 
New  York  until  their  death.  Their  son,  our 
subject,  spent  his  boyhood  years  in  New  York 
City,  and  was  educated  in  public  and  private 
schools.    After  leaving  school  he  began  clerking. 


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For  eight  years  he  was  engaged  as  an  employe 
in  a  wholesale  hat  and  cap  house  in  New  York 
City.  In  187 1  he  came  west  and  spent  a  few 
weeks  in  Greeley,  Colo.  He  bought  a  tract  of 
land  on  the  north  side  of  the  Big  Thompson, 
where  he  began  general  farming  and  stock-rais- 
ing, in  which  he  has  since  continued  on  his 
eighty  acres  of  land.  He  has  made  a  specialty 
of  sheep-feeding,  having  about  one  thousand  head 
on  his  place. 

In  politics  a  Republican,  in  the  spring  of  1876 
Mr.  Scott  was  appointed  county  clerk  of  Larimer 
County,  and  in  the  fall  of  the  same  year  he  was 
regularly  elected  to  the  office,  which  he  held  for 
three  terms,  at  the  same  time  being  clerk  of  the 
district  court.  He  has  always  taken  an  active 
part  in  public  life  and  has  favored  plans  for  pro- 
moting the  welfare  of  the  people.  In  1881, 
associated  with  F.  C.  Avery,  of  Fort  Collins,  he 
established  the  First  National  Bank,  of  which  he 
served  as  cashier  for  three  years.  In  1882  he 
was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Bank  of  Big 
Thompson  and  held  the  position  of  cashier  for 
three  years,  the  bank  doing  a  private  banking 
business  meantime. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Scott,  in  1870,  united  him 
with  Miss  Hattie  E.  Edmond,  of  New  York, 
an  estimable  lady,  who  shares  with  him  in  the 
regard  and  esteem  of  their  acquaintances.  Frater- 
nally he  has  been  identified  with  Loveland  Lodge 
No.  53,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  since  1868,  and  is  also  a 
member  of  the  Eastern  Star  Lodge  No.  23.  In 
religion  he  is  connected  with  the  Methodist  Epis- 
copal Church.  The  prosperity  that  has  come  to 
him  represents  diligent  effort  extending  over 
many  years.  He  is  a  man  of  enterprise,  joined 
with  sound  common  sense,  and  in  his  farming 
enterprises  has  shown  excellent  judgment.  In 
addition  to  raising  cereals,  he  has  planted  trees 
and  engages  in  fruit-growing,  his  specialty  being 
raspberries.  His  farm  is  near  Loveland,  and  is 
one  of  the  best  improved  ranches  in  Larimer 
County. 

(pOLOMON  BATTERSON  is  to-day  one  of 
TN  the  most  substantial  and  prominent  stock- 
\Z/  men  of  Larimer  County,  having  acquired  his 
large  property  with  the  help  of  his  brave  and 
energetic  wife  since  their  advent  here  some 
twenty-eight  years  ago.  He  came  to  Livermore 
in  1870,  his  only  capital  being  two  good  wagons, 


harness,  five  horses,  eight  head  of  cattle  and  $65 
after  the  expenses  of  the  trip  were  paid.  He 
paid  $40  for  a  stove  in  Cheyenne,  and  the  remain- 
ing $25  went  for  groceries  and  other  provisions. 
He  had  his  gun  and  it  played  a  prominent  part  in 
their  struggle  during  their  first  years  of  western 
life.  He  is  a  great  hunter  and  a  good  shot,  and 
has  traveled  all  over  the  mountains  of  this  state, 
killing  deer,  and  would  take  the  venison  by 
wagon  to  Greeley  or  Cheyenne,  selling  it  in  a 
short  time,  but  it  would  take  about  six  weeks  to 
make  the  trip  and  get  home  with  the  provisions, 
clothing,  etc.  He  tanned  the  hides  and  then 
helped  his  wife  convert  them  into  buckskin  suits. 
During  this  time  she  made  butter  for  sale  and 
kept  such  boarders  as  could  be  found  in  that 
locality,  visitors  to  the  mountains  and  people  who 
were  traveling  through.  By  their  untiring  zeal 
they  have  acquired  a  considerable  fortune,  but  the 
habit  of  industry  still  clings  to  them  and  to-day 
she  has  the  best  garden  on  North  Park  road. 

Mr.  Batterson  was  born  in  the  town  of  Hume, 
Allegany  County,  N.  Y.,  August  26,  1830,  his 
parents  being  Henry  and  Hannah  (Goff )  Batter- 
son,  of  the  same  .state.  His  grandfather  came 
from  Pennsylvania  and  settled  in  New  York  state, 
where  the  father  was  for  some  years  a  farmer. 
He  then  went  to  Cleveland,  Ohio,  where  he  was 
in  the  same  business  for  twelve  years,  and  from 
there  went  to  Chicago.  After  a  short  time  he 
settled  on  the  Illinois  River  in  Cass  County,  in 
the  "Pecan  Bottom,"  about  fifteen  miles  north- 
west of  Springfield.  Later  he  moved  to  Chat- 
field,  Minn. ,  where  he  died.  He  married  Hannah 
Goff,  whose  grandfather  served  in  the  Revolution- 
ary war.  She  died  in  Illinois.  They  had  three 
sons  who  grew  to  manhood:  William,  now  a 
resident  of  Minnesota,  and  a  soldier  in  the  Civil 
war,  from  that  state;  Solomon,  whose  history  is 
given  in  this  sketch;  and  Horace,  who  was  burned 
in  the  Chicago  fire. 

The  parents  of  Mr.  Batterson  moved  to  Cleve- 
land when  he  was  two  years  of  age,  and  there  he 
received  his  education  in  the  public  schools. 
When  he  was  fourteen  they  moved  to  Chicago, 
and  he  worked  out  on  the  farm,  first  for  Amos 
Deck,  for  four  years,  receiving  $13,  which  was 
good  wages  for  that  time.  The  following  four 
years  he  worked  for  Josh  Morris.  He  remained 
at  home  until  he  was  twenty-two  and  then  went 
to  Rockton,  Winnebago  County,  and  stopped  at 


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Harrison,  111.,  on  the  Sugar  River.  He  re- 
mained here  two  mouths,  and  then  went  to  Fort 
Atkinson,  Winneshiek  County,  Iowa,  from  there 
to  New  Oregon,  same  state,  where  he  lived  for 
five  years.  Going  back  to  Harrison,  111.,  he 
bought  teams,  wagons,  etc.,  and  in  the  fall  set 
out  for  Necedah,  Wis.,  to  take  up  land.  As  he 
was  not  favorably  impressed  with  the  country,  he 
went  on  through  LaCrosse,  and  located  ten  miles 
from  Owatonna,  Steele  County,  Minn.,  where  he 
engaged  in  farming  for  eight  years.  While 
living  there  the  massacre  of  Blue  Earth  County 
occurred,  and  he  moved  his  family  to  Riceville, 
Iowa,  and  from  tliere  to  Algona,  on  the  Des 
Moines  River.  However,  not  liking  it  there,  he 
moved  to  Clear  Lake  and  rented  a  farm  of  Judge 
George  Frost  and  farmed  for  three  years.  The 
next  two  years  were  spent  in  teaming  and  rail- 
roading, and  in  1870  he  brought  his  family  and 
teams,  and  drove  his  cattle  through  to  Colorado. 
They  had  started  for  California,  but  stopped  at 
the  old  Sherman  place,  near  Fort  Collins,  to  look 
around  for  a  week,  and  then  came  to  what  is  now 
Livermore  Park,  in  August  of  that  year,  to  locate. 
He  homesteaded  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres 
and  later  pre-empted  as  much  more,  giving  him 
three  hundred  and  twenty  acres.  He  has  since 
that  bought  two  quarter-sections  three  miles  be- 
low, and  has  fenced  and  improved  it,  as  he  has  all 
his  land.  He  is  engaged  in  the  cattle  business, 
handling  thoroughbred  Shorthorns  and  Here- 
fords. 

Mr.  Batterson  was  married  in  Decorah,  Iowa, 
by  Judge  Reed,  to  Miss  Mary  L.  Fassett,  who 
was  born  in  Allegany  County,  N.  Y.,  February 
6,  1833.  She  is  a  daughter  of  John  Fassett,  of 
Pennsylvania,  but  of  Scotch  ancestry.  He  moved 
to  Allegany  County,  N.  Y.,  and  in  1844  to  Illi- 
nois, settling  at  Harrison,  where  he  engaged 
in  farming  and  was  one  of  the  pioneers  there. 
Later  he  removed  to  Riceville,  Iowa,  where  he 
died.  His  second  wife  was  Mrs.  Sarah  Peck, 
whose  maiden  name  was  Sarah  Henry;  she  was 
a  native  of  Rhode  Island  and  her  father  was  of 
English  origin.  She  died  in  Riceville,  Iowa. 
Of  the  first  marriage  of  Mr.  Fassett  eleven  chil- 
dren were  born,  few  of  whom  are  now  living. 
The  second  marriage  resulted  in  the  birth  of  four 
children,  three  of  whom  reached  years  of  maturity  : 
Mary  L.,  now  Mrs.  Solomon  Batterson;  Almon, 
who  resides  in  Iowa;  and  Phidelia,  who  died  in 


that  state.  To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Batterson  have  been 
born  three  children:  William,  a  cattleman  in 
Larimer  County,  on  the  Elkhorn;  Mina,  Mrs. 
W.  E.  Tibbits,  of  Livermore  Park;  and  Azubah, 
who  is  now  deceased.  Mr.  Batterson  is  a  Demo- 
crat. He  and  his  wife  are  members  of  the  Seventh 
Day  Adventist  Church. 


HEODORE  A.  KIBBY,  whose  ranch  is  in 
Weld  County,  near  Berthoud,  was  born  in 
McHenry  County,  111.,  in  1844,  a  son  of 
Augustus  and  Emily  (Mason)  Kibby.  He  spent 
his  boyhood  years  in  the  parental  home  and  was 
educated  in  local  public  schools.  At  the  age  of 
twenty-one  he  enlisted  in  Company  C,  One  Hun- 
dred and  Fifty-third  Illinois  Infantry,  in  which  he 
served  as  a  private  until  the  expiration  of  the  war, 
being  most  of  the  time  in  Tennessee  and  Ala- 
bama. Returning  to  Illinois  from  the  army,  in 
the  spring  of  1866  he  removed  to  Iowa  and  set- 
tled in  Boone,  where  he  engaged  in  teaming  sup- 
plies for  the  Chicago  &  North-western  Railroad 
then  in  process  of  building  across  the  state  to 
Council  Bluffs.  From  1866  to  1870  he  was  em- 
ployed as  trainman  on  the  road. 

Going  back  to  Illinois  in  1872,  Mr.  Kibby 
spent  two  ye^ars  at  his  old  home,  after  which  he 
carried  on  a  lumber  business  in  Wisconsin  for  two 
years.  In  1876  he  visited  his  sister  in  Illinois 
and  from  there  crossed  the  country  to  Colorado, 
where  he  had  determined  to  settle.  Renting  land 
on  the  Big  Thompson  River,  he  began  to  improve 
the  property.  In  the  fall  of  1877  he  took  up  a 
tract  of  government  land  where  he  now  lives.  At 
once  he  began  to  improve  the  place,  building  a 
house  during  the  first  year.  Since  then  he  has 
given  his  attention  to  stock-raising  and  general 
farming.  He  owns  three  hundred  and  twenty 
acres  of  land,  all  of  which  is  under  cultivation, 
representing  years  of  efibrt  on  his  part. 

Besides  his  farm  interests,  Mr.  Kibby  has 
always  been  interested  in  irrigation  projects.  He 
was  one  of  the  original  promoters  of  the  Hills- 
boro  Irrigating  Canal  Company,  of  which  he  was 
the  first  treasurer  and  secretary,  and  is  now  a 
stockholder.  Politically  he  is  a  pronounced  Re- 
publican and  always  attends  local  conventions  of 
the  party.  He  is  connected  with  the  Grand  Army 
Post  at  Loveland.  In  addition  to  his  other 
moneyed  interests,  he  is  a  stockholder  in  the  Far- 


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mers'  mill  at  Berthoud.  In  1880  he  married 
Miss  Nellie  Winship,  of  Wisconsin,  and  they  are 
the  parents  of  five  children,  namely:  I/Jray, 
Sarah,  Bertha,  Arthur  and  Edwin  H. 


ROBERT  S.  COX,  who  owns  a  valuable  fruit 
farm  near  Loveland,  Larimer  County,  has 
been  a  resident  of  Colorado  since  1883. 
Coming  to  the  state  during  that  year,  he  bought 
a  quarter-section  of  land  eight  miles  east  of  Ber- 
thoud, and  for  seven  years  engaged  in  general 
farm  pursuits.  In  1890  he  moved  to  Greeley, 
Weld  County,  and  for  a  year  was  not  actively  en- 
gaged in  any  occupation,  but  in  1891  he  settled 
near  Loveland,  buying  forty-eight  acres  adjoining 
the  corporation  of  Loveland.  Here  he  has  planted 
three  hundred  plum  trees,  and  other  varieties  of 
fruits,  as  well  as  all  kinds  of  berries.  While  his 
venture  in  the  fruit  business  was  something  of  a 
risk,  his  success  proves  that  his  judgment  was 
sound  in  the  matter.  His  fruit  is  of  a  fine  qual- 
ity and  his  orchards  are  constantly  increasing  in 
value.  In  addition  to  this  property,  he  owns  an 
interest  in  three  mining  claims  in  Larimer  County 
and  one  in  Boulder  County. 

Born  near  Trenton,  N.  J.,  in  1837,  Mr.  Cox  is 
a  son  of  Stewart  W.  Cox,  who  was  a  native  of 
Trenton,  but  came  west  in  1837,  settling  in  Rich- 
mond, Ind.,  where  he  followed  the  trade  of  a 
bricklayer.  In  1883  he  came  to  Colorado  and 
afterward  made  his  home  with  his  son  until  his 
death,  which  occurred  in  1888,  at  the  age  of  sev- 
enty-three. From  1848  to  1881  he  engaged  in 
general  farm  pursuits  in  Indiana,  but  after  com- 
ing to  Colorado  he  became  the  owner  of  several 
hundred  acres  of  land.  In  politics  he  always  ad- 
hered to  the  Democracy.  He  married  Julia  Ann 
Ivens,  who  died  in  Richmond,  Ind. ,  leaving  three 
sons,  namely:  Joseph  and  John  I.,  who  served 
in  the  army  during  the  Civil  war  and  are  now  de- 
ceased; and  Robert  S.,  who  was  only  three  years 
of  age  at  the  time  of  his  mother's  death. 

When  our  subject  was  a  bo'y  educational  advan- 
tages were  meagre  in  his  section  of  country.  For 
a  time  he  studied  in  an  old  sod  schoolhouse,  where 
the  method  of  instruction  was  as  primitive  as  the 
building  itself.  In  youth  he  learned  the  .shoe- 
maker's trade  and  was  following  it  at  the  time  the 
war  broke  out,  in  1861,  when  he  at  once  stopped 
work  and  enlisted  in  Company  I,  Forty-seventh 


Indiana  Infantry.  He  was  promoted  to  be  first 
lieutenant  after  the  battle  of  Vicksburg.  While 
the  regiment  was  in  camp,  he  was  wounded,  in 
skirmish  line.  '  He  fought  in  the  battles  of  the 
Mississippi  campaign,  the  first  battle  of  Island 
No.  10  and  was  with  Grant  at  Vicksburg,  Port 
Gibson  and  Champion  Hills.  At  the  close  of  the 
war  he  was  honorably  discharged.  Returning 
home  he  resumed  work  at  his  trade,  to  which  he 
added  carpentering  and  the  mercantile  business. 

In  politics  Mr.  Cox  is  an  active  Republican 
and  has  never  voted  any  other  ticket  than  it.  For 
a  number  of  years  he  served  as  justice  of  the 
peace.  Fraternally  he  is  a  member  of  the  Love- 
land Lodge  No.  53,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.  In  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church  he  is  an  active  worker 
and  for  some  time  has  served  the  congregation  as 
steward  and  secretary  of  the  ofiicial  board.  His 
marriage  took  place  in  1861  and  united  him  with 
Martha  J.  Ogden,  by  whom  he  has  had  six  chil- 
dren. Those  living  are:  Lulu  May,  wife  of 
F.  M.  Nevils;  Nellie,  who  married  W.  H.  Sheets; 
Homer  D.  and  Berthard  M. 


(lOHN  VETTER  owns  and  occupies  a  ranch 
I  in  Weld  County,  near  Loveland,  and  on  the 
O  Big  Thompson  River,  and  here  for  some 
years  he  has  successfully  engaged  in  stock- 
raising.  He  is  a  native  of  Germany,  and  was 
born  in  1841,  a  son  of  John  Vetter.  Following 
the  custom  in  German  families,  he  was. appren- 
ticed to  the  carpenter's  trade,  and  for  some  years 
was  engaged  in  work  at  that  occupation.  In 
1865  he  came  to  the  United  States,  landing  in 
New  York,  from  which  city  he  proceeded  to 
Washington,  D.  C.  For  a  year  he  followed  his 
trade  in  that  city,  after  which,  in  1866,  he  went 
to  Chicago,  where  he  was  employed  for  a  year. 
In  1867  he  went  still  further  west  to  Omaha, 
Neb.,  and  from  that  place  started  with  an  ox- 
train  across  the  plains.  For  a  short  time  he 
found  employment  in  Pine  Bluff,  Laramie  County, 
Wyo.,  but  soon  proceeded  to  Denver  and  from 
there  to  the  mountains,  where  he  engaged  in 
teaming. 

In  1878  Mr.  Vetter  began  to  operate  rented 
land  on  the  Big  Thompson  River.  In  1883  he 
took  up  a  homestead  claim  on  the  same  river 
and  at  once  began  farming  and  stock-raising,  in 
which   he  has   met  with   success.     He  owns  a 


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quarter-section  of  land  under  good  cultivation, 
the  value  of  which  has  been  materially  increased 
by  his  labors.  In  addition  to  his  farm  interests, 
he  owns  stock  in  the  Loveland  and  Greeley  Ditch 
Company.  He  also  owns  two  ranches  in  the 
mountains  which  he  uses  as  cattle  ranges.  He 
is  a  loyal  citizen  of  his  adopted  country,  and  in 
politics  favors  the  People's  party.  By  his  mar- 
riage, in  1883,  to  Miss  Sophia  Webber,  he  has 
two  children,  John  and  Charles.  He  has  been 
a  resident  of  the  western  country  from  pioneer 
days.  When  he  was  in  Pine  Bluff  the  Indians 
were  troublesome  and  stole  their  teams,  but  did 
not  make  an  attack  on  the  men.  He  has  wit- 
nessed the  growth  and  development  of  this  state, 
and  has  personally  contributed  to  the  develop- 
ment of  its  stock  and  agricultural  resources. 


[{JEORGE  O.  STEVENS,  who  owns  a  finely 
l_l  improved  farm  near  Greeley,  Weld  County, 
\^  is  one  whom  the  equable  climate  of  Colorado 
has  done  wonders  for.  Years  ago  he  was  given 
up  to  die  by  the  best  physicians  of  his  old  Michi- 
gan home,  but  he  possessed  a  brave  heart  and  the 
thought  of  leaving  his  wife  and  three  little  ones 
dependent  upon  the  mercies  of  the  world  nerved 
him  to  a  last  desperate  struggle  for  that  priceless 
boon,  health.  His  faith  and  courage  under  most 
trying  conditions  saved  him  from  an  untimely 
grave,  and  he  now  bids  fair  to  reach  the  advanced 
age  of  his  father,  who  passed  the  fourscore  mark 
by  some  two  years. 

The  parents  of  our  subject  were  Ira  M.  and 
Amelia  (Tripp)  Stevens,  natives  of  Connecticut 
and  New  York,  respectively.  The  father  was  a 
prosperous  farmer,  and  spent  most  of  his  mature 
years  in  Michigan,  of  which  state  he  was  a 
pioneer,  settling  there  in  1839.  George  O. 
Stevens  was  born  near  Lapeer,  Mich.,  April  21, 
1842,  and  grew  to  manhood  upon  the  family  home- 
stead. He  received  such  educational  advantages 
as  might  be  expected  in  a  new  country,  but 
sparsely  settled.  When  he  was  twenty  years  of 
age,  in  August,  1862,  his  youthful  patriotism  led 
to  his  enlisting  in  the  Fourth  Michigan  Cavalry 
to  fight  for  the  Union.  He  was  a  member  of 
Company  K,  a  portion  of  which  had  the  honor 
of  capturing  JeSerson  Davis.  He  was  in  what 
was  known  as  the  Sabre  Brigade,  under  the  com- 
mand of  Colonel  Minty,   later  promoted   to  be 


brigadier-general.  At  the  close  of  a  year  and  a- 
half  of  very  arduous  service  young  Stevens  was 
given  an  honorable  discharge,  on  account  of  phy- 
sical disability,  his  paper  being  dated  January  i, 
1864. 

Returning  to  his  old  home,  Mr.  Stevens  recu- 
perated to  some  extent  and  then  engaged  in  work 
as  a  carpenter  in  Oneida,  Knox  County,  111. 
His  home  was  in  that  city  for  about  nine  years, 
after  which  he  came  to  Colorado,  in  i87i,and 
cast  in  his  lot  with  a  colony  which  located  Green 
City.  This  happened  to  be  most  unfortunate  for 
all  concerned,  for  those  who  were  at  the  head  of 
the  enterprise  were  unable  to  secure  necessary 
water  for  the  district,  and  the  town  had  to  be 
abandoned.  Everyone  had  spent  much  money 
in  the  hope  of  receiving  compensation  and  a  suit- 
,able  home,  but  their  time  and  funds  were  wasted, 
as  it  turned  out.  Mr.  Stevens  returned  to  Michi- 
gan and  began  farming,  but  everything  seemed  to 
militate  against  him  and  he  was  taken  sick.  For 
three  years  he  was  an  invalid,  gradually  growing 
feebler,  until  death  seemed  imminent.  Then  it 
was  that  the  remarkable  spirit  of  the  man  took 
the  lead,  and  he  determined  that  he  would  make 
the  attempt  to  reach  Colorado  once  more,  where 
he  believed  that  he  might  recover. 

During  his  army  service  Mr.  Stevens  had  been 
stationed  in  Quincy,  111.,  for  a  short  time,  and 
there  he  became  acquainted  with  the  lady  whom 
he  made  his  wife,  August  4,  1863.  She  was  a 
daughter  of  Greenbury  and  Rebecca  (Brown) 
Polston,  of  Quincy.  Mrs.  Stevens,  whose  given 
name  is  Macy,  was  born  in  Wheeling,  W.  Va., 
and  was  but  a  child  when  her  family  removed  to 
Illinois.  She  has  been  a  noble  helpmate  to  her 
husband,  and  without  her  assistance  and  cheer- 
ing presence  he  probably  would  not  have  made 
as  much  of  a  success  of  life  as  he  has  done.  The 
little  family  left  Lapeer,  Mich.,  May  17,  1877,  in  a 
covered  wagon,  and,  after  the  long  journey  across 
the  country,  finally  arrived  in  Greeley,  safe  and 
sound.  On  the  way  the  illness  of  some  of  the 
party  compelled  them  to  stay  about  two  months 
at  Guide  Rock,  Neb.,  but  at  length  their  journey 
was  resumed  and  was  completed  November  9. 
From  the  time  that  they  crossed  the  Missouri 
River  the  husband  and  father  seemed  to  improve, 
and  as  the  higher  altitudes  were  reached  the 
benefit  to  his  health  became  more  marked.  The 
team  of  horses  he  drove  were  full  brothers,  three 


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and  four  years  old.  They  lived  to  be  respectively 
twenty  and  twenty-one  years  old,  when  one  died, 
and  the  other  refusing  food,  apparently  died  with 
grief  about  two  weeks  afterwards. 

Though  he  never  became  very  strong  Mr. 
Stevens  greatly  improved  in  health,  and  carried 
on  a  rented  farm  near  Greelej'  for  nine  years. 
He  then  built  a  good  brick  residence  in  Greeley, 
and  subsequently  traded  the  place  for  the  eighty- 
acre  ranch  which  he  now  owns.  Having  pur- 
chased a  small  lot  across  the  road  from  his  home- 
stead, as  the  location  was  pleasanter,  he  erected 
a  comfortable  brick  house,  it  being  one  of  the 
best  farm  houses  in  this  valley.  During  his 
residence  in  Greeley  he  was  for  three  years 
engaged  in  business,  but  lost  about  $1,200  before 
he  retired  to  agricultural  life  again.  On  the 
whole  he  has  been  successful  as  an  agriculturist, 
though  he  has  met  with  some  reverses,  and 
in  1895  and  1896  his  crops  were  destroyed 
by  grasshoppers.  Fraternally  he  is  an  Odd  Fel- 
low, being  a  member  of  Poudre  Valley  Lodge 
No.  12,  of  Greeley.  He  has  always  been  a  stal- 
wart Republican.  Religiously  both  he  and  his 
estimable  wife  are  members  of  theGreeley  Method- 
ist Episcopal  Church.  Their  eldest  child  is 
Etta,  wife  of  Herman  H.  Preston,  of  Florence, 
Colo.  Ralph  G.,  the  only  son,  lives  in  Florence. 
Mittie  E.  is  the  wife  of  Leland  B.  Kitter,  and 
lives  with  our  subject  on  the  ranch,  her  husband 
assisting  in  the  general  management  of  the  same. 


^AMES  M.  COOMBS,  a  retired  farmer,  re- 
I  siding  in  Longmont,  Boulder  County,  was 
(2/  born  in  Clark  County,  Ind.,  October  14, 
1837,  ^  son  of  John  and  Rachel  (Hoagland) 
Coombs.  He  was  one  of  six  children  and  is  sec- 
ond among  four  now  living.  His  older  sister, 
Martha  J.,  married  Thomas  W.  Wells,  and  is 
living  in  Girard,  Kan.;  John  W.  is  engaged  in 
the  cattle  business  in  Cherry  County,  Neb.;  and 
Lizzie  M.  is  the  wife  of  Maland  Russell,  of  Bruns- 
wick, Ga. 

In  Clark  County,  Ind. ,  where  he  was  born  in 
1809,  John  Coombs  engaged  in  farming  for  some 
years,  but  in  1843  removed  to  Lynn  County, 
Iowa,  settling  within  six  miles  of  the  town  of 
Marion,  and  there  carrying  on  a  farm  until  his 
death  in  1879.  James  M.,  of  this  sketch,  acquired 
a  common-school  education  and  was  reared  to 


a  farm  life.  In  1864  he  and  a  partner  outfitted 
themselves  with  a  wagon  and  a  team  of  oxen, 
and  on  the  ist  of  May  of  that  year  started  across 
the  plains  for  Colorado.  After  a  journey  of  two 
months  they  arrived  in  Denver  Julj'  i,  and  the 
4th  was  spent  in  Golden.  Thence  they  went  to 
Blackhawk,  and  the  first  day's  work  done  by 
Mr.  Coombs  in  Colorado  was  on  the  old  stone 
building  now  used  as  a  depot  in  Blackhawk.  For 
that  day's  work  he  was  paid  $5.75.  After  a  few 
days  there  he  began  working  at  gulch  mining, 
at  which  he  continued  until  the  14th  of  Septem- 
ber. He  then  hired  to  a  freighting  outfit  to  go 
to  Virginia  City,  Mont.,  and  on  the  21st  of  Sep- 
tember he  left  Denver  with  a  train  of  twenty 
wagons  and  twenty-five  men.  Reaching  Snake 
River  they  found  the  snow  so  deep  that  they  were 
compelled  to  abandon  all  hope  of  soon  proceed- 
ing further.  While  the  train  lay  there  until  May, 
our  subject  and  fifteen  other  men  walked  to  Vir- 
ginia City,  their  employer  paying  their  salaries 
and  furnishing  them  with  food  until  their  ar- 
rival. 

In  Virginia  City  Mr.  Coombs  was  employed  in 
the  mines  until  June  21,  when  he  bought  a  horse 
and  started  back  to  Denver.  On  the  Fisher  road 
ranch,  five  miles  south  of  Denver,  he  worked  for 
five  months,  when  he  came  to  Boulder  and  pur- 
chased a  ranch  on  St.  Vrain  Creek.  In  the 
spring  of  1866  he  went  to  St.  Joe,  Mo.,  with  a 
freighting  outfit,  and  in  the  fall  returned  to  his 
ranch.  During  the  winter,  with  a  team  he  had 
bought,  he  hauled  hay  to  Blackhawk  and  Cen- 
tral City.  In  the  spring  of  1867  he  hauled  hay 
to  Fort  Laramie,  for  which  he  received  $100  per 
ton.  From  the  ist  of  July  to  the  latter  part  of 
September  he  hauled  wood  and  hay  for  the  gov- 
ernment to  Fort  Laramie.  Returning  to  Weld 
County,  he  worked  at  various  kinds  of  employ- 
ment. In  the  fall  of  1869  he  bought  a  bunch  of 
cattle  and  horses  and  embarked  in  the  stock  busi- 
ness, which  he  carried  on  until  1876,  and  then 
disposed  of  his  interests.  During  the  three  fol- 
lowing years  he  butchered  beef  and  looked  after 
the  cattle  owned  by  George  Zweck.  Meantime, 
in  the  fall  of  1876,  he  had  taken  up  a  claim  of 
one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  in  Larimer  County, 
and  later  bought  a  timber  claim  of  eighty  acres, 
and  in  i88i  settled  down  to  farming.  His  wife 
owns  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  adjoining  his 
tract,  making  their  joint  farm  one  of  four  hun- 


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dred  acres.  In  1890  he  rented  the  ranch  and 
moved  to  lyongmont,  where  he  has  since  resided. 
February  27,  1894,  Mr.  Coombs  married  Miss 
L,ena  Mitchell,  a  native  of  Tennessee,  and  daugh- 
ter of  William  S.  Mitchell,  a  prominent  merchant 
of  Clarksburg,  that  state. 


~PHRAIM  K.  C.  EVANS,  a  veteran  of  the 
^  Civil  war,  now  residing  on  a  farm  south  of 
^  Loveland,  Larimer  County,  was  born  in 
Beaver  County,  Pa.,  in  1838,  being  a  son  of 
North  and  Mary  Ann  (Black)  Evans.  His  father, 
who  was  a  large  land  owner  and  successful  farmer, 
spent  his  entire  life  in  his  native  commonwealth 
of  Pennsylvania,  dying  there  when  seventy  years 
of  age.  When  a  boy  Ephraim  attended  the  com- 
mon schools  in  the  home  neighborhood,  and  on 
leaving  school  learned  the  carpenter's  trade, 
which  he  followed  for  twenty-five  years.  In  1874 
he  started  for  the  west,  and  arriving  in  Denver, 
began  to  work  at  his  trade.  Two  years  later  he 
went  to  Longmont  and  from  there,  in  the  spring 
of  1878,  took  up  a  homestead  of  government  land 
in  Larimer  County.  He  prepared  the  land  for 
cultivation  and  in  1880  put  in  his  first  crop,  since 
which  time  he  has  followed  general  farming,  at 
the  same  time  having  the  contracts  for  several 
houses  and  business  blocks  in  Loveland.  His 
ranch  comprises  four  hundred  acres  of  land,  some 
of  which  is  used  for  pasturage  for  his  stock, 
while  the  remainder  is  under  cultivation. 

During  the  McKinley  campaign  of  1896,  Mr. 
Evans  was  the  Republican  candidate  for  coun- 
ty representative  from  Larimer  County.  He 
is  a  true  patriot,  and  showed  his  patriotism 
during  the  Civil  war,  when  he  enlisted,  in  1861, 
in  Company  B,  First  Pennsylvania  Light  Artill-v 
ery,  as  a  private.  During  his  service  of  three 
years  he  participated  in  the  battles  of  Gettysburg 
and  Antietam,  and  for  a  time  was  confined  in  a 
hospital,  after  which  he  rejoined  his  company 
in  time  to  take  part  in  the  second  battle  of  Bull 
Run.  He  followed  the  Army  of  the  Potomac  in 
all  of  its  campaigns,  and  as  a  member  of  Cooper's 
battery,  was  under  heavy  fire  much  of  the  time. 
His  health  was  seriously  afifected  by  the  exposures 
and  hardships  of  army  life,  and  he  has  never 
been  strong  since. 

In  1866  Mr.  Evans  married  Miss  Eliza  Fenton, 
of   Pennsylvania.       They  have    four    children: 


Lois  G., wife  of  T.E.Burns;  Alma  B.,  who  married 
Elliott  McNeal;  Howard  and  Anna  Cecelia.  For 
eighteen  years  Mr.  Evans  has  officiated  as  an 
elder  in  the  Christian  Church,  in  which  he  is  an 
active  worker  and  to  which  he  has  contributed 
liberally.  For  several  years  he  was  a  director  in 
the  Home  Supply  Ditch  Company,  of  which  he  is 
a  charter  member.  He  is  one  of  the  directors  in 
the  Larimer  County  Bank,  a  stockholder  in  the 
Handy  Ditch  Company  and  in  the  Berthoud  roller 
mill,  in  which  for  several  years  he  served  as  a 
director.  Considering  the  fact  that  he  began 
without  capital,  he  has  accomplished  results  of 
which  he  may  well  be  proud,  and  he  is  not  only 
well-to-do  financially,  but  is  also  respected  as  a 
man  of  integrity  and  highest  honor. 


E  GLUM  BUS  C.  HAYS,  a  retired  farmer  and 
stock-raiser  residing  in  Loveland,  Larimer 
County,  was  born  in  Lafayette  County,  Mo., 
in  1834.  He  is  of  English  descent,  his  grand- 
father, Jacob  Hays,  having  emigrated  from  Eng- 
land to  Virginia,  where  he  died.  The  father, 
John  Hays,  a  native  of  Virginia,  sought  a  home 
in  the  west  in  his  early  manhood  and  settled  in 
Missouri,  where  he  successfully  engaged  in  farm 
pursuits  during  the  remainder  of  his  active  life. 
In  politics  he  voted  the  Democratic  ticket.  Prior 
to  coming  west  he  enlisted  for  service  in  the  war 
of  18 1 2  and  continued  in  the  army  until  the  close 
of  the  conflict.  His  death  occurred  in  1858,  when 
he  was  sixty-three  years  of  age.  By  his  mar- 
riage to  Rebecca  Robinson,  who  died  in  1838,  he 
had  seven  children,  five  of  whom  are  living, 
namely:  William,  of  Kansas  City,  Mo.;  Isaac, 
Jacob  and  Columbus  C,  all  of  whom  live  in  Colo- 
rado; and  Rose,  Mrs.  Hale,  of  Missouri. 

The  boyhood  years  of  our  subject's  life  were 
passed  in  Missouri  and  his  education  was  obtained 
in  country  schools.  In  1853  he  accompanied 
Waddell,  Russell  &  Majors  on  a  teaming  expedi- 
tion to  New  Mexico,  and  for  a  number  of  years 
afterward  he  was  employed  as  teamster.  In  1861 
he  began  freighting  in  and  around  Denver  and 
along  the  Platte,  at  which  work  he  continued  for 
five  years.  In  1866  he  settled  on  Bear  Creek  and 
began  the  improvement  of  a  farm,  on  which  he 
made  his  home  until  1871,  and  then  settled  up- 
on a  stock  ranch  in  the  mountain  region.  After 
having  made  his  home  on  that  place   for   over 


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three  years,  in  1875  lie  took  up  land  near  the 
present  site  of  Loveland,  and  here  he  followed 
farming  and  stock-growing  until  1890,  when  he 
retired  from  active  business  cares  and  established 
his  home  in  Loveland.  He  is  a  director  in  the 
Bank  of  Loveland  and  is  in  comfortable  circum- 
stances financially,  having  a  competency  for  his 
declining  years. 

In  i860  Mr.  Hays  was  united  in  marriage  with 
Miss  Emeline  Fletcher,  of  Missouri.  They  are 
the  parents  of  eight  children,  viz.:  John,  Lee, 
George,  Belle  (wife  of  Frank  S.  Smith),  Mary 
(Mrs.  Charles  Maxwell),  Pearl  and  Fern.  The 
family  are  identified  with  the  Christian  Church 
of  Loveland,  and  are  prominent  and  popular 
among  the  best  people  in  Loveland's  social  circles. 


V  yi  RS.  ALICE  M.  BECKWITH,  the  present 
y  efl&cient  county  clerk  of  Weld  County, 
a  was  born  at  Huntley,  near  Elgin,  111.,  but 
when  a  child  removed  to  Wisconsin  with  her 
parents,  Noah  and  Jane  (Coleman)  Maltby,  both 
natives  of  New  York  state.  The  paternal  grand- 
father, Noah  Maltby,  Sr. ,  was  also  born  in  New 
York,  and  was  of  English  descent.  Mrs.  Beck- 
with  is  next  to  the  youngest  in  a  family  of  seven 
children,  two  sons  and  five  daughters,  the  others 
being  James  D.,  who  died  in  the  state  of  Wash- 
ington; Adelia  M.,  wife  of  G.  S.  Hill,  of  Glen- 
dale,  Ore.;  Appleton  N.,  a  resident  of  Oakdale, 
Wis.;  Lydia  J.,  wife  of  Alfred  A.  Howard,  a 
farmer  and  contractor  of  Greeley;  Ada  N.,  wife 
of  Lieutenant-Governor  Brush;  and  Ruth  M., 
wife  of  Horace  C.  Clark,  clerk  of  the  supreme 
court,  of  Denver.  The  sons  were  both  soldiers 
of  the  Civil  war,  Appleton  being  with  Sherman 
on  the  celebrated  march  to  the  sea  as  a  member 
of  the  Twenty -fifth  Wisconsin  Volunteer  Infantry, 
while  James  D.  was  a  member  of  an  Iowa  regi- 
ment, and  both  remained  in  the  service  over  three 
years,  as  they  re-enlisted.  Mrs.  Hill  was  the  first 
of  the  family  to  come  to  Colorado,  arriving  here 
in  1864,  but  she  was  soon  afterward  followed  by 
the  others,  the  parents  coming  in  1871  and  our 
subject  in  1876. 

Mrs.  Beckwith  was  married  in  Wisconsin  to 
Charles  D.  Wells,  who  was  elected  to  the  .state 
legi-slature  from  Monroe  County,  that  state,  in 
1875.  By  that  union  she  had  one  daughter, 
Lotta,  now  the  wife  of  Charles  E.  Clark,  deputy 


clerk  of  Weld  County.  In  1879  she  married 
W.  D.  Beckwith,  now  a  farmer  and  water  com- 
missioner of  North  Park,  Colo. 

Since  1888  Mrs.  Beckwith  has  been  connected 
with  the  clerk's  office  in  Weld  County,  having 
applied  for  a  position  in  January,  that  year,  to 
Captain  Hotchkiss,  then  county  clerk.  So  ac- 
ceptably did  she  fill  the  position  that  she  was 
retained  by  his  successors,  Mr.  Hufismith,  T.  C. 
Williams  and  L.  C.  Mead.  In  June,  1897,  she 
announced  her  intention  of  becoming  a  candidate 
for  the  office  of  clerk  on  an  independent  ticket, 
and  as  her  friends  interested  themselves  in  her 
behalf  she  was  endorsed  by  the  People's,  Repub- 
lican and  Prohibition  parties,  and  at  the  fall 
election  received  a  majority  of  nearly  one  thou- 
sand over  her  opponent.  She  was  the  first  lady 
elected  to  that  office  in  Weld  County  and  the 
third  in  the  state,  the  others  being  Mrs.  Gunn,  of 
Logan  County,  and  Mrs.  Sue  Callihan,  of  Boul- 
der County.  By  her  long  clerkship  she  is  espe- 
cially qualified  for  the  office,  and  is  now  most 
capably  and  satisfactorily  discharging  its  duties, 
winning  the  commendation  of  all  concerned.  She 
was  the  second  lady  to  register  after  the  female 
suffrage  bill  was  passed,  has  taken  quite  an 
active,  influential  part  in  public  matters,  and  has 
clearly  demonstrated  the  possibility  of  ladies 
a.ssuming  important  positions  in  public  life.  She 
attends  the  services  of  the  Congregational  Church, 
though  not  a  member,  and  in  social  circles  she 
stands  high. 

Gl  BRAHAM  SLATER,  a  pioneer  of  '59,  settled 
U  upon  an  eighty-acre  farm,  one  mile  west  of 
/  1  Denver,  in  1889,  and  here  he  has  since  en- 
gaged in  gardening  and  the  raising  of  small  fruits. 
He  is  a  native  of  Ontario,  Canada,  born  March  27, 
1828,  and  is  a  son  of  Benjamin  and  Maria 
(Johnson)  Slater.  He  was  one  of  ten  children, 
six  of  whom  are  still  living,  namely :  Isaac,  who 
resides  in  Sioux  City,  Iowa;  WilHam,  of  Chicago; 
Samuel,  living  in  Polo,  111.;  Lydia,  the  widow  of 
Henry  Wagner,  of  Ontario;  Abraham;  and  Mary, 
widow  of  Daniel  Appleford,  of  Polo. 

The  father  ofthis  family  was  born  in  Chenango 
County,  N.  Y.,  about  1790,  and  there  grew  to 
manhood.  The  inducements  held  out  by  Can- 
ada to  secure  settlers  led  him  to  migrate  to  that 
country,  where,  in  order  to  secure  land,  he  was 
required  to  take  the  oath  of  allegiance.     On  the 


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breaking  out  of  the  war  of  1812  he  was  drafted 
into  the  service  by  the  Canadian  government  and 
served  as  sergeant  of  his  company  until  the  close 
of  the  war.  He  was  then  offered  a  homestead  by 
the  government,  but  the  land  was  situated  so  far 
back  in  the  country  that  he  refused  it,  and 
bought  property  in  a  more  desirable  place.  Set- 
tling down  to  farm  pursuits,  he  spent  his  remain- 
ing years  as  an  agriculturist,  and  died  on  his 
homestead  about  1879.  He  was  a  man  of  in- 
fluence and  was  highly  respected.  His  first  wife 
died  when  our  subject  was  six  years  of  age  and 
afterward  he  married  Mrs.  McMurchy,  a  native 
of  Scotland.  They  became  the  parents  of  seven 
children,  five  of  whom  survive:  Catherine,  Jona- 
than, Sarah,  l,ois  and  Joseph. 

At  the  age  of  eighteen  years  our  subject  began 
in  life  for  himself,  securing  employment  with  a 
Canadian  farmer,  with  whom  he  remained  for 
three  years.  In  1849  he  came  to  the  States  and 
for  seven  years  made  his  home  near  Polo,  111., 
where  he  rented  a  farm.  In  1856  he  went  to 
Iowa  and  located  in  Chickasaw  County,  where 
he  farmed  and  worked  for  others  until  1859.  ^^ 
the  time  of  the  discovery  of  gold  in  Pike's  Peak 
he  determined  to  go  west  to  the  mountains,  and 
with  an  ox-team  he  started  across  the  plains, 
leaving  Iowa  on  the  28th  of  March,  1859,  and 
arriving  in  Denver  on  the  14th  of  June  following. 
After  a  few  days  in  Denver  and  Golden  he  went 
to  Central  City  and  until  November  of  the  same 
year  he  worked  in  the  mines.  In  the  fall  he  re- 
turned to  the  valley,  where  he  spent  the  winter, 
and  in  the  spring  of  i860  went  back  to  the  mines, 
working  at  California  Gulch  until  the  fall.  He 
then  again  came  back  to  the  valley,  and  again  in 
the  spring  went  to  Central  City,  where  he  fol- 
lowed various  occupations.  On  his  return  in  the 
autumn  to  the  valley,  he  settled  on  Clear  Creek, 
and  in  the  spring  engaged  in  farming  on  a  quarter 
section  of  land  taken  up  by  himself  and  a  partner. 
After  one  year  he  sold  out  and  bought  one  hun- 
dred and  sixty  acres  iu  the  same  neighborhood, 
where  he  carried  on  farm  pursuits.  In  1889  he 
removed  from  that  place,  which  was  situated 
three  miles  west  of  Arvada,  to  his  present  property 
on  Prospect  avenue,  one  and  a-quarter  miles  from 
the  county  line.  Here  he  has  since  engaged  in 
farming  and  the  raising  of  small  fruits. 

In  1868  Mr.  Slater  married  Miss  Mary  Moon, 
and  they  have  three  children:    Edgar   \V. ,    who 


cultivates  the  home  farm;  Nettie,  who  is  at  home; 
and  Nora,  deceased.  In  political  affiliations  our 
subject  is  a  silver  Republican.  He  was  made  a 
Mason  at  Golden  in  1863.  In  religious  belief  he 
is  a  Methodist,  and  has  been  a  well-known  and 
useful  member  of  the  church. 


EHARLES  WARREN  was  born  in  Aurora, 
N.  Y. ,  in  1840,  and  in  boyhood  removed  to 
Massachusetts,  where  he  attended  school  in 
the  village  of  Lee.  April  23,  1861,  he  enlisted 
in  the  Fifth  New  York  Duryee's  Zouaves,  and 
with  his  regiment  took  part  in  many  severe  en- 
gagements, among  them  being  the  Seven  Days' 
fight,  siege  of  Yorktown,  Hanover  Court  House, 
Gaines  Mill,  White  Oak  Swamp,  Malvern  Hill, 
second  battle  of  Bull  Run,  Antietam,  Fredericks- 
burg and  Chancellorsville.  At  the  expiration  of 
his  term  of  service  he  again  enlisted,  in  October, 
1864,  becoming  a  lieutenant  in  the  Twenty-fifth 
New  York  Cavalry,  and  served  until  he  was  dis- 
charged in  November,  1865.  At  the  close  of  the 
war  he  was  sent  to  Texas  as  a  captain  of  a  com- 
pany. The  following  year,  when  the  fear  of  an 
outbreak  no  longer  existed,  he  retired  from  the 
service,  and  went  to  Savannah,  Ga.  With  a 
brother  he  e^ngaged  in  raising  cotton  for  some 
years.  When  Chester  A.  Arthur  was  collector 
of  customs  of  New  York,  Captain  Warren  was  a 
deputy  under  him.  Later  he  engaged  in  the 
wholesale  and  retail  candy  manufacturing  busi- 
ness in  New  York  City.  In  1872  he  came  to 
Colorado  and  started  the  first  lumber  yard  in 
Fort  Collins.  At  the  same  time  he  carried  on  a 
sheep  business  with  his  cousin,  F.  E.  Warren, 
of  Cheyenne,  Wyo.,  owning  large  ranches  on 
Fossil  Creek. 

In  order  to  irrigate  his  farm,  which  consisted 
of  four  hundred  acres,  Captain  Warren  devised 
an  excellent  plan.  In  1873  he  filled  Warren 
Lake,  which  formed  a  natural  basin,  from  Cache 
la  Poudre,  having  one  of  the  first  water  rights. 
He  incorporated  the  Warren  Lake  Reservoir  Com- 
pany, of  which  he  was  one  of  the  largest  stock- 
holders. The  water  from  the  reservoir  is  used 
iu  the  irrigation  of  the  land,  which  in  this  way  is 
abundantly  watered.  In  1891  Captain  Warren 
was  elected  manager  of  the  Harmony  mills,  a 
farmers'  mill,  which  he  managed  successfully  for 
five  years,    resigning   in  August,    1896.     When 


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in  partnership  with  his  son,  Nathan,  he  founded 
the  Warren  Commercial  Company,  and  began  to 
deal  in  agricultural  implements,  also  in  grain, 
large  quantities  of  which  he  shipped .  In  addition 
to  other  enterprises,  he  engaged  extensively  in 
feeding  sheep. 

In  the  George  H.  Thomas  Post  No.  7,  G.  A.  R. , 
at  Fort  Collins,  Captain  Warren  was  past  com- 
mander. He  continued  to  reside  in  this  place 
until  his  death,  which  occurred  May  8,  1898. 
He  was  then  fifty-eight  years  of  age.  In  1872, 
in  New  York  City,  he  married  Ida  M.  Warren, 
who  was  born  in  Massachusetts  and  was  a 
daughter  of  Caleb  S.  Warren,  of  that  state.  She 
is  now  living  in  Fort  Collins.  Of  her  six  children 
only  three  attained  maturity,  namely:  Charles  B., 
an  electrician  in  Cheyenne,  Wyo.;  Nathan  C, 
who  is  manager  of  the  Warren  Commercial  Com- 
pany, of  Fort  Collins;  and  Thomas  J. ,  a  graduate 
of  the  State  Agricultural  College  in  1898  and  now 
associated  with  his  brother  Nathan. 


~DWARD  D.  RIKER.  This  name  is  well 
^  and  favorably  known  in  Weld  County,  as, 
_  for  over  thirty  years,  its  owner  has  been  a 
progressive  citizen  of  township  4,  range  67,  Weld 
County,  taking  an  active  part  in  the  promotion 
of  everything  tending  to  the  general  upbuilding 
and  improvement  of  this  section  of  the  state. 
After  being  of  much  service  in  the  organization  of 
school  district  No.  21,  he  was  president  of  the 
board  of  education  for  a  period  of  fifteen  years. 
Though  he  was  a  candidate  for  the  offices  of  con- 
stable and  justice  of  the  peace  and  was  duly 
elected,  he  did  not  qualify.  In  political  opinion 
he  holds  to  the  People's  party  platform. 

Isaac  W.  Riker,  father  of  our  subject,  was  one 
of  the  prominent  merchants  of  New  York  City 
for  many  years,  prior  to  his  death  in  1851.  He 
was  a  native  of  Vermont  and  spent  his  early  life 
in  the  Green  Mountain  state.  He  learned  the 
tailor's  trade  and  was  the  owner  of  a  large  mer- 
chant tailoring  establishment  on  Carmine  street. 
New  York,  and  was  the  proprietor  of  the  Crystal 
Palace  Hotel,  at  the  corner  of  Sixth  avenue  and 
Fortieth  street.  His  wife,  who  survived  him 
many  years,  dying  in  1882,  at  the  age  of  sixty- 
two,  was  Miss  Harriet  D.  Dow  in  her  girlhood, 
and,  like  her  husband,  she  was  born  in  Vermont. 
Edward  D.  Riker  was  a  small  child  at  the  time 


of  his  father's  death.  He  was  born  in  the 
metropolis  in  1850,  and  there  nineteen  years  of 
his  life  were  spent,  in  which  period  he  gained  a 
good  general  education  in  the  public  schools.  In 
i860  he  earned  his  first  regular  wages,  by  clerk- 
ing in  a  grocery,  and  for  a  few  seasons  he  found 
employment  with  farmers,  while,  in  the  winter 
months  he  was  privileged  to  attend  school.     In 

1869  he  came  west,  to  look  after  some  Colorado 
property  belonging  to  his  mother,  and,  as  the 
Union  Pacific  and  Denver  &  Pacific  Railroads 
were  then  in  process  of  construction,  he  found 
work  on  the  line  between  Cheyenne  and  Denver, 
and  was  thus  employed  for  about  a  year.     In 

1870  he  took  up  a  homestead  on  the  Platte  River, 
and  devoted  himself  to  the  raising  and  feeding  of 
cattle  and  horses.  Thirteen  years  passed  in  these 
pursuits,  and  in  1882  he  sold  his  property  and 
took  a  pre-emption  on  the  claim  of  half  of  section 
12,  township  4,  range  67.  He  has  since  sold  a 
quarter-section.  At  present  he  owns  about  forty 
head  of  fine  cattle  and  half  as  many  horses.  At 
one  time  he  was  a  stockholder  in  the  Greeley 
Creamery  Company  and  he  now  sells  large  quan- 
tities of  milk  to  the  local  creamery.  In  1896  he 
and  W.  R.  Adams,  of  Greeley,  were  the  incor- 
porators of  the  Little  Thompson  Reservoir  and 
Water  Supply  Company,  and  he  is  the  president. 
He  holds  stock  in  the  Hillsborough  ditch,  and 
was  a  director  several  times  and  is  also  con- 
nected with  the  Little  Thompson  Lateral  Ditch 
Company,  having  been  president  of  the  same  and 
a  director  for  some  time  past. 

In  1878  Mr.  Riker  married  Miss  Carrie  Miller, 
who  was  born  in  New  York  City.  Her  father, 
Conrad  Miller,  is  one  of  the  oldest  business  men 
of  the  metropolis,  and  is  now  the  proprietor  of  the 
Central  Park  House,  of  that  city.  He  is  a  native 
of  Frankfort,  Germany,  but  has  resided  in  the 
United  States  since  1848.  At  this  writing  Mr. 
Riker  is  constructing  a  fine  residence  on  a  piece 
of  property  that  he  recently  purchased,  the  south- 
east quarter  of  section  13,  township  4  south, 
range  67  west. 

EHARLES  B.  RAMSDELLis  one  of  the  rep- 
resentative farmers  of  Weld  County  and  has 
seen  its  development  from  a  wilderness  to 
its  present  fertile  and  thriving  condition.  For  a 
number  of  years  his  residence  has  been  in  Evans, 
of  which  town  he  has  served  as  mayor.     He  still 


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owns  and  carries  on  a  good  farm  in  this  vicinity, 
it  being  situated  on  section  28,  township  6,  range 
65.  In  all  local  affairs  he  has  been  active  and 
interested,  discharging  the  duties  which  devolved 
upon  him  as  a  citizen,  in  a  conscientious  manner, 
and  striving  always  to  uphold  law,  order  and 
good  government. 

Mr.  Ramsdell  is  a  native  of  Grey,  Me.,  his 
birth  having  occurred  December  20,  1825.  His 
parents,  Solomon  and  Paulina  (Libby)  Rams- 
dell, were  likewise  both  natives  of  Maine,  and 
spent  their  lives  in  that  section  of  New  England, 
their  home  being  on  a  farm.  The  family  of  this 
worthy  couple  comprised  five  children,  namely: 
Ebenezer,  who  is  deceased;  Julia,  who  married 
Oliver  P.  Hodsdon;  Maria,  wife  of  Willard  Bray; 
Henry,  who  was  one  of  the  gallant  defenders 
of  the  Union  during  the  Civil  war  and  died  with 
the  yellow  fever  at  New  Orleans;  and  Charles  B., 
the  second  in  order  of  birth. 

The  early  years  ofC.  B.  Ramsdell  were  passed 
quietly  on  the  old  homestead.  There  he  con- 
tinued to  dwell  until  1859,  when  he  started  for 
California.  Arriving  on  the  Pacific  coast  he  en- 
gaged in  mining  and  prospecting  for  some  six 
years,  meeting  with  fair  success.  He  made  the 
trips,  both  ways,  around  by  Panama,  the  voyage 
taking  about  twenty-eight  or  thirty  days.  In 
i860  he  returned  home  and  purchased  a  farm, 
which  he  proceeded  to  cultivate  for  a  number  of 
years.  When  the  Greeley  colony  was  founded, 
in  1870,  he  joined  it,  and  coming  west,  settled  on 
a  tract  of  land  near  Lone  Tree.  Later  he  sold 
this  property,  which  he  had  improved,  and  for 
ten  years  was  a  resident  of  Greeley.  Then  he 
bought  a  ranch  on  the  Platte  River,  and  managed 
the  place  until  i89i,whenlie  became  the  owner 
of  his  present  fine  homestead  of  half  a  section. 
He  has  made  numerous  substantial  improvements 
on  the  place  and  has  erected  buildings  and  fences. 
The  ranch  is  considered  one  of  the  very  best  in 
this  region,  and  each  year  abundant  harvests  are 
garnered  from  its  fertile  fields.  In  addition  to  the 
comfortable  house  on  the  farm,  the  owner  has  a 
pretty  residence  in  Evans,  it  having  been  built 
by  him  in  1888. 

Mr.  Ramsdell  is  a  member  of  the  Odd  Fellows' 
order,  belonging  to  Evans  Lodge  No.  109.  He 
is  also  identified  with  the  Ancient  Order  of  United 
Workmen  of  Evans.  Religiously  he  is  a  Baptist 
and  is  a  member  of  the  church   at  Greeley.     His 


marriage  with  Miss  Mary  J.  Wadley  was  sol- 
emnized in  1850.  Her  parents,  Daniel  and  Mary 
(Gerry)  Wadley,  were  both  natives  of  San  ford, 
York  County,  Me.  To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ramsdell 
five  children  have  been  born,  the  eldest  of  whom, 
Edward  E.,  assists  his  father  on  the  home  farm. 
Adeline  is  the  wife  of  Orriu  Gerry,  a  farmer  of 
this  section.  Mary  is  the  wife  of  John  Parsons 
and  resides  in  Utah.  Julia  married  William 
Kimbley,  whose  ranch  is  within  half  a  mile  of  Mr. 
Ramsdell' s  home.  Nettie  is  the  wife  of  Samuel 
Pardee,  a  farmer  near  Evans. 


0AVID  S.  ELLIS,  a  well-known  citizen  of 
LaSalle,  who  has  been  prominently  identified 
with  the  agricultural  and  commercial  inter- 
ests of  Weld  County  for  some  time,  was  born 
December  29,  1849,  in  Washington  County,  111., 
and  is  a  son  of  William  and  Margaret  (Sawyer) 
Ellis.  The  father  was  a  native  of  Ireland,  and 
on  coming  to  the  new  world  in  early  manhood 
located  in  Logan  County,  Ohio,  where  he  was 
married  and  followed  farming  for  a  time.  Sub- 
sequently he  was  engaged  in  the  same  pursuit  in 
Illinois,  and  from  there  removed  to  St.  Louis, 
Mo.,  in  1 85 1,  when  our  subject  was  only  two 
years  old.  Jle  was  interested  in  the  stock  busi- 
ness in  that  city  until  1873,  which  year  witnessed 
his  arrival  in  Evans,  Weld  County,  Colo.,  where 
he  lived  retired  from  active  business  cares  until 
his  death,  which  occurred  in  January,  1883.  He 
made  his  home  with  our  subject. 

Until  he  attained  his  majority  David  S.  Ellis 
continued  to  live  in  St.  Louis,  and  in  the  schools 
of  that  city  acquired  a  good  practical  education, 
which  was  completed  by  a  commercial  course. 
At  the  age  of  eighteen  he  accepted  a  position  as 
shipping  clerk  with  Thompson  Brothers,  lumber 
dealers,  and  with  that  firm  remained  until  coming 
to  Colorado.  He  first  came  to  this  state  with  a 
load  of  cattle  for  D.  N.  Edgerton,  of  Pueblo,  and 
from  there  came  to  Evans,  where  he  spent  one 
season  in  working  in  the  brick  yard  of  L.  B. 
Willard.  In  the  spring  of  1872  he  engaged  in 
stone  work  contracting  with  J.  B.  Evans,  his 
brother-in-law,  and  was  thus  employed  for  two 
years,  while  for  the  following  two  years  he  taught 
school.  On  coming  to  Evans  in  1871  he  took  up 
a  homestead  on  section  34,  township  5,  range  65, 
and  gradually  drifted  into  stock-raising  and  farm- 


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iug.  For  several  years  he  has  also  been  interested 
in  dairying,  and  for  this  purpose  keeps  from 
twenty-five  to  thirty  head  of  high-grade  Jerseys. 
He  has  disposed  of  his  original  homestead  and 
now  owns  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  on  sec- 
tion 6,  township  4,  range  65,  and  as  the  town  of 
LaSalle  has  been  laid  out  on  his  land,  he  has  con- 
ducted the  store  for  Mr.  Morrison  at  that  place 
since  December,  1897,  ^^^  ^"  ^^^  ^^^  undertakings 
is  meeting  with  success. 

October  22,  1873,  Mr.  Ellis  was  united  in  mar- 
riage with  Miss  Eliza  J.  White,  of  St.  Louis,  a 
daughter  of  William  White,  and  to  them  have 
been  bom  nine  children,  namely:  Jennie,  now 
the  wife  of  A.  B.  Slater,  of  Emporia,  Kan.; 
Carrie  E. ,  who  is  successfully  engaged  in  teaching 
school  at  Dewey's  Alley,  formerly  known  as 
Bebee  Draw;  Hattie,  who  resides  at  home;  Esther 
and  Adda,  who  are  students  in  the  State  Normal 
School;  and  Ruth,  Ralph,  Edith  and  Grace,  all 
at  home.  They  form  a  bright,  intelligent  family 
and  have  been  provided  with  good  educational 
privileges.  Mr.  Ellis  has  always  taken  an  active 
part  in  educational  matters  and  has  been  an 
efficient  member  of  the  school  board  for  six  years. 
In  fact  he  gives  an  earnest  support  to  all  measures 
which  he  believes  calculated  to  advance  the  moral, 
intellectual  and  material  welfare  of  his  town  and 
county.  He  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the 
Union  Ditch  Company,  was  elected  its  first  presi- 
dent and  served  in  that  capacity  for  some  time. 
He  holds  membership  in  the  Reformed  Presby- 
terian Church  of  Evans,  is  clerk  of  the  session, 
and  takes  an  active  and  prominent  part  in  all 
church  and  Sunday-school  work,  having  served 
as  assistant  superintendent  of  the  latter  organiza- 
tion for  fifteen  years.  Politically  he  is  a  free 
silver  Republican. 

0EWEY  W.  STRONG.  By  a  course  of  hon- 
est and  upright  dealing  with  all,  Mr.  Strong 
has  gained  the  confidence  of  his  fellow- 
citizens  and  has  become  the  most  prominent  mer- 
chant in  Brighton,  where  he  has  built  up  a  large 
and  profitable  dry-goods  trade.  In  addition  to 
this  enterprise,  he  carries  on  a  dairy  business  in 
partnership  with  J.  C.  Twombly  and  owns  a  fine 
farm  of  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres,  stocked 
with  cattle  and  situated  near  Brighton.  While 
he  is  not  a  politician,  his  interest  in  the  progress 
of  his  town  led  him  to  accept  the  office  of  alder- 


man several  terms  and  that  of  mayor  one  term. 
He  was  reared  in  the  Republican  faith  and  cast 
his  first  presidential  ballot,  in  1872,  for  General 
Grant.  Later,  when  the  issue  of  currency  was 
brought  forward,  he  became  a  supporter  of  the 
silver  standard,  and  in  1896  he  was  the  candidate 
of  the  silver  Republicans  for  the  legislature. 

Mr.  Strong  was  borninStrongsville,  Cuyahoga 
County,  Ohio,  July  28,  1848,  a  son  of  Clark  R. 
and  Lydia  (Stevens)  Strong.  His  grandfather, 
John  Strong,  was  born  in  Connecticut,  and  mi- 
grated from  there  to  Ohio,  where  he  surveyed 
and  laid  out  the  town  of  Strongsville.  Clark 
R.  Strong  removed  to  Illinois  in  1853  ^^d  settled 
in  Kankakee,  where  he  carried  on  a  store  and 
also  invested  in  land  near  the  city.  Soon  after 
he  settled  there  his  wife  died  and  he  afterward 
married  again,  but  had  no  children  by  his  second 
marriage.  A  few  years  after  he  came  west  he 
died,  leaving  five  children  to  the  care  of  their 
step-mother,  with  little  money  to  support  them, 
but  with  about  four  hundred  acres  of  land.  He 
was  an  industrious  man,  of  good  judgment,  and 
had  he  lived  to  old  age  he  would  undoubtedly 
have  attained  a  competency;  but,  as  it  was,  his 
children  had  little  to  support  them. 

A  few  years  after  the  death  of  his  father,  our 
subject  went  to  Hillsdale,  Mich.,  where  he  spent 
a  year  with  his  brother,  Emorj'  M.  Upon  com- 
pleting the  studies  of  the  public  schools,  he  en- 
tered the  preparatory  department  of  Oberlin  Col- 
lege, where  he  remained  for  two  years.  He  took 
a  business  course  and  then  went  to  Indiana, 
where  he  taught  school  for  two  years.  Later  he 
spent  two  years  as  an  insurance  agent  in  Ashta- 
bula County,  Ohio,  after  which  he  went  to  Bur- 
lington, Kane  Count}',  111.,  and  secured  employ- 
ment as  clerk  in  a  general  store,  receiving  at  first 
a  very  small  salary.  In  that  place  he  married 
Miss  Nancy  C.  Roseborough,  who  was  born 
there.  After  four  years  in  Burlington  his  health 
failed  and  in  May,  1873,  he  came  to  Colorado, 
where  he  spent  a  year  in  Denver  and  the  mount- 
ains, and  then  located  a  homestead  in  Weld 
County.  For  seven  years  he  made  his  home  on 
that  property,  which  he  improved  and  placed 
under  cultivation.  He  took  a  great  interest  in 
the  development  of  the  Fulton  irrigating  ditch, 
also  carried  on  dairying,  and  through  outdoor 
exercise  regained  his  health. 

In    1882   Mr.  Strong  came  to  Brighton,  then 


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just  started.  He  moved  a  small  house  from  his 
farm  and  was  the  first  permanent  merchant  of  the 
new  town,  starting  in  business  on  a  very  small 
scale;  but  after  a  year  he  built  his  present  store, 
to  which  he  has  added  as  his  business  has  de- 
veloped. He  bought  twenty  acres  in  the  town 
and  platted  it  in  lots,  and  still  owns  half  of  the 
tract.  His  only  child,  Arthur  James,  who  was 
born  in  Denver,  has  been  given  a  good  education. 
He  was  a  graduate  of  the  East  Denver  high 
school  and  is  now  a  student  in  the  State  Uni- 
versity at  Boulder. 

In  the  Presbyterian  Church  of  Brighton  Mr. 
Strong  has  officiated  as  an  elder  and  trustee,  and 
for  twelve  years  has  been  superintendent  of  the 
Sunday-school.  He  was  made  a  Mason  in  Bur- 
lington, 111.,  and  is  a  charter  member  of  Brighton 
Lodge  No.  78,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  in  which  he  has 
filled  all  the  chairs  except  that  of  W.  M.  He  is 
also  connected  with  the  Odd  Fellows.  When 
Garfield  was  president  he  was  appointed  post- 
master, a  position  that  he  held  until  the  first 
term  of  Cleveland. 


0SCAR  ENNES,  one  of  the  most  progressive 
and  highly  esteemed  farmers  of  Weld  County, 
was  called  to  his  final  rest  November  28, 
1894.  He  was  born  near  Oberlin,  Ohio,  July 
19,  1835,  but  during  boyhood  accompanied  his 
father,  James  Ennes,  on  his  removal  to  Bureau 
County,  111.,  where  the  latter  died.  There  upon 
the  home  farm  our  subject  grew  to  manhood,  and 
during  his  youth  learned  the  carpenter's  trade, 
which  he  followed  for  a  time  in  that  state. 

On  the  27th  of  October,  1858,  in  Amboy,  Lee 
County,  111.,  he  was  united  in  marriage  with  Miss 
Lavina  Williams,  who  was  about  five  years  his 
junior.  She  was  also  a  native  of  Ohio,  and  a 
daughter  of  Walter  and  Sophrona  (Clork)  Will- 
iams. Seven  children  were  born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Ennes,  viz.:  Walter,  now  a  merchant  of  Evans, 
Colo. ;  Nellie,  wife  of  Cyrus  Mount,  a  merchant 
of  Brush,  Colo.;  Clarissa,  who  died  in  early  wo- 
manhood; Celia,  wife  of  Jesse  Doney,  a  farmer 
near  Evans;  Theodore,  who  carries  on  the  Box 
Elder  ranch;  Clayton,  who  operates  the  home 
farm;  and  Joseph,  who  died  in  infancy. 

Soon  after  his  marriage,  Mr.  Ennes  removed  to 
Rochester,  Minn.,  where  he  followed  his  trade  for 
one  year  and  then  returned  to  Illinois.  In  i860, 
however,  he  came  to  Colorado,  driving  overland. 


He  located  in  what  is  known  as  the  Plum  Bottom, 
five  miles  from  the  present  Ennes  homestead,  but 
only  remained  there  a  short  time.  For  several 
years  he  had  charge  of  the  Gary  ranch,  and  was 
engaged  in  farming  and  stock-raising,  but  owing 
to  the  Indian  troubles  he  went  to  Nebraska  City, 
and  engaged  in  freighting  from  Omaha  for  one 
3'ear.  He  then  located  on  the  Platte  River  two 
miles  east  of  the  present  town  of  Evans,  his  origi- 
nal homestead  comprising  eighty  acres,  but  he 
subsequently  bought  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres 
four  miles  distant,  and  another  one  hundred  and 
sixty-acre  tract  in  Box  Elder,  seven  miles  away, 
and  two  and  a-half  miles  from  Kersey.  Here  he 
extensively  engaged  in  stock-raising,  and  took 
an  active  and  prominent  part  in  advancing  all  en- 
terprises for  the  public  good.  With  Mr.  Huff- 
smith  he  commenced  the  Latham  ditch,  the  first 
in  the  vicinity,  and  remained  a  director  and  stock- 
holder of  the  same  until  his  death.  He  was  a 
promoter  of  educational  interests,  was  an  organ- 
izer of  the  schools  of  his  locality,  and  most  of  the 
time  served  as  a  member  of  the  board  in  school 
district  No.  11.  He  was  pre-eminently  public- 
spirited  and  progressive  and  bore  an  important 
part  in  the  upbuilding  and  development  of  the 
state,  and  on  its  roll  of  honored  pioneers  his  name 
should  be  found  among  the  foremost.  As  a  busi- 
ness man  he  was  upright  and  reliable  in  all  his 
dealings,  and  by  good  management  and  economy 
succeeded  in  gaining  a  comfortable  competency 
for  his  family. 

Walter  Ennes,  the  eldest  child  of  Mr.  Ennes, 
married,  in  1885,  Fannie,  daughter  of  Nicholas 
Baker,  of  Evans.  They  have  two  children,  Oscar 
W.  and  Arthur.  In  1897  the  second  son,  Theo- 
dore, married  Edna  M.,  daughter  of  George  H. 
Young,  the  well-known  merchant  of  Evans. 


f^jEORGE  CARTER,  a  farmer  of  Weld  County, 
l_  was  born  in  Bedfordshire,  England,  in  Nov- 
\^  ember,  1842,  a  son  of  Amos  and  Carrie 
(Stapleton)  Carter,  the  former  being  a  farmer 
and  landed  proprietor  in  England.  At  the  age  of 
twenty-four  our  subject  came  to  the  United  States 
and  settled  in  Manchester,  Iowa,  where  he  en- 
gaged in  painting.  From  there,  in  1872,  here- 
moved  to  Denver,  Colo. ,  thence  settled  on  a  farm. 
His  wife,  who  was  Sarah  Smith,  an  English  lady, 
died  at  that  place  June  29,   1891,  leaving  three 


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daughters,  namely:  Carrie,  who  is  unmarried; 
Ada,  wife  of  Victor  Banks,  an  electrician  of  Tre- 
mont,  Colo.;  and  Winnie,  who  married  Harry 
W.  Hamilton  and  resides  at  Denver. 

In  1880  Mr.  Carter  bought  an  eighty-acre  tract 
in  Weld  County,  but  after  three  years  he  sold  the 
place.  September  27,  1895,  he  married  Mrs.  A. 
B.  Augusta  Miller,  widow  of  Charles  Miller,  who 
came  to  this  state  when  it  was  a  territorial  wilder- 
ness and  took  the  first  steps  toward  the  develop- 
ment of  Weld  County.  During  his  early  resi- 
dence here  Indians  were  numerous  and  hostile. 
Mrs.  Carter,  too,  was  a  pioneer  of  this  locality, 
having  crossed  the  plains  with  her  parents  in  an 
early  day.  She  owns  a  farm  of  two  hundred  and 
forty  acres  of  good  land,  most  of  which  is  rented. 

Fraternally  Mr.  Carter  is  a  member  of  the 
Order  of  St.  George.  Politically  he  votes  the 
Republican  ticket.  He  is  identified  with  the 
Presbyterian  Church  and  assisted  in  building  the 
house  of  worship  at  La  Salle.  His  aunt,  Mrs. 
John  Stapleton,  was  a  niece  of  George  Washing- 
ton and  was  a  member  of  a  very  wealthy  English 
family,  whose  large  estates  are  still  in  chancery, 
Mr.  Carter  being  one  of  the  heirs. 


0AVID  HERSHMAN,  who  resides  one-half 
mile  south  of  Loveland,  Larimer  County, 
was  born  in  Wayne  County,  Ohio,  Septem- 
ber 24,  1839.  He  is  a  son  of  Philip  Hershman, 
a  native  of  Pennsylvania,  who  removed  to  Ohio  in 
boyhood  days  and  remained  there  until  1850.  The 
next  fifteen  years  he  resided  in  Michigan.  In 
1865  he  went  to  Illinois,  but  after  a  year  migrat- 
ed to  Kansas,  where  he  followed  the  wheel- 
wright's trade  and  farm  pursuits.  He  became  a 
land  owner  and  a  successful  man.  Politically  he 
was  a  Democrat  until  the  war,  after  which  he  ad- 
hered to  Republican  principles.  At  different 
times  he  was  chosen  to  fill  important  positions, 
in  all  of  which  he  served  acceptably.  His  death 
occurred  when  he  was  seventy-two  years  of  age. 
By  the  marriage  of  Philip 'Hershman  to  Sarah 
Henney,  a  native  of  Ohio,  seven  children  were 
born,  six  of  whom  are  living,  namely:  John; 
David;  Sarah,  wife  of  Conrad  Weaver;  Amanda, 
who  married  J.  H.  Hines;  Emma,  wife  of  Elijah 
Foster;  and  Mrs.  Mary  Mack.  The  mother  of 
these  children  died  at  the  age  of  seventy-six. 
Our  subject  spent  his  early  life  principally  in 
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Lansing,  Mich.,  where  he  was  educated  in  the 
public  schools  and  in  a  private  school  taught  by 
Professor  Olds.  At  the  age  of  twenty- one  he  lo- 
cated on  a  farm  near  Lansing,  and  for  three  or 
four  years  engaged  in  general  agricultural  pur- 
suits. In  i86o  he  went  to  Illinois,  where  he 
operated  a  rented  farm  for  three  years  in  Henry 
County. 

At  the  close  of  the  war,  in  1865,  Mr.  Hershman 
came  west  to  see  the  country.  Arriving  in  Colo- 
rado on  a  tour  of  inspection,  he  was  pleased  with 
the  prospects  and  bought  his  present  farm,  for 
which  he  paid  $2,000.  He  has  since  added  to  the 
original  tract  until  he  now  owns  over  four  hun- 
dred acres  of  fine  farm  land.  During  the  early  days 
of  his  residence  here,  he  frequently  saw  Indians 
roaming  in  the  vicinity,  but  they  evinced  no  hos- 
tility. In  1866  he  opened  a  general  store,  but 
after  carrying  on  a  mercantile  business  for  a  time 
it  interfered  to  such  an  extent  with  his  farm  work 
that  he  sold  out.  He  combines  farming  with 
stock-raising  and  sheep-feeding,  and  raises  a  fine 
grade  of  draft  horses  and  Jersey  cows.  At  the 
time  he  settled  here,  the  Big  Thompson  Manufac- 
turing and  Irrigating  Company's  ditch  was  partly 
built,  and  he  took  an  active  part  in  its  comple- 
tion, and  for  several  years  served  as  president  of 
the  company.  He  also  took  an  active  part  in  the 
construction  of  the  Home  Supply  ditch  and  was 
one  of  the  company's  stockholders.  At  this 
writing  he  is  a  stockholder  in  the  Farmers'  Ditch 
Company,  in  the  construction  of  whose  ditch  he 
assisted.  He  is  now  aiding  in  the  construction 
of  the  Horse  Shoe  Park  reservoir,  of  which  com- 
pany he  is  treasurer  and  a  trustee. 

Politically  a  Republican,  Mr.  Hershman  was 
coroner  for  some  time  during  the  early  years  of 
his  residence  in  Larimer  County.  He  was  one  of 
the  organizers  of  school  district  No.  2,  and  for 
some  time  served  as  president  of  its  board  of  trus- 
tees. In  the  United  Brethren  Church,  of  which 
he  is  a  member,  he  has  officiated  as  trustee  and 
steward.  In  1869  he  married  MissLydia  Crytes, 
a  daughter  of  Peter  Crytes,  of  Michigan.  She 
died  in  1881,  leaving  five  children,  viz.:  Ella, 
now  the  wife  of  George  Sniveley;  Alta,  whomar- 
ried  Theodore  Bryan;  Frank,  who  married  Cath- 
erine France,  and  resides  on  a  farm  near  his  father's 
place;  Emma,  residing  at  home;  and  Hattie, 
wife  of  Edward  Sheffield.  The  second  marriage 
of  our  subject  united  him  with  Miss  May,  daughter 


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of  William  Gruner,  of  Missouri.  Five  children 
bless  their  union,  namely:  Ada,  who  is  the  wife 
of  Edward  Simington;  Clara,  Mamie,  Alice  and 
Grace. 


pCJlLUAM  H.  MALONEY  owns  a  large 
\  A  /  ranch  situated  in  Arapahoe  County,  along 
VV  Run  Creek,  one  mile  south  of  Watkins 
Station,  where  he  settled  in  1868.  He  has  en- 
gaged in  raising  horses  and  cattle  and  also  raises 
hay  and  corn  for  feed.  His  ranch  contains  eleven 
hundred  and  twenty  acres,  and  is  among  the  most 
valuable  places  in  the  county.  In  the  early  days 
of  his  residence  here  life  on  the  frontier  was 
fraught  with  many  dangers  and  hardships.  The 
Sioux,  Cheyennes,  Commanches  and  Arapahoes, 
who  had  previously  been  friendly,  became  trouble- 
some, and  he  had  many  skirmishes  with  them. 
While  he  was  on  a  hunting  trip  at  Chalk  Bluffs, 
Wyo.,  in  1867,  his  horse  was  shot  from  under 
him  by  an  arrow  from  a  Sioux  Indian.  He  was 
one  of  a  party  of  eleven  hunters  who  were  charged, 
on  Little  Crow  Creek,  by  one  hundred  Indians, 
and  one  of  the  Indians  lost  his  life  in  the  skirm- 
ish. Two  weeks  previous  to  this  assault,  the 
same  Indians  stole  the  white  men's  horses  at 
night,  one  Indian  securing  Mr.  Maloney's  horse 
by  cutting  the  lariat  with  which  the  animal  was 
picketed.  The  hunters  pursued  the  thieves,  but 
after  twelve  miles,  the  Indians  evidently  having 
muffled  the  horses'  feet,  they  escaped.  Two 
weeks  later  the  same  party  of  Indians  attacked 
the  white  men.  The  latter  were  armed  with 
double-barreled  hunting  rifles,  with  telescope 
sights,  made  by  C.  Gove,  of  Denver.  To  their 
fine  guns  the  men  owed  their  escape.  The  hunt- 
ing trips,  though  perilous,  were  very  successful; 
in  fact,  they  gave  Mr.  Maloney  his  start  on  the 
ranch. 

Both  the  paternal  grandfather  and  the  maternal 
grandfather  of  our  subject  were  soldiers  in  the 
Indian  and  Revolutionary  wars.  The  latter, 
John  Conner,  was  a  native  of  Pennsylvania.  Our 
subject  was  born  in  Allegheny  County,  Pa., 
March  4,  1835,  a  son  of  John  and  Elizabeth  (Con- 
ner) Maloney.  His  father,  who  was  born  in  Penn- 
sylvania, followed  the  occupation  of  a  blacksmith 
in  early  life.  Removing  to  Stark  County,  Ohio, 
he  settled  near  Canton,  where  he  .spent  the  re- 
mainder of  his  life.  In  religion  he  was  identified 
with  the  Methodist  Episcopal   Church.       Of  his 


children  we  note  the  following:  John,  a  painter, 
who  saw  service  both  in  the  Mexican  and  Civil 
wars;  David,  a  tailor,  and  James,  a  blacksmith 
and  carriage  maker,  are  deceased;  Benjamin,  who 
enlisted  in  the  Civil  war,  was  captured,  taken  to 
Andersonville  and  there  he  died.  Mary,  Mrs.  N. 
Huff,  of  Canton,  Ohio,  is  deceased;  Emily  is  the 
wife  of  Frank  Peedcod,  of  Beatrice,  Neb.;  Sarah 
Ellen,  the  youngest  of  the  family,  is  a  widow  and 
resides  in  Chicago. 

When  a  boy  our  subject  was  taken  to  Ohio, 
where  he  was  educated  in  the  common  schools. 
At  twenty  years  of  age  he  started  out  for  himself. 
In  1859  he  came  to  Colorado,  making  the  trip 
from  Des  Moines,  Iowa,  to  Blackhawk,  with  a 
wagon  train.  He  prospected  for  gold  in  Black- 
hawk,  South  Clear  Creek,  Central  City,  Idaho 
Springs,  Fall  River  and  Georgetown  on  North 
Clear  Creek.  Later  he  went  to  Virginia  City, 
Mont. ,  where  he  worked  at  placer  mining.  At 
times  he  took  out  $500  in  a  single  day.  In  1868 
he  settled  on  the  ranch  he  now  owns. 

Politically  Mr.  Maloney  is  a  Republican  and 
has  taken  an  active  part  in  local  political  affairs. 
For  many  years  he  has  served  as  committeeman 
from  his  district,  has  also  been  delegate  to  county 
conventions,  and  for  a  long  time  held  office  as 
road  commissioner.  He  is  president  of  the  school 
board  of  district  No.  30.  In  the  Association  of 
Colorado  Pioneers  he  is  an  active  member.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Stock  Growers'  Protective  As- 
sociation of  Colorado.  Personally  he  is  a  genial 
man,  whose  courteous  manners  and  kind  heart 
have  won  the  friendship  of  his  large  circle  of  ac- 
quaintances. His  judicious  management  has 
secured  for  him  a  competency  to  reward  him  for 
a  life  of  unremitting  toil. 


[Frederick  H.  badger  is  an  active,  en- 
r^  ergetic  business  man  of  Weld  County, 
I  within  whose  boundaries  he  has  dwelt  over 
a  score  of  years.  Himself  a  farmer,  he  has  given 
much  careful  thought  to  the  question  of  the  best 
method  of  disposing  of  farm  produce,  and  has 
been  connected  with  two  or  more  companies  hav- 
ing that  object  in  view,  and  dispensing  with 
middlemen  as  much  as  possible,  the  farmer  deal- 
ing almost  direct  with  the  purchaser.  Mr.  Badger 
was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Farmers'  Mer- 
cantile   Company    of    Greeley,    which   concern 


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ships  large  quantities  of  farm  produce.  He  was 
also  a  partner  in  the  firm  of  C.  Adams  &  Co. , 
of  Timnath,  Colo.,  shippers  of  produce. 

F.  H.  Badger  is  the  eldest  in  a  family  compris- 
ing five  children.  He  was  born  in  Portsmouth, 
N.  H.,  October  i,  1855,  and  is  consequently  in 
the  prime  of  manhood.  His  parents,  Daniel  D. 
and  Nancy  (Campbell)  Badger,  were  natives  of 
Maryland,  but  for  years  lived  in  Portsmouth, 
where  the  father  followed  his  trade  of  ship-car- 
penter. He  was  a  man  much  respected  in  the 
city  and  was  a  member  of  the  council  for  several 
years.  With  the  exception  of  our  subject,  the 
family  are  all  in  the  east.  William  and  Annie, 
Mrs.  James  Schurman,  are  residents  of  Ports- 
mouth. Frank  is  a  citizen  of  Boston  and  Charles 
and  Wesley  live  near  Portsmouth,  the  former  on 
a  farm  and  the  latter  in  the  little  town  of  New- 
ington. 

The  educational  advantages  of  F.  H.  Badger 
in  his  youth  were  excellent  for  the  period,  and 
terminated  with  a  course  in  the  Portsmouth  high 
school.  He  learned  ship  building  with  his  father 
and  when  nineteen  years  of  age  went  aboard  the 
"William  H.  Marcy"  (named  in  honor  of  his  fa- 
ther's partner.  Captain  Marcy  )as  a  ship  carpenter. 
The  vessel  was  bound  for  San  Francisco,  around 
Cape  Horn,  thence  to  Liverpool  and  back  to  New 
York.  This  long  voyage  around  the  world  took 
one  year  and  five  days,  and  was  one  of  the  most 
interesting  periods  of  the  young  man's  life,  as  he 
saw  many  strange  lands  and  people,  and  experi- 
enced unusual  vicissitudes. 

The  spring  after  his  return  from  the  high  seas 
Mr.  Badger  came  to  Colorado,  this  being  in  1877. 
In  partnership  with  his  brother-in-law  he  became 
interested  in  the  management  of  a  ranch  near 
Greeley.  In  1879  he  purchased  his  present  farm 
of  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres,  it  being  located 
on  section  21,  township  6,  range  66.  For  the 
past  three  years  he  has  raised  sheep  in  large  num- 
bers and  prior  to  that  gave  his  chief  attention  to 
cattle-raising.  For  several  years  he  was  a  direc- 
tor of  the  New  Cache  la  Poudre  Irrigating  Com- 
pany and  for  four  years  was  superintendent  of  the 
same.  When  the  Cache  La  Poudre  Reservoir 
Company  was  organized  he  was  one  of  the  prime 
movers  in  the  enterprise.  Since  then  he  has  held 
some  official  position  in  the  company,  and  for  two 
years  has  been  its  president.  His  ranch  is  all 
under  cultivation  and  is  one  of  the  most  valuable 


places  in  the  county.  His  residence  was  built  by 
him  in  1898,  and  is  commodious  and  pleasant. 
Politically  Mr.  Badger  is  allied  with  the  .silver 
Democrats.  He  was  a  charter  member  of  the 
Cache  la  Poudre  Grange  and  is  thoroughly  identi- 
fied with  the  welfare  of  his  brother-farmers. 

September  18,  1878,  the  marriage  of  Mr. 
Badger  and  Miss  Fannie  W.  Taylor  was  solem- 
nized in  Denver,  Colo.  Mrs.  Badger  was  born  in 
Connecticut  and  is  a  daughter  of  Charles  A.  and 
Fannie  (Wellcome)  Taylor,  natives  of  Massachu- 
setts and  New  Hampshire  respectively.  The 
father  was  a  business  man  of  Hartford,  Conn., 
for  years.  The  marriage  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Badger 
has  been  blessed  with  one  son,  Herbert  E.,  a 
promising  young  man. 


I  EONARD  ALKIRE,  deceased,  was  born  in 
It  Menard  County,  111.,  October  17,  1830,  the 
U  son  of  Leonard  and  Catherine  (Davis)  Alkire, 
natives  of  Ohio  and  Virginia  respectively.  His 
grandfather,  John  Alkire,  was  born  in  Pennsyl- 
vania, removed  thence  to  Ohio,  later  settled  in 
Menard  County,  111.,  and  there  remained  until 
death.  The  father,  who  settled  in  Illinois  while 
it  was  still  a  territory,  engaged  in  stock-raising 
and  farming  in  Menard  County,  where  he  died 
at  ninety-one  years.  His  wife,  who  was  of  Scotch 
descent,  died  in  Illinois.  He  was  of  German  ex- 
traction. They  were  the  parents  of  five  daughters 
and  four  sons  who  attained  maturity:  Mrs.  Eliza- 
beth Engle,  of  Menard  County,  111.;  Mrs.  Nancy 
Funk,  of  Chicago;  Mrs.  Susan  Hughes,  of  Cham- 
paign County,  111. ;  Mrs.  Amanda  Olds,  who  died 
in  California;  Milan,  who  died  in  Petersburg, 
111.,  in  1897;  Mrs.  Lydia  Turner,  of  Petersburg; 
David,  living  at  Maryville,  Mo.;  Leonard;  and 
John  D. ;  the  latter  engaged  with  our  subject  in 
merchandising  and  farming  in  Menard  County, 
111.,  but  came  to  Colorado  in  1873  and  for  two 
years  engaged  in  ranching  in  Park  County,  but 
then  sold  out  and  went  back  to  Illinois,  returning 
to  Denver  in  1879. 

On  the  home  farm  our  subject  passed  his  boy- 
hood days.  In  early  manhood  he  engaged  in 
dealing  in  cattle,  and  later  had  a  dry-goods  store 
in  Sweetwater  with  his  brother  John.  In  April, 
1873,  he  came  to  Colorado  and  for  four  years 
farmed  in  the  mountains  of  Park  County,  after 
which  he  returned  to  Denver   in  order  that  his 


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children  might  have  school  advantages.  In  this 
city  he  was  identified  with  the  firm  of  L.  Alkire 
&  Co. ,  who  had  a  large  coffee  business  and  also 
owned  coffee  mills  where  coffee  was  roasted.  He 
started  in  this  business  in  1877,  and  during  the 
period  of  his  connection  with  the  enterprise,  it 
was  the  leading  one  of  its  kind  in  the  city.  About 
1882  he  sold  out  to  his  partner,  D.  T.  Sanderson, 
whose  sons,  Walter  S.  and  George  S.,  continue 
the  business. 

While  in  Denver  Mr.  Alkire  built  two  blocks  on 
Fifteenth  and  California  streets,  a  house  on  South 
Tremont  street  and  was  engaged  in  the  construc- 
tion of  a  residence  on  Broadway  and  First  avenue, 
when  he  was  suddenly  stricken  with  apoplexy 
Sunday  night.  May  18,  1884,  and  died  shortly 
afterward.  He  had  been  out  riding  on  the  after- 
noon of  that  day  and  had  every  appearance  of 
being  in  excellent  health,  so  that  the  blow  was 
wholly  unexpected.  He  was  a  leader  in  the 
Christadelphian  faith,  to  which  his  widow  also 
adheres.     Politically  he  was  a  Democrat. 

November  6,  1851,  in  Petersburg,  III.,  Mr. 
Alkire  married  Miss  Mary  A.  Bracken,  who  was 
born  near  Sweetwater,  111.,  March  18,  1833.  Her 
father,  Walter  Bracken,  was  born  in  Bath  County, 
Ky.,  and  after  his  marriage  to  Elizabeth  Wright, 
a  native  of  Ohio  and  the  daughter  of  Rev.  William 
Wright,  a  Baptist  minister,  removed  to  Illinois, 
where  he  engaged  in  farming  until  his  death  at 
seventy-three  years.  He  was  of  Virginian  and, 
remotely,  of  Welsh  descent.  His  wife  died  in 
Illinois  at  the  age  of  seventy-one.  They  had  five 
children:  George  Washington,  a  farmer  in  Tiff 
City,  Mo.;  Noble  Walter,  who  is  in  Burlington, 
Nodaway  County,  Mo.;  William  JeflFerson,  who 
died  at  seventeen  years;  Mary  A.;  and  Louisa 
Jane,  wife  of  James  Stone,  who  died  near  Green- 
view,  111.,  November  11,  1895.  Mrs.  Alkire  was 
reared  in  Illinois  and  attended  the  pioneer  schools, 
but  much  of  her  time  as  a  girl  was  devoted  to 
spinning,  weaving  and  sewing.  She  is  the  mother 
of  eight  children:  Edwin  Ruthven  and  William 
Albert,  who  died  at  the  ages  of  six  and  four  years, 
within  two  weeks  of  each  other;  Minnie  May, 
Mrs.  N.  Grimsley,  who  lives  on  a  large  farm  in 
Wayne  County,  Neb.;  Annie  Melissa,  Mrs.  P.  C. 
Horn,  whose  husband  is  a  cattleman  at  McCoy, 
Colo.;  Walter  Paul,  who  died  at  two  years;  John 
Leonard,  who  looks  after  his  father's  estate;  Ida 
May,  wife  of  E.  W.  Lehman,  a  wholesale  paper 


dealer  in  Denver;  and  Charles  Wilbur, who  died  of 
diphtheria  at  the  age  of  nine  years.  Of  the  above, 
John  L.  married  Edith  V.  Miller,  September  i, 
1886.  She  is  a  daughter  of  William  H.  and  Anna 
(Sewart)  Miller,  and  is  the  mother  of  Leonard 
Henry  Alkire,  born  January  11,  1888. 


^AMES  CONLIN,  a  progressive  farmer  re- 
I  siding  on  section  17,  northwest  corner  of 
(2/  township  4,  range  65,  Weld  County,  was 
born  in  County  Monaghan,  Ireland,  in  1835,  a 
son  of  Patrick  and  Ann  (Armstrong)  Conlin.  In 
1847  hs  accompanied  his  parents  to  the  United 
States  and  settled  with  them  on  the  Mason  and 
Dixon  line,  in  Cecil  County,  Md.,  near  what  is 
now  known  as  the  Brick  Meeting  House  District. 
Upon  the  farm  there  improved  the  father  died  in 
1888.  He  was  a  man  of  prominence  in  his  neigh- 
borhood and  was  a  pioneer  fruit-grower,  raising 
peaches  and  apples  successfully.  His  wife  passed 
away  in  1882,  when  eightj^-eight  years  of  age. 
They  were  the  parents  of  four  children,  namely: 
James;  John,  a  sheep-raiser  residing  near  Sacra- 
mento, Cal. ;  William,  who  lives  in  Weld  County; 
and  Patrick,  who  died  in  Maryland. 

In  1869  our  subject  joined  the  Union  colony  at 
Omaha,  Neb.,  and  crossed  the  plains  to  Colorado, 
landing  in  the  Poudre  Valley  and  assisting  in  the 
formation  of  the  Greeley  colony.  After  remain- 
ing for  a  year  with  the  colony,  he  bought  four 
hundred  head  of  cattle,  and  embarked  in  the 
stock  business,  turning  the  cattle  out  on  the 
range.  For  fifteen  years  he  followed  the  busi- 
ness with  marked  success.  In  1882  he  took  the 
cattle  (six  hundred  head)  up  to  the  Black  Hills 
and  sold  them  in  the  mining  district.  On  his  re- 
turn to  Weld  County  he  bought  a  quarter-sec- 
tion of  railroad  land,  comprising  his  present 
ranch.  It  was  then  a  barren  desert,  and  the  im- 
provements show  his  industry  and  constant  ef- 
fort. In  1879  he  was  one  of  the  organizers  and 
constructors  of  the  Bucker  Ditch  Company,  of 
which  for  several  years  he  served  as  secretary  and 
treasurer  and  a  trustee.  From  this  ditch  is  de- 
rived the  water  supply  for  his  farm.  Since  1882 
he  has  devoted  his  time  principally  to  farming, 
though  he  also  has  some  stock;  and  in  addition 
carries  on  a  local  loan  business  among  his  neigh- 
bors. 
Politically  Mr.  Conlin  is  a  silver  Republican, 


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active  in  the  interests  of  the  party,  but  not  desir- 
ous of  official  positions.  Fraternally  he  is  identi- 
fied with  Prosperity  Lodge  No.  109,  I.  O.  O.  F., 
of  Eaton,  in  which  he  is  past  noble  grand.  He 
was  one  of  the  organizers  of  school  district  No. 
29  and  a.ssisted  in  building  the  Big  Bend  school, 
of  whose  board  of  trustees  he  was  president  for  a 
number  of  years.  He  is  a  progressive  farmer, 
and  every  year  sends  to  different  parts  of  the 
country  for  new  seed  grain.  He  was  the  first  to 
introduce  fall  wheat  in  this  section,  and  made  a 
succe.ss  of  the  undertaking.  He  gives  his  atten- 
tion closely  to  his  chosen  occupation,  managing 
personally  the  ranch  and  stock,  and  conducting 
his  affairs  in  such  a  way  as  to  gain  success. 


HARPIN  DAVIS  is  one  of  the  pioneers  of 
Jefferson  County,  as  he  settled  here  about 
thirty-five  years  ago.  During  all  these 
years  he  has  been  occupied  in  agricultural  labors 
and  has  lived  on  one  farm,  the  homestead  situated 
about  eight  miles  east  of  Golden.  He  is  a 
member  of  Clear  Creek  Valley  Grange  and  aims 
to  keep  fully  posted  on  modern  and  improved 
methods  of  farming.  He  stands  well  with  the 
Odd  Fellows'  society,  having  held  every  office  in 
the  lodge  with  the  exception  of  grand  master. 
He  was  the  secretary  of  Morning  Star  Lodge 
No.  47,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  and  was  tendered  the 
position  of  master,  but  declined.  On  political 
questions  he  is  independent,  preferring  to  be 
pledged  to  no  party. 

Mr.  Davis  is  a  native  of  New  Haven  County, 
Conn.,  and  was  born  February  24,  1825.  His 
father,  Anson  Davis,  was  born  in  1784,  in  Ox- 
ford, Conn.,  and  most  of  his  life  was  spent  on  a 
farm.  He  was  a  very  well-educated  man  for 
that  early  period  in  this  country,  and  taught 
school  successfully  for  several  years  when  he  was 
a  young  man.  He  filled  numerous  local  positions 
of  honor  and  trust  and  possessed  the  admiration 
and  respect  of  his  associates  in  a  marked  degree. 
He  lived  to  a  good  old  age,  his  death  occurring 
in  1868.  To  himself  and  wife,  whose  maiden 
name  had  been  Sally  Pruden,  there  were  born 
ten  children.  Four  of  the  number  survive. 
Marcus  is  still  carrying  on  the  old  homestead; 
Homer  is  engaged  in  running  a  machine  and 
wagon  shop  at  Winnemucca,  Nev. ;  Martha  E.  is 
thewifeof  Edwin  Pruden,  of  West  Haven,  Coun. 


Up  to  the  time  he  was  fifteen  years  old  Mr. 
Davis  lived  under  the  parental  roof.  At  that 
period  he  was  very  ambitious  and  desirous  of  see- 
ing the  world  and  so  he  bade  adieu  to  the  scenes 
of  his  youth  and  set  out  to  make  his  own  liveli- 
hood. He  started  for  Philadelphia,  but  left  the 
boat  at  Burlington,  twenty  miles  from  that  city, 
and  secured  work  on  the  canal,  driving  horses. 
This  employment  was  not  to  his  liking  and  he 
hired  out  to  a  farmer  for  a  year.  At  the  expira- 
tion of  that  time  he  shipped  aboard  a  coasting 
schooner,  later  becoming  one  of  the  crew  of  a 
full-rigged  vessel  which  was  engaged  in  trade 
with  the  West  Indies.  When  he  finally  left  the 
sea,  he  had  risen  to  be  mate  of  the  ship  and 
during  his  service  he  had  made  a  study  of  nav- 
igation and  was  in  line  for  promotion,  though 
but  twenty-two  years  old.  He  did  not  wish  to 
make  this  his  main  business  in  life,  however,  and 
returning  to  his  old  home  became  a  brick  and 
stone  work  contractor.  He  also  taught  a  few 
terms  of  .school,  making  a  success  of  the  under- 
taking, as  his  father  had  before  him. 

In  1854  Mr.  Davis  went  to  California,  with  the 
intention  of  making  his  permanent  home  there, 
but  his  family  disliking  to  move  so  far  west  he 
returned  the  same  year.  Soon  afterwards  he 
located  in  Davenport,  Iowa,  and  found  plenty  to 
do  in  the  line  of  his  trade,  masonry,  and  also  in 
the  sale  of  lumber,  for  he  established  a  lumber 
yard.  In  the  fall  of  1856  he  went  to  Nebraska, 
and  settling  in  Florence,  now  a  part  of  Omaha, 
taught  school  for  one  term.  Later  he  embarked 
in  the  sawmill  and  lumber  business.  In  1863  he 
came  to  Colorado,  and  after  passing  one  year  in 
Central  City  he  came  to  the  vicinity  of  his  present 
home.  This  place  he  purchased  about  a  year 
subsequently  and  at  once  began  making  sub- 
stantial improvements,  which  have  materially 
increased  its  value  and  beauty. 

March  31,  1850,  Mr.  Davis  married  Miss  Mary 
A.  Chatfield,  daughter  of  Enos  Chatfield,  of  Ox- 
ford, Conn.  She  is  a  descendant  of  one  of  the 
colonial  families  of  the  Nutmeg  state,  her 
ancestor,  George  Chatfield,  of  England,  having 
cast  in  his  fortunes  with  the  inhabitants  of  New 
England  in  1639.  He  was  accompanied  by  his 
two  brothers,  Thomas  and  Francis,  and  they 
were  of  the  little  party  which  was  headed  by  Rev. 
Henry  Whitfield  and  made  a  settlement  at  Guil- 
ford,   Conn.      George   Chatfield    later  lived   in 


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Killingsworth,  Conn.,  until  he  was  claimed  by 
death.  Some  of  his  relatives  were  soldiers  of  the 
Revolution.  Four  children  were  born  to  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Davis.  Charles  H.  is  managing  part 
of  the  home  farm.  Ella  M.  is  the  wife  of  Mason 
Seavey,  a  capitalist  of  Denver.  Hattie  C.  mar- 
ried W.  M.  Newton.  Arthur  L,.  is  a  graduate  of 
the  Gross  Medical  College,  of  Denver,  and  for 
two  and  a-half  years  was  head  physician  in  St. 
Anthony's  Hospital.  Recently  he  settled  in 
Central  City,  succeeding  Dr.  Moore.  He  is  a 
very  promising  young  practitioner,  having  made 
a  splendid  record  thus  far  and  giving  assurance 
of  ultimate  prominence  in  his  profession. 


HERMAN  REUTER,  one  of  the  worthy  Ger- 
man-American citizens  of  Brighton,  Arapa- 
hoe County,  is  the  secretary  and  general 
manager  of  the  Brighton  Milling  and  Elevator 
Company  and  is  also  the  proprietor  of  a  bakery 
here.  His  residence  in  this  place  dates  back  eight 
years,  and  during  this  period  he  has  won  the  confi- 
dence and  high  regard  of  the  business  community. 
His  principles  of  trade  are  reliable,  strictly  upright 
and  just  to  all  concerned,  and  added  to  his  in- 
dustrious, persevering  characteristics  are  account- 
able for  the  gratifying  measure  of  success  which 
he  has  attained. 

A  native  of  Bespingen,  Hanover,  Germany, 
Mr.  Reuter  was  born  February  8,  1862.  His 
parents,  natives  of  the  same  province,  were  Chris- 
topher and  Mary  (Krueger)  Reuter.  The  boy- 
hood days  of  our  subject  were  spent  in  a  small 
village,  where  he  attended  the  government  schools 
until  he  was  fourteen.  The  next  three  years  he 
served  an  apprenticeship  to  the  baker's  trade,  in 
the  town  of  Saltan,  in  the  meantime  receiving 
only  his  board  as  payment.  When  he  had  mastered 
the  business,  he  had  no  difficulty  in  obtaining 
positions,  and  for  several  years  he  worked  as  a 
journeyman  baker  in  various  cities. 

In  1882  Mr.  Reuter  entered  the  German  army, 
and  was  stationed  at  Blenkenhurst  for  two  years, 
doing  garrison  duty.  He  was  then  mustered  out 
of  the  service  and  resumed  his  former  occupation. 
A  year  or  two  later  he  decided  to  leave  his  father- 
land and  seek  his  fortunes  in  the  United  States, 
and  began  to  lay  his  plans  accordingly.  In  1886 
he  sailed  for  New  York  City,  landing  at  his  des- 
tination  April  4.     He  came  direct  to  Colorado 


and  began  working  at  his  calling.  At  the  end 
of  two  years  he  opened  a  bakery  of  his  own,  but 
a  few  months  of  experience  in  this  direction  con- 
vinced him  that  he  had  best  retire  from  the  field, 
as  he  was  losing  money.  Not  daunted,  how- 
ever, he  came  to  Brighton  in  1890,  and  started  in 
the  same  line  of  business  here.  He  was  soon 
prospering  and  from  time  to  time  increased  his 
facilities,  that,  he  might  keep  up  the  demand 
upon  him.  His  many  friends  take  great  pleasure 
in  his  well-earned  success,  which  they  always 
predicted  would  be  his  portion,  sooner  or  later. 

In  July,  1888,  Mr.  Reuter  married  Miss  Hen- 
rietta Bock,  who  has  faithfully  aided  him  in  all 
his  undertakings  and  has  cheered  him  in  times  of 
trial  and  discouragement.'  She  is  also  a  native 
of  Germany  and  some  years  prior  to  her  marriage, 
which  occurred  in  Denver,  came  to  this  state.  To 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Reuter  a  son  and  daughter  have 
been  born.  Bertha  and  Herman;  the  former 
claims  Denver  as  her  native  city,  while  Herman 
is  a  native  of  Brighton. 

Mr.  Reuter  took  the  vow  of  allegiance  to  the 
United  States  and  became  one  of  her  citizens 
while  he  resided  in  Denver.  He  is  independent 
in  politics,  but  has  acted  in  the  capacity  of  alder- 
man in  this  town.  Religiously  he  is  a  Lutheran, 
belonging  to  the  church  and  contributing  to  its 
support.  Fraternally  he  is  an  Odd  Fellow,  and 
has  filled  most  of  the  offices  in  the  local  lodge. 
He  is  also  identified  with  the  German  organiza- 
tion known  as  the  Sons  of  Herman,  and  in  this 
order,  as  well,  has  occupied  many  official  po- 
sitions. 


NON.  D.  C.  BAILEY.  As  the  incumbent  of 
various  positions  of  honor  and  responsibility, 
Mr.  Bailey  has  discharged  faithfully  every 
trust  reposed  in  him  and  has  won  a  high  position 
among  the  pubHc  men  of  Colorado.  While  a 
resident  of  Elbert  County,- in  1886,  he  was  elected 
representative  on  the  Republican  ticket  and 
during  the  session  that  followed  he  served  as 
chairman  of  the  committee  on  federal  relations 
and  state  affairs.  On  the  expiration  of  his  term 
as  representative  he  became  the  Republican 
nominee  to  represent  Elbert,  Arapahoe  and  Bent 
Counties  in  the  state  senate  and  was  elected  by  a 
large  majority.  During  his  term,  from  1888  to 
1892,  he  rendered  much  able  service  in  behalf  of 
his  constituents   and   his   influence   was  always 


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given  to  measures  for  the  benefit  of  the  people. 
During  the  first  session  he  was  chairman  of  the 
printing  committee  and  the  committee  on  state 
affairs;  while  during  the  second  session  he  was 
a  member  of  the  committee  on  incorporation  and 
others  of  equal  importance. 

Mr.  Bailey  was  born  near  Coldwater,  Branch 
Countj^  Mich.,  September  1,1858,  the  younger 
of  two  children,  his  sister  being  Mrs.  Ida  Carroll, 
of  Eaton.  Weld  County,  Colo.  His  father, 
Gideon  Bailey,  was  born  nearLockport,  Niagara 
County,  N.  Y.,  the  son  of  Benjamin  Bailey,  a 
farmer  there.  In  early  life  he  removed  to  Michi- 
gan and  engaged  in  the  mercantile  business  in 
Coldwater,  but  later  went  to  Quincy,  the  same 
state,  and  from  there,  in  1872,  went  to  Portland, 
Ore.,  where  he  has  since  been  a  merchant.  His 
wife  was  Rachel  A.,  daughter  of  Daniel  Cross- 
man,  of  English  descent  and  a  lifelong  resident  of 
York  state.  She  was  bom  in  Niagara  County, 
N.  Y.,  and  died  in  Denver  in  1893,  aged  sixty- 
six  years. 

At  the  age  of  about  thirteen  our  subject  began 
to  study  telegraphy  on  the  Lake  Shore  road  and 
afterward  was  employed  as  an  operator  at  stations 
on  the  road  between  Toledo  and  Chicago,  being 
also  agent  during  the  latter  part  of  his  connection 
with  the  company.  Afterward  he  engaged  in  the 
cattle  business  with  an  uncle  at  Nevada,  Vernon 
County,  Mo.  In  June,  1879,  he  came  to  Colo- 
rado, and  established  a  ranch  in  Elbert  County, 
where  he  engaged  in  the  cattle  business  for  nine 
years.  In  the  fall  of  1888  he  removed  to  Denver, 
but  still  continued  the  management  of  the  ranch 
until  he  sold  it  some  years  later.  Since  1888  he 
has  been  dealing  in  cattle  at  the  Union  stock- 
yards, having  handled  over  ten  thousand  head 
per  annum.  After  coming  to  this  state  he  mar- 
ried Miss  Adella  Brown,  who  was  born  in  New 
York  state;  they  have  a  son,  who  is  his  father's 
namesake,  Dewey  Crossman  Bailey. 

Frequently  Mr.  Bailey  has  represented  the  Re- 
publican party  as  delegate  to  state  conventions. 
While  senator  he  introduced  and  was  largely  in- 
strumental in  the  passage  of  the  bills  establishing 
Kit  Carson,  Cheyenne,  Lincoln,  Prowers  and 
Otero  Counties,  the  names  of  which  were  decided 
upon  by  a  committee  of  whole  in  the  senate.  In 
1888  he  gave  his  influence  for  Hon.  Edward  O. 
Wolcott  as  United  States  senator  and  two  years 
later  voted  for  Hon.  Henry  M.  Teller.     In  1896 


he  was  again  his  party's  candidate  for  the  state 
senate,  but  of  course  suflfered  defeat  with  the 
rest  of  the  party  ticket.  Under  the  administra- 
tion of  President  McKinley  he  received  the  ap- 
pointment of  United  States  marshal  for  the  Colo- 
rado district.  While  residing  in  Elbert  County  he 
was  secretary  of  the  county  central  committee 
and  for  years  he  was  a  member  of  the  state  cen- 
tral committee. 


(lUDGE  ALBERT  P.  RITTENHOUSE.  The 
I  subject  of  this  sketch  is  a  native  of  eastern 
(2/  Ohio.  He  was  born  in  Bloomfield,  Jefferson 
County,  May  26,  1844,  and  passed  his  early 
years  on  his  father's  farm,  near  Cadiz,  Harrison 
County.  He  attended  the  public  schools,  and  for 
a  time  the  Hopedale  Normal  School,  so  that 
when  he  was  about  seventeen  years  old  he  ap- 
plied for  and  received  a  certificate  as  a  teacher. 
After  teaching  for  a  short  time  he  entered  Frank- 
lin College,  at  New  Athens,  Harrison  County, 
Ohio,  and  was  a  student  there  for  two  years. 
September  i,  1864,  he  married  Miss  Sue  J.  Baker, 
the  daughter  of  a  neighboring  farmer,  and  a 
school  teacher  in  the  same  county.  She  is  since 
deceased.  By  this  marriage  there  were  three 
children,  two  daughters  long  since  dead,  and  one 
son  now  living,  Harry  S.  Rittenhouse,  of  Mont- 
gomery County,  Mo. 

Shortly  after  his  marriage,  Mr.  Rittenhouse 
enlisted  in  Company  B,  One  Hundred  and 
Eightieth  Ohio  Infantry,  and  served  as  a  pri- 
vate soldier  until  after  the  war  ended.  He  was 
engaged  in  a  number  of  skirmishes,  and  in 
the  battle  of  Kinston  (Wise's  Forks),  N.  C, 
March  8,  9  and  10,  1865.  In  July  or  August  of 
1865  he  was  honorably  discharged  from  the  army, 
and  came  home  to  his  family.  He  began  at  once 
the  study  of  law,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  at 
Carrollton,  Ohio,  in  1869,  then  commenced  to 
practice  in  New  Philadelphia,  Ohio,  where  he  re- 
mained two  years.  He  then  removed  to  Vienna, 
Maries  County,  Mo.,  and  became  associated  in 
partnership  with  Col.  John  M.  Johnson,  other- 
wise known  as  "Miscal"  Johnson,  who  had  been 
a  raiding  Confederate  colonel  under  General  Price. 
There  was  no  trouble  between  the  blue  and  the 
gray  in  this  partnership;  it  flourished  and  pros- 
pered abundantly,  until  dissolved  by  the  death  of 
Colonel  Johnson  in  1874.  The  firm  of  Johnson 
&   Rittenhouse,  besides  a   somewhat   extensive 


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law  practice,  established  and  successfully  con- 
ducted the  first  newspaper  ever  published  in 
Maries  County;  it  is  still  published,  though  the 
name  of  it  has  since  been  changed. 

In  the  fall  of  1874,  after  Colonel  Johnson's 
death,  Mr.  Rittenhouse  was  elected  to  the  Mis- 
souri legislature,  and  served  for  two  years.  In 
1876  he  was  a  candidate  for  congress  before  the 
Democratic  convention  of  his  district,  but  was 
defeated  by  "Silver  Dick"  Bland. 

Mr.  Rittenhouse  came  to  Colorado  in  January, 
1882,  and  settled  in  Boulder.  He  was  for  a  time 
in  partnership  with  L.  W.  DoUoff,  then  of  Long- 
mont.  Governor  Grant  appointed  him  aide-de- 
camp on  his  military  staff  with  the  rank  of 
colonel.  It  was  a  snap — barren  of  emoluments, 
but  free  from  danger.  In  the  latter  part  of  1883 
he  moved  to  Greeley,  and  the  next  year  he  was 
again  married,  his  second  wife  being  Miss  Eliza 
G.  Reynolds,  of  Flint,  Mich.  There  were  no 
children  of  this  marriage.  Early  in  1887  the 
eighth  judicial  district  of  Colorado  was  formed 
of  Boulder,  Larimer,  Weld,  Washington  and 
Logan  Counties,  and  Mr.  Rittenhouse  was  ap- 
pointed judge  thereof  bj'  Governor  Adams. 

In  1888  Mr.  Rittenhouse  moved  to  Denver, 
and  formed  a  law  partnership  with  Hon.  Ralph 
Talbot,  which  continued  one  year.  Though  a 
Democrat,  he  was,  in  1890,  elected  a  represent- 
ative of  Arapahoe  County  to  the  eighth  general 
assembly  of  Colorado,  by  a  vote  leading  all  other 
successful  candidates.  In  1891  he  entered  into 
a  partnership  for  the  practice  of  law  with  Hon. 
M.  B.  Gerry,  of  Pueblo,  and  moved  to  that  city. 
In  1894  he  returned  to  Denver,  where  he  has  since 
made  his  home  and  practiced  his  profession. 

Mr.  Rittenhouse  has  long  been  a  member  of 
the  Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen,  and  has 
filled  all  the  chairs  of  the  subordinate  lodge  of 
that  order.  He  has  also  for  many  years  been  a 
member  of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic,  has 
been  commander  of  A.  Lincoln  Post  No.  4,  de- 
partment of  Colorado  and  Wyoming,  and  judge 
advocate  of  the  department. 

Mr.  Rittenhouse  is  a  man  of  strong  and  marked 
individuality  of  character;  somewhat  impulsive 
and  abrupt  in  his  manners,  original  in  his  ideas 
and  the  expression  of  them.  He  is  considered 
by  his  associates  at  the  bar  and  the  judges  as  a 
good  lawyer  and  a  man  of  unquestioned  integrity. 
He  is  active  and  strong  physically,  and  loves  a 


good  horse  like  an  Arab  of  the  desert.  He 
would  prefer  a  tent  with  his  horse,  to  a  palace 
without  it.  He  comes  of  a  very  old  and  honor- 
able German  family.  The  American  branch  of 
it  was  established  in  America  by  two  brothers 
who  came  from  the  old  fortified  city  of  Arnheim, 
on  the  Rhine,  prior  to  1688.  William,  one  of 
the  brothers,  and  ancestor  of  Judge  Rittenhouse, 
settled  in  Germantown,  Pa.,  in  1688,  and  there 
built  the  first  paper  mill  ever  erected  in  America. 
One  of  the  family,  David  Rittenhouse,  was  a 
celebrated  astronomer  and  mathematician,  and 
was  the  first  director  of  the  United  States  mint, 
appointed  to  that  position  by  President  Washing- 
ton, upon  the  recommendation  of  Thomas  Jeffer- 


(T  OHN  SHERMAN  STEELE,  who  is  engaged 
I  in  farming  and  stock-raising  near  Loveland, 
(z)  Larimer  County,  was  born  in  Richland 
County,  Ohio,  in  1857,  ^  son  of  John  and  Mary 
A.  (Campbell)  Steele.  His  father,  who  spent  his 
entire  life  upon  the  same  farm,  was  recognized  as 
one  of  the  most  industrious  agricitlturists  and  up- 
right men  in  his  section,  and  was  a  leader  in  his 
community.  He  was  a  warm  personal  friend  and 
stanch  admirer  of  John  Sherman.  While  he  never 
sought  office,^  he  was  frequently  called  upon  to 
represent  his  fellow-citizens  in  minor  positions, 
where  honor  and  probity  were  prime  requisites. 
His  death  occurred  when  he  was  seventy-six  years 
of  age. 

The  boyhood  years  of  our  subject  were  spent  in 
the  school  and  on  the  farm,  and  he  continued  to 
assist  his  father  in  the  management  of  the  home- 
stead until  1883,  when  he  came  to  Loveland, 
Colo.  For  a  few  years  he  was  employed  in  the 
old  Loveland  mill.  In  the  spring  of  1891  he  pur- 
chased about  eighty  acres  of  the  Scott  farm  near 
Loveland  and  began  general  farming, stock-raising 
and  sheep-feeding,  in  which  he  has  since  con- 
tinued, having  on  his  place  about  one  thousand 
head  of  sheep.  He  is  known  as  a  grower  of  alfalfa, 
an  imported  plant  used  for  stock-feeding.  In  his 
farm  work  he  is  progressive,  adapting  new  plans 
and  methods,  when  once  convinced  of  their  utility, 
and  introducing  modern  inventions  and  ma- 
chinery to  aid  in  his  work. 

Politically  Mr.  Steele  is  active  as  a  Republican 
and  a  supporter  of  the  principles  for  which  that 
party  stands.     He   is   interested  in    temperance 


JOSEPH  S.  BEAMAN. 


PORTRAIT  AND  BIOGRAPHICAL  RECORD. 


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work  and  is  a  stanch  Prohibitionist,  supporting 
temperance  principles  both  in  theory  and  prac- 
tice. In  1885  he  married  Miss  Irene  S.  Halde- 
raan,  of  Morrow  County,  Ohio.  They  are  mem- 
bers of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  in  which 
he  has  officiated  as  steward,  trustee  and  Sunday- 
school  teacher. 


(Joseph  SEVEREN  beam  an  came  to 
I  Central  City,  Gilpin  County,  May  27,  1859, 
C2/  and  amid  the  privations  and  discourage- 
ments which  the  early  settler  alone  has  felt  and 
can  understand,  helped  to  lay  the  foundation  for 
the  improvements  and  civilization  it  enjoys 
to-day.  He  was  born  in  Bondorf,  Baden,  Octo- 
ber 23,  1834,  the  son  of  Joseph  and  Elizabeth 
(Ritter)  Beaman.  The  Beamans  are  a  well- 
known,  prominent  family  of  Baden.  The  grand- 
father, Martin  Beaman,  had  charge  of  the  gov- 
ernment grain  market,  and  was  buyer  of  all  the 
grain.  Joseph  Beaman  was  a  brewer  in  Baden, 
but  came  to  America  in  1851.  He  sent  his  family 
across  in  1849,  and  himself  .and  oldest  sons  re- 
mained until  he  could  settle  up  his  business. 
About  this  time  the  revolution  in  Baden  occurred, 
and  they  were  compelled  to  take  part  in  it,  de- 
laying their  coming  to  this  country  two  years. 
He  lived  in  retirement  in  Louisville,  Ky.,  near 
which  he  died  in  his  seventy-fourth  year.  The 
mother,  Elizabeth,  was  a  daughter  of  John  Ritter, 
a  farmer  of  Baden,  and  died  in  Kentucky  when 
fifty -six  years  of  age.  The  family  were  Catholics. 
Of  the  ten  children,  four  came  to  America. 
Henry  is  a  farmer  in  Indiana;  Rev.  Englebert 
has  charge  of  a  Catholic  Church  in  Louisville, 
Ky.;  Joseph  Severen  is  here  represented;  and 
J.  E.  served  in  a  Kentucky  regiment  in  the  Union 
army,  was  wounded  during  service,  and  now 
resides  near  Louisville. 

While  in  Baden,  Mr.  Beaman  attended  the 
school  of  Bondorf  At  the  age  of  fifteen  he  sailed 
from  Havre,  France,  with  his  mother  and  other 
members  of  the  family,  on  the  steamer  "Hol- 
yoke,"  to  New  Orleans,  arriving  there  after  forty - 
nine  days  on  the  ocean.  They  came  up  the 
Mississippi  and  Ohio  Rivers  to  Louisville,  and  he 
again  entered  school  in  Zanesville.  He  attended 
St.  Joseph  College  for  three  years,  but  the  close 
confinement  of  the  school-room  did  not  agree  with 
him  and  he  left  school.  He  was  then  apprenticed 
for  three  years  to  learn  the  cabinet-making  trade, 


in  Louisville.  He  worked  at  his  trade  there  and 
in  Cincinnati  until  the  Pike's  Peak  excitement  in 
1859,  when  he  started  for  that  Eldorado,  taking 
the  boat  down  the  Ohio,  and  up  the  Mississippi 
and  Missouri  Rivers  to  Leavenworth,  there  fitted 
out  an  ox-train  and  followed  the  Kansas  and 
Smoky  Rivers  until  he  came  to  the  Divide,  when 
he  went  due  west  until  he  reached  Denver,  in 
April,  1859.  He  came  to  Central  City  and 
bought  a  claim  in  Russell  Gulch;  this  he  mined 
until  November,  1859,  when  he  abandoned  it, 
thinking  the  deep  snow  would  prevent  him  from 
securing  provisions  and  other  necessar}'  supplies 
with  which  to  continue  his  mining.  He  went  to 
Golden,  built  a  log  shop,  and  worked  at  his  trade 
of  cabinet-making  until  spring,  when  he  crossed 
the  Snowy  range  to  Blue  River,  and  mined  in 
Breckenridge  and  Georgia  Gulch  until  1861, 
when  he  returned  to  Golden,  and  began  the 
manufacture  of  furniture  in  the  same  log  shop. 
In  the  spring  of  the  next  year  he  went  to  Black- 
hawk  and  engaged  in  the  same  business,  adding 
an  undertaking  room,  the  first  in  the  cit}'. 

In  1868  Mr.  Beaman  disposed  of  this  business 
and  came  back  to  Central  City.  He  started  a 
sash,  door  and  blind  factory  in  Mountain  City, 
and  later,  in  connection  with  it,  ran  a  sawmill 
eight  miles  east  of  Blackhawk.  Two  years  later 
he  moved  his  mill  and  factory  to  Beaver  Creek, 
above  Nederland,  in  Boulder  County.  He  fur- 
nished all  the  lumber  for  building  Caribou,  Car- 
dinal and  Nederland,  during  his  two  years'  stay 
there.  In  1872  he  returned  to  Gilpin  County 
and  continued  sash  and  door  making  in  the  build- 
ing formerly  occupied  by  him,  adding  a  lumber 
yard  and  doing  contracting  and  building.  After 
having  continued  in  these  lines  for  four  years 
he  started  a  soda  factory  and  bottling  works  on 
Spring  street.  Central  City,  which  he  operated 
until  1893,  when  he  disposed  of  the  entire  busi- 
ness and  retired  with  a  sufficient  competency  to 
enable  him  to  spend  the  remainder  of  his  life  in 
ease  and  comfort.  He  owns  some  of  the  most 
valuable  property  in  the  city,  both  in  the  resi- 
dence and  business  portion,  including  the  Beaman 
block,  which  contains  eight  commodious  store 
rooms. 

In  Blackhawk  Mr.  Beaman  married  Miss  Car- 
rie Meyer,  who  was  born  in  Baden,  and  whose 
father,  George  Meyer,  came  to  Colorado  at  an 
early  day  and  became  a  resident  of  Blackhawk. 


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They  have  six  children.  George  Henry  is  an  en- 
gineer in  Central  City;  Mrs.  Eliza  Fuelcher  is 
also  a  resident  of  Central  City;  Frank,  Emily, 
Florence  and  Bertie  are  still  at  home.  Mr.  Bea- 
man  is  a  Democrat,  and  has  been  several  times 
nominated  for  city  and  county  offices,  making  a 
good  run,  although  not  elected,  as  the  party  is  in 
the  minority  there.  He  is  past  officer  of  the 
Knights  of  Honor,  Independent  Order  of  Odd 
Fellows,  Encampment,  and  belongs  to  the  canton. 
At  different  times  he  has  been  president  of  the 
Gilpin  County  Pioneer  Society.  He  takes  an 
active  part  now,  as  he  ever  has,  in  promoting 
any  cause  that  will  be  of  benefit  to  the  city.  It 
was  this  public  spirit  that  led  him  to  build  a  con- 
vention hall,  dance  hall  and  opera  house,  com- 
bined, which  property  is  still  owned  by  him. 
His  reminiscences  of  early  life  in  the  state  are 
most  interesting.  In  i860  he  and  John  Lutz,  a 
partner,  developed  a  mine  near  Blue  River,  where 
they  built  a  large  two-story  log  house,  intend- 
ing to  start  a  town  there,  but  the  mine  proved  un- 
profitable and  they  abandoned  it  and  left.  A  few 
years  later  the  thriving  village  of  Breckenridge 
sprung  up  on  the  same  spot  originally  occupied 
by  them.  At  another  time  he  was  offered  three 
lots  on  Larimer  and  Fifteenth  streets,  in  Denver, 
as  an  inducement  to  locate  there,  but  that  point 
seemed  too  far  away,  and  he  bought  lots  in 
Golden,  as  being  nearer  the  center  of  population. 
Probably  the  first  chair  made  in  the  state  of 
Colorado  was  manufactured  by  him  in  Golden,  of 
box  elder  and  pine,  the  turning  lathe  used  having 
a  ten -foot  treadle,  and  being  the  creation  of  a 
blacksmith  of  that  place.  While  living  in  Black- 
hawk  he  made  a  cradle  for  his  first  child;  all  of 
his  own  children  were  rocked  in  it  during  their 
infancy,  and  it  is  now  in  use  by  his  daughter.  It 
was  made  entirely  by  him,  turning,  finishing  and 
all,  and  was  of  walnut  lumber  brought  from  the 
states  by  team,  and  costing  twenty-five  cents  per 
pound. 

0AVID  ABNER  STRICKLER,  M.  D.,  regis- 
trar of  the  faculty  of  the  Denver  Homeopathic 
Medical  College  and  professor  of  principles 
of  medicine  and  medical  technology  in  the  same 
institution,  was  born  near  Chambersburg,  Pa., 
March  26,  1859,  and  is  a  son  of  Jacob  and  Anna 
(Stouffer)  Strickler.  The  Strickler  family  origi- 
nated in  Switzerland  and  two  brothers,  Abraham 


and  Conrad,  natives  of  Zurich,  founded  the  family 
in  America.  Upon  their  emigration  to  this 
country  in  1 705  they  settled  on  the  Susquehanna 
River  in  Chester  County,  Pa.,  and  many  of  their 
descendants  still  reside  in  the  same  locality,  where 
they  have  made  honorable  records  as  citizens. 
From  Abraham  descended  Henry  Strickler,  who 
removed  from  Franklin  County,  Pa.  to  Carroll 
County,  111.,  and  later  went  to  Grundy  County, 
Iowa,  where  he  died. 

Jacob,  son  of  Henry,  and  the  doctor's  father, 
was  born  near  Chambersburg  in  18 15  and  died  at 
the  same  place  in  February,  1895.  He  was  a 
prosperous  business  man,  and  in  politics  a  stanch 
friend  of  the  Republican  party.  His  marriage 
united  him  with  Anna  Stouffer,  who  was  born 
April  15,  1816,  and  died  August  10,  1881.  She 
was  the  daughter  of  Jacob  and  Elizabeth  (Ober- 
holser;  Stouffer,  and  was  a  descendant  of  Swiss 
ancestors  who  came  to  America  in  1728"  and 
settled  in  Lancaster  County,  Pa. 

Of  nine  children  the  subject  of  this  sketch  was 
the  youngest.  He  was  reared  on  the  old  home- 
stead and  received  an  academic  education  at 
Chambersburg,  studying  the  languages  under 
Prof.  J.  H.  Shoemaker,  who  was  principal  of 
the  academy.  After  having  gained  a  primary 
knowledge  of  medicine  by  study  with  Dr.  Ben- 
jamin Bowman,  in  1878  he  went  to  Philadelphia, 
where  he  took  a  three  years'  course,  graduating 
in  188 1.  During  the  following  year  he  was  chief 
interne  in  the  Hahnemann  Hospital.  He  began  in 
practice  for  himself  at  Sterling,  111.,  but  after  a 
year  returned  to  Chambersburg,  where  he  spent 
two  years,  and  then  took  a  special  course  in  dis- 
eases of  the  eye  and  ear  at  the  Hahnemann  Medi- 
cal College,  Philadelphia,  under  Prof  William  H. 
Bigler.  On  leaving  Philadelphia,  he  went  to 
Duluth,  Minn.,  where,  in  conjunction  with  Dr. 
F.  C.  Bowman,  a  former  room-mate  and  class- 
mate in  medical  college,  he  began  in  professional 
practice.  After  four  and  one-half  years  of  success- 
ful work  as  a  private  practitioner,  he  was  elected 
professor  of  otology  in  the  homeopathic  depart- 
ment of  the  University  of  Minnesota,  and  in  order 
to  be  conveniently  situated  regarding  clinical 
work,  he  moved  to  St.  Paul  in  1889.  He  con- 
tinued his  work  very  successfully  until  his  wife's 
failing  health  made  a  change  of  climate  imperi- 
tive. 

In  the  autumn   of  1895  Dr.  Strickler  came  to 


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Denver,  where  he  has  since  built  up  a  reputation 
as  a  skillful  practitioner  in  his  specialty,  and  as  a 
well-known  exponent  of  homeopathy.  In  the 
spring  of  1896  he  was  elected  to  the  chair  of  his- 
tory of  medicine  in  the  college  here  and  a  year 
later  was  made  registrar  of  the  faculty.  He  is 
now  professor  of  the  principles  of  medicine  and 
medical  technology.  He  is  a  member  of  the  city 
and  state  associations  of  homeopathists,  being 
vice-president  of  the  Denver  Homeopathic  Medical 
Club  and  chairman  of  the  executive  committee  of 
the  state  society.  He  is  a  member  of  the  board 
of  censors  of  the  Missouri  Valley  Homeopathic 
Medical  Association  and  a  member  of  the  Ameri- 
can Institute,  in  the  last  named  of  which  he  was 
chairman  of  the  committee  on  life  insurance  for 
two  years  and  secretary  of  the  section  of  eye,  ear, 
nose  and  throat  for  the  past  year.  Fraternally 
he  is  a  Mason  and  a  member  of  the  Royal  Ar- 
canum, while  in  politics  he  is  a  silver  Republi- 
can. Dr.  Strickler  is  a  widower  and  has  two 
children,  Lynda  Louise  and  Gertrude  Aline. 


(S\  NTHONY  ARNETT,  an  honored  old  citizen 
f  1  of  Boulder,  was  one  of  the  early  pioneers  of 
/  I  Colorado.as  he  landed  in  this  state  in  the  sum- 
mer of  1859.  He  was  the  first  settler  in  the  town  of 
Golden,  arriving  there  June  10,  1859,  and  hauled 
the  first  log  to  the  site,  then  erecting  a  cabin. 
His  adventures  and  experiences  in  the  "wild 
west " — freighting  across  the  plains  and  over  the 
mountains,  suffering  all  kinds  of  hardships  and 
privations,  pursued  by  Indians  and  wild  beasts, 
mining  and  prospecting,  farming  and  merchan- 
dising and  engaging  in  dozens  of  various  enter- 
prises— the  history  of  all  these  unusual  occur- 
rences and  situations  in  his  career  would  make  a 
book,  and  a  very  thrilling  and  interesting  one  to 
the  most  casual  reader. 

The  parents  of  our  subject  were  Louis  and 
Clara  (Shaddy)  Arnett,  natives  of  Alsace,  France. 
The  latter' s  father  was  killed  during  the  Napo- 
leonic wars.  Louis  Arnett  was  a  farmer  and 
dealer  in  hemp  in  his  native  land.  In  1828  he 
brought  his  family  to  the  United  States  and  set- 
tled in  New  York  City.  Later  he  removed  to 
Rochester;  thence  to  Buffalo,  and  finally  went 
from  his  home  on  the  mountains  near  Warren, 
Pa.,  to  Whiteside  County,  111.  There  he  and  his 
nine  sons  took  up  land  and  improved  farms  in  the 


vicinity  of  Prophetstown.  The  father  died  at  the 
age  of  seventy-nine  years,  and  five  of  his  twelve 
children  are  deceased. 

Anthony  Arnett  was  born  in  Reisthof,  on  the 
Rhine,  Alsace,  France,  July  7,  1819,  and  was 
about  nine  years  of  age  when  he  came  to  the 
United  States  on  a  sailing  vessel,  which  took 
seven  weeks  to  reach  its  destination.  He  had 
but  meager  school  advantages,  and  was  only  six- 
teen years  old  in  1835,  when  he  started  for  Chi- 
cago, driving  through  the  Maumee  swamps  from 
his  old  home  near  Warren,  Pa.  The  winter  of 
1835-36  he  engaged  in  teaming  between  Chicago 
and  Michigan  City,  after  which  he  homesteaded 
some  Illinois  prairie  land,  later  selling  it.  Then  he 
went  to  Iowa,  and  made  $450  in  three  months, 
breaking  prairie.  It  was  very  hard  work,  however, 
for  several  yoke  of  cattle  had  to  be  hitched  to  the 
great  plow,  which  cut  twenty -four  inches  into 
the  soil,  then  overgrown  with  rank  weeds.  Re- 
turning to  Illinois  he  was  similarly  employed  un- 
til 1846,  when  he  embarked  in  the  mercantile 
business  in  Portland,  111.  This  enterprise  did 
not  pay  very  well,  so  he  turned  his  attention  to 
cultivating  a  forty-acre  tract  of  land  which  he 
owned.  About  this  time  he  married  Mary,  daugh- 
ter of  William  and  Rose  Graham,  of  Scotch-Irish 
descent  and  natives  of  the  town  of  Monaghan, 
Ireland.  She  has  always  been  a  loyal  help-mate, 
sharing  her  husband's  burdens  and  cheering  him 
by  her  love  and  sympathy.  Their  four  children 
are:  Willamette,  now  in  Alaska;  Emmett,  pro- 
prietor of  the  Boulder  laundry;  Eugene,  who  is 
in  the  army  now  at  Manila;  and  Mrs.  Jennie 
Develine. 

In  1849  Mr.  Arnett  started  for  the  gold  fields 
of  California,  from  New  York  City,  on  the  bark 
"Clyde."  They  proceeded  around  Cape  Horn, 
and  were  over  six  months  on  the  voyage.  With 
three  comrades,  who  had  but  ten  cents  among 
them,  Mr.  Arnett  began  his  career  in  the  far 
west  by  working  for  his  first  meal  in  San  Fran- 
cisco. He  soon  found  employment  in  freighting 
goods  over  the  mountains  to  the  mines,  and  es- 
corted one  party  to  their  new  "diggings,"  put 
up  a  log  cabin  for  them,  and  then  returned  to 
Stockton.  That  winter  he  teamed  in  mud  almost 
knee-deep,  for  he  could  obtain  truly  fabulous 
prices  for  so  doing.  One  load  which  he  conveyed 
to  Wood's  Diggings  was  paid  for  at  the  rate  of 
$1  per  pound,  but  the  trip  of  sixty  miles  con- 


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sumed  four  days.  He  had  made  an  arrangement 
with  his  three  companions,  above  mentioned, 
that  he  should  bring  them  all  needed  sup- 
plies while  they  mined,  and  that  they  would 
divide  the  proceeds  in  the  spring.  As  a  re- 
sult of  his  labors  he  had  over  $3,000,  while 
the  three  others  had  but  $48  among  them. 
Mr.  Arnett's  next  venture  proved  successful  also, 
for  having  selected  a  suitable  site  he  built  an 
18K26  frame  house,  started  what  is  known  to  this 
day  as  the  Rock  River  Hotel,  and  inside  of  ten 
days  made  $1,600.  In  the  fall  he  sold  the  hotel 
for  $1,800,  and  subsequently  put  up  another 
mountain  house,  which  was  not  a  financial  suc- 
cess. For  a  time  he  operated  a  store  on  the 
Feather  River,  and  again  transported  goods,  but 
was  not  so  prosperous  during  the  last  year  of  his 
stay  in  California.  In  the  fall  of  185 1  he  returned 
to  Illinois,  crossing  Nicaragua,  and  was  one 
of  the  first  of  the  gold  seekers  to  select  that 
route.  In  the  Prairie  state  he  cultivated  a 
farm  of  eighty  acres  for  some  eight  years. 

It  was  in  1859  that  Mr.  Arnett  left  his  Illinois 
home  in  a  wagon  drawn  by  oxen,  bound  for  Col- 
orado. The  trip  took  about  two  months,  and 
he  spent  some  time  in  Golden  and  Boulder  be- 
fore he  returned  to  Illinois  in  the  autumn.  The 
following  year  he  came  back  to  Boulder,  and  in 
1862  he  succeeded  in  fetching  one  hundred  head 
of  cows  from  the  east.  His  idea  was  that  Boul- 
der Valley  might  be  made  a  good  place  for  the 
raising  of  cattle,  and  so  it  proved.  In  1864  he 
purchased  the  Boulder  House  and  was  its  pro- 
prietor for  many  years,  and  in  1875  he  erected 
the  Brainard  House.  He  has  dealt  considerably 
in  real  estate,  and  his  mining  operations  have 
been  very  extensive.  At  present  he  owns  the 
Celestial  mine  and  the  Corning  lode  in  Ward; 
has  investments  in  two  mines  near  the  Dew  Drop 
mine;  Osborne  group  (or  Ricco  Alto,  meaning 
rich  high),  in  Sugar  Loaf,  near  Yellow  Pine; 
also  the  Maxwell  lode  on  Gold  Hill;  an  interest 
in  Horsefall  mine  at  Gold  Hill;  Mack  lode  on 
Gold  Hill;  the  Greenback  at  Gold  Lake;  Lone 
Widow  at  Sunshine;  the  I.  O.  U.  at  Sunshine, 
and  a  one-third  interest  in  the  La  Plata  lode  at 
Rowena. 

A  great  deal  of  credit  is  due  Mr.  Arnett  for  the 
liberal  manner  in  which  he  has  supported  all  en- 
terprises calculated  to  develop  and  add  to  the 
beauty  and  desirability  of  Boulder  and  the  Boul- 


der Valley.  That  we  have  the  state  university 
located  here  is  very  largely  the  result  of  his  in- 
fluence and  financial  assistance.  Besides  donat- 
ing to  the  institution  eighty-four  acres  of  land 
for  a  site,  he  gave  $500  in  cash  on  the  spot.  His 
gifts  altogether,  including  the  property  estimated 
at  its  present  value,  would  amount  to  about 
$40,000.  He  had  an  old  friend  in  the  legislature 
at  the  time  that  that  honorable  body  was  consid- 
ering the  location  of  the  state  university,  and  this 
old  comrade,  who  had  been  his  companion  on 
one  of  his  trips  across  the  plains,  used  his  influ- 
ence, which  was  not  slight,  on  behalf  of  Boulder, 
in  order  to  favor  Mr.  Arnett.  When  the  railroad 
was  being  built  through  the  valley  the  officials 
needed  right  of  way  and  financial  encouragement 
and  Mr.  Arnett  again  came  to  the  front,  subscrib- 
ing $2,200  toward  the  good  cause.  Then,  with 
three  others,  he  built  the  Caribou  road,  a  very 
difficult  undertaking,  and  believed  to  be  an  im- 
possibility. He  helped  build  the  road  to  Central 
City,  and  in  fact,  nearly  every  local  enterprise 
has  received  substantial  aid  from  his  generous 
purse.  Formerly  he  was  identified  with  the  Re- 
publican party,  and  was  a  member  of  the  first 
board  of  aldermen  here.  Politically  he  is  now 
independent.  Boulder  County  Pioneer  Society 
holds  him  f  s  one  of  its  most  honored  members, 
and  every  one  who  knows  him  respects  and  ad- 
mires him  for  his  sterling  characteristics,  and  for 
what  he  has  accomplished  in  his  long  and  useful 
life. 


pQlLBER  R.  THORNTON,  a  large  land 
I  A/  °^"^''  °^  Larimer  County  and  a  prominent 
Y  V  citizen  of  Berthoud,  was  born  in  Wyoming 
County,  N.  Y.,  in  1853,  a  son  of  Richard  and 
Eleanor  (Seeley)  Thornton.  He  spent  his  early 
years  in  his  native  county  and  received  a  fair  edu- 
cation in  the  public  schools,  after  which  he  en- 
gaged in  teaching.  In  1877  became  west  and  for 
a  short  time  sojourned  in  Longmont,  but  came  to 
Larimer  County  in  the  spring  of  1878  and  took 
up  a  tract  of  school  land.  For  three  years  after 
coming  to  this  county  he  taught  school,  in  ad- 
dition to  superintending  the  improvement  of  his 
land.  On  the  foot  hills  near  the  Big  Thompson 
he  took  up  a  quarter-section  of  government  land, 
but  soon  sold  it  and  bought  a  stock  ranch  in  the 
hills.     For   some  years,  and   until   1882,  he  en- 


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gaged  in  raising  cattle  and  carried  on  a  dairy 
business,  as  well  as  general  farm  pursuits. 

Selling  that  place  in  1882,  Mr.  Thornton 
bought  a  farm  east  of  Berthoud  and  moving  there, 
he  engaged  in  general  agricultural  pursuits  for 
fifteen  years.  He  .still  owns  the  place  and  super- 
intends its  cultivation,  but  it  is  occupied  by  a  ten- 
ant, while  he  has  made  his  home  in  Berthoud 
since  1897.  His  landed  possessions  aggregate 
twelve  hundred  and  eighty  acres,  comprising 
some  of  the  best  farming  land  in  the  county. 
This  property  he  has  accumulated  by  his  unaided 
efforts,  as  he  had  nothing  at  the  time  he  came  to 
Berthoud,  and  was  dependent  upon  his  own  ex- 
ertions for  whatever  of  success  he  might  hope  to 
attain. 

In  politics  Mr.  Thornton  is  a  Prohibitionist. 
On  that  ticket  he  was  nominated  for  county  com- 
missioner in  1891.  and  with  the  endorsement  of 
the  Populists  arid  Democrats  he  was  elected  for 
a  term  of  three  years.  He  has  also  served  as  a 
member  of  the  city  board  of  councilmen.  During 
1893  he  was  manager  of  the  Berthoud  roller 
mills.  In  the  work  of  irrigating  the  land  in  this 
county  he  has  been  an  important  factor.  He  was 
one  of  the  promoters  of  the  Mary  Ann  reservoir ; 
and  for  seven  years  was  superintendent  of  the 
company,  also  serving  as  a  member  of  the  board 
of  directors.  Fraternally  he  is  connected  with 
Berthoud  IvO<ige  No.  83,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.  In 
1877  he  was  united  in  marriage  with  Miss  Jessie 
Scoville,  who  had  been  a  successful  teacher  in 
York  state  and  also  engaged  in  teaching  for  a  few 
years  after  coming  to  Colorado.  They  are  the 
parents  of  three  children :  Clarence,  Theresa  and 
Bruce. 


gjEORGEC.  SWADLEY.  Among  the  com- 
_  panics  that  started  acro.ss  the  plains  in  1859 
^  was  one  composed  of  fifteen  men,  who  made 
the  long  and  tedious  journey  in  a  train  of  four 
wagons,  three  of  which  were  drawn  by  ten  yoke 
of  oxen,  while  the  remaining  one  was  drawn  by 
a  mule  team.  While  en  route  for  Colorado  the 
men  stopped  for  one  week  and  enjoyed  a  buffalo 
hunt,  thus  laying  in  a  large  supply  of  meat,  be- 
sides having  the  unusual  sport  of  hunting  buffalo. 
After  six  weeks  from  the  time  thej'  started,  the 
wagons  came  to  a  halt  in  Boulder.  It  was  then 
about  the  ist  of  July.  The  men  left  the  wagons 
in  Boulder  and  with  packs  on  their  backs  started 


for  the  mountains.  After  a  tour  of  inspection 
of  a  week,  they  learned  of  a  toll  road  leading  up 
into  the  mountains,  and  three  of  the  party  de- 
cided to  take  that  road.  One  of  these  men  was 
Mr.  Swadley.  They  took  up  a  claim,  which  he 
and  one  man  left  for  the  third  partner  to  hold  and 
to  clear  of  the  timber,  while  they  returned  to 
town  to  get  their  wagon  and  supplies.  On  their 
return  to  the  claim,  they  found  their  partner  had 
sold  out  their  rights  and  had  decamped  for  parts 
unknown.  This  was  somewhat  discouraging, 
but  they  were  hardy,  vigorous  and  determined, 
and  did  not  allow  themselves  to  become  disheart- 
ened. Going  to  the  diggings,  they  located  claims 
that  paid  $20  a  day,  but  as  winter  was  coming 
on,  they  thought  it  best  to  look  for  something 
else  to  do.  They  came  to  Arvada  and  that  win- 
ter found  them  mining  below  the  town. 

In  the  spring  of  the  following  year  Mr.  Swad- 
ley turned  his  attention  to  a  ver}'  different  line  of 
work.  After  a  short  time  in  the  mountains,  he 
came  back  to  the  valley  and  planted  a  crop  of 
onions,  which  he  found  to  be  a  profitable  invest- 
ment. During  the  winter  he  and  two  others 
hired  a  man  to  go  to  Mexico  for  onion  seed. 
After  three  months  the  man  returned,  bringing 
four  pounds  of  seed,  the  cost  of  which  was  $60 
per  pound  (counting  the  expense  of  the  trip), 
but  some  of  the  seed  was  disposed  of  at  $16  per 
ounce.  The  following  summer  others  planted 
their  seed  and  harvested  a  crop  that  sold  at  from 
fifteen  to  twenty-five  cents  a  pound.  Mr.  Swadley 
sold  all  the  marketable  onions;  the  scullions  or 
unsalable  ones  he  left  in  the  ground  and  har- 
vested them  in  the  spring  of  the  following  year, 
selling  the  crop  for  ft, 000.  In  the  fall  of  i860 
he  removed  to  his  present  farm,  which  he  had 
taken  up  under  the  Land  Claim  Club  in  May, 
i860.  Here  he  put  in  his  first  crop  in  the  spring 
of  1 86 1 ,  and  his  success  was  especially  encourag- 
ing, because  his  was  the  first  farm  in  Colorado 
that  was  farmed  on  upland. 

Continuing  his  experiments  as  an  agricultur- 
ist, Mr.  Swadley  began  to  raise  wheat  in  1863, 
and  that  year  he  harvested  as  high  as  fifty-three 
bushels  to  the  acre,  for  which  he  found  a  market 
at  $7.50  per  bu.shel.  During  all  this  time  he 
lived  in  a  cabin  that  had  been  the  stopping  place 
of  Horace  Greeley  when  that  illustrious  states- 
man visited  Denver.  He  had  bought  the  house 
in  that  city    and   from   there   removed   it   to  his 


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place,  making  it  his  home  until  he  had  the  means 
to  build  a  better  house.  In  1865  he  erected  a 
substantial  frame  residence,  which  stood  as  a 
mark  of  his  increased  prosperity.  He  also  added 
to  his  property  from  time  to  time  until  he  became 
the  owner  of  four  hundred  acres,  the  amount  of 
his  present  possessions,  and  in  1894  he  built  a 
palatial  brick  residence,  where  he  now  lives,  sur- 
rounded by  every  comfort. 

Such  a  life  proves  that  a  man  who  has  grit  and 
energy  can  succeed  in  Colorado.  Certainly  these 
two  attributes  are  prominent  qualities  in  the  char- 
acter of  Mr.  Swadley.  Perhaps  they  are  his  by 
training,  but  doubtless  they  are  to  some  extent 
inherited  from  his  grandfathers,  who  were  men  of 
dauntless  bravery.  His  paternal  grandfather 
was  one  of  the  men  who  drove  the  Indians  across 
the  Ohio  River  at  Guyandot,  when  the  river  ran 
blood.  The  other  grandfather  was  a  soldier  in 
the  war  of  18 12  and  died  while  in  active  service. 

In  the  Shenandoah  Valley  of  Virginia  Mr. 
Swadley  was  born  September  26,  1837,  a  son  of 
William  and  Margaret  (Pence)  Swadley.  He 
was  one  of  eight  children,  of  whom  besides  him- 
self five  are  living:  Elizabeth,  widow  of  James 
Kinkead,  of  Highland  County,  Va.;  Mary,  Mrs. 
George  Beveridge,  of  Pocahontas  County,  W. 
Va.;  Lydia,  wife  of  Frank  Gum,  living  in  High- 
land County,  Va. ;  John  L.,  a  farmer  of  Bath 
County,  Va.;  and  Hannah,  who  married  Mark 
Simmons  and  lives  in  Highland  County.  The 
father  of  this  family  was  born  in  the  Old  Domin- 
ion in  1809  and  in  youth  was  apprenticed  to  the 
tanner's  trade  in  Lancaster,  Pa.  Later  he  em- 
barked in  business  for  himself,  starting  a  tannery 
in  Rockingham  County,  Va.,  and  for  twenty 
years  engaging  in  business  there  and  in  High- 
land County.  His  last  years  were  spent  in  re- 
tirement from  active  labors.  His  wife,  who  was 
born  in  181 1,  is  now  eighty-seven  years  of  age 
and  resides  on  the  old  Virginia  homestead. 

At  the  age  of  fifteen  our  subject  went  to  Bridge- 
water,  Rockingham  County,  where  he  remained 
three  years  as  an  apprentice  to  the  carpenter's 
trade.  From  there  he  went  to  Cedar  County, 
Iowa,  in  1856,  and  began  in  business  as  a  car- 
penter. In  the  winter  months,  when  there  was 
little  work  at  the  trade,  he  attended  school. 
Cedar  County  was  then  sparsely  inhabited  and 
the  surrounding  country  was  new.  The  Rock 
Island  Railroad  had  been  completed  to  Iowa  City, 


which  was  farther  west  than  any  other  railroad 
had  been  built.  When  the  panic  came  in  1859 
business  was  dull  and  he  was  therefore  the  more 
eager  to  join  the  gold  seekers  in  their  journey 
across  the  plains. 

In  1866  Mr.  Swadley  married  Mary  E.  Pollock, 
of  Missouri,  whose  father,  John  Pollock,  came  to 
Colorado  from  Holt  County,  Mo.,  in  1863.  She 
died  October  21,  1896,  and  is  survived  by  four  of 
her  five  children.  Clara,  the  eldest,  is  her  father's 
housekeeper  and  affectionately  ministers  to  his 
comfort.  William  Robert  married  Josephine 
Bright,  and  is  engaged  in  cultivating  a  part  of 
the  home  farm.  John  Ira  was  born  November 
27,  1870,  and  died  May  i,  1871.  The  two 
youngest  of  the  family  are  daughters,  Laura  and 
Sarah,  both  accomplished  and  popular  young 
ladies. 

Politically  Mr.  Swadley  is  an  ardent  Democrat. 
In  1883  he  was  elected  county  commissioner  on 
the  Democratic  ticket  and  served  for  one  term. 
The  county  is  strongly  Republican,  but  when  he 
was  his  party's  candidate  for  representative  in 
the  state  legislature,  he  was  defeated  by  only 
about  thirty  votes.  He  is  a  man  of  public  spirit, 
desirous  to  secure  the  advancement  of  his  town 
and  county,  and  interested  in  every  measure  that 
promises  to  promote  the  welfare  of  his  fellow- 
citizens. 


[{JEORGE  C.  BRIGGS.  The  career  of  him 
l_  whose  name  heads  this  review  illustrates 
V_J  most  forcibly  the  possibilities  that  are  open 
to  a  young  man  who  possesses  sterling  business 
qualifications.  It  proves  that  neither  wealth  nor 
social  position,  nor  the  assistance  of  influential 
friends  at  the  outset  of  his  career  are  necessary  to 
place  him  on  the  road  to  success.  It  also  proves 
that  ambition,  perseverance,  steadfast  purpose 
and  indefatigable  industry,  combined  with  sound 
business  principles,  will  be  rewarded,  and  that 
true  success  follows  individual  effort  onl)'.  Mr. 
Briggs  has  gained  recognition  and  prestige  as  one 
of  the  influential  and  representative  business  men 
of  Evans,  and  is  to-day  the  senior  member  of  the 
well-known  firm  of  Briggs  &  McAfee. 

He  is  an  honored  son  of  Pennsylvania,  born  in 
Jefferson  County,  May  10,  i860,  while  his  par- 
ents, Lorenzo  N.  and  Elmira  (Gardner)  Briggs, 
were  natives  of  New  York  and  Pennsylvania  re- 
spectively.    The  father  was  a  merchant  for  many 


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years  and  also  a  dealer  in  lumber  in  Elk  County, 
Pa.  All  of  his  five  children  are  yet  living.  Dur- 
ing his  boyhood  and  youth  our  subject  obtained 
a  good  practical  knowledge  of  business  affairs  in 
his  father's  store  and  also  acquired  a  fair  literary 
education  in  the  common  schools. 

I/caviug  home  at  the  age  of  twenty  years,  Mr. 
Briggs  came  to  Evans,  Colo. ,  where  he  was  var- 
iously employed  for  a  time,  but  finally  accepted  a 
position  as  clerk  in  the  store  of  H.  C.  Sherman, 
with  whom  he  remained  a  number  of  years.  For 
six  years  he  was  a  member  of  the  firm  carrying 
on  business  under  the  style  of  the  Union  Mer- 
cantile Company,  and  then  purchased  the  store, 
which  he  conducted  alone  for  several  years.  In 
1889  he  was  appointed  postmaster  under  Presi- 
dent Harrison  and  acceptably  served  in  that 
office  until  1894,  but  still  continued  his  interest 
in  the  mercantile  business.  In  the  spring  of 
1898  he  formed  his  present  partnership  with  Mr. 
McAfee,  and  as  dealers  in  general  merchandise, 
produce  and  all  kinds  of  farming  implements, 
wagons,  carriages  and  supplies,  are  conducting  a 
large  and  profitable  business.  They  do  an  es- 
pecially large  business  in  farm  machinery,  and 
handle  the  Osborn  binders,  mowers  and  reapers, 
employing  George  T.  Parks,  who  is  an  expert 
machinist,  to  attend  to  the  putting  up  of  the  ma- 
chinery. They  also  handle  Studebaker's  wagons 
and  carriages,  and  besides  their  commodious 
store  they  have  a  large  warehouse.  In  connec- 
tion with  his  real-estate  interests  in  Evans,  Mr. 
Briggs  owns  city  property  in  Denver;  is  inter- 
ested in  mining  in  various  places;  owns  a  fine 
farm  in  the  Platte  Valley,  in  the  Big  Bend  coun- 
try, which  he  rents;  is  president  of  the  Evans 
Mill  and  Elevator  Company,  which  he  assisted  in 
organizing;  and  is  director  of  the  Buckers  Ditch 
Company. 

On  the  3d  of  January,  1889,  Mr.  Briggs  was 
united  in  marriage  with  Miss  Isabelle  Parks,  a 
native  of  Randolph  County,  111.,  and  a  daughter 
of  James  G.  Parks,  of  Washington,  Kan.,  and  to 
them  have  been  born  four  children :  Ethel  L.; 
Mary  E.,  known  as  Mira;  Eula  A.,  known  as 
Agues;  and  James  Glen. 

Until  recently  Mr,  Briggs  supported  the  Re- 
publican party,  but  is  now  known  as  a  silver 
Republican.  He  takes  quite  an  active  and  promi- 
nent part  in  public  affairs,  and  in  1889  was 
elected  mayor  of  Evans,  and  so  capably  and  satis- 


factorily did  he  fill  that  office  that  he  has  been 
four  times  re-elected.  Socially  he  belongs  to 
Prosperity  Lodge  No.  109,  I.  O.  O.  F.,  of  which 
he  is  vice-grand,  and  he  is  a  charter  member  of 
Camp  No.  194,  W.  O.  W.  and  is  council  com- 
mander. Being  a  fine  shot  he  finds  his  chief 
source  of  recreation  and  delight  in  hunting,  and 
is  the  owner  of  a  number  of  excellent  guns.  Suc- 
cess in  life  is  not  measured  by  the  heights  which 
one  may  chance  to  occupy,  but  by  the  distance 
between  the  starting  point  and  the  altitude  he 
has  reached;  and  as  Mr.  Briggs  started  out  a  poor 
boy  he  has  gained  a  most  brilliant  success,  a  just 
reward  of  meritorious,  honorable  effort,  which 
commands  the  respect  and  admiration  of  all. 


(lUDGE  PETER  M.  HOUSEL,  as  one  of  the 
I  oldest  pioneers  of  Boulder  County,  is  justly 
Qj  entitled  to  representation  in  the  history  of 
her  early  settlers  and  prominent  citizens.  No 
one  is  held  in  higher  esteem  in  this  section,  and 
few,  if  any,  of  the  founders  of  the  county's  pros- 
perity have  been  more  aggressive  in  works  of 
improvement  and  progress  than  he  has  been. 
His  influence  has  ever  been  exerted  for  the  bene- 
fit and  well-being  of  his  fellows,  and  the  de- 
tailed history'  of  his  life  is  a  history  of  innumer- 
able kindly  deeds  and  aid  extended  toward  those 
in  need  of  his  assistance. 

The  parents  of  the  judge  were  William  and 
Julia  (Johnson)  Housel,  natives  of  Northumber- 
land and  Union  Counties,  Pa.,  respectively.  The 
father  was  a  son  of  John  Housel,  a  farmer  near 
Milton,  Pa.,  and  an  extensive  land-owner.  He 
was  of  German  extraction,  his  ancestors  having 
been  numbered  among  the  earliest  settlers  of  the 
Keystone  state,  and  of  the  Reformed  Church 
in  religious  creed.  The  judge's  father  was  a 
watchmaker,  silversmith  and  jeweler  by  trade, 
and  made  the  old-fashioned,  tall  "grandfather's" 
clocks  still  common  throughout  Pennsylvania. 
He  passed  his  last  days  on  a  farm  near  Lewis- 
burg,  Pa. ,  dying  there  at  the  age  of  sixty  years. 
His  wife,  Julia,  was  a  granddaughter  of  Captain 
Christopher  Johnson,  of  English  descent,  and  a 
native  of  New  Jersey,  where  he  lived  until  the 
war  of  the  Revolution,  when  he  enlisted  and  rose 
to  the  rank  of  captain.  Subsequently  he  moved 
to  Union  County,  Pa.,  where  he  carried  on  a 
farm  until  well  along  in  years.     Both  he  and  his 


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wife  lived  to  attain  their  eighty-fourth  year. 
They  were  adherents  of  the  Presbyterian  Church. 
Mrs.  Julia  Housel  was  summoned  to  her  reward 
when  she  had  reached  the  threescore  and  ten 
years,  spoken  of  by  the  Psalmist  as  the  usual 
duration  of  life.  She  was  the  mother  of  two  sons 
and  three  daughters,  of  whom  but  three  now 
survive. 

Judge  Housel'was  born  November  2,  1823,  in 
Northumberland  County,  Pa.,  and  grew  to  man- 
hood in  the  neighborhood  of  Milton.  He  attend- 
ed the  old  fashioned  subscription  schools  and  the 
academy  in  Lewisburg,  Pa.  Then,  having  mas- 
tered the  trade  of  his  father  he  practiced  the 
calling  in  Bellefontaine  for  a  few  years.  In  1852 
he  came  as  far  west  as  Davenport,  Iowa,  the 
journey  in  those  days  being  no  small  undertaking. 
He  went  as  far  as  Erie,  Pa.,  by  railroad,  thence 
to  Girard,  Pa.,  by  stage,  from  there  to  Cleveland, 
Ohio,  by  rail;  and  on  to  Cincinnati  in  the  same 
fashion;  then  by  boat  down  the  Ohio  and  up  the 
Mississippi.  For  seven  years  he  made  his  home 
in  Davenport,  his  time  being  employed  at  his 
trade.  The  western  fever  then  being  at  its 
height,  he  decided  to  make  a  trip  to  Pike's  Peak, 
and  fitting  out  with  ox-teams  he  left  Newton, 
Iowa,  in  1859.  He  came  by  way  of  Omaha,  and 
Fort  Laramie,  and  encountered  a  vast  number  of 
discouraged  travelers,  who  told  him  stories  of  the 
difficulties  of  the  road  and  the  small  inducements 
they  had  found  to  stay  in  the  west.  Reaching 
Laramie,  Wyo. ,  Mr.  Housel  had  the  good  fortune 
to  hear  Horace  Greeley  give  a  lecture  and  sound 
advice  to  the  effect  that  seekers  of  a  home  and 
better  prospects  than  they  had  hitherto  enjoyed, 
should  locate  in  Colorado,  instead  of  continuing 
their  trip  to  far-distant  California.  He  concluded 
to  follow  the  famous  man's  coun.sel,  and  came 
to  Boulder  by  way  of  the  present  city  of  Chey- 
enne. Arriving  in  this  county  July  12,  1859,  he 
went  to  Gold  Hill,  and  engaged  in  mining  on 
Horsefall  Lode,  one  of  the  best-known  mines  in 
the  county.  He  bought  it  of  the  discoverer, 
operated  it  for  some  years  and  then  leased  the 
property.  Upon  the  organization  of  Colorado 
Territory  in  1862  he  was  elected  the  first  county 
judge  of  Boulder  County  and,  entering  at  once 
upon  his  duties  after  the  election,  served  for  two 
terms  to  the  entire  satisfaction  of  all  concerned. 

In  the  fall  of  1865  the  judge  returned  to  Iowa 
on  a  visit,  and  when  he  came  back  to  this  county 


built  a  flour-mill  at  the  junction  of  the  North  and 
South  Boulder  Rivers,  having  brought  the  burrs 
and  machinery  from  Chicago,  and  from  Nevada, 
Iowa,  by  team.  This  mill  was  the  first  one  of 
any  consequence  in  the  county,  and  after  running 
it  for  several  years  he  disposed  of  it.  At  that 
time  he  owned  a  farm  near  Valmont,  improved  it 
with  irrigating  ditches,  etc. ,  and  finally  sold  the 
place.  He  located  and  constructed  the  Marshall- 
ville  ditch,  one  of  the  best  in  the  county,  and  is 
still  a  stockholder  in  the  company.  In  1876  he 
went  to  Bear  Gulch  in  the  Black  Hills,  and  made 
enough  gold  from  his  mining  to  pay  for  another 
farm.  Returning,  he  purchased  a  homestead 
about  five  miles  east  of  Boulder,  and  still  owns 
this  place,  which  he  has  greatly  improved.  He 
also  spent  four  or  five  years  in  mining  in  the 
leading  camp  at  Bonanza.  In  1898  he  retired 
from  active  live,  and  is  making  his  home  in  Boul- 
der. For  forty  years  he  has  been  a  ruling  elder 
in  the  Presbyterian  Church.  When  the  first 
Republican  sub-committee  met  in  Iowa  City  he 
was  a  member  of  the  body  and  has  continued 
loyal  in  his  adherence  to  the  principles  of  the 
party  ever  since,  though  he  takes  issue  with  it  on 
the  silver  question.  In  his  early  manhood  he 
was  a  member  of  the  Sons  of  Temperance  and  has 
long  been  connected  with  the  Odd  Fellows'  soci- 
ety. 

The  wife  of  his  youth  was  a  Miss  Sarah  Nesbit 
prior  to  their  marriage.  She  was  born  in  Penn- 
sylvania and  died  a  year  and  a-half  after  their 
marriage.  Later,  Miss  Eliza  Stuart,  of  the  same 
state,  became  his  bride,  and  for  thirty-eight  years, 
or  until  her  death,  was  his  companion  and  help- 
mate. Her  father.  Col.  Andrew  Stuart,  was  a 
hero  of  the  war  of  18 12  and  was  a  very  prominent 
politician  in  Pennsylvania,  serving  in  both  the 
upper  and  lower  house  of  delegates.  He  traced 
his  lineage  to  the  famous  Stuart  line  in  Scot- 
land. The  four  children  born  to  the  judge  and 
wife  Eliza  are  living  and  as  follows:  Edgar 
Stuart,  of  Boulder,  a  fruit  grower  and  lumber 
manufacturer;  Mrs.  Julia  Bentley,  of  this  city; 
William  C,  a  journalist  of  Bo.ston,  Mass.;  and 
James,  who  is  a  mining  engineer,  no*  in  Cripple 
Creek,  Colo.  William  C,  a  linguist  of  great 
ability,  is  a  graduate  of  the  University  of  Colo- 
rado and  of  the  University  of  Michigan.  Going 
abroad,  he  then  took  a  post-graduate  course  in 
Leipsic,  Germany,  and  in  Geneva,  Switzerland. 


JOHN  G.  COY. 


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The  present  wife  of  Judge  Housel  is  a  native  of 
Maine,  and  was  Louise  P.  Bixby  in  her  girlhood. 
She  was  first  married  to  Rev.  Horace  Wolcott,  a 
Congregational  minister,  and  the  three  sons  of 
that  union  are  named  respectively:  Edward, 
Charles  and  Frank.  The  last-mentioned  is  a 
student  in  the  University  of  Colorado  and  the 
eldest,  Edward,  is  a  business  man  of  Denver. 


(TOHN  G.  COY  has  resided  on  his  present 
I  homestead  in  Larimer  County  since  August 
G)  I,  1862.  His  settlement  here  was  due  to  ac- 
cident. He  had  started  to  California,  with  six 
oxen  and  two  cows,  but  at  Fort  Kearney  three  of 
the  oxen  and  one  cow  were  stolen,  and  he  was 
unable  to  make  the  long  journey  to  the  Pacific 
with  the  few  left.  In  this  way  he  was  induced 
to  establish  his  home  in  Colorado,  the  represen- 
tations of  Mr.  Ames,  whom  he  met,  causing  him 
to  locate  on  the  Cache  la  Poudre,  where  a  govern- 
ment post  was  established.  His  first  home  was 
a  log  shanty  left  by  a  squatter.  He  continued 
on  the  claim  and  in  1866  proved  up  on  the  land, 
securing  the  title  to  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres, 
and  here,  across  the  river  from  Fort  Collins,  he 
has  improved  a  place  that  is  the  admiration  of 
every  visitor. 

Mr.  Coy  was  born  in  Oswego,  N.  Y. ,  April  14, 
1834.  His  father,  William,  a  native  of  Lincoln- 
shire, England,  came  to  America  in  young  man- 
hood and  became  boss  miller  in  the  Oswego  mills. 
He  died  when  his  son,  our  subject,  was  ten  years 
of  age.  The  wife  and  mother,  who  bore  the 
maiden  name  of  Elizabeth  Thorp,  was  born  in 
England  and  died  in  Oswego  six  months  after  the 
death  of  her  husband.  She  left  three  children, 
John,  Benjamin  (now  a  contractor  in  Oswego, 
N.  Y.)  and  William  (who  died  in  St.  Louis). 
Our  subject,  the  oldest  son,  was  taken  into  the 
home  of  an  uncle,  but  after  a  few  months  went  to 
work  for  a  miller,  three  miles  from  Oswego. 
There  he  remained  until  he  was  thirteen.  In 
1847  he  went  to  Illinois  and  settled  in  Blooming- 
dale,  DuPage  County,  where  he  had  an  uncle,  a 
farmer.  He  made  his  home  with  the  uncle  and 
during  two  winters  attended  school.  In  1852  he 
returned  to  Oswego,  then  went  via  New  Orleans 
.  to  St.  Louis.  In  the  spring  of  1853  he  joined  a 
company  of  twelve  men,  accompanying  a  cattle 
train  of  three  hundred  head  of  cattle,  also  some 
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horses.  He  went  from  St.  Louis  to  Kansas  City, 
thence  up  the  Kaw  River  to  Fort  Kearney,  then 
followed  the  Platte  to  Julesburg,  where  he  crossed, 
and  struck  the  North  Platte  at  Ash  Hollow,  then 
went  up  the  south  side  of  that  river,  which  he 
crossed  one  hundred  miles  above  Fort  Laramie, 
paying  a  heavy  toll  to  cross  the  bridge.  From 
there  he  went  through  South  Pass,  thence  to  the 
head  of  the  Humboldt  and  down  to  the  desert, 
from  there  to  the  Sacramento  Valley.  At  Nich- 
olas, on  Feather  River,  he  and  his  friends  broke 
camp  and  separated.  He  secured  employment 
on  a  farm,  but  after  two  months  engaged  in 
mining  on  the  Yuba  River.  When  the  rainy  sea- 
son began  he  left  the  mine  and  went  to  Grass 
Valley,  where  he  made  shingles  during  the  win- 
ter. In  the  spring  he  went  to  St.  Louis,  Cal., 
where  he  worked  at  mining  by  the  day.  His 
next  location  was  at  Goodyear' s  Bar,  where  he 
took  up  a  claim  and  mined  during  the  summer, 
thence  went  to  lone  Valley  in  the  fall  and  there 
mined  for  one  year.  From  Shasta,  his  next  loca- 
tion, he  went  to  Dog  Creek,  a  tributary  of  the 
Sacramento  River,  and  there  remained  two  years, 
thence  to  Dogtown,  in  Butte  County,  where  he 
engaged  in  mining  for  three  and  one-half  years. 
He  returned  east  from  San  Francisco  in  1861 
across  the  isthmus,  where  he  first  heard  of 
the  Civil  war.  Returning  to  Oswego,  during 
the  same  year  he  again  went  west,  traveling 
through  Kansas  and  Nebraska.  Near  Fort 
Scott,  Kan.,  he  was  captured  by  the  "Jay 
Hawkers,"  who  thought  he  was  a  southerner, 
but  who  released  him  on  learning  he  was  from 
New  York.  On  his  way  to  an  uncle  in  Cuba, 
Mo.,  via  Kansas  City,  he  was  caught  by  the  Con- 
federates at  Warrensburg,  and  was  held  for  sev- 
eral days,  but  fortunately  was  acquainted  with  a 
captain  in  the  regiment  from  there,  and  from  him 
secured  release.  Finally  reaching  his  uncle,  he 
spent  a  few  weeks  there,  then  returned  to  Oswego, 
using  a  provost  marshal's  pass,  which  he  still 
holds.  From  Oswego  he  went  to  Iowa,  and  in 
Fayette,  that  state,  in  the  spring  of  i86?,  married 
Miss  Emily  Adams,  who  was  born  in  England, 
but  was  brought  to  America  by  her  parents  when 
a  child.  With  his  wife  he  went  to  Cuba,  Mo., 
where  he  outfitted  for  a  trip  across  the  plains, 
intending  to  go  to  California,  but,  as  above  stated, 
landing  in  Colorado.  In  the  spring  of  1866  he 
took  his  wife  and  child  back  east,  to  Iowa  and 


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Oswego,  where  they  remained  for  a  few  months, 
returning  via  St.  Joseph  with  a  mule  team. 

In  1864  Mr,  Coy  started  the  ditch  from  the 
Cache  la  Poudre  one  mile  away,  to  his  farm,  and 
this  has  given  him  an  abundance  of  water  ever 
since,  as  he  has  a  priority  of  water  right.  After 
securing  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  he  pre- 
empted another  tract  adjoining,  of  the  same  size, 
and  later  sold  twenty  acres,  which  left  him  three 
hundred  acres,  all  under  cultivation.  Hisson-in 
law  built  the  Hoffman  mill,  a  grist  mill,  which  has 
fine  water  power.  He  has  improved  the  farm 
with  a  good  residence  and  substantial  barns. 
For  a  time  he  grazed  cattle  near  Sherman.  He 
now  owns  a  cattle  ranch  on  the  North  Platte  in 
Wyoming,  where  he  has  a  son  who  is  engaged  in 
raising  stock. 

Mr.  Coy  has  been  interested  in  the  stock  busi- 
ne.ss  and  has  fed  sheep  and  cattle  profitably,  being 
among  the  first  to  engage  in  these  industries. 
The  first  ten  crops  of  wheat  that  he  raised  aver- 
aged over  twenty-six  bushels  to  the  acre,  and  his 
two  best  crops  reached  forty  bushels  to  the  acre. 
Politically  he  is  identified  with  the  People's  party 
and  has  been  chairman  of  the  county  committee. 
In  early  days  he  was  the  Labor  Union  candidate 
for  the  legistature,  also  was  candidate  for  county 
treasurer.  In  1890  he  was  the  Union  Labor  can- 
didate for  governor,  but  his  party  was  in  the 
minority.  He  has  been  connected  with  the 
Grange  and  Farmers'  Alliance,  and  for  one  term 
served  as  president  of  the  Fair  Association.  His 
wife  attends  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church. 
They  are  the  parents  of  six  children:  Elizabeth,  a 
graduate  of  the  Agricultural  College  and  wife  of 
Walter  Lawrence,  who  is  a  professor  in  that  insti- 
tution; William  B.,  who  is  ranching  in  Wyoming; 
Fannie  E.,  wife  of  John  Hoffman,  of  Fort  Collins; 
Anna  B.  and  John  E. ,  who  are  graduates  of  the 
high  school;  and  Burgis  G.,  the  three  last  named 
at  home. 

HARVEY  JAY  PARISH,  county  commis- 
sioner of  Weld  County,  is  one  of  the  enter- 
prising young  agriculturists  of  northern 
Colorado.  In  1893  he  was  elected  on  the  People's 
party  ticket,  and,  being  endorsed  by  both  of  the 
other  parties,  he  was  victorious  by  a  large  major- 
ity. He  was  one  of  three  elected  on  that  ticket, 
and  was  so  well  liked  by  the  people  that  he  was 
again,   in   1896,   chosen   for  the  same  office,  and 


elected  by  the  Populists  and  silver  Republicans. 
The  last  year  of  his  first  term  he  acted  as  presi- 
dent of  the  board. 

In  everything  affecting  the  public  Mr.  Parish 
has  always  been  deeply  interested,  endeavoring 
to  do  his  share  at  all  times.  Practically  a  son  of 
Colorado,  as  he  was  but  four  years  old  when 
brought  here,  he  has  been  an  earnest  believer  in 
the  future  of  this  glorious  state  and  has  stanchly 
stood  by  her  industries,  educational  and  other  in- 
stitutions and  has  used  his  influence  in  favor  of 
progress  along  all  lines.  His  birth  took  place  in 
Taylor  County,  Iowa,  February  5,  1862,  and  in 
1866  the  family  removed  to  this  locality.  Here 
he  attended  the  public  .schools,  and  when  he 
arrived  at  man's  estate  he  homesteaded  a  farm  on 
the  open  prairie,  his  present  home.  He  pitched 
his  tent  in  the  northeast  corner  of  what  is  now 
his  door-yard  and  at  once  began  the  cultivation 
and  improvement  of  his  property.  The  Hills- 
borough ditch  was  constructed  soon  afterwards, 
and,  as  it  crosses  his  farm,  it  has  been  of  immen.se 
benefit  to  his  land.  He  became  a  stockholder  in 
the  company  at  that  time  and  in  1881  was  one  of 
the  foremost  advocates  of  the  Big  Cut  Lateral 
and  Reservoir  ditch.  His  original  farm  is 
situated  on  section  8,  township  4,  range  67,  and 
later  he  became  the  owner  of  a  quarter-section 
of  section  5,  and  a  similar  tract  in  township  6, 
range  67.  The  last-mentioned  farm  he  rents  to 
tenants.  He  has  made  agriculture  his  chief 
business,  though  he  has  also  raised  some  stock. 
For  two  years  he  was  president  of  the  Hills- 
borough Ditch  Company  and  he  was  also  one  of 
the  original  stockholders  of  the  Farmers'  Mill 
and  Elevator  Company  of  Berthoud,  and  for  two 
years  one  of  the  trustees  of  the  same.  Fraternally 
he  is  past  master  of  Berthoud  Lodge  No.  83, 
A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  and  is  connected  with  the  Ancient 
Order  of  United  Workmen. 

February  5,  1884,  Mr.  Parish  married  Miss 
Mary  Wygal,  daughter  of  Rufus  and  Mary 
Wygal.  The  father,  a  native  of  Missouri,  was  a 
Colorado  pioneer,  and  Mrs.  Parish  was  born  in 
this  state.  The  following- named  children  com- 
prise the  family  of  our  subject  and  wife:  Albert, 
Lottie  B.,  C.  Raymond,  Ruthford,  Jay  and  John. 
John  Parish,  the  father  of  Harvey  Jay,  is  still 
living,  his  home  being  near  Sunshine,  Boulder 
County.  He  was  born  in  Michigan  and  made 
farming   his  business  in  life  until  of  late  years. 


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when  he  became  interested  in  mining  and  pros- 
pecting. In  1864  he  came  to  this  state  and 
settled  upon  what  is  known  as  the  old  Bucking- 
ham place.  This  property  he  entered  and,  after 
cultivating  it  for  several  years,  in  the  meantime 
assisting  in  the  construction  of  the  first  ditch  in 
that  locality,  he  moved  to  a  ranch  eight  miles 
east  of  Loveland.  This  place  he  managed  up  to 
the  time  that  he  retired  from  farming  life.  To 
himself  and  wife,  whose  maiden  name  was  Mary 
Madden,  three  children  were  born,  namely: 
Harvey  Jay,  Katie  and  Stillman.  The  daughter 
is  the  wife  of  Godfrey  Koeig,  of  Windsor.  Still- 
man  is  the  superintendent  of  the  Weld  County 
hospital,  near  Greeley. 


r"  RANK  N.  THOMAS  is  one  of  the  leading  and 
ly  influential  citizens  of  Eaton,  Weld  County, 
I  who  has  taken  an  active  part  in  promoting  its 
substantial  improvement  and  material  develop- 
ment. The  business  interests  of  the  city  are  well 
represented  by  him,  and  whether  in  public  of  pri- 
vate life,  he  is  always  a  courteous,  genial  gentle- 
man, well  deserving  the  high  regard  in  which  he 
is  held. 

Mr.  Thomas  was  born  in  Homer,  N.  Y. ,  May 
8,  1865,  and  is  a  son  of  Myron  F.  and  Jennie  R. 
(Newton)  Thomas,  natives  of  New  York.  His 
paternal  great-grandfather  was  born  in  Connecti- 
cut, as  was  also  the  grandfather,  Edward  Thomas, 
who  engaged  in  farming  in  early  life  and  after  his 
removal  to  the  Empire  state  cleared  some  land 
there.  The  father  obtained  a  good  practical  edu- 
cation in  his  native  state,  and  became  quite  a 
prominent  contractor  and  builder.  In  1872  he  re- 
moved to  Denver,  which  at  that  time  was  not 
much  larger  than  the  present  city  of  Greeley, 
and  among  the  important  buildings  he  erected  at 
that  place  was  the  Markham  Hotel.  Our  subject's 
maternal  grandfather  was  Charles  Newton,  of 
New  York  state. 

Frank  N.  Thomas  is  an  only  son,  and  his  edu- 
cation was  obtained  in  the  high  school  of  Denver 
and  the  Agricultural  College  at  Fort  Collins,  at 
which  place  he  later  engaged  in  mercantile  busi- 
ness. In  1893  he  organized  the  State  Bank  of 
Eaton  and  served  as  cashier  of  the  same  until  its 
liquidation.  The  bank  did  a  good  business  while 
in  operation,  the  deposits  running  up  to  $35,000. 
Mr.  Thomas  has  erected  several  houses  in  Eaton 


and  still  owns  a  number  of  lots.  He  has  taken 
quite  a  prominent  part  in  public  affairs,  was  a 
member  of  the  town  council  four  j'ears,  and  in 
1897  was  elected  mayor.  Politically  he  is  identi- 
fied with  the  Republican  party;  socially  affiliates 
with  Eaton  Lodge  No.  130,  Woodmen  of  the 
World;  and  Fort  Collins  Lodge  No.  19,  A.  F.  & 
A.  M.;  and  religiously  is  a  member  of  the  Con- 
gregational Church. 

On  the  29th  of  June,  1893,  Mr.  Thomas  mar- 
ried Miss  Kate  M.,  daughter  of  Rev.  J.  H. 
Ailing,  of  Evanston,  111.,  and  to  them  has  been 
born  one  child,  Lotta  J.  Mrs.  Thomas,  who  is 
an  exceptionally  cultured  and  refined  lady,  is  a 
graduate  of  the  Chicago  high  school  and  the 
Northwestern  University,  and  at  the  time  of  her 
marriage  was  principal  of  the  Michigan  Female 
Seminary  at  Kalamazoo,  Mich.  She  is  a  charter 
member  of  the  National  Collegiate  Alumni, 
now  being  started  at  Denver.  She  was  a  member 
of  the  branch  at  Chicago,  also  belongs  to  the 
Kappa  Kappa  Gama  society  and  chapter,  and  in 
1897  and  1898  was  president  of  the  Woman's 
Club  of  Eaton,  of  which  she  was  one  of  the 
founders.  Her  father  is  a  Methodist  minister 
and  member  of  the  Rock  River  Conference. 


0ANIEL  WESTOVER,  a  well-known  farmer 
and  apiarist  living  near  Evans,  Weld 
County,  was  born  in  Fayette  County,  Ind., 
January  15,  1830,  and  is  a  son  of  Hiram  and 
Minerva  (Campbell)  Westover,  natives  of  New 
York  and  Maine  respectively.  The  mother  was 
a  descendant  of  Alexander  Campbell,  the  founder 
of  the  Christian  Church,  and  died  in  Indiana  at 
the  age  of  fifty-five  years.  The  father,  who  was 
a  farmer  by  occupation,  also  spent  much  of  his 
life  in  the  Hoosier  state,  but  died  in  Colorado  at 
the  age  of  seventy-five.  Of  their  nine  children 
four  are  still  living,  namely:  Daniel;  Oliver; 
Charles,  a  resident  of  California;  and  Minerva, 
wife  of  W.  J.  Young,  an  old  settler  of  Evans,  Colo. 
Daniel  Westover  spent  his  boyhood  and  youth 
in  Indiana,  his  education  being  obtained  in  its 
public  schools.  At  the  age  of  thirty-five  he  re- 
moved to  Marshall  County,  111.,  where  he  fol- 
lowed agricultural  pursuits  until  1859.  The 
following  spring  he  started  west,  traveling  over 
the  plains  with  a  cattle  team  and  landing  in  Den- 
ver June  9,    i860.     After  a  short  stop  there  he 


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went  to  Gilpin  County,  then  known  as  the 
Gregory  mining  district,  where  he  engaged  in 
mining  and  teaming  and  also  conducted  a  feed 
stable,  remaining  there  seven  years.  Returning 
to  Denver  in  1867,  he  formed  a  partnership  with 
his  brother,  Oliver  S.  Westover,  and  opened  a 
specimen  store  on  Larimer  street  between  Four- 
teenth and  Fifteenth,  dealing  in  rare  stones, 
choice  furs,  and  taxidermist's  supplies.  Our 
subject  traveled  all  over  the  country  collecting 
curios,  while  his  brother  managed  the  store.  In 
this  way  they  did  a  successful  business  for  about 
five  years,  and  on  selling  out  in  1 87 1  Mr.  Westover 
came  to  the  Platte  bottom  and  purchased  a  claim 
of  seventeen  acres,  his  present  home.  The  same 
year  he  embarked  in  bee  culture,  and  now  has  an 
apiary  consisting  of  about  one  hundred  and  fifty 
colonies,  which  produce  several  tons  of  honey  per 
year.  As  the  product  of  his  apiary  is  of  an  excel- 
lent grade  it  finds  a  ready  sale  at  the  highest  mar- 
ket price  in  Denver  and  eastern  points.  Besides 
this  industry  he  is  also  interested  in  gardening  to 
some  extent. 

Mr.  Westover  first  married  Miss  Mary  Gilmore, 
a  cousin  of  John  Gilmore,  but  she  died  after  a 
short  married  life, leaving  two  children,  Lee  and 
Isabel,  the  latter  now  deceased.  On  the  14th  of 
May,  1863,  he  wedded  Miss  Emma  HufFsmith,  a 
daughter  of  Adam  Huffsmith,  of  Iowa.  There 
are  no  children  by  the  second  union. 

In  political  views  Mr.  Westover  is  a  stanch 
Republican,  and  takes  quite  an  active  interest  in 
public  affairs,  but  is  not  an  office  seeker.  Both 
he  and  his  wife  are  leading  and  influential  mem- 
bers of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  having 
been  teachers  in  the  Sunday-school  for  some 
time,  and  take  an  active  part  in  all  church  work. 
He  is  also  president  of  the  Evans  branch  of  the 
New  York  Tribune's  Sunshine  Society,  a  literary 
society  connected  with  that  paper,  one  of  its 
objects  being  to  distribute  religious  literature 
among  the  poor.  His  support  is  cheerfully  given 
any  enterprise  for  the  good  of  the  community  and 
he  has  the  respect  and  esteem  of  all  who  know 
him. 

Cynthia  M.  Westover,  an  author  well  known 
in  American  literature,  came  to  Colorado  a 
motherless  girl  with  her  uncle  Daniel,  our  sub- 
ject, she  being  a  daughter  of  his  brother  Oliver. 
She  has  not  only  made  for  herself  a  name  in  the 
literary  world,  but  also  in  practical   affairs.     She 


was  for  three  years  connected  with  the  street 
cleaning  department  of  New  York  as  Mr.  Beatty 's 
private  secretary,  and  connected  with  the  United 
States  custom  department  at  New  York  as  lady 
inspector.  While  connected  with  the  former  .she 
invented  a  dump  cart  which  possessed  sufficient 
merit  to  be  generally  adopted  not  only  in  this 
country,  but  in  European  countries  as  well,  and 
she  received  a  medal  from  England  in  recognition 
of  its  merits,  though  the  officials  of  that  govern- 
ment supposed  they  were  giving  it  to  a  man. 
She  was  a  delegate  from  New  York  to  the  World's 
Biennial  convention  held  at  Denver  in  June,  1898. 
She  is  the  author  of  several  well-known  works, 
her  first  production  being  "Bushy."  She  is  now 
the  wife  of  John  Alden,  a  well-known  author  of 
New  York  City. 

(TOHN  McARTNEY  resides  one  mile  .south 
I  of  Eaton,  Weld  County,  his  farm  comprising 
\Z/  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  in  township  6, 
range  65.  In  connection  with  general  farming 
he  gives  some  attention  to  cattle-raising,  for  which 
occupation  his  place,  with  its  running  water,  is 
admirably  adapted.  He  raises  Jerseys  exclusive- 
ly, desiring  only  the  best  grade  of  milch  cows. 
Forty  acres  of  the  farm  are  planted  to  red  top  and 
timothy  and-is  used  for  pasture-land.  Owing  to 
the  fact  that  the  land  has  a  gentle  slope,  it  is 
more  easily  irrigated  than  many  farms.  Among 
the  improvements  on  Ihe  farm  is  a  fine  two-story 
frame  residence,  erected  in  1896,  on  the  edge  of 
a  grove  of  trees,  all  set  out  by  himself.  He  has 
justly  earned  a  reputation  as  a  careful  and 
successful  farmer. 

A  native  of  Cota,  Province  of  Quebec,  Canada, 
born  November  2,  1850,  our  subject  is  a  son 
of  James  McArtney,  who  settled  in  Canada, 
coming  from  Ireland.  In  Quebec  he  married 
Clara  Costelo,  a  native  of  the  city  of  Quebec, 
Canada.  They  had  seven  children,  five  of  whom 
are  living,  namely:  Sarah,  who  resides  in  New 
York  state;  James  and  George,  merchants  of 
Fort  Covington,  N.  Y.;  William,  who  is  a 
physician  in  Fort  Covington;  and  our  subject. 
The  father  removed  to  Fort  Covington,  Franklin 
County,  N.  Y.,  about  1859  and  followed  the  trade 
of  a  shoemaker.  His  death  occurred  in  1892. 
His  widow  survives  and  resides  at  the  old  home. 
Early  in  life  our  subject  became  interested  in 
farming.     In   1878  he  came  to  Colorado  and  em- 


HARRISON  FOSTER. 


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barked  in  farm  pursuits  in  the  old  Greeley  colony 
district.  For  two  winters  he  was  employed  in 
the  construction  of  the  Larimer  and  Weld  ditch. 
In  1880  he  took  up  the  homestead  where  he  has 
since  resided,  lying  on  the  road  from  Greeley  to 
Eaton.  At  that  time  the  village  of  Eaton  had 
not  been  founded,  but  he  saw  the  possibilities  of 
the  district  and  as  water  was  secured  in  the  spring 
of  1 88 1  he  was  favorably  situated  for  farming. 
The  land  had  not  been  broken,  and  not  a  furrow 
had  ever  been  turned  in  the  soil,  until  he  settled 
upon  the  place  and  began  to  break  and  improve 
the  property.  He  is  one  of  the  intelligent  farmers 
of  Weld  County,  and  uses  good  judgment  in  all 
of  his  transactions.  Besides  his  farm  interests, 
he  holds  stock  in  both  the  Larimer  and  Weld 
reservoir  and  the  ditch. 

In  politics  Mr.  McArtney  is  identified  with  the 
People's  party.  He  and  his  family  attend  the 
Catholic  Church  of  Greeley.  February  18,  1884, 
he  was  united  in  marriage  with  Margaret, 
daughter  of  Michael  Rowley,  of  Franklin  County, 
N.  Y.     They  have  one  child,  Nellie  C. 


HARRISON  FOSTER  owns  and  occupies  a 
ranch  seven  miles  northeast  of  Longmont, 
in  Weld  County,  comprising  a  quarter-.sec- 
tion  of  land,  which  he  purchased  in  January, 
1878,  and  upon  which  he  established  his  home  in 
the  summer  of  1 880.  After  a  time  he  acquired  an 
additional  forty  acres,  making  his  farm  one  of  two 
hundred  acres.  He  also  owns  one  hundred  and 
twenty  acres  given  over  to  Highland  Ditch 
Company's  reservoir  No.  3.  As  a  representative 
of  the  integrity  and  intelligence  of  the  farmers  of 
Weld  County,  he  occupies  a  high  place  in  the 
esteemof  those  who  know  him.  By  a  course  of 
good  management  he  has  become  well-to-do 
financially,  and  his  valuable  place  indicates  in  a 
marked  degree  to  what  good  purpose  the  owner 
has  labored. 

In  Cortland  County,  N.  Y,,  the  subject  of  this 
sketch  was  born  December  10,  1846,  a  son  of 
George  H.  and  Louisa  M.  (Burr)  Foster.  He 
was  one  of  six  children,  four  of  whom  are  living, 
namely:  Ann,  wife  of  John  Bates,  of  New  Lon- 
don, Ohio;  Helen,  who  married  Louis  T.  Ruggles, 
of  Bettsville,  Ohio;  Harrison;  and  George,  a 
farmer  living  in  Fitsville,  Ohio.  The  father, 
who  was  a  native  of  Delhi,  Delaware  County, 


N.  Y.,  born  in  18 13,  grew  to  manhood  in  his 
native  place,  where  he  married  Miss  Burr,  who 
was  born  there  in  i8n.  After  his  marriage  he 
engaged  in  farming.  In  1856  he  removed  to 
Illinois,  but  after  one  year  spent  in  Ogle  County, 
he  went  back  east  as  far  as  Ohio,  where  he  set- 
tled in  Huron  County.  There  the  greater  part 
of  the  remaining  years  of  his  life  were  spent,  his 
death  occurring  in  1895.  His  first  wife  died  in 
i860,  and  afterward  he  married  Mrs.  Delia 
(Rounds)  Ryan. 

The  boyhood  days  of  our  subject  were  unevent- 
fully passed  on  the  home  farm.  In  the  spring  of 
1868  he  went  to  Toledo,  and  during  the  summer 
engaged  in  teaming.  On  his  return  home  in  the 
fall  he  gathered  in  the  crop  (his  father  being 
sick  with  the  ague)  and  during  the  winter  he 
chopped  cord  wood  and  split  rails.  Early  in 
1869,  in  partnership  with  a  brother-in-law,  he 
opened  a  meat  shop  in  Shelby,  Ohio,  but  after 
eight  months  of  unsuccessful  business  the  shop 
was  closed.  After  a  short  time  spent  in  various 
kinds  of  work  he  began  to  work  in  a  sawmill, 
where  he  was  soon  promoted  from  the  lowest 
position  to  that  of  head  sawyer.  He  continued 
in  that  place  until  April,  1873,  when  he  came  to 
Colorado,  arriving  in  Denver  on  the  4th  of  April. 
The  Sunday  following  was  spent  in  Denver,  and 
he  then  came  to  Boulder,  thence  to  a  mill  on  Left 
Hand  Creek,  eight  miles  northwest  of  Boulder,  to 
accept  a  position  which  had  been  tendered  him 
while  still  in  Ohio.  He  at  once  began  to  work 
in  the  mill,  but  not  being  satisfied  with  the 
position,  he  quit,  and  went  to  work  in  a  shingle 
mill  near  by.  He  remained  in  that  mill  until 
November,  with  the  exception  of  a  short  time 
spent  in  the  mountains,  and  one  month  spent  on 
the  plains  hunting  buffalo  and  antelope.  From 
the  latter  trip  he  returned  with  his  wagon,  to 
which  he  had  hitched  two  yoke  of  oxen,  heavily 
loaded  with  game,  most  of  which  was  sold  in 
Longmont,  the  buffalo  meat  bringing  three  cents 
per  pound  and  the  antelope  only  $2  apiece. 

While  Mr.  Foster  was  out  hunting,  his  former 
employers  had  put  a  sawing  rig  in  connection 
with  their  shingle  mill,  and  he  was  given  charge 
of  the  saw.  In  April  of  the  next  year  he  was 
united  in  marriage  with  Miss  Alice  Lloyd,  daugh- 
ter of  Noah  Lloyd,  of  Red  Oak,  Iowa.  Desiring 
to  go  in  business  for  himself,  he  asked  his  em- 
ployer for  a  settlement,  as  not  only  was  a  large 


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amount  of  back  salary  due  him,  but  his  employer 
had  also  borrowed  money  from  him.  Being  un- 
able to  effect  a  monetary  settlement,  he  was  given 
a  half-interest  in  the  mill.  Some  eight  months 
later  he  bought  out  his  partner  and  ran  the  busi- 
ness alone,  continuing  it  until  the  summer  of 
1880,  when  he  sold  out  and  came  to  his  present 
property.  Since  then  he  has  given  his  time  to 
general  farming.  In  addition  to  his  farming  in- 
terests he  is  a  director  in  the  Highland  Ditch 
Company,  having  been  connected  with  it  for  the 
past  fifteen  years.  He  is  also  president  of  St. 
Vrain  Reservoir  and  Fish  Company  of  Longmont. 
He  was  one  of  the  charter  members  of  Mountain 
Valley  Camp,  of  Longmont,  and  has  also 
served  as  master  of  his  local  grange.  He  is 
not  connected  with  any  church,  but  is  a  lib- 
eral supporter  of  religious  work  and  charitable 
enterprises.  He  and  his  wife  became  the  parents 
of  three  daughters,  one  of  whom,  Blanche,  is  de- 
ceased. Elsie  L.  is  the  wife  of  Percy  L. 
Thompson,  of  Longmont,  and  Nellie  B.  is  attend- 
ing the  Loretto  Academy  near  Denver. 


EHARLES  E.  MILLER,  deceased,  was  num- 
bered among  the  honored  pioneers  of  Colo- 
rado, who  located  in  Weld  County  when  this 
locality  was  a  wild  and  unimproved  region.  In 
the  work  of  development  he  took  an  active  part 
and  aided  in  opening  up  the  country  to  civiliza- 
tion. As  the  years  passed  he  faithfully  performed 
his  duties  of  citizenship,  and  his  interest  in  the 
welfare  and  progress  of  the  community  never 
abated.  Becoming  widely  and  favorably  known 
he  made  many  friends,  and  his  death  was  a  loss 
to  the  entire  community. 

Mr.  Miller  was  born  in  Dutchess  County,  N.  Y. , 
February  24,  1834,  a  son  of  Edmund  and  Mary 
B.  Miller,  farming  people,  and  he  remained  in 
New  York  until  he  reached  the  age  of  twenty- 
four.  With  a  large  party  he  came  overland  with 
ox  teams  from  Nebraska  City  to  Fort  Bridger, 
where  they  were  detained  by  snow,  and  they 
finally  decided  to  return.  They  were  engaged  in 
freighting  for  Russell  Waddell  &  Co. ,  but  with  a 
four-mule  team  they  started  back,  it  being 
Christmas  before  they  reached  Nebraska.  Out 
of  twenty-five  only  seventeen  lived  to  reach  the 
government  train  which  was  sent  out  from  Fort 
Kearney  to  meet  them.     The  following  spring 


Mr.  Miller  went  to  Pike's  Peak,  and  he  followed 
prospecting  and  mining  in  California  Gulch.  He 
and  his  cousin,  John  T.  Doughty,  employed  one 
hundred  miners  in  placer  and  gulch  mining,  and 
met  with  ordinary  success.  In  1863  our  subject 
accepted  a  position  as  driver  for  the  government, 
under  Orlando  Black,  then  wagonmaster,  and 
carried  supplies  to  the  troops  stationed  in  Den- 
ver. The  following  year  he  accepted  a  clerk- 
ship with  Campell  &  Jones,  wholesale  grocers  and 
government  contractors  of  Denver,  but  was  with 
them  onl3'  a  short  time  when  he  was  made  gov- 
ernment teamster  under  Major  Fillmore,  pay- 
master on  the  frontier  at  that  time,  and  he  re- 
tained that  position  during  the  winter  of  1864-65. 

On  the  5th  of  June,  1865,  Mr.  Miller  was  united 
in  marriage  with  Miss  Augusta  B.  Dibble,  better 
known  as  Augusta  Goflf,  her  step-father  being 
Lorin  A.  Goff,  chief  of  police  at  Denver.  She 
was  born  at  Cainsville,  Iowa,  now  Council  Bluffs, 
May  22,  1847,  ^^'^  is  a  daughter  of  Ira  T.  and 
Lucretia  A.  (Lane)  Dibble.  At  the  age  of  six- 
teen she  accompanied  her  parents  on  their  re- 
moval to  Denver,  where  she  made  her  home  until 
her  marriage.  She  lost  her  father  when  only  five 
years  old,  and  her  mother  afterward  married  Mr. 
Gofi",  who  was  killed  by  lightning  on  the  streets 
of  Denver.  -By  her  first  marriage  she  had  four 
children:  Nancy  M.,  widow  of  Thomas  Donahue 
and  a  resident  of  Omaha,  Neb.;  Charlotta,  who 
died  in  infancy;  Augusta  B. ;  and  Emma  J.,  wife 
of  George  Stewart,  of  Myrtle  Point,  Ore.  There 
was  one  daughter  by  the  second  union:  Buena, 
deceased  wife  of  Charles  E.  Goodfriend,  of  Lead- 
ville,  Colo.  For  her  third  husband  the  mother 
married  John  Orrendorf ,  of  Denver,  now  a  resi- 
dent of  St.  Louis.  She  died  at  Denver,  Janu- 
ary 22,  1889,  and  was  buried  in  Riverside  Ceme- 
tery. Mr.  and  Mrs.  Miller  had  no  children  of 
their  own.  However,  they  adopted  Carrie  D., 
daughter  of  Shelby  Thomas,  at  the  age  of  one 
year  and  seven  months;  she  is  now  the  wife  of 
Walter  Sylvester,  who  lives  on  the  old  Miller 
homestead.  Mrs.  Miller,  now  Mrs.  George  Car- 
ter, of  Evans,  also  reared  a  boy  from  the  age  of 
thirteen  years,  John  Taylor,  who  is  now  married 
and  living  near  Fort  Lupton.  She  is  at  present 
rearing  a  brother  and  sister,  Lloyd  and  lima, 
children  of  Zachariah  Reynolds. 

Immediately  after  his  marriage,  Mr.  Miller  and 
his   cousin,  Mr.  Doughty,    bought  what  is  still 


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known  as  the  old  Beaver  Creek  ranch,  on  the 
South  Platte,  along  the  old  stage  route  between 
Denver  and  Omaha,  but  disposed  of  it  nine 
months  later  and  purchased  the  old  Fisher  ranch, 
now  within  the  corporate  limits  of  Denver.  On 
selling  that  place  to  Edward  Kettle,  Mr.  Miller 
removed  to  Castle  Rock,  south  of  the  city, 
where  he  made  his  home  upon  a  ranch  for 
two  years,  but  was  forced  to  leave  it  in  the  fall 
of  1868  on  account  of  the  hostile  Indians.  In 
the  spring  of  1869  he  moved  to  the  Godfrey 
Bottom  along  the  Platte,  where  he  bought  a 
claim  of  Mr.  Doughty,  which  he  sold  five  years 
later  to  Mr.  Grifiin.  For  the  following  four  years 
he  occupied  rented  land,  but  in  1878  bought 
the  Perkins  place;  but  sold  it  a  year  later  and 
rented  the  Godfrey  place  until  1881,  when  he 
bought  a  ranch  of  Kram  Brothers  in  Weld 
County.  There  he  spent  his  remaining  years, 
his  death  occurring  at  that  place  May  11,  1892, 
and  his  remains  being  interred  in  the  Riverside 
Cemetery  of  Denver.  He  was  a  leading  spirit  in 
all  enterprises  tending  toward  the  improvement 
of  the  county;  was  president  of  No.  3  Irrigating 
Ditch  Company,  assisted  in  organizing  school  dis- 
trict No.  65;  and  was  a  member  of  the  school  board 
for  some  time,  serving  as  its  secretary  at  his 
death.  He  was  one  of  the  organizers  and  char- 
ter members  of  the  Weld  County  Fair  Associa- 
tion, and  his  aid  was  never  withheld  from  any 
object  which  he  believed  calculated  to  prove  of 
public  benefit.  Politically  he  was  a  strong 
Democrat,  and  as  one  of  the  prominent  and  influ- 
ential citizens  of  his  community  was  a  recog- 
nized leader  in  local  affairs,  but  he  cared  nothing 
for  the  honors  or  emoluments  of  public  oflBce. 


(Tames  a.  DANIELS  is  the  owner  of  a  good 
I  ranch  on  section  6,  township  4,  range  66 
Qj  west.  Weld  County.  He  is  one  of  the  fron- 
tiersmen of  1859,  and  has  been  a  witness  of  the 
great  changes  and  increasing  population  of  the 
now  wonderful  state  of  Colorado.  His  experience 
covers  many  a  year  of  hardship,  strange  adven- 
ture and  privation  and  struggle,  known  only,  in 
the  fullest  extent,  by  the  hardy  pioneer,  the  har- 
binger of  civilization  and  culture.  Little  did  he 
dream,  in  the  quiet,  peaceful  days  of  his  boyhood, 
in  the  English  home  of  his  parents,  what  a  future 
of  endurance  under  trial  and  constant  struggle 


against  cold  and  hunger  it  would  be  his  lot  to 
pass  through  within  a  few  years.  But  those  days 
have  passed  and  he  has  entered  into  the  fruits  of 
his  toil,  being  well  provided  for,  and  a  man  of 
position  and  respect. 

Born  in  Gloucestershire,  England,  August  17, 
1838,  our  subject  is  a  son  of  Michael  and  Martha 
(Blackmore)  Daniels,  both  natives  of  the  same 
section.  The  father  was  a  mechanic  and  stone- 
cutter, and  pursued  his  trades  in  the  town  of 
Burley,  the  scene  of  the  childhood  of  James  A. 
The  latter  was  apprenticed  to  the  baker's  trade 
when  he  was  fourteen  years  old,  and  for  nine 
months  worked  for  a  man  in  a  small  town  about 
three  miles  from  his  old  home.  Not  liking  the 
place,  he  ran  away  to  London,  and  hired  out  as  a 
stable-boy.  At  the  end  of  a  year  he  became  an 
employe  in  a  bakery  carried  on  by  a  woman 
named  Woodard,  and  continued  there  about  two 
years. 

In  1857,  in  company  with  his  brother  Henry, 
Mr.  Daniels  sailed  for  America,  going  to  Quebec, 
and  thence  to  Wisconsin.  In  that  state  another 
brother,  Hophny,  a  farmer,  was  living.  Our  sub- 
ject found  work  upon  a  farm  for  a  year  or  two 
and  in  the  spring  of  1859  set  out  for  Kansas. 
Upon  reaching  the  Missouri  River,  the  gold  ex- 
citement swept  him  away,  and  he  joined  a  com- 
pany of  eighteen  or  twenty  men.  Their  equip- 
ment consisting  of  one  wagon  and  three  yoke  of 
cattle,  they  were  obliged  to  agree  to  the  rule  that 
no  one  should  get  into  the  wagon  while  it  was 
moving.  Thus  they  walked  the  entire  distance 
across  the  plains,  the  wagon  being  used  for  the 
conveyance  of  their  supplies.  At  the  end  of 
nearly  three  months  they  reached  the  mountains, 
June  I.  Denver  was  then  a  group  of  ten  or 
twelve  cabins,  with  one  frame  house,  that  of  Jack 
O'Neil.  Mr.  Daniels  went  to  Clear  Creek  Valley, 
near  the  present  Blackhawk,  and  there  he  found 
encamped  and  living  in  their  wagons,  some  four 
hundred  or  more  men,  who,  like  himself,  were 
interested  in  mining  operations.  That  season  he 
prospected  without  success  and  in  the  fall  and 
winter  following  he  was  in  Russell  Gulch.  The 
next  spring  he  and  others  fitted  out  a  man  to  go 
as  their  agent  on  an  exploring  tour,  and  it  trans- 
pired that  he  was  one  of  the  discoverers  of  Cali- 
fornia Gulch.  Mr.  Daniels  followed  his  agent  as 
soon  as  he  heard  of  the  great  find,  and  was  cha- 
grined to  learn  that  the  claim  which  had  been 


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taken  for  him  was  ignored  by  the  rushing  pros- 
pectors. Then  he  went  to  the  southwestern  part 
of  the  state,  only  to  return  and  resume  opera- 
tions in  California  Gulch.  He  was  one  of  the 
first  miners  in  the  Buckskin  Joe  mines  in  1861, 
and  was  actively  engaged  in  working  the  Gregory 
mines  later. 

In  1863  Mr.  Daniels  added  a  squatter's  claim 
to  a  quarter- section  of  his  present  ranch,  and  oc- 
cupied it  under  the  homestead  act.  The  place 
was  wild  land,  the  only  improvement  consisting 
of  a  rude  cabin.  The  new  owner  became  a  dairy- 
man, disposing  of  his  supplies  in  Denver  at  good 
prices.  In  1865  he  went  to  Iowa,  having  sold  his 
cattle,  and  intending  to  buy  more  stock,  but  he 
finally  returned  without  purchasing.  About  this 
time  he  and  Mr.  Bennett,  with  a  few  other  farm- 
ers, organized  the  Big  Thompson  and  Platte 
River  Ditch  Company.  The  ditch  was  made 
seven  miles  in  length  and  four  feet  wide  across 
the  bottom,  it  being  the  work  of  the  promoters  of 
the  enterprise,  and  dug  out  entirely  with  shovels. 
It  was  not  large  enough  to  be  effective  and  some 
ten  years  later  its  width  was  doubled.  Mr.  Dan- 
iels was  president  of  the  company  for  nine  years 
and  for  five  years  has  been  its  secretary.  In  1882 
he  took  his  herd  of  some  two  hundred  cattle  to 
Wyoming,  but  this  was  not  a  judicious  move,  as 
many  of  them  perished  in  the  cold  weather.  He 
has  purchased  another  quarter- section  of  land,  it 
being  watered  by  the  Loveland  and  Greeley 
ditch,  in  which  corporation  he  is  a  shareholder. 
He  aided  in  the  organization  of  school  district 
No.  21,  and  gave  the  land  upon  which  the  school 
was  built,  in  1879,  besides  serving  as  a  director 
most  of  the  time  since.  When  the  Weld  County 
Fair  Association  was  organized  he  took  an  active 
part  in  the  enterprise,  and  was  made  vice-presi- 
dent of  the  company. 

April  2,  1889,  Mr.  Daniels  married  Mrs.  Fan- 
nie S.  Beer,  widow  of  Edward  Beer,  and  daughter 
of  John  and  Mary  (Osmotherly)  Denniss.  Mrs. 
Daniels  was  born  in  St.  Neots,  England.  Her 
father  was  a  civil  engineer  in  the  employ  of 
the  government.  He  went  to  India  when  Mrs. 
Daniels  was  six  years  old,  taking  his  family  with 
him.  They  remained  abroad  for  four  years,  then 
returning  to  England  by  way  of  the  Suez  canal, 
and  Cairo,  Egypt,  in  which  quaint  city  they 
spent  three  days.  On  the  way  to  India  the 
family  went  in  a  sailing-vessel,  which  took  seven- 


teen weeks  to  make  the  trip,  as  it  was  driven  far 
from  its  course.  The  father  was  engaged  in  rail- 
road construction  and,  with  his  household,  lived 
at  a  point  about  six  hundred  miles  from  the 
coast,  back  from  Beypore,  in  the  jungle.  Under 
his  charge  five  hundred  laborers  worked,  and  he 
was  allowed  eight  body  servants.  His  death  oc- 
curred in  East  Bengal,  in  1866.  Subsequently 
the  widow,  her  four  sons  and  daughter  came  to 
America  and  settled  in  Beardstown,  111.  There 
she  afterwards  married  again  and  in  that  town 
Mrs.  Daniels  was  first  married.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Beer  had  three  children.  Edward  J.  married 
Floris  Combs,  of  Kansas  City,  and  is  now  taking 
the  whole  charge  of  the  half  section  of  land 
owned  by  our  subject.  Eleanor  is  the  wife  of 
Louis  H.  Bailey,  an  employe  of  the  R.  H.  Johns 
Grocery  Company  of  Greeley,  and  they  have  a 
son,  Alfred  Harold.  Alfred  A.  is  a  member  of 
Company  F,  First  Regiment  of  Colorado  Volun- 
teers, now  in  the  Philippine  Islands. 


(Jerome  Frederick  loustalet. 

I  Among  the  young  men  of  Weld  County  who 
(2/  have  selected  agriculture  as  their  vocation  in 
life,  and  who,  judging  from  present  indications, 
are  bound  to  realize  their  most  sanguine  anticipa- 
tion, is  the  subject  of  this  biographical  notice. 
He  is  an  upright,  reliable  business  man  and  is 
already  one  of  the -most  prosperous  farmers  and 
stock-raisers  of  the  community,  his  home  being 
on  section  27,  township  4,  range  64. 

Mr.  lyoustalet  was  born  at  Brighton,  Colo.,  May 
14,  1870,  and  is  a  worthy  representative  of  one  of 
the  oldest  and  most  honored  pioneer  families  of 
the  state,  his  parents  being  Honore  and  Marie 
(Canton)  Loustalet,  who  are  repre.sented  else- 
where in  this  volume.  At  the  age  of  two  years 
he  was  brought  to  Kersey,  this  region  at  that 
time  being  a  vast  wilderness  and  the  few  settle- 
ments widely  scattered .  As  his  father  died  when 
he  was  but  seven  years  old,  he  early  began  to 
assist  in  the  management  of  the  estate,  and  soon 
acquired  an  excellent  knowledge  of  every  depart- 
ment of  farm  work  and  cattle-raising.  He  also 
obtained  a  good  practical  education,  attending 
the  public  schools  of  Greeley,  and  also  taking  a 
course  at  the  Greeley  Business  College.  Thus  well 
fitted  for  the  responsible  duties  of  life  he  has  met 
with  success  in  his  business  undertakings,  and 


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he  and  his  brother,  Frank,  now  own  from  seven 
hundred  to  one  thousand  head  of  cattle  and  two 
hundred  head  of  horses.  They  buy  and  ship 
stock  extensively  and  occupy  a  prominent  position 
in  business  circles,  being  recognized  as  two  of  the 
most  energetic  and  enterprising  young  men  of  the 
county.  In  political  sentiment  they  are  Repub- 
licans. 

Jerome  F.  Loustalet  was  married  November 
23,  1892,  to  Miss  Nettie  Scobey,  a  native  of  Boul- 
der County,  Colo.,  and  a  daughter  of  D.  M. 
Scobey,  of  Hardin,  who  is  also  a  highly  respected 
pioneer  of  this  state.  One  child  blesses  this  union, 
Grace. 


"HOMAS  C.  SELLMAN,  who  is  engaged  in 
general  farm  pursuits  in  Jefferson  County, 
was  born  in  the  lower  town  of  Ann  Arbor, 
Mich.,  February  25,  1835,  being  a  son  of  William 
and  Sarah  (Ingram)  Sellman.  He  was  one  of 
five  children,  of  whom  the  only  survivors  are 
himself  and  his  brother,  Ralph  C,  a  school  teacher 
in  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.  His  father,  a  native  of 
Pennsylvania,  born  in  1803,  was  taken,  when  an 
infant,  into  New  York  state,  being  carried  on  the 
back  of  a  horse.  He  grew  to  manhood  in  Canan- 
daigua,  and  at  the  age  of  sixteen  secured  employ- 
ment as  a  teamster  between  Canandaigua  and 
Albany,  that  being  before  the  canal  was  opened. 
About  1832  he  removed  to  Michigan  and  settled 
in  Washtenaw  County,  where  he  remained  about 
five  j^ears.  From  there  he  removed  to  Livingston 
County,  where  he  engaged  in  farming  until  his 
death,  in  1847.  His  wife  died  some  four  years 
later. 

The  paternal  grandfather  of  our  subject, 
Thomas  Sellman,  was  a  native  of  Pennsylvania 
and  removed  from  there  to  Canandaigua,  N.  Y., 
about  1804,  later  opening  the  Canandaigua  House 
at  the  foot  of  the  lake  and  remaining  its  pro- 
prietor for  years.  Finally  he  went  to  Michigan 
and  settled  in  Kensington,  Oakland  County, 
where  he  continued  to  cultivate  a  farm  up  to  the 
time  of  his  death.  Our  subject's  maternal  grand- 
father, Thomas  Ingram,  moved  from  New  York 
state  to  Michigan  in  an  early  day.  Our  subject 
remembers  having  heard  his  mother  tell  that  her 
grandmother's  first  husband  was  hanged  on  an 
apple  tree  by  the  Tories. 

At  the  time  of  his  father's  death  our  subject 
was  twelve  years  of  age  and  four  years  later  his 


mother  died.  From  that  time  he  worked  on  farms 
in  Michigan.  In  1864  he  started  with  a  train 
across  the  plains  to  Colorado,  leaving  Michigan 
in  September  and  arriving  in  Denver  in  August 
of  the  following  year.  At  that  time  the  Indians 
were  exceedingly  troublesome  and,  to  avoid  them, 
the  party  were  obliged  to  camp  on  the  Missouri 
River  near  Payne's  landing  about  seven  months. 
The  burning  of  Fort  Julesburg  and  the  massacre 
there  and  at  Plum  Creek  happened  during  that 
time.  While  in  camp  Mr.  Sellman  acted  as  night 
herder  of  teams  for  a  man  who  was  bringing 
through  to  Colorado  a  quartz  mill  and  a  party  of 
one  hundred  and  ten  persons.  They  reached 
Denver  on  the  17th  of  August,  1865.  From  that 
city  Mr.  Sellman  proceeded  to  the  vicinity  of 
Arvada,  where  he  began  gardening  on  the  old 
Rand  farm.  In  1873  he  entered  one  hundred  and 
sixty  acres  where  he  now  lives,  but  on  account  of 
a  contention  he  was  unable  to  prove  up  until 
1876.  Since  then  he  has  resided  here,  and  since 
1893  has  given  his  attention  to  farming,  having 
given  up  gardening. 

In  1869  Mr.  Sellman  was  elected  county 
assessor  on  the  Democratic  ticket  and  the  follow- 
ing year  he  was  re-elected.  For  three  years  he 
was  justice  of  the  peace  and  for  about  one  year 
served  as  road  overseer.  In  politics  he  now 
afiiliates  with  the  People's  party.  At  one  time 
he  was  actively  identified  with  the  Independent 
Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  but  has  allowed  his 
membership  to  lapse. 


pQlLLIAM  BRAMKAMP,  who  has  resided 
\  A  /  in  Arapahoe  County  since  July  4,  1874, 
V  V  embarked  iu  the  dairy  business  in  the  year 
1876  on  Third  Creek,  near  Barr,  where  he  home- 
steaded  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres.  He  de- 
voted much  of  his  time  to  the  improvement  of  his 
property  and  to  the  stocking  of  the  ranch  with 
cattle,  but  in  1888  sold  the  place  and  bought  a 
tract  eighteen  miles  northeast  of  Byers.  From 
the  Deer  Trail  Creek  he  made  a  reservoir,  and  in 
other  ways  improved  the  property.  On  the  land 
he  raises  corn,  hay  and  alfalfa,  but  the  larger 
portion  is  devoted  to  the  pasturage  of  cattle  and 
horses.  His  summers  are  spent  on  the  ranch. 
During  the  winter  he  resides  at  his  Denver  home, 
No.  2441  Lafayette  street. 

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Bramkamp,  our  subject  is  the  only  survivor  of 
seven  children  and  is  the  only  one  who  ever  came 
to  America.  He  was  born  in  the  Province  of 
Hanover,  Germany,  and  grew  to  manhood  in  the 
little  village  of  Bramkamp,  Aumpt  Diepenau. 
In  1847  b^  l^fl^  Bremen  on  an  American  sailing 
vessel,  that  anchored  in  New  Orleans  after  a  voy- 
age of  seven  weeks  and  four  days.  He  then  went 
up  the  Mississippi  and  Ohio  Rivers  to  Hamilton 
County,  Ohio,  where  he  remained  for  four  years, 
engaged  in  carpenter  work.  Afterwards  he  re- 
moved to  Massac  County,  111. ,  working  at  his 
trade  and  also  buying  and  improving  government 
land  near  Metropolis.  That  county  was  his  home 
from  1851  to  1874,  when  he  sold  out  and  came  to 
Colorado. 

Politically  Mr.  Bramkamp  is  a  silver  Repub- 
lican, but  is  not  active  in  public  affairs.  He  is 
identified  with  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church. 
While  living  in  Illinois  he  married  Catherine 
Speckman,  daughter  of  Henry  Speckman.  Mrs. 
Bramkamp  was  born  in  Indiana  and  in  1855 
accompanied  her  father  to  Illinois.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Bramkamp  are  the  parents  of  eight  children:  John, 
who  is  a  ranchman  residing  near  Barr;  Sophia, 
now  Mrs.  Thomas  Quinn;  Annie;  Charles,  who 
owns  a  ranch  adjoining  his  father's;  Henry; 
Emma;  Barbara,  now  Mrs.  G.  W.  Maloney; 
and  Sarah. 


RUFUS  RICE,  one  of  the  sturdy  pioneers  of 
Boulder  County,  has  had  a  varied  and  inter- 
esting career  and  is  numbered  among  the 
prominent  citizens  of  this  locality.  He  was  born 
in  Auburn,  Worcester  County,  Mass.,  February 
26,  1836.  He  was  reared  under  the  loving,  judi- 
cious oversight  of  his  parents,  and  formed  habits 
of  industry,  perseverance  and  honesty  of  word 
and  deed  that  have  been  paramount  in  his 
character  to  this  day.  His  educational  advan- 
tages were  not  such  as  are  commonly  afforded 
the  children  of  this  period,  but  he  made  the  best 
of  his  limited  opportunities,  and  by  reading  and 
study  became  well  posted  on  general  affairs. 

Soon  after  attaining  his  majority  Mr.  Rice 
started  for  the  west.  Upon  arriving  in  Illinois 
he  obtained  a  position  with  a  farmer  in  Bureau 
County,  and,  as  the  wages  he  could  make  there 
were  double  the  amount  received  by  men  in  a 
similar  position  in  his  former  home,  he  was  well 
pleased.     Believing,  after  a  time,  that  he  could 


do  better  elsewhere,  he  went  to  Caldwell,  Mo. , 
where  he  spent  two  years,  and  in  i860  he  set  out 
for  Colorado.  He  paid  $25  to  an  emigrant  who 
agreed  to  take  him,  his  provisions  and  supplies, 
through  to  Colorado.  They  reached  Boulder  in 
June,  and  Mr.  Rice,  leaving  his  provisions  and 
supplies  with  his  companion,  went  into  the  Gold 
Hill  district  to  prospect.  Returning  after  a  week, 
he  found  the  emigrant  had  di.sappeared  and  had 
sold  his  stores,  with  the  explanation  that  he  had 
become  homesick  and  had  started  east.  Thus  he 
was  left  in  a  new  country,  with  little  money  and 
no  provisions.  He  returned  to  Gold  Hill  and 
secured  work  as  an  experienced  blaster.  He 
finished  the  work  and  received  the  sum  for  which 
he  had  accepted  the  contract. 

The  same  year  Mr.  Rice  came  to  Boulder  Valley 
and  took  up  a  claim  at  a  point  a  mile  and  one- 
half  east  of  Burlington.  He  found  that  he  could 
command  a  high  price  by  cutting  hay  and  mar- 
keting it  in  the  mountains,  and  this  he  did,  often 
obtaining  $60  a  ton.  When  the  war  broke  out  he 
enlisted  in  Company  I,  Second  Colorado  Cavalry, 
and  continued  in  the  Union  army  from  the  fall  of 

1862  to  1865,  some  three  years.     In  the  spring  of 

1863  he  was  sent  from  Denver  to  St.  Louis  and 
from  there  to  the  front.  At  Pilot  Kneb  he  and 
his  companioiis  built  a  fort,  after  which  they  were 
sent  to  the  western  part  of  Missouri,  and  met 
Price,  who  was  on  his  raid  through  that  section. 
After  defeating  him  in  the  battle  of  Shilob,  where 
General  Marmaduke  was  captured,  they  went  to 
the  Kansas  frontier,  where  skirmishes  with  the 
enemy  were  a  daily  occurrence.  Later  they  had 
several  encounters  with  the  Indians  along  the 
Arkansas  River,  and  in  the  fall  of  1865,  after 
three  years  of  active  service,  were  mustered  out 
at  Leavenworth. 

Returning  to  Colorado,  Mr.  Rice  pre-empted  a 
claim.  After  six  years  he  homesteaded  a  quarter 
section  of  land  adjoining  his  other  property  on 
the  south.  At  that  time  ditches  were  made 
through  the  upland  and  by  systems  of  irrigation, 
land  was  increased  ten-fold  in  value.  On  account 
of  the  better  location  Mr.  Rice  removed  his  home 
to  the  piece  of  property  last  taken  up  by  him  and 
has  since  resided  there.  Politically  he  favors  the 
People's  party  platform. 

July  6,  1877,  the  marriage  of  Rufus  Clark  and 
Miss  Kate  Rowe  was  solemnized  in  Denver.  Mrs. 
Rice  is  a  native  of  Massachusetts  and  a  daughter 


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of  Appleton  and  Rosella  (Field)  Rovve.  Her 
paternal  grandfather  was  a  hotel  keeper  in  Am- 
herst, Mass.,  for  many  years.  The  two  children 
of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Rice,  Mamie  B.  and  Maud  A., 
were  educated  in  the  Longmont  high  school  and 
academy,  and  are  accomplished  young  ladies. 

The  parents  of  Mr.  Rice  were  Comfort  and 
Lucinda  (Wood)  Rice.  All  but  one  of  their  nine 
children  survive,  namely:  Austin,  Malinda,  Sam- 
uel, Alden,  Rufus,  John,  Sarah  and  Mary.  The 
father,  who  was  born  in  Vermont  about  1795, 
was  less  than  four  years  of  age  when  his  mother 
died.  The  family  soon  afterward  removed  to 
Worcester  County,  Mass.,  where  he  was  reared 
to  maturity  and  spent  his  life  as  a  farmer.  His 
death  occurred  in  1868. 


GILBERT  H.  MYERS.  Everywhere  in  our 
f  1  land  are  found  men  who  have  worked  their 
I  I  own  way  from  humble  beginnings  to  leader- 
ship in  the  commerce,  the  great  productive  in- 
dustries, the  management  of  financial  affairs,  and 
in  controlling  the  veins  and  arteries  of  the  trafiic 
and  exchanges  of  the  country.  It  is  one  of  the 
glories  of  our  nation  that  it  is  so.  Prominent 
among  the  self-made  men  of  Weld  County  is  the 
subject  of  this  sketch,  a  man  honored,  respected 
and  esteemed  wherever  known,  and  most  of  all 
where  he  is  best  known.  He  is  now  one  of  the 
leading  business  men  of  Eaton. 

Mr.  Myers  is  a  native  of  Zurich,  Switzerland, 
bom  June  21,  i860,  and  is  a  son  of  Frederick 
Myers,  a  wagon-maker,  who  was  born  in  Switzer- 
land and  came  to  the  United  States  about  1850. 
In  religious  belief  he  is  a  Lutheran.  He  married 
Miss  Elizabeth  Bear,  also  a  native  of  Switzerland, 
and  they  have  become  the  parents  of  five  chil- 
dren, namely:  Albert  H.,  of  this  sketch;  John  D., 
who  is  engaged  in  the  transfer  business  in  Pasa- 
dena, Cal. ;  James,  a  blacksmith  of  Gilbertsville, 
Otsego  County,  N.  Y.;  Charles,  a  farmer  resid- 
ing in  Eaton,  Colo.;  and  Elizabeth,  wife  of 
George  A.  Cannon,  of  Sidney,  N.  Y. 

Albert  H.  Myers  is  indebted  to  the  district 
.schools  of  New  York  state  for  his  early  educa- 
tion, which  was  supplemented  by  an  academic 
course.  On  coming  west  he  spent  one  year  in 
Boulder  County,  Colo.,  but  in  1882  arrived  in 
Eaton,  which  was  then  only  a  town  by  name, 
consisting  only   of  a   railroad   switch  and  one 


building.  Here  he  engaged  in  agricultural  pur- 
suits for  ten  years  upon  a  farm  of  one  hundred 
and  sixty  acres,  raising  potatoes,  grain  and  stock, 
and  meeting  with  excellent  success.  He  then 
rented  his  farm  and  engaged  in  buying  and  ship- 
ping potatoes  quite  extensively.  In  the  spring 
of  1898,  in  company  with  F.  G.  Reeman,  he 
bought  out  the  firm  of  Steele  &  Smillie,  and  has 
since  engaged  in  the  lumber,  coal  and  farm 
implement  business  with  success.  They  have 
sold  as  high  as  seventeen  binders  in  one  week. 
They  are  also  extensive  shippers  of  Colorado 
potatoes,  and  as  Weld  County  is  noted  for  the 
excellence  of  this  product  it  makes  it  a  most 
profitable  business.  They  ship  principally  to 
Kansas  and  Texas,  though  their  trade  also  ex- 
tends to  Missouri  and  Nebraska,  and  the  ship- 
ment from  Eaton  in  1897  reached  nearly  one 
thousand  eight  hundred  car  loads.  They  are 
one  of  the  most  energetic,  enterprising  and  reli- 
able firms  in  the  county,  and  the  success  that  has 
crowned  their  efforts  is  certainly  justly  merited. 

November  25,  1885,  Mr.  Myers  was  married 
to  Mi.ss  Jennie  Storms,  daughter  of  James  Storms, 
of  New  Windsor,  Colo. ,  and  two  daughters  bless 
their  union,  Nellie  and  Ellen.  Fraternally  he  is 
a  member  of  Eaton  Lodge  No.  130,  Woodmen  of 
the  World,  and  politically  is  rather  independent 
in  his  views,  but  leans  toward  the  Republican 
party.  He  takes  a  deep  interest  in  local  affairs 
and  is  now  efficiently  serving  as  alderman  of 
Eaton.  He  holds  membership  in  the  Congrega- 
tional Church,  was  a  liberal  contributor  to  the 
erection  of  the  house  of  worship  in  Eaton,  and 
has  since  been  one  of  its  supporters. 


iA  AJ.  H.  L.  BOYD,  one  of  the  largest  land 
y  owners  of  Larimer  County,  was  born  in 
is  Adams  County,  Pa.,  in  1838,  a  son  of 
Hiram  and  Matilda  (Harbaugh)  Boyd,  and  a 
descendant  through  his  father  of  Scotch  ancestors. 
Hiram  Boyd  was  a  miller  and  spent  much  of  his 
active  life  in  Cumberland,  Md.,  but  in  1847  re- 
moved to  Ohio,  where  he  continued  to  follow  his 
trade  for  four  years.  He  died  of  cholera  in  185 1, 
during  the  epidemic  of  that  plague  in  the  United 
States. 

When  the  family  settled  in  Ohio,  the  subject 
of  this  sketch  was  seven  years  of  age  and  he  was 
eleven  when  his  father  died.     He  was  educated 


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in  the  public  schools  of  Marion,  Ohio,  and  in 
Oberlin  College.  He  was  still  carrying  on  his 
studies  in  college  when  the  war  broke  out,  and 
at  once,  in  1861,  he  enlisted  as  a  private  in  the 
Fourth  Ohio  Infantry.  For  three  years  he  held 
the  rank  of  sergeant,  to  which  he  was  promoted 
soon  after  enlistment.  At  the  expiration  of  that 
time  he  opened  a  recruiting  ofiBce  in  Marion, 
Ohio,  and  organized  a  body  of  men  that  reported 
for  service.  Of  this  company  he  was  made  first 
lieutenant,  and  continued  to  serve  in  that  capacity 
until  he  was  appointed  quartermaster  at  Mur- 
freesboro,  Tenn.  The  principal  battles  in  which 
he  participated  were  those  of  Rich  Mountain,  Va., 
Malvern  Hill,  second  battle  of  Bull  Run,  Gettys- 
burg, Fredericksburg,  Chancellorsville,  Mine 
Run,  the  Wilderness, Spottsylvania,  Cold  Harbor, 
Franklin,  Nashville  and  Kin.ston,  N.  C.  Be- 
sides these  important  engagements  he  bore  a  part 
in  many  skirmishes,  and,  while  he  was  often  in 
the  thickest  of  the  fight,  he  escaped  without  a 
wound.  During  most  of  his  service  he  was  under 
General  Grant. 

Returning  home  at  the  close  of  the  war,  Major 
Boyd  visited  relatives  during  the  winter.  In  the 
spring  of  1866  he  came  to  Colorado  and  began  to 
cultivate  land  near  Denver.  From  there,  in 
1 874,  he  came  to  Larimer  County  and  settled  on 
Boyd  Lake,  near  Loveland,  taking  up  govern- 
ment land  and  beginning  its  improvement  and 
cultivation.  In  1881  he  bought  his  present 
homestead,  where  he  gives  his  attention  to  farm- 
ing and  fruit-growing.  At  one  time  he  was 
among  the  largest  sheep  growers  in  the  county, 
and  also  raised  cattle  extensively,  but  of  late  years 
he  has  given  less  attention  to  stock  and  more  to 
fruit.  The  land  which  he  owns  aggregates  four 
hundred  and  eighty  acres.  His  success  is 
especially  noteworthy,  when  it  is  considered  that 
he  started  with  nothing  and  was  forced,  amid 
discouragements  and  hardships,  to  work  his  own 
way  to  prosperity.  During  one  winter  he  pros- 
pected and  mined,  but,  not  finding  any  gold,  he 
determined  to  turn  his  attention  wholly  to  an 
industry  for  which  Colorado  is  especially  adapted, 
that  of  stock-raising.  In  later  years  he  trans- 
ferred his  attention  to  the  fruit  business  and 
general  farming;  so,  while  he  never  dug  any 
gold  out  of  the  earth,  he  has  secured  it  through 
diligent  effort  in  a  profitable  line  of  work.  In 
1874  he  married  Miss  Marion  Alford,  daughter  of 


William  B.  Alford,  who  lives  near  Denver. 
They  are  the  parents  of  seven  children,  namely: 
Albert  A.;  Ethel  W.,  wife  of  Charles  Parker; 
Joseph,  Marion,  Eugenie,  Susan  and  Martha. 


QOHN  W.   SAUER,   E.   M.,    manager  of  the 

I  Ingram  mine,  owned  by  the  Ingram  Mining 
(2/  and  Milling  Company,  at  Salina^^  Boulder 
County,  was  born  in  Evansville,  111.,  the  son  of 
Nicholas  and  Elizabeth  (Gerlach)  Sauer,  natives 
of  Illinois  and  Wheeling,  W.  Va. ,  respectively. 
His  paternal  grandfather,  Philip  Sauer,  emigrated 
from  Germany  to  Illinois  and  became  a  pioneer 
of  Monroe  County.  The  maternal  grandfather, 
John  Gerlach,  also  a  native  of  Cassel,  Germany, 
crossed  the  ocean  and  settled  in  West  Virginia, 
but  soon  migrated  to  Illinois,  of  which  he  was  a 
pioneer  farmer. 

For  the  past  thirty  years  Nicholas  Sauer  has 
been  engaged  in  the  milling  business  at  Evans- 
ville, 111.,  besides  which  he  has  other  business 
interests  in  St.  Louis  and  Kansas  City,  Mo.  He 
has  four  sons  and  one  daughter  living.  A 
son,  William  E. ,  is  a  post-graduate  student  at 
Heidelberg,  Germany;  Philip  E.  is  in  business 
with  his  father;  George  N.  is  a  student  at  Shurt- 
leff  Colleges  and  Lena  E.  is  at  home. 

Born  March  11,  1868,  our  subject  was  reared 
in  Evansville,  111.,  and  at  the  age  of  fifteen  entered 
Washington  University  in  St.  Louis,  where  he 
took  a  four  years'  course  of  study.  From  there 
he  went  to  Freiberg  and  Clausthal,  Germany, 
where  for  three  years  he  was  a  studeut  in  the 
Prussian  Royal  Academy  of  Mines.  On  the  con- 
clusion of  the  regular  course  he  took  the  Prussian 
examination  for  mining  engineer  and  was 
graduated  in  1893,  with  the  degree  of  E.  M. 
Returning  to  St.  Louis,  he  shortly  afterward  came 
to  Colorado,  to  take  charge  of  the  Ingram  mine, 
in  the  Gold  Hill  mining  district.  It  is  one  of 
seven  claims,  operated  by  tunnel  and  shaft,  and 
the  work  in  which  is  carried  on  by  the  use  of  a 
shaft,  six  hundred  and  twenty-five  feet  deep. 
The  depth  has  been  doubled  since  he  assumed 
the  management  of  the  mine. 

Fraternally  Mr.  Sauer  is  identified  with 
Boulder  Lodge  No.  45,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  Boulder 
Chapter  No.  7,  R.  A.  M.,  and  the  Knights  of 
Pythias,  at  Boulder.  Everything  pertaining  to 
his  chosen  work  in  life  receives  thoughtful  at- 


THOMAS  G.  MAYFIELD. 


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tention  on  his  part.  As  an  engineer  he  is  pro- 
gressive and  enterprising.  He  is  connected  with 
the  American  Institute  of  Mining  Engineers  and 
socially  is  identified  with  the  Boulder  Club. 
While  he  has  never  been  an  active  politician,  he 
is  well  posted  concerning  public  affairs  and  casts 
his  ballots  for  Republican  candidates. 


'HOMAS  G.  MAYFIELD,  one  of  the  sturdy 
and  honored  pioneers  of  Colorado,  owns 
and  manages  a  valuable  farm  which  is  lo- 
cated about  five  miles  northeast  of  Longmont. 
During  his  earlj'  experiences  in  Colorado  he 
mined  and  freighted,  prospected  and  farmed, 
kept  hotel  and  cut  hay;  and,  in  short,  ran  the 
whole  gamut  of  occupations  of  the  frontiers- 
man of  the  period.  He  has  been  an  active  and 
interested  witness  of  the  great  progress  which 
the  state  has  made  in  every  direction,  contribut- 
ing his  share  to  the  glorious  Colorado  of  the 
present.  He  has  met  with  serious  reverses  and 
discouragements  in  his  career,  but  has  always 
kept  up  a  brave  heart,  making  the  best  of  cir- 
cumstances, and  eventually  coming  ofi'  victor  in 
his  endeavors. 

In  a  family  originally  including  seven  children, 
T.  G.  Mayfield  is  one  of  two  survivors.  His 
brother,  William  B.,  is  a  prosperous  farmer  of 
the  vicinity  of  Fort  Lupton,  Colo.  The  father, 
John  F.  Mayfield,  was  born  in  Virginia  in  1814, 
and  in  youth  went  to  Kentucky  with  the  other 
members  of  the  family.  There  he  married  Miss 
IvUcinda  Miller  and  a  few  years  afterward  settled 
in  Orange  County,  Ind.  He  bought  a  farm, 
which  he  proceeded  to  cultivate  up  to  the  year 
1873,  when  he  came  to  Colorado.  He  took  up 
his  residence  in  the  neighborhood  where  his  son, 
our  subject,  dwelt,  and  here  he  passed  the  re- 
mainder of  his  life,  his  demise  taking  place  in 
1877.  During  the  gold  excitement  about  1850 
he  was  one  of  the  many  thousands  who  crossed 
the  plains  in  quest  of  the  yellow  treasure,  but  he 
only  stayed  one  year.  His  father,  Elijah  May- 
field,  was  a  native  of  either  Virginia  or  Tennes- 
see and  was  a  respected  and  influential  man  in 
his  time. 

T.  G.  Mayfield,  of  this  sketch,  was  born  in 
Liberty  County,  Ky.,  December  23,  1839.  With 
his  parents  he  went  to  the  new  home  in  Indiana, 
and  was  there  reared  to  maturity,  his  education 


being  such  as  the  district  schools  afforded.  In 
1 86 1  he  made  the  long  journey  to  Colorado,  com- 
ing as  far  as  St.  Louis  by  train,  thence  to  Keokuk, 
Iowa,  by  boat,  to  Ettaville  by  rail  and  from  that 
point  to  Council  Bluffs,  a  distance  of  two  hundred 
and  twenty  miles,  by  stage.  Crossing  the  Mis- 
souri River  at  Omaha  he  found  a  team  of  oxen 
awaiting  him  to  be  driven  to  a  place  twelve  miles 
above  Golden,  Colo.  The  team  belonged  to  the 
young  man's  uncle,  and  as  soon  as  the  former 
reached  his  relative  they  entered  into  a  partner- 
ship which  continued  in  force  for  a  number  of 
years,  proving  both  profitable  and  pleasant.  The 
trip  across  the  Nebraska  plains  was  a  tedious 
one,  as  it  took  forty-four  days.  That  winter 
young  Mayfield  worked  in  a  lumber  camp  cutting 
logs  and  the  next  spring  he  and  his  uncle  built  a 
hotel  on  the  old  Gregory  road,  midway  between 
Central  and  Golden,  and  for  years  the  Mayfield 
hotel  was  a  favorite  stopping-place  for  the  travel- 
ers who  passed  that  way.  In  the  spring  of  1863 
the  partners  did  a  freighting  business  in  connec- 
tion with  their  hotel,  running  a  team  until  the 
winter  set  in.  Then  our  subject  worked  in  the 
mines  of  Nevada  and  Alps  Hill,  the  hotel  mean- 
time being  rented.  The  spring  and  summer  of 
1864  the  nephew  and  uncle  again  operated  the 
hotel  and  engaged  in  freighting.  In  September 
they  sold  the  business,  and  removing  to  Golden, 
devoted  their  whole  time  the  following  winter  to 
carrying  supplies  to  the  different  mining  camps. 
It  was  in  March,  1865,  that  T.  G.  Mayfield 
first  regularly  engaged  in  farming  here.  He  lo- 
cated on  a  ranch  which  he  rented,  it  being  situ- 
ated on  the  St.  Vrain  River,  seven  miles  east  of 
Longmont.  The  season  was  a  particularly  dis- 
astrous one,  as  grasshoppers  devoured  the  entire 
crop  and  all  of  our  subject's  labors  were  thus 
sacrificed.  That  autumn  he  went  out  on  the  prai- 
ries and  cut  wild  hay,  which  he  hauled  to  Central 
City  and  sold.  He  also  bought  hay  at  $30  a  ton, 
and,  after  transporting  it  to  Central  City,  disposed 
of  it  at  $80  a  ton.  In  1866  the  uncle  and  nephew 
each  took  up  a  quarter-section  of  land  in  the  lo- 
cality where  the  latter  had  formerly  rented.  They 
continued  to  farm  and  freight  supplies  to  various 
points  in  partnership  up  to  1870,  when  they  sold 
all  but  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres.  A  division 
of  their  assets  ensued  and  T.  G.  Mayfield  pur- 
chased his  senior's  interest  in  the  ranch,  which  he 
still   owns.      In    February,    1872,    he  returned 


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home  on  a  visit,  being  gone  about  a  month. 
From  the  time  of  his  Colorado  home-coming 
until  1883  he  lived  on  the  farm  just  mentioned, 
making  substantial  improvements.  His  health 
not  being  of  the  best,  he  came  to  the  conclusion 
that  a  more  elevated  location  might  prove  bene- 
ficial, and  he  purchased  his  present  country 
home,  five  miles  from  Longmont.  He  has  never 
been  an  office-seeker  or  politician,  but  does  his 
whole  duty  as  a  citizen  and  uses  his  ballot  on  be- 
half of  the  Democratic  party. 

March  4,  1875,  Mr.  Mayfield  married  M. 
Catharine,  daughter  of  Rev.  John  Cooke,  of  Clay 
County,  111.,  who  was  a  talented  and  well- 
known  Methodist  minister.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  May- 
field  have  three  children,  Charles,  Lulu  and 
William. 


HAMES  L.  McCAIN,  an  honored  veteran 
I  of  the  Civil  war,  now  most  creditably  serving 
Qj  as  justice  of  the  peace  and  notary  public 
in  Evans,  was  born  near  Amity,  Washington 
County,  Pa.,  October  29,  1840,  and  is  a  son  of 
James  and  Sarah  (Morrow)  McCain,  the  former 
a  native  of  Ireland,  the  latter  of  Pennsylvania. 
During  boyhood  the  father  came  to  America  and 
located  in  Washington  County,  Pa.,  where  he 
was  married  and  followed  the  occupation  of  farm- 
ing for  some  years.  In  1852  he  removed  to  Ohio, 
and  in  that  state  died  four  years  later.  He  was 
a  successful  farmer  and  became  quite  well-to-do. 
Politically  he  was  a  Jacksonian  Democrat,  and 
though  he  took  an  active  interest  in  public  affairs, 
he  was  never  an  office-seeker.  All  of  his  seven 
children  are  still  living. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  twelve  years  old 
when  he  accompanied  his  parents  on  their  re- 
moval to  Meigs  County,  Ohio,  where  he  grew  to 
manhood,  assisting  his  father  in  the  farm  work 
and  attending  the  local  schools,  completing  his 
education,  however,  attheTupper's  Plains  Acad- 
emy. At  the  outbreak  of  the  Civil  war  he  re- 
sponded to  the  first  call  for  troops,  enlisting  in 
Company  D,  Sixth  Ohio  Volunteer  Infantry, 
which  regiment  was  placed  on  guard  duty  on  the 
Marietta  &  Cincinnati  Railroad.  Before  the  ex- 
piration of  his  term  of  enlistment  he  re-enlisted 
for  three  years  in  Company  K,  Thirty-ninth  Ohio 
Infantry,  and  by  again  re-enlisting  in  the  same 
regiment  remained  in  the  service  until  the  close 
of  the  war.     As  a  member  of  the  Sixteenth  Army 


Corps,  commanded  by  Gen.  G.  M.  Dodge,  he 
participated  in  twenty-six  pitched  battles  and 
many  skirmishes,  including  the  engagements  at 
New  Madrid,  Island  No.  10,  Corinth,  luka  and 
Jackson.  They  followed  the  rebel  General  Price, 
and  afterward  were  on  guard  duty  at  Memphis 
for  six  months,  then  went  to  Decatur,  Ala.,  and 
Mr.  McCain's  command  was  the  first  to  cross  the 
Tennessee  River.  Joining  General  Sherman's 
forces  at  Chattanooga,  they  remained  with  him 
until  the  close  of  the  war,  taking  part  in  the  At- 
lanta campaign,  during  which  our  subject  was 
wounded  July  22,  1864.  They  followed  Sherman 
to  the  sea;  from  Atlanta  went  by  transports  to 
Beaufort,  were  in  the  battle  of  Bentonville, 
Sherman's  last  engagement,  and  were  present  at 
the  surrender  of  Johnston.  The  troops  then 
marched  to  Washington,  D.  C. ,  where  they  took 
part  in  the  grand  review.  Mr.  McCain's  com- 
mand then  proceeded  to  Louisville,  Ky.,  and 
from  there  to  Camp  Dennison,  Ohio,  where  he 
was  mustered  out  July  19,  1865,  with  a  war 
record  of  which  he  has  just  reason  to  be  proud. 
With  the  exception  of  the  journey  from  Savannah 
to  Beaufort,  N.  C,  he  had  marched  all  the  way 
from  Memphis,  Tenn. ,  to  Washington,  D.  C.  He 
had  enlisted  as  a  private,  but  was  gradually  pro- 
moted until  -he  attained  the  rank  of  first  lieuten- 
ant, and  was  mustered  out  as  adjutant. 

During  his  youth  Mr.  McCain  had  learned  the 
carpenter's  trade,  at  which  he  worked  in  Pitts- 
burg, Pa.,  after  the  war  until  coming  to  Colo- 
rado in  1879.  He  first  located  in  Denver,  where 
he  engaged  in  his  former  occupation,  and  in 
1882  bought  a  farm  of  one  hundred  and  sixty 
acres  nine  miles  west  of  the  city,  where  he  was 
engaged  in  farming  and  stock-raising  for  three 
years.  On  selling  that  place  he  came  to  Weld 
County,  in  the  spring  of  1885,  and  here  purchased 
another  claim  on  the  northwest  quarter  of  section 
30,  township  4,  range  65,  where  he  continued  to 
follow  agricultural  pursuits  and  stock-raising 
until  1893,  when  he  rented  his  place  and  removed 
to  Evans,  his  present  home. 

At  Denver,  Mr.  McCain  was  married  in  1882,  to 
Miss  Margaret  I.  Boggs,  a  native  of  Allegheny 
City,  Pa.,  and  a  daughter  of  James  Boggs,  of  that 
place.  To  them  was  born  a  son,  Wallace  Bruce, 
who  at  the  age  of  eight  years  met  a  sad  death  by 
being  run  over  by  the  cars  at  Evans. 

In  1895  Mr.  McCain  was  elected  justice  of  the 


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peace,  to  which  office  he  was  re-elected  two  years 
later,  and  which  he  is  still  filling  with  credit  to 
•himself  and  entire  satisfaction  of  the  general 
public.  He  was  previously  appointed  notary 
public  by  Governor  Waite,  and  until  coming  to 
Evans  had  served  as  a  member  of  the  school  board 
for  almost  twenty  years,  having  always  taken  an 
active  and  commendable  interest  in  educational 
affairs.  In  early  life  he  was  connected  with  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  but  is  now  a  mem- 
ber of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  of  L,a  Salle, 
in  which  he  has  served  as  elder  and  one  of  the 
trustees  since  its  organization  and  also  as  super- 
intendent of  the  Sunday-school.  He  affiliates  with 
the  Rnights  of  Honor,  the  Ancient  Order  of 
United  Workmen,  the  Royal  Arcanum,  and  W.  T. 
Sherman  Post  No.  23,  G.  A.  R.,  of  which  he 
served  as  commander  for  three  years.  In  all  the 
relations  of  life  he  has  been  found  true  and  faith- 
ful to  every  trust  reposed  in  him,  and  his  upright, 
honorable  life  has  won  for  him  the  confidence 
and  respect  of  all' with  whom  he  has  come  in  con- 
tact. 


HON.  JAMES  H.  SWAN  is  one  of  the  most 
enterprising  citizens  of  Livermore,  Larimer 
County,  and  is  closely  identified  with  the 
business  interests  of  the  place.  He  owns  the 
most  beautiful  property  to  be  found  in  this  part  of 
the  state.  Swan's  Hotel,  on  the  North  Park 
road,  at  the  north  fork  of  the  Cache  la  Poudre, 
is  one  of  the  best  known  hotels  in  central  Colo- 
rado, as  it  is  also  one  of  the  most  pleasant.  It  has 
an  elevation  of  six  thousand  one  hundred  feet 
above  the  sea,  is  surrounded  by  shady  groves  and 
smooth  lawns,  and  is  cool  and  refreshing  even  on 
hottest  summer  days,  while  the  view  that  can  be 
obtained  of  Steamboat  Rock  and  the  surrounding 
country  is  one  of  the  most  magnificent  in  the 
state. 

Mr.  Swan  is  a  native  of  Millington,  Middlesex 
County,  Conn.,  born  June  11,  1843,  his  parents 
being  James  E.  and  Lydia  (Harris)  Swan.  His 
grandfather,  Asa  Swan,  was  a  farmer  in  that 
state,  and  died  there  after  serving  in  the  Revo- 
lutionary war.  James  E.  Swan,  who  was  also  a 
farmer  there,  served  in  the  state  legislature 
several  times  as  a  representative  of  the  Demo- 
cratic party,  and  was  also  justice  of  the  peace. 
He  married  Miss  Lydia  Harris,  of  Millington, 
Conn.,  a  daughter   of  Samuel    Harris,  an  agri- 


culturist and  extensive  land  owner  who  lived  and 
died  there.  Both  parents  died  while  in  the  prime 
of  life,  the  father  at  the  age  of  forty-one,  in  1856, 
and  the  mother  when  forty-eight.  There  were 
five  children,  four  daughters  and  one  son,  of 
whom  our  subject  is  the  only  one  living. 

Mr.  Swan  was  the  third  child  of  the  family, 
and  lost  his  father  when  thirteen  years  old.  He 
attended  the  public  schools  and  worked  on  the 
farm  until  he  was  twenty-three,  when  he  em- 
barked in  the  mercantile  business  at  Moodus, 
Conn.,  with  a  cousin,  H.  B.  Niles,  under  the 
name  of  Niles  &  Swan.  They  continued  in  this 
business  about  three  years,  when  he  disposed  of 
his  interest  in  the  business  and  came  to  Colo- 
rado, locating  near  EaPorte,  where  he  bought  a 
claim,  homesteaded  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres 
on  the  Poudre,  and  engaged  in  farming  and  stock 
business.  After  ten  years  here  he  sold  out  and 
returned  to  his  old  home  in  Connecticut,  but 
after  two  months  there  he  longed  for  Colorado 
once  more  and  set  out  for  this  country.  He 
bought  a  place  in  Fort  Collins,  and  was  soon  ap- 
pointed assistant  postmaster,  under  Charles  Ray- 
mer,  continuing  under  Ansel  Waters,  during 
Cleveland's  administration,  and  again  under 
Raymer  during  Harrison's  presidency.  He  was 
thus  employed  about  seven  years.  In  1891  he 
bought  the  Livermore  Hotel  and  resigned  his 
position  to  take  charge  of  the  business.  He  was 
immediately  appointed  postmaster  and  took 
charge  in  July,  1891.  His  hotel  is  nicely  situ- 
ated, being  midway  between  Manhattan  and  Fort 
Collins,  also  between  the  latter  place  and  St. 
Cloud.  His  is  the  half-way  house,  and  has  three 
stage  lines  with  daily  mail  from  Fort  Collins.  He 
is  on  the  line  of  the  Colorado  Telephone  Com- 
pany. He  has  improved  the  building  until  it  is 
now  a  large,  commodious  structure,  and  finely 
appointed.  He  has  added  a  dance  hall,  and  done 
all  in  his  power  to  make  it  meet  the  requirements 
of  his  guests,  and  it  is  deservedly  popular.  In 
connection  with  this  he  runs  a  livery  and  feed 
stable,  and  has  a  blacksmith  shop  attached. 
About  the  time  he  took  charge  of  the  hotel  he 
opened  a  mercantile  establishment,  which  he 
still  conducts.  He  carries  on  an  extensive  and 
increasing  local  business.  He  owns  one  hun- 
dred and  twenty  acres  of  land  on  which  he  raises 
cattle. 

Mr.  Swan  has  been  twice  married.     In  East 


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Haddam,  Conn.,  he  married  Miss  Julia  M.  Doane, 
of  New  Jersey,  who  died  in  Fort  Collins.  His 
second  wife  was  Mrs.  Minerva  (Hornerd)  Saxton. 
She  had  one  daughter,  Cora  Saxton,  now  Mrs. 
Leslie  Horsley,  of  Livermore.  By  his  first  mar- 
riage he  had  three  children,  viz.:  Herbert,  who 
lives  in  Victor,  Colo.;  Walter  F.,  in  Seattle, 
Wash.;  and  Sylvia,  Mrs.  H.  L.  Gilpin-Brown,  of 
Livermore  Park.  He  is  president  of  the  school 
board  in  Pleasant  Valley  district,  and  was  justice 
of  the  peace  several  terms  there.  In  1893  he  was 
elected  on  the  Republican  ticket  to  the  office  of 
county  commissioner  for  Larimer,  took  the  oath 
of  office  in  January,  1894,  and  held  it  until  1897. 
He  is  a  McKinley  Republican,  and  takes  a  promi- 
nent part  in  local  politics,  rendering  much  aid  in 
their  caucuses  and  conventions.  He  was  a  charter 
member  ofFort  Collins  Lodge  No.  10,  A.  O.  U.  W. 
He  and  his  wife  are  members  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church  at  Fort  Collins,  and  have  an  unusual 
degree  of  popularity  among  those  who  have  come 
in  contact  with  them. 


/TIALVIN  H.  THOMAS.  One  of  the  most 
I  (  progressive  farmers  of  Weld  County  is  the 
U  subject  of  this  sketch,  who  is  engaged  in 
farming  and  stock-raising  on  township  7,  range 
65,  seven  miles  northeast  of  Eaton.  A  pioneer 
of  this  part  of  the  state,  he  came  to  Colorado 
with  the  Union  colony  and  found  but  a  cactus 
plain  stretching  as  far  as  the  eye  could  discern. 
He  broke  the  ground  and  began  the  cultivation 
of  the  land.  Wishing  to  have  trees  to  beautify 
his  place,  he  set  out  a  grove  of  one  thousand,  but 
all  died.  He  then  planted  two  thousand,  which 
now  constitute  his  beautiful  grove.  The  place  is 
also  beautified  by  many  flowers. 

Born  in  Salem,  Ohio,  November  15,  1844,  Mr. 
Thomas  is  a  son  of  Jacob  and  Rebecca  (Lee) 
Thomas,  natives  respectively  of  Bucks  and  Berks 
Counties,  Pa.  His  father,  who  was  a  Quaker, 
grew  to  manhood  in  Berks  County,  where  he  en- 
gaged principally  in  farming,  though  he  also  fol- 
lowed milling  for  a  time.  During  the  war  he 
advocated  Union  principles  and  was  a  stanch 
Abolitionist.  He  and  his  wife  were  the  parents 
of  two  sons  and  six  daughters,  namely:  Mary, 
widow  of  Robert  Tolerton;  Catherine,  Hannah, 
Jesse,  Priscilla,  Calvin  H. ;  Lydia,  who  married 
A.  J.  Strong;  and  Sallie,  wife  of  Dr.  Coats. 


When  less  than  .seventeen  years  of  age  our 
subject  enlisted,  in  October,  1861,  in  Company 
C,  Sixth  Ohio  Cavalry,  and  participated  in  all  of- 
the  cavalry  engagements  of  the  Army  of  the  Poto- 
mac. He  .served  through  the  entire  period  of 
the  war,  was  wounded  in  both  limbs,  and  re- 
ceived his  honorable  discharge  August  17,  1865. 
After  leaving  the  service  he  attended  school  for 
two  years,  then  took  a  trip  west,  and  on  his  re- 
turn home  engaged  in  farming.  In  1870  he  came 
to  Greeley  as  a  member  of  the  Union  colony. 
Three  years  later  he  returned  to  Ohio  and  was 
there  married.  In  1874  he  came  a  second  time 
to  Greeley,  where  he  carried  on  farm  pursuits  for 
six  years,  and  in  1880  settled  on  his  present 
quarter-section  of  land.  Here  he  has  engaged  in 
raising  grains  and  cattle.  He  is  a  stockholder  in 
the  Larimer  and  Weld  Reservoir  Company  and 
the  Larimer  and  Weld  Ditch  Company,  and  has 
his  land  nicely  laid  out  for  irrigating. 

In  political  questions  Mr.  Thomas  votes  the 
Republican  ticket  in  national  elections,  but  in 
local  matters  votes  for  the  man  whom  he  consid- 
ers best  suited  for  office.  Fraternally  he  is  con- 
nected with  the  Ancient  Order  of  United  Work- 
men, and  is  also  a  member  of  U.  S.  Grant  Post 
No.  14,  G.  A.  R.,  of  Greeley.  April  8,  1874,  he 
married  Sophia,  daughter  of  John  Nickum,  of 
Salem,  Ohio,  who  was  a  furniture  dealer  in  that 
town  and  held  office  as  captain  of  a  militia  com- 
pany, but  could  not  enter  the  service  during  the 
war,  as  he  was  too  old.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Thomas 
have  four  children:  Helen  M.,  Myra  L.,  Thurza 
Theda  and  Daniel  B.  L. 

While  his  service  in  the  army  prevented  Mr. 
Thomas  from  enjoying  the  educational  advan- 
tages so  desirable  to  the  young,  he  has  endeav- 
ored by  self-culture  to  atone  for  the  deficiencies 
of  his  education,  and  is  a  man  who  is  continually 
studying  and  progressing.  He  is  a  close  and 
thoughtful  reader  and  assists  his  children  in  their 
studies,  going  over  their  lessons  with  them.  On 
the  questions  of  the  day  he  is  well  informed.  In 
his  efforts  to  do  all  possible  for  his  children,  he  is 
ably  aided  by  Mrs.  Thomas,  who  is  a  cultured 
and  educated  lady,  and  for  two  years  was  presi- 
dent, and  is  now  vice-president,  of  the  Greeley 
branch  of  the  Kliothalian  Club  of  the  Woman's 
Federation.  They  own  a  home  in  Greeley  and 
spend  a  part  of  each  year  there,  in  order  that 
their  children    may  have   the  advantage  of  the 


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superior  schools  of  that  place.  During  the 
World's  Fair  Mr.  Thomas  took  his  wife  and  eldest 
daughter  to  Chicago,  less  as  a  sight-seeing  expe- 
dition than  for  what  the  daughter  would  learn, 
audit  is  his  expectation  to  take  one  of  his  daugh- 
ters to  Paris  in  igoo.  He  is  a  Quaker,  but  lost 
his  birthright  by  joining  the  army  during  the 
Civil  war.  An  intelligent,  agreeable  and  hos- 
pitable man,  he  is  esteemed  and  respected  wher- 
ever known. 


0AVID  W.  ERVIN,  a  pioneer  of  '60,  now 
residing  in  Weld  County,  seven  miles  south- 
east of  L,ongmont,  was  born  in  Philadelphia, 
Pa.,  July  27,  1833,  a  son  of  William  and  Sarah 
(Christman)  Ervin.  He  was  one  of  thirteen 
children,  seven  of  whom  are  still  living.  His 
father,  a  native  of  Lincolnshire,  England,  came 
to  America  at  twelve  years  of  age,  in  company 
with  a  sister,  Mrs.  Repass,  with  whom  he  re- 
mained in  Philadelphia  until  he  was  grown  to 
manhood.  After  his  marriage  he  settled  in  a 
home  of  his  own  in  Philadelphia,  where  he  re- 
mained for  some  years,  but  in  1840  he  removed 
to  Washington,  Northumberland  County,  and 
bought  a  piece  of  timbered  land,  which  his  sons 
cleared  and  improved.  During  a  large  part  of 
his  active  life  he  followed  the  trade  of  a  farrier, 
in  which  he  was  an  expert.  His  death  occurred 
in  Northumberland  County  in  1862,  when  he  was 
fifty -seven  years  of  age. 

At  twenty-one  years  of  age  the  subject  of  this 
sketch  went  to  Illinois  to  visit  a  relative.  While 
there  the  son  of  the  relative  returned  home  and 
persuaded  our  subject  to  go  to  Iowa.  While  in 
that  state  he  assisted  in  carrying  the  chain  to  lay 
out  the  town  of  Waterloo.  Having  a  few  dollars 
of  his  own,  he  invested  in  a  livery  stable,  begin- 
ning in  business  with  six  horses,  and  increasing 
until  he  had  twenty-five  horses  and  fifteen  bug- 
gies at  the  end  of  two  years;  besides  this  he 
owned  a  farm  of  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  and 
some  town  lots.  On  disposing  of  his  livery  sta- 
ble he  turned  his  attention  to  other  enterprises, 
remaining  in  Waterloo  until  i860.  When  a  call 
was  made  for  volunteers  at  the  opening  of  the 
Civil  war  he  enlisted  for  one  hundred  days,  in 
the  Twenty-first  Iowa  Infantry.  At  the  expira- 
tion of  his  time  he  was  discharged  in  Sedalia ,  Mo. 
Immediately  after  being  discharged  Mr.  Ervin 
bought  a  team  of  mules,  and,  with  four  other  men, 
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started  for  Colorado.  He  arrived  in  Denver  on 
Independence  day  of  i860.  Here  he  was  offered 
some  lots  on  the  east  side  of  Blake  street  for  his 
mules  and  outfit,  but  refused  the  offer.  During 
the  summer  he  worked  for  Rodney  Curtis  near 
Denver,  helping  to  dig  potatoes.  In  the  fall, 
with  his  mules,  he  hauled  the  potatoes  to  Buck- 
skin Joe  and  there  fell  a  victim  to  the  mining 
fever,  which  sooner  or  later  has  seized  every 
"tenderfoot"  from  the  east.  During  the  winter  he 
traded  his  outfit  for  claim  No.  6,  of  the  Phillips 
lead,  where  he  worked  until  May  of  the  following 
year.  Finally  abandoning  his  claim,  he  went  to 
Central  via  California  Gulch  and  Fairplay,  and 
for  a  time  worked  by  the  day.  Later,  when  the 
Grinnell  Central  Gold  Mining  Company  was 
formed,  he  was  made  foreman  of  the  mine  at  $6  a 
day,  and  afterward  was  advanced  to  be  general 
superintendent,  for  which  he  received  $7  a  day. 
In  Nevada  City,  in  1866,  Mr.  Ervin  married 
Miss  Elizabeth  Hochstrasser,  daughter  of  Peter 
Hochstrasser,  of  South  County,  Ontario,  Canada. 
About  the  same  time  he  came  to  this  valley  and 
rented  land  on  Boulder  Creek,  in  Weld  County. 
In  1870  he  took  up  a  claim  of  one  hundred  and 
sixty  acres,  where  he  now  lives,  this  being  a  tract 
adjoining  the  one  he  had  rented.  He  is  inter- 
ested in  all  matters  pertaining  to  the  welfare  of 
his  county  and  is  especially  active  in  educational 
affairs,  having  for  twenty-seven  years  served  as 
secretary  of  the  school  board  in  district  No.  i. 
Fraternally  he  is  connected  with  the  Ancient 
Order  of  United  Workmen  and  Select  Knights. 
He  and  his  wife  are  the  parents  of  the  following- 
named  children:  Mary  E.,  wife  of  William  Van- 
daford  Lafayette;  Sarah,  who  married  Joseph 
Milener,  of  Canada;  William,  of  Golden,  Colo.; 
Francis,  deceased;  and  Ernest,  at  home. 


"TDWARD  NAIRN  GARBUTT,  deceased, 
^  was  a  pioneer  of  Colorado  and  a  highly  re- 
^  .spected  resident  of  Fort  Collins.  He  was 
born  near  Rochester,  Monroe  County,  N.  Y., 
July  20,  1844.  His  father,  Volney  John  Gar- 
butt,  was  born  in  Wheatland,  near  Rochester, 
N.  Y.,  and  was  a  son  of  John  Garbutt,  a  native 
of  Northumberland,  England,  and  one  of  three 
brothers  who  came  to  this  country  with  their 
father,  Zachariah.  The  family  settled  in  the 
town  of  Wheatland  and  a  station  was  established 


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near  their  home  that  is  still  known  as  Garbutt. 
In  addition  to  cultivating  land  they  engaged  in 
operating  a  mill.  Our  subject  fell  heir  not  only 
to  a  watch  that  was  owned  by  Zachariah  Gur- 
butt,  but  also  to  the  name  of  Zachariah's  wife, 
who  was  a  Miss  Nairn,  of  Scotland. 

In  all  the  enterprises  tending  to  the  develop- 
ment of  Monroe  County  each  generation  took  an 
active  part.  John  Garbutt  carried  books  from 
Albany  to  his  home  and  started  the  first  library 
in  Monroe  County.  He  built  a  two-story  house 
at  Garbutt  and  engaged  in  the  hotel  business,  be- 
sides operating  his  farm.  Later  he  built  plaster 
and  flour  mills;  also  constructed  "to  the  Genesee 
River  a  railroad  of  plank,  drawn  by  horses,  over 
which  he  hauled  his  produce  to  the  market,  and 
from  there  he  floated  the  flour  down  the  river  in 
flatboats.  He  continued  his  shipments  in  this 
way  until  the  canal  was  built.  During  the  war 
of  181 2  he  served  as  a  captain.  For  a  time  he 
was  a  member  of  the  state  legislature  of  New 
York.  His  death  occurred  in  Monroe  County 
when  he  was  seventy-six  years  of  age. 

Volney  John  Garbutt  engaged  in  farming  in 
Monroe  County.  He  located  in  the  town  of 
Greece,  three  miles  from  the  Genesee  River  and 
Lake  Ontario.  There  he  engaged  in  farming 
until  his  death  at  sixty-nine  years.  His  wife, 
Lucy  Howard  Bennett,  was  born  in  the  Wyoming 
Valley,  Pennsylvania,  and  died  in  New  York  at 
forty-si  x  years  of  age.  Her  father,  Frederick  Ben- 
nett, was  born  in  Massachusetts,  but  at  the  age 
of  two  years  was  taken  by  his  parents  to  the 
Wyoming  Valley  and  was  there  during  the 
Wyoming  massacre.  Afterward  they  returned 
to  Massachusetts,  but  when  the  fear  of  Indians 
no  longer  existed  they  once  more  settled  in  Penn- 
sylvania. He  removed  to  the  Genesee  Valley 
in  New  York  and  engaged  in  the  lumber  busi- 
ness in  Monroe  County,  where  he  died  at  eighty- 
seven  years;  his  wife  passed  away  when  eighty- 
four. 

The  family  of  which  our  subject  was  second 
consisted  of  eight  children  that  attained  years  of 
maturity.  H.  Irving  is  an  attorney  in  Fort  Col- 
lins, having  come  here  from  New  York;  during 
the  Civil  war  he  enlisted  in  the  Thirteenth  New 
York  Infantry,  and  at  the  first  battle  of  Bull  Run 
was  taken  prisoner,  remaining  in  Libby  Prison 
for  eleven  months.  Volney,  who  was  in  the  New 
York  Light  Artillery,  died  soon  after  the  close  of 


the  war  in  the  oil  regions  of  Pennsylvania. 
Jane  E.  died  in  1872.  Zachariah  is  an  attorney 
at  Boyne  City,  Mich.,  and  Cameron  W.  a  stock- 
man at  Sheridan,  Wyo.  The  youngest  child, 
Nettie,  married  Rowland  Herring,  of  New  York, 
subsequently  moved  to  Colorado,  and  died  at  La 
Porte,  this  state. 

The  boyhood  years  of  our  subject  were  spent 
in  the  town  of  Greece.  In  August,  1862,  he  en- 
listed in  Company  I,  One  Hundred  and  Fortieth 
New  York  Infantry,  being  mustered  into  service 
at  Rochester  September  21.  He  was  ordered  to 
Harper's  Ferry,  from  there  to  Fredericksburg, 
took  part  in  the  battle  of  Gettysburg,  and  the 
day  after  the  battle  was  over  fell  ill  with  typhoid 
fever.  For  weeks  he  lay  at  death's  door  in  the 
hospital.  Finally,  however,  he  became  strong 
enough  to  return  home,  and  was  discharged  Sep- 
tember 21,  1863,  on  account  of  disability.  After 
becoming  well  enough  to  resume  his  studies  he 
entered  Lima  Seminary,  in  Livingston  County, 
N.  Y.,  and  for  a  time  both  taught  and  studied. 
After  graduating  he  settled  in  Greenville,  Mich., 
where  he  bought  a  farm  and  remained  one  year. 

In  1867  Mr.  Garbuttcame  to  Colorado,  making 
the  journey  by  rail  to  Fort  Riley,  Kan.,  where 
he  secured  work  as  driver  of  ox-teams  across  the 
plains  at  $25"  per  month.  The  route  lay  along 
the  Smoky  Hill  road,  where  water  was  so  scarce 
that  twice  he  went  for  twenty-four  hours  without 
any.  Arriving  at  Denver  July  23,  he  heartily 
enjoyed  the  sight  of  the  town  after  so  many  days 
on  the  hot  and  dusty  road.  A  day  after  reaching 
Denver  he  left,  coming  by  stage  to  Fort  Collins, 
where  he  had  a  cousin,  Fred  Wallace.  At  that 
time  there  were  only  about  six  houses  in  the 
town,  and  there  was  little  to  invite  or  attract  the 
settler.  He  went  on  to  LaPorte,  then  a  rather 
lively  little  place,  and  there  he  and  his  cousin  en- 
gaged in  farming  until  1874,  when  the  grass- 
hoppers destroyed  his  crop  and  he  decided  to 
quit.  While  there  he  was  secretary  of  a  school 
district  that  covered  forty  square  miles.  In  Sep- 
tember, 1875,  he  was  elected  county  superin- 
tendent of  schools  and  served  for  two  months 
over  two  terms.  During  that  time  he  reorgan- 
ized the  schools  and  the  school  districts  of  the 
county.  In  the  fall  of  1879  he  was  elected  county 
treasurer  on  the  Republican  ticket,  and  in  Janu- 
ary, 1880,  took  the  oath  of  ofiice.  The  next 
year  he  was  re-elected,  also  in  1883,  .serving  until 


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January,  1886.  For  several  years  he  was  deputy 
district  clerk,  and  for  five  years  served  as  deputy 
county  clerk  under  Scott,  Montgomery  and  Du- 
Bois.  These  several  positions  he  filled  in  con- 
nection vv-ith  his  treasuryship.  In  1 886  he  bought 
the  abstract  books  and  continued  in  charge  of 
them  for  some  time,  bringing  abstracts  up  to 
date;  however,  the  work  was  too  confining  for 
him.  He  became  seriously  ill  and  went  to  Den- 
ver for  treatment,  but  blood  poison  fever  result- 
ing from  the  treatment  set  in  and  threatened  his 
life.  While  ill  he  sold  the  abstract  books.  Dur- 
ing much  of  the  time  when  he  was  in  ofiice  he 
carried  on  a  store  at  LaPorte,  which  he  owned 
from  1877  to  1893  and  then- sold.  For  many 
years,  at  different  periods,  he  served  as  post- 
master at  LaPorte.  On  selling  his  store  he  took 
in  exchange  one  hundred  and  eighty-seven  acres 
south  of  Fort  Collins,  which  he  rented. 

Politically  Mr.  Garbutt  was  a  silver  Repub- 
lican. While  he  held  many  offices  he  perhaps 
refused  as  many  as  he  accepted.  Fraternally  he 
was  connected  with  Collins  Lodge  No.  19,  A.  F. 
&  A.  M.,  of  which  he  was  master  for  five  years; 
Cache  la  Poudre  Chapter  No.  11,  R.  A.  M., 
and  DeMolay  Commandery  No.  13,  K.  T.  Sep- 
tember 16,  1880,  in  Greenville,  Mich.,  he  mar- 
ried Miss  Libbie  O.  Holmden,  who  was  born  in 
that  place.  Her  father,  George  Holmden,  was  a 
native  of  England,  and  on  coming  to  this  country 
settled  in  Michigan.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Garbutt  had 
two  children,  namely:  Stuart  Bennett,  who  was 
born  July  24,  1880,  and  will  graduate  from  the 
Agricultural  College  in  1900;  and  Edna  Eliza- 
beth, who  was  born  November  22,  1885.  They 
also  took  into  their  family  a  sister's  child,  Ed- 
ward Irving  Herring  Garbutt. 

Mr.  Garbutt's  death  occurred  October  25,  1898, 
at  his  residence  in  Fort  Collins.  He  was  buried 
with  Masonic  honors. 


(lOHN  MONTGOMERY,- one  of  the  most 
I  successful  farmers  of  Weld  County,  owns  a 
Q)  finely  improved  homestead,  one  and  one- 
quarter  miles  west  of  Eaton,  on  township  7, 
range  66.  He  settled  here  in  1887,  buying  one 
hundred  and  sixty  acres  of  fine  land,  all  of  which 
is  under  cultivation.  The  improvements  have 
been  made  under  his  personal  supervision,  and 
include  a  well  two  hundred  and  thirty  feet  deep, 


with  excellent  soft  water,  which  a  windmill  con- 
nects with  the  house.  The  barn,  which  is  the 
finest  for  miles  around,  is  of  brick,  40x50  feet  in 
dimensions,  and  with  ceilings  seventeen  feet  high. 
The  residence  is  also  of  brick  and  thoroughly 
modern  in  its  appointments. 

Mr.  Montgomery  was  born  in  Ireland  in  No- 
vember, 1832,  a  son  of  George  and  Eliza  (Dren- 
nin)  Montgomery,  who  emigrated  to  Canada  in 
1835,  settling  in  Melbourne,  Richmond  County, 
Quebec,  and  there  the  father  died  May  6,  1838. 
Our  subject  was  educated  in  district  schools  in 
Melbourne,  but  his  opportunities  for  attending 
school  were  limited,  as  he  was  obliged  to  assist 
in  the  farm  work  while  still  quite  young.  Of  the 
five  children  he  was  next  to  the  youngest.  He 
assisted  his  older  brother  in  cultivating  the  home 
place  until  the  brother  became  of  age,  after  which 
our  subject  cultivated  it  alone.  In  1887  he  sold 
the  place  and  came  to  Colorado,  settling  on  the 
farm  where  he  has  since  resided.  His  youngest 
son,  Christopher  L. ,  superintends  the  cultivation 
of  the  land,  and  is  a  young  man  of  intelligence 
and  ability.  However,  Mr.  Montgomery  is  not 
content  when  idle,  and  usually  finds  something 
to  occupy  his  time  and  thought  in  managing  the 
estate  and  in  suggesting  improvements.  In  polit- 
ical views  he  is  a  stanch  silver  advocate.  In  re- 
ligion he  has  always  adhered  to  the  Episcopalian 
faith,  but  as  that  denomination  has  no  church 
near  here,  he  attends  the  Congregational  Church 
at  Eaton. 

December  22,  1857,  i"  Durham,  Canada,  Mr. 
Montgomery  married  Mary  Ann,  daughter  of 
William  Lyster,  a  resident  of  that  place.  She 
was  an  estimable  lady,  and  her  death,  October  6, 
1894,  was  a  heavy  loss  to  her  family.  There 
were  four  sons  and  four  daughters  born  of  their 
union,  namely:  Eliza  A.,  who  married  Albert  E. 
English,  of  La  Grange,  Colo.;  Frederick  Will- 
iam, living  at  Holly,  Colo.;  George  A.,  who 
owns  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  adjoining  his 
father's  place,  and  is  now  road  superintendent  of 
this  section;  Mary  Esther,  who  married  James 
Smillie,  of  Richmond,  Canada;  Albert  E.,  who  is 
engaged  in  farming  west  of  his  father's  place; 
Julia  Matilda,  who  married  James  G.  Milne,  a 
farmer  living  near  Lucerne;  Christopher  L. ,  who 
operates  the  homestead;  and  Charlotte  Matilda, 
who  died  at  eleven  years  of  age. 

Mr.  Montgomery  owns  two  water  rights  in  the 


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Larimer  and  Weld  reservoir,  and  two  in  the  Lari- 
mer and  Weld  ditch .  He  also  has  a  private  res- 
ervoir of  nine  acres,  which  he  finds  of  inestima- 
ble value,  it  furnishing  him  with  plenty  of  water 
whenever  needed.  It  has  been  his  custom  to 
have  the  water  run  in  at  night,  and  thus  he  has  a 
full  supply  in  the  daytime.  In  the  well-remem- 
bered suit  against  the  English  company  for  the 
control  of  the  water  company,  he  was  very  active 
in  upholding  the  interests  of  the  farmers  and 
strong  in  advocating  the  transfer  of  the  control 
to  them,  as  per  contract.  At  the  end  of  seven 
years  of  litigation  they  were  finally  successful, 
and  the  control  passed  into  the  hands  of  those 
who  held  the  three  hundred  and  sixty-six  and 
one-half  original  rights,  instead  of  being  held  by 
B.  H.  Eaton,  who  proposed  to  divide  the  water 
among  five  hundred,  a  larger  number  than  the 
ditch  could  suppl}'.  Although  the  suit  was  finally 
decided  in  the  farmers'  favor,  they  were  kept  out 
of  po-ssession  of  the  water  until  January  of  the  fol- 
lowing year,  1898.  Mr.  Montgomery  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Northern  Colorado  Produce  Exchange 
of  Greeley.  Besides  his  other  interests  he  is  a 
feeder  of  sheep  for  the  Chicago  market,  and  an- 
nually buys  about  one  thousand  for  this  purpose. 


G)  AMUEL  J.  McAFEE,  junior  member  of  the 
2\  well-known  firm  of  Briggs  &  McAfee,  gen- 
Q/  eral  merchants  of  Evans,  Weld  County,  is 
an  enterprising,  wide-awake  business  man,  who 
has  been  identified  with  the  interests  of  this 
state  throughout  the  greater  part  of  his  life.  He 
was  born  in  Washington  County,  111.,  in  1862, 
and  is  a  son  of  John  and  Margery  (Stevenson) 
McAfee.  The  father  was  a  native  of  Ireland,  but 
when  a  lad  of  eight  years  was  brought  to  this 
country  by  his  parents,  who  located  in  Philadel- 
phia, where  the  grandfather  was  one  of  the  first 
to  engage  in  the  manufacture  of  brick,  following 
that  occupation  there  until  his  death.  In  the 
Quaker  City  John  McAfee  grew  to  manhood,  but 
in  the  early  '40s,  when  twenty-five  years  of  age, 
he  went  to  Chicago,  which  at  that  time  contained 
less  than  three  thousand  inhabitants.  There  he 
engaged  in  farming  for  a  time,  and  later  followed 
the  same  pursuit  in  connection  with  brick  making 
in  Washington  County,  111.,  until  1870,  when  he 
came  to  Evans,  Colo.,  as  a  member  of  the  St. 
Louis  and  Western  Colony,    with  which  he  was 


identified  during  the  remainder  of  his  life.  He 
made  the  first  brick  in  this  part  of  the  country, 
and  engaged  extensively  in  its  manufacture  for 
several  years.  He  spent  two  summers  at  Canon 
City,  as  superintendent  of  the  state  brick  yard 
under  convict  labor,  but  passed  his  last  years 
quietly  on  a  farm  three  miles  south  of  Evans, 
where  he  departed  this  life  in  1889,  at  the  age  of 
seventy-six  years.  His  wife  had  previously  been 
called  to  her  final  rest,  dying  in  Evans,  in  1886, 
aged  seventy-two  years.  Only  three  of  their  ten 
children  are  now  living,  namely:  Alice,  wife  of 
Judge  Edward  V.  Higgins,  of  Lehigh,  Utah; 
Samuel  J.,  the  subject  of  this  sketch;  and  John  J., 
a  resident  of  Salt  Lake  City. 

Samuel  J.  McAfee  was  only  nine  years  old  when 
he  came  with  the  family  to  Evans,  Colo. ,  and  at 
that  place  he  acquired  his  education  in  the  public 
schools.  At  the  age  of  fifteen  he  started  out  to 
learn  the  carpenter's  trade,  but  gave  it  up  after 
following  it  for  a  few  weeks  and  entered  the  print- 
ing office  of  the  Evans  y(??<r«a/ as  an  apprentice, 
remaining  there  one  year.  The  following  three 
years  he  was  employed  as  a  general  printer  in  the 
office  of  the  Hotel  Reporter,  owned  by  John  C. 
Kennedy,  and  remained  in  Denver  for  six  years, 
working  on  different  papers.  Returning  to  Evans 
in  1884,  he  ptirchased  the  IBiVaxis  Journal  in  com- 
pany with  Thomas  M.  Todd,  but  a  year  later  the 
firm  became  Cheely  &  McAfee,  and  as  such  the 
business  was  conducted  for  the  following  year. 
They  then  sold  the  paper  and  Mr.  McAfee  went 
to  S3'racuse,  Kan.,  as  manager  of  the  Syra- 
cuse Sentinel  for  about  twenty-three  months.  In 
1889  we  again  find  him  in  Denver,  where  he  was 
engaged  in  newspaper  work  for  a  short  time, 
and  on  leaving  that  cit3'  he  went  to  Castle  Rock, 
where  he  had  charge  of  the  Castle  'R(xk  Journal 
for  seven  months.  In  1890  he  returned  to  Evans 
and  established  the  Evans  Coiirier,  a  weekly 
journal,  whose  first  issue  appeared  May  24,  1890. 
On  the  ist  of  February,  1895,  he  sold  the  paper 
and  the  same  day  bought  the  mercantile  stock  of 
George  C.  Briggs,  and  was  engaged  in  general 
merchandising  alone  until  November  i,  1897. 
On  the  first  of  the  following  February,  in  partner- 
ship with  Mr.  Briggs,  under  the  firm  name  of 
Briggs  &  McAfee,  he  again  embarked  in  business. 
They  carry  a  large  and  well-selected  stock  of 
general  merchandise,  farming  machinery  and  im- 
plements, and  by  fair  and  honorable  dealing  they 


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have  secured  a  liberal  share  of  the  public  patron- 
age. While  engaged  in  newspaper  work,  Mr. 
McAfee  invented  a  mailing  machine,  which  he  is 
still  manufacturing  in  connection  with  Lorin  C. 
Vanderlip,  and  he  is  also  interested  in  the  Evans 
Milling  and  Elevator  Company. 

In  1883  Mr.  McAfee  was  united  in  marriage 
with  Miss  Sallie  M.  Bovard,  a  native  of  Indiana, 
and  a  daughter  of  George  Bovard.  To  them 
have  been  born  the  following-named  children: 
Harry,  Elizabeth,  Montgomery,  George  and  Blair. 
He  is  an  honored  member  of  Prosperity  Lodge 
No.  109,  I.  O.  O.  F.,  of  which  he  is  past  grand, 
and  also  belongs  to  Evans  Camp,  Woodmen  of 
the  World.  Politically  he  an  ardent  Democrat 
and  takes  quite  an  active  and  influential  part  in 
local  affairs,  attending  all  the  county  conventions 
of  his  party.  He  was  elected  trustee  of  the  town 
of  Evans  in  1890,  and  three  years  later  was 
elected  mayor.  The  reins  of  city  government 
were  never  in  more  capable  hands,  for  he  is  a 
progressive  man,  pre-eminently  public-spirited, 
and  all  that  pertains  to  the  public  welfare  receives 
his  hearty  endorsement.  He  has  also  served  as 
town  clerk  many  years,  was  police  judge  and 
justice  of  the  peace  for  a  time,  and  was  post- 
master of  Evans  during  President  Cleveland's 
second  term.  His  ofScial  duties  have  always 
been  most  ably  discharged,  and  both  his  public 
and  private  life  are  alike  above  reproach. 


|7J|HARLES  TOWNSEND  WYGANT,  pro- 
I  (  prietor  and  principal  stockholder  of  the 
\J  Charles  T.  Wygant  Carriage  Company,  has 
resided  in  Denver  since  1888.  For  three  years 
after  coming  here  he  followed  the  trade  of  sign 
writer  and  painter,  and  then  bought  out  Emmons 
&  Smith,  of  the  Novelty  Carriage  Works  Com- 
pany, and  carried  on  the  business  at  No.  2956 
Arapahoe  street.  In  1892  he  removed  to  Nos. 
2816-18  Larimer  street,  but  soon  the  business 
outgrew  the  capacity  of  the  building,  and  in 
1897  ^^  removed  to  more  commodious  quarters 
at  Nos.  2924-32  Larimer,  where  he  has  a  two- 
story  structure,  with  a  frontage  of  fifty  feet  and  a 
depth  of  sixty  feet.  About  the  time  of  the  re- 
moval the  name  of  the  firm  was  changed  to  its 
present  title.  He  carries  on  a  large  business  in 
the  manufacture  and  repair  of  carriages  and  wag- 
ons.    On  the  first  floor  he  has  his  blacksmith 


and  woodwork  department,  while  on  the  second 
floor  are  the  painting,  trimming  and  storage  de- 
partments. The  concern  is  conducted  on  strictly 
business  principles,  for  which  reason  it  has  had 
a  steady  prosperity. 

Mr.  Wygant  was  born  in  Meadville,  Pa.,  April 
20,  1849,  the  son  of  John  P.  and  Sarah  (Boyle) 
Wygant,  natives  of  Orange  County,  N.  Y.  His 
mother  was  a  daughter  of  Prof  Charles  Boyle, 
at  one  time  an  instructor  in  a  New  York  college, 
but  afterward  a  farmer  near  Meadville,  where  he 
died.  John  P.  Wygant  was  the  grandson  of 
Jonathan  Wygant,  a  Revolutionary  patriot,  and 
the  son  of  Jonathan  Wygant,  Jr.,  who  was  among 
the  first  of  the  New  York  settlers  on  the  Holland 
laud  grant  near  Meadville.  When  he  went  there 
the  Indians  were  numerous  and  troublesome,  and 
the  white  settlers  were  obliged  often  to  take  up 
arms  in  defense  of  their  families  and  possessions. 

When  a  boy  John  P.  Wygant  accompanied  his 
parents  to  Pennsylvania,  where  he  assisted  in 
clearing  a  farm  and  later  carried  on  a  livery  busi- 
ness in  Meadville,  also  was  proprietor  of  a  livery 
stable.  During  the  war  he  bought  horses  for  the 
government,  and  also  for  the  New  York  and 
Philadelphia  markets.  His  purchases  of  fine 
horses  and  subsequent  trades  frequently  took 
him  from  home,  and  from  one  of  these  trips  he 
never  returned.  It  was  supposed  that  he  was 
murdered  for  his  money,  of  which  he  frequently 
carried  large  sums.  His  widow  continues  to 
make  her  home  in  Meadville,  but  only  one  of 
their  four  children  remains  there.  The  younger 
son,  William  E.,  is  an  importer  of  crockery  in 
Jackson,  Mich.,  and  a  sister,  Emma,  lives  in 
Flushing,  that  state;  while  the  younger  sister, 
Mrs.  Ida  Hewitt,  remains  in  Meadville. 

The  eldest  of  the  family  was  the  subject  of  this 
sketch.  He  attended  the  public  and  high  schools 
of  Meadville,  and  Bryant  &  Stratton's  Business 
College,  from  which  he  graduated.  For  a  time 
he  carried  on  a  book  and  stationery  business  in 
his  native  town,  after  which  he  became  traveling 
salesman  for  a  New  York  house,  his  territory 
comprising  the  western  part  of  Pennsylvania, 
eastern  Ohio  and  western  New  York.  In  1869 
he  learned  carriage  painting,  and  at  the  same 
time  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  carriages  in 
Meadville.  Six  years  later,  in  1875,  he  began  in 
the  wholesale  and  retail  shoe  business  in  Mead- 
ville, and  carried  on  business  in   that  line  for 


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some  years,  removing  in  188 1  to  Escanaba, 
Mich.,  where  he  engaged  in  the  carriage  and 
wagon  business.  At  the  same  time  he  was  pro- 
prietor of  the  opera  house  and  skating  rink,  and 
also  served  as  deputy  sheriff.  He  remained  there 
until  his  removal  to  Denver.  Meantime,  in  that 
city,  in  1882,  he  married  Mary  E.  Harrington, 
who  was  born  in  Welland,  Ontario,  Canada,  the 
daughter  of  James  Harrington,  now  of  Denver. 
They  have  two  children,  Harry  and  Jeanie.  Mr. 
Wygant  is  the  oldest  member  of  the  order  of 
Knights  of  Pythias  in  Denver,  he  having  joined 
a  lodge  in  Meadville  in  1870.  Politically  he  is  a 
Republican. 

Mr.  Wygant  is  a  descendant  of  German  Lu- 
theran stock,  in  which  is  apparent  the  result  of 
many  generations  of  honest  lives.  The  original 
progenitor  of  the  family  in  America  was  Michael, 
son  of  Rev.  George  Herman  Weigand,  Lutheran 
minister  at  Niederschule,  in  the  Rhine  Palatin- 
ate. Michael  Weigand  was  born  in  1656.  Before 
he  was  fairly  out  of  his  teens  he  entered  the 
army,  afterward  serving  through  several  disas- 
trous campaigns  in  defense  of  his  native  land. 
On  leaving  the  army  he  became  a  husbandman, 
married,  and  settled  atOsthofen,  near  the  city  of 
Worms.  There  his  children,  Anna,  Maria,  To- 
bias and  George,  were  born,  and  there  he  and  his 
good  wife,  Anna  Catherena,  hoped  by  industry 
and  wise  management  to  rear  their  offspring 
creditably,  and  with  a  competency  honestly  ac- 
quired, to  spend  their  declining  years  in  peace. 
But  in  this  worthy  ambition  they  were  destined  to 
cruel  disappointment,  for  their  rooftree  had  been 
planted  in  a  land  to  which  peace  was  an  utter 
stranger. 

"In  the  counties  intersected  by,  or  lying  near 
.the  Rhine,  it  would  be  difBcult  to  find  any  cas- 
tles or  fortresses  whose  battered  bastions  do  not 
betray  the  vestiges  of  hostility,  any  towns  which 
are  not  built  on  the  ashes  of  their  former  edifices, 
and  any  plains  which  have  not  been  drenched 
with  blood."  During  the  long  reign  of  Louis 
XIV.,  which  began  in  1651,  and  did  not  end 
until  1715,  this  unfortunate  country,  which  had 
for  centuries  previous  seemed  devoted  to  carnage 
and  conflagration,  experienced  anew  the  horrors 
of  devastation.  In  1706  an  invading  army  of 
Louis  with  fire  and  sw:ord  swept  over  and  laid 
waste  hundreds  of  the  most  productive  farms,  and 
not  a  few  villages  adjacent  to  Worms.     Michael 


Weigand,  after  beholding  the  incendiary  flames 
devour  the  home  which  had  sheltered  his  wife 
and  little  ones,  and  witnessing  the  wanton  de- 
struction or  confiscation  of  every  vestige  of  the 
accumulation  of  years  of  toil,  resolved  to  quit 
forever  the  land  of  his  birth  and  seek  a  new 
home  in  America. 

In  this  undertaking  he  was  joined  by  his  pa.s- 
tor.  Rev.  Joshua  D.  Kockerthal,  and  eight  other 
families,  that,  like  his  own,  had  been  despoiled 
by  the  cruel  invaders.  This  little  band  fled  to 
England,  which  they  reached  in  utter  destitution. 
There  they  appealed  to  Queen  Anne,  frankly 
stating  their  lamentable  condition,  and  petition- 
ing for  transportation  to  and  a  grant  of  land  in 
America.  The  good  queen,  after  receipt  of  a  fa- 
vorable report  from  the  Lord  Commissioner  of 
Trade  and  Plantations,  to  whom  their  appeal  had 
been  referred,  granted  their  request,  and  in  ad- 
dition gave  them  an  allowance  from  her  private 
purse.  The  grant  of  lands  given  then  embraced 
what  is  now  the  city  of  Newburgh.  The  Wei- 
gand family  received  title  to  the  two  hundred 
and  fifty  acres  lying  between  Renwick  and  Wash- 
ington streets,  and  running  from  the  river  to  the 
western  limits  of  the  city.  The  historic  Wash- 
ington's headquarters  building  lies  within  the 
limits  of  the  Weigand  farm.  A  portion  of  that 
famous  old  stone  structure  was  built  by  the  sons 
of  Michael  Weigand,  who  is  supposed  to  have 
died  there  about  the  year  1725. 

The  descendants  of  this  early  settler  have  ever 
shown  themselves,  by  word  and  deed,  loyal  and 
patriotic  Americans.  Both  of  his  sons,  Tobias 
and  John,  who  were  aged  respectively  seven 
and  five  years  when,  on  the  23d  of  June,  1708, 
they  reached  these  shores,  became  members  of 
the  first  military  company  organized  in  the  pre- 
cinct of  Newburgh  in  colonial  times.  At  the 
breaking  out  of  the  war  with  the  mother  coun- 
try, their  sons,  without  an  exception,  promptly 
ranged  themselves  on  the  side  of  the  colonies,  and 
unhesitatingly  signed  the  Revolutionary  Roll  of 
Association,  while  four  of  their  number,  together 
with  John,  Jr.,  grandson  of  Tobias,  took  up  arms 
in  defense  of  the  sacred  cause  they  had  espoused. 
In  the  war  of  1812  the  family  was  honorably  rep- 
resented, and  in  the  war  for  the  preservation  of 
the  Union,  not  a  few  of  its  members  died  on  the 
field  of  battle. 

About  1745  Tobias,  son  of  Michael,  who  had 


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grown  up  with  the  settlement,  and  for  two  dec- 
ades had  held  a  prominent  place  in  its  social, 
religious  and  public  affairs,  during  which  he  had 
served  as  a  trustee  of  the  Glebe,  and  an  officer 
of  the  little  Lutheran  Church  his  father  had 
helped  to  build  in  the  wilderness,  sold  out  his 
interest  in  the  original  Queen  Anne  grant,  and 
removed  to  a  more  extensive  tract  of  land  of 
which  he  had  become  the  owner,  and  which  was 
located  near  the  present  village  of  Highland 
Mills,  some  fourteen  miles  distant.  A  number  of 
his  descendants  may  still  be  found  in  that  locality, 
where  the  name  is  spelled  Weygant. 


ROBERT  BOYD,  who  is  not  only  one  of  the 
oldest  pioneers  of  Colorado,  but  also  enjoys 
the  distinction  of  being  the  first  farmer  in 
the  Poudre  Valley,  resides  on  sections  34,  35  and 
36,  township  6,  range  66,  Weld  County.  He  was 
born  in  Pittsfield,  Mass.,  in  1838,  and  was  a  son 
of  Andrew  Boyd,  who  emigrated  from  Scotland 
to  the  United  States  and  died  in  Pittsfield  in  1845. 
At  that  time  our  subject  was  only  seven  years  of 
age.  Afterward  the  family  removed  to  a  tract  of 
land  in  New  York  state,  which  had  been 
previously  bought  by  the  father,  and  here  the 
boy  grew  to  man's  estate,  meantime  attending 
common  schools  and  an  academy. 

Leaving  the  farm  in  1857,  Mr.  Boyd  went  to 
Leavenworth,  Kan.,  and  for  two  years  worked 
for  Reed  &  Lawrence,  land  agents.  In  the  winter 
of  1858-59  he  returned  home  and  resumed  his 
studies.  In  1859,  at  the  time  of  the  Pike's  Peak 
excitement,  he  started  with  a  party  for  Colorado, 
taking  the  Smoky  Hill  route,  and  arriving  in 
Denver  May  22.  During  the  summer  he  pros- 
pected and  mined  at  Blackhawk.  In  the  fall  he 
went  back  to  Kansas  on  account  of  sickness,  but 
in  February  of  the  next  year  he  again  came  to 
Colorado,  accompanying  Joseph  Howe.  After 
reaching  Mountain  City  he  and  Lewis  A.  Rice 
opened  a  butcher  shop  there  and  for  two  years 
carried  on  that  business,  also  had  a  milk  route. 
In  i860  he  took  out  a  squatter's  claim  on  the 
Platte  River  and  put  in  a  crop;  but  in  May  of  the 
following  year  a  band  of  Indians  camped  on  the 
land  and  destroyed  the  crops.  Abandoning  the 
claim,  he  took  up  a  squatter's  claim  of  one 
hundred  and  sixty  acres  in  the  Cache  la  Poudre 
Valley,    associated   with   Graham   Scott,    Lewis 


Rice  and  George  Hunt,  each  of  whom  had  a 
quarter-section  of  land.  After  he  had  remained 
with  them  for  a  few  years,  in  1865  he  bought 
out  the  interests  of  Rice  and  Scott.  In  i860  he 
built  a  sod  house,  and  twenty-five  years  later 
he  rebuilt. 

From  an  early  day  Mr.  Boyd  has  been  inter- 
ested in  irrigation.  In  1861  he  assisted  in  build- 
ing the  Boyd  and  Freeman  ditch,  which  was  the 
first  one  in  the  entire  country  and  was  a  private 
ditch.  In  1865  he  engaged  in  freighting  for  the 
government  from  the  Missouri  River  to  Denver, 
and  afterward  he  had  the  contract  for  hauling 
ties  for  the  Union  Pacific  Railroad,  also  the 
contract  for  grading  four  miles  of  the  Cheyenne 
&  Denver  road,  from  LaSalle  to  Platteville. 
From  1863  to  1870,  in  addition  to  running  his 
farm,  he  engaged  in  freighting  across  the  plains. 
In  1866  he  had  a  road  ranch  on  Meadow  Creek, 
along  the  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.  route  to  Salt 
Lake,  and  another  at  Barrel  Springs  in  Wyo- 
ming. He  is  the  owner  of  eight  hundred  and 
twenty  acres  of  fine  land,  all  under  irrigation; 
also  has  four  sections  at  Big  Springs  as  pasture 
for  stock,  of  which  he  has  two  hundred  head  of 
cattle  and  one  hundred  of  horses.  From  1878  to 
1885  he  carried  on  a  lumber  business,  owning  a 
sawmill  at  the  foothills.  While  he  engages  in 
farming  and  stock-raising  on  a  large  scale,  being 
one  of  the  largest  agriculturists  in  his  section  of 
the  county,  he  nevertheless  finds  time  for  raising 
vegetables,  and  in  1897  shipped  fifty  carloads  of 
cabbages,  besides  large  quantities  of  onions  and 
potatoes.     In  politics  he  is  a  Republican. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Boyd,  in  1870,  united 
him  with  Miss  Agnes  M.  White,  of  York  state, 
a  daughter  of  Andrew  P.  White,  who  was  for 
eleven  years  a  government  official  in  Washington, 
D.  C,  and  for  a  number  of  years  was  superinten- 
dent of  schools  of  Ellington,  N.  Y.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Boyd  have  five  children:  Robert,  Jr., 
Aurelia,  Charles,  Jennie  and  Elizabeth.  The 
family  attend  the  Congregational  Church,  of 
which  Mrs.  Boyd  is  an  active  member. 

The  large  success  Mr.  Boyd  has  obtained 
is  due  to  his  determination  of  will  and  force  of 
character.  He  started  with  no  capital,  left  New 
York,  in  fact,  with  only  $1  in  his  possession, 
yet  he  has  been  able,  in  spite  of  many  hardships 
and  obstacles,  to  achieve  a  success  not  always 
gained  by  men  who  start   under   advantageous 


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circumstances.  In  the  early  years  of  his  residence 
here  he  had  many  thrilling  experiences,  and  the 
student  of  history,  gleaning  material  for  future 
work,  might  with  profit  converse  with  him 
for  hours.  It  seems  strange,  when  we  review 
his  long  lite  on  the  plains,  that  during  all  that 
time  he  never  saw  a  living  hostile  Indian.  Once, 
in  1864,  when  crossing  the  plains  with  a  gristmill, 
he  saw  some  dead  Indians  and  white  men, 
who  had  fallen  iu  a  skirmish,  but  the  living 
Indians  whom  he  has  seen  have  always  showed 
themselves  to  be  friendly  and  anxious  to  pre- 
serve peace.  During  the  Indian  troubles  at 
the  time  of  the  Civil  war  he  was  in  his  saddle 
night  and  day,  and  rode  alone  and  unprotected, 
through  unsettled  parts  of  the  country,  yet  he 
was  always  permitted  to  go  unmolested  on  his 
w'ay.  His  life  has  been  an  eventful  one,  and  he 
deserves  the  comforts  that  surround  him  now,  as 
he  approaches  the  twilight  of  his  useful  existence. 


I  yiARTlN  W.  BARB,  of  Longmont,  is  a 
Y  splendid  type  of  well-preser\^ed  manhood, 
(S  and  demonstrates,  in  a  remarkable  degree, 
the  success  that  may  be  attained  by  pluck  and 
energy.  He  was  the  first  contractor,  and  first 
brick  manufacturer  of  the  place,  and  many  of 
the  best  buildings  are  monuments  of  his  industry. 
He  was  born  in  Trumbull  County,  Ohio,  in  1824, 
the  son  of  Jacob  and  Naomi  (CoxJ  Barb.  His 
great-grandfather  was  of  German  descent  and 
served  in  the  Revolutionary  war.  His  grand- 
father, William  Barb,  was  a  native  of  New  Jersey, 
but  moved  to  Virginia  at  an  early  day  and  was 
engaged  in  farming  in  Shenandoah  County. 
From  there  he  took  his  family  to  Ohio,  conveying 
his  goods  by  team  over  the  Allegheny  Mountains, 
his  wife  making  the  trip  on  horseback.  He  was 
well-to-do  for  those  days  and  one  of  the  fore- 
most men  of  the  times.  He  settled  in  Trum- 
bull County  in  1805  and  was  among  the  pioneers. 
The  Indians  were  his  neighbors  and  as  he  made 
it  a  rule  to  treat  them  well,  they  thought  highly 
of  him  and  made  him  no  trouble.  The  land 
upon  which  he  settled  was  a  dense  forest,  and  to 
him  fell  the  work  of  clearing  it  and  placing  it  in 
a  state  of  cultivation.  He  bought  farms  adjoin- 
ing his  own  for  each  of  his  children.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  German  Reformed  Church.  He 
died  at  the  age  of  seventy  years,  after  an  honor- 
able, upright  life. 


Jacob  Barb,  the  father  of  our  subject,  was  born 
in  Virginia  in  1798,  but  spent  the  greater  part  of 
his  life  in  Ohio.  The  early  years  were  spent  in 
improving  the  land  given  him  by  his  father, -near 
Bristol,  but  in  1836  he  sold  this  property  and 
bought  land  at  Mesopotamia,  from  which  he 
cleared  the  timber,  and  was  engaged  in  its  culti- 
vation at  the  time  of  his  death,  in  1868.  He 
married  Naomi  Cox,  a  native  of  Ohio.  She  was 
a  daughter  of  John  Cox,  formerly  of  Pennsyl- 
vania, but  later  a  re.sident  of  Trumbull  County, 
Ohio.  He  died  at  the  advanced  age  of  eighty 
years.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Barb  were  members  of  the 
Universalist  Church.  She  died  at  the  age  of 
seventy-six  years,  leaving  a  family  of  six  chil- 
dren, three  sons  and  three  daughters.  The  sons 
only  are  living  at  this  time.  Martin  W.,  the 
oldest  of  the  family,  resides  at  Longmont,  Colo.; 
J.  Ransom  is  a  retired  farmer  of  Crookston, 
Minn. ;  and  Gabriel  P.,  the  youngest  of  the  family, 
served  through  the  late  war  in  an  Ohio  regiment 
and  now  resides  in  the  vicinity  of  the  old  home. 

Martin  W.  Barb  was  reared  in  Ohio,  and  edu- 
cated in  the  district  schools.  He  afterwards  at- 
tended a  select  school  for  two  terms,  and  learned 
the  carpenter's  trade  while  still  a  boy.  The  lum- 
ber was  hewn  from  the  timber  and  used  in  con- 
struction. He  built  many  large  barns  and  mills, 
and  at  the  age  of  twenty -one  began  contracting 
and  building,  besides  superintending  the  cultiva- 
tion of  his  farm  at  Mesopotamia.  In  1856  he 
moved  to  Wisconsin  and  located  in  Prescott, 
where  he  did  contracting  and  building.  He  re- 
mained there  seventeen  years,  and  became  closely 
identified  with  the  interests  of  the  village;  was  a 
member  of  the  board  of  trustees,  of  which  he 
was  president,  and  was  also  assessor.  In  1873  he 
came  to  Longmont,  and  was  the  fir.st  contractor 
to  locate  here.  He  has  followed  that  business 
ever  since,  and  in  1876,  seeing  the  need  of  a  brick 
yard,  he  started  one,  and  manufactured  the 
first  brick  made  in  Longmont.  Most  of  the  large 
buildings  in  the  city  were  erected  by  him  and 
bear  evidence  of  his  skill  as  a  workman.  The 
Central  and  Bryant  schools,  the  Presbyterian 
Church,  Emerson  and  Buckingham  Bank  (the 
first  brick  building  erected  in  the  city),  Imperial 
Hotel,  Dickens  block.  Masonic  Temple,  Union 
block,  Odd  Fellows'  hall  and  other  buildings  are 
lasting  testimonials  to  his  ability.  He  has  built 
and  improved  a  number  of  residences  for  himself 


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and  has  dealt  to  a  considerable  extent  in  real 
estate.  While  serving  on  the  board  of  trustees 
he  helped  put  in  water  works,  and  was  superin- 
tendent of  construction.  He  has  been  trustee  of 
Longmont  many  terms,  was  mayor  pro  tern  and 
was  also  mayor,  by  election,  for  one  term. 

Mr.  Barb  has  been  twice  married.  While  in 
Mesopotamia  he  married  Miss  Candace  Kibbee, 
a  native  of  that  state,  who  died  there  in 
1874.  They  had  one  child,  Irene,  who  died  at 
the  age  of  nine  years.  The  second  wife  of  Mr. 
Barb  was  Mrs.  Emma  M.  Henderson,  also  of 
Ohio.  She  had  two  children:  Mrs.  Halliday, 
who  lives  in  Denver,  and  Mrs.  Dunn,  who  lives 
in  Salt  Ivake.  Mr.  Barb  joined  the  Odd  Fellows' 
order  while  in  Wisconsin,  was  a  charter  member 
of  his  lodge  and  the  encampment.  He  has  al- 
ways been  a  Republican  until  late  years,  but  now 
affiliates  with  the  silver  party. 


NANS  P.  NELSON  is  one  of  the  sturdy,  en- 
terprising sons  of  Denmark,  who,  years  ago, 
cast  in  his  lot  with  the  citizens  of  the  United 
States,  and  worked  his  way  upward  from  a 
humble,  unknown  condition  to  one  of  respect  and 
prominence.  He  has  been  identified  with  the 
fortunes  of  Colorado  for  several  decades  and  since 
1890  has  been  an  agriculturist  of  Boulder  Valley. 
His  handsome  country  home  is  situated  upon  a 
one  hundred  and  sixty  acre  farm  two  miles  east 
of  Longmont.  This  property,  well  improved  and 
very  desirable  for  general  farming  purposes,  is 
owned  by  our  subject,  who  for  the  past  eight 
years  has  given  his  whole  time  and  energies  to 
the  development  and  cultivation  of  the  place.  In 
Masonic  circles  Mr.  Nelson  is  deservedly  popu- 
lar. He  belongs  to  Blackhawk  Lodge  No.  7, 
A.  F.  &.  A.  M. ,  and  is  a  member  of  Central  City 
Chapter  No.  i,  R.  A.  M. 

Born  September  22,  1841,  Mr.  Nelson  is  one  of 
the  four  children  of  Nels  and  Butil  (Petersen) 
Hansen,  and  with  his  sister,. Nelsina,  is  now  the 
only  representative  of  the  family  surviving.  The 
father  was  born  about  181 1  in  Denmark  and  fol- 
lowed farming  as  an  occupation  from  his  boy- 
hood until  his  death,  at  the  age  of  thirty-four 
years.  His  father,  Hans  Nelson,  also  a  tiller  of 
the  soil,  lived  to  the  advanced  age  of  ninety-six 
years. 

In  his  early  years  young  Nelson  of  this  sketch 


attended  the  common  schools  of  his  fatherland, 
and  from  his  fourteenth  to  his  twenty-first  year 
he  industriously  worked  at  farming.  Then  he 
entered  the  army,  according  to  the  continental 
custom,  and  served  his  full  term  of  three  years. 
April  10,  1865,  he  put  into  effect  a  long  cheri.shed 
dream,  as  upon  that  day  he  started  on  his  journey 
across  lands  and  sea  to  America.  Going  to  Liv- 
erpool he  took  passage  upon  a  vessel  bound  for 
New  York,  but  on  board  there  was  the  grim  pas- 
senger, death,  and  ere  the  ship  arrived  at  her 
destination,  three  hundred  of  the  twelve  hundred 
passengers  had  died  of  the  dreaded  cholera.  Pro- 
ceeding direct  to  Chicago,  our  subject  found  there 
that  he  had  but  a  few  dollars  left,  and  it  becoming 
necessary  for  him  to  earn  some  more  at  once,  he 
walked  to  the  docks,  and  as  good  fortune  would 
have  it,  he  ran  across  the  captain  of  a  schooner,  who 
understood  the  strange  Dani.sh  tongue,  and  when 
asked  for  work  the  official  told  him  to  report  at 
the  ship  the  following  morning.  Mr.  Nel.sondid 
so,  and  found  that  the  work  in  question  was  in 
the  pineries  of  Michigan.  This  occupation  was 
carried  on  by  him  for  a  couple  of  j'ears,  or  until 
the  spring  of  1867,  when,  as  he  had  learned  that 
the  Union  Pacific  Railroad  was  paying  large 
wages  to  workmen  at  Omaha,  he  went  to  that 
city.  There  the  rumors  which  had  reached  him 
proved  to  be  fabrications;  but,  as  the  air  was  filled 
with  reports  of  western  gold-mining  reg»ions,  he 
very  soon  took  the  universal  fever  and  planned 
to  go  further  west.  He  had  about  decided  to 
drive  a  team  across  the  plains  to  the  Pacific  slope, 
when  he  was  dissuaded  by  a  man  who  had  been 
there  and  also  to  Colorado,  and  believed  that  the 
state  last  named  had  even  greater  possibilities 
before  it  than  the  other.  So  Mr.  Nelson  went  on 
the  train  to  Cheyenne,  there  took  the  stage  for 
Blackhawk,  and  soon  was  busily  at  work  in  mining 
in  Russell  Gulch.  A  few  months  later  he  began 
saw  milling,  and  the  next  winter  he  obtained  a 
position  in  the  stamp  mills.  Twenty- three  years 
of  faithful  service  for  one  company,  the  Bob  Tail 
Mining  Company,  sums  up  the  history  of  the 
next  chapter  in  the  life  of  Mr.  Nelson.  Some 
time  after  this  company  had  been  consolidated  he 
was  given  the  responsible  post  of  foreman,  and 
for  the  last  ten  years  of  his  service  with  them  he 
occupied  that  trustworthy  place.  At  length  his 
health  gave  way  to  a  certain  extent,  and  he  wisely 
decided  to  seek  a  change.     The  past  years  of  out- 


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door  life  on  his  farm  have  proved  beneficial  to 
him  and  he  now  bids  fair  to  enjoy  a  rugged,  hale 
old  age. 

The  lady  who  has  been  the  sharer  of  his  joys 
and  sorrows  for  a  quarter  of  a  century  was  for- 
merly Miss  Emma  Larsen.  They  were  blessed 
with  six  children,  one  of  whom  is  deceased,  while 
the  others  are:  Fred,  of  Central  City;  Selma, 
Victor,  Linda  and  Ruby.  The  younger  ones  are 
still  at  home. 


'HOMAS  TREGONING  is  a  self-made  man 
who,  without  family  or  pecuniary  advan- 
tages at  the  commencement  of  life,  has  bat- 
tled earnestly  and  energetically,  and  by  indomita- 
ble courage  and  integrity  has  achieved  success 
and  gained  a  comfortable  competence.  By  sheer 
force  ot  will  and  untiring  effort  he  has  worked  his 
way  upward,  and  is  to-day  a  well-to-do  citizen  of 
Weld  County,  his  place  of  business  being  in  Evans 
and  his  home  on  a  ranch  on  section  20,  township 
4,  range  65. 

Mr.  Tregoning  was  born  in  Redruth,  Cornwall, 
England,  May  14,  1839,  and  is  a  son  of  Thomas 
and  Mary  A.  (Jones)  Tregoning,  natives  of 
Gwenep,  that  country.  The  father  held  the  po- 
sition of  overseer  or  captain  in  the  copper  mines 
of  Cornwall,  as  did  also  the  grandfather,  Rich- 
ard Tregoning,  and  the  uncles  of  our  subject 
were  similarly  employed.  At  the  age  of  eight 
years  our  subject  entered  the  mines,  doing  such 
work  as  was  adapted  to  his  strength,  and  when 
about  fourteen  became  connected  with  the  under- 
ground department  as  a  regular  miner.  In  1863 
he  was  employed  by  a  London  company  to  go  to 
New  Grenada,  Spanish  Columbia,  to  take  charge 
of  a  silver  mine  as  sub-manager,  a  position  which 
he  held  for  three  years.  On  his  return  to  Eng- 
land he  was  made  superintendent  of  a  mine  for  the 
Bolitho  Company  at  Penzance,  Cornwall,  and  held 
that  position  until  the  mine  was  abandoned  two 
years  later. 

While  there  Mr.  Tregoning  was  married  to 
Miss  Jane  Toy,  a  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Eliza- 
beth Toy,  Cornish  people,  who  lived  at  Porkeles, 
Wendron,  near  Helstrom.  By  this  union  six 
children  were  born,  namely:  Mary  A.,  wife  of 
James  Adams,  who  is  interested  in  the  oil  busi- 
ness in  Butler  County,  Pa.;  Thomas  J.;  Richard, 
who  is  engaged  in  the  cattle  business  in  Montana; 


Ernest,  who  was  accidentally  killed  in  Pennsyl- 
vania at  the  age  of  eight  years;  Frederick  C, 
who  operates  his  father's  farm,  near  Evans,  Colo. ; 
and  Clara  A.,  wife  of  William  H.  Launder,  of 
Central  City,  Colo.  The  wife  and  mother  died  in 
1877,  ^nd  Mr.  Tregoning  was  again  married, 
October  18,  1879,  his  second  union  being  with 
Catherine  Stevens  Gregory,  daughter  of  William 
and  Mary  (Major)  Gregory,  of  St.  Ives,  Corn- 
wall, England,  though  the  father  was  of  Scottish 
lineage. 

In  April,  1869,  Mr.  Tregoning  came  to  America 
and  first  located  at  Mount  Hope,  N.  J.,  where  he 
worked  as  a  laborer  in  the  iron  ore  mines  for  three 
months.  He  was  then  appointed  superintendent, 
but  resigned  his  position  three  months  later  to  go 
to  Friendship,  N.  C,  near  Goldsboro,  where  he 
was  employed  in  sinking  shafts  at  the  iron  mines 
of  the  Tuscorrow  Iron  Company,  and  in  contract 
work  for  Fox,  Fisher  &  Wistors,  a  Philadelphia 
company,  remaining  there  two  years,  when  on  ac- 
count of  the  decline  in  iron,  the  mines  suspended 
operations.  Soon  after  his  return  to  Philadel- 
phia he  went  to  Clarion  County,  that  state,  locat- 
ing at  Foxburg,  which  was  named  in  honor  of 
Mr.  Fox,  the  head  of  the  oil  firm  for  whom  he 
worked.  He  was  superintendent  of  oil  wells 
there  for  fourteen  and  a-half  years,  having  charge 
of  from  fifty  to  one  hundred  wells. 

Resigning  that  position  in  October,  1886,  Mr. 
Tregoning  came  to  Weld  County,  Colo.,  and 
bought  eighty  acres  of  railroad  land  on  section 
17,  township  4,  range  65,  now  owned  by  Robert 
M.  Barr,  within  five  miles  of  Evans.  At  that 
time  it  was  entirely  unimproved,  but  is  now 
watered  by  the  English  ditch  or  the  Platte  Valley 
Irrigation  Canal  and  is  one  of  the  best  farms  of 
the  locality.  The  family  ate  their  first  dinner  in 
the  new  home  on  Christmas  day  without  a  fire, 
as  the  weather  was  so  warm.  Mrs.  Tregoning 
assisted  her  husband  in  setting  out  the  trees  upon 
the  place,  holding  them  while  he  filled  in  the  dirt 
around  them.  Here  he  engaged  in  agricultural 
pursuits  and  stock-raising,  keeping  one  hundred 
head  of  cattle  and  fifty  head  of  horses,  but  at  the 
end  of  six  years  sold  out  to  a  Mr.  Taylor  from 
Iowa,  who  in  turn  sold  to  a  Mr.  Barr.  In  the 
meantime  Mr.  Tregoning  located  on  an  eighty 
acre  timber  claim,  which  he  had  purchased  on 
coming  to  the  county,  and  to  which  he  added 
another  eighty  acres,  making  a  fine  farm  of  one 


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hundred  and  sixty  acres  of  highly  improved  land 
which  his  son  operates. 

In  1889,  Mr.  Tregoning  was  elected  on  the 
Republican  ticket  to  the  ofiBce  of  justice  of  the 
peace,  which  he  filled  for  seven  consecutive  years, 
also  serving  as  police  magistrate  of  Evans  for  two 
years  of  the  time.  In  1894  he  was  appointed 
notary  public  of  Evans  by  Governor  Waite  and  re- 
appointed by  Governor  Adams  February  24,  1898. 
In  April,  1893,  ^^  established  an  office  in  Evans, 
and  since  1896  has  done  quite  an  extensive  real- 
estate  business,  buying,  selling  and  negotiating 
sales  for  other  parties.  He  is  also  agent  for  several 
insurance  companies — the  Fire  Association  of 
Philadelphia;  the  Niagara'  Company  of  New 
York;  the  Lancashire  Company  of  England;  and 
the  Mutual  Life  and  Accident  Insurance  Com- 
panies of  Denver.  At  the  age  of  sixteen  years  and 
four  months,  Mr.  Tregoning  entered  the  English 
army  and  took  part  in  the  Crimean  war,  being 
honorably  discharged  at  the  end  of  two  years  and 
one  hundred  and  sixty-five  days  of  service.  For 
almost  thirty  years  he  has  been  identified  with 
the  Odd  Fellows'  society,  and  is  a  charter  mem- 
ber of  Prosperity  Lodge  No.  109,  I.  O.  O:  F.,  of 
Evans,  of  which  he  is  past  grand.  He  also  be- 
longed to  the  grand  lodge  of  the  state  of  Penn- 
.sylvania.  He  has  made  for  him.selfan  honorable 
record  in  business,  and  by  his  well-directed  ef- 
forts has  acquired  a  handsome  competency.  As 
a  citizen,  friend  and  neighbor  he  is  true  to  every 
duty  and  justly  merits  the  esteem  in  which  he  is 
held. 


(p[  UGUSTUS  C.  ALBEE  was  one  of  the  first 
LA  settlers  on  the  Platte  River  bottom  land  in 
/  I  Weld  County,  and  has  long  been  numbered 
among  the  well-to-do  citizens  of  this  region.  His 
present  ranch  is  situated  on  section  17,  township  4, 
range  66, not  far  from  the  town  of  Platteville, where 
he  carries  on  business  in  dairy  supplies.  He  has 
taken  a  very  active  part  in  the  building  of  ditches 
and  in  other  enterprises  calculated  to  benefit  this 
community.  As  an  upright,  straightforward  busi- 
ness man  he  stands  second  to  none  in  this  portion 
of  the  county,  and  his  word  is  always  considered 
as  good  as  his  bond. 

Mr.  Albee  is  a  native  of  Massachusetts,  his 
birth  having  occurred  in  Milford  in  1835.  His 
parents,  Clark  and  Vianna  (Holbrook)  Albee, 
were  likewise  both   natives    of    Massachusetts. 


The  father,  who  was  born  and  passed  his  whole 
life  in  Milford,  was  one  of  the  prominent  busi- 
ness men  of  the  place.  He  was  engaged  in  the 
manufacture  of  boots  up  to  the  time  of  his  death, 
which  took  place  when  he  was  in  the  prime  of 
manhood,  thirty-eight  years  of  age.  A  stanch 
Republican,  he  often  took  part  in  campaigns  as  a 
stump  speaker  in  his  own  community  and  was 
universally  recognized  as  being  a  man  of  ability. 
The  Albee  family  were  among  the  first  settlers  of 
Milford,  Mass.  Mrs.  Albee  lived  to  reach  about 
threescore  years.  Her  eldest  son,  H.  Clinton, 
is  deceased;  Seth,  the  third  son,  is  a  resident  of 
Worcester,  Mass.;  and  Albert  and  Alfred  are 
twins. 

The  education  of  A.  C.  Albee  was  such  as  was 
to  be  gained  in  the  public  schools  of  his  native 
town.  He  followed  his  father's  business  until 
1857,  when  he  came  as  far  west  as  Clinton,  Iowa. 
For  three  years  he  was  engaged  in  farming  in 
that  section,  and  was  one  of  the  pioneers  of  that 
sparsely  settled  county.  When  he  needed  mer- 
chandise he  was  obliged  to  drive  sixty  miles  to 
Sioux  City.  In  i860  he  started  with  ox-teams 
for  Colorado,  coming  across  the  plains  from 
Omaha  to  Denver,  five  hundred  and  fifty  miles. 
Arriving  in  Denver  in  May,  i860,  he  found  a  big 
snow-storm  raging.  He  at  once  began  teaming 
and  freighting  from  Plum  Creek  to  Denver  and 
the  next  year  he  made  several  trips  across  the 
plains  to  Council  Bluffs,  allowing  about  ten 
weeks  for  each  journey.  In  1862  he  freighted 
to  the  mountains,  to  the  various  mining  camps, 
Blackhawk,  Central  City,  California  Gulch  and 
Breckenridge.  In  1863  he  commenced  mining  in 
French  Gulch,  at  Lincoln  City,  on  Bed  Rock 
Flume,  and  continued  there  for  two  years. 

It  was  in  1865  that  Mr.  Albee  went  into  the 
dairy  business  on  the  Kiowa  River,  forty  miles 
from  Denver,  his  main  trade  being  in  cheese. 
A  year  later  he  returned  to  Lincoln  City  and  re- 
sumed work  in  the  mines  for  about  a  year.  The 
winter  of  1866-67  he  was  associated  with  Warren 
Batchelor  in  general  merchandising  in  Denver, 
and  the  following  spring  he  settled  on  the  Platte 
River,  forty-three  miles  northwest  of  Denver. 
He  took  up  a  homestead  of  eighty  acres,  which 
he  has  since  sold.  Then  crossing  to  the  eastern 
side  of  the  road  he  bought  a  quarter-section  of 
land,  on  which  he  has  since  made  his  home.  He 
makes  a  specialty  of  raising   draft  horses  and 


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cows,  keeping  from  twenty-five  to  thirty  head  of 
each.  For  fourteen  years  he  was  secretary  of 
the  Farmers'  Independent  Ditch  Company, 
which  ditch  he  helped  materially  in  getting  con- 
structed. He  still  holds  stock  in  the  same  and 
also  in  the  Big  Bend  Ditch,  of  which  he  built 
one-third,  and  besides,  he  is  financially  inter- 
ested in  the  Albee  and  Warden  ditch. 

While  he  does  his  entire  duty  as  a  citizen  and 
voter  Mr.  Albee  has  not  been  desirous  of  public 
ofiice-holding.  He  is  a  good  Republican  and 
takes  quite  an  interest  in  the  success  of  his  party. 
For  three  years  he  was  road  overseer,  but  he  re- 
fused the  nomination  for  county  commissioner. 
In  1863  he  married  Helen  E.  Clark,  daughter  of 
Josiah  Clark,  who  came  from  Illinois  to  Colorado 
in  1859  and  became  a  miner  and  prospector.  The 
children  of  our  subject  and  wife  are  named  as 
follows:  Louisa,  deceased;  Frank,  Emma,  Calvin, 
Susie,  Ida,  George,  Augusta  and  Almira.  The 
three  last-named  are  deceased. 


(TjTEFHEN  H.  CARR,  a  pioneer  of  '59,  re- 
/\  sides  upon  a  ranch  in  Weld  County,  seven 
y^  miles  southeast  of  Longmont,  where  he  has 
owned  and  cultivated  valuable  farming  land  since 
1872.  During  the  winter  months  he  usually 
spends  considerable  time  in  Denver,  in  order  that 
his  children  and  grandchildren  may  have  the 
benefit  of  the  Denver  schools.  He  was  born  in 
Belknap  County,  N.  H.,  January  23,  1825,  ason 
of  Jacob  and  Lucinda  (Hadley)  Carr,  and  was 
one  of  three  children.  His  father,  who  was  born, 
reared  and  married  in  New  Hampshire,  removed 
from  there  to  Maine  and  settled  at  Old  Town,  on 
the  Penobscot  River,  where  he  engaged  in  the 
lumber  business  for  many  years. 

The  education  of  our  subject  was  acquired  in 
the  common  schools  and  at  the  academy  at  South 
Berwick,  Me.  At  seventeen  years  of  age  he  and 
two  other  young  men  embarked  in  the  hardware 
business  at  Meredith,  N.  H.,  but  after  about  two 
years  he  drifted  to  Lowell,  thence  to  Boston,  and 
from  there  to  Providence,  R.  I.,  finally  returning 
to  Boston,  where  he  was  for  some  time  employed 
in  a  broker's  office  and  for  a  short  time  in  a  fur- 
niture store.  In  1854  he  went  to  New  York  City 
and  with  two  others  embarked  in  the  second- 
hand furniture  and  auction  business,  but  after 
two  years  disposed  of  his  interest  there.     In  1856 


he  came  west  on  a  trip  of  inspection  and  recrea- 
tion, and  spent  three  months  in  Council  Blufis, 
Iowa,  then  returned  to  New  York  City,  where 
he  remained  a  year.  Then,  selling  his  property 
there,  as  well  as  some  city  real  estate  in  Boston, 
he  again  went  to  Council  Bluffs,  where  he  be- 
came interested  in  farming,  the  hotel  business 
and  other  enterprises. 

At  the  time  of  the  discovery  of  gold  in  Colorado 
Mr.  Carr  resolved  to  come  to  the  mountain  re- 
gions of  the  west.  Accompanied  by  his  wife,  he 
traveled  across  the  plains  with  three  yoke  of  oxen 
and  a  team  of  ponies  which  he  drove  to  a  light 
covered  spring  wagon.  He  reached  Denver  Octo- 
ber 10,  1859.  Going  from  there  to  the  divide 
with  a  number  of  other  men,  he  got  out  logs  for 
a  house  and  returned  to  Denver  with  the  material 
for  a  home,  but  soon  afterwards  he  sold  the  logs 
and  rented  a  hotel  on  Tenth  street,  two  blocks 
down  from  Larimer  street,  becoming  the  proprie- 
tor of  the  Jefferson  House.  This  place  he  con- 
ducted for  two  years  and  then  traded  some  Iowa 
property  for  forty  acres  on  the  north  side  of 
Denver,  near  the  Larimer  street  bridge.  During 
the  summer  and  fall  of  1861  he  was  engaged  in 
the  mercantile  business  at  Breckenridge  and  was 
also  interested  in  dairying  and  other  enterprises, 
returning  to  his  Denver  property  late  in  the  year. 
In  the  spring  of  1862  he  sold  that  place  and 
bought  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  on  the  Big 
Thompson,  where  he  spent  the  summer.  In  the 
fall  he  traded  the  ranch  for  property  four  miles 
from  Blackhawk,  where  he  followed  teaming, 
having  a  contract  with  a  mill  to  furnish  their 
logs.  During  the  two  years  that  followed  he  was 
prosperous,  but  in  the  fall  of  1864  he  sold  the 
property  and  removed  to  the  foot  of  Guy  Hill, 
where,  purchasing  a  timb'ered  ranch,  he  spent  the 
winter.  In  the  spring  of  1865  he  bought  what  is 
now  called  the  Carr  House  property,  on  Fifteenth 
street,  between  Wewatta  and  Wazee  streets,  open- 
ing there  a  feed  and  sale  stable  and  a  hotel,  which 
he  conducted  for  seven  years.  That  place  in 
1872  he  traded  for  his  present  farming  property, 
seven  miles  southeast  of  Longmont.  Since  then 
he  has  divided  his  time  between  the  ranch  and 
Denver. 

In  1859,  prior  to  his  removal  to  Colorado,  Mr. 
Carr  married  Miss  Lizzie  Oliphant,  a  native  of 
Pennsylvania.  Three  children  blessed  their 
union,  but  all  are  deceased,  and  they  now  have 


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with  them  an  adopted  daughter,  Orpha.  Nellie, 
who  married  B.  F.  Hersha,  died  leaving  two 
sons,  Abraham  Scott  and  Stephen  Karl.  The 
other  children  were  Emma  J.  and  Louie  B. 


r~  REDERICK  S.  WHITNEY,  a  well-known 
rft  pioneer  of  the  Poudre  Valley,  Weld  County, 
I  '  has  been  living  retired  from  active  labor  for 
the  past  ten  years,  in  the  enjoyment  of  the  com- 
petence which  he  gained  in  former  years  by  in- 
dustry and  well-applied  energy.  He  owns  about 
three  hundred  acres  of  well-improved  land,  which 
he  rents  to  responsible  tenants,  and  has  other 
property  and  investments  besides.  His  life  has 
been  characterized  by  straightforwardness  of  pur- 
pose, earnest  and  zealous  desire  to  do  the  right 
and  act  fairly  toward  all  men,  and  small  wonder 
is  it  that  he  is  held  in  high  regard  by  all  who 
know  him.  He  is  a  member  of  the  United  Breth- 
ren Church,  and  has  been  a  liberal  contributor  to 
religious,  educational  and  benevolent  enterprises. 
F.  S.  Whitney  is  one  of  the  four  children  of 
David  and  Polly  Whitney,  natives  of  Fairfield 
County,  Conn.,  the  mother  of  the  town  of  Dan- 
bury.  They  spent  their  entire  lives  in  their  na- 
tive state,  Mr.  Whitney  carrying  on  a  farm.  Ed- 
ward, the  eldest  son,  was  a  salesman  for  a  boot 
and  shoe  house  many  years  ago,  and  disappear- 
ing, was  never  heard  from .  William  is  a  machin- 
ist for  the  Union  Pacific  Railroad,  located  at 
present  at  Council  Bluffs,  Iowa.  Nancy,  the  only 
daughter,  is  the  wife  of  Edward  Wickwire,  of 
Waterbury,  Conn. 

The  birth  of  F.  S.  Whitney  occurred  January 
22,  1830,  on  his  father's  farm  in  Fairfield  Coun- 
ty, Conn.  He  received  a  good  general  education 
in  the  public  schools,  and  at  the  age  of  twenty- 
two  years  accepted  a  position  with  the  New  York 
&  Erie  Railroad  Company.  Gradually  he  was 
promoted,  being  brakesman,  fireman  and  engin- 
eer, and  in  1855  he  went  to  Chicago,  where  he 
ran  as  fireman  on  the  Chicago  &  North-western 
Railway  between  that  city  and  Freeport.  Later 
he  was  engineer  for  the  passenger  train  running 
from  Chicago  to  Fulton  City  until  i860.  That 
year  he  assumed  the  charge  of  an  engine  in  the 
stamping  mills  in  Nevadaville,  Colo.  At  the 
close  of  a  year  he  engaged  in  teaming  wood  and 
quartz  for  the  Blackhawk  and  Central  City  mines. 
In  1862  he  came  to  this  valley,  and  the  day  be- 


fore Christmas  located  on  a  squatter's  claim  of 
one  hundred  and  sixty  acres,  about  a  mile  south 
of  Windsor.  The  tract  is  now  owned  by  ex-Gov- 
ernor Eaton.  Afterwards  he  liomesteaded  a 
quarter-section  adjoining,  and  cultivated  this 
land  for  a  number  of  years.  He  improved  the 
land,  principally  by  means  of  an  irrigation  ditch 
from  the  river.  Few  settlers  were  hereabouts  at 
that  early  day,  and  among  the  nearest  neighbors 
of  our  subject  were  the  Newell  brothers,  "Ran- 
ger" Jones  and  Tom  Ernest,  all  of  whom  lived  a 
mile  or  a  mile  and  a-half  away.  Here  Mr.  Whit- 
ney was  busily  occupied  in  farming  and  stock- 
raising  for  some  twenty  years,  at  the  end  of 
which  time  he  rented  his  farm  and  became  a  res- 
ident of  Greeley.  After  living  in  the  town  eight 
years  Mr.  Whitney  bought  three  hundred  and 
twentj'  acres  of  land  on  section  15,  township  4, 
range  67  west.  This  property  was  railroad  land, 
wholly  unimproved,  and  a  great  task  was  before 
the  new  owner,  who  was  not,  however,  daunted, 
but  bravely  overcame  the  obstacles  in  his  way. 
About  two  hundred  and  seventy-five  acres  are 
now  under  cultivation.  In  his  political  relations 
he  is  a  Republican. 

On  the  loth  of  May,  i860,  Mr.  Whitney  mar- 
ried Miss  Margaret  Nettleton,  who  was  born  in 
Troy,  N.  Y.,  but  grew  to  womanhood  in  Chicago. 
They  have  never  had  any  children. 


(TOHN  W.  PROUT,  of  Golden,  was  born  in 
I  Wiconisco,  Dauphin  County,  Pa.,  the  son 
G)  of  William  and  Rhoda  (Parfet)  Prout.  He 
is  a  member  of  a  family  that  has  long  been  con- 
nected with  the  mining  interests  of  Wales,  where 
the  genealogical  record  can  be  traced  back  to  the 
old  Britons.  Thomas  Prout,  an  experienced 
miner,  had  a  son,  Thomas,  Jr.,  also  a  practical 
miner  and  a  life-long  resident  of  Wales.  The  lat- 
ter's  son,  William,  was  born  in  Pembrokeshire, 
and  at  an  early  age  learned  every  detail  connected 
with  the  operating  of  a  mine.  About  1847  he 
crossed  the  ocean,  settling  in  Pennsylvania,  where 
for  many  years  he  was  superintendent  of  the  Ly- 
kens  Valley  Coal  Company.  Later  becoming  a 
mine  owner,  he  operated  in  Schuylkill,  Luzerne 
and  Northumberland,  having  charge  of  the  Lo- 
cust Gap  Colliery  in  the  last-named  county.  In 
1872  he  came  to  Colorado,  where  he  leased  and 
operated  the  Murphy   mines  for  two  years,  and 


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then  leased  the  Baker  coal  mine  in  Boulder  Coun- 
ty. While  in  that  mine,  September  21,  1875,  he 
was  accidentally  killed  by  a  falling  rock.  His 
remains  were  taken  for  interment  to  Erie,  Weld 
County,  this  state.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he 
was  forty-seven  years  of  age.  He  was  recognized 
as  one  of  the  most  experienced  and  successful 
coal  miners  and  operators  in  the  United  States 
and  his  name  is  still  famous  in  that  respect  in  the 
part  of  Pennsylvania  from  which  he  came.  Wlien 
he  settled  in  Pennsylvania  he  taught  the  people 
of  that  state  how  to  mine  anthracite  coal,  which 
heretofore  had  been  worked  in  an  indifferent 
manner.  On  coming  to  Colorado  he  found  the 
mines  here  were  not  operated  successful Ij',  and 
coal  mining  interests  were  in  their  infancy.  He 
took  charge  of  the  Murphy  mine,  which  under 
his  management  was  made  very  profitable,  and 
was  doing  the  same  with  the  Baker  mine  at  the 
time  of  his  death. 

The  mother  of  our  subject  was  a  descendant  of 
a  fine  old  family  of  Breconshire,  Wales.  She 
died  in  Idaho,  in  1895,  leaving  five  sons  and  one 
daughter,  namely:  James,  a  merchant  in  Boise 
City,  Idaho;  John  W.;  Rhoda,  wife  of  John 
O'Brien,  of  Denver;  William,  a  miner  living  in 
Golden;  George  W,,  who  is  engaged  in  the  mer- 
cantile business  in  Boise  City;  and  Rev.  Thomas 
A.,  a  minister ofthe  Methodist  Episcopal  Church, 
now  in  Oregon.  John  W.  was  born  August  8, 
1855,  and  spent  the  first  seventeen  years  of  his 
life  in  Pennsylvania,  accompanying  his  father 
through  the  mines  in  Dauphin,  Northumberland, 
Luzerne  and  Schuylkill  Counties.  When  only 
seven  years  of  age  he  was  working  in  coal  mines, 
studying  coal  formation,  and  when  about  fifteen 
he  became  a  paid  assistant  in  a  mine.  July  4, 
1872,  he  arrived  in  Golden.  Afterward  he  worked 
in  the  Murphy  and  Baker  mines  and  was  within 
two  feet  of  his  father  when  the  latter  was  killed. 
Afterward  he  engaged  as  a  contracting  miner  in 
the  Ralston  coal  mine,  and  later  was  employed  by 
John  Nichols,  Sr.,  at  the  Pittsburg  mine,  and  the 
old  Loveland  mine. 

In  1878  Mr.  Prout  married  Emma  S.  Scud- 
more,  who  was  born  in  London,  England,  the 
daughter  of  Charles  Scudmore,  a  mechanic  in  that 
city.  Through  her  influence  Mr.  Prout  was  in- 
duced to  abandon  mining.  He  then  engaged  in 
the  stage  and  express  business  between  Denver 
and  Golden,  from  which,   after  having  accumu- 


lated a  fortune,  he  retired  in  1893.  At  the  same 
time  he  became  interested  in  gold  mining.  In 
the  intervening  years,  though  not  actively  en- 
gaged in  mining,  he  had  continued  his  geological 
and  mineralogical  studies  as  prompted  by  his 
father,  and  became  so  well  informed  that  his  serv- 
ices were  of  value  during  the  early  days  of  mining 
in  the  erupted  regions.  He  is  considered  to-day 
one  of  the  most  expert  eruptive  mining  authori- 
ties in  the  west.  In  his  mining  speculations  his 
silent  partner  is  Charles  D.  Baker,  the  assistant 
general  manager  of  the  famous  mercantile  firm  of 
J.  S.  Brown  &  Bro. ,  in  Denver.  Among  the 
mines  in  which  he  is  interested  are  the  noted 
Blake  mine,  west  of  Cripple  Creek,  and  the  Mabel 
Grace  mine,  in  the  Freshwater  mining  district. 
For  many  years  he  has  been  noted  as  a  shrewd 
dealer  in  mining  stocks.  His  knowledge  of  mining 
is  extensive  and  well  known.  He  is  frequently 
called  on  to  make  examinations  of  mines  in  differ- 
ent parts  of  the  state  and  render  a  decision  as  to 
their  condition  for  profitable  working,  and  invari- 
ably the  parties  interested  act  on  his  judgment  to 
their  advantage.  His  reports  on  mines  show 
careful  research,  and  are  clearly,  accurately  writ- 
ten, setting  forth  the  facts  ofthe  case  fully. 

The  old  Everett  Bank  block,  in  Golden,  Colo., 
which  Mr.  Prout  purchased  in  1897,  was  remod- 
eled at  an  expense  of  about  $8,000,  fitting  it  up 
for  stores.  The  ground  floor  storerooms  were 
all  connected,  in  which  he  placed  a  fine  stock  of 
groceries,  and  installed  his  oldest  son,  John  W., 
Jr. ,  as  manager  of  the  store.  He  has  three  other 
children,  all  at  home:  Essie  M.,  Roscoe  and- 
Regis.  While  he  is  not  a  politician,  he  has  firm 
convictions  upon  the  questions  before  the  people 
of  this  age  and  always  supports  the  Republican 
party  and  its  principles.  In  religious  belief  he  is 
a  Methodist,  and  fraternally  holds  membership 
with  the  Odd  Fellows. 


^OUAVE  ELLSWORTH  MONCRIEFF  was 
I,  brought  to  Colorado  in  a  prairie  schooner 
/^  when  he  was  only  three  years  of  age,  and 
much  of  his  subsequent  life  has  been  passed  in 
this  state.  He  remembers  Denver  when  it  was  a 
small  town,  populated  principally  by  miners  and 
their  families,  with  little  except  its  glorious  cli- 
mate to  attract  settlers.     Railroads  had  not  yet 


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been  introduced,  nor  was  there  much  business  of 
any  kind  in  the  place.  In  fact  it  was  only  those 
of  optimistic  faith  (of  whom  there  were  not  a  few 
in  Colorado  at  that  time)  who  would  boast  of  the 
wonderful  future  before  Denver. 

In  Winterset,  near  Des  Moines,  Iowa,  the  sub- 
ject of  this  sketch  was  born  August  9,  1861.  He 
was  named  for  Colonel  Ellsworth,  who  was  shot 
in  Baltimore  while  on  his  way  south  with  his 
zouave  regiment  in  the  opening  months  of  the 
war.  He  was  the  third  among  five  children, 
whose  parents  were  John  and  Lavina  (Reigel) 
Moncrieff,  natives  respectively  of  Scotland  and 
Pennsylvania.  His  father,  who  was  born  and 
reared  near  Glasgow,  learned  the  carpenter's 
trade,  which  he  followed  a  short  time  in  his  na- 
tive land.  About  1853  he  came  to  America,  and 
after  a  time  in  New  York  went  to  Ohio,  thence 
to  Iowa,  and  from  there  in  1863  to  Colorado, 
making  the  latter  journey  overland  to  look  up  a 
location.  He  was  pleased  with  the  prospects, 
and  in  1864  brought  his  family  here,  settling  in 
Denver,  where  he  engaged  ill  contracting  and 
building  until  his  retirement  from  business.  In 
1889  he  returned  to  his  native  land  on  a  visit, 
spending  some  months  in  renewing  the  associa- 
tions of  his  youth.  His  last  days  were  spent  in 
Denver,  where  he  died  in  December,  1893.  His 
wife  is  still  living  in  this  city. 

Educated  in  the  grammar  and  high  schools  of 
Denver,  Mr.  Moncrieff  began  to  learn  the  car- 
penter's trade  as  soon  as  his  school  days  ended. 
He  finished  the  trade  under  his  father,  and  in 
1884  went  to  California,  where  he  worked  as  a 
carpenter  for  a  year.  Afterward  he  was  em- 
ployed in  St.  Louis  for  eighteen  months  and  in 
Chicago  for  a  year.  From  the  latter  city  he 
came  back  to  Denver  and  followed  carpentering 
in  connection  with  his  father,  until  the  latter's 
retirement  in  1889,  since  which  time  he  has  been 
alone.  As  a  contractor  and  builder  he  is  skillful, 
accurate  and  energetic,  and  whatever  he  under- 
takes others  have  the  greatest  confidence  he  will 
succes-sfully  complete.  His  shop  is  at  No.  11 19 
Eighteenth  street.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Con- 
tractors' Association  and  is  warmly  interested  in 
everything  pertaining  to  the  building  occupation. 
Politically  he  is  a  Republican,  but  not  radical  in 
his  opinions. 

While  in  St.  Louis  Mr.  Moncrieff  married  Miss 
Mary  W.  Hynson,   and  they  have  two  children, 


Laura  and  Ellsworth.  Mrs.  Moncrieff  was  born 
in  St.  Louis,  of  which  city  her  father,  A.  R.  Hyn- 
son, was  an  early  settler  and  hardware  merchant. 


30HN  M.  MICHAEL  has  become  prosperous 
and  influential  in  Weld  County  within  a  few 
years  comparatively,  and  owes  his  success 
solely  to  himself.  He  possesses  just  those  char- 
acteristics that  rarely  fail  of  good  results,  and  re- 
lies upon  no  one  to  lend  him  as.sistance.  By  in- 
dustry and  persevering  toil  he  has  made  his  way 
in  the  world,  and  had  to  begin  his  business  career 
on  an  humble  scale  at  first.  His  homestead  is 
situated  on  sections  21  and  28,  township  5,  range 
66  west. 

The  birth  of  Mr.  Michael  took  place  forty-four 
years  ago,  November  8,  1854,  in  Monroe  County, 
Pa.  He  is  a  son  of  John  Michael,  of  the  same 
place.  He  was  a  farmer  and  spent  his  entire  life 
in  Monroe  County,  dying  in  November,  1868, 
when  fifty-two  j^ears  of  age.  He  was  the  son  of 
John  Michael,  who  was  a  native  of  German}-,  and 
with  his  three  brothers  and  father  (George)  came 
to  this  country  and  were  numbered  among  the 
early  settlers  of  Monroe  County,  where  their 
property  has  been  handed  down  from  generation 
to  generation.  The  mother  of  our  subject  bore 
the  maiden  name  of  Susan  B.  Eilenberger,  and 
she,  too,  was  from  Monroe  County.  Of  the  eleven 
children  of  John  and  Susan  Michael  all  but  two 
are  living.  Mrs.  Michael  died  in  1889,  aged 
sixty-eight  years. 

John  M.  Michael  was  the  sixth  son  of  his  pa- 
rents' family.  He  was  educated  in  the  schools  of 
his  home  district  and  worked  on  the  farm  until 
he  attained  his  majority.  When  he  was  thirty 
years  old  he  decided  to  come  west,  and  having 
made  up  his  mind  that  Weld  County  had  a  prom- 
ising future  he  took  up  a  homestead  on  the  north- 
east corner  of  section  28,  and  began  general 
farming.  Later  he  purchased  one-half  of  section 
21,  and  now  owns  altogether  four  hundred  and 
eighty  acres.  Much  of  the  property  is  under  a 
high  state  of  cultivation  and  is  well  adapted  to 
the  raising  of  grain  and  other  crops.  To  some 
extent  the  proprietor  has  followed  dairying,  and 
nearly  all  of  his  enterprises  have  met  with  suc- 
cess. He  is  a  stockholder  in  the  Greeley  and 
Loveland  Ditch  Company.  In  politics  he  is  in- 
dependent, preferring  to  vote  foi  the  man  whom 


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he  thinks  best  fitted  for  any  given  oflSce,  regard- 
less of  party  ties.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Greeley 
Lodge  of  the  Ancient  Order  of' United  Workmen, 
and  belongs  to  Poudre  Valley  Lodge  No.  12, 
I.  O.  O.  F.  September  24,  1884,  he  married 
Sarah  R.  Sherwood,  of  Raritan,  Somerset  Coun- 
ty, N.  J.  She  is  a  daughter  of  Augustus  Sher- 
wood, and  by  her  marriage  has  become  the 
mother  of  one  child,  Susie  A.  The  family  attend 
the  Congregational  Church  of  Greeley,  Mr. 
Michael  being  a  member  of  the  same  and  a  gen- 
erous contributor  to  its  work.  Among  his  old 
acquaintances  and  neighbors  he  is  held  in  the 
highest  esteem,  and  his  word  is  sufficient  security 
at  any  time  with  those  he  does  business  with. 


(TjAMUEL  W.  MORRISON,  a  leading  mer- 
2\  chant,  farmer  and  stockman  of  Weld  Coun- 
V2'  ty,  the  senior  member  of  the  firm  of  S.  W. 
Morrison  &  Son,  of  Evans,  is  an  important 
factor  in  business  circles,  and  his  popularity  is 
well  deserved,  as  in  him  are  embraced  the  char- 
acteristics of  an  unbending  integrity,  unabated  en- 
ergy and  industry  that  never  flags.  As  a  public- 
spirited  citizen  he  is  thoroughly  interested  in 
whatever  tends  to  promote  the  moral,  intellectual 
and  material  welfare  of  the  community. 

Mr.  Morrison  was  born  in  County  Antrim, 
Ireland,  in  1841,  but  when  only  five  years  old  was 
brought  to  this  country  by  his  parents,  James 
and  Mary  (Irwin)  Morrison.  After  spending 
two  years  in  New  York  City  the  family  removed 
to  Pennsylvania,  where  he  grew  to  manhood  and 
with  his  father  learned  the  stone-mason's  trade, 
while  he  acquired  a  good  education  in  the  .schools 
of  that  state.  At  the  age  of  twenty  he  com- 
menced teaching,  and  successfully  followed  that 
profession  through  the  winter  months,  while  in 
the  summer  season  he  worked  at  his  trade  and 
on  the  farm.  On  attaining  his  majority  he 
joined  the  boys  in  blue,  enlisting  in  August, 
1862,  in  Company  H,  One  Hundred  and  Twenty- 
third  Pennsylvania  Volunteer  Infantry,  under 
Col.  John  B.  Clark,  a  United  Presbyterian  minis-' 
ter  of  that  state.  He  participated  in  the  battles 
of  Antietam  and  Fredericksburg;  "Burnside's 
stick  in  the  mud  march' '  and  the  engagement  at 
Chancellorsville.  Although  his  clothes  were  per- 
forated by  bullets  four  or  five  times,  he  fortu- 
nately escaped  without  even  a  .scratch,  and  when 


his  nine  months'  term  of  enlistment  expired  he 
was  honorably  discharged  at  Harrisburg,  Pa., 
in  May,  1863, and  returned  home.  He  continued 
to  engage  in  school  teaching  and  farming  in  the 
Keystone  state  until  1866,  when  with  the  family 
he  removed  to  Harrison  County,  Ohio,  where 
the  father  purchased  land  and  spent  his  remain- 
ing days  engaged  in  agricultural  pursuits,  dying 
there  in  1892.  In  the  family  were  eight  chil- 
dren, but  only  four  are  now  living:  Samuel  W., 
of  this  review;  Nannie  C,  wife  of  William  J.  C. 
Blackwood,  a  commission  merchant  of  Pittsburg, 
Pa.;  Jennie,  wife  of  Marshall  McCall,  a  farmer  of 
Guernsey  County,  Ohio;  and  James  E.,  who 
operates  the  old  home  farm  in  Ohio. 

For  two  years  after  the  removal  of  the  family 
to  Ohio,  Samuel  W.  Morrison  worked  on  his  fa- 
ther's farm;  and  then,  in  company  with  his 
brother-in-law,  Mr.  Blackwood,  embarked  in  mer- 
chandising at  Smyrna,  Harrison  County,  Ohio, 
but  two  years  later  the  latter  sold  his  interest  to 
our  subject,  who  took  another  partner,  William 
Lawrence,  for  one  year.  He  then  carried  on  busi- 
ness alone  until  1879,  when  he  came  to  Colorado 
and  Mrs.  Morrison  conducted  the  store  for  two 
years.  In  this  state  he  became  interested  in  the 
raising  of  sheep,  buying  one  thousand  ewes  and 
eighty  acres  of  land  on  Thompson  River  within 
four  miles  of  Evans.  This  venture  proved  quite 
profitable,  for  in  eighteen  months  he  made 
$1,500,  but  at  the  end  of  two  years  he  sold  his 
stock  and  bought  a  sixth  interest  in  the  Evans 
flouring  mill.  Returning  to  Ohio,  he  closed  out 
his  business  there  and  brought  his  family  to 
Colorado  and  purchased  the  entire  mill,  which 
he  operated  for  ten  years.  After  selling  that 
property  he  bought  fifty  acres  of  land  within  the 
coporate  limits  of  Evans,  and  in  1895  purchased 
the  store  property  and  built  a  wareroom  and 
dwelling  house  in  connection,  known  as  the  Sher- 
man block,  in  which  he  opened  a  general  store 
under  the  name  of  S.  W.  Morrison  &  Son.  They 
buy  all  kinds  of  produce  and  have  for  sale  every- 
thing needed  by  the  farmer.  A  branch  store 
was  'established  at  La  Salle  in  1897  and  placed 
under  the  management  of  David  S.  Ellis. 

In  Ohio,  Mr.  Morrison  was  married,  in  1867, 
to  Miss  Eliza  Logan,  a  daughter  of  James  Logan, 
of  Guernsey  County.  To  them  was  born  a  son, 
William  E.,  junior  member  of  the  firm  of  S.  W. 
Morrison  &  Son,  who  married  Maggie,  daughter 


J.  B.  FINUCAN,  M.  D. 


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of  Gideon  K.  Carson,  of  Sparta,  111.,  and  has  one 
son,  Vernon  C. 

The  Republican  party  has  always  found  in  Mr. 
Morrison  a  stanch  supporter.  He  holds  mem- 
bership in  the  Reformed  Presbyterian  Church, 
and  for  many  years  was  superintendent  of  the 
Sabbath  school,  and  when  at  length  forced  to 
resign  he  was  presented  with  a  fine  cane  by  the 
school  in  recognition  of  his  long  and  effective 
service  in  its  behalf.  In  temperance  and  reform 
work  he  and  his  son  both  take  an  active  and 
prominent  part,  and  both  have  been  elected  on 
the  temperance  ticket  to  the  office  of  mayor,  the 
duties  of  which  they  discharged  to  the  entire 
satisfaction  of  the  general  public,  law  and  order 
prevailing  throughout  their  administrations.  As 
a  business  man  Mr.  Morrison  has  been  remark- 
ably successful,  and  the  prosperity  that  he  has 
achieved  is  due  to  his  own  industry,  good  man- 
agement and  the  able  assistance  of  his  worthy 
wife,  who  has  indeed  proved  a  true  helpmeet  to 
him.  The  son  now  has  charge  of  the  store  in 
Evans  and  is  proving  a  most  progressive  and 
capable  young  business  man.  He  is  a  graduate 
of  the  Greeley  Business  College,  and  enjoys  the 
respect  of  all  his  associates,  either  in  business  or 
social  life. 


(Joseph  b.  finucan,  m.  d.    The  hot 

I  soda  springs  of  Idaho  Springs,  Clear  Creek 
(2)  County,  have  been  justly  famed  for  thirty- 
five  years  or  more,  but  have  not  yet  received  their 
due  meed  of  commendation.  It  is  only  of  recent 
years  that  their  merits  have  been  spread  abroad 
to  any  great  extent,  and  few  inhabitants  of  dis- 
tant states  are  aware  that  the  springs  possess  the 
same  properties  as  do  the  world- famed  Carlsbad 
Springs  in  Europe.  Here,  among  the  beautiful 
mountains  of  our  own  land  lies  a  panacea  for 
numerous  of  the  "ills  that  flesh  is  heir  to"  and 
the  time  is  not  far  distant  when  this  fact  will  be 
more  universally  recognized. 

The  gentleman  whose  name  appears  at  the 
opening  of  this  sketch  has  recently  leased  the  hot 
springs  tract,  some  ten  acres,  with  the  bath 
houses,  swimming  pool  and  other  improvements, 
which  were  originally  made  by  his  father-in-law, 
H.  Montague.  In  addition  to  these  he  is  insti- 
tuting others  of  practical  utility  and  beauty  and 
has  the  finest  natatorium  in  the  state.  The  water 
from  the  springs  descends,  by  the  simple  law  of 
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gravity,  into  the  baths  and  large  pool,  which  is 
40x80  feet  in  dimensions.  A  well-appointed 
hotel,  with  dressing  rooms,  refreshment  parlors, 
and  various  accessories  for  the  comfort  of  visitors, 
is  a  thing  of  the  near  future. 

Dr.  Finucan  is  a  native  of  Mendon,  N.  Y., 
born  February  17,  1863.  His  parents  were  Dan- 
iel and  Margaret  (Fitzell)  Finucan,  natives  of 
Ireland.  Grandfather  Thomas  Finucan  was  a 
farmer  of  County  Kerry  during  his  whole  life- 
time. His  ancestors  were  of  Holland  origin; 
possessed  a  coat  of  arms  and  spelled  the  surname 
with  a  slight  variation  from  its  present  form. 
Daniel  Finucan,  after  his  marriage,  emigrated  to 
America,  and  buying  some  land  in  Monroe 
County,  N.  Y.,  lived  there  until  his  retirement 
from  active  cares.  He  died  at  the  age  of  sixty- 
three  years.  His  widow  is  still  living,  her  home 
being  in  Mendon,  N.  Y.  She  is  a  daughter  of 
Adam  Fitzell,  who  was  a  native  of  Ireland,  but 
whose  grandparents  were  born  in  Germany.  The 
family  of  Daniel  Finucan  and  wife  numbered  nine 
children  and  six  are  living,  the  doctor  being  the 
youngest  of  the  sons.  His  boyhood  days  were 
passed  in  the  locality  of  his  birth.  His  educa- 
tion was  completed  in  Lima  Seminary,  Lima, 
N.  Y.,  after  which  he  took  up  medical  studies 
under  the  guidance  of  Dr.  P.  D.  Carpenter,  of 
Pittsford,  N.  Y.  Later  he  entered  Buffalo  Medi- 
cal College,  and  graduated  therefrom  in  February, 
1888,  with  the  degree  for  which  he  had  labored. 
His  initial  practice  was  undertaken  in  Bloom- 
field,  N.  Y.,  and  at  the  expiration  of  two  and  a- 
half  years  he  purchased  the  practice  of  his  old 
family  physician,  Dr.  T.  D.  Rupert,  of  Mendon. 

Two  years  rolled  away,  and  all  was  going  well 
and  promising  gratifying  success  for  the  future, 
but  about  this  time  the  health  of  the  ambitious 
young  doctor  gave  way,  and  it  became  advisable 
for  him  to  seek  a  change  and  rest  for  a  time.  De- 
ciding to  travel  in  the  west,  he  arrived  in  Denver 
January  13,  1893,  and  July  17  following  came  to 
Idaho  Springs.  By  the  spring  of  1894  ^^e  was  so 
far  recovered  that  he  wished  to  resume  his  pro- 
fessional work  and  opened  an  office  here  in  the 
Elliott  building.  He  is  a  member  of  the  United 
States  board  of  pension  examiners  and  is  now  sec- 
retary of  the  same.  Formerly  he  was  identified 
with  the  Ontario  County  Medical  Society  in  New 
York,  and  is  also  connected  with  the  Monroe 
County  Medical  Association.     Fraternally  he  be- 


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longs  to  the  Uniform  Rank,  K.  of  P.  Active  in 
the  ranks  of  the  Democratic  party,  he  has  been 
chairman  of  the  county  and  city  committees  of 
the  same  here. 

The  doctor  has  been  twice  married.  His  first 
wife  was  Miss  Cora  Pillsbury  in  her  girlhood. 
She  was  barn  and  reared  to  womanhood  in  West 
Bloomfield,  N.  Y.,  and  was  a  daughter  of  S. 
Edward  Pillsbury,  a  relative  of  the  great  flour 
merchant  of  Minneapolis.  Mrs.  Finucan  died  in 
Idaho  Springs.  The  present  wife  of  the  doctor 
was  formerly  Miss  Maude  Montague,  daughter  of 
Harrison  and  Helen  (Webster)  Montague,  of  this 
place.  Mr.  Montague  has  been  a  representative 
citizen  of  Idaho  Springs  since  1866,  and  for  years 
has  owned  the  hot  soda  springs  property.  He 
was  county  superintendent  of  schools  here  for 
two  years  and  was  one  of  the  charter  members  of 
E.  D.  Baker  Post,  G.  A.  R.  In  New  York,  his 
native  state,  he  married  Miss  Helen  M.  Webster, 
of  EUi.sburg,  Jefferson  County,  and  their  two 
children  are  Mrs.  Finucan  and  Harrison  Phelps. 


'JJEORGE  M.  LAIRD.  For  a  period  of  twenty 
_l  years  the  Register- Call,  published  in  Central 
^  City,  Gilpin  County,  has  been  the  leading 
newspaper  of  this  section.  That  it  can  safely  lay 
claim  to  being  the  oldest  paper  in  the  county  is 
shown  by  the  fact  that  it  has  been  issued  since 
1 86 1,  and  but  two  other  journals  in  the  state 
have  had  a  longer  existence.  The  paper  has  ex- 
perienced the  varied  fortunes  common  to  all  pub- 
lications of  nearly  twoscore  years  of  age,  but  it 
has  triumphantly  gone  through  every  difficulty 
and  has  long  been  the  standard  news  organ  of 
this  prosperous  region.  Started  in  the  initial 
year  of  the  Civil  war  under  the  title  of  the  Daily 
Miner' s  Register,  it  came  into  the  hands  of  Mr. 
Laird  in  1878.  He  had  come  to  this  town  five 
years  previously,  and  accepted  a  position  on  the 
paper  as  foreman,  and  in  1876  he  started  a  job 
printing  office,  which  was  a  great  financial  suc- 
cess. A  year  later  he  and  Den.  Marlow  estab- 
lished the  Evening  Call,  a  daily  paper,  and  when, 
in  1878,  the  Register  was  for  sale,  the  partners 
became  the  purchasers  of  the  plant,  which  they 
consolidated  with  their  own.  Then  began  the 
reconstructed  journal  known  as  i\\e  Reg  isle? -Call, 
and  until  1890  it  was  published  both  daily  and 
weekly.     Since  that  date  it  has  been  found  best 


to  print  the  paper  but  once  a  week.  Mr.  Marlow 
continued  as  a  partner  up  to  the  time  of  his  death, 
in  1895,  since  which  Mr.  Laird,  having  bought 
the  interest  of  the  deceased  from  the  heirs,  has 
been  the  .sole  proprietor. 

In  tracing  the  history  of  the  well-known  and 
popular  editor  of  the  Register- Call,  it  is  found 
that  he  is  a  native  of  Ohio.  His  birth  took  place 
in  Columbus,  the  state  capital,  December  4,  1847, 
his  parents  being  David  C.  and  Henrietta  (Oyler) 
Laird,  who  were  natives  of  Virginia  and  Pennsyl- 
vania respectively.  The  Lairds  are  a  very  old 
family  in  the  annals  of  Virginia,  and  descended 
from  Scotch  ancestors.  In  his  early  manhood 
David  C.  Laird  settled  in  the  Keystone  state 
and  from  there  went  to  Columbus,  Ohio.  He 
was  engaged  in  running  a  boot  and  shoe  business 
there  until  about  1850,  when  he  went  to  Free- 
port,  111.,  and  there  was  interested  in  general 
merchandising.  In  1871  he  took  up  his  residence 
in  Montgomery  City,  Mo.,  and  is  now  retired 
from  business,  being  in  his  eighty-sixth  year. 
His  wife,  who  was  of  German  descent,  died  in 
Missouri  at  the  age  of  seventy-six  years.  She 
was  a  daughter  of  Jacob  Oyler,  whose  ancestors 
settled  in  Pennsylvania  many  generations  ago. 
Mrs.  Laird's  brother,  Thomas  J.,  came  to  Colo- 
rado in  1861,  and  is  a  merchant  of  Blackhawk  at 
this  time.  Six  children  were  born  to  Mr.^  and 
Mrs.  Laird,  and  two  ofthe  number  are  deceased. 
Charles  has  been  in  the  postoffice  department  in 
Washington,  D.  C,  for  a  quarter  of  a  century; 
and  William,  a  resident  of  Texas,  represents  the 
Brown  Tobacco  Company,  of  St.  Louis,  Mo.; 
Belle,  the  only  sister  living,  resides  in    Missouri. 

George  M.  Laird  was  the  eldest  of  his  parents' 
family.  He  was  educated  chiefly  in  the  grammar 
and  high  schools  of  Freeport,  111.,  and  in  1863 
commenced  serving  an  apprenticeship  to  the 
printer's  trade  in  the  office  of  the  Freeport 
Bulletin.  After  three  years  in  that  office  he  took 
a  position  in  Polo,  Ogle  County,  as  foreman  of 
the  Polo  Press.  Two  years  later  he  went  to 
Missouri,  and  in  1872  came  to  the  west.  He  was 
a  compositor  for  a  short  time  on  the  Blackhawk 
Daily  Journal  and  then  became  foreman  of  the 
office.  He  has  greatly  improved  the  Register- 
Call  since  he  took  the  management  of  the  paper. 
In  connection  with  it  he  operates  a  job-printing 
department,  and  has  steam-power  presses  and 
various  up-to-date  machinery   and   all   necessary 


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appliances  known  to  the  trade.  The  politics  of 
the  paper  are  strongl}'  Republican,  and  thus  re- 
flects the  views  of  the  owner,  in  large  measure,  as 
he  is  loyal  to  the  principles  of  the  party. 

In  Freeport,  111.,  Mr.  Laird  married  Miss 
Anna  A.  Buckman,  a  native  of  Rochester,  N.  Y., 
and  daughter  of  Guy  J.  Buckman,  a  contractor, 
now  a  resident  of  Denver.  The  four  living  chil- 
dren of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Laird  are:  Guy,  Lottie, 
Ray  and  Leah.  One  child,  Glenn,  died  when  a 
year  and  a-half  old. 


r[REDERICK  S.  BOLSINGER,  of  Nevada- 
r^  ville,  Gilpin  County,  was  born  in  Chatfield, 
I  ^  Minn.,  March  26,  i860,  and  is  a  son  of 
Maxwell  D.  and  Emily  (Atchison)  Bolsinger. 
His  grandfather,  John  Bolsinger,  who  was  of 
sturdy  German  stock,  died  in  New  Salem,  Fay- 
ette County,  Pa. ,  and  in  that  town  and  county 
Maxwell  D.  was  born  and  reared,  but  about  1855 
he  removed  to  Colesburg,  Iowa,  where  he  mar- 
ried Miss  Atchison,  a  native  of  Illinois,  and  a 
daughter  of  Frederick  Atchison,  who  .served  in 
the  Black  Hawk  war  and  died  in  Chatfield, Minn. 
In  November,  1858,  Mr.  Bolsinger  moved  his 
family  to  Chatfield,  but  two  years  later  came  to 
Colorado  and  located  in  Gilpin  County,  where 
he  engaged  in  mining.  He  took  up  the  Herbert 
mine  in  Nevada  and  became  the  owner  of  other 
mining  property,  some  of  which  is  now  operated 
by  his  children.  During  the  campaigns  against 
the  Indians  he  served  in  the  Third  Colorado 
Cavalry.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Grand  Army 
of  the  Republic  and  the  Gilpin  County  Pioneer 
Society.  His  death  occurred  in  1892,  in  this 
state,  and  his  wife  passed  away  in  Chatfield, 
Minn.,  five  years  later.  The  following  are  the 
children  of  Maxwell  D.  Bolsinger:  Henry  C. ; 
Frederick  S. ;  Charles  C. ,  who  resides  on  the  old 
homestead  at  Chatfield,  Minn.;  and  Maxwell  D., 
also  a  resident  of  Chatfield. 


HON.  HENRY  C.  BOLSINGER  is  and  has 
been  for  many  years  an  influential  man  in 
the  councils  of  the  Democratic  party  in 
Colorado.  He  was  a  member  of  the  sixth  gen- 
eral assembly  of  the  state,  having  been  chosen  to 
represent  Gilpin  County  in  the  legislature,  and 
for  the   past  eight   years  he  has  ably  served  his 


party  and  constituents  in  the  senate.  He  was 
elected  to  that  honorable  body  in  1890,  and  again 
in  1894.  He  has  probably  been  interested  in 
the  development  of  more  mines  in  the  Nevada- 
ville  district  than  any  other  man,  and  few  are 
better  posted  in  the  mineral  geology  of  this  coun- 
ty than  he. 

Born  in  Colesburg,  Iowa,  September  12,  1858, 
H.  C.  Bolsinger  is  a  son  of  Maxwell  D.  Bol- 
singer, whose  history  is  given  in  the  biography 
of  Frederick  S.  Bolsinger,  which  precedes  this 
sketch.  The  early  years  of  our  subject  passed 
uneventfully  in  the  town  of  Chatfield,  Minn., 
much  of  his  time  being  devoted  to  mastering  the 
elementary  branches  of  learning  up  to  1873.  At 
that  time  he  came  to  Nevadaville  with  his  father, 
and  assisted  actively  in  the  development  of  the 
Hubert  mine.  Later  he  was  engaged  in  operat- 
ing one  after  another  of  the  important  mines  of 
this  district,  until  he  has  been  connected  with 
nearly  all  of  them.  Among  these  were  the 
Shafts,  the  American  Flag,  Fourth  of  July,  Cali- 
fornia, Gardner,  Centennial,  Clayton,  Price  and 
extension  of  the  Hubert. 

In  1885  he,  in  company  with  his  father, 
Thomas  J.  Burke  and  William  Bush,  of  Denver, 
bought  the  old  Hubert  mill  property.  The  mill, 
built  in  i860,  was  the  first  stamp  mill  put  up  in 
this  county,  and  was  operated  steadily  from  that 
year  until  1896.  The  gentlemen  mentioned  op- 
erated the  mill  and  the  mines  as  the  Hubert  Mill- 
ing Company  for  about  eleven  years,  after  which 
they  organized  the  Vendome  Mining  and  Milling 
Company,  now  in  an  active  and  successful  condi- 
tion. In  addition  to  being  a  director  in  that  cor- 
poration, Mr.  Bolsinger  owns  an  interest  in,  and 
and  is  a  member  of,  the  board  of  directors  of  the 
Colorado  Trading  and  Investment  Company,  and 
is  now  developing  the  Parole  vein,  one  of  the 
most  promising  mines  he  has  heretofore  worked. 

In  the  Centennial  year  occurred  the  marriage 
of  Mr.  Bolsinger  and  Miss  Mary  Stirling.  She 
was  born  in  Wisconsin,  in  the  pretty  town  of 
Mineral  Point,  and  is  a  daughter  of  the  sturdy 
pioneer,  Samuel  Stirling,  who  came  to  this  state 
in  1865.  The  three  children  born  to  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Bolsinger  are:  Hubert,  Henry  C,  Jr.,  and 
Gladys. 

In  the  various  fraternities  Mr.  Bolsinger  has 
for  years  taken  a  high  place.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Masonic  order,  being  connected  with  Nevada- 


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ville  Lodge  No.  4,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.;  belongs  to 
Chapter  No.  i,  R.  A.  M.,  of  Central  City,  and 
Centennial  Commanderj'^  No.  2,  K.  T.,  of  the 
same  place.  He  has  also  been  associated  with 
the  Patriotic  Order  Sons  of  America,  the  Knights 
of  Honor  and  the  Red  Men. 


HENRY  H.  HORNBAKER  was  born  near 
Muncie,  Ind.,in  October,  1839.  His  pa- 
rents, Isaac  and  Sarah  (Thompson)  Horn- 
baker,  were  members  of  old  southern  families. 
Isaac  Hornbaker  passed  his  early  years  in  Ken- 
tucky, then  moved  to  Indiana,  where  he  pur- 
chased a  piece  of  land,  covered  with  forest  trees, 
near  Muncie.  This  property  he  cleared  ofiF  and 
otherwise  improved  until  he  had  a  fine  farm.  In 
1856  he  moved  with  his  family  to  Iowa,  stopping 
near  Albia,  in  Monroe  County,  where  he  secured 
and  improved  another  farm,  upon  which  he  died 
at  the  age  of  sixty  years.  Sarah  (Thompson) 
Hornbaker  was  born  in  Virginia  of  German  and 
Irish  parentage.  She  died  aged  sixty-three 
years;  she  came  from  a  long-lived  family,  her 
mother  living  to  the  age  of  ninety-nine  years. 
Five  children  were  born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Horn- 
baker who  reached  years  of  maturity,  and  of 
those  one  son  and  two  daughters  are  now  living. 
One  son,  George,  served  through  the  Civil  war 
in  an  Indiana  regiment  and  later  died  in  that 
state. 

Henry  H.  Hornbaker  is  the  only  one  of  the 
family  residing  in  Colorado.  Educational  ad- 
vantages in  tho.se  days  were  meager,  and  he  was 
compelled  to  be  content  with  a  short  attendance 
at  the  district  school,  while  the  greater  part  of 
his  time  was  spent  in  chopping  trees,  grubbing, 
and  otherwise  assisting  his  father  in  the  clearing 
of  the  land.  When  seventeen  years  of  age  he 
accompanied  his  parents  to  Iowa,  the  trip  being 
made  with  wagons  and  horses.  He  remained 
at  home  and  worked  for  his  father  until  he  was 
twenty -four,  when  he  married  and  began  farming 
for  himself.  In  1864  he  brought  his  family, 
with  that  of  his  father-in-law,  Enoch  Way, 
through  to  Colorado.  This  journey  was  made 
by  ox-teams,  their  cattle  being  driven  along, 
through  Nebraska  City,  across  the  plains  to 
where  Ni  Wot  now  stands.  They  were  seventy - 
three  days  on  the  way,  and  reached  here  July 
9,  shortly  before  the  Indian  outbreak.     The  day 


of  their  arrival  he  located  a  homestead  of  one, 
hundred  and  sixty  acres,  which  he  irrigated  and 
improved,  making  it  among  the  most  desirable 
farms  in  that  section.  This  land  he  still  owns, 
and  he  added  to  it  until  he  at  present  owns  a 
farm  of  six  hundred  and  forty  acres,  all  nicely  im- 
proved and  fenced.  He  carried  on  general  farm- 
ing and  stock-raising,  having  a  large  herd  of 
cattle  on  his  range.  These  cattle  were  graded 
and  mixed  breeds  and  were  all  branded  with  the 
letter  "H"  on  the  left  shoulder.  He  has  rented 
his  farm  since  1888,  when  he  moved  with  his 
family  into  Longmont  in  order  to  give  his  chil- 
dren better  educational  advantages.  He  has  also 
been  largely  interested  in  mining duringlate years, 
and  now  operates  the  Summit  mine,  near  Eldo- 
rado, which  he  spent  two  years  in  searching  for, 
following  the  float.  This  mine  has  been  in  suc- 
cessful operation  four  years  and  shows  ore  of  the 
best  grade.  He  also  has  a  quarter  interest  in  the 
Ground  Hog  mine  and  a  half  interest  in  the 
Surprise  mine.  He  was  among  the  originators 
and  controlling  factors  of  the  Farmers'  Milling 
and  Elevator  Company. 

Mr.  Hornbaker  married  a  most  estimable  lady, 
Sarah  Isabelle  Way,  who  was  a  true  helpmate  to 
him  in  all  the  vicissitudes  of  life.  She  died  in 
April,  1898,  leaving  six  children  and  a  large  cir- 
cle of  friends  to  mourn  her  loss.  These  children 
are:  William,  Frank,  Ora  Belle(Mrs.  McWithey),  , 
Enoch  Edward,  Phena  (Mrs.  Titus)  and  Samuel. 
Mrs.  Titus  resides  in  Idaho,  and  the  others  live  in 
Colorado.  Mr.  Hornbaker  has  been  a  director  in 
the  schools  from  the  time  the  first  school  was  estab- 
lished here  and  helped  build  the  first  school  house, 
which  was  a  log  house  and  stood  on  the  corner  of 
his  farm.  The  location  was  moved  in  later  years, 
in  accordance  with  the  formation  of  new  districts. 
The  family  were  formerly  members  of  the  United 
Brethren  Church,  but  as  there  was  no  organiza- 
tion of  that  denomination  in  Longmont,  they 
united  with  the  Congregational  Church,  in  both 
of  which  Mr.  Hornbaker  has  served  as  trustee. 
In  politics  he  affiliates  with  the  People's  party. 
He  is  a  man  who  has  added  to  a  naturally  keen 
intellect  habits  of  close  observation,  and  is  among 
the  best  informed  men  of  his  day. 

Mrs.  Hornbaker's  father  was  a  native  of  one  of 
the  Carolinas,  but  moved  to  Iowa  at  an  early 
day  and  there  engaged  in  farming  in  Wapello 
County  until    1864,  when  he  came  to  Colorado 


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with  Mr.  Hornbaker's  family,  and  settled  on  a 
homestead,  where  he  died.  His  wife  also  died 
here.  She  had  one  son  by  a  former  marriage, 
William  Stewart,  a  resident  of  Boulder  County. 
Her  marriage  to  Enoch  Way  resulted  in  the 
birth  of  one  son  and  seven  daughters,  as  follows: 
Sarah  Isabelle,  Mrs.  Williamson,  who  died  in 
Boulder  County;  Mrs.  Miller,  who  resides  in 
Kansas;  Mollie,  wife  of  John  Brush,  who  resides 
at  Rocky  Ford,  Colo.;  Mrs.  Martha  Matthews, 
a  resident  of  lyongmont;  Mrs.  Ellen  Randall, 
who  lives  in  Oregon;  Mrs.  Snyder,  a  resident  of 
Denver;  and  Clinton,  who  lives  in  California. 


HON.  DAVID  J.  BALL,  of  Empire,  Clear 
Creek  County,  is  justly  entitled  to  the  name 
of  founder  of  the  town,  and  is  the  only  one 
left  here  of  the  original  pioneers  of  the  locality. 
In  the  early  days  he  occupied  various  official  po- 
sitions and  won  the  high  regard  of  all  by  his 
strict  adherence  to  his  duties.  In  the  fall  of  i860 
he  was  made  recorder  of  the  mining  district  of 
upper  Union  and  held  the  post  until  the  organ- 
ization of  the  county,  when  he  turned  over  the 
records  to  the  proper  authorities.  He  was  re- 
corder when  the  town  of  Empire  was  laid  out, 
and  upon  its  incorporation  in  1884  he  became  a 
trustee,  which  office  he  has  since  held  almost  un- 
interruptedly. The  cause  of  education  has  been 
one  near  to  his  heart,  and  he  has  often  served  on 
the  school  board.  From  his  early  manhood  he 
was  a  strong  Republican  until  the  late  campaign, 
when  he  came  out  on  the  side  of  silver  as  a  stan- 
dard. At  present  he  is  a  member  of  the  county 
and  state  central  committees.  In  1864  he  was 
elected  to  the  territorial  legislature  on  the  Repub- 
lican ticket,  serving  in  the  sessions  of  1865. 

James  A.  and  Ann  Ball,  parents  of  the  above- 
named  gentleman,  were  both  natives  of  Pennsyl- 
vania, and  passed  their  early  married  life  in  Ohio. 
Grandfather  Abraham  Ball  moved  to  Ohio  many 
years  prior  to  the  Civil  war,  and  followed  agri- 
cultural pursuits.  J.  A.  Ball  was  also  a  farmer 
by  occupation.  In  1857  ^^  ^""^  ^^^  family  went 
to  West  Liberty,  Muscatine  County,  Iowa. 
There  Mr.  Ball  became  quite  prominent  and  for 
years  was  the  postmaster  of  the  town  and  one  of 
the  leading  merchants.  He  lived  to  the  ripe  age 
of  eighty-five  years.  Of  his  eight  children  who 
grew  to  maturity  all  but  two  are  living.     N.  W. 


Ball,  of  the  Third  Iowa  Regiment  of  Volunteers, 
died  as  the  result  of  disease  contracted  while  at 
the  front  in  defense  of  the  flag  in  the  Civil  war. 

David  J.  Ball  was  born  in  October,  1840,  in 
Carrollton,  Ohio,  and  received  his  education  in 
that  state.  In  1857  ^^  went  to  Iowa,  and  three 
years  later  he  set  out  for  Colorado.  At  Council 
Bluffs,  Iowa,  he  outfitted  with  ox-teams,  and  at 
the  end  of  two  months  from  the  time  that  he  had 
left  home  he  arrived  at  Auraria,  on  Cherry  Creek. 
A  week  later  he  went  up  Gregory  Gulch  and  en- 
gaged in  prospecting,  and  upon  the  1 3th  of  Sep- 
tember he  came  to  the  present  site  of  Empire. 
Only  three  men  were  here  ahead  of  him,  namely: 
Judge  Coles,  Edgar  Freeman  and  George  Merrill, 
and  of  these  only  Mr.  Freeman,  now  a  resident 
of  Colorado,  is  living.  Mr.  Ball  prospected  and 
discovered  several  valuable  mines  in  this  vicin- 
ity, and  later  assisted  in  developing  the  same. 
Among  these  were  the  Tenth  Legion  and  the 
Pioneer,  of  early  fame.  About  1876  he  opened  an 
assaying  office  and  has  continued  in  this  business 
ever  since.  The  first  lode  discovered  by  his 
party,  who  hailed  chiefly  from  New  York,  was 
named  and  recorded  as  the  Empire  Silver  Lode, 
and  from  this  the  town  and  mountain  took  their 
names.  Since  that  time  it  has  been  found  to  be 
a  great  misnomer  for  the  mountain,  which  con- 
tains much  more  gold  than  silver,  to  all  appear- 
ances. Mr.  Ball  is  interested  in  and  is  manager 
of  the  Cambria  Gold  Mining  and  Milling  Com- 
pany, a  Milwaukee  (Wis.)  corporation,  and  has 
other  mining  properties.  In  the  course  of  his 
mining  here  he  has  worn  out  three  stamp  mills, 
including  the  one  which  he  erected  in  1879. 

It  was  about  thirty-five  years  ago  that  Mr. 
Ball  was  initiated  into  the  rites  of  Ma.sonry.  At 
that  time  he  became  a  member  of  Nevada  Lodge 
No.  4,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,of  Nevadaville,  and  when 
Empire  Lodge  No.  8  was  organized  he  was  one 
of  its  charter  members.  For  years  he  was  secre- 
tary of  the  lodge,  which  was  formerly  very  flour- 
ishing, sometimes  having  as  many  as  sixty-five 
members. 


Gl  LLEN  R.  GODFREY,  who  is  engaged  in 
LA  farming  on  section  2,  township  4,  range  66, 
I  I  Weld  County,  was  born  near  Cleveland, 
Ohio,  in  1845.  He  is  a  son  of  Holon  Godfrey,  a 
native  of  New  York  state,  born  in  18 12,  but  who 
at  the  age  of  less  than  twenty  went  to  Ohio,  and 


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from  there,  about  1844,  with  a  brother,  William, 
went  to  Chicago,  looking  for  work  at  the  car- 
penter's trade.  He  was  employed  there  when 
the  city  had  a  population  of  only  between  two  and 
three  thousand.  The  next  year  he  returned  to 
Ohio  and  brought  his  family  west  with  him,  set- 
tling in  Wisconsin,  twenty-five  miles  north  of 
Milwaukee,  where  he  bought  one  hundred  acres 
of  land  and  engaged  in  farming  and  carpenter- 
ing. With  his  brother,  William,  he  secured  con- 
tracts for  building  docks  and  piles  on  Lake  Mich- 
igan, and  did  other  work  of  a  similar  nature. 

During  the  Pike's  Peak  excitement  of  1859-60, 
Mr.  Godfrey  left  his  family  and  started  for  Colo- 
rado. It  was  not  his  first  experience  in  mining 
life,  for  in  1849  he  had  gone  via  sailing  vessel  to 
San  Francisco,  but  on  account  of  trade  winds 
they  were  delayed,  spending  three  months  and 
ten  days  on  the  water.  On  reaching  California 
he  began  gulch  mining  at  Wyreka  and  was  fairly 
successful,  remaining  there  for  five  years,  and 
returning  with  $5,000  in  1854.  Afterward  he 
bought  the  right  for  cutting  and  welding  wagon 
tires  in  several  counties  in  Missouri  and  Iowa, 
but  followed  that  business  for  a  short  time  only. 
His  time  was  then  given  to  farming  until  i860, 
when  he  outfitted  at  Council  Blufis  and  crossed 
the  plains  by  ox-team  to  Denver.  While  going 
west  he  saw  many  people  returning  home,  and  the 
accounts  they  gave  were  most  discouraging.  By 
these  reports  he  was  influenced  to  change  his 
plans.  He  settled  on  a  ranch  near  Julesburg,  and 
there  remained  for  two  years.  Selling  out  in 
1863,  he  settled  thirty  miles  southeast  of  Fort 
Morgan,  on  what  is  now  known  as  Fort  Wicket 
ranch.  Here  he  built  a  sod  house  and  stable,  and 
kept  a  general  road  ranch,  remaining  until  the 
fall  of  1868,  when  the  Union  Pacific  Railroad 
reached  Cheyenne.  Previous  to  this  he  sent  for 
his  family  in  Wisconsin  and  all  came  excepting  a 
son  and  daughter.  Everything  prospered  with 
him  until  1864,  when  the  Sioux  and  Cheyennes 
attacked  his  ranch  and  drove  away  eighty -two 
head  of  cattle,  also  set  the  grass  on  fire  around 
the  house,  and  committed  other  depredations. 
He  shot  a  number  of  Indians  during  that  time 
and  succeeded  finally  in  driving  them  away.  There 
was  another  raid  in  1867,  but  afterward  no  further 
trouble  was  experienced  with  the  red  men. 

At  the  time  the  Union    Pacific   Railroad  came 
through  to  Cheyenne,  Mr.    Godfrey  removed  to 


the  Platte  River  district  and  bought  three-quarters 
of  a  section  for  $5,000.  There  he  engaged  in 
farming  and  the  stock  business  during  the  remain- 
der of  his  life.  In  the  development  of  the  county 
he  bore  an  active  part.  In  1869-70  he  was  the 
prime  mover  in  organizing  Section  No.  3  Ditch 
Company  and  assisted  in  building  the  ditch, 
which  was  the  means  of  developing  this  section 
of  country.  For  ten  years  he  officiated  as  the 
company's  president.  In  1873  he  assisted  in  or- 
ganizing the  South  Platte  Ditch  Company,  of 
which  he  was  elected  president.  From  1869  to 
1880  he  engaged  in  farming  and  stock-raising  and 
was  among  the  largest  stockmen  of  the  county. 
Politically  he  has  always  been  a  Republican,  and 
interested  in  local  and  national  pohtics.  A  man 
of  energy,  excellent  judgment  and  executive  abil- 
ity, his  influence  was  apparent  for  good  during 
the  early  days  of  the  county.  He  is  still  living 
and  enjoying  good  health.  His  wife,  who  died 
in  1879,  was  Matilda  Richmond,  of  Ohio.  Of 
their  seven  children  six  are  living,  namely:  Mar- 
tha, wife  of  Daniel  Hawks;  Allen  R.;  Anna,  who 
married  H.  M.  Godfrey;  Celia,  wife  of  Wesley 
Mullen,  of  Gunnison,  Colo.;  Carrie,  Mrs.  C.  H. 
Welch;  and  Cuba,  of  Wyoming. 

In  1 86 1  our  subject  enlisted  in  Company  K, 
Sixteenth  Wisconsin  Infantry ,  in  which  he  served 
for  three  years"!  Upon  his  honorable  discharge  he 
entered  Bryant  &  Stratton's  Business  College  in 
Chicago,  but  after  a  few  months  there  re-enlisted 
in  Hancock's  Veteran  Corps,  Second  Regiment, 
and  served  until  the  war  closed,  in  all,  a  period  of 
four  years.  During  his  first  term  of  service  he 
was  under  Grant  and  Sherman  in  the  western 
division,  and  in  his  second  enlistment  he  served 
in  Washington,  forming  a  part  of  the  Army  of  the 
Potomac.  He  was  mustered  out  in  Winchester, 
Va.,  and  was  one  of  thirteen  out  of  a  company  of 
one  hundred  that  returned  home.  After  the  war 
closed  his  company  was  sent  to  Albany,  N.  Y. , 
and  took  charge  of  camps,  later  were  similarly 
engaged  at  Elmira  and  Ogdensburg,  N.  Y.,  and 
Brattleboro,  Vt. ,  returning  home  in  the  spring 
of  1866. 

Upon  his  graduation  from  the  business  college 
in  Chicago  in  1867,  Mr.  Godfrey  joined  his  pa- 
rents at  South  Platte,  Colo.,  and  soon  became  his 
father's  partner  in  farming  and  the  stock  business. 
His  services  were  in  demand  for  clerical  work, 
and   he  was  secretary  of  No.  3  Ditch  Company, 


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in  the  organization  of  which  he  had  assisted.  In 
1874  he  took  a  part  of  the  home  farm,  and  upon 
his  half-section  he  built  a  fine  brick  residence. 
He  has  since  engaged  in  farming  and  the  stock 
business,  and  has  his  land  under  cultivation  and 
furnished  with  an  excellent  water  supply.  Under 
the  territorial  law  he  was  the  prime  mover  in  or- 
ganizing school  district  No.  14,  of  which  he  was 
secretary  for  some  years.  After  the  state  was  ad- 
mitted into  the  Union  he  secured  the  organiza- 
tion of  the  I,a  Salle  school,  of  whose  board  he 
has  been  the  only  president  and  which  employs 
three  teachers,  with  ninety  pupils  enrolled.  Po- 
litically a  Republican,  he  was  a  candidate  for 
superintendent  of  schools  of  Weld  County  under 
the  territorial  law,  and  for  county  commissioner 
under  state  law.  Fraternally  he  is  connected 
with  Greeley  Lodge,  I.  O.  O.  F.  At  this  writing 
he  is  commander  of  William  T.  Sherman  Post 
No.  23,  of  Evans,  and  is  an  active  Grand  Army 
worker. 

In  1873  Mr.  Godfrey  married  Miss  Kate  Welch, 
who  died  in  1890,  at  thirty-eight  years  of  age. 
They  were  the  parents  of  seven  children,  namely: 
Bert  G.;  Jessie,  deceased;  Fannie,  wife  of  A.  L. 
Reeves;  Charles  A.;  Roy;  Walter,  deceased;  and 
Tillie. 


HON.  ARMOUR  C.  ANDERSON,  formerly 
a  member  of  the  Ninth  General  Assembly 
of  Colorado,  has  been  engaged  in  the 
real-estate  and  loan  business  in  Denver  since 
1885  and  has  had  his  ofBce  for  the  past  eight 
years  at  No.  1762  Curtis  street.  Mr.  Anderson 
was  born  on  a  farm  near  Trenton,  N.  J.,  and  is  of 
Scotch  ancestry.  His  father,  William  Anderson, 
was  reared  in  the  city  of  New  York  and  married 
Ellen  Marshall  and  settled  in  New  Jersey  on  a 
farm. 

In  187 1  Mr.  Anderson  moved  to  Maryland 
and  for  ten  years  assisted  his  father  on  the  farm, 
at  the  same  time  receiving  his  education  from  the 
country  school  near  by.  When  eighteen  years 
of  age  he  came  to  Colorado  and  at  once  entered 
the  employ  of  the  Denver  &  Rio  Grande  Rail- 
way Company,  at  the  same  time  going  to  night 
school  at  the  Denver  Business  College,  where  he 
studied  shorthand.  Afterward  for  a  year  he 
served  in  the  business,  office  of  the  Old  Denver 
Tribune,  during  the  days  of  Eugene  Field,  and 
later   with   O.    H.    Rothacker,  on  the  Opmion. 


Leaving  Denver  after  an  attack  of  pneumonia, 
he  spent  six  months  at  Batopilas,  in  Old  Mexico, 
with  Alexander  R.,  better  known  as  "Boss" 
Shepherd,  the  great  mining  king  of  that  country. 
Finding  this  location  too  remote  from  civiliza- 
tion and  friends  Mr.  Anderson  in  1885  returned 
to  Denver  and  started  in  his  present  business, 
which  has  proved  very  successful. 

Though  a  member  of  a  Democratic  family, 
Mr.  Anderson  has  voted  the  Republican  ticket 
ever  since  he  was  old  enough  to  cast  his  ballot, 
and  his  first  vote,  of  which  he  is  proud,  was  cast 
for  Hon.  James  G.  Blaine.  In  1892  he  was 
chosen  to  represent  this  county  in  the  legislature, 
and  served  in  the  regular  session  as  well  as  the 
special  session  called  by  Governor  Waite.  Dur- 
ing these  sessions  he  served  as  chairman  of  the 
engrossing  committee  and  was  a  member  of  the 
railroad  committee,  also  of  the  committee  on 
Indian  and  military  affairs.  He  took  a  great  in- 
terest in  his  legislative  work  and  during  the 
entire  sessions  did  not  absent  himself  for  a  single 
day,  and  endeavored  always  to  be  present  when 
the  roll  was  called.  He  introduced  a  bill  for  a 
home  for  disabled  miners,  and  succeeded  in 
getting  it  through  the  lower  house.  The  house 
stood  thirty-three  Republicans  (of  which  side  he 
was  one  of  the  leaders)  to  thirty-two  Democrats. 

Mr.  Anderson  is  a  Presbyterian,  and  has  been 
actively  engaged  with  one  of  the  largest  churches 
of  the  city,  both  as  a  member  and  officer,  ever 
since  he  came  to  Denver.  Fraternally  he  is 
connected  with  thejunior  Order  United  American 
Mechanics.  He  is  a  self-made  man,  having  come 
to  Denver  a  poor  boy,  and  he  has  worked  his 
way  up  to  what  he  now  is. 


HON.  WILLIAM  J.  LEWIS,  ex-member  of 
the  Colorado  state  legislature,  is  a  citizen 
well  known  throughout  Gilpin  County.  His 
home  has  been  in  Central  City  for  the  past  nine 
years,  though  his  business  is  chiefly  in  Black- 
hawk,  and  his  investments  are  somewhat  scat- 
tered. He  has  always  taken  great  interest  in  the 
success  of  the  Republican  party,  and  in  1878  was 
nominated  and  elected  to  represent  Gilpin  County 
in  the  sessions  of  1878-79  in  the  general  assem- 
bly. He  afterwards  refused  to  allow  his  name  to 
be  used  as  a  candidate,  and  has  had  no  desire  to 
again  enter  the  lists  for  public  preferment.     The 


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cause  of  education  finds  in  him  a  sincere  friend 
and  for  a  period  of  twelve  years,  while  his  resi- 
dence was  in  Nevadaville,  he  acted  as  a  member 
of  the  school  board,  and  for  much  of  the  time 
was  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  organization. 

As  his  surname  indicates,  W.  J.  Lewis  is  of 
Welsh  extraction.  His  father  was  a  native  of 
Wales,  and  in  his  country  was  a  civil  engineer 
and  surveyor.  Over  half  a  century  ago  he  came 
to  the  United  States,  and,  settling  in  Armstrong 
County,  Pa.,  built  and  took  charge  of  the  tram- 
ways for  the  Great  Western  Iron  Works.  Later 
he  removed  to  Pittsburg,  and  lived  retired  from 
active  cares  until  his  death.  His  wife,  Jane 
(Carter)  Lewis,  whose  death  likewise  took  place 
at  their  Pittsburg  home,  was  a  native  of  Devon- 
shire, England.  They  were  the  parents  of  seven 
children,  three  of  whom  survive  at  this  writing. 
The  eldest  .son,  Robert  H.,  was  a  lieutenant  in 
command  of  the  First  Delaware  Battery  during 
the  Civil  war,  and  died  afterwards  in  Cleveland, 
Ohio. 

The  birth  of  William  J.  Lewis  occurred  in 
Brady's  Bend,  Pa.,  November  25,  1843.  His 
boyhood  was  spent  in  that  town  and  for  a  few 
years  he  attended  school  there.  When  he  was 
thirteen  the  family  removed  to  Pittsburg  and 
three  years  later  he  was  apprenticed  to  a  machin- 
ist. He  served  four  years  in  the  James  Reese 
engine  shops,  where  were  manufactured  the  en- 
gines used  on  the  river  boats.  When  he  had 
thoroughly  mastered  the  trade,  young  Lewis 
worked  for  a  year  in  Wheeling,  W.  Va.  In  the 
summer  of  1865  he  came  to  Colorado,  and  for  one 
year  was  engineer  for  the  Corydon  Mining  Com- 
pany, of  Central  City.  Later  he  was  employed 
at  various  mines  up  to  1870,  when  he  leased  the 
Whitcomb  twenty-five  stamp  mill,  in  Nevada- 
ville. After  running  it  for  some  years  success- 
fully he  purchased  the  property,  which  he  did 
not  dispose  of  until  ten  years  ago.  In  1889  he 
became  the  superintendent  of  the  Hidden  Treas- 
ure mill,  in  which  capacity  he  has  been  acting 
from  that  time  until  the  present.  During  the 
past  thirty  years  he  has  been  more  or  less  finan- 
cially interested  in  many  mines,  among  them  the 
Flack,  Illinois,  Kansas,  Windsor,  Corydon,  etc. 
Now  he  owns  stock  in  the  Pierce  mine,  which  is 
being  operated  with  good  results.  Mr.  Lewis 
thoroughly  understands  his  business  and  is  equal- 
ly well  versed  in  mining  and  milling  operations. 


The  Hidden  Treasure  mill  is  one  of  the  largest 
atid  best  in  Gilpin  County,  handling  larger  ore 
than  most  mills  here.  It  has  fine  water  power 
and  boa,sts  one  of  the  largest  water  wheels  in  the 
state.  Its  diameter  is  fifty  feet,  and  it  is  equal  to 
three  hundred  horse-power. 

Mr.  Lewis  married  in  Nevadaville,  in  1868, 
Miss  E.  M.  Southworth,  a  native  of  New  York 
state.  They  have  two  children:  Robert  N.,  en- 
gineer in  the  Hidden  Treasure  mill,  and  a  mem- 
ber of  Central  City  Commandery  No.  2,  K.  T. ; 
and  Lottie  J.,  Mrs.  E.  W.  Davis,  of  Central  City. 
Mr.  Lewis  is  past  master  of  Nevada  Lodge  No.  4, 
A.  F.  &  A.  M.;  is  past  ofl^cer  of  Central  City 
Chapter  No.  i,  R.  A.  M.,  and  for  two  successive 
years  was  eminent  commander  of  Central  City 
Commandery  No.  2,  K.  T.  He  is  also  identified 
with  El  Jebel  Temple,  Mystic  Shrine,  of  Denver. 
Mrs.  Lewis  is  a  member  of  the  Episcopal  Church, 
as  is  also  her  daughter,  Mrs.  E.  W.  Davis. 


HOMAS  H.  JOHNSON  enjoys  the  honor 
of  being  the  organizer  of  the  Republican 
party  in  Larimer  County.  For  years  he 
has  been  one  of  the  most  influential  politicians  in 
the  county.  His  activity  in  local  affairs,  his  en- 
ergy in  promoting  campaign  work,  together  with 
his  successful  service  in  positions  of  responsibility, 
won  for  him  the  sobriquet  of '  'cowboy  statesman." 
He  was  elected  to  the  state  legislature  in  1882 
and  served  as  a  member  of  the  fourth  general 
assembly.  He  was  a  supporter  of  Senator  Jerome 
B.  Chaffee,  in  his  day,  as  he  is  now  of  Henry  M. 
Teller,  the  present  senior  senator  of  Colorado. 
Under  Governor  Mclntire,  then  warden  at  Canon 
City,  he  served  as  deputy  in  1894. 

In  Dixon,  111.,  May  23,  1839,  the  subject  of 
this  sketch  was  born  to  Eben  H.  and  Sarah 
(Johnson)  Johnson.  His  father,  who  was  a 
native  of  New  York,  spent  almost  his  entire  life 
in  Illinois,  where  he  died  in  1885,  at  the  age  of 
seventy -five  years.  He  was  a  stanch  Republican 
from  the  organization  of  the  party,  and  was 
present  at  almost  every  convention  of  his  county 
and  state.  His  son,  our  subject,  was  educated  in 
the  common  schools  of  Illinois.  At  the  age  of 
twenty-one,  in  i860,  he  came  to  Colorado  and 
settled  on  the  Big  Thompson  River,  where  he 
took  up  government  land.  In  1861-62  he  assisted 
in  building  the  first  irrigating  ditch  in  northern 


JACOB  SCHUTZ. 


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Colorado,  and,  thus  securing  an  abundance  of 
water  for  his  place,  he  successfully  prosecuted 
farming  and  stock-raising.  For  a  number  of 
years  as  a  stockman  he  took  his  share  with  the 
cowboys,  and  during  that  time  he  experienced 
many  exciting  episodes  of  frontier  life.  How- 
ever, he  has  always  possessed  a  courage  that 
nothing  daunts,  and  his  perils  in  early  days  ex- 
cited, but  did  not  frighten  him.  In  1874  the 
Indians  burned  his  cow  camp  at  Pawnee  Buttes, 
Weld  County,  but  he  soon  built  another  and 
better  one.  In  time  he  became  one  of  the  large 
stock-dealers  in  the  northern  part  of  the  state, 
and  he  also  secured  valuable  interests  in  mines, 
handling  several  claims,  and  recently  owned  a 
group  of  mines  in  Boulder  County.  In  1891  he 
was  one  of  the  pioneers  of  the  famous  Creede 
Silver  Camp,  one  of  the  richest  silver  camps  in 
the  world.  In  1868  he  was  united  in  marriage 
with  Miss  Eliza  Rogers,  and  four  children  were 
born  of  their  union,  namely:  Burton  W.,  Myrna, 
Flora  and  Edna  Grace. 


(T  ACOB  SCHUTZ  is  the  owner  of  about  twen- 
I  ty-five  hundred  acres  of  land  in  Douglas 
(2)  County,  his  home  being  three  miles  from 
Franktown  and  seven  miles  from  Elizabeth. 
Here  he  is  engaged  in  raising  thoroughbred  Short- 
horn and  grade  cattle,  in  which  department  of 
agriculture  he  has  met  with  success.  After 
having  worked  in  this  country  for  one  year.  May 
19,  i860,  witnessed  his  arrival  at  the  place  he 
now  calls  home.  It  was  then  a  wild,  unimproved 
tract  of  land,  far  from  other  homes.  He  built  a 
log  house,  and  at  first  hauled  lumber  and  wood 
for  others,  in  order  to  earn  his  livelihood.  In 
1 86 1  he  planted  a  crop,  which  he  harvested. 
After  the  surveys  were  made  he  took  a  pre-emp- 
tion and  later  a  homestead,  the  two  adjoining 
each  other,  and  afterward  he  bought  other  prop- 
erty until  his  land  reached  its  present  extent.  In 
1878  he  built  a  substantial  .stone  residence,  con- 
taining all  modern  improvements,  and  here  he 
and  his  wife  have  an  attractive  and  comfortable 
home. 

October  20,  1836,  our  subject  was  born  in 
Muelenberg,  Canton  Berne,  Switzerland,  about 
twelve  miles  west  of  the  city  of  Berne.  He  was 
reared  on  the  farm  owned  by  his  parents,  Jacob 
and  Mary  (Palmer)  Schutz,  and   received  a  fair 


education.  In  November,  1853,  he  accompanied 
the  family  to  America,  arriving  in  New  York 
January  16,  1854.  From  there  they  proceeded 
to  Will  County,  111.,  but  three  weeks  after  their 
arrival  the  father  died,  leaving  his  widow  and 
five  children  with  only  $30  in  money.  Our  sub- 
ject secured  employment  at  $25  a  year.  After 
one  year, when  he  came  to  realize  what  his  serv- 
ices were  worth  and  demanded  fair  pay,  he  was 
given  $18  a  month.  In  1855  he  went  to  Minne- 
sota and  for  three  summers  worked  by  the  month, 
sending  his  money  home  to  aid  in  supporting 
his  mother.  In  the  fall  of  1857  he  returned  to 
Illinois  and  for  a  few  weeks  attended  school, 
working  for  his  board.  In  1858  he  worked  on  a 
farm  in  Kankakee  County,  111.  The  next  year 
he  and  his  brother,  together  with  a  brother-in- 
law,  started  with  two  yoke  of  cattle  and  a  wagon, 
for  southern  Kansas,  and  on  arriving  in  Butler 
County  took  up  land,  but  after  three  weeks  they 
decided  to  leave.  They  had  but  $30  in  cash,  and 
had  hoped  to  secure  employment  that  would 
afford  them  a  livelihood  while  improving  their 
land.  However,  they  found  everyone  in  the  same 
condition  as  themselves,  and  thought  it  wisest  to 
leave.  They  met  three  men  who  were  taking  a 
herd  of  cattle  to  California  and  joined  them,  assis- 
ting in  driving  the  cattle,  in  return  for  which  they 
were  given  their  board  on  the  way .  They  parted 
from  the  drovers  at  Bent's  Ford,  on  the  Arkansas, 
and  came  on  to  Douglas  County,  where  they 
arrived  in  July,  1859.  During  the  winter  that 
followed  Mr.  Schutz  secured  employment  in  a 
sawmill.  May  19,  i860,  he  squatted  on  his 
present  homestead,  and  from  the  then  raw  land 
he  has  evolved  a  valuable  ranch.  In  1864  he 
enlisted  in  Company  M,  Third  Colorado  Cavalry, 
and  served  for  one  hundred  days,  being  stationed 
in  the  vicinity  of  Camp  Wheeler  as  protection 
against  the  Indians. 

Returning  to  Illinois  in  1868,  Mr.  Schutz  there 
married  Miss  Caroline  Schumacher,  who  was 
born  in  Hanover,  but  resided  in  Will  County  for 
some  years  prior  to  her  marriage.  They  became 
the  parents  of  three  children,  but  lost  two.  Their 
only  living  child,  Rosa  B.,  is  the  wife  of  John  R. 
Campbell,  by  whom  she  has  five  children:  Albert, 
Pecer,  Emma  E.,  Isaac  J.,  Dora  A.  and  Edith  M. 
In  politics  our  subject  is  a  Republican.  He  has 
served  as  county  commissioner  by  appointment 
from  Governor  Evans  for  one  year  and  by  election 


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for  a  term  of  three  years.  He  has  also  served  as 
assessor  of  the  county  for  a  year  and  for  twelve 
years  was  a  member  of  the  school  board,  during 
which  time  he  aided  much  in  advancing  the 
interests  of  the  local  school. 


(TOHN  H.  BUTTERWORTH,  who  resides 
I  three  and  one-half  miles  southwest  of  Long- 
Qj  mont,  Boulder  County,  was  born  in  Wash- 
ington County,  Tenn.,  October  23,  1861,  a  son 
of  Stephen  S.  and  Nannie  (Bashor)  Butterworth. 
He  was  the  oldest  of  six  children,  the  others  being 
James  L.,  of  California;  Sarah  E.,  Charles  B., 
Virginia  C.  and  Nettie,  all  still  living.  His 
father,  who  was  a  native  of  Lynchburg,  Va.,  born 
December  16,  1824,  married  for  his  first  wife  a 
Miss  Pitts,  by  whom  he  had  two  daughters.  The 
older  of  these,  Mary  J.,  is  the  widow  of  Frank 
Basher,  of  Boulder  County;  and  the  younger, 
Martha,  is  the  widow  of  1,.  P.  Ballinger,  of 
Tennessee. 

After  the  death  of  his  first  wife  Stephen  S. 
Butterworth  removed  to  Tennessee  and  there 
married  Miss  Bashor.  He  was  a  millwright  by 
trade  and  erected  many  mills  in  Virginia,  Tenn- 
essee and  Missouri,  the  last  years  of  his  life  being 
spent  in  Green  County,  Mo.,  where  he  settled  in 
1866.  His  death  occurred  on  a  farm  in  Arkansas 
February  2,  1895.  He  was  a  son  of  Buckley 
Butterworth,  a  native  of  Ohio,  but  during  the 
most  of  his  life  a  resident  of  Virginia,  where  he 
followed  the  milling  business.  The  maternal 
grandfather  of  our  subject,  Henry  Bashor,  was  a 
native  of  Pennsylvania  and  the  descendant  of 
Dutch  stock.  In  early  manhood  he  moved  to 
Tennessee  and  later  went  to  Missouri,  where  he 
became  a  prominent  farmer  and  miller,  owning 
four  mills  at  one  time.  He  attained  the  advanced 
age  of  ninety-two  years  and  during  the  summer 
prior  to  his  death  plowed  corn  in  his  fields.  He 
was  a  remarkably  strong  and  well-preserved  man, 
and  retained  the  use  of  his  faculties  to  the  last. 
At  the  age  of  sixteen  years  the  subject  of  this 
sketch  apprenticed  himself  to  the  carpenter's 
trade  in  Springfield,  Mo.,  under  John  Oliver, 
with  whom  he  remained  for  four  years.  He  then 
settled  at  Ash  Grove,  twenty  miles  west  of 
Springfield,  and  for  four  years  followed  his  trade 
in  that  place.  July  27,  1884,  found  him  in 
Longmont,   Colo.,   where  he  established  himself 


in  the  contractor's  and  builder's  business,  and 
this  occupation  he  followed  until  his  marriage  in 
1888.  Since  then  he  has  given  his  attention  to 
the  cultivation  of  the  farm  of  three  hunded  and 
twenty  acres  where  he  and  his  wife  reside. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Butterworth  united  him 
with  Mrs.  Clara  C.  (Peck)  Cranson,  the  widow 
of  John  Cranson,  and  daughter  of  Thomas  S. 
and  Susan  E.  (Walthall)  Peck.  Her  father, 
whose  sketch  appears  on  another  page,  was  a 
Colorado  pioneer  of  1859  and  a  member  of  the 
First  Colorado  Infantry  during  the  Civil  war. 
By  her  first  marriage  Mrs.  Butterworth  had  three 
children,  namely:  Blanche,  who  is  the  wife  of 
Burns  Will,  of  Longmont;  Jennie,  who  married 
Gaorge  Darby,  of  Ordway,  Colo. ;  and  Thomas  S., 
deceased.  By  her  marriage  to  Mr.  Butterworth 
she  has  two  daughters,  Callie  Grace  and  Carmen 
G.  She  is  a  refined  and  cultured  lady,  with  a 
broad  fund  of  information  and  excellent  judgment. 
She  is  a  competent  business  woman,  and  has 
served  efficiently  as  secretary  of  the  Peck  Lateral 
Ditch  Company.  In  educational  matters  she  is 
deeply  interested  and  filled  an  unexpired  term  of 
two  years  as  secretary  of  the  school  board,  after 
which,  in  the  spring  of  1898,  she  was  elected  to 
the  office  for  a  full  term.  Fraternally  Mr.  Butter- 
worth is  connected  with  Mountain  Valley  Lodge 
No.  31,  Woodiflen  of  the  World.  For  some  years 
he  has  been  a  member  of  the  Bankers'  Association 
of  Des  Moines,  Iowa. 


REUBEN  F.  COFFIN,  one  of  the  most  promi- 
nent agriculturists  of  Weld  County,  owns 
a  ranch  two  and  one-half  miles  east  of 
Longmout,  on  the  Boulder  County  line.  This 
property  he  took  up  in  187 1  and  settled  upon 
the  following  year,  proceeding  to  make  a  farm 
out  of  the  wild  piece  of  prairie  land.  He  im- 
proved the  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  and 
added  to  it  from  time  to  time  until  his  farm  finally 
consisted  of  five  hundred  acres.  Later,  however, 
he  sold  all  the  property  except  the  original  home- 
stead, where  he  still  resides. 

In  Delaware  County,  N.  Y.,  the  subject  of  this 
sketch  was  born  November  15,  1842,  a  son  of 
Jacob  and  Mary  A.  (Hull)  Coffin.  He  was  one 
of  twelve  children,  six  of  whom  are  living.  They 
are:  Morse  H.;  Elizabeth,  wife  of  S.  W.  Patton; 
George  W.;  Ellen  C,  wife  of  Porter  R.  Pennock; 


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Reuben  F.;  and  Emma,  Mrs.  J.  W.  Daniels. 
The  family  history  appears  in  the  biography  of 
Morse  H.  Coffin,  upon  another  page. 

The  educational  advantages  received  by  our 
subject  were  somewhat  limited.  At  eighteen 
years  of  age  he  began  life  as  a  farm  hand.  After 
one  year  the  war  broke  out  and  he  enlisted,  July 
10,  1 86 1,  in  Company  G,  Nineteenth  Illinois 
Infantry,  Col.  G.  B.  Turchin  commanding.  The 
principal  battles  in  which  he  participated  were 
those  of  Stone  River,  Chickamauga,  Mission 
Ridge,  Resaca  and  Altona  Pass.  He  was  mus- 
tered out  of  service  at  Chicago,  June  27,  1864. 
From  that  time  until  the  spring  of  1866  he  oper- 
ated rented  land  in  Illinois. 

February  6,  1866,  Mr.  Coffin  started  across  the 
plains  with  a  team  of  horses.  He  arrived  on  the 
St.  Vrain,  just  above  the  mouth  of  Boulder  Creek, 
April  I,  and  at  once  embarked  in  farming,  which 
occupation  he  followed  for  two  years.  Afterward 
he  teamed  on  the  Union  Pacific  Railroad  for  a 
year.  In  1869  he  engaged  in  freighting  from 
Denver  and  Cheyenne  to  the  mountains,  princi- 
pally to  Blackhawk  and  Central  City.  In  1872 
he  came  to  the  ranch  where  he  has  since  resided . 
Fraternally  he  is  identified  with  St.  Vrain  Lodge 
No.  32,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  the  Improved  Order  of 
Red  Men,  the  Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen 
and  McPherson  Post  No.  6,  G.  A.  R. 

In  1877  ^r-  Coffin  was  united  in  marriage 
with  Miss  Lydia  E.  Gregg.  Six  children  com- 
prise their  family,  namely:  Roy;  Stanley,  who  is 
a  member  of  Torrey's  Cavalry  of  Rough  Riders, 
engaged  in  service  in  the  war  with  Spain;  Claude, 
Clair,  Vinton  and  Ruby,  who  are  at  home. 


QOHN  GLOVER,  formerly  one  of  Boulder 
I  County's  representative  farmers,  but  now 
(2/  deceased,  was  born  on  Prince  Edward  Island, 
May  5,  1855,  a  son  of  David  and  Sarah  (Schur- 
man)  Glover,  and  was  one  of  six  children,  four 
of  wliom  survive.  His  father,  who  was  born  on 
the  same  island  as  himself,  spent  his  entire  life  in 
the  same  place,  where  his  birth  occurred  May  29, 
18 1 9,  three  days  after  his  parents  landed  in  Amer- 
ica, and  where  he  died  April  28,  1878.  In  youth 
he  learned  the  shoemaker's  trade,  but  after  his 
marriage  he  settled  on  a  farm,  and  during  the 
years  that  followed  he  gave  his  attention  to  farm- 
ing, profiting  by  his  trade  only  so  far  as  to  wake 


the  shoes  for  his  own  family.  For  many  years 
he  served  the  Presbyterian  Church  as  an  elder, 
and  firm  in  the  religious  faith  that  had  supported 
him  in  life's  trials,  he  passed  into  the  great  un- 
known, April  28,  1878. 

February  13,  1851,  David  Glover  married  Miss 
Schurman,  who  was  born  September  29,  1827, 
and  died  July  11,  1866.  Her  father,  William 
Schurman,  was  a  member  of  an  eastern  family; 
he  died  at  ninety  and  his  wife,  Elizabeth,  when 
ninety-one  years  of  age.  The  paternal  grandfa- 
ther of  our  subject,  William  Glover,  was  a  native 
of  Scotland  and  came  to  America  in  1819,  settling 
on  Prince  Edward  Island,  where  he  engaged  in 
farming  for  many  years.  When  his  death  occurred 
he  lacked  only  one  year  of  rounding  out  a  full 
century.  His  wife,  Sarah,  was  eighty-seven  at 
the  time  of  her  death. 

Having  a  liking  for  farm  life,  the  subject  of 
this  sketch  adopted  agriculture  for  his  occupation 
on  reaching  manhood.  When  his  father  died  he 
was  twenty-three  years  of  age.  The  estate  was 
then  divided,  and  one  hundred  acres  fell  to  his 
lot.  On  this  tract  he  began  farming,  remaining 
there  until  the  fall  of  1883,  when  he  and  his 
family  came  to  the  States,  settling  in  Yankton, 
S.  Dak.,  where  his  wife's  parents  lived.  The 
country  did  not  suit  him  and  after  two  months  he 
left  his  family  and  came  to  Colorado  to  look  for 
a  suitable  location.  Being  pleased  with  prospects 
in  this  state,  he  sent  for  his  family  and  secured 
work  as  a  farm  hand.  In  the  spring  of  1886  he 
rented  land  eight  miles  northwest  of  Longmont, 
where  he  embarked  in  farming  for  himself.  After 
one  year  he  went  to  Denver,  and  rented  a  farm 
six  miles  northeast  of  that  city,  in  Arapahoe 
County,  where  he  remained  for  six  years.  In 
the  fall  of  1892  he  bought  the  farm  of  one  hun- 
dred and  sixty  acres  now  owned  and  occupied  by 
his  widow,  and  hither,  in  the  fall  of  1893,  he 
brought  his  family,  going  to  work  at  once  with  a 
determination  to  succeed.  All  who  knew  him 
can  testify  to  the  zeal  and  energy  with  which  he 
carried  on  the  work  of  cultivation  and  improve- 
ment. Early  and  late  he  worked  in  order  that 
he  might  bring  the  land  to  the  high  state  of  culti- 
vation that  he  desired.  Doubtless  it  was  due  to 
overwork  that  his  life  was  cut  short  in  its  prime. 
He  passed  away  October  31,  1896,  mourned  by  his 
wife  and  children,  and  by  those  less  intimately 
connected  with  him,  but  who  had  come  to  appre- 


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date  his  genuine  worth  of  character.  While  he 
was  not  identified  with  any  denomination,  he  was 
a  believer  in  the  Presbyterian  faith  and  supported 
all  church  work.  Fraternally  he  was  connected 
with  the  Woodmen  of  the  World. 

January  12,  1881,  Mr.  Glover  married  Miss 
Matilda  S.  McQuarrie,  daughter  of  Donald  and 
Matilda  (Stewart)  McQuarrie,  natives  of  Prince 
Edward  Island.  Her  father  learned  the  trade  of 
shipbuilding  in  his  youth  and  followed  this  for 
many  years,  in  conjunction  with  farming,  he 
having  settled  on  a  farm  immediately  after  mar- 
riage. In  1883  he  removed  to  Yankton,  S.  Dak., 
where  he  died  at  eighty  years  of  age.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Glover  became  the  parents  of  four  children, 
namely:  Elmer  R.,  born  February  7,  1882;  Ray 
W.,  September  28,  1883;  Lora  M.,  July  11,  1885; 
and  Hazel  1,.,  March  26,  1891. 


rSETER  E.  CHAPMAN,  the  proprietor  and 
LX  owner  of  Maple  Park  ranch,  which  is  situ- 
yS  ated  three  miles  north  of  IvOngmont,  Boulder 
County,  is  a  progressive  farmer,  good  business 
man  and  reliable  citizen.  He  has  been  the  archi- 
tect of  his  own  fortunes,  for,  upon  arriving  in 
Colorado  less  than  a  score  of  years  ago,  he  was 
obliged  to  begin  at  the  very  foot  of  the  ladder. 
Possessing  those  necessary  qualities  of  industry 
and  perseverance  he  soon  gained  a  foot-hold  and 
steadily  advanced  toward  prosperity.  When  a 
few  years  had  rolled  over  his  head  he  was  in  a 
position  where  respect  was  accorded  him  and  to- 
day he  stands  among  the  representative  men  of 
his  section. 

The  paternal  grandfather  of  our  subject  was 
John  Chapman,  a  native  of  New  Jersey.  When 
he  had  reached  manhood  he  chose  for  his  com- 
panion and  helpmate  a  Miss  Nancy  Cole,  and  to- 
gether they  settled  down  to  a  quiet,  industrious 
agricultural  life.  Our  subject's  father,  whose 
Christian  name  is  John,  is  one  of  the  most  promi- 
nent and  successful  farmers  of  the  community  in 
which  he  dwells,  in  Morris  County,  N.J.  He 
has  occupied  the  responsible  position  of  constable 
for  the  past  fifteen  or  sixteen  years  and  has  fre- 
quently been  tendered  minor  offices  of  trust  and 
honor.  Born  in  the  year  1828,  in  the  state  where 
he  still  resides,  he  has  always  given  his  attention 
to  agricultural  affairs  and  is  considered  an  authori- 
ty on  the  subject  among  his  neighbors  and  associ- 


ates. Upon  reaching  man's  estate  he  married 
Miss  Ann  Emmons  and  nine  children  came  to 
bless  their  home.  Eight  of  the  number  are  still 
living. 

Peter  E.  Chapman  was  born  March  14,  1853, 
in  New  Jersey,  and  was  reared  under  the  kind 
and  judicious  instruction  and  training  of  his  lov- 
ing parents.  He  attended  the  district  schools 
and  mastered  the  ordinary  branches  of  learning. 
When  he  had  reached  his  majority  he  commenced 
the  battle  of  life  in  earnest,  his  only  capital  being 
a  horse  and  cow.  As  he  had  no  money  to  buy  a 
farm  he  rented  a  place  for  six  years,  and,  in  fact, 
as  long  as  he  continued  to  live  in  his  native  state 
he  leased  land.  Success  did  not  attend  his  efforts 
to  any  great  degree  and  he  finally  concluded  that 
he  would  try  his  fortune  in  the  west.  Coming  to 
Colorado  in  1880  he  entered  into  the  employ  of 
an  uncle  and  worked  on  his  farm  during  the  next 
eight  months.  In  1887  he  purchased  his  fine 
homestead,  known  as  Maple  Park  ranch,  and 
since  then  he  has  greatly  improved  and  beautified 
the  farm. 

In  his  political  preferences  Mr.  Chapman  is  a 
supporter  of  the  Democratic  party.  His  marriage, 
December  23,  1871,  united  him  with  Miss  Annie 
Burnett,  who  was  born  in  New  Jersey,  Septem- 
ber 30,  1853,  and  is  a  daughter  of  Theodore  and 
Sarah  (Lawrenee)  Burnett.  One  child  was  born 
of  their  union,  a  daughter,  now  Mrs.  Holmes,  of 
Weld  County,  Colo. 


pQlIyLIAM  CLARK,  a  retired  farmer,  has 
I  A/  ^^^^  making  his  home  in  Berthoud,  Lari- 
V  V  mer  County,  for  several  years,  in  the  mean- 
time renting  his  homestead.  He  has  taken  an 
active  part  in  public  affairs  here  and  has  served 
as  mayor  of  the  town  and  as  a  member  of  the 
local  board  of  trustees.  Politically  he  has  always 
given  his  allegiance  to  the  Republicau  party  until 
recently,  when  he  became  independent,  and  now 
uses  his  franchise  for  the  nominees  and  principles 
which  he  deems  best,  regardless  of  party  lines. 
Fraternally  he  is  a  Mason,  belonging  to  Berthoud 
Lodge  No.  83,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.  He  is  also  identi- 
fied with  the  Woodmen  of  the  World. 

Mr.  Clark  is  a  native  of  County  Galway,  Ire- 
land, born  September  9,  1845.  His  parents  were 
John  and  Nellie  (McDonald)  Clark.  They  came 
to  the  United  States  with  their  family  when  our 


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subject  was  a  child  of  some  six  or  seven  years. 
At  first  they  settled  in  White  Hall,  Washington 
County,  N.  Y.,  from  there  removing  to  Beloit, 
Wis.  Until  he  was  eighteen  years  of  age  our 
subject  remained  with  his  parents,  but  from  that 
time  on  he  earned  his  own  livelihood  indepen- 
dently. 

In  the  spring  of  1864  William  Clark  came  west 
with  a  company  of  friends.  Upon  reaching  Colo- 
rado he  located  first  at  Stilson's  Patch,  about  a 
mile  from  Breckenridge,  in  Summit  County. 
There  he  engaged  in  gulch  mining  for  several 
months,  but  the  following  winter  went  to  Black- 
hawk.  There  he  found  plenty  of  employment  at 
hauling  produce  and  supplies  from  the  valley  to 
the  various  camps,  ox-teams  being  used  for  the 
purpose.  After  he  had  worked  in  this  manner 
for  several  years  he  entered  the  employ  of  Captain 
Tyler,  of  Erie,  laerding  his  cattle.  He  continued 
for  this  employer  for  fifteen  years,  rendering 
faithful  service,  as  can  be  inferred,  and  investing 
his  savings  in  live-stock,  on  his  own  account. 
Then  he  took  up  his  abode  upon  his  present  farm 
and  later  bought  another  half-section  of  land.  He 
became  interested  in  constructing  ditches  and  has 
been  very  active  in  the  advocacy  of  further  irri- 
gation sources  and  supplies.  While  he  has  been 
particularly  successful  in  dairying  and  stock- 
raising  he  has  been  prospered  in  general  farming 
as  well,  and  this  year  the  eighteenth  crop  is  being 
harvested  on  his  homestead.  He  is  a  stockholder 
in  the  Berthoud  Flouring  Mill  and  Elevator  Com- 
pany. 

January  i,  1878,  Mr.  Clark  married  Miss  Cora 
Graham,  daughter  of  Thomas  Graham,  of  Erie, 
Weld  County.  Three  children,  a  son  and  two 
daughters,  bless  their  union,  their  names  in  order 
of  birth  being  Ella,  Maude  and  Hugh. 


r^ETER  J.  JOHNSON,  who  owns  a  valuable 
L/'  farm  five  miles  west  of  Longmont,  was  born 
f!^  in  Smolan,  Sweden,  December  16,  1833,  a 
son  of  John  and  Anna  (Carlson)  Larson.  He 
was  one  of  five  children,  three  ofwhom  are  living, 
those  besides  himself  being:  L-  G.,  a  carpenter 
in  Chicago;  and  Christine,  wife  of  A.  P.  Ander- 
son, of  Sweden.  His  father,  who  was  a  native  of 
the  same  place  as  himself,  grew  to  manhood  on  a 
farm,  married  and  continued  to  reside  in  his  native 
place  until  his  death. 


The  education  obtained  by  our  subject  was  limi- 
ted to  a  brief  attendance  in  the  common  schools 
of  his  native  land.  At  twenty-two  years  of  age 
he  began  farming  for  himself,  and  for  thirteen 
years  he  cultivated  the  place  which  he  owned  and 
which  was  worth  ten  thousand  krona  at  the  time 
he  sold  it.  In  1868,  a  year  after  selling  his  place, 
he  decided  to  come  to  America.  On  the  14th  of 
April  he  left  his  old  home,  bound  for  a  foreign 
land.  Going  to  Gottenburg,  he  took  pa.ssage  on 
a  small  steamer  for  Hull,  England,  and  from 
there  traveled  by  rail  to  Liverpool,  where  he 
shipped  on  board  the  steamer  "Moravian,"  of  the 
Allen  line.  Thirteen  days  later  he  landed  in 
Quebec,  Canada.  From  that  city  he  went  to  Red 
Wing,  Minn.,  where  he  arrived  May  14.  During 
the  summer  that  followed  he  worked  as  a  farm 
hand  for  a  friend. 

On  the  ist  of  September,  1868,  Mr.  Johnson 
took  a  steamer  down  the  river  to  Clinton,  111., 
where  he  took  the  train  for  Cheyenne,  Wyo. ,  and 
from  there  journeyed  by  stage  for  Burlington 
(now  Longmont).  The  stage  being  filled,  he 
took  a  place  on  the  top  and  traveled  all  night  in 
the  rain.  For  such  unsatisfactory  accommoda- 
tion he  paid  a  fare  of  $16.  Six  weeks  prior  to  this 
the  stage  had  been  robbed  by  Indians  and  the 
driver  murdered,  and  afterward  armed  guards 
accompanied  the  stage.  With  Mr.  Johnson  on  the 
top  of  the  coach,  were  six  men  with  rifles. 

Arriving  in  Burlington,  Mr.  John.son  struck 
across  the  country  for  the  neighborhood  of  Boul- 
der, in  search  of  his  cousin,  Andrew  Reed,  whom 
he  found  after  considerable  trouble,  occasioned 
by  his  inability  to  speak  English.  He  secured 
work  with  his  cousin,  with  whom  he  remained 
for  thirteen  months.  In  the  summer  of  1870  he 
rented  land  and  began  farming  near  Boulder. 
The  previous  year  he  had  sent  to  the  old  country 
for  his  family,  whose  passage  cost  him  $500,  al- 
most his  entire  capital,  so  when  he  began  farm- 
ing for  himself  he  had  only  $15.  The  man  from 
whom  he  rented  furnished  him  with  a  team.  In 
the  fall  of  1870  he  took  up  a  homestead  of  one 
hundred  and  sixty  acres  where  he  now  lives,  five 
miles  from  Longmont,  and  after  two  more  years 
of  farming  as  a  renter,  he  took  his  family  to  their 
own  home  in  1873.  No  improvements  save  a 
little  hut  had  been  made  on  the  claim,  and  for 
sometime  he  had  a  struggle  to  maintain  his  fam- 
ily.    His  first  work  was  to  provide  the  land  with 


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water.  He  was  one  of  the  charter  members  of 
the  Swede  Ditch  Company,  through  whose  efforts 
the  land  in  that  section  was  irrigated.  As  the 
years  passed  he  added  to  his  property  until  his 
landed  possessions  aggregated  six  hundred  and 
fifty-five  acres.  I^ater,  however,  he  sold  all  of 
the  land  except  the  original  homestead. 

In  1856  Mr.  Johnson  married  Mi.ss  Mary  S. 
Nelson,  a  native  of  the  same  town  asher  husband. 
They  became  the  parents  of  six  children,  namely: 
Carl  A. ,  who  is  engaged  in  the  restaurant  busi- 
ness at  Telluride,  Colo.;  Amanda  C,  who  died 
while  attending  Augustona  College,  at  Rock 
Island,  111. ;  John  F. ,  who  died  while  attending 
Gross  Medical  College  in  Denver;  A.  Sophia, 
wife  of  John  Burgstrom,  a  merchant  tailor  of 
Boulder;  Oscar  A.,  one  of  the  most  promising 
young  attorneys  of  Boulder;  and  Esther  A. ,  who 
is  with  her  parents.  The  family  are  identified 
with  the  Lutheran  Church,  to  which,  as  to  other 
worthy  objects,  Mr.  Johnson  contributes  as  his 
means  permit.  Politically  he  is  a  silver  Republican. 


yyilLES  H.  VAN  METER,  a  contractor  and 
Y  builder  of  Denver,  was  born  in  Grayson 
y  County,  Ky.,  October  4,  1842,  being  a  de- 
scendant of  an  old  Virginian  family  that  came  to 
this  country  from  Holland.  His  father,  Rev. 
Isaac  Newton  Van  Meter,  a  son  of  Abram,  was 
born  in  Grayson  County  and  grew  to  manhood 
upon  a  farm.  March  15,  1855,  he  established  his 
home  in  Macomb,  McDonough  County,  111. ,  then 
a  very  small  place,  with  little  appearance  of  future 
prosperity.  He  was  a  pioneer  minister  in  the 
Baptist  Church  in  Illinois.  The  people  were 
poor,  money  was  scarce  and  it  was  difficult  for  a 
congregation  to  support  a  pastor,  so  he  operated 
a  farm  and  in  that  way  supported  his  family, 
preaching  without  charge.  The  farm  that  he 
cultivated  is  still  owned  by  his  wife,  and  upon  it 
he  passed  away  when  nearly  eighty  years  of  age. 
The  mother  of  our  subject  bore  the  maiden 
name  of  Lucinda  Lawson,  and  was  born  in  Har- 
din County,  Ky.  Her  father,  Henry  Lawson, 
was  a  farmer  at  Lawson,  Ky. ,  which  was  named 
in  honor  of  the  family.  She  is  now  seventy-eight 
years  of  age  and  is  hale  and  strong.  Of  her  ten 
children  all  but  one  attained  years  of  maturity. 
They  were:  Henry,  who  enlisted  in  the  Eighty- 
fourth    Illinois   Infantry  and  died    at  Ringgold, 


Ga.,  after  having  participated  in  Sherman's 
famous  march  to  the  sea;  Miles  H.  is  next  in 
order  of  birth;  Cyrus  L-  is  a  farmer  near  the  old 
homestead  in  McDonough  County;  Mary  is  the 
wife  of  Martin  Shields,  of  Macomb;  Mrs.  Sadie 
Runkle  also  resides  in  Macomb;  Hiram  is  in  the 
employ  of  the  Denver  &  Rio  Grande  Railroad 
at  Gunnison,  Colo.;  David  is  agent  for  the  Chi- 
cago, Burlington  &  Quincy  road  at  Macomb; 
Mrs.  Mattie  Randolph  and  Mrs.  Hattie  Fuhr  also 
reside  in  Macomb. 

Reared  in  Illinois,  our  subject  as  a  boy  attended 
the  pioneer  school  of  the  district,  held  in  a  log 
house,  with  puncheon  floor  and  split  logs  for 
benches.  To  reach  this  school  he  was  obliged  to 
walk  two  and  one-half  miles.  At  the  age  of 
twenty-one  he  bought  a  threshing  machine,  which 
he  operated  during  the  season.  In  1868  here- 
moved  to  Brookfield,  Linn  County,  Mo.,  where 
he  engaged  in  carpentering.  Two  years  later  he 
went  to  Malta  Bend,  Saline  County,  Mo.,  and 
followed  the  same  occupation  there  until  1879, 
when  he  entered  the  employ  of  the  Consolidated 
Tank  Line  Company.  This  concern  he  repre- 
sented in  Missouri  and  Kansas  for  two  and  one- 
half  years,  having  his  headquarters  in  Kansas 
City.  In  1882  he  removed  to  Denver  and  repre- 
sented the  same  firm  in  Colorado,  Utah,  New 
Mexico,  Wyoming  and  Montana  for  ten  years, 
but  retired  in  1892.  Since  then  he  has  engaged 
in  the  erection  of  residences  and  public  buildings, 
under  the  firm  name  of  M.  H.  Van  Meter  &  Son. 
He  owns  a  comfortable  home  at  No.  3245  High- 
land avenue. 

The  first  marriage  of  Mr.  Van  Meter  took  place 
in  Saline  County,  Mo.,  and  united  him  with  Miss 
Clara  Reeves,  whose  father,  Felix  Reeves,  was 
an  old  commission  merchant  on  the  Missouri 
River.  She  was  born  in  Saline  County  and  died 
there,  leaving  two  children:  Harry  L.,  who  is  in 
partnership  with  his  father;  and  Joseph  R.  The 
older  son  has  the  reputation  of  being  one  of  the 
finest  amateur  actors  in  Denver  and  indeed  in 
Colorado.  May  11,  1898,  he  enlisted  in  Troop 
A,  Colorado  Cavalry,  under  Colonel  Torrey,  and 
participated  in  the  Spanish-American  war.  Mr. 
Van  Meter  was  married  in  Emporia,  Kan.,  to 
Miss  Allie  Lynn  Truslow,  who  was  born  in 
Charleston,  W.Va.,  the  daughter  of  James  A., 
and  Fannie  (Claspell)  Truslow,  of  that  place. 
One  daughter,  Mabel  A.,  blesses  this  union. 


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While  in  Malta  Bend  Mr.  Van  Meter  was  one 
of  its  first  five  trustees  who  succeeded  in  securing 
the  incorporation  of  the  place.  Two  of  the  trus- 
tees were  in  favor  of  licensing  saloons;  two  were 
opposed.  His  was  the  deciding  vote,  and  as  long 
as  he  was  trustee  there  were  no  saloons  in  the 
town.  Politically  he  is  a  Republican  and  belongs 
to  the  Republican  Club.  He  was  formerly  a 
member  of  the  Patriotic  Order  Sons  of  America. 


GlNDREW  J.  FORBES,  a  retired  farmer, 
I  I  whose  home  is  situated  on  section  19,  town- 
I  I  ship  6,  range  66,  Weld  County,  is  one  of 
the  honored  early  .settlers  of  this  locality,  and 
was  one  of  the  celebrated  Union  colony,  which 
organized  and  founded  the  town  of  Greeley.  He 
has  been  actively  interested  in  the  development 
of  this  region,  and  has  used  his  influence  at  all 
times  for  improvement  and  progress.  When  the 
Windsor  Creamery  was  started,  and  at  the  time 
of  the  organization  of  the  Wind.sor  Mill  and  Ele- 
vator Company,  he  was  one  of  those  who  were 
most  aggressive  in  favor  of  the  enterprises  being 
carried  on,  and  at  other  times  he  has  been  an  im- 
portant factor  in  the  founding  of  industries. 

The  paternal  grandfather  of  our  subject,  John 
Forbes,  attained  the  extreme  age  of  one  hundred 
years.  He  was  one  of  those  heroes  who  fought 
in  the  Continental  army  under  Washington,  at 
the  battles  of  Trenton  and  Monmouth,  and  at 
Valley  Forge.  He  was  orderly-sergeant  of  the 
great  general,  and  after  the  war  was  granted  a 
pension,  which  he  drew  as  long  as  he  lived.  He 
was  a  shoemaker  by  trade  and  taught  the  bu.si- 
ness  to  his  son  John,  the  father  of  the  subject  of 
this  article.  John  Forbes,  Jr.,  was  a  native  of 
Vermont  and  married  Lavina  Lawrence,  who 
was  born  in  Connecticut.  He  had  removed  to 
Seneca  County,  N.Y.,  with  his  parents,  and  after 
the  birth  of  our  subject  the  family  went  to  Cayuga 
County,  N.Y.,  and  lived  in  the  town  of  Fleming. 

A.  J.  Forbes  was  born  November  10,  18 19,  in 
Fayette,  N.  Y.,  and  grew  to  manhood  in  Cayuga 
County.  When  he  was  about  eleven  years  old 
his  father  died  and  the  lad  went  to  live  with  a 
neighbor,  Henry  Witbeck,  a  farmer.  It  was 
stipulated  that  he  should  attend  school  three 
months  each  year  and  to  receive  his  board  and 
clothes,  and  when  he  was  twenty-one  he  was  to 
be  given  two  suits  of  clothes  and  $100  in  money. 


His  part  of  the  contract  was  that  he  should  work 
steadily  at  whatever  the  farmer  desired  him  to 
do.  They  were  both  upright  and  honorable  and 
each  lived  fully  up  to  his  agreement.  After  he 
had  reached  his  majority  Mr.  Forbes  still  made 
Mr.  Witbeck's  house  his  home  for  a  long  time, 
even'  when  he  was  working  elsewhere. 

In  1843  Mr.  Forbes  went  to  what  is  now  East 
St.  Louis  and  was  offered  a  school  to  teach,  but 
he  declined  the  position  on  account  of  the  malaria 
prevalent  there.  He  went  to  Galena,  111.,  and 
taught  school  there,  his  recommendation  from 
Governor  Seward,  of  New  York,  an  old  friend, 
securing  him  the  position.  The  schools  of  that 
period  were  run  on  the  subscription  plan,  and 
the  first  one  he  taught  in  Galena  was  held  in  the 
basement  of  the  old  Methodist  Church.  August 
19,  1858,  Mr.  Forbes  married  Lydia  Pyle,  a 
young  lady  of  excellent  education,  a  graduate  of 
Mount  Carroll  Seminary.  Her  parents  were 
John  and  Ann  (Lodge)  Pyle,  natives  of  Pennsyl- 
vania and  Delaware  respectively.  Mrs.  Forbes 
was  born  in  Chester  County,  Pa.,  and  after  her 
marriage,  she,  as  well  as  her  husband,  engaged 
in  teaching  for  several  years.  In  the  spring  of 
1 86 1  they  rented  the  old  Pyle  homestead  near 
Mount  Carroll,  a  place  of  two  hundred  acres. 
They  resided  there  for  five  years  and  then  rented 
farms  in  that  vicinity  for  four  years  longer,  teach- 
ing school  during  the  winter  terms  meantime. 

In  1S70  Mr.  Forbes  became  a  member  of  the 
Union  colony,  and  though  he  did  not  come  to 
Greeley  until  March  20,  1871,  he  had  a  certifi- 
cate of  membership.  He  took  a  five- acre  tract 
in  what  was  called  the  Delta,  and  a  business  and 
residence  lot  in  the  town.  That  autumn  he  set- 
tled upon  his  small  farm  and  purchased  another 
five-acre  place  adjoining,  then  building  an  addi- 
tion to  the  house  which  was  alreadj-  on  the  piece 
of  property  last  bought.  Three  years  later  he 
and  Robert  Boyd  went  to  the  mountains  to  en- 
gage in  lumbering,  but  lost  everything  he  pos- 
sessed, as  he  was  obliged  to  mortgage  his  land 
and  available  assets  in  order  to  get  the  required 
funds  for  his  enterprise,  and  then  the  whole  bus- 
iness went  by  the  board.  He  rented  a  farm  from 
Mr.  Boyd  for  a  year  and  then  for  two  years  rented 
the  place  which  he  now  owns.  Though  he  was 
fifty-five  years  old  at  the  time  of  his  business 
failure  and  was  in  debt  $1,000,  he  managed  to 
pay  off"  this  amount  and  later  purchased  his  pres- 


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ent  farm  from  Dr.  Emerson.  The  tract,  a  quar- 
ter-section, was  then  unimproved,  and  he  has  de- 
veloped it  from  a  wilderness.  He  is  a  stockholder 
in  ditch  No.  2.  Politically  he  supports  the  Peo- 
ple's party,  and  has  represented  his  district  in 
state  and  county  conventions,  and  in  1896  was  a 
delegate  to  the  silver  convention  held  in  Denver. 
Fraternally  he  was  an  Odd  Fellow,  but  is  not 
active  in  the  order  now.  In  early  life,  also,  he 
was  a  member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church, 
but  is  not  now  connected  with  any  denomination. 
The  three  living  children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Forbes  are:  Elsie,  wife  of  Charles  Devine,  who  is 
a  farmer  of  the  vicinity  of  Greeley;  C.  Edward, 
a  Montana  farmer,  whose  wife  was  formerly  Ra- 
chel Clayton;  and  Jesse  R. ,  who  married  Delia 
Morrison,  daughter  of  Homer  Morrison.  Jesse 
R.  resides  on  our  subject's  ranch  and  has  charge 
of  the  place.  C.  Edward  joined  Company  H,  First 
Montana  Infantry,  and  went  to  the  Philippine 
Islands  in  the  Third  Division  of  troops  sent  to 
those  distant  shores  in  the  recent  war  with  Spain. 


GJRCHIBALD  A.  CRAWFORD  is  one  of  the 
Ll  representative  citizens  of  Weld  County,  his 
I  I  home  being  on  section  34,  township  5,  range 
67  north.  He  came  to  Colorado  a  poor  man  and 
by  industry  and  economy,  perseverance  and  well- 
applied  energy  has  become  comfortably  well-to- 
do.  He  possesses  the  sterling  uprightness,  busi- 
ness sagacity  and  enterprise  characteristic  of  the 
Scotch  people  from  whom  he  is  descended.  Un- 
assuming and  not  desirous  of  public  office,  he 
has  nevertheless  been  called  upon  at  times  to 
hold  positions  of  public  trust,  and  has  acquitted 
himself  creditably  each  term.  He  was  justice  of 
the  peace  for  some  years  and  served  as  president 
and  secretary  of  school  district  No.  2 1 .  For  the 
past  ten  years  he  has  been  a  leader  in  the  People's 
party,  and  enjoys  the  friendship  of  many  of  the 
prominent  public  men  of  the  times. 

The  parents  of  our  subject  were  Robert  and 
Jane  (Deane)  Crawford,  natives  of  Scotland,  in 
which  country  they  passed  their  entire  married 
life.  The  father  died  in  1845  and  the  mother  in 
1870.  A.  A.  Crawford  was  born  in  the  town  of 
Kilbirnie,  Ayrshire,  Scotland,  in  1843,  and  thus 
has  no  recollection  of  his  father.  When  he  was 
four  years  old  he  came  to  the  United  States  with 


his  mother  and  his  boyhood  was  passed  near  Chi- 
cago. After  his  public-school  education  was 
completed  he  took  a  commercial  course  in  Bryant 
&  Stratton's  Bu.siness  College.  At  eighteen  he 
began  serving  an  apprenticeship  to  the  black- 
smith's trade  with  Philip  Hicks,  of  Chicago.  At 
the  end  of  two  years  he  became  an  employe  of 
the  Northwestern  Manufacturing  Companj^,  as  a 
blacksmith  and  machinist,  and  two  years  later  he 
became  connected  with  the  mechanical  depart- 
ment of  another  firm  in  Chicago. 

In  1865  Mr.  Crawford  started  westward,  and 
landed  in  Denver  July  3,  having  come  from  St. 
Joseph,  Mo.,  across  the  plain  with  mule  teams. 
Two  of  his  companions  were  O.  P.  Bassett  and 
Dick  Van  Allan.  They  camped  near  Denver,  on 
the  site  of  the  present  railroad  hospital.  At  the 
end  of  a  few  days  Mr.  Crawford  went  to  Black- 
hawk,  and  thence  to  Bruce  Johnson's  ranch  on 
the  Big  Thompson  River.  He  found  emploj'- 
ment  with  T.  H.Johnson  (the  "cowboy  states- 
man"), among  others,  at  cutting  hay  and  grain. 
In  partnership  with  O.  P.  Bassett  he  threshed  all 
the  grain  raised  on  the  Cache  la  Poudre  and 
Thompson  Valley.  He  had  brought  with  him 
from  the  east  the  first  threshing  machine  ever 
used  in  this  region  and  for  two  years  he  had  all 
he  could  do  in  this  line  during  the  season. 

In  1866  Mr.  Crawford  took  up  a  pre-emption 
on  a  quarter-section  of  land  on  the  banks  of  the 
Big  Thompson,  and  the  following  year  began 
farming  in  earnest.  Needing  a  ditch  he  exca- 
vated one  seven  miles  long  with  the  shovel,  it 
novv  being  known  as  the  Big  Thompson  and 
Platte  River  ditch,  and  he  also  was  active  in  the 
construction  of  the  Bee  Line  ditch,  being  its  sec- 
retary for  some  time.  For  over  thirty  years  he 
has  devoted  his  time  chiefly  to  agriculture  and 
stock-raising,  though  for  two  years  he  freighted 
from  Cheyenne  and  Sidney,  Neb.,  to  the  Black 
Hills.  In  1880  he  sold  out  his  first  ranch  and 
took  up  a  homestead  north  of  Thompson .  Here 
he  has  since  dwelt,  and  has  added  eighty  acres  to 
his  original  place,  thus  making  it  one  of  two  hun- 
dred acres.  It  is  watered  by  the  Loveland  and 
Greeley  ditch,  in  which,  as  well  as  in  the  Thomp- 
son and  Platte  River  ditch,  he  owns  stock,  of  the 
latter  serving  as  secretary  for  several  years. 

In  1879  Mr.  Crawford  married  Mrs.  Anna 
(Frazier)  Tucker,  widow  of  W.  E.  Tucker.  She 
is  a  daughter  of  Josephus  and  Susanna  Frazier, 


JOHN  HAHN. 


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the  latter  still  living  on  the  old  home  place  where 
Mrs.  Crawford  was  born,  Point  Isabel,  Ohio. 
The  two  children  of  Mrs.  Crawford's  first  mar- 
riage are  Montrovel  H.  and  Katie,  Mrs.  C.  L,. 
Flower,  of  Greeley,  Colo. 


30HN  HAHN,  county  commissioner,  and  one 
of  the  largest  land  owners  of  Larimer 
County,  was  born  in  Germany  in  1840,  and 
at  the  age  of  three  years  was  brought  to  America 
by  his  parents,  Nicholas  and  Caroline  Hahn, 
who  settled  in  Rock  Island,  111.  Very  shortly 
after  they  arrived  in  their  new  home  his  father 
died,  and  afterward  his  mother  became  the  wife 
of  Mr.  Schuck,  with  whom  she  removed  to  the 
Rock  River  bottom  and  settled  upon  a  farm. 

The  education  of  our  subject  was  begun  in 
public  schools,  but  has  been  principally  self-ac- 
quired. At  nineteen  years  of  age,  in  i860,  Mr. 
Hahn  was  one  of  a  party  of  about  fifty  persons, 
who,  on  the  8th  day  of  March,  started  from 
Whiteside  County,  111.,  in  wagons  drawn  by 
horses  and  mules  for  Denver,  Colo.  He  drove 
mules  to  his  wagon,  which  was  well  provisioned. 
Three  companions  rode  with  him,  whom  he 
charged  $50  each  for  board  and  conveyance  dur- 
ing the  trip.  They  came  by  way  of  Davenport, 
Iowa,  Nebraska  City  and  the  South  Platte  River. 
On  arriving  in  Denver  our  subject  had  some- 
thing in  hand  above  his  expenses.  Accompanied 
by  William  A.  Bean,  he  struck  out  for  Cal- 
ifornia Gulch,  prospecting  for  gold,  but  shortly 
returned  unsuccessful,  and  came  to  Larimer 
County,  where,  in  equal  partnership,  they  en- 
gaged in  land  purchase  and  stock-raising.  After 
a  time  they  separated,  but  Mr.  Bean  is  still  a 
resident  of  Larimer  County. 

For  twenty-five  years  Mr.  Hahn  continued  to 
reside  on  his  original  farm,  where  he  engaged  in 
stock-raising,  being  one  of  the  largest  stock  deal- 
ers in  the  entire  territory.  The  ranch  is  still  in 
his  possession,  but  has  not  been  his  home  for 
thirteen  years.  In  1885  he  purchased  a  ranch 
about  one  mile  east  of  Lov eland,  and  there  he 
engaged  in  the  stock  business  for  thirteen 
years.  Through  business  judgment  and  energy 
he  has  accumulated  a  large  tract  of  land, 
aggregating  twelve  hundred  and  forty  acres.  The 
land  is  well  irrigated  and  is  suitable  both  for 
stock-raising  and  general  farm  purposes.  In 
40 


1897  he  erected  an  elegant  brick  residence  in 
Loveland,  at  the  corner  of  West  and  Third 
streets.  Justly  considered  the  best  house  in 
town,  it  is  fitted  out  with  all  modern  conven- 
iences and  richly  and  tastefully  furnished  under 
the  supervision  of  his  wife  and  daughters.  The 
grounds  occupy  half  a  block,  including  garden, 
stabling,  etc. 

During  the  early  days  of  his  residence  in  Colo- 
rado, Mr.  Hahn  endured  all  the  hardships  inci- 
dent to  frontier  life.  He  came  to  the  territory 
intending  to  dig  for  gold,  and  for  a  few  months, 
in  the  Leadville  district,  he  did  make  an  effort  to 
secure  some  of  the  longed-for  ore,  but  he  soon 
saw  that  it  was  useless  for  him  to  waste  time  in  a 
futile  effort.  Accordingly  he  turned  his  atten- 
tion to  ranching.  The  land  that  he  purchased 
was  utilized  mostly  in  raising  hay,  of  which  he 
cut  about  two  hundred  tons  (all  with  a  .scythe) 
in  a  season.  After  the  hay  was  cut  he  hauled  it 
to  Central  City  and  Blackhawk,  a  distance  of 
seventy-five  miles,  a  team  of  oxen  furnishing  the 
motive  power.  During  those  early  days  Indians 
were  numerous  and  oftentimes  troublesome.  In 
1867  a  report  came  that  the  savages  were  on  the 
war  path  and  were  coming  toward  the  settlements 
of  the  whites.  At  once  the  settleirs  fortified 
themselves  and  prepared  for  an  attack,  but  the 
Indians,  after  stealing  as  many  horses  as  they 
could  find,  withdrew  to  their  remote  mountain 
fastnesses. 

As  an  advocate  of  Republican  principles,  Mr. 
Hahn  has  long  been  active  in  local  politics.  For  a 
number  of  years  he  served  as  chairman  of  the 
delegation  from  Loveland,  and  presided  over  the 
county  conventions  of  the  Republicans,  promot- 
ing, by  his  good  judgment  and  enterprise,  the 
success  of  the  old  party.  In  1897  ^^  was  elected 
a  member  of  the  board  of  county  commissioners, 
to  serve  for  three  years.  For  a  number  of  years 
he  took  an  active  part  in  educational  work  as  a 
member  of  the  school  board.  On  the  organiza- 
tion of  the  Bank  of  Loveland  he  became  a  char- 
ter stockholder,  and  has  since  served  as  a  director 
of  the  institution.  During  the  early  days  he  was 
a  prominent  member  of  the  grange,  in  which  he 
held  office  as  a  trustee  for  many  years.  Frater- 
nally he  is  identified  with  the  Loveland  lodge  of 
Masons.  In  1876  he  was  united  in  marriage 
with   Miss   Ellen  A.    Kempster,  of  Illinois,  and 

tUree  children  were  born  of  their  union.    Mabel 


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J.,  Jessie  and  Edisou  K.,  who  died  at  the  age  of 
twelve  years.  Mrs.  Hahn  and  her  daughters 
are  connected  with  the  Presbyterian  Church,  to 
which,  though  not  a  member,  Mr.  Hahn  has 
been  a  regular  and  generous  contributor. 


(TOHN  HENRY  SARGISSON  was  born  in 
I  Hogsthorpe,  near  Alford,  lyincolnshire,  Eng- 
(2/  land,  in  the  same  house  in  which  eight  or 
ten  of  his  ancestors  were  born.  He  first  saw  the 
light  of  day  December  29,  1843,  and  was  a  son 
of  Henry,  and  a  grandson  of  John  Sargisson, 
who  fought  in  the  English  army  in  the  war  of 
18 1 2,  and  against  Napoleon.  He  was  a  hus- 
bandman and  died  at  the  age  of  eighty-six  or 
seven.  Henry  Sargisson  was  also  a  farmer  of 
Alford,  until  his  retirement,  and  is  now  in  his 
eighty-sixth  year.  He  married  Susan  Starmer, 
a  daughter  of  John  Starmer,  of  the  same  vicinity, 
and  of  a  prominent  and  aristocratic  family,  their 
dead  being  buried  in  the  chancel  of  the  church. 
The  mother  died  when  but  little  past  fifty,  leav- 
ing six  children,  all  of  whom  are  living,  namely: 
John  Henry,  our  subject;  Charles,  who  lives  in 
New  Zealand;  Alfred,  a  merchant  of  Alford; 
William,  a  farmer,  and  Mary,  both  at  the  old 
home;  and  Annie,  Mrs.  Nicholson,  of  Wales. 

Mr.  Sargisson  is  among  the  successful  cattle- 
men of  lyivermore,  and  located  in  this  state  in 
187 1.  His  boyhood  was  spent  in  Hogsthorpe, 
and  his  education  was  received  at  Grantham  Aca- 
demy, from  which  he  graduated.  He  was  ap- 
prenticed to  a  dry-goods  merchant  in  Boston, 
Lincolnshire,  for  five  years,  and  then  went  to 
Manchester,  the  great  manufacturing  city,  where 
he  secured  a  position  as  salesman  in  a  large  whole- 
sale house  that  employed  four  or  five  thousand 
men.  After  remaining  there  three  or  four  years 
he  decided  to  come  to  America,  which  he  did  in 
1869,  coming  to  Chicago  and  clerking  for  the 
large  mercantile  house  of  John  B.  Shay,  where  he 
was  buyer  in  the  linen  department.  In  the  spring 
of  187 1  he  concluded  to  try  his  fortunes  in  the 
west,  and  came  to  LaPorte,  Colo. ,  and  the  follow- 
ing year  to  the  Livermore  district,  about  four  or 
five  miles  southeast  of  his  present  ranch.  Here 
he  became  interested  in  the  cattle  business,  which 
he  conducted  until  188 1,  when  he  took  his  stock 
to  Wyoming,  where  he  left  them,  as  he  did  not 
like  the  country.      He  returned  to  this   state, 


locating  on  his  present  ranch.  He  homesteaded 
one  hundred  and  sixty  acres,  and  added  to  it, 
until  he  now  has  two  hundred  and  forty  acres. 
He  is  still  engaged  in  raising  cattle,  his  farm  be- 
ing stocked  with  full  graded  Shorthorn,  Polled 
Angus  and  Herefords.  His  farm  and  everything 
pertaining  to  it  show  the  care  and  attention  that 
are  bestowed  on  it,  everything  being  in  the  best 
possible  shape. 

The  first  marriage  of  Mr.  Sargisson  was  in  this 
county,  to  Miss  Martha  Sloan,  whose  father, 
William  Sloan,  moved  here  from  Leavenworth, 
Kan.,  in  1880.  At  her  death  she  left  one  daugh- 
ter, Minnie.  In  1891  he  was  married  to  Mrs. 
Mary  Sigourney  Ross  Luckett,  who  was  bom  in 
Owenton,  Owen  County,  Ky.  She  is  a  lady  of 
education  and  refinement,  and  traces  her  ancestry 
back  to  George  Ross,  a  signer  of  the  Declaration 
of  Independence.  His  son,  William  Coleman 
Ross,  her  great-grandfather,  was  a  large  planter 
in  the  state  of  Virginia,  where  he  was  born.  Her 
grandfather,  Andrew  Ross,  was  born  at  Fairfax, 
Va.,  and  moved  to  Kentucky,  where  he  was 
a  planter  and  merchant.  He  was  a  nephew  of 
Governor  DeShay,  of  Kentucky.  He  married 
Sallie  Craig,  whose  father.  Rev.  Joseph  Craig, 
was  a  minister  of  the  Baptist  Church,  and  came 
to  Kentucky  from  Culpeper,  Va.  Mrs.  Sargis- 
son's  father,  Hon.  Thomas  Craig  Ross,  who  was 
born  in  Warsaw,  Gallatin  County,  Ky. ,  was  a 
graduate  of  Yale,  and  was  a  prominent  business 
man,  being  a  miller,  merchant,  manufacturer  and 
planter.  He  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the 
town  of  Sparta,  and  was  in  the  legislature  for 
three  terms.  He  went  to  Canon  City,  Colo.,  and 
engaged  in  mining  four  years,  and  then  to  Eldo- 
rado Springs,  Mo.,  where  he  died  in  1885.  Her 
mother,  Jane  Briscoe,  was  born  in  Georgetown, 
Scott  County,  Ky.,  and  was  a  daughter  of 
Lindsey  Briscoe,  of  Frederick  City,  Md.  Lindsey 
Briscoe  fought  in  the  war  of  181 2,  when  sixteen 
years  old;  his  father,  Ralph  Briscoe,  a  Maryland 
planter,  and  a  soldier  of  the  Revolutionary  war, 
was  also  in  this  war.  Her  grandfather  moved  to 
Georgetown,  Ky. ,  where  he  married  Eliza 
Duval,  whose  father,  Mareen  Duval,  was  a  Baptist 
minister,  formerly  of  Virginia.  Her  great-great- 
grandfather, Mareen  Tramwell  Duval,  was  a 
French-Huguenot  refugee,  and  one  of  the  early 
settlers  in  Frederick  City,  Md.  The  Briscoes  are 
of  English  descent.     Her  mother  is  at  present  in 


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Wister,  Indian  Territory,  having  married  again, 
her  husband,  Mr.  Thomasson,  being  postmaster 
of  that  place.     There  were  nine  children  in  the 
familj',  four  of  whom  are  living.  Alexander  Camp- 
bell, who  was  educated  at  Bethany  College,  under 
Rev.  Alexander  Campbell,  was  lieutenant  of  the 
Fourth  Kentucky  Cavalry,   and   was   killed    in 
Hobson's  raid  at  Mount  Sterling,  in  June,  1864; 
William  Andre  was  a  private  in  the  same  com- 
pany with  his  brother,  and  now  lives  at  Kenton, 
Ohio,  where  he  is  superintendent  of  the  gas  and 
electric  light  works;  Thomas  B.  is  a  farmer  of 
Wallula,  Wash.;  Mattie,  now  Mrs.  Duncan,  lives 
in  Oklahoma;  and  Mary  Sigourney  is  now  Mrs. 
Sargisson.     Her  childhood   was   spent  in    Ken- 
tucky, and  she  was  educated  in  the  Daughters' 
College  at  Harrodsburg,  that  state.    She  married 
Capt.  J.  N.  lyuckett,  of  New  Castle,  Ky.,  captain 
of  Company  H,    Ninth    Kentucky    Cavalry,    in 
the  Federal  army.    Later  he  engaged  in  the  hotel 
business  in  Covington,  Ky.,  and  then  went  to 
Fort  Worth,  Tex.,   later  to  Fort  Smith,  Ark., 
and  back  to  Kentucky,  to  Louisville.     While  in 
Fort   Smith   he   was    engaged   in   farming   and 
handled  race  horses;  he   continued   farming   in 
Kentucky,  subsequently  moved  to  Arkansas,  and 
he  died  in   Huntington,  Ark.      After  his  death 
Mrs.  Luckett  came  to  Colorado  Springs,  in  1891, 
and  there  married  Mr.  Sargisson.     She  had  one 
child,  Bessie  Luckett,  who  graduated  from  the 
Daughters'     College,    and    is    now  married    to 
Lee  Haskins,  of  Fort  Scott,  Kan.     She  has  long 
been  a  member  of  the  Christian  Church,  and  is 
an  honorary  member  of  the  Livermore  Literary 
Club.    Mr.  Sargisson  is  a  member  of  the  Masonic 
lodge,   and  in  politics  both  he  and  his  wife  are 
stanch   Democrats.      In    the    campaign  of   i8g6 
Mrs.  Sargisson  was  strongly  in  favor  of  Palmer 
and  Buckner,  the  sound  money  Democrats,  while 
Mr.  Sargisson  voted  for  Bryan. 


nOHN  McNEY,  of  Livermore,  Larimer  Coun- 
I  ty,  has  lived  a  life  of  excitement  and  advent- 
Q)  ure  that  has  been  equalled  b}'  few  men.  For 
many  years  he  engaged  in  hauling  freight  for  the 
government  to  western  posts,  during  which  time 
he  took  part  in  many  encounters  with  the  Indians, 
and  it  was  his  privilege  at  one  time  to  save  a  mother 
and  three  children  from  becoming  their  victims. 
He   was   born  in  Shefi6eld,  Yorkshire,  England, 


and  is  the  son  of  John  and  Isabelle  (Muir)  Mc- 
Ney,  and  a  grandson  of  David  McNey,  who  died 
in  Scotland,  where  he  had  been  engaged  in  agri- 
culture. His  father  was  born  in  Kirkcudbright- 
shire, Scotland,  but  moved  to  Sheffield,  England, 
where  he  was  a  dry-goods  merchant  for  a  time, 
but  finally  returned  to  his  old  home  and  took  up 
the  occupation  of  a  farmer  and  stockman,  contin- 
uing in  this  business  iintil  his  death,  which  oc- 
curred in  his  forty-seventh  year.  He  married 
Miss  Isabelle  Muir,  who  was  born  at  the  same 
place,  and  whose  father,  James  Muir,  was  a  far- 
mer. She  died  when  sixty-five  years  old.  Of 
her  thirteen  children  four  are  now  in  America. 
Those  living  are:  James,  in  New  Zealand;  Mary, 
in  Ontario,  Canada;  William,  who  lives  in  the 
same  place;  Margaret,  in  New  York  City;  Jessie 
Dudley,  in  England;  and  John,  our  subject. 

John  McNey  was  educated  in  the  national 
schools  of  Scotland,  and  when  about  sixteen 
years  of  age  went  to  Wallsall,  England,  where 
he  was  apprenticed  in  the  dry-goods  business  for 
two  or  three  years.  About  1856,  during  the 
Crimean  war,  he  came  to  America  in  a  sailing 
vessel,  the  "Benjamin  Adams."  He  located  in 
South  Carolina  and  accepted  a  clerkship,  later  re- 
turned to  New  York  and  secured  a  position  in  the 
upholstery  department  of  the  dry-goods  store  of 
A.  T.  Stewart.  Afterwards  he  clerked  in  James 
Gray  Company's  lace  house.  During  the  war 
he  volunteered  in  the  Seventy-ninth  Regiment, 
but  they  were  disbanded,  owing  to  some  disagree- 
ment. He  went  to  Orange  Countj^  N.  Y. ,  and 
then  to  New  York  City,  where  he  occupied  his 
old  place  nearly  all  through  the  war.  For  some 
time  he  worked  in  a  grocery  store  in  Galesburg,  111. , 
and  then  went  to  Fort  Leavenworth,  Kan.  In 
1867  he  joined  a  government  train,  engaging  to 
drive  a  six-mule  team  through  to  its.destination. 

This  was  the  time  of  Custer's  first  expedition, 
and  they  had  a  fight  with  the  Indians  at  Stormy 
Hollow,  on  the  Smoky  Hill  route,  in  which  three 
men  were  killed,  and  the  seven  leading  wagons, 
with  twenty  mules,  were  carried  off  by  the  red 
men.  It  was  here  he  was  given  the  opportunity 
to  rescue  the  woman  and  her  three  children  from 
the  blood-thirsty  wretches.  The  Indians  and 
their  captives,  who  were  a  soldier's  wife  and  chil- 
dren, were  running  near  a  gulch,  and  Mr.  NcNey 
undertook  the  task  of  rescuing  them  unaided. 
He  crawled  down  the  gulch  and  shot,  wounding 


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one  of  the  Indians,  who  returned  his  fire,  without 
hitting  him,  and  then  ran  off,  leaving  their  cap- 
tives behind.  On  different  occasions  he  buried 
the  dead  after  skirmishes.  He  continued  to  haul 
goods  from  Ellsworth  to  Forts  Hayes,  Zerah  and 
Wallace.  He  was  thus  employed  during  the 
summer  and  fall,  and  after  the  treaty  with  the 
Indians  hauled  supplies  to  Medicine  Lodge,  Kan. 
He  then  returned  to  Leavenworth  and  received 
his  discharge.  In  1868  he  drove  an  ox-train  to 
Colorado.  Fifty  wagons  were  ordered  from  Ells- 
worth to  Cheyenne,  and  there  loaded  for  Fort 
Bridger  and  Camp  Douglass.  This  trip  took  all 
summer,  but  no  serious  trouble  with  the  Indians 
occurred.  The  following  year  he  left  Fort  Brid- 
ger and  hauled  government  supplies  for  Colonel 
Bracket  to  Fort  Ellis,  at  the  head  of  the  Missouri 
River.  The  Indians  were  troublesome  at  this 
place  also.  He  then  returned  to  Fort  Bridger  and 
sold  the  outfit  to  a  contractor  near  Salt  Lake, 
while  he  remained  at  the  fort  in  charge  of  the 
cattle.  He  finally  sold  out  to  the  government 
and  returned  to  Leavenworth.  In  1875  he  crossed 
the  plains  with  cattle  and  teams,  his  wife  driving 
a  team,  intending  to  cross  the  "Divide"  to  Snake 
River.  When  they  reached  Livermore  Park  they 
were  caught  in  the  snow  and  had  to  turn  their 
cattle  out  and  winter  there.  They  then  decided 
to  locate  there,  and  he  secured  employment  with 
N.  C.  Alford  for  a  couple  of  years.  He  then  pre- 
empted one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  near  the 
postofiice,  which  he  sold  a  year  later,  and  settled 
on  his  present  farm,  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres, 
at  the  head  of  Livermore  Park.  He  proved  his 
claim,  improved  and  added  to  it,  until  he  now  has 
two  hundred  and  forty  acres,  fenced  and  in  a  good 
state  of  cultivation.  The  fine  springs  on  the 
ground  make  it  an  especially  desirable  place,  and 
here  he  raises  cattle  and  horses,  making  it  a  profit- 
able business. 

Mr.  McNey  married  Miss  Frances  Stewart  in 
Leavenworth  in  1875.  She  was  born  in  Des 
Moines,  Iowa,  and  was  a  daughter  of  John  W. 
Stewart,  of  Indianapolis.  Her  grandfather, 
Charles  Stewart,  was  born  in  Kentucky,  but 
moved  first  to  Indiana,  and  later  to  Des  Moines, 
Iowa,  where  he  settled  his  four  sons  on  a  quarter- 
section  of  land.  One  of  these  sons  was  her  father, 
who  afterward  moved  to  Leavenworth,  Kan. 
Her  great-grandfather,  Charles  Stewart,  was  of 
Scotch  parentage,  while  on  her  mother's  side  she 


was  of  Irish  origin.  Her  mother,  Mary  Boyle, 
was  born  in  Indianapolis,  where  her  grandfather 
Boyle  conducted  a  shoemaking  shop.  The  mother 
died  in  Leavenworth,  leaving  five  children,  four 
of  whom  are  living,  as  follows:  Frances,  now 
Mrs.  McNey;  Josephine,  Parrott  and  Elmer,  all 
of  Leavenworth.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  McNey  have 
three  children:  Stewart,  Walter  and  John,  Jr. 
Mr.  McNey  organized  school  district  No.  28,  and 
was  first  treasurer  of  the  board,  while  his  wife 
was  secretary  for  ten  years.  He  built  the  first 
school  house,  and  has  given  valuable  aid  to  the 
cause  of  education  in  this  section.  He  also  did 
much  toward  making  the  roads,  and  was  overseer 
of  the  same  for  more  than  sixteen  years.  In  pol- 
itics he  is  a  Republican.  Both  he  and  his  estima- 
ble wife  have  many  friends. 


3  AMES  ANDREW,  a  pioneer  of  Colorado  and 
a  highly  esteemed  citizen  of  Boulder  County, 
is  a  native  of  Cheshire,  England,  born  No- 
vember 20,  1831.  From  infancy  he  was  an  in- 
mate of  the  home  of  his  grandfather,  William 
Andrew,  who  was  a  prominent  and  prosperous 
dairyman  of  Cheshire.  There  his  boyhood  years 
were  uneventfully  passed,  in  the  acquirement  of 
an  education  and  in  aiding  his  grandfather  in  the 
dairy.  When  he  had  reached  his  twenty-fifth 
year  he  decided  to  try  his  fortuhes  in  a  foreign 
land.  Accordingly,  in  1856  he  embarked  for 
America,  landing  in  New  York,  and  proceeded 
direct  to  Wisconsin,  where  he  joined  a  cousin  in 
Grant  County.  For  two  years  he  worked  as  a 
farm  hand  there. 

During  his  residence  in  Grant  County,  Mr. 
Andrew  met  and  married  Miss  Margaret  Wain. 
After  his  marriage  he  began  to  work  in  the  lead 
mines  near  Lancaster,  remaining  at  that  place 
until  1863,  when  he  migrated  to  Colorado, 
making  the  trip  across  the  plains  with  a  wagon 
and  team  of  horses  and  arriving  after  a  journey 
of  six  weeks  at  a  point  just  south  of  the  present 
limits  of  Longmont  (then  known  as  Burlington). 
It  was  on  the  13th  of  June  that  he  reached  this 
town,  which  then  boasted  of  but  one  building,  a  log 
hotel,  that  served  also  as  a  postoffice.  The  mail 
arrived  every  Saturday  by  stage  from  Fort 
Lupton. 

On  the  land  now  included  in  the  farm  of  W.  H. 
Dickeos,  Mr.  Andrew  settled  shortly  after  hisar' 


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rival  in  Boulder  County.  The  one  hundred  and 
sixty  acres  lay  on  the  creek  bottom,  and  was 
valuable,  fertile  land.  In  the  summer  he  worked 
in  the  mines  at  Blackliawk,  but  soon  returned  to 
his  farm  and  began  its  improvement.  In  1875 
he  sold  his  farm  to  W.  H.  Dickens  and  for  four 
years  afterward  operated  rented  land.  In  1879 
he  bought  his  present  place,  two  miles  east  of 
Longmont.  The  place  then  consisted  of  one 
hundred  and  sixty  acres,  but  in  1892  he  sold 
eighty  acres  to  the  canning  factory  owners,  who 
planted  the  land  to  currants,  making  the  largest 
currant  field  in  the  world. 

Six  children  were  born  to  the  union  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Andrew,  but  only  two  of  these  survive. 
They  are  Luella  and  William.  Those  deceased 
were:  Sarah,  Rebecca,  Fannie  and  one  that  died 
unnamed.  Mrs.  Andrew  is  a  devoted  member  of 
the  Episcopal  Church,  to  which  Mr.  Andrew, 
though  not  a  member,  contributes  generously 
and  which  he  attends  regularly.  Both  he  and 
his  wife  exert  a  personal  influence  for  good 
among  those  with  whom  they  associate.  They 
are  charitable,  ever  ready  to  assist  the  poor  and 
needy.  In  disposition  both  are  domestic,  quiet 
and  unassuming,  and  have  a  host  of  warm  per- 
sonal friends. 


(lOHN  ALFRED  MELBURN.  No  better 
I  example  of  the  fruits  to  be  derived  from 
C2J  thrift  and  industry  can  be  found  in  the  his- 
tory of  Elbert  County  than  in  the  life  of  the  gen- 
tleman named  above,  who  is  proprietor  of  the 
Native  hay  and  stock  farm,  which  consists  of  one 
thousand  and  eight  hundred  acres  on  section  20, 
township  10  south,  range  64  west,  and  one  of 
the  most  progressive  and  influential  citizens  of 
the  community.  From  a  humble  start  in  life, 
when  he  did  not  possess  a  cent,  he  has  gradually 
ascended  the  ladder  of  life  until  he  occupies  his 
present  enviable  standing  among  Elbert  County's 
leading  and  most  prominent  men.  He  is  a  son  of 
William  H.  and  Mary  (Pearson)  Melburn,  and 
was  born  in  Newburgh,  Upper  Canada,  October 
25,  1847. 

William  H.  Melburn  was  born  in  England, 
and  was  brought  to  this  country  by  his  parents 
when  a  mere  child,  locating  in  Canada,  where  he 
was  engaged  in   agricultural  pursuits  through 


life.  He  closed  his  eyes  in  final  sleep  May  8, 
1894.  He  married  Mary  Pearson,  who  was  also 
born  in  England,  and  emigrated  to  America  with 
her  parents  during  childhood.  She  is  now  en- 
joying life  at  an  advanced  age,  residing  with  a 
daughter  in  Napanee,  Canada. 

John  Alfred  Melburn's  boyhood  days  were 
spent  in  the  same  manner  as  most  other  farmer 
boys,  performing  chores  while  not  in  attendance 
at  school.  He  obtained  a  fair  schooling,  and  at 
the  age  of  eighteen  years  became  apprenticed  to 
the  trade  of  a  blacksmith,  at  which  he  continued 
for  a  period  of  four  years;  for  the  first  year  his 
services  brought  $30  and  board,  the  second  $40 
and  board,  the  third  $50  and  board,  and  during 
the  remainder  of  the  time  he  received  the  regu- 
lar wages  of  a  journeyman.  Being  ambitious  by 
nature,  he  desired  to  better  his  condition,  and 
realizing  the  advantages  ofl'ered  in  the  western 
states,  he  started  across  the  plains  to  San  Fran- 
cisco. Upon  reaching  Denver  in  midwinter,  he 
was  without  any  means  whatever,  and  all  efibrts 
to  secure  employment  proved  futile  for  a  time, 
but  perseverance  finally  conquered,  and  he  re- 
ceived a  position  which  paid  $4  per  day,  through 
the  kindness  of  William  Cliilds,  who  generously 
took  him  to  his  home  about  six  miles  from  Den- 
ver for  a  month.  He  faithfully  retained  that  po- 
sition until  his  health  became  poor,  when  he 
went  to  work  upon  a  milk  ranch  and  continued 
for  about  two  years.  During  that  time  he  ac- 
quired one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  where  his  es- 
tate now  lies.  Upon  the  expiration  of  that  time 
he  returned  to  Canada  for  a  visit,  and  upon  go- 
ing back  to  Colorado  located  on  his  homestead. 
He  was  still  in  poor  circumstances.  Upon  his 
property  he  built  a  small  log  hut,  a  crude  afiair, 
in  which  he  lived  alone  and  did  his  own  house- 
work. However,  Dame  Fortune  was  kind  and 
smiled  upon  his  every  eSbrt.  He  added  many 
improvements  to  the  place,  erected  a  blacksmith 
shop,  and  plied  his  trade  with  good  results.  He 
also  raised  cattle,  and  by  successful  management 
accumulated  considerable  wealth  and  added  to 
his  estate,  u^til  he  now  owns  nearly  eighteen 
hundred  acres  of  valuable  land,  known  as  the 
Native  hay  and  stock  farm,  located  four  miles 
south  of  the  town  of  Elbert.  He  has  a  fine  herd 
of  high-grade  Shorthorns,  which  are  the  admira- 
tion of  all.  The  success  which  has  attended  our 
subject's  efforts  is  richly  deserved,  and  by  his 


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honest  and  straightforward  dealings  he  has  won 
the  respect  and  esteem  of  a  large  circle  of  ac- 
quaintances. 

August  20,  1879,  Mr.  Melburn  married  Miss 
Maggie  Hughes,  who  was  born  in  England 
March  30,  1853.  Her  parents  died  when  she  was 
quite  young,  and  she  came  to  America  and  lived 
with  her  uncle  and  aunt,  when  the  latter  located 
in  Philadelphia,  Pa.  Owing  to  ill  health,  she 
moved  to  Colorado  at  the  age  of  sixteen  years 
with  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Newkirk,  a  wealthy  family  of 
Philadelphia.  Subsequently  she  met  our  sub- 
ject, to  whom  she  was  married.  They  became 
the  parents  of  four  children,  namely:  Anna  May, 
Charles  Allen,  Bessie  Maude  and  Roy  Henry. 
Our  subject  was  bereaved  of  his  beloved  wife's 
companionship  by  death  June  6,  1892,  when  she 
was  thirty-nine  years  of  age.  Politically  Mr. 
Melburn  has  always  been  a  member  of  the  Re- 
publican party,  but  in  local  issues  he  is  inde- 
pendent, supporting  the  man  best  qualified  for 
ofiSce. 


HONORfi  LOUSTALET.  No  state  in  the 
Union  can  boast  of  a  more  heroic  band  of 
pioneers  than  Colorado.  Their  privations, 
hardships  and  earnest  labors  have  resulted  in  the 
establishing  of  one  of  the  foremost  commonwealths 
of  America,  the  possibilities  of  which  are  far 
greater  than  many  of  her  sister  states.  Their 
work  is  nearlj'  completed,  and  every  year  sees 
more  new  graves  filled  by  those  who  helped  to 
build  an  empire,  and  soon,  too  soon,  will  the  last 
of  those  sturdy  pioneers  be  laid  away ;  but  their 
memory  will  forever  remain  green  among  those 
who  have  lived  after  them  and  appreciated  their 
efforts.  Among  those  who  have  already  been 
called  to  the  world  beyond  is  Honore  Eoustalet, 
an  honored  and  highly  respected  citizen  of  Kersey, 
who  died  December  28,  1878. 

He  was  born  in  Basses  Pyrenees,  France,  in 
1820,  and  was  well  educated,  having  made  his 
home  with  a  priest  in  early  life.  -Before  coming 
to  America  he  was  principally  engaged  in  teach- 
ing, but  also  engaged  in  agricultural  pursuits  on 
the  farm  of  his  father,  who  was  a  landed  proprietor. 
He  was  married  in  France  in  1849,  to  Miss  Marie 
Canton,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Martha  (Berger) 
Canton.  She  was  alone  in  the  world,  as  her  only 
sister  had  died  in  childhood,  her  father  when  she 
was  three  and  her  mother   when  she  was  about 


thirteen  years  old.  They  left  a  nice  little  prop- 
erty which  she  retained  until  after  her  husband's 
death. 

With  a  view  to  bettering  his  financial  con- 
dition, Mr.  Loustalet  came  to  the  United  States 
in  1855,  and  for  two  years  was  engaged  in  clerical 
work  in  New  Orleans.  He  then  went  to  Leaven- 
worth, Kan.,  near  which  city  he  entered  a  tract 
of  land,  and  there  established  a  milk  route.  He 
soon  afterward  sent  for  his  wife  and  they  re- 
mained in  that  state  for  four  years.  In  1862  they 
concluded  to  go  farther  west  and  started  across 
the  plains  with  an  ox-team  and  a  small  herd  of 
cattle,  stopping,  in  July,  one  mile  north  of  Denver, 
where  they  remained  in  camp  for  two  or  three 
weeks.  Near  that  city  they  made  their  home 
for  about  a  year,  and  there  Mr.  Loustalet  also 
engaged  in  the  milk  business.  With  his  ox  team 
he  brought  a  load  of  apples  from  Leavenworth  to 
Denver,  being  only  eighteen  days  on  the  return 
trip.  The  following  fall  he  started  for  Montana, 
but  on  account  of  inclement  weather,  as  it  was 
late  in  the  year,  he  camped  during  the  winter  of 
1863-64  on  the  Thompson  River  at  the  foot  of 
the  mountains.  As  the  Indians  grew  trouble- 
some in  the  spring  he  feared  to  remain  there 
longer,  and  went  to  Brighton,  where  he  took  up 
land.  While  camping  he  engaged  in  hauling  hay 
from  a  hay  ranch  near  by,  owned  by  a  French- 
man, to  Denver,  a  distance  of  fifty  miles,  leaving 
his  wife  and  two  little  children  all  alone.  In  the 
spring  he  located  on  land  which  is  now  within 
the  corporate  limits  of  Brighton,  and  there  he  en- 
gaged in  raising  both  cattle  and  horses,  and  also 
conducted  a  dairy,  remaining  there  for  about  ten 
years.  In  1870  he  entered  eighty  acres  of  land 
on  the  present  site  of  Kersey,  but  his  wife  did 
not  come  to  this  place  until  two  years  later.  He 
also  bought  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  of  rail- 
road land  west  of  that  place,  and  there  made  his 
home  until  his  death.  In  1891  Mrs.  Loustalet 
removed  to  Greeley,  but  two  years  later  returned 
to  Kersey,  where  she  erected  her  present  com- 
fortable residence  in  1896. 

The  family  is  one  of  the  oldest  in  this  section 
of  the  state,  and  in  his  new  home  Mr.  Loustalet 
prospered,  becoming  an  extensive  stockman, 
owning  from  five  to  six  hundred  head.  During 
the  later  years  of  his  life  he  gave  the  cattle  busi- 
ness his  entire  attention,  and  so  successful  was  he 
that  he  was  able  to  leave  to  his  family  one   hun- 


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dred  and  sixty  acres  of  valuable  land  at  Brighton 
and  two  hundred  and  forty  acres  near  Kersey. 
In  his  political  affiliations  he  was  a  Republican, 
and  he  was  a  true  and  loyal  citizen  of  his  adopted 
country. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  I^ustalet  became  the  parents  of 
five  children,  two  of  whom  were  born  in  France. 
Sophia  M.,  the  eldest,  is  now  the  wife  of  John 
Smith,  a  retired  stockman  of  Greeley ;  Anna  is  the 
wife  of  Asa  Sterling,  president  of  the  First 
National  Bank  of  Greeley;  Adaline  is  the  wife  of 
Lathan  Green,  of  Greeley;  Frank  occupies  the 
old  homestead  and  is  engaged  in  farming  and 
stock-raising;  and  Jerome  is  a  stock- raiser  and 
farmer  near  Kersey.  Mrs.  Loustalet  is  a  bright, 
intelligent  lady,  who  was  well  educated  in 
France,  and  has  shown  remarkable  executive 
ability  in  the  management  of  her  property  and  in 
rearing  and  educating  her  children,  all  of  whom 
are  now  occupying  honorable  positions  in  life. 
Both  she  and  her  husband  belonged  to  highly  re- 
spected and  well-to-do  families  in  France,  and  in 
their  adopted  country  won  the  esteem  and  friend- 
ship of  all  with  whom  they  came  in  contact. 


I  GUIS  NELSON,  secretary  of  the  board  of 
I  C  education  in  his  home  neighborhood,  is  an 
|_3  industrious  and  progressive  farmer  of  Boul- 
der County.  His  homestead  is  situated  about 
five  miles  west  of  Longmont,  and  is  a  very  desir- 
able piece  of  property.  He  has  devoted  many 
years  to  the  improvement  of  the  place  and  has 
developed  it  from  a  tract  of  almost  barren  land  to 
its  present  condition  of  fertility  and  beauty.  In 
the  Lutheran  Church  he  takes  an  active  part,  and 
in  all  matters  affecting  the  welfare  of  the  public 
he  may  always  be  found  aggressive  and  energetic. 
Born  in  Sweden,  January  20,  1845,  Louis  Nel- 
son is  a  son  of  Nels  and  Pernilla  (Johnson)  Lar- 
son, and,  according  to  the  custom  of  his  country, 
he  takes  his  surname  from  his  father's  Christian 
name  instead  of  his  last  name.  A  history  of  his 
father  may  be  found  in  the  sketch  of  the  elder 
brother  of  our  subject,  August  Nelson.  (See 
his  biography,  which  appears  elsewhere  in  this 
volume.)  Louis  Nelson  was  a  pupil  in  the 
schools  of  his  fatherland  until  he  was  in  his  six- 
teenth year,  when  he  took  the  initial  step  toward 
earning  his  own  living,  by  hiring  out  as  a  farm 
hand.     Thus  he  was  employed  some  four  years, 


at  the  end  of  which  time  he  went  to  the  city  of 
Halmstad  and  for  two  years  was  engaged  in 
teaming  there.  In  March,  1867,  following  in  his 
elder  brother's  footsteps,  he  sailed  from  Gothen- 
burg for  Hull,  England,  thence  went  to  Liver- 
pool, and  from  there  steamed  away  for  America, 
the  land  of  promise.  He  first  set  foot  on  the  soil 
of  the  land  thenceforth  to  be  his  own,  April  10, 
1867,  in  New  York.  From  that  metropolis  he 
went  to  Chicago  and  Batavia,  111.  In  the  last- 
mentioned  town  his  brother  was  then  employed 
in  the  stone  quarries,  and  our  subject  also  found 
work  there.  He  remained  at  this  point  for  nearly 
four  years,  or  until  he  received  word  from  his 
brother,  who  had  gone  on  to  Colorado,  that  he 
had  broken  his  leg,  and  would  like  to  have  him 
come  out  and  take  care  of  him. 

When  our  subject's  brother  had  recovered  the 
former  obtained  a  position  in  the  Blackhawk 
smelter  and  worked  there  for  almost  a  year. 
Becoming  dissatisfied,  he  returned  then  to  Illinois 
and  resumed  his  old  work  in  the  quarries.  He 
was  so  unfortunate  as  to  place  his  spare  funds, 
which  he  was  carefully  saving,  in  a  bank  which 
failed,  and  he  lost  all  that  he  possessed.  The 
young  man  concluded  to  try  his  fortunes  again  in 
Colorado,  and  once  more  became  an  employe  of 
the  smelting  company.  In  1874  he  came  to 
Boulder  Valley  and  pre-empted  eighty  acres  of 
land,  about  five  miles  from  Longmont.  With 
zeal  and  great  ambition  he  started  in  to  develop 
and  carry  on  his  farm,  but  at  first  fortune  seemed 
against  him,  for  the  grasshoppers  and  drouth 
spoiled  his  crops  during  two  or  three  seasons,  and 
thus,  being  out  of  money  and  without  resources, 
he  was  forced  to  resume  his  old  place  in  the  Black- 
hawk  smelter.  Four  years  more  of  steady  work 
in  the  mill,  with  his  funds  carefully  laid  aside, 
enabled  him  to  go  back  to  his  farm.  He  was  the 
more  ready  to  do  this,  owing  to  the  fact  that  the 
smelter  was  removed  to  Denver  about  this  time. 
Soon  after  coming  back  to  an  agricultural  life 
Mr.  Nelson  traded  his  eighty-acre  tract  for 
another  of  like  dimensions.  This  land,  his 
present  homestead,  he  added  to  later  another 
eighty-acre  piece  of  property  adjoining.  In 
addition  to  this  he  owns  a  one-third  interest  in  a 
farm  of  three  hundred  and  twenty  acres  of  un- 
incumbered land,  his  partners  being  his  brothers, 
John  and  August.  His  many  sincere  friends 
rejoice  in  the  success  which  he  now  enjoys,  as 


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the  result  of  his  persistent,  unwavering  faith  and 
efforts.  From  his  life  many  valuable  lessons  may 
be  learned  by  the  young  man  who  is  anxious  to 
succeed,  and  his  children  can  do  no  better  than 
to  follow  his  worthy  example. 

In  1874  Mr.  Nelson  married  Miss  Anna  Benson, 
who  has  been  a  faithful  friend,  adviser  and  com- 
panion to  him  along  the  rugged  pathway  of  life. 
Joy  and  sorrow  have  come  into  their  lives,  and 
they  have  lost  a  son  and  daughter,  but  six  chil- 
dren have  been  spared  to  them,  and  their  home 
has  always  been  a  happy,  peaceful  one,  where 
their  friends  love  to  come.  In  order  of  birth 
their  children  are  as  follows:  Nellie,  Amanda 
(deceased),  Vendla,  Emma,  Herman  (deceased), 
Herbert,  Albert  and  Carl. 


3 AMES  W.  WIER,  proprietor  of  Wier's  ad- 
dition to  the  city  of  Denver  and  a  resident  of 
Colorado  since  June,  i860,  was  born  in  New 
Wilmington  (then  in),  Mercer  County,  Pa.,  Jan- 
uary 28,  1827.  He  represents  the  third  genera- 
tion in  descent  from  a  Scotchman,  who  left  his 
native  land  at  the  time  of  the  religious  persecu- 
tion and  settled  in  Washington  County,  Pa., 
engaging  in  farming  there  and  enlisting  from 
there  to  serve  in  the  Revolution. 

The  father  of  our  subject,  George  Washington 
Weir  (our. subject  is  the  only  member  of  the 
family  who  spells  his  name  Wier),  was  born  in 
Washington  County,  Pa.  Thence  he  settled  on 
the  Whitewater  River  in  Indiana,  to  which  lo- 
cality his  father,  William,  had  removed  in  an 
early  day  and  engaged  in  "grubbing"  land  and 
improving  a  farm.  Later  the  family  removed  to 
Trumbull  County,  Ohio.  William  was  a  soldier 
in  the  war  of  18 12,  showing  the  same  patriotic 
spirit  which  his  father  had  displayed  during  the 
Revolution. 

In  Ohio  and  Pennsylvania  George  W.  Weir 
engaged  as  a  millwright  in  the  erection  of  mills. 
He  was  foreman  in  the  rebuilding  of  the  locks 
that  had  been  burned  in  the  Pittsburg  fire.  At 
the  opening  of  the  war  he  and  his  son,  George 
W.,  enlisted  in  a  Pennsylvania  corps  known  as 
the  Roundhead  Regiment,  and  he  died  in  1861, 
while  on  a  forced  march  to  Washington.  His 
son  continued  in  the  army  until  the  close  of  the 
war  and  won  much  praise  for  his  bravery  in  battle; 
he  now  resides  in  Trumbull  County,  Ohio.     The 


mother  of  our  subject  was  Margaret  Thompson, 
a  native  of  what  is  now  Lawrence  County,  Pa., 
and  the  daughter  of  William  M.  Thompson,  who 
was  born  in  Lancaster  County,  Pa.,  and  engaged 
in  farming  in  Lawrence  Count}^  until  his  death. 
The  Thompsons  came  from  the  north  of  Ireland 
and  were  of  the  Scotch-Presbyterian  faith.  Mrs. 
Weir  died  in  Pennsylvania  when  sixty-four  years 
of  age.  Of  her  nine  children,  all  but  four  at- 
tained years  of  maturity.  James  W.  is  the  eldest; 
Hannah,  who  is  married,  resides  in  Pennsylvania; 
Nancy  and  Elizabeth  died  in  that  state,  where 
now  lives  the  youngest  sister,  Mrs.  Margaret 
Black. 

When  a  boy  our  subject  attended  a  subscription 
school  in  New  Wilmington,  Pa.  It  was  like  all 
primitive  schools,  held  in  a  log  building,  with 
slab  benches  and  puncheon  floors,  and  the  instruc- 
tion was  almost  as  crude  as  the  building.  For 
eight  years  he  worked  with  his  father  learning 
the  carpenter's  trade  and  following  it  in  the  em- 
ploy of  others.  Then  for  fourteen  years  he  was 
successfully  engaged  in  the  livery  business  at 
New  Wilmington,  and  also,  during  part  of  the 
time,  had  a  livery  stable  in  New  Castle,  carrying 
on  both  enterprises  and  running  hacks  to  Youngs- 
town,  Ohio.  From  1857  to  1859  he  was  engaged 
in  taking  horses  to  Illinois,  and  in  i860  he,  with 
his  wife  and  two  (Jhildren,  took  passage  at  Leaven- 
worth in  a  coach  for  Denver,  where  he  arrived 
June  28.  At  once  he  settled  on  his  present 
homestead,  the  family  occupying  a  log  house  on 
the  banks  of  the  Platte  River.  In  the  fall  of  the 
same  year  he  embarked  in  the  dairy  business  on 
Eleventh  street,  but  afterward  had  his  head- 
quarters on  his  farm,  which  he  proved  up  in 
1864.  He  owned  about  one  hundred  milch  cows 
and  engaged  in  dairying  on  .an  extensive  scale 
until  1890,  when  he  retired. 

All  but  fifty- five  acres  of  his  place  had  previ- 
ously been  disposed  of,  and  the  remaining  acres 
he  platted  into  an  addition,  that  is  within  the  city 
limits.  Here  he  owns  and  occupies  a  commodi- 
ous residence.  He  gave  the  site  for  the  sulphide 
pulp  mill  and  is  interested  in  the  Sulphide  Pulp 
Mill  Company,  that  used  in  manufacturing  the 
white  spruce  timber  from  th^  Rocky  Mountains. 
During  the  early  days  he  engaged  in  coal  mining 
in  Boulder  for  two  years  and  assisted  his  brother- 
in-law  in  opening  the  first  mine  there. 

Mr.  Wier  was  the  first  man  to  make  a  call  for 


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an  organization  of  the  Democrats  of  Colorado, 
this  being  about  the  time  of  the  close  of  the  war. 
In  response  to  his  efforts  members  of  the  party 
gathered  in  convention  and  established  a  party 
organization,  which  has  been  continued  since. 
In  those  days,  however,  the  party  was  in  the 
minority  and  while  Mr.  Wier  was  sometimes  a 
candidate,  the  effort  to  secure  a  Democratic  vic- 
tory was  hopeless.  Governor  Gilpin  appointed 
him  a  member  of  the  first  board  of  commissioners 
of  Arapahoe  County,  at  which  time  the  members 
had  to  give  their  individual  notes  as  security  for 
the  books  and  records  of  the  county. 

In  West  Greenville,  Pa.,  December  25,  1857, 
Mr.  Wier  married  Miss  Frances  Middaugh,  who 
was  born  in  Tioga  County,  a  daughter  of  William 
H.  Middaugh.  They  have  had  five  children, 
but  only  two  are  living:  Minnie,  who  was  edu- 
cated in  Livingston  Institute  at  Rochester,  N.Y., 
and  is  now  married  and  resides  in  Denver;  and 
Lucy,  Mrs.  Hartman,  of  Toledo,  Ohio,  who  was 
educated  in  the  Denver  convent  and  university. 
Mr.  Wier  is  a  member  of  the  board  of  trustees  of 
the  Colorado  Pioneer  Association.  In  New  Castle 
he  joined  the  Odd  Fellows  forty- seven  years  ago, 
and  is  a  charter  member  of  Arapahoe  Lodge  No. 
24,  member  of  the  encampment,  and  chaplain  of 
the  canton  here.  He  is  also  identified  with  the 
Muscovites  and  the  Ancient  Order  of  United 
Workmen. 

6]  SA  HARRISON  ALDRICH,  deceased,  made 
T\  his  home  in  Colorado  from  the  fall  of  1881 
I  I  until  his  death,  and  owned  a  stock  ranch  in 
Livermore  Park,  Larimer  County.  He  was  born 
in  Lewis  County,  N.  Y.,  March  21,  1832,  a 
descendant  of  an  old  Green  Mountain  family, 
and  died  at  his  home  August  23,  1898.  His  fa- 
ther, Valentine,  was  bom  in  Rutland  County, 
Vt. ,  a  son  of  Jonathan,  who  removed  from  Ver- 
mont to  New  York  and  settled  in  Lewis  County, 
where  he  carried  on  a  stock  business  and  general 
farming.  Valentine,  who  .was  a  carpenter  by 
trade,  removed  to  Illinois  in  1838,  one  year  later 
went  to  Walworth  County,  Wis.,  and  after  farm- 
ing for  a  time  he  moved  to  the  lumber  woods, 
where  he  ran  a  sawmill,  a  blacksmith  shop  and  a 
Store,  at  the  junction  of  two  rivers,  fifteen  miles 
from  Manitowoc.  His  death  occurred  there  when 
he  was  sixty-eight  years  of  age. 

The  mother  of  our  subject  was  Susan  (Bedell) 


Aldrich,  a  native  of  York  state,  and  granddaugh- 
ter of  a  Revolutionary  soldier.  Her  father,  Bar- 
ney Bedell,  who  served  in  the  war  of  18 12,  en- 
gaged in  farming  in  Schoharie  County  in  his  native 
commonwealth,  but  from  there  removed  to  Wal- 
worth County,  Wis.,  later  returning  to  York 
state,  where  he  died.  Mrs.  Aldrich  died  in  Wis- 
consin when  eighty-one  years  of  age.  Both  she 
and  her  husband  were  faithful  members  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church.  They  were  the 
parents  of  eight  children,  namely:  Amasa,  who 
lived  in  Marquette  County,  Wis.,  and  died  in 
September,  1898;  A.  H.,our  subject;  Harriett  A., 
who  is  married  to  James  Vanderhoof  and  lives  in 
Winnebago  County,  Wis.;  Henry  A.,  who  took 
part  in  the  Civil  war  with  the  Seventeenth  Wiscon- 
sin Infantry,  and  is  now  living  in  Manitowoc;  Mrs. 
Ann  Smith,  of  North  Lake,  Waukesha  County, 
Wis.;  Mrs.  Helen  King,  of  Cooperstown,  Mani- 
towoc County,  Wis.;  Mrs.  Emogene  Ording,  of 
Brown  County,  Wis. ;  and  Mrs.  Emerette  Dem- 
mer,  whose  home  is  in  Denmark,  Brown  County, 
Wis. 

At  the  age  of  seven  years  our  subject  entered 
the  public  schools  of  Walworth  County,  where  he 
afterward  carried  on  his  studies  for  some  years. 
At  the  age  of  twenty  he  left  home  and  secured 
employment  in  the  construction  of  the  Illinois 
Central  Railroad  at  Cairo,  111. ,  working  for  four 
years  on  two  hundred  miles  of  track  extending 
north  from  Cairo,  and  during  much  of  that  time 
he  was  employed  as  foreman.  On  account  of 
suffering  from  the  ague,  he  thought  it  best  to 
return  to  Wisconsin.  He  embarked  in  the  mer- 
cantile business  in  Sauk  County,  and  later  was  at 
Westfield,  Marquette  County,  for  three  years, 
after  which  he  located  on  a  ranch  in  Faribault 
County,  Minn.,  but  after  one  summer  he  returned 
to  Marquette  County,  Wis.  At  Montello,  that 
county,  February  4,  1858,  he  married  Miss  Fran- 
ces Tibbits,  who  was  born  in  Manlius,  N.  Y. 
She  was  a  daughter  of  Thomas  Tibbits,  a  native 
of  the  Mohawk  Valley,  and  a  blacksmith  at  Man- 
lius, whence  he  removed  to  Richville,  Genesee 
County,  N.  Y.,  and  learned  the  milling  trade. 
Later  he  made  his  home  at  Clarence  Center,  Erie 
County,  N.  Y.  In  1853  he  removed  to  Omro, 
Winnebago  County,  Wis.,  but  soon  went  from 
there  to  Oshkosh,  thence  to  Westfield,  and  is  now 
living  at  Packwaukee,  Marquette  County;  he  is 
hale  for  one  of  his  years,  eighty-five.    His  father, 


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Job  Tibbits,  was  a  farmer  in  the  Mohawk  Valley, 
and  a  descendant  of  Holland-Dutch  ancestors. 

The  mother  of  Mrs.  Aldrich,  Minerva  Drace, 
was  born  in  Rutland  County,  Vt.,  daughter  of 
Elijah  1,.  Drace,  who  was  descended  from  French 
and  Holland-Dutch  ancestry.  Her  father  was  born 
in  Vermont,  removed  thence  to  Camden,  N.  Y., 
where  he  engaged  in  milling;  later  settled  near 
Waupaca,  Wis.,  where  he  died  at  the  age  of 
seventy-five.  His  step-father,  Mr.  Lewis,  assisted 
in  constructing  the  first  brass  cannon  cast  in 
the  United  States;  he  was  a  soldier  of  the  Revolu- 
tion, and  died  in  Camden  when  one  hundred  and 
eighteen  years  of  age.  Mrs.  Minerva  Tibbits 
died  in  Packwaukeein  1881,  at  the  age  of  sixty- 
three  years.  Of  her  ten  children  the  following 
attained  mature  years:  Mrs.  Aldrich;  Jason  H., 
who  served  in  the  First  Wisconsin  Heavy  Artil- 
lery during  the  Civil  war  and  now  lives  in  Adams 
County,  Wis.;  Elmeda  L.,  who  is  married  to 
Mark  Tomlinson,  and  lives  in  Adams  County, 
Wis.;  Mrs.  Sophia  White,  also  of  Adams  County; 
Mrs.  Carrie  Thomas,  of  Packwaukee,  Wis.; 
Franklin,  a  miller  in  Barren  County,  Wis. ;  and 
William,  of  Livermore  Park ,  Colo.  Mrs.  Aldrich 
was  fourteen  when  the  family  settled  in  Wiscon- 
sin, where  she  resided  from  that  time  until  1881. 

After  his  marriage  Mr.  Aldrich  settled  in  Green 
Lake  County,  and  improved  a  farm  near  Man- 
chester. He  also  engaged  in  steamboating  on 
the  Fox  River  for  five  years,  building  the  '  'Vero- 
na" and  "Yellow,"  but  ill  health  forced  him  to 
abandon  that  occupation.  For  four  years  he  lived 
in  Brown  County,  then  settled  in  Packwaukee, 
and  in  1878  settled  on  the  North  Fork  of  the  So- 
lomon, in  Decatur  County,  Kan.,  where  he  home- 
steaded  a  claim.  The  Indians  were  troublesome, 
especially  the  Sioux  and  Cheyennes,  and  twice 
he  was  forced  to  leave  his  claim  in  order  to  save 
his  life  and  that  of  his  family.  After  two  years 
in  Kansas  and  one  year  in  Nebraska,  he  came  to 
Colorado,  and  with  a  partner  he  constructed  three 
miles  of  the  Burlington  Missouri  River  Railroad, 
in  the  sand  hills  of  eastern  Colorado.  He  then 
took  up  a  ranch  near  Manhattan,  where  he  em- 
barked in  the  cattle  business.  The  altitute  did 
not  agree  with  his  wife,  and  he  therefore  removed 
to  Livermore  Park,  where  two  years  later  he 
bought  the  ranch  he  owned  at  his  death.  For 
five  years  he  carried  on  a  hotel  in  Fort  Collins. 
He  had  two  hundred  acres  in  his  farm,  most  of 


which  is  under  ditch,  and  on  it  he  raised  about 
one  hundred  tons  of  alfalfa  every  year.  He  had 
a  large  number  of  graded  Shorthorns  and  a  few 
horses  on  his  place,  and  was  quite  successful  in 
the  stock  business.  Politically  he  was  a  Demo- 
crat. He  and  his  wife  had  four  children:  Mary 
S.,  who  is  the  wife  of  A.  N.  Aldrich,  of  Liver- 
more  Park;  Lillie  E.,  wife  of  William  Batterson, 
living  on  the  Elkhorn,  in  this  county;  Minnie, 
who  died  at  sixteen  months;  and  Millie,  Mrs. 
Keach,  who  died  in  1893,  at  twenty-one  years  of 
age. 


cJEORGE  S.  redd  came  to  Denver  in   1893 

a  and  opened  an  ofiice  in  the  Equitable  build- 
ing, where  he  began  in  the  practice  of  law. 
He  has  since  become  a  well-known  attorney  in  the 
city,  where,  with  his  ofiice  in  the  Kittredge  build- 
ing, he  carries  on  an  important  practice  in  all  of 
the  courts.  Active  in  public  affairs,  his  life  in 
Kansas,  where  he  resided  previous  to  coming  to 
Denver,  was  of  a  nature  calculated  to  develop  his 
interest  in  politics.  He  was  closely  connected 
with  the  development  of  the  western  part  of  the 
state,  especially  with  its  political  history  and 
progress.  Until  the  campaign  of  1896  he  always 
supported  Republican  principles.  At  the  sena- 
torial convention  held  in  Larned,  Kan.,  in  1884, 
he  was  a  candidate  for  the  ofiice  of  state  senator 
and  the  contest  was  so  close  that  no  nomination 
was  made  for  two  days,  when  he  withdrew  in 
favor  of  another  gentleman.  In  1887  he  was  rec- 
ommended by  the  bar  of  his  county  for  the 
position  of  district  judge  and  during  the  campaign 
that  followed  he  made  stirring  speeches  in  behalf 
of  the  principles  he  supported. 

Near  Moundsville,  W.  Va. ,  George  S.  Redd 
was  born  March  31,  1854,  to  Samuel  B.  and 
Julia  A.  (Stidger)  Redd.  When  he  was  a  child 
of  three  years  his  parents  removed  to  Keosauqua, 
Iowa,  where  he  grew  to  manhood  upon  a  farm, 
meantime  attending  the  public  schools  of  the 
town.  At  the  age  of  seventeen  he  taught  one 
term  of  school,  after  which  he  entered  the  state 
university  at  Iowa  City,  and  until  1877  taught 
and  attended  school  alternately.  He  worked  his 
way  up  from  teacher  in  a  country  school  to 
principal  of  the  schools  in  Unionville,  Mo.  On 
discontinuing  his  work  as  instructor  he  began 
the  study  of  law  with  Shelton  &  Stidger,  of 
Unionville,  and  in  1879  was  admitted  to  the  bar 


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of  Missouri,  after  which  he  began  to  practice  at 
Ness  City,  the  county  seat  of  Ness  County,  Kan. 
While  there  the  Republican  party  elected  him 
county  attorney  and  this  position  he  filled  efficient- 
ly for  two  years,  being  the  first  to  occupy  the  office 
in  the  newly  organized  county.  For  two  years  he 
held  the  office  of  mayor  of  Ness  City,  being  the 
first  to  hold  that  position.  He  continued  in 
practice  there  until  1893  and  made  considerable 
money,  but  was  unfortunate  in  investing  it  in 
Kansas  property  that  depreciated  in  value  in  the 
decay  of  the  boom,  so  that  he  left  the  state  almost 
as  poor  as  when  he  went  there.  However,  since 
coming  to  Denver  he  has  retrieved  his  fortunes 
and  gained  a  position  at  the  bar  that  will  without 
doubt  bring  him  prominence  and  prosperity. 

At  West  Bay  City,  Mich.,  October  12,  1885, 
Mr.  Redd  married  Miss  May  Chilson,  of  that 
place,  with  whom  he  became  acquainted  during 
a  visit  she  made  in  Ness  City.  They  are  the 
parents  of  four  children,  namely:  Ada,  Gertrude 
and  Samuel  B.,  who  were  born  in  Ness  City;  and 
Cornelia,  who  was  born  in  Denver.  The  family 
are  identified  with  the  Methodist  Episcopal  de- 
nomination, holding  membership  in  Asbury 
Church,  in  which  he  is  a  trustee  and  Sunday- 
school  worker.  While  in  Ness  City  he  became 
connected  with  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd 
Fellows,  in  which  he  filled  the  various  chairs. 
He  is  also  connected  with  lyodge  No.  40,  K.  of  P. , 
in  Denver. 

(Joshua  stone  is  one  of  the  many  residents 
I  within  the  bounds  of  Weld  County  who 
O  started  out  in  life  with  naught  but  an  abun- 
dance of  determination  and  indefatigable  industry 
and  a  strong  and  healthy  constitution,  and  who 
have  succeeded  through  their  own  diligence, 
energy  and  economy.  He  is  now  successfully 
engaged  in  agricultural  pursuits  and  stock-raising 
near  L,a Salle,  on  section  20,  township  5,  range 
64,  where  he  owns  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres. 
Mr.  Stone  was  born  in  Hasley,  Oxfordshire, 
England,  July  14,  1848,  and  is  a  son  of  John  and 
Mary  (Smith)  Stone.  As  his  parents  were  poor 
he  had  to  assi.st  in  the  support  of  the  family  from 
an  early  age  and  therefore  had  to  obtain  his  edu- 
cation in  night  schools.  At  the  age  of  twenty- 
three  he  came  to  America  with  the  hope  of  bene- 
fiting his  financial  condition  and  first  located  in 
Vermilion   County,    111.,    going    there   with    an 


acquaintance,  Thomas  Stevens,  who  was  taking 
some  English  draught  horses  to  that  section. 
Here  Mr.  Stone  found  employment  on  a  farm  at 
$20  per  month  and  remained  with  one  man  for 
three  years. 

September  25,  1873,  Mr.  Stone  was  married  to 
Miss  Mary  Hendricks,  a  native  of  Illinois,  and  a 
daughter  of  John  and  Mary  (Dyke)  Hendricks, 
farming  people  of  Vermilion  County,  of  that  state. 
Her  father  was  a  member  of  the  Fourth  Illinois 
Volunteer  Cavalry  during  the  Civil  war,  but 
being  in  poor  health  he  was  discharged  on  account 
of  disability  before  hostilities  ceased.  To  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Stone  were  born  seven  children,  but 
only  three  are  now  living:  Emma,  Charles  and 
Gladys  Helen.  They  also  have  an  adopted  son, 
who  has  made  his  home  with  them  since  the  age 
of  seven  years,  and  who  is  now  known  as  James 
Stone.  Their  eldest  son,  John,  was  born  January 
29,  1876,  and  died  January  4,  1897,  ^  f'^w  days 
before  attaining  his  majority;  James  W.,  born 
June  9,  1882,  died  September  12,  1885;  Albert  J., 
born  December  31,  1884,  died  October  8,  1889; 
and  Mary  E. ,  born  April   14,    1888,   died  March 

25>  1895- 

After  his  marriage,  Mr.  Stone  rented  land  and 
engaged  in  farming  on  his  own  account  in  Ver- 
milion County,  111.,  for  three  years.  After  two 
years  spent  on  rented  land  in  Champaign  County, 
the  same  state,  he  returned  to  Vermilion  County, 
where  he  operated  one  farm  for  eight  years.  In 
1887  he  concluded  to  come  to  Colorado,  and  loca- 
ted in  the  "rain  belt"  of  eastern  Colorado,  near 
Holyoke,  in  Phillips  County,  where  he  took  up 
three  quarter  sections  of  land,  one  under  pre- 
emption, another  under  the  tree  claim,  and  the 
third  under  the  homestead  act,  and  then  bought 
the  other  quarter,  so  that  he  had  the  entire  sec- 
tion. But  the  climate  being  unfavorable  and 
drought  prevailing,  he  was  compelled  to  leave 
that  locality  after  having  spent  $4,000  of  his  hard 
earned  savings.  In  the  fall  of  1 890  he  came  to 
Weld  County,  his  property  consisting  of  $5  in 
money,  a  fine  herd  of  horses  and  three  cows. 
He  spent  the  first  winter  on  the  Glaziers  horse 
ranch  southeast  of  Evans,  and  there  worked  for 
wages  in  order  to  secure  another  start  in  life.  In 
the  spring  he  removed  to  the  farm  owned  by 
Nathan  B.  Carr  and  after  renting  it  for  two  years 
he  purchased  the  place,  which  comprises  a  quar- 
ter section  of  land  mostly  under  cultivation  and 


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well  watered  by  the  English  ditch,  of  which  he  is 
a  stockholder.  In  connection  with  general  farm- 
ing and  stock-raising  he  gives  considerable  atten- 
tion to  the  dairy  business  and  for  this  purpose 
keeps  on  hand  twenty-five  cows.  For  the  suc- 
cess that  he  has  achieved  he  certainly  deserves 
great  credit,  and  his  course  through  life  has  been 
such  as  to  win  for  him  the  confidence  and  respect 
of  all  who  know  him.  Religiously  both  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Stone  are  earnest  and  faithful  members  of 
the  Methodist  Church  of  Evans,  and  Mrs.  Stone 
has  served  as  one  of  the  trustees  of  the  church 
which  meets  in  the  Big  Bend  school  house. 


©COTT  W.  BULIyARD  is  the  owner  and  pro- 
2\  prietor  of  the  Oasis  livery  stables  in  Greeley, 
V2'  Weld  County.  This  business  he  established 
here  some  seven  years  ago,  and  from  the  first  has 
been  very  successful  in  the  enterprise.  By  his 
uniform  courtesy  and  square-dealing  he  has  won 
the  esteem  of  the  public  and  his  fellow-citizens, 
and  commands  a  good  share  of  their  patronage. 
He  has  twenty-five  or  more  first-class  carriages 
and  vehicles,  besides  a  fine  hearse.  His  horses 
are  all  good  animals,  some  used  to  the  saddle. 

The  birth  of  S.  W.  Bullard  occurred  on  a  farm 
near  Bennington,  N.  H.,  November  21,  1846. 
He  is  one  of  nine  children,  six  of  whom  were 
boys,  and  with  the  exception  of  himself,  all  of 
the  number  have  made  their  homes  in  New 
Hampshire.  The  parents  were  Benjamin  and 
Rosanna  (Wilkins)  Bullard,  both  natives  of  New 
Hampshire  and  well-to-do  farmers  of  that  state. 

When  he  was  about  twelve  years  of  age  Scott 
W.  Bullard  left  home  to  earn  his  own  livelihood. 
For  the  following  four  years  he  worked  on  farms, 
attending  school  during  the  winter  terms.  Then 
he  went  to  the  town  of  Lowell,  Mass.,  where  he 
learned  the  barber's  trade.  He  stayed  in  Lowell 
about  two  years,  at  the  end  of  which  time  he 
established  a  businessofhis  own  in  Keene,  N.  H., 
and  for  twelve  years  carried  it  on  with  good 
success. 

June  15,  1870,  Mr.  Bullard  married  Miss 
Fannie  M.  Crossfield,  daughter  of  Kendall  G. 
and  Rebecca  (Martin)  Crossfield,  citizens  of 
Keene.  The  father  was  a  carpenter  and  con- 
tractor and  was  active  in  the  public  affairs  of  his 
community.  The  only  child  born  to  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Bullard  died  at  their  home  in  Keene.     In 


1880  Mr.  Bullard  removed  to  Eldon,  Wapello 
County,  Iowa,  where  he  carried  on  a  hotel  for  two 
years.  He  next  went  to  Denver  and  embarked 
in  business  as  a  barber.  Coming  to  Greeley  in 
1883  he  opened  a  shop  which  he  conducted  for 
six  years,  then  becoming  manager  of  the  Oasis 
Hotel,  a  position  he  retained  eighteen  months. 
He  then  went  into  the  livery  business  under  the 
firm  name  of  Miner  &  Bullard.  They  carried  on 
this  business  until  he  came  to  his  present  location 
in  1891. 

While  a  resident  of  Keene,  Mr.  Bullard  served 
for  three  years  in  the  state  militia,  belonging  to 
the  Second  New  Hampshire  Regiment.  Since 
coming  to  Colorado  he  was  for  three  years  con- 
nected with  the  Second  Regiment  of  this  state. 
Fraternally  he  is  an  Odd  Fellow,  being  identified 
with  Poudre  Valley  Lodge  No.  13,  of  Greeley. 
He  has  always  given  considerable  attention  to 
politics,  and  in  1896  was  a  candidate  for  the 
office  of  sheriff  on  the  Democratic  ticket.  Mrs. 
Bullard  is  a  highly  educated  lady  and  was  the 
organizer  of  the  successful  and  exclusive  literary 
club  of  Greeley  known  as  the  Progress  Club. 
The  seven  original  members  met  at  Mrs.  Bullard' s 
residence  in  January,  1894,  and  planned  a  course 
of  study  for  improvement  and  self-culture.  The 
membership  of  the  club  was  then  and  there 
restricted  to  twenty  persons.  Their  work  has 
been  very  beneficial  and  has  included  a  very 
comprehensive  review  of  the  history  of  the  de- 
velopment of  the  human  race,  as  seen  in  the 
annals  of  the  ancient  nations  and  the  successive 
governments  which  have  passed  along  the  stage  of 
life.  The  club  has  studied  modern  authors,  book 
reviews  and  current  topics,  and  keeps  well  posted 
on  the  great  events  of  day  which  are  having  in- 
fluence upon  the  progress  of  civilization  and 
history. 

(lOHN  R.  GILLIES.  Canada  has  furnished 
I  to  the  United  States  many  bright,  enterpris- 
Qj  ing  young  men  who  have  left  the  Dominion 
to  enter  the  business  circles  of  this  country  with 
its  more  progressive  methods,  livelier  competi- 
tion and  advancement  more  quickly  secured. 
Among  this  number  is  Mr.  Gillies,  head  miller 
of  the  Eaton  Milling  and  Elevator  Company,  at 
Eaton,  Weld  County.  He  is  a  native  of  Hunt- 
ington, Province  of  Quebec,  Canada,  born  August 
14,  1857,  aiid  is  of  Scotch  lineage.     His  grand- 


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father,  John  Gillies,  was  born  in  Scotland  and  on 
crossing  the  Atlantic  settled  in  Canada,  where  he 
engaged  in  farming.  In  his  family  were  two 
sons:  John,  the  father  of  our  subject;  and  James, 
who  was  engaged  in  mining  in  Australia  for 
twenty-three  years,  but  returned  to  Canada,  and 
there  died.  The  older  John  Gillies  was  born  in 
Canada,  and  for  a  few  years  followed  farming, 
but  the  greater  part  of  his  life  has  been  devoted 
to  the  manufacture  of  farm  machinery  and  to 
mercantile  pursuits  in  Huntington,  Huntington 
County,  Canada.  He  is  a  strong  adherent  to 
the  principles  of  temperance,  and  is  an  active 
and  prominent  member  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church,  in  which  he  has  .served  as  deacon  the 
greater  part  of  his  life,  superintendent  of  the 
Sabbath  school  many  years,  and  leader  of  the 
singing.  He  has  also  been  a  member  of  the  town 
board.  He  married  Jane  Morrison,  who  was 
born  in  Glasgow,  Scotland,  but  removed  to 
Canada  when  about  ten  years  of  age.  To  them 
were  born  nine  children,  two  sons  and  seven 
daughters,  as  follows:  Jeannette,  wife  of  W.  F. 
Willis,  living  north  of  Eaton,  Colo.;  Mary,  wife 
of  A.  S.  Lincoln,  living  a  half-mile  west  of 
Eaton;  John  R.,  of  this  sketch;  Andrew,  a  farmer 
living  three  and  a-half  miles  from  Eaton;  Mar- 
garet, wife  of  C.  W.  Clapp,  living  in  Eaton; 
Jane,  wife  of  F.  B.  Shattuck,  living  three  miles 
east  of  Eaton;  Agnes,  postmistress  at  Eaton; 
Eva  Wallace,  at  home;  and  Grace,  assistant  post- 
mistress at  Eaton. 

John  R.  Gillies  completed  his  education  at  the 
academy  in  Huntington,  Canada,  and  when 
young  learned  the  trade  of  a  miller  at  Fort  Cov- 
ington, N.  Y.,  to  which  place  his  father  had  re- 
moved when  he  was  sixteen  years  of  age.  Leav- 
ing there  four  years  later  he  came  direct  to  Gree- 
ley, Colo. ,  where  he  worked  on  the  Larimer  and 
Weld  canal  the  first  winter,  then  on  a  hay  ranch, 
running  a  hay  baler.  For  two  years  he  was  em- 
ployed on  a  stock  ranch  in  Wyoming  for  what  is 
now  the  Bay  State  Live  Stock-Company,  and  when 
the  mill  was  started  at  Eaton  he  became  identified 
with  it,  at  first  running  the  elevator,  but  as  the 
business  did  not  agree  with  his  health  he  again 
went  to  the  country,  and  for  the  following  two 
years  conducted  a  ranch.  In  1892,  however,  he 
returned  to  the  Eaton  Milling  and  Elevator  Com- 
pany, and  has  since  been  with  them,  his  thorough 
knowledge  of  the  business    making  him  well 


qualified  for  the  responsible  position  he  holds, 
having  entire  charge  of  the  operation  of  the  mill, 
which  turns  out  two  hundred  barrels  of  flour  per 
day.  Except  when  closed  for  repairs  the  mill 
keeps  running  steadily  and  the  product  is  sold 
throughout  Texas,  New  Mexico,  Arizona,  Wyo- 
ming and  Arkansas,  but  the  main  part  is  dis- 
posed of  in  Denver. 

Mr.  Gillies  was  married  June  3,  1885,  to  Miss 
Belle  Parkhurst,  of  Ohio.  He  erected  one  of  the 
first  houses  in  town,  has  witnessed  its  entire  de- 
velopment, and  as  a  public-spirited  and  enterpris- 
ing citizen  he  has  taken  an  interest  in  all  matters 
that  will  aid  in  its  advancement  or  promote  the 
general  welfare.  In  his  political  affiliations  he  is 
an  ardent  Republican,  and  he  has  most  accept- 
ably served  his  fellow-citizens  as  town  clerk  and 
a  member  of  the  board  of  trustees.  He  is  a 
prominent  member  of  Eaton  Lodge  No.  130, 
Woodmen  of  the   World,  of  which   he  is  clerk. 


EAPT.  CYRENEUS  D.  NEFFowns  and  oper- 
ates a  valuable  farm  on  sections  15  and  16, 
township  6,  range  66,  Weld  County.  The 
neat  and  thrifty  appearance  of  his  land  indicates 
his  careful  supervision.  Substantial  improve- 
ments are  surrounded  by  well-tilled  fields,  and 
all  of  the  accessories  and  conveniences  of  a  model 
farm  are  there  found .  In  connection  with  general 
farming  he  is  also  engaged  in  stock-raising. 

The  captain  was  born  in  the  Province  of  Onta- 
rio, Canada,  in  1840,  and  is  a  son  of  Samuel  F. 
Nefi",  a  native  of  the  same  place,  where  he  con- 
tinued to  reside  until  1852,  when  he  removed  to 
Iowa,  spending  eight  years  there.  His  next 
home  was  near  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  where  he  engaged 
in  farming  and  fruit-growing,  making  a  specialty 
of  horticulture,  in  which  he  met  with  excellent 
success.  He  is  the  author  of  a  work  on  the  sub- 
ject, which  became  quite  popular,  and  was  a  man 
well  known  in  his  county.  He  died  at  the  ripe 
old  age  of  seventy-nine  years.  In  early  life  he 
married  Miss  Maria  Miller,  and  to  them  were 
born  four  children:  Cyreneus  D.,  Oziel  H.,  Lou- 
isa M.  and  Edward  N.  The  mother,  who  was 
prominent  in  church  work,  died  at  the  age  of 
seventy-two  years,  at  the  old  home  near  Bufialo. 
The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  twelve  years  old 
when  he  accompanied  his  parents  on  their  removal 
to  Iowa,  where  he  grew  to  manhood,  bis  educa- 


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tion  being  obtained  in  the  public  schools  of  that 
state  and  Valparaiso,  Ind.  On  leaving  school  at 
the  age  of  twenty  he  began  learning  the  harness- 
maker's  trade  at  Waverly,  Iowa.  At  the  open- 
ing of  the  Rebellion  in  1861  he  was  at  Waterloo, 
Iowa,  and  there  enlisted  for  three  months  in  a 
cavalr}'  company,  which  drilled  for  some  time,  but 
finally  the  head  ofBcers  refused  to  go  to  the  front. 

He  then  went  to  Dubuque,  Iowa,  where  he 
opened  a  recruiting  office  and  formed  a  company, 
which  was  mustered  into  the  United  States  serv- 
ice as  Company  G,  Ninth  Iowa  Volunteer  In- 
fantry, and  was  assigned  to  the  Army  of  the 
Tennessee,  under  General  Curtis.  He  entered 
the  service  as  corporal,  but  for  meritorious  con- 
duct on  field  of  battle  he  was  gradually  pro- 
moted until  commissioned  captain  of  his  old 
company.  He  remained  at  the  front  for  nearly 
four  years,  was  in  thirty-three  battles  under  Gen- 
erals Grant  and  Sherman,  and  was  in  thirty  en- 
gagements in  which  the  company  did  not  partici- 
pate, he  volunteering  to  go.  He  was  a  brave  and 
daring  soldier,  but  fortunately  escaped  uninjured. 

When  the  war  was  over  Captain  Neff  went  to 
New  York  state,  where  his  parents  were  then 
living,  and  associated  with  his  brother  in  market 
gardening  for  two  years.  In  1868  he  went  to  the 
oil  regions  of  Pennsylvania,  and  after  two  years 
spent  in  the  oil  business  he  opened  a  harness  shop 
at  Pit  Hole  City  and  a  branch  shop  at  a  neigh- 
boring town,  carrying  on  operations  there  for  two 
years.  On  selling  out  his  business  he  went  to 
Parker  City,  Pa.,  where  he  engaged  in  the  same 
line  of  trade  for  a  similar  period.  He  disposed 
of  his  stock  there  in  1873  and  came  to  Greeley, 
Colo.  Attheendofthirty  days,  August  15,  1873, 
he  bought  a  part  of  his  present  farm,  a  quarter- 
section  in  the  Cache  la  Poudre  Valley,  to  which 
he  has  since  added  two  hundred  acres,  making  a 
fine  farm  of  three  hundred  and  sixty  acres.  He 
is  a  stockholder  in  the  Big  Ditch  No.  2,  and  is 
engaged  in  general  farming  and  stock-raising, 
having  two  hundred  and  fifty  head  of  cattle  upon 
his  place.  For  five  years  he  rented  his  farm  and 
engaged  in  mercantile  business  in  Greelej^  hav- 
ing a  seed  and  feed  store,  and  after  selling  out 
spent  one  year  in  California,  but  since  1896  has 
lived  upon  his  ranch  and  devoted  his  attention  to 
agricultural  pursuits. 

In  1864  Captain  Neff  married  Miss  Agnes  E. 
English,  a  daughter  of  Joseph  English,  a  native 


of  Ireland,  who  was  then  residing  in  Iowa.  To 
them  have  been  born  six  children:  Charles,  who 
is  on  the  home  farm;  Frances  B.;  Nellie  M.  and 
Bessie,  both  teachers;  Grace  N.  and  Edward  C. 
Feeling  the  need  of  a  better  education  in  his  own 
life.  Captain  Neff"  has  provided  his  children  with 
good  school  privileges,  and  has  taken  an  active 
part  in  educational  work,  assisting  in  organizing 
school  district  No.  27,  and  serving  as  a  member 
of  the  board  of  trustees.  In  politics  he  is  a  silver 
Republican.  While  a  resident  of  Pennsylvania 
he  affiliated  with  the  Independent  Order  of 
Odd  Fellows.  He  has  met  with  a  well-deserved 
success  in  life  and  is  now  the  possessor  of  a  com- 
fortable competence  and  pleasant  home,  erected 
in  1888.  His  son  Charles  first  married  Maud 
Near,  who  died  in  1895,  leaving  one  child,  Will- 
iam. For  his  second  wife  he  married  Mary  Jack- 
son, of  Wisconsin.  The  family  is  widely  and 
favorabl3-  known  and  has  a  host  of  friends  in 
Weld   County. 


(lOHN  W.  HELBIG,  who  is  a  well-known  at- 
I  torney  of  Denver  and  a  leader  of  the  silver 
G/  cause  in  this  state,  was  born  in  Lynchburg, 
Va.,  March  23,  1866,  being  the  son  of  John  and 
Emilie  (Bonitz)  Helbig.  He  received  his  pri- 
mary and  grammar-school  education  in  his  native 
city,  and  when  about  twenty  years  of  age,  hav- 
ing determined  to  enter  the  profession  of  law,  he 
became  a  student  in  the  University  of  Virginia, 
where  he  carried  on  studies  in  his  chosen  line, 
graduating  in  1888.  Soon  afterward  he  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  bar. 

In  the  spring  of  1889  Mr.  Helbig  came  to  Den- 
ver and  opened  a  law  office,  since  which  time  he 
has  given  his  attention  to  the  management  of  a 
giadually  increasing  practice.  Since  coming  to 
this  state  he  has  made  a  study  of  the  currency 
question,  realizing  what  a  powerful  factor  it  is  in 
national  prosperity.  The  result  of  his  thought- 
ful investigation  of  the  subject  was  that  he  be- 
came convinced  of  the  fact  that  the  demonetiza- 
tion of  the  white  metal  worked  incalculable  injury 
to  the  nation,  an  injury  that  should  be  repaired 
by  the  restoration  of  bimetallism  and  the  raising 
of  silver  to  its  proper  standard. 

The  work  done  by  Mr.  Helbig  in  the  interests 
of  the  silver  cause,  caused  its  friends  to  place  him 
in  nomination  for  the  legislature  in  1896  and  he 


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was  elected  by  a  fair  majority.  He  at  once 
entered  upon  his  duties  as  a  legislator.  He  was 
appointed  chairman  of  the  Indian  and  military 
committee  and  the  Denver  charter  committee, 
besides  serving  as  a  member  of  other  committees. 
Fraternally  he  is  connected  with  Washington 
I,odge  No.  32,  K.  of  P.,  and  Manuhta  Tribe  No. 
10,  Improved  Order  of  Red  Men. 

On  Christmas  day  of  1890,  in  Wilmington, 
N.  C,  occurred  the  marriage  of  Mr.  Helbig  to 
Miss  Carrie  Earl  Hanby,  daughter  of  John  H. 
Hanby,  of  that  city.  They  have  two  children, 
John  and  Douglas,  both  of  whom  were  born  in 
Denver. 


iA  ORSE  H.  COFFIN,  one  of  the  most  promi- 
y  nent  agriculturists  of  Weld  County  and 
y  one  of  the  early  pioneers,  resides  three 
miles  east  of  Longmont.  A  member  of  an  an- 
cient English  family,  he  descends  from  the 
Coffeen  (as  the  name  was  then  spelled)  family 
that  came  from  the  Netherlands  with  William 
the  Conqueror  in  the  eleventh  century.  The 
head  of  the  family  was  knighted  by  tlje  king  and 
was  given  a  grant  of  land  in  Alwington  County, 
near  Land's  End,  which  was  then  named  Coffeen 
County.  At  the  present  time  the  eldest  member 
of  the  family  sits  in  the  house  of  lords.  Tristram 
Coffeen  came  to  America  in  1 642  and  settled  near 
Haverhill,  Mass.,  where  he  became  very  influen- 
tial in  local  affairs,  serving  as  sheriff  and  in 
numerous  other  positions  of  trust.  Letters  writ- 
ten by  him  are  on  exhibition  in  the  state  house 
of  New  York. 

One  of  the  sons  of  Tristram  settled  on  Nan- 
tucket Island,  where  numerous  descendants  still 
reside.  Another  son  went  up  the  Hudson  River 
and  settled  near  Albany,  founding  the  branch  of 
which  our  subject  is  a  member.  Edward  Coffin 
(supposed  to  be  our  subject's  great-grandfather 
or  his  brother)  was  a  member  of  the  colonial 
army  during  the  Revolution,  and  one  of  his 
powder  horns  is  a  prized  souvenir,  now  in  the 
possession  of  our  subject.  Isaac  Coffin,  our  sub- 
ject's grandfather,  was  born  at  Fishkill,  N.  Y., 
in  1773,  and  was  a  farmer  and  hotel  keeper 
throughout  his  active  life;  he  died  February  9, 
1839. 

Jacob  Coffin,  father  of  our  subject,  was  born 
in  Bethlehem,  Albany  County,  N.  Y.,  in  1800, 
and  in  youth  learned  the  trade  of  a  blacksmith, 


which  he  followed  in  connection  with  farming. 
In  1845,  however,  he  moved  west  to  Illinois  and 
settled  near  Belvidere,  Boone  County,  where  he 
afterward  devoted  his  entire  attention  to  agri- 
culture. He  was  a  faithful  member  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church  and  for  many  years 
held  the  office  of  class  leader,  also  served  as  super- 
intendent of  the  Sunday-.school.  His  death  oc- 
curred at  DeKalb,  DeKalb  County,  in  1876,  and 
he  was  buried  in  Boone  County. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch,  a  son  of  Jacob  and 
Mary  A.  (Hull)  Coffin,  was  born  in  Roxbury, 
Delaware  County,  N.  Y.,  September  20,  1836. 
In  1845  he  removed  with  his  parents  to  Boone 
County,  111.,  where  his  father  was  a  pioneer  agri- 
culturist. There  during  the  summer  months  our 
subject  assisted  his  father  on  the  farm,  while  in 
the  winter  he  attended  the  district  school,  acquir- 
ing a  limited  education.  At  the  age  of  twenty- 
one  he  began  for  himself  as  a  farmer,  being 
given  entire  charge  of  his  father's  farm.  In 
1859,  with  two  friends,  he  started  across  the 
plains,  with  three  teams  of  oxen  and  a  wagon, 
also  with  $40  in  money  and  a  shotgun,  which 
articles,  together  with  his  clothes,  constituted  his 
entire  worldly  possessions.  Leaving  Illinois  May 
5,  they  arrived  in  Boulder  July  18.  On  their 
westward  journey  they  met  many  emigrants  re- 
turning and  all  gave  a  very  gloomy  picture  of 
Colorado.  All  these  reports  had  their  effect  on 
the  men.  By  the  time  they  had  reached  the 
Missouri  River,  their  decision  had  been  made  to 
outfit  and  continue  their  journey  to  Oregon  or 
California.  However,  on  their  arrival  at  Fort 
Laramie,  two  days  after  Horace  Greeley  had 
made  his  famous  trip  to  the  state,  they  heard  his 
version  of  the  country,  and  it  decided  them  in 
their  course.  They  stopped  in  Colorado,  where 
Mr.  Coffin  secured  work  with  Low,  Goss  &  Pell. 
He  whip-sawed  lumber  until  he  had  paid  an 
obligation  to  R.  S.  Low,  a  member  of  the  firm. 
Afterward  he  continued  in  the  same  work  during 
the  fall  and  winter,  whip-sawing  lumber  for  the 
first  frame  house  built  (by  H.  C.  Norton)  in 
Boulder  County. 

Coming  to  Weld  County  in  the  spring  of  i860, 
Mr.  Coffin  took  up  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres 
on  the  St.  Vrain,  three  miles  east  of  Longmont, 
where  he  settled  and  began  the  improvement  of  a 
farm.  By  subsequent  purchase  he  became  the 
owner  of  three  hundred  and  sixty  acres,  constitut- 


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ing  his  present  farm.  During  the  late  war  he 
enlisted  in  Company  D,  Third  Colorado  Volunteer 
Cavalry, and  is  now  a  member  of  McPherson  Post 
No.  6,  G.  A.  R.,  of  which  he  is  commander. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Coffin  united  him  with 
Miss  Julia  A.  M.  Dunbar,  a  native  of  Otsego 
County,  N.  Y.  She  is  a  daughter  of  Andrew  B. 
Dunbar,  who  was  born  in  Massachusetts  and 
from  there,  in  middle  life,  removed  to  New  York, 
where  he  was  engaged  in  business  as  a  merchant, 
butcher  and  farmer.  Five  children  were  born  to 
the  union  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Coffin,  and  of  these 
four  are  now  living.  Geneva,  the  eldest  of  the 
family,  is  a  graduate  of  the  State  University  at 
Boulder  and  has  been  successful  as  a  teacher  in 
the  high  school  of  Deadwood,  S.  Dak.,  and  Glen- 
wood  Springs,  Colo.  Merton  D.  has  been  en- 
gaged in  the  fruit-growing  business  in  De  Soto 
County,  Fla.  Adelbert  B.  assists  his  brother  in 
the  management  of  his  father's  farm.  Morse  H. 
Jr.,  is  deceased.  Julia  Etta  is  attending  the 
Longmont  high  school,  preparatory  to  a  course 
in  the  State  University. 


n  ACOB  HETZEIv,  who  is  the  owner  of  one  of 
I  the  best  improved  farms  in  Boulder  County, 
(2/  was  born  in  Stillwater,  Sussex  County,  N.  J., 
October  5,  1833,  a  son  of  George  and  Sarah  L. 
(Ribble)  Hetzel.  He  was  one  of  eight  children, 
of  whom  six  besides  himself  are  still  living. 
They  are:  Mary,  Daniel,  Fannie,  Elizabeth, 
Ann  and  Addie.  His  father,  a  native  of  New 
Jersey,  born  in  1812,  learned  the  trade  of  a  clock- 
maker  when  a  youth  and  this  occupation  he 
followed  in  his  home  neighborhood  until  1840. 
Removing  during  that  year  across  the  line  into 
Pennsylvania,  he  carried  on  various  business  en- 
terprises. He  was  born  with  genius  as  a  me- 
chanic and  developed  that  talent  so  that  he  was 
an  adept  in  the  construction  of  mechanical 
devises.  He  ran  a  blacksmith  shop  and  carried 
on  an  axe  factory,  also  was  interested  in  other 
enterprises. 

About  1878  Mr.  Hetzel  migrated  to  Colorado 
and  settled  in  Longmont,  where,  his  health  being 
poor,  he  lived  in  retirement  from  active  business 
cares.  At  that  place  he  resided  until  his  death,  in 
1897.  He  was  of  German  parentage,  his  father 
having  come  from  Germany  ;while  his  wife's  father 
was  a  native  of  Holland.     The  subject  of  this 


sketch  grew  to  manhood  in  the  east  and  acquired 
in  the  common  schools  a  limited  education.  lu 
1855  he  left  the  parental  roof  and  began  life  for 
himself.  Going  to  Rockford,  111.,  he  entered  a 
jeweler's  shop  and  worked  for  some  three  years, 
learning  the  trade.  Thence  he  went  to  Macoupin 
County,  111.,  where  he  bought  land  and  also  for 
five  years  engaged  in  business,  being  proprietor 
of  one  of  the  best  hardware  and  machine  .stores  in 
southern  Illinois.  On  disposing  of  his  business 
interests,  he  gave  his  attention  to  the  management 
of  his  land.  In  1871  he  sold  out  and  moved  to 
Colorado,  arriving  in  Denver  March  20,  and 
coming  from  there  direct  to  Longmont. 

After  having  engaged  in  farming  in  the 
vicinity  of  Longmont  for  two  years,  Mr.  Hetzel 
removed  to  the  neighborhood  of  his  present 
location,  five  miles  north  of  the  town.  He  be- 
gan to  work  with  a  will  and  a  determination  to 
succeed.  In  1882  he  bought  two  hundred  and 
forty  acres  of  land  where  he  now  lives.  The  tract 
was  unimproved,  and  had  neither  a  building  nor 
a  stick  of  timber,  there  being  but  little  improve- 
ment between  this  point  and  Greeley.  Every- 
thing was  in  its  primeval  condition,  the  wide- 
stretching  plain  extending  unbroken  as  far  as 
the  eye  could  discern.  Having  no  money,  he 
obligated  himself  for  the  entire  amount  of  the 
purchase  price.  At 'a  later  date  he  added  one 
hundred  and  sixty  acres.  In  1887  he  was  in 
debt  to  the  amount  of  $10,000,  for  which  he  paid 
nine  per  cent  interest.  To-day  there  is  not  a 
dollar  of  indebtedness  standing  against  him,  and 
his  farm  of  four  hundred  acres  is  one  of  the  best 
improved  estates  in  Boulder  County.  This  speaks 
volumes  for  his  business  sagacity  and  force  of 
will. 

In  Pennsylvania,  in  1857,  Mr.  Hetzel  married 
Miss  Susan  Van  Gilder.  Eight  children  were 
born  of  their  union,  three  of  whom  are  now 
living:  Edward,  the  eldest  child  and  only  son, 
is  a  farmer  of  Weld  County;  Emma  is  the  widow 
of  John  Elliott,  of  Boulder;  and  Etta  is  at  home. 
September  9,  1889,  Mr.  Hetzel  married  Miss 
Angle  Salisbury,  a  native  of  New  York  state,  and 
the  daughter  of  Peter  and  Emily  (Cooper)  Salis- 
bury. Her  grandmother  Salisbury  was  in  maid- 
enhood Nancy  Van  Buren,  and  was  an  own 
cousin  of  President  Van  Buren.  The  grandfather, 
Chrisjohn  Cooper,  was  a  member  of  the  Coopers 
of  Cooperstown,  to  which  family  belonged  the 


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illustrious  writer,  J.  Fenimore  Cooper.  In  re- 
ligious belief  Mr.  Hetzel  is  a  Baptist,  while  his 
wife  is  identified  with  the  Episcopal   Church. 


QETER  THEOBALD,  a  pioneer  of  Colorado, 
LX  one  who  suffered  all  of  the  severe  trials  and 
K>  privations  that  fell  to  the  lot  of  the  brave 
men  of  the  early  '60s,  is  now  living  in  the  en- 
joyment of  the  fruits  of  his  long  years  of  toil  and 
hardship.  He  owns  a  beautiful  home,  surrounded 
by  lovely  grounds,  in  a  pleasant  situation  in 
Idaho  Springs.  He  was  one  of  the  founders  and 
on  the  first  survey  of  this  town,  and  for  eight  or 
ten  years  was  numbered  among  the  early  trustees 
of  the  place.  One  of  the  organizers  of  the  Bank 
of  Idaho  Springs,  he  was  a  director  in  the  same 
from  the  start  until  he  saw  fit  to  sell  out. 

Mr.  Theobald  is  a  native  of  Germany,  born 
April  8,  1830,  in  the  town  of  Haschbach,  Bavaria. 
His  father,  Jacob,  was  born  in  the  same  town 
and  there  passed  his  entire  life,  dying  at  the  ripe 
age  of  eighty-six  years.  He  was  a  farmer,  and  a 
weaver  and  dealer  in  hemp  as  well,  running  two 
looms.  The  mother,  whose  maiden  name  was 
Maria  Kpoll,  was  born  in  Zweibryggen,  Bavaria, 
and  lived  to  be  ninety-three  years  old.  Of  their 
seven  children,  four  are  in  America — two  in  Penn- 
sylvania and  one,  Daniel,  in  Colorado,  besides 
our  subject 

Peter  Theobald,  after  leaving  the  public  schools 
at  the  age  of  fourteen,  learned  his  father's  trade 
and  became  a  good  weav^er.  He  participated  in 
the  Revolution  of  1848,  joining  the  so-called  rebel 
forces  at  two  different  times.  In  the  spring  of 
1852  he  sailed  from  Havre,  France,  in  the  three- 
masted  ship  "  Ontario,"  and  after  a  forty  days' 
voyage  landed  in  New  York  City.  His  brother 
Charles  was  then  a  resident  of  the  Empire  state 
and  his  uncle,  Peter  Theobald,  also  lived  in  the 
States.  At  first  our  subject  hired  out  to  a  farmer 
at  $3  a  month,  but  soon  found  a  place  in  a  tan- 
nery in  Parksville,  N.  Y.,  there  receiving  $8  per 
month  and  board.  Six  weeks  later  he  was  given 
$10  and  within  the  year  $133  month  by  the  same 
employer.  At  length  he  drifted  to  Cherry  Ridge, 
Pa. ,  a  place  about  seven  miles  from  Honesdale, 
where  the  tannery  of  Roberts  &  Gale,  then  one 
of  the  largest  in  the  United  States,  was  situated. 
Here  he  received  $14  and  then  $15  per  month 
and  board. 

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In  1856  Mr.  Theobald  went  to  Iowa,  where  he 
worked  at  various  kinds  of  employment,  in  saw- 
mills, foundries,  etc.  The  Pike's  Peak  excite- 
ment of  1859  carried  him  with  the  tide,  and  in 
company  with  a  Mr.  Scott  (who  died  at  Fort 
Kearney),  Mr.  Clark  and  Mr.  Stanton,  heinvested 
in  a  sawmill  and  started  for  Golden  City.  The 
trip  took  from  May  15  to  July  4,  and  after 
assisting  in  the  erection  of  the  mill,  charging 
nothing  for  his  work,  Mr.  Theobald  was  offered 
$1  a  day,  and  continued  at  this  rate  until  the  fol- 
lowing April,  erecting  two  houses  in  Golden  in 
the  meantime.  Refusing  then  $2.50  a  day,  he 
went  to  Central  City,  bought  a  placer  mine  and 
began  business  on  his  own  account.  He  did  not 
meet  with  very  brilliant  success  for  some  time, 
but  he  persisted  and  May  15,  i86o,  came  to  Idaho 
Springs.  Here  he  bought  three  placer  mines, 
near  the  mouth  of  Chicago  Creek,  paying  for 
them  on  instalments.  During  the  next  three 
years  he  and  his  fellow-workers  made  as  high  as 
$70  a  piece  per  day.  Before  he  had  seen  any 
such  returns,  he  had  purcha.sed  an  interest  in  a 
general  store  with  Mr.  Kenyon  and  P.  P.  Shafter 
and  he  retained  his  share  in  the  enterprise  up  to 
1872,  when  he  sold  out.  In  the  meantime  Mr. 
Kenyon  retired  from  the  firm  and  a  Mr.  Jones 
came  in,  and  he,  in  turn,  was  bought  out.  For 
years  our  subject  was  the  sole  proprietor.  He 
built  the  first  two-story  frame  house  in  Idaho 
Springs,  and  had  his  store  in  it.  He  now  owns 
about  a  dozen  houses  here,  property  in  Freeland 
and  other  places,  and  is  very  well-to-do.  Years 
ago  he  bought  eight  hundred  acres  of  land  on 
Bear  Creek  road,  at  Soda  Creek,  and  putting  up 
a  sawmill,  manufactured  lumber  for  four  years. 
Later  he  carried  on  farming  to  some  extent  and 
his  brother  now  manages  the  place.  He  not  only 
improved  the  ranch,  but  developed  from  the 
rough  boulder  land  the  fine  resident  property 
where  his  home  now  stands.  He  is  the  owner  of 
the  Peter  Theobald  mine  and  the  Peter  mine  in 
Jackson  district,  bath  being  now  operated  on 
lease.  He  also  owns  other  mines,  the  Fortune 
and  the  General  Custer  among  them.  Both  of 
these  he  discovered  and  developed,  and  formerly 
he  owned  the  Shafter,  which  he  sold. 

Though  he  has  been  the  architect  of  his  own 
fortunes,  and  has  won  success  by  the  hardest 
effort,  Mr.  Theobald  is  always  ready  to  lend  a 
helping  hand  to  others  and  is  generous  with  his 


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means.  He  has  given  two  school-building  sites 
in  different  parts  of  his  ranch  and  is  in  favor  of 
good  schools  for  the  rising  generation.  Politi- 
cally he  is  independent,  but  is  a  strong  silver 
man.  Formerly  he  was  affiliated  with  the  Demo- 
cratic party.  He  belongs  to  Idaho  Springs  L,odge 
No.  26,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  of  Idaho  Springs.  He 
was  married  in  this  place  to  Miss  Jane  F.  Leibing, 
who  was  born  in  Germany  and  came  to  this  state 
with  her  parents.  She  died  at  her  pleasant  home 
here  March  19,  1895. 


r"RED  W.  PARKS.  As  a  member  of  the 
|3  legal  fraternity  of  Denver  and  a  rising  young 
I  lawyer  of  the  city,  Mr.  Parks  has  already 
established  a  reputation  among  the  people  and 
has  won  recognition  from  his  seniors  in  the  prac- 
tice. He  takes  an  active  part  in  public  affairs 
and  in  politics,  keeping  posted  concerning  topics 
of  national  and  international  importance,  as  well 
as  regarding  matters  that  have  to  do  with  the 
welfare  of  city  and  state.  In  boyhood  he  became 
an  enthusiastic  Republican  and  he  continued  to 
vote  the  straight  party  ticket  from  the  time  he 
attained  his  majority  until  the  campaign  of  1896, 
when  he  championed  bimetallism.  He  is  now 
secretary  of  the  silver  Republican  county  central 
committee.  In  1897  he  was  tendered  the  position 
of  deputy  district  attorney,  but  declined,  as  he 
did  not  wish  to  relinquish  civil  practice. 

In  Geneseo,  Livingston  County,  N.  Y. ,  Mr. 
Parks  was  born  September  i,  1871,  the  son  of 
James  R.  and  Isabella  (Oliver)  Parks.  He  is  a 
descendant  of  Scotch  ancestors,  who,  how- 
ever, did  not  come  direct  to  this  country  from 
Scotland,  but  resided  for  a  time  in  Ireland.  His 
father  was  born  in  New  York  and  there  mar- 
ried Miss  Oliver,  who  was  born  near  Wheeling, 
W.  Va.,  but  lived  in  New  York  from  early  child- 
hood. Of  their  seven  children  only  two  are 
now  living,  Fred  W.  and  Edward  G.,  the  latter 
a  merchant  in  the  westerq  part  of  New  York. 
The  father  and  grandfather  were  also  merchants, 
the  former  following  that  occupation  until  his 
death,  which  occurred  in  New  York  when  he  was 
fifty-seven  years  of  age. 

From  the  age  of  six  until  the  age  of  sixteen 
Mr.  Parks  attended  the  New  York  State  Normal 
School  at  Geneseo.  He  was  threatened  with  lung 
trouble  and  was  advised  to  try  Colorado  climate. 


Being  acquainted  with  a  gentleman  at  Canon 
City,  Fremont  County,  he  went  there,  but  a  few 
months  later  came  to  Denver.  While  in  the 
former  place  he  was  employed  as  deputy  to  the 
county  clerk,  J.  H.  Peabody.  On  arriving  in 
Denver  he  secured  employment  with  an  insur- 
ance company  and  during  the  two  years  he  re- 
mained in  that  position  he  devoted  his  spare  mo- 
ments to  the  study  of  law.  In  189 1  he  started  an 
insurance  agency,  which  he  conducted  success- 
fully until  1893  and  then  sold  the  business  to 
Thompson  &  Benedict.  For  two  years  he  was 
a  student  in  the  University  of  Denver,  after 
which  he  took  the  law  course  at  the  State  Uni- 
versity in  Boulder,  graduating  in  1895.  For  a 
j'ear  he  was  in  the  law  oflSce  of  R.  D.  Thompson, 
after  which  he  and  Mr.  Lindsey  established  the 
firm  of  Lindsey  &  Parks.  The  firm  have  become 
well  known  as  reliable  practitioners  and  have 
built  up  a  valuable  clientage. 

Fraternally  Mr.  Parks  is  a  member  of  Oriental 
Lodge  No.  87,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  of  which  he  was 
made  Worshipful  Master  in  December,  1897.  He 
is  also  identified  with  Denver  Chapter  No.  2, 
R.  A.  M.,  Colorado  Commandery  No.  i,  K.  T., 
and  El  Jebel  Temple,  N.  M.  S.,  ot  which  he  has 
been  recorder  for  some  years. 


(TOHN  J.  RICE,  of  Boulder  County,  is  a  typi- 
I  cal  Colorado  pioneer.  His  life  has  been  a 
QD  very  interesting  one,  filled  as  it  has  been  with 
all  kinds  of  adventures  while  on  the  plains, 
mountains  and  valleys  of  the  great  west.  He 
has  engaged  in  all  the  varied  occupations  of 
the  frontiersman — mining,  haying,  farming  and 
freighting — and,  in  the  course  of  his  business 
during  the  early  days,  crossed  the  plains  no  less 
than  twenty-four  times.  He  has  suffered  from 
the  need  of  food,  from  cold  and  privation,  and  has 
had  numerous  narrow  escapes  from  Indians  and 
wild  beasts. 

From  the  heart  of  New  England  civiliza- 
tion our  subject  sprang,  as  he  is  a  native  of  Wor- 
cester County,  Mass.,  born  November  18,  1837. 
His  parents,  Comfort  and  Lucinda  Rice,  are 
mentioned  at  some  length  in  the  sketch  of  our 
subject's  brother,  Rufus  Rice,  elsewhere  in  this 
volume.  In  1855  J.  J.  Rice  left  home  and  for 
two  years  worked  as  a  farm  hand  in  Bureau 
County,   111.     Thence  he   went   to  Kansas  and 


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Missouri.  After  passing  eighteen  months  in 
Caldwell  County,  Mo. ,  he  and  a  partner  started 
for  Pike's  Peak  with  a  team  of  mules  and  camp- 
ing outfit.  They  arrived  in  Breckenridge  in  June, 
i860,  and  prospected  until  the  following  spring, 
when,  as  their  provisions  were  growing  short, 
the  partner  started  back  for  new  supplies.  On 
the  way  he  was  captured  by  the  Confederates  and 
nothing  was  ever  learned  of  his  fate  or  of  the  dis- 
position of  the  teams  and  wagons.  Our  subject 
entered  the  employ  of  a  man  in  French  Gulch 
that  summer  and  worked  steadily  for  several 
months,  and  as  he  was  not  in  need  of  spending 
his  wages,  he  left  it  in  the  hands  of  his  employer. 
That  worthy  went  to  Denver,  ostensibly  to  pur- 
chase provisions,  but  when  he  had  been  gone  six 
weeks  and  the  scanty  supplies  he  had  left  had  be- 
come exhausted,  Mr.  Rice  shouldered  his  blank- 
ets and  set  out  for  Denver.  Arriving  in  that 
city,  he  found,  upon  inquirj'  at  the  Old  Cherokee 
hotel,  in  which  his  employer  had  had  an  interest, 
that  the  gentleman  in  question  had  sold  his 
share  in  the  hostelry  and  had  returned  to  the 
east. 

On  his  journey  from  the  mines  to  Denver  Mr. 
Rice  had  an  unusual  experience.  He  had  reached 
a  point  between  Colorado  City  and  Park  City, 
near  the  foot  of  Pike's  Peak,  and,  upon  coming 
around  some  rocks,  found  himself  in  the  midst  of 
a  camp  of  Arapahoe  Indians.  With  rare  pres- 
ence of  mind  he  went  bravely  forward  to  the  tent 
of  the  chief,  and,  throwing  down  his  weapons, 
told  the  red  man  that  he  was  lost  and  hungry. 
The  chief  gave  him  food,  and,  learning  where  he 
wished  to  go,  cautioned  him  to  beware  of  some 
Ute  Indians  who  were  encamped  below  them  in 
the  canon,  and,  putting  him  upon  a  horse,  es- 
corted him  beyond  the  danger  line.  From  Den- 
ver Mr.  Rice  weut  to  Boulder  Valley  to  visit  his 
brother,  but  after  a  few  weeks  he  again  took  the 
trail  to  Blackhawk  and  Central  City,  and  mined 
until  the  autumn,  when  he  returned  and  helped 
his  relative  in  putting  up  hay.  When  the  brother 
enlisted  in  the  Union  army  our  subject  remained 
on  his  ranch  and  attended  to  affairs  there.  The 
life  became  intolerably  monotonous  to  him  after 
two  winters  and  a  summer,  and  in  the  spring  of 
1864  he  returned  to  the  mines,  and  continued 
his  labors  there  for  a  year  or  more. 

In  1865  Mr.  Rice  went   to  Denver   and  con- 
tracted to  drive  ox-trains  across  the  plains  for  tWo 


years.  He  was  to  receive  $75  a  month,  and, 
as  he  was  assistant  wagon-master  and  night- 
herder  he  was  paid  $150  a  month  for  this 
duty.  Later  he  and  two  others,  boys  of  the 
train,  bought  the  whole  outfit,  and,  not  having 
ready  money,  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.  took  their 
note  for  the  amount,  $16,500.  From  that 
time  until  the  Union  Pacific  was  put  through 
to  Ogden,  Mr.  Rice  carried  freight  for  the  ex- 
press company  to  different  forts  and  other  points. 
Next  he  transported  a  quantity  of  goods  to  Boise 
City  for  a  Jew  merchant,  and  then  sold  his  train. 

A  desire  to  see  the  old  friends  and  scenes  of  his 
youth  now  took  possession  of  Mr.  Rice  and  he 
spent  the  winter  of  1870  in  the  east.  Returning 
in  the  spring  he  engaged  in  the  cattle  business  and 
took  up  a  claim  of  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres 
in  the  bottoms,  two  miles  east  of  Burlington  (as 
Longmont  was  then  called) .  Building  a  hut,  he 
persistently  toiled  at  farming  and  raising  cattle 
for  many  years,  becoming  well-to-do  and  thor- 
oughly respected  in  this  portion  of  the  county. 
He  has  never  given  much  attention  to  politics, 
but  votes  the  People's  party  ticket. 

On  Christmas  eve,  1871,  Mr.  Rice  married 
Miss  Georgiana  Simons,  a  native  of  Kingsville, 
Ontario,  Canada.  To  them  were  born  a  daughter 
and  two  sons,  namely:  Georgiana,  wife  of  H.  C. 
Rundle,  a  farmer  of  Boulder  County;  Harry  L. 
and  William  J.  The  sons  are  both  at  home  and 
are  now  managing  the  ranch.  When  his  chil- 
dren were  grown  and  the  boys  were  capable  of 
running  the  homestead,  the  old  love  for  mining 
took  possession  of  Mr.  Rice,  and  in  June,  1896, 
he  started  for  his  old  mountain  haunts.  Since 
that  time  he  has  spent  his  time  in  prospecting 
and  to-day  has  some  of  the  most  promising  prop- 
erty in  Gilpin  County.  Some  of  his  samples  of 
ore  assay  as  high  as  $100  to  the  ton. 


yyi  RS.  M.  JENNIE  PERRIN,  widow  of  John 
Y  C.  Perrin,  is  one  of  the  esteemed  early 
(3  settlers  of  the  vicinity  of  Longmont,  Boul- 
der County!  Nearly  thirty  years  ago  she  and  her 
respected  husband  took  up  their  abode  here,  and 
during  the  long  years  which  have  intervened 
their  name  has  always  been  associated  with  good 
citizenship,  uprightness  of  life  and  a  just  regard 
for  others.  Beginning  their  western  life  under 
every  different  circumstances  and  conditions  than 


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those  which  charactized  their  career  in  the  east, 
they  made  the  best  of  everything,  bravely  over- 
came the  difficulties  they  encountered  and  in  time 
became  prosperous  and  independently  well-to-do. 
Mrs.  Perrin  was  a  true,  womanly  helpmate,  shar- 
ing her  husband's  trials  and  discouragements,  and 
by  her  bright,  cheery  ways  instilling  fresh  hope 
and  energy  into  his  life. 

Mrs.  Perrin  is  a  daughter  of  John  G.  and 
Mary  A,  (Hendershot)  Peg,  and  has  five  sur- 
viving brothers  and  sisters,  named  as  follows:  San- 
ford,  Henry  C,  Alice,  Emma  and  Ida.  The  two 
last- mentioned  are  half-sisters,  children  of  the 
mother's  second  marriage,  with  William  Peg,  a 
brother  of  John  G.  Peg.  The  father  of  our  sub- 
ject was  a  native  of  Pennsylvania,  and  when  he 
had  reached  mature  years  he  settled  down  on  the 
old  family  homestead,  in  Columbia  County, 
which  he  managed  until  his  death.  As  already 
mentioned  his  widow  later  became  the  wife  of  his 
brother,,  and  subsequent  to  the  early  demise  of 
the  latter  she  wedded  Thomas  McGargel.  Her 
father,  Michael  Hendershot,  was  a  respected 
Pennsylvania  farmer,  of  which  state  he  was  a 
native;  he  married  Mary  Cornelison,  whose  rela- 
tives were  from  New  Jersey. 

The  lady  whose  name  heads  this  sketch  was 
born  in  Columbia  County,  Pa.,  and  there  grew  to 
womanhood.  On  Christmas  day,  1865,  she  be- 
came the  wife  of  J.  C.  Perrin,  a  worthy  young 
man.  He  was  a  native  of  Danville,  Pa.,  born 
August  12,  1838.  In  that  locality  he  passed  his 
boyhood  and  youth,  learning  the  trade  of  painter 
and  paper-hanger,  and  in  these  pursuits  he  was 
occupied  until  he  came  to  this  state,  in  1870.  It 
was  in  the  spring  of  that  year  that  he  found  him- 
self in  the  neighborhood  of  Longmont,  and,  being 
pleased  with  the  country,  he  took  up  a  home- 
stead of  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  two  and  a- 
half  miles  northeast  of  the  city.  That  autumn 
he  returned  to  Pennsylvania  and  brought  his 
family  to  their  new  home.  As  the  years  rolled 
away  he  made  frequent  improvements  and  finally 
added  to  his  original  tract  another  piece  of  land 
adjoining,  thus  making  his  homestead  one  of  two 
hundred  acres.  In  all  his  dealings  with  his  fel- 
low-men he  was  noted  for  the  strictest  honesty, 
fairness  and  justice.  While  he  was  not  a  member 
of  any  denomination  he  attended  the  Presbyterian 
Church  and  was  interested  in  religious  enterprises. 
Death  put  an  end  to   his   busy    and  useful   life. 


April  12,  1888.  His  father,  John  Perrin,  was 
born  in  Gloucestershire,  England,  and  came  from 
a  wealthy  family.  He  followed  a  sea-faring  life 
for  many  years  in  his  early  manhood,  and  ulti- 
mately settled  in  Pennsylvania,  where  he  passed 
the  remainder  of  his  days. 

The  marriage  of  John  C.  and  M.  Jennie  Perrin 
was  blessed  with  four  children,  of  whom  Laura  B. 
is  a  widow  of  Frederick  Huyck;  Jessie  P.  is  the 
wife  of  John  E.  Rothrock,  a  merchant  and  mining 
operator  of  Lake  City,  Colo.;  John  H.  is  also  a 
resident  of  Lake  City,  and  interested  in  mining; 
and  James  G.  is  deceased. 


GILBERT  F.  PETERS  resides  upon  a  ranch 
Ll  in  Weld  County,  eight  miles  northeast  of 
I  I  Longmont.  He  is  of  German  parentage. 
His  father,  Adam  Peters,  was  born  in  Germany 
in  1830  and  at  the  age  of  fifteen  years  accom- 
panied his  mother  to  America,  his  father  having 
died  prior  to  their  emigration.  His  first  employ- 
ment in  this  country  was  as  assistant  in  a  furni- 
ture store  in  New  York,  where  he  remained  for 
some  months.  The  family  then  removed  to 
Sharon,  Wis. ,  and  there  grew  to  manhood  and 
married  Margaret  Everhart.  Settling  upon  a 
farm,  he  engaged  in  agricultural  pursuits  there 
throughout  his  entire  active  life,  but  recently  re- 
tired from  business  cares,  and  is  now  enjoying 
the  fruits  of  his  labors  in  years  past.  He  and  his 
wife  are  the  parents  of  six  children,  all  living, 
namely:  Charlotte,  wife  of  John  Ramsey,  of  Long- 
mont; Sarah,  wife  of  Rev.  John  Dietrich,  of 
Fond  duLac,  Wis. ;  John,  Edward  and  Clara, 
Mrs.  Rufus  Piper,  all  of  whom  live  in  Sharon, 
Wis.;  and  A.  F.,  of  this  sketch. 

In  Sharon,  Walworth  County  Wis.,  our  sub- 
ject was  born  February  8,  1870.  He  graduated 
from  the  high  school  of  his  native  town  at  twenty 
years  of  age,  and  shortly  after  that  he  began  life 
for  himself.  Leaving  the  parental  roof,  he  came 
to  Colorado,  joining  his  sister  in  Longmont. 
There  for  two  years  he  worked  in  the  employ  of 
neighboring  farmers.  In  1892  he  assumed  the 
management  of  a  ranch  of  two  hundred  and  forty 
acres  belonging  to  his  sister,  and  this  place  he 
has  since  successfully  superintended.  In  June, 
1898,  he  purchased  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres 
adjoining  his  sister's  property,  making  four  hun- 
dred acres  under  his  direct  management. 


MILTON  MATTHEWS. 


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The  marriage  of  Mr.  Peters  took  place  in  the 
fall  of  1892  and  united  him  with  Miss  Eva  Bishop, 
who  was  born  in  Missouri  and  accompanied  her 
father,  John  Bishop,  to  Colorado  in  1880,  settling 
upon  a  farm  in  Weld  County.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Peters  are  the  parents  of  two  children,  namely: 
Leona,  who  was  born  January  i,  1894;  and  Carl, 
born  January  21,  1896.  In  religious  connec- 
tions Mr.  Peters  is  identified  with  the  Lutheran 
denomination,  while  his  wife  is  a  member  of  the 
United  Brethren  Church. 


yyilLTON  MATTHEWS  is  one  of  the  pro- 
y  gressive  farmers  of  Boulder  County,  his 
(3  fine  ranch  of  four  hundred  acres  lying  in 
one  body,  being  situated  about  eight  miles  south- 
east of  Longmont.  He  has  devoted  his  entire 
time  and  attention  to  the  cultivation  of  this  place 
since  it  came  into  his  possession,  and  has  made  a 
specialty  of  raising  fine  blooded  cattle  and  horses. 
At  present  he  undoubtedly  owns  as  fine  a  herd 
of  Hereford  cattle  as  are  to  be  found  in  northern 
Colorado,  and  he  also  has  been  successful  in  rais- 
ing large  numbers  of  fine  Hambletonian  and 
Percheron-Norman  horses.  In  January,  1898, 
he  attended  the  National  Stock  Growers'  Con- 
vention held  in  Denver,  as  a  delegate  from  Boul- 
der County. 

The  parents  of  our  subject  were  John  and  Bar- 
bara (Symmonds)  Matthews,  the  father  a  native 
of  North  Carolina  and  the  mother  of  Indiana, 
her  birthplace  being  within  seven  miles  of  Indian- 
apolis. They  both  traced  their  ancestry  to  Eng- 
lish sources.  Grandfather  George  Matthews  re- 
moved from  the  south  with  his  family  at  an  early 
day,  settling  first  in  Ohio,  later  in  Morgan  Coun- 
ty, Ind.  He  was  about  the  first  white  man  to 
drive  a  wagon  across  White  Lick  Creek,  and  the 
Indians  were  very  numerous  throughout  the 
country  when  he  located  in  Indiana.  He  lived 
to  the  good  old  age  of  eighty-four  years.  Grand- 
father John  Symmonds  was  a  native  of  New  Eng- 
land, and  was  a  tall,  muscular  figure,  every  inch 
a  man  of  excellent  physical  proportions.  He 
was  a  soldier  in  the  war  of  18 12,  and  died  in 
Hancock  County,  111.,  when  he  was  in  his  eighty- 
fifth  year.  John  Matthews  was  an  agriculturist 
by  occupation,  and  in  his  early  manhood  he 
owned  a  farm  now  a  portion  of  the  city  of  Indian- 
apolis. After  selling  that  place  he  removed  to 
Adams  County,  111. ,  and  engaged  in  the  manage- 


ment of  a  farm  located  some  sixteen  miles  north 
of  Quincy.  Subsequently  he  lived  in  Hancock 
County,  and  in  1871  he  came  to  Colorado. 
When  on  a  visit  to  his  old  home  in  Morgan 
County  some  years  later  he  was  struck  by  a  loco- 
motive and  killed,  then  being  in  his  eighty-fifth 
year.  His  wife  died  at  the  age  of  fifty-three 
years.  Eight  of  their  children  lived  to  mature 
years.  Peter,  John  and  Newton  were  all  in  the 
Union  army  during  the  Civil  war,  the  first  in  a 
Missouri  regiment,  the  second  in  an  Indiana  reg- 
iment, and  the  last-mentioned  in  an  Illinois  regi- 
ment. Peter  died  in  Weld  County,  Colo.,  and 
his  widow  is  a  resident  of  Boulder.  John  died  in 
Missouri;  Newton  lives  in  Boulder;  George,  the 
next  younger,  is  a  contractor  in  Blackhawk, 
Colo. ;  Eliza  resides  in  Carthage,  111. ;  Margaret 
lives  in  Canfield,  Colo.;  and  Sarah  A.  is  de- 
ceased. 

Milton  Matthews  was  born  on  a  farm  about 
one  mile  west  of  the  statehouse  in  Indianapolis, 
Ind.,  February  6,  1837.  He  was  reared  upon 
farms  in  Adams  and  Hancock  Counties,  111.,  and 
attended  district  school.  When  he  arrived  at  his 
majority  he  embarked  in  farming  on  his  own  ac- 
count, and  in  1865  he  started  for  Colorado,  driv- 
ing a  team  for  John  McWirt.  The  journey  was 
one  of  three  months'  duration.  From  Julesburg 
to  Blackhawk  he  accompanied  John  Warner's 
train.  In  November,  1865,  he  took  a  place  as 
wagon-master  of  Hocker's  train,  and  traveled 
through  Colorado  until  1866,  when  he  com- 
menced freighting,  and  followed  that  calling  sev- 
eral months.  He  then  engaged  in  the  grocery 
business  at  Ralston  Crossing,  Jefferson  County, 
and  in  1868  located  at  Stage  Crossing,  on  the 
lower  Boulder,  in  this  county,  and  conducted  a 
store  there  up  to  187 1.  After  his  marriage  he 
took  up  his  abode  on  his  present  farm  on  the 
lower  Boulder,  near  Erie.  He  first  owned  a 
quarter  section  of  land,  which  he  proceeded  to 
improve  with  irrigating  ditches,  etc.,  and  later 
he  added  two  hundred  and  forty  acres  to  the  orig- 
inal tract.  In  1883  he  built  a  comfortable  house 
in  Longmont,  and  during  the  school  year  his 
family  lived  therein,  in  order  to  give  his  children 
educational  advantages.  He  assisted  in  organiz- 
ing school  district  No.  5  of  this  county,  and 
served  as  a  member  of  the  board  for  many  years. 
He  is  a  strong  silver  man  and  an  adherent  of  the 
People's  party  politically. 


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On  New  Year's  day,  1871,  Mr.  Matthews  mar- 
ried Mrs.  Martha  Brush,  who  was  born  in  Wa- 
pello County,  Iowa.  Her  father,  Enoch  Way, 
came  to  Colorado  in  1864,  and  was  a  pioneer  of 
Boulder  County.  The  first  marriage  of  Mrs. 
Matthews  was  with  William  Brush,  who  was 
killed  by  the  Indians  while  he  and  a  companion 
were  engaged  in  harvesting  a  crop  of  hay  on  the 
Platte  River  in  Colorado,  in  August,  1868.  One 
child  was  born  to  this  union,  a  daughter,  Minnie 
B.,  wife  of  Alva  J.  Mayne,  of  Evans,  Weld 
County.  The  two  children  of  our  subject  apd 
wife  are:  Carrie,  Mrs.  Levritt  D.  Scofield,  of  this 
county;  and  Nellie,  Mrs.  Thomas  F.  Johnston, 
of  Ivongmont,  a  graduate  of  the  city  schools 
there. 


(TAMES  S.  NEWELL,  one  of  the  substantial 
I  citizens  of  Weld  County,  is  a  pioneer  of  this 
(2/  section  of  the  state.  Forty  years  ago  he  saw 
it  for  the  first  time,  but  it  was  wild  and  barren, 
and  bore  small  resemblance  to  the  now  fertile, 
well-cultivated  country  which  it  is  to-day.  Dur- 
ing these  twoscore  years  he  has  been  very 
prominently  associated  with  the  development  of 
this  county,  and  has  always  considered  his  per- 
sonal interests  as  secondary  to  the  general  wel- 
fare. He  was  elected  to  the  office  of  justice  of 
the  peace  in  the  '60s  and  served  for  two  years, 
and  for  twenty  years  was  a  member  of  the  school 
board.  School  district  No.  4  was  organized  while 
he  was  in  office,  and  numerous  important  meas- 
ures affecting  education  were  carried  through, 
largely  by  his  influence.  Then  for  eight  years 
he  was  one  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  Cache  la 
Poudre  Irrigating  Company,  Ditch  No.  2,  and 
was  one  of  the  original  members  of  the  com- 
pany which  constructed  Cache  la  Poudre  reser- 
voir in  1892.  In  the  same  year  he  was  elected 
county  commissioner,  and  upon  the  expiration 
of  his  term  was  re-elected.  Both  terms  he  acted 
as  president  of  the  board.  Ever  since  casting 
his  first  vote  for  Fremont  he  has  been  loyal  in 
his  support  of  the  Republican  party.  He  is  a 
Mason,  belonging  to  Windsor  Lodge  No.  69, 
A.  F.  &  A.  M. 

Some,  perhaps,  of  the  keen  business  ability  pos- 
sessed by  Mr.  Newell  is  inherited  from  his  pa- 
ternal grandfather,  who  was  a  native  of  Ireland. 
Our  subject's  father,  Matthew  Newell,  was  born 
in  Pennsylvania,  and  was  married  in  that  state  to 


Miss  Anna  Anderson,  born  in  the  same  section 
of  country.  James  S.,  of  this  sketch,  was  born  in 
Franklin  County  September  4,  1833,  and  was  but 
a  year  old  when  his  parents  removed  to  Richland 
County,  Ohio.  They  settled  upon  a  farm  there, 
and  remained  in  that  vicinity  as  long  as  they 
lived.  Their  eldest  son,  William  W.,  came  to 
Colorado  with  James  S.  in  1858,  and  engaged  in 
mining  and  farming  until  his  death,  in  1869,  in 
Weld  County.  Sarah,  the  eldest  daughter,  was 
the  wife  of  B.  F.  Roberts,  of  Huron  County, 
Ohio.  Anna  B.  married  Dr.  L.  Nichols,  of  Rich- 
land County,  Wis.  Elizabeth  became  the  wife  of 
Leonard  Rathbon,  a  miller,  and  came  to  Colo- 
rado in  1883.  They  Hved  in  Boulder  County 
until  death  claimed  them  both.  Dr.  Oliver  A. 
formerly  practiced  medicine  in  Ohio,  but  of  late 
years  has  operated  a  farm  in  this  county.  M.  T. , 
deceased,  was  a  merchant  of  Carthage,  Mo. 
Agnes  M.  married  Lewis  Stone,  of  Crook  County, 
Wyo.     There  he  was  engaged  in  raising  cattle. 

J.  S.  Newell  received  a  good  education  for  a 
country  lad,  as  he  attended  a  select  school  and 
later  completed  his  studies  in  a  commercial  col- 
lege. Going  to  Dubuque,  Iowa,  he  obtained  a 
position  in  a  wholesale  grocery  house,  and  re- 
mained there  two  years.  He  then  took  charge  of 
a  school  in  Louisa  County,  Iowa,  and  continued 
as  a  teacher  for  two  -years.  When  the  Pike's 
Peak  excitement  was  at  its  height,  in  1859,  he  set 
out  for  the  west  with  a  caravan  going  from  Louisa 
County.  Upon  his  arrival  here  he  homesteaded  a 
tract  of  land  on  the  Poudre  River  (the  farm  now 
owned  by  B.  H.  Eaton)  and  commenced  the  rais- 
ing of  cattle  and  grain.  In  1872  he  sold  this 
place  and  removed  to  his  present  farm,  where  he 
had  pre-empted  eighty  acres.  Later  he  bought, 
another  eighty- acre  tract,  thus  making  his  farm 
one  of  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres.  It  is  located 
on  section  22,  township  6,  range  67  west,  two 
miles  east  of  Windsor.  Mr.  Newell  has  raised  a 
general  line  of  crops  and  has  been  particularly 
successful  in  dairying  and  stock-raising,  and  has 
also  engaged  extensively  in  fruit-growing. 

In  March,  1871,  the  marriage  of  Mr.  Newell 
and  Catherine  Fulton,  of  Louisa  County,  Iowa, 
was  solemnized.  Mrs.  Newell  was  a  daughter  of 
George  and  Elizabeth  (Fulton)  Fulton.  She 
died  February  6,  1891.  The  two  children  of  this 
marriage  were:  Edwin  E. ,  who  died  at  the  age  of 
nineteen  years,  and  Leila,  wife  of  L.  F.  Kimball, 


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of  the  Greeley  postal  service.  In  November,  1897, 
Mr.  Newell  married  Mrs.  F.  A.  Fulton,  widow  of 
Joseph  H.  Fulton,  who  was  a  brother  of  the  first 
Mrs.  Newell. 


(I  AMES  H.  RUSSELL  is  one  of  the  most 
I  prominent  farmers  and  stock-raisers  in  Weld 
(2/  County,  where  he  owns  a  farm  nine  miles 
northeast  of  Eaton,  on  township  7,  range  65. 
He  is  a  native  of  New  York,  born  in  Earlville, 
Madison  County,  April  4,  1853,  and  is  the  oldest 
of  five  children  comprising  the  family  of  Mar- 
tin L.  and  Sarah  (Torrey)  Russell,  who  lived 
upon  a  farm  in  that  county.  Four  of  the  family 
are  living,  one  sister  having  died  in  childhood. 
Helen  is  the  wife  of  William  Tate,  formerly  con- 
nected with  the  car  shops  of  the  Denver  &  Rio 
Grande  Railway,  of  Denver;  Herbert  A.  is  en- 
gaged in  farming  in  Weld  County,  near  Greeley; 
and  Bertrand  is  a  carpenter  at  Waukegan,  Mich. 
In  1865  the  family  removed  to  Oregon,  Ogle 
County,  111.,  and  two  years  later  settled  in  St. 
Charles,  Kane  County,  where  the  father  engaged 
in  farming.  He  is  now  retired  and  resides  in 
Braidwood,  Will  County.  Our  subject  was  edu- 
cated in  the  public  schools  of  St.  Charles  and 
Woodstock.  He  was  engaged  in  the  butter  and 
cheese  business  for  eleven  years,  meeting  with 
success  in  the  undertaking.  In  1878  he  came  to 
Colorado  and  settled  at  Greeley.  Soon  afterward 
he  settled  upon  his  present  farm,  where  he  has 
since  engaged  in  farming  and  stock-raising.  At 
the  time  he  settled  here  there  was  not  a  house 
within  five  miles  of  his  home,  but  his  foresight 
told  him  what  the  future  of  the  locality  would  be. 
He  labored  industriously,  making  many  friends 
among  those  with  whom  he  had  business  or  social 
relations.  Not  only  has  he  gained  the  respect  of 
his  associates,  but  his  employes,  too,  have  always 
honored  him,  and  one  man  remained  on  his  farm 
steadily  for  eight  years.  His  house  and  barn  are 
substantial  structures,  while  the  other  improve- 
ments are  equally  valuable.  The  land  is  located 
on  the  outer  edge  of  the  irrigation  district,  and 
one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  are  under  cultiva- 
tion, planted  to  grain,  alfalfa  and  potatoes.  The 
stock,  consisting  of  Polled- Angus  cattle  (about 
eight  hundred  feeders),  are  kept  in  a  fenced 
pasture  of  eight  hundred  acres. 

Besides  his  farm,  Mr.  Russell  has  money  in- 
vested elsewhere.     He  owns  eight  shares  in  the 


Larimer  and  Weld  Reservoir  Company,  which 
owns  one  of  the  largest  reservoirs  in  the  state;  he 
is  also  interested  in  the  Larimer  and  Weld  Ditch 
Company.  Politically  he  votes  the  Republican 
ticket  and  supports,  both  by  influence  and  ballot, 
the  principles  of  the  party.  His  first  marriage, 
in  1875,  united  him  with  Miss  Nora  Haight, 
daughter  of  Sandford  Haight,  a  prominent  mer- 
chant of  Huntley,  111.  She  died  in  1880,  and 
six  years  later  he  was  united  in  marriage  with 
Lucy  Piper,  daughter  of  Thomas  Piper,  a  retired 
farmer,  of  Greeley.  They  are  the  parents  of  one 
daughter,  Stella. 

gONRAD  STOCKFLETH  is  of  the  sturdy 
German  race,  whose  members,  wherever 
found,  are  noted  for  thrift  and  energy.  A 
pioneer  of  Weld  County,  he  has  assisted  in  de- 
veloping the  agricultural  resources  of  this  section 
of  the  state,  and  through  his  good  judgment 
and  industry  has  not  only  paid  for  his  home- 
stead near  Eaton,  but  has  also  been  able  to  put 
money  out  at  interest.  He  was  born  in  Hilde- 
sheim,  Germany,  May  3,  1862,  a  son  of  George 
and  Helen  (Soehlemann)  Stockfleth.  His  father, 
though  having  few  advantages  when  young, 
worked  his  way  to  a  position  of  influence  in  his 
community,  where  he  held  ofiice  similar  to  that 
of  justice  of  the  peace.  For  years  he  was  em- 
ployed as  a  bookkeeper  and  accountant  in  an  iron 
and  steel  factory,  where  there  were  fifteen  thou- 
sand hands.  In  his  family  there  were  four  sons 
and  two  daughters,  namely:  Henry,  who  came 
to  the  United  States  in  1884;  Frederica,  who 
married  Carl  Lohmann  and  lives  in  Hildesheim; 
Conrad;  Frederick,  a  mining  director  in  Ger- 
many; George,  who  is  connected  with  a  publish- 
ing house  in  Germany;  and  Henrietta,  wife  of 
Otto  Juergens,  of  Denver,  Colo. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  a  student  in  the 
public  schools  of  Germany  up  to  the  day  prior  to 
his  departure  for  America.  He  came  direct  to 
Denver,  where  he  was  employed  as  a  boilermaker 
and  at  other  occupations.  In  1884  he  came  to 
Eaton,  Weld  County,  which  at  that  time  had 
comparatively  few  inhabitants.  For  a  time  he 
worked  at  gardening,  after  which  he  was  in  the 
employ  of  the  Eaton  Milling  and  Elevator  Com- 
pany for  three  years,  and  then  worked  for  A.  J. 
Eaton  for  one  year.  Wishing  to  be  independent, 
he  rented  a  farm  of  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres 


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and  was  so  successful  in  its  cultivation  that,  at 
the  end  of  five  years,  he  was  able  to  buy  a  portion 
of  the  place  upon  which  stand  the  improvements. 
In  i8gi  he  erected  a  brick  residence,  and  six 
years  later  built  an  addition  to  the  house,  which 
he  now  occupies.  On  his  farm  he  raises  grain, 
alfalfa  and  potatoes,  and  through  industry  and 
economy  has  made  a  success  of  his  farming 
operations. 

In  politics  Mr!  Stockfleth  is  a  Republican.  In 
the  Congregational  Church,  of  which  he  is  an 
active  member,  he  was  treasurer  for  six  years  and 
has  also  been  connected  with  Sunday-school 
work.  Fraternally  he  is  identified  with  the 
Woodmen  of  the  World.  Twice  he  has  returned 
to  Germany  and  renewed  the  associations  of  boy- 
hood, the  first  of  the  trips  being  made  in  1886 
and  the  second  in  1895.  His  marriage  took  place 
January  30,  1896,  and  united  him  with  Theresa, 
daughter  of  Theodore  Rempen,  who  was  born 
near  the  same  place  as  himself.  They  have  one 
child,  George. 

'HOMAS  O.  STEPP,  who  owns  valuable 
farming  property  five  miles  northeast  of 
Longmont,  in  Weld  County,  was  born  near 
Bloomington,  Monroe  County,  Ind.,  August  29, 
1840,  a  son  of  Joshua  and  Rebecca(Owens)Stepp. 
He  was  one  of  twenty-two  children,  sixteen  of 
whom  attained  maturity  and  seven  are  now  living. 
They  are  as  follows:  Jackson,  who  was  a  captain 
in  the  Civil  war,  and  is  now  an  upholsterer  in 
Portland,  Ore.;  William,  who  is  engaged  in  farm- 
ing near  Golden,  Colo.;  Sarah  J.,  wife  of  J.  D. 
Sherman,  of  Trinidad,  Colo. ;  Thomas  O.;  Sum- 
ilda,  Mrs.  Byron  Markert,  of  St.  Louis,  Mo.;  Per- 
ilda,  Mrs.  Sayers,  who  lives  in  Henderson  Mo.; 
and  Paris  C,  a  prominent  lawyer  of  Missouri,  and 
judge  of  the  district  including  Grundy,  Mercer 
and  Harrison  Counties. 

A  native  of  North  Carolina,  born  in  1800, 
Joshua  Stepp  was  an  infant  when  his  parents  re- 
moved to  Kentucky.  There  he  grew  to  man- 
hood and  married.  Shortly  after  his  marriage 
he  went  to  Indiana  and  settled  upon  a  farm  in 
Monroe  County,  where  he  continued  to  reside  for 
many  years,  later  removing  to  Grundy  County, 
Mo.  He  attained  the  age  of  eighty-fo;ir  years. 
His  wife,  who  was  born  in  Virginia,  died  in  Mis- 
souri when  seventy-four  years  of  age.  Their  son, 
Thomas  O.,  received  a  common-school  education. 


In  the  fall  of  1861  he  started  for  Colorado,  coming 
through  with  a  cousin,  and  making  the  trip  with 
an  ox-team.  They  arrived  in  Denver  in  October 
and  spent  the  winter  in  that  city.  He  and  his 
brother,  who  had  accompanied  him  here,  em- 
barked as  farmers  in  the  spring  of  1862,  staking 
out  a  claim  on  Clear  Creek,  near  Denver,  just 
north  of  the  Jesuit  College.  In  the  spring  of 
1863  he  went  to  the  mines  at  Empire,  where  he 
worked  until  late  in  the  autumn,  and  then,  going 
to  Montana,  engaged  in  mining  in  Alder  Gulch, 
Summit  District,  until  September,  1864. 

With  the  intention  of  enlisting  in  the  army, 
Mr.  Stepp  returned  to  Mi.ssouri.  However, 
while  employed  in  the  mines,  he  had  contracted 
a  severe  cold  that  seriou.sly  affected  his  eyes. 
For  this  reason  he  was  rejected  when  he  en- 
deavored to  enlist.  Prior  to  his  western  trip  he 
had  taught  one  term  of  school,  and  he  again  be- 
gan to  teach,  this  time  in  Grundy  County,  Mo. 
In  1865  he  was  united  in  marriage  with  Miss 
Elizabeth  Swayze,  a  native  of  Warren  County, 
Mo.,  but  reared  in  Canada,  whither  her  parents 
removed  in  her  childhood.  After  his  marriage 
Mr.  Stepp  continued  to  reside  in  Grundy  County 
until  the  spring  of  187 1,  when  he  decided  to  go 
west  to  Washington  Territory.  He  accordingly 
closed  out  his  interests  in  Missouri  and  made  the 
long  journey  westward  to  Kittitas  County,  be- 
coming one  of  the  first  settlers  in  that  region. 
Since  that  time  the  city  of  Ellensburg  has  been 
built  upon  his  former  claim.  He  taught  the  first 
school  ever  held  in  that  county.  For  seven  years 
he  engaged  extensively  in  the  stock  business, 
after  which,  selling  his  cattle,  he  turned  his  at- 
tention to  the  real-estate  business,  which  the 
large  tide  of  immigration  had  made  important. 
For  seven  years  he  engaged  in  buying,  trading 
and  selling  lands. 

Coming  to  Colorado  for  the  second  time  in  1886, 
Mr.  Stepp  began  farming  on  the  St.  Vrain,  six 
miles  east  of  Longmont,  in  Weld  County,  where 
he  had  acquired  a  quarter  section  of  land  through 
trade  some  eight  years  before.  He  continued  to 
reside  on  that  place  until  1897,  when  he  sold  the 
property  and  purchased  his  present  ranch  five 
miles  from  Longmont.  Fraternally  he  is  con- 
nected with  St.  Vrain  Lodge  No.  32,  A.F.  &A.M. 
In  religion  he  and  his  wife  are  identified  with  the 
Christian  Church.  They  are  the  parents  of  eight 
children,  vii.:  William  O.,  a  teamster   at  Long- 


JOSEPH  OAKS. 


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mont;  Montana  A.,  wife  of  W.  W.  Stone,  M.  D., 
of  the  Indian  Territory;  S.  R.  Alberta,  at  home; 
J.  Merrill,  who  is  engaged  in  farming  and  stock- 
raising  in  California;  G.  Berry,  at  home;  Mary 
A.,  a  public-schoolteacher;  Reno  C,  a  watch- 
maker and  engraver,  employed  in  Longmont; 
and  Elmer  E.,  a  graduate  of  the  Grand  Island 
Business  and  Normal  College,  at  Grand  Island, 
Neb.,  who  is  now  representing  a  New  York  firm 
at  Lead,  S.  Dak. 

(TOSEPH  OAKS,  whose  home  is  on  section 
I  23,  township  9,  range  64  west,  near  the  vil- 
O  lage  of  Elbert,  in  Elbert  County,  was  born 
in  Upper  Canada,  January  16,  1840,  and  is  a  son 
of  Gideon  and  Elizabeth  (Bowman)  Oaks.  His 
father,  who  was  born  in  Baden,  Germany,  emi- 
grated to  Canada  and  there  married  Miss  Bow- 
man, who  was  born  in  Pennsylvania.  Afterward, 
about  1850,  they  removed  to  New  York,  settling 
at  Tonawanda,  near  Buffalo.  Some  years  later 
they  established  their  home  in  Washington  Coun- 
ty, Wis.  At  the  time  of  removal  to  Wisconsin, 
Joseph  Oaks  was  a  lad  of  some  fourteen  years. 
He  had  no  educational  advantages,  his  time  being 
closely  given  to  the  task  of  clearing  and  cultivat- 
ing land.  In  1859  he  went  to  St.  Joseph,  Mo., 
where  for  a  few  months  he  worked  at  any  employ- 
ment he  could  find.  In  i860  he  joined  a  .survej^- 
ing  party  that  surveyed  the  head  of  the  Repub- 
lican River.  Indians  were  troublesome  and  it 
was  impossible,  on  their  account,  to  complete  the 
survej'.  After  being  robbed  of  their  provisions, 
the  men  where  transferred  by  the  Cheyennes 
across  the  Platte.  It  was  the  agreement  that  Mr. 
Oaks  should  receive  $40  a  month,  but  he  never 
received  a  penny;  and  so  was  without  money 
when  he  reached  Denver,  in  December,  i860. 
His  first  work  in  this  state  was  on  the  survey  up 
Clear  Creek  to  Blackhawk  and  Central  City,  his 
provisions,  surveying  instruments,  etc.,  being 
hauled  there  by  hand  sleds.  His  second  work 
was  that  of  cutting  cordwood.  Later  he  worked 
on  a  wagon  road  near  Boulder.  In  1861  he 
bought  a  squatter's  claim,  and  since  then  he  has 
bought  other  land,  until  his  landed  possessions 
now  aggregate  about  two  thousand  acres.   . 

In  what  was  then  Douglas  (now  Elbert)  Coun- 
ty, in  1865,  Mr.  Oaks  married  Miss  Maria  Ann 
Arterburn,  a  native  of  Illinois.  Seven  children 
were  born  of  that  union.    Of  his  second  marriage. 


which  united  him  with  Paulina  Ribley,  three 
children  were  born,  viz. :  Louis  Gideon,  Frank 
Bernhardt  and  Lena  Josephena.  Four  of  his 
children  are  married,  viz.:  Agnes,  who  married 
John  Cliber,  and  has  six  children;  Joseph  Will- 
iam, who  married  Mabel  Salt  and  has  one  child; 
Laura  E.,  who  married  Wilham  Green,  of  Elbert 
County,  and  has  three  children;  and  James  N., 
who  married  Ida  Gifferd,  of  Elbert  County. 
Politically  Mr.  Oaks  is  a  Democrat  in  national 
issues,  but  independent  in  local  affairs. 


Gl  UGUST  NELSON,  one  of  the  most  substan- 
Ll  tial  farmers  of  Boulder  County,  is  a  man 
/  I  who  is  justly  entitled  to  great  credit  for  the 
success  he  has  made  of  his  life.  Beginning  his 
career  in  the  United  States  in  his  early  manhood, 
he  overcame  all  of  the  obstacles  of  the  strange 
language  and  customs,  rose  above  the  frequent 
financial  reverses  which  came  to  him,  and  by 
energy  and  perseverance  at  last  won  the  victory. 
All  honor  must  be  paid  such  a  man,  one  who,  at 
the  same  time,  is  loyal  to  the  law  and  government 
of  his  adopted  country,  upholding  her  schools 
and  seeking  to  promote  her  general  pro.sperity.- 

Mr.  Nelson,  whose  home  is  located  about  four 
and  one-half  miles  from  the  town  of  Longmont,  is 
a  native  of  Sweden,  and  was  born  April  16,  1841. 
He  has  five  brothers  and  sisters  living,  and  nine 
are  deceased.  The  father,  Nels  Larson,  was 
born  in  1800  on  the  old  family  homestead  in 
Sweden.  This  property  has  been  in  the  family 
for  many  generations.  Nels  Larson  was  one  of 
the  most  influential  men  of  his  neighborhood  and 
time,  and  though  he  had  little  schooling,- was  so 
well  read  and  well  informed  that  he  was  looked 
up  to  as  an  authority  upon  all  subjects.  He 
filled  nearly  every  local  office  within  the  gift 
of  his  friends  and  associates,  and  of  him  it  could 
be  truly  said  that  he  had  not  an  enemy  in  the 
world.  He  headed  every  public  movement  for 
the  good  of  the  community,  sympathized  and 
consoled  the  weak  and  afflicted,  and  put  into 
daily  practice  the  loving,  helpful  spirit  of  Chris- 
tianity. He  passed  to  his  reward  in  1883.  His 
father,  Lars  Anderson,  a  farmer,  was  blind  for 
twenty-six  years,  but  ten  years  prior  to  his  death 
regained  his  sight. 

August  Nelson  attended  the  public  schools  un- 
til he  was  fifteen  years  of  age,  and  then,  leaving 


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home,  he  started  out  to  make  his  own  livelihood. 
During  the  next  ten  years  he  labored  industri- 
ousl}^  improving  his  opportunities,  and  April 
26,  1866,  he  bade  adieu  to  the  friends  and  scenes 
of  his  youth  and  sailed  from  Halmstad  to  Gothen- 
burg, and  thence  to  Hull,  England,  on  his  way 
to  the  New  World.  At  Liverpool  he  took  pas- 
sage in  a  steamer  bound  for  New  York,  but  the 
ship  had  proceeded  on  her  way  only  as  far  as 
Queenstown  when  she  was  obliged  to  return  to 
her  starting-point,  owing  to  the  fact  that  cholera 
had  broken  out  on  board.  The  passengers  had  to 
remain  on  the  ship  for  eight  days,  while  scores 
of  deaths  took  place.  At  last  they  were  placed 
in  quarantine,  and  held  for  twenty-one  days. 
Then  Mr.  Nelson  again  embarked  for  New  York 
and  reached  that  city  June  13,  after  being  kept  in 
quarantine  three  days.  He  had  but  $29  in 
gold,  and  this  amount  had  been  borrowed.  He 
went  by  train  to  Chicago,  and  from  there  to 
Batavia,  111.,  where  he  found  employment  in 
the  stone- quarries  for  the  next  four  5'ears. 

It  was  in  1870  that  Mr.  Nelson  came  to  Colo- 
rado. He  arrived  in  Blackhawk  April  9,  and 
during  the  succeeding  four  years  he  labored  in 
the  mines  and  smelting  mills  of  that  region.  In 
the  year  1874  he  came  to  the  valley  of  the  Boul- 
der with  a  capital  of  some  $3,000.  He  purchased 
a  quarter-section  of  land  for  $1,000,  it  being 
wild  and  without  improvements.  He  busily 
set  to  work  to  cultivate  the  land  and  to  make 
it  a  model  farm,  such  as  he  desired,  but,  after 
three  crops  had  been  destroyed  by  the  grass- 
hoppers and  lack  of  water,  the  owner  of  the 
property  found  himself  without  funds  and  there- 
fore returned  to  Blackhawk  and  resumed  his  for- 
mer employment  there.  Six  months  passed  and 
he  came  back  to  his  farm  with  sufficient  money 
to  put  in  another  crop.  This  time  fortune  smiled 
upon  him  and  from  that  year  he  met  with  suc- 
cess, and  to-day  is  one  of  the  well-to-do  farmers  of 
the  valley.  As  he  could  afford  it  he  invested  in 
other  land  until  he  now  finds  himself  the  owner 
of  five  hundred  and  fifty  acres — a  fine  homestead. 
He  takes  great  interest  in  the  public  schools  and 
is  a  member  of  the  local  board  of  education 
Religiously  he  is  a  Lutheran,  and  is  an  active 
member  of  the  church.  In  his  political  attitude 
he  is  Republican. 

July  2,  1877,  Mr.  Nelson  married   Miss  Clara 
Soderburg  and  to  them  have  been  born  seven 


children.  Six  of  the  number  are  living  and  are 
bright,  intelligent  young  people,  of  whom  their 
parents  have  occasion  to  be  proud.  They  are 
named  as  follows:  Nancy  A.,  Arthur  P.,  Clara 
A.,  Axel  L.,  August  E.  andJohnH.  Thefourth 
child,  Charles  Fi,  died  several  years  ago. 


HERRICK  McLEOD,  a  very  energetic  and 
popular  young  man,  is  now  acting  efficiently 
in  the  double  office  of  city  clerk  and  city 
treasurer  of  Central  City,  Gilpin  County.  To  the 
last-named  position  he  was  elected  on  the  Peo- 
ple's party  ticket  in  1896,  was  re-elected  in  1897 
and  again  in  1898..  In  the  spring  of  1898  he  was 
further  honored  by  being  made  city  clerk  by  the 
board  of  aldermen.  In  national  affairs  he  sup- 
ports the  Democratic  platform  and  nominees  by 
his  ballot,  but  in  county  politics  he  sides  with  the 
People's  party,  and  for  the  past  two  years  has 
been  the  chairman  of  the  city  central  committee. 
He  has  proved  himself  to  be  thoroughly  trust- 
worthy, painstaking  and  faithful  to  the  interests 
of  his  fellow-citizens,  and,  in  consequence,  he  en- 
joys their  respect  and  admiration. 

The  parents  of  our  subject  are  Francis  B.  and 
Elizabeth  (Morrison)  McLeod,  natives  of  Prince 
Edward  Island.  The  father  was  a  man  of  excel- 
lent educational  attainments,  and  for  a  period 
was  a  teacher  in  his  native  district.  While  still 
a  young  man  he  attended  Grinnell  College  in 
Iowa,  and  from  that  point  came  to  this  state 
about  1867.  He  married  here  and  engaged  in 
farming  and  mining  enterprises.  Afterwards  he 
returned  to  Prince  Edward  Island  and  taught 
school  and  carried  on  a  farm  there  until  1877, when 
he  again  settled  in  Colorado,  this  time  to  become 
a  permanent  resident.  He  has  been  interested 
in  a  ranch  and  in  mines  in  Gilpin  County,  and  is 
now  living  in  this  city.  He  was  county  super- 
intendent of  schools  for  one  term,  and  has  been 
recognized  as  an  authority  on  educational  mat- 
ters wherever  he  has  dwelt  for  any  length  of 
time.  His  family  comprises  ten  children.  Flor- 
ence died  in  childhood;  Malcolm  was  drowned  in 
Missouri  Lake  while  trying  to  save  the  life  of  his 
uncle;. William  is  interested  in  mining  enter- 
prises, and  lives  in  Central  City;  Carrie  and 
Rachel  are  teachers  here,  the  former  being  in  the 
high  school  faculty;  the  younger  children  are: 
George,  Catherine,  Mary,  Felicia  and  Martha. 


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The  paternal  grandfather  of  Herrick  McLeod 
was  Rev.  Duncan  McLeod,  who  was  a  native  of 
the  Isle  of  Skye,  Scotland.  He  was  a  minister 
of  the  Presbyterian  Church  and  labored  diligently 
for  the  spread  of  the  gospel.  At  an  early  day  he 
settled  in  Prince  Edward  Island,  and  continued 
to  live  there  until  summoned  to  his  reward.  The 
father  of  Mrs.  Elizabeth  McLeod  was  Angus 
Morrison,  who  was  born  in  Rosshire,  Scotland, 
ninety-six  years  ago,  and  is  still  living,  his  home 
being  in  this  city.  He  located  in  Prince  Edward 
Island  when  he  was  a  young  man,  and  for  years 
was  a  seafaring  man,  sailing  along  the  Atlantic 
coast,  fishing  and  engaging  in  various  maritime 
enterprises. 

Herrick  McLeod  was  born  at  Missouri  Lake, 
Gilpin  County,  April  2,  1870,  and  is  the  eldest 
of  his  parents'  large  family.  He  was  but  two 
years  old  when  he  was  taken  back  to  Prince  Ed- 
ward Island,  and  within  a  few  years  he  accom- 
panied his  elders  toBellevue,  Iowa.  After  living 
there  for  three  years  he  came  to  this  county  and 
attended  the  public  schools  of  Central  City.  In 
1 886  he  graduated  from  the  high  .school  here  and 
soon  embarked  in  mining  and  prospecting.  He 
developed  the  Notaway  mine  in  Russell  Gulch 
until  the  profits  from  it  were  decidedly  remu- 
nerative. For  nearly  five  years  he  was  book- 
keeper for  Morrison,  Harris  &  Co.  He  then 
resumed  operations  in  the  Notaway  mine,  and 
was  connected  with  it  altogether  eleven  years, 
then  selling  out  in  1897.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen,  and  has 
been  financier  of  the  local  lodge.  With  the  other 
members  of  his  family  he  attends  the  Presbyte- 
rian Church.  He  is  a  musician  of  no  small 
abilit}',  and  with  his  excellent  bass  voice  com- 
pletes a  quartette  composed  of  himself,  brother 
and  sisters. 


30HN  HERTHA,  one  of  Boulder  County's 
representative  farmers,  came  to  the  present 
site  of  Longmont  in  1868,  and  took  up  a 
homestead  of  eighty  acres  one  and  one-half  miles 
east  of  the  present  town,  at  once  beginning  the 
task  of  cultivating  the  place.  After  a  few  years 
of  industrious  and  persevering  effort  he  was  en- 
abled to  purchase  a  tract  of  forty  acres  adjoining 
his  original  acreage,  and  since  that  time  he  has 
given  his  time  and  attention  closely  to  the  im- 
provement of  the    ranch  of  one  hundred    and 


twenty  acres.  Since  early  boyhood  he  has  been 
interested  in  machinery,  and  as  earlj'  as  1854  he 
was  interested  in  running  a  threshing  machine  in 
Illinois.  In  1864  he  operated  a  machine  for 
other  parties  in  Colorado,  and  four  years  later  he 
purchased  a  thresher  of  his  own,  since  which  time 
he  has  followed  threshing  during  the  season. 

In  Saxe-Coburg,  Germany,  the  subject  of  this 
sketch  was  born  November  10,  1836,  a  son  of 
John  C.  and  Margaret  (Schilling)  Hertha.  His 
father,  who  was  a  native  of  the  same  place  as  him- 
self, learned  the  carpenter's  trade  and  in  1840 
crossed  the  ocean  to  America,  where  for  thirteen 
years  he  followed  his  trade  in  New  York  City. 
From  there  removing  to  Illinois,  he  settled  upon 
a  farm  in  Lee  County,  where  he  continued  to  re- 
side until  his  death. 

The  education  obtained  by  our  subject  was 
limited  to  a  brief  attendance  at  common  schools. 
After  reaching  man's  estate,  he  went  south  and 
engaged  in  steamboating,  running  on  the  Julius 
H.  Smith,  as  watchman,  from  St.  Louis  to  Flor- 
ence. Ala.  The  captain  of  the  boat  was  P.  H. 
Rhody,  afterward  known  as  "Rebel"  Rhody. 
On  the  breaking  out  of  the  war  he  came  to  St. 
Louis  and  enlisted  in  the  Third  Missouri  Infan- 
try, under  Colonel  Siegel,  in  April,  1861.  The 
regiment  was  immediately  sent  to  the  front,  and 
their  first  engagement  was  at  Camp  Jackson,  Mo. 
Later  they  participated  in  the  battles  of  Dug 
Springs,  Carthage,  Wilson's  Creek,  Fort  Donel- 
son,  Shiloh  and  Corinth.  In  the  battles  of  Wil- 
son's Creek  and  Corinth  Mr.  Hertha  waswounded, 
and  in  July,  1862,  he  was  mustered  out  of  the 
service  on  account  of  sickness.  When  the  Sioux 
war  broke  out,  in  the  fall  of  1862,  he  was  in  St. 
Paul,  Minn.  Buying  a  horse,  saddle  and  bridle, 
and  providing  himself  with  fire-arms,  he  joined 
what  was  known  as  Cullom's  Guards,  a  company 
of  state  mihtia,  and  started  after  the  Indians.  Af- 
ter burying  the  dead  of  a  company  of  men  whom 
the  red  men  had  slaughtered  on  the  lower  bound- 
ary of  the  reservation,  he  and  the  others  of  the 
party  crossed  the  river  and  camped  at  Birch 
Cooly.  On  the  next  morning  they  were  sur- 
rounded by  about  five  hundred  Indians,  and  for 
forty-six  hours  they  fought  against  desperate 
odds.  So  fiercely  did  the  battle  rage,  that  out  of 
more  than  ninety  horses,  only  one  remained  alive 
and  Mr.  Hertha  had  two  bullets  in  his  body  when 
Colonel  Hale  fortunately  came  to  his  relief.  From 


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PORTRAIT  AND  BIOGRAPHICAL  RECORD. 


that  place  the  men  were  ordered  to  Fort  Richley 
and  from  there  were  sent  back  to  St.  Paul,  where 
they  were  disbanded,  on  refusing  to  agree  to  take 
their  prisoners  alive. 

Shortly  after  his  return  from  active  warfare, 
Mr.  Hertha  was  united  in  marriage  with  Miss 
Mary  A.  Meinhardt.  Afterward  he  went  to 
Davenport,  Iowa,  and  spent  the  winter,  but  see- 
ing no  business  opening  there  for  him,  he  went  to 
Atchison,  Kan.,  and  began  freighting  on  the 
plains.  He  continued  freighting  until  the  Union 
Pacific  Railroad  was  completed,  his  route  extend- 
ing from  the  end  of  the  road  until  it  reached  the 
North  Platte.  From  Cheyenne  he  later  freighted 
to  Blackhawk  and  other  mining  camps.  When 
the  Denver  Pacific  road  was  built,  freighting 
ceased  to  be  profitable,  and  he  then  came  to  Boul- 
der County,  settling  on  the  ranch  where  he  has 
since  made  his  home. 

Six  children  were  born  to  the  union  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Hertha,  namely:  John,  deceased;  lyouisa, 
wife  of  S.  A.  Fuller,  of  Longmont;  Edwin,  a 
stationary  engineer  at  Eongmont;  Louis  S.,  pro- 
prietor of  the  livery  stables  at  Berthoud,  Larimer 
County;  George  W.,  deceased;  and  Albert,  at 
home.  The  wife  and  mother  died  August  i6, 
1876,  deeply  mourned  by  her  husband  and  chil- 
dren. 

In  fraternal  relations  Mr.  Hertha  is  identified 
with  St.  Vrain  Lodge  No.  23,  A.  F.  &  A.  M., 
Montezuma  Tribe  No.  34,  I.  O.  R.  M.,  and  Mc- 
Pherson's  Post  No.  6,  G.  A.  R. 


■JJEGRGE  H.  HALL,  one  of  the  early  settlers 
_  of  Colorado,  has  resided  for  a  score  of  years 
^  on  his  present  fine  homestead,  which  is 
situated  three  and  a-half  miles  northeast  of  Long- 
mont.  Within  his  memory  and  knowledge  this 
thriving  western  city  has  sprung  up,  as  it  is 
built  upon  ground  which  he  formerly  tilled,  and 
at  that  time,  shortly  after  the  close  of  the  Civil 
war,  he  lived  in  one  of  the  two  houses  which 
stood  on  the  site.  The  house  which  sheltered 
him  then  was  later  removed,  and  to-day,  in  its 
stead,  stands  the  Imperial  Hotel.  In  his  pioneer 
life  he  experienced  the  vicissitudes  which  fell  to 
the  lot  of  all,  and  in  turn  he  mined,  farmed,  pros- 
pected and  freighted,  without  becoming  rich  or 
comfortably  well-off  at  any  of  these  pursuits. 
The  fortunes  which  some  were  so  happy  as  to 


acquire  did  not  fall  to  his  share,  and  it  was  only 
by  earnest,  unremitting  labor  that  he  came  into 
possession  of  the  competence  which  he  now  en- 
joys. 

Grandfather  Asa  Hall,  a  man  of  Scotch  descent 
and  hardihood  of  character,  was  a  native  of 
Canada,  and  was  a  prosperous  farmer  for  his  day. 
His  son  David,  father  of  George  H.,  was  born  in 
the  city  of  Toronto  in  18 13.  When  he  arrived  at 
man's  estate  he  adopted  his  father's  vocation, 
and  in  1850  removed  to  Illinois.  Taking  up  his 
abode  in  Kane  County,  he  lived  there  until  death 
put  an  end  to  his  career  some  five  years  later.  He 
married,  before  leaving  Canada,  Miss  Charlotte 
Hooker  and  to  them  were  born  two  children,  a 
son  and  daughter.  The  latter  is  Sarah,  wife  of 
D.  S.  Coffman,  who  is  interested  in  mining  oper- 
ations, and  lives  in  Glendale,  Colo. 

George  H.  Hall,  whose  birth  occurred  in 
Canada,  September  21,  1842,  was  a  lad  of  but 
thirteen  years  when  his  father  died,  and  his 
mother's  death  taking  place  three  years  later,  he 
was  thus  early  thrown  upon  his  own  resources. 
He  came  into  possession  of  the  old  homestead  in 
Kane  County,  111.,  and  diligently  set  about  its 
management,  to  the  best  of  his  youthful  ability. 
He  was  young  at  the  time  that  the  war  broke  out, 
and,  having  no  one  to  restrain  him,  he  enlisted 
in  an  independent  c6mpany.  Later  he  was 
attached  to  Company  H,  Fifteenth  Illinois  Cav- 
alry, sometimes  called  Dodson's  Cavalry.  This 
company  served  during  the  war  as  the  body- 
guard of  Curtice,  Halleck  and  Steele,  each  in 
turn.  Mr.  Hall  was  an  orderly  on  General 
Steele's  staff  from  March,  1862,  until  he  received 
his  honorable  discharge  from  the  army  in  the 
autumn  of  1864.  Prior  to  being  on  the  general's 
staff  he  was  on  detached  duty,  carrying  dis- 
patches, etc.  Returning  to  Illinois,  Mr.  Hall 
bought  horses  for  the  government  during  much 
of  the  following  year. 

In  1865  Mr.  Hall  started  for  the  west,  going 
much  of  the  distance  to  Denver  by  stage.  He 
arrived  in  that  city  October  10,  1865,  and  thence 
proceeded  to  Nevadaville,  where  he  engaged  in 
mining.  Failing  in  his  endeavors  to  obtain  satis- 
factory results  for  his  labors  he  came  to  this 
valle}',  which  he  first  beheld  on  the  anniversary 
of  Washington's  birth,  1866.  Then,  as  pre- 
viously mentioned,  he  embarked  in  farming  on 
the  very  laud  now  occupied  by  Longmont.     In 


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the  autumn  of  1866  he  harvested  a  goodly  crop 
here,  but  the  next  year,  after  he  had  planted 
wheat,  and  paid  twelve  and  a-half  cents  a  pound 
for  the  seed,  the  grasshoppers  indeed  made  "life 
a  burden,"  for  they  swept  the  land  bare  of  vege- 
tation. He  was  left  without  resources,  and 
started  in  the  business  of  freighting.  He  hauled 
the  lumber  for  the  first  house  erected  in  Chey- 
enne, and  continued  in  the  transportation  busi- 
ness until  April,  1869.  The  White  Pine  mining 
excitement  then  drew  him  to  Nevada  and  for  the 
next  two  years  he  traveled  and  prospected  in 
that  state  and  in  Utah,  California  and  Arizona. 
Once  more,  in  the  spring  of  187 1,  the  attractions 
of  Colorado  proved  alluring,  and  since  that  time 
he  has  never  sought  for  a  home  or  occupation 
elsewhere.  For  seven  years  after  his  return  here 
he  rented  land  in  the  neighborhood  of  Longmont, 
and  in  1878  he  permanently  located  on  the  home- 
stead where  he  is  to-day. 

Mr.  Hall  has  always  been  highly  in  favor  of 
good  schools  and  the  best  possible  educational 
privileges  for  the  young.  For  some  twelve  years 
he  served  efficiently  as  secretary  of  the  local 
board  of  education.  Fraternally  he  is  associated 
with  Ivongmont  Lodge  No.  9,  A.  O.  U.  W.,  and 
McPherson  Post  No.  6,  G.  A.  R.  His  ballot  is 
used  in  favor  of  the  principles  and  nominees  of 
the  Republican  party.  His  marriage  to  Miss 
Nellie  Mumford  occurred  in  1875,  in  Longmont. 


""LISHA  M.  PERKINS,  the  well-known 
^  mayor  of  Evans,  and  the  genial  and  popular 
^  proprietor  of  the  Perkins  Hotel,  was  born  in 
Tazewell  County,  111.,  December  17,  1833.  His 
father,  Elisha  M.  Perkins,  Sr.,  was  probably  a 
native  of  Virginia,  but  spent  his  youth  in  Ken- 
tuck}',  and  removed  to  Illinois  at  an  early  day, 
becoming  one  of  the  pioneer  settlers  of  Tazewell 
County.  He  engaged  in  farming  and  dealing  in 
fine  stock,  and  also  conducted  a  shoe  store  for  a 
time.  About  1841  he  laid  -out  the  town  of  Cir- 
cleville  upon  his  land  in  Illinois,  erected  a  large 
hotel,  which  he  conducted  for  several  years,  while 
the  community  around  him  grew  to  a  thriving 
country  town.  He  was  one  of  the  best-known 
men  in  that  part  of  the  country,  was  an  ardent 
Democrat  in  politics,  took  an  active  part  in  the 
presidential  campaign  of  1840,  and  served  as  dep- 
uty sheriff  of  Tazewell  County  for  one  term.     He 


died  at  the  age  of  fifty-nine  years,  near  Des 
Moines,  Iowa,  where  he  lived  for  a  few  years. 
He  had  also  spent  three  years  in  Warren  County, 
111. ,  and  the  same  length  of  time  in  Gentry  County, 
Mo. ,  after  which  he  removed  to  Iowa,  where  he 
was  engaged  in  the  milling  business.  He  married 
Susan  Barker,  of  Kentucky,  and  to  them  were 
born  eleven  children,  but  only  five  are  now  liv- 
ing: Isaac  N. ,  a  resident  of  Indian  Territory; 
Daniel;  Zedec  C,  of  Nebraska;  Artemecia,  widow 
of  William  McGee;  and  Elisha  M.  The  wife  and 
mother  died  at  about  the  age  of  seventy. 

Our  subject  obtained  the  greater  part  of  his  ed- 
ucation in  an  old  log  school  house  in  Iowa.  Leav- 
ing home  at  the  age  of  sixteen  he  went  to  Des 
Moines,  Iowa,  where  he  spent  a  few  years  with  a 
cousin,  and  then  returned  to  the  parental  roof. 
He  worked  on  the  home  farm  and  with  his  brother, 
Isaac  N. ,  operated  his  father's  mill.  In  185 1  he 
went  to  Adams  County,  111.,  on  horseback,  and 
spent  the  summer  with  his  brother,  Zedec  C.  In 
1852  he  went  to  Pike  County,  that  state,  and  be- 
gan learning  the  carpenter's  trade,  which  he  fol- 
lowed until  1859.  In  the  spring  of  1854  he  bought 
a  piece  of  land  in  Marion  County,  Iowa,  and  give 
some  attention  to  farming  for  two  years.  While 
at  that  place  his  first  wife  died.  May  22,  1854. 

Mr.  Perkins  then  returned  to  Warren  County, 
111.,  and  with  his  brother,  Isaac  N.,  rebuilt  the 
old  mill,  which  he  sold  on  its  completion.  In 
the  winter  of  1856  he  went  to  Kansas,  where 
he  erected  houses  for  sale,  and  served  as  constable 
ofCapioma,  Nemaha  County.  In  i860  with  his. 
brother,  John  W.  Perkins,  Stephen  Shelton,  J.  S. 
Dunbar  and  H.  C.  Stanley,  he  started  over  the 
plains  to  Denver,  arriving  there  on  the  22d  of 
May.  A  few  days  later  he  went  to  Central  City, 
where  he  engaged  in  mining,  but  after  the  Civil 
war  broke  out  he  returned  to  Denver  and  enlisted. 
He  only  remained  there  for  a  few  weeks,  how- 
ever, when  he  again  went  to  Central  City  and  re- 
sumed mining.  A  few  weeks  later  he  returned 
to  Denver  and  started  for  home  by  the  way  of  the 
Platte  River,  but  when  near  that  city  the  boat 
capsized  and  he  lost  all  his  belongings.  In  com- 
pany with  two  other  men  he  started  out  on  foot 
looking  for  work  and  proceeded  down  the  South 
Platte  to  its  mouth,  where  he  was  employed  on  a 
farm  that  summer.  In  1862  he  again  went  to 
'  Denver,  acting  as  cook  for  the  wagon  train  of 
Garrison  &  Hulbert,    and   the  following  winter 


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worked  on  the  rancli  of  N.  H.  Gage.  While 
there  he  married  his  present  wife,  Margaret  Jane 
Hoover,  daughter  of  C.  J.  Hoover,  of  Denver. 
He  then  bought  a  ranch  on  the  Platte  River,  on 
the  main  stage  line  between  Denver  and  Jules- 
burg,  and  successfully  operated  the  same  for  two 
years,  but  in  1864  was  driven  away  by  the  Sioux 
and  Cheyenne  Indians,  who  killed  two  men.  Go- 
ing to  Fort  Wicket  he  entered  into  partnership 
with  Holan  Godfrey,  and  together  they  conducted 
a  ranch  until  the  Indian  massacre  January  16, 
1865,  when  the  red  men  drove  off  their  stock. 
That  spring  he  returned  east  after  his  family,  and 
on  again  coming  to  Colorado,  in  the  fall  of  1865,  he 
settled  on  his  old  ranch  on  the  Platte,  his  broth- 
ers, D.  R.  and  J.  W. ,  being  with  him.  In  partner- 
ship with  J.  S.  Dunbar  he  opened  a  stage  station 
at  Bijou  Creek,  which  they  conducted  about  a 
year  in  connection  with  the  ranch.  Mr.  Perkins 
then  took  charge  of  the  home  stage  station  for 
Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  sixteen  miles  distant.  After 
spending  the  winter  of  1868-69  io  Denver,  he 
took  up  government  land  at  Godfrey  Bottom  on 
the  Platte  River,  where  J.  S.  Dunbar  now  lives, 
and  there  carried  on  farming  and  stock-raising, 
dealing  in  fine  eastern  cows.  In  1871  here- 
moved  to  the  town  of  Evans,  and  the  next  year 
opened  the  Gerry  Hotel,  which  he  conducted 
one  winter.  The  following  year  he  was  en- 
gaged in  the  livery  business  in  St.  Louis  Valley, 
and  in  1874  was  appointed  deputy  sherifi"of  Weld 
County,  under  David  C.  Wyatt,  being  re-ap- 
pointed under  Joseph  McKissock  two  years  later. 
Since  retiring  from  that  office  he  has  been  inter- 
ested in  the  hotel  and  livery  business  in  Evans, 
and  he  and  his  wife  have  become  the  owners  of 
some  good  residence  property  in  that  place.  To 
Mr.  Perkins  and  his  second  wife  one  child  was 
born,  a  daughter,  Ida  M.  She  became  the  wife 
of  Albert  Huffsmith,  of  Evans.  Mrs.  Hufismith 
died  in  1890,  leaving  two  children,  Jesse  B.  and 
J.  Miller,  who  are  now  living  with  their  grand- 
father, our  subject. 

As  a  Democrat,  Mr.  Perkins  has  taken  quite 
an  active  and  prominent  part  in  local  political 
affairs,  and  has  been  honored  with  several  official 
positions  of  trust  and  responsibility.  He  served 
as  county  commissioner  for  three  years,  and  as  a 
trustee  of  Evans  for  three  terms,  and  in  April, 
1898,  was  elected  mayor,  which  oifice  he  is  now 
filling  with  credit  to  himself  and  to  the  entire  satis- 


faction of  his  constituents.  At  one  time  he  was 
nominated  for  sheriff  of  Weld  County,  but  with- 
drew in  favor  of  James  Bailey,  an  old  friend.  As 
a  citizen  he  stands  ready  to  discharge  every  duty 
devolving  upon  him,  and  he  has  proved  a  most 
faithful  and  popular  official. 


•gUSTAVE  A.   LUNDIN,    numbered  among 

a  the  prosperous  agriculturists  of  Bouldei 
County,  owns  a  well-improved  homestead 
comprising  eighty- three  acres.  It  is  situated  one 
and  three- fourths  miles  to  the  north  of  the  town 
of  Canfield  and  is  a  valuable  country  place.  A 
vacancy  having  occurred  in  the  school  board  in 
1894  Mr.  Lundin  was  appointed  to  occupy  the 
post,  which  was  that  of  president  of  the  honorable 
body.  He  served  so  creditably  that  he  was  reg- 
ularly elected  the"  following  year,  and  when  his 
term  had  expired  he  was  made  secretary,  which 
office  he  is  still  holding  to  the  satisfaction  of 
everyone.  In  1895  he  was  elected  justice  of  the 
peace  and  continued  to  serve  in  that  capacity  up 
to  the  ist  of  January,  1898.  In  his  political 
affiliations  he  is  a  Democrat.  In  1889  he  joined 
the  Odd  Fellows'  Lodge  at  Aspen,  Colo.,  and 
now  he  is  identified  with  Erie  Lodge  No.  46,  of 
Erie;  and  is  a  member  of  Rose  of  Sharon  Lodge 
No.  29,  Daughters  of  Rebekah,  I.  O.  O.  F.,  his 
wife  being  connected  with  the  last-named  order, 
as  well.  He  also  is  associated  with  Perseverance 
Lodge  No.  139,  Woodmen  of  the  World,  of  Erie. 
G.  A.  Lundin  is  the  only  son  of  John  and  Mary 
Caroline  (Lindblad)  Lundin.  A  sister,  Edla  A., 
is  the  wife  of  Gustave  E.  Wedeen  and  lives  on 
the  old  family  homestead.  The  father,  born  in 
Sweden  in  the  province  of  Nerike,  November 
13,  1821,  died"  January  29,  1892.  He  was  a 
farmer  by  occupation  and  possessed  great  mechan- 
ical genius,  making  his  own  wagons  and  shoes, 
and  in  short,  it  was  his  pride  that  he  was 
able  to  construct  nearly  everything  that  he  needed, 
in  his  humble  and  simple  life.  His  wife  was  a 
daughter  of  Olaf  Lindblad,  who  for  thirty  years 
was  a  corporal  in  the  Royal  Regiment  No.  21. 
Our  subject's  paternal  grandfather,  John  Lundin, 
and  his  great-grandfather,  Andrew  Lundin,  were 
both  farmers.  The  latter  was  a  son  of  the 
celebrated  Swedish  general,  John  Lundin,  who, 
for  twelve  years  was  a  prisoner  in  the  fort  at 
Bender,    Turkey,    along   with   the   unfortunate 


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Charles  XII.  of  Sweden.  The  general  escaped 
at  the  end  of  twelve  years  of  captivity,  as  did  also 
Lord  Hamilton,  and  together  the  two  walked  all 
the  way  across  the  continent,  at  last  safely  arriv- 
ing at  their  old  homes.  The  poor  general  found, 
like  Enoch  Arden,  that  his  wife  had  given  him 
up  as  dead  and  had  married  again,  and  to  add  to 
his  sorrow,  the  old  homestead,  which  had  been 
long  in  the  family,  had  been  parted  with  to 
strangers,  during  a  dreadful  famine,  for  a  sack 
of  flour. 

When  he  was  a  lad  of  eight  years  Gustave  A. 
Lundin  could  read  and  write  and  thoroughly 
knew  the  Lutheran  Church  catechism.  His 
father  took  great  pride  in  his  only  son  and  was 
determined  that  he  should  settle  down  on  the 
home  farm.  The  youth  attended  school  until  he 
was  twelve,  when  he  turned  his  whole  attention 
to  the  management  of  the  old  farm,  and  this 
routine  continued  for  six  years.  But  he  chafed 
under  the  restraint  and  finally  went  to  Stockholm 
and  began  serving  an  apprenticeship  as  a  machin- 
ist in  the  railroad  machine-shops.  He  received 
very  small  wages  for  the  first  six  months,  and, 
as  he  could  not  subsist  upon  such  a  sum,  and  his 
father  refused  to  assist  him,  he  was  finally  com- 
pelled to  return  home.  He  became  very  desirous 
of  coming  to  America  then,  but  to  this  plan  his 
father  turned  a  deaf  ear  also,  and,  as  he  was  not 
of  age,  would  not  allow  him  to  come.  When  he 
was  only  six  years  old  his  mother  had  deposited 
$5  in  the  bank  for  him  when  he  became  a  man, 
and  year  by  year  this  amount  had  grown,  as  the 
boy  added  to  the  amount  from  time  to  time,  and 
thus,  upon  his  twenty-first  birthday,  May  ii, 
1880,  he  had  $400  to  his  credit. 

March  29,  1880,  young  Lundin  sailed 
from  Gothenburg  to  Frederickshaven,  Denmark, 
whence  he  went  to  Bremen,  and  there  embarked 
on  the  steamer  "Rehm"  for  New  York  City.  He 
reached  the  great  metropolis  April  22,  and  at 
once  went  to  Chicago.  There,  while  employed  as 
a  day  laborer  in  Lincoln  Park,  he  set  out  many 
trees  that  now  afford  beauty  and  shade  to  that 
well-known  recreation  ground.  On  the  2d  of 
June  he  took  out  naturalization  papers.  The 
following  day  he  took  the  train  for  the  northwest, 
and  landing  in  Green  Bay,  Wis.,  thence  went  by 
stage  to  Ephraim,  that  state.  In  the  autumn  he 
located  seventy-five  miles  north  of  Green  Bay, 
Wis.,  and  bought  forty  acres' of  land,  with  the 


expectation  of  becoming  a  permanent  resident  of 
the  county.  At  the  end  of  two  years,  however, 
he  returned  to  Chicago,  and  entered  the  employ 
of  the  Bowmanville  Nurseries.  There  he  labored 
for  twelve  months,  then  accepting  a  position  with 
Coyle  Brothers,  undertakers  and  liverymen. 

June  4,  1884,  Mr.  Lundin  started  for  the  west. 
After  passing  a  week  in  Idaho  Springs  he  came 
to  Boulder,  and  for  several  months  worked  for 
William  Newland,  on  his  fruit  farm.  The  mining 
fever  then  took  possession  of  him,  and  returning 
to  Idaho  Springs  he  engaged  in  mining  operations 
for  several  years,  in  the  meantime  leasing 
numerous  well-known  properties.  In  1887  he 
went  to  Aspen,  Colo.,  and  continued  mining  with 
varying  success  until  1893,  when  he  purchased 
his  present  homestead,  since  which  time  he  has 
given  his  chief  attention  to  farming.  During  the 
summer  of  1890  he  visited  Salt  Lake  City,  Utah, 
and  there  bought  two  city  lots  which  he  still 
owns.  Later  he  was  employed  in  the  mines  at 
Eureka,  Utah. 

Upon  the  thirty-second  anniversary  of  his 
birth,  May  11,  1891,  Mr.  Lundin  married  Miss 
Ingrid  Pearson,  in  Denver.  Mrs.  Lundin  is  the 
daughter  of  Andrew  Pearson,  who  was  a  railroad 
station-master  in  Sweden.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Lundin 
are  members  of  the  First  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church  of  Aspen.  Their  only  child  is  Walter  E. , 
a  bright  little  fellow,  born  in  1892. 


RODOLPHUS  N.  SMITH,  one  of  the  prosper- 
ous ranchmen  of  Weld  County,  his  home 
place  being  six  miles  southeast  of  Long- 
mont,  was  born  in  Waukesha  County,  Wis., 
February  20,  1844,  a  son  of  N.  K.  and  Helen  M. 
(Campbell)  Smith.  He  was  one  of  seven  chil- 
dren, who  were  named  as  follows:  Emma  S., 
now  the  widow  of  C.  M.  Tyler;  Frank  O. ,  wife  of 
Senator  J.  P.  Maxwell;  Nina  F.,  Mrs.  E.  J. 
Temple;  Dora  O.,  who  married  D.  D.  Leach; 
Jennie  S.,  widow  of  Dr.  G.  A.  Clark;  L.  K.  and 
Rodolphus  N. 

The  father  of  our  subject  was  a  native  of  York 
state,  born  in  Jefferson  County  in  i8io.  He  grew 
to  manhood  on  the  home  farm.  With  a  love  for 
study,  he  readily  acquired  a  thorough  education. 
In  early  manhood  he  fitted  himself  for  a  civil  en- 
gineer and  divided  his  time  between  school  teach- 
ing and  engineering.     When  about  twenty- one 


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years  of  age  he  went  to  Canada,  but  three  years 
later  removed  with  his  family  to  Ohio,  thence  to 
Indiana,  and  a  short  time  later  to  Wisconsin.  In 
1849  he  left  his  family  on  their  farm  in  Waukesha 
County  and  crossed  the  plains  to  California, 
where  he  spent  three  years  in  the  mining  regions, 
returning  home  in  1852.  The  next  year  he  and 
his  family  started,  by  wagon,  for  California,  he 
driving  a  herd  of  cattle;  but  when  he  reached 
Iowa,  the  Indian  depredations  were  so  numerous 
that  he  abandoned  the  proposed  trip,  and  spent 
the  next  two  years  in  Iowa.  Removing  in  1855 
to  Baraboo,  Wis. ,  he  embarked  in  the  hardware 
business,  but  after  some  years  sold  his  stock  and 
opened  a  grocery,  conducting  the  latter  until  i860. 
Then  with  his  family,  he  again  started  for  the 
west,  bringing  with  him  across  the  plains  one  of 
the  first  quartz  mills  erected  in  Blackhawk.  Ar- 
riving in  Colorado,  in  the  spring  of  i860  he  and 
a  brother  constructed  the  Smith  toll  road  from  the 
end  of  the  old  Golden  Gate  road  up  to  Central 
and  Blackhawk,  which  proved  a  most  profitable 
undertaking. 

In  the  spring  of  1861,  with  C.  M.  Tyler,  our 
subject  embarked  in  the  lumber  business  in 
Blackhawk,  having  extensive  sawmill  interests 
near  that  town,  and  for  three  years  they  had  a 
business  that  averaged  $1,500  per  day.  In  1877 
he  sold  his  many  and  valuable  interests  in  the 
mountains  and  moved  to  Boulder,  where  he 
erected  a  handsome  residence  and  settled  down 
to  enjoy  the  fruits  of  his  labor.  His  death  oc- 
curred December  26,  1894.  For  six  years  he 
served  as  commissioner  of  Gilpin  County,  and 
was  recognized  as  one  of  the  best  commissioners 
the  county  ever  had.  For  a  number  of  years  he 
also  held  office  as  assessor.  He  was  known  as  a 
man  of  integrity  and  upright  life,  one  whose  for- 
tune was  amassed  in  honorable  channels  and 
whose  character  was  irreproachable.  He  married 
Miss  Campbell,  who  was  the  first  white  woman 
in  Vernon,  Waukesha  County,  Wis.,  and  who 
took  the  first  prize  for  needlework  at  the  World's 
Fair. 

One  year  after  our  subject  came  to  Colorado, 
he  and  two  sisters  returned  to  Wisconsin  to  finish 
their  educations,  and  for  one  year  they  attended 
a  seminary  at  Baraboo,  after  which  they  were  in 
the  Mezomanie  high  .school  for  one  term.  While 
there,  he  wrote  his  parents  that  he  wanted  to  en- 
list in  the  army;   his  father  replied  that  there 


were  prospects  of  trouble  in  Colorado  with  the 
Texas  rangers  and,  if  he  wished  to  fight,  to  come 
home  and  enlist,  where  his  fighting  would  not 
only  serve  the  government,  but  assist  in  protect- 
ing his  home  folk  as  well.  He  accepted  the  ad- 
vice, returned  home  and  engaged  in  freighting  on 
the  plains,  but  the  need  of  his  services  as  a  sol- 
dier did  not  arise,  so  he  continued  teaming  until 
1866.  While  near  Alkali  Station  in  Nebraska  in 
1865,  he  and  the  train  of  sixty  wagons  of  which 
he  was  captain,  were  attacked  by  five  or  six  hun- 
dred Indians.  They  at  once  corraled  their  stock 
and  prepared  to  meet  their  savage  foes.  After 
one  or  two  volleys  the  Indians  retreated  and  the 
train  resumed  its  journey  to  Omaha. 

In  1866  Mr.  Smith  came  to  his  present  farm  of 
three  hundred  and  twenty  acres,  six  miles  south- 
east of  Longmont,  where  he  embarked  in  the 
stock  business.  He  has  since  given  his  attention 
to  general  agriculture.  Politically  a  Republican, 
he  was  in  1884  the  Republican  nominee  for 
county  commissioner  and  was  elected  by  a  large 
majority.  The  office  was  so  efficiently  filled  that 
at  the  expiration  of  his  first  term  he  was  re- 
elected, and  again  at  the  end  of  the  second  term, 
serving  nine  consecutive  years.  For  twenty- 
seven  years  he  held  the  office  of  treasurer  of  the 
school  board.  Fraternally  he  is  connected  with 
the  Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen. 

In  1865  Mr.  Smith  married  Miss  Josie  Pendle- 
ton, a  native  of  Cook  County,  111.  Six  children 
were  born  to  their  union.  The  oldest  son,  Fred 
N.,  has  charge  of  the  home  farm;  he  is  identified 
with  the  Woodmen  of  the  World.  The  second 
son,  Frank  M.,  who  is  a  member  of  the  Odd  Fel- 
lows' and  Woodmen  lodges,  is  engaged  in  the 
transfer  business  at  L,ongmont.  The  third  son, 
Dolph  F.,  is  with  his  parents.  Florence  H.,  the 
fourth  child,  is  deceased.  Alice  D.  is  the  wife  of 
Lowell  S.  Smith,  of  Longmont;  and  Jeannette  H. 
is  at  home. 


(7|AMUEL  L.  JOHNSTON,  a  farmer  of 
7\  Douglas  County,  resides  on  section  25,  town- 
J,jJ/  ship  10,  range  67  west,  two  and  one-half 
miles  southeast  of  Greenland.  He  was  born  at 
Bishop  Mills,  Canada,  December  29,  1850,  a  son 
of  William  and  Jane  (Wilson)  Johnston,  natives 
of  the  north  of  Ireland.  After  their  marriage, 
some  time  during  the  '30s,  they  emigrated  to 
Canada,   and   have   since  made  their  home  at 


.  ^*^'  -^ 


J.  H.  PHILLIP  ROHLING. 


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Bishop  Mills.  During  his  active  life  the  father 
was  a  farmer,  but  now,  at  eight3'-six  years  of 
age,  is  living  retired  from  active  labors.  His 
wife  is  eighty-one. 

When  a  boy  our  subject  had  few  advantages, 
as  he  was  obliged  to  work  early  and  late  on  the 
home  farm.  In  1875  he  came  to  Colorado  and 
for  a  time  engaged  in  freighting,  making  Denver 
his  home.  Later,  for  some  years,  he  herded  cat- 
tle for  ranchmen  in  Douglas  County.  In  1872 
he  entered  one  hundred  and  twenty  acres  where 
his  house  now  stands,  and  two  years  later  he 
moved  to  the  place,  the  cultivation  of  which  he 
at  once  began.  From  time  to  time  he  has  added 
to  his  possessions,  until  he  now  owns  eleven  hun- 
dred and  sixty  acres  and,  besides,  has  leased  two 
hundred  and  eighty  acres,  which  he  uses  as  a 
stock  range.  His  place  contains  the  usual  im- 
provements of  a  western  ranch,  and  has  proved  a 
very  profitable  investment  for  the  owner.  His 
entire  time  is  given  to  the  management  of  his 
estate,  and  he  has  had  little  leisure  for  participa- 
tion in  public  affairs.  However,  he  is  a  stanch 
Republican  and  always  supports  the  candidates 
of  his  party. 

November  25,  1890,  Mr.  Johnston  was  united 
in  marriage  with  Miss  Orie  Dakan,  of  Perry 
Park,  Douglas  County,  Colo.,  a  daughter  of 
William  A.  and  Elizabeth  Dakan.  They  have 
two  children,  William  Ross  and  Gladys  Belle. 


(|  H.  PHILLIP  ROHLING,  a  pro.sperous 
I  business  man  of  Black  Hawk,  Gilpin  Coun- 
(2/,  ty,  has,  it  is  said,  the  largest  dry-goods 
store  in  the  county,  and  it  is  certainly  one  of  the 
best  equipped.  He  has  conducted  busine.ss  at 
this  location  for  fourteen  years  and  enjoys  the 
confidence  and  good  will  of  the  entire  com- 
munity, lu  1896  he  started  a  branch  store  on 
Main  -street,  Central  City,  and  has  placed  a 
manager  at  the  head  of  the  same.  There,  how- 
ever, he  deals  exclusively  in  boots  and  shoes, 
while  here  he  keeps  a  full  line  of  dry  goods,  cloth- 
ing, carpets,  etc.,  in  addition  to  footwear.  From 
1895  to  1897,  *-^^'0  terms,  he  was  mayor  of  Black 
Hawk,  and  from  1892  to  1894  he  was  treasurer  of 
the  city.  For  several  years  he  was  a  member  of 
the  school  board  here,  and  all  public  matters 
concerning  the  local  advancement  and  welfare 
receive  his  earnest  attention. 
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The  parents  of  the  above-named  gentleman  were 
Phillip  and  Agnes  (Heidplacke)  Rohling,  natives 
of  Westphalia,  Prussia.  The  father  was  a  butcher 
by  trade,  but  followed  the  veterinary  surgeon's 
business  for  years  and  at  one  time  was  swimming 
master  in  the  Prussian  army.  His  death  occurred 
in  the  Fatherland.  His  five  sons  and  one  daugh- 
ter are  all  liviug,  and  three  of  the  number  are 
residents  of  the  United  States.  August  is  a 
merchant  in  Fort  Collins,  Colo.,  and  William  is 
a  business  man  of  Danville,  111.  Grandfather 
Henry  Rohling  was  employed  by  the  Prussian 
government. 

J.  H.  Phillip  Rohling  was  born  in  Westphalia, 
Prussia, October  12, 1850, and  as  soon  as  he  reached 
a  suitable  age  he  entered  the  local  schools,  which 
he  attended,  according  to  the  law  of  that  land, 
until  he  was  fourteen.  He  was  then  apprenticed 
to  a  dry-goods  and  grocery  merchant  in  Lem- 
forde,  near  the  old  home,  and  continued  there  for 
two  years.  In  1867  he  sailed  for  the  United 
States,  and,  in  order  to  gain  knowledge  of  the 
English  language  and  customs,  he  hired  out  to  a 
farmer  near  Indianapolis,  Ind.,  going  to  school 
during  the  winter  season.  Afterwards  he  worked 
in  Indianapolis  for  a  year  or  so  and  in  1870  went  to 
Deer  Lodge,  Mont. ,  where  he  clerked  in  a  whole- 
sale grocery.  In  1872  he  returned  to  the  land  of 
his  birth  on  a  visit  and  stayed  there  for  six 
months.  Coming  back  to  America,  he  took  a 
position  as  stockman  in  the  wholesale  dry-goods 
house  of  Murphy,  Hibben  &  Co. ,  at  Indianapolis, 
Ind.  He  was  a  faithful  employe  of  the  firm  for  sev- 
eral j'cars  and  thoroughlj'  mastered  the  business. 
In  1878  he  opened  a  retail  dry-goods  store  in  the 
same  city  and  successfully  managed  the  enter- 
prise up  to  1884,  when  he  brought  his  stock  to 
Black  Hawk.  Here  he  started  in  business  in  the 
same  building  which  he  now  occupies.  He  has 
two  floors,  25x80  feet  each,  and  owns  the  build- 
ing in  which  his  store  is  situated. 

In  the  autumn  of  1885  Mr.  Rohling  purchased 
the  old  Prospect  mine  and  began  its  develop- 
ment. It  is  now  known  as  the  Chemung  Bel- 
mont mine,  and  is  located  on  Bobtail  Hill.  He 
has  partners,  but  is  the  chief  stockholder  and 
manager,  and  in  addition  to  this  he  is  financially 
interested  in  mines  in  Stewart  Gulch,  Tip-top, 
Rallinsville,  Pine  Creek  and  Central  and  is  a 
director  in  the  Rocky  Mountain  National  Bank 
of  Central  City.     In  his  political  belief  he  was 


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a  Republican  for  years,  but  of  late  has  been  an 
adherent  of  the  People's  party,  and  has  been 
quite  active  in  support  of  its  nominees.  He  is  a 
Knight  of  Pythias  and  has  been  treasurer  of  the 
local  lodge  for  the  past  seven  years. 

In  the  city  of  Indianapolis  Mr.  Rohling  was 
married  in  1874  to  Miss  IvOuisa  Witthoft,  a  native 
of  Pennsylvania.  They  have  four  daughters  and 
two  sons.  Louisa  is  Mrs.  Klein,  of  Black  Hawk. 
John  P.,  the  eldest  son,  is  in  business  with  his 
father.  The  younger  children  are  named  respect- 
ively: Agnes,  Annie,  Laura  and  Phillip,  Jr.  The 
family  attend  the  Presbyterian  Church. 


~  PHRAIM  C.  PHILLIPS,  one  of  the  largest 
^  grain  and  potato  raisers  in  Boulder  County 
^  and  the  owner  of  extensive  lands  here  and 
in  Weld  County,  was  born  in  Adams  County, 
Ohio,  October  11,  1842,  a  son  of  Theophilus  and 
Mary  A.  (Moore)  Phillips.  He  was  one  of  a 
family  of  ten  children,  five  of  whom  are  now 
living.  His  father,  a  native  of  Adams  County, 
born  in  18 12,  resided  upon  a  farm  in  his  native 
place  until  1862,  when  he  removed  to  Iowa  and 
settled  in  Wayne  County.  After  some  three 
years  there  he  removed  to  Saline  County,  Kan., 
where  he  continued  to  reside  until  his  death,  in 
1875.  His  wife,  who  like  himself  was  a  native 
of  Adams  County,  was  a  daughter  of  John  Moore, 
a  prominent  farmer  of  that  section  of  Ohio  and  a 
man  well  known  for  his  integrity  and  industry. 
John  Phillips,  grandfather  of  our  subject  on  his 
father's  side,  was  born  in  Ohio  and  was  connected 
with  an  iron  manufacturing  plant;  his  ancestors, 
for  years  before  him,  were  foundry  men  and  iron 
workers. 

In  the  schools  near  his  home  our  subject  ac- 
quired a  fair  education.  At  the  breaking  out  of 
the  Civil  war  he  enlisted  in  Company  H,  Fifty- 
sixth  Ohio  Infantry,  October  25,  1861,  and  was 
ordered  with  his  regiment  to  Fort  Donelson, 
where  he  was  assigned  to  service  under  General 
Grant.  His  principal  engagements  were  at  Fort 
Donelson,  Pittsburg  Landing,  siege  of  Corinth, 
the  Vicksburg  campaign,  battle  of  New  Orleans 
and  the  Red  River  campaign  under  General 
Banks.  Going  back  to  New  Orleans,  he  was 
mustered  out  of  the  service  November  27,  1864. 
In  the  battle  of  Champion  Hill,  near  Vicksburg, 
he  was  wounded  May  16,  1864. 


On  his  return  to  his  Ohio  home,  Mr.  Phillips 
resumed  life  on  the  farm,  with  its  attendant 
duties.  He  felt,  however,  that  the  west  offered 
greater  opportunities  for  a  young  man  and  in 
1866  he  drove  a  team  across  the  plains  for  Mr. 
Perry,  who  accompanied  a  train  of  seventy-five 
wagons.  He  reached  Helena,  Mont.,  July  29, 
1866.  On  his  arrival  at  that  point  he  bought 
three  teams  and  began  to  haul  drifting  timbers 
for  the  mines,  continuing  successfully  in  that 
work  for  one  year.  Next  he  took  a  contract  to 
deliver  ore  to  the  old  Jim  Whitlatch  mill,  which 
occupied  his  attention  for  seven  months.  Dur- 
ing that  time  he  made  as  high  as  $44  per  day. 

Returning  east  to  Wyoming  he  secured  em- 
ployment on  the  Union  Pacific  Railroad,  in  con- 
struction work  on  the  Green  River.  Buying  a 
lot  of  Texas  bronchos  he  broke  them  and  put 
them  to  use,  receiving  $12  per  day,  of  weekdays, 
for  each  team,  and  $24.  on  Sundays.  As  they 
cost  only  $15  to  $20  apiece  the  investment  proved 
a  profitable  one.  After  one  year,  the  road  being 
completed,  he  came  to  Colorado  in  1869.  On 
the  trip  from  Cheyenne  he  drove  the  stage  to 
Denver  and  passed  through  the  yard  of  a  wild 
cattle  ranch,  for  which  property  he  was  destined 
to  pay  $50  per  acre  twenty- one  years  later. 
Arriving  in  Denver  Jie  began  to  buy  and  sell 
cattle.  On  his  arrival  he  was  offered  the  Mam- 
moth corral  for  $10,000  and  could  possibly  have 
bought  it  cheaper,  as  the  parties  were  anxious  to 
sell.  A  few  years  later  it  sold  for  $150,000. 
While  in  Denver  he  married  Miss  Estella  Barn- 
hizer,  a  native  of  Lima,  Ohio. 

In  1870,  on  the  construction  of  the  Kansas 
Pacific  Railroad,  he  went  to  Kansas,  and  took 
contract  work.  While  at  old  Fort  Wallace,  his 
outfit  was  stolen  by  Indians.  Afterward  he 
worked  on  the  Lawrence  &  Galveston  road. 
During  the  twenty-four  years  that  followed,  he 
built  many  miles  of  railroad  for  different  com- 
panies. In  1890  he  returned  to  Denver  and  put 
one  hundred  teams  at  work  on  the  old  Bob  Creek 
ditch.  The  same  year  he  bought  his  present 
farm  of  three  hundred  and  twenty  acres,  two  and 
one-half  miles  north  of  Longmont.  At  the 
same  time  he  built  the  St.  Louis  Valley  Railroad. 
In  1891-92  he  had  extensive  contracts  in  widening 
the  gauge  of  the  Denver  &  Rio  Grande  Railroad 
from  Leadville  to  Denver.  In  1893  he  moved  to 
his  farm,  bringing  with  him  two  hundred  teams. 


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which  he  had  used  in  his  contract  work.  A 
short  time  afterward  he  sold  his  stock  to  ad- 
vantage, and  settled  down  to  the  life  of  a  farmer 
and  stock-raiser.  With  his  son,  he  owns  eight 
hundred  and  forty  acres  in  Boulder  and  Weld 
Counties  and  also  rents  three  hundred  and  twenty 
acres,  all  of  which  he  has  planted  to  grain  and 
potatoes.  His  cattle  interests  are  also  large  and 
important.  He  has  made  a  scientific  study  of 
the  cattle  business,  and  consequently  has  met 
with  success  in  it.  When  starting  for  himself  in 
Helena,  he  had  only  $60,  but  through  energy  and 
perseverance,  combined  with  good  business 
judgment,  he  is  now  one  of  the  substantial  men 
of  his  section.  Fraternally  he  is  connected  with 
the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows  and 
McPherson  Post,  G.  A.  R.  He  and  his  family 
are  identified  with  the  Methodist  Church. 

Four  children  were  born  to  the  union  of  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Phillips.  Henry  R.,  the  oldest,  is  a 
graduate  of  Wesleyan  College,  Salina,  Kan.,  and 
resides  at  Eaton,  Weld  County,  where  he  is  in- 
terested with  his  father  in  the  farming  and  stock 
business.  Lucy,  the  oldest  daughter,  is  the  wife 
of  Dr.  St.  Clair,  of  Longmont;  Nora  married 
Leon  Rash,  patentee  and  manufacturer  of  body 
braces,  residing  in  Salina,  Kan. ;  and  Pearl  is  the 
wife  of  Charles  Newby,  a  farmer  of  Boulder 
County. 

(pi  DIN  H.  NEWTON.  Alike  in  business,  po- 
Ll  litical  and  fraternal  connections  Mr.  New- 
/  I  ton  has  become  one  of  the  prominent  men 
of  Denver.  He  is  the  proprietor  of  a  grocery 
and  feed  store  at  No.  3352-56  Clear  Creek  avenue, 
with  a  branch  at  No.  1632  Thirty-fourth  avenue 
west,  his  building  being  50x125  feet  in  dimen- 
sions, with  basement.  In  1897  he  was  nominated 
for  alderman  by  the  silver  Republicans,  endorsed 
by  the  tax- payers  of  the  sixth  ward,  and  was 
elected  to  the  council  by  the  largest  majority 
ever  given  in  the  ward.  Since  his  term  of  service 
began  he  has  served  as  chaifman  of  the  commit- 
tee on  public  grounds  and  buildings  and  as  a 
member  of  the  fire,  judiciary  and  license  com- 
mittees. 

The  connection  of  Mr.  Newton  with  the  Patri- 
otic Order  Sons  of  America  has  been  one  of  trust 
and  responsibility.  He  is  a  member  of  Washing- 
ton Camp  No.  15,  and  was  a  charter  member  of 
Camp  No.  i,  organized  in  1881,  in  which  he  was 


an  officer.  He  assisted  in  instituting  the  order 
in  Colorado  and  has  always  been  one  of  its  most 
progressive  workers.  For  two  terms  he  has 
served  as  state  president,  and  he  is  also  the  na- 
tional district  commander-general  for  Colorado  of 
the  Uniform  Rank,  to  which  position  he  has  been 
twice  elected. 

In  Moretown,  near  Montpelier,  Washington 
County,  Vt.,  the  subject  of  this  article  was  born 
May  10,  1852,  being  a  member  of  an  old  Puritan 
family  that  originated  in  England.  His  grand- 
father, Ebenezer,  settled  in  Vermont  when  it  was 
a  part  of  New  Hampshire  and  when  Ethan  Allen 
was  the  most  famous  man  in  that  part  of  the  coun- 
try. Settling  upon  a  farm  he  remained  there 
until  his  death,  at  eighty-nine  years.  In  religion 
he  was  identified  with  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church.  Harry  Newton,  father  of  Adin,  was 
born  in  Vermont,  where  he  engaged  in  farming 
and  also  operated  a  sawmill  that  was  run  by 
water-power.  He  married  Matilda  Colby,  whose 
father,  Hezekiah  Colby,  was  a  farmer  in  the  town 
of  Berlin.  Of  their  six  children  four  attained 
mature  years  and  three  are  living:  Mrs.  Matilda 
Warren,  of  Vermont;  Ira  E.,  of  Denver;  and 
Adin  H.     The  mother  died  in  187 1. 

After  the  death  of  Harry  Newton,  which  oc- 
curred when  he  was  fifty-six  years  of  age,  his 
family  became  scattered.  Our  subject,  then  a 
small  child,  remained  in  Vermont  until  he  was 
eight,  when  he  went  to  Lewis,  Essex  County, 
N.  Y.,  and  there  worked  on  a  farm  until  he  was 
fourteen .  Returning  then  to  Vermont  he  secured 
work  in  Burlington,  where  he  remained  until 
1876.  In  the  fall  of  that  year  he  came  west  and 
settled  in  Guthrie  Center,  Iowa,  where  he  clerked 
for  two  years.  Starting  from  there  to  Leadville 
he  was  delayed  at  Wa-Keeney,  Kan.,  by  the  out- 
break of  the  Cheyenne  Indians.  Wa-Keeney  had 
just  been  started  and  work  was  plenty.  He  se- 
cured work  as  a  teamster,  but  soon  was  made 
freight  agent  for  the  Kansas  Pacific  Railroad,  re- 
maining in  that  capacity  for  eighteen  months. 
In  June,  1880,  he  proceeded  westward  with  a 
team  and  after  a  tedious  journey  reached  Denver. 
He  had  been  troubled  with  rheumatism,  but  un- 
der the  influence  of  this  geniaV  climate  soon  be- 
came free  from  the  disease.  For  three  months 
he  was  employed  under  Colonel  Ellsworth  as 
driver  on  the  old  street-car  line. 

The  next  venture  of  Mr.  Newton  was  in  the 


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grocery  business.  He  built  a  store  on  the  corner 
of  Nineteenth  and  Hartford,  where  he  carried  on 
business  for  a  time.  Later  he  was  in  business 
for  seven  years  at  Nineteenth  and  New  Haven. 
Meantime,  in  1882,  he  bought  property  at  No. 
737  Clear  Creek  avenue,  where  he  built  one  of 
the  first  houses  in  that  section.  He  now  resides 
at  No.  3333  Witter  street.  In  May,  1887,  he 
built  a  store  on  the  corner  of  Clear  Creek  and 
Kent,  now  Thirty-fourth  avenue  west.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Woodmen  of  the  World. 
When  permitted  to  take  a  vacation  from  his 
store  and  public  duties  he  seeks  a  quiet  place 
in  the  country  where  the  fishing  is  good  and 
where  wild  game  may  be  found,  and  he  always 
returns  home  with  some  trophies  of  his  skill  with 
the  fish-hook  and  the  gun. 

In  Essex  County,  N.  Y.,  in  1874,  Mr.  Newton 
married  Miss  Mary  Lewis,  who  was  born  there, 
a  daughter  of  Fred  and  Lovinia  (Nichols)  Lewis. 
Her  grandfather,  Horace  Lewis,  was  born  in 
Connecticut,  but  became  an  early  settler  in  the 
town  of  Lewis,  Essex  County,  which  was  named 
in  his  honor.  He  was  of  Welsh  descent.  The 
maternal  grandfather  of  Mrs.  Newton  was  John 
Nichols,  a  farmer,  who  removed  from  Connecticut 
to  New  York.  Fred  Lewis  engaged  in  farming 
and  the  lumber  business  in  Essex,  his  native 
county.  In  his  family  there  are  four  living  chil- 
dren, of  whom  Mrs.  Newton  is  next  to  the  oldest. 
They  are  the  parents  of  four  children:  Walter, 
Jessie,  Bertha  and  Dora. 


aBRAHAM  HOWARTH,  whose  home  is  on 
section  12,  township  6  south,  range  69  west, 
in  the  northwestern  part  of  Douglas  County, 
near  Littleton,  was  born  near  Manchester,  Eng- 
land, April  7,  1837,  being  a  son  of  David  and 
Mary  (Mills)  Howarth.  When  a  boy  he  attended 
school  for  a  short  time,  during  half  of  the  day, 
while  his  remaining  time  was  devoted  to  work  in 
the  cotton  mills.  When  he  was  only  seven  years 
of  age  he -was  forced  to  aid  in  his  own  support, 
and  was  employed  to  sweep  out  the  alleys  in  the 
mills.  A  year  later  he  was  promoted  to  handling 
bobbins,  which,  when  filled,  he  distributed  to 
points  where  they  were  needed.  By  the  time  he 
was  eighteen  he  was  overlooker,  being  the  young- 
est who  ever  occupied  that  position  in  the  mills. 
In  1857  Mr.  Howarth  took  passage  on  a  sailing 


vessel  bound  for  America,  and  arrived  in  this 
country  after  a  voyage  of  seven  weeks  and  four 
days.  After  having  spent  some  time  in  the  east- 
ern states  he  went  to  Chicago.  He  had  no  money 
and  secured  work  through  an  intelligence  office, 
on  a  farm  in  McLean  County,  111.  Though  he 
had  never  done  farm  work,  his  services  proved 
satisfactory  to  his  employer.  While  there  he  was 
married,  in  Bloomington,  October  21,  1859,  to 
Miss  Alice  Barlow,  who  was  born  near  Manches- 
ter, England,  and  to  whom  he  had  been  engaged 
before  coming  to  the  United  States.  She  was  a 
daughter  of  Robert  and  Sarah  (Dutson)  Barlow, 
and  by  her  marriage  has  become  the  mother  of 
three  children,  namely:  Abe,  who  was  born  in 
England  and  assists  his  father  on  the  farm;  Sarah, 
Mrs.  Arthur  B.  Mitchell,  of  Littleton,  and  the 
mother  of  one  child,  Alice  Helen;  and  Alice,  who 
was  born  on  the  farm  where  the  family  now  live. 

After  farming  for  some  time  on  rented  land  in 
McLean  County,  Mr.  Howarth  went  to  England, 
in  1862,  and  spent  some  six  years  there.  How- 
ever, he  had  been  in  America  too  long  to  remain 
contented  with  the  customs  and  environments  in 
England,  even  though  he  might  attain  a  greater 
prosperity  in  his  native  land.  On  his  return  to 
this  country  he  worked  in  a  cotton  factory  in  St. 
Louis  for  a  time,  thenpe  went  to  Kansas,  where 
he  worked  in  a  packing  house,  and  during  the 
three  years  spent  there  he  was  joined  by  his  fam- 
ily. From  Kansas  City  he  came  to  Denver, 
where  he  built  a  residence,  but  soon  afterward,  in 
1875,  removed  to  the  farm  he  now  occupies.  On 
coming  here  he  had  but  little  of  this  world's 
goods.  For  nine  years  he  cultivated  the  land, 
meantime  accumulating  a  large  amount  of  money, 
which,  however,  he  did  not  make  an  effort  to  save. 
He  finally  concluded  it  would  be  wiser  to  save  a 
little,  and  in  three  years'  time  he  had  saved 
enough  to  buy  the  place,  consisting  of  one  hun- 
dred and  seventy-five  acres,  and  to  this  he  has 
since  added,  until  at  the  present  writing  he  has 
nearly  five  hundred  acres. 

Politically  Mr.  Howarth  votes  the  Republican 
ticket  in  national  issues,  but  is  independent  in 
local  matters.  In  1897  he  was  elected  county 
commissioner,  but  the  election  was  in  direct  oppo- 
sition to  his  wishes,  as  he  has  always  refused  to 
hold  office.  His  interest  in  educational  matteis 
led  him,  soon  after  he  came  to  this  county,  to 
accept  a  position  on  the  school  board,  and  he  has 


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served  as  a  school  director  ever  since.  Frater- 
nally lie  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Inde- 
pendent Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  but  has  allowed 
his  membership  to  lapse.  His  son  Abe  is  iden- 
tified with  the  blue  lodge  of  Masons. 


gRYANT  S.  I.AGRANGE,  who  died  at  his 
home  near  Greeley,  Weld  County,  Septem- 
ber 24,  1895,  was  a  man  of  more  than  local 
reputation,  for  he  occupied  numerous  public  po- 
sitions of  importance  during  a  long  period,  and 
was  noted  for  the  executive  skill  and  ability 
which  he  manifested  in  the  discharge  of  his 
duties.  It  was  in  1870  that  he  came  to  this 
state,  .settling  in  the  vicinity  of  Greeley,  and  for 
a  quarter  of  a  century  he  was  actively  interested 
in  the  development  of  this  region. 

The  parents  of  Mr.  LaGrange  were  Daniel  H. 
and  Experience  N.  (Stoddard)  L,aGrange,  na- 
tives of  New  York  and  Connecticut  respectively. 
Bryant  S.  LaGrange  was  born  in  the  town  of 
Vestal,  Broome  County,  N.  Y.,  August  14,  1823, 
and  grew  to  mature  years  in  his  native  county. 
He  married  Miss  Susan  Mersereau,  daughter  of 
Daniel  and  Susan  (Latourette)  Mersereau,  of  old 
Huguenot  stock,  their  ancestors  having  first  set- 
tled in  New  Jersey,  and  later  removed  to  New 
York  state.  Daniel  Mersereau  followed  agricult- 
ure for  a  livelihood.  His  family  comprised 
fourteen  children,  eleven  of  whom  lived  to  ma- 
ture years,  while  five  yet  survive,  and,  with  the 
exception  of  Mrs.  LaGrange,  reside  in  the  east. 

Until  1863  Mr.  LaGrange  carried  on  a  farm  in 
Broome  County,  N.  Y.,  but  in  the  year  men- 
tioned he  removed  to  Port  Huron,  Mich.  There 
he  cleared  land  and  engaged  in  lumbering,  and 
also  did  contracting  for  grading  and  road  work. 
When  he  came  to  Greeley  he  homesteaded  a  tract 
of  eighty  acres,  about  five  miles  from  the  town, 
and  two  years  later  built  a  house  and  began  im- 
proving the  place,  which  was  then  barren  and 
covered  with  wild  grass  and  cactus.  Within  a  few 
years,  by  irrigation  and  care,  he  had  transformed 
the  property,  which  is  now  one  of  the  fertile  and 
productive  ones  of  the  county.  From  time  to 
time  he  invested  in  more  land,  until  his  estate 
comprised  four  hundred  acres.  He  was  placed  in 
charge  of  the  construction  of  the  first  ditch  in 
Greeley  district  No.  3,  which  supplies  this  region 
with  water  from  the  river.     Later   he  was  in- 


terested in  the  building  of  ditch  No.  2  as  super- 
intendent of  the  work.  The  governor  then  ap- 
pointed him  to  attend  to  the  proper  distribution 
of  water  from  the  river,  iu  order  that  one  locality 
might  not  suffer  at  the  expense  of  others.  For 
seventeen  years,  during  different  party  adminis- 
trations, he  served  as  a  member  of  the  state 
board  of  agriculture,  belonging  to  the  first  assem- 
bly of  the  same  in  the  state.  During  1888-89  he 
was  active  in  the  construction  of  the  Dolores  Land 
and  Irrigation  ditch  in  the  Montezuma  valley,  in 
the  extreme  southwestern  portion  of  Colorado, 
and  was  made  an  honorary  member  of  the  irriga- 
tion engineering  corps.  Then  he  served  as  a 
member  of  a  special  commission  for  selecting  the 
state  school  lands,  and  in  1892  was  appointed  by 
the  governor  to  act  on  a  committee  on  agricult- 
ure to  arrange  for  the  state  exhibit  at  the 
World's  Columbian  Exposition.  The  same  year 
he  was  sent  as  a  commissioner  by  the  govern- 
ment to  Dakota,  in  order  to  introduce  irrigation 
methods  in  that  state.  His  extended  experience 
and  knowledge  on  this  subject  made  his  opinion 
most  valuable,  and  it  was  considered  authorita- 
tive. His  life  was  an  unusually  busy  and  useful 
one,  and  all  his  old  associates  deeply  mourn  his 
loss.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Masonic  order, 
and  was  buried  in  the  cemetery  at  Greeley  with 
the  honors  of  the  fraternity.  Politically  he  was 
loyal  to  the  Republican  party,  though  he  never 
sought  public  distinction. 

The  four  children  born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  La- 
Grange are:  Ella  M.,  wife  of  Daniel  Witter; 
Catherine,  wife  of  Thomas  J.  Stimson,  of  Gree- 
ley; Jennie  L.,  wife  of  John  Gladston;  and  Ward 
H.,  who  is  unmarried  and  lives  upon  the  family 
homestead. 


Q  HARLES  H.  SCOTT,  a  successful  business 
I C  man  of  Denver,  has  invested  considerably 
vj  in  real  estate  and  now  carries  on  an  exten- 
sive abstract  business,  with  his  office  in  the  Cali- 
fornia building.  Though  not  a  native  of  the 
United  States,  he  is  intensely  devoted  to  the  wel- 
fare of  his  adopted  country  and  took  out  naturali- 
zation papers  in  1873.  At  the  same  time  he  joined 
himself  to  the  Republican  party,  by  the  members 
of  which  he  was  elected  clerk.  At  various  times 
he  has  been  chosen  delegate  to  county  and  state 
conventions,  and  for  years  he  has  been  an  active 
worker  in  the  political  field. 


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PORTRAIT  AND  BIOGRAPHICAI,  RECORD. 


In  London,  England,  Mr.  Scott  was  born  in 
January,  1852,  a  son  of  Charles  W.  and  Harriet  M. 
(Paice)  Scott.  His  father,  who  was  connected 
with  the  government  service  from  the  age  of 
eighteen  until  his  death  in  London  in  1893,  was 
registrar  for  the  colonies  during  much  of  his  life 
and  was  a  man  of  great  energy  and  fearless  integ- 
rity of  character.  In  the  schools  of  his  native 
land  our  subject  received  a  fair  education,  being 
for  some  time  a  pupil  in  the  Mercer  school. 
When  he  was  almost  twenty-one  years  of  age,  in 
1872,  he  crossed  the  ocean  to  America  and  settled 
in  Denver,  where  he  at  once  entered  into  the  ab- 
stract business.  This  he  followed  until  1875, 
when  he  became  deputy  county  clerk.  For  eight 
years  he  filled  the  position  of  deputy  with 
efficiencj%  and  so  satisfactory  was  his  work  that, 
at  the  expiration  of  that  time,  he  was  elected  to 
the  office  of  clerk,  which  he  held  for  four  years. 
On  retiring  from  office  he  resumed  the  abstract 
business,  in  which  he  is  still  engaged. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Scott  occurred  in  Denver, 
January  7,  1888,  and  united  him  with  Miss  Anna 
M.  Long,  who  was  born  in  Fairfield,  Iowa.  One 
child,  Margaret,  blesses  their  union.  The  family 
stand  high  in  the  regard  of  their  acquaintances 
and  have  many  warm  friends  among  the  people  of 
Denver.  Fraternally  he  is  actively  identified 
with  Occidental  Lodge  No.  3,  Woodmen  of  the 
World,  of  which  he  is  a  charter  member  and  to 
the  development  of  which  he  has  contributed. 
His  business  affairs  are  conducted  with  the  meth- 
odical system  characteristic  of  him  in  every  mat- 
ter, and  all  his  transactions  are  fair,  honest  and 
satisfactory  in  even  the  smallest  detail. 


K)EWTON  B.  ALDERMAN.  This  well- 
\j  known  farmer  of  Douglas  County,  whose 
1/9  home  is  on  section  21,  township  10,  range 
65  west,  ten  miles  west  of  Greenland,  was  born 
in  Jacksonville,  111.,  and  is  a  son  of  James  H.  and 
Adelia  (Beckman)  Alderman.  His  father,  a 
native  of  New  Jersey,  learned  the  tailor's  trade, 
which  he  followed  in  Jacksonville,  111.,  but  after 
a  time  he  moved  to  a  small  farm  near  the  city. 
From  the  time  of  his  birth,  October  24,  1852, 
until  he  was  nineteen  years  of  age,  our  subject 
resided  in  Illinois,  where  he  attended  common 
schools  and  received  a  fair  education. 

In  1872  James  H.  Alderman  came  to  Colorado 


and  embarked  in  the  tailoring  business.  The 
next  year  our  subject  joined  him  here  and  for 
three  years  carried  on  a  dairy  business  in  Denver. 
In  1876  he  came  to  the  divide  and  homesteaded 
one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  of  land,  later  bought 
two  hundred  acres  of  bottom  land,  and  added 
other  tracts  from  time  to  time  until  he  finally  be- 
came the  owner  of  six  hundred  acres.  In  1879 
he  erected  a  neat  residence  and  in  1893  built  a 
substantial  barn,  both  of  which  form  valuable 
improvements  to  Silver  State  farm,  as  his  place  is 
named.  Besides  general  farming,  he  is  engaged 
in  the  dairy  business,  and  in  1894  he  became  a 
partner  in  a  creamery  known  as  the  Spring  Val- 
ley creamery. 

In  1882  Mr.  Alderman  married  Miss  Ida  Stark, 
who  was  born  in  Missouri,  but  was  living  in 
Douglas  County  at  the  time  of  their  marriage. 
She  died  in  1887,  leaving  three  children,  Minnie, 
James  Grant  and  Ida.  In  1889  Mr.  Alderman 
married  Miss  Georgia  Sutphin,  who  was  born  in 
New  Jersey  and  graduated  from  a  normal  school; 
she  came  to  Colorado  and  taught  school  in  Douglas 
County  prior  to  her  marriage.  The  first  vote  of 
our  subject  was  cast  in  1876  for  Rutherford  B. 
Hayes  and  he  has  continued  since  to  support 
Republican  candidates.  Fraternally  he  is  con- 
nected with  Elbert  Camp,  Woodmen  of  the 
World.  f 


K^EWTON  D.  OWEN  is  one  of  the  promi- 
Py  nent  and  influential  men  of  Central  City, 
I/d  Gilpin  County,  and  was  born  in  Whites- 
boro,  Oneida  County,  N.  Y.,  January  4,  1845. 
His  parents  were  David  and  Nancy  (Hall) 
Owen.  His  father  was  born  in  Wales,  but  came 
with  his  father,  David,  to  America,  where  the  lat- 
ter engaged  in  farming  in  Oneida  County,  and 
died.  The  father  of  our  subject  was  a  contractor 
and  builder  in  Whitesboro,  N.  Y.,  where  he  died 
at  the  early  age  of  thirty-three.  The  mother,  a 
daughter  of  Harry  Hall,  a  farmer  of  the  same 
place,  and  belonging  to  an  old  New  England 
family,  makes-  her  home  with  her  son,  New- 
ton D. 

Mr.  Owen  was  an  only  child,  and  was  edu- 
cated and  learned  the  trade  of  a  carpenter  in 
Whitesboro,  and  there  began  contracting  and 
building.  In  1865  he  went  to  Paraje,New  Mexico, 
and  embarked  in  the  general  merchandise  busi- 
ness for  three  years,  when  he  came  to  Central 


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City.  For  several  years  he  worked  here  at  con- 
tracting and  building,  and  finally  drifted  into  the 
mining  business.  That  he  was  a  first-class  me- 
chanic is  shown  by  the  buildings  erected  by  him, 
among  which  are  the  Teller  House,  Episcopal 
Church,  high  school,  and  many  others.  He 
built  a  great  many  buildings  that  were  destroyed 
by  the  fire  of  1874.  About  1878  he  discovered 
and  developed  the  Boss  mine,  of  which  he  still 
owns  about  a  mile  of  the  lode.  He  was  also  in- 
terested in  other  mines,  some  of  which  were  dis- 
covered by  him. 

He  married  in  Whitesboro,  N.  Y.,  December 
16,  1869,  Miss  Sarah  E.  Bush,  of  Sangerfield, 
same  county,  whose  father,  Lee  Bush,  was  also 
a  New  Yorker.  They  have  two  children,  Lena 
E.  and  Frank  H.,  both  graduates  of  the  high 
school,  the  latter  superintendent  of  the  Cayuga 
Lake  Mining  Company,  of  Quartz  Valley  dis- 
trict. He  has  been  four  years  alderman  of  the 
city,  and  in  the  fall  of  1897  was  elected  county 
commissioner  for  the  second  district  on  the  silver 
Republican  ticket.  He  took  the  ofiBce  in  Janu- 
ary, 1898,  to  continue  for  three  years.  He  was 
made  a  Mason  in  Central  Lodge  No.  6,  and  is 
past  officer.  He  is  past  high  priest  in  Central 
City  Chapter  No.  i,  past  eminent  commander  of 
Central  City  Commandery  No.  2,  and  a  member 
of  El  Jebel  Temple,  A.  A.  O.  N.  M.  S. 


T~  RANK  G.  REEMAN,  senior  member  of  the 
ry  firm  of  Reeman  &  Myers,  dealers  in  lumber, 
I  ^  coal  and  agricultural  implements,  at  Eaton, 
Weld  County,  is  a  native  of  England,  born  Janu- 
ary 18,  1856,  to  James  and  Mary  Charlotte  Par- 
meuter  (Meeking)  Reeman.  His  father,  a  suc- 
cessful and  prosperous  man,  was  engaged  in 
farming  in  Guildford,  Surrey,  where  he  was  road 
overseer  and  a  member  of  the  board  of  health. 
Not  only  was  he  the  possessor  of  business  ability 
of  a  high  order,  but  he  was  gifted  as  a  poet,  and 
many  of  his  writings  are  gems  of  thought  clothed 
in  beautiful  language.  In  his  death,  which  oc- 
curred in  May,  1897,  the  community  lost  a  pub- 
lic-spirited citizen  and  the  family  a  devoted,  kind 
husband  and  father. 

From  among  the  poems  of  Mr.  Reeman  we  se- 
lect two  which  we  quote.  The  beauty  of  the 
imagery  will  be  apparent  to  even  a  careless 
reader,  while  the  mind,  trained  to  a  love  of  beau- 


tiful thoughts,  beautifully  expressed,  will  dwell 
upon  them  with  delight: 

WHEN  ROSE  LEAVES  FALL. 

The  purple  tints  spread  o'er  the  heath 
And  autumn  twines  a  flashing  wreath 

Of  gold  for  all. 
The  swallows  know  their  day  is  o'er 
And  fly  to  seek  a  distant  shore. 

When  rose  leaves  fall. 

And  so,  when  youth  has  passed  away, 
With  fleeting  joys  and  fancies  gay, 

Beyond  recall, 
Our  hopes,  our  dreams,  one  by  one^ 
With  lingering  sweetness  soon  are  gone. 

As  rose  leaves  fall, 

But  love  shall  lead  our  hearts  aright 
And  into  everlasting  light. 
The  light  of  a)l. 

Though  earthly  joys  may  fade  away 
When  softly  dies  the  ebbing  day — 
When  rose  leaves  fall. 

1890.     PRIMROSE  DAY. 

Sweetest  of  the  early  flowers. 
Primrose,  born  in  shady  bowers, 
Bringing  back  our  childhood  hours. 
In  Cockfield  tho'  you  will  not  grow. 
Or  in  Laushall  thy  pale  blossom  show 
The  reason  I've  oft  wished  to  know. 
While  in  places  all  around 
Thy  sweet  flowers  may  be  found, 
In  springtime  decking  all  the  ground 
Clad  in  robes  of  richest  green. 
In  the  dark  and  mossy  den. 
Where  no  human  foot  has  been. 

There  thy  sweet  and  smiling  face 
Looks  up  from  its  hiding  place. 
With  a  look  of  tender  grace. 
In  recesses  all  unseen 
Thou  of  all  spring  flowers  the  queen. 
Yet  with  unassuming  mien. 
Cheerless  home,  'neath  wintry  trees. 
How  ye  live  no  mortal  sees, 
Mystery  of  mysteries! 

Though  a  teacher  to  us  sent, 
Silently  thy  days  are  spent; 
Yet  in  silence  eloquent. 
Something  human  thou  must  be. 
Looking  in  thy  face  we  see 
Innocence  and  modesty. 

Yes,  a  thought  of  God  thou  art, 
Of  humanity  a  part; 
For  you  touch  the  human  heart. 
Dainty  primrose  fair  to  see. 
May  we  learn  and  be  like  thee 
In  thy  sweet  humility. 


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PORTRAIT  AND  BIOGRAPHICAL  RECORD. 


In  the  family  of  James  Reeman  there  were 
eleven  children,  nine  of  whom  are  living,  namely: 
William,  who  is  rector  of  the  Episcopal  Church 
at  Durham,  England;  James,  a  farmer  living  in 
Durango,  Colo. ;  Charles  P. ,  a  retired  army  con- 
tractor; Frank  G.,  Fannie  A.  A.,  Charlotte  S., 
Phoebe  J.,  Louisa  Mary  and  Susie  P.  The 
subject  of  this  sketch  was  educated  at  Christ 
Church  school,  London.  For  three  years  he  was 
an  apprentice  to  Brice  &  Sons,  of  Northampton, 
with  whom  he  learned  the  dry-goods  trade.  He 
then  spent  two  years  in  London,  with  William 
Whiteley,  of  Westbourne  Grove,  after  which  he 
was  employed  by  Thomas  White,  at  Aldershot. 
In  1880  he  came  to  America,  and  for  two  and 
one-half  years  engaged  in  farming  with  Kellogg 
Austin,  at  Owasco,  N.  Y.  In  1882  he  came  to 
Eaton,  Colo.,  and  entered  the  employ  of  Gov. 
B.  H.  and  A.  J.  Eaton,  in  their  mercantile  busi- 
ness. Five  years  later  he  bought  one  hundred 
and  sixty  acres  one-half  mile  east  of  Eaton,  in 
township  5,  range  65,  which  he  still  owns,  but 
rents.  For  two  years  he  conducted  a  meat  busi- 
ness, after  which  he  sold  to  Foster  &  Waldo  and 
they  in  turn  sold  to  Rudolph  &  Jacobs.  With 
the  latter  firm  Mr.  Reeman  remained  for  nearly 
four  years,  during  which  time  the  trade  of  the 
firm  was  large,  owing  principally  to  his  wide 
circle  of  personal  friends. 

In  connection  with  Mr.  Myers,  in  1898,  Mr. 
Reeman  bought  the  lumber  business  of  Steele  & 
Smillie,  and  with  this  enterprise  he  has  since 
been  identified.  He  has  been  successful  and  has 
a  large  trade,  especially  in  the  sale  of  farm  ma- 
chinery, having  sold  as  many  as  seventeen  binders 
in  one  week.  Coming  to  Eaton  when  the  village 
was  just  started,  he  has  witnessed  its  growth  to 
its  present  proportions  and  has  assisted  materially 
in  the  development  of  the  county.  Prior  to  the 
silver  issue  he  was  a  supporter  of  the  Republican 
party,  but  since  the  campaign  of  1896  he  has  been 
independent  in  his  political  allegiance.  In  1897 
he  was  elected  a  member  of  the  town  board.  He 
has  interests  in  the  Larimer  and  Weld  Irrigation 
Company  and  the  Farmers'  Reservoir  Company. 
He  is  the  only  honorary  member  of  the  Woodmen 
of  the  World  at  this  place. 

December  21,  1888,  Mr.  Reeman  married 
Blanche  Isabelle  Stevens,  daughter  of  Joseph 
Stevens,  of  Brixton,  London.  She  was  born  in 
England  and  died  at  Eaton,  January   3,    1890. 


One  month  after  her  death  her  only  child,  Charles 
Wallace  Stevens  Reeman,  also  passed  away. 
Both  are  buried  in  Lynn  Grove  Cemeterj'  at  Gree- 
ley. The  present  wife  of  Mr.  Reeman,  with  whom 
he  was  united  April  17,  1898,  was  Nellie  M.  Row- 
ley, daughter  of  Michael  Rowley,  of  Fort  Coving- 
ton, Franklin  County,  N.  Y. 


"TDWARDS.  BLAKE,  of  Blackhawk,  is  an 
'e)  old  soldier  and  one  of  the  substantial 
^  citizens  of  Gilpin  County.  Descended  from 
an  old  New  England  family,  he  was  born  in 
Rockland  County,  Me.,  in  1839,  his  parents  be- 
ing Osgood  and  Abigail  (Simmons)  Blake.  His 
father  was  born  in  Maine,  but  during  the  gold 
excitement,  in  the  early  days,  he  went  to  Cali- 
fornia. He  made  two  trips,  and  after  the  second 
one  settled  down  to  farming  in  Maine,  where  he 
remained  until  his  death.  The  mother  was  also  a 
native  of  Maine  and  died  there.  They  had  a 
family  of  seven  children,  five  of  whom  are  living. 
Three  of  the  brothers,  Warren,  Osgood  and 
Edward,  went  from  Maine  to  the  Civil  war. 
Previous  to  this  our  subject  had  remained  at 
home,  after  attending  the  public  schools  until 
1863.  He  then  enlisted  in  Company  F,  Twenty- 
sixth  Maine  Volunteer  Infantry,  and  served  on 
the  Mississippi  from  the  9apture  of  Fort  Hud- 
son until  the  expiration  of  his  time,  when  he  was 
mustered  out  and  returned  home.  He  again  took 
up  the  work  of  teaming  and  farming,  but  re- 
ceived word  that  his  brother  Warren  was  in  New 
Orleans,  stricken  with  paralysis,  and  went  down 
to  bring  him  home.  In  1867  he  came  to  Black- 
hawk  and  has  been  engaged  in  teaming  ever 
since.  He  hauls-  quartz  and  does  transfer  team- 
ing, and  at  one  time  ran  nine  wagons,  but  at 
this  time  has  only  two  or  three.  He  has  also 
been  identified  with  the.mines  here  for  the  past 
twenty-five  years.  He  operates  the  Belmont,  in 
Gregory,  and  is  interested  in  the  Argo,  the 
United  States  and  the  Sunset,  the  latter  of  which 
he  discovered  and  developed. 

He  married  after  coming  here.  Miss  Kate  Carr, 
a  native  of  St.  Louis.  They  have  three  children, 
all  living  in  Blackhawk.  Osgood  has  a  position 
as  a  clerk;  Otto  is  a  bookkeeper;  and  Harry  is  still 
in  school.  Mr.  Blake  has  a  nice  home  on  Clear 
Creek  street,  which  he  improved.  For  nineteen 
years  he  has  served  the  city  as  alderman,    acting 


EDSON  WARREN. 


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on  all  the  committees.  He  is  a  member  of  Black- 
hawk  I.odge  No.  II,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  and  Ells- 
worth Post  No.  20,  G.  A.  R.,  and  is  a  stanch 
Republican. 


"TDSON  WARREN,  who  resides  four  miles 
^  northwest  of  Fort  Collins,  was  born  in  the 
__  town  of  Rush,  Monroe  County,  N.  Y., 
August  13,  1843,  and  is  a  son  of  Stephen  and 
Susan  (Smith)  Warren.  His  grandfather,  New- 
man Warren,  was  a  farmer  in  Massachusetts,  but 
moved  to  New  York,  where  he  cleared  the  timber 
from  his  land  in  the  town  of  Wheatland,  and 
cultivated  it  until  his  death.  He  belonged  to  the 
old  historic  Warren  family  of  Massachusetts, 
and  was  a  relative  of  General  Warren,  of  Rev- 
olutionary fame.  Stephen  Warren  moved  to 
Canandaigua,  N.  Y.,  with  his  father,  but  as  he 
did  not  like  that  location  he  settled  in  the  town 
of  Wheatland,  Monroe  County,  and  later  im- 
proved a  farm  in  the  town  of  Rush,  where  he  was 
for  several  years  a  justice  of  the  peace.  One  of 
his  brothers,  Benjamin,  was  in  the  war  of  18 12. 
He  married  Miss  Susan  Smith,  of  Bethlehem, 
Pa.,  a  daughter  of  Abraham  Smith,  formerly  of 
Pennsylvania,  but  later  a  resident  of  Rush. 
Stephen  Warren  died  in  1873,  and  his  wife 
July  4,  1884.  There  were  five  children,  viz.: 
Mrs.  N.  H.  Meldrum,  of  Denver;  James,  of  New 
York;  Joseph,  of  Michigan;  Mrs.  John  W.  Mel- 
drum, of  Wyoming;  and  Edson,  who  was  the 
third  child  of  the  family. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  educated  in  the 
public  schools  and  in  Geneseo  Academy,  and 
remained  at  home  until  he  was  twenty-three, 
when  he  started  on  a  tour  through  Michigan, 
Illinois,  Indiana  and  Ohio,  thence  back  to  New 
York.  Six  months  later  he  started  for  Colorado, 
locating  in  Larimer  County  in  1870.  He  pur- 
chased an  interest  in  his  present  farm,  his  partner 
being  his  brother-in-law,  Hon.  N.  H.  Meldrum. 
He  engaged  in  farming  and  stock-raising  and 
later  bought  the  remainder  of  the  farm,  consist- 
ing of  two  hundred  and  forty  acres.  He.  set  out 
a  nice  grove,  and  took  up  a  timber  claim  of  eight 
acres.  He  was  one  of  the  small  company  to  con- 
struct an  irrigating  ditch,  and  his  farm  is  well 
improved,  with  not  a  foot  of  waste  ground  on  the 
place.  He  raises  grain  and  alfalfa,  and  feeds 
large  numbers  of  lambs,  having  at  this  time  about 
two  thousand  head  which  he  is  feeding. 


Mr.  Warren  was  married  in  LaPorte  to  Miss 
Susannah  L.  Riddle,  who  was  born  in  Iowa.  Her 
father,  John  G.  Riddle,  settled  in  this  state  in 
1870,  and  died  twenty  years  later;  he  was  born  in 
Indiana,  his  father,  Stephen,  coming  from  North 
Carolina,  and  settling  in  Indiana,  where  he  was 
a  pioneer  farmer.  John  G.  was  also  a  farmer, 
and  when  still  a  young  man  he  moved  to  Iowa, 
married  in  Attica,  Marion  County,  and  engaged 
in  agricultural  pursuits  in  that  state  until  1870, 
when  he  brought  his  family  to  Fort  Collins,  and 
bought  a  farm  two  miles  northwest  of  that  city. 
This  he  improved  and  continued  to  cultivate  up 
to  his  death,  in  July,  1887,  at  the  age  of  sixty- 
eight  years.  He  married  Frances  May,  of  Craw- 
fordsville,  Ind. ,  whose  father,  Alexander,  moved 
to  Iowa  and  died  there.  She  is  living  in  Boul- 
der, Colo.  There  are  eleven  children,  namely: 
Mary  E. ,  Mrs.  Levi  Hake,  of  Boulder;  Frances  J., 
Mrs.  M.  L.  Landes;  Stephen  Alexander,  in  Colo- 
rado Springs;  E.  Asbury,  who  resides  at  LaPorte; 
Esther  R.,  Mrs.  T.  A.  Gage,  of  Fort  Collins; 
F.  P.,  living  near  that  place;  Susannah  L. 
Mrs.  Edson  Warren,  of  LaPorte;  John  M.,  near 
Fort  Collins;  Rachael  E.,  Mrs.  Watrous,  who 
died  in  California  at  the  age  of  thirty-one;  Isaac  C, 
on  the  old  home  near  Fort  Collins;  and  Ida  May, 
Mrs.  Owens,  of  Colorado  Springs.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Warren  .have  four  children:  Frances,  Marion, 
Whitney  and  Myrne.  The  two  eldest  daughters 
are  now  students  at  the  State  Agricultural 
College  at  Fort  Collins.  Mr.  Warren  is  a  silver 
Republican,  but  has  never  cared  for  ofiBcial 
position. 


(lOHN  PEARSON  SANDERSON,  who  came 
I  to  Colorado  in  1879,  is  the  owner  of  a  stock 
Q)  ranch  in  Elbert  County,  in  partnership  with 
his  brother.  Dr.  W.  Raymond  Sanderson.  He 
was  born  in  Baltimore,  Md.,  in  1855,  and  is  de- 
scended from  Irish  ancestors,  who  founded  Lee 
University,  in  Dublin,  Ireland.  His  great-great- 
grandfather, Francis  Sanderson,  started  the  foun- 
dry business  in  the  heart  of  Baltimore,  in  the 
early  days  of  that  city,  and  was  engaged  in 
that  business  until  his  death.  His  son,  William 
Raymond,  was  born  in  Baltimore,  but  removed  in 
early  manhood  to  Frederick,  Md.,  of  which  he 
was  a  pioneer  and  successful  merchant.  Being  a 
man  of  recognized  integritj',  on  the  formation  of 


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Frederick  County  he  was  offered  the  position  of 
county  commissioner,  but  the  pressure  of  other 
duties  obliged  him  to  dechne  it. 

Thomas,  son  of  William  Raymond  Sanderson, 
and  father  of  the  subject  of  our  sketch,  was  born 
in  Frederick,  Md.,  in  1812,  but  removed  to  Balti- 
more, where  he  carried  on  successfully  the  whole- 
sale dry-goods  business.  From  this  he  retired 
early  in  life  to  his  country  seat,  The  Plains,  a 
handsome  estate  in  the  suburbs  of  Baltimore, 
where  he  died  in  1877.  He  was  a  relative  of  the 
illustrious  founder  of  the  Johns  Hopkins  Univer- 
sity in  Baltimore,  also  of  the  Shrivers  and  Bidge- 
lys,  well-known  Maryland  families.  His  cousin, 
Christopher  Hughes,  was  sent  as  minister  to  The 
Hague  during  the  Monroe  administration,  but 
died  before  reaching  his  post.  His  brother.  Dr. 
W,  Raymond  Sanderson,  was  for  many  years  a 
well-known  figure  in  Frederick,  being  a  man  of 
great  information  and  widely  read  on  different 
subjects.  He  died  in  Frederick  at  an  advanced 
age,  and  was  buried  in  the  ancient  cemetery  in 
which  repose  so  many  of  the  Sanderson  family. 

Thomas  married  Hannah  Ann  Pearson,  of  Balti- 
more, daughter  of  Joseph  Pearson,  of  English  an- 
cestry, and  one  of  the  defenders  of  Baltimore  at 
the  battle  of  North  Point  in  18 12.  He  was  a 
successful  fur  merchant,  and  retired  from  business 
in  1850,  living  on  his  estate.  Highland  Park, 
until  his  death,  in  i860.  His  daughter,  Mrs. 
Sanderson,  was  a  woman  of  great  strength  of 
character  and  fine  executive  ability.  She  died  in 
the  same  year  as  her  husband,  leaving  eight  chil- 
dren, most  of  whom  are  married  and  settled  in 
the  neighborhood  of  Baltimore.  They  are  as  fol- 
lows: Mary,  who  married  Rev.  Robert  H.  Will- 
iams, of  Highland  Park;  Francis,  engaged  in 
business  in  Baltimore  and  editor  of  one  of  the 
departments  of  the  Baltimore  American;  Marga- 
ret, who  resides  in  Baltimore;  Inez  J. ,  wife  of 
John  F.  Williams,  a  well-known  attorney  and 
politician;  John  Pearson,  the  subject  of  our 
sketch;  Dr.  W.  Raymond,  graduate  of  the  Univer- 
sity of  Maryland,  who  came  to  Colorado  in  188 1 
and  is  engaged  in  the  cattle  business  with  his 
brother  John;  Julia  Hedges,  married  to  Edward 
C.  Eichelberger,  a  prominent  attorney  and  owner 
of  real-estate  in  Baltimore;  and  Eleanor,  who 
married  Graham  Johnston,  of  Frederick,  and 
grandson  of  one  of  the  governors  of  Maryland. 
Mr.  Sanderson  received  his  education  at  Aca- 


demia,  a  school  on  the  Juniata,  Pa.  After  finish- 
ing his  studies  he  returned  home,  and  took  charge 
of  the  family  estate.  The  Plains,  until  he  came  to 
Colorado  in  1879,  bringing  with  him  letters  of 
introduction  to  Governor  Gilpin  and  other  men  of 
prominence.  He  settled  in  Elbert  County,  where 
he  purchased  the  Hillside  ranch,  on  East  Bijou 
creek,  raising  high-grade  Shorthorn  cattle  and 
French  coach  horses.  This  ranch  is  well  im- 
proved and  well  situated  for  the  business;  the 
chief  feature  is  ample  provision  against  loss.  All 
calves  at  weaning  time  are  vaccinated  with  the 
Pasteur  lymph  as  a  preventive  against  black 
leg.  Mr.  Sanderson  is  one  of  the  early  members 
of  the  Colorado  Cattle  Growers'  Association. 

In  1882  he  married  Lucy  May  Fullerton,  of 
Baltimore,  daughter  of  Robert  B.  Fullerton,  a 
well-known  dry  goods  merchant  of  that  city,  and 
a  Scotch- Irishman  of  good  family,  having  been 
born  at  Mayne  House,  the  family  estate,  near 
Omagh,  County  Tyrone,  Ireland.  The  founder 
of  the  family  emigrated  from  Scotland  during  the 
rebellion  of  Sir  William  Wallace.  Mrs.  Sander- 
son is  of  English  parentage  on  her  mother's  side, 
and  a  descendant  of  Sir  William  Hemsmith,  a 
captain  in  the  British  army.  Her  mother,  Mrs. 
Eleanor  Fullerton,  is  well  known  in  literary  circles, 
east  and  west.  They  have  three  children,  John 
Pearson,  Jr. ,  Eleanor  May  and  Thomas  Campbell. 
Mr.  Sanderson's  family  have  always  been  Pres- 
byterians and  favored  the  Union  cause  during  the 
Civil  war.  He  is  a  stanch  bimetallist,  and  votes 
for  men  who  favor  that  cause. 


©AMUEL  A.  RANK,  civil  and  mining  engi- 
2S  neer,  has  been  United  States  deputy  mineral 
K/  surveyor  for  Colorado  for  nearly  a  score  of 
years,  having  been  appointed  by  Albert  Johnson, 
surveyor-general  of  the  state,  May  13,  1879.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Chase  &  Rank,  Mr. 
Chase  being  in  charge  of  their  oflSce,  No.  509 
Mining  Exchange,  Denver,  while  Mr.  Rank 
takes  the  management  of  their  Central  City  office. 
Mr.  Rank  was  named  in  honor  of  his  paternal 
grandfather,  Samuel  Rank,  who  was  a  native  of 
Pennsylvania  and  was  a  pioneer  in  Indiana,  in 
which  state  his  death  occurred.  The  father  of 
our  subject  was  William  Rank,  born  near  Will- 
iamsport,  Pa.,  and  for  years  a  farmer  of  Wa- 
bash, in  the  state  of  Indiana.     In  1835  he  moved 


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to  Olnistead  County,  Minn.,  where  he  was  a  pio- 
neer farmer.  He  is  still  living  in  the  vicinity  of 
Dover,  where  he  first  located,  and  has  served  as 
county  commissioner  and  in  other  positions  of 
local  importance.  His  wife,  of  an  old  Virginia 
family,  was  Miss  Elizabeth  J.  Donaldson  prior  to 
her  marriage.  When  a  young  girl  she  went  from 
her  native  state  to  Kentucky  with  her  mother. 
She  became  the  mother  of  ten  children,  all  but 
two  of  whom  she  saw  live  to  be  useful  men  and 
women,  the  others  dying  in  childhood.  She  died 
in  1896. 

The  birth  of  Samuel  A.  Rank  took  place  De- 
cember 15,  1848,  in  Wabash,  Ind.  He  received 
an  excellent  education  and  after  completing  his 
high-school  studies  entered  the  University  of 
Minnesota  in  1869.  After  taking  two  courses  of 
college  work  he  graduated  with  the  degree  of 
Bachelor  of  Science  and  Civil  Engineer.  Then, 
for  a  time,  in  order  to  gain  practical  experience, 
he  was  employed  in  railroad  construction  and  in 
the  spring  of  the  Centennial  year  he  came  to  Colo- 
rado. Going  to  Blackhawk  he  was  employed  in 
the  smelting  plant  until  the  spring  of  1877,  when 
he  entered  the  service  of  Hal  Sayr.  Four  years 
having  rolled  away  he  left  Mr.  Sayr  and  started 
in  business  for  himself  in  Central  City.  From 
1881  until  1884  he  was  alone  and  then  a  partner- 
ship between  himself  and  former  employer  was 
formed.  In  1886,  Mr.  Sayr  retiring,  Mr.  Rank 
and  Edwin  E.  Chase  entered  upon  their  connec- 
tion. They  are  both  United  States  deputy  min- 
eral surveyors.  In  his  line  of  duty  Mr.  Rank 
has  made  a  great  many  maps  of  Gilpin  and  Clear 
Creek  Counties,  and  assisted  in  surveying  the 
road  of  the  tramway  company.  He  has  laid  out 
ditches  and  roads  also,  and  has  been  county  sur- 
veyor of  Gilpin  County  five  terms.  In  fact,  he 
and  his  partner  have  divided  the  honors  of  that 
position  between  them  for  nearly  eighteen  years. 

For  six  or  seven  years  Mr.  Rank  held  the  ofiice 
of  city  surveyor  of  Central  City,  being  elected 
each  year.  He  has  always  been  a  loyal  Repub- 
lican, but  in  the  last  campaign  favored  the  silver 
side  in  the  great  contention.  He  has  often  at- 
tended the  conventions  of  his  party  and  has  been 
chairman  of  the  county  committee.  For  one  term 
he  acted  in  the  capacity  of  city  alderman.  His 
personal  popularity  is  plainly  manifested  by  the 
numerous  and  varied  public  positions  of  trust 
and  prominence  which  he  has  been  called  upon 


to  fill  from  time  to  time.  Fraternally  he  is  a 
Mason,  belonging  to  Central  City  Lodge  No.  6, 
A.  F.  &  A.  M.  When  a  student  in  the  Univer- 
sity of  Minnesota  he  was  identified  with  the 
Alpha  Nu  and  the  Chi  Psi  Greek  letter  societies. 
In  1879  Mr.  Rank  married  Miss  Clara  B. 
Childs,  of  Prescott,  Wis.  She  was  born  in  Ohio, 
and  is  a  daughter  of  Joel  Childs,  also  a  native  of 
Ohio.  The  five  children  born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Rank  are:  Clara  Louise,  Arzelia  Marr,  Mollie 
Fay,  Frank  and  Raymond.  In  1895  Mr.  Rank 
took  his  family  to  Denver  and  located  them  in  a 
pleasant  home  there,  in  order  that  the  children 
might  enjoy  better  educational  advantages.  His 
eldest  daughter  is  a  member  of  the  Denver  high 
school,  in  the  class  of  1899. 


"HOMAS  F.  WALSH,  junior  member  of  the 
firm  of  Gove  &  Walsh,  architects,  with 
office  in  the  McPhee  building,  Denver,  was 
born  in  Chicago  August  5,  1866.  The  house 
where  he  was  born  stood  on  Sherman  street,  about 
one-half  mile  from  the  present  site  of  the  court- 
house. At  the  time  of  the  great  fire  the  family 
lived  on  Fifth  avenue,  between  Polk  and  Taylor 
streets,  in  the  block  where  the  fire  first  crossed 
the  river.  When  the  flames  leaped  madly  from 
house  to  house  and  the  people  fled  in  terror  before 
the  fire  fiend,  they  escaped  on  a  wagon  drawn  by 
men,  as  horses  could  not  be  obtained  at  any 
price.  After  going  a  few  blocks  to  the  south  they 
reached  the  limit  of  the  fire,  and  were  then  safe. 

Though  Mr.  Walsh  was  then  a  child  of  only 
five  years,  he  distinctly  remembers  the  terrors  of 
that  night,  which  left  an  impression  never  to  be 
eradicated  from  his  mind.  At  the  time  the  fire 
started  the  family  were  in  bed,  but  between  ten 
and  eleven  o'clock  they  got  up  and  dressed,  and 
at  one  in  the  morning  they  were  compelled  to  flee 
for  their  lives.  They  took  refuge  on  a  freight 
platform,  where  they  spent  the  entire  day.  Of 
their  wearing  apparel  and  household  goods  they 
saved  only  a  mattress,  a  basket  of  dishes  and  the 
clothes  they  wore.  Relatives  accommodated  them 
with  two  rooms,  and  after  a  few  days  they  rented 
a  house  on  the  west  side.  Four  months  later, 
February  9,  1872,  the  father  died,  and  the  day 
after  his  youngest  child,  a  daughter,  was  bom. 

The  primary  education  of  our  subject  was  ob- 
tained in  the  parochial  schools,  which  he  attended 


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until  twelve  years  of  age.  At  the  age  of  thirteen 
he  secured  emplo3'nient  in  the  office  of  a  firm  of 
architects,  where  he  remained  a  year,  and  after- 
ward he  was  with  Edbrooke  &  Burnham,  of  Chi- 
cago for  six  years.  Coming  west  to  Denver,  he 
was  for  one  year  an  employe  of  Robert  S.  Roesch- 
laub,  but  then  returned  to  Chicago,  where  he 
spent  six  years  with  Holabird  &  Roche.  In  1894 
he  entered  into  his  present  partnership,  as  a  mem- 
ber of  the  firm  of  Gove  &  Walsh.  He  is  a  skill- 
ful architect,  possessing  the  excellent  judgment 
and  shrewd  business  qualifications  that  almost 
invariably  bring  success.  He  was  married  iu 
Denver  in  1891,  his  wife  being  Flora  L.  Clem- 
mons,  by  whom  he  has  three  children:  Loraine, 
born  in  Chicago;  and  Donald  and  Thomas  F.,  Jr., 
born  in  Denver. 

The  success  which  Mr.  Walsh  has  won  is  largely 
due  to  his  untiring  perseverance.  He  is  a  tireless 
worker,  with  keen  intuition  and  great  energy. 
His  success  is  all  the  more  commendable  when 
the  fact  is  considered  that  he  has  been  self-sup- 
porting from  boyhood.  His  father,  John  Walsh, 
died  when  he  was  a  mere  lad,  and  from  that  time  he 
was  obliged  to  assist  in  the  maintenance  of  the  other 
members  of  the  family.  He  was  the  third  in  a 
family  of  six  children  and  the  oldest  son  in  the 
family,  so  that  upon  him  the  responsibility  of 
supporting  the  others  largely  devolved. 


PIINCENT  McDowell,  a  farmer  and  stock- 
\  /  raiser  living  in  the  southeastern  part  of 
Y  Douglas  County,  owns  valuable  property  on 
section  21,  township  10,  range  66  west,  four  miles 
from  Greenland.  When  he  came  to  Colorado  in 
1879  he  settled  in  Douglas  County,  about  eight 
miles  from  his  present  place  of  residence.  After 
a  year  he  sold  the  property  and  for  two  years 
operated  as  a  renter,  after  which  he  bought  two 
hundred  and  forty  acres.  By  a  subsequent  pur- 
chase he  has  become  the  owner,  altogether,  of 
nine  hundred  and  sixty  acres,  the  whole  forming 
a  valuable  ranch. 

Born  in  Dallas  County,  Mo.,  January  12,  1839, 
our  subject  is  a  son  of  Garrett  and  Nancy  (Estes) 
McDowell.  His  father,  who  was  born  in  Ken- 
tucky of  Scotch  ancestry,  removed  to  Illinois 
with  his  parents  in  boyhood  and  settled  in  St. 
Clair  County,  where  he  married.  Later  he  re- 
moved to  Fountain  County,  Ind.,  and  from  there, 


in  1837,  to  Dallas  County,  Mo.  In  1846  he  went 
to  Mahaska  County,  Iowa,  and  thence  to  Jasper 
County,  the  .same  state,  where  he  died  in  1855. 
He  left  four  children,  of  whom  Vincent,  the  third, 
was  about  sixteen  years  of  age.  At  the  time  of 
his  death  he  was  operating  a  hotel  in  Monroe  and 
was  also  the  owner  of  forty  acres  near  that  town 
and  two  hundred  and  forty  acres  in  Mahaska 
County .  To  the  latter  place  the  widowed  mother, 
with  our  subject  and  a  sister,  returned  soon  after 
his  death,  and  there  the  mother  remained  until 
1866. 

In  i860  our  subject  came  to  Colorado  for  the 
first  time,  driving  acro.ss  the  plains  with  an  ox- 
team  and  spending  fifty-eight  days  on  the  way. 
He  arrived  in  Denver  June  2  and  from  there  pro- 
ceeded to  the  mines  at  Central  City,  where  he  re- 
mained until  March,  1863.  Then,  returning  to 
Iowa,  he  remained  until  1864,  when  he  drove  an 
ox-team  to  Virginia  City,  Mont.,  taking  a  load  of 
flour  and  bacon.  He  sold  the  flour  at  $32  a  hun- 
dred and  bacon  at  fifty  cents  a  pound.  Selling 
his  team  and  buying  a  team  of  mules,  he  drove 
to  Salt  Lake,  where  he  sold  the  mules  and  bought 
horses.  With  the  latter  he  came  through  to 
Denver  in  the  same  year,  1864.  Going  to  the 
mines  at  Idaho  Springs,  he  remained  there  until 
July  4,  1865.  He  then  returned  to  Iowa,  and  in 
1866  moved  the  family  to  Jefferson  County,  Kan., 
where  he  engaged  in  farm  'pursuits  for  twelve 
years. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  McDowell  in  Monroe 
County,  Iowa,  October  29,  1863,  united  him  with 
Miss  Rhoda  M.  Donegan,  of  Monroe  County,  but 
a  native  of  Jefferson  County,  Iowa.  Her  parents, 
John  and  Maria  (Roberts)  Donegan,  were  natives 
respectively  of  Ohio  and  Maine,  and  were  mar- 
ried in  Ohio,  removing  thence  to  Iowa  in  1844. 
From  Kansas  oitr  subject  came  to  Colorado  and 
has  since  made  his  home  in  Douglas  County, 
where  he  is  known  as  an  experienced  and  enter- 
prising cattle-dealer  and  raiser.  His  attention  is 
given  closely  to  farm  work,  and  he  has  little 
leisure  and  less  inclination  to  mingle  in  official 
matters.  However,  he  is  a  firm  adherent  of 
Democratic  principles,  having  voted  that  ticket  at 
every  election  since  1864,  when  he  supported 
George  B.  McClellan.  He  and  his  wife  became 
the  parents  of  seven  children.  Etta,  who  was 
born  in  Kansas,  married  Edgar  Chambers  and 
has  one  child,  Darrell,  now  six  years  old.     Mrs. 


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Chambers  is  a  widow  and  lives  with  her  parents. 
Eva  and  Effie  (twins)  were  born  in  Kansas.  The 
former  is  the  wife  of  Richard  Peake,  of  Grand 
Junction,  and  has  one  daughter,  Frances  L.; 
Effie  married  James  Mclnroy,  of  Douglas  County, 
and  has  a  son,  Harold  Vincent.  The  other  chil- 
dren are:   Mary,  Alice,  Frank  and  James. 


3 AMES  F.  WRIGHT,  the  owner  of  a  ranch 
comprising  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres, 
situated  one  and  one- half  miles  west  of 
Franktown,  Douglas  County,  was  born  in  Lin- 
coln County,  Me.,  March  21,  1835,  a  son  of 
Joseph  and  Rosalind  (Ripley)  Wright.  His 
father  was  born  near  Bath,  Me.,  of  English  an- 
cestry, while  his  mothei,  also  a  native  of  Maine, 
was  of  English  and  Scotch  lineage.  The  former, 
who  was  a  blacksmith  by  trade,  had  a  shop  on 
his  farm,  and  the  family  for  years  lived  in  the 
country.  Our  subject  attended  district  schools 
and  at  an  early  age  began  to  assist  his  father  in 
the  shop.  When  about  nineteen  years  of  age  he 
went  to  Charlestown,  Mass.,  and  for  nearly  three 
years  worked  for  small  wages,  completing  his 
trade.  He  then  entered  a  carriage  shop  in 
Boston,  where  he  learned  the  trade  of  a  carriage 
and  wagon  ironer  and  blacksmith.  For  two 
years  he  worked  in  Dedham. 

While  in  the  latter  town  Mr.  Wright  was 
united  in  marriage  with  Miss  Maria  E.  Broad,  of 
Milton ^  Mass.,  who  was  born  in  Maine,  but  re- 
moved to  Massachusetts  in  childhood.  During 
his  period  of  residence  in  Dedham  Mr.  Wright 
was  connected  with  the  blacksmith's  department 
of  a  woolen  plant,  but  after  a  few  years  in  that 
capacity  he  started  a  shop  of  his  own  at  Pine 
Tree  Brook  in  Milton,  where  he  carried  on  busi- 
ness for  some  years.  On  selling  out  he  returned 
to  Dedham,  where  he  opened  a  harness  and 
trimming  shop,  and  also  followed  the  trades  of 
wheelwright  and  blacksmith.  After  a  number 
of  years  he  bought  an  interest  in  a  livery  stable, 
which  he  conducted  for  two  years. 

In  1874,  disposing  of  his  interests  in  Massa- 
chusetts, Mr.  Wright  came  to  Colorado,  where 
he  worked  in  Pueblo  a  few  months.  In  July  he 
went  to  Idaho  Springs,  where  he  worked  for  a 
stage  company.  In  December,  1876,  he  sent  for 
his  family,  who  joined  him,  and  the}^  resided  in 
Idaho  Springs  until   their  removal  to    Douglas 


County  in  1878.  Here  he  homesteaded  the  farm 
he  has  since  placed  under  cultivation  and  im- 
proved with  good  buildings.  He  and  his  wife 
are  the  parents  of  three  living  children,  namely: 
Louise,  Minnie  and  Frank  H.  Louise  married 
Daniel  Wilson,  by  whom  she  has  five  children; 
they  reside  on  a  ranch  near  her  father's  place. 
Minnie  is  the  wife  of  Hiram  Ellis  and  has  four 
children,  their  home  being  on  a  ranch  near  the 
old  homestead.  Frank  H.  is  married  and  makes 
his  home  in  Denver.  From  early  boyhood  Mr. 
Wright  has  been  a  stanch  Republican  and  his 
first  presidential  ballot  was  cast  for  Abraham 
Lincoln  in  1856.  When  in  Dedham  he  became 
a  member  of  Orient  Lodge,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.  He 
is  an  industrious,  hard-working  man,  who  richly 
deserves  the  pro-sperity  he  has  gained  as  well  as 
whatever  of  fortune  the  future  may  bring  him. 


0EORGE  E.  ALEXANDER,  M.D.,  of  Castle 
|_  Rock,  Douglas  County,  is  a  descendant  in 
^_J  the  fourth  generation  of  a  Scotchman  who 
crossed  the  ocean  and  made  settlement  near 
Salem,  Middlesex  County,  Conn.  Since  that 
time  the  family  have  been  residents  and  farmers 
in  that  state.  The  doctor's  father,  George  W. 
Alexander,  was  born  in  New  London  County, 
Conn.,  and  married  Nancy  R.  Chapel;  both  are 
now  about  sixty-seven  years  of  age. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  at  Uiicas- 
ville,  New  London  County,  Conn.,  January  9, 
1859.  His  boyhood  days  were  spent  in  the 
village,  where  his  father  moved  from  the  farm 
when  he  was  eight  years  of  age.  He  attended 
the  graded  schools  and  after  completing  the  reg- 
ular course  therein  he  went  to  Portville,  Cattar- 
augus County,  N.  Y.,  where  he  studied  medicine 
under  Dr.  Goodrich.  At  the  same  time,  and  in 
order  to  earn  the  means  with  which  to  pro.secute 
his  studies,  he  worked  in  the  oSice  of  William  G. 
Johnson,  a  manufacturer  of  dyes  in  his  home 
town,  for  three  years.  Afterward  he  took  a  four 
years'  course  of  study  in  the  medical  department 
of  the  Buffalo  University,  from  which  he  gradua- 
ted with  the  degree  of  M.  D.  in  1885.  During 
his  summer  vacations  he  worked  in  a  drug  store 
and  in  the  state  in.sane  hospital,  where  for  two 
years  he  had  considerable  experience  in  the  treat- 
ment of  nervous  diseases. 

After  his  graduation  in  1885,  Dr.  Alexander 


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returned  to  his  home  and  began  to  practice  his 
profession,  continuing  in  Uncasville  for  four 
years.  While  there  he  married  Arline  H.,  the 
daughter  of  Frederick  Harris,  member  of  the 
firm  of  Shepherd  &  Harris,  merchant  tailors  of 
New  London.  Mrs.  Alexander  was  born  in  New 
London  and  received  splendid  educational  advan- 
tages, being  a  graduate  of  Vassar.  She  became 
the  wife  of  Dr.  Alexander  February  13,  1889. 
Her  health  failed  while  the  doctor  was  taking  a 
course  in  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons 
in  Brooklyn,  and  he  brought  her  to  Colorado, 
settling  in  Fort  Collins,  where  he  built  up  a  good 
practice.  The  change,  however,  did  not  benefit 
his  wife,  and  she  died  in  1892.  The  following 
year,  having  invested  and  lost  almost  his  entire 
property  in  mining  interests,  he  came  to  Castle 
Rock  and  has  since  established  a  reputation  as  a 
skillful  physician  among  the  people  here.  Febru- 
ary 3,  1898,  he  married  Miss  Bessie  Shaw,  who 
was  born  in  Oregon,  received  her  education  at 
Athens,  Ohio,  and  at  the  time  of  her  marriage 
was  living  at  Canon  City,  Colo. ,  where  her  father 
held  a  pastorate. 

While  he  was  reared  to  believe  in  the  Democ- 
racy Dr.  Alexander  has  for  some  years  held  his 
allegiance  to  the  Republican  party  and  voted  for 
its  candidates.  While  living  in  Connecticut  he 
became  connected  with  the  Oxoboxo  Lodge  No. 
116,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  of  Montville,  Conn.,  from 
which  he  received  a  demit  on  his  removal.  He 
is  medical  examiner  for  the  Ancient  Order  of 
United  Workmen  and  the  Woodmen  of  the  World 
at  Castle  Rock. 


"TUGENE  E.  CLARK,  one  of  the  reliable, 
^  successful  merchants  of  Blackhawk,  Gilpin 
__  County,  has  been  engaged  in  business  here 
for  nearly  a  score  of  years  and  no  one  is  more 
highly  esteemed  among  our  citizens.  Coming 
here  a  young  man,  with  his  position  and  fortune 
yet  to  make,  he  steadily  advanced  toward  the 
goal  he  had  set  before  him,  and  now  enjoys  the 
realization  of  many  of  his  youthful  dreams. 
This  result  was  not  achieved  without  the 
exercise  of  all  his  talents  and  strict  attention 
to  business,  but  he  was  not  one  to  be  discouraged 
by  obstacles  or  failures,  and  eventually  won  de- 
cided victories  over  circumstances.  He  is  a 
valued  member  of  Blackhawk  Lodge  No.  11, 
A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  and  Chapter  No.  I  ,  R.  A.  M.,  of 


Central  City,  and  is  connected  with  the  Knights 
of  Pythias.  Though  he  has  always  been  a  believer 
in  the  principles  of  the  Democratic  party,  he  has 
not  been  an  admirer  of  ex- President  Cleveland, 
either  from  a  personal  or  political  point  of  view, 
nor  did  he  approve  of  his  peculiar  methods  and 
political  machinery. 

The  subject  of  this  biography  is  of  English  de- 
scent, though  on  both  sides  of  the  family  his 
ancestors  were  connected  with  the  colonial  New 
England  for  generations.  The  Clarks,  an  old 
Massachusetts  family,  took  a  leading  part  in  the 
development  of  the  state  and  furnished  numerous 
brilliant  men  to  the  commonwealth. 

Eugene  E.  Clark  is  the  only  member  of  a  once 
large  family  circle  in  the  west.  He  was  born  in 
Westville,  N.  Y.,  January  18,  1854,  and  was 
brought  up  in  that  vicinity.  He  received  good 
educational  advantages,  and  was  a  student  in  the 
public  schools  of  his  home  district  until  he  was 
seventeen  years  old.  In  1888  he  became  a  mem- 
ber of  the  firm  of  Lowell  &  Clark,  and  continued 
the  business  at  the  old  location,  on  Gregory 
street.  In  January,  1897,  having  purchased  his 
partner's  interest,  Mr.  Clark  succeeded  to  the 
whole  business  and  has  since  managed  it  entirely 
alone.  His  large  double  store  warehouses  and 
three  basements  are  splendidly  stocked  with  a  full 
line  of  heavy  and  shelf  hardware,  mill,  mine  and 
assayer's  tools,  implements  and  supplies.  The 
volume  of  trade,  both  wholesale  and  retail,  which 
he  handles,  is  really  phenomenal,  and  speaks  well 
for  his  far-sightedness  and  judicious  methods  of 
transacting  business.  He  is  a  director  in  the 
Rocky  Mountain  Bank  of  Central  City  and  has 
investments  in  mining  property.  In  manner  he 
is  genial  and  courteous,  making  friends  wherever 
he  goes  and  winning  the  esteem  of  all. 

In  1 88 1  Mr.  Clark  married  Miss  Catherine 
Launder  in  Blackhawk.  Mrs.  Clark  is  a  native 
of  Michigan,  while  her  parents  were  from  New 
Haven,  Conn.  Three  sons  and  one  daughter 
comprise  the  family  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Clark,  and 
are  named  as  follows:  Ernest,  Chester,  Elmer 
and  Dorothy. 

|gjEORGE  RATCLIFFE  is  one  of  the  largest 
l_  land  owners  in  Douglas  County,  and,  indeed, 
\^  in  the  entire  state  of  Colorado.  He  is  the 
owner  of  a  ranch  comprising  five  thousand  acres, 
all  of  which,  excepting  one-half  section,  lies  in  a 


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body.onW  est  Plum  Creek,  ten  miles  from  Sedalia. 
Here  he  settled  in  1861,  when  the  land  was  wild 
and  raw,  and  settlers  few,  his  nearest  neighbor 
being  where  the  schoolhouse  now  stands.  At 
first  he  bought  a  comparatively  small  tract,  but  as 
the  years  passed  he  added  to  it  until  his  posses- 
sions reached  a  large  acreage. 

In  Derby,  Derbyshire,  England,  Mr.  Ratcliffe 
was  born  January  26,  1837,  a  son  of  Richard  and 
Elizabeth  (Ball)  Ratcliffe.  He  was  reared  on  a 
farm  and  received  a  common-school  education. 
In  Chester,  England,  May  12,  1857,  ^^  married 
Miss  Mary  Nixon,  who  was  born  near  Hartford, 
Cheshire,  England,  a  daughter  of  Andrew  and 
Ziprah  Nixon.  Soon  after  their  marriage  they 
started  for  America,  and  after  a  voyage  of  six 
weeks  and  three  days,  landed  in  New  York  in 
July,  1857.  From  there  they  went  to  Marengo, 
Iowa  County,  Iowa,  where  Mr.  Ratcliffe  secured 
work  by  the  day.  After  two  years  he  went  to 
Salt  Lake  and  began  to  work  for  Miller,  Russell, 
Waddell  &  Co.,  with  whom  he  remained,  on  the 
pony  express  conducted  by  them,  until  i860. 
He  then  came  to  Denver,  and  here  loaned  out  all 
his  money  and  soon  lost  it  through  the  failure  of 
the  parties  to  whom  it  had  been  loaned.  Re- 
maining in  Denver  until  February,  i860,  he  then 
took  a  hunting  trip  in  the  vicinity  of  his  present 
home,  and  was  so  pleased  with  the  location  that 
he  took  a  squatter's  claim  down  the  creek  from 
his  present  home.  In  1862  he  sold  the  claim  and 
moved  to  his  present  location,  where  he  has  since 
improved  a  valuable  ranch,  and  has  four  hundred 
and  fifty  head  of  cattle.  In  1868,  during  the 
Indian  troubles,  he  removed  his  family  to  Lit- 
tleton. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ratcliffe  have  four  children,  the 
eldest  of  whom,  Elizabeth,  married  William 
Dillon,  an  attorney  of  Chicago,  and  has  four 
children.  The  others  are  Pearl,  Richard  and 
Lucy,  Mrs.  John  H.  Clark,  who  lives  on  a  ranch 
near  the  home  of  her  parents.  In  politics  Mr. 
Ratcliffe  has  been  a  firm  adherent  of  the  Demo- 
cratic party  ever  since  he  came  to  this  country, 
and  upon  that  ticket  he  was  three  times  elected 
county  commissioner  of  Douglas  County.  In 
his  native  land  he  attended  the  Episcopal  Church 
and  has  always  favored  its  doctrines,  though  he 
has  not  identified  himself  with  the  denomination. 
He  assisted  in  the  erection  of  St.  Philip's  Church, 
which  is  near  his  home.     Since   he  came  here, 


more  than  thirty-five  years  ago,  he  has  witnessed 
many  changes  in  the  surrounding  country.  Set- 
tlers have  been  attracted  hither,  farms  have  been 
opened  up  and  land  improved,  while  on  every 
hand  little  towns  have  sprung  into  existence. 
He  well  remembers  how,  in  his  early  days  here, 
he  often  was  obliged  to  go  armed  while.gathering 
his  crops,  lest  he  might  be  suddenly  attacked  by 
the  Indians,  who,  though  friendly  at  first,  after- 
ward proved  to  be  treacherous  and  dangerous 
enemies.  In  common  with  other  early  settlers  he 
holds  membership  in  the  Association  of  Colorado 
Pioneers. 


(lACOB  WOLFENSBERGER  is  engaged  in 
I  stock-raising  and  the  dairy  business  in 
(2/  Douglas  County,  where  he  owns  a  ranch 
four  miles  from  Castle  Rock.  He  operates  one 
thousand  acres,  of  which  amount  seven  hundred 
have  been  deeded  to  him  by  purchase.  A  native 
of  Switzerland,  he  was  born  March  17,  1865,  and 
in  his  native  land  the  first  eighteen  years  of  his 
life  were  passed.  When  only  six  months  old  his 
mother  died  and  when  he  was  eight,  his  father, 
Henry  Wolfensberger,  passed  from  earth.  After- 
ward he  made  his  home  with  a  brother  and  sister, 
and  attended  school  until  he  was  ten.  When 
thirteen  years  old  he  began  to  learn  the  shoe- 
maker's trade,  at  which  he  was  employed  for 
four  years.  On  leaving  the  service  of  his  master, 
he  was  paid  one  hundred  and  fifty  francs.  Going 
to  Germany,  he  worked  for  six  months,  earning 
another  one  hundred  and  fifty  francs.  In  this 
way  he  secured  the  money  to  pay  his  passage  to 
America. 

In  1883  Mr.  Wolfensberger  crossed  the  ocean 
to  America,  spending  eleven  days  on  the  ocean 
and  landing  in  New  York,  whence  he  went  to 
Milwaukee,  joining  a  brother  in  that  city.  He 
secured  employment  on  a  farm  in  Wi.sconsin. 
After  he  had  been  in  this  country  for  eighteen 
months  he  entered  school,  in  order  to  perfect 
himself  in  the  English  language.  He  was  suc- 
cessful in  his  work,  and  being  economical,  when 
he  landed  in  Denver,  March  17,  1S86,  he  had 
$300  in  cash.  After  coming  here  he  engaged  in 
various  occupations,  and  at  such  employment  as 
would  furnish  him  an  honest  living.  He  took 
up  a  homestead  near  Sedalia,  but  sold  it  after  he 
had  held  it  for  five  years  and  proved  up  on  it.  , 
July  17,  1891,  Mr.  Wolfensberger  married  Miss 


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Martha  Bengtson,  who  had  a  homestead  near 
their  present  place  of  residence.  She  was  born 
in  Sweden  and  accompanied  other  members  of 
her  family  to  this  country.  After  she  had  set- 
tled in  Colorado,  her  father,  John  Bengtson,  came 
here  and  also  took  up  a  homestead.  Of  her  mar- 
riage three  children  have  been  born:  Edward, 
Torgny  and  Alice.  In  politics  Mr.  Wolfens- 
berger  is  independent,  but  in  1888  he  voted  for 
the  Democratic  candidate,  Grover  Cleveland.  He 
inclines  to  the  Lutheran  Church,  having  been 
reared  in  its  faith.  Fraternally  he  in  connected 
with  Castlewood  Camp,  Woodmen  of  the  World. 


©AMUEL  BRINKERHUFF  is  one  of  the 
?Sk  progressive  and  influential  agriculturists  of 
Qj  Weld  County.  A  man  just  in  the  prime 
of  life,  he  is  energetic,  imdustrious  and  thoroughly 
imbued  with  the  spirit  of  the  age.  He  has  lived 
upon  his  present  homestead  for  just  a  score  of 
years,  during  which  time  he  has  wonderfully  im- 
proved the  place,  adding  greatly  to  its  usefulness 
and  beauty  by  judicious  expenditure  and  labor. 
It  is  situated  about  seven  miles  to  the  eastward 
of  Longmont,  Boulder  County,  being  just  across 
the  Weld  County  line. 

Born  in  Cass  County,  Iowa,  December  3,  1858, 
our  subject  is  one  of  the  six  children  of  James  W. 
and  Isabelle(Slater)  Brinkerhuff.  Only  three  of 
the  little  family  circle  remain,  Samuel,  James 
and  Rebecca.  His  father,  a  native  of  Pennsyl- 
vania, was  born  July  8,  181 1.  He  married  while 
young,  and  had  five  children  by  his  first 
marriage,  of  whom  two,  George  and  Adeline, 
survive.  After  his  first  marriage  James  W. 
Brinkerhuff  removed  to  Ohio,  and  made  his  home 
in  that  state  until  1854.  He  then  settled  in  Iowa 
and  in  1866  came  to  Colorado.  Here  he  engaged 
in  farming  on  Clear  Creek,  near  Denver.  Some 
years  afterward  he  took  up  his  residence  on  Ral- 
ston Creek,  about  six  miles  from  Golden,  and  on 
this  farm  his  death  took  place  in  1874.  His 
marriage  with  our  subject's  mother  had  been 
solemnized  in  Ohio.  She  survived  him,  and  in 
1878  she  homesteaded  a  tract  of  eighty  acres,  a 
portion  of  the  farm  now  in  the  possession  of  her 
son  Samuel.  Her  death  occurred  in  1891.  After 
his  father's  death  our  subject  took  upon  himself 
many  of  the  cares  and  responsibilities  of  the 
household,  and  rapidly  developed  into  a  stalwart, 


noble  manhood.  He  worked  with  a  will  in  im- 
proving the  new  farm  and  ere  many  years  had 
rolled  over  his  head,  he  was  classed  with  the 
best  farmers  of  the  district.  In  1892  he  purchased 
one  hundred  and  twenty  acres  of  adjoining  prop- 
erty, thus  increasing  his  home  farm  to  one  of  two 
hundred  acres.  He  is  a  member  of  the  order  of 
the  Woodmen  of  the  World,  belonging  to 
Mountain  Valley  Camp  No.  31.  Politically  he 
advocates  the  Democratic  party  platform. 

Im  1885  Mr.  Brinkerhuff  married  MissLavina 
Ballinger,  daughter  of  Harmon  Ballinger,  their 
marriage  being  celebrated  at  the  home  of  the 
lady's  father,  a  few  miles  from  Golden.  She  is  a 
native  of  Colorado,  her  birth  having  taken  place 
upon  the  parental  homestead  on  Ralston's  Creek. 
Five  daughters  grace  the  happy  home  of  our  sub- 
ject and  his  wife.  Their  names  in  order  of 
birth  are  as  follows:  Rosa  May,  Jennie  L. , 
Beulah  M. ,  Bertha  L.  and  Erma  I.  The  family 
ranks  deservedly  high  among  the  residents  of 
this  locality  and  their  pleasant  home  is  the  fre- 
quent scene  of  cheerful  gatherings  of  friends. 


Q  LFRED  AULSEBROOK  is  the  proprietor  of 
LI  the  Pioneer  ranch,  on  section  21,  township 
I  I  10,  range  65  west,  ten  miles  east  of  Green- 
land, Douglas  County,  h'is  land  aggregating  nine 
hundred  and  fifty-five  acres,-of  which  all  but  forty 
acres  lie  in  one  body.  He  was  born  near  Not- 
tingham, England,  December  23,  1842,  and  was 
brought  to  America  at  four  months  of  age  by  his 
parents,  John  G.  and  Martha  (Cocking)  Aulse- 
brook.  His  father,  who  settled  in  Jefferson 
County,  Wis.,  bought  a  farm  of  eighty  acres  and 
there  resided  until  his  death,  at  eighty-three 
years.  His  wife  afterward  came  to  Colorado  and 
made  her  home  with  a  daughter  in  Gilpin  County, 
where  her  death  occurred.  Her  remains  were 
taken  back  to  Wisconsin  and  buried  beside  her 
husband's  body. 

When  about  nineteen  years  of  age  our  subject 
began  to  be  self-supporting.  In  1863  he  came  to 
Colorado  and  for  a  time  worked  in  mines.  As 
soon  as  he  had  earned  a  little  money,  he  paid  a 
debt  of  $40  owed  an  older  brother,  who  had 
loaned  him  the  necessary  amount  to  make  the 
trip  to  Colorado.  In  time  he  became  owner  of  a 
one-third  interest  in  a  twenty-five-stamp  mill,  an 
enterprise  which  he  conducted  prosperously   for 


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Residence  of  Charles  Gilpin-Brown,  on  his  ranch,  Livermore,  Colo. 


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twelve  j'ears.  Meantime  he  and  his  brother  pur- 
chased one  hundred  and  twenty  acres  of  his  pres- 
ent homestead.  From  time  to  time  they  bought 
other  tracts  and  made  improvement  on  the  prop- 
erty. Here  he  has  resided  since  1868  and  has 
given  his  attention  principally  to  farming,  al- 
though he  still  owns  mining  interests  in'  Gilpin 
County.  He  was  reared  in  the  Democratic  faith, 
but  has  little  time  for  politics  and  no  inclination 
to  strive  for  office. 

In  Gilpin  County,  in  1886,  Mr.  Aulsebrook 
married  Miss  Carrie  Kloth,  who  was  born  in 
Galena,  111. ,  of  German  parentage,  and  received 
a  fair  education.  The  year  after  their  marriage 
they  settled  upon  their  present  farm,  and  here 
they  have  since  resided.  They  are  the  parents 
of  three  children,  viz.:  Perry,  who  was  born  in 
Gilpin  County  April  24,  1887;  Lena,  who  was 
born  in  Gilpin  County  July  7,  1889;  and  William, 
who  was  born  on  the  home  farm  in  Douglas 
County  August  7,  1896.  The  farm  property  is 
well  improved  and  speaks  volumes  for  the  care 
and  cultivation  bestowed  upon  it  by  its  owner. 
In  addition  to  raising  general  farm  products,  he 
handles  cattle  and  has  on  his  farm  about  one 
hundred  head  of  fine  cattle. 


EHARLES  GILPIN-BROWN.  Among  the 
ranches  of  Larimer  County,  and  indeed 
among  those  in  the  state,  there  are  few  that 
excel  in  improvements  the  one  owned  and  occu- 
pied by  the  subject  of  this  article.  Coming  to  this 
country  from  England,  instead  of  the  almost  per- 
petual fogs  of  his  native  home,  he  has  enjoyed  the 
almost  perpetual  sunshine  of  his  mountain  home. 
His  place  comprises  twelve  hundred  acres,  in  one 
body,  situated  on  Lone  Pine  and  Rabbit  Creeks, 
and  irrigated  by  many  miles  of  private  ditches. 
About  two  hundred  acres  are  planted  to  alfalfa, 
while  much  of  the  remaining  tract  is  utilized  as 
pasturage  for  his  graded  Shorthorn  cattle.  The 
land  is  situated  twenty -four  miles  from  Fort  Col- 
lins and  one  and  one-half  miles  from  Livermore, 
adjoining  Leslie  Horsley 's  ranch  on  the  east.  Up- 
on it  stands  one  of  the  most  attractive  homes  in 
the  county.  Built  of  frame, -three  stories  in  height, 
surrounded  on  three  sides  by  a  broad  piazza,  it 
contains  fourteen  commodious  rooms,  furnished 
with  taste  and  elegance,  and  supplied  with  hot 
and  cold  water  and  all  the  conveniences  of  modern 
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life.  The  surrounding  scenery  is  wild  and  pic- 
turesque; in  the  rearward  stretch  the  mountains, 
grand  and  rugged  in  their  stately  beauty.  Their 
presence  has  a  value  besides  that  of  gratifying 
an  esthetic  taste,  for  they  temper  both  the  heat 
of  summer  and  cold  of  winter  and  prevent  undue 
extremes  of  temperature. 

On  his  father's  landed  estate,  Sedbury,  near 
Richmond,  England,  Charles  Gilpin-Brown  was 
born  September  24,  1857.  His  father,  George  Gil- 
pin, was  a  son  of  John  Gilpin,  of  an  old  Engish 
family.  He  was  an  only  son  and  until  1840 
bore  the  name  of  Gilpin,  but  on  account  of  the 
heirship  of  some  property,  he  added  the  name 
of  Brown,  making  the  family  name  Gilpin-Brown. 
He  was  a  large  land  owner  and  was  proprietor  of 
the  estate,  Sedbury,  in  Yorkshire,  also  lord  of 
the  manor  of  Arkendale,  consisting  of  twenty-two 
thousand  acres,  twenty  miles  from  Sedbury.  His 
father,  who  was  an  Episcopalian  clergyman,  was 
also  lord  of  the  manor  of  Arkendale.  One  of 
his  most  famous  ancestors  was  Bernard  Gilpin, 
who  lived  in  the  time  of  Queen  Mary,  and,  being 
police  to  the  clergy,  had  to  suffer  the  penalty. 
He  was  condemned  to  be  beheaded  and  was  on 
the  way  to  London  when  he  broke  his  leg.  For- 
tunately for  him,  while  his  limb  was  healing,  the 
queen  was  beheaded,  and  thus  his  life  was  saved. 
For  years  it  had  been  a  favorite  saying  of  his  that 
everything  that  happened  was  for  the  best;  and 
certainly  this  proved  true  at  that  time. 

Fraternally  George  Gilpin-Brown  was  a  Ma.son. 
For  some  time  he  served  as  a  magistrate.  He 
died  in  December,  1887.  His  wife,  who  was 
Louisa  Dundas,  was  a  member  of  an  old  family 
and  is  now  living  at  Sedbury.  Of  their  twelve 
children  all  but  two  are  living.  George  Thomas 
is  a  magi.strate  and  resides  at  the  family  manor, 
Sedbury.  William  lives  in  Lincolnshire  and 
Frances  at  Sedbury.  Edward,  who  took  part 
with  the  Ninety-second  Highlanders  in  the  Af- 
ghanistan campaign  of  1876-78,  was  promoted 
from  lieutenant  to  captain  for  meritorious  service. 
He  also  served  through  the  Egyptian  campaign. 
He  now  lives  in  Regina,  Canada,  and  is  captain 
of  the  Regina  mounted  police.  Louisa  lives  at 
Sedbury;  Charles  is  next  in  order  of  birth;  Octa- 
via  is  at  Sedbury;  Harry  L.  is  represented  on 
another  page  of  this  volume;  Helen  remains  at 
the  old  home  place;  and  Frederick  is  a  first  lieu- 
tenant in  the  English  navy. 


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PORTRAIT  AND  BIOGRAPHICAL  RECORD. 


In  the  public  schools  at  Harrow  and  the 
Wimbledon  Military  school,  the  subject  of  this 
sketch  received  his  education.  The  latter  insti- 
tution he  left  just  before  the  time  to  take  the  civil 
service  examination.  Afterward  he  operated 
coal  mines  at  Durham,  in  the  north  of  England, 
but  not  liking  the  business,  he  came  to  America, 
intending  only  to  visit  his  brother,  H.  I,.,  but 
was  so  pleased  with  the  climate  of  Colorado  that 
he  decided  to  locate  here.  Accordingly  he 
bought  the  Weymouth  ranch,  which  he  has 
since  improved  and  occupied.  In  addition  he 
owns  a  ranch  of  three  hundred  and  twenty  acres 
six  miles  south  of  Fort  Collins,  which  he  has  im- 
proved, irrigated  and  now  rents.  Trilby  Station, 
on  the  Gulf  Railroad,  is  located  on  the  farm. 

The  marriage  of  Charles  Gilpin-Brown,  in 
lyivermore,  united  him  with  Miss  Helen  Poland, 
who  was  born  in  Boston,  Mass.,  and  accompanied 
her  father,  William  Poland,  to  Livermore,  Colo. 
They  have  two  daughters,  Margaret  Louisa  and 
Helen.  Mr.  Gilpin-Brown  was  made  a  Mason  in 
Fort  Collins  Lodge  No.  19,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  to 
which  he  has  since  belonged.  Since  coming  to  this 
country  and  studying  the  political  issues  that  con- 
front the  people,  he  has  given  his  allegiance  to 
the  Republican  party.  In  religion  he  adheres  to 
the  faith  of  the  Church  of  England. 


HARRY  L.  GILPIN-BROWN.  In  Larimer 
County,  about  twelve  miles  east  of  Fort 
Collins,  Mr.  Gilpin-Brown  located  upon 
coming  to  the  United  States  in  1880,  from  Scar- 
boro,  Yorkshire,  England,  where  he  was  born 
October  11,  i860.  At  once  after  settling  here 
he  embarked  in  the  stock  business  and  from  the 
first  he  met  with  success.  After  three  years  on 
the  same  farm  he  located  in  Livermore  in  1883, 
and  in  1890  bought  the  ranch  near  this  place 
where  he  has  since  resided.  Here  he  has  three 
hundred  and  sixty  acres  sown  to  alfalfa,  while 
the  remainder  of  the  land  is  devoted  to  the  graz- 
ing of  cattle  and  horses.  Many  valuable  improve- 
ments have  been  made  on  his  land,  the  most  con- 
spicuous of  which  is  his  elegant  and  commodious 
residence,  one  of  the  finest  in  the  entire  county. 
The  parentage  and  ancestry  of  Mr.  Gilpin- 
Brown  are  given  in  the  sketch  of  his  brother, 
Charles.  He  is  a  nephew  of  Governor  Gilpin, 
who  was  the  first  governor  of  Colorado  and  was  a 


man  of  prominence  and  influence  throughout  the 
entire  mountain  region.  Of  the  early  youth  of 
our  subject,  it  may  be  said  that  he  attended  the 
schools  of  England  and  had  all  the  advantages 
which  the  son  of  wealthy  parents  can  enjoy. 
While  .still  a  mere  youth  he  came  to  America  and 
has  since  made  his  home  in  Colorado,  by  his 
good  management  adding  to  the  fortune  that  he 
inherited.  The  cattle  business  is  his  specialty, 
and  since  1880  his  brand,  "Z.  U.,"  has  been  one 
of  the  best  known  in  Larimer  County.  He 
raises  a  fine  grade  of  Herefords  and  keeps  only 
the  best  stock.  His  land  is  irrigated  by  private 
ditches  running  from  Lone  Pine  Creek.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Larimer  County  Stock  Growers' 
and  Protective  Association,  and  he  served  upon 
its  executive  committee.  In  January,  1898,  he 
was  elected  a  delegate  to  the  National  Stock  Grow- 
ers' Convention  at  Denver.  The  ranch  that  he 
owns  was  once  the  property  of  Jim  Baker,  the 
noted  scout,  and  later  belonged  to  George 
Burnham. 

In  religious  faith  Mr.  Gilpin-Brown  adheres  to 
the  doctrines  supported  by  his  ancestors  for  gen- 
erations back,  being  identified  with  the  Episco- 
palian Church.  Politically  he  votes  the  Repub- 
lican ticket,  but  is  not  active  in  public  affairs, 
his  tastes  not  running  in  that  direction.  His 
marriage  was  solemnized  January  18,  1893,  in 
Livermore,  and  united  him  with  Sylvia  Swan, 
who  was  born  in  Pleasant  Valley, Larimer  County, 
and  is  a  daughter  of  James  H.  Swan,  a  sketch  of 
whom  is  given  on  another  page.  She  is  popular 
in  social  circles  and  at  this  writing  holds  of- 
fice as  president  of  the  Woman's  Club  of  Liver- 
more. 


0AVID  R.  WILLIAMS.  Standing  conspic- 
uously in  the  foremost  ranks  of  the  manu- 
facturers of  Douglas  County  is  the  gentle- 
man whose  name  appears  at  the  head  of  this  brief 
narrative,  who  is  the  owner  and  proprietor  of  the 
largest  cheese  factory  in  the  county,  which  is 
located  at  Williamsville,  on  Cherry  Creek,  and 
ten  miles  from  the  village  of  Greenland.  This 
prosperous  and  enterprising  citizen  embarked  in 
his  present  business  in  the  year  1889,  and  has, 
by  his  honest  and  straightforward  dealing, 
coupled  with  the  quality  of  his  product,  estab- 
lished a  large  and  paying  patronage.  His  prin- 
cipal   shipping    points    are    Denver,    Colorado 


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Springs  and  Pueblo,  where  his  products  com- 
mand a  ready  sale.  He  also  owns  eleven  hun- 
dred and  eighty  acres  of  deeded  land  and  a  sec- 
tion of  school  land  leased. 

Mr.  Williams  was  born  in  Barre,  Worcester 
County,  Mass.,  July  i,  1837,  and  is  a  son  of 
Bela  and  Mary  (Parker)  Williams.  His  maternal 
grandfather  was  Nehemiah  Parker,  who  served 
throughout  the  Revolutionary  war,  and  died  at 
the  ripe  old  age  of  ninety-five  years,  our  .subject 
having  a  faint  recollection  of  the  funeral.  Our 
subject's  mother  attained  the  advanced  age  of 
eighty-four  years,  while  his  father  entered  the 
unknown  beyond  at  the  age  of  seventy-three 
years. 

David  R.  Williams  obtained  his  education  in 
the  public  schools  of  his  native  township,  and 
spent  his  leisure  hours  working  on  his  father's 
farm.  Leaving  the  parental  roof  in  1857  he  went 
to  New  York  City,  where  he  took  the  steamer 
for  the  Isthmus  of  Panama,  and  then  crossed  to 
the  Pacific  Ocean,  and  took  the  steamer  for  San 
Francisco,  Cal.  His  first  three  years  in  that 
state  were  spent  working  at  placer  mining  and 
stock-raising,  and  in  1861,  with  a  party  of  one 
hundred  and  thirty  people,  who  had  thirty-two 
wagons,  he  drove  through  unexplored  lands  to 
the  eastern  part  of  Oregon,  where  the  party  made 
rich  discoveries.  They  made  a  settlement  there, 
which  is  now  Canon  City,  the  county  seat  of 
Grant  County,  and  our  subject  built  the  first 
house  there.  After  remaining  in  that  settlement 
eighteen  months,  during  which  time  he  bought 
considerable  land,  he  went  to  the  mines  at  Boise 
City  in  1863,  and  spent  the  summer  of  that  year 
mining,  but  as  the  prospects  for  doing  a  large 
business  were  small,  he  returned  to  the  settle- 
ment in  Grant  County  and  sold  his  property. 
Continuing  to  California,  he  then  sold  his  cattle, 
which  he  had  raised  and  which  were  left  in 
charge  of  his  cousin.  He  then  returned  to  Ore- 
gon, and  while  en  route  from  the  eastern  to  the 
western  part  of  the  state,  with  a  party  of  men, 
their  guide  became  lost,  and  after  following  their 
leader  for  nine  days  without  any  progress,  they 
refused  to  follow  his  course  any  further,  and  our 
subject  acted  as  guide.  Some  of  the  party  suf- 
fered so  from  thirst  that  their  tongues  protruded 
from  their  mouths,  but  in  less  than  an  hour  our 
subject  led  them  to  a  body  of  water.  Later  they 
came  near  getting  snowed  in,  but  took  refuge  in 


a  summer  ranch,  which  had  been  deserted;  they 
found  provisions  and  a  couple  of  steers  left  there, 
which  had  been  overlooked  by  the  former  oc- 
cupants, and  they  immediately  killed  one  of  the 
steers  to  appease  their  appetite. 

After  our  subject  had  sold  out  the  ranch,  he 
took  his  cattle,  which  consisted  of  one  hundred 
and  twenty-five  head,  to  Grant  County,  Ore., 
where  he  remained  one  year.  In  1865  he  started 
east,  and  after  a  journey  of  two  hundred  miles  he 
took  the  steamer  at  the  Dalles,  Ore.,  to  Portland, 
thence  to  Victoria  and  to  San  Francisco;  there 
he  took  the  steamer  for  the  Isthmus  of  Panama 
and  returned  to  his  native  town,  by  the  same 
route  by  which  he  had  gone;  he  returned  a  much 
wiser  and  richer  man  as  a  result  of  his  various 
experiences  during  those  eight  years.  He  pur- 
chased an  interest  in  a  chair  manufacturing  es- 
tablishment, and  was  engaged  in  that  business 
for  a  period  of  seven  years;  at  the  expiration  of 
that  time  he  sold  his  interest  in  that  establish- 
ment, and  in  the  fall  of  187 1  he  startefl  west 
again.  He  arrived  in  Chicago  the  Saturday  pre- 
ceding the  great  fire,  which  he  witnessed,  and 
later  started  further  west,  having  bought  his 
ticket  through  to  California.  However,  reaching 
Denver,  then  in  the  midst  of  a  great  boom,  he 
concluded  to  locate  there,  and  bought  a  lot  on 
Welton  street,  and  built  a  house.  He  then  sent 
for  his  family,  who  resided  in  his  native  state. 
Although  he  made  his  home  in  Denver,  he  rented 
land  on  Clear  Creek  and  carried  on  farming;  he 
was  also  engaged  in  the  boot  and  shoe  business 
in  Denver.  In  the  spring  of  1873  he  took  up  a 
claim  of  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  on  Antelope 
Creek,  in  Douglas  County,  and  resided  there 
until  about  1880,  by  which  time  he  had  some 
four  hundred  acres,  and  then  selling  his  property, 
he  spent  a  year  traveling  over  the  state.  In 
1 88 1  he  purchased  two  hundred  acres  of  his  pres- 
ent homestead,  and  engaged  in  farming  and 
stock-raising;  in  1889  he  started  a  creamery  and 
cheese  factory  and  has  conducted  the  same  up  to 
the  present  time.  He  has  his  farm  stocked  with 
some  seventy-five  fine  milch  cows  and  one  hun- 
dred and  twenty-five  head  of  other  cattle.  His 
factory  is  the  oldest  one  of  its  kind  in  the  state, 
as  well  as  one  of  the  largest. 

On  Thanksgiving  day  in  1866  Mr.  Williams 
married  Miss  Elvira  O.  Pond,  daughter  of 
Jonathan  and  Eliza  J.  (Fisher)  Pond,    of  West 


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PORTRAIT  AND  BIOGRAPHICAL  RECORD. 


Medway,  Mass.  They  are  the  parents  of  five 
children,  namely:  Harry,  a  native  of  Massachu- 
setts, who  is  working  on  a  ranch  in  this  county; 
Nellie  M.,  who  was  born  in  Denver,  grad- 
uated from  the  State  Normal  at  Greeley,  and  is 
now  engaged  in  teaching  in  the  public  schools  of 
Greeley;  Carrie  E.,  who  is  a  graduate  of  the  State 
Normal  and  the  wife  of  Frederick  1,.  Sparling, 
of  South  Omaha,  Neb.;  Anna,  a  student  at  Gree- 
ley; and  Gertrude,  at  home.  Our  subject  is  a 
Democrat  in  politics,  and  has  .served  nine  years 
as  county  commissioner  of  Douglas  County. 
Fraternally  he  is  a  member  of  the  Mount  Zion 
Lodge,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  of  Barre,  Mass.  He 
takes  an  active  interest  in  all  educational  institu- 
tions, and  all  measures  that  tend  to  advance  the 
interests  of  the  county.  He  is  an  honest  and  up- 
right citizen,  and  enjoys  the  respect  and  esteem 
of  a  host  of  friends.  Mrs.  Williams  is  a  member 
of  the  Congregational  Church. 


r^HILIP  KLATT,  who  is  an  enterprising 
L/^  business  man  of  Golden,  was  born  near 
yS  Cairo,  III.,  March  29,  1857,  the  son  of  John 
and  Minnie  (Landroth)  Klatt,  residents  of  Golden. 
His  father,  who  was  born  in  Mechlenburg,  Ger- 
many, came  to  America  shortly  after  his  marriage 
and  settled  upon  a  farm  in  Illinois,  but  afterward 
removed  to  Chippewa  Falls,  Wis.  Soon  after 
his  removal  he  enlisted  in  the  Thirtieth  Wisconsin 
Infantry  and  raised  Company  K,  of  which  he 
was  chosen  captain.  He  served  for  three  years 
in  this  command,  being  honorably  discharged  in 
1864.  He  then  re-enlisted  in  Hancock's  Veteran 
Corps,  of  which  he  was  made  first  lieutenant, 
serving  in  that  capacity  until  the  close  of  the 
war,  when  he  was  discharged  at  Davenport.  The 
exposures  of  camp  life  and  long  journeyings  from 
one  place  to  another  proved  very  hard  upon  him 
and  he  returned  home  with  his  constitution  seri- 
ously undermined.  In  1868  he  removed  from 
Wisconsin  to  Colorado  and  engaged  in  mining  at 
Blackhawk,  where  his  family  joined  him  the 
following  year.  On  retiring  from  active  work, 
he  went  to  Golden,  his  present  home.  He  and 
his  wife  were  the  parents  of  six  children  and  all 
but  one  of  these  are  still  living,  Philip  being 
the  oldest  son  and  third  child. 

The  early  boyhood   days  of  our  subject's   life 
were  spent  in  Madison  and  Milwaukee,  Wis. ,  but 


in  1866  he  went  to  Iowa,  later  spent  a  short  time 
in  Missouri,  and  in  1869  came  to  Colorado.  For 
a  short  time  he  was  a  pupil  in  the  Blackhawk 
schools.  In  1870  he  came  to  Golden,  where  he 
served  an  apprenticeship  of  three  years  to  the 
blacksmith's  trade.  Then  for  several  years  he 
worked  in  Cheyenne  and  Georgetown,  being  in 
business  for  himself  a  part  of  the  time.  Later 
he  spent  two  years  in  Golden,  and  afterward  for 
eighteen  months  was  employed  by  the  Oregon 
Railway  and  Navigation  Company  in  Oregon. 

Returning  to  Golden  in  the  spring  of  1882, 
Mr.  Klatt  embarked  in  the  blacksmith's  business 
with  a  partner,  under  the  firm  name  of  Klatt  & 
Brennen,  but  after  four  months  he  bought  his 
partner's  interest.  In  the  fall  of  1884  he  bought 
out  the  business  owned  by  J.  P.  Fowler  and  has 
since  carried  on  trade  at  his  present  location.  He 
does  a  general  jobbing  business  in  shoeing  horses 
and  repairing  wagons  and  carriages,  and  has  made 
a  comfortable  living  for  himself  and  family 
through  his  industrious  efforts.  From  D.  K.  Lee 
of  Denver,  he  bought  a  fine  residence  on  Ford 
street,  and  besides  this  he  owns  property  in  Du- 
rango,  Colo. ,  and  Los  Angeles,  Cal.,  and  is  also 
interested  in  mining  in  Clear  Creek.  Politically  a 
Democrat,  he  was  elected  on  that  ticket  as  alder- 
man from  the  second  ward  and  during  his  term  of 
service  he  was  a  member  of  the  park,  waterworks 
and  street  committees.  His  marriage,  which 
took  place  in  Clear  Creek  Valley,  united  him 
with  Miss  Anna  E.  Shirick,  who  was  born  in 
Nevadaville,  Colo.,  daughter  of  W.  W.  Shirick, 
who  came  to  Colorado  in  1862  and  is  now  engaged 
in  farming  in  Jefferson  County.  The  two  sons 
of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Klatt  are  Carl  and  Fred. 


(T  OHN  PROBERT  is  the  senior  member  of  the 
I  firm  of  Probert  &  Williams,  general  mer- 
Q)  chants,  of  Erie,  Weld  County.  He  was  born 
in  Wales  in  1848,  a  son  of  William  and  Ann 
(Price)  Probert.  The  family  of  which  he  was  a 
member  consisted  of  thirteen  children,  seven  of 
whom  are  living,  namely:  Howell,  who  is  living 
in  Wales;  William,  John  and  Edward,  who  are 
in  the  United  States;  Zantype,  Martha  and  Mary, 
in  Wales.  The  father,  when  young,  learned  the 
carpenter's  trade,  married,  and  settled  down  to 
the  pursuit  of  his  chosen  occupation,  which  he 
followed  until  his  death. 


JOHN  THOMPSON. 


PORTRAIT  AND  BIOGRAPHICAI,  RECORD. 


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The  first  seventeen  years  of  our  subject's  life 
were  passed  at  home  and  in  the  acquirement  of  a 
common-school  education.  In  the  spring  of  1866 
he  crossed  the  ocean  and  landed  in  New  York 
City,  from  which  place  he  went  direct  to  Brook- 
field,  Ohio,  and  secured  employment  in  the  coal 
mines.  Prior  to  leaving  his  native  land  he  had 
been  employed  in  mines,  so  was  familiar  with  the 
business.  From  1866  to  1876  he  continued  in  the 
coal  mines  of  Brookfield  and  Urichsville,  Ohio, 
Evansville,  Ind.,  and  Murphysboro,  111.  In  1876 
he  came  to  Colorado  and  settled  in  Erie,  where 
he  worked  for  four  years  in  the  mines.  He  then 
became  a  salesman  for  J.  T.  Williams,  a  general 
merchant,  and  by  energy  and  business  ability 
gradually  rose  from  a  clerkship  to  a  partnership 
in  the  business.  The  firm  was  then  composed  of 
J.  T.  and  J.  W.  Williams  and  Mr.  Probert.  Later 
J.  T.  Williams  retired  from  the  business,  since 
which  time  the  store  has  been  conducted  by  the 
two  younger  members  of  the  firm. 

During  his  residence  in  Illinois,  in  1872,  Mr. 
Probert  was  united  in  marriage  with  Miss  Sarah 
Thomas,  a  native  of  Ohio.  To  their  marriage 
three  children  have  been  born,  Harriet,  William 
and  Anna.  The  family  are  highly  respected  and 
are  prominent  in  the  best  social  circles  of  their 
town. 

Fraternally  Mr.  Probert  is  identified  with  Erie 
Lodge  No.  46,  I.  O.  O.  F.,  and  Lily  of  the  Valley 
Encampment  No.  10.  Politically  he  is  a  sup- 
porter of  Greenback  principles.  For  one  term 
he  .served  as  clerk  of  the  town  of  Erie.  He  is 
especially  interested  in  educational  matters  and 
during  the  twelve  years  that  he  has  held  position 
as  member  of  the  school  board  he  has  been  instru- 
mental in  raising  the  standard  of  education  and 
promoting  the  welfare  of  -the  schools. 


(TOHN  THOMPSON  is  one  of  the  represent- 
I  ative  agriculturists  of  Weld  County,  and 
(2/  owns  one  of  the  finest  and  most  highly  im- 
proved ranches  in  this  section  of  the  state.  To 
himself  alone  he  owes  his  present  prosperity,  as 
it  is  the  result  of  years  of  patient,  zealous  labor 
and  wisely  directed  business  ability.  He  has 
been  a  public-spirited  citizen,  doing  his  full  share 
toward  the  general  welfare,  and  endeavoring  to 
promote  all  worthy  enterprises  to  the  best  of  his 
ability. 


Mr.  Thompson  inherits  from  Scotch  ancestors 
many  of  the  sterling  traits  of  character  he  possesses. 
His  parents,  Robert  and  Jane  (Pennman)Thomp- 
son,  were  natives  of  Scotland,  and  their  marriage 
took  place  in  the  land  of  the  thistle.  They  came 
to  America  in  18 19,  and  at  first  settled  in  Rhode 
Island.  Later  they  removed  to  Massachusetts, 
where  the  father,  who  was  a  weaver  of  woolen 
cloth  on  the  old-fashioned  hand-looms,  found 
plenty  of  employment  at  his  trade.  In  1844  he 
removed  from  Massachusetts  to  Wisconsin,  where 
he  became  one  of  the  pioneer  farmers  of  Racine 
County,  and  there  passed  the  remainder  of  his 
life. 

Seven  brothers  and  sisters  of  the  subject  of  this 
article  grew  to  .maturity.  Grace,  the  eldest,  who 
was  born  in  Scotland,  married  Emerson  Lombard 
and  settled  in  Wisconsin.  Robert  P.  was  a  mer- 
chant in  New  York  City  for  years.  Thomas  F. 
was  one  of  the  Union  colony  who  settled  in 
Greeley,  Colo.,  in  1870.  Jane  M.  married  Gus- 
tavus  Goodrich,  who  was  a  captain  in  the  Twenty- 
second  Wisconsin  Regiment  during  the  Civil 
war  and  died  soon  after  the  cessation  of  hostilities 
from  disease  and  exposure.  William  remained 
on  the  old  homestead  in  Wisconsin.  Margaret 
is  the  wife  of  James  C.  Bennett,  of  Kalamazoo, 
Mich.  James  lived  in  Wisconsin  up  to  the  time 
of  the  Civil  war,  when  he  enlisted  in  the  Eighth 
Regiment  of  that  state.  His  death  resulted  from 
the  exposure  and  hardships  incident  to  his  army 
life. 

John  Thompson  was  born  in  Worcester,  Mass., 
September  29,  1829,  and  in  the  Bay  state  the  first 
fifteen  years  of  his  life  were  passed.  Then,  ac- 
companying the  rest  of  the  family  to  the  west,  he 
grew  to  manhood  on  the  Wisconsin  farm.  He 
finished  his  common-school  education  with  a 
course  in  the  University  of  Wisconsin .  He  learned 
the  weaver's  trade  of  his  father,  but  never  fol- 
lowed it  to  any  extent.  Instead,  he  cultivated 
the  home  farm  until  i87i,when  he  joined  the 
Union  colony  that  had  settled  in  Greeley  the  pre- 
vious year.  He  had  secured  a  certificate  of  mem- 
bership a  year  before,  however,  and  upon  his 
arrival  in  Greeley  he  took  up  a  five- acre  lot  near 
the  town  and  bought  a  pre-emption  right  to  an 
eighty-acre  tract  of  land  on  section  24,  township 
6,  range  66.  This  is  a  portion  of  his  present 
farm,  which  now  includes  one  hundred  and  twenty 
acres  of  land  purchased  by  him  in  the  fall  of  1879. 


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He  built  a  comfortable  house  and  made  other 
substantial  improvements,  and  engaged  actively 
in  the  cultivation  of  his  land  and  in  stock-raising. 
He  was  one  of  the  original  stockholders  of  the 
Farmers'  Mercantile  Company  and  owns  some 
stock  in  the  Cache  la  Poudre  Reservoir  Company 
and  in  ditch  No.  2,  which  provide  irrigation  for 
his  farm.     Politically  he  is  a  Republican. 

In  Wisconsin  Mr.  Thompson  married,  in  1857, 
Miss  Mary  Lombard,  by  whom  he  had  four 
children.  One  child  died  and  Mrs.  Thompson  de- 
parted this  life  in  March,  1866.  November  3, 
1868,  Mr.  Thompson  married  Kate  N.  Near, 
daughter  of  Barnard  H.  and  Eleanor  (Tarpany) 
Near,  natives  of  New  York.  Mrs.  Thompson  was 
born  in  the  city  of  Utica,  N.  Y.  The  three  chil- 
dren of  Mr.  Thompson's  first  marriage  are:  Her- 
bert J. ,  ex-county  treasurer  of  Weld  County;  Will- 
iam O.,  a  farmer  near  Lincoln,  Neb.;  and  Mary 
R.,  wife  of  Max  K.  Gerry,  who  resides  on  our 
subject's  farm  and  assists  in  its  management. 


0EORGE  STROEHLE  enjoys  the  distinction 
l_l  of  doing  the  best  work  and  putting  on  the 
V_J  market  the  best  buckets  for  hoisting  in  Colo- 
rado. He  has  large  boiler  shops  in  Blackhawk, 
which  are  under  the  immediate  management  of 
his  son,  and  the  work  turned  out  is  first-class  in 
every  particular.  Having  spent  many  years  in 
bringing  his  business  to  its  present  state  of  per- 
fection, he  has  now  practically  retired  from  active 
business. 

He  was  born  in  Tyrol,  Austria,  in  1838,  his 
parents  being  George  and  Catherine  (Berhtold) 
Stroehle.  His  father  was  a  stone  cutter  and 
stone  mason,  and  came  to  the  United  States  soon 
after  the  death  of  his  wife,  locating  first  in  New 
Orleans,  and  later  in  St.  Louis.  He  went  to  Cali- 
fornia during  the  gold  fever  in  1849,  but  returned 
to  Rock  Island,  111.,  where  he  died  in  1865. 
There  were  eight  children  in  his  family,  six  of 
whom  are  living  and  came  to  America  with  him. 

The  eldest  of  these  was  George  Stroehle,  our 
subject,  who  was  about  twelve  years  old  when  he 
came  to  this  country.  He  attended  school  in 
Rock  Island  one  winter  and  was  then  appren- 
ticed to  learn  the  boiler  trade  in  the  same  city. 
At  the  breaking  out  of  the  war  he  was  among  the 
first  to  offer  his  services  to  the  country.  In 
August,  1 86 1,  he  enlisted  in  the  Forty-fifth  lUi. 


nois  Regiment,  and  was  a  member  of  the  band. 
He  was  at  Fort  Donelson,  Shiloh,  Corinth  and 
Jackson,  Tenn.  When  orders  were  given  to  dis- 
band, all  the  regiment  bands  were  mustered  out, 
and  he  returned  to  Rock  Island.  In  1865  he 
came  by  mule  team  to  Colorado,  stopping  at 
Denver  and  Blackhawk.  He  remained  there 
only  until  December,  when  he  returned  to  Rock 
Island.  The  following  year  he  came  back  to 
this  county  by  mule  team,  bringing  his  family, 
and  started  a  boiler  shop  in  the  old  St.  Louis 
mill.  This  he  conducted  for  some  time  and 
then    built  a  small  shop   which  was  replaced  in 

1895  by  his  present  large  shops.  He  manufact- 
ures and  repairs  boilers,  makes  buckets,  and  does 
all  kinds  of  sheet  iron  work,  having  the  oldest, 
largest  and  best  repair  shop  in  the  county.     In 

1896  he  took  his  son,  John,  into  partnership  with 
him  and  the  firm  is  known  as  George  Stroehle 
&Son. 

In  Rock  Island,  111.,  in  July,  1861,  Mr.  Stroehle 
married  Miss  Christine  Stapp  and  the  next  month 
left  his  young  bride  to  be  a  soldier.  She  was  born 
in  Hessen-Darmstadt,  and  bore  him  three  chil- 
dren, viz.:  Annie,  Mrs.  W.  W.  Huntington,  of 
Oilman,  Colo.;  John,  who  is  in  partnership  with 
his  father;  and  Fred,  who  is  also  with  his  father. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Knights  of  Pythias  lodge, 
and  Ellsworth  Post  No.  20,  G.  A.  R.,  and  is  a 
stalwart  Republican. 


gENEDICT  SCHUTZ  is  postmaster  and  gen- 
eral merchant  of  Franktown,  a  village  in 
the  Cherry  Creek  Valley,  thirty-three  miles 
southeast  of  Denver,  and  ten  miles  from  Parker, 
the  nearest  railroad  point.  He  was  born  in  Muel- 
enberg,  Canton  Berne,  Switzerland,  April  21, 
1839,  and  at  the  age  of  fourteen  years  accom- 
panied his  parents,  Jacob  and  Mary  (Palmer) 
Schutz,  to  the  United  States.  The  voyage,  on  a 
sailing  vessel,  consumed  about  sixty  days  and  was 
extremely  rough;  the  pa.ssengers  more  than  once, 
in  time  of  storm,  feared  that  the  ship,  which  was 
an  old  one,  would  go  down. 

Landing  in  New  York  in  January,  1854,  the 
family  proceeded  direct  to  Chicago,  where  they 
expected  to  find  relatives,  but  learned  on  arrival 
that  they  had  moved  to  Michigan.  The  father 
took  the  family  about  thirty  miles  from  Chicago 
and  settled  in  a  small  place.     He  had  but  limited 


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means  and  soon  afterward  was  paralyzed,  and 
after  some  months  of  suffering  died.  The  widowed 
mother  was  left  with  five  children,  two  of  whom 
were  younger  than  Benedict.  The  latter  secured 
employment  on  a  farm  and  thus  assisted  in  the 
support  of  the  family.  His  opportunities  for  se- 
curing an  education  were  meagre,  but  he  at- 
tended school  whenever  it  was  possible  to  do  so. 

In  1859,  with  his  older  brother  Jacob,  and  a 
brother-in-law,  Mr.  Schutz  started  for  Kansas, 
making  the  trip  with  a  wagon  and  two  yoke  of 
oxen.  For  a  short  time  they  squatted  on  govern- 
ment land  on  the  Whitewater  River,  after  which 
they  joined  a  company  and  proceeded  to  Colorado, 
arriving  in  August,  1859,  on  the  present  site  of 
Denver.  Soon  Mr.  Schutz  came  back  up  Cherry 
Creek  to  a  sawmill  near  where  Russellville  now 
stands,  and  here  he  secured  work.  For  some 
years  he  engaged  in  hauling  lumber  to  Denver. 
In  1862  he  took  a  squatters'  claim  on  Russell 
Gulch,  which  he  sold  two  years  later  and  invested 
the  money  in  stock.  He  already  had  ten  cows 
and  the  purchase  of  fifty-three  calves  gave  him  a 
good  start.  He  continued  successfully  engaged 
in  the  cattle  business  until  1881,  when  he  sold  out 
for  $6, 000  and  the  following  year  embarked  in 
the  mercantile  business.  For  a  few  years  he  was 
in  partnership  with  another  man,  whom  he  later 
bought  out,  and  has  since  continued  the  business 
alone.  During  the  early  years  of  his  residence  in 
this  state,  in  1864,  he  enlisted  for  one  hundred 
days  in  Company  M,  Third  Colorado  Cavalry, 
and  was  stationed  at  Camp  Wheeler  during  the 
larger  part  of  his  time.  He  always  votes  the 
straight  Republican  ticket,  and  in  religion  is  of 
the  Protestant  faith. 


HON.  I.  A.  VAN  GORDEN,  a  well-known 
citizen  of  Morrison,  Jefferson  County,  was 
a  member  of  the  sixth  general  assembly  of 
the  Colorado  legislature,  and  served  with  credit 
to  himself  and  constituents  in  that  honorable 
body.  He  was  elected  on  the  Democratic  ticket, 
receiving  a  handsome  majority,  although  the 
county  was  strongly  Republican  at  the  time.  The 
following  year,  1887,  he  was  appointed  to  the  of- 
fice of  water  commissioner  by  Governor  Adams, 
and  was  again  honored  in  this  manner  by  Gov- 
ernor Waite  in  1893,  and  in  1897  ^y  ^^^  present 
state  executive.     A  man  of  liberal  education  and 


training,  he  is  a  friend  to  the  people,  to  education 
and  to  all  other  measures  which,  as  he  believes, 
are  for  the  general  welfare.  In  his  home  district 
he  has  served  as  a  member  of  the  school  board 
for  many  years.  He  was  one  of  the  most  influen- 
tial men  in  the  organization  of  Morrison  Lodge 
No.  82,  I.  O.  O.  F.,  and  is  also  identified  with 
the  encampment. 

The  father  of  the  above-named  gentleman  was 
John  W.  Van  Gorden,  who  was  born  in  Dela- 
ware in  1823,  and,  with  his  parents,  removed  to 
Susquehanna  County,  Pa.,  when  he  was  a  child 
of  about  eight  years.  The  farm  on  which  the 
family  settled  was  an  almost  unbroken  forest, 
but  with  energy  and  untiring  industry  they  set 
to  work  to  clear  and  improve  the  place,  and  in 
time  succeeded  in  making  a  model  farm  of  the 
tract.  John  W.  fell  heir  to  the  homestead  and 
dwelt  upon  it  altogether  some  sixty -six  years,  or 
until  death  claimed  him,  April  3,  1898.  In  his 
choice  of  a  wife  he  was  especially  fortunate,  for 
she  was  companion,  friend  and  helpmate,  a  sharer 
of  all  his  joys  and  sorrows.  Her  maiden  name 
was  Louisa  Love,  her  father  being  Andrew  Love, 
a  neighbor  and  worthy  pioneer  of  the  same  county 
and  township  as  that  in  which  the  Van  Gorden 
family  lived.  Six  children  were  born  to  the  mar- 
riage of  John  W.  and  Louisa  Van  Gorden.  One  has 
been  called  to  the  silent  land  and  the  others  are: 
I.  A.,  of  this  sketch;  Andrew  L-,  of  Carbondale, 
Pa.;  John  L.,  of  Pine  City,  Minn.;  Charles  E. ,  liv- 
ing on  the  old  homestead;  and  Jennie  M.,  wife  of 
Frank  Pinnock,  of  Meshoppen,  Wyoming  County, 
Pa.  The  father  was  a  man  universally  respected 
and  loved;  a  trusted  counsellor,  a  loyal  friend,  a 
devoted  citizen.  In  the  home  his  best  qualities 
shone  forth,  and  among  those  of  his  own  house- 
hold he  was  a  model  of  uprightness  and  loving 
kindness.  He  was  an  earnest  Christian,  and  all 
who  knew  him  feel  that  the  world  is  truly  a  better 
place  for  his  too  brief  presence  in  it.  His  earthly 
labors  finished,  he  sleeps  peacefully  in  the  beauti- 
ful Brick  Chapel  cemetery  on  the  bank  of  the 
Susquehanna  River,  two  miles  above  Meshoppen. 

The  birth  of  Hon.  I.  A.  Van  Gorden  took 
place  in  Susquehanna  County,  Pa.,  June  6,  1852. 
He  received  a  good  education,  completing  his 
studies  in  the  Factoryville  (Wyoming  County, 
Pa.,)  high  school.  From  that  time  until  he  was 
twenty-eight  years  of  age  he  taught  school  dur- 
ing the  winter  terms  and  worked  on  the  farm  the 


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remainder  of  the  year.  In  the  spring  of  1 88 1  he 
concluded  to  try  his  fortunes  in  the  west,  and 
came  to  Colorado.  Here  he  passed  the  first  year 
of  his  residence  within  the  state  in  selling  goods 
for  the  World's  Publishing  Company.  He  then 
settled  upon  a  farm  in  Bear  Creek  Valley,  and 
has  devoted  much  of  his  time  since  to  the  culti- 
vation of  his  homestead.  Possessing  in  a  large 
degree  the  stable,  industrious  and  admirable 
traits  of  his  honored  father,  he  enjoys  the  high 
regard  of  a  large  circle  of  friends  here  and  in  the 
east,  his  former  home. 

In  July,  1884,  Mr.  Van  Gorden  married  Miss 
Margaret  Cole,  a  daughter  of  William  F.  Cole, 
an  old  and  esteemed  citizen  and  prosperous  mer- 
chant of  Susquehanna  County,  Pa.  Five  chil- 
dren have  blessed  the  marriage  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Van  Gorden,  namely:  Maud  H.,  Grace  M., 
John  W.,  I.  A.,  Jr.,  and  Frank  V. 


ilLBERT  M.  AVERY  is  one  of  the  pioneers 
of  Colorado,  and  one  of  the  oldest  residents 
of  Empire,  Clear  Creek  County.  Few,  if 
any,  of  the  citizens  of  this  place  have  been  more 
active  and  interested  in  its  upbuilding  and  pros- 
perity, and  with  short  intermissions  he  has 
served  in  the  capacity  of  trustee  ever  since  the 
town  was  incorporated.  He  has  also  been  a 
zealous  member  of  the  board  of  education,  and 
has  often  been  the  president  of  that  honorable 
body.  He  is  a  valued  member  of  the  Associa- 
tion of  Colorado  Pioneers  and  of  the  Clear  Creek 
County  Pioneer  Association.  Since  he  arrived  at 
his  majority  he  has  given  his  allegiance  to  the 
Republican  party,  but  in  the  last  campaign  he 
declared  himself  in  favor  of  a  silver  standard. 

Frederick  Avery,  the  father  of  our  subject, 
was  born  in  Connecticut,  and  was  of  an  old  family 
in  that  state.  He  removed  to  Pittsfield,  Mass., 
where  he  was  occupied  in  farming  for  years. 
About  1840  he  took  his  family  to  Wisconsin  and 
became  a  resident  of  Lake  Mills,  Jefferson  Coun- 
ty. His  death  occurred  in  that  place,  after 
which  his  widow,  Mary  (Croson)  Avery,  went 
to  live  with  her  children,  and  died  in  Arkansas. 
She  was  born  and  reared  to  womanhood  in  Con- 
necticut. 

G.  M.  Avery,  one  of  ten  children,  was  born  in 
Pittsfield,  Mass.,  February  28,  1833.  His  chief 
schooling  was  gained  in  Wisconsin,  and  as  soon 


as  he  could  be  of  use  on  the  farm  he  gave  his  as- 
sistance to  his  father  in  the  management  of  the 
homestead.  In  1856  he  came  as  far  west  as  Kan- 
sas, and  carried  on  a  farm  near  Lawrence  until 
1859,  when  he  became  anxious  to  come  to  the 
gold  fields  of  Colorado.  Starting  out  with  ox 
teams  over  the  old  trail  of  the  Arkansas  and 
Santa  Fe,  he  finally  arrived  at  his  destination, 
Central  City,  and  engaged  in  mining  and  pros- 
pecting. At  first  he  tried  lode  mining,  and  in 
the  spring  of  i860  turned  his  energies  to  gulch 
mining  in  Nevadaville  and  vicinity.  There  he 
built  a  cabin,  whip-sawing  the  lumber,  as  he  had 
previously  done  when  he  constructed  a  shanty  at 
Gregory  mine.  It  was  in  the  same  year,  i860, 
that  he  crossed  the  snowy  range  to  California 
Gulch,  now  known  as  Leadville.  At  the  end  of  one 
sea.son  he  started  for  Mobile,  Ala.,  where  a  situ- 
ation had  been  offered  him,  but  he  went  no  fur- 
ther than  Greenwood,  Ark.,  below  Fort  Smith, 
as  he  found  that  the  coming  event  of  the  great 
Civil  war  had  so  unsettled  business  that  it  was 
not  advisable  for  him  to  remain.  Returning  to 
Springfield,  Mo.,  he  thence  went  to  Kansas,  and 
in  1863  drifted  back  to  Colorado  with  a  mule  train 
across  the  plains.  The  same  year  found  him  in 
Empire,  and  his  time  occupied  in  mining  and  pros- 
pecting. That  fall  he  returned  to  Lawrence,Kan., 
was  married,  and  the  following  spring  brought 
his  wife  with  him  to  Empire.  After  a  residence 
here  of  two  years  or  more  t&ey  resumed  farming 
on  the  homestead  owned  by  Mr.  Avery  in  Kan- 
sas, but  in  1868  they  became  permanent  citizens 
of  Empire.  Mr.  Avery  discovered  and  began 
the  operation  of  the  Cambria  mine,  and  was  also 
the  discoverer  and  developer  of  the  Denver  City 
lode  and  the  Americus  City  lode.  Both  of  the 
last  named  are  fine  properties,  and  he  is  still  a 
one-half  partner  in  the  first  mentioned,  and  one- 
third  owner  in  the  other.  In  addition  to  this  he 
was  superintendent  of  the  Clear  Creek  Milling 
Company,  and  holds  like  positions  with  the 
Hecla  Gold  Mining  Company  and  the  Silver 
Mountain  Mine  Company.  The  proprietors  of 
the  last  mentioned  are  Boston  capitalists,  and  the 
mines  in  question  are  the  Pittsburg  and  Silver 
Mountain  lodes,  large  producers.  The  mines  are 
near  northern  Empire,  while  the  mills  are  at 
Empire  station. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Avery  and  Miss  Laura 
Sinclair,  a  native  of  Ohio,  was  celebrated  in  Law- 


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rence,  Kan.,  January  6,  1864.  They  have  but 
one  child,  a  son,  William,  born  in  Colorado,  and 
residing  with  his  parents. 


SEORGE  STEARLY  may  be  counted  among 
those  who,  by  industry  and  frugality,  have 
gained  a  competency,  and  are  classed  as 
substantial,  representative  citizens  of  Colorado. 
He  is  now  living  in  LaPorte,  Larimer  County, 
where  he  has  six  acres  of  land  planted  to  fruit, 
his  orchard  containing  choice  apple,  cherry  and 
plum  trees.  He  is  of  the  sturdy  German  race, 
having  been  born  in  Wurtemberg,  Germany,  near 
Stuttgart, April  19,  1851.  His  father,  George, 
was  a  brick  manufacturer  of  that  place,  but 
brought  his  family  to  America  about  1854,  and 
settled  in  Pine  Grove,  Schuylkill  County,  Pa., 
where  he  engaged  in  coalmining  until  1868.  He 
then  moved  to  Wood  River,  Buffalo  County,  Neb. , 
and  took  up  a  homestead,  upon  which  he  resided 
until  his  death,  when  over  seventy  years  old. 
The  mother,  Barbara  Craft  Stearly,  was  also  a 
native  of  Germany,  and  now  resides  on  the  old 
homestead.  There  were  eight  children,  seven 
sons  and  one  daughter.  Six  sons  are  living, 
three  in  the  vicinity  of  the  old  home,  and  three 
in  Colorado.  John  lives  near  Pueblo,  and  Sam- 
uel at  Victor. 

George  Stearly  was  the  oldest  member  of  the 
family,  and  lived  in  Pennsylvania  until  seven- 
teen years  of  age.  He  attended  the  public  schools 
until  twelve,  when  he  began  work  as  a  slate  picker 
in  a  colliery,  and  later  was  employed  in  mines. 
In  the  spring  of  1868  he  came  west  to  Nebraska, 
where  he  was  employed  for  a  year  at  Sheldon, 
on  section  30,  on  the  Union  Pacific  Railroad. 
The  following  year  he  went  to  Nebraska  City, 
and  was  apprenticed  for  two  years  to  learn  the 
trade  of  a  blacksmith.  At  the  expiration  of  his 
apprenticeship  he  began  blacksmithing  for  him- 
self at  Marysville,  Kan. ,  where  he  remained  two 
years,  then  came  to  LaPorte  and  continued  the 
same  work.  His  shop  for  the  first  two  years  was 
in  an  old  log  building,  and  in  1875  he  built  the 
shop  now  owned  by  him.  About  this  time  he 
went  to  Snake  River,  Grant  County,  on  a  pros- 
pecting and  mining  expedition,  but  returned  to 
his  old  stand,  and  once  more  took  up  black- 
smithing,  which  he  still  carries  on.  He  is  inter- 
ested in  mining,  being  one  of  the  owners  of  the 


Gold  Bug  mine  at  Manhattan.  Hehas  a  finely 
improved  farm  of  five  hundred  and  sixty  acres, 
near  LaPorte,  which  he  pre-empted,  timber 
claimed  and  homesteaded.  This  is  all  under 
high  cultivation,  has  good  buildings,  and  is 
irrigated  by  the  Water  Supply  and  Storage  Com- 
pany, whose  ditch  he  helped  put  through.  There 
is  a  large  orchard  on  the  farm,  and  he  raises  a 
large  crop  of  onions,  also  wheat,  oats  and  alfalfa. 
When  he  came  to  the  state  there  were  many 
French  and  Indians,  and  the  main  business  was 
stock-raising,  as  the  country  was  all  an  open 
plain.  He  is  a  large  stock-raiser,  for  the  past 
seven  years  devoting  much  of  his  attention  to  the 
raising  of  mules,  and  easily  takes  the  lead  in  that 
line  in  the  county.  His  brand  is  the  letter  T  with 
lazy  S.  He  made  a  great  many  brands  when  in 
the  shop. 

Mr.  Stearly  was  married  in  Denver  to  Miss 
Sarah  E.  Winter,  a  native  of  Pennsylvania. 
They  have  one  child,  Byron.  Politically  Mr. 
Stearly  is  a  silver  Republican ,  and  is  interested 
in  the  success  of  his  party,  but  has  never  been  an 
aspirant  for  ofiBce,  although  he  has  served  on  the 
school  board. 


HENRY  G.  CHURCHES,  a  successful  farmer 
residing  six  miles  east  of  Longmont,  in  Weld 
County,  was  born  in  Somersetshire,  Eng- 
land, September  11,  1852,  a  son  of  John  and 
Mary  A.  (CoHipriest)  Churches.  He  was  one  of 
seven  children,  of  whom  three  are  living:  Geor- 
giana,  wife  of  Kane  G.  Baldwin,  of  Nashville, 
Tenn.;  Henry  G.,  our  subject;  and  Sarah  A., 
who  resides  with  her  parents.  His  father,  also  a 
native  of  Somersetshire,  was  born  in  1823  and 
grew  to  manhood  upon  a  farm.  After  his  mar- 
riage he  settled  upon  a  farm  of  his  own,  and 
being  a" man  of  great  enterprise  and  activity,  he 
engaged  successfully  in  farming,  dairying,  cheese- 
making,  butchering  and  stock-raising.  In  1855 
he  crossed  the  ocean  and  settled  in  Dubuque 
County,  Iowa,  where  he  spent  the  winter;  thence 
removing  to  Sullivan  County,  Mo.,  he  resided 
there  for  five  years,  engaged  in  farming.  His 
next  removal,  in  1862,  brought  him  and  his 
family  to  Colorado.  For  one  year  he  worked  for 
a  dairyman  in  Jefferson,  assisting  in  butter  and 
cheese  making.  He  then  bought  his  present 
property,  four  miles  northeast  of  Golden,  consist- 
ing of  three  hundred  and  twenty  acres.     At  first 


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he  bought  squatters'  rights  and  when  the  land 
was  surveyed,  proved  on  it.  Here  at  first  he 
gave  his  entire  attention  to  cheese  and  butter 
making,  but  later  embarked  in  the  stock  business 
and  horse-breeding  quite  extensively.  For  twelve 
years  he  also  carried  on  a  meat  market  in  Golden. 
To-day  he  is  one  of  the  substantial  men  of  Jeffer- 
son County,  owning  nearly  nine  hundred  acres 
of  land  and  other  interests.  Among  his  large 
circle  of  acquaintances  he  is  known  as  "Uncle 
Johnny." 

At  twenty-one  years  of  age  our  subject  began 
business  life  for  himself.  For  seven  years  he 
farmed  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres,  owned  by 
his  father,  in  Weld  County,  receiving  one-half  of 
the  products  for  his  own,  and  also  one  hundred 
and  sixty  acres  of  his  own.  In  1881  he  acquired 
his  present  farm  of  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres, 
in  Weld  County,  six  miles  from  Longmont.  Feb- 
ruary 22,  1881,  he  was  united  in  marriage  with 
Miss  Belle  Haslip,  a  native  of  Pennsylvania. 
She  is  a  daughter  of  Robert  Haslip,  who  was 
born  in  Ireland,  of  Scotch  descent,  and  came  to 
America  in  1830,  settling  in  New  York  state, 
where  he  spent  some  years.  On  his  removal  to 
Pennsylvania,  he  settled  upon  a  farm  in  Mercer 
County.  In  1856  he  removed  to  Blue  Earth 
County,  Minn.,  and  there  continued  to  reside 
until  his  death,  which  occurred  in  1892. 

After  his  marriage  our  subject,  with  his  young 
wife,  settled  on  his  newly  acquired  homestead 
and  began  farming  his  land,  also  embarked  in 
the  cattle  business.  He  gained  an  increasing 
prosperity,  and  is  to-day  one  of  the  representative 
farmers  of  the  county.  He  and  his  wife  became 
the  parents  of  six  children,  four  of  whom  are 
living:  Mary  E. ,  Harry  Boyd,  Henry  Glen  and 
John  Robert.  In  rehgion  Mr.  Churches  is  identi- 
fied with  the  United  Brethren  denomination. 
Fraternally  he  is  a  member  of  Longmont  Tent 
No.  13,  K.  O.  T.  M. 


HENRY  F.  STEWART  owns  a  valuable 
ranch  on  section  21,  township  4,  range  68 
west,  Weld  County.  This  property  came 
into  his  possession  by  purchase  nearly  a  score  of 
years  ago,  but  at  this  writing  bears  little  resem- 
blance to  the  barren,  unimproved  tract  of  that 
date.  Mr.  Stewart  is  a  progressive  farmer,  thor- 
oughly  understanding  the  methods  which  are 


used  by  the  Colorado  agriculturist,  who  deals  with 
nature  under  very  different  conditions  from  that 
of  the  eastern  states.  He  has. taken  an  active 
part  in  the  public  affairs  of  his  locality,  serving 
as  j  ustice  of  the  peace  for  some  eight  years.  In 
1 896  he  was  nominated  on  the  Populist  ticket  for 
the  legislature.  When  the  Farmers'  Milling 
Company  of  Berthoud  was  organized  he  was  quite 
influential  in  the  enterprise,  and  is  still  a  stock- 
holder in  the  same. 

Garrett  M.  Stewart,  father  of  our  subject,  was 
a  native  of  Kentucky.  He  became  a  pioneer  in 
Missouri,  having  entered  from  the  government 
land  in  Schuyler  County.  He  was  a  justice  of 
the  peace  for  years,  and  was  twice  a  candidate  for 
the  legislature.  Always  interested  in  educa- 
tional matters,  he  organized  the  first  school  dis- 
trict in  his  section  of  Missouri,  and  was  himself 
a  teacher  for  several  years.  His  wife,  who  was 
Sarah  B.  Goodrich  prior  to  their  marriage, 
was  a  native  of  Tennessee.  Their  family  com- 
prised seven  children,  only  two  of  whom  now 
survive,  Henry  F.  and  Isaac  N.,  of  Weld  County. 

The  birth  of  H.  F.  Stewart  occurred  in  Schuy- 
ler County,  Mo.,  June  2,  1849.  His  father  died 
when  he  was  a  child  of  eight  years  and  the 
mother  lived  but  eight  years  longer.  The  eldest 
brother,  James  G.,  lost  his  life  in  the  Civil  war. 
He  had  volunteered  as  a  private  in  the  Tenth 
Missouri  Infantry,  and  while  on  duty  as  a  guard 
for  prisoners  of  war  at  Rock  Island,  111.,  he  con- 
tracted small-pox,  which  disease  resulted  in  his 
death.  A  sister,  Sarah,  married  Isaac  M.  Yates, 
a  teacher  in  the  schools  of  Ottumwa  and  Oska- 
loosa,  Iowa.  After  the  death  of  our  subject's 
father  and  elder  brother  the  care  of  the  family 
gradually  devolved  upon  his  youthful  shoulders. 
He  assumed  the  management  of  the  old  farm 
and  eventually  bought  out  the  other  heirs. 

In  1877  H.  F.  Stewart  sold  the  farm  to  his 
brothers,  W.  R.  and  Isaac  N. ,  and  removed  to 
Colorado.  At  first  he  settled  near  Longmont, 
but  in  1879  purchased  his  present  farm  of  one 
hundred  and  sixty  acres.  There  were  no  ditches 
here  then,  and  he  became  one  of  the  most  active 
promoters  of  the  Home  Supply  Ditch  and  Reser- 
voir Company.  This  company  was  organized  by 
about  a  score  of  the  pioneers  who  met  and  dis- 
cussed plans  but  were  unable  to  raise  the  small 
amount  of  the  incorporation  fee.  They  managed 
to  carry  on  the  project,  giving  notes,  and  had  the 


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company  incorporated  with  a  capital  stock  of 
$50,000.  Since  then  the  capital  stock  has  been 
doubled  and  everything  is  in  a  most  flourishing 
condition.  Mr.  Stewart  was  the  president  of  the 
concern  for  three  years  and  has  been  on  the  board 
of  directors. 

The  first  marriage  of  Mr.  Stewart  was  with 
Anna  L.  Brantley,  a  native  of  Alabama.  The 
ceremony  was  performed  January  27,  1871.  Their 
only  child  is  Mary,  wife  of  William  Ginther,  who 
is  a  farmer  of  Lone  Tree  Lake  district,  Larimer 
County,  Colo.  May  i,  1879,  Mr.  Stewart  mar- 
ried Hannah  J.  Whittaker,  daughter  of  I.  N. 
and  Louisa  (Norman)  Whittaker,  natives  of  Vir- 
ginia. The  father  was  a  successful  farmer,  and 
was  one  of  the  early  settlers  of  Schuyler  County, 
Mo. ,  where  Mrs.  Stewart  was  born.  There  he 
held  the  office  of  justice  of  the  peace  for  years 
and  was  a  man  of  prominence  in  his  prime.  He 
is  now  living  with  his  married  daughter,  Lu- 
cinda,  Mrs.  William  Branstraitor,  of  Davis 
County,  Iowa.  The  six  children  of  Henry  F. 
and  Hannah  Stewart  are  named  as  follows: 
Louie  M.,  Don  G.,  Hallie,  Clay  W.,  Homer  F. 
and  Ruby  P.  Mrs.  Stewart  is  a  member  of  the 
Missionary  Baptist  Church. 


[^  ENJAMIN  PRINCE,  senior  member  of  the 
1^  firm  of  B.  Prince  &  Son,  coal  miners  and 
r\J  dealers,  at  Morrison,  Jefferson  County,  was 
born  in  Worcestershire,  England,  May  25,  1848, 
a  son  of  George  and  Anne  (Sambrook)  Prince. 
He  is  the  eldest  of  the  five  surviving  members  of 
the  family,  the  others  being:  Catherine,  wife  of 
Thomas  Williams;  John,  who  lives  in  Erie,  Weld 
County,  Colo.;  James,  also  living  in  Erie;  and 
Rachel,  wife  of  Joseph  Sambrook,  of  Erie. 

A  native  of  England,  born  at  Oldbury  in  1826, 
George  Prince  was  employed  in  coal  mines  from 
earliest  youth,  and  followed  mining  until  his 
death,  which  occurred  in  1896.  His  wife  is  still 
living  and  makes  her  home  with  her  daughter  in 
Erie.  Benjamin  Prince,  of  this  sketch,  acquired 
a  very  limited  education,  and  the  knowledge  he 
now  possesses  was  obtained  principally  by  read- 
ing and  self-culture.  In  boyhood  he  secured 
work  in  the  Oldbury  coal  mines,  where  he  re- 
mained until  eighteen  years  of  age.  Thence  go- 
ing to  Yorkshire,  England,  he  worked  at  Nor- 
manton,  twelve  miles  from  Leeds,  for  ten  years. 


January  4,  1877,  he  set  sail  for  America,  buying 
a  ticket  direct  to  Golden,  where  he  arrived  Janu- 
ary 25.  Here  he  was  employed  in  the  coal  mines 
for  eighteen  months,  after  which  he  came  to  his 
present  location  and  leased  the  coal  bank  that  he 
has  since  operated,  with  the  exception  of  three 
years  (1882-85)  spent  in  Denver.  In  1885  he  re- 
leased the  coal  bank  and  two  years  later  bought 
the  property,  consisting  of  eighty  acres.  Here 
may  be  seen  some  of  the  most  valuable  clay  beds 
in  Colorado,  the  veins  running  from  six  to  one 
hundred  and  twenty-five  feet  wide.  The  strata 
contains  twenty-three  veins  of  clay  and  seven 
veins  of  coal. 

May  20,  1866,  Mr.  Prince  married  Miss  Maria 
Louise  Basterfield,  a  native  of  Worcestershire. 
Ten  children  were  born  of  their  union,  but  only 
four  of  these  are  now  living,  viz.:  George  W., 
Sarah  J.,  Albert  B.  and  David  S.  The  eldest 
son,  who  is  the  junior  member  of  the  firm  of  B. 
Prince  &  Son,  is  one  of  the  rising  young  business 
men  of  Colorado.  He  has  practically  grown  to 
manhood  in  the  mines,  and  profiting  from  what 
he  has  seen,  he  has  become  an  expert  miner. 
Some  time  since  he,  with  his  brother  Albert  as  a 
partner,  located  a  group  of  five  mines  on  Soda 
Creek,  three  miles  below  Idaho  Springs,  known 
as  the  Chance  group  of  mines.  Here  the  broth- 
ers worked  diligently  to  develop  the  property, 
and  recently  were  rewarded  for  their  labors  by 
striking  a  rich  body  of  ore.  So  highly  are  they 
regarded  by  their  acquaintances  that  they  are  not 
only  welcomed  as  genial  companions,  but  their 
good  judgment  is  praised  and  their  advice  is 
sought  by  many  miners  who  have  made  mining 
their  lifetime  study.  They  have  bright  prospects 
before  them,  and  there  is  every  indication  that 
ere  many  years  shall  have  passed  they  will  rank 
among  the  wealthy  and  prominent  miners  in  the 
state. 


Gl  LONZO  STRONG  BABCOCK.  Four  miles 
LI  south  of  Littleton,  on  section  6,  township  6 
I  I  south,  range  68  west,  lie  nine  hundred  and 
sixty  acres  comprising  the  homestead  of  Mr. 
Babcock.  In  addition  to  this  property  he  has 
the  control  of  six  hundred  and  forty  acres,  also 
lying  in  Douglas  County.  Since  he  came  here, 
in  the  fall  of  1859,  and  took  up  a  squatters'  claim, 
his  nearest  neighbor  being  on  Wolcott's  place, 
he  has   witnessed  the    gradual  development  of 


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Douglas  County,  and  its  settlement  by  substantial 
farmers.  The  land  was  a  wilderness  when  he 
came,  and  it  was  only  after  years  of  labor  on  his 
part  that  it  was  placed  under  cultivation.  For 
some  time  he  made  his  home  in  a  log  cabin,  and 
later  he  built  a  log  house  that  furnished  him  with 
more  room;  the  house  in  which  he  now  lives  is  a 
stone  building  of  a  substantial  character.  He 
has  given  his  attention  to  general  farming  and 
the  cattle  business,  in  the  latter  of  which  he  has 
been  particularly  successful. 

In  Willimantic,  Windham  County,  Conn.,  the 
subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  February  20,  1838, 
a  son  of  Elijah  and  Mary  A.  (Strong)  Babcock. 
His  paternal  ancestors  were  of  English  stock, 
and  had  been  identified  with  New  England  from 
colonial  days.  He  grew  to  manhood  on  the 
homestead  farm  and  received  a  fair  education. 
In  1859  he  came  to  Colorado,  in  company  with 
a  brother,  the  two  traveling  by  ox-team  from 
Iowa  City,  where  they  left  April  11,  arrivitig  in 
Boulder  June  25.  In  the  latter  city  he  assisted 
in  laying  out  the  town.  His  ventures  at  mining 
did  not  meet  with  success,  although  he  tried  it  in 
the  mountains  at  Central  City  and  other  places. . 
He  came  to  what  is  now  Douglas  County  and 
during  the  first  winter  here  lived  on  what  game 
could  be  secured  by  the  aid  of  his  rifle.  Deer 
were  especially  plentiful,  and  many  of  them  fell 
beneath  his  unerring  aim.  Early  in  i860  he 
settled  upon  his  present  homestead. 

The  first  marriage  of  Mr.  Babcock  took  place 
in  1864  and  united  him  with  Miss  Rose  Estlack, 
by  whom  he  had  three  children,  namely:  Jessie, 
who  married  John  Pollock  and  lives  at  Spring 
Valley,  Colo.;  Eugene  and  Charles  A.,  who 
reside  on  the  home  farm.  In  1878  Mr.  Babcock 
was  united  in  marriage  with  Miss  L,illian  Darrow, 
whose  home  was  near  Chicago,  but  who  had 
for  some  time  been  teaching  school  in  Douglas 
County.  She  was  born  in  IvaSalle  County,  111., 
and  was  a  graduate  of  Chicago  schools.  Her 
parents,  Anderson  and  May  (Henderson) Darrow, 
were  pioneers  of  Illinois. 

Politically  a  Republican,  having  cast  his  first 
vote  for  Abraham  Lincoln,  Mr.  Babcock  has 
been  a  delegate  to  various  conventions  and  was 
nominated  by  his  party  for  sherifi"  of  Douglas 
County.  The  nomination,  however,  was  made 
against  his  wishes  and  he  refused  to  make  a  can- 
vass for  office.     From  December,  1878,    to  1882, 


he  served  as  deputy  United  States  marshal  for 
the  district  of  Colorado.  At  this  writing  he  is 
serving  as  deputy  sheriff.  He  remembers  this 
section  of  country  in  the  days  when  settlers  were 
few  and  improvements  rare,  and  when  Indians 
threatened  the  lives  of  the  few  white  men  here. 
In  1864  the  red  men  came  through  this  county 
on  a  raid,  and  our  subject,  with  a  company  of 
nearly  forty  men,  chased  them  some  ninety  miles, 
failing,  however,  to  overtake  them.  He  has 
contributed  his  quota  to  the  development  of  the 
material  resources  of  the  county,  among  whose 
citizens  he  has  long  held  a  prominent  place. 


HOWARD  WILLIAMS  is  engaged  in  gen- 
eral farming  and  the  cattle  business  on  sec- 
tion 32,  township  ID,  range  65  west,  Doug- 
las County,  thirteen  miles  from  Monument,  El 
Paso  County.  He  was  born  at  Shell  Rock,  But- 
ler County,  Iowa,  February  15,  1859,  a  son  of 
Henry  K.  and  Catherine  (Colver)  Williams. 
When  he  was  eight  years  of  age  his  parents 
moved  to  Bates  County,  Mo.,  where  his  father 
bought  a  farm  and  remained  until  his  death  five 
years  later.  As  he  left  some  property  the  chil- 
dren were  given  fair  educational  advantages.  In 
1876  the  mother  with  one  daughter  and  two  sons 
came  to  Colorado,  all  of  them  but  one  son  mak- 
ing the  trip  by  wagon  anA  consuming  six  weeks 
on  the  road.  They  had  traded  their  Missouri 
property  for  two  hundred  and  fortj'  acres  in  Doug- 
las County,  near  the  present  home  of  our  subject. 
In  this  locality  he  has  since  resided  and  is  now 
the  owner  of  eleven  hundred  acres  of  farming 
land. 

January  3,  1882,  Mr.  Williams  married  Miss 
Mary  Russell,  of  El  Paso  County.  She  was  born 
in  Douglas  County,  a  daughter  of  John  and  Hon- 
ora  (Foley)  Russell,  and  received  a  public-school 
education.  They  are  the  parents  of  seven  living 
children,  namely:  Minnie,  Anna,  Oliver  Perry, 
Frances,  Ruth,  Grace  and  William  McKinley,  all 
of  whom  were  born  on  the  home  farm.  Mr.  Will- 
iams owns  about  seventy  head  of  cattle  but  makes 
farming  his  principal  occupation,  and  in  it  he  has 
met  with  success.  Politically  he  has  alwaj'sbeen 
a  Republican.  His  party  elected  him  county 
commissioner,  which  position  he  held  for  three 
years.  He  was  also  nominated  for  the  legisla- 
ture   and  for   county   clerk  in   1897,    but  failed 


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of  election.  Fraternally  he  is  connected  with 
Monument  Camp  No.  302,  Woodmen  of  the 
World,  of  which  he  was  consul  for  a  time. 

The  mother  of  Mr.  Williams  continued  to  make 
her  home  in  Colorado  until  her  death,  which  oc- 
curred November  27,  1897,  ^t  eighty-one  years 
of  age,  her  birth  having  occurred  May  16,  1816. 
Her  husband  was  a  year  older  than  herself,  born 
in  1815. 


T"  LIAS  ROBERTS  resides  in  the  southeastern 
^  part  of  Douglas  County,  on  section  31, 
^  township  II,  range  65,  ten  miles  northeast 
of  Monument,  El  Paso  County.  In  1879  he 
bought  the  improvements  already  made  and 
homesteaded  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres,  to 
which  he  has  since  added  until  his  landed  posses- 
sions now  aggregate  four  hundred  and  eighty 
acres  in  his  home  ranch  and  three  hundred  and 
sixty  acres  near  Eastonville.  Here  he  engages 
in  general  farm  pursuits. 

In  Shelby  County,  Ind.,  Mr.  Roberts  was  born 
April  3,  1842,  a  son  of  Wade  and  Mathana  (Nail) 
Roberts.  When  he  was  nine  years  of  age  his 
parents  moved  to  Macoupin  County,  111.,  where 
they  rented  land  for  a  few  years.  Later  they 
bought  two  hundred  acres  in  Montgomery  Coun- 
ty, and  from  there  in  1866  removed  to  Dade 
County,  Mo.  In  1872  removal  was  made  to 
Morgan  County,  Mo.,  but  two  years  later  they 
went  to  Texas,  and  from  there  returned  to 
Morgan  County,  where  the  father  died  in  1893. 
The  mother  is  still  living  in  Morgan  County  and 
is  seventy-eight  years  of  age.  All  of  her  ten 
children  are  living,  Elias  being  the  second  of 
these  in  order  of  birth.  His  boyhood  days  were 
spent  in  farm  work  in  the  various  places  where 
his  parents  resided.  He  received  a  fair  education 
in  common  schools. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Roberts  was  solemnized 
October  27,  1864,  and  united  him  with  Miss 
Nancy  A.  Laughlin,  who  was  born  in  Beaver 
County,  Pa.  She  accompanied  her  parents, 
Thomas  and  Nancy  (Wright)  Laughlin,  to  Dade 
County,  Mo.,  and  from  there  during  the  war 
moved  to  Montgomery  County,  111.,  where  they 
remained  until  the  close  of  the  war.  It  is  a  sin- 
gular coincidence  that  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Roberts 
were  born  on  the  same  day  and  year,  he  the  sec- 
ond of  ten  children  and  she  the  second  of  nine, 
and  both  had  one  sister  older. 


In  1865  Mr.  Roberts  settled  in  Dade  County, 
Mo.,  and  rented  land  belonging  to  his  wife's 
father.  A  year  later  he  bought  sixty  acres  of 
unimproved  land,  and  there  remained  until  1872, 
when  he  sold  out  and  the  following  year  came  to 
Colorado.  Leaving  his  old  home  May  13,  with 
an  ox-team  and  a  drove  of  cattle  he  started  on 
the  long  journey  across  the  plains,  and  after  a 
hard  trip  often  weeks  he  reached  his  destination. 
In  the  fall  he  took  a  pre-emption  claim  near 
Eastonville,  and  for  a  few  weeks  slept  in  his 
wagon,  but  as  soon  as  he  had  built  a  log  shanty 
he  removed  his  household  effects  to  it.  In  1878 
he  sold  the  claim  and  the  following  year  bought 
his  present  property. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Roberts  have  three  children: 
The  older  son,  Thomas  W.,  was  born  in  Mont- 
gomery County,  111.,  and  is  a  farmer,  owning  two 
hundred  and  twenty  acres  of  land  near  the  home- 
stead; Ida  Adella  was  born  in  Dade  County,  Mo. , 
and  is  with  her  parents;  Homer  L.,  also  a  native 
of  Dade  County,  owns  and  cultivates  sixty  acres 
of  land  near  Eastonville.  Mr.  Roberts  was  reared 
in  the  faith  of  the  Democracy,  but  is  not  active 
in  politics,  preferring  to  devote  himself  to  his  ag- 
ricultural interests. 


^OREN  SORENSEN,  one  of  the  successful 
2\  merchants  of  Golden  and  a  member  of  the 
Q)  firm  of  Wasson  &  Sorensen,  was  born  in 
Nordordalen,  Norway,  June  12,  1849,  the  son  of 
John  and  Kari  (Olson)  Sorensen,  also  natives  of 
Norway.  His  father,  who  was  a  farmer  in  the 
old  country,  died  in  Kansas  while  visiting  his  son 
there  in  1896;  and  during  the  same  year  his  wife 
passed  away  in  Norway.  They  were  the  parents 
of  ten  children,  all  but  one  of  whom  are  still 
living,  six  of  these  being  in  America. 

In  the  common  schools  of  Norway  the  subject 
of  this  sketch  received  a  fair  education.  In  July, 
1868,  he  came  from  Copenhagen  to  New  York, 
thence  traveled  west  to  Janesville,  Wis. ,  where 
he  was  employed  for  a  short  time.  In  the  spring 
of  1869  he  took  up  a  homestead  claim  in  Kansas, 
eighty  acres  of  which  were  within  the  railroad 
limit,  in  Waubansee  County,  near  Altavista. 
After  he  had  proved  up  on  the  property  he  bought 
an  adjacent  tract,  making  a  total  acreage  of  one 
hundred  and  sixty,  which  he  improved  and  placed 
under  cultivation.?  Eighteen  years  were  spent  on 


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that  place,  after  which,  in  1887,  he  came  to 
Golden,  but  soon  went  to  the  mining  district  in 
the  San  Luis  Valley,  where  he  pre-empted  a 
claim.  Returning  to  Golden  in  less  than  two 
years,  he  formed  a  partnership  with  his  brother- 
in-law  and  established  the  grocery  house  of 
Wasson  &  Sorensen,  on  Washington  aventte, 
where  he  has  since  conducted  business.  In  1897 
he  built  a  comfortable  residence  on  Second  street. 
Politically  Mr.  Sorensen  is  a  Republican  and 
while  in  Kansas  served  as  treasurer  of  his  school 
district.  During  his  residence  in  that  state  he 
married  Margaret  E.  Wasson,  who  was  born  in 
Peoria,  111.  They  are  the  parents  four  sons,  Roy, 
George,  Dudley  and  Alfred.  He  has  a  fine  family 
of  sons  and  is  justly  proud  of  their  ability  and 
intelligence.  He  is  a  man  of  great  moral  worth 
and  fine  character.  He  is  fond  of  his  home,  as 
is  natural  to  the  people  who  come  from  that 
country  where  nothing  is  held  in  higher  reverence 
than  the  sanctity  of  the  home  and  family.  Like 
others  of  that  nationality,  he  possesses  the  thrift, 
sound  common  sense  and  determination  of  char- 
acter that  almost  invariably  bring  financial  pros- 
perity. By  his  honest  dealings  with  all,  he  has 
won  the  patronage  of  the  people  of  Golden  and 
the  surrounding  country,  who  hold  him  in  the 
highest  esteem  for  his  integrity  and  honorable 
character. 


(lOHN  E.  BLUNT,  a  farmer  and  dairyman, 
I  resides  one  and  one-quarter  miles  east  of 
Qj  Sedalia,  Douglas  County,  where  he  owns  a 
ranch  of  sixteen  hundred  acres.  He  came  to  this 
state  from  Kansas  in  1873,  driving  a  herd  of 
cattle,  and  joined  his  wife  and  son,  who  had  pre- 
ceded him  some  months.  Soon  settling  on  his 
present  homestead,  he  bought  one  hundred  and 
sitxy  acres,  to  which  he  has  added  from  time  to 
time  until  the  place  has  reached  its  present  pro- 
portions. In  1874  he  erected  the  residence  where 
he  has  since  made  his  home. 

In  the  town  of  Franklin,  Hancock  County, 
Me.,  Mr.  Blunt  was  born  June  18,  1836,  a  son  of 
John  and  Elmira  (Blunt)  Blunt.  His  father,  who 
was  a  farmer,  moved  to  Darke  County,  Ohio,  in 
1852  and  bought  land,  making  his  home  there 
until  the  fall  of  1855.  Early  in  that  year  John  E. 
and  his  older  half-brother,  Elbridge  G.,  went  to 
Franklin  County,  Kan.,  and  squatted  on  govern- 
ment land,   the  father  soon  following  his  sons. 


He  was  three  times  married  and  had  children  by 
each  union.  James  G. ,  who  was  born  of  the 
first  marriage,  graduated  from  the  Columbus 
(Ohio)  Medical  College  and  went  to  Kansas  in 
1856,  afterward  taking  part  in  the  border  wars 
of  pre-Rebellion  times.  When  the  Civil  war 
opened  he  raised  a  company,  of  which  he  was 
made  captain,  and  later,  by  reason  of  valor  in  con- 
flict, was  promoted  to  be  a  major-general.  After 
the  war  he  made  Leavenworth,  Kan.,  his  home, 
but  the  management  of  business  for  Indian  tribes 
kept  him  in  Washington,  D.  C,  much  of  his 
time  and  there  he  died.     He  left  three  children. 

Elbridge  G.  Blunt,  who  was  a  son  of  Jobs. 
Blunt  by  his  first  marriage,  was  a  sailor  for  a 
number  of  years  previous  to  the  war.  He  crossed 
the  ocean  twelve  times  and  was  shipwrecked 
three  times;  once,  when  sailing  to  Ireland,  dur- 
ing the  famine  there,  with  a  cargo  of  corn,  he 
was  wrecked  and  was  obliged  to  throw  all  the 
corn  overboard.  During  the  Civil  war  he  served 
in  the  command  of  his  older  brother,  the  major- 
general,  and  acted  as  a  scout.  After  the  war  he 
removed  to  Chicago,  where  he  was  employed  as 
an  engineer.  His  death  occurred  in  that  city  in 
September,  1896.  He  had  married  Miss  Mary  E. 
Garton,  of  Darke  County,  Ohio,  and  left  five 
children. 

In  1861  the  subject  of  this  sketch  enlisted  in 
Company  A,  Third  Kansas  Infantry,  which  after- 
ward was  consolidated  with  the  Fourth  Kansas 
Infantry,  and  became  Company  C,  Tenth  Kansas 
Infantry.  In  July,  1862,  he  was  raised  from  the 
ranks  to  be  first  lieutenant  of  Company  D,  Third 
Regiment  of  Indian  Home  Guards,  and  was  in 
the  scouting  service,  taking  part  in  many  skir- 
mishes and  the  battles  of  Newtonia,  Mo.,  and 
Greenleaf  Prairie,  I.  T.  He  was  never  wounded 
nor  captured,  and  though  sick  for  a  time,  he  was 
too  plucky  to  go  to  the  hospital.  At  Newtonia  he 
was  in  command  of  sixty  Indians;  there  were  a 
few  hundred  against  several  thousand,  and  the 
small  band,  after  being  surrounded,  had  to  cut 
their  way  out.  In  the  fall  of  1863  he  resigned 
on  account  of  poor  health  and  because  his  father 
needed  his  assistance.  After  his  resignation  he 
took  part  in  the  battle  of  Westport,  where  he 
commanded  a  companj-,  and  later  he  was  com- 
missioned as  captain  by  Governor  Crawford. 

In  April,  1864,  Mr.  Blunt  married  Miss  May 
Hansborough,  their  wedding  being  solemnized  at 


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Mount  Gilead,  Anderson  County,  Kan.  Three 
children  were  born  of  their  union.  The  oldest, 
Elmer  Valentine,  whose  birth  occurred  in  Frank- 
lin County,  Kan.,  February  14,  1865,  is  now 
living  at  the  home  place.  The  only  daughter, 
Ella,  died  in  Kansas  when  two  years  of  age;  and 
Harry,  the  youngest  child,  died  in  Colorado  when 
eight  years  of  age.  The  only  surviving  son  was 
married,  January  27,  1891,  to  Miss  Fannie  E. 
Brooking,  of  Littleton,  Colo.,  but  a  native  of 
Huntsville,  Mo. ;  and  they  have  one  child,  Mar}' 
Eugenia,  born  July  19,  1892.  Fraternally  our 
subject  is  connected  with  J.  G.  Blunt  Post  No.  65, 
G.  A.  R. ,  of  which  he  is  past  commander.  His 
father  was  a  Whig  and  all  the  .sons  became  Re- 
publicauf .  Mr.  Blunt  was  elected  county  com- 
missioner of  Douglas  County  and  served  for 
three  years. 

0AVID  BIRKLE,  the  owner  of  valuable 
residence  and  business  property  in  Platte- 
ville,  where  he  resides,  and  also  the  owner 
of  finely  improved  farm  property  in  Weld 
County,  was  born  near  Stuttgart,  in  the  south  of 
Germany,  in  1838,  a  son  of  Christopher  and 
Phillipene  Birkle.  His  parents  spent  their  en- 
tire lives  in  Germany,  where  they  died,  the  father 
at  seventy-five  and  the  mother  at  fifty-five. 

At  the  age  of  fifteen  years  our  subject  started 
for  America,  in  company  with  an  older  sister. 
He  landed  in  New  Orleans  in  April,  1854,  and 
from  there  proceeded  to  St.  Joseph,  Mo.,  where 
he  followed  the  blacksmith's  trade  and  teaming. 
Remaining  there  until  i860,  he  then  came  west 
in  search  of  a  location,  and  arrived  in  Denver  on 
the  1st  of  June,  after  a  tedious  trip  across  the 
plains  with  an  ox -team.  Two  weeks  were  spent 
in  Denver,  after  which  he  went  down  to  the 
Platte  River  and  began  cutting  hay.  Later  he 
took  up  government  land.  In  1866  he  obtained 
a  patent  for  section  25,  township  3,  range 67,  and 
began  general  farming  and  the  stock  business. 
From  time  to  time  he  purchased  other  land,  un- 
til he  is  now  owner  of  five  hundred  and  sixty 
acres,  all  under  cultivation.  As  a  stock  dealer 
he  has  been  quite  successful,  keeping  on  his 
place  about  two  hundred  and  fifty  head  of  cattle, 
besides  a  number  of  fine  horses. 

Recognizing  the  necessity  of  suitable  irrigation, 
Mr.  Birkle  took  an  active  interest  in  securing 
ditches  and  laterals.     In   1866  he  aided  in  the 


organization  of  the  Meadow  Island  Ditch  Com- 
pany, and  helped  to  build  the  ditch,  which 
waters  a  portion  of  his  land.  For  several  years 
he  served  as  president  of  the  company.  In  1876 
he  took  part  in  organizing  the  Beaman  ditch,  in 
which  he  became  a  stockholder,  and  for  several 
years  held  the  ofiices  of  president  and  treasurer. 
In  1862  he  built  a  private  ditch  for  watering  his 
land,  but  after  the  construction  of  the  larger 
ditches  he  abandoned  his  first  ditch.  In  1878  he 
erected  a  substantial  stone  barn  on  his  home- 
stead, which  is  said  to  be  the  finest  barn  in  Weld 
County.  Two  years  before  he  had  built  a  two- 
story  residence.  Remaining  on  the  farm  until 
1893,  he  then  removed  to  the  village  of  Platte- 
ville,  where  he  had  built  the  Birkle  hall  in  1888, 
and  where  he  now  owns  several  public  buildings 
and  residences. 

Politically  Mr.  Birkle  is  a  Democrat.  He  was 
the  organizer  of  school  district  No.  13,  and  for 
eighteen  years  served  upon  the  board  of  trustees, 
as  president  or  treasurer.  In  1864  he  went  to 
Missouri  and  there  married  Miss  Johanna  Bruner, 
whom  he  brought  back  with  him  to  his  frontier 
home.  Reaching  the  place,  he  found  that  the 
Indians  had  been  there  in  his  absence  and  had 
driven  away  some  of  his  stock.  He  and  his  wife 
have  gained  the  respect  of  their  acquaintances 
during  the  long  years  of  their  residence  in  Weld 
County,  and  are  known  and  honored  for  their  in- 
tegrity, industry  and  perseverance.  They  are 
the  parents  of  five  children,  whom  they  have 
trained  to  useful  manhood  and  womanhood.  The 
oldest  daughter,  Elizabeth,  is  the  wife  of  William 
Egner,  a  farmer  of  Weld  County.  The  sons  are 
John  and  Louis,  who  manage  the  old  homestead, 
and  the  j'ounger  daughters,  Rosie,  wife  of  Charles 
Howard,  of  Platteville;  and  Hattie.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Birkle  are  members  of  the  Catholic  Church. 


(TOHN  LOUGHRAN,  a  successful  mine  super- 
I  intendent,  whose  home  is  in  Central  City, 
(2/  Gilpin  County,  is  a  self-made  man  in  every 
way,  as  circumstances  forced  him  to  rely  upon 
himself  when  he  was  but  a  child,  and  from  a  very 
early  age  he  supported  himself  entirely.  When 
most  children  are  privileged  to  attend  school  he 
was  working  hard  in  a  factory  and  in  1862  he 
and  his  brother  Enos  set  out  together  to  seek  a 
new  home  and  fortune  in  the  United  States,  he 


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being  then  but  fourteen  years  of  age.  They  ex- 
perienced many  of  the  ups  and  downs  of  life  in 
the  strange  country,  but  managed  to  gain  a  foot- 
hold and  finally  came  off  victors  in  the  struggle. 

John  Loughran,  Sr.,  was  a  native  of  Ireland, 
and  so  was  his  wife,  whose  name  before  their 
marriage  was  Agnes  Gollogly.  In  early  man- 
hood the  father  came  to  America,  locating  in 
Pennsylvania,  but  ultimately  returned  to  the 
Emerald  Isle  and  in  1852  removed  with  his 
family  to  Ayrshire,  Scotland.  The  mother  and 
children  came  to  America  after  the  death  of  the 
father.  James,  the  eldest  son,  died  in  Iowa,  and 
Frank,  the  youngest,  died  in  Colorado.  Enos, 
previously  mentioned,  is  now  living  in  Denver, 
as  is  also  the  next  younger  brother,  Hugh. 
Maggie  resides  in  Georgetown  and  Ellen  in  Cen- 
tral City.  Mrs.  Loughran  departed  this  life  in 
this  city. 

The  birth  of  the  subject  of  this  article  occurred 
in  Ireland  in  1848,  and  when  he  was  in  his  fifth 
year  his  family  moved  to  Scotland.  Two  years 
later  he  was  initiated  into  the  grim  world  of  busi- 
ness by  being  employed  in  an  Ayrshire  factory, 
and  at  thirteen  he  was  apprenticed  to  a  brick- 
moulder  and  learned  the  trade.  He  sailed  from 
Liverpool  in  the  good  ship  "Universe"  twenty- 
six  years  ago,  and  after  a  tedious  voyage  of  six 
weeks  and  three  days  landed  at  his  destination, 
New  York  City.  From  there  he  went  to  Wiscon- 
sin and  a  month  later  started  across  the  plains 
with  a  party  who  outfitted  with  ox- teams.  Their 
journey  was  by  the  oft-traveled  Platte  River 
route,  a  trip  of  seven  weeks'  duration.  In  July 
our  subject  arrived  in  Denver  and  at  once  came 
to  the  mountains.  He  prospected  at  Bobtail  Hill, 
Gilpin  County,  for  a  time  and  then  entered  the 
employ  of  the  old  Blackhawk  Company.  In  the 
years  that  followed  he  worked  in  nearly  every 
mine  of  any  importance  in  the  district  and  for 
nine  years  was  inside  foreman  of  the  Saratoga 
mine.  He  is  now  operating  Wood  &  Buckly's 
mines,  and  exercises  general  management  of  the 
whole.  Personally  he  is  interested  in  various 
mining  ventures  and  in  company  with  three 
others  is  operating  the  mine  known  as  Mountain 
City.  He  is  a  practical  man  of  affairs,  thoroughly 
understanding  his  business.  In  his  political 
opinion,  he  holds  with  the  Democratic  party. 

In  Central  City  Mr.  Loughran  and  Miss  Maria 
Donovan  were  married  in   1870.     She  was  born 


in  Boston,  Mass.,  and  has  lived  in  this  town  since 
1869.  The  following-named  children  were  born 
to  our  subject  and  wife:  James,  an  engineer  at 
Central  City;  Mrs.  Mamie  Mackin.  of  Denver; 
John,  at  home;  Maggie,  who  died  when  young; 
Katie  and  Joseph,  both  deceased;  Loretta;  Henry 
and  Francis,  twins. 


gHARLES  G.  HICKOX,  of  Central  City, 
Gilpin  County,  was  born  in  this  county 
January  18,  1865,  near  the  left  hand  fork 
of  Willis  gulch.  His  father,  George  Hickox, 
was  born  in  England,  but  came  to  New  York 
when  a  young  man,  and  in  1859  came  to  this 
state  and  engaged  in  mining  in  Willi%  gulch, 
Russell  gulch  and  Gilson  gulch.  His  wife,  Louisa 
Heramenway,  was  born  in  New  York  state,  and 
died  in  1872,  just  three  months  from  the  time  of 
her  husband's  death.  Of  their  thirteen  children, 
ten  are  now  living,  of  whom  Charles  and  Hiram 
are  now  in  Colorado.  One  brother,  Lewis,  served 
through  the  war  in  a  Colorado  regiment,  but  is 
now  in  Illinois. 

Charles  G.  Hickox,  who  was  the  youngest  of 
the  family,  lived  near  Central  City  until  nine 
years  old,  and  then  went  to  Golden.  After  his 
parents'  death  he  had  to  do  for  himself,  and  his 
schooling  was  such  as  could  be  obtained  by  at- 
tending during  the  winter  months.  He  remained 
in  Jefferson  County  for  three  years,  and  then 
went  to  Larimer  County  and  worked  on  a  farm 
until  fifteen.  At  that  age  he  began  working  in  a 
sawmill  at  Ralston,  Jefferson  County,  and  soon 
became  head  sawyer  for  Neil  Brothers  on  Boulder 
Creek.  In  1894  he  came  to  Central  City  and 
bought  the  stone  and  brick  structure,  in  which 
he  lias  his  livery,  sale  and  boarding  stable.  It  is 
a  large  building,  60x90  feet  and  two  stories  high; 
the  basement  is  the  horse  stable,  and  the  first 
floor  is  used  for  carriages,  coaches,  etc.  He  runs 
a  daily  stage  to  Idaho  Springs  via  Russell,  and  a 
line  of  hacks  from  Blackhawk  to  Central  City 
and  Nevadaville.  While  working  in  the  sawmill 
he  engaged  in  the  cattle  business,  and  after  he 
had  been  at  this  for  a  time  bought  a  farm  and 
continued  to  handle  stock  until  he  opened  his 
livery  barn.  This  farm  consists  of  five  hundred 
acres  and  is  situated  on  the  Ralston  at  the  ex- 
treme east  of  Gilpin  County,  and  is  on  the  county 
road,  occupying  a  beautiful  location.     The  place 


LEVI  BOOTH. 


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has  been  improved  by  its  owner  until  it  is  one  of 
the  most  desirable  pieces  of  property  in  that  vi- 
cinity. He  now  rents  it,  as  his  Hvery  business 
requires  all  his  attention. 

After  going  to  Golden  Mr.  Hickox  married 
Miss  Hattie  Spears,  who  was  born  in  New  York. 
Her  father  was  an  early  settler  in  this  state  and 
died  in  this  county  in  1896.  They  have  two  chil- 
dren, Blanche  and  George.  He  was  elected 
alderman  of  the  city  in  1896  on  the  People's 
party  ticket,  and  was  re-elected  in  1898.  He  is 
a  member  of  the  water  committee,  the  street  and 
alley  committee,  and  chairman  of  the  police  com- 
mittee. He  is  a  member  of  the  Ancient  Order 
of  United  Workmen.  His  residence  on  Lawrence 
street  was  built  by  himself,  and  is  a  model  of 
comfort  and  convenience.  He  is  of  social  disposi- 
tion, and  everybody  knows  and  likes  him. 


I  EVI  BOOTH,  a  successful  farmer,  dairyman 
I C  and  stock-raiser,  resides  on  section  18,  town- 
Li/  ship  4  south,  range  67  west,  and  is  the  owner 
of  five  hundred  and  sixty  acres  of  land,  nearly 
all  of  which  lies  in  one  body.  The  nucleus  of 
his  present  property  was  formed  in  1864,  when 
he  bought  a  claim  and  entered  a  homestead  of 
one  hundred  and  sixty  acres.  In  his  first  efibrt 
to  pre-empt  a  claim  he  was  unfortunate  and  made 
a  mistake,  locating  land  six  miles  froth  the  correct 
place,  but  his  second  effort  was  more  successful. 
The  improvements  on  the  place  have  been  made 
under  his  personal  supervision  and  have  increased 
the  value  of  the  land  greatly.  He  has  planted  a 
large  number  of  trees,  making  a  beautiful  grove 
that  adds  to  the  attractiveness  of  his  homestead. 
For  a  number  of  years  his  attention  was  given 
almost  wholly  to  the  raising  of  stock,  but  he  now 
engages,  besides,  in  general  farm  pursuits  and  the 
dairy  business. 

In  Moravia  Township,  Cayuga  County,  N.  Y., 
May  I,  1829,  the  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born 
to  Ager  and  Betsey  (Dowing)  Booth,  natives  of 
Connecticut,  and  there  reared  and  married,  but 
for  years  residents  of  a  New  York  farm.  Both 
the  Booth  and  Dowing  families  originated  in 
England.  When  our  subject  was  about  fifteen 
years  of  age  he  left  the  home  farm  and  went  to 
Dodge  County,  Wis. ,  where  he  joined  his  brother, 
David  L.  After  a  year  he  went  to  Madison,  Wis. , 
where  he  had  an  uncle.  A  year  later  be  entered 
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the  preparatory  department  of  the  University  of 
Wisconsin  and  was  otie  of  two  young  men  com- 
prising the  first  class  that  graduated  from  that 
institution,  with  the  degree  of  A.  B.  After  com- 
pleting his  literary  education  he  studied  law  with 
an  uncle,  J.  G.  Knapp,  who  afterward  became  a 
judge  in  the  southern  district  of  New  Mexico. 
He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  at  the  age  of  twenty- 
seven. 

While  still  in  Madison,  Wis.,  August  15,  1854, 
prior  to  his  admission  to  the  bar,  Mr.  Booth  mar- 
ried Miss  Millie  A.  Dowing,  who  was  born  in 
Erie,  Pa. ,  a  daughter  of  David  and  Emily  (Whit- 
ney) Dowing.  For  a  short  time  he  conducted  a 
real-estate  office  in  Prairie  du  Chien,  Wis.,  and 
he  was  similarly  engaged  in  Black  River  Falls 
for  a  year.  Returning  to  Madison  he  completed 
his  law  studies  and  formed  a  partnership  with  his 
uncle  and  another  gentleman,  and  for  some  five 
3'ears  engaged  in  practice  there.  In  i860,  with 
a  team  of  horses,  he  drove  from  Omaha  to  Den- 
ver in  eighteen  days,  accompanying  George  W. 
Stoner  and  Charles  Hilton.  The  wagon  was  so 
crowded  with  provisions  and  supplies  that  he 
thought  best  to  leave  his  law  books  in  Omaha, 
although  he  had  planned  to  practice  law  in  Colo- 
rado. Instead,  however,  he  went  to  California 
Gulch  (now  Leadville),  where  he  engaged  in 
mining. 

Returning  east  for  his  family,  who  had  been 
visiting  in  Sandusky,  Ohio,  Mr.  Booth  brought 
them  as  far  west  as  Fremont,  Neb. ,  with  horse 
teams,  but  in  the  latter  town  disposed  of  his 
horses  and  bought  cattle,  with  which  he  made  the 
remainder  of  the  journey.  They  left  Madison 
April  18,  1861,  and  arrived  at  California  Gulch 
July  12.  While  on  the  way  one  of  their  children, 
a  girl  of  three  years,  died  and  was  buried  on  the 
plains  July  2.  Arriving  at  his  destination  he  re- 
sumed mining,  while  his  wife  at  the  same  time 
kept  a  hotel,  express  office,  postoffice  and  store. 
In  the  meantime  his  uncle  had  been  appointed, 
by  President  Lincoln,  a  judge  in  New  Mexico, 
and  he  decided  to  join  him  there.  In  the  fall  of 
1863  he  and  his  family  drove,  with  horses,  to  La 
Masilla,  taking  with  them  four  loads  of  merchan- 
dise. They  left  Denver  September  4,  and  arrived 
at  La  Masilla  early  in  November,  after  some 
exciting  experiences  with  the  Mexicans,  who 
made  repeated  efforts  to  steal  from  them.  They 
engaged  in  the  mercantile  business,   but  Mrs. 


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Booth  did  not  like  the  country,  on  account  of  the 
few  white  women  there  and  the  many  privations 
people  were  compelled  to  endure.  For  this  reason 
they  sold  out  and  returned  to  Denver.  While  on 
their  way  north,  in  fording  a  stream,  they  were 
washed  down  the  current,  and  one  horse  went 
under.  They  cut  the  horses  loose  and  took  refuge 
on  an  island,  where  they  were  in  dire  distress 
until  rescued  by  the  help  of  Peter  Dotson,  United 
States  marshal  for  Utah  at  the  time  of  the  Moun- 
tain Meadow  massacre.  Since  his  return  to 
Arapahoe  County  Mr.  Booth  has  occupied  his 
present  homestead. 

The  oldest  child  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Booth  is 
Gillett  I,.,  who  is  represented  elsewhere  in  this 
work.  Emma,  who  was  born  at  Black  River 
Falls,  Wis.,  March  25,  1858,  died  on  the  plains 
when  the  family  were  removing  to  Colorado. 
Lillie  B.,  who  was  born  in  La  Masilla,  N.  Mex., 
November  25,  1863,  married  Judge  C.  C.  Hol- 
brook,  and  lives  at  Alamosa,  Colo.  Ella  Grace, 
the  youngest  of  the  family,  was  born  in  the  house 
where  her  father  now  lives,  November  13,  1868, 
and  is  the  wife  of  D.  W.  Working,  who  is  a 
newspaper  man  and  has  been  secretarj'  of  the 
State  Agricultural  College  at  Fort  Collins;  they 
and  their  two  children  live  on  Mr.  Booth's  farm. 

Reared  in  the  faith  of  the  Whig  party,  Mr. 
Booth  remained  true  to  its  principles  until  its  dis- 
integration. Since  then  he  has  been  a  Republi- 
can. In  1856  he  voted  for  John  C.  Fremont. 
He  was  appointed  county  commissioner  to  fill  an 
unexpired  term.  He  was  nominated  by  the 
Prohibition  party  for  state  treasurer,  but  he  re- 
fused to  accept  the  nomination,  as  he  did  also  for 
state  senator.  Since  the  organization  of  the 
Grange  he  has  been  identified  with  it,  and  for 
many  years  was  master  of  the  state  Grange. 
Fraternally  he  is  connected  with  Harman  Lodge 
No.  105,  I.  O.  O.  F.,  in  which  he  has  filled  vari- 
ous offices. 


r"RANCIS  M.  JEWETT,  whose  pleasant 
rft  home  is  located  at  a  point  about  six  and  a- 
I  *  half  miles  east  of  Longmont,  across  the  line 
in  Weld  County,  is  one  of  the  representative  citi- 
zens in  the  locality  in  which  he  dwells.  His  high 
standing  as  a  business  man,  and  his  undoubted 
energy  and  general  ability,  led  to  his  being 
chosen  as  one  of  the  county  road  commissioners 
in  1892,  and  from  that  time  to  the  present  he 


has  officiated  in  that  capacity,  giving  satisfaction 
to  all  concerned.  He  is  a  Populist  in  his  polit- 
ical faith,  and  is  not  an  aspirant  for  public  posi- 
tions. Among  the  fraternal  orders  he  has  asso- 
ciated himself  with  two,  the  Odd  Fellows  and  the 
Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen.  In  the  first- 
mentioned  he  belongs  to  Longmont  Lodge 
No.  29. 

The  father  of  our  subject  is  Dr.  George  C.  Jew- 
ett,  whosebirth  occurred  in  the  city  of  Cincinnati, 
Ohio.  There  he  grew  to  maturity,  receiving  ex- 
cellent public  school  advantages.  He  adopted  the 
medical  field  as  his  choice  of  a  profession  and,  after 
graduating  from  a  well-known  Cincinnati  col- 
lege, settled  in  Ohio,  there  embarking  in  prac- 
tice. Later  he  removed  to  Iowa,  and  for  many 
years  was  an  inhabitant  of  Decatur  County.  The 
mother  of  our  subject  came  from  one  of  the  old, 
aristocratic  families  of  Kentucky.  She  was  Lydia 
C.  Logan,  the  daughter  of  John  E.  and  Eliza 
(Baker)  Logan,  ol  Whitley  County,  Ky.  John 
E.  Logan  was  a  man  of  much  prominence  in  his 
community,  being  president  of  a  bank  iia  Line- 
ville,  and  extensively  interested  in  the  raising 
and  breeding  of  fine  live-stock. 

F.  M.  Jewett  was  born  in  Decatur  County, 
Iowa,  October  9,  1859,  being  one  of  six  children, 
one  of  whom  has  since  passed  to  the  silent  land. 
He  was  reared  under  the  loving  guidance  of  his 
parents,  and  was  given  good  educational  advan- 
tages. Early  in  life  he  developed  a  taste  and 
genius  for  agriculture,  and,  as  his  mother  owned 
a  ranch  in  Iowa,  he  was  allowed  to  work  the 
place  on  shares.  This  he  continued  to  do  up  to 
1883,  when  he  sold  off  his  stock,  and  as  he  was 
in  rather  poor  health,  he  decided  to  come  to  Colo- 
rado. He  arrived  in  Denver  May  5,  1883,  and 
at  the  close  of  the  first  year  he  could  see  a  marked 
improvement  in  his  general  strength,  and  he  de- 
termined to  make  this  his  future  home.  Locat- 
ing on  the  St.  Vrain,  he  rented  a  farm  for  several 
years.  He  was  prosperous  in  his  undertakings, 
and  in  1891  found  himself  in  a  position  to  own  a 
homestead.  He  invested  his  funds  in  a  parcel  of 
land  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  in  extent,  and 
here  he  has  since  dwelt,  making  .such  improve- 
ments as  he  deemed  best,  and  making  a  model 
farm  in  every  respect  of  the  place. 

November  25,  1886,  Mr.  Jewett  married  Miss 
Alice  E.  Cady,  a  native  of  the  Empire  state,  her 
birth  having  occurred  in  the  vicinity  of  Auburn, 


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N.  Y.  A  son  and  three  daughters  grace  the 
home  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Jewett,  and  are  named  re- 
spectively: John  Logan,  Ethel  M.,  Edna  L.  and 
Ada  C. 


(lOHN  McCORMICK  is  a  successful  agiicult- 
I  urist  of  Weld  County,  his  home  being  on 
(2/  section  24,  township  4,  range  69,  half  a  mile 
east  of  Berthoud.  In  addition  to  following  gen- 
eral farming  and  stock-raising  he  has  dealt  quite 
extensively  in  live  stock,  buying,  selling  and 
shipping.  His  well-applied  energy  and  industry 
can  be  seen  upon  every  hand  about  his  ranch. 
His  comfortable  house,  built  of  brick,  was  the 
first  one  constructed  of  that  material  in  this  lo- 
cality. His  barn  is  one  of  the  largest  and  best 
in  the  neighborhood.  The  prosperity  which  he 
now  enjoys  is  entirely  the  result  of  his  own 
labors,  for,  when  he  arrived  in  America,  in  early 
manhood,  he  was  a  poor  Irish  boy,  having  less 
than  $5  in  the  world.  Now  he  ranks  with  the 
best  farmers  and  citizens  of  this  county  and  is 
always  counted  upon  to  do  whatever  he  can  to  ad- 
vance the  welfare  of  the  public.  As  one  of  the 
stockholders  of  the  Farmers'  Mill  and  Elevator 
Company,  of  Berthoud,  he  has  been  actively  inter- 
ested, this  being  one  of  the  most  beneficial  insti- 
tutions of  this  section  of  the  county. 

Born  in  County  Clare,  Ireland,  June  4,  1840. 
our  subject  is  a  son  of  John  and  Margaret 
(McMahon)  McCormick,  who  were  well-to-do 
farmers.  When  he  was  seventeen  years  of 
age  John  McCormick,  Jr.,  came  to  the  United 
States  with  his  married  sister,  Mrs.  Mary  S. 
Slashary.  He  worked  in  the  iron  foundries  of 
Philadelphia  for  about  a  year,  and  then  proceeded 
westward  as  far  a  Blackhawk  County,  Iowa, 
where  he  had  an  uncle  living.  In  his  employ  he 
continued  five  years,  at  the  expiration  of  which 
period  he  concluded  to  come  to  Colorado  and  em- 
bark in  mining  enterprises. 

From  1872  until  1875  he  followed  mining  and 
prospecting,  in  company  with  his  brother  Martin, 
who  had  come  to  America  at  the  same  time,  in 
1857.  They  were  in  Central  City  much  of  the 
time  and  the  mountain  altitude  did  not  seem  to 
agree  with  our  subject.  Therefore  he  went  to 
Golden  and  engaged  in  railroading  and  coal- 
mining, later  working  on  the  Gulf  Railroad, 
which  was  then  in  process  of  construction  between 
Cheyenne  and  Longmont.     When  the  line  was 


completed  he  was  made  foreman  of  the  Loveland 
section,  and  five  or  six  months  afterward  took 
charge  of  the  Berthoud  section.  This  he  worked 
on  for  nearly  three  years,  and  in  the  meantime 
had  bought  one-quarter  of  a  section  of  land  near 
Loveland,  renting  the  same.  While  employed 
on  the  Berthoud  section  he  became  the  purchaser 
of  the  farm  where  he  now  makes  his  home.  The 
Hardy  ditch  was  then  the  only  one  in  this  locality, 
and  the  land  was  dry  and  gave  little  promise. 
Mr.  McCormick  was  not  discouraged,  but  bravely 
set  about  altering  and  improving  things  on  his 
property.  His  home  ranch  comprises  one  hun- 
dred and  sixty  acres,  and  besides  this  he  owns 
another  place  of  similar  extent,  about  eight  miles 
distant,  which  homestead  he  rents. 

January  14,  1884,  Mr.  McCormick  married 
Miss  Phoebe  McCafferty,  who  is  a  native  of  the 
northern^art  of  Ireland,  but  has  lived  in  America 
since  she  was  eighteen  years  old.  This  worthy 
couple  have  no  children  of  their  own,  but  have 
taken  into  their  hearts  and  home  two  little  ones, 
Katie  and  Thomas,  aged  respectively  twelve  and 
seven  years.  They  are  the  children  of  Mr. 
McCormick' s  sister,  Kate,  wife  of  James  Roach, 
of  County  Clare,  Ireland.  They  made  the  journey 
from  their  far-away  home  in  Ireland  with  a  friend 
to  Chicago  and  from  there  alone  as  far  as  Denver, 
where  their  uncle  met  them.  In  1887  he  and  his 
wife  made  a  three  months'  visit  in  Ireland.  Po- 
litically he  is  a  Democrat.  In  religious  faith  he 
and  his  wife  are  Catholics,  attending  the  church 
at  Longmont. 

Gl  LPHONSO  SCHOFIELD.  Among  the 
Ll  farmers  living  in  Boulder  County  prominent 
I  I  mention  belongs  to  Mr.  Schofield,  who  for 
some  years  has  followed  agricultural  pursuits  in 
this  part  of  the  state.  In  1894  he  purchased  the 
property  which  he  has  since  owned  and  superin- 
tended. It  consists  of  eighty  acres,  situated  three 
miles  north  of  Lafayette.  Since  his  purchase  he 
has  added  many  improvements  to  the  property, 
conspicuous  among  which  is  a  modern  residence 
of  brick,  one  of  the  largest  houses  in  the  neigh- 
borhood. 

A  native  of  Nova  Scotia,  the  subject  of  this 
sketch  was  born  in  1863,  being  a  .son  of  William 
H.  and  Mary  (Downing)  Schofield.  When  a 
child  he  removed  with  his  parents  to  Boston, 
M^ss.,  and  in  the  public  schools  of  that  city  he 


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acquired  his  education.  On  reaching  the  age  of 
eighteen  he  came  west  to  Colorado,  hoping  to  at- 
tain success  in  this  growing  state.  He  settled  in 
the  vicinity  of  Canfield,  Boulder  County,  where 
he  embarked  in  farming.  After  some  years  he 
removed  to  the  farm  he  now  owns  and  occupies. 
He  has  shown  great  enterprise  in  the  manage- 
ment of  his  business  interests  and  is  well  and 
favorably  known  as  one  of  the  most  progressive 
men  of  this  section. 

February  21,  1892,  Mr.  Schofield  married  Mary 
M.  Prince,  daughter  of  Hon.  Hiram  and  Mary 
(Lindsay)  Prince,  prominent  residents  of  Boulder 
County.  The  history  of  the  Prince  family  is 
given  in  the  sketch  of  her  father,  presented  else- 
where in  this  volume.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Schofield 
are  the  parents  of  a  daughter  and  two  sons:  Mary 
E.,  Archibald  J.  and  George  F. 


HON.  JOHN  J.  CLARK,  the  popular  mayor 
of  Nevadaville,  Gilpin  County,  has  lived  in 
this  state  for  thirty  years  and  has  not  only 
witnessed  the  great  and  sweeping  changes  that 
have  come  to  this  section  of  the  Union,  but  has 
aided  materially  in  the  grand  result.  Formerly 
he  acted  in  the  capacity  of  city  clerk  and  treasurer 
of  this  town  for  many  years,  and  was  elected  to 
his  present  office  in  1898.  Ten  years  ago  he  was 
living  in  Jefferson  and  was  nominated  on  the  Re- 
publican ticket  for  the  state  legislature.  In  the 
fall  elections  he  was  given  a  good  majority  and 
was  a  member  of  the  seventh  general  assembly  of 
the  state,  the  sessions  of  1888-89.  He  introduced 
the  bill  asking  for  an  appropriation  to  be  used  to 
investigate  methods  of  purifying  Clear  Creek 
waters  and  this  bill  was  duly  passed.  He  was 
concerned  with  irrigation  and  other  bills  and  did 
effective  work  on  behalf  of  his  constituents.  In 
1884  he  was  elected  to  the  fifth  general  as- 
sembly of  the  state  for  Gilpin  County  and  served 
with  credit. 

Mr.  Clark  was  born  in  Liscard,  England,  in 
November,  1846.  His  father,  Joseph  Clark,  was 
a  native  of  the  same  locality,  and  was  a  miner  by 
occupation.  In  1865  he  brought  his  little  fam- 
ily to  the  United  States,  and  settled  in  Keweenaw 
County,  Mich. ,  remaining  there  about  three  years. 
In  1868  he  came  to  Nevadaville,  and  for  a  few 
years  was  interested  in  mining  and  prospecting 
in  various  parts  of  Gilpin  County.     He  died  here 


when  in  his  fifty-third  year.  The  mother  of  our 
subject  was  a  Miss  Martha  Bennie  prior  to  her 
marriage  to  Mr.  Clark.  She  was  born  in  Eng- 
land and  died  in  that  country  at  the  time  that 
her  son  John  J.  was  but  eight  years  old.  She 
had  but  two  children,  and  the  other  son,  William 
H.,  was  killed  when  he  was  seventeen  years  old, 
by  falling  down  a  mine  shaft  near  Nevadaville. 
The  father  subsequently  married  again,  and  had 
four  children  by  that  union,  two  of  whom  sur- 
vive. 

Until  he  was  twelve  years  old  John  J.  Clark 
attended  the  English  schools  to  a  greater  or  less 
extent,  working  at  intervals,  also,  in  the  mines. 
He  became  a  practical  tin  and  copper  miner 
while  still  a  mere  boy,  and  in  1865  he  determined 
to  try  his  fortunes  in  America.  Accordingly  he 
sailed  from  Liverpool  and  arrived  in  New  York 
City  at  the  end  of  a  tedious  voyage  of  six  weeks' 
duration.  Thence  he  proceeded  to  the  copper 
mines  of  the  upper  peninsula  of  Michigan.  In 
May,  1868,  he  came  to  Colorado,  preceding  his 
family  about  five  months.  Here  he  prospected 
and  developed  mines  in  different  parts  of  the 
Kansas  lode,  and  was  reasonably  successful. 
He  now  owns  a  half  interest  in  the  Enterprise 
mine  on  Yankee  Hill  and  a  half  interest  in  the 
Eureka  on  the  same  hill.  In  addition  to  these, 
he  has  investments  in  Nevada  mining  property 
and  is  connected  with  the  thampion  Gold  Min- 
ing Company,  which  is  operating  the  Champion 
mine.  From  1878  to  1884  he  conducted  a  gen- 
eral merchandise  business  in  Nevadaville  and  in 
the  year  last-mentioned  sold  out  and  opened  a  meat 
and  vegetable  market  in  Central  City,  running  the 
same  for  two  years.  In  1887  he  located  on  a 
ranch  of  three  hundred  and  twenty  acres  at  Ber- 
gen Park.  This  place  is  situated  near  Beaver 
Brook,  in  the  foot  hills,  and  during  the  following 
six  years  Mr.  Clark  devoted  much  of  his  time 
and  energies  to  general  farming  and  stock-raising 
there.  In  1893  he  went  to  Golden,  becoming 
superintendent  of  the  White  Ash  coal  mines,  but 
in  the  fall  of  1895  he  returned  to  this  place.  He 
still  owns  the  ranch  already  alluded  to,  and  is 
one  of  the  proprietors  of  the  largest  store  in  the 
town.  For  the  past  three  years  he  has  been 
connected  with  the  Colorado  Trading  and  Invest- 
ment Company,  takes  an  active  part  in  its  man- 
agement and  is  its  vice-president. 

The   marriage  of  Mr.  Clark  and  Miss  Sarah 


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Souden  was  solemnized  in  1873  in  Nevadaville. 
Her  father,  William  Souden,  came  to  this  state 
in  1871,  turned  his  attention  to  mining  enter- 
prises and  died  here  a  few  years  later.  His  wife, 
Miss  Mary  Rogers  before  their  marriage,  also 
died  at  her  home  in  this  place.  They  were  the 
parents  of  four  children,  three  of  whom  survive. 
William,  now  a  resident  of  Butte  City,  Mont., 
served  throughout  the  Civil  war  in  the  Twenty- 
first  Wisconsin,  and  rose  to  the  rank  of  second 
lieutenant.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Clark  have  two  adopted 
children.  Mrs.  Clark  is  a  member  of  the  Method- 
ist Episcopal  Church  and  is  associated  with  the 
Daughters  of  Rebekah.  Fraternally  Mr.  Clark  is 
an  Odd  Fellow  and  is  past  officer  of  the  lodge  and 
encampment.  At  present  he  is  serving  his  second 
term  as  a  member  of  the  local  school  board, 
being  the  treasurer  of  the  same. 


~  RNEST  LE  NEVE  FOSTER,  superintend- 
V)  ent  of  the  Saratoga  mine  for  the  Saratoga 
^  and  Cyclops  Gold  and  Silver  Consolidated 
Mining  Company,  is  ex-state  geologist  and  a  man 
who  thoroughly  understands  mining,  having  at- 
tended the  best  schools  of  mines  in  England  and 
Germany  and  had  thirty  years'  experience.  He 
was  born  in  I,ondon,  England,  the  son  of  Peter 
L,e  Neve  and  Georgiana  Elizabeth  (Chevallier) 
Le  Neve  Foster.  His  great-grandfather  was 
named  Peter  EeNeve,  but  in  the  next  generation 
the  name  Foster  was  added,  and  since  then  the 
family  has  been  known  as  Le  Neve  Foster.  The 
Ee  Neves  are  of  Norman  descent  and  trace  their 
ancestry  back  prior  to  the  year  1400,  at  which 
time  and  for  a  long  time  afterward  they  were 
owners  of  large  estates  in  Norfolk.  Peter  Foster, 
the  grandfather  of  our  subject,  was  born  in  Nor- 
folk, and  was  a  miller  of  that  place,  where  his 
son,  Peter  Ee  Neve  Foster,  was  born.  This  son 
was  a  barrister  by  profession  but  afterward  became 
secretary  of  the  Society  for  the  Encouragement  of 
the  Arts  and  Sciences,  in  Eondon,  which  position 
he  filled  for  more  than  twenty -five  years.  He 
died  there  when  sixty-nine  years  of  age.  He 
married  Georgiana  Elizabeth  Chevallier,  of  Suf- 
folk, England,  whpse  father,  Dr.  Clement  Chev- 
allier, of  French-Huguenot  extraction,  was  in 
his  time  eleventh  wrangler  of  Cambridge  Univer- 
sity, a  fellow  of  his  college,    and  was   tutor  to 


Wordsworth.     She  died  in  Eondon,  leaving  ten 
children,  of  whom  nine  are  living. 

The  only  member  of  this  family  residing  in 
America  is  Ernest  Le  Neve  Foster,  who  reached 
manhood  in  London,  having  attended  the  private 
schools  of  that  city,  and  later  the  Royal  School  of 
Mines,  of  the  same  place,  from  which  he  gradua- 
ted in  1868.  He  then  went  to  Freiburg,  where 
he  entered  the  King's  and  Emperor's  Mining 
Academy,  where  he  took  a  special  course  during 
the  year  of  1868-69.  Immediately  upon  leaving 
this  academy  he  went  to  Italy  and  was  assistant 
in  some  gold  mines  in  the  Alps  for  eighteen 
months.  He  returned  to  England  at  the  end  of 
that  time  and  stayed  nine  months,  and  in  1872 
came  to  America  as  the  superintendent  of  the 
Snow  Drift  Silver  Mining  and  Reduction  Com- 
pany, and  located  near  Georgetown,  Clear  Creek 
County.  He  continued  there  and  also  had  charge 
of  other  mines  in  Georgetown  district,  several  of 
whicb  he  developed.  He  was  manager  of  the 
Colorado  Central  mine  for  five  years,  and  de- 
veloped mines  in  Summit  County,  near  Rath- 
bone.  The  latter  he  is  still  interested  in  and  op- 
erating. In  1893  he  became  superintendent  of 
the  Saratoga  mine,  which  is  nine  hundred  feet 
deep  and  one  of  the  heaviest  producers  in  this 
section. 

He  was  married  in  Central  City  in  1875  to  Miss 
Charlotte  Teal,  who  was  a  native  of  Manchester, 
England,  a  daughter  of  George  Teal,  of  Boulder, 
this  state,  and  a  sister  of  George  W.  Teal,  an  ex- 
tensive mine  owner  of  that  city.  They  have  one 
child,  Oscar  Le  Neve  Foster,  a  graduate  of  Jarvis 
Hall,  Denver,  and  a  student  of  Princeton,  of  the 
class  of  igo2.  In  1893  our  subject  moved  his 
family  to  Denver,  where  they  reside  on  LaFayette 
street.  While  in  Georgetown  he  was  county  com- 
missioner for  Clear  Creek  for  six  years,  during 
which  time  he  was  chairman  of  the  board.  He 
was  also  surveyor  of  the  same  county  one  term. 
In  1883  he  was  appointed  by  Gov.  J.  B.  Grant, 
as  geologist  for  the  state,  serving  one  term. 
He  is  a  member  of  Denver  Lodge  No.  84,  A.  F. 
&  A.  M. ,  Colorado  Chapter  No.  29,  Denver  Com- 
mandery  No.  25  and  Denver  Consistory,  A.  & 
A.  S.  R. ;  also  the  El  Jebel  Temple,  N.  M.  S. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Episcopal  Church,  and  in 
national  politics  he  usually  votes  with  the  Repub- 
lican party.  He  belongs  to  the  American  Insti- 
tute of  Mining  Engineers,  and  is  second  vice- 


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president  of  the  Colorado  Scientific  Society,  to 
which  he  has  belonged  since  its  organization. 
He  is  a  fellow  of  the  Geological  Society  of  Lon- 
don. 


pQlLLIAMF.  PICK.  Probably  no  man  in 
\  A  /  the  state  is  more  widely  known,  through 
Y  Y  the  medium  of  the  article  he  manufactures, 
than  is  the  gentleman  whose  biography  it  is  our 
pleasant  duty  to  present  here.  He  came  to  Colo- 
rado in  1873,  and  worked  at  his  trade,  which  is 
that  of  a  wagonmaker,  and  has  succeeded  in  the 
business  beyond  his  highest  expectations.  See- 
ing the  necessity  of  a  better  wagon  for  the  haul- 
ing of  quartz  and  general  mountain  use,  he  read- 
ily recognized  the  weak  points  in  the  old  style  of 
wagon,  and  set  about  perfecting  one  that  should 
meet  the  requirements  of  this  community.  Hav- 
ing been  accustomed  to  the  country  and  knowing 
the  greatest  strain  would  come  on  certain  parts  of 
the  wagon,  he  manufactured  one  of  extra 
strength,  with  large  double  tires.  These  wagons 
are  of  national  reputation  as  the  Blackhawk 
wagon,  and  are  shipped  to  all  parts  of  the  United 
States  and  even  into  British  Columbia. 

Mr.  Pick  was  born  in  Stargard,  in  the  province 
ofPomerania,  Prussia,  October  17,  1845,  his  par- 
ents being  Christopher  and  Louisa  (Kryger) 
Pick.  Both  his  father  and  grandfather  were 
wagonmakers  of  Stargard,  a  town  famed  for  its 
manufactories.  His  grandfather,  Christopher 
Pick,  was  in  the  Prussian  army,  and  took  part  in 
the  battles  of  Leipsic,  Waterloo  and  Austerlitz. 
His  father  was  born  in  1823,  in  Prussia,  but  forty 
years  later  brought  his  family  to  this  country, 
locating  in  St.  Joe,  Mo.,  where  he  now  lives. 
He  married  Louisa  Kryger,  ofPomerania,  who 
died  in  St.  Joe  in  1891.  Of  the  ten  children  born 
to  them,  eight  grew  up  and  seven  are  now  living. 
William  P.,  the  oldest  of  the  family,  attended 
the  public  school  in  his  youth,  until  he  was  four- 
teen, when  he  was  apprenticed,  under  his  father, 
to  learn  the  trade  of  a  wagonmaker.  He  con- 
tinued there  until  October  i,  1863,  when  he  left 
the  fatherland,  sailing  from  Hamburg  to  New 
York,  landing  here  November  i ,  and  going  di- 
rectly to  St.  Joe,  where  he  worked  at  his  trade. 
While  in  that  city  he  became  a  member  of  the 
Missouri  Home  Guard.  In  1873  he  located  in 
Blackhawk  and  accepted  a  position  as  wagon- 
maker with  Leitzman  &  Boellert.    He  worked  for 


them  until  1879,  when  Mr.  Boellert  took  the  busi- 
ness, and  he  continued  with  him  two  years  more 
and  then  became  a  partner.  This  partnership 
continued  for  ten  years,  at  the  expiration  of 
which  time  he  became  sole  owner  of  the  business 
and  continued  it  alone  until  1897,  when  he  took 
James  Hoick  as  partner.  The  firm  is  now  Pick 
&  Hoick.  Besides  the  many  wagons  they  manu- 
facture, they  do  a  large  business  in  blacksmith- 
ing.  They  are  located  on  Main  street,  and  have 
the  oldest  establishment  of  the  kind  in  the 
county.  Mr.  Pick  is  also  one  of  the  operators 
and  owners  of  the  Cameron  Claim  Gulch  mine. 

He  married  while  in  St.  Joe,  Miss  Katie 
Hines,  of  Wurtemberg,  Germany.  They  have 
five  children,  viz.:  Milton,  a  machinist  in  the 
employ  of  the  Gold  Coin  Company;  Lewis,  a 
wagonmaker  in  his  father's  shop;  William,  a 
blacksmith,  also  in  his  father's  shop;  Oscar,  at- 
tending the  Boulder  Preparatory  school,  class  of 
'99;  and  Prederick.  Mrs.  Pick  is  a  member  of 
the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  and  is  a  lady  of 
many  noble  qualities.  Mr.  Pick  has  been  elected 
for  several  terms  as  mayor  and  alderman,  and  is  at 
present  a  member  of  the  school  board  of  which  he 
is  president.  He  joined  the  Savannah  Lodge,  P. 
&  A.  M.,  in  Missouri,  but  has  transferred  his 
membership  to  Blackhawk  Lodge  No.  11.  He  is 
a  Democrat  in  politics.  In  all  his  dealings  he 
has  been  honest,  upright  and  Jionorable  to  a  fault, 
and  is  highly  esteemed. 


(lOHN  D.  STICKPORT.  The  popular  resort 
I  known  as  Military  park,  at  Fort  Logan,  was 
Q)  opened  by  Mr.  Stickfort  in  1887,  when  he, 
with  his  partner,  Mr.  Curn,  cleared  the  under- 
brush and  built  all  the  improvements  now  on  the 
place,  making  a  sightly,  inviting  spot  out  of  a  desert 
waste.  After  having  carried  on  the  park  for  one 
year,  it  was  sold  at  a  good  price  and  he  removed 
to  his  present  farm,  which  he  had  purchased  in 
1882,  when  it  was  an  uninviting  tract  of  wild 
prairie  land.  Prom  the  time  of  the  purchase  he 
instituted  improvements,  among  them  planting 
an  apple  orchard,  which  is  now  the  largest  bear- 
ing orchard  in  Jefferson  Count}^  and  from  which 
he  gathered  in  1897  more  than  one  thousand 
barrels  of  apples. 

Mr.  Stickfort  was  born  in  Hanover,  Germany, 
May  2,  1849,  and  is  a  son  of  G.   H.   and  Mary 


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(Van  Otten)  Stickfort.  He  was  one  of  six  chil- 
dren, four  of  whom  are  now  living,  namely: 
G.  H.,  a  retired  business  man  living  in  Denver; 
Henry;  Herman,  who  was  born  August  15,  1845, 
and  is  now  our  subject's  partner;  and  John  D. 
The  father,  who  was  born  in  Hanover,  engaged 
in  farm  work  in  his  native  land  until  i860,  when  he 
emigrated  to  America  and  settled  in  St.  lyouis 
County,  Mo.  He  followed  farming  until  his 
death,  which  occurred  three  years  alter  his  emi- 
gration to  the  United  States.  After  his  death 
his  three  oldest  sons  enlisted  in  the  Civil  war, 
while  our  subject  remained  at  home,  carrying  on 
the  farm.  In  1865  he  opened  a  mercantile  store 
in  St.  I,ouis,  under  the  firm  name  of  J.  D.  Stick- 
fort  &  Co. ,  and  he  continued  in  business  until 
1874,  when  he  and  his  partners  sold  out  the  busi- 
ness to  the  Union  Depot  Company  at  a  good 
profit. 

During  the  same  year,  1874,  Mr.  Stickfort  be- 
came the  company  in  the  firm  of  H.  Seaver  & 
Co.,  a  few  blocks  from  his  old  location.  He  con- 
tinued prosperously  engaged  in  business  until 
1879,  when  he  went  to  Texas.  For  three  years 
he  carried  on  a  stock  business  and  was  successful 
in  his  undertakings,  but  the  climate  was  not 
suited  to  his  constitution;  so  he  disposed  of  his 
interests  and  made  a  tour  of  inspection  through 
Kansas,  Colorado  and  the  Indian  Territory, 
finally  settling  in  Denver.  Here  he  saw  an  open- 
ing in  the  wholesale  |_liquor  business,  and  in  the 
spring  of  1882,  as  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Stick- 
fort &  Curn,  he  opened  a  store  on  Fifteenth  and 
lyawrence  streets.  He  continued  the  business 
until  he  opened  up  Military  park  in  1887.  His 
brothers,  who  went  to  Texas  in  1874  and  engaged 
in  the  cattle  business,  remained  in  that  state  un- 
til 1882  and  then  settled  in  Denver.  They  are 
now  identified  with  our  subject's  farming  in- 
terests. He  has  equipped  his  place  with  every 
modern  improvement  and  has  a  storage  reservoir, 
built  at  a  cost  of  $40,000,  by  the  Harriman  Ditch 
Company,  in  which  the  Stickfort  brothers  are 
stockholders;  he  also  uses  the  Harriman  ditch  and 
irrigating  system  for  the  irrigation  of  the  up- 
land of  Bear  Creek  Valley. 

Politically  Mr.  Stickfort  is  a  Republican.  He 
has  been  identified  with  the  Masonic  fraternity 
and  Knights  of  Honor,  and  was  the  seventeenth 
member  initiated  in  the  lodge  in  St.  Louis,  which 
was  then  newly  founded.     He  was  also  connected 


with  the  Ancient  Order  of  Druids.  However, 
on  leaving  St.  Louis,  he  allowed  his  lodge  mem- 
berships to  lapse  and  has  not  retained  his  associa- 
tion with  any  of  the  societies. 


EHRISTOPHER  L.  FOX,  who  is  a  member 
of  the  school  board  of  Blackhawk,  Gilpin 
County,  is  the  foreman  of  the  New  York 
seventy-five-stamp  mill  here,  and  is  a  thoroughly 
competent  man  for  this  responsible  position,  as 
has  been  made  manifest  during  the  five  years  he 
has  been  in  charge  of  the  plant.  He  came  to 
Colorado  seventeen  years  ago,  and  since  that 
time  has  been  directly  or  indirectly  interested  in 
mining  operations.  In  1885  he  located  the  May- 
flower in  the  Enterprise  district,  patented  the 
claim  and  has  developed  it  to  some  extent.  The 
same  year,  1885,  he  became  an  employe  of  the 
company  which  he  is  still  serving,  and  by  prompt- 
ness and  fidelity,  industry  and  strong  common 
sense,  made  him.self  valuable  to  his  superiors, 
who  repose  great  confidence  in  him. 

The  paternal  grandfather  of  our  subject,  John 
Fox,  was  a  native  of  England,  and  by  occupation 
was  a  farmer.  His  son,  George  Fox,  father  of 
our  subject,  was  born  in  Lintolnshire,  and  was  in 
the  English  navy  for  twenty-one  years  and  fifty- 
two  days,  when  he  was  retired  upon  a  pension, 
as  a  non-commissioned  oflBcer.  He  died  in  Eng- 
land. His  wife,  whose  maiden  name  was  Eliza- 
beth Freeling,  was  born  in  Lestershire,  and  is 
now  a  resident  of  Newton,  Lincolnshire.  Their 
family  comprised  twelve  children,  ten  of  whom 
are  living.  Annie  died  at  the  age  of  thirty  years 
in  Wisconsin;  George  is  engaged  in  blacksmith- 
ing  in  Big  Patch,  Wis.;  Rev.  John  is  a  minister 
of  the  Congregational  Church  in  Granville,  111. ; 
Thomas  is  a  farmer  of  Hampton,  Franklin  County, 
Iowa;  Charles  is  a  graduate  of  the  state  normal 
and  is  a  professor  in  the  Platteville  (Wis.) 
schools;  James  is  a  farmer  of  Hampton,  Iowa; 
William  was  accidentally  scalded  at  the  age  of 
three  years  and  died  from  his  injuries;  Mary, 
Mrs.  George  Bird,  lives  at  Hampton,  Iowa; 
Freeling  graduated  from  the  state  normal  in  Wis- 
consin and  is  teaching  in  that  state;  Harriet 
lives  at  the  old  home  in  Newton;  and  Harry  is  in 
business  in  the  mill  of  which  our  subject  is  fore- 
man. 

C.  L.  Fox   was  born   December  9,    1858,   in 


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Newton,  Lincolnshire,  England,  and  passed  six- 
teen years  of  his  life  there.  He  attended  the 
common  school  and  was  but  eight  years  of  age 
when  he  commenced  to  earn  his  own  livelihood. 
He  continued  to  work  for  neighboring  farmers 
until  he  came  to  the  United  States  in  1875.  I,o- 
cating  near  Platteville,  Wis.,  he  went  to  school 
one  winter  and  then  gave  his  whole  energies  to 
agriculture  for  several  years.  Iui88i  he  conclud- 
ed to  try  his  fortunes  in  Colorado,  and  proceeded 
direct  to  Blackhawk.  Here  he  found  employ- 
ment in  a  mill  until  he  entered  his  present  line  of 
business.  He  has  been  very  successful  and  has 
merited  the  prosperity  which  he  now  enjoys. 
Politically  he  is  identified  with  the  Prohibition 
party. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Fox  and  Miss  Elizabeth 
Bellamy  was  solemnized  in  Darlington,  Wis.,  in 
1898.  Mrs.  Fox  was  born  in  Sheffield,  England, 
and  was  reared  to  womanhood  in  the  town  of 
Newton.  Two  children  came  to  bless  the  home 
of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Fox,  but  the  daughter,  a  lovely 
little  one,  Lottie  Bernice,  was  summoned  to  the 
better  land  when  she  was  four  years  and  ten 
months  old.  Raymond  Buttery  is  a  bright  child 
of  three  years.  Mrs.  Fox  is  a  member  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church. 


(S\  LBERT  W.  EATON  came  west  to  Colorado 
r  1  in  1872  and  settled  in  Denver,  with  the  in- 
/  I  tention  of  engaging  in  the  cattle  business; 
but,  a  suitable  opening  not  being  found,  he  ac- 
cepted employment  at  his  former  occupation,  the 
milling  business.  In  1878,  when  his  present 
farm  in  Jefferson  County  was  placed  on  the 
market,  he  purchased  the  property  and  removed 
to  it  immediately  afterward,  meantime  renting 
the  place  in  Denver  that  he  had  bought  soon 
after  coming  to  the  city.  For  nineteen  years  he 
has  given  his  attention  to  gardening  and  fruit- 
raising,  in  which  occupations  he  has  been  very 
successful. 

Born  in  Cattaraugus  County,  N.  Y.,  January 
12,  1827,  the  subject  of  this  sketch  is  a  son  of 
Earl  W.  and  Margaret  (Brownell)  Eaton.  He 
was  one  of  nine  children,  all  deceased  but  him- 
self and  his  brother,-  Joseph,  a  farmer  and  dairy- 
man in  Cattaraugus  County,  N.  Y.  His  father, 
who  was  born  in  Connecticut  in  1804,  removed 
from  there  to  New  York  state  with  his  parents 


when  he  was  a  boy  and  settled  in  Chemung  Coun- 
ty, where  he  remained  until  seventeen  years  of 
age.  Then,  with  his  clothes  in  a  pack  on  his 
back,  he  started  out  in  the  world  to  seek  his 
fortune.  He  journeyed  through  the  wilderness 
to  Cattaraugus  County,  where  he  took  up  a  farm 
of  sixty-five  acres  and  began  the  task  of  clearing 
and  cultivating  a  homestead.  From  time  to  time 
he  added  to  his  property  until  his  estate  com- 
prised almost  four  hundred  acres.  In  1869  he 
sold  his  farm  and  moved  to  town,  where  he  lived 
in  retirement  until  he  died,  in  1888. 

The  Eaton  family  is  descended  from  three 
brothers  who  emigrated  from  Europe  (presum- 
ably from  Scotland)  to  America  in  an  early  day, 
one  settling  in  New  England,  another  in  Nova 
Scotia  and  the  third  in  Virginia.  This  branch 
of  the  family  descends  from  the  New  England 
settler.  The  grandfather  of  our  subject,  Harri- 
son Woster  Eaton,  settled  in  Chemung  County, 
N.  Y. ,  where  he  died  in  1841,  at  the  age  of  about 
seventy-two  years.  Our  subject  received  a  pub- 
lic-school education  and  grew  to  manhood  in  his 
native  county.  At  twenty-one  years  of  age  he 
married  Miss  Elizabeth  Locke.  Previous  to  his 
marriage  he  had  begun  to  work  for  Mr.  Locke 
in  a  sawmill  and  also  assisted  in  the  construction 
of  a  gristmill.  On  the  completion  of  the  grist- 
mill he  bought  an  interest  in  it  and  in  the  saw- 
mill, both  of  which  were  conducted  successfully. 
In  time  he  bought  his  father-in-law's  interest  in 
the  business  and  became  the  sole  proprietor,  con- 
tinuing until  1869,  when  the  mill  was  destroyed 
by  fire,  entaihng  a  heavy  loss  upon  him.  For 
some  two  years  afterward  he  found  employment 
among  neighboring  millers,  but  he  finally  decided 
that  the  west  would  offer  him  a  better  opening 
than  the  east,  and  accordingly,  in  1872,  he  came 
to  Denver.  The  results  have  proved  the  wisdom 
of  his  decision.  He  has  prospered  in  business 
transactions  and  has  become  the  possessor  of  a 
valuable  homestead,  on  which  he  raises  garden 
truck  and  fruit  for  sale  in  the  Denver  market. 

Four  children  were  born  to  the  union  of  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Eaton,  three  of  whom  are  now  living. 
James  E.,  who  is  a  graduate  of  the  State  Nor- 
mal school  in  Fredonia,  N.  Y. ,  is  now  a  druggist 
in  Binghamton,  that  state.  Evangeline,  also  a 
graduate  of  the  New  York  State  Normal,  is  now 
engaged  in  teaching  in  the  Denver  schools. 
Jessie  is  deceased.     Albert  L.,  a  graduate  of  the 


JAMES  T.  BAIRD. 


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East  Denver  high  school,  later  took  the  full  four 
years'  course  in  the  School  of  Mines  in  Golden 
and  is  now  an  assayer  in  Leadville. 


(Tames  T.  BAIRD,  one  of  the  most  success- 
I  ful  cattlemen  of  Colorado,  in  1888  purchased 
O  his  present  place  on  Cherry  Creek,  known 
as  Baird's  mammoth  stock  ranch  and  comprising 
nineteen  hundred  acres,  all  fenced  and  in  one 
body.  Here  he  has  since  engaged  in  the  stock 
business,  raising  a  fine  grade  of  Shorthorn  cattle 
and  graded  Kentucky  horses  crossed  with  Clydes- 
dales. In  1 89 1  he  brought  his  family  to  Denver, 
where  they  have  since  resided,  but  necessarily  a 
large  portion  of  his  time  is  spent  in  the  manage- 
ment of  his  ranch. 

Born  in  Milan,  Sullivan  County,  Mo.,  our  sub- 
ject is  the  son  of  M.  B.  and  Mary  (Harrington) 
Baird,  natives  of  Kentucky  and  Missouri  respect- 
ively. The  Harrington  family  came  to  this 
country  from  England,  while  the  Bairds  formerly 
resided  in  Scotland,  where  they  were  manufact- 
urers of  fine  shawls.  The  paternal  grandfather 
of  our  subject,  James  Baird,  was  born  in  Ken- 
tucky, and  after  his  marriage  moved  his  family 
to  Putnam  County,  Mo.,  of  which  he  was  a  pio- 
neer farmer.  The  maternal  grandfather,  James 
Harrington,  was  a  native  of  Virginia  and  an  early 
settler  of  Knox  County,  Mo.,  where  he  owned 
and  cultivated  a  large  farm. 

For  some  years  M.  B.  Baird  engaged  in  farm- 
ing and  stock-raising  in  Sullivan  County,  but  in 
1863  he  and  his  family  journeyed  westward,  with 
ox-teams  and  wagons,  via  Omaha,  the  North 
Platte  and  South  Pass,  to  Union  County,  Ore., 
which  they  reached  after  a  tedious  journey  of 
five  months.  He  was  a  pioneer  of  that  county, 
where  he  took  up  government  land  and  embarked 
in  the  stock  business,  remaining  in  the  same 
place  until  his  death,  at  sixty-eight  years.  His 
wife  died  when  fifty-eight  years  old.  Both  were 
members  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church.  Of 
their  twelve  children  nine  attained  mature  years 
and  four  are  living. 

■  The  birth  of  our  subject  occurred  April  6,  1844. 
In  boyhood  he  attended  the  public  schools  of 
Sullivan  County.  He  accompanied  the  family  to 
Oregon  and  on  reaching  his  majority  embarked 
in  the  stock  business  in  the  Grand  Round  Valley; 
he  traveled  through  different  parts  of  Oregon  and 


Idaho  and  bought  stock,  which  he  afterward  sold. 
In  the  fall  of  187 1  he  returned  to  Sullivan  Coun- 
ty, and  there,  in  1872,  he  married  Ann  Mary 
Henry,  daughter  of  David  and  Rebecca  (Smith) 
Henry,  natives  of  St.  Louis  County,  Mo.,  and 
Fauquier  County,  Va.  Her  grandfather,  Thomas 
Henry,  a  native  of  Pennsylvania,  settled  upon  a 
farm  near  Augusta,  forty  miles  from  St.  Louis, 
where  he  was  a  surveyor,  civil  engineer  and  large 
stockman.  In  1 842  he  removed  to  Sullivan  Coun- 
ty, where  he  bought  a  large  farm  and  continued 
in  the  stock  business.  He  died  there  at  eighty- 
five  years  of  age.  He  was  a  descendant  of  Irish 
ancestors,  who  settled  in  Pennsylvania  in  an  early 
day. 

For  years  David  Henry  was  a  large  stock  dealer 
in  Sullivan  County,  but  in  1852  he  settled  in  the 
Rogue  River  Valley  of  Oregon,  and  thence  went 
to  CaHfornia,  but  in  1861  returned  to  Missouri, 
and  from  there  in  1864  he  again  removed  to  Ore- 
gon, this  time  settling  in  the  Grand  Round  Val- 
ley. In  1871  he  went  to  Denver,  thence  to  St. 
Louis,  and  from  there  to  Texas,  and  shipped 
cattle  from  the  south  to  the  St.  Louis  market. 
From  Missouri  he  went  back  to  Oregon  in  1877, 
bringing  with  him  a  herd  of  cattle.  He  came 
from  there  to  Colorado  and  located  a  ranch  on 
Cherry  Creek.  Soon  afterward  he  took  the  cattle 
to  Trenton,  Mo.,  where  he  sold  them.  He  then 
went  to  Fort  Worth,  Tex.  and  bought  another 
herd,  which  he  brought  to  Colorado  in  1879.  In 
1890  he  went  to  Greeley,  where  he  died  the  next 
year,  at  the  age  of  seventy-four.  He  was  a  man 
of  great  enterprise  and  met  with  uniform  success 
in  his  dealings. 

The  maternal  grandfather  of  Mrs.  Baird  was 
Joseph  Smith,  who  was  born  in  Virginia,  of  Eng- 
lish descent,  and  served  during  the  war  of  the 
Revolution.  His  mother  was  a  Miss  Doniphan, 
member  of  one  of  the  F.  F.  Vs.  He  was  a  large 
miller,  owning  and  operating  fifteen  grist  mills 
at  the  same  time.  He  married  Elizabeth  Headley , 
a  native  of  Virginia,  the  descendant  of  an  English 
nobleman,  who  was  among  the  early  explorers  of 
the  Old  Dominion.  Her  parents  were  born  in 
England  and  became  the  owners  of  a  large  plan- 
tation, with  many  slaves,  in  Virginia.  After  the 
death  of  Mr.  Smith  his  widow  removed  to  Mis- 
souri with  her  family,  and  located  in  St.  Charles 
County.  She  died  in  Sullivan  County  when 
sixty  years  of  age.  Ex-Governor  William  Smith, 


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of  Virginia,  was  a  nephew  and  adopted  son  of 
Joseph  Smith.  At  the  time  of  coming  to  Mis- 
souri, Rebecca  Smith  was  a  young  lady  of  seven- 
teen years.  She  afterward  became  the  wife  of 
David  Henry,  in  Sullivan  County,  and  two  chil- 
dren were  born  of  their  union:  Mrs.  McNeeley, 
of  Sullivan  County;  and  Mrs.  Baird. 

After  his  marriage  Mr.  Baird  went  to  Oregon, 
driving  across  the  plains  with  a  team  of  horses, 
and  settling  in  the  Grand  Round  Valley,  where 
he  engaged  in  the  cattle  business.  In  1873  he 
went  back  to  Missouri  and  handled  cattle  in  the 
Cherokee  nation.  In  1877  he  made  another  trip 
to  Oregon,  then  back  to  Missouri,  and  in  1878 
went  to  Texas  and  the  Indian  Territory,  buying 
cattle  for  the  northern  market.  The  two  follow- 
ing years  he  also  went  south,  and  in  1882  settled 
upon  the  old  homestead  at  Milan,  Mo.,  where  he 
engaged  in  raising  cattle,  horses  and  mules. 
From  there  he  came  to  Colorado  in  1888.  He  is 
a  member  of  the  Colorado  Cattle  Growers'  Asso- 
ciation, and  politically  is  a  Democrat,  which  has 
been  the  political  faith  of  his  ancestors  as  far  back 
as  the  record  extends.  In  religious  connections 
he  is  identified  with  Central  Presbyterian  Church, 
of  Denver.  He  and  his  wife  have  a  son  and 
daughter,  David  Barnet  and  Mary  Catherine,  the 
former  of  whom  was  born  in  Union,  Ore.,  July  17, 
1873,  and  received  his  education  in  St.  Francis 
College,  graduating  at  sixteen  years  of  age.  The 
latter  was  born  March  28,  1878,  in  Sullivan 
County,  Mo.,  and  is  a  student  in  the  Denver 
schools. 

RICHARD  BROAD  WILLIAMS .  We  pause 
a  moment  in  the  rush  and  turmoil  of  life 
to  pay  a  tribute  to  the  memory  of  one  who, 
in  life,  was  a  friend  to  right  and  justice,  and 
whose  death  was  felt  to  be  a  loss  to  the  entire 
community.  Richard  Broad  Williams,  or,  as  he 
was  more  familiarly  called,  "Dick,"  was  a  man 
remarkable  for  his  fearlessness,  strength  and 
vigor.  He  was  a  large,  fine  looking  man,  of 
commanding  presence,  weighing  about  two 
hundred  and  twenty  pounds,  and  of  good  pro- 
portions, his  height  being  six  feet.  His  generous- 
hearted,  kindly  disposition  made  him  a  favorite 
wherever  he  went,  and  it  was  in  aiding  an 
officer  to  enforce  the  law  that  he  met  his  death. 
Richard  Broad  Williams  was  born  in  Devon- 
shire, England,  December  10,  1847.    His  parents, 


John  H.  and  Jane  (Broad)  Williams,  came  to 
America  about  three  years  after  his  birth,  where 
his  father  engaged  in  copper  mining  at  Eagle 
River,  Lake  Superior,  Mich.  In  1867  he  came 
to  Colorado,  and  engaged  in  mining  in  this 
county  with  his  son,  Richard,  and  about  eight 
years  later  bought  a  large  ranch  in  San  Joaquin 
Valley,  this  state,  and  from  there  moved  to  San 
Jose,  Cal.,  where  he  bought  property  and  now 
resides  with  his  wife.  They  have  seven  chil- 
dren. John  was  killed  in  1876;  while  attending  a 
local  horserace  at  Lake  View,  an  altercation  arose 
between  two  factions,  or  nationalities,  which  re- 
sulted in  a  fight.  A  man  shot  him  at  short  range, 
mortally  wounding  him,  but  of  such  strength  and 
hardihood  was  he  that  he  attacked  his  murderer 
and  killed  him  with  no  weapon  other  than  his  two 
hands,  but  he  expired  within  twenty-four  hours 
afterward.  Josiah,  the  third  child,  is  a  resident 
of  California,  as  is  also  Elizabeth,  of  San  Jose; 
Samuel  is  a  dentist  in  Mexico;  Eliza  is  in  Sacra- 
mento, Cal.;  and  Rev.  Henry  is  a  Baptist 
minister  in  the  state  of  New  York. 

The  boyhood  of  Mr.  Williams  was  passed  at 
Eagle  River,  Mich.,  and  in  1865  he  went  on  an 
exploring  trip  through  the  west  through  Gilpin 
County, Breckenridge,  and  up  to  "Buckskin  Joe." 
He  then  returned  to  Michigan,  and  two  years 
later  engaged  in  mining  at  Nevadaville,  where 
he  worked  with  his  father  seven  years,  when  he 
opened  a  meat  market,  and  in  connection  with  it 
dealt  in  stock  and  did  a  wholesale  butcher  busi- 
ness. In  1888  he  moved  to  Denver  and  gave  his 
attention  to  the  stock  business,  but  preferring 
this  county  as  a  place  of  residence,  he  returned 
to  Central  City  in  the  spring  of  189 1  and  took  up 
the  livery  business  at  his  old  stand  on  Eureka 
street,  and  was  still  there  at  the  time  of  his  death. 
He  was  mayor  of  Nevadaville  and  also  marshal. 
In  1879  he  was  elected  sheriff  of  this  county,  and 
was  re-elected  in  1881  and  again  in  1883,  the  last 
time  without  opposition,  serving  six  years.  He 
was  a  very  efficient  officer,  and  most  successful 
in  quelling  riots  and  quarrels.  So  popular  was  he 
that  they  tried  to  have  him  take  the  ofiice  a  fourth 
time,  but  he  refused  the  nomination.  In  the  fall 
of  1 89 1  he  was  elected  county  commissioner  of 
Gilpin  and  served  a  term  of  three  years,  and  in 
April,  1895,  he  was  elected  mayor  of  Central 
City,  serving  to  April,  1896,  his  term  having  ex- 
pired only  a  few  days  before  his  death. 


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April  15,  1896,  the  marshal  of  Central  City 
was  shot  in  an  upstairs  office,  and  Mr.  Williams, 
hearing  the  shot,  was  hastening  to  his  assistance, 
when  the  murderer,  coming  from  the  stairway, 
met  and  shot  him.  He  was  at  once  taken  to  his 
home  and  everything  possible  done  for  him,  but 
to  no  avail,  and  he  died  four  days  later.  In  the 
meantime,  his  murderer,  while  trying  to  escape, 
was  shot  down  with  a  Winchester.  Mr.  Williams 
was  in  the  prime  of  life  when  cut  down,  being 
only  forty-nine  years  old.  He  was  buried,  in 
Bald  Mountain  Cemetery,  and  his  was  the  largest 
funeral  ever  held  in  the  county. 

Mr.  Williams  was  fond  of  sport,  and  refereed 
many  athletic  matches,  and  was  himself  a  skillful 
boxer,  being  strong,  agile  and  fearless.  In  sev- 
eral prize  fights  in  which  he  took  part  he  was 
the  victor,  and  in  one  wrestling  match  he  won 
$1,300,  and  this,  with  what  he  had  made  in  min- 
ing, started  him  in  the  meat  business.  He  kept 
some  fine  thoroughbred  horses,  and  '  'Sleepy  Cap, ' ' 
one  of  the  thoroughbreds,  won  a  race  from  the 
Indians  at  Hot  Sulphur  Springs,  winning  to  his 
owner  several  of  their  horses,  which  he  sold. 
He  was  a  prominent  figure  in  the  Denver  races 
also.  His  courage  was  so  well  known,  that  if 
there  was  a  disturbance  in  the  country,  and  he 
was  available,  he  was  always  sent  for  to  make 
peace.  He  was  a  Republican,  and  an  earnest 
worker  for  the  success  of  the  party.  Fraternally 
he  was  a  member  of  the  Independent  Order  of 
Odd  Fellows  and  the  Sons  of  St.  George.  He 
retained  his  interest  in  mining  stock,  and  left 
valuable  property  to  his  family. 

Mrs.  Libbie  Williams,  the  widow  of  R.  B.. 
Williams,  was  born  in  Dodgeville,  Iowa  County, 
Wis.,  and  is  a  daughter  of  John  P.  Bartle,  of 
Cornwall,  England.  He  came  to  this  country, 
and  engaged  in  mining  operations  in  the  lead 
mines  of  Wisconsin.  In  1851  he  started  for 
California,  around  Cape  Horn,  and  for  two  years 
mined  in  the  vicinity  of  San  Francisco.  He  went 
back  to  Wisconsin  by  way  of  Panama,  and  re- 
mained a  short  time,  but  hearing  of  the  gold 
found  in  California  by  the  fortunate  hunter,  he 
determined  to  give  it  one  more  trial,  and  again 
spent  some  time  there  in  mining.  This  venture, 
like  the  first,  proving  unsuccessful,  he  returned  to 
Wisconsin,  moved  his  family  to  Copper  Falls, 
Mich.,  and  here  mined  until  1868,  when  he 
located   in   Colorado.      He  was  joined  by   his 


family  the  following  year,  and  settled  in  Nevada- 
ville,  where  he  mined  and  has  since  resided,  with 
the  exception  of  a  few  years  spent  in  the  fur  busi- 
ness in  St.  Ivouis.  After  returning  from  that 
city  he  retired  from  business,  and  is  taking  a 
well-earned  rest,  being  nearly  seventy-six  years 
old.  In  Cornwall,  England,  he  married  Elizabeth 
Holman,  who  is  in  her  seventy- fourth  year.  The 
family  are  Episcopalians,  and  earnest  Christian 
people.  They  have  five  children,  three  boys  and 
two  girls  having  been  born  to  them,  viz. :  Kate, 
(Mrs.  Richards)  and  James,  engaged  in  mining, 
both  of  whom  live  in  Nevadaville;  Frank,  who 
died  in  Redcliffe,  being  killed  by  the  accidental 
discharge  of  his  revolver;  William,  who  died  in 
Pueblo;  and  Mrs.  Williams. 

Mrs.  Williams  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools  of  Wisconsin  and  Michigan,  where  her 
girlhood  was  spent.  She  was  married,  after  com- 
ing to  this  state,  in  1870,  on  the  25th  of  Decem- 
ber, to  R.  B.Williams.  Since  the  death  of  her 
husband  she  has  continued  the  livery  business 
on  Eureka  street,  and  also  looks  after  the  mining 
interests  left  by  him.  She  has  stock  in  the 
Little  Annie  and  another  mine  in  the  Buckeye 
district,  also  the  mine  on  Thompson's  ranch, 
and  has  proved  herself  a  shrewd  woman  of  busi- 
ness. She  is  the  mother  of  five  children:  Oscar, 
who  has  charge  of  the  livery  barn;  Mabel,  George, 
Edna  and  Ruth.  She  is  a  zealous  worker  in  the 
Episcopal  Church  and  in  the  Guild,  is  a  strong 
Republican  politically,  amemberof  the  Woman's 
Relief  Corps,  and  Pocahontas  Lodge,  of  which 
she  is  keeper  of  Wampon. 


L.  ASHBAUGH,  M.  D.,  of  Central  City, 
is  one  of  the  leading  physicians  of  Gilpin 
County,  where  he  has  served  several  years 
as  coroner,  a  position  he  still  occupies.  He  was 
a  soldier  of  the  late  Rebellion  and  has  a  fund  of 
interesting  anecdotes  concerning  army  life  which 
seem  to  receive  additional  interest  from  his  man- 
ner of  recounting.  Dr.  Ashbaugh  was  born  in 
Delaware  County,  Ohio,  the  son  of  John  M.  and 
Mary  Catherine  (Artz)  Ashbaugh,  and  a  grand- 
son of John  Ashbaugh. 

John  Ashbaugh,  the  grandfather,  came  to  this 
country  from  Amsterdam,  Holland,  accompanied 
by  two  brothers,  Armenis  and  Cyrus.  They 
landed  in  New  York  and  there  separated,  one  go- 


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ing  to  Pennsylvania,  one  remaining  in  New  York, 
and  John  trying  his  fortunes  in  Canada.  Here 
all  trace  of  each  other  was  lost  and  the  fate  of  the 
other  brothers  is  unknown.  After  remaining  a 
short  time  in  Canada,  John  went  to  Ohio,  which 
was  then  a  territory,  and  became  a  very  success- 
ful farmer  of  Marion  County.  He  had  the  honor 
to  kill,  on  what  is  now  the  present  site  of  Col- 
umbus, the  largest  panther  ever  killed  in  the 
state. 

John  M.  Ashbaugh,  the  father  of  Dr.  Ash- 
baugh,  carried  on  the  trade  of  a  potter  in  Dela- 
ware County  until  1849,  when  he  moved  to 
Mercer  County,  111.,  locating  near  the  present  site 
of  Aledo.  Jlere  he  and  his  father-in-law,  John 
Artz,  bought  a  grist  and  sawmill  which  they 
operated  until  the  spring  of  1868.  This  mill  was 
located  on  the  Edwards  River  and  the  settlement 
took  the  name  of  Millersburg.  In  1868  he 
moved  to  Moundville,  Mo. ,  some  eight  miles  from 
Nevada,  Vernon  County,  and  here  followed  the 
quiet  pursuits  of  agriculture  until  his  death,  which 
occurred  at  the  age  of  sixty-two  years.  He  mar- 
ried Mary  Catherine  Artz,  who  was  born  in 
Woodstock,  Va.,  and  who  is  still  living  on  the 
old  homestead  in  Missouri.  Her  father,  John 
Artz,  was  born  in  Rotterdam,  whence  he  came  to 
America,  settling  in  Virginia,  where  he  married 
Sarah  Lambert,  a  daughter  of  one  of  the  old 
Virginia  families.  He  was  a  soldier  of  the  war 
of  1812,  and  a  pioneer  of  Delaware  County,  Ohio, 
where  he  lived  until  1849,  when  he  went  to  Illi- 
nois and  was  engaged  in  the  milling  business 
with  his  son-in-law  up  to  the  time  of  his  death. 

To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ashbaugh  were  born  thirteen 
children,  as  follows:  William  H.  H.  was  a  mem- 
ber of  Grant's  regiment  of  Illinois,  and  died  in 
1877;  Armenis  Fletcher  died  young;  T.  L,.,  our 
subject,  was  next  in  order  of  birth;  Lewis  L.  ser- 
ved during  the  Civil  war  in  the  Seventy-eighth 
Illinois  Infantry,  and  is  now  living  in  Colorado; 
Morilla  Josephine  (Mrs.  Jenkins)  resides  in 
Norfolk,  Neb.;  John  Isaac  is  a  graduate  of  Rush 
Medical  College,  of  Chicago,  and  is  now  a 
practicing  physician  of  Fort  Smith;  Abraham  is 
a  physician  of  Central  City;  Sarah  Sophia  (Mrs. 
McDonald)  resides  in  Missouri;  Varian  lives  on 
the  old  homestead;  Ollie  graduated  with  the 
degree  of  D.  D.  S.  and  later  died  in  Missouri; 
and  Blanche  also  lives  in  Missouri. 

Dr.  T.  L.  Ashbaugh  was  born   May  3,  1844. 


In  1849  his  parents  took  him  to  Illinois,  where  he 
attended  the  public  schools  until  August  of  1862, 
when,  at  the  age  of  seventeen,  he  ran  away  from 
home  and  school  to  enlist  in  Company  K,  One 
Hundred  and  Second  Illinois  Infantry,  at  Aledo. 
During  the  battle  of  Resaca  he  was  hit  on  the 
head  by  a  piece  of  shell  and  badly  injured.  He 
was  unconscious  and  for  nearly  three  daj-s  con- 
tinued in  that  state.  The  wound  resulted  in 
paralysis  of  the  left  arm  so  that  it  has  remained 
almost  useless  to  him  ever  since.  He  would  enter- 
tain no  thought  of  returning  home,  so  remained 
with  his  regiment  and  as  soon  as  he  could  be 
about  was  detailed  as  forager.  On  Sherman's 
famous  march  from  Atlanta  to  the  sea  he  en- 
countered man}^  dangers  and  always  brought  back 
provisions  to  the  camp,  although  his  left  arm  was 
a  useless  member.  He  was  in  the  grand  review 
in  Washington,  where  he  was  mustered  out  June 
5,  1865,  received  his  discharge  and  was  paid  oflf 
in  Chicago,  after  which  he  returned  home. 

While  still  in  the  army  he  began  the  study  of 
medicine,  and.  he  now  began  to  read  under  Dr. 
J.  Merritt  and  graduated  from  the  Burlington 
Medical  College  in  1866.  He  then  attended  Rush 
Medical  College,  of  Chicago,  taking  the  first 
course  in  1866-67,  when  he  began  the  practice  of 
his  profession  at  Pre-emption,  111.,  in  Mercer 
County.  He  remained  there  until  the  spring  of 
the  following  year  and  then  removed  to  Mound- 
ville, Mo. ,  where  he  practiced  for  eleven  years, 
meeting  with  the  most  flattering  patronage. 
During  this  time,  in  1875,  he  returned  to  Rush 
College  and  took  the  final  course,  graduating  in 
1876  with  the  degree  of  M.  D.  At  the  same 
time  he  graduated  from  the  Charitable  Eye  and 
Ear  Infirmary  of  Chicago,  also  with  the  degree 
of  M.  D.  His  patients  receive  the  most  pains- 
taking care  and  attention,  so  that  his  ability  was 
readily  admitted  and  his  popularity  widespread. 
In  1879  he  came  to  Colorado  and  located  at  Cen- 
tral City,  where  he  continued  until  1887,  when 
he  went  back  to  Missouri  and  tried  farming  for 
one  year.  Not  liking  this  he  once  more  came  to 
Colorado,  practicing  at  Trinidad  a  year  and  at 
Aspen  until  1896,  when  he  returned  to  Missouri 
to  spend  the  summer,  and  in  the  fall  of  the  same 
year  once  more  took  up  his  residence  in  Central 
City,  where  he  had  no  trouble  in  establishing 
himself  with  his  old  degree  of  popularity,  and  he 
now  enjoys  a  large  and  lucrative  practice. 


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Dr.  Ashbaugh  was  married  while  in  Pre- 
emption, 111.,  to  Miss  Pauline  Hardy,  who  was 
born  at  Delia,  Tazewell  County,  that  state.  One 
child  has  blessed  their  union,  a  son,  Flor,  who 
graduated  from  Ann  Arbor  University  as  LL.  B., 
and  is  now  practicing  in  Central  City.  Dr. 
Ashbaugh  is  well  known  and  liked  throughout 
the  entire  community  and  acted  as  coroner  dur- 
ing his  entire  residence  in  Central  City  from  1879 
to  1887;  was  coroner  of  Aspen  County  from  1892 
to  1894,  and  in  the  fall  of  1897  was  again  elected 
to  the  same  office  in  Gilpin  County.  He  is  a 
member  of  numerous  social  orders,  the  Independ- 
ent Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  Knights  of  Pythias, 
Select  Friends,  Chosen  Friends,  Knights  of  the 
Maccabees,  Patriotic  Order  Sons  of  America, 
Foresters,  and  others,  for  many  of  which  he  is 
medical  examiner.  He  is  also  a  prominent 
member  of  Ellsworth  Post  No.  20,  G.  A.  R.  He 
is  a  stanch  Republican  and  has  always  taken  a 
lively  interest  in  the  success  of  his  party.  He  is 
a  most  amiable  and  accomplished  gentleman  and 
commands  the  full  respect,  confidence  and  esteem 
of  the  people  for  his  upright  conduct. 


pCjlLLIAM  J.  WELLS,  of  Nevadaville,  Gil- 
\  A  /  pin  County,  has  lived  in  the  Rockies 
Y  V  since  his  earliest  recollections  and  is  active- 
ly interested  in  the  development  of  the  resources 
of  this  great  and  wonderful  state.  When  but 
fourteen  years  of  age  he  started  forth  to  do  battle 
with  the  world  and  win  a  place  for  himself,  and 
bravely  overcame  the  difficulties  that  he  encoun- 
tered. Like  the  majority  of  young  men  in  this 
region  he  became  imbued  with  the  mining  fever, 
and  has  operated  more  or  less  for  several  years, 
though  he  has  been  wise  enough  not  to  devote 
his  whole  time  and  energies  to  this  extremelj' 
uncertain  fortune.  For  about  a  year  he  held  a 
lease  on  the  Bobtail  mine  and  developed  the 
same  to  some  extent,  and  subsequently  for  two 
years  operated  the  Justice,  m  Lake  district. 

W.  J.  Wells  was  born  in  Elkhart,  Ind., 
November  24,  1863,  and  was  deprived  of  his 
loving  father's  care  and  guidance  when  he  was  a 
child.  The  father,  Thomas  Wells,  was  likewise 
a  native  of  the  Hoosier  state,  and  owned  an  im- 
proved farm  near  Elkhart.  Grandfather  Joseph 
Wells,  who  died  in  Indiana,  was  a  farmer  also. 
The  mother  of  our  subject,  Helen,  was  a  native  of 


New  York  state,  where  her  family  had  resided 
for  many  years.  Her  father,  William  Rowley, 
was  an  early  settler  in  the  neighborhood  of  Elk- 
hart, Ind.  After  the  death  of  Thomas  Wells, 
his  widow  removed  to  Denver  with  her  only  son, 
W.  J.,  of  this  sketch.  She  is  now  Mrs.  Bostwick, 
and  has  five  children  by  her  second  marriage. 

In  his  youth  W.  J.  Wells  managed  to  gain 
a  liberal  education,  and  was  a  student  in  the 
high  school  of  Central  City  until  June,  1878. 
His  aptitude  and  fondness  for  mathematics 
led  to  his  being  ofiiered  a  position  in  the  Rocky 
Mountain  Bank,  and  for  nine  years  he  was  a 
teller  in  that  institution.  In  1887  he  resigned 
and  embarked  in  business  for  himself  by  taking 
a  lease  on  the  Teller  House,  which  had  been 
closed  for  some  time.  He  soon  had  everything 
in  running  order  and  opened  the  house  for  busi- 
ness. He  continued  as  proprietor  of  the  hotel 
for  a  few  years,  or  until  1890,  when  he  sold  out. 
The  succeeding  year  he  held  a  place  as  under 
sheriff  to  Daniel  J.  McKay,  and  had  charge  ot 
the  sherifl's  office  much  of  the  time.  Next,  he 
was  in  the  employ  of  Jenkins,  McKay  &  Co., 
hardware  merchants,  for  two  years,  and  after 
spending  about  three  years  in  mining  operations 
he  came  to  Nevadaville  as  book  keeper  for  the 
Colorado  Trading  and  Investment  Company. 
He  is  also  occupying  a  similar  position  with 
the  Vendome  Mining  and  Milling  Company.  He 
is  a  first-class  business  man  and  is  a  trusted  and 
reliable  employe.  Politically  he  is  a  Democrat, 
with  a  decided  belief  in  free  coinage. 

In  Central  City,  Mr.  Wells  married  Miss  Clara 
Clark,  whose  birthplace  was  in  Massachusetts, 
whence  her  father,  William  Clark,  came  to  this 
state.  Two  children,  a  son  and  daughter,  were 
born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wells  and  are  named 
respectively,  Samuel  and  Dorothy.  Mrs.  Wells 
died  in  Denver. 


"HOMAS  COLLINS  was  born  in  Cornwall, 
England,  in  February,  1861,  and  is  a  son  of 
Thomas  and  Mary  Ann  (Mayle)  Collins,  of 
the  same  place.  His  father  belonged  to  an  old  Eng- 
lish family  and  is  superintendent  of  a  tin  stamp  mill 
in  Cornwall,  a  position  he  has  held  for  many 
years.  His  mother  died  in  1893.  He  was  the 
only  child  to  reach  manhood,  and  his  first  years 
were  spent  in  the  public  schools.  When  he 
reached  the  tenth  anniversary  of  his  birth  his 


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father  took  him  in  the  stamp  mill,  where  he  learned 
the  treating  of  tin  ore,  staying  there  until  1881, 
when  he  crossed  the  ocean  to  seek  a  home  in  this 
country.  He  located  in  Blackhawk,  Gilpin  Coun- 
ty, and  for  two  years  was  employed  in  the  Greg- 
ory mill.  From  there  he  came  to  the  Mead  mill 
as  feeder,  and  was  promoted  to  mill-boss,  and  in 
1894  took  charge  of  the  mill,  his  present  position. 
He  has  also  become  the  owner  of  some  mining 
stock,  and  is  interested  in  three  different  mines 
in  this  county. 

Since  coming  to  Blackhawk  he  married  Miss 
Phillippa  Bishop,  a  native  of  the  United  States. 
They  have  one  child,  Thomas  A.  Mr.  Collins 
is  a  member  of  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd 
Fellows  and  the  Knights  of  Pythias.  He  is  a  pleas- 
ant, genial  gentleman,  and  a  liberal  contributor 
to  worthy  causes. 

ROBERT  H.  GILSON,  whose  home  is  located 
about  a  mile  and  a-quarter  northwest  of 
Canfield,  Boulder  Count}',  has  had  a  very 
interesting  career  in  the  mining  regions  of  Colo- 
rado. For  many  years  he  prospected  and  mined 
in  what  is  now  known  as  Gilson's  Gulch,  near 
Idaho  Springs,  it  being  named  in  his  honor,  owing 
to  the  fact  that  for  a  long  period  he  was  the  only 
man  there  occupied  in  mining  operations.  He 
was  the  discoverer  of  numerous  valuable  tracts 
and  acquired  others  through  purchase,  and  among 
those  which  he  still  retains,  is  the  Legal  Tender 
mine,  which  is  too  well  known  to  need  special 
mention.  In  1893  he  removed  his  family  to  their 
present  home  and  two  years  later  became  the 
owner  of  the  farm,  which  comprises  eighty  acres 
and  is  a  very  desirable  country  place  in  every 
respect. 

Mr.  Gilson  was  born  in  Rush  County,  Ind., 
January  21,  1832,  and  is  a  son  of  David  and  Mar- 
garet (Boone)  Gilson.  He  had  seven  brothers 
and  sisters,  and  until  the  spring  of  1898  the  num- 
ber was  unbroken  by  death.  A  brother,  seventy- 
two  years  of  age,  departed  this  life  in  April  of  the 
year  mentioned.  The  father  was  born  and  reared 
in  Virginia,  and  after  his  marriage  removed  to 
the  then  frontier  state  of  Indiana.  He  was  one 
of  the  first  settlers  in  Rush  County  and  in  later 
years  enjoyed  the  honor  of  being  one  of  the  repre- 
sentative and  well-to-do  agriculturists  of  that 
section.  He  was  an  ardent  member  of  the  Bab- 
tist  Church  and  was  noted  for  his  uprightness  of 


word  and  deed.  Long  life  was  his  portion,  as 
death  did  not  claim  him  until  he  had  entered 
upon  his  ninety-fourth  year.  His  faithful  wife, 
who  was  loved  and  admired  by  all  who  came 
within  the  sphere  of  her  influence,  was  cloSfely 
connected  with  the  celebrated  Daniel  Boone  in 
relationship. 

Our  subject  early  learned  the  various  duties 
pertaining  to  farm  life,  but  concluded  he  would 
embark  in  some  other  field  of  enterprise.  In 
1856  he  went  to  Clarinda,  Page  County,  Iowa, 
and  there  opened  a  grocery,  which  he  conducted 
with  more  or  less  success  for  nine  months.  Sell- 
ing out,  he  went  to  Kansas  and  carried  on  a  gro- 
cery' business  in  the  town  of  Leroy  up  to  i860. 
That  summer  he  was  married  and  with  his  bride 
started  for  Colorado  in  wagons  drawn  by  yokes 
of  oxen.  They  reached  Denver  August  3,  and 
ten  days  later  went  on  to  Missouri  City.  About 
three  weeks  were  spent  by  Mr.  Gilson  in  looking 
over  the  country,  with  a  view  to  settling  perma- 
nently somewhere,  and  finally  he  decided  upon 
a  spot  near  Idaho  Springs.  There  he  engaged  in 
placer  mining  for  about  two  years,  but,  as  it  was 
not  very  remunerative,  he  began  freighting  from 
Denver  to  the  mountains,  to  Idaho  Springs, 
Georgetown,  Empire,  Central  City,  etc.  He  thus 
spent  the  years  of  1863  and  1864,  but  the  follow- 
ing year  he  took  up  his  abode  in  the  gulch  later 
called  Gilson's,  and  now  a  'prosperous  mining 
camp.  For  j'ears  he  worked  at  silver  mining  in 
this  region,  becoming  well-to-do.  Three  years  he 
worked  in  the  Marshall  basin,  in  the  San  Juan 
district,  at  an  altitude  of  twelve  thousand  five 
hundred  feet,  operating  the  Mendota  mine  under 
bonded  lease.  This  mine  was  one  of  the  best-pay- 
ing properties  in  the  state,  but  Mr.  Gilson  was 
forced  to  abandon  it,  on  account  of  a  snow-slide 
which  swept  the  camp  out  of  existence,  killing 
eleven  men  and  causing  him  a  loss  of  $20,000  or 
more. 

As  previously  stated  Mr.  Gilson  was  married 
just  before  he  entered  upon  his  arduous  toils  and 
ventures  in  the  mountains  of  Colorado.  The 
lady  who  shared  with  him  his  pleasures  and  pri- 
vations was  formerly  Miss  Euphrasia  Randall. 
Seven  children  came  to  bless  their  home,  and  of 
these,  six  are  living.  Sophronia  is  the  wife  of 
Clarence  Ross,  a  wealthy  farmer,  who  owns  a 
ranch  on  the  Platte  River  and  one  on  the  Divide. 

Robert  Wesley  is  engaged  in  the  grocery  busi- 


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1035 


ness  in  Idado  Springs.  Burleigh  is  a  progressive 
farmer,  living  on  the  Divide.  Lucia  is  the  wife 
of  William  Jones,  a  resident  of  Cripple  Creek, 
where  he  is  interested  in  mining.  Maggie  is  the 
wife  of  William  Williams,  who  is  engaged  in  min- 
ing operations  at  Idaho  Springs.  L,ee  resides 
in  Canfield,  and  is  interested  in  a  flouring  mill. 

In  1876,  when  he  felt  that  his  children  needed 
better  educational  facilities,  Mr.  Gilson  took  his 
family  to  Denver,  where  they  remained  some 
twelve  years.  They  returned  to  the  gulch  in  1888 
and  for  the  past  five  years  have  made  their  home 
near  Canfield.  Mr.  Gilson  devotes  a  portion  of 
his  time  to  the  cultivation  and  improvement  of 
this  farm,  and  the  remainder  to  his  mining  inter- 
ests. He  is  liberal,  in  a  political  point  of  view, 
favoring  the  silver  standard. 


I  GUIS  A.  CRAMER.  Among  the  farmers 
I  C  and  stock-raisers  of  Douglas  County  few  are 
lJ2f  better  known  and  none  more  highly  respected 
than  the  subject  of  this  article,  whose  ranch  is 
situated  three  and  one-half  miles  southwest  of 
Sedalia.  He  was  born  in  Cumberland  County, 
111.,  September  21,  1870,  and  was  brought  to 
Colorado  at  three  years  of  age  by  his  father, 
David  I>  Cramer,  whose  sketch  appears  elsewhere 
in  this  work.  His  primary  education  was  ob- 
tained in  the  Sedalia  school,  after  which  he  was 
a  student  in  the  Logan  school,  Denver,  and 
graduated  therefrom  with  the  class  of  1892. 

Soon  after  completing  his  education  Mr.  Cramer 
took  up  a  homestead  three  miles  from  Sedalia, 
which  he  fenced  and  partly  improved.  For  two 
years  he  assisted  his  father  in  the  threshing  busi- 
ness, after  which  he  went  to  Indiana.  Having  a 
taste  for  machinery,  it  was  his  hope  to  secure  em- 
ployment in  the  machine  shops  at  Terre  Haute, 
but  at  that  time  financial  reverses,  common 
throughout  the  entire  country,  caused  the  manu- 
facturers to  close  their  shops,  and  accordingly 
work  was  scarce.  He  spent  several  months  in 
visiting  difierent  points,  then  returned  to  Colo- 
rado. 

June  19,  1895,  Mr.  Cramer  married  Miss  Annie 
C.  Jarre,  who  was  born  on  Jarre  Creek,  a  daugh- 
ter of  C.  Alphonso  and  Christina  (Carlson)  Jarre. 
Her  parents,  who  were  natives  of  France  and 
Sweden  respectively,  came  to  America  and  became 
acquainted  near  Littleton,  Colo. ;  they  were  mar- 


ried in  Denver  July  29,  1875.  Mrs.  Cramer,  who 
was  their  eldest  child,  was  born  December  5, 
1876.  She  was  given  good  educational  advan- 
tages, attending  the  public  school  at  Sedalia  and 
the  Swansea  school  in  Denver.  Her  only  brother 
dying  when  he  was  about  ten,  left  her  the  princi- 
pal inheritor  of  the  estate,  at  the  time  of  her 
father's  death,  March  4,  1888.  Afterward  her 
mother  married  John  Overstreet  and  of  that 
union  was  born  a  daughter,  Emma,  who  on  the 
death  of  her  mother  became  one  of  the  heirs  of 
the  Jarre  estate.  The  Jarre  homestead  was  en- 
tered by  Mr.  Jarre  from  the  government  about 
1870,  and  here  Mrs.  Cramer  has  continued  to 
reside  since  her  marriage.  Two  children  have 
been  born  of  her  union  with  Mr.  Cramer.  Ray- 
mond Alphonso  was  born  September  25,  1896, 
and  Pearl  Constance,  October  18,  1897. 

In  political  belief  Mr.  Cramer  is  a  Republican 
and  voted  for  Benjamin  Harrison  in  1892,  this 
being  his  first  presidential  ballot.  In  religious 
connections  he  is  identified  with  the  South  Broad- 
way Christian  Church  of  Denver,  whose  pastor 
is  Rev.  S.  B.  Moore.  Fraternally  he  is  associated 
with  the  Sons  of  Veterans,  Washington  Camp 
No.  19,  Division  of  Colorado  and  Wyoming,  in 
South  Denver,  and  has  served  as  chaplain  of  his 
camp. 

0ANIEL  FUELSCHER,  proprietor  of  the 
Central  City  bottling  works,  is  a  member 
of  the  board  of  aldermen  here,  having  been 
elected  to  represent  the  second  ward  in  the 
spring  of  1897.  He  is  a  member  of  several  com- 
mittees and  is  chairman  of  various  ones.  A 
young  man  of  enterprise,  he  is  a  worthy  exam- 
ple of  the  patriotic  German-American  citizen. 
He  is  active  in  the  interests  of  the  Democratic 
party,  and  is  a  member  of  the  county  central 
committee. 

The  father  of  our  subject,  C.  H.  Fuelscher,  a 
well-known  resident  of  Central  City,  was  born  in 
the  same  locality  as  was  his  son  Daniel,  near  the 
mouth  of  the  River  Elbe,  twelve  miles  from  the 
city  of  Hamburg,  Holstein,  Germany.  He  was 
proprietor  of  a  large  brewery  anH  distillery  there, 
and  also  practiced  veterinary  surgery.  Eighteen 
years  ago  he  came  to  the  United  States  and  for  a 
few  years  made  his  home  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.  In 
1885  he  settled  upon  a  ranch  near  Julesburg,  on 
the  Platte  River,  and  raised  cattle  on  an  exten- 


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sive  scale  there.  He  still  owns  and  superintends 
the  place,  though  he  now  lives  in  Central  City, 
and  is,  as  formerly,  engaged  in  the  practice  of  his 
profession.  His  wife,  whose  maiden  name  was 
Wilhelmina  Dibbern,  was  likewise  a  native  of 
Holsteiu,  and  died  in  that  country  in  1880.  Of 
their  fourteen  children,  nine  survive. 

Daniel  Fuelscher,  next  to  the  eldest  of  his  par- 
ents' family,  was  born  April  25,  1864,  in  the 
fatherland  and  received  his  education  in  the 
gymnasium,  the  government  schools.  He  then 
gave  his  father  his  time  and  assistance  in  his 
business  until  1881,  when  he  sailed  from  Ham- 
burg for  the  United  States.  From  New  York  he 
proceeded  to  St.  Louis,  where  he  readily  obtained 
a  clerkship.  In  June,  1S85,  he  went  to  Denver, 
and  two  months  later  continued  his  westward 
journey  to  California.  He  spent  nearly  two 
years  on  the  Pacific  coast,  a  portion  of  the  time 
in  Oregon,  but  in  the  fall  of  1887  returned  to 
Denver.  The  following  spring  he  entered  the 
employ  of  J.  S.  Beaman,  then  the  proprietor  of 
the  Central  Cit}^  bottling  works,  and  remained 
with  him  until  the  ist  of  January,  1893,  when, 
having  bought  the  Beaman  interest  in  the  plant, 
he  succeeded  him  in  the  business.  In  1894  he 
became  sole  agent  for  the  Philip  Zang  Brewing 
Company  and  three  years  later  bought  the 
Lehmkuhl  brewery  of  this  city,  but  does  not 
operate  it.  His  establishment  is  situated  on 
Spring  street  and  four  large  buildings  are  re- 
quired for  the  business.  One  is  used  for  storage 
and  refrigerating;  one  for  storing  bottled  beer, 
and  the  other  for  storage  of  wines  and  liquors,  and 
the  main  building  for  offices  and  the  cigar  depart- 
ment. Only  a  wholesale  business  is  transacted, 
and  under  the  skillful  management  of  Mr.  Fuel- 
scher, his  trade  is  constantly  growing  in  value  and 
general  proportions.  He  manufactures  all  kinds 
of  "soft"  drinks  and  finds  a  ready  sale  for  this 
line  in  both  Gilpin  and  Clear  Creek  Counties. 

In  addition  to  his  regular  business,  Mr.  Fuel- 
scher has  mining  property.  He  owns  an  interest 
in  the  Bismark  Tunnel  Company  of  Blackhawk, 
and  was  one  of  the  organizers  and  incorporators 
of  the  Happy  Valley  Placer  Companj',  who  own 
and  laid  out  the  town  site  of  Eldora.  Frater- 
nally he  is  a  Knight  of  Pythias.  He  is  also  a 
member  of  Blucher  Lodge  No.  10,  Sons  of  Her- 
man, is  past  officer  of  the  same  and  was  its  rep- 
resentative to  the  grand  lodge.     For  perhaps  a 


dozen  years  he  has  been  an  official  member  of 
Rocky  Mountain  Turn  Verein,  of  Central  City, 
this  being  the  oldest  society  of  the  kind  in  the 
state.  He  was  formerly  secretary  and  is  now 
treasurer  of  the  local  society. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Fuelscher  and  Miss 
Oletha  Beaman,  one  of  Central  City's  most  popu- 
lar young  ladies,  occurred  at  the  home  of  her 
father,  J.  S.  Beaman  (whose  sketch  is  printed 
upon  another  page  of  this  volume)  in  June,  1892. 
The  young  couple  have  one  child,  Walter  J. 


(John  HILBURGER,  a  retired  farmer  of 
I  Douglas  County,  who  has  resided  in  Castle 
(2/  Rock  since  1891,  was  born  in  Regenburg, 
Bavaria,  Germany,  July  24,  1845,  being  a  son  of 
Paul  and  Katherine  (Bet.s)  Hilburger.  His  boy- 
hood years  were  spent  upon  a  farm  and  in  attend- 
ance at  a  local  school,  where  he  obtained  a  fair 
education.  He  remained  at  home  until  twenty- 
one  years  of  age,  when,  wishing  to  avoid  being 
forced  into  the  army,  he  came  to  America.  It 
was  then  early  in  the  year  1867.  He  took  pass- 
age on  a  steamer  at  Hamburg  and  spent  sixteen 
days  upon  the  ocean,  landing  in  New  York. 
From  there  he  came  at  once  to  Colorado. 

During  his  first  two  years  in  this  state  Mr. 
Hilburger  worked  on  a  ranch  in  Douglas  County. 
In  November,  1869,  he  wa^  united  in  marriage 
with  Miss  Kate  Forster,  to  whom  he  had  been 
engaged  in  his  native  land.  After  marriage  they 
settled  upon  a  homestead,  but  a  year  later  bought 
another  farm  of  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres. 

In  time  Mr.  Hilburger,  through  good  manage- 
ment and  business  ability,  became  the  owner  of 
twelve  hundred  acres,  which  he  disposed  of  in 
1889  for  $22,000.  During  his  active  life  he  de- 
voted himself  principally  to  stock-raising,  in 
which  line  of  agriculture  he  was  exceptionally 
successful.  He  .sold  all  of  his  land  excepting 
one  hundred  and  sixty  acres,  and  in  1891  came 
to  Castle  Rock,  where  he  hopes  to  spend  his  re- 
maining years,  quietly  and  in  retirement  from 
life's  active  duties.  His  first  wife  died  in  1879. 
Of  their  marriage  four  children  were  born, 
namely:  George,  who  died  at  eleven  years  of  age; 
John,  who  is  a  farmer  in  Douglas  County;  Fred- 
erick, also  a  farmer  in  this  county;  and  Anna, 
who  is  with  her  father.  The  second  marriage  of 
Mr.  Hilburger  united  him  with  Miss  AnnaFenn, 


JAMES  S.  BARBER. 


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a  native  of  Bavaria,  and  with  whom  he  was  united 
in  1 88 1.     They  have  one  child,  I^izzie. 

For  j'ears  Mr.  Hilburger  voted  the  Republican 
ticket,  but  when  the  Republicans  declared  for 
gold  in  1896,  he  left  the  party  and  allied  himself 
with  the  Populists.  By  them  he  was  given  the 
nomination  for  the  legislature.  He  has  served  as 
village  trustee  for  two  years,  and  while  living  on 
the  ranch  he  held  office  as  a  member  of  the  school 
board  for  nine  years.  His  ancestors  were  Catho- 
lics and  he  was  reared  in  that  faith,  his  family 
also  being  identified  with  that  church.  Frater- 
nally he  is  connected  with  the  Ancient  Order  of 
United  Workmen  and  is  now  foreman  of  Castle 
Rock  Lodge  No.  27.  Aside  from  his  other  in- 
terests he  owns  stock  in  a  mining  company  at 
Cripple  Creek  and  also  in  a  stock  company  oper- 
ating another  mine. 


(1  AMES  S.  BARBER  resides  on  the  East  Evans 
I  ranch,  which  is  situated  on  sections  15-22, 
Q)  township  5,  range  65,  Weld  County.  This 
is  one  of  the  historic  sites  in  the  state.  Here  oc- 
curred the  birth  of  the  first  white  child  born  in 
Colorado,  a  girl,  still  living,  and  now  in  Arizona. 
Here  was  old  Fort  Latham,  the  headquarters  of 
the  government  troops  during  the  Indian  troubles 
of  1860-64,  and  here,  too,  was  the  old  ford  on  the 
Platte  River.  Through  the  land  ran  the  main 
stage  line  from  Kearnej'  to  Denver.  During  the 
early  days  of  the  '  60s  the  county  seat  was  at  Fort 
Latham,  the  postoflBce  being  called  Latham,  and 
the  county  court  was  presided  over  by  Judge 
Wells.  The  outlines  of  the  old  town  site  are  still 
visible  and  the  old  trees  still  stand,  landmarks  of 
pioneer  days. 

In  Meadville,  Pa. ,  Mr.  Barber  was  born  Janu- 
ary 3,  1845,  a  son  of  Hiram  P.  and  Nancy 
(Silsby)  Barber,  natives  of  New  York  state.  His 
father  removed  to  Pennsylvania  when  a  young 
man,  and  from  Meadville  later  went  to  Ashtabula, 
Ohio,  but  in  1859  settled  in  Columbia  County, 
Wis.,  buying  a  farm  near  Columbus.  In  1861 
he  enlisted  in  the  Gray  Beard  Regiment  of  Iowa 
Infantry,  but  when  he  had  been  in  service  less 
than  one  year,  died  in  Illinois,  aged  sixty-nine 
years.  Farming  was  his  life  work  and  he  owned 
about  four  hundred  acres  in  Wisconsin.  At  one 
time  he  was  interested  in  a  railroad  extending 
from  Columbus  to  Watertown,  Wis.,  and  in  it  he 
45 


served  as  a  director.  His  wife  died  in  Dakota  in 
1884,  at  the  age  of  seventy-six  years.  They 
were  the  parents  of  seven  children,  butonlj'  three 
are  living,  viz. :  Nancy,  wife  of  Louis  Underwood, 
of  Cromo,  Colo.;  Mary,  who  married  Alonzo  B. 
Frizzell,  of  Sioux  Falls,  S.  Dak. ;  and  James  S. 

The  boyhood  years  of  our  subject  were  spent 
in  Pennsylvania,  Ohio  and  Wisconsin.  At  the 
age  of  twenty  he  went  to  Fillmore  County,  Minn., 
where  he  bought  land  and  embarked  in  farming 
pursuits.  In  1864  he  was  drafted  for  the  army, 
but  the  war  closed  before  he  was  sent  to  the  front. 
In  1865,  at  the  time  of  the  Sweet  Water  gold  ex- 
citement, he  started  for  Wyoming,  but  on  reach- 
ing Council  Bluffs  the  militarj'  authorities  in  the 
town  refused  his  party  permission  to  proceed  fur- 
ther, owing  to  depredations  of  the  Indians  at  that 
time.  After  four  months  he  went  to  the  southwest- 
ern part  of  Missouri  and  organized  a  company  of 
eight,  who  started  for  Sweet  Water  in  the  spring 
of*  1866.  At  Council  Bluffs  the  number  was 
increased  to  fourteen.  They  traveled  over  the 
plains  to  Cheyenne,  and  from  there  went  to  the 
gold  regions,  arriving  about  the  middle  of  June. 
In  a  short  time  he  went  to  work  on  the  Union 
Pacific  Railroad,  in  process  of  construction  from 
Cheyenne  to  Ogden,  and  continued  in  that  con- 
nection until  the  road  was  completed,  two  years 
later.  Returning  to  Missouri  in  1868,  he  re- 
mained there  for  some  years,  and  in  the  meantime 
married  Miss  Louisa  J.  Bailey.  In  the  spring  ol 
1873  he  started  for  Colorado  and  arrived  in  Evans 
June  3,  shortly  after  which  he  settled  on  his  pres- 
ent ranch,  then  the  property  of  his  father-in-law, 
Daniel  B.  Bailey.  He  was  one  of  the  organizers 
of  the  Union  Ditch  Company  and  assisted  in  the 
construction  of  the  ditch.  Since  then  he  has 
served  as  an  officer  of  the  company,  having  been 
its  president  since  1891.  In  1876  he  assisted  in 
the  organization  of  the  Latham  Ditch  Company, 
of  which  he  was  president  and  a  director  for  sev- 
eral years.  After  bringing  water  to  the  land,  he 
began  general  farming  and  the  raising  of  fine 
cattle,  of  which  he  has  about  one  hundred  and 
fifty  head.  He  also  raises  Berkshire  hogs,  and 
until  1894  was  largely  interested  in  the  raising  of 
sheep,  his  herd  numbering  about  five  thousand. 

Besides  his  other  interests,  Mr.  Barber  owns 
considerable  mining  stock,  and  is  president  of 
the  Leadville  Gold  and  Silver  Mining  Company. 
His  landed  possessions  aggregate  four  hundred 


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and  forty-nine  acres  of  land  in  the  Platte  River 
bottom,  the  value  of  which  has  been  increased  by 
his  improvements.  Politically  a  Republican,  he 
was  appointed  county  commissioner  by  Governor 
Cooper  in  the  fall  of  189 1,  and  in  1893  was  regu- 
larly elected  for  three  years.  During  his  term  he 
served  as  chairman  of  the  board.  In  the  organi- 
zation of  school  district  No.  1 1  he  took  an  active 
part;  he  has  served  on  the  board  of  trustees  since 
1875,  and  has  held  each  of  the  offices  in  that 
body. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Barber  united  him  with  a 
daughter  of  D.  B.  Bailey,  a  native  of  Kentucky, 
who  came  to  Colorado  from  Missouri  in  1861  and 
for  many  years  engaged  in  the  stock  business, 
being  the  largest  dealer  of  this  section.  He  now 
makes  his  home  in  Greenfield,  Dade  County,  Mo. , 
and  is  seventy-four  years  of  age.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Barber  have  one  son,  Frederick  S.,  at  present  a 
student  in  the  Evans  high  school.  Fraternally 
Mr.  Barber  is  identified  with  Occidental  Lodge 
No.  20,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  Greeley  Chapter  No.  14, 
R.  A.  M.,  and  Greeley  Commandery,  K.  T. 


EAPT.  RINALDO  P.  BEAN,  of  Douglas 
County,  owns  a  ranch  on  section  24,  town- 
ship 6  south,  range  69  west,  eight  miles 
from  Littleton.  He  was  born  in  Gilead,  Oxford 
County,  Me.,  October  4,  1842,  a  son  of  John  M. 
and  May  (Mason)  Bean.  His  father  was  a  car- 
penter by  trade,  but  also  owned  and  operated  a 
farm,  and  upon  that  place  our  subject's  boyhood 
days  were  passed.  He  attended  the  public 
schools  for  some  time,  after  which  he  was  a  stu- 
dent in  Gould's  academy,  at  Bethel,  for  one  term, 
and  then  commenced  to  teach  school.  However, 
one  week  after  his  school  had  opened,  he  enlisted 
in  Company  B,  Twenty-third  Maine  Infantry,  for 
nine  months.  He  was  promoted  from  fourth  to 
first  sergeant,  and  served  for  one  month  longer 
than  the  term  of  his  enlistment.  Shortly  after 
being  mustered  out,  in  July,  1863,  he  went  to 
Iowa,  where  he  became  a  member  of  Company 
K,  Ninth  Iowa  Infantry.  The  regiment,  how- 
ever, was  at  the  front  with  Sherman,  and  it  was 
some  months  before  he  was  ordered  to  join  it. 
He  was  then  sent  to  Nashville,  where  he  took 
part  in  a  battle  and  for  the  first  time  was  under 
fire  from  the  enemy's  guns.  While  there  he  was 
given  the  rank  of  captain   and  had  charge  of  a 


company.  At  Kingston,  N.  C,  he  participated 
in  the  three  days'  fight  and  afterward  was  in 
many  skirmishes.  When  the  war  ended  he  took 
part  in  the  grand  review  at  Washington  and  was 
mustered  out  in  Iowa,  in  July,  1865. 

After  spending  a  few  months  in  Iowa,  in  No- 
vember Captain  Bean  returned  to  Maine  and  fol- 
lowed the  carpenter's  trade  there  until  1870.  He 
then  came  to  Colorado  as  a  passenger  on  the  first 
passenger  train  that  ever  entered  Denver.  With 
him  was  a  brother  who  was  very  low  with  asthma. 
For  a  few  months  he  experimented,  at  mining  in 
Central  City,  and  then  engaged  at  his  trade  in 
the  same  place,  where  he  remained  for  five 
months.  He  worked  in  Denver  for  three  years, 
after  which,  in  1873,  he  took  up  a  ranch  on  sec- 
tion 23,  which  he  still  owns.  Later  he  bought 
the  land  where  he  is  now  engaged  in  dairying 
and  stock-raising.  He  is  the  owner  of  four  hun- 
dred acres  in  one  body,  upon  which  he  has  made 
improvements  that  add  to  the  value  of  the  ranch. 

In  Louisville,  Ky.,  November  14,  1865,  Cap- 
tain Bean  married  Miss  Matilda  Clarke,  with 
whom  he  became  acquainted  while  in  the  army. 
She  died  while  they  were  living  in  Maine  and 
left  one  son,  Llewellyn,  who  is  married,  has  two 
children,  and  lives  on  Plum  Creek,  In  April, 
1873,  in  Maine,  our  subject  married  Miss  Mary 
Hamlin,  a  distant  relative  of  Hannibal  Hamlin. 
Five  children  were  born  of  fheir  marriage,  name- 
ly: Alta,  wife  of  Charles  Conrad,  of  Douglas 
County,  and  mother  of  one  child;  Gertrude, 
Grace,  Herbert  and  Gladys,  at  home. 

The  first  presidential  vote  cast  by  Captain  Bean 
was  in  support  of  Abraham  Lincoln,  in  1864. 
Since  then  he  has  continued  to  uphold  Republi- 
can principles  and  candidates.  For  two  years 
(1889  to  1891)  he  served  as  assessor  of  Douglas 
County,  and  from  1891  to  1897  held  office  as 
county  commissioner.  While  living  in  Bethel, 
Me.,  he  was  made  a  Mason,  joining  Bethel  Lodge 
No.  97,  A.  F.  &  A.  M. 


HENRY  S.  GILBERT,  one  of  Boulder  Coun- 
ty's well-known  farmers,  settled  upon  his 
present  place  in  1888,  when  he  purchased 
eighty  acres  of  land,  lying  two  miles  south  of 
Longmont,  under  cultivation.  After  a  time,  being 
prospered,  he  was  enabled  to  buy  one  hundred 
and  sixty  acres  additional,  thus  making  his  pres- 


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ent  estate  one  of  two  hundred  and  forty  acres. 
Here  he  engages  in  raising  general  farm  products 
and  in  the  dairy  business,  the  latter  of  which  he 
has  found  to  be  a  profitable  adjunct  of  farming. 

In  St.  Lawrence  County,  N.  Y.,  Mr.  Gilbert 
was  born  October  19,  1831,  a  son  of  Orlando  S. 
and  Dorcas  (Place)  Gilbert,  and  the  grandson,  on 
his  father's  side,  of  a  Scotchman.  He  was  one 
of  a  family  of  ten  children,  whose  father  was  a 
stone  mason  and  contractor.  The  determination 
of  his  character  was  apparent  when  he  was  but  a 
boy.  He  refused,  when  attending  school,  to 
study  grammar,  and  when  he  was  about  to  be 
forced  to  do  so,  he  left  school.  His  parents  pro- 
tested with  him  for  so  doing,  and  he  thereupon  left 
home,  and  began  shifting  for  himself.  His  first 
work  was  on  the  Erie  Canal,  where  he  was  em- 
ployed for  three  months.  He  then  secured  a  posi- 
tion on  a  farm,  where  he  was  employed  until 
eighteen  years  of  age. 

The  year  1849  found  Mr.  Gilbert  in  Fond  du 
Lac,  Wis.,  with  $4.50  in  his  possession.  There 
he  secured  work  by  the  month.  At  the  expira- 
tion of  four  years  he  had  saved  a  sufficient 
amount  of  money  to  enable  him  to  buy  a  team 
and  wagon.  His  town  was  the  terminus  of  the 
railroad,  and  he  was  fortunate  in  securing  good 
contracts  in  freighting  for  the  company.  From 
that  time  he  prospered.  During  the  war  period 
he  ran  a  livery  business  and  made  money  rapidly. 
Following  that  he  engaged  in  the  stone  business, 
buying  a  stone  quarry  which  had  been  pronounced 
A.  No.  I  by  an  expert.  He  erected  a  mill  to 
work  the  stone,  bought  heavy  wagons  and  put 
his  employes  to  work,  with  a  monthly  pay  roll 
of  $1,800.  After  his  business  was  in  operation 
he  refused  a  cash  offer  of  $30,000  for  the  quarry. 
A  short  time  later  the  stone  ran  out  and  he  was  a 
loser  to  the  extent  of  his  offer  of  $30,000. 

While  the  experience  was  discouraging,  it  did 
not  daunt  him.  He  went  to  Minnesota  and 
opened  a  promising  piece  of  land,  with  some 
$5,000,  which  had  been  left  him  out  of  his  pre- 
vious misfortune.  The  land  lay  between  the 
Winona  &  St.  Peter  and  the  St.  Paul  &  Sioux 
City  Railroads.  After  two  years,  during  which 
time  he  had  made  many  improvements  and  in- 
vested all  of  his  money,  the  railroads  claimed 
the  property,  and  after  some  litigation  he  left  the 
place.  With  a  son-in-law  he  came  to  Colorado, 
arriving  at  Longmont  July  4,  1877.     With  him 


he  had  a  team  of  horses  and  $50  in  money.  He 
engaged  in  freighting  in  the  mountains,  and  fol- 
lowed that  occupation,  together  with  staging, 
until  1888,  when  became  to  his  present  property 
near  Longmont.  During  his  active  life  he  has 
met  with  many  discouragements  and  has  had 
obstacles  to  encounter  and  hardships  to  meet; 
but  they  only  served  to  make  him  more  deter- 
mined to  succeed.  The  spirit  of  determination 
that  set  him  adrift  upon  the  world  in  his  teens 
has  followed  him  all  through  life,  and  he  has 
prospered  where  another  man,  with  less  deter- 
mination of  character,  would  have  given  up  un- 
der misfortune. 

In  1 85 1  Mr.  Gilbert  married  Miss  Melvina 
Pelton,  of  Fond  du  Lac,  Wis.  Two  children 
were  born  of  their  union:  D wight,  of  Dallas, 
Tex.;  and  Ida,  deceased.  In  politics  Mr.  Gil- 
bert is  liberal,  voting  for  the  best  man,  irrespec- 
tiveof  political  affiliations.  In  fraternal  relations 
he  holds  membership  in  the  blue  lodge,  A.  F.  & 
A.  M.,  in  Fond  du  Lac,  and  Longmont  Chapter 
No.  8,  R.  A.  M. 


r"RED  H.  BUCK  MAN,  proprietor  of  the 
JM  Golden  mills  and  elevator  and  a  pioneer  of 
I  '59>  was  born  in  Hanover,  Germany,  in 
1834,  and  is  the  youngest  of  three  children.  He 
had  a  sister  who  died  in  Germany,  while  his 
brother,  Henry,  resides  near  Yankton,  S.  Dak. 
His  father,  John,  was  the  son  of  a  soldier  who 
fought  under  Wellington  at  Waterloo.  He  was 
a  farmer  and  miller,  and  also  engaged  in  the 
lumber  business,  cutting  and  selling  timber  for 
the  construction  of  wagons  and  ships.  His  wife 
died  when  her  youngest  child  was  six  months  old. 
The  boyhood  days  of  our  subject  were  passed 
on  the  Wieser,  about  twenty  miles  from  Bremen. 
He  attended  the  common  schools  and  worked  in 
the  mill  until  fourteen  years  of  age,  when,  in 
company  with  two  other  boys,  he  left  Bremen  on 
the  sailing  vessel  "Neptune"  and  landed  in  New 
Orleans  in  1849,  after  a  voyage  of  forty-two  days. 
He  came  up  the  Mississippi  to  St.  Louis  and  on 
to  Dubuque,  Iowa,  securing  employment  on  a 
farm  in  Dubuque  County.  Afterward,  for  several 
years,  he  was  employed  in  a  mill,  and  later  en- 
gaged in  buying  and  selling  land;  also  carried  on 
a  grocery  business.  During  the  height  of  the 
Pike's  Peak  excitement,  in  1859,  he  left  Dubuque 
on  the  14th  of  February  with  two  wagons  and  a 


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team  each  of  horses  and  mules.  He  went  west 
to  Omaha,  then  up  the  Platte,  which  he  crossed 
at  Fort  Kearney,  and  at  the  forks  he  followed 
the  south  branch  of  the  river.  He  arrived  at 
Denver  at  four  o'clock  in  the  afternoon  of 
April  17.  From  this  city  he  journeyed  to  Middle 
Dry,  where  he  engaged  in  mining,  and  during 
the  sixteen  days  he  was  there  with  a  hand-rocker 
he  took  out  $73.53  worth  of  gold.  He  then  went 
to  Arapahoe  Bar,  below  Golden,  and  afterward 
worked  at  Gregory  Gulch.  In  June  of  the  same 
year  he  returned  to  Omaha  for  a  load  of  pro- 
visions, which  he  brought  back  to  the  mountains, 
and  then  opened  a  bakery  and  grocery.  By 
Christmas  he  had  cleared  $3,000.  He  then  re- 
turned by  team  to  St.  Joseph  and  from  there  by 
rail  to  Dubuque. 

Coming  west  again  in  the  spring  of  i860,  Mr. 
Buckman  brought  a  load  of  groceries  with  two 
four-horse  teams  and  located  in  Mountain  City, 
Gilpin  County,  where  he  started  a  grocery  and 
bakery.  After  two  or  more  years  he  turned  his 
attention  to  mining,  and  later  engaged  in  the 
stock  business  as  a  dealer  and  butcher.  In  1866 
he  took  up  the  Michigan  ranch  at  the  old  stage 
station,  and  there  carried  on  farming  and  also 
kept  a  stage  station.  The  place,  which  he  still 
owns,  comprises  four  hundred  and  eighty  acres, 
and  is  carried  on  by  his  son.  For  some  time  he 
carried  on  the  wholesale  stock  business  in  Gilpin 
and  Clear  Creek  Counties.  When  the  Colorado 
Central  was  started,  during  the  '70s,  he  came  to 
Golden  and  started  the  Eagle  corral,  but  after 
one  year  he  went  back  to  Gilpin  County.  In 
1873  he  located  in  Idaho  Springs,  where  he  en- 
gaged in  freighting  for  a  year,  and  afterward 
spent  several  years  on  the  Michigan  ranch.  In 
1880  he  opened  a  meat  market  at  Blackhawk,  but 
after  three  years  again  returned  to  the  ranch. 
In  1889  he  bought  the  old  Barnes  mill,  which 
was  started  April  18,  1864,  being  the  first  built 
on  Bear  Creek  below  the  present  site  of  Morrison. 
There  not  being  water  enough  for  power,  in  a 
few  months  it  was  moved  to  its  present  site  on 
Clear  Creek.  Mr.  Buckman  has  all  the  latest 
machinery  for  the  manufacture  of  flour,  feed  and 
all  milling  products,  and  in  the  spring  of  1898  he 
bought  an  elevator,  which  he  now  operates,  and 
which  has  a  capacity  of  one  hundred  cars  of 
grain.  In  1876  he  bought  the  Golden  Gate  toll 
road,  and  for  manj'  years  he  lived  at  the  toll  gate 


within  sight  of  the  Guy  Hill  Mountain.  His 
youngest  son  was  born  there  and  the  mountain 
was  named  for  him. 

Politically  a  Democrat,  Mr.  Buckman  was  his 
party's  candidate  for  mayor  of  Golden  in  1897, 
but  the  Republicans  having  a  majority  in  the 
city,  he  failed  of  election.  He  was  one  of  the 
first  aldermen  of  Central  City,  being  a  member  of 
the  board  on  which  Senator  Teller  also  served. 
He  is  identified  with  the  Society  of  Gilpin  County 
Pioneers.  His  wife,  who  was  a  Miss  Thomas, 
was  born  in  Pennsylvania  and  died  at  Golden  in 
1879,  leaving  three  children:  Julia  May;  Jesse 
Lee,  who  assists  his  father  in  the  mill;  and  Guy 
Hill,  who  manages  the  Michigan  ranch. 


(TOHN  CLARK,  a  pioneer  of  '60,  resides  upon 
I  a  farm  of  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  situ- 
(2/  ated  in  Jefferson  County,  where  he  is  en- 
gaged in  raising  stock  and  general  farm  products. 
In  early  days  he  was  known  as  "Wheat"  Clark, 
owing  to  the  fact  that  in  1863  he  raised  the  first 
wheat  that  was  ever  profitably  raised  in  Colorado. 
A  native  of  England,  he  was  born  in  Somerset  in 
1833,  and  is  the  son  of  Abraham  and  Charlotte 
(Parsons)  Clark.  He  was  one  of  six  children, 
two  of  whom  are  now  living,  John  and  Mrs. 
Charlotte  Belgian,  of  Liverpool,  England. 

Abraham,  son  of  Stephen  Clark,  was  born  in 
Somerset  and  there  engaged  in  farming  until  his 
death,  at  the  age  of  seventy-five  years.  He  was 
a  member  of  an  old  family  of  Somerset,  the  most 
of  whose  members  had  followed  farm  pursuits. 
John  was  reared  on  the  home  farm.  In  1856,  at 
the  age  of  twenty-three,  he  came  to  America  and 
settled  in  Madison,  Wis.,  where  he  engaged  with 
Governor  Farwell  as  assistant  in  landscape  gar- 
dening. Shortly  afterward  he  began  farming  on 
shares,  and  continued  in  that  way  until  the  fall 
of  1859,  when  he  went  to  Missouri,  and  from 
there,  after  spending  the  winter,  to  Leavenworth, 
Kan.,  on  a  tour  of  inspection.  He  saw  nothing 
in  that  place  that  impressed  him  favorably,  so 
continued  his  journey  westward,  arriving  in  Den- 
ver May  4,  i860.  In  July  he  traveled  from  here 
to  the  Missouri  River  with  an  ox-team  and  re- 
turned with  provisions  in  November.  During 
the  winter  he  made  two  trips  to  California  Gulch, 
freighting  with  an  ox-team.  In  the  spring  of 
1 86 1  he  rented  the  place  he  now  owns  and  he  has 


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since  engaged  in  farming.  During  the  winter  of 
1861-62  he  took  up  a  claim  of  one  hundred  and 
sixty  acres  on  Thompson  Creek,  but  was  dis.satis- 
fied  with  the  prospects,  and  returned  to  Denver. 

Not  long  afterward  Mr.  Clark  was  employed 
by  Dr.  Hamilton  and  Edward  Cheeseman  to 
manage  the  ranch  which  he  had  farmed  in  1861 
and  of  which  he  is  now  the  owner.  He  continued 
here  until  1864,  when  he  took  up  an  adjoining 
homestead  of  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  and 
engaged  in  farming  on  his  own  account.  After 
remaining  thereuntil  1872,  he  bought  the  place 
he  now  owns  and  soon  removed  to  this  place. 
He  is  interested  in  educational  matters  and  for 
nine  j'ears  was  a  member  of  the  school  board. 
As  a  citizen  he  favors  all  measures  for  the  benefit 
of  the  people. 

In  Madison,  Wis.,  September  15,  1857,  Mr. 
Clark  married  Miss  Mary  Mitchell,  and  one  son 
was  born  of  their  union,  D.  F. ,  formerly  a  general 
merchant  and  contractor  residing  in  Sargents, 
Colo.,  but  whose  death  occurred  suddenly  in 
September,  1898,  In  September,  1862,  our  sub- 
ject married  Miss  Eliza  J.  Ward,  and  five  chil- 
dren were  born  of  their  union.  They  are: 
Edwin  A.,  who  is  engaged  in  mining  in  Cripple 
Creek;  Florence  M.,  wife  of  Judson  Towne,  a 
farmer  on  Ralston  Creek;  Marietta,  wife  of 
Thomas  Kinnett,  who  assists  in  cultivating  his 
father-in-law's  place;  Walter,  who  is  engaged  in 
the  express  business  at  Cripple  Creek;  and  Ida 
v.,  wife  of  Clarence  Milner,  who  carries  on  an 
express  business  in  Denver.  The  wife  and 
mother  passed  away  September  23,  1894. 


©QlLLIAM  H.  QUINTRALL,  chairman  of 
\  A  /  the  board  of  commissioners  of  Gilpi  n  Coun- 
Y  Y  ty,  is  a  citizen  of  Russell  Gulch  and  has  a 
pleasant  home  here.  He  is  highly  respected  and 
esteemed  by  his  associates  and  fellow-townsmen 
and  is  an  upright,  enterprising  business  man.  In 
the  fall  of  1892  he  was  nominated  and  elected  on 
the  People's  party  ticket;  was  re-elected  in  1895, 
his  term  to  extend  to  January,  1899.  Since  he 
has  been  in  office  much  attention  has  been  paid 
by  the  board  of  commissioners  to  the  erection  of 
bridges,  and  to  the  highways  of  this  section,  as 
they  fully  realize  the  importance  of  the  matter. 
Mr.  Quintrall  has  the  good  of  the  public  at  heart 
and  is  in  favor  of  improvements  along  all  lines. 


The  parents  of  the  above-named  gentleman 
were  natives  of  England,  the  father,  William 
Quintrall,  born  in  Cornwall.  Grandfather  Quin- 
trall was  accidentally  killed  in  the  Cornwall 
mines.  William  Quintrall  was  also  a  miner  by 
occupation,  and,  having  heard  much  about  the 
rich  copper  mines  of  Tennessee,  he  came  to  the 
United  States  many  years  ago,  and  lived  in  the  - 
state  mentioned.  Subsequently  he  moved  to 
Maryland,  thence  to  Pennsylvania,  and  in  i860 
went  to  California,  where  he  mined  and  pros- 
pected for  a  couple  of  years.  In  1862  he  and 
another  man  discovered  the  Vivian  mine  near 
Silver  City,  Nev.,  and  this  he  continued  to 
operate  until  his  death,  three  years  later,  at  the 
age  of  thirty-nine  years.  His  wife,  Mary,  is  still 
living,  her  home  being  in  Denver,  where  four  of 
her  children  reside,  namely:  Mrs.  CordeHa  Tan- 
gye,  James,  Mrs.  Jennie  Wright  and  Samuel. 
Charles  is  in  Central  City.  Mrs.  Quintrall's  father, 
Henry  Woolcock,  settled  in  North  Carolina  while 
the  Civil  war  was  in  progress,  and  afterwards 
lived  in  Virginia  City,  Neb.,  until  his  death. 

W.  H.  Quintrall  was  born  in  Polk  County, 
Tenn.,  August  26,  1858,  and  from  1863  to  1880 
lived  in  Silver  City,  Nev.,  where  he  was  a  student 
in  the  public  schools.  At  the  age  of  fifteen  he 
commenced  working  at  the  mines,  being  in  the 
blacksmith' s  shop  at  first,  and  in  charge  of  miners' 
picks  and  tools.  In  one  way  and  another  he 
gained  considerable  knowledge  of  mining  opera- 
tions and  in  1880  came  to  Russell  Gulch,  where 
he  was  employed  in  the  mines  for  eight  months. 
In  the  same  year  he  went  to  Leadville,  and  eight 
months  later  came  to  Gilpin  County.  While  en- 
gaged in  mining  hereabouts  he  had  numerous  nar- 
row escapes  from  death  and  twice  read  in  the  Regis- 
ter-Call accounts  of  his  supposed  departure  from 
this  sphere  of  action.  Once  in  the  Nugget  mine, 
he  and  his  partner  were  nearly  overcome  with  foul 
air.  The  other  man  left  and  soon  returned  with  as- 
sistance, but  Mr.  Quintrall  was  not  rescued  before 
he  had  suffered  for  three  and  a-half  hours  the 
deadly  gases.  At  another  time  he  was  in  an  iron 
mine,  when  the  roof  gave  way  and  he  was  buried 
under  twenty  feet  of  earth  and  rock.  By  what 
appeared  almost  a  miracle  an  immense  rock  fell 
in  such  a  way  that  a  small  crevice  was  left,  down 
which  enough  air  came  to  keep  life  in  the  unfor- 
tunate man.  The  rescuing  party  worked  heroic- 
ally and  had  to  put  in  timber  braces  in  order  to 


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safely  extricate  Mr.  Quintrall,  and  in  spite  of 
their  best  efforts  it  was  seven  and  a-half  hours 
before  he  was  taken  out  of  his  living  tomb. 
Small  wonder  that  he  then  concluded  not  to  tempt 
fate  a  third  time,  but  became  an  engineer  on  the 
West  Frontenac.  He  has  since  worked  for  dif- 
ferent companies  and  is  now  engineer  of  the  Hot 
Pot  mine  in  the  Virginia  Canon.  He  helped 
develop  the  2.40  mine  and  others  and  is  now 
associated  with  three  men  in  operating  the  Cham- 
pion mine  in  Elkhorn  Gulch. 

August  2,  1886,  Mr.  Quintrall  married  Miss 
Bessie  Vivian  in  Denver.  She  was  born  in  Cen- 
tral City  and  was  reared  and  educated  there. 
Two  children  bless  this  union,  their  names  being 
respectively  Florence  and  Bessie.  Mrs.  Quintrall 
is  a  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Jane  (Gerrans) 
Vivian,  natives  of  Cornwall,  England.  The 
father  was  an  early  pioneer  of  Central  City,  arriv- 
ing there  about  i860,  and  from  that  time  until 
his  death,  in  1885,  he  was  occupied  in  mining. 
His  wife  died  in  1890.  Their  eldest  son,  Will- 
iam, was  killed  by  the  caving  in  of  a  cellar  in 
Central  City  in  1897, and  Charles,  the  second  son, 
was  accidentally  killed  by  the  falling  of  a  ladder 
in  Bobtail  mine  in  1893.  Frank,  the  youngest, 
is  now  in  Russell  Gulch;  Mrs.  Hattie  GriflBth, 
next  younger  sister  of  Mrs.  Quintrall,  resides  in 
Russell  Gulch;  and  Mrs.  Ivillie  Flagler  lives  in 
Central  City. 

RENJAMIN  C.  CATREN,  Jr.,  is  a  very 
y\  prosperous  and  prominent  resident  of 
C^  Georgetown,  Clear  Creek  County,  and  is 
among  the  most  extensive  mine  operators  in  the 
county.  He  is  still  a  young  man,  but  possessed 
of  remarkable  business  acumen,  which  easily 
places  him  in  the  lead  and  caused  him  to  be 
elected  to  a  number  of  offices  of  responsibility  in 
the  county.  I,ike  so  many  of  the  residents  of 
this  section,  he  is  an  American  only  by  adoption. 
He  was  born  in  England, near  Penzance, in  Decem- 
ber, 1 86 1,  and  came  to  this  state  when  seven 
years  of  age.  His  parents,  B.  C.  and  Mary  J. 
Catren,  were  natives  of  England.  The  mother 
died  in  Georgetown  in  1876,  and  the  father  is 
still  living  and  engaged  in  mining.  He  came  to 
America  in  1865  and  located  in  Central  City,  and 
the  following  year  moved  to  Georgetown,  where 
he  was  one  of  the  first  discoverers  of  silver  mines, 
and  was  placed  in   charge  of  the   Griffith   lode 


during  the  years  1867-69.  This  was  the  principal 
mine  here  at  that  time.  Later  he  acted  as 
superintendent  of  different  mines,  and  at  present 
he  occupies  the  position  of  general  manager  of 
the  Dunderberg  mine.  He  resides  in  Silver 
Plume  and  is  interested  with  his  son,  our  subject, 
in  several  mining  properties.  Of  the  six  children 
born  to  theai  but  four  are  living,  of  whom  our 
subject  is  the  eldest.  William  C,  of  Silver 
Plume,  has  charge  of  the  Smuggler  mine,  the 
property  of  Benjamin  C. ,  Jr. ,  and  his  father; 
Mary,  now  Mrs.  Thompson,  lives  in  Florence; 
and  John  G.  is  in  Silver  Plume. 

B.  C.  Catren,  Jr.,  received  his  education  in 
the  public  and  high  school  of  Georgetown. 
When  a  lad  of  ten  years  he  met  with  a  painful 
accident  that  came  near  co.sting  him  his  life.  He 
was  going  along  a  mountain  road  above  which 
some  loggers  were  rolling  logs  down  the  mountain 
some  two  or  three  hundred  feet  above  him,  and 
he  was  hit  by  a  boulder  and  terribly  injured. 
The  left  leg  was  cut  off  both  above  and  below 
the  knee  by  the  boulder,  and  he  was  badly 
bruised  all  over.  The  leg  was  bruised  and 
amputation  was  necessary  above  the  upper  cut; 
even  then  he  was  twice  given  up  for  dead.  How- 
ever, a  strong  constitution  and  youth  enabled 
him  to  withstand  the  shock,  and  in  time  he 
recovered  his  former  strength  and  health.  While 
a  student  in  the  high  school,  during  the  last  year, 
he  left  school  to  accept  a  position  in  Wyman's 
store  in  Georgetown.  He  then  was  appointed 
deputy  clerk  of  the  district  court,  a  position  he 
held  for  three  or  four  years.  In  1884  he  was 
elected  town  clerk  of  Georgetown,  and  in  Jan- 
uary of  the  following  year  was  appointed  re- 
cording clerk  of  the  state  senate.  After  the 
adjournment  of  the  senate,  he  entered  the  state 
auditor's  office  as  deputy  and  continued  there 
until  the  fall  of  that  year,  1885,  when  he  was 
elected  county  clerk  for  two  years.  He  was 
elected  on  the  Republican  ticket  with  one  hundred 
majority;  was  re-elected  in  1887  by  a  large 
majority,  and  in  1889  received  two-thirds  of  all 
the  votes  cast  in  the  county.  In  1891  he  was 
again  a  candidate  for  the  office,  but  a  factional 
fight  was  on,  and  the  Democrats  elected  their 
entire  ticket. 

During  the  years  since  1881  Mr.  Catren  has 
been  bookkeeper  and  clerk  for  the  Dunderberg 
Mining  Company,  a  position  he  still  holds.     In 


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1 886  he  began  to  devote  his  time  largely  to 
mining  and  has  discovered  and  developed  many 
mines  with  his  father.  The  Smuggler,  owned  by 
them,  is  well  developed  and  a  good  producer,  one 
of  the  leading  properties  of  the  county,  and 
located  above  Silver  Plume.  The  Crown  Point 
mine,  also  discovered  and  developed  by  them, 
consists  of  a  dozen  lodes  in  one  group  situated 
between  Georgetown  and  Silver  Plume.  They 
also  own  fifteen  or  twenty  claims  in  the  same 
vicinity,  known  as  the  Cross  group,  and  own 
and  operate  the  Cascade  group  of  eight  lodes  on 
Cascade  Creek,  Cascade  district,  this  county, 
besides  other  property. 

November  28,  1889,  Mr.  Catren  married  Miss 
Clara  Arnold,  a  native  of  White  Haven,  Pa.; 
they  have  two  children,  lyillian  Blaine  and  Mary 
Lucile.  Their  residence  is  on  the  corner  of  Taos 
and  Eighth,  on  the  same  side  of  the  street  upon 
which  his  father  first  located  and  where  he  was 
reared.  He  has  improved  afld  remodeled  the 
residence  until  it  is  now  one  of  the  finest  in  the 
city.  Fraternally  he  is  a  past  officer  in  the 
Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows.  A  strong 
Silver  Republican,  he  is  secretary  of  the  Clear 
Creek  Silver  Republican  committee,  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  state  central  committee,  and  a  mem- 
ber of  the  state  executive  committee. 


GlNDREW  BALLER  settled  in  1877  upon  an 
f  1  eighty-acre  tract  five  miles  south  of  Long- 
/  I  mont,  where  he  applied  himself  to  farm  pur- 
suits, and  as  he  prospered,  from  time  to  time  he 
added  to  his  original  purchase,  until  his  place 
now  comprises  two  hundred  and  eighty-five 
acres.  He  was  born  in  Sweden,  April  23,  1843, 
a  son  of  Anderson  and  Carrie  (Boressen)  Bailer. 
He  was  one  of  nine  children,  eight  of  whom  are 
living,  namely:  Mary,  Ole,  Andrew,  Nels, 
Charles,  Ida,  Katie  and  Gust.  The  parents  were 
born  in  Sweden,  the  father  in  181 3  and  the  mother 
in  181 1,  and  the  former  died  in  his  native  laud 
when  his  children  were  small.  Afterward,  in 
1875,  the  widow  and  her  children  came  to 
America;  the  last  years  of  her  life  she  spent  with 
her  children,  dying  in  1896,  at  the  age  of  eighty- 
five. 

At  the  time  of  his  father's  death  our  subject  was 
fourteen  years  of  age.  The  next  year  he  began 
to  work  in  a  sawmill,  where  two  of  his  brothers 


also  were  employed.  After  three  years  he  began 
to  work  as  a  farm  hand,  remaining,  however, 
with  the  same  employers  as  before.  At  the  age 
of  twenty-one  he  became  hostler  and  coachman 
for  his  employers,  who  owned  three  large  saw- 
mills, three  large  flour  mills  and  extensive  farm- 
ing interests.  After  some  five  years  at  that  work, 
he  emigrated  to  the  United  States  on  the  sail 
boat  "Argonaut,"  from  Christiana,  Norway, 
April  19,  1869,  and  arrived  in  Quebec,  June  19. 
From  that  city  he  went  direct  to  Carroll  County, 
111.  He  had  borrowed  the  money  to  come  on, 
but  was  soon  able  to  pay  oS"  the  debt.  After  some 
five  months  spent  in  Illinois  at  farm  work,  he 
came  to  Colorado,  arriving  in  Denver,  December 
15,  1869.  Going  to  the  mountains,  he  spent  two 
weeks  in  the  mines,  after  which  he  secured  em- 
ployment on  a  farm  in  the  valley.  A  few  months 
later  he  began  driving  a  coach  for  a  hotel  man  in 
Golden,  in  which  position  he  was  employed  fif- 
teen months.  Returning  to  Denver,  he  worked 
in  a  planing  mill  in  that  city  for  five  years  and 
three  months.  While  in  that  position  he  pur- 
chased eighty  acres  of  land  near  Longraont, 
and  has  resided  here  since  1877. 

While  in  Denver,  in  1874,  Mr.  Bailer  was 
united  in  marriage  with  Miss  Sophia  Larson. 
They  became  the  parents  of  five  children,  four  of 
whom  are  now  living,  namely:  Mathilda,  Char- 
lotte, John  Frederick  and  Albert.  The  family 
are  identified  with  the  Lutheran  Church,  Mr. 
Bailer  in  this  respect  following  the  religious  be- 
lief of  his  forefathers.  In  political  views  he  is 
stanch  in  his  support  of  Republican  doctrines. 


pGjlLLIAM  D.  ARNOLD,  for  four  years  one 
lAl  of '^^^  bo^^'^  of  selectmen  of  Georgetown, 
Y  Y  Clear  Creek  County,  has  made  his  home 
in  this  place  ever  since  Colorado  was  admitted  to 
the  Union,  in  1876.  In  everything  relating  to 
the  development  of  the  town  or  the  increasing  of 
its  prosperity  he  has  been  deeply  concerned,  do- 
ing his  share  towards  the  general  welfare.  He  is 
past  grand  of  the  local  lodge  of  Odd  Fellows  here 
and  enjoys  the  honor  of  being  past  grand  of  the 
grand  lodge  of  the  state.  Besides  this,  he  is  ex- 
representative  and  past  oflScer  of  the  encamp- 
ment, and  belongs  to  the  Daughters  of  Rebekah 
Lodge.  In  politics  he  is  an  adherent  of  the  silver 
party. 


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A  native  of  Pennsylvania,  Mr.  Arnold  was 
born  February  26,  1854,  and  reared  to  manhood 
in  Luzerne  County.  His  education  was  chiefly 
acquired  in  the  towns  of  White  Haven  and  Fair- 
mount,  Pa.  In  his  early  manhood  he  was  en- 
gaged in  the  lumber  business  in  his  native  state, 
but  since  September,  1876,  when  he  landed  in 
Colorado,  he  has  devoted  himself  exclusively  to 
mining  operations.  Beginning  at  the  bottom 
round  of  the  ladder  leading  to  success  he  pros- 
pected and  at  last  discovered  both  the  Harold  and 
Marguerite  mines,  later  developing  them.  In  1884 
he  became  superintendent  of  the  Columbia  Tun- 
nel and  Mining  Company,  which  is  not  active  at 
present,  though  a  general  supervision  of  the 
property  is  kept  up  bj'  Mr.  Arnold.  Afterwards 
he  was  connected  with  Alande  mine  No.  2,  suc- 
ceeded bj'  Alande  consolidated,  and  he  is  now 
operating  the  Smuggler,  one  of  the  most  success- 
ful and  paying  mines  of  this  region. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Arnold  took  place  in 
Georgetown  July  30,  1895,  when  Miss  Charlotte 
Johnson,  a  native  of  Sweden,  became  his  wife. 
The  parents  of  our  subject  are  Hiram  and  "Mary 
A.  (Dunbar)  Arnold,  natives  of  Luzerne  and 
Lehigh  Counties,  Pa.,  respectively.  The  father 
was  a  contractor  and  builder  in  White  Haven, 
Pa.,  for  many  years  and  about  1879  came  to 
Georgetown.  The  next  year  he  located  in  Lead- 
ville,  where  he  resided  until  his  death,  in  1887. 
The  mother  now  makes  her  home  in  Georgetown, 
where  several  of  her  children  reside.  James  died 
in  this  city,  and  Samuel  is  a  merchant  here. 
Three  daughters,  Mrs.  Sarah  J.  Walters,  Mrs. 
Clara  V.  Catren  and  Mrs.  Minnie  Thompson,  live 
here  also.  Mrs.  Martha  E.  Forester  and  Mrs. 
Lillie  Hollingshead  reside  in  Leadville. 

The  paternal  grandfather  of  our  subject,  Abra- 
ham Arnold,  was  born  in  the  Connecticut  Valley, 
and  was  an  early  settler  in  the  Wyoming  Valley, 
Pa.,  where  he  passed  the  remainder  of  his  days. 
His  father  was  a  soldier  of  the  Revolution,  enlist- 
ing from  his  native  state,  Connecticut.  Subse- 
quently he  took  his  family  to  the  Wyoming  Valley, 
and  settled  on  the  Susquehanna  River,  about  ten 
miles  below  Wilkesbarre,  near  the  present  town 
of  Nanticoke.  At  the  time  of  the  dreadful  Wyo- 
ming massacre  his  family  took  refuge  in  the  old 
Fort  Wilkesbarre  block-house.  The  maternal 
grandparents  of  our  subject  were  Samuel  and 
Mollie  (Ross)  Dunbar.     The  former,  who  was  a 


hero  of  the  war  of  18 12,  was  a  contractor  and 
builder  of  iron  furnaces  and  at  one  time  owned 
the  present  site  of  the  town  of  Slatington,  Pa. 


MEORGE  W.  BRIGGS,  whose  home  is  situ- 
\fm  ated  on  section  35,  township  6,  range  67  west, 
Vj  Weld  County  (about  five  miles  southeast  of 
New  Windsor),  is  one  of  the  pioneers  of  Colo- 
rado and  California,  and  his  life  is  replete  with 
interest.  A  native  of  Columbus,  Ohio,  born 
May  20,  1834,  he  is  a  sou  of  Henry  and  Sarah 
(Chambers)  Briggs,  who  were  from  New  York 
state,  the  former  a  farmer  by  occupation.  In 
1850  our  subject  and  his  father  started  for  the 
gold  fields  of  California,  making  the  long  four- 
months'  journey  across  the  plains  from  St.  Jo- 
seph, Mo.,  by  teams.  They  finally  settled  in 
Sacramento  and  carried  on  a  grocery  and  restau- 
rant until,  the  father's  health  failing,  they  came 
home  by  way  of  the  Isthmus  of  Panama,  and  up 
the  Mississippi  River.  The  father  lived  only 
eleven  days  after  his  arrival  at  home. 

For  a  few  years  young  Briggs  worked  on  farms 
and  once  went'to  New  York,  assisting  in  driving 
a  herd  of  cattle  to  the  metropolis.  In  1855  he 
went  to  Henderson  County,  111.,  where  he  found 
employment,  and  thence  he  proceeded  to  Clark 
County,  Iowa.  Remaining  there  for  a  year  or  so, 
he  then  drifted  to  Dakota  County,  Neb.,  and  in 
1858,  when  gold  was  discovered  on  Cherry  Creek, 
Colo. ,  he  and  George  Williamson  fitted  out  an 
ox-team  and  came  west,  arriving  at  their  destina- 
tion about  November  i .  He  erected  a  cabin  on 
the  Big  Thompson  River,  about  eight  miles  from 
New  Windsor,  and  in  December  went  to  Boulder 
with  the  members  of  his  company,  now  increased 
in  number  to  about  fifty  persons.  Going  into 
camp  there,  they  were  the  first  settlers  of  the 
town,  and  during  that  winter  built  eight  or  ten 
cabins.  In  February,  1859,  Boulder  was  organ- 
ized and  laid  out  in  lots.  Each  citizen  received 
seven  lots  and,  being  required  to  put  up  a  house 
on  his  land,  had  to  build  it  of  logs,  as  there  was 
no  lumber  to  be  obtained. 

Gold  was  found  at  Gold  Run,  eight  miles  west 
of  Boulder,  and  the  members  of  the  colony  located 
claims  there,  Mr.  Briggs  having  an  interest  in 
two  such.  He  worked  for  different  parties  in  the 
mines,  at  rates  ranging  from  seventy- five  cents  to 
$2  a  day,  for  a  year  or  more.     During  this  time  he 


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went  to  Blue  River  and  California  Gulch  and  the 
Horsefall  mines,  but  was  not  very  successful. 
In  the  fall  of  i860  he  and  John  GriflRn  went  to 
New  Mexico,  and  early  the  next  spring  went  to 
Baker's  Park,  in  the  San  Juan  Mountains. 
There  he  prospected  for  seven  months,  but  at  last 
returned  to  Colorado,  and  worked  for  wages  in 
California  Gulch.  In  November,  1862,  he  took 
charge  of  a  farm  belonging  to  a  Mr.  Brookfield, 
while  the  latter  and  his  family  were  absent  on  a 
trip  to  Nebraska  City.  By  the  first  of  the  year, 
when  they  returned,  Mr.  Griggs  concluded  to 
abandon  mining,  as  he  had  faithfully  tried  the 
business  and  had  not  succeeded.  He  went  to 
Taylor  County,  Iowa,  and  bought  twenty-seven 
cows  and  a  pony  and  drove  them  across  the 
plains.  He  arrived  with  them  in  Boulder  in  July, 
and,  as  he  had  lost  his  property  there,  by  a  re- 
"  organization  of  the  town,  and  new  laws  regarding 
lots,  he  ranged  his  cattle  on  the  prairie,  keeping 
watch  over  them  while  he  worked  for  farmers. 
The  following  winter  was  an  unusually  hard  one, 
snow  falling  in  November,  and  he  removed  his 
herd  to  the  Cache  la  Poudre  and  then  to  a  point 
north  of  Fort  Collins. 

In  1864  Mr.  Briggs  took  up  one  hundred  and 
sixty  acres  of  land  two  miles  south  of  the  present 
town  of  Windsor.  He  lived  upon  the  place  four 
years,  in  the  meantime  making  his  principal  busi- 
ness the  grazing  and  care  of  his  live  stock.  Then 
he  sold  his  farm  for  $1,000,  and  in  the  year  1867 
homesteaded  another  quarter-section  of  land,  his 
present  farm.  Prairie-dogs  and  cacti  were  then 
the  only  products  of  the  property.  Antelopes 
were  very  plentiful  and  could  easily  be  killed. 
In  the  winter  of  1871-72  our  subject  had  over 
three  hundred  head  of  cattle  and  lost  seventy- 
odd'.  In  1875  he  sold  his  herd  of  two  hundred 
and  twenty-two  cattle  for  $5,140,  A.  N.  Whit- 
comb,  of  Cheyenne,  being  the  purchaser.  He 
was  a  contractor  who  furnished  supplies  to  the 
government  for  the  Indian  agencies.  In  1876 
Mr.  Briggs  very  unfortunately  loaned  $5,000 
to  the  firm  of  West  &  Buckingham,  the  first 
bankers  of  Greeley.  This  banking  house  changed 
hands  several  times  and  finally  failed,  and  our 
subject  lost  all  but  $700  of  the  sum  he  had 
placed  in  their  hands.  That  small  amount  he 
had  luckily  drawn  out,  in  order  to  invest 
$1,000  in  the  Greeley  National  Bank,  or  he 
would   have  been  just  that  much   the  poorer. 


In  spite  of  the  numerous  losses  and  reverses 
which  he  has  encountered  he  has  kept  a  brave 
heart  and  is  well-to-do;  From  time  to  time  he 
bought  land  near  his  first  farm,  until  he  now 
owns  four  hundred  acres,  all  fenced  and  improved. 
During  the  past  five  years  he  has  raised  horses 
and  been  quite  successful  in  the  enterprise.  For  ' 
a  year  or  more  he  has  leased  his  farm,  and  has 
made 'his  home  in  New  Windsor.  He  is  a  Repub- 
lican and  is  a  member  of  Windsor  Lodge  No.  69, 
A.  F.  &  A.  M.  He  is  a  stockholder  and  vice- 
president  of  the  Windsor  Mercantile  Company, 
a  very  successful  corporation.  Through  diSicul- 
ties  innumerable  he  has  worked  his  way,  and  is 
entitled  to  great  credit  for  the  manly  struggle  he 
has  made  in  the  battle  of  life. 

September  9,  1869,  Mr.  Briggs  married  Emily, 
daughter  of  George  Gutches,  who  was  born  in 
the  same  section  of  Ohio  as  was  our  subject.  To 
the  home  of  Mr.  Gutches  the  young  man  went 
when  he  started  out  for  Iowa,  a  few  years  after 
his  return  from  the  Pacific  slope.  Frank,  the 
only  son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Briggs,  owns  stock  in, 
and  is  a  salesman  for,  the  Windsor  Mercantile 
Company.  Minnie  O.,  the  only  daughter,  is  the 
wife  of  Elmer  Moore,  of  Spokane  Falls,  Wash.     . 


0AVID  BARNES,  a  farmer  and  stock-raiser 
residing  on  the  Greeley  road,  near  Love- 
land,  Larimer  County,  was  born  at  Rock 
Island,  111.,  in  1858,  and  is  a  son  of  David  Barnes, 
Sr.,  a  pioneer  of  Colorado.  His  father,  who  was 
a  native  of  Pennsylvania,  settled  at  Russell  Gulch 
in  1861,  after  having  made  the  long  trip  across 
the  plains.  In  a  short  time,  pleased  with  pros- 
pects in  the  then  territory,  he  returned  east  and 
brought  his  family  with  him  to  his  new  home. 
After  a  few  years  he  built  a  flour  mill  on  Bear 
Creek,  and  this  he  operated  for  several  years,  but 
finally  moved  the  mill  to  Golden,  continuing  its 
management  there  until  1878.  On  selling  out 
he  came  to  Loveland  and  bought  a  tract  of  railroad 
land,  included  within  which  is  the  site  of  the 
present  town  of  Loveland.  He  did  much  toward 
laying  out  the  town,  and  imported  two  carloads 
of  shade  trees  from  the  neighborhood  of  Denver. 
Here  he  successfully  engaged  in  farming  and 
cattle-rai.sing.  He  was  a  man  of  upright  charac- 
ter, possessing,  too,  the  courage,  physical  strength 
and  powers  of  endurance  .so  necessary  to  those 


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who  would  be  pioneers.  He  kept  posted  con- 
cerning public  affairs  and  voted  the  Democratic 
ticket  in  both  local  and  national  elections.  His 
death  occurred  February  14,  1886,  when  he  was 
sixty-five  years  of  age.  He  is  remembered  by 
those  who  knew  him  personally  as  a  man  of  gen- 
erous impulses,  whole-souled  and  open-hearted, 
possessing  the  traits  of  character  that  won  for 
him  the  respect  of  people  in  his  locality.  ■  As  a 
man  whose  energies  were  devoted  to  the  develop- 
ment of  the  agricultural  resources  of  Larimer 
County  his  name  well  deserves  mention  in  this 
work. 

The  mother  of  our  subject,  who  was  in  maiden- 
hood Sarah  Coleman,  is  now  living  at  Loveland, 
Colo.  To  David  Barnes  and  wife  eight  children 
were  born.  Of  these  Edward  died  in  Illinois  at 
four  years  of  age.  Those  living  are  as  follows: 
Caroline,  wife  of  A.  I.  Derby,  a  farmer  and  stock- 
raiser  of  Larimer  County;  Samuel,  engaged  in 
mining  and  a  resident  of  Eoveland;  Elizabeth, 
wife  of  Jerry  Quigley,  a  fruit  farmer  one  mile  east 
of  Loveland;  Sarah,  wife  of  William  P.  Ogden, 
the  oldest  passenger  conductor  on  the  Union 
Pacific  road;  David  and  Lena  (twins),  the  latter 
.the  wife  of  A.  H.  GifFord,  residing  on  a  fruit 
farm  near  Loveland;  and  Alice  Maud,  wife  of 
Abe  LaFevre,  a  cattle  ranchman  in  the  mountain 
districts  of  Larimer  County. 

Our  subject  was  four  years  of  age  when  he  was 
brought  to  Colorado  by  his  parents.  When  a 
boy  he  attended  school  at  Golden.  In  1875  he 
began  farming  on  the  Big  Thompson  with  his 
father,  and  continued  in  the  same  place  until  1886, 
when  he  purchased  his  present  property  and  has 
since  engaged  in  raising  farm  cereals  and  cattle. 
Like  his  father,  he  is  a  stanch  Democrat  and 
takes  an  interest  in  public  affairs.  He  is  con- 
nected with  the  Knights  of  Pythias  and  contrib- 
utes to  the  support  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church,  though  not  a  member  thereof  In  1885 
he  was  united  in  marriage  with  Miss  Lulu 
Alkire,  of  this  county. 


(TAMES  H.  BRINKERHUFF,  a  successful 
I  farmer  and  stock-raiser  of  Jefferson  County, 
G)  was  born  in  Wayne  County,  Ohio,  February 
12,  1854,  and  is  the  son  of  James  W.  and  Isabelle 
A.  (Slater)  Brinkerhufi".  He  was  one  of  six 
children,  three   of    whom    are   living,    namely: 


Rebecca,  wife  of  J.  Shank,  who  lives  in  Denver, 
Colo.;  Samuel  C,  a  farmer  residing  near  Long- 
mont,  Colo.;  and  James  H.  The  father,  who 
was  born  in  Lancaster  County,  Pa.,  in  1811, 
learned  the  trade  of  moulder  in  youth,  and  in 
early  manhood  married  Miss  Mary  Crumbly. 
Of  their  five  children  two  now  survive:  George 
C,  who  is  employed  in  the  smelter  in  Argo, 
Colo.;  and  Adeline,  wife  of  E.  L.  Pearson,  a 
farmer  of  Cass  County,  Iowa. 

After  the  death  of  his  first  wife,  James  W. 
Brinkerhuff  moved  from  Pennsylvania  to  Wayne 
County,  Ohio,  where  he  worked  at  his  trade  in  the 
Coulter  Iron  Foundry,  of  Wooster,  for  a  number 
of  years.  On  leaving  that  position  he  engaged 
in  the  grocery  business.  In  1855  he  removed  to 
Iowa  and  settled  in  Cass  County,  where  he  took 
charge  of  the  Nipper  ranch.  After  a  time  he 
took  up  one  hundred  and  twenty  acres  for  him- 
self, and  there  he  engaged  in  cultivating  the  land. 
Selling  this  property  in  1866,  he  started  west, 
and  with  two  teams  crossed  the  plains  to  Colo- 
rado, he  driving  one  team,  while  our  subject,  then 
a  boy  of  twelve,  drove  the  other.  On  the  way 
they  saw  many  indications  of  depredations  com- 
mitted by  the  Indians.  People  in  front  of  them 
and  some  behind  were  killed,  and  they  them- 
selves were  momentarily  in  expectation  of  an  at- 
tack, in  preparation  for  which  they  three  times 
corralled  their  stock,  but  fortunately  e.scaped  an 
attack. 

Arriving  at  Clear  Creek,  some  nine  miles  west 
of  Denver,  October  17,  1866,  the  subject  of  this 
sketch  secured  employment  on  a  farm,  as  did  his 
father  also,  but  the  latter,  in  the  spring  of  1867, 
began  to  operate  a  rented  farm  and  in  1872  pur- 
chased a  place  known  as  the  Titus  farm,  on  Ral- 
ston Creek,  where  he  remained  until  his  death, 
which  occurred  in  1874.  He  was  a  man  of  force 
of  character  and  great  perseverance,  and,  though 
he  never  became  wealthy,  yet  he  was  enabled  to 
provide  the  comforts  of  life  for  his  familj\ 

At  the  age  of  twenty  our  subject  secured 
work  in  the  Boston  Colorado  Smelting  works  at 
Blackhawk,  where  he  remained  from  November, 
1874,  to  December,  1876.  Then,  with  the  money 
he  had  meanwhile  saved,  he  purchased  teams 
and  engaged  in  hauling  wood  to  the  smelting 
works.  Later  he  hauled  coal.  In  the  spring  of 
1877,  with  his  brother,  he  rented  the  homestead 
from  his  mother  and  for  two  seasons  engaged  in 


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cultivating  that  place.  In  1879  he  went  to  Den- 
ver, and  with  William  I,ee  purchased  a  livery, 
feed  and  sale  stable,  but  two  months  after  buying 
the  business  they  sold  it  at  a  profit,  and  he  then 
rented  a  farm,  which  he  operated  one  year.  In 
1877-78  he  engaged  in  farming  in  partnership 
with  another  gentleman,  but  the  venture  was  un- 
profitable, and  the  fall  of  1878  found  him  with 
$1 ,400  less  than  nothing.  In  spite  of  discourage- 
ments, however,  he  worked  bravely,  and  in  time 
placed  his  finance  upon  a  solid  footing.  In  1881 
he  rented  the  two  farms  of  I^.  A.  and  A.  L,.  Law- 
rence, and  remained  there  until  1885,  when  he 
sold  his  stock  and  crop  to  A.  L,.  Lawrence.  In 
1886-87  ^is  farmed  land  belonging  to  William 
Allen,  and  afterward  cultivated  the  Cook  farm. 
In  1889  he  rented  the  farm  owned  by  Laura  A. 
Hyatt  and  carried  on  the  two  places  in  conjunc- 
tion until  1892,  when  he  removed  his  family  from 
the  Cook  homestead  to  the  Hyatt  place,  since 
which  time  he  has  given  his  entire  attention  to 
cultivating  this  estate.  For  some  years,  during 
the  threshing  season,  he  worked  for  William  M. 
Graves,  but  of  late  years  he  has  engaged  in  buy- 
ing stock  and  fattening  them  for  the  market. 

In  politics  Mr.  BrinkerhufFis  a  Democrat.  For 
two  years  he  acted  as  deputy  sheriff  under  John 
A.  Hoagland.  Fraternally  he  is  connected  with 
the  Woodmen  of  the  World  and  Golden  Lodge 
No.  13,  I.  O.  O.  F.  September  14,  1879,  he 
married  Miss  Lillian  Cook,  and  three  children 
were  born  of  their  union:  Emma,  Ollie  and  Guy. 


iA  ISS  CATHERINE  ENNIS  is  one  of  the 
y  be.st-known  ladies  of  Georgetown  and 
(S  Clear  Creek  County,  as  for  a  quarter  of  a 
century  she  has  been  at  the  head  of  affairs  at  the 
Ennis  House  and  for  much  of  this  period  has  been 
the  sole  proprietor  of  this  popular  hostelry.  The 
hotel  is  centrally  located,  being  at  the  corner  of 
Fifth  and  Taos  streets.  The  rooms  are  large, 
airy,  and  well  furnished,  and  everything  about 
the  premises  bespeaks  the  constant,  watchful  at- 
tention to  details  that  no  one  knows  better  how 
to  bestow  than  a  woman.  The  patronage  of  the 
hotel  is  noticeably  large,  particularly  during  the 
summer  season,  at  which  time  its  capacity  is 
taxed  to  the  utmost,  and  numerous  additional 
cottages  near  are  pressed  into  service  for  the 
accommodation  of  guests.     The  latter  are  princi- 


pally fitted  up  for  families  or  parties  who  desire 
separate  lodgings,  while  at  the  same  time  they 
may  take  their  meals  and  have  all  the  further  ad- 
vantages of  the  hotel.  A  fine  table-service  is  one 
of  the  features  of  the  house  and  everything  to  be 
found  in  the  market,  near  and  far,  is  levied  upon 
for  the  benefit  of  patrons. 

The  Ennis  family  is  from  Ireland,  and  both  the 
grandfather,  George  Ennis,  and  the  father  of  our 
subject,  James  Ennis,  were  natives  of  the  town  of 
Wexford.  The  latter  left  his  native  land  and  the 
friends  of  his  youth  when  he  was  eighteen  years 
of  age,  and,  coming  to  this  continent,  took  up  his 
abode  in  St.  Johns,  New  Brunswick.  There  he 
was  industriously  occupied  in  farming  as  long  as 
he  lived.  His  busy  career  was  terminated  by 
death  in  1861,  when  he  was  in  his  fifty-third 
year.  His  wife,  Barbara,  was  a  daughter  of 
William  Burns,  who,  with  his  family,  removed  to 
St.  Johns,  New  Brunswick,  from  their  native 
land,  Firmaugh  County,  Ireland,  Mrs.  Ennis  be- 
ing then  thirteen  years  of  age.  Mr.  Burns  owned 
and  managed  a  farm  in  St.  Johns  up  to  his  death, 
when  he  was  seventy-two  years  old.  Mrs.  Ennis 
came  to  Colorado  late  in  life  and  made  her  home 
with  the  lady  whose  name  heads  this  article  un- 
til she  was  called  to  the  silent  land,  when  in  her 
seventy-fourth  year. 

Miss  Catherine  Ennis  is  the  eldest  in  a  family 
which  originally  comprised  twelve  children. 
She  has  always  exercised  the  love  and  care  of  an 
elder  sister  toward  all  her  brothers  and  sisters, 
and  the  four  younger  ones  still  make  their  home 
with  her  much  of  the  time.  George,  the  eldest 
brother,  was  the  first  of  the  family  to  settle  in 
this  state.  He  reached  Central  City  September 
14,  1865,  and  soon  afterwards  found  himself  in 
Georgetown.  Here  his  brother  Thomas  joined 
him  soon  afterwards,  and  together  they  built  the 
Ennis  House.  November  26,  1872,  Miss  Cath- 
erine Ennis  came  to  Colorado  from  Philadelphia, 
Pa.,  where  she  had  been  living  for  four  years. 
In  February,  1873,  she  took  charge  of  the  hotel, 
and  has  managed  it  ever  since.  In  1884,  when 
Thomas  Ennis  went  to  Middle  Park,  where  he 
owns  a  large  ranch,  and  carries  on  an  extensive 
business  in  cattle,  he  gave  her  the  hotel.  George 
Ennis  is  now  living  in  Mexico.  Both  he  and 
Thomas  were  soldiers  in  the  Union  army  during 
the  Civil  war,  George  being  in  the  quarter- 
master's   department.      William    was  drowned 


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when  in  his  twenty-second  year,  in  New  Bruns- 
wick. John  died  in  Georgetown,  as  the  result 
of  an  accident  from  a  runaway  team,  he  being 
forty-four  years  old  at  the  time  of  his  demise. 
James  and  Richard  died  when  young.  Nicholas, 
Robert  and  James  (the  second  of  the  name)  are 
engaged  in  mining  enterprises  near  Georgetown. 
Mrs.  Jane  Keating  died  in  Portland,  Me.;  and 
Annie,  unmarried,  lives  with  Miss  Ennis.  The 
latter  was  born  in  St.  Johns,  New  Brunswick,  and 
there  grew  to  womanhood.  She  is  a  lady  who  is 
universally  admired  and  liked,  and  her  well-wish- 
ers are  legion.  Her  friends  are  not  limited  to  her 
acquaintances  in  Georgetown  circles,  but  in- 
clude many  others,  from  neighboring  towns  and 
more  distant  places. 


^OHN  H.  lyUNDY,  the  popular  treasurer  of 
I  Elbert  County,  having  been  elected  to  that 
Q)  office  in  1897,  is  now  serving  his  fourth  term 
in  that  capacity,  the  duties  of  which  office  are 
performed  in  such  a  manner  as  to  gain  the  confi- 
dence and  esteem  of  the  citizens  of  the  county. 
He  is  also  engaged  in  agricultural  pursuits  and 
stock-raising,  and  is  proprietor  of  a  fine  farm  locat- 
ed on  section  27,  townships,  range 63  west.  He 
was  born  in  Belfast,  Ireland,  December  16,  1845, 
and  is  a  son  of  Henry  and  Sarah  (Carlin)  Lundy. 
John  H.  IvUndy  was  about  three  years  of  age 
when  his  parents  left  their  native  land  and  emi- 
grated to  the  United  States,  locating  in  Paw- 
tucket,  R.  I.,  where  they  purchased  a  little  home 
and  spent  the  rest  of  their  lives.  Our  subject,  at 
twelve  years,  began  to  work  on  a  farm  during 
the  summer  months,  and  the  winters  were  spent 
attending  the  district  school.  This  mode  of  life 
was  continued  for  four  years,  when,  in  the  spring 
of  1862,  he  enlisted  as  a  private  in  Company  A, 
Ninth  Rhode  Island  Volunteer  Infantry.  Shortly 
after  the  second  battle  of  Bull  Run  he  was  taken 
sick  with  chronic  diarrhoea  and  was  soon  after- 
ward discharged.  Returning  to  his  home  in 
Rhode  Island,  he  began  to  learn  the  trade  of  a 
blacksmith,  but  did  not  follow  that  occupation 
long,  as  in  1865  he  started  for  Colorado.  From 
St.  Joe,  Mo.,  he  drove  an  ox- team  to  Denver, 
arriving  there  in  August  of  that  year.  He  began 
working  in  the  mines  at  Russell  Gulch,  and 
when  they  were  closed  in  the  fall,  he  went  to 
South  Boulder,  where  he  spent  the  winter.     In 


April  of  the  following  year  he  came  to  Elbert 
County  and  for  two  years  he  worked  in  a  saw- 
mill near  Running  Creek.  The  next  few  years 
were  spent  engaged  in  farming,  having  rented 
a  farm  near  Kiowa  Creek.  He  then  went  to 
California  Gulch,  now  Leadville,  taking  with 
him  three  mules,  and  worked  at  setting  out  ties. 
This  business  was  not  followed  long,  and  he 
sold  his  mules  to  a  contractor  there,  taking  his 
note,  which  he  still  holds,  as  the  contractor 
shortly  afterward  failed.  He  returned  to  Elbert 
County  and  worked  in  a  sawmill  for  about  a 
year,  and  then  took  up  a  tract  of  land  consisting 
of  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres,  located  along 
the  Comanche  Creek.  Farming  and  stock-raising 
have  been  his  principal  occupations,  in  which  he 
has  been  very  successful,  and  is  now  the  owner  of 
fourteen  hundred  acres  of  land,  well  stocked 
with  Shorthorn  cattle. 

In  April,  1880,  at  Colorado  Springs,  Mr.  I^undy 
married  Miss  Sarah  King,  a  native  of  Indiana, 
and  this  union  has  been  blessed  by  the  birth  of 
five  children,  named  as  follows:  Eddie,  Harry, 
Ella,  George  and  Glenn.  Politically  our  sub- 
ject is  a  firm  supporter  of  the  Democratic  party, 
and  in  1873  he  was  elected  sheriff,  serving  two 
consecutive  terms;  and  was  elected  treasurer  of 
Elbert  County  in  1883-8595  and  97.  He  has 
also  been  delegated  to  county  and  state  con- 
ventions several  times.  He  is  a,  member  of  Elbert 
Lodge  No.  85,  I.  O.  O.  F. 


EG.  BARCLAY,  a  prosperous  and  enterpris- 
ing citizen  of  Parker,  Douglas  County,  is 
the  proprietor  of  a  general  merchandise  store 
at  that  point.  He  is  a  son  of  Dr.  William  D.  and 
Mary  (Murray)  Barclay,  and  was  born  in  Cedar 
Rapids,  Iowa,  August  21,  1861.  Dr.  Barclay 
was  of  Scotch  nationality,  and  came  to  America 
when  a  young  man,  immediately  thereafter  enter- 
ing a  medical  college  in  Philadelphia,  Pa.  Upon 
the  completion  of  his  course  he  went  west  as  far 
as  Iowa  and  practiced  in  a  number  of  cities  in 
that  state,  among  them  being  Cedar  Rapids,  where 
he  lived  for  several  years.  He  then  returned  to 
Pennsylvania,  and  upon  the  outbreak  of  the  Civil 
war  he  offered  his  services  as  a  surgeon,  and 
served  under  General  Grant  throughout  the  war. 
Upon  its  close  he  returned  to  Philadelphia  and 
there  resided  during  the  remainder  of  his  life. 


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He  married  Mary  Murray,  a  native  of  Pennsyl- 
vania and  a  descendant  of  a  well-known  family. 

C.  G.  Barclay  returned  to  his  native  state  at 
the  age  of  thirteen  years  and  was  engaged  as  a 
clerk  in  different  .stores  at  Muscatine  and  Daven- 
port for  four  years.  He  then  went  to  St.  Louis, 
Mo.,  where  he  clerked  for  a  time,  and  later  be- 
came a  traveling  salesman  for  Dr.  J.  H.  McLean, 
of  St.  Louis,  Mo. ,  continuing  with  him  for  a  few 
years,  when  he  entered  the  employ  of  the  Boone 
Tobacco  Company  of  that  city.  One  year  later, 
in  1886,  he  moved  to  Colorado,  and  was  employed 
as  a  clerk  in  the  grocery  house  of  M.  E.  Dodge, 
at  Denver,  and  subsequently  at  Littleton,  for  a 
period  of  about  eight  years,  gaining  a  wide  expe- 
rience as  to  the  manner  in  which  the  mercantile 
business  should  properly  be  carried  on.  In  1898 
he  located  at  Parker  and  established  a  neat  and 
well-stocked  general  merchandise  store,  which  is 
patronized  by  the  leading  citizens  in  that  section 
of  Douglas  County.  Since  making  the  latter 
town  his  home  he  has  gained  a  large  circle  of 
friends  and  well-wishers  for  his  future  happiness 
and  prosperity. 

Mr.  Barclay,  like  his  father,  is  a  stanch  Demo- 
crat; he  cast  his  first  vote  in  support  of  Grover 
Cleveland.  In  1897  he  was  called  upon  to  serve 
as  mayor  of  Littleton,  and  discharged  the  duties 
of  that  office  to  the  satisfaction  of  his  constituents. 
He  is  a  member  of  Weston  Lodge  No.  22,  A.  F. 
&  A.  M.,  of  Littleton,  of  which  he  served  as 
junior  warden  and  acting  master  for  a  time. 


WILLIAM  EDWARDS.  Twenty  years  ago 
this  well  and  favorably  esteemed  citizen  of 
Idaho  Springs,  Clear  Creek  County,  came 
to  Colorado.  During  this  period  he  has  been  act- 
ively occupied  in  mining  and  prospecting  and  has 
been  blessed  with  more  than  an  ordinary  amount 
of  success  in  his  undertakings.  For  one  term 
he  served  as  a  member  of  the  board  of  aldermen, 
and  he  has  always  stood  stalwartly  by  the  Re- 
publican party,  though  he  has  never  been  a  poli- 
tician, in  any  sen.se  of  the  word.  All  public 
measures  having  for  their  object  the  good  of  the 
community  receive  his  hearty  co-operation  and 
endorsement  and  he  is  safely  counted  upon  to 
promote  causes  of  right,  law  and  good  govern- 
ment. 
The  Edwards  family  to  which  our  subject  be- 


longs is  a  very  old  and  respected  one  in  Cardi- 
ganshire, Wales.  His  grandfather,  John  Ed- 
wards, and  his  father,  William  Edwards,  were 
both  natives  of  the  town  of  Aberestwith,  South 
Wales,  and  were  miners  by  occupation.  The 
mother  of  our  subject  bore  the  maiden  name 
of  Elizabeth  Vaughan.  Her  father,  Jenkins 
Vaughan,  was  born  in  Wales,  but  was  of  Scotch 
ancestry.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  Edwards  both 
passed  their  entire  lives  in  Wales,  and  died  some 
years  ago.  Of  their  large  family,  numbering 
twelve  children,  all  but  two  have  been  called  to 
the  silent  land.  Jenkin  and  William  are  resi- 
dents of  Idaho  Springs. 

The  birth  of  William  Edwards  of  this  sketch 
took  place  in  1839  in  Aberestwith,  Wales.  He 
was  but  ten  years  old  when  he  began  working  in 
the  mines,  though  at  intervals  he  attended  the 
public  or  private  schools.  In  1857  he  went  away 
from  home  to  the  northern  part  of  Wales,  and 
took  a  position  in  a  stamp-mill,  where  gold-bear- 
ing ore  was  handled.  In  1870  he  came  across 
the  ocean,  and  locating  in  Wilkesbarre,  Pa.,  en- 
gaged in  contracting,  sinking  shafts,  and  similar 
work.  Seven  years  later  he  came  to  Colorado, 
and  going  to  Freeland,  began  working  as  timber- 
man  in  the  mines  owned  by  John  M.  Dumont. 
Subsequently  he  embarked  in  mining  on  his 
own  account,  and  has  been  prospered  in  his  en- 
deavors. He  has  mined  and  prospected  in  both 
Summit  and  Clear  Creek  Counties  and  has  dis- 
covered and  developed  many  valuable  properties. 
He  located  the  Cardigan  mine;  located,  worked 
and  owned  the  Monte  Cristo  group  on  Spanish 
bar;  helped  develop  the  Salisbury  and  owns  a 
part  interest  in  the  Bellevue-Hudson  in  Lawson 
and  the  Silver  Link  in  Freeland  and,  in  partner- 
ship with  his  wife,  owns  the  Stanton  mine  on 
Spani-sh  bar.  The  Monte  Cristo,  a  very  success- 
ful enterprise,  was  sold  by  him,  a  few  years  ago, 
to  the  Quaker  Mining  Company,  which  is  still 
operating  it. 

In  1883  Mr.  Edwards  built  a  pleasant  and  com- 
fortable home  on  Colorado  street,  in  Idaho 
Springs.  He  was  married  in  the  northern  part 
of  Wales  to  Miss  Winnifred  Evans,  who  was  born 
in  that  section  of  the  country.  Fraternally  he  is 
associated  with  the  Order  of  Foresters.  Religi- 
ously he  is  a  Presbyterian,  and  for  years  has  been 
a  member  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  the  church 
here,  and  for  a  period  was  president  of  the  same. 


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He  enjoys  an  enviable  reputation  for  square- 
dealing  and  justice  in  all  his  relations  with  his 
fellow-men,  and  is  entitled  to  the  confidence  which 
is  reposed  in  him  by  all  who  know  him. 


(Tames  MADISON  IRELAND  is  a  prosperous 
I  grocer  and  business  man  of  Idaho  Springs, 
(2/  Clear  Creek  County,  his  prosperity  having 
been  secured  after  a  long  struggle  and  only  by 
persistent  effort  and  industry.  He  was  born 
August  22,  1851,  in  Maumee,  Lucas  County, 
Ohio,  the  son  of  Michael  and  Mary  (Housen) 
Ireland.  His  great-grandfather  Ireland  came 
from  Scotland  and  settled  in  Virginia,  and  the 
grandfather  fought  in  the  Revolution  under  Wash- 
ington. 

Michael  Ireland,  a  native  of  Virginia,  came  to 
Ohio  when  a  young  man  and  settled  on  the  banks 
of  the  Maumee  River,  in  Lucas  County.  That 
was  long  before  Toledo  was  thought  of,  its  only 
buildings  being  two  fishermen's  shanties  on  the 
bay.  He  settled  first  on  Swan  Creek,  but  soon 
removed  to  where  South  Toledo  now  stands. 
There  for  many  years  he  farmed,  but  finally  re- 
tired to  Bowling  Green,  Wood  County,  that  .state, 
where  he  is  now  living  in  his  ninety-eighth  year. 
He  was  twice  married,  the  first  marriage  result- 
ing in  three  sons,  who  served  in  the  late  war,  in 
an  Ohio  regiment.  Robert  died  in  Libby  prison; 
Henry  was  taken  sick  in  the  army  and  returned 
home,  where  he  soon  afterward  died;  and  Heze- 
kiah  returned  after  the  close  of  the  war  and 
moved  to  Colorado,  where  he  died.  The  second 
union  was  with  Mary  Housen,  who  was  born  in 
Germany  and  came  with  her  parents  to  this 
country  when  a  child.  The  name  was  formerly 
Eleukhousen,  but  was  contracted  to  Housen  by 
her  father,  who  was  a  sailor  in  his  native  country, 
but  a  farmer  after  moving  to  Ohio.  The  mother 
died  many  years  ago,  leaving  the  following- 
named  children:  Avery,  in  Ohio;  James  M.,  our 
subject;  Edwin  A.,  a  merchant  in  Kansas  City; 
William,  who  was  killed  in  a  mine  in  Idaho 
Springs;  and  Capitola,  now  Mrs.  Townsend,  of 
Denver. 

James  M.  Ireland  spent  his  early  years  in 
Lucas  County,  Ohio,  and  attended  the  district 
schools  and  those  of  Maumee,  until  he  was  seven- 
teen years  of  age.  In  the  year  1868  he  moved  to 
Kansas  and   engaged    in    farming,    twenty-five 


miles  west  of  Atchison,  in  Jackson  County. 
Here  he  bought  land  of  the  railroad  company  in 
the  old  Kickapoo  reservation,  which  he  improved 
and  continued  to  farm  until  February  13,  1874, 
when  he  moved  to  Georgetown,  this  state.  The 
next  day  he  began  prospecting  and  mining,  and 
engaged  in  that  work  for  three  years,  after  which 
he  spent  two  and  a-half  years  prospecting  on  the 
Texas  frontier.  He  then  returned  to  George- 
town and  mined  until  1881,  his  efforts  this  time 
being  attended  with  success.  That  year  he  lo- 
cated in  Idaho  Springs,  bought  his  present  lot 
and  built  a  frame  building  in  which  he  conducted 
his  store  for  many  years.  Later  he  built  the 
commodious  brick  building  which  he  now  occu- 
pies. The  building  is  two  stories  high,  with  a 
basement.  It  is  26x84  feet,  with  a  wing  added 
later,  in  1897,  26x42  feet.  This  wing  contains  a 
heating  plant,  which  serves  also  to  heat  his  resi- 
dence adjoining  the  store.  The  same  year  he 
erected  warehouses  and  stables  across  the  rail- 
road track.  He  does  a  general  produce  and 
grocery  business,  handling  hay,  grain,  coal, 
wood,  lime  and  cement.  He  and  a  partner 
started  a  brick  yard  east  of  town  which  was  later 
incorporated  as  the  Placer  Brick  and  Tile  Com- 
pany. They  manufacture  building  brick  and  he 
has  been  the  president  from  the  start.  He  was  also 
a  prime  mover  in  organizing  the  Idaho  Springs 
Light  and  Power  Company,  o^  which  he  is  di- 
rector. He  has  several  valuable  mines  which  he 
operates  and  which  are  patented. 

Mr.  Ireland  was  married  in  Mankato,  Minn., 
to  Miss  Clara  Leader,  a  native  of  Milwaukee, 
Wis.  They  have  four  children:  Harold,  Warren, 
James  M.,  Jr. ,  and  Grace.  For  two  terms  Mr. 
Ireland  was  a  member  of  the  town  council,  and 
he  was  an  original  member  of  the  chamber  of 
commerce.  He  is  identified  with  the  Independ- 
ent Order  of  Odd  Fellows'  lodge  and  encamp- 
ment, in  both  of  which  he  is  past  oiEcer  and 
ex-representative. 

0  LIVER  FEAY  and  his  estimable  wife  are 
numbered  among  the  pioneers  of  Colorado, 
and  few  of  the  early  settlers  of  the  state  ex- 
perienced greater  hardships  and  dangers.  They 
have  not  only  been  witnesses  of  the  great  changes 
which  have  taken  place  in  the  past  forty  years  in 
the  Centennial  state,  but  have  been  active  and 
earnest  workers  toward  the  grand  result,  and  are 


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entitled  to  proportionate  credit.  They  know 
what  it  means  to  live  in  daily  and  hourly  fear  of 
an  attack  by  a  band  of  hostile  Indians,  and  at 
times  lawless  and  outlawed  desperadoes  were 
even  more  feared  by  them  than  the  redskins. 
Peace  and  plenty  are  now  their  well-deserved 
portion,  and  where  the  wilderness  formerly  was 
now  may  be  seen  beautiful  farms  and  villages. 

Thirty-one  years  ago  Mr.  Feay  took  up  his 
abode  on  the  fine  farm  which  he  still  owns  and 
cultivates.  It  is  situated  six  miles  from  Golden, 
in  Jefferson  County,  and  comprises  three  hundred 
and  twenty  acres'.  The  place  is  well  adapted  for 
general  farming,  and  is  kept  in  fine  condition  by 
the  enterprising  owner.  He  is  a  native  of  Fay- 
ette County,  Pa.,  having  been  born  February  22, 
1838.  He  was  reared  to  maturity  under  his 
father's  roof,  and  received  a  liberal  public- school 
education.  When  he  had  reached  his  majority 
he  left  home  to  make  his  own  way  in  the  world 
thenceforth,  and  wisely  determined  to  seek  his 
fortune  in  the  new  west,  then  claiming  the  atten- 
tion of  this  great  country.  In  July,  1859,  he 
arrived  in  Colorado  and  for  a  short  time  stayed 
at  Ralston 's  Creek.  He  then  repaired  to  the 
mountains  to  seek  the  precious  metals  and  spent 
one  year  in  the  Central  and  Blackhawk  districts, 
while  the  following  year  he  prospected  and  mined 
in  California  Gulch.  His  experience  was  that  of 
many  others  before  and  since — -he  and  his  part- 
ner discovering  many  valuable  silver  lodes  which 
they  believed  to  be  lead  and  discarded  them  ac- 
cordingly. At  last,  feeling  that  he  was  not  des- 
tined to  become  rich  as  a  miner,  Mr.  Feay  turned 
his  energies  to  agriculture.  Settling  on  Ralston' s 
Creek,  he  bought  a  tract  of  land  and  set  to  work 
in  earnest  to  improve  and  cultivate  the  place. 
In  1867  he  removed  to  the  homestead  which  was 
owned  by  the  heirs  of  George  L,.  Strope,  and  in 
1872  he  purchased  one  hundred  and  .sixty  acres 
of  the  farm.  The  other  one  hundred  and  sixty 
acres  is  the  property  of  Mrs.  Feay. 

In  June,  1867,  Mr.  Feay  married  Mrs.  Sarah 
J.  Strope,  widow  of  George  L.  Strope.  By  her 
first  marriage  Mrs.  Feay  had  five  children,  four 
of  whom  are  living.  They  are  as  follows:  Henri- 
etta, wife  of  A.  M.  De  France,  who  is  now  absent 
on  an  expedition  to  the  Klondike;  Andrew  M., 
who  is  employed  in  the  postoffice  department  at 
Denver;  Fannie,  the  deceased  wife  of  Frank 
Morrison,   the  superintendent  of  Church  ditch. 


and  a  resident  of  Golden;  and  Ida  M.,  wife  of 
John  Belcher,  a  private  detective  of  Denver.  To 
the  union  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Feay  one  child  was 
born,  Florence  A.,  whose  husband,  Harvey  R. 
Jones,  is  a  salesman  with  home  and  headquarters 
in  Denver.  Recently  our  subject  and  his  devoted 
wife  have  adopted  and  taken  into  their  home 
their  grandchild,  Viola  S. 

Both  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Feay  have  multitudes  of 
interesting  stories  of  their  pioneer  experiences. 
The  latter  crossed  the  plains  fourteen  times,  and 
on  many  of  these  trips  sat  in  the  stage  with  two 
revolvers  in  her  lap,  ready  to  use  them  at  a  mo- 
ment's notice,  while  in  all  directions  could  be 
seen  from  the  windows  of  the  primitive  vehicle 
the  burning  homes  of  fleeing  pioneers.  It  so 
happened  that  she  made  a  trip  on  the  first  train 
leaving  Julesburg  for  Omaha  on  the  just-com- 
pleted Union  Pacific  Railroad,  and  while  waiting 
for  the  train  witnessed  a  shooting  affray  between 
two  men  who  shot  at  each  other  with  determina- 
tion to  kill.  She  enjoys  the  honor  of  having 
been  the  first  woman  to  cast  her  vote  in  this 
school  district,  and  for  one  term  she  ofiiciated  as 
treasurer  of  the  local  board  of  education  to  the 
entire  satisfaction  of  all  concerned.  Mr.  Feay  is 
a  present  member  of  the  school  board,  on  which 
he  has  served  creditably  for  several  years.  He 
also  was  for  two  terms  a  constable.  In  his  po- 
litical affiliations  he  is  a  true-blue  Republican. 
He  belongs  to  Enterprise  Grange  No.  25.  In 
August,  1864,  he  enlisted  for  one  hundred  days 
in  the  Third  Colorado  Cavalry  for  the  defense  of 
the  settlers  against  the  Indians,  who  were  on  the 
warpath  and  ravaging  these  valleys.  He  finally 
served  until  January,  1865,  when  he  was  honor- 
ably discharged  and  was  again  free  to  resume  the 
peaceful  avocations  of  life. 

The  parents  of  Oliver  Feay  are  Alexander  and 
Mary  (Ashbaugh)  Feay.  The  father  was  born 
in  Maryland  in  1804,  and  in  his  early  life  he  was 
employed  for  several  years  on  boats  which  ran  on 
the  Allegheny  and  Monongahela  Rivers.  I<ater 
he  embarked  in  the  lumber  business  and  operated 
a  sawmill  up  to  the  year  1850.  He  then  removed 
to  Iowa  and,  settling  in  Clayton  County,  engaged 
in  farming.  He  pre-empted  one  hundred  and 
sixty  acres,  to  which  he  subsequently  added  an- 
other tract  of  one  hundred  acres.  A  man  of  honor 
and  prominence  in  his  community,  he  commanded 
the  respect  and  esteem  of  all .    He  held  the  ofiice  of 


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justice  of  the  peace  and  other  local  positions  for 
many  j'ears.  His  death  occurred  in  1867. 
Grandfather  Levy  Feay  was  of  Scotch  descent, 
and,  it  is  believed,  was  a  native  of  Maryland. 
He  owned  and  operated  a  sawmill  during  his 
active  life.  For  a  few  years  he  made  his  home  in 
Pennsylvania,  and  his  last  years  were  passed  in 
Virginia.  Of  the  nine  children  born  to  Alex- 
ander and  Mary  Feay  three  are  deceased.  Joseph 
and  James  M.  are  farmers  of  Clayton  County, 
Iowa,  and  Henry  is  a  millwright  of  Fayette 
County,  Pa.  Urilla,  widow  of  John  Davidson, 
resides  in  South  Dakota;  and  Susanna,  widow  of 
William  Brooks,  lives  in  western  Iowa. 


HOSEPH  DENNIS,  Jr.,  a  successful  business 
I  man  of  Golden,  is  the  proprietor  of  a  livery 
G)  and  feed  stable,  situated  on  Jackson  street 
near  the  Denver,  Lakewood  &  Golden  depot. 
The  business  was  formerly  conducted  under  the 
firm  name  of  Lake  &  Dennis,  but  in  November, 
1897,  he  bought  his  partner's  interest  and  has 
since  been  alone.  He  ha*  also  engaged  in  the 
retail  coal  business  since  1893,  and  is  a  general 
contractor  for  the  Denver  &  Gulf  Railroad,  the 
city  of  Golden  and  county  of  Jefferson. 

Mr.  Dennis  was  born  in  Truro,  Cornwall,  Eng- 
land, February  9,  1862,  and  is  a  son  of  Joseph 
and  Eliza  J.  (Staple)  Dennis,  also  natives  of  Corn- 
wall. His  paternal  grandfather,  Josiah  Dennis, 
was  born  in  the  same  county  and  engaged  in 
mining  there;  the  maternal  grandfather,  John 
Staple,  was  a  farmer  by  occupation.  Joseph 
Dennis,  Sr.,  was  a  miner,  both  in  his  native  land 
and  in  America,  to  which  country  he  emigrated 
in  1866,  being  joined  by  his  wife  and  children 
the  following  year.  He  located  near  Tamaqua, 
in  Schuylkill  County,  Pa.,  where  he  engaged  in 
mining  for  a  year,  and  then  went  to  Johnstown, 
the  same  state,  where  he  followed  mining.  In 
1878  he  came  to  Golden,  where  he  left  his  family, 
but  for  a  time  he  engaged  in  mining  in  Nevada. 
Since  his  permanent  location  in  Golden  he  has 
engaged  as  a  contractor  in  coal  mining,  and  now 
assists  his  son  in  the  management  of  the  business. 
In  religious  belief  he  is  a  Methodist.  His  wife  is 
a  descendant  of  an  English  soldier,  who  fought 
in  the  Napoleonic  wars  of  18 12- 15  and  took  part 
in  the  famous  battle  of  Waterloo.  They  are  the 
parents  of  two  children  now  living,  Joseph  and 


Mrs.  Laura  Owens,  of  Golden.  Their  older 
daughter,  Minnie,  died  when  twenty-one  years 
of  age. 

At  the  age  of  five  years  our  subject  was  brought 
to  the  United  States.  He  remained  in  Pennsyl- 
vania from  1867  to  1878,  meantime  attending  the 
public  schools.  On  coming  to  Golden,  he  se- 
cured work  in  a  coal  mine,  where  he  remained  for 
eight  months,  and  then  began  teaming.  About 
188 1  he  began  as  a  clerk  in  a  grocery,  where  he 
rferaained  for  ten  years.  In  June,  1891,  he 
started  a  livery  business  at  the  Stanley  Hall  barn, 
but  after  one  year  and  nine  months  at  that  loca- 
tion, he  came  to  his  present  place  of  business  near 
the  depot.  As  a  business  man,  the  term  often 
heard  in  western  cities,  "hustler,"  is  indicative 
of  his  disposition  better  than  any  other  word.  He 
is  quick,  energetic,  enterprising,  ambitious  to  suc- 
ceed, and  a  tireless  worker. 

In  Golden  Mr.  Dennis  married  Miss  Anna  E. 
Hewitson,  who  was  born  in  Canada.  Their  chil- 
dren are  nained:  Joseph  Edward,  Ethel  Anna, 
Minnie  Janet,  Orville  LeRoy  and  Marion  Emily. 
The  family  attend  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church,  in  which  Mr.  Dennis  is  a  member  of  the 
board  of  trustees.  In  politics  he  is  a  Republican. 
He  represented  the  fourth  ward  for  one  term  as  a 
member  of  the  board  "of  aldermen,  during  which 
time  he  served  as  chairman  of  the  committees  oh 
streets  and  alleys  and  fire  and  police.  He  is  a 
member  of  Excelsior  Fire  and  Hose  Company,  of 
which  he  was  foreman,  and  also  served  as  assist- 
ant chief  of  the  fire  department  until  his  election 
as  alderman.  In  the  order  of  Knights  of  Pythias 
he  is  past  chancellor,  and  was  second  lieutenant 
of  the  Uniform  Rank  until  the  lodge  surrendered 
its  charter.  He  is  senior  warden  of  Golden  Lodge 
No.  I,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  excellent  high  priest  of 
Golden  Chapter  No.  5,  R.  A.  M.,  and  a  member 
of  the  board  of  managers  of  the  Woodmen  of  the 
World. 


ROBERT  H.  DENNEY,  M.  D.,  county  phy- 
sician and  health  officer  of  Elbert  County 
and  a  practicing  physician  of  Elbert,  was 
born  in  Carroll  County,  Ohio,  November  21, 
1872,  and  is  a  son  of  H.  H.  and  Eliza  J.  (Gregory) 
Denney.  The  first  eight  years  of  his  life  were 
spent  on  the  home  farm,  where  he  was  born. 
From  that  place  he  accompanied  his  parents  to 
CarroUton,  the  county  seat,  where  he  attended 


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the  high  school,  graduating  at  the  age  of  eight- 
een with  honors.  For  a  year  or  more  he  kept 
books  for  his  father,  who  was  engaged  in  the 
grain  business. 

Coming  to  Colorado  in  189 1 ,  the  subject  of  this 
sketch  began  to  teach  school  in  Elbert  County, 
and  this  occupation  he  followed  for  four  terms, 
mostly  in  the  summer  seasons.  Meantime  he 
engaged  in  the  study  of  medicine  under  Dr. 
McNeilan,  of  Elbert,  and  took  a  course  of 
lectures  in  Gross  Medical  College,  Denver, 
from  which  he  was  graduated  in  1896,  with 
the  degree  of  M.  D.  Soon  afterward  he  began 
to  practice  in  Elbert  and  here  he  has  since  built 
up  a  good  practice  and  has  become  known  as  a 
rising  young  physician,  with  a  prosperous  future 
before  him.  He  is  identified  with  the  American 
Medical  Association  and  the  Colorado  State 
Medical  Society,  and  takes  a  warm  interest  in 
everything  pertaining  to  the  profession.  In  1898 
he  was  chosen  county  physician  and  health  officer, 
which  position  he  is  filling  with  efl[iciency.  In 
Elbert  Camp  No.  152,  Woodmen  of  the  World, 
he  is  the  examining  physician,  as  he  is  also  for 
the  Equitable,  New  York  and  Mutual  Life  Insur- 
ance Companies.  In  political  belief  he  is  a  Re- 
publican. 

[EORGE  DANE,  a  farmer  living  twelve  miles 
southeast  of  Harman,  Arapahoe  County, 
owns  two  hundred  and  eighty  acres  of  land 
situated  on  section  30,  township  5  north,  range 
66  west.  He  was  born  in  the  County  of  Vic- 
toria, parish  of  Andover,  Canada,  February  16, 
1835,  a  son  of  William  and  Mary  Dane,  natives 
respectively  of  England  and  the  north  of  Ireland. 
Both  were  reared  in  their  native  shires,  and  com- 
ing to  America,  were  married  near  St.  John's, 
after  which  they  settled  upon  a  farm. 

Assisting  his  father  in  the  cultivation  of  the 
home  farm,  the  subject  of  this  sketch  spent  the 
first  twenty-three  years  of  his  life  beneath  the 
parental  roof.  At  that  age  he  went  to  Minne- 
sota and  for  three  years  was  employed  in  the 
pineries,  it  being  the  agreement  that  he  was  to 
receive  f  16  a  month,  but  hard  times  befell  his 
employer,  who  was  unable  to  sell  his  lumber,  and 
as  a  consequence  the  wages  were  not  paid  the 
last  year.  Leaving  Minnesota  in  March,  i860, 
he  went  with  a  company  to  Pike's  Peak,  paying 
them  $60  for  his  board  and  the  transportation  of 
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his  baggage,  while  he  walked  all  the  way  and  did 
the  cooking  during  part  of  the  time.  In  July  he 
arrived  at  California  Gulch,  where  he  worked 
until  fall,  and  then  went  to  New  Mexico  pros- 
pecting for  gold.  Only  a  few  months  were  spent 
there,  and  he  then  returned  to  Colorado,  where 
he  remained  at  Gold  Run  until  the  fall  of  1861. 

About  that  time  Mr.  Dane  enlisted  as  a  private 
in  Company  E,  First  Colorado  Cavalry,  and  after 
a  few  months  was  promoted  from  the  ranks  to  be 
first  corporal.  From  time  to  time  he  received 
other  promotions,  until  he  was  made  third  ser- 
geant, but  was  then  reduced  to  the  ranks  be- 
cause he  had  made  merry  at  a  ludicrous  blunder 
of  the  first  lieutenant  and  had  refused  to  apologize 
for  so  doing,  declaring  he  had  nothing  to  apol- 
ogize for.  He  was  in  the  company  enlisted  by 
Maj.  Scott  J.  Anthony,  a  company  that  enlisted 
as  cavalry,  but  served  as  infantry  for  some  time, 
until  they  could  get  their  horses.  They  were  in 
New  Mexico  for  a  time  and  took  part  in  the  bat- 
tle of  Pache  Canon,  then  returned  to  Colorado 
City  and  received  their  horses,  after  which  they 
engaged  principally  in  guard  duty  in  this  state. 

After  serving  until  December  i,  1864,  Mr. 
Dane  was  mustered  out  in  Denver.  During  his 
term  of  service  he  was  never  in  the  hospital  nor 
the  guard  hou.se.  He  had  saved  his  earnings, 
amounting  to  about  $1,100,  it  having  been  his 
custom  to  work  at  anything  he  could  find  to  do, 
and  at  one  time  he  cut  hay  with  a  scythe  at 
Booneville,  Ark.,  for  the  government,  receiving 
$4  a  day.  After  his  discharge  he  began  to  cut 
wood  near  his  present  home.  During  the  winter, 
in  visiting  a  sick  soldier,  he  was  exposed  to  the 
measles,  and  caught  the  disease;  during  his  sick- 
ness he  lay  in  a  shanty,  with  a  blanket  for  a  door. 
In  the  spring  of  1865  he  fitted  up  a  team  of  oxen 
and  engaged  in  freighting,  which  proved  profit- 
able. In  the  fall  of  1868  he  returned  to  his  old 
home  in  Canada,  and  there,  March  26,  1869,  he 
married  Miss  Elizabeth  L.  Clark,  a  daughter  of 
Enoch  and  Sarah  A.  (Phamphey)  Clark.  She 
was  born  within  a  mile  of  the  birthplace  of  her 
husband  and  had  received  fair  educational  ad- 
vantages in  her  home  neighborhood.  Her  fa- 
ther was  born  in  Rochester,  England,  at  Roches- 
ter Castle,  and  was  a  son  of  Sir  Richard  and 
Mary  (Russell)  Clark  and  grandson  of  Lord  John 
Russell;  her  mother  was  a  native  of  Canada. 

Directly   after  their  marriage  Mr.    and   Mrs. 


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Dane  came  to  Colorado  and  settled,  in  August, 
1869,  at  their  present  place.  He  had  bought  a 
squatter's  claim  of  eighty  acres,  which  he  after- 
ward horaesteaded,  together  with  eighty  acres 
given  him  for  a  soldier's  claim.  He  has  since 
bought  one  hundred  and  twenty  acres,  and  all  of 
the  land,  two  hundred  and  eighty  acres,  is  im- 
proved. The  larger  part  of  his  money  has  been 
made  in  stock-raising,  which  he  has  found  a 
profitable  industry.  In  the  Grange  he  has  served 
as  master  one  year  and  many  years  as  overseer, 
and  in  the  State  Grange  has  held  office  as  gate 
keeper. 

The  only  child  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Dane  is  John  F. , 
who  was  born  on  the  home  farm  May  24,  1870, 
graduated  from  the  East  Denver  high  school  and 
married  Isabelle  Kenney,  by  whom  he  has  a 
daughter,  Ethel  H.,  born  in  Denver  October  20, 
1892.  He  is  an  employe  of  the  United  States 
government  in  the  Denver  postoffice. 

Politically  Mr.  Dane  is  a  Republican  and  has 
voted  that  ticket  ever  since  the  presidential  elec- 
tion of  1864.  He  has  been  content  with  voting 
and  has  never  desired  to  receive  for  himself  the 
votes  of  others,  preferring  to  give  his  time  to 
business  matters.  In  1869  he  was  made  a  Mason 
in  the  blue  lodge  at  Presque  Isle,  and  soon  after- 
ward was  demitted  to  Union  Lodge  No.  7,  at 
Denver.  He  is  also  identified  with  the  Associa- 
tion of  Colorado  Pioneers,  and  is  a  member  of 
Lincoln  Post  No.  4,  G.  A.  R. 


n  AMES  HENRY,  who  was  a  member  of  the 
I  Union  colony  and  a  pioneer  of  Weld  County, 
(2/  resides  on  township  6,  range  65,  directly 
north  of  Greelej'.  As  a  pioneer,  he  has  been 
identified  with  the  history  of  this  section  from 
its  earliest  settlement,  and  enjoys  the  distinction 
of  having  built  the  first  house  in  Greeley.  In 
spite  of  his  eighty-seven  years  he  is  active  and 
rugged,  retaining  all  his  faculties  except  his 
hearing.  All  of  his  work  is  under  his  direct 
supervision,  though  his  plans  are  carried  out 
with  the  assistance  of  hired  men,  it  being  un- 
necessary for  him  to  do  manual  labor.  Strong 
and  hearty,  it  seemed  possible  for  him  to  enjoy 
many  more  years  of  usefulness,  and  that  he  may 
do  so  is  the  wish  of  his  large  circle  of  friends. 

Born  in  New  York  City,  March  28,    1812,  the 
subject  of  this  sketch  is  a  son  of  Thomas  and 


Susan  Henry,  natives  respectively  of  New  Jersey 
and  New  York.  His  father,  who  followed  the 
occupation  of  a  mason  and  builder  in  the  metropo- 
lis, bought  a  farm  in  Newtown  (now  part  of 
New  York  City)  in  1828  and  there  carried  on 
farm  pursuits.  Politically  he  was  a  Democrat, 
and  for  some  time  held  office  as  assistant  captain 
of  the  watchmen  of  New  York  (then  employed 
instead  of  policemen).  In  religion  he  was  identi- 
fied with  the  Methodist  Church.  By  his  marriage 
to  Susan  Lawrence,  nine  children  were  born,  James 
being  the  youngest  of  the  sons.  He  attended 
school  on  Long  Island,  and  learned  the  mason's 
trade,  which  he  followed  for  a  time  in  New  York, 
and  afterward  worked  in  different  places.  After 
some  time  in  New  Jersey  he  went  to  Pennsyl- 
vania, from  there  to  North  Carolina,  thence  to 
New  Orleans  (where  he  worked  in  a  foundry) 
and  finally  secured  employment  in  Memphis.  In 
1870  he  came  to  Colorado  and  for  five  years  en- 
gaged in  building  houses  in  Greeley,  also  erected 
the  Episcopal  Church.  In  1875  he  came  to  his 
present  place  of  residence,  and  without  assistance 
put  up  the  house  where  he  now  resides.  It  is  of 
adobe,  covered  with  a  cement  that  gives  it  a  neat 
finish,  and  possesses  the  desirable  quality  of  being 
cool  in  summer  and  warm  in  winter.  Here  he 
raises  grain,  alfalfa  and  potatoes,  the  work  being 
under  his  personal  supervision.  He  is  also  a 
stockholder  in  No.  2  ditch.  , 

In  political  matters  Mr.  Henrj'  is  independent, 
with  Democratic  tendencies.  He  has  been  twice 
married.  One  child  was  born  of  his  first  union, 
but  it  died  young.  In  1844  he  married  Miss 
Simons,  and  they  had  three  children,  but  only 
one  survives,  Drusilla,  who  married  Ben  C. 
Rinks  and  resides  near  the  old  homestead. 


jILLIS  BRYANT.  One  mile  northwest  of 
Sedalia,  Douglas  County,  lies  the  farm 
owned  and  operated  by  Mr.  Bryant.  It 
was  purchased  by  him  in  187 1  and  consists  of 
seven  hundred  acres,  which  he  has  improved  and 
upon  which  he  is  engaged  in  ranching,  stock- 
raising  and  the  dairy  business.  In  1873  he 
erected  a  substantial  brick  house,  but  it  burned 
to  the  ground  in  1897,  and  soon  afterward  he 
built  the  residence  the  family  now  occupies. 

The  son  of  John  and  Fannie   (Smith)   Bryant, 
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July  10,  1825.  He  was  next  to  the  youngest 
among  six  children  and  was  seven  years  of  age 
when  his  father  died.  Afterward  his  mother 
sold  the  farm  and  settled  in  Holden,  Worcester 
County,  where  he  attended  the  public  schools  and 
completed  the  regular  high-school  course.  At 
the  age  of  eighteen  he  taught  one  term  of  school. 
In  1844  he  went  to  Illinois,  joining  a  brother  in 
Nauvoo,  Hancock  County,  and  was  there  at  the 
time  the  Mormon  leader,  Joseph  Smith,  was 
killed  at  the  county-seat,  Carthage.  He  had 
seen  the  famous  apostle  of  Mormonism  on  his 
way  to  the  county  jail. 

After  a  year  in  Nauvoo  Mr.  Bryant  returned 
to  Massachusetts,  but  two  years  later  joined  his 
brother,  who  had  moved  to  St.  Louis,  Mo.  For 
two  years  he  clerked  in  a  store  that  his  brother 
had  opened.  He  then  again  returned  to  Holden, 
Mass. ,  where  he  clerked  in  a  store,  and  later  was 
made  a  partner  in  the  business  under  the  firm 
name  of  Nichols  &  Bryant.  In  1856  he  went  to 
Chicago,  and  made  a  tour  of  inspection  of  the 
northwestern  country  as  far  as  Lake  Superior. 
While  in  Minnesota  he  took  up  a  government 
claim  and  improved  the  land,  for  which  he  secured 
a  deed.  In  i860  he  came  to  Colorado,  where  he 
engaged  in  mining,  prospecting  and  freighting 
for  some  years,  until  the  purchase  of  his  present 
property  in  1871.  Though  now  advanced  in 
years,  he  is  as  active  and  mentally  vigorous  as  he 
was  twenty  years  ago,  and  bids  fair  to  be  spared 
for  many  years  to  come.  His  mother,  who  was 
bom  in  1789,  spent  most  of  her  life  in  Massa- 
chusetts, but  finally  went  to  Plainfield,  111.,  and 
made  her  home  with  a  daughter  until  her  death, 
which  occurred  January  14,  1889,  when  ninety- 
nine  years,  eight  months  and  twenty-six  days 
old. 

On  Thanksgiving  day  of  1873  Mr.  Bryant  mar- 
ried Miss  Mary  A.  Murphy, of  Douglas  County,but 
a  native  of  Chicago,  111.  In  1859  she  accompanied 
her  parents,  Henry  C.  and  Mary  (Roice)  Mur- 
phy, to  Colorado,  where  her  mother  died  in  1875 
and  her  father  is  still  living  in  Denver.  By  her 
marriage  she  is  the  mother  of  an  only  daughter, 
Fannie  B. ,  who  received  an  excellent  education 
in  a  high  school  of  Denver  and  the  State  Normal 
at  Greeley  (from  which  she  graduated  in  1898) 
and  also  took  a  business  course  in  Colorado 
Central  Business  College  of  Denver.  She  is  fitted , 
both  by  natural  qualifications  and  education,  for 


the  teacher's  profession,  and  is  intensely  devoted 
to  this  work,  in  which  she  has  met  with  striking 
success. 

In  early  life  a  Whig,  Mr.  Bryant  cast  his  first 
presidential  ballot  for  Gen.  Winfield  Scott.  In 
1856  he  supported  John  C.  Fremont,  and  ever 
since  then  he  has  cast  a  straight  Republican 
ticket.  At  one  time  he  was  a  candidate  for 
county  commissioner,  but  was  defeated  by  a  few 
votes.  In  Worcester,  Mass.,  in  1855,  he  was 
made  a  mason,  and  has  since  taken  all  the  degrees 
through  the  Royal  Arch.  He  was  a  member  of 
Morning  Star  Lodge,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  of  Wor- 
cester, Mass. ,  at  the  time  of  coming  west,  in 
which  he  was  a  paid-up  life  member,  and  he  has 
never  transferred  his  membership.  Mrs.  Bryant 
is  an  adherent  of  the  Roman  Catholic  faith. 


n  OEL  J  -  DELL,  whose  farm  is  situated  on  the 
I  Big  Thompson,  in  Weld  County,  near  Love- 
(2/  land,  was  born  near  Battle  Creek,  Mich.,  in 
1854,  a  son  of  Richard  and  Agnes  (Lisk)  Dell. 
His  father,  a  native  of  York  state,  settled  in 
Michigan  in  early  manhood  and  engaged  in  farm- 
ing there  until  1865,  when  he  retired  from  farm- 
ing for  a  time.  In  1871  became  to  Colorado  and 
settled  in  Longmont,  where  he  made  his  home 
until  1888.  Since  that  year  he  has  resided  with 
his  son,  our  subject.  He  and  his  wife  are  both 
seventy-five  years  of  age.  They  are  a  worthy 
couple  and  are  respected  by  all  to  whom  they  are 
known. 

The  first  seventeen  years  in  the  life  of  our  sub- 
ject were  spent  in  Michigan,  where  he  enjoyed 
public-school  advantages.  At  the  age  of  seven- 
teen he  accompanied  his  parents  to  Colorado,  and 
in  1877  he  began  to  farm  as  a  renter.  Three 
years  later  he  took  up  a  quarter-section  on  the 
Big  Thompson  and  bought  at  the  same  time  an- 
other quarter,  so  that  his  farm  now  comprises 
three  hundred  and  twenty  acres  of  improved  land 
devoted  to  general  farming.  The  entire  tract  is 
under  cultivation,  and  the  improvements  repre- 
sent the  tireless  labors  of  the  owner,  who  has 
spared  no  pains  in  order  to  bring  the  land  to  a 
high  state  of  cultivation.  In  addition  to  his  pri- 
vate farm  interests  he  is  a  stockholder  in  the 
Loveland  and  Greeley  and  the  Farmers'  Ditch 
Companies,  and  has  served  as  treasurer  of  the 
latter  for  a  number  of  years. 


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Mr.  Dell  is  a  man  of  positive  convictions,  strict- 
ly honest,  and  never  afraid  to  stand  by  what  he 
believes  to  be  right.  In  his  friendships  he  is 
strong  and  in  his  dealings  honorable.  He  is  a 
Republican  by  political  faith  and  has  kept  him- 
self intelligently  conversant  with  public  affairs. 


GlNTON  FRITHIOF  ECKDAHL,  city  au- 
Ll  ditor  of  Denver,  was  born  in  Osterjotland, 
/  1  Boxholm,  Sweden,  May  19,  1861,  the  son 
of  Andrew  Frederick  and  Johanna  Louise  (Jons- 
son)  Eckdahl,  natives  respectively  of  Boxholm 
and  Mjolby.  His  father,  who  is  a  merchant 
tailor  by  trade,  came  to  America  in  1869  and  set- 
tled in  Chicago,  111. ,  where  he  carried  on  business. 
At  the  time  of  the  great  fire  his  store  was  burned 
down,  but  he  resumed  business  in  another  loca- 
tion and  continued  until  his  retirement.  He  and 
his  wife  still  make  Chicago  their  home.  Qf  their 
eight  children  all  but  one  are  living,  Anton  being 
third  in  order  of  birth  and  the  only  member  of 
the  family  in  the  west.  Two  sons,  Axel  and  Al- 
bert, are  engaged  in  the  mercantile  business  in 
Chicago. 

When  twelve  years  of  age  our  subject  secured 
work  as  an  office-boy,  and  his  subsequent  educa- 
tion was  obtained  in  the  night  schools.  When 
seventeen  he  was  given  a  position  as  salesman 
with  Nelson  Brothers,  with  whom  he  remained 
for  eight  years  in  all,  being  for  a  part  of  the  time 
in  charge  of  the  clothing  department  of  their 
wholesale  and  retail  house.  For  two  and  one- 
half  years  he  was  chief  manager  of  the  clothing 
department  of  the  Chicago  Clothing  Company, 
and  afterward  was  given  the  management  of  a 
branch  store  at  Thirty-first  street  and  Wentworth 
avenue,  owned  by  Nelson  Brothers. 

In  March,  1890,  Mr.  Eckdahl  came  to  Denver 
and  for  a  year  was  salesman  in  a  clothing  house, 
after  which  he  engaged  in  the  real-estate  business, 
having  his  office  first  in  the  Colorado  National 
Bank  building  and  later  in  the  Ernest  &  Cran- 
mer  building.  In  1892  he  was  the  nominee  of 
the  silver  Democrats  and  the  Populists  for  repre- 
sentative to  the  state  legislature,  but  was  de- 
feated. In  April,  1893,  he  was  appointed  clerk 
of  the  police  magistrate  court  of  Denver  by  Judge 
A.  S.  Frost  and  held  the  position  until  1895.  On 
the  expiration  of  his  term  he  went  to  Cripple 
Creek,  then  in  the  incipiency  of  its  boom,  and 


engaged  in  mining  and  the  brokerage  business 
there.  On  his  return  to  Denver,  six  months 
later,  he  became  general  manager  of  the  leading 
Swedish  paper  of  the  west.  The  Swedish  Corre- 
spondetit,  which  is  published  weekly  and  is  an  or- 
gan of  the  silver  party.  He  continued  its  man- 
agement until  he  was  elected  city  auditor.  In 
the  spring  of  1897  he  was  nominated  for  this  of- 
fice on  the  Tax  Payers,  Democratic  and  People's 
party  tickets  and  was  elected  by  a  plurality  of 
eighty-five  hundred,  having  twice  as  many  votes 
as  his  leading  opponent.  He  took  the  oath  of 
ofiice  April  13,  1897,  for  a  term  of  two  years. 

Fraternally  Mr.  Eckdahl  is  an  officer  in  Rath- 
bone  Lodge  No.  59,  K.  of  P.,  and  he  is  promi- 
nently connected  with  the  American  League  of 
Liberty.  He  was  among  the  first  to  espouse  the 
cause  of  the  white  metal  in  Colorado.  Believing 
that  the  highest  prosperity  can  never  be  attained 
by  the  people  of  this  state  as  long  as  the  demon- 
etization of  silver  is  permitted  to  continue,  he  has 
steadily  and  faithfully  championed  its  restoration 
to  the  proper  standard.  During  the  exciting 
presidential  campaign  of  1896  he  was  called  east 
to  deliver  political  speeches  in  behalf  of  the  silver 
Democratic  party,  and  remained  seven  weeks  in 
active  campaigning,  visiting  many  town  in  Illi- 
nois, Iowa  and  Wisconsin,  and  winning  a  reputa- 
tion as  a  logical,  eloquent  and  earnest  speaker, 
who  was  thoroughly  informed  regarding  all  the 
intricacies  of  the  currency  question. 


gENEDICT  KIMBER  is  a  young  man  of  un. 
usual  business  qualifications,  developing  a 
knowledge  of  the  milling  business  at  an  early 
age  that  induced  his  father  to  place  him  as  man- 
ager of  one  of  his  mills  when  but  little  more  than 
a  boy.  This  confidence  in  his  ability  was  re- 
warded by  a  close  attention  to  detail  and  a 
shrewdness  in  the  management  that  surprised 
even  his  friends.  He  was  born  in  Central  City, 
Gilpin  County,  December  19,  1865,  and  is  a  son 
of  Job  Vernon  and  Virginia  (Lehmer)  Kimber. 
His  father  was  born  in  Brownsville,  Pa.,  and 
crossed  the  plains  in  i860,  while  yet  a  young 
man.  He  traveled  by  ox-team  to  Central  City 
and  engaged  in  mining.  He  then  erected  a  quartz 
mill  and  did  a  milling  business.  In  1868  he 
bought  the  Polar  Star,  a  small  mill  on  the  Black- 
hawk,  at  the  mouth  of  Chase  Gulch,  and  added 


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to  it  and  improved  it  to  a  forty-ton  mill,  which  it 
has  been  for  the  past  twenty  years.  He  was  also 
interested  in  the  two  Kimber  and  Fullerton  mills 
on  North  Clear  Creek,  and  the  Gunnell  and 
Whiting  mines.  He  was  county  commissioner 
one  term.  He  died  April  5,  1897,  ^t  the  age  of 
seventy-four  years.  He  married,  in  Colorado, 
Virginia  Lehmer,  a  native  of  Pennsylvania,  and 
now  a  resident  of  Santa  Barbara,  Cal.  There 
were  six  children,  of  whom  five  are  living. 

Mr.  Kimber  is  the  oldest  of  his  father's  family, 
and  the  only  one  residing  in  the  state.  He  re- 
ceived his  education  in  the  schools  of  Central 
City  and  Blackhawk.  He  was  always  about  his 
father's  mills,  and  mastered  the  trade  of  milling 
while  yet  a  lad.  He  was  given  charge  of  the 
Polar  Star  mill  in  1886  and  has  been  manager 
and  superintendent  of  it  since  that  time.  After 
the  death  of  his  father  he  took  charge  of  the 
different  mills  and  mines  owned  by  him,  and  has 
managed  them  very  successfully.  He  is  manager 
of  the  Kimber  and  Fullerton  mills,  and  they  handle 
all  the  ore  from  the  Gunnell  mines,  having  a  ca- 
pacity of  about  forty  tons  each,  per  day.  He  is 
largely  interested  in  these  mines  which  yield  a 
high  grade  ore  and  are  the  oldest  here.  He  mar- 
ried in  this  city.  Miss  M.  E.  Lynch,  who  came 
here  with  her  father.  They  have  one  child,  J.  V. 
Mr.  Kimber  is  a  Democrat,  and  a  strong  advocate 
of  silver  money. 

(TONATHAN  HOUSE,  who  is  engaged  in  the 
I  fuel  and  feed  business  at  Sedalia,  Douglas 
Q)  County,  and  is  also  the  owner  of  a  large 
ranch  near  the  village,  was  born  in  Morgan 
County,  Ohio,  July  i,  1839,  being  a  son  of  Will- 
iam and  Mary  (Fickel)  House.  His  father,  who 
for  some  time  served  as  sheriffof  Morgan  County, 
afterward  became  a  railroad  conductor,  and  the 
family  owned  and  resided  upon  a  farm  in  Morgan 
County.  However,  whenour  subject  was  twelve 
years  of  age  they  removed  to  Muskingum  County, 
and  for  four  years  lived  in  Zanesville.  About 
1855  they  settled  in  Adams  County,  Wis.,  and 
cleared  a  farm  from  the  woods.  During  the  three 
years  spent  there  our  subject,  who  was  the  oldest 
child,  had  much  of  the  difiicult  work  of  clearing 
the  land  to  do  himself.  From  there  they  moved 
to  Van  Buren  County,  Iowa,  and  settled  in  the 
town  of  Farmington,  w^here  the  father  died  in 
1873- 


Having  decided  in  1859  to  come  to  Colorado, 
our  subject  began  to  make  his  arrangements  for 
the  journe)'.  In  i860,  with  others,  he  drove 
across  the  plains  with  ox-teams.  Their  only  ex- 
perience of  a  trying  nature  was  the  stampeding  of 
their  horses,  for  which  they  hunted  and  finally 
gave  up  in  despair,  but  later  were  successful  in 
finding  them.  In  June  they  arrived  in  Denver 
and  soon  afterward  proceeded  to  California  Gulch 
(now  Leadville) ,  where  Mr.  House  engaged  in 
mining,  and  he  also  wintered  the  first  domestic 
animals  ever  brought  to  that  place.  At  first  he 
was  successful  in  mining,  but  afterward  lost  every- 
thing by  buying  up  poor  claims.  In  1865  he  be- 
gan to  freight  and  in  the  nine  years  that  followed 
he  freighted  to  many  points  in  Colorado,  and 
crossed  the  plains  thirty-eight  times.  In  1865 
he  engaged  as  wagon-master  for  May  &  McQuen 
and  made  a  trip  to  Virginia  City,  Nev.  Finally 
he  began  ranching  at  Henderson,  below  Denver, 
where  he  remained  for  three  years,  in  partner- 
ship with  Albert  A.  Kneeland.  In  1869  became 
to  Douglas  County,  where  he  bought  Judge  John 
Craig's  ranch,  and  in  November  settled  upon 
the  land  now  occupied  by  Sedalia.  Near  this 
village  he  owns  a  ranch  of  almost  three  hundred 
acres,  and  he  also  owns  city  lots  in  Denver. 

October  24,  1869,  Mr.  House  married  Miss 
Mary  Atchison,  of  Denver,  with  whom  he  had 
become  acquainted  in  St.  Joseph,  Mo.,  while  he 
was  engaged  in  freighting  across  the  plains.  She 
was  born  near  Lexington,  Mo.,  and  by  her  mar- 
riage became  the  mother  of  one  son,  Claude  Lee, 
now  living  at  Lyons,  Colo.  The  first  vote  cast 
by  Mr.  House  was  in  1876,  when  he  supported 
Samuel  J.  Tilden  for  president,  and  he  has  since 
given  his  allegiance  to  the  Democratic  party. 
For  a  number  of  years  he  served  as  constable,  but 
with  that  exception  has  held  no  office,  preferring 
to  devote  his  time  to  his  personal  business  affairs. 


jJjORMAN  CHATFIELD.  A  perusal  of  the 
yt  briefest  history  of  the  eventful  life  of  the 
I  ID  gentleman  of  whom  this  article  is  penned 
yet  brings  to  any  imaginative  mind  strange  pic- 
tures of  stirring  adventures  by  land  and  sea;  of 
vicissitudes,  hardships,  good  and  bad  fortune, 
not  often  crowded  into  the  life  of  one  man.  A 
man  of  real  genius,  equally  at  home  on  the  high 
seas,  in  the  mines  and  mountains,  on  the  plains 


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or  prairies,  lakes  or  rivers,  as  master  of  a  boat  or 
manager  of  a  mill,  his  like  is  rarely  seen.  At  pres- 
ent he  is  the  superintendent  of  the  Kansas  mill, 
owned  by  the  Gold  Coin  Mining  Company.  This 
is  a  forty-stamp  mill,  located  at  Nevadaville,  Gil- 
pin County. 

The  paternal  grandfather  of  our  subject,  Nich- 
olas Chatfield,  came  from  an  old  agricultural 
family  in  Kent,  England.  Nicholas,  Jr.,  father 
of  Norman  Chatfield,  was  likewise  a  native  of 
Kent,  and  there  learned  the  tanner's  and  cur- 
rier's trade.  Coming  to  America,  he  started  a 
tannery  at  Cornwall-on-the-Hudson,  and  later 
removed  it  to  Canterbury  Township,  on  a  creek 
of  the  same  name.  After  a  busy  and  successful 
career,  he  died  in  1881,  at  the  advanced  age  of 
fourscore  years.  His  wife,  who  departed  this 
life  in  1880,  when  in  her  eighty-third  year,  was 
born  in  Kent,  and  was  a  Miss  Susan  Nye  in  her 
maidenhood.  Their  nine  children  all  grew  to 
maturity,  and  all  but  two  are  still  living.  Two 
sons,  George  and  Howard,  took  part  in  the  Civil 
war. 

Norman  Chatfield  was  born  at  Cornwall,N.Y., 
January  20,  1842,  and  attended  the  school  of 
Canterbury  until  he  was  a  lad  of  fourteen.  In 
1856  he  shipped  aboard  a  sailing  vessel  at  Nan- 
tucket and  started  on  a  long  whaling  voyage. 
They  proceeded  southward  to  the  Cape  of  Good 
Hope,  thence  to  New  Zealand,  cruised  near 
Kamchatka,  spent  the  summer  season  in  the 
north  and  winters  further  south,  and  thus  passed 
four  years.  Young  Chatfield,  who  went  as  a 
cabin  boy,  was  gradually  promoted,  was  a  stroke- 
oresman,  and  the  third  year  was  made  a  har- 
pooner.  On  three  different  occasions  he  was 
dashed  out  of  the  boat,  the  latter  being  smashed  to 
pieces  by  the  infuriated  whale,  which  the  crew 
were  endeavoring  to  capture.  Each  time  Mr. 
Chatfield  escaped  but  little  the  worse  for  his  ter- 
rible experience.  At  length  the  cargo  was  un- 
loaded in  San  Francisco  and  the  crew  discharged. 
In  the  fall  of  1859  our  young  friend  returned 
home  by  way  of  the  Isthmus  of  Panama.  Next 
year  he  made  two  trips  to  London  as  third  mate 
of  the  packet  ship  "Patrick  Henry,"  and  in  1861 
took  a  position  as  mate  on  the  clipper  "B.  F. 
Hoxie, ' '  which  left  New  York  with  a  cargo  of  gen- 
eral merchandise,  went  around  the  Horn,  and 
reached  San  Francisco  at  the  end  of  about  four 
months.  Upon  landing  in  the  last-named  city,  Mr. 


Chatfield  became  captain  of  a  schooner,  the 
"Dart,"  plying  between  Benicia,  Mexico  and  San 
Francisco.  This  place  he  held  for  a  year,  and  next 
we  find  him  as  second  mate  on  the  bark ' '  Catalpa , ' ' 
running  to  Hong  Kong.  Following  this,  he  was 
second  mate  on  the  "Elizabeth  F.Willetts,"  which 
went  from  the  Golden  Gate  to  New  York  around 
the  Cape  of  Good  Hope,  and  weighed  anchor  at 
her  destination  February  10,  1863.  One  of  the  in- 
cidents of  the  trip  was  that  of  being  chased  by  the 
privateer  schooner ' '  Retribution . ' '  Owing  to  the 
fact  that  the  merchant  marine  service  was  so 
badly  crippled  by  the  Civil  war  then  in  progress, 
Mr.  Chatfield  spent  two  years  sailing  on  the  riv- 
ers and  bays  of  the  northern  Atlantic  coast,  and 
this  terminated  his  sea- faring  life. 

In  February,  1865,  our  subject  started  from 
New  York  for  Colorado,  proceeding  from  Atchi- 
son by  mule  teams  to  Denver,  where  he  landed 
April  26.  That  summer  he  mined  and  prospected 
along  Clear  Creek,  and  in  the  autumn  took 
charge  of  the  Stoner  stamp  mill  in  Nevada.  At 
the  end  of  a  year  he  became  engineer  of  the 
Whitcomb  mill,  where  he  remained  another 
twelvemonth.  His  next  venture  was  to  lease  the 
Stoner,  I,a  Crosse  and  Pacific  National  mills,  an 
aggregation  of  forty-eight  stamps.  When  the 
season  had  closed  he  was  made  engineer  of  the 
Kansas  mill,  after  which  he  took  charge  of  and 
operated  the  Mercer  County  ,mine  and  the  Amer- 
ican Flag.  In  1874  ^^  returned  to  his  old  home 
in  the  east,  and  buying  the  schooner  "Jane," 
sailed  on  the  Hudson  River  for  three  years. 
Having  disposed  of  his  ship  to  good  advantage, 
Mr.  Chatfield  went  to  Galveston,  Tex.,  and  en- 
gaged in  lightering  cotton  outside  the  harbor  and 
wrecking  for  the  next  six  months.  His  family 
had  been  living  in  Chicago  during  this  period, 
and  he  now  joined  them,  and  for  one  season  ran 
on  the  '  'Jonathan  Doane' '  between  Chicago  and 
Buffalo.  In  the  fall  of  1879  he  returned  to  Colo- 
rado, and  for  five  years  was  occupied  in  mining 
and  milling.  He  then  entered  the  employ  of 
the  firm  with  which  he  is  at  present,  and  for 
three  years  was  at  Hidden  Treasure  mill  in 
Blackhawk.  Afterwards  he  mined  in  Nevada 
until  the  spring  of  1889,  when  he  went  to  Black- 
hawk  again  and  took  charge  of  the  Cashier  mill, 
remaining  there  a  year.  In  1890  he  went  to 
Brazoria  County,  Tex.,  and  bought  a  ranch  of 
five  hundred  acres,  about  twenty  miles  from  Gal- 


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veston.  In  June,  1894,  his  former  employers 
urged  him  to  return  to  them  and  he  did  so,  be- 
coming foreman  of  the  Gilpin  mill  of  Blackhawk 
during  the  two  months'  absence  of  the  superin- 
tendent. In  September  of  the  same  year  he  be- 
came superintendent  of  the  Kansas  mill  and  is 
still  connected  with  the  same. 

Mr.  Chatfield  was  married  in  Central  to  Mrs. 
Sophronia  Parker  (nee  Buzzell) ,  who  was  born  in 
Vermont,  and  was  a  daughter  of  Aaron  B.  Buz- 
zell. The  four  children  of  this  marriage  are: 
Charles,  who  is  in  the  Blackhawk  mill;  Norman, 
Jr.,  a  fine  electrician  and  engineer,  now  of  Den- 
ver; William,  who  is  managing  the  ranch  in 
Texas;  and  Louisa,  who  is  with  her  mother  and 
brother  on  the  homestead  in  Texas.  The  family 
located  there  permanently  in  1893,  and  the  son 
is  extensively  engaged  in  stock-raising  and  gen- 
eral farming. 

Some  years  ago  Mr.  Chatfield  identified  him- 
self with  the  Masonic  order  in  Blackhawk,  and 
belongs  to  the  blue  lodge  and  chapter.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Merchants'  and  Shipmasters'  As- 
sociation of  New  York  City.  In  politics  he  is  in- 
dependent. 

r"REDERICK  A.  BEIN,  who  is  engaged  in 
rft  farming  in  Weld  County,  his  home  place 
I  *  being  on  township  4,  range  68,  was  born  in 
Scott  County,  Iowa,  in  1861,  a  son  of  Augustus 
Bein.  His  father,  who  was  a  native  of  Iowa  and 
a  life-long  resident  of  that  state,  engaged  in  farm 
pursuits  during  his  entire  active  business  life  and 
held  a  position  among  the  leading  agriculturists 
of  Scott  County.  The  early  years  in  the  life  of 
our  subject  were  passed  in  the  home  neighbor- 
hood, where  he  was  reared  to  a  knowledge  of 
farming.  In  188 1  he  came  west  to  Colorado  and 
settled  in  Boulder  County,  where  he  took  up  land 
and  engaged  in  ranching. 

After  three  years,  however,  he  removed  to 
Platteville,  and  settled  on  a  farm  near  the  town, 
where  he  remained  for  a  year.  In  1887  he  pur- 
chased his  present  property,  consisting  of  one 
hundred  and  sixty  acres  of  fine  land.  He  immedi- 
ately began  the  work  of  improvement  and  to-day 
has  one  of  the  most  valuable  tracts  in  the  county. 
His  land  he  devotes  to  general  farming  and  stock- 
raising.  His  land  is  watered  by  the  Home  Sup- 
ply ditch,  of  which  company  he  is  a  stockholder. 
In  politics  he  takes  an  interest  in  all  local  afiairs. 


For  seven  years  he  has  acted  as  a  member  of  the 
school  board,  and  as  its  secretary,  and  through 
his  interest  in  and  knowledge  of  educational  work 
he  has  been  enabled  to  promote  the  welfare  of  the 
schools.  Fraternally  he  is  connected  with  the 
Berthoud  Lodge  of  Masons  and  the  Woodmen  of 
the  World. 

In  1883  Mr.  Bein  married  Miss  Martha,  daugh- 
ter of  James  Akins,  of  Boulder  County.  They 
have  six  children,  Mabel,  Arthur,  Lewis,  Lena, 
Effie  and  Violet.  Mr.  Bein  is  one  of  the  successful 
farmers  of  his  county  and  deserves  especial  credit 
from  the  fact  that  he  commenced  without  means. 
He  owns  besides  his  farm  of  one  hundred  and 
sixty  acres,  an  interest  in  mining  camps  in  Boul- 
der County. 

'HOMAS  graham,  who  resides  on  town- 
ship 4,  range  67,  in  Weld  County,  is  a 
native  of  the  north  of  Ireland,  born  in  1826, 
and  is  a  son  of  Hugh  Graham.  The  years  of  his 
boyhood,  however,  were  spent  principally  in  Scot- 
land, and  he  was  educated  in  the  schools  of  that 
country.  At  the  age  of  fifteen  he  left  home  and 
began  to  earn  his  own  livelihood.  Becoming  a 
coal  miner,  he  gained  a  thorough  knowledge  of 
that  business,  his  experience  in  which  brought 
him  into  contact  with  well-known  mining  com- 
panies. In  1857  he  came  to  the  United  States 
and  settled  in  Ray  County,  Mo. ,  where  he  en- 
gaged in  mining. 

Coming  to  Colorado  in  1875,  Mr.  Graham  set- 
tled in  Erie,  Weld  County.  He  soon  found  em- 
ployment with  the  Boulder  Valley  coal  mine,  and 
remained  in  that  position  until  1882,  when  he 
bought  a  claim  on  government  land  occupying  the 
location  of  his  present  farm.  He  embarked  in 
general  agricultural  pursuits  and  from  the  first 
met  with  success,  having,  in  addition  to  his 
regular  farm  interests,  stock  in  the  Hillsboro 
Ditch  Company  and  in  the  Berthoud  roller  mill. 
For  a  number  of  years,  unfortunately,  his  health 
has  not  permitted  him  to  do  active  manual  work 
as  he  did  in  other  years. 

Politically  Mr.  Graham  is  a  stanch  Democrat. 
While  still  in  Scotland,  he  was  made  a  mason  in 
Ayrshire  about  fifty  years  ago  and  by  various 
degrees  arose  to  the  thirty-second,  but  since 
coming  to  the  United  States  he  has  not  taken  an 
active  part  in  the  order.  In  1854  he  was  united 
in  marriage  with  Miss  Elizabeth,    daughter  of 


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John  and  Elizabeth  (McClean)  Kane,  the  former 
a  leadingmerchantof  Kilbourne,  Scotland.  They 
became  the  parents  of  six  children  now  living, 
and  three,  Thomas,  Maggie  and  Bessie,  deceased. 
John  lives  in  Erie,  which  is  also  the  home  of 
Hugh;  Cora  is  the  wife  of  William  Clark;  Maggie 
(2d)  is  the  wife  of  Edward  Russell,  of  Cripple 
Creek;  Nannie  is  the  wife  of  C.  C.  Clark;  and 
Allan,  who  married  Nellie  M.  I,aughlin,  carries 
on  the  old  homestead. 


pCJlLLIAM  J.  LEWIS,  of  Georgetown,  Clear 

\  A  /  Crs^^  County,  has  had  a  remarkably  event- 
Y  Y  ful  life,  and  few  men  have  traveled  more 
extensively  in  all  parts  of  the  world.  He  is  an 
authority  on  mines  and  mining  operations  under 
all  conditions  and  owns  numerous  valuable  prop- 
erties in  this  state  and  elsewhere.  One  of  the 
pioneers  of  Colorado,  as  he  came  here  as  early 
as  1859,  he  was  associated  with  some  of  the  noted 
frontiersmen  of  that  period,  Estes,  Dunstan, 
Guy,  and  scores  of  others,  and  once  operated  a 
ranch  on  the  present  site  of  Longmont. 

The  birthplace  of  Mr.  Lewis  is  in  Anglesea, 
North  Wales,  where  his  ancestors  owned  large 
estates,  and  rejoiced  in  the  honor  of  being  the 
oldest  family  of  that  locality.  The  old  homestead 
is  still  in  the  possesssion  of  relatives  of  the  same 
name,  as  it  has  been  for  generations,  even  before 
the  time  of  William  the  Conqueror.  Originally 
the  name  was  Llewellyn,  but  it  was  officially 
altered  to  the  simpler  form  of  Lewis.  The 
Christian  names  of  William  J.  are  also  very  old 
ones  in  the  family  and  have  been  handed  down 
from  father  to  son  for  generations.  The  father 
and  grandfather  of  our  subject  both  bore  the 
given  names  of  William  J.  and  both  were  minis- 
ters in  the  Church  of  England. 

Born  in  the  year  1830,  William  J.  Lewis,  of 
whom  we  write,  received  a  college  education  and 
graduated  from  Oxford  with  the  degree  of  Master 
of  Arts,  after  which  he  pursued  theological  studies 
and  was  ordained  when  about  twenty-five  years 
old.  For  two  years  he  was  head  master  of 
Cheltenham  College,  but  the  desire  to  see  some- 
thing of  the  world  grew  upon  him  and  he 
traveled  extensively  in  Canada  and  the  United 
States  for  a  period.  In  the  course  of  his  wander- 
ings he  arrived  in  this   county,  and  becoming  in- 


terested in  what  he  foresaw  was  to  be  a  great 
state  he  cast  in  his  fortunes  with  the  pioneers 
here.  He  made  a  success  of  ranching,  and  at 
length  he  commenced  to  give  much  attention  to 
mining.  During  the  years  that  followed  he 
mined  in  Montana,  Arizona  and  other  states,  as 
well  as  in  Colorado.  In  the  meantime  he  made 
several  journeys  to  England  and  also  went  to 
western  Australia.  In  that  far-away  land  he 
proceeded  two  hundred  miles  or  more  into  the 
interior,  engaged  in  prospecting  for  gold,  but 
found  nothing  better  than  the  gold-mines  of  Colo- 
rado. He  has  also  tried  mining  in  the  Tyrol,  on 
the  continent,  but  the  .summing  up  of  all  his 
experience  leads  him  to  believe  that  Colorado  sur- 
passes all  other  gold-bearing  sections. 

Mr.  Lewis  discovered  and  developed  the  Silver 
Cloud  mine  and  the  Gluck  Auf  (meaning  good 
luck) ,  which  he  sold.  Later  he  came  into  posses- 
sion of  another  Gluck  Auf  mine,  and  still  owns 
this  property.  In  1879  he  discovered  and  began 
the  operation  of  the  Doric  mine  and  July  5,  1896, 
the  great  Doric  tunnel  was  commenced.  The 
Cosmos  tunnel  of  the  Doric  mines  is  a  wonderful 
piece  of  engineering,  and  is  now-finished  into  the 
heart  of  the  mountain  some  three  thousand  feet. 
It  is  8x9  feet  in  dimensions  and  is  provided  with 
two  exhaust  jets,  which  afford  sufficient  venti- 
lation. At  the  innermost  point,  where  two  of 
the  most  modern  machines, are  drilling  into  the 
solid  rock,  there  are  twenty-five  hundred  feet  of 
rock  and  earth  overhead.  The  group  of  Doric 
gold  mines  have  twenty -six  miles  of  underground 
works  and  seventeen  difierent  lodes  have  been 
struck.  The  company  is  incorporated  as  the 
Doric  Gold  Mines,  limited,  of  England,  with  Mr. 
Lewis  as  manager.  They  have  thirty-four  pat- 
ented claims  on  Grifiith  and  Saxon  Mountain. 
These  join  the  Griffith  mine,  and  the  next  three 
lodes  which  will  be  struck  will  be  the  Griffith 
lode  of  the  Griffith  tunnel.  Mr.  Lewis  is  also 
the  manager  and  promoter  of  the  Georgetown 
Syndicate,  limited,  of  England.  This  company 
has  a  tunnel  and  shaft  on  the  Mascot,  and  struck 
thirteen  diSerent  lodes  from  which  ore  is  shipped 
that  yields  six  and  eighty-one  one-hundredths  of 
gold  to  the  ton,  ninety -eight  ounces  of  silver  and 
twenty-two  per  cent,  of  copper.  Besides  these, 
the  firm  of  Lewis  &  Swanton  are  interested  in 
the  Freeland,  in  the  Ariadne  group,  between  the 
Lambertine    and    Freeland     Extension    mines. 


DAVID  PATTERSON. 


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Here  lead  runs  sixty-five  per  cent  ,  gold  one  and 
a-half  ounces  and  silver  twenty-six  ounces  to  the 
ton. 

April  6,  1872,  in  Georgetown,  Mr.  Lewis  mar- 
ried Mrs.  Mary  Ann  (Fichler)  Morton.  She  is 
a  native  of  the  vicinity  of  Augsburg,  Bavaria, 
Germany,  and  came  to  America  with  her  parents. 
In  i860  she  and  her  brothers  came  to  Colorado 
from  Iowa,  where  the  family  had  been  living.  In 
the  great  flood  of  1864,  in  Denver,  when  Cherry 
Creek  overflowed  the  country,  she  narrowly  es- 
caped death,  but  was  rescued  by  some  soldiers. 
By  her  first  marriage  she  had  a  daughter,  Alice 
Anna  Morton,  who  is  the  wife  of  J.  W.  Mattern, 
an  experienced  mine  authority.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Lewis  have  a  son,  William  J.,  who  attends  to 
much  of  the  actual  superintendence  of  the  Doric 
mines. 


0AVID  PATTERSON,  a  well-known  and 
prosperous  ranchman  of  Deer  Trail,  Arapa- 
hoe County,  owns  the  largest  ranch  in  this 
vicinity,  and  is  a  self-made  man,  who  has  worked 
his  own  way  since  he  was  twenty  years  of  age. 
He  was  born  in  Forfar,  Scotland,  May  8,  1844. 
His  father,  Charles  Patterson,  a  farmer  by  occu- 
pation, was  born  in  1805  in  the  same  vicinity, 
but  five  miles  from  where  the  son  was  born.  The 
mother,  Elizabeth  (Laing)  Patterson,  was  also 
born  near  there  in  18 15,  and  is  still  living.  Of 
their  ten  children  David  is  the  only  son  living, 
one  son  having  died  in  Scotland  at  about  forty- 
five  years  of  age.  Of  the  daughters,  Jean  is  the 
widow  of  Archibald  Campbell,  of  Scotland; 
Elizabeth  is  married  and  lives  in  New  Zealand; 
Diana  is  married  and  living  in  Edinburgh;  Isa- 
belle  is  the  wife  of  Joseph  Belford,  of  Broughty 
Ferry,  Scotland;  Agnes  is  married  and  living  on  a 
sheep  ranch  in  New  Zealand;  Mary  and  Margaret 
are  deceased. 

Mr.  Patterson  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools  of  his  native  country,  and  remained  there 
until  he  was  twenty  years  old,  when  he  went  to 
Argentine  Republic,  South  America,  and  for  five 
years  was  in  the  stock  business  in  that  country. 
He  then  returned  to  Scotland  and  there  remained 
until  1872,  when  he  came  to  the  United  States, 
locating  first,  for  a  time,  in  Lincoln,  Neb.,  then 
settled  in  Huerfano  County,  Colo.,  in  1874.  In 
the  spring  of  1877  he  moved  to  Arapahoe  County, 
south  of  Byers,  and  in  1878  located  on  the  ranch 


where  he  now  lives,  about  ten  miles  northeast  of 
Deer  Trail.  He  is  extensively  engaged  in  the 
sheep  and  cattle  business,  and  all  the  improve- 
ments on  the  place  have  been  made  under  his 
personal  supervision.  He  also  owns  property  in 
Denver. 

Before  leaving  Scotland,  in  1872,  Mr.  Patter- 
son married  Miss  Margaret  Edwards,  whose 
father  was  a  farmer  there.  She  died  in  Denver. 
Their  three  sons  and  three  daughters  are  as  fol- 
lows: David,  Jr.,  who  is  on  a  stock  farm  in  Mon- 
tana; James,  Ollie,  Jessie,  Margaret  and  Libbie, 
at  home.  Mr.  Patterson  is  a  member  of  the 
Twenty-third  avenue  Presbj'terian  Church  of 
Denver.  In  politics  he  is  a  strong  Republican. 
For  years  he  has  been  a  member  of  the  school 
board.  While  still  in  Scotland  he  joined  the 
lodge  of  Masons. 

30HN  E.  BIRD,  who  owns  three  hundred  and 
twenty  acres  of  land  situated  on  the  Greeley 
road,  near  Loveland,  Larimer  County,  was 
born  in  New  Orleans,  La.,  a  son  of  John  and  Re- 
becca Anna  (Bird)  Bird.  His  father  left  the  south 
in  1844,  when  his  son,  our  subject,  was  two  years  of 
age,  and  removed  to  Fort  Madison,  Iowa,  where 
he  engaged  in  farming  and  in  carriage  manufact- 
uring. Later  he  also  purchased  stock  and  en- 
gaged in  raising  some  of  the  fine  grades.  Politi- 
cally a  Democrat,  he  was  made  a  justice  of  the 
peace  and  held  the  oSice  for  several  years.  He 
died  when  sixty-four  years  of  age. 

The  early  years  of  our  subject's  life  were  spent 
on  a  farm  in  Iowa,  and  his  education  was  ob- 
tained in  common  schools.  In  youth  he  learned 
the  carpenter's  trade,  which  he  followed  in  con- 
junction with  farming.  He  also  taught  school 
successfully  for  eight  terms  of  three  months  each. 
His  health  failing  in  this  sedentary  occupation, 
he  was  advised  to  go  west.  In  the  spring  of  1880 
he  came  to  Colorado  and  for  two  months  worked 
with  George  Little  at  Loveland.  Next,  going  to 
Breckenridge,  he  engaged  in  carpentering  and 
mining  for  three  years.  While  he  was  very  suc- 
cessful as  a  miner  and  made  large  profits,  yet  he 
invested  in  mines  that  proved  unprofitable  and  so 
lost  heavily.  With  but  little  money  left  he  turned 
his  attention  to  agriculture.  In  1883  he  rented 
the  Darrow  (now  Allen)  farm,  where  he  remained 
for  five  years,  and  then,  in  1888,  purchased  a 
farm  from  William  Bean.     He  is  now  engaged  in 


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farming  and  stock-raising,  and  through  diligent 
application  has  won  a  large  measure  of  prosperi- 
ty. He  is  known  as  a  man  of  sound  and  careful 
judgment  in  agricultural  matters,  and  by  perse- 
verance has  achieved  a  success  that  he  richly 
deserves.  He  is  a  stockholder  in  the  Farmers' 
Irrigating  Ditch  Company,  of  which  he  is  treas- 
urer. 

Politically  Mr.  Bird  is  a  free  silver  Democrat, 
and  in  1897  he  was  appointed  a  delegate  to  the 
silver  Democratic  convention.  However,  he  is 
not  a  seeker  for  office,  and  the  interest  that  he 
takes  in  public  affairs  is  only  that  of  a  public-spir- 
ited citizen. 

(~  DWARD  D.  KREUTZER,  who  is  a  well- 
1^  known  business  man  of  Sedalia,  Douglas 
I  County,  was  born  in  Fischbachau  District, 
Miesbach,  Germany,  March  29,  1847,  being  a 
son  of  Peter  and  Margaret  (Baer)  Kreutzer.  His 
father,  who  was  a  soldier  for  eighteen  years,  rose 
from  the  ranks  to  be  a  corporal  and  later  was 
promoted  to  the  gendarmes.  Upon  resigning 
from  the  army,  he  was  employed  in  another  de^ 
partment  of  government  service,  but  in  1848  his 
sympathies  were  on  the  side  of  the  Revolution. 
For  this  reason  he  was  captured,  sent  to  a  forti- 
fication and  kept  under  surveillance  for  two 
years,  notwithstanding  the  fact  that  he  had  taken. 
no  part  whatever  in  the  uprising.  On  being  lib- 
erated he  applied  for  a  government  position,  but 
was  rejected,  owing  to  his  revolutionary  sym- 
pathies. He  continued,  however,  to  reside  in  his 
native  land  until  his  death. 

Leaving  school  at  fourteen  years  of  age,  our 
subject  began  to  learn  the  manufacture  of  fancy 
rattan  for  chairs.  He  continued  in  that  occupa- 
tion in  his  native  country  until  1867,  when  he 
crossed  the  ocean  and  landed  in  New  York. 
There  he  made  his  home  with  an  uncle,  William 
F.  Roth,  under  whom  he  learned  the  cigar-mak- 
ing business.  For  a  year  he  worked  without 
wages,  but  afterward  he  started  a  cigar  store  on 
Eighth  avenue,  his  uncle  furnishing  the  capital. 
However,  the  close  confinement  to  the  shop  told 
on  his  health,  and  he  was  obliged  to  seek  another 
occupation.  Selling  out,  he  went  to  Pennsyl- 
vania and  learned  the  machinist's  trade  in  Corry. 
The  factory  there  was  closed  down  and  he  went 
to  Titusville,  where  he  was  employed  by  Charles 
Fette,  a  master  workman,  with  whom  he  com- 


pleted the  trade.  After  a  year  with  him  he  se- 
cured wages  in  the  employ  of  Charles  Miller  for 
three  years.  While  in  Titusville  he  aided  in 
starting  a  singing  society  known  as  the  Con- 
cordia and  was  chosen  to  sing  in  the  choir  of  the 
Spiritualist  Church.  It  was  while  acting  in  this 
capacity  that  he  formed  the  acquaintance  of  Miss 
Jane  Keppel,  who  was  a  member  of  the  same  choir. 
They   were   united    in   marriage    February  16, 

1873- 

In  1874  Mr.  Kreutzer  came  to  Denver.  Soon 
afterward  he  was  joined  by  his  wife  and  her  fa- 
ther, John  Keppel.  He  had  a  letter  of  introduc- 
tion to  a  Mr.  Hoffer,a  prominent  butcher  of  Den- 
ver, and  through  his  influence  secured  a  clerk- 
ship in  a  cigar  store.  After  a  few  months  he 
started  across  the  Snowy  range  with  a  company 
of  men,  who  were  the  first  to  cross  Gore  range 
with  a  wagon.  They  camped  there  one  night, 
and  it  was  while  there  that  he  received  from  the 
Indians  the  nickname  of  the  Dutch  general.  He 
was  looking  for  a  location  for  a  colony  and  found 
a  desirable  place,  but  as  it  was  one  hundred  and 
twenty  miles  from  a  postofiice,  no  one  would  con- 
sent to  go.  and  the  proposed  colony  had  to  be 
abandoned.  He  resumed  work  at  his  trade  and 
later  was  employed  in  a  bakery  and  hotel. 

Coming  to  Douglas  County  in  1875  Mr.  Kreut- 
zer took  up  a  pre-emption  ten  miles  west  of 
Sedalia,  and  later  homesteaded  a  claim.  At  this 
writing  he  has  four  hundred  and  eighty  acres,  a 
part  of  which  was  willed  by  his  father-in-law. 
During  the  fourteen  years  spent  there  he  was 
twice  burned  out,  the  second  time  by  lightning, 
and  as  he  carried  no  insurance,  the  loss  was  a 
heavy  one  for  him.  In  addition,  he  was  burned 
out  in  Denver  in  1876,  without  insurance,  and 
lost  all  of  his  furniture  and  clothes.  January  17, 
1 880,  when  he  had  secured  a  fair  start,  he  was 
accidentally  shot  in  the  knee,  and  was  laid  up  for 
four  and  one-half  years.  During  the  first  two 
years  of  this  time  he  could  do  nothing,  and  this 
was  a  serious  setback  to  him,  for  he  had  begun 
to  see  his  way  clear  to  success.  As  soon  as  he 
began  to  convalesce,  he  commenced  to  work  at 
his  trade.  He  was  poor,  and  of  course  could  not 
get  credit.  At  that  critical  time,  when  friends 
were  few  and  discouragements  many,  Mrs.  I,.  B. 
France  (now  deceased),  a  friend  of  his  wife,  be- 
came his  surety  for  $400,  and  with  this  he  started 
to    manufacture  cigars,    which   his  wife    sold. 


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While  he  was  still  sick,  some  one  jumped  his 
homestead.  There  was  at  first  talk  of  an  appeal 
to  congress,  but  that  idea  was  abandoned.  Mr. 
Kreutzer  wrote  the  man  to  come  to  Sedalia  and 
see  him.  This  the  jumper  did,  and  when  he 
learned  the  circumstances,  ascertained  the  pov- 
erty of  the  family  and  his  long  illness,  he  was  so 
affected  that  he  burst  out  weeping  and  declared 
he  would  give  up  the  place.  After  recovering 
the  place  he  made  it  his  home  until  1890,  when 
lightning  struck  and  destroyed  the  crop.  He 
then  went  to  Denver,  where  he  worked  at  his 
trade  and  later  manufactured  cigars  on  the  ranch, 
selling  them  in  Denver.  In  1891  he  moved  to 
SedaHa.  The  last  time  he  was  on  the  ranch  he 
tried  three  crops  and  lost  all,  having  spent  $600. 
Feeling  it  was  useless  to  attempt  the  work  of 
farming  longer,  he  has  since  given  his  attention 
to  cigar  making. 

Eight  children  were  born  to  the  union  of  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Kreutzer.  Of  these  two  died  in  in- 
fancy. Minnie,  the  oldest  of  the  family,  was 
born  in  Titusville,  Pa.,  and  married  John  Cell,  of 
East  Monitou,  Colo.  William  R.,  the  fourth 
child,  is  in  the  employ  of  the  United  States  as  a 
forest  ranger  under  Colonel  May;  and  John 
Elmer  is  in  the  employ  of  H.  H.  Metcalf. 
George  C,  a  fourteen-year-old  lad,  is  working 
with  his  father.  Margaret  E.  and  Agnes  E. 
are  five  and  three  years  of  age  respectively.  The 
children  have  been  given  good  advantages  and 
are  a  credit  to  their  parents.  Politically  Mr. 
Kreutzer  is  a  Republican.  He  has  been  a  candi- 
date for  justice  of  the  peace,  but  was  defeated. 
He  has  long  been  active  in  educational  matters 
and  for  twelve  years  served  as  secretary  of  the 
school  board  of  District  Nos.  5  and  7.  Mr. 
Kreutzer  and  his  wife  were  in  younger  years  act- 
ively identified  with  the  Spiritualists  and  were 
married  by  Mrs.  Watson,  pastor  of  the  Spiritual- 
istic Church  of  Titusville,  they  being  the  second 
couple  she  had  united  in  marriage. 


QETER  CHRISTENSEN,  who  for  the  past 
LX  twenty  years  has  been  numbered  among  the 
fS  enterprising  merchants  of  the  town  of  Mor- 
rison, Jefferson  County,  is  one  of  her  most  sub- 
stantial citizens.  For  fifteen  years  he  served  as 
a  member  of  the  school  board  and  in  many  ways 
has  manifested  his  concern  in  educational  affairs. 


Since  the  Morrison  Water  Company  was  organ- 
ized he  has  been  president  of  the  same,  and  in 
fact  he  is  alwaj's  to  be  found  using  his  influence 
in  favor  of  progress  and  improvement.  He  stands 
well  with  the  Odd  Fellows'  society,  being  a 
trusted  member  of  Morrison  Lodge  No.  82.  His 
right  of  franchise  he  uses  in  behalf  of  the  nomi- 
nees of  the  Fusion  party. 

Our  subject  was  one  of  three  children  whose 
parents  were  Louis  Erasmus  T.  and  Christina 
Christensen,  natives  of  the  province  of  Schleswig, 
Germany.  The  father  was  born  in  1806  and  in 
his  youth  learned  the  trade  of  a  shoemaker.  He 
continued  to  follow  this  calling  during  the  greater 
part  of  his  life.  Having  purchased  a  small  farm 
of  twenty  acres  he  then  gave  much  of  his  time  to 
gardening,  of  which  he  made  a  success.  His 
death  occurred  in  1876.  The  only  daughter  of 
this  good  man  is  Anna  M. ,  wife  of  Peter  A.  Peter- 
sen. Christian,  the  younger  son,  is  engaged  in 
the  dairy  business  in  the  town  of  Evergreen,  Jef- 
ferson County,  Colo. 

Peter  Christensen  was  born  in  Schleswig,  Ger- 
many, January  20,  1839.  When  he  was  sixteen 
years  of  age  he  apprenticed  himself  to  the  trade 
which  had  been  followed  by  his  father.  Subse- 
quently he  pursued  the  occupation  up  to  1870,  in 
his  home  district,  but  at  that  time  he  concluded 
that  he  would  come  to  America.  Reaching  New 
York  City  in  August  he  proceeded  to  Chicago, 
and  a  few  weeks  later  went  on  to  Iowa,  where  he 
had  some  friends  living.  There  he  worked  at  his 
trade  for  several  months,  but  in  September,  187 1, 
he  drifted  to  Colorado,  and  from  that  fall  until 
the  spring  of  1875  he  was  employed  as  a  journey- 
man. On  the  I  St  of  April  of  the  last-named  year 
he  came  to  Morrison  and  opened  a  shop.  Three 
years  later  he  bought  a  small  stock  of  shoes  and 
boots  and  embarked  in  the  retail  trade  in  connec- 
tion with  his  regular  line  of  business.  He  met 
with  success  and  gradually  added  to  his  stock  and 
number  of  customers  until  he  now  does  a  thriving 
trade.  He  is  accommodating  and  reliable  and 
makes  friends  of  all  his  patrons.  His  stock  is 
large  and  varied,  comprising  all  kinds  of  boots 
and  shoes,  rubber  goods,  etc.  In  1878  he  pur- 
chased his  present  business  site  and  in  1890  the 
frame  building  which  was  occupied  by  his  store 
was  destroyed  by  fire.  This  unfortunate  occur- 
rence took  place  in  June,  but  by  the  following 
September  Mr.  Christensen  had  erected  a  good 


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stone  structure  on  the  spot  and  has  since  used 
the  building  for  his  store  purposes.  His  prosper- 
ity is  the  result  of  his  constant  and  unremitting 
attention  to  his  business  and  his  earnest  wish  to 
give  his  customers  the  best  possible  value  for  their 
money. 

Mr.  Christensen  has  been  twice  married.  His 
first  wife  was  Miss  Cecelia  Jensen  prior  to  their 
marriage,  which  took  place  in  Denver,  December 
15,  187 1.  Three  daughters  and  two  sons  were 
born  to  them,  namely:  Jennie  C,  wife  of  Asa 
Lewis;  Dora  C,  who  is  teaching  in  the  Villa 
Park  school,  near  Denver;  Erasmus  C,  a  farmer; 
Peter  P. ,  a  teacher  in  the  schools  of  Jeiferson 
County;  and  Anna  M.,  a  young  lady,  at  home. 
The  wife  and  mother  departed  this  life  November 
21,  1887.  The  lady  who  now  bears  the  name 
and  shares  the  fortunes  of  our  subject  was  formerly 
Mrs.  O.  Drake,  widow  of  John  T,.  Drake,  a  pio- 
neer of  Bear  Creek  district.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Chris- 
tensen's  marriage  was  solemnized  November  26, 
1896. 

pQlLLIAMS.  BLAINE  is  a  member  of  the 
I  A/  ^o^''^  of  aldermen  of  Black  Hawk,  Gilpin 
Y  V  County,  representing  the  third  ward,  and 
was  chosen  by  this  honorable  body  to  serve  on 
the  school  board  as  well.  He  is  a  master  me- 
chanic and  has  the  reputation  of  being  an  expert 
in  everything  connected  with  machinery.  ■  He 
comes  from  the  same  family  as  did  Hon.  James 
G.  Blaine,  whom  many  able  critics  esteem  to  have 
been  the  most  brilliant  statesman  and  profoundest 
legislator  who  has  been  prominent  in  the  history 
of  this  nation  during  the  past  half-centurj'.  The 
native  genius  and  talent  of  the  Blaines  have  de- 
scended, in  no  small  degree,  to  the  subject  of  this 
article. 

Archibald  Blaine,  father  of  W.  S.  Blaine,  and 
a  second  cousin  of  Hon.  J.  G.  Blaine,  was  born  in 
Harrisburg,  Pa.,  and  in  1845  removed  to  the 
vicinity  of  Iowa  City,  Iowa.  He  was  occupied 
in  farming  during  the  greater  part  of  his  life  and 
was  universally  respected  and  liked  by  those  who 
knew  him.  He  died  when  William  was  a  youth 
of  fourteen  years.  The  mother  of  W.  S.  Blaine 
was  Miss  Elizabeth  Cox  in  her  girlhood.  She 
was  a  native  of  Indiana  and  died  in  Iowa  when 
her  son,  our  subject,  was  only  seven  years  old. 
His  brothers  and  sisters  are  James  B.,  of  Council 
Bluffs,  in  the  employ  of  the  Chicago  &  North- 


western Railroad  Company;  John  D.,  city  clerk 
and  recorder  in  Cedar  Rapids;  Otis  E.,  who  is 
an  engineer  in  Leadville,  Colo. ;  and  Mrs.  Flora 
Woods,  of  Iowa  Center,  Iowa. 

The  birth  of  William  S.  Blaine  occurred  in 
Solon,  Iowa,  in  1863.  When  he  was  about  six- 
teen years  of  age  he  went  to  Cedar  Rapids, 
Iowa,  and  commenced  serving  an  apprenticeship 
to  the  firm  of  Whiting  Brothers  Manufacturing 
Company.  He  continued  with  them  for  three 
years,  and  in  the  meantime  went  to  night  school, 
where  he  made  a  specialty  of  mechanics.  Subse- 
quently he  was  employed  four  years  by  the  Elk- 
horn  Railroad  at  Missouri  Valley,  Iowa,  in  their 
machine  shops,  and  in  1888  he  went  to  Los 
Angeles,  Cal.,  where  he  acted  in  a  similar  posi- 
tion with  the  Southern  Pacific.  In  June,  1888, 
he  came  to  Colorado,  and  during  the  next  four 
years  was  master  mechanic  in  iron  and  silver 
mines  in  Leadville.  By  this  time  he  had  gained 
a  wide-spread  reputation  for  his  ability  at  hand- 
ling pumping  machinery.  From  1892  to  1894 
he  was  superintendent  for  the  Chicago  &  Aurora 
Mining  Company  of  Leadville,  after  which  he 
worked  for  the  R.  Jenning  Juniata  Mining  Com- 
pany a  year  or  more.  In  September,  1895,  he  was 
sent  for  by  Commissioner  of  Mines  Harry  A-  Lee, 
who  urged  him  to  take  charge  of  pumping  out 
the  water  from  the  Sleepy  Hollow  and  Americus 
mines  at  Black  Hawk.  Six,teen  men  had  been 
drowned  here  and  in  order  to  recover  their  bodies 
the  mines  had  to  be  pumped  to  the  bottom.  Mr. 
Blaine  started  in  the  undertaking,  bringing  with 
him  from  Aspen  a  large  pump  and  by  working 
three  months  night  and  day  the  water  was  low- 
ered so  that  fourteen  bodies  were  found,  but  it 
was  not  imtil  the  following  July  that  the  other 
two  were  taken  from  the  mine,  as  it  had  been 
necessary  to  pump  it  to  the  bottom  of  the  shaft, 
seventeen  hundred  feet. 

Having  completed  his  contract,  Mr.  Blaine's 
services  were  sought  for  by  the  Bobtail  Gregory 
Mining  Company,  who  employed  him  to  take  en- 
tire charge  of  all  of  their  machinery.  The  pumps 
which  he  operates  keep  the  water  down  in  half  a 
dozen  mines,  among  these  the  Gold  Coin,  Amer- 
icus, Sleepy  Hollow,  Fick,  Cook  and  a  number  of 
others.  Mr.  Blaine  has  invested  considerable 
time  and  money  in  mining  on  his  own  account, 
his  special  favorite  being  the  Mountain  City  and 
Tierney  on  Bobtail  Hill. 


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Initiated  into  the  Masonic  Order  in  Black 
Hawk  Lodge  No.  11,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  Mr. 
Blaine  is  now  connected  with  Central  City  Chap- 
ter No.  I,  R.  A.  M.,  as  well.  He  is  also  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen. 
In  his  political  preferences  he  is  a  Republican. 
He  married  in  Missouri  Valley,  Iowa,  in  1886, 
Miss  Patience  Van  Hoesen,  who  was  born  in 
Winterset,  Iowa,  and  they  have  one  child, 
James  G.  Mrs.  Blaine  is  a  member  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church. 


GlUGUST  NEUMAN.  Among  the  foremost 
[\  tillers  of  the  soil  of  Elbert  County  is  the 
I  I  gentleman  whose  name  heads  these  brief 
lines,  who  is  of  that  sturdy  German  extraction. 
His  homestead,  which  ranks  among  the  best  in 
this  communit}',  is  located  on  section  14,  town- 
ship 9,  range  63  west,  near  the  town  of  Elbert. 
He  was  born  in  Holstein,  Germany,  June  2, 
1832,  and  is  a  son  of  John  Henry  and  Elizabeth 
(Moring)  Neuman. 

August  Neuman  spent  his  younger  days  assist- 
ing his  father  in  his  blacksmith  shop  and  attend- 
ing the  common  schools  of  his  native  town.  At 
seventeen  years  he  began  to  serve  an  apprentice- 
ship to  the  blacksmith  trade.  In  1848  he  de- 
cided he  would  rather  be  a  soldier,  but  as  he  was 
rejected  from  the  army  he  resumed  his  former 
occupation.  At  twenty-two  years  of  age  he  was 
drafted  into  the  army,  and  as  he  had  changed  his 
notion  about  becoming  a  soldier  he  refused  to 
serve,  and  consequently,  in  1854,  he  departed  for 
the  United  States.  After  a  voyage  of  thirty-three 
days  he  landed  safely  in  New  York  City  and  im- 
mediately set  out  for  the  city  of  Chicago,  where 
he  remained  one  year,  when  he  went  to  Daven- 
port, Iowa.  In  i860,  in  company  with  four 
others,  he  left  Davenport  and  drove  to  Central 
City,  Colo.,  the  trip  consuming  a  period  of  nine 
weeks.  From  1861  to  1865  he  prospected  from 
Central  City  to  New  Mexico  and  return.  In  the 
winter  of  1861  our  subject,  who  was  with  a  party 
of  about  eighty-five  men,  stopped  in  what  is  now 
Gunnison  County,  Colo.,  where  they  had  dis- 
covered "pay  dirt,"  and  while  there  it  snowed 
about  twelve  feet  deep,  and  had  it  not  been  for 
the  game  they  caught  the  whole  party  would 
have  probably  starved  to  death,  as  their  pro- 
visions were  very  low.     The  party  then  started  for 


California  Gulch,  where  they  replenished  their 
supplies  and  returned  and  worked  their  dis- 
covery. 

Finding  that  it  would  not  pay  to  work  it,  our 
subject  returned  to  Central  City  and  later  left  for 
Montana,  where  he  spent  two  years  mining.  He 
then  returned  to  Central  City,  where  he  followed 
raining  until  1870.  In  1878  he  bought  two  hun- 
dred and  eighty  acres  of  farming  land,  and  has 
since  added  to  his  first  purchase  from  time  to  time, 
until  he  now  owns  five  hundred  and  sixty  acres 
in  all.  He  is  engaged  in  farming  and  stock- 
raising,  and  is  one  of  the  prosperous  and  well-to- 
do  members  of  his  community.  He  enjoys  the 
well- merited  confidence  of  his  community,  and  is 
doing  his  share  toward  the  building  up  of  his 
adopted  country. 

August  Neuman  and  Miss  Teresa  Folster,  of 
Central  City,  were  united  in  marriage  May  10, 
1870.  She  was  also  a  native  of  Germany  and 
came  to  Colorado  in  1867.  Three  children  were 
born  of  this  marriage,  namely:  Albert,  who  is  a 
painter  and  decorator;  Theodore,  who  is  assist- 
ing his  father  on  the  ranch;  and  Emma,  who  is  a 
graduate  of  the  State  Normal  School  and  is  now 
engaged  in  teaching.  The  wife  and  mother  died 
in  September,  1883.  Our  subject  is  a  Repub- 
lican in  politics  and  votes  uniformly  and  con- 
scientiously with  that  party.  His  first  vote  was 
cast  for  Hayes  in  1876. 


'QEORGE  H.  KIMBALL  came  to  Colorado 
_  in  the  spring  of  1866,  crossing  the  plains  in 
>_J  a  "prairie  schooner"  and  locating  at  Spanish 
Bar,  just  above  Idaho  Springs.  A  few  months 
later  he  came  to  Golden,  where  at  first  he  worked 
as  a  carpenter,  but  soon  embarked  in  contracting 
and  building,  and  this  occupation  he  has  since 
followed.  He  has  had  contracts  for  many  of  the 
most  substantial  and  important  buildings  here, 
among  them  the  School  of  Mines,  and  the  first 
building  of  the  Industrial  School.  He  superin- 
tended the  erection  of  the  high  school  of  Golden, 
and  the  additions  to  the  south  side  school;  was 
foreman  in  the  building  of  the  Jefierson  County 
courthouse  and  has  built  many  of  the  finest  resi- 
dences and  stores  in  Golden.  In  1897  ^^  ^^s 
unfortunate  in  breaking  a  limb  by  falling  when 
at  his  work,  but  the  leg  was  set  and  finally  healed, 
so  that  he  is  now  able  to  be  about  once  more. 


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Mr.  Kimball  was  born  in  Centerville,  Allegany 
County,  N.  Y.,  in  December,  1835,  the  son  of 
Chester  and  Victoria  (Williams)  Kimball,  natives 
respectively  of  Vermont  and  New  York.  His 
father,  who  was  a  cabinet-maker  by  trade,  en- 
gaged in  the  manufacture  of  furniture  in  Center- 
ville, where  he  died  at  the  age  of  sixty-five. 
His  wife  died  in  1844,  at  the  age  of  thirty-three 
years.  She  left  three  children,  the  eldest  of 
whom,  L.  W.,  was  captain  in  the  One  Hundred 
and  Eleventh  Pennsylvania  Infantry  during  the 
war  and  is  now  engaged  in  the  nursery  business 
in  Boulder,  Colo;  George  H.  was  second  in  order 
of  birth;  and  the  youngest  was  Mrs.  Julia  Potter, 
who  died  in  Golden. 

When  our  subject  was  a  boy  of  nine  years  his 
mother  died,  and  afterward  he  lived  with  his 
aunt,  Mrs.  Higgins,  upon  a  farm.  His  education 
was  obtained  in  the  Centerville  public  schools 
and  Rushford  Academy.  He  was  united  in  mar- 
riage, in  Centerville,  in  1861,  with  Miss  Ann 
Eliza  Veazey,  who  was  born  in  that  place.  After- 
ward he  engaged  in  farminguntil  the  fall  of  1864, 
when  he  enlisted  in  Company  C,  First  New  York 
Dragoons,  which  was  first  an  infantry  regiment, 
but  was  afterward  mounted.  He  took  part  in  the 
engagements  in  the  Shenandoah  Valley  under 
Sherman,  until  the  surrender  of  Appomattox.  At 
Sullivan  Station,  after  the  battle  of  Five  Forks, 
he  was  wounded  in  the  hip  by  a  rifle  ball.  He 
was  mustered  out  of  the  service  at  Rochester, 
N.  Y.,  July  18,  1865.  Shortly  after  his  return 
home  he  moved  to  Colorado.  He  and  his  wife 
had  four  children,  but  only  two  attained  mature 
years:  Mrs.  Belle  McGowan,  of  Denver;  and  Mrs. 
Emma  Fenn,  who  died  in  Denver  in  November, 
1897.  Mrs.  Kimball  is  a  member  of  the  Presby- 
terian Church  and  assists  in  its  various  enter- 
prises. 

Upon  the  organization  of  the  town  Mr.  Kim- 
ball was  made  president  of  the  board  of  trustees. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  first  board  of  aldermen, 
and  some  years  later  was  appointed  to  fill  a  va- 
cany  upon  the  board.  During  his  sixteen  years 
of  service  upon  the  school  board  he  was  treasurer 
a  part  of  the  time  and  also  president.  He  has 
held  the  position  of  chairman  of  the  Republican 
county  central  committee  at  various  times,  and 
has  represented  his  party  as  delegate  to  county 
and  state  conventions.  He  is  a  supporter  of  the 
white  metal  and  belongs  to  the  silver  branch  of 


the  Republican  party.  T.  H.  Dodd  Post  No.  3, 
G.  A.  R. ,  which  is  next  to  the  oldest  post  in  the 
state,  numbers  him  among  its  charter  members 
and  he  has  been  its  commander.  He  has  held 
the  position  of  assistant  quartermaster  general  of 
the  department  of  Colorado  and  Wyoming.  Un- 
til his  lodge  surrendered  its  charter  he  was  iden- 
tified with  the  Patriotic  Order  Sons  of  America. 


G|  LSON  HOWARD  EGGLESTON,  a  promi- 
Ll  nent  representative  of  the  agricultural  in- 
/  I  terests  of  Douglas  County,  is  located  on 
his  farm  four  and  one-half  miles  south  of  Parker, 
on  section  15,  township  7,  range  66.  Heisason 
of  James  Harvey  and  Eliza  (Howard)  Eggleston, 
and  was  born  in  Aurora,  Portage  County,  Ohio, 
August  30,  1844. 

James  Harvey  Eggleston  was  born  in  the  state 
of  New  York,  and  in  childhood  went  to  Ohio, 
where  he  followed  farming  after  attaining  matu- 
rity. He  subsequently  moved  to  Greenup,  Ky., 
thence  to  Covington,  Ky.,  where  he  resided  for 
two  years  and  followed  his  calling.  In  1856  he 
settled  upon  a  tract  of  government  land  near 
Manhattan,  Kan.,  which  he  cultivated,  but  two 
years  later  returned  to  Ohio  and  located  in  Cincin- 
nati, where  he  dealt  in  butter  and  eggs  bought  on 
the  Western  Reserve.  In  i860,  the  time  of  the 
Pike's  Peak  gold  fever,  he  jvent  to  Colorado  by 
means  of  two  ox-teams,  the  journey  requiring 
thirty  days.  In  connection  with  several  others 
he  engaged  in  mining  for  a  brief  period,  after 
which  he  hired  a  man  to  take  his  place.  He  en- 
gaged in  freighting  until  the  spring  of  1861,  when 
he  went  upon  a  ranch  at  Cache  la  Poudre,  taking 
up  a  piece  of  government  land.  In  1866  he  sold 
out  to  his  son,  Alson  Howard,  and  returned  to 
Bainbridge,  Ohio,  where  he  resided  until  his 
death  in  1884.  He  was  united  in  marriage  with 
Eliza  Howard,  a  native  of  Connecticut,  and 
five  children  were  born  to  them,  but  only  one  is 
living,  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 

Alson  Howard  Eggleston  was  but  one  year  old 
upon  the  death  of  his  mother,  after  which  he 
was  taken  to  the  home  of  his  grandfather.  Free- 
man Howard,  in  Portage  County,  Ohio.  He 
resided  there  until  he  was  twelve  years  of  age 
and  attended  the  district  schools.  He  then  went 
to  live  with  his  father  at  Greenup,  Ky.,  and  con- 
tinued with  him  in  tb?  various  states  in  which  he 


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lived  until  the  fall  of  1861.  When  the  latter  was 
engaged  in  mining,  our  subject  was  employed  as 
cook  in  the  camps  and  acted  as  such  until  he  lo- 
cated in  Cache  la  Poudre.  In  1861  he  went  to 
Junction  City,  Kan.,  and  in  the  spring  of  the  fol- 
lowing year  offered  his  services  to  the  govern- 
ment, which  were  refused  owing  to  his  youth. 
However,  he  was  accepted  as  a  teamster  at  Fort 
Union,  N.  Mex.,  but  returned  to  Kansas  a  few 
months  later.  He  was  then  permitted  to  enlist  in 
Company  E,  Second  Kansas  Volunteer  Cavalry, 
and  served  faithfully  for  three  years,  lacking  six 
days,  participating  in  a  number  of  important  en- 
gagements. He  met  with  many  thrilling  ad- 
ventures, but  always  exhibited  great  daring 
and  coolness  in  the  face  of  danger.  At  Pea 
Ridge,  Prairie  Grove,  Ark.,  he  received  a  severe 
wound  upon  the  right  hand,  but  fought  on  with 
unflagging  energy.  He  was  present  at  the  taking 
of  Van  Buren  and  Fort  Smith  on  the  Arkansas 
River,  in  the  former  engagement  being  knocked 
from  his  horse  by  a  piece  of  flying  shell;  he  was 
stunned,  but  in  a  few  minutes  he  pluckily  regained 
his  saddle  and  was  up  with  his  comrades.  He 
received  his  honorable  discharge  in  1865,  and  then 
went  to  Leavenworth,  Kan.  There  he  was  mar- 
ried and  resided  until  July  26,  1866,  when  he  and 
his  wife  started  for  their  present  home,  making 
the  journey  with  one  span  of  horses.  Upon 
reaching  his  destination,  he  purchased  the  estate 
of  his  father  and  began  farming,  his  specialty 
being  the  dairy  business,  in  which  he  has  been 
more  than  ordinarily  successful.  Besides  the 
original  tract  of  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres,  he 
acquired  an  equal  amount  from  the  government  by 
pre-emption,  which  he  now  owns.  He  is  a  man 
of  great  industry  and  enterprise,  and  has  improved 
his  farms  to  such  an  extent  that  they  are  unsur- 
passed in  that  section.  He  is  a  man  of  excellent 
character,  is  very  popular  and  numbers  many 
friends. 

August  24,  1865,  Mr.  Eggleston  married  Miss 
Eliza  Cook,  of  Leavenworth,  Kan.,  whose  ac- 
quaintance he  formed  through  her  brother,  who 
was  a  member  of  the  same  company  as  he;  he 
was  left  upon  the  field  of  battle  badly  wounded 
and  upon  the  following  day  his  life  was  brought 
to  a  close  by  a  rebel.  This  happy  union  was 
blessed  by  twelve  children,  namely:  George  H., 
who  died  at  the  age  of  twelve  years;  Clara  Ann, 
who  became  the  wife  of  Charles  Austin  and  lives 


in  Douglas  County;  Alice  M.,  the  wife  of  Benja- 
min Hudson,  of  the  same  county;  Sadie  Lorette, 
the  wife  of  George  Kelty,  of  Douglas  County; 
Eva  W. ,  who  married  Anson  Brackett,  of  Douglas 
County;  Earl  A.,  a  resident  of  Douglas  County; 
Mary  A.,  the  wife  of  Edward  McCasland,  who 
lives  in  Douglas  County;  Kate,  Earl  and  Henry, 
who  are  at  home  with  their  parents;  and  Dora 
and  Charles,  both  deceased. 

Our  subject  has  always  been  an  ardent  Repub- 
lican and  cast  his  first  vote  for  Lincoln,  while  in 
the  service.  In  1884  he  was  elected  county  com- 
missioner, and  served  with  such  satisfaction  as  to 
gain  the  re-election  three  years  later.  He  was 
general  road-overseer  for  two  terms,  deputy 
county  clerk  for  the  same  length  of  time,  and 
was  also  elected  justice  of  the  peace,  but  as  the 
duties  of  that  office  proved  uncongenial  to  him 
he  soon  relhiquished  it.  He  is  a  member  of 
Castle  Rock  Lodge  No.  27,  A.  O.  U.  W.,  of 
which  he  has  been  master  workman;  and  of  the 
J.  G.  Blunt  Post,  G.  A.  R.,  of  which  he  is  past 
commander,  has  been  chaplain,  and  is  now  serv- 
ing as  adjutant.  In  religious  attachment,  he  is 
a  faithful  member  and  a  class-leader  of  the  Meth- 
odist Episcopal  Church,  having  attended  the 
church  of  that  denomination  since  childhood. 
He  takes  an  active  interest  in  Sunday-school 
work,  and  has  been  superintendent. 


EOL.  F.  F.  OSBISTON,  of  Idaho  Springs, 
was  born  January  23,  1843,  the  seventeenth 
in  a  family  of  twenty-two  children,  eight  of 
whom  attained  maturity  and  six  are  now  living. 
Robert  lives  at  Sydney,  New  South  Wales,  and  is 
editor  of  the  Journal  of  the  Institute  of  Bankers. 
The  other  brothers  and  sisters  are  still  living  in 
England.  Their  parents,  Samuel  and  Ann  (Long) 
Osbiston,  were  natives  respectively  of  Derby, 
Derbyshire,  and  Norfolk.  The  father  ran  a  flour- 
mill  in  Norfolk  until  shortly  before  he  died,  when 
in  his  sixty-fifth  year.  The  mother  died  in  1878. 
The  grandfather,  Thomas  Osbiston,  was  born  in 
Derbyshire  and  removed  to  Norfolk,  where  he 
carried  on  a  farm.  The  family  name  was  origi- 
nally Osbaldistone  and  was  shortened  to  its  pres- 
ent form  at  the  time  the  clan  removed  from  the 
southern  part  of  Scotland  to  the  country  further 
south. 

In  his  boyhood  Colonel  Osbiston  attended  the 


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PORTRAIT  AND  BIOGRAPHICAL  RECORD. 


Snettisham  grammar  school.  After  finishing  his 
studies  he  obtained  a  position  as  a  clerk  in  the 
lyondon  and  Westminster  Bank,  remaining  there 
from  1861  to  1864.  That  year  he  came  to  the 
United  States  as  the  secretary  of  an  English 
mining  company.  Proceeding  to  the  present  site 
of  Reno,  Nev. ,  in  their  interests,  he  soon  was 
made  superintendent  of  the  Washoe  Mining  Com- 
pany. Gaining  valuable  experience  in  the  next 
few  years,  he  became  secretary  and  assistant 
superintendent  of  the  Yellow  Jacket,  on  the  Corn- 
stock  lode,  of  Gold  Hill  and  Virginia  City,  near 
Gold  Hill,  Nev.  Later  he  was  the  confiden- 
tial agent  and  mine  expert  of  the  Bank  of  Cali- 
fornia (under  Ralston  &  Sharon) ,  then  operating 
numerous  mines.  At  the  end  of  three  years  the 
Bonanza  firm  of  Mackey,  Flood,  Fair  & 
O'Brian  appointed  him  superintendent  of  the 
Savage  mine  of  the  Comstock  lode.  Subsequently 
he  held  similar  positions  in  the  Gould  and  Curray 
mine  and  in  the  Best  and  Belcher  mines.  In  1879, 
the  colonel,  in  company  with  Messrs.  Mackey, 
Rosener  and  Roberts,  purchased  the  Freeland 
mine  at  Freeland,  Clear  Creek  County.  He  was 
installed  as  manager  and  the  firm  was  incorpo- 
rated as  the  Freeland  Mining  Company.  In  con- 
nection with  the  mines  a  concentrator  and  a 
smelter  were  operated  at  each  mine,  and  every- 
thing was  conducted  under  the  most  approved 
modern  methods.  The  Freeland  mine,  which  was 
bought  for  $235,000,  produced  about  $3,000,000, 
under  the  energetic  and  able  management  of  our 
.subject.  He  controlled  the  Hukill,  now  the  Stan- 
ley mine,  for  a  number  of  years,  selling  out  his 
interest  in  the  same  in  1892,  after  he  had  taken 
out  nearly  f  1,000, 000  worth  of  ore.  He  and 
his  brother-in-law,  Horace  White,  of  New  York 
City,  own  the  Freeland  Extension  mine  property, 
one  of  the  finest  in  this  section.  The  develop- 
ment of  the  Freeland  mine  was  of  great  general 
benefit  to  this  region,  bringing  it  into  prominence 
as  it  had  never  been  before,  and  from  that  time  to 
the  present  its  growth  and  prosperity  have  been 
truly  wonderful. 

Colonel  Osbiston  has  been  a  recognized  leader 
in  the  Republican  party  for  many  years.  In  1882 
he  was  elected  to  represent  Clear  Creek  County 
in  the  state  legislature  and  served  in  the  fourth 
general  assembly.  In  1884  he  had  the  honor  of 
being  a  presidential  elector,  standing  by  Blaine 
and  Logan,  and  four  years  later  he  was  similarly 


singled  forth,  that  time  using  his  influence  for 
Harri.son  and  Morton.  While  living  in  Nevada 
he  was  a  member  of  Governor  Blaisdell's  staff, 
having  the  rank  of  colonel.  Later  he  held  the 
same  office  under  Governors  Bradley  and  Adams, 
though  they  were  both  Democrats.  At  another 
time  he  was  appointed  to  a  like  post  of  honor  on 
Gov.  J.  B.  Grant's  staff,  but  declined.  He  has 
maintained  unflagging  interest  in  the  welfare  of 
Idaho  Springs  since  casting  in  his  lot  here  and 
has  served  as  a  member  of  the  town  board  and 
the  school  board  several  terms.  In  July,  1898, 
he  was  a  delegate  to  the  International  Mining 
Congress  in  Salt  Lake  Cit}'. 

Initiated  into  the  Masonic  fraternity  in  Reno, 
Nev.,  in  1873,  Colonel  Osbiston  became  a 
Royal  Arch  Mason  in  Virginia  City  the  following 
year,  and  in  the  same  city  was  made  a  Knight 
Templar  in  1877.  He  retains  his  membership 
with  the  same  lodges.  Religiously  he  is  an 
Episcopalian.  In  1871  he  married  Miss  Frances 
Hinman,  in  Virginia  City.  She  is  a  native  of 
Beloit,  Wis.  The  only  child  of  this  marriage  is 
Bessie,  wife  of  Oscar  Lachmund,  superintendent 
of  the  Kilton  Sampling  Works,  of  Idaho  Springs. 


i  EORGE  KELTON,  a  farmer  of  Elbert  Coun- 
ty, resides  on  section  12,  township  9,  range 
63  west.  He  was  born  in  the  province  of 
Ontario,  April  19,  1846,  a  son  of  Dominie  Kel- 
ton.  He  was  deprived  by  death  of  his  mother 
when  he  was  only  eight  days  old.  His  boyhood 
years  were  spent  in  Ontario,  where  he  received 
fair  educational  advantages.  At  eighteen  years 
of  age  he  went  to  Michigan,  where  he  secured 
employment  as  clerk  in  a  clothing  store.  His 
previous  experience  in  a. similar  line  while  in  On- 
tario proved  helpful  to  him  and  he  was  retained 
by  his  employers  for  several  years.  In  April, 
1865,  he  enlisted  in  the  Union  service  and  was 
assigned  to  the  Eighth  Michigan  Cavalry,  but 
while  he  was  in  camp  at  Jackson  waiting  to  be 
ordered  to  the  front  the  war  came  to  a  close. 

Learning  the  tinner's  trade  Mr.  Kelton  followed 
it  for  a  year  or  more,  and  afterward  worked  at 
other  occupations.  In  1870  he  went  to  Kansas 
and  from  there  to  New  Mexico,  where  he  re- 
mained one  year.  Then  coming  to  Colorado,  he 
farmed  government  land  near  Trinidad  fot  a  year, 
but  was  cheated  out  of  his  crops,  so  made  noth- 


HERBERT  J.  THOMPSON. 


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ing  out  of  the  venture.  Coming  to  Denver  he 
worked  in  and  about  this  city,  and  also  in  the 
mountains;  later  herded  cattle  for  some  years  in 
El  Paso  County.  His  next  experiment  was  the 
purchase  of  sheep,  which  he  pastured  on  his  pres- 
ent property  of  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres.  At 
this  writing  he  gives  his  attention  largely  to  gen- 
eral farming,  although  he  also  engages  in  stock- 
raising  to  some  extent. 

In  June,  1878,  Mr.  Kelton  married  Mrs.  Adel- 
gunda  (Ulo)  Maul,  who  was  born  in  Saxony, 
and  came  to  this  country  in  girlhood.  In  poli- 
tics Mr.  Kelton  always  voted  the  Democratic 
ticket  until  the  campaign  of  1896,  when  he  fa- 
vored the  gold  standard  and  cast  his  ballot  for 
President  McKinley. 


HERBERT  J.  THOMPSON,  former  treasurer 
of  Weld  County,  and  one  of  the  prominent 
agriculturists  of  northern  Colorado,  is  a 
native  of  Wisconsin,  having  been  born  in  Thomp- 
son ville,  Racine  County,  August  27,  1858.  He 
is  of  Scotch  ancestry.  His  grandfather,  Robert 
Thompson,  emigrated  from  Scotland  to  America 
about  1815,  settling  in  Munson,  Conn.,  but  in 
1838  removed  to  Racine,  Wis. ,  and  became  one 
of  the  pioneers  of  that  section.  He  engaged  in 
agricultural  pursuits  and  was  actively  and  promi- 
nently identified  with  the  growth  and  develop- 
ment of  Racine  County.  His  family  consisted  of 
five  sons  and  four  daughters,  our  subject's  father, 
John,  being  seventh  in  order  of  birth. 

The  latter  was  born  in  Connecticut,  and  at  the 
time  of  his  parents'  removal  to  Wisconsin  was 
about  sixteen.  His  education  was  acquired  in 
the  public  schools  of  Munson  and  Madison,  Wis. , 
and  until  attaining  his  majority  he  assisted  in  the 
carrying  on  of  the  home  farm.  He  then  pur- 
chased a  place  of  his  own,  but  in  1871,  desiring 
to  take  advantage  of  the  fertility  of  Colorado,  he 
became  a  member  of  the  Union  colony  and  re- 
moved to  this  state,  settling  four  miles  northwest 
of  Greeley.  He  there  engaged  in  improving  a 
tract  of  two  hundred  acres,  which  under  his  ju- 
dicious management  is  now  one  of  the  most  valu- 
able properties  ill  this  region.  In  1891  he  retired 
from  active  business  life,  and  placed  his  property 
under  the  management  of  his  sou-in-law.  Max 
Gerry.  He  has  been  twice  married,  first  to  Mary 
Lombard,  a  native  of  Connecticut,  who  became 
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the  mother  of  four  children:  Herbert  J.,  of  this 
sketch;  William  O.,  a  resident  of  North  Platte, 
Neb.;  Ellen,  who  died  when  four  years  old;  and 
Mary,  Mrs.  Max  Gerry. 

Herbert  J.  Thompson  received  his  early  edu- 
cation in  the  public  school  of  Thompsonville,  and 
on  his  removal  to  Colorado  completed  his  studies 
at  Greeley.  He  assisted  his  father  in  the  man- 
agement of  his  property  from  an  early  age  and  re- 
mained with  him  until  the  spring  of  1881,  when, 
in  company  with  his  brother,  William  O.,  he 
purchased  a  tract  of  three  hundred  and  twenty 
acres  two  miles  northwest  of  Eaton,  and  in  1884 
acquired  the  sole  ownership.  Since  then  he  has 
added  from  time  to  time  until  the  present,  now 
being  the  owner  of  four  hundred  and  eighty 
acres,  the  larger  part  of  which  is  leased  to  ten- 
ants. On  the  remainder  he  carries  on  general 
farming,  and  the  prominent  position  which  he 
has  attained  among  the  farmers  of  northern  Colo- 
rado is  due  to  his  untiring  energy  and  correct 
business  methods.  He  is  also  interested  in  the 
buying  and  fattening  of  lambs  for  the  Chicago 
markets,  wintering  on  the  average  two  thousand 
five  hundred.  He  was  one  of  the  organizers  and 
first  directors  of  Larimer  and  Weld  reservoir, 
one  of  the  largest  in  the  state,  and  is  also  a  stock- 
holder in  the  Greeley  National  Bank. 

Since  attaining  his  majority,  Mr.  Thompson 
has  been  active  in  political  matters,  and  a  stanch 
supporter  of  the  Republican  party.  He  has 
served  four  years  as  road  supervisor  and  two 
terms  as  a  member  of  the  board  of  school  direc- 
tors, and  was  secretary  of  the  latter  body.  In 
1889  he  was  nominated — and  elected  by  a  flatter- 
ing majority — treasurer  of  Weld  County,  and  on 
the  expiration  of  his  term  re-elected  for  a  second. 
During  his  incumbency  of  the  office,  his  admin- 
istration of  its  affairs  was  such  as  to  cause  entire 
satisfaction  to  the  general  public.  He  clearly 
demonstrated  the  possession  of  executive  ability 
of  a  high  order  and  as  an  appreciation  of  the  high 
regard  in  which  he  is  held  he  has  recently  been 
nominated,  by  the  Republicans,  as  candidate  for 
the  state  legislature.  Fraternally  he  is  connected 
with  the  Knights  of  Pythias,  Independent  Order 
of  Odd  Fellows, Woodmen  of  the  World;and  is  also 
a  member  of  Forest  City  Lodge  No.  3 1 ,  K.  of  P. , 
Poudre  Valley  Lodge  No.  12,  I.  O.  O.  F.,  of 
Greeley;  and  Camp  No.  130,  Woodmen  of  the 
World,  of  Eaton. 


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February  5,  1885,  Mr.  Thompson  married 
Fannie  M.,  daughter  of  Charles  C.  Searing,  of 
Westchester,  Westchester  County,  N.  Y.  To 
them  have  been  born  six  daughters:  Helen  H., 
Hattie,  Frances  M.,  Amy,  Martha  E.  and  Grace. 


30NATHAN  P.  KELLY,  who  owns  and  oc- 
cupies a  ranch  of  four  hundred  acres  four 
miles  north  of  Sedalia,  Douglas  County,  was 
born  in  the  town  of  Wayne,  Ashtabula  County, 
Ohio,  and  is  a  son  of  Cyril  and  Abigail  (Folsom) 
Kelly.  His  father,  who  was  a  stone  mason, 
moved  to  the  town  of  Green,  Trumbull  County, 
in  the  same  state,  and  there  were  passed  the  boy- 
hood days  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch.  He  was 
born  January  19,  1829,  and  was  a  young  man  of 
twenty  years  when,  in  1849,  he  went  to  Kane 
County,  111.  There  he  learned  the  carpenter's 
trade  and  was  fortunate  in  receiving  wages  from 
the  start  of  his  apprenticeship. 

While  in  Kane  County,  March  27,  1851,  Mr. 
Kelly  married  Miss  Esther  M.  Berry,  who  was 
then  living  in  Kane  County,  but  was  born  in  Erie 
County,  Pa.,  a  daughter  of  Henry  and  Deborah 
(Miller)  Berry.  In  i860  Mr.  Kelly  crossed  the 
plains  with  an  ox-team,  and  after  a  journey  of 
six  weeks  arrived  in  Denver  on  the  20th  of  June. 
In  that  city  he  worked  at  his  trade  during  the 
summer,  and  in  the  fall  of  the  same  year  he  took 
a  squatter's  claim  to  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres, 
comprising  a  part  of  his  present  farm.  In  Sep- 
tember, 1861,  he  enlisted  in  Company  B,  Colo- 
rado Home  Guards,  for  six  months.  His  company 
and  another  were  left  to  guard  Denver,  while 
the  remainder  of  the  regiment  was  sent  to  the 
front.  At  the  expiration  of  the  six  months  he 
was  offered  a  commission  in  the  Second  Colorado 
Infantry,  but  as  he  had  a  wife  and  two  children 
to  care  for  he  thought  it  best  to  refuse.  Return- 
ing home  he  gave  his  attention  to  his  farm  and 
the  hauling  of  wood  to  Denver,  and  was  prosper- 
ous from  the  first.  In  the  early  days  he  was 
known  as  a  skillful  hunter,  and  by  the  aid  of  his 
rifle  he  provided  deer  and  antelope  for  his  family. 
Reared  in  the  Whig  faith,  in  1852  Mr.  Kelly 
voted  for  John  P.  Hale,  the  free-soil  candidate 
for  president.  Four  years  later  he  voted  for  John 
C.  Fremont,  and  in  1876  for  R.  B.  Hayes,  since 
which  time  he  has  continued  to  support  Repub- 
lican candidates.     At  one  time  there  was  a^post- 


office  (known  as  Keystone)  on  his  ranch,  and  he 
served  as  postmaster  for  two  years.  When  a 
child  he  attended  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church,  his  parents  being  identified  with  that 
denomination,  but  during  his  residence  in  Illi- 
nois he  joined  the  Baptist  Church,  to  which  he 
has  since  belonged.  He  and  his  wife  became  the 
parents  of  four  children.  The  oldest  son ,  Everett 
B.,  who  was  born  in  Kane  County,  III.,  married 
Miss  Amy  Houghten,  by  whom  he  had  one  child. 
By  occupation  he  was  a  miner.  He  died  on  Dec- 
oration day  of  1898,  at  Anaconda,  Colo.,  of  heart 
disease.  The  second  son,  William  C,  who  was 
born  in  Kane  County,  married  Miss  Lillie  Sny- 
der and  is  living  on  his  father's  farm.  The  third 
son,  Walter,  who  was  born  in  Colorado,  died  at 
two  years  of  age  and  is  buried  in  the  family  cem- 
etery, on  the  home  farm.  The  only  daughter, 
Emma,  is  the  wife  of  Berlin  F.  Roberts,  of  Ana- 
conda, a  miner,  and  they  have  one  child,  Esther. 


nOHN  H.  LINDER  is  the  owner  and  manager 
I  of  a  large  hardware'store  in  Golden.  The  store 
\Z/  that  he  occupies  on  Washington  avenue  has 
a  frontage  of  seventy-five  feet,  with  a  depth  of 
over  one  hundred  feet.  Since  starting  in  busi- 
ness he  has  built  up  a  large  trade  and  is  now 
numbered  among  the  most  successful  merchants 
of  Golden.  His  success  is  (lue  to  the  fact  that  he 
has  used  sound  common  sense  in  business  trans- 
actions, as  well  as  to  the  other  no  less  important 
fact  that  he  has  been  honest  and  accommodating 
in  his  dealings  with  customers,  thus  winning  their 
confidence  in  his  reliability  and  efiiciency. 

A  native  of  Golconda,  Pope  County,  111.,  the 
subject  of  this  sketch  is  a  son  of  Joseph  Linder, 
who  was  born  in  Wurtemberg,  Germany,  but 
emigrated  to  America  and  settled  in  Golconda, 
111.,  where  he  engaged  in  business  for  many 
years.  He  died  there  when  seventy  years  of  age, 
having  long  survived  his  wife,  who  died  when 
our  subject  was  fourteen.  There  were  three  sons 
and  one  daughter  in  the  family,  J.  H.  being  the 
youngest  of  the  number.  His  brothers  are  both 
in  Colorado,  J.  V.  being  in  JeSerson  County  and 
D.  C.  in  Denver.  The  sister,  Barbara  C,  is  the 
wife  of  Charles  Hacker,  and  they  reside  at  Gol- 
conda. 

After  having  attended  the  public  schools  for  a 
number  of  years,  our  subject  was  apprenticed  to 


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the  tinsmith's  trade  in  Golconda  and  served  a 
term  of  three  years,  from  fourteen  years  of  age  to 
seventeen.  In  1877  he  went  to  Indiana,  but  re- 
mained there  for  a  short  time  only,  soon  going 
back  to  Golconda,  where  he  carried  on  business 
as  a  dealer  in  ice.  In  1882  he  came  to  Colorado 
and  settled  in  Golden,  where  for  a  time  he  was 
employed  as  a  clerk  in  a  hardware  store.  In  1 887 
he  bought  out  H.  S.  Van  Gorden,  and  with  a 
partner,  under  the  firm  name  of  Parker  &I,inder, 
carried  on  business  for  a  year.  He  then  bought 
out  the  other  member  of  the  firm  and  carried  on 
the  business  alone,  but  when  Mr.  Parker  had  re- 
gained his  health  he  again  became  financially  in- 
terested in  the  concern,  and  the  name  was  changed 
to  J.  H.  Under  &  Co.  In  1895  Mr.  Parker  sold 
his  interest  a  second  time  and  Mr.  I^indcr  has 
since  been  alone.  He  has  a  warehouse  in  con- 
nection with  the  store,  and  carries  implements  of 
all  kinds,  also  manufactures  articles  from  tin  and 
sheet  metal,  and  in  addition  carries  on  a  plumbing 
and  heating  business. 

Politically  Mr.  Linder  is  a  Democrat.  He  is 
identified  with  the  Knights  of  Pythias  and  the 
Odd  Fellows.  His  marriage  occurred  in  Golden 
and  united  him  with  Miss  Hattie  E.  Sherick,  a 
lady  of  amiable  disposition  and  a  lifelong  resident 
of  Colorado.  She  is  a  daughter  of  W.  W.  Sher- 
ick, who  settled  in  the  Gilpin  district  in  i860, 
but  since  1878  has  resided  in  Jefferson  County, 
where  he  is  engaged  in  farming  and  fruit-grow- 
ing. 


"■rNEST-L.  BICKFORD,  M.  D.,  is  one  of 
^  the  successful  young  phj'sicians  of  the 
__  Boulder  County  medical  fraternity.  He 
has  been  occupied  in  the  practice  of  his  profession 
in  Longmont  for  the  past  five  years  and  has  won 
the  respect  and  good  will  of  all  who  know  him. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Boulder  County  Medical 
Society,  the  Whatcom  County  (Wash.)  Medical 
Society  and  the  American  Medical  Association. 
He  keeps  thoroughly  abreast  of  the  times  in  all 
discoveries  and  new  methods  adopted  by  his  pro- 
fessional brethren,  and  while  he  is  sufficiently  con- 
servative he  is  not  out  of  the  march  of  progress 
in  his  chosen  field  of  labor. 

Dr.  Bickford  is  one  of  the  two  children  of 
I.  F.  and  Calista  Hale  (Hall)  Bickford.  The 
father  was  born  in  Rochester,  N.  H.,  and  in  1859 
went  to  Minnesota,  where  he  was  one  of  the  pio- 


neer farmers.  During  the  war  he  was  a  soldier 
in  a  Minnesota  regiment.  He  continued  to  live 
in  that  state  until  1894,  when  he  removed  to 
Seattle,  Wash.,  and  has  since  been  engaged  in 
a  mercantile  business  there.  His  mother  was  a 
Miss  Hayes  before  her  marriage,  and  her  ancestry 
dates  back  to  the  early  Puritan  colony  in  Massa- 
chusetts. Mrs.  Calista  H.  Bickford  was  born  in 
Massachusetts,  and  comes  from  good  old  Revolu- 
tionary stock.  Her  mother,  a  Miss  Hale  prior 
to  her  marriage  with  Mr.  Hall,  was  a  relative  of 
the  celebrated  Nathan  Hale,  who  was  a  spy  in 
the  service  of  the  American  army  during  the 
war  of  the  Revolution  and  was  unfortunately  cap- 
tured by  the  British,  and  as  the  important  papers 
which  he  had  in  his  possession  left  no  doubt  as 
to  his  object  in  venturing  within  the  lines  of  the 
enemy,  he  was  hung,  with  small  ceremony.  The 
heroic  young  man's  last  words  were  these,  that 
have  thrilled  the  souls  of  thousands  of  patriots 
since,  "My  only  regret  is  that  I  have  but  one 
life  to  give  for  my  country. ' '  Both  the  Halls  and 
the  Hales  can  be  traced  back  to  the  first  settle- 
ment of  Massachusetts. 

The  doctor  was  born  in  Fairmont,  Martin 
County,  Minn.,  April  1,1866,  and  with  his 
brother,  Arthur  F.,  who  is  now  a  merchant  in 
Seattle,  Wash.,  grew  to  manhood.  He  attended 
the  public  schools  and  the  high  school  at  Win- 
nebago, after  which  he  graduated  from  a  Minne- 
apolis business  college.  The  following  year  he 
engaged  in  teaching  school,  and  next  took  up 
the  study  of  medicine  under  Dr.  Fred  Hunt,  of 
Fairmont.  After  he  had  mastered  the  elementary 
department  of  medical  work  and  science  he  en- 
tered the  Missouri  Medical  College,  and  three 
years  later,  in  1890,  received  the  degree  of  Doctor 
of  Medicine,  upon  his  graduation.  His  initial 
steps  as  a  physician  were  taken  in  Fairhaven, 
Wash.,  where,  in  addition  to  conducting  a 
general  practice,  he  was  on  the  surgical  staff  of 
St.  James  Hospital.  In  1893  he  came  to  Long- 
mont  and  at  once  entered  upon  a  career  that  has 
been  most  gratifying.  His  office  is  conveniently 
situated  in  the  town,  being  on  Main  street. 

Dr.  Bickford  is  a  member  of  Longmont  Lodge 
No.  29,  I.  O.  O.  F. ,  and  is  a  past  officer  of  the 
encampment  at  Columbus,  No.  18.  He  is  also 
a  Knight  of  Pythias,  belonging  to  Fairhaven 
Lodge  No.  56,  and  is  medical  examiner  for  the 
Pacific^circle,  Woodmen  of  the  World,  of  which 


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he  is  a  member.  Since  his  college  days  he  has 
been  a  member  of  the  alumni  association  of  the 
Missouri  Medical  College.  Politically  he  is 
identified  with  the  Republican  party. 

In  1892  Dr.  Bickford  married  Miss  Belle  Dearie, 
in  Fairhaven,  Wash.  She  was  born  in  London, 
England,  and  is  a  daughter  of  Edward  Dearie. 
The  doctor  and  wife  have  two  children,  Ernest  D. 
and  Pansy  May. 

(lOHN  S.  HILL  owns  a  farm  in  Weld  County, 
I  situated  on  township  4  south,  range  67  west, 
Q)  and  comprising  five  hundred  and  fifty-one 
acres  of  fine  land,  the  most  of  which  is  under 
cultivation.  He  was  born  in  Pennsylvania  in 
1836,  and  was  one  of  thirteen  children  composing 
the  family  of  Rev.  Robert  M.  and  Calpornia 
(Miles)  Hill.  His  father,  who  was  a  native  of 
New  York,  was  a  minister  in  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  denomination  and  for  years  engaged  in 
preaching  and  other  religious  work  in  Meadville, 
Pa.  His  death  occurred  at  Franklin,  Pa.,  when 
he  was  seventy- three  years  of  age.  His  wife  died 
in  JeSersonville,  Ind.,  in  i860. 

The  boyhood  years  of  our  subject  were  spent 
largely  in  Meadville,  -Pa. ,  and  his  education  was 
obtained  in  public  schools.  For  a  few  years  he 
was  employed  in  a  foundry  at  Meadville,  Pa.  In 
1856  he  went  to  Louisville,  Ky.,  and  for  ten  years 
carried  on  a  gold  pen  manufacturing  business, 
but  his  health  became  so  poor  that  he  was 
obliged  to  close  out  the  business  and  seek  a  more 
healthful  climate.  Coming  to  Colorado,  he  set- 
tled at  Central  City,  where,  as  soon  as  his  health 
improved,  he  began  to  prospect  and  mine,  becom- 
ing the  owner  of  interests  in  between  fifty  and 
sixty  mines.  After  the  $100  act  was  passed  in 
1878,  he  went  to  Golden,  and  for  ten  years  con- 
ducted a  mercantile  business.  He  had  a  fine 
residence  in  the  town  and  still  owns  property 
there. 

In  1878  Mr.  Hill  came  to  Weld  County,  where 
he  took  up  government  and  railroad  land  and 
began  farming  and  stock-raising.  He  is  now 
one  of  the  largest  stockmen  in  the  county,  hav- 
ing a  large  number  of  fine  horses,  cattle  and  hogs. 
On  settling  at  his  present  place  he  built  a  ditch 
from  the  Highland  ditch  to  his  farm,  a  distance  of 
seven  miles.  He  also  owns  Pleasant  Lake  of 
fifty  acres,  which  he  uses  for  private  irrigation. 
The  property   which  he  now  possesses  represents 


his  unaided  efforts,  for  he  came  to  Colorado  a 
poor  man  and  without  assistance  from  others  he 
has  pushed  his  way  forward  to  success.  His 
prosperity  shows  that  a  poor  man  can  attain  a 
competency  in  this  state,  and  become  well-to-do, 
influential  and  successful,  if  he  has  energy  and 
perseverance. 

Politically  Mr.  Hill  has  never  identified  him- 
self with  any  party,  but  votes  for  the  best  man 
for  the  place.  Since  i860  he  has  been  identified 
with  the  Masons  and  Odd  Fellows;  in  the  former 
lodge  he  is  past  master  and  in  the  latter  he  has 
become  identified  with  the  encampment.  He  was 
united  in  marriage  in  1862,  with  Miss  Elizabeth 
Tipton,  an  estimable  lady,  who  shares  with  him 
the  regard  of  acquaintances. 


(TOHN  KEY.  Colorado  is  pre-eminently  a 
I  raining  state,  and  in  no  part  of  it  is  this  fact 
(2/  more  forcibly  brought  to  mind  than  in  the 
county  of  Gilpin,  where  the  country  is  dotted 
over  with  stamp  mills,  there  being  several  hun- 
dred stamps  within  a  radius  of  two  miles.  Among 
the  pioneers  in  the  erection  of  stamp  mills  is  Mr. 
Key,  to  whose  spirit  and  enterprise  may  safely  be 
attributed  a  share  of  Blackhawk's  prosperity. 
He  was  born  in  1851  in  that  part  of  London, 
England,  between  Bow  Bells  and  the  famous 
London  bridge.  His  parents,  Richard  and  Betsey 
Elizabeth  (Sergeant)_Key,  were  natives  respect- 
ively of  Kent  and  Suffolk.  They  came  to  the 
United  States  in  1881  and  now  reside  upon  a 
farm  near  Kinsley,  Kan. 

In  the  city  of  London  our  subject  grew  to  man- 
hood. The  advantages  he  received  in  the  way 
of  an  education  consisted  of  only  three  or  four 
weeks'  schooling  in  his  early  years.  While  he 
was  yet  a  small  lad  he  began  to  assist  his  father 
in  the  store,  also  made  a  little  money  as  newsboy, 
and  was  engaged  later  in  the  marketing  of  fruits 
and  vegetables  in  Victoria  Dock  road,  near  the 
Thames  iron  works.  In  1871  he  set  sail  for 
America.  For  a  year  after  arriving  here  he  was 
employed  in  the  paper  mills  at  Hyde  Park,  Mass. 
He  then  went  to  Kinsley,  Edwards  County, 
Kan,,  where  he  engaged  in  the  stock  business, 
pre-empting  a  homestead  of  two  hundred  and 
forty  acres,  upon  which  he  erected  suitable  build- 
ings and  made  other  improvements.  Afterward 
he  gave  eighty  acres  to  his  father  and  eighty  to 


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his  wife,  reserving  the  remaining  eighty  for  him- 
self. Upon  his  part  of  the  estate  the  father  still 
resides. 

While  in  Kansas  Mr.  Key  was  a  prime  mover 
in  locating  the  county-seat  of  Edwards  County. 
In  the  fall  of  1873  he  came  to  Blackhawk,  Colo., 
where  he  was  a  feeder  in  the  Fullerton  mills,  but 
in  less  than  three  years  he  was  made  superintend- 
ent of  the  mills  on  North  Clear  Creek,  and  there 
he  remained  for  nearly  twenty  years.  He  was 
actively  engaged  in  operating  the  Lone  Star  mine 
and  the  Robert  Emmett  mine  of  Chase  Gulch,  in 
both  of  which  he  was  moderately  successful.  In 
1893  a  partnership  was  formed  with  Mr.  Olden, 
John  Beattie  and  our  subject,  the  Gilpin  mill 
being  the  outcome.  Mr.  Olden  is  a  fine  mechanic 
and  the  building  was  erected  mainly  by  him, 
while  the  practical  management  of  it  is  left  in  the 
hands  of  Mr.  Key.  About  two  years  after  this 
partnership  was  formed,  Mr.  Beattie  sold  his  in- 
terest in  the  business  to  Mr.  Jenkins,  and  the 
company  have  so  continued  to  this  time.  This  is 
a  fifty-stamp  mill  and  is  run  by  steam  power, 
having  two  engines  and  steel  boilers  of  eighty- 
horse  power.  This  enterprise  is  conducted  on 
the  most  improved  methods,  and  no  trouble  or 
expense  is  spared  to  make  the  work  first-class  in 
every  respect  and  obtain  the  best  possible  results. 
They  use  the  plate  amalgamation  and  bumper 
concentration,  and  it  has  run  continuously  since  it 
was  built  in  1894,  giving  perfect  satisfaction. 
They  put  in  a  siding  from  the  Gulf  Railroad, 
which  greatly  facilitates  conveying  the  difierent 
kinds  of  ore  to  their  mill.  The  success  of  the 
Gilpin  mill  is  due  to  the  untiring  and  well-directed 
energy  of  its  manager,  John  Key,  whose  shrewd 
business  foresight  is  well  recognized  in  the  com- 
munity. 

Mr.  Key  married  Miss  Maria  Elizabeth  Fann- 
ing, who,  like  himself,  was  a  native  of  London. 
The  ceremony  which  united  them  was  performed 
in  St.  Thomas  Church  of  that  metropolis.  Four 
children,  now  living,  have  been  sent  to  brighten 
their  home:  Harry  Richard;  Emma  Elizabeth, 
William  James  and  Raymond  Charles.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Key  are  communicants  of  the  Episcopal 
Church.  He  is  an  ardent  Republican  and  for- 
merly took  an  active  part  in  all  political  affairs 
until  his  steadily  increasing  business  required  his 
entire  time  and  attention.  He  was  elected  alder- 
man  of  Blackhawk   one  terra,  and  was  mayor 


pro  tem  to  fill  a  vacancy.  He  was  also  a  member 
of  the  school  board  one  term,  and  lent  valuable 
aid  to  the  cause  of  education.  He  is  a  member 
of  Blackhawk  Lodge  No.  11,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.; 
and  has  been  a  member  of  the  Odd  Fellows  for 
upwards  of  twenty  years,  serving  as  past  chief  of 
the  encampment.  He  is  an  open  hearted,  liberal 
citizen,  a  man  of  sterling  worth,  and  is  deservedly 
popular  throughout  the  county. 


lAMUEL  R.  HUFFSMITH,  a  representative 
and  prominent  farmer  and  stock-raiser, 
carrying  on  operations  on  section  26,  town- 
ship 5,  range  65,  Weld  County,  was  born  Janu- 
arj'  15,  1846,  in  Monroe  County,  Pa.,  and  is  a  son 
of  Adam  and  Sarah  A.  (Rees)  Huffsmith,  also 
natives  of  Pennsylvania.  His  father,  who  en- 
gaged in  farming  in  Pennsylvania  until  his 
removal  to  Iowa  in  1852,  resided  in  the  latter 
state  until  1864,  when  he  located  in  Colorado, 
one  year  after  our  subject  came  here.  He  con- 
ducted a  hotel  in  Denver  for  some  time,  and  then 
settled  on  a  farm  northwest  of  that  city,  which  he 
later  sold.  His  next  home  was  near  Evans,  in 
Weld  County,  where  he  followed  farming  and 
stock-raising  until  his  death,  which  occurred 
February  22,  1889.  In  his  family  were  six  sons 
and  six  daughters,  and  all  reached  years  of 
maturity  with  the  exception  of  two  daughters. 
The  sons  are:  Samuel  R.,  of  this  sketch;  Peter, 
who  is  engaged  in  the  implement  business  in 
Greeley;  Milton,  who  died  in  Minnesota;  William, 
residing  in  Evans  with  his  mother,  who  is  now 
seventy-eight  years  of  age;  Albert,  also  a  resident 
of  Evans;  and  Charles,  the  editor  and  proprietor 
of  the  Evans  Courier. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  spent  the  first  five 
years  of  his  life  in  Pennsylvania  and  then  was 
taken  by  his  parents  to  Delaware  County,  Iowa, 
where  he  made  his  home  until  1863,  in  the  mean- 
time acquiring  such  an  education  as  the  district 
schools  of  the  locality  afforded  and  obtaining  an 
excellent  knowledge  of  agricultural  pursuits. 
With  his  sister  Emma  and  her  husband,  Daniel 
Westover,  he  came  overland  with  an  ox-team  to 
Colorado,  arriving  in  Denver,  July  3,  1863.  The 
following  August  he  enlisted  in  Company  G, 
First  Colorado  Cavalry,  under  Colonel  Chiving- 
ton,  and  remained  in  the  service  until  the  close 
of  the  war,  being  most  of  the  time  stationed  on 


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the  frontier  in  New  Mexico  and  Colorado,  thougli 
a  portion  of  the  command  was  ordered  to  Missouri. 
He  saw  a  great  deal  of  hard  service,  and  the  most 
severe  engagement  in  which  he  took  part  was  the 
battle  of  Sand  Creek,  Colo.,  with  the  Indians. 
When  hostilities  ceased  he  was  honorably  dis- 
charged at  Fort  Leavenworth,  Kan.,  November 
18,  1865. 

At  the  close  of  the  war,  Mr.  Huffsmith  located 
in  Pottawatomie  County,  Kan.,  where  he  en- 
gaged in  farming.  He  was  married  there, 
December  7,  1869,  to  Miss  Rachel  C.  Gillespie,  a 
native  of  Pittsburg,  Pa.,  and  a  daughter  of 
Mathews  A.  and  Martha  A.  (Carnahan)  Gillespie. 
Seven  children  were  born  of  this  union,  four  sons 
and  three  daughters,  namely:  William  R.,  who  is 
now  conducting  the  home  farm;  Milton  B.,  a 
resident  of  Denver;  Edward,  who  operates  the 
farm  of  his  grandmother  Huffsmith;  Jennie,  wife 
of  Colin  Caddow,  an  expressman  and  employe  of 
the  Electric  Light  Company  of  Denver,  Colo.; 
Maude,  Harry  and  Rachel  A.,  who  are  residing 
with  their  parents. 

Mr.  Huffsmith  remained  in  Kansas  until  the 
fall  of  1878,  when  he  came  to  Weld  County  and 
at  first  operated  rented  land.  Having  accumu- 
lated some  capital,  in  1881  he  purchased  his 
present  farm  of  eighty  acres,  and  to  general  farm- 
ing and  stock-raising  has  since  devoted  his  atten- 
tion with  good  success,  keeping  from  fifty  to  one 
hundred  head  of  stock.  Formerly  he  was  quite 
extensively  interested  in  the  raising  of  horses. 
He  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Evans  cheese 
factory,  being  in  reality  the  originator  of  the 
same,  and  he  does  a  large  dairy  business,  keeping 
on  hand  for  this  purpose  twenty  head  of  cows. 

Mr.  Huffsmith  has  always  taken  quite  an  active 
and  prominent  part  in  public  affairs,  and  origin- 
ally supported  the  Republican  party,  but  is  now 
independent  in  politics.  He  served  as  a  delegate 
to  the  different  conventions  of  his  party,  and  for 
two  terms  most  capably  filled  the  ofiice  of  justice 
of  the  peace.  Fraternally  he  is  a  member  of 
Prosperity  Lodge  No.  109,  I.  O.  O.  F.,  of  Evans; 
and  W.  T.  Sherman  Post  No.  23,  G.  A.  R.,  of 
which  he  is  past  commander,  and  which  he  has 
represented  a  number  of  times  in  the  grand  posts. 
At  one  time  he  also  held  membership  in  the 
Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen.  He  has  pro- 
vided his  children  with  good  educational  advan- 
tages, sending  them    to  school   in  Evans  and 


Greeley,  and  he  has  most  efficiently  served  as 
president  of  the  school  board  most  of  the  time 
since  coming  to  Colorado.  For  the  success  that 
he  has  achieved  in  life  he  deserves  great  credit 
for  from  an  early  age  he  has  made  his  own  way 
in  the  world  unaided,  and  by  his  perseverance, 
enterprise  and  good  management  he  has  become 
quite  well-to-do. 

In  November  of  1898,  Mr.  Huffsmith  was 
elected  county  commissioner  for  a  term  of  three 
years,  having  received  his  election  on  the  silver 
Republican  ticket. 


ID.  ELLIS,  alderman  of  Idaho  Springs  and 
proprietor  of  a  fine  livery  and  feed  stable, 
came  to  this  state  August  4,  1864,  and  for 
many  years  engaged  in  teaming  to  the  mountains. 
He  began  driving  before  he  was  large  enough  to 
harness  his  own  teams  and  has  been  most  indus- 
trious all  his  life.  He  was  born  in  Adrian  County, 
Mo.,  the  son  of  Amos  and  Mary  R.  (Chitwood) 
Ellis.  Amos  Ellis  was  born  in  Shelby  County, 
Ky.,  and  moved  to  Adrain  County,  Mo., 
where  he  followed  his  trade  of  shoemaking. 
In  1864  he  came  to  Idaho  Springs  and  began 
gulch  mining.  He  died  in  1896,  while  on  a  visit 
to  West  Virginia.  His  wife,  Mary  (Chitwood) 
Ellis,  was  born  in  Ralls  County,  Mo.,  and  moved 
with  her  parents  to  Kentucky.  She  now  resides 
in  Idaho  Springs.  There  were  children  as 
follows:  John  and  Milton,  who  were  killed  in 
the  war;  Sarah,  who  resides  in  West  Virginia; 
Amanda,  who  died  in  Missouri  in  1897;  Hiram, 
who  lives  in  Castle  Rock,  Colo. ;  Henry,  in  Idaho 
Springs;  Jane,  who  died  in  Pueblo;  and  I.  D., 
the  youngest  and  subject  of  this  biography. 

Mr.  Ellis  was  born  May  11,  1856,  and  came  to 
this  state  with  his  parents  when  he  was  eight 
years  old.  They  crossed  the  plains  with  an  ox- 
train  and  were  three  months  on  the  way,  coming 
through  Omaha  and  up  the  Platte,  reaching  Den- 
ver July  I,  1864,  and  the  4th  of  the  next  month 
stopped  at  Idaho  Springs.  He  secured  his  first 
work  and  began  it  the  next  day,  driving  a  horse 
on  the  Seaton  mine.  He  went  to  school  during 
the  winters,  and  after  a  long  time  began  driving 
freight  teams.  He  drove  a  bull-team  from 
Cheyenne  to  the  mountains  before  the  railroad  was 
completed  to  Denver.  Later  he  worked  in  livery 
stables  until  1886,  and  then  bought  out  Turner's 


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livery  business,  which  he  has  since  conducted. 
He  also  conducts  a  feed,  grain  and  hay  store  and 
handles  coal  and  wood.  His  coal  sheds  are  two 
blocks  west,  on  a  siding  of  the  Gulf  Railroad, 
while  the  offices  are  on  Miner  street  and  First 
avenue.  His  livery  stable  is  in  the  basement  of 
the  same,  where  he  also  has  his  feed  and  sale 
stable.  He  is  still  engaged  in  hauling;  has  now 
three  four-horse  teams  through  this,  Gilpin  and 
Boulder  Counties,  engaged  in  heavy  hauling, 
such  as  lumber,  ore  and  freight. 

In  this  place  Mr.  Ellis  married  Miss  Mary  R. 
Batchelder,  who  was  born  in  Canada,  and  is  a 
daughter  of  Charles  Batchelder,  now  of  this  city. 
They  have  one  child,  Nettie.  Mr.  Ellis  is  a 
member  of  the  board  of  aldermen,  serving  first 
from  1895  to  1897,  and  in  1898  was  again  elected. 
He  is  chairman  of  the  committee  on  streets  and 
alleys,  public  buildings  and  the  cemetery,  and  a 
member  of  other  committees.  He  belongs  to  the 
Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen,  and  is  finance 
keeper  of  the  Knights  of  the  Maccabees.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  chamber  of  commerce  from  its 
organization.  Politically  he  votes  with  the 
People's  party. 

(lOHN  OWEN,  of  Idaho  Springs,  Clear  Creek 
I  County,  is  a  very  successful  mine  owner  and 
(2/  promoter.  He  enjoys  a  most  enviable  repu- 
tation for  honesty  and  straightforwardness,  and 
has  won  the  confidence  and  esteem  of  his  men  by 
paying  them  living  wages.  His  parents  were 
wealthy  planters  of  Mississippi.  His  father,  Hon. 
B.  T.  Owen,  was  born  in  Virginia,  the  family 
being  old  residents  of  that  state,  and  by  perse- 
verance and  industry  he  became  an  attorney  of 
ability.  He  located  in  Holmes  County,  Miss., 
continued  the  practice  of  his  profession,  and  was 
elected  to  the  legislature.  He  was  the  attorney 
for  the  Mississippi  Central  (now  the  Illinois  Cen- 
tral) Railroad,  and  at  the  time  of  the  breaking 
out  of  the  war  was  the  owner  of  a  large  planta- 
tion and  was  worth  about  $250,000,  which  he  lost 
during  the  struggle.  He  died  in  Mississippi  in 
1872.  He  married  Mary  Kemp,  who  was  born 
in  Georgia  and  came  with  her  father  to  Missis- 
sippi, where  he  owned  a  large  plantation.  She 
died  in  1893,  when  past  seventy  years  old.  Of 
the  five  children,  but  two  are  living,  a  son  and 
daughter. 

Mr.  Owen  was  born  in  October,  1846,  in  I<ex- 


ington,  Miss.,  and  remained  there  until  the  war 
began.  He  left  school  in  the  spring  of  1862  to 
enlist  in  Company  A,  Thirty-eighth  Mississippi 
Confederate  Volunteers,  and  was  in  the  siege  of 
Vicksburg  and  a  number  of  other  engagements. 
He  was  captured  eleven  times, but  made  his  escape 
each  time  except  once,  at  Vicksburg,  where  he 
was  kept  until  paroled.  The  last  year  he  was 
scout  under  General  Forrest  and  surrendered  with 
him  in  Alabama.  He  was  orderly  sergeant  of 
the  company  in  Vicksburg,  and  later  was  mounted 
scout,  as  captain  of  from  twelve  to  sixty  men. 
He  was  slightly  wounded  at  different  times 
during  the  engagement,  and  when  he  surrendered 
it  was  with  the  determination  that  his  gun  would 
be  taken  up  by  him  again  only  in  defense  of  the 
stars  and  stripes.  After  the  close  of  the  war  he 
borrowed  some  money  and  began  a  mercantile 
business  at  Durant,  Miss.  He  was  very  success- 
ful there  and  also  in  Lexington  and  Crystal 
Springs.  In  1873  a  number  of  the  banks  failed 
and  he  was  obliged  to  go  down,  as  did  so  many 
others  during  those  panicky  times.  He  settled 
up  his  affairs  and  six  years  later  the  story  of  the 
great  discoveries  at  Leadville  determined  him  to 
come  to  this  state  and- try  to  repair  his  ruined 
fortune.  Accordingly  he  started  for  Denver,  but 
came  instead  to  Idaho  Springs,  where  he  went  to 
work  about  the  mines  in  order  to  learn  all  about 
mining.  In  fifteen  months  he  had  made  over 
$2,000  and  he  then  brought  his  family  and  settled 
down  there  and  engaged  in  mining  and  pros- 
pecting. He  developed  the  Dove's  Nest  on 
Seaton  Mountain,  and  spent  over  $80,000  before 
he  took  out  any  ore,  and  also  managed  the  Silver 
Glance.  He  is  now  manager  of  the  Sun  and 
Moon  Mining  and  Milling  Company  located  on 
Seaton  Mountain,  and  owns  and  controls  the 
Gum  Tree  Mining  Company.  He  is  a  practical 
miner,  studying  his  mines  and  knowing  to  a  cer- 
tainty just  what  to  do.  The  GumTree  mine  pays 
the  highest  wages  of  any  mine  in  this  county, 
which  fact  is  fully  appreciated  by  the  many  men 
in  his  employ.  He  owns  some  valuable  mining 
property. 

In  Lexington,  Miss.,  Mr.  Owen  married  Miss 
Fannie  Thurmond,  who  was  born  in  Kemper 
County,  that  state,  and  whose  father,  Thomas 
Thurmond,  owned  a  large  plantation  which  is 
now  in  her  possession.  She  was  related  to  the 
statesman,  Allen  G.  Thurman.     They  have  two 


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children:  Mary,  a  graduate  of  Wolfe  Hall,  Den- 
ver, in  1885,  andB.  T.,  a  practical  miner  in  charge 
of  Gum  Tree  mine.  The  daughter  is  a  zealous 
member  of  the  Episcopal  Church.  Mr.  Owen  is 
an  Independent  silver  man,  was  one  of  the  origi- 
nal members  of  the  chamber  of  commerce,  and 
chairman  of  the  committee  on  mining  for  many 
years.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Ancient 
Order  of  United  Workmen.  They  have  a  beau- 
tiful residence  on  High  street,  and  he  owns  ten 
acres  in  the  corporation  which  some  day  will 
make  a  fine  plat. 

HON.  JAMES  KELLY,  M.  D.  Since  com- 
ing to  Jefferson  County  in  1861  Dr.  Kelly  has 
been  intimately  associated  with  the  devel- 
opment of  its  resources  and  the  advancement  of 
its  interests.  For  four  years  he  not  only  engaged 
in  practice,  but  also  conducted  an  extensive  live- 
stock business  upon  the  farm  where  he  resided. 
In  the  fall  of  1863  he  was  elected  to  the  territorial 
legislature  and  at  the  expiration  of  his  term  of 
two  years  he  removed  to  Golden,  where  he  has 
since  made  his  home,  carrying  on  professional 
practice  and  a  drug  business.  It  is  probable  that 
he  has  practiced  more  years  in  Colorado  than  any 
other  physician  in  the  state,  and  his  record  as  a 
physician  is  of  the  best. 

The  Kellys  are  an  old  Virginian  family.  James, 
who  was  born  in  the  Old  Dominion,  as  was  his 
father,  engaged  in  farm  pursuits  and  owned  a 
plantation  near  Morgantown,  Monongahela  Coun- 
ty. He  married  Jane  Dale,  of  Virginia,  a  de- 
scendant of  English  ancestors,  and  among  their 
children  was  Matthew,  born  in  West  Virginia  in 
1802.  In  an  early  day  he  removed  to  Ohio  and 
from  there  went  to  Decatur  County,  Ind.,  in 
1839,  settling  upon  a  farm,  where  he  died  at 
eighty-six  years  of  age.  His  wife,  Charity  How- 
ard, was  born  in  Elizabethtown,  Pa. ,  and  died  in 
Indiana  at  the  age  of  seventy-six  years.  Her 
father,  Stephen  Howard,  removed  from  Pennsyl- 
vania to  Ohio,  where  he  died.  During  the  war 
of  181 2  he  served  in  the  American  army. 

Matthew  and  Charity  Kelly  had  twelve  children, 
eight  of  whom  attained  mature  years,  and  several 
are  still  living,  the  doctor  being  the  oldest  of  all. 
Two  of  the  sons  enlisted  in  the  Civil  war,  Stephen 
as  a  member  of  an  Illinois  regiment  and  David 
with  a  company  of  Indiana  soldiers.  James  was 
born  in  Ohio  on  the  last  day  of  1826  and  in  1839 


accompanied  his  parents  to  Indiana,  where  he 
lived  on  a  farm  in  Decatur  County.  After  com- 
pleting the  common-school  studies  he  taught  in 
a  primitive  log  schoolhouse  in  Decatur  County 
for  two  years.  Meantime  he  began  the  study  of 
medicine  with  Dr.  Swem,  of  Greensburg,  and  in 
1853  he  entered  the  medical  department  of  the 
University  of  Michigan,  from  which  he  graduated 
in  1854  with  the  degree  of  M.  D.  After  gradu- 
ating he  settled  in  Webster  County,  Iowa,  where 
he  practiced  his  profession.  There  he  remained 
until  i860,  when  he  decided  to  come  to  Colorado. 
He  outfitted  at  Topeka,  Kan.,  and  made  the  trip 
with  an  ox-team,  reaching  Denver  June  11  of 
that  year.  He  practiced  for  a  year  in  Idaho 
Springs,  and  in  1861  removed  to  a  farm  on  Clear 
Creek,  Jefferson  County,  where  he  stocked  his 
place  with  one  hundred  head  of  cattle.  It  was 
his  intention  to  devote  himself  to  stock-raising, 
but  so  many  calls  for  attendance  upon  the  sick 
came  to  him  that  he  finally  decided  to  remove  to 
Golden  and  open  an  oiEce,  which  he  did.  His 
practice  soon  extended  all  over  his  own  county, 
and  into  Clear  Creek,  Arapahoe  and  Gilpin  Coun- 
ties. To  facilitate  his  work  he  found  it  advisable 
to  open  a  drug  store,  and  this  he  has  conducted 
since  1866.  For  some  years  he  has  not  engaged 
in  active  practice,  but  a  few  families  who  have 
long  had  him  as  attending  physician  still  insist 
upon  his  presence  during  illness,  finding  his  min- 
istrations more  satisfactory  than  those  of  a  stranger 
could  be.  The  most  of  his  practice,  however,  he 
has  relinquished  to  his  son,  John  Perry,  who 
graduated  from  the  State  University  medical  de- 
partment in  1881  and  is  said  to  be  one  of  the 
finest  physicians  in  this  part  of  the  state. 

On  the  Republican  ticket,  in  1866  and  1868 
Dr.  Kelly  was  elected  treasurer  of  Jefferson  Coun- 
ty. Several  times  he  has  been  elected  mayor  of 
Golden  and  he  also  served  as  alderman  until  he 
refused  further  nomination.  He  was  made  a 
Mason  in  Homer,  Iowa,  and  is  now  a  member  of 
Golden  Lodge  No.  i,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  of  which 
he  has  five  times  been  past  master.  He  also  be- 
longs to  Golden  Chapter  No.  5,  R.  A.  M.,  in 
which  he  is  a  past  officer;  and  is  identified  with 
Colorado  Commandery  No.  i,  K.  T.,  at  Denver, 
and  El  Jebel  Temple,  N.  M.  S.  His  son,  John 
Perry,  is  a  thirty-second  degree  Mason  and  also 
belongs  to  the  state  and  national  medical  associ- 
ations. 


GEORGE  RITTMAYER. 


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In  Iowa  Dr.  Kelly  married  Miss  Minerva  G. 
Dowd,  who  was  born  in  Ohio,  and  accompanied 
her  father,  Alexander  Dowd,  to  Iowa,  settling 
upon  a  farm.  She  died  June  14,  1890,  at  the  age 
of  fifty-two  years,  leaving  two  sons:  John  Perry 
and  George,  the  latter  a  commission  merchant  of 
Denver.  The  family  home  is  one  of  the  most 
comfortable  and  substantial  residences  in  Golden 
and  the  grounds  indicate  the  careful  supervision 
of  the  owner.  A  man  of  public  and  progressive 
spirit.  Dr.  Kelly  has  always  been  willing  to  as- 
sist in  the  upbuilding  of  the  town  and  has  erected 
several  good  houses  here. 


SEORGE  RITTMAYER.  In  each  commu- 
nity will  be  found  someone  who  is  not  sat- 
isfied to  travel  in  a  beaten  track,  simply  be- 
cause it  is  expected,  but  who  wishes  to  try  new 
methods,  introduce  new  ideas,  and  make  some 
advancement  in  the  customary  manner  of  doing 
business.  Such  a  person  is  a  blessing  to  a  neigh- 
borhood, as  he  acts  as  an  educator  to  many  who 
would  plod  along  in  the  old  way  if  someone  did 
not  have  the  courage  to  set  them  an  example. 
Colorado  is  noted,  among  other  things,  for  its 
immense  ranges,  and  the  number  of  cattle  within 
its  borders.  These  cattle,  however,  are  mostly 
shipped  out  of  the  stafe  and  sold  to  eastern  mar- 
kets, yielding  their  owners  a  neat  sum,  to  be 
sure,  still  far  short  of  what  they  should,  and  it 
started  one  man  to  thinking  how  he  could  in- 
crease the  profit  and  save  the  waste  entailed.  To 
this  end  he  built  a  large  creamery,  fitting  it  up 
in  the  most  complete  manner,  putting  in  steam 
and  all  the  improved  machinery,  including  a 
separator  for  taking  the  cream  from  the  milk; 
and  he  has  practically  demonstrated  the  correct- 
ness of  his  views;  that  he  could  make  a  hand- 
some profit  from  his  cattle,  yet  in  a  more  agree- 
able way,  to  him,  than  of  shipping  them  off.  This 
man  was  George  Rittmayer,  of  Arapahoe  County. 
He  was  born  near  Bamberg,  Germany,  Janu- 
ary 8,  1863,  and  is  a  son  of  Andrew  and  Anne 
(Leipold)  Rittmayer,  natives  of  the  same  place. 
His  father  came  to  America  in  1872,  and  settled 
on  a  farm  in  Arapahoe  County,  Colo.  He  now 
lives  in  retirement  on  his  large  ranch  not  far  from 
the  home  of  our  subject.  He  married  Anne  Lei- 
pold,  by  whom  he  had  five  children,  as  follows: 
William  J.,  at    home;  Adam,  who  conducts   a 


grocery  store  in  Denver;  John  P.,  who  is  con- 
ductor on  the  street  car  line;  Barbara  A. ,  wife  of 
Frank  Walter;  and  George. 

George  Rittmayer  was  nine  years  old  when  his 
parents  landed  in  this  country,  and  it  was  here 
that  he  received  his  education.  At  the  age  of 
twenty-five  he  started  out  for  himself,  and  three 
years  later  he  purchased  his  present  property  of 
three  hundred  and  twenty  acres.  This  place  is 
conducted  with  the  most  complete  system,  and 
is  kept  in  perfect  order.  He  has  a  large  dairy  of 
forty  cows,  whose  milk  is  taken  to  the  creamery 
on  his  ranch,  and  run  through  the  separator;  the 
cream  is  made  up  in  choice  butter,  which  finds  a 
ready  sale,  while  skim  milk  is  utilized  in  raising 
a  great  number  of  hogs  and  young  calves. 

In  1 89 1  Mr.  Rittmayer  married  Miss  Anna  E. 
Eachner,  a  native  of  the  same  place,  and  a 
daughter  of  a  large  grist  mill  owner  and  farmer, 
who  djed  about  fourteen  years  ago,  leaving  three 
sons  and  one  daughter.  To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ritt- 
mayer have  been  born  two  daughters,  Leona 
M.  and  Barbara  G.  The  family  are  identified 
with  the  Catholic  Church.  Mr.  Rittmayer  is 
liberal  in  politics.  He  has  served  on  the  .school 
board  and  as  judge  of  elections,  and  is  a  very 
popular  man  in  his  community. 


r"REDERICK  R.  BAKER,  mayor  of  Fort 
r^  Collins,  and  a  resident  of  Larimer  County 
I  ^  since  1873,  is  of  English  birth,  the  son  of 
Richard  Baker,  a  farmer,  who  brought  his  family 
to  America  in  1852,  and  settled  in  Ohio,  near 
Elyria,  where  he  has  since  engaged  in  farming, 
making  a  special  feature  of  the  stock  business. 
His  specialty  has  been  the  raising  of  thorough- 
bred Shorthorns.  He  is  an  expert  judge  of  all 
thoroughbred  cattle,  and  serves  as  such  at  the 
great  fairs.  He  served  on  the  Ohio  state  board 
of  agriculture  for  many  years,  and  also  as  presi- 
dent of  the  board.  While  his  life  has  been  pro- 
longed through  eighty  active  and  busy  years,  he 
is  still  hale  and  robust.  His  wife,  who  bore  the 
maiden  name  of  Sarah  Gaudern,  was  born  in 
England  and  died  in  Ohio  in  1892,  at  the  age  of 
seventy- eight.  Of  their  seven  children  only  two 
are  living,  Lizzie  C.  Baker  lives  with  her  father 
in  Ohio.  Three  died  in  Colorado,  two  being  on 
a  visit  here  at  the  time  of  their  deaths. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  in  North- 


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ampton,  England,  iu  1844,  and  was  educated  and 
grew  to  manhood  in  northern  Ohio.  In  1863  he 
enlisted  in  the  Union  Wght  Guard,  Seventh  Inde- 
pendent Troop  Ohio  Volunteer  Cavalry,  famous 
as  the  Black  Horse  Cavalry,  that  served  as  escort 
to  President  Lincoln.  He,  with  one  hundred  and 
three  men  composing  the  company,  was  raised  by 
Governor  Todd  for  special  service,  but  enlisted 
as  regular  three- year  volunteers,  at  Columbus, 
Ohio,  and  engaged  in  duty  at  Washington,  D.  C, 
carrying  dispatches  of  great  importance  to  and  from 
the  president  and  the  war  department  and  the 
army  during  the  excitement  of  the  great  Civil 
war.  For  a  time  he  did  duty  for  Colonel  Baker, 
chief  detective  of  the  war  department.  He  par- 
ticipated in  the  grand  review  and  in  September, 
1865,  was  mustered  out  of  service,  and  holds  to- 
day an  honorable  discharge.  He  cherishes  many 
pleasant  remembrances  of  Abraham  Lincoln, 
whom  he  became  well  acquainted  with,  and  con- 
siders him  not  only  the  greatest  of  statesmen, 
but  the  simplest  and  kindest  man  he  ever  knew. 
After  his  discharge  from  the  army  he  engaged  in 
farming  in  Ohio  until  1873,  when  he  came  to 
Colorado  and  took  up  a  homestead  on  the  bank 
of  the  Cache  la  Poudre  River,  one-half  mile  south- 
east of  Fort  Collins.  This  farm,  consisting  of 
one  hundred  and  twenty-five  acres,  he  still  owns, 
which  proved  to  be  a  valuable  and  productive 
piece  of  property. 

In  1876  Mr.  Baker  returned  to  Ohio  and  mar- 
ried Elenora  S.  Jackson,  of  Amherst.  In  Janu- 
ary of  the  next  year  they  commenced  house-keep- 
ing upon  his  homestead.  One  child  was  born, 
Edward  R. ,  at  present  a  student  in  the  State  Ag- 
ricultural College.  From  1890  to  1893  Mr.  Baker 
served  as  county  commissioner  of  Larimer  Coun- 
ty. At  that  time  he  moved  to  Fort  Collins. 
With  twenty-four  others  he  was  associated  in 
building  up  the  Larimer  County  Fair  Association 
that  gave  to  the  county  the  best  fairs  in  the  state. 
He  has  for  twelve  years  been  a  director  of  the 
First  National  Bank  of  Fort  Collins.  Politically 
he  is  a  Republican  and  always  takes  an  active 
part  in  work  for  his  party.  For  twenty  years, he 
has  been  a  trustee  of  the  Presbyterian  Church 
and  is  now  president  of  the  board.  During  the 
building  of  the  church  edifice  he  was  active  in 
the  work  and  generous  in  his  contributions  to  the 
building  fund.  He  was  a  charter  member  of 
George  H.  Thomas  Post  No.  7,  G.  A.  R.,  and 


has  served  as  an  aide  on  the  staff  of  the  depart- 
ment commander.  In  the  organization  of  the 
Colorado  Development  Company  he  took  an  act- 
ive part,  and  is  now  its  president  and  manager, 
the  company  being  engaged  in  buying  land  and 
water  rights  and  carrying  on  large  farms.  In 
1895  he  was  elected  mayor  of  Fort  Collins  on  the 
anti-license  ticket,  and  in  1897  ^^s  re-elected, 
which  ofiice  he  now  holds.  Mr.  Baker  is  con- 
nected with  a  good  many  other  enterprises,  and 
is  one  of  the  busy  men  of  Fort  Collins. 


fTREDERICK  R.  McILHENNY,  postmaster 
IQ  and  general  merchant  at  River  Bend,  Elbert 
I  County,  also  a  prominent  ranchman,  owning 
a  cattle  ranch  four  miles  south  of  the  village  of 
River  Bend,  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  in 
1856,  a  son  of  Dr.  William  S.  and  Catherine 
(Achufl")  Mcllhenny,  natives  of  the  same  city  as 
himself.  The  Mcllhenny  family  came  to  this 
country  from  Scotland.  A  son  of  the  original 
settler  was  Dr.  Joseph  E.  Mcllhenny,  who  de- 
voted his  entire  business  life  to  the  dental  pro- 
fession in  Philadelphia.  His  son,  William  S., 
was  born  and  reared  in  Philadelphia  and  studied 
for  the  medical  profession,  but  changed  to 
dentistry,  which  he  practiced.  In  political  views 
he  was  a  pronounced  Republican.  He  died  in 
December,  1894.  The  maternal  grandfather  of 
our  subject,  William  Achufi^,  was  engaged  in  the 
shoe  business  in  Philadelphia,  and  was  a  son  of 
Samuel  Achuff,  a  native  of  that  city. 

The  mother  of  our  subject  is  still  living  and 
makes  her  home  with  our  subject.  She  has 
another  son,  William  A.,  who  is  postmaster  at 
Iredell,  Tex. 

The  education  acquired  by  our  subject  was  such 
as  the  public  schools  of  Philadelphia  afforded. 
At  seventeen  he  started  out  for  himself.  Coming 
to  Colorado,  he  spent  a  short  time  in  Manitou, 
and  from  there  went  on  a  ranch  on  the  divide. 
In  1874  he  started  in  the  hunting  business  with 
T.  S.  Harper,  and  continued  in  that  way  for 
eight  years,  after  which  he  came  to  River  Bend 
and  established  a  store.  Later  he  purchased  his 
present  general  mercantile  business  and  his  store 
building. 

In  politics  Mr.  Mcllhenny  has  never  allied  him- 
self with  either  of  the  prominent  political  parties, 
but  preserves  an  independent  attitude,  voting  for 


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the  mail  or  the  measures  that  he  believes  will 
best  promote  the  welfare  of  the  people.  He  has 
been  nominated  for  clerk  and  treasurer  of  the 
county.  In  August,  1881,  he  married  Mary  M. 
Hudson,  daughter  of  Rev.  A.  J.  M.  Hudson, 
pastor  of  an  Episcopal  Church  in  Baraboo,  Wis. 
The  five  children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Mcllhenny 
are:  Katharine,  Theodore,  Harold,  Norman  and 
vStanley. 

EHARLES  W.  McFADDEN,  who  is  engaged 
in  farming  on  Ralston  Creek,  Jefferson 
County,  was  born  in  Lee  County,  Iowa, 
October  25,  1846,  being  a  son  of  Charles  W.  and 
Sarah  (Murphy)  McFadden.  He  was  one  of 
twelve  children,  four  of  whom  are  still  living: 
Rachael,  wife  of  Benjamin  Hall,  a  farmer  in  Bel- 
mont County,  Ohio;  Jesse,  who  is  engaged  in 
farming  and  fruit-raising  in  Yolo  County,  Cal.  ; 
Henrietta,  widow  of  Jerry  Twiggs;  and  Charles  W. 

The  father  of  this  family,  who  was  born  and 
reared  in  Ohio,  learned  the  trade  of  a  millwright, 
which  he  followed  during  his  entire  life.  About 
1844  he  moved  to  Lee  County,  Iowa,  and  settled 
in  Keokuk,  when  that  now  flourishing  city  had 
only  seven  houses.  He  was  not  spared  to  reap 
financial  success  in  his  new  home,  for  two  years 
later  his  life  was  brought  to  a  close.  Seven  days 
after  his  death  his  son  and  namesake  was  born. 
The  widowed  mother  attained  the  age  of  eighty 
years  and  during  the  latter  part  of  her  life  traveled 
extensively;  she  died  in  Pueblo,  Colo.,  in  1892. 

At  the  age  of  seventeen  our  subject  started  out 
in  the  world  for  himself.  He  arrived  in  Colorado 
June  25,  1863,  with  only  thirty  cents  in  his 
pocket.  Soon  he  secured  work  as  a  farm  laborer, 
working  on  a  farm  until  fall,  when  he  drove  a 
team  to  the  Missouri  River  for  supplies.  Return- 
ing in  the  spring  of  the  following  year,  he  once 
more  began  to  work  on  a  farm.  August  22,  1864, 
he  enlisted  in  the  Third  Colorado  Cavalry,  for 
service  against  the  Indians,  who  were  committing 
many  depredations.  The  regiment  pursued  the 
Indians  down  the  Platte  River  and  had  a  few 
skirmishes  with  them,  finally  succeeding  in  bring- 
ing them  to  bay,  when  the  memorable  battle  of 
Sand  Creek  was  fought,  with  eight  hundred 
Indians  killed,  and  only  twenty-eight  killed  and 
twelve  wounded  among  the  white  men.  Return- 
ing to  Denver,  the  cavalry  was  mustered  out  of 
service  January  i,  1865, 


In  the  spring  of  1865  Mr.  McFadden  rented 
eighty  acres  of  land  on  Ralston  Creek  and  this  he 
purchased  two  years  later;  then,  ten  years  after- 
ward, bought  an  adjoining  eighty  acres,  so  that 
his  present  estate  comprises  a  quarter-section  of 
land.  On  Thanksgiving  day  of  187 1  he  mar- 
ried Margaret  Mallon,  of  Golden,  a  native  of 
Genesee,  N.  Y.  They  became  the  parents  of  four 
children,  three  of  whom  are  now  living,  namely: 
Katie,  a  graduate  of  St.  Mary's  Academy  in  Den- 
ver and  now  a  teacher  in  the  Boulder  schools; 
Charles  W. ,  a  graduate  from  Ralston  high  school 
and  Denver  Business  College;  and  Blanche,  a 
bright  child  of  eight  years.  Mr.  McFadden  is  a 
friend  to  education  and  at  various  times  has 
served  as  a  member  of  the  school  board.  In  1884 
and  again  in  1890  he  was  elected  county  assessor 
on  the  Republican  ticket,  serving  the  two  terms 
with  credit  to  himself  and  to  the  satisfaction  of 
the  people.  Fraternally  he  is  connected  with 
Major  Anderson  Post  No.  88,  G.  A.  R. 


0UNCAN  E.  HARRISON.  In  1883  Mr. 
Harrison  opened  a  drug  store  on  Washing- 
ton avenue,  Golden,  and  here  he  has  since 
carried  on  business,  occupying  a  part  of  his  two- 
story  block  of  three  business  places.  He  carries 
in  stock  a  full  assortment  of  drugs  and  medicines, 
with  an  accompaniment  of  toilet  articles  and 
notions.  He  is  a  pioneer  of  '59,  having  been 
attracted  to  the  state  by  rumors  of  the  discovery  of 
gold.  On  the  i8th  of  March  he  left  McGregor, 
Iowa,  with  a  mule  train,  and  journeyed  via  Coun- 
cil Bluffs  and  Omaha,  up  the  Platte  to  Fort  Lara- 
mie. At  the  latter  place  he  learned  that  the  illus- 
trious statesman,  Horace  Greeley,  was  across  the 
river,  and  so  he  crossed  over  to  see  him.  An 
opportunity  arose  for  a  conversation  and  he  asked 
the  advice  of  one  whom  he  believed  was  so  well 
fitted,  by  experience  and  observation,  to  give  it. 
Mr.  Greeley  had  been  in  Colorado  and  advised 
him  to  come  here,  for  he  believed  prosperity  await- 
ed the  industrious  settler.  Encouraged  by  this 
advice,  he  pushed  his  way  on  to  the  west.  He 
spent  a  short  time  at  Lake  Gulch,  where  he 
opened  the  finst  gulch  claim,  picking  the  dirt  up 
with  a  shovel,  placing  it  in  a  wooden  wheelbarrow 
and  wheeling  it  about  three  hundred  yards  to  the 
lake,  where  he  washed  the  metal  out  with  a  hand- 
rocker.     In  this  work  he  was  reasonably  success- 


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fill.  December  12,  1859,  he  arrived  in  Gold- 
en, where,  though  he  did  not  entirely  abandon 
mining,  he  gave  his  attention  principally  to  con- 
tracting and  building  until  he  started  in  the  drug 
business.  He  is  a  registered  pharmacist  and  has 
been  quite  successful  in  the  business. 

John  Harrison,  father  of  our  subject,  was  born 
in  London,  England,  and  when  a  young  man 
enlisted  in  the  British  army.  He  was  sent  with 
his  regiment  to  Canada,  where  he  was  paymaster 
sergeant  until  his  retirement  from  the  service. 
He  then  settled  upon  a  farm  in  Cornwall, Ontario, 
Canada,  where  he  died  at  the  age  of  fifty  'years. 

He  married  Annie  Mcintosh,  who  was  born  in 
Edinboro,  Scotland,  and  came  to  America  with 
her  father,  Duncan  Mcintosh,  settling  in  Corn- 
wall, Ontario.  She  died  in  Canada  at  the  age  of 
eighty-six.  Her  family  of  fourteen  children  all 
attained  mature  years  and  all  but  one  are  still 
living,  our  subject  being  next  to  the  youngest  of 
the  number.  He  was  born  in  Cornwall  in  1829, 
and  received  a  common-school  education.  At  the 
age  of  fifteen  he  went  from  Canada  to  Potsdam, 
N.  Y. ,  where  he  served  an  apprenticeship  of  three 
years  to  the  trade  of  carpenter  and  joiner.  He 
then  went  to  Ogdensburg,  N.  Y. ,  where  he  was 
employed  as  pattern-maker  in  a  pattern  shop. 
From  there  he  went  to  Canada,  then  to  Indiana, 
and  finally,  in  1856,  located  at  McGregor,  Iowa, 
where  he  assisted  in  the  erection  of  many  build- 
ings. He  remained  in  that  place  until  he  came 
to  Colorado. 

At  the  old  Cataract  House,  in  Niagara  Falls, 
N.  Y.,  August  30,  1854,  Mr.  Harrison  married 
Miss  Mary  M.  Miles,  who  was  born  in  Addison 
County,  Vt.,  the  daughter  of  R.  C.  Miles,  who 
removed  west  and  settled  in  Michigan  City,  Ind. 
She  is  a  lady  of  estimable  character  and  a  consist- 
ent member  of  the  Episcopal  Church.  The 
union  was  blessed  by  the  birth  of  five  sons, 
namely:  George  R. ,  deceased;  Edward  E.,  a 
miner  at  Eureka,  Utah;  Harry  M. ,  who  is  a  brick- 
mason  in  Pittsburg,  Pa.;  John  R. ,  deceased;  and 
Louis  B.,  who  is  mining  in  Durango,  Colo. 

Politically  a  Democrat,  Mr.  Harrison  was  elect- 
ed on  that  ticket  a  member  of  the  first  board  of 
county  commissioners  of  Jefferson  County  and 
served  for  three  years.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Association  of  Colorado  Pioneers,  the  Jefferson 
County  Pioneer  Society  and  Masonic  Veteran 
Association,  Pacific  coast.     Fraternally  he  is  con- 


nected with  Golden  Lodge  No.  i,  in  which  he 
has  twice  been  an  officer.  He  is  a  man  of  public 
spirit,  interested  in  whatever  is  calculated  to  pro- 
mote the  welfare  of  his  fellow-men.  In  business 
he  is  quick,  keen  and  discriminating,  and  by 
membership  in  the  State  Pharmaceutical  Associa- 
tion and  in  other  ways  he  keeps  posted  on  mat- 
ters touching  his  cho.sen  occupation.  He  and  his 
family  occupy  a  pleasant  home,  situated  on  the 
hill  across  from  the  School  of  Mines,  and  many 
of  his  leisure  hours  are  devoted  to  the  care  of  his 
grounds. 

CJAMUEL  I.  LORAH,  well  known  to  every- 
rS  one  in  Central  City,  Gilpin  County,  is  one  of 
\Z/  the  pioneers  of  the  place,  as  he  came  here  in 
i860,  and  from  that  time  to  the  present  has  been 
closely  connected  with  its  interests.  In  1895  he 
was  appointed  by  the  commissioners  of  this 
county  to  fill  the  vacancy  in  the  county  treas- 
uryship,  owing  to  the  death  of  Mr.  French.  He 
completed  the  term  satisfactorily  and  has  since 
acted  as  deputy  treasurer.  At  various  times  in 
the  past  he  was  a  candidate  for  county  oflBces  and 
for  the  state  legislature,  but  the  Democrats, 
whose  nominee  he  was,  were  then  in  a  large 
minority.  From  1871  to  1879  he  was  city  clerk 
of  Central  City,  and  in  1891  was  elected  mayor 
and  served  as  such  for  a  year.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  Gilpin  County  Pioneer  Society  and  has 
been  president  of  the  same  three  times,  and  is 
also  identified  with  the  Association  of  Colorado 
Pioneers. 

The  Lorah  family  is  of  German  extraction. 
The  great-grandfather  of  our  subject  lived  and 
died  in  Pennsylvania.  He  was  a  Revolutionary 
war  patriot,  and  his  son,  John,  grandfather  of  the 
gentleman  whose  name  heads  this  sketch,  was  a 
hero  of  the  war  of  18 12.  He  also  took  part  in 
some  of  the  Indian  wars.  This  John  Lorah,  who 
was  born  in  Berks  County,  Pa.,  removed  to 
Wayne  County,  Ohio,  about  1814  or  1815  and 
settled  upon  a  farm.  He  died  in  Wooster,  Ohio, 
when  about  seventy-six  years  old. 

Hon.  Samuel  L-  Lorah,  father  of  our  subject, 
was  born  in  Berks  County,  Pa.,  in  1809.  He 
was  about  five  years  old  when  he  went  to  Ohio 
with  the  family,  and,  considering  his  limited  ad- 
vantages in  an  educational  way  and  in  other 
ways  as  well,  his  success  in  life  was  truly  re- 
markable.    Until  1838  he  carried  on  a  tannery 


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at  Fredericksburg,  Ohio,  and  was  then  appointed 
clerk  of  the  court  of  common  pleas,  a  position  he 
retained  for  fifteen  years.  When  the  probate 
court  was  established  in  Ohio  he  was  the  first 
probate  judge  elected  for  his  own,  Wayne  County, 
and  well  did  he  meet  the  responsibilities  of  the 
office  during  the  next  three  years.  In  1855  he 
located  in  Cass  County,  Iowa,  and  engaged  in 
farming  near  Atlantic.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Iowa  legislature  from  Cass  County  for  one  term; 
was  county  judge  of  Cass  County  two  terms,  and 
in  1858,  though  defeated,  was  a  candidate  for  the 
office  of  state  treasurer.  He  was  prominent  as  a 
Knight  Templar  Mason,  and  when  he  died,  in 
1886,  was  buried  with  all  the  honors  of  the  rite. 
His  wife,  who  had  died  in  Iowa  in  1879,  was 
Rachel,  daughter  of  John  and  Jane  (Carson) 
Wilson,  of  Scotch  and  Irish  descent  and  Presby- 
terians in  faith.  John  Wilson  was  born  in  Penn- 
sylvania and  was  an  early  settler  and  farmer  of 
Wayne  County,  Ohio.  Mrs.  Rachel  Lorah  was 
born  in  what  was  then  Beaver  County,  Pa.,  in 
18 13.  By  her  marriage  she  became  the  mother 
of  seven  children,  all  of  whom  are  living.  They 
include  Mrs.  Jane  Oathoudt,  of  Cass  Count3% 
Iowa;  Mrs.  Ellen  Ankeny,  of  Des  Moines,  Iowa; 
Mrs.  Emeline  Howard  and  Mrs.  Lavinia  Ballard, 
of  Cass  County;  John,  of  the  same  county;  and 
Emmett,  of  Fort  Collins,  Colo. 

The  birth  of  Samuel  I.  Lorah  occurred  in 
Fredericksburg,  Wayne  County,  Ohio,  Janu- 
ary 20,  1834.  He  supplemented  his  public  school 
education  by  two  years  of  study  in  Jefferson 
College,  and  then,  returning  home,  worked  on 
the  farm  with  his  father.  In  1856  he  went  to  St. 
I/Ouis,  where  he  obtained  a  position  as  book- 
keeper in  the  Darby  &  Barksdale  Bank.  In  the 
fall  of  1858  he  returned  to  Iowa  and  was  at  home 
until  the  spring  of  i860.  May  7  of  that  year  he 
set  out  for  Colorado  in  the  ox-train,  overland 
style,  across  the  plains,  up  the  Platte  River  from 
Omaha.  Arriving  in  this  state  June  10,  he  pro- 
ceeded through  Boulder  and  .Gold  Hill  to  Central 
City,  reaching  here  June  28,  i860.  The  next 
day  he  crossed  the  mountain  to  Idaho  Springs, 
and  for  the  six  weeks  following  engaged  in 
mining  on  Grass  Valley  Bar.  Accidentally 
breaking  a  leg  by  the  caving  in  of  a  mine,  he 
came  back  to  Central  City  as  soon  as  possible, 
and  in  October  became  a  clerk  in  the  post  office. 
Four  months  later  he  was  given  a  place  as  deputy 


postmaster  under  Sam  S.  Curtis,  in  Denver. 
There  he  continued  to  serve  three  years,  or  until 
January,  1864.  Then  for  seven  or  eight  months 
he  was  bookkeeper  in  a  private  bank  in  Central 
City.  He  resigned  in  order  to  join  the  campaign 
against  the  Indians,  who  were  proving  very 
troublesome  in  northern  Colorado.  Having  been 
mustered  into  Company  B  (Capt.  Hal  Sayr), 
Third  Colorado  Cavalry,  he  was  immediately 
promoted  from  the  ranks  to  be  sergeant-major  of 
the  regiment.  At  the  end  of  three  weeks  he  was 
appointed  adjutant  with  the  rank  of  first  lieuten- 
ant by  Gov.  John  Evans,  and  served  under  Col. 
G.  E.  Shoup,  now  United  States  senator  from 
Idaho.  Subsequent  to  the  battle  of  Sand  Creek 
the  regiment  was  mustered  out  in  January,  1865. 
Mr.  Eorah  came  back  to  Central  City  and  for  two 
years  was  a  clerk  in  the  office  of  the  count}'  clerk 
and  recorder.  Since  that  he  has  held  positions 
in  the  First  National  Bank  and  with  J.  B.  Chaf- 
fee &  Co.;  from  1886  to  1890  he  served  as  re- 
ceiver of  public  moneys  for  the  United  States 
land  office  of  Central  City,  and  has  spent  consid- 
erable time  and  money  in  mining  enterprises. 
At  one  time  he  was  the  owner  of  the  Saratoga, 
which  was  one  of  the  best-paying  mines  in  the 
county.  He  erected  eight  buildings  in  this  city, 
blasting  the  material  out  of  the  solid  rock. 

The  first  marriage  of  Mr.  Lorah  was  celebrated 
in  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  the  lady  of  his  choice  being 
Mrs.  Olive  (Paton)  Gorslin,  a  native  of  Alle- 
gany County,  N.  Y.  She  died  in  this  city  No- 
vember 4,  1890.  Bela  I.  Eorah,  the  eldest  child 
of  this  union,  graduated  from  the  State  School 
of  Mines  and  was  engaged  in  the  assay  office  in 
Central  City.  He  met  his  untimely  death  in  the 
Gumry  Hotel  disaster,  August  19,  1895.  Mrs. 
Olive  E.  Stark,  of  Denver,  is  the  only  living 
child  of  Mr.  Eorah' s  first  marriage.  His  present 
wife  was  formerly  Mrs.  Agnes  O'Neil  Manahan, 
of  Faribault,  Minn. 

March  29,  1865,  Mr.  Eorah  was  made  a  Mason 
in  Central  Eodge  No.  6,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  and  the 
same  year  was  elected  secretarj'.  He  served  in 
that  office  until  1890,  and  again,  in  1897,  was  re- 
elected to  the  same  position  and  occupies  it  to- 
day. In  July,  1866,  he  was  made  a  member  ot 
Central  City  Chapter  No.  i,  R.  A.  M.  Elected 
secretary  of  the  chapter  in  1868,  he  continued  to 
serve  them  up  to  1890,  and  has  done  so  again  for 
the  past  year.     In  February,  1871,   Mr.  Eorah 


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became  a  Knight  Templar,  connected  with  Central 
City  Commandery  No.  2,  and  since  December  of 
that  year  has  been  recorder  of  the  same.  He  is 
a  charter  member  of  Ellsworth  Post  No.  20, 
G.  A.  R. ,  has  been  adjutant  and  quartermaster, 
and  has  been  an  aide  on  the  staff  of  the  depart- 
ment commander  at  different  times.  Politically 
he  has  been  very  active  in  the  Democratic  party, 
working  in  the  county  and  state  committees. 
Many  terms  has  he  been  on  the  school  board, 
both  in  early  days  and  later,  and  was  serving  on 
it  at  the  time  that  the  high  school  was  built. 
For  years  he  has  been  a  vestryman  in  the 
Episcopal  Church. 


["RANK  L.  MONTGOMERY,  a  prosperous 
IQ  and  energetic  farmer  of  Douglas  County, 
I  ^  where  he  has  been  successfully  engaged  in 
the  cultivation  of  the  soil  since  1872,  occupies  a 
handsome  farm  on  Cherry  Creek,  near  the  town 
of  Parker,  on  section  34,  township  6,  range  66 
west,  and  is  the  proprietor  of  six  hundred  and 
forty  acres  in  this  county.  In  addition  to  carry- 
ing on  general  farming  he  is  also  engaged  in 
stock-raising,  being  one  of  the  largest  stock-rais- 
ers in  his  community.  This  highly  esteemed 
citizen  was  born  in  Coos  County,  N.  H. ,  October 
6,  1846,  and  is  a  son  of  William  S.  and  Mehita- 
bel  E.  (Pike)  Montgomery. 

Frank  L,.  Montgomery  was  but  a  boy  of  four 
years  when  his  parents  migrated  west  and  settled 
in  Oshkosh,  Winnebago  County,  Wis.  There  his 
father  carried  on  carriage-making,  which  trade 
he  had  learned  in  New  Hampshire.  Our  subject 
was  reared  to  manhood  in  Oshkosh  and  spent  a 
number  of  years  working  on  a  farm,  his  father 
having  settled  on  a  farm  on  account  of  his  poor 
health.  The  mother  of  our  subject  died  when 
Frank  I,,  was  eight  years  of  age.  He  remained 
under  the  parental  roof  until  he  attained  the  age 
of  eighteen  years,  during  which  time  he  attended 
the  public  schools  of  that  vicinity.  In  January, 
1865,  he  enlisted  in  Company  C,  Forty-sixth 
Wisconsin  Volunteer  Infantry,  for  one  year  and 
was  mustered  out  of  the  service  in  October,  1865. 
His  regiment  was  not  in  any  battle, but  was  en- 
gaged in  guarding  railroads  and  doing  garrison 
duty  in  the  state  of  Alabama. 

After  our  subject  received  his  honorable  dis- 
charge he  returned  to  his  home  in  Wisconsin,  and 


March  i,  1866,  he  departed  for  Denver,  Colo., 
arriving  there  the  15th  of  the  following  month. 
After  working  on  a  ranch  a  short  time  he  began 
freighting  between  Denver  and  Pueblo  and  Salt 
Lake  City.  He  discontinued  that  business  in  1872, 
and  took  up  a  claim  of  eighty  acres  of  land;  later 
he  took  up  another  eighty  and  then  one  hundred 
and  sixty  acres,  the  most  of  which  is  prairie  land. 
He  has  since  increased  his  estate  to  six  hundred 
and  forty  acres.  He  has  made  many  improve- 
ments since  taking  up  his  first  claim,  and  his  farm 
ranks  among  the  foremost  in  this  community. 
He  is  popular  with  his  fellow-citizens  and  com- 
mands the  respect  of  a  host  of  acquaintances. 

November  7,  1872,  Mr.  Montgomery  and  Miss 
Elizabeth  Ellen  O'Neil, of  Arapahoe  County,  were 
united  in  the  bonds  of  matrimony.  She  is  a  na- 
tive of  Missouri  and  a  daughter  of  J.  C.  and 
Agnes  (Evans)  O'Neil.  To  this  happy  union  six 
children  have  been  born.  Mary  Agnes  is  the  wife 
of  Joseph  Young  and  they  are  the  parents  of  two 
children;  Frank  I,,  is  a  farmer  by  occupation ; 
Charles  G.  is  employed  on  a  ranch;  Nellie  is  the 
wife  of  W.  C.  Schroer,  of  Arapahoe  County, 
Colo.,  and  one  child  has  been  born  to  them,  Will- 
iam H.;  Edgar  and  LiHie,  the  two  youngest,  are 
at  home. 

Politically  Mr.  Montgomery  is  a  strong  Repub- 
lican and  his  first  vote  was  cast  for  Hayes  in 
1876.  For  two  terms  he  has  served  as  county 
commissioner,  has  been  chairman  of  the  board, 
and  it  was  during  this  term  that  the  county  court- 
house was  erected;  he  was  again  offered  the 
chairmanship,  but  declined.  He  is  a  member  of 
Castle  Rock  Lodge  No.  27,  A.  O.  U.  W.,  and 
J.  G.  Blunt  Post  No.  65,  G.  A.  R. 


JqJEORGE  E.  marsh,  who  has  been  a  citizen 
l_l  of  Georgetown,  Clear  Creek  County,  for 
\^  over  thirty -one  years,  i&  one  of  the  honored 
landmarks  of  the  place.  He  made  the  survey  of 
Georgetown  which  is  still  used,  has  been  county 
surveyor  for  a  number  of  terms  and  has  served  as 
city  surveyor  for  many  years.  In  1872  he  was 
commissioned  to  act  as  United  States  deputy 
mineral  surveyor,  and  gave  such  satisfaction  that 
he  was  retained  longer  in  office  than  any  other 
deputy  in  the  state.  In  all  matters  of  local  de- 
velopment and  progress  he  has  taken  a  very  active 
and  interested  part,  at?d  while  one  of  the  board  of 


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selectmen  was  enabled  to  further  numerous  works 
of  public  improvement.  For  several  terms  he 
also  was  city  clerk.  In  his  political  opinion  he 
is  a  stalwart  Republican  and  favors  the  silver  side 
of  the  monetary  question.  From  his  boyhood 
his  fondness  and  aptness  for  scientific  matters  has 
been  marked,  and  in  1862  he  graduated  from  the 
scientific  department  of  Harvard  College  with  the 
degree  of  Bachelor  of  Science.  He  holds  mem- 
bership with  the  Harvard  Alumni  Association 
and  with  the  Harvard  Club,  of  Denver. 

The  Marsh  family  is  of  sterling  old  New 
England  stock;  sturdy,  industrious,  striving  al- 
ways to  do  full  duty  towards  God  and  man,  and 
adhering  always  to  the  stern  old  Puritanical 
faith  expressed,  in  later  days,  in  the  Congrega- 
tional creed.  The  first  of  the  name  in  America 
sailed  from  England  to  Connecticut  in  colonial 
days  and  afterward  lived  in  that  state  and  in 
Massachusetts  for  generations.  The  great-grand- 
father of  our  subject  was  a  veteran  of  the  Revo- 
lutionary war.  Grandfather  Joshua  Marsh  was 
born  in  Montague,  Franklin  County,  Mass.,  en- 
gaged in  farming  there  and  died  in  the  same 
locality. 

Dexter  Marsh,  father  of  George  E.  Marsh,  was 
a  remarkable  man.  According  to  a  history  of 
him,  given  in  Appleton's  Encyclopedia,  he  was  a 
humble  tiller  of  the  soil,  but  in  that  very  soil 
he  made  discoveries  which  have  been  of  untold 
value  to  the  scientific  world.  Always  of  a  deeply 
studious  bent,  he  saw  the  wonderl  of  nature  with 
a  keenly  interested,  alert  mind,  and  became  cele- 
brated for  his  researches  in  the  field  of  geology. 
He  was  the  discoverer  of  the  fossil  footprints  in 
the  old  Connecticut  Valley  sandstone  in  1830,  and 
made  a  wonderfully  valuable  collection  of  the 
same.  At  the  time  of  his  death,  in  1852,  his 
collection,  then  the  largest  in  the  World  it  is  be- 
lieved, was  divided  between  the  Boston  Society 
of  Natural  History  and  Amherst  College.  For 
years  he  was  a  member  of  the  United  States 
Scientific  Society.  His  wife,  Eunice  M. ,  was  a 
daughter  of  Jacob  Everett,  of  Vermont.  She  was 
born  in  Halifax,  Mass. ,  and  was  related  to  Edward 
Everett.  She  is  now  a  resident  of  Greenfield, 
Mass.,  and  is  eighty-three  years  of  age.  Her 
grandfather.  Dr.  Everett,  was  a  surgeon  in  the 
colonial  army  during  the  Revolutionary  war. 
Frank,  elder  son  of  Dexter  Marsh  and  wife,  was 
a  member  of  the  Ninth  Illinois  Cavalry  during 


the  Civil  war,  and  now  lives  in  Lexington,  Neb. 
Belle,  a  daughter,  makes  her  home  in  New  York 
City;  and  Emma,  youngest  of  the  family,  lives  in 
Greenfield,  Mass. 

George  E.  Marsh  was  born  in  Greenfield, 
Mass.,  in  1840.  His  education  was  obtained  in 
the  public  and  high  schools  of  that  place,  after 
completing  whose  curriculum  he  entered  Harvard 
University.  Immediately  after  graduating  and 
being  awarded  his  degree,  in  1862,  he  enlisted  as 
a  private  in  Company  A,  Fifty-second  Massa- 
chusetts Volunteer  Infantry,  being  mustered  in 
at  Greenfield.  He  went  on  the  Banks  expe- 
dition, relieving  Butler  at  the  siege  of  Port  Hud- 
son. At  the  end  of  a  year  he  was  mustered  out 
of  the  service  at  Greenfield.  From  that  time 
until  July,  1866,  he  was  assistant  civil  engineer 
on  the  Troy  &  Greenfield  Railroad,  now  the 
Hoosac  Tunnel  Eine,  and  on  the  New  London 
Northern.  Having  imbibed  a  strong  desire  to 
see  Colorado,  Mr.  Marsh  came  west  in  the  sum- 
mer of  1866  and  spent  a  few  months  in  Idaho 
Springs.  The  following  spring  found  him  in 
Georgetown  and  fairly  established  as  a  surveyor, 
civil  engineer  and  mining  expert.  He  has  been 
kept  busily  engaged  in  these  kindred  lines  of  em- 
ployment during  all  the  intervening  years  up  to 
the  present  time.  In  1868  he  became  a  charter 
member  of  the  first  Grand  Army  post  in  George- 
town, and  is  now  connected  with  Thornburg 
Post  No.  2.  He  has  been  commander  of  the  post 
several  times  and  has  frequently  been  an  aide  on 
the  staff  of  the  deputy  commander. 

In  1876  Mr.  Marsh  married  Fanny  E.  Crosby, 
of  Washington,  D.  C,  daughter  of  Capt.  F.  W. 
Crosby.  They  have  one  son,  George,  Jr.,  now  a 
student  in  the  Massachusetts  Institute  of  Tech- 
nology, of  Boston. 


HON.  ALEX.  D.  JAMESON.  Since  com- 
ing to  Colorado  in  1870,  Judge  Jameson 
has  been  chosen  to  serve  in  a  number  of  po- 
sitions of  responsibility  and  trust,  and  in  every 
ofiice  of  which  he  has  been  the  incumbent  every 
duty  has  been  faithfully  and  efiiciently  dis- 
charged. For  three  years  he  was  deputy  clerk 
and  recorder  of  Jefferson  County,  after  which  he 
served  as  justice  of  the  peace  for  one  year,  at  the 
same  time  carrying  on  the  study  of  law.  In  1875 
he  was    the    Democratic   nominee    for    probate 


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PORTRAIT  AND  BIOGRAPHICAL,  RECORD. 


judge,  and  receiving  the  election,  served  for  a  term 
of  two  years.  Under  the  new  and  ratified  con- 
stitutional convention,  the  office  became  that  of 
county  judge,  to  which  he  was  elected  in  1880, 
serving  from  January,  1881,  until  January,  1884. 
Afterward,  failing  health  made  it  advisable 
for  him  to  relinquish  his  professional  work  and 
engage  in  another  occupation,  and  he  therefore 
began  merchandising,  as  a  member  of  the  firm 
of  Jameson  &  Koenig,  which  partnership  was 
dissolved  two  years  later.  In  1887  he  was  ap- 
pointed clerk  and  cashier  of  the  state  peniten- 
tiary, which  position  he  held  under  two  wardens, 
resigning  in  1891.  On  his  return  to  Golden  he 
engaged  in  the  abstract  title  business  for  a  short 
time,  but  soon  sold  out.  The  year  of  his  return 
to  this  city  he  was  appointed  deputy  district  at- 
torney, which  position  he  still  holds,  having 
served  under  four  consecutive  district  attorneys. 
For  two  years  he  represented  his  ward  upon  the 
board  of  aldermen  of  Golden,  but  at  the  expira- 
tion of  his  term  refused  to  serve  further,  though 
elected  a  second  time  to  the  position.  He  is  a 
leading  Democrat  and  a  member  of  the  county 
central  committee  of  the  partj\ 

The  Jamieson  (for  in  that  way  the  name  was 
originally  spelled)  family  originated  in  the  north 
of  Ireland,  and  from  there  three  brothers  came  to 
America,  all  of  whom  settled  in  New  Hampshire. 
One  of  them,  Thomas,  our  subject's  grandfather, 
was  a  soldier  in  the  Revolution  and  the  war  of 
18 12.  He  removed  to  western  New  York  and 
settled  in  Erie  County,  where  it  is  supposed  his 
son,  Alexander  D.,  Sr.,  was  born.  The  latter, 
with  an  older  brother,  Archibald,  accompanied 
his  father  to  the  front  as  a  soldier  in  the  war  of 
1812.  In  1849  he  moved  to  Iowa  and  located 
three  miles  north  of  Andrew,  in  Richland  Town- 
ship, Jackson  County,  where  by  purchase  of  gov- 
ernment and  other  laud,  he  acquired  the  title  to 
four  hundred  acres.  His  death  occurred  on  his 
farm  there  at  the  age  of  fifty  years.  His  wife, 
Helen,  was  born  near  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  the  daughter 
of  Dr.  William  Warriner.who  was  born  in  Ver- 
mont, and  engaged  in  medical  practice  in  New 
York.  During  the  war  of  18 12  he  served  as  a  sur- 
geon, and  his  death  occurred  about  that  time.  He 
married  a  daughter  of  Captain  Bemis,  an  ofiicer  in 
the  Revolution,  who  was  shot  in  the  leg  while 
in  a  battle,  and  died  from  the  effects  of  the  injury 
received.     Mrs.  Jameson  died  in  Iowa  at  the  age 


of  sixty-seven.  Of  her  five  children  three  are 
living,  our  subject  being  the  youngest.  The 
oldest  child,  W.  H.,  served  in  the  war  as  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Second  Iowa  Cavalry,  and  now  resides 
in  Marshalltown,  Iowa. 

Near  Buffalo,  Erie  County,  N.  Y.,  the  subject 
of  this  sketch  was  born  December  31,  1847.  He 
was  reared  in  Jackson  County,  Iowa.  At  the 
age  of  fifteen  he  ran  away  from  home  and  en- 
listed in  Company  H,  Fifth  Iowa  Cavalry,  which 
was  mustered  into  service  at  Davenport  and  sent 
south.  In  the  spring  of  1864  he  took  part  in  the 
famous  march  through  Georgia,  participating  in 
the  battles  of  Resaca,  Dallas,  Snake  Creek, 
Kenesaw  Mountain,  Marietta,  Lovejoy  Station 
and  the  siege  of  Atlanta,  then  back  to  Nashville 
under  General  Thomas,  and  taking  part  in  the 
battles  of  Columbia,  Duck  Creek,  Franklin, 
Nashville,  the  second  battle  of  Franklin  and  the 
engagement  at  Pulaski.  The  winter  of  1864-65 
was  spent  in  camp  in  Alabama.  In  the  spring 
of  1865  he  took  part  in  the  Wilson  raid  from  De- 
catur, Ala.,  to  Selma,  Ala.,  and  Macon,  Ga., 
looking  for  Jefferson  Davis.  Later  he  did  recon- 
struction duty  at  Atlanta.  He  was  mustered  out 
at  Nashville  August  11,  1865,  and  honorably 
discharged  at  Clinton,  Iowa.  During  all  his 
period  of  service  he  was  neither  wounded  nor 
captured.  He  was  the  youngest  member  of  the 
regiment  and  one  of  the  youngest  soldiers  in  the 
army.  He  is  a  member  of  T.  H.  Dodd  Post  No. 
3,  G.  A.  R.,  of  which  he  is  past  commander. 

After  returning  from  the  war  he  attended 
Bailey  Commercial  College  at  Dubuque,  where  he 
graduated.  He  then  accompanied  the  family  to 
Audubon  County,  settling  near  Atlantic.  A  year 
later,  in  1870,  he  came  to  Colorado  and  has  since 
made  Golden  his  home.  Here  he  married  Sarah 
A.  Thornton,'  a  native  of  England,  and  by  her 
he  has  five  children:  Helen  Grace,  a  graduate  of 
the  Colorado  State  Normal  School  at  Greeley, 
and  a  teacher  in  the  high  school  of  Golden;  Ger- 
trude B.,  a  graduate  of  the  high  school  here; 
Blanche,  Alexander  Thornton  and  Catherine  S. 
Mrs.  Jameson  for  many  years  has  been  a  member 
of  the  Presbyterian  Church.  Fraternally  Mr. 
Jameson  is  connected  with  the  Knights  of  Pythias 
and  the  Patriotic  Order  Sons  of  America.  For 
several  terms  he  served  as  secretary  of  the  school 
board,  during  which  time  he  was  in  charge  of 
the  building  of  the  North  school  building. 


WARCELLIN  PINEAU. 


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I  R  ARCElvLIN  PINEAU  came  to  Colorado  in 
y  September,  1865,  and  settled  in  Denver, 
y  where  he  worked  at  the  tailor's  trade. 
After  a  time  he  located  on  Coal  Creek,  Arapahoe 
County,  where  he  now  owns  a  valuable  ranch  of 
four  hundred  and  eighty  acres.  The  place  is 
fenced  and  contains  the  usual  improvements  of 
house,  barns,  etc. ,  while  a  part  of  the  land  is  used 
for  pasturage  and  the  remainder  planted  to  corn 
and  hay  that  is  used  for  feed.  The  results  are 
due  to  his  energy  and  perseverance,  for  he  has 
worked  untiringly  to  secure  needed  improvements 
on  the  place  and  has  used  every  precaution  in 
purchasing  stock  to  secure  only  the  best  grades. 
A  native  of  Chouviney,  Middle  France,  Mr. 
Pineau  was  born  June  5,  1824,  a  son  of  John  and 
Jane  (De  Cham)  Pineau.  The  parents  remained 
until  death  in  their  native  land,  the  former  dying 
there  in  1S63.  In  his  family  there  were  two  sons 
and  one  daughter.  Peter  was  a  grain  dealer  in 
France,  but  is  now  deceased.  Mart  married  Louis 
Repeaux  and  is  living  in  France.  Our  subject 
spent  his  early  life  in  his  native  country,  where 
he  was  educated  in  the  schools.  At  the  age  of 
nineteen  he  started  out  for  himself,  having  pre- 
viously learned  the  tailor's  trade.  He  remained 
in  Paris  until  1855,  when  he  crossed  the  ocean, 
settled  in  Chicago,  and  for  seven  years  carried  on 
business  in  that  city.  After  coming  to  Colorado 
he  worked  at  his  trade  until  coming  to  his  ranch. 
He  pre-empted,  homesteaded  and  made  a  timber 
claim.  The  former  he  sold  and  later  bought  one 
hundred  and  sixty  acres  more.  He  is  married 
and  has  one  son,  Lucian  Marcell,  who  is  in  the 
Colorado  Iron  Works. 

Since  becoming  a  citizen  of  this  country  Mr. 
Pineau  has  been  loyal  to  the  welfare  of  the  nation 
and  its  interests.  Politically  he  believes  in  Re- 
publican principles  and  votes  the  straight  party 
ticket.  In  his  school  di.strict  he  has  served  as 
treasurer,  and  it  was  through  his  efforts  that  the 
first  school  was  started  here.  In  religion  he  is  a 
Catholic.  He  has  been  a  very  successful  business 
man,  and  is  one  of  the  best-known  stockmen  in 
his  vicinity.  For  a  time  he  lived  in  Central  City 
and  managed  the  Central  City  Hotel  while  there. 


County.  He  was  born  in  Guernsey  County, 
Ohio,  May  14,  1864,  and  received  a  fair  edu- 
cation in  the  public  schools  of  his  native  place. 
At  nineteen  years  of  age  he  went  to  Iowa,  where 
for  eighteen  months  he  was  employed  as  a  farm 
hand,  and  in  that  way  he  gained  an  excellent 
knowledge  of  agricultural  pursuits.  Returning 
from  Iowa  to  Ohio,  he  engaged  in  farming  and 
stock-raising  for  himself,  and,  being  industrious 
and  persevering,  he  was  prospered. 

Believing,  however,  that  Colorado  offered  better 
opportunities  to  a  farmer  than  did  his  own  state, 
in  1888  Mr.  Secrest  came  to  Colorado.  On  his 
arrival  here  he  became  a  partner  of  his  brother 
in  the  farming  and  stock  business  in  Jefferson 
County,  the  two  owning  a  well-improved  farm 
near  Ar\'ada.  For  some  years  they  have  also 
been  engaged  in  the  threshing  business,  being 
proprietors  of  a  steam  threshing  machine,  which 
they  operate  during  the  season. 

The  two  brothers  are  men  of  business  ability, 
energetic,  capable  and  honorable.  Agriculture, 
in  its  various  departments,  has  formed  their  chief 
occupation  in  life,  and  the  manner  in  which  they 
have  taken  advantage  of  every  method  or  plan 
tending  to  the  enhanced  value  of  their  property 
has  had  considerable  to  do  with  their  success. 
They  own  and  cultivate  a  valuable  tract  of  land, 
and  everything  about  the  farm  indicates  their 
careful  and  intelligent  supervision. 


I  UTHER  C.  SECREST  is  in  partnership 
I  C  with  his  brother,  T.  E. ,  in  farming  and  the 
12  threshing  business,  and  ranks  among  the 
enterprising  young  agriculturists  of  Jefferson 
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'HOMPSON  E.  SECREST,  a  progressive 
and  well-known  agriculturist  of  Jefferson 
Count}',  was  born  in  Guernsey  County, 
Ohio,  February  8,  1865,  a  son  of  Henry  G.  and 
Hannah  S.  (Rose)  Secrest.  He  remained  at 
home  until  fifteen  years  of  age,  when  he  came 
west  as  far  as  Iowa,  and  for  two  years  taught  in 
public  schools  in  that  state.  In  1S82  he  refused 
a  school  tendered  him  and  came  to  Colorado  on  a 
tour  of  inspection,  arriving  in  Denver  on  the 
12th  of  April.  He  was  favorably  impressed  with 
the  country  and  determined  to  locate  here.  After 
about  a  week  he  and  a  companion,  who  had  come 
with  him  from  Iowa,  went  up  into  the  mountains 
and  built  a  hut  at  Kenosha,  in  South  Park,  where 
they  remained  for  three  months. 

Returning  from  Kenosha  to  the  vicinity  of 
Denver,  a  short  time  afterward  the  two  young 
men  crossed  the  plains  into  Kansas.     In  three 


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months,  however,  Mr.  Secrest  was  again  in  Den- 
ver, and  afterward  he  worked  as  a  farm  hand  in 
the  neighborhood  of  that  city.  During  1885  he 
rented  a  tract  of  land,  which  lie  began  to  culti- 
vate. The  next  year  he  bought  his  present  farm, 
which  is  situated  some  three  miles  northeast  of 
Arvada,  and  here  he  and  his  brother,  Luther  C. 
have  since  carried  on  a  general  farming  and 
cattle-feeding  business,  in  which  they  have  been 
very  successful. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Secrest  took  place  June  2, 
1897,  and  united  him  with  Elizabeth  Ault,  an 
estimable  lady,  of  this  county.  In  the  public 
affairs  of  his  locality  he  takes  an  intelligent  inter- 
est. Politically  he  is  a  Democrat.  His  attention, 
however,  is  given  almost  entirely  to  his  farm 
interests  and  to  operating  a  threshing  machine 
that  he  owns. 


"HOMAS  JEFFERSON  STIVER,  M.  D.,  of 
Denver,  was  born  in  Center  County,  Pa., 
January  9,  i860,  and  is  a  descendant  of 
German  ancestry.  His  great-grandfather,  Samuel 
Stiver,  was  a  native  of  German}'  and  founded  the 
family  in  America,  crossing  the  ocean  to  Pennsyl- 
vania and  settling  in  Penn's  Valley,  in  Center 
County.  Next  in  line  of  descent  was  Samuel,  Jr. , 
who  had  one  of  the  original  land  grants  of  Center 
County,  consisting  of  a  large  tract  of  land,  in  the 
improvement  of  which  he  engaged.  Honest  and 
industrious,  as  well  as  intelligent,  he  wielded  an 
influence  for  good  among  his  neighbors,  and  was 
one  of  the  most  highly  respected  men  of  his 
locality.  He  attained  the  age  of  almost  ninety 
years.  His  marriage  united  him  with  a  Scotch 
lady  and  they  reared  a  large  family. 

Of  their  sons  one  was  Thomas  Jefferson  Stiver, 
Sr. ,  father  of  the  doctor.  He  was  born  in  Center 
County  and  upon  arriving  at  man's  estate  selected 
farming  for  his  life  work.  To  it  he  devoted  his 
active  years,  but  not  to  the  exclusion  of  matters 
relating  to  the  public  welfare.  He  was  always 
interested  in  the  growth  and  progress  of  his 
county,  and  took  an  especial  interest  in  educa- 
tional matters.  For  twenty-seven  years  he  was 
president  of  the  school  board,  in  which  capacity 
he  did  much  toward  promoting  the  standard  of 
education  in  his  neighborhood.  His  name  among 
his  acquaintances  stood  for  every  quality  that 
marks  a  good  citizen.  To  each  of  his  six  sons 
he  gave  good  educational  advantages  and  he  was 


proud  of  their  attainments  and  honorable  char- 
acter. He  died  in  1872,  at  the  age  of  seventy-six 
years.  His  wife,  Mary  F.,  was  a  daughter  of 
William  Bike,  of  Aaronsburg,  Pa.  They  are  the 
parents  of  eight  children:  Rev.  Samuel  Stiver; 
William  Stiver,  M.  D.;  Prof.  Perry  O.  Stiver; 
James  R.  and  Thomas  J.,  both  physicians;  David 
S.  Stiver,  D.  D.  S. ;  Maggie;  and  Belle,  wife  of 
Edward  Ward,  M.  D.,  of  Bellefonte,  Pa. 

After  having  studied  in  an  academy  for  a  time, 
the  subject  of  this  sketch  began  to  teach  school 
when  he  was  sixteen  years  of  age  and  continued 
in  the  occupation  during  the  winters  until  he  was 
twenty-two,  the  intervening  summers  being  de- 
voted to  academic  study.  He  studied  for  three 
years  in  the  medical  department  of  the  University 
of  Denver,  from  which  he  graduated  in  1895. 
After  graduating  he  became  assistant  to  the  chair 
of  rhinology  and  laryngology  in  the  university, 
which  position  he  has  since  held.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  alumni  of  the  university  and  the  Colo- 
rado State  Medical  Society  and  also  a  member  of 
the  American  Medical  Society.  During  the  short 
time  he  has  engaged  in  professional  work  he  has 
built  up  a  good  practice,  with  flattering  prospects 
for  future  success. 


UJELSON  FRANKLIN,  superintendent  and 
rV  manager  of  the  State  Ore  Sampling  Com- 
IZd  pany,  of  Blackhawk,,  Gilpin  County,  is  a 
gentleman  who  has  risen  to  prominence  and  pros- 
perity by  native  force  of  character  and  genius. 
Handicapped  to  an  unusual  degree  in  his  youth, 
he  made  a  brave  struggle  and  eventually  won 
success  as  he  truly  deserved.  Always  an  inter- 
ested student  along  scientific  lines  he  mastered 
with  comparative  ease  problems  in  chemistry, 
mineralogy  and  assaying  and  is  an  authority  on 
these  subjects.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Colorado 
Scientific  Society  and  has  given  his  earnest  atten- 
tion to  the  matter  of  extracting  gold  and  .silver 
from  the  ore  in  which  it  occurs. 

The  eldest  in  a  family  of  six  children.  Nelson 
Franklin  practically  brought  up  his  brothers  and 
sisters,  even  though  he  did  not  possess  the  best 
of  health  when  he  was  a  young  man.  He  was 
born  in  Brantford,  Canada,  in  1857,  his  parents 
being  Job  and  Fannie  (Field)  Franklin.  The 
father  was  a  native  of  Herefordshire,  England, 
born  in  1830.  He  was  about  twelve  years  old 
when  he  accompanied  his  father,  William  Frank- 


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lin,  and  the  rest  of  the  family  to  America,  and 
settled  in  the  neighborhood  of  Brantford,  Ontario, 
where  they  engaged  in  farming.  When  he  had 
reached  man's  estate  he  married  a  lady  whose 
birth  had  also  taken  place  in  Herefordshire,  and 
whose  father,  John  Field,  of  the  same  locality, 
had  become  a  fanner  of  Brantford,  Canada,  when 
she  was  a  young  girl.  Mrs.  Franklin  died  at  the 
old  home  near  Brantford  in  1874.  The  father 
went  to  California  in  1873,  and  from  that  time 
until  his  death,  in  i89i,was  a  ranchman  and  con- 
tractor in  the  vicinity  of  San  Francisco.  They 
were  the  parents  of  six  children,  all  of  whom 
survive.  The  eldest  daughter,  Jennie,  is  Mrs. 
Thomas  H.  Fair,  of  Toronto,  and  the  next  one. 
Rose,  is  Mrs.  J.  Holtby,  of  Belvidere,  111.  Will- 
iam, the  forth  child,  is  engaged  in  running  a 
market  in  Belvidere,  111.  Mrs.  Annie  Hart  re- 
sides in  Red  Bluff,  Cal.;  and  Job,  the  youngest,  is 
in  Santa  Rosa,  Cal. 

On  account  of  his  delicate  health  Nelson  Frank- 
lin did  not  attend  school  very  much  in  his  boy- 
hood, and  is  indebted  to  his  own  private  study,  in 
a  large  measure,  for  his  liberal  education.  When 
he  was  sixteen  he  became  a  bookkeeper  for  a  dry- 
goods  house,  and  within  six  months  was  made 
head  bookkeeper,  which  position  he  retained  for 
six  years.  He  then  went  to  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  and 
occupied  a  similar  place  for  two  and  a-half  years, 
after  which  he  came  to  Colorado.  This  was  in 
1882,  and  during  the  following  four  years  he 
prospected  and  mined  in  the  San  Juan  district, 
and  opened  and  developed  the  Vanderbilt  and  the 
Blizzard  mines,  which  he  still  owns. 

In  1886  Mr.  Franklin  commenced  taking  con- 
tracts for  building  railroads,  and  for  four  years 
was  employed  in  carrying  out  work  for  the  Mid- 
land, the  Rio  Grande,  the  Santa  Fe,  the  Rio 
Grande  Southern  and  Franklin  &  Carroll.  One 
mile  of  railroad  which  he  built  for  the  Rio 
Grande,  in  the  Grand  River  canon,  is  a  marvel  of 
skill  and  engineering  and  cost  the  corporation 
$1 16,000.  In  1890  Mr.  Franklin  became  superin- 
tendent and  chemist  for  the  Gold  and  Silver  Ex- 
traction Company,  and  was  the  first  to  success- 
fully develop  and  use  in  practical  manner  the 
cyanide  process.  For  the  next  few  years  he  was 
busily  occupied  in  introducing  this  new  system 
and  erecting  mills  in  various  localities.  Since 
1896  he  has  been  the  manager  of  the  State  Ore 
Sampling   Company,  which  concern   operates  a 


plant  capable  of  handling  one  hundred  tons  per 
day.  Mr.  Franklin  is  interested  in  several  mines 
and  is  developing  mines  in  Nevada  District,  Gil- 
pin County. 

Fraternally  our  subject  is  a  Mason,  having 
been  admitted  to  the  lodge  in  Brantford,  Canada; 
made  a  Royal  Arch  Mason  in  Buffalo,  and  while 
in  that  city  becoming  a  member  of  Lake  Erie 
Commandery  No.  21,  K.  T.  He  now  belongs  to 
Union  Lodge  No.  7,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  of  Denver; 
Royal  Arch  Chapter  of  Denver;  Colorado  Com- 
mandery No.  I,  K.  T.,  of  Denver,  and  El  Jebel 
Temple,  Mystic  Shrine.  He  is  master  workman 
of  Central  City  Lodge  No.  16,  A.  O.  U.  W.,  of 
Central  City,  and  is  identified  with  Blackhawk 
Lodge  No.  4,  K.  of  P.  Politically  he  is  a  Demo- 
crat and  has  often  attended  conventions  of  the 
party  as  a  delegate. 

Mr.  Franklin  was  married  in  Denver  to  Miss 
Zora  Seaman,  who  was  born  in  Georgetown,  Colo. 
Her  father,  LaFayette  Seaman,  was  an  early 
pioneer  in  this  state,  coming  here  in  i860,  and 
his  death  took  place  in  Denver  a  few  years  ago. 
The  two  children  born  to  our  subject  and  his 
estimable  wife  are  named  Electa  and  LaFayette. 
The  family  reside  in  Central  City,  where  they 
have  a  very  pretty  and  attractive  home. 


(TOHNS.  McCLAVE  owns  and  occupies  one 
I  of  the  most  comfortable  brick  country  houses 
O  to  be  found  in  Weld  County.  It  was  erected 
by  him  in  1 886  and  adds  greatly  to  the  value  and 
desirability  of  the  homestead.  Fifteen  years  ago 
he  bought  his  property,  known  as  Fulton  fann, 
and  has  since  been  extensively  engaged  in  stock- 
raising  and  general  farming.  The  place  com- 
prises two  hundred  and  forty  acres,  and  is  well 
adapted  for  the  pasturing  of  live  stock.  During 
the  winter  Mr.  McClave  feeds  about  fifteen  hun- 
dred sheep,  to  say  nothing  about  his  cattle  and 
horses,  of  which  he  keeps  a  good  many  at  all 
times.  In  addition  to  this  farm  he  owns  eight 
hundred  acres  located  on  the  Arkansas  River,  and 
that  property  is  managed  by  his  sons.  Beard  and 
Perry,  enterprising  young  men.  The  success 
which  our  subject  has  achieved  in  life  is  some- 
thing of  which  he  may  be  justly  proud,  for  he 
began  the  battle  without  capital,  save  his  strong, 
willing  hands  and  brave  heart. 

Stephenson  McClave,  father  of  the  above,  was 


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a  native  of  Grafton,  N.  H.,  born  in  1806.  When 
he  was  a  young  man  he  went  to  Boston  to  learn 
the  machinists'  trade  and  from  there  he  went  to 
Mobile,  Ala.  He  remained  in  that  city  three 
years  and  in  the  dread  yellow  fever  epidemic  of 
1830  he  was  one  oi  the  sufferers.  As  soon  as  he 
had  suflSciently  recovered  he  settled  in  Cincinnati, 
Ohio,  where  he  passed  the  rest  of  his  days, 
chiefly  engaged  in  farming.  He  died  in  1883. 
In  politics  he  was  a  Whig  andlater  a  Republican. 
He  was  a  son  of  John  McClave,  of  New  Hamp- 
shire, in  which  state  the  common  ancestor  of  the 
family  had  settled  upon  his  arrival  here  from 
Scotland.  Our  subject's  mother,  Sarah  (Bang- 
heart)  McClave,  was  a  native  of  Trenton,  N,  J., 
and  died  in  1874,  aged  sixty-four  years.  Of  her 
six  children  five  survive:  J.  S.;  William,  a 
resident  of  Illinois;  Sarah,  wife  of  Erskine 
Sellick,  of  Buckley,  111.;  Michael  J.,  of  Loveland; 
and  Stephen,  of  the  same  place. 

John  S.  McClave  was  born  near  Cincinnati, 
Ohio,  and  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  and 
in  Antioch  College.  Then  he  taught  school  in 
Clermont  County  for  some  five  years,  and  later 
turned  his  attention  to  farming.  From  1872  to 
1883  he  was  a  wholesale  dealer  in  grain  in 
Illinois,  buying  and  selling  in  all  parts  of  the 
state.  March  16,  1883,  he  landed  in  Platteville, 
with  the  intention  of  locating  here  permanently, 
and  the  following  autumn  he  purchased  his  pres- 
ent place.  He  is  a  stockholder  in  the  Platteville 
Ditch  Company  and  has  been  president  of  the 
same  for  some  six  or  seven  years. 

During  a  period  of  three  years  Mr.  McClave 
was  secretary  of  school  district  No.  31.  In  1888 
he  was  brought  forward  as  a  candidate  for  the 
Colorado  legislature,  but  was  defeated,  owing  to 
the  much  greater  acquaintanceship  and  longer 
years  of  residence  here  of  his  opponent,  Francis 
W.  Hammitt.  He  has  always  been  an  active  Re- 
publican, and  when  in  Illinois  was  a  justice  of 
the  peace.  He  is  a  charter  member  of  Platte- 
ville lyodge  No.  81,  I.  O.  O.  F. ,  and  is  past  grand 
and  is  a  member  of  the  grand  lodges  of  Illinois 
and  Colorado,  and  formerly  was  identified  with 
the  encampment  in  Illinois. 

In  1859  Mr.  McClave  married  Miss  Hattie  M. 
Goodell,  daughter  of  John  Good  ell,  of  Lime, 
Grafton  County,  N.  H.  Eight  children  were 
born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  McClave,  namely:  Albert, 
Beard  T.,  Maude  M.  (Mrs.  R.  Haythorn),  Perry, 


Hattie,  Ada,  Blanche  and  Ray  E.  Albert  has 
much  of  the  responsibility  of  the  management  of 
the  home  farm.  Ray  is  attending  the  State  Agri- 
cultural College  in  Fort  Collins.  Hattie  and  Ada 
are  graduates  of  the  state  preparatory  school  at 
Boulder.  Ada  is  now  teaching  in  the  Denver 
public  schools;  and  Hattie  and  Blanche  are  teach- 
ing in  the  Eaton  schools. 


r"REDERICK  C.  SCHRODER  was  born  in 
r^  Germany  December  24,  1849,  ^^^>  aside 
I  ^  from  his  brother  Henry,  was  the  only  child 
of  Eilert  Schroder,  a  native  of  Elmendorf,  Ger- 
many, born  about  1822,  and  a  farmer  by  occupa- 
tion. When  he  was  a  boy  he  had  such  advan- 
tages as  the  neighboring  schools  afforded.  At 
the  age  of  twenty-one  he  enlisted  in  the  army 
and  took  part  in  the  Franco- Prussian  war,  serv- 
ing for  two  years  and  eight  months  in  thcarmy. 
On  his  return  home  he  resumed  work  on  the 
farm.  In  1876,  having  decided  to  emigrate  to 
America,  he  set  sail  on  a  steamer,  which  landed 
him  in  New  York  City  after  a  short  voyage.  In 
a  few  days  he  went  to  Kansas,  where  he  spent 
two  years  each  in  Donovan  and  Washington 
Counties,  engaged  in  farm  pursuits. 

Coming  to  Colorado  in  1880,  Mr.  Schroder 
begun  mining  in  Summit  County,  where  he  re- 
mained for  fifteen  years,  puring  that  time  for- 
tune favored  him  and  he  discovered  valuable 
mining  properties.  For  some  eight  months,  in 
1890-91,  he  engaged  in  prospecting  in  New  Mex- 
ico. He  came  to  Clear  Creek  Valley  in  1895 
and  purchased  his  present  place  of  twenty-five 
acres,  where  he  has  since  engaged  in  gardening 
and  fruit-growing.  In  1895  he  built  a  substan- 
tial and  commodious  brick  residence,  which  is 
handsomely  furnished  and  provides  a  comfortable 
home  for  his  family. 

October  7,  1894,  Mr.  Schroder  married  Mrs. 
Julia  A.  Petrie,  widow  of  William  H.  Petrie. 
She  was  born  in  Pleasantville,  Weschester  Coun- 
ty, N.  Y.,  a  daughter  of  Milo  M.  Parrish,  a  na- 
tive of  Stockbridge,  Mass.  Her  father  removed 
in  early  life  to  Westchester  County  and  for  many 
years  carried  on  business  as  a  marble  contractor 
in  Plea.santville  and  Tuckaho,  being  the  owner 
of  valuable  marble  quarries.  His  wife  was  Mary 
Tallman,  a  native  of  Newburg,  N.  Y.  Mrs. 
Schroder  is  a  woman  of  far  more  than  ordinary 


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ability.  She  possesses  qualities  that  make  her 
counsel  valuable  not  only  in  the  management  of 
household  afiairs,  but  also  in  the  conduct  of  the 
business.  In  December,  1896,  she  became  the 
owner  of  a  half-interest  in  the  Puzzle  group  of 
mines,  one  of  the  valuable  mining  properties  of 
Breckeniidge,  and  now  operated  under  lease  to 
Messrs.  Nelson  and  Young. 


gENJAMIN  WOODBURY,  proprietor  of  the 
Fruitvale  Nurseries  near  Boulder,  purchased 
his  present  home  place  often  acres  in  1882. 
At  that  time  there  was  not  a  tree  or  building  on 
the  land,  and  it  bore  little  resemblance  to  the 
beautiful,  well-kept  country  place  it  is  to-day, 
with  its  fine  orchards,  lawns  and  residence.  The 
latter  was  erected  by  our  subject  in  the  summer 
of  1883,  since- which  he  has  added  to  and  im- 
proved it  until  it  is  one  of  the  most  desirable 
modern  homes  of  Boulder  or  vicinity.  He  is  a 
pratical  fruit-grower  and  florist  and  is  making  a 
success  of  the  undertaking. 

The  father  of  our  subject,  Simon  Woodbury, 
was  born  in  Bremen,  Lincoln  County,  Me.,  in 
1806.  He  learned  the  trade  of  a  millwright  and 
carpenter,  following  those  callings  in  his  native 
place  until  shortly  before  his  death,  at  the  ad- 
vanced age  of  eighty-nine  years.  He  was  county 
commissioner  two  terms  and  acted  in  various 
minor  ofiices  in  his  community.  His  wife  bore 
the  maiden  name  of  Hannah  Yates,  and  all  of 
their  six  children  are  living.  Thomas  is  a  resi- 
dent of  San  Francisco  County,  Cal.  Matilda, 
Lucy  and  Caroline  are  married;  and  John  L.  is  a 
contractor  and  builder  in  Denver,   Colo. 

The  paternal  grandfather  of  Benjamin  Wood- 
bury of  this  sketch  bore  the  same  Christian  name. 
He  came  to  this  country  from  England  accom- 
panied by  two  brothers,  one  of  whom  went  to 
Cleveland,  Ohio,  while  the  other  located  in  the 
northern  part  of  Maine.  He  took  up  his  own 
abode  in  Lincoln  County,  Me.,  and  devoted  him- 
self to  agriculture.  Grandfather  Thomas  Yates, 
also  a  Maine  farmer,  and  a  veteran  of  the  Revo- 
lution, was  a  native  of  the  Emerald  Isle.  On  his 
father's  side,  the  great-grandfather  of  our  sub- 
ject, a  Mr.  Farrer,  was  a  participant  in  the  war 
of  the  Revolution,  but  more  remarkable  than 
this  is  the  fact,  that  of  his  family  of  ten  sons 
and  two  daughters,  eight  of  the  sons  were  also 


soldiers  in  the  colonial  struggle  for  independence. 
It  is  a  question  if  such  a  record  was  made  by  any 
other  family,  either  in  that  war  or  in  any  of  the 
succeeding  wars  of  this  country,  for  where  is 
there  another  case  where  a  father  and  his  eight 
sons  were  participants  in  one  great  battle,  as  was 
the  case  when  this  notable  nine  fought  for  the 
same  cause  in  the  engagement  at  Lake  Cham- 
plain.  Small  wonder  that  a  land  which  could 
muster  forth  such  devoted  families  should  con- 
quer over  all  her  enemies  and  become  one  of  the 
grandest  governments  on  the  earth. 

Benjamin  Woodbury  was  born  in  Bremen, 
Me.,  July  27,  1 83 1,  and  under  his  father's  in- 
struction learned  the  trades  of  carpenter  and 
millwright.  For  two  seasons  he  worked  in  the 
ship-yards  at  Bath,  Me.,  and  in  1853  he  deter- 
mined to  seek  his  fortunes  in  the  west.  At  St. 
Louis  he  took  the  first  steamer  that  went  up  the 
Missouri  River  that  spring.  Kansas  had  not  yet 
been  organized  into  a  territory,  and  it  stretched 
out  toward  the  setting  sun  in  dreary,  unbroken 
prairie.  Some  fifteen  or  twenty  families  had 
settled  at  a  point  that  was  called  Ossawatomie, 
and  here  Mr.  Woodbury  located.  He  built  a 
shop  and  a  house  and  then  proceeded  to  erect 
numerous  houses  and  barns  for  the  new  citizens  of 
the  little  town.  The  place  was  near  four  Indian 
reservations,  and,  as  the  red-skins  were  doing 
considerable  farming,  our  subject  found  his  spare 
time  well  occupied  in  manufacturing  and  repair- 
ing wagons,  farm  implements,  etc.  He  also 
entered  eighty  acres  of  land,  but  he  suflfered  so 
severely  with  ague  that  he  sold  out  about  twenty 
months  later  and  returned  to  Chicago,  where  he 
had  spent  a  few  days  when  on  his  westward 
journey.  In  that  city,  destined  to  become  a 
great  metropolis,  he  worked  at  his  trade  and  at 
building  canal  boats.  In  1859  he  had  charge  of 
the  hydraulics  of  the  Illinois  and  Michigan 
Canal  Company. 

In  i860  the  attractions  of  the  great  and  grow- 
ing west  again  appealed  to  him  so  strongly  that 
he  came  to  Colorado,  and  for  a  few  months  pros- 
pected in  Gilpin  County.  In  the  autumn  he 
went  to  New  Mexico,  only  to  return  here  in  the 
spring  following.  That  summer  and  fall  he 
worked  at  gulch  mining  near  Idaho  Springs.  In 
1 86 1  he  returned  to  Gilpin  County  and  for  the 
next  three  years  put  up  mills  in  Blackhawk  and 
vicinity,  often    employing  from  forty   to   eighty 


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men,  their  labors  extending  to  Clear  Creek  and 
Boulder  Counties.  In  1867  our  subject  built  the 
first  wing  of  the  Canon  City  penitentiary,  for  the 
government,  and  in  1872  he  built^the  first  wing  of 
the  Laramie  City  penitentiary,  also  for  the  gov- 
ernment. In  1873  Mr.  Woodbury  moved  his 
family  to  Denver,  and  purchased  a  small  home 
on  Wheat  Ridge,  north  of  Sloan's  Lake.  His 
land  here  numbered  eight  acres.  In  1875  he  re- 
moved to  Boulder  and  again  engaged  in  mill- 
wrighting  until  he  invested  in  his  fruit  farm.  He 
was  a  mason,  belonging  to  the  lodge  at  Black- 
hawk,  of  which  he  was  a  charter  member. 
Politically  his  ballot  is  used  for  the  nominees  of 
the  silver  Republican  party. 


"HOMAS  A.  LEWIS  is  a  member  of  the 
firm  of  Abbo  &  Lewis,  proprietors  of  a  liv- 
ery and  sales  stable  in  Morrison,  Jefferson 
County.  He  is  a  native  of  Kingston,  Canada, 
bom  July  14,  1847,  and  was  one  of  nine  children, 
seven  now  living,  who  comprised  the  family  of 
Joel  and  Jane  (Henderson)  Lewis.  His  father, 
who  was  born  in  Edwardsburg,  Canada,  in  1823, 
remained  in  that  place  until  thirty-four  years  of 
age,  meantime  devoting  himself  to  farming  and 
contracting  on  the  Grand  Trunk  Railroad.  In 
1857  he  moved  to  Kansas,  and  for  two  years  cul- 
tivated land  in  Franklin  County.  Accompanied 
by  his  family,  in  the  spring  of  1859  he  crossed 
the  plains  with  an  ox-team,  arriving  in  Denver 
on  the  loth  of  June.  After  a  few  days  he  went 
to  Golden  and  from  there  he  soon  proceeded  to 
Boulder  and  spent  the  winter  of  1859-60  in  pros- 
pecting there  and  in  Russell  Gulch.  In  the 
spring  of  i86c  he  went  to  Nevadaville  and  en- 
gaged in  mining  there  until  the  fall  of  1862, 
when  he  came  to  Bear  Creek  and  purchased  the 
ranch  which  he  has  since  operated,  and  where 
he  still  makes  his  home. 

At  the  age  of  twenty-one  our  subject  went  to 
the  mountains  with  a  team  and  began  hauling. 
After  one  year  he  returned  to  Bear  Creek,  where 
he  rented  land  four  miles  east  of  Morrison.  The 
following  year  he  rented  a  place  in  Littleton, 
then  returned  to  Bear  Creek,  where  he  operated 
as  a  renter  for  two  years.  Afterward,  buying  a 
farm  of  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  on  Bear 
Creek,  one  and  one-half  miles  east  of  Morrison, 
he  settled  down  to  the  busy  life  of  a  farmer.     In 


1876,  during  the  Black  Hills  excitement,  he  sold 
his  place  and  went  to  the  new  mining  country, 
where  he  engaged  in  the  dairy  business  and  in 
putting  up  hay.  On  his  return  he  bought  an 
eighty-acre  farm  in  Longmont,  but  after  two 
years  sold  that  place  and  went  to  the  Gunnison 
country,  where  he  embarked  in  the  dairy  busi- 
ness. 

On  his  return  to  Bear  Creek  in  188 1,  Mr.  Lewis 
bought  two  hundred  and  eighty  acres  situated 
four  miles  east  of  Morrison.  This  property  he 
afterward  sold,  and  purcha.sed  five  hundred  and 
fourteen  acres  adjoining  it,  which  he  now  owns. 
In  1892  he  rented  that  place  and  bought  an 
interest  in  the  liverj'  business  of  Abbo  &  Brown, 
which  business  has  since  been  continued  under 
the  firm  title  of  Abbo  &  Lewis.  He  still  owns 
two  hundred  acres  of  land  one-half  mile  east  of 
Morrison,  but  the  property  is  operated  by  ten- 
ants. Fraternally  he  is  connected  with  Morrison 
Lodge  No.  82,  I.  O.  O.  F. ,  and  is  the  present 
treasurer  of  the  lodge. 

In  1870  Mr.  Lewis  married  Miss  Sarah  E. 
Donovan,  daughter  of  Cornelius  Donovan.  Her 
father,  who  was  a  native  of  Bourbon  County, 
111.,  moved  to  Illinois  in  boyhood  and  remained 
there  until  1859,  when  he  came  to  Colorado.  He 
endured  all  the  hardships  and  shared  the  expe- 
riences common  to  the  pioneers  of  1859.  Farm- 
ing was  his  life  work,  and  in  it  he  met  with  fair 
success.  The  two  children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Lewis 
are:  Amy  L.  and  Oscar  R.  The  daughter  is 
the  wife  of  James  Abbo,  member  of  the  firm  of 
Abbo  &  Lewis,  and  a  prominent  farmer  of  Jefier- 
son  County. 

©AMUEL  STROUSSEis  one  of  the  old  resi- 
/\  dents  of  Georgetown,  and  has  been  the 
\Z/  longest  engaged  in  his  line  of  business  of 
any  merchant  in  the  city.  He  has  been  enter- 
prising and  very  successful,  and  has  frequently 
established  branch  houses  elsewhere,  afterwards 
disposing  of  them,  while  he  continued  to  retain 
his  original  location  here.  He  possesses  the  es- 
teem and  respect  of  the  entire  community,  who 
do  not  begrudge  him  the  prosperity  so  justly 
gained  by  him  in  the  legitimate  lines  of  trade. 

Mr.  Strousse  is  a  native  of  Bavaria,  Germany, 
his  birth  having  occurred  near  the  city  of  Augs- 
burg, April  29,  1850.  His  father  was  of  an  old 
and    respected   family   there,   and  was   a    land- 


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owner  and  stock-dealer.  Both  parents  lived  and 
died  in  Germany.  The  mother  bore  the  maiden 
name  of  Clara  Laubheimer,  and  in  her  girlhood 
her  home  was  in  Wurtemberg.  Of  the  eight 
children  of  this  worthy  couple  all  but  two  remain 
in  Germany.  These  two,  Emil  and  Samuel, 
are  in  America,  Emil  being  in  business  with  our 
subject  in  Georgetown. 

When  he  was  a  lad  of  thirteen  years  Samuel 
Strousse  went  to  the  city  of  Frankfort-on-the- 
Main,  where  he  served  an  apprenticeship  to  the 
trade  of  manufacturing  passamenterie  trimming. 
Then,  on  account  of  the  law  forcing  young  men 
into  the  army  for  a  term  of  years,  he  decided  to 
come  to  the  United  States.  He  left  Havre  in 
1869,  and  upon  reaching  New  York  he  obtained 
a  position  as  a  clerk,  and  held  the  place  for  a 
few  months.  In  December,  1869,  he  landed  in 
Georgetown,  and  found  employment  with  a  Mr. 
Trapp,  a  merchant.  In  1870  he  started  in  busi- 
ness for  himself  on  Sixth  street,  and  has  since 
been  extensively  engaged  in  dealing  in  dry 
goods  and  clothing.  He  opened  a  branch  store 
in  Silver  Plume,  and  carried  it  on  until  the  busi- 
ness was  purchased  of  him  by  his  brother-in-law, 
Mr.   Morgenthau. 

In  1880  Samuel  Strousse  embarked  in  business 
in  Leadville,  and  was  the  proprietor  of  one  of  the 
largest  houses  of  the  kind  in  that  place,  until,  at 
the  end  of  some  three  years,  the  strike  of  the 
Molly  Maguires  occurred,  when  Mr.  Strousse 
closed  up  his  store  and  brought  his  goods  to 
Georgetown.  In  addition  to  his  other  afifairs,  he 
has  investments  in  mining  property  and  real 
estate,  and  loans  money,  as  well.  Politically  he 
is  a  stanch  Republican.  For  years  he  has  been 
treasurer  of  the  Odd  Fellows'  Lodge  No.  18,  and 
is  now  noble  grand.  He  is  also  identified  with 
the  Knights  of  Pythias. 

April  9,  1873,  Mr.  Strousse  married  Miss  Flora 
Morgenthau,  a  native  of  Cincinnati,  Ohio.  Mrs. 
Strousse  is  the  eldest  in  a  family  of  seven  children, 
her  parents  being  Sampson  and  I<ena  (Gutmann) 
Morgenthau,  natives  of  Fiirth  and  Dispecht, 
Bavaria,  Germany,  respectively.  The  father  was 
a  merchant  in  Cincinnati  and  later  in  New  York. 
Both  parents  died  in  New  York  City.  The  fa- 
ther was  a  member  of  the  Ohio  State  militia  at 
the  time  of  the  Morgan  raid  during  the  Civil  war. 
April  9,  1898,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Strousse  celebrated 
their  silver   wedding  anniversary  in  New  York, 


their  children  and  a  large  circle  of  friends  being 
assembled  to  do  honor  to  the  occasion.  Howard 
is  a  graduate  of  a  commercial  college  and  is  a 
bookkeeper  in  the  employ  of  his  father.  Lena  is 
the  wife  of  L.  E.  Young,  the  largest  manufacturer 
and  dealer  in  hats  in  New  York.  Arthur  is  at- 
tending Weingart's  Institute  in  New  York. 


^EORGE  W.  MANHART,  the  well-known 
I  if.  merchant  of  Sedalia,  was  born  in  Luzerne 
\^  County,  Pa.,  February  5,  1855,  a  son  of 
Christian  and  Sarah  (Barney)  Manhart,  reference 
to  whom  appears  elsewhere  in  this  volume.  He 
was  five  years  of  age  when  his  parents  came  to 
Colorado,  settling  near  Montgomery,  and  from 
there,  in  October,  1866,  removing  to  the  ranch 
they  have  since  occupied.  On  that  place  our 
subject  continued  to  make  his  home  until  his 
marriage,  which  took  place  June  21,  1876,  at  the 
old  homestead,  his  bride  being  Miss  Bertha  Hoff- 
man, daughter  of  Louis  and  Ellen  (Gallagher) 
Hoffman. 

March  4,  1878,  Mr.  Manhart  embarked  in 
business  in  Sedalia,  but  the  business  was  at  first 
conducted  on  a  small  scale,  in  a  small  building. 
From  that  beginning  he  has  built  up  his  present 
large  and  profitable  trade.  In  the  summer  of 
1889  he  erected  a  stone  store,  which  is  a  sub- 
stantial building  and  would  be  a  credit  to  a  much 
larger  city  than  Sedalia.  It  is  three  stories  in 
height,  including  a  basement,  and  is  heated  by 
steam  and  lighted  by  electricity,  Mr.  Manhart 
owning  a  dynamo  that  lights  both  his  store  and 
his  residence.  At  one  time  his  business  in  cash 
sales  aggregated  $30,000  per  annum,  and  it  is 
now  about  $12,000.  As  a  merchant  he  is  keen, 
painstaking,  anxious  to  please,  and  content  with 
small  profit  on  each  sale.  His  goods  he  sells  at 
reasonable  prices,  which  makes'  him  popular 
among  the  people  of  the  surrounding  country. 
His  entire  time  and  thought  are  given  to  his 
business,  and  he  has  never  mingled  in  public  af- 
fairs, other  than  to  cast  a  Republican  ticket  at 
elections. 

Twelve  children  were  born  to  the  union  of  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Manhart.  The  eldest  of  these,  Albert, 
was  born  on  the  ranch  where  his  paternal  grand- 
father resides,  June  20,  1877,  and  is  now  a  book- 
keeper and  clerk  in  the  store.  The  others  are: 
Cora  Maude,  born  December  17,  1878;  Herbert, 


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November  15,  1880;  Bertha  H.,  October  5,  1883; 
Sarah  E.,  born  December  22,  1884,  died  August 
6,  1893;  Clara  Florence,  born  February  2,  1886; 
Mary  W.,  born  April  9,  1887,  died  October  13, 
1891;  Ethel  Irene,  born  September  10,  1888; 
Frances  Elsie,  April  17,  1890;  Christian  Louis, 
May  26,  1892;  Edna  Ada,  November  25,  1894; 
and  Arthur  Henry,  December  18,  1896. 


NON.  ENOCH  J.  COFFMAN,  ex-member 
of  the  state  legislature,  and  one  of  the  most 
prominent  and  influential  citizens  of  Long- 
mont,  was  born  in  Preble  County,  Ohio,  October 
19,  1837.  His  parents  were  Jacob  and  Mary 
(Stover)  CofFman.  His  father  was  born  in  Mary- 
land, and  was  a  son  of  Daniel  Kaufmann,  who 
went  to  that  state  from  Germany  and  followed 
the  trade  of  a  miller,  changing  his  name  to  the 
present  spelling — CofFman.  Jacob  Coffman  en- 
tered the  war  of  1812  while  yet  a  boy,  then  car- 
ried on  freighting  until  1832,  in  Maryland.  At 
that  time  he  went  to  Ohio,  where  he  engaged  in 
farming;  from  there  he  removed  to  Ogle  County, 
111.,  and  continued  his  occupation  of  farming  for 
seventeen  years.  In  1865  he  came  to  Colorado 
and  entered  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres,  now 
the  Secor  estate,  where  he  died  at  the  age  of  sev- 
enty-two years.  His  wife  died  in  Eongmont, 
having  attained  her  seventieth  year.  She  was 
born  in  Pennsylvania,  and  was  a  daughter  of 
Daniel  Stover,  afterwards  of  Preble  County,  Ohio. 
They  were  the  parents  of  a  large  family  of  chil- 
dren, of  whom  all  but  one  grew  to  adult  years. 
These  were  as  follows:  Daniel  S.,  who  is  en- 
gaged in  mining  in  Glendale,  Colo. ;  Susanna, 
Mrs.  Hooker,  now  deceased;  Christiana,  Mrs. 
Slifer,  a  resident  of  Eongmont;  Simon,  who  died 
in  this  state  in  i860;  Enoch  J.,  whose  name 
heads  this  sketch;  J.  D.,  who  is  now  living  in 
Denver,  and  was  a  soldier  of  the  Seventy-second 
Illinois  Regiment;  Rev.  J.  F.,  a  minister  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church, now  located  in  Black- 
hawk;  G.  F.,  who  is  also  a  resident  of  Denver; 
Rev.  A.  W.,  who  is  also  a  minister  in  the  Meth- 
odist Church  and  has  a  charge  in  Nebraska;  Cor- 
nelia, who  died  while  the  family  were  living  in 
Illinois;  and  Helen  M.,  who  is  Mrs.  W.W.  Secor, 
of  Eongmont. 

When  he  was  about  eleven  years  of  age  Mr. 
Cofifman's  parents  moved  to  Illinois,  where  he 


was  placed  in  the  public  schools,  and  later  grad- 
uated from  Mount  Morris  Seminary.  After  leav- 
ing school  he  taught  for  two  years  in  Illinois  and 
one  in  Iowa,  and  then,  hearing  such  wonderful 
stories  of  the  wealth  of  this  territory,  determined 
to  come  and  investigate  for  himself.  Accordingly, 
in  1862,  he  started  overland  with  a  horse  train, 
crossed  the  mouth  of  the  Platte  and  followed  that 
stream  until  he  reached  the  central  part  of  the 
state.  When  he  arrived  in  Gilpin  County  he  had 
been  four  weeks  on  the  road,  and  here  he  halted 
and  devoted  the  following  three  years  to  mining. 
In  this  enterprise  he  met  with  moderate  success, 
in  the  meantime  making  several  trips  back  and 
forth  to  the  river.  In  1865  he  entered  a  home- 
stead of  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres,  upon  which 
he  is  now  living.  Eighty  acres  of  this,  in  Eong- 
mont, he  sold  to  the  Chicago  and  Colorado  Col- 
ony, and  one  of  their  streets  is  named  in  honor 
of  him.  The  adjoining  eighty  was  divided  up, 
twenty  in  town  lots,  Coffman 's  addition  to  Eong- 
mont, and  the  remaining  sixty  he  cultivates. 
This  is  devoted  to  general  farming,  stock-raising, 
etc.  In  addition  to  this  he  owns  ten  acres  on 
Reservoir  hill.  He  was  among  the  first  to  take 
up  with  the  plan  of  making  ditches  for  irrigation, 
and  the  Coffman  ditch,  which  runs  through  his 
farm  and  is  three  miles  long,  was  constructed  en- 
tirely by  him.  He  has  always  retained  his  inter- 
est in  mining,  and  is  one  of  three  owners  of  Lord 
Byron  mine  in  the  Gold  Hill  district. 

While  in  Iowa  Mr.  Coffman  married  Miss 
Electa  McConahay,  a  native  of  Ohio,  and  a 
daughter  of  Thomas  McConahay,  a  blacksmith 
and  machinist.  They  have  one  child,  Stella,  who 
is  a  graduate  of  the  Eongmont  high  school  and 
academy,  and  is  engaged  in  teaching.  Mr.  Coff- 
man was  made  a  trustee  of  the  Chicago  and  Colo- 
rado Colony  when  it  was  started  and  still  occu- 
pies that  ofSce.  He  has  served  the  city  as  trustee 
and  also  as  school  director  for  many  years.  He 
assisted  in  erecting  all  of  the  first  school  build- 
ings here,  and  has  always  been  a  strong  friend  to 
education.  In  1892  the  People's  party  placed 
him  on  their  ticket  as  candidate  to  the  oflSce  of 
representative  from  Boulder  County,  and  elected 
him  by  a  majority  of  six  hundred  and  ten.  He 
served  through  the  session  of  1893,  and  the  extra 
session  of  1894,  where  he  was  chairman  of  the 
irrigation  and  a  member  of  other  committees. 
He  has  been  an  adherent  of  the  People's  party 


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since  its  organization,  and  has  been  a  prominent 
factor  in  its  county  and  state  conventions,  and  its 
chosen  delegate  to  the  national  convention  at 
Omaha  in  1892.  He  is  a  zealous  worker  in  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  in  which  he  has 
been  a  member  many  years,  and  has  held  many 
oflBces.  A  prominent  Mason,  he  is  well  known 
throughout  the  state  in  that  connection.  He  is 
past  master  of  St.  Vrain  Lodge  No.  23;  has  for 
years  served  as  secretary  of  Lodge  No.  8, 
R.  A.  M.;  was  recorder  of  Long's  Peak  Com- 
mandery  No.  12;  and  charter  member  and  first 
worthy  patron  of  the  Eastern  Star.  In  1866,  dur- 
ing the  Indian  outbreak,  he  was  one  of  a  local 
company  that  spent  a  few  months  in  trying  to 
quell  the  trouble.  In  public  as  in  private  life  he 
is  above  reproach,  and  he  is  held  in  the  highest 
esteem  by  the  people  among  whom  he  has  lived 
so  long  and  who  know  him  so  well. 


[EN.  JOHN  N.  IVES,  ex-attorney  general 
of  Kansas,  is  the  present  county  attorney  of 
Boulder  County.  He  is  a  man  of  high 
standing  in  business,  professional  and  fraternal 
circles,  and  enjoys  the  confidence  and  esteem  of 
all  who  have  the  pleasure  of  an  acquaintance- 
ship with  him.  Of  late  years  he  has  devoted 
much  of  his  time,  means  and  energies  to  mining 
enterprises  and  has  met  with  success.  He  is  a 
native  of  New  England,  and  possesses  the  keen, 
clear  judgment  and  able  executive  talents  for 
which  the  Yankees  are  noted,  added  to  which  are 
numerous  qualities  of  character  gained  by  wide 
experience  and  association  with  the  world  in  the 
various  activities  in  which  he  has  been  engaged. 
Born  in  the  town  of  Topsham,  Orange  County, 
Vt.,  May  9,  1837,  the  general  isa  son  of  Stephen 
and  Sarah  (Nutt)  Ives,  natives  of  Clairmout, 
N.  H.,  and  Topsham,  respectively.  The  Ives 
family  were  among  the  first  settlers  of  Walling- 
ford.  Conn.,  and  were  represented  in  the  Revo- 
lutionary war  on  the  colonial  side.  Grandfather 
John  Ives  was  born  in  the  Nutmeg  state,  and 
was  a  farmer  in  New  Hampshire.  He  died  when 
his  son  Stephen  was  but  seven  years  of  age.  The 
latter  became  a  well-to-do  woolen  manufacturer 
in  New  England,  and  about  1839  moved  to  New 
Philadelphia,  Ohio.  Two  years  later  he  went  to 
Muskingum,  where  he  was  employed  as  before, 
in  the  manufacture  of  woolen  fabrics.     At  the 


expiration  of  another  two  years  he  settled  in 
Plainfield,  Ohio,  engaged  in  the  same  line  of 
business  till  1855,  and  passed  his  last  years  in 
Tipton,  Iowa,  dying  there  in  1857.  His  second 
wife  survived  him  nearly  forty  years,  her  demise 
taking  place  in  1896.  Her  father,  John  Nutt, 
was  a  New  England  farmer.  Stephen  Ives  had 
married  in  early  manhood  Miss  Sally  K.  Wal- 
lace, a  descendant  of  the  great  Sir  William  Wal- 
lace, of  Scotland.  She  died  leaving  two  chil- 
dren. One,  Orange  T.  Ives,  resides  at  No.  3715 
William  street,  Denver.  The  two  sons  and  two 
daughters  born  to  the  marriage  of  Stephen  Ives 
and  Sarah  Nutt  are  still  living.  William,  a  vet- 
erinary surgeon  of  Stanwood,  Iowa,  was  in  the 
Eighth  Iowa  Cavalry  during  the  Civil  war,  and 
also  in  an  Iowa  infantry  regiment. 

The  boyhood  of  General  Ives  was  chiefly 
passed  in  Ohio,  and  after  completing  his  common- 
school  education  he  attended  the  academy  at 
West  Bedford.  Then  he  taught  school  for  three 
terms  in  Ohio,  and  in  1855  went  to  Iowa,  where 
he  conducted  schools  for  three  or  four  terms.  ■ 
For  a  few  years  he  was  occupied  in  the  manu- 
facture of  woolen  goods  near  Tipton,  Iowa,  and 
then  he  commenced  the  study  of  law.  Having 
been  admitted  to  the  bar  in  Iowa,  he  practiced 
for  a  short  time  in  the  southern  part  of  the  state, 
mostly  in  Monroe  County.  In  1875  he  settled  in 
Hutchinson,  Minn.,  and  later  practiced  his  pro- 
fession in  Browntown,in  the  same  county,  for  two 
years.  His  next  home  was  in  Crookston,  where 
he  was  the  attorney  for  the  Crookston  &  St.  Hi- 
laire  Railroad,  subsequently  merged  into  the 
Great  Northern  lines,  but  not  until  the  general 
had  been  their  legal  representative  six  years. 
While  he  was  there  he  was  nominated  attorney- 
general  on  the  Democratic  ticket,  a  great  sur- 
prise to  him,  and  though  the  Republicans  won 
the  victory,  he  lowered  their  majorities  materi- 
ally. January  17,  1888,  he  opened  an  ofiice  in 
Sterling,  Kan.,  and  in  the  fall  of  1890  he  was 
nominated  on  the  Farmers'  Alliance  ticket  for 
the  position  of  attorney-general.  This  honor 
also  came  as  a  thunderbolt  to  him,  as  he  was 
first  made  aware  of  the  fact  by  the  daily  papers. 
The  Democrats,  likewise,  made  him  their  candi- 
date, and  he  was  elected  by  the  splendid  majority 
of  forty-seven  thousand  seven  hundred  and 
eight  votes,  being  the  only  one  elected  on  the 
ticket,  while  the  Republican  pluralities  ran  from 


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five  to  eight  thousand.  He  entered  upon  the 
duties  of  his  office  in  January,  1891,  and  served 
until  January,  1893,  when  he  retired. 

In  November,  1892,  General  Ives  became  con- 
nected with  and  was  elected  president  of  the  Or- 
phan Boy  Extension  Mining  &  Milling  Com- 
pany, of  Copper  Rock,  this  county,  the  name  of 
which  has  since  been  changed  to  the  Dew  Drop 
Mining  Company,  and  he  spent  about  half  of  his 
time  in  this  state.  The  company  purchased  the 
Dew  Drop  mine  a  few  years  ago,  and  commenced 
the  extensive  enlargements  and  improvements 
there  which  have  resulted  so  prosperously.  He 
was  president  of  the  company  which  controlled 
the  mine  until  he  resigned  in  favor  of  Mr.  Dan- 
iels, the  present  president  and  general  manager. 
He  is  still  a  director  in  the  company,  which  is 
operated  on  the  co-operative  plan,  a  new  depart- 
ure in  mining  in  this  state.  April  i,  1897,  he 
settled  in  Boulder  and  opened  a  law  office.  In 
July  he  was  appointed  county  attorney,  and  has 
since  acted  in  that  capacity.  April  28,  1897,  ^^ 
and  others  organized  the  Wheelmen's  Mining  and 
Tunneling  Company,  which  has  a  capital  stock 
of  $600,000.  The  tunnel  is  but  eight  miles  from 
Boulder,  in  Boulder  Canon,  and  will  cut  through 
at  least  seventeen  already  famous  gold-bearing 
veins.  The  plan  of  tunneling  in  mining  opera- 
tions needs  no  explanation  or  setting  forth,  as 
the  superiority  of  this  method  is  well  known  by 
this' time  to  everyone  who  has  had  anything  to 
do  in  mining  under  the  conditions  existing  in 
this  region.  Neither  is  anything  necessary  to  be 
said  in  regard  to  the  management  of  the  Wheel- 
men's Company  beyond  this,  that  it  has  at  its 
head  General  Ives,  and  as  secretary  and  treas- 
urer W.  G.  Houston,  while  among  its  directors 
are  Messrs.  P.  D.  Seeley,  B.  H.  Seeley  and  J. 
M.  Shafer,  three  practical  miners,  with  years  of 
experience  in  various  Colorado  and  New  Mexico 
mines. 

In  the  fall  of  1875  General  Ives  was  initiated 
into  the  Masonic  order  in  Temple  Lodge  No.  59, 
A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  of  Hutchinson,  Minn.  He 
became  a  Royal  Arch  Mason  in  Crookston, 
Minn.,  and  is  still  connected  with  the  Hutchin- 
son Commandery,  and  with  Isis  Temple,  Mystic 
Shrine,  of  Salina,  Kan.  He  is  also  a  member 
of  Topeka  Lodge,  Benevolent  and  Protective 
Order  of  Elks. 

The  first  wife  of  General  Ives  was  Miss   Isa- 


belle  Ford,  a  native  of  Tipton,  Iowa,  and  daugh- 
ter of  Andrew  Ford,  an  Iowa  pioneer.  Mrs. 
Ives  died  in  Chariton,  Iowa,  in  1873.  Of  her 
three  children  one  is  deceased.  Dr.  J.  F.  is  a 
graduate  of  the  St.  Joseph  (Mo.)  Medical  Col- 
lege, and  is  practicing  his  profession  in  Langdon, 
Kan.  C.  E.  is  an  engineer  on  the  Union  Pacific 
Railroad,  his  run  being  out  of  Salt  Lake  City. 
While  a  resident  of  Hutchinson,  Minn.,  General 
Ives  married  Mrs.  Anna  Reeks,  a  native  of 
England.  Her  father,  Joseph  Sudborough,  came 
to  the  United  States,  and  was  engaged  in  manu- 
facturing enterprises  in  Ohio,  Canada  and  Min- 
nesota. By  her  first  marriage  Mrs.  Ives  has  two 
children:  William  J.,  a  graduate  of  the  law  de- 
partment of  the  State  University  at  Lawrence, 
Kan.,  and  Etta,  a  graduate  of  the  Topeka  Art 
School,  and  an  excellent  amateur  artist. 


g  RUSSELL  SKINNER,  a  farmer  of  Weld 
County,  owner  of  a  well-improved  place  on 
township  4,  range  68,  was  born  in  Cook 
County,  III.,  in  1852  and  is  a  son  of  L.  T.  and 
Eliza  (Curtis)  Skinner.  His  mother  came  with 
her  parents  from  England  when  eight  years  of 
age;  his  father,  a  native  of  Vermont,  settled  in 
Illinois  when  a  young  man  and  for  a  time  made 
his  home  near  Fort  Dearborn  (now  Chicago). 
He  devoted  himself  to  agricultural  pursuits  dur- 
ing his  entire  life  and  also,  for  some  years,  served 
as  superintendent  of  the  poor  farm,  which  place 
he  managed  successfully.  In  political  belief 
he  was  a  Republican  and  on  that  ticket  was 
chosen  county  commissioner.  His  death  occurred 
in  1864,  when  he  was  forty-three  years  of  age. 

The  public  schools  gave  our  subject  such  educa- 
tional advantages  as  he  received.  At  the  age  of 
seventeen  he  went  to  Fayette  County,  Iowa,  and 
for  four  years  was  devoted  to  tilling  soil  there. 
On  his  return  to  Illinois  he  spent  some  time  in 
Chicago.  In  1876  he  came  to  Colorado  and 
settled  in  Longmont,  where  for  some  months  he 
worked  on  the  Highland  ditch.  In  1878  he  took 
a  contract  to  build  five  and  one-half  miles  of  the 
Handy  ditch,  which  occupied  him  during  the 
year.  In  the  spring  of  1878  he  came  to  his 
present  farm,  where  he  took  up  a  quarter-section 
of  railroad  land,  and  here  he  has  since  engaged 
in  stock-raising  and  general  farming.  He  is  a 
stockholder  in  the  Home  Supply  Ditch  Company, 


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of  which  he  has  been  a  director.  In  the  year  of 
1889  he  erected  a  substantial  brick  residence  on 
his  farm,  and  here  his  family  have  a  comfortable 
home. 

Politically  a  Republican,  Mr.  Skinner  has 
served  as  justice  of  the  peace  and  as  director  of 
school  district  No.  36.  In  1881  he  married 
Catherine,  daughter  of  John  A.  Rowe,  of  Weld 
County.  They  have  three  sons:  Roy,  Hobart 
and  Harley.  The  family  are  connected  with  the 
Baptist  Church.  In  addition  to  his  farm,  Mr. 
Skinner  owns  some  dwelling-house  property  in 
Berthoud. 


KA  ATTHIAS  HANSEN  is  a  self-made  man 
y  in  every  sense  of  the  word,  and  possesses 
is  the  sturdy  independence  of  character  and 
the  strict  integrity  and  industriousness  for  which 
the  people  of  his  native  land  are  noted.  Only 
fifteen  years  ago  he  landed  in  the  United  States, 
a  stranger  in  a  strange  land,  unacquainted  with 
the  language  or  customs  of  our  citizens  and 
handicapped  in  many  other  ways.  He  has  a 
brave  and  manly  heart,  however,  and  with  energy 
he  worked  at  whatever  he  could  find  to  do  at 
first,  until  he  had  gained  a  foothold.  Success 
was  the  result  of  his  efforts,  and  he  is  now  num- 
bered among  the  stable,  respected  citizens  of 
lyOngmont. 

Thirty-five  years  ago  Matt  Hansen,  as  he  is 
familiarly  called  and  generally  known,  was  born, 
in  the  island  of  Bornholm,  Denmark.  His  par- 
ents, Diedrick  Peter  and  Annie  Christine  (Jor- 
gensen)  Hansen,  were  also  natives  of  that  island 
and  passed  their  entire  lives  within  its  narrow 
boundaries.  The  father,  who  is  still  quite  act- 
ively engaged  in  business,  has  followed  the  car- 
penter's trade  and  has  built  a  great  many  houses 
and  other  structures.  His  faithful  companion 
and  helpmate  was  called  from  his  side  by  death 
in  June  of  1897,  and  of  their  large  family,  which 
originally  numbered  ten  children,  only  two  re- 
main in  Denmark.  The  other  four  living  chil- 
dren are  all  residents  of  Colorado. 

In  his  boyhood  Matt  Hansen  attended  the 
public  schools  of  his  native  land,  and  when  he 
was  fourteen  years  of  age  he  commenced  serving 
an  apprenticeship  to  the  blacksmith's  trade.  He 
worked  industriously  at  this  calling  for  five  years, 
a  part  of  the  time  being  employed  as  a  journey- 
man.    In    the    spring   of    1884,    when  he  had 


reached  his  majority,  he  concluded  that  he  would 
set  forth  for  the  land  of  promise,  fair  America,  of 
which  he  had  heard  so  many  favorable  reports. 
He  was  the  first  of  his  family  to  take  the  step  of 
parting  with  home  and  fatherland  to  encounter 
unknown  difficulties  as  best  he  might.  Going  to 
Copenhagen  he  sailed  from  that  city  for  New 
York,  and  soon  continued  his  journey  toward  the 
west,  stopping  at  Clinton,  Iowa,  that  summer. 
In  September  he  came  to  Longmont  and  was  em- 
ployed on  the  railroad  and  at  farming  for  about  a 
year,  after  which  he  resumed  work  at  his  trade.  In 
1896  he  built  his  shop  in  I,ongmont  and  started 
in  business  for  himself,  and  has  been  very  suc- 
ces.sful.  He  does  all  kinds  of  wagon  repairing, 
horse-shoeing,  etc.,  and  has  a  reputation  of  being 
the  best  plow-sharpener  in  the  country.  He  runs 
two  fires  and  has  everj'  facility  for  doing  work 
expeditiously. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Hansen  and  Miss  Mary 
Anderson  was  celebrated  in  Boulder,  Cola. ,  Feb- 
ruary 22,  1890.  Mrs.  Hansen  is  also  a  native  of 
the  island  of  Bornholm,  Denmark.  The  three 
children  who  grace  the  union  of  this  worthy 
couple  are  named  respectively,  Ella,  Valborg  and 
Dora.  Mr.  Hansen  is  a  member  of  lyongmont 
Lodge  No.  29,  I.  O.  O.  F. ,  of  L,ongmont,  and  is 
connected  with  the  Ancient  Order  of  United 
Workmen.  In  his  political  preferences  he  sides 
with  the  Populist  party. 


(pAMUEL  LARSON  GRIFFIN,  a  prominent 
2\  and  well-to-do  business  man  of  the  town  of 
VlJ/  Elbert,  has  been  engaged  in  the  mercantile 
business  here  since  1888,  and  is  the  silent  partner 
of  the  firm  of  D.  S.  Enbank  &  Co.  He  was  born 
in  Jacksonville,  Ala.,  December  12,  1848,  and  is 
a  son  of  Forester  M.  and  Florentine  (Willis) 
Griffin.  He  was  a  lad  of  three  years  when  his 
parents  moved  to  Williamson  County,  Tex., 
where  he  was  reared  to  manhood.  His  father, 
who  was  a  farmer  and  stock-raiser,  was  a  strong 
anti-slavery  man. 

Our  subject  is  mainly  self-educated,  having  ob- 
tained only  six  months  of  schooling.  At  twelve 
years  of  age  he  commenced  to  provide  for  himself 
and  began  herding  cattle,  following  that  occupa- 
tion until  he  attained  his  majority;  his  salary 
was  fixed  at  $25  per  month.  While  herding  he 
visited   all  the  prominent  cities  of  Mexico  and 


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other  states  of  that  section.  At  the  age  of 
twenty-one  years  he  left  Grant  County,  N.  Mex., 
with  a  herd  of  five  thousand  cattle  which  he 
had  been  herding  there,  for  California,  but  upon 
reaching  the  state  of  Colorado  he  found  it  would 
not  pay,  so  decided  to  stay  where  he  was.  He 
continued  the  stock  business  until  1874,  when 
he  sold  out  and  began  freighting  and  setting 
out  ties  for  the  railroad,  following  the  same 
until  the  great  discoveries  of  gold  at  Lead- 
ville.  In  1888  he  became  a  citizen  of  Elbert, 
and,  in  company  with  D.  S.  Enbank,  he  em- 
barked in  the  mercantile  business  under  the  firm 
name  of  D.  S.  Enbank  &  Co.  This  firm  has 
been  very  successful  in  business,  and  by  their 
honest  and  straightforward  ways  of  dealing  have 
established  an  enviable  patronage.  Our  subject 
is  enterprising  and  public  spirited,  and  possesses 
a  multitude  of  friends  in  his  community. 

Mr.  Griffin  was  married  July  9,  1879,  to  Mrs. 
Mary  Hall,  nee  Gray,  of  Douglas  County,  Colo., 
and  they  made  their  home  in  that  county  for  a 
number  of  years,  living  five  miles  from  Spring 
Valley,  where  our  subject  built  one  of  the  finest 
homes  in  that  section  of  the  county.  The  home 
of  this  union  was  blessed  by  the  birth  of  four 
children,  namely:  Tina,  who  is  attending  school 
at  Denver;  Iva,  Grace  and  George.  Politically 
Mr.  GriflSn  is  an  unwavering  Democrat,  and  cast 
his  first  vote  for  Horace  Greeley  in  1872.  He  is 
a  member  and  has  been  manager  of  the  Wood- 
men of  the  World  of  this  community  since  its  or- 
ganization; he  is  also  a  charter  member  and 
treasurer  of  the  Home  Forum. 


HENRY  G.  SMITH  is  one  of  the  enterprising 
and  progressive  farmers  and  stock-raisers  of 
Elbert  County.  He  has  here  resided  since 
1866,  when  he  took  up  a  tract  of  one  hundred 
and  sixty  acres  near  the  town  of  Kiowa;  he  has 
since  increased  his  estate  to  twelve  hundred  acres. 
His  homestead  is  one  of  the  finest  and  most  im- 
proved in  the  Comanche  Valley,  and  is  located 
on  section  18,  township  8,  range  62  west.  The 
gentleman  whose  biography  we  write  is  of  Ger- 
man descent,  and  was  born  in  Hesse- Darmstadt, 
Germany,  November  13,  1834. 

Henry  G.  Smith  was  reared  to  manhood  in  his 
native  country,  where  he  received  a  fine  educa- 
tion.    He  emigrated  to  the  United  States  in  1 860, 


and  landed  in  New  Orleans,  La.  He  then  went 
up  the  Mississippi  to  St.  Louis,  where  he  worked 
on  the  river  a  short  time,  and  afterward  found 
employment  on  a  farm  in  Illinois;  the  next  year 
was  spent  working  for  the  United  States  govern- 
ment at  Benton  Barracks.  In  1865  he  drove 
across  the  plains  to  Denver,  Colo.,  arriving  there 
June  25.  He  spent  the  remainder  of  the  sum- 
mer working  in  the  gold  mines,  but  as  he  did 
not  succeed  well,  he  accepted  a  government  posi- 
tion, driving  a  team,  in  which  capacity  he  re- 
mained one  year.  In  1866  he  took  up  a  claim  of 
one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  and  began  farming 
and  stock-raising.  He  has  since  taken  up  many 
claims,  and  has  found  none  more  desirable  and 
suitable  in  every  way  than  his  present  homestead, 
which  is  located  in  the  fertile  valley  of  Coman- 
che. Our  subject  has  made  many  improvements 
upon  his  property,  and  it  now  ranks  among  the 
foremost  in  the  county.  His  principal  occupa- 
tion is  stock-raising,  and  he  always  keeps  from 
one  to  three  hundred  head  of  fine  cattle.  He 
owns  a  residence  property  in  Denver,  at  No.  1422 
South  Eighth  street.  He  is  greatly  respected 
and  esteemed  in  the  community  of  which  he 
has  so  long  been  a  resident,  and  he  is  a  lead- 
ing factor  in  all  movements  made  to  promote  the 
general  welfare  of  his  community  and  county  at 
large. 

In  November,  1877,  Mr.  Smith  married  Minnie 
Scherer,  of  Denver.  She  is  a  native  of  Germany 
and  came  to  this  country  when  she  was  ten  years 
of  age.  A  family  of  four  children  blessed  their 
home,  namely:  Henry,  William,  Carl  and  Louisa. 
In  politics  our  subject  is  a  solid  Republican  and 
his  first  vote  was  cast  for  Hayes  in  1876.  Relig- 
ously  he  favors  the  Lutheran  Church.  In  1868, 
when  the  Indians  were  making  one  of  their  usual 
raids  through  the  valley,  a  party  consisting  of 
two  ladies,  two  children  and  two  hired  men, 
came  up  to  the  home  of  our  subject  and  warned 
him  of  the  approaching  Indians.  Mr.  Smith 
changed  his  clothes  and  went  to  assist  the  party; 
thinking  they  had  gone  west  to  Kiowa,  he  also 
took  that  route,  but  finding  the  road  clear,  he  was 
on  his  return  when  he  met  a  part  of  them  and 
learned  that  one  of  the  ladies  and  one  child  had 
been  killed  and  the  rest  of  the  party  had  taken 
refuge  at  Kiowa.  A  posse  was  immediately  or- 
ganized to  recover  the  bodies  of  the  dead  and  to 
drive  the  Indians  away.     Arriving  at  the  home 


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of  Mr.  Smith,  they  found  that  the  Indians  had 
been  there  and  had  taken  his  horses,  saddles,  and 
all  his  provisions  and  furniture,  the  only  thing 
remaining  was  a  picture  of  our  subject,  which  was 
in  an  old  tin  box. 


I  OUIS  DUPREE,  a  retired  business  man  of 
I  C  Greeley,  Weld  County,  is  one  of  the  early 
|_2f  residents  of  this  place,  and  has  been  closely 
associated  with  the  upbuilding  and  development 
of  this  immediate  region.  He  owns  considerable 
real  estate  in  this  city  and  county,  and  by  indus- 
try and  strict  attention  to  business  has  become 
independently  well-to-do.  In  politics  he  is  lib- 
eral, giving  his  ballot  and  influence  to  the  cause 
and  nominees  which  he  deems  best  for  the  wel- 
fare of  the  public. 

As  his  surname  indicates,  Mr.  Dupree  is  of 
French  extraction,  though  both  he  and  his  par- 
ents were  natives  of  Canada.  The  latter,  Julius 
and  Natalie  (Nolin)  Dupree,  were  farmers  and 
spent  their  whole  lives  in  the  peaceful  routine  of 
agricultural  pursuits.  Louis  Dupree  was  born 
on  the  old  homestead  in  Canada,  March  18, 
1843.  He  grew  up  on  the  farm,  attending  the 
common  schools  of  the  vicinity.  When  he  was 
in  his  seventeenth  year  he  left  home,  with  the 
consent  of  his  parents,  and  went  to  Webster, 
Mass. ,  where  he  found  employment  in  a  cotton 
factory  for  a  year.  Then,  after  paying  a  visit  of 
a  few  weeks  among  his  relatives  at  the  old  home 
he  entered  upon  an  apprenticeship  to  the  black- 
smith's trade  in  Worcester,  Mass.  Having  mas- 
tered the  same  and  worked  for  a  period  in  the  lo- 
cality of  his  Canadian  home  he  went  to  Troy, 
N.  Y.,  where  he  obtained  a  good  position  in  the 
Spring  Carriage  Works.  A  year  or  more  having 
passed  he  went  to  North  Haddam,  Mass.,  .and 
thence  to  Chicopee  Falls,  remaining  some  three 
years  in  these  towns,  plying  his  trade.  Next, 
he  returned  to  Worcester,  Mass. ,  and  lived  there 
for  a  few  months  prior  to  coming  to  the  west. 

In  the  summer  of  1870  Mr.  T)upree  crossed  the 
states  and  reached  Blackhawk,  Colo.,  where  he 
worked  at  blacksmithing  until  autumn.  The 
town  of  Greeley  had  been  started  the  preceding 
spring,  and  hearing  of  the  place  he  concluded  to 
settle  permanently  here.  Thus  he  was  one  of  the 
first  residents  of  the  far-famed  village.  Entering 
into  partnership  with  Alfonse  Dow,  he  opened  a 
shop,    but   they   continued  together  only  three 


months,  after  which  Mr.  Dupree  became  an  em- 
ploye of  Mr.  Rea,  who  had  previously  established 
a  shop  and  was  doing  a  good  business.  Within 
a  few  months  our  subject  had  become  a  partner  in 
the  same,  and  finally  bought  out  Mr.  Rea.  He 
continued  in  business  until  1878,  when,  his 
health  failing,  he  sold  out.  In  the  meantime,  he 
had  also  invested  in  cattle,  and  had  prospered  in 
that  enterprise.  During  the  three  following 
years,  when  he  was  unable  to  perform  hard  labor, 
he  rented  land,  and  then  bought  a  farm  of  eighty 
acres  near  Greeley.  A  year  later  he  became  the 
owner  of  another  eighty-acre  piece  of  property 
and  this  land  he  cultivated  for  about  nine  years. 
In  1895  he  leased  his  homestead,  and  in  the  win- 
ter of  1897  sold  the  land.  He  owns  a  number  of 
good  business  and  residence  lots  in  Greeley,  and 
has  an  abundance  of  means  for  his  future  needs. 
May  29,  1872,  Mr,  Dupree  married  Miss  Lu- 
cretia  Burchill,  of  Greeley.  She  is  a  daughter  of 
Joseph  and  Ann  (Abbott)  Burchill,  natives  of 
New  Brunswick,  who  came  to  the  United  States 
in  early  life.  Mrs.  Dupree  is  the  youngest  of  six 
children,  and  is  the  only  survivor  of  the  family. 
She  was  born  in  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  and  was  reared 
in  Davenport,  Iowa,  to  which  city  her  parents 
had  removed  when  she  was  a  child.  The  two 
children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Dupree  are:  Lena, 
who  died  in  infancy,  and  Frank  B.,  now  attend- 
ing the  Greeley  school.  In  the  spring  of  1865 
Mr.  Dupree  enlisted  in  the  Nineteeth  New  York 
Volunteer  Infantry,  and  served  until  there  was  no 
longer  need,  when  he  was  mustered  out  and  hon- 
orably discharged. 


n  OHN  POLLOCK  is  a  worthy  representative 
I  of  that  excellent  Irish  element  which  came 
(2/  to  the  state  of  Colorado  and  materially  as- 
sisted in  the  development  of  the  agricultural 
districts.  He  now  occupies  a  well-improved  farm 
on  section  27,  township  10,  range  66  west,  where 
he  has  continued  at  the  occupation  of  farming 
since  the  year  1884.  He  began  in  life  with  moder- 
ate means,  but,  by  untiring  energy  and  a  wise 
economy,  has  succeeded  in  obtaining  a  handsome 
estate  of  five  hundred  and  sixty  acres.  He  is  a 
son  of  Richard  and  Sarah  (Morrison)  Pollock^ 
and  was  born  in  the  city  of  Philadelphia,  May  1 1 , 
1848. 
Richard  Pollock  was  born  in  Belfast,  Ireland, 


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and  came  to  the  United  States  with  some  of  his 
relations,  when  he  was  but  a  mere  lad.  He 
landed  in  Philadelphia,  and  early  in  life  embarked 
in  the  grocery  business  in  that  city,  and  succeeded 
in  acquiring  a  handsome  competency,  but  during 
the  oil  excitement  he  lost  the  greater  portion  of 
his  fortune.  He  passed  from  this  life  in  1868.  In 
1834  he  married  Sarah  Morrison,  who  was  a 
native  of  Glasgow,  Scotland,  but  came  to  this 
country  with  her  parents  when  a  child.  She 
passed  to  the  unknown  beyond  in  the  year  1858. 

John  Pollock  attended  the  grammar  schools 
and  had  intended  to  take  a  complete  course  in  the 
high  school,  but  upon  the  death  of  his  father  he 
was  compelled  to  earn  his  own  living.  After 
working  in  Philadelphia  at  the  painter's  trade  a 
short  time,  in  1868  he  went  to  Omaha,  Neb., 
thence  to  North  Platte,  and  from  there  to  Den- 
ver. Two  weeks'  residence  in  that  city  was 
enough  for  him,  and  he  returned  to  Omaha  on 
horseback,  remaining  in  that  city  until  1871.  He 
began  work  in  the  painting  department  of  the 
Union  Pacific  Railroad  shops;  later  he  became 
time  keeper  and  bookkeeper  for  Joshua  Taylor, 
who  had  taken  the  contract  for  the  stone  used  in 
the  erection  of  the  Lincoln  penitentiary,  which 
made  it  necessary  for  him  to  go  to  Lincoln,  Neb. 
Upon  the  completion  of  that  work  he  and  his 
employer  started  for  St.  Paul,  Minn.,  but  stopped 
off  at  Knoxville,  Iowa,  where  his  employer  took 
a  contract  for  getting  out  stone  for  culverts  on  the 
Albia  &  DeMoines  Valley  Railroad.  At  the  time 
of  the  great  Chicago  fire,  Mr.  Pollock  went  to 
that  city  to  see  the  ruins.  After  spending  several 
months  in  his  native  city  and  New  York  City,  in 
June,  1874,  he  returned  to  Colorado,  where  he 
was  awarded  the  contract  for  painting  the  court- 
house at  Castle  Rock ;  in  the  following  j-ear  he 
went  to  San  Juan  County,  Colo.,  where  the  gold 
excitement  ran  high,  and  in  the  fall  of  1875,  he 
began  to  herd  cattle  on  his  own  account  as  well 
as  for  Albert  Benjamin,  herding  in  the  vicinity  of 
Acquia  until  1879,  when,  on  account  of  the  scarc- 
ity of  grass,  he  started  his  herd  for  the  head- 
waters of  the  North  Fork  of  the  Republican 
River.  In  1883  he  sold  his  herd,  which  con- 
sisted of  some  three  hundred  head,  receiving  about 
$16,000;  he  then  returned  to  Denver  and  later 
bought  his  present  farm,  where  he  has  since  been 
engaged  in  agricultural  pursuits. 

Mr.  Pollock  was  united  in  matrimonial  bonds 


July  23,  1884,  with  Miss  Jessie  M.  Babcock,  of 
Douglas  County,  and  a  daughter  of  Alonzo  A. 
and  Rosa  (Estlake)  Babcock.  Politically  Mr. 
Pollock  has  always  given  his  support  in  favor  of 
the  Republican  party,  and  his  first  vote  was  cast 
for  Hayes  in  1876.  He  has  been  a  candidate  on 
the  Republican  ticket  for  the  legislature,  but  met 
defeat  by  a  narrow  margin;  and  was  also  defeated 
for  the  ofiice  of  county  commissioner  in  1889. 
Socially  he  is  a  member  of  the  Western  Lodge, 
No.  22,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.  of  Littleton;  and  Royal 
Arch  Lodge  of  Denver,  No.  2. 


(lOHN  E.  CONNELLY,  who  for  some  four 
I  years  has  been  the  efiicient  and  popular 
(2/  postmaster  at  Silver  Plume,  Clear  Creek 
County,  has  been  a  resident  of  this  place  for  the 
past  eleven  years  and  has  taken  great  interest  in 
the  upbuilding  and  development  of  this  locality. 
In  every  sense  of  the  word  he  is  a  self-made  man, 
as  he  commenced  his  business  life  the  only  stay 
and  support  of  a  widowed  mother  and  was  obliged 
to  work  his  way  upward,  unaided.  All  credit 
is  due  him  for  the  manly  struggle  which  he 
made  and  the  position  of  respect  to  which  he 
has  risen  by  true  merit. 

The  father  of  our  subject  was  Anthony  Con- 
nelly, who  married  and  settled  in  Philadelphia, 
Pa. ,  in  which  city  he  died  June  8,  187 1,  when  he 
was  but  little  over  thirty-five  years  old.  His 
widow,  whose  maiden  name  was  Annie  Fitzpat- 
rick,  survived  him  some  years,  her  death  occur- 
ring in  the  Quaker  City,  January  2,  1882.  Of  the 
five  children  who  blessed  the  marriage  of  this 
worthy  couple,  only  one,  John  E.,  remains. 

The  birth  of  J.  E.  Connelly  took  place  in 
Philadelphia,  March  22,  1866.  He  was  noted 
for  his  bright,  alert  mind  as  he  grew  up  and, 
having  been  admitted  as  a  student  in  the  Christian 
Brothers  School  in  his  home  city,  he  made  such 
rapid  progress  that  he  had  completed  the  course 
long  before  the  majority  of  his  classmates.  When 
but  twelve  years  old  he  obtained  a  position  as  a 
cash-boy  in  the  great  store  of  John  Wannamaker, 
and  continued  with  that  house  some  four  years. 
During  this  period  he  mastered  many  of  the  lead- 
ing principles  of  the  commercial  world  and  com- 
manded the  respect  and  good  will  of  all  of  his 
superiors  by  his  strict  attention  to  duty  and  uni- 
form courtesy  to  all.   His  next  venture  was  to  learn 


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the  trade  of  a  barber.  At  first  he  worked  in  the 
shop  of  the  St.  George  Hotel,  Philadelphia,  after 
which  he  completed  his  apprenticeship  in  another 
location  on  Twenty-fourth  street,  near  Brown. 
In  the  last-named  place  he  remained  until  he 
decided  to  come  west,  October  11,  1886.  His 
mother  had  previously  died  and  he  had  no  fur- 
ther ties  to  keep  him  in  the  east.  After  a  few 
weeks  spent  in  Denver  he  went  to  Georgetown. 
There  he  stayed  from  November  2  until  July  11, 
1887,  when  he  came  to  Silver  Plume.  Soon 
after  arriving  here  he  bought  out  John  Ryan  and 
has  since  kept  a  first-class  barber-shop.  His  place 
of  business  is  conveniently  located  on  Main  street. 

Mr.  Connelly  was  formerly  a  Democrat,  but  is 
now  a  Populist.  March  21,  1894,  he  was  ap- 
pointed to  the  office  of  postmaster  of  Silver  Plume, 
by  President  Cleveland,  and  has  given  general 
satisfaction.  In  the  Ancient  Order  of  Hibernians 
he  ranks  high  and  has  been  a  delegate  to  numer- 
ous conventions.  He  is  ex-president  of  Division 
No.  I,  of  Silver  Plume.  Religiously  he  is  a 
Catholic  and  is  one  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  St. 
Patrick's  Church. 

In  Denver  Mr.  Connelly  married  Miss  Theresa 
Shea,  May  17,  1892.  Mrs.  Connelly  was  born  in 
Wisconsin  and  is  a  daughter  of  John  Shea,  who 
was  an  early  settler  of  Gilpin  and  Clear  Creek 
Counties  and  is  now  a  resident  of  Denver.  The 
two  children  of  our  subject  and  wife  are  named 
respectively,  I,eo  and  I^ewis. 


r)EV.  FRANK  SAWDEY  purchased  one  hun- 
1^  dred  and  sixty  acres  on  Pleasant  View  Ridge, 
r\  Weld  County,  in  1896  and  at  once  settled 
here.  Two  years  later  he  purchased  an  eighty- 
acre  tract  near  his  home  farm,  but  now  rents  the 
entire  property, and  gives  his  attention  to  evangel- 
istic work.  He  is  a  believer  in  the  doctrines  of 
the  Free  Methodist  Church  and  has  accomplished 
much  good  through  his  personal  work  indifferent 
parts  of  the  state. 

In  Cayuga  County,  near  Batavia,  N.  Y.,  Mr. 
Sawdey  was  born  April  28,  1852,  a  son  of  Curtis 
and  Harriet  (Van  Burger)  Sawdey.  He  was 
one  of  fourteen  children,  nine  of  whom  are  liv- 
ing, namely:  Elizabeth;  Mary;  John,  of  Spokane, 
Wash.;  Catherine;  Edward  and  Edgar  (twins), 
the  former  living  in  North  Dakota,  the  latter  in 
Rouse,   Colo.;   Stewart,  who  is  engaged  in  the 


commission  business  in  Denver;  Alonzo  C,  of 
Warren,  111.;  and  Frank.  The  father  of  this 
family  was  born  in  York  state  November  15, 
18 10,  and  there  grew  to  manhood  and  engaged  in 
farming.  In  1854  he  removed  to  Wisconsin  and 
settled  in  Wayne,  Lafayette  County,  where  he 
spent  much  of  his  life.  For  some  time  he  was 
identified  with  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church, 
but  later  he  identified  himself  with  the  United 
Brethren  Church,  and  the  last  twelve  years  of  his 
life  were  given  to  preaching  and  religious  work. 

The  education  obtained  by  our  subject  was 
such  as  the  common  schools  afforded.  At  nine- 
teen years  of  age  he  began  in  life  for  himself. 
In  May,  1871,  he  turned  his  face  westward  and 
started  for  Colorado,  joining  a  brother  at  Erie, 
Weld  County.  During  his  first  season  here  he 
worked  as  a  farm  hand.  In  the  spring  of  1872 
he  went  to  the  mountains  and  for  two  years  en- 
gaged as  a  teamster  and  miner  in  Central  City. 
Coming  to  the  valley  in  the  spring  of  1874,  he 
rented  a  place  three  miles  north  of  Erie,  where 
he  put  in  a  crop,  but  sold  it  before  harvest  and 
went  to  San  Luis  Valley,  where  he  planted 
another  crop.  This  he  sold  and  spent  the  fall 
and  winter  working  in  a  sawmill  in  the  moun- 
tains. In  the  spring  of  1875  he  removed  to  Kan- 
sas, but  the  country  did  not  please  him  and  he 
remained  only  five  months.  Going  from  there  to 
Sidney,  Cheyenne  County,  Neb.,  he  was  there  at 
the  time  of  the  Custer  massacre.  In  that  place 
he  engaged  in  a  freighting  expedition  bound  for 
the  Black  Hills.  After  his  return  to  Sidney  he 
sold  his  outfit  and  in  a  short  time  returned  to 
Colorado. 

Renting  land  on  the  Little  Thompson,  Mr. 
Sawdey  put  in  a  crop  in  1877.  The  next  year 
he  bought  eighty  acres  of  school  land  in  the 
Highland  Lake  district,  where  he  settled  and 
began  to  farm.  A  short  time  afterward  he  added 
one  hundred  acres.  In  1884  he  removed  to  Long- 
mont,  where  he  engaged  in  the  restaurant  busi- 
ness. From  there,  in  1886,  he  went  to  Denver, 
where  he  engaged  in  the  livery  business  and  also 
devoted  considerable  time  to  the  preaching  of  the 
Gospel.  While  he  had  many  teams  and  did  con- 
tract work  on  a  large  scale,  j'et  he  gave  an  in- 
creasing amount  of  his  time  to  church  work,  in 
which  he  has  met  with  gratifying  success.  From 
1888  to  1896  he  gave  his  entire  attention  to  mis- 
sion work  through  different  points .  in  the  state, 


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and  ill  the  latter  year,  selling  his  landed  interests 
at  Highland  Lake,  he  bought  his  present  ranch. 

October  i6,  1870,  Mr.  Sawdey  married  Miss 
Hannah  E.  Lewis,  who  was  born  in  Rock  County, 
Wis. ,  a  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Sarah  (Street) 
Lewis.  Her  father,  who  was  a  native  of  New 
Jersey,  removed  to  Wisconsin  after  his  mar- 
riage and  for  years  was  a  prominent  farmer  of 
Walworth  County.  Five  children  were  born  to 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Sawdey,  namely:  Ivens  E.,  who 
assists  in  the  management  of  his  father's  farming 
interests;  Allie  B.,  wife  of  Charles  E.  Bogan, 
an  electrician  of  Denver;  Minnie  M.,  at  home; 
Gertrude  L.,  deceased;  and  Frank  E.,  Jr.,  a 
student  in  the  Denver  school. 


r^ORTER  R.  PENNOCK  is  a  retired  farmer 
Ly  and  respected  citizen  of  Longmont,  Boulder 
fS  County.  For  several  years  he  has  been  a 
member  of  the  board  of  aldermen  of  this  city  and 
is  now  chairman  of  the  finance  committee  and  of 
the  committee  on  building  permits.  He  was 
elected  on  the  People's  party  ticket,  and  is  very 
popular  with  the  majority  of  our  citizens.  An 
ardent  worker  in  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church, 
he  has  been  a  trustee  and  steward  for  over  twenty 
years  and  has  been  one  of  the  pillars  in  the  con- 
gregation. 

The  paternal  grandfather  of  our  subject  was  of 
English  descent,  but  came  from  an  old  and  hon- 
ored Vermont  family.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the 
war  of  the  Revolution,  and  his  son  Russell,  who 
was  the  father  of  P.  R.  Pennock,  was  a  drummer- 
boy  in  the  war  of  1812.  Russell  Pennock  was 
born  in  the  Green  Mountain  state  and  was  an 
early  settler  in  Ohio,  where  he  improved  a  farm. 
He  removed  to  the  vicinity  of  Rockford,  111.,  in 
1844,  and  owned  and  improved  a  homestead  on 
Whig  Hill,  three  miles  from  the  town.  Here  he 
lived  until  he  received  his  summons  to  the  better 
land,  when  he  was  in  his  sixty-third  year.  His 
wife  was  Fannie  Holmes  in  her  girlhood  and  was 
a  native  of  New  York  state.  Of  their  eleven 
children,  two  only  survive:  Porter  R.,  and  his 
eldest  brother,  William  D.,  who  resides  with  him. 

The  birthplace  of  P.  R.  Pennock  was  in  El- 
mira.  Portage  County,  Ohio.  He  was  born  in 
1834,  and  was  the  youngest  of  the  family  of 
brothers  and  sisters.  His  education  was  obtained 
in  the  public  schools  of  Ohio  and  Illinois,  and  he 


continued  to  reside  under  the  parental  roof  until 
he  was  twenty  years  of  age,  when  his  father  died. 
In  1859  he  started  for  Pike's  Peak,  going  over- 
land by  ox-teams.  He  proceeded  only  as  far  as 
central  Iowa  that  year,  continuing  his  journey 
the  following  spring.  After  he  had  pursued  the 
usual  route  along  the  Platte  River  he  went  on  to 
Denver,  arriving  in  that  city  July  6,  i860.  Thence 
he  went  to  Gilpin  district,  and  for  a  short  time 
engaged  in  business  there.  The  same  autumn 
he  took  up  a  homestead  in  the  St.  Vrain  Valley, 
near  Burlington,  put  in  ditches  and  began  rais- 
ing grain  and  hay.  In  1864  he  sold  out  and  re- 
turned to  the  east,  and  for  seven  years  resided  in 
his  old  home  district  and  in  Boone  and  DeKalb 
Counties,  111.  The  attractions  of  Colorado  proved 
irresistible  in  the  end, however,  and  in  1871  he  re- 
turned, and  buying  a  farm  two  and  a-half  miles 
east  of  Longmont,  improved  the  place.  Within  a 
few  years  the  splendid  ranch  of  three  hundred  and 
twenty  acres,  with  fences  and  good  buildings,  irri- 
gation ditches,  etc.  ,wasjustly  considered  one  of  the 
best  homesteads  in  this  section.  The  owner  was 
one  of  the  first  to  introduce  Percheron-Norman 
horses,  and  full-blooded  Shorthorns.  Of  the  fine 
horses  he  brought  a  car-load  at  one  time. 

Since  his  second  settlement  in  Boulder  County, 
Mr.  Pennock  has  made  his  home  in  Longmont 
most  of  the  time,  altogether  some  sixteen  years. 
He  bought  and  improved '  an  attractive  place  on 
Main  between  Second  and  Third  streets.  In  for- 
mer years  he  had  a  business  oflSce  in  Longmont, 
and  was  the  local  representative  for  the  Glidden 
Barbed  Wire  Company,  which  now  well-known 
and  useful  article  of  commerce  he  was  the  first  to 
introduce  into  this  state.  He  was  one  of  the  orig- 
inal stockholders  of  the  Longmont  Mill  and  El- 
evator Company ;  the  Longmont  Creamery  Com- 
pany, and  many  other  local  enterprises,  and  at 
present  is  interested  in  the  Longmont  Reduction 
Works.  Fraternally  he  belongs  to  the  Ancient 
Order  of  United  Workmen. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Pennock  and  Miss  Ellen 
Coffin,  a  native  of  New  York  state,  took  place  in 
Boulder  County,  in  1864.  They  have  three 
children  living,  one  son  and  two  daughters.  Viv- 
ian R.  graduated  from  the  medical  department 
of  the  Colorado  University  in  1894,  and  is  now 
successfully  established  in  Cripple  Creek.  Lew- 
ellenisat  home.  Carrie,  Mrs.  Sanborn,  lives 
near  Denver,  Colo. 


R.  D.  MILLER. 


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RICHARD  D.  MILLER,  the  owner  of  a  large 
cattle  ranch  in  Arapahoe  Count}',  was  born 
in  Cumberland  County,  Ky.,  July  28,  1826, 
a  sonof  Gaddis  E.  and  Catherine  (Degraffenreid) 
Miller.  His  paternal  grandfather,  Gaddis  Miller, 
and  the  maternal  grandfather,  John  Degraffen- 
reid, were  natives  of  England,  and  the  latter  was 
a  cabinet-maker  by  trade.  Gaddis  E.  Miller, 
who  was  born  in  Prince  Edward  County,  Va., 
spent  his  entire  life  as  a  farmer  and  planter,  and 
moved  from  the  Old  Dominion  to  Missouri,  where 
he  spent  the  remainder  of  his  life.  During  his 
residence  there  he  served  in  the  state  legislature 
and  for  many  years  held  oflSce  as  justice  of  the 
peace.  Politically  he  was  a  Democrat  and  in  re- 
ligion held  membership  in  the  Baptist  Church. 
In  his  family  there  were  three  sons.  William  B. , 
who  died  at  twenty  years,  remained  at  home  until 
his  death.  Gaddis  E.,  deceased,  was  a  stockman 
in  New  Mexico. . 

The  education  of  our  subject  was  obtained  in 
the  private  schools  of  his  home  neighborhood  in 
Missouri  and  Arkansas.  At  the  age  of  seventeen 
he  started  out  in  life  for  himself.  After  a  short 
time  spent  in  Arkansas,  in  1845  he  went  to  Texas, 
where  his  time  was  principally  spent  until  1866. 
He  then  came  to  Colorado  and  settled  upon  his 
present  farm,  where  he  has  since  engaged  in 
raising  stock.  He  has  witnessed  the  improve- 
ment of  the  county  and  has  assisted  in  the  de- 
velopment of  its  agricultural  resources. 

In  1855  Mr.  Miller  married  Miss  Mary  J.  Cure- 
ton,  who  was  born  in  Franklin  County,  Ark., 
where  her  father  was  for  some  years  a  farmer  and 
where  her  mother  died.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Miller 
became  the  parents  of  two  sons  and  two  daugh- 
ters, the  latter,  Ollie  and  Maud,  being  with  their 
parents.  The  older  son,  Warner  D. ,  is  married 
and  has  three  children  now  living.  He  is  a  stock- 
man and  owns  land  adjoining  his  father's  prop- 
erty. The  younger  son,  William  B.,  who  mar- 
ried Ruth  M.  Van  Wormer,  daughter  of  I.  P.. Van 
Wormer,  had  one  child,  a  son,  named  Braxton 
Miller.  He  was  engaged  in'  the  cattle  business 
near  the  homestead.  When  in  the  prime  of  man- 
hood he  was  called  from  this  life,  September  26, 
1898.  He  had  many  good  qualities  of  head  and 
heart  and  consequently  numbered  many  friends 
among  his  acquaintances.  Fraternally  he  was  a 
member  of  Union  Lodge  No.  7,  A.  F.  &  A.  M., 

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and  was  buried  with  the  impressive  ritual  of  the 
Masonic  Order. 

The  political  afSliations  of  Mr.  Miller  are  with 
the  Democratic  party,  and  he  has  always  voted  ' 
for  its  men  and  measures.  He  served  in  both  the 
Mexican  and  Civil  wars,  in  the  latter  spending 
much  time  on  the  frontier  under  Gen.  Kirby 
Smith.  His  wife  is  connected  with  the  Methodist 
Church,  to  which,  as  to  other  praiseworthy  enter- 
prises, the  family  contribute  liberally  of  their 
means. 


pCjILLlAM    LITTLE,    who   has    efficiently 

\  A  /  served  in  the  capacity  of  clerk  of  Elbert 
Y  Y  County  since  1897,  is  a  man  of  intellectual 
attainments  and  a  substantial  citizen  of  Kiowa. 
He  is  of  English  nationality,  having  been  born 
in  Manchester,  England,  November  20,  1866, 
and  is  a  son  of  William  and  Harriet  (Rennison) 
Little.  As  a  boy  he  attended  the  Bolton  high 
school  and  after  the  completion  of  his  course  en- 
tered Tettenhall  College  at  Wolverhampton,  Staf- 
fordshire, from  which  institution  he  was  grad- 
uated with  the  class  of  1886.  As  a  life  vocation 
he  decided  upon  the  profession  of  an  architect 
and  became  an  apprentice  under  George  Wood- 
house,  Esq.,  serving  time  until  1888,  when  he 
came  to  America,  realizing  that  as  a  new  coun- 
try it  offered  greater  advantages  to  the  rising 
generations.  He  immediately  proceeded  to  Colo- 
rado, where  he  purchased  a  tract  of  land  four 
miles  south  of  Kiowa,  Elbert  County,  and  en- 
gaged in  the  stock  business.  Although  inex- 
perienced in  that  line,  he  was  a  man  of  excep- 
tional business  qualifications,  and  by  Jhe  exercise 
of  good  judgment  and  hard  work,  the  business 
prospered.  In  political  affiliations  he  is  a  stanch 
Democrat  and  in  1893  was  appointed  deputy 
county  clerk  under  Mr.  Turtle,  serving  for  four 
years.  The  satisfactory  manner  in  which  he  dis- 
charged the  duties  of  that  office  resulted  in  his 
nomination  for  clerk  of  Elbert  County  in  1897, 
and  he  was  in  due  time  elected  for  a  term  of  two 
years.  He  has  since  retained  that  office,  to  the 
entire  satisfaction  of  everj'one  concerned.  He  is 
a  man  of  noble  impulses,  kind-hearted  and  gentle 
in  manner,  and  occupies  a  prominent  place  in  the 
affections  of  his  fellow-citizens. 

December  31,   1891,    Mr.  Little  married  Miss 
Nellie  Maguire,  a  woman  greatly  admired  and 


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loved  for  her  many  estimable  traits  of  character. 
She  is  a  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Letitia  Ma- 
guire,  and  was  born  in  Russell  Gulch,  near  Cen- 
'tral  City,  and  educated  in  Denver  University. 
This  union  is  blessed  with  one  son,  who  was 
born  October  31,  1892.  Our  subject  is  a  charter 
member  of  Fowler  Lodge  No.  108,  I.  O.  O.  F. , 
of  Elizabeth;  and  of  the  Woodmen  of  the  World. 


HON.  THEODORE  S.  HARPER,  ex-repre- 
sentative from  Lincoln  and  Elbert  Counties, 
is  a  resident  of  River  Bend,  Colo.,  and  is 
well  and  favorably  known  throughout  the  entire 
state.  He  was  born  in  Fox  Chase,  Pa.,  June  6, 
1854,  ^^^  *s  ^  so'^  of  William  and  Elizabeth 
Harper.  His  father  was  also  a  native  of  Penn- 
sylvania, and  in  his  early  life  was  a  machinist 
and  inventor  of  some  note.  He  invented  some 
of  the  first  presses  for  making  hoes  and  rakes, 
but  during  the  past  thirty  years  he  has 
given  his  life  to  the  more  peaceful  pursuits  of 
agriculture,  as  did  his  father.  He  is  a  Republi- 
can. His  wife  was  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Abel 
S.  Hallowell,  a  retired  farmer  living  near  Phila- 
delphia on  the  property  that  has  been  in  his  fam- 
ily since  they  first  settled  there,  before  the  Revo- 
lution. They  have  eight  children.  Smith  is  a 
stockman  in  Elbert  County,  Colo. ;  William  is  a 
farmer  in  Pennsylvania;  Alice  married  Henry 
Edwards,  and  lives  near  Philadelphia;  Eva  mar- 
ried Jacob  Auer,  of  the  same  place;  Mary,  the 
wife  of  George  Blake,  also  lives  there;  Anna 
Bell  married  Albert  Boileau,  of  Chester  County, 
that  state;  Rebecca  is  the  wife  of  Albert  Ridge, 
of  Somerton,  Pa.;  and  Theodore  S.  is  the  subject 
of  this  sketch. 

His  childhood  was  spent  in  his  native  state, 
where  he  obtained  his  education  in  the  schools  of 
Philadelphia.  At  the  age  of  nineteen  he  started 
for  Colorado,  arriving  here  with  a  capital  of  six- 
teen cents.  He  first  went  to  Manitou,  where  he 
spent  the  first  year  in  surveying,  and  the  follow- 
ing year  (1874)  engaged  in  hunting  buffalo  and 
antelope  for  the  Denver  and  Kansas  City  markets, 
at  which  he  continued  for  some  ten  or  twelve 
years.  He  also  mined  during  the  summer,  and 
in  this  way  got  the  means  to  embark  in  the  stock 
business.  He  began  dealing  in  cattle  and  horses 
in  this  vicinity,  and  has  lived  in  his  present 
quarters  for  ten  years.     His  principal  stock  now 


is  cattle,  but  he  also  has  some  horses.  He  retains 
his  mining  interests.  His  home,  Rockledge,  is 
one  of  the  most  pleasant  and  well-appointed 
ranches  in  the  state. 

October  12,  1887,  Mr.  Harper  married  Miss 
Lillian  Hertel,  a  daughter  of  George  W.  and 
Artemissa  Hertel.  George  W.  Hertel  was  born 
in  Kentucky,  but  spent  much  of  his  life  in  this 
state,  crossing  the  plains  with  an  ox-team  in  1861, 
and  he  worked  sawmills  in  the  state.  First  by 
appointment  and  afterward  by  election  he  served 
as  commissioner  of  Grand  County.  Mr.  Harper 
has  always  been  a  Republican,  and  worked  for 
the  interests  of  that  organization .  He  was  elected 
sheriff  of  Elbert  County  in  1886  and  reelected 
in  1888.  In  1893  he  was  elected  to  the  legis- 
lature the  first  time,  and  again  in  1895,  receiving 
large  majorities  over  his  opponents.  He  is  a 
prominent  Mason,  and  has  taken  the  thirty- 
second  degree. 

(S\  NTHONY  SHABLE  is  one  of  the  aggressive 
LJ  farmers  of  Weld  County,  and,  in  his  due 
I  I  measure,  has  been  responsible  for  the  pros- 
perous condition  of  this  fine  farming  section  of 
Colorado.  A  few  years  ago  this  was  a  wilder- 
ness of  prairie,  covered  with  rank  grass,  and 
giving  small  prospect  of  the  fertility  and  beauty 
which  it  would  soon  assume  under  the  genius 
and  labor  of  man.  Mr.  ^hable  found  the  secret 
of  comfort,  peace  and  plenty  when  he  turned  his 
back  on  the  mines,  in  which  he,  like  hundreds  of 
others,  had  wasted  an  endless  amount  of  toil 
and  anxiety  for  years,  and  settled  down  to 
an  agricultural  life.  The  wealth  of  any  country 
lies  in  her  farmers,  so  the  philosophers  say,  and, 
certainly  the  soil  contains  true  wealth  for  the 
honest,  industrious  worker. 

The  ranch  owned  by  Mr.  Shable  is  located  on 
section  6,  township  4,  range  66,  and  his  postoffice 
is  Evans.  By  birth  he  is  a  German,  and  about 
sixty-eight  years  ago  he  entered  upon  the  battle- 
field of  life,  January  8,  1831.  His  parents  were, 
like  himself,  natives  of  Wurtemberg  and  were 
well-to-do  farmers,  owning  their  own  well-im- 
proved homestead.  They  were  named  respectively 
Xafera  and  Barbara  (Burnhart)  Shable.  The  fa- 
ther held  the  office  of  justice  of  the  peace  and 
was  a  man  of  prominence  in  his  neighborhood. 
Of  his  six  .sons  and  three  daughters  Anthony  is 
the  only  one  who  ever  came  to  America. 


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Until  he  was  twenty  years  of  age  our  subject 
remained  on  the  old  homestead,  working  at  farm- 
ing and  in  a  brewery  not  far  distant,  at  intervals. 
Determining  to  seek  his  living  in  the  United 
States,  he  sailed  for  these  hospitable  shores,  and 
reached  New  York  City  August  26,  1852.  Within 
a  few  days  he  went  to  Philadelphia,  and  going 
into  the  country,  found  employment  with  a  farmer 
for  a  couple  of  years.  Afterwards  he  worked 
for  another  man  during  a  year,  and  in  this  period 
saved  about  $100  from  his  wages.  In  the  spring 
of  1856  he  went  to  Audubon  County,  Iowa,  and 
there  rented  land.  Part  of  the  year  he  carried 
on  agricultural  labors  and  during  the  winter 
operated  a  sawmill. 

In  the  spring  of  i860  Mr.  Shable  crossed  the 
plains  and,  upon  reaching  the  end  of  his  journey, 
engaged  in  mining  at  Gregory  Point  and  Cali- 
fornia Gulch  for  some  time,  but  was  not  very 
successful.  In  the  autumn  of  1 860  he  went  to  the 
valley  of  the  Big  Thompson  and  put  up  some 
hay,  but,  unfortunately,  this  was  destroyed  by 
fire.  The  next  three  years  he  industriously  la- 
bored at  mining,  being  chiefly  in  California 
Gulch.  In  1863  he  abandoned  that  business  and 
-bought  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  of  land  from 
a  man  in  whose  employ  he  was  at  the  time.  He 
had  become  responsible  for  a  herd  of  two  hun- 
dred cattle,  finding  pasturage  for  them  and  taking 
as  his  payment  a  share  in  them.  For  his  newly 
acquired  property  .laying  in  the  Thompson  Valley, 
he  paid  $300.  This  land  he  sold  in  1865  and 
homesteaded  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  of 
his  present  farm,  since  adding  forty  acres  to 
the  original  amount.  It  is  watered  by  the 
Big  Thompson  and  Platte  River  ditch.  This 
company  was  actively  supported  by  our  subject 
in  the  beginning  of  the  enterprise  and  he  has 
served  for  the  past  four  years  as  its  president. 
In  the  organization  of  the  Little  Thompson  ditch 
he  was  one  of  the  prime  movers.  In  matters  of 
political  bearing  he  is  independent,  and  uses  his 
franchise  as  he  deems  best,  without  regard  to 
party. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Shable  and  Miss  Mary  E. 
Kempsey  was  solemnized  in  this  state  November 
9,  1876.  She  is  a  daughter  of  David  and  Sarah 
(Woodsides)  Kempsey,  natives  of  Kentucky, 
though  she  was  born  in  Perry  County,  HI.  A 
son  and  daughter  were  born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Shable.     Jennie,   the  daughter,   died  April  24, 


1894,  aged  seventeen  years  and  six  months.  The 
son,  William  A.,  is  a  promising  young  man  and 
is  of  great  assistance  to  his  father  in  the  work  of 
the  farm. 


(T  OHN  F.  ELLIOTT,  M.  D.  Numbered  among 
I  the  leading  citizens  and  members  of  the 
Q)  medical  profession  of  Clear  Creek  County  is 
this  representative  physician  and  surgeon  of 
Idaho  Springs.  During  a  period  of  sixteen  years 
he  has  been  a  valued  member  of  the  State  Medical 
Association  and  is  now  holding  the  important 
office  of  president  of  the  pension  board .  He  is  also 
identified  with  the  American  Medical  Association 
and  neglects  no  means  of  keeping  thoroughly 
posted  in  everything  pertaining  to  his  profession. 
Dr.  Elliott  comes  from  a  worthy  line  of  patriots 
and  pioneers  of  America.  His  remote  ancestor 
in  this  country  was  one  of  the  passengers  in  the 
celebrated  "Mayflower,"  and  his  great-grand- 
father, Joseph  Elliott,  was  one  of  the  early  settlers 
of  Bradford  County,  Pa.  The  old  home  which 
sheltered  him  and  his,  situated  near  Camptown, 
was  built  prior  to  the  war  of  the  Revolution  and 
is  still  standing.  He  was  a  native  of  Connecticut 
and  was  a  young  man  at  the  time  of  the  dreadful 
Wyoming  massacre.  He  and  one  companion, 
Lebbeus  Hammond,  though  captured  by  the  red 
men,  managed  to  escape,  but  in  doing  so  Mr. 
Elliott  was  shot  through  the  left  lung  and  carried 
the  bullet  to  his  dying  day.  Nevertheless,  he 
lived  to  reach  the  remarkable  age  of  ninety-three 
years.  His  son  John,  next  in  the  line  of  descent, 
was  born  in  Bradford  County,  as  was  also  the 
father  of  the  doctor.  John  Elliott,  the  grand- 
father, was  an  industrious  and  well  to-do  farmer, 
respected  by  all  his  contemporaries,  and  at  one 
time  served  them  in  the  Pennsylvania  legislature. 
He  was  about  fourscore  and  four  years  old  at  the 
time  of  his  demise. 

The  parents  of  Dr.  Elliott  were  George  W.  and 
Lois  (Pickett)  Elliott,  natives  of  Bradford  County 
and  Jessup,  Susquehanna  County,  respectively. 
The  father  of  Mrs.  Elliott,  Jared  Pickett,  was  a  na- 
tive of  Vermont,  and  in  early  life  was  occupied 
chiefly  in  fishing  in  Lake  Champlain.  Later  he 
took  up  his  abode  in  Pennsylvania  and  thenceforth 
devoted  himself  to  farming.  George  W.  Elliott 
improved  a  homestead  in  the  wilderness  and 
made  a  good  living  for  his  large  family.  He  held 
various  local  positions  in  the  community  where 


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he  dwelt  aud  was  a  man  esteemed  by  all.  He 
died  in  1883,  when  in  his  sixty-fifth  year.  His 
widow,  who  survives  him,  is  now  approaching 
threescore  years  and  ten,  and  is  living  with  the 
doctor.  Nine  of  her  ten  children  grew  to  maturity 
and  seven  of  the  number  survive. 

The  birth  of  Dr.  J.  F.  EUiott  occurred  in  Camp- 
town,  Pa.,  in  1 85 1.  After  his  public-school  educa- 
tion had  been  completed  he  entered  the  normal 
school  at  Mansfield,  Pa.,  and  attended  that  in- 
stitution at  intervals  for  several  years,  in  the 
meantime  teaching  in  order  to  meet  the  expenses 
of  his  higher  education.  He  graduated  from  the 
normal  in  1872  with  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of 
Elements  and  soon  afterwards  began  his  initial 
work  in  the  field  of  medicine.  In  1878  he  went 
to  New  York  City  and  became  enrolled  as  a 
student  in  the  medical  college.  In  1881  he 
graduated  with  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Medicine 
from  the  Long  Island  medical  college,  of 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  The  succeeding  year  he  served 
as  surgeon  on  the  Atlas  line  of  steamships  plying 
between  New  York  and  the  West  Indies  and  South 
American  ports.  In  1882  he  decided  to  locate 
permanently  in  the  west  and  settled  in  Clear 
Creek  County,  Colo.  Until  nine  years  ago  he 
practiced  his  profession  in  the  town  of  Empire, 
and  has  since  been  a  resident  of  Idaho  Springs. 
Here  he  has  built  up  a  large  and  remunerative 
practice,  and  has  a  place  second  to  none  in  the 
estimation  of  our  citizens.  He  was  married  in 
Wyoming  County,  Pa.,  in  1882,  to  Miss  Harriet 
Sterling.  Mrs.  Elliott  was  born  and  reared  to 
womanhood  in  the  little  village  of  Meshoppen, 
Wyoming  County.  Three  children  have  blessed 
their  marriage,  George,  Ida  Lois  and  Sterling. 


•QEORGE  L.  HAMES,  a  successful  business 
_.  man  of  Elbert  County,  is  a  member  of  the 
J  Cort-Hames  Mercantile  Company  at  Eliz- 
abeth. He  was  born  in  Hawley,  Pa.,  Novem- 
ber 4,  1857,  ^  son  of  John  B.  and  Mary  (Engle) 
Hames.  His  father,  who  is  still  living  near 
Newfoundland,  Wayne  County,  Pa. ,  was  for  some 
years  interested  in  a  lumber  business,  but  now 
makes  his  home  on  a  farm,  which  he  cultivates. 

During  boyhood  our  subject  worked  in  a  saw- 
mill and  in  the  woods,  getting  out  lumber  and 
assisting  his  father.  When  he  was  twenty-one 
years  of  age,  in  1879,  he  came  to  Colorado  aud 


settled  on  a  ranch,  where  he  worked  by  the 
month  for  two  years.  Later  he  clerked  in  a  store 
at  Elbert  for  a  year,  then  spent  two  years  work- 
ing in  a  sawmill.  His  present  partnership  was 
formed  in  Franceville  in  1885,  and  in  1892  the 
firm  came  to  Elizabeth,  where  he  has  since  re- 
sided. At  the  time  of  coming  to  this  state  he 
was  without  means,  as  his  father  had  been  bank- 
rupted. The  competency  he  has  obtained  repre- 
sents his  industrious  and  intelligent  effort  in  this 
state,  and  proves  that  he  is  a  man  of  business 
ability. 

Since  the  organization  of  Elizabeth  Camp 
No.  304,  Woodmen  of  the  World,  Mr.  Hames 
has  been  identified  with  it  as  an  officer.  In 
political  opinion  he  advocates  Democratic  princi- 
ples and  always  votes  the  straight  party  ticket. 
While  he  never  cared  for  oflBce,  his  fellow-citizens 
influenced  him  to  accept  the  mayoralty  of  Eliza- 
beth in  1893,  and  as  the  chief  executive  of  the 
town  he  was  instrumental  in  advancing  its  well- 
fare  and  promoting  its  prosperity. 


■^EGRGE  W.  FOOTE,  who  is  a  well-known 
_  and  successful  business  man  of  Loveland, 
J  Larimer  County,  was  born  and  reared  near 
Wilmington,  Del.,  receiving  his  education  in  the 
schools  of  that  city  and  Philadelphia,  Pa.  He 
and  his  brother,  William^  and  sisters,  Susan  and 
Esther,  are  the  only  survivors  of  thirteen  chil- 
dren who  composed  the  family  of  William  and 
Susan  (Faulk)  Foote.  His  paternal  and  maternal 
grandfathers  were  William  Foote,  Sr.,  who  was 
a  prosperous  cooper  and  farmer  of  Delaware,  and 
John  Faulk,  a  miller,  also  a  life-long  resident  of 
that  state. 

The  father  of  our  subject  spent  his  entire  life 
upon  the  farm  where  he  was  born,  but  died  at  his 
summer  home  in  Pennsylvania  when  he  was 
eighty-five  years  of  age.  He  was  recognized  as 
one  of  the  most  enterprising  and  efficient  agri- 
culturists of  his  locality,  and  was  also  esteemed 
as  a  citizen,  being  progressive  and  public-spirited. 
Politically  he  voted  the  Whig  ticket.  His  wife 
passed  away  when  eighty-seven  years  of  age. 

It  was  in  1874  that  the  subject  of  this  sketch 
came  west  and  settled  in  Greeley,  Colo.,  where 
he  remained  for  six  years.  While  residing  in 
that  place  he  bought  the  stage  line  between 
Greeley  and  Namaqua,  and  this  he  operated  for 


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seven  years.  In  1881  he  sold  the  stage  line  and  re- 
moved to  Loveland,  becoming  connected  with 
Mr.  Stoddard  in  the  livery  and  sale  stable  busi- 
ness, which  firm  has  since  carried  on  a  successful 
business.  In  1880  he  bought  one-eighth  of  a 
section  of  land,  to  which  he  later  added  another 
eighth;  upon  this  place  in  1887  he  built  a  hand- 
some residence,  and  at  different  times  has  made 
other  valuable  improvements.  He  owns  nine 
hundred  and  sixty  acres  of  ranch  land  near  the 
mountains  at  the  foot  hills,  and  raises  cattle  and 
horses  of  the  best  breeds.  Besides  his  other  in- 
terests, since  1894  he  has  been  vice-president  of 
the  Larimer  County  bank.  In  political  affiliations 
a  Republican,  he  has,  however,  never  shown  any 
partisanship  in  his  preference,  but  is  fair-minded 
and  broad.  He  takes  a  warm  interest  in  local 
affairs  and  favors  any  plan  whereby  the  welfare 
of  the  county  or  town  may  be  advanced  and  the 
prosperity  of  the  people  promoted. 

The  first  wife  of  Mr.  Foote  was  Sarah  A. 
Woodward,  who  died  in  1892,  leaving  an  only 
child,  James  Lindsey.  After  her  death  he  was 
a  second  time  married,  choosing  as  his  wife 
Delia  E.  Weaver,  of  Muscotah,  Kan.,  by  whom 
he  has  a  son,  Lester  G. 


(T  M.  COPELAND,  cashier  of  the  Bank  of 
I  Clear  Creek  County,  has  been  a  resident  of 
(2/  Georgetown  since  1874.  He  was  born  in 
Wayne  County,  Mo.,  September  18,  1855,  and  is 
a  son  of  Jacob  Copeland,  a  native  of  Tennessee. 
The  Copeland  family  settled  in  New  England 
long  before  the  Revolution,  and  a  branch  of  them 
went  to  the  Carolinas,  and  from  there  to  the  east- 
em  part  of  Tennessee,  where  they  were  large 
planters.  Some  of  them  took  up  arms  against 
the  British  during  the  war.  Jacob  Copeland,  the 
father,  settled  in  Wayne  County,  Mo.,  in  his 
early  days,  and  helped  establish  the  first  free 
schools  in  that  section,  where  he  taught  for  some 
time.  In  1864  he  moved  tp  near  Evansville, 
Ind.,  and  there  remained  until  his  death,  which 
occurred  in  1889,  at  the  age  of  sixty-nine  years. 
He  married  Sarah  Barry,  a  native  of  Missouri, 
where  she  died.  Her  father  was  among  the  old- 
est settlers  there.  Five  sons  and  one  daughter 
were  bom  to  them.  The  daughter  was  drowned 
in  Missouri  when  a  young  girl.  Three  sons  are 
living:  Amos  L-,  a  farmer  in  Indiana;  Joseph  A., 


in  the  milling  business  in  Adrian,  Mo. ;  and  J. 
M. ,  the  eldest  of  the  family  living,  is  the  subject 
of  this  biography. 

When  nine  years  old  J.  M.  Copeland  was  taken 
to  Indiana,  where  he  attended  the  district  school 
until  he  was  thirteen.  He  then  secured  work  as 
clerk  in  a  general  mercantile  establishment,  re- 
maining there  until  1874,  when  he  came  to  this 
state,  and  located  in  Georgetown,  where  he  has 
since  resided.  He  first  secured  employment  as 
clerk  in  the  furniture  store  of  Henry  Boyer. 
Another  three  years  was  spent  in  the  hardware 
store  of  Mr.  Curtis,  and  in  January,  1880,  he 
started  in  the  banking  business,  and  has  held 
the  position  of  cashier  since  that  time.  He  is  a 
director  in  the  bank  also,  and  is  recognized  as 
a  wide-awake,  energetic  business  man.  He  is 
the  receiver  for  Pay  Rock  Silver  mines,  and  has 
the  management  of  the  mines  this.sicie  of  Silver 
Plume. 

After  coming  to  this  city  Mr.  Copeland  married 
Miss  Eliza  McAithur,  who  was  born  in  Cedar 
Rapids,  Iowa,  and  came  to  this  place  with  her 
father,  Duncan  McArthur,  in  1874.  They  have 
three  children,  Ruth,  J.  M.,  Jr.,  and  William. 
The  bank  is  in  the  Fish  block,  on  the  corner  of 
Sixth  and  Rose  streets.  The  remainder  of  the 
ground  floor  is  used  for  stores,  while  in  the  rooms 
above  the  different  lodges  of  the  Masonic  frater- 
nity meet.  Mr.  Copeland  is  the  present  city 
treasurer,  as  he  has  been  at  different  times  during 
the  past  seven  years.  He  has  been  a  member  of 
the  school  board  for  nine  years,  serving  as  treas- 
urer of  that  body  the  entire  time.  He  was  made 
a  mason  in  Washington  Lodge  No.  12,  A.  F.  & 
A.  M.,  and  is  treasurer  of  the  local  lodge,  as  he 
is  in  Chapter  No.  4,  R.  A.  M.,  and  also  belongs 
to  Commandery  No.  4,  K.  T.  In  religion  he  is  a 
member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church.  He 
has  been  a  Republican  and  is  now  a  strong  silver- 
man. 


(TOHN  J.  SHERWIN,  president  of  the  cham- 
I  ber  of  commerce  of  Idaho  Springs,  is  a 
(2/  prominent  business  man  of  this  place.  He 
was  born  in  Belle  Plaine,  Scott  County,  Minn., 
August  30,  1858,  and  is  a  son  of  John  E.  and 
Cynthia  W.  (Smith)  Sherwin.  His  grandfather, 
John  Sherwin,  was  born  of  Scotch-Irish  parents 
who  settled  in  New  Hampshire  at  an  early  day 
and  later  moved  to  New  York,  where  he  was 


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born.  He  moved  to  Michigan,  where  he  married 
and  reared  his  family.  John  E.  Sherwin,  the 
father  of  our  subject,  was  born  in  that  state,  and 
when  he  reached  mature  years  he  went  west  to 
Minnesota,  where  he  married.  He  bought  gov- 
ernment land  in  Scott  County,  which  he  im- 
proved and  upon  which  he  lived.  While  clearing 
his  land  and  engaging  in  its  cultivation,  he  at 
the  same  time  followed  his  trade,  which  was  that 
of  a  cabinet-maker.  When  the  Indian  trouble 
broke  out  in  1862  a  company  was  organized  in 
St.  Paul  to  quell  the  disturbance,  and  passed 
through  Belle  Plaine  on  the  way  to  the  seat  of 
trouble.  John  E.  Sherwin  joined  them  at  that 
point  and  furnished  them  with  horses.  In  Sep- 
tember of  that  year  they  fought  a  battle  with  the 
Indians  at  Birch  Coolie,  where  he  was  badly 
wounded,  having  been  struck  with  two  arrows 
and  two  bullets,  receiving  such  injuries  that  he 
died  at .  Fort  Ridgely  in  his  thirty-third  year. 
His  wife,  Cynthia  W.  Sherwin,  was  born  near 
Bellows  Falls,  Vt.,  where  her  parents  were  en- 
gaged in  farming.  She  now  resides  in  Monti- 
cello,  Minn.,  and  is  the  mother  of  three  children, 
as  follows:  John  J.,  our  subject,  who  is  the  eldest; 
Etta  Mae,  now  Mrs.  Mealey;  and  Edward  H.,  a 
merchant,  both  living  in  Monticello. 

When  John  J.  Sherwin  was  five  years  old  he 
went  to  Saxton  River,  Vt. ,  where  he  attended 
school  for  four  years.  Later  he  attended  the 
public  schools  of  Monticello,  Minn. ,  graduating 
from  the  high  school  of  that  place  when  eighteen. 
He  then  began  the  study  of  pharmacy,  and  in 
1879  opened  a  store  in  Hancock,  that  state,  and 
there  continued  until  November,  1883,  when  he 
disposed  of  the  stock  and  came  to  this  state,  lo- 
cating in  Idaho  Springs.  Here  he  bought  out 
the  drug  business  of  a  Mr.  Horton,  and  is  still  en- 
gaged in  that  line,  having  the  oldest  as  well  as 
the  largest  and  finest  establishment  of  that  kind 
in  the  city.  He  is  also  interested  in  mining, 
being  the  owner  of  some  valuable  mining  prop- 
erty. 

In  Boston  Mr.  Sherwin  married  Miss  E.  M. 
Moore,  a  native  of  London,  England,  by  whom 
he  has  one  child,  John  Hastings.  He  was  one  of 
the  incorporators  of  the  Idaho  Springs  chamber 
of  commerce  in  January,  i8g6,  and  was  chairman 
of  the  committee  on  railroads  and  rates.  The 
following  year  he  was  elected  president,  and  was 
re-elected  in  189S.     He  was  alderman  one  term, 


and  served  as  secretary  of  the  school  board  for 
three  years,  until  1897.  He  belongs  to  Lodge 
No.  26,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  of  which  he  is  past 
master,  as  he  is  in  Idaho  Springs  Chapter  No.  30, 
R.  A.  M.  He  is  a  member  of  Central  City  Com- 
mandery  No.  2,  K.  T. ,  and  El  Jebel  Temple, 
N.  M.  S.  He  is  a  member  of  the  State  Pharma- 
ceutical Association,  and  in  politics  is  a  silver 
Republican. 

EHARLES  FREDERICK  BLUNCK  ranks 
among  the  most  successful  farmers  and  lamb 
dealers  in  Larimer  County.  In  June,  1886, 
he  came  to  Fort  Collins  and  has  since  engaged  in 
agricultural  pursuits,  owning  a  farm  of  one  hun- 
dred and  seventy- five  acres  three  miles  southeast 
of  Fort  Collins,  upon  which  he  has  made  valu- 
able improvements  in  fencing  and  ditching  and 
which  he  devotes  to  raising  alfalfa  for  feed.  He 
also  owns  another  farm  seven  miles  southeast  of 
this  town,  in  Harmony  District,  consisting  of 
eighty  acres,  which  he  rents.  He  was  among 
the  first  to  engage  in  the  lamb-feeding  industry 
in  this  section  of  the  state  and  for  three  years  or 
more  he  has  also  engaged  in  dealing  in  sheep, 
which  he  brings  here  from  Oklahoma,  Arizona, 
New  Mexico  and  southern  Colorado.  He  feeds 
about  four  thousand  and  handles  twenty-five  or 
thirty  thousand  per  annum,  raising  for  their  feed 
almost  one  thousand  tons  of  alfalfa. 

TheBlunck  family  is  of  German  origin.  Henry 
Blunck,  father  of  our  subject,  was  born  in  Sybeck, 
Germany,  and  removed  to  Davenport,  Iowa, 
where  he  followed  the  carpenter's  trade.  From 
there  he  went  to  Winona,  Minn.,  where  his  son, 
our  subject,  was  born  December  23,  1856.  In 
that  city  he  engaged  in  business  as  a  contractor 
and  builder  for  a  time,  also  homesteaded  a  claim 
near  the  town,  but  on  account  of  trouble  with  the 
Indians  he  deemed  it  best  to  return  to  Daven- 
port, where  he  resumed  carpentering.  During 
the  war  he  enlisted  in  the  Sixth  Iowa  Infantry 
and  was  injured  in  the  service.  While  in  Ger- 
many he  had  served  for  four  years  in  the  Danish 
war.  In  1868  he  moved  to  Johnson  County,  set- 
tling on  a  farm  near  Iowa  City,  then  moved  to 
Ringgold  County,  Iowa,  where  he  died  in  1895, 
at  the  age  of  seventy-five  years.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  a  Grand  Army  post.  His  wife,  Dora, 
bore  the  same  family  name  as  his  own,  but  was 
not  related;   she  was  born  and  married  in  Ger- 


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many,  and  now  lives  in  Ringgold  County,  Iowa. 
Of  her  seven  children  all  but  two  are  living, 
three  of  these  in  Iowa,  and  two  in  Colorado,  John 
being  near  Loveland. 

In  1868  the  subject  o(  this  sketch  accompanied 
his  parents  to  Johnson  County,  where  he  attended 
the  district  schools.  At  the  age  of  twenty- two 
he  began  farming  independently,  remaining  in 
Iowa  until  1886,  when  he  came  to  Fort  Collins. 
Politically  he  is  an  adherent  of  Republican  princi- 
ples. He  was  a  charter  member  of  the  Larimer 
County  Sheep  Feeders'  Association,  in  the  work 
of  which  he  takes  a  warm  interest.  Fraternally 
he  is  identified  with  the  Woodmen  of  the  World. 
His  marriage,  which  took  place  in  Mount  Ayr, 
Ringgold  County, Iowa,  December  18, 1883, united 
him  with  Miss  Mary  Atz,  who  was  born  in  Swit- 
zerland and  accompanied  her  parents  to  Iowa 
when  she  was  twelve  years  of  age.  They  are  the 
parents  of  four  daughters,  Viola  G.,  Elva  M., 
Mary  A.  and  Ruth  D. 


(T  H.  BURKHOLDER  is  one  of  the  most  suc- 
I  cessful  business  men  of  Georgetown,  and  has 
(2/  the  most  complete  line  of  hardware  in  this 
part  of  the  county.  He  was  born  June  5,  1856, 
in  Fort  Wayne,  Ind. ,  his  parents  being  Joseph 
and  Roxanna  (Emrick)  Burkholder.  His  father, 
who  was  a  cabinetmaker  in  Pennsylvania,  settled 
in  Fort  Wayne  about  1853,  and  later  went  to 
Ohio,  but  returned  to  Fort  Wayne,  where  he 
ran  a  furniture  factory.  He  was  engaged  in  this 
work  until  he  retired  from  active  business,  when 
he  moved  to  Illinois  and  from  there  to  Kansas, 
where  he  owns  a  large  farm  of  six  hundred  and 
forty  acres,  near  Harper.  He  married  Roxanna 
Emrick,  of  Ohio.  She  was  a  daughter  of  Andrew 
Emrick,  who  was  formerly  from  Pennsylvania, 
where  the  Emricks  were  farmers,  and  later  lived 
near  Millersburg,  Ohio.  The  mother  died  at  an 
early  age,  leaving  two  sons  and  two  daughters. 
One  son  went  to  seek  his  fortune  in  Klondike. 
The  father  was  married  a  second  time  and  this 
union  resulted  in  the  birth  of  two  sons  and  two 
daughters. 

Until  about  fifteen  years  old,  Mr.  Burkholder 
lived  near  Shreve,  Ohio,  and  received  his  educa- 
tional training  at  the  public  schools.  He  then 
went  to  Fort  Wayne  and  entered  his  father's  fac- 
tory, learning  the  different  departments  of  that 


industry.  He  spent  one  winter  in  Florida,  and 
then  returned  once  more  to  Fort  Wayne  to  re- 
build the  factory  which  had  burned  down.  He 
conducted  this  business  until  1880,  when  he  came 
to  Denver  and  accepted  employment  with  Halleck 
&  Howard  for  one  year,  and  then  went  to  Gun- 
nison and  engaged  in  prospecting  until  that  fall, 
when  he  returned  to  Denver.  In  the  spring  of 
1882  he  came  to  Georgetown  to  take  charge  of 
G.  W.  Hall's  oresampling  and  lumber  mill.  He 
was  there  nine  years,  until  1891,  in  the  ore  sam- 
pling business  and  then  had  to  leave,  as  the  dust 
in  the  mill  was  injurious  to  him.  Later  he  pros- 
pected and  mined,  and  helped  to  build  a  mill  at 
Empire.  He  also  spent  a  short  time  in  Black- 
hawk,  experimenting  on  tailings  with  a  table  he 
had  invented.  His  next  position  was  as  mill 
man  with  Dewey,  in  his  concentrator  and  sam- 
pling works,  where  he  remained  until  April, 
1896,  and  then  bought  out  Henry  Siefreid,  and 
opened  a  hardware  store.  He  has  greatly  in- 
creased the  stock  and  now  occupies  a  building 
one  storj^  high  with  an  area  of  25x96  feet,  and  a 
warehouse  for  heavy  irons,  ore  cars,  wheelbar- 
rows, etc.  He  handles  stoves,  a  complete  line  of 
miners'  supplies,  glass,  paints  and  oils,  and  also 
does  pipe  laying,  plumbing  and  heating,  and 
puts  on  tin  and  iron  roofing. 

In  Denver  Mr.  Burkholder  married  Miss  Sarah 
Harrison,  a  native  of  Nova  Scotia.  They  have 
two  children,  Edward  and  Hazel.  Mrs.  Burk- 
holder is  the  landlady  of  the  Elliott  House,  the 
leading  hotel  of  Georgetown,  and  one  of  the  best 
in  the  county.  Her  success  is  shown  by  the 
large  patronage  accorded  her,  and  no  effort  is 
spared  to  cater  to  the  comfort  of  her  guests.  Mr. 
Burkholder  is  a  member  of  the  Independent  Order 
of  Odd  Fellows,  the  Daughters  of  Rebekah,  and 
the  Red  Men.  He  is  a  strong  silver  man,  but  is 
not  an  aspirant  for  oflBce. 


QHILIP  POIRSON,  of  Silver  Plume,  Clear 
LX  Creek  County,  is  a  gentleman  whose  history 
t^  is  unusually  interesting,  partaking,  as  it 
does,  of  military  life  and  honors  gained  in  the 
servicj  of  his  native  land,  fair  France.  Both  his 
grandfathers  were  soldiers  in  the  French  army 
under  the  great  Napoleon,  and  their  heroic  ex- 
ample as  patriots  was  emulated  by  our  subject  in 
later  years. 


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Born  in  Nancy,  Lorraine,  September  4,  1840, 
Philip  Poirson  is  a  son  of  Claude  and  Catherine 
(Genire)  Poirson,  natives  of  the  same  place. 
The  father  was  a  coppersmith  by  occupation. 
Our  subject  is  the  youngest  of  six  children,  and 
the  only  one  of  the  number  in  America.  In  1855 
he  volunteered  in  the  French  navy  and  went 
aboard  the  training-ship  "Jambard"  for  three 
years.  At  the  expiration  of  that  period  he  en- 
listed in  the  French  army  as  a  private  in  a  Zouave 
company,  and  the  next  year  was  sent  to  Algeria. 
After  taking  part  in  a  few  battles  in  the  moun- 
tains he  returned  home  for  the  purpose  of  assist- 
ing the  Italians  to  drive  the  Austrians  from 
Lombardy.  That  year,  1859,  he  fought  in  the 
battles  of  Palestro,  Magenta  and  Solferino,  and 
at  the  close  of  the  campaign  was  presented  with 
a  medal  by  the  Italian  government.  He  person- 
ally was  granted  a  special  medal  for  illustrious 
bravery  at  the  battle  of  Solferino,  in  saving  the 
life  of  an  Italian  officer.  His  services  no  longer 
needed,  the  gallant  young  soldier  returned  to 
France,  and  in  the  autumn  of  the  same  year  was 
assigned  to  duty  in  Pekin,  China,  where  dreadful 
massacres  of  missionaries  had  been  committed 
and  further  trouble  was  expected.  There  he 
took  part  in  the  battles  of  Pekin  and  others  in 
i860,  acting  as  a  sergeant,  and  for  his  meritor- 
ious services  was  awarded  a  medal  by  France. 
His  next  duty  was  in  Cochin- China,  where  he 
remained  until  1863.  Once  more  returning  to 
his  native  land  he  continued  in  the  army  up  to 
1868,  being  a  second  lieutenant  these  later  years, 
and  attached  to  the  staff  of  Marshal  Magnau,  as 
his  private  secretary.  In  1868  he  resigned  and 
received  an  honorable  discharge. 

For  a  brief  time  only  Mr.  Poirson  was  destined  to 
enjoy  the  pursuits  of  peace  in  his  beloved  France. 
He  was  engaged  in  the  banking  business  for  a 
year  or  two  with  his  brother,  under  the  name  of 
Poirson  Brothers,  in  the  town  of  his  birth,  but  the 
war-cloud  followed  him,  and  in  1870  the  great 
Franco-Prussian  war  broke  upon  the  peace  of 
Europe.  When  it  became  certain  that  his  birth- 
place, Lorraine,  was  to  become  the  possession  of 
the  enemy,  Philip  Poirson  determined  to  leave 
and  make  a  new  home  in  America.  He  sgld  out 
his  business  and  in  September,  1871,  landed  in 
New  Orleans,  La.  There  misfortune  seemed  to 
have  followed  him,  for,  though  he  opened  a 
grocery  and  did  well  for  a  couple  of  years,    his 


place  of  business  was  then  destroyed  by  fire.  He 
went  then  to  Missouri  and  found  employment  in 
the  iron  and  lead  mines.  In  1879  he  came  to 
Colorado,  and  located  in  Silver  Plume.  Here  he 
was  in  the  lumber  business  for  three  years,  after 
which  he  mined  and  prospected  for  eight  years. 
In  1890  he  bought  out  Mr.  Cliff  and  has  since 
freighted  and  handled  ore,  conveying  the  prod- 
ucts of  several  mines  hereabout  to  Georgetown. 
He  also  deals  in  coal,  feed,  grain  and  hay,  mine 
timbers,  etc.  In  addition,  he  has  built  up  a  good 
trade  in  groceries  and  provisions  and  general 
supplies.  He  owns  a  substantial  house,  store 
and  warehouses,  as  well  as  large  barns,  and  by  his 
well-applied  energy  is  gradually  acquiring  a 
competence. 

Politically  Mr.  Poirson  endorses  the  platform 
of  the  People's  party.  He  was  one  of  the  alder- 
men of  Silver  Plume  for  four  years  and  for  three 
years  was  a  member  of  the  school  board.  He  is 
past  grand  in  the  Odd  Fellows'  society  and  is  past 
chief  of  the  encampment.  For  his  wife  he  chose 
a  lady,  who,  like  himself,  is  a  native  of  France. 
Their  marriage  was  solemnized  in  Europe  and 
the  ten  children  who  bless  their  home  are:  Henry 
and  Frank,  who  are  in  business  with  their  father, 
and  Henrietta,  Louis,  Sophia,  Leo,  Emma, 
Jennie,  Matilda  and  Edward. 


gLARENCE  E.  PRINCE.  One  noticeable 
characteristic  of  Colorado  life  is  the  large 
number  of  young  men  who  are  engaged 
in  enterprises  of  importance  and  are  success- 
fully conducting  important  interests.  Such  an 
one  is  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  who  as  a 
farmer  has  shown  himself  to  be  a  man  of  ability 
and  energy.  He  has  commenced  his  career  as  an 
agriculturist  with  a  determination  and  enter- 
prise that  speak  well  for  the  future.  Undoubt- 
edly, should  nothing  unforeseen  prevent,  he  will 
attain  a  position  among  the  most  prominent  men 
of  Boulder  County,  where  he  resides,  near  Lafay- 
ette. 

A  native  of  Boulder  County,  Colo.,  Mr.  Prince 
was  born  May  7,  1874,  and  is  a  son  of  Hiram  and 
Helen  M.  (Lindsay)  Prince,  to  whose  sketch 
upon  another  page  the  reader  is  referred  for  the 
family  history.  He  grew  to  manhood  on  the 
home  farm  and  had  such  advantages  as  the  com- 
mon schools  afforded.     February   24,   1896,   he 


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was  united  in  marriage  with  Miss  Charlotte 
Schofield,  daughter  of  WilHam  H.  and  Mary  E. 
(Downing)  Schofield,  natives  of  Nova  Scotia. 
About  1870  her  parents  came  to  the  United  States 
and  settled  in  Boston,  but  nine  years  later  they 
came  west  to  Kansas,  settling  in  Central,  where 
they  remained  until  1891.  During  that  year  they 
settled  in  Colorado,  establishing  their  home  near 
Canfield,  but  later  moving  to  the  Weisenhorn 
place,  which  Mr.  Schofield  has  since  cultivated. 
One  child,  Irene  E.,  was  born  April  17,  1897,  to 
the  union  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Prince. 

From  boyhood  Mr.  Prince  has  been  firm  in  his 
allegiance  to  the  Republican  party  and  supports 
its  principles  by  his  ballot  and  influence. 


j  ESLIE  HORSLEY.  Immediately  adjoining 
I  C  Livermore  is  a  ranch  of  some  eight  hundred 
[2  acres,  beautifully  situated  on  Pine  and 
Rabbit  Creeks  and  Cache  la  Poudre  River.  The 
Lone  Pine  runs  through  the  land,  and  furnishes 
water  for  its  irrigation.  It  is  devoted  to  the 
raising  of  grain  and  stock  and  is  owned  by  Mr. 
Horsley,  who  came  to  the  state  in  1891,  and  was 
so  well  pleased  with  the  country,  climate  and 
facilities  for  farming  and  stock-raising  that  he 
bought  property,  and  now  has  one  of  the  finest 
ranches  in  the  country.  He  was  born  in  Barton, 
Yorkshire,  England,  March  21,  1867,  and  is  the 
son  of  Gen.  Frank  and  Fannie  (Cradock) 
Horsley. 

His  grandfather.  Judge  John  Horsley,  was  a 
native  of  England,  but  moved  to  India,  where  he 
served  as  judge  tor  the  English  government. 
The  family  were  prominent  in  parliamentary 
circles,  and  a  great-great-uucle,  Bishop  Samuel 
Horsley,  was  bishop  of  Worchester,  and  dean  of 
"Westminster,  and  was  the  last  bishop  to  wear  the 
wig.  An  uncle,  Ralph  Avelsem,  was  a  magis- 
trate in  India,  and  was  assassinated  by  the  na- 
tives. 

Gen.  Frank  Horsley  entered  the  Indian  army 
before  Queen  Victoria  became  an  empress.  He 
was  in  service  in  1836,  and  served  throughout 
the  Indian  mutiny.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
First  Cavalry,  of  which  only  three  were  left  after 
the  mutiny,  and  later  served  in  the  Third  Cavalry. 
He  was  retired  with  the  rank  of  general.  Re- 
turning to  England,  he  lived  on  his  estate  in 
Gloucestershire.     He  was  a  member  of   the  Ma- 


sonic order.  His  wife,  Fannie  (Cradock)  Hors- 
ley, was  born  on  the  Hartforth  estate,  near 
Richmond,  England.  She  was  a  daughter  of 
Col.  Sheldon  Cradock,  who  was  a  colonel  in  the 
English  army,  proprietor  of  Hartforth,  and  a 
member  of  parliament.  She  died  at  the  age  of 
fifty-six  j^ears,  leaving  two  children:  Meta,  who 
married  W.  D.  Gilpin-Brown,  of  Sidney,  Eng- 
land; and  Iveslie,  of  I,iverniore,  Colo. 

Mr.  Horsley  was  reared  and  educated  in  Edin- 
burgh, Scotland.  For  three  years  after  complet- 
ing his  education  he  gave  his  attention  to  farm- 
ing, and  became  an  adept  in  agricultural  pursuits. 
In  1892  he  came  to  Livermore  Park,  and  two 
years  later  bought  the  Landes  farm  of  four 
hundred  acres  adjoining  Livermore.  The  follow- 
ing year  he  purchased  the  Chase  place,  and  still 
later  bought  an  adjoining  one  hundred  and  sixty, 
making  a  large  tract  of  eight  hundred  acres,  in 
one  body,  of  deeded  land  now  owned  by  him. 
His  land  is  well  irrigated,  he  having  extended 
the  Chase  ditch  to  bring  more  land  under  culti- 
vation. He  has  about  two  hundred  and  fifty  acres 
sown  to  alfalfa,  and  this  is  used  in  feeding  his 
cattle,  of  which  he  raises  large  herds.  He  keeps 
large  herds  of  beef  cattle,  consisting  mostly  of 
graded  Herefords  and  Shorthorns.  He  also  has 
some  full-blooded  Herefords,  and  a  few  Jerseys. 
He  has  nice  groves  on  his  land,  and  the  barns 
are  of  the  most  modern  and  convenient  style, 
while  the  residence  has  been  enlarged  and  im- 
proved in  such  a  manner  as  to  make  a  comfortable 
home. 

Mr.  Horsley  married  Miss  Cora  Saxton,  an 
eastern  lady,  and  a  daughter  of  Mrs.  J.  H.  Swan, 
of  Livermore.  They  have  two  children,  Dorothy 
Sylvia  Meta  and  Frances  Elizabeth.  A  wide- 
awake, shrewd  man  of  affairs,  Mr.  Horsley  is 
quick  to  see  and  take  advantage  of  a  plan  that 
will  benefit  him.  He  was  a  charter  member  of 
the  Larimer  County  Stock  Growers'  Protective 
Association.  In  religion  he  is  identified  with  the 
Episcopal  Church. 


EHARLES  EMERSON,ofLivermore,Larimer 
County,  is  the  oldest  settler  in  Livermore 
Park,  and  the  junior  member  of  the  firm 
of  Emerson  Brothers,  the  wealthiest  and  among 
the  most  prosperous  stock  dealers  in  the  county. 
Their  ranch  is  located  about  two  and  one-quarter 


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miles  from  I^ivermore,  on  the  Lone  Pine,  and 
consists  of  two  thousand  one  hundred  and  sixty 
acres  of  fine  land,  all  fenced  and  improved.  It 
is  irrigated  by  four  ditches  which  carry  the 
water  from  Pine  Creek.  The  brothers  were 
among  the  first  to  adopt  alfalfa  as  feed,  and  try 
raising  it  for  that  purpose  in  this  vicinity,  and 
they  have  sown  from  four  hundred  to  five  hun- 
dred acres  in  alfalfa,  which  is  used  in  feeding  their 
herds  of  cattle;  the  latter  they  .ship  to  the  eastern 
markets,  and  derive  therefrom  considerable  profit. 

Mr.  Emerson  was  born  in  New  Hampton, 
N.  H.,  Novembers,  1849.  He  is  a  son  of  Samuel 
and  Anna  (Carter)  Emerson,  and  a  grandson  of 
Nathan  Emerson,  all  of  New  Hampshire.  The 
grandfather  was  a  farmer  of  Plymouth,  where  he 
died.  The  great-grandfather,  Jordan  Emerson, 
came  from  Newburyport,  Mass.,  and  was  a  sol- 
dier of  the  Revolution.  He  was  appointed  judge 
for  his  district  by  the  continental  congress.  The 
Emerson  family  came  from  England  early  in  the 
seventeenth  century  and  settled  in  Massachu- 
setts, whence  they  scattered  to  all  parts  of  the 
United  States.  Samuel  Emerson,  who  was  a 
farmer  in  New  Hampton,  went  to  California  in 
1856,  by  way  of  Panama,  and  there  remained 
four  or  five  years,  dealing  in  stock.  He  then  re- 
turned to  his  native  state,  where  he  died  in  the 
ripeness  of  age,  having  attained  eighty-two  years. 

For  many  years  he  was  selectman,  also  served 
as  tax  collector,  and  represented  his  county  in 
the  state  legislature  for  two  terms.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Masonic  fraternity.  His  wife  was 
Anna  Carter, born  in  New  Hampton,  and  a  daugh- 
ter of  Levi  Carter,  also  a  native  of  New  Hamp- 
shire, but  a  member  of  an  old  family  of  Massachu- 
setts. She  died  at  the  age  of  eighty-one.  Nine 
children  were  born  to  them:  Mary,  who  died  in 
New  Hampton;  Horace  W.,  who  resides  in 
Maine,  a  partner  of  our  subject,  retired  since 
1893;  Mrs.  Laura  Kelley,  and  Abbie,  both  of 
whom  died  in  New  Hampton;  Almeda,  Mrs. 
Curtice,  of  Bristol;  Charles,  of  Livermore,  the 
subject  of  this  sketch;  Francis  A. ,  of  New  Hamp- 
ton; Ella  and  Auntha,  who  both  died  there. 

Charles  Emerson  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools  and  best  literary  institutions  to  be  found 
in  New  Hampton,  and  in  the  spring  of  1869 
started  for  LaPorte,  Colo.,  by  way  of  Cheyenne, 
and  from  there  by  the  overland  stage  through  the 
canon  of  the  Cache  la  Poudre  River.     At  Cham- 


bers Lake  he  accepted  a  position  with  the  rail- 
road company,  and  helped  get  out  ties  for  the 
Denver  &  Pacific  Railroad,  of  which  his  brother 
was  foreman.  They  were  engaged  in  that  work 
from  March  until  November  of  that  year  getting 
out  one  hundred  and  eighty-three  thousand  ties 
and  running  them  down  the  Poudre  to  Greeley. 
He  remained  with  the  company  in  charge  of  that 
department  of  work  until  the  spring  of  the  next 
year,  when  he  and  his  brother  went  to  Nebraska, 
bought  some  cattle  at  North  Platte  City,  brought 
them  to  Colorado  and  established  the  ranch  which 
they  have  since  conducted  so  successfully. 

At  that  time  the  Park  was  unnamed,  the  creek 
was  called  Lone  Pine  from  one  solitary  tree  which 
stood  on  its  bank,  and  the  name  clung  to  that 
vicinity  for  four  or  five  years  until  the  postofiBce 
was  established  in  1874,  when  it  was  called  Liver- 
more  Postoffice  and  became  Livermore  Park. 
The  name  was  chosen  by  a  Mr.  Moore  who  lived 
on  the  site  of  the  present  postoffice,  and  who  had 
come  there  from  Livermore,  Me.  When  he  settled 
there,  one  other  settler,  William  Calloway,  was 
there  and  had  established  a  ranch  on  the  north 
fork  of  the  Poudre  near  the  canon,  where  he  lived 
until  his  death,  a  few  years  ago. 

In  1877  Emerson  Brothers  moved  to  Wyoming 
and  established  a  ranch  near  Fort  Fetterman. 
This  consists  of  eight  hundred  acres,  all  fenced, 
and  large  numbers  of  cattlje  were  raised  there,  but 
of  late  years  their  cattle  have  been  raised  entirely 
on  their  large  farm  in  Colorado.  In  1883  they 
began  to  improve  their  property  in  this  state,  and 
bought  of  their  neighbors,  the  state  and  the  gov- 
ernment, lands  immediately  adjoining  them  until 
they  have  their  present  farm  of  two  thousand 
one  hundred  and  sixty  acres.  They  are  among 
the  most  extensive  cattle  dealers  in  this  part  of 
the  country,  most  of  the  stock  being  bred  on  the 
place,  and  consisting  of  Herefords  and  Short- 
horns, while  a  few  are  purchased  for  breeding. 
Their  brand  is  the  circle  "O." 

Mr.  Emerson  married  Miss  Alice  Freeman,  of 
Prospect,  Me.,  June  11,  1877.  Fraternally  he  is 
a  member  of  Collins  Lodge  No.  19,  A.  F.  & 
A.  M.  He  was  a  charter  member  and  is  now 
treasurer  of  the  Larimer  County  Stock  Growers' 
Protective  Association.  He  is  also  an  associate 
member  of  the  National  Stock  Growers'  Associa- 
tion, and  was  a  delegate  to  the  Denver  convention 
held  in   1898,  in  January.     In  politics  he  is  a 


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strong  McKinley  man,  and  was  a  member  of  the 
county  Republican  committee.  In  the  fall  of  1898 
he  was  nominated  for  the  office  of  state  senator 
by  the  Republican  party. 

This  sketch  would  be  incomplete  without  a 
brief  history  of  Horace  W.  Emerson,  the  brother 
who  has  been  so  intimately  connected  with  our 
subject  in  all  his  business  transactions.  He  was 
born  in  New  Hampton  in  1838,  and  engaged  in 
the  stock  business  befoi^e  leaving  there.  In  1866 
he  went  to  Nebraska  and  secured  work  with  a 
large  contracting  firm,  Coe  &  Carter,  the  latter 
an  uncle.  They  did  work  for  the  govenunent 
and  the  railroads,  and  were  at  that  time  engaged 
in  getting  out  railroad  ties  and  other  wood.  He 
was  made  superintendent  of  the  work  and  was 
sent  to  Sherman,  Wyo.,  in  1867  or  1868.  About 
this  time  the  partnership  was  formed  with  his 
brother  in  the  stock  business,  Charles  taking 
charge  of  it.  He  was  given  charge  of  the  con- 
tract of  Coe  &  Carter  with  the  Denver  &  Pacific 
Railroad  in  1869,  and  continued  with  them  until 
1875.  He  also  built  the  postoffice  building  for 
the  government  at  Fort  Lyon.  From  1875  to 
1893  his  time  was  spent  principally  on  his  ranch, 
but  at  the  end  of  that  time  he  moved  to  Winter- 
port,  Me. ,  where  he  now  lives  in  retirement.  He 
is  a  Mason  and  a  Republican.  He  has  been 
twice  married,  first  to  Miss  Lizzie  Freeman,  of 
Maine,  who  died  in  Livermore,  and  afterward  to 
Miss  Marrietta  Freeman,  also  of  Maine,  a  sister  of 
his  first  wife.     They  have  one  child,  Dorothy. 


3 GEL  K.  PALMER.  In  the  beautiful  valley  of 
Clear  Creek,  between  North  and  South  Table 
Mountains,  Mr.  Palmer  settled  in  i860,  and 
here  he  has  made  his  home  ever  since,  evolving 
a  beautiful  and  finely  improved  fruit  and  garden 
farm  out  of  the  virgin  soil.  The  surroundings 
are  picturesque,  the  grand  old  mountains  forming 
a  background  to  a  picture  of  peace  and  plenty. 
During  the  spring  and  summer  months  the  place 
is  a  modern  paradise,  with  its  wealth  of  fruit- 
beariug  trees,  its  gardens  of  strawberries  and 
vegetables,  and  its  air  of  thrift  and  prosperity. 
The  improvement  of  the  farm  is  due  to  the  efforts 
of  the  owner,  who  since  first  coming  here  has 
done  pioneer  work  in  planting  trees,  finding  what 
varieties  of  fruits  best  suit  the  soil  and  laboring 
to  secure  the  best  possible  results  from  his  land. 


He  has  introduced  an  excellent  system  of  irriga- 
tion, by  which  water  in  abundance  is  furnished 
to  his  trees  and  garden. 

The  birth  of  Mr.  Palmer  occurred  in  Steuben 
County,  N.  Y.,  February  13,  1832.  He  is  a  de- 
scendant of  an  English  family  that  was  among 
the  earliest  settlers  of  Maine.  His  grandfather, 
Thomas  Palmer,  was  born  in  Maine  and  from 
there  went  to  the  front  as  a  soldier  in  the  Revolu- 
tion. The  father,  William,  also  a  native  of 
Maine,  moved  to  Steuben  County,  N.Y.,  in  early 
manhood,  and  there  married  Amanda  Haines 
and  engaged  in  farming.  In  1837  ^^  and  his 
family  traveled  in  a  "prairie  schooner"  to  Iowa, 
where  he  settled  in  Scott  County,  near  Princeton, 
on  the  Mississippi.  His  remaining  years  were 
given  to  the  cultivation  of  a  farm  there.  He  died 
at  the  age  of  fifty-four,  and  his  wife  when  fifty- 
seven.  They  were  the  parents  of  ten  children 
who  attained  mature  years,  and  of  these  five  are 
now  living.  One  of  the  sons,  David,  enlisted  in 
an  Iowa  regiment  during  the  Civil  war  and  died 
at  Memphis  while  engaged  in  service.  Another 
son,  A.  J.,  is  living  upon  a  farm  near  Laramie, 
Wyo. 

The  only  member  of  the  family  in  Colorado  is 
Joel  K.,  who  was  next  to  the  youngest  of  the 
children.  He  was  five  years  of  age  when  the 
family  removed  to  Iowa,  and  his  education  was 
limited  to  a  brief  attendance,  during  winters,  at 
a  school  taught  in  a  log  building,  with  slabs  for 
seats  and  greased  paper  for  window  panes.  In 
1853  he  started  out  for  himself,  having  bought  a 
farm  near  the  old  homestead,  and  there  he  en- 
gaged in  farming  until  1859.  The  news  of  the 
discovery  of  gold  in  the  mountains  led  him  to 
start  westward.  He  stopped  for  a  time  in  Blue 
Rapids,  Marshall  County,  Kan.,  but  the  country 
and  the  prospects  did  not  please  him,  and  in  the 
spring  of  i860  he  came  further  west,  landing  at 
Golden  June  4.  He  had  his  team  and  wagon  and 
$6.65  in  money,  with  which  he  began  life  in  the 
new  country.  As  might  be  imagined,  the  work 
was  by  no  means  easy.  He  dug  a  small  ditch  on 
the  land  he  secured,  and  began  to  irrigate  and 
improve  it;  he  also  cleared  the  brush  and  trees  . 
from  the  bottom  of  the  creek,  making  the  land 
tillable.  By  degrees  success  came  to  him.  His 
strawberries  have  become  known  as  the  finest  in 
his  section,  and  his  apples  and  grapes  are  also  of 
the  best.     He  is  the  owner  of  a  private  ditch  and 


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also  holds  an  interest  in  two  of  the  large  ditches. 
Of  his  original  tract  of  one  hundred  and  sixty 
acres  he  still  owns  eighty-five  acres,  the  most  of 
which  is  planted  to  orchards  and  gardens. 

Mr.  Palmer  has  had  little  time  to  study  politics, 
but  he  believes  that,  from  a  common-sense  point 
of  view,  the  citizens  of  Colorado  should  favor  the 
silver  cause  and  he  himself  is  an  earnest  sup- 
porter of  bimetallism.  He  was  united  in  mar- 
riage, in  Iowa,  with  Miss  Matilda  Lewis,  a  native 
of  Canada,  and  the  daughter  of  William  and 
Mary  A.  (Aukman)  Lewis.  They  are  the 
parents  of  six  children:  Charles,  Mary,  Nelson, 
Frank,  Rose  and  Alice. 


SI  DAM  RINNERT,  a  prominent  and  influen- 
1  I  tial  farmer  of  Elbert  County,  owns  and 
/  I  occupies  a  beautiful  homestead,  located 
near  the  village  of  Kiowa.  He  has  been  a 
resident  of  the  Centennial  state  for  a  score  and 
eight  years,  and  it  is  hardly  necessary  to  state 
that  in  that  length  of  time  he  has  witnessed  great 
and  gratifying  changes,  and,  in  common  with 
others  who  settled  here  at  that  time,  has  assisted 
in  bringing  this  section  to  its  present  state  of 
cultivation  and  civilization.  His  homestead, 
which  consists  of  fourteen  hundred  and  forty 
acres,  is  located  near  the  town  of  Kiowa,  and  he 
also  owns  seventeen  hundred  and  twenty  acres 
near  Elbert,  this  county.  He  came  to  this  vicinity 
in  moderate  circumstances  and  has  climbed  up  to 
his  present  position  by  his  own  industry,  economy 
and  perseverance.  He  has  accomplished  this  by 
fair  means  and  enjoys  the  confidence  and  esteem 
of  the  community  of  which  he  is  a  valued  mem- 
ber. He  was  born  in  the  city  of  New  York,  July 
i8,  1851,  and  is  a  son  of  Adam  and  Catherine 
(Lappa)  Rinnert. 

Our  subject's  parents  were  both  natives  of 
Germany,  but  were  married  in  New  York  City. 
He  was  a  shoemaker  by  trade  and  when  our  sub- 
ject was  about  two  years  of  age  he  moved  to 
Colchester,  Conn.,  two  years  later  he  moved 
to  St.  Catharine,  and  in  1862  to  Port  Crescent, 
where  he  bought  a  farm  and  carried  on  gen- 
eral farming  in  addition  to  working  at  his  for- 
mer trade.  Our  subject  received  a  common- 
school  education  and  in  1870  he  came  west  and 
settled  in  Elbert  County,  Colo.  At  first  he 
worked  by  the  month,  but  later  took  up  a  large 


claim  and  engaged  in  farming;  he  sold  his  first 
claim  and  has  since  bought  other  property,  and  is 
one  of  the  largest  land  owners  of  that  community. 
Mr.  Rinnert  has  been  united  in  marriage  twice. 
His  first  wife  was  Nannie  H.  Graham,  by  whom 
he  reared  three  children,  namely:  Adam  G.,  born 
in  June,  1879;  Mary  Christina  and  John  M.  His 
first  wife  died  in  1890,  and  later  he  married  Mrs. 
Edith  Caswell,  a  widow,  with  one  child,  Mila 
Edith,  who  resides  with  her  parents  and  is  attend- 
ing school  at  Kiowa.  The  second  union  has 
been  blessed  by  the  birth  of  one  son,  Lewis  Lent. 
The  second  wife  of  Mr.  Rinnert,  whose  maiden 
name  was  Edith  Lent,  was  the  daughter  of  Lewis 
Thatcher  and  Caroline  (Wattles)  Lent,  natives 
of  Bradford  County,  Pa.,  and  still  residents  of 
that  state.  Her  father  follows  agricultural  pur- 
suits. Mrs.  Rinnert  owns  two  farms  in  her  own 
right  in  Elbert  County,  aggregating  one  thou- 
sand two  hundred  and  eighty  acres.  Politically 
our  subject  is  a  stanch  Republican,  and  cast  his 
first  vote  in  1876  for  R.  B.  Hayes;  in  that  year  he 
was  elected  sheriff  of  Elbert  County  and  served 
one  term.  He  is  a  member  of  Elbert  Lodge  No. 
86,  I.  O.  O.  F.,  and  has  filled  all  the  chairs  of 
that  order. 


fojEORGE  PANKHURST.  Having  disposed 
l_  of  his  business  interests  in  Jackson  County, 
y^  Iowa,  Mr.  Pankhursti  started  for  Colorado 
May  14,  1859,  and  cros.sed  the  plains  with  four 
yoke  of  cattle.  Not  being  able  to  cross  the  river 
at  Kearney,  he  and  his  brother-in-law,  who  ac- 
companied him,  rode  to  Laramie,  where,  after 
many  difficulties,  they  finally  succeeded  in  cross- 
ing. The  ferry  boat  had  been  cut  loose  by 
deserting  soldiers,  and,  in  order  to  secure  means 
of  passage,  they  felled  some  large  cottonwood 
trees,  and  by  unloading  and  taking  to  pieces 
their  wagons,  effected  a  passage  on  their  im- 
provised boats.  They  proceeded  to  Boulder  and 
on  arriving  at  that  place,  began  to  look  around 
for  a  suitable  location.  Their  first  camping  place 
was  between  Russell  and  Gregory  Gulch,  where 
they  took  out  as  much  as  $1.80  a  pan  and  they 
could  have  bought  the  property  (known  as  the 
bob- tail  lead)  of  four  hundred  feet,  for  a  few 
dollars;  but  a  few  days  later  thirty-two  feet  sold 
for  $8,000.  After  a  few  days,  the  pound  diggings 
excitement  broke  out  and  they  decided  to  try 
their  fortune  in  the  new  place,  which  they  did. 


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When  the  weather  became  too  cold  to  permit 
further  work  in  mines,  Mr.  Pankhurst  went  to 
Colorado  City,  where  he  built  a  cabin  and  en- 
gaged in  hunting  during  the  winter.  In  the 
spring  he  returned  to  the  diggings  in  Breckenridge 
and  resumed  mining.  During  the  seven  years 
he  remained  there  he  met  with  varying  success, 
working  some  days  for  $i.oo  and  other  days  tak- 
ing out  an  ounce  of  gold.  In  1865  he  went  back 
to  Jackson  County,  Iowa,  and  built  a  sawmill, 
which  he  carried  on  for  seven  years,  getting  out 
lumber  for  the  railroad.  Later  he  engaged  in 
farming.  In  1880  he  visited  Colorado,  but  re- 
turned to  Iowa  after  five  weeks,  and  remained 
there  for  seven  years,  then  made  another  visit  to 
Colorado.  In  1891  he  brought  his  family  to 
Colorado  and  settled  in  Breckenridge.  Three 
years  before  he  had  secured  valuable  mining 
interests,  and  he  is  now  half  owner  in  the  valu- 
able property,  the  Puzzle  group  of  mines,  which 
is  leased  to  parties  operating  them;  he  also  owns 
other  valuable  mining  properties.  In  June,  1897, 
he  purchased  his  home  of  sixty-one  acres  on 
Prospect  avenue,  and  since  the  fall  of  that  year 
he  and  his  family  have  lived  here. 

Mr.  Pankhurst  was  born  in  Sussex  County, 
England,  April  20,  1826,  a  son  of  William  and 
Sarah  Pankhurst.  He  is  one  of  the  four  sur- 
vivors among  thirteen  children,  his  sisters  and 
brother  being  Mary,  Jemima  and  Joseph,  all  living 
in  England.  His  father  was  born  and  reared  in 
Sussex  County,  and  there  learned  the  trade  of  a 
wheelwright,  which  he  followed  during  the 
greater  part  of  his  life.  His  wife  was  a  native  of 
Kent,  England.  Their  son,  our  subject,  began 
for  himself  at  sixteen  years  of  age,  and  in  com- 
pany with  a  young  man  of  about  his  own  age, 
he  emigrated  to  America,  landing  in  New  York 
May  ID,  1842.  From  that  city  he  went  to 
Philadelphia  and  thence  to  Huntingdon,  where 
he  secured  employment  in  a  wagonshop;  and  in 
a  short  time  he  became  known  as  the  most  skilled 
workman  in  the  shop.  After  a  time  he  resigned 
there  and  began  to  work  in  the  Nefi  mills,  where 
he  remained  until  the  spring  of  1843.  His  friend 
then  persuaded  him  to  open  a  wagon  shop  of 
his  own.  He  did  a  good  business  for  two  years 
and  then  moved  his  shop  to  Alexandria,  Pa., 
where  he  remained  for  two  years.  While  in  the 
latter  place  he  was  united  in  marriage  with  Miss 
Susan  Sisler  April  18,  1846.     The  next  year,  his 


wife's  people  deciding  to  go  west,  he  determined 
to  accompany  them  and  they  went  to  Iowa,  settling 
in  Jackson  County,  where  he  and  his  brother-in- 
law  carried  on  a  blacksmith  shop  until  they 
started  for  Colorado  in  1859. 

The  children  born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Pankhurst 
were  seven  in  number,  namely:  Charles,  deceased; 
Theodore;  Lorett,  Arabella  and  John,  all  three 
deceased;  George  and  Alice. 


30HN  ROTHROCK.  It  is  our  pleasure  to 
introduce  in  this  biography  a  gentleman 
who  was  among  the  first  settlers  in  the  ter- 
ritory of  Colorado;  coming  here  in  the  year  1858, 
he  is  probably  the  oldest  resident  of  Boulder 
County,  and  has  seen  the  country  develop  from  a 
wild,  uncultivated  waste,  inhabited  only  by  the 
wild  beast  and  the  Indian,  to  its  present  highly 
improved  and  civilized  condition.  He  came  to 
Boulder  County  with  a  party  of  prospectors,  who 
built  their  cabins  and  began  prospecting  for  gold. 
A  band  of  Indians  were  camped  near  them  and 
were  quite  friendly  until  they  found  that  the 
white  man  had  discovered  gold,  when  they  be- 
came very  hostile  and  tried  to  drive  them  from 
the  country,  giving  them  three  days  in  which  to 
leave.  This  the  white  men  decided  not  to  do, 
and  as  they  had  plenty  of  arms  and  ammunition 
they  fortified  some  of  the  cabins,  and  determined 
to  make  a  fight  for  their  rights  if  necessary.  After 
three  days  had  passed,  Old  Bear,  the  chief  of  the 
tribe,  came  to  the  cabins  to  consult  with  them, 
saying  he  had  had  a  fearful  dream  and  inter- 
preted it  for  them,  viz. :  '  'The  water  in  Boulder 
creek  would  rise,  so  he  was  informed  by  the 
Great  Father,  until  it  would  overflow  both  the 
Indian  and  white  camp  unless  an  ox  was 
slaughtered,  in  which  case  He  would  allay  the 
flood."  They  made  up  their  minds  that  if  one 
ox  was  sacrificed  they  would  have  to  kill  them 
all,  and  refused.  After  a  couple  of  days  the  In- 
dians withdrew  and  left  them  in  peace.  It  cost 
something  in  those  early  times  to  buy  the  ma- 
chinery needed  on  a  farm;  his  first  plow  was 
made  in  Denver  from  boiler  iron,  and  cost  $75, 
while  the  second  was  made  of  cast  iron  and  was 
brought,  by  freight,  from  the  states,  costing  him 
$110.  The  first  seed  wheat  purchased  by  him 
cost  the  moderate  sum  of  twelve  and  one-half 
cents  per  pound,  or  $7. 50  per  bushel. 


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Mr.  Rothrock  is  a  nativeof  Pennsylvania,  born 
in  Bellefonte,  Centre  County,  April  3,  1834.  His 
parents  were  Henry  and  Nancy  A.  (Ramsaj') 
Rothrock.  The  family  descend  from  Philip 
Rothrock,  who  was  born  December  8,  1713,  near 
Worms,  Germany,  and  emigrated  to  America  in 
1733.  He  was  married  seven  years  later  to 
Catherine  M.  Kuntz,  a  native  of  Moravia.  They 
settled  at  York,  York  County,  Pa.,  where 
the  grandfather,  John  Rothrock,  was  born 
February  18,  1744.  He  was  twice  married,  first 
to  Dorothy  Gump,  who  left  him  two  children,  and 
the  second  time  to  Charity  Worley,  who  was 
born  at  York  February  20,  1759,  and  died  March 
I,  1828,  fifty-two  years  after  her  marriage.  Her 
husband  had  died  in  1805.  Of  the  thirteen  chil- 
dren born  to  them,  Henry  Rothrock,  the  father 
of  our  subject,  was  the  third  youngest,  and  was 
born  January  5,  1792,  in  York,  Pa.  He  learned 
the  trades  of  tanner  and  plasterer,  at  which  he 
worked  during  his  early  life,  but  later  moved  to 
a  farm  near  Bellefonte,  which  he  cultivated  until 
his  death,  August  2,  1872.  He  married  Nancy 
A.  Ramsay,  who  was  born  in  Milton,  Pa.,  and 
died  in  Howard,  that  state.  Of  their  six  chil- 
dren, Joseph  died  young;  Thomas  is  a  physician 
of  Eagleville,  Pa. ,  and  was  a  surgeon  in  a  Penn- 
sylvania regiment  during  the  war;  David  lives  in 
Centre  County,  Pa. ;  John  is  the  subject  of  this 
sketch;  Ann  Elita  (Mrs.  Long)  resides  in  How- 
ard; and  Henry  continues  on  the  old  homestead. 

John  Rothrock  spent  his  boyhood  on  a  farm, 
and  received  such  schooling  as  was  afforded  by 
the  public  schools  at  that  time.  When  he  had 
reached  his  twenty-first  year  he  went  to  Nebraska 
as  a  member  of  a  surveying  party,  and  helped 
survey  the  sixth  principal  meridian  and  the  fifth 
sixth,  seventh,  eighth  and  ninth  parallels  of  lon- 
gitude. He  was  engaged  in  this  work  until 
1858,  when  he  joined  a  company  of  thirty-two 
who  traveled  by  ox  and  horse- train,  joined  the 
Nebraska  City  Company  near  Kearney,  and 
reached  Boulder  County  in  November  of  that 
year.  He  and  John  Hall  surveyed  the  public 
square  and  the  first  one  hundred  lots  in  the 
place.  The  settlers  built  log  houses,  thirty-two 
in  all,  making  quite  a  settlement.  In  the  spring 
of  the  following  year  they  discovered  gold  in  the 
run  at  Gold  Hill  and  embarked  in  mining.  John 
Gregory  got  up  a  crowd  to  go  to  Summer  Valley 
prospecting,  but  the  trip  was  unsuccessful,  and 


they  returned  to  Boulder.  Mr.  Rothrock  then 
went  to  Spring  Gulch,  Gilpin  County,  where  he 
bought  a  claim  of  one  hundred  and  fifty  feet, 
which  he  operated  successfully  for  some  time, 
and  then  left  in  care  of  his  partner,  G.  R.  Will- 
iamson, while  he  went  to  Hamilton,  South  Park, 
thence  to  California  Gulch,  where  he  operated 
mines  and  lost  considerable  money.  He  then  re- 
turned to  Boulder,  where  he  owned  a  farm,  and 
began  its  cultivation,  irrigating  and  otherwise 
improving  it.  He  built  the  second  ditch  ever 
constructed  in  the  state.  This  farm  consists  of 
four  hundred  acres  eight  miles  south  of  Long- 
mont,  and  is  still  owned  by  him  and  conducted 
as  a  general  crop  and  stock  farm.  Part  of  this 
farm  is  operated  by  him  and  the  remainder  by 
his  son.  He  also  owns  forty  acres  adjoining  the 
city  of  lyOngmont,  which  is  devoted  to  general 
farming.  For  several  years  he  was  interested  in 
the  mercantile  business  under  the  name  of  Will- 
iams &  Rothrock,  carrying  a  general  line  of 
dry  goods.  In  politics  he  has  always  been  a 
Democrat. 

Mr.  Rothrock  married  Miss  Eliza  C.  Beuford 
in  Denver.  She  was  born  in  Schuyler  County, 
Mo. ,  and  is  a  daughter  of  William  Beuford,  of 
Virginia  formerly,  but  later  a  resident  of  Mis- 
souri. He  was  married  in  Virginia  to  Mary  Ann 
Jones,  and  came  to  Denver  in  i860  and  engaged 
in  business,  freighting,  and,  also  built  two  quartz 
mills.  He  afterwards  returned  to  Missouri, 
where  he  was  interested  in  a  woolen  factory  and 
a  store,  and  then  retired  from  active  business  life. 
Mr.  and  Mr.  Rothrock  have  but  two  children: 
William  H.,  who  is  living  on  part  of  the  old 
homestead,  and  is  a  prominent  member  and  a 
deacon  of  the  Presbyterian  Church;  and  John 
Edmund,  who  is  a  merchant  of  Lake  City,  being 
one  of  the  proprietors  of  a  dry-goods  store  there. 


n  E.  ROBILLARD,  M.  D.  Less  than  three 
I  years  ago  this  enterprising  young  physician 
Q)  and  surgeon  of  Idaho  Springs,  Clear  Creek 
County,  took  up  his  residence  here  and  some  time 
subsequent  to  that  event  established  an  ofiice 
and  commenced  practice.  He  is  doing  finely,  and 
is  rapidly  gaining  the  esteem  of  our  citizens,  as 
well  as  a  large  share  of  their  patronage.  The 
doctor  is  wide-awake  and  thoioughly  in  accord 
with  the  spirit  of  the  times  in  all  things,  especially 


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in  his  chosen  field  of  labor.  He  is  an  exponent 
of  modern  research  in  the  medical  and  scientific 
world  and  is  a  great  student,  making  it  his  aim 
to  keep  abreast  of  the  age,  in  utilizing  the  methods 
and  discoveries  which  are  constantly  being  made 
in  this  direction. 

About  four  generations  ago  the  Robillard 
family  was  founded  in  L,enoraie,  Quebec,  Canada. 
As -the  name  suggests,  the  Robillards  are  of 
French  extraction.  The  great-great-grandfather 
of  the  doctor  was  a  native  of  the  province  of  Nor- 
mandy, France,  but  decided  to  make  a  home  for 
himself  and  family  in  the  new  world,  and  sailed 
across  the  sea.  Locating  in  Lenoraie,  Canada, 
he  improved  the  first  farm  settled  upon  in  that 
region,  and  on  this  old  estate  generation  after 
generation  of  his  descendants  have  been  born,  and 
have  lived  and  died.  The  place  is  now  owned 
and  managed  by  the  father  of  our  subject,  J.  B. 
Robillard.  The  mother,  a  native  of  the  same 
section  of  Canada,  was  a  daughter  of  O.  Page, 
who  lived  in  that  locality,  as  did  her  grandfather. 
Her  great-grandfather  Page  was  a  native  of 
France,  and  was  one  of  the  pioneers  of  Canada, 
and  belonged  to  the  agricultural  class  to  whose 
labors  much  of  the  prosperity  of  the  province  is 
credited. 

Dr.  J.  E.  Robillard  is  the  tenth  child  in  a 
family  of  twelve  brothers  and  sisters.  Eleven  of 
the  number  grew  to  maturity  and  four  are 
deceased  at  this  writing.  The  doctor  was  born 
on  the  old  home-place  of  the  Robillards,  Decem- 
ber 29,  1868,  and  grew  up  on  the  farm.  He 
received  his  elementary  education  in  the  public 
schools  of  the  neighborhood,  and  later  was  a 
student  in  the  normal  school  at  Montreal.  After 
he  had  completed  his  classical  and  scientific 
education  he  took  up  the  study  of  medicine  and 
was  a  pupil  in  the  Victoria  Medical  College  for 
about  one  year.  Then  he  went  to  Montreal,  and 
in  1892  graduated  from  the  La  Valle  University, 
with  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Medicine.  After 
two  more  years  of  study  he  was  granted  the 
degree  of  Doctor  of  Medicine'.  About  this  time 
his  zealous  work  as  a  student  resulted  in  illness, 
and  he  returned  to  his  old  home,  where  it  was 
hoped  that  the  active  out-door  life  of  a  farmer 
would  prove  of  benefit  to  him.  He  remained 
there  for  eighteen  months  or  more,  but  the  rigors 
of  Canadian  winters  were  hard  upon  his  system 
and  in  January,    1896,    he  came   to   Colorado. 


Arriving  in  this  hospitable  state  on  the  twelfth  of 
that  month  he  spent  some  five  weeks  in  the  town 
of  Littleton,  and  in  February  landed  in  Idaho 
Springs.  He  was  greatly  impressed  with  the 
beauty  and  climate  of  this  place  and  has  steadily 
improved  since  coming  here. 


(Tames  T.  PHILLIPS,  justice  of  the  peace 
I  of  the  town  of  Elizabeth,  Elbert  County,  is 
v2?  also  successfully  engaged  in  the  cultivation 
of  the  soil,  owning  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres 
of  well-improved  farming  land  in  that  vicinity. 
This  popular  and  much  respected  citizen  was 
born  near  Hagerstown,  Del.,  March  9,  1840;  his 
parents  are  Thomas  J.  and  Catherine  (Smith) 
Phillips.  He  was  but  five  years  of  age  when  his 
parents  drove  across  the  wild  and  unbroken  lands 
to  the  state  of  Ohio,  where  they  remained  one 
year,  when  they  renewed  their  journey  westward 
to  the  state  of  Illinois.  They  made  a  settlement 
in  Whiteside  County,  and  there  our  subject  lived 
until  he  attained  his  manhood.  He  received  his 
early  mental  training  in  the  subscription  schools 
of  that  county,  and  at  the  age  of  twenty  years  he 
taught  one  term  of  school;  he  then  rented  a  small 
farm,  and  by  the  exercise  of  economy  he  suc- 
ceeded in  laying  aside  a  large  portion  of  his  earn- 
ings, and  later  bought  the  farm,  which  consisted 
of  eighty  acres;  later  he  purchased  another  eighty 
acres,  for  which  he  was  obliged  to  go  in  debt  to 
some  extent,  but  soon  paid  it  off. 

About  1867  our  subject  moved  to  Gencseo, 
Henry  County,  where  he  took  up  his  former  oc- 
cupation, and  while  a  resident  of  that  village  he 
served  as  highway  commissioner  for  three  years. 
He  was  re-elected  the  following  term  but  resigned 
his  position  in  1879,  and  moved  further  west  on 
account  of  the  poor  health  of  his  wife.  Locating 
in  Elbert  County,  Colo. ,  he  entered  the  employ 
of  the  railroad  that  ran  through  the  town  of  Eliza- 
beth, and  later  took  up  a  tract  of  land,  his  present 
farm,  and  has  since  been  engaged  in  agricultural 
pursuits. 

Mr.  Phillips  chose  for  his  life  companion  Miss 
Anna  Elizabeth  Schuck  and  they  were  happily 
united  in  marriage,  June  9,  1861;  as  a  result  of 
this  marriage  five  children  were  born,  three  of 
whom  are  living.  George  T.  owns  a  ranch  near 
Elizabeth,  and  is  the  father  of  two  children;  Ida 
M.  is  the  wife  of  Richard  Clow,  of  Elizabeth, 


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and  they  were  blessed  with  seven  children; 
and  Daisy  Pearl  is  the  wife  of  James  Tallman. 
Mrs.  Phillips  entered  the  world  of  rest  April  9, 
1887. 

Our  subject  is  a  Democrat  in  politics,  endorsing 
the  principles  of  that  party  with  all  the  conscien- 
tiousness and  energy  which  has  characterized  his 
conviction  upon  all  other  questions  of  the  day. 
In  1892  he  was  nominated  on  the  Populist  ticket 
for  county  commissioner,  but  was  defeated;  in 
1880  he  was  elected  to  the  office  of  justice  of  the 
peace  and  served  eight  consecutive  years.  Four 
years  later  he  was  again  elected  to  that  position 
and  has  served  in  that  capacity  up  to  the  present 
time,  the  duties  of  which  office  he  honestly  and 
faithfully  discharges.  Religiously  he  is  a  devoted 
member  and  liberal  supporter  of  the  Methodist 
Church,  and  is  an  active  worker  in  the  Sunday- 
school.  He  is  overseer  and  a  charter  member  of 
the  American  Yeoman  and  Elizabeth  I,odge. 


(31  BNER  SANDERSON,  a  retired  farmer  of 
lI  Weld  County,  was  one  of  the  first  settlers 
/  1  of  the  vicinity  of  Berthoud,  and  during 
his  busy  career  here  he  has  done  his  share  toward 
the  development  of  the  resources  of  this  section 
of  the  state.  In  the  days  of  his  first  sojourning 
here  only  two  lights  could  be  seen  on  all  the  sur- 
rounding prairie  at  night,  the  lights  which  marked 
the  houses  of  his  two  nearest  neighbors,  Peter 
Turner,  now  a  citizen  of  Berthoud,  and  Daniel 
Osborn.  The  postoffice  was  called  Old  Berthoud, 
and  the  letters,  which  arrived  at  very  infrequent 
intervals,  were  kept  in  a  cigar-box.  The  fine 
row  of  shade-trees  which  are  so  beautiful  and 
effective  a  portion  of  the  landscape  in  front  of  our 
subject's  house,  were  then  tiny  saplings,  and  for 
some  years  were  faithfully  cared  for  and  kept  alive 
with  water  brought  from  the  river.  In  his  exam- 
ple may  be  found  what  can  be  accomplished  with 
perseverance  and  industry,  joined  to  wise  and 
systematic  methods  of  agriculture,  for  he  has 
transformed  the  wild  prairie  land  of  less  than  a 
score  of  years  ago  into  a  fertile,  well-cultivated 
farm,  many  times  increased  in  value  for  his  labor. 
The  parents  of  our  subject  were  Abner  and 
Sally  (Sanderson)  Sanderson,  who,  though  hav- 
ing the  same  surname  prior  to  their  marriage, 
were  not  related.  Mrs.  Sanderson  was  a  daughter 
of  Nathan  Sanderson.      Grandfather  Abner  San- 


derson, Sr.,  was  an  influential  man  in  his  day 
and  district.  He  served  as  a  justice  of  the  peace 
and  was  the  representative  of  his  locality  in  the 
state  legislature  for  several  years.  By  occupa- 
tion he  was  a  tiller  of  the  soil.  Both  he  and  his 
son,  Abner,  Jr.,  spent  their  entire  lives  in  their 
native  state,  Massachusetts.  The  family  of  Abner 
and  Sally  S.  Sanderson  were  six  in  number. 
Eliza  married  Oscar  Tyler  and  resides  in  Wal- 
tham,  Mass.  Isaac,  who  went  to  California  in 
1849  and  later  returned  to  the  east,  is  now  a  resi- 
dent of  Farmington,  Minn.  Mary,  who  is  un- 
married, lives  in  lyincoln,  Mass.,  of  which  town 
the  youngest  sister,  Sarah,  is  also  a  citizen.  The 
latter  is  the  wife  of  James  A.  Wheeler.  Benja- 
min is  a  farmer  in  the  neighborhood  of  Grinnell, 
Iowa. 

Abner  Sanderson  was  born  September  13, 1828, 
in  Waltham,  Mass.,  and  remained  on  the  farm 
until  he  was  eighteen  years  of  age,  receiving  a 
common-school  education.  He  then  went  to 
Boston, and  taking  a  position  in  a  store  as  a  sales- 
man was  thus  employed  at  the  time  that  the  Cal- 
ifornia gold  excitement  of  1849  came  on.  In 
October  of  that  year  he  went  with  a  company  of 
his  old  acquaintances  on  board  a  ship  which  sailed 
from  Boston,  and  after  five  months  and  six  days 
landed  at  the  wharf  in  San  Francisco,  having 
rounded  the  Horn.  Mr.  Sanderson  at  once  pro- 
ceeded to  the  place  where ^gold  had  first  been  dis- 
covered, and  from  that  time  until  1866  engaged 
in  mining  and  agriculture  in  the  valley  of  the 
Sacramento  River.  Then  he  returned  to  his  old 
Massachusetts  home,  going  by  way  of  the  isthmus 
this  time.  During  the  nine  years  which  followed 
he  was  engaged  in  the  produce  commission  busi- 
ness. Then  he  moved  to  Greene  County,  Iowa, 
and  turned  his  attention  to  farming  for  some  five 
years. 

In  1880  Mr.  Sanderson  came  to  Colorado,  hav- 
ing disposed  of  his  business  and  property.  His 
especial  reason  for  making  the  change  was  the 
poor  health  of  his  wife  and  son,  Willard.  After 
spending  some  time  in  traveling  in  this  state,  he 
purchased  the  quarter- section  of  school  land  on 
which  he  now  resides.  L,ater  he  bought  another 
quarter- section  of  land  adjoining,  and  a  similar 
tract  five  miles  north  of  Windsor.  The  last- 
mentioned  he  rents  and  his  home  place  is  now 
under  the  management  of  his  elder  son.  For  a 
winter  or  two  after  tUeir  arrival  here  the  children 


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had  to  attend  school  at  Loveland,  eight  miles 
distant.  Other  privileges  were  exceeding  meagre 
for  some  time,  and  all  water  had  to  be  hauled  six 
miles  in  barrels  from  the  Big  Thompson  River. 
Mr.  Sanderson  set  about  remedying  as  many  of 
these  things  as  possible,  and  largely  to  his  efforts 
many  measures  which  have  been  of  untold  value 
to  this  community  were  carried.  He  served  sev- 
eral terms  as  a  member  of  the  school  board.  Po- 
litically his  preference  is  for  the  Republican  party. 
November  30,  1866,  Mr.  Sanderson  married  Lu- 
cinda  B.  Dow,  who  is  a  native  of  Groton,  Vt.  Her 
parents  were  Judge  William  andLydia  (Richard- 
son) Dow,  likewise  of  Vermont.  The  father  was 
a  very  prominent  man  and  held  the  oflSce  of 
judge  for  a  number  of  years.  The  maternal 
grandfather  of  Mrs.  Sanderson  was  Robert  Rich- 
ardson, and  he,  in  turn,  was  a  son  of  Zachariah 
Richardson,  who  was  on  the  muster-roll  of  the 
Fifth  New  Hampshire  Regiment  of  militia  in  the 
early  part  of  the  continental  revolution,  and  was 
ordered  to  re-inforce  the  patriot  band  in  New 
York  December  6,  1776,  by  Major-General  Hob- 
son.  His  wife  was  Miss  Abigail  Smith  before  their 
marriage.  Owing  to  her  illustrious  grandsire 
Mrs.  Sanderson  is  entitled  to  the  rank  of  a  Daugh- 
ter of  the  Revolution.  The  children  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Sanderson  are  three  in  number.  Gertrude 
is  the  wife  of  Wesley  Brush,  who  is  a  nephew  of 
Lieutenant-Governor  Brush.  Abner  C.  resides 
at  home  and  is  carrying  on  the  farm.  Dr.  Will- 
ard  E.  is  a  student  in  the  Colorado  College  of  Den- 
tal Surgery. 


gHARLES  W.  TRIMBLE,  who  came  to  Colo- 
rado in  April,  1874,  is  successfully  engaged 
in  farming  and  dealing  in  stock,  operating 
one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  of  land  in  Larimer 
County  and  raising  principally  alfalfa,  which  he 
uses  for  feed.  He  has  resided  upon  his  present 
farm  since  the  fall  of  1891  and  has  made  a  num- 
ber of  valuable  improvements  on  the  place.  He 
was  among  the  first  to  embark  in  lamb  feeding 
and  shipping,  and  handling  sheep,  which  he 
brought  here  from  New  Mexico  and  Arizona.  In 
the  winter  of  1897-98  he  handled  twenty-eight 
thousand  head  of  lambs,  and  the  previous  year 
fed  and  shipped  from  his  farm  five  thousand  two 
hundred  head,  which  was  a  larger  number  than 
any  individual  or  company  in  the  county  has 
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ever  fed  in  one  season.  These  he  shipped  to  the 
markets  in  Buffalo  and  Chicago.  Last  year 
(1897-98)  he  fed  thirty-one  hundred. 

In  connection  with  A.  F.  Brown,  Mr.  Trimble 
is  also  interested  in  the  sheep  business  in  Arizona, 
buying  sheep  in  California,  and  shipping  them  to 
Arizona,  where  he  has  a  range  extending  from 
Navajo  Springs  south  into  the  White  Mountains. 
He  bought  Shropshire  sheep  in  Wisconsin  and 
sent  them  to  his  ranch,  they  being  the  finest  that 
had  ever  been  shipped  to  the  southwest,  and 
these  he  crossed  with  Oxford  Downs.  He  has 
shipped  lambs  and  sheep  from  ocean  to  ocean. 
In  the  cattle  business,  to  some  extent,  he  has 
also  engaged,  but  he  finds  the  sheep  industry 
more  profitable.  A  hard  worker,  continually  on 
the  go,  he  deserves  the  large  success  that  has 
attended  his  efforts. 

Our  subject  is  of  Irish  descent.  His  grand- 
father, John,  accompanied  by  his  brothers,  Will- 
iam and  James,  emigrated  to  America  and  settled 
as  a  pioneer  in  Missouri,  William  locating  in  Ken- 
tucky, while  James  was  lost  track  of  John  died 
while  comparatively  young  and  left  two  sons, 
who  reared  families  in  Missouri.  One  of  these, 
William  H.,  the  father  of  our  subject,  was  a 
native  of  Mexico,  Mo. ,  and  a  soldier  in  the  Mexi- 
can war,  later  a  merchant  at  Gentryville,  Mo. 
In  1862  he  came  to  Colorado  for  the  first  time, 
driving  a  herd  of  cattle  acro.ss  the  plains  and  sell- 
ing them  to  E.  W,  Whitcomb  in  Cheyenne.  The 
next  year  he  freighted  with  oxen  between  Neb- 
raska City  and  Denver,  bringing  his  family  to 
the  latter  city.  In  1864  he  took  them  back  to 
Missouri  and  settled  in  Paradise,  Clay  County, 
where  he  engaged  in  the  mercantile  business 
until  1872.  He  made  a  trip  to  Fort  Collins  in 
1873  and  arranged  to  settle  here,  embarking  in 
the  stock  business  with  Abner  Loomis.  The  fol- 
lowing year  he  brought  his  family  and  settled 
permanently  in  the  town.  After  a  .short  time  in 
merchandising  he  turned  his  attention  to  the 
cattle  business  at  Horse  Creek,  Wyoming.  On 
selling  out  there  he  started  a  herd  in  Bates  Hole, 
Wyo. ,  and,  while  his  range  was  there,  he  died  in 
Fort  Collins  in  1879,  aged  fifty-two  years.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Christian  Church  and  fra- 
ternally was  identified  with  the  Masons. 

The  mother  of  our  subject,  who  bore  the 
maiden  name  of  Catherine  Allen,  was  born  in 
Gentrj-' County,  Mo. ,  and  resides  in  Fort  Collins, 


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her  mother,  who  is  still  living,  being  with  her- 
Her  father,  George  Allen,  a  native  of  North 
Carolina,  was  married  there  to  Miss  Martha 
Whidbee,  and  soon  afterward  settled  in  Ray 
County,  Mo. ;  he  engaged  in  merchant  tailoring 
until  his  death,  which  occurred  in  Harrison 
County,  Mo.  Our  subject  is  the  second  of  five 
children,  the  others  being  named  as  follows: 
James  H. ,  who  died  in  Ogden,  Utah,  in  1892, 
when  about  thirty-five  years  of  age;  Mattie,wife 
of  C.  H.  Sheldon,  cashier  of  Poudre  Valley  Bank, 
Fort  Collins;  Robert  E.,  assistant  professor  of 
civil  and  irrigation  engineering  in  the  State  Agri- 
cultural College;  and  Edgar  H.,  of  Fort  Collins. 

In  Gentryville,  Gentry  County,  Mo.,  where  he 
was  born  November  30,  1859,  the  subject  of  this 
sketch  grew  to  manhood.  He  accompanied  his 
parents  to  Fort  Collins,  where  he  attended  the 
public  schools.  At  the  age  of  eighteen  he  started 
in  the  cattle  business  with  his  older  brother  and 
for  one  year  ranged  cattle  on  the  Rishau,  in 
Wyoming.  The  Indians  at  that  time  were  very 
troublesome  and  stole  their  horses  and  committed 
other  depredations,  which  made  it  unsafe  for  the 
brothers  to  remain  longer  in  that  locality,  so  they 
left  the  range  and  during  the  winter  engaged  in 
freighting  to  Deadwood,  S.  Dak.  In  the  spring 
they  returned  to  the  range  and  sold  their  cattle, 
and  engaged  in  trading  cattle  from  Utah  into 
Wyoming.  The  first  year  our  subject  bought 
seven  hundred  head,  the  second  year  twelve  hun- 
dred, and  during  the  fourth  and  last  year  bought 
two  thousand  head,  which  he  .sold  to  J.  A.  Brown. 
During  his  life  on  the  plains  he  was  troubled 
greatly  by  weakness  of  his  eyes.  On  selling  out 
his  business  interests  in  Colorado  he  went  to 
Eureka  Springs,  Ark.,  where  he  engaged  in  the 
hotel  business  for  four  years,  being  proprietor  of 
the  Hancock  House.  He  then  brought  cattle 
from  Arkansas  to  Colorado,  sold  out,  returned, 
then  brought  another  herd,  continuing  in  that 
way  for  two  years.  Next  he  engaged  in  the  gro- 
cery business  at  Fort  Collins  for  three  years  and 
in  the  fall  of  1891  disposed  of  his  business  inter- 
ests and  settled  on  his  farm.  He  is  connected 
with  the  lyarimer  County  Sheep  Feeders'  Associ- 
ation.   Politically  he  votes  the  Democratic  ticket. 

In  Eureka  Springs,  Ark.,  Mr.  Trimble  married 
Miss  MoUie  Collins,  who  was  born  in  Helena, 
that  state,  and  died  in  Eureka  Springs,  leaving  a 
daughter,  MoUie.      In  Venice,  111.,  Mr.  Trimble 


was  united  in  marriage  with  Miss  Emma  Robin- 
son, who  was  born  there,  and  is  the  daughter 
of  Henry  Robinson.  They  have  two  daughters. 
May  and  Helen. 

(TOSEPH  H.  SHAY,  a  pioneer  of  '60,  felt  a 
I  victim  to  the  gold  fever  in  the  spring  of 
(2/  i860  and  started  across  the  plains  for  Cali- 
fornia, but  on  reaching  the  Missouri  River  he 
found  the  rush  seemed  to  be  for  Pike's  Peak  and 
he  changed  his  destination  accordingly.  Reach- 
ing Denver,  he  secured  employment  in  a  lumber 
yard,  and  in  the  fall,  with  the  money  he  had 
saved  during  the  .summer,  he  started  for  the 
Central  district,  where  he  prospected  and  mined 
with  little  success.  In  the  spring  of  1861  he 
worked  in  the  quartz  lode  mines  and  in  the  sum- 
mer secured  employment  in  gulch  mining  in 
Peck  Gulch. 

When  the  war  excitement  ran  high,  in  the  fall 
of  1 86 1,  Mr.  Shay  enlisted  in  Company  L,  First 
Colorado  Cavalry,  serving  for  four  years  and  two 
months.  The  most  of  his  service  was  among  the 
Indians.  He  was  at  Pawnee  Fork  in  1864,  when 
General  Blunt,  with  four  hundred  men  and  four 
pieces  of  artillery,  were  in  pursuit  of  the  Chey- 
enne Indians.  Learning  that  they  were  camped 
on  Pawnee  Fork,  the  company  rode  all  night,  but 
on  arriving  at  that  place  they  found  the  Indians 
had  fled.  The  company  was  sent  on  a  scouting 
expedition  and  on  coming  up  with  the  Indians, 
a  running  fight  was  kept  up.  In  August,  1863, 
while  about  sixty  of  the  boj'S  of  Company  I,  were 
stationed  at  Fort  Union,  N.  Mex.  ,the  Indians  stole 
a  whole  train  of  some  hundred  mules  from  Mexi- 
can freighters,  en  route  from  Kansas  City  to 
Santa  Fe,  and  forty  of  the  soldiers,  including  our 
subject,  were  ordered  to  regain  the  mules.  The 
lieutenant  in  command  was  the  present  senator, 
George  Shoup.  They  left  Fort  Union  August 
10,  and  with  a  month's  rations  and  eighteen 
mules  started  on  their  quest.  They  returned 
October  10  with  ninety-eight  mules.  During 
the  battle  of  Sand  Creek  our  subject  was  detailed, 
with  two  others,  to  burn  up  wigwams  of  the 
Indians.  He  was  mustered  out  of  the  service  in 
Leavenworth  November  18,  1865. 

With  the  intention  of  settling  in  Iowa,  Mr. 
Shay  went  there  as  soon  as  he  was  mustered  out 
of  the  service.  The  winter  of  1865-66  was  cold 
and  wet, "and  the  weather  so  unpleasant  that  he 


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determined  to  return  to  Colorado.  In  April, 
1866,  he  left  Iowa  and  on  the  loth  of  May  arrived 
in  Colorado,  going  at  once  to  the  mines,  where 
he  engaged  in  teaming  during  the  summer. 
Later  he  was  employed  in  quartz  mills.  In  the 
spring  of  1868  he  began  to  farm  on  Boulder 
Creek  and  in  1871  purchased  eighty  acres  where 
he  now  lives,  to  which  he  added  by  purchase, 
in  1876,  another  eighty  acres,  and  by  purchase, 
in  1890,  a  pasture  land  of  one  hundred  and  sixty 
acres  in  the  foot  hills.  Here  he  has  engaged  in 
farming  and  stock-raising. 

Mr.  Shay  was  born  in  Tyrol,  Austria,  February 
6,  1839,  a  son  of  Michael  and  Catherine  (Even- 
hohe)  Shay.  He  was  one  of  eleven  children,  all 
of  whom  are  dead  but  himself  and  his  brother, 
Gebhart,  a  farmer  in  Wapello  County,  Iowa. 
His  father  was  born  in  Austria  about  1804  and  in 
youth  learned  the  trade  of  a  cabinet-maker,  be- 
coming a  finished  mechanic.  During  the  revo- 
lution of  1847  1^^  determined  to  come  to  America, 
and  on  his  arrival  in  this  country,  he  settled  in 
Cincinnati,  Ohio.  After  a  few  months,  having 
suffered  from  the  ague,  he  decided  to  go.  to  New 
Orleans,  and  went  south  to  that  city,  but  fell  a 
victim  to  the  yellow  fever  there  and  died  in  the 
summer  of  1849. 

Some  ten  years  after  his  father  and  oldest 
brother  came  to  America  our  subject  and  his 
mother  crossed  the  ocean,  lauding  in  New  York 
about  the  ist  of  November,  1856,  after  a  very 
rough  voyage,  during  which  forty-two  persons 
died.  He  had  letters  of  introduction  and  by 
presenting  these  secured  a  position  in  a  drug 
store;  however,  he  did  not  feel  satisfied  there,  for 
he  wanted  to  join  a  brother  in  California,  but  did 
not  have  enough  money.  Thinking  to  gradually 
work  his  way  around  by  water,  he  shipped  on 
board  a  vessel.  He  was  on  the  ocean  only  six 
months,  but  that  period  was  eventful.  Twice 
the  ship  was  wrecked,  but  fortunately  he  escaped 
both  times.  He  returned  to  New  York  and  was 
soon  joined  by  his  brother  from  California,  who 
was  en  route  to  Europe  on  a  visit.  Through  his 
advice,  our  subject  went  to  Franklin  County, 
Ohio,  and  secured  employment  as  a  farm  laborer, 
working  for  one  year.  However,  he  suffered 
considerably  from  the  ague,  and  thinking  it  best 
to  try  a  change  of  climate  he  went  to  Iowa,  join- 
ing his  brother,  who  had  returned  to  America 
and  settled  there.     In  January,    1858,  he  settled 


in  Blakesburg,  Iowa,  where  he  worked  on  a  farm 
until  the  spring  of  i860.  He  then  came  west 
and  has  since  made  his  home  in  Colorado. 

February  17,  187 1,  Mr.  Shay  married  Miss 
LucindaTinsley.  They  are  the  parents  of  three 
children :  Gertrude,  who  was  a  student  in  Frank- 
lin high  school  in  Denver  and  Golden  high  school, 
and  is  now  the  wife  of  Harry  Mayhan,  who  is  en- 
gaged in  railroading  in  Denver;  Herman  C,  a 
graduate  of  the  Ralston  high  school,  and  now  at 
home  on  the  farm;  and  Roy  J.,  who  is  also  at 
home.  In  politics  Mr.  Shay  is  a  Democrat. 
Fraternally  he  is  a  member  of  Major  Anderson 
Post  No.  88,  G.  A.  R.  A  friend  of  the  public- 
school  movement,  he  has  served  as  secretary  of 
the  school  board  for  years  and  has  done  all  in  his 
power  to  aid  the  cause  of  education  in  his  com- 
munity. 

/{)AIUS  SMITH  is  a  general  farmer  and  a 
l_  prominent  citizen  of  Arapahoe  County,  and 
\^  his  home  is  located  on  section  29,  township 
5,  range  66  west,  where  he  owns  nine  hundred 
and  twenty  acres  of  well-improved  and  finely  cul- 
tivated land.  He  came  to  Arapahoe  County  in 
1873,  locating  four  and  one-half  miles  below  the 
town  of  Parker,  and  secured  the  farm  which  is  at 
present  in  his  possession.  It  was  unimproved  at 
the  time  of  his  purchase,  and  he  immediately 
commenced  tilling  the  soil;  it  required  great  in- 
dustry and  perseverance  to  bring  it  to  the  desired 
condition,  but  he  being  a  man  of  great  energy 
was  soon  enabled  to  view  with  satisfaction  the  re- 
sult of  his  labors.  He  was  born  in  Triangle, 
Broome  County,  N.  Y.,  October  26,  1843,  and  is 
a  son  of  Erastus  and  Angeline  (Lewis)  Smith, 
and  grandson  of  Hendrick  J.  Smith. 

Little  is  known  of  the  great-grandfather  of  our 
subject,  other  than  that  he  was  a  man  of  Revolu- 
tionary fame.  Hendrick  J.  Smith  purchased  a 
large  tract  of  land  in  Broome  County,  N.Y. ,  from 
King  George,  and  the  deed  signed  by  the  latter 
is  now  in  the  possession  of  our  subject.  Hend- 
rick was  a  lad  of  nine  years  when  he  was  stolen 
by  the  Indians  and  adopted  by  an  Indian  chief. 
He  was  held  a  captive  for  nine  years  and  was 
liberated  much  against  his  will;  he  always  re- 
mained good  friends  with  the  red  men,  with  whom 
he  visited  back  and  forth  all  his  life. 

Erastus  Smith  was  born  in  Broome  County, 
N.  Y.,  and  when  a  man  he  was  given  a  tract  of 


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land  by  his  father;  he  was  reared  to  agricultural 
pursuits  and  made  that  independent  calling, 
farming,  his  life's  vocation.  By  his  marriage  to 
Angeline  Lewis  six  sons  and  one  daughter  were 
born,  the  latter  dying  in  her  infancy.  The  boys 
were  named  as  follows:  Hendrick,  Jr.,  Horace 
Iv.,  Jasper,  Gaius,  Perry  and  Robert.  Hend- 
rick, Jr.,  is  a  carpenter  by  trade  and  resides  at 
Olean,  N.Y.  He  is  the  father  of  a  family  of  five 
children,  and  had  one  son  in  the  Spanish- Ameri- 
can war.  He  served  three  years  and  nine  months 
in  the  Civil  war,  and  at  the  battle  of  Chancellors- 
ville  he  was  taken  a  prisoner,  but  as  he  received 
a  severe  wound  in  the  head  in  that  engagement, 
he  was  released  and  returned  to  the  ranks  of  the 
Union  army;  his  father  learning  of  the  wound  re- 
ceived by  his  son,  obtained  a  pass  from  Secretary 
Stanton,  which  allowed  him  to  go  through  the 
ranks  of  the  Union  army  in  search  of  his  son. 
This  pass  is  now  in  the  hands  of  our  subject. 
Horace  L-  is  a  retired  citizen  of  Binghamton, 
N.  Y.,  and  has  one  child.  He  also  served  in  the 
Civil  war  and  was  taken  a  prisoner  at  Chancel- 
lorsville;  he  was  first  sent  to  Andersonville  and 
later  transferred  to  the  famous  Libby  prison,  and 
was  among  those  who  gained  their  freedom  and 
escaped  to  New  York  by  digging  their  way  out. 
Jasper  lives  on  the  homestead  in  Broome  County, 
and  he  also  served  three  years  and  nine  months 
in  the  Rebellion,  being  a  member  of  the  Fifteenth 
New  York  Heavy  Artillerj'.  Perry,  who  is  now 
deceased,  was  a  carpenter  by  trade  and  lived  near 
the  homestead;  he  was  married  and  reared  one 
child.  Robert,  the  youngest  child,  died  in  1884. 
Gaius  Smith  spent  his  early  years  working  on 
his  father's  farm  and  attending  the  district  school; 
at  fifteen  years  of  age  he  was  apprenticed  to  the 
carpenter's  trade  and  pursued  the  occupation  for 
five  years.  He  first  received  a  salary  of  $4  per 
month,  but  by  the  fifth  year  his  salary  had  been 
increased  to  $25  per  month.  At  twenty  years  of 
age  he  began  contracting  and  made  his  home  near 
the  old  homestead.  In  1873  he  came  west  and 
located  in  Colorado,  purchasing  five  acres  of  land 
near  the  town  of  Harman  and  engaging  in  dairy- 
ing. He  made  many  improvements  upon  that 
place  and  set  out  many  trees  along  the  road  in 
front  of  the  Grout  property.  In  1884  he  bought 
four  hundred  and  forty  acres  where  he  now  re- 
sides, and  has  since  purchased  more  land  at  various 
times  until  now  he  is  the  owner  of  nine  hundred 


and  twenty  acres.  Farming  is  his  vocation,  and 
in  it  he  has  been  remarkably  successful.  He  is 
well  known  throughout  the  county  and  commands 
the  respect  and  confidence  of  his  fellow-citizens. 

Mr.  Smith  made  the  acquaintance  of  Miss  Jen- 
nie Simpson  in  Denver,  this  state,  and  they  were 
married  November  22,  1886;  she  is  a  native  of 
De  Kalb  County,  Tenn. ,  and  a  daughter  of  John 
and  Elizabeth  r Woodson)  Simpson.  The  father 
of  John  Simpson  owned  twenty-five-  slaves,  and 
when  the  Civil  war  broke  out  his  two  brothers 
joined  the  Confederate  army,  while  John  enlisted 
in  the  Union  army  and  was  captain  of  a  company 
for  five  years.  After  peace  had  been  restored 
John  moved  to  Nebraska,  where  he  engaged  in 
farming;  he  died  in  the  city  of  Omaha,  May  19, 
1897.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Smith  have  four  children, 
namely:  Freddie,  born  August  28,  1887;  Robert 
B.,  October  2,  1889;  Horace  LeRoy,  September 
15,  1894;  and  Willis,  January  17,  1896.  On  the 
night  of  his  twenty-first  birthday  our  subject  be- 
came a  Mason  in  the  Upper  Lisle  Lodge,  F.  & 
A.  M. ,  of  New  York,  and  filled  all  the  chairs  in 
the  blue  lodge  and  took  the  Royal  Arch  Degree 
at  Greene,  N.  Y.  When  he  came  west  he  was 
demitted  from  the  lodge. 


(Joseph  G.  SCHALL,  treasurer  of  Jefferson 
I  County  and  a  resident  of  Golden,  was  born 
Q)  in  York  County,  Pa.,  December  16,  1857, 
and  is  a  son  of  James  A.  and  Catherine  S. 
(Small)  Schall.  He  was  the  eldest  of  six  chil- 
dren, all  but  one  of  whom  are  still  living.  His 
brothers  and  sisters  are:  J.  E. ,  secretary  of  the 
Susquehanna  Iron  Company,  and  a  resident  of 
Columbia,  Pa. ;  W.  Y. ,  bookkeeper  for  the  Colum- 
bia rolling  mills  at  Columbia,  Pa.;  Annie H.  and 
Catherine  S.  Both  the  father  and  grandfather 
were  natives  of  York  County,  Pa.  The  former 
was  for  thirty  years  cashier  of  the  York  County 
National  Bank,  and  for  ten  years  before  he  had 
held  a  less  important  position  with  the  same 
bank;  he  died  in  1888. 

The  education  of  our  subject  was  acquired  in 
public  and  private  schools,  and  in  the  local  colle- 
giate institute.  From  eighteen  to  twenty-two 
years  of  age  he  was  employed  as  bookkeeper  for 
a  railroad  in  York  County.  In  1881  he  came 
west,  having  secured  the  position  of  bookkeeper 
for  the  firm  of  Lauius  &  Co. ,  then  a  prosperous 


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hardware  firm  of  Golden.  There  he  remaiued,  a 
trusted  employe,  until  the  firm  retired  from  busi- 
ness in  1888.  In  the  fall  of  1890  he  was  made 
deputy  treasurer  under  Charles  T.  Clark,  and 
later  held  the  same  position  under  R.  E.  Jones. 

In  1897  Mr.  Schall  was  placed  in  nomination 
on  the  Republican  and  the  silver  Republican 
ticket  for  the  office  of  county  treasurer,  and  was 
elected  by  a  handsome  majority.  His  experi- 
ence as  city  treasurer,  which  position  he  filled 
for  three  terms  during  the  '80s,  fitted  him  for  the 
more  responsible  position  of  county  treasurer,  and 
he  has  discharged  his  duties  with  efficiency  and 
fidelity.  Fraternally  he  is  a  member  of  Golden 
Lodge  No.  I,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  Golden  Chapter 
No.  5,  R.  A.  M.,  and  Golden  Lodge  No.  10, 
K.  of  P.  His  marriage,  June  28,  1893,  united 
him  with  Miss  Thirza  Merryman,  of  Golden,  the 
daughter  of  Joseph  Merryman,  now  a  resident  of 
Denver. 

(Jonathan  l.  rand  all,  who  is  en- 

I  gaged  in  farming  near  Arvada,  Jefferson 
Q)  County,  was  born  near  Whitewater,  Wal- 
worth County,  Wis.,  July  16,  1850,  and  is  the 
only  survivor  among  the  three  children  of  Sidney 
and  Sarah  (Loonier)  Randall.  His  father,  who 
was  born  about  18 10,  settled  in  Wisconsin  in 
early  manhood  and  carried  on  a  farm  there. 
About  1859  he  came  to  Colorado  and  spent  eight- 
een years  in  different  parts  of  the  state,  the 
greater  part  of  his  time  being  given  to  prospect- 
ing. He  then  returned  east  and  spent  some  time 
in  Ohio  and  Wisconsin,  but  in  1882  again  came 
to  Colorado,  where  he  died  six  weeks  later. 

When  eight  years  of  age  our  subject  was  or- 
phaned by  his  mother's  death.  He  was  then 
taken  into  the  home  of  his  grandfather,  Jonathan 
Loomer,  with  whom  he  remained  until  he  was 
thirteen  years  of  age.  He  then  secured  employ- 
ment with  neighboring  farmers,  and  from  that 
time  on  he  was  independent,  making  his  own 
way  in  the  world.  In  1870,  having  decided  to 
come  west,  he  journeyed  to'  California,  but  after 
six  weeks,  not  finding  remunerative  employment 
there,  he  went  to  Nevada,  and  found  work  as 
fireman  on  the  railroad.  During  the  nine  months 
that  he  held  that  position  he  gradually  worked 
his  way  back  to  Colorado. 

In  the  spring  of  1871,  after  spending  a  night 
in  Denver,  Mr.  Randall  secured   and  accepted 


employment  on  a  ranch  on  Clear  Creek,  where 
he  worked  some  three  years  as  a  farm  hand.  He 
then  took  up  a  soldier's  homestead  of  one  hun- 
dred and  sixty  acres,  but  after  two  years  the 
grasshopper  plague  made  the  place  worthless  and 
he  was  glad  to  sell  it  for  $150.  Starting  out 
anew  he  was  made  superintendent  of  the  Arapa- 
hoe ditch,  and  after  a  year  in  that  position  he 
rented  the  Davis  farm  for  one  j^ear.  In  1878  he 
opened  a  livery,  feed  and  sale  stable  in  Denver. 
It  was  during  the  time  of  the  Leadville  boom, 
and  as  he  took  advantage  of  the  demand  for  stock 
for  freighting  purposes  he  prospered.  In  1879  he 
sold  the  business  advantageously. 

October  9,  1879,  Mr.  Randall  married  Laura 
E.  Cook.  In  the  spring  of  the  following  year  he 
rented  land  and  began  to  farm,  but  in  1881  he 
purchased  eighty  acres  for  $1,400  and  a  year 
later  sold  it  for  $4,000.  In  1884  he  purchased 
another  eighty-acre  tract  for  $1 ,000,  and  two  years 
later  sold  it  for  $4,000.  Following  this  he  was 
engaged  in  the  general  mercantile  business  in 
Golden  for  four  years,  but  sold  out  in  1890  and 
removed  to  Denver,  where  he  entered  the  real- 
estate  business.  However,  he  soon  secured  an- 
other grocery  stock  and  for  a  few  months  carried 
on  business,  after  which  he  purchased  one  hun- 
dred and  sixty  acres  under  cultivation  in  Weld 
County.  In  the  summer  of  1892  he  came  to  his 
present  ranch,  and  the  following  year  removed 
his  family  to  the  place,  which  is  a  part  of  the  old 
Cook  homestead  and  belongs  to  his  wife.  Since 
1892  he  has  rented  his  farm  in  Weld  County. 

Politically  Mr.  Randall  is  a  Democrat.  For 
years  he  was  president  of  the  school  board,  and 
for  two  years,  1890-91,  he  served  as  an  alderman 
in  Golden.  Fraternally  he  is  connected  with 
Major  Anderson  Post  No.  88,  G.  A.  R.  He  and 
his  wife  are  the  parents  of  three  children :  Her- 
bert M.,  Ida  I.  and  Laura  A. 


EHARLES  B.  BULLOCK,  who  died  July  i, 
1898,  came  to  Colorado  in  1869,  and  was 
among  the  substantial  men  of  Georgetown, 
Clear  Creek  County.  He  was  born  in  Woodford 
County,  111.,  July.  18,  1842,  the  son  of  Hon. 
Thomas  and  Agnes  (Ware)  Bullock,  natives  of 
Kentucky.  The  Bullock  family  moved  from 
Virginia  to  Kentucky  in  the  early  days,  and 
fought  in  the  wars  of  the  Revolution  and  18x2. 


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The  grandfather,  Thomas  Bullock,  was  a  minis- 
ter in  the  Baptist  church  in  Kentucky,  and  was 
also  engaged  in  farming  there,  where  he  died. 
The  father,  Hon.  Thomas  Bullock,  went  to 
Illinois  in  1832,  and  settled  at  Walnut  Grove, 
Woodford  County,  locating  permanently  the  fol- 
lowing year.  He  improved  a  farm,  upon  which  he 
died  in  1889,  after  he  had  passed  his  eighty-fifth 
year.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Illinois  state 
senate  during  1847  or  1848.  His  wife  was  Agues 
Ware,  a  native  of  Franklin  County,  Ky.,  a 
daughter  of  William  Ware,  who  was  born  in 
Virginia,  but  moved  to  Franklin  County,  Ky., 
where  he  was  engaged  in  farming  and  was  made 
circuit  judge.  Her  grandfather  Ware  moved 
from  Virginia  to  Kentucky  at  an  early  day  and 
was  a  pioneer  farmer.  She  died  at  the  age  of 
seventy-six  years.  Of  her  thirteen  children  nine 
grew  to  adult  years,  and  six  are  still  living. 
Horace,  the  postmaster  of  Georgetown,  is  now 
the  only  one  living  in  Colorado.  Two  brothers 
and  one  sister  reside  in  Illinois,  one  sister  is  in 
Texas  and  one  in  Kentucky.  Thomas  served 
through  the  Civil  war  in  the  One  Hundred  and 
Seventeenth  Illinois  Regiment,  and  now  lives 
near  Walnut  Grove. 

Charles  B.  Bullock,  the  second  youngest  of  the 
children,  was  reared  on  a  farm  and  received  his 
education  in  the  public  schools.  He  remained  at 
home  until  he  attained  his  majority,  in  1863, 
when  he  entered  the  employ  of  the  government. 
He  was  commissioned  as  government  storekeeper 
at  Springfield,  111.,  and  remained  there  for  two 
years.  In  1868  he  came  west  to  Cheyenne  and 
Denver,  and  in  1870  located  in  Georgetown,  hold- 
ing a  situation  as  clerk  for  four  years.  He  then 
started  a  feed,  grain  and  transfer  business  for 
himself,  and  in  1877  added  coal  to  the  other  sup- 
plies carried.  His  residence  was  well  situated 
on  Taos  street,  and  his  place  of  business  was  on 
the  corner  of  Rose  and  Eleventh  streets. 

Mr.  Bullock  married  Miss  Maggie  Keiser,  who 
was  born  in  Germany.  They  became  the  parents 
of  one  child,  Harry,  who  is  now  attending  the 
University  of  Colorado.  Mr.  Bullock  served  four 
years  as  alderman  of  Georgetown,  and  was  on  the 
school  board  four  and  one-half  years  as  treasurer. 
He  was  an  ardent  Democrat,  a  member  of  the 
county  central  committee  and  the  state  committee, 
but  never  was  an  aspirant  for  office.  He  was 
made  a  Mason  in  the  Georgetown  Lodge  No.  48, 


belonged  to  Royal  Arch  Chapter  No.  4,  George- 
town Commandery  No.  4,  and  El  Jebel  Temple 
N.  M.  S.,  Mystic  Shrine  of  Denver. 


(TUDGE  HENRY  J.  CRIST,  the  popular  and 
I  efficient  judge  of  Clear  Creek  County,  was 
\Z/  born  in  Germantown,  Montgomery  County, 
Ohio,  September  i,  1851,  and  in  1879  came  to 
Colorado,  where  he  has  since  been  engaged  in 
prospecting  and  mining.  His  father,  Jacob  Crist, 
was  born  at  Frederick,  Md.,  in  1792,  and  his 
grandfather,  Henry  J.,  was  born  May  18,  1769, 
and  moved  with  his  family  to  Ohio  in  181 1,  set- 
tling near  Germantown,  where  he  was  a  pioneer 
farmer.  He  died  September  5,  1844,  at  the  age 
of  seventy-five  years.  His  wife,  Anna  Barbara, 
was  born  November  6,  1764,  and  died  April  10, 
1845. 

Jacob  Crist  went  to  Ohio  in  18 11  with  his  par- 
ents, and  the  next  year  took  up  arms  against 
the  Indians,  who  were  causing  much  trouble 
throughout  the  state.  He  was  in  Captain  Gunck- 
le's  company  of  Ohio  militia.  After  the  war  he 
returned  to  the  farm  on  which  he  first  located, 
and  engaged  in  farming  until  his  death,  February 
17,  1872.  He  was  a  member  of  the  United  Breth- 
ren Church,  and  a  conscientious.  Christian  gentle- 
man. He  married  Annie  Eckhardt,  who  was 
born  in  Hesse- Darmstadt,  Qermany,  and  came  to 
America  alone,  in  1844,  when  but  a  girl.  She 
made  her  home  in  Ohio,  where  she  met  and  mar- 
ried the  father  of  our  subject.  She  was  the 
mother  of  six  children,  two  of  whom,  H.  J.  and 
George  are  living,  the  latter  in  Ohio.  The  other 
four,  Mary,  Louise,  John  and  Edward,  died  in 
Ohio.  Mrs.  Crist  is  now  eighty-one  years  old 
and  resides  with  her  son,  the  subject  of  this 
sketch. 

The  early  years  of  Judge  Crist  were  spent  on 
his  father's  farm,  where  he  attended  the  public 
schools.  He  afterwards  attended  college  at  Mid- 
dletown,  Ohio,  and  returned  to  the  farm,  where 
he  occupied  himself  with  agricultural  pursuits 
until  he  was  elected  assessor.  He  served  two 
terms,  until  the  fall  of  1879,  when  he  came  to 
Idaho  Springs,  where  he  has  since  been  engaged 
in  mining.  He  has  worked  several  different 
mines,  besides  being  engineer  for  a  number.  He 
married  in  Georgetown,  Mrs.  C.  V.  Rease,  a  na- 
tive of  the  city  Of  Cassel,  Hesse-Cassel,  Germany. 


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She  had  two  children  by  her  first  marriage,  only 
one  of  them  being  alive,  Carl  Rease,  who  is  en- 
gaged in  mining.  Judge  and  Mrs.  Crist  have  a 
family  of  four  children,  Louis  V.,  Herman  E., 
Minnie  and  Alma.  In  1895  he  was  nominated 
by  the  Populists  as  county  judge,  to  which  office 
he  was  elected.  The  nomination  was  entirely 
unsolicited  by  him,  as  he  was  at  work  and  knew 
nothing  of  the  proceedings  until  word  was  brought 
that  his  name  was  the  successful  one  before  the 
convention  for  that  ofiice.  He  took  the  oath  of 
office  January  14,  1896,  the  term  extending  to 
the  same  month  in  1899.  He  is  an  active  worker 
in  the  People's  party.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen  of  Idaho 
Springs,  The  Red  Men  in  Georgetown,  and  Poca- 
hontas Lodge.  As  a  judge  he  has  met  with 
hearty  endorsement  for  the  fairness  and  impar- 
tiality of  his  rulings,  and  as  a  private  citizen  he 
is  held  in  high  esteem  for  manly,  upright  bearing. 


30HN  G.  ROBERTS,  proprietor  of  the  Jack- 
son mill  at  the  junction  of  Clear  Creek  and 
Chicago  Creek,  Clear  Creek  County,  has  had 
a  most  interesting  and  eventful  history.  He  has 
been  engaged  in  various  kinds  of  mining  enter- 
prises in  different  parts  of  the  world;  is  a  thor- 
ough mechanic  and  millwright,  and  is  a  man  of 
excellent  business  judgment.  He  is  a  member, 
and  was  one  of  the  originators  of  the  chamber  of 
commerce  in  Idaho  Springs,  in  which  town  he  has 
made  his  abode  for  several  years. 

Mr.  Roberts,  who  first  landed  in  Idaho  Springs 
in  1873,  is  a  native  of  Beddgelert,  north  Wales, 
born  January  29,  1842.  He  was  reared  at  the 
old  homestead.  His  parents,  Robert  and  Cath- 
erine (Edwards)  Roberts,  were  natives  of  the 
same  locality.  The  father  died  at  the  age  of 
seventy-two  years,  the  mother  when  in  her  six- 
ty-ninth year,  both  at  the  old  home.  The  father 
was  engaged  in  the  mining  of  copper  during  his 
active  life. 

John  G.  Roberts,  of  this  sketch,  left  school  and 
home  when  fourteen  years  old,  shipping  on  a 
vessel  engaged  in  the  coasting  trade.  On  one 
occasion  he  was  shipwrecked  near  the  Island  of 
Skye,  Scotland.  At  length  he  went  aboard  the 
"Tim  Whiffler,"  bound  for  the  East  Indies  via 
the  Cape  of  Good  Hope.  After  a  voyage  of  one 
hundred  and  thirty-two  days   they  arrived    at 


Bombaj',  where  their  merchandise  was  unloaded 
and  another  cargo  placed  on  board.  The  home- 
ward trip  was  made  in  one  hundred  days.  Young 
Roberts  next  went  with  some  naval  reserves  in 
her  majesty's  service  to  Melbourne,  Astralia; 
there  left  the  ship  and,  going  to  Gippsland  dig- 
gings, engaged  in  reef-mining  or  lode- mining  for 
a  year  and  a-half.  Another  year  was  passed  in 
the  Queensland  mines,  whence  he  proceeded  to 
the  mines  near  Auckland,  New  Zealand.  At  the 
expiration  of  three  months  he  continued  his 
search  for  the  treasure  for  which  he  was  seeking 
by  going  to  the  west  coast  of  the  Middle  Island, 
New  Zealand.  There  he  was  actively  occupied 
in  placer-mining  for  four  and  a-half  years,  with 
success  attending  his  efforts.  Returning  to  Mel- 
bourne he  took  passage  in  a  ship  bound  for  home 
around  Cape  Horn,  and  thus  he  has  completely 
circumnavigated  the  globe.  One  winter  at  home 
sufficed  this  young  adventurer,  and  spring  found 
him  sighing  for  new  worlds  to  conquer. 

As  he  had  not  yet  beheld  the  far-famed  Ameri- 
cas, Mr.  Roberts  decided  to  cross  the  United 
States,  while  heading  toward  New  Zealand  once 
more,  but  it  happened  that  this  fair  land  held  out 
to  him  greater  attractions  than  any  other  had 
hitherto  done, and  here  he  has  remained.  It  was  in 
the  spring  of  1870  that  he  crossed  the  ocean,  and 
proceeding  westward,  he  engaged  in  the  hotel 
business  in  Emporia,  Kan.,  for  three  years.  April 
I,  1873,  he  came  to  Idaho  Springs,  and  engaged 
as  a  foreman  for  John  Collom,  with  whom  he  con- 
tinued in  that  capacity  for  four  and  a-half  years. 
Another  year  he  held  a  similar  position  with  Mr. 
Collom  in  his  smelting  plant  in  Golden,  after 
which  he  operated  that  gentleman's  concentrator 
in  Blackhawk. 

In  1878  Mr.  Roberts  returned  to  Idaho 
Springs,  here  renting  and  carrying  on  the  old 
Collom  mill  for  some  time.  In  1880  he  went  to 
Nevada,  where  for  a  few  months  he  was  in 
charge  of  a  concentrator.  The  following  year  he 
erected  a  concentrator  in  Russell  Gulch,  and 
placed  it  in  successful  running  order.  His  next 
venture  was  to  build  the  mill  now  known  as  the 
State  Ore  Sampling  Works  in  Idaho  Springs, 
and  upon  its  completion  he  continued  as  super- 
intendent of  the  plant.  In  1882  he  put  up  a  con- 
centrator in  Lake  City,  Hinsdale  County,  and 
then  for  five  years  was  interested  in  machine 
shops  in  this  place  and  Georgetown.     The  Silver 


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Age  concentrator  and  mill,  located  about  a  mile 
below  this  place,  was  constructed  and  managed 
for  over  a  year  by  him.  In  other  towns  and  lo- 
calities he  built  and  operated  concentrators  and 
mills,  and  in  1893  ^''■^  was  honored  by  being  com- 
missioned to  plan  and  make  one  to  be  shipped  to 
mines  in  Peru.  This  work  was  done  in  Con- 
necticut during  a  three  months'  stay  there  for 
the  purpose.  After  having  been  the  manager  of 
the  Dewey  concentrator  in  Georgetown,  he  was 
chosen  to  build  the  Lincoln  mill  here.  He  leased 
and  ran  the  Silver  Age  mill  for  four  years,  and 
then  in  1876  constructed  the  Jackson  mill,  which 
is  thoroughly  modern,  having  every  late  device 
and  improvement  in  the  line.  He  owns  and 
manages  the  property,  and  is  meeting  with  splen- 
did success  in  the  enterprise.  The  mill  has  a  ca- 
pacity of  forty  tons;  is  run  by  water  power;  is 
provided  with  rolls  for  crushing  ore,  and  is  fully 
equipped  in  every  manner.  Mr.  Roberts  is  also 
interested  in  the  Jewell  mine  in  this  district,  and 
owns  other  property. 

The  first  marriage  of  our  subject  was  cele- 
brated in  1873  in  Idaho  Springs,  Miss  Mary  Jones 
becoming  his  wife.  She  was  born  in  Glamor- 
ganshire, Wales,  and  died  in  Blackhawk.  The 
only  child  of  this  union  is  Lena,  Mrs.  Ben  Owen, 
of  Idaho  Springs.  In  1881  Mr.  Roberts  married 
Margaret  Bowen  in  Minnesota.  She  was  born  in 
•Pennsylvania,  and  by  her  marriage  has  become 
the  mother  of  four  children:  Mary,  Helen,  Paul 
and  Bruce. 

When  a  resident  of  Emporia,  Kan.,  Mr.  Rob- 
erts joined  the  Masonic  order,  and  is  now  affiliat- 
ed with  Idaho  Springs  Lodge  No.  26,  A.  F.  & 
A.  M.,  of  this  place.  He  is  independent  in  poli- 
tics, and  is  a  ruling  elder  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church. 

HON.  WILLIAM  H.  RICHARDS,  a  promi- 
nent citizen  of  Nevadaville,  Gilpin  County, 
was  called  upon  to  represent  this  district  in 
the  Colorado  legislature  in  1890,  being  elected 
on  the  Republican  ticket.  Thus  he  served  in  the 
eighth  general  assembly,  during  the  sessions 
being  active  in  passing  the  Australian  ballot  law, 
the  fee  and  salary  bill  and  others  of  importance. 
He  lent  his  influence  and  ballot  to  the  electing  of 
H.  M.  Teller  to  the  United  States  senate  and  has 
been  quite  a  leader  in  the  ranks  of  his  party  in 
this  section. 


One  of  the  ten  children  born  to  Edward  and 
Margaret  (Harris)  Richards,  our  subject  lived  in 
his  native  country,  England,  until  he  attained 
his  majority.  He  was  born  March  4,  1848,  and 
received  no  educational  advantages  worthy  of 
mention,  therefore  has  been  forced  to  rely  en- 
tirely upon  his  own  efforts  in  this  direction.  liis 
father  was  born  in  Cornwall,  England,  near  the 
town  of  Camborne,  and  was  a  miner  by  occupa- 
tion. He  died  in  the  same  locality  when  he  was 
seventy -two  years  of  age.  Both  he  and  his 
faithful  wife  were  hard-working,  honorable,  in- 
dustrious people,  who  strove  to  do  their  whole 
duty  toward  God  and  man.  Religiously  they 
were  Methodists.  Eight  of  their  children  grew 
to  manhood  and  womanhood  and  four  of  the 
number  came  to  America.  Peter  was  a  resident 
of  Gilpin  County  for  some  time,  but  eventually 
returned  to  England.  George  was  killed  in  a 
mine  at  Gregory  in  1875.  Caroline  lives  in  Cen- 
tral City. 

When  he  was  but  ten  years  old  W.  H.  Richards 
began  working  in  the  mines  near  his  birthplace, 
Camborne,  Cornwall,  and  was  employed  inter- 
mittently at  easy  labor  for  several  years.  At 
thirteen  he  commenced  the  business  systematic- 
ally, under  the  instruction  of  his  father.  In  1869 
he  sailed  from  Liverpool  to  New  York.  Thence 
he  went  to  San  Francisco,  by  way  of  Panama, 
and  from  the  Golden  Gate  to  Virginia  City,  Nev. 
There  he  was  occupied  in  mining  until  October, 
1870,  when,  the  Union  Pacific  having  been  com- 
pleted, he  came  to  Gilpin  County,  Colo.  Here 
he  was  employed  at  contract  mining,  etc.,  and 
mined  and  prospected  at  intervals,  on  his  own  ac- 
count. He  is  now  interested  in  the  Star  of  Gil- 
pin, in  Russell  Gulch,  and  the  Little  Annie,  in 
Tip  top  district.  At  one  time  he  was  foreman  of 
the  Monmouth  mine  at  Central  City,  and  in  Au- 
gust, 1897,  was  made  superintendent  of  the 
Columbus  mine  in  Russell  Gulch.  Since  1870 
he  has  made  his  home  chiefly  in  Nevadaville, 
and  has  been  alderman  of  the  place  four  times. 
He  has  been  very  successful  in  a  business  point  of 
view,  as  well  as  in  other  ways,  and  enjoys  the 
confidence  and  respect  of  the  entire  community 
and  all  who  know  him.  He  is  past  officer  of  the 
Odd  Fellows' society  here  and  is  past  officer  of  the 
encampment. 

In    Nevadaville,   in    1878,    Mr.   Richards  and 
Miss  Kate  Bartle  were  married.     The  lady  is  a 


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daughter  of  John  P.  Bartle  of  this  place  and  is  a 
sister  of  Mrs.  Libbie  Williams,  of  Central  City, 
who  is  mentioned  elsewhere  in  this  volume.  Mrs. 
Richards  was  born  in  Cornwall  and  by  her  mar- 
riage has  become  the  mother  of  two  children. 
Georgia  is  living  with  her  parents;  and  Lucretia 
died  when  but  three  years  old.  The  family  are 
connected  with  the  Episcopal  Church. 


EHRISTIAN  MANHART  is  the  owner  of 
Keystone  ranch,  comprising  eighteen  hun- 
dred acres,  located  six  miles  from  Sedalia, 
Douglas  County.  He  was  born  near  Catawissa, 
Columbia  County,  Pa.,  April  30,  1835,  a  son  of 
Philip  and  Sarah  Manhart,  natives  of  Alsace, 
Germany.  A  few  years  after  their  marriage  his 
parents  emigrated  to  America  and  settled  in  Phila- 
dalphia,  where  the  father  followed  the  wheel- 
wright's trade;  later,  however,  he  removed  to  a 
farm  near  Catawissa,  in  Columbia  County,  where 
the  remainder  of  his  life  was  passed  in  agricult- 
ural pursuits.  He  died  there  in  1861  and  his 
wife  passed  away  seven  years  later.  Of  their 
seven  children  three  were  born  in  Germany,  one 
on  the  ocean,  and  three  in  the  United  States. 
Five  attained  years  of  maturity  and  four  are  still 
living,  Christian  being  the  youngest.  Philip, 
who  is  the  oldest,  is  still  living  in  Columbia 
County,  Pa.;  Frederick,  a  retired  businessman, 
resides  in  Knoxville,  Iowa;  and  John  Michael 
makes  his  home  at  Roaring  Creek,  Montour 
County,  Pa. 

In  boyhood  our  subject  was  given  fair  school- 
ing advantages.  At  the  age  of  sixteen  he  began 
to  learn  the  carpenter's  trade  with  his  oldest 
brother  at  Plymouth,  Ivuzerne  County,  Pa.,  and 
at  the  close  of  two  years  of  apprenticeship  he 
began  to  get  journeyman's  wages.  When  only 
nineteen,  April  23,  1854,  ^^  married  Miss  Sarah 
Barney,  who  was  born  in  Plymouth,  lyUzerne 
County,  Pa.,  a  daughter  of  Henry  and  Susan 
(Keller)  Barney.  November  6,  1856,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Manhart  started  for  Iowa  and  arriving  in 
Marion  County,  settled  in  Marysville,  where  he 
commenced  to  work  at  his  trade.  In  the  spring 
of  i860  he  drove  through  to  Colorado  with  an 
ox-team,  in, company  with  a  party  of  emigrants, 
spending  forty-five  days  on  the  road.  In  Park 
County  he  engaged  in  various  pursuits,  mining, 
prospecting,  working  at  his  trade,  and  during 


one  season  carrying  mail  once  a  week  from  Buck- 
skin to  Montgomery,  Park  County.  He  came  to 
his  present  place  in  1866  and  bought  a  claim  of 
one  hundred  and  twenty  acres,  to  which  he  added, 
by  pre-emption  and  homesteading,  as  well  as 
purchase,  until  he  acquired  his  present  acreage. 
The  log  cabin  in  which  he  first  made  his  home  is 
still  standing.  Since  1883  he  has  made  his  home 
in  a  substantial  frame  residence.  At  one  time  he 
had  two  hundred  head  of  cattle,  but  since  the 
range  has  become  limited,  he  has  reduced  the 
number  to  one  hundred  and  fifty. 

In  the  fall  of  1868  the  neighborhood  in  which 
Mr.  Manhart  lived  was  disturbed  by  the  Indians. 
In  the  afternoon  word  was  received  that  the 
Indians  were  coming.  At  nightfall  Mr.  Man- 
hart loaded  his  wife  and  children  into  a  wagon 
and  drove  to  Denver,  where  they  remained 
during  the  winter,  Mr.  Manhart  and  his  hired 
help  staying  on  the  ranch.  They  lost  consider- 
able in  the  line  of  clothing,  provisions  and  stock, 
on  account  of  the  Indians,  and  were  obliged  to 
guard  their  possessions  and  do  their  work  with 
arms  always  within  reach. 

Of  the  children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Manhart  we 
note  the  following:  George  W.,  who  was  born  at 
Plymouth,  Euzerne  County,  Pa.,  is  engaged  in 
the  mercantile  business  at  Sedalia,  his  sketch 
appearing  elsewhere;  John  F.,  who  was  born  in 
Marysville,  Marion  County,  Iowa,  died  in  Colo- 
rado March  6,  1885,  his  death  being  the  result  of 
having  been  accidentally  thrown  from  a  horse; 
Alice  Susan,  who  was  born  in  Park  County, 
Colo.,  married  Arthur  H.  White,  and  lives  near 
Sedalia;  Clara  B.,  who  was  born  in  Douglas 
County,  is  the  wife  of  William  O'Brien,  living 
near  Williamsburg,  El  Paso  County,  Colo.;  they 
have  five  children;  Henry  P.  was  born  on  the 
home  farm  and  still  resides  here;  October  26, 
1898,  he  married  Mary  A.  Lowell,  of  Sedalia,  a 
daughter  of  Charles  and  Lydia  E.  (Bowman) 
Lowell;  AnnaC,  Mrs.  William  Burke,  lives  in 
El  Paso  County  and  has  one  child;  Alphonso  is 
at  home;  and  Frances  C.  married  Matthew 
Rogers,  of  Eldora,  Colo. 

Although  his  father  was  a  Democrat,  our  sub- 
ject became  a  Republican.  He  did  not  vote  at  a 
presidential  election  until  1876,  when  he  cast  his 
ballot  for  R.  B.  Hayes.  He  was  elected  sheriff 
in  1874,  upon  the  organization  of  Douglas  County 
and  served  until  the  fall  of  1875,  being  the  first 


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elected  after  the  division  of  the  county.  In  Park 
County  he  served  as  a  constable,  and  also  held 
the  office  in  Douglas  County  both  before  and 
after  he  served  as  sheriff.  During  the  administra- 
tion of  President  Hayes  Mr.  Manhart  held  the 
office  of  postmaster  at  Sedalia.  For  twenty-five 
years  he  has  served  as  a  school  director.  Through 
his  assistance  the  schools  of  his  section  have  been 
promoted  and  the  system  of  teaching  advanced. 
He  is  a  friend  of  the  public  school  system  and 
gave  his  children  the  best  advantages  possible, 
not  only  in  local  schools,  but  also  in  those  of 
Denver.  Though  reared  in  the  Lutheran  Church, 
he  supports  the  Episcopal  Church  and  assisted  in 
building  St.  Philip's  Church  near  his  home.  In 
1872  he  became  identified  with  Weston  Lodge 
No.  22,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  at  Littleton,  with  which 
he  has  since  been  connected.  He  is  also  a 
member  of  the  Association  of  Colorado  Pioneers 
and  Plum  Creek  Camp  No.  226.  As  a  citizen  he 
is  progressive  and  public-spirited,  and  justly  oc- 
cupies a  position  among  the  most  prominent  and 
influential  men  of  his  county. 


(EORGE  W.  PARFET.  Gold  and  silver 
mining  is  known  the  world  over  as  a  great 
industry  in  Colorado,  but  comparatively 
few  know  anything  concerning  the  clay  mines 
of  Golden.  George  W.  Parfet,  of  Golden,  is  the 
pioneer  clay  operator,  miner  and  shipper  of  Colo- 
rado. The  great  clay  deposits  lie  against  the  foot 
of  the  mountains  and  have  assumed  an  almost 
vertical  position.  They  contain  various  kinds  of 
clay,  viz.:  Plaster  clay,  fire  clay,  fire  sand  and  a 
red  clay  used  in  the  manufacture  of  vitrified 
brick.  There  are  also  fine  veins  of  silica  run- 
ning near  the  clay  veins.  The  mines  have  been 
opened  and  are  provided  with  tunnels,  siding  to 
railroads  and  other  conveniences  for  the  facili- 
tating of  the  work. 

The  Parfets  are  of  British  origin.  George 
Parfet,  father  of  our  subject,  was  born  in  Wales, 
but  came  to  America  in  boyhood  and  began  to 
work  in  the  coal  fields  of  Pennsylvania.  For 
some  years  he  was  engaged  in  operating  mines  in 
the  anthracite  coal  regions  of  Schuylkill  and 
Northumberland  Counties,  and  later  worked  in 
iron  mines  in  Juniata  County.  In  1874  he 
brought  his  family  to  Ralston,  Colo.,  where  he 
was  among  the  first  to  engage  in  coal  mining  in 


a  practical  way.  He  followed  the  business  for  a 
few  years,  until  failing  health  obliged  him  to  re- 
tire from  active  work.  He  died  in  188 1,  when 
about  fifty-eight  years  of  age.  He  was  a  prac-. 
tical  miner  and  knew  every  detail  of  the  business. 
During  the  Civil  war  he  was  a  member  of  a 
Pennsylvania  regiment  that  served  in  the  Union 
army. 

Three  times  married,  by  his  first  wife  George 
Parfet  had  one  son,  James,  who  is  now  proprietor 
and  editor  of  the  Gillett  (Colo.)  Fonim.  His 
second  wife  was  Lavina  Matter,  who  was  born  in 
Dauphin  County,  Pa.,  the  daughter  of  a  farmer 
of  that  locality.  She  died  in  Pennsylvania,  and 
of  her  six  children  four  are  living:  John,  who 
lives  in  Denver;  George  W.;  Benjamin,  living  in 
Gillett,  El  Paso  County,  Colo.;  and  C.  E.,  of 
Golden.  The  third  marriage  of  Mr.  Parfet  united 
him  with  Sarah  Morgan,  of  Pennsylvania,  now 
residing  in  Golden.  Of  this  union  five  children 
were  born,  namely:  Isaiah  M.,  Mrs.  Emma 
Fisher,  Mrs.  Ella  McLean,  Rhoda  and  David. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  in  Juniata 
County,  Pa.,  October  5,  1858.  Until  fourteen 
years  of  age  he  was  a  student  in  public  schools, 
but  at  that  time  he  began  to  work  in  iron  ore 
mines.  He  came  with  his  father  to  Colorado  in 
March,  1874,  and  afterward  engaged  in  coal  min- 
ing until  1877,  when  he  turned  his  attention  to 
clay  mines.  He  still  operates  the  mines  near 
Golden  that  he  leased  and  opened,  and  where  he 
has  leased  a  tract  of  one  hundred  and  twenty 
acres.  In  1879  he  opened  the  Apex  mines,  which 
he  has  since  operated. 

December  13,  1882,  in  Golden,  Mr.  Parfet 
married  Mattie  Bates,  who  was  born  in  Tennes- 
see, the  daughter  of  M.  L.  Bates,  who  removed 
from  the  south  to  Colorado  and  settled  in  Golden. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Parfet  own  and  occupy  a  residence 
on  Ford  street.  A  member  of  the  silver  Repub- 
lican party,  he  has  been  active  in  party  affairs  in 
Jefferson  County,  has  served  as  a  member  of  the 
county  central  committee,  and  for  one  term  was 
alderman  of  the  second  ward.  He  was  appointed 
general  road  overseer  of  Jefferson  County  by  the 
board  of  county  commissioners  and  served  two 
years.  At  this  writing  he  is  a  member  of  the 
board  of  education  for  district  No.  i  and  its 
treasurer.  In  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church 
he  is  a  trustee  and  steward;  also  superintendent 
of  the  Sunday-school.     He  is  a  past  officer  in  the 


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Independent  Order  of  Good  Templars,  a  member 
of  the  Temple  of  Honor,  the  Independent  Order 
of  Odd  Fellows,  and  the  Patriotic  Order  Sons  of 
America. 

3UDGE  GEORGE  FAHRION  has  attained 
prominence  as  judge  of  Elbert  County,  in 
which  capacity  he  has  efficiently  served  for 
many  years.  He  is  a  highly  esteemed  resident 
of  Kiowa,  and  an  extensive  land  owner  in  this 
county.  He  is  of  German  birth,  having  been 
born  in  Wurtemberg,  April  i6,  1836.  George 
Fahrion  was  reared  in  a  suburb  of  Leonberg.  He 
obtained  his  intellectual  training  in  the  public 
schools  of  that  country,  which  are  everywhere 
recognized  as  the  best  in  the  world,  and  there  be- 
came a  fluent  speaker  of  the  L,atin  and  French 
languages.  In  1853,  at  the  age  of  sixteen  years, 
he  emigrated  to  America,  and  as  he  came  in  the 
spring  of  the  year,  encountered  many  bad  storms 
on  the  passage  here.  Landing  in  New  York  City 
in  April,  he  immediately  went  to  Buflalo,  N.  Y., 
where  he  secured  employment  in  a  factory.  One 
year  later  he  moved  into  the  country  and  en- 
gaged in  agricultural  pursuits,  making  a  spe- 
cialty of  gardening,  and  subsequently  he  started 
for  Detroit  by  way  of  Lake  Erie.  As  it  was  in  De- 
cember, the  lake  was  unusually  rough,  and  the 
boat,  heavily  loaded  with  over  a  hundred  horses, 
foundered;  after  a  perilous  twenty-four  hours 
they  were  rescued  by  a  passing  boat,  and  con- 
tinued on  their  way  to  Detroit,  Mich.  Remain- 
ing in  that  city  for  three  or  four  years,  in  1859 
he  decided  to  cross  the  plains  to  Colorado,  but 
upon  reaching  Leavenworth,  Kan.,  he  encoun- 
tered so  many  returning  with  tales  of  bad  luck 
that  he  became  discouraged  and  decided  to  re- 
main where  he  was.  He  accepted  a  position 
hauling  for  the  government  to  Fort  Laramie,  and 
in  the  summer  of  i860  continued  to  Colorado, 
where  he  engaged  in  mining  at  French  Gulch, 
and  later  in  Gilpin  County.  He  continued  until 
September,  1861,  when  he  enlisted  as  a  private 
in  the  First  Colorado  Volunteer  Infantry,  and 
served  for  three  years  and  three  months.  He 
saw  hard  service,  mostly  in  New  Mexico,  and  on 
the  frontier  from  Texas  to  Utah,  taking  an  active 
part  in  many  engagements  and  having  many 
narrow  escapes  from  death. 

Upon    receiving  his  honorable    discharge    at 
Denver  in  November,  1864,  our  subject  settled 


on  a  squatter's  claim  in  Elbert  County,  and  after 
the  survey  of  1866  he  secured  by  pre-emption  a 
tract  on  section  8,  township  8  south,  range  63 
west.  Later  he  homesteaded  one  hundred  and 
sixty  acres  and  acquired  a  timber  claim,  having 
in  all  four  hundred  and  eighty  acres.  He  has 
since  purchased  other  lands  from  time  to  time, 
and  at  present  owns  .some  one  thousand  two 
hundred  and  eighty  acres  of  valuable  land.  In 
political  belief  he  is  a  firm  Democrat,  but  prior 
to  1872  was  a  supporter  of  the  Republican  party. 
In  1868  or  1869  he  was  elected  justice  of  the 
peace  and  served  in  that  capacity  for  nearly  four 
years;  he  was  later  elected  judge  of  Elbert  Coun- 
ty, an  office  for  which  he  is  well  qualified  and 
has  since  retained.  He  has  frequently  been 
called  upon  to  represent  his  district  in  different 
party  conventions.  By  the  impartial  and  straight- 
forward course  he  has  pursued  in  the  discharge 
of  his  duties,  he  has  not  only  retained  the  sup- 
port of  his  constituents,  but  gained  favor  in  the 
eyes  of  his  party  opponents. 

July  19,  1865,  Judge  Fahrion  married  Miss 
Elizabeth  Swena,  of  Denver,  who  was  born  in 
Whiteside  County,  111.,  and  their  union  resulted 
in  the  following  issue:  George  A.,  a  stock- raiser 
on  Comanche  Creek,  Elbert  County;  Thomas,  a 
teacher,  who  obtained  his  education  in  the  public 
schools  at  Greeley;  Frank,  a  stockman  living 
near  Elbert;  Frederick,  who  is  clerking  for  Rus- 
sell Sage  at  Peyton,  Colo.;  Alice;  and  Paul,  who 
is  living  at  home.  Our  subject  is  a  man  of  high 
moral  character,  and  has  many  friends  through- 
out that  section. 


(lAMES  BLAND,  who  has  been  postmaster  of 
I  Bland, Elbert  County,  since  1883,  and  is  also 
Q)  engaged  in  ranching  in  this  county,  was  born 
in  Westmoreland,  England,  in  1840,  and  is  a  son 
of  James  and  Agnes  (Berry)  Bland,  natives  of  the 
same  place  as  himself  His  father,  who  was  a 
descendant  of  an  old  family  of  England,  was  con- 
nected with  public  works  in  his  native  land 
throughout  his  entire  life,  and  there  passed  away, 
his  wife  having  died  some  years  previously. 

Our  subject,  who  was  the  only  child  of  his 
parents,  was  educated  in  Cheshire,  England.  At 
the  age  of  twelve  he  began  to  work  for  himself, 
his  first  work  being  railroading  with  his  father, 
who  had  an  excellent  position.  He  spent  six- 
teen years  in  the  same  business,  after  which  he 


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came  to  America,  landing  in  this  country  June  i , 
1870.  Proceeding  to  Omaha,  he  was  there  con- 
nected with  the  Omaha  &  Southwestern  Railroad 
about  eighteen  months.  In  1872  he  came  to 
Denver  and  in  1873  settled  on  the  ranch  which  he 
still  owns.  This  he  has  stocked  with  cattle, 
principally  Herefords.  The  place  is  situated  on 
Wilson  Creek. 

In  i860  Mr.  Bland  married  Miss  Mary  Lock- 
year,  a  native  of  Broadclist,  Devonshire,  Eng- 
land. They  are  the  parents  of  two  daughters; 
Annie,  wife  of  Clarence  H.  Wood,  who  is  engaged 
in  ranching  near  Mr.  Bland's  place;  and  Ada, 
who  is  with  her  parents.  Politically  Mr.  Bland 
favors  the  policy  adopted  by  the  Republican  party 
in  its  dealings  with  matters,  at  home  and  abroad. 
He  has  witnessed  the  growth  of  the  county  from 
its  first  start,  and  has  contributed  personally  not 
a  little  to  the  development  of  its  resources. 


pCjATSON  E.   COLM AN  is  engaged  in  gen- 

\  A  /  eral  farming  and  the  dairy  business  on  the 
Y  Y  old  Burrel  ranch,  in  the  northern  part  of 
Jefferson  County,  Colo.  In  the  fall  of  1884  he 
brought  his  family  to  Colorado  and  after  spend- 
ing the  winter  in  Golden,  in  the  spring  of  1885 
purchased  his  present  property.  It  consisted  of 
one  hundred  and  sixty  acres,  to  which  he  subse- 
quently added  a  tree  claim  of  eighty  acres,  making 
his  ranch  two  hundred  and  forty  acres  in  extent. 
He  has  been  largely  instrumental  in  promoting 
the  growth  of  Broomfield  and  was  the  prime  fac- 
tor in  starting  the  Caledonia  cheese  factory  in 
this  village,  where  is  manufactured  the  best 
cheese  in  the  state. 

A  member  of  an  old  Revolutionary  family,  Mr. 
Colman  was  born  in  Vassalborough,  Me.,  April 
19,  1837.  He  is  the  sole  survivor  of  six  children 
born  to  the  union  of  Jeremiah  and  Mercy  C. 
(Doe)  Colman.  The  origin  of  the  name" Colman 
is  peculiar.  Many  years  ago  there  was  a  com- 
pany of  the  king's  body-guard  who  were  so 
noted  for  their  daring  horsemanship  that  they 
were  called  "Coltmen"  and  from  that  the  name 
was  merged  into  its  present  form.  During  colo- 
nial days  our  subject's  great-grandfather  came  to 
America  from  England  and  settled  in  Newbury - 
port,  Mass.,  where  he  reared  his  family.  Some 
of  his  sons  were  soldiers  in  the  Revolution  and 
took  part   in   the  battle  of  Bunker  Hill.     The 


grandfather,  Joseph  Colman,  was  a  native  of  New- 
buryport,  Mass.,  and  from  there  moved  to  Vassal- 
borough,  Me.,  where  he  married.  On  the  divi- 
sion of  the  family  property,  he  had  been  given 
his  share  of  the  estate  in  colonial  money,  and 
with  it  he  bought  a  forest  tract  on  the  west  .side 
of  Weber  pond,  where  he  took  up  one  hundred 
and  sixty  acres.  There  his  death  occurred  when 
he  was  about  eighty-four  years  of  age. 

The  father  of  our  subject  was  born  in  Vassal- 
borough,  Me.,  in  1808,  and  there  resided  until 
1850,  when  he  removed  to  Athens,  in  the  same 
state,  and  in  that  place  he  remained  for  eighteen 
years.  His  next  place  of  residence  was  New- 
port, Me.,  and  there  he  died.  He  was  a  skilled 
mechanic,  and  followed  carpentering,  wagon- 
making  and_blacksmithing,  also  engaged  in  farm- 
ing. He  was  seventy-four  years  of  age  when 
he  died.  He  was  married  three  times,  and  ten 
children  born  of  his  third  marriage  are  still  liv- 
ing, namely:  Omar  M.,  of  Golden,  Colo.;  Ozias 
T.,  who  lives  in  Manchester,  N.  H.;  Rose,  wife  of 
Charles  French,. of  Tewksbury,  Mass.;  Green- 
leaf  and  Obed,  of  Manchester,  N.  H.;  Lelia, 
whose  husband.  Rev.  Walter  Prince,  is  a  grad- 
uate of  Yale  and  a  minister  in  the  Methodist 
Church;  Nellie,  of  Manchester;  Cora;  Wesley, 
who  lives  on  the  home  farm  in  Newport,  Me. ; 
and  Jeremiah,  of  Portland,  Me. 

At  the  age  of  twenty  ojir  subject  went  to  Eew- 
iston.  Me.,  where  he  learned  the  machinist's 
trade.  He  worked  as  a  journeyman  with  the 
Franklin  Company,  builders  of  cotton  and  gen- 
eral machinery.  March  20,  1861,  he  married 
Julia  A.  Sanford,  daughter  of  Ezekiel  and  Soph- 
ronia  (Carr)  Sanford,and  a  memberof  an  old  Revo- 
lutionary family.  Her  father,  who  was  born  and 
reared  in  Palermo,  Me.,  engaged  in  farming  and 
lumbering  as  long  as  he  lived,  and  died  at  the 
age  of  eighty  at  Bradford,  Me.  Shortly  after 
his  marriage  our  subject  moved  to  Portland,  Me. , 
and  took  a  position  with  the  Portland  Company, 
Locomotive  and  Marine  Engine  Works,  and  for 
three  years  worked  as  a  journeyman;  afterward 
he  took  a  contract  with  the  company  and  was 
given  charge  of  the  heavy  machinery  in  the  lower 
room,  which  important  position  he  held  for  twen- 
ty-three years.  His  especial  work,  besides  loco- 
motive and  marine  engine  work,  was  the  fitting 
of  wheels  of  the  locomotives  and  cars  and  during 
all  the  time  he  was  thus  engaged  he  never  had  a 


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loose  wheel.  On  account  of  the  poor  health  of 
his  daughter,  in  1884  he  resigned  his  position 
and  came  to  Colorado,  where  he  has  since  re- 
sided. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Colman  became  the  parents  of 
two  children.  Their  daughter,  Helen  Isabel, 
born  December  19,  1864,  was  given  an  excellent 
education  and  became  an  accomplished  musician; 
she  possessed  a  beautiful  character  and  was  be- 
loved by  all  who  knew  her,  so  that  her  death, 
March  11,  1890,  was  a  deep  bereavement,  not 
only  to  her  parents  and  brother,  but  also  to  her 
many  friends.  The  son,  Ralph  W.,  who  was 
born  July  23,  1866,  is  the  proprietor  of  the  Silver 
Standard  Flour  and  Feed  Mills,  at  Broomfield, 
his  specialty  being  wheat,  graham,  rye,  graham- 
rye  flour,  corn  meal  and  whole  wheat  flour.  In 
politics  our  subject  is  a  Republican.  Since  1863 
he  has  been  a  member  of  the  Masonic  fraternity, 
belonging  to  Ancient  Landmark  Lodge,  in  Port- 
land, Me.  Since  1871  he  has  been  a  member  of 
the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows  and  since 
1874  has  been  identified  with  Bramhall  Lodge, 
K.  of  P.,  both  in  Portland,  Me. 


•gEORGEH.  YOUNG,  the  well-known  mer- 
_  chant  of  Evans,  Weld  County,  was  born  in 
^  Columbus,  Ohio,  February  12,  1844,  being 
a  son  of  William  H.  and  Maria  (Biddle)  Young, 
natives  respectively  of  Charlestown,  W.  Va.,  and 
Wales.  His  father  spent  the  larger  part  of  his 
active  life  in  Ohio,  where  he  was  engaged  in  con- 
tracting and  building  at  Columbus.  He  died  at 
the  age  of  .seventy-three  years.  His  wife  passed 
away  at  Columbus,  when  seventy-one  years  of 
age.  Of  their  seven  children  all  but  two  are  liv- 
ing. They  are  George  H. ;  Mary  E. ,  the  widow 
ofE.  D.  W.  Lawrence,  of  Columbus;  Charles  L., 
of  Springfield,  Mass.;  Margaret,  wife  of  G.  F. 
Ramsey,  Plains  City,  Ohio;  and  Joseph  W. ,  who 
is  living  in  Columbus. 

Mr.  Young  acquired  his  education  in  the  pub- 
lic schools  of  Columbus,  Ohio.  At  the  age  of 
thirteen  he  entered  the  employ  of  John  Zettler,  a 
grocer  of  that  city,  with  whom  he  remained  until 
1862.  He  then  enlisted  in  Company  A,  Ninety- 
fifth  Ohio  Infantry,  and  served  in  the  western 
division  of  the  army  until  the  close  of  the  war. 
In  the  battle  of  Richmond  he  was  wounded  in 
the  left  arm  and  was  taken  to  a  hospital,  where 


he  remained  for  some  time,  first  as  a  patient,  and 
later  as  a  nurse.  Under  General  Grant  he  par- 
ticipated in  the  Vicksburg  campaign,  being  on 
hospital  detail  mainly.  He  was  captured  in 
Mississippi  and  confined  in  Andersonville,  Mil- 
len,  Blackshire  and  Thomasville  prisons,  alto- 
gether, for  more  than  nine  months.  In  April, 
1865,  he  was  aboard  the  "Sultana"  going  from 
Vicksburg  with  twenty-two  hundred  prisoners, 
when  the  ves.sel  blew  up  near  Memphis,  Tenn. 
Out  of  the  entire  number  of  prisoners,  only  seven 
hundred  escaped,  and  many  of  these  were  fright- 
fully wounded,  and  died  later  from  their  injuries. 
Mr.  Young  sustained  serious  injuries  through 
being  scalded  by  steam. 

After  being  mustered  out  at  Columbus,  August 
14,  1865,  Mr.  Young  entered  a  business  college 
at  Columbus,  and  on  the  completion  of  the  course 
there  he  became  an  employe  of  J.  W.  Pope,  with 
whom  he  remained  about  two  years.  He  was 
afterward  variously  employed  until  1872,  when 
he  came  west  to  Kansas  and  located  at  Atchison, 
where  he  followed  the  carpenter's  trade.  After 
a  short  time  he  went  back  to  Ohio.  In  1873  he 
started  for  Colorado,  believing  that  this  climate 
would  relieve  him  of  asthma,  with  which  he  suf- 
fered. He  arrived  in  Denver  June  i,  and  a  few 
days  later  reached  Evans.  Shortly  after  coming 
here  he  bought  out  Davis  McMechan,  dealer  in 
furniture  and  coal,  and  until  1895  be  carried  on 
the  business.  Meantime,  however,  he  became 
interested  in  other  enterprises.  About  1885  he 
embarked  in  the  mercantile  business,  which  he 
has  since  conducted.  He  has  also  bought  an  in- 
terest in  the  Central  City  Mining  Company,  and 
owns  two  farms  near  town,  upon  which  he  en- 
gages in  farming  and  stock-raising.  He  is  a 
stockholder  in  the  Union  and  Independent  Ditch 
Companies,  and  has  served  as  a  trustee  in  the 
former. 

In  politics  a  Republican  and  active  in  local  af- 
fairs, Mr.  Young  has  served  his  town  as  mayor, 
alderman  and  treasurer.  For  six  years  he  held 
office  as  justice  of  the  peace,  and  for  one  year 
served  as  county  commissioner.  As  president  and 
treasurer  of  school  district  No.  15,  he  has  been 
helpful  in  promoting  educational  work  in  his 
section,  and  he  al.so  assisted  in  the  erection  of  the 
State  Normal  School  building  at  Greeley.  Fra- 
ternally he  is  connected  with  Prosperity  Lodge 
No.   109,   I.  O.  O.  F.,  and  Weld  Encampment; 


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also  the  Woodmen  of  the  World  and  May  Camp 
No.  5,  I.  O.  R.  M.,  of  Ouray.  He  has  held  all 
the  ofiBces,  up  to  and  including  that  of  com- 
mander, in  William  T.  Sherman  Post,  G.  A.  R.,of 
Evans  and  in  the  National  Encampment  has  been 
appointed  an  aide  on  the  staflf  of  the  department 
commander  of  Colorado  and  Wyoming. 

The  first  wife  of  Mr.  Young  was  Martha, 
daughter  of  James  Mills,  a  native  of  Wales,  who 
died  in  1881,  leaving  five  children:  Grace  E.; 
CoraL.,  wife  of  A.  H.  Storer;  Sarah  M.;  Will- 
iam D.,  who  married  Etta  Robinson,  a  native  of 
Illinois;  and  Edna  M.,  wife  of  Theodore  Ennes. 
In  1889  Mr.  Young  married  Miss  Lydia  C. 
Herriott,  daughter  of  George  Herriott,  who  came 
from  Ohio  in  an  early  day  and  settled  upon  a 
farm  in  Weld  County.  This  union  is  blessed 
with  three  sons,  George  P.,  Edwin  H.  and  Ben- 
jamin U. 

(I  AMES  H.  POTTER,  M.  D.,  was  one  of  the 
I  brave  boys  in  blue  during  the  Civil  war,  and 
(2/  suffered  wounds  and  untold  hardships  in  or- 
der that  the  Union  might  be  preserved.  He  stands 
deservedly  high  in  his  profession.  He  is  treasurer 
of  the  Boulder  County  Medical  Society,  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Colorado  State  Medical  and  the  Amer- 
ican Medical  Association,  and  formerly,  when  in 
Illinois,  was  connected  with  the  Central  Illinois 
Association,  being  its  president  for  .some  time, 
and  held  a  similar  responsible  office  in  the  DeWitt 
County  Medical  Society.  Ten  years  ago  he 
opened  an  office  and  established  himself  in  prac- 
tice in  Longmont,  and  has  been  very  successful 
in  building  up  an  extensive  business. 

The  paternal  grandfather  of  the  doctor  was  a 
soldier  of  the  war  of  181 2  on  the  American  side, 
and  was  a  resident  of  Washington  County,  Pa. 
The  parents  of  our  subject  were  John  and  Jane 
(Boyce)  Potter,  both  natives  of  Washington 
County,  Pa.  The  father  was  a  manufacturer  of 
farm  implements  and  wagons,  and  made  some  of 
the  first  cast-iron  plows  ever  used  in  this  country. 
A  firm  in  Pittsburg,  Pa.,  still  manufacture  plows 
under  his  name.  He  also  made  a  reputation  as 
the  maker  of  the  large  "Conestoga"  wagon,  once 
in  very  extensive  use  in  the  east.  In  1846  he 
moved  to  West  Union,  Ohio,  and  turned  his  at- 
tention to  agriculture,  and  later  he  settled  in 
Wapella,  DeWitt  County,  111.,  where  he  operated 
a  farm  until  his  death,  when  in  his  sixty-sixth 


year.  His  wife  also  died  on  the  old  Illinois 
homestead.  Three  of  their  sons  offered  their  serv- 
ices to  their  country,  and  one  of  them  was  sac- 
rificed on  the  altar  of  liberty  and  the  Union.  He, 
their  eldest  born,  David  S.,  was  killed  at  the  bat- 
tle of  Stone  River.  He  was  a  sergeant  in  the 
same  company  as  were  the  subject  of  this  sketch 
and  another  brother,  R.  B.,  who  is  now  an  as- 
sayer  in  Boulder.  William,  a  physician,  died  in 
1852,  in  West  Union,  Ohio.  The  only  daughter, 
E.  B.,  is  the  wife  of  Rev.  John  Wilson,  of  Long- 
mont. 

Dr.  J.  H.  Potter  was  born  March  i,  1843,  in 
Washington  County,  Pa.,  and  received  his  edu- 
cation in  the  public  schools  and  Salem  Academy. 
In  August,  1861,  he  enlisted  in  Company  D, 
Twenty-fourth  Ohio  Infantry,  and  among  the 
battles  in  which  he  participated  were  Pittsburg 
Landing,  Perryville  and  Stone  River.  The  en- 
gagement at  Stone  River  began  on  the  last  day 
of  1862  and  waged  furiously  for  three  days  or 
more.  On  January  2d,  toward  evening,  Dr.  Pot- 
ter was  wounded  by  a  ball  which  struck  his  right 
leg  abov^e  the  knee,  shattering  the  bone,  so  that 
sixty  pieces  have  since  been  taken  out.  He  lay 
on  the  battlefield  from  Friday  night  until  Sun- 
day noon,  without  any  attention,  save  that  ren- 
dered him  by  his  brother,  R.  B.,  who  at  last  found 
him  and  brought  him  some  water.  Then  followed 
a  long  and  painful  period  of  intense  suffering, 
covering  seven  months  spent  in  hospitals  here 
and  there,  for  he  was  transferred  from  one  to  an- 
other as  the  exigencies  of  war  made  advisable. 
On  July  28  he  asked  for  his  discharge  from  the 
George  Street  Hospital,  Cincinnati,  and,  it  being 
granted  him,  he  started  for  home  on  crutches. 
Two  weeks  afterward  he  resumed  his  interrupted 
studies  in  Salem,  but  more  than  five  years  passed 
ere  he  could  walk  without  crutches. 

After  young  Potter  had  made  considerable 
progress  in  medical  studies  under  the  direction  of 
Dr.  T.  W.  Davis,  of  Wapella,  111.,  he  entered  the 
Ohio  Medical  College  in  Cincinnati.  During  his 
course  in  that  institution  he  taught  school  and 
practiced  medicine  at  intervals,  thus  working  his 
own  way  through  college.  He  graduated  with 
the  degree  for  which  he  had  striven  so  bravely, 
in  1870,  and  for  seventeen  years  practiced  in 
Wapella.  The  winter  of  1872-73  he  took  a  post- 
graduate course  at  his  alma  mater,  and  since 
coming  to  Longmont,  in  1888,  he  has  taken  an- 


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other  graduate  course,  going  to  Rush  Medical 
College,  Chicago,  for  three  months' special  study, 
in  1894.  In  1887  he  moved  west  to  Denver,  and 
within  a  j'ear  he  concluded  to  become  a  perma- 
nent citizen  of  Longmont.  He  practices  medi- 
cine in  general  and  surgery  in  all  its  branches. 

The  marriage  of  Dr.  Potter  and  Miss  E.  B. 
Williams  took  place  in  Wapella,  111.,  in  1873. 
Mrs.  Potter  was  born  in  Farmington,  111.,  and  is 
a  daughter  of  J.  C.  Williams,  now  of  Parsons, 
Kan.  Harry  J.,  eldest  child  of  the  doctor  and 
wife,  has  been  in  the  medical  college  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  Colorado  for  three  years  and  will  grad- 
uate in  1899.  He  was  a  member  of  Company  C, 
First  Colorado  Regiment  of  National  Guard,  and 
participated  in  the  lyeadville  campaign.  Frank 
S.  is  employed  in  the  office  of  the  lyongmont 
Daily  Times  as  a  printer.  Jennie  and  Eva,  twins, 
were  born  February  29,  1884;  and  Mabel  is  the 
youngest  of  the  family. 

In  Wapella,  111.,  Dr.  Potter  was  commander 
of  Seward  C.  Nelson  Post,  G.  A.  R. ,  for  three 
terms,  and  was  a  member  of  the  Odd  Fellows'  so- 
ciety. He  belongs  to  the  Longmont  encamp- 
ment, and  in  company  with  his  wife  has  taken 
the  degree  of  Rebekah.  He  is  medical  examiner 
for  the  Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen  and  is 
a  member  of  the  Union  Veteran  League.  Relig- 
iously he  is  a  Congregationalist,  and  politicall}' 
he  is  a  true-blue  Republican. 


REV.  JOHN  J.  DONNELLY,  pastor  of  the 
Catholic  Churches  in  Georgetown  and  Sil- 
ver Plume,  was  born  in  Bruce  County,  On- 
tario, Canada,  November  i,  1862,  and  is  a  son  of 
James  and  Ellen  (Desmond)  Donnelly,  both  of 
whom  are  living  in  the  home  county  engaged  in 
agricultural  pursuits. 

Father  Donnelly  was  the  third  child  of  a  family 
of  eight,  and  was  educated  in  the  public  schools 
of  Ontario  during  his  early  years,  and  then  en- 
tered St.  Jerome  College,  of  Berlin,  Ontario,  in 
the  fall  of  1883,  graduating  four  years  later.  He 
then  became  a  student  of  the  Grand  Seminary  at 
Montreal,  from  which  he  graduated  in  1890.  He 
was  ordained  by  Bishop  Dowling  May  31  of  that 
year,  at  Hamilton,  for  the  Hamilton  diocese,  and 
was  assistant  in  Arthur  for  one  year.  Following 
that  he  was  assistant  in  the  cathedral  at  Hamil- 
ton until  1892,  in  May,  when  he  was  transferred 


to  the  Colorado  diocese,  and  was  made  pastor  of 
St.  Patrick's  Church  at  La  Junta  and  the  congre- 
gation at  Las  Animas.  He  remained  in  this 
charge  five  months,  and  during  that  time  built 
the  St.  Mary's  Church  at  the  latter  place,  raising 
the  funds  to  pay  for  it.  From  there  he  went  to 
Montrose,  where  he  remained  three  months,  and 
then  located  in  Ouray  as  pastor  of  St.  Patrick's 
Church  of  that  place,  at  the  same  time  retaining 
charge  of  Montrose  and  adding  Ridgeway  and 
Ironton  to  his  circuit.  While  here  he  paid  off 
the  indebtedness  of  the  churches  at  both  the 
latter  places  and  placed  them  on  a  sound  footing. 
In  1894  he  took  charge  of  La  Junta,  Las  Animas 
and  Rocky  Ford.  During  his  absence  a  fine  stone 
church  had  been  partially  erected,  but  owing  to 
financial  embarrassment,  remained  incomplete. 
Father  Donnelly  completed  the  church  and 
placed  the  parish  on  a  sound  financial  basis. 

Owing  to  the  low  altitude  his  health  gave  way 
and  he  was  sent  to  Glenwood  Springs,  in  the 
hope  that  he  might  recuperate  there.  He  re- 
mained pastor  there  five  months  and  then  took  a 
vacation  of  four  months,  which  he  spent  in  south- 
ern California.  He  then  returned  to  Colorado 
and  took  charge  of  the  church  at  Grand  Junc- 
tion, remaining  there  eight  months.  In  Septem- 
ber, 1897,  he  was  transferred  to  his  present 
charge  in  Georgetown,  Our  Lady  of  Lourdes  and 
St.  Patrick's  Church  at  Silver  Plume.  The 
church  in  Georgetown  has  a  fine  property  and 
controls  several  societies.  The  parochial  school 
is  taught  by  sisters  of  St.  Joseph,  and  the  hos- 
pital, which  is  carried  on  in  connection  with  the 
church,  is  in  charge  of  six  sisters  of  St.  Joseph. 
A  branch  of  the  Ancient  Order  of  Hibernians  is 
held  here,  although  the  headquarters  of  the 
society  are  at  Silver  Plume. 

The  church  was  started  in  the  summer  of  187 1 
by  Bishop  Matz,  of  Denver,  who  preached  to 
the  first  congregation.  Father  Foley  then  took 
charge  for  a  short  time  and  was  followed  by 
Father  McGraw,  who  built  the  first  small  frame 
church,  and  afterwards  erected  the  walls  of  the 
brick  edifice.  Father  Hewlett  was  in  charge  but 
a  few  months  and  gave  way  to  Father  Matz,  now 
Bishop  Matz,  who  furnished  the  church  and  built 
the  parsonage,  school  and  hospital.  He  was 
here  eight  years  and  was  dearly  beloved  by  his 
people.  Next  in  order  were:  Fathers  M.  J.  Car- 
raody.  Lea,  Volpe,  Hickey,  Morrin  and  Howlett, 


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who  again  returned  to  this  charge.  Father  Pickle 
was  in  charge  eighteen  months,  and  was  followed 
by  Father  Donnelly,  who  is  doing  much  to 
strengthen  the  church,  and  has  made  many 
friends  outside  of  his  own  denomination. 


EHARLES  K.  WOLFE  is  one  of  the  repre- 
sentative citizens  of  Georgetown.  Since 
coming  here  he  has  been  connected  with 
W.J.  Chamberlain  and  Frank  Dillingham  in  the 
Georgetown  Ore  Sampling  Works,  the  firm  being 
known  as  that  of  W.  J.  Chamberlain  &  Co. 
The  partners  bought  out  the  old  firm  of  Duncan 
&  Wheeler,  who  were  conducting  a  public  samp- 
ling plant.  Mr.  Wolfe  has  been  the  manager  of 
the  concern  from  the  start  and  it  long  .since  be- 
came one  of  the  leading  and  successful  enterprises 
of  this  county.  The  plant  has  a  capacity  of  sixty 
tons  daily,  and  is  equipped  with  all  kinds  of 
modern  machinery  and  inventions. 

Mr.  Wolfe  was  born  in  Kittanning,  Armstrong 
County,  Pa.,  Januar}'  12,  i860,  and  was  but  four 
years  of  age  when  he  was  left  an  orphan.  He 
was  then  taken  into  the  family  of  his  paternal 
grandparents,  who  lived  upon  a  farm  in  the 
vicinity  of  Kittanning.  The  grandfather,  Joseph 
Wolfe,  was  a  native  of  Pennsylvania,  and  by  trade 
was  a  carpenter  and  builder,  which  occupations 
he  followed  in  connection  with  managing  his 
homestead.  The  father  of  our  subject.  King 
Wolfe,  was  also  a  Pennsylvanian,  his  birth  having 
occurred  in  Armstrong  County.  In  his  early 
manhood  he  learned  the  blacksmith's  trade  and 
this  vocation  he  continued  up  to  the  time  of  his 
death.  He  received  injuries  while  shoeing  a 
horse,  from  the  effects  of  which  he  never  recov- 
ered, and  his  life  was  brought  to  a  close  in  1864. 
Three  months  subsequently  his  devoted  wife, 
whose  maiden  name  was  Mary  Grimm,  followed 
him  to  the  grave.  She,  too,  was  a  native  of  Penn- 
sylvania, and  with  the  exception  of  Charles  K. , 
all  her  children,  eight  in  number,  are  residents 
of  that  state. 

When  he  was  eight  years  old  the  subject  of 
this  sketch  accompanied  his  grandparents  to 
Dixon,  Tenn.,  and  there  he  was  educated  in  the 
public  schools.  In  1873  he  returned  to  his  native 
state  and  entered  a  drug  store  at  East  Brady,  at 
the  same  time  attending  school  a  portion  of  the 
year.     From   1877  to  1879  he  lived  in  various 


towns,  Petrolia,  Millerstown  and  Fairview.  In 
February,  1879,  he  came  to  Leadville,  Colo.,  and 
later  took  a  position  as  a  clerk  with  Mr.  Brown- 
yard,  in  Georgetown.  The  craze  for  mining 
gradually  took  possession  of  him,  and  he  tried 
the  business  for  a  short  time  on  Red  Elephant 
Mountain.  Then  he  bought  a  grocery  at  the 
town  of  the  same  name  and  carried  on  business 
there  for  eighteen  months.  To  his  efforts  it  was 
due  that  a  postoffice  was  established  there  and 
he  was  made  the  first  po.stmaster.  This  position 
he  resigned,  and,  returning  to  Georgetown, 
clerked  for  Tucker  Brothers  for  several  years. 
The  partnership  of  Eagle  &  Wolfe  was  next 
organized,  their  business  being  located  on  Sixth 
street.  The  firm  dealt  in  clothing  and  furnishing 
goods,  and  prospered.  Mr.  Wolfe  found,  how- 
ever, that  the  altitude  was  not  beneficial  to  his 
health,  and  he  sold  out  and  went  to  Denver. 
After  spending  some  months  in  prospecting 
above  Aspen,  Colo.,  he- and  a  Mr.  Jacobson  em- 
barked in  the  grocery  business  at  the  corner  of 
Sixteenth  and  Fremont  streets,  Denver.  Three 
months  later  our  subject  sold  his  interest  and 
turned  his  attention  to  real  estate.  In  1889  he 
went  to  Nevada,  and  bought  ore  for  W.  J.  Cham- 
berlain &  Co. ,  chiefly  in  the  vicinity  of  Austin 
and  Eureka.  In  this  manner  he  became  con- 
nected with  the  gentlemen  with  whom  he  is  now 
associated  in  business.  Hfe  owns  a  half-interest 
in  Clark's  Magnetic  Mineral  Springs,  of  Pueblo, 
quite  a  health  resort.  The  firm  of  Clark  & 
Wolfe  is  engaged  in  bottling  the  waters  of  this 
noted  health-giving  spring,  and  has  built  up  a 
good  trade. 

February  8,  1883,  Mr.  Wolfe  married  Miss 
Eva  M.  Conway,  in  Georgetown.  She  is  a  native 
of  Browning,  111.,  and,  with  her  parents,  Martin 
and  Caroline  (Hollingsworth)  Conway,  came  to 
this  city  in  1874.  The  three  children  born  to 
our  subject  and  wife  are:  Adda  Gertrude,  Caro- 
line Emma  and  Charles  J.  The  son  died  when 
but  two  years  old. 

Since  1897  Mr.  Wolfe  has  been  master  of 
Georgetown  Lodge  No.  48,  A.  F.  &.  A.  M.  He 
is  also  a  member  of  Georgetown  Chapter  No.  4, 
R.  A.  M. ,  and  Georgetown  Commandery  No.  4, 
K.  T.  The  other  orders  to  which  he  belongs  are 
the  Odd  Fellows  (Harmony  Lodge  No.  18),  the 
Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen  (Georgetown 
Lodge  No.  57)  and  the  Red  Men  (Mohican  Tribe 


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No.  54).  Up  to  1896  he  was  a  stalwart  Repub- 
lican, but  since  that  time  has  been  active  in  the 
Democratic  party,  being  the  chairman  of  the 
town  committee. 


"T  NSIGN  S.  WRIGHT,  a  representative  citi- 
^  zen  of  Georgetown,  has  been  longer  engaged 
_  in  the  drug  business  than  any  one  in  the 
state  of  Colorado.  He  erected  the  first  stone 
building  in  this  place  in  the  year  1869,  and  soon 
after  coming  here  he  embarked  in  the  jewelry 
business,  which  he  has  continued  to  the  present 
time.  His  own  store,  occupied  all  these  years, 
was  constructed  thirty  years  ago  by  him,  and 
thus  he  and  his  business  are  landmarks  of 
Georgetown.  No  one  here  has  been  more  earn- 
est in  the  support  of  everything  tending  to  the 
improvement  and  progress  of  this  immediate  sec- 
tion, but  he  has  persistently  refused  to  accept 
public  office.  Politically  a  Republican  for  years, 
he  espoused  the  platform  of  the  People's  party 
during  the  last  campaign.  Since  the  organiza- 
tion of  the  State  Pharmaceutical  Association  he 
has  been  identified  with  the  same. 

Mr.  Wright  comes  from  an  old  Massachusetts 
family.  His  paternal  grandfather,  Washington 
Wright,  was  a  ijative  of  the  state  mentioned. 
The  parents  of  our  subject  were  Simon  and  Eu- 
nice (Brown)  Wright,  natives  of  Wendall,  Mass., 
and  Buxton,  Me.,  respectively.  Simon  Wright 
was  engaged  in  the  grocery  business  in  the  out- 
skirts of  Boston,  near  Cambridge,  up  to  the  time 
of  his  death,  which  event  occurred  in  1828,  when 
he  was  in  the  prime  of  life,  scarce  twoscore  years 
old.  The  faithful  mother,  thus  left  to  provide 
for  her  family  of  six  children,  bravely  shoul- 
dered the  burden  and  lived  to  see  them  useful 
members  of  society.  She  died  in  1842,  in  Boston. 
Of  her  children,  Eunice  Moulton,  Mrs.  Hall,  who 
died  July  11,  1898,  aged  eighty-one  years,  for 
several  years  made  her  home  with  our  subject. 
A  brother,  Simon  Flood  Wright,  was  a  detective 
officer  in  the  employ  of  the  United  States  govern- 
ment for  many  years,  recruited  soldiers  at  Gov- 
ernor's Island,  and  was  accidentally  killed  on  the 
Colony  Railroad  in  1867.  Louisa,  Mrs.  John 
Davey;  William  R.,  a  pharmacist;  andSarahJ., 
a  school  teacher,  who- died  in  1840,  are  the  other 
members  of  the  family. 

E.  S.  Wright,    the  youngest  of  his  family  of 
brothers  and  sisters,  was  born  in  Boston,  June  13, 
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1826.  He  was  educated  in  the  old  Mayhew 
school,  and  in  1846  he  commenced  serving  an  ap- 
prenticeship to  his  brother,  the  druggist.  March 
I9>  1855,  he  was  granted  a  pharmacist's  di- 
ploma and  became  a  partner  of  his  brother.  The 
latter  opened  a  new  drug  store,  of  which  he  took 
charge,  while  he  left  E.  S.  to  manage  the  old 
store.  This  partnership  continued  until  1866, 
when  E.  S.  Wright  came  to  Colorado,  sending 
before  him  a  stock  of  drugs  to  Empire.  Upon 
reaching  that  point  he  built  several  structures 
there  and  kept  a  store  until  1868.  Georgetown 
was  then  giving  great  promise  for  the  future,  and 
he  concluded  to  establish  himself  in  business 
here.  In  addition  to  his  numerous  other  enter- 
prises he  has  been  more  of  less  connected  with 
real-estate  traTisactions,  and  has  been  instrumental 
in  building  up  the  town. 

The  first  marriage  of  Mr.  Wright  was  with 
Miss  Mary  E.  Wright,  who  was  born  in  Pep- 
perell,  Mass.,  and  wasadaughterof  Levi  Wright, 
a  contractor  and  builder  of  that  state.  Mrs. 
Wright  died  December  27,  1865,  leaving  one 
child.  This  daughter,  Isabella  Frances,  born  in 
Boston,  September  19,  1859,  is  the  wife  of 
P.  J.  R.  Manegold,  of  Georgetown.  The  second 
wife  of  Mr.  Wright  was  formerly  Mrs.  Mary  E. 
Blinn.  She  was  born  in  Brookline,  N.  H.,  a 
daughter  of  Jonas  Lawrence,  and  for  a  time  lived 
in  Boston,  but  subsequently  came  to  Georgetown 
and  was  here  married.  She  had  three  children 
by  her  first  husband.  The  two  daughters  are 
living  in  Denver.  Her  death  occurred  at  her 
home  in  this  city  April  4,  1892. 


EHARLES  FISHER  ANDREW,  M.  D.,  is 
one  of  the  rising  young  physicians  and  sur- 
geons of  Boulder  County,  and  though  he  has 
been  engaged  in  practice  in  Longmont  but  four 
years  he  has  gained  a  reputation  for  skill  and 
knowledge  of  his  professional  duties.  He  is  pro- 
fessor of  medical  jurisprudence,  hygiene  and  pre- 
ventive medicines  in  the  Universitj'  of  Colorado, 
is  a  member  and  the  treasurer  of  the  pension 
board  and  was  city  physician  during  1897.  ^^ 
these  several  capacities  he  has  acquitted  himself 
in  a  most  creditable  manner,  bringing  down  upon 
himself  the  warmest  praise  of  those  who  are  com- 
petent judges  and  critics.  He  is  the  examining 
physician  for  the  Knights  of  the  Maccabees,  the 


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Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen,  the  Fraternal 
Aid  Society,  and  the  Bankers'  Life  Insurance 
Company,  of  Des  Moines,  Iowa.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  St.  Vrain  Lodge  No.  23,  A.  F.  &  A.  M., 
Longmont  Chapter  No.  8,  R.  A.  M.,  and  to 
Long's  Peak  Commandery  No.  12,  K.  T.,  and 
also  of  Longmont  Hose  Company  No.  i .  Pro- 
fessionally he  is  connected  with  the  Boulder 
County  Medical,  the  Colorado  State  Medical  and 
the  American  Medical  Associations,  and  is  also  a 
member  of  the  alumni  association  of  the  Mis- 
rouri  Medical  College. 

The  birth  of  Dr.  Andrew  occurred  in  New  Sa- 
lem, Pike  County,  111.,  January  7,  1871.  He  is 
the  eldest  of  the  six  children  of  John  and  Harriet 
(Fisher)  Andrew,  the  others  being:  Harry  B.,  a 
graduate  of  the  Missouri  Medical  College  in  the 
class  of  '96,  and  now  associated  with  our  subject 
in  practice  in  Longmont;  Maude,  Alice,  John,  Jr., 
and  William,  all  in  the  parental  home  in  Illinois. 
Dr.  Harry  B.  is  a  member  of  various  medical  so- 
cieties and  is  connected  with  the  Masonic  order. 
John  Andrew,  Sr. ,  is  now  engaged  in  conducting 
a  mercantile  business  in  New  Salem,  111.,  as  he 
had  been  for  the  past  thirty-five  years.  During 
the  Civil  war  he  served  in  the  Union  army  as  a 
lieutenant  in  Company  K,  Ninety-ninth  Illinois 
Volunteers,  and  participated  in  the  siege  of  Vicks- 
burg,  after  which  campaign  he  was  mustered  out 
by  special  order.  He  is  a  native  of  Lincolnshire, 
England,  and  came  to  this  country  in  early  man- 
hood, taking  up  his  residence  in  Pike  County, 
111.  His  wife  was  born  in  William sville,  Ohio, 
and  is  a  daughter  of  Daniel  Fisher,  who  was  a 
native  of  Pennsylvania,  later  removed  to  Ohio, 
and  about  1840  settled  in  Illinois,  where  he  pur- 
sued his  trade  of  gunsmith  until  shortly  before 
his  death. 

Dr.  Andrew  had  excellent  educational  advan- 
tages in  his  youth,  finishing  his  studies  in  North- 
ern Illinois  Normal  School  at  Dixon.  He  was 
but  seventeen  when  he  commenced  teaching,  and 
for  four  years  he  gave  his  chief  attention  to  that 
calling.  During  this  period  he  took  up  the  study 
of  medicine,  and  for  some  time  was  under  the 
tutelage  of  Dr.  J.  G.  McKinney,  who  had  a  sani- 
tarium in  Barry,  111.  The  young  man  also  pur- 
sued his  higher  studies  at  Lombard  University, 
Galesburg,  111.,  for  two  years.  In  1892  he  ma- 
triculated in  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Sur- 
geons in  Chicago,  and  spent  a  year  there.     The 


World's  Fair  then  coming  on,  he  accepted  a  po- 
sition as  a  Columbian  guard  for  a  few  months. 
His  medical  course  was  completed  in  the  Missouri 
Medical  College,  of  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  in  1895.  He 
had  the  honor  of  being  president  of  his  class,  and 
was  one  of  .seven  students  out  of  a  class  of  seventy- 
eight  who  received  special  distinction  on  account 
of  excellence  of  scholarship.  Soon  after  his  grad- 
uation he  removed  to  Longmont  to  succeed  Dr. 
J.  J.  Topliff,  the  old  family  physician  of  his  own 
people.  The  venerable  doctor  had  just  died,  and 
our  subject  took  up  his  practice,  and  from  the 
first  met  with  gratifying  success.  In  June,  1896, 
the  doctor  married  one  of  the  charming  daughters 
of  Longmont,  Miss  Mary  E.  Tyrrell.  She  is  a 
native  of  this  place,  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools  and  academy  here,  and  is  the  only  daugh- 
ter of  Hon.  J.  W.  Tyrrell,  one  of  our  popular 
citizens. 


HON.  JOHN  F.  VIVIAN,  deputy  superin- 
tendent of  insurance  for  the  state  of  Colo- 
rado, is  among  the  most  prominent  citizens 
of  Golden,  where  he  has  made  his  home  since 
1879.  He  was  born  in  Phoenix,  Houghton 
County,  Mich.,  December  9,  1864,  the  son  of 
Joseph  and  Mary  (Tresidder)  Vivian,  natives  of 
England.  His  father,  who  came  to  the  United 
States  in  youth,  was  one  of  the  pioneer  miners  of 
copper  and  iron  ore  in  the  northern  peninsula  of 
Michigan,  where  he  died  in  1867.  His  wife,  who 
accompanied  her  parents  from  England  at  an 
early  age,  settled  with  them  in  the  northern  part 
of  Michigan,  where  her  father  was  a  man  of  con- 
siderable prominence  and  influence.  The  year 
after  her  husband's  death  she  came  to  Colorado, 
where  she  afterward  married  Robert  Bunney,  and 
now  resides  in  the  vicinity  of  Golden.  She  has 
a  son  and  daughter,  the  latter  being  Ida,  wife  of 
Theodore  Merkle,  of  Golden. 

When  a  boy  Mr.  Vivian  worked  upon  a  farm, 
but  upon  reaching  his  majority  he  entered  the 
mercantile  business.  He  has  always  been  inter- 
ested in  politics  and  has  taken  an  active  part  in 
public  affairs.  In  recognition  of  his  services  in 
behalf  of  the  Republican  party,  he  was  in  1890 
tendered  the  office  of  postmaster.  In  1893  he 
was  elected  clerk  and  recorder  of  Jefferson  Coun- 
ty, defeating  a  man  who  had  held  the  office  of 
county  clerk  for  tweuty-one  years.  Two  years 
later  he  was  re-elected,  this  time  by  a  majorit)' 


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of  eleven  hundred  out  of  a  total  of  three  thousand 
votes  cast  in  the  county,  it  being  the  largest  ma- 
jority ever  given  any  candidate  in  the  county. 
He  held  the  office  until  February  14,  1897,  when 
Auditor  Lowell  appointed  him  deputy  superin- 
tendent of  insurance  for  the  state.  In  1897  he 
attended  the  national  convention  of  insurance 
commissioners  held  at  Old  Point  Comfort,  Va., 
and  in  September,  1898,  expects  to  attend  the 
convention  at  Milwaukee.  In  his  present  posi- 
tion he  is  said  to  be  just  in  his  rulings,  accurate 
in  his  decisions  and  faithful  in  the  discharge  of 
every  duty.  His  official  reports  are  models  of 
accuracy,  system  and  correctness.  To  his  work 
he  brings  a  conscientious  desire  to  do  what  is 
best  and  wisest,  in  view  of  the  circumstances. 

In  1896  Mr.  Vivian  was  elected  a  delegate 
from  the  first  congressional  district  to  the  na- 
tional convention  of  the  Republican  party.  He 
took  an  active  part  in  the  exciting  scenes  of  that 
famous  meeting,  doing  all  within  his  power  to 
secure  recognition  of  the  cause  of  silver  by  the 
convention.  In  this  effort  he  united,  under  the 
leadership  of  Senator  Teller,  with  A.  M.  Steven- 
son, C.  H.  Brickenstein,  of  Conejos  County, 
J.  M.  Downing,  of  Pitkin  County,  Dr.  J.  W. 
Rockefellow,  of  Crested  Butte,  F.  C.  Goudy,  of 
Denver,  and  Judge  Hart,  of  Pueblo,  all  of  whom 
left  the  convention  hall  when  monometallism  was 
championed  by  the  party.  Fraternally  he  is  con- 
nected with  Golden  Lodge  No.  10,  K.  of  P.,  in 
which  he  is  past  chancellor.  He  was  united  in 
marriage,  in  Golden,  with  Miss  Addie  E.  Hig- 
gins,  who  was  born  in  this  city,  the  daughter  of 
John  A.  and  Emily  Higgins,  early  settlers  of  Jef- 
ferson County  from  Hendricks  County,  Ind. 
They  have  two  sons,  John  C.  and  Chauncey. 


QROF.  EDWARD  F.  HERMANNS,  princi- 
L/'  pal  of  Denver  high  school  district  No.  2, 
fS  was  born  in  Cologne,  Germany,  December 
15,  1846,  and  is  a  son  of  Capt.  Jerome  and  Ja- 
cobine  (Halm)  Hermanns.  In  1854  he  accom- 
panied his  parents  to  America,  landing  in  New 
York  after  a  voyage  of  fifty  days  on  a  sailing  ves- 
sel. The  father  had  previously  been  captain  on 
a  steamer  running  from  Rotterdam,  Holland,  to 
Mannheim,  Baden,  on  the  Rhine  River,  and  he 
had  also  .served  for  three  years  in  the  German 
army.     Settling  in  Milwaukee,  Wis.,  he  engaged 


in  the  livery  business.  In  1861,  at  the  first  call 
for  volunteers,  he  enlisted  in  the  army  and  served 
throughout  the  war  in  the  body  guard  of  General 
Fremont,  taking  part  in  the  campaigns  of  Mis- 
souri and  Arkansas  and  being  slightly  wounded 
at  one  time.  After  the  war  he  moved  from  Mil- 
waukee to  St.  Louis,  where  he  engaged  in  various 
occupations,  and  later  went  back  to  Milwaukee, 
dying  there  November  12,  1875.  His  wife  died 
"during  their  residence  in  St.  Louis. 

.  Professor  Hermanns  received  the  greater  part 
of  his  education  at  the  German  and  English  Acad- 
emy in  Milwaukee,  known  as  "  Engelmann's 
school, ' '  from  which  he  graduated  in  1863.  From 
there  he  went  to  Germany  and  entered  the  Royal 
Polytechnic  Institute  at  Aix-la-Chapelle.  After 
graduating  from  this  institute  he  returned  to 
America  and  became  instructor  in  mathematics 
in  the  academy  in  which  he  had  been  a  student 
some  years  before.  Later,  for  a  year,  he  taught 
in  a  female  academy  in  St.  Louis  and  then  was 
principal  of  a  school  in  Nashville,  111.,  for  two 
years.  On  account  of  illness  he  was  obliged  to 
discontinue  this  work  and  return  to  his  father's 
home  in  St.  Louis,  where  later  he  taught  Latin 
and  German  in  the  High  school.  In  1870  he  ac- 
cepted a  position  in  St.  Charles,  Mo.,  and  the  fol- 
lowing year  was  made  Principal  and  Superintend- 
ent of  the  city  schools,  holding  this  position  until 
July  I,  1882.  In  1875  he  was  elected  County 
Commissioner  of  Public  Schools,  which  position 
.he  held  for  four  successive  terms,  until  1882.  On 
resigning  his  various  offices  he  entered  the  gov- 
ernment service  as  United  States  Assistant  Engin- 
eer. As  United  States  Assistant  Engineer  Mr. 
Hermanns  worked  along  the  Missouri  River,  as- 
sisting in  its  improvements  and  having  much  of 
the  responsibility  of  its  management.  In  1886 
lie  became  an  assistant  iu  the  Kansas  City  High 
school,  though  he  still  retained  some  connection 
with  the  United  States  Engineer  Office.  From 
Kansas  City,  in  1891,  he  came  to  Denver,  where 
he  has  since  been  connected  with  the  schools. 
In  St.  Louis  County,  Mo.,  in  1877,  he  married 
Miss  Evelina  Weber,  daughter  of  C.  Henry  and 
Elizabeth  T.  Weber.  Her  father  was  founder  of 
the  oldest  music  house  west  of  the  Mississippi 
River,  having  established  the  firm  of  Balmer  & 
Weber,  which  still  exists  in  St.  Louis.  They 
are  the  parents  of  one  son,  Francis  E.,  who  was 
born  in  St.  Charles,  Mo.,  graduated  from  the 


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West  Side  Denver  High  school  in  1895,  and  is 
now  a  student  in  the  Massachusetts  Institute  of 
Technology  in  Boston,  a  member  of  the  class  of 
1899. 

In  religion  Professor  Hermanns  is  a  Unitarian. 
For  two  terms  he  served  as  president  of  the  State 
Association  of  County  Commissioners  of  Missouri. 
He  aided  in  founding  the  Colorado  Schoolmasters' 
Club,  of  which  he  was  the  first  president.  He 
has  also  been  president  of  the  Colorado  Superin- 
tendents and  Principals'  Round  Table  and  High 
school  and  College  Section  of  the  State  Teachers' 
Association,  and  a  member  of  the  Colorado  Edu- 
cational Council  from  its  beginning,  said  council 
being  the  governing  body  of  the  State  Teachers' 
Association.  He  represents  the  Schoolmasters' 
Club  in  the  Executive  Board  of  the  Educational 
Alliance  of  Denver.  He  was  elected  president  of 
the  Department  of  Secondary  Education  at  the 
meeting  of  the  National  Educational  Association, 
held  in  Washington,  D.  C,  in  July,  1898. 


(lOHN  SCOTT  WILSON  enjoys  the  di.stinc- 
I  tion  of  standing  among  the  foremost  of  the 
O  prosperous  farmers  of  Douglas  County,  in 
which  county  he  owns  seven  hundred  and  sixty 
acres  of  well-improved  land,  and  his  home  is  lo- 
cated on  section  22,  township  7,  range  66  west. 
He  was  born  in  Holmes  County,  Ohio,  December 
I,  1847;  his  parents  are  James  and  Dorcas  A. 
(Miller)  Wilson.  James  Wilson  was  a  black-, 
smith  by  trade,  and  early  in  life  moved  to  Ma- 
rion County,  Iowa,  and  located  in  the  town  of 
Swan,  where  he  continued  his  occupation;  later 
he  embarked  in  the  mercantile  business,  but  is 
now  living  in  retirement,  and  his  two  sons  are 
carrying  on  his  business;  he  is  now  past  his  sev- 
enty-seventh birthday.  The  mother  of  our  sub- 
ject died  October  19,  1897. 

John  Scott  Wilson  was  three  years  of  age 
when  his  parents  moved  to  Iowa,  and  he  was 
reared  to  manhood  in  the  village  of  Swan.  His 
high-school  education  was  supplemented  by  a 
course  in  Simpson's  Seminary  at  Indianola,  and 
by  one  term  in  the  college  at  Pella.  At  the  age 
of  twenty-one  years  he  began  teaching  school, 
and  taught  one  term  in  Iowa,  and  after  coming  to 
Colorado  in  1876  he  taught  three  terms  in  Doug- 
las County.  He  then  turned  his  attention  toward 
agricultural  pursuits  and  has  since  been  engaged 


in  general  farming  and  stock-raising.  Gradually 
adding  to  his  first  purcha.se,  he  now  owns  seven 
hundred  and  sixty  acres,  having  purchased  one 
hundred  and  sixty  acres  on  section  24;  one  hun- 
dred and  sixty  acres  on  sections  22  and  23;  one 
hundred  and  sixty  acres  on  sections  14  and  15; 
and  one  hundred  and  forty  acres  on  section  2 1 . 
He  is  one  of  the  enterprising  and  progressive 
members  of  his  community;  is  regarded  with 
great  consideration  and  respect  in  his  section,  and 
has  done  well  his  part  toward  the  development 
and  advancement  of  Douglas  County. 

The  first  vote  of  Mr.  Wilson  was  cast  for  Grant 
in  1868;  he  is  now  serving  his  fourth  term  as 
justice  of  the  peace,  and  of  all  the  cases  tried  be- 
fore him,  only  one  has  been  appealed  and  re- 
versed, and  that  one  was  due  to  the  fact  that 
there  was  no  evidence  introduced  before  our  sub- 
ject on  the  part  of  the  defense,  but  it  was  after- 
wards introduced  when  tried  in  the  county  court. 
In  religious  views  our  subject  is  a  member  and  a 
liberal  supporter  of  the  Methodist  Church,  and 
has  been  a  class  leader  and  superintendent  of  the 
Sunday-school  of  that  church.  Fraternally  he  is  a 
member  of  the  Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen 
No.  27,  of  Castle  Rock.  January  31,  1873,  he 
married  Mary  E.,  daughter  of  Jonathan  and 
Elizabeth  (Beam)  Drake,  of  Swan,  Marion  Coun- 
ty, Iowa.  To  them  has  been  born  one  child,  a 
daughter,  Nellie  Grace,  born  January  31,  1884, 
in  Douglas  County,  Colo. 


Gl  LFRED  PETERSON,  of  Elbert  County,  re- 
Ll  sides  on  section  34,  township  10,  range  64 
I  I  west,  near  the  village  of  Elbert.  He  was 
born  in  the  southern  part  of  Sweden,  November 
2,  1844,  and  is  a  son  of  Per  and  Mary  (Person) 
Larson.  His  boyhood  years  were  spent  in  farm 
work  and  in  attendance  upon  local  schools.  In 
1870  he  came  to  America  via  Liverpool  to  New 
York,  spending  eleven  days  on  the  ocean.  After 
a  short  time  spent  in  New  Jersey  he  went  to 
Connecticut  and  secured  employment  from  a  con- 
tractor, with  whom  he  worked  in  a  stone  yard  and 
also  in  a  lumber  yard. 

In  1 87 1  Mr.  Peterson  came  to  Colorado,  where 
he  worked  in  a  sawmill  and  aLso  got  out  lumber 
for  railroad  ties.  In  the  fall  of  1873  he  took  up 
a  homestead  of  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  on 
section    32,    where  he  remained  about    sixteen 


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years,  meantime  placing  the  land  under  cultiva- 
tion. From  time  to  time  he  has  purchased  other 
property,  until  his  lauded  possessions  aggregated 
fourteen  hundred  and  eighty  acres.  Here  he 
raises  general  farm  products  and  also  a  high 
grade  of  Shorthorn  cattle. 

July  19,  1879,  Mr.  Peterson  married  Miss 
Anna  Olson,  who  was  born  in  Sweden  and  with 
whom  he  became  acquainted  in  Denver.  They 
are  the  parents  of  twelve  children,  namely :  Arthur 
Leonard,  who  was  born  December  31,  1880;  Con- 
Tad,  August  I,  1882;  Alger  C,  February  15, 
1884;  Fritz  A.,  December  19,  1885;  Axel  Edwin, 
August  17,  1887;  Julius  Arnold,  June  16,  1889; 
Karl  Otto,  November  11,  1890;  Ninian  Valfred, 
January  28,  1892;  Theodore  Emile,  June  i,  1893; 
Anna  Elvina,  October  30,  1894;  Per  Talof,  April 
II,  1896;  and  Knut  Torwald,  January  3,  1898. 
The  family  are  identified  with  the  Lutheran 
Church,  in  which  Mr.  Peterson  is  an  active 
worker  and  to  which  he  has  given  liberally.  In 
politics  he  is  a  Republican. 


Gl  LBERT  WOLFF,  a  prosperous  and  progress- 
Ll  ive  farmer  of  Jefferson  County,  residing 
/  I  two  miles  south  of  Arvada,  was  born  in 
Mount  Pleasant,  Jefferson  County,  Ohio,  Decem- 
ber 29,  1846,  a  son  of  John  B.  and  Caroline  Jane 
(Hedges)  Wolff.  He  was  one  often  children,  of 
whom  four  besides  himself  are  now  living.  They 
are:  Hiram  G.,  living  in  Highlands,  a  surburb  of 
Denver;  John,  who  lives  four  miles  north  of  Den- 
ver; Charles  H. ,  of  Boulder;  and  Elvira,  wife  of 
Rudolph  A.  Leimer,  general  agent  for  the  Pacific 
Express  Company,  at  Denver. 

Joseph  Wolff,  grandfather  of  our  subject,  was 
born  in  Pennsylvania  and  when  quite  young  en- 
listed and  served  in  the  war  of  1812.  Hiram 
and  Hannah  Hedges,  the  maternal  grandparents 
of  our  subject,  were  born  in  Virginia.  John  B. 
Wolff  was  a  native  of  Virginia  and  in  early  life 
studied  dentistry,  medicine  and  law.  When  his 
son,  Albert,  was  two  years  of  age  he  returned  to 
the  Old  Dominion  from  Ohio  and  settled  in 
Wheeling,  where  he  operated  the  first  steam 
printing  press  ever  run  in  Wheeling.  In  1858  he 
removed  with  his  family  to  Kansas,  where  he 
had  previously  sought  a  suitable  location.  How- 
ever, in  1 859,  when  the  gold  fever  broke  out  in 
Colorado,  he  joined  the  throng  of  emigrants  that 


crossed  the  plains  to  the  mountain  regions  of  the 
west.  Some  months  later  he  returned  to  Kansas 
and  made  final  arrangements  to  move  to  Denver, 
where  he  settled  in  the  spring  of  i860.  His 
family  did  not  join  him  here  until  two  years 
later.  With  the  ej'e  of  a  keen  observer  he  saw 
that  gardening  would  prove  profitable  and  decided 
to  embark  in  the  business.  Settling  two  miles 
west  of  our  subject's  present  location,  he  spent 
two  years  there  and  then  purchased  the  property 
now  owned  by  Albert.  In  the  years  that  followed 
he  accumulated  much  valuable  property  and  at 
the  time  of  his  death  was  well-to-do.  Politically 
a  stanch  Republican,  he  took  a  leading  part  in 
the  shaping  of  local  political  affairs  wherever  he 
made  his  home,  and  was  one  of  the  organizers  of 
the  party  during  the  '50s.  While  in  Virginia  he 
stumped  the  state  against  old  Governor  Wise. 
He  was  also  prominent  in  the  anti-slavery  fight 
in  Kansas  in  1857. 

At  the  time  of  his  death,  Mr.  Wolff  was  en- 
gaged in  the  practice  of  law  in  Washington,  D.C. 
He  was  a  man  of  broad  learning  and  was  recog- 
nized as  one  of  the  best-informed  men  of  his 
time.  As  he  was  proficient  in  law,  so  too  he  was 
earnest  in  religious  work,  and  for  years  officiated 
as  a  minister  in  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church. 
In  his  circuit  riding,  in  early  days,  he  rode  over 
the  prairies  where  Chicago  now  stands;  but  the 
few  log  huts  and  prairie  grass  that  grew  five  feet 
tall  gave  no  promise  of  the  mighty  city  that  was 
to  be. 

In  the  public  schools  of  his  home  neighbor- 
hood, which  were  inferior  in  all  respects  to  those 
of  the  present  day,  the  subject  of  this  sketch  re- 
ceived his  education.  When  his  father  left  the 
home  farm  in  1868,  he  and  his  older  brother  took 
charge  of  the  place,  which  they  purchased  the 
following  year,  and  for  eleven  years  they  carried 
on  the  homestead  in  partnership.  On  dividing 
their  interests,  the  brother  took  the  property  in 
Highlands  and  our  subject  retained  the  home 
farm.  The  latter,  in  1894,  built  a  beautiful  and 
commodious  residence,  which,  with  its  substan- 
tial farm  buildings  and  neat  grounds,  makes  one 
of  the  most  attractive  homes  of  the  county. 

February  7,  1878,  Mr.  Wolff  married  Mrs. 
Mary  E.  (Royce)  King,  daughter  of  Phineas  W. 
Royce  and  a  native  of  Ohio.  Her  father  was  born 
in  New  York,  and  for  some  years  resided  in  Ohio, 
whence  in   1864  he  came  to  Colorado.     Mr.  and 


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Mrs.  Wolff  are  the  parents  of  two  children:  Ches- 
ter A. ,  who  is  attending  the  high  school  in  his 
home  neighborhood;  and  Percy  H.,  a  bright  boy 
of  nine  years. 

The  political  aflfiliations  of  Mr.  WoliF  are  with 
no  especial  party,  for  he  supports  the  men  and 
measures  he  believes  to  be  best  adapted  to  pro- 
mote the  welfare  of  the  people.  In  religion  he  is 
of  the  Presbyterian  faith,  but  in  the  absence  of  a 
church  of  that  denomination  in  the  neighbor- 
hood, he  and  his  family  attend  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church.  He  is  identified  with  the 
Clear  Creek  Valley  Grange,  of  which  he  has 
been  master  for  nineteen  years. 


A.  HAGGOTT,  the  highly  esteemed  su- 
perintendent of  the  Idaho  Springs  schools, 
is  a  fine  scholar,  and  still  devotes  a  great 
share  of  his  time  to  self-improvement  in  that  line. 
He  came  to  this  state  in  1887,  when  a  young 
man,  and  has  pushed  his  way  rapidly  to  the  front 
of  public  educators,  winning  a  deservedly  popu- 
lar place  in  the  public  esteem.  He  is  a  native  of 
Ohio,  born  in  Sidney,  that  state.  May  18,  1864. 
His  parents  were  Benjamin  P.  and  Margaret 
(Gamble)  Haggott.  The  first  of  the  name  in 
this  country  came  from  England  and  settled  with 
the  Salem  Colony,  in  that  town,  in  1836,  and 
some  of  them  were  killed  in  the  colonial  and  In- 
dian wars.  The  great- grandfather,  William  Hag- 
gott, was  born  in  Andover,  Mass.,  was  a  soldier 
of  the  Revolution,  and  lost  his  life  in  the  battle 
of  Bunker  Hill.  The  grandfather,  also  William, 
was  born  in  the  same  town  and  moved  to  Con- 
way, N.  H.  He  was  major  in  a  New  Hampshire 
regiment,  anfi  after  his  term  expired,  in  1814,  he 
took  his  family  to  Ohio,  first  to  Cincinnati,  and 
later  to  Hamilton,  Butler  County,  that  state, 
where  he  died  at  the  age  of  sixty-three  years. 
He  married  a  Miss  Pearl,  whose  father  fought  in 
the  Revolution  and  was  with  Arnold  on  his  ex- 
pedition to  Quebec.  He  died  in  New  Hamp- 
shire. 

Benjamin  P.  Haggott  was  born  in  Conway, 
N.  H.,  and  went  with  his  father  to  Ohio,  where 
he  lived  until  his  death,  in  1881.  During  the 
Civil  war  he  served  as  hospital  steward  of  the 
Fifty-fourth  Ohio  Infantry.  He  married  Mar- 
garet Gamble,  of  Xenia,  Greene  County,  Ohio, 
a  daughter  of  Samuel  Gamble,  who  came  from 


Pennsylvania  to  Ohio  in  his  early  days,  and 
fought  in  the  war  of  18 12.  Her  grandfather  was 
a  Revolutionary  soldier.  Her  mother  was  a 
member  of  the  Gordon  family  who  moved  from 
Virginia  to  Kentucky  in  early  times  and  later 
went  to  Ohio;  her  grandfather  Gordon  was  also  a 
soldier  of  the  Revolution.  She  died  in  1876  in 
Ohio. 

Mr.  Haggott  was  elected  superintendent  of  the 
schools  of  Idaho  Springs  in  1890,  and  he  has 
since  been  retained  in  the  position.  His  work 
here  has  been  of  the  most  satisfactory  character, 
and  he  has  raised  the  standard  of  the  schools, 
making  them  most  thorough.  He  established  the 
high  school  with  a  four  years'  course,  and  held 
his  fourth  annual  commencement  in  1898. 

December  29,  1897,  he  married  Miss  Lou 
Willie  Cecil,  of  Columbia,  Tenn.,  whose  family 
were  originally  from  Cecil  County,  Md.  He  is 
president  of  the  Clear  Creek  Valley  Teachers' 
Association,  and  a  member  of  both  the  State  and 
National  Educational  Associations.  That  he  is 
a  j'oung  man  of  great  energy  and  industry  is 
evidenced  by  the  fact  that  he  worked  his  way 
through  college,  and  studied  law  while  teaching, 
so  mastering  the  subject  that  he  was  admitted  to 
the  bar  in  Denver  June  15,  1892.  However,  he 
devotes  his  entire  time  to  educational  work,  and 
promises  to  become  one  of  the  most  prominent 
educators  in  the  state. 


i  yiARQUIS  VICTOR,  of  Sedalia,  Douglas 
Y  County,  was  born  in  northern  France,  near 
(g  Avesnes,  December  14,  1839,  ^  son  of 
Francis  Dennis  and  Rosine  (Mercier)  Victor,  the 
former  of  whom  was  an  engraver  and  also  for 
years  served  as  a  soldier  in  the  French  army. 
When  our  subject  was  a  boy  of  nine  j'ears  he  ran 
away  from  home  and  sailed  before  the  mast,  going 
to  Jersey  Island  and  thence  crossing  the  ocean  to 
Newfoundland,  Boston,  and  other  West  Atlantic 
ports.  Returning  to  Europe,  he  sailed  through 
the  Mediterranean  to  Naples,  from  there  to  the 
island  of  Madagascar  on  the  east  coast  of  Africa, 
thence  to  London  and  finally  back  to  Jersey  Isl- 
and. Upon  receiving  his  pay  he  started  home, 
but  the  absence  of  three  years  and  his  seafaring 
life  had  so  changed  him  that  his  father,  whom  he 
met  on  the  road  near  his  old  home,  failed  to  rec- 
ognize him.     Without  disclosing  his  identity,  he 


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proceeded  to  Belgium,  and  there  began  to  learn 
the  shoemaker's  trade,  but  his  boss  being  a  man 
of  very  low  character,  he  left  him  and  began  to 
learn  the  blacksmith's  trade  with  another  man. 
He  remained  for  three  years  as  an  apprentice, 
during  which  time  he  received  only  eighty  cents 
a  month  until  the  last  year,  when  he  was  paid 
about  sixty  cents  a  day. 

When  about  seventeen  years  of  age  Mr.  Victor 
began  to  work  as  a  journeyman.  After  two  years 
he  concluded  to  go  home  and  see  his  parents. 
This  time,  as  before,  his  father  failed  to  recog- 
nize him,  but  his  mother,  after  a  few  minutes' 
conversation,  knew  him,  in  spite  of  all  changes. 
For  three  days  he  enjoyed  a  visit  with  old  friends, 
then  returned  to  Belgium,  but  after  a  few  months 
he  left  and  went  to  London,  from  there  to  Jersey 
Island,  and  finally  crossed  the  Atlantic  to  New 
Brunswick,  thence  to  Quebec,  where  he  worked 
at  his  trade  for  a  year  or  more.  On  coming  to 
the  United  States  in  1861  he  followed  his  trade  in 
New  Hampshire.  While  there  he  enlisted  in 
Company  H,  Fifth  New  Hampshire  Infantry,  and 
served  for  nine  months,  afterward  joining  the 
Sixteenth  Regular  Infantry  and  serving  three 
years.  He  participated  in  many  battles  and  had 
many  narrow  escapes.  On  one  occasion,  iu  a 
battle,  his  clothing  was  shot  through,  but  not  a 
single  bullet  penetrated  his  flesh.  At  another 
time  he  was  captured  by  the  Confederates,  but 
soon  succeeded  in  effecting  his  escape.  For 
meritorious  service  he  was  promoted  to  be  cor- 
poral. He  was  honorably  discharged  at  the  ex- 
piration of  his  time. 

Upon  the  close  of  the  war  Mr.  Victor  returned 
to  New  Hampshire,  but  soon  came  west  to 
Chicago,  thence  to  Grand  Haven,  Mich.,  and  in 
1867  migrated  to  Colorado,  where  he  worked  on 
a  railroad  and  also  in  a  sawmill.  In  1874  he 
settled  in  Sedalia,  where,  with  only  a  few  tools, 
he  opened  a  blacksmith's  shop.  From  that  small 
beginning  he  worked  up  a  large  and  profitable 
trade.  He  now  owns  the  finest  brick  house  in 
Sedalia  and  also  has  a  ranch  of  seven  hundred 
acres,  which  he  secured  as  a  soldiers'  homestead 
and  by  pre-emption  in  part,  and  the  remainder 
by  purchase.  His  residence  was  bought  in  1876 
and  is  substantial  and  commodious. 

In  1876  Mr.  Victor  married  Miss  Marjorie 
Monteith,  who  died  in  1892,  leaving  no  children. 
November  i,  1894,  he  married  Miss  Joanna  Fail- 


ing, daughter  of  Henry  and  Abigail  (Casey) 
Failing.  She  was  born  in  Nemaha  City,  Neb., 
but  was  brought  to  Colorado  at  five  years  of  age, 
and  has  since  resided  in  Douglas  County. 

For  years  Mr.  Victor  voted  the  Democratic 
ticket,  but  in  1896  he  gave  his  support  to  William 
McKinley  for  president.  For  twenty-two  years 
he  served  as  a  school  director,  but,  other  than 
that,  he  has  refused  official  positions.  He  was 
reared  in  the  Catholic  faith,  but  his  wife  is  a 
Methodist,  and  they  support  that  denomination. 
Fraternally  he  is  connected  with  J.  G.  Blount 
Post  No.  65,  G.  A.  R. ,  in  which  he  is  past  com- 
mander, and  is  also  aide-de-camp  in  the  depart- 
ment of  Colorado  and  Wyoming. 


HENRY  H.  GANDY.  The  gentleman  whose 
name  stands  at  the  head  of  this  sketch  came 
to  Douglas  County,  Colo.,  in  1884,  and  is 
now  residing  on  a  fine  homestead  consisting  of 
three  hundred  and  sixty  acres,  located  on  section 
23,  township  ID,  range  66  west,  six  miles  east 
from  the  town  of  Greenland.  He  was  born  in 
Hunt  County,  Tex.,  January  6,  i860,  and  is  a  son 
of  Sheppard  Miles  and  Drusilla  (Hulse)  Gandy. 

Henry  H.  Gaudy  was  six  years  of  age  when 
his  parents  moved  to  Cherokee  County,  Kan., 
and  there  he  worked  on  his  father's  farm  until 
1883;  his  parents  both  died  in  that  county  and  he 
was  nine  years  of  age  when  his  mother  passed 
from  this  life.  He  is  one  of  a  family  of  ten  chil- 
dred,  seven  sons  and  three  daughters,  seven  of 
whom  are  now  living.  As  his  father  was  poor, 
our  subject  at  the  age  of  twelve  years  was  com- 
pelled to  battle  for  himself;  he  worked  out  and 
received  a  fair  salary,  and,  as  most  do,  he  failed  to 
lay  aside  a  part  of  his  earnings.  He  rented  a 
small  piece  of  land  in  Cherokee  County  and 
followed  farming  until  1883,  when  he  drove  to 
Pueblo,  Colo.  He  and  his  family  departed  from 
Cherokee  County  June  5,  and  arrived  at  Pueblo 
July  6;  camping  along  the  road-side  made  their 
journey  somewhat  longer,  but  nevertheless  the 
more  enjoyable. 

Their  stay  in  Pueblo  was  very  brief,  as  they 
soon  left  for  Manitou,  where  our  subject  worked 
at  grading  a  road;  the  following  summer  and  fall 
were  spent  working  at  various  jobs  at  the  Divide, 
and  his  family  lived  in  the  wagon  a  number  of 
months  and  later  they  moved  to  a  log  cabin .    Up 


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to  the  month  of  January  our  subject  worked  at 
digging  potatoes,  but  in  that  mouth  he  returned 
to  Manitou,  and  later  went  to  Oak  Creek,  where 
he  visited  an  old  friend.  In  the  spring  of  1884 
he  rented  a  farm  in  Douglas  County,  but  soon 
afterward  bought  the  place,  which  consisted  of 
one  hundred  and  sixty  acres;  by  his  successful 
methods  of  farming,  he  succeeded  in  accumulating 
enough  funds  with  which  to  purchase  more  land, 
and  is  now  the  proprietor  of  three  hundred  and 
sixty  acres.  He  is  regarded  as  one  of  the  sub- 
stantial farmers  of  Douglas  County,  and  enjoys 
the  respect  and  good  will  of  his  neighbors  and 
acquaintances. 

Mr.  Gaudy  was  joined  in  marriage  January  6, 
1878,  at  Joplin,  Mo.,  with  Miss  Mary  A.  Smith, 
a  native  of  the  state  of  Kansas.  A  family  of  six 
children  was  the  result  of  this  happy  union, 
namely:  Luther  K.,  born  in  Cherokee  County, 
Kan.,  March  12,  1883;  Lula  E.,  born  in  Doug- 
las County,  Colo.,  August  19,  1885;  Lillie  B., 
born  October  29,  1888;  L,ee  Noah,  born  March 
26,  1893;  Lydia  Mary,  born  May  8,  1895;  and 
Lena  C,  born  June  2,  1897.  ^^^  subject  is  an 
ardent  Republican  and  cast  his  first  vote  for 
James  G.  Blaine  in  1884. 


0AMUEL  ARMSTRONG,  a  pioneer  of  Colo- 
/\  rado,  left  Illinois  for  the  west  April  14,  1866, 
Q)  making  the  long  trip  across  the  plains  with 
a  team  of  mules,  and  arriving  in  Denver  June  9. 
Soon  after  he  reached  that  city  he  embarked  in 
freighting  from  Cheyenne  to  Denver  and  the 
mountains,  which  he  continued  up  to  1871.  He 
then  came  to  his  present  place,  two  and  one-half 
miles  east  of  Longmont,  in  Weld  County,  where 
he  took  up  eighty  acres  of  land  and  began  the  life 
of  a  farmer.  He  has  since  given  his  time  to  the 
cultivation  of  the  place,  upon  which  he  raises 
the  usual  farm  products  common  to  this  locality. 
The  son  of  William  and  Barbara  (Pitman) 
Armstrong,  our  subject  was  born  in  Bedford 
County,  Pa.,  November  9,  1832.  He  was  one  of 
eight  children,  all  of  whom  are  deceased  except 
himself  and  a  sister,  Henrietta,  wife  of  Seymour 
Knapp,  of  Garden  Plains,  111.  His  father,  who 
was  a  native  of  Pennsylvania,  grew  to  manhood 
there,  engaged  in  farming,  and  made  that  state 
his  home  until  death.  Samuel  was  reared  on  a 
farm  and  received  common-school  advantages. 


In  1849  he  came  west  as  far  as  Whiteside  County, 
111.,  where  for  some  years  he  worked  as  a  farm 
hand.  Afterward  he  rented  land  and  farmed  for 
himself.  On  the  breaking  out  of  the  war  his 
sympathies  were  at  once  enlisted  on  the  side  of 
the  Union.  August  9,  1862,  he  enlisted  in  Com- 
pany F,  Ninety-third  Illinois  Infantry,  and  took 
part  in  the  battle  of  Champion  Hill  and  the  siege 
of  Vicksburg.  After  the  surrender  of  the  latter 
city  he  was  taken  ill  and  sent  north,  where  he 
remained  until  the  close  of  the  war,  and  was 
mustered  out  of  the  service  at  Detroit,  Mich., 
July  5,  1865. 

Returning  to  Illinois  on  his  discharge  from  the 
army,  Mr.  Armstrong  spent  the  winter  of  1865-66 
there,  and  in  the  spring  of  1866  came  to  Colo- 
rado, where  he  has  since  made  his  home.  As  a 
farmer  he  is  energetic  and  capable,  with  a  deter- 
mination to  succeed  no  matter  what  obstacles 
stand  in  his  path;  as  a  citizen  he  favors  meas- 
ures for  the  benefit  of  the  people  and  the  advance- 
ment of  local  interests;  as  a  friend  he  is  accom- 
modating and  helpful.  In  political  matters  he 
advocates  Republican  principles  and  supports  this 
belief  by  his  vote  at  elections. 

Mr.  Armstrong  has  been  twice  married;  first, 
in  1858,  to  Sarah  E.  Davis,  of  Albany,  111.,  and 
to  them  one  child  was  born.  Belle,  now  the  wife 
of  Dr.  Sammis,  of  Chicago.  In  1878  he  married 
as  his  second  wife,  Mrs.  J^emima  Maddux,  who 
was  born  in  Ohio,  but  has  been  a  resident  of 
Colorado  since  1866.  By  her  first  marriage, 
which  united  her  with  Peter  Maddux,  she  is  the 
mother  of  six  children  now  living,  namely:  James, 
of  Alamosa;  Catherine,  wife  of  J.  Harrison  Kent, 
of  Clinton,  Mo. ;  John  S.,  ofLeadville;  Marj'A., 
wife  of  James  Mason,  of  Larimer  County; 
Maria  S.,  wife  of  John  Hodgson,  of  Niles,  Mich.; 
and  I.  Oliver,  of  Delta,  Colo. 


(tjAMUEL  B.  SMITH,  of  Castle  Rock,  Doug- 
2\  las  County,  was  born  in  Pomeroy,  Meigs 
VS^  County,  Ohio,  September  21,  1849,  and  is  a 
son  of  Isaac  Barker  and  Susan  (Stevens)  Smith. 
His  father,  also  a  native  of  that  county,  spent  his 
entire  life  upon  a  farm  there.  The  family  con- 
sisted of  seven  children,  six  of  whom  are  still 
living,  Samuel  being  the  youngest  of  these.  He 
was  so  young  when  his  mother  died  that  he  has 
only  a  faint,  dim  remembrance  of  her,  and  when 


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he  was  ten  death  deprived  him  of  a  father's  care. 
Afterward  he  was  taken  care  of  by  his  older 
brothers  and  sisters.  By  working  during  the 
summer  months  he  was  enabled  to  pay  his  tuition 
in  a  select  school,  which  he  attended  for  two 
winters. 

In  1 87 1  Mr.  Smith  became  an  apprentice  to 
the  blacksmith's  trade  in  Pomeroy,  at  which  he 
worked  for  three  years,  during  the  first  year  re- 
ceiving his  board  only,  but  for  the  next  two  years 
receiving  $16  a  month  and  his  board.  In  1876 
he  went  to  Marshall  County,  Iowa,  where  he 
secured  employment  upon  a  farm,  but  after  a  year 
began  to  work  at  his  trade  in  Durant,  that  state. 
In  1878  he  opened  a  shop  of  his  own,  but  a  year 
later  moved  to  Colorado,  settling  in  Denver, 
where  his  first  work  was  at  chopping  wood. 
Later  he  worked  at  his  trade  in  Castle  Rock, 
where,  in  January,  1881,  he  bought  his  present 
shop. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Smith,  July  12,  1881, 
united  him  with  Mi.ss  Nellie  Sellars,  of  Castle 
Rock,  but  a  native  of  Jefferson  County,  Colo., 
and  a  daughter  of  John  C.  and  Nancy  (Wiggins) 
Sellars,  now  living  in  Colorado  Springs.  When 
she  was  only  two  weeks  old  her  parents  moved  to 
Douglas  County,  and  here  she  has  since  resided. 
Her  five  children  are:  Nora,  Dollie,  Etta,  Samuel 
Aaron  and  Hugh  Bernice. 

Since  casting  his  first  vote  for  U.  S.  Grant  in 
1872,  Mr.  Smith  has  always  supported  Repub- 
lican principles.  He  served  as  city  marshal  and 
was  trustee  from  1883  to  1894,  after  which,  for 
two  years,  he  held  the  ofiice  of  mayor.  He  is 
now  master  workman  of  Castle  Rock  Lodge  No. 
27,  A.  O.  U.  W. 

ITEPHEN  BUTLER  is  manager  of  •  the 
Farmers'  Mill  and  Elevator  Company,  of 
Longmont,  which  plant  is  the  largest  and 
finest  one  of  the  kind  in  northern  Colorado.  He 
is  a  natural  mechanic  and  his  genius  in  fitting 
up  and  managing  machinery  makes  him  just  the 
one  for  the  position  he  occupies.  The  large  and 
growing  business  transacted  by  this  company  is 
something  remarkable,  and  for  some  time  it  has 
been  necessary  to  run  the  mill  night  and  day,  in 
order  to  meet  the  demand  for  its  products.  Mr. 
Butler  is  a  director  in  the  company  and  is 
financially  interested  in  the  Longmont  Reduction 
Works,  as  well.     He  is  a  silver   Democrat,  and 


was  one  of  the  trustees  of  this  city  from  the 
spring  of  1894  to  the  spring  of  1898,  or  for  two 
terms. 

The  Butlers  were  originally  English,  and  set- 
tled in  Virginia  in  colonial  times.  The  grandfa- 
ther of  our  subject  was  John  Butler,  born  near 
Richmond,  and  a  planter  in  later  life.  In  1801 
he  settled  in  Knox  County,  Ohio,  and  foiuided 
the  town  of  Mount  Vernon,  where  he  died  at 
the  age  of  eighty-seven.  He  was  a  farmer  and 
stock-raiser  in  the  Buckeye  state.  His  eldest 
son,  Stephen,  was  a  soldier  in  the  war  of  18 12. 
Jesse  Butler,  father  of  our  subject,  was  born  in 
Ohio  in  1807  and  was  a  farmer,  also.  He  took 
up  his  abode  in  Holmes  County  in  1848  and  sub- 
sequently lived  in  Allen  County,  Ohio.  In  1874 
he  went  to  Iowa,  with  his  son  Stephen,  and  died 
in  the  vicinity  of  Creston,  about  two  years  later. 
His  wife  was  a  Miss  Eliza  Caddington  in  her 
girlhood.  She  was  born  in  Genesee  County, 
N.  Y.,  and  died  in  Iowa  when  in  her  seventy- 
fourth  year.  Three  of  their  sons  were  in  the 
Union  army  during  the  Civil  war,  David  in  the 
Thirty-fourth  Ohio  Infantry,  Lewis  in  the  First 
Ohio  Cavalry  and  John  in  the  Eighty-fourth 
Ohio  Infantry.  David  died  in  the  Buckeye  state; 
Lewis  is  a  resident  of  Indianapolis  and  John  lives 
in  Missouri.  Henry,  the  third  son,  is  now  in 
Nebraska.  Simon  was  accidentally  killed  by  the 
upsetting  of  a  wagon,  which  caused  a  log  to  fall 
upon  him.  Thomas  Jefferson  lives  in  Longmont. 
Helen,  the  only  daughter,  is  a  Mrs.  Munch,  of 
Iowa. 

Stephen  Butler  was  born  in  the  neighborhood 
of  Millersburg,  Ohio,  November  11,  1832,  and 
as  he  was  the  oldest  child  he  was  of  great  aid  to 
his  father  in  the  work  of  the  farm  and  had  but 
meager  school  advantages.  When  he  was  twen- 
ty-two he  started  out  to  make  his  living  inde- 
pendently and  during  the  next  score  of  years  he 
cleared  and  improved  two  farms.  He  also  worked 
at  the  carpenter's  trade,  which  he  picked  up  by 
his  own  wit,  and  soon  could  handle  tools  with  the 
best.  In  1874  he  went  to  Creston,  Iowa,  having 
traded  his  property  for  an  improved  farm.  He 
was  quite  successful  in  his  new  undertaking  and 
in  1879  turned  his  attention  to  carpentering  in 
Oberlin,  Kan. 

July  25,  1881,  Mr.  Butler  came  to  Colorado, 
and,  locating  upon  Left  Hand  Creek,  proceeded 
to   cultivate  a  farm  in  Boulder  County.     A  por- 


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tion  of  the  time  he  took  contracts  for  building  in 
IvOngmont,  and  assisted  in  the  construction  of  the 
opera  house  here.  He  also  erected  several  resi- 
dences in  Boulder  and  in  1886  was  one  of  the 
incorporators  of  the  Farmers'  Mill  and  Elevator 
Company.  He  superintended  the  con.struction 
of  the  mill  and  when  it  was  finished  was  made 
chief  engineer,  and  had  charge  of  it  for  seven 
years.  March  13,  1893,  he  was  given  the  posi- 
tion of  manager  and  has  since  efficiently  acted  in 
that  office.  He  takes  just  pride  in  the  mill, 
which  is  equipped  with  full  roller  process,  thir- 
teen stands  rolls,  two  boilers,  of  one  hundred 
and  twenty-five  horse-power  each,  and  all  neces- 
sary modern  machinery.  The  capacity  of  the 
elevator  is  about  one  hundred  and  twenty-five 
thousand  bushels,  and  in  the  storage  room  of  the 
mill  twenty  thousand  sacks  of  grain  are  kept  on 
hand,  for  the  mill  has  a  capacity  of  eight 
hundred  sacks  per  day,  as  it  was  materially 
enlarged  in  July,  i8g8.  A  switch  connects  the 
plant  with  the  Denver,  Gulf  and  Burlington 
&  Missouri  River  Railways,  and  about  fifty 
carloads  are  shipped  each  month  from  the  mill 
and  elevator.  Colorado  wheat  is  used  almost 
exclusively  and  the  celebrated  brand  "Pride  of 
the  Rockies"  originated  here  and,  needless  to 
say,  is  the  flour  of  the  highest  reputation  in  the 
state.  Other  first-grade  brands  manufactured 
here  are  "Pride  of  Longmont"  and  "Free  Coin- 
age," while  next  in  quality  are  "Pride  of  the 
Mountains"  and  "Perfected."  In  1898  the  com- 
pany purchased  a  mill  at  Canfield,  Boulder 
County,  refitted  it,  and  are  now  running  it  suc- 
cessfully. Various  kinds  of  feed  and  chops  are 
made  in  these  mills  and  find  ready  sale.  A  large 
quantity  of  flour  is  sold  to  freighters  across  the 
mountains,  and  thus  mining  camps  all  through 
this  section  are  supplied  with  the  best  products 
of  the  land.  Much  of  the  credit  of  this  enter- 
prise is  certainly  due  to  Mr.  Butler,  who  is  faith- 
fulness itself  in  looking  after  the  company's  in- 
terests. 

The  first  marriage  of  Mr.  Butler  was  with  an 
Ohio  lady,  Miss  Mary  J.  Taylor,  daughter  of 
John  Taylor,  a  farmer  of  Knox  County,  Ohio. 
Mrs.  Butler  died  in  Longmont,  in  June,  1893, 
leaving  four  children:  Willis,  a  farmer;  Mrs. 
Alice  Wheeling,  of  Windsor,  Colo. ;  Mrs.  May 
Jennings,  of  Jennings,  Kan.;  and  Elmer,  who  is 
second  miller  in  the  mill  with  which  his  father  is 


connected.  The  lady  who  now  bears  the  name 
of  our  subject  was  formerly  Miss  Rosalia  Walker, 
a  native  of  Wisconsin,  and  who  has  lived  in  this 
state  since  1881.  Mr.  Butler  is  past  officer  of 
St.  Vrain  Lodge  No.  23,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.;  like- 
wise of  the  chapter,  and  is  a  Knight  Templar  and 
member  of  the  Order  of  the  Eastern  Star.  He 
belongs  to  the  Christian  Church. 


(TOHN  W.  WHO  WELL  is  the  owner  of  four 
I  hundred  and  eighty  acres,  all  under  cultiva- 
(2/  tion,  and  lying  in  Weld  County,  near  Ber- 
thoud.  He  is  also  a  stockholder  in  the  Hills- 
boro  Irrigating  Canal  Company,  of  which  he  is 
the  present  treasurer;  holds  stock  in  the  Home 
Supply  ditch  and  reservoir,  and  is,  besides,  a 
stockholder  in  the  Farmers'  roller  mill  at  Ber- 
thoud. 

Near  Boston,  in  the  village  of  Melrose,  Mass., 
the  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  in  1865.  His 
father,  John  Whowell,  who  was  a  native  of  Eng- 
land, settled  in  Melrose,  where  for  nearly  forty 
years  he  engaged  in  building  and  contracting.  A 
citizen  of  influence,  he  was  well  known  in  the 
village  where  for  so  long  he  made  his  home.  He 
was  a  Republican  and  took  an  active  part  in  local 
party  affairs.  His  death  occurred  when  he  was 
sixty-three  years  of  age.  He  had  married  Sarah 
Rankin,  whose  birth  occUrred  on  the  border  of 
England  and  Scotland,  and  who  died  in  Lynn, 
Mass. ,  at  the  age  of  eighty  years.  Of  their  three 
children,  our  subject  was  the  only  son.  He  was 
educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Melrose  and 
Boston,  and  spent  his  boyhood  years  in  the  home 
of  his  parents.  Learning  the  cabinet-maker's 
trade  he  followed  it  for  two  years  in  his  home 
neighborhood.  From  there,  in  1881,  he  came  to 
Colorado,  settling  at  Highland  Lake,  near  Long- 
mont, where  he  spent  three  years  on  a  farm. 

In  1883  Mr.  Whowell  bought  his  present 
homestead  in  the  Little  Thompson  Valley,  and 
here  he  has  since  resided,  engaged  in  stock-rais- 
ing and  general  farming.  The  position  of  influ- 
ence which  he  has  attained  in  the  community 
proves  him  to  be  a  man  of  worth  and  ability, 
while  his  success  as  a  farmer  .shows  that  he  pos- 
sesses good  judgment  and  industrious,  econom- 
ical habits.  In  1887  he  married  Miss  Annie 
Lynn,  of  Indiana  (but  born  near  Marietta,  Wash- 
ington County,  Ohio),  and  by  her  has  one  son, 


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Harry  O.  In  religion  he  is  of  the  Episcopalian 
faith.  Fraternally  he  is  connected  with  Berthoud 
Lodge  No.  83,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  in  which  he  has 
passed  the  chairs,  and  in  politics  he  is  a  silver 
Republican. 

ROBERT  O.  ROBERTS,  who  has  resided  in 
Colorado  since  1874,  and  is  a  successful 
stockman  in  Livermore  Park,  was  born  in 
Utica,  N.  Y.,  January  8,  1829.  His  father,  Owen 
Roberts,  was  born  in  Bala,  Merionethshire,  North 
Wales,  on  the  estate  Bwlch  Tyno,  where  his  an- 
cestors had  resided  for  many  generations.  He 
was  a  son  of  Robert  Ellis,  and  in  accordance  with 
a  custom  followed  in  his  part  of  the  country,  he 
took  as  his  surname  the  Christian  name  of  his 
father.  When  about  twenty  years  of  age  he  em- 
igrated to  America  and  settled  at  Whitesboro, 
N.  Y.,  but  after  a  time  removed  to  Utica,  where 
he  followed  the  stone-cutter's  trade.  When  quite 
advanced  in  years  he  came  west  to  Colorado  and 
here  he  died,  at  the  age  of  ninety.  His  wife  was 
Catherine  Jones,  daughter  of  John  Jones,  who  was 
born  in  North  Wales,  and  settled  upon  a  farm 
in  Oneida  County,  N.  Y.,  dying  there  at  seventy- 
five  years.  She  was  born  near  Utica,  and  died 
in  that  city  when  forty-seven  years  of  age.  Of 
her  ten  children  nine  are  living,  our  subject  be- 
ing third  in  order  of  birth.  The  others  are:  Mrs. 
Mary  Halligan,  of  Larimer  County;  John,  who 
is  living  in  Box  Elder,  this  county;  Mrs.  Ehza- 
beth  Birge,  of  Clinton,  N.  Y. ;  Evan,  of  Lincoln, 
Neb. ;  Owen,  who  resides  in  Denver,  Colo. ;  Sarah, 
Mrs.  Dean,  whose  home  is  near  Utica, N.  Y.; 
Mrs.  Catherine  Barker,  of  Box  Elder;  and  Ellis, 
who  lives  in  the  same  place  as  his  sister  Cathe- 
rine and  his  brother  John. 

In  the  public  schools  of  Oneida  County  the 
subject  of  this  sketch  received  his  education.  At 
seventeen  years  he  was  apprenticed  to  the  furni- 
ture business,  and  learned  how  to  varnish,  polish, 
paint  and  upholster  furniture.  After  a  short 
time  in  Waterville,  N.  Y.,  and'Muskegon,  Mich., 
he  went  to  Chicago,  where  he  was  employed  from 
1870  to  1874.  On  the  7th  of  February,  1874,  he 
arrived  in  Greeley,  Colo.,  and  during  the  same 
year  he  located  at  Livermore  Park,  entering  the 
one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  on  which  he  later 
built  the  Forks  hotel,  the  first  in  Livermore. 
This  he  conducted  for  seven  years,  then  sold  it. 
Afterward  he  located  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres 


and  homesteaded  one  hundred  and  twenty  acres, 
on  North  Fork  of  the  Cache  la  Poudre,  from 
which  he  has  private  ditches  running  through 
his  land.  At  once  after  coming  to  this  state  he 
embarked  in  the  cattle  business,  which  he  has 
since  followed,  raising  on  his  place  large  quanti- 
ties of  alfalfa  to  be  used  for  feed.  He  makes  a 
specialty  of  raising  Herefords,  and  has  as  many 
as  one  hundred  and  fifty  head  of  that  breed.  His 
ranch  is  improved  with  orchards  and  groves,  and 
different  varieties  of  fruits  are  successfully  grown . 
In  addition  to  this  property,  he  owns  real  estate 
in  Fort  Collins,  on  Sherwood  street,  and  they 
have  recently  moved  to  the  city  to  reside. 

In  Watertown,  N.  Y.,  Mr.  Roberts  married 
Miss  Mary  Tuttle,  who  was  born  in  that  place, 
her  father,  Theodore  Tuttle,  having  removed 
there  from  Connecticut.  The  five  children  of 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Roberts  are  as  follows:  Charles  E., 
a  traveling  salesman,  with  headquarters  in  Fort 
Collins;  George  F. ,  who  is  interested  with  his 
father  in  the  cattle  business  at  Livermore;  Ernest 
W.,  who  also  assists  his  father  in  the  manage- 
ment of  the  ranch;  Eva  May,  wife  of  Herbert 
Swan,  of  Victor,  Colo.;  and  Grace,  at  home. 
Both  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Roberts  are  stanch  believers 
in  free  silver  and  free  trade;  they  are  members  of 
the  Democratic  party.  He  assisted  in  the  organ- 
ization of  the  first  school  in  his  district  in  Liver- 
more, and  has  always  aided  educational  interests. 
He  and  his  sons  are  members  of  the  Larimer 
County  Stock  Growers'  Protective  Association, 
in  which  his  son  Ernest  holds  the  office  of  sec- 
retary. 

EAPT.  WILLIAM  M.  POST,  who  spent 
thirty-three  years  on  the  sea  and  has  resided 
in  Colorado  since  June,  1870,  making  his 
home  in  Fort  Collins,  was  born  in  Essex,  Mid- 
dlesex County,  Conn.,  a  son  of  Russell  and 
Jemima  (Pelton)  Post,  both  natives  of  Connecti- 
cut. The  former,  who  was  a  son  of  David  Post, 
served  in  the  war  of  1812  and  followed  for  an 
occupation  farm  pursuits  in  Connecticut,  dying 
in  Essex  at  the  age  of  ninety-nine  years.  He  was 
a  descendant  of  a  Holland-Dutch  family  that 
settled  with  Rev.  Mr.  Hooper's  colony  at  Say- 
brook,  Conn. 

At  the  age  of  thirteen  our  subject  went  to  sea 
as  cabin  boy  on  the  packet  line  to  Mobile.  He 
sailed  before  the  mast  from  1836  to  1840  between 


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New  York  City  and  Mobile,  receiving  promotion 
to  second  and  later  to  first  mate.  In  1846  he  was 
made  master  of  a  schooner,  in  which  capacity  he 
continued  until  he  left  the  sea  in  1869.  He  made 
a  number  of  trips  to  Europe.  From  1861  to  1865 
he  was  master  in  the  United  States  navy,  on  the 
store  ship  "Relief,"  and  the  gunboat  "Sonoma," 
in  the  North  Atlantic  and  Flying  squadron,  being 
for  nine  months  in  the  West  Indies  after  priva- 
teers. He  secured  two  prizes,  one  the  "Virginia," 
which  he  took  to  New  York,  and  the  other  the 
steamer  "Ida,"  which  he  brought  from  the 
coast  of  Georgia. 

Resigning  from  the  government  service  in  1864, 
Captain  Post  engaged  in  the  West  India  trade 
and  made  nine  voyages  to  the  island  of  Porto 
Rico.  At  one  time,  while  visiting  his  sister  in 
Connecticut,  he  saved  her  house  from  being 
burned,  but  the  effort  he  made  in  so  doing  caused 
him  to  be  seriously  burned,  and,  by  a  miracle 
only,  his  left  hand  was  saved.  For  some  time 
afterward  he  was  ill,  and  for  that  reason  was  un- 
able to  command  his  brig,  "John  R.  Plater,"  on 
one  of  its  voyages.  Another  captain  was  .secured 
in  his  place,  but  the  ship  was  wrecked  in  a  hurri- 
cane and  went  to  pieces  on  the  island  Eleuthera, 
the  crew  being  fortunately  rescued. 

On  retiring  from  his  seafaring  life.  Captain 
Post  came  to  Colorado  and  bought  a  homestead 
ten  miles  west  of  Fort  Collins,  near  Bellevue  and 
improved  the  place,  bringing  the  land  under 
irrigation  and  engaging  in  raising  alfalfa  and 
cattle.  He  has  also  been  interested  in  the  real- 
estate  and  loan  business  and  has  loaned  money 
for  eastern  parties,  some  of  whom  he  has  never 
seen,  but  who  have  the  fullest  confidence  in  his 
judgment.  In  1880  he  settled  in  Fort  Collins, 
and  three  years  later  was  elected  alderman  when 
the  town  was  made  a  city  of  the  second  class.  A 
lifelong  Republican,  he  took  the  side  of  the  silver 
branch  of  the  party  during  the  campaign  of  1896, 
holding  the  opinion  that  a  standard  of  bimetallism 
should  be  established. 

In  Connecticut,  May  27,  1847,  Captain  Post 
married  Miss  Almena  T.  Collins,  who  died  in 
that  state  April  5,  1862.  Afterward  he  was 
married,  in  East  Haddam,  Conn.,  March  30,  1863, 
to  Miss  Emeline  E.  Jones,  who  was  born  in  that 
place,  a  daughter  of  A.  P.  and  Emeline  (Emmons) 
Jones,  who  lived  on  a  farm  near  East  Haddam; 
Samuel  Emmons,  her  grandfather,  enlisted  in  the 


Revolutionary  war  when  fourteen  years  of  age, 
and  later  was  a  major  of  the  militia.  She  is  a 
descendant  of  a  family  that  settled  in  New  Haven 
July  10,  1639,  the  original  progenitor  being 
Thomas  Jones,  who  for  years  served  as  marshal 
of  the  plantation  in  Guilford,  Conn.,  then  re- 
turned to  England,  where  he  died.  His  son, 
Samuel,  became  very  wealthy  and  was  the  legatee 
of  the  Indian  chief,  Uncas.  At  his  death  each  of 
his  sons  inherited  over  one  thousand  acres.  One 
of  these  sons,  Samuel,  had  seven  children,  one  of 
them  being  Daniel,  the  next  progenitor  of  the 
family  of  Mrs.  Post. 

Captain  and  Mrs.  Post  have  a  son  and  daugh- 
ter. The  former,  Frederick  Edward  Post,  was 
educated  in  the  State  Agricultural  College,  and 
now  has  a  photographic  studio  on  the  corner  of 
Fifteenth  and  Lawrence  streets,  Denver,  where  he 
is  known  as  a  successful  artist,  with  a  special 
talent  for  taking  babies'  pictures.  He  is  a 
man  of  strong  character,  fond  of  his  chosen  occu- 
pation and  winning  in  it  a  reputation  that  he  de- 
serves. The  daughter,  Lillian  Ellen,  who  re- 
ceived her  education  in  the  State  Agricultural 
College,  married  H.  H.  Grifiin,  superintendent 
of  the  Rocky  Ford  Experimental  Station  of  the 
Agricultural  College. 


(Tames  W.  WOODRO'W,  mayor  of  Empire. 
I  Clear  Creek  County, was  the  only  man  elected 
C2/  on  the  People's  ticket  in  the  spring  of  1898, 
a  fact  which  attests  his  great  popularity  among 
his  fellow-townsmen.  He  is  a  young  man  of  su- 
perior business  talent  and  unusually  extensive  ex- 
perience for  one  of  his  years,  and  by  travel  and 
education  has  become  broad-minded,  liberal  and 
public-spirited.  He  graduated  from  Princeton 
College  in  1886  with  the  degree  of  civil  engineer, 
after  a  four  years'  course  of  training,  and  is  now 
an  honored  member  of  the  American  Institute  of 
Mining  Engineers  and  of  the  Colorado  Mining 
Association.  In  May,  1896,  he  came  to  Empire 
to  take  charge  of  the  Conqueror  Gold  Mining  and 
Milling  Company's  plant,  as  manager  and  vice- 
president  of  the  concern.  He  acted  in  those  ca- 
pacities up  to  1898,  when  he  was  made  secretary 
and  general  manager  of  the  company.  The  gen- 
eral offices  of  the  same  are  in  the  Equitable  build- 
ing, in  Denver,  and  E.  F.  Welles  is  president  of 
the  company,   which  is  capitalized  at  $600,000. 


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1 167 


The  Conqueror  group  of  mines  includes  seventy - 
two  patented  acres,  with  shafts  and  tunnels,  and 
four  veins  of  ore  crossed  by  the  tunnels.  A  first- 
class  mill  and  concentrator  with  a  capacity  of 
fifty  tons,  situated  about  two  miles  north  of  Em- 
pire, was  erected  by  the  company,  which  thus 
handles  its  own  ores. 

The  Woodiow  family  can  be  traced  back  to  the 
eleventh  century,  the  progenitor  of  the  same  hav- 
ing accompanied  William  the  Conqueror  from 
Normandy.  The  name  at  that  time  was  spelled 
Wodrow.  The  great-great-grandfather  of  our 
subject,  Rev.  Robert  Woodrow,  a  native  of  Scot- 
land, was  the  leading  historian  of  the  Presbyter- 
ian church.  James  Woodrow,  uncle  of  our  sub- 
ject, was  appointed  to  the  scientific  congress  in 
Russia,  and  is  now  president  of  the  University  of 
South  Carolina,  and  Dr.  Woodrow  Wilson,  now 
of  Princeton,  is  a  cousin.  The  grandfather, 
Thomas  Woodrow,  D.  D.,  was  born  in  Glasgow, 
Scotland,  and  graduated  from  the  University  of 
Edinborough.  Coming  to  America,  he  was  pas- 
tor of  a  Presbyterian  Church  in  Rockford,  Canada, 
later  preached  in  Chillicothe,  Ohio,  for  years,  and 
died  in  Columbus  at  the  ripe  age  of  eighty-four 
years. 

The  parents  of  our  subject  were  Thomas  and 
Helen  (Sill)  Woodrow,  the  former  born  in  Car- 
lisle, England,  in  1825,  and  the  latter  in  Chilli- 
cothe, Ohio,  in  1843.  The  father  graduated  from 
the  University  of  Glasgow,  and  accompanied  his 
parents  to  this  country.  Going  to  Chillicothe, 
he  became  one  of  its  pioneer  merchants,  and  was 
interested  in  the  construction  of  the  old  Dayton 
&  Southeastern  Railroad.  He  died  in  1886,  aged 
sixty-two  years.  His  wife  was  the  daughter  of 
Joseph  Sill,  an  attorney,  and  one  of  the  first 
settlers  of  Chillicothe.  He  lived  to  the  extreme 
age  of  ninety-one.  His  family,  which  had  a  crest 
andcoat-of-arms,wasone  of  the  oldest  in  England, 
as  it  dates  back  to  1323.  In  1637,  Capt.  John 
Sill,  the  founder  of  the  family  on  these  shores, 
came  to  Massachusetts  with  his  wife  and  settled 
in  Newtown,  later  Cambridge.  Some  of  the  Sills 
were  active  participants  in  King  Philip's  war 
and  in  the  Revolution  there  were  no  less  than 
nineteen  of  the  name  who  served  honorably  in 
defense  of  the  rights  of  the  colonies,  several  of 
the  number  having  ranks  of  lieutenant-colonel, 
major,  etc.  The  grandfather  of  our  subject's 
mother,  Rev.  Richard  Sill,  was  a  minister,  and 


his  brother  Zachariah  was  a  hero  of  Dorchester 
Heights,  in  the  Revolutionary  war.  Mrs.  Helen 
Woodrow  is  now  living  in  Ann  Arbor,  Mich., 
where  her  three  younger  children,  Thomas,  Helen 
and  Herbert,  are  students.  Thomas  will  gradu- 
ate from  the  University  of  Michigan  in  the  class 
of  '99,  with  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Laws.  The 
elder  sister,  Hattie,  Mrs.  E.  F.  Welles,  resides 
in  Denver. 

James  W.  Woodrow  was  born  June  26,  1865, 
and  was  reared  in  Chillicothe,  Ohio,  there  receiv- 
ing his  elementary  education.  Upon  finishing 
his  high-school  course  he  entered  Princeton  in 
1882.  In  1886  he  went  to  Fort  Wayne,  Ind., 
and  was  in  the  employ  of  the  New  York,  Chicago 
&  St.  Louis  Railway,  in  the  engineering  de- 
partment, up  to  June,  1888.  The  following  months 
he  worked  for  the  Smith  Bridge  Company,  of 
Toledo,  Ohio,  and  in  February,  1889,  he  went  to 
Venezuela,  South  America,  on  a  four  months'  con- 
tract. There  he  remained,  however,  until  June, 
1 89 1,  being  occupied  in  locating  and  constructing 
railroad  lines  for  a  Paris  and  London  Company. 
The  Tehauntepec  Railway  Company,  of  Mex- 
ico, next  commanded  his  services,  after  which  he 
operated  for  the  Mexican  Central,  laying  out  a 
line  from  the  City  of  Mexico  to  Tampico.  Two 
years  and  a-halfhe  was  "engineer  of  maintenance 
of  way' '  for  the  Mexican  Northern  Railroad.  In 
the  spring  of  1895  he  was  employed  by  the  Kan- 
sas City  Consolidated  Smelting  and  Refining  Com- 
pany at  Sierra  Mojada,  Mexico,  but  he  continued 
there  only  until  the  close  of  the  year,  then  com- 
ing to  Colorado. 

August  4,  1897,  Mr.  Woodrow  married  in  Chil- 
icothe,  Ohio,  Miss  Nancy  Mann  Waddle,  whose 
name  is  familiar  in  all  parts  of  this  country  as 
that  of  a  writer  of  great  ability.  For  some  three 
years  she  was  a  regular  Contibutor  to  the  Ladies' 
Home /ournal,  later  on  the  editorial  staff  of  the 
Daily  News,  of  Chillicothe,  owned  by  her  brother, 
C.  C.  Waddle.  She  is  a  regular  contributor  to 
the  leading  magazines  and  papers  of  the  day,  such 
as  the  New  York  Herald,  Harper' s,  Mimsey'  s  and 
the  Illustrated  American.  Her  parents.  Dr.  Will- 
iam and  Jane  S.  (McCoy)  Waddle,  were  both  na- 
tives of  Chillicothe.  The  doctor,  who  died  in 
1895,  at  the  age  of  eighty-five  years,  was  a  grad- 
uate of  Jefferson  Medical  College,  and  was  en- 
gaged in  the  practice  of  his  profession  in  his  home 
city  for  half  a  century.     For  many  years  he  was 


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president  of  the  Ohio  state  board  of  examining 
physicians,  and  was  a  director  in  numerous  state 
public  institutions.  His  father,  John  Waddle, 
was  a  farmer  and  merchant  and  one  of  the  pio- 
neers of  Chillicothe.  Grandfather  John  McCoy, 
born  in  Carlisle,  Pa. ,  was  also  a  business  man  and 
early  comer  to  Chillicothe,  where  it  is  said  that  he 
cut  the  first  tree  and  built  the  first  house.  Mrs. 
JaneS.  (McCoy)  Waddle  is  still  living  in  her  old 
home.  Her  great-grandfather.  Rev.  Samuel  Fin- 
ley,  was  one  of  the  early  presidents  of  Princeton 
College.  Mrs.  Woodrow  is  next  to  the  youngest 
of  nine  children.  Two  are  deceased  and  the  others 
are:  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Renick,  whose  husband  is 
president  of  the  First  National  Bank  of  Chillicothe; 
Eleanor;  Jane,  Mrs.  F.  M.  Guthrie,  of  Duluth, 
Minn.;  L,ucy;  Edward,  M.  D. ,  assistant  surgeon 
of  the  Seventh  Ohio  Regiment;  and  Charles,  ex- 
mayor  of  Chillicothe  and  editor  of  the  Daily 
A'fw^  of  that  city.  Mrs.  Woodrow  is  a  inember 
of  the  society  of  the  Daughters  of  the  American 
Revolution.  She  is  a  woman  of  fine  literary  abil- 
ity, a  strong  and  versatile  writer,  easy  and  grace- 
ful in  her  diction,  and  fluent  in  language. 


EHARLES  J.  NICHOLAS,  an  experienced 
mine  developer  and  owner  of  Georgetown, 
Clear  Creek  County,  was  born  in  the  county 
of  Cornwall,  England,  January  27,  1858,  and  is 
a  son  of  William  and  Annie  (James)  Nicholas. 
The  father  was  a  merchant  and  farmer,  whose 
entire  life  was  passed  in  that  vicinity,  and  the 
mother  was  also  born  there  of  Welsh  parentage, 
and  died  when  Charles  was  but  four  years  old. 
Eight  children  were  born  to  them,  of  whom  there 
are  three  living,  in  remote  parts  of  the  earth. 
John  is  a  mine  foreman  in  Bessemer,  Mich.; 
William  M.  is  in  Australia,  a  minister  of  the 
Wesleyan  Methodist  Episcopal  Church;  and 
Charles  J.,  our  subject,  and  the  youngest  of  the 
family. 

He  was  reared  in  Cornwall,  educated  in  the 
national  schools  of  that  place,  and  later  on  at- 
tended the  Royal  School  of  Mines.  In  1876  he 
went  to  Africa,  landing  at  Capetown  and  at  once 
making  his  way  to  Beufort,  the  we.st  extension  of 
the  English  government's  public  works,  where 
he  had  charge  of  the  books  in  the  government 
office  for  two  years.  At  the  expiration  of  that 
time  he  returned  to  England  by  way  of  Cape- 


town, and  afler  a  few  months  spent  there  came 
to  America  and  located  in  Eureka  County,  Nev., 
in  the  fall  of  1878.  He  engaged  in  mining  there 
until  the  spring  of  1880,  when  he  came  to  George- 
town and  continued  the  same  work.  Two  years 
later  he  became  superintendent  for  Mr.  Cole,  of 
Wisconsin,  owner  of  the  Montreal  mine  and 
other  property.  He  remained  with  him  in  that 
capacity  four  or  five  years,  and  still  looks  after  his 
business.  In  1890  he  became  identified  with  the 
Terrible  mines,  and  later  on  was  made  superin- 
tendent of  them.  These  mines  are  composed  of 
thirty  or  forty  patent  claims,  are  operated  by 
shafts,  tunnels,  drifts,  etc. ,  and  are  the  best  pro- 
ducers in  this  section  of  the  county.  He  is  also 
interested  in  other  mines  in  different  parts  of  the 
county,  and  in  a  store  in  Anaconda  which  is 
known  as  the  N.  D.  Cornish  &  Company  store. 
He  was  married  in  Nevada  City,  Cal.,  to  Miss 
Mary  E.  Rowe,  who  was  born  in  Tennessee,  of 
English  parents.  They  have  one  child,  Gwen- 
doline. Mr.  Nicholas  served  as  city  clerk  for 
one  year,  and  for  three  j'ears  has  been  a  member 
of  the  school  board,  of  which  he  is  treasurer.  He 
was  postmaster  from  December  9,  1890,  until 
February  15,  1895,  under  President  Harrison, 
and  during  the  entire  time  kept  up  his  supervis- 
ion of  the  mines.  He  is  a  past  officer  and  ex-rep- 
resentative of  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fel- 
lows, and  was  a  member  of  the  encampment.  In 
politics  he  has  been  a  Republican,  and  is  now  a 
.silver  Republican.  He  is  a  genial,  kindly  man, 
and  deservedly  popular  throughout  the  commu- 
nity. 

EHARLES  L.  REED  is  one  of  the  most  reli- 
able and  prominent  citizens  of  Longmont, 
and  has  achieved  his  present  standing  here 
entirely  by  his  owu  efforts  and  integrity.  Com- 
ing to  the  state  in  1877,  he  worked  his  way 
from  a  grocers'  clerk  to  his  present  honorable 
position,  that  of  city  clerk  and  superintendent  of 
the  water  works,  and  the  probity  of  his  public 
life  will  admit  of  no  question. 

Mr.  Reed  was  born  in  Clayton  County,  Iowa, 
May  17,  1859,  his  parents  being  Josiah  D.  and 
Lydia  (Post)  Reed,  and  his  grandfather,  Samuel 
Reed,  formerly  of  Indiana,  but  later  of  Iowa, where 
he  died.  Josiah  D.  Reed  was  born  in  Indiana, 
and  became  a  merchant  of  Clayton  County,  Iowa, 
but  afterwards  followed  farming  in  Dodge  Coun- 


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ty,  Minn.,  where  he  died  in  1873.  He  married 
Ivydia  Post,  a  native  of  New  York.  Her  father, 
Joel  Post,  came  from  New  York  and  settled  on  a 
farm  in  Iowa,  halfway  between  Prairie  du  Chien 
and  Fort  Atkinson,  Iowa.  There  he  kept  a  gov- 
ernment station,  which  afterwards  took  the  name 
of  Postville,  in  honor  of  him,  his  farm  being  the 
present  village  site.  He  wife,  who  was  a  Miss 
Stevenson,  survived  him  and  continued  living  in 
the  same  place  until  her  death,  in  1883,  at  the 
advanced  age  of  seventy-six.  Mrs.  Reed  now 
resides  in  Longmont.  She  was  the  mother  of 
eight  children,  five  of  whom,  four  daughters  and 
one  son,  grew  to  adult  years. 

Of  these  Mr.  Reed  was  second  in  order  of  birth. 
When  four  years  of  age  he  was  taken  by  his  par- 
ents to  Dodge  County,  Minn.,  where  he  attended 
public  school  until  he  was  fourteen.  On  the  death 
of  his  father  the  family  returned  to  Postville.  He 
attended  the  high  school  at  that  place  until  1877, 
when  he  decided  to  try  his  fortune  in  a  more 
western  state,  and  came  to  Colorado,  locating  at 
first  on  Ralston  Creek,  near  Golden  City,  where 
he  spent  two  years  in  farming.  Not  finding  this 
employment  congenial  to  his  taste,  he  moved  to 
Longmont  and  was  clerk  in  the  grocery  store  of 
R.  M.  Hubbard  until  December,  1883.  At  that 
time  Mr.  Hubbard  was  appointed  postmaster, 
having  the  office  in  his  store,  and  our  subject 
was  made  his  deputy,  with  such  satisfaction  to 
the  patrons  of  the  office  that  he  was  continued  in 
that  capacity  under  the  administration  of  Dr.  J.  J. 
Topliff,  from  1886  to  1S90,  and  succeeded  the  lat- 
ter as  postmaster,  serving  until  1894,  when  he 
in  turn  was  succeeded  by  A.  C.  Oviatt.  In  1896 
when  A.  C.  Oviatt  died,  his  bondsmen  selected 
Mr.  Reed  to  take  charge  of  the  office  until  a  new 
appointment  could  be  made.  He  was  appointed 
city  clerk  and  superintendent  of  the  water  works 
in  April,  1895,  by  the  board  of  trustees,  and  was 
re-appointed  each  year  until  1898,  when  Long- 
mont became  a  city  of  the  second  class  and  the 
oflSce  became  elective.  He  was  then  elected, 
without  opposition,  as  city  clerk,  and  the  board 
of  aldermen  appointed  him  superintendent  of  the 
water  works.  He  has  charge  of  the  collection  of 
the  water  rents  and  licenses,  etc.  The  works  are 
supplied  with  over  twenty-two  miles  of  mains, 
two  reservoirs  and  five  hundred  and  seventy- five 
taps. 

In  1886  Mr.  Reed  married  Miss  Sallie  E.  Fer- 


guson, who  was  born  in  Missouri.  She  was  a 
daughter  of  Horace  W.  Ferguson,  who  located  in 
Weld  County,  this  state,  in  1871,  and  was  an  ex- 
tensive stock  trader.  Four  children  have  blessed 
their  home:  Louise,  Mabel,  Charles  and  Roland. 
Mr.  Reed  has  always  been  prominently  identified 
with  the  Republican  party,  and  is  now  a  strong 
silver  Republican. 


(lOHN  F.  WITHEROW  is  a  leading  farmer 
I  of  Boulder  Countj^,  and  is  recognized  as  one 
C2/  of  her  most  reliable,  conscientious  and  thor- 
oughly wide-awake  men.  He  was  born  near 
Fairfield,  Adams  County,  Pa.,  September  30, 
1849,  and  was  but  a  lad  of  thirteen  when  the 
battle  of  Gettysburg  took  place.  As  his  home 
was  distant  but  about  six  miles  from  the  scene  of 
the  battle,  he  was  an  interested  spectator  of  the 
greater  part  of  the  engagement,  and  at  its  close 
went  all  over  the  field.  The  scene  was  a  never- 
to-be-forgotten  one,  and  continues  in  Mr.  Withe- 
row's  memory  as  clearly  as  if  it  actually  occurred 
before  him.  His  father  was  a  Union  man,  and 
being  thoroughly  conversant  with  the  surround- 
ing country  he  guided  that  army,  by  short  cuts 
and  by  roads,  across  the  country,  hoping  to  cut 
off  Lee's  retreat. 

His  great-great-grandfather  came  from  Scot- 
land, settling  first  in  Virginia,  and  later  in  Fred- 
erick County,  Md.  The  name  was  spelled  Wath- 
erow  in  Scotland,  and  is  so  inscribed  on  the 
tombstones  in  that  country.  The  grandfather, 
David,  changed  the  spelling  to  Witherow.  He 
was  a  native  of  Virginia,  married  a  Miss  Stewart 
and  settled  in  Fairfield,  near  Gettysburg,  where 
he  died.  Joseph  Witherow,  the  father,  was  born 
here  and  became  a  farmer,  his  farm  lying  on  the 
Maryland  line,  half  his  house  lying  in  that  state 
and  half  in  Pennsylvania.  He  died  here  at  the 
age  of  sixty-seven  years.  He  was  married  to 
Lydia  Ann  Ridinger,  who  was  born  near  Taney- 
town,  Carroll  County,  Md.  She  was  a  daughter  of 
Peter  Ridinger,  of  German  extraction,  who  fought 
in  the  war  of  18 12,  and  died  in  the  county  in 
which  she  was  born.  She  died  in  her  seventy- 
second  year,  at  the  home  of  her  husband  in  Penn- 
sylvania. Ten  children  were  born  to  this  family, 
four  sons  and  six  daughters,  all  living.  The  war 
was  an  exciting  time  for  them,  as  for  many  other 
families,  and  during  the  battle  of  Gettysburg  they 


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took  their  horses,  for  safety,  to  a  sort  of  natural 
island  formed  in  a  swamp  by  Marsh  and  Rock 
Creeks.  This  island  was  at  times  covered  with  a 
rank  growth  of  underbrush,  making  it  a  good 
hiding  place. 

John  F.  Witherow  was  the  second  child  of  the 
family,  and  attended  public  and  private  schools 
at  Taneytown,  at  the  same  time  assisting  about 
the  farm  in  his  spare  hours.  He  remained  at 
home  until  1873,  when  he  was  twenty- three  years 
old,  when  he  went  west  on  a  prospecting  trip, 
and  located  in  Central  City  for  two  years,  meet- 
ing with  good  success  in  his  business.  In  1876 
he  crossed  the  mountains  and  visited  Steamboat 
Spring  and  Cady,  and  in  the  fall  of  that  year  re- 
turned to  Penns3'lvania,  where  he  remained 
eighteen  months.  He  then  went  to  Missouri, 
near  Kingston,  where  he  remained  about  seven 
months,  then  to  Delavan,  Tazewell  County,  and 
engaged  in  farming  there  for  eight  years.  In  the 
fall  of  1887  he  once  more  set  out  for  Colorado, 
and  in  the  spring  of  the  following  year  bought 
and  moved  onto  his  present  farm.  This  proper- 
ty already  possessed  a  good  house,  but  he  has 
otherwise  improved  it  by  building  barns,  fences, 
and  setting  out  a  fine  orchard  and  a  large  quan- 
tity of  small  fruit.  His  orchard  covers  five  acres 
and  contains  a  very  choice  variety  of  fruit,  being 
a  source  of  much  pleasure  as  well  as  profit  to  the 
owner.  His  farm  is  devoted  to  the  raising  of 
grain  and  potatoes,  for  which  Colorado  is  noted. 
He  has  also  a  dairy  of  grade  Jerseys  which  bring 
him  a  neat  income.  His  farm  consists  of  eighty 
acres  and  lies  near  the  city  line  of  Longmont. 

While  in  Pennsylvania  in  1878,  he  was  mar- 
ried to  Miss  Martha  J.  Gordon,  of  Franklin 
County,  near  Shady  Grove,  a  daughter  of  Alex- 
ander Gordon  of  the  same  vicinity,  and  a  grand- 
daughter of  Alexander  Gordon,  a  farmer  and 
innkeeper  of  that  state.  He  and  his  wife,  who 
was  Elizabeth  Smyth,  of  Scotch  descent,  kept  the 
stage  inn  on  the  road  leading  to  Pittsburg.  Mrs. 
Witherow 's  father  was  a  farmer  of  Shady  Grove 
and  died  there  when  in  his  eighty-fifth  year. 
Her  mother  was  born  in  Greencastle,  Pa.,  and 
was  Joanna,  a  daughter  of  Hon.  David  Fuller- 
ton,  who  represented  his  state  in  the  senate.  He 
married  Miss  Joanna  l,iud,  and  was  a  large  far- 
mer between  Greencastle  and  Chambersburg. 
They  were  Scotch-Irish  and  strong  Presbyterians. 
Her  mother  died  in  1849,  and  six  of  her  ten  chil- 


dren are  still  living.  One  brother,  J.  C.  R.  Gor- 
don, was  in  the  Civil  war  in  Company  K,  One 
Hundred  and  Twenty-sixth  regiment,  known  as 
the  Pennsylvania  Guards.  He  is  living  in  Lyons, 
this  county.  Another  brother,  Matthew,  is  resid- 
ing at  La  Junta,  Colo.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Witherow 
have  five  children,  viz.:  Nanny  L.  F.,  John  G., 
Martha  E.,  Anna  Lind  and  Joseph  Stuart.  He 
has  an  interest  in  the  Farmers'  National  Bank, 
and  is  also  a  stockholder  in  the  Longmont  Build- 
ing and  Loan  Association.  For  many  j'ears  he 
has  filled  his  present  office  of  director  and  presi- 
dent of  the  Oligarchy  Ditch  Company.  This 
ditch  is  about  fifteen  miles  in  length  and  irrigates 
a  large  tract  of  land.  He  is  a  Republican  and 
takes  a  prominent  part  in  local  politics,  having 
served  on  different  committees  and  been  a  num- 
ber of  times  delegate  to  conventions.  They  are 
members  of  the  Central  Presbyterian  Church  of 
Longmont,  in  which  he  is  ruling  elder.  He 
is  also  a  zealous  worker  in  the  Sunday-school, 
and  is  the  acting  secretary.    . 


EHARLES  L.  PALMER.  Upon  a  portion  of 
the  homestead  located  by  his  father  in  i860, 
the  subject  of  this  sketch  is  engaged  in  mar- 
ket gardening  and  the  fruit  business.  In  the 
raising  of  vegetables  he  l^as  been  especially  suc- 
cessful and  now  makes  larger  shipments  of  these 
than  any  other  gardener  here,  marketing  the 
produce  in  the  mountain  towns  through  Jefferson, 
Gilpin  and  Clear  Creek  Counties.  During  the 
season  not  a  train  leaves  Golden  that  does  not 
bear  some  of  the  products  of  his  farm.  Finding 
there  would  be  a  sale  for  hothouse  vegetables, 
he  built  three  greenhouses,  16x60  feet,  in  which 
he  raises  vegetables,  principally  lettuce  and  rad- 
ishes, and  it  is  said  that  he  raises  larger  quanti- 
ties of  lettuce  than  anyone  in  the  vicinity  of 
Golden .  The  hothouse  is  kept  at  an  even  tem- 
perature by  means  of  hot  water  pipes  and  is  ad- 
mirably fitted  for  the  winter  growing  of  vegeta- 
bles. On  the  farm  there  is  a  packing  and  ship- 
ping house,  where  vegetables  and  fruits  are 
crated  and  weighed,  and  bills  of  freight  are  made 
out.  In  addition  to  the  raising  of  vegetables  he 
has  given  some  attention  to  fruits,  and  has  plant- 
ed two  orchards,  with  apple,  plum,  pear  and 
peach  trees. 

Mr.  Palmer  has  the  distinction  of  being  the 


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third  or  fourth  white  child  born  in  Colorado.  He 
was  born  October  6,  i860,  on  the  farm  near  Gold- 
en, where  he  now  resides.  He  is  the  son  of  Jo- 
seph K.  Palmer,  of  whom  mention  is  made  upon 
another  page  of  this  volume.  His  education  was 
obtained  in  the  public  and  high  schools  of  Golden. 
In  1881  he  began  as  a  market  gardener  and  later 
bought  fift3'-nine  acres  of  the  old  homestead,  sit- 
uated on  the  south  side  of  Clear  Creek,  where  he 
has  since  engaged  in  gardening  and  the  whole- 
sale produce  business. 

In  1 88 1  Mr.  Palmer  married  Miss  Fannie 
Blatter,  who  was  born  in  southern  Illinois,  but 
has  spent  most  of  her  life  in  Golden.  Their 
children  are:  Ethel,  Mabel,  Lillian  and  Roy.  Fra- 
ternally Mr.  Palmer  is  connected  with  the  Wood- 
men of  the  World  and  the  Woodmen's  Circle. 
The  temperance  cause  has  in  him  a  warm  sup- 
porter and  he  does  all  within  his  power  to  promote 
its  success.  He  is  a  friend  of  the  white  metal 
and  believes  that  silver  should  be  restored  to  its 
proper  standard.  That  he  is  meeting  with  suc- 
cess is  due  to  the  fact  that  he  understands  his 
business  thoroughly  and  grasps  each  detail  con- 
nected with  its  management.  The  prosperity 
that  has  already  come  to  him  is  undoubtedly  but 
an  indication  of  the  success  which  future  years 
will  bring  him. 


HON.  ROBERT  T.  SHAW,  A.  B.,  M.  D.,  is 
a  man  of  integrity  and  sterling  worth,  and 
by  his  kindly  bearing  and  upright  life  has 
made  innumerable  friendships.  He  came  to  this 
state  in  June,  1882,  locating  in  Silver  Plume,  and 
ten  years  later  moved  to  Georgetown.  He  was 
born  near  Washington,  in  Washington  County, 
Pa.,  February  14,  1849,  a  son  of  John  Shaw,  and 
grandson  of  Joseph  Shaw  of  the  same  locality. 
His  grandfather  bought  and  improved  the  farm 
there  upon  which  both  the  doctor  and  his  father 
were  born.  His  father  was  an  agriculturist  on 
this  property  until  his  death  at  the  age  of  seventy- 
five  years.  Sarah  Harsha  Shaw,  the  mother, 
was  also  a  native  of  that  county,  and  was  a 
daughter  of  John  Harsha,  a  chair  manufacturer 
there.  She  died  at  the  age  of  fifty-nine  years. 
She  was  the  mother  of  thirteen  children,  of 
whom  seven  grew  to  adult  years  and  five  sons 
are  now  living.  Three  of  these  served  in  the 
Civil  war,  viz.:  William,  in  the  Eighty-fifth 
Pennsylvania,  now  a  resident  of  Iowa;  Joseph, 

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who  was  a  member  of  the  same  regiment,  and  lives 
in  his  native  county  in  Pennsylvania;  and  James, 
of  the  First  Virginia  Cavalry,  who  lives  in  Cam- 
bridge, Ohio.  The  other  brother  cultivates  the 
old  homestead. 

Dr.  Shaw  is  the  youngest  son  and  was  reared 
on  his  father's  farm.  He  attended  the  public 
school  until  he  entered  the  Washington-Jefferson 
College,  at  Washington,  Pa.,  from  which  he 
graduated  in  1874,  with  the  degree  of  A.  B.  The 
following  year  he  entered  Jefferson  Medical  Col- 
lege, of  Philadelphia,  and  graduated  two  years 
later  as  an  M.  D.  He  was  appointed  resident 
physician  to  West  Pennsylvania  Hospital,  of 
Pittsburg,  for  one  year,  gaining  valuable  experi- 
ence in  his  work.  He  then  practiced  in  his  home 
county  until  June,  1882,  when  he  located  in 
Silver  Plume  and  began  a  general  practice  of  his 
profession.  So  rapid  was  his  advancement  in  the 
estimation  of  the  people  that  two  years  later  he 
was  nominated  on  the  Republican  ticket  for  the 
legislature,  and  was  elected,  serving  in  the  session 
of  1885  for  Clear  Creek,  in  the  Fifth  General 
Assembly,  and  voted  for  H.  M.  Teller  for  United 
States  Senator,  after  Hammill  retired  from  the 
contest.  In  1890  he  was  again  elected,  and  in 
the  session  of  1891  again  voted  for  Teller.  He 
was  chairman  of  the  committee  on  temperance 
and  medical  affairs,  and  a  member  of  a  number 
of  other  committees.  In  1892  he  moved  to  this 
city,  where  he  has  since  practiced  medicine  and 
surgery,  and  is  physician  to  St.  Joseph's  Hospital 
here.  His  "success  in  both  places  of  residence 
has  been  most  flattering.  Politically  he  is  a  sil- 
ver Republican,  he  has  been  delegate  to  county 
and  state  conventions,  served  as  a  member  of 
the  town  council  in  Silver  Plume,  and  was  coun- 
ty coroner  one  term.  In  fraternal  relations  he  is 
identified  with  the  Knights  of  Pythias  and  the 
Red  Men.  He  has  been  connected  with  the  State 
Medical  Association. 


30HN  A.  LITTLE,  who  resides  one  mile  east 
of  Loveland,  Larimer  County,  was  born  in 
Iowa  in  1843,  a  son  of  Robert  and  Catherine 
(Miller)  Little,  natives  respectively  of  Ireland 
and  Virginia.  His  father,  who  was  born  in  1813, 
emigrated  to  the  United  States  at  sixteen  years  of 
age  and  settled  in  Ohio.  There  he  met  Miss 
Miller,  who  had  accompanied  her  parents  from 


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the  Old  Dominion  to  the  Buckeye  state.  About 
1842  he  removed  to  Iowa  and  became  a  pioneer 
of  lyCe  County,  where  he  was  living  at  the  time 
of  the  Mormon  outbreak.  In  1867  he  removed 
to  Baxter  Springs,  Kan.,  and  opened  a  store, 
which  he  carried  on  for  a  number  of  years.  On 
disposing  of  his  stock  of  goods  he  settled  on  a 
farm  in  Kansas.  He  continued  in  agricultural 
pursuits  until  1890,  when  he  retired  from  active 
labors,  and  since  then  he  has  made  his  home  with 
his  children.  Politically  he  has  always  been  a 
stanch  Democrat.  He  still  retains  his  faculties 
in  spite  of  his  advanced  years. 

When  a  boy  our  subject  attended  common 
schools.  At  the  age  of  twenty-two  he  and  his 
brother  Charles  took  a  load  of  goods  from  Kansas 
to  Colorado,  and  sold  the  stock  in  Central  City. 
Coming  on  to  Boulder  City,  he  worked  for  An- 
drew Doudey  in  the  construction  of  a  flour  mill, 
after  which  he  accompanied  his  employer  to  Big 
Thompson,  to  Old  St.  Louis,  and  aided  in  build- 
ing a  mill.  After  its  completion  Mr.  Little  and  his 
brother  George  leased  the  mill,  which  they  ran 
for  two  years.  Returning  to  Kansas,  our  subject 
married  and  with  his  wife  came  to  Colorado  in 
the  spring  of  1868.  Here  he  resumed  the  mill 
business,  which  he  followed  successfully  until 
1869.  During  early  days  he  also  followed  the 
carpenter's  trade  and  made  all  the  coffins  in  this 
vicinity. 

In  1869  Mr.  Little  bought  a  quarter-section  of 
land  on  the  Big  Thompson  River,  and  here  he 
has  since  engaged  in  general  farming  and  stock- 
raising.  He  assisted  in  the  construction  of  the 
Chubbuck  ditch,  now  called  the  Loveland  and 
Greeley  ditch,  in  which  he  is  a  stockholder.  For 
a  number  of  years  he  served  as  secretary  and 
treasurer  of  the  company.  He  has  made  many 
improvements  on  his  place,  which  is  considered 
one  of  the  finest  in  the  county.  He  makes  a 
specialty  of  raising  blooded  cattle,  of  which  he 
has  a  herd  of  one  hundred  and  fifty.  Besides 
farming  and  milling,  he  has  had  other  interests. 
In  1883,  with  E.  A.  Seibert,  he  became  inter- 
ested in  the  Loveland  Reporter,  which  the  two 
conducted  together  for  a  number  of  years,  and 
afterwards  he  carried  it  on  alone  for  a  short  time. 

Politically  Mr.  Little  is  independent,  voting 
for  the  men  whom  he  considers  best  qualified  for 
official  positions.  However,  he  leans  toward  the 
Prohibition    party.     In    1868  he    married    Miss 


Frances  Silsbee,  daughter  of  Erastus  Silsbee,  of 
Wisconsin.  They  are  the  parents  of  four  chil- 
dren, Erastus,  Lillie,  Grace  and  Ralph.  The 
family  are  identified  with  the  United  Presbyterian 
Church,  in  which  Mr.  Little  has  been  a  member 
of  the  board  of  trustees  and  took  an  active  part 
in  the  building  of  the  new  church  in  1893. 


pGJiLLIAM  P.  MULLIGAN  is  the  owner  of 
\  A  /  a  ranch  of  two  hundred  acres,  lying  eight 
YV  miles  northeast  of  Longmont,  in  Weld 
County.  Here  he  settled  in  1875  and  here  he 
has  since  resided.  He  has  added  forty  acres  to 
his  original  tract  of  a  quarter-section  and  has  car- 
ried on  general  farm  pursuits  industriously  and 
efficiently.  He  came  to  Colorado  from  South 
Bend,  Ind.,  where  he  was  born  October  5,  1851, 
and  where  his  boyhood  days  were  spent  in  the 
home  of  his  parents,  Edward  and  Mary  A. 
(Gribbon)  Mulligan.  The  family  of  which  he 
was  a  member  consisted  of  ten  children,  all  but 
one  of  whom  are  still  living.  His  father,  a  na- 
tive of  County  Cavan,  Ireland,  was  born  in  1803, 
crossed  the  ocean  at  twenty-one  years  of  age  and 
settled  in  Indiana,  where  he  embarked  in  farm 
pursuits  in  Mishawaka,  St.  Joseph  County. 
There  he  continued  to  reside  until  the  time  of  his 
death,  in  1868. 

Believing  he  could  gain  greater  success  in 
Colorado,  the  subject  of  this  sketch  crossed  the 
plains  in  1873  and  went  direct  to  the  mountains, 
working  in  the  mines  at  Georgetown  for  nine 
months,  after  which  he  worked  for  Governor 
Evans,  who  had  claims  at  the  head  of  Snake 
River,  near  the  foot  of  Gray's  Peak.  Three 
months  were  spent  there,  after  which  he  came  to 
St.  Vrain  Valley  in  the  spring  of  1874,  and  for  a 
year  worked  as  a  farm  hand,  then  took  up  the 
land  where  he  has  since  engaged  in  general 
agricultural  pursuits.  By  untiring  industry  and 
perseverance  he  has  brought  this  property  to  a 
high  state  of  cultivation,  and  is  recognized  as 
among  the  prominent  farmers  ofthe  locality. 

November  22,  1885,  Mr.  Mulligan  married 
Miss  Jennie  E.  Wilson,  a  native  of  Iowa,  and  a 
daughter  of  James  L.  Wilson,  who  came  from 
Iowa  to  Colorado  in  1872.  Her  mother  was  in 
maidenhood  Mary  A.  McCorkle.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Mulligan  are  the  parents  of  four  children:  Mark 
L. ;  James  E.  and  William,  both  of  whom  are  de- 


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ceased;  and  William  Philip.  The  family  are 
identified  with  the  Catholic  Church.  In  frater- 
nal relations  Mr.  Mulligan  is  a  member  of  Moun- 
tain Valley  Camp  No.  31,  Woodmen  of  the 
World. 


|~RANK  E.  HARTMAN,  senior  member  of 
JM  the  firm  of  Hartman  &  Romigh,  and  a  well- 
I  known  business  man  of  Longmont,  is  the 
pioneer  in  his  line  in  this  city,  having  been 
the  first  to  establish  a  first-class  meat  market 
here.  The  firm  of  which  he  is  a  member  com- 
mands the  largest  trade  in  this  section  and  is 
recognized  as  an  enterprising  and  honorable  busi- 
ness concern.  Mr.  Hartman  is  a  self-made  man, 
in  the  best  sense  of  the  term.  Early  in  life  he 
started  out  for  himself  and  came  west,  where,  by 
energy  and  application  to  business  he  has  become 
well-to-do.  He  is  popular  with  his  customers 
and  with  all  who  have  any  transactions  with  him, 
for  he  is  fair  and  honorable  in  his  treatment  of 
all  and  looks  out  for  the  interests  of  others. 

The  father  of  our  subject  was  Henry  Hartman, 
a  miller  by  trade.  He  was  a  native  of  York, 
Pa. ,  from  which  state  he  went  to  Ohio,  pursuing 
bis  calling  in  Cincinnati  for  some  3'ears.  Later 
he  removed  to  Mount  Plea.sant,  Iowa,  and  after  a 
period  spent  in  the  milling  business  there  he 
went  to  live  upon  a  farm.  He  died  while  a  resi- 
dent of  Iowa,  some  years  ago.  His  faithful  com- 
panion and  helpmate,  whose  name  before  their 
marriage  was  Mime  Brown,  was  born  in  Cincin- 
nati, and  is  now  living  in  Carthage,  111.  They 
were  the  parents  of  five  children,  four  sons  and 
one  daughter,  and  all  but  one  son  survive. 

Frank  E.  Hartman  was  born  September  3, 
1848,  in  Hamilton  County,  Ohio,  and  with  his 
parents  went  to  Mount  Pleasant,  Iowa,  in  the 
spring  of  1850.  When  old  enough  he  was  sent 
to  the  schools  of  that  town,  and  at  the  age  of 
fifteen  he  began  working  regularly  in  a  mill.  He 
learned  the  trade  and  continued  to  follow  this 
means  of  earning  a  livelihood  until  1871,  in 
Weeping  Water,  Cass  County,  Neb.  At  that 
time  he  came  to  Colorado,  and  for  a  year  or  two 
was  employed  at  farming  in  old  Burlington.  In 
1873,  when  the  Fox  mill  was  completed,  he  be- 
came a  miller  in  it,  remaining  there  for  about 
eight  years.  He  then  came  to  Longmont  and 
embarked  in  the  business  he  is  in  to-day,  that  of 
keeping  a  meat  market.     He  has  been  located  in 


this  same  place  during  all  the  intervening  years. 
He  deals  more  or  less  extensively  in  live  stock 
and  manufactures  sausage,  packs  hams,  etc.  In 
1896  he  entered  into  partnership  with  O.  H. 
Romigh,  under  the  firm  name  of  Hartman  & 
Romigh. 

Fraternally  Mr.  Hartman  belongs  to  the  Inde- 
pendent Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  the  Woodmen  of 
the  World  and  the  Ancient  Order  of  United 
Workmen,  being  a  charter  member  of  the  last- 
named  lodge  here.  He  is  a  stalwart  Republican. 
June  8,  1885,  he  married  Josie  Carmean,  who 
was  born  in  Hancock  County,  111.  Her  father, 
John  Carmean,  now  a  resident  of  this  place,  was 
formerly  of  Ohio.  The  two  children  born  to  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Hartman  are  named  respectively,  Or- 
ville  and  Vernon. 


0AVID  D.  DEWEY,  of  the  firm  of  Dewey 
Brothers,  ore  samplers  and  brokers,  has 
been  a  resident  of  Georgetown,  Clear  Creek 
County,  since  1891,  and  is  ranked  among  the 
most  progressive  men  of  the  place.  He  is  man- 
ager of  the  company's  ore  sampling  and  concen- 
trating works  here,  and  is  a  young  man  of  un- 
doubted business  qualifications.  He  was  born 
July  27,  1866,  near  Syracuse,  N.  Y. ,  and  traces 
'his  ancestry  back,  through  a  long  line,  direct  to 
one  Thomas  Dewey,  who  came  from  Sandwich, 
Kent  County,  England,  to  Massachusetts  in  1630 
or  1633,  and  in  1634  to  Windsor,  Conn.  He  was 
cornetist  of  the  town  troop  of  mounted  light  in- 
fantry, and  was  also  juror  and  deputy  to  the 
general  court.  He  married  the  widow  of  Francis 
Clark,  and  died  April  27,  1648,  after  which  she 
moved  back  to  Massachusetts.  Their  children 
were:  Thomas;  Josiah,  the  ancestor  of  the  re- 
nowned Commodore  Dewey;  Anna;  Israel,  the 
forefather  of  our  subject;  and  Jedediah.  Among 
the  children  of  Israel  Dewey  was  David,  who  also 
had  a  son  David,  born  in  the  year  1700.  His 
son,  also  David,  was  the  great-great-great-grand- 
father of  our  subject  and  was  born  in  1725. 
David  was  a  family  name,  and  when  a  son  was 
born  April  18,  1725,  in  Massachusetts,  he  was 
given  that  name  and  became  a  soldier  in  the 
Revolutionary  war.  He  was  a  private  in  the 
company  of  Capt.  William  Douglass,  and  also 
served  in  the  regiment  of  Col.  Benjamin  Si- 
monds  from  December  16,    1776,  to  March   22, 


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PORTRAIT  AND  BIOGRAPHICAI,  RECORD. 


1777,  where  he  fought  at  the  battle  of  Ticou- 
deroga  under  Captain  I,ush.  He  was  under  Col. 
John  Brown  from  September  21  to  October  13, 
1777,  as  corporal,  and  received  the  commission 
of  second  lieutenant  of  the  Twelfth  Company  on 
the  17th  of  February,  1780.  He  was  married 
February  25,  1774,  to  Serviah  Knowlton,  and 
died  January  16,  1836.  His  son,  the  great-grand- 
father of  our  subject,  was  also  named  David, 
and  came  from  Massachusetts  to  Herkimer  Coun- 
ty, N.  Y.,  December  22,  1775.  Later  he  went 
to  Deerfield,  some  six  miles  from  Utica,  where 
he  engaged  iu  running  a  distillery.  He  was 
not  successful  in  this  business  and  removed 
to  Bridgeport  in  1808,  and  resided  there  two 
years.  During  this  time  he  was  at  work  on  an 
invention  which  proved  of  some  value,  and  he 
rode  the  entire  distance  to  Philadelphia  in  order 
to  secure  a  patent  on  it,  after  which  he  sold  out, 
obtaining  a  good  price,  with  which  he  returned 
to  his  former  home  and  paid  up  his  entire  indebt- 
edness. In  1812  he  removed  to  Cambridge,  and 
later  to  Madison  County,  where  he  took  a  farm 
three  miles  south  of  Bridgeport,  upon  which  he 
spent  the  remainder  of  his  life.  May  28,  1794, 
he  married  Margaret  Tracy,  with  whom  he  lived 
until  his  death.  May  27,  1837.  One  of  his  sons, 
Chauncey,  the  grandfather  of  our  subject,  was 
born  in  Westfield,  Mass.,  April  13,  1800.  He 
engaged  in  agriculture  in  the  vicinity  of  Bridge- 
port, and  on  February  20,  1823,  he  married 
Lucina  Hulbert.  Their  children  were:  Almira, 
Franklin,  Bradley,  Louise,  David,  Edward  and 
Newton.  Bradley  S.  Dewey,  the  father,  was 
born  on  the  farm  near  Bridgeport,  February  16, 
1827,  bought  the  place  formerly  owned  by  his 
grandfather,  and  continued  its  cultivation  until 
his  death,  February  2,  1873.  He  married  Doro- 
thy A.  Dunham,  who  was  born  in  Bridgeport, 
October  20,  1834.  She  was  a  daughter  of  Fred- 
erick Dunham,  who  ran  a  fulling  mill  in  that 
city.  They  were  members  of  an  old  New  England 
family.  She  had  three  children:  Harriette  L-, 
Mrs.  F.  E.  Jennings,  of  Denver;  Chauncey  Ed- 
ward, of  the  same  city;  and  David  D.,  our  subject. 
She  resides  in  Denver  with  her  son  Chauncey, 
who  came  to  the  state  in  the  spring  of  1880.  He 
first  went  to  Georgetown,  where  he  worked  as 
civil  engineer  and  surveyor  until  1885,  when  he 
embarked  in  the  mining  and  milling  business,  in 
partnership  with  our  subject,  under  the  name  of 


Dewey  Brothers.  They  run  a  concentrating  and 
ore  buying  works  at  Georgetown,  and  he  individ- 
ually built  and  operated  a  large  mill  at  Lake 
City,  where  he  operated  the  Hidden  Treasure 
mine.  He  belongs  to  the  society  of  Colonial 
Wars,  in  which  wars  many  of  his  ancestors  partic- 
ipated. 

Mr.  Dewey  first  attended  the  district  school 
and  later  graduated  from  Phoenix  Academy.  He 
devoted  the  next  five  years  to  farming,  and  seeing 
the  necessity  of  a  thorough  knowledge  of  stock 
and  their  ailments,  he  entered  the  Toronto  Veter- 
inary College,  from  which  he  graduated  in  1889, 
as  D.  V.  S.  After  practicing  one  year  in  Phoenix, 
he  engaged  in  the  lumber  business  in  Georgia, 
manufacturing  lumber  for  the  market,  and  in 
1891  came  to  Georgetown,  Colo.,  and  associated 
with  his  brother  in  business.  They  bought  the 
old  Clear  Creek  mill,  remodeled  it,  and  engaged 
in  ore  sampling  and  concentrating.  Their  ore 
sampler  has  a  capacity  of  seventy-five  tons  per 
day,  and  the  concentrator  has  a  capacity  of  forty 
tons.  In  1895  they  built  works  of  the  same  capa- 
city in  Idaho  Springs,  which  were  managed  by 
David  Dewey  until  December,  1897,  when  they 
disposed  of  them  to  the  Kilton  Company.  He 
then  returned  to  Georgetown  and  took  charge  of 
the  plant  there.  They  have  a  pleasant  ofiice  in 
the  Boston  building,  Denver,  which  is  occupied 
by  C.  E.  Dewey. 

Our  subject  was  married  iu  Denver  to  Miss 
Georgie  Johnson,  who  was  born  in  Big  Rapids, 
Mich.,  a  daughter  of  Harley  M.  Johnson,  who 
settled  in  that  city  and  is  connected  with  the 
Denver  and  Rio  Grande  Express  Company.  Mrs. 
Dewey  is  a  graduate  of  the  east  Denver  high 
school,  and  is  an  intelligent,  pleasant  lady.  Mr. 
Dewey  is  a  member  of  the  Woodmen  of  the  World. 
He  was  a  Republican  until  1896,  when  he  joined 
the  ranks  of  the  Democratic  party. 


yyi  ILO  GUERDON  SECOR,  a  successful  far- 
Y  mer  and  stockman,  is  also  engaged  in  the 
(3  seed  business,  and  has,  on  Main  street 
in  Longmont,  what  is  undoubtedly  the  largest 
store  of  its  kind  in  northern  Colorado.  From  his 
youth  he  has  been  interested  in  farming  and 
stock-raising,  and  in  both  industries  he  has  en- 
gaged with  profit.  In  1889  he  bought  a  half  in- 
terest in  a  lumber  yard  and  the  business  was  con- 


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ducted  as  Hall  &  Secor  until  1892,  when  he 
bought  his  partner's  interest,  but  the  following 
year  sold  out  the  entire  business.  He  owns  a 
ranch  adjoining  Estes  Park,  at  Muggins  Gulch, 
where  he  has  nearly  five  hundred  acres,  all 
fenced. 

The  father  of  our  subject,  William  W.  Secor, 
was  a  son  of  Gordon  Secor,  whose  life  history  is 
given  in  the  biography  of  his  son,  Judge  F.  P. 
Secor,  presented  elsewhere  in  this  volume.  Will- 
iam W.,  who  was  the  eldest  of  three  sons,  was 
reared  in  York  state  and  Wisconsin,  and  about 
1859  came  to  Colorado,  at  the  time  of  the  Pike's 
Peak  excitement.  Subsequently  he  made  four 
trips  across  the  plains.  He  came  through  Boul- 
der County  as  early  as  i860.  He  engaged  in 
mining  and  for  a  time  drove  a  stage.  About 
1866  he  went  to  Cheyenne,  Wyo.,  and  for  some 
time  afterward  carried  mail  and  engaged  in 
freighting.  In  1869  he  settled  in  Boulder  Coun- 
ty, near  what  is  now  Idaho  Station,  where  he  en- 
gaged in  farming  and  the  stock  business.  In 
1870  he  homesteaded  one  hundred  and  sixty 
acres  and  by  the  Colorado  Central  Railroad  (now 
Union  Pacific)  land  grant  eighty  acres  was  taken 
from  him  by  the  railroad.  He  bought  of  the  Jacob 
CoflFmau  estate  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  and 
to  this  he  added  until  he  had  four  hundred  and 
eighty  acres,  which  the  family  still  own,  our  sub- 
ject managing  it. 

In  1872,  with  Mr.  Buckingham,  on  Main  street, 
Longmont,  Mr.  Secor  embarked  in  the  livery 
business,  which  he  continued  until  1876  and  then 
sold.  He  built  a  brick  store  on  Kimbark  street, 
where  he  carried  on  an  implement  and  lumber 
business,  continuing  thus  engaged  until  his  death, 
October  19,  1888.  Meantime  he  also  engaged  in 
stock-raising  and  the  cattle  business  on  his  several 
ranches.  Politically  he  was  a  Democrat,  loyal 
to  party  principles.  For  four  years  he  served  as 
deputy  sheriff  of  Boulder  County.  Fraternally 
he  was  a  Knight  Templar  Mason,  and  was  buried 
with  Masonic  honors. 

The  mother  of  our  subject  was  a  sister  of  Hon. 
E.  J.  Coffman,  to  whose  sketch  the  reader  is  re- 
ferred for  the  Coffman  history.  Of  her  five  chil- 
dren Milo  Gordon  was  the  eldest  and  was  born  in 
Cheyenne,  Wyo.,  June  5,  1868.  His  boyhood 
years  were  spent  in  Boulder  County.  He  attended 
the  grammar  and  high  school  of  I^ongmont,  and 
at  an  early  age  began  to  assist  his  father  in  the 


care  of  the  cattle.  On  the  death  of  his  father  he 
succeeded  to  the  management  of  the  estate,  which 
is  under  high  cultivation  and  is  improved  with 
ditches  and  fences. 

In  Galena,  111.,  Mr.  Secor  married  Alice  M. 
Fiddick,  who  was  born  in  that  city  and  attended 
the  high  school  there.  Her  father,  R.  H.  Fid- 
dick, was  engaged  in  the  wholesale  and  retail 
dry-goods  business  in  Galena  and  was  a  man  of 
prominence.  In  politics  Mr.  Secor  is  inclined  to  be 
independent,  though  he  agrees  with  the  Republi- 
can party  in  favoring  protection  of  home  indus- 
tries. Fraternally  he  is  connected  with  St.  Vrain 
Lodge  No.  23,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  Longmont  Chap- 
ter No.  8,  R.  A.  M.,  Long's  Peak  Commandery 
No.  12,  K.  T.,  and  El  Jebel  Temple,  N.  M.  S. 


pCJiLLIAM  G.  CHAMBERLAIN,  the  artist 
I  A/  ^'^°  introduced  the  now  popular  Rocky 
Y  V  Mountain  views  to  public  notice,  was  born 
in  Newburyport,  Mass.,  November  9,  1815.  His 
father,  Ichabod  Chamberlain,  was  born  in  Chelsea, 
Vt,  and  was  a  well-known  and  successful  engineer 
in  Massachusetts.  The  mother,  Caroline  Gunni- 
son, was  born  in  Newburyport,  Mass.,  and  reared 
five  children.  William  G.  was  the  eldest  of  the 
family;  Charles  died  in  Peru;  Caroline  (Mrs. 
Vincent)  lives  in  Boston ;  Louisa  (Mrs.  Matthews) 
died  in  New  York;  and  Edward  resides  in  Mc- 
Pherson,  Kan.  The  Chamberlain  family  was  of 
English  origin,  and  the  remote  ancestors  were 
among  the  earliest  settlers  of  New  England  and 
figured  prominently  in  her  Indian  and  colonial 
wars. 

When  Mr.  Chamberlain  was  about  nine  years 
of  age  his  parents  removed  to  Boston,  where, 
with  the  exception  of  a  few  years  in  Lowell,  he 
remained  until  1839.  Being  then  in  his  twenty- 
fourth  year,  and  possessing  the  natural  ambition 
of  youthful  years  (and  probably  its  adventurous 
impulses  also),  he  improved  a  proffered  opportun- 
ity to  visit  South  America,  and  took  passage  in 
New  York,  via  Cape  Horn,  for  Lima,  Peru.  The 
journey  was  accomplished  in  ninety -three  days 
without  incident  other  than  usual  to  an  ocean 
voyage.  He  resided  in  Peru  thirteen  years,  with 
the  exception  of  a  few  months  in  1844,  when  he 
returned  by  way  of  Panama  to  Boston,  on  business 
matters.  These  attended  to,  he  returned  to  Peru, 
and  suffered  shipwreck  on  entering  the  harbor  of 


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Chagres  (now  Colon).  The  Peruvian  govern- 
ment encouraged  the  manufacture  of  silk  of  all 
kinds,  which  induced  Mr.  Chamberlain  to  engage 
in  the  manufacture  of  silk.  He  introduced  the 
mulberry  into  that  country  from  the  United  States, 
obtaining  the  eggs  of  the  silk  worm  from  France. 
He  sent  to  his  father,  who  was  a  mechanical  en- 
gineer and  inventor,  for  a  small  machine  for  reel- 
ing and  twisting  the  silk  from  the  cocoons.  His 
first  experience  was  personal  and  individual, 
three  hundred  miles  inland,  and  was  successful. 
The  Peruvian  government  becoming  interested, 
contracted  that  the  business  was  to  be  established 
in  Lima,  and  there  the  Jesuit  convent  was  placed 
at  his  disposal,  but  the  climate  was  not  suitable 
for  the  scheme,  being  too  near  the  ocean.  In  1847 
he  severed  his  connection  with  this  industry. 
Were  it  not  for  extending  this  narrative  to  undue 
length,  we  could  chronicle  many  incidents  of  his 
Peruvian  life  and  experience  that  would  be  highly 
interesting. 

The  all-important  event  of  this  period  was  his 
marriage  to  Miss  Frances  R.  Allen,  a  young 
English  lady,  whose  parents  then  resided  in  Lima. 
At  that  date  the  Protestant  Church  was  not  toler- 
ated in  the  country,  and  there  were  no  clergymen 
other  than  Catholic,  so  he  availed  himself  of  the 
right  and  privilege  of  an  American  in  a  foreign 
country  and  solicited  the  aid  of  the  United  States 
minister  plenipotentiary,  a  Mr.  Jewett,  and  July 
28,  1846,  they  were,  by  the  power  and  authority 
invested  in  him,  declared  husband  and  wife. 
Miss  Allen  was  born  in  Birmingham,  England, 
and  was  a  daughter  of  Jabez  Smart  Allen,  and  a 
granddaughter  of  John  Allen,  both  glass  manu- 
facturers. Her  father  made  a  circuit  of  the  globe 
and  located  in  Lima,  there  managing  a  glass 
manufactory  until  1854,  when  he  located  in 
Chicago.  Later  he  settled  in  Onawa,  Iowa, 
where  he  died.  Her  mother  was  Catherine  Ar- 
nold, of  Henley,  on  the  Avon,  England,  whose 
father,  John  Arnold,  was  a  manufacturer  there. 
She  died  in  Denver,  where  she  had  joined  her 
children. 

In  1848  Mr.  Chamberlain  became  associated 
with  two  other  American  residents  of  Lima  in  a 
mining  venture,  in  the  noted  silver  mining  section 
of  Cerro  de  Pasco,  situated  in  the  heart  of  the 
Andes.  They  purchased  a  small  steam  engine 
for  raising  water  in  the  shaft  of  an  abandoned 
mine.     This  mine  had  been  formerly  operated  by 


the  Spaniards,  the  native  Indians  working  the 
pumps  by  hand,  and  was  abandoned  by  them, 
their  pumps  proving  inadequate  for  the  purpose. 
The  machinery  now  purchased  had  to  be  carried 
across  the  Andes  to  the  eastern  slope,  a  distance 
of  one  hundred  and  fifty  miles,  on  the  backs  of 
mules.  They  were  the  first  to  use  steam  for  that 
purpose,  although  in  later  years  it  became  com- 
mon, and  they  were  sanguine  of  reaping  a  fortune, 
as  the  reports  of  the  richness  of  the  mine  led 
them  to  expect  that  water  was  the  main  difficulty 
to  be  overcome.  But  a  few  mouths  of  hard  work 
and  heavy  expenditure  served  to  prove  the  mine 
worthless.  With  the  expectation  of  being  perma- 
nently located  in  Pasco  he  had  taken  his  family 
there  by  the  only  means  of  transportation  then 
possible,  mule  back,  carrying  the  bedding  and 
provisions  necessary  for  one  hundred  and  fifty 
miles  of  mountain  trail,  of  which  Colorado  experi- 
ence gives  no  conception.  Disappointed  and 
crippled  in  finances,  but  with  the  sanguine  dis- 
position of  early  manhood,  with  health  and 
energy  unimpaired,  he  became  enthused  by  the 
glowing  accounts  of  new  gold  discoveries  in  the 
states,  and  in  the  early  spring  of  1849  took  pass- 
age for  California.  The  life  experienced  in  those 
early  days  in  California  is  too  well  known  to  need 
mention.  He  remained  there  less  than  two  years 
and  had  in  a  measure  retrieved  his  misfortune  of 
the  Cerro  de  Pasco  venture.  He  remained  in 
Lima  until  the  spring  of  1852,  when  he  took  pass- 
age with  his  family  for  the  United  States,  by  way 
of  Panama.  While  residing  in  Lima  three  chil- 
dren were  born,  Helena,  WiUiam  J.  and  Fanny. 
The  latter  died  in  Denver  in  1863,  while  the  two 
former  still  reside  in  Denver.  Having  reached 
the  states,  he  spent  some  weeks  with  his  parents 
in  Boston,  but  as  idleness  was  not  congenial  to 
his  nature,  having  completed  their  visit,  they 
started  westward,  making  a  tour  of  the  states,  the 
only  stop  of  any  length  being  made  at  Niagara 
Falls  until  they  reached  Chicago.  Here  they  re- 
mained until  the  fall  of  1855. 

Two  young  men  made  a  tour  through  Chili 
and  other  countries  in  1847  with  a  daguerreotype 
outfit,  and  while  in  Lima  met  Mr.  Chamberlain. 
At  that  early  date  the  sun  picture  was  a  marvel 
and  he  became  greatly  interested  in  the  process. 
Having  many  leisure  hours,  from  the  nature  of 
the  business  in  which  he  was  then  engaged,  he 
was  induced  to  purchase  an  apparatus  and  mate- 


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rial  from  them  to  use  as  a  recreation.  For  the  out- 
fit and  instruction  he  paid  several  hundred  dol- 
lars, a  large  sum  for  such  things  in  these  days. 
By  improving  his  leisure  hours  in  practice,  he 
soon  became  quite  proficient,  and  being  greatly 
interested  in  the  art,  he  decided,  upon  his  arrival 
in  Chicago  to  make  it  his  business  and  hung  out 
his  sign  on  Lake  Street.  The  chemicals  used  in 
the  daguerreotype  business  are  decidedly  un- 
healthy, and  they,  with  close  application  to  the 
business,  so  afiected  his  health  that  he  found  it 
necessary  to  retire  altogether  from  the  work. 
About  that  time  he  became  acquainted  with  part- 
ies from  the  New  England  states  who  had  formed 
a  company  to  locate  a  township  in  northwestern 
Iowa.  The  agent  sent  to  locate  and  report  on 
this  subject  gave  such  promising  accounts  of  the 
country  that  he  decided  to  make  a  trial  of  pioneer 
life,  so  in  the  fall  of  1855,  in  company  with  his 
brother-in-law,  John  L.  Lay,  and  wife,  started 
with  teams  and  outfit  for  Iowa.  Mr.  Lay  became 
the  inventor  of  torpedoes  used  in  the  Civil  war 
and  one  was  used  to  destroy  the  '  'Albemarle, ' '  in 
the  James  River.  The  location  of  the  new  colony 
in  Iowa  proved  to  be  unfortunate,  as  their  lands 
bordered  the  Little  Sioux  River,  which  overflowed 
every  spring,  and  their  buildings  and  fences  were 
destroyed  by  prairie  fires.  He  battled  with  these 
adversities  until  1859,  when  he  decided  to  leave 
Iowa  and  seek  a  home  elsewhere.  The  Pike's 
Peak  excitement  of  that  date  is  well  remembered, 
and  with  a  suitable  outfit  he  started  for  this  land 
of  promise.  This  was  the  spring  of  the  great 
stampede  from  Colorado;  hundreds  of  returning 
emigrants  gave  such  discouraging  reports  that 
many  were  induced  to  turn  back.  But  with  him 
there  was  no  turning  back;  his  Iowa  experience 
propelled  him  on,  but,  instead  of  Denver  as  the 
goal,  he  pushed  on  to  California  with  a  small  num- 
ber of  the  original  party,  and  arrived  there  in  the 
fall  without  mishap  or  adventure.  He  returned 
from  California  in  the  winter  of  i860,  intending  to 
take  his  family  back  with  him-in  the  spring.  His 
family  had  now  increased  to  five  by  the  addition 
of  Kate  and  Walter,  and  his  wife  was  in  such 
poor  health  that  she  was  not  able  to  stand  the 
fatigue  of  travel,  so  he  decided  to  come  to  Denver 
that  spring,  bring  his  family  later,  spend  the 
winter  in  the  city,  and  the  following  spring  travel 
overland,  by  Salt  Lake  City,  to  California.  In 
due  time  the  family  arrived  and  after  the  winter's 


sojourn,  improved  health  and  other  considerations, 
decided  him  to  make  Denver  their  permanent 
home.  As  previously  mentioned,  the  daguerreo- 
type foreshadowed  his  future  line  of  business,  he 
having  been  very  successful  with  it  in  Chicago. 
But  the  march  of  invention  is  ever  onward,  and 
the  ambrotype  and  tin- type  had  advanced  to  the 
front  and  were  the  pictures  of  the  day.  He  opened 
his  business  in  Denver  in  the  fall,  having  spent 
the  summer  in  Middle  and  South  Parks.  Soon 
the  improved  picture,  the  photograph,  came  into 
prominence,  and  this  opened  the  way  for  the  pro- 
duction of  views  of  our  mountain  scenery,  and 
while  continuing  his  business  in  Denver  he  de- 
voted his  personal  attention  every  summer  to 
obtaining  view  negatives  in  every  part  of  the 
state,  thus  laj-ing  the  foundation  for  extensive 
production  of  Colorado  views  of  the  grandest 
scenery  to  be  found,  and  which  are  prized 
.souvenirs  in  homes  the  world  over.  In  1881  he 
disposed  of  his  business  and  has  not  since  been 
engaged  in  active  operations  of  that  nature. 

Mr.  Chamberlain  was  the  father  of  six  children. 
Helena,  Mrs.  Robert  James,  lives  in  Denver; 
W.  J.  is  a  member  of  the  firm  ofW.  J.  Chamber- 
lain &  Co.,  ore  brokers,  of  Denver;  Fanny  died 
herein  1863,  at  the  age  of  twelve  years;  Lucy 
died  in  Iowa  when  four  years  old;  Kate,  Mrs. 
Frank  Dillingham,  resides  in  Denver;  and 
Walter  A.  lives  in  Boulder  and  is  manager  of 
the  W.  J.  Chamberlain  Company's  sample  works 
there.  Politically  Mr.  Chamberlain  is  a  Republi- 
can and  a  strong  silver  man. 


NGN.  JAMES  F.  GARDNER,  a  retired 
farmer  and  stock-raiser  of  Castle  Rock, 
Douglas  County,  was  born  near  Attica, 
Wyoming  County,  N.  Y.,  November  2,  1833,  ^^^ 
is  a  son  of  Neadham  Adolphus  and  Mehitable 
(Moulten)  Gardner.  His  paternal  ancestors 
were  of  Scotch  stock.  His  grandfather,  Flinton 
M.  Gardner,  was  born  in  Broomfield,  Mass.,  and 
served  in  the  war  of  the  Revolution.  Our  sub- 
ject's father  was  also  born  in  Broomfield,  but 
soon  after  his  marriage  removed  to  the  vicinity 
of  Attica,  Wyoming  County,  N.  Y. ,  his  father 
going  there  at  the  same  time.  Both  engaged 
in  farming  and  continued  to  reside  there  until 
death. 

In  1856,  when  twenty-two  years  of  age,  the 


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subject  of  this  sketch  went  to  the  territory  of 
Nebraska  and  settled  in  Burt  County,  forty- 
five  miles  north  of  Omaha,  where  he  secured  a 
squatters'  claim  to  government  land.  After  he 
had  been  there  for  two  years  he  entered  govern- 
ment land  and  gradually  built  up  a  comfortable 
home.  His  trip  to  Nebraska  was  made  with  Col. 
John  B.  Folsom,  grandfather  of  Mrs.  Grover 
Cleveland,  and  William  B.  Beck,  brother  of 
the  late  Senator  Beck  of  Kentucky,  each  of  whom 
took  up  government  land  near  his  own.  The  trip 
was  made  by  railway  to  Des  Moines,  Iowa,  and 
from  there  by  stage  to  Council  Bluffs  (then  called 
Kanesville),  Iowa.  At  Omaha  Mr.  Gardner 
hired  out  to  William  N.  Byers,  now  of  Denver, 
to  go  on  a  surveying  expedition  and  went  up  the 
Platte  and  Elkhorn  Rivers  in  Nebraska,  remain- 
ing in  the  employ  of  Mr.  Byers  for  four  months. 
Meantime  Mr.  Folsom  and  Mr.  Beck  had  laid  out 
a  town  called  Tekamah,  and  near  there  Mr. 
Gardner  located  his  land,  remaining  there  for 
three  years. 

During  the  early  days  of  the  Pike's  Peak  gold 
excitement,  in  1858,  Mr.  Gardner  fitted  out  a 
Mr.  lyOwry  for  the  trip  across  the  plains,  furnish- 
ing him  with  a  double  ox-team  and  a  wagon.  In 
the  winter  Mr.  I,owry  sent  back  such  glowing 
reports  that  Mr.  Gardner  decided  to  join  him. 
He  started  March  15,  1859,  with  an  ox-team, 
driving  through  with  William  B.  Beck  and  George 
M.  Chilcott,  who  afterward  represented  Colorado 
in  congress  and  in  the  United  States  senate. 
They  spent  two  months  on  the  road,  and  arriving 
in  Colorado,  engaged  in  prospecting  on  Clear 
Creek.  Mr.  Beck  was  an  old  California  miner, 
and,  having  a  plan  for  a  machine  that  would  help 
to  save  the  gold,  he  and  Mr.  Gardner  had  con- 
structed such  a  machine  in  Tekamah  and  had 
hauled  it  in  their  wagon,  together  with  sixty 
pounds  of  quicksilver,  which  was  to  be  used  with 
the  machine.  They  found  a  suitable  place  to  use 
the  machine  and  there  set  it  up,  but  after  work- 
ing for  a  few  days  they  found  they  had  neither 
gold  nor  quicksilver.  They  left  the  machine 
standing  and  never  used  it  again.  From  the  last 
reports  of  the  machine,  some  one  had  put  it  away 
as  a  relic. 

This  closed  Mr.  Gardner's  experience  in  min- 
ing. In  September  and  October,  1859,  he  was 
very  low  with  typhoid  fever.  In  November  he 
secured  employment  with  Thomas  A.   Bayaud, 


who  was  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  lumber 
in  what  is  now  Douglas  County.  This  brought 
Mr.  Gardner  to  the  locality  where  he  has  since 
resided.  In  June,  i860,  he  fitted  out  a  team  and 
began  to  haul  lumber  to  Denver,  which  business 
he  followed  for  a  year,  doing  fairly  well.  Buy- 
ing another  team,  he  took  a  contract  for  logging 
to  a  mill,  and  during  the  year  he  was  thus  en- 
gaged he  took  a  squatters'  claim  on  Cherry 
Creek,  near  the  present  site  of  Franktown.  There 
he  made  his  home  until  1863,  when  he  sold  the 
claim,  and  again  began  contracting  for  logging 
for  the  same  mill  he  had  been  with  before.  He 
continued  in  that  occupation  until  August,  1864, 
whep  the  mill  was  closed,  on  account  of  the 
Indian  outbreak.  He  was  obliged  to  give  up  his 
contract,  as  two  men  who  drove  his  teams  for  him 
refused  to  continue,  on  account  of  the  danger. 
It  being  especially  urgent  that  some  shingles  be 
gotten  out  to  close  a  contract,  Mr.  Gardner  went 
with  his  team  to  get  a  load  about  one  mile  from 
the  mill.  When  about  half  way  back  he  was 
attacked  by  Indians,  and  would  have  been  cap- 
tured and  doubtless  killed  had  not  the  hands  at 
the  mill,  seeing  his  danger,  rushed  to  his  rescue 
and  frightened  the  red  men  away.  Most  of  the 
families  in  the  neighborhood,  fearful  of  an  attack, 
moved  away,  Mr.  Gardner  taking  some  of  them 
to  California  ranch,  now  Franktown.  Having 
some  horses  running  loose,  he  went  to  look  for 
them,  fearful  lest  they  would  fall  into  the  hands 
of  the  Indians.  He  could  not  find  the  horses  but 
found  a  man  on  foot,  who  had  been  at  the  mill 
and  was  hurrying  along,  as  Indians  were  near. 
He  took  him  up  on  his  horse  and  they  rode 
rapidly  toward  the  ranch.  When  within  one-half 
mile  of  it,  the  Indians  thought  best  to  give  up 
the  chase,  but  had  the  distance  been  any  greater, 
both  men  would  undoubtedly  have  been  captured. 
As  it  was,  the  man  who  had  been  walking  was 
undoubtedly  saved  by  the  kindness  of  Mr. 
Gardner.  At  the  camp  there  were  about  sixty 
men  and  fifteen  women.  They  organized  a  mili- 
tary company,  of  which  Mr.  Gardner  was  chosen 
the  commander.  He  applied  to  the  governor 
for  arms,  which  were  furnished.  They  also 
built  a  stockade  of  logs,  eight  to  twelve  inches  in 
diameter,  and  extending  a  depth  of  eight  to  nine 
feet  above  the  ground.  In  that  stockade  they 
remained  from  August  until  November. 

While  there    Mr.    Gardner    was   sent   for  by 


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Colonel  Shoup,  of  Denver,  who  made  the  proposi- 
tion that  if  he  would  enlist  the  men  into  a  regi- 
ment, such  as  preferred  to  go  could  do  so,  and 
the  others  could  remain  to  guard  their  homes. 
Mr.  Gardner  enlisted  the  men  and  took  them 
to  Camp  Wheeler,  where  they  remained  until 
December,  serving  one  hundred  days,  with  him- 
self as  commissary  sergeant.  In  December,  1864, 
on  being  mustered  out,  he  returned  on  a  visit  to 
New  York  state,  where  he  remained  until  July  of 
the  following  year.  He  then  came  back  to  Cali- 
fornia ranch  and  bought  the  land,  with  the  large 
hotel.  The  travel  along  the  road  was  enormous, 
sometimes  as  many  as  one  hundred  teams  going 
by  in  a  single  day.  He  was  successful  in  the 
hotel  business,  which  he  followed  until  1867.  In 
the  meantime  he  acted  as  agent  for  the  Denver  & 
Santa  Fe  Stage  Company.  On  renting  out  his 
hotel,  he  embarked  in  the  mercantile  business, 
which  he  continued  for  ten  years.  Afterward  he 
engaged  in  farming  and  stock-raising  until  1884. 
In  1882  he  received  from  President  Arthur  a 
commission  as  Indian  commissioner  for  the  con- 
federated bands  of  Ute  Indians,  and  was  one  of 
five  who  settled  the  Indians  on  their  reservation. 
The  work  was  completed  in  a  year  and  he  then 
resigned.  In  October,  1883,  he  was  appointed 
Indian  agent  with  headquarters  at  the  reservation 
in  Utah,  where  he  remained  for  three  years. 

January  13,  1867,  Mr.  Gardner  married  Miss 
Helen  J.  Knox,  of  Douglas  County,  a  native  of 
Champaign  County,  111.,  and  a  daughter  of  John 
and  Barthena  (Lyons)  Knox.  She  accompanied 
her  mother  to  Colorado  in  girlhood  and  has  since 
made  her  home  in  Douglas  County.  She  has 
five  children,  the  eldest  of  whom,  Grace,  mar- 
ried Martin  Tchudy  and  resides  in  Park  County, 
Colo.;  they  have  two  children,  Frank  and  Alfred. 
Frederick  J.,  our  subject's  oldest  son,  is  married 
and  lives  at  La  Junta,  Colo.;  Lilian  M.,  wife  of 
Daniel  J.  Murphy  and  mother  of  two  children, 
lives  in  Denver;  Lacey  married  Ernest  Gooding 
and  resides  in  Castle  Rock,' and  Edith  H.,  the 
youngest  of  the  family,  is  with  her  parents. 

Though  reared  a  Democrat,  Mr.  Gardner  early 
espoused  the  cause  of  the  Republican  party. 
While  in  Tekamah  he  served  as  city  clerk  for  a 
year.  In  1862,  when  Douglas  County  was 
organized,  he  was  appointed  the  first  county 
clerk  and  served  for  a  year.  In  1863  he  was 
elected  county  treasurer.     At  the  expiration  of 


his  term  he  was  elected  to  the  territorial  legisla- 
ture and  served  for  two  years,  after  which  he 
served  one  term  as  county  treasurer.  In  1872 
he  was  again  elected  to  the  legislature,  and  in  the 
fall  of  1876  was  chosen  state  senator,  which 
position  he  filled  for  four  years.  From  1888  to 
1892  he  was  again  a  member  of  the  senate  and  in 
1896  was  elected  to  the  lower  house.  During  his 
service  in  the  legislature  he  took  part^in  the 
election  of  United  States  senators  seven  times. 
He  also  served  as  chairman  of  a  number  of  im- 
portant committees  and  as  a  member  of  others. 
In  point  of  years  of  service  he  is  ilext  to  the 
oldest  of  all  those  who  have  served  in  the  legisla- 
ture, and  his  service  has  been  as  efiBcient  as  it  has 
been  long. 

WALTER  M.  PRIEST,  who  served  as  sher- 
ifi"  of  Douglas  County  for  two  terms,  and 
whose  home  is  on  Craig  ranch,  near  Castle 
Rock,  was  born  in  Louisville,  Ky.,  September  4, 
1854,  being  a  son  of  Temple  G.  and  Ann(Nailor) 
Priest.  His  father,  who  followed  the  carpenter's 
trade,  was  employed  as  head  foreman  and  pattern- 
maker for  Dennis  Long,  a  contractor  in  Louis- 
ville. The  son  grew  to  manhood  in  his  native 
city  and  received  a  fair  education  in  the  public 
.schools.  In  youth  he  learned  the  blacksmith's 
trade  and  this  occupation  he  followed  for  a  num- 
ber of  years,  first  in  Kentucky  and  after  1878  in 
Colorado. 

July  22,  1885,  Mr.  Priest  was  united  in  mar- 
riage with  Miss  Sarah  J.  Van  Tilburg,  of  Castle 
Rock,  but  a  native  of  Macon  County,  Mo.,  where 
she  was  reared  and  educated. 

The  first  presidential  vote  cast  by  Mr.  Priest  ■ 
was  in  1876,  when  he  supported  Rutherford  B. 
Hayes.  Since  that  time  he  has  been  stanch  in 
his  allegiance  to  the  principles  of  his  chosen  party 
and  has  always  voted  for  its  men  and  measures. 
He  keeps  well  posted  concerning  the  issues  of  the 
age  and  favors  the  principles  of  protection  of 
home  industries,  and  the  expansion  of  territory, 
for  which  his  party  stands.  In  1891  he  was 
nominated  for  sherifi"by  the  Republicans  of  Doug- 
las County,  but  was  defeated  by  two  votes. 
Two  years  later  he  again  became  his  party's 
candidate  and  this  time  he  was  successful,  being 
elected  by  a  majority  of  ninety-seven.  He  was 
again  nominated  for  the  office  in  1895  and  received 
a  majority  of  ninety-eight.     He  was  again  nomi- 


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nated  in  1897,  but  defeated,  since  which  time  he 
has  given  his  attention  to  ranching.  Fraternally 
he  is  identified  with  the  Ancient  Order  of  United 
Workmen  at  Castle  Rock. 


HENRY  W.  WILCOX,  M.  D.,  is  a  rising 
young  physician  and  surgeon  lately  located 
in  the  pretty  town  of  Silver  Plume,  Clear 
Creek  County.  He  possesses  an  excellent  edu- 
cation, and  by  experience  in  the  world  of  busi- 
ness gained  that  general  knowledge  which  is  so 
necessarj'  to  success  in  any  given  line  of  com- 
mercial or  professional  work.  Since  coming  to 
Colorado  he  has  become  a  member  of  the  State 
Medical  Society,  and  in  other  ways  has  manifested 
his  purpose  to  keep  thoroughly  in  the  progressive 
spirit  of  the  times. 

Dr.  Wilcox  comes  from  a  good  old  NewUngland 
family.  From  a  long  line  of  earnest,  industrious, 
self-respecting  and  respected  forefathers  he  has 
inherited  their  essentially  good  qualities  of  mind 
and  heart,  as  well  as  of  physical  strength  and 
business  ability.  His  ancestors  have  been  con- 
nected with  the  Congregational  Church  for  gen- 
erations, and  he  was  brought  up  in  that  rule  of 
faith.  His  grandfather  Wilcox  was  accidentally 
killed.  The  parents  of  the  doctor  are  both  living 
at  their  old  home  in  Middletown,  Conn.  The 
father,  Walter  S.  Wilcox,  was  born  in  North 
Colebrook,  Conn.,  and  from  his  early  manhood 
until  he  retired,  a  few  years  ago,  was  engaged 
in  machinist's  work.  He  is  now •  in  the  decline 
of  life,  having  reached  the  age  of  threescore  and 
ten  years.  His  wife,  also  a  native  of  Connecti- 
cut, was  Miss  Martha  Smith,  daughter  of  David 
Smith,  a  farmer.  Some  of  her  Smith  ancestors 
were  in  the  American  navy  during  the  Revo- 
lution. 

The  birth  of  Dr.  H.  W.  Wilcox  occurred  in 
1868.  He  is  the  only  living  child  of  his  parents, 
one  other  having  died  ere  reaching  maturity. 
He  was  educated  in  the  grammar  and  high 
schools  of  Hartford,  Conn.  When  he  started 
out  in  the  business  world  he  embarked  in  life  in- 
surance, being  employed  by  the  old  standard 
Connecticut  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company  for 
five  years,  as  private  secretary  of  the  medical  di- 
rectors. In  1893  he  came  to  Colorado  and  in  the 
following  year  he  entered  the  medical  depart- 
ment of  the  University   of  Colorado.     In  1897 


he  was  graduated  with  the_  degree  of  Doctor  of 
Medicine  and  the  same  summer  he  succeeded  Dr. 
Pennock  in  practice  in  Silver  Plume.  He  de- 
votes all  his  time  and  attention  to  medicine  and 
has  been  very  successful.  In  his  political  prefer- 
ences he  is  a  Republican.  He  enjoys  the  sincere 
friendship  and  respect  of  all  who  have  the  pleas- 
ure of  his  acquaintance,  wherever  he  goes.  He 
married  Dr.  Sara  S.  Comacher  in  October,  1898. 


HOMAS  JEFFERSON  KING,  who  is  a 
retired  farmer  living  in  Castle  Rock,  Doug- 
las County,  was  born  near  Bedford,  the 
county  seat  of  Trimble  Count}',  Ky.  His  parents, 
Richard  and  Nancy  (Williams)  King,  were  na- 
tives respectively  of  Virginia  and  Kentucky,  and 
were  married  in  the  Blue  Grass  state.  The  father, 
who  was  a  farmer,  owned  a  farm  of  two  hundred 
acres,  and  upon  that  place  his  ten  children  were 
reared.  The  fourth  of  the  family  was  the  subject 
of  this  sketch.  When  he  was  a  boy  there  were 
no  free  schools  in  his  locality.  He  was  born 
March  9,  1826,  and  at  that  time  advantages  were 
few  in  comparison  with  those  of  the  present  day. 
However,  he  learned  to  read  and  write,  which 
was  more  of  an  education  than  many  others  ob- 
tained in  that  day.  When  he  was  twenty-one 
he  rented  land  and  began  farming,  in  which  way 
he  secured  bis  start  in  life.' 

April  10,  1 85 1,  Mr.  King  married  Miss  Mary 
E.  Evans,  who  was  born  in  Floyd  County,  Ind., 
and  was  about  six  years  of  age  when  her  parents 
moved  back  to  their  native  Kentucky.  There 
she  was  reared,  being  given  such  advantages  as 
were  within  the  means  of  her  father,  Charles 
Evans,  and  her  mother,  whose  maiden  name  was 
Sena  Palmer.  About  two  and  one-half  years 
after  their  marriage  Mr.  and  Mrs.  King,  in  1853, 
moved  to  Atchison  County,  Mo.,  and  there  he 
bought  eighty  acres  of  land,  later  adding  to  the 
property,  which  they  improved  and  out  of  which 
they  evolved  a  valuable  homestead. 

On  account  of  poor  health  and  because  of  the 
troublous  war  times,  in  1863  Mr.  King  decided 
to  move  to  Colorado.  He  drove  across  the  plains 
with  an  ox  team,  spending  six  weeks  on  the  road. 
Landing  north  of  Denver,  near  Golden,  he  spent 
the  winter  there,  and  after  was  at  Arvada  for  two 
years,  cultivating  land.  He  then  moved  below 
Denver  on  the  Platte,  and  after  three  years  in 


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that  place  came  to  Douglas  County,  in  1868, 
taking  a  homestead  on  Cherry  Creek.  After 
seven  years,  during  which  time  he  had  improved 
the  land,  he  traded  it  for  his  present  home.  He 
has  always  been  a  pronounced  Democrat,  but 
has  never  been  active  in  local  politics.  With 
his  wife  he  held  membership  in  the  Cum- 
berland Presbyterian  Church  in  Missouri,  but  as 
that  denomination  is  not  represented  in  this 
locality,  they  have  identified  themselves  with  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church  south.  They  are 
the  parents  of  six  children.  Their  older  daughter, 
Mary  E.,  was  first  the  wife  of  Holly  Warner,  by 
whom  she  had  two  children;  she  is  now  the  wife 
of  Alexander  Bird,  of  Mount  Rose,  and  four 
children  have  been  born  of  this  union.  The  other 
children  of  Mr.  King  are:  John  S.,  at  home; 
William  R., a  farmer  residing  near  Pendleton,  Ore.; 
Charles  E.,  who  died  at  twenty-six  years;  Bell- 
zora,  who  married  David  A.  Jennings  and  died, 
leaving  three  children;  and  Thomas  J.,  who  is 
second  lieutenant  in  Torrey's  Rough  Riders,  in 
the  war  with  Spain. 


|~REDERICKA.WII.MARTH,M.D.,  county 
fft  physician  for  Douglas  County,  local  surgeon 
I  ^  for  the  Denver  &  Rio  Grande  Railway  Com- 
panj',  and  a  successful  practicing  physician  of 
Castle  Rock,  was  born  at  Milford  (now  Hopedale) , 
Mass.,  June  30,  1861,  and  is  a  son  of  Dr.  Jerome 
and  Abbie  (Munyan)  Wilmarth.  His  boyhood 
days  were  spent  in  the  town  of  Upton,  where  he 
attended  the  high  school,  graduating  in  the  class 
of  1878.  From  childhood  it  had  been  his  am- 
bition to  become  a  physician.  However,  after 
completing  his  high -school  course,  he  entered  the 
Massachusetts  Agricultural  College  at  Amherst, 
and  spent  three  years  in  study  there,  when  fail- 
ing health  obliging  him  to  leave.  For  three 
years  he  was  employed  in  the  straw  shops  at 
Upton,  and  during  that  time  he  regained  his 
health.  In  1884  he  entered-  the  medical  depart- 
ment of  Harvard  University,  from  which  he  was 
graduated  in  1888,  with  the  degree  of  M.  D.,  and 
subsequently  he  spent  one  year  in  the  city  hospi- 
tal at  Worcester,  which  privilege  he  earned  by  a 
competitive  examination. 

After  practicing  at  Upton  for  a  year.  Dr.  Wil- 
marth removed  to  Milford,  where  he  assisted  his 
father  in   practice.     Three  years  later  he  was 


obliged,  by  poor  health,  to  temporarily  retire 
from  the  profession.  A  year  later,  in  1894,  he 
came  to  Colorado  and  for  two  and  one-half  years 
he  remained  in  Denver,  recuperating.  In  March, 
1897,  he  settled  in  Castle  Rock,  where  he  estab- 
lished himself  in  the  general  practice  of  his  profes- 
sion. Since  coming  here  he  has  been  surgeon  for 
the  Denver  &  Rio  Grande  Railway  and  also 
county  physician.  While  in  the  east  he  was  a 
member  of  the  Massachusetts  State  Medical  So- 
ciety, but  resigned  on  leaving  the  state.  At  this 
writing  he  is  identified  with  the  Denver  and 
Arapahoe  Medical  Society. 

September  11,  1888,  Dr.  Wilmarth  married 
Cola  1,.,  daughter  of  Lambert  and  Mary  (Brown) 
Gillis,  of  Denver.  She  was  born  in  Victor,  N.  Y. , 
and  took  the  trained  nurses'  course  in  the  hospi- 
tal at  Worcester,  where  she  became  acquainted 
with  Dr.  Wilmarth.  One  son  has  blessed  the 
union,  Frederick  Jerome,  who  was  bom  in  Mil- 
ford, Mass.,  November  3,  1889. 

Though  trained  in  youth  in  Republican  prin- 
ciples. Dr.  Wilmarth  is  now  independent  in  poli- 
tics, and  supports  the  best  men  and  the  best 
measures,  regardless  of  party.  He  was  reared 
and  confirmed  in  the  Episcopal  faith.  While  in 
Massachusetts  he  was  made  a  Mason  in  Grafton 
and  is  still  identified  with  the  fraternity,  being  a 
member  of  Montgomery  Lodge,  F.  &  A.  M.,  of 
Milford,  Mass.  Among  the  charter  members  of 
this  well-known  lodge  was  Paul  Revere,  whose 
signature  on  the  charter  is  one  of  the  few  in  ex- 
istence. Asa  physician  Dr.  Wilmarth  is  skillful, 
efiBcieutand  painstaking,  and  has  justly  earned  a 
reputation  for  reliability  in  his  chosen  profession. 


Q)AN  BUREN  KEESEY,  who  served  as  the 
\  /  first  sherifi"  of  Weld  County,  from  1863  to 
Y  1865,  is  one  of  its  substantial  citizens  and 
pioneers.  He  owns  a  well- improved  ranch  on 
section  7,  township  2,  range  66,  and  hispostofiBce 
is  Fort  Eupton.  In  the  early  days  of  this  county 
he  helped  in  the  organization  of  schools,  and  for 
years  was  one  of  the  members  of  the  board  of  edu- 
cation. In  other  ways  he  assisted  in  placing  this 
region  on  a  safe  and  sure  basis  of  prosperity  and 
is  justly  entitled  to  a  place  among  its  represent- 
ative men. 

Born  in   Perry ville,  Ashland  County,    Ohio, 
April  20,  1839,  our  subject  is  one  of  the  seven 


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children  of  James  and  Sophia  (Cowan)  Kelsey. 
His  father  was  a  native  of  Ireland,  born  in  the 
neighborhood  of  Dublin,  and  the  mother,  though 
of  Irish  parentage,  was  born  near  Pittsburg,  Pa. 
The  surviving  brothers  and  sisters  of  our  subject 
are  all  living  west  of  the  Mississippi  River  at 
present.  William,  Sarah  and  George  are  in 
Kansas,  and  John  is  in  Montana. 

The  boyhood  of  Van  Buren  Kelsey  was  passed 
quietly  upon  a  farm  in  Ohio  until,  in  1859,  when 
he  was  twenty  years  old,  he  became  infected  with 
the  gold  fever.  He  left  home  with  a  company 
who  were  provided  with  two  horse- teams.  They 
went  to  Cincinnati,  and  followed  the  general 
course  of  the  Ohio,  Mississippi  and  Missouri 
Rivers  as  far  as  Boonville,  Mo.  In  Johnson 
County,  Kan.,  one  of  the  party,  Jonas  Brantner, 
bought  a  herd  of  cattle,  and  young  Kelsey  as- 
sisted him  in  driving  them  across  the  plains. 
They  arrived  at  Cherry  Creek  about  July  10,  and 
camped  some  five  miles  above  Denver.  For  the 
next  three  years  our  subject  continued  in  the  em- 
ploy of  Mr.  Brantner,  and  by  strict  economy  had 
saved  enough  of  his  earnings  to  enable  himself  to 
go  into  business  on  his  own  account.  Having 
bought  a  herd  of  yearlings  he  came  to  Weld 
County  and  led  a  pastoral  life  for  the  next  five 
years.  In  1866  he  took  up  a  claim  within  five 
miles  of  Denver,  but  later  sold  this  land  to  John 
Castor.  It  is  now  a  part  of  the  McCool  ranch. 
In  i860  he  and  Jonas  Brantner  commenced  work 
on  the  Brantner  ditch,  the  first  one  made  in 
Arapahoe  Count}',  and  it  still  goes  by  the  name 
it  formerly  bore.  In  1876  Mr.  Kelsey  purchased 
his  present  ranch  of  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres, 
the  boundaries  of  which  homestead  he  has  since 
increased  to  two  hundred  and  forty  acres.  The 
land  is  watered  by  the  Platteville  Irrigating 
Canal  and  is  fertile  and  productive.  The  owner 
has  been  occupied  in  general  farming  and  stock- 
raising,  and  has  given  some  time  and  attention  to 
the  dairy  business  as  well.  His  success  he  has 
wrought  out  by  himself,  without  outside  assist- 
ance, and  he  is  entitled  to  much  credit  for  his  ex- 
cellent judgment  and  management. 

Politically  Mr.  Kelsey  is  a  Democrat.  Fra- 
ternally he  is  a  Mason,  belonging  to  Brighton 
Lodge  No.  78,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.  He  was  married 
November  30,  1868,  to  Miss  Laura  G.  Bailey, 
daughter  of  Lawrence  Bailey,  and  a  native  of 
Muskingum  County,  Ohio.     Her  father  was  born 


in  Vermont.  The  marriage  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Kelsey  was  blessed  with  seven  children,  all  of 
whom  are  living.  They  are  named  as  follows: 
Helen  A.  W.,  Charles  B.,  George  D.,  Kate  I., 
Sophia,  Wheeler  and  Camile. 


HENRY  SEIFRIED,  cashier  and  principal 
owner  of  the  Bank  of  Georgetown ,  is  one  of 
the  most  successful  men  of  the  state  and  is 
highly  esteemed  in  the  community.  He  was 
born  in  Chicago,  111.,  forty-six  years  ago,  and 
came  to  this  state  in  the  fall  of  1876.  His  father, 
Francis  Seifried,  was  born  near  Frankfort,  Ger- 
many, as  was  also  his  mother,  Magdaline  Ham- 
melman.  They  located  in  Chicago  about  1850, 
and  are  both  living.  Four  children  blessed  their 
union:  Henry;  Frank,  who  is  in  the  real-estate 
and  loan  business  in  Denver;  Emma,  who  lives  in 
Chicago;  and  William,  who  is  with  Baker  Broth- 
ers of  that  city. 

Henry,  who  is  the  oldest  of  the  family,  at- 
tended the  public  schools  of  Chicago,  and  after 
completing  the  grammar  school  took  a  commer- 
cial course  in  Bryant  &  Stratton's  Commercial 
College  of  that  city.  In  1866  he  went  into  the 
Merchants,  Farmers  and  Mechanics'  Saving 
Bank  as  bookkeeper,  and  was  promoted  to  the 
position  of  head  bookkeeper,  in  charge  of  real 
estate  and  loans.  After  Remaining  there  ten 
years  he  resigned  and  came  to  Georgetown,  where 
he  bought  the  foundry  and  machine  shops,  now 
the  Union  Iron  Works,  of  Georgetown,  and  re- 
mained with  the  company  as  president  until  1879. 
In  1882  he  started  the  Bank  of  Georgetown,  in- 
corporated it  as  a  state  bank,  and  brought  it  up 
to  its  present  state  of  perfection.  He  is  the 
principal  stockholder  in  the  institution,  and  has 
worked  hard  to  place  it  on  its  present  solid  foot- 
ing. It  was  the  only  bank  in  the  city  that  was 
able  to  pass  over  the  panic  of  1893  without  a  stop 
or  refusing  to  meet  the  demands  made  upon  it. 
It  does  a  general  banking  business,  and  he  has 
held  the  position  of  cashier  since  its  organization. 

Besides  his  banking  interests,  Mr.  Seifried  is 
also  engaged  in  the  real-estate  business  and  rep- 
resents some  of  the  leading  old  line  insurance 
companies.  He  also  owns  and  operated  some 
good  mines.  He  was  one  of  the  organizers  and 
developers  of  the  American  Sisters  mine  at  Clear 
Creek,  one  of  the  largest  properties  there,  con- 


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sisting  of  six  lodes,  which  are  now  being  oper- 
ated. He  is  a  director  in  the  First  National  Bank 
of  Idaho  Springs,  and  has  built  several  business 
and  residence  properties  in  Georgetown,  and  also 
owns  real  estate  in  Denver.  In  Pocahontas,  111., 
he  married  Miss  Cora  Johnston,  a  nativeofOhio. 
They  have  two  children  living:  Marguerite  and 
Ruth.  In  politics  a  Republican,  Mr.  Seifried 
has  served  Georgetown  in  the  capacity  of  alder- 
man, treasurer  and  mayor,  each  one  term.  He 
was  made  a  Mason  in  Chicago,  joining  the 
National  Lodge,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  but  transferred 
his  membership  to  Georgetown  Lodge  No.  48, 
where  he  has  held  the  post  of  treasurer  fifteen 
years.  He  is  a  member  of  the  American  Bank- 
ers' Association,  and  spares  no  effort  to  add  to 
the  stability  of  his  business.  He  is  an  attendant 
of  the  Presbyterian  Church,  of  which  his  wife  is  a 
member. 


©IMON  WEST,  the  owner  of  a  valuable  ranch 
^\  situated  five  miles  southeast  of  Longmont, 
V2/  Boulder  County,  was  born  in  Sweden,  Sep- 
tember 21,  1849,  a  son  of  Nels  and  Christina 
(Nillsen)  West.  He  was  next  to  the  youngest 
of  five  children,  the  others  being  Nels,  Andrew; 
Mary,  who  still  resides  in  Sweden;  and  Peter, 
who  lives  in  Todd  County,  Minn.  His  father, 
who  was  a  prosperous  farmer  of  Sweden,  was 
born  in  1812,  and  attained  the  age  of  eighty 
years,  dying  in  his  native  land. 

Our  subject  remained  at  home  and  assisted  in 
the  cultivation  of  the  home  farm  until  his  thirtieth 
year.  In  1880,  having  heard  of  the  bright  op- 
portunities offered  in  America,  he  decided  to  cross 
the  ocean.  Hetook  passage  on  the  steamer"Erie," 
and  after  a  voyage  of  thirteen  days  landed  at 
old  Castle  Garden,  New  York.  His  ticket  had 
been  bought  through  to  Cheyenne,  Wyo.,  so  he 
continued  his  journey  westward,  arriving  at  Chey- 
enne and  from  there  proceeding  to  Longmont, 
where  he  secured  employment  with  Nels  Bailer 
as  a  farm  hand.  After  two  years  in  that  place 
he  rented  land  and  for  one  year  engaged  in  farm- 
ing there.  Next  he  went  to  Clear  Creek  Valley 
near  Arvada,  where  he  rented  land  from  Gust 
Bailer  and  farmed  for  one  year.  On  his  return  to 
Longmont  he  farmed  for  one  year  and  then  came 
to  his  present  location,  the  old  Robinson  place,  of 
three  hundred  and  twenty  acres.  After  three 
years  of  successful  farming  here,  he  bought  the 


property,  for  which  he  paid  $1,000  in  cash  and 
gave  his  note  for  $5,000.  His  crops  continued 
good  and  in  the  course  of  five  years  the  land  was 
paid  for  and  he  was  on  the  road  to  independence. 
The  succeeding  years  have  brought  him  enhanced 
prosperity,  and  he  now  ranks  among  the  well-to- 
do  farmers  of  his  county.  His  success  is  espec- 
ially commendable  when  it  is  considered  that  he 
came  to  this  countrj'  without  friends  or  money, 
and  was  so  poor  that  he  had  no  place  to  sleep  ex- 
cept a  bed  of  straw.  Honesty  and  integrity  won 
him  many  friends  and  his  industry  and  persever- 
ance pushed  him  forward  to  independence  and 
success. 

In  1883  Mr.  West  married  Miss  Anna  Nielsen, 
a  native  of  Sweden  and  his  sweetheart  in  the  old 
days  there.  After  he  was  in  a  position  to  support 
a  wife,  he  sent  back  to  Sweden  for  her  and  she 
joined  him  in  Colorado.  They  became  the  parents 
of  four  children,  three  of  whom  are  living,  namely: 
Fred,  Oscar  and  Rosa  N.  One  daughter,  Hilda, 
is  deceased.  The  surviving  children  are  being 
given  every  advantage  their  parents  can  provide, 
it  being  their  father's  desire  that  they  may  have 
good  educations  and  not  be  forced  to  struggle 
against  poverty  as  he  did.  In  religion  he  and 
his  wife  are  members  of  the  Lutheran  Church. 


EHRISTOPHER  TREZISE.  The  popularity 
of  a  man  in  this  county  is  pretty  well  esti- 
mated by  the  votes  he  receives  when  a  candi- 
date before  the  people,  and  judging  by  this 
standard  Mr.  Trezise  is  one  of  the  men  in  whom 
is  placed  the  highest  degree  of  confidence  and  re- 
spect. In  1895  he  was  made  the  nominee  of  the 
Democratic  and  People's  parties  as  county  treas- 
urer, and  was  elected  along  with  county  judge, 
county  superintendent  of  schools  and  sheriff.  The 
oath  of  oSice  was  taken  by  him  in  January,  1896. 
He  was  re-elected  in  1897,  the  second  term  to 
expire  in  1900. 

He  was  born  August  22,  1852,  in  Cornwall, 
England,  four  miles  from  Land's  End.  His  fa- 
ther, William  Trezise,  was  also  born  there  and 
was  a  miner,  becoming  chief  engineer  of  the 
mines.  He  died  at  the  age  of  sixty-nine.  He 
married  Miss  Elizabeth  Daniel,  a  daughter  of 
Thomas  Daniel,  of  the  same  vicinity.  She  died 
in  England,  leaving  a  family  of  fifteen  children, 
ten   of  whom   grew  to   maturity,    and  eight  of 


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whom  are  now  living.  Christopher  was  the  thir- 
teenth child.  Four  of  the  family  are  in  Colorado, 
while  a  brother  and  two  sisters  live  in  Nevada. 

Mr.  Trezise  was  reared  and  educated  in  Corn- 
wall, after  which  he  entered  on  the  life  of  a  miner, 
working  in  the  mines  of  his  native  country  until 
1872,  when  he  came  to  America,  and  secured 
work  in  the  iron  ore  mines  of  Dover,  N.  J.  The 
next  year  he  went  to  the  copper  mines  in  Michi- 
gan and  worked  a  year,  and  then  started  for  this 
state,  reaching  Central  City  May  20,  1874.  Most 
of  the  time  since  coming  here  has  been  spent  in 
prospecting  and  superintending  mining  opera- 
tions. The  company  of  which  Mr.  Trezise  was 
one  leased  and  developed  the  Old  Colony  mine, 
on  the  Prize  lode,  and  operated  it  awhile,  and  is 
now  interested  in  the  Champion  mine  in  the 
Nevada  district,  and  the  Mountain  Rose  mine  in 
Gregory  district. 

In  1889  Mr.  Trezise  was  elected  assessor  for 
Gilpin  County  and  served  from  January,  1890, 
until  the  same  mouth  in  1892.  In  1891  he  was 
the  Democratic  nominee  for  treasurer,  but  was 
defeated  bj'  about  sixty-four  votes,  and  the  rest 
of  the  ticket  also  failed.  He  refused  the  nomi- 
nation in  1893,  but  two  years  later  allowed  his 
name  to  be  placed  on  the  ticket  with  the  result 
that  he  was  the  only  man  on  it  to  be  elected. 
While  in  Nevadaville  he  was  a  member  of  the 
board  of  aldermen,  and  also  served  as  treasurer 
for  two  years.  He  is  a  member  of  Rising  Sun 
Lodge  No.  2,  Order  of  Red  Men,  the  Sons  of 
St.  George,  Select  Friends  and  Knights  of  Pythias. 


WILLIAM  B.  NEELEY,  secretary  of  the 
Boulder  and  White  Rock  Ditch  Company, 
of  Longmont,  was  born  in  Lancaster, 
Schuyler  County,  Mo.,  July  13,  1853.  He  is  a 
son  of  R.  S.  and  Judy  D.  (Jones)  Neeley,  natives 
respectively  of  Ohio  and  Virginia.  After  having 
spent  his  early  years  in  Ohio,  in  1845  R.  S. 
Neeley  removed  to  Missouri,  where  he  took  up 
government  land  and  embarked  in  farming,  later 
engaging  in  the  stock  business,  and  also  operat- 
ing a  sawmill  and  factory.  He  became  a  man  of 
prominence  and  had  a  wide  acquaintance  through- 
out his  part  of  Missouri.  On  the  organization  of 
Schuyler  County  he  was  elected  the  first  sheriff, 
and  the  first  lawsuit  in  the  county  was  tried  in 
his  house.     His  life  in  Missouri  was  one  of  activ- 


ity and  was  rewarded  by  a  large  degree  of  suc- 
cess. In  1879  he  disposed  of  the  larger  part  of 
his  interests  in  that  state  and  removed  to  Colo- 
rado, where  he  nov/  resides  near  Alamosa,  Cone- 
jos County,  in  the  San  Luis  Valley.  He  is  now 
.somewhat  advanced  in  years  and  for  this  reason 
does  not  perform  the  manual  labor  to  which  he 
was  accustomed  in  younger  life;  however,  he 
still  superintends  his  large  ranch  and  attends  to 
all  business  matters  personally. 

The  family  of  R.  S.  Neeley  consisted  of  seven 
sons  and  one  daughter,  all  of  whom  are  living. 
Of  the  four  born  to  his  first  marriage,  William  B., 
the  youngest,  was  only  eighteen  months  old 
when  his  mother  died.  She  was  a  daughter  of 
John  Jones,  who  was  born  in  Virginia  and  spent 
much  of  his  early  life  there,  but  became  a  pioneer 
of  Indiana,  thence  removed  to  Missouri,  and  still 
later,  in  1863,  settled  in  Colorado.  For  some 
time  he  carried  on  farm  pursuits,  but  afterward 
lived  in  retirement,  in  Boulder  County,  where  he 
died  at  seventy-six  years  of  age.  Much  of  his 
life  was  given  to  the  work  of  a  pioneer,  and  he 
was  one  who  was  well  fitted,  by  nature,  for  the 
responsible  and  arduous  tasks  incident  to  frontier 
life. 

The  boyhood  years  of  our  subject  were  spent 
in  Missouri.  He  received  such  educational  ad- 
vantages as  could  be  obtained  in  the  public 
schools  of  his  home  neighborhood,  and  to  the 
knowledge  there  obtained  he  added  by  self-culture, 
thus  acquiring  sufficient  education  to  fit  him  for 
practical  business  life.  When  eighteen  j'ears  of 
age  he  came  to  Colorado,  and  during  the  two  suc- 
ceeding years  was  engaged  in  teaming  and 
freighting,  then  a  common  and  profitabe  occupa- 
tion. In  1874  he  settled  in  Boulder  County  and 
there  purchased  a  tract  of  eighty  acres.  This 
land  he  cultivated  and  improved,  making  of  it 
a  valuable  farm.  He  remained  there  until  1890, 
when  he  came  to  his  present  home,  Longmont. 
About  1877  he  was  made  general  superintendent 
of  the  Boulder  and  White  Rock  Ditch  Company, 
and  has  been  connected  with  the  company  in 
this  capacity  ever  since,  a  longer  time  than  any 
one  in  the  state  has  held  such  a  position.  As 
secretary  of  the  company  he  attends  to  its  col- 
lections and  his  services  are  of  the  greatest 
value  to  its  president,  J.  J.  Beasley,  as  well  as  to 
the  stockholders  and  other  officers.  The  ditch 
is  about  thirty  miles  long  and  through  it  much 


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of  the  land  in  this  section  has  been  made  profit- 
able. In  addition  to  his  other  interests,  he  is 
financiallj^  interested  in  the  Farmers'  Milling 
and  Elevator  Company  and  the  Farmers'  Na- 
tional Bank  and  is  a  stockholder  and  director  in 
the  Longmont  Electric  Light  and  Power  Com- 
pany. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Neeley  took  place  in  Boul- 
der in  1879,  and  united  him  with  Miss  Mary  C. 
Cay  wood,  who  was  born  in  Iowa  and  accom- 
panied her  father,  W.  W.  Caywood,  to  Colorado 
in  1866.  The  family  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Neeley 
consists  of  four  sons:  Robert  W.,  James  G., 
William  R.  and  Elbert  E.,  all  of  whom  are  living. 
The  father  of  Mrs.  Neeley,  W.  W.  Caywood, 
was  a  native  of  Kentucky  and  removed  from  that 
state  to  Iowa  in  1855.  There  he  resided  until 
1866  and  then  came  to  Colorado,  of  which  state 
he  remained  a  resident  until  his  death  in  1888. 
While  in  Kentucky  he  married  Katie  D.  New- 
man, and  the  family  resulting  from  this  union 
consisted  of  five  sons  and  five  daughters. 

Fraternally  Mr.  Neeley  is  connected  with  the 
lodge  and  encampment,  I.  O.  O.  F.,  in  which  he 
has  been  an  ofiicer,  and  he  is  an  honorary  mem- 
ber of  the  Daughters  of  Rebekah  and  Ancient 
Order  United  Workmen.  Personally  he  is  a 
genial,  affable  gentleman,  whose  uprightness  of 
life  and  energy  in  business  have  won  for  him  a 
host  of  friends. 

/JJEN.  GEORGE  WEST,  editor  of  the  Colo- 
|_.  rado  7Va«im)!>/,  president  of  the  Association 
\Ji  of  Jefferson  County  Pioneers  and  ex -adju- 
tant-general of  the  state,  was  born  in  Claremont, 
N.  H. ,  November  6,  1826,  the  descendant  of 
English  ancestors.  His  father,  Aaron,  who  was 
a  native  of  Claremont,  followed  farm  pursuits, 
and  during  the  war  of  1812  served  as  sergeant. 
His  death  was  the  result  of  an  accident  and 
occurred  when  he  was  fifty  years  of  age.  He 
married  Elizabeth  Leslie,  who  was  born  in  New 
Hampshire  and  died  in  Boston,'  Mass.,  at  the  age 
of  eighty-five.  Of  their  ten  children  seven  attained 
maturity,  George  being  the  only  one  of  the  family 
in  Colorado.  He  was  reared  in  Claremont  until 
seventeen  and  then,  in  1843,  went  to  Boston, 
where  he  worked  in  the  composing  room  of  the 
Boston  Cultivator.  For  three  years  previous  he 
had  served  at  the  printer's  trade  on  the  National 
Eagle  of  Claremont.     He  was  prospered  in  his 


work  in  the  city  and  in  1853  became  one  of  the 
proprietors  of  the  Boston  Stereotype  Foundry, 
now  a  large  business  concern  of  Boston. 

When  the  Pike's  Peak  excitement  spread  over 
the  country  he  was  among  the  first  who  deter- 
mined to  come  west.  In  the  spring  of  1859  he 
organized  a  party  of  eight  members,  called  the 
Boston  Company,  and  they  journeyed  westward 
together.  Reaching  St.  Joe,  they  traveled  from 
there  with  ox-teams  and  arrived  at  the  point 
where  Golden  now  stands,  June  12,  1859.  He 
is  the  only  one  of  the  company  left  here  now. 
He  assisted  the  others  in  building  the  first  house 
in  Golden,  a  log  structure  of  two  stories,  which, 
weather- boarded  and  painted,  is  still  a  comfort- 
able house.  Soon  after  settling  in  Golden  he 
established  the  Western  Mountaineer  here,  it  be- 
ing the  first  regularly  published  paper  in  the 
place.  In  the  spring  of  i860  he  returned  to 
Boston,  disposed  of  his  business  interests  there 
and  bought  a  printing  press,  which  he  brought 
via  mule-train  to  Colorado.  In  the  spring  of 
1861  he  sold  the  Western  Mountaineer  to  a  gentle- 
man who  took  the  plant  to  Canon  City.  He 
turned  his  attention  to  freighting,  and  made  three 
trips  between  Denver  and  the  Missouri  River. 

In  the  spring  of  1862  he  enlisted  in  the  Second 
Colorado  Infantry,  and  was  made  captain  of  Com- 
pany H,  receiving  his  commission  from  the  war 
department.  The  regiment  was  ordered  to  St. 
Louis,  where  it  was  consolidated  with  the  Third 
Colorado  Infantry  and  made  the  Second  Colo- 
rado Cavalry,  his  command  becoming  Company 
F.  At  the  close  of  the  war  he  was  honorably  dis- 
charged at  Fort  Riley,  Kan.,  and  returned  to 
Golden.  During  his  period  of  army  service 
occurred  one  of  the  most  important  events  of  his 
life.  In  1863  he  was  ordered  to  Colorado  by 
General  Blunt  to  recruit  for  his  regiment,  and 
after  attending  to  these  duties,  he  did  not  neglect 
another  important,  but  more  personal  matter. 
He  was  united  in  marriage  with  Miss  Eliza  M., 
daughter  of  Judge  T.  P.  Boyd,  of  Golden.  In 
January,  1864,  his  wife  joined  him  at  Sedalia, 
Mo.,  and  remained  with  him  at  the  front  until 
the  close  of  the  war,  being  engaged  in  hospital 
work  during  much  of  the  time. 

After  returning  to  Colorado,  Captain  West  be- 
came city  editor  of  the  Rocky  Mountain  News  at 
Denver.  In  November,  1866,  he  founded  the 
Colorado   Transcript  at  Golden,   which   he   still 


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owns  and  edits.  At  first  the  paper  was  quite 
small,  but  as  its  patronage  increased  the  dimen- 
sions of  the  paper  were  enlarged  to  correspond. 
It  is  now  a  six-column  quarto.  In  politics  it  is 
unswervingly  Democratic,  but  in  local  affairs  it 
does  not  display  a  partisan  spirit,  always  support- 
ing any  measure  for  the  good  of  the  people,  what- 
ever its  political  birth  might  have  been.  In  con- 
nection with  the  paper,  there  is  a  good  job  office 
and  a  specialty  is  made  of  first-class  job  work. 
The  presses  are  modern  and  are  operated  with 
electricity  as  the  motive  power.  In  1887  he  was 
appointed  adjutant-general  of  the  state  by  Gov- 
ernor Adams,  and  during  his  term  of  office 
occurred  the  Ute  outbreak.  The  National  Guard 
were  ordered  to  the  field  to  quell  the  disturbance, 
and  with  General  West  at  their  head  drove  the 
marauding  Indians  back  to  their  reservation. 
The  Guard  spent  a  month  in  active  service,  and 
their  success  was  so  marked  that  the  Utes  have 
since  refrained  from  stealing  and  killing  cattle,  as 
heretofore.  He  served  for  two  years  as  adjutant- 
general  and  became  very  popular  with  the  Guard, 
whose  equipment  and  drill  he  noticeably  im- 
proved. Under  his  direction  new  uniforms  were 
purchased  and  armories  established  at  Denver, 
Leadville  and  Colorado  Springs.  A  signal  corps 
was  also  instituted,  which  has  since  been  made 
one  of  the  permanent  adjuncts  of  the  Guard. 
He  is  now  an  officer  on  the  retired  list,  with  the 
rank  of  brigadier-general. 

General  West  is  commander  of  T.  H.  Dodd 
Post  No.  3,  G.  A.  R.  and  is  past  senior  vice-com- 
mander of  the  department  of  Colorado.  He 
organized  the  Association  of  Jefferson  County 
Pioneers,  of  which  he  has  been  president  much  of 
the  time  since.  In  religious  belief  he  and  his 
wife  are  Episcopalians.  They  have  three  chil- 
dren: Marguerite,  Mrs.  George  M.  Kimball,  of 
Golden;  Leslie  B.,  who  assists  his  father  in  the 
publication  of  the  Transcript;  and  Harley  D.,  now 
at  Manila,  P.  I.,  as  a  member  of  Company  K, 
First  Colorado  Volunteers. 


EHALMON  WRAY,  a  farmer  of  Larimer 
County,  residing  on  township  4,  range  69, 
was  born  in  Franklin  County,  Va.,  in  1847, 
and  is  a  son  of  Daniel  and  Naomi  (Johnson) 
Wray,  natives  of  Virginia.  His  father,  who 
spent  his  entire  life  in  the  Old  Dominion,  followed 


the  pursuits  of  farmer,  tanner  and  blacksmith, 
and  was  for  a  number  of  years  squire  of  the 
town,  of  which  he  was  a  leading  citizen.  His 
death  occurred  in  1S63,  when  he  was  fifty-one 
years  of  age.  His  widow,  who  is  now  ih  her 
eightieth  year,  resides  with  her  son,  Mankino,  in 
Iowa. 

At  the  age  of  eighteen,  in  1865,  Mr.  Wray,  of 
this  sketch,  came  as  far  west  as  Marion  County, 
Iowa,  and  there  embarked  in  general  farming  in 
connection  with  his  brother,  the  two  renting  a 
farm  together.  In  1873  he  crossed  the  plains  to 
Colorado,  arriving  in  Longmont  on  the  4th  of 
July.  The  following  year,  in  partnership  with 
his  brother-in-law,  R.  J.  Patterson,  he  rented  a 
farm,  which  he  assisted  in  cultivating  for  a  year. 
He  then  returned  to  Tennessee  to  buy  cattle, 
which  he  fed  on  the  range.  Coming  from  that 
state  to  Colorado,  he  stopped  at  his  old  home  in 
Iowa.  In  1875  he  returned  to  Longmont  and 
bought  some  cattle,  which  he  pastured  on  the 
South  Platte  River.  He  engaged  in  cattle-rais- 
ing until  1878,  when  he  sold  out.  During  the 
same  year  he  bought  eighty-four  acres  on  section 
14,  where  he  now  resides.  March  i,  1878,  he 
hauled  the  first  load  of  stone  for  his  present  home. 
He  made  a  number  of  valuable  improvements  and 
has  followed  general  farming,  dairying  and  stock- 
raising,  on  his  eighty-four  and  one-third  acres  of 
fine  land,  all  of  which  is  improved.  He  is  a 
stockholder  and  director  in  the  Farmers'  roller 
mill  at  Berthoud.  For  some  years  he  has  held 
stock  in  the  Handy  Ditch  Company,  of  which  he 
was  among  the  original  promoters. 

Politically  Mr.  Wray  was  a  Democrat  until 
1892,  since  which  time  he  has  voted  the  People's 
party  ticket.  In  religion  he  is  identified  with 
the  German  Baptist  Brethren  Church.  April  7, 
1878,  he  was  united  in  marriage  with  Stella, 
daughter  of  John  R.  UUery,  one  of  the  pioneers 
of  Boulder  County,  having  come  here  in  1863. 
At  that  time  the  Indians  were  on  the  warpath; 
they  had  been  very  troublesome  some  years  before 
and  more  so  shortly  afterward,  but  Mr.  Ullery's 
family  were  fortunate  in  getting  through  un- 
molested. They  are  the  parents  of  three  chil- 
dren: Nettie  V.,  Katie  E.  and  Edward  N.  The 
family  residence  is  situated  on  the  farm,  near  the 
town  of  Berthoud  on  the  west.  Mr.  Wray  raises 
fine  fruit  (principally  apples),  which  he  ships  to 
Denver  and  adjoining  places.     He  is  interested 


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in  fruit-raising  and  for  a  number  of  years  was 
secretary  of  the  board  of  horticulture,  during 
which  time  he  inspected  fruit  in  various  sections. 
In  1895  lis  served  as  judge  of  fruits  at  the  Love- 
land  fair.  He  has  frequently  taken  premiums 
for  the  finest  displays  of  fruits,  and  also  for  his 
wheat,  which  has  scaled  sixty-five  pounds  per 
bushel. 

[gj  EORGE  CLARKE,  a  leading  and  successful 
j_  farmer  of  Boulder  County,  is  a  self-made 
^_J  man,  having  won  his  way  from  poverty  to 
affluence  by  his  own  exertions.  He  came  to  the 
state  in  1873,  with  little  means,  and  by  industry 
and  frugality  has  been  able  to  amass  considerable 
property.  He  was  born  in  Shropshire,  England, 
at  Woolston,  Oswestry,  on  the  moor  side  at 
Masbury,  March  13,  1849.  His  father,  John 
Clarke,  was  born  in  the  same  house  as  himself, 
and  was  a  farmer,  dying  November  6,  1890,  at 
the  advanced  age  of  seventy-eight  years.  This 
house  had  been  in  the  family  for  years,  and  his 
grandfather,  John  Clarke,  was  also  born  there. 
The  Clarkes  were  an  old  family  of  Oswestry. 
John  Clarke  had  been  a  family  name  for  several 
generations,  and  a  brother  now  bears  the  name. 
His  father  married  Elizabeth  Edwards,  of  Mon- 
mouthshire, Wales.  Her  parents  were  farmers  in 
that  country.  She  died  April  23,  1891,  aged 
seventy-one  years,  and  lies  buried,  with  her  hus- 
band, in  the  WestFelton  churchyard.  Five  chil- 
dren, four  sons  and  one  daughter,  survive  them: 
John,  who  resides  on  the  old  homestead;  Mary, 
Mrs.  Samuel  Lloyd,  who  died  at  Oswestry; 
Thomas,  a  farmer  of  Boulder  County;  George, 
the  subject  of  this  biography;  and  Richard,  a 
farmer  of  Weld  County,  this  state. 

The  first  nineteen  years  of  his  life,  Mr.  Clarke 
spent  on  his  father's  farm,  attending  pay  school, 
where  the  money  for  the  schooling  had  to  be 
taken  every  Monday  morning.  From  1868  to 
1870  he  secured  employment  in  Oswestry,  and  at 
the  end  of  that  time  set  sail  for  America,  coming 
byway  of  Liverpool,  on  the  steamer,  "City  of 
Pathia."  He  landed  in  New  York,  and  at  once 
went  to  Connecticut,  where  he  worked  on  a  farm 
near  Meriden  for  two  years,  and  then  pushed  his 
way  west  as  far  as  Iowa,  stopping  near  Iowa  City 
until  the  following  year,  when  he  came  to  Colo- 
rado. He  at  once  set  about  finding  work  as  a 
farm  hand,  at  which  he  continued  two  years,  and 
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then  rented  a  farm  two  miles  north  of  Longmont. 
In  1876  he  purchased  eighty  acres  from  the  north 
part  of  this  farm  which  he  at  once  began  to  im- 
prove. He  enlarged  the  ditch  that  his  land  might 
have  better  irrigation,  and  began  in  the  cattle 
business.  He  also  dealt  in  horses.  He  then 
purchased  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  east  of 
his  first  purchase,  and  later  another  forty  adjoin- 
ing, and  on  this  makes  his  home.  He  now  owns 
two  hundred  and  eighty  acres  of  land  in  one 
body,  within  a  quarter  of  a  mile  of  the  corpora- 
tion of  Longmont,  in  a  high  state  of  cultivation. 
He  also  owns  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  west 
of  Longmont  and  city  property  in  addition.  His 
is  one  of  the  best  improved  farms  in  this  part  of 
the  state,  having  a  fine  residence,  large,  roomy 
and  convenient  barns,  a  windmill  to  pump  and 
carry  water,  and  all  the  improved  machinery  that 
is  needed  to  aid  in  the  work.  He  is  quick  to 
adopt  modern  methods  when  he  sees  they  will  be 
a  benefit  to  him,  and  one  idea  recently  taken  ad- 
vantage of  by  him  is  the  potato  planter  and 
digger,  a  great  labor  saving  machine.  He  is 
engaged  in  general  farming  and  stock-raising. 
At  one  time  he  had  a  cattle  range  in  Little  Elk 
Park,  then  on  the  Platte.  His  farm  is  stocked 
with  some  fine  horses,  among  them  being  Perch- 
eron  and  draft  horses.  He  was  for  many  years 
a  member  of  the  firm  of  Clarke  &  Delfor,  stock 
dealers  and  butchers  of  Longmont,  but  afterwards 
sold  his  interest.  He  is  closely  identified  with 
the  public  interests  of  the  city,  being  a  stock- 
holder in  the  Farmers'  Milling  and  Elevator 
Company,  the  Longmont  Creamery  Company 
and  the  Farmers'  National  Bank. 

Mr.  Clarke  was  married  in  1871,  in  Con- 
necticut, to  Miss  Margaret  Thurrott,  a  lady  of 
pleasing  address  and  amiable  disposition,  who 
has  been  a  constant  help  to  him  by  her  en- 
couragement and  counsel.  She  was  born  in  New 
Brunswick,  and  is  a  daughter  of  John  Thurrott, 
a  native  of  Scotland,  near  Edinburgh.  Her 
grandfather,  John  Thurrott,  settled  in  Weldford, 
Kent  County,  New  Brunswick,  and  was  a  farmer. 
He  was  a  strong  Presbyterian  and  a  good  man. 
He  died  at  quite  an  advanced  age,  after  a  long  life 
of  usefulness.  Her  father  was  also  a  farmer,  and 
died  after  attaining  his  seventy-eighth  year. 
Her  mother,  Mary  Morton,  was  born  in  Scotland, 
a  daughter  of  James  Morton,  a  farmer,  and  died 
at  the  old  home  when  nearly  seventy.     Twelve 


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children  grew  to  adult  years,  ten  of  them  still 
living.  One  brother  lives  in  Connecticut,  and 
the  remaining  eight  live  within  sight  of  the  old 
home.  Mrs.  Clarke  was  the  sixth  child,  and  was 
educated  and  reared  in  Weldford.  They  have 
three  bright  children.  Alma,  Ethel  and  Lynn, 
who  give  great  promise  for  the  future. 

Mr.  Clarke  was  the  first  of  his  family  to  come 
to  this  country,  and  since  his  coming  two 
brothers,  Thomas  and  Richard,  have  joined  him. 
He  is  past  grand  in  the  lodge  of  Odd  Fellows,  a 
member  of  the  encampment,  and  both  he  and 
his  wife  are  members  of  the  Rebekah  Lodge.  He 
also  belongs  to  the  Woodmen  of  the  World. 
They  are  attendants  of  the  Congregational  Church 
of  Longmont,  and  give  valuable  aid  to  that  so- 
ciety. He  is  captain  of  the  Longmont  Gun  Club, 
and  a  fine  .shot,  as  is  shown  by  him  capturing 
the  gold  medal  of  the  club  twice,  besides  securing 
a  number  of  other  prizes.  He  is  a  silver  Repub- 
lican and  has  served  as  delegate  to  conventions. 


30HN  J.  WHITE,  who,  although  a  compara- 
tively young  man  has  had  much  experience 
in  the  practice  of  his  profession,  stands  in 
the  foremost  rank  among  the  lawyers  of  Clear 
Creek  County,  and  is  an  influential  citizen  of 
Georgetown.  He  is  a  son  of  P.  F.  and  Ann 
(McCaughery)  White,  and  was  born  in  Nevada- 
ville,  Gilpin  County,  Colo.,  March  25,  1870.  He 
is  of  Irish  extraction  and  is  a  grandson  of  John 
White,  who  followed  the  occupation  of  a  farmer 
in  Ireland  throughout  his  entire  life. 

P.  F.  White,  the  father  of  our  subject,  was 
born  in  Ireland  and  performed  the  duties  which 
characterize  the  life  of  every  farmer  boy,  until  he 
was  nineteen  years  of  age,  when  he  emigrated  to 
America.  He  located  in  Massachusetts,  and 
obtained  his  first  employment  in  the  iron  mills  of 
Taunton,  Bristol  County,  continuing  until  1862, 
when  he  decided  to  cross  the  western  plains. 
The  great  railway  systems  of  to-day,  which  con- 
vey passengers  to  all  parts  of  the  country  in  a 
few  days,  were  then  in  their  infancy,  and  the  long, 
tedious  journey  was  accomplished  by  means  of 
ox-teams,  many  difficulties  being  encountered 
and  overcome.  This  hardy  old  settler  located  at 
Nevadaville,  Gilpin  County,  Colo.,  and  there 
engaged  in  mining  and  prospecting  for  some  time, 
and  later  in  freighting  between  Denver  and  George- 


town, Clear  Creek  County,  moving  his  family  to 
the  latter  town  in  1872.  He  continued  at  that 
line  of  work  until  1874,  when  he  turned  his  at- 
tention to  mining  and  at  the  present  time  holds 
the  responsible  position  of  inside  foreman  of  the 
Joseph  Reynolds  mines  at  Silver  Creek,  near  the 
town  of  Lawson.  He  married  Ann  McCaughery, 
by  whom  he  had  seven  children,  three  of  whom 
now  live,  namely:  Bernard,  George  J.  and  John 
J.,  all  worthy  citizens  of  Georgetown.  Mr.  White 
was  bereaved  of  his  beloved  wife's  companionship 
by  death  in  May,  1896. 

John  J.  White  was  taken  to  Georgetown  by  his 
parents  in  1872,  and  there  obtained  his  primary 
education  in  the  public  schools.  In  1885  he 
entered  Brown  University,  of  Providence,  R.  I., 
one  of  the  best  educational  institutions  our  coun- 
try affords,  and  attended  until  the  close  of  the 
junior  year,  when  he  returned  to  his  home  in 
Colorado.  He  then  conducted  a  pharmacy  in  the 
town  of  Empire  for  a  period  of  seven  months, 
and  subsequently  engaged  in  the  grocery  business 
for  one  year  at  Idaho  Springs.  He  next  went  to 
Lawson  and  was  employed  in  the  Two  Sister 
mines  for  one  year,  after  which,  in  1892,  he  began 
the  study  of  law  in  Denver,  a  profession  for  which 
he  is  well  qualified  by  natural  talents,  and  in  the 
following  year  entered  the  law  department  of  the 
University  of  Denver,  paying  his  own  way  with 
the  means  he  acquired  during  his  years  of  work. 
He  was  graduated  in  June,  1895,  and  received  the 
degree  of  Bachelor  of  Law.  In  the  same  month, 
he  was  admitted  to  the  state  bar,  and  immediately 
thereafter  entered  upon  a  practice  in  Georgetown, 
where  he  has  since  continued.  A  man  of  unusual 
shrewdness  and  judgment,  a  deep  thinker  and 
convincing  speaker,  he  has  won  many  cases  before 
the  courts  and  is  firmly  established  in  a  large 
clientage.  He  is  enterprising  and  energetic  and 
in  addition  to  his  law  practice  is  financially  inter- 
ested in  mines.  He  is  one  in  whose  character 
there  is  much  to  admire,  and  he  is  held  in  the 
highest  esteem  by  his  many  friends  and  fellow- 
citizens. 

In  political  affiliations  Mr.  White  is  an  ardent 
Democrat  and  in  1898  was  elected  president  of 
the  school  board ;  his  popularity  is  shown  in  that 
election  by  the  fact  that  out  of  a  possible  four 
hundred  and  thirty-six  votes  his  opponent  received 
but  one  hundred  and  twenty.  Fraternally  he  is 
a  member  of  Lodge   No.   5,  I.  O.  O.  F.,  Silver 


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Queen  lyodge  of  Georgetown,  and  Pocahontas 
Lodge,  Mohican  Tribe  No.  54,  I.  O.  R.  M.,  of 
which  he  has  been  sachem.  He  is  also  a  member 
of  the  alumni  association  of  the  law  department 
of  the  University  of  Denver. 


k  yiRS.  JULIA  A.  HARMON.  Feeling  that 
y  some  of  the  most  important  events  in  my 
(^  life  will  not  be  preserved  if  I  leave  the  task 
of  writing  them  to  others,  I  have  decided  to  pre- 
pare it  myself.  I  was  born  in  Randolph  County, 
Va.,  in  1835,  the  daughter  of  Samuel  and 
Naomi  (Hoffman)  Rexroad.  My  father,  who 
was  born  in  1803,  was  engaged  in  the  lumber 
business  in  New  Albany,  Ind.,  and  died  there 
December  18,  1840,  when  I  was  quite  young. 
My  mother,  who  was  born  January  15,  1807,  was 
a  second  time  married,  a  few  years  after  the 
death  of  Mr.  Rexroad  becoming  the  wife  of 
Hiram  Harmon.  She  died  Februarj-  8,  1857. 
After  her  death  her  brother,  P.  H.  Hoffman,  of 
Kentucky,  wrote  her  obituary,   which   appears 

below: 

"It  falls  to  my  lot  to  chronicle  the  exit  from 
earth  to  heaven  of  my  dear  sister,  Mrs.  Naomi 
Harmon,  who  departed  her  life  at  her  husband's 
residence,  in  Whiteside  County,  111.,  Februarys, 
1857,  at  five  o'clock  A.  M.  Sister  Harmon  was 
the  eldest  daughter  of  Michael  and  Susannah 
Hoffman.  She  was  born  in  Pendleton  County, 
Va.,  January  15,  1807,  and  from  the  best  of  my 
information  she  embraced  Christianity  in  1830, 
and  united  herself  with  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Churcli,  at  the  same  time  under  the  ministry  of 
Rev.  Mr.  Tucker,  of  the  Pittsburg  conference  in 
the  Randolph  circuit.  She  continued  a  worthy 
and  accepted  member  of  the  church  from  her  first 
connection  to  the  day  God  said,  'It  is  enough. 
Come  up  higher.'  Sister  Harmon  has  been 
the  subject  of  much  affliction  for  many  years.  In 
early  life  she  met  with  the  misfortune  of  Icsing, 
by  death,  the  husband  of  her  youth,  Samuel 
Rexroad,  with  whom  she  had  lived  in  happiness, 
and  who  left  her  in  charge  of  five  small  children, 
four  daughters  and  one  .son.  She  resided  at  that 
time  in  New  Albany,  Ind.  Her  second  daughter 
went  to  Henderson,  Ky.,  to  spend  a  short  time 
with  a  friend,  but,  alas!  she  was  seen  no  more 
by  her  mother.  The  sad  intelligence  was  soon 
returned  that  Amanda  was  burned  to  death  in 


Henderson.  The  youngest  daughter  was  sent 
to  live  with  her  grandmother  in  Virginia,  but 
sweet  little  Emma  was  returned  no  more  to  her 
afflicted  parent;  word  soon  fell  on  her  ear  that 
Emma,  too,  was  dead. 

"Thus  in  a  short  time  three  of  her  dear  family 
were  taken  away  from  her,  and  she  was  left  to 
mourn  her  irreparable  loss.  She  moved  to  Illi- 
nois to  spend  her  remaining  days  with  friends. 
There  to  ameliorate  her  condition,  she  was  mar- 
ried to  Mr.  Harmon,  who  now  feels  deeply  his 
loss  occasioned  by  her  death.  She  lived  but  a 
few  years  after  her  second  marriage.  Sister  Har- 
mon was  a  high-minded  and  kind-hearted  Chris- 
tian lady,  pleasing  and  affable  in  her  manners, 
though  unassuming,  yet  much  respected  and 
loved  by  her  neighbors.  She  had  been  an  obedi- 
ent daughter.  She  was  an  affectionate  wife  and 
kind  mother,  and  an  obliging  neighbor.  Her 
end  was  peace  and  consolation,  in  the  promises 
of  Him  in  whose  hand  are  the  issues  of  life  and 
death,  feeling  that  all  things  work  together  for 
good  to  them  that  love  God.  Truly  her  change 
of  worlds  was  triumphant.  I  was  informed  by 
Miss  S.  V.  M.  that  two  or  three  weeks  prior  to  her 
death  were  spent  in  prayer  and  praise;  that  her 
greatest  desire  was  to  depart  and  be  with  Christ, 
who  had  always  been  her  best  friend,  in  affliction 
and  in  health.  A  few  minutes  before  she  closed  her 
eyes  on  earth,  she  inquired  of  a  sister  how  long 
it  would  be  before  she  was  released.  She  was  in- 
formed that  one  hour  would  in  all  probability 
close  her  earthly  pilgrimage.  She  gave  assent, 
by  a  nod  of  her  head,  and  in  a  few  minutes  her- 
work  was  ended,  as  peacefully  as  the  summer  sun 
sinks  into  the  western  horizon.  O,  that  this  dis- 
pensation may  be  sanctified  to  the  everlasting 
good  of  her  two  remaining  daughters,  orphaned 
son  and  afflicted  husband,  and   all  her  kindred." 

In  the  year  1861  my  husband,  myself  and 
our  two  little  girls,  Katie  and  Nellie,  came  to 
Colorado,  leaving  Illinois  April  11,  crossing  the 
plains  in  a  covered  wagon,  and  arriving  in  Golden 
City  June  8.  In  our  travels  we  saw  many  Indi- 
ans, but  they  were  not  on  the  warpath  at  that 
time.  Later  on  many  white  people  were  killed 
and  much  property  destroyed.  We  came  here  as 
gold  seekers,  but  that  was  not  a  success.  We 
then  moved  to  a  farm  on  Boulder  Creek.  With 
the  care  of  a  large  dairy  and  a  family  of  small 
children  my^life  was  a  very  hard  one.     My  son. 


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Wilson  M.,  was  born  August  26,  1861;  Frank 
H.  was  born  January  30,  1863;  and  Guy  D., 
March  5,  1867.  When  my  children  were  old 
enough  to  go  to  school,  we  moved  to  Boulder, 
where  I  maintained  them  the  best  I  could,  always 
working  very  hard.  After  a  few  years  we  again 
moved  on  a  farm  where  my  boys  made  for  them- 
selves and  me  good  homes  ten  miles  southeast  of 
the  city  of  Boulder. 

All  of  the  children  are  married  except  Frank, 
who  lives  with  me.  Katie  is  the  wife  of  T.  B. 
Compton,  a  shoemaker  by  trade,  living  in  Boul- 
der. They  have  two  children:  Claude,  eighteen 
years  old,  who  is  attending  the  high  school;  and 
Camille,  thirteen  years  old,  who  is  not  strong 
enough  to  attend  public  school  and  is  studying 
under  a  private  teacher  at  home.  Nellie  is  mar- 
ried to  John  R.  Miner,  a  farmer  living  in  Weld 
County.  They  have  two  children:  Nettie  and 
Ray,  sixteen  and  fourteen  years  old  respectively. 
The  first  of  the  boys  to  marry  was  Guy,  who 
married  Maggie  Dixon,  an  English  girl;  they 
have  one  son,  Raymond,  now  six  years  of  age. 
Wilson  married  Mary  Harris,  a  Welsh  girl.  They 
have  three  children:  Earl,  six  years  old;  Julia, 
four;  and  Ella. 

r\ETER  H.  MULLIGAN,  whose  home  is  on 
L/^  section  14,  township  9,  range  63  west,  El- 
t^  bert  County,  was  born  in  County  Mayo, 
Ireland,  August  15,  1846,  a  son  of  John  and 
Bridget  Mulligan.  He  was  about  ten  years  of 
age  when  his  parents  moved  to  Lancashire,  Eng- 
land, and  there  he  was  employed  in  cotton  mills 
for  some  years.  In  1864,  at  the  age  of  eighteen, 
he  emigrated  to  America,  and  for  a  year  made  his 
home  in  New  York,  but  afterward  went  to  Jack- 
son County,  Mo.,  and  from  there  a  few  months 
later  removed  to  Leavenworth,  Kan. 

While  in  the  latter  city  Mr.  Mulligan  enlisted 
in  Company  G,  Third  United  States  Infantry,  of 
the  regular  army.  He  remained  in  the  service 
for  three  years,  then  was  discharged  at  Fort  Lyon, 
Colo.,  but  after  some  time  re-enlisted  in  the  same 
company  for  five  years,  then  was  discharged  at 
Conchoda,  La.  He  re-enlisted  for  five  years  and 
was  discharged  at  Fort  Shaw,  Mont.  In  the  fall 
of  1868  he  took  part  in  the  battle  of  Wichita 
Mountains  under  General  Custer.  In  September, 
1874,  he  took  part  in  the  quelling  of  the  riot  at 
New  Orleans,  and  in  1877  he  was  similarly  en- 


gaged at  Pittsburg.  On  being  ordered  west,  he 
went  to  Montana  to  watch  the  movements  of 
Sitting  Bull  and  was  stationed  at  Fort  Logan, 
Mont.,  for  some  time,  but  from  there  went  to 
Milk  River,  Mont,  and  then  came  to  Fort  Shaw, 
where  he  was  discharged  September  20,  188 1. 

In  1870,  in  Fort  Lyon,  Mr.  Mulligan  married 
Miss  Henrietta  Kunze,  daughter  of  Frederick 
Kunze,  and  a  native  of  Germany.  She  was 
quite  small  when  brought  to  America  by  her 
parents  and  was  given  a  fair  education  in  the 
common  schools  of  this  country.  Five  children 
were  born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Mulligan,  namely: 
August,  who  was  born  at  Lamar,  Mo.,  in  1873; 
Frederick,  who  was  born  at  Jefferson  Barracks, 
La.,  in  1875,  and  is  a  private  in  Company  G, 
First  Colorado  Infantry,  now  on  duty  on  the 
Philippine  Islands;  Isabelle,  who  was  born  at 
Fort  Shaw,  Mont.;  Richard  and  John,  who  were 
born  in  Elbert  County,  the  latter  June  13,  1886. 

In  1 88 1  Mr.  Mulligan  bought  one  hundred 
and  sixty  acres  that  form  the  nucleus  of  his 
present  property.  To  it  he  added  from  time  to 
time  until  his  possessions  now  aggregate  nine 
hundred  and  twenty  acres,  lying  on  Comanche 
Creek  and  containing  valuable  improvements. 
The  location  of  the  property  makes  it  desirable 
for  cattle-raising,  and  we  find  that  Mr.  Mulligan 
has  made  a  specialty  of  tfiis  business,  in  which 
the  larger  portion  of  his  property  has  been  ac- 
cumulated. He  is  identified  with  Elbert  Lodge 
No.  86,  I.  O.  O.  F.,  in  which  he  has  filled  all  of 
the  chairs  and  is  now  past  grand.  He  is  also  a 
charter  member  of  the  Home  Forum.  In  1872 
he  voted  for  Grant,  but  is  now  an  advocate  of  the 
People's  party,  and  in  1895  was  the  Populist 
candidate  for  sherifi"  of  Elbert  County. 


pQlLLlAM  M.  GRAVES,  one  of  the  well- 
\  A  /  known  residents  of  Jefierson  Count}%  was 
YV  born  near  Bloomington,  111.,  August  12, 
1846,  a  son  of  Oliver  and  Lucy  (Story)  Graves. 
He  was  the  eldest  of  five  children,  the  others  of 
whom  are:  John,  a  farmer,  living  near  Broom- 
field,  Colo. ;  Mary,  who  married  E.  Porter  Smith, 
a  farmer  near  Broomfield;  Edward,  who  resides 
in  Denver  and  is  interested  in  mining;  and  Harry, 
a  merchant  of  Broomfield. 

The  father  of  our  subject  was  born  in  Montpe- 
lier,  Vt.,  March  13,  1813,  and  spent  the  years  of 


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youth  in  his  native  town,  but  after  his  marriage 
he  removed  to  New  York  state,  where  he  re- 
mained some  years.  Removing  thence  to  Bloom- 
ington,  111.,  he  opened  up  a  wholesale  and  retail 
grocery  business,  which  he  carried  on  for  four 
years,  and  then  retired  from  business  and  em- 
barked in  farming.  In  1849,  when  the  California 
gold  fever  was  at  its  height,  he  started  across  the 
plains,  and  pursued  his  way,  amid  dangers  from 
Indians  and  perils  from  other  sources,  until  he 
reached  his  destination.  His  journey  was  a 
thrilling  one,  and  while  he  escaped  arousing  the 
enmity  of  the  Indians  himself,  he  witnessed  many 
harrowing  scenes,  one  of  which  was  the  skinning 
of  a  white  man,  alive,  by  the  Indians,  as  a  re- 
venge upon  him  for  shooting  an  Indian  squaw. 
With  the  skin  of  the  man  they  whipped  his  bro- 
ther and  father.  Such  dreadful  scenes  as  these 
he  was  forced  to  witness,  and  it  was  with  grati- 
tude in  his  heart  that  he  finally  reached  his  des- 
tination. He  was  very  successful  and  after  two 
years  returned  home,  with  his  grandfather.  Palmer 
Story,  bringing  a  neat  sum  of  money  with  him. 

Coming  to  Colorado  during  the  Pike's  Peak 
excitement  of  1859,  Mr.  Graves  engaged  in 
mining  at  Spring  Gulch.  In  i860  he  returned 
to  Illinois  and  brought  his  family  west  with  him, 
settling  twelve  miles  from  Black  Hawk,  where  he 
bought  a  toll  road  from  Golden  Gate,  twelve  miles 
up  into  the  mountains.  However,  he  was  unable 
to  hold  it  and  in  1862  he  removed  to  Arvada, 
where  he  had  taken  up  a  ranch  in  January,  1861. 
Here  he  settled  and  continued  to  reside  until  his 
death.  May  4,  1896. 

At  the  age  of  seventeen  our  subject  apprenticed 
himself  to  the  blacksmith's  trade  at  Golden  Gate, 
under  Ashley  Howard.  At  the  expiration  of 
eighteen  months  he  went  to  Denver  and  served 
Ansel  Barker,  on  the  present  site  of  Brown  Bro- 
thers' wholesale  grocery  business.  While  there 
he  was  offered  six  lots  on  that  site  for  $350,  but 
refused  to  buy  them.  After  working  for  two 
years  in  the  same  position,  -his  father's  illness 
caused  him  to  resign  his  place  and  return  home, 
where  he  took  charge  of  the  home  farm.  After 
eighteen  months,  January  14,  1868,  he  was  united 
in  marriage  with  Miss  Klizabeth  Perrin,  and  then 
began  farming  independently.  After  three  years 
he  turned  his  attention  to  the  threshing  busi- 
ness, having  bought  a  thresher  in  the  fall  of  1868. 
About  the  same  time  he  had  also  built  a  black- 


smith's shop  in  Arvada,  and  here  he  has  since 
followed  his  trade.  He  now  has  three  steam 
threshers,  which  are  busy  during  the  season,  and 
in  connection  with  his  blacksmith  business  he  has 
a  shop  fitted  up  with  feed  grinders,  planing  mill, 
turning  lathe,  band  saw,  etc. 

Eleven  children  were  born  to  the  union  of  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Graves,  but  three  of  them  died  in  in- 
fancy. The  others  are  named  as  follows:  Ollie, 
Charles,  Ruth,  Annie,  Robert,  Ida  (deceased), 
Louise  and  Nellie.  In  1892  Mr.  Graves  was 
elected  county  commissioner  on  the  Republican 
ticket  and  served  for  two  terms  in  that  capacity. 
For  fifteen  years  he  has  been  a  school  director  of 
his  district. 


pCjlLLIAM  L.  BUSH,  cashier  of  the  First 
\  A  /  National  Bank  of  Idaho  Springs,  was  born 
YV  in  Ontario  County,  N.  Y.,  January  4, 
1861,  and  is  a  son  of  Henry  C.  and  Helen  M. 
(Benham)  Bush,  both  natives  of  the  same  coun- 
ty. The  father's  family  had  been  old-time  resi- 
dents of  the  east,  where  he  was  engaged  in  farm- 
ing. Later  he  crossed  the  plains  to  California, 
where  he  remained  many  years,  then  moved  into 
Montana,  and  from  that  state  to  Colorado,  ar- 
riving here  in  1872  or  1873.  He  first  located  in 
Denver  and  then  went  to  Golden,  where  he  opened 
a  hotel  and  made  considerable  money,  enabling 
him  to  retire  to  a  farm  and  spend  the  remainder 
of  his  days  in  comfort.  He  still  resides  on  this 
farm,  which  is  situated  near  Brighton.  During 
the  war  he  lived  in  New  York  and  volunteered 
for  the  army,  but  was  rejected  by  the  examining 
physician.  He  married  Helen  Benham  and  they 
had  four  children,  three  of  whom  are  still  living, 
as  follows:  Andrew  M. ,  a  fruit  grower  in  Arvada, 
this  state;  Mar}-,  Mrs.  C.  J.  Hart,  of  Pueblo;  and 
William. 

William  L.  Bush  came  to  this  state  with  his 
father's  family  and  a  brother-in-law.  Judge  Hart, 
stopping  first  at  Living  Springs  Station,  a  small 
station  on  the  Overland  stage  route,  where  they 
remained  a  little  over  a  year.  About  this  time 
the  Indians  became  very  hostile  and  murdered 
the  people  on  a  neighboring  ranch  some  five  or 
six  miles  distant,  and  when  the  news  of  the  mas- 
sacre was  reported  the  family  moved  to  Denver. 
William  attended  school  there  and  at  Golden, 
where  they  afterwards  moved,  just  before  the 
Colorado  Central  Railroad  was  built.     He  was  a 


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student  at  Jarvis  Hall  and  in  Golden  for  two 
years,  and  then  accompanied  his  parents  to 
Brighton,  where  they  engaged  in  farming  and 
raising  horses.  He  assisted  with  the  work  about 
the  farm  and  attended  school  at  Pueblo,  and  the 
Centennial  high  school  during  the  winters.  His 
brother  was  agent  for  the  Union  Pacific  at  Bright- 
on, and  there  he  picked  up  a  pretty  good  knowl- 
edge of  telegraphy,  and  when  about  twenty  years 
old  was  appointed  night  operator  at  that  station. 
He  was  then  transferred  to  Erie  station  on  the 
same  road  for  a  short  time,  then  went  to  Fort 
Collins  as  operator  and  bill  clerk.  He  was  there 
from  June,  1882,  until  January,  1883,  when  he 
came  to  Idaho  Springs  as  agent  for  the  Colorado 
Central  division  of  the  Union  Pacific  Railroad. 
He  acted  in  that  capacity  until  February,  1S86, 
and  then  accepted  a  position  as  bookkeeper  in 
the  First  National  Bank,  which  was  then  in  its 
third  year  as  a  national  bank.  Two  years  later 
he  was  made  assistant  cashier,  and  in  1895  was 
appointed  cashier,  which  position  he  still  holds. 
This  is  a  conservative  bank,  one  of  the  most  reli- 
able in  the  state,  has  strong  resources,  and  went 
through  the  panic  without  a  run.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  firm  of  Bush  &  Armstrong,  general 
insurance,  representing  the  old-line  insurance 
companies,  and  is  the  largest  here. 

Mr.  Bush  married  Miss  Jennie  C.  Griswold,  of 
Niles,  Mich.  Her  parents  died  while  she  was 
young,  and  her  education  was  received  in  Niles. 
She  is  a  member  of  the  Episcopal  Church,  and  a 
lady  of  high  character.  For  two  terms  Mr.  Bush 
was  city  treasurer,  and  is  now  the  president  of 
the  school  board.  He  belongs  to  the  American 
Bankers'  Association,  and  was  one  of  the  organi- 
zers of  the  Idaho  Springs  chamber  of  commerce, 
of  which  he  has  been  treasurer  from  the  first.  In 
politics  he  is  a  Republican,  deeply  interested  in 
the  success  of  his  party.  Fraternally  he  is  iden- 
tified with  the  Knights  of  Pythias,  Woodmen  of 
the  World,  and  is  one  of  the  most  prominent  Ma- 
sons in  the  state.  He  was  made  a  member  of 
that  body  December  15,  1884,  in  Lodge  No.  26, 
Idaho  Springs,  was  elected  master  December  19, 
1888,  and  each  succeeding  year  until  1893.  In 
September,  1890,  he  was  appointed  grand  orator, 
and  was  elected  junior  grand  warden  the  follow- 
ing year,  and  senior  grand  warden  in  1892.  He 
was  deputy  grand  master  of  Colorado  in  1893, 
and  grand  master  the  following  year,  being  the 


second  youngest  man  in  the  United  States  to 
fill  that  office,  according  to  the  records  of  the 
Grand  Lodge.  He  is  representative  for  the 
Grand  Lodge  of  South  Dakota,  and  the  Grand 
Chapter  of  South  Carolina,  near  the  Grand 
Lodge  and  Grand  Chapter  of  Colorado.  He  was 
initiated  in  Central  City  Chapter  No.  i,  R.  A.  M., 
on  the  i8th  of  May,  1892,  signed  the  petition 
for  dispensation  of  Idaho  Springs  Chapter  No. 
30,  was  one  of  its  organizers  and  first  high  priest, 
serving  from  1893  to  1896  inclusive.  In  1895  he 
was  appointed  grand  royal  arch  captain  of  the 
Grand  Chapter  of  Colorado,  and  the  following 
year  was  made  G.  P.  S.  In  1897  he  was  ap- 
pointed grand  captain  of  the  host  and  elected 
grand  scribe  in  1898,  which  position  he  still 
holds.  He  belongs  to  Central  City  Coramandery 
No.  2,  K.  T.,  of  which  he  became  a  member  July 
I,  1892. 

(TUDGE  FRANK  P.  SECOR.  Prominent  in 
I  the  legal  profession  as  well  as  in  the  ranks 
(2/  of  the  Republican  party.  Judge  Secor  isknown 
far  and  wide  in  Colorado,  of  which  he  has  been  a 
resident  for  seventeen  years.  In  January,  1895, 
he  received  the  appointment  of  deputy  attorney 
general  of  the  state,  and  ablj'  discharged  the 
responsible  duties  of  that  position  until  the  follow- 
ing autumn,  resigning  when  he  was  nominated 
for  the  office  of  judge  of  feoulder  County.  He 
was  the  only  man  elected  on  the  Republican  ticket 
in  this  county,  which  fact  speaks  well  for  his 
personal  popularity  and  acknowledged  worth  as 
a  citizen  and  member  of  the  bar.  Entering  upon 
the  new  duties  January  i,  1896,  for  a  term  of 
three  years,  he  has  amply  justified  the  predictions 
of  his  innumerable  friends,  and  has  made  a  record 
of  which  they  are  proud.  He  is  an  ardent  champ- 
ion of  the  principles  of  the  Republican  party,  and 
has  attended  every  state  convention  as  a  delegate 
since  he  cast  in  his  lot  with  the  people  of  this 
commonwealth.  In  1890  he  was  elected  to  the 
Colorado  legislature,  and  during  the  sessions  of 
1891  served  as  chairman  of  the  committee  on  ju- 
diciary and  succeeded  in  getting  passed  a  bill  on 
irrigation. 

The  Secor  family  is  of  French  and  Holland- 
Dutch  extraction,  and  for  several  generations 
were  representative  people  of  Massachusetts. 
The  paternal  grandfather  of  the  judge,  Walter 
Secor,  was  a  native  of  New  York  state,  and  in 


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1842  he  went  to  Wisconsin  and  engaged  in  farm- 
ing near  Racine.  His  son  Theodore  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  first  constitutional  convention  of  Wis- 
consin, and  is  now  a  resident  of  Iowa. 

Gurdon  Secor,  father  of  our  subject,  was  born 
in  the  vicinity  of  Albany,  N.  Y.,  and  accompan- 
ied his  father  in  his  removal  to  Wisconsin.  He 
was  interested  in  agricultural  pursuits  during  his 
active  years,  and  spent  his  last  days  in  Longmont, 
Colo. ,  where  his  death  took  place  when  he  was 
in  his  seventy-seventh  year.  His  wife,  whose 
maiden  name  was  Jane  Stuart,  was  of  Scotch 
descent,  and  was  a  native  of  New  York.  She 
died  in  Wisconsin  in  1867,  at  the  age  of  fifty-two 
years.  All  but  two  of  their  nine  children  lived 
to  grow  up,  and  two  have  since  passed  away. 
Minerva,  Mrs.  R.  M.  Walker,  lives  in  Racine; 
William  W.,  who  died  in  1888,  was  a  farmer  and 
lumber  merchant  in  Longmont,  and  one  of  the 
pioneers  of  this  state;  Eliza,  Mrs.  D.  G.  Purma, 
died  in  Platteville,  Wis. ;  Marilla  is  Mrs.  D.  G. 
Purma,  of  Washington,  D.  C;  David  E.  lives  in 
Longmont;  and  Rosalia  is  Mrs.  Stephen  Butler, 
of  the  same  town. 

The  birth  of  Judge  Secor  occurred  October  25, 
1852,  in  Racine,  Wis.,  and  when  he  was  seven- 
teen years  of  age  he  entered  the  state  normal 
school  at  Platteville,  there  preparing  himself  for 
college,  and  in  the  meanwhile  teaching  school 
for  a  portion  of  each  year.  In  1875  he  went  to 
Evanston,  111.,  where  he  entered  the  preparatory 
department  of  the  Northwestern  University  and 
in  the  Centennial  year  he  was  enrolled  as  a  stu- 
dent in  the  University  of  Michigan.  During  the 
junior  year  he  resumed  teaching  again,  and  from 
January,  1879,  to  the  close  of  the  school  year  in 
the  summer  of  1881,  he  was  the  principal  of  the 
Chippewa  Falls,  Wis. ,  schools.  In  1881  he  came 
west.  The  same  fall  he  took  up  the  study  of  law 
with  Attorney -General  Carr,  and  was  admitted  to 
the  bar  in  1883.  He  continued  his  pleasant  con- 
nection with  Mr.  Carr,  who,  when  he  was  elected 
attorney-general,  made  the  young  man  his  deputy. 
For  several  years  Judge  Secor  has  made  his  home 
in  Longmont,  and  has  been  attorney  for  the  town 
and  secretary  of  the  school  board  here.  He  is  a 
member  in  high  standing  in  numerous  fraternal 
organizations;  is  past  master  of  Longmont  Lodge 
No.  23,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.;  belongs  to  Longmont 
Chapter  No.  9,  R.  A.  M.;  Long's  Peak  Com- 
mandery  No.  12,  K.  T.,  and  was  grand  lecturer 


of  the  grand  lodge  of  the  state  in  1895.  He  is 
also  identified  with  the  Odd  Fellows'  Society  at 
Longmont,  with  the  Woodmen  of  the  World  and 
the  Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen . 

In  February,  1884,  Judge  Secor  married  Miss 
Sarah  Ross,  of  Longmont.  She  is  a  daughter  of 
Jonathan  Ross,  who  died  in  Longmont  when 
threescore  and  ten  years  old.  Mrs.  Secor  is  a 
native  of  Pittsburg  and  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools  of  Chicago,  111.  The  judge  and  wife  have 
two  children,  Gray  and  Harriet. 

At  this  writing,  owing  to  the  ill  health  of  Mrs. 
Secor,  which  requires  a  residence  in  a  lower 
climate,  Judge  Secor  has  decided  to  remove  in 
the  near  future  to  Chicago,  111.,  where  he  will 
enter  the  legal  firm  of  Washburn,  Secor  & 
Munger,  William  D.  Washburn,  the  senior  mem- 
ber, being  a  classmate  of  our  subject.  At  the 
last  county  convention  of  the  Republican  par- 
ty, Judge  Secor  was  renominated  for  his  present 
ofiBce  by  acclamation,  but  was  obliged  to  resign 
for  the  reason  above  stated. 


EHARLES  H.  WELCH,  whose  home  is  lo- 
cated on  section  36,  township  5,  range  66, 
Weld  County,  is  one  of  the  gallant  heroes 
of  the  great  northwest,  one  of  those  who  fought 
and  suffered  untold  hardships  that  the  way  might 
be  cleared  for  the  on-coming  civilization.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  famous  Seventh  Cavalry, 
U.  S.  A.,  belonging  to  Company  D,  under  com- 
mand of  General  Reno.  A  portion  of  the  regi- 
ment, under  the  leadership  of  General  Custer,  a 
dashing  officer,  were  ruthlessly  massacred  by  the 
Sioux  Indians,  who,  several  thousand  in  number, 
had  encamped  on  the  Little  Big  Horn  River. 
Not  one  of  Custer's  brave  little  band  survived  to 
tell  the  story,  but  it  is  believed  that  he  led  his 
men  forward  to  the  attack  upon  the  red  men 
(who  were  on  the  warpath  and  had  been  ravag- 
ing Wyoming  and  Montana),  without  sufiicient 
caution  and  should  have  waited  for  re-inforce- 
ments.  General  Reno  had  attacked  the  Indians 
at  the  lower  end  of  their  encampment,  which  ex- 
tended along  the  banks  of  the  river  for  some  three 
miles,  and  maintained  his  position  on  the  bluffs 
until  fresh  troops  reached  him.  The  Seventh 
Cavalry  lost  two  hundred  and  sixty-one  men  and 
had  fifty-two  wounded  in  this  unfortunate  cam- 
paign. 


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June  3,  1873,  Mr.  Welch  had  enlisted  in  the 
army,  and  after  five  years  of  gallant  and  distin- 
guished service  he  was  honorably  discharged  on 
account  of  physical  disability,  June  2,  1878.  In 
the  fall  of  1877  he  took  part  in  an  important  cam- 
paign against  the  Nez  Perce  Indians  and  fought 
in  the  battles  with  Chief  Joseph  at  Snake  Creek, 
Mont.,  September  30,  and  October  i,  2  and  3. 
Here  he  met  with  the  great  misfortune  of  his  life, 
for  since  then  he  has  been  crippled.  He  was  shot 
in  the  right  hip,  the  bone  being  shattered,  and 
after  he  had  fallen  to  the  ground  was  again  struck 
by  a  bullet,  it  entering  the  left  knee.  He  was  in 
the  advance  charge  and  was  directly  exposed  to 
the  murderous  fire  of  the  Indians,  who  were  en- 
trenched in  a  ravine.  Mr.  Welch  lay  on  the 
ground  uncared  for  from  eight  to  five  o'clock,  but 
had  dragged  himself  about  one  hundred  yards 
away  to  a  safer  position.  He  was  then  carried 
off  the  field  in  a  blanket,  but  his  leg  was  not  set 
and  properly  attended  to  for  twenty-two  days,  or 
until  they  arrived  at  Fort  Buford.  For  several 
years  he  was  obliged  to  use  crutches  and  was 
quite  an  invalid.  During  these  years  he  lived 
with  his  brother-in-law,  Mr.  Godfrey.  While  in 
the  service  Mr.  Welch  acted  as  an  orderly  for 
General  Custer  and  was  well  and  intimately  ac- 
quainted with  the  gallant  ofiicer.  For  his  own 
bravery  and  notable  service  he  was  recommended 
for  medals  of  honor,  and  is  thoroughly  deserving 
of  the  admiration  which  is  universally  accorded 
him. 

In  many  ways  Mr.  Welch  has  had  more  to  con- 
tend with  in  life  than  most  men.  He  was  but 
four  years  of  age  when,  to  all  intents  and  pur- 
poses, he  lost  his  father,  and  from  that  time  for- 
ward he  has  had  an  up-hill  struggle.  He  was 
born  March  16,  1845,  in  the  city  of  New  York, 
his  parents  being  James  and  Alice  Welch,  natives 
of  Ireland.  The  father  was  largely  interested  in 
coal  mines  in  Pennsylvania  for  a  few  years,  but 
in  1849,  when  the  California  gold  excitement 
came  on,  he  joined  a  company  who  started  across 
the  plains  and  was  never  heard  from  again.  He 
left  a  wife  and  six  children.  The  latter  all  lived 
to  maturity,  namely:  John,  the  eldest,  now  de- 
ceased, who  was  a  soldier  of  the  Civil  war;  Maria 
F.,  who  never  married;  Anna;  Patrick,  who  died 
in  the  east;  Katie,  the  wife  of  Allen  Godfrey, 
of  Weld  County,  Colo.;  and  Charles  H. 

When  he  was  a  lad  of  twelve  years  Charles  H. 


Welch  left  his  mother's  roof  and  went  to  Nash- 
ville, 111.,  where  he  lived  with  his  brother  Pat- 
rick. He  spent  ten  years  in  that  section  of  the 
country  and  then  went  to  St.  Paul,  where  he  enlist- 
ed in  the  army.  June  i,  1880,  he  married  Carrie 
Godfrey,  daughter  of  Holon  and  Matilda  (Rich- 
ards) Godfrey.  She  was  born  in  what  is  now 
Logan  County,  but  was  then  included  in  Weld. 
Her  father  was  one  of  the  early  pioneers  and  In- 
dian fighters  of  this  locality.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Welch 
settled  down  upon  their  present  ranch,  which 
property  had  been  taken  up  by  Mr.  Godfrey. 
Though  he  is  not  able  to  do  very  active  work  our 
subject  superintends  the  place  and  is  prospering. 
He  has  made  numerous  improvements  on  the 
farm,  and  it  is  now  considered  one  of  the  best  in 
the  neighborhood.  He  has  always  been  a  Re- 
publican and  is  an  Odd  Fellow,  a  member  of 
Poudre  Valley  Lodge  No.  12.  His  five  children 
are  named  as  follows:  Katie  A.,  Alice  Maude, 
Elmer,  Lydia  and  Custer.  The  youngest  child,  it 
is  needless  to  mention,  was  named  in  honor  of  the 
brave  general  whom  all  admire  and  honor. 


HON.  GEORGE  A.  PATTEN.  The  career 
of  this  esteemed  and  honored  pioneer  of 
Idaho  Springs  is  one  made  up  of  unusual 
enterprise,  energy  and  wise  forethought.  His 
life  has  been  busy  and  useful  and  his  influence 
far-reaching.  Whatever  has  affected  the  welfare 
of  his  fellows  in  this  section  of  the  state  he  has 
taken  a  deep  and  personal  interest  in,  and  has 
often  exercised  his  talents,  means  and  time  in 
furthering  public  measures  of  value.  That  his 
ability  has  been  recognized  and  appreciated  may 
be  seen  by  those  who  read  his  interesting  history. 
Born  in  Surry,  Hancock  County,  Me.,  in  1835, 
Mr.  Patten  is  one  of  the  seven  children  of  Am- 
brose .and  Sarah  (Cook)  Patten.  His  great- 
grandfather, Matthew  Patten,  of  Massachusetts, 
was  one  of  the  first  settlers  of  Surry,  Me. ,  and  in 
his  honor  many  local  points  were  named,  such  as 
Patten's  Bay,  Patten's  Pond,  etc.  He  was  a 
worthy  representative  of  a  very  old  family  in 
New  England,  of  English  descent,  and  was  com- 
monly known  as  "Colonel"  Patten.  His  son, 
John,  grandfather  of  our  subject,  was  a  farmer 
and  lumberman,  and  these  occupations  were  fol- 
lowed by  Ambrose  Patten,  in  turn.  The  latter 
was  also  interested  in  ship-building,  often  having 


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vessels  in  process  of  construction  on  Patten's 
Bay,  and  in  addition  to  this,  he  was  more  or  less 
concerned  in  the  coasting  trade.  Born  in  June, 
1808,  he  lived  to  pass  the  years  allotted  to  man 
by  the  Psalmist,  as  he  died  in  1881.  His  wife 
was  sixty-three  years  old  at  the  time  of  her  death . 
Both  were  devout  members  of  the  Baptist  Church, 
the  father  having  been  a  deacon  and  elder  for 
over  a  quarter  of  a  century.  Mrs.  Sarah  Patten 
was  a  daughter  of  Captain  Cook,  of  Beverly, 
Mass.  He  was  lost  at  sea  and  at  a  later  date  his 
family  removed  to  Maine. 

George  A.  Patten  is  the  eldest  of  his  parents' 
family.  One  child  died  in  infancy  and  the  other 
brothers  and  sisters  are:  Mrs.  Sarah  E.  Phillips, 
of  Surry;  Eydia  T. ,  of  Boston;  Mrs.  Priscilla 
Haynes,  of  Boston ;  Ambrose  and  Charles  L. ,  a 
grocer  of  Idaho  Springs.  Ambrose  served  in  the 
Civil  war  in  a  Maine  regiment,  came  to  Colorado 
in  1864  and  died  in  Aspen,  this  state.  They  were 
all  reared  to  mature  years  in  the  town  of  their 
birth,  receiving  public-school  advantages. 

When  a  youth  of  about  seventeen  years  Mr. 
Patten  entered  the  coasting  trade,  and  made 
several  trips.  In  the  autumn  of  1857  he  started 
for  the  then  far  west,  and  settling  in  the  territory 
of  Minnesota,  turned  his  energies  to  lumbering. 
At  the  end  of  two  years  he  returned  home  for  a 
visit,  but  in  the  fall  of  1859  he  again  landed  in 
St.  Paul.  The  next  spring  he  joined  a  wagon 
train  bound  for  Pike's  Peak.  The  party  pro- 
ceeded through  Iowa  to  Omaha,  thence  up  the 
Platte  River,  taking  sufficient  time  to  allow  their 
cattle  to  graze  along  the  way.  The  journey  thus 
consumed  over  two  months,  but  was  safely  com- 
pleted about  the  ist  of  May.  From  Golden  City 
Mr.  Patten  went  to  Blackhawk,  arriving  there 
May  6.  Liking  the  place  and  believing  in  its 
future,  he  entered  the  lumber  trade  and  for  about 
a  year  was  also  interested  in  placer-mining  in 
Lake  Gulch. 

It  was  in  the  beginning  of  1861  that  Mr.  Pat- 
ten came  to  Idaho  Springs  and-engaged  in  placer- 
mining.  Three  years  later  he  opened  a  store 
containing  general  merchandise  on  Miner  street. 
The  building  which  he  thus  occupied  was  then 
the  only  frame  structure  in  the  town.  Buying 
the  property,  he  continued  to  do  business  there 
for  several  years.  Success  attended  him  and  his 
friends  throughout  this  -section  became  legion. 
All  of  his  supplies  had  to  be  brought  across  the 


plains  from  Missouri  by  teams.  At  length,  in 
company  with  a  Mr.  Bogue,  Mr.  Patten  built  a 
livery  barn  here  and  embarked  in  the  transporta- 
tion business.  A  few  years  later  he  sold  the 
livery  but  continued  merchandising  until  1892, 
being  the  oldest  business  man  of  the  town  at  the 
time  that  he  dispo.sed  of  his  store.  In  the  mean- 
time he  built  two  substantial  biick  blocks,  each 
two  stories  in  height,  and  situated  centrally  on 
Miner  street,  between  First  and  Second  avenues. 
In  addition  to  the  enterprises  mentioned,  he  has 
been  active  in  mining  operations.  He  owns  the 
Patten  &  Patten  Extension,  the  Red  Jacket 
(which  he  developed)  and  others.  These  valu- 
able mines  are  situated  about  a  mile  and  a-quarter 
from  this  town  in  Virginia  Canon,  and  are  tun- 
neled six  hundred  feet  into  the  side  of  the  moun- 
tain. 

Mr.  Patten  has  been  an  enthusiastic  Republican 
since  the  party  was  organized.  lu  the  Centen- 
nial year,  made  memorable  by  the  admission  of 
Colorado  to  statehood,  he  was  chosen  to  represent 
this  district  in  the  first  legislature  convened  in 
the  infant  commonwealth.  He  was  the  nominee 
of  the  Republicans,  and  well  did  he  discharge 
the  numerous  duties  which  fell  to  his  share.  He 
served  on  a  great  many  important  committees, 
mining,  roads,  etc.,  and  about  this  time  voted 
first  for  Teller  and  Chaffee  for  United  States 
senators.  In  1884  Mr.  Patten  was  again  elected 
to  the  assembly  and  was  chairman  of  the  com- 
mittee on  engrossing,  besides  acting  as  a  member 
of  the  committee  on  mining,  etc.  Once  more  he 
used  his  ballot  in  favor  of  Senator  Teller.  From 
1868  to  1883  Mr.  Patten  was  the  postmaster  of 
Idaho  Springs,  then  tendering  his  resignation. 
Several  terms  he  has  been  treasurer  of  the  local 
school  board  and  during  these  periods  he  has 
assisted  in  the  erection  of  numerous  school  build- 
ings. He  was  one  of  the  board  when  the  fine 
high  school  was  put  up  and  has  ever  used  his  in- 
fluence on  the  side  of  excellent  facilities  for  the 
children.  In  early  days  he  was  one  of  the  incor- 
porators of  the  town,  serving  on  its  first  board  of 
trustees,  and  later,  as  well,  on  several  occasions. 
For  years  he  has  been  connected  with  the  blue 
lodge,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  of  Idaho  Springs. 

In  his  native  town  Mr.  Patten  married  Miss 
Sophia  E.  Osgood  in  1875.  She  was  born  in  Blue 
Hill,  Me.  Three  children  constituted  the  family 
of  this  worthy  couple,  Georgia,  Lillian  G.  and 


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Ruby  E.,  but  Georgia  died  when  quite  young. 
The  family  are  identified  with  the  Presbyterian 
Church.  Mrs.  Patten  is  the  daughter  of  Nuvell 
and  Adaline  (Grindle)  Osgood,  natives  of  Maine. 
Her  father  was  a  prominent  merchant  and  real- 
estate  dealer  at  Blue  Hill  and  Surry,  Me.,  and 
was  a  prominent  man  in  his  community. 


qJEORGE  S.  VAN  DER  KARR,  proprietor  of 
_l  the  Forks  Hotel,  also  postmaster  and  mer- 
^  chant  at  Forks,  Larimer  County,  a  large 
stock  dealer  and  partner  of  his  brother  in  a  mer- 
cantile business  at  LaPorte,  was  born  in  Newark, 
Wayne  County,  N.  Y.,  December  22,  1858.  He  de- 
scends from  an  old  Revolutionary  soldier,  who  was 
a  member  of  an  influential  Holland  family  in  New 
York,  and  was  related  to  the  Van  Ness  and  Scher- 
merhorn  families.  A  son  of  this  soldier,  Samuel, 
removed  from  Albany  to  Newark,  where  he  en- 
gaged in  farming.  During  the  war  of  1812  he 
enlisted  and  fought  in  defense  of  our  country. 

Next  in  line  of  descent  was  Abraham  Van  der 
Karr,  father  of  our  subject.  He  was  born  near 
Albany,  N.  Y.,  and  for  years  was  an  extensive 
stock  dealer  and  farmer  at  Newark,  but  is  now 
living  retired.  His  wife,  now  deceased,  was  Mary 
Gardiner,  a  native  of  Kinderhook,  N.  Y.,  and  of 
Dutch  descent;  her  father,  Aaron  Gardiner,  was 
born  on  the  Hudson  and  removed  to  Wayne 
County,  where  he  engaged  in  farming.  He  was 
a  public-spirited  man  and  assisted  in  the  con- 
struction of  churches  and  school  houses.  The 
family  of  which  our  subject  was  a  member  con- 
sisted of  two  sons  and  three  daughters,  but  he 
and  his  brother  Aaron,  of  LaPorte,  are  the  only 
survivors. 

In  the  public  schools  of  Newark  our  subject  re- 
ceived his  education.  In  1882  he  came  to  Colo- 
rado and  for  ten  years  was  engaged  in  the  cattle 
business  near  Fort  Collins,  but  finally  went  to 
Sioux  City,  Neb.,  where  he  had  a  ranch  stocked 
with  horses  and  cattle,  and  made  shipments  of 
stock  from  there  to  New  York,  Illinois  and  Indi- 
ana. In  April,  1895,  he  brought  his  stock  of 
goods  to  LaPorte,  where  he  embarked  in  busi- 
ness. The  following  year  he  settled  on  his  ranch 
of  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  at  Forks,  where 
he  raises  alfalfa  for  feed.  In  1891  he  bought  the 
Forks  Hotel,  which  he  rented  for  five  years,  but 
now  conducts  personally.    This  house,  which  was 


built  in  1874  and  has  since  been  conducted  as  a 
hotel,  is  the  oldest  inn  in  the  county,  and, 
through  additions  made  to  it,  furnishes  ample 
accommodations  for  all  who  patronize  it.  He 
also  built  a  commodious  and  substantial  bam,  as 
well  as  a  store,  in  which  he  has  the  postoffice  and 
keeps  a  general  stock  of  goods.  The  postoffice 
was  only  recently  established  and  he  is  the  first 
postmaster.  In  addition  to  his  other  interests, 
he  is  connected  with  the  mercantile  business 
.  that  is  managed  by  his  brother  in  LaPorte.  On 
his  ranch  he  raises  graded  Hereford  and  red  polled 
Angus  cattle,  and  has  over  one  hundred  head  of 
horses,  mostly  Percherons  and  Normans.  Politi- 
cally he  is  a  Democrat. 

In  Fort  Collins,  February  11,  1896,  Mr.  Van 
der  Karr  married  Mrs.  Delilah  (Currie)  Clark, 
who  was  born  in  Clinton  County,  Iowa,  and  re- 
moved to  Wyoming  in  1878,  coming  from  there 
to  Larimer  County.  Her  father,  George  Currie, 
was  born  in  Canada,  and  after  engaging  in  farm- 
ing for  some  years  in  Hamilton  County,  Iowa, 
he  came  to  Colorado  in  1891  and  now  lives  in 
Pleasant  Valley.  His  wife,  Margaret,  was  born 
in  Canada,  as  was  also  her  father,  Ebenezer 
Nickeson.  Mrs.  Van  der  Karr  was  second  among 
eleven  children,  of  whom  all  but  two  are  now 
living,  those  besides  herself  being  Milo,  of  Iowa; 
Charles,  of  Manhattan,  Colo.;  Frank,  whose 
home  is  in  Nebraska;  Fred,  living  in  Boulder 
County,  Colo.;  John,  of  Pleasant  Valley;  Viola, 
Mrs.  William  Thomas,  of  Nebraska;  Sarah,  who 
is  the  wife  of  Isaac  Niece,  and  lives  in  Nebraska; 
and  Minnie,  who  married  David  Murray,  of 
Boulder  County.  The  first  husband  of  Mrs.  Van 
dei-  Karr  was  George  Clark,  by  whom  she  had 
one  son  and  two  daughters. 


•JJ IDEON  C.  PRATT  is  a  prominent  and  sub- 
_  stantial  farmer  of  section  i,  township  10, 
(_>|  range  66  west,  Douglas  County,  and  a  man 
who  has  carved  his  way  to  success  by  the  exercise 
of  his  own  industry  and  perseverance.  He  made 
his  way  unaided  by  any  other  means,  and  is  a 
striking  example  of  what  one  may  accomplish  by 
courage  and  determination.  He  was  born  near 
the  village  of  Goshen,  Orange  County,  N.  Y., 
June  8,  1834,  and  is  a  son  of  Alanson  E.  and 
Sarah  (Noble)  Pratt. 

Alanson  Pratt  was  a  merchant  of  Elmira,  N.  Y., 


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where  he  moved  when  our  subject  was  ten  years 
of  age.  In  1856,  with  his  family,  he  moved  west 
and  settled  in  Muscatine,  Iowa,  where  he  bought 
a  large  tract  of  land  and  began  tilling  the  soil. 
After  a  few  years  of  farming  life,  he  embarked  in 
the  mercantile  business  in  that  town,  pursuing 
that  line  of  business  until  1867.  In  that  year 
he  disposed  of  his  stock  and  moved  to  Colorado 
Springs,  Colo.,  where  he  conducted  a  mercantile 
store  until  he  retired;  he  then  went  to  St.  Louis, 
Mo.,  to  live  with  our  subject's  brother,  and  later 
he  moved  to  Sedalia,  Mo.,  where  he  passed  from 
this  life  in  1893. 

Gideon  C.  Pratt  took  advantage  of  the  oppor- 
tunity to  obtain  an  academic  education,  and  at 
seventeen  years  he  began  clerking  in  David  A. 
Tuttle's  store  at  Elmira,  N.  Y.,  his  salary  being 
$50  per  year,  out  of  which  pay  he  had  to  clothe 
himself.  At  nineteen  years  his  father  moved  to 
Muscatine,  Iowa,  and  settled  on  a  farm,  where 
our  subject  worked;  when  his  father  opened  a 
mercantile  store,  our  subject  entered  the  store  as 
a  clerk.  In  1862  he  went  to  Council  Bluffs,  Iowa, 
from  which  point  he  took  the  coach  for  Denver, 
Colo.,  the  trip  occupying  six  days  and  nights. 
He  entered  the  employ  of  the  bank  of  O.  D.  Cass 
&  Co.,  as  clerk,  remaining  with  that  company 
until  1864;  he  did  all  the  collecting  for  the  bank 
and  in  June,  1862,  he  was  sent  across  the  range 
to  collect  a  large  bill,  and  was  obliged  to  go  by 
night,  in  order  to  take  advantage  of  the  crust 
which  would  form  over  the  snow;  he  collected  the 
full  amount  in  gold  dust.  Later  he  was  trans- 
ferred to  the  branch  office  at  Central  City,  where 
he  continued  to  do  the  collecting.  In  June, 
1867,  he  became  interested  in  a  sawmill  on  the 
divide  in  Douglas  County,  and  in  1869  he  bought 
three  hundred  and  twenty  acres  of  land,  where  he 
now  lives.  He  has  since  been  engaged  in  farm- 
ing and  has  increased  his  estate  to  seven  hundred 
and  twenty  acres;  he  is  energetic  and  enterpris- 
ing, and  has  won  many  friends  by  his  many  ster- 
ling qualities. 

While  a  resident  of  Muscatine,  Iowa,  Mr. 
Pratt  was  married,  November  10,  1858,  to  Miss 
Lydia  M.  Cass,  a  daughter  of  Rev.  M.  G.  and 
Sophia  (Putman)  Cass;  her  father  was  pastor  of 
the  Presbyterian  Church  of  that  town.  Nine 
children  blessed  the  home  of  our  subject  and 
wife,  four  of  whom  are  now  living.  They  were 
named  as  follows:     Lily  I.;  Nellie  S.,  wife  of 


D.  J.  Shinner,  of  San  Luis  Valley,  Colo.,  and  they 
are  the  parents  of  five  children;  Gideon  C,  who 
resides  with  his  father;  and  Agnes  P.  Our  sub- 
ject's father  was  a  Democrat  in  his  early  days, 
but  being  opposed  to  the  institution  of  slavery,  he 
voted  for  John  C.  Fremont,  upon  the  organization 
of  the  Republican  party;  our  subject  also  voted 
for  Fremont,  and  has  ever  since  been  an  ardent 
supporter  of  the  Republican  party.  He  has 
served  three  years  as  county  commissioner;  two 
terms  as  assessor;  as  deputy  assessor;  and  in 
1885,  he  was  honored  with  a  seat  in  the  legis- 
lature. 


HON.  AMOS  G.  WEBSTER,  attorney-at- 
law  of  Castle  Rock,  and  formerly  county 
judge  of  Douglas  County,  was  born  in  the 
town  of  Noble,  LaPorte  County,  Ind.,  July  14, 
1 841,  a  son  of  Amos  Gillette  and  Hilah  (Hard- 
ing) Webster.  Upon  the  farm  where  he  was 
born  the  first  twenty-one  years  of  his  life  were 
passed.  He  attended  the  country  schools  and 
also  a  village  graded  school.  August  14,  1862, 
he  offered  his  services  to  his  country  and  was 
mustered  into  Company  K,  Seventy-third  Indi- 
ana Infantry.  During  the  almost  three  years  of 
his  service  he  participated  in  many  skirmishes 
and  the  battles  of  Perryville,  Stone  River  and 
Nashville.  When  on  a  raid  near  Rome,  Ga., 
he  and  his  comrades  were  captured  by  the  Con- 
federates and  he  was  sent  to  Belle  Isle.  Though 
the  terms  of  surrender  stipulated  that  they  should 
be  sent  through  the  lines  in  twelve  days,  yet  the 
officers  were  held  for  twenty-one  months.  Fortu- 
nately, however,  our  subject  and  a  few  compan- 
ions were  soon  sent  back  on  parole,  and  were  ex- 
changed and  sent  to  Camp  Morton,  Indianapolis, 
where  he  guarded  prisoners.  The  winter  of 
1863-64  he  spent  at  Nashville,  where  he  was  drill 
master  on  siege  guns  Nos.  6  and  8.  He  was  later 
engaged  on  guard  duty  at  Larkinsville,  Triana 
and  Athens,  Ala.,  and  Lavergne,  Tenn.,  on  the 
line  of  the  Nashville  &  Chattanooga  Railway. 
From  the  ranks  he  was  promoted  to  be  corporal 
and  was  mustered  out  as  sergeant  in  July,  1865. 
Returning  to  Indiana  Mr.  Webster  entered 
the  academy  at  Westville,  where  he  carried  on 
his  studies  for  a  time.  In  1867  he  began  the 
study  of  law  in  the  office  of  Capt.  L-  A.  Cole  at 
La  Porte,  and  the  following  year  was  admitted  to 
the  bar,  soon  after  which  he  opened  an  office  at 


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Perry,  Dallas  County,  Iowa.  November  11, 
1868,  ill  LaPorte  County,  he  was  united  in  mar- 
riage with  Miss  Phila  L,.  Romans,  who  accom- 
panied him  to  their  new  home  in  Iowa.  For 
eleven  3'ears  he  engaged  in  practice  in  Perry, 
whence  in  1879  he  removed  to  Colorado,  hoping 
that  the  change  of  climate  would  benefit  his 
wife's  health.  Resettled  on  a  ranch  in  Douglas 
County,  but  in  1882  established  his  home  in  Cas- 
tle Rock  and  began  the  practice  of  his  profession, 
in  which  he  has  since  engaged.  His  father  was 
a  Whig  and  he  has  always  been  a  Republican. 
He  was  nominated  by  his  party  for  the  legisla- 
ture in  1882  and  received  a  majority  of  seven, 
but  was  counted  out  and  declared  beaten  by  one 
vote.  In  1886  he  was  elected  county  judge  and 
later  was  appointed  to  the  office  to  fill  a  vacancy, 
serving  for  four  years.  Fraternally  he  is  identified 
with  the  Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen,  of 
which  he  has  been  master  workman ,  is  the  present 
financier,  and  has  been  selected  to  represent  his 
lodge  in  the  grand  lodge. 


HON.  ALBERT  HALL.  Among  the  citizens 
of  Idaho  Springs  none  has  been  more  ear- 
nest in  endeavoring  to  advance  her  best  in- 
terests than  this  gentleman,  who  has  been  more 
or  less  closely  associated  with  local  upbuilding 
for  the  past  fifteen  years.  He  has  developed 
and  managed  several  mining  enterprises  in  the 
vicinity  and  is  quite  extensively  interested  in 
real  estate  hereabout.  In  1897  he  erected  the 
Hall  block,  which  is  44x59  feet  in  dimensions  and 
is  three  stories  in  height.  Among  the  mines  in 
which  he  has  invested  are  the  Tolland  County 
group,  Mansfield,  Canfield,  Alport,  Stafford, 
Union,  Port  Jarvis,  Governor  Bulkeley  and  Chlo- 
ride. Many  of  these  are  very  valuable  and  are 
being  pushed  with  energy  and  ability  by  the 
fortunate  owner. 

The  paternal  grandfather  of  the  above-named 
citizen  was  Nathan  Hall,  a  native  of  Connecticut, 
in  which  state  he  resided  until  his  death.  The 
father  of  our  subject  was  Gardiner  Hall,  a  well- 
known  cotton  and  thread  manufacturer  and  one 
of  the  first  to  engage  in  the  production  of  sewing 
thread  in  the  United  States.  He  was  born  in 
Mansfield,  Conn.,  in  1809.  In  1857  he  accepted  a 
responsible  position  with  the  Willimantic  Linen 
Company,  placed  the  machinery  for  the  plant  and 


subsequently  superintended  the  manufacture  of 
their  goods.  He  died  in  Willington,  in  1879. 
He  was  one  of  a  rather  remarkable  family,  num- 
bering thirteen,  eleven  of  whom  lived  to  be  large, 
strong  men  and  women,  taking  leading  places  in 
the  several  communities  in  which  they  dwelt. 
In  1867  he  was  a  member  of  the  legislature  of 
his  native  state  and  frequently  he  served  as  a 
selectman,  and  was  county  commissioner  three 
years.  His  wife,  mother  of  our  subject,  bore 
the  girlhood  name  of  Zeviah  Emeline  Essex.  She 
was  born  in  Colche.ster,  Conn. ,  and  was  a  daughter 
of  William  F.  Essex,  a  clothier.  She  is  now  in 
her  ninety-first  year.  Six  of  her  eight  children 
lived  to  maturity,  and  five  are  still  living.  Or- 
line,  Mrs.  J.  R.  Champlain,  resides  in  Norwich. 
Gardiner  is  a  large  manufacturer  of  thread  and 
cotton  goods  in  South  Willington,  Conn.  Emiline 
is  Mrs.  M.  M.  Johnson,  her  husband  president 
and  manager  of  the  National  Thread  Company, 
of  Mansfield,  Conn.  William  H.  enlisted  in  Com- 
pany H,  Eighteenth  Connecticut  Infantry,  in  the 
Civil  war  and  was  killed  in  1864  at  Newmarket, 
in  the  Shenandoah  Valley,  being  then  but  twenty- 
two  years  of  age.  Origin  was  a  member  of  the 
same  regiment  and  company,  and  served  to  the 
close  of  the  war;  he  is  now  living  in  the  Nutmeg 
state  and  is  the  representative  elected  from  Will- 
ington for  1899. 

Hon.  Albert  Hall,  the  Youngest  of  the  family, 
was  born  April  i,  1846,  in  the  town  of  Stafibrd, 
Conn.  He  was  educated  in  Willington  and 
Willimantic,  and  after  leaving  school  was  em- 
ployed in  the  thread  factory  and  machine  shop  of 
G.  Hall,  Jr.,  &  Co.,  for  thirteen  years,  part  of 
the  period  being  the  foreman  of  the  works.  In 
1883  he  came  to  Colorado  and  has  ever  since 
spent  a  portion  of  each  year  in  the  Centennial 
state,  though  retaining  his  legal  residence  in 
Connecticut.  In  the  autumn  of  1883  he  was 
nominated  on  the  Republican  ticket  to  the  legis- 
lature of  his  own  state  and  being  elected,  served 
in  the  session  of  1884,  representing  the  same 
town  as  had  his  honored  father  seventeen  years 
before.  He  was  initiated  into  Masonry  iti  Uriel 
Lodge  No.  24,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  of  Mansfield, 
Conn.  He  Ijas  always  adhered  to  the  principles 
of  the  Republican  party,  and  is  now  an  advocate 
of  free  coinage. 

December  29,  1868,  Mr.    Hall  and  Miss  Alice 
Eaton  were  married  in  Stafford,  in  which  town 


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Mrs.  Hall  had  been  reared,  though  her  birth  had 
taken  place  in  Massachusetts.  Their  three  chil- 
dren were  Arthur  Edwin,  who  died  in  infancy; 
Owen  Gardiner,  whose  death  occurred  when  he 
was  but  seven  years  old;  and  Etta  M.,  a  graduate 
of  the  Wesley  an  Academy  at  Wilbraham,  Mass., 
and  now  Mrs.  C.  V.  D.  Peek,  of  New  York  City. 


I  AWRENCE  WELTY,  a  pioneer  of  Frank- 
It  town,  Douglas  County,  was  born  in  Baden, 
|_2  Germany,  in  February,  1832.  The  first 
sixteen  years  of  his  life  were  passed  in  his  native 
land,  where  he  received  fair  educational  advan- 
tages. In  1848  he  accompanied  his  parents  and 
a  younger  sister  to  America,  and  after  a  voyage 
of  thirty-six  days  in  a  sailing  vessel  they  landed 
in  New  York,  but  soon  after  proceeded  to  Roch- 
ester, where  the  father  procured  employment  at 
the  shoemaker's  trade.  During  the  time  they 
resided  in  that  city  our  subject  gained  a  thorough 
knowledge  of  his  father's  trade.  In  1852  he  went 
to  Michigan  and  followed  the  trade  in  Kalama- 
zoo. Two  years  later  he  was  joined  by  his  father 
and  mother. 

In  1856  Mr.  Welty  married  Miss  Louise  Siler, 
of  Kalamazoo,  but  a  native  of  Baden,  Germany. 
The  year  after  his  marriage  he  went  to  St.  Joseph, 
Mo.,  leaving  his  family  in  Michigan,  but  after 
two  years  they  joined  him  in  his  new  home. 
They  remained  there  until  1863,  when  they  came 
to  Colorado.  In  1861  Mr.  Welty  enlisted  as  a 
private  in  Company  B,  Thirteenth  Missouri  In- 
fantry, and  took  part  in  the  battle  of  Lexington, 
where  he  was  taken  prisoner  by  the  Confederates. 
However,  he  was  soon  paroled  and  sent  back  to 
St.  Joseph,  where  he  was  on  parole  at  the  time  of 
coming  to  Colorado.  He  started  across  the  plains 
on  the  I  St  of  April  with  a  team  of  horses,  and 
landed  in  Denver  on  the  ist  of  May.  For  some 
years  he  engaged  in  prospecting  and  mining,  at 
which  he  was  fairly  prosperous.  Later  he  en- 
gaged in  the  boot  and  shoe  business  in  Denver. 
In  1864  he  joined  Company  M,  Third  Colorado 
Cavalry,  which  was  organized  to  fight  the  Indi- 
ans, and  served  for  one  hundred  days,  during 
which  time  he  was  stationed  at  the  barracks  at 
California  ranch  (now  Franktown).  His  family 
were  at  first  on  a  farm  he  had  rented  near  here, 
but  they  were  finally  obliged  to  move  to  the  fort 
for  protection. 


Upon  the  land  which  he  took  up  as  a  claim 
Mr.  Welty  resided  for  some  years  after  the  war, 
and  he  still  owns  two  hundred  acres  of  ranch 
property,  wlych  he  farms.  In  1872  he  came  to 
Franktown,  where  he  has  since  followed  the  shoe- 
maker's trade.  In  politics  he  is  a  Republican 
and  takes  a  warm  interest  in  local  afiairs.  He  is 
a  member  of  Blunt  Post,  G.  A.  R.,  of  Castle 
Rock.  He  and  his  wife  are  the  parents  of  two 
children,  the  elder  of  whom,  Mary,  married  John 
A.  Blatt  and  lives  at  Leed  City,  S.  Dak.;  she 
has  three  children:  Louisa,  Herman  and  John. 
The  younger  daughter,  Anna,  is  the  wife  of 
Henry  Nink,  of  Salt  Lake  City,  and  has  three 
children:   Clara,  Henry  and  Lawrence. 


FTrEDERICK  p.  DEWEY,  assistant  cashier 
JM  of  the  Bank  of  Clear  Creek  County,  at 
I  Georgetown,  and  one  of  its  directors,  also  in 
charge  of  the  electric  light  plant  of  Georgetown, 
where  he  resides,  came  to  Colorado  in  September, 
1879,  and  has  made  his  home  in  Georgetown 
since  that  time.  He  was  born  in  Phoenix,  Os- 
wego County,  N.  Y.,  March  14,  i860,  a  son  of 
Solomon  and  Sophia  (Fish)  Dewey,  natives  re- 
spectively of  Massachusetts  and  Halifax,  Vt. 
The  founder  of  the  Dewey  family  in  America  was 
Thomas  Dewey,  a  native  of  Kent,  England,  who 
came  to  Massachusetts  about  1630  and  was  en- 
rolled as  a  freeman  in  1634.  In  1638  he  moved 
to  Windsor,  Conn.,  where  he  married  a  widow, 
Mrs.  Frances  Clark.  He  filled  a  number  of  local 
positions,  among  them  that  of  deputy  to  the  gen- 
eral court,  juror,  and  an  officer  in  the  light  in- 
fantry. In  his  familj'  there  were  five  children: 
Thomas;  Josiah,  the  ancestor  of  Admiral  Dewey, 
who  gained  fame  in  the  war  with  Spain;  Anna; 
Israel,  ancestor  of  our  subject;  and  Jedediah. 

Deacon  David,  sou  of  Israel  Dewey,  had  a  son, 
David,  whose  son,  David,  was  the  father  of 
Asaph,  a  native  of  Richmond,  Mass.,  and  our 
subject's  grandfather.  Asaph  died  in  Richmond 
in  January,  1833,  and  was  buried  in  Lenox, 
Mass.  C.  E.  Dewey,  of  Denver,  David  Dewey, 
of  Georgetown,  and  our  subject  are  descendants 
of  Asaph  Dewey.  Solomon  Dewey  settled  near 
Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  where  he  was  a  pioneer  and 
improved  a  place.  Of  his  first  marriage  six  chil- 
dren are  still  living,  all  of  whom  reside  near  the 
old  homestead.     His  second  wife,   Sophia,  was 


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born  in  Halifax,  Vt.,  a  daughter  of  Simeon  Fish 
and  the  widow  of  Dr.  Benjamin  Henry.  Her 
father,  a  native  of  Vermont,  removed  to  Oswego 
County,  N.  Y.,  and  became  a  prominent  military 
man,  being  general  in  the  New  York  state  militia 
for  some  time. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  the  only  child 
of  his  parents.  He  attended  the  grammar  and 
high  school  of  Phcenix,  Oswego  County,  N.  Y. , 
from  which  latter  institution  he  graduated  in 
1878.  In  September  of  1879  he  came  to  George- 
town and  entered  the  Bank  of  Clear  Creek  County 
as  bookkeeper,  but  in  January,  1880,  was  made 
assistant  cashier,  which  position  he  has  since 
held.  He  was  at  one  time  interested  in  the  gas 
works  of  Georgetown,  and  upon  its  consolidation 
with  the  electric  light  plant  as  the  United  Ught 
and  Power  Compau)'  he  was  made  secretary  and 
treasurer,  in  which  capacity  he  has  since  been 
retained.  This  company  supplies  light  and 
power  to  Georgetown  and  Silver  Plume.  He  has 
been  engaged  in  the  management  of  various  mines 
and  mining  affairs,  and  his  numerous  interests 
leave  him  little  leisure  time. 

In  Windsor,  Dane  County,  Wis.,  June  23, 
1887,  our  subject  married  Miss  Edna  M.  Sabin, 
who  was  born  in  that  town,  a  daughter  of  Deacon 
Henry  Sabin.  They  are  the  parents  of  one  child, 
Robert  S.  For  a  few  years  the  family  have  made 
their  home  in  Denver.  Politically  Mr.  Dewey 
formerly  voted  the  Republican  ticket,  but  when 
that  party  declared  for  a  gold  standard  of  cur- 
rency he  ceased  to  give  it  his  support  and  gives 
his  vote  and  influence  to  men  pledged  to  advocate 
the  silver  cause.  Fraternally  he  is  trea.surer  of 
Mohican  Tribe  of  Red  Men  No.  54,  and  is  also 
connected  with  Georgetown  Lodge  No.  48,  A.  F. 
&  A.  M.,  of  which  he  is  past  master,  and 
Georgetown  Chapter  No.  4,  R.  A.  M. 


(lOHN  WILLIAM  WRIGHT,  who  is  one  of 
I  the  most  prosperous  ranchmen  of  Arapahoe 
Q)  County,  owns  a  large  stock  farm  situated  on 
Running  Creek,  in  township  5  south,  range  64 
west.  Since  he  settled  here  in  187 1  he  has 
bought  land  from  time  to  time,  until  his  present 
possessions  aggregate  sixteen  hundred  and  eighty 
acres,  all  under  fence.  On  the  ranch  are  a  large 
number  of  cattle,  for  it  is  largely  through  the 
stock  business  that  Mr.  Wright  has  been  pros- 


pered. In  the  spring  of  1 897  he  sold  five  hun- 
dred head,  but  he  still  has  a  large  herd  left  on  the 
ranch. 

In  Dallas,  Tex.,  July  31,  1848,  the  subject  of 
this  sketch  was  born  to  John  Wilson  and  Eliza- 
beth (Leonard)  Wright,  natives  of  Tennessee. 
His  paternal  grandfather,  Thomas  Wright,  was 
born  near  Nashville,  Tenn.,  and  descended  from 
English  ancestors,  who  were  among  the  early 
settlers  of  Colorado.  He  became  a  large  planter 
in  Tennessee  and  later  owned  a  plantation  in 
Texas,  where  he  had  a  number  of  slaves  to  oper- 
ate the  land.  Among  his  associates  he  was 
known  as  an  honest  and  honorable  man,  and  as 
such  he  was  highly  esteemed.  In  political  belief 
he  was  a  Whig.  During  the  war  of  18 12  he  en- 
listed and  served  in  defense  of  American  inter- 
ests. His  death  occurred  in  Texas  when  he  was 
eighty-seven  years  of  age. 

By  the  marriage  of  Thomas  Wright  to  Miss 
Tate,  a  southern  lady,  there  were  born  twelve 
children  who  reached  mature  years.  Of  these 
John  Wilson  was  born  near  Nashville,  and  in 
youth  learned  the  shoemaker's  trade,  but  after 
removing  to  Texas  he  gave  his  attention  wholly 
to  farming.  Born  June  i,  1820,  his  life  extended 
over  the  greater  part  of  the  nineteenth  century, 
and  was  brought  to  a  close  after  seventy  useful 
years.  During  the  Civil  vyar  he  enlisted  in  the 
Confederate  army  and  served  for  the  cause  he  be- 
lieved to  be  right.  Politically  he  voted  the 
Democratic  ticket.  His  marriage,  December  15, 
1842,  united  him  with  Miss  Sarah  E.  Leonard, 
who  was  born  in  Tennessee,  October  19,  1827,  a 
daughter  of  George  and  Mary  J.  (Dooley)  Leon- 
ard, of  Scotch -Irish  descent  and  Protestant  faith. 
While  still  a  young  woman  she  died,  June  19, 
1855.  Their  family  consisted  of  six  children,  of 
whom  Martha  Ann  died  in  infancy.  The  others 
are:  George  Thomas,  a  farmer  in  Texas;  John 
William,  of  this  sketch;  Sarah  Elizabeth,  who  is 
married  and  lives  in  Texas;  James  Wilson,  a 
stockman  in  that  state;  and  Mrs.  Ada  Catherine 
Brooks,  also  of  Texas. 

In  the  common  schools  of  the  Lone  Star  state 
our  subject  received  his  education.  His  boyhood 
years  were  spent  on  a  farm,  and  he  early  ac- 
quired a  thorough  knowledge  of  agriculture.  In 
1868,  when  twenty  years  of  age,  he  began  to  buy 
and  sell  stock,  which  he  drove  from  Texas  to 
Colorado  and  sojd  in  Denver  prior  to  the  advent 


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of  the  railroad.  He  assisted  in  loading  the  first 
train  load  of  cattle  shipped  east  over  the  Kansas 
&  Pacific  road.  He  continued  driving  stock 
across  the  plains  until  1871,  and  with  the  money 
acquired  in  the  meantime  he  bought  the  place 
where  he  has  spent  the  past  twenty-seven  years. 
When  he  started  out  for  himself  he  did  not  have 
a  dollar,  but  through  energy  and  perseverance  he 
has  become  prosperous. 

In  New  Mexico,  March  29,  1874,  Mr.  Wright 
married  Miss  Catharine  Granger,  daughter  of 
John  and  Sarah  Granger.  Her  father,  who  was 
a  native  of  England  and  was  in  the  English  serv- 
ice in  the  West  Indies,  afterward  settled  in  the 
United  States;  he  and  his  wife  spent  their  last 
years  with  their  daughter,  Mrs.  Wright,  in 
whose  home  he  passed  away  July  26,  1898,  at  the 
age  of  eighty-four,  and  she  November  3,  1896,  at 
seventy-three  years.  Both  were  highly  esteemed 
in  this  locality,  where  they  had  resided  almost  a 
quarter  of  a  century.  Politically,  like  his  father, 
Mr.  Wright  is  a  stanch  Democrat,  and  keeps 
posted  in  national  and  state  afiairs. 


(lOHNS.  WHEELER  has  tlie  distinction  of 
I  being  the  oldest  surviving  settler  of  Weld 
Qj  County.  He  was  born  in  Worcester  County, 
Mass.,  in  1834,  a  son  of  John  B.  and  Laura  J. 
(Graves)  Wheeler,  both  natives  of  the  old  Bay 
state.  His  father  ran  away  from  home  at  the 
age  of  seventeen  and  shipped  on  a  whaling  ves- 
sel from  Boston  to  southern  and  eastern  ports. 
For  seven  years  he  followed  the  water,  being 
successively  third  and  second  mate.  After  aban- 
doning a  seafaring  life,  he  settled  at  Flat  Hill, 
seven  miles  from  Fitchburg,  Mass. ,  and  there  he 
died  at  forty-five  years  of  age.  He  and  his  wife 
were  the  parents  of  three  sons,  John  S. ,  Theodore 
E.  and  Albert.  After  Mr.  Wheeler's  death,  his 
widow  married  Lawrence  Bailey,  and  in  1844 
moved  to  Dresden,  Muskingum  County,  Ohio, 
where  our  subject  grew  to  manhood.  He  en- 
gaged in  the  mercantile  business  in  that  town  un- 
til 1859,  when  failing  health  forced  him  to  seek 
another  occupation. 

The  eastern  states  were  at  that  time  in  a  fever 
of  excitement  caused  by  the  discovery  of  gold  in 
the  mountains.  Hundreds  were  already  seeking 
the  mountain  regions,  in  the  hope  of  finding  a 
fortune  in  the  mines.     He  followed  the  tide  west- 


ward and  arrived  in  Denver  June  17,  1859. 
From  there  he  went  to  Golden,  thence  to  Black- 
hawk  and  engaged  in  mining  until  July  16.  Later 
he  located  two  claims  at  Fairplay.  Returning  to 
Blackhawk  in  August  he  went  on  to  the  Platte 
River  and  took  up  government  land,  establishing 
a  ranch  which  he  made  his  home.  He  was  the 
first  man  in  the  county  to  open  a  ranch  and  begin 
farming.  Until  the  fall  of  1878  he  continued 
there,  but  then  went  to  Leadville  and  began  min- 
ing, thence  going  to  West  Ten  Miles,  and  estab- 
lished the  first  sawmill  in  that  place.  He  also 
founded  the  station  and  postofiice  of  Wheeler, 
which  stands  on  the  Denver  &  Rio  Grande  and 
Denver  &  South  Park  Railroads.  He  moved  his 
family  there  and  remained  for  five  years,  mining 
on  Wheeler,  Copper  and  Sheep  Mountains.  He 
was  the  leading  man  in  the  place  and  was  known 
by  all  the  people  around  for  many  miles  in 
every  direction. 

In  1884  Mr.  Wheeler  went  to  Denver  and  from 
there  back  to  Weld  County,  where  he  has  since 
engaged  in  farming  and  stock-raising  on  his  ranch 
of  two  hundred  acres.  Through  his  efibrts  the 
Lupton  Bottom  ditch  was  constructed  and  for 
several  years  he  served  as  president  of  the  com- 
pany. He  also  aided  in  the  construction  of 
Meadow  Island  ditches  Nos.  i  and  2,  and  was 
president  of  both  companies.  In  the  Platteville 
Ditch  Company  he  was  one  of  the  charter  stock- 
holders. He  also  held  office  as  president  of  the 
Side  Hill  Ditch  Company  and  was  a  stockholder 
in  the  Evans  and  Platte  Valley  Ditch  Company. 

As  judge  of  Weld  County,  elected  on  the 
Democratic  ticket,  Mr.  Wheeler  served  for  four 
years,  and  during  that  time  he  began  the  study 
of  law,  which  he  has  since  continued,  having 
charge  of  practically  the  entire  legal  business  of 
the  town.  June  27,  1898,  he  was  appointed 
notary  public  by  Governor  Adams,  to  hold  office 
for  four  years.  In  1876  he  was  a  member  of  the 
constitutional  convention  and  the  following  year 
was  a  candidate  for  secretary  of  state  and  a  presi- 
dential elector.  In  party  work  in  his  county  he 
has  always  been  an  active  factor.  He  has  been 
a  director  in  the  Association  of  Colorado  Pioneers 
and  fraternally  is  identified  with  the  Brighton 
Lodge  of  Masons. 

In  February,  1857,  Mr.  Wheeler  married 
Amelia  D.  Jones,  daughter  of  Elon  and  Elizabeth 
Jones,  of  Dresden,   Ohio.     Three  children  were 


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born  of  their  union.  Frank  E.,  the  eldest,  was 
chairman  of  the  board  of  county  commissioners 
of  Mineral  County,  Colo.,  and  is  manager  of  the 
Creede  Co-operative  Mining  Company.  Theo- 
dore Albert  is  clerk  and  recorder  of  Mineral 
County,  and  lives  in  Creede.  Amelia  D.,  now 
the  wife  of  Frank  Somerville,  of  Fort  Collins, 
was  for  several  years  principal  of  the  Platteville 
public  school  and  also  taught  in  Fort  Collins  for 
three  years,  her  work  ranking  with  that  of  the 
best  teachers  in  the  county. 


~DWARD  TURNER  JEFFERY,  president 
^  and  general  manager  of  the  Denver  &  Rio 
^  Grande  Railroad  Company,  was  born  in 
Liverpool,  England,  April  6,  1843.  In  child- 
hood, after  the  death  of  his  father,  who  was  an 
officer  in  the  British  navy,  he  accompanied  his 
mother  to  the  United  States.  His  connection 
with  railroad  service  began  as  a  boy  thirteen 
years  of  age,  in  October,  1856,  when  he  secured 
employment  as  office  boy  and  machinist  appren- 
tice in  the  service  of  the  Illinois  Central  Railroad 
at  Chicago.  In  this  place  he  availed  himself  of 
the  opportunity  to  learn  mechanics.  He  was 
transferred  in  1863  to  the  office  of  the  mechan- 
ical draughtsman  as  an  apprentice,  in  which  po- 
sition he  gained  a  practical  knowledge  of  ma- 
chinery and  mechanical  drawing,  and  later  be- 
came mechanical  draughtsman  and  secretary  to 
the  superintendent  of  machinery  of  the  Illinois 
Central.  From  February  i,  1871,  to  May  4,  1877, 
he  was  assistant  superintendent  of  machinery  for 
the  same  road.  At  the  latter  date  he  was  pro- 
moted to  be  general  superintendent  of  the  road, 
and  December  15,  1885,  became  general  man- 
ager of  the  company,  which  position  he  resigned 
September  2,  1889,  after  more  than  thirty-three 
years  continuous  service. 

Upon  the  severance  of  his  connection  with  the 
Illinois  Central  Railroad  Company,  Mr.  Jeffery 
had  numerous  offers  of  positions  of  responsibility 
with  other  railroad  companies,  but  the  long  serv- 
ice he  had  given  his  company  had  told  some- 
what on  his  strength,  and  he  preferred  a  period 
of  rest  and  recuperation.  About  that  time  Chi- 
cago citizens  were  beginning  to  agitate  the  loca- 
tion of  the  World's  Fair  and  a  strong  effiart  was 
being  put  forth  to  secure  the  exposition  for  that 


city.  He  was  warmly  interested  in  the  project, 
and  was  a  member  of  the  citizens'  committee  of 
one  hundred  that  was  formed  to  push  the  matter. 
In  the  furtherance  of  the  committee's  plans,  he 
was  selected  to  visit  the  Paris  Exposition  as  com- 
missioner from  Chicago,  with  a  view  to  utilizing 
the  information  there  obtained,  should  Chicago 
meet  with  success  in  her  efifort  to  secure  the  fair. 
He  went  abroad  in  the  fall  of  1889  and  spent  two 
months  in  close  .study  of  the  exposition,  present- 
ing, on  his  return,  a  report  that  was  most  com- 
prehensive and  satisfactory,  and  that  assisted  ma- 
terially in  the  organization  of  the  work  at  Jack- 
son Park. 

In  the  winter  of  1889-90  Mr.  Jeffery  became 
interested  in  the  Grant  Locomotive  works  of  Chi- 
cago, and  was  made  president  of  the  company, 
which  position  he  held  until  October  i,  1891 
when  he  resigned  his  connection  with  that  com- 
pany in  order  to  accept  the  presidency  and  gen- 
eral management  of  the  Denver  &  Rio  Grande 
Railroad  Company.  Up  to  the  time  he  removed 
from  Chicago,  he  maintained  an  active  connec- 
tion with  World's  Fair  plans.  He  was  one  of 
the  leading  members  of  the  board  of  directors, 
and  was  chosen  one  of  three  representatives  who 
appeared  before  the  senate  committee  in  Wash- 
ington to  set  forth  the  claims  of  Chicago.  He 
held  the  responsible  position  as  chairman  of  the 
grounds  and  building  committee,  a  most  import- 
ant committee,  to  whom  was  given  the  task  of 
planning  and  grouping  the  buildings,  and  super- 
intending their  construction  and  beautifying  the 
grounds. 

Conjointly  with  his  duties  as  president  of  the 
Denver  &  Rio  Grande,  Mr.  Jeffery  assumed,  in 
August,  1893,  the  receivership  of  the  Rio  Grande 
Southern  Railroad,  a  line  of  one  hundred  and 
eighty  miles,  located  in  southwestern  Colorado, 
which  line  had  become  insolvent  during  the 
panic  of  1893.  ^Y  judicious  management  of  the 
affairs  of  that  company  he  worked  out  the  salva- 
tion of  the  road,  and  put  its  finances  upon  a  pay- 
ing basis,  as  well  as  adjusted  all  claims.  In  De- 
cember, 1895,  when  his  receivership  ceased,  he 
was  made  president  of  the  road. 

The  tastes  of  Mr.  Jeffery  lie  in  the  direction  of 
business  affairs,  to  the  exclusion  of  politics.  He 
is  not  a  politician  in  any  sense  of  the  word. 
While  living  in  Chicago  he  was  repeatedly  urged 
by  prominent  citizens  of  Illinois  to  become  a  can- 


DAVID  EDWIN  SEVERANCE. 


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didate  for  ofl&ces  of  honor  and  trust,  but  all  these 
invitations  he  refused.  Though  not  caring  for 
oflBce,  he  has  never  shirked  his  dutj'  as  a  citizen. 
He  favors  measures  for  the  benefit  of  the  people, 
and  aids  public  enterprises  which  tend  to  pro- 
mote the  welfare  of  his  fdlow-citizens.  His  suc- 
cess in  the  management  of  the  Denver  &  Rio 
Grande  Railroad,  the  largest  corporation  in  the 
state  of  Colorado,  is  largely  due  to  his  energy  and 
force  of  will.  Among  other  railroad  officials 
he  is  regarded  as  one  of  the  most  successful 
and  able  railroad  managers  in  the  United  States; 
and  the  general  public,  too,  have  the  greatest 
confidence   in  his  sound  judgment  and  integrity. 

The  large  interest  which  Mr.  Jefiery  feels  in 
the  prosperity  and  happiness  of  railroad  employes 
is  due  in  no  small  measure  to  the  fact  that  he  was 
once  an  employe  himself,  and  can  sympathize 
with  their  needs  and  ambitions.  His  men,  know- 
ing that  they  can  trust  him  implicitly,  repose 
unlimited  confidence  in  him;  for,  while  he  is  strict 
in  insisting  that  every  man  shall  do  faithful  and 
efficient  work,  yet  at  the  same  time  he  has  a  high 
sense  of  justice,  and  is  always  impartial  and  just 
in  his  treatment  of  employes. 

The  fact  that  Mr.  Jeffery  has  risen  from  ap- 
prentice to  general  manager,  from  office  boy  to 
president,  indicates  that  he  is  the  possessor  of 
qualities  of  an  unusual  order.  He  has  been  the 
maker  of  his  own  fortune.  Through  his  strong 
mind  and  energetic  will  he  has  achieved  a  large 
success.  Beginning  without  capital  or  influential 
friends,  he  has  gained  both  through  a  life  of  in- 
tegrity and  industry. 

As  a  public  "speaker  Mr.  Jeffery  is  earnest  and 
eloquent,  and  in  this  way  he  has  lent  his  effiDrts 
in  the  aid  of  public  work  and  benefactions. 
When  dealing  with  questions  of  facts  he  has  few 
superiors.  With  a  mind  unprejudiced,  and 
with  a  ready  command  of  language,  he  is  always 
able  to  interest  his  hearers.  While  he  had  few 
opportunities  in  youth  for  acquiring  an  educa- 
tion, yet,  even  in  the  midst  of  hard  work,  he 
made  systematic  study  the  rule  of  his  life.  He 
is  known  as  a  close  student  of  history  and  Eng- 
lish literature,  and  as  a  mathematician  is  unusu- 
ally gifted. 

In  Chicago  Mr.  Jeffery  married  Miss  Virginia 
O.  Clarke,  who  was  born  in  Maryland.  Her 
father,  Col.  James  C.  Clarke,  one  of  the  pioneer 
railroad  men  ot  the  United  States,  was  president 

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of  the  Illinois  Central  Railroad  Company  for 
some  years,  and  later,  until  his  retirement  in 
1898,  served  as  president  of  the  Mobile  &  Ohio 
Railroad.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Jefl'ery  are  the  parents 
of  a  son  and  daughter:  James  C,  who  is  a  stu- 
dent in  Yale  College;  and  Edna  T. 


0AVID  EDWIN  SEVERANCE,  one  of  the 
most  prominent  agriculturists  of  Weld 
County,  was  born  in  Tuftonborough,  Car- 
roll County,  N.  H.,  May  6,  1848,  and  is  a  son  of 
David  and  Ruth  (Welch)  Severance,  natives  of 
New  Hampshire.  The  founder  of  the  Severance 
famil}'  in  America  was  John  Severance,  who 
emigrated  from  England  about  1620,  being  a 
member  of  the  colony  that  made  the  voyage  on 
the  "Mayflower."  Subsequently  he  resided  in 
Massachusetts.  Jonathan  Severance,  great-grand- 
father of  our  subject,  a  native  of  Massachusetts, 
removed  to  New  Hampshire  about  1750  and  took 
up  government  land  near  what  is  now  the  town 
of  Tuftonborough,  becoming  one  of  the  pioneers 
of  that  section.  His  son,  Benjamin,  and  grand- 
son, David,  succeeded  in  turn  to  the  family  es- 
tate, which  was  retained  until  recently  in  the 
family;  our  subject,  the  last  heir,  disposed  of  it. 

David  Edwin  Severance  obtained  his  early 
education  in  the  district  schools  of  his  native 
place  up  to  the  age  of  sixteen  years,  and  later  at- 
tended the  academy  at  Wolfsborough  two  years. 
On  attaining  the  age  of  eighteen  he  left  home 
and  removed  to  Boston,  Mass.,  where  he  learned 
the  trade  of  steam-fitting.  This  occupation  he 
followed  for  five  years.  On  the  death  of  his 
father,  which  occurred  in  1869,  he  returned  to 
the  old  home,  and  served  as  executor  of  the  es- 
tate, subsequently  acquiring  the  propertj'.  He 
continued  to  manage  the  property  until  188], 
when  he  disposed  of  his  interests  in  New  Hamp- 
shire and  removed  to  Colorado. 

Becoming  a  resident  of  Weld  County,  Mr. 
Severance  purchased  three  hundred  and  twenty 
acres  of  land  on  section  36,  township  6,  range  67 
west.  This  property  was  wholly  unimproved  at 
the  time  and  had  no  water.  He  at  once  set  about 
to  secure  the  needed  water  for  said  land,  and  was 
one  of  the  leading  spirits  in  the  building  of  the 
North  Side  lateral,  which  covered  about  five 
thousand  acres  of  land,  and  he  was  a  heavy 
stockholder  of  the  same.  He  has  succeeded  in 
bringing  his  estate  under  a  high  state  of  culti- 


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vation,  adding  the  necessary  farm  buildings,  as 
well  as  a  residence  that  is  among  the  most  mod- 
ern and  commodiovis  in  the  county.  His  energy 
and  enterprise  have  brought  him  success,  and  his 
high  sense  of  honor  has  brought  him  many 
friends,  who  recognize  him  as  one  of  the  leading 
citizens  of  the  county.  Always  a  stanch  Demo- 
crat, in  1898  his  party  placed  him  in  nomination 
as  their  candidate  for  the  legislature.  He  was 
elected  by  a  majority  of  eight  hundred.  Frater- 
nally he  is  a  member  of  Windsor  Lodge  No.  69, 
A.  F.  &  A.  M.  He  was  one  of  the  leading  fac- 
tors in  forming  school  district  No.  52,  and  was  a 
member  of  the  school  board  for  three  years.  In 
1895  he  secured  the  placing  of  a  postoffice  near 
his  residence,  and  this  has  been  named  Severance 
in  his  honor. 

April  16,  iSyi.Mr.  Severance  married  Mary  A., 
daughter  of  Ivory  Milliken,  a  prominent  farmer 
ofOssipee,  N.  H.  To  them  were  born  five  chil- 
dren, but  two  of  these,  Augusta  and  Fred,  are 
deceased.  Those  surviving  are:  Dora,  David  and 
Mary.  Dora  is  a  graduate  of  the  state  normal 
of  Colorado,  and  David  a  graduate  of  the  com- 
mercial course  of  the  State  Agricultural  College 
of  Colorado.  Mary,  at  the  age  of  twelve,  is  still 
at  school.  The  family  home  is  situated  at  Sev- 
erance,   midway   between   Eaton  and  Windsor. 


1  YMAN  W.  MILLER,  postmaster  of  Sullivan 
I C  (Oakes)  Arapahoe  County,  and  a  well- 
1^2^  known  apiarist  of  the  place,  was  born  at 
Newton  Falls.  Trumbull  County,  Ohio,  May  24, 
1838,  a  son  of  William  and  Hannah  (Doud) 
Miller.  When  he  was  one  year  old  his  father 
died,  and  nine  years  later  his  mother,  who  had 
married  again,  removed  to  DeKalb  County,  111., 
where  he  grew  to  manhood  on  a  farm,  meantime 
receiving  a  fair  education.  At  the  age  of  thirteen 
he  began  to  work  by  the  month,  and  ever  since 
that  time  he  has  been  self-supporting.  After 
working  for  others  for  several  years  he  rented 
and  cultivated  land. 

When  less  than  nineteen  years  of  age,  April  8, 
1857,  ^^-  Miller  married  Miss  Martha  Ann  Van 
Dusen,  of  DeKalb  County,  but  who  was  born  near 
Willoughby,  Ohio,  and  removed  to  Illinois  in 
childhood.  In  1863  Mr.  Miller  removed  to  Dodge 
County,  Minn.,  where  he  embarked  in  farm  pur- 
suits on  a  larger  scale  than  before.  While  there 
he   enlisted   in   Company    M,    First    Minnesota 


Heavy  Artillery,  and  was  stationed  at  Chatta- 
nooga, Tenn.,  where  he  did  garrison  duty  until 
the  close  of  the  war.  While  engaged  at  target 
practice  at  Fort  Creighton  he  was  injured,  and 
has  suffered  from  its  effects  since. 

In  1875  Mr.  Miller  returned  to  DeKalb  Coun- 
ty, 111.,  and  from  there,  four  years  later,  moved 
to  Madison  County,  Neb.  During  the  eleven 
years  spent  there  he  served  for  four  years  as  jus- 
tice of  the  peace,  and  in  1883  was  elected  to  the 
Nebraska  legislature,  where  he  served  for  one 
term.  Afterward  he  was  again  elected  justice  of 
the  peace.  In  all  his  service  as  an  officer  he  was 
noted  for  fidelity  and  uprightness.  While  in  the 
legislature  he  served  as  a  member  of  several  im- 
portant committees  and  introduced  a  number  of 
bills,  but  they  failed  of  passage  because  he  did 
not  support  the  bill  for  an  appropriation  for  the 
capitol  building. 

Coming  to  Colorado  in  1889,  Mr.  Miller  spent 
one  year  in  Denver  and  then  came  to  Sullivan, 
where  for  a  time  he  was  engaged  in  digging 
wells  'for  the  American  Water  Company,  being 
the  first  man  to  take  charge  of  that  work  for 
them.  He  had  engaged  in  the  well  business  in 
Nebraska,  so  was  fitted  to  carry  it  on  successfully. 
Before  leaving  Illinois  he  became  interested  in 
bee-culture,  and  soon  after  settling  at  Sullivan  he 
embarked  in  the  business,  ihaving  two  swarms  at 
first,  but  now  about  two  hundred  and  twenty-five. 
He  usually  takes  out  five  tons  of  honey  a  year. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Miller  became  the  parents  of  five 
children.  Seymour,  the  eldest,  is  a  conductor  on 
the  Fremont,  Elkhorn  &  Missouri  Valley  Rail- 
road, and  lives  in  Norfolk,  Neb.;  lie  is  married 
and  has  one  child;  Melvin,  who  was  also  a  rail- 
road man,  was  drowned  at  Overland  Park,  Den- 
ver, June  8,  1894;  he  left  three  children,  who 
make  their  home  with  our  subject;  Lyman,  also 
a  railroad  man  in  Nebraska,  is  married  and  has 
two  children;  William,  who  is  engaged  in  the 
well  business  in  Arapahoe  County,  is  married  and 
has  one  child;  Frank  P.,  who  is  a  partner  with 
his  father  in  the  bee  business,  married  Myrtle 
Grems,  who  was  born  in  Minnesota. 

As  has  already  been  intimated,  Mr.  Miller  is 
active  in  public  affairs.  Politically  a  Republican 
he  is  proud  of  the  fact  that  he  voted  for  Abraham 
Lincoln  in  i860  and  1864.  In  1897  he  was  elect- 
ed justice  of  the  peace  at  Sullivan,  and  at  the 
same  time  his  son,  William,  was  elected  constable. 


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For  his  services  in  the  Civil  war  he  receives  a 
pension  of  $12  a  month.  A  believer  in  the  doc- 
trines of  the  Christian  Church,  in  every  place 
that  he  lived  prior  to  coming  to  Colorado,  he  as- 
sisted in  the  organization  of  a  church  of  that 
faith.  While  in  Minnesota  he  was  actively  con- 
nected with  the  Masonic  fraternity  and  filled  all 
the  chairs  in  his  lodge  except  that  of  master.  He 
was  formerly  an  attendant  upon  meetings  of  the 
Washington  Post,  G.  A.  R.,  but  of  late  years  has 
been  less  active  in  Grand  Army  matters. 


JH.  SHEPHERD  is  one  of  the  leading  citi- 
zens of  Idaho  Springs,  Clear  Creek  County. 
For  five  years  he  was  the  postmaster  here, 
having  been  appointed  to  the  position  by  Presi- 
dent Harrison.  Entering  upon  the  duties  of  the 
office  in  June,  1889,  he  served  until  July,  1894,  in 
the  meantime  establishing  the  postoffice  in  its 
present  commodious  and  central  quarters.  The 
general  public  was  entirely  satisfied  with  the 
methods  employed  by  him  in  the  management  of 
the  office,  and  few  who  have  held  the  position 
have  been  more  popular. 

Mr.  Shepherd  is  a  native  of  Putnam  County, 
111.,  and  was  reared  in  that  locality.  He  received 
a  good  public  and  normal  school  education,  and 
in  1873  went  to  Kansas  City,  where  he  engaged 
in  the  railroad  business.  He  was  connected  with 
the  Kansas  Pacific  and  the  Kansas  City,  Fort 
Scott  &  Gulf  Railroads  for  several  years,  in  fact, 
up  to  1880,  when  he  came  to  Colorado.  He  re- 
sided in  the  vicinity  of  Leadville  for  a  year,  and 
then  came  to  Idaho  Springs.  During  this  period 
he  was  occupied  in  mining  enterprises,  but  after 
his  appointment  to  the  place  of  postmaster  here, 
he  opened  a  book  and  stationery  store  in  the  same 
building,  running  the  business  without  conflicting 
with  his  other  duties.  When  he  retired  from 
office,  he  sold  out  his  book- store  and  has  since 
given  his  attention  to  mining.  For  a  dozen 
years  or  more  he  has  been  interested  in  the  Shafter 
Mining  Company,  of  which  he  has  long  served  as 
the  general  manager.  The  Shafter  mineis  situated 
on  the  southern  slope  of  Bellevue  Mountain,  and 
is  in  active  operation.  It  is  a  good  producer,  the 
ore  being  reached  by  a  shaft.  In  addition  to  this 
mine,  Mr.  Shepherd  is  financially  concerned  in 
others  and  is  making  a  success  of  his  various  in- 
vestments. He  has  always  been  a  zealous  Re- 
publician,  and  has  often  been  a   delegate  to  the 


state  conventions  of  his  party.  In  1894  he  was 
a  candidate  to  the  Colorado  legislature,  but,  as 
the  Populists  were  in  a  large  majority,  he  was 
not  elected. 

The  Shepherds  were  one  of  the  foremost  and 
oldest  families  of  Virginia,  where  they  owned  a 
large  grant  of  land  long  prior  to  the  Revolution. 
The  grandfather  of  our  subject,  Jacob  Shepherd, 
was  a  native  of  Shepherdstown,  Va. ,  which  was 
founded  by  his  father  under  a  grant  from  the 
Crown  of  England  and  named  in  his  honor. 
Jacob  Shepherd  the  grandfather  of  J.  H. ,  removed 
to  Brown  County,  Ohio,  at  an  early  day,  be- 
coming one  of  the  pioneers  of  that  section,  and 
there  he  passed  his  last  years.  Some  of  the 
Shepherds  still  live  at  Shepherdstown,  Va.,  on  a 
portion  of  the  estate  known  as  Wild  Goose  farm. 
Nelson  Shepherd,  father  of  J.  H.,  was  born  in 
Ohio,  and  about  1827,  when  Illinois  was  in  her 
infancy,  he  located  on  land  lying  along  the 
banks  of  the  Illinois  River,  in  Putnam  County. 
He  continued  to  dwell  there  during  the  rest  of 
his  life,  his  death  occurring  October  22,  1892, 
when  he  was  eighty-four  years  of  age.  His  faith- 
ful wife  did  not  long  survive  him ,  as  she  died 
only  a  few  weeks  later,  in  the  following  Decem- 
ber, at  the  age  of  four-score.  In  her  girlhood 
she  was  Miss  Mary  Baird,  a  native  of  Brown 
County,  Ohio.  Five  of  the  children  of  Nelson 
and  Mary  Shepherd  are  yet  living.  Three  of 
their  sons  were  gallant  defenders  of  the  stars  and 
stripes  in  the  Civil  wai,  all  enlisting  as  privates 
in  the  Twelfth  Illinois  Infantry.  Cyrus,  one  of 
these  brave  soldiers  boys,  died  while  in  the 
service.  Albert  is  living  on  the  old  homestead; 
and  Lysle  is  a  citizen  of  Kankakee,  111. 


EHRIST  JOHANNSEN,  who  is  the  owner  of 
a  ranch  in  Arapahoe  County,  was  born  in 
Segeberg,  Holstein,  Germany,  April  i,  1848, 
a  son  of  Jurgen  and  Annie  Katie  (Buttenschon) 
Johannsen,  also  natives  of  Germany.  His  father, 
who  was  a  farmer,  died  at  the  age  of  sixty-six 
years,  while  his  wife  had  passed  away  at  thirty- 
six,  when  our  subject  was  only  five  years  old. 
Both  were  faithful  members  of  the  Lutheran 
Church. 

Of  the  brothers  and  sisters  of  our  subject  we 
note  the  following:  Christ  Henry,  who  was  a 
school  teacher  in  Germany,  is  now  a  stockman 
of  Colorado;  Claus  Henry,  who  is  a  brick  mason 


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by  trade,  is  now  engaged  in  the  stock  business  in 
Colorado;  Frederick  is  also  a  stockman  and 
farmer  in  Colorado;  Hans,  a  carpenter  by  trade, 
is  now  a  farmer  in  this  state;  Christine  is  the 
wife  of  August  Stander,  and  lives  near  Alamosa, 
Colo. ;  Mary  is  living  in  Germany,  where  Doris 
also  resides;  both  are  married. 

In  the  schools  of  his  native  land  the  subject  of 
this  sketch  received  a  fair  education.  At  the  age 
of  seventeen  he  began  to  learn  the  trade  of  a 
harness-maker,  which  he  followed  for  six  years 
in  Hamburg,  Germany.  When  he  was  twenty- 
four  he  and  his  brother,  Claus  H. ,  and  Maggie 
Walther,  to  whom  he  was  married  three  years 
later,  in  Denver,  sailed  for  America  in  the 
steamer  "Normannia,"  arriving  in  New  York 
May  9,  1872.  He  worked  till  February,  1873,  in 
Michigan,  on  the  Michigan  Central  Railroad, 
and  then  crossed  the  continent  as  far  as  Colorado, 
settling  in  Denver,  where  he  engaged  in  the 
hide  business,  under  the  employ  of  the  old  firm 
of  James  Tynon  in  that  business.  After  four  years 
in  the  same  position  he  bought  his  present  ranch 
of  four  hundred  and  eighty  acres,  where  he  has 
since  engaged  in  the  stock  business. 

May  29,  1875,  Mr.  Johannsen  married  Mar- 
garetha  Walther,  born  June  2,  1846,  in  Scholen- 
fleth,  Holstein,  Germany,  where  her  father  was 
proprietor  of  a  bakery.  They  had  only  one 
child,  Annie  Katie,  born  December  8,  1880,  and 
were  bereaved  by  her  death  January  15,  1881. 
Politically  Mr.  Johannsen  is  a  Democrat.  For 
some  years  he  has  served  as  a  member  of  the 
school  board.  His  time,  however,  is  principally 
given  to  the  raising  of  stock  and  the  management 
of  his  ranch,  and  he  is  a  highly  respected  and 
prosperous  citizen. 


(lACOB  MUMMA,  a  prominent  ranchman  of 
I  Deer  Trail,  Arapahoe  County,  was  born 
(2)  February  28,  1842,  in  Ogle  County,  111.,  his 
parents  being  William  and  Rebecca  (Pope) 
Mumma.  William  Mumma  was  a  native  of 
Maryland,  and  in  early  life  settled  on  a  farm 
about  one  hundred  miles  west  of  Chicago,  on 
Pine  Creek,  when  there  were  no  railroads  in  the 
state.  He  farmed  there  for  some  twenty  years, 
and  then  moved  to  Grand  Detour,  Ogle  County, 
where  he  kept  a  grocery  store  and  livery  stable. 
From  there  he  moved  to  Boone,  Iowa,  in  1864, 


and  engaged  in  business  for  a  short  time  with  his 
son,  Jacob,  but  soon  returned  to  Ogle  County, 
111.,  where  he  spent  the  remainder  of  his  life,  dy- 
ing in  1872.  He  was  an  old-line  Whig,  and  in 
later  years  a  Democrat.  His  wife,  Rebecca 
(Pope)  Mumma,  was  a  native  of  Maryland,  but 
died  when  our  subject  was  a  small  lad,  conse- 
quently but  little  is  known  of  her  family.  There 
were  ten  children,  as  follows:  Joseph  lives  in 
Illinois;  William  and  Henry  died  young;  John 
is  janitor  of  the  eastern  Denver  high  school; 
Rose  married  Thomas  Brooks,  a  farmer  of  Ogle 
County,  111.;  Nancy  is  the  wife  of  George 
Palmer,  of  the  same  place;  Lizzie  and  Maudy  are 
deceased;  and  a  child  who  died  in  infancy,  be- 
sides the  subject  of  this  biography. 

Jacob  Mumma  passed  his  youth  in  Grand  De- 
tour, 111. ,  receiving  his  education  in  the  public 
schools  of  that  place.  At  the  age  of  nineteen  he 
began  work  as  a  brakeman  on  the  Illinois  Cen- 
tral Railroad,  and  after  some  time  spent  in  that 
line  was  promoted  to  be  a  conductor  on  the  same 
road.  He  remained  there  until  1865,  when  he 
quit  railroading,  and  opened  a  livery  business 
with  his  father  in  Boone,  Iowa,  where  he  con- 
tinued until  1867,  when  he  disposed  of  his  busi- 
ness. Until  1871  he  worked  for  Henry  Stepp 
and  in  settling  up  his  own  affairs,  and  in  the 
spring  of  that  year  went  to  Abilene,  Kan.,  and 
finally  to  Kansas  City,  where  he  was  employed 
in  the  fruit  store  of  Whitaker  &  Holmes.  That 
fall  he  was  sent  by  his  employers  to  Denver  with 
five  cars  of  fruit.  After  executing  his  commis- 
sion he  severed  his  connection  with  the  firm ,  and 
the  following  March  entered  the  fruit  store  of 
Pooler  &  Chittenden,  of  Denver.  He  next  be- 
gan working  in  a  furniture  store.  There  he  re- 
mained until  1876,  when  he  took  a  partner, 
E.  B.  Stires,  and  with  him  began  raising  sheep, 
first  at  Collins,  and  after  the  first  year  four  miles 
east  of  Byers.  About  four  years  were  spent  here 
when  he  bought  out  his  partner  and  spent  the 
next  year  on  the  Muddy,  in  the  same  business, 
when  he  moved  to  Pinneo  on  the  Burlington  & 
Missouri  Railroad.  Losing  his  wife,  he  rented 
his  sheep  on  shares  for  one  year,  and  during  that 
time  sold  furniture  for  the  Hax-Gartner  Furni- 
ture Company.  At  the  end  of  the  year  he  selected 
a  good  sheep  ranch  located  on  his  present  ranch, 
which  is  two  and  one-half  miles  southeast  of  Deer 
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the  past  eleven  or  twelve  years  he  has  been  en- 
gaged in  raising  sheep,  and  making  it  a  source 
of  considerable  profit.  He  also  handles  horses. 
He  has  improved  the  place  since  taking  it,  put- 
ting up  windmills,  barns,  house  and  other  build- 
ings, making  it  a  home  to  be  much  desired. 

In  1882  he  married  Miss  Minnie  Gildersleeve, 
who  died  after  two  short  years  of  married  life. 
He  then  married  Delia  Pooler  in  1890,  a  native 
of  Susquehanna,  Pa.  She  is  a  daughter  of  Hi- 
ram Pooler,  a  descendant  of  one  of  the  oldest 
families  of  Pennsylvania.  She  is  a  member  of 
the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church.  Mr.  Mumma 
has  always  been  a  Democrat,  but  has  never  as- 
pired to  office,  as  his  time  was  fully  occupied  in 
looking  after  his  private  interests,  and  his  only 
capital  when  he  started  out  was  his  two  hands 
and  a  determination  to  succeed. 


Frederick  p.  waite,  who  owns  and  oc- 

fft  cupies  a  ranch  of  one  hundred  and  sixty 
I '^  acres  at  Highland  Lake,  Weld  County,  was 
born  in  Medina  County,  Ohio,  February  7,  1844, 
a  son  of  Erastus  and  Polly  (Burroughs)  Waite. 
He  was  one  of  thirteen  children,  all  but  two  of 
whom  attained  mature  years,  and  six  are  now  liv- 
ing, namely:  George  A.,  Seth  A.,  Frederick  P., 
Henrietta,  Emerancia  and  Sarah.  His  father,  a 
native  of  Massachusetts,  born  in  1796,  removed 
from  his  early  home  in  1830,  becoming  a  pioneer 
of  Ohio,  where  he  cleared  eighty  acres  in  Medina 
County.  In  that  place  he  continued  to  reside 
until  his  death,  in  1882. 

At  the  age  of  seventeen  the  subject  of  this 
sketch  began  life  for  himself.  Going  to  Trumbull 
County,  Ohio,  he  was  employed  during  the  sum- 
mer in  larm  work  and  in  the  fall  and  winter  at- 
tended college  at  Gustavus.  Thence  he  went  to 
Toledo  and  secured  employment  with  the  hard- 
ware firm  of  Olmsted,  Jones  &  Co.,  where  he 
served  an  apprenticeship  to  the  business.  While 
with  that  firm,  in  the  spring  of  1864,  he  enlisted 
in  Company  C,  One  Hundred  and  Thirtieth  Ohio 
Infantry.  The  regiment  was  ordered  to  John- 
son's Island,  where  they  drilled  and  guarded  pris- 
oners. A  month  later  the  men  were  ordered  to 
the  front  with  Grant's  army,  in  front  of  Peters- 
burg, and  Mr.  Waite  took  part  in  the  siege  at 
that  place.  After  four  and  one-half  months  of 
service  he  was  relieved  and  sent  home,  where  he 


was  mustered  out  of  service  in  November,  1864. 
While  he  was  serving  his  country,  his  employers 
not  only  held  open  his  position  until  his  return, 
but  continued  his  salary  during  the  entire  period 
of  his  absence. 

In  1866  the  firm  opened  a  branch  house  in 
Chicago  and  Mr.  Waite  was  sent  to  that  city  to 
take  charge  of  their  western  business.  He  estab- 
lished the  house  and  had  entire  charge  of  the  busi- 
ness until  1869,  when  failing  health  compelled 
him  to  resign  his  position.  For  a  time  he  endeav- 
ored to  recuperate  at  his  home,  but  finding  a 
change  of  climate  necessary,  he  came  to  Colorado, 
making  the  journey  by  rail  to  Cheyenne  and  from 
there  by  stage  to  Denver.  Consultation  with 
difierent  parties  revealed  the  fact  that  (to  quote 
his  own  words)  "the  best  way  to  regain  health 
was  to  buy  a  California  broncho  and  some  cattle 
and  go  to  New  Mexico, ' '  He  followed  the  advice 
and  wintered  his  stock  among  the  Indians  and 
Mexicans,  which  gave  him  an  insight  into  frontier 
life  that  was  new  to  him.  In  the  spring  of  1870 
he  drove  the  cattle  to  Denver,  where  he  sold 
them.  In  the  summer  he  went  back  to  Cleve- 
land on  a  visit,  returning  to  Colorado  for  the 
winter. 

Believing  the  sheep  business  would  prove 
profitable,  Mr.  Waite  located  in  St.  Vrain  Canon, 
where  he  remained  until  the  winter  of  1872-73, 
when  he  sold  his  sheep  interests  and  returned  to 
Ohio,  hoping  to  be  able  to  remain  there.  How- 
ever, after  a  stay  of  six  months,  he  found  that  the 
climate  would  not  permit  him  to  remain.  Ac- 
cordingly,in  the  fall  of  1873  he  returned  once  more 
to  Colorado.  On  his  arrival  he  located  his  pres- 
ent home  of  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  at  High- 
land Lake.  In  the  spring  of  the  following  year 
he  improved  his  new  home,  his  family  remaining 
in  Longmont.  By  dint  of  industrious  efibrt  he 
transformed  the  wild  prairie  into  a  substantial 
homestead,  bearing  valuable  improvements.  He 
is  a  member  of  McPherson  Post  No.  6,  G.  A.  R. 
In  religion  he  and  his  wife  are  active  workers  in 
the  Congregational  Church. 

While  residing  in  St.  Vrain  Canon,  in  the  fall 
of  1 87 1,  Mr.  Waite  was  married  to  his  first  wife, 
their  wedding  being  solemnized  in  Denver.  She 
was  Miss  Effie  M.  Fowler,  a  native  of  Chardon, 
Ohio.  Four  children  were  born  of  their  union, 
three  of  whom  are  living.  The  oldest  child, 
Charles  H.,  is  deceased.     Vesta   M.    is  a  gradu- 


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ate  of  the  normal  school  at  Greeley  and  a  teacher 
in  the  public  schools.  Frederick  M.  finished  his 
education  with  three  years  in  the  preparatory 
school  and  one  year  in  the  university  at  Boulder, 
and  is  now  in  the  postal  service  as  mail  carrier 
in  Boulder.  Metta  E.  attended  the  high  school 
at  Greeley  until  completing  the  course,  and  is 
now  in  the  preparatory  school  in  Boulder.  The 
mother  of  these  children  died  in  the  fall  of  1882. 
The  present  wife  of  Mr.  Waite,  with  whom  he 
was  united  in  marriage  October  9,  1884,  was  for- 
merly Melissa  A.  Ward,  of  Longmont.  She  was 
for  some  years  a  resident  of  Kelley's  Island,  Ohio, 
where  she  successfully  taught  in  the  public 
schools.  After  coming  to  Colorado  she  en  gaged 
in  kindergarten  work  in  Longmont.  A  lady  of 
superior  intelligence  and  broad  information,  she 
is  esteemed  wherever  known  and  has  a  host  of 
friends  among  those  she  has  met  since  coming  to 
this  state.  Mr.  Waite  takes  an  interest  in  public 
affairs  and  aids  in  every  way  possible  the  ad- 
vancement of  the  county  and  the  development  of 
its  resources.  On  the  organization  of  his  pre- 
cinct, he  was  made  justice  of  the  peace,  an  office 
that  he  has  held  continuously  to  the  present 
time. 


(S\  NDREW  MISNER,  a  successful  farmer  of 
r  I  Douglas  County,  resides  on  section  34,  town- 
I  I  ship  8,  range  66  west,  near  Castle  Rock,  and 
is  the  owner  of  eleven  hundred  acres,  besides 
which  he  leases  a  school  section.  The  improve- 
ments on  the  place  are  of  a  substantial  character 
and  have  increased  the  financial  value  of  the  prop- 
erty. Mr.  Misner  was  born  in  the  town  of  Tross- 
ingen.  Province  of  Wurtemberg,  Germany,  April 
13.  i839>  ^  son  of  Christian  Ludvig  and  Anna 
(Koch)  Misner,  and  was  reared  on  a  farm,  re- 
ceiving a  fair  education.  In  1858  he  came  to 
America,  spending  twenty-seven  days  on  the 
ocean  and  landing  in  New  York,  from  which  city 
he  proceeded  west  to  Chicago,  thence  to  Grand 
Traverse  City,  Mich.  After  a  year  in  the  latter 
place  he  went  to  DuPage  County,  111.,  and  se- 
cured employment  on  a  farm. 

September  10,  1861,  Mr.  Misner  enlisted  in 
Company  E,  Fifty-fifth  Illinois  Infantry,  in  which 
he  served  for  four  years,  participating  in  the  bat- 
tles of  Pitts  burg  Landing,  Corinth,  Holly  Springs, 
Germantown, Tallahatchie, Champion  Hill,Vicks- 
burg    (where  a  buckshot   struck  the   buckle  of 


his  belt  and  knocked  him  senseless),  Jackson, 
Miss.,  Big  Sandy,  Ga.,  Kenesaw  Mountain,  At- 
lanta, Eyra  Chapel,  Ga. ,  Jonesboro  and  Nash- 
ville. At  Pittsburg  Landing  a  ball  struck  his 
right  shoulder,  but  aside  from  cutting  his  blouse 
and  leaving  a  black  spot  on  the  flesh,  did  not 
affect  him.  June  30,  1864,  he  joined  the  Illinois 
First  Light  Artillery,  and  while  on  duty  was 
kicked  by  a  horse,  which  broke  his  leg.  He  was 
sent  to  the  hospital,  where  he  remained  for  three 
months.  When  he  was  discharged  as  recovered 
the  war  had  closed  and  his  battery  was  mustered 
out  two  days  later. 

Returning  to  Chicago,  Mr.  Misner  worked  for 
Peter  Schuttler  for  fourteen  months.  Later  he 
started  a  flour  and  feed  store,  but  within  three 
months  he  lost  all  (about  $800)  he  had  saved 
during  his  army  service.  Discouraged  by  his 
ill-success,  he  went  to  Grundy  County,  111.,  and 
for  two  years  was  employed  in  a  warehouse.  In 
that  county,  March  30,  1869,  he  married  Miss 
Elizabeth  Herren,  who  was  born  in  Switzerland, 
and  was  brought  to  America  by  her  parents  when 
six  weeks  old.  Leaving  his  wife  in  Illinois,  he 
came  to  Denver  via  the  Union  Pacific  to  Chey- 
enne, and  thence  by  stage.  For  two  months  he 
worked  in  the  mines  at  Blackhawk.  He  next 
took  a  homestead,  where  he  now  lives,  and  has 
added  to  the  original  tract,  from  time  to  time, 
until  he  now  owns  a  large  amount  of  land.  In 
politics  he  is  a  silver  Republican  and  in  religion 
a  Protestant.  In  the  Grand  Army  Post  at  Castle 
Rock  he  has  held  various  official  positions. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Misner  are  the  parents  of  eight 
children ,  all  of  whom  were  born  in  Colorado.  The 
oldest  child,  Anna,  married  Hon.  Robert  E.  Palm, 
the  present  county  judge  of  Douglas  County, 
Colo.,  and  resides  near  Castle  Rock.  The  other 
children  are:  Mary, Teresa,  Barbara,  Emma, Rosa, 
Bertha  and  Christina. 


0AVID  I.  CRAMER  owns  one  and  one-half 
sections  of  land,  in  one  body,  lying  three 
miles  south  of  Sedalia,  Douglas  County, 
Colo.,  and  here  he  is  engaged  in  general  farm 
pursuits  and  stock-raising.  He  was  born  in  New- 
ark, Ohio,  May  2,  1843,  a  son  of  Peter  and 
Martha  (Martin)  Cramer.  When  he  was  three 
years  of  age  his  father,  who  was  a  carpenter, 
went  to  Missouri  by  steamboat,  hoping  to  find  a 


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suitable  location  there.  Not  likiug  the  country, 
however,  he  started  to  drive  back  to  Ohio.  In 
passing  through  Jasper  County,  111.,  he  was  so 
pleased  with  the  country  that  he  decided  to  settle, 
and  accordingly  took  up  land  near  what  is  now 
Granville.  There,  about  two  years  later,  he  died. 
In  the  fall  of  the  same  year  (1848)  his  widow 
returned  to  Ohio,  and,  when  her  son  was  about 
eight,  she  married  again.  Three  years  later  she 
removed  to  Cumberland  County,  111.,  settling 
upon  a  farm  there  about  1854.  Two  years  later 
she  died. 

Making  his  home  with  his  step-father  until  he 
was  eighteen,  our  subject  then  enlisted  in  Com- 
pany F,  Fifth  Illinois  Cavalry,  and  was  sent  to 
Missouri,  where  he  took  part  in  the  battles  of  Pea 
Ridge,  Cotton  Plant  and  Island  No.  62.  In  the 
latter  engagement  a  man  on  each  side  of  him  was 
shot,  a  ball  that  scratched  his  right  side  did  not 
injure  him  seriously,  but  took  the  right  ear  off 
the  horse.  At  Helena,  Ark.,  as  an  advance 
guard,  he  rode  up  to  the  gate  of  a  farm  one  day, 
and  there  was  hailed  by  a  picket,  who  called 
"Halt,"  and  at  the  same  instant  fired  at  him. 
Mr.  Cramer  at  the  same  moment  shot  at  the  Con- 
federate. The  powder  from  the  picket's  gun 
burned  his  face  and  eyes  and  for  some  time  he 
was  in  a  serious  condition.  From  Helena  he  was 
ordered  to  the  Cherokee  nation  as  a  scout.  There, 
while  on  picket  duty,  he  and  his  comrade  saw  a 
white  man  and  a  negro  leave  a  house.  They  im- 
mediately sneaked  up  on  the  side,  and  when  the 
men  were  close,  they  fired,  killing  both.  Return- 
ing to  Helena,  while  he  was  one  day  helping  to 
shoe  government  horses,  he  was  kicked  in  the 
pit  of  the  stomach  by  a  mule.  The  kick  cut  a 
hole  into  the  stomach  that  is  still  there.  The 
injury  incapacitated  him  for  active  service.  Soon 
afterward  he  fell  a  victim  to  typhoid  fever  and 
was  sent  to  the  hospital  in  Helena,  where  he  lay, 
unconscious  and  almost  dying,  for  weeks.  While 
he  was  still  in  the  hospital  his  regiment  moved 
to  Vicksburg,  in  April,  1863.  Wishing  to  join 
them,  he  secured  the  permission  of  his  captain, 
and  was  assisted  to  the  boat,  while  still  too  weak 
to  stand  alone.  However,  he  gradually  regained 
his  strength,  and  remained  with  the  army  until 
after  the  surrender  of  Vicksburg,  when  he  was 
discharged,  July  25,  1863,  at  Milldale,  Miss. 

For  months  after  he  returned  home,  Mr.  Cra- 
mer was  in  poor  health.     At  the  time  of  enlisting 


he  had  weighed  one  hundred  and  eighty-three 
pounds,  and  one  year  after  his  return  home,  in 
spite  of  considerable  gain  during  that  time,  he 
weighed  but  one  hundred  and  forty  pounds.  In 
Cumberland  County,  111.,  July  28,  1864,  he  mar- 
ried Miss  Frances  Stults,  of  that  county,  but  a 
native  of  Perry  County,  Ohio,  and  for  some  years 
in  childhood  a  resident  of  Fairfield  County,  that 
state.  She  is  a  descendant  of  German  ancestors, 
but  the  family  has  been  represented  in  America 
for  many  generations.  She  accompanied  her 
parents,  I^ewis  and  Elizabeth  (Strockbine)  Stults, 
to  Illinois,  settling  in  Cumberland  County. 

In  1873  Mr.  Cramer  sold  his  farm  of  forty  acres 
in  Cumberland  County  and  came  to  Colorado, 
where  he  took  up  land  near  Monument,  making 
his  home  on  that  place  for  four  years.  On  re- 
linquishing his  claim  he  rented  land  for  a  time. 
In  1879  he  came  to  Douglas,  where  he  operated 
as  a  renter  for  a  3'ear,  and  in  1880  bought  the 
right  to  school  land,  on  which  he  settled  after 
Christmas  day  of  that  year.  He  also  homesteaded 
and  pre-empted  land,  and  became  the  owner  of  a 
half  section  in  that  way.  On  his  place  he  has 
made  good  improvements,  including  a  substantial 
house,  barn  and  fruit  trees. 

Four  sons  and  two  daughters  comprise  the 
family  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Cramer.  Lydia,  the 
eldest  of  these,  married  F.  A.  Curtis,  of  Arapa- 
hoe County,  and  they  have  four  children.  Amos, 
the  eldest  son,  works  in  the  Grant  smelter  at 
Denver;  Lewis,  who  is  married  and  has  two  chil- 
dren, lives  on  a  ranch  near  his  father's  home. 
Carrie  is  the  wife  of  Charles  Harcourt,  living 
near  L,ittleton,  and  has  one  child.  Curtis  P.  is  a 
student  in  the  School  of  Mines  at  Golden,  class  of 
1899.  David  S.  is  in  Alaska,  where  he  went  in 
the  hope  of  discovering  gold. 

Our  subject's  father  was  a  Whig  and  his  step- 
father a  Democrat.  In  1868  he  voted  for  Grant 
and  again  in  1872.  Four  years  later  he  cast  his 
ballot  for  R.  B.  Hayes,  and  in  1880  supported 
James  Garfield.  In  1884  he  voted  for  Cleveland, 
four  years  later  supported  Benjamin  Harrison,  as 
he  did  also  in  1892,  and  in  1896,  casting  his  vote 
in  support  of  the  silver  standard,  he  supported 
Bryan.  For  three  years  he  served  as  a  school 
director  and  while  in  that  position  the  schoolhouse 
in  Sedalia  was  built.  He  was  the  Democratic 
nominee  for  county  treasurer  in  1894,  but  was 
defeated  by  nine  votes.     At  another  time  he  was 


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the  candidate  for  county  commissioner,  but  did 
not  work  for  the  election  and  consequently  was 
defeated,  though  by  seventeen  votes  only.  The 
parents  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Cramer  were  religious. 
In  life  they  were  faithful  members  of  the  United 
Brethren  Church. 


(lOHN  H.  MORCOM,  superintendent  of  the 
I  Colorado  Iron  Works,  was  born  near  Land's 
(2/  End,  Cornwall,  England,  and  is  a  member  of 
one  of  the  old  families  of  that  shire,  to  which  the 
first  of  the  name  in  England  are  supposed  to  have 
emigrated  from  Normandy.  His  father,  John, 
who  was  a  son  of  David  Morcom,  was  born  in 
Cornwall,  where  he  followed  the  baker's  trade 
during  his  active  life.  When  advanced  in  years 
he  came  to  America,  and  from  that  time  until  his 
death  he  resided  in  DeSoto,  Mo.  He  married 
Jane  Goodman,  who  was  a  native  of  Cornwall, 
and  is  now  living  in  Kansas.  Their  only  child, 
who  forms  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  was  reared 
in  his  native  shire,  where,  at  the  age  of  fourteen, 
he  began  an  apprenticeship  to  the  blacksmith's 
trade  in  the  foundry  owned  by  one  of  the  largest 
manufacturers  of  machinery  in  England.  Three 
years  were  spent  in  the  foundry,  after  which  he 
went  to  London  and  entered  the  employ  of  Rennie 
&  Co.,  ship  and  gunboat  builders,  with  whom 
he  completed  his  trade. 

In  1867,  at  the  age  of  twenty-one,  Mr.  Morcom 
came  to  America  and  settled  in  Renovo,  Pa., 
where  he  worked  in  the  Sunbury  &  Erie  Railroad 
shops.  One  year  later  he  went  to  St.  Charles, 
Mo.,  and  was  employed  in  the  Northern  Missouri 
shops  there  for  two  years,  after  which  he  spent 
a  similar  period  in  the  Missouri  Pacific  Railroad 
shops  in  St.  Louis.  His  next  employment  was  as 
master  mechanic  in  the  blast  furnace  of  the  South 
St.  Louis  Iron  Works  at  Carondelet,  a  responsible 
position  and  one  that  he  filled  with  efficiency.  In 
1877  he  resigned,  having  decided  to  come  to 
Colorado  for  the  benefit  of  his  family's  health. 
At  Golden  he  secured  work  in  the  railroad  shops 
of  the  Colorado  Central,  where  he  continued  until 
the  fall  of  1879, and  then  came  to  Denver.  From 
that  time  until  August,  1881,  he  was  employed 
by  the  Denver  &  Rio  Grande  Railroad  Company. 
He  then  accepted  a  position  as  foreman  in  the 
blacksmith  shop   of  the   Colorado    Iron   Works 

Company,  later  was  made  foreman   in    the   ma- 
chine shop,  taking  up  the  mechanical  part  of  the 


machinery,  together  with  the  oversight  of  the 
men.  In  the  fall  of  1887  he  was  made  superin- 
tendent of  the  works,  which  position  he  has  since 
held,  besides  being  a  director  of  the  company. 
At  times  he  has  had  as  many  as  six  hundred  men 
employed  in  the  foundry,  machine,  pattern,  black- 
smith and  boiler  shops,  and  his  capable  manage- 
ment of  the  hands,  as  well  as  his  intelligent  su- 
pervision of  the  plant,  has  materially  increased 
its  prosperity. 

In  London,  England,  Mr.  Morcom  married 
Catherine  Tripp,  who  was  born  in  Cornwall. 
They  have  a  son  and  daughter:  Philip,  who  is 
foreman  of  the  blacksmith  shop  of  the  Colorado 
Iron  Works;  and  Carrie,  at  home.  Mr.  Morcom 
has  never  taken  an  active  part  in  politics,  but 
keeps  well  posted  concerning  public  affairs  and  is 
a  Republican  in  belief.  Fraternall)'  he  is  con- 
nected with  the  Ancient  Order  of  Foresters,  also 
with  Oriental  Lodge  No.  87,  A.  F.  &  A.  M., 
and  Denver  Chapter  No.  2,  R.  A.   M. 


^  ILLETT  L.  BOOTH  is  engaged  in  general 
|_  farming  and  the  dairy  business  in  Arapahoe 
\^  County,  where  he  owns  a  ranch  situated  just 
across  Cherry  Creek  from  the  postoffice  of  Oakes. 
He  was  born  at  Prairie  du  Chien,  Wis.,  April  18, 
1856,  a  son  of  Levi  and  Mijlie  (Downing)  Booth. 
His  father,  who  was  an  attornej',  was  one  of  the 
two  first  graduates  of  the  University  of  Wiscon- 
sin, and  removed  in  1857  to  Madison,  where  he 
engaged  in  professional  practice  about  four  years. 
In  i860  he  came  to  Colorado  and  here,  a  year 
later,  he  was  joined  by  his  wife  and  son,  who  had 
been  visiting  near  Sandusky,  Ohio.  He  engaged 
in  mining  and  other  occupations.  For  three 
years  he  lived  in  Leadville  and  then  removed  to 
Lamacia,  six  miles  from  Las  Cruces,  and  forty 
miles  from  Old  Mexico,  where  for  six  months  he 
carried  on  a  mercantile  business.  Though  he 
was  prospered  financially,  the  location  and  sur- 
roundings were  not  congenial.  In  the  entire 
town  of  ten  thousand  inhabitants  there  were  but 
three  white  women.  In  1864  he  removed  to 
Denver  and  took  up  land  near  the  city,  where  he 
has  since  made  his  home. 

Until  fourteen  years  of  age  our  subject  did  not 
attend  school.  However,  under  his  mother's  in- 
structions he  was  taught  to  read  and  write  and 
given  a  knowledge  of  arithmetic.     After  coming 


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to  Denver  he  attended  school  in  this  city  and  in 
time  became  the  possessor  of  a  fair  education. 
At  twenty-one  years  of  age  he  rented  a  farm,  but 
after  a  year  he  returned  to  the  home  place,  where 
he  remained  six  years.  May  i,  1884,  he  married 
Miss  Carrie  E.  Hale,  of  Denver,  who  was  born 
near  St.  Johnsbury,  Vt.,  a  daughter  of  Loren  and 
Roxanna  (Brown)  Hale,  who  moved  from  New 
Hampshire  to  Vermont.  She  received  an 
academic  education.  Three  years  before  his  mar- 
riage he  had  bought  a  home  and  to  it  he  took  his 
wife.  In  1896  he  embarked  in  the  dairy  busi- 
ness, in  which  he  has  also  been  successful. 

Politically  Mr.  Booth  is  a  Republican.  In  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  of  which  he  is  a 
member,  he  takes  an  active  part  and  is  especially 
interested  in  Sunday-school  work.  As  superin- 
tendent of  the  school  he  was  instrumental  in  pro- 
moting its  welfare.  Fraternally  he  is  connected 
with  Harmon  Lodge  No.  105,  I.  O.  O.  F.  He  is 
a  member  of  Cherry  Creek  Grange  No.  58,  in 
which  he  has  filled  various  offices.  He  and  his 
wife  are  the  parents  of  four  children,  Levi  G., 
Perley  Thomas,  Charles  Holbrook  and  Hazel 
Lillian. 

HIRAM  MARFELL,  who  is  a  successful  mine 
operator  and  is  the  owner  of  valuable  coal 
lands  about  two  and  a-half  miles  south  of 
Erie,  Weld  County,  is  one  of  the  representative 
citizens  of  that  locality.  He  is  a  native  of  Eng- 
land, his  birth  having  occurred  in  Gloucester- 
shire, May  15,  1840.  His  parents  were  Edmund 
and  Ann  (Burdock)  Marfell,  and  of  their  family, 
which  originally  comprised  six  children,  only  two 
remain.  A  sister,  Belinda,  is  the  wife  of  Cor- 
nelius Harris,  of  Dry  brook,  England. 

Edmund  Marfell  was  born  in  the  same  neighbor- 
hood as  that  in  which  the  birth  of  the  subject  of 
this  article  took  place.  His  life  extended  from  the 
year  1800  to  1884,  and  was  busy,  useful  and 
happy,  in  spite  of  business  reverses  and  the  sor- 
rows and  trials  which  came  to  him,  as  to  all.  In 
the  early  part  of  his  career  he  followed  agricult- 
ural pursuits  for  a  few  years,  and  then  turned 
his  attention  to  mining,  in  which  he  prospered. 
In  time  he  became  one  of  the  comparatively  rich 
men  of  his  neighborhood,  but  he  went  security 
for  friends  and  lost  heavily,  until  but  a  small 
portion  of  his  property  remained.  For  several 
years  he  held  the  responsible  position  of  overseer 


of  the  parish,  a  similar  office  to  that  of  county 
commissioner  in  America.  His  wife,  Ann,  was 
born  in  1807.  The  Marfell  family  have  been 
residents  of  Gloucestershire  for  a  great  many 
generations  and  have  been  marked  for  traits  of 
independence,  good  citizenship  and  uprightness 
of  word  and  deed.  Our  subject's  grandfather, 
Moses  Marfell,  was  a  well-to-do  farmer  of  the 
shire  mentioned  and  at  the  time  of  his  death  he 
had  reached  the  ripe  age  of  eighty-seven  years. 

In  his  boyhood  Hiram  Marfell  obtained  a  com- 
mon-school education,  and  long  before  he  had 
arrived  at  his  majority  he  worked  with  his  father 
in  the  old  stone-quarries  of  the  neighborhood  of 
his  early  home.  About  1863  he  took  a  position 
as  time-keeper  in  a  colliery  and  continued  to  act 
in  that  capacity  for  some  seven  years.  In  1870 
he  set  sail  for  the  United  States,  and  upon  land- 
ing in  Portland,  Me.,  went  to  New  York,  and 
thence  to  Mahoning  City,  Pa.  During  the  follow- 
ing two  years  he  found  employment  in  the  anthra- 
cite coal  mines,  after  which  he  concluded  to  travel 
in  the  west,  seeing  something  of  the  country.  He 
remained  for  a  few  days  in  Virginia  City,  Nev. , 
and  then  spent  two  or  three  months  in  the  Grass 
Valley  mines  in  California.  Returning  to  Colo- 
rado he  commenced  working  in  the  Erie  coal 
mines.  At  the  end  of  about  eighteen  months 
there  arose  dissatisfaction  among  the  men,  and 
the  result  was,  that  nineteen  of  the  number, 
including  our  subject,  formed  a  combination  and 
leased  the  Mitchell  mine.  Mr.  Marfell  was  chosen 
from  them  to  represent  their  goods  in  Denver 
disposing  of  the  production  of  the  mine.  The 
plan  prospered  for  a  time,  but  dissensions  arose 
as  to  the  management  of  the  business,  and  the 
company  ultimately  suspended  operations. 

The  next  step  of  Mr.  Marfell  was  to  embark  in 
business  for  himself,  and  up  to  1893  ^^  liad 
Henry  Goodrich  as  a  partner.  In  1880  they 
sunk  the  shaft  of  the  Stewart  mine,  which  they 
actively  operated  for  thirteen  years,  and  sold  in 
1893  to  the  People's  Coal  Company.  A  short 
time  prior  to  this  transaction  Mr.  Marfell  had  sold 
his  coal  business  in  Denver  to  Dresser  &  Wise. 
Since  then  he  has  given  his  chief  attention  to  his 
landed  interests,  as  he  owns  six  hundred  and 
forty  acres  two  and  a-half  miles  south  of  Erie.  A 
quarter-section  of  this  property  is  valuable  coal 
land.  In  1896  he  leased  some  coal  land  four 
miles  south  of  Erie,  and  has  since  been  operating 


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it.  He  is  a  man  of  excellent  business  ability  and 
few  more  thoroughly  understand  the  value  and 
possibilities  which  lie  in  the  vast  coal-beds  of  this 
state. 

In  Denver,  May  24,  1882,  Mr.  Marfell  married 
Miss  Elizabeth  Flannagan,  of  that  city.  After  a 
happy  life  together  of  little  more  than  eight 
years,  Mrs.  Marfell  died,  in  November,  1890. 
While  he  is  not  identified  with  any  church  or 
denomination,  Mr.  Marfell  is  interested  in  relig- 
ious enterprises  and  contributes  liberally  toward 
their  support.  He  is  a  Mason,  belonging  to  the 
blue  lodge,  A.  F.  &  A.  M. 


0  AVID  J.  TINTIyE,  who  resides  in  the  south- 
eastern part  of  Douglas  County,  was  born 
November  30,  1856,  at  Bloomingdale,  a  lit- 
tle town  in  the  northwestern  part  of  New  Jersey. 
When  he  was  five  years  of  age  his  father  died 
and  one  year  later  his  mother,  who  was  in  poor 
health  and  realized  she  had  not  long  to  live,  placed 
him  and  a  younger  brother  in  Foster  Home,  at 
Newark,  N.  J.,  a  Presbyterian  institution.  There 
dwells,  clearly  through  all  the  intervening  years, 
fresh  and  strong  in  the  memory  of  our  subject  the 
remembrance  of  the  last  sad  parting  with  his 
mother,  for  he  never  saw  her  again  until  taken 
to  her  funeral.  He  remained  at  the  Home  until 
ten  years  of  age  and  was  well  treated,  both  he 
and  his  younger  brother  being  sent  to  school  reg- 
ularly. In  fact,  the  larger  part  of  his  education 
was  obtained  in  those  years. 

From  the  Home  the  orphan  boy  was  bound  out 
to  Sam  J.  Randall  and  worked  for  him  at  all  kinds 
of  work  that  falls  to  the  lot  of  a  strong,  healthy 
boy  in  the  country.  He  did  not  always  receive 
the  best  of  treatment  and  was  not  sent  to  school, 
although  such  had  been  promised  to  the  Home 
authorities.  When  two  years  had  passed  away 
Mr.  Randall  found  that  he  could  not  keep  the 
boy  without  fulfilling  his  part  of  the  contract,  and 
the  boy,  knowing  the  .same  to  be  true,  ran  away 
and  began  to  work  for  his  next  neighbor,  John 
Ross,  a  large  dry-goods  merchant  of  New  York 
City.  He  remained  with  Mr.  Ross  for  some 
time,  receiving  his  wages  regularly.  From  there 
he  drifted  to  Paterson,  N.  J.,  where  he  drove  a 
milk  wagon  for  J.  B.  Corter.  He  then  visited 
an  uncle  in  Brooklyn,  with  whom  he  found  his 
only  sister,  and  becoming  very  much  attached  to 


her  he  spent  the  next  two  years  in  Brooklyn,  but 
was  obliged  to  pay  board  regularly  to  his  uncle. 
He  was  anxious  to  become  a  sailor  and  haunted 
the  Brooklyn  navy  yard  until  his  uncle,  fearing 
he  might  succeed  in  finding  a  place  at  last,  per- 
suaded a  boy-chum  of  our  subject  to  coax  him 
out  west.  They  were  sent  by  the  Children's  Aid 
Society  to  Missouri  and  arrived  at  Lathrop  when 
he  was  about  fourteen  years  old,  but  quite  large 
and  strong  for  his  age.  He  soon  found  employ- 
ment with  Alexander  Judy,  with  whom  he  re- 
mained for  two  years.  He  was  then  sent  to  Di- 
vide, Colo.,  with  others,  driving- a  herd  of  cattle 
across  the  plains. 

June  9,  1872,  Mr.  Tintle  arrived  in  the  neigh- 
borhood of  his  present  home.  Being  too  young 
to  take  up  land  he  worked  at  farming,  logging, 
etc.  He  spent  a  few  months  in  San  L,uis  Valley 
then  returned  to  the  Divide,  where  he  became  a 
cowboy  and  worked  for  some  of  the  best  cattle 
men  in  the  state,  one  of  these  being  H.  H.  Met- 
calf,  secretary  of  the  stock  association  at  the  pres- 
ent time.  In  the  summer  he  rode  from  Colorado 
to  Texas,  but  most  of  the  winters  he  spent  on  the 
Divide.  In  1878  he  became  acquainted  with  Miss 
Julia  Alderman,  a  teacher  in  the  little  country 
school  near  where  he  lived,  and  the  youngest 
daughter  of  James  H.  and  Adelia  Alderman,  of 
New  Jersey,  but  then  residjug  with  their  sons  on 
the  Divide.  She  was  born  in  Jacksonville,  111., 
in  1 860,  and  moved  in  1872  to  Denver,  where  she 
was  educated,  graduating  from  the  Denver  high 
school  in  1880.  After  her  graduation  she  began 
to  teach  in  the  school,  where  she  continued  until 
her  marriage  at  her  brother's  home,  December 
21,  1881. 

Up  to  the  time  of  his  marriage  Mr.  Tintle  had 
saved  nothing  and  owned  no  land.  He  rented  a 
little  farm  three  miles  from  his  present  home  and 
furnished  a  little  house,  in  which  he  and  his  wife 
began  housekeeping  very  comfortably  for  the 
west.  In  February,  1882,  he  took  a  herd  of  cat- 
tle on  shares,  and  bought  for  $1,000  (on  time) 
the  place  he  was  renting.  After  four  years  he 
sold  out  to  a  wealthy  miner  and  had  enough  left 
to  pay  part  down  on  a  larger  place,  farther  up 
the  creek,  and  the  present  home  of  the  family. 
It  contained  three  hundred  and  twenty  acres  of 
land,  well  watered  and  timbered,  but  scarcely  a 
furrow  had  been  turned  in  the  soil.  Since  then 
he  has  built  his  residence,  paid  the  remainder  due 


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on  the  place,  and  expects  to  continue  the  im- 
provements until  he  has  a  model  country  home. 
He  and  his  wife  have  three  sons  and  three  daugh- 
ters, all  born  on  the  Divide  except  Mary,  who 
was  born  in  Denver.  The  oldest  daughter,  Mil- 
lie, a  bright  girl  of  fifteen,  is  attending  school  in 
Denver.  The  sons,  Frank  L.  (eleven  years  ,of 
age),  David  J.  (nine)  and  Lawrence  M.  (seven), 
attend  the  district  school  at  the  present  writing. 
Mary  E.  is  three  and  one-half  years  of  age  and 
Ruth  ten  months.  The  children  will  be  given 
every  advantage  within  the  reach  of  their  parents, 
who  wish  to  give  them  the  best  possible  prepara- 
tion for  the  responsibilities  of  active  life. 

Giving  his  whole  attention  to  private  matters, 
Mr.  Tintle  has  never  taken  any  interest  in  politi- 
cal aifairs.  In  1892  he  was  asked  by  his  friends 
to  run  for  commissioner,  but  refused,  as  he  did 
not  feel  that  he  could  leave  home.  Three  years 
from  that  time  he  was  told  by  prominent  men  of 
the  county  that  he  would  be  nominated  for  com- 
missioner and  to  be  at  the  convention  to  accept. 
That  was  the  first  convention  he  had  ever  at- 
tended, but  he  has  attended  most  of  the  county 
and  state  conventions  since.  He  was  nominated 
on  the  Republican  ticket  and  elected.  He  has 
always  been  a  strong  Republican  and  is  now  an 
equally  strong  silver  supporter.  In  January, 
1898,  he  was  elected  chairman  of  the  board  of 
commissioners  and  has  since  held  the  position. 
During  his  term  of  service  he  has  built  a  number 
of  roads  and  valuable  bridges  and  otherwise  im- 
proved the  county.  It  is  his  aim,  and  the  desire 
also  of  the  other  board  members,  to  run  the 
county  for  the  best  interests  of  the  majority  of 
the  people,  regardless  of  politics;  and,  while 
striving  to  neglect  nothing  that  demands  atten- 
tion, they  are  nevertheless  quite  economical,  and 
no  expenditure  is  authorized  without  due  consid- 
eration. November  8,  1898,  he  was  re-elected 
commissioner  on  the  fusion  ticket. 

Neither  Mr.  Tintle  nor  his  wife  is  a  member  of 
any  church,  being  liberal  in  their  views,  but 
cherishing  the  greatest  respect  for  Christianity 
in  its  sincere  and  honest  form.  In  all  their  deal- 
ings they  strive  to  be  upright  and  do  as  they 
would  be  done  by.  They  are  very  charitable  in 
disposition  and  no  one  is  ever  turned  away  from 
their  door  hungry.  Mr.  Tintle  has  never  forgot- 
ten the  days  when  he  was  homeless  and  his  heart 
goes  out  in  sympathy  for  all  who  have  no  place 


on  earth  they  can  call  home.  Fraternally  he  is 
identified  with  the  Woodmen  of  the  World  and 
the  Odd  Fellows'  Lodge  of  Elbert,  but  living  at 
such  a  distance  he  cannot  attend  meetings  regu- 
larly, and  has  not  taken  an  active  part  in  their 
proceedings.  What  he  has  accumulated  repre- 
sents continuous  hard  work  through  many  years. 
He  is  an  able  business  man,  an  efficient  worker, 
and  possesses  the  executive  ability  that  should 
secure  a  high  degree  of  prosperity  for  its  pos- 
sessor. However,  he  has  never  cared  to  hoard 
money,  but  prefers  to  spend  it  in  securing  com- 
forts for  his  family  and  good  educations  for  his 
children. 


DWARD  B.  BOWLES,  a  general  farmer  re- 
"y  siding  in  Harris,  Arapahoe  County,  was 
^  born  in  Dade  County,  Mo.,  November  16, 
1846,  and  is  the  son  of  Williamson  and  Louise 
(Priddy)  Bowles.  He  was  one  of  seven  children, 
of  whom  all  but  two  are  still  living,  those  besides 
himself  being  Alonzo  C. ,  a  farmer  living  in  Waco, 
Tex.;  Sanford,  a  farmer  in  Dade  County,  Mo.; 
Maria,  wife  of  Tully  King,  a  farmer  of  lone, 
Ore.;  and  Newton,  who  is  engaged  in  agricult- 
ural pursuits  in  Weld  County,  Colo. 

The  father  of  our  subject  was  born  in  Hanover 
County,  Va.,  in  1814,  a  son  of  John  W.  Bowles, 
of  English  descent.  He  grew  to  manhood  on  the 
home  farm  and  after  his  marriage  removed  to 
Missouri,  where  he  remained  for  years.  He  gave 
up  active  business  affairs  some  ten  years  before 
his  death,  and  during  his  remaining  days  resided 
with  his  children  in  Colorado  and  Missouri.  He 
died  in  1897  at  the  age  of  eighty-three  years. 
Our  subject  grew  to  manhood  beneath  the  pa- 
rental roof  and  had  such  educational  advantages 
as  the  neighboring  schools  afforded.  In  1863  he 
turned  his  steps  westward,  coming  to  Colorado 
with  a  party  of  fifteen  other  emigrants,  with  oxen 
and  a  herd  of  three  hundred  cattle.  For  five 
years  he  was  occupied  in  freighting  on  the  plains 
from  the  Missouri  River  to  Salt  Lake,  Denver, 
Santa  Fe  and  other  important  points. 

In  1868  Mr.  Bowles  became  interested  in  farm- 
ing. For  three  years  afterwards  he  cultivated 
rented  land,  and  in  1871  took  up  the  homestead 
where  he  has  since  resided.  In  1871  he  married 
Miss  Elizabeth  Longan.  Nine  children  were 
born  of  their  union,  all  living,  and  named  as  fol- 
lows:      Benjamin,    who    is  a   farmer  in   Weld 


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County;  Jesse,  who  assists  his  father  on  the  home 
farm;  Newton,  John,  Bessie,  Maria,  Bruce, 
Marietta  and  L,awrence,  all  at  home.  In  politics 
Mr.  Bowles  is  independent,  never  having  allied 
himself  with  any  political  party,  but  voting  for 
the  men  he  believes  best  qualified  for  office, 
whatever  their  political  affiliations. 


gENJAMIN  C.  JOHNSON  purchased  a  tract 
of  forty  acres  near  Harris,  Jefferson  County, 
in  1882,  and  has  since  made  this  place  his 
home.  He  engaged  in  carpentering  until  1889, 
meantime  having  practically  built  the  entire  vil- 
lage of  Lafayette,  but  since  that  year  he  has 
given  his  attention  to  the  sale  of  machinery.  A 
native  of  Champaign  County,  Ohio,  he  was  born 
November  25,  1844,  and  was  one  of  the  three 
children  of  Benjamin  and  Maria  (Means)  John- 
son. His  father,  who  was  born  and  reared  in 
Greenbrier  County,  W.  Va.,  removed  at  the  age 
of  twenty-eight  years  to  Ohio,  where  he  resided 
until  his  death,  following  farm  pursuits.  He  was 
a  man  of  sterling  qualities  and  was  held  in  high 
esteem  by  all  who  knew  him. 

After  having  spent  his  first  fifteen  years  at 
home,  our  subject  took  a  trip  through  the  south 
in  company  with  Joshua  Haines,  who  was  buying 
mules  for  the  southern  trade.  Not  only  did  he 
go  through  the  south,  but  his  travels  extended  as 
far  as  South  America.  After  eight  months  he 
returned  home,  where  he  continued  to  reside  un- 
til the  breaking  out  of  the  war.  May  12,  1861, 
he  enlisted  in  the  Thirteenth  Ohio  Artillery,  and 
when,  at  the  battle  of  Shiloh,  the  Thirteenth  lost 
its  guns,  he  was  transferred  to  the  Tenth  Ohio 
Artillery,  in  which  he  served  until  August  18, 
1865.  He  took  part  in  the  siege  of  Vicksburg, 
the  battle  of  Corinth  and  in  the  battles  between 
Chattanooga  and  Jonesborough.  He  was  brev- 
eted lieutenant,  but  did  not  receive  his  commis- 
sion, and  was  mustered  out  of  the  service  as 
corporal.  Among  his  souvenirs  of  the  war  is  a 
medal  given  him  by  the  state  of  Ohio,  for  brav- 
ery in  leading  a  charge  of  men  at  Peach  Tree 
Creek,  Atlanta,  to  drain  the  fire  of  the  Con- 
federates, while  the  army  secured  a  crossing. 

When  the  war  closed  Mr.  Johnson  returned  to 
his  home,  but  after  one  year  he  went  to  Mahaska 
County,  Iowa,  where  he  settled  and  engaged  in 
farming.     September  24,  1870,  he  married  Miss 


Mary  R.  Derby,  who  was  born  in  Lee  County, 
Iowa,  November  12,  1849,  a  daughter  of  Chaun- 
eey  Derby,  a  prominent  farmer  of  Lee  County. 
Shortly  after  his  marriage  he  determined  to  come 
west  and  the  same  year,  1870,  found  him  in 
Mitchell  County,  Kan.,  where  he  learned  the  car- 
penter's trade.  Four  years  later,  in  1874,  he 
returned  to  Iowa,  where  he  worked  at  his  trade 
in  Mahaska  County  for  three  years,  and  at  the 
same  time  purchased  and  operated  a  sawmill.  In 
1878  he  again  came  west,  stopping  in  Kansas 
from  March  to  November,  when  he  came  to  Colo- 
rado. Going  direct  to  the  mountains,  he  ran  a 
sawmill  from  November  to  July,  when  he  came 
to  Denver  and  engaged  in  carpentering.  Since 
1882  he  has  resided  on  his  small  farm  near  Harris. 
Politically  Mr.  Johnson  is  an  ardent  Republi- 
can. He  is  a  member  of  Major  Anderson  Post 
No.  88,  G.  A.  R. ,  in  which  he  has  held  all  the 
higher  offices  and  is  now  past  commander.  He 
and  his  wife  are  the  parents  of  three  children. 
Birtsel  E.,  who  was  born  November  13,  1871, 
and  who  graduated  at  the  Denver  high  school  in 
1 89 1,  is  now  employed  in  the  office  of  the  Colo- 
rado News  Company;  William  C.  was  born  March 
I,  1877,  ^"*^  is  now  engaged  in  farming;  Eliz- 
abeth Adell  was  born  February  27,  1882. 


nOHN  KOERBER,  a  well-known  dairyman 
I  and  ranchman  of  Arapahoe  County,  was 
(2/  born  in  Oberfranken,  Bavaria,  Germany, 
May  I,  1848,  a  son  of  George  and  Margaretha 
(Neuner)  Koerber,  natives  of  the  same  place  as 
himself  His  father,  who  engaged  in  farming, 
died  when  in  the  prime  of  life,  and  left  two  sons 
and  three  daughters.  Of  these,  John,  an  older 
brother,  is  engaged  in  farming  in  Germany; 
Josephine  is  the  wife  of  John  Stenline,  of  Michi- 
gan; Maggie  married  Frank  Power;  and  Cora  is 
the  widow  of  John  Arnot,  of  Michigan. 

The  boyhood  days  of  our  subject  were  passed 
in  attendance  upon  the  public  schools  of  his  native 
land.  He  was  twenty-one  years  of  age  when  he 
sailed  for  the  United  States.  Arriving  in  this 
country,  he  settled  in  Michigan,  where  he  was 
employed  for  a  time  in  the  iron  mines.  He  spent 
ten  years  in  Michigan  and  in  1879  came  to  Colo- 
rado, settling  at  Golden  Run,  where  he  carried 
on  a  hotel  for  a  number  of  years.  From  that  place 
he  came  to  Denver  in  1888.     In    1893  he  pur- 


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chased  the  ranch  where  he  now  resides.  He 
raises  hay  for  feed  for  his  stock,  and  has  placed  a 
number  of  valuable  improvements  on  his  ranch, 
including  a  substantial  house,  good  barn  and 
other  outbuildings.  It  is  one  of  the  very  best 
dairy  farms  in  the  country  and  has  splendid  im- 
provements. 

August  12,  1872,  Mr.  Koerber  married  Annie 
Schilling,  a  native  of  Germany.  They  are  the 
parents  of  three  sons  and  five  daughters,  namely: 
John,  Jr.,  Walter,  Anthony  and  Maggie,  who  are 
at  home;  Cora,  wife  of  John  Hughes,  a  farmer  of 
Arapahoe  County;  Mary,  Annie  and  Abalena,  at 
home.  Politically  Mr.  Koerber  is  liberal  in  his 
opinions.  He  has  served  as  a  director  of  his 
school  district  and  in  other  ways  has  promoted 
the  interests  of  his  locality.  Both  he  and  his 
wife  are  members  of  the  Catholic  Church,  in  which 
faith  they  have  reared  their  children. 


(IACOB  mack,  deceased,  formerly  the  owner 
I  and  proprietor  of  a  large  ranch  in  Arapahoe 
(2/  County,  was  born  in  Metz,  France,  March 
14,  1834,  and  when  five  j^ears  of  age  was  brought 
to  this  country  by  his  parents,  John  and  Amalia. 
The  family  settled  in  New  Orleans,  where  the 
father  and  mother  died  of  the  yellow  fever.  Of 
the  seven  sous,  only  three  attained  manhood; 
the  mother  and  three  sons  died  in  one  day  of 
yellow  fever.  Shock,  the  oldest  son,  was  drowned 
in  the  Mississippi  River  when  thirty-three  years 
of  age;  and  John,  who  was  a  soldier  in  the  Civil 
war,  died  at  fifty-three  years  of  age. 

When  a  boy  our  subject  did  not  have  the  edu- 
cational advantages  that  fall  to  the  lot  of  the  boys 
of  the  present  generation.  His  parents  were 
poor  and  after  their  death  he  was  obliged  to 
fight  the  battles  of  life  for  himself.  The  infor- 
mation that  he  obtained  he  secured  through  self- 
culture  and  with  the  assistance  of  his  wife,  who 
was  his  helpmate  in  every  sense  of  that  word. 
At  the  age  of  nineteen  he  went  up  the  Mississippi 
to  St.  lyouis.  He  enlisted  for  three  months  in 
Company  D,  Fifth  Missouri  Infantry,  and  at  the 
expiration  of  his  term  of  service  he  enlisted  in  the 
Second  Regiment  of  Missouri  State  militia  or 
State  Home  Guard,  remaining  in  the  army  for 
more  than  two  years. 

In  1867  Mr.  Mack  cameto  Colorado  and  settled 
on  a  ranch  one  mile  from   Bennett,  on   Kiowa 


Creek.  Here  he  remained  until  his  death,  May  i, 
1878.  His  marriage,  July  20,  1858,  united  him 
with  Christina  Schaller,  a  native  of  Altenheim, 
Baden,  Germany,  who  came  with  her  parents  to 
America  at  fifteen  years  of  age  and  settled  in  St. 
lyouis.  Mo.  Her  father,  Jacob  Schaller,  who  was 
a  weaver  in  Germany,  died  soon  after  coming  to 
the  United  States.  Mrs.  Mack  was  educated  in 
Germany.  She  is  a  lady  of  gentle,  amiable  dis- 
position, especially  devoted  to  the  welfare  of  her 
immediate  family,  but  kind  and  helpful  in  her 
intercourse  with  all.  In  religion  she  is  a  Presby- 
terian. Since  her  husband's  death  she  has 
superintended  the  ranch,  which  is  stocked  with 
cattle  and  horses;  and  has  made  a  number  of 
valuable  improvements.  The  place  contains  a 
good  house,  barn  and  outbuildings,  and  is  three 
hundred  and  sixty  acres  in  extent.  At  the  time 
the  family  settled  here,  the  nearest  neighbors 
were  from  fifteen  to  eighteen  miles  distant.  They 
themselves  were  poor  in  this  world's  goods,  and 
it  was  only  by  diligent  effort  on  the  part  of  both 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Mack  that  they  secured  a  com- 
petency. He  was  a  Republician  in  politics,  but 
was  too  busy  with  his  ranch  work  to  take  an 
active  part  in  public  affairs. 

Eight  children,  seven  sons  and  one  daughter, 
were  born  to  the  union  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Mack. 
John  and  Julius  died  in  boyhood.  Katie  Amelia 
is  the  wife  of  Henry  Nordloh,  a  stockman; 
George  C.  assists  his  mother  in  the  care  of  the 
homestead.  William  C.  died  when  eight  years 
of  age,  and  John  also  died  when  young.  Fred 
married  Nellie  Bates;  Henry,  the  youngest  of  the 
family,  died  when  a  boy  of  five  years. 


ii  ARX  KERN  is  engaged  in  general  farming 
Y  four  miles  north  of  Parker,  where  he  owns 
(3  a  well-improved  place  on  section  32,  town- 
ship 5  north,  range  66  west.  When  he  came  to 
Arapahoe  County  he  had  little  capital,  but,  pos- 
sessing an  abundance  of  energy  and  determin- 
ation, he  gradually  attained  prosperity,  and  his 
landed  possessions  now  aggregate  seventeen  hun- 
dred acres.  At  one  time  he  made  a  special 
feature  of  stock-raising,  but  of  late  years  he  has 
to  some  extent  discontinued  this  line  of  work. 

Mr.  Kern  was  born  in  Wurtemberg,  Germany, 
December  9,  1832,  a  .son  of  Adam  and  Rose  Kern. 
He  was  reared  on  a  farm  and  received  a  common- 


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school  education.  When  he  was  about  sixteen 
years  of  age  his  father  died,  and  he,  being  the 
oldest  son,  was  obliged  to  support  the  other 
members  of  the  family.  For  this  reason  he  was 
not  called  into  military  service.  In  1854  he  took 
passage  on  a  sailing  vessel  and  after  a  voyage  of 
thirty-two  days  landed  in  New  York,  from  which 
city  he  proceeded  west  to  St.  Louis.  There  for  a 
year  or  more  he  worked  at  any  honest  occupation 
he  could  find.  Going  from  St.  Louis  to  Park- 
ville,  Platte  County,  Mo. ,  and  thence  to  Brown 
County,  Kan.,  in  the  latter  place  he  pre-empted 
one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  and  made  his  home 
there  until  i86o.  In  that  year  he  fell  a  victim  to 
the  Pike's  Peak  gold  fever  and  came  to  Colorado 
with  ox-teams,  accompanying  three  other  men. 

After  having  engaged  in  mining  for  two 
years,  Mr.  Kern  came  to  Cherry  Creek  Valley, 
where  he  worked  by  the  month,  and  with  the 
money  he  saved,  he  bought  a  team  of  oxen. 
From  1863  to  1869  he  engaged  in  freighting,  but 
in  the  year  1867  took  up  a  homestead  of  eighty 
acres  and  turned  his  attention  to  farming  and 
stock-raising.  He  was  married  October  30,  1869, 
to  Miss  Margaret  Brenn,  of  Denver,  who,  like 
himself,  was  a  native  of  Germany.  They  settled 
in  a  house  built  of  hewed  logs,  and  in  this  they 
still  make  their  home,  though  they  have  boarded 
and  plastered  it,  transforming  its  appearance  en- 
tirely. They  have  only  one  child  living,  Lena 
Bell,  who  is  with  them  on  the  ranch.  Their 
older,  daughter  Emma,  died  aged  seven  years. 
Mr.  Kern  was  reared  in  the  Lutheran  faith  and 
inclines  toward  that  church.  In  the  grange  he 
has  officiated  as  treasurer  and  steward  and  is  now 
gate  keeper.  In  political  views  he  is  a  Republi- 
can, and  has  voted  that  ticket  at  every  election 
since  the  presidential  campaign  of  1876. 


gEORGE  ATCHESON,  M.  D. ,  whose  office 
is  pleasantly  situated  in  the  Hanchett  block, 
Idaho  Springs,  Clear  Creek  County,  has  a 
large  practice.  He  is  particularly  skillful  in  sur- 
gical cases  and  complicated  diseases,  but  also  de- 
votes much  of  his  time  and  attention  to  general 
family  practice.  Success  has  attended  him  in 
all  of  his  professional  work  and  the  high  praise 
which  he  receives  from  those  best  fitted  to  pro- 
nounce an  unbiased  verdict  upon  his  career  is 
but  his  just  due. 


Dr.  Atcheson,  who  is  especially  qualified,  both 
by  natural  abilities  and  talents,  as  well  as  by 
careful  education  and  training,  for  his  chosen  life- 
work,  is  a  native  of  New  York  City  and  is  now  in 
his  early  prime.  He  was  born  in  1866,  and  since 
1873  has  been  a  resident  of  Colorado.  His  grand- 
father, John  Atcheson,  was  a  Scotchman,  who, 
upon  being  given  control  of  large  estates  in  Ire- 
land by  King  George  of  England,  removed  to 
the  Emerald  Isle  and  there  passed  the  rest  of  his 
days.  At  one  time  he  did  considerable  civil  en- 
gineering in  Canada.  John  Atcheson,  Jr.,  father 
of  the  doctor,  was  born  in  Templemore,  Ireland, 
and  was  a  mere  youth,  less  than  twenty  years  of 
age,  when  he  left  home,  in  order  to  come  to  the 
United  States.  Arriving  in  New  York  City,  he 
shipped  before  the  mast,  and  was  on  the  high 
seas  for  some  two  years,  after  which  he  en- 
gaged in  ship-carpentering  in  the  yards  in  Brook- 
lyn and  New  York.  His  brother  George  was  a 
lieutenant  in  the  Union  army  during  the  Civil 
war,  serving  under  G.  B.  McClellan.  Afterward 
he  was  appointed  Indian  agent  in  Minnesota  and 
in  1870  located  in  Blackhawk,  whence  he  re- 
turned to  the  east  some  years  later.  John  Atche- 
son joined  his  brother  in  Blackhawk  and  was  in 
business  with  him  for  a  period.  In  1873  his 
family  came  west,  and  dwelt  on  a  large  ranch  on 
Cherry  Creek,  in  Douglas  County.  Mr.  Atche- 
son made  a  goodly  fortune  in  the  cattle  business 
and  is  now  living  retired  in  Denver.  The  wife 
and  mother  was  Miss  Jane  Amelia  McDonough 
in  her  maidenhood.  She  was  born  in  New  York 
City,  a  daughter  of  James  and  Jane  (Wood)  Mc- 
Donough, both  of  Scotch  descent,  though  the 
father  was  born  in  Ireland. 

In  a  family  comprising  six  sons  and  five 
daughters,  of  whom  two  sons  and  four  daugh- 
ters are  living,  the  subject  of  this  sketch  is  the 
eighth  in  order  of  birth.  He  was  but  three 
years  old  when  his  parents  removed  to  the 
neighborhood  of  Pleasant  Hill,  Cass  County,  Mo., 
and  engaged  in  farming.  On  account  of  malaria 
they  concluded  to  change  their  habitation  and  in 
1873  settled  in  this  state.  The  lad  attended  the 
public  schools  as  soon  as  he  arrived  at  a  suitable 
age,  and  made  rapid  progress  in  his  studies.  In 
1887  he  started  upon  a  four  years'  course  in  the 
University  of  Denver.  Upon  finishing  the  same 
he  entered  the  medical  department  of  the  institu- 
tion, graduating  in  1893  with  the  degree  of  Doc- 


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tor  of  Medicine.  During  the  last  year  of  his 
studies  he  was  a  nurse  at  the  Union  Pacific  Rail- 
road Hospital,  and  after  he  had  been  awarded  his 
degree  he  was  honored  by  being  made  house- 
physician  of  St.  Luke's  Hospital.  He  remained 
there  for  almost  a  year,  receiving  invaluable  ex- 
perience, and  then  accepted  a  position  as  surgeon 
for  the  White  Hills  Mining  and  Milling  Company, 
of  White  Hills,  Ariz.  At  the  close  of  two 
months  he  resigned  and  upon  April  14,  1894,  he 
came  to  Idaho  Springs.  Here  he  soon  built  up 
an  enviable  reputation  and  won  the  confidence 
and  respect  of  the  citizens.  He  belongs  to  the 
alumni  association  of  the  University  Medical 
College.     Politically  he  is  a  silver  Republican. 

While  connected  with  St.  Luke's  Hospital  in 
Denver,  Dr.  Atcheson  made  the  acquaintance  of 
Miss  Effie  Moore,  whom  he  made  his  wife  June 
27,  1894.  She  was  born  in  Indiana  and  is  a' 
graduate  of  the  training  school  for  nurses,  associ- 
ated with  the  hospital  mentioned.  The  young 
couple  have  one  child,  John  George  by  name. 


SEORGE  VOLLMAR,  a  retired  farmer  resid- 
ing on  section  12,  township  2,  range  67, 
Weld  County,  was  born  April  16,  1834,  in 
the  province  of  Alsace,  then  a  part  of  France,  but 
now  in  Germany.  His  boyhood  days  were  spent 
in  the  home  of  his  parents,  Sebastian  and  Barbara 
(Ritter)  Vollniar,  at  Strassburg  on  the  Rhine. 
At  the  age  of  eighteen  he  crossed  the  ocean  to 
America,  landing  in  New  Orleans  November  20, 
1852,  with  only  five  francs  in  his  possession. 
He  spent  two  weeks  in  New  Orleans  and  then 
worked  his  way  to  St.  Louis,  where  he  engaged 
in  carriage-making,  a  trade  that  he  had  learned  in 
Germany  during  his  apprenticeship  of  three 
years.  His  next  stopping  place  was  St.  Joseph, 
Mo.,  where  he  engaged  for  himself  in  wagon  and 
plough  manufacturing. 

In  i860  Mr.  Vollmar  started  overland  for  Pike's 
Peak,  making  the  trip  in  company  with  a  Mr. 
Caverly,  and  driving  a  three-yoke  team  of  cattle. 
Reaching  Denver,  he  found  a  mining  town  with 
only  a  few  houses,  and  those  insignificant  in 
appearance.  He  left  the  team  and  went  to  the 
mountains,  where  he  prospected,  but  two  dis- 
couraging weeks  convinced  him  that  he  knew 
nothing  of  mining  and  should  turn  his  attention 
to  something  else.     He  engaged  in  cutting  hay 


and  hauling  it  to  mining  camps,  in  which  work 
he  continued  for  two  years.  In  1862  he  took  up 
land  on  section  25,  township  3,  range  67,  where 
he  made  some  improvements  and  remained  until 
1865,  carrying  on  general  farming  and  stock- 
raising.  On  selling  his  claim  in  1865,  he  settled 
upon  his  present  ranch,  where  he  owns  four 
hundred  and  eighty  acres  of  fine  land,  all  the 
improvements  of  which  have  been  made  by  him- 
self. Here  he  carries  on  farming,  stock-raising 
and  dairying.  He  is  a  stockholder  in  the  Side 
Hill  Ditch  Company.which  waters  his  land;  and  in 
the  Meadow  Highland  Ditch  Company. 

Mr.  Vollmar  has  never  allied  himself  with  any 
party,  but  preserves  an  independent  attitude  in 
political  matters.  In  the  organization  of  school 
district  No.  13  he  was  a  prime  factor,  and  for 
many  years  he  serv^ed  as  president  of  the  board 
of  trustees.  He  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the 
Platteville  Building  and  Loan  Association,  of 
which  he  was  for  some  time  a  trustee.  A  man  of 
energy  and  ability,  he  has  acquired  a  valuable 
property,  in  spite  of  reverses  that  he  has  met  with 
and  obstacles  he  has  been  obliged  to  overcome. 

May  24,  1865,  Mr.  Vollmar  married  Anna, 
daughter  of  William  and  Ann  Shortley.  She 
died  in  1878,  leaving  four  children.  The  eldest 
of  these,  Frank,  has  charge  of  the  home  farm. 
The  second,  Charles  L.,  a  dairyman  of  Denver, 
was  the  founder  of  the  Platteville  creamery  and 
erected  the  building  now  occupied  by  it.  Belle, 
the  third  child,  is  the  wife  of  Michael  Gottwiller. 
The  youngest,  Benjamin,  is  now  managing  the 
separator  for  the  Littleton  creamery,  near  Colo- 
rado Springs.  In  1 88 1  Mr.  Vollmar  married  Mrs. 
Lydia  Shortley,  widow  of  John  Shortley,  but  she 
died  a  year  later.  In  1883  he  was  married  to 
Agatha  Birkle,  sister  of  David  Birkle,  of  Platte- 
ville; she  died  in  1886.  Two  children  were  born 
of  this  union,  Lena,  and  a  son  who  died  at  the 
age  of  six  months. 


gHARLES  KOEHLER,  proprietor  and  mana- 
ger of  the  Club  stables,  is  in  point  of  years 
of  active  business  the  oldest  liveryman  in 
Denver,  where  he  has  resided  since  September, 
1869.  He  is  of  German  descent.  His  father, 
John  W.  Koehler,  was  born  in  Hamburg  and 
emigrated,  with  his  wife  and  family,  to  Illinois, 
settling  in  Macon  County,  of  which  he  was  the 


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first  German  resident.  Establishing  his  home  in 
Decatur,  then  a  small  village,  he  built  a  house  in 
what  is  now  the  heart  of  the  city.  By  trade  he 
was  a  locksmith,  which  he  followed  for  a  time  in 
Decatur,  but  later  built  the  first  brewery  in  the 
town,  and  this  he  and  his  son-in-law  operated  for 
some  years,  under  the  firm  name  of  Koehler  & 
Richards.  Unfortunately,  after  having  accumu- 
lated a  fortune,  he  was  obliged  to  sacrifice  every- 
thing on  account  of  the  defalcation  of  the  sheriff, 
whose  bondsman  he  had  been.  He  then  removed 
to  Barton  County,  where  he  engaged  in  farming 
until  his  death  at  sixty -three  years  of  age.  Polit- 
ically he  was  a  Democrat  and  in  religious  belief 
a  lyUtheran.  His  wife,  Martha  Koehler,  was 
born  in  Germany  and  died  in  Missouri  at  the  age 
of  eighty  years,  seven  months  and  seventeen  days. 
Of  their  family  of  five  sons  and  two  daughters, 
all  are  living  but  one  of  the  sons. 

Charles,  who  was  third  in  order  of  birth  among 
the  children,  was  born  in  Decatur  in  November, 
1846,  and  in  boyhood  attended  the  schools  of  that 
city.  At  the  age  of  fourteen  he  was  apprenticed 
to  the  blacksmith's  trade,  and  after  three  years 
began  in  the  horse  business.  In  1865,  when 
eighteen,  he  went  to  Memphis,  Tenn.,  and  spent 
eight  months  working  there.  Next  he  was  em- 
ployed as  wagon  master  for  the  government  in 
Omaha  until  1866,  having  for  two  years  had 
charge  of  the  wagon  trains  from  Julesburg  to 
Fort  Larimer  and  from  Reno  to  Phil  Kearney. 
Often  he  encountered  Indians,  then  quite  numer- 
ous on  the  frontier.  Once,  at  Horseshoe  ranch, 
he  was  surrounded  by  savages  in  the  night,  when 
the  camp  was  in  slumber.  However,  he  had  a 
horse  whose  scent  was  keen,  especiall}'  in  relation 
to  Indians,  and  he  awoke  Mr.  Koehler  by  neigh- 
ing. Seeing  the  danger,  our  subject  immediately 
hitched  up  and  started  to  save  the  train,  in  which 
be  was  successful.  In  1866  he  came  through  to 
Denver  with  a  government  train.  In  1868  he 
resigned  from  the  government  employ  and  en- 
gaged in  the  horse  business  in  Omaha,  remaining 
there  until  he  came  to  Denver  in  1869. 

In  1870  Mr.  Koehler  secured  employment  with 
the  Denver  horse  railway,  which  he  assisted  in 
constructing,  being  superintendent  of  the  work, 
and  when  the  road  was  completed  he  pulled  the 
first  street  car  ever  run  in  Denver.  For  nine 
years  he  continued  with  the  company  in  the  capa- 
city of  superintendent.     In  1879  he  embarked  in 


the  livery  business  as  proprietor  of  the  Telephone 
stables,  which  he  remodeled  from  an  old  church 
on  Arapahoe  street.  Selling  out  eighteen  months 
later,  he  located  on  Curtis  across  from  the  St. 
James  (then  known  as  the  Wentworth  house). 
For  three  years  he  carried  on  a  livery  business  in 
that  location  and  then  built  a  barn  on  Champa, 
between  Fifteenth  and  Sixteenth  streets,  where 
he  remained  for  five  years.  In  1886  he  started 
the  Club  stables  at  No.  1441  Curtis,  where  he 
remained  for  five  years,  removing  in  1891  to  his 
present  location  immediately  adjoining.  He  car- 
ries on  a  liverj',  feed  and  sale  stable,  and  has  in 
his  barn  a  fine  livery  stock. 

Politically  Mr.  Koehler  is  a  Republican.  He 
is  connected  with  the  Ancient  Order  of  United 
Workmen  and  the  Fraternal  Union,  and  is  a  char- 
ter member  and  director  of  the  Alliance  Insur- 
ance Company  of  Denver.  By  his  first  marriage 
one  child,  Sophia  M.,  was  born.  Afterward  he 
married,  in  Denver,  Mrs.  Emma  (Hummel) 
Steehn,  who  had  one  child  by  her  first  marriage, 
a  daughter,  Magdalene.  Mrs.  Koehler  died  Oc- 
tober 26,  1897. 

HEODORE  NOTT,  of  Hazeltine,  is  said  to 
have  the  best  farm  in  the  state;  certainly 
the  place  would  be  a  credit  to  any  com- 
munity. It  is  well  irrigated  and  kept  in  the  best 
of  order;  the  buildings  are  all  good  and  a  look  of 
neatness  and  order  prevails  that  is  refreshing  to  the 
eye.  Mr.  Nott  was  born  in  St.  Lawrence  County, 
N.  Y.,  August  8,  1842,  and  there  grew  to  man- 
hood on  a  farm.  He  attended  the  district  schools, 
and  afterward  the  academy,  beginning  to  work 
for  himself  when  about  nineteen.  For  about 
four  years  he  ran  a  stage  line  and  carried  the 
mail  between  Antwerp,  Jefferson  and  Ogdens- 
burg,  N.  Y.,  and  the  next  year  conducted  a 
livery  barn  in  Carthage,  that  state.  The  follow- 
ing four  years  he  carried  on  the  same  business  at 
Antwerp.  He  then  decided  on  locating  in  the 
west  and  took  passage,  by  rail,  to  Cheyenne,  in 
the  spring  of  1869,  coming  from  there  to  Denver 
by  stage.  Here  he  engaged  in  the  dairy  business, 
with  a  brother,  in  the  vicinity  of  Blackhawk  and 
Central  City,  remaining  about  four  years. 

October  11,  1865,  Mr.  Nott  married  Miss  Carrie 
P.  Proctor,  of  Antwerp,  N.  Y.,  and  in  the  fall  of 
1869  his  family  followed  him  to  Colorado.  After 
leaving  his  ranch  in  Jefferson  County,  he  went  to 


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Denver  and  ran  a  dairy  for  three  years  more,  and 
then  moved  into  the  country  in  Arapahoe  Coun- 
ty, thirty-two  miles  east  of  Denver,  where  he  be- 
gan raising  sheep.  He  was  extensively  engaged 
in  this  business  for  seventeen  or  eighteen  years, 
and  made  quite  a  handsome  profit  from  it.  This 
money  he  invested  in  Denver  real  estate,  which 
was  then  having  a  boom,  and  when  the  collapse 
came,  most  of  his  money  was  lost.  In  1892  he 
traded  for  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  of  land  in 
section  6,  township  2,  range  67,  upon  which  he 
now  lives.  They  had  six  children,  viz.:  Edward, 
who  married  and  lives  in  Denver;  Maud,  who 
married  Edward  Clay,  a  railroad  man,  and  has 
one  child,  Dorothy;  Ernest,  who  lives  at  home; 
Reuben,  who  is  married  and  lives  in  Arapahoe 
County,  where  his  father  formerly  had  his  sheep 
ranch;  Stella,  who  died  in  1891,  and  is  buried  in 
Fairmont  Cemetery;  and  Fred,  who  lives  as 
home. 

Formerly  Mr.  Nott  was  a  Democrat,  but  since 
coming  to  this  state  he  has  joined  forces  with  the 
Republicans.  He  has  been  an  earnest  supporter 
of  superior  school  advantages,  and  has  probably 
done  more  for  the  cause  of  education  than  anyone 
else  in  the  county.  He  has  been  school  director 
fully  four-fifths  of  the  time  since  coming  to  the 
state. 


I  OWEIvL  H.  SMITH,  M.  D.,  ex-county 
I  C  treasurer  of  Boulder  County,  is  a  gentleman 
12/  who  ranks  second  to  none  in  the  estimation 
of  his  fellow-citizens  in  Longmont,  where  he  has 
dwelt  for  the  past  eighteen  years.  In  1893  he 
was  nominated  for  county  treasurer  by  the  Peo- 
ple's party  and  was  elected  by  a  good  majority, 
and  in  1895  he  was  again  elected  to  the  respon- 
sible position.  He  refused  to  allow  his  name  to 
go  before  the  convention  of  1897,  and  thus  served 
from  New  Year's  day,  1894,  to  January  i,  1898, 
when  he  surrendered  the  office.  He  was  justice 
of  the  peace  here  for  two  terms;  was  deputy  county 
physician  one  year,  in  1882,  and  could  have  held 
other  local  positions  of  more  or  less  importance 
had  he  so  desired. 

Dr.  L.  H.  Smith  has  had  a  varied  and  interest- 
ing career.  He  has  not  confined  himself  to  the 
practice  of  his  profession,  though  in  later  years 
he  has  given  it  most  of  his  time  and  thought, 
and  in  whatever  line  of  business  endeavor  he  has 
engaged  he  has  nearly  always  met  with  success 
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as  a  result  of  his  ability  and  perseverance.  A 
native  of  Keysville,  N.  Y.,  born  in  1833,  he  was 
reared  in  Ohio  from  the  time  he  was  four  years 
of  age.  When  he  was  in  his  fifteenth  year  he  en- 
tered the  freshman  class  of  the  Ohio  Wesleyan 
University,  of  Delaware,  Ohio,  and  as  he  was 
paying  his  own  way  and  taught  school  for  nearly 
four  years  in  the  meantime,  he  did  not  graduate 
until  1853,  when  he  received  the  degree  of  Bach- 
elor of  Arts.  Three  years  later  he  had  earned 
the  additional  degree  of  Master  of  Arts.  He  con- 
tinued teaching  and  was  but  six  months  over 
twenty  years  of  age  when  he  was  made  superin- 
tendent of  the  New  Richmond  (Ohio)  schools, 
remaining  there  two  years.  Going  to  Cincinnati 
as  assistant  of  the  Third  district  school,  later  he 
was  given  the  position  of  principal  of  the  Corry- 
ville  school.  In  the  last-named  capacity  he  served 
for  two  years.  At  the  same  time  he  was  making 
a  study  of  law  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in 
September,  1858.  On  account  of  family  affairs 
he  returned  to  the  country  and  resumed  teaching 
in  the  Clermont  County  schools.  Altogether  he 
has  spent  eleven  full  years  of  his  life  in  teaching. 
In  the  fall  of  i860  he  was  employed  by  the  state 
superintendent  to  visit  all  the  city  schools  of  Ohio, 
and  was  occupied  in  this  line  at  the  time  of  the 
outbreak  of  the  war. 

Dr.  Smith  was  then,  as  he  has  always  been, 
an  enthusiastic  patriot.  He  immediately  set  to 
work  to  raise  a  company,  and  within  just  a  week 
from  the  opening  shot  of  the  war  he  presented 
himself  and  men  at  Camp  Jackson,  ready  for  the 
fray.  They  were  mustered  in  April  23,  1861,  as 
Company  E,  Twenty-second  Ohio  Volunteers, 
Dr.  Smith  being  their  second  lieutenant.  They 
were  sent  to  West  Virginia  for  four  months,  and 
when  mustered  out  the  doctor  proceeded  to  raise 
another  company.  This  little  band  was  enlisted 
as  Company  E,  Fifty-ninth  Ohio  Infantry,  for 
three  years'  service,  with  the  doctor  as  first  lieu- 
tenant. They  were  with  General  Nelson  on  his 
campaign  up  the  big  Sandy,  then  were  sent  into 
Kentucky  and  participated  in  the  battles  of  Pitts- 
burg Landing  and  Siege  of  Corinth,  besides  many 
minor  engagements.  The  doctor  was  for  a  time 
quartermaster  of  his  regiment;  then  brigade  quar- 
termaster, and  finally  was  promoted  to  be  bri- 
gade commissary  of  the  First  Brigade,  Second 
Division,  Fourth  Army  Corps,  serving  as  such 
from  the  battle  of  Stone  River  until  his  command 


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was  mustered  out  November  i,  1864.  He  was 
commissioned  captain  of  his  company  in  the 
spring  of  that  year.  While  in  the  army  he  had 
considerable  experience  in  hospital  work  as  well. 

When  he  resumed  the  ordinary  avocations  of 
life  Dr.  Smith  went  to  Cincinnati,  where  he  was 
employed  in  merchandising  for  a  couple  of  years. 
He  had  studied  music  in  his  college  days  and  in 
1866  was  offered  a  position  as  professor  of  the  art 
in  Monmouth  College,  Monmouth,  111.  At  the 
expiration  of  the  school  year  he  returned  to  Cin- 
cinnati and  engaged  in  the  drug  business,  at  the 
same  time  continuing  medical  studies  and  prac- 
ticing a  little.  Then  selling  out  the  drug  store 
he  became  interested  in  the  lumber  business,  sell- 
ing the  same  on  commission,  and  was  thus  em- 
ployed until  1874.  He  received  a  flattering  offer 
from  a  Salina  (Colo.)  company  which  was  then 
building  a  mill  for  the  treatment  of  ore,  to  be 
their  assayer,  and  this  brought  him  to  this  coun- 
ty first.  The  concern  failed  in  time  and  the  doc- 
tor began  practicing  his  profession.  In  1878  he 
located  in  Spring  Dale,  and  two  years  later  he 
came  to  L,ongmont,  which  has  since  been  his 
home.  He  has  made  a  specialty  of  rheumatism, 
skin  diseases  and  children's  ailments,  and  has 
conducted  a  general  practice.  He  is  president  of 
the  Longmout  Ore  Reduction  Company,  which 
is  erecting  a  new  mill  for  the  treatment  of  gold 
and  silver  by  chemical  process  (a  patented  meth- 
od) ,  thus  separating  the  precious  metals  from  al- 
loys within  a  few  hours. 

The  doctor  is  past  grand  in  the  Odd  Fellows' 
society;  belongs  to  Longmont  I^odge  No.  23, 
A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  and  for  two  successive  years  was 
commander  of  McPherson  Post  No.  6,  G.  A.  R. 
His  marriage  to  Miss  Mary  Schuessler  was  sol- 
emnized in  Clermont  County,  Ohio,  in  1855,  and 
their  three  living  children  are:  Mrs.  Bessie  Wil- 
cox, of  Cripple  Creek;  lyowell  S.,  a  printer  of 
Boulder;  and  Charles  B.,  a  merchant  in  Oska- 
loosa,  Kan.  Mrs.  Smith  was  born  in  Cincinnati, 
Ohio,  and  is  a  daughterof  John  Jacob  Schuessler, 
a  native  of  Wurtemberg,  Germany. 

The  Smith  family  to  which  our  subject  belongs 
settled  in  Massachu.setts  about  1650,  upon  their 
arrival  from  England.  The  great-grandfather 
and  the  grandfather  of  the  doctor  were  both  born 
in  Massachusetts,  and  the  latter,  Moses  Smith, 
was  a  hero  of  the  Revolutionary  war.  His  son, 
Moses,  Jr. ,  father  of  the  doctor,  was  a  native  of 


Franklin  County,  Mass.  He  lived  in  New  York 
state  for  a  year  after  his  marriage,  and  in  1837 
settled  in  Oberlin,Ohio.  In  i839hewent  to  Mount 
Vernon,  Ohio,  and  from  1847  until  his  death  in 
1879,  his  home  was  in  Delaware,  Ohio.  He  was 
born  in  1804  and  was  an  expert  machinist  and 
manufacturer  of  machinery.  His  eldest  brother, 
Rev.  Lowell  Smith,  went  as  a  missionary  to  the 
Sandwich  Islands  in  1832.  The  mother  of  our 
subject  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Sarah  Taylor. 
She  was  born  in  New  York  state  and  died  in  Ohio 
when  forty-five  years  of  age.  Of  her  five  chil- 
dren who  lived  to  maturity  but  three  now  sur- 
vive. One  of  her  sons,  Elam,  an  orderly  sergeant 
of  the  One  Hundred  and  Twenty-fourth  Ohio, 
was  killed  at  the  battle  of  New  Hope  Church, 
dying  before  his  commission  as  lieutenant  reached 
him.  Russell  Frederick,  another  son,  was  first 
lieutenant  of  the  doctor's  company,  Company  E, 
Fifty-ninth  Ohio,  and  died  in  Cincinnati  in  1881. 


^OHN  J.  RYAN,  a  pioneer  of  '60  and  one  of 
I  the  prominent  residents  of  Earimer  County, 
(2/  was  born  in  Roscrea,  County  Tipperary, 
Ireland,  and  is  a  son  of  John  and  Ann  (Meagher) 
Ryan,  natives  of  the  same  county  as  himself. 
His  paternal  grandfather,  Cornelius  Ryan,  was 
an  agriculturist  in  County  Tipperary,  where  he 
died.  Some  time  during  the  '40s,  John  Ryan 
brought  his  family  to  America  and  settled  near 
St.  Eouis,  Mo.,  where  he  engaged  in  farming. 
Afterward  he  joined  his  oldest  sons  in  Chicago, 
111. ,  where  he  died  at  the  age  of  about  sixty 
years.  By  his  first  marriage  he  had  four  children, 
two  of  whom  are  living,  Cornelius  and  Patrick, 
who  are  eighty  and  seventy-five  years  of  age 
respectively,  and  who  are  living  in  Chicago.  Of 
the  second  marriage  our  subject  is  the  sole 
survivor. 

Born  in  May,  1837,  Mr.  Ryan  was  a  mere 
child  when  the  family  emigrated  to  this  country. 
He  attended  the  public  schools  of  St.  Louis  and 
the  commercial  college  established  by  Jonathan 
Jones,  who  was  the  first  to  embark  in  the  com- 
mercial plan  of  instruction.  While  studying 
nights,  he  devoted  the  days  to  a  clerkship  in  a 
commission  house,  where  his  employer  was  kind 
and  gave  him  many  opportunities  for  study.  In 
1856  he  went  to  Davenport,  Iowa,  as  bookkeeper 
for  a  St.  Louis  gentleman,  who  embarked  in  the 


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lumber  business  there.  While  in  Davenport,  he 
was  married,  in  October,  1859,  to  Miss  Palegia 
J.  Leonard,  daughter  of  Harvey  Leonard,  who 
was  born  in  Indiana  of  an  old  eastern  family. 
He  was  a  pioneer  of  Scott  County,  Iowa,  where 
he  was  a  brick  manufacturer,  builder  and  con- 
tractor, and  owned  a  part  of  the  present  site  of 
Davenport.  For  over  twenty  years  he  was  sheriff 
of  Scott  County,  to  which  office  he  was  elected, 
on  the  Democratic  ticket,  during  the  war,  over  an 
unusually  large  Republican  majority.  For  a  time 
he  served  as  mayor  of  Davenport.  At  the  time  of 
his  death  he  was  seventy-eight  years  of  age. 

Shortly  after  his  marriage  Mr.  Ryan  came  to 
Colorado,  having  settled  up  the  business  of  the 
firm  he  was  with  in  Davenport  and  which  had 
failed.  With  five  others  he  went  to  Kansas  City 
and  outfitted  with  ox-train  and  a  year's  supplies, 
crossing  on  the  Sante  Fe  trail  to  the  Arkansas 
River,  thence  up  to  the  present  site  of  Pueblo, 
and  from  there  to  Denver,  where  he  arrived  after 
a  trip  of  five  weeks.  He  went  on  to  Central  City 
and  bought  a  gulch  claim,  where  he  engaged  in 
mining.  One  of  the  men  with  him,  a  Mr. 
Spencer  of  Davenport,  was  an  expert  miner, 
having  been  in  California  during  the  gold  ex- 
citement there.  However,  he  was  unfortunate  in 
his  mining  enterprises,  and  left  the  claim,  coming 
down  on  the  Big  Thompson,  where  he  hoped  he 
might  earn  enough  money  to  enable  him  to  re- 
turn to  civilization.  He  and  Mr.  Spencer  took 
up  a  claim  in  June,  i860,  adjoining  the  present 
town  site  of  Loveland  on  the  south,  which  land 
he  still  owns.  Mr.  Spencer  returned  to  Iowa  iu 
the  fall,  but  Mr.  Ryan  concluded  to  remain,  and 
with  the  help  of  a  German  he  put  up  over  fifty 
tons  of  hay,  which  he  hauled,  with  four  yoke  of 
cattle,  to  Golden  Gate.  He  had  bought  from  a 
Mr.  Tucker  of  Golden,  two  teams  and  a  wagon, 
contracting  to  pay  for  the  same  on  the  sale  of  the 
hay.  This  he  did,  and  also  purchased  provisions 
for  himself  In  the  spring  he  sold  the  balance  of 
the  hay  for  $30  per  ton  and  from  that  time  to 
this  he  has  never  known  the  want  of  a  dollar. 

Going  to  Fort  Hallock,  Wyo.,  with  W.  C. 
Stover  in  1861,  Mr.  Ryan  assisted  in  building 
that  fort.  In  1863  he  and  eleven  others  began  a 
small  ditch,  known  as  the  Big  Thompson  Irri- 
gation and  Manufacturing  Compan}''s  ditch, 
which  is  owned  to-day  by  practically  the  same 
men  as  those  who  started  it.     He  was  one  of  the 


directors  and  incorporators  of  the  company. 
Prior  to  that  he  kept  a  stage  station  on  the  Big 
Thompson,  on  the  overland  stage  line,  but  sold 
out  after  a  year.  In  1863  he  returned  to  Iowa, 
with  a  mule  team  and  a  light  spring  wagon,  and 
in  the  same  vehicle  brought  his  family  back  to 
Colorado,  where  they  settled  in  a  small  log 
house. 

A  Missourian,  driving  cattle  overland  to  Cali- 
fornia, stopped  on  the  Buckhorn  during  the 
winter.  In  the  spring  the  cattle  began  to  die, 
and,  fearing  he  would  lose  them  all,  he  adver- 
tised them  for  sale.  Mr.  Ryan  bought  seventy- 
five  or  eighty  head  and  in  that  way  embarked  in 
the  cattle  business.  When  his  boys  became  old 
enough  to  assist  him,  he  gave  them  an  interest 
in  the  business,  as  Ryan  &  Sons.  Meantime  he 
bought  more  land,  now  owning  .some  of  the  finest 
farms  in  the  county.  At  one  time  he  owned  a 
large  ranch  thirteen  miles  west  of  Loveland,  but 
this  property  he  sold.  He  brought  four  carloads 
of  Shorthorn  cattle  from  Kansas  and  for  some 
time  made  a  specialty  of  raising  this  breed,  but 
in  1894  he  retired  from  the  cattle  business  and 
moved  his  family  to  a  fine  residence  that  he  had 
purchased  in  Fort  Collins.  Since  the  organiza- 
tion of  the  Bank  of  Loveland  he  has  been  its 
vice-president  and  a  director.  His  five  children 
are  named  as  follows:  John  Harvey,  in  Salt  Lake 
City;  George  Leonard,  in  Idaho;  Charles,  who 
was  assistant  chemist  in  the  State  Agricultural 
College  at  Fort  Collins  and  will  graduate  from  the 
University  of  Michigan  in  1899;  William  L. ,  who 
was  educated  in  the  Colorado  State  Agricultural 
College;  and  Hattie,  who  graduated  from  St. 
Mary's  Academy  in  Denver,  married  W.  J.  Gal- 
ligan,  a  merchant  of  Loveland,  where  they 
reside. 

During  the  early  days,  prior  to  the  organiza- 
tion of  the  county,  law  was  administered  by  a 
Claim  Club,  of  which  Mr.  Ryan  was  one  of  the 
organizers  in  i860  and  later  its  secretary',  Robert 
Hereford  being  president,  and  J.  M.  Sherwood 
judge.  A  short  but  stringent  code  of  laws  was 
enacted  by  the  club,  which  meted  out  justice 
throughout  the  Cache  la  Poudre  and  Big  Thomp- 
son Valleys.  Those  who  lived  under  it  declare  that 
never  was  more  exact  justice  meted  out  than 
under  this  organization  of  settlers.  An  instance 
of  this  may  be  given  from  Mr.  Ryan's  own  ex- 
perience,    At  one  time  he  went  to  Central  City 


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with  a  load  of  hay  and,  stopping  to  visit  friends 
in  the  town,  was  gone  longer  than  actually  neces- 
sary. A  neighbor,  noticing  his  long  absence, 
sent  word  to  a  relative  in  Boulder,  inviting  him 
to  jump  the  claim.  The  knowledge  of  this  occu- 
pation, which  was  of  course  contrary  to  their 
laws,  reached  the  members  of  the  association, 
and  several  of  them  at  once  called  on  the  jumper 
and  warned  him  to  desist  and  leave  the  country. 
The  association  commanded  the  respect  of  all,  and 
even  those  who  were  unruly  elsewhere  here  tried 
to  keep  within  the  bounds  of  the  law.  All  dis- 
putes were  referred  to  the  association  judge,  and 
dissatisfied  parties  could  appeal  to  the  president, 
whose  decision  was  final.  When  the  county  was 
organized  Mr.  Ryan  was  appointed  one  of  the 
first  commissioners  and  assisted  in  perfecting  the 
organization.  For  one  term  he  was  mayor  of 
Loveland.  For  years  he  was  a  member  of  the 
school  board,  during  which  time  he  assisted  iu 
building  the  first  school  house.  In  early  days  he 
was  the  Democratic  nominee  for  the  territorial 
legislature,  but  the  district  being  Republican,  he 
was  defeated,  although  he  received  the  votes  of 
both  Democrats  and  Republicans  in  his  own 
county.  In  1877  he  was  appointed  a  trustee  of 
the  Colorado  State  Agricultural  College  by  Gov- 
ernor Routt,  an  appointment  that  was  afterward 
renewed  by  Governors  Pitkin,  Cooper  and  Adams 
(the  latter  in  1897).  He  is  by  many  years  the 
oldest  member  of  the  board  of  trustees,  of  which 
for  two  years  he  officiated  as  president.  He  has 
been  a  member  of  the  Colorado  Cattle  Growers' 
Association.  For  many  years  he  was  a  member 
of  the  Democratic  state  central  committee.  He 
has  served  as  delegate  to  every  state  convention 
but  one  since  the  state  was  organized,  and  in 
1888  was  alternate  to  the  Democratic  National 
convention,  which  he  attended.  The  Association 
of  Colorado  Pioneers  numbers  him  among  its 
active  members. 

pQlLLIAM  MITCHELL,  sheriff  of  Gilpin 
I A  /  County,  entered  upon  the  responsible  duties 
YY  of  his  office  in  January,  1898,  and  is  making 
a  good  record  for  the  faithful  manner  in  which 
he  performs  his  work  as  a  public  servant.  He 
was  nominated  on  the  Republican  ticket  for  the 
same  office  in  1895,  and  though'  not  then  elected 
his  friends  rallied  strongly  to  his  aid  in  the  cam- 
paign of  1 897 ,  when  his  name  again  came  up  for  the 


position.  At  various  times  he  has  done  effective 
service  on  the  county  and  state  committees  of  his 
party,  and  is  recognized  to  be  a  man  of  influence 
and  high  standing  in  political  circles.  Well  and 
favorably  known  throughout  this  county,  he  has 
been  a  resident  of  Central  City  for  the  past  twen- 
ty-six years,  and  has  been  actively  associated 
with  its  upbuilding  and  general  advancement. 
Among  the  fraternities  he  is  connected  with  the 
Knights  of  Pythias  and  the  Sons  of  St.  George. 

William  Mitchell  is  one  of  ten  children  whose 
parents  were  Thomas  and  Honor  (Williams)  Mit- 
chell, natives  of  County  Cornwall,  England. 
The  mother  is  still  living  on  the  old  homestead, 
but  the  father  died  some  years  ago,  at  the  age  of 
seventy-three  years.  He  was  a  blacksmith  by  oc- 
cupation and  carried  on  a  profitable  business, 
owning  his  shop  and  necessary  appliances.  His 
father,  John  Mitchell,  was  a  farmer  of  the  same 
locality.  All  but  one  of  the  brothers  and  sisters 
of  our  subject  reached  maturity,  and  are  still  liv- 
ing. Four  of  the  sons  are  in  the  United  States. 
Thomas  and  John  are  residents  of  California  and 
Henry  is  in  Colorado. 

After  he  had  completed  his  education  in  the 
public  schools  William  Mitchell  learned  the  black- 
smith's trade  of  his  father,  serving  a  regular  ap- 
prenticeship. At  the  expiration  of  this  period 
the  young  man  sailed  for  America,  leaving  Liver- 
pool and  going  direct  to  New  York.  The  first 
year  of  his  residence  in  the  United  States  Mr. 
Mitchell  was  employed  in  the  car  shops  of  the  Le- 
high Valley  Railroad  at  Lehighton,  Carbon  Coun- 
ty, Pa.  Thence  he  proceeded  to  Utah  and  the 
west  and  was  variously  occupied  up  to  the  fall  of 
1872,  when  he  landed  in  Central  City.  Here  he 
turned  his  attention  to  mining  operations,  with 
more  or  less  success  from  the  start.  He  has  de- 
veloped the  Robert  Emmett  mine,  the  Warwick 
and  the  Bobtail  and  is  now  connected  with  the 
East  Nodaway  Mining  Company,  which  is  oper- 
ating the  mine  of  that  name,  it  having  been  par- 
tially developed  previously  by  Mr.  Mitchell.  The 
Robert  Emmett  he  sold  at  a  good  price,  after  hav- 
ing placed  it  in  fine  condition.  By  application 
and  industry  he  has  amassed  a  comfortable  fort- 
une and  at  the  same  time  has  adhered  strictly  to 
correct  methods  of  doing  business,  and  deserves 
the  respect  which  is  accorded  him  by  all  who 
know  him. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Mitchell  and  Miss  Eliza- 


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beth  Jane  Stephens  was  celebrated  in  Central 
City  in  1 874.  Mrs.  Mitchell  was  born  in  Eng- 
land and  came  to  Colorado  with  her  father,  who 
located  here  in  1870  and  died  in  1873.  Six  chil- 
dren grace  the  union  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Mitchell. 
Thomas  Henry,  the  eldest,  is  interested  in  mining 
and  is  associated  with  his  father.  The  other 
members  of  the  little  household  are  named  in  the 
order  of  their  birth  as  follows:  Annie,  William, 
Maude,  Jane  and  Flora. 


NON.  ALLISON  H.  DeFRANCE,  judge  of 
the  first  district  of  Colorado,  was  born  in 
Mercer  County,  Pa.,  August  5,  1835,  and 
is  of  French  descent,  his  ancestors  being  repre- 
sented among  the  early  settlers  of  the  Keystone 
state.  His  great-grandfather,  who  founded  the 
family  in  this  country,  bore  a  valiant  part  in  the 
French  and  English  wars  in  the  middle  of  the 
eighteenth  century.  His  son,  James,  inherited 
his  father's  courage,  which  fact  was  shown  by 
his  honorable  participation  in  the  Revolution; 
by  occupation  a  farmer,  he  settled  in  Crawford 
County  and  improved  a  homestead  there. 

Allison  DeFrance,  the  judge's  father,  was  born 
in  Pennsylvania  and  was  one  of  three  brothers 
who  served  in  the  war  of  181 2.  About  1824  he 
settled  in  the  forest  of  Mercer  County,  where  he 
cut  down  timber,  grubbed  the  land  and  improved 
a  valuable  farm.  There  he  continued  to  reside 
until  his  death  at  seventy-two  years.  He  married 
Martha  Montgomery,  a  native  of  Mercer  County, 
where  she  died  at  the  age  of  seventy-nine.  In 
religious  belief  she  was  a  seceder.  Her  father, 
James  Montgomery,  was  of  Scotch  descent,  also 
a  seceder,  and,  like  others  of  that  class,  possessed 
strong  convictions  and  the  courage  to  maintain 
them  in  spite  of  opposition.  During  the  war  of 
18 1 2  he  was  colonel  of  a  regiment  and  later  he 
represented  his  district  in  the  state  legislature. 

The  family  of  Allison  and  Martha  DeFrance 
consisted  of  five  sons  ^nd  six  daughters  who  at- 
tained mature  years,  of  whom  the  following  sur- 
vive: Mrs.  Eliza  Sears,  of  Santa  Cruz,  Cal.;  James 
Montgomery,  an  attorney  of  Kirksville,  Mo., 
now  in  his  seventy-second  year;  John  Boone, 
who  occupies  the  old  homestead  in  Mercer  Coun- 
ty; William,  of  Golden;  Allison  H.;  and  Archi- 
bald M.,  who  is  in  Oregon.  Our  subject  was 
reared  on  a  farm  until  fifteen  years  of  age.     He 


attended  the  public  schools  and  a  private  school 
in  Meadville.  At  the  age  of  sixteen  he  taught 
school  for  one  winter,  and  then  spent  a  year  in 
Alleghany  College,  at  Meadville,  after  which  he 
attended  Westminster  College  at  New  Wilming- 
ton, Pa. ,  where  he  was  a  student  about  two  years. 
He  then  returned  to  Meadville  and  continued  a 
student  of  Alleghany  College  until  1857.  Mean- 
time he  began  the  study  of  law  at  home  and  after 
completing  his  literary  education  he  continued 
his  law  course  under  William  M.  Stevenson. 

When  the  Pike's  Peak  excitement  commenced 
Mr.  DeFrance  started  for  the  west.     On  his  way 
to    Colorado     he     stopped    to    visit  a  brother, 
James  M.,  in  Milan,  Mo.,  and  the  latter  persuaded 
him  to   remain   and  complete  his   law    studies. 
This  he  did,  staying  in  Milan  from  August,  1859, 
to  April  I,   1861,   and   meantime  receiving  ad- 
mission to  the  bar.     With  the  intention  of  carry- 
ing out  his  original  plan  he  went  to  St,  Joseph, 
Mo.,  expecting  to  cross  the  plains  by  coach;   but 
at  the  hotel  a  man  called  him  by  name,  and  turn- 
ing, he  found  an  old  friend  from  Pennsylvania  on 
his  way  to   Colorado,  with  an    ox-team.     The 
friend  invited  Mr.  DeFrance  to  join  him,  and  the 
two  came  along   the    Platte,    reaching    Denver 
June  6,    1 86 1,   after  a  trip  of  forty  days.      Our 
subject  went  to  Delaware  Flats,  seven  miles  from 
Breckenridge,  where  he  practiced  his  profession 
under  the  mining  laws.     His  brother,  James  M. , 
came  to  Colorado  in  1862,  and  settled  on  Ralston 
Creek,  in  Jefierson  County,  and  in  the  winter  of 
1862-63  they  opened  a  law  office  in  Denver;  but 
in  the  spring  he  decided  to  embark  in  the  dairy 
business;  he  hired  twenty  milch  cows   from  his 
brother,  which  he  took  to  Fairplay.     He  carried 
on  business  there  during  the  summer,  and  while 
there  was  nominated  for  the  legislature  against 
Jacob  Stansell  (Republican),  but  the  Democrats 
being  in  the  minority,   he  was  defeated,  though 
by  only  a  small  number  of  votes.     In  the  fall   of 
1863  he  located  twelve  miles  north  of  Colorado 
City,    but   in   the  spring  of  1864  he  settled  on 
Ralston  Creek,  Jefferson  County,  remaining  there 
until  he  removed  to  Golden  in  November,   1868. 
In  1867  he  was  elected  prosecuting  attorney  for 
the  county,   without  opposition,    and    held    the 
position  for  a  year,  which  was  the  limit  of  a  term 
at  that   time.     In   1868  he  opened  an    office   in 
Golden,  where  he  has  since  carried  on  professional 
practice.     In  the  fall  of  1869  he  was  elected  to 


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represent  his  county  in  the  territorial  legislature 
and  was  a  member  of  the  session  of  1870.  In 
187 1  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the  territorial 
council  and  served  in  the  council  of  1872.  Upon 
the  admission  of  Colorado  as  a  state  he  was 
elected  on  the  Democratic  ticket  to  the  first  state 
senate,  and  on  the  deciding  of  the  length  of  term 
by  lot  he  drew  the  four-year  term.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  session  of  1877,  at  which  time  the 
general  statutes  were  adopted.  In  1880  he  was 
re-elected,  and  served  until  1884,  in  the  first, 
second,  third  and  fourth  general  assemblies. 
Governor  Adams  appointed  him  one  of  the  su- 
preme court  commissioners  in  December,  1887, 
and  he  served  until  April  3,  1889,  when  his  term 
expired.  In  the  fall  of  1888  he  was  the  Demo- 
cratic nominee  for  judge  of  the  first  district,  but 
was  defeated  with  the  rest  of  the  ticket.  He  was 
again  nominated  in  1894,  as  the  candidate  of  the 
Populists  and  Democrats,  and  this  time  was 
elected  by  a  large  majority.  He  took  the  oath  of 
ofiice  in  January,  1895,  to  serve  until  1901,  as 
judge  of  the  district,  embracing  Jefferson,  Gilpin, 
Clear  Creek  and  Grand  Counties.  He  has  been 
a  member  of  the  state  Democratic  central  com- 
mittee and  in  many  ways  has  promoted  the  prog- 
ress of  his  party.  Fraternally  he  is  connected 
with  the  Knights  of  Honor. 

In  Golden,  Judge  DeFrance  married  Lucretia 
C.  Howell,  who  was  born  in  Carroll  County,  111. 
They  are  the  parents  of  four  children  now 
living:  Hugh  H.,  who  is  studying  law;  Alli- 
son H.,  Jr.,  Cora  and  Vera. 


HENRY  W.  SPANGLER,  attorney  and 
counselor-at-law,  of  Denver,  was  born  in 
Heidlersburg,  Adams  County,  Pa.,  March 
20,  1858,  and  was  the  eldest  of  the  three  children 
of  Jacob  R.  and  Sarah  A.  (Bender)  Spangler, 
both  natives  of  Adams  County.  He  had  a  sister, 
Alverda  Minerva,  who  died  in  Pennsylvania  at 
twenty  years  of  age,  and  a  brother,  Jacob  Ben- 
son Spangler,  M.  D.,  who  graduated  from  Hah- 
nemann Medical  College  in  Philadelphia,  and  is 
now  a  practicing  physician  of  Mechanicsburg, 
Pa.  The  family  is  of  remote  German  ancestry, 
but  has  long  been  represented  in  the  Keystone 
state.  The  maternal  grandfather  of  our  subject 
was  formerly  a  farmer  of  Adams  County,  and  the 
town  of  Bendersville  was  named  in   his  honor. 


The  father,  who  is  now  about  seventy  years  of 
age,  resides  in  Greencastle,  Franklin  County,  Pa. 

When  the  subject  of  this  sketch  was  a  child  of 
twelve  years,  the  family  removed  to  Franklin 
County,  and  there  he  was  a  pupil  first  in  a  school 
taught  in  an  old  log  building,  built  after  a  primi- 
tive mode  of  construction.  Later  he  attended 
the  G.  Fred  Zeigler  Academy  at  Greencastle  for 
two  years,  and  then  entered  the  preparatory  de- 
partment of  Dickinson  College  at  Carlisle,  Pa. 
At  the  age  of  twenty-two  he  entered  the  colle- 
giate department,  from  which  he  graduated  four 
years  later,  with  the  degree  of  A.  B.  While  in 
that  institution  he  took  an  active  part  in  the  or- 
ganization of  the  Phi  Delta  Theta,  which  society 
has  grown  to  be  the  strongest  in  the  college,  and 
of  which  he  is  still  a  member. 

Accepting  the  chair  of  mathematics  and  Latin 
in  the  academy  at  Greencastle,  Mr.  Spangler 
actively  entered  upon  his  work  as  an  instructor. 
His  evenings  were  devoted  to  the  reading  of  law 
under  Hon.  Lewis  E.  MeComas,  of  Hagerstown, 
Md.,  which  town  was  only  a  few  miles  from  his 
father's  home.  At  the  age  of  twenty-nine  he  was 
admitted  to  the  bar,  the  two  previous  years  hav- 
ing been  devoted  exclusively  to  law  study. 
About  that  time  his  alma  mater  conferred  upon 
him  the  degree  of  A.  M.  He  was  admitted  to 
practice  before  the  supremp  court  of  Maryland, 
but  decided  not  to  remain  in  that  state,  as  the 
west  presented  better  opportunities  to  a  young 
man.  He  went  to  Eldorado,  Butler  County, 
Kan. ,  where  he  opened  a  law  office  and  built  up 
a  good  business  in  law,  loans  and  real  estate. 
Unfortunately,  after  he  had  made  large  invest- 
ments in  town  property  and  had  laid  out  in  town 
lots  what  was  known  as  Spangler's  addition,  a 
depreciation  in  the  value  of  property  caused  the 
loss  of  all  he  had  invested. 

In  the  spring  of  1889  Mr.  Spangler  came  to 
Denver  and  began  the  practice  of  law.  On  the 
9th  of  May,  a  fewdaj's  after  his  arrival,  he  mar- 
ried Libbie  E.  Schlosser,  who  was  born  in  Cham- 
bersburg.  Pa.,  and  accompanied  her  parents  to 
Denver  during  the  year  that  Mr.  Spangler  set- 
tled in  Eldorado.  Their  family  consists  of  four 
living  children:  William  Earl,  Henry  Roy,  Ruth 
and  Helen  Elizabeth,  and  they  lost  one  child  in 
infancy.  They  are  members  of  Trinity  Method- 
ist Episcopal  Church,  in  which  denomination 
Mrs.  Spangler's  father  was  a  minister. 


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Reared  a  Republican,  Mr.  Spangler  advocated 
the  principles  of  that  party  for  some  time,  but  he 
is  now  a  stanch  Populist.  For  one  year  he 
served  as  police  magistrate,  and  for  three  years 
he  held  the  ofBce  of  town  attorney  for  Harman, 
Arapahoe  County,  later,  for  a  similar  period, 
holding  the  position  of  attorney  for  Globeville. 
He  has  represented  both  the  Republican  and  Peo- 
ple's parties  as  delegate  to  state  and  county  con- 
ventions, and  has  taken  a  warm  interest  in  pub- 
lic affairs.  Fraternally  he  is  a  member  of  Camp 
No.  I,  Woodmen  of  the  World,  which  is  one  of 
the  largest  camps  in  the  west. 


0AVIDC.  BEAMAN,  attorney  and  counselor- 
at-law,  is  also  secretary  for  the  Colorado 
Fuel  and  Iron  Company,  one  of  the  most 
important  industries  of  Colorado  and  the  west. 
At  the  time  he  became  connected  with  this  com- 
pany it  was  comparatively  small  in  capitalization, 
but  already  it  had  begun  to  reach  out  for  the  ac- 
quisition of  coal  lands  and  afterward,  by  the  ab- 
sorption of  other  coal  companies,  its  influence  was 
greatly  increased.  In  1892  consolidation  was 
effected  with  the  Colorado  Coal  and  Iron  Company 
and  the  name  was  changed  from  the  Colorado 
Fuel  Company  to  its  present  title.  The  combined 
capital  is  $13,000,000,  and  each  mouth  from  $100,- 
000  to  $1 20,000  is  paid  out  in  wages  to  the  employ- 
es, numbering  from  five  to  seven  thousand.  The 
company  owns  twenty-three  coal  mines  in  Colo- 
rado, having  about  seventy  thousand  acres  of  coal 
and  iron  laud  in  Colorado,  besides  eight  thousand 
acres  of  coal  land  in  Wyoming  that  is  not  yet 
opened.  They  own  substantially  all  the  anthra- 
cite coal  in  Colorado  and  in  fact,  west  of  the  Alle- 
ghanies,  except  a  little  in  Arkansas  and  New 
Mexico.  For  the  fiscal  year  ending  June  30, 
1897,  the  gross  earnings  were  $5,061,734.27, 
which  was  a  decrease  from  the  preceding  year  of 
a  half  million  dollars,  but  the  year  1898  has  shown 
a  vast  increase  over  1897.  1*^^  coal  produced 
for  the  year  ending  June  30,  1897,  was  2,056,000 
tons;  coke,  262,000  tons;  iron  ore,  20,000  tons; 
and  iron  and  steel,  105,000  tons,  which  was  some 
decrease  over  the  previous  year.  For  operating 
expenses  and  management  $4,250,000  was  paid 
out,  nearly  all  of  which  was  expended  in  Colo- 
rado. As  a  home  industry,  therefore,  the  com- 
pany has  exerted  a  large  influence  and  accom- 


plished much  for  the  developing  of  the  resources 
of  the  state  and  the  furnishing  of  steady  employ- 
ment to  hundreds  of  men.  The  steel  plant  at 
Pueblo  has  been  recently  remodeled  with  electric 
appliances,  at  a  cost  of  over  half  a  million. 

The  ofiicers  of  the  company  are  as  follows:  J.  C. 
Osgood,  president;  Henry  R.  Wolcott,  first 
vice-president;  J.  A.  Kebler,  second  vice-presi- 
dent and  general  manager;  John  L.  Jerome,  treas- 
urer; A.  C.  Cass,  third  vice-president  and  gen- 
eral sales  agent;  D.  C.  Beaman,  general  attorney 
and  secretary;  S.  I.  Heyn,  assistant  secretary. 
The  general  offices  are  in  the  Boston  building, 
Denver,  where  about  sixty  men  are  employed. 
The  board  of  directors  consists  of  John  G.  Moore, 
Henry  W.  Cannon,  E.  Thalmann,  and  George 
H.  Prentiss,  all  of  New  York;  C.  D.  Simpson,  of 
Scranton,  Pa.;  A.  C.  Cass,  J.  C.  Osgood,  Henry 
R.  Wolcott,  Dennis  Sullivan,  W.  H.  James, 
C.  H.  Toll,  John  1,.  Jerome  and  J.  A.  Kebler,  of 
Denver. 

Mr.  Beaman  was  born  in  Lawrence  County, 
Ohio,  November  22,  1838,  the  son  of  Rev.  Gama- 
liel C.  and  Amelia  (Crichton)  Beaman.  His 
father,  who  was  a  native  of  Massachusetts,  was  a 
son  of  David  Beaman,  a  selectman  of  his  town;  in 
youth  he  was  given  excellent  educational  advan- 
tages and  prepared  for  college  at  Amherst  Acad- 
emy, later  graduating  from  Union  College,  in 
Schenectady,  N.  Y.,  and  in  1831  completing  the 
theological  course  at  Andover.  His  first  charge 
was  in  Piketon,  Pike  County,  Ohio,  and  from 
there  he  went  to  Burlington,  Lawrence  County, 
Ohio,  where  he  served  as  pastor  of  the  church 
and  also  as  principal  of  the  academy.  In  1846 
he  removed  to  Montrose,  Lee  County,  Iowa,  and 
one  of  the  most  vivid  recollections  in  our  subject's 
mind  is  of  the  burning  of  the  Mormon  Temple 
just  across  the  Mississippi  River,  at  Nauvoo,  111., 
which  took  place  two  years  after  they  settled  in 
Iowa.  At  different  points  in  Lee  County  the 
father  continued  to  make  his  home  until  1874, 
and  then  settled  in  Croton.  He  died  at  the  age 
of  seventy-six  years. 

At  the  time  of  removing  to  Iowa  our  subject 
was  less  than  eight  years  of  age.  His  education 
was  obtained  in  the  public  schools,  Denmark 
Academy  and  Oberlin  College,  two  years  being 
spent  in  the  preparatory  department  of  the  latter 
institution.  On  returning  to  Iowa  he  entered  the 
railroad  business  as  station  agent  at  Croton  for  the 


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Des  Moines  Valley  Railroad,  and  continued  with 
the  same  company  until  1861,  when  he  enlisted 
in  the  United  States  service;  however,  before  his 
company  was  mustered  in,  he  entered  the  revenue 
service  of  the  United  States,  which  was  connected 
with  the  railroad  service.  His  company  took 
part  in  two  engagements  before  he  entered  the 
revenue  service.  He  and  General  Belknap  were 
standing  side  by  side  when  they  heard  the  first 
shot  of  a  rebel  cannon  in  the  battle  of  Athens,  Mo. , 
and  Mr.  Beaman  afterward  secured  the  ball,  which 
he  preserves  as  a  memento  of  the  Rebellion. 

Upon  leaving  the  railroad  and  revenue  service, 
Mr.  Beaman  entered  the  mercantile  business, 
which  he  carried  on  for  a  few  years.  During  that 
time  he  began  the  study  of  law  and  in  1869  he 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  Van  Buren  County, 
Iowa,  where  he  was  then  living.  He  carried  on 
legal  practice  in  the  same  place  for  five  years  and 
then  moved  to  the  county  seat,  Keosauqua,  where 
he  formed  a  partnership  with  Joseph  C.  Knapp, 
who  was  a  member  of  the'  committee  appointed 
by  the  church  to  try  Henry  Ward  Beecher,  on 
account  of  the  Tilton  affair;  the  committee,  how- 
ever, reported  that  there  were  no  charges  against 
the  famous  preacher  except  vague  newspaper 
rumors  and  hence  the  trial  never  came  off. 

From  1874,  when  he  formed  a  partnership  with 
Mr.  Knapp,  Mr.  Beaman  had  an  important  and 
lucrative  practice  and  also  bore  a  prominent  part 
in  public  affairs.  At  one  time  he  was  the  Repub- 
lican nominee  for  thelegislatiire,  but  was  defeated. 
In  1882  he  moved  to  Ottumwa,  Iowa,  where  he 
formed  a  partnership  with  E.  H.  Stiles  and  re- 
mained there  .until  1887.  While  in  Keosauqua 
and  Ottumwa  he  was  attorney  for  the  Burlington 
and  Rock  Island  Railroads,  which  constituted  his 
principal  practice.  In  1887  he  came  to  Colorado 
and  accepted  the  position  of  general  attorney  for 
the  Colorado  Fuel  Company,  since  merged  into 
the  Colorado  Fuel  and  Iron  Company,  in  which 
he  is  a  stockholder. 

At  Athens,  Mo.,  December  31,  i860,  Mr.  Bea- 
man married  Luella  A.  Smith,  who  was  born  in 
Kentucky,  a  daughter  of  Dalzell  and  Mary  A. 
(Thome)  Smith,  and  a  relative  of  Professor 
Thome,  of  Cleveland  Ohio.  They  are  the  par- 
ents of  four  children.  The  eldest,  James  L.,  who 
was  born  in  Independent  (now  Selma) ,  Van  Buren 
County,  Iowa,  is  a  printer  by  trade,  and  at  this 
writing  holds  the  office  of  sheriff  of  Pueblo  County, 


Colo.  He  is  married  and  has  three  children. 
George  C,  who  is  also  married,  is  chief  clerk  in 
the  company's  coal  mines  at  Picton,  Huerfano 
County,  this  .state.  The  only  daughter,  Mrs. 
Alice  M.  Harper,  is  the  mother  of  two  children 
and  lives  in  Ottumwa,  Iowa.  The  youngest  son, 
Arthur  D. ,  who  is  married  and  has  one  child, 
is  mine  clerk  at  Walsenburg,  Huerfano  County, 
for  the  company  of  which  his  father  is  secretary. 
The  sons  are  capable  business  men  and  in  politics, 
like  their  father,  support  the  silver  cause,  being 
firm  in  their  allegiance  to  the  movement  for  the 
restoration  of  silver  to  its  proper  standard. 


pCJlLLIAM  ALTON  BURR,  M.  D.,  came  to 
\A/  Denver  November  2,  1882,  and  has  since 
V  V  engaged  in  the  general  practice  of  medicine 
here.  In  the  ranks  of  the  homeopathists  he  has 
been  prominent  and  influential.  He  assisted  in 
the  organization  of  the  Denver  Homeopathic 
Medical  Club,  of  which  he  served  as  president, 
and  he  has  also  held  the  oSice  of  vice-president  of 
the  Colorado  State  Homeopathic  Medical  Society. 
When  the  advisability  of  establishing  a  college 
for  instruction  in  homeopathy  was  being  dis- 
cussed, he  enthusiastically  favored  such  a  step 
and  made  the  motion  for  organization.  He  has 
since  been  deeply  interested  in  the  growth  of  the 
college,  in  which  he  is  noUf  professor  of  theory 
and  practice.  An  editor  of  the  Denver  Journal 
of  Homeopathy,  he  remained  on  the  staff  of  the 
paper  when  its  name  was  changed  to  the  Critique. 
In  Livingston  County,  N.  Y.,  Dr.  Burr  was 
born  June  15,  1840,  the  son  of  Lyman  E.  and 
Fannie  (Kelsey)  Burr.  The  family  name  was 
originally  Burres,  but  the  present  spelling  has 
been  in  use  for  generations.  The  family  origin- 
ated in  England,  whence  three  brothers  came  at 
different  times  to  America,  Benjamin  becoming 
the  progenitor  of  the  Hartford  branch,  John 
of  the  Fairfield  branch,  while  Rev.  Jona- 
than Burr  founded  the  branch  in  Dorchester. 
From  Benjamin  the  ancestral  line  is  traced 
through  Samuel,  Jonathan,  Nathaniel,  Samuel 
and  John,  to  Lyman  E.  Burr.  The  last-named 
was  born  in  Haddam,  Conn.,  and  in  1837  moved 
to  Genesee  County,  N.  Y.,  where  he  improved  a 
tract  of  land.  He  was  a  man  of  influence  and 
was  popular  among  his  fellow-citizens.  In  1843 
he  moved  to  McHenry   County,    111.,  where  he 


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died  in  1849,  aged  forty-six  years.  Prior  to  his 
removal  from  Connecticut  he  represented  his 
district  in  the  state  legislature.  In  1824  he  mar- 
ried Fannie  Kelsey,  who  died  in  McHenry 
County,  111.,  in  1859,  aged  fifty-seven  years.  Of 
their  eleven  children  all  but  two  reached  mature 
years. 

After  gaining  a  common-school  education  in 
McHenry  County,  the  subject  of  this  sketch 
entered  Cornell  College  at  Mount  Vernon,  Iowa, 
his  brother-in-law.  Rev.  S.  M.  Fellows,  being 
president  of  the  institution  at  the  time.  During 
the  war,  while  in  college,  he  and  a  number  of 
other  students  enlisted  in  Company  D,  Forty- 
fourth  Iowa  Infantry,  serving  until  the  close  of 
the  Rebellion.  He  then  returned  at  once  to  his 
studies,  and  continued  in  college  until  his  gradu- 
ation from  the  classical  course  in  1867.  On  the 
completion  of  his  literary  course  he  began  the 
study  of  medicine  in  the  Michigan  State  Uni- 
versity at  Ann  Arbor,  but  after  one  3'ear  there  he 
entered  the  Hahnemann  Medical  College,  from 
which  he  graduated  in  1869.  Immediately  after- 
ward he  opened  an  office  in  Lincoln,  Neb. ,  where 
he  became  known  as  a  competent  physician  and 
surgeon.  While  in  that  city,  in  1872,  he  was 
elected  lay  delegate  to  the  general  conference  of 
the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  in  Brooklyn, 
N.  Y.  For  several  years  he  was  county  coroner. 
In  1874  he  came  to  Colorado  and  located  in 
Georgetown,  being  county  coroner  during  four  of 
his  eight  years  there.  From  Georgetown  he  re- 
moved to  Denver  in  1882.  He  is  an  active  mem- 
ber of  the  Trinity  Methodist  Episcopal  Church, 
of  Denver,  and  for  several  years  has  served  upon 
its  official  board.  During  his  residence  in  Lincoln 
he  married  Florence  A.,  daughter  of  Philetus 
Peck,  of  that  city, 'and  who,  like  himself,  is  a 
Methodist  in  religious  belief. 


■"RWIN  L.  REGENNITTER,  LL.  B.,  dis- 
'p  trict  attorney  for  the  first  district  of  Colo- 
^  rado,  is  the  youngest  attorney  to  hold  that 
office  in  the  state,  and  is  a  graduate  of  the  law 
department  of  the  University  of  Colorado.  He 
was  born  in  Davenport,  Iowa,  May  17,  1870,  the 
son  of  Diederich  and  Lena  (Hoeck)  Regennitter. 
His  grandfather,  Gerhardt  Regennitter, emigrated 
to  America  from  Prussia  and  settled  in  Daven- 
port, Iowa,  in  1854,  there  engaging  in  mercantile 


business  until  his  death,  at  more  than  seventy 
years  of  age.  Diederich  Regennitter  was  bom  at 
Wesel  on  the  Rhine,  in  Prussia,  and  was  seven 
years  of  age  at  the  time  the  family  emigrated  to  the 
United  States.  He  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools  of  Davenport,  where  he  still  makes  his 
home.  For  many  years  he  has  been  a  commer- 
cial traveler.  During  the  war  he  served  in  an 
Iowa  regiment.  His  wife,  who  was  born  near 
Kiel,  Holstein,  is  a  daughter  of  the  late  Heinrich 
Hoeck,  who  settled  in  Davenport  in  1853.  By 
her  marriage  four  children  were  born,  namely: 
Franklin  H.,  of  Chicago,  111.;  Erwin  L.;  A.  Es- 
tella  and  C.  Josephine,  both  of  Davenport. 

It  is  doubtless  due  to  his  inheritance  from  his 
Holland-Dutch  ancestors  that  the  subject  of  this 
sketch  possesses  the  force  ofwill  and  perseverance 
that  acknowledge  no  obstacle.  He  graduated 
from  a  commercial  college  in  Davenport,  and  then 
became  a  clerk  in  a  wholesale  house  in  Des 
Moines,  where  he  remained  for  two  years.  After- 
ward he  traveled  for  the  house  in  Iowa  and  Illi- 
nois. Returning  to  Davenport  after  eighteen 
months  on  the  road,  he  engaged  in  mercantile 
business  for  himself.  In  the  fall  of  1892,  having 
decided  to  take  up  the  profession  of  the  law,  he 
entered  the  law  office  of  Alfred  Claussen,  and 
studied  under  him  until  the  next  June,  when  he 
came  to  Denver.  That  fall  he  entered  the  law 
school  of  the  University  of  Colorado  in  Boulder, 
from  which  he  graduated  in  June,  1895,  with  the 
degree  of  LL-  B.  He  was  always  at  the  head  of 
his  classes,  and  was  class  president  the  senior  year. 
He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  Colorado,  March 
13,  1895,  three  months  before  graduation.  After 
leaving  college  he  located  in  Idaho  Springs  and 
opened  a  law  office,  where  he  has  since  been  en- 
gaged in  the  general  practice  of  law,  and  has  ac- 
quired a  very  lucrative  and  desirable  business.  In 
1897  he  was  nominated  for  district  attorney  on 
the  Democratic  ticket  and  was  endorsed  by  the 
Populists.  The  first  district  embraces  Clear 
Creek,  Gilpin,  Jefferson  and  Grand  Counties,  and 
his  majority  in  his  home  county  was  sweeping, 
three  to  one,  eleven  hundred  and  twenty-six  ma- 
jority, which  was  sufficient  to  overcome  the  oppo- 
sition of  the  other  counties  and  give  him  a  major- 
ity of  three  hundred  in  the  district.  He  took  his 
office  in  January,  1898,  for  three  years.  He  gives 
his  entire  attention  to  the  practice  of  the  law. 

In  1896  Mr.  Regennitter  carried  to  the  supreme 


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court  of  the  state  a  case  in  which  more  general 
interest  has  since  been  manifested  than  in  any 
case  which  has  appeared  on  the  docket  of  that 
court  for  many  years.  It  is  the  case  of  Wilkins 
vs.  Abell.  He  is  trying  to  have  the  higher  court 
reverse  the  judgment  entered  by  the  court  below 
by  attempting  to  show  that  a  statute  which,  by 
implication,  gives  a  lien  on  the  estate  of  the  lessor 
to  a  person  working  for  a  lessee — -for  wages  due 
him  by  the  lessee — should  not  be  so  construed. 
Many  such  liens  were  enforced  under  this  statute 
prior  to  the  filing  of  the  first  brief  in  this  case  by 
Mr.  Regennitter,  but  since  that  time  five  out  of 
the  thirteen  district  judges  in  the  state  have  held 
the  law  to  be  as  contended  for  by  him. 

In  Idaho  Springs,  in  1896,  Mr.  Regennitter 
married  Miss  Annie  P.  Houghton,  daughter  of 
Henry  I,.  Houghton,  a  merchant  of  Portland, 
Me. ,  where  she  was  born.  She  was  a  member  of 
the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  and  a  most  ex- 
emplary lady.  She  departed  this  life  in  October, 
1898.  Mr.  Regennitter  is  a  Democrat  in  politics. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Knights  of  Pythias,  and 
keeps  in  touch  with  the  university  from  which 
he  graduated,  being  a  member  of  the  Alumni 
and  of  the  Sigma  Alpha  Epsilon  fraternity  of  that 
institution. 

(I  AMES  MONROE  WALKER,  M.  D.,  came 
I  to  Colorado  from  Illinois  in  1873  and  opened 
(2)  an  oflice  near  the  corner  of  Larimer  and 
Fifteenth  streets,  Denver,  where  he  began  in  the 
practice  of  the  medical  profession.  Later,  for 
fifteen  years,  he  had  his  office  on  Stout  and 
Seventeenth  streets,  while  at  this  writing  he  is 
located  at  No.  1265  Broadway.  Upon  his  arrival 
he  identified  himself  with  the  Homeopathic  fra- 
ternity, who  recognize  in  him  a  valuable  addition 
to  their  ranks.  For  a  time  he  ofiiciated  as  presi- 
dent of  the  Colorado  State  Homeopathic  Medical 
Society,  in  which  he  is  an  active  worker;  and  he 
has  also  been  president  of  the  Colorado  State 
Board  of  Medical  Examiners,  and  is  identified 
with  the  American  Institute  of  Homeopathy. 

Dr.  Walker  was  born  in  Covington,  Va., 
September  29,  1847,  and  is  a  descendant  of  one  of 
the  F.  F.  Vs.  George  Walker  was  born  in 
Pennsylvania,  of  German  parentage,  and  re- 
moved from  that  state  to  Virginia,  where  he  set- 
tled upon  a  plantation.  His  son,  Daniel,  was 
born  in  Botetourt  County,  that  state,  March    14, 


1793,  and  selected  agriculture  as  his  life  work, 
following  it  through  his  entire  active  life.  He 
was  united  in  marriage  in  1815  with  Catherine 
Myers,  of  Virginia,  who  attained  the  advanced 
age  of  ninety,  while  he  died  at  the  age  of  eighty- 
nine,  near  Charleston,  W.  Va.  It  is  a  remark- 
able fact  that  all  their  twelve  children  are  living 
at  this  date  (1898),  the  youngest  being  seventy 
years  of  age. 

One  of  the  six  sons  was  Alfred,  father  of  Dr. 
Walker.  He  was  born  in  Botetourt  County,  Va. , 
in  May,  1824,  and  in  1849  removed  to  Greenfield, 
111. ,  where  he  has  since  resided.  By  occupation 
he  is  a  farmer.  At  times  he  has  been  called  upon 
to  officiate  as  a  local  minister  in  the  Methodist 
Church,  of  which  denomination  he  has  long  been 
a  member.  Politically  he  has  been  a  Republican 
since  the  organization  of  the  party.  His  honored 
and  useful  life  has  brought  him  the  esteem  and 
confidence  of  all  who  know  him.  He  married 
Miss  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Charles  Dew,  a  na- 
tive of  North  Carolina.  She  died  at  the  age  of 
thirty-six,  leaving  only  one  child  that  reached 
mature  years. 

After  completing  an  academic  education,  the 
subject  of  this  sketch  began  to  teach  school  and 
during  the  two  years  that  he  followed  that 
occupation  he  devoted  his  leisure  hours  to  the 
study  of  medicine,  under  the  preceptorship  of  Dr. 
David  Jones,  of  Girard,  111.  Later  he  entered 
the  St.  Louis  College  of  Homeopathic  Physicians 
and  Surgeons,  from  which  he  graduated  in  1871. 
On  the  completion  of  his  medical  studies  he 
opened  an  office  in  Winchester,  Scott  County, 
111.,  and  there  he  remained  for  three  years,  until 
he  removed  to  Denver.  In  that  city,  April  25, 
1872,  he  married  Caroline  Moses,  daughter  of 
Hon.  John  Moses,  who  was  judge  of  the  county 
court  for  some  time  and  at  one  time  a  banker  in 
Winchester.  For  years  he  was  an  active  figure 
in  the  politics  of  Illinois.  From  Winchester  he 
removed  to  Chicago,  where  he  resided  until  his 
death  in  1898.  Few  citizens  of  Illinois  were 
better  informed  than  he  regarding  the  history  of 
the  state,  and  his  extensive  information  on  this 
subject  h&  compiled  and  published  in  a  history  of 
Chicago  and  Illinois.  As  secretary  of  the  State 
Historical  Society  he  also  assisted  in  the  gathering 
of  data  that  will  be  of  priceless  value  to  future 
generations.  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Walker  have  two 
children:  James  F.  and  Stanley  Moses. 


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Though  not  active  in  public  affairs,  Dr.  Walker 
has  decided  opinions  on  political  questions  and  is 
a  stanch  Republican.  When  he  was  a  mere  lad 
the  Civil  war  broke  out  and  his  sympathies  were 
on  the  side  of  the  Union.  In  September,  1864, 
he  enlisted  in  the  armj'  as  a  member  of  Company 
E,  Twenty-eighth  Illinois  Infantry,  and  partici- 
pated, among  other  engagements,  in  the  siege  of 
Mobile,  being  honorably  discharged  at  the  close 
of  the  war. 


3AC0B  H.  ROBESON,  mayor  of  George- 
town, and  superintendent  of  the  Dives  Pelican 
mine,  is  the  son  of  a  Colorado  pioneer  and 
descends  from  Scotch  ancestry.  His  great-grand- 
father, Solomon  Robeson,  a  native  of  Scotland, 
settled  in  Virginia,  where  he  bought  a  plantation, 
but  removed  to  Ohio  in  an  early  day  and  settled- 
in  Knox  County.  His  son,  Joseph,  was  born  in 
Rockingham  County,  Va.,  and  engaged  in  farm- 
ing in  Knox  County,  Ohio,  where  he  died  at 
seventy-nine  years  of  age.  Next  in  line  of  de- 
scent was  Solomon,  a  native  of  Mount  Vernon, 
Knox  County,  and  the  son  of  Joseph  and  Sarah 
E.  (Roof)  Robeson,  the  latter  a  native  of  Penn- 
sylvania, of  German  descent.  He  was  one  of  a 
family  of  seven  sons  and  four  daughters,  all  of 
whom  but  two  sons  are  still  living,  he  being  the 
fifth.  Three  of  the  sons  took  part  in  the  Civil 
war  as  members  of  an  Ohio  regiment. 

In  1856  Solomon  Robeson  removed  to  Astoria, 
111.,  where  he  engaged  in  farming.  In  1859  he 
crossed  the  plains  via  ox-train  from  Fort  Leaven- 
worth over  the  Smoky  Hill  route  to  Denver, 
where  he  arrived  May  15,  1859.  On  the  way  he 
met  discouraged  people  returning,  believing  that 
nothing  but  starvation  awaited  a  prospector  in 
Colorado.  While  they  were  in  Denver,  resting 
from  their  long  journey,  news  came  of  the  dis- 
covery of  gold  at  Gregory's  camp.  Mr.  Robeson 
hastened  to  Central  City,  where  he  engaged  in 
prospecting  and  raining.  Returning  east  in  the 
spring  of  i860  he  came  to  Colorado  a  second  time, 
and  resumed  prospecting  at  Central  City.  In 
the  fall  of  i860  he  again  went  back,  remaining 
until  the  spring  of  1862,  when  he  came  with  his 
brother  and  others,  and  went  over  the  range 
from  Gunnison,  where  he  engaged  in  gulch  min- 
ing. He  went  from  there  to  Blackhawk,  where 
he  worked  for  a  time.  March  14,  1863,  he  started 
for  Montana,  driving  twelve  mules,  and  engaging 


in  gulch  mining  on  his  arrival  at  the  gold  dig- 
gings. While  there  he  discovered  Colorado 
Gulch.  When  fall  came  he  returned  to  Illi- 
nois, where  he  spent  the  winter,  and  in  the  spring 
again  came  to  the  mountains,  his  brother  Thomas, 
who  was  in  charge  of  the  mines,  having  died 
during  his  absence. 

After  having  remained  in  Gilpin  County  until 
1867,  Mr.  Robeson  located  in  Georgetown,  where 
he  has  since  made  his  home.  Among  the  mines 
he  discovered  are  the  Ruby  Lode,  Great  Western, 
Charter  Oak,  Fisk,  Illinois,  Central,  Louisa, 
Rosa,  Robbie,  Horace,  Morrison,  Crystal,  etc., 
some  of  which  have  been  good  producers. 

While  in  Illinois  he  was  made  a  Mason,  and 
now  holds  membership  in  Georgetown  Lodge  No. 
48,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.  He  is  also  connected  with  the 
Clear  Creek  County  Pioneers'  Society  and  the 
Association  of  Colorado  Pioneers.  In  religion 
he  is  a  Universalist,  and  politically  advocates 
Democratic  doctrines.  He  crossed  the  plains 
nine  times  by  team,  before  the  days  of  railroads, 
and  was  fortunate  in  that  his  part}'  was  never  at- 
tacked by  Indians,  although  the  savages  were 
hostile  and  murdered  many  emigrants  during 
those  early  days. 

In  New  Castle,  Ohio,  Mr.  Robeson  married 
Miss  Louisa  Zimmerman,  who  was  born  in  Cosh- 
octon County,  Ohio,  and  was  a  daughter  of  David 
and  Rebecca  (Gifiin)  Zimmerman;  her  father, who 
was  a  member  of  a  Pennsylvania  family,  was  a 
hotel  keeper  in  Mount  Vernon  for  many  years. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Robeson  had  three  children,  namely: 
David,  who  is  inside  superintendent  of  the  Peli- 
can mine;  Sarah  Ellen  and  Jacob  H. 

Jacob  H.  Robeson  was  born  in  Fulton  Count}', 
near  Astoria,  111.,  August  15,  1861.  In  i87i,he 
came  with  the  family  to  Colorado,  where  he  was 
a  pupil  in  a  private  school  until  the  public  school 
was  established  in  1874.  In  1879  he  graduated 
from  the  high  school,  and  afterward  turned  his  at- 
tention to  mining,  working  with  his  father  until 
1887,  when  he  was  made  superintendent  of  the 
Mayflower  mine  in  Idaho  Springs.  Two  years 
later  he  resigned  the  position  and  accepted  the 
superintendency  of  Dives  Pelican  mine  at  Silver 
Plume,  which  includes  twenty-two  claims.  Re- 
cently the  7:30  property,  with  sixty-five  patented 
claims,  has  been  added  to  it.  The  underground 
workings  extend  over  twenty  miles,  being  the 
largest  of  any  mine  in  Colorado.     Constant  em- 


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ployment  is  furnished  two  hundred  and  sixty- 
five  men.  It  is  a  remarkable  fact  that  the  Dives 
Pelican  mines  paid  more  taxes  in  1897  on  gross 
output  than  all  the  mining  interests  of  Clear 
Creek  County.  In  addition  to  this  business,  Mr. 
Robeson  owns  interests  in  mines  in  the  Dailey 
mining  district,  and  is  a  prosperous  and  exten- 
sive miner. 

In  the  Democratic  party  Mr.  Robeson  is  a  local 
leader,  and  also  exerts  an  influence  upon  the 
party  in  the  state,  being  a  member  of  the  state 
central  committee  and  the  state  executive  com- 
mittee. In  1897  h^  w^s  chairman  of  the  county 
and  district  convention,  and  frequently  he  has 
been  chosen  a  delegate  to  the  state  convention. 
At  this  writing  he  is  chairman  of  the  county  cen- 
tral committee.  April  4,  1898,  he  was  elected 
mayor  of  Georgetown  by  a  majority  of  one  hun- 
dred and  thirty-eight,  and  is  filling  this  responsi- 
ble position  in  a  manner  highly  creditable  to 
himself  and  satisfactory  to  people  of  all  political 
parties.  He  was  married  in  Idaho  Springs  to 
Miss  Nettie  Rose  Smith  Williams,  who  was  born 
in  Warsaw,  Ind.  ,and  they  have  had  two  chil- 
dren, Chester  Woodson  and  Lawrence  Jerome, 
but  the  older  of  these  sons  died  at  four  months. 

In  fraternal  relations  Mr.  Robeson  is  past 
master  of  Georgetown  Lodge  No.  48,  A.  F.  & 
A.  M.,  and  is  also  identified  with  Georgetown 
Chapter  No.  4,  R.  A.  M.;  Georgetown  Com- 
mandery  No.  4,  K.  T.,  and  holds  membership 
with  the  Red  Men  and  the  Ancient  Order  of 
United  Workmen. 


HPTON  T.  SMITH,  treasurer  of  Douglas 
County  and  a  well-known  citizen  of  Castle 
Rock,  was  born  in  Monroe,  Waldo  County, 
Me.,  September  22,  1843,  and  is  a  son  of  Gusta- 
vus  Watson  and  Rosilla  (Pattee)  Smith.  His 
paternal  grandfather,  Daniel  Smith,  who  it  is 
thought  was  born  in  New  Hampshire,  settled  in 
Waldo  County,  Me.,  about  1800,  and  there  the 
father  was  born  and  reared,  later  becoming  one 
of  the  most  prominent  citizens  of  the  town  of 
Monroe,  which  he  served  as  selectman.  His 
fellow-townsmen  would  have  gladly  elected  him 
to  the  legislature,  but  he  refused  to  accept  the 
nomination,  not  desiring  the  office. 

When  our  subject  was  thirteen  years  of  age,  his 
father  having  married  again  and  removed  to  an- 
other county,  he  went  to  make  his  home  with  a 


cousin,  and  there  remained  about  four  years, 
meantime  attending  the  country  schools  and  later 
the  academy  at  Newburgh  for  one  term.  For 
one  year  he  was  employed  as  a  messenger  for  the 
high  sheriff  of  Penobscot  County.  In  May,  1861, 
at  the  first  call  for  three  months'  service,  he  en- 
listed, but  the  company  was  not  accepted  under 
that  call.  On  the  28th  of  the  same  month  he 
again  enlisted,  becoming  a  member  of  Com- 
pany H,  Sixth  Maine  Infantry,  which  was  as- 
signed to  the  Army  of  the  Potomac.  Among  the 
engagements  in  which  He  took  part  were  those  of 
Williamsburg,  Fair  Oaks,  Cold  Harbor,  Antie- 
tam,  Fredericksburg,  Rappahannock  Station, 
Chancellorsville,  Gettysburg,  and  many  skir- 
mishes. Though  always  at  the  front  he  was 
neither  wounded  nor  captured.  After  a  service  of 
three  years  he  was  honorably  discharged  at  Port- 
land, Me.,  and  returned  to  Levant,  where  his 
father  had  removed.  At  Bangor  the  sheriff  ap- 
pointed him  a  deputy.  After  three  months,  feel- 
ing the  need  of  a  better  education,  he  entered  the 
academy  at  Searsport  and  a  year  later  went  to 
Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y. ,  where  he  took  a  business 
course  in  Eastman's  College,  graduating  in  April, 
1867. 

For  one  term  Mr.  Smith  taught  school  in  Saddle 
River,  Bergen  County,  N.  J.  He  then  went  to 
New  York  City,  and  for  a  year  was  employed  by 
the  Brooklyn  City  Railway  Company  as  a  con- 
ductor. While  there  he  met  Parker  N.  Savage, 
who  had  mines  in  Colorado  and  who  was  coming 
west.  Mr.  Smith  accompanied  him  to  Colorado, 
arriving  at  Central  City  March  i,  1869,  after 
staging  from  Cheyenne.  He  prospected  at  first, 
but  was  not  fortunate,  and  in  September,  with  a 
brother  who  had  recently  come  from  Maine  in 
company  with  Newton  S.  Grout,  he  went  on  a 
surveying  expedition.  In  the  fall  of  1869  he  en- 
tered from  the  government  one-quarter  of  sec- 
tion 26,  township  8,  range  68  west,  which  he. 
improved  and  still  owns.  Later  he  added  four 
hundred  acres,  making  a  total  of  five  hundred 
and  sixty  acres. 

Returning  to  Maine  in  1872,  Mr.  Smith  was 
married  in  the  town  of  Monroe,  November  8,  to 
Miss  Sarah  E.  Grout,  who  was  born  in  Jackson 
Township,  Waldo  County,  Me.,  a  daughter  of 
Robert  C.  and  Elizabeth  (Stowers)  Grout.  They 
are  the  parents  of  four  children,  namely:  Hattie 
Avis,  who  was  born  on  the  home  farm  Novem- 


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ber  2,  1873,  and  is  the  wife  of  Thomas  Hall,  of 
Douglas  County;  Edwin  W. ,  who  was  born  Feb- 
ruary 19,  1878,  attended  the  State  Agricultural 
College  at  Fort  Collins  and  now  carries  on  the 
home  farm;  Guy  W.,  born  October  7,  1885;  and 
Roger  Putnam,  born  October  3,  1887.  There  is 
one  grandchild,  of  whom  naturally  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Smith  are  quite  proud.  The  youngest  son  was 
named  Putnam  in  recognition  of  the  fact  that  his 
paternal  grandmother  was  a  direct  lineal  descend- 
ant of  Israel  Putnam  of  Revolutionary  fame. 

The  first  presidential  vote  cast  by  our  subject 
was  in  1864,  when  he  supported  Abraham  Lin- 
coln. Ever  since  then  he  has  been  a  stanch 
Republican,  active  in  politics.  In  1897  he  was 
nominated  by  the  silver  Republicans  for  county 
treasurer  and  elected.  Fraternally  he  is  a  mem- 
ber of  Castle  Rock  Lodge  No.  27,  A.  O.  U.  W., 
at  Castle  Rock,  and  Blunt  Post  No.  65,  G.  A.  R., 
of  which  he  was  the  first  commander  and  served 
as  such  for  two  terms,  besides  filling  most  of  the 
other  offices.  He  is  deeply  interested  in  educa- 
tional matters,  and  has  served  as  secretary  of  his 
school  district  for  many  years.  The  success  that 
has  come  to  him  in  life  is  not  the  result  of  acci- 
dent, but  comes  from  hard,  careful  and  long- 
continued  werk.  When  in  the  army  he  was 
accustomed  to  send  $10  home  to  his  father  every 
month,  and  when  he  returned  home  the  money 
was  given  back  to  him  that  he  might  use  it  in  ob- 
taining an  education.  All  that  he  has  made  from 
that  time  to  this  has  been  accumulated  through 
his  unaided  efforts. 


GlLFRED  F.  STOTT,  sheriff  of  Douglas 
LI  County,  and  an  influential  citizen  of  Castle 
I  I  Rock,  was  born  at  Milton,  Ulster  County, 
N.  Y.,  December  10,  1868.  He  is  a  son  of 
Charles  E.  and  Elizabeth  (Place)  Stott,  natives 
respectively  of  Virginia  and  Brooklyn,  N.  Y., 
and  now  residents  of  Milton,  N.  Y.  His  father, 
who  is  an  expert  pharmacist,  and  for  years  an 
employe  of  Tilden  &  Co.,  wholesale  druggists 
in  New  York  City,  held  a  government  position 
under  President  Cleveland  as  appraiser  of  drugs 
for  the  port  of  New  York. 

After  receiving  his  education  in  the  Milton 
public  schools  and  Pelham  Institute,  at  the  age 
of  eighteen  our  subject  became  an  employe  in  the 
Chemical  National  Bank  of  New  York,  but  his 


health  soon  failed  and  for  three  successive  years 
he  was  obliged  to  spend  the  winter  months  in 
Florida.  On  his  return  he  was  employed  for 
eighteen  months  as  bookkeeper  for  Ginn  &  Co., 
a  publishing  firm  of  New  York  City.  In  the  fall 
of  1890  he  came  to  Castle  Rock,  Colo. ,  and  for 
one  winter  was  emploj^ed  in  a  hardware  store, 
after  which  he  carried  on  a  meat  business  for  a 
year,  and  then  embarked  in  the  drug  business  at 
Castle  Rock;  the  latter  bu.siness  he  sold  in  1897 
to  C.  W.  Todd.  July  17,  1895,  he  married 
Miss  Alma  Belle  Calkins,  of  Evanston,  111.,  whom 
he  first  met  at  Castle  Rock  and  married  at  Colo- 
rado Springs.  She  is  a  daughter  of  Willian  T. 
Calkins  and  by  her  marriage  has  two  children, 
Charles  Edwin  and  Helen  Elizabeth.  In  religion 
she  is  identified  with  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church,  while  Mr.  Stott  inclines  toward  the 
Episcopalian  faith,  in  which  he  was  reared. 

Politically  a  Democrat,  our  subject  voted  for 
Cleveland  in  1892,  his  first  presidential  ballot. 
In  November,  1893,  he  was  appointed  postmaster 
at  Castle  Rock  and  held  the  office  until  January  i, 
1898.  In  1897  he  was  elected  by  the  Democrats 
and  silver  Republicans  to  the  office  of  sheriff", 
which  he  is  now  ably  filling.  In  the  Woodmen 
of  the  World  he  has  served  as  banker  and  is  now 
consul  of  Castlewood  Camp  No.  303. 


I  EONARD  WALTERS.  The  Standard  Meat 
It  and  Live  Stock  Company,  of  which  Mr. 
liy  Walters  is  secretary  and  treasurer,  is  the 
largest  concern  of  its  kind,  not  only  in  Denver, 
but  in  the  entire  west,  carrying  on  a  business 
that  extends  through  many  states  and  involves 
large  financial  transactions.  In  addition  to  their 
establishment  in  Denver  they  have  headquarters 
at  Rollins,  Wj'o.;  Manti,  Utah;  Almena,  Kan.; 
and  St.  Paul,  Neb.  At  one  time  they  owned 
large  tracts  of  land  in  New  Mexico  and  now  have 
a  ranch  at  Fort  Morgan,  Colo. 

In  this  business  Mr.  Walters  is  associated  with 
his  brother,  John,  whose  sketch  appears  upon 
another  page.  Leonard  is  the  oldest  child  born 
to  the  second  marriage  of  his  father,  Leonard,  Sr. , 
which  united  him  with  Louisa  Sihler,  now  a 
resident  of  Buffalo,  N.  Y.  The  other  children 
are  named  as  follows:  Fred,  who  is  superintendent 
of  live  stock  with  the  Standard  Meat  and  Live 
Stock  Company;  Charles,  who  died  in  boyhood; 


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William  and  I/)uisa,  who  are  in  Buffalo.  Leon- 
ard was  born  in  Buffalo  October  25,  1858,  and  re- 
ceived a  public-school  education  in  that  city.  In 
1876,  at  the  age  of  seventeen,  he  secured  a  posi- 
tion with  the  Lake  Shore  &  Michigan  Southern 
Railroad  Company,  being  employed  as  car  re- 
porter for  two  years. 

Coming  to  Denver  in  1878,  he  became  an  em- 
ploye of  his  brother,  John,  but  after  a  year  be- 
came interested  in  the  business  and  opened  a 
branch  house  in  Idaho  Springs,  under  the  firm 
name  of  Walters  &  Co.  In  188 1  the  firm  became 
John  Walters  &  Bro.  During  that  year  he  re- 
turned to  Denver  and  was  given  the  financial 
management  and  oversight  of  the  business.  The 
firm  name  was  changed  to  Walters,  Aicher  & 
Walters  in  1887,  when  F.  X.  Aicher  was  taken 
into  partnership,  and  after  three  years  under  that 
title,  the  business  having  meanwhile  assumed 
quite  proportions,  it  was  decided  to  incorporate 
under  the  name  of  the  "Standard  Meat  and  Live 
Stock  Company." 

Politically  Mr.  Walters  is  a  Republican.  He 
is  a  member  of  Schiller  Lodge  No.  41,  A.  F.  & 
A.  M.,  Denver  Chapter  No.  2,  R.  A.  M.,  Colo- 
rado Commandery  No.  i,  K.  T.,  Colorado  Con- 
sistory and  El  Jebel  Temple,  N.  M.  S.  In  Den- 
ver, in  1883,  he  married  Miss  Ida  Hensler,  and 
they  are  the  parents  of  four  children,  Frank, 
William,  Lillian  and  Mabel.  Mrs.  Walters  was 
born  in  Milwaukee,  Wis.,  being  the  daughter  of 
William  Hensler,  a  member  of  a  Wisconsin  regi- 
ment during  the  Civil  war  and  by  trade  a  cabi- 
net-maker. 


HON.  JACOB  J.  ELLIOTT.  The  history  of 
Idaho  Springs  and  Clear  Creek  County  could 
not  well  be  written  were  the  name  of  this 
sterling  citizen  omitted  from  its  annals  for  any 
reason.  For  over  a  score  of  years  he  has  been 
intimately  connected  with  the  development  of  this 
region  and  has  neglected  neither  means  nor  effort 
in  placing  it  upon  a  sure  basis  of  prosperity.  Act- 
ive and  interested  in  all  public  improvements 
and  enterprises;  far-seeing  and  judicious  in  meet- 
ing every  duty,  whether  to  his  fellow-citizens  or 
to  his  near  friends  and  associates,  he  commands 
the  esteem  and  high  regard  of  all.  A  man  of 
strong  convictions,  he  hesitates  not  to  take  issue 
with  the  popular  opinion  when  he  deems  best, 
even  though  he  is  well  aware  that  he  may  be  in 


a  hopeless  minority.  In  short,  he  is  the  embodi- 
ment of  the  rule  which  he  has  followed  through- 
out life,  "do  the  right  and  fear  no  man." 

One  is  not  surprised  in  tracing  the  antecedents 
of  Mr.  Elliott  to  learn  from  what  a  sturdy,  patri- 
otic stock  he  is  descended.  His  paternal  grand- 
father, in  whose  honor  he  was  named,  was  a  lieu- 
tenant on  the  staff  of  General  Stark  in  the  Revo- 
lutionary war.  He  was  wounded  at  the  battle  of 
Bennington,  a  bullet  passing  through  his  powder 
horn  and  entering  his  body,  and  was  cared  for 
while  lying  on  the  field  of  battle  by  an  Indian 
girl.  He  survived  about  forty  years  thereafter, 
dying  in  Chester,  N.  H.,  at  the  advanced  age  of 
ninety  odd  years.  He  owned  a  large  farm  and 
kept  the  best  and  most  commodious  inn  between 
Concord  and  Boston,  it  being  located  in  Chester. 
The  Elliotts  originally  came  from  England  and 
some  of  the  family  drifted  to  Selma,  Ala.,  though 
many  of  them  dwelt  in  New  Hampshire.  A  bro- 
ther of  the  aforementioned  Lieut.  Jacob  J.  Elliott, 
John,  was  a  Revolutionary  soldier,  enlisting  in 
New  Hampshire,  and  died  on  a  prison  ship  of  the 
British,  in  Halifax  harbor. 

James  M.  Elliott,  the  father  of  the  subject  of 
this  article,  was  born  on  the  old  homestead  near 
Chester,  about  twenty-three  miles  north  of  the 
Massachusetts  state  line,  and  after  his  father's 
death  he  succeeded  to  the  propertj'  and  managed 
the  old  tavern.  When  the  Civil  war  came  on  he 
enlisted  in  the  Eighth  New  Hampshire  Volun- 
teers and  subsequently  was  a  lieutenant  in  the 
Eleventh  regiment  of  that  state.  Hedied  in  1872, 
aged  over  threescore  years.  To  himself  and 
wife,  Abigail  R. ,  four  children  were  born,  of  whom 
two  survive.  Mrs.  Elliott,  like  her  husband,  a 
native  of  Chester,  was  a  daughter  of  Josiah 
Morse,  a  ship  carpenter,  and  was  an  own  cousin 
of  Professor  Morse,  the  inventor  of  the  telegraph. 

The  birth  of  Hon.  J.  J.  Elliott  took  place  in 
Chester  in  1843,  and  in  the  public  schools  of  that 
locality  he  laid  the  foundations  of  knowledge. 
After  leaving  the  Chester  Academy  he  entered 
the  United  States  navy  and  served  on  the  good 
ship,  "Pensacola",  in  the  gulf  squadron,  under 
Admiral  Farragut.  Later  he  was  assigned  to  the 
Atlantic  squadron,  and  participated  in  the  James 
River  campaign.  At  the  close  of  over  three  years 
in  the  navj'  he  was  honorably  discharged.  Re- 
turning to  his  native  state  he  enlisted  in  the  First 
New  Hampshire  Artillery,  Battery  K,  and  served 


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until  the  close  of  the  war.  He  took  an  active 
part  in  the  siege  of  Petersburg  and  Richmond  and 
other  illustrious  maneuvers  and  was  in  the  grand 
review  at  Washington.  He  was  mustered  out  in 
the  fall  of  1865,  but  soon  entered  the  government 
quartermaster's  department,  being  under  the 
orders  of  General  Haskins  at  Camp  Distribution 
until  November.  His  service  in  this  branch  of 
the  nation's  business  extended  over  a  year,  fol- 
lowing which  he  was  employed  in  the  navy  de- 
partment up  to  1870,  his  home  being  in  Wash- 
ington in  the  meantime. 

In  1876  Mr.  EUiott  came  to  Colorado  to  cast 
his  fortunes  with  the  infant  state,  that  year  ad- 
mitted to  the  Union.  He  engaged  in  mining  and 
milling  enterprises  in  Georgetown  for  about  a 
year,  but  in  September,  1877,  came  to  Idaho 
Springs.  Here  he  pursued  the  same  occupations, 
also  doing  assaying.  For  some  time  he  ran  Miles 
mill  on  Clear  Creek,  and  ultimately  he,  in  com- 
pany with  John  G.  Roberts  and  the  Miners' 
Smelting  Company,  erected  the  large  mill 
which  stands  on  the  site  of  the  old  one.  It  is  now 
known  as  the  State  Sampling  Works.  Mr.  Ell- 
iott has  developed  a  number  of  important  mines, 
among  which  is  the  celebrated  Specie  Payment. 
Since  1881  he  has  had  his  assaying  office  at  its 
present  location,  but  his  business  in  this  line  has 
extended  over  a  score  of  years  in  this  town  and 
has  brought  him  into  close  relationship  with  a 
great  many  people  interested  directly  or  indirectly 
in  mining.  Nor  have  his  energies  been  confined  to 
one  channel.  He  was  the  builder  and  owner  of 
the  bridges  between  Idaho  Springs  and  George- 
town. These  were  started  on  the  toll  system  and 
were  really  the  first  of  any  importance  erected  in 
the  county.  From  the  inception  of  the  local 
electric  light  plant,  incorporated  in  February, 
1887,  and  placed  in  operation  the  following  June, 
he  has  been  president  and  manager  of  the  same. 
He  was  also  a  founder  and  is  a  director  in  the 
First  National  Bank  here;  was  mayor  of  the 
place  for  one  term  and  was  president  of  the 
school  board  for  six  years. 

From  his  early  manhood  Mr.  Elliott  favored 
the  principles  of  the  Republican  party  and  was 
an  earnest  advocate  of  its  policy  until  a  mon- 
etary issue  brought  about  a  division  of  senti- 
ment in  the  minds  of  many.  He  was  one  of 
the  delegates  to  the  national  Republican  conven- 
tion in  St.  lyouis  in  1896,  who  with  Senator  Tell- 


er withdrew,  to  march  under  the  silver  banner. 
In  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic  he  has  always 
taken  great  interest  and  has  not  only  been  com- 
mander of  E.  D.  Baker  Post  No.  30,  but  has 
served  as  an  aide  in  department  and  national 
committees  of  the  organization.  In  February, 
1898,  he  established  his  family  in  Denver.  His 
wife,  whom  he  married  in  Washington,  D.  C. ,  in 
1867,  was  then  Miss  Emma  J.  Williams,  a  native 
of  that  city.  They  have  nine  living  children, 
one  of  whom,  William,  is  in  the  cattle  business 
on  Bear  River,  in  Routt  County. 


NGN.  SAM  VAN  CORT  NEWELL,  of 
Central  City,  is  not  only  one  of  the  most 
prominent  men  in  mining  circles  of  Gilpin 
County,  but  of  the  state  of  Colorado.  His  name, 
used  in  connection  with  any  enterprise,  lends 
weight  to  the  same  and  is  a  synonj-m  for  success. 
Jovial,  kind-hearted,  generous  and  sincere,  he  is 
very  popular  with  his  associates  and  hosts  of  warm 
friends  and  acquaintances.  The  Republican 
party  of  the  state  holds  him  as  one  of  its  most 
influential  champions.  He  officiated  often  as 
chairman  of  local  and  county  committees,  and  has 
served  on  the  state  Republican  central  committee. 
In  1884  he  was  elected  to  the  state  legislature, 
and  in  1886  was  honored  by  being  elected  to  the 
Colorado  senate.  While  holding  that  responsible 
office,  from  1887  to  1889,  he  was  chairman  of  the 
finance  committee  and  acted  on  numerous  other 
committees,  winning  laurels  for  his  earnest  and 
disinterested  labors  on  behalf  of  his  constituents. 
Several  terms  he  has  been  one  of  the  city  fathers 
here,  and  was  mayor  for  one  term,  always  using 
his  power  to  the  lasting  welfare  of  his  fellow- 
citizens. 

In  the  spring  of  1872  S.  V.  Newell  cast  in 
his  fortunes  with  the  people  of  Colorado,  then  a 
territory.  He  arrived  in  Central  City  on  the  6th 
of  April  and  at  once  entered  the  employ  of  his 
cousin,  William  T.  Newell,  a  lumber  merchant 
of  this  place.  With  this  relative  the  young  man 
continued  in  business  for  five  or  six  years,  after 
which  he  and  his  brother  opened  a  coal  and  feed 
establishment.  In  the  meantime  he  had  been 
making  investments  in  mining  property,  and  had 
become  much  interested  in  the  occupation.  He 
developed  .several  mines  in  Summit  and  Pitkin 
Counti.es  and  took  out  about  $700,000  from  mines 


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on  the  Hidden  Treasure  and  California  veins  in 
Gilpin  County,  before  he  sold  them.  He  has 
incorporated  and  promoted  the  Americus  Gold 
Mining  and  Milling  Company,  of  which  he  is  vice- 
president;  the  Bates  and  German  Gold  Mining 
Company,  of  which  he  is  president;  and  the  Con- 
crete Gold  Mining  Company,  of  which  he  is  vice- 
president.  These  concerns  are  all  in  fine  work- 
ing order  and  have  mills  in  connection  with  the 
mines.  The  Penn  Milling  Company  and  the 
Iron  City  Mill  Company,  both  having  Mr.  Newell 
as  vice-president,  are  capitalized  at  $50,000 
each.  Their  mills  each  have  a  capacity  of  two 
thousand  tons  per  month.  The  Penn  mill  is 
equipped  with  automatic  feeders,  "thirty-five 
slow  or  Gilpin  County  stamps  and  ten  rapid-drop 
stamps,"  and  is  provided  with  both  steam  and 
water-power.  The  Iron  City  mill  is  strictly 
modern  in  all  appointments;  automatic  twenty- 
five-stamp,  rapid  drop  and  runs  by  steam-power. 
Both  of  the  aforementioned  mills  are  connected 
with  the  mines  by  the  Gilpin  County  Tramway, 
a  two-foot  gear  steam  railroad.  All  of  the  mining 
and  milling  companies  mentioned  above  (with 
the  exception  of  the  Bates  and  German)  have 
branch  ofiices  in  the  Carnegie  building,  in  Pitts- 
burg, Pa.  Mr.  Newell  has  been  ably  seconded 
in  his  great  undertakings  by  his  brother,  Lyne 
Sterling  Newell,  Jr.  They  lately  organized  the 
Gilpin  County  Gold  Securities  Investment  Com- 
pany. It  is  capitalized  at  $700,000,  and  handles 
strictly  gilt-edged  mining  stocks  and  other  secur- 
ities. S.  V.  Newell  is  president  of  the  company, 
while  L.  S.  Newell  is  secretary.  The  brothers 
are  men  of  the  highest  standing  in  the  business 
world,  their  unusual  genius  and  executive  talents, 
as  well  as  their  honor  and  fairness  in  all  financial 
dealings,  being  above  question. 

Born  in  Indianapolis,  Ind.,  in  1854,  S.  V. 
Newell  is  one  of  the  four  children  of  Lyne  Ster- 
ling and  Esther  (Miller)  Newell.  The  father, 
who  is  a  native  of  Findlay,  Ohio,  became  blind 
when  he  was  six  or  eight  years  old,  as  the  result 
of  illness,  and  when  grown  was  given  a  position 
as  superintendent  of  the  blind  asylum  in  Indian- 
apolis. He  was  a  man  of  fine  education  and 
genuine  ability,  and  was  professor  of  music  in  the 
institution,  in  addition  to  being  manager.  Now 
about  seventy  years  of  age  he  is  passing  his  de- 
clining years  in  his  old  home  in  the  state  capital 
of  Indiana.    He  is  of  remote  Scotch-Irish  descent, 


as  his  great-grandfather,  Hugh  Newell,  came 
from  the  northern  part  of  Ireland  to  America 
and,  buying  land  from  William  Penn,  became  one 
of  the  first  settlers  of  Washington  County,  Pa. 
His  son,  Hugh,  next  in  the  line  of  descent,  lived 
and  died  on  a  farm  in  Washington  County.  The 
father  of  1,.  S.  Newell,  Sr.,  the  third  Hugh 
Newell,  was  a  native  of  Washington  County; 
married  Sarah  Thrift,  of  an  eastern  Virginia 
family,  and  went  to  Ohio.  He  lived  in  Knox 
County  at  first,  but  later  went  to  Hancock 
County,  and  for  years  was  a  merchant  in  Findlay, 
in  which  city  he  died.  The  mother  of  S.  V. 
Newell  was  born  in  Penn  Yan,  Yates  County, 
N.  Y. ,  and  died  in  Indianapolis  in  1859.  Her 
father,  Samuel  Van  Cort  Miller,  was  a  descend- 
ant of  the  pioneer  Holland-Dutch  stock  of  the 
Empire  state.  He  reared  a  family  of  thirteen 
children  on  his  home  farm  in  Yates  County,  N.  Y. 
Alice,  the  only  sister  of  our  subject,  lives  in 
Indianapolis,  and  his  elder  brother,  Hugh  Arthur, 
died  in  Findla}^,  Ohio,  when  twenty-one  years  old. 

After  his  mother's  death,  when  he  was  five 
years  old,  S.  V.  Newell  lived  with  relatives  in 
Penn  Yan,  N.  Y. ,  for  two  years,  after  which  he 
made  his  home  with  John  Newell,  a  brother  of 
his  grandfather,  Hugh  Newell.  In  1869  the 
youth  returned  to  Findlay,  Ohio,  and  at  the  end 
of  eighteen  months  he  w^ent  to  Indianapolis, 
where  he  became  a  clerk  in  a  mercantile  estab- 
lishment, and  remained  in  that  employment  until 
the  year  that  witnessed  his  arrival  in  Colorado. 
He  was  married  in  the  Presbyterian  Church  of 
Central  City  in  1878.  Mrs.  Newell,  formerly 
Elizabeth  N.  Bolthoff",  was  born  in  Burlington, 
Iowa,  and  is  the  only  daughter  of  Henry  Bolt- 
hoff, a  member  of  the  firm  of  Hendrie  &  Bolthoff, 
of  Denver.  The  only  child  of  this  marriage  is 
Herbert  C,  a  member  of  the  class  of  '98,  Mich- 
igan Military  Academy,  Orchard  Lake,  Mich. 
In  1896  Mr.  Newell  established  his  family  in 
Denver,  and  spends  a  portion  of  his  time  in  that 
city,  though  his  main  business  interests  are  in 
Central  City.  Fraternally  he  is  a  member  of 
Blackhawk  Lodge  No.  4,  K.  of  P. ,  and  of  Central 
City  Lodge  No.  16,  A.  O.  U.  W. 

During  the  administration  of  President  Harri- 
son S.  V.  Newell  was  the  collector  for  the 
United  States  laud  ofiice  here,  and  continued  to 
act  in  that  capacity  until  the  ofiBce  was  removed 
to  Denver.     He  has  been   greatly  interested  in 


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railroad  legislation,  and  in  1885,  when  a  member 
of  the  house,  succeeded  in  getting  a  bill  through, 
to  establish  a  commission  with  power  to  make 
rates.  This  bill,  however,  was  rendered  about 
useless  by  the  senate,  which  provided  one  com- 
missioner, without  such  power.  When  a  mem- 
ber of  the  senate  Mr.  Newell  made  strenuous 
efforts  to  carry  his  point  in  this  matter,  but  was 
again  unsuccessful.  With  a  few  other  statesmen 
he  was  largely  responsible  for  the  defeat  of  a  bill 
calling  for  a  constitutional  convention,  the  main 
object  of  this  measure  being  the  reversal  of  the 
present  state  constitution,  in  the  interest  of  cor- 
porations. 

Since  the  above  was  written  Mr.  Newell  has 
been  again  elected  to  the  state  senate  from  Gilpin 
County,  now  the  twenty-sixth,  formerly  the 
fourth  senatorial  district  of  Colorado,  upon  the 
Teller  silver  Republican  ticket,  in  opposition  to 
which  the  straight  Republican,  Democratic  and 
Populist  parties  each  ran  candidates  for  the  same 
office,  making  the  contest  very  warm  and  deter- 
mined. Mr.  Newell,  however,  was  successful  by 
a  handsome  plurality. 


HON.  DAVID  F.  RANEY,  who  died  Septem- 
ber 19,  1892,  was  one  of  the  honored  old 
settlers  of  Weld  County,  being  respected 
and  loved  by  a  large  circle  of  friends  and  ac- 
quaintances throughout  northern  Colorado.  He 
was  a  man  of  sterling  character,  upright  and  just 
in  all  his  transactions  and,  progressive  and  enter- 
prising in  all  his  ideas.  It  was  often  said  of  him, 
in  his  official  life,  that  he  and  Judge  Hammitt,  of 
this  county,  were  two  men  of  the  legislature  who 
could  not  be  bought  or  sold — that  they  were  posi- 
tively above  suspicion  of  bribery.  Mr.  Raney 
was  elected  to  the  Colorado  assembly  in  1877  on 
the  Republican  ticket  and  served  as  a  member  of 
that  honorable  body  for  one  term.  He  took  an 
active  part  in  temperance  and  educational  work, 
and  always  kept  before  him  the  highest  ideals  of 
living. 

Mr.  Raney  was  a  native  of  Greene  County, 
Ohio,  born  in  the  vicinity  of  Jamestown,  Decem- 
ber 24,  1832.  He  was  a  youth  of  perhaps  four- 
teen years  when  his  parents  removed  to  Van 
Buren  County,  Iowa,  settling  near  Birmingham. 
The  father  was  a  cooper  by  trade,  and  pursued 
that  calling  throughout  his  life.  The  parents 
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died  about  the  same  time,  and  left  a  large  family, 
of  whom  only  two  survive:  John,  a  resident  of 
Villiska,  Iowa,  and  Mrs.  Johnson  Birdsell,  of 
Frankfort,  Kan.  After  the  death  of  his  parents 
our  subject  made  his  home  with  Rev.  Dr.  Peter 
Walker,  of  Van  Buren  County,   Iowa. 

In  the  spring  of  1850  Mr.  Raney  joined  a  com- 
pany of  men  bound  for  California,  and  crossed  the 
great  plains  with  ox-teams.  Arriving  in  the 
neighborhood  of  Sacramento  he  engaged  in  min- 
ing there  and  at  Shasta  City  for  nine  years, 
meeting  with  fair  success.  January  24,  1861, 
having  returned  to  Iowa,  he  married  Lucinda  M. 
Drake,  who  had  been  born  in  Ohio  and  reared  in 
Iowa.  Her  parents  were  David  and  Mary  (Brewer) 
Drake,  natives  of  Ohio  and  New  York  respect- 
ively. Just  three  months  after  their  marriage 
Mr.  Raney  and  his  bride  started  on  their  long 
journey  across  the  plains,  with  oxen  and  wagons 
and  a  herd  of  thirty  dairy  cows.  Their  trip  took 
from  March  24  to  June  9,  and  upon  their  arrival 
in  this  county  they  took  up  a  squatter's  claim  on 
section  i ,  three  miles  south  of  Platteville. 

This  property,  known  as  Clear  Spring  farm, 
on  account  of  the  fine  springs  which  are  thereon, 
was  regularly  entered  as  a  homestead  by  Mr. 
Raney  when  the  land  was  opened  and  surveyed. 
He  became  extensively  interested  in  stock-raising 
and  dairying,  and  gradually  acquired  a  comforta- 
ble fortune.  He  had  a  partner  for  a  few  years, 
but  eventually  bought  him  out  and  continued  his 
enterprises  alone.  Up  to  the  time  of  his  death  he 
owned  a  large  herd  of  cattle,  but  for  the  last  nine 
years  of  his  life  he  was  obliged  to  delegate  to 
others  the  oversight  of  his  affairs.  He  was 
stricken  with  paralysis  and  for  nearly  a  decade 
was  an  invalid,  though  his  mind  was  as  clear  and 
active  as  ever  and  he  exercised  a  general  super- 
vision of  his  business. 

As  they  were  not  blessed  with  children  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Raney  adopted  a  daughter,  when  the  child 
was  but  eight  years  old.  This  daughter  is  Ella 
J.  Howe,  wife  of  George  F.  Raney,  a  nephew  of 
Mr.  Raney,  and  son  of  his  brother  John.  The 
nephew  now  carries  on  the  ranch  and  attends  to 
all  the  numerous  duties  of  the  place.  A  few  years 
prior  to  his  death  Mr.  Raney  built  his  comfortable 
residence  in  Platteville,  and  here  his  widow  lives 
with  her  aged  mother,  a  well-preserved  old  lady. 
Though  he  was  not  identified  with  any  denomi- 
nation,   Mr.    Raney  was  a  liberal  contributor  to 


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the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  of  Platteville. 
For  several  years  he  served  as  president  of  the 
school  board  of  his  district,  and  was  always  sure 
to  be  on  the  side  of  better  educational  facilities  for 
the  young. 

HON.  THOMAS  M.  PATTERSON.  The 
life  which  this  narrative  sketches  began  in 
Ireland  on  the  4th  of  November,  1840.  The 
.  Pattersons  were  from  the  north  of  Ireland,  where 
James  Patterson,  grandfather  of  the  subject  of  this 
sketch,  was  a  large  stock  dealer  and  prominent 
citizen.  In  his  family  there  were  five  children, 
one  of  whom,  Thomas,  a  midshipman,  was  killed 
in  the  battle  of  Trafalgar.  Another  son,  James, 
was  born  at  Cavan  and  for  some  years  engaged 
in  business  as  a  merchant  and  jeweler  there,  but, 
going  to  England,  settled  in  I^iverpool,  where  he 
carried  on  business  for  twelve  years.  By  his 
marriage  to  Margaret,  daughter  of  Alexander  and 
Margaret  (McDonald)  Montjoy,  he  had  three 
children:  James,  who  fell  in  the  battle  of  Win- 
chester during  the  Civil  war;  Catherine  and 
Thomas  M. 

During  the  summer  of  1853  the  family  emigrat- 
ed to  America,  landing  in  New  York  in  Novem- 
ber of  that  year.  At  that  time  the  subject  of  this 
narrative  was  a  boy  of  thirteen,  energetic,  de- 
termined, quick  to  learn  and  prompt  in  action. 
After  a  few  years  in  the  city  of  New  York  he 
moved  west  with  the  family  to  Crawfordsville, 
Ind.  His  education  was  an  excellent  one  and 
was  procured  largely  through  his  own  efforts,  for 
at  the  age  of  fourteen  he  began  to  work  in  a  print- 
ing office  and  afterward  he  assisted  his  father  in 
the  jewelry  business.  He  spent  one  and  one-half 
years  in  Asbury  (now  DePauw)  University  and 
two  years  in  Wabash  College,  where  he  took  the 
regular  course  of  study.  The  degree  of  A.  M. 
was  conferred  upon  him  by  Asbury  University. 

On  completing  his  literary  studies,  Mr.  Patter- 
son read  law  with  M.  D.  White,  M.  C,  of  Craw- 
fordsville, and  upon  his  admission  to  the  bar  he 
formed  a  partnership  with  Judge  J.  R.  Cowan, 
with  whom  he  continued  as  long  as  he  remained 
in  Indiana.  In  December,  1872,  he  came  to 
Denver,  where  he  became  connected  with  C.  S. 
Thomas.  In  April,  1873,  he  was  elected  city  at- 
torney and  the  next  year  was  re-elected.  He 
soon  became  a  leader  of  the  Democratic  party 
here,  and  his  talents  led  to  his  selection,  by  the 


party,  as  candidate  for  important  offices.  In  the 
summer  of  1874  he  was  chosen  territorial  dele- 
gate to  Congress,  being  the  first  Democrat  ever 
elected  to  that  position  in  the  then  territory.  Al- 
though at  the  time  of  his  nomination  he  was  still  a 
comparative  stranger  to  the  people,  having  been 
a  resident  of  Denver  for  less  than  two  years,  while 
his  antagonist,  Judge  H.  P.  H.  Bromwell,  was 
well  known  and  highly  esteemed,  yet  Mr.  Pat- 
terson was  elected  by  a  large  majority,  carrying 
nineteen  of  the  twenty- five  counties  in  the  terri- 
tory. This  election  made  him  a  delegate  to  con- 
gress at  a  most  important  time,  for  Colorado 
was  applying  for  admission  to  the  union  as 
a  state.  Grant  was  then  president.  The  sen- 
ate was  Republican,  the  house  Democratic. 
Hence,  there  was  a  division  as  to  the  advisability 
of  admitting  Colorado.  Mr.  Patterson  had  been 
successfully  elected  on  the  Democratic  ticket,  and 
the  senate  feared  to  admit  a  state  that  would 
possibly  give  a  presidential  Democratic  majority. 
In  this  crisis  Mr.  Patterson  did  effective  work 
and  it  was  due  to  his  judicious  labors,  seconding 
the  influence  of  Senator  Chaffee,  that  a  bill  to  ad- 
mit Colorado  finally  passed  both  congress  and  sen- 
ate. On  the  4th  of  July,  1876,  the  day  of  admission, 
he  sent  this  message  from  Washington,  D.  C,  to 
the  people  of  Denver:  "Through  you  I  greet 
the  Centennial  state,  the  latest  but  the  brightest 
star  in  the  political  firmament.  I  am  proud  of 
the  consciousness  of  representing  the  grandest 
state, the  bravest  men  and  the  handsomest  women 
on  the  continent." 

Mr.  Patterson  served  in  the  forty-third  and 
forty-fourth  sessions  of  congress,  retiring  in  1878 
and  resuming  the  practice  of  law  in  Denver. 
About  that  time  occurred  the  discovery  of  the 
great  Leadville  silver  mines, .  which  resulted  in 
more  litigation  than  had  ever  existed  in  a  mining 
camp.  He  was  connected  with  almost  all  of  the 
great  mining  suits  that  originated  there,  among 
them  the  mines  of  the  Silver  Mining  Company, 
whose  claim  he  contested  against  other  mining 
companies  with  success.  His  party  placed  him 
in  nomination  for  governor  in  1886,  but  the  ticket 
met  with  defeat.  In  1892  he  retired  from  the 
practice  of  law,  in  which  he  had  so  long  and  so 
successfully  engaged,  and  bought  the  controlling 
interest  in  the  Rocky  Motmtain  News,  of  which 
he  has  since  been  the  owner.  In  1892  he  was 
delegate  tP  the  national  convention  of  the  Demo- 


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cratic  party  in  Chicago,  that  nominated  Grover 
Cleveland  for  a  second  term  as  president.  In  that 
convention  he,  with  almost  no  support,  made  a 
brave  fight  in  behalf  of  free  coinage,  endeavoring 
to  secure  its  recognition  in  the  party  platform, 
but  he  was  disappointed.  However,  four  years 
later  the  plank  was  introduced  in  the  platform. 
Meantime,  he  had  given  his  support  to  the  Pop- 
ulist party  and  in  1896  was  its  delegate  to  the  St. 
Louis  convention,  where  Bryan  was  endorsed  for 
president.  He  took  the  stump  in  favor  of  free 
silver  and  under  the  auspices  of  the  national  com- 
mittee canvassed  Illinois,  Indiana,  Michigan, 
Kansas  and  Nebraska,  doing  all  in  his  power  to 
promote  the  success  of  the  measure  which  he  was 
convinced  would  mean  enhanced  prosperity  to 
America,  and  especially  to  the  great  west.  He  is, 
in  fraternal  relations,  identified  with  the  Masonic 
order. 

In  Watertown,  N.  Y.,  July  23,  1863,  Mr.  Pat- 
terson married  Miss  Kate  Grafton,  a  granddaugh- 
ter of  Alexander  Campbell,  whose  name  is  in- 
dissolubly  associated  with  the  establishment  of 
the  Christian  Church.  They  have  an  only  daugh- 
ter, Margaret,  who  is  the  wife  of  R.  C.  Campbell, 
formerly  of  Wheeling,  W.  Va.,  now  of  Denver. 

While  Mr.  Patterson  has  more  than  once,  at 
the  head  of  his  party,  suffered  defeat  in  the  sup- 
port of  principles  he  has  espoused,  yet  his  has 
been  a  most  successful  life;  for  the  influence  of  a 
gifted  mind,  in  molding  thought  and  giving  di- 
rection to  events,  cannot  be  measured  by  official 
position,  but  is  as  enduring  as  time  itself.  The 
mental  qualities  that  brought  him  eminence  as  a 
lawyer  have  made  him  a  power  in  the  newpaper 
world,  a  leader  in  the  journalistic  field,  for  he  not 
only  has  the  telescopic  quality  of  mind,  which 
enables  him  to  grasp  things  beyond  the  ordinary 
vision,  but  he  also  has  the  microscopic  quality 
that  enables  him  to  examine  into  little  details,  so 
often  neglected  by  great  minds.  His  interest  in 
the  welfare  of  Colorado  is  that  of  active  patriot- 
ism, which  works  tirelessly  to  promote  the  pros- 
perity of  the  people  and  secure  the  development 
of  local  resources.  He  has  adhered  with  steadfast 
and  zealous  support  to  the  principles  of  free  coin- 
age and  free  trade,  when  one  less  devoted  to  prin- 
ciple might  have  swerved  for  policy's  sake.  To 
every  worthy  cause  he  has  come  to  the  aid  with  a 
generous  response,  and  much  of  the  beautj'  and 
attractiveness  of  Denver  is  due  to  his  liberal  and 


active  enterprise.  Generosity,  whether  to  public- 
spirited  projects  or  to  the  needy  and  destitute,  is 
a  prominent  trait  of  his  character,  and  his  bene- 
factions have  been  large  and  unstinted.  While 
many  with  greater  opportunities  than  he  had  in 
youth  gained  for  themselves  neither  wealth  nor 
position,  yet  he,  by  the  force  of  an  indomitable 
will,  by  reliance  upon  himself  and  his  own  ability, 
has  advanced  step  by  step  until  he  has  attained  a 
position  among  the  illustrious  men  of  the  state. 


gYRON  ALBERTUS  WHEELER,  M.  D., 
has  been  a  prominent  factor  in  the  organiza- . 
tion  of  various  professional  and  political 
movements  for  the  benefit  of  his  city  and  state. 
On  his  motion  the  Homeopathic  Club  was  founded 
and  he  officiated  as  its  first  president.  He  bore 
an  active  part  in  the  establishment  of  the  Denver 
Homeopathic  Academy,  in  which  he  was  warmly 
interested.  In  the  organization  and  reorganiza- 
tion  of  Colorado  State  Homeopathic  Medical 
Society  he  took  an  active  part,  and  afterward 
occupied  various  official  positions  in  the  society. 
He  assisted  in  organizing  the  Denver  Homeo- 
pathic Medical  College  and  Hospital  Association, 
of  which  he  has  been  president  since  the  spring  of 
1895  and  in  which  he  also  occupies  the  chair  of 
mental  and  nervous  diseases.  In  politics,  too, 
he  has  been  interested.  Believing  that  certain 
reforms  must  be  instituted  before  the  welfare  of 
the  people  could  be  promoted,  he  called  together 
delegates  from  different  labor  organizations  in  the 
state,  and  the  result  was  the  formation  of  the 
Populist  party.  He  was  made  secretary  of  the 
new  movement,  but  the  president  being  in  en- 
feebled health,  the  responsibility  fell  almost 
entirely  upon  the  secretary,  who,  in  justice  to 
other  duties,  was  finally  obliged  to  resign  the 
position. 

In  Prairieville  (now  Waukesha),  Wis.,  Dr. 
Wheeler  was  born  January  30,  1842,  the  son  of 
Truman  and  Irene  (Whittier)  Wheeler.  The 
Wheeler  family  was  established  in  New  York  in 
an  early  day  by  representatives  from  Holland, 
who  belonged  to  the  famous  old  Knickerbocker 
stock.  Truman  Wheeler  was  born  in  the  central 
part  of  the  state  and  in  youth  learned  the  wheel- 
wright's trade,  becoming  a  pioneer  wheelwright 
in  the  territory  of  Wisconsin.  He  settled  at 
Fond  du  Lac,  and  built  the  first  mill  there,  but, 


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while  still  a  young  man,  he  was  killed  in  the 
woods  when  getting  out  the  last  piece  of  timber 
for  the  mill.  His  wife,  who  was  born  at  Green- 
ville, near  Montpelier,  Vt. ,  was,  like  himself,  a 
consistent  member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church,  and  died  when  still  young.  They  were 
the  parents  of  two  children  who  reached  maturity, 
Lucius  Nathan  and  Byron  Albertus.  By  a  former 
marriage  he  had  a  son,  Norman  W. ,  who  died  in 
New  York  City.  Lucius  N.,  who  was  a  foreign 
missionary  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  denomina- 
tion, established  the  first  Methodist  mission  in 
Pekin,  China,  and  also  the  first  mission  in  west- 
ern China,  at  the  headwaters  of  the  Yang  Tse 
Kiang  River.  Twice  failing  health  compelled  him 
to  return  to  America,  but  each  time,  as  soon  as  he 
had  sufficiently  recovered,  he  returned  to  his  post 
of  duty,  and  he  finally  died  in  China.  His  daugh- 
ter, Frances,  is  still  a  missionary  there. 

While  our  subject  was  teaching  school  in 
Wisconsin  the  Civil  war  began,  and  when  a  call 
was  made  for  seventy-five  thou.sand  men  he  en- 
listed, becoming  a  member  of  Company  I,  First 
Wisconsin  Infantry,  At  the  expiration  of  his 
time,  three  months,  he  returned  home  and  taught 
school  one  winter,  but  in  the  spring  again  en- 
listed, joining  Company  I,  First  Wisconsin 
Cavalry,  in  which  he  served  until  the  close  of  the 
war.  He  entered  the  army  as  a  private  and  was 
discharged  as  ordnance  sergeant  of  the  regiment. 
He  participated  in  the  battles  of  Chickamauga, 
Atlanta  and  Resaca,  as  well  as  many  minor  en- 
gagements, but  was  never  wounded.  While  in 
the  three  months'  service  he  took  part  in  the 
battle  of  Falling  Waters,  Va.,  resulting  in  the 
capture  of  Martinsburg  and  Harper's  Ferry  by 
the  Union  forces. 

Returning  to  Wisconsin  at  the  close  of  the  war 
he  took  up  the  study  of  medicine  under  Dr.  T.  J. 
Patcher,  of  Foud  du  Lac,  and  in  the  fall  of  1865 
entered  Hahnemann  Medical  College  of  Chicago, 
from  which  he  graduated  in  March,  1867.  He 
opened  an  office  in  Byron,  Fond  du  Lac  Countj^, 
Wis.,  but  less  than  a  year  afterward,  his  wife's 
health  being  poor,  he  decided  to  seek  another 
location  where  the  climate  would  be  more  favor- 
able. He  then  went  to  Boone  County,  Iowa,  and 
built  up  a  good  practice,  but  his  own  health  fail- 
ing after  four  years  of  labor,  he  decided  to  come 
to  Colorado.  He  reached  Denver  on  the  ist  of 
January,   1872,  and  in   April  of  the  same  year 


opened  an  office  on  Larimer  street,  near  Four- 
teenth. His  next  location  was  on  the  corner  of 
these  two  streets,  but  afterward  he  moved  his 
office  to  No.  1447  Stout  street,  and  then  to  his 
present  location  at  No.  1441  Stout  street.  Frater- 
nally he  is  a  life  member  of  the  blue  lodge  and 
also  belongs  to  the  Knight  Templar  Commandery 
in  Denver. 

In  Bryon,  Wis.,  August  20,  1865,  Dr.  Wheeler 
married  Miss  Frances  Amelia  Noyes.  They  have 
seven  children:  Maude  L.,  wife  of  Amos  L.  Miks, 
of  Topia,  Durango,  Mexico;  Mary  E.,  wife  of 
Lieut.  C.  H.  Hilton,  of  the  First  Colorado 
Volunteers,  who  participated  in  the  occupation  of 
the  Philippine  Islands;  Pearl  B.,  who  is  a  phy- 
sician; Ernest  T. ;  Vera  E. ,  wife  of  H.  C.  Korf- 
hage,  of  Sinaloa,  Mexico;  Irene  W.  and  Lucius 
B.  Wheeler. 


'IMOTHY  WILLIS  MILES,  M.  D.,  of 
Denver,  was  born  near  Cleveland,  Ohio, 
January  30,  1849.  He  represents  the  third 
generation  of  the  Miles  family  in  America.  His 
grandfather,  Timothy  Miles,  who  was  a  native 
of  England,  crossed  the  ocean  to  the  new  world 
in  company  with  two  brothers,  Thomas  and  Ab- 
ner.  Thomas  settled  in  Pennsylvania,  and  among 
his  descendants  is  General  Miles,  of  the  United 
States  army.  Abner  became  a  sea  captain. 
Timothy,  who  settled  in  the  colony  of  New 
Hampshire,  served  as  a  soldier  in  the  Revolution 
and  was  taken  prisoner  by  the  British,  being  held 
for  a  time  in  a  British  ship  in  New  York  harbor. 
After  the  war  he  settled  upon  a  farm  in  Vermont, 
where  he  continued  to  reside,  with  the  exception 
of  a  few  3'ears  spent  in  Canada,  until  he  passed 
from  earth. 

The  wife  of  Timothy  Miles  was  Theda,  daugh- 
ter of  James  and  Theda  (Woldbridge)  Blodgett, 
and  the  descendant  of  English  ancestors  who  set- 
tled in  Salem  and  Bromfield,  Mass.  Her  father 
was  born  December  21,  1723,  in  Massachusetts, 
where  he  spent  his  entire  life;  he  had  a  family 
of  five  sons  and  three  daughters.  Timothy  and 
Theda  Miles  were  the  parents  of  five  daughters 
and  four  sons,  namely:  Theda;  Marcia,  Mrs. 
Daniel  Moulton,  whose  granddaughter  became 
the  mother  of  the  present  secretary  of  war.  Gen. 
Russell  Alger;  Lucia,  Dolly,  Almira,  Timothy, 
John,  James  and  Justin. 

Born    in  Vermont   January  25,    1791,  Jarnes 


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Miles  followed  various  occupations  in  life,  being 
a  farmer,  cooper,  phj'sician  and  an  ordained  min- 
ister in  the   Christian   Church.     He  was  a  man 
much  beloved  by  his  acquaintances  and  honored 
by  all  who  knew  him.     Brave,  upright  and  pub- 
lic-spirited, his  influence  was  always  for  good. 
When  a  young   man   he   moved   as  far  west  as 
Ohio,  settling  near  Cleveland   and  engaging  in 
the  clearing  and   cultivation  ot   a  farm.     There, 
May  14,  1823,  he  married  Sophia  Waite,  a  rela- 
tive of  Chief  Justice  Waite,  and  a  granddaughter 
of  Benjamin  Waite,  known   in  history  as  Benja- 
min the  Brave,  on  account  of  his  valor  and  suc- 
cess  in   fighting  the  Indians.     Her  father,  Ben- 
jamin Waite,  Jr.,  married  Zylphia  Hayward,  of 
which  union  she  was  born.     She  died  in  1857,  at 
the  age  of  fifty-three,  while  her  husband,  surviv- 
ing her  for  ten  years,  passed   away   in   Iowa, 
Christmas,   1867,   at  the  age  of   seventy-seven. 
They  were  the  parents  of  thirteen  children,  ten 
of  whom  reached  mature  years,   viz.:  Harriet, 
Edward,  James  A.,  Lydia  S.,   Marcia,  Justin, 
Daniel,  Mary,  Timothy  W.  and  Frances  Grace. 
The  early  education  of  our  subject  was  received 
in  Jackson  County,  Iowa,  and  he  attended  col- 
lege at  Cornell,  that  state.     Later  he  was  a  stu- 
dent in  the  Bennett  Eclectic  Medical  College  of 
Chicago,  and  the   Eclectic  Medical   Institute  of 
Cincinnati,   from  which  he  graduated  in   1875. 
He  opened  an  oflBce  at  Joplin,   Mo.,  but  after 
three  years  in  that  place  removed  to  Schell  City, 
Mo.,  and  from  there  came  to  Denver  in  June, 
1882.  He  spent  the  summer  of  that  year  in  travel 
through  the  state,   and   in   October  opened   an 
office  in  Denver,  where  he  met  with  success  in 
his  profession.     He  has  his  office  in  the  Toltec 
building,  on  Seventeenth  and  Stout  streets,  and 
his  residence  at  No.  1 544  Franklin  street.     He  is 
secretary  of  the  Colorado  State  Eclectic  Medical 
Association,  and  second  vice-president  of  the  Na- 
tional Eclectic  Medical  Association.     Fraternally 
he  is  connected  with  the  Knights  of   Pythias, 
Woodmen  of  the  World  and  Independent  Order 
of  Odd  fellows.    Politically  he  is  a  silver  Repub- 
lican. 

In  Cincinnati,  in  18S3,  Dr.  Miles  married  Miss 
Cornelia  Scudder,  by  whom  he  has  a  son,  Robert 
Willis.  The  family  are  members  of  the  Central 
Christian  Church,  of  which  the  doctor  is  a  dea- 
con. Mrs.  Miles  is  a  descendant  of  English  an- 
cestors.    The  American  progenitor  of  the  family, 


Thomas  Scudder,  was  born  in  or  near  London, 
and  emigrated   to  Salem,  Mass.,  in    1635.     He 
was   familiarly  known  as  "Goodman"  Scudder. 
His  sou,  Thomas,  left  Salem  in  1651   and  settled 
in    Huntington,  E.   I.       Next   in    descent   was 
Benjamin,  who  moved  to  New  Jersey  in   1740, 
and  became  a  large  land  owner.     The  latter' s 
son  Enoch   moved  west  from  Westfield,  N.  J., 
but    his    son  John   returned   to    the   old   home 
in    that    place.     The    latter  had   a    son    John, 
who  was    the  father    of  Lieut.    Robert    Scud- 
der,   of   the    Army    of    the    Cumberland    dur- 
ing the   Civil  war,  and  was  also  the  father  of 
Mrs.  Miles.     His  brother.  Dr.  John  M.  Scudder, 
of  Cincinnati,  was  the  founder  of  the  eclectic  sys- 
tem of  medicine  in  Cincinnati,  and  the  author  of 
many  valuable  medical  works,  being  for  years 
dean  of    the   Eclectic  Medical    Institute.     Mrs. 
Miles  is  also  a  descendant  of  the  Fords  and  Kitch- 
ells,  of  Morristovvn,  N.  J.,  the   original  William 
Ford  coming  to  Plymouth  on  the  ship  "Fortune" 
in  1861.     On  her  mother's  side  Mrs.  Miles  traces 
her  lineage  to  the  Scotch  family  of  Holland,  who 
fled  to  Ireland  in  1641  on  account  of  religious 
persecution.    She  is  a  graduate  of  the  Woodward 
high  school  and  the  Cincinnati  Normal  School, 
and  possesses  a  broad  education,  together  with 
the  faculty  of  imparting  knowledge  to  children  in. 
an  interesting  and  successful  manner.     For  thir- 
teen years  she  has  been  identified  with  the  East 
Denver  schools,  and   is   now   principal  of  the 
Broadway    school.      She    is   a  member    of   the 
Woman's  Club  of  Denver,  and  is  also  identified 
with  the  State  Historical  Society. 


WIAJ.  JACOB  DOWNING.  It  would  be  im- 
Y  possible  to  write  a  history  of  Colorado 
(g  without  making  frequent  reference  to  Major 
Downing.  In  early  days  in  a  military  capacity, 
and  later  as  a  citizen,  he  has  been  intimately  con- 
nected with  the  development  of  the  state.  Especi- 
ally has  he  been  inseparably  associated  with  the 
growth  of  Denver,  one  of  whose  avenues  is  named 
in  his  honor  and  also  one  of  the  suburban  towns. 
Within  a  mile  of  the  city  limits  he  has  a  ranch  of 
about  two  thousand  acres,  with  irrigation  ditches, 
sewerage  and  a  commodious  brick  residence. 
Here  general  farm  pursuits  are  carried  on,  and 
cattle  and  horses  are  raised. 

In  the  introduction   of  improvements   Major 


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Downing  has  been  a  pioneer.  In  1862  he  intro- 
duced alfalfa  into  Colorado,  bringing  the  seed 
from  Old  Mexico  and  planting  it  on  his  farm. 
However,  he  raised  it  for  years  and  used  it  for 
feed  before  others  would  consent  to  use  it;  now 
it  is  considered  indispensable  and  every  farmer 
raises  it  in  large  quantities.  He  also  introduced 
some  of  the  first  fine  breeds  of  poultry  raised  in 
the  state,  and  brought  fourteen  dozen  quail  to 
Colorado,  the  first  ever  in  the  state.  By  impor- 
tation from  the  east  he  brought  fine  Arabian  stal- 
lions into  the  state,  and  in  the  recent  festival  of 
the  mountain  and  plain  his  horses  were  the  finest 
in  the  parade.  He  owned  the  celebrated  horse 
South  Australian,  sired  by  West  Australian,  a 
thoroughbred  horse  on  both  sides,  and  the  finest 
of  its  kind  ever  in  England.  His  standard-bred 
and  blooded  horses  are  as  fine  as  can  be  found  in 
the  United  States.  For  twenty  years  he  has 
raised  sugar  beets,  often  having  as  much  as  five 
hundred  tons  annually,  and  he  has  a  machine 
that  cuts  them  up  for  feeding  to  the  stock.  In 
cattle-raising  he  makes  a  specialty  of  Shorthorns. 
He  brought  the  first  Herefords  ever  in  Colorado, 
buying  them  from  Erastus  Corning  of  Albany, 
N.  Y.  This  was  considered  the  best  herd  in  Eng- 
land or  America.  He  paid  $1,000  for  three  calves 
only  six  months  old. 

The  Downing  family  were  Hicksite  Quakers  of 
English  extraction.  Elias  Hicks,  founder  of  that 
branch  of  the  Friends,  was  a  cousin  of  Jacob 
Downing,  Sr.,  our  subject's  father.  The  latter 
was  born  at  Glencove,  ly.  I.,  in  1785,  the  son  of 
a  Revolutionary  soldier,  and  removed  to  Albany, 
N.  Y.,  where  he  speculated  in  western  lands. 
He  owned  several  large  farms  in  Ohio  and  Illi- 
nois. Much  of  his  work  was  of  a  nature  perma- 
nent in  its  good  results.  About  1843  he  built  the 
Boston  &  Albany  railroad  from  Boston.  He 
graded  Brooklyn  Heights  and  cleaned  out  the  bar 
in  the  Hudson.  Politically  he  was  a  Democrat. 
While  on  a  business  trip  to  Ohio  in  1858  he  died, 
in  Rochester.  His  wife,  Jane  Winne,  was  born 
in  Albany  and  died  at  her  daughter's  home  in 
Cleveland  when  nearly  eighty  years  of  age.  She 
was  of  Holland-Dutch  ancestry.  Her  father, 
William  P. ,  was  born  in  Albany  and  died  there 
at  the  age  of  one  hundred  and  eight  years.  Of 
her  eleven  children,  seven  attained  maturity  and 
four  are  living. 

Our  subject,  who  was  the  youngest   of  the 


family,  was  born  in  Albany  in  April,  1830,  and 
received  his  education  in  Albany  Academy.  At 
the  age  of  fourteen  he  entered  the  Albany  City 
bank  as  clerk  under  Erastus  Corning,  president 
of  the  New  York  Central  Railroad.  In  1850, 
while  returning  from  Cleveland  to  Albany,  he 
took  passage  on  a  Lake  Erie  steamer,  the  "Amer- 
ica," and  during  the  trip  the  boiler  burst.  He 
and  five  others  were  in  a  stateroom  at  the  time 
and  a  half-hour  later  he  was  the  only  one  living. 
After  the  explosion  he  tried  in  vain  to  kick  the 
door  open,  and  finally  found  an  auger  hole 
through  which  he  could  inhale  fresh  air.  His 
hands  were  burned  and  the  pillow  over  his  head 
was  in  flames.  The  steamer  was  seen  by  the 
"Alabama,"  whose  crew  put  out  the  fire  and 
rescued  the  passengers.  Mr.  Downing  suffered 
so  severely  from  the  explosion  that  his  health 
was  seriously  impaired  and  he  traveled  in  the 
south  for  some  time,  hoping  to  recover  his 
strength.  On  his  return  to  Albany  he  resumed 
work  in  the  office,  but  the  confinement  proved 
injurious  to  him,  and  he  again  started  to  travel. 
This  time  he  went  through  Canada,  visited  Chi- 
cago and  made  a  tour  through  Texas,  and  for 
some  time  hunted  buffalo  on  the  plains.  He 
studied  law  with  Ward  &  Stanford  in  Chicago 
and  in  1858  was  admitted  to  the  Illinois  bar.  He 
opened  an  office  in  Denver  and  in  the  summer  of 
i860  was  elected  municipal  judge,  but  resigned 
soon  after  to  resume  his  law  practice. 

On  hearing  of  the  attack  on  Fort  Sumter  in 
1 86 1,  he  organized  Company  D,  First  Colorado 
Cavalry,  of  which  he  was  commissioned  captain 
by  Governor  Gilpin.  He  marched  with  it  to 
New  Mexico  and  was  engaged  in  all  the  battles 
of  that  campaign,  being  promoted  from  captain 
to  major  for  gallantry  in  these  actions.  March 
26,  1862,  he  was  with  the  command  that  defeated 
the  Texas  rangers  and  drove  them  back  toward 
Texas.  Two  days  later  they  were  again  defeated. 
The  skirmishes  were  attended  with  much  blood- 
shed and  many  of  his  men  were  killed.  On  his 
return  he  had  only  four  or  five  men  who  had  not 
been  injured  during  the  campaign  and  of  these 
only  one  is  now  in  Denver,  Mike  Ivory,  who 
carried  the  colors.  It  is  a  peculiar  fact  that  the 
regiment  was  not  mustered  into  service  until  six 
months  after  it  had  been  on  the  field. 

When  relieved  from  New  Mexico  duty  Major 
Downing  returned  to  Colorado.     On  arriving  at 


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Fort  Lyon,  on  the  Arkansas  River,  he  was 
ordered  to  proceed  to  Fort  Larned,  Kan. ,  and  take 
command  of  that  post.  For  five  months  he  was 
stationed  there.  He  was  compelled  to  protect 
two  hundred  and  forty  miles  of  the  Arkansas 
stage  and  emigrant  rente,  with  only  one  hundred 
and  fifty  men.  He  wrote  General  Schofield  for 
more  men,  but  they  could  not  be  furnished. 
Major  Downing  said  he  would  hold  the  post  if  he 
could,  and  General  Schofield  said  "Go  ahead." 
The  major  had  consultations  with  the  northern 
and  southern  chiefs  separately  and  managed  so 
as  to  have  them  fighting  each  other,  which  pre- 
vented them  from  molesting  the  whites.  When 
relieved  from  the  command,  he  was  highly  com- 
plimented by  Major- General  Curtis  for  the  able 
manner  in  which  he  had  performed  his  duties,  for 
during  his  term  of  management  not  a  life  was 
lost,  nor  were  the  stages  materially  molested. 
He  was  appointed  assistant  inspector- general  to 
inspect  Camp  Fillmore,  Fort  Lyon,  Camp  Wyn- 
koop.  Fort  Garland,  Guadaloupe,  Forts  Laramie 
and  Halleck,  Camps  Collins,  Sanborn  and  Weld, 
embracing  an  immense  territory  inhabited  only 
by  Indians.  During  the  depredations  of  1864 
many  people  had  been  killed  by  the  savages  and 
supplies  seized.  Colonel  Chivington,  then  com- 
manding the  military  district  of  Colorado,  ordered 
Major  Downing  to  take  such  troops  as  could  be 
spared  from  Camp  Sanborn  and  to  find  and  pun- 
ish the  Indians.  After  a  long  search  he  found 
them  camped  at  Cedar  Canon,  and  charged  upon 
them,  routing  them  with  a  loss  of  thirty-eight 
killed  and  many  wounded.  On  returning  to  Den- 
ver three  weeks  later,  he  was  placed  under  arrest 
for  causing  an  Indian  war  and  was  ordered  to  the 
states;  but,  upon  the  request  of  the  inspector- 
general,  he  reported  that  the  cause  of  the  trouble 
was  the  action  of  the  Indian  agents,  who  were 
robbing  the  Indians  of  the  supplies  intended  for 
them;  the  Indians  knowing  what  they  ought  to 
have  would  take  revenge  by  killing  white  settlers. 
A  copy  of  this  report  reached  President  Lincoln, 
who  investigated  and  found  that  matters  were 
even  worse  than  reported,  and  had  his  life  been 
spared  the  disturbances  would  soon  have  been 
remedied. 

In  1865  Major  Downing  was  mustered  out  of 
service  and  turned  his  attention  to  -the  practice 
of  law.  The  next  year  he  went  to  New  York 
City,  but  not  liking  the  place  he  returned  west. 


In  1867  he  was  elected  probate  judge  on  the  Re- 
publican ticket  and  held  the  position  for  two 
years.  Having  become  the  owner  of  two  thou- 
sand acres  five  miles  west  of  Denver,  in  1869  he 
began  the  improvement  of  the  tract  by  irrigating, 
fencing,  etc.  Here  he  has  since  engaged  in  rais- 
ing cattle  and  horses,  and  in  general  farming. 
He  laid  out  Downing' s  addition  to  North  Denver, 
eighty  acres;  Downing' s  addition  to  East  Den- 
ver, one  hundred  and  twenty  acres;  and  Down- 
ington,  three  hundred  acres,  on  Colfax  avenue 
near  City  Park.  In  land  and  money  he  gave 
$18,000  toward  the  building  of  the  Colfax  avenue 
street  car.  Some  years  ago  he  originated  the  bill 
providing  six  hundred  and  forty  acres  for  City 
Park,  which  pa.ssed  the  lower  house,  but  was  re- 
duced to  three  hundred  and  twenty  acres  in  the 
senate.  With  the  assistance  of  other  property 
owners  he  improved  Mount  View  boulevard,  ex- 
tending from  the  park  six  miles  east,  running 
north  of  Downington;  the  street  is  one  hundred 
and  twenty  feet  wide  and  will  eventually  be  the 
finest  drive  in  the  city.  His  ranch  is  called 
Downingdale  and  is  one  of  the  most  highly  im- 
proved in  the  vicinity  of  Denver. 

In  1863  Major  Downing  joined  Union  Lodge 
No.  7,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.  For  years  he  was  com- 
mander of  Phil  Kearney  Post,  G.  A.  R.,  but  not 
being  able  to  attend  the  meetings  he  resigned. 
The  post  afterward  disbanded  and  he  then  joined 
Reno  Post.  He  was  president  of  the  Soldiers 
Association  of  Colorado,  which  in  1866  was  ab- 
sorbed in  the  Grand  Army.  In  1851  he  joined 
Forest  City  Lodge  No.  162,  I.  O.  O.  F.,  at  Cleve- 
land, and  afterward  joined  the  order  in  Denver, 
but  is  not  connected  with  it  at  present.  At  one 
time  he  was  a  Knight  of  Pythias.  He  was  a 
Republican  from  the  organization  of  the  party, 
and  voted  for  General  Fremont  for  president.  He 
has  never  desired  public  office  for  himself,  but 
has  been  active  in  aiding  his  friends  who  enter 
the  lists  of  candidates  for  offices. 

In  Glens  Falls,  N.  Y.,  Major  Downing  married 
Miss  Caroline  Rosecrans,  who  was  born  near 
Albany  and  received  an  excellent  education  at 
Mrs.  Willard's  Seminary,  Troy  (the  first  ladies' 
seminary  in  the  state  of  New  York) .  She  is  of 
Dutch  descent,  a  member  of  a  pioneer  family  of 
New  York.  Her  great-grandfather,  with  two  of 
his  brothers,  took  part  in  the  Revolution,  and  a 
cousin,  recently  deceased,  was  a  prominent  gen- 


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eral  in  the  Civil  war;  another  cousin,  Judge  Enoch 
Rosecrans,  is  a  prominent  jurist  in  New  York. 
The  parents  of  Mrs.  Downing  were  Henry  and 
Mary  (Mosher)  Rosecrans,  the  former  a  farmer 
who  died  in  York  state  at  the  age  of  seventy-one; 
the  latter  a  native  of  Dutchess  County  and  of 
English  lineage.  Mrs.  Downing  is  president  of 
the  Pioneer  Ladies'  Aid  Society,  and  belongs 
to  the  Woman's  and  Clio  Clubs,  has  been  identi- 
fied with  the  First  Baptist  Church  for  twenty -two 
years  and  takes  an  active  part  in  benevolent  and 
religious  enterprises.  She  is  a  life  member  of 
the  Denver  Orphans'  Home  Association  and  gave 
the  first  $100  received  by  that  institution.  She 
is  also  a  member  of  the  Homeopathic  Hospital 
Association,  the  Kindergarten  Association,  the 
Newsboys'  Home,  Denver  Sewing  Guild  and 
Denver  Coal  Guild.  Her  capability  in  executive 
management  has  made  her  a  prominent  factor  in 
important  enterprises  where  the  assistance  of 
ladies  is  essential,  while  her  winning  manners 
and  unfailing  courtesy  of  demeanor  make  her 
popular  in  every  circle.  The  following  poem  was 
composed  by   her,    and    dedicated   to 

COLORADO   PIONEERS 
Should  old  acquaintance  be  forgot, 
And  the  ties  of  many  years 
And  all  the  lessons  that  were  taught 
By  the  early  pioneer? 

The  early  pioneer  so  brave — 

The  hardy  pioneer, 
Let  all  unite  to  sing  the  praise 
Of  the  early  pioneer. 

And  as  the  years  go  rolling  on 
And  they've  reached  the  other  shore, 
For  their  deeds  of  valor  and  of  love 
You'll  prize  them  more  and  more. 
Then  give  to  them  a  loving  hand 

And  hearty  words  of  cheer 
As  you  follow  in  the  footsteps  of 
The  early  pioneer. 


IJNORMAN  GRISWOLD  BURNHAM,  M.  D., 
I  /  was  one  of  the  prime  movers  in  the  organiza- 
l/j  tion  of  the  Denver  Homeopathic  Medical 
College  and  served  as  the  first  president  of  the 
institution.  He  was  president  of  the  Colorado 
State  Homeopathic  Medical  Society,  in  the 
growth  of  which  he  has  always  been  actively 
interested.  For  several  years  he  was  president 
of  the  Humane  Society,  of  which  he  is  a  charter 
member.     In  other  matters  relating  to  the  health 


of  the  people  he  has  taken  a  warm  interest.  He 
is  an  enthusiastic  homeopathist,  and  has  done 
much  to  promote  the  success  of  this  school  of 
medicine  in  Denver. 

In  1819,  while  the  red  men  still  roamed  un- 
molested through  the  forests  of  Ohio,  two  brothers, 
Ellsworth  and  Moses  Burnham,  came  to  that 
state  from  Connecticut  and  located  in  Erie 
County,  of  which  they  were  pioneers.  Their 
father,  Capt.  Joseph  T.  Burnham,  was  born  in 
Connecticut,  of  English  descent,  and  followed 
farm  pursuits  to  some  extent,  but  gave  his  atten- 
tion largely  to  the  occupation  of  a  carpenter  and 
builder.  He  was  a  man  of  means  as  well  as  of 
noble  character,  and  his  influence  was  felt  in  the 
progress  of  his  locality  and  the  development  of 
its  interests.  When  he  was  quite  old  he  made  a 
trip  in  his  private  conveyance  to  Ohio  and  Mich- 
igan, where  he  visited  relatives  and  friends. 

Ellsworth  Burnham,  who  was  one  of  a  family 
of  four  sons  and  two  daughters,  was  born  in 
Connecticut  and  died  in  Saginaw,  Mich.,  when 
eighty-four  years  of  age.  His  occupation  was 
that  of  farming,  which  he  followed  in  Ohio,  retir- 
ing from  active  business  life  in  Michigan.  He 
married  Maria  Walker,  who  was  born  in  Tolland 
County,  Conn.,  a  daughter  of  Norman  and  Hulda 
Walker,  of  Connecticut.  Her  death  occurred  in 
Michigan  when  she  was  eighty-four  years  of  age. 
In  her  family  there  were  three  sons,  Joseph  T. , 
Norman  G.  and  Henry  E.  Norman  G.  was  born 
in  Berlin,  Erie  County,  Ohio,  September  30,  1829, 
and  grew  to  manhood  on  the  home  farm.  At  the 
age  of  seventeen  he  became  a  student  in  the 
Norwalk  Academy,  where  he  had  for  his  room- 
mate the  late  Gen.  James  B.  McPherson.  While 
studying  in  the  summers  he  devoted  the  winters 
to  teaching  school.  After  some  years  devoted  to 
the  study  of  medicine,  he  graduated  at  the  Cin- 
cinnati Eclectic  Medical  College,  and  commenced 
his  active  connection  with  the  profession. 

For  two  years  Dr.  Burnham  was  physician  to 
the  Berlin  Heights  Sanitarium  and  was  associated 
with  Prof.  B.  L.  Hill,  M.  D.,  who  procured  the 
charter  for  the  Cleveland  Homeopathic  College. 
For  a  time  he  attended  the  Ohio  Wesleyan 
University  and  afterward  spent  one  winter  in  the 
Cleveland  Homeopathic  Medical  College,  whose 
faculty  conferred  upon  him  an  honorary  degree. 
While  in  Cincinnati  he  attended  the  first  course 
of  lectures  on  homeopathy  delivered  west  of  the 


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AUeghenj'  Mountains.  He  was  associated  for 
three  years  with  Prof.  H.  P.  Gatchell,  former 
dean  of  the  Cleveland  Homeopathic  College, 
under  whose  preceptorship  he  gained  a  broad 
fund  of  medical  and  scientific  knowledge.  From 
Cleveland  he  went  to  Indianapolis,  where  he 
located  and  built  up  a  large  practice.  After 
eleven  busy  and  profitable  years  there,  he  re- 
moved to  St.  lyouis,  and  three  years  later  removed 
to  Colorado,  reaching  Denver  October  9,  1879. 

Dr.  N.G.  Burnham  was  married  May  7,  1861, 
in  Medina,  Medina  County,  Ohio,  to  Miss  Mary 
K.  Treat,  a  daughter  of  Adner  A.  Treat,  who  is  a 
man  of  remarkable  vitality  and,  though  now  one 
hundred  and  one  years  of  age,  still  retains  much 
of  the  vigor  of  his  prime.  He  now  makes  his 
home  with  his  daughter  in  Denver.  Mrs.  Burn- 
ham  received  an  academic  education  in  Medina, 
Ohio.  She  is  a  native  of  Fayetteville,  N.  Y., 
where  her  childhood  was  spent  amid  rural  scenes. 
She  is  noted  for  her  domestic  qualities,  and  takes 
an  active  interest  in  the  Woman's  Club  of  Den- 
ver, of  which  she  is  a  member,  and  she  also  has 
been  a  most  active  member  of  St.  Mark's  Epis- 
copal Church.  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Burnham  have  four 
children:  Arthur  T. ;  Grace  N.,  wife  of  Eugene 
Knight;  Florence  T. ,  wife  of  N.  O.  Vosburgh,  Jr., 
of  Denver;  and  Norman  G.,  Jr.,  who  died  when 
seventeen  years  of  age.  The  family  are  identified 
with  St.  Mark's  Episcopal  Church,  which  the 
doctor  assisted  in  organizing  and  in  which  he  was 
a  vestryman  for  five  years  while  it  was  yet  a 
mission.  Fraternally  he  is  connected  with  Den- 
ver Lodge  No.  5,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  Colorado  Com- 
mandery  No.  i,  K.  T.,  and  took  his  thirty-second 
degree  in  the  consistory  of  Indiana  at  Indiana- 
polis; he  is  also  a  member  of  El  Jebel  Temple  of 
the  Mystic  Shrine.  In  addition  to  his  professional 
work  he  is  interested  in  the  insurance  business  as 
president  of  the  Denver  Life  Insurance  Company. 
Politically  he  has  been  a  Republican,  but  in  the 
campaign  of  1896  he  allied  hiipself  with  the  silver 
forces  and*  cast  his  vote  for  William  Jennings 
Bryan.  While  in  Ohio  he  voted  for  John  Sher- 
man at  his  first  election  to  congress  and  supported 
John  C.'Fremont  for  president.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  medical  staff  of  Arapahoe  County  Hospital, 
also  a  member  of  the  advisory  board  of  health  of 
Denver. 

No  citizen  is  more  desirous  to  see  his  city,  state 
and  nation  attain  the  highest  prosperity  than  Dr. 


Burnham.  An  article  written  by  himself  and 
published  in  the  Denver  Republican  of  March  16, 
1898,  gives  an  idea  of  his  earnestness  and  zeal  as 
a  citizen,  devoted  to  his  country's  welfare.  We 
quote  from  it,  as  follows:  "The  wild  manifesta- 
tions of  selfishness  and  greed  among  the  business 
elements,  past  and  present,  at  the  expense  of  the 
competitor,  the  reputation  and  welfare  of  the  city 
and  state,  has  been  too  much  in  evidence.  It  is 
high  time  that  a  halt  should  be  called,  a  retro- 
spect be  taken  and  a  change  of  policy  entered 
upon,  laying  aside  the  'swaddling  clothes'  of  the 
past,  deep  dyed  in  the  blood  sweat  effort,  each  to 
slaughter  the  other  with  treachery  and  usurpa- 
tion. 

"The  time  has  come  when  questionable  ways 
of  business  men  must  be  eliminated.  How  better 
can  we  enter  upon  such  an  era  than  by  profiting 
by  the  experiences  and  adopting  the  methods  of 
some  of  our  neighboring  cities,  who  have  estab- 
lished and  well-regulated  associations,  whose 
members  work  together  as  a  unit  for  the  advance- 
ment and  protection  of  their  respective  business 
interests,  as  well  as  to  guard  the  reputation  and 
aid  the  growth  of  their  municipalities.  Such 
united  efforts  with  an  ever  watchful  care  in 
guarding  our  varied  business  interests  must  form 
the  key  to  our  future  growth.  Concentration  of 
earnest  effort  is  the  only  hope  for  large  success." 


G|  UGUST  H.  KOEPER,  an  enterprising  farmer 
LJ  and  sheep- feeder  of  Larimer  County,  resid- 
/  I  ing  in  Bellvue,  was  born  in  Auglaize 
County,  Ohio,  near  the  village  of  New  Bremen, 
July  19,  1853,  being  a  son  of  Henry  and  Annie 
(Simer)  Koeper,  natives  of  Germany,  but  from 
early  life  residents  of  Ohio.  Of  their  six  children 
all  but  one  are  still  living,  our  subject  being  the 
oldest  of  the  number  and  the  only  one  in  Colo- 
rado. He  was  reared  on  a  farm  and  at  an  early 
age  bought  a  farm  of  seventy  acres,  to  which  he 
added  until  he  had  one  hundred  and  fourteen 
acres  devoted  to  general  farming. 

In  the  fall  of  189a  Mr.  Koeper  came  to  Colo- 
rado, having  made  arrangements  to  settle  in 
Larimer  County.  The  next  year  he  brought  his 
family  here  and  settled  on  two  hundred  and  forty 
acres  six  miles  south  of  Fort  Collins.  During 
the  same  year  he  bought  his  present  farm  of  two 
hundred  and  twenty  acres,  and  for  a  year  farmed 


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both  places,  after  which  he  gave  his  attention 
solely  to  the  cultivation  of  this  property.  He 
has  improved  the  land  by  the  erection  of  a  neat 
residence  and  two  barns  and  windmill.  For  the 
shelter  of  his  sheep  he  has  a  shed  about  four 
hundred  feet  long.  He  has  sown  his  land  to 
alfalfa,  which  he  uses  for  feeding  his  sheep.  He 
also  deals  in  horses  and  cattle,  owning  a  number 
of  Percherons,  Shorthorns  and  Jerseys.  For  the 
convenience  of  shipment  he  has  a  siding  from  the 
Gulf  Railroad  on  his  place.  In  coming  to  this 
state,  it  was  his  intention  to  engage  in  the  sheep- 
feeding  business,  and  he  has  made  no  mistake  in 
his  choice  of  occupation,  for  he  has  been  very 
successful.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Larimer 
County  Sheep  Feeders'  Association. 

While  living  in  Ohio,  Mr.  Koeper  married 
Alvina  Corlina  Schroeder,  a  native  of  that  state, 
and  a  daughter  of  Richard  and  Corlina  (Leets) 
Schroeder,  of  New  Bremen.  Mr.  Schroeder  had 
four  children :  Julius,  who  is  in  Ohio,  and  the  son 
of  his  first  wife,  Sophie  (Breggemann)  Koeper, 
deceased;  Alice,  Herbert  and  Dewey,  children  of 
his  second  marriage.  Since  1894  Mr.  Koeper 
has  been  a  member  of  the  board  of  school  direc- 
tors of  district  No.  50,  and  is  now  its  president. 
Fraternally  he  is  connected  with  the  Woodmen 
of  the  World  and  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd 
Fellows.     In  religious  belief  he  is  a  Lutheran. 


(TOHN  A.  WASSON,  a  successful  merchant 
I  of  Golden  and  member  of  the  board  of  alder- 
(2)  men,  was  born  in  Page  County,  Iowa,  in 
1 862 ,  the  son  of  George  and  Harriet  (Munsho  wer ) 
Wasson,  natives  respectively  of  Schenectady, 
N.  Y. ,  and  Pennsylvania.  His  grandfather, 
Thomas  Wasson,  who  was  the  son  of  a  Revolu- 
tionary soldier,  was  born  in  New  York,  of  Scotch 
descent,  and  in  an  early  day  removed  to  Iowa, 
where  he  afterward  engaged  in  farming.  Three 
of  his  sons  served  in  the  Second  Iowa  Cavalry 
during  the  Civil  war,  remaining  at  the  front  for 
three  years. 

When  a  young  man  George  Wasson  went  to 
Page  County,  Iowa.  After  the  close  of  the  war, 
in  which  he  served  for  three  years,  he  located  in 
Peoria,  111.,  and  there,  after  a  long  and  honorable 
connection  with  the  city  street  railway  company, 
he  is  living  in  retirement.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Grand  Army  in  that  city.     His  wife,  who  was 


a  daughter  of  John  Munshower,  a  farmer  of 
Pennsylvania,  died  in  Kansas,  where  the  family 
resided  from  1876  to  1886,  but  after  her  death  her 
husband  returned  to  Peoria.  They  were  the 
parents  of  two  children:  John  A.,  and  Maggie, 
wife  of  Soren  Sorensen,  who  is  a  partner  of  Mr. 
Wasson. 

From  infancy  until  fourteen  years  of  age,  the 
subject  of  this  sketch  made  his  home  in  Peoria, 
and  afterward  he  resided  upon  a  farm  at  Alta- 
Vista, Wabaunsee  County,  Kan.  His  father,  Mr. 
Sorensen  and  himself  owned  farms  in  the  same 
neighborhood,  and  he  engaged  in  the  cultivation 
of  his  tract  of  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  until 
1887,  since  which  time  he  has  rented  it.  Coming 
to  Colorado  in  1887,  he  located  in  the  San  Luis 
Valley,  then  in  the  midst  of  its  boom,  and  there 
he  engaged  in  farming  and  stock-raising,  also 
assisted  in  opening  the  Loveland  and  Henry 
ditch.  In  1889  he  came  to  Golden  and  in  part- 
nership with  his  brother-in-law  opened  a  grocery 
on  Washington  avenue,  three  doors  from  his 
present  location.  In  1898  the  firm  erected  anew 
building,  fitted  up  for  their  business,  and  here 
they  have  since  carried  on  a  large  trade  in 
groceries  and  produce. 

In  Golden  Mr.  Wasson  married  Eleanor  M. 
Behr,  who  was  born  in  Blackhawk,  Colo.,  the 
daughter  of  Adolph  Behr,  a  pioneer  of  Golden,  for 
some  years  a  miner  in  Gilpin  County,  but  now  a 
resident  of  Golden.  Politically  Mr.  Wasson  is  a 
silver  Republican.  On  this  ticket,  in  1897,  he 
was  elected  to  represent  the  first  ward  upon  the 
board  of  aldermen  and  has  since  been  chairman 
of  the  committee  on  streets  and  a  member  of  other 
committees.  He  has  represented  the  Knights  of 
Pythias  of  Golden  in  the  Grand  Lodge  three 
times  and  is  a  past  ofiicer  of  the  lodge,  also  re- 
corder of  the  Uniform  Rank. 


^EORGE  A.  SNOW,  a  prominent  merchant 
|_  of  Byers,  Arapahoe  County,  was  born  in 
Vj  Currytown,  Montgomery  County,  N.  Y. , 
May  16,  1848,  and  is  a  son  of  Dr.  Simeon  and 
Margaret  (Dievendorff )  Snow,  natives  of  Massa- 
chusetts and  New  York  respectively.  His  father 
removed  to  New  York  in  early  life  and  settled  at 
Yatesville,  but  later  removed  to  Currytown, 
where  he  spent  the  remainder  of  his  life  engaged 
in  professional  work.     He  was  prominent  in  the 


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Democratic  party  and  took  an  active  part  in  local 
aifairs.  For  some  time  he  served  as  county  com- 
missioner of  Montgomery  County,  and  also  served 
in  the  state  senate  of  New  York.  He  died  about 
1865.  The  Snow  family  was  founded  in  America 
by  two  brothers,  who  came  from  England  and 
settled  in  Massachusetts.  His  father-in-law, 
Jacob  Dievendorff,  of  Holland  descent,  was  scalped 
by  the  Indians  in  boyhood  during  the  Revolu- 
tion, but  lived  and  in  time  became  a  well-to-do 
farmer. 

The  family  of  Dr.  Simeon  Snow  consisted  of 
five  sons  and  two  daughters.  Jacob  D.,  the  old- 
est son,  resides  near  the  old  homestead  in  New 
York.  Norman  Leslie,  now  deceased,  was  sur- 
geon of  the  One  Hundred  and  Fifty-third  New 
York  Regiment  during  the  Civil  war.  Hora- 
tio N.  is  an  ofiicer  in  the  Mechanics  and  Farm- 
ers' National  Bank,  of  Albany,  N.  Y.  Charles  S. 
resides  on  the  old  homestead,  which  he  assists  jn 
cultivating.  Elizabeth  is  the  wife  of  Seth  Ram- 
sey, of  Argusville,  N.  Y.  ;and  Margaret  E.  mar- 
ried Dr.  A.  Van  Der  Veer,  of  Albany,  N.  Y.,  a 
specialist  in  surgery. 

The  education  of  our  subject  was  obtained  in 
the  graded  schools  of  Fairfield,  N.  Y.  He  en- 
gaged in  the  lumber  business  from  1866  to  1879 
at  Alban)',  N.  Y.,  and  in  the  latter  year  came  to 
Colorado,  settling  in  Arapahoe  County  and  start- 
ing a  sheep  ranch  eight  miles  south  of  Byers, 
which  he  conducted  for  several  years,  when  he 
removed  his  flock  to  Trego  County,  Kan.,  re- 
maining only  one  year,  when  he  returned  to 
Albany,  N.  Y.  There  he  again  engaged  in  the 
lumber  business  till  1887,  when,  on  account  of 
health,  he  returned  to  Colorado  and  engaged  again 
in  the  stock  business.  He  bought  an  interest  in 
a  store  at  Byers  about  1890,  and  one  year  later 
bought  out  his  partners.  He  has  since  handled 
general  merchandise,  hay,  grain  and  farm  ma- 
chinery. 

In  Currytown,  N.  Y.,  Mr.  Snow  married  Miss 
Maria  Frances  Diefendorff,  who  was  born  in  the 
same  place  as  himself.  They  have  one  son  and 
one  daughter,  Anson  Leslie  and  Eva  Frances. 
In  politics  Mr.  Snow  is  a  Democrat.  Under  the 
administration  of  President  McKinley  he  was  ap- 
pointed postmaster,  which  oflBce  he  still  fills.  His 
wife  is  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian  Church,  to 
which  he  contributes.  During  his  residence  in 
Albany  he  was  for  twelve  years  a  member  of  the 


National  Guard.  Mr.  Snow  has  been  successful 
in  business  enterprises,  and  his  life  is  an  example 
to  a  younger  generation. 


CJiDEON  L.  BURTON,  a  well  known  mer- 
l_  chant  of  Deer  Trail,  Arapahoe  County,  is 
Vj  also  the  owner  of  a  store  situated  one-half 
mile  from  his  store,  and,  besides  superintending 
the  management  of  his  mercantile  interests,  he 
also  engages  in  raising  sheep,  horses  and  cattle. 
He  was  born  in  Stokes  County,  N.  C,  in  1850, 
and  is  a  descendant  of  a  race  of  seafaring  Eng- 
lishmen, who  settled  in  Virginia  in  an  early  day. 
His  grandfather,  Samuel  Burton,  who  was  a 
sailor,  served  as  a  soldier  in  the  Revolution. 

The  father  of  our  subject,  David  Burton,  was 
born  in  Charlottesville,  Va. ,  and  enlisted  in  the 
Henry  County  volunteers  during  the  war  of  1812, 
serving  until  he  was  discharged  February  27, 
18 1 5,  at  Richmond,  Va.  Three  years  later  he 
married  Winifred  Lawson  and  moved  to  North 
Carolina,  where  he  spent  his  remaining  years 
upon  a  farm.  He  was  one  of  the  commissioners 
appointed  to  divide  Stokes  County.  Politically 
he  was  first  a  Henry  Clay  Whig  and  during  the 
Civil  war  a  Democrat,  though  he  did  all  within 
his  power  to  prevent  war.  He  was  a  deacon  in 
the  primitive  Baptist  Church,  with  which  he  was 
identified  for  more  than  forty  years.  He  died 
May  8,  1872. 

Our  subject's  mother,  Winifred  (Lawson) 
Burton,  was  a  native  of  North  Carolina,  her  par- 
ents having  settled  with  the  French  colony  in 
that  state  shortly  before  1 8 1 2 .  They  were  French , 
and  were  driven  from  their  native  land  on  account 
of  their  religious  views,  being  members  of  the 
Baptist  Church.  Some  of  the  exiles  who  came 
with  them  to  America  settled  near  New  Orleans. 
Mr.  Lawson  was  a  traveling  Baptist  minister,  and 
preached  in  many  parts  of  the  south.  She  was 
born  in  1815  and  is  still  living  in  Stokes  County, 
N.  C.  Besides  our  subject  she  has  two  living 
children:  James  S.,  a  farmer  in  North  Carolina; 
and  Melissa,  wife  of  W.  P.  Sans,  living  in  the 
same  county  with  her  mother. 

The  early  years  in  the  life  of  our  subject  were 
spent  in  Stokes  County,  where  he  attended  the 
public  schools  and  the  Danbury  Institute.  At 
the  age  of  twenty-one  he  was  appointed  deputy 
sheriflf  and  a  few  months  later  was  made  cou- 


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stable.  He  held  the  latter  office  for  two  years 
and  was  then  re-elected,  but  resigned  in  order  to 
accept  the  position  of  deputy  sheriff  and  jailer. 
In  that  capacity  he  served  for  four  years,  when 
the  sheriff  failed,  and  he  was  appointed  to  serve 
out  the  unexpired  term  of  one  year.  At  the  ex- 
piration of  that  time  he  was  elected  treasurer  of 
the  county  and  served  a  full  term  of  two  years. 
Soon  afterward,  in  1884,  on  account  of  poor 
health,  he  came  to  Arapahoe  County,  and  home- 
steaded  his  present  ranch  at  Deer  Trail.  Four 
years  after  coming  here  he  purchased  the  store 
which  he  has  since,  with  the  assistance  of  a  clerk, 
conducted  successfully. 

In  1876  Mr.  Burton  married  Miss  Ruth  E. 
Lackey.  She  was  born  in  Stokes  County,  N.  C, 
and  her  father,  Samuel  J.  Lackey,  was  a  miller 
and  farmer,  as  well  as  a  primitive  Baptist 
preacher.  To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Burton  were  born 
four  children  who  are  now  living,  namely: 
Robert  W. ,  Samuel  D.,  George  E.  and  Laura 
Ethel,  all  at  home.  Mr.  Burton  has  been  a  life- 
long Democrat  and  was  elected  justice  of  the 
peace  a  few  months  after  settling  in  Arapahoe 
County.  In  1895  he  was  appointed  postmaster, 
and  is  still  filling  that  position,  to  the  satisfaction 
of  all.  In  religion  he  is  identified  with  the  prim- 
itive Baptist  Church. 


(Tames  O.  PHILLIPS  is  a  well-known  and 
I  successful  farmer  and  stock-raiser,  located 
(2)  on  section  32,  township  10  south,  range  63 
west,  and  has  been  pursuing  that  independent 
calling  in  this  vicinity  since  the  year  1870,  when 
he  took  up  a  claim  of  one  hundred  and  sixty 
acres;  he  now  owns  sixteen  hundred  and  forty 
acres  in  all,  part  of  which  is  in  and  around  the 
town  of  Colorado  Springs  and  the  rest  near  Pueblo. 
He  was  born  in  Saco,  Me.,  February  20,  1840, 
and  is  a  son  of  Oliver  and  Eliza  (Moulton) 
Phillips. 

Oliver  Phillips  was  also  born  in  Maine  in  1807 
and  was  of  sturdy  Irish  origin.  He  followed 
farming  the  major  part  of  his  active  days.  In 
politics  he  was  a  stanch  Democrat.  He  married 
Eliza  Moulton,  who  was  born  in  Maine  in  1805, 
and  they  reared  four  sous,  namely:  Daniel,  Will- 
iam Wallace,  James  O.  (our  subject)  and  Ivory. 
Daniel  enlisted  in  Company  H,  Twelfth  Maine 
Volunteer  Infantry,  as  first  lieutenant,  but  was 


soon  promoted  to  captain;  he  participated  in  many 
engagements  and  was  killed  in  General  Sheridan's 
famous  battle.  William  Wallace  served  about 
six  months  as  a  private.  Ivory  was  also  in  the 
Civil  war,  and  was  a  private  in  the  Twenty-fifth 
Maine  Regiment.  He  is  now  a  resident  of  New 
Milford,  Conn.,  but  owns  a  large  tract  of  land  in 
this  state;  he  came  to  Colorado  in  1869,  where  he 
resided  many  years,  during  which  time  he  was 
engaged  in  raising  sheep  and  was  one  of  the 
largest  sheep-raisers  in  the  state. 

James  O.  Phillips  was  reared  on  his  father's 
farm  and  spent  five  terms  in  the  academy  at 
Gorham,  Me.;  he  then  taught  school  one  term, 
and  when  the  Civil  war  broke  out  he  enlisted  in 
Company  G,  Forty-seventh  Massachusetts  Vol- 
unteer Infantry,  serving  about  two  years  on  guard 
duty.  After  peace  had  been  restored  he  returned 
to  his  home  in  Maine  and  in  1865,  in  company 
with  six  of  his  schoolmates,  he  started  for  Colo- 
rado. They  went  by  rail  as  far  as  Nevada,  Iowa, 
and  from  there,  having  bought  three  teams,  they 
drove  across  the  plains,  arriving  in  Denver  on 
April  I  of  that  year.  The  first  two  years  in  that 
state  were  spent  in  Central  City,  engaged  in 
mining;  in  1866  he  returned  to  his  native  state, 
where  he  remained  until  1870,  when  he  again 
went  to  Colorado,  and  in  partnership  with  his 
brother  he  engaged  in  rai'sing  sheep.  It  was 
not  his  intention  to  make  Colorado  his  home 
when  he  left  for  that  country,  but  as  he  met  with 
such  great  success  in  the  sheep  business,  he 
changed  his  mind  and  in  1870  took  up  a  tract  of 
one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  of  land;  in  the  fol- 
lowing year  he  bought  another  one  hundred  and 
sixty  acres.  He  has  added  to  his  first  purchase 
from  time  to  time,  until  now  he  is  the  proprietor 
of  sixteen  hundred  and  forty  acres.  He  owns 
valuable  real  estate  in  Pueblo,  Colorado  Springs 
and  in  El  Paso  County.  His  principal  occupation 
is  cattle- raising  and  breeding  horses,  but  he  car- 
ries on  general  farming  to  a  large  extent;  he  is 
highly  esteemed  by  his  fellow-citizens  and  does 
all  in  his  power  to  promote  the  welfare  of  his 
adopted  county. 

Ill  1866,  when  Mr.  Phillips  returned  from  Colo- 
rado to  his  native  state,  he  married,  December 
16  of  that  year,  Emma  J.  Harmon,  of  Boxton, 
Me. ,  and  their  home  has  been  blessed  by  the  birth 
of  six  children,  as  follows:  Frank;  Clarence; 
Stella,  a  graduate  from  the  Colorado  State  Nor- 


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mal  and  now  engaged  in  teaching  school;  Edith, 
the  wife  of  Frank  Capell  and  they  live  on  a  ranch 
near  our  subject;  Anna;  and  James  Harmon,  born 
August  6,  1 88 1.  Our  subject  has  been  a  life-long 
Democrat,  as  was  his  father;  his  father  was  a 
Douglas  man,  and  he  wrote  and  delivered  a 
speech  for  him.  Our  subject  has  served  as  county 
commissioner  seven  years;  ten  years  as  postmaster 
of  Bijou  Basin;  and  as  justice  of  the  peace  for 
many  years.  Fraternally  he  became  a  member 
of  the  Masonic  order  at  Gorham,  Me. 


IT  DWIN  VOLNEY  BEDFORD  is  numbered 
1^  among  the  enterprising  young  business  men 
Li  of  Boulder.  About  five  years  ago  he  first 
embarked  in  trade  in  this  place  and  from  that 
time  to  the  present  his  patronage  has  steadily 
increased  and  the  circle  of  his  friends  widened 
in  the  same  proportion.  He  is  genial,  well 
educated  and  popular  with  all  who  have  the 
pleasure  of  his  acquaintance.  Fraternally  he 
belongs  to  the  Knights  of  Pythias  and  is  the 
recorder  of  the  Boulder  lodge  of  the  Uniform 
Rank  of  that  order  and  is  vice-chief  of  the  local 
lodge  of  the  Knights  of  the  Golden  Eagle. 

The  history  of  the  Bedford  family  in  England 
appears  in  the  various  volumes  of  heraldry,  not- 
ably Burke's  "Peerage,"  the  Duke  of  Bedford 
being  among  the  peers  of  the  realm.  The  records 
show  that  the  first  of  the  name  to  emigrate  from 
England  to  America  was  William  Bedford,  who 
crossed  the  Atlantic  in  the  "James"  in  1621,  set- 
tling in  Virginia  at  a  very  early  period  in  the 
history  of  the  colony.  His  name  appears  in  the 
"Muster  of  the  Inhabitants  of  the  Neck-of-L,and 
neare  James  Citty,  taken  February  the  4th, 
1624."  The  parish  register  states  that  his  son, 
Richard  Bedford,  died  in  July,  1679,  and  was 
buried  on  the  23d  of  that  month.  The  descend- 
ants of  the  latter  became  scattered  through  vari- 
ous parts  of  the  Old  Dominion,  and  were  mainlj' 
planters  b}'  occupation.  A  collateral  represent- 
ative of  the  same  family  was  Gunning  Bedford,  a 
friend  of  Benjamin  Franklin,  and  deceased  in 
181 2.  His  monument  in  the  churchyard  in 
Market  street,  Wilmington,  Del.,  bears  on  one 
side  the  family  arms,  an  escutcheon  charged  with 
three  lion's  gambs  couped  and  erect  within  a 
bordure.  For  crest:  A  lion's  gamb  couped  and 
erect. 


Littleberry  Bedford,  great-grandfather  of  E.  V. 
Bedford,  was  born  in  Virginia,  but  removed  from 
there  to  Kentucky  in  an  early  day.     His   son, 
A.  v.,  the  next  in  line  of  descent,  was  born  and 
reared  in  Kentucky,  and,  following  his  father's 
example  in  the  choice  of  an  occupation,  he  be- 
came a  practical  farmer.     For  a  few  years  he  en- 
gaged in  fanning  near  the  old  homestead,  and 
then  removed  to  the  neighborhood  of  Paris,  Bour- 
bon County,  Ky.     His  .son,  James  G.,  father  of 
our  subject,  was  born  near  Paris,  Ky. ,  and  was 
one  often  children.    Going  to  Missouri,  he  turned 
his  attention  to  the  cultivation  of  a  homestead 
which  he  purchased  near  Paris,  Monroe  County. 
In   1879  he  came   to  Colorado,  and  invested  in 
mining  enterprises,  in  several  of  which  he  met 
with  gratifying  returns.     Later    he   resided   in 
Breckenridge,  and  there  was  likewise  engaged  in 
mining.     Ill  health  at  last  overtook  him  and  his 
death  occurred  in  the  Denver  hospital  in  1886. 
During  the  Civil  war  he  enlisted  from  Paris,  Ky., 
and  was  made  captain  of  a  company  in  the  First 
Kentucky    Regiment    of    Mounted    Rifles,    and 
served  valiantly  throughout  the  strife,  on  behalf 
of  the  cause  in  which  he  believed.     Two  of  his 
brothers,  J.  D.  and  B.  Bedford,  were  members  of 
the  same  regiment.     The  wife  of  James  G.  Bed- 
ford, who  died  in   Georgetown,   Colo.,  in   i88r, 
while  on  a  visit,  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Nannie 
HoUiday.    She  was  born  in  Monroe  County,  Mo. , 
being  the  daughter  of  T.  H.  Holliday,  a  pioneer 
of  that  section  of  the  state.     He  was  a  native 
of    Kentucky,    and   after  settling   in   Missouri, 
became  an  extensive  dealer  in  cattle  and  mules, 
and  was  a  man  of  wealth  and  prominence  in  his 
community.      The  Hollidays  (or  Hollydays,  as 
some  branches  of  the  family  spelled  the  name  in 
early  days)  were  early  settlers  of  Virginia.     The 
muster  of  inhabitants  of  St.  Michael's,  taken  in 
1680,  states  that  among  the  residents  of  the  town 
were  William  Holliday,  his  wife  and  four  chil- 
dren and  a  servant. 

Edwin  V.  Bedford  is  in  the  prime  of  early  man- 
hood, as  he  was  born  but  little  over  thirty  years 
ago,  March  26,  1867.  His  early  years  were 
passed  quietly  and  without  incident  on  the  paren- 
tal homestead  in  Monroe  County,  Mo.  Of  his 
brothers  and  sisters  five  lived  to  maturity  and  all 
but  one  of  the  number  survive  at  this  writing. 
He  is  the  eldest  of  the  family.  In  the  fall  of  1879 
he  left  home  and  went  to  Colorado  Springs,  in 


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order  that  he  might  enjoy  better  educational 
privileges  than  he  had  had  hitherto,  and  it  was 
not  until  1881  that  he  returned  to  Missouri,  his 
native  state.  He  continued  his  studies  in  HoUi- 
day,  Monroe  County,  for  a  period,  and  resided  in 
that  town  up  to  1887.  Then,  going  to  Humans- 
ville,  Polk  County,  Mo.,  he  entered  into  partner- 
ship with  his  brother,  T.  H. ,  under  the  firm  name 
of  Bedford  Brothers,  in  the  retail  meat  market 
business.  They  were  thus  associated  for  about 
two  years,  at  the  expiration  of  which  time  our 
subject  sold  out  his  interest.  Then,  in  company 
with  H.  B.  Anderson,  he  started  into  the  business 
of  feeding  and  dealing  in  cattle,  and  was  very 
successful  in  this  undertaking.  He  came  to 
Boulder  in  1893  and  with  his  partner  bought  the 
market  with  which  he  has  since  been  connected. 
It  is  located  at  No.  1122  Pearl  street,  and  until 
the  death  of  Mr.  Anderson,  in  1894,  was  run 
under  the  style  of  Anderson  &  Bedford.  Mr. 
Bedford  purchased  the  whole  business  at  that 
time  and  has  since  conducted  it  alone,  on  a  strictly 
cash  basis.  The  success  which  he  has  achieved 
is  the  result  of  his  earnest  desire  to  meet  the 
wishes  of  his  customers.  Politically  he  sides 
with  the  Democracy. 


Q  ENJAMIN  H.  TALBOTT,  of  Elbert  County, 
r^  owns  and  occupies  a  farm  on  section  13, 
LIJ  township  8,  range  64  west,  six  miles  east  of 
the  village  of  Elizabeth.  He  was  born  in  Put- 
nam County,  Ind.,  August  2,  1859,  a  son  of 
James  and  Paulina  (Dicks)  Talbott,  and  was  six 
years  of  age  when  his  parents  moved  to  Paoli, 
Kan.,  but  after  two  years,  during  which  time  his 
father  had  engaged  in  the  mercantile  business,  the 
store  was  traded  for  a  farm  in  Linn  County,  and 
the  family  settled  upon  that  place. 

From  an  early  age  Mr.  Talbott  was  helpful, 
assisting  in  the  cultivation  of  the  home  farm  and 
taking  charge  of  the  family  while  he  was  still 
young.  During  his  residence  in  Linn  County, 
March  5,  1887,  he  married  Miss  Nellie  Keran,  a 
native  of  that  county,  and  a  daughter  of  John  and 
Elvira  (Stites)  Keran.  One  son  was  born  of 
their  union  June  27,  1889.  In  1890  Mr.  Talbott 
came  to  Colorado  and  homesteaded  his  present 
property,  where  he  has  since  conducted  agricult- 
ural pursuits  and  carried  on  a  small  dairy. 

While  Mr.  Talbott  and  his  wife  had  only  such 


advantages  in  childhood  as  the  common  schools 
afforded,  they  are  well  informed  and  intelligent, 
and  rank  among  the  best  people  of  their  county. 
He  takes  an  interest  in  public  affairs,  and  in  po- 
litical views  is  a  stanch  advocate  of  Republican 
principles.  His  first  presidential  vote  was  cast 
in  1880  for  James  Garfield.  His  interest  in  poli- 
tics is  that  of  a  private  citizen  merely,  as  he  has 
never  sought  office  nor  cared  for  political  dis- 
tinction. 


■gPEELEY  W.  WHITFORD,  of  Denver. 
__  United  States  attorney  for  the  district  of 
J  Colorado,  was  born  in  Rockville,  Parke 
County,  Ind.,  June  5,  1856,  and  is  a  son  of  Prof. 
John  W.  and  Jane  (Harlan)  Whitford.  His 
father,  who  was  born  in  New  York,  in  childhood 
went  to  Indiana  with  his  father.  Dr.  Welcome 
Whitford,  and  grew  to  manhood  upon  a  farm,  re- 
ceiving his  education  in  Asbury  University  and 
graduating  from  that  school  in  the  class  of  which 
Senator  Voorhees  was  a  member.  On  complet- 
ing his  studies  he  began  to  teach,  which  occu- 
pation he  followed  for  a  number  of  years.  He 
was  principal  of  the  Rockville  schools  and  served 
for  two  terms  as  county  superintendent  of  schools 
of  Parke  County.  His  marriage  was  solemnized 
at  the  Harlan  homestead  by  Bishop  Simpson, 
who  was  president  of  Asbury  University  at 
that  time.  Five  children  were  born  of  the  union 
and  four  of  these  are  still  living.  Mary  H.  mar- 
ried H.  W.  Leedham  and  lives  in  Denver; 
James  C.  is  engaged  in  business  at  Mount  Pleas- 
ant, Iowa;  and  Clay  B.  is  an  attorney  in  Denver. 
Mr.  Whitford  was  a  Whig  in  early  life  and  later 
affiliated  with  the  Republicans.  In  religious  be- 
lief he  was  identified  with  the  Methodist  Episco- 
pal Church.  In  January,  1859,  when  his  son, 
our  subject,  was  less  than  three  years  of  age,  he 
died  from  the  result  of  an  accidental  injury.  He 
was  a  man  of  great  mental  vigor  and,  had  his  life 
been  spared,  would  undoubtedly  have  attained 
success.  Being  of  an  inventive  turn  of  mind,  he 
devoted  himself  to  originating  improvements, 
especially  in  printing.  It  was  his  theory  that  a 
combination  of  type  could  be  secured  that  would 
not  make  it  necessary  to  pick  up  each  type  by  it- 
self; to  make  his  ideas  practical  he  spent  consider- 
able time  and  money,  but  at  the  time  of  his  death 
he  had  not  yet  met  with  success,  and  the  family 
was  therefore  left  without  means. 


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On  account  of  his  father's  death  our  subject 
was  forced  to  make  his  own  way  in  the  world 
from  an  early  age.  He  was  taken  into  the  home 
of  John  T.  Brown,  who  had  married  the 
sister  of  his  mother,  and  there  he  remained 
until  fifteen  years  of  age,  meantime  attending 
school  in  the  winter  and  working  on  the  farm  in 
the  summer.  It  was  the  understanding  that  he 
was  to  receive  $25  the  first  year,  $35  the  second, 
$45  the  third,  and  so  on  until  he  was  eighteen, 
and  Mr.  Brown  was  to  pay  interest  on  it  until 
that  time.  When  our  subject's  father  knew  he 
could  not  recover  he  had  requested  that  Senator 
Harlan,  his  brother-in-law,  maintain  an  over- 
sight of  the  children  and  see  that  they  were 
given  educations.  The  senator  wrote  to  Mrs. 
Whitford,  when  our  subject  was  about  fifteen, 
that  if  she  could  get  the  children  together  again, 
she  might  have  the  use  of  his  farm  near  Mount 
Pleasant,  Iowa.  Mrs.  Whitford  at  once  went 
from  Kansas  to  Iowa,  where  she  was  joined  bj' 
the  children.  Her  son.  Clay  B.,  entered  the  col- 
lege at  Mount  Pleasant  and  Greeley  W.  became 
a  pupil  in  the  public  school,  while  the  oldest  son, 
James  C,  thinking  he  was  too  old  to  start  into 
school,  said  he  would  manage  the  farm  and 
support  the  family.     This  he  did. 

After  a  short  experience  in  school  life,  our 
subject  began  to  learn  the  printer's  trade,  in  the 
office  of  the  Mount  Pleasant  Journal.  He  re- 
mained there  about  eighteen  months,  when,  feel- 
ing the  necessity  of  a  better  education,  he  entered 
the  preparatory  department  of  Iowa  Wesleyan 
University  at  Mount  Pleasant.  Through  his 
work  in  the  printing  office  and  the  insane  asylum, 
also  by  teaching  school,  he  earned  money  for  his 
education.  His  mother's  health  failed  to  such  an 
extent  that  it  was  thought  best  to  break  up  house- 
keeping, and  she  went  to  make  her  home  with  a 
daughter  in  Kansas. 

In  the  office  of  his  older  brother,  who  was  an 
attorney,  our  subject  read  law  until  1882,  when 
he  was  admitted  to  the  bar:  He  was  without 
books  and  in  debt,  so  made  application  to 
Frank  Hatton,  then  assistant  postmaster-general, 
through  whose  influence,  and  that  of  Senator 
Harlan,  he  was  appointed  a  railway  postal  clerk 
in  North  Dakota.  He  remained  in  the  service 
eighteen  months,  meantime  receiving  promotion. 
By  this  means  he  paid  his  debts  and  purchased 
law  books.     From  Dakota  he  went  to  Washing- 


ton Territory,  and  located  at  Whatcom,  on  Puget 
Sound,  where  he  began  in  practice,  remaining 
there  until  1887.  Before  going  he  had  applied 
to  Mr.  Hatton  to  appoint  him  postmaster,  as  he 
was  not  sure  the  law  would  make  him  a  living. 
Senator  Harlan  advised  him  not  to  take  the 
position,  but  he  did,  and  found  himself  in  the 
midst  of  a  political  struggle,  for  he  was  a  stranger 
in  the  place  and  his  appointment  to  the  place 
had  made  him  many  enemies.  However,  he 
held  the  position  until  Cleveland  became  presi- 
dent. In  1883  he  came  to  Denver,  joining  his 
brother,  who  had  settled  here  in  1883.  After 
they  had  been  in  partnership  eighteen  months  he 
was  appointed  deputy  city  attorney  bj'  Mr. 
Shafroth.  He  became  junior  member  of  the  law 
firm  of  Rogers,  Shafroth  &  Whitford,  and  when 
Mr.  Rogers  was  elected  mayor,  Mr.  Whitford 
formed  a  partnership  with  F.  A.  Williams.  In 
1891  he  was  again  appointed  deputy  city  attorney. 
In  1894  he  was  elected  attorney  for  the  second 
judicial  district,  which  embraces  Denver,  but  that 
position  he  resigned  April  30,  1897,  i"  order  to 
accept  his  present  office.  He  cast  his  first  ballot 
for  President  Garfield  and  has  served  as  delegate 
to  many  of  the  Republican  conventions;  in  1896 
he  stumped  the  state  of  Colorado  and  while  in 
Washington  he  also  did  considerable  political 
work. 

At  Mount  Pleasant,  Iowa,  June  4,  1890,  Mr. 
Whitford  married  Miss  Ida  Spaulding,  daughter 
of  Rev.  W.  J.  Spaulding,  D.  D.,  and  Martha 
(Berry)  Spaulding.  They  have  three  children: 
Kent  Kelton,  who  was  born  in  Mount  Pleasant; 
Ruth  Edna  and  Jane,  born  in  Denver.  In  the 
Knights  of  Pythias  Mr.  Whitford  has  filled  all  the 
chairs.  He  is  a  member  of  Union  Lodge  No.  7, 
A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  and  Denver  Chapter,  R.  A.  M. 


pCJlLLIAM  T.  LAMBERT,  general  manager 

\  A  /  of  the  Lambert  Orchard  Company,  and 
YY  proprietor  of  one  of  the  finest  ranches  in 
the  state,  was  born  in  Portland,  Me.,  September 
18,  1850,  and  is  a  son  of  Joseph  and  Cynthia 
(Meader)  Lambert.  In  1858  the  family  moved 
to  Muscatine  County,  Iowa,  where  his  father, 
who  had  been  a  contractor  in  Maine,  became  a 
farmer.  From  Iowa,  in  1865,  in  a  wagon  drawn 
by  an  ox-team,  they  came  to  Denver,  where  the 
father  first  engaged  in  contracting  and  building. 


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and  then  for  five  years  served  as  jailer  of  Arapa- 
hoe County.  Previous  to  this  he  had  served  as 
street  commissioner  and  city  jailer.  In  politics 
he  always  adhered  to  the  .Republican  party. 
After  his  marriage  to  a  Quakeress  he  became  a 
member  of  that  society.  He  was  a  sir  knight  in 
Masonry  and  held  various  official  positions.  He 
passed  away  February  27,  1887,  and  his  remains 
lie  in  Riverside  Cemetery. 

The  only  child  of  his  parents,  our  subject  early 
began  to  assist  his  father,  learning  to  lay  brick 
and  do  other  manual  work.  From  sixteen  until 
twenty- one  he  was  employed  as  a  bricklayer,  and 
then  engaged  in  the  wholesale  produce  business 
on  a  small  scale.  He  prospered  until  the  panic 
of  1873,  when,  after  paying  one  hundred  cents  on 
every  dollar  of  indebtedness,  he  closed  out  the 
business.  With  his  father  he  bought  a  ranch  of 
one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  two  miles  west  of 
Sedalia,  Douglas  County,  Colo.,  where  he  at 
once  began  farming  and  stock-raising.  While 
working  as  a  brick-layer  he  gained  a  knowledge 
of  civil  engineering,  a  taste  for  which  he  in- 
herited from  his  grandfather.  In  1882  he  was 
elected  surveyor  of  Douglas  County,  and  twice 
was  re-elected,  but  resigned  before  the  last  term 
was  out. 

From  time  to  time  Mr.  Lambert  added  to  his 
ranch,  until  he  now  has  nearly  two  thousand 
acres,  all  well  stocked.  At  another  place  he  has 
four  thousand  acres.  He  has  planted  many  fruit 
trees  on  his  ranch,  having  now  twenty  thousand 
cherry,  plum  and  apple  trees,  and  four  hundred 
thousand  trees  in  the  nursery.  Over  two  hun- 
dred acres  are  irrigated  by  one  windmill  under 
the  Lambert  sub-irrigation  system.  In  the  study 
of  irrigation  Mr.  Lambert  spent  several  months 
in  California,  examining  the  various  systems  in 
use  there,  and  after  much  thought  and  study  he 
evolved  a  system  for  which  he  has  applied  for  a 
patent.  This  will,  without  doubt,  enable  the 
people  to  irrigate  the  hills,  and  will  thus  be  of 
great  financial  benefit,  not  only  to  Colorado,  but 
also  to  the  entire  desert  country,  as  it  will  be 
cheaper  than  irrigation  by  ditches,  even  on  the 
plains  where  ditches  can  be  maintained. 

January  11,  1874,  Mr.  Lambert  married  Rachel 
Parman,  of  Fort  Worth,  Tex.,  who  was  born  in 
Missouri,  a  daughter  of  Giles  Parman.  They 
are  the  parents  of  four  living  children  and  lost 
one  in  infancy.     The  eldest,  J.  F.,  who  is  now 


eighteen  years  of  age,  is  president  of  the  Lam- 
bert Orchard  Company,  which  was  organized  by 
his  father  in  1896,  originally  with  ten  thousand 
shares,  but  now  having  fifty  thousand  of  $1  each. 
It  is  exclusively  a  family  company,  and  no  one 
outside  of  the  family  is  allowed  to  hold  stock. 
The  second  son,  W.T.  Lambert,  Jr. ,  is  secretary  of 
the  company,  Bessie  is  assistant  secretary,  and 
Webster,  a  nine-year-old  boy,  is  assi.stant  man- 
ager. Mrs.  Lambert  is  treasurer.  Mr.  Lam- 
bert's idea  in  this  is  to  make  his  children  familiar 
with  business  matters  and  give  them,  by  prac- 
tical experience  in  youth,  the  knowledge  that 
will  be  so  valuable  to  them  in  after  years.  The 
family  spend  the  winters  in  Denver  and  the  sum- 
mers on  their  ranch. 

In  1872  Mr.  Lambert  cast  his  first  presidential 
vote  for  General  Grant,  and  he  has  since  been  a 
stanch  Republican.  He  served  for  three  terms 
as  county  surveyor  and  one  term  as  county  as- 
sessor under  the  territorial  jurisdiction,  later 
under  the  state  board.  He  introduced  the 
first  system  of  land  book  entry  for  the  as- 
sessor, and  through  this  means  between  five  hun- 
dred and  a  thousand  little  errors  were  detected, 
which  were  afterward  corrected.  In  1882  he 
joined  Denver  Lodge  No.  5,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  and 
soon  afterward  became  identified  with  Denver 
Chapter  No.  2,  R.  A.  M.,  still  later  becoming  a 
member  of  Colorado  Comlnandery  No.  i,  K.  T. , 
and  finally  joining  Denver  Council  No.  i.  Royal 
and  Select  Masters,  and  El  Jebel  Temple, 
N.  M.  S. 

|~RANK  L.  PECK,  clerk  of  the  district  court 
JM  of  Clear  Creek  County,  is  also  the  owner  of 
I  '  the  Gold  Dirt  group  and  the  Atlantic  mines; 
the  former,  which  consists  of  a  group  of  four 
mines,  is  the  best  in  the  Clear  Creek  County. 
Our  subject  was  born  in  Oswego,  N.  Y.,  the  date 
of  his  birth  being  December  6,  1843,  and  is  a  son 
of  James  and  Mary  (Parsons)  Peck,  and  grand- 
son of  John  Peck,  a  farmer,  who  descended  from 
an  old  New  England  family. 

Joseph  Peck  was  born  and  reared  at  Ogdens- 
burg,  St.  Lawrence  County,  N.  Y. ,  and  although 
educated  to  agricultural  pursuits,  early  in  life  he 
began  to  clerk  in  the  flour  store  of  Fitzhugh  &  Lit- 
tlejohn;  in  1843  he  migrated  west  and  located 
in  the  city  of  Chicago,  where  he  engaged  in  the 
grain  business,  first  becoming  agent  for  an  Oswego 


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line  and  later  had  charge  of  a  grain  elevator. 
This  he  conducted  until  the  panic  of  1859,  in 
which  year  he  gave  up  that  line  of  business.  In 
the  following  year  he  journeyed  across  the  plains 
to  Colorado,  and  locating  at  Nevadaville,  better 
known  as  Whitcomb,  he  purchased  the  Whit- 
comb  quartz  mill,  which  he  operated  one  year. 
In  1861  he  became  interested  in  the  Van  Dearn 
mill  at  Trail  Creek,  now  known  as  Freeland,  and 
operated  the  same  until  1862,  when  he  moved  to 
Empire.  There  he  founded  the  Peck  Company, 
of  which  our  subject  later  became  the  owner. 
Mr.  Peck  died  in  1880,  at  the  age  of  seventy-nine 
years.  He  was  twice  united  in  marriage;  by  his 
first  wife  he  reared  one  daughter,  Mary,  the  wife 
of  Charles  Brown,  of  Chicago,  111.  His  second 
wife  was  Mary  Parsons,  a  native  of  Connecticut, 
and  a  daughter  of  Maj.  Joseph  Parsons,  who  was 
of  Revolutionary  fame,  and  a  native  of  Enfield, 
Conn.,  where  he  was  engaged  in  merchandising. 
Four  children  blessed  this  union,  three  of  whom 
are  still  living,  namely:  Frank  L,.,  the  subject 
of  this  personal  history;  James,  Jr. ;  and  Harry 
Bristol,  the  latter  two  being  located  in  Routt 
County,  this  state. 

Frank  L.  Peck  was  reared  in  Chicago,  111. ,  and 
received  his  education  in  the  public  schools  of 
that  city  and  then  attended  Dr.  Reed's  Walnut 
Hill  Preparatory  school  at  Geneva,  N.  Y. ;  return- 
ing to  Chicago,  he  entered  and  graduated  from 
Sloan's  Business  College.  In  1861,  in  compatiy 
with  his  father,  he  went  to  St.  Joe,  Mo.,  from 
which  place  he  took  the  stage  and  crossed  the 
plains  to  the  state  of  Colorado.  He  first  located 
on  Trail  Creek,  where  he  engaged  in  milling  and 
mining,  and  in  1862  he  came  to  Empire,  then  the 
best  mining  camp  in  the  state,  and  in  the  follow- 
ing year  he  took  charge  of  a  merchandise  store 
for  his  father;  remaining  in  that  capacity  until 
1867,  he  then  moved  to  Georgetown,  where  he 
accepted  a  like  position  with  Charles  B.  Patter- 
son; later  the  business  was  known  as  Peck  & 
Patterson,  under  which  name  the  business  was 
conducted  until  1868,  when  our  subject  sold  his 
interests  and  returned  to  Empire. 

Afterward  Mr.  Peck  engaged  in  a  stock  com- 
pany at  Deer  Creek  in  the  southeastern  part  of 
Jefferson  County,  in  which  company  he  remained 
until  1 87 1,  when  he  began  railroading.  He  ac- 
cepted a  position  as  agent  at  Golden,  on  the 
Colorado  Central  Railroad,  and  when  the  track 
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was  extended  to  Blackhawk  he  became  agent  at 
that  town,  remaining  there  until  June,  1872;  in 
that  year  Mr.  Peck  returned  to  Empire  and  with 
his  father  embarked  in  the  hotel  business,  the 
establishment  being  known  as  the  Peck  House. 
In  January,  1873,  he  returned  to  the  employ  of 
the  Colorado  Central  Railroad,  upon  the  earnest 
solicitation  of  General  Sickler,  and  was  located  at 
Floyd  Hill,  where  he  had  charge  of  the  com- 
pany's interests,  including  money  and  all.  In 
1875,  when  the  Denver- Western  forcibly  took 
possession  of  the  road,  he  was  the  only  agent  to 
retain  his  position  with  the  new  company.  In 
1877  the  railroad  was  completed  to  Idaho  Springs, 
where  our  subject  was  agent  until  August  of  that 
year,  when  he  became  financial  agent  at  George- 
town. Upon  the  death  of  his  father,  our  subject 
in  1880  resigned  his  position  and  came  to  Em- 
pire, where  he  took  charge  of  his  father's  interests 
in  the  Gold  Dirt  property  and  the  Atlantic  mines, 
and  has  operated  the  same  up  to  the  present 
time.  In  1886  he  went  to  Denver,  where  he  was 
engaged  in  the  mining  business  until  1889,  when 
he  returned  to  Empire  and  started  the  Peck 
House,  which  was  the  principal  hotel  in  the 
town. 

Politically  Mr.  Peck  has  always  been  an  un- 
swerving supporter  of  the  principles  of  the  Demo- 
cratic party,  and  has  served  as  mayor  of  Empire 
several  terms,  in  the  town  council  a  number  of 
years,  as  a  member  of  the  school  board,  and  as 
county  clerk  and  recorder.  In  1879  he  was  a 
candidate  for  county  clerk  and  recorder,  but  was 
defeated  by  a  scanty  six  votes;  in  1881  he  was 
again  a  candidate  for  the  same  office  and  was 
elected  by  a  majority  of  about  one  hundred  votes; 
was  re-elected  in  1883;  and  in  1885  he  was  again 
a  candidate  for  that  oflBce,  but  as  he  was  sum- 
moned to  the  death  bed  of  his  daughter  at  Den-, 
ver  on  the  morning  of  election  day,  he  was  unable 
to  be  at  the  polls  and  the  result  was  he  was  de- 
feated by  seventy-eight  votes.  In  1868  he  was  a 
candidate  for  county  treasurer  of  Clear  Creek, 
but  was  defeated  by  his  opponent,  J.  W.  Dripps, 
as  that  was  the  year  of  Republican  triumph  all 
over  the  United  States. 

Mr.  Peck  was  married  at  Golden  to  Miss  Mal- 
vina  V.  Mclntire,  who  was  born  in  Montgomery 
County,  Ky.,  and  this  union  resulted  in  the  birth 
of  five  sons  and  one  daughter,  namely:  Charles 
P.,  who  is  under  sheriff  and  deputy  clerk  of  the 


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district  court  of  this  county;  Grace,  who  died 
aged  fourteen  years;  Howard  Gorman;  Mabel 
Olmstead;  and  Frankie  Elliott.  Fraternally  our 
subject  was  a  member  of  Idaho  Springs  L,odge 
No.  26,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  but  was  demitted  and 
became  a  charter  member  of  the  Georgetown 
Lodge  No.  48,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.;  he  is  also  a  mem- 
ber of  the  I.  O.  R.  M.  of  Empire.  He  is  popular 
in  both  business  and  social  circles,  is  public- 
spirited,  and  performs  all  the  obligations  of  a 
patriotic  citizen. 

EHARLES  ATMORE,  whose  home  is  in 
Brighton,  was  born  in  the  parish  of  old 
Buckingham,  county  of  Norfolk,  England, 
March  26,  1828.  His  parents,  Matthew  and 
Maria  (Pond)  Atmore,  were  born  in  1797  and 
1800  respectively,  the  former  being  the  son  of  a 
wealthy  farmer,  while  the  latter  was  the  daugh- 
ter of  poorer,  but  equally  honorable,  parents.  On 
account  of  the  difference  in  their  social  positions, 
objection  to  the  marriage  was  made  on  the  part  of 
the  Atmore  family,  but  John  Atmore,  the  father 
of  Matthew,  overruled  the  objections,  believing 
that  poverty  was  not  a  bar  to  the  marriage,  as 
the  Pond  family  were  respected  and  well  edu- 
cated. The  young  couple  were  married  in  1823, 
and  there  still  may  be  seen  a  solid  silver  spoon, 
bearing  the  date  of  the  event,  as  well  as  other 
souvenirs. 

Of  the  Atmore  family  two  are  known  to  be  in 
Africa,  one  of  whom,  a  cousin  of  our  subject, 
was  at  one  time  mayor  of  Cape  Town.  Another, 
Robert  Atmore,  located  in  Philadelphia  and  there 
establi.shed  the  business  of  making  English  plum 
pudding,  canned  and  mince  meat.  His  descend- 
ants are  still  living  in  Philadelphia.  Another 
member  of  the  family  is  prominent  in  Kentucky. 

When  our  subject  was  six  years  of  age  he  be- 
gan to  study  under  a  governess  employed  by  the 
family  and  continued  in  that  manner  until  ten, 
when  he  was  sent  to  a  private  school.  To  this 
school  he  and  his  brother,  with  their  three  sisters, 
rode  back  and  forth  each  day  in  a  covered  cart, 
and  sometimes  they  were  accompanied  by  the 
children  of  neighbors.  It  was  one  and  one-half 
miles  from  the  farm  to  the  town  of  lyOdden,  where 
the  boys  attended  a  boys'  school  and  the  girls  a 
school  for  girls.  There  our  subject  was  taught 
reading,  writing,  arithmetic,  geography  and 
grammar,  but  on  account  of  the  harshness  of  the 


teacher  he  left  the  school.  He  was  next  sent  to  a 
boarding  school  in  the  city  of  Norwich  in  Golden 
Dog  Lane,  where  he  studied  under  an  excellent 
teacher,  one  who  knew  how  to  manage  boys  and 
how  to  instruct  them.  During  the  two  years 
spent  there  he  finished  the  common  branches 
and  also  studied  Latin,  but  he  did  not  enjoy  that 
language,  although  his  father  was  an  excellent 
Latin  scholar  and  loved  the  classics.  Only  once 
was  he  threatened  with  a  whipping  in  this  school, 
a  mode  of  punishment  frequently  resorted  to  in 
his  first  school.  On  that  occasion  he  was  to  be 
punished  for  something  he  felt  himself  not  to 
blame  for.  He  refused  to  take  the  punishment  and 
was  for  that  reason  assigned  to  do  extra  study  in 
the  room  of  a  professor  of  astronomy,  and  during 
the  two  weeks  he  remained  there  he  gained  a 
knowledge  of  many  things  unknown  to  him  be- 
fore. He  was  permitted  to  read  Robinson  Crusoe 
and  books  of  a  similar  character  while  he  was  in 
school,  though  other  boys  were  not  allowed  such 
privilege. 

The  father  of  our  subject  was  a  local  preacher 
in  the  Methodist  Church.  He  lost  his  property 
by  giving  it  to  that  denomination,  and  believing 
he  could  do  better  in  America,  he  crossed  the 
ocean,  accompanied  by  his  family,  in  1844,  on  the 
"Mediator,"  a  sailing-vessel.  Captain  Chadwick, 
that  started  on  the  voya§;e  March  1 7  and  landed 
in  New  York  after  twenty -three  days  on  the  ocean. 
The  mother  being  very  ill  was  taken  to  a  hos- 
pital and  the  father  remained  with  her,  while  all 
the  children  except  the  youngest  (a  babe  in  arms) 
were  taken  to  Michigan  by  a  friend.  The  father 
overtook  them  at  Albany,  where  they  were  await- 
ing the  subsidence  of  a  flood.  They  went  via 
Erie  Canal  to  Buffalo,  thence  by  steamer  across 
the  lake  to  Detroit,  and  settled  in  Calhoun 
County,  Mich.,  on  a  farm  near  Battle  Creek, 
driving  through  from  Detroit  by  wagon.  While 
journeying  through  the  wilderness  the  boys 
passed  the  time  in  hunting  quails  and  other  game. 

When  they  reached  their  destination  the 
father,  who  was  then  a  man  of  more  than  forty 
years,  bought  a  tract  of  eighty  acres  of  timber 
land  with  some  little  improvements  and  a  snug 
little  frame  house.  While  farming  he  also  con- 
tinued to  preach.  As  time  passed  by,  he  pur- 
chased more  laud,  and  this  he  cultivated.  He 
made  one  trip  back  to  England  and  during  the 
year  he  spent  there  delivered  lectures  on  America. 


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To  slavery  in  any  form  he  was  opposed.  Two 
of  his  sons  served  four  years  in  the  army,  one  of 
them  fighting  the  Indians  and  the  other  as  a 
teamster.  Both  are  still  living,  John  being  in 
Middle  Park,  Grand  County,  Colo.,  and  Matthew 
being  in  Santa  Paula,  Ventura  County,  Cal. 
The  father  died  in  1878,  at  the  age  of  eighty-one, 
and  was  buried  in  Oak  Hill  Cemetery,  Battle 
Creek,  Mich. 

Soon  after  coming  to  America  the  subject  of 
this  sketch  was  bound  out  to  his  brother-in-law, 
James  Bryant,  a  farmer,  with  whom  he  remained 
for  five  years,  it  being  the  agreement  that  he  was 
to  have  two  winters  in  school,  also  fioo  in  money 
and  two  suits  of  clothes  when  he  was  twenty-one. 
When  he  reached  his  majority  he  began  to  work 
for  $14  a  month,  being  foreman  on  a  farm.  He 
had  kept  his  $100  intact,  but  was  hurt  and  unable 
to  work,  on  which  account  he  was  obliged  to 
spend  all  his  earnings.  After  he  recovered,  he 
hunted  game,  in  which  way  he  earned  about  $50. 
He  had  bought  a  small  tract  of  land  and  intended 
to  have  a  home  of  his  own,  but  his  sickness  forced 
him  to  postpone  this  plan.  He  returned  to  work 
at  $14  a  month,  and  during  the  winter  again 
hunted,  thus  earning  quite  a  neat  sum  of  money. 
In  the  spring  of  1 852  he  went  to  Paw  Paw,  Mich. , 
where  he  sold  his  pelts.  On  his  return  home  he 
found  the  gold  fever  in  full  blast.  With  two 
brothers,  Richard  and  John,  and  with  George 
Blunderfield,  he  started  for  California  with  a  four- 
horse  team  and  wagon,  himself*  being  captain  of 
the  company.  He  had  about  $300,  his  brothers 
had  $100  each  and  his  friend  the  same  amount. 
They  left  Battle  Creek  March  22,  1852,  and  trav- 
eled through  LaPorte,  Ind.,  then  traveled  across 
Illinois,  going  forty  miles  south  of  Chicago, 
thence  to  Rock  Island,  where  they  ferried  across 
the  river.  They  found  the  mud  axle-tree  deep, 
all  the  way  to  St.  Joseph,  Mo.  They  crossed  the 
corner  of  Iowa  near  where  Iowa  City  now  stands, 
a  village  then  marked  alone  by  a  log  house. 
With  his  rifle  he  supplied  the  party  with  game. 
They  stopped  at  houses  until  in  Iowa,  where 
they  began  camping  out,  either  on  a  small 
stream,  or  in  a  little  grove.  Their  first  night  in 
Iowa,  being  afraid  of  Indians,  they  slept  in  the 
wagon,  with  feet  to  feet,  and  guns  by  their  sides. 
In  the  night  the  friend  aroused  our  subject,  say- 
ing Indians  were  near,  and  our  subject  was  about 
to  shoot,  when  he  discovered  the  noise  was  caused 


by  one  of  their  horses.  Many  a  joke  was  cracked 
about  the  Indians  they  had  seen,  and  the  man 
who  thought  he  had  seen  them  was  not  allowed 
soon  to  forget  his  mistake. 

When  the  party  reached  St.  Joseph,  the  river 
was  so  high  that  they  were  obliged  to  wait  ten 
daj-s  before  they  could  cross.  In  the  meantime 
there  had  congregated  in  that  place  about  one 
thousand  wagons,  four  thousand  or  five  thousand 
horses  and  mules,  and  about  the  same  number  of 
people,  of  all  classes  and  dispositions.  May  10 
they  crossed  the  river  and  then  proceeded  through 
timber  land  and  mud,  often  waist  deep.  All 
along  the  road  they  passed  wagons  stuck  in  the 
mud,  but  they  traveled  without  an  accident,  each 
one  wading  through  slough  with  a  shoulder  to  the 
spoke. 

In  Nebraska  they  found  a  camp  of  Sacs  and  Fox 
Indians  on  a  little  stream,  where  there  had  been 
a  bridge  built  by  them,  and  for  crossing  this  they 
demanded  $1  per  capita.  About  twenty-five 
miles  from  St.  Joseph  they  came  to  Iowa  Mission, 
where  were  a  stockade  and  some  outbuildings, 
the  only  buildings  west  of  the  Missouri  River 
that  they  found,  except  the  forts,  until  they 
reached  Nevada,  going  north  of  Salt  Lake  some 
distance.  After  they  had  gone  two  or  three  hun- 
dred miles  they  found  many  discouraged  men  re- 
turning east,  but  these  kept  off  to  one  side  as 
much  as  possible  on  account  of  the  jeers  with 
which  they  were  greeted. 

About  twenty  miles  west  of  Iowa  Mission  they 
came  to  a  deep  slough,  where  they  found  in 
abundance,  bacon,  corn,  oats,  etc.,  left  by  those 
who  had  overloaded  their  wagons.  All  who 
needed  helped  themselves.  They  crossed  the 
Big  Blue  which,  having  steep  and  muddy  banks, 
was  difficult  to  cross,  and  for  some  distance  it  was 
deep  swimming.  When  they  reached  the  Little 
Blue,  they  turned  to  the  north  to  avoid  crossing. 
On  reaching  Fort  Kearney  they  learned  that  a 
Sioux  Indian,  who  had  been  captured  by  the 
Pawnees,  had  been  in  training  to  run  for  his  life, 
which  privilege  had  been  secured  by  the  United 
States  government.  The  Indian  had  acquired 
great  speed,  and  to  watch  the  race,  a  great  com- 
pany of  Indians  had  been  brought  together. 

From  Fort  Kearney  to  Fort  Laramie  the  roads 
were  excellent  and  game  plentiful.  From  the 
former  fort,  the  party  went  up  the  south  fork  of 
the  Platte  to  Ash  Hollow,  where  they  forded  the 


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river.  Tliey  found  Fort  Laramie  a  lovely  place, 
in  a  beautiful  location.  After  traveling  for  three 
days  up  the  river  they  forded  and  struck  north- 
west into  what  is  now  Wyoming.  They  crossed 
at  Pacific  Spring,  but  were  unconscious  of  the 
fact  until  one  day,  when  they  discovered  the 
stream  flowing  in  a  different  direction.  They 
crossed  Raft  River  seven  times  in  one  half  day. 
From  Independence  Rock  they  descended  toward 
the  Pacific  through  a  canon  and  reached  Harris 
Park,  where  they  forded  the  South  Platte  River, 
which  had  quicksand  and  was  three-quarters  of 
a  mile  wide.  They  followed  Ash  Hollow  and 
struck  the  North  Platte  about  fifteen  miles  south 
of  the  junction  of  the  rivers.  Cholera  was  preva- 
lent and  they  saw  many  new  made  graves.  They 
met  a  company  of  men  digging  a  grave  in  the 
road  in  which  they  were  to  bury  their  father, 
and  every  day  for  a  month  they  saw  human  bones 
along  the  trail  that  had  been  dug  out  by  the 
coyotes. 

Saturday  night,  July  3,  the  party  camped  out, 
it  being  their  rule  not  to  travel  on  Sunday.  The 
next  morning,  about  ten  o'clock,  they  were  visited 
by  two  Indians,  who  begged  for  food  and  after 
eating  laid  around  the  camp  for  several  hours. 
When  it  was  time  for  our  subject  to  go  on 
guard,  he  heard  the  neighing  of  horses  and 
found  that  the  Indians  had  stampeded  their 
horses  and  were  rolling  stones  off  the  divide  in 
order  to  keep  the  animals  excited.  Our  subject 
and  another  of  the  party  at  once  began  to  pur- 
sue the  Indians  and  followed  them  until  one 
o'clock  at  night.  When  they  reached  the  divide 
the  wind  was  high  and  the  night  so  dark  it  was 
impossible  to  pursue  their  way,  so  they  were 
obliged  to  turn  back  to  camp.  On  their  way  they 
heard  a  bell  which  they  judged  to  indicate  that 
Indian  ponies  were  near.  They  threw  rocks  at 
the  object,  and  soon  men  approached,  with  a  very 
forcible  salutatiou,  inquiring  what  they  were 
doing.  After  some  parley  they  found  friends. 
As  soon  as  possible  they  made  their  way  back  to 
camp,  five  miles  distant.  The  camp  was  soon 
astir  and  preparing  breakfast  for  those  who  started 
at  day-break  in  search  of  the  horses.  The  men 
went  to  the  divide,  where  each  one  took  a  separate 
trail,  and  our  subject  soon  saw  the  horses,  a 
quarter  of  a  mile  away.  He  told  his  friends  of  his 
discovery  and  all  followed  in  the  direction  of  the 
animals.     When  they  reached  the  place  there  was 


but  one  Indian,  and  they  concluded  the  other  had 
gone  for  help.  The  Indian  jumped  on  the  back 
of  his  pony  and  lassoed  one  horse,  but  it  pulled 
back,  and  gave  the  men  an  opportunity  to  catch 
up  with  him.  He  finally  was  obliged  to  cut  the 
rope.  With  four  of  the  horses  the  men  started 
back  toward  camp.  Soon  about  twenty-five  In- 
dians were  pursuing  them,  but  they  found  friends 
and  were  enabled  to  get  to  their  wagons  and  out 
of  danger. 

After  crossing  the  Sweet  Water,  the  men  trav- 
eled over  the  country  to  the  Green  Ri.ver,  which 
was  so  high  that  a  man  had  been  drowned  the  day 
before  they  reached  there.  However,  they  forded 
it  successfully,  pulling  the  wagons  across  with 
ropes  and  carrying  provisions  across  on  horse- 
back. The  next  important  stream  was  Bear  River 
in  Colorado,  which  they  ascended  till  they  reached 
Steamboat  and  Soda  Springs.  There  they  found 
Indians  encamped,  in  the  hope  of  trading  horses 
for  powder  and  tobacco,  but  as  the  party  had  nei- 
ther of  these  articles,  they  gave  the  red  men  a 
wide  berth.  Two  days  afterward,  when  out  after 
game,  our  subject  and  his  brother  saw  some  white 
wolves  and  though  a  long  way  off  our  subject  tried 
his  marksmanship,  but  failed  to  kill  any  of  them. 
Soon  afterward  they  saw  at  a  distance  some  In- 
dians who  proved  to  be  friendly  and  with  whom 
they  traveled  for  a  time,  going  through  Thousand 
Spring  Valley. 

The  party  reached  California  in  August.  On 
the  way  they  had  buried  one  member  of  the 
company.  Soon  after  crossing  the  desert  their 
provisions  were  exhausted,  but  later  they  suc- 
ceeded in  getting  some  that  had  been  sent  out 
from  California  by  the  state  government.  In 
Carson  Valley  they  found  a  Mormon  settlement 
in  a  most  uninviting  location.  Later  they  camped 
in  a  beautiful  grove  of  Cottonwood  trees,  where 
they  found  many  others.  It  was  there  that  one 
member  of  the  party  died.  He  was  buried  in  the 
middle  of  the  road,  with  suitable  funeral  services. 
When  on  the  Sierra  Nevada  they  sold  their  teams 
for  $500  in  gold,  with  the  privilege  of  using  them 
for  the  next  seventy-five  miles,  to  Mud  Spring,  in 
Eldorado  County,  Cal.  There  they  turned  the 
teams  over  and  took  their  blankets,  sleeping  in 
these  for  one  night  in  a  barn. 

At  daybreak  our  subject  started  to  join  a 
friend  who  lived  near  Sacramento.  He  walked 
slowly,  spending  three  days  in  going  twenty-five 


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miles,  when  he  arrived  at  the  ranch  of  old  Squire 
Gilson.  After  a  week  there  he  went  on  to  Sac- 
ramento, where  the  money  was  divided  equally 
among  the  members  of  the  company;  this,  too, 
although  he  had  put  in  the  most  money  on  start- 
ing west.  He  secured  board  at  $3  per  day,  and 
in  a  few  days  was  made  sick  by  the  food  he  ate. 
He  received  an  offer  of  work  if  he  would  go 
three  hundred  miles  into  the  mountains.  Imme- 
diately after  he  heard  of  this,  he  took  passage  on 
a  steamboat,  traveling  one  hundred  miles  by 
water,  up  the  Sacramento  to  Marysville,  then 
one  hupdred  miles  by  stage,  and  one  hundred 
miles  on  foot.  For  his  work  it  was  agreed  that 
he  would  be  paid  $75  a  month  and  board.  He 
spent  two  weeks  in  reaching  his  destination,  and 
had  with  him  a  brother  who  was  ill  and  had  to 
be  carried. 

After  working  a  month  our  subject's  employer 
asked  him  to  go  to  Mary.sville,  one  hundred  and 
fifty  miles  distant,  and  carry  a  sack  of  gold  to 
Ragtown.  When  he  saw  the  sack,  which  weighed 
twenty-.six  pounds,  he  concluded  it  was  too  heavy 
to  be  carried  by  one  person,  whereupon  the 
owner  agreed  to  carry  it  half  of  the  time.  When 
they  were  about  twelve  miles  from  camp  tliej' 
heard  the  bush  crackle  and  expected  to  be  at- 
tacked, but  a  black-tailed  deer  put  in  an  appear- 
ance, much  to  their  relief.  They  reached  their 
destination  without  any  incident  of  note.  For 
his  second  month  of  work  our  subject  re- 
ceived $100  and  for  the  third  $150.  Afterward 
he  fitted  out  to  hunt,  but  the  great  fire  in  Sacra- 
mento occurring,  he  changed  his  plans  and  went 
to  that  citj',  where  he  was  paid  $15  a  day  for 
himself  and  team  and  $10  a  night  for  watching 
hay.  He  continued  in  that  way  for  two  months, 
in  order  to  save  the  hay  from  the  flood,  which 
was  from  two  to  four  feet  deep  in  the  streets. 

With  $3,000  that  he  had  accumulated,  our 
subject  returned  to  Michigan  in  the  winter  of 
1853-54,  going  via  the  Nicaragua  route.  While 
en  route  a  German  sitting  near  him  was  robbed, 
but  recognized  the  robber,  and  after  an  exciting 
attack  secured  his  money;  for  attempting  to  rob, 
the  man  was  lashed.  From  New  York  our  sub- 
ject went  to  Michigan,  where  he  bought  horses 
to  take  to  California.  March  22,  1854,  he  started 
upon  his  second  overland  trip,  with  twelve  horses, 
and  acconipannied  by  a  younger  brother  and  a 
friend.     He  reached  St.  Joseph,  Mo, ,   about  the 


15th  of  May.  His  first  trip  was  made  in  the  re- 
markably short  time  of  sixty-two  days  from 
St.  Joseph  to  Sacramento,  but  the  second  trip 
from  May  15  to  September  25.  On  the  second 
trip,  at  Devil's  Gate,  on  Sweet  Water,  they 
camped  on  Saturday  night  upon  a  little  stream. 
Our  subject  had  been  ill  for  some  time  and  they 
were  traveling  with  others  for  protection.  Cap- 
tain Grove,  a  veteran  of  the  Mexican  war,  was 
in  command.  They  had  with  them  three  tents, 
four  wagons  heavily  loaded,  a  two-seated  car- 
riage, forty  head  of  horses  and  two  mules.  For 
two  weeks  our  subject  had  been  too  sick  to  know 
what  was  going  on  about  him,  but  that  night 
(July  4)  as  he  lay  awake,  he  heard  a  great  rush- 
ing sound  and  in  a  moment  Indians  swept  through 
the  camp  and  drove  off  all  the  horses,  except  two 
that  were  tied  to  the  wagons.  Though  sick,  our 
subject  and  another  man  jumped  on  the  two 
horses  and  pursued  the  Indians.  After  about 
three  miles,  they  heard  the  neighing  of  horses, 
but  were  afraid  to  go  near,  believing  them  to  be 
the  horses  of  Indians.  Our  subject's  brother  de- 
cided to  watch  to  daylight,  and  our  subject  re- 
turned to  camp,  but  before  he  had  reached  the 
camp,  his  brother  joined  him  with  ten  of  the 
horses.  They  mounted  and  started  a  second  time 
in  pursuit,  having  with  them  supplies  cooked  by 
the  women  in  the  night.  They  divided  into 
squads  and  after  leaving  the  stockade,  our  subject 
soon  struck  a  trail  of  horses  with  shoes.  After 
two  miles  were  traveled  he  caught  a  glimpse  of 
something  going  over  the  divide  at  full  speed. 
He  followed,  and  when  he  reached  the  top  he 
saw  Indians  mounted.  When  they  saw  him  they 
began  a  race,  but  he  was  well  mounted  and  gained 
on  them. 

On  coming  close  to  the  Indians,  our  subject 
called  to  them,  but  they  denied  any  knowledge  of 
the  horses.  However,  he  was  convinced  they 
were  near.  He  went  into  camp  near  by  where 
some  Missourians  were,  and  when  they  denied 
any  knowledge  of  the  horses,  he  insisted  on  in- 
specting the  stock,  and  there  he  found  five  of  the 
horses.  These  he  took  with  him.  He  soon 
found  another  trail,  which  he  followed  for  a  time, 
and  then  rested  his  horse  while  he  sent  back  for 
help.  He  followed  the  trail  leisurely  and  finally 
came  to  the  place  where  he  expected  to  see  them. 
While  he  could  not  be  certain  about  the  honses, 
the  horse  that   he  rode  recognized  a  half-sister 


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and  at  once  hastened  to  join  her.  When  they 
reached  a  sandy  place  he  recognized  the  foot 
track  of  a  large  horse  that  belonged  to  him,  and 
it  was  not  long  before  this  horse  began  to  show 
.signs  of  recognition.  While  he  was  drinking  at 
a  brook  his  horse  neighed  and  soon  the  twenty- 
two  horses  were  coming  at  full  speed,  having 
broken  away  while  the  Indians  were  asleep.  At 
once  transferring  saddle  and  bridle  to  one  of 
them,  and  cutting  the  ropes  that  had  been 
fastened  to  them,  he  started  at  full  speed.  He 
was  shot  at  time  and  again  by  the  Indians,  but 
escaped  by  lowering  his  body  to  the  side  of  his 
horse.  He  succeeded  in  getting  his  horses  safely 
through  to  California,  but  did  not  realize  a  large 
profit  on  their  sale. 

During  the  eighteen  months  our  subject  re- 
mained in  California  he  engaged  in  mining.  In 
1856  he  returned  to  Michigan  via  the  Isthmus 
of  Panama,  with  about  $1,500  he  had  saved. 
The  steamer  took  fire  in  mid  ocean,  but  the  fire 
was  extinguished.  He  bought  land  and  soon 
married,  being  united  January  i,  1857,  with  Miss 
Eliza  Jane  Knight,  who  was  born  in  Calhoun 
County,  Mich.,  of  English  parentage.  He  es- 
tablished his  home  in  Marengo  Township,  Calhoun 
County,  where  he  cleared  a  tract  of  eighty  acres 
of  heavy  timber  land  in  a  rocky  district,  also  forty 
acres  one-half  mile  away.  After  the  Civil  war  he 
sold  the  farm  for  $4,500  and  then  bought  his 
father's  old  homestead.  That  place  he  sold  in 
1888,  upon  coming  to  Colorado.  Here  he  bought 
one  hundred  and  sixty  acres,  which  he  has  im- 
proved, and  from  this  place  in  1897  he  cut  four 
hundred  tons  of  hay,  also  a  crop  of  corn  and  oats, 
and  milked  a  dairy  of  forty  cows. 

The  three  children  of  Mr.  Atmore  are  George 
P.,  of  Denver,  who  is  a  traveling  salesman,  is 
married  and  has  an  adopted  daughter;  Anna 
Maria,  who  resides  with  her  father;  and  Rose 
Alleta,  who  married  F.  W.  Hill  and  resides  at 
No.  22  West  Bayaud  street,  Denver.  Politically 
our  subject  has  always  been  a  Republican. 
While  in  Michigan  he  served  as  a  director  of  a 
school  district.  In  Brighton  he  was  a  member  of 
the  board  of  aldermen  for  several  years.  He 
was  identified  with  the  grange  at  one  time  and 
still  supports  the  principles  of  the  society,  but 
failing  hearing  caused  him  to  drop  his  active 
membership.  Though  now  over  seventy  years 
of  age,  he  is  as  active  as  many  a   man  of  forty. 


He  can  ride  any  broncho  on  his  farm,  can  tie  a 
steer,  or  pick  his  rope  from  the  ground  when  his 
horse  is  running.  Every  year  he  goes  to  the 
mountains,  where  he  camps  out  and  acts  as  cap- 
tain of  the  party  accompanying  him.  In  1882,  a 
few  months  before  he  came  to  Colorado,  a  family 
reunion  was  held  at  his  home  in  Michigan. 
Over  eighty  members  of  the  family  were  present 
from  all  parts  of  the  country  and  representatives 
of  four  generations  might  be  seen,  including 
his  mother,  who  was  then  eighty-three  years 
of  age.  Two  years  later  she  passed  away  and 
was  laid  to  rest  beside  the  body  of  her  husband 
in  Oak  Hill  Cemetery,  at  Battle  Creek,  Mich. 


HON.  H.  H.  METCALF,  secretary  of  the 
State  Board  of  Cattle  Inspection  Commis- 
sioners, secretary  of  the  Colorado  Cattle 
Growers'  Association  and  of  the  executive  com- 
mittee of  the^ame,  has  resided  in  Colorado  since 
1870.  He  was  born  in  Providence,  R.  I.,  and  is 
a  descendant  of  English  ancestry.  The  origin  of 
the  family  name  was  peculiar:  During  the  time 
of  the  Knights  of  the  Round  Table,  there  was  a 
tanner,  who,  one  day  while  crossing  the  king's 
park,  encountered  a  bull  calf  that  attacked  him, 
but  he  was  strong  and  dexterous,  and  succeeded 
in  killing  the  calf,  in  memory  of  which  feat  he 
was  knighted  Sir  William'  Metacalf.  I^ater  the 
name  was  shortened  to  its  present  form. 

Henry  Metcalf,  our  subject's  father,  was  a  son 
of  Joel  Metcalf,  a  tanner  and  currier  in  Providence, 
and  this  trade  the  former  also  learned,  continuing 
in  it  until  his  death,  in  1854,  at  the  age  of  thirty- 
six.  His  wife,  who  bore  the  maiden  name  of 
Eydia  French,  was  born  in  Rhode  Island,  and 
still  resides  in  Providence.  Her  father,  Zachariah 
French,  was  for  years  a  sea  captain.  She  was 
the  mother  of  five  children,  but  only  two  are 
living,  a  son  and  a  daughter.  Our  subject  was 
educated  in  the  public  and  high  schools  of  Provi- 
dence and  the  year  after  graduating  he  entered 
the  army,  his  name  being  enrolled  in  1861  as  a 
member  of  Company  D,  First  Rhode  Island  In- 
fantry. At  the  expiration  of  three  months  he 
was  honorably  discharged,  but  at  once  re-enlisted 
in  Battery  C,  Third  Rhode  Island  Heavy  Artil- 
lery, and  went  to  Virginia,  later  assisted  in  taking 
Port  Royal,  S.  C,  and  then  went  to  Fort  Wag- 
ner, in  front  of  Charleston.    Next  he  was  ordered 


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to  Florida,  then  returned  to  Virginia  as  first  lieu- 
tenant of  the  battery,  and  served  through  the  Vir- 
ginia campaign  until  thesurrender  of  Petersburg. 

At  the  close  of  the  war  Mr.  Metcalf  was  honor- 
ably discharged  in  Rhode  Island.  He  then  en- 
tered the  general  freight  office  of  the  Atlantic  and 
Great  Western  (now  the  New  York,  Pittsburg 
and  Ohio) ,  with  whom  he  remained  one  year  at 
Meadville.  In  1866  he  went  to  Leavenworth, 
Kan.,  where  he  was  western  agent  for  the  Star 
Union  freight  line  for  two  years;  afterward,  for  a 
year,  he  and  a  friend  hunted  buffaloes  on  the 
plains  of  western  Kansas.  In  1870  he  settled  at 
River  Bend,  on  the  Kansas  Pacific  road,  in  Elbert 
County,  Colo.,  where  he  established  a  ranch  and 
has  since  engaged  in  the  stock  business.  He 
makes  a  specialty  of  Durham  bulls,  but  also  has 
some  fine  Holsteins. 

In  Topeka,  Kan.,  Mr.  Metcalf  married  Miss 
Bertha  Snyder,  who  was  born  in  Altoona,  Pa., 
but  in  childhood  went  with  her  parents  to  Law- 
rence, Kan. ,  her  father  building  the  first  house 
in  that  place.  Later  she  removed  with  them  to 
Topeka.  She  died  in  Colorado.  Afterward  Mr. 
Metcalf  married  Mrs.  May  (Barker)  Pierce,  a 
native  of  Cincinnati,  and  they  have  one  child, 
Lydia  May. 

Fraternally  Mr.  Metcalf  is  connected  with  the 
Benevolent  Protective  Order  of  Elks.  In  politics 
he  is  a  Republican.  He  served  in  the  Kansas 
legislature  of  1870-71,  that  elected  Caldwell  to 
the  United  States  senate.  When  Elbert  was  a 
part  of  Douglas  County,  he  was  the  Republican 
candidate  for  the  territorial  legislature,  but  the 
issue  was  sprung  that  he  was  a  friend  of  railroad 
corporations  and  his  opponent  was  against  them, 
and  on  that  issue  he  was  defeated.  For  several 
years  he  was  a  director  of  the  Colorado  Cattle 
Growers'  Association,  and  is  still  secretary  of  it's 
executive  committee.  In  1883  he  was  elected 
secretary  of  the  association,  which  position  he 
has  since  held  by  annual  re  election.  In  1893 
Governor  Cooper  appointed  him  a  member  of  the 
State  Board  of  Cattle  Inspection  Commissioners 
and  he  was  elected  secretary  each  year,  during 
the  term  of  four  years.  Governor  Adams  ten- 
dered him,  in  1897,  a  continuance  of  the  .same 
position,  which  he  accepted,  and  was  again  chosen 
secretary  of  the  board.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Colorado  Commandery  of  the  Loyal  Legion.  In 
all  the  positions  he  has  held  it  has  been  his  am- 


bition to  discharge  every  duty  faithfully  and 
conscientiously,  and  especially  has  he  endeavored 
to  promote  the  cattle  interests  of  the  state,  real- 
izing that  in  the  prosperity  of  the  stock  business 
the  prosperity  of  the  state  itself  can  be  secured. 


(T  W.  NEELEY,  who  has  resided  on  a  ranch 
I  of  three  hundred  and  twenty  acres,  situated 
(2/  near  Longmont,  Boulder  County,  since  Oc- 
tober, 1896,  was  born  in  Schuyler  County,  Mo., 
June  6,  1850,  a  son  of  R.  S.  and  Julia  (Jones) 
Neeley.  He  was  one  of  four  children,  and  01 
these  three  survive,  of  whom  W.  B.  is  represented 
elsewhere  in  this  volume.  The  father,  who  was 
a  native  of  Lancaster,  Ohio,  migrated  to  Mis- 
souri in  young  manhood  and  there  married  and 
invested  in  a  woolen  mill,  which  he  conducted 
for  a  number  of  years.  Through  his  business 
ability  he  became  the  owner  of  large  landed 
possessions,  but  afterward  reverses  overtook  him 
and  he  lost  heavily.  In  1879  he  determined  to 
come  to  Colorado,  hoping  to  recuperate  his  losses. 
He  settled  in  San  Luis  Valley,  where  he  pur- 
chased relinquishments  on  claims,  and  as  pros- 
perity attended  him  he  acquired  additional  land, 
his  landed  possessions  now  aggregating  about 
eleven  hundred  acres. 

Twice  married,  R.  S.  Neeley  had,  by  his  first 
wife,  Sarah  M.  Smith,  eight  children,  five  of 
whom  are  living.  They  are:  James  H.,  a  prom- 
inent farmer  of  San  Luis  Valley;  Robert  F.,  a 
well-to-do  agriculturist  of  Mitchell  Bottom,  Neb.; 
Perry;  Jane,  wife  of  A.  C.  Coe,  of  Alamosa,  Colo.; 
and  Charles,  a  farmer  of  Lancaster,  Mo.  The 
subject  of  this  sketch  had  very  few  advantages 
when  a  boy,  as  he  began  to  work  in  a  factory 
when  small  and  from  that  time  forward  he  was 
self-supporting.  At  eighteen  years  of  age  he  left 
home  and  went  to  Johnson  County,  Mo.,  where 
he  was  employed  at  teaming.  In  September, 
1868,  he  came  to  Colorado  and  a  short  time  after- 
ward began  to  work  for  Henry  Church,  with 
whom  he  remained  for  three  months.  However, 
after  working  night  and  day  during  that  time,  his 
employer  refused  to  pay  him  for  what  he  had 
done,  because  the  boy  refused  to  remain  longer. 
Hoping  to  secure  more  satisfactory  employ- 
ment, Mr.  Neeley  went  to  work  as  hay  bailer, 
but  in  this  he  was  also  unfortunate,  failing  to 
collect  the  amount  due  him.     Subsequently  he 


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went  to  the  mouth  of  Four-Mile  Creek,  where  for 
three  mouths  he  got  out  fence  posts.  At  Wide 
Awake  he  cut  cord  wood,  which  he  hauled 
to  Blackhawk.  Afterward  he  spent  three 
months  in  Middle  Park,  thence  went  to  Russell 
Gulch  and  from  there  to  Pine  Creek,  where  he 
worked  in  a  sawmill  for  four  years.  The  town 
of  Apex  was  built  on  the  old  mill  site.  There 
he  hired  with  a  man  to  go  to  Washington  Ter- 
ritory at  $120  per  month,  but  on  reaching  the 
Cache  la  Poudre  River  he  turned  east  and  went 
to  Missouri  with  an  uncle.  There  he  farmed  for 
two  years,  but  met  with  no  success. 

April  16,  1876,  Mr.  Neeley  married  Miss  Dora 
F.  Lockett,  and  afterward  for  a  year  farmed  in 
Sheridan  County.  In  March,  1877,  he  went 
back  to  Schuyler  County,  where  he  engaged  in 
farming  for  three  years.  He  then  sold  out  and 
went  to  San  l,uis  Valley,  Colo.,  where  he  re- 
mained about  four  months.  Then,  returning  to 
Missouri,  he  resumed  farm  work,  which  he  fol- 
lowed up  to  1888,  with  the  exception  of  one  year 
when  he  was  manager  of  a  cattle  ranch.  In  1888 
he  again  came  to  Colorado  and  settled  on  his 
brother's  ranch  in  Boulder  County,  near  his 
present  place  of  residence.  In  1896  he  purchased 
his  present  property,  to  which  he  removed  in  Oc- 
tober of  the  same  year.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Pleasant  Valley  Grange  and  takes  an  interest  in 
all  matters  pertaining  to  agriculture.  He  and 
his  wife  are  the  parents  of  five  children,  namely: 
Mary  E.,  Timothy  G.,  Verde  Esther,  Robert  S. 
and  John  Wesley. 


(lOHN  PURSE,  Jr.,  is  one  of  the  most  prom- 
I  ising  and  thrifty  citizens  of  Arapahoe  County, 
(2/  and  was  born  in  Gray  Abbey,  near  Belfast, 
Ireland,  April  17,  1853.  He  is  a  son  of  John 
Purse,  who  was  born  in  the  above  place  and  who 
came  to  America  in  advanced  manhood  and  set- 
tled in  Colorado,  where  he  is  still  engaged  in 
farming.  He  married  Jane  Lemon,  a  native  of 
Ireland,  and  they  reared  a  family  of  seven  chil- 
dren. Of  this  family,  James  is  the  eldest;  Will- 
iam is  a  farmer  and  in  the  dairy  business;  Frank 
and  Hugh  are  also  farmers  and  dairymen;  Annie 
married  James  McFerran;  and  Jennie  is  at  home, 
unmarried. 

John  Purse,  Jr.,  came  to  this  country  with  his 
father  when  a  lad.     His  schooling  was  begun  in 


Ireland  and  completed  this  side  the  ocean.  At 
the  age  of  seventeen  he  began  to  work  in  a  brick 
yard  in  Denver,  and  then  teamed  for  some  time 
there.  In  1885  he  started  in  the  dairy  busi- 
ness, and  bought  a  half-interest  with  Mr.  Epler, 
subsequently  buying  the  whole  of  Mr.  Epler's  in- 
terest. Six  years  ago  he  purchased  his  present 
home,  putting  on  all  the  improvements  since 
then.  He  has  a  good  brick  house,  good  barns, 
and  a  large  dairy.  Besides  his  dairy  he  also 
raises  large  quantities  of  oats  and  alfalfa. 

He  was  married  June  10,  1887,  to  Miss  Mary 
E.  McFerran,  whose  father,  John  McFerran,  is  a 
farmer  in  Ireland.  They  have  four  daughters, 
Adalaide,  Ruth,  Lillian  and  Marie.  Politically 
he  has  been  a  Republican,  but  is  now  an  advocate 
in  the  cause  of  silver,  voting  more  for  the  best 
man,  often  regardless  of  party  lines.  He  has 
served  as  director  and  secretary  of  the  school 
board.  The  family  are  members  of  the  Twenty- 
third  Avenue  Presbyterian  Church  of  Denver, 
which  he  helped  to  build.  He  has  also  been  an 
officer  in  the  organization. 


EARL  R.  LU PLOW,  a  prosperous  farmer  and 
stock-raiser  of  Elbert  County,  is  living  on 
the  family  homestead  on  section  32,  town- 
ship 7,  range  62  west.  He  is  a  son  of  Carl  and 
Wilhelmina  Luplow,  and  ^as  born  in  Chicago, 
111.,  April  14,  1866.  Carl  Luplow  left  Chicago 
in  1869,  and  moved  to  LaPorte,  Ind. ,  where  his 
time  was  employed  in  the  manufacture  of  doors, 
sash,  etc.  After  residing  there  for  a  period  of 
four  years  he  moved  to  Denver,  Colo.,  and  there 
was  successfully  engaged  in  contracting  and 
building  for  a  few  years.  In  1878  he  purchased 
a  ranch  of  three  hundred  and  twentj^  acres  and 
embarked  in  the  cattle  business;  and,  although 
unfamiliar  with  it,  he  soon  had  it  on  a  paying 
basis.  He  acquired  considerable  wealth  and  from 
time  to  time  purchased  additional  land,  owning 
six  hundred  acres  at  the  time  of  his  death.  He 
and  his  wife,  Wilhelmina,  had  five  children, 
namely:  Minnie,  the  widow  of  William  King, 
and  now  a  resident  of  Chicago;  Herbert,  who 
conducts  a  ranch  at  Jamestown,  Boulder  County, 
Colo.;  Carl  R.,  the  subject  of  this  record;  Lizzie, 
who  became  the  wife  of  Arthur  Turner  and  lives 
in  Chicago;  and  William,  who  is  a  miner  located 
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Carl  R.  Luplow  was  but  three  years  of  age 
when  his  father  moved  to  LaPorte,  Ind. ,  and  four 
years  later  he  accompanied  him  to  Denver,  where 
he  received  a  limited  education  in  the  public 
schools.  He  then  remained  on  his  father's  ranch 
near  Kiowa  until  the  latter's  death,  when  he  fell 
heir  to  a  portion  of  the  estate  and  purchased  the 
remainder.  He  has  since  lived  upon  the  home 
farm,  and  by  iudustrious  and  energetic  work  has 
been  decidedly  successful,  from  time  to  time  add- 
ing to  his  property  until  he  now  owns  one  thou- 
sand and  one  hundred  acres.  He  is  a  man  of 
excellent  habits,  a  good  citizen,  and  stands  high 
in  the  estimation  of  his  fellow-men. 

November  12,  1895,  Mr.  Luplow  married  Miss 
Lizzie  Rachel  Blessing,  of  South  Charleston, 
Ohio,  who  came  to  Denver  with  her  parents  in 
1889.  They  have  one  daughter,  Miriam.  In 
political  belief  Mr.  Luplow's  opinions  conform  to 
the  principles  of  the  Democratic  party,  and  he 
cast  his  first  vote  for  Grover  Cleveland.  He  is 
president  of  the  school  board,  and  uses  his  influ- 
ence in  elevating  the  standard  of  education  in  the 
district.  Religiously  he  is  a  devout  member  of 
the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  and  is  an  active 
worker  in  the  Sunday-school. 


y /I  D.  MORRISON,  one  of  the  representative 
y  men  of  Boulder  County,  was  elected  in 
a  1897  to  be  alderman  in  the  city  council  of 
Boulder,  from  the  first  ward.  He  is  chairman 
of  the  committee  on  sewers,  and  takes  great  in- 
terest in  all  local  improvements  which  he  believes 
will  be  of  permanent  value  to  the  community. 
He  is  an  ardent  Republican  and  ranks  high  in 
the  fraternities.  In  Monroe,  Iowa,  he  was  initi- 
ated into  Masonry,  and  now  holds  membership 
with  Riverside  Lodge,  of  Colfax,  Iowa.  He  is  a 
Royal  Arch  Mason,  belonging  to  the  chapter  in 
Newton,  and  is  connected  with  Oriental  Consist- 
ory, K.  T.,  of  that  place.  Since  coming  to 
Boulder  he  has  joined  Queen  City  Lodge,  I.  O. 
O.  F.  A  charter  member  of  the  Caledonian  Club, 
of  this  town,  he  is  now  its  first  assistant  chief. 

The  father  of  our  subject,  James  Morrison,  is 
still  living  and  is  remarkably  hale  and  hearty,  in 
view  of  the  fact  that  he  is  ninety-six  years  of  age. 
He  was  born  in  Sutherland,  Scotland,  and  in- 
herited from  sturdy  Scottish  sires  not  only 
strength  of  body  and  constitution,  but  love  for 


freedom,  humanity  and  God.  He  has  led  a  life 
worthy  of  emulation,  a  life  replete  with  acts  of 
kindness  and  love  towards  his  fellow-men  and  all 
who  have  known  him  have  been  made  the  better 
for  having  met  him.  In  his  early  manhood  he 
left  the  land  of  his  birth  and  became  a  farmer  on 
Prince  Edward  Island,  where  he  is  still  living 
and  attending  to  his  business  affairs.  For  sixty- 
five  years  he  has  been  an  elder  in  the  Presbj'terian 
Church.  His  wife,  whose  girlhood  name  was 
Wilhelniina  McKay,  was  a  native  of  Edinboro, 
Scotland.  She  lived  to  be  over  fourscore  years 
old,  and  was  then  summoned  to  her  reward.  Of 
their  twelve  children  who  grew  to  mature  years, 
eight  are  living  to-day.  Three  of  the  .sons  are 
living  in  Iowa  and  one  daughter,  also,  while  one 
son  aud  two  daughters  are  residents  of  Canada. 
William  participated  in  the  Civil  war,  enlisting 
first  in  a  Massachusetts  regiment,  and  later  serv- 
ing as  captain  in  a  Wisconsin  regiment,  and  died 
some  time  after  the  war,  while  serving  as  county 
clerk  at  Fort  Scott,  Kan. 

M.  D.  Morrison  was  born  in  Prince  Edward 
Island,  August  9,  1853,  and  attended  the  public 
schools  of  that  locality  until  he  was  a  youth  of 
fourteen  years.  He  then  began  serving  an  ap- 
prenticeship to  the  blacksmith's  and  carriage- 
maker's  trade,  and  was  thus  employed  for  about 
five  years.  In  1872  he  came  as  far  west  as  Mon- 
roe, Iowa,  and  was  in  business  with  his  brothers, 
at  one  time  six  of  them  being  in  partnership  to- 
gether. They  manufactured  all  kinds  of  car- 
riages, wagons,  plows,  farm  implements,  etc.,  and 
had  an  extensive  trade.  From  there  our  subject 
went  to  Colfax,  Iowa,  where  he  carried  on  the 
manufacture  of  buggies  and  wagons  for  twelve 
years  quite  successfully.  While  a  resident  of  that 
town  he  served  for  three  terms  as  alderman,  and 
was  prominent  in  all  local  affairs. 

In  1 89 1  Mr.  Morrison  came  to  Boulder,  bought 
a  piece  of  land  and  built  his  large  and  well- 
equipped  factory,  which  has  a  frontage  of  forty 
feet.  He  manufactures  all  kinds  of  carriages  and 
wagons,  and  has  built  up  a  substantial  reputation 
in  his  line  of  business.  Six  months  after  his 
arrival  here  he  started  out  on  a  prospecting  tour 
of  the  mining  region,  and  in  1892  he  discovered 
the  mine  now  called  the  Village  Belle,  which, 
after  being  worked  for  three  years,  proved  profit- 
able. The  Mayham  Investment  Company  pur- 
chased the  mine  in  January,  1898.     It  was  the 


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discovery  of  this  miue  that  was  the  making  of 
Eldora,  and  since  1892  Mr.  Morrison  has  also 
brought  into  notice  the  Virginia,  Bimetallic,  St. 
Elmo  and  Anaconda,  all  of  Eldora  district,  and 
all  of  great  promise. 

In  Monroe,  Iowa,  Mr.  Morrison  married  Miss 
Virginia  M.  Adams,  a  native  of  that  place  and  a 
graduate  of  the  high  school  there.  Her  father, 
Aaron  Adams,  who  was  postmaster  of  Monroe, 
for  twenty  years,  died  in  Boulder,  May  2,  1896. 


r"RANKLIN  T.  CALEY,  of  Littleton,  has 
rft  been  interested  in  mining  for  some  years 
I  *  and  at  one  time  owned  a  share  in  the  Robin- 
son mine,  but  disposed  of  this  to  good  advantage, 
and  now  has  valuable  interests  in  the  Dillon, 
Santa  Rita  and  Portland  mines  in  the  Cripple 
Creek  district.  In  1890  he  established  his  home 
in  Denver,  but  after  five  years  removed  to  a  farm 
of  six  hundred  and  eighteen  acres,  two  and  one- 
half  miles  southwest  of  Littleton,  where  he  has 
since  resided.  He  has  increased  the  size  of  his 
estate  by  the  purchase  of  one  hundred  and  sixty 
acres  and  has  made  of  his  place  one  of  the  finest 
homesteads  in  the  vicinity  of  Littleton. 

The  father  of  our  subject,  Robert,  was  a  son  of 
Michael  Caley,  a  banker  in  the  Isle  of  Man. 
Robert  was  born  in  Port  Erin,  Ireland,  as  was 
also  his  wife,  Catherine  (Gallon)  Caley.  For  a 
time  he  followed  the  shoemaker's  trade,  which 
he  learned  in  his  youth.  Later  he  engaged  in 
the  hat  business  in  Ohio,  but  after  his  removal  to 
Racine,  Wis.,  he  opened  a  shoe  store,  which  he 
carried  on  for  some  time.  In  1866  he  removed 
to  Missouri  and  for  about  nine  years  made  his 
home  in  Reedville,  following  the  shoemaker's 
trade.  From  there  he  came  to  Colorado  and, 
being  in  poor  health,  he  did  not  engage  in  busi- 
ness, but  made  his  home  with  his  children.  The 
last  two  years  of  his  life  were  spent  in  Arizona, 
where  he  died  in  August,  1884. 

Franklin  T.  Caley  was  born  in  Racine,  Wis. , 
May  13,  1844.  When  a  lad  of  sixteen  he  en- 
listed in  the  Twenty-second  Wisconsin  Infantry, 
but  being  a  minor  his  parents  took  him  out  of  the 
army.  Two  years  later  he  enlisted  in  Company 
D,  Thirty-ninth  Wisconsin  Infantry,  and  served 
for  nine  months.  He  was  stationed  in  Memphis 
when  Forrest  attacked  the  Union  forces.  His 
young  and  restless  spirit  sought  adventure  and 


he  started  west.  In  his  perilous  journey  across 
the  plains  he  had  many  miraculous  escapes  from 
the  savage  Indian  foe.  He  went  to  Leavenworth 
andonthe2oth  of  May,  1866,  he  hired  out  to 
Phillips  &  Freeland  as  a  teamster,  for  $50  for  the 
trip.  There  were  twenty-two  in  the  party,  eleven 
Confederates  and  eleven  Federal  soldiers.  They 
had  fourteen  six- mule  teams,  and  every  man 
went  armed  to  the  teeth.  All  went  well  until 
when  within  fifty  miles  of  Julesburg.  There  one 
of  the  men  was  accidentally  shot  through  the  hips, 
and  Mr.  Caley  volunteered  to  take  the  wounded 
man  to  Julesburg.  They  were  two  days  and  two 
nights  on  the  road.  The  caravan  continued  to 
Fort  Laramie,  where  the  men  were  halted  by 
United  States  soldiers  and  their  wagon  master  was 
sworn  in  as  captain.  On  noon  of  the  next  day 
they  were  attacked  by  Indians,  of  whom  they 
killed  four.  Three  days  later  Mr.  Caley  loaded 
eleven  buckshot  into  a  Springfield  rifle  and  had 
an  opportunity  to  fire  it  at  five  Indians,  of  whom 
he  mortally  wounded  two.  They  established  a 
reputation  as  fighters  among  the  Indian  tribes  of 
the  northwest,  and  had  continual  skirmishing  un- 
til they  reached  Virginia  City,  Mont. 

From  that  place  Mr.  Caley  rode  on  horseback 
five  hundred  miles  to  Silver  City,  Idaho,  where 
he  mined  for  three  years,  clearing  about  $4,000. 
Via  the  Isthmus  of  Panama  he  rethrned  to  Roch- 
ester, Racine  County,  Wis'.  There  he  married 
in  1869.  Later,  removing  to  Sullivan,  Mo.,  he 
bought  two  thousand  acres  and  cleared  a  portion 
of  the  tract.  After  two  years  he  left  the  farm  and 
secured  work  as  a  carpenter  in  the  Scotia  iron 
works  in  Crawford  County,  Mo.,  also  engaged  in 
hauling  ore  and  contracting.  For  a  time  he  was 
prosperous,  but  finally  lost  heavily.  In  January, 
1873,  he  came  to  Denver,  and  soon  after  began 
mining  at  Alma,  also  contracting  for  the  sinking 
of  shafts,  etc.,  later  kept  a  hotel.  In  September 
of  that  year  his  family  joined  him  at  Alma.  In 
the  spring  of  1874  h^  leased  a  mine,  the  Security, 
which  he  operated  for  many  years.  Shortly  after- 
ward he  leased  the  Centennial,  which  he  operated 
successfully  for  six  months.  For  a  time  he  had 
his  family  in  Colorado  Springs,  but  in  the  spring 
of  1875  he  returned  to  Alma,  where  he  hauled 
ore.  Ill  health  forced  his  wife  to  return  to  Wis- 
consin. He  took  his  two  teams  and  hauled  coke 
and  lead  and  silver  bullion  over  the  Western  pass 
during  the   winter,    and    in  the  spring  went  to 


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Leadville,  where  he  manufactured  brick,  but  at  a 
loss.  Next  he  cut  and  hauled  cordwood  near 
I^eadville.  In  the  fall,  with  W.  H.  Yankee,  he 
started  a  transfer  hauling  ore  company,  hauling 
from  the  Robinson  mine  to  Leadville.  In  Janu- 
ary, 1877,  he  bought  a  one-fourth  interest  in  the 
Robinson  mine  for  $6,500,  and  in  one  year  cleared 
$50,000  and  sold  his  interest.  He  next  bought 
a  one-sixth  interest  ($5,000)  in  the  Hibernia 
mine,  from  which  he  cleared  $50,000.  Mean- 
time he  engaged  extensively  in  the  butcher  busi- 
ness, and  packed  frozen  beef.  Next  he  invested 
$35,000  in  mules  and  wagons  as  a  freighting  out- 
fit, which  he  operated  from  Weston  and  Buena 
Vista  to  Leadville.  This  was  a  profitable  venture, 
but  his  next  was  unfortunate,  that  of  contracting 
on  the  Denver  &  Rio  Grande  Railroad  in  New 
Mexico.  He  moved  his  outfit  from  New  Mexico 
to  Colorado  and  sold  it  at  Marshall  Pass. 

After  a  visit  to  Wisconsin,  accompanied  by  his 
family,  Mr.  Caley  returned  to  Colorado  with  two 
other  gentlemen  and  began  in  the  cattle  business 
on  Rock  Creek,  Wyo.  In  two  and  one-half 
years  he  cleared  $24,000.  He  then  bought  a 
ranch  of  six  hundred  and  eighteen  acres  near 
Littletown,  and  here  engaged  in  dairying  until 
1884,  but  the  business  involved  him  in  a  debt  of 
$25,000.  To  pay  this  debt,  he  was  obliged  to 
work  hard  at  mining  for  many  years.  When  the 
snow  was  two  feet  deep,  in  1892,  he  went  to 
Cripple  Creek,  with  forty  cows  and  opened  a 
dairy,  shipping  the  feed  from  Denver.  In  this 
he  was  very  successful.  He  sold  his  interest  to 
his  partner,  John  L,.  Binner,  and  in  the  fall  of 
1892  leased  the  Black  Diamond  mine,  adjoining 
the  Portland.  For  two  years  he  worked  it,  with 
poor  encouragement  for  success.  About  that 
time  W.  S.  Stratton  bought  an  interest  in  the 
mine  for  $10,000  and  three  days  later  they  began 
to  ship  ore.  He  also  secured  a  bond  and  lease 
on  one-third  interest  in  the  Portland  for  $50,000 
and  a  lease  and  bond  for  the  Bobtail  mine  for 
$100,000,  the  same  now  constituting  a  part  of  the 
Portland  group  of  mines. 

Mr.  Caley  received  in  shares  $25,000,  which 
he  sold  for  $50,000  and  realized  over  $150,000  on 
his  work.  His  mining  interests  now  aggregate 
nearly  a  quarter  million  dollars  in  value. 

January  19,  1868,  Mr.  Caley  married  Grace, 
daughter  of  George  and  Mary  (Ormiston)  Caley. 
Her  father,  who  was  a  native  of  Scotland,  came 


to  this  country  at  eighteen  years  of  age  and  en- 
gaged in  farming  at  Dover,  Wis.  In  1849  he 
went  overland  to  California.  One  of  his  party 
was  killed  en  route  and  he  experienced  many 
hardships,  finally  returning  richer  in  little  save 
experience.  His  remaining  years  were  spent  on 
his  farm  in  Wisconsin.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Caley  are 
the  parents  of  five  children  now  living,  one 
daughter.  Alma,  having  died  at  thirteen  years. 
Franklin  R.  is  mentioned  elsewhere;  Minnie  is 
the  wife  of  John  L,.  Binner,  a  farmer;  William  is 
a  student  in  the  law  department  of  the  University 
of  Michigan  and  is  also  a  well-known  foot  ball 
player;  Daril  and  Edwin  are  students  in  the  State 
University  at  Boulder.  Fraternally  Mr.  Caley  is 
connected  with  the  Knight  Templar  Masons,  and 
is  a  member  of  the  Mount  of  the  Holy  Cross 
Commandery.  Politically  he  was  reared  in  the 
Republican  faith,  but  is  now  a  Populist.  His 
ranch  of  six  hundred  and  eighteen  acres  is  called 
the  Pride  of  the  Valley. 


Gl  RTHUR  H.  WHITE  is  engaged  in  stock- 
Li  raising  and  a  general  ranching  business  in 
/  I  Douglas  County,  his  homestead  being  two 
miles  northwest  of  Sedalia.  A  native  of  England, 
he  was  born  in  Somersetshire,  June  4,  1856,  a  son 
of  Isaac  and  Jane  (Hewitt)  White.  He  was  about 
fifteen  years  of  age  when  his  father  died  and 
from  that  time  he  became  self-supporting.  For 
the  active  duties  of  life  he  had  been  prepared  by 
a  thorough  education  in  public  schools.  When 
about  eighteen  years  of  age  he  came  to  America, 
landing  in  New  York  in  the  fall  of  1876,  and 
came  to  Colorado,  where  he  had  acquaintances. 
Here  he  worked  by  the  day  or  month  for  some 
years. 

December  27,  1883,  Mr.  White  married  Miss 
Alice  S.  Manhart,  daughter  of  Christian  and 
Sarah  (Barny)  Manhart.  Reference  to  the  his- 
tory of  her  family  appears  in  the  sketch  of  Mr. 
Manhart,  upon  another  page.  Before  his  mar- 
riage Mr.  White  took  up  a  claim  in  Jefferson 
County,  where  he  made  his  home  for  several 
years,  meantime  improving  the  land  and  placing 
it  under  cultivation.  On  selling  that  place,  he 
moved  to  his  present  property  in  Douglas  County, 
where  he  has  three  hundred  and  sixty  acres  in  his 
home  place,  and  is  also  the  owner  of  four  hundred 
and  forty  acres  near  Sedalia. 


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Mr.  and  Mrs.  White  are  the  parents  of  four 
children.  The  eldest,  Charles  C. ,  died  at  the 
age  of  seven  j'ears  and  is  buried  in  Bear  Canon 
Cemetery;  Sarah  Jane,  the  oldest  of  the  living 
children,  was  born  on  this  farm  June  21,  1889; 
William  Arthur,  January  23,  1893;  and  Gertrude 
Florence,  January  6,  1898.  Mr.  White's  first 
presidential  ballot  was  cast  for  James  Garfield  in 
1880  and  from  that  time  to  this  he  has  been  firm 
in  his  allegiance  to  Republican  principles.  Fra- 
ternally he  is  connected  with  Sedalia  Camp, 
Woodmen  of  the  World,  and  the  Ancient  Order 
of  United  Workmen  at  Castle  Rock.  He  is  not 
identified  with  any  denomination,  but  inclines  to 
the  Episcopalian  faith,  in  which  he  was  reared. 


'HOMAS  RICHARDS  has  been  engaged  in 
general  merchandising  in  Erie,  Weld  County, 
for  the  past  eighteen  years  and  has  won  an 
enviable  reputation  for  square  dealing,  courtesy 
and  fairness  to  all  his  patrons.  No  one  of  our 
business  men  is  more  enterprising  and  public- 
spirited,  more  loyal  to  the  welfare  of  his  fellows 
than  he,  and  all  measures  reaching  out  towards 
progress  and  improvement  are  certain  to  find  favor 
in  his  eyes.  He  is  a  member  of  Erie  Lodge  No. 
46,  I.  O.  O.  F.,  and  is  captain  of  the  staff  of  Rose 
of  Sharon  Lodge  No.  29,  Daughters  of  Rebekah. 
He  also  holds  membership  with  Perseverance 
Camp  No.  139,  Woodmen  of  the  World.  For 
ten  years  he  was  the  secretary  of  the  school  board, 
at  present  is  town  treasurer,  and  in  September, 
1898,  was  appointed  postmaster  by  President 
McKinley. 

JohnD.  Richards,  the  father  of  our  subject,  was 
a  native  of  Wales,  and  a  weaver  by  trade.  In 
early  manhood  he  sailed  for  America.  Settling 
in  Pomeroy,  Ohio,  he  worked  in  the  coal  mines 
of  the  locality  until  1866,  when  he  removed  to 
Missouri.  From  that  time  until  his  death  in 
1876  he  lived  upon  a  farm  about  five  miles  distant 
from  New  Cambria,  Macon  County,  on  Brush 
Creek.  His  first  wife  bore  the  maiden  name 
of  Helen  Davis,  and  to  them  three  daughters 
were  born.  Mary,  the  eldest,  was  the  wife  of 
John  Roberts  and  two  children  survive  them, 
Katie  and  William,  living  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.; 
Margaret  is  the  wife  of  E.  A.  Edwards,  of 
New  Cambria;  and  Anna,  of  Pomeroy,  Ohio,  is 


the  widow  of  George  Cole.  The  second  mar- 
riage of  John  D.  Richards  was  with  Mrs. 
Mary  (Phillips)  Evans,  widow  of  Thomas  Evans. 
She,  too,  was  a  native  of  Wales,  and  was  the 
mother  of  four  children  at  the  time  of  her  mar- 
riage to  Mr.  Richards.  Three  of  her  sons  by 
the  first  union  survive,  namely:  Rev.  John  T.,  of 
Arvonia,  Kan.;  David  T.,  of  Huntsville,  Mo.; 
and  Daniel  T. ,  who  lives  on  the  old  Richards 
homestead  near  New  Cambria,  Mo.  Her  daugh- 
ter, Sarah,  married  David  Jones,  of  New  Cam- 
bria, Mo.,-  two  children  survive:  Thomas  A., 
who  is  a  member  of  the  Seventh  Infantry, U.  S.  A. , 
and  took  part  in  the  battle  of  Santiago;  and 
Mamie,  who  is  the  wife  of  John  Shuttleworth, 
of  Erie. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Richards  was 
blessed  with  five  children,  as  follows:  Thomas; 
Samuel  R.,  a  mine  operator  at  Breckenridge, 
Colo.;  Ellen,  wife  of  John  S.  Morgan,  of  Erie, 
Colo.;  Elizabeth,  Mrs.  Edmund  Scholes,  of  La- 
fayette, Colo.;  and  Charlotte,  Mrs.  James L.  Wil- 
son, of  Erie,  Colo.  A  sister  of  John  D.  Richards 
came  to  the  United  States  from  Wales  and  settled 
in  Jackson  County,  Ohio.  She  was  the  wife  of 
John  S.  Davis,  a  farmer  of  this  county;  both  are 
deceased. 

Thomas  Richards,  of  this  sketch,  was  born  in 
Pomeroy,  Ohio,  October  i,  1852.  He  grew  up 
under  the  parental  roof  and 'acquired  but  a  limited 
education,  as  he  preferred  to  work  in  the  mines  to 
attending  school  when  he  was  a  boy.  At  twelve 
years  of  age  he  was  regularly  employed  in  the 
Pomeroy  coal  mines,  but,  when  the  family  re- 
moved to  Missouri,  the  youth  turned  his  energies 
in  the  direction  of  agriculture.  Thus  he  passed 
the  years  between  1866  and  1874,  with  the  excep- 
tion of  a  few  months  at  his  old  business  of  mining. 
With  about  $70  in  his  pocket,  the  young  man 
started  for  Colorado  in  the  year  1874,  and  pro- 
ceeding to  Coal  Creek,  he  worked  until  the  fol- 
lowing April  in  the  mines  there.  Thence,  go- 
ing to  Rosita,  he  found  employment  in  the  old 
Pocahontas  silver  mine  for  another  year  or  two. 
In  the  summer  of  the  year  that  saw  Colorado 
admitted  to  the  Union  he  came  to  Erie  and  began 
to  work  in  the  coal  mines  here.  Four  years  later 
he  established  a  store  here,  but  for  a  few  months 
longer  kept  up  his  mining  operations  as  well. 
Since  August,  1881,  he  has  given  his  time  to  his 
business  affairs  and  has  succeeded  in  building  up 


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a  prosperous  trade.  He  is  also  manager  of  the 
Erie  Review.  His  franchise  he  uses  on  behalf  of 
the  Republican  partj'. 

In  the  5'ear  1877  Mr.  Richards  married  Eliza- 
beth Thomas,  who  was  born  in  Illinois.  Of  their 
six  children,  three  were  called  from  them  by  the 
angel  of  death,  Arthur  A.,  Samuel  A.  and  Mary. 
The  eldest  son,  John  T.,  is  a  member  of  Company 
F,  First  Colorado  Volunteer  Infantry,  enlisted  for 
service  in  the  war  with  Spain.  Ella  and  De  Witt, 
the  younger  children,  are  at  home  with  their 
parents. 

(lOHN  C.  JENKINS,  mayor  of  Central  City, 
I  was  elected  on  the  Democratic  ticket  in  1896, 
(2/  was  re-elected  the  next  year  and  the  year 
following,  and  consequently  is  now  entering  upon 
his  third  term.  Previously  he  was  a  director  of 
the  local  schools  for  three  years  and  at  all  times 
he  has  labored  diligently  on  behalf  of  the  public 
welfare.  Beginning  his  business  career  at  the 
foot  of  the  ladder  he  has  steadily  progressed  in 
influence  and  fortune  and  has  won  a  splendid 
name  for  square-dealing  and  uprightness  in  all 
his  transactions. 

Mr.  Jenkins  was  born  in  Dodgeville,  Wis., 
February  13,  1864,  and  is  one  of  the  four  sons  of 
David  and  Anna  (Owen)  Jenkins.  The  father 
was  born  in  Glamorganshire,  Wales,  near  the 
town  of  Swansea.  When  he  was  a  young  man 
he  came  to  the  United  States,  and  for  some  time 
was  engaged  in  working  in  lead  mines  in  north- 
western Illinois  and  southern  Wisconsin.  In  1864 
he  came  to  Colorado  across  the  plains  in  an  ox- 
team,  being  accompanied  by  his  wife  and  three 
little  boys.  The  family  took  up  their  abode  in 
Central  City,  while  the  father  turned  his  attention 
to  prospecting  and  mining  in  the  vicinity.  He 
developed  the  Comstock  mine,  now  one  of  the 
large  producers.  In  1884  he  was  accidentally 
killed  by  the  falling  of  some  rocks  while  he  was 
at  his  accustomed  occupation.  His  wife,  who 
was  born  in  the  northern  part  of  Wales,  died  in 
1887.  Their  son  Evan  departed  this  life  when 
he  was  in  his  twenty-eighth  year,  in  Central  City. 
Richard  A.,  the  eldest  son,  and  William  O. ,  the 
youngest  of  the  family,  are  residents  of  this  town, 
the  latter  being  connected  with  the  First  National 
Bank. 

As  he  was  an  infant  when  brought  to  this  state, 
our  subject  has  always  been  closely  associated 


with  the  development  and  progress  of  Colorado 
since  his  first  recollection.  His  education  was 
gained  in  the  public  schools  of  Central  City,  and 
when  he  was  about  fifteen  he  commenced  clerk- 
ing in  a  grocery  here.  He  remained  in  that  posi- 
tion for  two  years  and  then  was  employed  on 
Main  street.  In  1886  he  entered  into  partnership 
with  D.  J.  McKay  and  David  Henderson  and 
bought  out  C.  W.  Ladd,  of  this  city.  The  new 
firm,  organized  under  the  style  of  Jenkins, 
McKaj'  &  Co.,  has  continued  as  such  ever 
since.  Their  location  is  on  Low  street,  where 
they  have  a  fine,  large  store  with  a  frontage  of 
seventy-five  feet.  Three  stories  are  occupied, 
the  basement  for  storage,  etc. ,  the  first  floor  for 
retail  trade  and  the  second  for  a  tinshop  and  gen- 
eral stock.  A  verj'  extensive  stock  of  hardware 
is  carried,  and  a  full  line  of  roofing  materials, 
plumbing  and  gas-fitting  supplies,  etc.  Not 
having  sufficient  room  in  this  building  the  firm 
also  occupies  two  warehouses  on  Spring  street, 
adjacent  to  the  Gulf  Railroad.  Year  by  year  the 
sales  of  the  concern  have  increased,  and  their 
shipments  of  mining  machinery,  mill  supplies, 
etc. ,  have  been  on  an  ascending  scale  in  quantity. 
Mr.  Jenkins  has  brought  to  bear  upon  his  busi- 
ness enterprises  rare  good  judgment,  and  to  him, 
in  large  measure,  the  success  of  the  company  is 
attributable.  He  is  a  stockholder  in  the  First 
National  Bank  of  this  city,  and  he  also  holds  stock 
in  the  Gilpin  Mill  at  Blackhawk  and  is  interested 
in  mining  operations. 

In  Central  City  Mr.  Jenkins  married  Miss  Kate 
McLeod,  who  was  born  and  reared  in  this  place. 
They  have  two  sons  and  a  daughter,  John,  Rob- 
ert and  Catherine.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Jenkins  are 
members  of  the  Episcopal  Church,  and  are  held 
in  high  esteem  by  a  large  circle  of  friends. 


HIRAM  T.  LAMEY,  general  agent  for  the 
British  American  and  Western  Assurance 
Company,  has  his  oflSce  in  the  Railroad 
building,  Denver.  He  was  born  in  Venango 
County,  Pa.,  August  ii,  1856,  and  is  a  son  of 
John  Lamey.  He  represents  the  fifth  generation 
in  line  of  descent  from  a  native  of  Baden,  Ger- 
many, who  emigrated  to  America  in  1750  and 
established  the  family  in  this  countr)'.  His 
great-grandfather,  John,  was  born  in  1760,  his 
grandfather  in  1798,  and  his  father  in  1827.     The 


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latter  is  still  living  on  the  farm  where  he  settled 
in  1835,  when  it  was  one  hundred  and  fifty  miles 
from  the  settled  part  of  the  country. 

Primarily  educated  in  the  common  schools,  at 
the  age  of  sixteen  our  subject  entered  college. 
After  completing  his  collegiate  course  in  1876  he 
went  to  Europe,  where  he  spent  two  years  in 
travel,  visiting  all  the  important  cities  of  the  con- 
tinent. On  his  return  to  America  he  entered  the 
newspaper  business  in  Mi.ssouri,  but  soon  found 
he  was  not  fitted  for  that  line  of  work  and  gave 
it  up.  He  then  moved  to  Nevada,  in  the  same 
state.  In  1881  he  began  to  travel  for  an  insur- 
ance company  as  a  special  agent,  and  in  1883  ac- 
cepted a  position  with  the  firm  he  has  since  rep- 
resented. At  first  he  was  their  special  agent  in 
the  western  and  southern  states,  but  in  1891  he 
came  to  Denver  and  opened  a  branch  ofiice,  of 
which  he  has  since  been  in  charge,  having  under 
him  six  special  agents,  seven  hundred  local 
agents  and  all  the  territory  from  the  Missouri 
River  to  the  coast.  He  is  a  man  of  keen  business 
ability,  with  a  faculty  for  the  special  line  in  which 
he  has  for  some  years  so  successfully  engaged. 

At  Nevada,  Mo.,  in  1880,  Mr.  Lamey  married 
Miss  M.  F.  Wright,  of  that  city.  He  was  reared 
in  the  Democratic  faith,  but  has  never  actively 
identified  himself  with  public  affairs  nor  taken  a 
prominent  part  in  politics.  While  in  Nevada  he 
was  made  a  Mason,  joining  the  blue  lodge  there, 
and  at  this  writing  he  is  connected  with  the 
Oriental  lyodge  and  Nevada  Chapter  No.  56, 
R.  A.  M.  

(lACOB  ARMSTRONG  is  an  extensive  stock- 
I  raiser  and  the  owner  of  one  of  the  finest 
O  ranches  in  I,arimer  County.  He  is  a  breeder 
of  standard  horses  and  is  also  one  of  the  largest 
dairymen  in  this  vicinity.  Old  Hadley  place, 
upon  which  he  lives,  comprises  one  hundred  and 
sixty  acres,  beautifully  situated  on  the  Cache  la 
Poudre.  Mr.  Armstrong  is  of  Scotch- Irish  de- 
scent and  was  born  in  Dixon,  111.,  February  13, 
1 85 1,  the  son  of  Jacob  and  Mary  (Coyne)  Arm- 
strong. His  father,  a  native  of  Coxsackie,  N.  Y. , 
was  orphaned  at  an  early  age.  He  was  reared 
on  a  farm  near  his  birthplace,  whence  some  time 
in  the  '40s  he  removed  to  Dixon,  Lee  County, 
III.,  and  embarked  in  the  real-estate  and  loan 
business.  In  1874  he  came  to  Colorado  and  for 
six  months  was  interested  with  W.  B.  Miner  in 


sheep-raising,  locating  on  a  ranch  for  that  pur- 
pose. However,  the  work  did  not  prove  con- 
genial and  the  partnership  was  dissolved.  Going 
next  to  Fort  Collins  he  engaged  in  the  real-estate 
and  loan  business  until  his  death,  in  1888,  when 
seventy-three  years  of  age.  His  wife,  Mary,  died 
at  the  same  age  as  himself  They  had  three 
children,  Jacob  and  two  daughters,  now  living  in 
Dixon. 

Our  subject  was  the  third  of  the  children.  He 
received  the  advantages  of  a  good  education.  He 
completed  the  scientific  course  in  the  Jesuit  Col- 
lege, St.  lyouis.  For  a  short  time  he  was  em- 
ployed as  bookkeeper.  In  1874  he  came  to  Colo- 
rado and  bought  the  Green  Lake  ranch,  four 
miles  northeast  of  Fort  Collins.  There  he  em- 
barked in  sheep-raising.  He  went  to  the  vicinity 
of  Whitewater,  Wis.,  and  bought  some  merino 
ewes  with  which  to  stock  his  farm;  these  he 
shipped  to  Cheyenne  and  from  there  drove  them 
to  his  ranch.  In  March,  1878,  in  a  severe  snow 
storm,  he  lost  some  three  thousand  of  his  herd 
that  were  caught  out  on  the  range.  Two  years 
later  he  .sold  his  sheep  and  began  to  raise  horses, 
having  from  one  hundred  to  two  hundred  and 
fifty  head  on  his  place.  He  handled  nothing  but 
high-grade  horses,  and  had  a  standard-bred  stal- 
lion at  the  head  of  the  herd.  His  place  became 
headquarters  for  good  horses.  In  1893  he  sold 
out  the  business  and  again  engaged  in  feeding 
lambs,  raising  cattle  and  carrying  on  general 
farming.  At  one  time  he  was  an  extensive  land 
owner,  having  some  fourteen  hundred  acres,  but 
he  has  sold  much  of  the  land,  retaining  besides 
the  home  place  of  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres, 
two  other  farms  near  here.  He  cultivates  two 
farms  and  has  a  large  cattle  range  in  the  north- 
ern part  of  the  county.  His  dairy  is  one  of  the 
best  in  the  locality.  Fifi:een  acres  of  his  farm  are 
planted  to  apple,  plum  and  cherry  trees,  and  he 
also  raises  small  fruits  in  abundance.  In  addi- 
tion he  engages  in  gardening  on  a  large  scale, 
and  during  1898  had  four  acres  in  onions. 

In  Fort  Collins  Mr.  Armstrong  married  Miss 
Varah  A.  Buss,  a  native  of  Booneville,  N.  Y., 
daughter  of  George  E.  and  Frances  Amelia  (Butts) 
Buss,  and  grandfather  of  Fortinatus  and  Eliza- 
beth (Goddard)  Buss.  Her  grandfather  was  of 
a  pioneer  New  England  family  and  died  when 
her  father  was  thirteen  years  of  age.  The  latter, 
a  native  of  Massachusetts,  learned  the  trade  of 


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builder  and  contractor,  removed  to  New  York 
state  and  worked  in  a  chair  factorj' until  the  war. 
In  1861  he  enlisted  in  the  Fourteenth  New  York 
Infantry  as  a  private,  but  was  soon  made  ser- 
geant. He  re-enlisted  in  the  Twenty-first  New 
York  Cavalry,  of  which  he  was  a  second 
lieutenant,  and  later  a  first  lieutenant.  He  was 
mustered  out  in  Denver,  in  June,  1866,  with  a 
captain's  commission.  Returning  home  at  once 
he  brought  his  wife  and  only  child  across  the 
plains  to  Colorado.  He  improved  a  farm  of  four 
hundred  aud  forty  acres,  where  he  resided  until 
he  retired  to  Fort  Collins.  He  is  connected  with 
the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic.  His  wife  was 
the  daughter  of  Thomas  Bradford  Butts,  a  lum- 
ber manufacturer  of  Rome,  N.  Y.  His  mother, 
Sarah  Bradford,  was  a  member  of  the  family  to 
which  belonged  Governor  Bradford,  the  first  gov- 
ernor of  Massachusetts.  Thomas  Bradford  Butts 
married  Alzina  Bedora  Otis,  whose  ancestors  set- 
tled in  Massachusetts  before  the  Revolutionary 
war,  and  who,se  uncle,  Judge  Butts,  wrote  the 
"Maiden's  Reply  to  the  Gypsy's  Warning." 
The  mother  died  at  the  age  of  forty-eight  years. 
Mrs.  Armstrong  was  eight  years  of  age  when 
her  parents  came  to  Colorado.  She  attended 
school  held  in  a  building  made  of  logs.  She  was 
twelve  when  the  first  schoolhouse  was  built.  In 
order  to  secure  children  enough  to  organize  a 
district  the  latter  was  laid  out  eight  miles  long 
and  four  miles  wide,  and,  fortunately,  she  lived 
near  the  center  of  the  district.  Before  she  started 
to  school  her  mother  heard  her  lessons  every  day, 
but  it  was  difficult  to  do  so  .satisfactorily,  as  leis- 
ure moments  were  few.  Sometimes  the  book 
was  placed  on  the  bench  beside  the  mother's 
washtub  or  ironing-board.  The  same  difficulty 
arose  as  to  learning  the  lessons.  For  four  years 
the  crops  were  raised  without  a  fence,  and  it  was 
her  duty  to  keep  the  stock  away  from  the  grow- 
ing crops,  so  her  study  was  often  carried  on  in 
the  open  field.  The  country  at  that  time  was 
infested  with  Indians.  Horses  were  corraled 
every  night  so  that  the  red  men  could  not  steal 
them.  During  the  winter  of  1866-67  her  father 
was  away  for  a  week  and  a  band  of  Arapahoe  In- 
dians camped  within  a  mile  of  them.  The  chief 
of  the  tribe  had  been  reared  by  a  white  man  in 
St.  Louis,  but  had  rejoined  his  tribe.  When  she 
came  here  Fort  Collins  was  but  a  hamlet.  While 
the  family  were  crossing  the  plains,  when  about 


three  hundred  miles  from  Nebraska  City,  an  In- 
dian of  the  Pawnee  tribe  wanted  to  buy  her,  offer- 
ing to  trade  a  pony  for  her.  From  the  age  of 
sixteen  she  has  shown  a  talent  for  literary  work 
and  is  now  a  lady  of  marked  intelligence  and 
ability.  Though  she  has  always  been  a  bu.sy 
woman  she  has  found  time  to  keep  up  her  writing, 
which  is  of  a  high  character,  as  is  proved  by  the 
appearance  of  articles  from  her  pen  in  such  mag- 
azines as  The  Ladies'  Home  Journal,  where  no  ar- 
ticle is  printed  that  does  not  possess  superior  merit. 
She  has  written  much  for  local  and  state  papers. 
Her  story,  "Why  the  White  Farm  Failed,"  which 
appeared  Easter,  1898,  elicited  much  favorable 
comment.  She  has  also  composed  a  number  of 
poems. 

At  the  age  of  nineteen  Miss  Buss  became  the 
wife  of  Mr.  Armstrong.  They  have  four  chil- 
dren: Laura,  who  is  attending  the  State  Agricult- 
ural College  at  Fort  Collins  and  will  graduate 
in  1900;  Lucy  Isabelle,  George  J.  and  Clarence 
Melville.  Mrs.  Armstrong  is  a  supporter  of  the 
silver  standard.  She  served  for  one  term  of  three 
years  as  president  of  the  school  board  in  district 
No.  II,  but  declined  re-election.  Several  years 
ago  she  started  an  apiary  and  became  so  inter- 
ested in  the  work  that  for  a  time  her  literary 
work  was  neglected,  but  she  now  gives  attention 
to  both.  Her  apiary  she  has  found  a  source  of 
both  pleasure  and  profit. 

Politically  Mr.  Armstrong  is  a  Democrat.  He 
was  made  a  Mason  in  Collins  Lodge  No.  19, 
A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  is  identified  with  the  Knights  of 
Pythias,  Odd  Fellows  and  the  Encampment. 
His  has  been  a  life  filled  with  adventure  and  in 
some  of  them  he  has  had  narrow  escapes.  In 
May,  1874,  before  coming  to  this  state,  he  was 
attending  a  Baptist  meeting  at  Dixon,  111.  The 
congregation  was  on  the  east  side  of  Rock  River, 
which  was  spanned  by  a  Truesdale  patent  bridge, 
considered  unsafe,  as  the  frost  had  broken  some 
of  the  stringers.  About  one  thousand  people 
stood  on  the  bridge  when  the  stringers  broke  and 
the  crowd  were  precipitated  into  the  stream.  Fifty 
people  were  drowned.  Mr.  Armstrong,  who  was 
near  the  center  of  the  bridge,  went  down  with 
the  rest,  but  being  a  good  swimmer  he  dived  and 
made  for  a  pier,  which  he  succeeded  in  reaching. 
He  then  rescued  six  drowning  persons  (two  girls 
at  one  time)  and  assisted  in  bringing  two  dead 
bodies  to  shore,  after  which,  becoming  exhausted. 


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he  was  obliged  to  return  home.  Four  years  later, 
when  hunting  sheep  on  one  of  his  ranches,  he 
was  bitten  by  a  rattlesnake  on  the  first  joint  of 
the  forefinger.  He  had  no  remedy,  not  even  a 
string,  so  he  at  once  began  to  suck  the  blood  and 
bite  the  finger  to  stop  the  circulation.  He  did 
this  until  he  reached  the  wagon,  when  he  took  a 
hatchet  and  cut  the  finger  off  at  the  second  joint; 
a  heroic  measure,  but  the  finger  bled  freely  and 
did  not  swell;  so  he  saved  his  life.  His  is  not  a 
nature  to  shun  danger  of  any  kind;  and  when 
onl}'  a  boy  of  twelve  he  made  several  efforts  to 
enlist  as  a  drummer  boy  in  Illinois  regiments, 
but  they  refused  to  accept  him. 


JOSEPH  SAUTER,  a  substantial  farmer  of 
I  the  vicinity  of  Berthoud,  Weld  County,  is  a 
Q)  native  of  Germany,  and  is  a  most  worthy 
citizen  of  his  adopted  country.  He  is  public- 
spirited,  taking  great  interest  in  the  progress  and 
improvement  of  the  county,  and  is  always  ready  to 
do  his  full  share  for  the  good  of  the  community. 
He  is  a  self-made  man,  and  not  only  has  he 
struggled  along  in  the  battle  of  life  without  as- 
sistance from  anyone,  but  has  even  helped  others 
very  materially  from  time  to  time.  A  man  of  the 
strictest  honesty, industrious,  economical  and  just, 
he  enjoys  the  respect  of  all  who  know  him  and  is 
entitled  to  credit  for  the  position  he  has  made  for 
himself. 

Born  in  the  province  of  Wurtemberg,  Ger- 
many, in  1842,  our  subject  is  a  son  of  Ignatius 
Sauter  of  that  country.  His  five  brothers  and 
sisters  are  all  in  America  now,  and  one  by  one 
were  aided  by  him  to  make  the  trip  and  to  get  a 
start  in  the  new  world.  He  sent  for  them  as  soon 
as  he  was  in  a  position  to  be  of  service  to  them, 
and  has  generously  come  to  their  rescue  many  a 
time  when  they  were  in  need. 

When  he  was  twenty-five  years  old  Joseph 
Sauter  decided  to  come  to  the  United  States  to 
make  his  fortune.  He  had  received  a  good  gen- 
eral education  in  the  fatherland,  and  was  quali- 
fied to  earn  his  livelihood  in  various  fields  of  en- 
terprise, but  he  believed  that  there  were  wider 
opportunities  for  him  abroad.  The  first  five 
years  after  he  landed  in  America  he  worked  on  a 
farm  in  Westchester  County,  N.  Y.,  and  thence 
went  to  St.  Joseph,  Mo.  He  bought  a  tract  of 
forty  acres  in  Buchanan  County,  Mo.,  and,  as  he 


prospered,  added  to  his  original  farm  other  prop- 
erty until  he  had  one  hundred  acres.  In  1883  he 
sold  out  and  came  to  Colorado.  Here  he  invested 
in  a  quarter-section  of  land,  only  twenty  acres  of 
the  place  having  been  broken  or  ever  under  culti- 
vation. There  was  no  house  nor  improvements 
upon  the  farm,  and  thus  he  has  been  obliged  to 
begin  at  the  beginning  and  work  his  way  up- 
ward. Of  late  he  has  given  much  of  his  time  to 
the  raising  of  live  stock,  principally  hogs.  By 
good  management  he  has  succeeded,  even  beyond 
his  own  expectations.  In  the  different  ditch 
companies  of  this  section  he  holds  stock,  and  he 
is  also  represented  in  the  Berthoud  Mill  and  Ele- 
vator Company.  Three  miles  distant  from  his 
home  place  he  owns  another  quarter-section  of 
land.  In  politics  he  is  afiiliated  with  the  Demo- 
cratic party. 

Mr.  Sauter' s  wife  was  born  in  Indiana  and  her 
father  was  a  native  of  Germany.  Their  children 
are:  Joseph  (now  a  resident  of  Nebraska),  John, 
Antoine,  Frederick,  Frank,  Anna,  Lizzie,  Rosie 
and  Katie.  The  family  are  Catholic  in  religious 
faith. 


HOMAS  W.  O'DONNELL,  attorney-at- 
law,  of  Denver,  was  born  in  Longmont, 
this  state,  November  12,  1874,  ^^^  is  a  son 
of  Thomas  and  Johanna  O'Donnell.  His  father, 
who  has  devoted  his  active  life  to  ranching,  is 
now  living  near  Longmont,  where  he  is  engaged 
in  general  farm  pursuits  and  in  raising  horses. 
The  boyhood  days  of  the  son  were  spent  on  this 
place  assisting  in  its  cultivation,  and  in  attend- 
ance upon  the  public  schools.  At  the  age  of  fif- 
teen he  became  a  student  in  the  Jesuit  College  in 
Denver,  where  he  continued  for  five  years  and 
then  graduated,  with  the  degree  of  A.  B.,  as  a 
member  of  the  class  of  1894.  He  had  taken  the 
studies  of  the  regular  classical  course,  having  as 
a  boy  determined  to  become  a  lawyer  and,  with 
this  purpose  in  view,  he  desired  to  lay  a  solid 
foundation  for  professional  work. 

The  study  of  law  he  carried  on  in  the  ofiice  of 
Hon.  I.  N.  Stevens,  and  in  1896  he  was  admitted 
to  practice  at  the  bar,  since  which  time  he  has 
carried  on  professional  work  with  considerable 
success.  He  is  a  young  man  of  keen  discern- 
ment, with  a  faculty  of  reading  human  nature 
and  understanding  the  motives  that  control 
human  action.  When  a  boy  he  was  initiated  into 


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the  Democratic  party,  but  in  the  campaign  of 
1896  he  supported  William  McKinley  for  presi- 
dent. He  favors  the  silver  cause,  believing  that 
no  true  prosperity  can  come  to  the  nation  until 
the  debased  metal  is  restored  to  its  true  stand- 
ard. Frequently  he  has  been  chosen  as  delegate 
to  county  conventions.  In  1896  he  was  a  dele- 
gate to  the  state  convention  of  the  national  silver 
party,  and  during  the  same  year  he  served  as  a 
delegate  to  the  convention  of  that  party  in  St. 
Louis,  where  his  services  were  effective  in  formu- 
lating the  principles  of  that  party. 

Fraternally  Mr.  O'Donnell  is  connected  with 
the  Modern  Woodmen  of  the  World,  though  he 
became  a  member  of  the  organization  less  for  its 
social  benefits  than  for  its  insurance.  He  ad- 
heres to  the  faith  of  the  Catholic  Church,  in  which 
belief  he  was  reared.  It  may  safely  be  predicted 
of  him  that  future  years  will  enhance  his  success 
and  increase  his  material  prosperit}^  and  what- 
ever of  public  or  professional  honors  may  come  to 
him,  without  doubt  they  will  but  deepen  the  es- 
teem in  which  he  is  held,  and  the  regard  that 
comes  to  him  deservedly  as  the  result  of  his  up- 
rightness and  perseverance. 


(T  A.  BANNING,  a  farmer  of  Weld  County, 
I  was  for  many  years  actively  engaged  in 
O  the  construction  of  railroads,  taking  and  ex- 
ecuting contracts  on  sections  of  the  same.  He 
proved  to  be  thoroughly  efficient  and  reliable, 
true  to  the  smallest  detail  of  his  business  agree- 
ments, and  thus  won  the  regard  of  those  who  em- 
ployed him.  He  also  had  actual  experience  dur- 
ing a  period  of  some  five  years  in  the  building 
of  ditches  in  various  parts  of  Colorado.  Thus 
his  life  was  very  active  and  somewhat  unsettled 
until  within  the  past  few  years,  as  he  necessarily 
traveled  a  great  deal,  and  might  be  at  one  end 
of  the  country  or  the  other,  according  to  his  busi- 
ness. Four  years  ago  he  bought  his  present 
ranch,  a  fine  place  of  three  hundred  and  twenty 
acres,  located  on  section  25,  township  3,  range  67. 
Since  that  time  he  has  devoted  himself  to  general 
farming  and  stock-raising  and  is  making  a  suc- 
cess of  his  operations.  He  deals  extensively  in 
Shorthorn  and  graded  cattle  and  keeps  some 
fine  specimens  of  Cleveland  Bay  horses  and 
Poland-China  and  Berkshire  hogs,  which  he 
raises  for  the  Denver  markets. 
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The  birth  of  J.  A.  Banning  occurred  in  Wheel- 
ing, W.  Va.,  in  1836.  The  first  twelve  years 
of  his  life  were  passed  in  that  city,  and  then  with 
his  parents,  John  and  Mary  (Anderson)  Banning, 
he  removed  to  Burlington,  Iowa.  There  he  fin- 
ished his  education  in  the  public  schools  and 
later  went  to  the  Mount  Pleasant  high  school, 
which  at  that  time  had  a  high  reputation.  When 
he  had  attained  his  majority  he  went  to  Nebraska 
and  for  the  following  four  years  engaged  in 
freighting  across  the  plains  from  Nebraska  City 
to  Salt  Lake,  his  associates  in  the  enterprise  be- 
ing Messrs.  Russell  and  Waddell. 

In  i860  Mr.  Banning  came  to  Colorado,  and  lo- 
cating in  Lincoln  City,  embarked  in  mining  oper- 
ations. He  owned  an  interest  in  mines  No.  40 
and  41,  in  the  Lincoln  district,  and  remained 
there  until  1864.  At  that  time  he  went  to  Gold- 
en City  and  helped  develop  some  coal  mines 
during  the  next  two  years,  as  a  member  of  the  firm 
of  Wheeler  &  Banning.  In  1866  he  went  to 
Omaha  and  took  the  contract  of  building  a  .sec- 
tion of  the  Union  Pacific  Railroad,  and  completed 
his  contract  in  November,  1867.  In  the  spring 
of  the  next  year  he  was  awarded  the  contract  for 
the  line  of  railroad  between  Cheyenne  and  Den- 
ver, a  portion  of  the  Denver  &  Pacific  Railroad, 
and  this  too  he  carried  out  with  promptness, 
completing  it  in  1869.  The  following  year  he 
started  on  a  contract  for  the  construction  of  the 
Kansas  Pacific  Railroad  between  Sheridan  and 
Denver,  and  brought  it  to  a  successful  termina- 
tion in  1 87 1.  His  next  enterprise  was  to  become 
one  of  the  incorporators  of  the  Denver  &  Rio 
Grande  road  from  Denver  to  Pueblo,  Colo.  Hav- 
ing sold  his  stock  in  the  company  he  took  the 
contract  for  the  work  of  building  the  road  and 
completed  it  in  1872.  The  year  1873  was  marked 
by  his  work  on  the  old  Julesburg,  now  the  Omaha 
Short  Line.  Here  he  finished  his  contract  for 
one  hundred  miles  of  the  road  in  1874.  For  the 
succeeding  five  years  he  was  employed  in  making 
irrigating  canals  all  over  the  west.  Some  of  the 
largest  of  these  were  the  Eaton,  Arapahoe, 
Welch,  and  the  Banning  and  Beasley  ditches. 
For  several  years  he  owned  a  half-interest  in  the 
last-named  ditch,  which  he  helped  to  incorporate, 
and  was  president  of  the  same  for  years.  In  1896 
he  built  a  private  ditch,  which  receives  water 
from  the  Platte  River.  During  the  years  1881, 
1882  and  1883  he  graded  and  constructed  a  por- 


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tion  of  railroad  on  the  Santa  Fe  and  Southern 
Pacific  lines.  Fraternally  he  is  an  official  mem- 
ber of  Golden  Chapter  No.  5,  R.  A.  M.,  and  be- 
longs to  Golden  Lodge  No.  i,  A.  F.  &  A.  M. 

In  i860  the  marriage  of  Mr.  Banning  and  Miss 
Susan  Tompkinson,  of  Burlington,  Iowa,  took 
place  at  the  home  of  the  bride's  parents,  Henry 
and  Ann  Tompkinson.  Two  sons  and  three 
daughters  have  graced  the  home  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Banning,  namely:  Morgan,  John  William,  Leon- 
ora, Belle  and  Susan.  Leonora  is  the  wife  of 
Henry  Johnson;  Belle  married  Charles  Greene; 
and  Susan  is  the  wife  of  Edward  Shannon,  of 
Omaha. 


GJBRAHAM  ASHBAUGH,  M.  D.,  of  Central 
LA  City,  came  to  Gilpin  County  in  1879  and 
I  I  has  since  attained  a  high  position  as  a  skill- 
ful physician.  For  many  years  he  held  the  of- 
fice of  county  physician  and  also  acted  as  sur- 
geon for  the  Union  Pacific  Railroad  at  this  point. 
He  has  been  most  successful  in  building  up  a 
lucrative  practice,  although  he  gives  medical  at- 
tention alike  to  the  poor  and  the  rich,  and  he  is 
among  the  busiest  professional  men  in  the  county. 
Besides  his  practice  he  has  other  interests,  par- 
ticularly mining,  and  owns  and  operates  the 
Lombard  group  of  mines,  which  he  discovered 
and  developed  and  which  are  seven  miles  from 
Central  City. 

Dr.  Ashbaugh  was  born  in  Aledo,  Mercer 
County,  111.,  August  27,  1852,  and  is  a  son  of 
John  and  Catherine  (Artz)  Ashbaugh.  His 
father  was  a  son  of  John  Ashbaugh,  Sr,,  a  farmer 
of  Marion  County,  Ohio,  where  the  former  was 
born  and  reared.  However,  in  an  early  day  he  re- 
moved to  Mercer  County,  111.,  and  settled  upon  a 
farm  near  Aledo.  In  1868  he  removed  to  Vernon 
County,  Mo.,  and  embarked  in  farming  near 
Moundville.  His  death  occurred  in  Central  City 
in  1882,  when  he  was  fifty-two  years  of  age.  His 
wife  was  born  in  Virginia,  whither  her  father  emi- 
grated from  Germany;  later  he  moved  to  Ohio, 
and  then  to  Illinois,  where  he  died.  She  is  liv- 
ing on  the  old  homestead  in  Missouri.  Of  her 
thirteen  children  nine  are  living;  three  of  the 
sons  served  in  an  Illinois  regiment  during  the 
Civil  war  and  one  was  wounded. 

In  the  schools  of  Illinois  and  Missouri  the  sub- 
ject of  this  .sketch  received  his  education.  For 
two  years  he  was  employed  in  the  Vernon  County 


nursery,  after  which  he  began  the  study  of  medi- 
cine. In  the  fall  of  1875  he  entered  Rush  Medi- 
cal College  of  Chicago,  and  after  two  years  of 
study,  graduated  with  the  degree  of  M.  D.  He 
at  once  began  the  practice  of  his  profession  in 
Reynolds,  Rock  Island  County,  111.,  where  he 
remained  two  years.  In  1879  he  came  to  Central 
City,  where  he  has  a  large  patronage,  extending 
throughout  the  entire  county.  He  is  identified 
with  the  Colorado  State  Medical  Society,  the 
American  Medical  Association,  and  is  treasurer 
of  the  United  States  board  of  pension  examiners 
for  this  district,  including  Gilpin,  Clear  Creek, 
Jefferson,  Park  and  Grand  Counties.  The  board 
meets  in  Idaho  Springs  and  was  established  about 
1893,  when  he  was  appointed  to  the  office  of 
treasurer. 

In  Rock  Island  County,  III. ,  Dr.  Ashbaugh 
married  Miss  Sarah,  daughter  of  Joseph  Asquith, 
who  came  to  Illinois  from  England.  Two  chil- 
dren, Guy  and  Roy,  comprise  their  family. 
Politically  a  Republican,  Dr.  Ashbaugh  has  al- 
ways refused  to  accept  office;  on  one  occasion, 
against  his  expressed  wishes,  he  was  elected 
mayor,  but  refused  to  qualify  for  the  office.  He 
was  made  a  Mason  in  Pre-emption,  111.,  and  is 
past  officer  in  Nevada  Lodge  No.  4,  A.  F.  &  A.  M. 
For  five  years  he  has  served  as  high  priest  of 
Central  City  Chapter  No.,i,  R.  A.  M.,  and  re- 
fused to  accept  the  office  of  eminent  commander 
of  the  Central  City  Commandery  No.  2,  in  which 
he  is  generalissimo.  He  is  also  identified  with 
El  Jebel  Temple,  N.  M.  S.,  of  Denver.  He  is 
medical  examiner  for  the  Knights  of  Pythias, 
with  which  he  is  connected  as  a  member,  and  is 
also  examiner  for  the  majority  of  the  insurance 
companies  represented  here. 


DGAR  A.  KEELER.  The  excellent  street 
^  railway  system  of  Denver  is  the  subject  of 
^  frequent  comment  on  the  part  of  visitors  to 
the  city.  To  the  efforts  of  Mr.  Keeler,  as  much 
as  to  those  of  any  other  resident,  is  this  satisfac- 
tory result  due.  From  the  organization  of  the 
Denver  Tramway  Company  he  was  connected 
with  that  enterprise,  and  remained  with  it  under 
its  later  name  of  the  Denver  Consolidated  Tram- 
way Company,  until  January,  1898,  when  he  sold 
out.  When  the  tramway  was  started  it  was  a 
cable  line  extending  from  the  postoffice  to  Dakota 


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avenue  on  Fifteenth  street  and  South  Broadway. 
Reports  from  other  cities  indicated  that  electricity 
could  be  used  as  a  motive  power,  at  no  greater 
cost  and  with  more  satisfactory  results.  He  was 
chosen  to  go  to  Boston  and  Providence  for  the 
purpose  of  investigating  the  electric  sy.stem  in 
operation  in  tho.se  cities.  This  he  did,  and  upon 
hearing  his  report  the  directors  decided  to  con- 
struct electric  roads  with  trolley  lines  overhead, 
it  being  found  that  underground  construction  was 
less  satisfactory  than  the  other.  He  superin- 
tended the  construction  of  the  first  electric  line, 
and  afterward  the  company  constructed  similar 
lines  on  other  streets. 

Mr.  Keeler  was  born  in  Union,  Broome  County, 
N.  Y.,  June  4,  1843.  He  traces  his  ancestory  to 
Ralph  Keeler,  who  was  born  in  England  in  161 3, 
learned  the  carpenter's  trade  in  his  native  land 
and  in  1639  located  in  Hartford,  Conn.,  origi- 
nating the  family  in  this  country.  From  him 
were  descended  Samuel  (ist),  Samuel  (2nd), 
Matthew,  Thomas  and  Lewis,  thelast-named  our 
subject's  grandfather,  who  was  born  in  Litchfield, 
Conn.,  August  14,  1768,  and  married  Elizabeth 
Wheeler.  With  his  family  he  migrated  to 
Broome  County,  N.  Y. ,  and  built  the  first  hotel 
in  Binghamton,  but  later  became  a  farmer  and 
lumberman  of  Union.  Of  his  six  children, 
William  H.,  the  third  in  order  of  birth,  was  born 
in  Litchfield,  Conn.,  June  8,  1804,  and  accompan- 
ied his  parents  to  Broome  County.  There  he 
engaged  in  the  lumber  and  mercantile  business. 
Upon  the  completion  of  the  Shenango  Canal  from 
Binghamton  to  Troy,  he  bought  canal  boats  aud 
engaged  in  the  canal  business,  shipping  from 
Buffalo  to  New  York  via  Troy.  He  was  first  a 
Whig,  later  a  Republican,  and  in  fraternal  rela- 
tions a  member  of  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd 
Fellows.     His  death  occurred  November  1 ,  1868. 

In  Litchfield,  Conn.,  in  1833,  William  H. 
Keeler  married  Janett  Wheeler,  who  was  born  in 
Sharon,  that  state,  and  died  in  Union,  N.  Y., 
April  20,  1880,  at  the  age  of  sixty-nine  years. 
In  religious  belief  she  was  a  Presbyterian.  Her 
father,  Hon.  Hiram  Wheeler,  was  a  large  farmer 
of  Sharon  and  represented  his  district  in  the 
legislature  for  several  terms.  In  her  family  there 
were  two  daughters  and  one  son,  the  latter,  the 
youngest  and  the  only  one  living.  He  was  edu- 
cated in  the  public  schools  and  the  Homer  Acad- 
emy, Cortland  County,  N.  Y.     In  1864   he  went 


to  Illinois  and  embarked  in  the  mercantile 
business  in  Ottawa,  LaSalle  County,  but  in  1867 
sold  out  and  went  back  to  Binghamton.  For 
seven  years  he  was  traveling  salesman  for  a 
wholesale  dry-goods  and  notion  house  in  Bing- 
hamton, his  territory  lying  in  New  York  and 
Pennsylvania.  In  1874  he  embarked  in  the  lum- 
ber business  in  Binghamton,  and  later  carried  on 
a  wholesale  trade  in  pork,  seeds,  wool  and  lum- 
ber, under  the  firm  name  of  Conklin  &  Keeler. 
Having  a  wide  acquaintance  through  that  section 
of  couotry ,  he  soon  worked  up  a  large  and  profit- 
able business.  The  lumber  that  he  manufactured 
was  rafted  down  the  Susquehanna  and  sold  to 
the  Erie  Railroad  and  over  that  road  he  shipped 
the  first  tan  bark  ever  shipped  by  rail. 

In  Union,  N.  Y. ,  Mr.  Keeler  married  Miss 
Diantha  A.  Cafferty,  daughter  of  William  Caf- 
ferty,  once  a  pilot  on  the  river,  but  later  a  farmer 
and  lumberman.  They  became  the  parents  of  two 
children.  Their  daughter,  Clara  M.,  was  mar- 
ried, December  22,  1887,  to  Alexander  C.  Fer- 
gusson,  who  was  born  in  Scotland  and  was  the 
son  ofWiUiam  H.  Fergusson,  a  brother  of  Alex- 
ander and  John  Fergusson,  wholesale  druggists 
of  Philadelphia.  Mr.  Fergusson  was  educated 
in  Philadelphia  and  was  a  bookkeeper  in  the  First 
National  Bank  of  Denver  when  he  died,  August 
15,  1888.  He  was  a  faithful  Christian,  a  member 
of  Central  Presbyterian  Church  of  Denver,  and 
was  active  in  Sunday-school  work.  His  wife, 
daughter  of  our  subject,  was  educated  in  the  Den- 
ver high  school  and  Denver  University,  from  the 
latter  of  which  she  graduated.  She  died  of  heart 
failure,  without  sickness,  November  22,  1895, 
leaving  a  daughter,  Helen  Keeler  Fergusson, 
who  was  born  December  22,  1888. 

The  only  son  of  Mr.  Keeler  is  Walter  E.,  who 
graduated  from  the  law  department  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  Michigan  in  1893  ^"<J  is  now  a  clerk  in 
the  district  court  of  Arapahoe  County.  He 
married  Miss  Mabel  M.  Baliss,  of  Ann  Arbor, 
Mich.  They  have  one  son,  Edgar  T.  Keeler, 
born  October  22,  1895.  In  1891  Mr.  Keeler 
came  to  Colorado,  hoping  that  a  change  of  climate 
might  benefit  his  wife's  health.  She  recovered 
her  strength  rapidly  and  was  in  good  health  for 
a  number  of  years,  but  died  in  1892. 

In  1885  Mr.  Keeler  bought  an  interest  in  the 
Montezuma  Cattle  Company,  of  which  he  was  a 
director  and  later  the  general  manager,  but  finally 


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resigned  the  position.  In  ten  years  he  built  more 
than  one  hundred  and  fifty  houses  in  Denver, 
among  them  two  blocks  of  substantial  residences 
on  Irvington  place,  where  he  now  resides.  On 
severing  his  connection  with  the  tramway 
company  he  engaged  in  the  cattle  business  more 
extensively,  and  now,  in  partnership  with  A.  C. 
Dake,  he  handles  from  fifteen  to  thirty  thousand 
head  of  cattle  a  year,  buying  in  Oregon  and 
Arizona,  shipping  from  there  in  the  spring  to 
Kansas,  where  they  grass  on  his  ranges  at  Morris, 
Dickinson  County,  and  in  the  fall,  selling  to 
farmers  and  feeders  in  that  state  and  Nebraska. 
He  is  also  interested  in  the  real-estate  business. 
Politically  he  favors  Republican  principles.  He 
has  been  a  successful  man  in  all  his  undertak- 
ings and,  wherever  known,  is  respected  as  an 
upright,  honorable  citizen. 


EHARLES  L.  DAVIS,  who  resides  in  Boulder 
and  is  largely  interested  in  some  valuable 
mines  in  Colorado,  was  born  in  Waukesha 
County,  Wis.,  September  5,  1850,  a  son  of  John 
and  Lucy  (Lyman)  Davis.  He  was  one  of  seven 
children,  of  whom  three  besides  himself  are  now 
living.  They  are:  Mary  A. ,  wife  of  Alonzo  Still- 
well,  of  Boulder  County;  Frank  W.,  manager  of 
The  Ward  Rose  Gold  Mining  Company;  and 
Bertha  E.,  wife  of  M.  E.  Piatt,  a  farmer  of  Boul- 
der County. 

John  Davis,  who  was  born  in  Massachusetts 
April  30,  1817,  spent  the  first  nine  years  of  his 
life  on  the  home  farm  in  Franklin  County,  after 
which  he  worked  in  a  cotton  factory  for  fifteen 
years.  In  1841  he  went  to  Grant  County,  Wis., 
and  took  up  land,  on  which  he  afterward  dis- 
covered lead.  For  eighteen  months  he  engaged 
in  farming  and  lead  mining,  after  which  he  re- 
turned to  Massachusetts  and  for  two  years  again 
worked  in  a  cotton  mill.  In  1844  he  married 
Miss  Lucy  Lyman,  of  Warren,  Mass.,  and  the 
next  year  returned  to  his  farm  in  Wisconsin, 
where  he  resumed  farm  work  and  lead  mining. 
In  1850  he  removed  to  Waukesha  County,  Wis., 
and  embarked  in  the  mercantile  business,  at  the 
same  time  starting  a  match  factory,  which  he 
operated  for  two  years.  In  1852  he  removed  to 
Allamakee  County,  Iowa,  where  he  purchased 
and  ran  a  sawmill. 

Coming  to  Colorado  in    1863,  JohnDavis,  in 


partnership  with  Austin  Smith,  erected  a  saw- 
mill in  Ward  District,  Boulder  County,  which 
they  ran  together  until  1886.  He  then  pur- 
chased his  partner's  interest,  and  with  his  son, 
our  subject,  operated  the  mill.  In  1865  he  pre- 
empted one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  of  land  six 
miles  northeast  of  Boulder.  Two  years  later  he 
returned  to  Iowa  and  brought  his  family  to  Colo- 
rado. While  en  route  across  the  plains  he  was 
twice  attacked  by  Indians,  but  after  sharp  skir- 
mishes escaped  without  loss  of  life.  On  reaching 
his  farm,  he  resumed  agricultural  work,  and  at 
the  same  time  prospected  and  engaged  in  mining. 
He  was  the  owner  and  discoverer  of  the  Gray  Bird 
mine  and  al.so  owned  a  half-interest  in  the  Cross 
Lode  mine,  as  well  as  owning  other  valuable 
mining  interests.  The  last  thirteen  years  of  his 
life  were  spent  with  his  daughter.  Bertha  E. , 
wife  of  Milo  E.  Piatt,  of  Boulder  County,  and  in 
her  home  his  earthly  life  ended  March  7,  1898. 
Fraternally  he  was  a  Knight  Templar  Mason. 
An  ardent  supporter  of  the  Republican  party,  he 
did  much  to  advance  its  interests  in  this  state. 
Of  the  two  hundred  and  forty  acres  he  owned  he 
had  sold  fourteen  acres,  and  at  the  time  of  his 
death  left  two  hundred  and  twenty-six  acres. 

As  our  subject  grew  toward  manhood  he  ap- 
plied himself  to  farming.  In  1872  he  pre-empted 
one  hundred  and  sixty  acr^s  one-half  mile  north 
of  where  he  now  lives.  From  that  time  until 
1883  he  alternately  worked  in  his  father's  mill 
in  the  mountains  and  prospected;  and  during  this 
time  he  discovered  the  Cross  mine  and  his  father 
discovered  the  Gray  Bird  mine,  in  both  of  which 
he  is  largely  interested.  He  is  also  a  stockholder 
of  The  Ward  Rose  Gold  Mining  Company  and  was 
made  president  in  1896,  shortly  after  its  organ- 
ization. The  properties  include  the  Chief,  the 
Rose,  Tenderfoot,  Little  Joker,  Forest  Queen  and 
Little  Charlie. 

April  23,  1883,  our  subject  married  Delia  De 
Backer.  Afterward  he  settled  down  to  farming, 
and  acquired  the  eighty  acres  where  he  now 
lives;  in  addition  to  which  he  has,  adjoining  it, 
his  original  pre-emption  of  one  hundred  and 
sixty  acres.  Here  he  engages  in  general  farm- 
ing and  stock-raising,  in  addition  to  his  work  in 
connection  with  mines.  He  and  his  wife 
have  four  children:  Lucy,  Frank  Elmer,  John 
Arthur  and  Clara  Ella.  Fraternally  Mr.  Davis 
is  a  member  of  the  Boulder  Lodge  of  Maccabees, 


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also  a  charter  member  of  Silver  Knight  Lodge 
No.  2,  of  the  Fraternal  Union.  In  1891  he  was 
elected  road  overseer  on  the  Republican  ticket, 
and  filled  the  office  for  one  term. 


HON.  LEANDER  R.  WEST.  As  a  represent- 
ative of  the  eighth  district  in  the  senate, 
Mr.  West  has  been  true  to  every  trust  re- 
posed in  him  and  has  rendered  able  service  in 
behalf  of  his  constituents.  His  labors  have  been 
of  such  a  nature  as  to  win  for  him  the  esteem 
even  of  his  political  opponents,  while  he  justlj^ 
stands  high  as  a  leader  of  his  own  party  in  Jeffer- 
son County .  In  the  fall  of  1896  he  was  the  Demo- 
cratic nominee  for  senator  and  in  spite  of  the  fact 
that  the  county  is  Republican,  he  received  the 
election  by  a  fair  majority.  While  some  of  the 
plans  he  hoped  to  carry  through  at  the  time  of 
his  election  have  failed  of  fruition,  owing  to  the 
fact  that  his  party  is  in  the  minority,  yet  he  has 
accomplished  much  for  the  people.  Economy  in 
the  expenditure  of  the  public  funds  is  one  of  his 
watchwords,  it  being  his  theory  that  money  raised 
by  taxation  should  be  wisely  and  economically 
expended  in  the  interests  of  the  people  by  whom 
it  was  paid. 

Senator  West  owns  and  resides  upon  a  fine  fruit 
farm  five  miles  from  Golden.  He  was  born  in 
Nova  Scotia,  December  21,  1843,  and  is  a  son  of 
Enoch  and  Abigail  (Ryan)  West,  of  whose  five 
children  three  are  now  living,  Leander  R.,  Gibbs 
and  Mrs.  Emma  Newcomb.  His  father,  who 
was  born  in  Canning,  Nova  Scotia,  in  1822,  was 
the  son  of  Elijah  C.  West,  who,  being  of  royalist 
belief,  found  Massachusetts  an  uncongenial  home 
during  the  Revolutionary  period  and  therefore 
migrated  to  Nova  Scotia.  The  family  is  of  Eng- 
lish descent,  the  great-grandfather  having  been 
the  first  to  come  to  this  country.  They  were 
shipbuilders  by  trade,  and  this  occupation  Enoch 
West  followed  throughout  his  active  years.  He 
died  May  22,  1891. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  grew  to  manhood 
beneath  the  parental  roof  and  in  the  midst  of  the 
rugged  scenery  of  Nova  Scotia,  where  he  learned 
the  trade  of  his  people.  He  followed  a  seafaring 
life  for  five  years,  and  during  the  last  two  of  these 
years  he  was  master  of  a  ship  engaged  in  the 
Mediterranean  trade.  In  1868,  on  retiring  from 
the  sea,  he  came  to  Colorado  and  spent  a  year  in 


Denver,  after  which  he  engaged  in  prospecting 
for  a  suitable  place  to  locate  and  visited  both  Utah 
and  Nevada,  but  finally  decided  that  Colorado 
offered  the  best  prospects  for  a  settler.  He  lo- 
cated on  Coal  Creek,  Jefferson  County,  where  he 
embarked  in  stock-raising  and  general'  farming. 
In  1872  he  purchased  his  present  place,  where  he 
has  since  engaged  extensively  in  fruit  culture,  in 
connection  with  raising  stock  and  general  farm 
products. 

July  12,  1870,  Mr.  West  married  Miss  Zipporah 
Hiltz,  daughter  of  Alexander  Hiltz,  of  Nova 
Scotia.  Five  children  were  born  of  their  union. 
Enoch  C. ,  the  eldest  of  the  family,  is  married  and 
resides  in  Jefferson  County,  where  he  is  engaged 
in  farming.  George  A.,  also  married,  resides  on 
the  homestead,  of  which  he  is  the  manager.  Em- 
ma is  the  wife  of  William  E.  Cole,  superintendent 
of  Arapahoe  ditch.  Abigail  and  Leander  A.  are 
still  at  home. 


30HN  R.  LEWIS.  As  a  mechanical  genius, 
the  gentleman  named  above  was  without  a 
superior,  and  followed  that  line  of  work  in 
different  sections  of  the  United  States,  Canada  and 
South  America.  Beginning  as  a  boy  without 
means,  he  availed  himself  of  every  opportunity 
for  advancement,  and  step  by  step  ascended  the 
ladder  of  success  until  he  was  given  charge  of 
making  the  tools  used  on  the  Kansas  Pacific  Rail- 
road. His  work  was  in  Denver,  but  he  lived 
upon  his  farm  of  three  hundred  and  twenty  acres 
in  Arapahoe  County,  sixteen  miles  south  of  that 
city,  on  section  18,  township  5,  range  66. 

Mr.  Lewis  was  a  son  of  Robert  and  Esther 
(Ashworth)  Lewis,  and  was  born  in  Bolton,  Lan- 
cashire, England,  August  31,  1841.  He  was 
reared  in  a  town  in  the  vicinity  of  Manchester, 
England,  where  he  attended  school;  and,  al- 
though intellectually  bright,  he  had  no  taste  for 
study,  preferring  rather  to  ramble  about  in 
the  woods  admiring  nature  and  making  friends 
with  the  untamed  inhabitants.  At  an  early  age 
he  became  an  apprentice  to  the  trade  of  a  machin- 
ist, and  after  becoming  a  skilled  workman,  he 
moved  to  Montreal,  Canada,  at  the  age  of  twenty- 
three  years,  and  was  there  employed  in  the 
Grand  Trunk  Railway  shops.  It  was  in  that 
city  that  he  met  Miss  Emma  Clara  Mayo,  and 
their  acquaintance  ripened  into  .something  more 
than  friendship,  and  they  were  married  in  Port- 


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land,  Me.,  December  4,  1866.  In  the  latter  city 
our  subject  became  identified  with  the  Portland 
Machine  Company,  by  whom  he  was  sent  to  As- 
pinwall.  South  America,  to  fit  up  the  engines  for 
the  railroad  across  the  Isthmus.  About  one  year 
later  he  returned  home,  and  subsequently  moved 
to  Farmington,  Me.,  where  he  resided  until  he 
located  in  Denver,  Colo. ,  and  entered  the  employ 
of  the  Rio  Grand  Railroad.  A  short  time  after- 
wards a  tool  room  was  built  in  that  city,  and  he 
was  placed  in  charge  of  the  manufacture  of  all 
the  tools  used  by  the  company.  Subsequently  he 
was  called  to  accept  a  similar  position  with  the 
Kansas  Pacific  Railroad,  in  which  capacity  he 
served  with  credit  to  himself  and  to  the  company 
until  his  death.  Repurchased  a  tract  of  three 
hundred  and  twenty  acres  of  land  in  Arapahoe 
County,  upon  which  he  and  his  family  moved  in 
the  spring  of  1883,  and  which  is  still  the  family 
residence. 

As  a  boy  he  had  a  great  love  for  natural  his- 
tory and  would  watch  animals  in  their  native 
homes  for  days  at  a  time,  making  a  careful  study 
of  their  nature  and  habits.  Later  he  skinned  and 
mounted  animals  and  acquired  a  very  handsome 
and  valuable  collection.  While  in  South  Ameri- 
ca, he  helped  to  prepare  many  specimens  for  the 
Smithsonian  Institute  of  Washington.  He  left 
a  large  variety  of  unmounted  skins  of  birds, 
amounting  to  several  hundred,  when  he  died,  and 
also  a  large  collection  of  mounted  ones,  which  are 
dearly  treasured  by  his  family.  He  left  many 
keepsakes,  resulting  from  his  mechanical  skill, 
which  are  the  works  of  a  master.  Politically  he 
was  a  member  of  the  Republican  party,  but  was  by 
no  means  a  politician.  Socially  he  was  in  early 
life  a  member  of  the  Amalgamated  Society  of 
England,  and  later  of  St.  George  Lodge,  A.  F.  & 
A.  M.,  of  Montreal,  and  of  the  Colorado  State 
Grange.  His  death  occurred  May  10,  1894,  and 
he  lies  buried  in  the  burial  ground  on  the  family 
estate.  He  was  a  man  of  slight  statute,  five  feet 
and  seven  inches  in  height;  weight,  one  hundred 
and  forty  pounds,  and  with  his  black  and  wavy 
hair  and  honest  blue  eyes,  he  never  failed  to  make 
a  good  impression,  although  rather  reserved  upon 
forming  an  acquaintance.  However,  once  his 
friend,  always  his  friend,  and  he  could  boast  of 
innumerable  ones  in  the  various  cities  in  which 
he  had  lived. 

Mrs.  Lewis  was  born   in   Birmingham,  Eng- 


land, and  was  a  daughter  of  Henry  and  Clara 
(Bolton)  Mayo,  the  former  of  whom  was  among 
the  first  engineers  brought  from  that  country  to 
work  on  the  Grand  Trunk  Railroad  in  Canada. 
He  continued  as  an  engineer  on  that  road  until  a 
short  time  before  his  demise.  For  some  time 
they  lived  at  Belleville,  Out.,  and  then  at  Mon- 
treal, where  Miss  Mayo  became  acquainted  with 
our  subject.  She  possesses  an  amiable  disposi- 
tion, and  is  dearly  loved  by  a  large  circle  of 
friends,  who  sincerely  sympathized  with  her  in 
the  loss  of  her  husband.  Their  happy  union 
was  blessed  by  the  birth  of  four  children.  John 
Henry,  who  was  born  in  Portland,  Me.,  and  now 
resides  on  the  farm  with  his  mother,  married 
Emma  Retter  Hawkey,  who  died  in  January, 
1891;  Charles  Robert,  born  in  Portland,  Me.,  is 
a  plumber  by  trade,  and  is  in  the  employ  of  the 
Denver  &  Rio  Grande  Railroad;  Walter  Mayo, 
born  in  Farmington,  Me.,  lives  at  home;  and 
Esther  Clara,  who  was  born  in  the  city  of  Den- 
ver, is  a  student  in  the  Denver  high  school. 


r^ETER  ANDERSON,  who  is  one  of  the  most 
U'  successful  business  men  of  Fort  Collins,  has 
JD  been  a  resident  of  Colorado  for  many  years. 
He  was  born  near  Hannefas,  Norway,  October  17, 
1845,  a  son  of  Andrew  and  Sarah  (Peterson) 
Anderson,  natives  of  the  same  locality.  His 
father,  who  was  principal  of  schools  and  engaged 
actively  in  educational  work,  died  in  1850  and 
two  years  later  the  widowed  mother  brought  the 
five  children  to  America,  taking  passage  on  the 
sailing  vessel,  "Shaufnau,"  Captain  Nelson,  and 
arriving  in  Quebec  after  a  voyage  of  nine  weeks. 
From  Quebec  she  went  to  Chicago  and  thence  to 
Whitewater,  Walworth  County,  Wis.,  where  she 
died  at  the  age  of  sixty-five  years.  Her  children 
are  still  living,  viz. :  Mrs.  Ida  Blodgett,  of  Oconee, 
Neb. ;  Gilbert,  who  is  engaged  in  the  clothing 
business  at  Whitewater;  Mrs.  Mary  Dahlen;  Peter; 
and  Andrew,  who  served  in  the  Fifth  Wisconsin 
Infantry  during  the  war  and  is  now  president  of 
the  First  National  Bank  of  Columbus,  Neb. 

The  education  of  our  subject  was  acquired 
principally  in  Whitewater.  He  was  employed 
in  farming  until  fourteen,  when  he  began  an 
apprenticeship  to  the  harness-maker  and  saddler's 
trade.  On  the  completion  of  his  term  of  service, 
in  1863,  he  went  to  St.  Louis.     In  the  spring  of 


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the  next  year  he  entered  the  government  service 
as  a  saddler.  For  some  time  he  was  stationed  at 
Chattanooga,  Tenn.,  and  from  there  he  went  to 
St.  Joe,  Mo.  Soon  afterward  he  started  for  Colo- 
rado, traveling  across  the  plains  with  ox-teams 
from  Marysville  to  Denver,  and  spending  two 
months  on  the  way.  He  arrived  in  Denver  in 
December,  1864,  and  was  employed  by  the  govern- 
ment as  a  saddler,  with  shop  on  Larimer,  between 
Eleventh  and  Twelfth  streets,  until  the  spring  of 
1865,  when  he  returned,  via  ox-team,  to  Ne- 
braska City. 

His  second  trip  to  Colorado  Mr.  Anderson 
made  in  November,  1865.  He  came  to  Larimer 
County  in  January,  1866,  and  took  up  a  pre-emp- 
tion claim  near  Fort  Collins.  After  proving  up 
he  took  a  homestead.  In  1866  he  started  a  ditch 
about  one  and  one-half  miles  above  his  residence, 
he  and  Joshua  Ames,  now  of  Iowa,  digging  the 
ditch  themselves;  it  is  registered  as  Josh  Ames 
Ditch  No.  25.  Later  he  put  in  another  ditch,  he 
and  eleven  other  starting  the  Larimer  and  Weld 
County  ditch,  of  which  he  was  at  one  time  presi- 
dent, and  which,  as  now  enlarged,  is  the  largest 
ditch,  not  only  in  the  county,  but  north  of  Den- 
ver. He  is  still  interested  in  this  ditch.  For  a 
time  he  had  William  Lindeumeier  as  partner,  and 
on  dividing  the  land,  he  retained  three  hundred 
and  sixty  acres  in  one  body,  all  tillable  land.  He 
is  engaged  in  general  farming  and  stock-raising. 
At  one  time  he  was  extensively  interested  in  the 
cattle  business.  He  raises  large  quantities  of 
alfalfa,  and  in  1897-98  fed  twenty-six  hundred  head 
of  lambs.  Besides  this  place,  he  owns  a  farm  in 
Weld  County.  In  1888  he  started  in  the  imple- 
ment business.  He  carries  all  kinds  of  imple- 
ments, representing  the  John  Deere  Plow  Com- 
pany the  Deering  Harvesting  Company, and  carry- 
ing a  full  line  of  machinery  for  farm  work.  He 
erected  a  building,  30x170  feet,  two  stories  and 
basement,  in  which  he  carries  his  stock  of  im- 
plements, also  seeds  of  all  kinds  for  Colorado 
soil. 

The  business  which  Mr.  Anderson  carries  on 
is  very  extensive  in  all  of  its  branches.  He 
handles  coal,  hay,  grain,  potatoes,  wagons, 
carriages,  bicycles,  in  addition  to  agricultural 
machinery  of  all  kinds.  Owing  to  the  increase  of 
business,  he  was  obliged  to  enlarge  his  quarters, 
and  added  a  warehouse  and  storeroom  in  the  rear 
of  his  old  building.     The  structure  was  designed 


especially  to  meet  his  wants  and  is  very  con- 
veniently arranged,  the  cellar  being  fitted  up  for 
the  storage  of  potatoes,  while  the  other  floors  are 
devoted  to  implements,  wagons,  buggies,  etc. 
Each  succeeding  year  has  witnessed  an  increase 
of  the  trade,  which  now  amounts  to  thousands  of 
dollars  yearly. 

Mr.  Anderson  is  a  director  and  vice-president 
in  the  First  National  Bank  of  Fort  Collins.  He 
was  one  of  the  organizers  and  a  director  of  the 
First  National  Bank  of  Columbus,  Neb.,  of  which 
his  brother,  Andrew,  is  president.  His  first 
marriage  took  place  in  Wisconsin  and  united  him 
with  Miss  Mary  Severson,  a  native  of  that  state; 
she  died  in  Colorado,  leaving  a  daughter,  Cora. 
The  second  marriage  of  Mr.  Anderson  was  solem- 
nized in  Colorado,  his  wife  being  Annie  (Ander- 
son) Kraplin,  a  native  of  Norway.  They  are  the 
parents  of  three  sons,  Paul,  Lester  and  Howard. 

Fraternally  Mr.  Anderson  is  connected  with 
the  Woodmen  of  the  World;  the  Home  Forum, 
of  which  he  was  the  first  president;  the  Eastern 
Star,  to  which  his  wife  also  belongs;  Collins 
Lodge  No.  19,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  of  which  he  is 
past  master;  Collins  Chapter  No.  ir,  of  which  he 
is  past  high  priest;  DeMolay  Commandery  No.  13, 
of  Fort  Collins,  of  which  he  was  a  charter  mem- 
ber and  the  first  eminent  commander;  and  El 
Jebel  Temple,  N.  M.  S.  Politically  he  is  a  Teller 
silver  Republican.  He  is  one  of  the  trustees, 
and  president  of  the  board,  also  chairman  of  the 
board  of  stewards  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church.  He  is  identified  with  the  Larimer 
County  Sheep  Growers'  Association  and  the 
Wyoming  Stock  Growers'  Association  and  was  at 
one  time  connected  with  the  Colorado  Cattle 
Growers'  Association. 


qOSEPH  A.  SCHERRER.  This  well-known 
I  ranchman  of  Elbert  County  was  born  in 
Q)  Riverside,  Iowa,  in  1858.  He  is  the  son  of 
Joseph  and  Tessa  (Cheerheart)  Scherrer,  both 
natives  of  France.  His  father,  who  emigrated  to 
America  in  early  life,  engaged  in  farming  in  Iowa 
for  some  years,  but  after  a  time  removed  to  Den- 
ver. The  last  years  of  his  life  were  spent  in  that 
city,  retired  from  business  cares,  and  there  he 
died  in  April,  1885.  Politically  he  voted  the 
Democratic  ticket.  He  and  his  wife,  who  died  a 
year  before  his  death,  were  the  parents  of  eight 


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children  now  living.  They  are  named  as  follows: 
Jacob,  who  was  formerly  engaged  in  the  real- 
estate,  loan  and  stock-mining  business  in  Denver, 
but  now  resides  in  St.  Louis;  Alexander  V.,  who 
is  engaged  in  the  stock  business  and  lives  in 
Denver;  Mary,  who  is  the  wife  of  Frank  Scher- 
rer,  of  Windsor,  Colo.;  Josie,  who  married  Harry 
Gard  and  resides  in  Los  Angeles,  Cal. ;  Rose, 
wife  of  C.  B.  McClure;  and  Tessa,  Mrs.  H.  C. 
Chwanky;  and  Minnie,  wife  of  S.  A.  Doll,  all  of 
Los  Angeles. 

Joseph  Scherrer,  the  remaining  member  of  the 
family,  came  to  Colorado  when  a  small  boy  with 
his  parents,  who  soon  returned  to  Iowa  in  order 
to  educate  their  children.  He  attended  the  public 
schools  of  Riverside,  that  state,  and  at  the  age  of 
twenty-three  started  out  to  try  life  for  himself. 
His  first  venture  was  in  a  store,  then  he  farmed 
in  Iowa  during  the  next  few  years.  In  1882  he 
came  to  Denver  and  engaged  in  the  commission 
business  with  his  brother  for  a  few  years,  and  in 
1886  came  to  Elbert  County  and  located  on  the 
ranch  he  now  occupies.  From  a  small  beginning 
he  has  steadily  advanced  by  industry  and  fru- 
gality until  to-day  he  owns  one  of  the  finest 
ranches  in  the  vicinity,  and  furnishes  an  example 
worthy  of  emulation.  He  handles  principall}' 
cattle  and  horses,  and  puts  up  several  hundred 
tons  of  hay  each  year,  furnishing  work  to  a  large 
number  of  men.  He  has  a  large  cattle  range, 
and  his  farm  is  supplied  with  a  reservoir  that  en- 
ables him  to  irrigate  one  hundred  acres  of  land. 
He  is  a  Republican,  but  his  life  has  been  too 
much  filled  with  business  to  engage  in  politics. 


|5^ICH0LAS  0.  COLE  came  to  his  present 
Yl  home  near  Morrison,  Jefferson  County,  in 
\Id  1S78,  and  began  to  cultivate  the  land,  in 
addition  to  which  he  took  up  another  farm  as  a 
timber  claim.  Here  he  has  since  engaged  in 
general  farm  pursuits.  Since  1894  he  has  oper- 
ated a  threshing  machine  during  the  season.  In 
the  spring  of  1898  he  purchased  a  sawmill  on  the 
divide  in  Elbert  County  and  this  he  has  since 
run.  Politically  he  is  a  Democrat.  For  seven 
years,  during  the  '80s,  he  held  the  office  of  road 
overseer  and  he  also  served  as  a  member  of 
the  school  board  for  one  term. 

The  son  of  David  and  Margaret  (VanAsdoll) 
Cole,  our  subject  was  born  in  Wyoming  County, 


Pa.,  August  8,  1843,  and  was  one  of  eleven  chil- 
dren. Seven  are  now  living,  as  follows:  Charles 
O.,  who  resides  at  Otsego  Springs,  Mich.;  Har- 
riet O. ,  wife  of  William  Mowry,  of  Wyoming 
County,  Pa.;  Mary  A.,  Mrs.  William  Cole,  of 
Susquehanna  County,  Pa.;  JohnL.,  of  Wyoming 
County;  Nicholas  O. ;  Nelson  A.,  who  lives  in 
Pine,  Jefferson  County,  Colo. ;  and  Levantia,  who 
is  the  wife  of  Sylvester  Bush,  of  Scranton,  Pa. 

David  Cole  was  born  in  Cooperstown,  N.  Y. , 
October  12,  1807,  and  when  a  boy  was  bound 
out  to  Nicholas  Overfield,  with  whom  he  lived 
until  he  became  of  age.  He  was  married  in  De- 
cember, 1828,  and  afterward  bought  a  tract  of  tim- 
ber land  near  Meshoppen,  Pa.,  where  he  built  a 
house  and  improved  a  farm.  On  that  place  he  and 
his  wife  lived  happily  together  for  sixty-four  years. 
Of  their  eleven  children  two  sons  were  sacrificed 
on  their  country's  altar  during  the  Civil  war, 
Benjamin  V.  falling  in  the  battle  of  Antietam, 
while  Philip  H.  died  of  typhoid  fever  on  Morris 
Island.     The  father  died  May  2,  1893. 

At  twenty-one  years  of  age  our  subject  started 
out  in  the  world  for  himself.  He  .spent  nine 
months  on  a  trip  through  Virginia,  Kentucky, 
Ohio  and  Illinois,  after  which,  returning  home, 
he  carried  on  the  home  place  while  his  four 
brothers  were  at  the  front  in  the  Civil  war.  In 
the  fall  of  1865  he  came  to  Colorado,  arriving  in 
Bear  Creek  Valley  March  6,' 1866.  After  having 
operated  rented  land  for  four  years  he  began  to 
farmland  of  his  own.  In  1867  he  pre-empted 
eighty  acres  and  took  up  another  eighty  acres  as 
a  homestead.  During  the  wintersof  1870-71  and 
1871-72  he  engaged  in  hunting  buffaloes  on  the 
plains  and  during  that  time  killed  more  than 
three  thousand  of  them.  One  day  he  counted 
more  than  fifty  that  he  had  killed  while  standing 
in  one  place.  During  these  winters  he  had  many 
exciting  experiences  with  Indians. 

April  28,  1875,  Mr.  Cole  married  Miss  Emma 
Drake.  Afterward  they  opened  a  boarding  house 
in  Daily  district,  in  Clear  Creek  County,  and  at 
the  same  time  he  engaged  in  mining.  In  1876 
he  became  engineer  for  the  St.  Johns  Company 
and  moved  to  St.  Johns.  In  the  spring  of  1877 
he  returned  to  the  Bear  Creek  Valley,  where  he 
cultivated  a  rented  farm.  From  that  place,  one 
year  later,  he  came  to  the  farm  he  has  since 
owned  and  operated.  He  and  his  wife  are  the 
parents  of  six  children,  namely:    David  M.,  who 


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manages  the  threshing  machine  for  his  father 
and  is  a  capable  young  man  of  twenty-one  years; 
May  E.;  John  W. ,  who  assists  in  running  the 
sawmill;  Winifred,  Ben  C.  and  Nicholas  O.,  Jr. 


«]rDA  NOYES  BEAVER,  M.  D.  One  of  the 
I  well-known  physicians  of  Denver,  was  born 
X  in  Rhode  Island,  near  Fall  River,  Mass., 
April  28,  1859,  and  is  a  daughter  of  Alfred  and 
Lucina  (Sanford)  Noyes,  natives  respectively  of 
Nashua,  N.  H.,  and  Canandaigua,  N.  Y.  The 
Noyes  family  is  of  direct  English  descent,  the 
first  of  the  name  in  America  coming  from  Eng- 
land in  the  latter  part  of  the  seventeenth  century. 
One  of  her  ancestors  participated  in  the  battle  of 
Bunker  Hill  and  other  memorable  engagements 
of  the  Revolution.  The  grandparents,  Micajah, 
Jr.,  and  Eliza  (Chamberlain)  Noyes,  had  four 
children  who  attained  years  of  maturity,  two  sons 
and  two  daughters.  Of  the  sons  Alfred,  the  fa- 
ther of  Dr.  Beaver,  was  a  resident  of  Detroit, 
Mich. ,  for  many  years.  He  served  in  the  Mexican 
war  for  two  years,  during  which  time  he  was 
wounded  on  five  different  occasions.  Though  an 
invalid  for  years,  he  is  still  living.  His  wife, 
who  is  also  living,  bore  the  maiden  name  of 
Lucina  Sanford,  and  was  the  youngest  daughter 
and  thirteenth  child  of  Rev.  Philip  Sanford,  of 
Canandaigua,  N.  Y.,  who  was  of  English  de- 
scent. Mr.  Sanford  chose  as  his  wife  Phoebe 
Castanoe  (spelled  in  France  Castaneaux),  daugh- 
ter of  Raymond  Castenoe,  who  was  the  youngest 
son  of  the  Marquis  of  Castenoe,  the  companion- 
in-arms  of  General  Lafayette.  Ida  was  the  only 
child  born  to  Alfred  and  Lucina  Noyes. 

Until  twelve  years  of  age  the  subject  of  this 
article  studied  mainly  under  the  tutelage  of  her 
father,  a  scholarly  and  educated  gentleman,  al- 
though for  four  terms  (two  years)  she  attended 
a  country  school.  Shortly  before  she  was  sixteen 
she  began  to  teach,  and  for  three  summers  was 
thus  employed,  the  autumns -and  winters  being 
spent  in  the  high  school  at  Detroit,  Mich.  In 
September,  1878,  she  was  appointed  principal  of 
the  union  school  at  Elsie,  Mich. ,  which  position 
was  given  her  on  account  of  her  reputation  as  a 
disciplinarian.  Her  older  pupils  in  the  higher 
grades,  some  forty  in  number,  were  nearly  all 
country  school  teachers.  As  a  teacher  she  was 
unusually  successful. 


After  one  year  at  Elsie  she  entered  Michigan 
University,  taking  the  Latin  scientific  course. 
She  remained  there  only  one  year,  but  by  exami- 
nations passed  nearly  half  of  the  junior  work. 
Overstudy  undermined  her  health,  and  she  left 
.school.  After  recovering  she  began  teaching. 
In  her  vacations  she  worked  in  the  editorial  rooms 
of  the  Christian  Herald  zX.  Detroit,  with  a  view  to 
entering  the  journalistic  field.  Her  work  there 
consisted  in  reading  proofs,  writing  book  reviews, 
furnishing  local  and  state  news,  and  contributing 
each  week  either  a  story,  essay  or  editorial.  She 
continued  to  contribute  articles  to  the  Christian 
Herald  and  other  journals,  while  teaching. 

She  was  employed  in  the  city  schools  of  Detroit,  . 
principally  the  Tappan,  about  five  years.  One 
of  the  principal  features  of  her  work  in  Detroit 
was  her  participation  in  the  abolishment  of  a 
notorious  saloon  and  using  the  building  for  a 
Sunday-school,  which  grew  to  such  proportions 
that  a  church  was  organized  and  Wesley  Chapel 
built,  which  is  now  merged  into  the  Preston 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church  of  Detroit.  In  the 
little  mission  that  owed  its  existence  principally 
to  her  energetic  work,  she  labored  successively  as 
assistant  superintendent,  infant  class  teacher  and 
recording  steward.  She  was  the  first  lady  church 
official  in  the  history  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
denomination  in  Michigan.  Her  primary  class 
grew  from  eleven  to  one  hundred  and  fifty,  and 
her  noble,  self-sacrificing  work  bore  abundant 
fruit.  Constant  work  caused  her  health  to  fail, 
and  hoping  a  change  would  bring  needed  recu- 
peration she  went  to  Florida,  thence  to  Cuba  and 
the  Bahama  Islands.  Though  so  ill  as  to  be  con- 
fined to  her  cot  much  of  the  time,  she  continued 
writing  and  contributed  to  Detroit  papers.  On 
one  of  her  trips  she  met  Benjamin  N.  Beaver, 
whom  she  married  in  Detroit,  September  2,  1884. 
They  established  their  home  in  Dayton,  Ohio, 
where  Mr.  Beaver  was  a  wealthy  manufacturer. 
She  devoted  her  leisure  time  to  benevolent  work 
and  was  a  prime  factor  in  the  founding  of  the 
Bethany  Home,  and  also  a  home  for  working 
girls.  She  became  interested  in  the  Woman's 
Christian  Temperance  work  about  this  time  and 
served  as  president  of  the  local  and  treasurer  of 
the  district  Y.  W.  C.  T.  U.  She  was  elected  by 
unanimous  vote  recording  secretary,  in  1886,  of 
the  Ohio  state  W.  C.  T.  U.  An  address  delivered 
by  her  during  this  time  was  so  forcible  and  elo- 


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quent  that  she  was  invited  to  deliver  addresses 
throughout  the  state.  An  address  deHvered  at 
Canton,  Ohio,  was  listened  to  by  William  Mc- 
Kinlej',  who  complimented  her  and  encouraged 
her  in  the  work.  During  this  time,  for  a  period 
of  two  years,  she  was  employed  as  editor  of  a 
department  of  the  Dayton  Daily  Herald. 

Her  fondness  for  study  led  her  to  enter  in  1887 
the  Union  Biblical  Seminary  at  Dayton,  Ohio, 
where  she  studied  Hebrew,  theology  and  Greek. 
Her  average  in  Hebrew  was  ninety-eight,  Greek 
ninety-six, ancient  history  ninety-six  and  theology 
ninety-eight,  this  being  the  highest  in  the  class, 
of  which  she  was  the  only  woman  member.  Her 
study  of  the  classics  being  unusual  for  a  wealthy 
married  woman  attracted  considerable  com- 
ment, but  its  influence  for  good  was  far-reaching. 
Business  reverses  caused  her  to  discontinue  study 
and  aid  her  husband  in  his  office,  and  in  time  she 
superintended  his  five-story  building  used  as  a 
sash,  door  and  blind  factory.  This  she  did  satis- 
factorily, gaining  the  good  will  of  the  workmen, 
who  called  her  the  "little  boss"  and  filling  this 
position  until  the  concern  passed  into  other  hands. 
In  September,  1889,  she  accepted  the  position  of 
preceptress  of  Midland  College,  at  Atchison,  Kan., 
and  remained  there  for  a  year,  being  much  be- 
loved by  pupils  and  faculty,  who  refused  to  ac- 
cept her  resignation  at  the  end  of  the  year. 

On  account  of  ill  health,  Mrs.  Beaver  came  to 
Colorado  and,  desiring  to  continue  medical  studies 
begun  elsewhere,  she  entered  the  University  of 
Colorado  at  Boulder,  where  she  passed  the  two 
years'  examination  in  the  medical  department. 
In  the  fall  of  1890  she  went  to  Chicago  and  en- 
tered the  senior  class  of  the  Woman's  Medical 
College,  a  department  of  the  Northwestern  Uni- 
versity, from  which  she  graduated  a  year  later. 
For  two  months  she  was  interne  at  the  Hospital 
for  Women  and  Children  in  Chicago.  Returning 
to  Denver,  she  opened  an  office  in  June,  1891, 
and  here  she  has  met  with  phenomenal  success  as 
a  physician.  In  the  spring  of  1894  she  took  a 
post-graduate  course  in  New  York  City. 

In  the  fall  of  1894  Dr.  Beaver  was  elected  an 
officer  in  the  East  Capitol  Hill  Women's  Repub- 
lican Club.  Later  she  was  appointed  a  member 
of  the  state  board  of  charities  and  corrections 
for  a  term  of  six  years,  and  also  a  member  of  the 
state  board  of  pardons  for  two  years.  After 
having  served  for  two  years  as  a  member  of  the 


state  board  of  pardons,  she  was  retained  in  the 
office  by  the  Democratic  governor.  Governor  Alva 
Adams.  Representing  the  board  of  charities  and 
corrections,  she  was  sent  as  a  delegate  to  the  na- 
tional conference  at  New  Haven,  Conn.,  and  the 
following  year  was  appointed  by  the  governor  to 
visit  state  institutions  and  insane  asylums  in  Ohio 
and  Michigan.  In  the  summer  of  1895  she  made 
a  trip  to  Europe  and  attended  the  international 
convention  of  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  in  London,  also 
the  international  prison  congress  at  Paris.  She 
traveled  through  Scotland,  England,  France, 
Germany,  Belgium  and  Holland,  visiting  medical 
schools,  hospitals,  prisons  and  insane  asylums. 
For  years,  and  until  the  death  of  the  loved  na- 
tional leader,  she  numbered  Frances  Willard 
among  her  friends,  and  has  also  been  intimately 
associated  with  other  women  of  prominence  in 
reform  work.  Her  life  has  been  a  very  busy  one, 
and  now,  in  its  prime,  she  can  look  forward  hope- 
fully to  many  years  of  continued  usefulness  in  the 
large  field  to  which  she  has  been  called. 


ELYDE  O.  SECREST,  A.  B.,  superintendent 
of  schools  of  Jeiferson  County,  was  born  in 
Senecaville,  Guernsey  County,  Ohio,  Au- 
gust 22,  187 1,  and  is  of  German  descent.  The 
family,  however,  has  been  identified  with  Amer- 
ican history  since  an  early  period  in  the  settle- 
ment of  this  country.  He  is  a  son  of  Henry  G. 
Secrest,  and  a  brother  of  Luther  C.  and  Thomp- 
son E.  Secrest,  whose  sketches  appear  on  page 
1099.  The  youngest  of  the  family  is  the  subject 
of  this  sketch.  He  graduated  from  the  Seneca- 
ville high  school  in  1887  and  then  entered  the 
sophomore  class  of  Scio  (Ohio)  College,  from 
which  he  graduated  in  1890  with  the  degree  of 
A.  B.  Upon  completing  his  education  he  turned 
his  attention  to  educational  work.  His  first  po- 
sition was  that  of  superintendent  of  schools  at 
New  Akron,  Ohio.  In  the  fall  of  1892  he  be- 
came principal  of  the  Lathrop  schools  at  Golden, 
where  he  remained  until  he  accepted  the  princi- 
palship  of  the  Ralston  high  school.  In  the  fall 
of  1897  he  was  elected  county  superintendent  of 
schools  on  the  joint  Republican  and  silver  Re- 
publican ticket,  and  took  the  oath  of  office  the 
second  Tuesday  in  January,  1898,  for  a  term  of 
two  years.  He  introduced  the  system  of  a  com- 
parison of  work  among  teachers  of  the  county, 


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and  has  instituted  other  improvements  tending 
to  advance  the  standard  of  scholarship  and  the 
thoroughness  of  work  done  bj'  teachers.  He 
has  actively  promoted  the  district  normal  insti- 
tute, which  comprises  the  counties  of  Gilpin, 
Clear  Creek  and  Jefferson,  and  a  meeting  of 
which  was  held  in  Golden.  In  promoting  the 
County  Teachers'  Association  he  has  rendered 
efiRcient  service.  He  is  also  identified  with  the 
State  Teachers'  Association  and  the  National 
Educational  Association.  Fraternally  he  is  con- 
nected with  the  Woodmen  of  the  World.  He 
has  been  Sunday-school  superintendent  in  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  of  which  he  is  a 
member,  and  has  frequently  lectured  before  Ep- 
worth  Leagues  and  Christian  Endeavor  societies. 


fAMUEL  BROWN.  Among  the  represent- 
ative farmers  of  Douglas  County,  Colo.,  the 
name  of  our  subject  stands  out  prominently 
as  representing  a  good  citizen  and  enterprising 
business  man,  and  a  farmer  of  the  first  class.  He 
resides  on  section  14,  township  10,  and  range  66 
west,  six  miles  east  of  the  town  of  Greenland, 
and  his  homestead  consists  of  six  hundred  and 
twenty- five  acres.  He  was  born  in  Greenup 
County,  Ky.,  June  11,  1832,  and  is  a  son  of  Will- 
iam and  Mary  (Warnock)  Brown. 

Mr.  Brown  was  reared  on  his  father's  farm  and 
his  opportunities  for  education  were  only  such  as 
afforded  by  the  pioneer  school;  upon  reaching 
manhood,  he  left  the  parental  roof  and  went  to 
Lee  County,  Iowa,  where  he  remained  but  a  short 
time,  when  he  went  to  Scotland  County,  Mo., 
and  his  first  six  months  in  that  county  were  spent 
teaching  school;  after  returning  home  a  few 
months,  he  began  working  on  the  Ohio  River. 
The  next  few  months  were  spent  engaged  in  farm- 
ing in  Jackson  and  Cass  Counties,  Mo.,  but  in 
1854  he  moved  to  what  is  now  Lynn  County, 
Kan.,  where  he  took  up  a  tract  of  land  and  began 
farming.  In  the  following  year  he  was  wedded 
to  Martha  Hobbs,  by  whom  he  reared  two  chil- 
dren: Melvin  G.  is  on  a  ranch  in  Douglas 
County,  Colo.,  and  he  is  the  father  of  five  chil- 
dren; Mahala  J.  is  the  wife  of  James  Buckner 
of  North  Carolina,  and  they  are  the  parents  of 
six  children.  Our  subject  was  a  resident  of  Kan- 
sas fourteen  years,  during  which  time  he  was  a 
member  of  the  state  militia;  he  went  to  that  state 


with  James  Montgomery,  a  leader  of  the  Free- 
Soil  party,  who  was  later  colonel  in  the  Re- 
bellion; during  the  Civil  war  when  Price  and  his 
band  of  Confederate  robbers  kept  plundering  the 
people  of  that  state,  the  state  militia,  under  the 
leader,  Samuel  Pleasanton,  succeeded  in  driving 
Price  out.  In  the  spring  of  1863  he  went  to 
Fort  Scott  to  superintend  a  sawmill,  but  later  re- 
turned to  Lynn  County  and  purchased  a  farm, 
carrying  on  general  farming  and  dealing  in  cattle. 
In  the  year  1867  Mr.  Brown  was  unfortunate  in 
lo.sing  his  wife.  In  1868  he  sold  out,  and  on 
May  I,  he  and  his  family,  with  a  party  of  about 
seventy  other  white  settlers,  moved  to  Colorado, 
arriving  there  on  the  23d  day  of  the  following 
month;  the  settlers  made  the  journey  with  one 
team  of  horses  and  the  rest  Texas  wild  cattle, 
their  conveyance  being  a  covered  wagon,  which 
afforded  their  only  shelter  from  the  storms  that 
overtook  them  on  the  way.  The  journey  was 
slow,  as  they  were  often  molested  by  the  Indians, 
and  then  they  were  often  delayed  by  their  ox 
teams;  they  being  wild  it  required  many  hours  to 
yoke  them;  at  night,  the  people  slept  within  a 
circle  formed  by  the  wagons  and  the  men  would 
take  turns  in  watching  for  the  Indians. 

Arriving  in  Colorado,  our  subject  stopped  at 
Castle  Rock  a  short  time,  but  soon  after  moved 
to  Divide,  where  he  found  employment  in  a  saw- 
mill; at  first  his  salary  was  $50  per  month,  but 
was  later  increased  to  $3.50  per  day.  At  first 
his  family  lived  in  their  covered  wagon,  but  later 
they  moved  into  the  log  house  erected  by  our 
subject,  where  they  remained  one  year.  During 
the  winter  of  1868,  two  of  the  mill  hands  were 
killed  by  the  Indians,  and  after  that  a  man  was 
left  on  guard,  but  by  the  following  spring  the  In- 
dians had  ceased  to  molest  the  mill,  and  had  left 
that  section  of  the  country.  In  December  of  that 
year,  he  and  his  children  started  back  to  Kansas; 
they  drove  through  the  deep  snow  to  Eagle  Tail, 
Kan. ,  from  which  point  they  took  the  train  for 
Kansas  City,  and  resumed  their  journey  to  Kan- 
sas. After  getting  located  in  Kansas,  he  took  a 
trip  to  his  old  home  in  Kentucky;  spent  several 
months  back  in  Colorado,  and  then  visited  the 
ruins  of  the  Chicago  fire.  Returning  to  his  home 
in  Kansas  a  short  time,  he  moved  to  southwestern 
Missouri,  where  he  bought  a  herd  of  cattle,  and 
after  keeping  them  about  a  year,  he  sold  them 
for  horses,  which  he  later  shipped  to  Colorado, 


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He  then  bought  logging  teams  and  engaged  in 
logging  at  Divide;  there  he  purchased  two  hun- 
dred and  forty  acres  of  land  and  began  farming. 
A  few  years  later  he  drove  to  Texas,  passing 
through  forty-one  counties  of  that  state,  and  buy- 
ing horses,  he  drove  them  to  the  northern  part  of 
the  state,  where- he  disposed  of  them;  after  spend- 
ing the  winter  in  the  Indian  Nation ,  he  went  to  San 
Antonio,  Tex.  .where  he  bought  about  one  hundred 
horses  and  drove  them  through  to  Colorado, 
where  he  traded  them  for  the  land  he  now  owns. 
He  has  since  devoted  the  most  of  his  time  to  agri- 
cultural pursuits. 

Mr.  Brown  formed  a  second  marriage  with 
Mrs.  Jane  Cormack,  nee  Keene,  a  native  of  Ten- 
nessee, and  by  her  first  marriage  she  reared  three 
children,  namely:  John  P.,  who  is  married  and 
the  father  of  two  children;  Mrs.  Nancy  Ritchie; 
and  Mrs.  Emma  Lawrence,  who  is  the  mother  of 
five  children.  Our  subject  was  reared  a  Whig, 
and  later  became  a  Democrat,  but  is  now  an  ar- 
dent Populist.  In  1869  he  was  elected  sheriff  of 
El  Paso  County,  Colo.,  served  as  justice  of  the 
peace  of  Linn  County,  Kan.,  and  was  a  candidate 
on  the  Populist  ticket  for  highway  commissioner 
of  Douglas  County,  Colo.,  but  was  defeated. 
Fraternally  our  subject  became  a  member  of  the 
Paris  Lodge  No.  22,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  of  Kansas, 
but  when  he  left  that  state  he  obtained  a  demit. 
Mr.  Brown  has  made  two  trips  to  the  southwest, 
one  by  wagon  and  the  other  by  foot,  visiting  the 
ruins  of  the  Aztecs. 


WILLARD  TELLER.  The  Teller  family 
was  represented  in  the  United  States  in  an 
early  day,  the  first  of  the  name  in  this 
country  having  emigrated  from  Holland  to  New 
Amsterdam,  and  in  the  rapid  growth  of  that  sub- 
stantial Dutch  municipality  they  bore  an  impor- 
tant part.  William  Teller,  the  progenitor  of  the 
family  in  America,  was  a  farmer  and  a  man  of 
sterling  traits  of  character,  if  tradition  may  be 
accepted.  He  and  his  descendants  adhered  to 
the  Protestant  faith. 

John  Teller,  father  of  the  subject  of  this  article, 
was  born  and  reared  in  New  York  state.  He 
was  married,  in  Allegheny  County,  to  Miss  Char- 
lotte C.  Moore,  daughter  of  Willard  Moore,  of 
Rochester,  N.  Y.  She  is  now  ninety  years  of 
age,  and  lives  at  Morrison,  111.,  ministered  to  by 


her  children  and  rejoicing  in  their  usefulness  and 
success.  Since  1862  her  home  has  been  in  Illi- 
nois. Her  family  comprises  eight  children,  all 
living.  The  husband  and  father  died  at  eighty 
years  of  age.  In  religion  he  was  identified  with 
the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church.  Originally  a 
Democrat  of  the  pioneer  type,  in  1848  he  declared 
himself  in  favor  of  free  silver,  and  he  never 
swerved  in  his  advocacy  of  bimetallism.  Prior  to 
and  during  the  war  he  sustained  Abolition  prin- 
ciples. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  acquired  the  rudi- 
ments of  his  education  in  the  public  schools,  after 
which  he  attended  Alfred  University,  Rushford 
Academy  and  Oberlin  College,  graduating  from 
the  classical  course  of  the  last-named  institution 
in  1858,  with  the  degree  of  A.  B.  He  began  to 
read  law  in  Angelica,  N.  Y.,  and  was  admitted  to 
the  bar  at  Buffalo  in  1859.  Opening  an  office  at 
Olean,  N.  Y. ,  he  remained  there  for  two  years, 
and  then  came  as  far  west  as  Morrison,  111.  Af- 
ter three  years  in  that  town,  he  crossed  the  plains 
in  1864,  settling  in  Central  City,  where  he  began 
the  practice  of  law.  The  country  was  new,  and 
the  large  number  of  companies  engaged  in  mining 
caused  considerable  legal  business,  a  share  of 
which  he  secured. 

The  rapid  increase  of  their  practice  led  the 
Teller  brothers  to  remove  their  ofiice  from  Cen- 
tral City  to  Denver  in  the  fall  of  1877.  Their 
partnership,  formed  in  1864,  continued  until 
1882,  when  Senator  Teller  became  a  member  of 
the  cabinet.  About  the  same  time  Mr.  Orahood 
was  admitted  into  partnership,  and  in  1893  E.  B. 
Morgan  became  a  member  of  the  firm,  and  so 
continued  until  July  i,  1898,  when  he  retired. 
Teller  &  Orahood  have  carried  on  a  general  law 
practice,  making,  however,  a  specialty  of  corpo- 
ration and  mining  law,  and  have  acted  as  attor- 
neys for  the  Union  Pacific  Railroad  since  1872. 
Their  practice  is  probably  one  of  the  largest 
and  most  lucrative  of  those  in  the  United  States 
court. 

In  Olean,  N.  Y.,  in  1862,  Mr.  Teller  married 
Miss  Weltha  A.  Gleason,  of  that  place,  and  a 
member  of  an  old  Massachusetts  family.  His  at- 
tention has  been  concentrated  upon  his  practice, 
to  the  exclusion  of  any  connection  with  clubs  or 
fraternal  organizations.  A  logical  thinker,  force- 
ful speaker  and  broad-minded  man,  he  has  won 
his  success  by  native  talents  as  well  as  by  the 


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exercise  of  determination  and  perseverance.  Be- 
ing an  exceptionally  strong  man  mentally,  with 
force  of  will,  lie  has  won  his  way  in  spite  of 
obstacles  that  might  have  discouraged  a  man  of 
less  perseverance.  Only  his  intimate  friends  know 
how  valuable  have  been  his  services  to  his  party. 
As  a  lawyer,  it  has  been  his  rule  in  life  to  identify 
himself  thoroughly  with  his  clients'  interests,  and 
his  loyalty  to  their  welfare  was  never  questioned. 
Laborious  and  patient  in  the  conduct  of  his  cases, 
he  has  exhibited,  alike  in  professional  practice 
and  private  affairs,  the  self-reliant  spirit  and 
strong  individuality  that  mark  his  character. 


©ALKELD  SMITH,  manager  of  the  lands 
?Sk  belonging  to  the  Union  Live  Stock  and  In- 
ISf  vestment  Company  of  Denver  and  one  of  the 
thrifty  farmers  of  Lakewood,  Jefferson  County, 
was  born  in  Douglas,  Isle  of  Man,  May  23,  1850, 
a  son  of  Samuel  and  Mary  Anna  (Western) 
Smith.  He  was  one  of  eleven  children,  five  of 
whom  are  now  living,  namely:  Cuthbert,  whose 
home  is  in  Australia;  Mrs.  Sarah  Bolton,  also  of 
Australia;  and  Thomas,  who  lives  in  the  same 
country;  Elizabeth  D.,  wife  of  Rev.  J.  D.  Bug- 
lass,  of  Stockport,  England;  and  Salkeld. 

The  father  of  our  subject  was  born  in  Stock- 
port, England,  about  1794,  and  was  descended 
from  an  old  and  respected  Yorkshire  family.  He 
was  the  son  of  a  clergyman  in  the  .Church  of 
England,  but  did  not  sympathize  with  the  views 
of  the  state  church  and  became  a  dissenting 
preacher.  Failing  health  obliged  him  to  give- 
up  much  of  his  work  and  he  removed  with  his 
family  to  the  Isle  of  Man,  where  he  spent  the  re- 
mainder of  his  life.  He  continued,  however,  to 
preach  to  the  last,  in  spite  of  poor  health,  and  his 
death  occurred  five  minutes  after  he  came  from 
the  pulpit,  after  preaching,  as  usual,  to  the 
people.  He  had  a  brother,  Salkeld,  who  was  a 
lieutenant  and  was  one  of  three  who  took  the 
gates  of  Delhi  during  the  Indian  mutiny,  meet- 
ing his  death  there. 

Under  a  private  tutor.  Rev.  B.  F.  Clark,  the 
subject  of  this  sketch  finished  his  education.  At 
fourteen  he  began  to  work  in  the  office  of  the  Mona 
//'^^■a/ii^of  Douglas, one  of  the  oldest  newspapers  on 
the  Isle  of  Man.  The  work,  however,  confined 
him  more  than  he  liked,  and  after  one  year  he  left 
and  apprenticed  himself  to  the  millwright's  trade. 


at  which  he  served  for  five  years,  and  then  became 
a  journeyman  millwright.  In  1870  he  crossed 
the  ocean  to  America  and  settled  in  Chicago, 
where  he  worked  for  three  years  on  Canal  and 
Twelfth  streets,  in  the  employ  of  Heeney  & 
Campbell,  stair  builders.  In  the  spring  of  1872 
he  came  to  Colorado  and  established  himself  in 
business  on  the  corner  of  Sixteenth  and  Arapa- 
hoe streets.  His  first  work  was  the  building  of  a 
stairway  in  the  residence  owned  by  David  H. 
Moffat.  He  continued  in  the  business  until 
1879,  when  he  disposed  of  his  interests  and 
bought  his  present  ranch  of  one  hundred  and 
sixty  acres.  The  land  was  at  that  time  a  tract  of 
wild  prairie,  with  no  improvements  whatever. 
In  the  nineteen  years  that  have  since  elapsed  he 
has  shown  what  can  be  done  in  the  cultivation  of 
the  orchard  interests  of  Colorado.  He  has  made 
a  special  study  of  the  blight  and  has  in  a  great 
measure  mastered  its  disastrous  effects.  On  his 
place  between  twenty  and  thirty  acres  are  planted 
in  fruit,  and  his  orchards  are  among  the  best  in  the 
county.  In  addition  to  the  management  of  his 
land,  he  has  since  1888  been  manager  of  the  lands 
(more  than  one  thousand  acres  in  cultivation) 
owned  by  the  Union  Live  Stock  and  Investment 
Company  of  Denver,  and  his  superintendence  of 
this  valuable  property  has  been  most  efficient. 

In  1876  Mr.  Smith  married  Miss  Martha  A. 
King,  of  Denver.  She  was  a  daughter  of  Wil- 
son E.  King,  who  came  from  New  Hampshire  as 
far  west  as  Waupaca  County,  Wis.,  shortly  after 
his  marriage.  Mrs.  Smith  was  reared  and  edu- 
cated in  that  county,  from  which  place  she  came 
to  Colorado  and  for  some  time  was  a  teacher  in 
the  Arapahoe  street  school,  then  the  principal 
school  in  Denver.  She  is  a  woman  of  broad  in- 
formation and  culture,  and  not  a  little  of  her  hus- 
band's success  is  due  to  her  wise  counsel  and  act- 
ive co-operation.  They  are  the  parents  of  three 
children:  Samuel  W.,  a  graduate  of  the  Manual 
Training  School  of  Denver;  Clarence  S.,  also  a 
graduate  of  that  school;  and  Martin  W.,  who  is 
attending  the  school  from  which  his  brothers 
graduated.  The  education  of  the  sons  has  been 
greatly  promoted  by  the  care  and  oversight  of 
their  mother,  who  has  aided  them  in  the  acquire- 
ment of  knowledge  and  has  spared  no  pains  to 
advance  their  interests.  She  is  an  active  worker 
in  the  cause  of  prohibition  in  both  Jefferson  and 
Arapahoe  Counties.    The  family  have  a  city  resi- 


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dence  at  No.  2422  Grant  avenue,  where  they 
spend  the  winters,  returning  to  the  ranch  for  the 
summer.  In  religion  they  are  identified  with  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  in  which  Mr.  Smith 
is  steward  and  Sunday-school  superintendent. 


(I  OHN  HELMER.  Ten  miles  south  of  Little- 
I  ton,  on  section  26,  township  6  south,  range 
Q)  69  west,  Douglas  County,  stands  the  home- 
stead of  Mr.  Helmer.  He  was  born  in  Tyrol, 
Austria,  January  16,  1858,  and  is  a  .son  of  Frank 
and  Judith  (Scholl)  Helmer.  During  the  year 
of  his  birth  his  parents  came  to  America  and  for 
a  time  made  their  home  in  New  Jersey,  where 
the  father  followed  the  blacksmith's  trade.  Dur- 
ing the  war  he  enlisted  in  the  Ninth  New  Jersey 
Infantry  as  a  musician,  and  served  for  three  years 
and  five  months.  After  the  close  of  the  war  he 
came  to  Colorado,  going  to  St.  Joseph,  Mo.,  by 
train  and  steamboat,  and  from  there  he  and  his 
son,  our  subject,  who  was  then  eight  years  of 
age,  walked  across  the  plains,  accompanying  a 
party  of  emigrants.  The  long  tramps  over  the 
plains  were  very  hard  on  the  boy,  who,  often, 
when  night  came,  threw  himself  on  his  blanket, 
too  weary  to  eat.  Added  to  other  hardships, 
water  was  scarce  and  they  were  put  on  short 
allowance.  Finally,  after  thirty-one  days,  they 
arrived  in  Denver,  where  they  remained  until 
1872.  Some  months  after  they  arrived  they  were 
joined  by  another  son,  Anton,  and  in  1867  the 
mother  arrived  from  the  east.  In  1872  the  father 
entered  government  land  one  mile  south  of  our 
subject's  present  home.  Later  he  bought  the 
two  hundred  acres  our  subject  now  owns.  In 
1888  he  moved  back  to  Denver,  and  there  his 
death  occurred  March  27,  1892.  His  wife  died 
December  10,  1891.  Of  their  twelve  children 
only  three  attained  maturity:  Anton,  who  is  a 
ranchman  in  this  locality;  John;  and  Mary,  who 
.  married  Louis  Miller,  of  Elbert  County,  and  has 
three  sons.  The  father  was  a  Republican  in  poli- 
tics and  in  religion  adhered  to  the  Catholic  faith. 
When  the  family  removed  to  Douglas  County 
our  subject  was  about  fourteen  years  of  age.  He 
received  a  fair  education  in  the  common  schools. 
When  eighteen  years  of  age  he  began  to  haul 
freight,  and  while  thus  engaged  was  in  most  of 
the  towns  about  Denver.  September  15,  1888, 
he  married  Miss  Nellie  Regan,  who  was  born  in 


County  Cork,  Ireland,  a  daughter  of  William 
and  Margaret  Regan.  When  about  eleven  years 
of  age  she  crossed  the  ocean,  spending  nine  days 
on  the  voyage,  and  encountering  a  severe  storm 
that  endangered  the  lives  of  the  passengers.  At 
first  she  lived  in  Hannibal,  Mo.,  but  in  1886 
came  to  Denver,  thence  removing  to  Georgetown, 
and  was  married  in  Denver.  Since  their  marriage 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Helmer  have  resided  on  their 
ranch.  They  are  the  parents  of  three  children : 
Julia,  who  was  boru  August  18,  1892;  John 
William,  who  died  at  the  age  of  one  year  and 
eight  months;  and  Pauline  Anna,  born  October 
20,  1896.  The  family  are  identified  with  the 
Roman  Catholic  Church,  in  which  Mr.  Helmer 
was  confirmed  in  New  Jersey  and  his  wife  in  Ire- 
land.    Politically  he  is  a  Republican. 


DWARD  T.  GARTLEY  is  one  of  the  pro- 
>)  gressive  farmers  of  Bear  Creek  Valley.  In 
_  1892  he  purchased  forty  acres  of  land  near 
Morrison,  Jefferson  County,  and  shortly  afterward 
added  another  forty  acres,  giving  him  a  neat 
little  fami  to  cultivate  and  improve.  He  has 
since  given  his  attention  to  the  development  of 
this  place,  and,  being  industrious  and  persevering, 
has  already  achieved  a  large  degree  of  success. 
He  is  prominent  in  his  community  and  has  the 
respect  of  those  with  whom  he  has  business  or 
social  relations. 

In  Ontario,  Canada,  the  subject  of  this  sketch 
was  born  October  19,  1855,  son  of  Edward  B. 
and  Jane  (Sheridan)  Gartley.  He  was  one  of 
seven  children,  six  of  whom  survive,  viz. :  Will- 
iam; Martha,  wife  of  Oliver  Curlis;  Edward  T. ; 
John;  Margaret,  wife  of  Joe  Gibson;  and  Grace, 
Mrs.  William  Hood.  His  father,  who  was  a 
native  of  England,  came  to  Ontario  in  his  boy- 
hood days  and  there  grew  to  manhood,  married 
and  engaged  in  farm  pursuits.  He  still  makes 
his  home  in  the  province  of  Ontario. 

When  a  boy  the  subject  of  this  article  learned 
the  trade  of  a  miller,  which  he  followed  until  he 
was  twenty-four  years  of  age,  in  his  native  land. 
In  1880  he  came  to  Colorado  and  for  two  years 
followed  milling  in  Littleton,  as  an  employe  in 
the  Old  Rough  and  Ready  mill.  Afterward  he 
worked  for  one  year  on  a  reservoir  four  miles 
west  of  Littleton,  and  from  there  came  to  Bear 
Creek  Valley  and  began  to  work  as  a  ranch  hand. 


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He  was  economical  and  saved  his  earnings;  until 
he  was  able  to  purchase  the  farm  he  now  owus 
and  occupies.  Politicall}'  a  Republican,  he  was 
elected  road  overseer  on  his  party  ticket  in  1889, 
and  for  eight  consecutive  j'ears  held  the  office, 
discharging  its  duties  with  eflSciency  and  success. 
March  28,  1883,  Mr.  Gartley  was  united  in 
marriage  with  Miss  Mar}'  Schaefermeyer,  daugh- 
ter of  Christian  Schaefermeyer,  a  prominent 
farmer  of  this  valley.  One  child  was  born  of 
their  union,  a  son,  Edward  C,  now  deceased. 


HENRY  CASADAY,  a  successful  business 
man  of  Boulder,  first  came  to  Colorado  in 
1877,  aud  though  he  returned  to  the  east 
at  the  end  of  a  few  months,  he  was  not  content 
to  remain  there  permanently,  having  once  beheld 
the  beauties  of  this  state  and  foreseen  its  brilliant 
future.  He  has  made  his  home  in  Boulder  for 
the  past  fourteen  years,  and  has  been  actively 
interested  in  its  growth  and  prosperity. 

The  paternal  grandfather  of  the  above-named 
gentleman  was  a  native  of  Westmoreland  County, 
Pa.,  while  the  latter's  parents,  W.  H.  and  Mary 
(Miller)  Casadaj',  were  of  Pennsylvania  and  Del- 
aware birth  respectively.  The  father,  W.  H., 
was  connected  with  the  First  National  Bank  of 
Allegheny,  Pa.,  from  the  time  of  its  organization 
until  he  retired  late  in  life  from  busine.ss  cares. 
He  was  an  attorney-at-law.  Mrs.  Casaday  is  still 
living  at  her  home  in  Allegheny,  Pa.  Their 
family  comprised  three  sons  and  three  daughters, 
of  whom  five  are  yet  living.  One  son,  J.  B.,  is 
a  resident  of  Colorado  Springs. 

Henry  Casaday  was  born  December  5,  1856,  in 
Allegheny  City,  Pa.  His  education  was  obtained 
in  the  public  schools,  and  after  he  had  completed 
his  higher  studies  he  took  a  position  in  a  dry- 
goods  store.  The  close  and  confining  work, 
however,  proved  injurious  to  his  health,  and  in 
July,  1877,  he  came  to  Colorado,  hoping  to  be 
benefited.  He  remained  here  four  months,  and 
then  returned  to  his  old  home,  where  he  stayed 
for  a  year  or  more.  In  the  spring  of  1879  he  be- 
came manager  of  the  Pueblo  (Colo.)  branch  ol 
the  Continental  Oil  and  Transportation  Company 
and  continued  there  for  two  years.  Thence  he  was 
sent  by  them  up  the  Rio  Grande  Railroad,  and 
established  a  station  for  his  company  at  Gunni- 
son City.     Up  to  1884  he  was  the  manager  of  that 


branch  and  since  then  he  has  held  a  similar  posi- 
tion with  the  same  company  in  Boulder,  though 
it  is  now  known  as  the  Continental  Oil  Company. 
Mr.  Casaday  has  under  his  supervision  the  branch 
stations  in  Longmont,  lYOuisville  and  Erie,  and 
smaller  towns  in  this  county,  shipments  of  oil 
being  made  to  them  from  Boulder,  in  iron  bar- 
rels, by  freighters.  He  has  been  very  energetic 
in  his  undertakings,  and  his  company  owe  to  his 
excellent  executive  ability  and  forethought  the 
large  trade  which  they  have  in  this  region.  He 
is  financially  interested  in  the  Boyd  Concentrat- 
ing Mill,  having  originally  bought  the  old  Boyd 
plant,  and  now  handles  the  ore  with  the  most  ap- 
proved modern  methods.  He  also  organized  the 
Brooklyn  Mining,  Milling  and  Investment  Com- 
pany, the  oldest  of  the  kind  in  the  valley,  and  is 
the  president  of  the  same.  When  the  company 
laid  out  Mapleton  Addition  to  Boulder  he  was 
influential  in  the  work,  and  was  the  first  person 
to  build  a  residence  west  of  the  ditch.  His  home 
is  a  very  attractive  and  handsome  modern  resi- 
dence, located  near  the  western  end  of  Pine 
street. 

In  politics  Mr.  Casaday  was  always  actively 
concerned  in  the  success  of  the  Republican  party 
until  the  presidential  campaign  of  1896,  when  he 
took  issue  with  it  on  the  money  question.  For- 
merly he  attended  county  and  state  conventions 
and  did  effective  service  for  his  party.  He  is  a 
member  of  Columbia  Lodge  No.  14,  A.  F.  &  A.  M. 
He  holds  membership  with  the  Baptist  Church, 
and  is  chairman  of  the  board  of  trustees. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Casaday  occurred  in  Alle- 
gheny, Pa.,  the  lady  of  his  choice  being  Miss 
Elizabeth  Robertson,  likewise  a  native  of  that 
city.  Her  parents  were  from  Scotland.  The 
three  children  born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Casaday  are 
Barton,  Edith  and  Arthur. 


y/j  ICHAEL  JOSEPH  McMAHON,  of  River 
Y  Bend,  Elbert  County,  was  born  May  15, 
(9  1845,  in  Limerick,  Ireland,  and  came  to 
America  with  his  mother,  who  died  soon  after 
reaching  Washington,  D.  C,  leaving  him,  a  boy 
of  eleven  years,  alone  in  the  world  without  any 
means  of  support,  except  such  as  he  was  able  to 
obtain  by  his  own  industry.  He  was  a  lad  with 
great  strength  of  purpo.se,  and  this  enabled  him 
to  win  his  way  where  another  would  have  failed. 


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His  father,  Michael  McMahon,  was  an  officer  in 
the  British  army,  where  he  was  arrested  in  1848, 
for  treason,  and  died  shortly  after  of  cholera.  His 
mother,  Margaret  Lyons,  was  a  native  of  the 
same  vicinity,  and  after  the  death  of  her  husband, 
thought  to  try  this  country  with  her  youngest 
children,  with  a  view  to  bettering  their  condition, 
but  died,   as  before  stated,  soon  after  her  arrival. 

There  were  eight  children:  James  was  a  captain 
of  artillery  in  the  French  army,  and  came  on  a 
visit  to  this  country  with  McMahon  and  O'Neil; 
Patrick,  who  was  a  midshipman  in  the  English 
navy,  afterward  came  to  America  and  kept  a 
boot  and  shoe  store  in  Bridgeport,  Conn. ;  Den- 
nis, who  after  years  in  France,  finally  located  in 
Cedar  Rapids,  Iowa,  where  he  kept  a  boot  and 
shoe  store;  John,  who  was  educated  for  a  Cath- 
olic piest,  died  in  Ireland  before  he  was  ordained; 
Thomas  also  died  in  Ireland  while  young;  Sarah 
was  married  in  England  to  a  Mr.  Regan  and 
died  in  Washington,  D.  C;  Margaret  married  in 
Washington,  a  Mr.  Howe,  who  died  of  wounds 
received  in  the  Civil  war;  she  is  also  deceased; 
and  Michael  J.  completes  the  family. 

Mr.  McMahon  received  his  schooling  in  Ire- 
land, before  he  was  eleven,  but  he  is  a  great 
reader,  and  has  added  to  his  general  fund  of  in- 
formation, until  to-day  he  is  far  ahead  of  many 
who  boast  a  college  education.  After  his  mother's 
death  he  went  to  Connecticut,  where  he  met  Mr. 
Baldwin,  a  machinist,  who  took  him  as  an 
apprentice,  and  with  him  he  remained  about  two 
years  when  he  went  to  Baltimore,  Md.,  and  there 
he  found  himself  in  a  strange  city,  with  the 
princely  sum  of  three  cents  on  which  to  subsist. 
He  managed  to  live  on  this  for  three  days,  when 
fortunately  for  him,  he  ran  across  a  cousin  who 
was  a  large  railroad  contractor  and  furnished  him 
work.  He  went  to  Virginia  and  worked  for  his 
cousin  two  years,  until  the  war  broke  out,  when 
he  enlisted  as  a  guard  in  President  Lincoln's 
house.  On  the  ist  of  April,  he  accompanied  the 
Sixty-ninth  regiment  that  had  come  from  New 
York  to  Arlington  Heights.  He  crossed  the  Po- 
tomac at  Georgetown,  D.  C,  and  from  there  his 
regiment  was  sent  to  Harper's  Ferry.  Thence 
he  returned  to  Washington.  He  was  all  through 
the  war,  serving  under  Generals  McClellan, 
Mead  and  Sherman,  and  was  mustered  out  at 
Louisville,  Ky.,  after  the  grand  review  in  Wash- 
ington,   in   1865.     He   attended   the   funeral   of 


President  Lincoln.  Later  he  went  west  to 
Leavenworth,  Kan.,  thence  to  Hayes,  this  state, 
where  he  stayed  until  the  fall  of  1868,  and  then 
entered  the  employ  of  the  United  States  Express 
Company  at  Chalk  Bluff,  seventeen  miles  east  of 
Wallace,  Kan.  The  following  year  they  sent 
him  to  Park  Station,  next  he  went  to  California, 
then  returned  east  and  remained  a  short  time, 
after  which  he  came  to  Denver  and  remained  a 
year  before  purchasing  his  ranch  in  Elbert 
County,  where  he  has  lived  for  the  past  fourteen 
years.  He  has  a  large  ranch  of  twenty-three 
hundred  acres,  and  deals  principally  in  sheep. 

In  1862  Mr.  McMahon  married  Miss  Mary 
Ellen  Collison,  of  Maryland,  whose  father  was 
an  Englishman.  She  died  about  a  year  ago, 
leaving  the  following-named  children:  Thomas 
Edward,  a  hotel  keeper  in  the  mountains;  John 
Emmett,  a  section  foreman  on  the  Denver  &  Rio 
Grande  Railway;  Patrick  S.  and  Wolf  Tone, 
both  at  home;  Eliza  Margaret,  wife  of  William 
Mack;  Marj',  wife  of  W.  E.  Brookman;  and 
Jennie,  wife  of  M.  L.  Moore,  of  Denver.  Mr. 
McMahon  was  a  Democrat  in  early  life,  but 
for  the  past  twenty  j-ears  has  been  a  strong  Re- 
publican. For  two  years  he  has  been  surveyor  of 
Elbert  County,  and  for  six  years  sheep  inspector. 
He  was  reared  in  the  Catholic  faith. 


(lOHN  J.  THORNTON  is  known  as  one  of 
I  the  largest  and  most  successful  horse  dealers 
(2/  and  as  an  extensive  farmer  of  Weld  County, 
his  home  property  being  near  Berthoud.  He  was 
born  in  Wyoming  County,  N.  Y.,  in  1856,  and 
is  a  younger  brother  of  Wilber  R.  Thornton, 
elsewhere  represented.  In  his  boyhood  he  was  a 
student  in  neighboring  schools,  and  alternated 
work  at  home  with  attendance  on  the  school.  On 
leaving  school  he  learned  the  cabinet-maker's 
trade,  which  he  followed  in  the  home  neighbor- 
hood for  a  few  years. 

Coming  to  Colorado  in  1877,  ^r.  Thornton 
settled  upon  a  farm  west  of  Loveland  and  em- 
barked in  farming  and  stock-raising.  After  six 
years  on  the  same  ranch,  in  1883  he  purchased  a 
claim  on  the  Big  Thompson  River  in  Weld  County, 
and  here  became  interested  in  the  dairy  business 
and  in  raising  Jersey  cattle  and  Cleveland  horses, 
which  branches  of  agriculture  he  has  since  fol- 
lowed with  success.     He  is  the  owner  of  seven 


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hundred  acres  of  good  farming  land,  a  large  part 
of  which  is  under  cultivation.  The  stock  which 
he  owns  are  all  of  the  best  grades,  and  command 
good  prices,  by  reason  of  their  acknowledged 
superiority.  Besides  his  other  interests,  he  is  a 
stockholder  in  the  Farmers'  mill  at  Berthoud. 

Politically  Mr.  Thornton  is  an  advocate  of  the 
People's  party.  In  religion  he  is  a  believer  in 
the  doctrines  of  the  United  Brethren  Church, 
with  which  denomination  he  affiliates.  He  has 
passed  the  chairs  in  Berthoud  Lodge  No.  83, 
A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  and  has  also  been  active  in  the 
work  of  the  Woodmen  of  the  World.  In  1878 
he  was  united  in  marriage  with  Miss  Frances  E. 
Neville,  daughter  of  Edward  Neville.  They  are 
the  parents  of  seven  children. 


'HOMAS  E.  WARD,  who  is  one  of  the  keen 
and  capable  businessmen  of  Jefferson  Coun- 
ty, was  born  March  7,  1853,  on  Cow  Creek, 
near  the  Little  Muskingum,  in  West  Virginia. 
He  was  one  of  thirteen  children,  nine  of  whom 
are  still  living,  whose  parents  were  Stephen  G. 
and  Cassinda  (Joy)  Ward.  His  father,  who  was 
a  native  of  Ohio,  born  in  18 14,  grew  to  manhood 
in  his  native  place  and,  with  the  Testament  for 
his  only  text  book,  he  acquired  an  education  that 
was  broad  and  thorough.  As  years  passed  by, 
he  had  an  opportunity  to  read  books  of  worth  in 
the  line  of  history,  science  and  fiction,  and  this 
careful  study  of  good  books  made  him  a  well- 
informed  man.  He  studied  medicine,  and,  being 
especially  skillful  in  the  treatment  of  diseases  of 
the  eye,  he  had  considerable  practice  as  an  oculist. 
A  gifted  orator,  his  services  were  frequently  util- 
ized by  the  Republican  party,  of  which  he  was 
a  member.  During  the  Abraham  Lincoln  cam- 
paign he  "  stumped  "  his  section  of  the  country. 
In  religion  he  was  identified  with  the  Christian 
Church,  in  which  he  preached  for  years  and  also 
did  considerable  evangelistic  work.  Viewed  from 
all  sides,  his  character  was  well  rounded  and 
admirable.  He  won  the  esteem  of  men  with 
whom  he  had  business  or  social  relations  and  was 
held  in  the  highest  regard  by  his  personal  friends. 
During  the  Civil  war  he  was  wounded  and  cap- 
tured by  the  Confederates,  who  confined  him  in 
Andersonville  prison;  and  his  sufferings  while 
there  eventually  led  up  to  his  death,  which  oc- 
curred in  Great  Bend,  Kan.,  in  1877.  He  had 
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been  a  wide  traveler  in  the  states,  and  had  made 
his  home  in  Ohio,  Indiana,  Illinoisr,  West  Vir- 
ginia, Kentucky,  Colorado  (where  he  settled  in 
1873)  and  Kansas. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  had  meagre  advant- 
ages when  he  was  a  boy.  His  entire  period  of 
schooling  did  not  exceed  six  months.  In  1870 
he  started  out  in  life  for  himself  and  came  to 
Colorado,  landing  in  Denver  May  27.  Here  he 
witnessed  many  wild  scenes,  for  the  town  was 
new  and  its  inhabitants  rough  and  reckless  men. 
Board  was  high,  and  his  first  meal  cost  him  $1. 
While  he  had  no  money,  he  was  fortunate  in 
securing  work  at  $30  per  month  and  board,  and 
by  Christmas  had  saved  $300.  Afterward  he 
rented  land  and  began  its  cultivation.  Saving 
his  earnings  each  year,  he  applied  them  to  the 
purchase  of  property.  In  1889  he  bought  his 
present  place  of  forty-six  acres  near  Golden, 
Jefferson  County,  and  erected  a  substantial  resi- 
dence, where  he  has  since  made  his  home. 

Returning  to  Illinois  in  188 1,  on  the  5th  of 
April  of  that  year,  Mr.  Ward  was  united  in  mar- 
riage with  Miss  MoUie  Trago,  of  Fairfield,  Wayne 
County,  and  the  two  came  at  once  to  Colorado. 
They  are  the  parents  of  three  children,  Edna  V., 
Viola  M.  and  Howard  L.  In  politics  Mr.  Ward 
votes  the  Republican  ticket,  and  fraternally  he  is 
identified  with  the  Woodmen  of  the  World.  He 
is  a  man  of  fine  business  ability,  shrewd,  ener- 
getic and  persevering.  His  fine  farm  and  pleas- 
ant home  are  monuments  to  his  industry,  economy 
and  good  judgment;  and  the  bright  prospects 
which  seem  to  await  his  future  efforts  are  the 
legitimate  results  of  his  exemplary  course. 


(TOHN  W.  GANLEY,  ex-treasurer  of  Clear 
I  Creek  County,  is  secretary  and  treasurer  of 
(2/  the  Colorado  Trading  and  Investment  Com- 
pany, and  since  August,  1895,  has  been  engaged 
in  conducting  an  extensive  business  in  Nevada- 
ville,  Gilpin  County.  This  establishment  is  the 
largest  of  the  kind  in  the  county,  and,  centrally 
situated  on  Main  street,  the  store  has  a  frontage 
of  fifty  feet,  extends  back  to  the  next  street, 
occupies  two  floors  and  two  additional  ware- 
hou.ses.  All  kinds  of  general  merchandise  and 
supplies  may  be  found  here  in  endless  variety, 
quantity  and  quality,  at  reasonable  prices.  Mr. 
Ganley  is  an  enterprising  and   progressive   busi- 


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ness  man,  thoroughly  understands  the  demands 
of  the  trade  and  has  always  been  successful  in  his 
undertakings. 

Born  in  September,  1850,  John  W.  Gauley 
spent  the  first  five  years  of  his  life  in  Ireland,  his 
native  country.  He  came  to  America  with  his 
parents,  James  and  Eleanor  (Kirwin)  Ganley,  in 
1855,  and  for  two  years  lived  in  Plainfield,  N.  J. 
In  1857  they  settled  in  Joliet,  111.,  and  later  re- 
moved to  Chicago,  where  the  father's  death  oc- 
curred. The  wife  and  mother  is  still  a  resident 
of  Chicago.  She  had  three  daughters  and  one 
son  who  lived  to  maturity. 

The  education  of  our  subject  was  obtained  in 
the  public  schools  of  Joliet  and  in  Grower's  Insti- 
tute. In  1S65  he  went  to  Chicago  and  obtained 
a  position  in  a  grocery,  where  he  was  employed 
for  a  couple  of  years.  In  1867  he  came  to  Colo- 
rado, and  was  employed  by  his  uncle,  M.  Mc- 
Laughlin, a  pioneer  of  this  state  and  then  en- 
gaged in  merchandising  in  Nevadaville.  In  1869 
the  young  man  became  interested  in  mining  oper- 
ations and  developed  the  Jones  mine  near  this 
place,  during  the  next  four  years.  Then,  going 
to  Silver  Plume,  he  was  one  of  the  first  business 
men  of  the  place,  being  a  member  of  the  firm  of 
Dee  &  Ganley,  and  later  of  the  firm  of  John  W. 
Ganley  &  Co.  He  assisted  in  getting  the  post- 
office  located  there  and  was  the  first  postmaster 
of  the  town,  being  appointed  by  President  Grant. 
He  served  for  six  and  a-half  years  and  during 
this  period  was  also  occupied  in  mining  enter- 
prises in  that  locality,  and,  in  fact,  still  has 
interests  there.  He  located  and  developed  the 
County  Treasurer  group  of  mines.  These  have 
since  been  operated  by  him,  and  are  tunneled 
five  hundred  feet  into  the  mountain.  In  1883 
Mr.  Ganley  was  elected  on  the  Democratic 
ticket  to  the  office  of  county  treasurer,  receiving 
a  large  majority  and  in  1885  was  re-elected. 
Thus  he  held  the  position  from  January  i,  1884, 
to  January,  1888.  In  June,  1888,  he  went  to 
Denver,  where  he  was  with  the  Hubert  Mining 
Company  as  assistant  secretary  and  treasurer  for 
two  years.  In  July,  1888,  he  was  influential  in 
the  organization  of  the  Colorado  Trading  and 
Investment  Company,  Thomas  Burke  being  made 
president  of  the  concern,  and  himself  secretary 
and  treasurer.  They  dealt  in  real  estate,  etc. 
The  present  president  is  F.  S.  Bolsinger,  and 
John  J.  Clark  is  the  vice-president,    while   Mr. 


Ganley  retains  his  old  office  and  is  the  only  one 
of  the  original  incorporators  left  in  the  business. 
He  is  also  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  company 
which  owns  the  Champion  mine. 

The  thriving  town  of  Silver  Plume  is  greatly 
indebted  to  Mr.  Ganley  for  its  start.  He  was  one 
of  the  founders  of  the  place  and  was  a  member  of 
its  first  board  of  officials  and  for  six  years  was  a 
school  director  there.  He  is  a  silver  Democrat. 
An  influential  member  of  the  Ancient  Order  of 
Hibernians,  he  was  the  state  president  of  the 
organization  for  a  period  of  six  years,  making  a 
most  efficient  officer.  In  Georgetown,  Colo.,  he 
married  Miss  Ellen  V.  Sullivan,  who  was  born  in 
Wisconsin.  They  have  five  children.  For  the 
past  ten  years  the  family  has  resided  in  Denver, 
where  better  school  facilities  and  advantages  can 
be  within  reach  of  the  children. 


(Tames  S.  JELLISON,  justice  of  the  peace  at 
I  Villa  Park,  Arapahoe  County,  settled  upon  a 
(2)  farm  on  the  South  Golden  road  in  1 883  and 
for  the  past  fifteen  years  he  has  been  extensively 
interested  in  the  cattle  and  dairy  business,  in 
connection  with  his  farming.  He  now  cultivates 
three  hundred  and  twenty  acres  of  land  and  has 
on  his  place  about  $5,000  worth  of  stock.  Asa 
farmer  and  stock-raiser  h^  is  energetic,  keen  to 
discern  improved  methods  and  quick  to  adopt 
them  for  his  own  use,  and  in  the  improvement  of 
his  place  he  has  shown  himself  efficient. 

The  son  of  Ivory  and  Eunice  (Smith)  Jellison, 
our  subject  was  born  in  York  County,  Me., 
October  7,  1842.  He  was  fourth  among  eight 
children,  seven  of  whom  are  still  living.  Mary 
A.  is  the  widow  of  Stephen  Grant,  of  Berwick, 
Me.;  Cynthia  is  the  wife  of  R.  C.  Clark,  of  Ber- 
wick; Electa  married  H.  J.  Austin,  also  of  Ber- 
wick; Charles  E.,  now  retired,  was  for  twenty- 
two  years  a  member  of  the  police  force  of  Boston, 
Mass.;  Ellen  is  the  wife  of  Thomas  Brown,  of 
Lewiston,  Me.;  and  Lloyd  I.  lives  in  Boston. 

The  father  of  our  subject  was  born  in  York 
County,  Me.,  in  18 16,  and  was  reared  on  a  farm. 
He  engaged  in  raising  and  selling  stock  and  in 
cultivating  a  farm,  and  became  a  man  of  much 
influence  in  his  neighborhood.  His  death  oc- 
curred in  1894.  Our  subject's  maternal  grand- 
father, James  Smith,  was  a  native  of  York 
County,  where  h^  engaged  in  farming  until  his 


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death,  at  eighty  years  of  age;  his  wife,  Mollie, 
also  a  native  of  York  County,  attained  the  age  of 
eighty-four. 

At  the  age  of  eighteen  years  our  subject  went 
to  Boston,  where  for  a  year  he  was  employed  as 
driver  of  an  express  wagon.  He  then  returned 
to  Maine  and  apprenticed  himself  to  the  black- 
smith's trade,  which  he  finished  in  two  years. 
Going  to  Watertown,  he  became  an  employe  in 
the  arsenal,  where  he  worked  for  two  years.  He 
then  took  a  western  trip,  and  while  in  Chicago 
the  government  issued  a  call  for  mechanics  for  the 
army.  He  volunteered  his  services  and  went  to 
St.  Louis,  where  he  was  sworn  into  service. 
From  that  city  he  went  to  Nashville,  where  he 
remained  one  month,  afterwards  spending  four 
months  in  Chattanooga  and  five  months  in  Au- 
gusta, Ga.  On  the  expiration  of  his  term  he  was 
honorably  discharged.  While  in  Maine,  in  1862, 
he  had  enlisted  as  a  volunteer,  but  was  rejected; 
the  following  year,  while  working  in  the  arsenal, 
he  was  drafted  but  was  again  rejected. 

On  leaving  the  army  our  subject  returned  to 
Maine  and  opened  a  blacksmith  shop  in  Berwick, 
which  he  conducted  for  a  year.  Afterward  for 
two  years  he  and  a  brother-in-law,  who  was  also 
a  blacksmith,  carried  on  the  old  homestead  which 
they  had  bought,  and  at  the  same  time  they  con- 
ducted a  blacksmith  shop  in  the  village  of  Ross' 
Corners,  one  mile  distant.  In  1869,  when  the 
severe  financial  depression  came  on,  our  subject 
went  to  Boston,  and  secured  employment  as  a 
fireman  in  the  engine  room  in  the  American 
House,  one  of  the  leading  hotels  of  the  city. 
After  three  weeks  in  the  engine  room  he  was 
transferred  to  the  kitchen,  where  for  five  months 
he  was  employed  as  fireman.  He  was  then  trans- 
ferred to  the  cooking  department  and  acted  as 
the  boiler,  and  three  months  later  was  promoted 
to  the  position  of  head  meat  cook.  He  left  the 
American  to  accept  a  position  as  head  broiler  in 
Young's  Hotel,  where  he  received  a  better  sal- 
ary. However,  his  health  soon  failed,  and  after 
six  months  he  returned  to  his  farm  in  Maine. 
His  experience  in  the  army  had  fitted  him  for 
successful  work  in  a-  hotel,  for  he  had  been  com- 
missary-sergeant at  Chattanooga,  having  one 
hundred  men  or  more  in  his  shops;  and  in  Au- 
gusta he  had  been  employed  as  foreman  of  the 
shop. 

After  returning  to  the  old  homestead  Mr.  Jel- 


lison  devoted  himself  to  farming  for  one  year. 
The  place  was  his  own,  he  having  bought  his 
brother-in-law's  interest  in  1869.  Selling  the 
property,  he  removed  to  Ross'  Corners,  where 
he  opened  a  blacksmith  shop,  and  there  he 
continued,  doing  a  prosperous  business,  until 
1880,  when  he  was  taken  down  with  pneumonia. 
He  was  ill  for  weeks  and  as  soon  as  able  to  leave, 
was  compelled  to  seek  a  milder  climate.  Accord- 
inglj'  he  came  to  Colorado,  and  for  five  months 
remained  at  the  hot  springs  at  Buena  Vista.  On 
regaining  his  health,  he  went  back  to  Maine,  but 
was  dissatisfied  there,  and  in  the  spring  of  1882  he 
moved  his  family  to  Colorado.  After  one  year 
in  Denver,  during  which  time  he  was  superin- 
tendent of  the  agricultural  ditch,  he  settled  down 
to  farming  on  the  South  Golden  road,  where  he 
has  since  resided. 

In  York  County,  Me.,  in  1869,  Mr.  Jellison 
married  Miss  Anna  Stevens,  who  died  the  follow- 
ing year.  He  was  again  married  in  1872,  his 
wife  being  Miss  Abbie  M.  Pitts,  of  York  County. 
Seven  children  were  born  of  their  union,  but  two 
died  unnamed  in  infancy.  The  others  were 
named  as  follows:  John  P.,  deceased;  Mabel  L.; 
Charles  E.,  who  died  in  boyhood;  Alva  H.  and 
James  B. 


< /j  ARION  HODGSON,  one  of  the  capable  and 
Y  enterprising  young  farmers  of  Boulder 
(9  County,  is  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  who 
owns  and  occupies  a  place  situated  eight  miles 
east  of  Boulder.  His  farm  is  one  of  the  best 
eighty-acre  tracts  for  miles  around.  It  was  given 
to  him  by  his  father  shortly  after  he  was  married 
and  he  has  since  made  it  his  home,  giving  his  at- 
tention to  its  cultivation.  He  is  well  versed  in 
the  principles  of  agriculture,  employs  the  best 
methods  in  the  cultivation  of  his  laud  and  de- 
rives a  comfortable  income  from  the  sale  of  his 
farm  products.  He  personally  superintends  the 
management  of  his  property  and  gives  to  his  val- 
uable business  interests  the  thoughtful  attention 
characteristic  of  him  in  every  department  of  ac- 
tivity. 

Born  in  Linn  County,  Kan.,  October  6,  1872, 
the  subject  of  this  sketch  is  a  son  of  William  E. 
and  Christina  (Payton)  Hodgson,  to  whose  sketch 
upon  another  page  the  reader  is  referred  for  par- 
ticulars in  regard  to  the  family  history.  He  grew 
to  manhood  on  the   home  farm   and  acquired  a 


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common  school  education.  October  6,  1894,  he 
married  Miss  Lena  E.,  daughter  of  J.  J.  Wallace, 
who  is  represented  elsewhere  in  this  volume. 
One  child  blessed  this  marriage,  Gladys,  born 
September  14,  1896. 

In  fraternal  relations  Mr.  Hodgson  is  identified 
with  Lignite  Lodge  No.  69,  K.  of  P. ,  and  Louis- 
ville Lodge  No.  37,  Woodmen  of  the  World.  He 
is  also  a  member  of  the  Boulder  Valley  Grange. 


(fOHN  FRANCIS  CAMPION,  of  Denver, 
I  was  born  on  Prince  Edward  Island  Decem- 
(2/  ber  17,  1849,  a  son  of  M.  B.  and  Helen 
(Fehan) Campion,  natives  of  that  island,  and  of 
English  and  Scotch  descent.  The  progenitor  of 
the  Campion  family  in  America  was  John  Fran- 
cis Campion,  Sr.,  a  native  of  England,  where  for 
manj'  generations  his  ancestors  had  been  large 
landed  proprietors.  Accompanied  by  his  wife 
and  children,  he  crossed  the  ocean  and  settled  on 
Prince  Edward  Island,  where  he  bought  property 
and  in  time  became  a  man  ofgreat  local  influence. 
He  died  at  seventy-five  and  his  wife  when  seventy 
years  of  age.  They  were  the  parents  of  four  sons 
and  five  daughters,  all  of  whom  are  deceased  ex- 
cept one  daughter. 

Of  the  sous  M.  Brevort  was  a  ship  owner  and 
captain,  and  built  his  vessels  in  his  shipyards. 
He  sailed  to  foreign  ports  and  was  well  known  in 
the  maritime  world.  He  represented  Kings 
County,  his  home  county,  in  the  Prince  Edward 
Island  parliament.  In  politics  he  was  a  liberal 
first,  but  later  a  conservative.  Regarding  public 
aflfairs  he  had  broad  and  keen  views.  He  was  a 
man  of  aiFairs  and  took  a  deep  interest  in  matters 
of  common  interest.  The  last  twenty  years  of 
his  life  were  spent  in  Colorado,  and  his  death 
occurred  in  Leadville.  His  wife,  Helen,  was  the 
daughter  of  a  well-known  physician  of  Prince 
Edward  Island,  who  perished  one  winter  night, 
while  crossing  Northumberland  Strait,  nine  miles 
in  width.  Of  her  four  children,  one,  George  F. , 
resides  in  Denver;  two  daughters  live  in  Canada. 
The  oldest  of  the  four  children  was  John  Fran- 
cis, of  this  sketch.  In  1862  his  parents  removed 
to  California,  but  being  desirous  to  give  their 
sons  good  educational  advantages,  he  was  sent 
back,  with  his  brother,  to  Prince  Edward  Island, 
where  he  attended  the  Prince  of  Wales  College  at 
Charlottetown.     While  in  school   the  boys  ran 


away,  in  order  to  enlist  in  the  United  States 
navy.  George  F.,  who  was  only  fifteen,  was  re- 
jected; but  John  F. ,  who  was  seventeen,  was 
accepted  at  Boston,  where  he  enlisted,  and  having 
passed  a  satisfactory  examination,  was  appointed 
assistant  quartermaster.  He  was  sent  to  the 
United  States  dispatch  boat,  "Dolphin,"  and  on 
it  carried  the  first  despatches  to  General  Sherman 
at  Savannah  when  the  latter  had  just  completed 
his  famous  march  to  the  sea.  The  river  at  Savan- 
nah was  a  seething  furnace  of  burning  cotton, 
making  the  passage  dangerous;  and  it  was  also 
filled  with  sunken  hulks  of  boats.  However,  the 
trip  was  made  without  misfortune  and  the  dis- 
patches delivered. 

At  the  close  of  the  war,  in  1865,  Mr.  Campion 
visited  his  parents  in  Sacramento,  Cal.,  and  from 
there  went  into  the  mountains  as  a  miner.  In 
1868  the  discovery  of  the  White  Pine  silver  mine 
induced  him  to  locate  there.  At  once  he  became 
a  successful  mine  operator,  but  after  his  good 
luck  had  continued  for  some  time,  he  met  with 
misfortune  and  lost  his  all  (some  $5,000)  in  the 
mine.  However,  he  soon  made  a  fortune  in 
Eureka,  Nev.,  where  he  developed  and  sold 
mines.  Later,  going  to  Pioche,  Nev. ,  with  his 
father  and  brother,  he  bought  a  valuable  silver 
mine,  known  as  the  Pioche  Phoenix  mine.  Soon 
the  Pioche  Phoenix  Minii^  Company  was  organ- 
ized. There  was  much  contention  over  the 
possession  of  the  mine,  which  others  claimed,  and 
the  latter  tried  again  and  again  to  gain  possession 
of  the  mine  by  force,  but  each  time  they  were  re- 
pulsed with  loss.  The  strife  was  finally  settled 
by  recourse  to  the  law,  and  Mr.  Campion  retained 
possession.  After  some  years  he  sold  the  mine. 
In  April,  1879,  he  went  to  Leadville,  Colo.,  then 
at  the  height  of  its  "boom."  He  immediately 
bought  several  producing  mines  and  claims,  of 
which  he  subsequently  disposed.  He  still  con- 
siders Leadville  his  home,  though  his  business 
interests  take  him  into  other  parts  of  the  state 
much  of  the  time.  At  this  writing  he  is  inter- 
ested in  the  Pison,  Elk,  Reindeer  and  Ibex 
(better  known  as  the  Little  Johnny)  mines,  all  of 
which  were  started  by  him  and  named  after  some 
animal;  also  properties  at  Breckenridge,  Summit 
County  and  Larimer  County. 

The  mining  enterprises  with  which  Mr. 
Campion  is  Connected  are  of  large  value.  They 
are  of  a  nature  requiring  great  courage  to  start 


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and  wise  judgment  to  conduct,  both  of  which 
qualities  he  possesses  to  an  unusual  degree.  As 
an  operator  in  mines,  he  was  bold  and  inspired 
all  with  faith  in  his  enthusiasm  and  judgment. 
The  qualities  required  of  a  mining  operator  are 
of  no  unimportant  magnitude.  New  conditions 
confront  the  operator  like  a  constantly  changing 
kaleidoscope.  Great  expectations  sometimes 
bring  great  defeats,  but  if  the  operator  is  a  man 
qualified  by  nature  and  experience,  great  triumphs 
reward  his  efforts  as  well. 

Many  exciting  experiences  have  occurred  in  the 
life  of  Mr.  Campion,  whose  name  and  success  are 
known  in  every  mining  camp  in  the  Rockies.  In 
his  operations  he  has  usually  been  alone,  relying 
on  his  own  resources  and  reaping  his  own  re- 
ward. His  varied  experiences  before  coming  to 
Leadville  aided  him  in  his  operations  here. 
He  is  fond  of  mining.  Its  continual  shifting 
scenes  and  its  rich  promises  of  reward  fascinate 
him.  When  he  was  still  a  young  man,  his  name 
became  known  as  a  talisman  for  success  among 
the  miners  of  Nevada,  and  he  was  known  in  Lead- 
ville as  a  successful  miner  before  he  came  here. 
However,  he  has  had  his  share  of  reverses,  and 
the  ultimate  success  he  achieved  has  depended 
upon  the  lessons  learned  in  the  stern  school  of 
experience.  That  he  has  profited  by  these  les- 
.sons  is  well  known,  for  he  now  stands  foremost 
among  the  mining  operators  of  America. 

In  1896-97,  Mr.  Campion  built  a  palatial  home 
at  No.  800  Logan  avenue,  Denver.  His  summer 
months  are  spent  at  Twin  Lake,  fifteen  miles 
from  Leadville,  where  he  has  a  beautiful  summer 
home.  He  was  married  in  Denver,  April  16, 
1875,  to  Miss  Nellie  May  Daily,  a  sister  of 
Thomas  F.  Daily,  of  Denver.  They  have  one 
son,  John  Francis  Campion,  Jr.,  born  June  26, 
1896. 

Politically  Mr.  Campion  has  always  been  a 
Republican  and  is  a  supporter  of  the  silver  cause. 
His  time  has  been  given  so  closely  to  business 
that  he  has  not  had  leisure  for  official  positions, 
even  had  he  a  taste  in  that  direction.  In  personal 
characteristics  he  is  known  for  his  equipoise  of 
power,  which  taken  by  itself  would  probably  not 
be  supreme,  but  taken  in  conjunction  with  other 
qualities,  constitute  a  genius  of  high  order. 
Brave  in  spirit,  to  him  reverses  mean  fresh  re- 
solves, and  hardships  mean  greater  rewards  in 
the  future.     He  is  worthy  to  rank  with  the  great 


mining  operators  and  financiers  of  our  republic. 
Younger  men  are  indebted  to  him  for  a  splendid 
example  of  perseverance  and  determined  efforts. 
From  an  early  age  he  relied  upon  his  own  efforts, 
thus  attaining  a  self-discipline  which  is  indis- 
pensable to  success.  He  is  essentially  straight- 
forward and  manly  and  is  by  nature  a  well- 
equipped  man,  a  typical  product  of  American 
life  in  the  nineteenth  century  and  affording  an 
example  of  the  opportunities  offered  by  our  great 
west. 


QHARLES  a.  BRANHAM,  who  is  engaged 
j  (  in  the  real-estate  and  insurance  business  at 
U  No.  16 17  Lawrence  street,  Denver,  was  born 
in  Vernon,  Ind.,  April  20,  1857,  and  is  a  son  of 
James  and  Eveline  (Allen)  Branham.  His  pater- 
nal ancestors  were  of  English  extraction  and  were 
prominent  in  the  early  days  of  Virginia  and  Ken- 
tucky, from  which  states  they  removed  to  Indiana, 
and  became  wealthy  and  influential.  Some  of  the 
name  are  now  extensively  engaged  in  the  mer- 
cantile business  in  St.  Louis,  of  which  city  they 
are  prominent  citizens.  A  brother  of  James 
Branham  was  one  of  the  pioneers  of  Kansas  City, 
with  the  growth  and  development  of  which  he 
was  intimately  associated;  he  was  the  prime  mo- 
ver in  the  organization  of  the  First  National  Bank, 
of  which  he  served  as  president,  and  he  was  also 
president  of  the  chamber  of  commerce  and  board 
of  trade.     He  died  in  that  city  about  1890. 

During  his  entire  business  life  James  Branham 
was  a  railroad  contractor  and  at  the  time  of  his 
death,  which  occurred  when  he  was  fifty-six  and 
his  son  fourteen  years  of  age,  he  had  on  hand 
contracts  to  the  amount  of  $150,000.  He  held 
the  position  of  superintendent  of  construction  of 
the  Indiana  &  Vincennes  Railroad,  which  was 
built  and  operated  by  relatives  of  his  own  name. 
Three  times  married,  he  had  six  children  by  his 
first  wife,  four  by  his  second,  our  subject  being 
next  to  the  youngest  of  the  family.  Besides  him- 
self two  are  now  living. 

Prior  to  the  death  of  his  father  our  subject  as- 
sisted in  railroad  construction,  but  afterward  he 
went  to  Indianapolis  and  became  connected  with 
the  Indianapolis  Coffin  Manufacturing  Company 
as  shipping  clerk.  He  began  on  a  salary  of  $6 
per  week,  but  his  services  were  so  valuable  that 
he  soon  received  promotion .  For  eighteen  months 
he  traveled  for  the  firm  and  at  the  time  of  his 


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resignation  he  was  receiving  $125  per  month. 
In  1875  he  made  his  first  trip  to  the  west,  going 
to  Cheyenne  and  the  Black  Hills,  but  was  obliged 
to  return  east  on  account  of  the  hostilities  of  the 
Indians.  Afterward  he  entered  the  transportation 
department  of  the  Pennsylvania  Railroad,  with 
which  he  continued  until  1880.  During  the  lat- 
ter year  he  came  to  Colorado  and  at  Colorado 
Springs  had  charge  of  A.  1,.  Millard's  furniture 
and  undertaking  establishment  for  one  year. 
Coming  to  Denver  in  188 1  he  entered  the  employ 
of  B.  H.  Bayler,  and  when  the  latter  sold  out,  in 
1882,  he  took  charge  of  the  closing  of  the  furni- 
ture establishment  and  the  settling  of  accounts. 
Having  finished  that  work,  he  and  two  other 
employes  of  Mr.  Bayler  formed  a  partnership  in 
the  upholstering  business,  having  their  store  on 
the  site  now  occupied  by  the  Ernest  and  Cranmer 
building.  After  a  year  he  bought  out  one  partner 
and  later  purchased  the  other's  interest. 

On  selling  out  the  business  after  six  years,  Mr. 
Branham  went  to  Los  Angeles,  Cal.,  where  he 
entered  the  mercantile  business,  but  through  un- 
fortunate investments  lost  most  of  the  money  he 
had  made  in  Denver.  In  1889  he  came  back  to 
this  city  and  entered  the  real-estate  business, 
platting  land  for  lots,  buying  and  selling,  and 
during  the  four  years  that  followed  he  cleared 
over  $60,000,  which  he  invested  in  city  property. 
The  unfortunate  decrease  in  value  of  property 
obliged  him  to  sell  land  that  had  been  worth 
$35,000  at  $1,100,  and  he,  in  common  with  all 
owners  of  property  in  the  city,  suffered  heavy 
financial  losses. 

July  I,  1884,  in  Denver,  Mr.  Branham  married 
Miss  Josie  E.  Turner,  of  Louisiana,  Mo. ,  with 
whom  he  had  become  acquainted  during  a  visit 
she  made  in  Denver.  They  have  one  son,  who 
was  born  in  Denver,  May  26,  1889.  Accompa- 
nied by  his  wife,  in  1887,  he  made  a  tour  of  the 
world,  sailing  from  San  Francisco  to  the  Sand- 
wich Islands,  where  they  spent  six  weeks.  From 
there  they  journeyed  to  Australia,  touching  at 
Samoa  and  Auckland,  New  Zealand.  After  two 
months  in  Sidney  they  went  to  Wellington,  and 
from  there  to  London  via  South  America,  touch- 
ing at  Rio  Janeiro.  One  of  their  never-to-be-for- 
gotten experiences  was  in  the  latter  city,  where 
they  witnessed  the  celebration  of  the  emancipa- 
tion of  slaves.  After  touring  through  Great  Brit- 
ain, they  visited  all  the  points  of  interest  on  the 


continent,  enjoyed  the  magnificent  view  from 
Mount  Blanc,  crossed  the  Mer  de  Glace  and  Gla- 
cier der  Bossons,  visited  the  scene  of  the  fateful 
battle  of  Waterloo,  crossed  the  German  Pass, 
thence  down  the  Rhine  through  Belgium,  and 
visiting  the  castle  of  Chillon  on  Lake  Geneva,  so 
well  known  through  Byron's  description  of  the 
prisoner  of  Chillon.  Before  they  had  completed 
their  tour  as  planned,  business  matters  called  Mr. 
Branham  to  the  United  States  in  1888,  and  they 
therefore  crossed  the  ocean  to  New  York,  and 
from  there  proceeded  west  to  Colorado  and  Cali- 
fornia. 

Though  reared  in  the  Republican  faith,  Mr. 
Branham  supported  the  Democracy  from  early 
youth  until  recent  years,  when  he  became  con- 
vinced that  the  principles  of  the  Republican  party 
would  conduce  to  the  best  interests  of  the  people 
and  the  welfare  of  the  country.  He  is  prominent 
in  the  work  of  the  Central  Christian  Church,  of 
which  he  is  a  deacon  and  chairman  of  the  finance 
committee.  He  became  a  member  of  this  church 
shortly  after  settling  in  Denver,  and  was  chosen 
assistant  superintendent  of  the  Sunday-school. 
While  acting  in  that  capacity  he  was  married  at 
a  pic-nic  given  by  the  Sunday-school  at  Palmer 
Lake.  He  is  a  public-spirited  citizen,  active  in 
all  enterprises  for  the  advancement  of  the  city 
and  the  promotion  of  its  welfare. 


'HOMAS  J.  MILLER,  who  was  the  first 
mayor  of  the  now  thriving  little  city  of 
Lafayette,  Boulder  County,  is  a  native  of 
this  county,  and  from  his  earliest  recollections 
has  been  earnestly  interested  in  its  upbuilding 
and  development.  He  occupied  the  ofiBce  of 
mayor  for  two  successive  terms,  giving  general 
satisfaction  to  the  citizens,  and  later  he  served  in 
the  capacity  of  justice  of  the  peace  for  four  years. 
He  is  identified  with  Lignite  Lodge  No.  64,  K.  P., 
and  is  past  chancellor  of  the  lodge.  In  his  polit- 
ical proclivities  he  is  a  Democrat,  strongly  in  favor 
of  free  silver. 

The  birth  of  T.  J.  Miller  took  place  upon  his 
parents'  farm  about  three  miles  east  of  Longmont, 
Boulder  County,  June  22,  1864.  The  parents, 
Lafayette  and  Mary  E.  Miller,  most  worthy  peo- 
ple and  pioneers  of  this  section,  were  the  founders 
of  the  town  of  Lafayette.  Subsequent  to  the 
death  of  the  father  the  family  removed  to  a  farm 


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near  the  town  meiitioued  and  here  our  subject 
grew  to  manhood,  his  education  being  acquired 
in  the  district  schools.  In  1887  he  took  a  posi- 
tion as  a  stationary  engineer,  and  being  a  thor- 
ough and  practical  mechanic  and  a  conscientious, 
careful  man,  his  employers  placed  the  utmost 
confidence  in  his  skill  and  judgment.  For  some 
time  he  was  in  charge  of  the  engines  of  a  mine 
owned  by  the  Citizens'  Coal  Company.  In  1895 
he  turned  his  energies  to  the  sale  of  farm  and 
mining  implements  and  tools  at  Greeley,  but  at 
the  close  of  the  year,  when  he  cast  up  his  ac- 
counts, he  found  that  the  business  was  not  pay- 
ing him  and  he  returned  to  the  old  homestead. 
Here  in  partnership  with  his  two  brothers, 
Charles  L,.  and  George  I.,  as  Miller  Brothers,  he 
began  the  cultivation  of  the  farm.  In  1896  he 
purchased  a  threshing  machine,  which  he  runs 
during  the  season. 

September  2,  1890,  Mr.  Miller  married  Miss 
Sarah  Abernethy,  whose  father,  Thomas  Aber- 
nethy,  came  to  Colorado  in  1883  and  was  one  of 
the  first  settlers  of  Lafayette.  He  is  a  native  of 
Scotland,  and  upon  his  immigration  to  America 
in  1864,  settled  in  Pennsylvania.  There  he  lived 
for  a  number  of  years,  working  in  the  coal  mines. 
To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Miller  three  children  have  been 
born,  but  only  one  remains  to  them,  namely: 
Mollie  A.,  born  March  29,  1897.  A  little  son, 
Lafayette,  and  the  eldest  child,  Maggie  Pearl, 
died  in  infancy.  Our  subject  and  wife  have  many 
sincere  friends  in  this  vicinity  and  enjoy  the  re- 
spect of  all  who  know  them,  here  or  elsewhere. 


EHARLES  E.  KUHN.  One  of  the  largest 
ranches  in  this  part  of  the  state  is  situated 
near  Kuhn's  Crossing,  in  Elbert  County, 
and  covers  an  area  of  ten  square  miles.  This 
land  is  devoted  principally  to  grazing.  It  is 
owned  by  Charles  E.  Kuhn,  who  came  here  in 
1872,  after  traveling  over  a  large  part  of  the 
United  States,  and  was  chosen  by  him  as  a  most 
desirable  location  for  a  home.  He  was  born  in 
1836,  in  East  Berlin,  Adams  County,  Pa.,  about 
twelve  miles  from  the  famous  battleground  of 
Gettysburg. 

His  parents  were  Joseph  J .  and  Jane  R.  (  McCabe  ) 
Kuhn;  his  grandfather,  John  J.  Kuhn,  was  a  na- 
tive of  Reading,  that  state,  and  was  a  farmer  dur- 
ing the  early  days  of  the  state.     The  father  was 


also  born  in  Adams  County,  and  was  a  drummer 
boy  in  the  war  of  18 12,  and  during  the  Civil  war 
a  colonel  of  the  state  militia.  His  occupation 
was  that  of  farming,  but  for  fifteen  years  he  acted 
as  associate  judge  of  Adams  County,  besides  hold- 
ing many  minor  offices.  He  was  born  in  1803 
and  lived  to  be  seventy-six  years  of  age.  He  mar- 
ried Jane  R.  McCabe,  a  native  of  Pennsylvania, 
but  of  Irish  descent,  her  father,  Edward  McCabe, 
having  emigrated  to  this  country  from  Ireland 
about  the  time  that  that  people  were  coming  un- 
der the  dominion  of  the  English.  She  lived  to 
the  advanced  age  of  eighty-two  years  and  was 
buried  beside  the  husband  and  father. 

Of  their  children  we  note  the  following:  Ed- 
ward J.  is  a  wealthy  farmer  of  Hanover,  Pa. 
Louis  DeBarth,  who  was  surgeon  in  the  United 
States  navy  during  the  war,  is  now  a  practic- 
ing physician  in  Brooklyn;  he  married  Miss 
Pettygrove,  of  Portland,  Ore.,  daughter  of  the 
founder  of  that  city.  Joseph  A.  is  a  lawyer  of 
considerable  wealth,  president  of  a  bank  at  Port 
Townsend,  Wash.;  he  has  been  in  the  legislature 
and  state  senate  for  twenty  years  and  is  a  promi- 
nent Mason,  a  past  master  of  the  grand  lodge  of 
Washington,  and  a  shriner.  John  R.  is  a  law- 
yer in  Brooklyn;  and  George  R.,  a  physician  of 
the  same  city.  Maria  R.  married  C.  F.  Leison, 
auddied  while  on  her  wedding  journey,  in  Cuba. 
Jane  is  the  widow  of  P.  Riley,  an  eminent  law- 
yer of  New  York,  where  she  is  still  residing. 
Charles  is  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 

He  received  his  education  in  the  public  schools 
of  his  native  state  and  still  further  supplemented 
it  by  a  course  in  Calvert  College,  Carroll  County, 
Md. ,  finishing  at  the  age  of  nineteen.  He  then 
went  to  Mexico,  where  he  and  a  brother  bought 
horses,  selling  them  in  Missouri.  After  that  he 
was  for  years  engaged  in  driving  cattle  across  the 
plains,  until  1872,  when  he  came  from  Missouri 
With  a  yoke  of  oxen,  some  cattle  and  horses,  and 
took  up  his  residence  on  his  present  home  place. 
This  property  had  no  improvements  whatever 
when  he  took  possession  of  it,  and  he  has  just 
completed  a  nice  residence  and  will  soon  irrigate 
five  hundred  additional  acres  of  his  land. 

In  1862  Mr.  Kuhn  married  Miss  Jennie  Myers, 
a  native  of  his  own  county  and  daughter  of  a 
farmer  there.  They  have  one  child,  Cora,  who 
is  at  home.  Mr.  Kuhn  has  always  been  a  Demo- 
crat, and  treasurer  of  Elbert  County  for  years, 


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but  has  no  desire  for  public  office.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Masonic  lodge,  a  Knight  Templar  and 
a  member  of  the  Mystic  Shrine. 


pQlLLIAM  S.  FLORA,  proprietor  of  a  gro- 
lAl  '^^^y  and  meat  market  at  Berthoud,  is  one 
V  Y  of  the  well-known  business  men  of  Lari- 
mer County.  He  is  a  stockholder  in  the  Handy 
Ditch  Company,  and  for  five  years  served  as  su- 
perintendent of  construction,  also  held  the  office 
of  director  for  four  j'cars.  When  the  ditch  was 
building  he  made  the  first  application  for  water 
from  it,  to  be  turned  on  his  place.  He  is  also  a 
stockholder  in  the  Berthoud  rolling  mill  and 
Longmont  creamery.  As  one  of  the  first  settlers 
of  Berthoud,  he  has  witnessed  its  growth  from  a 
barren  tract  of  land,  destitute  of  houses,  to  the 
present  thriving  little  village.  Before  the  town 
was  laid  out,  he  delivered  the  first  load  of  wheat 
ever  brought  here. 

In  Monroe  County,  Ind.,  in  1847,  the  subject 
of  this  sketch  was  born  to  Elijah  and  Arminda 
(Atwood)  Flora.  When  he  was  six  years  of  age 
he  accompanied  the  family  to  Greene  County, 
the  same  state,  and  later  went  to  Sullivan  County, 
Mo.,  and  from  there  removed  to  Page  County, 
Iowa.  In  the  different  places  where  he  resided 
he  attended  the  public  schools  whenever  opportu- 
nity offered.  At  the  age  of  fifteen  he  came  alone  to 
Colorado  and  for  some  time  engaged  in  teaming. 
While  he  was  on  the  plains,  hauling  freight,  the 
Indians  were  on  the  warpath  and  for  three  years 
he  was  in  almost  constant  danger  of  attacks 
from  them,  having  many  narrow  escapes  and 
thrilling  adventures  during  that  time.  After 
four  years  he  purchased  a  team  and  began  team- 
ing for  himself,  following  it  for  a  year.  In  1867  he 
went  back  to  Iowa,  where  he  engaged  in  general 
farming  and  stock-raising  for  seven  years.  Dur- 
ing this  time,  in  1868,  he  married  Miss  Susannah 
E.  Scarlett. 

Failing  health  caused  Mr.  Flora  to  come  to 
Colorado  in  1876.  This  time  he  settled  in  Long- 
mont, where  he  farmed  for  two  years.  In  1878  he 
took  up  government  land  near  Berthoud,  and  be- 
gan farming  and  stock-raising,  becoming  in  time 
one  of  the  most  extensive  cattle  men  of  his  lo- 
cality. He  still  owns  and  cultivates  the  farm. 
For  one  year  he  carried  on  a  meat  business  in 
connection  with  farming,  and  then  added  to  that 


a  general  grocery  .store,  of  which  he  has  since 
been  the  proprietor.  In  its  management  and  in 
the  care  of  farm  lands  and  handling  of  stock  in 
trades,  his  time  is  busily  passed.  In  poHtical 
opinion  he  is  a  Democrat  and  fraternally  is  identi- 
fied with  Berthoud  Lodge,  I.  O.  O.  F. ,  in  which 
he  passed  the  chairs  and  from  which  he  was  the 
first  representative  to  the  grand  lodge. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Flora  are  the  parents  of  eleven 
children,  as  follows:  May  E.,  wife  of  G.  A. 
Saltzman;  Arminda,  who  married  John  B.  Sloan; 
Susannah  E.,  Mrs.  Albert  Beeler;  William  H. ; 
George  M.,  who  died  at  nine  years  of  age; 
Augu.st,'  Peet,  Rosie,  Pink,  Elijah  and  Carl. 


HON.  ELTON  T.  BECKWITH.  TheBeck- 
with  family  is  of  English  lineage.  George 
C.  Beckwith  was  born  in  Halifax,  Nova 
Scotia,  to  which  place  his  father  had  removed 
from  Connecticut.  For  a  time  he  engaged  in  the 
mercantile  business  in  Ellsworth,  Me.,  but  after- 
ward became  a  builder  and  owner  of  ships  en- 
gaged in  the  Mediterranean,  West  Indian  and 
South  American  trade.  During  the  war  a  part 
of  his  large  fleet  of  vessels  was  chartered  by  the 
government  as  transports.  He  was  then  living 
in  Boston,  but  later  went  to  Philadelphia,  and  in 
1869  came  to  Colorado  for  his  health.  His  la,st 
years  were  spent  in  Oakland,  Cal. ,  where  he  died 
at  his  beautiful  villa  in  1892,  aged  seventy-four 
years.  His  wife,  who  was  of  English  descent, 
was  a  native  of  Mount  Desert  Island,  Me.  She 
was  a  collateral  descendant  of  General  Heath, 
famous  in  Revolutionary  annals.  Her  death  oc- 
curred in  Denver. 

On  Mount  Desert  Island,  one  of  the  fashion- 
able watering  places  of  the  people  in  this  country, 
Elton  T.  Beckwith  was  born,  April  i,  1847.  He 
was  educated  in  the  schools  of  Cambridge  and 
Boston.  In  1866  he  embarked  in  the  wholesale 
flour  and  grain  business  in  Philadelphia,  but  in 
1869  closed  out  the  business  and  in  April  of  the 
following  year  came  to  Denver  to  engage  in  the 
.stock  business.  The  previous  year  his  brother, 
Edwin  F.,  had  settled  in  what  is  now  Custer 
County,  and  the  two  formed  a  partnership  and 
have  since  carried  on  a  large  and  profitable  busi- 
ness. 

While  residing  upon  his  ranch,  known  as  the 
"Waverly   Ranch,"   Custer  County  was  estab- 


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lished.  In  1886  he  was  elected  upon  the  Repub- 
lican ticket  to  represent  his  district  in  the  state 
senate,  and  served  as  chairman  of  the  committee 
on  education  and  educational  institutions,  and 
was  chairman  of  the  stock  committee.  Not  de- 
siring re-election,  he  retired  to  private  life  at  the 
close  of  his  term.  He  has  been  a  delegate  to 
county  and  state  conventions  and  in  other  ways 
has  been  actively  identified  with  the  party  of  his 
preference. 

Mrs.  Beckwith,  who  was  formerly  Miss  Elsie 
A.  Chapin,  was  born  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  and 
graduated  from  the  Michigan  Female  Seminary 
at  Detroit.  She  is  a  daughter  of  Adam  and 
Polly  (Stone)  Chapin,  natives  of  Massachusetts 
and  residents  successively  of  Boston,  Detroit  and 
Chicago,  where  Mr.  Chapin  was  engaged  in 
business.  In  religious  belief  she  is  an  Episco- 
palian and  takes  a  warm  interest  in  the  work  of 
that  church.  The  culture  of  Mrs.  Beckwith  and 
her  daughter,  Velma,  who  is  a  graduate  of 
Ogontz  Seminary,  makes  them  ornaments  of  so- 
ciety, while  their  taste  for  the  beautiful  is  evinced 
by  the  appointments  of  their  home. 

The  business  career  of  Mr.  Beckwith  has  been 
a  succe.ssful  oue.  His  honorable  dealings  with 
all  men  have  become  proverbial  with  the  busi- 
ness men  of  Colorado,  who  look  upon  him  as  one 
of  the  most  substantial  and  enterprising  citizens 
of  the  Centennial  state.  There  are  many  lessons 
in  his  life  to  a  younger  generation;  and  now,  as 
the  shadows  lengthen  and  the  pathway  down  the 
mountain  side  enters  the  peaceful  glow  of  life's 
evening,  he  can  look  back  upon  the  heights 
with  a  satisfaction  few  are  privileged  to  enjoy. 


gEORGE  WASHINGTON  ALLEN,  a  wide- 
ly known  pioneer  of  Boulder  County,  was 
born  upon  the  anniversary  of  the  birth  of 
the  "father  of  his  country,"  February  22,  1854, 
and,  as  was  most  fitting,  was  named  in  honor 
of  the  great  general,  statesman  and  patriot. 
The  subject  of  this  narrative  has  had  a  very 
interesting  and  eventful  history,  as  it  is  indis- 
solubly  interwoven  with  that  of  the  early  settle- 
ment of  this  portion  of  Colorado,  and  he  has 
always  borne  his  full  share  of  the  enterprises 
which  have  resulted  in  the  civilization  and  pres- 
ent high  standing  of  this  state  in  the  great 
commonwealth. 


The  parents  of  the  above  were  Alonzo  N.  and 
Mary  (Harris)  Allen,  natives  of  New  York  and 
England  respectively.  (For  sketch  of  the  mother 
and  her  people  see  biography  of  W.  H.  Dickens, 
a  son  by  her  first  marriage.)  A.  N.  Allen  re- 
moved from  his  native  state  to  Ohio,  and  thence 
to  Columbus,  Wis.,  where  he  was  a  pioneer 
farmer  and  mill  operator.  He  owned  large  stone 
quarries,  raised  immense  crops  of  wheat  and  was 
very  prosperous  until  the  panic  of  1857  crushed 
him  financially.  Two  years  later  he  set  out  for 
Pike's  Peak,  driving  yokes  of  oxen  and  cows  at- 
tached to  the  primitive  wagons  or  "prairie 
schooners"  of  the  period.  He  settled  on  the  St. 
Vrain  River,  homesteading  a  tract  of  land,  and 
soon  embarked  in  haymaking  on  a  large  scale. 
The  hay,  which  was  all  cut  and  raked  by  hand, 
he  hauled  to  Blackhawk,  receiving  incredible 
prices  for  it,  but  groceries  and  everything  in  the 
line  of  merchandise  was  proportionately  high. 
Later  he  turned  his  attention  to  stock-raising  and 
mining.  He  went  to  the  Black  Hills,  where  he 
was  in  the  placer  mines,  and  upon  his  return  to 
this  county  he  continued  his  mining  enterprises. 
His  last  years  were  spent  in  Longmont,  where  he 
died  in  1895,  aged  seventy-eight  years.  His 
eldest  son,  Rudolphus  N.,  died  in  Longmont. 
Charles  F. ,  the  third  son,  is  proprietor  of  the 
Imperial  Hotel  of  Longmont;  and  A.  H.,  the 
youngest,  is  foreman  in  the  Longmont  Canning 
Factory. 

G.  W.  Allen  was  born  in  Columbus,  Wis.,  and 
in  the  summer  of  1863,  with  his  mother,  crossed 
the  plains  by  way  of  St.  Joseph  and  the  Platte 
River.  They  reached  the  small  log  house  that 
the  father  had  erected  on  his  farm  for  the  family 
October  25,  1863.  The  old-time  stage  lines 
passed  right  near  their  cabin  door,  and  the  senior 
Allen  kept  an  inn  and  built  large  barns  for  the 
use  of  the  stage  company.  The  nearest  town, 
now  Longmont,  was  then  called  Burlington.  Our 
subject  and  his  brothers  drove  teams  for  the  colo- 
nists, and  the  former,  in  1864,  though  but  ten 
years  of  age,  accomplished  the  work  of  a  full- 
grown  man  by  driving  three  yoke  of  oxen  in  the 
difficult  task  of  "breaking  prairie."  For  this 
labor  he  was  paid  $10  per  month,  while  men  were 
given  $60.  With  his  money  thus  hardly  earned 
he  bought  an  Indian  pony  captured  by  his  step- 
brother, W.  H.  Dickens,  at  Sand  Creek,  and 
started  to  raise  horses,  and  within  a  few  years 


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had  sixty  head.  For  a  few  months  he  was  em- 
ployed by  the  Ben  HalHday  Stage  Company  at 
$25  per  month,  and  in  the  winter  he  attended 
school.  In  1 87 1  he  ran  a  stage  between  Erie  and 
Burlington  and  kept  a  feed  stable  at  the  last- 
named  point  up  to  1875.  Then,  in  company 
with  his  brother,  R.  N.,  he  leased  a  herd  of 
cattle,  eight  hundred  in  number,  for  five  years, 
on  shares,  and  took  them  to  Cedar  Creek,  one 
hundred  and  ten  miles  northeast  of  L,ongniont. 
The  venture  was  not  altogether  successful  on  ac- 
count of  one  particularly  hard  winter,  but  at  the 
end  of  the  five  years  our  subject  started  a  herd 
of  his  own  and  continued  in  the  stock-raising 
business  up  to  1889,  when  he  sold  out.  For  the 
past  fourteen  years  he  has  handled  live  stock  for 
various  parties  in  the  west,  and  upon  one  occasion 
one  thousand  head  of  cattle  were  given  to  him  to 
sell  on  commission  by  the  Wabash  Cattle  Com- 
pany, of  Navajo  Springs,  Ariz.  He  was  not 
asked  to  give  one  cent  of  .security,  and  transacted 
the  business  to  the  entire  satisfaction  of  the  inter- 
ested parties,  who  afterward  wrote  a  highly  com- 
mendatory letter  to  him.  At  another  time  he 
sold  a  ranch  and  stock  for  a  Mr.  Pauley,  of  St. 
Louis.  This  was  the  largest  land  deal  of  the 
kind  ever  known  in  the  annals  of  Boulder  Coun- 
ty, the  total  sum  which  changed  hands  amount- 
ing to  $60,000.  Mr.  Allen  owns  considerable 
land  himself,  one  tract  being  in  the  vicinity  of 
Golden,  Colo.  For  years  he  has  borne  the  repu- 
tation of  being  the  most  extensive  cattle  dealer 
in  the  county,  and  his  shipments  are  generally  to 
Denver  and  Omaha.  When  actively  engaged  in 
ranging  cattle  he  was  a  member  of  the  Colorado 
Cattle  Growers'  Association. 

Some  years  ago  Mr.  Allen  improved  a  piece  of 
ground  at  Coffman  and  Third  avenue,  Long- 
mont,  and  now  resides  in  the  comfortable  home 
which  he  established  here.  He  was  married  in 
Longmont,  in  1881,  to  Miss  Carrie  Smith,  daugh- 
ter of  William  and  Annie  (Skeel)  Smith.  The 
father  was  a  British  subject  who  came  to  the 
United  States  in  his  early  manhood  and  at  first 
lived  on  the  Hudson  River,  where  he  worked  at 
his  calling  of  architect  and  builder,  but  in  the 
fall  of  i860  he  went  to  California,  and  a  few 
months  later  died  in  the  city  of  San  Francisco. 
Mrs.  Smith,  a  native  of  Scotland,  was  a  daughter 
of  William  Skeel,  whose  death  occurred  in  that 
country.     She  reared  her  family  in  Tarrytown, 


N.  Y.,  and  is  still  living  there.  Mrs.  Allen  grew 
to  womanhood  in  the  Empire  state  and  in  1878 
came  to  Longmont.  She  has  three  children  by 
her  marriage,  namely:  Vernett  S.,  who  is  a 
member  of  the  class  of  1902  of  the  agricultural 
college;  Annie  Pearl  and  Wilhelmina  Fern. 

Fraternally  Mr.  Allen  belongs  to  the  Odd  Fel- 
lows' society,  to  the  Ancient  Order  of  United 
Workmen  and  to  the  Knights  of  the  Maccabees, 
while  his  wife  is  associated  with  the  Ladies  of 
L.  O.  T.  M.  In  his  political  convictions  Mr. 
Allen  is  a  Republican. 


(lOSEPH  O.  DOSTAL.  Soon  after  the  close 
I  of  the  war,  in  which  he  had  borne  an  honor- 
(2/  able  part  as  a  soldier,  Mr.  Dostal  determined 
to  seek  a  home  in  the  west.  April  i,  1866,  he 
and  a  comrade  who  had  served  in  the  same  regi- 
ment with  him  left  Iowa  City  and  proceeded  west- 
ward along  the  line  of  the  Platte,  but  at  North 
Platte  the  friend  started  on  the  Salt  Lake  trail 
and  Mr.  Dostal  proceeded  toward  Colorado,  set- 
tling at  Central  City,  where  he  engaged  in  the 
butchering  business,  first  working  for  William 
Nicholson,  a  Scotchman,  but  not  a  practical 
butcher.  After  working  eighteen  months  here 
and  learning  the  ways  and  customs  of  the  people, 
he  returned  to  Iowa  City  and  married  Miss  Mary 
Hamllik,  who  accompanied  faim  back  to  Central, 
via  Cheyenne,  to  which  point  they  traveled  by 
rail,  then  took  the  stage  to  Central. 

He  immediately  started  a  meat  market  at 
Nevadaville  (now  Bald  Mountain)  with  William 
Nicholson  as  partner,  where  they  successfully 
conducted  the  business  for  one  year.  Mr.  Dostal 
then  purchased  Nicholson's  interest  and  moved 
to  Central  on  Spring  street,  where  by  close 
attention  to  business  he  built  up  a  large  trade, 
which  necessitated  his  engaging  larger  quarters. 
He  moved  to  a  more  central  location  on  Main 
street,  purchasing  a  building  in  which  he  fitted 
up  the  finest  market  in  the  city,  enjoying  the 
patronage  of  the  surrounding  towns  and  mining 
camps. 

In  1874,  when  the  great  Central  City  fire  swept 
the  entire  town  and  reduced  it  to  a  mass  of  ruins, 
his  market  was  a  total  loss,  but,  not  discouraged 
with  his  severe  loss,  he  at  once  opened  a  market 
stall  in  the  only  building  then  standing,  the 
Hasard  Powder  Company  building,  into  which, 


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shortly  after,  the  O.  K.  clothing  store,  and  the 
Henry  Swerder  boot  and  shoe  house,  moved,  each 
of  the  three  merchants  managing  to  conduct  his 
respective  business  in  this  one  room,  without 
interfering  with  the  others. 

December  19,  1874,  Mr.  Dostal  moved  to  his 
new  building,  the  handsome  Dostal  Block,  on 
which  work  was  commenced  at  once.  In  this 
block  he  conducted  a  first-cla.ss  business  for  one 
year,  building  up  an  excellent  trade,  but  failing 
health  from  overwork  compelled  him  to  change 
his  occupation  and  seek  the  open  air;  it  was  then 
he  rented  his  store  and  moved  to  his  ranch  at 
Aroya,  Colo.,  in  Bent  (now  Cheyenne)  County, 
on  the  Kansas  Pacific  Railway,  about  one  hun- 
dred and  thirty  miles  east  of  Denver,  which 
ranch  he  stocked  with  sheep,  cattle  and  horses; 
in  1896  he  closed  out  his  sheep  and  now  handles 
cattle  and  horses  only.  He  has  constructed  an 
under-flow  irrigating  ditch  from  the  Big  Sandy 
and  his  extensive  alfalfa  fields  make  his  ranch 
one  of  the  best  in  eastern  Colorado.  While  he 
and  his  family  were  living  on  the  ranch,  the 
Indians  made  a  raid  near  them  and  killed  a  man, 
which  caused  the  settlers  to  feel  their  daily  peril, 
and  he  soon  afterward  removed  his  family  to  Den- 
ver, where  he  resides  at  No.  2550  Stout  street. 

Mr.  Dostal  was  born  in  Reichnau,  Bohemia,  a 
university  city  sixteen  miles  from  Prague.  His 
grandfather,  George  Dostal,  was  born  there  and 
engaged  in  business  as  a  millwright  and  builder. 
One  of  his  sons  took  part  in  the  Revolution  of 
1848.  Another  son,  George,  Jr.,  our  subject's 
father,  was  a  manufacturer  of  woolen  cloth  in 
Reichnau,  his  native  town;  but  in  1856  he  brought 
his  family  to  America,  going  first  from  Hamburg 
to  Liverpool,  and  thence  to  New  York  by  sailing 
vessel.  After  a  voyage  of  four  weeks  and  five 
days  he  reached  this  country  and  at  once  went  to 
Iowa  City,  Iowa,  where  he  remained  until  his 
death  in  1866,  at  the  age  of  fifty-five  years.  His 
wife,  Jennie,  was  a  daughter  of  John  Blazek,  a 
woolen  cloth  manufacturer.  She  was  born  in 
Bohemia  and  died  in  Iowa  in  1893,  aged  seventy- 
eight.  Ot  their  eight  children  all  are  living  but 
James,  who  came  to  Colorado  in  1868  and  died 
here;  and  Frank,  who  died  in  Iowa.  Three  of 
the  daughters  are  living  in  Colorado  and  one  in 
Iowa,  while  the  oldest  son,  John  P.,  is  a  resident 
of  Iowa  City. 

At  the  time  of  coming  to  America,  the  subject 


of  this  sketch  was  thirteen  years  of  age.  He  had 
previously  studied  in  the  night  schools  in  his 
native  land  and  had  acquired  a  good  knowledge 
of  both  the  Bohemian  and  German  languages. 
He  began  to  work  at  once  after  reaching  Iowa, 
first  following  any  occupation  that  was  presented, 
then  working  upon  a  farm,  and  at  the  age  of 
fifteen  beginning  in  the  butcher's  trade.  In  1862 
he  volunteered  as  a  member  of  Company  K, 
Twenty-second  Iowa  Infantry,  which  was  mus- 
tered in  at  Davenport,  Iowa,  and  ordered  from 
there  to  Springfield,  Rolla,  West  Plains  and  St. 
Genevieve,  Mo.,  .successively,  and  then  to  Vicks- 
burg.  Miss.,  joining  Grant's  army  there  in  the 
Thirteenth  army  corps.  He  took  part  in  the 
siege  of  that  city  and  at  its  close  was  sent  to  join 
the  Nineteenth  Corps  in  New  Orleans,  going 
from  there  to  Matagorda  Bay  in  Texas,  later  re- 
turning to  New  Orleans,  then  marching  to  New 
Iberia,  La.,  from  there  back  to  New  Orleans, 
next  transferred  to  Petersburg,  Va.,  and  from 
there  three  weeks  later  to  Washington,  D.  C, 
where  new  outfits  were  furnished.  From  the 
capital  city  he  marched  to  Harper's  Ferry,  then 
joined  General  Sheridan  in  the  Shenandoah  Val- 
ley and  participated  in  that  famous  campaign,  in 
which  he  bore  an  honorable  part  in  three  battles 
and  four  skirmishes,  all  fought  within  thirty  days 
of  one  another.  From  Baltimore  he  went  on  a 
transport  to  Savannah,  marched  from  there  to 
Augusta,  returned  to  Savannah,  where  he  was 
mustered  out,  then  went  back  to  Baltimore  and 
from  there  to  Davenport,  Iowa,  where  he  was 
honorably  discharged  August  25,  1865.  During 
his  long  term  of  service  he  was  but  once  wounded 
(at  Cedar  Creek,  Va.,)  and  then  but  slightly. 
As  a  non-commissioned  officer,  he  was  detailed  in 
the  quartermaster's  department,  but  with  that 
exception  spent  the  entire  time  in  the  service. 

After  two  years  in  Colorado  Mr.  Dostal  returned 
to  Iowa  City,  where,  June  10,  1868,  he  married 
Miss  Mary  Hamllik,  who  was  born  near  Prague, 
Bohemia,  the  daughter  of  John  and  Catherine 
(Rha)  Hamllik,  also  natives  of  Bohemia.  Her 
father,  who  was  a  carpenter,  brought  his  family  to 
America  in  1854  and  settled  in  Iowa  City,  where 
he  engaged  in  contracting  and  building  during 
the  remainder  of  his  active  life.  Now  at  the  age 
of  eighty-four,  he  is  living  retired.  His  wife  is 
still  living  and  is  seventy-eight  years  of  age.  Of 
their  eight  children,  six  are  living,  two  sons  and 


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two  daughters  in  Colorado,  one  son  in  Oregon 
and  a  daughter  in  Iowa.  Mrs.  Dostal  was  nine 
years  of  age  when  the  family  came  to  America 
and  from  that  time  until  her  marriage  she  resided 
in  Iowa  City.  She  is  the  mother  of  three  chil- 
dren: George,  a  graduate  of  the  Denver  high 
school,  teller  in  the  Denver  National  Bank  and 
president  of  the  Knights  of  St.  John;  J.  F. ,  a 
graduate  of  the  Denver  manual  high  school,  class 
of  '98,  and  member  of  class  of  1902,  University 
of  Colorado,  where  he  is  fitting  himself  for  an 
electrical  engineer;  and  Mrs.  Delia  Livingston, 
who  graduated  from  the  Academy  of  the  Ladies 
of  the  Sacred  Heart  and  now  resides  in  Denver. 
Mr.  Dostal  was  one  of  the  original  promoters 
of  the  Colorado  Cattle  Growers'  Association  and 
is  now  a  member  of  its  executive  committee. 
Politically  he  is  a  silver  Republican.  He  has 
served  in  the  city  council  in  Central,  and  as 
county  commissioner  in  Cheyenne  County.  He 
holds  membership  in  Lincoln  Post  and  takes  a 
warm  interest  in  all  Grand  Army  matters. 


NARRY  T.  HALLOCK,  M.  D.,  is  a  physi- 
cian in  the  prosperous  little  town  of  Arvada, 
Jefferson  County,  and  is  also  interested  in  a 
drug  and  mercantile  business  here.  Coming  to 
Colorado  in  1893,  he  opened  an  office  in  Denver 
and  engaged  in  professional  work  there  for  three 
years,  then  removed  to  Arvada,  but  still  retain- 
ing much  of  his  practice  in  Denver.  His  med- 
ical education  was  obtained  in  the  east,  and 
there,  too,  he  acquired  a  thorough  experience  in 
the  profession,  both  by  hospital  work  and  by 
private  practice. 

The  Hallock  family  was  founded  in  America 
in  1635,  when  some  of  that  name  emigrated  from 
England  to  Southold,  Long  Island.  Related  to 
this  branch  of  the  family  is  Gen.  William  H. 
Hallock,  commander-in-chief  of  the  United  States 
army  at  one  time.  Luther  C.  Hallock,  our  sub- 
ject's father,  was  born  in  Smithtown,  Long  Isl- 
and, in  1816,  and  at  the  age  of  about  twenty- 
seven  graduated  from  the  Auburn  Theological 
Seminary,  after  which  he  accepted  the  pastorate 
of  the  Congregational  Church  at  Wading  River, 
Long  Island.  Later  he  was  called  to  a  Brooklyn 
pastorate,  and  from  that  city  went  to  Charleston, 
S.  C.  While  in  the  south  the  war  cloud  dark- 
ened the  horizon,  and,  his  sympathies  being  with 


the  north,  he  preferred  to  return  to  his  old  home. 
He  was  given  a  charge  at  Port  Jefferson,  and 
from  that  time  until  1880  his  time  was  divided 
between  Port  Jefferson,  Brooklyn  and  Hunting- 
ton. A  chronic  throat  trouble  that  rendered  ar- 
ticulation sometimes  painful,  caused  him  to  re- 
tire from  the  ministry,  and  at  the  same  time  he 
settled  on  a  farm  near  Port  Jefferson,  where  he 
remained  until  his  death,  in  1890.  His  father, 
Minor  Hallock,  was  a  sea  captain  and  made  his 
home  in  Smithtown. 

The  marriage  of  Luther  C.  Hallock  united  him 
with  Fannie  Tuthill,  who  was  born  in  Wading 
River,  Long  Island,  in  1828,  and  is  now  living 
with  her  daughter,  Margaret,  in  Buffalo.  Her 
father,  Harry  Tuthill,  was  an  old  sea  captain, 
and  made  his  home  at  Wading  River,  becoming 
a  large  land  owner  in  that  locality.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Hallock  had  four  children,  and  three  of 
these  are  still  living,  Harry  T.  being  the  eldest. 
Reuben  P.  graduated  from  Yale  College  in  188 1, 
and  is  now  principal  of  the  Louisville  (Ky.) 
high  school;  and  Margaret  S.,  who  graduated 
from  Vassar  College  in  1889,  was  for  two  years 
afterward  a  professor  in  the  Halifax  (N.  S.)  La- 
dies' College,  later  for  three  years  professor  of 
natural  science  in  Elmira  Free  Academy,  and 
then  resigned  as  instructor,  and  began  the  study 
of  medicine  in  the  Buffalo  Medical  College,  grad- 
uating four  years  later,  sincd  which  time  she  has 
engaged  in  practice  in  Buffalo. 

The  birth  of  Dr.  Hallock  occurred  in  Port  Jef- 
ferson, Long  Island,  January  16,  i860.  Until 
fifteen  years  of  age  he  remained  at  home,  and 
then  went  to  sea,  taking  several  trips  with  an 
uncle,  Thomas  Hallock,  on  whose  .ship  he  visited 
several  ports  in  Central  and  South  America  and 
the  West  Indies.  After  his  return  home  he  en- 
tered the  high  school  at  Riverhead,  and  later  took 
a  course  of  study  in  Bridgehampton  Academy,  of 
which  Prof.  Lewis  Hallock  was  the  principal. 
He  then  spent  two  years  at  the  New  Haven  mili- 
tary Academy,  of  which  Gen.  William  H.  Rus- 
sell was  the  principal.  He  finished  his  literary 
course  in  the  University  of  the  Citj'  of  New  York 
in  1878,  after  which  he  taught  mathematics  in 
the  White  Plains  Military  Academy  for  one  year, 
resigning  the  position  to  study  medicine  with 
Dr.  Allen  Parker,  of  New  York  City.  Later  he 
spent  one  year  in  the  medical  department  of  the 
University  of  the  City  of  New  York,  and  three 


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years  afterward  graduated  from  the  I,oug  Island 
College  Hospital.  For  one  and  one-half  years 
he  was  physician  to  the  hospital  for  women  and 
children  in  Brooklyn,  and  then  for  eleven  years 
served  as  physician  to  the  hospital  in  Brooklyn, 
where  nervous  and  mental  diseases  are  treated. 
At  the  same  time  he  carried  on  a  private  prac- 
tice in  Brooklyn.  In  1893  he  came  west  to  Den- 
ver, and  three  years  later  settled  in  Arvada. 

October  12,  1894,  Dr.  Hallock  married  Miss 
E.  A.  Crowe,  of  Iowa.  During  his  residence  in 
Brooklyn  he  was  a  member  of  the  church  to 
which  Henry  Ward  Beecher  ministered.  Polit- 
ically he  is  independent,  never  having  allied 
himself  with  any  party.  Fraternally  he  is  con- 
nected with  the  Knights  of  St.  John  &  Malta, 
the  National  Providence  Union  and  the  Wood- 
men of  the  World.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
American  Medical  Association,  and  while  in 
Brooklyn  was  actively  identified  with  the  Kings 
County  Medical  Society.  For  four  years  past  he 
has  been  an  associate  editor  of  the  New  York 
Medical  Examiner. 


HORACE  NORMAN  HAWKINS.  The  rec- 
ord of  the  Hawkins  family  shows  that  its 
first  representatives  in  this  country  came 
from  England  and  settled  in  Pennsylvania  during 
an  early  period  in  the  history  of  that  state.  John 
Hawkins,  who  was  born  in  Pennsylvania,  removed 
from  there  to  Kentucky  and  settled  on  the  Blue 
Lick  River,  in  Bath  County,  where  he  engaged 
in  farming.  His  family  consisted  of  thirteen 
sons,  eleven  of  whom  attained  mature  years,  and 
the  majority  of  these  became  professional  men. 
Probably  the  most  prominent  among  them  was 
Alvin,  who  served  as  governor  of  Tennessee  in 
1880-82,  also  held  office  as  judge  of  the  supreme 
court  of  Tennessee  and  was  consul  to  Havana, 
Cuba.  Albert,  a  prominent  attorney,  for  fifteen 
years  held  the  office  of  judge  of  the  circuit  court. 
Joseph,  the  third  son,  has  be'en  prominent  in  legal 
circles  and  served  efficiently  as  judge  of  the  cir- 
cuit court.  Camillus  is  a  successful  attorney  of 
Tennessee.  James  is  a  farmer  and  minister  in 
Kentucky.  Samuel,  now  deceased,  was  a  minis- 
ter in  Texas,  where  William  is  engaged  in  farm- 
ing. Frank  served  in  the  Civil  war,  where  he 
fell  in  battle.  Elvis  was  a  prominent  physician 
in  Tennessee. 


The  fifth  of  these  sons  was  Ashton  W. ,  who 
was  born  in  Bath  County,  Ky.,  and  read  law  in 
that  state,  intending  to  become  an  attorney. 
This  profession  .seems  to  be  the  favorite  one  with 
the  family,  over  fifty  of  whose  members  are  law- 
years.  However,  he  became  interested  in  medi- 
cine, which  profession  he  practiced  throughout 
active  life.  Politically  a  Republican,  he  served 
as  commissioner  of  agriculture  in  the  state  of 
Tennessee  and  was  commissioner  of  internal  rev- 
enue for  the  western  district  of  Tennessee  under 
President  Grant;  later  he  served  as  clerk  of  the 
circuit  court  of  Carroll  County,  Tenn.,  in  which 
capacity  he  was  engaged  at  the  time  of  his  death. 
He  also  held  the  office  of  railroad  commissioner 
of  Tennessee. 

When  a  young  man  Dr.  Hawkins  enlisted  in 
the  Mexican  war,  and  participated  in  the  storming 
of  Vera  Cruz,  Mexico,  and  other  engagements. 
When  the  Civil  war  came  on,  it  found  the  family 
divided  in  opinions.  The  father,  who  was  a 
Whig,  had  died  prior  to  the  war.  The  mother, 
Mary  (Ralston)  Hawkins,  was  a  member  of  one 
of  the  most  influential  families  of  the  south  and 
was  intensely  southern  in  her  .sympathies.  In 
her  sentiments  her  sons  sympathized  and  they  all 
became  adherents  of  the  Confederacy,  excepting 
the  oldest,  Alvin,  and  Ashton  W.,  who,  like 
their  father,  were  stanch  Whigs  and  supporters  of 
the  Union.  Albert  was  an  adjutant  under  Gen- 
eral Forrest,  the  famous  Confederate  leader;  Will- 
iam was  a  captain  in  a  Confederate  regiment; 
Frank  fell  while  fighting  under  the  stars  and 
bars;  and  Joseph  also  was  a  soldier  of  the  Confed- 
eracy. Carrying  out  his  convictions,  Ashton  W. 
enlisted  in  the  Federal  service  and  became  a  cap- 
tain in  the  army.  Thus  the  different  members 
of  the  same  family  were  arrayed  in  battle  against 
one  another;  such  were  the  horrors  of  our  civil 
strife.  bmncrott  Lib l..^' if' 

In  Dickson  County,  Tenn.,  Dr.  Hawkins  mar- 
ried Miss  Sarah  May,  a  member  of  an  old  Ten- 
nessee family.  He  settled  at  Huntingdon,  Carroll 
County,  Tenn.,  but  during  the  war,  on  account 
of  having  northern  sympathies,  he  removed  to 
Olney,  111.,  where  he  remained  until  peace  was 
declared.  He  died  in  Huntingdon  when  sixty- 
two  years  of  age,  and  his  wife  passed  away  at  the 
same  place  and  age,  in  1894.  Both  were  Method- 
ists in  religious  belief.  They  were  the  parents 
of  six  children,  namely:  Wilhella,  widow  of  A.  S. 


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Brevard,  of  Huntingdon,  Tenn.;  John  M.,  of 
Los  Angeles,  Cal.;  William  A.,  who  lives  in  El 
Paso,  Tex.;  Horace  Norman,  the  subject  of  this 
article;  Lena,  wife  of  Rev.  C.  A.  Waterfield;  and 
Effie,  Mrs.  J.  D.  Luten,  ofFlorence,  Ala. 

In  the  public  schools  of  Tennessee  Mr.  Haw- 
kins, of  this  sketch,  obtained  a  fair  education. 
He  studied  law  with  his  uncle,  Joseph  R.,  and 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  at  Huntingdon,  Tenn., 
where  he  practiced  until  1892.  Afterward  he 
took  the  regular  course  of  study  in  Vanderbilt 
University,  from  which  he  graduated  in  June, 
1893.  On  the  1 8th  of  September  he  arrived  in 
Denver,  where  he  has  since  resided.  He  entered 
the  oflBce  of  Thomas  M.  Patterson,  and  in  Sep- 
tember, 1895,  was  admitted  into  partnership.  Po- 
litically he  was  in  youth  a  Republican,  but  has 
affiliated  with  the  Democrats  for  some  years. 
While  living  in  Tennessee  he  served  as  deputy 
circuit  clerk  under  his  father,  and  when  the  latter 
died,  before  the  expiration  of  his  term,  a  Demo- 
cratic judge  held  open  the  office  for  the  son,  until 
he  should  attain  his  majority  and  be  eligible  for 
office.  He  was  then  appointed  clerk.  On  the 
expiration  of  the  term  he  was  elected  to  the  office, 
but  at  the  expiration  of  that  term  he  declined  re- 
nomination. 

In  Nashville,  Tenn.,  May  14,  1896,  Mr.  Haw- 
kins married  Miss  Frances  Rubin,  who  was  edu- 
cated in  that  city.  They  have  an  only  child, 
Mary  O'Neill,  born  June  13,  1897.  Socially  Mr. 
Hawkins  is  identified  with  the  University  Club 
of  Denver. 


""MELE  E.  POUPPIRT,  D.  V.  S.,  who  is 
^  a  successful  ranchman  and  practicing  vet- 
__  erinary  surgeon  of  Arapahoe  County,  was 
born  November  27,  1865,  in  the  county  where  he 
still  resides.  His  father.  Modest  Pouppirt,  a 
native  of  France,  emigrated  to  America  in  early 
manhood  and  settled  first  in  Colorado,  but  later 
removed  to  Leavenworth,  Kan.,  where  he  now 
resides.  In  early  life  he  engaged  in  farming,  but 
he  now  lives  retired  from  active  labors.  Politic- 
ally he  was  a  Democrat  in  early  life. 

The  parents  of  Emele  E.  Pouppirt  were  Modest 
and  Louise  Pouppirt.  They  had  five  sons  and 
two  daughters,  namely:  Oscar,  a  carpenter  in 
Leavenworth,  Kan.;  Modest,  Jr.,  a  farmer,  of 
Douglas  County,  Colo.;  Eddie,  a  farmer  in 
Douglas  County;  Annie,  wife  of  W.  H.  O'Brien, 


of  Leavenworth,  Kan. ;  Emma,  who  resides  with 
her  father;  Frank,  a  veterinary  surgeon  in  Leav- 
enworth; and  Emele  E.,  of  this  sketch. 

The  boyhood  days  of  our  subject  were  passed 
principally  in  Kansas,  where  he  attended  the 
public  schools  of  Leavenworth.  He  studied  vet- 
erinary surgery  in  the  Kansas  City  Veterinary 
College  and  Denver  University  Medical  College, 
and  began  to  practice  in  Denver,  where  he  re- 
mained until  1897.  He  then  purchased  a  half- 
section,  where  he  has  since  engaged  in  raising 
cattle  and  horses.  He  is  an  extensive  stock- 
dealer  and  has  met  with  success  in  that  depart- 
ment of  agriculture.  In  politics  he  is  independ- 
ent, voting  for  the  men  and  measures  he  believes 
to  be  best  adapted  to  the  welfare  of  the  people. 
He  is  identified  with  the  American  Medical  As- 
sociation. October  26,  1887,  he  married  Mamie, 
daughter  of  John  Wilson,  who  was  born  in  Glas- 
gow, Scotland,  and  became  a  resident  of  Henry 
County,  111.  His  wife,  Hattie  Wilder,  was  born 
in  Rhode  Island. 


0ANIEL  W.  PAINE,  superintendent  of  the 
Platte  canal,  has  held  this  position  since 
1890,  but  had  been  connected  with  the  com- 
pany tor  a  number  of  years  prior  to  his  appoint- 
ment as  its  manager.  From  1890  to  1895  he 
made  Denver  his  home,  but  the  company  having 
built  a  house  one  mile  from  Oakes  Postoffice,  he 
moved  here,  and  in  this  place  he  has  continued  to 
reside.  He  homesteaded  one  hundred  and  sixty 
acres  of  land  in  Platte  canon  and  bought  addi- 
tional tracts  until,  at  this  writing,  his  landed 
possessions  aggregate  six  hundred  and  forty 
acres,  all  in  one  body.  Of  his  property  one  hun- 
dred acres  lie  below  the  ditch  line.  The  farm  is 
well  improved  and  is  operated  under  lease  by 
tenants,  Mr.  Paine  giving  his  attention  princi- 
pally to  the  management  of  the  canal  company's 
affairs. 

A  son  of  James  L.  and  Maria  J.  (Boardman) 
Paine,  the  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  in 
Fulton,  Mich.,  April  23,  1853.  His  boyhood 
days  were  passed  on  a  farm  situated  in  the 
county  where  he  was  born.  He  attended  the 
country  schools  and  acquired  a  fair  education. 
At  nineteen  years  of  age,  in  the  spring  of  1873, 
he  came  to  Colorado,  where  for  six  years  he  en- 
gaged in  mining  at  Central  City.  However,  his 
adventures  in  this  line  did  not  prove  profitable. 


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and  he  concluded  to  turn  his  energies  to  other  en- 
terprises. Going  to  lyittleton  he  leased  a  dairy, 
and  embarked  in  the  dairy  business.  After  two 
years,  in  March,  1881,  he  began  to  work  at  build- 
ing flumes  on  the  Platte  irrigation  canal,  and 
continued  in  the  emploj-  of  the  company  in  dif- 
ferent capacities,  until  1890,  when  he  was  made 
superintendent  of  the  canal. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Paine  June  17,  1879, 
united  him  with  Miss  Lydia  A.  Worthmann, 
who  was  born  in  New  York  City,  and  in  her 
childhood  accompanied  her  parents  to  Oxford, 
Iowa,  later  settling  in  Central  City,  Colo.  Six 
children  have  been  born  to  them,  namely:  Ar- 
thur Watson,  who  died  at  the  age  of  three  years 
and  eight  months;  Albert  L,. ,  Hugh  E. ,  Lydia 
Estella,  Olive  May  and  Judene  C.  (twins),  the 
latter  of  whom  died  at  the  age  of  four  years  and 
six  months;  Jane  Catherine  and  David  W. 

In  matters  political  Mr.  Paine  affiliates  with 
the  Republican  party.  His  first  presidential  bal- 
lot was  cast  in  1876,  when  he  supported  Ruther- 
ford B.  Hayes.  He  has,  however,  never  sought 
official  position  for  himself,  nor  cared  to  actively 
identify  himself  with  parti.san  politics,  his  in- 
terest being  that  of  a  private  citizen  rather  than 
a  politician.  Fraternally  he  is  associated  with 
Camp  No.  71,  Woodmen  of  the  World,  in 
Denver. 


(lOHN  S.  FLOWER.  In  the  early  days  of 
I  American  history,  when  as  yet  few  from 
(2)  foreign  lands  had  braved  ocean  storms  and 
the  no  less  danger  of  Indian  hostility  in  order  to 
found  homes  on  an  unknown  shore,  a  shipload  of 
emigrants,  under  the  leadership  of  Lord  Baltimore, 
anchored  on  the  west  coast  of  the  Chesapeake 
Bay  and  founded  the  town  of  St.  Mary's,  the 
first  settlement  in  Maryland.  The  people  who 
came  on  this  expedition  were  for  the  most  part 
men  of  education,  energy  and  determination, 
therefore  the  colony  prospered.  Among  those 
who  came  on  this  pioneer  expedition  was  the  first 
representative  of  the  Flower  family  in  America. 
Nothing  is  known  of  his  life  work  and  his  char- 
acter, but  it  may  safely  be  presumed  that  he 
possessed  great  enterprise  and  dauntless  perse- 
verance. 

Subsequent  generations  were  connected  with 
the  history  of  St.  Mary's  City.  Gustav  Flower, 
who  was  born  there  and  owned  large  tracts  of 


land  in  the  same  locality,  served  as  a  soldier  in 
the  war  of  181 2.  His  son,  John  Burnett  Flower, 
also  a  native  of  that  town,  succeeded  to  the  pos- 
session of  a  large  tract  of  laud,  in  the  cultivation 
of  which  and  in  the  management  of  his  mercan- 
tile store,  he  passed  his  active  years,  dying  there 
in  1872.  He  married  Mary,  daughter  of  William 
Bean  and  granddaughter  of  William  Bean,  Sr., 
who  was  a  soldier  in  the  Resolution  and  was  of 
English  and  Scotch  descent.  She  died  in  St. 
Mary's  City;  of  her  seven  children  two  daugh- 
ters and  one  son  are  now  living. 

In  St.  Mary's  City,  where  he  was  born  in 
1862,  the  subject  of  this  sketch  spent  the  days  of 
early  childhood.  He  was  orphaned  at  the  age  of 
ten  and  two  years  later  went  to  Baltimore,  where 
he  was  a  student  first  in  St.  Mary's,  then  in  St. 
Martin's  Academy.  On  leaving  school  he  se- 
cured employment  with  a  publishing  house  in 
Baltimore,  where  he  remained  for  three  years. 
Coming  to  Denver  in  1880,  he  became  an  em- 
ploye of  the  Tribune  Publishing  Company,  but 
after  two  years  in  this  position  he  changed  to  the 
Merchants'  Publishing  Company  and  continued 
in  their  employ  for  eighteen  months.  In  1886  he 
started  the  loan  and  real-estate  business  he  has 
carried  on  since.  He  bought  one  hundred  and 
twenty-five  feet  frontage  at  the  corner  of  Seven- 
teeth  and  Glenarm  streets  in  1894  and  with  C.  J. 
Parrott,  his  partner,  built  the  block  in  which  he 
has  his  office  and  which  he  still  owns.  He  is  a 
director  in  the  Colorado  Building  and  Loan 
Association. 

In  Monroe,  Wis.,  Mr.  Flower  married  Miss 
Nellie,  daughter  of  Arabut  and  Caroline  (San- 
derson) Ludlow.  Her  father,  who  was  of  a 
Vermont  family,  was  a  pioneer  in  Monroe,  where 
he  built  the  Ludlow,  the  finest  hotel  property  in 
the  state,  and  in  that  city  he  engaged  in  busi- 
ness as  a  banker,  merchant  and  farmer,  until  his 
death.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Flower  have  two  children, 
Caroline  and  Ludlow. 


Gl  DOLPH  COORS.  Many  of  the  most  suc- 
Ll  cessful  brewers  of  the  United  States  have 
I  I  come  to  this  country  from  Europe,  and 
among  these  is  Mr.  Coors,  owner  and  manager 
of  the  Golden  brewery.  He  was  born  at  Ritters- 
hausen,  in  the  province  of  Rhine,  Prus.sia,  Feb- 
ruary 4,   1847,    and   grew   to  manhood   in   his 


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native  laqd,  where  he  learned  the  business  in 
which  he  has  since  engaged.  In  the  spring  of 
1872  he  came  to  Colorado  and  for  more  than  a 
year  afterward  engaged  in  bottling  beer  and 
wines  at  Denver.  In  the  fall  of  1873  he  formed 
a  partnership  with  Jacob  Schueler  in  the  Golden 
brewery  and  since  that  time  has  been  a  resident 
of  the  city  of  Golden.  The  business  was  esta'b- 
lished  with  a  capital  stock  of  $20,000,  of  which 
Mr.  Schueler  contributed  $18,000  and  Mr.  Coors 
$2,000.  The  first  output  of  beer  was  placed  upon 
the  market  in  1874,  and  from  that  time  on  there 
has  been  an  ever-increasing  sale  for  the  products 
of  the  brewery.  In  May,  1880,  Mr.  Coors  pur- 
chased his  partner's  interest  and  has  since  carried 
on  the  business  alone.  Through  his  energy  and 
sound  business  judgment  the  busine.ss  continued 
to  prosper,  and  seven  years  after  he  became  sole 
owner  the  output  was  seven  thousand  and  forty- 
nine  barrels  per  annum.  Since  then  an  even 
greater  increase  has  been  shown.  In  1890  the 
output  was  seventeen  thousand  six  hundred 
barrels.  In  1892  over  twenty  thousand  barrels 
were  produced,  while  since  then  a  gratifying  in- 
crease has  been  shown. 

The  brewery  has  established  agencies  at  Den- 
ver, Pueblo,  Trinidad,  Colorado  Springs,  Aspen, 
Fort  Collins,  Louisville,  Blackhawk,  Como, 
Meeker,  Buena  Vista,  Del  Norte,  Creede,  Gun- 
nison and  Aquilar.  The  Denver  branch  is  in 
charge  of  William  Coors,  a  brother  of  our  sub- 
ject, and  formerly  superintendent  of  the  bottling 
department  at  Golden.  About  one-third  of  the 
entire  output  is  bottled,  the  sale  for  which  has  ex- 
tended throughout  the  entire  west. 

The  grounds  occupied  by  the  brewery  are 
340x200  feet  in  dimensions,  with  the  South  Table 
Mountain  in  the  rear,  the  city  of  Golden  on  the 
west,  and  Clear  Creek  flowing  near  by .  Shade  trees 
have  been  planted,  with  carriage  drives  between, 
and  artificial  lakes  to  add  picturesqueness  to  the 
scenery.  The  buildings  are  commodious  and 
provided  with  every  modern  improvement  that 
will  facilitate  business.  A  large  corps  of  work- 
men are  given  steady  employment,  which  fact 
adds  to  the  importance  of  Golden  as  an  indus- 
trial center.  In  addition  to  the  force  of  work- 
men large  sums  of  money  are  paid  out  for  coal  and 
barley,  thus  aiding  these  two  lines  of  business  in 
the  vicinity  of  Golden.  The  stimulus  thus 
created    is    felt    in    every  line   of   trade.     The 


DeCoppett  absorption  process  is  used  in  the 
manufacture  of  ice,  the  machine  having  a  ca- 
pacity of  forty  tons  per  day. 

April  12,  1879,  Mr.  Coors  married  Louisa 
Weber,  by  whom  he  has  six  children.  The 
family  occupy  a  beautiful  home,  provided  with 
all  the  luxuries  that  wealth  will  secure. 


r"RITZ  NIEMEYER,  of  Evans,  one  of  the 
j^  most  successful  farmers  and  stock-raisers  of 
I  Weld  County,  was  born  in  Germany  Decem- 
ber 2,  1839,  and  was  a  son  of  August  Niemeyer,  a 
successful  farmer,  who  spent  his  entire  life  in  his 
native  land.  Fritz  remained  in  Hanover,  Ger- 
many, until  1865,  when  he  crossed  the  ocean, 
landing  in  New  York  November  9,  1865,  on  the 
steamer  "America"  after  a  voyage  of  eighteen 
days.  He  remained  in  that  city  until  the  middle 
of  January,  1866,  when  he  went  west  as  far  as 
Atchison,  Kan.  There  he  bought  teams  and 
wagons  with  which  to  make  the  overland  journey 
to  Colorado.  In  company  with  a  party  of  over 
one  hundred  men,  with  forty -six  teams,  he  crossed 
the  plains,  reaching  Denver  in  April.  There  he 
sold  the  goods  he  had  brought  with  him,  reaping 
a  large  profit.  He  also  sold  a  number  of  his 
teams  and  with  the  remainder  secured  work  in 
hauling  brick.  With  two  horses  he  hauled  five 
thousand  bricks  per  day.  He  continued  in  that 
business  until  the  fall,  when  he  sold  his  teams 
and  went  to  Jamestown,  Boulder  County.  Prior 
to  leaving  Denver  he  bought  a  number  of  resi- 
dence lots  there  which  he  still  owns  (about 
twenty-five  altogether) . 

In  partnership  with  others  Mr.  Niemeyer  be- 
gan prospecting  and  mining  at  Jamestown,  where 
he  remained  until  the  fall  of  1867.  During  the 
winter  that  followed  he  built  a  house  in  Cheyenne, 
Wyo. ,  and  kept  an  hotel  for  two  years  afterward. 
In  the  fall  of  1869  he  came  to  Evans,  then  a  new 
town,  just  laid  out.  In  partnership  with  another 
gentleman  he  engaged  in  the  brewing  business. 
On  the  founding  of  the  Greeley  colony  he  went 
there,  but  soon  returned  to  Evans,  where  he  has 
since  resided.  In  1872,  with  Eldridge  Gerry,  he 
built  the  Gary  block,  which  still  stands. 

Near  Harding  Station  Mr.  Niemeyer  took  up 
a  pre-emption  claim  in  township  4,  range  64, 
and  also  bought  a  timber  claim  in  the  same  lo- 
cality.    He  is  now  the  owner  of  an  entire  section 


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near  Harding.  He  irrigated  the  land  from  the 
Latham  ditch,  made  improvements  and  placed 
the  land  under  cultivation.  In  the  construction 
of  the  Latham  ditch  he  took  an  active  part,  and 
is  now  a  stockholder  in  the  company.  For  a 
number  of  years  he  served  as  president  of  the 
Latham  Extension  ditch,  which  he  assisted  in 
building.  In  1884  he  bought  a  half-section  situ- 
ated on  section  8,  township  4,  range  65,  and  he 
also  now  owns  four  hundred  and  eighty  acres  in 
the  Box  Elder  country  in  Weld  County.  He 
owns  altogether  fifteen  hundred  acres.  In  1884 
he  embarked  in  the  stock  business  and  for  some 
time  had  two  hundred  head  of  cattle,  and  now 
owns  one  hundred  head  of  fine  horses.  Since 
taking  up  land  he  has  followed  farming  and 
stock-raising.  He  was  an  active  factor  in  the 
organization  of  the  Evans  creamery,  and  owned 
a  large  share  in  the  stock.  In  politics  he  usually 
votes  the  Republican  ticket,  but  is  inclined  to  be 
independent.  For  a  number  of  years  he  has 
served  as  town  trustee. 

In  1S79  Mr.  Niemeyer  married  Agnes  Freud- 
enberg ,  who  was  born  in  Berlin,  Germany,  and 
came  to  the  United  States  in  1868.  Their  mar- 
riage was  solemnized  at  the  residence  of  Mr. 
Rose,  a  friend  in  Denver.  They  have  three 
daughters  living:  Rosie,  Blanche  and  Phoebe, 
and  lost  two  sons,  Frederick  Charles  and  Ru- 
dolph. 

(S\  NTON  KAEMPFER  came  to  Colorado  via 
r  I  railroad  to  Cheyenne  and  thence  by  stage 
I  I  to  Denver,  making  the  trip  in  1870.  Soon 
afterward  he  settled  upon  his  present  property 
in  Douglas  County,  where  he  pre-empted  a  sol- 
dier's homestead  of  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres. 
At  a  later  date  he  purchased  other  property  and 
is  now  the  owner  of  six  hundred  and  forty  acres, 
embellished  with  valuable  improvements,  and 
devoted  to  general  farming  and  cattle-raising. 
The  land  lies  on  section  8,  township  9,  range  65 
west,  and  eight  miles  .southwest  of  Elizabeth. 

The  birth  of  Mr.  Kaempfer  occurred  August 
10,  1832,  at  Nassau,  on  the  Rhine,  in  Germany. 
His  father,  Jacob,  died  when  the  son  was  only 
eleven  days  old,  and  he  was  reared  by  his 
mother,  Anna  Maria  (Kuhu)  Kaempfer.  His 
educational  advantages  were  excellent,  and  he 
gained  a  thorough  knowledge  of  German,  French 
and  English.  He  also  studied  mining  engineer- 
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ing,  at  which  he  worked,  as  well  as  in  the  iron 
mines,  until  he  was  twenty-three  years  of  age. 
He  was  drafted  to  serve  in  the  army,  but  was 
afterward  released.  In  1855  became  to  America, 
spending  thirty  days  in  a  sailboat  on  the  Atlantic. 
From  New  York,  where  he  landed,  he  went  to 
Milwaukee,  joining  a  brother  in  that  city.  There 
he  was  employed  by  others  for  some  time,  but 
finally  started  a  store  for  himself. 

During  the  war,  in  1862,  Mr.  Kaempfer  en- 
listed in  Company  A,  Twenty-sixth  Wisconsin 
Infantry,  in  which  he  served  for  six  months. 
During  a  skirmish  in  Virginia  he  was  injured, 
and  being  unable  to  serve  longer,  was  honorably 
discharged  in  1863.  Returning  to  Milwaukee, 
he  resumed  business  pursuits,  remaining  in  that 
city  until  1870.  In  1862  he  was  united  in  mar- 
riage with  Miss  Wilhelmina  Augusta  Pieritz, 
who  was  born  on  the  ocean  while  her  parents 
were  en  route  to  America  and  was  reared  on  a 
farm  near  Watertown.  Five  children  have  been 
born  to  them,  namely:  Emma  E.,  who  married 
Gus  H.  IngersoU  and  has  three  sons;  Mrs. 
AdeliaJ.  Adams,  who  has  four  children;  Anton 
C.  G. ,  who  is  a  teacher  and  a  blacksmith;  Mrs. 
John  A.  Kroeger,  of  Silverton,  who  has  one 
daughter;  and  Minnie  C,  who  is  with  her 
parents. 

In  politics  Mr.  Kaempfer  in  independent.  In 
1876  he  was  nominated  by  the  Democrats  for 
assessor.  He  is  identified  with  Elbert  Post, 
G.  A.  R. ,  at  Elizabeth.  In  religion  he  was 
reared  in  the  faith  of  the  Reformed  Church,  but 
is  liberal  in  his  views  and  has  never  allied  him- 
self with  any  denomination.  He  is,  however,  a 
friend  of  the  churches  and  a  contributor  to 
philanthropic  effort. 


nOHN  A.  LITLE,  who  resides  one  mile  east 
I  of  Loveland,  Larimer  County,  was  born  in 
(2/  Iowa  in  1843,  a  son  of  Robert  and  Catherine 
(  Miller)  Litle,  natives  respectively  of  Ireland  and 
Virginia.  His  father,  who  was  born  in  1813, 
emigrated  to  the  United  States  at  sixteen  years 
of  age  and  settled  in  Ohio.  There  he  met  Miss 
Miller,  who  had  accompanied  her  parents  from 
the  Old  Dominion  to  the  Buckeye  state.  About 
1842  he  removed  to  Ohio  and  became  a  pioneer 
of  Lee  County,  where  he  was  living  at  the  time 
of  the  Mormon  outbreak.     In  1867  he  removed 


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to  Baxter  Springs,  Kan.,  and  opened  a  store, 
which  he  carried  on  for  a  number  of  years.  On 
disposing  of  his  stock  of  goods  he  settled  on  a 
farm  in  Kansas.  He  continued  in  agricultural 
pursuits  until  1890,  when  he  retired  from  active 
labors,  and  since  then  he  has  made  his  home  with 
his  children.  Politically  he  has  always  been  a 
stanch  Democrat.  He  still  retains  his  faculties, 
in  spite  of  his  advanced  years. 

When  a  boy  our  subject  attended  common 
schools.  At  the  age  of  twenty -two  he  and  his 
brother  Charles  took  a  load  of  goods  from  Kan- 
sas to  Colorado,  and  sold  the  stock  in  Central 
City.  Coming  on  to  Boulder  City,  he  worked 
for  Andrew  Doudey  in  the  construction  of  a  flour 
mill,  after  which  he  accompanied  his  employer 
to  Big  Thompson  to  Old  St.  Louis  and  aided  in 
building  a  mill.  After  its  completion  Mr.  Litle 
and  his  brother  George  leased  the  mill,  which 
they  ran  for  two  years.  Returning  to  Kansas, 
our  subject  married  and  with  his  wife  came  to 
Colorado  in  the  spring  of  1868.  Here  he  re- 
sumed the  mill  business,  which  he  followed  suc- 
cessfully until  1869.  During  early  days  he  also 
followed  the  carpenter's  trade  and  made  all  the 
coffins  in  this  vicinity. 

In  1869  Mr.  L,itle  bought  a  quarter- section  of 
land  on  the  Big  Thompson  River,  and  here  he 
has  since  engaged  in  general  farming  and  stock- 
raising.  He  assisted  in  the  construction  of  the 
Chubbuck  ditch,  now  called  the  Loveland  and 
Greeley  ditch,  in  which  he  is  a  stockholder.  For 
a  number  of  years  he  served  as  secretary  and 
treasurer  of  the  company.  He  has  made  many 
improvements  on  his  place,  which  is  considered 
one  of  the  finest  in  the  county.  He  makes  a 
specialty  of  raising  blooded  cattle,  of  which  he 
has  a  herd  of  one  hundred  and  fifty.  Besides 
farming  and  milling  he  has  had  other  interests. 
In  1883,  with  E.  A.  Seibert,  he  became  inter- 
ested in  the  Loveland  Reporler,  which  the  two 
conducted  together  for  a  number  of  years,  and 
afterward  he  carried  it  on  alone  for  a  short  time. 

Politically  Mr.  Litle  is  independent,  voting  for 
the  men  whom  he  considers  best  qualified  for  of- 
ficial positions.  .However,  he  leans  toward  the 
Prohibition  party.  In  1868  he  married  Miss 
Frances  Silsbee,  daughter  of  Erastus  Silsbee,  of 
Wisconsin.  They  are  the  parents  of  four  chil- 
dren: Erastus,  Lillie,  Grace  and  Ralph.  The 
family  are  identified  with  the  United  Presbyterian 


Church,  in  which  Mr.  Litle  has  been  a  member 
of  the  board  of  trustees  and  took  an  active  part  in 
the  building  of  the  new  church  in  1893. 


GlBRAHAM  ASHBAUGH,  M.  D.,  of  Central 
LI  City,  came  to  Gilpin  County  in  1879  and 
I  I  has  since  attained  a  high  position  as  a  skill- 
ful physician.  For  many  years  he  held  the  ofiice 
of  county  physician  and  also  acted  as  surgeon 
for  the  Union  Pacific  Railroad  at  this  point.  He 
is  now  local  surgeon  for  the  Union  Pacific  Den- 
ver &  Gulf  Railway.  He  has  been  most  success- 
ful in  building  up  a  lucrative  practice,  although 
he  gives  medical  attention  alike  to  poor  and  the 
rich,  and  he  is  one  of  the  busiest  professional 
men  in  the  county.  Besides  his  practice  he  has 
other  interests,  particularly  mining,  and  owns 
and  operates  the  Lombard  group  of  mines,  which 
he  discovered  and  developed  and  which  are  seven 
miles  from  Central  City. 

Dr.  Ashbaugh  was  born  in  Aledo,  Mercer 
County,  111.,  August  27,  1852,  and  is  a  son  of 
John  Meek  and  Catherine  (Artz)  Ashbaugh. 
His  father  was  a  son  of  John  Ashbaugh,  Sr. , 
who  started  a  poor  boy  and  became  a  noted 
chemist,  claiming  the  distinction  of  compounding 
and  manufacturing  the  first  lard-oil.  John  Meek 
Ashbaugh,  the  doctor's  father,  removed  from 
Ohio  with  his  father  to  Mercer  County,  111. ,  in 
the  days  when  Illinois  was  considered  the  great 
west,  settling  upon  a  farm  near  Aledo.  In  1868 
Mr.  Ashbaugh  again  turned  his  face  toward  the 
.setting  sun  and  migrated  to  Missouri,  settling  in 
Vernon  County,  when  the  deer,  the  wild  turkey 
and  prairie  chickens  were  there  in  abundance. 
His  death  occurred  in  Central  City,  Colo.,  in 
1 88 1,  when  he  was  sixty-two  years  of  age,  having 
came  to  the  mountains  for  his  health  and  to  visit 
his  two  sons  who  were  in  business,  practicing 
medicine  at  this  point. 

Dr.  Ashbaugh's  mother  was  born  in  Virginia, 
in  1820,  whither  her  grandfather  came  from  Hol- 
land; later  her  father  moved  to  Ohio  and  thence 
to  Illinois,  where  he  died.  Mrs.  Ashbaugh,  the 
doctor's  mother,  is  living-  in  good  health  on  the 
old  homestead  in  Missouri;  a  pleasant  old  Dutch 
lady,  who,  true  to  her  Dutch  habits,  milks  her 
cow,  makes  her  cheese  and  cultivates  her  flowers 
under  the  sunny  skies  in  old  Missouri.     Of  her 


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thirteen  children  nine  are  living;  three  of  the 
sons  served  in  an  Illinois  regiment  during  the 
Civil  war,  and  two  were  wounded.  Three  sons 
are  now  practicing  physicians,  all  having  grad- 
uated at  Rush  Medical  College,  Chicago,  and  one 
daughter,  OUa  Ashbaugh,  was  a  dentist. 

In  the  schools  of  Illinois  and  Missouri  the  sub- 
ject of  this  sketch  received  his  education.  For 
two  years  he  was  employed  in  the  Vernon  County 
Nursery,  after  which  he  began  the  study  of  medi- 
cine. In  the  fall  of  1875  he  entered  Rush  Medi- 
cal College  and  after  two  years  of  study  gradu- 
ated with  the  degree  of  M.  D.  He  at  once  began 
the  practice  of  his  profession  in  Reynolds,  Rock 
Island  County,  111.,  where  he  remained  two  years. 
In  1879  he  came  to  Central  City,  where  he  has 
a  large  practice  extending  throughout  the  entire 
county.  He  is  identified  with  the  Colorado  State 
Medical  Society,  the  American  Medical  Associa- 
tion, and  is  treasurer  of  the  United  States  Board 


of  Pension  Examiners  for  this  district,  including 
Gilpin,  Clear  Creek,  Jefferson,  Park  and  Grand 
Counties.  This  board  was  established  in  1893, 
when  he  was  appointed  to  the  office  of  treasurer. 
In  Rock  Island  County,  111. ,  Dr.  Ashbaugh  mar- 
ried Miss  Sarah,  daughter  of  Joseph  Asqtiith,  who 
came  to  Illinois  from  England.  Two  children, 
Guy  and  Roy,  comprise  their  family.  Politically 
Dr.  Ashbaugh  is  a  Republican.  He  was  made  a 
Mason  in  Pre-emption,  111. ,  and  is  now  past  officer 
in  Nevada  Lodge  No.  4,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.  For 
five  years  he  has  served  as  high  priest  of  Central 
City  Chapter  No.  i ,  R.  A.  M. ,  and  is  generalissimo 
of  the  Central  City  Commandery  No.  2,  K.  T. 
He  is  also  identified  with  El  Jebel  Temple, 
N.  M.  S.,  of  Denver.  He  is  medical  examiner 
for  the  Knights  of  Pythias,  with  which  he  is  con- 
nected as  a  member,  and  is  also  examiner  for  the 
majority  of  the  insurance  companies  represented 
in  Central  City. 


INDEX 


A 

Adams,  Hon.  Alva 115 

Adams,  George  H 531 

Adams,  John 23 

Adams,  John  Quincy 39 

Adams,  Jose  P 569 

Affolter,  Frederick 795 

Aicher,  Frank  X 247 

Akin,  Myron  H 348 

Akins,  Sanmel  W 558 

Albee,  Augustus  C 903 

Alderman,  Newton  B 984 

Aldrich,  AsaH 945 

Alexander,  G.  E.,  M.  D. . . .  993 

Alford,  Hon.  N.  C 339 

Alkire,  I^eonard 845 

Allen,  Alonzo 695 

Allen,  George  W 1291 

Allen,  Henly  W.,  M.  D.. . .  267 
Allen,  William  P.,  M.  D.. .  377 

Ames,  I^ewis  B 616 

Aramons,  Hon.  E.  M 423 

Anderson,  Hon.  A.  C 919 

Anderson,  Charles  B 775 

Anderson,  Peter 1272 

Andrew,  C.  K.,  M.  D 1155 

Andrew,  James 936 

Andrew,  Joseph  W 355 

Andrews,  Charles  B 365 

Andrews,  George  A 357 

Andrus,  James  A.  S 656 

Anthony,  Maj.  Scott  J 340 

Armstrong,  Jacob 1261 

Armstrong,  Samuel 1162 

Arnett,  Anthony 857 

Arnold,  William  D 1045 

Arthur,  Chester  A 99 

Arthur,  Hon.  James  B 275 

Ashbaugh,Abraham,M.  D.1300 
Ashbaugh,  T.  L.,  M.  D....1031 
Atcheson,  George,  M.  D..  .1216 

Atmore,  Charles 1252 

Atwood,  Joseph  T 317 

Aulsebrook,  Alfred 996 

Austin,  Eugene  A 755 

Autrey,  Thomas 701 

Autrey,  William  C 648 

Avery,  Frank  C 326 

Avery,  Gilbert  M 1006 

B 

Babcock,  Alonzo  S 1011 

Badger,  Frederick  H 814 

Badger,  Harry  S 191 

Bagot,  William  S.,  M.  D..  .418 

Bailey,  Hon.  D.  C 850 

Baird,  James  T 1029 

Baird,  William  J.,  M.  D. . .  666 

Baker,  Frederick  R 1089 

Baker,  James  H.,  I,I<.  D. . .  3G1 


Bal  f e,  Lawrence  H 568 

Balfe,  Patrick  H.- 711 

Ball,  Hon.  David  J 917 

Bailer,  Andrew 1045 

Bancroft,  F.  J.,  M.  D 142 

Banning,  J.  A 1267 

Barb,  Martin  W 898 

Barber,  James  S 1039 

Barclay,  C.  G 1052 

Barclay,  J.  B.,  M.  D 285 

Barnes,  David 1W9 

Barnes,  Hon.  J.  W 426 

Barry,  Alexander 265 

Barth,  Moritz 205 

Barth,  William 208 

Bartlett,  Reuel,  M.  D 212 

Batterson,  Solomon 825 

Baty,  Andrew  R 547 

Baur,  Otto  P 637 

Baxter,  Hon.  George  W...  148 

Beach,  Tom 395 

Beaman ,  David  C 1225 

Beaman,  Joseph  S 855 

Beamer,  Charles  A .501 

Bean,  Capt.  R.  P 10-10 

Beaver,  Ida  Noyes.  M.  D..1275 
Beckwith,  Hon.  Elton  T..1290 
Beckwith,  Mrs.  Alice  M. .  833 

Bedford,  Edwin  V 1247 

Behrens,  John  H  388 

Bein,  Frederick  A 1065 

Bell,  William  N 290 

Bellrose,  N.  W.,  M.  D 807 

Benkelman,  J.  George 625 

Bennett,  Christian  A 452 

Bennett,  Isaac  Willis 470 

Benson,  Aaron  S 317 

Bermont,  George  E 222 

Bertschy ,  Frank  P 608 

Best,  J.  D 221 

Beuck,  August  H 266 

Bickford,  E.  L.,  M.  D 1081 

Billings,  George  N 517 

Binner,  John  L 600 

Bird,  John  E 1069 

Birkle,  David 1015 

Bitter,  John  J 511 

Blaine,  William  S 1072 

Blake,  Edward  S 986 

.  Blake,  Frank  0 570 

Blakley,  Proman  W. 567 

Bland,  James 1149 

Blunck,  Charles  F 1124 

Blunt,  John  E 1014 

Boal,  George  J 655 

Bogue,  IvUman  M 571 

Bolles,  Nettie  Hubbard. ...  539 

Bolles,  Newton  A 539 

Bolsinger,  Frederick  S. . . .  913 
Bolsinger,  Hon.  Henry  C. .  913 
Bolton,  Frank  1, 717 


Bond,  Cornelius  H 359 

Bond,  LsaacI,.,  M.  D 320 

Booth,  Gillett  I, 1210 

Booth,  Levi 1019 

Bosserman,  Elijah 425 

Bottom,  John  T 308 

Bowen,  Albert  E 688 

Bowles,  Charles  W 641 

Bowles,  Edward  B 1213 

Boyd,   Frank 238 

Boyd,  Maj.  H.  L 881 

Boyd,  Robert 897 

Boyer,  Henry 482 

Boylan,  Robert 657 

Bradburn,  William  L 609 

Bradley,  H.  N 318 

Brainerd,  Col.  Wesley 305 

Bramkamp,  William, 879 

Branham,  Charles  A 1287 

Brasie,  W.  Worth 626 

Bray,  Mrs.  F.  C 567 

Breath,  Hon.  S.  M 420 

Brewer,  John  Israel 767 

Briggs,  George  C 862 

Briggs  George  W  1046 

Brink,  Ferdinand 547 

Brinkerhuff,  James  H 1050 

Brinkerhuff,  .Samuel 996 

Broad,  Richard,  Jr 446 

Bromwell,  Hon.  H.  P.  H. .  367 

Brown,  Henry  C 169 

Brown,  Hon.  Hiram  R 385 

Brown,  Hon.  James  H 195 

Brown,  J.  Sidney 165 

Brown,  Junius  F 315 

Brown,  Samuel 1277 

Brown,  William  W 816 

Browning,  John  W 338 

Bryant,  Willis 1060 

Buchanan,  James 75 

Buchtel,  W.  H.,  M.  D 297 

Buckmau,  Fred  H 1041 

BuUard,  Scott  W 948 

Butlock,  Charles  B 1141 

Burchinell,  William  K 407 

Burke,  August  G 627 

Burke,  Charles 621 

Burkholder,  J.  H 1125 

Burnham,  N.  G.,  M.  D....1242 
Burns,  T.  Mitchell,  M.  D. .  747 

Burpee,  Charles  I, 628 

Burr,  William  A.,  M.  D....1226 

Burton,  Gideon  L 1^15 

Bush,  William  L 1191 

Butler,  Stephen 1163 

Butterworth,  John  H 924 

Byers,  Hon.  William  N 145 

c 

Caley ,  Franklin  R 631 

Caley,  Franklin  T 1260 


Calhoun,  William  C 201 

Campbell,  Charles  M 232 

Campbell,  Jacob,  M.  D 271 

Campion,  Andrew  J 762 

Campion,  John  F 1286 

Carle,  Mrs.  Lucy  J 710 

Carlin,  P.  v.,  M.  D 663 

Carmichael,  Daniel  F 820 

Carpenter,  Prof.  L.  G 380 

Carr,  Gen.  Byron  L 185 

Carr,  Ezra  T 405 

Carr,  Stephen  H 904 

Carrigan,  Rev.  J.  P 310 

Carmthers,  Charles  S 755 

Carter,  George 840 

Casaday,  Henry 1281 

Catren,  Benjamin  C,  Jr..  .1044 

Casey,  Piof.  W.  V.  C 189 

Chaffee,  Hon.  Jerome  B.. .  129 
Chamberlain,  Walter  A. ..  359 
Chamberlain,  William  G..U75 

Chapman,  Peter  E 926 

Charpiot,  George  J 516 

Charpiot,  Henry 526 

Chase.  George  F 647 

Chatfield,  Norman 1063 

Cheney,  Lewis '. 182 

Chenoweth,  M.  S.,  M.  D. .  487 

Christensen,  Peter 1071 

Churches,  Henry  G 1009 

Churchill,  Harry  E 269 

Clark,  Hon.  C.  A 707 

Clark,  Cornelius 487 

Clark,  Eugene  E 994 

Clark,  John 1012 

Clark,  Hon,  John  J 1022 

Clark, Josephs 633 

Clark,  Hon.  Rufus 545 

Clark,  William 926 

Clarke,  George 1187 

Clay,  Perry  A 540 

Cleary,  P.  J 636 

Cleveland,  S.  Grover 103 

Clongh,  A.  A.,  M.  D 587 

Coan,  Capt.  Alonzo 762 

Coates,  Edwin  L 211 

Cochran,  Clayton  T 538 

Coffin,  Morse  H 951 

Coffin,  Reuben  F 924 

Coffman,  Hon.  E.  J 1106 

Cole,  Nicholas  0 1274 

Collins,  Thomas 1033 

Colman,  Watson  E 1150 

Conlin,  James 846 

Connelly,  John  E 1114 

Converse,  Jerome  C 580 

Cook,  Franklin 676 

Cooke,  James  J 593 

Cooke,  John 279 

Coombs,  James  M 831 

Cooper,  Hon.  J.  A 155 


1304 


INDKX. 


Coors,  Adolpli 12W 

Coover,  David  H.,  M.  D.. .  600 

Copeland,  J.  M 1123 

Copeland,  Samuel 778 

Cornwall,  William  T 226 

Cort,  Daniel  T 491 

Courvoisier,  Augiiste 49.') 

Cowles,  Grace  E.  Patton. .  295 

Cox,  Roberts 827 

Coy,  John  G 867 

Ctadock,  Charles 821 

Craft,  Samuel 542 

Cramer,  David  1 1208 

Cramer,  I^uis  A 1035 

Crawford,  Archibald  A.,..  930 

Crist,  Judge  Henry  J 1142 

Crosby,  Roscoe  M 691 

Cuneo,  G,  M.  D 515 

D 

Dailey,JohnL 296 

Dailey,  William  M 207 

Dane,  George 1059 

Daniels,  A.  B 128 

Daniels,  James  A 875 

Daniels,  William  P 178 

D'Arcy,  Norman 492 

Datzel,  George  W 712 

Davies,  Llewellyn  P 472 

Davis,  Charles 791 

Davis,  Charles  I, 1270 

Davis,  Harpin 819 

Davis,  Prof.  W.  H.,  M,  D. .  736 

Dawson,  Eugene  C 521 

DeBacker,  Frank 690 

DeBacker,  John 689 

Decker,  Westbrook  S 397 

DeFrance,  Hon.  A.  H 1223 

Dell,  Joel  J 1061 

Denison,  Lucius  H 259 

Denney,  R.  H.,  M.  D 1056 

Dennis,  Joseph,  Jr 1056 

Desch.C.  S 415 

Develine,  James  W 754 

Dewey,  David  D 1173 

Dewey,  Frederick  P 1199 

Dick,  Hon.  Fred 147 

Dickens,  William  H 489 

Dickson,  Hon.  Louis  H 346 

Dodd,  Alva  M 732 

Dodge,  Horace  O.,  M.  D...  401 

Donnelly,  Rev.  John  J 1153 

Donovan,  Dennis  C 395 

Dostal,  J.0 1292 

Downing,  Maj.  Jacob 1239 

Drake,  William  A 836 

Drummond,  Hon. Duncan.  437 

DuBois,  Bradford  H 133 

Dulin,  Frank,  M.  D 200 

Dumm,  James  M 658 

Duncan,  Elisha 461 

Duncan,  Guy  D 465 

Duncan,  Robert  A 466 

Dunleavy,  M.J 502 

Dunn,  Charles  J 768 

Dupree,  Louis 1113 

Durbin,  L.  T.,  M.  D 190 

Dyer,  Warren  C 316 

E 

Eaton,  AlbertW..^ 1026 

Eaton,  Hon.  Benjamin  H.  417 

Ebert,  Ferdinand 786 

Ebert,  Hon.  F.  J 400 

Eckdahl,  Anton  F 1062 


Edwards,  William iaT3 

Eggleston,  AKson  H 1074 

Eggleston,  George  W 701 

Elbert,  Hon.  S.  H 116 

Eldred,  Holden  R 642 

Elliott,  Hon,  Jacob  J 1232 

Elliott,  J.  F.,  M,  D 1121 

Ellis,  Alston,  LL.  D 299 

Ellis,  Davids 838 

Ellis,  L  D 1084 

Elwood,  A.  S.,  M.  D 389 

Emerson,  Charles 1129 

Emmons,  Amos  J 813 

Ennes,  Oscar 840 

Ennis,  Miss  Catherine 1051 

Enos,  Charles  W„  M.  D. . .  412 

Erdman,  OttoA 245 

Ervin,  David  W 891 

Eskridge,  J.  T.,  M.  D 131 

Evans,  Ephraim  K.  C 832 

Evans,  Hon.  James  C 427 

Evans,  Oliver 458 

Ewing,  John  N 681 

F 

Fahrion,  Judge  George. .  .1149 

Falkenburg,  Alfred  A 382 

Farnsworth,  Charles  H...  241 

Farny,  Eugene 598 

Feay ,  Oliver 1054 

Pick,  William  F 1024 

Field,  Edward  B 603 

Fillmore,  Millard 67 

Fiulay,  Walter 507 

Finucan,  J.  B.,  M.  D  911 

Fleming,  Carey  K..  M.  D.  704 

Flora,  William  S 1290 

Flower.  John  S 1297 

Fonda,  George  F 358 

Foote,  George  W 1122 

Forbes,  Andrew  J 929 

Foster,    Ernest  LeNeve . . .  1023 

Foster,  Harrison 873 

Fox,  Chri-stopher  L 1025 

Fox,  Michael  P 644 

France,  Lewis  B 444 

Franklin,  Nelson 1100 

Fraser,  Andrew 733 

Fraser,  John  H.  G 552 

Fraser,  John  J 302 

Fuelscher,  Daniel 1035 

Fulwider,  Marion 708 

G 

Gage,  Thaddeus  A 801 

Gale,  Jesse  S 387 

Gallup,  Avery 227 

Gallup,  Mrs.  C.  R 229 

Gandy,  Henry  H 1161 

Ganley,  John  W 1283 

Garbutt,  Edward  N 891 

Gardner,  Hon.  James  F. .  .1177 

Gardner,  William  H 714 

Gardner,  Winfield  S 525 

Garfield,  James  A 95 

Garrigues,  James  E 345 

Garrison,  Garret  A 698 

Gartley,  Edward   T 1280 

Gebhard,  Hon.  Henry 378 

Gibbons,  Rev.  J.J 509 

GifEn,  Luman  M.,  M.  D.. .  177 

Gilbert,  Henry  S 1040 

Giller,  Thomas  E 660 

Gillies,  John  R 948 

Gilpin-Brown,  Charles....  999 


Gilpin-Brown,  H.  L 1000 

Gilson,  Robert  H 1034 

Gird,  Christopher  C 615 

Glover,  John 925 

Godfrey,  Allen  R 917 

Goodale,  Ellis  E 530 

Gorman,  James  H 577 

Gould,  Jerome  F 731 

Gove,  Maj.  Aaron 619 

Gove,  Aaron  M 620 

Gove,  Carlos 597 

Graham,  Alexander  J 237 

Graham,  Thomas 1065 

Grant,  Hon.  James  B 159 

Grant,  Ulysses  S 87 

Grant,  W.  W.,  M.  D 152 

Graves,  William  M 1190 

Greene,  Hon.O.  F.  A 637 

Gregor,  John 566 

'Gregory,  Jacob 249 

Griffin,  Samuel  L 1111 

Griffiths,  David 181 

Guebelle,  Ernest  279 

Gutheil,  Alfred  H 258 

H 

Hadfield,  Dan  P 555 

Haggott,  W.  A 1160 

Hagus,  Andrew 246 

Hagus,  John  J 536 

Hagus,  Lewis 773 

Hahn,  John 933 

Hake,  Levi 659 

Hake,  William  C 686 

Haldi,  Peter 680 

Hale,  Hon.  Horace  M 117 

Hale,  Gen.  Irving 120 

Hall.  Hon.  Albert 1198 

Hall.GeorgeH 970 

Hall,  J.  N.,  M.D 735 

Hallett,  Hon.  Moses 171 

Hallock,  Harry  T.,  M.  D.  .1294 

Hames,  George  L 1122 

Hammitt,  Hon.  F.  W 469 

Handley,  Col.  J.  L.,  M.  D.  328 

Hankins,  James  C 780 

Hanna,  John  R 410 

Hanisen.  Matthias  1111 

Harding,  Prof.  George  L..  312 

Harmon,  Mrs.  Julia  A 1189 

Harper,  Hon.  Theodores.  1120 

Harriman,  George  W 436 

Harrison,  Duncan  E 1091 

Harrison,  Benjamin 107 

Harrison,  William  Henry,    51 

Hartley,  John 798 

Hartman,  Frank  E 1173 

Hawkins,  Horace  N 1295 

Hawley,  H.  J 459 

Hayes,  Rutherford  B 91 

Hayes,  Thomas  C 643 

Haynes,  Harry  Neil 386 

Hays,  Columbus  C 832 

Helbig,  JohnW 950 

Held,  Frederick 249 

Hellier,  Edwin  J 656 

Helm,  William 622 

Helmer,  John 1280 

Henry,  Albert  T 681 

Henry,  James 1060 

Hermanns,  Prof.  E.  F 1157 

Hershman,  David 843 

Hertel,  Charles  F 486 

Hertha,  John , 969 

Hetzel,  Jacob 952 


Hickox,  Charles  G 1016 

Hilburger,  John 1036 

Hill,  John  S 1082 

Hill,  J.  D 849 

Hill,  Wilbur 247 

Hively,  David  T 804 

Hixson,  Luther 808 

Hodg.son,  Marion 1285 

Hodgson,  William  E 256 

Hoklas,  Henry  E 537 

Hood,  James  H 233 

Hooper,  Col.  S.  K 217 

Hoover,  Corbrey  J 229 

Hopkin.s,  S.  D.,  M.  D 282 

Hornbaker,  Henry  H 914 

Horsley,  Leslie 1129 

House.  Jonathan 1063 

Housel,  Judge  P.  M 883 

Howard,  Joseph 742 

Howard,  Hon.  Mason  W. .  237 

Howarth,  Abraham 980 

Hubbard,  James  E 287 

Huffsmith,  Samuel  R 1083 

Hughes,  T.  A.,  M.  D 557 

Hult,  William 709 

Hurst,  Schuyler  G 262 

Hyder,  Thomas  M ..."... .  757 

I 

Iliff,  JohnW 127 

Iredale,  William  J 769 

Ireland,  James  M 1054 

Irwin,  James  M 196 

Ives,  Gen.  John  N 1109 

Izett,  James 496 

J 

Jackson,  Andrew 43 

Jackson,  Clarence  S 550 

Jameson,  Hon.  A.  D 1095 

Jefferson,  Thomas 27 

Jeffery,  Edward  Turner. .  .1202 

Jellison,  James  S 1284 

Jenkins,  John  C 1263 

Jenkins,  Hon.  William  O    481 

Jewett,  Francis  M 1020 

Johannsen,  Christ 1205 

Johnson,  Alfred  E 810 

Johnson,  Andrew 83 

Johnson,  Benjamin  C 1214 

Johnson,  Nathaniel  D 286 

Johnson,  Peter  J 927 

Johnson,  Thomas  H 920 

Johnson,  William  E 277 

Johnston,  Samuel  L 974 

Jone.s,  Frank 332 

Jones,  George  T 777 

Jones,  Hon.  James  F 745 

Jones,  John  D 372 

Jones,  Myron  W 734 

Jones,  William  R 796 

Joralmon,  H.  M 466 

Jordan,  James  H 235 

K 

Kaempfer,  Anton 1299 

Kassler,  E.  S 530 

Keeler,  Edgar  A 1268 

Keeler,  Irwin  E 696 

Kelly,  Hon.  James,  M.  D.,1086 

Kelly,  Jonathan  P 1080 

Kelsey ,  Thomas  C 784 

Kelsey,  Van  Buren 1181 

Kelton,  George 1076 


INDEX. 


1305 


Kennedy,  William  W 291 

Kern,  Marx 1215 

Kerr,  David 78S 

Key,  John 1082 

Kibby,  Theodore  A 826 

Killin,  Bernard  C 490 

Kimball,  George  II 1073 

Kimball,  Capt.  George  K..  450 

Kimball,  Leander  W 669 

Kimber,  Benedict 1062 

King,  Joel  B 457 

King,  Thomas  J 1180 

Kirk,  Frank  H 472 

Kirk,  Frank  V 752 

Kirkbride,  George 774 

Klatt.  Philip 1002 

Kn^po,  rrof.  Warren  E. .  •  167 

Kneisel,  Hon,  Henry 433 

Knowles,  Joseph  C 581 

Koehler,  Charles 1217 

Koehler,  George  A 668 

Koenig,  Rudolph 809 

Koeper,  August  H 1243 

Koerber,  John 1214 

Kohler,  Frederick  W 761 

Kreutzer,  Edward  D 1070 

Kruse,  Charles  C 529 

Kuehn,  Ferdinand  792 

Kuhn,  Charles  E 1289 

L 

I,aGrange,  Bryant  S 983 

I,aird,  George  M 912 

Lambert,  William  T 1249 

Lamey,  H.  T 1263 

Lammers,  Carl  A 498 

I^andes,  Martin  L 369 

I^awrence,  John  H 270 

Lee,  Harry  A 801 

Lee,  William  Scott 613 

Leech,  M.  F 186 

Leggett,  Jeremiah 685 

Lemen,  Lewis  E.,  M.  D...  130 

LeMond,  R.  F.. 422 

LeNeve-Foster,  Ernest...  .1023 
Lepore,  Rev.  Mariano...    507 

Lerchen,  Charles 635 

Levy,  Robert,  M.  D 5J8 

Lewis,  John  R 1271 

Lewis,  Thomas  A 1104 

Lewis,  William  J 1066 

Lewis,  Hon.  William  J. . . .  919 

Lilley,  Hon.  John  G 198 

Lincoln,  Abraham 79 

Linder,  John  H 1080 

Lindquist,  Carl  M 562 

Lippoldt,  Charles  H 779 

Lipscomb,  Thomas  W 607 

Litle,  John  A 1299 

Little,  Peter  F 790 

Little,  Hon.  R.  S 176 

Little,  William 1119 

Locke,  Henry  L 271 

Loomis,  Abner 329 

Lorah,  .Samuel  1 1092 

Lough  ran,  John 1015 

Louslalet,  Honore 940 

I,oustalet,  Jerome  F 876 

Loustauo,  Silvin 525 

Love'and,  Revile 362 

Lnndin,  Gustave  A 972 

Lundy.  John  H 1052 

Luplow,  Carl  R 1258 

Lykins,  Mrs.  Ann  Gilman.  256 

Lykins,  David  J 255 

Lyman,  C.  B.,  M.  D 209 


M 

McAfee,  Samuel  J 894 

McArlney,  John 870 

McCain.  JamesL 886 

McCarthy,  William  H 591 

McClave,  John  S 1101 

McClelland,  W.  F.,  M.  D..  730 

McClure,  George  M 310 

McCounell,  Cyrus 262 

McCormick,  John 1021 

McCreery,  Hon.  James  W^  325 
McCriramon,  Malcolm....  511 

McDonald,  Orrison  B 549 

McDowell,  Vincent 992 

McFadden,  Charles  W 1091 

McGraw,  Aaron,  M.  D 797 

McGregor,  J.  W.,  M.  D... .  248 
Mcllhenny,  Frederick  R..1090 

Mclntire,  Hon.  A.  W 161 

Mcintosh,  Lemuel 690 

McKelvey,  William  H....  520 

McKenzie,  Neil  D 192 

McKinley,  William Ill 

McLeod,  Herrick 968 

McMahon,  Michael  J 1281 

McMillan,  Elisha 240 

McNey,  John 935 

Machebeuf,  Rt-Rev.  J.  P. .  140 

Mack,  Jacob 1215 

Macky,  Andrew  J 375 

Madison,  James 31 

Madlung,  J.  E 607 

Magnes,  Peter 599 

Mahler,  Peter 586 

Maloney,  William  H 844 

Manhart,  Christian 439 

Manhart,  George  W 1105 

Mann,  Hon,  Joseph 476 

Marean,  WillisA 751 

Marfell,  Hiram 1211 

Marsh,  George  E 1094 

Marsh,  L.  E,  M.  D 433 

Martiue,  Charles  A 479 

Mason,  John  D 740 

Matschke,  August 790 

Mathews,  Jerome 376 

Matthews,  Edward 521 

Matthews,  Milton 961 

Mauldin,  James  A 458 

Maxwell,  James  G.,  M.  D  479 
Maxwell,  Hon.  James  P. .  319 
Maxwell.  W.  J.,  M.  D.  ...  479 

Mayfield,  Thomas  G 885 

Mayo,  Dudley  D 673 

Mead,  Francis  D ,538 

Melburn,  John  A 939 

Merchant,  Harmon 242 

Metcalf,  Hon.  H.  H 1256 

Meuer,  Samuel  H.,  M.  D. .  576 

Michael,  John  M 907 

Middaugh,  .\5a  F 261 

Miles,  Alfred  H 559 

Miles.  T.  Willis,  M.  D 1238 

Milheim    Alexander  268 

Milheim,  Frederick 281 

Miller,  Charles  E 874 

Miller.  Charles  P.,  M.  D. .  368 

Miller,  Lafayette 653 

Miller,  Lyman  W ...1204 

Miller,  Ri<-hard  D 1119 

Miller,  Thomas  J 1288 

Milne,  James  G 460 

Miner,  John  R 461 

Miner,  William  B 349 

Misner,  Andrew 1208 


Mitchell,  William 1222 

Mixsell,  Philip 419 

Moffat,  David  H 135 

Monash,  Edward 369 

Moncrieff,  Z.  E 906 

Monroe, James 35 

Montgomery,  Frank  L  • .  1094 

Montgomery  John 893 

Moore,  Maj.  J.  D 251 

Morcom,  John  H... 1210 

Morrison,  M.  D 1259 

Morrison,  Samuel  W 908 

Mo.ssberg,  Andrew 604 

Moynahan,  Hon.  James. .  179 

Mulligan,  Peter  H 1190 

Mulligan,  Williarn  P 1172 

Mulvihill,  Frank  E 528 

Murphy,  William  R 290 

Mumma,  Jacob  1206 

Myers,  Albert  H 881 

Myers,  William 789 

N 

Nash,  William  D 575 

Nay,  Marshall  M 456 

Neef,  Maxniillian 6,50 

Neeley,  J.  W 1257 

Nceley,  William  B 1184 

Neff,  Capt  C.  D 949 

Neikirk,  Hon.  Henry 170 

Nelson,  August 967 

Nel.son,  Hans  P 901 

Nelson,  Louis 941 

Nesmith,  Hon.  John  W.. .  119 

Neuman.  August 1073 

Neumati,  Daniel,  M.  D. . .    499 
Neuman,  Stephen,  M.  D...  499 

Newell,  James  S 962 

Newell,  John  H 804 

Newell,  Hon.  Sam  V 1233 

Newlon,  Henry  B 405 

Newman,  Elmer  P 548 

Newmarch,  Charles  T 467 

Newton,  Adin  H 979 

Nicholas,  Charles  J 1168 

Nicholls,  John,  Sr 440 

Nichols,  Charles  B.,  M.  D.  526 

Nichols,  Hon.  David  H 785 

Nicholson  William 377 

Niemeyer,  Fritz 1298 

Noi  -on,  Uri  M 610 

Nott,  Theodore 1218 

Nulling.  Harry 603 

o 

Oaks,  Joseph 967 

O'Donnell,  Thomas  W..  .1266 

Old,  Robert  0 475 

Olden,  Ellis  F 480 

Orahood,  Col.  Harper  M..  175 

Orrock,  David 505 

ORyan,  Rev.  William....  506 

Osbiston,  Col.  F.  F  1075 

Oviatt,  Albert  C 4.30 

Owen,  John  1085 

Owen,  Newton  D 984 

P 

Page,  Thomas  W ,593 

Paine,  Daniel  W 1296 

Painter,  Joseph  E 370 

Palmer,  Charles  L 1170 

Palmer,  Joel  K 1131 

Pankhurst,  George 1132 


Parfet,  George  W 1148 

Parish,  Hars-ey  J 868 

Park,  Edwin  H 540 

Parks,  Fred  W 956 

Parmelee,  Edward  C 327 

Parrett,  C.  Jerome 250 

Patten,  Hon.  George  A . . . .  1194 

Patterson,  Charles  B 632 

Patterson,  David 1069 

Patterson,  Hon.  T.  M 1236. 

Pattison,  Albert  E 278 

Paulding,  John  M 272 

Peasley,  George  K 365 

Peck,  Frank  L 1250 

Peck,  Thomas  S 435 

Pell,  William  G 739 

Pen  nock,  Charles  E 428 

Pennock,  Porter  R 1116 

Perkins,  Elisha  M 971 

Perrin,  Mrs.  M.  Jennie 957 

Perry,  James  D 471 

Peters,  Albert  F 958 

Peterson,  Alfred 1158 

Peterson,  John 784 

Phelps,  Alfred  C 620 

Phillips,  Ephraim  C 978 

Phillips,  Col.  Ivers 631 

Phillips,  James  0 1246 

Phillips,  James  T I135 

Pierce,  Franklin 71 

Pineau,  Marcellin 1099 

Piatt,  Milo  E 763 

Poirson,  Philip 1125 

Polk,  James  K 59 

Pollock,  John 1113 

Poor,  George  B 676 

Post,  Capt.  William  M..,.1165 

Potter,  Alexander  B 498 

Potter,  James  H.,  M.  D 1152 

Pouppirt,  E.  E 1296 

Powell,  Joseph  R 350 

Powers,  William  A 265 

Pratt,  Gideon  C 1196 

Priest,  Walter  M 1179 

Prince,  Benjamin 1011 

Prince.  Clarence  E II26 

Prince,  Hon.  Hiram 585 

Prince,  John  H 674 

Prince,  Louis  I, 292 

Probert,  John 1002 

Prout,  John  W 905 

Pughe,  John 236 

Purcell,  Lawrence  M 692 

Purse,  John,  Jr 1258 

Q 

Quick,  Benjamin 443 

Quintrall,  William  H 1043 

R 

Rae,  James 508 

Rae,  Mrs.  A.  M.,  M.  D....  508 

Ramsdell,  Charles  B 837 

Randall,  Jonathan  L 1141 

Rauey,  Hon.  David  F 1235 

Rank,  Samuel  A 990 

Ratcliffe,  George 994 

Raverdy,  Rev.  J.  B 367 

Redd,  George  S 946 

Reed,  Andrew 663 

Reed,  Charles  L 1168 

Reeman,  Frank  G 985 

Regennitter,  Erwin  L 1227 

Reid,  John  S 211 

Reilly,  Charles  J 606 


1306 


ySTDEX. 


Renter.  Herman 850 

Rhyno,  Thomas  J 675 

Rice,  Charles  O. ,  M.  D 761 

Rice,  John  J 956 

Rice,  Rufus 880 

Richards,  Thomas 1262 

Richards,  Hon,  W.  H  1144 

Ricketts,  Crockett 670 

Riethmann,  Emile  J 725 

Riker,  Edward  D 837 

Rinnert,  Adam 1132 

Rittenhouse,  Judge  A.  P. .  851 

Rittmayer,  George 1089 

Roberts,  Elias 1013 

Roberts,  John  G 1143 

Roberts,  Robert  O 1165 

Roberts,  William  E 535 

Robertson,  John  B 532 

Robertson,  Thomas  H 371 

Robeson,  Jacob  H 1229 

Robillard,  J.  E.,  M.  D 1134 

Robinet,  Rev.  R.  P 288 

Robin.son,  Very  Rev.  H.. .  896 

Rockwell,  Fred  S 477 

Roe,  Capt.  Nelson  C 239 

Rohling,  A\igust  1 399 

Rohling,  J.  H.  Phillip 977 

Rosenbaum,  Michael  I,...  682 

Ross-I<ewin,  George  E 141 

Rothrock,  John 1133 

Rothwell,  W.  J.,  M.  D 347 

Routt,  Hon.  John  I. 156 

Rundell,  James  A 013 

Russell,  Charles  A.   803 

Russell,  James  H 963 

Ryan,  John  J 1220 


Sacred      Heart      Catholic 

Church 215 

Sagendorf.  Andrew 578 

Sample,  Nathaniel  W 601 

Samuels,  John  R 816 

Sanderson,  Abner 1136 

Sanderson,  John  P 989 

Sargisson,  John  H 934 

Sauer.JohuW 882 

Sauter,  Joseph 1266 

Sawdey,  Rev.  Frank 1115 

Schaefer,  Peter  C 512 

Schall,  Joseph  G 1140 

Scheck,  George  W 582 

Scherrer,  Alexander  V 558 

Scherrer,  Joseph  A 1273 

Schindelholz,  Anton 519 

Schofield,  Alphonso 1021 

Schroder,  Frederick  C...  1102 

Schroers,  Louis 746 

Sehutz,  Benedict 1004 

Schutz,Jacob 923 

Scott.  Charles  H 983 

Scott,  Charles  P 822 

Scott,  William  I, 592 

Secor,  Judge  F.  P 1192 

Secor,  MiloG 1174 

Secrest,  Clyde  0 1276 

Secrest,  Luther  C 1099 

Secrest,  Thompson  E 1099 

Seely,  Joseph  S 289 

Seerie,  David  D 522 


Seifried,  Henry 1182 

Sellman,  Thomas  C 879 

Sess,  Theodore 500 

Severance,  David  Edwin..  1203 

Shable,  Anthony 1120 

Shafroth,  Hon.  J.  F 120 

Shanahan.  Timothy 703 

Shannon   S.  F.,  M.  D 599 

Shaw,  Hon.  R.  T.,  M.  D. .  .1171 

Shay,  Joseph  H 1138 

Shepherd.J.  H 1205 

Sherwin,  John  J 1123 

Simms,  James  M 485 

Simpson,  John  M 529 

Simpson,  William 555 

Sisk,  Thomas 815 

Sisler,  Charles  H 572 

Skerritt,  Thomas 561 

Skinner,  C.  Russell 1110 

Slater,  Abraham 833 

Smith,  Andrew  H 594 

Smith,  Gains 1139 

Smith,  Henry  G 1112 

Smith,  Lowell  H.,  M.  D. .  .1219 

Smith,  Nelson  K 712 

Smith,  O.  L 552 

Smith,  Rodolphus  N 973 

Smith,  Salkeld 1279 

Smith,  Samuel  B 1162 

Smith,  Upton  T ....1230 

Smith,  W.  Henry 437 

Sraythe,  S.  S,  M.  D 206 

Snow,  George  A 1244 

Snyder,  Albert  G 748 

Snyder,  Charles  768 

Snyder,  Edward 733 

Snyder,  P.  W 729 

Sopris,  Capt.  Richard 391 

Sorensen,  Soren 1013 

Spalding,  Rt-Rev.  J.  F....  121 

Spangler,  Henry  W 1221 

Spotswood.  Robert  J 661 

St.  Patrick's  Parish 310 

Stafford,  Edward  K 770 

Stearly,  George 1009 

Steele,  John  S 852 

Stepp,  Thomas  0 961 

Sterling,  Asa 428 

Sternberg,  DeKalb 679 

Stevens,  George  0 828 

Stevens,  Isaac  N 425 

Stevick,  Guy  LeR 259 

Stewart,  Henry  F 1010 

Stickfort,  John  D 1024 

Stilwell,  Alonzo  C 697 

Stiver,  Thomas  J.,  M.  D.  .1100 

Stocker,  Allison 602 

Stockfleth,  Conrad 963 

Stokes,  Chauncey 756 

Stone,  Joshua 947 

Stott,  Alfred  F 1231 

Stradley,  Dr.  Ayres 408 

Stradley,  Daniel  N.,  M.  D.  409 

Strickler,  D.  A  ,  M.  D 856 

Stroehle,  George  1004 

Strong,  Dewey  W 839 

Strousse,  Samuel 1104 

Suess,  Hon.  Henry 565 

Swadley,  George  C 861 

Swan ,  Hon.  James  H 887 

Sway ze,  Walter  J 231 


T 

Tabor,  Hon.  H.  A.  W ISfi 

Talbot,  Ralph 162 

Talbott,  Benjamin  H 1248 

Taylor,  Zachary 63 

Teal,  George  W 753 

Tedmon,  Hon.  H.  E 390 

Teller,   Harrison 434 

Teller,  Hon.  H.  M 128 

Teller,  Willard 1278 

Temple,  Hon.  E.J  .'SI 

Tenney.  Melvin  A 673 

Theoliald,  Peter : 955 

Thomas,  Calvin  H 888 

Thomas,  Hon  C.  S 449 

Thomas,  Frank  N 869 

Thompson,  Avery  R 537 

Thompson,  Edward  A....  411 

Thompson,  Herbert  J 1079 

Thompson,  John 1003 

Thompson,  Thomas  J 210 

Thompson,  William 577 

Thornton,  John  J 1282 

Thornton,  Wilber  R 858 

Tintle,  David  J 1212 

Titus,  Clark  A 654 

Tourtellot,  James  B 642 

Towers.  Walter  E 695 

Tregoning,  Thomas 902 

Trezise,  Christopher 1183 

Trezise,  John  G 776 

Trimble,  Charles  W 1137 

Trovillion,  E.  B.,  M.  D...  .  199 

Tucker,  Cromwell 337 

Turner,  Charles  S 687 

Turner,  Peter 810 

Tyler,  Hon.  Clinton  M. .. .  718 
Tyler,  John 55 

u 

University  of  Colorado 360 

V 

Van  Buren,  Martin 47 

Van  der  Karr,  George  S. .  1196 

Van  Gorden,  Hon.  I.  A 10<S 

Van  Meter,  Miles  H 928 

Van  Valkenburg,  Rev.R.J.  225 

Van  Wormer,  Isaac  P 455 

Vetter,John 827 

Victor,  Ma  rquis 1160 

Vivian,  Hon.  John  F 1156 

Vollmar,  George 1217 

w 

Wagner,  Frank  K 675 

Waite,  Frederick  P 1207 

Walker,  James  M.,  M.  D..1228 

Walker,  John  W 688 

Wallace,  John  J 702 

Walsh,  Thomas  F 991 

Walters,  John 726 

Walters,  Leonard 1231 

Ward,  Thomas  E 1283 

Warren,  Charles 834 

Warren,  Edson. 989 

Washington,  George 19 

Wasson,  John  A 1244 


Watkins,  Charles  H 746 

Weber,  Adam 719 

Webster,  Hon.  Amos  G...1197 
Weigele,  William  Albert..  497 

Welch,  Charles  H 1193 

Wells,  Hon.  Reuben  C...  416 

Wells,  William  J 1033 

Welty ,  Lawrence 1199 

West,  Gen.  George 1185 

West,  Hon.  LeanderR....1271 

West,  Simon 1183 

West,  William  H 501 

Wpstover,  Daniel 869 

Wheeler,  B.  A.,  M.  D 1237 

Wheeler,  John  S 1201 

White,  Arthur  H 1261 

White.  Frederick 724 

White,  John  J lies 

White,  William% 814 

Whiteley,  Monfford  S....  741 
Whitelcy,  Hon.  R.  H.,Sr.  331 
Whiteley,  Hon.  R.  H.,  Jr. .  331 

Whitford,  Greeley  W 1248 

Whitney,  Fredericks 905 

Whowell,  John  W 1164 

Wier,  James  W 942 

Wiest,  Sard,  M.  D 819 

Wilcox,  Henry  W.,  M.  D..1180 

Wilder,  Eugene 720 

Wilder,  George  W 542 

Williams,  David  R  1000 

William.?,  Howard 1012 

Williams,  John  T 802 

Williams,  Richard  Broad. 1030 
Williamson,  George  R....  379 

Willis,  Robert  1 260 

Willis,  Thomas  N 740 

Willis,  Hon.  William  A...  723 
Wilmarth,  F.  A.,  M.  D. . .  .1181 

Wilmore,  George  F 610 

Wilson,  Hon.  Adair 321 

Wilson,  John  S 1158 

Wingate,  Charles  E 510 

Wirtner.Verj'Rev.Modest.  215 

A^itherow,  John  F 1169 

Wolcott,  Hon.  E.  0 438 

Wolfe,  Charles  K 1154 

Wolfensberger,  Jacob 995 

Wolff,  Albert 1159 

Woodbur>',  Benjamin 1108 

Woodrow,  James  W 1166 

WooUett,  Joseph  N 724 

Wray,  Chalmon 1186 

Wright,  Ensign  S 1155 

Wright,  James  F 993 

Wright,  John  William 1200 

Wyatt,  DavidC 335 

Wygant,  Charles  T 895 


Young,  George  H 1151 

Young,  John  V 709 

Youtsey,  Herman  S 356 


Zang,  Philip 496 

Zilar,  George  J 796 


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